Sorry I didn't update yesterday, but I've been so busy getting ready for school and working and I had a chicken barbecue yesterday... anyways, here's the next chapy! I'll update sooner if you review!

"The league has detected an uncanny record for disappearances at Mary Crawford's school for girls. You three will be going undercover as students trying the academy out, looking for anything suspicious, while your male teammates shadow along behind you. No actions are to be taken without league consent. Are we understood?"

The team nodded. "Good. Girl- er- ladies... go out these on." Batman said awkwardly, handing them each a school uniform.

Artemis eyed the blue plaid skirt hatefully and Sparrow sighed. "I thought I saw the last of this at boarding school." she muttered. Megann simply smiled. "Needs som work, but I can deal with it." she scampered off to change, Sparrow and Artemis trudging along behind her.

When they came downstairs, Wally whistled. The black blazers over the white tops made every girl look hotter... Both Artemis and Batman shot him a death glare and Walk quickly looked away, while Batman narrowed his eyes, He wasn't sure which girl the speedster had been looking at, but if it was Sparrow, he'd have a heck o a lot of trouble getting to her.

"Now, you'll all be briefed further on the ride. Sparrow, you are now Wendy West, from a small farm in Washington. Artemis, you're Julia Blue, niece of a major CEO of some foreign country. Megann, you're Missy Read the daughter of a senator, who wants you to learn proper manners. At no time are you to give one another away, Is that clear?"

All three girls nodded. "Sparrow, you'll be going in as a scolarship student. That should mean it'll leave you out of most of the chaos, and I want you to watch your teammates backs. Understood?"

Sparrow stared. She couldn't believe her Dad had her going in as a Scholarship student! She knew for a fact scholarship students were picked on the most, and her Dad was trying to keep her from the action... Didn't he trust her?

"Yes..." Sparrow said through grit teeth. Batman noted her anger at him, but didn't really care. He wasn't going to send his baby into the thick of things without her scholarship. If children were being kidnapped, and she was a scholarship student,the kidnappers wouldn't take her for ransom, making her chances of being put into the line of fire that much less.

"Alright. Here's where you six split up. The girls will be arriving separately, we've had it all arranged, and the boys will be staying here incase any other situations arise. Understood?"

Robin nodded. "Let's go."
_

Sparrow, AKA Wendy West, stared out the window of the old station wagon. She was a new scholarship student, she had to look the part, and her 'dad' who was really a hired actor drove. She didn't mind being a scholarship student meant acting strapped for cash and having less spending money, or that it meant she'd probably get
picked on more. She DID mind that Batman had made her a scholarship student to try and keep her from the action. She wanted to be in the front lines, and no over protective father was going to stop her... if she could help it...
_

Artemis, AKA Julia Blue, stared out he window of the limo, slightly shocked. She'd spent her life living rough places, and it was a strange experience to be pulling up to the huge, luxurious campus in a limo. She smiled slightly. She actually felt... good. Confident. Like maybe, even if it was just for an undercover mission, she just might have a chance at fitting in here.
_

Megann, AKA Missy Read, flew the bioship, which had been disguised as a personal jet. There was, surprisingly, a landing pad at the school,,and she easily brought it down before jumping out. She was clad in complete pink, grinning as the girls looked her up and down and beaming confidently. If she was going to get information on the kidnappings, then she'd need to fit in.

Instantly she saw the crew she wanted to be with, the other frilly girls, and she grinned and strode over to them with confidence she'd never known she had.

"Hey, I'm Missy. Missy Read. Mind if I hang with you?" since when had she gotten so confident?

The girls nodded, and the leader, a blonde, smiled. "I guarantee you'll fit right n here, Missy."

Artemis grinned as well, joining a group of less pink but no less rich kids.

Sparrow found herself like she always was, with the outcasts, and she had to smile slightly. Some things never changed. But popularity was the last thing on her mind, No, she wanted to prove to Batman that she could handle this...

