-Pfft, it's almost like I started writing the next six parts a few weeks ago, and already have some prepared!-

When the team was first given the mountain as homebased, the league discussed how much they would hide away. They restricted access to a few league systems, and all the obvious stuff, but they considered the teens mature enough not to do anything too stupid.

That was obviously a mistake, but it was clearly a bigger mistake now that the teens weren't teens. At first Conner was in the gym and accidently pulled a rack of weights down on himself, of course, he was a super boy, and ended up fine aside from a few bumps and bruises, but it was obviously upsetting for him.
So, they closed off the gym.

Next, Wally got a cut when he ran into the armory while playing.
So, they closed off the armory.

Then, Artemis managed to burn herself on a heating system.
So the kids needed to be supervised at all times.

Dinah held Wally under one of her arms, and Artemis under the other, sitting on the couch. The boy was still upset about his hand, and Artemis had her hand on an icepack wrapped in a dish cloth. Conner sat on the floor in front of them, reading aloud, and Kaldur and M'gann were just trying to watch TV in peace.

It was only about two pm, but it felt like forever. "How long until we're replaced?" 

"Ollie said he'd drop by after work."

"Oliver's never worked a day in his life!" Barry struggled to hold Dick properly without dropping him.

"That's what I was thinking..." Dinah muttered, squeezing Wally a little closer to comfort him.

Kaldur stood up and wandered over, putting up his arms, offering to hold Dick. "Do you need help?"

"Do you think you can hold him?" Kaldur nodded. "Okay, then." Barry lowered the infant into the young boys arms. Kaldur carried Dick back to their spot on the carpet, and sat down, holding him very carefully.

"Robin!" M'gann perked up. "AW! can I play with him?" The martian ordered.

Aqualad looked back and forth between them, and continued to hold their youngest friend. "Carefully."

"Hey Wally, are you alright?" Wally sniffled a little and shook his head. "Let me take another look." Wally held out his hand for his uncle to examine. "Don't worry, it'll be better by tonight."

"Really?" Wally asked.

"Of course, your blood clots fast." Barry remarked, he sat down himself and looked to his colleague"Maybe the mountain isn't the best place to keep them."

Dinah gave him her best 'ya don't say'  look. "I think we should take a day or two to babyproof this place for them.

"and by we..."

"The others."

"Yes." The speedster agreed. "Let them do it."

They sat for a while, resting, taking the first peaceful moment all day. Things were so peaceful for once. Suspiciously so. But all the kids were RIGHT THERE, they couldn't be up to anything! So why did everything feel so off?

Dick wasn't even crying.

"Kaldur, can we get Robin back please?" Dinah asked. Her suspicions deepened as the boy did not move or reply. "...Kaldur?" She tried to move, but that required moving a few children. 

M'gann was starting to look concerned, staring at her friend. "Kaldur?" She asked timidly. Kaldur was slumped over next to her, still holding Robin securely on his lap. M'gann crawled over and shyly pulled Robin away from him.

"What's wrong?" Barry asked nervously.

Black Canary reached out and placed the back of her hand to his forehead. "He's really dehydrated." She reported. "Kaldur?" She shook him a little and heard his faint breathing, rattily and dry. 

"Does he need water?"

"He needs to be in water."

"The pool?"

She shook her head. "Breathing chlorinated water isn't good for him."

"What do we do?" Barry asked quickly, not wanting to panic the kids, since he could sense them getting scared.

"I'll stay here. You run him down to the water. There's that beach they play at down the east side of the mountain..."

"I know the way." He gingerly lifted the Atantean from the carpet and sped out.

"Where's he going?"M'gann sniffled, gripping Dick like a teddy bear.

"Don't worry, they're just making sure Kaldur's okay."

"okay." Artemis went back to playing with Dinah's cell phone, quickly putting any worry from her mind.

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Barry felt like such an idiot for forgetting that one of the kids he was meant to be babysitting was part fish! The kid has GILLS and webbed feet, and fins! How did he forget?

He didn't make it through the thrift store disaster, and three almost-fatal child injuries just to have a kid drown in oxygen. 

"Hey bud, wake up, can you?" He skidded to a halt in the sand and set Kaldur down with his toes in the water. Barry didn't know how to go about this. "Hey kid, can you help me here?" He pleaded. 

Kaldur didn't respond at first, but then a sizeable wave sloshed against the beach. The boy's eyes shot open, with a gasp for air, he swayed forwards and crawled into the water. in the shallow tide, he leaned backwards, head underwater.

The child began forcefully rubbing up and down the side of his neck. It took Barry a second to realize that Kaldur was unsticking his gills, which must have gotten stuck together. God this kids biology was interesting. Barry was scientifically interested, but did not have the balls to ask either Arthur or the kid about their genetic anatomy.

