When I get older losing my hair
Many years from now
Will you still be sending me a valentine
Birthday greetings, bottle of wine?
If I'd been out till quarter to three
Would you lock the door?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four?
~When I'm 64 ~ The Beatles~

...June 10, 2011...

"Intruder Alert! Intruder in trophy room!" the computer system alerts us.

Nightwing, Kid Flash, Superboy, Miss Martian, Artemis, Robin, Beast Boy, and I all jump up and race to the trophy room. There we find a skinny man in a weird blue suit, trying to steal one of the more rare souvenirs. Nightwing flicks one of his wingdings, (it's the name of his batarangs...) knocking the souvenir from his hand.

"Who are you, and how did you get in here?" Nightwing demands.

"Y-You weren't supposed to see me..." the man winces. We walk closer toward him, backing him into the wall. "Stay away! You're not supposed to know I was here!"

He reaches for the dial on his belt, turning it and making a portal appear. He jumps into the portal. Nightwing, Superboy, Kid Flash, and I manage to follow him through before the portal closes behind us. We smack against the sides of the portal until we exit out into a city. We all groan as we tumble out with a smack to the ground.

I'm the first one up, looking around. "Guys, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."

"We weren't in Kansas to begin with," Conner huffs, picking himself up.

Richy and Wally manage to stand after.

"Yeah, we need to have you watch the Wizard of Oz when we get back from wherever we are," I respond.

A car flies by us.

"Whoa! Was that a flying car?!" Wally shouts excitedly.

A gang of people move towards us.

"We've been expecting you," a scarecrow looking guy speaks.

They're revealed from the shadows. Six people that look like clowns. One fat guy rolling on top a ball, a scarecrow, a big burly guy, twin girls, and a hyena boy with robotic arms.

They walk closer, and we get into fighting stances.

A purple blast of lightning is shot in front of them. "I bet you weren't expecting us," the person who shot it says.

A group of other costumed people land in front of us and a few slow to a stop from the ground. A man who is riding a sewer cap, another man who looks like the Hawks, a man who looks like an advanced Batman but with a glowing red insignia, a woman with a superman 'S' on her suit, and three speedsters a man and two women. One of the speedster women has a bow in hand.

"What's going on?" Conner huffs.

They turn to us. The speedsters eyes widen along with the Kryptonian.

The two obvious related twins look at me and Richy. "Mom? Dad?"

Our eyes widen.

The archer speedster looks at Wally, calling him dad. The same goes for Conner getting called dad by the super woman. I'm amazed our eyes are still in their sockets our eyes grow so large.

"We need to get out of here," the Batman looking guy calls out.

"Leaving so soon?" the scarecrow calls out, running towards us. "You didn't even get your party favors." He throws the pumpkin candy bucket up in the air above us. It explodes into a dozen flaming bomb pieces. "Chronos wants us to kill you!"

I quickly round everyone together, pulling each speedster near. "Spin your arms really fast and blow the bombs back at them!"

All 5 of us do as I say and the ones who attacked us shout and run out of the way.

The woman who called me mom smiles. "Nice quick thinking."

I smirk back. "I'm a speedster, I'm always thinking fast."

After the storm, we all engage in battle.

"We need to get out of here," the Batman guy says. "Now!"

"No, we need to hold the line back," the Hawk guy says, holding down the hyena boy.

The batdude pulls out a device, typing something up and a portal opens up. "I don't remember putting this up for a vote."

One of the twin girls smack the device from his hands with her whips, breaking it and closing the portal. Batman dude looks at it with a wide eyed annoyed expression.

"I can make a distraction," I call out, knocking out one of the Dee-Dee clones. I look to the lightning man. "Care to make everyone blind with me?"

He smirks. "I like your thinking."

The two of us form two giant electric balls to light up the sky, blinding the clown group and giving us an escape route.

The superwoman picks up Conner, the man speedster grabs the batdude, Wally grabs the floating lightning dude's wrist and drags him behind him, and the hawk remains flying but the woman speedster grabs his wrist and speeds off too.

I pick up Richy. "Jeez, you weight a lot more than you used to."

He smirks. "Are you calling me fat?"

"Maybe," I retort, speeding off behind the other speedsters.

They take us to an underground hideout. Nightwing and I quickly recognized it as a larger advanced but also run down Batcave.

A couple of costumed teenagers superspeed up to us.

"Mom! Dad!" a boy huffs, stomping his foot and looking at the superwoman and male speedster. "Why did you tell grandma and great grandpa Bruce to have us stay behind? We wanted to go!"

"Did she just say great grandpa?" I whisper to Richy.

"Yeah!" another boy agrees with him.

An old man walks out of the shadows with a cane. "I see you've brought a piece of the past with you."

"Whoa, Bruce! You did not age well at all!" I exclaim, circling around him.

