Ruffled Feathers Chapter 2: AN/ thank you those who followed my story! Shout out to them: BATMANMELTSI, Dawn-the-Dragon, Lil'LordBrat, and Akari Tatsumi! This chapter will have multiple POVs, mostly Robin because this story is kinda about him. Also, in case anyone was wondering, no, I don't hate Artemis, I just pretty much picked randomly between her, Kaldur, and Conner because SOMEBODY had to alert them, otherwise this wouldn't be much of a story. Now enough of my pointless ramblings, and ONWARDS!
None other than the Joker. Who seemed very happy to see the young heroes.
There seemed to be hundreds of henchmen, all wearing what looked like clown masks. Most of the masks seemed different, some scary with white faces and crazy eyes complete with what was supposed to be blood stains lining the mouth. Others looked like they might have been normal clowns from a circus, with red noses and sad faces printed on the mask.
None of it was real of course; as the team learned soon enough after Superboy hit one in the face (on accident he had told them through the mind link, saying he was aiming for the guys chest. This was returned with a sarcastic 'riiight' from Wally.) The mask had come flying off, revealing an ordinary person. At least, he would have been ordinary, if it wasn't for the gun in his hand.
The first thing Robin saw when he finally came out from the trees was what could only be described as (in Wally's words) "A freaking battlefield."
Artemis was back flipping over a bunch of people, reloading her bow halfway, then shooting it, trapping some of the enemy in high-density polyurethane foam. But somehow, more just kept on coming. He knew she would be able to fight them off for a while, but not forever. No one, not even the big bad Bats, could fight forever.
Megan wasn't doing too bad, using her telekinesis to lift the weapons from their hands, and going camouflage every once in a while to move on to another group. Despite her efforts though, the men were getting more guns from somewhere, a few of them passing them out. And now, with the constant barrage of bullets she had to dodge, her mind was occupied with not being hit and it looked like it was getting harder to stay in camo mode.
Kaldur seemed to be doing well, showing no signs of tiring as of yet. Robin could tell he would need help soon though, because he was starting to get whelmed. Not in the happy way either. The clown impersonators were starting to try and surround him.
As Robin looked around while running into the chaos, he saw that they all were starting to be surrounded as well. He couldn't see Superboy from where he was at, but he could hear the angry shouts that could only be his. KF had run into the chaos, reacting immediately and trying to get to one of the others to help out. He had been held up by his own group of baddies though, and was zipping around to cannonball and occasionally taking away the weapons being used against him.
Guys, they look like they're all organized or something, like they were expecting us! Artemis exclaimed.
Yeah, I think we all sorta see that now! Wally deadpanned, just barely missing the bullets coming his way.
Robin, I couldn't help but notice that you seem to have no one coming after you. Do you know why? Kaldur asked, sounding concerned.
No, I'm really not- He cut himself off. He knew why now. Looking straight ahead, he saw the Joker. And he had an exceptionally sharp switchblade with him.
Robin? Are you ok? Megan asked, wondering what made him stop in the middle of his sentence.
Uh, yeah. Yeah I'm fine. Might be a little busy though, so don't be scared if I don't say anything for a while. I'll be otherwise occupied. The others could practically hear his smirk at saying that last part.
Same here. Suberboy grunted.
"Well, little bird, how nice to see you finally decided to drop in and say hi to your Uncle J. I was beginning to wonder when I would see you again, seems like you've been hanging out the Wonder Brats a whole lot lately!" With that, the Joker laughed (if you could call it that) and lunged at him with the knife.
"Oh, yeah sorry about that, I just like my version of fun better than yours, you know, without trying to fight for my life." He replied, flipping away from the pointy object coming his way.
"Oh, well that's no fun." Joker said, waving his hand dismissively. "You know, little bird, with all this time spent away from each other, we haven't played any games in such a long time!"
"Gee, I wonder why…" Robin mumbled.
"so that's why they call you Wonder Boy!"
"It's Boy Wonder. Not Wonder Boy. That sounds like Wonder Bread." So this is how KF feels when someone gets his name wrong, Thought Robin as he flipped over the Joker, placing his hands on his shoulders and using the momentum to flip upwards again, landing only when his foot collided with Jokers jaw.
