Hey guys, so I know that there are probably a few people who were looking for more pizzaz in Robin's reveal, this is what it actually going to be originally, but I though it a little too... predictable, but I decided to post it anyway. This is also because you guys have been requesting me to continue, I AM going to actually continue the plot, but I didn't finish what I wanted to give you, so sorry but I hope to have it done soon. Please, tell me your thoughts, you like this one or chapter 5 better?
Last Chapter (Or rather where this one differs from the chapter prior to it)...
"No arguments here." Wally seconded, as he spun Rixie, getting him to smile once more. "So what were going to tell me, before she came over."
Rixie opened his mouth to say something, the smile on his lips having returned ten-fold, when the windows all exploded on the far side of the room. Someone screamed as everyone instinctively ducked for cover so not get hit by the glass. He spun so that his back was facing Wally. Watching as Bruce disappeared into the shadows, he knew what his father figure was going to do, but he also knew that he couldn't follow him. Not now.
When a canister flew threw the open window, he instantly had a bad feeling in his gut. When the gas came out and those closest to the broken windows fell unconscious with a few coughs he knew exactly what it was.
His training kicked in before his brain did. "C'mon." he nearly commanded, as they were quickly met by Artemis, Kaldur and M'gann and Conner showed up less than a second after they did. "We need to get out of here." he pointed out the obvious.
"Any ideas?" Kaldur asked, looking to her. Afterall it was his home, he would know it the best.
"Yeah, c'mon," Rixie told them as he pushed the door open that was three feet to their left. It was a similar side door to what Kaldur and Artemis had gone through in order to not get noticed. They came out under the staircase, unknowingly having two girls following them.
"Rix, are you okay?" Babs' voice cut in as the team came to a pause in the hall.
"I'm fine, what about you two?" he asked, looking to both Bab's and the blonde that was beside her.
"A little on the nervous side." Babs admitted, offering the thirteen year old a halfhearted smile.
"We'll be fine." Rixie encouraged his friend.
"What the hell?" Jane's annoying voice demanded as she too walked through the door they had. "You think you could make a run for it, Circus Freak." She stopped more than four feet to the left of Babs and more than three feet in front of Rixie. "You're who they want, what happens if I hand you over?" she taunted, but despite that she seemed almost willing to do it.
"We can't let you do that." Conner's angry voice snapped, catching the skinny brunette off-guard.
"Oh really?" she taunted. "Why not?"
"We are here to protect her, if you endanger her you become a threat and we will take you down." Kaldur told the brunette. No one decided to mention that they would merely knock her out instead of giving her a well deserved bad-guy level butt kicking.
Jane looked slightly worried, but didn't have time to reply as the ornate doors were kicked open, and slightly off their hinges.
Though, Rixie did respond. "Oh, c'mon, really? Bruce is going to be pissed when he sees that."
The clown faced Joker merely laughed his psychotic laugh. "Not as much as he will be when he sees what I'm going to do to you."
Jane was nearly shaking like a leaf, and Rixie was more half tempted to leave her here. "Please don't." she cried, and Rixie rolled his eyes, he was the one Joker wanted and Jane was the one freaking out.
"Oh, I won't." Joker ensured laughing once more. As he went to continue he was slammed into by Batman.
"Jane, as much as I hate you I need you to do something." Rixie spoke quickly knowing their time was short. "Get out and call for help, go next door, I know they're home right now."
"I-I can't." Jane stuttered out.
Rixie took a deep breath. "You seem distraught."
Jane looked at the girl (boy) like he had grown a second head. "Of course I'm distraught!"
"Then listen to me!" Rixie yelled. "Get traught or get dead!" Jane seemed to be shaking more. "Get your head on, run and get help!" he enunciated it with a shove to the girl's shoulders, and she did just that. "C'mon, I don't want to know how much time we don't have left."
The team nodded all at once and followed the boy, who was running quite fast for someone in such high heels. They made the left at the staircase and were shocked to find five goons in front of them and two more behind them. "Perfect." Wally grumbled.
"Seconded." Rixie grumble'd from right beside him.
"We need exercise caution." Kaldur spoke through the mind link. "We do not want to reveal ourselves to civilians." Rixie had a sinking feeling that M'gann had no clue that the link was open to him as well.
"Noted." Conner confirmed.
3… 2… 1… "Now!" M'gann called out, and the team charged. Rixie nearly did as well, before he remembered that he couldn't. So he turned to Babs and the blonde.