"Never thought I'd see myself this young again," a voice speaks.

I turn around to look at the old woman with a younger blond man next to her. I look at her faded pink hair with faded green strips in between. I lock eyes with her, recognizing my eyes.

I gasp. "You're me!" I shout. "Wow! I still look pretty good!"

My older self chuckles. "Don't you know it."

"Oh you're definitely me," I grin.

"What's the year?" Nightwing asks.

"You're 50 years in the future," Bruce says.

"Wow, I'm 64 years old?!" I shout. "We still look this good?"

We laugh.

"What's going on?" Nightwing asks.

"The less you know the better," Bruce says.

"Yeah, everyone introduce yourself just keep it as your hero names," older me says.

The lightning guy starts. "I'm Static. Black Lightning was my mentor, but Bolt also was sorta my mentor to help control my powers better when we do meet."

"Hawkman," the hawk responds. "Obviously, I'm the son of Hawkman and Hawkwoman. I took his name after his death."

"I'm the new Batman."

"I'm Green Canary," the blond green eyed man greets. "Son of Black Canary and Green Arrow."

The girl archer speedster steps up. She has faint orangish blonde hair and green eyes. "I'm Spitfire. Daughter of–" She looks at Wally. "The first Kid Flash and Artemis."

Wally's eyes widen.

"I'm the current Kid Flash," one of the teenaged boys says. He has blond hair and gray eyes. "Son of Spitfire."

Wally's eyes light up even more. "Wow, I have my own family."

"You could be twins," I tell Wally.

"I'm Superwoman. Daughter of Superboy and Miss Martian. You still look basically the same, dad." She looks like the female version of Superboy.

Conner opens his mouth to say something but closes it after nothing comes out.

"I'm Superbolt," the last teenage boy says. He has black hair and blue eyes. "Son of Impulse and Superwoman."

The man speedster steps up. He has black hair with green streaks. His left eye is blue and his right is aqua. "I'm Impulse, son of Bolt and Nightwing. Twin brother of Nightbolt."

The woman speedster steps up. She also has black hair but with pink streaks instead. Her eyes are the same as her brother's but the colors are switched. "I'm Nightbolt."

"Wow, and I said I'd never have kids," I laugh, holding my head in disbelief. "At least let me know if I was a good mom."

The twins smile. "The best. We do have a very large fun family."

"Whoa! You talk at the same time too," I laugh. "This is great." I turn to Nightwing. "Babe, we need to come back to the future again after we settle this."

Nightwing smiles. "You're a dork."

"Obviously. Wait! Supey, this means you're basically my brother too!"

He gives me a hesitant smile.

"Hi! I'm Lullaby!" the blonde green eyed teenager greets. "I'm the daughter of Green Canary and Nightbolt."

"You're two are our grandchildren?" Nightwing asks, looking at Lullaby and Superbolt.

(Below is a family tree I made. Zoom in to read their powers, ages, names, and little tidbits about them.)

"This is honestly so cool!" I cheer. "And weird... We're like all somehow related now. Green Canary is my son-in-law. Superwoman is my daughter-in-law. Spitfire's my niece. Kid Flash is my great nephew. My children and my grandchildren. I'm related to everyone in this room except Hawkman and Static!"

"Babe, that goes for me too," Nightwing says.

"Yes, you are," I smile, smooching his cheek. "I just can't believe how big of a family I'm in. I went from nothing to everyone... As did you." He smiles. "Alright, sorry. I had to let that out. Let's get back to the problem at hand."

Everyone gives each other a smile or grin.

"I'm guessing you all know our names," Nightwing clears his throat.

They all nod.

"Um, where is everyone else? Like Uncle Barry, Miss Martian, me?" Wally asks.

"Dead," new Batman immediately says. "This is all we have left."

We flinch in shock.

"The Batcave is the only hide away we have left," Static says.

"There was a war about 10 years ago," Hawkman says. "Between Altantians and Amazons. Everyone else like Superman were killed in a different battle or missions."

"Oh, wow..." I voice. "Why?"

"Aquaman and Wonder Woman slept together and Aquaman's wife raged war on the Amazons," Hawkman says. "Wonder Woman then kills Aquaman and he activates a bomb that was supposed to destroy the world. We lost many people who helped contain the blast. Green Lanterns and the martians."

"Whooooaa," I exclaim.

"We need to find the man that brought you here and destroy his time traveling device. That should send you all back to the past," Bruce says.

"Seems easy enough," Wally says.

"Seems we've already won. Think about it. If old Bolt is here, that means she's already lived through this," Static says.

"Flawless logic," older me says. "Except that I have no memory of ever going to the future and meeting my older self, or of anything else that's happening today."

I gasp. "The Amazons and the Atlantians would never kill each other unless the time line's been polluted."

