Titans Beyond

Episode 27: Damian Wayne

Author: Brruundin

Warning, I do not own the Titans or any other DC characters I may use.

Robin looks around, fists clinched, the team scenario is about to begin. He's nervous, but ready. Just like working with Batman, he thinks to himself while preparing for whatever in store.

A group of animated thugs appear, and head towards him, Robin leaps up and goes in for a kick, the thugs disappear.

"I guess if we beat them they go away" Robin suggests while looking around at his team. They seem to be struggling.

"Lagoon Boy look out for that..." By the time it's too late, Lagoon is slammed with a boulder by one of the large robots.

"I'm... good..." Lagoon says, struggling to get up.

"Miss Martian, can you go invisible and hit them from behind? Lagoon and I will go from the right side, Blue Beetle I want you to charge the left. Titans go!" Robin says, with a smirk, he's heard stories about Nightwing and his group, and always dreamed of wanting to be able to be just like him, now was his chance.

The others, nod and the plan goes into action. They slowly take out the thugs one by one, Robin may not be as skilled an acrobat as Nightwing is, but what he lacks in acrobatics, he makes up for with excellent hand to hand combat, after all he is the son of Batman and the grandson of Ra's Al Ghul. Anyway, their final task is to stop a giant Cinderblock copy.

Miss Martian and Blue Beetle attack him from above while Lagoon and Robin go for his feet eventually it becomes worn out by the hits and begins to topple over. Once it hit the ground, it disappears into a million pieces. The team cheers in excitement. Robin is overjoyed, fighting with Batman was one thing, but he never got a chance to give commands or help make a plan. It was always just following what Batman said. Finally, he had the feeling of freedom.

"Good work guys, we did it!" Robin exclaims while giving Lagoon a hi five!

"Alright, guys good work for today. That concludes today's exercises. Head upstairs for feedback and lunch, Starfire and Terra went out to get Pizza" Nightwing says, proud of the good work his team did today.

Robin heads upstairs with the rest of his team talking about how thrilling it was. He knew in the back of his mind, that this was the right decision. As soon as heads upstairs he sees the other Titans standing around looking mostly proud. He heads over to Nightwing to talk and ask him about the results.

"So, hey, what did you think?" Robin says, looking at Nightwing.

"Well, you let Lagoon get smashed by a boulder, and it took a while for you guys to get to Cinderblock, but after that it seemed like you got the hang of things. My only suggestion is to be more assertive out there, you know how it is dealing with a partner, but these other guys don't know what it's like being part of a team. You need to show them the way, that why we're putting you in charge." Nightwing says, assessing the situation.

"Yeah it's just my first time out there with them, and I wasn't really sure what to do or what to expect, with Batman you know everything is always laid out ahead of time."

"Yeah, I know, but here it's more so unexpected, we're not all master detectives like the cape crusader himself, so we have the adjust on the go. It's part of being a team, feeding off each other's strengths, and helping each other's weaknesses" Nightwing says responding to his comment, he too knew what it was like to be in those shoes before.

Robin nodded, "Alright, well thanks I guess that does it for today?"

"Not exactly, around 6pm I want you and me to meet up to go over some things, maybe some sparring. We need to be prepared for... him..."

"Who is him?" Robin asks concerned about Nightwing's change of tone.

"Slade I can feel him presence, I know he's back. I haven't told the others yet because I don't want them to worry. But I know he's planning something big." Nightwing says while balling his hand up into a fist.

"Slade? He's the one who..."

"Yes, and I don't want to talk about this anymore right now, we'll save it for another time. I want to let you know, if anything were to happen to me, I want you to step up and take charge along with Cyborg, I can see you two working well together, and you are probably the best person to make rational decisions on the fly because of working with... you know." Nightwing says while interrupting Robin.

"Yeah, I got you. You can count on me." Robin says, and Nightwing nods. Nightwing then puts his hand on Robin's shoulder as a sort of nod of approval.

"You did good work together though, I'm proud of you and I know Batman is too. We both talked it over beforehand and knew you were ready for this, and that you would be a good fit for the team. Now go grab some pizza and enjoy, it's not always going to be this easy trust me."

Robin nods and walks away. Wow I can't believe it. I've never really gotten praise from him before. Batman was the same way, whenever I would do something well, Batman wouldn't really say anything or notice it. Then again, I'm not out there seeking praise, just trying to do my job I guess. Oh well. I wonder what kind of pizza they have, hopefully they didn't get pineapple, yuck I hate pineapple...

Robin heads over and grabs two slices, both pepperoni with mushroom. This will do I guess.

He takes a seat down at the couch, the others all sitting around in silence eating. Finally, someone says something.

"Well you all are a talkative bunch" Cyborg says, sarcastically while smacking Beast Boy on the back of the head.

"Dude! Quit I told you I don't like that!" Beast Boy exclaims, he's really getting annoyed with Cyborg lately.

"Relax BB, you know it's all in good fun, how about after this I whoop your ass in the some gamestation."

"Oh yeah? Dude you're so gonna get destroyed!"

"Nah BB I'm gonna whoop your butt like I did last time Booyah!"

"You totally cheated dude! Terra remembers!"

"I'm staying out of this..." Terra says, not getting in the middle of their silly arguments about video games.

"How do I even cheat? It's not my fault you suck"

"Dude I watched you change the programming, you're a literal computer!" Beast Boy says, morphing into a Gorilla and begins beating his chest. Terra giggles.

"Relax BB, that didn't happen you're over exaggerating, I'll even let you use my controller. How about that?"

"Fine"

Well they seem to be a fun bunch. Robin thought to himself, he's never really been around kids his own age, so it was weird seeing this kind of behavior. He wondered if it was normal oh well, at least they got good pizza for once, Batman never lets us order pizza. He always said it weighs us down in the heat of battle. Whatever, Robin says to himself while smiling.

After everyone finished up he decided to go back to him room for a bit.

Ahhh peace, he thought. He then begins to reflect on what had happened today and what Nightwing was going to have him get into later.

A few hours passed, and it was time. Robin gets off his bed and heads to the living room. Everyone had gone out to do their own thing or were in their rooms. Nightwing, however, was standing there waiting for him.

"You're late"

"I know I got distracted with stuff"

"It's fine, just don't let it happen again. Follow me" Nightwing says leading Robin back downstairs into the training room.

"So is it just gonna be us?" Robin asks confused why they needed such a large space for this.

"Yep, we're going to spare some more, I need you to be ready for a mission soon."

"A mission? What kind of mission?"

"You'll see, no need for details for now, but just know it's important."

"Alright well don't go easy on me"

"I won't"

"Good" Robin says, with a smirk. He knew was probably going to get his butt kicked. Oh well, what doesn't kill me makes me stronger. He then waits for Nightwing to strike and they begin their battle!

A/N Alrighty we got a look at Robin, Next time we'll dive into Blue Beetle and Lagoon Boy. As well as whatever Nightwing is going on about. Hopefully some more quick updates and we'll dive back into the main story. Hopefully you guys enjoy and as always, read and review! :)