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A satisfying click signaled their entrance into the ominous lair of the bird.
Wally walked in slowly at first, taking in his surroundings before signaling for the others to file in. He switched on the light to reveal a plain and desolate room. There was nothing setting it apart from any other unused room in the mountain. It had a few extra papers, probably homework, and clothes in the closet, but that was all. The walls, as well as the soft carpet, were a dull gray. They wouldn't have known it was Robin's room if they hadn't been told.
"Well, it doesn't look like this will give us a lot of information about him, but it wouldn't hurt to try," Wally finally said with a regretful expression. This clearly wouldn't be as beneficial as he had first hoped.
He made his way to the computer that was lying peacefully on the perfectly made bed, not that Rob slept much. The others made their way to their predestined location.
He slipped some gloves on. He knew if Rob ever found out, he would check for fingerprints like all good detectives. With that thought in mind, he opened the laptop. It glowed to life and went to a screen asking for a password. Wally stared at the screen for a while, thinking what his friend's password would be. Maybe the hint would help?
Wally clicked the little hint icon and a bunch of random numbers and letters scrambled together came up. Of course the hacker of the team would have it encrypted! But that was it! Robin had once showed Wally a little bit of hacking—just the basics, but maybe that would be enough. So Wally began to slowly and tediously hack, or at least he tried to hack.
Meanwhile, Megan was walking into the closet. At first sight, all she saw were a few shirts, skinny jeans, hoodies, shoes, and Robin costumes. She was actually somewhat surprised at how many he had; the whole team could dress up as Robin if they wanted to.
Megan then brushed those thoughts aside and began searching the closet more thoroughly. Other than the clothes, which she studied individually, there were a few boxes. She peered inside one and saw a bunch of files. She then flipped open the file placed on top and found some more encrypted code. It looked like it might be some sort of mission file, but she really had no idea; it was gibberish to her.
"Wally, I found a bunch of encrypted files," she called out to the redhead.
"Well, take a picture of a few of them, and then we can try and figure them out later," he replied back with a softer voice. Who knew when the ninja would sneak up on them? The whole point of having Conner stand guard was so that he would hear Robin's heartbeat when he came in close proximity because they wouldn't be able to detect him any other way.
"But I don't have a camera," Megan sighed.
"Here, use my phone," Wally said throwing his cell phone at her. She caught it with her telekinesis and then took a few photos of the first file.
After finding a few more boxes of similar stuff, she was about to give up searching the closet when she came upon a small box in the back corner that was hard to see since it was behind two large boxes and shoved upward into the shelving. Megan got on her hands and knees to get a better look and then reached up and plucked it from its position. The box was nothing special: a simple black box with a white bow. Feeling the tension building inside her, she lifted the lid. Inside was green fabric. She shifted over her fingers and unfolded it in front of her. It looked like an old hero costume. It was a green leotard with the red and yellow but instead of the R that was in corner, like she had seen in pictures of Robin from the past, there was a cursive G, and all around the G was blood.
"Wally, I think I found something," she said softly still staring at the cloth. Sensing her tone, Wally came barging in.
"Oh my gosh. What is that!" he exclaimed. He was familiar with Robin's old costume, but never had there been a G on it.
"I don't know. I found it in a little box hidden in the shelving," Megan explained to the redhead.
"Is that blood on it?" he asked as he reached out for the costume.
"I believe so. What do you think happened?"
"I have no idea, but take some pictures, and we can study it later," he said before walking back to the computer. Megan gazed after him then carefully folded the treasured item and putting it back into its rightful place.
During this time, Kaldur was over by Robin's desk. It was as neat and organized as any CEO with their own personal maids would be. It didn't really surprise Kaldur much since an easy way to stay separate and unknown was to be neat and organized. He wondered what Robin's bedroom looked like at his real home.
Kaldur then began leafing through papers and books to maybe find some data. He found a few Sherlock Holmes books: a no-brainer there. He found some other mystery novels, a sketch book, a photo album, and a bunch of electronic stuff that Kaldur could only try to understand. In the sketch book, there were a few pictures that resembled the team but didn't seem quite finished. Yet as Kaldur continued to flip through it, he saw that the pictures grew darker and more sinister looking. There were some sketches of Gotham villains in action.
"Hey, Wally, take a look at this," he called to the leader for this mission. Wally stopped what he was doing once again and came over to look at what Kaldur was holding. "It's a sketchbook," Kaldur said unnecessarily.
"Holy crap! Who knew Rob could draw. These are amazing and a good way to get into people heads," Wally explained matter of factly. The team looked at him like he was crazy. "What? I read it somewhere," he tried to explain. They all just went back to what they were doing.
Kaldur then opened the photo album and found pictures of him and the team. It was kind of startling at first, seeing that Robin had a sentimental side to him. There were pictures of the team when they were first founded with a caption saying "the founding members" in Robin's small, neat cursive. Kaldur smiled in spite of himself and slowly put the album back in its original location.
Next, Kaldur saw a pile of CDs on the corner of the desk. He picked a few up to see if he and Robin had about the same taste. The first one he picked up was an album for Five Finger Death Punch and looked a little bit too out there for Kaldur. The next one was a simple orchestral album. They were two totally different genres, but he could see Robin listening to both. He went through the last three cds and found two more similar to the first and one similar to the second.
The next thing Kaldur went through was Robin's homework. He knew it probably wouldn't give him much information, and that was why he had left it for last. He picked up the first book, which happened to be an AP calculus book. It seemed kind of strange that a thirteen-year-old kid would be taking an AP class.
"Wally, did you know that Robin took AP classes?" he called out, looking through the rest of the books, which were all AP.
"I had no idea. How many does he take?"
"It seems just about every hour. It seems Batman doesn't just push him in training but also in school."
Wally nodded and went back to work. Kaldur then caught sight of the top of one of Robin's assignments where it read "name." Kaldur then searched through all the documents to see if Robin had slipped up and written his name on one page. He flipped through them so fast that he ended up getting a paper cut, but that didn't stop him from trying to find out Robin's identity. He then realized that he was having no luck, and there was no name. He sighed and then pushed away from the desk to see what Wally was up to.
Wally and Megan were both sitting on Robin's bed trying to hack into his computer. It seemed both individuals had just about as much luck as Kaldur had, but that was no reason to give up.
Wally was sitting Indian style with his tongue sticking out punching in random keys hoping one would lead into the depths of Robin's computer. Then he suddenly let out a yelp of joy.
"I'm in!" he shouted thrusting his fists in the air as he began searching through the documents as quickly as he could, while the others watched silently.
Little did they know that Robin, away on some busy errand, had just gotten an alert that someone had hacked into his computer.