The Young justice team investigated the abandoned building. The different members looked through the different floors of the building, investigating the different experiments performed by a scientist that had been captured days ago.
"Kid Flash, have you found any unstable chemicals or experiments?" Aqualad asked over his comlink.
"Nothing that will blow the whole building up or kill us all." He answered. "All the experiments look harmless. Nothing really extreme here."
"Well that could be since you're on the first level. Maybe he did his mild experiments there, just in case someone stumble across the building." Robin mentioned as he walked around the top floor of the building.
Miss Martian floated into another room on the second floor by the stairs when she noticed a thin, almost invisible wire in the doorway. If she had been walking, she would have stepped into it, and seeing where the wire ended, it would have sent different chemicals into a pot filled with different mixtures.
"I think I found one of those booby traps I was told about. Be care-"
An explosion of smoke from a few floors above the second cut her off.
"Is everyone all right?" Aqualad yelled to his other teammates.
"It wasn't my floor." Artemis pointed out.
"My floor is fine." Wally said.
"Mine is as well." M'gann added.
"It wasn't me." Superboy remarked.
"Robin, are you okay?" The leader questioned over the link. "Robin?"
There was no answer. Everyone ran up to the top floor to see the smoke slowly fading away.
"Careful! That was a chemical explosion. We don't know what is in the air right now, so we need to grab Rob and get out." Kid Flash reminded everyone.
They all split up to search the large area that Robin was bound to be in. Superboy found Robin's cape and looked at it curiously. There was a form under it, but it was much too small to be the boy wonder. He lifted the cape to find Robin, the size of a two-year-old child. He was about to question the child as to why he was in such a dangerous building when he saw the boy had the Robin suit on.
"I think I might have found him." Superboy yelled as he picked up the small kid.
Everyone ran in to find Conner holding a little black haired boy. Everyone gawked as they realized the small boy was Robin.
"Is, is that really him?" Artemis asked.
"I don't know, but we do not have time to stay here and ask questions. We have to go back to base." Kaldur evoked. The little boy in Conner's arms moved his small body around until he opened his eyes and looked at the team.
"Wally? M'gann? Kaldur? What's going on?" He asked in a curious and innocent little voice.
Their eyes widened as they realized the little kid really was Robin. Kaldur sighed as he told the team to head back to the ship. He was not looking forward to explaining what happened to Batman.
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When the team walked into the cave with one member missing and a small child in their hands, Black Canary was more than curious as to what was going on. She was about to ask why they had a kid with them and not their teammate, but she stopped when the child brought his head out of the crook of Kaldur's elbow, exposing his black hair and the small mask on his face.
"Um Batman? I believe we have a little situation." She told the hero as he walked into the room, preparing for a debriefing of the mission. He walked over to the team and saw Aqualad standing with a kid in his arms.
"I believe that must be Robin?" Batman said as a statement more than a question.
"We had been searching the floors individually. Miss Martian mentioned that there was traps, and I guess Robin tripped one of them." Kaldur explained as Batman took Robin from his hands.
"Normally this kind of mistake would be punished right away, but seeing how Robin is in need of a full examination of what may have caused this, you are all dismissed for now." Batman walked towards the med bay as the rest of the team followed. They all felt guilty of what happened to their youngest member, and they were going to be there for him until he was returned to his normal age.
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They watched from behind the glass as Batman and one of the doctors that worked with the Justice League questioned and examined the toddler. Batman walked into the hallway knowing that the team would be waiting there.
"How is he? How much does he remember?" Kid Flash asked since no one else had the nerve to.
"For now he is physically a two or three year old. His memories are all scattered. He remembers almost everyone's name, but he vaguely realizes that he is supposed to be thirteen."
"What do you mean by 'vaguely'?" Wally asked.
"He remembers many skills that a small child would not, like his vocabulary is slightly stronger than an average child, but for most basic skills, he only slightly more developed."
"Did you tell him that he isn't really a two year old?" Kaldur asked.
"Yes. He denied it at first, but he realizes it now. You can see him, but keep it brief. I will be taking him home soon." Batman walked off and the team scrambled to the door. They calmly walked in, careful not to upset the depressed looking child sitting on the side of the hospital bed.
"Hey there Rob. How do you feel?" Wally asked in a subdued tone as he knelt by the bed.
"I'm okay." Rob responded. His voice was small and quiet. "Are you guys mad at me?"
"Of course not. What would we be mad about?" M'gann comforted Robin as she rubbed his back lightly.
"I messed up. I fell on a wire." Rob whispered. His eyes were getting moist and his lip quivered slightly.
"It's okay Robin. It'll all be okay. Don't you worry." Kaldur practically whispered. Robin quickly wiped his eyes and gave the group a smile.
Batman walked into the room and took Robin. The team stayed in the silence of the room as they watched their youngest member leave.
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4:30 in the morning. It took till now to finish this. I probably would have been done around 2 in the morning, but our house started flooding, and we got about a solid two feet in the basement. Sewage coming out the drainpipe, the subpump breaking off, and all our videogames and our t.v. are dead now.
I really felt like doing a cute little De-aged story! Hope you guys like it! I'll probably update my other story within the week.