I'm so proud… I got a lot of ideas from reviewers last chapter, so now I have a lot to work off of! I'm sorry if you gave me an idea and I only partially incorporate it or barely incorporate it at all, but I'll try my best!
Here is the tally from the reviews I currently have:
A: (Wally finds out on his own) 1
B:(Robin tells Wally) 1 (or five, depending on how you look at it)
C: (Everyone finds out at the end of the story) 0
D:(No one ever finds out, like ever) 2
E: (other, please specify) 1 but I gotta say, the idea they had was pretty awesome. I'll put the review they gave me right here:
Batman and Alfred find out but no one on the team ever finds out and Red X is a mystery forever. So that's now an option to vote for, you know, if you like that. The letter shall be F.
You can still vote (or change your vote), because I'm still just kind of figuring out the plot right now.
Robin POV:
It was 3:00 AM when Robin snuck down the hallway as quietly as possible, holding a small bag. Conner was a light sleeper, and Wally might not have been fully asleep after his 2:00 AM daily snack run, so he had to be careful. Quickly, he hacked the mountain's mainframe so that it wouldn't announce or record his departure, before silently leaving the mountain. Seconds later he stepped calmly out of a telephone booth in Pennsylvania, before taking out the contents of the bag. Inside there was a black jumpsuit with a red 'X' across the chest, as well as a skull mask. Quickly switching that with his civvies, he placed the hoodie, jacket, and jeans into the bag, and placed them in the telephone booth for safe keeping until he came back. Silently, he made his way across the city, and soon enough found himself back in the alley that he had been in just the night before.
"I can't believe I'm doing this." He mumbled.
"I can." A voice said from behind him. He turned around and saw a familiar figure walking towards him.
"Slade. I've-"
"You've changed your mind. You want to work with me, because you've realized that you won't make it anywhere without my help. You agree to become my apprentice, and in turn, help me out when the tables have turned on me. Is that were you were going to say?" Robin was silent. "I'll take that as a yes. Meet me at this address at ten o'clock tonight sharp. We'll get started on your training then." He threw a weapon similar to the one he had the night before, and once again, Robin ducked, but couldn't stop it from clipping his shoulder. "Don't be late." Slade said as Robin tugged it out of the wall, before stepping back into the shadows and seeming to disappear. Robin carefully pocketed the address, wishing to himself that Slade could use stationery instead. Sighing, he made his way back to the telephone booth, changed, and used the teleporter to go back to the thankfully still sleeping mountain. He silently made his way to his room, stuffed his bag under the bed, not the best hiding place, but it would do for now, and quickly stripped down to his boxers before jumping under the covers and falling asleep as his head hit the pillow.
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Robin woke up to the sound of a very persistent redhead banging on his door repeatedly.
"Rob? Are you okay in there? It's 12:30 dude, you've never slept this late before." Immediately all groggy recollection of whatever he'd been dreaming of left his mind, and all that remained was 'Holy-crap-I-slept-in' as he fell out of bed and rushed to the door. Completely disregarding his state of undress (except to grab his sunglasses off of his dresser), he flung it open, quickly moving to a position that would hide his wounded shoulder. 'Note to self: cleaning cuts takes priority over sleep from now on'
"Is it really that late? Have I missed anything?" Wally luckily seemed relatively unfazed by the sudden appearance of the half-naked boy.
"We got a call earlier from Bats saying that he was going to give us a status report later today. We all figured that you would be awake by the time we got it, but he could make the call at any moment, so…you know…get dressed?" Robin closed the door on the redhead and proceeded to change into his Robin suit. After all, if this was any other villain, he would be chomping at the bit to get in on the action, and he didn't want to tip anyone off by acting differently, right? …He knew he was right, he doesn't need you telling him so. Besides, Wally had been in uniform, so he assumed it was expected. When he left his room, Wally was still there. As Robin realized this, Wally grabbed his hand and dragged him away to the kitchen to feed him, because everyone knew that a hungry Robin was an irritable Robin.
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"So how late did you get to sleep last night, dude?" Wally asked as Robin chewed on his breakfast burrito. Robin shrugged.
"Late o'clock, late thirty…somewhere around there" 'About 3:30, actually. But who's counting?'
"Nice, dude." Wally clapped Robin on the shoulder, and the younger boy yelped. "You okay?" Wally asked, concern immediately filling his tone.
"Yeah. Hot cheese." Robin lied. Wally didn't look convinced. Luckily, they were interrupted by M'gann.
"Batman's sending a transmission, come to the mission room!" Robin grinned, glad for the green girl's timing.
Sure enough, when the two entered the room, Batman's face was blown up on the huge screen.
"Hey Bats, how is everything going?" Robin asked, knowing he was the only one comfortable enough around his mentor to begin a conversation with him.
"We're not having much luck. We checked out where the crime happened last night, but there seems to be little to no trace of our villain anywhere." Wally spoke next.
"We think he might be a metahuman. He vanished so quickly, it wouldn't be hard to think that he could transport himself." Once again, Robin was gleeful on the inside, no matter how composed he was on the outside. He was glad that no one had thought about how he had a tendency to vanish and connected him to the mysterious villain he'd yet to name.
"That's certainly a possibility, and we'll look into it. You'll be alerted if we find any new information." With that, the communication was ended.
"So, even the Batman is stumped? This guy is good." Artemis said flatly. Kaldur nodded.
"More than that, he is dangerous."
"So, that leaves just one question to be answered." Wally said.
"What's that?" M'gann asked.
"If he can best the world's greatest detective, why didn't he do much worse to us when we fought him? Most villains would do their best to hurt us if they had us captured like that. He just…left."
I'm not exactly sure why I call everyone by their civilian names except for Robin…I just do.
This chapter was originally going to be longer, but I went so long procrastinating that I ended it early so that I could have something up before school starts.
