I'M SORRY! I HAVE NO EXCUSE! But, I did write a super long chapter just for you guys, with a little bit of fluff thrown in the middle there... So, I only own Char and this is episode 5, ´Schooled´.


CHAR/SHERS POV
"Hey Superboy, how was Metropolis?" Megan asked brightly. All he did was grunt, and walk right through our game of air hockey. Well that was rude.
"Ready for training anyone?" Black Canary cleared her throat from behind us. We turned around, seeing her and Martian Manhunter walking towards us.
"Black Canary, Uncle J'onn!" Megan hugged her uncle.
"M'Gann, I was, in the neighbourhood, so I thought I'd see how you were adjusting?"
I didn't really concentrate on their conversation, instead turning to Robin.
"Ready to get beaten?" I grinned.
"Considering I'm the one doing the beating," he smirked back at me.
"Please! I know your next move before you do!" I laughed. Superboy had started walking off, but Canary stopped him.
"Stick around, class is in session," she walked forwards, setting up the glowing training circle in the centre of the room.
"I consider it an honour to be your teacher. I'll throw a lot at you, everything I've learned from my own mentors," she grunted as she removed her jacket, "and my own bruises," she dropped her jacket to the floor.
"What happened?" Megan asked, concerned.
"The job," Canary said briskly, not really wanting to talk about it.
"Now, combat is about controlling the conflict, putting the battle on your terms. You should always be acting, never reacting," she was going through the basics, going over things Robin and I already knew.
"Right here! Yah," Mustard took a bite out of his banana, "and maybe when we're done with this, I can show you my moves," he chucked the banana skin over his shoulder, as I struggled to hide my laughter. Black Canary just smirked, throwing a punch at his head that he blocked, and sweep kick in his legs, sending him to the floor. I was now having serious trouble holding in my laughter.
"Hurts... So... good..." Mustard groaned, pulling himself up.
"Good block, but did anyone see what he did wrong?" Canary helped him up.
"Oh oh!" Robin exclaimed, "he hit on teacher and got served!" I collapsed with the effort to not burst out laughing, and most of the team gave me weird looks, but who cares?
"Dude! Babe!" Mustard complained, looking between Robin and I as he held his arm.
"He allowed me to dictate the terms," she was interrupted my Superboy.
"Oh please, with my powers the battles always in my terms," he jabbed a thumb at his chest, "I'm a living weapon, and this is a waste of my time."
"Prove it," Canary smiled at him. He narrowed his eyes, stalking towards her as Mustard backed towards us. I slowly climbed off the floor.
Canary easily flipped him, sending him painfully onto the ground, and Rob and I cackled, causing Aqualad to elbow Robin and send me a ´look´. Another couple of words were shared, and Superboy was back on the ground again, sending Rob and I back into the phase of muffling our giggles.

"Batman to the cave," Batmans face came up on the screen.
"5 hours ago, a new menace attacked Black Canary and Green Arrow. The attacker was capable of studying and then duplicating all powers and abilities of its opponents. Arrow called in reinforcements which nearly proved disastrous, as our foe gained more and more power with each new combatant." I didn't hear anything else that was said, subconsciously picking up key information as I thought about who could create something like this.
"An android?" Robin asked. Wasn't it obvious from the photo?
"Who made it? T. ?" He continued.
"Ivo..." I breathed.
"Correct, Sherlock, Red Tornado thinks that it was Professor Ivo that created it," Batman nodded at me.
"Ivo? But Ivo's dead," Aqualad spluttered.
"So we all thought," Canary turned slightly to face our team leader, "or hoped."
"To make certain this threat is permanently neutralized, we're sending two trucks bearing the androids parts to two separate Star Labs facilities in Boston and New York for immediate evaluation. Every precaution has been taken, we'll have four additional decoy trucks to create confusion, in case Ivo, or anyone, tries to recover the remains. You will split into undercover teams, to safe guard the two real trucks."
"Yes! Road trip!" Mustard cheered.
"So now we take out your trash?" Superboy growled. Well you shoved a stick down his throat?
"You had something better to do?" Batman countered, and Robin and I chuckled.
"Coordinates received, come on." We quickly rushed off to change into civvies, before meeting at the hanger.


