With Caitilin
It's been about four years since she has seen her family, and two years since she has been an assassin serving Ra's Al Ghul. She promised him, her loyalty. And she swore she would keep it that way. She had just completed another assassination, and started to grab her equipment.
She had orders to do a distant assassination so she grabbed her snippet gun and started to put it away. Once she got all her stuff she then left her location. About fifteen minutes later he arrived back to head quarters that was located in the city she was in, in America. Once she got back Ra's Al Ghul was waiting for her.
"Ah shadow welcome back. Did you take care of our little problem?"
"Yes sir and of course no one found me right after." He then gave her an approving smile.
"Wonderful. Now I have another mission for you. Follow me." He said as he turned around and started to walk into the temple. Shadow then followed him inside.
"It is of extreme importance this mission does not fail. It is not often we ask of the assassination of a vigilante, of course, and one of such importance to several others as well. But, she is a danger to not only the League of Shadows, but the Light as well."
Shadow nodded seriously, she could tell this was no joking matter. "Who is it?"
"A new vigilante," Ra's held up a packet of photos and tossed it to her.
She glanced through the files, and saw the back of a fiery scarlet and gold costume. In others, there were pictures of the same person in civvies, walking across the street, entering a building, or laughing with a few other kids. But the last picture nearly gave her a heart attack. It was actually two pictures of the same person, divided by a line in the center.
One the left, was the girl wearing a gold domino mask and that familiar red and yellow costume. On the right, was the same girl wearing a tee shirt, jeans, and converse. A smirk on her face, hair tied up in a braid, and her sunglasses drooped to her nose far enough so Shadow could easily see mischief filled green eyes.
Caitilin felt her stomach drop. She had to assassinate June. She felt like she couldn't do it. But she knows she has to. Caitlin then looked at Ra's Al Ghul.
"I'll see to it that she won't be seen again." She said as she grabbed the folder and walked out of the temple.
She grabbed her stuff and headed to the city to find her target. A few hours later she was standing on top of a building and it had just started raining. Then she noticed something in the distance.
She got out her binoculars and found her target. 'I can't believe I'm going to do this.' She thought and then went after her target.
June was in Central City for some reason. She sat on a park bench, clad in combat boots and ripped jeans tucked into them. A loose tee shirt and her usual streaked hair, tucked behind her ear, also wearing signature sunglasses.
A boy suddenly zoomed over, literally, like the speed of Flash. Shadow blinked, rubbing her eyes to make sure her eyes weren't deceiving her. But they weren't. The boy had green eyes and brown hair, a flirty grin on his face.
Her heart sank; it hadn't occurred to her that June might have a boyfriend. Already? The sadness disappeared, replaced by fury. That boy was sooooo dead...
There was no way that June had a boyfriend! She was way to young! She then pulled herself together and got ready to attack when a tall boy with black hair walked up behind them. He had on black sneakers, black jeans, black undershirt with a blue over shirt that was unbuttoned. He also had on dark shades.
Caitlin put her guard down. It was Dick. Her eldest brother. He approved of her having a boyfriend so young?
It'd be harder with Dick and a speedster, but right now she didn't have a choice. She needed to attack...and that's what she did.
Shadow drew her crossbow, and shot an arrow out of it. It was inches away from June's chest when the boy she was with CAUGHT it. A shocked expression filled her face, as well as June's. Her eyes trailed up slowly, and they locked with Shadow's.
Dick wasted no time. He shoved June behind him, ripping out his Eskrima sticks and looking around. The speedster ran up the building Shadow stood and threw super speedy punches at her.
She was lucky she managed to dodge most of them. She then pulled out her scythes and used them to block the rest of his punches. Once she got the chance, she round house kicked him and jumped off the building and headed towards June. But Dick got in her way.
He somehow managed to slow her down with the use of his Eskrima sticks. She then noticed that June has disappeared. Great. She needed to find away to beat Dick and find June.
June ran as fast and as far as she could. Later, she thought it was a bit cowardly of her, but at the moment, her mind was telling her 'there's a freaking ninja tying to assassinate you! Quit the damn pride and get outta there!'.
She finally stopped several blocks away, breathing heavily. She reached into her backpack and changed into her costume in an abandoned building. She pulled her utility belt to tighten it, and drew her bow. She shot a grapple arrow and went back to the park.
When she got there she saw the ninja take down her brother. She realized that it would take a lot of power for one person to take down her brother. She stared at the girl in shock, then she watched as the ninja girl slowly walk over to her. She couldn't place her finger on it but there was something familiar about this girl.
Phoenix drew an arrow, notching it in place and firing. The assassin sliced right through it.
"Okaaaay. Not the best course of action." She backed up, firing more and more arrows. The other girl sliced through them like butter.