"When they finish this I need you to take one of them with you, and make for the back of the house." Rixie told the two, before pulling them down as a guy was thrown right where their head were.
"Why?" the blonde questioned.
"Cassie…" Rixie spoke to the blonde calmly, and she seemed to calm as well when she was called out by name. "Do you think I'm willing to put that much trust in Jane."
Babs nodded. "Point."
"Good." Rixie agreed with a smile as the three stood up again, just as the last of the goons fell at Conner's hand… or fist. "Someone go with Babs and Cassie to the back of the house, they know the way, we go separately they won't know which person to follow."
"That is a solid plan." Kaldur confirmed. "I will go with them."
"Hurry." Rixie commented to the other four as they ran left and the others ran right. They followed a right turn and then they came to a three way. "That way leads to Kaldur, Cassie and Babs," he indicated to his right. "That leads to the second level of the gala hall." he gestured in front of him. "Then this leads to the library and guest rooms."
"We'll go straight." M'gann told him with a nod.
"It would be wise to take Conner, make the two groups look similar." Rixie told the Martian.
"But-" Conner tried, but Rixie merely smirked, knowing he'd rather be with M'gann than not.
"Just go." with that he and Wally went left.
"This place is huge, how do you keep it straight?" Wally questioned as the two made another left and were able to slow to a walk.
"A lot of boredom." Rixie commented, the commentary was nice it was a distraction from the fact that his father figure was currently fighting to defend him and all he had done in the last 24 hours was avoid him or get viciously angry.
Then three goons followed them around the left. "Shit." Wally cursed.
"We've got to take them out before they realize I'm the one they want." Rixie pointed out. Problem was he could see the 45 in the middle guy's hand.
"How?" Wally questioned.
"Whatever you have to do- do it, the Joker wants me, and he wants me bad, I don't want to know why." Rixie admitted with a grimace.
Before Wally could respond the 45mm had fired one shot, out of instinct he pulled the younger boy out of the way. Nearly slamming the both of them into the nearby wall. "Ouch." they both grimaced, considering they hit the wall at nearly 700 mps.
"Don't-" Wally began, but Rixie cut him off by pulling them through the door just to the right of their shoulders. Then slammed the door shut. "That won't do any good."
"Yes it will, the door's bulletproof." he nearly snapped as he flipped the lock. "And sound proof, so they didn't hear me say that." he said with a smile.
"If you wanted me here, all you had to do was ask." Wally teased, this time he could definitely hear the flirting in his words.
"That's not why and you know it." Rixie said back, keeping his face from cracking a smile. Though one lurch from his door made it fall for real.
"How much can your door withstand?" Wally asked.
"A lot, I don't know, Bruce never told me." he admitted, before going to his closet.
"What are you doing?" he questioned, looking to the younger boy like he was insane.
He then twisted his wrist and a door opened. "Secret door, c'mon." he gestured as they walked through. It was slightly short, so there was some head ducking but only for a few feet when they reached the other door and Wally turned to close the one behind him.
Before them lay a very large library. "Secret door to a library, really?"
Rixie shrugged, he knew exactly which book would open a door to the batcave, but he really didn't want to have that discussion with his dad right there. "This is all my fault." he finally admitted with a sigh.
"No it-" Wally began.
"Please don't say that," he asked quietly. "I knew…" he shook his head and the headpiece followed.
"What did you know?" Wally questioned. "Why is the Joker after you?"
"I hacked into his computer and sent the files to Gotham Police, unfortunately I didn't cover my tracks and it led right back to my personal computer." Rixie explained. It was bad enough that he had the Joker as an enemy when he was Robin, but now as Rixie…
"You hacked the Joker?" Wally questioned, shock clear in his voice. "Why would you do that?"
Rixie turned to him, shocked to hear anger in his tone. Then he reminded himself that he didn't know that he was Robin. "I was trying to help…" he muttered a weak excuse.
"What by risking your life?" Wally demanded. This was the one person he was close with that wasn't on the team, not that was a bad thing. Actually, it was a good thing, because he would be the only one who wouldn't be coming back beaten and bruised after a mission.
"I do it all the time anyway." Rixie growled back, barely ensuring that he kept his voice below screaming.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Wally questioned, his own anger combatting the anger that Rixie was expressing.
"Exactly what it sounds like, KF." Rixie snapped back, at the use a nickname that no one but Robin called him he paused. Then Rixie realized what he said. "Shit."