"Scholarship student, huh?" a girl with raven hair like her own said, blue eyes knowing.

"Yeah. I'm Wendy. From a farm up in washington." she put out her hand, finding it surprisingly easy to lie...

"Lucy. From California. My parents were the best at their computer business, that's how I got my scholarship..."

Sparrow nodded, smiling. "Cool. You know any tech stuff?"

"Of course I do. I come from a one horse town. What about you? You know any tech stuff?"

"Yeah- tons." she was slightly excited. For once, she'd met someone she liked... The bell rang, and she looked at the schedule she'd been given, slightly confused.

"I have English- some lady called Brammer. Any idea where to go?" She asked, looking at Lucy hopefully.

She nodded. "Same class as me. Come on, we can make it on time."

They both ran in as soon as the bell rang. "What's the matter, scholars? Couldn't find the classroom?" a brat scoffed at them.

"We didn't get a free ride to this Academy for being stupid." Sparrow found the words flying easily from her mouth. She'd grown to like Lucy already...

The brat scowled. "You're new. You clearly don't understand how things work here..."

"Oh, I do. Us scholars get scholarships by working hard while you snobs get in because your Daddy's got enough money. You might be richer than I am, but you're no better than me."

Everyone stared. Sparrow could tell by the smiles and scowls who was a scholarship student and who wasn't, and she smiled.

"Class, settle down..." Sparrow sat down beside Lucy. Her friend smiled wt her slightly, and was that Ms. Brammer smiling at her as well? It must've been high time someone told that snob off, then...

"Now, when Shakespeare wrote a Midsummer Night's Dream, what was the purpose?" Ms. Brammer pointed to Sparrow.

She sighed. "His goal was to entertain people. It was a comedy, after all, meant to gift the common people with intelligent humor." Sparrow was sketching quietly, otherwise she'd have seen Ms, Brammer's lips quirk into a larger smile. Sparrow finished her homework in class before finding Lucy, who smiled at her.

"I see you earned your scholarship here." she said.

Sparrow nodded. "Took awhile. I have gym next. What about you?"

Lucy smiled. "Our schedules are the same, so yeah. Come on, I'll show you where the locker room is. We're doing gymnastics- know anything about it?"

Sparrow nodded eagerly as she changed. "I used to climb trees back on the farm, I was pretty good..."

She heard a scoff and looked over to see another brat looking at her.

"Pu-lease. I've been a cheerleader since I was two. You've got nothing on me, farm girl."

"Mind your own business, Rose." Lucy shot back, giving Sparrow an apologetic smile as they headed out into the large gym. It was clear the gym teacher was a believer the scholarship students were inferior, since not one scholarship student was on the cheerleading team...

"Now, class, I'd like you to watch a demo Rose has been perfecting." she said, smiling as Rose did a few front handsprings, a flip, which she stumbled the landing on, and some other advanced moves.

Sparrow scoffed, and the teacher instantly turned to her, eyes angry. "Think you can do better?" she asked.

"I don't think. I know." Rose pouted and Sparrow took her place in the mat, shooting Lucy an arrogant smile before doing a double backflip right off the bat. Then back handspring after back handspring, triple flip, two aerials, and finishing another front flip in an american split.

Everyone just stared for a moment, and then Lucy and the other scholarship students burst into applause.

"Enough!" the teacher yelled, and things settled to silence.

"Wendy, I won't have you showing off..."

"You didn't seem to mind when Rose did it." Sparrow pointed out, earning herself a glare from the teacher. "Wendy, laps, now." she said,

Sparrow scoffed. "No. It's illegal for you to hand out corporal punishment."

"Wendy, now!" the teacher snapped.

"I won't do them. I know my rights. I'm a scholarship student, after all. I had to have brains to get here."

At this, the teacher turned bright red. "You clearly don't understand the role of scholarship students here, Wendy..."

