The Wayne Grande Hotel,
Jump City,
August 19th 2012,
23:41 EDT
"...Yh, we just unpacking now, the other new members seem... Well, fine I guess, we be staying in Wayne's Hotel for a while not sure when we will be seeing our new base of operation tho..." Richard said talking on the phone while unpacking his cloths from the suitcase.
"...Why the hotel tho, I was expecting, well I guess a warehouse or something. Anyway I think it's time... I talk to you about your hero changing stuff..." It was a females voice.
"Zee... We both know that I can't go back being Robin, I gave the mantle to Jason..." Richard was totally cut off.
Zatanna cut him off noticing he was getting angry over the phone. "...I wasn't talking about going back to being Robin..." Zatanna sighed and continued. "...I meant finding a new name or something. It might take a while but you could work on your new suit before naming yourself... Look am just trying to be there for you..." She sighed once more. "..Okay."
"Yeah, I know..." He sighed before replying. "...Look their are things I need to figure out on my own.." Richard waited for a reply.
"...Uhm, sure it's fine..." He noticed it was getting awkward for a moment.
"...I'm sorry Zee, we will talk about this tomorrow. But for now I got to clear my head..." Richard rubbed the back of head while walking towards to the widow looking down unto the city.
"Yeah, I-i understand... Bye Richard." Zatanna sighed cutting the call.
With that her sweet voice became a bit sad, he had never heard Zee call out his name like that in a long time like that besides the first time they met, this means he missed up real bad.
He needed something that would take his mind off on all this. He thought to himself before looking down on his "Robin's" suit.
He let out a smirk. "Just one last time..." He said to himself.
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He was at the top of a building just near the seaport of Jump City, he had already pulled out a device Batman gave him when he was still staying at the Wayne Manor, the device could pick up frequency and hack into people's phones or tablets and it could be used to hear people's conversation if the phone is nearby or in their pocket. He hacked into the JCPD frequency listening carefully before taking his mind off it as a van pulled over near the docks, two men stepped out.
One looking muscular and the other not so much, they both made their way towards the back of the van looking left and right as the muscular man whistled waving his hand in the air as more men approached from the cargo ship that sat on the docks, they were heavily armed. It was obviously a smug maybe "In and out or rather out and in." sounds a bit stupid.
"If they are here to transport Iilegal..." The men opened the back of the van. "...Weaponry... That means the depot shouldn't be far from here." He smirked. "...My kind of gig."
He said to himself. Before leaping and gliding towards and giving a suprise kick to an armed man letting him drop his gun. The rest of the men began to fire at Richard as Richard through a smoke pallet and disappearing, the muscular man yelled. "HOLD YOUR FIRE!" The smoke was too much for any of the men to see were our masked vigilante ran off to.
"COME DOWN HERE AND FIGHT LIKE A MAN! Or your just a COWARD!" The muscular man yelled looking left and right as he pulled out a knife.
He began to notice the smoke was becoming more than before, he put out a fighting stance. And scanned the area carefully before hearing some kind of chuckle in the air and then they were screams and gun fire.
From Richard's view it was only the muscular man standing. The smoke finally cleared after some minutes, Richard threw a Batarang at the muscular man aiming towards his knife. The knife was seen falling off the man's hand, the man turned to were the Batarang flew from. "There you are..." The man looked at Richard. "...I was expecting Batman... not some kid..." The man chuckled. "... I hope the Bat won't mind if I finish you off." He smirked as his right hand transformed into a nuclear cannon and aimed for Richard.
"Shit Shit SHITTTTT!!!" Richard ran for the edge of the roof as the cannon fire hit where Richard was before blasting the roof off, Richard grappled to the next building and rolled to the edge trying to get his balance.
He finally got his balance looking at the direction were he took out those men, bodies layed all around the docks as he could no longer see the muscular man. He took out a fighting stance looking left and right, he noticed that fighting this guy would be a bit different than the thugs he usually takes down. Suddenly, He noticed a moving shadow just behind. He smirked and turned to face the figure, he saw a leg heading towards him. "Oh Crap-p..." The kick sent Richard flying to the edge of the roof as he held the roof as hard as he could while the muscular man walked towards him and smirked with a belly full of laughter. "I did think you were some competition..." He laughter. "...Guess not!" He rush his feet high about step on Richard's fingers.
Richard felt his anger raising, he swung up and landed behind the muscular man run towards him and sending a hefty punch towards the man that sent him few steps back, the man threw a fiery arc at Richard. Richard blocked it, the man rushed at him and ducked over his slow punch, manoeuvred behind him and grabbed him down to a suplex sending him a heavy punch in the stomach. He fell down to the ground. "...I let u-u have yo-your fun..." He coughed out blood spitting on top of the roof. "...now-w it's my TurE-UREE!" The man yelled pulling out his cannon and aiming for Richard's head, Richard pushed a button on his wrist.
Electrocuting the man through his hand cannon, the man fell on his face while it kept on electrocuting him. "That's a technical I like to call division, learn it."
While he watched the man being electrocuted he remembered him placing a small device on the man's hand cannon while fighting, he quite didn't know it come in handy.
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After, a moment of waiting for the Cops to arrive. They finally came, he handcuffed all the men together near the van and as for the weaponry. He had left them in the van besides the resources that looked like it was gonna be used to create some kind of Doomsday device, he had already set to blow earlier, but before he planned to blow the resources he had it examined with his Robin sensors.
And the examining process would at least a day, to finish. While that was being done he needed to head back to the hotel and take a well deserved nap.
***
Back at the hotel, Richard sneaked back into his hotel's room through his window he had noticed the lights were turned off to even see were his bed was at. Suddenly, the lights turned on with the whole new teammates staring at him. He remembers not telling them were he had ran off to.
"Where were you?" The teammates asked noticing they all said it at the same time.
Richard tried to change the topic by "..Look guys it's been a busy day and I need some-" He was cut off.
"-Stop trying to change the topic." Beast boy noticed it. "So, start talking."
"...Fine! I was out on patrol. And I found something." He pulled out an image on his holographic wrist. "The exam would take at least a day to finish, so when it does I would explain further more tomorrow... Now, can y'all please leave my room I need some shut eye..."
The team left his room without a word giving him some privacy. He had already taken off his suit and taken a bath and was in a fresh clean clothing, he layed on the bed with a thought in his head. "Zee" I wonder how zatanna is doing right now after that conversation they had earlier that was a totally -well not so awesome conversation- Well that was another topic for another day he looked through his window from his bed as he sighed silently, with a bit of joy he had already began to love the city...