A/N: Another chapter for my wonderful readers is coming right up! I had a hard time coming up with this one because my big question was: How would Robin act if he didn't know the Titans and he thought he was an apprentice of Slade? Trust me; this is not the most easiest thing in the world. But here it goes! Tell me if you like or dislike it in a review. Thanks!

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Chapter 11 Final Mission

With a loud gasp, Robin woke up from his deep sleep, and he shot up in his bed with his eyes wide with a horror unknown. At first he was deeply confused as to where he was or even who he was, but it all slowly came back to him in small pieces that didn't seem to fit together properly.

Yes, he was Robin, the apprentice of Slade, and he was in his room in the Dragon Academy, but something was just not right. Something big was missing, and it was starting to drive the teen insane with guessing. It was at the tip of his tongue, but he couldn't grasp whatever was not there.

Robin gave a small sigh and looked around his room feeling very refreshed from his long sleep. He hadn't felt this revived in such a long time! But why was that? Robin was starting to feel very confused and empty inside. Something was gone, but he just didn't know what.

It finally hit Robin that he had overslept and he was drastically late for his classes. He flew out of bed and pulled on some clothes in a rush. He quickly gathered up his books on his small desk and ran outside his room and right into somebody.

"Slade?" Robin said quietly while looking up at the man with surprise.

"I want you to be at combat practice early today, Robin," Slade said. A small smile formed on his lips under his mask as he saw the confusion on the boy's face.

As if by nature, Robin nodded his head and said, "Yes, Master." He paused while quickly walking down the hallway. He felt lost this time. Where was he going again?

"Something wrong, Robin?" Slade asked him.

Robin said nothing while looking back to the man with his face a complete mystery of any kind of emotions. They both stood there silently for a few seconds till finally Robin gave up on this frustrating guessing game and answered, "Nothing, Master. I'm just messed up today because I overslept."

Slade was a bit surprised when he saw Robin smile warmly at him and say, "I'll see you next time at combat practice." The teen then walked to his first class with his smile slowly fading because of the constant inner battle in him. That machine had really done the trick on the boy. Slade had to admit that he was very pleased with the outcome. Robin was pretty much his now, but Slade knew that he would have to give the teen one last test before he could know for sure that Robin was his true apprentice.


The day was finally done. Everyone had gone off to sleep once again. Darkness had covered the whole island like a giant, black blanket. A few stars peeked out of the many puffy clouds in the sky. The moon was dimly seen through one of the clouds and it gave off a soft light onto the land below.

Somehow the teen sitting in the broken bell tower of the old church that night felt comfort with the darkness around him. His hard eyes stared up at the many stars as if he was questioning them and they had all the answers to his latest problem. A small wind picked up and brushed over his face but he was not affected by the coldness it brought over his body.

"Beautiful, aren't they?" came a voice from behind Robin. The teen looked over to the intruder and saw James, his odd teacher, standing next to the stairs leading back to the church. Through the darkness, Robin could see the man smile at him.

"Yeah," he said quietly after a small silence.

"Is that your only answer, kid?" James asked him with a small laugh. "Pretty lame if you ask me."

"I'm guessing that you're going to tell me some stupid story about the stars to make me happier, and then you're going to send me to bed," Robin said with his voice cold as ice. He looked back up to the sky and leaned his back against a brick pillar.

"Nope," James said with soft smile coming to his lips. Robin looked back at him with confusion spreading over his face. James gave a sigh while leaning his back against the same pillar Robin was leaning against so that they were both looking different ways. "We both came up here to look at the stars for our own quiet times from this hectic world. Why can't we share the same good view?"

They were both silent for a few seconds till Robin said, "Thanks." James looked down with a frown planted on his face. He had seen that deep pain on the teen's face, and it was almost too much. He had erased everything precious to that kid and now he had no purpose or passion in his life. That sick feeling of guilt turned into a knot in the pit of his stomach. But why would he feel that? This was only temporarily if his plan worked out.

"James?" suddenly Robin asked out of the darkness. All James could hear was his voice that sounded lost…but not defeated. He was a strong boy who was struggling.

"Hmm?" James answered.

"I…" Robin started but stopped with a sigh. "When do I get my next mission for the school? Slade said I would get one last assignment before I could fully be accepted into the Academy."

"I wasn't supposed to tell you this, kid," James said, "But I'm taking you and Slade to breakfast tomorrow morning, and Slade and I will tell you your next mission there. How does that sound?"

"Sounds good," Robin answered with a small nod. "Do you think I'll pass?"

"No," James said with an evil smile spreading over his face. This quickly got the reaction James was looking for out of the teen.

"What do mean by no?" Robin asked him with some small bit of anger in his voice.

"I just don't think that you'll pass," James said with a shrug. "You're too young. Something will stop you before you will get it done. I can promise you that."

"Promise nothing," Robin shot back quickly. "I'm going to pass."

