Hi all! I haven't forgotten about you I promise. I have just been swamped with school and writer's block, so I figured writing this short piece would help get me motivated to finish What do Bat's Fear? This one's only a few chapters long, so I should be working on the other one shortly. Thank you for being awesome :)

It was hot.

Blisteringly, cruelly, bone meltingly, hot.

And the air conditioning was… Broken. They live in a hollowed out mountain secret hideout designed the Justice League and the air conditioning was broken. The team, all eight of them, sat in the lounge staring at the static channel, while contemplating if it was possible for flesh to actually melt.

"It's sooo HOOOTTTT!" Wally cried out as he lay on the floor in a tank top and basketball shorts.

Artemis' eyes narrowed as she growled at her pathetic boyfriend "Baywatch, if you complain about the heat one more time I'll break your legs! We are all aware that it's HOT!"

"But-" Wally started to whine when Robin chucked the remote at him. "Dude! Not cool!"

"If you all could just be. Quite. I could find the problem with the air conditioning and fix it." Robin hissed. Said bird was currently sitting cross legged on the sofa his laptop resting on his black denim covered knees. His sweatshirt was currently tossed over the back of the sofa, so he sat with just a normal t-shirt on as he typed away.

"Rob, your just pissed 'cause your wearing jeans and it's like a thousand degrees in here. Just change it to something more comfortable." Wally huffed out from his spot on the floor.

"KF, I don't actually have to be here. I am only here because M'gann, Conner, and Zee live here so they need the AC fixed and the League's got their hands full so they can't fix it. Besides I pretty sure that M'gann and Kaldur as suffering more than either of us so just stuff it." Robin barked, never missing a keystroke.

"How are you two? Seriously, though you guys should just go to Atlantis until we get this fixed." Zatanna said from her spot in one of the arm chairs. She had a tank top and shorts on, just like Artemis and Raquel.

"No, I don't just want to abandon you and the others. Especial on one of our days off…" M'gann mumbled from where she lay in front of a fan. Her normal outfit had been morphed to match the other girls' attire in hopes that it would help.

"M'gann is correct. We should not simply leave our friends do to some minor discomfort. The heat aside I have faith in Robin's ability to find the problem." Kaldur responded from where he sat at the kitchen table. He too had a fan trained on him, with large glass of, quickly melting, ice water in front of him.

This received a snort from Raquel, who had her head resting against the kitchen table's cool surface. "I still think, we can just ditch this place and go somewhere else. The beach or Canada or the Arctic Circle! Just not here in this mountain sized oven." came her muffled voice.

"Ugh, I super agree with Raquel. Anywhere but here would be good!" Wally said flailing his arms around.

"Or, we could just go fix the air conditioner." Robin smirked as he stood up.

"Dude, you found the problem! Awesome!" Wally cheered as he jumped up "What's the problem and what can the Wall-man do to help?"

"The Wall-man can calm the hell down…" Artemis grumbled from the sofa.

"I need to get a few things first, but I'm probably gonna need everyone's help so try to stay whelmed Arty and meet me in the temperature control room." Robin replied cheekily as he walked down the hall with his laptop and jacket in tow.

The team all had gathered in the temperature control room waiting for the Boy Wonder to show up. After opening the door to the underground room they were shocked to discover that is was actually cooler than the rest of the mountain. Not by much, but they could still tell the difference between the two locations.

"Wow, I can't believe the cave needs all this machinery to just control the temperature." M'gann wondered aloud.

"Well, actually this stuff controls both the cave's temp, hot water, and the temp of all of the other equipment in the med bay." Wally commented smugly.

"Wow, Kid Mouth I don't even think you know what half of this stuff does." Artemis snapped back sarcastically. She was a little uncomfortable about the fact that this is where she and Robin were almost roasted by Red's sister, but she didn't want anyone else to know that.

"Whatever, Blondie." Wally said with an eye roll, but when the others weren't looking he grabbed Artemis' hand and gave her a soft smile because hey he just knew something was up.

"Yeah, but why is this room cooler, I mean it's not a lot cooler, but still…" Zatanna pondered.

"Because this room needs a separate cooling system to ensure nothing over heats." Robin answered as he appeared in the room right next to Raquel. The whole group jumped in surprise, well everyone except Zatanna who had known he was here and had actually directed the question at him in the first place.

