So another Robin one shot! This is about our favorite Birdie, and why he never seems to train with Black Canary, which just pisses most of the team off. Basically we will see the little bird kick everyone's butt… It should be fun! Disclaimer: I own nothing…
Oh and this is set with the original five and Artemis, and it's just a normal training day… kinda
Mount Justice- Training Room
Kid Flash: FAIL
A snicker was sounded from the youngest member of the team as he watched his best friend loose to Black Canary again.
"Shut it Boy Blunder!" The speedster said menacingly which only earned him an even louder laugh from his friends, "Alright if you think you are so cool, why don't you take on BC? You never seem to have to do any of this combat training!"
"Ya, I'm agreeing with Kid Mouth on this one, you never ever have to do any of the combat training," the sweaty blonde archer said angrily from her exhausted spot against the wall.
All this of course only earned a raised eye brow from their youngest member, and an uncomfortable looking Black Canary who seemed to be trying to think of a way to defuse the tension and situation which Conner didn't help by growling which seemed to communicate his anger.
"Well guys-" the older women started only to be cut off by the Boy Wonder himself.
"Ok, I'll fight her," Robin said coolly looking at the team with almost boredom behind his dark shades.
"Robin, you know Batman doesn't want you to," Canary began again, but stopped when an idea popped into her head, "Why don't you fight each of your teammates, then the team can see your fighting style and abilities if that's what they want."
"Fine," Robin said, probably accompanied by an eye roll that no one could see.
"Who wants to go first?" The older blonde asked looking at the teens in the room.
"I shall," Kaldur formally stated stepping forward from, which Robin mimicked to stand with roughly eight feet between them.
"Ok, you may start," Canary said with a backward step off the glowing floor. Conner looked on in interest, seeing how the little bird would take to fighting the team leader.
Robin dropped into a slight crouch waiting for the Atlantian to make the first move, which he did after a few moments. Pulling out his water bearers the gilled boy slammed the flood of water on where the boy wonder had been seconds before. The young acrobat had easily flipped out of the way of the weapon.
He looked at his team leader, a look of boredom plainly written on his face. The Atlantian responded by swiping the water across the floor to meet the bird's feet, but to no avail the acrobat easily jumped out of the way doing at least two summersaults in the air as he landed only inches in front of Kadlur. He swiftly brought his foot up to kick the gilled boy in the stomach and the slid down before the Attlantian could move and pushed his arm into the back of the boy's legs sending him crashing to the floor. The small bird crouched behind the leader, not even looking back to see if the teen had fallen or not.
Aqualad: FAIL
The smaller teen swiftly turned on his heel and went to extend a hand to the leader. Who took it with a smile of thanks.
"That was a nice fight Robin, I'm glad to see how you fight," said the Atlantian calmly and kindly.
"OK! My turn!" Wally called before jumping up to stand before the two teammates. He waited for the Atlantian to leave the glowing floor before zooming off to one side and waiting for the Boy Wonder to take his place at the opposite side.
"Begin," Canary stated when the young bird had reached his spot.
The speedster blurred over to his best friend only to find he had jumped and flipped above the redhead. Glancing behind him quicker than any human could, he didn't see the boy wonder but all of a sudden felt a weight on his shoulders, throwing him off balance and he would have hit the floor if not for his speedster reflexes. The red head glanced above him to see that the Boy Wonder had dropped to a handstand on his shoulders.
Before the speedster really even resisted what had happened, the acrobat had flipped off and landed behind him. The redheaded protégé had enough time to turn around and receive a punch to the stomach which sent him stumbling back. Wally looked up in time to see the grin on his best friends face as he flipped over him and he felt a set of arms wrap around his neck before he felt his body in the air and then painfully felt his front side connect with the ground.
Kid Flash: FAIL
The young acrobat snickered as he hauled up his best friend who in turn pushed him off and headed to the side of the glowing floor to sulk in a corner. Superboy looked at Robin with interest and new determination, but as he began to push himself off the wall to go up against the young bird, the team's green skinned martian stepped up.
The usually gentle and kind martian looked at Robin with a sly smile, "How do you fare mentally Robin? She called tapping her temples.
Robin didn't even react to the statement, taking on a true stoic Batman face. He walked to his side of the glowing floor again and waited for the match to begin.
"Commence," Black Canary called, knowing all too well how the boy did with telepaths, but hoping he decided to use a kinder approach on the young girl.
