Author's Note: Here is where we get back to the actual episode's plotline. Yes it will be tweaked so that it's more Robin centric. I own nothing. Please review!
3. Sneak Attacked
The rest of the school day went off without a problem and Alfred picked Diane up at the end of the day. Bruce should have been there too but he was not, so something must have happened. Diane refused to panic. She got into the backseat of the Lamborghini with a lazy wave at her friends. However the minute the door was shut and Alfred was pulling out of the parking lot Diane turned to him.
"What happened is everything alright?" Diane was leaning forward in her seat, as far as she could go with the restriction of her seatbelt.
"Calm down Miss Diane. Everything is quite well. Master Bruce was simply called away on a league mission. He regrets that he cannot be here and hopes you understand and enjoy your time with the team." Diane grinned and whooped.
"Sweet! Oh this means I can keep on trolling Artemis and she'll never know it was me the whole time! Oh that is beautiful!" Diane giggled. Alfred smiled slightly.
"He did have a stipulation however. You must complete your homework first." Diane grinned.
"When don't I?" Alfred nodded.
"I will also have another batch of cookies ready for you before you leave. Diane grinned.
"You really are the best Alfred."
A few hours later her homework was done and she was dressed in her uniform, her mask in place and the boy wonder took the place of Gotham City's darling. Robin sat in the Batcave munching on a cookie watching the screens of the Bat computer with only a passing interest. Everything looked quiet. Finally she could go out.
"Alfred! I'm heading to the cave." Alfred nodded as Robin raced over to her R-cycle and hopped on. She waved as she put on her helmet and started the motor. She raced off to the streets of Gotham. Alfred looked at the screens of the Bat computer, he smiled lightly as he spotted what had made Robin rush off. Artemis was making her way from rooftop to rooftop toward the zeta beam tube in south Gotham. Robin would make it there first though.
Robin watched carefully as Artemis, in costume now, approached the zeta beam tube. As she turned around to make sure she wasn't being followed Robin dropped down in front of her. She almost screamed and jumped about three feet in the air. Robin decided it would be fun to freak her out a bit more.
"Artemis! How random and strange that you're here in Gotham city instead of in Star city where you uncle Green Arrow lives." Artemis floundered.
"I'm here visiting my cousin. She was in the spelling bee here… In Gotham city." Robin grinned. The last spelling bee had been six months ago.
"Nice. Did she w.i.n.?" Artemis glared.
"N.o." Robin gave a winning smile.
"D.r.a.g." Robin waited a second, then she grinned again.
"After you." Artemis glared as Robin bowed slightly.
"Your town, you go." Robin grinned wider and shrugged, stepping into the phone booth. The built in computer glowed and spoke.
'Recognized Robin B01.' Robin disappeared from the phone booth and stepped forward straight into a waiting hail of fire. She just barely leapt out of the way in time to evade becoming a crispy fried bird. She pulled out her bird-arangs and threw them toward the source of the fire. There was a clanging sound and she knew the weapons had bounced off of whatever was throwing fireballs at her. There was too much smoke to be sure of what it was. The zeta beam tube glowed gold.
'Recognized Artemis.' But Robin cut across the rest of the machine's sentence.
"Get down!" A fireball raced towards Artemis but she managed to duck out of the way. Robin leapt out of the way of another ball of fire as Artemis fired several arrows into the smoke, only for a shower of fire to be returned. They ducked out of the way. Artemis looked scared.
"What are we fighting?!" Robin shook her head pulling out several more bird-arangs.
"No idea but we're fish in a barrel by these tubes. Go for the exit!" Robin threw her bird-arangs as a distraction letting Artemis race off down the hall to their left. Robin followed seconds later racing after her friend. They had just made it into the hallway when a wave of water washed down the hall growing as it went.
"Or not!" Robin yelled as they were swept down the hall by the wave. They came up coughing and soaked but no worse for the wear as several fireballs were thrown their way. Robin pulled Artemis to her feet and they ran down the hall, forced away from the exits by the fireball that, to Robin's dismay, turned into a large tornado of fire. They were forced into the mountains built in gym as Robin tapped her earpiece.
"Robin to team! Aqualad! Come in! Can you hear me?" There was no response, and they were blasted off their feet as the doors blew in and the fiery tornado chased them inside. Both of them landed hard but Robin rolled back to her feet and yanked Artemis to hers. Ignoring any protests she may have had as the fiery tornado was still behind them Robin dragged her into the shower room. She began turning on taps as she went around the room.
"Robin to Batcave override DG4. Cave calling Justice League h o j/watchtower B01 priority red!" There was only static. Robin swore under her breath.
"Coms are down. Blocked. At least the water's helping." The walls began to shake, tiles cracked and fell to the floor as the fixtures and faucets popped off the walls water pouring in. Robin's eyes widened under the mask.
"Or not!" The water rose steadily and the only exit had a swirling vortex of fire in front of it. They were trapped. Just before the water reached the ceiling Robin took a deep breath and dove under the water she slapped an explosive bird-arang on the wall and swam back up to Artemis. She cut through the water like a knife. She had learned how to swim from the king of Atlantis after all. The explosive went off and they were washed out into the adjacent hallway. Robin barely gave Artemis a moment to catch her breath before she yanked her down the hall. They ran together, Artemis had an arrow drawn but that wasn't going to do them any good if they couldn't figure out what they were fighting. The hall lead them to the kitchen. It was empty.
"We need to get lost." Artemis nodded and looking around she spotted the vent above the stove.
"The air vents!" Robin nodded, it was one of the better places to go in situations like this, she knew that all too well.
"Good, go." Robin paused at the terminal on the wall next to the door. She quickly hooked her wrist computer up to it and began downloading cave blueprints. She knew the lower levels but this was no time for them to actually get lost in the ventilation system.
"What are you doing bird brain we need to move!" Robin looked down at her computer it was almost finished.
"Downloading cave blueprints, could come in..." She froze as she heard footsteps coming their way.
"Go! Go!" Robin whispered as they came closer and closer down the hallway she had just recently blown up. Artemis quickly scrambled up the vent and Robin followed pausing to pull the cover back into place. She scrambled silently after Artemis just managing to avoid the stream of fire that followed her up the tube.