Author's Note: Sorry this story is taking so long to get out. Just to note here Robin has been teaching Kid Flash and Red Arrow Romani for the last year neither of them is fluent but together they know enough to get by. 'This is them speaking with the mind link.' I do not own anything.
5. The Chase
Northern Romania November 16th 8:00 am
The bioship landed in the mountains of Romania just a few miles away from the source of the signal. Red Arrow and Kid Flash made it to the scene first, Roy having grabbed hold of Wally right before he took off out of the bioship. At the source they found a helicopter that Roy immediately recognized as one belonging to the League of Shadows. There was a body next to the copter.
"Bullet to the head. Looks like one of Talia's goons." Kid Flash frowned running a hand through his bright red hair making it stick up straight off his head.
"But why kill him? Why kill one of your own, it doesn't make sense." Roy shook his head as he climbed into the copter as the rest of the team caught up to them. Kid Flash watched as Red Arrow examined the console.
"You haven't dealt with the League of Shadows much Kid, they kill their own for insanely minor offences. I've been staking out one of their hideouts for a while." He paused as he ducked under the communications system.
"Kid's good. Rigged up a signal with next to nothing." Roy commented trying to sound off hand. He was proud of Robin and as usual impressed with the thirteen year olds skill but he had to treat this like it was Diane, not Robin. That wasn't going to be easy.
"Batman did say she had a genius level IQ." M'ggan said watching as Roy examined the communications system of the copter. Aqualad nodded examining the body. Superboy was looking around for anything out of place. There were footprints all over the place. Two trails lead in opposite directions. Wolf sniffed the ground and growled. Kid Flash and Red Arrow had objected against bringing Wolf, slightly afraid that he might give the game away. After all it wasn't like Robin could change her sent by taking off her mask. Wolf whined softly and began to follow one of the trails. Superboy followed him and ran a hand over the inscription on the cliff face.
"Look! What language is that?" M'ggan floated over to him and frowned.
"I've seen it before, Robin used it to write notes to Kid Flash during briefings." Kid Flash raced over to the wall and looked over the inscription and squinted.
"Inside lies danger most f- fowl. Sorry I'm still learning Romani, I'm not that great. I think the next bit says, death a waits the… shit I don't know that word." Roy sighed.
"Death awaits the unwary. Enter and face your fate." Wally turned to Roy and raised an eyebrow. Roy smirked.
"What? You aren't the only one she's been teaching." Artemis narrowed her eyes.
"Who's been teaching you guys Romani?" Roy took a step back examining the cliff face.
"Diane Grayson. We've been friends for a while, it's her first language so she figured she should teach it to us so we can mess with people." Wally nodded. M'ggan frowned.
"That's odd." Wally turned to M'ggan as Roy continued to examine the cliff face.
"What's odd?" M'ggan shook her head.
"Robin said his native language was Romani." Wally stared but before he could say anything Roy tapped him on the shoulder and pointed a few feet away from the inscription.
"Look, that look like an entrance to anyone else?" The group looked over towards the crack he was pointing at. It looked just big enough for one person at a time to squeeze through. Wolf scratched at the crack in the wall and whined. Roy sighed.
"Well, looks like that's where we are headed. Be careful, it could be a trap." The team nodded and headed into the crack in the cliff face.