I glanced at Robin, noticing for the first time how cute he looked in motorcycle suits. What? I quickly glanced towards Megan, to see if she had caught my though. It appeared not, so I went back to watching the android be loaded onto the truck from behind the bushes. We split into two groups of three, Aqualad, Miss M and Mustard, and Superboy, Robin and I.
It was a quiet journey, until Robin decided to bring up his word play again.
"If dislike is the opposite of like, is disaster the opposite of aster?" he asked, pulling up beside Supes. "See, instead of things going wrong, they go right,"he elaborated.
"Now isn't the time," I sighed, shaking my eyes and making the bike wobble a bit.
"Clearly, neither of you are feeling the aster. What's wrong?" Robin asked, making me sigh again.
"Canary. I mean, what business does she have teaching combat skills to a guy with super strength?" Superboy ranted.
"Taking down stronger guys is part of the gig. Canary learned that the hard way, same with Batman, and, well, Sher and I," Robin shrugged. Superboy sped up, pulling closer to the truck.
I wasn't really listening though, noticing the corn on either side of us moving differently from the patterns the wind was taking.
"Monkeys!" I cried, just as robotic monkeys leaped out from the corn and attacked the truck.
"Robin, Sherlock, Superboy, our truck is under attack," Aqualads voice came through the comm.
"Kinda figured," Robin said.
"I hate monkeys," Superboy growled, and I shook my eyes again.
The driver swerved all over the road, and I quickly changed my bike to autopilot, as I hated battle mode, before leading onto the truck.
"Robot monkeys! Totally Ivo's tweak style!" Robin grinned.
I kicked a couple of monkeys of the roof, but there were too many. They were everywhere, get rid of one and you got two more, like a twisted sale at the mall. I heard the muffled sound of Superboys bike crashing into mine and Robin's, and I inwardly sighed. Talk about anger issues...
Some evil chattering occurred from the back of the truck, and I watched helplessly as the android was taken.
"Sher! The driver!" Robin called to me.
"On it!" I swung through the side window, pulling the driver out just as the truck rolled.
I half carried the driver out, setting him on the to adjust in time to see an angry (as always) Superboy jumping away after the android.
"Superboy!" Robin shouted.
"Aqualad to Robin and Sherlock, we lost our cargo,"
"Our cargo's gone," Robin sighed.
Land so' s our partner," I went to one of the slightly less destroyed monkeys and hooked them up to my wrist computer, ignoring Aqualads call for Superboy via the comm.
Well that's a great plan!" Mustards voice came, "except for the part about not knowing where to look!"
"Maybe we do," I replied absent mindedly.
Would have heard by now if the decoy tracks had been attacked," Robin looked over my shoulder at my screen.
"Ha! The parts have GPS!" I cheered.
"So we can track to signal," Robin breathed.
"Looks like both sets of parts are converging on... Gotham city?"
"Great," Robin quickly kissed my cheek and I blushed, quickly looking around for my bike.
"It's trashed," Robin said, "climb on mine," he shifted forward slightly, and I climbed on behind him, wrapping my arms round his waist.


"So you changed too?" Robin asked Mustard as he ran up beside us.
"You kidding? I feel naked in civvies," Mustard grinned. "Still tracking the parts?"
"They were heading through Gotham, but they veered, wait, they're at our school!" I gasped, reading over Robin's shoulder.


DICK/ROBINS POV
I ran in just after KF, figuring Sher was right behind me. I threw a batarang but the android only accessed Martian Manhunter, shifting right through the projectile. I knew it only had access to the powers of Captain Atom, Black Canary, Superman, Red Tornado, Martian Manhunter and the Flash, but that still made its moves unpredictable. I saw Sher sneaking round the back of the benches towards Ivo, but was blown back by red wind before I could go help her. I scrambled to my feet, seeing KF screamed backwards, and Amazo punch Superboy, before throwing yet more batarangs and having to dive out the way of an elongated arm. He squeezed KF, slowly crushing him to death with Supermans strength, before an arrow shot at the android, causing it to density shift and drop KF, and landed beside me. I quickly picked out up.
"Who wants to play a game of keep away!" Sher launched forward, kicking Ivo in the back.
"Amazo! Protect your master! Priority Alpha!" The scientist cried as he fell, and the android blasted Sher with an Atom beam.
"I love that game!" I flipped in, kicking Ivo's legs out from underneath him.
"Oh oh me me!" But before KF had a chance of getting to the professor, he was shot backwards. I threw another batarang, forcing the android to density shift. Half way through turning back to Superman, Superboy out his first through the androids head, making it explode.
"Help me disassemble it," I said, running towards Amazo.
"Dude, it has no head," KF said flatly.
"Don't take any chances," Aqualad said, running in with Miss Martian.
We heard a high pitched scream coming from just outside, on the roof. Jumping up, we saw Sher pull a MONQI off of her, throwing it to the ground, before her legs no longer held her.
"What did you do?" I asked as I caught her.
"I went after Ivo as he left. That MONQI had sharper claws than I expected," she chuckled, as I stemmed the blood flow from her shoulder.
"Call Batman," I growled at Aqualad, who quickly radioed in.


CHAR/SHERS POV
I woke to see an angry Batman and angry Grandpa leaning over me.
"Hi?" I asked, smiling nervously.
"Hi," Batman said.
"You're awake!" Dick entered my field of vision.
"No kidding," I grumbled, noticing the bandages on my shoulder.
"MONQI with sharp claws. You're off missions and patrol for the next week," Batman decided, pulling of his cowl.
"What? But what it there's another warning?" I asked desperately.
"If it's urgent, we'll call you in," Bruce said,turning away. I glared at Dick as he laughed at me.
"You will regret that Bird Boy, you will regret that."