Robin entered the store, and as though she knew he would follow, she led him to the back of the store where she exited through a back door. Robin hesitated to follow her, almost shaking his head and turning around, but he clenched his fists and went outside. There they stood, the back of the mall, the wind stirring around their bodies.

"I knew you'd come to me," she smirked.

"Why are you following me?"

"I almost didn't recognize you in those sunglasses," she continued, "luckily I followed you from Gotham. You have some interesting friends, especially . . . the blonde one." She cackled, her tongue like a whip in her mouth. "So you thought about my offer?"

"You never gave an offer, just a rehearsed speech for me to come with you,"

She raised an eyebrow and began, "Well, I apologize for not being able to tell you more details, it's rather secretive, but completely worth it. So hear me out-"

"Hear you out and you'll leave me alone?" he cut her off.

She exhaled obviously pushing her irritation out, "I will leave you alone if you let me explain, but I can't say so much for them."

"Them? Wait, who else-"

"I can't tell you very much or what this is truly about," she swallowed, "but I can say that if you come with me everything will be much easier. Come with me and you may have a choice, I can't tell for certain, but if let me show you the excitement of what we do then I can promise that you'll never want to go back."

"That's it?"

"That's it," she shrugged moving closer.

"No thanks," Robin laughed out making her scowl in rage.

Then as Robin opened the door to go back inside she slammed it shut with her foot, arms crossed in front of her as though she expected him to willingly come with her. Although to her surprise he was stronger than she thought and pulled the door open regardless of her foot. So she threw her fist, but he dodged out of the way, and in process grabbing her arm and throwing her aside of him, he could see the rage boiling like molten lava in her eyes.

"I listened to you," he stated, "and I won't come with you so I'd appreciate it if you left me alone. Now I need to be getting back." With that he left her on the once cold cement that now warmed from her own resentment.

Later that Night:

Dick tossed and turned all night, his back stiff upon his mattress and his room feeling colder than usual. He hadn't truly registered everything the girl had told him at the time, but now that he had time to think he could remember it like a memorized monologue in his head. He couldn't fathom the idea of being kidnapped again, even though the last situation had been easier than most of his missions. Although being drugged and tied up, completely unaware of where they could be taking you, was the kind of thrill that'd leave you sick days after. Being able to protect himself so well at times made him forget that his life truly hung at the tip of his cape, at least on a mission his life was on his hands.

They . . . Who the hell were they? She could just be an escaped patient of Arkham Asylum spewing her insanity upon people, but Dick knew that was unlikely. His goofy side always wanted to pretend that situations weren't as bad as were, but some things were serious. And if Jade was serious about what she told him then he needed to tell Batman.

He'd tell him tomorrow.

Meanwhile:

"I'm telling you, he isn't going to listen me!" Cheshire shouted as she launched herself up from her seat. "I've talked to him twice now, coaxing him became begging and begging became forcing and forcing gave me a huge no. A complete waste of time!"

"It's alright, we knew you'd fail at the-"

"I didn't fail," she interrupted sharply, "I don't fail, but I can't control minds you know."

"We knew the boy would not take to your coaxing," Ra's al Ghul, the leader of the League of Shadows, snapped, "but in an effort to save time and work we sent you in just to be sure. So your inability to reach out to the boy will be overlooked, for we had another plan going all along."

"A back up plan," Hook interjected.

"And what is this back up plan then?"

"Our plan does not call for you," he crossed his arms behind his back, "when the time comes and the boy is here we will inform you if you are needed."

"So I know this kid can fight, but what's the interest? He can't be that amazing," she scoffed.

"As you know, we seek for the best,"

The Next Day:

The guy has killed my breakfast with questions every morning, Dick groaned in his head, but just the morning I need to tell him something and he's left early to work. So Dick headed off to a long day at school, stopped by the mansion after school, and then headed to Young Justice after receiving a message from Batman to return to the Young Justice Headquarters.

Entering Mount Justice everything was as it usually was, Miss Martian and Superboy talking at the table with Kid Flash budding in to flirt with Miss Martian and anger Superboy, Artemis and Aqualad were training together, and Batman talking to Red Tornado and Black Canary. Robin quickly sped across the room.

"Good you're here," Batman said in his down-to-business voice, "everyone assemble!"

"Wait, I really needed to tell you-"

"What is our mission?" Aqualad unintentionally interrupted Robin.

"We believe Professor Ivo has escaped Belle Reve-"

"How is that possible?" Superboy interrupted. "No one escapes from there, except, well. . ."

"We are aware of this, which is the most baffling part," Batman continued, "but if we are correct he is, as you know, a large threat."

"Do you believe he is planning anything?" Aqualad asked.

"Besides the fact he should be behind bars," Batman answered, "we're not sure. Although the city has been experiencing quick blackouts, and we targeted immense usage of electricity all directed in one location."

"He can't be trying to create another Amazo can he?" M'gann inferred.

"We can't be sure until we investigate," he replied, "but for know your mission will be to gather as much information as you can if it is Professor Ivo, and try to deactivate whatever could use that much electricity. But I will remind you what happened last time you faced Professor Ivo, so by all means keep the fighting to a minimal."

They gave a quick nod.

"Now I set the coordinates in the Bio-Ship, get going," he began to leave as the rest of the team herded over to the door.

"Wait, I needed to tell you something," Robin caught up with him.

"Can't this wait Robin?" he turned back to him. "You're hacking skill will diffidently be needed in this mission and I'd rather not waste anymore time."

Robin opened his mouth.

"Come on Rob! Let's go!" Wally called out, all of them waiting for him.

"We can talk after the mission," Batman told him.

"Okay, we'll talk later,"