"I do. They make the rich kids feel better about themselves." Sparrow said.

"Wendy West, you run those laps right now or I will make your time at this school torture." the woman said quiet enough so that only Sparrow could hear.

"Is that a threat, or a promise?" Sparrow asked, grinning at the rage that clearly showed on the woman's face.

"Girls- do your warm ups." she said, before stalking out of the gym.

Lucy grinned. "You're feistier than I thought you were." she said as they ran warm up laps.

Sparrow shrugged. "Comes with the brains, I guess." she said, grinning.

"I'm going to like school a ton more with you around." Lucy said, grinning as well.
_

She already knew her dorm, of course. It was with Lucy and a few other scholarship girls. Unsurprisingly, the scholarship and paid students were kept apart. It seemed like having a scholarship was a major political barrier here...

She sighed when she laid down on her bunk for the night. This wasn't home, and she missed it, but she had a mission at hand to work on... Who was responsible for the kidnappings? All the students kidnapped were scholarship students. So far, fourteen had disappeared without a trace.

The school had been keeping it under wraps to try and avoid the media circus, of course, but it was only so long before someone got hurt... She found her phone beeped and checked the texts. One from Artemis and one from Megann.

I have a ton of suspects, everyone here hates scholarship students.
-Artemis

Same here. Sparrow, you okay? How was your first day?
-Megann

I'm fine, you're right, every teacher hates scholarship students. But the question is, do they hate them enough to kidnap them? I mean, that's a serious thing...
-Sparrow

Talk to everyone you can about the disappearances. I have to report to Batman, but keep your eyes open.
-Artemis

Sparrow sighed and closed her phone, feeling more alone than ever. So many suspects, so little time... She'd get to the bottom of it. She had to, somehow.
_

"Wendy- over here!" Artemis called the next day at breakfast.

Lucy raised her eyebrows. "Since when do you sit with non-scholarship kids?"

"Julia is my cousin. Look, I don't want to sit with her, but Dad wants me to act friendly towards her." Sparrow said, sighing.

"Alright. But just for breakfast, okay?"

Sparrow nodded. "Alright." she found herself slightly annoyed at her teammates for pulling her away from her friends, but she hid it well...

"Alright, anyone learn anything new?" Artemis asked.

"No. What's changed since yesterday? All we had was four more hours to sleep." Sparrow snapped, and Artemis stared.

"Something wrong, kid?"

"I'm not a kid! You know what, just forget it." Sparrow said, standing and taking her breakfast tray over to sit beside Lucy. There was no way they'd understand what it was like to be a scholarship student, not like Lucy did...

"I'm worried about her." Megann said. "She's been... edgy... ever since we got here. I don't want her to get in too deep..."

Artemis nodded. "My thoughts exactly. Let's keep an eye on her." and they both continued eating their breakfast.
_

"Have you ever wanted to be something more than some sticky scholarship kid who everyone looks down at?" Lucy asked her at lunch.

"Heck yeah." Sparrow said between mouthfuls. She'd never get used to how good the food was here. She was still doing aggressive gymnastics training, meaning she had to eat a ton to keep up with all the calories she was burning... Batman would be ticked off if he found she was losing weight and might take her off the mission, and she needed to be on the mission, and she needed to prove she could do this.

"I mean, even after this, we'll just get a scholarship to some college where they'll look down on us, you know? I want to be something more, give myself a better chance- what about you?"
Sparrow nodded, finishing off her lunch. "I want to change the world. Go into criminal justice or something, maybe a navy SEAL. I really want to stop criminals, I love high stress situations and stuff."

Lucy smiled. "Great. I have drama club tonight, tell me what happens in days of our lives, alright?" Sparrow nodded.

"Will do." she said, and the bell rang. They both headed towards their next class.

Sparrow sighed as she looked up from her homework. It seemed like every scholarship student in her room was in drama club, and she sighed and threw her books against the wall. She was no closer to finding the kidnapper or anything...