Joker stumbled back a bit, holding his chin in slight pain. He then lashed out again, this time making a small cut on Robin's leg. Not enough to make him stop flipping and jumping around, but enough to hurt.
After about half an hour of this fighting, (which was the third longest fight he ever had) Joker was starting to get impatient. He had been able to get quite a few good cuts on Robin, but he himself had been hit by a foot or a fist much too many times for his liking.
Robin, on the other hand, was starting to wear down, but refused to show it. He would not give Joker the satisfaction. Suddenly, he had an idea. He knew his teammates would need to get out of here soon; the link had been shut down a little while ago, making it next to impossible to get their attention.
"Come on, bird boy, why do you always have to take away the fun in fighting?" The Joker asked, pouting.
Robin made a face to look like he was thinking hard about it, then said, "Hmmm, I don't know… maybe it has to do with the fact that YOU ARE A CRAZY MANIAC!" This was all part of the plan; he just needed Joker distracted for one second in order for it to work.
The Joker looked around comically, eyes wide and jaw dropped. He turned around for a second, and when he turned back, Robin was gone. The only sign of him being a cackle that echoed around.
Suddenly, one of the warehouses exploded. And then another. And another. With everyone distracted, the team finally had a small advantage. They broke through a side of the surrounding 'circle' and ran for the forest after deciding they couldn't fight them all off.
Then, the rest of the buildings blew up, an amplified cackle sounding just before the explosions had everyone running.
They all stopped to catch their breath at the tree line, leaning up against the tree closest to them.
"Ok, I'm a little scared to ask, but what just happened?" Wally asked while making hand gestures for dramatic effect.
"'What just happened' was that I blew up their base with my own little bombs. The laugh was a nice touch, don't you think?"
"What!?" Megan, Artemis, and KF all said at the same time.
Robin smirked, and started again, talking slowly. "I. blew up. Their. Base. With. Bombs."
"Wha- How!?" Kid Flash was the only one not gaping back at the wreckage.
"Well, you get a bomb, or maybe a few, and you blow them up. Not that hard to do. And don't worry, nobody was inside, and no one was close enough to the blast to be seriously hurt. I made sure."
The others visibly relaxed a bit at hearing this news.
"Well, I don't know about all of you, but I'm hungry. Anyone else? Besides Kid Mouth." Robin said, seeing Wally about to say something.
"Wait, where'd the Joker go? Wasn't he around here somewhere?" Artemis asked while looking over her shoulder.
"Oh, yeah he was, but not anymore." Robin answered.
"You let him get away?" asked Superboy, a hint of annoyance in his voice.
"No, but I guess you could say he's a little 'tied up at the moment.' Trust me; he won't be going anywhere anytime soon." He said, smiling.
Meanwhile, about 20 yards away…
The Joker was tied up, hanging by the rope tied around his arms that were keeping them glued to his side. For some reason, he was also laughing manically. That reason was then shown when he began talking to himself. At least, it would have looked that way to anybody who didn't see the earpiece he was talking into.
"Yes, yes. It was almost a success, but the Boy Blunder just HAD to go and ruin the plans. We were so close." He growled. "I'll see you when I get out of Arkham again, which should be in a couple weeks." He then listened to whoever was on the other end, and spoke again. "Oh, yes. The Light's plan worked absolutely wonderfully. I can't wait to use it again."
AN/ Okey dokey, that's the end of the first chapter! The second should be out soon, but if anyone has any requests, just review, PM me, or whatever. Send a homing pigeon if you want. Also, I would be doing mail here, but I got no reviews. Needless to say, I was pretty sad. Hopefully this chapter is a bit better, and I would love to have villain requests! Poison Ivy will be in one, but I will need more! Not all of this is planned out quite yet. I'm going to try and make the chapters a bit longer, but this is my first story, so I don't even know what to expect. Next chapter will probably be Robin with his ninja stuff, freaking the team out. Or it might be another villain. I'm not sure yet, it might be something completely different. So, that's about it, please review this time!