Summary: Robin goes undercover to spy on one particular girl in order to bring down a new villain. Too bad things are easier said than done…
Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans or the book bag company of Jansport.
Undercover yet Head Over Heels
Chapter One: Windsor
A dark silhouette dashed across the rooftop at breakneck speed. A small Jansport book bag tightly strapped to the back of the male figure dressed in all black from head to toe. The contents inside the bag lightly jingled with the sound of freshly stolen jewels. As the culprit raced away, the sound of sirens and alarms of the jewelry store decreased and soon could be heard no more. The tall man ducked into an alleyway panting heavily yet full of ecstasy from his successful robbery. Once his body calmed down he swung the bag off his broad shoulders and gently set it down on the ground. Slowly he zipped open the larger compartment revealing precious sparkling diamonds and gems that gleamed in the moonlight. He chuckled softly as a small smile spread across his lips.
"Not bad for one night," came a low mumble.
"Yeah, well it's gonna be your last one," growled a young boy's voice. The criminals head shot up at the sound and he laid his eyes on five figures in the night. Quickly he zipped up the bag and flung it back over his arm preparing to take off again.
"You're not going anywhere," Cyborg yelled. The man once again allowed a slow sneer to spread across his face.
"Are you so sure of that?"
"Yea we're so sure of it!" Beast Boy said in his surfer like lingo. Raven, who hovered just above him, rolled her amethyst eyes.
"Well last time I checked I didn't answer to anyone and just because a bunch of punk teenagers with ridiculous superpowers, well that is most of you anyway," he shot a glance at Robin who glared menacingly. "Come along in strange oddball costumes doesn't mean I'm gonna start listening to anyone now especially you five!"
The man's hand shot upward towards the night sky and the entire alley seemed to become one vast wind tunnel. Okay, so he had powers himself. Dust and soot from the filthy city street was stirred up and whipped around everywhere. Starfire, Raven, Beast Boy and Cyborg covered their tearing eyes to protect themselves from the blinding debris while Robin's mask effectively protected his own. The man began to run from the scene unaware of the fact that the Boy Wonder remained unaffected by the attack. Instinctively, Robin followed in hot pursuit.
The unknown man dashed through alleyways and only realized shortly after that Robin was closely following him. Quickly, he turned a corner and jumped behind a large dumpster. Robin skidded to a halt at the mouth of the alleyway. Looking around carefully, he cautiously made his way in the gap between the buildings. Abruptly, the dumpster lifted up off the ground supported by small tornado of wind being controlled by the mysterious new villain. Robin gaped at the hovering dumpster until the culprit arched his hands and the steel container of trash dodged straight for him. He swiftly jumped out of the way narrowly escaping painful broken bones and only sustained a crash with hard asphalt. The human windmill dashed down the rest of the alleyway until a well thrown bird-a-rang slashed open the smaller compartment of the book bag. The man skidded to a sudden stop as a few items fell from the tear but as he glimpsed down the end of the alley he thought better of it than to collect them back up. With a final smirk headed in the direction of Robin, the newly acquainted villain made a run for it and as Robin exited the alley and looked around, he had disappeared.
The spiky haired teenager gritted his teeth at having lost to an amateur scoundrel and turned around to collect the fallen items as evidence. A pen and a folded picture of a young girl. She was around seven or eight years old, her blonde hair was up in high pigtails and her smile was just as pretty as her bright green eyes. Robin turned the photo over to reveal a scribbled message:
Windsor,
Here's the photo you wanted.
"Her name is Wendy Cassandra. This picture must be old because the girl in it looks like a kid but she's sixteen now. Turns out she's an orphan and was left at Miss. Cassandra's Orphanage right here in Jump City when she was just three days old. She took the owner's first name as her last because they were so close. She left the orphanage at fourteen to attend a top notch boarding school called Sacramento's Finest on an art scholarship. She's been there for two years and the worst she has on her permanent record is a small fine for littering. The only thing I don't understand is how she's connected to this guy Windsor," Raven finished finally. She turned away from the computer screen exhibiting a young looking Wendy next to a much older more recent looking one, to face the rest of the Titans.
"She may be a target of his. It says on the back that he wanted a photo of her. I mean it doesn't sound like this girl Wendy willingly gave him a picture of herself. Windsor had to get someone else to get it for him," Robin pondered. Starfire shook her head.