Within a minute or so, Kaldur was already looking healthier. He peacefully leaned back and disappeared under the dark waves. 

It took about a minute for Barry to realize that the kid probably wasn't planning to come back up anytime soon.

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"Lost him? Jesus Barry, FIVE MINUTES." Dinah forced a deep breath. Calm. Calm. CALM. She reminded herself. "Alright, they're going home until we have a safer setup here." She hung up and squinted her eyes closed. This is fine. 

She began calling the team's mentors to come get them. 

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"Artemis, you have to go home eventually."

"NO!"

"Artemis-" Oliver chased after the child in vein. "Come on, you have to go home." He managed to catch her by the sleeve

"No! No!" Artemis desperately tugged to free her arm. She actually looked scared. 
"No! I don't want to!" Unable to free her arm, the girl threw herself to the ground in protest.

"You can't stay here in the mountain forever. Your mother is going to wonder what we're doing with you."

"NO!" The blonde screamed, crying, still laying face-down on the floor.

"Alright, c'mere kiddo." Oliver scooped the kid off the floor and carried her back towards the main room. He held her legs so she wouldn't be able to kick him. About half way back, Ollie noticed that during her tantrum, the poor kid had had an accident.
Thus, returning to the other's, he passed his miniature sidekick off to her den mother.

"Is this for me?" Dinah asked, holding out her arms to take the child from him.

Ollie sighed. "See if you can convince her that going home is a good thing."

"No!" The little girl cried, kicking in protest as she was passed from one adult to another.

"Artemis," Dinah asked, securing the child's legs and carrying her towards the washroom. "Why don't you want to go home? Don't you want to see your mother?"

"No." Artemis told her firmly, sniffling a little.

"Why not?" Artemis let herself be put down. She murmured her answer shyly. "Hmm?" Dinah asked, it wasn't like the girl to be timid on any subject, especially when coming down from a fit like that.

"I don't like her."

"Why don't you like her?" Dinah asked calmly, starting to clean up the child.

"She makes me feel bad." Artemis gripped her den mother's leg like an anchor.

Dinah put her had in the girl's hair and gave it a playful grip. "I'm going to go get you some clean clothes." Her den mother assured. "Stay here, I'll be right back." Artemis nodded and let go of her leg, sitting on the bathroom floor.

Wally was having a different reaction to going home. He'd latched himself round his uncle, somewhat like a koala bear, arm's locked around Barry's neck.

"Wally, you've already stayed with us for three weeks. You're either going to have to stay with your folks, or tell them why you don't want to." Barry told his nephew. "I keep stalling, but you'll have to go back eventually."

"No." Wally sniffled, face buried in his uncle's chest. "Please."

"Wally, you can keep staying with us, but will you at least tell everyone why you want to stay with auntie Iris and me?"

"Please?"

"Okay, don't cry." Barry backtracked quickly, bouncing is child nephew in his arms. "You can stay with us, I'm sorry."

"I can?"

"Sure, just don't eat all the cookies." The older speedster laughed.

Wally looked up, wide-eyed. "We have cookies?"

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Back in the main room Bruce was half contentedly letting Dick climb over him. The others were very seriously discussing who'd be responsible for child-proofing the mountain. He felt obligated to stay for this even though he'd clearly be too busy to participate.

Barry entered, holding his child, and a plastic shopping bag.  "Bats!" He called. "Here's the stuff we picked up for Dickie." Bruce took the bag without a word.

Wally began squirming uncomfortably in his uncles arms, reaching towards Dick. "I want to play. Can we play?"

"Not now Wally, Dick has to do home now." Barry told him.

With three children accounted for, they just needed a plan for the other three. In a perfect world, M'gann would stay with her uncle, and Conner would stay with Clark, and Wolf would stay out of the way, and the mountain could be babyproofed.

"I don't have enough room in my apartment."

"For two days?" Diana snapped

"How much room do you need, Clark? He's only four."

"I have work!"

"You only need to watch him for two days, that's the weekend!"

"Look, I'll help you baby  proof this place, okay? He can stay here in his regular house, and I'll also be here helping you." The older Kryptonian justified.

"It'll do. I'll be staying here to watch M'gann in that time. Superboy can stay too." J'onn reasoned.

Dinah nodded, jiggling Artemis on her lap. "He's one of the easy ones, if you let him read his book and play with Wolf, he won't be too much trouble."

"Will Aqualad be staying too?"

"No, I think Art's is taking him back to Atlantis as soon as he agrees to leave the beach." Barry interjected, anchoring still the impatient Wally.

"Then that works, maybe I can come in to help you guys with this place after we drop Artemis at her mother's."

"Actually," Dinah interrupted. "About that..."