I followed Artemis' lead down the alley. It was going to be her last mission before she 'retired' from the hero life, Kid Flash was taking a break too. I couldn't help but feel happy for the both of them. I saw Kid Flash nod, the signal for us both to run out of our hiding place.
I quickly ducked behind a garbage can by Superboy. "What are we up against?"
"Some idiot that plans to rob every bank in town." Superboy replied.
{Are we linked?} I heard Miss Martian's voice in my head.
{Affirmative.} I replied, professionally, but in my own voice. Not the voice that my glamoured disguise created. {Oh, ahem...} I deepend my voice in my head. {Affirmative, Miss Martian}
{Tieve, you really have to watch it with the voice.} Kid Flash noted {You'll be on other links than just ours in a few weeks.}
{Yeah, and you'll be somewhere else away from Rio, what's your point?} I joked back.
{Focus!} Superboy snapped. I brought my attention back to the bank. Someone had run out with a large hiking backpack. {There, can someone get that and... Tieve?}
WHAM. I kicked the man to the ground, rolling away with his backpack. {Taken care of} I smiled back at M'gann, who gave me a thumbs-up.
=BZZT= our coms buzzed, I pressed the tiny device in my ear. =Team, report back to Cave. It's happened again=
"Nightwing, what's happened again?" Artemis replied to the call.
=Aquagirl is down for the count.=
"Tula..." Artemis looked at us. "Nightwing, we're on our way."
Once again, Nightwing placed a device on the ground, but this time placed another beside it. I watched as a hologram of Aquagirl appeared. I trembled a bit, trying not to cry again. The next image was Blue Beetle. I froze. I heard about that guy on TV, he was a member of the league. I stopped, and looked at Nightwing.
"Tempest and Aqualad have made the decision to leave the team for now." Nightwing started. "Also, Wonder Girl, Troia... she's passing her title down and leaving for now."
I watched as Donna Troy left the Cave via Zeta Tubes, and a new girl about my age came in. She walked over to where I was standing, giving a nod and then stopped in place.
{Tieve, are you alright?} It took me a second to realize that Miss Martian had kept the link up.
{Fine. I guess.} I tried to sound strong, but even my mind-voice wavered.
"Nightwing?" Superboy looked up. "Do you mind if I take Robin out for a while? This is a bit too much for someone to take in on their first day."
"Ooh! Can I go too?" The new Wonder Girl smiled, Beast Boy seemed to want to get on the 'leaving train' too, as he hopped over and grinned.
"Fine, you four can go patrolling." Nightwing finally sighed after a period of silence. {Just...}
{Yeah, Ri?} Well, looks like Miss Martian let her on the psychic link. Might as well reply. {What is your 'Just'?}
{It's nothing. Have fun.}
My eyes widened. She said have fun? On a mission? I'm so going for this! I nodded. {Thank you.}
"Superboy B-04. Beast Boy B-19. Robin B-20. Wonder Girl B-21." the cave computer confirmed as we walked through the Zeta Tubes.
"That was a little too much drama for a Monday, don'tcha think?"
I glared at the new Wonder Girl. Now was not the time to be making jokes, and she knew it. "Superboy, how much farther is it?"
"Oh sorry, I didn't introduce myself." Wonder Girl smiled "I'm Cassie."
"Garfield." Beast Boy looked back at us.
"Conner." Superboy just stated.
"Robin."
"No, your real name!" Wonder Girl smiled widely.
"Its actually Robin." I was hiding both the Tim and Tieve thing. I looked back at her. "You really don't believe me, but it's Robin."
"Robin, could you come back here please?" Superboy motioned to the drivers seat of the s-cycle.
I crawled back and sat next to him. "Where are we going?"
"Would you believe another bank robbery?"
"Not really." I looked down at the street, seeing a figure flip by, followed by three cop cars. "Catwoman!" I saw two more figures flip out behind her. "Harley Quinn and... who's that third one?"
"Cheshire." Superboy narrowed his eyes.
"Watch out!" Wonder Girl pushed me down, just as a Sai narrowly missed my face. "Dang it..." I looked to see that it had actually scratched Wonder Girl's arm.
"How'd that hit you?" Beast Boy stared at the scrape, which was slightly bleeding.
Superboy's eyes widened, looking at the scratch. It seemed to ooze some sort of goo. "Robin, try to get as much as that stuff out of the cut as possible."
"Why?" I started picking the jello-like pieces off of Wonder Girl.
"Your cousin had a run-in with that stuff four years ago at Haly's Circus. It wasn't pretty." Superboy looked at me. I remembered my identity. Robin was male, secret identity was female, so Robin's cousin was Rionna. Clever, Nightwing, clever.
"Rio."
"Yeah, her. It was 'Sleeping Beauty Formula'. Zane Oldyy named it." Superboy looked at me. "Hawk Town."
"Yeah, I knew who you were talking about." I finished getting the substance off of Wonder Girl's arm, grabbing an alcohol swab from my utility belt and sterilizing the cut. I pulled a band-aid out and stuck it on the cut.
"Well, well, well." I twisted around. Harley Quinn was smirking back at us. I extended my bo staff, ready to strike. "When the Bat loses one, there's another one to take it's place."
"He had a name, you know." I narrowed my eyes at her.
"Who cares. Mistah J said he wanted the new Robin taken down, and I shall do so." Harley smiled crookedly.
I sucked in a breath, hearing Beast Boy move behind me. "Don't... move... yet..."
"NOW!" Wonder Girl flew out of the S-Cycle faster than I could blink. I hopped onlo Superboy's back, plummeting to the street below.
CLIFFHANGER! Yep, this week is the week of cliff-hangers. Yay. I'm moving the story along quite quickly right now, so I can work alongside the Invasion plot-line a bit.
R&R! Sorry for the late update! ~RicePoison