"I think I know who Red X is." Robin announced to the Titans, immediately at the beginning of a urgently called meeting, "That's why I called you down here."
The Titans started back at him, shock in their eyes, all except for Raven, who looked back with an emotionless, but knowing sheen in her eyes. For all Robin knew, she had known either that Robin knew, or who Red X was in the first place. But she probably would have told if she did. Robin wasn't sure. Raven seemed to enjoy the fights with Red X more then anyone else did.
"Who, man?" asked Cyborg, breaking the stunned silence.
"His name is Jason Hillman." Robin continued. "He's junior at Mount Valley High school. Seventeen years old, punk-artsy musician type."
"Dude....So how you gonna get him?"
"Ohhh…yes friend Robin, tell us what is the plan to catch this evil villain?"
"Well, I don't have proof yet, and I'm not one hundred percent sure, so we can't go arrest him in the middle of class. So I was thinking one of us could go undercover."
After a few second of an awkward silence, Raven spoke. "Enlighten us, Boy Blunder, who is going to do that?"
"One of us, obviously. But I'm not totally sure which one of us is going to."
"Well, we can easily figure this out. Lets see now. I am made of metal and already pass high school. Hell, I already passed that high school and well, there no way you can make me go back. So I can't go undercover. Beast Boy is green and would only be in freshman year and he is green. So, he can't go because he is green."
"What's so bad about being green?" Beast Boy interrupted, sounding genuinely curious.
Cyborg ignored that and continued. "Starfire is not accustomed to earth cultures yet and she drinks mustard. That won't work out to well either. Raven can't because…well because she would probably kill the first teacher that annoyed her, no offense, sis."
A ghost of a smile passed over Raven's lips. "None taken, Cy."
Cyborg continued, "Robin you can, you are… you're the leader of this team and it was your idea." Robin raised his eyebrow at Cyborg's lame finishing comment.
"Actually, I was thinking Raven could do it." Robin said as he looked expectantly at Raven.
"Why me, Boy Blunder?" Robin glared at her when she used her nickname for him.
"Yeah, why her? Dude, we're not trying to get people murdered here." Beast Boy commented. Raven sent a shock of dark energy towards the changling, who let out a small shriek.
"So then while you at school and getting closer to Jason, I can still lead the missions. So the team won't be without a leader. We can recruit someone from Titans East to fill in for you while your gone."
It made sense and Raven couldn't argue with sense. So she settled for glaring at Robin until he looked away uncomfortably.
"So it's settled, Raven will be the lucky one to go undercover?" When he got no answer or objection, he continued. "Oh goody, I feel bad for whoever makes her mad." said Beast Boy, while chuckling to himself.
"Raven, come with me."
Five minuets later Raven and Robin were in Robin's office, looking over records involving both Red X and Jason Hillman.
"When I was apprentice to Batman, I was sent to a public school so I would learn to get along with the other normal kids. I noticed that all the people were friends with people that they were like. They form cliches. I have been watching Jason. Here are my notes." He handed her a few pieces of paper with his neat slanted handwriting on them.
"Tomorrow we will get you new clothes and the books and everything that you will need. I know you don't want to do this." Robin said in a softer voice, "But I just want to thank you for actually going along with it. I mean I would have a lot more issues getting say Beast Boy, to go along with this." Raven gave him one of her rare smiles.
"Just because I don't want to do something doesn't mean that I won't. But seriously how bad can this be? I'm not going to be risking my life everyday like you guys are. I mean the worst part is going to be shopping for clothes tomorrow if Starfire comes."
Later that night, after Raven made it back to her room, she realized she still hadn't looked at Robin's notes that he had given her. She grabbed it from her desk and flipped through the pages.
" **Skateboards to school everyday
** Favorites:
Color(s): black, red
Food(s):Drink(s): ? / coffee (pretty much anything from Starbucks)
Music: rock, hard rock
Band(s): The Ramones, Rise Against, Fall Out Boy, When Gotham Falls, The Beatles, Nirvana, The White Stripes
Song(s): I'm Slowly Turning Into You (The White Stripes), Walking Disaster(Sum 41), Monkey Wrench (Foo Fighters), Death by Romance (When Gotham Falls), among others.
**Activities:
Skateboarding, music, plays drums and guitar (electric and acoustic)
**Sings (back up), in a band + plays electric guitar, drums, when needed.
** Often wears hats pulled far down
**Baggy jeans, band T- shirts
**Stereotyped "emo" and "punk"
**Friends: Ryan Basday (M), Aiden Smith (M), Ivy Martin (F)
**Single
** No criminal record; has yet to be caught with his friends vandalizing (graffiti)"
'God, kind of sounds like myself. At least I won't have to memorize any songs or anything. I already like that kind of music. And I can skateboard, that's easy. I used to be able to sing well…I wonder if I still can…' Raven thought to herself. She put on her sweat pants that she wore to bed and slid underneath the blankets. Tomorrow was going to be a long day.
