An Infiltration

Hey there! I know I should totally be working on my other stories, but the idea kept getting into my thoughts. So, I just figured it would be better to get this out of the way and whatnot. This is just a short oneshot.

And with that short introduction out of the way, let's get on to the real stuff!

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Out of all of the missions Robin had ever found himself going on, he figured that this one had to be the worst. And he had been on a lot of damn missions, and with Batman, to boot.

Sure, they were going to some magically fantastical castle in London for a while to secretly check up on some sort of war that wizards were supposed to be in. Sure, they were going to see sights and meet people and creatures that they would have never imagined seeing in their dreams. And sure, they were doing it because the JLA couldn't fit in themselves as kids like them. But there was one detail that really pissed Robin off.

He had no super powers, therefore, could not perform magic of any kind and might blow their barely manageable cover. He could still go, but he had to do it under the disguise of a cat. Artemis, of course, had been given this option as well. Apparently, she wasn't too keen on seeing wizards in action, as she immediately turned down the offer. Robin, on the other hand, wanted to know whatever he could about any possible opponents, which meant he was about to risk his pride to further his own knowledge.

Batman, as well, had something to do with accepting the cat position, saying that it would help him with his skills to snoop around, especially when no one would suspect him, the cat.

"Fine, but I never, ever want to hear jokes about this. Ever." It was childish, he was sure, but he wasn't sure how many things Kid Idiot could think up during this mission, and he didn't want to find out.

Batman had then brought forth the wizard that was going to help the others, since he was going to be a cat, with their magic. He had handed a magical collar to Robin and told him that whenever he wore it, he would instantly be turned into a feline and the collar would adjust with his body so that he wouldn't have to always adjust it himself.

After that, they didn't exchange many words; in fact, he didn't get to talk too much to the rest of the team either, except for Artemis. Batman had also stopped giving them missions for the few weeks that the others were training to be wizards, because the others would always be so tired afterwards and they needed to keep their focus on their studies.

It was then he had asked Batman whether or not he needed to wear his mask, because it would certainly look weird for a cat to be wearing a mask, and risk – Robin used the term loosely since Batman was the only one really concerned about Robin revealing his identity – showing everyone his eyes. Batman had stiffened considerably and gave him a hard Batglare, but Robin stood his ground in front of his mentor. He was seriously ready for the others to know who he was, he trusted all of them, and he found it difficult for himself to believe that they really felt his trust since they didn't know who he really was.

After a few moments of glaring at each other, Batman backed off and let a huge sigh escape.

"Fine, you all have been a team long enough and I trust your judgment. Just make sure that they don't tell anyone or ever let your name be said during missions, got it?" Robin felt himself swell with happiness, as he finally found the only good thing he could think of to come out of this mission actually happening. Plus the fact that he had won the glaring contest; that rarely happened.

"Yes! Thank you, thank you, thank you!" He gave his mentor a hug – something he rarely did, even in the confines of the Batcave – and for the briefest moment he felt Batman hug him back. They quickly let each other go and Robin went back to the Main Hall to watch his teammates practice their magic, while Batman watched him go, thinking if he had made the right choice or not.

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The day that they were being sent undercover to the magical school, Hogwarts, had finally arrived. They had all, expect for Artemis who was on a mission with Green Arrow, had dressed in civilian clothes and gone down to the airport.

When they finally arrived in London, Robin was told to go into a bathroom to 'change'. Robin let out a sigh and headed into the secluded bathroom without protest. He had already gone through the change a few times back at Mount Justice to get used to it. He discovered that he would change into a black kitten with blue eyes. Another reason to hate the mission, he mused. Soon, he was situated in a stall – he could keep his clothes on, even though he had no idea where they went – and he buckled the collar around his throat. A few seconds later, he found himself on four paws and closer to the ground then he usually felt comfortable with. He soon waltzed right out of the bathroom and over to his gaping friends, who had been very focused on the bathroom door ever since he had entered, and he nudged Superboy – who had been renamed Conner – so that the boy would notice him.

Conner had bent down to his level and picked him up gently and held him in a protective grip, but put him on display for the others to see.

"Wow, Rob. I didn't know your eyes were so… blue!" Robin gave him the best 'are you kidding me, that's all you have to say look' before he mewled and showed Kid Flash, or Wally, his claws.

Megan, who they had insisted to turn a more Earthly pale white instead of being Martian green, squealed over him and took something out of her pocket. She took the object and attached it to Robin's collar, which caused said cat to turn his head to her in confusion.

