Damnit.
"Are you serious mister?"
"Kid, you have no idea how serious I am."
"He won't mind?"
"Nah, well... y'know, he'll probably mind, but he won't get hurt, y'know? There's a technique to it."
"Yeah, but he's-"
"Ah!"
"Ba-"
"Buh!"
"Uh...."
"Think of it as a training exercise."
"Training, huh? ... Okaylet'sdoit!"
~
"We'll get higher efficiency if we connect the driver here, rather than through that!"
"But Wheeljack, I'm pretty sure that you have to plug this in here, otherwise the whole thing'll overload."
"Nah, don't worry about overloading the circuits. That's what the fuse box's there for!"
"... You're a robot after my own heart."
"I do try."
~
Batman never quite figured out how or why he ended up falling down the stairs outside of Young Justice's hideout. He was pretty sure it had something to do with the smell of speedster!ozone (Impulse?), but there was a giant purple jet roaring away through the skies that banished the evidence before the barest whiff hit his nose... and then he was quite rapidly distracted by the huge explosions ringing through Blue Beetle's temporary lab space (he'd been working with Robin on figuring out the SuperCycle), and even more appalled when a battered white Lancia came hurtling through the sky to crush the Batmobile.
Today was not his day.