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Chapter 5: Teen Titans
Silence filled the room. Red Kite stood with her arms crossed, and a look on her face that said-What you gonna do about it?
"Say what?" Cyborg said finally, breaking the silence.
"I'm your new teammate," she said with a relaxed wave of her hand that gave off an air of confidence she didn't have. "Or weren't you listening?"
"Batman-"
Batman interrupted Robin. "This isn't up for debate."
"Does she even have any training?" Kid Flash asked.
"Yes, she does," Red Kite spat, offended by the lack of faith he had in both her and Batman for putting her on the team.
"I think it'll be nice to have another girl on the team," Wonder Girl said optimistically.
"Who is she?" Blue Beetle asked.
"Sorry darlin' that's classified," she said.
"Oh great, another Robin," Kid Flash grumbled. "Just what we needed."
She glared at him. "Just because-"
"Red Kite's identity is to be kept secret from the team at her discretion," Batman interrupted, ending further argument.
"Come on, Rob keeps his SI from the group because he founded it," Kid Flash said. "I don't see that privilege being extended to a newb."
"Thanks for the vote of confidence West," Red Kite grumbled.
"Did you just-"
"Wally West, aka Kid Flash, protege of the Flash, aka Barry Allen. You got your powers by recreating the circumstances that gave the Flash his powers. Your powers include super speed, enhanced healing, faster thought process, and a big mouth."
"How do you know all that?" West demanded, on his feet in an instant.
She smirked. "I know about all of you."
"Me?" Wonder girl asked.
"Wonder girl, aka Cassandra Sandsmark, daughter of Helena Sandsmark and the god Zeus, powers include enhanced speed, strength and flight, your lasso was given to you by the god Ares and is affected by your anger levels."
Wonder girl's eyes were wide.
"You can't possibly know all of us," Cyborg challenged. Challenge accepted.
"Cyborg, aka Victor Stone, origin; car crash, your father, a head scientist at Star Labs, saved you by giving you cybernetic implants. The implants were outfitted with various tech and weapons and you used this to your advantage, becoming the hero Cyborg." She smirked. "Next?"
"Me," Blue Beatle volunteered.
"Blue Beetle, aka Heimi or Jaime Reyes, you inherited the beetle from it's previous host, Ted Cord."
"Superboy."
"Superboy, aka Connor Kent. A clone of Superman, genetically made and grown by Cadmus as a failsafe in case Superman ever went rogue. Which he did. Powers include super-strength, super- hearing, invulnerability and x-ray vision, and jumping really high."
"Robin."
"Robin, protege of the Batman. Abilities include but are not limited to martial arts, a vast array of gadgets, and extensive training in a wide selection of weapons. Favored weapons, bat-a-rang and electrified eskerma sticks. Identity-" Batman cleared his throat loudly. She shrugged innocently. "What? I was going to say 'classified'."
There was a beeping noise and Batman touched a button on his glove, then turned and left without another word.
Beetle blinked "Okay, that was..."
"Batman," both Robin and Red Kite said in unison. Robin shot her a glare, which she ignored. There was an awkward silence.
"Well, this is awkward," Wonder girl said finally.
"Agreed," Superboy said.
"Do you want a tour?" Wonder girl asked.
"I downloaded the tower mainframe five minutes ago," she said nonchalantly. "I have a complete map of the entire tower."
"WHAT?!" Robin demanded. "What is Batman thinking?" he muttered.
"Is that how you knew so much about us?" West asked.
She smirked. "No. I already knew all that."
"Do you have powers?" Beetle asked.
"Nah. Only seven years of martial arts training, and a large variety of weapons. Oh, and training in virtually every weapon on the planet," she said.
"I bet you couldn't beat me," West bragged.
"You wanna test that theory?" she challenged.
"Is that a challenge?" he asked, standing.
She smirked. "You guys got a training room?"
In a few moments, Red Kite and Kid Flash were in the training room. She dropped her belt outside the training area.
"Why you doin' that?" West asked.
She smirked and cracked her knuckles. "Just evening the odds."
"You're gonna wish you had that," he said cockily.
"No. I'm not."
"Ready. Set. Fight!" Wonder girl said, excitement shined in her eyes.
Kid Flash immediately stared running in circles around her. She could feel the air getting thinner. She marked his position, then dove forward, sending them both tumbling to the ground.
They were both up immediately. She blocked a punch and threw one of her own, they went into hand to hand combat, it was slightly difficult to keep up with him. He wasn't called 'Kid Flash' for nothing.
"And here I heard you were some great fighter," he said with a laugh. He made the mistake of trying a round house kick.
She caught his foot, smirking at his look of surprise. "You heard right." She slammed him into the ground, pinning him down, he flipped her over, turning the tables.
"Gotcha."
Her legs flew up, wrapping around his neck and slamming him down onto the ground, she hand- springed back up into a standing position.
Kid Flash groaned, rubbing his head gingerly. She held out a hand.