"It has your name, Robin, on there, plus it says you belong to Wally if you get lost. We even put it on a cute Batman shaped tag; I thought it would be nice." Robin nodded his head, a tag would be good if he somehow got lost while exploring the castle or if he got caught somewhere he shouldn't be.

Aqualad, who would be called Kaldur, stepped forward and stroked his fur, which immediately caused a reaction of purring on Robin's part.

"Looks like the collar helped provide some cat instincts, well it looks like we are ready to go. Goodbye, my King."

And the next few minutes consisted of many 'goodbyes' and 'I'll miss you's from both mentors and former sidekicks. It was a bit awkward for Robin and Batman, seeing as Robin could no longer speak English and Batman – who had revealed his identity to the team already – felt a bit weird talking to his ward while he was a cat.

But the adults left soon enough, and not too much later, they were headed off to some place called The Leaky Cauldron. This was the place that they were going to use to get to another place called Diagon Alley, where the others would get their school supplies.

When they entered the bar, all became quiet and most of the bar's patrons turned towards them. Robin felt his fur stand up a bit, but he ignored the feeling that came with it. Conner seemed immune to all of the stares directed his way, and he returned some of them with a menacing glare. It proved a bit useful as those on the receiving end of the glares tended to glance away after a few seconds. Megan had nervousness rolling off of her person; she didn't really like the attention that she was getting from just entering the wizard's bar. Wally, however, was able to shrug off all of the looks shot his way as he ushered the group forward. Kaldur arrived at the barman's desk first and asked if he could get into the alley.

"New wizards? You look a bit old to not have your wand yet." The statement was something that they would have rather avoided, but Kaldur had been told what to say in this situation. After all, most people who would ask this question they would never meeet again, and then the school already had some sort of excuse brewing to allow them to stay.

"We are from America, we've been told that their way of finding wizard's and being able to handle all of the new ones coming in was a bit defective, so when they found us, they said that we should come here instead." The bartender, Tom as he had introduced himself, bought the story and led them to a dead end.

"Here is where the magic starts." And Tom was absolutely right. As soon as he tapped the bricks in a certain order which Robin had just memorized, the wall opened up to a completely different world. It shocked them all so much, that Conner almost dropped Robin. In retaliation, Robin climbed up onto Conner's head and lay down in his hair. Conner didn't do anything about it, so he assumed that he was safe up there.

The first thing they did was go to the bank, advice Tom had given them as he said that they took wizarding money and nothing else. So, they went to the bank to exchange all of the money Batman had given them. After many awkward moments, mostly created by Wally, they had finally gotten their money exchanged through the weird creatures – or Goblins, they had been told – and left the bank loaded down with what would have been a heavy bag for most people, but carried by Conner it took little effort to lift and carry around.

Robin decided that since Conner was doing the heavy lifting, he would go hang on top of Wally – or his 'master' as he had already joked – and sit on his shoulder to lighten Conner's load. Wally freaked out for the first few seconds that he felt something land on his shoulder, but after Megan had told him Robin was up there, he let Robin be, but not without muttering under his breath about creepy kittens. Megan had giggled, but Robin felt very inclined to stick one of his claws into Wally's head. Speedsters did heal fast after all. It did shut Wally up, that is, until the got to the wand shop.

"Oh wow! I've waited forever for this moment and-" And Wally went on and on, but suddenly, Kaldur plucked him from his perch upon Wally's shoulder and set him on the ground, off to the side from the creepy wand shop.

"I'm sorry Robin, but the sign says 'No Pets Allowed'. Try to stay out of trouble while we are inside, okay?" Robin felt extreme disappointment, but he nodded his head anyways. If he was going to be a pet, he would have to obey the pet rules. Did they even allow pets inside of this school anyways? If not, he was going to go to Gotham and hope that the Joker or someone else would be stirring up trouble; venting this out would be a must.

Robin then heard a loud crash from inside the store. He jumped up on the ledge so that he could see through the window, and saw Wally standing in the middle of the shop with a stick – wand, he reminded himself – and a broken shelf off to his left. Robin would have face-palmed if he had hands, of course Wally would destroy something, why not? The old man that was with them, however, didn't look the least bit fazed and plucked the wand from Wally's grip and shoved a new one in his hand. The process repeated itself a few times until red and yellow sparks came out of the tip. Wally then fished around their bag of money and paid the store owner.