"So polluted that history itself is becoming fluid," Bruce says.

"Everything should return to normal. We just need to get our hands on that device," Green Canary says.

"We still don't know much about him. Obviously, he's a time-traveling warlord. He's littered the streets with buildings and other things he's stolen from other time periods," Batman says.

"He wasn't a warlord when we caught him," Conner says.

"Yeah, he was just a scared little man," I say.

"Who were those people who attacked us?" Nightwing asks.

Bruce pulls up a picture of each clown member. "They didn't have powers before until this Chronos gave them advanced pieces of technology."

"Wow, technology that lets you replicate," Wally says. "That's so cool!"

"They call themselves the Jokerz in honor of Joker," Bruce says, ignoring Wally. "The muscle goes by Bonk. The overweight one on the ball is known as Chucko. The twins go as Dee-Dee. Ghoul is the scarecrow looking one. Woof is the hyena boy."

On the large computer screen where Bruce is typing away at things, a camera view of the city is pulled up where it looks as if the sky is being erased.

"Time is running out. Literally," Batman says.

"We need to find Chronos," Wally says.

"How? He could be anywhere," Static retorts.

"Sometimes the old ways are best," I say, looking to Nightwing. He smirks in reply as the two of us walk to the exit.

"It's not gonna work. You don't know your way around. A lot of things have changed," Batman says.

"Are criminals still superstitious and cowardly?" Nightwing asks.

"Yep," Bruce agrees.

"Good enough for me," Nightwing and I say, heading out to find the weakest member of those clowns.

~~~

Nightwing and I don't have to wait long as one of them shows up on the roof behind us. We turn to see Ghoul.

"You're supposed to be Nightwing and Bolt, right? I mean, the first ones. I've seen history cubes about you. Hard to believe somebody stupid as you two ever beat the Joker," he says, turning his left hand into a spinning blade.

"Maybe we're smarter than we look," I smirk.

He raises his arm and charges at us only for Static to hit it with his lightning. Everyone from the cave lands on the roof.

Ghoul groans and falls to the ground in pain. He manages to sit up and look at his damaged blade. "Oh, terrific..."

"You've got some information we need, Ghoul," Batman says.

"You won't find me the talkative sort," Ghoul scoffs. Nightwing grabs him by the shoulder and starts dragging him to the edge of the roof. "Hey!"

Nightwing holds him by the leg over the roof, causing Ghoul to scream.

"Where's Chronos?" Nightwing asks. "My arm's getting tired."

"You won't do it," Ghoul shouts. "I read you bats never killed!"

I smirk, grabbing him from Nightwing's grasp and flicking him on the roof. He gives me a glare.

"You know who I am?" I ask hauntingly. "You know who Joker is, obviously. I bet you didn't know I was under his care for two years. How about I show all the terrible torturous things he did to me?"

Torture time!

His eyes widen in fear as I get closer, cackling evilly and beginning to vibrate my hand.

~~~

"And we've got 9,453 active Jokerz organized into about 200 smaller groups. I don't know where Chronos is. He contacts us. Spends every night in a different one of those old buildings. There's no way of knowing ahead of time where he's gonna be. And that's everything I know," Ghoul blurts out.

"Everything?" Bruce snarls. He took over for me halfway through as I was starting to slightly give into the voices.

"I wet my bed until I was 14," he mutters, causing Wally, Nightwing, every teenage future kid, and me to laugh.

"Losing my patience," Bruce growls.

"I can't control my friend here much longer. You better give us something we can use," older me says, gently pulling Bruce away from Ghoul.

"His wife. I know where his wife is."

~~~

We fight our way through the corridors, meeting Chronos', aka David's, wife in a large room with a bed.

"Enid Clinton," Superboy growls. His form shifts into another person. "We've got a bone to pick with your husband." Superboy catches us looking at him. "What?"

"Conner?" Wally questions.

"Yeah? Sorry, I'm still Conner. Another time shift. I'm up to speed. Carry on."

"Okay. I'm starting to get a migraine," Batman complains.

"You and me both," I agree.

"We'd better get used to it. This is going to get worse before it gets better. Any one of us could change or even cease to exist," Nightwing says.

"That's why you have to tell us where to find David. We just wanna undo the harm he's caused," Spitfire says.

"You have my word. We'll do everything to keep from hurting him," new Superboy says.

I snicker, knowing Superboy would never say something like that.

"Between you and me, I wouldn't mind one bit if he got roughed up along the way," Enid huffs, crossing her arms.

"Then where is he tonight? The Parthenon? The Great Sphinx?" Hawkman asks.

"He just wants people to think he moves around. He always sleeps in the same place."

~~~

We all follow Enid's directions and head to the Colosseum which inside has a beat down, old timey jail.