"I do not believe that is so. The picture shows that it has been worn over many years. And in it Wendy is very young. She is now sixteen years old. If she was to be a target for anything, something would have already occurred. But nothing in her past hints that she may have been kidnapped, raped or targeted for any reason."
"Star's right. I think Wendy has a connection to Windsor but she doesn't know it. Just think about it," Cyborg exclaimed. "The girl's an orphan. What if this dude's like her father or something? Maybe that's why he wanted the picture of her."
"That's very possible. The guy tonite had green eyes and so does this girl. Maybe a coincidence but we've got nothing else. And if Windsor is Wendy's father then she may show the same signs of having powers too. It's unlikely that someone with powers, who gives birth, won't have a child with the same gift. I suggest one of us goes undercover at her school to see what she's all about. Is she starts spinning tornados in the middle of hallways we'll know," Raven commented.
"Oh yeah! Dudes, I'm so up for this operation! Last time it was Cyborg who got to do the fun stuff, but I am not letting this one slip by me! Like I said, I'm the master of disguise!" Cried Beast Boy. He then began to change into various green animals in many different poses just as last time. Raven simply stared down on the current green raccoon standing in front of her in a kung-fu-fighting pose.
"I elect Robin to do the honors. He's the only one of us that can pass for as normal because he's the only one of us who really is. Cyborg's last electronic clone was too much to handle with Beast Boy making it burp all the time, Starfire doesn't understand enough earthly ways to convince someone she's a regular teenager, and I don't think any ordinary human kid has purple hair and purple eyes like I do."
"Raven, what about me!" Beast Boy howled. Raven simply gazed at him with such a straight face, a poker player would die for it.
"We're being serious here Beast Boy," she stated. The changelings face went slack.
"All in favor of Robin going undercover say 'I'," said Cyborg. Starfire, Raven and Cyborg repeated the single letter and all eyes laid on Beast Boy's stubborn face. The green one's face glanced at each of his teammates stern faces until he gave a dull defeated, 'I'.
"So are you up for the job?" asked Raven. Robin peered around at each of his teammates once more.
"Don't you think we're kind of jumping into this? I mean we haven't even thought of any other possibilities. We could be wasting our time."
Raven took the floor once more, "We haven't got anything else to go on. Got any other ideas besides the undercover mission I suggested?"
Robin racked his brain for another idea. But Raven was right. They had no other leads; nothing else to go on. "Okay, you win. Undercover mission it is."
"So you will complete operation of the undercover?"
Peering around once more at his eager teammates Robin came to his decision. "Doesn't look like I have much of a choice since I'm the only one for the job. Let's get started."
The five Titans were gathered around a bulky table with several amounts of paperwork covering the surface. They began going over the plans for the undercover operation.
"Okay, if you're going undercover you can't exactly have a Teen Titans communicator on you to contact us with. You're gonna need a cell phone. Cyborg will design his own for you which will have all the same features as the communicator's yet it will look like a regular cellular flip-phone. It will also have a tracker for us to find you in case anything goes wrong and you need our help," Raven said. Starfire spoke up as well.
"You must have normal apparel as you are not going to be Robin when you go under the cover, but you will go by your real birth name of Richard Grayson. In your knap of the sack you will find clothing provided by Alfred, the man you recently contacted."
"You're in dorm 904 in building three. You got two roommates named James Rodriguez and Jordan Toddler. We checked their records and they're clean," said Beast Boy in a serious tone.
"You're in three classes with Wendy and two of them you're not just so it doesn't look suspicious. Here's your schedule." Cyborg tossed a small piece of paper over to Robin from across the table. Robin picked it up and began reading. "You're gonna have to do all the work and appear to be a normal student. That is, until we figure out the connection or give up the operation although that's not likely. So you're gonna have to do homework. And the school kicks their students out if they fail two or more classes so when or if we get what we want you're gonna flunk yourself outta there."
"That's not the last thing," Raven interrupted. "You're going to have to get as close to Wendy as you possibly can. Become her friend; make her trust you so she'll tell you what we need to know. Do what you have to do, just get the dirt on her."
"So are you ready to move out, Robin?" Cyborg asked smiling. Robin stared down at the plans and lifted his hand up to the corner of his mask and carefully peeled it away from his eyes. Slowly, he looked up at his gawking teammates. They had never seen his clear blue eyes because it was the first time he'd taken his mask off in front of them.
"Yeah, and its Richard."