(A/N: Rionna=April, Artemis=August, Robin/Babs=Alpha, Kid Flash=Axel, Red Arrow=Ace.)


~Haly's Traveling Circus (Somewhere in Europe)~

It was dark when we arrived. I walked alongside the circus' railway cars, stopping at each poster as I passed. It had seemed so long since I was last here. I walked up to the next car, Jack Haly was looking at one of the posters, were those tears? I noticed the poster he was staring at, breaking down and crying myself. Flying Graysons. I sniffed a bit too loudly, causing Mr. Haly to turn around.

"Never thought I'd see you back."

"Five years seems so short." I looked at the poster. I wouldn't bother correcting Mr. Haly on who I was, he has his way of knowing his performers, like last time.

"Different costume this time though. Are you our 'new act'?"

"Arrobats."

"Dixie, are you alright?" Mr. Haly looked at me. I recognized my old nickname, nodding, then looking back to the poster.

"April." Axel walked in behind Mr. Haly and I. He looked at the poster. "Flying Graysons... Ri... Rio, it's alright now, you've got us!"

"Dixie?"

"Y-yeah?"

"I'd like to invite you and the rest of the Arrobats to my office, if that's alright." Mr. Haly looked at me.

"Thank you, Jack. I'll go collect them." I looked from Mr. Haly to Axel, then walking off. Axel quickly caught up with me.

"Dixie? Why'd he call you that?"

"My mom was quite fond of male names, hence Richard Grayson. Everyone in the circus would call me 'Dixie' because you can't nickname a girl 'Dick'." I turned a corner around some boxes. "When Bruce adopted me, Alfred suggested adding on a girl's name, which was Rionna. Kinda like Richard and Fionna mashed together."

"April!" Alpha ran up and hugged me "How's my favorite sister doing?"

"You know, the contrast between you two is weird, almost like you're not related at all." Ace looked at me, I looked at August, then back to Ace. "Have you been crying?"

"Jack wants to see us in his office." I looked at my 'Team'

"Now?" August picked up her backpack.

"Yeah, now." Axel sped off, faster than he should have, colliding with Carlos and his brother.

I walked up with the rest of my Team, looking at Axel. "Dude, don't just speed off on us like that. Sorry, Carlos."

"How do you know my name? You're a new act." Carlos narrowed his eyes. "Yet you look so familiar..."

"April Arrobat. Nice to meet you." I stuck out my hand, letting him shake it. "Axel is the one that ran into you, he is my cousin along with Ace and August, and this is Alpha, my twin brother."

"You look like the youngest child of that acrobat family that was murdered." Carlos' brother stated. I felt tears in my eyes. "Wait, maybe you are?"

"Don't be ridiculous, Richard was the surviovor, not this girl." Carlos argued back. "And he didn't have a twin."

"Dixie. That was her nickname. Her mother favored boy's names. Richard 'Dixie' Grayson." Carlos' brother looked at me. "Dixie survived and was adopted by that rich guy. What was his name?"

"April, are you crying?" August looked at me.

"Ri..." Alpha put his hand on my shoulder.

"If you are her, it means Alpha isn't your brother. It means you aren't related to any of the Arrobats. You're a circus kid, like us. If you are her, your family is here and we all would welcome you back." Carlos' brother said calmly.

"SHUT UP!" I turned around, running back to where I had first seen Jack. Breaking down again infront of the poster.

"Rio." August had appeared behind me, with the rest of the Team.

"Richard 'Rionna' Grayson." Axel quietly said. He came over and hugged me. "Geez, it's alright, you've got us!"

"Wait, if Rio is Dixie, then who is Robin?" August looked at me.

CLINK. I heard the sound of Bab's glamour charm hitting the ground, I turned around looking at her. "Geez, jig is up Rion."

"Robin, as we know and love is Rionna." Axel approached August. "Batgirl, or Babs has been undercover playing as Robin and Rionna on ocassions to differentiate between the two of them."

"I'm confused."

"Trust me, I was confused when I first heard it." Ace shifted slightly.

"He knew before me?! Who else knows?"