"No booby traps. At least none that I can detect," Superbolt says.

Superboy returns to normal but Wally turns into another person.

"Make up your mind, would you?" future Kid Flash huffs.

"Who are you?" I ask.

"I'm also Wally West just an alternate world," he says. "Don't worry, I'm caught up to speed."

"Anyway, it's safe to go in," Superbolt interrupts.

"If we don't beat this guy, it's the end of everything," Impulse says.

"We've been there before," Batman says.

"Not like this. What are you supposed to do when you have the weight of the world on your shoulders?" Nightbolt asks.

"Plant your feet," Nightwing tells our two future kids with a smile.

The two smile back as we make our way into the building. Nightwing moves in first and I follow along with a few others.

"I don't understand. With all of the places he could be, why sleep here?" Nightbolt asks.

"Because a loser with a kingdom is still just a loser. See for yourself," Enid huffs, pulling off the bed sheet on Chronos to reveal him sucking his thumb.

A few of us let out a laughing huff of air in amusement.

"Huh?" Chronos says sleepily. "Uh? Enid?"

"Nice on the stealth thing, lady," Batman complains.

Chronos taps the circle on his belt, bringing the clowns to us.

"Get the belt. Nothing else matters," Nightwing commands.

We all run towards him only for him to disappear into a portal. Hawkman charges at the clowns only to get smacked through the roof by the big guy's mallet. Hawkman flies back down, making another hole in the roof before body slamming Bonk out through a wall. The building becomes unstable and begins to collapse. We each grab someone, except the Jokerz and exit before it falls on us. The Jokerz of course manage to get out. Cracks begin to appear in the ground, sucking anyone nearby inside. Static and Green Canary are two of those people. The Dee Dee twins replicate to outgun us. Nightwing and I try to chase down Chronos but eventually get cut off by Dee Dees. A few soldier men appear from the past.

"It happened again."

"Look out! Monsters!"

"Fire at will!" one shouts and they begin shooting at Woof and Batman.

Batman gets shot then taken over by Dee Dees who rip him apart by the arms and legs before anyone could reach him.

Chronos appears by Enid. "How could you betray me, Enid? Everything I've done, I've done for you."

"Don't blame this on me. I just wanted you to assert yourself, not destroy the universe," she huffs.

Woof manages to pin down Impulse who has a broken leg from a Dee Dee.

"Get away from my kid!" Nightwing shouts, pummeling into Woof. Woof gets sucked into a portal as Nightwing gets away.

"Chronos!" I growl, sliding beside the married couple.

"You are good. Isn't she good?" he asks his wife, gripping her arm a little tighter.

"Look at what's happening around you. Look at the sky," I point out.

He looks up with eyes shining. "Pretty."

"Stay with us, weirdo. We've got a problem here," I fuss.

"Right," he shakes his head. "You're right. This calls for another approach." He kisses his wife's cheek. "You'll love me next time."

"Where's he going? There's nothing left," I ask as Nightwing appears beside me.

Wally speeds beside us back to normal and Superboy moves with us as we enter the portal.

"Yes, there is. The beginning of time. He can reset everything. Make himself into a god," Nightwing says.

"Only if he gets there first," Wally says.

"How can we get him?" Superboy asks. "We can't move any closer than we are."

"Let me try something," I tell them, closing my eyes to concentrate. My body shifts into its electric form and I burst forward towards him. I manage to latch onto Chronos, absorbing myself into his belt and messing with it to take us back to our time.

We all exit a few seconds after we disappeared in the first place to find everyone from before in the trophy room. I unlatch the belt from Chronos, reforming with it on my body.

"What's going on?" Megan asks.

"Megan! Put him to sleep!" I answer.

She immediately does as told and puts Chronos to sleep.

"What's going on?" Robin asks.

"We were just sent to the future by 50 years!" Wally answers. "Artemis! You and I had a family!"

She looks at him in shock.

"We'll explain more later," Nightwing says. "Bolt, what are you planning to do with him?"

"Megan, I need you to erase all his memories of this machine, how to make it, everything," I tell her.

"Are you sure?" Megan asks.

"Positive," Wally nods. "We do not ever want the horrible things that happened in that future to happen."

"He needs to never do it again," Nightwing says.

Megan nods and does as told and after about half an hour she finishes. "I'm finished," she sighs tiredly.

I open a portal back to his time before he became crazy and walk through. I set him on his bed as if he was resting before returning to my time. "Everything should be normal now." I take off the belt and set it on a shelf of the trophy room. "The perfect souvenir for the mission."

"I have so many questions," Robin admits.

"It's probably best if what we know, we keep to ourselves. We might just ruin the future by revealing what we know to you," Nightwing says, pulling me by the waist to him with a grin. "Though I'm happy to sorta know of the good parts of the possible future to come."