Chapter 4: enter the red hood.

All my other stories seem kiddish this one I'm very proud of. It's bringing a whole new light to my writing. Shaya is modeled after me

I had a happy dream about Jason and my life before he was killed. Overall we had a fairly normal life I mean we had even graduated high school I graduated this year and Jason had graduated last year not very many young superheroes can honestly say they were able to graduate high school.

A year later Gotham city is being constantly attacked by a mysterious character the press started calling the red hood little does Shaya know the red hood is closer to her than she realizes. Little by little the red hood is taking over the Gotham mob and drug trade.

My life as the new robin grew more and more interesting as the year flew by; of course I missed Jason but between visiting my mom and continuing my duties as robin things gradually got better and better. One night as Bruce was recovering from an injury he had received fighting the Penguin Alfred came to me and said "Miss Shaya the mysterious criminal known as the red hood is trying to break into the Kirk jewelry store." I said "thank you for letting me know Alfred." He said "I have something to show you once you come down to the bat cave."

I donned my robin costume and hurried down to the bat cave and as soon as I got there I saw a stunning red bike very similar to the one Jason had used but it was surely destroyed in the explosion that killed Jason. I gasped and said "is that Jason's bike?" Alfred said "it is made from the pieces that I could salvage from his bike." I pulled my hood up and put on my utility belt. I put the helmet on and started the bike and took off down the tunnel leading to the road leading into Gotham.

As I neared the jewelry store I realized that this was the first time I had gone out by myself I freaked out and almost ended up wrecking the bike. I kept my composure and parked the bike on the side of the building. I saw movement inside the store and hid around the corner I watched as a figure in a red hood snuck out the front door and hopped onto a motorcycle hidden from my sight and tore off passing the alley I was hidden in and I hopped on my bike and took off after them. They led me to the deserted train station and ran inside I followed quietly drawing my bow. As I walked down the corridor I heard someone say "I know your following me I'm not stupid." I entered the concourse area and stepped into the fading moonlight.

I said "reveal yourself criminal." As I finished saying that I saw the figure also step into the light and say "who are you?" there was a familiarity with the voice but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. I said "my name is robin." He stepped closer to me and drew a gun I felt fear course through my body. I kicked his hand sending the gun clattering across the floor he back flipped trying to get to his gun and I chased after him and tackled him my hood fell down I didn't even care I was trying to keep him from getting to that gun and shooting me.

He threw me off of him and said something that I couldn't quite make out because I heard a cop siren thank god I have a recording device hidden in my suit. As I was trying to go after him he pulled out another gun and fired at me grazing my shoulder and he disappeared. I ran back to my bike and headed home my shoulder was bleeding bad and as soon as I got back to the bat cave I nearly fell off the bike I was dizzy from the pain. Alfred came to my aid and helped me over to the examination table this had been the first time I had ever gotten hurt on the job.

I said "Alfred we need to go over my audio recordings he said something to me that I couldn't hear but he sounded extremely familiar we need to filter out the police siren and any other noise." He nodded and started stitching up the wound in my arm. When he was done I took the recording device out of my suit and walked over to the main computer and hooked it up while Alfred went to get some tea. I started filtering the background noise out of the clip and when I was done I was shocked to hear the figure saying "haven't lost your touch Shaya." I was completely stunned how could this criminal know my real name or even how would they know that I was the new robin. I then had a sudden realization that it had to have been Jason. Who else could know my true identity but I had to get proof.

I silently vowed that if this was Jason I would help him to come back to the good side.