"Eat your words," she said with a smirk. He grumbled but took her hand.
"You've got some nice moves," Cyborg complimented. "Who trained you?"
"Classified," she said simply, clipping on her belt. "Now, what exactly do you people do during the day?" she asked.
"Depends," Robin shrugged. "Sometimes we have a mission-" He was cut off by a beeping noise. "Like that. Let's go."
She followed them into the mission room. Batman appeared on the screen.
"What's the mission Bats?" Robin asked.
"You all know of the robot Amazo. He's going to be driven in three parts to three different labs. One in Star City, New York, and Metropolis. There are four additional trucks as decoys. The Titans will be guarding the three real transports."
"Will do," Robin said. "What's the starting point?"
"You'll be meeting the trucks right outside Gotham."
"Got it. We're on our way." The communication was cut. "You can borrow one of our bikes," he said to her, slightly grudgingly.
"Yes sir," she mock saluted. "I just wish we'd get some action."
Robin put the Titans in two squads of two and one squad of three. Cyborg and Kid Flash were beta, Wonder girl and Blue Beetle were delta, and Robin, Superboy and Red Kite were alpha. Robin was annoyed that Batman had assigned Red Kite to his team without telling him. But he trusted his mentor and knew he had a reason, but it was still frustrating. Red Kite drove him crazy.
"So what made you decide to be a hero?" Superboy asked.
Red Kite shrugged. "I don't know. I guess I just wanted to use my training to help people."
"Where are you from?" Superboy asked.
"I grew up traveling. I'm not sure where I was born," she replied thoughtfully. "I should ask my parents. Anyway, I live in Gotham now."
"Guys, focus on the mission," Robin said.
"What? Nothing's happening," Red Kite said.
"But anything could Red," he replied.
She scowled. "Don't call me that."
He smirked. "Fine. Red."
She shot him a glare, coming dangerously close to the batglare. He'd already seen how she was immune to the 'batglare.' He wondered for the millionth time who trained her.
"If you call me that again, I swear I will-" Whatever threat she had planned was cut off by a shrill screeching. Spinning discs flew out of nowhere, hovering over the truck.
Superboy tapped a button on his bike and jumped off, landing on the truck. Red Kite drove up alongside the truck, also putting the bike on autopilot, and hung off the side of the truck, hanging by her sword, which she'd stuck in the truck. He flipped off his bike and onto the truck, pulling out his eskerma sticks. The three teens started destroying the spinning discs and the shrieking continued.
One of the tires blew out. Superboy pulled the two drivers out and jumped as the engine was destroyed by the stupid discs.
"Time to bail," he said.
"Thanks Captain Obvious," Red Kite said as they jumped, going into an army roll to break the fall. He flipped up and threw several bat-a-rangs in rapid succession, taking out several discs. The discs shredded through the truck, they came out with the crate hanging from four of them.
"BOMB!" Red Kite shouted. Robin saw a silver sphere drop from one of the discs. Red Kite ran up to it.
"Red!"
She picked it up and threw it into the air, right as it exploded. All of them were blasted back. Robin picked himself up, groaning. His eyes widened.
"Red!" She was lying on her back, still. He shook her, then pressed his ear to her chest.
Her eyes snapped open and suddenly he was on his back, her knee on his chest. She jumped off of him.
"Sorry."
He stood. "It's fine." Superboy drove up on his bike, the two bikes behind him and both Robin and Red Kite mounted their bikes. They drove in the direction of the tracker he'd planted on the crate.
"All squads respond," Robin said into his comm.
"Beta squad was ambushed," KF's voice came through. "They took our Amazo part."
"Delta squad here, we were attacked by spinning discs, they took our part, leaving a parting gift in bomb form," Blue Beetle said.
"I placed a tracker on the crate, follow the signal I sent. Superboy and Kid Flash go ahead, we'll meet you at the source. It seems to be headed back to Gotham."
Superboy nodded, putting the bike on autopilot and jumping ahead.
"Good thinking Wonder Boy," Red Kite remarked.
He shot her an irritated glance, she smirked. "I know. Red."
It was her turn to look at him in annoyance.
They followed the tracer to a warehouse at the docks. Right as the bikes stopped, Superboy crashed through the roof. There was a shout from inside, Kid Flash.
"Come on!" Both he and Red Kite rushed inside.
Amazo was fully rebuilt, he was choking KF, a man sat on the edge of a crate, watching the fight. The flying discs hovered around him and he seemed perfectly at ease amongst the chaos. But Robin couldn't think about that right now, his first priority was Amazo. He took all of this in in a split second, immediately throwing a bat-a-rang at the robot. He phased, letting KF go in the process, the bat-a-rang exploded behind it.
Access Superman
Red lasers shot from Amazo's eyes, he dodged, his grappler latched onto a beam in the rafters and he swung forward, Amazo caught him by the leg and threw him down only to have him roll back up onto his feet.
