Key: {psychic link} memory/flashback
{What was that?} I heard Aqualad ask.
{Klairon, Harley Quinn and Cheshire.} Wally looked at me {Rio, what do we do?}
{Mask up.} I pasted my red Arrobat mask to my face, then helping Wally with his. They were exactly the same design as my regular domino mask. I turned around, seeing Zatanna rush up.
{Anything else I could do to keep them from recognizing us?}
{Zatanna, Artemis, M'gann. Put your hair up somehow different than usual.} I turned to help Zee with her mask. {Don't use magic to fix anything. Klairon will probably sense it.} I turned her around, putting her hair in a ponytail, I quickly ducked by the hole in the car, sneaking into the Arrobat's pod.
{Ri, what are you doing?} Robin looked at me.
I pulled my wig out of my bag, pulling it onto my head. {Girly enough?} I stuck some spirit gum to the inside to hold it to my forehead. I looked at him {Rob.}
{Ri, are you doing what I think you're doing?}
I pulled out some of my birdarangs, pocketing them. I ran out the door again, ducking past the hole in the car and passing Wally and Zatanna. I ran past Zane and Mr. Haly and outside of the car. This was a bad idea, I knew that, but I had to find out why Harley was here without the Joker.
Cheshire directed her attention to me. "Well, looks like someone was brave enough to see what's going on. I'd give her credit, but it's kinda stupid."
I smirked, walking around her. "Me, stupid?" I chuckled, Klairon directed his attention to me. "I would think you to be the stupid ones."
Teekl flared his teeth at me. Klarion narrowed his eyes. "Are you so sure about that? Kcatta eht lrig!"
I flipped out of the way of his spell. "Really? How bout instead of attacking, you tell me why you are really here?"
"Why do you think we'd tell you, you're just some circus freak kid." Klarion huffed, he started walking towards the car again.
WHAM. I saw Wally speed by me, causing each of the villains to crash into the ground. He screeched to a stop beside me, grabbing my hand again. "Are you alright?"
"Whoever those kids are, they're dead meat." Harley stood up, swinging a large hammer behind her. "I'm sure Mistah J wouldn't mind if we took these distractions out."
Wally stood in front of me. "Well if you want to take her out, you'll have to go through me."
I grabbed onto his shoulders, whispering "Maneuver 17." I crawled up so he could grab my legs. I took a birdarang from my pocket and hid it behind my back. "Now." Wally charged towards Klairon, but at the last split second turned, I jumped off - flinging my birdarang at Klairon, and ploughing into Harley Quinn. Wally spun Cheshire into the ground by the time I turned around. I quickly avoided a swing from Harley's hammer.
"You again!" Harley screeched as she took another swing. I hopped on top the hammer before kicking her down.
I flipped back, hitting my back against Wally's. I saw a red arrow scrape Cheshire's mask, I whipped around to see Artemis pin down Harley Quinn with three arrows.
Klairon nervously looked back and forth. I noted that my birdarang had sliced his jacket, meaning he didn't try to stop it when it flew at him. I must've surprised him. Two more birdarangs came from behind us, Robin (Babs) using Wally and I as a vault to jump over and land a kick in Klairon's face.
"Etativel railimaf yawa morf Norialk!" Zatanna emerged from the car with Zane and Superboy. I watched Teekl go flying towards Superboy. Oh, poor kitty. Zane smiled, grabbing the cat at the last second before Superboy swung.
"Vicious little thing, isn't it." Zane smirked as Teekl struggled, fangs flashing and claws lashing out.
"Dixie, look out!" I heard Jack yell, he was just coming out of his train car. I spun around, watching Cheshire charge at me with her sai. I twisted just as she lunged, tripping her. I felt the sai swipe by my arm, painfully. I looked to see a fair bit of blood dripping down my arm. I sucked in a breath, hoping that she hadn't poisoned that sai.
Wally grabbed me as I tipped back. "Rio, Ri, are you alright."
"Absolutely fine." I mumbled, trying to move. I felt a sharp pain in my arm, giving up. I looked briefly at M'gann, who was still in her human-caucasian form. {Think you could brain-blast them?}
{Team, out of the way.} M'gann nodded, I felt a slight headache when the blast happened, but not as bad as when it was actually directed at me.
I leaned into Wally, feeling the pain in my arm grow. "Help me back to the car, will you?" I clawed his uniform, letting him pick me up.
Klairon got up from the brain-blast first, grabbing onto Cheshire and Harley Quinn, mumbling "Taerter!" and disappearing
I closed my eyes, hearing Jack's voice as Wally brought me to him. "Medical car, now."