The door opened and Sparrow looked up to see her dorm mates, a brunette named Brenda, Lucy, and a red head named Katey.

"Hey guys, I thought you were supposed to be at Drama club." they all looked at her silently.

They all took their places in the bunks around her, staring at her.

"What is it?" She asked, sensing the elephant in the room.

Still, they were silent. Finally, Lucy spoke. "We can give you your dream if you'll do a few simple things."

She stared. "Wait, is this a hazing?"

"No. It's admission to the deepest, darkest secret you've ever known, and the ticket to the best life ever. You trust me, right?" Lucy asked.

Sparrow nodded slightly. Artemis had said, after all, that they should get close to the students...

"It starts... now." Lucy said.

"Now, you don't eat or drink for the next twenty four hours and have to do everything you normally do. Oh, and no sleep, either. Understood?" she nodded, and sat up, settling in for a long night.

The next day she was exhausted and starving. She waited until that afternoon when she started her normal gymnastics routines she was doing. She was exhausted, but she had to keep doing what she normally did...

She woke up on a bed in the infirmary.

"You passed out. Exhaustion, I assume."

"I'll be fine." she got to her feet and left without a word. Outside she saw Lucy, Brenda, and Katey waiting for her.

"Did you squeal?" Brenda asked.

"Heck no. I just left. They didn't have a clue. What hour is it?"

"Twenty five. You made it, kid. Congratulations. Welcome to drama club." Lucy grinned.

Sparrow stared. "Wait, what? I did all this to get into drama club?" she hissed.

"Calm down. It's a lot more than you think. Trust me." Lucy said, and Sparrow nodded, following her friends to the english room.

"We brought her, Rose." Lucy said, calling Ms. Brammer by her first name.

"Hello, Wendy." Ms. Brammer said, smiling at her. "I take it you passed?"

Sparrow nodded uncertainly. How had Ms. Brammer known about the hazing?

"I must say, I'm quite surprised. Especially with all the activities you do a day, the intense workouts... Surprised?" Ms. Brammer smiled, handing her a pack of chews.

"Eat up. You'll be feeling like your normal self in no time. Lucy- take her our the back way. We've got to show her our little secret." Ms. Brammer grinned at her before leaving.

Lucy pulled out a shiny wrist computer before hitting a few buttons and grinning. "Security cameras on loop feed. Let's go."

Sparrow stared as she was ushered into a ventilation shaft. "Where did you learn to hack?" she asked, surprised at her friend's skills.

"My parents were certifiably geniuses. You do the math." Lucy replied, turning down another ventilation shaft.

"Motion sensors and silent alarms disabled." she said. Sparrow recognized her hacking method, and it was sloppy at best. Still, it worked for what they needed it to, and Lucy kicked out a vent. A moment later, they were in the common yard, the wet grass beneath them, velvet sky above them, stars like teardrops and crickets singing...

"Welcome to freedom, kid." Brenda said, helping Sparrow to her feet.

"Come on." Katie grabbed her hand and pulled her forward to a blue van in the parking lot, and they all tumbled into the back.

"Good job, girls. Wendy, Lucy's informed me you know about tech?"

Sparrow nodded hesitantly, and Ms. Brammer handed her a wrist computer as she left.

"Try and hack the gates for me. It always takes Lucy five minutes."

"Done." the gates opened and Lucy flushed slightly, a bit embarrassed Sparrow had outdone her...

Ms. Brammer smiled. "Good. Now, what you're about to see is top secret. Brenda, blind fold her."

Brenda obeyed, and Sparrow felt herself getting excited. She had a feeling she was incredibly close to finding out where the missing girls were...

The van went onto gravel, and suddenly the door opened. She smelled musty, dank air, and someone tore off the blindfold.

"Welcome to paradise."

They were underground, probably in an old quarry, and all around them girls trained on punching bags and training dummies, some actually sparring one another with real knives...

