Okay, insert standard disclaimer here.
Dick smiled at Alfred as the butler dropped him off at Gotham Academy. Slipping into the student body, favoring his sides, especially his left, he slipped over to his locker, and opening it, got out the books he would need for his morning classes before heading out into the courtyard where Babs was waiting.
"Hey! Dick! Did you hear the news? Apparently some archer chick in green helped Robin take down Two-Face last night! I wonder where Batman was?" Babs spouted as she bounced over to him.
"I dunno," Dick replied, shrugging,
"Anyways, that's what my dad told me, and that Robin and the chick are temporarily partnering together," Babs continued.
"Nice," he replied, wincing as someone bumped into his side.
"Are you okay?" Babs got close to Dick, fingers hovering over where his knife injury from last night was.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Dick lied, stepping slightly away. "You're crowding my personal space."
"Oh, sorry," Babs replied. "Oh, and Darren King was Two-Face's hostage!"
"Darren King? As in, the Darren King?" Dick feigned cluelessness.
"How many other Darren Kings do we know?" Babs asked sarcasticly.
"Oh, wow. Finally someone other than me is kidnapped!" Dick joked. "I was thinking I had a monopoly on kidnappings in Gotham."
"Well, guess you don't! Anyway, we better be getting to class before we're late. I know Mr. Harian hates me. He has to!" Babs started to bounce away. "See ya, Dick!"
"See ya!" Dick called back, before heading off to his class.
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Recognized: Robin B01
"Wow, you decided to show up!" Wally zipped over to him, grinning.
"I had to do homework," Robin replied, looking at the speedster. "I bet you didn't do yours."
Wally looked away, blushing.
"That's what I thought. Not very asterous," Robin smirked.
"Dude! Not everyone is as amazing at homework as you!" Wally complained.
"Well, maybe you should do something about that, Baywatch," Artemis smirked.
"How about you two? You two finish your homework?" Robin asked, looking at M'gann and Conner.
"Yep!" M'gann grinned. "All done!"
"Yes, although I don't see the point in homework…" Conner grumbled.
"That's good! What about you, Artie?" Robin turned to Artemis, grinning.
"It's mostly done, Robbie," she replied, smirking.
"And Kaldur doesn't have homework…" Robin trailed off. "Wally, Artemis, finish your homework!"
"What! You- No fair!" Wally whined.
"I do believe Robin has a point. Your success in school could determine your success in heroing," Kaldur pointed out.
"Fine…" Wally grumbled, grabbing his backpack. "But I don't understand any of this!"
"Tough luck, Kid Whine. Just do it." Artemis already had her mostly-completed homework out.
While they were talking, Robin had walked over to the holo-screens and pulled them up, looking through recent news reports and images from different satellites. He closely scrutinized several satellite images, before moving on to hack into various different security cameras.
"Guys," He said. "I think we have a problem…"
"What might it be?" Kaldur walked over to the screens.
"Mercenary activity in Egypt. That doesn't look like a very good sign," Robin pointed to various uniformed people in different camera shots.
"How do you know they're mercenaries?" M'gann asked.
"See the crest? It's the crest of Brightraven, a mercenary group in south-western Asia, around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. They're bad news," Robin informed.
"If they're Middle Eastern, why do they have an English name?" Wally asked.
"Brightraven is what they're name translates to," the Boy Wonder replied. "They're actually called Parlakuzgun."
"So, they mean trouble?" M'gann asked.
"Yes. Kaldur, this is your call," Robin said.
"I say that we should check it out, and see if there is anything notably dangerous about it," Kaldur looked at his fellow Teammates. "What do the rest of you say?"
Conner nodded slowly, M'gann called out her approval, Wally and Artemis looked at each other and fervently nodded, and Robin just looked at Kaldur.
"Okay. M'gann, prep the bioship. The rest of us, we should get into our uniforms," Kaldur ordered.
The Team nodded, Artemis, Wally, and Kaldur running off to change, with M'gann, Conner, and Robin –who came in uniform- heading towards the hangar.
