Robin:

"RED ALERT! Break in on sector five! All patrol officers report to sector five!" A man's voice echoed through the building. I scanned the room, trying to find a way to escape. Starfire would be waiting on the roof, right where I had positioned her. Taking a tighter grip onto the blue substance, I scanned the room. Whatever it was, it was in a large tube, and it was glowing brightly. It made me nervous, I didn't want to break it, not knowing what would happen.

The footsteps from the guards were getting closer. There wasn't much time. I spotted a few steel rafters at the top of the ceiling and had an idea. Within the metallic wristband that was clasped around my right wrist, I had embedded a small grappling hook that would shoot out at the press of a button. With the tube of blue substance pressed against my body, I raised my hand and pressed the button, pointing the tip toward the rafters. The magnetic grappling hook shot up and attached itself to one of the rafters. I pulled on it, making sure it was stable, then pushed off the wall and pressed the button again. I flew upwards toward the rafter and swung around, making sure I landed safely on the top.

The officers had arrived just in time to witness my escape. I looked down at them and conjured a smoke bomb from my boot. I threw it down on them and with a little bang, the lower part of the room was filled with a gray haze. From my belt, I obtained an upgraded version of my old bo-staff. It extended at my touch and I shoved it upward, into the ceiling. The ceiling's tiles broke easily, making a hole I could easily slip out of. Launching my grappling hook once more, I was pulled up and out of the building. I threw in a treat for the officers, a small explosive, and scrambled to the other side of the roof.

Starfire was still standing guard right where I had told her to. She watched me come closer, her arms crossed. I didn't bother to give her instructions as I ran past her. I leapt off the building's roof, hugging the tube tightly as I started to free fall. Starfire caught on and jumped off too, falling straight down at me. She grabbed my free hand and we jerked back up again as she started flying toward the sky. We went up and up. We were an estimated two hundred feet above ground. This had been one of the plans. Steal it on a murky, cloudy day. Like today was. That way, we could disappear in the gray mass of clouds, shaking off any pursuers, if we had any.

It was very hard to keep your mind on the current mission when you were being pulled deeper into the clouds by someone like Starfire. Especially since being dragged behind meant you had a very clear view of under her skirt. I found myself blushing and mind stuttering as I tried to take my mind off of it, looking back down at the blue tube. Being Boy Wonder didn't stop you from being a teenage boy. Wait... I wasn't Boy Wonder anymore. Doing something like this for two years defiantly took that title away. Or did it? That was something that always kept me wondering.

"Robin," Starfire suddenly spoke. I snapped my head upward but then quickly lowered it again, since that embarrassing yet tempting sight was positioned directly above me.

"Uh... yes?" I replied, trying hard not to act nervous. C'mon, I still had my ego to look after. I couldn't fall apart because of that.

"We will be arriving at our home soon," She informed me. I smiled. She still had that new girl sound to her. I hope that'll always stay the same, it's one of the things that makes her even more cute and irresistible.

"Alright, thanks Star."

"You have not called me that in a long while."

"What? Star?"

"Yes."

"Is there something wrong with that?" I asked, beginning to shiver. It was getting deathly cold up here.

"No. It just is... different," She said slowly, but then added. "But it is most enjoyable."

"I'll have to call you that more often then," I said. We hadn't talked like this in a long time. Between planning, training, researching, stealing, and causing some minor chaos, there wasn't much room for communication. I really wondered how Starfire could keep her emotions in check and how her powers were being able to stay at their fullest. Without much communication and contact, her emotions could be crumbling and I wouldn't even know. Maybe training was helping her, maybe it wasn't. It was always a mystery with her. She always kept me guessing. Perhaps I should be making more of an effort. I won't even tell her how I feel about her. But who could blame me? That was hard to do. I think that maybe I should make a little more... us time in the future. We are working so hard for our goal, I don't want us to be depressed heaps when or if we finally reach that goal. I never imagined this could be that hard.

I almost forgot about the tube and it started to slip out of him arms. Starfire had obviously been keeping a closer watch on it than I had.

"Robin... the tube..." She let out. I looked down.

"Holy sh-," I cut myself off as I caught it, keeping a firmer hold on it. I was still eager to find out what it really was. I squeezed Starfire's hand as I gazed at the glowing light coming from the blue substance. Starfire went into a dive after a few more minutes. The cool air blowing across my face made my eyes sting. She must have spotted our home, otherwise she wouldn't be so eager to get to the ground. "Star, are we-?"

"No," She said sharply, "Someone is following us."

"Huh?"

"Shh..." Man, she had really been on the ball lately. Even I didn't know someone had been behind us, and normally I was the one who noticed everything. I had been spacing off to much lately, which was stupid, because we were so close to getting them back. So close... Brother Blood would go down... soon. I just knew it.

Starfire brought me closer to her as we continued to dive downwards. We were almost face to face and she pressed me against her.

"Starfire... what?" I let out, confused. She nodded toward the tube and pulled me closer, so it was hidden bewteen us. Smart thinking, Star. We finally landed on the ground by the bridge that led into Jump City. I pulled her under the bridge, giving her the tube. I looked up into the sky, after a moment I saw a figure appear just barely in the gray sky. The figure stopped in it's place.

"Do you have a clue to who it could be?" Starfire asked from behind me.

"No... but-," Then I stopped. Another figure had appeared right behind the first. The second person raised their arms in front of his or herself. I thought I saw something come out of the person's hands and in a split second, the first person fell to the ground limply. "What the hell was that?" I breathed, as the person hit the ground. I looked back up and the second person was no where in sight. Starfire touched my shoulder.

"Robin, what did you see?" She asked, poking her head over my shoulder.

"I'm... not sure..." I got out of under the bridge and walked over to the motionless body with caution. Starfire pranced along behind me. The body had a dark blue cloak wrapped around it's body. My first thought was Raven. I crouched down and turned the body over gently. This was not Raven. In fact, it was a young boy that had a mass of messy rust-colored hair. There was a choker on his neck that held the HIVE crest. I narrowed my eyes. "Brother Blood is attempting to spying on us."

"Is this... bad?" Starfire asked, looking down at the boy with concern. He looked like he was only thirteen or fourteen.

"Not at all," I replied, a smile tugging at my lips. "In fact, it's perfect. He's heard of what we're doing. If he is trying to spy on us, that means he's trying to find a way to bring us down. That means we have him feeling threatened. We are backing him into a corner, Star. Our plan is working." She sat down on her knees and fingered the crest on the kid's choker. She pulled off the choker and inspected it further.

"It's a tracker..." She stated, crushing the crest. I twisted a few strands of her hair around one of my gloved fingers.

"Let's go home," I said.

"And the boy?"

"Leave him. His "schoolmates" will find him later," I said, turning away from the boy. "Besides, we need to find out exactly what that stuff is," I nodded at the blue tube, "And why Blood wanted it." Starfire and I had been researching a lot, having to figure out who Blood was connected to and associated with, and what he wanted to get his hands on. Our job was to steal what he wanted, and to eliminate those who were critical to keeping him in power. That's how we were getting his attention and that's why we were so wanted, especially in Jump City.

"Alright," Starfire replied, offering me her hand. I wove my fingers in between hers and I was once again lifted into the air.

Author's Note: Thanks for reading. These first chapters may be a bit more boring and sloppily written. They are mainly just to introduce everything that the prologues couldn't. So, stick with me. Thanks for the reviews so far, and I hope for more.
Until next chapter!
-Claire