"Batman, Kid Flash, Flash, Green Arrow, Red Arrow, Black Canary, Batgirl and Wonder Woman." I looked at her, then putting the glamour charm back around Babs' neck.

August still looked shocked. Well, at least she didn't walk in on me post-shower change like Roy did. She nodded, trying to digest the information. "Rionna is Robin. Okay. Got that."

"Aren't we meeting Mr. Haly around now?" Axel helped me up.

"Oh shoot! C'mon, let's go guys!" I pulled my Team towards the train car where Jack Haly's office was. I knocked on the door once, and before I could knock again it was pulled open. I locked my gaze briefly with the masked man behind the door, before entering the office with my Team. Jack was behind his desk, working on some sort of paperwork. "Um, Mr. Haly?"

"Dixie." he acknowledged I was there "You're not the only one to come back here."

"Meaning...?" What did that mean? I cocked my head to the side.

"You know that boy who was also here before you left?"

"Zane?"

"Hiya, Rio." The man behind the door took off his mask. Zane Oldyy?! What the heck? He wasn't in the circus when I was, was he? I can't remember that far back, just that I knew a boy named Zane.

"Then that means, if Zane's here..." Axel looked around the room "The rest of our Team..."

"Nepo taht rood!" The door swung open. Zatanna, Miss Martian, Superboy and Aqualad were standing in the hall wearing Arrobat Uniforms. "Can't start the mission without us."

"Annataz, Amos, Antoinette and Antonio. Glad to see you made it." Jack stood up, shaking hands with Aqualad.

I briefly made eye-contact with M'gann. I felt a slight headache as her psychic link came through. {Everyone on?}

{Connected.} I leaned against Wally

"April, are you alright? You've gone quiet..."

"Oh, sorry Jack. Just lost in thought." I felt Wally grab my hand

"Zane has come back as part of his tour, apparently his manager spoke with Amos and you're putting a show together, is that correct?"

"Yes it is, Mr. Haly." Kaldur nodded "I just needed the rest of my Team to meet up with him to plan out what we are doing."

Jack nodded. "You can use the empty room next to this one as a discussion space." He then looked across us. "Zane, April and Annataz. Stay for a word." Jack ushered the others out and shut the door to his office, looking over our now smaller Team. "Dixie, are you alright being back here?"

"Yeah, just one question. Why did you ask us to stay back?" I looked at Jack "If you don't mind me asking."

"Annataz, how's Giovanni?" Jack smiled at Zatanna, who looked shocked. He turned to us. "Dixie, Zatanna and Zane. Welcome home."

"Welcome home?" I looked carefully at Zatanna. "When were you here?"

"Um, a while back with my dad. It was when I first met Zane before he left. About a year after the Grayson kid left..." Zatanna smiled nervously.

"About a year after Dixie left." Zane slung his arm around my shoulder, woah... he's tall up close.

I turned around. "I-I have to take the Arrobats to practice. Don't wan't any accidents out there tomorrow."

"Alright Dixie. I'll just be a few more minutes with Zane and Zatanna." Jack nodded as I closed the door, leaving his office.

I saw Wally on the other side of the hall, the others had left. "I see you stayed behind?"

"I couldn't just leave you in there." Wally led me back to our car, holding my hand. "Bats would kill me if anything happened to you."

"Yeah, he would."

"I meant it as a joke!"

"Oh." I stopped in my tracks. I had felt the train move, even though we should've been parked in place. There was a jolt as the train braked and stopped, causing me to crash into Wally. "What was that?"

"April! Axel! Look out!" I heard Jack yell from down the train. A large object smashed though the window of the car, scraping the floor clean of carpet.

I looked out the new hole in the car, seeing Cheshire and Harley Quinn. "Why are they here?!" Klairon stepped from behind Cheshire. "Oh, shit."


(A/N: sorry if that didn't make sense, I had to somehow add Hawk Town back into the story, and using Dick's circus past seemed the only way to do so. Apparently there was also a Zane in the original Haly's Circus, so I adapted Hawk Town to that. Zatanna never was in Haly's Circus, but I added her in just for fun. R&R please)

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