The cool wind of Gotham City blew into Robins face. It was early in the night and the Boy Wonder was out on patrol alone. Bruce was out at some charity event so Rob thought it would be the perfect time to kick some bad guy butt by himself.
He had his police scanner on, but nothing was really interesting, only small boring things. That was until he heard an odd conversation, "Hey Dave its Mark. I was driving around the east side of Gotham and I came across a green question mark on the side of a building, did the Riddler break out of Arkham? "Robin smiled; this was just what he was looking for.
The scanner spoke again but this time it was the other cop. "Yeah, he broke out about three weeks ago. I guess the sicko final decided to show himself. What else was there?"
Marks voice came through the radio again, "That was it. Should I report it?" Mark sounded like he had no idea what was going on. He was definitely new to the force.
"Naw, just leave it. It's not causing any harm." And Dave was an idiot. Robin sighed. Cops were really getting lazy these days. He turned off his scanner and took a running dive off the building. As he was falling he twisted his body so he was facing up and shot off his bat claw to the next building. He would be at the question mark in a matter of minutes.
The question mark was less than impressive. Robin had been expecting a huge green mark on the wall and maybe a riddle next to it. This was pathetic; it was small and poorly written. "Looks like Nigmas getting lazy." Rob said with a smirk. "Unless.." He walked over to the mark and touched it.
His smirk grew bigger. "Thought so." The brick was loose and he slowly pulled it out. Inside was another question mark on a small envelope. He quickly scanned it for any explosives or poison gases. Finding none he pulled out the envelope and opened it.
It of course was a riddle and it was rather troubling. "Depending on who you are, this person may matter from afar and soon you will see that they do not matter to me. I have taken what you want, and now will lead you on a Speedy hunt."
Robin almost dropped the paper when he fished reading it. "I need to tell the team."
Not ten minutes later he was in the cave and had called an emergency meeting. Aqualad was the first in the room. "What is going on my friend?" Before Robin could answer Kid Flash came running in.
"Where's Batman? Does he have a mission for us?" He asked a little too happy for Robin to be dealing with right now.
"Batmans not here, it's just me right now and once the rest of the team gets here i'll explain what is going on." Robin said and then added a little Bat glare to shut Wally up. Kid flash was taken back, but kept his mouth shut.
The rest of the team got there and Robin put a hologram up with the riddle on it. "Depending on who you are… matter from afar…..don't matter to me. A riddle? Rob what's going on?" Kid Flash asked; not really understanding what was going on.
Robin sighed "I found this today in Gotham city. It was under a green question mark. Im sure you have all heard of the Riddler and if this means what I think it means we have a huge problem." He pressed a button and a picture of Red Arrow appeared on the screen. "No one has seen Red Arrow in two days and-"
"And the riddle says we will be on a Speedy hunt. Robin are you sure about this?" Aqualad asked. He wanted to be sure before he and his team got any deeper into this.
"Im sure that the Riddler has someone and even if it's not Red Arrow we still need to find them."
"So are we going on another unauthorized mission, because that Red Tornado one was pretty fun." Artemis said with a pretty big smirk on her face.
"No," Aqualad said "We will tell Red Tornado and if it is possible Batman?"
Robin shook his head, "Batman is- on a mission right now. I'll tell him when he gets back."
"Ok Rob, so what's the plan?" Kid Flash said eagerly.
"Well since the police suck at doing their jobs we are going to Gotham. Im pretty sure the Riddler left more than one clue." Robin said with a smirk. That guy just couldn't help himself.
I plan on continuing this story and will update in a few days :) review please