Phoenix reached for another arrow, only to find her quiver empty. The shadow took the opportunity to pounce on her.
Shadow easily pinned the thin girl to the ground. Her foot crushed Phoenix's wrist, causing her to bite back a scream of pain.
"Did you really think you could beat me?" Phoenix blocked the pain of her broken wrist away and answered with her usual snarky attitude.
"I wasn't trying to beat you dumbass. I only needed to distract you." Phoenix replied, and a streak of white crashed into the assassin. Impulse got up and gently helped Phoenix up. She cradled her wrist gingerly.
"Thanks." She said gratefully, then looked at where the assassin was supposed to be, but she was nowhere in sight.
At Ra's al Ghul HQ
Shadow reported back, solemnly telling Ra's that the mission was unsuccessful. Luckily for her, Caitilin had managed to wound her, giving June a disadvantage next time.
"No one has escaped the League of Shadows!" Ra's hissed, "Now you see why she is a danger to us? Next time, I want you to bring her to us. I want to kill her myself." Shadow nodded and left.
Once she left his room, she slid her mask down to her neck and became Caitlin. She decided to change into her training clothes and start her nightly training with Talia. Once she got changed and headed to the training room. When she got there she noticed that Talia wasn't there.
'She's probably with her dad right now.' She thought. Then she started her training by starting off on throwing weapons long distant.
With June
Impulse helped wrap June's arm up. She winced every so often, but didn't move. They were in the living room with the rest of the team.
"Any idea who that was?" M'gann asked.
"No, we've never faced her before, so obviously she wouldn't be in the databases. She must be relatively new, and young for that matter." Mal reported.
"Are you sure we've never faced her? She looked familiar." Phoenix frowned.
Nightwing nodded slowly. "I thought so too."
Suddenly, June realized something. "You, you didn't tell Dad, did you!?"
Nightwing looked a bit guilty for a second. The color left June's face. "Are you mad! He won't let me out of the house for months! Bart, quick, run me to-"
Recognized Batman 02
"-Mexico." She finished faintly.
The Dark Knight sweeped into the room and immediately turned to June.
"What happened?" He said in his dark scary daddy bats voice. No one answered in fear of feeling the wrath of DaddyBats.
Batman noticed Bart had his hand on June's arm. He glared at Bart. Bart got the message and moved away from June. He looked at her, still waiting for an answer to his question.
"I was attacked by an assassin. But I'm fine!" June quickly said.
Batman growled. "Full report." Nightwing and June filled him in. Batman fell silent.
"Phoenix, home, now."
Phoenix whined and complained, until Nightwing grabbed her, threw her over his shoulder, and walked to the Zeta Tubes. She waved at the team with an abashed look on her face. The team then waved back.
Batman, Nightwing, Robin, and Phoenix walked into the zeta tubes and went home. When they entered the Batcave, Batman pulled down his cowl.
"Since an assassin is trying to kill you June, the team is going to have to protect you guys including you, Tim. And no, you are not to ask questions where Nightwing, Phoenix, and Robin are, got it?" They nodded and Alfred appeared. He was holding a gray tray with coffee and hot chocolate.
"So does this mean we get to troll them?" June asked.
"Don't complain and yes, you're allowed to." Bruce said. June smirked deviously.
"Miss June, I suggest you make sure your arm is covered up when they arrive. Although they may not be detectives, they certainly are not dumb." Alfred said, inspecting her arm and privately marveling at the boy who had patched it up.
"Sure thing Alfred." June said as she walked to the changing room in the cave, and came back in sweat pants and a sweat shirt. She then sat down on a chair and took the hot chocolate Alfred handed her.
"So when are they coming?" Nightwing asked as he pulled off his mask and gloves.
"When I go back to the cave and tell them. So when I leave you kids need to be upstairs and act like you don't know them personally." Batman said as he pulled his cowl back on. The kids quickly changed into civvies while Batman headed to the Zeta Tubes to give the team their mission.
Dick, Tim, and June went upstairs to the living room, talking amongst themselves.
"Bats doesn't know that Miss M and Superboy know?" Tim whispered.
"No, and it's going to stay that way. Hopefully, they'll have enough common sense to figure it out."
"But, like Alfred said, they're not detectives, but they're not dumb either. Won't they make some sort of connection between my targeting and Phoenix's?" June asked.
"Not if we tell them we're all being targeted... which can very well be true." Dick grinned.
"Sneaky, Dickie, very sneaky." June beamed, then frowned. "What really bothers me is that assassin. She seemed really familiar."
"How familiar?" Dick asked as he sat on the couch with Tim.
"Her eyes...they were so bright just like Caitlin's." Dick just gave June a look.
"June people can have bright eyes too. Like you and me. I have bright blue eyes and you have bright green eyes." June looked down and looked a little disappointed. There was a knock on the door.