"You just keep telling yourself that, kid," James said smugly.

"You're just pulling my leg," Robin said with a chuckle. "No one will stop me."

"Except for yourself," James muttered under his breath. Robin heard this but said nothing. What was this crazy teacher talking about? Why would he stop himself from completing this mission? More confusion was mixed into that stream of puzzlement in his head. Would this confusion and emptiness ever go away?

- James -

"Smell that wonderful misty, morning air!" James said after a taking a deep breath and letting it out slowly. Slade rolled his eye while walking past the teacher still on the dock. Robin jumped off the black speed boat with a smile playing at the corner of his lips from the small bit of joy of getting off the island for a change. He felt free this morning, and he was trying to shake the confusion out of his head. So far this breakfast was doing just the magic on him.

"So where are we going?" Robin asked Slade. He ran to catch up with the man and had to take long strides to keep up with his pace. "Are we having breakfast here?"

"Yep," James said while suddenly coming up beside Robin. The two shared eye contact and James winked. Robin smiled slightly then looked over to Slade. The two were acting like James hadn't told the boy anything that night on the bell tower.

The three walked around the winding city till they got to the outside café next to a small canal. Almost no one was around this early in the morning, and the place barely had any business. Only two other people were there on what looked to be their honeymoon, and they didn't even look over to the three as they sat down at one of the small, round tables under a colorful tarp.

Robin tried to hold back his eagerness to know his mission as he opened his menu with a sigh. He was too excited to eat anything at the moment. He looked up and saw James looking at his menu thinking hard on what he wanted. Robin smiled a little while looking over to Slade who was staring at him silently. The teen quickly looked back to his menu and wondered why he felt so uncomfortable under the stare of his master.

A waiter came up to their table and James ordered himself some coffee and bread. Robin ordered some water and the same bread James ordered. Slade had nothing. After their orders arrived, Robin looked up at James and waited for him to say something.

"You told him, didn't you?" Slade asked James suddenly.

James looked up at Slade and smiled sheepishly while saying, "Maybe."

"You don't know how to keep your mouth shut for too long," Slade said coldly to the man.

"You seriously don't know me if you tell me any kind of secret," James said with a wicked smile. "Was it really that big of a deal?"

Slade said nothing because it wasn't a big deal. It was something big for Slade, though. He had tested the man and he had failed. Trust was something Slade wanted to see in James, but he had found none so far. Right now the man was on thin ice and he didn't even know it. This man was different, and Slade wanted to get to the bottom of this mystery.

"So are you guys going to tell me?" Robin asked them.

"Go ahead," James said to Slade with a shrug. "He's your apprentice."

Slade held back a sigh and turned his head over to Robin. "You're last mission, Robin, will not be an easy one," he said and saw Robin give him a nod. "You have to fly to Peru and take out a man there. We can't give you details about him right here. But this is your choice, Robin. Will you do it?"

Robin felt nothing holding him back. This was the life he thought he was destined to live. Slade was his master and this would be nothing later on. Killing a man was nothing. His eyes stared into Slade's one good eye, and he was dead serious as he nodded his head and said, "Yes. Anything for you, Master."

- Abraham -

"See anything?" a voice asked Abe from his earpiece.

"Well, duh," Abe answered quietly to his sister. His small body was dangling more than forty feet into the air from a giant tree somewhere deep in the rainforests of Peru. The sun was setting fast on the land and darkness would quickly engulf that side of the earth. The tree frogs and bugs were making as much noise as possible for whatever reason, but Abe didn't mind the sound at all.

"Dad said that the school was assigning Robin to take out the guy that lives here?" Abe asked Sam with disbelief in his voice. "I hope they mentioned that the place has one heck of a security system."

"Describe it to me, little dude," Sam said into her headset. She was back at their hotel in Pulcallpa, which was miles away from where her brother was. She sat on the bed crossed-legged with her laptop in her lap and other various computer tech around her.

"I'm NOT little!" Abe yelled back at his sister as his eyes narrowed in anger.

"Too bad your original form is," Sam said smugly. "Now, get over yourself and use those new binoculars I made you to check the place out."

"I'm not little," Abe muttered while holding up the binoculars. "Hey! These things are awesome, Sam!" he said with a smile. "I can see the place clearly. Okay, the dude has a fortress of some kind. Lots of fencing with…sorry, lots of electric fencing with guards places everywhere. And they have guns." As he said this he started to zoom in out of the place just for fun.

"Now, daddy is going to give Robin's memory back on the plane ride here," Sam said while typing something in her computer. "How is he going to do that when he is not aloud to go with the leader?"

Abe said nothing as he zoomed up on an old guy sitting in a hot tub on the second floor. The kid smiled while pressing one of the buttons on the binoculars and took a picture of a close up on the guy's face. "Gotcha," he whispered slyly. "I wonder what he will say when the CIA tells him that a kid was the one who took a picture of him."