After M'gann readied the bioship, the three waited for the other half of their team to come. Wally was the first back, followed by Kaldur, then Artemis.
"Miss Martian, depart for Cairo, Egypt," Kaldur instructed. "When we get there, Robin, you and Miss Martian will go in. Be stealthy. Artemis and Kid Flash, follow Robin and Miss Martian as backup. Superboy, you and I'll distract them. Miss Martian, set up the mindlink."
'Everybody connected?'
'Affirmative.'
'Everything's whelming over here.'
'Yeah.'
'Of course, babe.'
'Baywatch!'
'Good. Miss Martian, ETA?'
'Half an hour.'
'Team, find something to occupy yourselves with.'
'How about KF and Artie finish their homework?'
'Didn't bring it.'
'Why would we bring homework on a mission?'
Artemis looked at Robin questioningly. 'Well? Why would we?'
'I dunno.' Robin shrugged. 'Maybe something to do on a long flight to Egypt?'
'I would've been there by now.' Kid Flash slumped in his seat.
Robin turned on his wrist computer, pulled a pair of wireless earbuds out, and started listening to music.
'What are you listening to, Robin?' M'gann looked over at the ebony bird.
'Skillet.' Robin looked over at her.
'Who's it by?' She looked back at him.
'It's a rock band. I'm listening to their Comatose album.' Robin slipped down lower into his seat, looking out the front of the bioship at the ocean, the lyrics to Skillet's Whispers in the Dark ringing through his hearing.
'We are almost at our destination.' Aqualad looked over his team. 'Anyone have any questions?'
Five heads shook.
'Good. Miss Martian, open the hatch and hand manual control over to me.' Miss Martian nodded, standing from her chair as Robin slunk over to the hatch. They jumped out together, Robin landing on his feet with bent knees, Miss Martian above him. Sneaking over the shifting sands, they came closer to the bunker Brightraven was using as a base. He slipped over a dune, then sprinted to the edge of the doorway to the sand-colored low-to-the-ground building. Peeking in, he saw it was empty except for a bleach-blonde who was sharpening a knife. Running in to the bunker, he threw smoke pellets at the girl, who began coughing. Flipping behind her, wincing at the pain in his side, he pressed his thumb hard against a pressure point on her neck, and she dropped like a rock.
Cartwheeling out of the smoke, Robin stopped at the laptop sitting on a small improvised desk and connected his wrist computer to it and beginning to load it as Miss Martian hovered over him.
'Robin! Miss Martian! Got some mercs heading your way!' Artemis' thought-screamed.
'Miss M, can you handle it? I'm kind of busy right now.' Robin looked at the loading bar. Seventy-four percent loaded.
'Of course.' Miss Martian slipped away to take care of the mercs. Listening to the scuffle outside, Robin willed the loading bar to go faster.
'One hundred percent! Aqualad, whenever you're ready we can go!' Robin unhooked his wrist computer from the dinky laptop and sprinted outside, throwing a pair of birdarangs at a merc.
'Miss Martian, call the bioship.'
The bioship appeared, and Miss Martian, Robin, Kid Flash, and Artemis sprinted into it. Miss Martian lifted off, heading towards where Aqualad and Superboy were holding off the mercs. Pulling low, she allowed Superboy to grab Aqualad and jump in.
'Robin, can you go through the files you downloaded as we are heading back to the cave?' Aqualad tilted his head at the Boy Wonder.
'Sure thing.' Robin pulled up the files on his wrist computer. 'Okay, here's what their plans are…'
Okay, I know I rated this thing T, and in case any of you are wondering, it will live up to the rating eventually. Hope no one was too OOC. If anyone was, just let me know and I'll fix it in the future. Also, if anyone has any suggestions as to what should happen in the next six years of the Team, feel free to let me know. I'd enjoy the suggestions and I'd be sure to credit you. Also, Music is amazing! I kinda see Robin quietly being a fan of Skillet and Nightwish and music like that. (:
Kitte out.