"Why did you call me that?" Wally questioned, he knew Rob never call him that when they were in front of civilians, so how did he know it.
Rixie sighed and looked to Wally. "I called you that because… well, you should be able to figure it out."
"Who told you?" Wally questioned, he was more shocked than angry, who had he put his trust in that he shouldn't have?
Rixie looked like he didn't know how to proceed and before he could the library door opened, thankfully not kicked open, but it still opened to reveal three goons. The same three that had tried to get them before, except judging by the fact that the holster was empty they ran out of bullets. Definite plus.
"Run." Wally told Rixie, pushing the raven behind him.
"No need." the acrobat grounded out as he vaulted off Wally's shoulders and launched three birdarangs at the goons. He landed slightly unsteady, but other than that was fine. It knocked all weapons out of their hands, then fell to their feet. As Rixie smirked they began to beep, a quick five pip pattern before they created miniscule explosions. Enough to knock the three men off their feet. Confidently the 5'1" 13 year old walked up to the three, between the front two and a mere two feet in front of the third, he looked forward as he dropped to one knee and hit the first two men with enough force to knock both of them out. Then walked to the third man and kicked him in the head knocking him out too.
He spun and a shocked Wally was staring at him. "How- when did- but-" Wally stuttered out at nearly double the speed a normal person would've.
Then Rixie's phone rang. "Hello?"
"We've caught the Joker, and I'm with the other three groups, are you alright?" Bruce asked through the phone.
"We're fine, got about three unconscious minions, but we're okay." he assured his father.
"We being…?" Bruce prodded.
"Who do you think?" he replied with a chuckle.
"I'll send some of the force to you, where are you?" Bruce asked.
"The Library." he responded. "Hey, thanks." then hanging up.
He turned to Wally instantly. "I know you have questions, so ask away." he was tired of the lies, especially with the man he considered his best friend in both his lives.
"How did you do that?" he questioned, and Rixie nearly smacked himself, of course he wouldn't think he was Robin.
Sighing Rixie walked over and pulled a birdarang off the ground then tossed it to the speedster, who caught it with ease. "Where did you get this?" he questioned, after studying it for a moment.
"Well, I made it, but if you mean where I was hiding it, the answer would be in my closet, I grabbed a few before coming through the doorway." Rixie responded with just as much cheek as usual.
"That means…" Wally's sentence trailed as his eyes widened. Robin nodded his head in agreement. "The whole time you were-"
There Robin cut him off. "Don't say it, I don't like being reminded how what I think I should be and what I am don't line up." Wally nodded in agreement.
"But that means…" his eyes widened once more, but this time there was fear in his eyes.
"Don't worry, I won't let him kill you." Rob assured his best friend, unconsciously taking a step closer to the actually still speedster.
"Not helping, Rob." he said the boy's secret identity without even realizing it, and as the auburn went to go and correct himself the chuckling coming from his friend caught his attention first. "What?" he questioned, allowing his annoyance to come through.
The Boy Wonder stopped chuckling, and looked up the still three inches that separated the two of them. "Just glad that you still accept me." he admitted.
"Dude, always," Wally told the thirteen year old without a second of hesitation, "you're best friend both with the mask and without it."
The Boy Wonder increased his smile. "Good." he approved, then grabbed Wally's tie to force the speedsters mouth down the three inches it needed to go to meet his own.
It was slow and unmoving at first, and just as he was about to pull away did Wally move, and all at once. His lips moved against him, his hands found his narrow waist and pulled him closer, by doing that simple movement removed his grip from the tie and the boy wonder found his hands around the neck of the fastest teen alive. Finally allowing Wally to straighten his neck and pull the short thirteen year old up slightly so he was standing on the tips of his toes.
Let's just say, that a certain Commissioner has a favor that the ward of Bruce Wayne he can put to the test, as long as he keeps his mouth shut.
So, I know double A/N, not whelming. However, I unfortunately (for my writing purposes) start school soon, so my free time is going to WAY down. For that I apologize, but I am going to try my best to keep from letting this from getting away from me, but if you review on this chapter. It shows right up on my email, and I check it three times a day and I DO read them. If it gets even worse just email me straight out. It's on my profile.
See ya, BTWs have you seen the #renewyoungjustice yet? Please do, because I don't know about you, but I want Season 3. No clue what I'm talking about, google it. Seriously. BVDG1