{Rionna, wake up...} I heard M'gann in my head. I tried to open my eyes, but saw nothing but blackness. I looked instead in the blackness, visualizing myself awake. {Well, you're not actually awake, but this will do for now. Are you alright?} M'gann appeared in front of me.
{I don't know. Why can't I wake up?}
{We don't know yet, we're running tests.}
{M'gann?}
{Yes, Rionna?}
{Don't leave please.} I walked forwards, I needed someone here to at least tell me what was going on.
{I won't.} M'gann hugged me, though I couldn't feel it. She picked me up, flying though the blackness. {It's dark in here though, most people's minds are full of memories and thoughts. Cloudy, but bright.}
{I prefer to keep my memories behind closed doors.} I felt a bit of sadness in my nothingness.
{Why? They're part of who you are.} She grabbed my hands {C'mon, it might be a while before you wake up, and I'm here anyhow.}
{As I said, I prefer to keep them behind locked doors.} Could I use some of my falsely implanted memories to stop her from asking? Or would I end up revealing that I was Robin? Well, only her, Aqualad and Superboy don't know now. Eventually they'll all know.
{Rionna?}
{Fine, I'll show you.} I sighed, thinking of Haly's Circus again. I led M'gann into the memory, walking across the gravel. I stopped in front of the Flying Graysons poster again. {This, this is where I grew up.}
{Haly's Circus?}
'Richard.' I saw my mom, feeling tears well up in my eyes. I then saw my young self in my old Flying Graysons uniform. 'You scraped you knee, are you alright?'
'I'm fine mommy.' I smiled, licking my hand and slathering spit over the wound. 'It speeds up the healing!'
'Dixie, we should put a band-aid on that before it gets infected.' Jack Haly smiled at me. He pasted a Rainbow Brite patch to my knee. 'All better?'
'Yes. Thank you Mister Haly.'
{Aw, you were so cute when you were little!} M'gann looked at me as I shifted the memory.
I reached out to try and catch my mom's hands. The rope snapped, and she fell with the rest of my family. I looked over the edge to see her family, sprawled out on the-
I leaned into M'gann, feeling a wave of sadness once again {I couldn't save any of them. I-I couldn't do anything. They're all-} I started to cry as the memory faded out. We were left in pure blackness again. I stared into my hands.
{Where was Robin in all this, you said he was your cousin...} M'gann stopped mid-sentence as my next memory was pulled up, Wally and I playing Streetfighter in the mansion. Aged about 9.
'Dude! I know you hacked the game!' Wally glared at me. 'How else would you have double my score right now?'
'Practice.' a smirk and my signature laugh.
'Master Wallace, your uncle is here to pick you up.' Alfred entered the room.
'Sure, soon as I beat Rob.'
'Master Richard, it would be much more entertaining to play the game without tinkering with the programming.'
'I knew it, you little troll!' Wally narrowed his eyes.
{Where were you here?} M'gann looked at me as I bent the memory again, to Kid Flash, Babs and I being confronted by Harley Quinn in the halls of my school. I was wearing the Robin uniform, Babs in her school uniform. I about age 13, Babs aged 14, and KF aged 15.
(When was this?} M'gann looked at me.
{A month before the Team was formed.} I observed the scene again. Watching myself get struck down by Harley's hammer.
'Robin!' Babs came to my aid, seeing I was hurt. 'Why would you do anything so stupid as to run out in front of me, instead of pulling me out of the way?!'
'It's just what best friends do.' I smiled at Babs.
'Wait, Ri?' her look of surprise turned to a smile. 'Then another best friend would help you out here!' I watched her run past KF, who was recovering from a hit, then front flipping to deck Harley Quinn in the nose with her fist. 'No one, not even you, messes with my school or my friends!' she pulled out a pair of her dad's handcuffs, slapping them around Harley's wrists.
I let the memory fade before going any further. {So, any thoughts?}
{Well, I knew from a previous mind-encounter that you had a secret, but I couldn't read your mind to see what it was.} M'gann floated next to me. {So, if you're Robin... who's the Robin who came with us?}
{Batgirl.}
{So, who else knows?} M'gann looked at me as I pulled up various memory situations. Wally picking me up in my room and my bindings ripping, Red Arrow walking in on me after a shower, Artemis earlier today in front of the Flying Graysons poster. {Are you going to tell Aqualad, Superboy and Zatanna?}
{Not yet, I still have to get used to the idea I told you.}
M'gann was silent in the blackness of my mind. She looked at me. {We're going to try to wake you up now. Are you ready?}
{Traught.} I saw M'gann smirk at that. I returned a smile. {And ready to go.}
A/N: how was that for a little mind-invasion? Since Rionna is knocked out due to whatever was on Cheshire's sai, it was a good opportunity for M'gann to go into Ri's mind to keep her company.
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