"Abe!" Sam yelled at the boy with anger in her voice.

Abe cringed as his earpiece made a high pitched sound in his ear from her screaming. "What?" he hissed back. "I got a picture of the dude. Why can't we just let Robin kill the big drug dealer?"

Sam gave a sigh and said, "Because it just wouldn't be right and you know that. If Robin kills someone he is pretty much Slade's. Plus, when Robin has his memory back do you really think that he will kill this man? Just do what daddy told you to do. Are you listening to me, Abe?"

Abe faked some snoring and stopped and said, "You're a snore fest, Sam. I was just kidding around. Why do you have to be so serious all the time?"

"If we were both idiots like you then where would we be?" Sam asked.

"Having a much more fun time," Abe said with a nod. "And I'm not an idiot. We were both born geniuses like mom and dad and you know it. Plus, I'm the one with skills, and you are the computer geek who tells me where to go and stuff."

Sam rolled her eyes and said, "Oh, that's very reassuring. The computer geek, ay? I could do your job if I practiced my powers as much as you do. But could you do my job? Didn't think so!"

"Don't be jealous," Abe muttered.

"There is for me to be jealous of," Sam said with a small laugh. "Now, come back to Pulcallpa after taking a few more pictures of the place. We need to plan out tomorrow for picking up Robin and how you will take his place."

"Roger that!" Abe said with a nod. "I'm out!" In exactly 24 hours he would be here again. But the only difference would be that he would go into the place he was checking out. His dad had a perfect plan to get Robin back to his team. If he had called the CIA, who he was working for, they would not have taken him seriously or they would blow it way out of proportion and everything would get messy. Abe loved it that his dad trusted him and his sister enough to put such a responsibility into their hands.

Abe took some more pictures of the place to get a good feel about it. He then strapped the binoculars back into his belt and started to climb back down the giant tree he was in. It took him a while to get back down because he had to be so careful where to step. When he got to the ground it was dark and he could barely make out anything.

"Don't move, kid," a gruff voice ordered Abe coldly in Spanish. Abe stiffened when he felt cold metal at the back of his neck. A shiver went down his spine the guy with the gun shoved the barrel more into his skin. He had been spotted way up there on the tree when he had been spying. They were smart.

"Johnny, he's just a small pipsqueak," came another voice in the darkness in the same language. Abe noted that there had to be at least two guards out there. "You most likely made him pee in his pants by now. He's not threat to us, so put the gun down."

"Guess again," Abe said with a smile when he felt the gun fall away from his neck. He jumped into the air and executed a perfect roundhouse kick to the guy's head and his gun went flying into the air. As soon as the kid landed on the ground, shots rung out into the air from the other guard.

"Whoa!" Abe breathed as he dodged the bullets. In the darkness no one would see him use his powers. In seconds the little boy had turned into a big weight lifter guy. He delivered a sharp kick to the guy he had already taken down and knocked him out cold. He then quickly turned into a small three year old toddler to dodge the bullets coming at him.

"I'm NOT small!" Abe yelled in Spanish while coming at the guard. He changed into his original form and punched the guy square in the nose and got a loud cry of pain out the man. Blood flew into the air from the hard attack. The guy held onto his nose while wailing out of the pain from his broken nose.

Abe was relentless as he kneed the man in the stomach and knocked the air out of him. The kid yanked out the some cord he had coiled on his belt for his climb. He quickly tied both guards to a tree and stood back to marvel at his handiwork.

"Tell your boss that a kid is coming for him," Abe said in Spanish to the guard that was not in dream land at the moment. "And I want to make a deal with him. Make sure that he takes me seriously when you tell him. Thanks!"

Abe walked over to his backpack and put his belt back in it with a smile. He pulled away some leaves and uncovered his motorcycle that he had ridden to get out there. He quickly turned into an older version of himself so he could fit on it and cranked up his bike. He didn't bother putting it in first gear and went right away into second as he sped off with grass and dirt flying up into the air.

Now, these kids were no normal, cute kids that you see in school or begging for candy from a parent. They weren't so cute when they were giving you a nice butt kicking or hacking into your secret files on your computer just for the heck of it. Both of their parents were geniuses that had worked as spies for the CIA. Everything had been passed down to their kids, including there shape shifting powers that the boy loved to use.

The family of four had all worked for the CIA till one dreadful day that the mom died while on a mission. It had crushed the family, and the dad had taken the kids out of the CIA, but he still worked for them. But the kids always longed for an adventure once in a while, so their dad gave them small missions sometimes that let them test their skills. This mission was different, though. This one was serious.

A/N: So how was the chapter? Sorry if I'm making you guys confused with these kids. James has a plan in action with them and I don't want you readers to know most of it till the time comes. Next chapter is of Red X stealing more Xenothium and meeting his new watcher. Am I spelling Xenothium right? I have no idea how to spell so it would make me happy if you readers could help me with this. So please give a review! Thanks!