Hey! This is sort of like a sequel to The Problem. Thank You Jasmine Nightshade for the confidence boost! You don't need to read The Problem, but there might be references. This means the Mental link. Oh and to be clear,
Ages:
Robin 14
Wally 17 (it is spring) Arty 17
Megan 43 (18) Superboy/Conner 1 (18 in mind 16 in body) Kaldur 19 Jason 23 Tim 11 Are we clear? OK! Enjoy!
The team was in the common room of the cave. No one reacted when Robin was announced coming into the cave by the zeta beams. He came into the common room and sat down with a huff on the couch next to Conner.
"What's up Robin?" Wally asked while making himself a PB&J.
"Eh, you know those murders happening in Gotham? Yeah, another teenager was killed." Robin sighed and pulled up a screen on his wrist computer.
"Oh, those ones where black haired boys are being murdered and 'I want HIM' written in blood next to them?" Artemis spoke up, looking up from her homework. Robin squeezed his eyes shut at how casually she said that.
"Yeah, just another murder." He whispered. He went back to whatever he was doing on his wrist computer. Conner looked at him.
"Robin, if you need to talk, do." He said. Robin looked at him and opened his mouth.
"Remember how well talking helped with the Groaza thing." Robin visibly winced at the reference to him being kidnapped by the freak alien last fall.
"No, I'm good. I'm fourteen, almost 15*. I'm not 5." Robin said coolly, but his voiced was slightly strained. No one said anything and there was a long silence.
Robin closed his eyes and let the images of the dead boys' bodies flood his mind. They were all killed in the same way. Their throats practically torn out; lacerations on the legs and torsos, blood was everywhere. So much blood…
His train of thought was cut off from the zeta beams announcing Black Canary.
"Team!" She called. The team assembled in the main hall of the cave.
"Today we are doing a stealth lesson. Robin, go lay down on the floor in the middle. You will act unconscious and as the kidnapped person."
"Why?" whined Robin, the team noticed he had lost his slightly down attitude.
"I want these guys to learn, besides, it is good to practice patience." Robin grumbled.
"Anyway, if I see you, you will fail, if you can't get to Robin in the given time, he will 'die' in this simulation." The team frowned.
"This isn't like last time. Just try to save Robin without me noticing you guys." She turned and set up the timer on the holo-computer. Robin went to lie down in the center of the main hall. He was very still and listened to his team hide.
Dang! It's creepy how still he is like that! Rocket told her team.
Yeah, I hate it when he plays opossum. Wally said. Rocket looked at the timer, it read 4:30, 4:29…
Let's go! Kaldur ordered his team. They went into action.
"Oh, and we will do this over and over again until you get it right." Black Canary said. Wally zoomed out and ran around far away from Robin, trying to draw Canary away. Canary opened her mouth and the computer said, "Kid Flash is OUT."
"What!"
"Remember, I can attack from far away. Think! If you fail this round another league member will replace me, and you'll try with someone who uses a different type of fighting. 3 minutes left."
Kaludar shot electricity at Black Canary. She dodged and opened her mouth and ran a sweep around the room without using her power. The computer called Conner out, Artemis out, and Kaldur too. Megan and Rocket were left. Robin was still just laying there still and unresponsive.
Rocket swooped out and tried to get Robin that way, but the computer called her out for being spotted by 'cameras. Megan, using her chameleon-like abilities, walked right up to Robin. She started to lift him and the others in her team up and out. Black Canary sighed.
"Megan, OUT!" the computer said as Black Canary opened her mouth in Megan's direction.
"Well, that was a fail." She said. It had only taken two minutes and 45 seconds for the team to fail. Robin just stayed still.
"Robin, do you want a break or?" Black Canary started.
"I'm unconscious remember?" Robin said, his voice slightly irritated. Black Canary snickered, "This is training your patience I see. Good."
"No! It isn't! I should be trying to stop the murderer in Gotham, not playing dead! I sit for hours with Batman, I know patience! I can sit still for hours! I don't need to do this! Guys to pass this just use the echo in the hall to confuse her, also rotate in a circular formation so she can't pinpoint you. Then Megan just lifts me out while still flying around so she can't catch you! Come on it is easy!" Robin said in exasperation. He sat up and declared, "I'm going to go do something worthwhile." Robin said his voice venomous. His team came up to him and kept him from standing.
"Robin, while you find this easy, we need the practice, please help us." Kaldur said. Robin looked at him, he felt angry, but Kaldur was right, they were terrible at this. He cracked a smile, "Yeah, you guys stink and stealth. Sorry." He laid back down and closed his eyes, I'm going to see if I can prank them…
