Robin's stomach lurched as the bioship swerved left and right. Last he checked, it didn't exactly take a million turns just to get to Austin. That, or it was his imagination. Which he highly doubted. Robin lost count of how many times he had to swallow down the sour bile after about ten. He was definitely not feeling the aster. Aster or not, he was on the mission anyway, so it didn't matter if he tried to quit. Then again, the Boy Wonder was one not known for quitting so easily.

He was trained by Batman after all.

At this point, if the Bat knew that he was on board the ship, which Robin had figured he already did, then his father would regret teaching him to never quit for once. Batman was an enigma in itself, and the only person to ever see the man be soft and kind was either Robin or Alfred. And that was even rare for them. Like he had said before, Batman wasn't the type to express emotions. Unless it came to someone precious being in danger or something like that.

"How do you think Robin's doing?" He heard KF ask. He was hiding in a drawer that held one of the many spare uniforms that each team member kept. Luckily for him, Robin was safely stowed away in his own. He was glad to be short and small for once.

"Knowing him, he's fine." Superboy replied smoothly. He knew that KF was slightly jealous of the clone's suave talk and behavior with he knew that Miss Martian had completely and possibly incidentally fallen for. Hard. It wasn't that hard to see the love triangle. Except when you were in it. Robin couldn't see Wally and Miss Martian together, but rather Artemis. There was that old saying, 'opposites attract'. Then again, he wasn't a love guru.

"True. It is most likely that Robin is already up and about by now." Oh how right he was. That was Kaldur's voice. For some reason, Robin found it uncanny on how the Atlantean didn't use conjunctions at all or rarely.

"I hope he is." Miss Martian's motherly voice said worriedly. Suddenly, the ship swerved and landed onto something abruptly. "We're at the co-ordinance." So they were already here? Time flies fast. Robin was worried on how extra keen his senses were. Normally, he probably wouldn't have reacted to such a landing, but this time he was a bit shaken.

He heard the team leave the ship, and he carefully pulled himself out of the drawer. So their mission was to stop Joker. With a bomb. That would be all too easy...right? Then again, Joker probably had a series of mechanical chattering teeth loaded with explosives just waiting for him. Not to include the laugh track.

He hopped nimbly from roof to roof. This was a piece of cake. That was when he heard a malicious growling coming from inside a building, followed by the sound of Miss Martian's scream. His nimble feet suddenly became lead. Robin peeked through a window to see his friends cornered by a bunch of guys, including Bane, injected with Titan.

Just his day.

Robin was hoping that he could at least continue this mission without revealing himself for the most part. The mission just started, and he had to go save his friends already? He sighed and launched himself through the window, managing to kick all five guys in the head, knocking most of them out.

"You guys are so whelmed." He smirked before turning to his friends.

"Robin!" KF said in surprise.

"You're here." Superboy said with a hint of curiosity and surprise laced in his tone.

"Well, I couldn't miss out on this mission, now, could I? Especially since Joker's involved." Robin suddenly had a good hunch that Batman intended for him to arrive at the last second. Then it clicked.

Batman wanted to see how the team would do without him.

That only led him to more questions. Why would he want to do that? Was Batman going to take him out of the team? Was the team not good enough? Or was it him; was he not good enough? He shook his he, exasperatedly. It didn't matter now. He was here, might as well get this over with. He was so wrapped up in his thoughts that his ears barely caught Artemis's warning cry. Robin ducked and rolled out of Bane's powerful punch. Bane was tough, and Robin knew that he needed help.

"C'mon guys." He said. "I need your help." With a battle cry, the team launched forward and attacked.