"I've seen your skill, Wendy. I know your desire to be more. You can have everything you've ever dreamed of. Money, fame, power- everything. No more stupid scholarships, no more being treated like roadkill- you can call the shots."

"What are you training them to do?" she asked quietly. Lucy, Brenda, and Katie had gone about their duties, starting to train themselves, and Ms. Brammer smiled.

"I train them to bring hope to the people."

"You mean assassins." Sparrow said, watching the girls throw the knives with deadly accuracy...

"Some would call it that, yes. But we free the oppressed, liberate the enslaved..."

"You sell yourselves to the highest bidder. Values hardly matter, here." Sparrow spat.

Quicker than she could blink, she was up against the wall. "You'd be surprised, Wendy. I study possible jobs, targets, everyone has a voice, a vote. We're all equal here. We all get food, drink, a place to stay. This is much better than a stupid scholarship. This is life."

"What about my family?" Sparrow asked, remembering Batman and the others.

"Imagine what you're capable of doing, Wendy. You can give them a better life. Like I said, you can be rich."

"What if I don't want to?" She asked.

"Then we blindfold you and take you back to the school. But if you tell anyone, or attempt to, you'll disappear or be killed before you can." Ms. Brammer said, caressing her raven hair as she spoke. "But we both know you're too passionate to give up this chance, don't we?"

"I'm in." Sparrow nodded, and Ms. Brammer stood. "Girls, fresh meat." she cried. Sparrow was grateful she'd eaten the chews Ms. Brammer had given her earlier- she felt great already, and as the girl rushed her she moved, flipping out of the way and throwing them. Soon she had all the girls subdued on the floor.

She smiled, chest heaving from the work out. But she'd loved it. She'd loved the work, the rush, the fight, the chase, everything about it- she'd relished it.

Ms. Brammer smiled. "You're better than I thought. Where did you learn that?"

"My brother." she said truthfully. Dick had taught her a ton of moves.

"Good." Ms. Brammer went forward as though to put a hand on her shoulder but instead struck her.

"But not good enough. A good assassin is always on guard."

Sparrow pretended to curl into a ball of pain, clutching her face.

"Ah, I see you don't tolerate pain well..." Ms. Brammer started.

In that instant, Sparrow swept her legs out from underneath her and pinned her to the ground.

"Acting is just one of my many talents, Rose." she said, and Rose smiled. "You hold promise, Wendy."

"I don't hold promise- I am a promise, And I promise you that if you hurt any of my friends you'll be sorry." Sparrow said firmly.

"Protective. A very good trait in an assassin. Good." the girls were brushing themselves off from where they'd been thrown.

"Lucy, show her to her room. I'll see you girls again in the morning."

"Goodnight, Rose." they all said.

"Goodnight, girls." and she was gone.

It was a friday night, though, so Sparrow reasoned heir absence wouldn't be noted until Monday...

"On Monday, Brenda, Katie and I will have to return to school." Lucy said as she led her down the passages. "We go there, find possible students for our program like you. I have to admit, you are the best we've had so far... your family won't be too upset you've disappeared, will they?"

Sparrow shrugged. Truthfully, she wanted to know what went on at this school. She'd found the reason for the missing students, yes, but she had to go much deeper if she wanted to take this entire league of assassins down. They reached a room in the passage and Sparrow carefully entered. There was, surprisingly, a door, and a bed, as well as sheets and other things...

"Goodnight, Wendy. Tomorrow you choose your new name. I'll see you."

"Goodnight, Lucy." and Lucy left. Sparrow sighed, flopping down on her bed. Batman, overprotective Batman, who she was still angry at, would ant to know about this, but her phone was in the dorm. And she wasn't going back to that boarding school, not when she'd just infiltrated a group of assassins. No, she was going to learn all she could about them, then take them down. She closed her eyes and let sleep come.