His teammates went through the same process, surprisingly enough, and soon they all had their own special wand. He could hear Wally now – in his mind – saying something about a mission trophy, if Wally even felt like keeping it after the mission. Wally's stubborn mind still didn't like the fact that they were doing something magic based, it shook his scientific world after all. But after plenty of convincing from Wally's own mentor plus Batman, he got over it and started to study up for this mission himself. The practice wands the wizard came over with were a bit faulty from time to time, but Wally soon got used to the magic that now covered their base of operations.

As soon as they came back out, Megan headed over to Robin's perch and picked him up and held him in her arms. Robin didn't try to fight out of her hold either; it was one of her first real experiences with animals, pets to be exact, and he was too comfy to move.

Soon, they had moved from store to store, picking out the books that they would need and getting fitted for the uniforms that they would wear, until they finally settled down in some sort of ice cream shop. They all ordered something for the sake of trying new things – Wally ordered for Robin – and they sat outside and decided to talk about trivial things. Robin was leaning over his bowl, licking it a bit awkwardly, realizing that eating as a cat was a bit different than doing it as a human, when he suddenly saw another cat right across from him, licking his ice cream as well. He stopped for a second, wondering where the hell the other cat could have come from, when a girl came over to them and picked the other cat up by the scruff.

"Crookshanks! You should know better than that, stealing another cat's food, plus wondering away while I'm shopping. I swear, you're like Ron sometimes."

The girl was soon joined by two boys that Robin thought reminded him off Wally and himself. One was a redhead with freckles, green eyes, and had a nervous air around him; probably because his friend's cat was stealing from a stranger's cat right in front of them. The other had black hair and green eyes as well, he wore glasses and he also had a nervous air about him; same reason as his friend probably. All three of the newcomers scanned over his teammates, as if they were expecting them to do something horrible.

Maybe it was a British thing?

Robin didn't know, and he didn't care to find out. He hopped up from his sitting position, snapping the current humans out of their staring contest, and he hopped back up onto Wally's shoulder and looked at the newcomers from his new vantage point.

They all looked interested in him after the little stunt he did; Robin guessed cats didn't hop onto people's shoulders to stares at others very often. Wally stood up though, remembering his manners and almost jarring Robin from his seat on Wally's shoulder – if it hadn't been for Batman's training he would be a twitching cat on the ground – and he introduced himself and the rest of the gang.

"Hi, I'm Wally! This is Kaldur, Megan, and Conner. And I guess your cat just met mine, his name is Robin." The group gave them an odd stare, and Robin knew that there was bound to be a ton of questions. From just those three measly sentences, Wally had given away that they were not from around here, by their accents and their names, and that they named a cat after a bird. Wonderful. Good thing he wasn't a person or he might be expected to answer some of those questions.

"Well, I'm Hermione, and this is Ron and… Harry. Plus my cat, Crookshanks, of course." Robin tilted his head a bit when they mention the black-haired boy's name. They hesitated and they all seemed to have twitched as well. Nothing is more suspicious with teenagers then when they hesitate and twitch. His teammates had noticed this too, seeing from their expressions, that is.

Kaldur took this as his cue to speak.

"Is there something wrong?" They all looked surprised by his question, like they were expecting him to ask something else. Robin shook his head; wizards obviously had some issues. But their looks soon turned to cheerful smiles, as if they were relieved that they didn't know something. That is, until a very unpleasant person came to join them.

"Well, if it isn't Potter and his no good friends, who are you corrupting this time?" It was a snide voice that he could recognize in a person voice anywhere. The newcomer, as Robin could already deduce, was someone who was very full of himself and had a bunch of money and a big family name to back him up. Growing up with Bruce as he did, he had heard the tone way too many times, and he usually hated the brats that came with it. He jumped off of Wally's shoulders and onto the table that his team had been sitting around, and he stared directly into the face of their newest visitor.

The kid had very light blonde hair that was slicked back with what he could smell was an ungodly amount of hair gel. His face was one of disgust and it was one that would constantly look down upon others. He drew out his claws, he might just need them.

"And who are you? A relative of Weasley, most likely."

Said Weasley boy, who could be mistaken for Wally if someone was far enough away, bristled up and stomped right over to the bastard.

"Leave them alone, Malfoy. I have no blood relation with the guy what so ever, so if you could stick your nose where it might actually be appreciated, then we could all be happy for once."

"I don't believe that for a second Weasley. So, what are you? A distant cousin perhaps, or maybe a close one because of the resemblance."