"Stop that! You're gonna give a girl a heart attack!" Raquel shouted in alarm as she jumped away from the ninja boy.

Robin just smirked as he walked past and headed towards a very large contraption in the back of the room that seemed to be radiating heat.

"So young friend, you said you knew what the problem with the air conditioning unit was?" Kaldur commented as he followed after the Bat.

"Yep" Robin replied popping the 'p'.

"Just tell us so we can help." Conner grunted, even he was hot and uncomfortable, that only made his temper shorter.

"Calm down Supy, there is a problem with the fuses in the central control mainframe located inside this bad boy." Robin remarked as he gestured to the machine next to him. "Here's the problem-" continued to say until he was interrupted by a volley of groans from the other teen heroes.

"Why is there always a problem?" Wally whined.

"Less complaining, more listening. The sooner we finish this the sooner we can all go and lounge around in the pool upstairs." Robin said on a sigh. "First, Raquel and Kaldur can you two bring down a bunch of water we need to cool this machine down before I can climb in it. Second, Wally catch" and Robin tossed him his holo comp "Here are the schematics for this unit I have highlighted the problem area think you talk me through the repair?"

Wally's eyes flicked all over the small screen as he absorbed the information. After another second, he replied with a grin "Piece of cake~"

"Good, you and M'gann go get the gear we need for the repair from the hanger. Next let's start shutting down the power for this monster. Zee can you come over here and hold this toggle down the entire time I'm in there." Robin asked as he motioned her over the switch board.

"Sure, but why?" Zatanna questioned as she came over.

"This is the master control switch for the whole system's electricity. It's on a time to automatically turn back after a certain length of time and I don't know how long this might take so better safe than fried." Robin said with a shrug.

"Good to know. I don't really need an electrified boyfriend." She joked.

"Zee, I shocked that you don't think I'm electrifying." He responded with a mocking pout. They held each other's gaze of another few seconds before bursting in to laughter.

"Hilarious. Can we just get on with this?" Artemis groaned.

"Come on Arty, why can't you just plode like Conner here?" Robin remarked as he poked Conner.

"Plode, what the hell is plode?" Artemis asked. As Robin was about to respond she just held up her hand and said "Never mind, I don't want to know. Let's just fix the AC."

Robin just grinned but complied. "Okay, Con I need you to hold open this door mechanism open, by keeping pressure applied to this lever. It should be a cake walk for you, with your super strength. Just make sure you keep this access panel open I really wouldn't like to be stuck." Robin instructs him, his smirk ever present.

Connor simply nods and pushes the lever down. The second the small access door swung open and huge wave of dry heat rolled at and over the unsuspecting teens. "Boy Wonder or not you cannot mean to go in there!?" Artemis gaped in disbelief.

Robin rolled his eyes not that anyone could tell, he had changed in to a mask instead of his civilian shades after he left the Lounge earlier. "Artemis I appreciate your concern, but that's why I sent Kaldur and Raquel to go get a bunch of water."

"Speakin' of water~" Raquel chimed as she used he force bubble to carry down quite a great deal of water.

"Robin, here is the water you requested. I was unable to care this much by myself due to my overheated condition, but I should still be able to manipulate it." Kaldur stated as he walked over with Raquel, drawing his water-bearers.

"Asterious, just dump all of that water on the channel system Conner's got opened up. Once KF gets here we can start." Robin grinned. Kaldur complied and feed the water into the channel system. At first there was some steam but after a few seconds of constant water flow the metal cooled significantly.

Wally and M'gann came down the stairs with a bunch of equipment floating behind them, just as Kaldur finished up use the last of the water. "Totally, got all of the stuff we need Rob." Wally called.

"For a speedster you sure are slow, Kid Malingerer." Robin quipped with a smirk. "Now here's how this is going to work, Zee and Con aren't going to move they need to keep their respective levers in the down position. Wally you're going to tell what I need to do to fix the fuses, while Arty and Miss M give me the proper gear. Lastly, Kal and Quel are going to get more water and keep it on hand in case this thing starts heating up again. Everyone clear on how this is going to work?" He received a room full of nods.

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