"Wally are you ready to go to Gotham?" Barry called to his nephew and sidekick, Kid Flash.
"Ready!" Wally called already next to uncle, "are we really going to team up with Batman?"
"Yeah, he called asking us to team up on a mission. Robin will be there too. From what Bats said he's a little younger than you."
"Younger? Then me? Wow that's young." Kid Flash said after taking a bite of a candy bar.
"Yes, but don't let him fool you, he's been training for years with Bats."
"Years? How many? This is only my first year on missions!"
Barry laughed at his nephew. Wally was right; he may have been training with him slightly longer, but Barry only just allowed him out on missions with him in the past year and because of that he hasn't seen as much action as Robin has seen in Gotham. But Barry knew this would be a good mission for him. It would give him a chance to work with a team.
Robin crossed his arms, "For a pair of speedsters it's odd that they are late."
"Always is," Batman said. He did have to admit it was true, his friend was usually late, but to the speedster it was just on time.
Just then a gust of wind came and stopped right in front of them.
"BATMAN!" Kid Flash said with a smile, "and Robin, you're shorter than I thought…." The yellow clad speedster stopped when he got a glare form the Boy Wonder.
"Yes," the Dark Night said curtly, "and this is my partner, Robin."
Robin nodded reaching out his hand, to Flash, then to Kid Flash.
"Robin, as you can guess, The Flash is in red and Kid Flash in in yellow. Now you two will wait here until we come back; stay hidden."
"What?" Robin said speaking for the first time since team Flash arrived, "I thought we were going to help."
"And you will help by staying here until you are needed," Batman said.
"Yes sir," Robin said submitting quickly, unlike the young speedster.
"Uncle Barry that's no fair!" Kid Flash said.
"Names, Kid" The Flash said.
"Oh yeah…sorry…" Wally looked down.
"So I was right," Robin smirked at Batman.
"Yes, now do as you are told and stay here. Keep Kid Flash here too." Batman spoke no more words to the young heroes, instead he and the Flash left the rooftop they were on.
"Well this sucks," Kid Flash said.
"You're telling me," Robin said walking to the edge of the building looking to see where his mentor went. Robin turned back to see Kid Flash with his goggles on his head. The boy was eating a snack.
"Want something?" He said with a mouth full of food opening a bag that showed food.
"Nah, I'm good." Robin said turning back to look over the Gotham skyline.
"So anyway…I'm Wally….but you probably know that." He said
"I guessed that much when you called the Flash Uncle Barry."
"So what's your name," Wally asked.
"Robin," he replied.
"I mean like your real name."
"Oh that, well that is a secret."
"How is that fair you know mine!" Wally said opening a banana.
"Batman won't let me tell anyone."
"Well yeah…that makes sense…" Wally admitted defeated. He should have know the sidekick of Batman would be as secretive as the Dark Night himself.
A few minutes past and there was awkward silence between the two. Robin sat unnaturally skill looking over some holographic scans. Wally on the other hand could not sit still. He was pacing back and forth, speedily.
"How could you just sit there! We are sitting here sidelined and you're so calm!"
"I'm used to steak out missions. And I'm calm because I'm focused. Beside it's not like I'm doing nothing. Wanna have some fun?" Robin smiled devilishly.
"Bats are you sure this is a good idea?" the Flash asked.
"The boys won't be in any real danger. We will be monitoring them." Batman said casually.
"That's not what I meant. What I meant was going against an order." He rephrased what he meant.
"My comment still stands. As we speak Robin will be searching the police scanner."
"You want him to go against your orders? Doesn't that go against what we teach them?"
"We want them to think for themselves. If they see something happen it should be instinct to help. They should not be told to help."
Flash nodded, "it's all making sense now." It was devious, and he wasn't exactly sure if he agreed with this plan.
"They're on the move," Batman said, "they found a robbery."
"Looks like we got lucky!" Kid Flash smiled.
"Not really. This is Gotham, there is always something going on," Robin said darkly.
"Another reason you were so calm?"
"Yes," Robin said typing at the buttons on his forearm. "This is where we are going. You will be there before me, just wait for me."
"Got it!" KF smiled running off while Robin prepared his grappling hook.
Wally raced ahead to the coordinates Robin gave him. Knowing he would arrive in enough time to scout out the location Kid Flash raced around the building assessing the situation. The more he knew before Robin got there the better. Robin arrived quicker than Kid expected. Robin let go of his grappling hook and landed with a backflip next to Wally.
"Every acrobatic," Wally said impressed.
Robin gave Wally a genuine smiled. The Boy Wonder was a natural athlete and it's been some time since he could show off his skills to someone new.
"Looks like some run of the mill low life," Robin said, "should be no problem. We can take them down before the police even show up and be back on the rooftop before we are even missed."
The pair heard a small explosion. Kid Flash ran off to see what it was, with Robin tailing behind. This was not something either boy was used to. Each was used to someone who had comparable speed, or lack of, to themselves. Once inside Kid did kept hidden until Robin could join him.
"I don't think I can ever get used to that…." Robin said bringing up a blueprint form the device on his arm. "The vault is here…" he said pointing to the location. Before Robin could even say go Kid Flash was gone.
By the time Robin arrived Kid was already trying to stop the three bank robbers. Robin drew his weapon and went to Kid's side.
"Ready?" Kid asked apprehensively.
"Always," Robin said.
Neither boy had a plan, beside stop the robbers. Compared to baddies both boys have fought these seemingly normal burglars would be easy, or so they thought.
Two of the burglars stopped what they were doing, to go after Kid and Robin. Each robber drew a gun and pointed at the young heroes and fired. Kid easily zipped around each shot fired, while Robin acrobatically flipped away. Each boy had their difficulty since the bombs weakened the wall and around them causing them and the ceiling to fall to the ground.
"Dude you've got some made skills," Kid said dodging a piece of falling ceiling., "you've got to show how you do that."
"Yeah, sure we need win here first," Robin, said as he doing a one handed backward somersault over more debris. "These guys are better than we thought."
Batman and Flash tailed their partners. They wanted to keep an eye on their younger counter parts. They didn't want to be too far if they needed help. It wasn't that they did trust them; they just wanted to see how the boys fought together.
They hear the guns going off. "Let's get closer," Batman said, "still keep our distance."
It didn't take long for the robbers to run out of bullets. They had one option last. Use the last of their bombs. The two robbers who were fighting Robin and Kid Flash pulled the bombs for their pockets, and then separated. Kid went after one, and Robin went somersaulting after the other.
"Look what we have here," a robber said, "a circus monkey."
Kid got to his device took it off the wall and then ran it from the building to toss it in the near by river. This left Robin alone.
Robin froze. He didn't mean to, it just happened. His mind got lost. He tried to shake the image of his parents falling to deaths from coming, but it came anyway. His parents may have died two-years-ago, but that's not something you forget.
"Robin!" Kid Flash called as he came back into the room trying to call Robin's attention back to the fight, but it was too late. The robber took Robin's laps moment in judgment to set the bomb off and run away. Kid could see getting ready to go off, he need to stop it and quick, but it was too late. "ROBIN!" he called again as ebony hair boy was thrown against a wall. The already crumbling building fell around Robin.
"BATMAN!" Flash called before he raced forward.
"We need to make sure the building is clear," He responded
"Kid get Robin out of here!" Batman called to the young speedster.
A/N: This is my first Young Justice fic. I'm really nervous to feed back would be nice. I hope none slipped too much OOC. I'm trying. Also no matter how times I read over a fic I will always find a mistake...so yeah...I'm just unlucky that way...
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