"Listen here, what's-your-face, you are obviously not welcome near our new friends, so beat it. If you think you can stand up to us, then you might want to do a recount, because you are outnumbered."

Malfoy made a small sound of disgust in the back of his throat before he stomped off with the two over-weight boys that he had dragged over with him. Robin watched him leave, happy that Wally was nice enough to stand up for all of them, then he turned up his nose and jumped back onto the redhead's head and lay down once more. He found that it was more comfortable than it looked.

"Sorry about him mate, Malfoy just doesn't like my family is all, though it's weird how related we look."

"No problem, some people and gingers just don't mix. I like to think that they're jealous." Robin rolled his eyes; of course Wally would think such things. He jumped down to his shoulder and mewled in Wally's ear just to tell him so.

"Whatever Rob, it's not like I get to stalk them until I find their every weakness and then attack like you do, I'm straightforward and you're the stealth, you've got to remember that." And Robin knew that very well; as Kid Flash, Wally was one to rush through things a bit. It was another Speedster thing, he had guessed, and that list was always growing.

"Can I hold your cat? He has the prettiest eyes." This didn't come to a surprise to Robin, as he figured that was what some people were going to ask, seeing as he was a little kitten with big, blue eyes. Wally looked down to him, the question lingering in his eyes, Robin let out a small mewl of approval. Before he knew it, he was in the bushy-haired girl's arms, looking straight into her eyes as she lifted him in front of her face.

Her two friends had crowded around her to get a better look at him themselves.

"Wow, his eyes are really blue. Where did you find him?"

Wally felt all eyes on him again; now was the time to make up something believable.

"Well, I went to the circus one day," Wally ignored the hiss that came out of Robin, "and I found him while I was wondering around. I asked if he belonged to anyone, but they said I could keep him. He can do some really neat tricks too, so if he suddenly does a backflip or something, then don't be too surprised." Robin then noticed what Wally was trying to do, he had made the perfect excuse for him to continue to be able to – somewhat – train in this body and do the things he normally does.

Robin, all of the sudden, felt himself on the ground.

"Really, can you show us?" Of course, he had to preform too. He might as well get it over with, though he knows that he will have to do it again after they get to the school full of magical children. Robin suddenly wondered what he had gotten himself into as Wally agreed to show their new friends what his cat could do.

"Sit." Robin did what he was told, but gave Wally one of those 'that's it' looks.

"Uh, flip." Now he gets to the good stuff. Robin stood back up on four legs and then again did what he was told.

"Good job, Robin! Told you he was cool." And by the looks on Hermione's, Ron's, and Harry's faces, they didn't doubt it.

"That's enough Wally. We have to get ready to go to Hogwarts in the morning." As Kaldur said this, he picked up Robin and put him on his shoulder. Their new friends gave them curious looks.

"We've never seen you at Hogwarts before, and you all can't be first years, are you really going to Hogwarts?" This girl was a smart one, Robin figured, and he made a mental note not to search much around her.

"Well, if you go to Hogwarts as well, then all I can tell you is that you will find out tomorrow. I presume I will see you there?" Kaldur was always pretty good at redirecting attention, a skill that was coming in handy so far.

"Oh, sure! Absolutely! Maybe we can even sit on the train together."

"We will certainly try our best, come on guys, we need to book a room in the bar."

And they certainly did see the others on the train the next day. After the confusion with getting onto the platform of course. When Megan had told them how to get there when finding the pathway with her Martian skills, she had to demonstrate that they wouldn't knock themselves out by running into the pillar when going through. When that whole fiasco was over and done with, and after they had found an empty apartment, Hermione, Ron, and Harry made themselves known and had decided to sit with them.

Robin soon found out that this was destined to be a long ride, especially since he couldn't talk to anyone, so he curled up and took a nap. He woke to the sound of the door shutting and looked around, only to see the girls changing. Robin knew that if cats could blush, he would have been very red right then, so he turned away from them and covered his eyes with his paws.

"Hey Megan, what's wrong with Wally's cat?" Megan didn't understand the question until she turned around and saw Robin facing away from them and trying to hide his face behind his paws.

"Oh, Wally taught him hide and seek a few weeks ago, it happens." On the inside, Megan was torn between being embarrassed and giggling. Most boys wouldn't have wasted such an opportunity, and she could only internally squeal at how modest Robin could be. They had soon finished and let the boys back in, who had already changed, and let the rest of the trip play out.

In Robin's mind, if what just happened a few moments ago was some sort of omen, then this was going to be the worst mission ever.