Access Black Canary
Robin covered his ears at the supersonic Canary cry.
Access Flash
The noise disappeared. Kid Flash crashed into Red Kite. Red Kite pushed him off and jumped back into the fight, using Amazo as a springboard, landing a few feet away. The explosives she'd placed exploded, blasting Amazo back. Of course, it didn't hurt Amazo any, but it distracted him. And that was all Robin needed.
He bolted forward, placing an EMP on the temporarily fallen robot. Superboy crashed through the roof, slamming down on the robot, then melted it's head off.
There was a shout from behind them, and he turned to see Red Kite standing over the man with her sword at his throat.
Once in the warehouse, Red Kite immediately went for the man. All to well she knew him to be Jonah Gren. He was Drage's right hand man, or rather crony. He was neck deep in more illegal activity than half the people of Gotham, and that was saying something.
"Why hello-" Her greeting was bounding forward and shoulder slamming him into the wall, but before she could add the second part of her greeting she was forced to duck a flying disc, slicing through the next one. Unfortunately for Gren the delay only held her a few seconds, taking out the disks was easy, she just had to do it before they exploded. She was about to go after Gren once more but was distracted by Kid Flash slamming into her.
She pushed him off aggressively, annoyed at being interrupted..
"Watch it," she spat.
"Sorry for getting thrown by a freakin' robot," he shot back.
She jumped back in, then using Amazo as a springboard and placing explosives on him. She knew it was the distraction Robin needed and it gave her the chance to continue her 'talk' with Gren.
"Trying to escape?" she hissed, holding her sword to his throat. "Where's your boss?" she growled. "Where's Drage?"
She really wanted to kill him, but shoved down that impulse. She couldn't lose it. Not here, not now, and especially not in present company. Said company, Robin, Superboy and Kid Flash, ran up. She glanced at Robin, talking to him with her eyes and body language. He gave her a slight nod. Superboy and Kid Flash looked at both of them uncertainly.
She sheathed her sword, Gren sighed in relief, relief that was short lived. She slammed him up against the wall. Kid Flash and Superboy started forward, but Robin stopped them.
"Where is Drage?" she snarled.
"You don't scare me," he sneered.
She smirked. "Your mistake." She pressed his face against the wall, twisting his arm behind his back painfully. "I'm going to give you to the count of three. One...two...three." There was a loud 'pop' and Gren screamed.
"Red Kite!" Kid Flash exclaimed. Robin shushed him, placing a hand on his arm.
She popped Gren's arm back into place. "Now that was step one, making you scream, your next scream will be cut off...permanently."
"Y-you heroes don't kill," he panted. "Everyone knows that."
"Who said I was a hero?" she hissed in his ear. "I'm new to this business, but I was trained by one of the best assassins in the world. I bet you've heard the name Strike?" She felt him shudder. "Now, you can tell me where Drage is, or I can break every bone in your body, including your neck. Lastly of course." No one else could hear this, not even Superboy.
Sweat trickled down his face.
Robin placed a hand on her shoulder. "Back down Red Kite, don't kill him. Yet." She dropped Gren on the ground.
"I swear I don't know where he is!" Gren said.
Robin squatted down, looking him in the eye. "Well I'm sorry to hear that. See, my friend here doesn't like human-traffickers, and I'm not sure how much longer I can restrain her," he said in an almost conversational tone.
Gren paled. "A deal! Drage is gonna do a deal with someone in Gotham. I swear that's all I know!"
Robin nodded. "Thanks. I think I may be able to convince my friend to let you live." He knocked Gren out with a sharp jab to the neck.
"What the hell was that?!" Kid Flash asked.
Red Kite smirked. "The oldest trick in the book. Good-cop bad-cop. Drake doesn't treat any of his men to good, that was only the newest of his second-ins." She started laughing. "Did you see his face? Priceless! He actually thought I was gonna kill him. Ha!"
"And you weren't," Superboy said.
She glanced at him. "Uh, no, duh."
Robin shrugged. "I must say, I'm surprised that worked."
Kid Flash and Superboy still seemed wary at Red Kite's brutality, but were a little more at ease.
"We got some good info," she remarked. "Now let's pass these guys off to the police and finish up."
Wonder girl and Blue Beatle and Cyborg came in, carrying five unconscious and tied up guys. "Sorry, we ran into some trouble," Wonder girl said.
"Yeah, these guys attacked us, they were on some sort of drug," Blue Beatle said. "Really? I didn't know. Yes I know they were. Oh shut up."
Red Kite looked up at Blue uncertainly, but the others seemed to think it was normal for him to randomly start talking to himself. She brushed it off and examined the men. Or more specifically, the tubes that were connected to them.
She glanced at Robin, not showing her alarm. "Is this what I think it is?"
Robin looked at her grimly. "I think so."
"What?" Cyborg asked.
She looked at the unconscious men grimly. Both her and Robin answered at the same time. "Venom."
She looked at Robin. "Things just got a whole lot more complicated."