M'gann simply stood there; she closed her eyes concentrating on the mind before her. A frown adored her face after a few seconds, and she opened her eyes to see a smirking boy wonder.
"What-" she began in confusion when she could only see the boy thinking about strange numbers, letters, and symbols.
"Are we going to make this a purely mental battle?" the little birdie asked in annoyance, "Cause I really don't wanna hurt you M'gann and I mean mentally," and when the martain continued to look confused he continued, "And that was computer code you were seeing in my mind, neat little trick huh?"
That earned him a few eye rolls and a scoffed, "Such a bat," from Wally who sat watching.
The martian again closed her eyes and concentrated on the boy's mind, and again she couldn't make sense of it, finally almost giving up, she felt something. It held a lot of emotion, but she felt it, somewhere was left open in his mind. The martian grinned, but heard the all too familiar eerie cackle from her teammate.
The martain mentally dove into the small crevice of emotion and thought coming from the teens mind. She watched as she felt the pain, the awful sensation of so much pain all over her, she watched a white painted clown face leer over her with a sinister grin. She vaguely felt her physical body give up and her knees hit the floor. And then there was mental snap and she found herself in Robin's arms.
Miss Martian: FAIL
It appeared he has sprinted across the floor to catch her as she fell, she looked up into his tented sunglasses and wished for once that she could see the emotion within the boy's eyes.
"Robin," she heard sharply, and turned to see Canary glaring at the boy holding her, he shrugged at her and helped the green martian up, a muttered "Sorry about that," came from his lips as sheepishly looked down.
"Didn't Batman tell you not to do that again?" She said angrily looking at the little bird.
Shrugging his shoulders he turned away, "I didn't let it go as far as I did with J'onn," he said simpily.
"Still-" the older women said anger still evident in her voice, but was stopped by a confused martain.
"Uncle J'onn?" She asked in confusion, "You were able to overpower him like you did me? When was this?" Her uncle had never told her of any of this.
"Oh ya, as in your uncle. Ya well I mean I learned that little computer code thing from Bats, kinda, but the blasting you with pain part I figured out, I'm sure Bats does it, but he didn't teach me or anything, something about not wanting to taint a 9 year old mind or something," the boy wonder said with a shrug.
"NINE?" The blonde archer all but shouted perking up from her spot against the wall. "You overpowered the Martian Manhunter when you were nine?" She asked in exasperation.
"Telling you guys, he's a bat by trade, don't let his little bird thing tell you differently," grumbled Wally still angry that he had been outfought but kind of smug that his best friend had been able to overpower a leaguer. Conner sat through all of this, his eyes going back and forth between the group like he was watching a tennis match. He finally pushed himself off the wall and came to stand before the boy wonder.
"My turn," he all but growled.
"You sure about this, Supey?" The little bird said with a glance at Black Canary, who simply shrugged her shoulders not really caring anymore.
"Come on Robbie, not like you can take on a super!" Wally said with a grin and a wink of his eye, he knew all too well that the young bird could easily take on the super powered teen. Although the rest of the team didn't catch the sarcasm in the speedster's voice and all made sounds of agreement truly believing the boy wonder couldn't take on Superboy.
"Whatever start," the blonde trainer said, not really wanting to see Superman's protégé have his butt handed to him.
The Boy of Steel charged the young bird, fist raised for a powerful attack. He came up on empty air and watched as the boy flipped over his head. Spinning on his heel he found him face to face with empty air once more. Looking around he heard the soft heartbeat of the little bird to his left and whirled ready to attack but found the boy flipping again.
This went on for a good five minutes, Superboy swinging and Robin flipping away at the last second. The super powered teen had a look of fury on his red tented face as he tried to take down the little bird, and Robin hadn't even broken a sweat, in fact he looked bored.
"Alright Robin, enough of this," Black Canary called, the team looked at her in confusion and didn't understand why she seemed to be so annoyed with the young acrobat, after all he was still doing so well.
Sticking his tongue out the boy rolled his and turned back to his appoint, who had seized the distraction and thrown a punch at the small boy. The team watched in horror as the fist came closer to the little bird and watched as the young acrobat took hold of the fist in his small hands and brought his feet up to slam onto the inside of the elbow of the older teen. Superboy stared in shock as his elbow snapped in and felt the boy wonder slip between his legs and knock him down much the same way he had done with Kaldur earlier.
Superboy: FAIL
The team looked in shock at their youngest member. He had quickly taken the super powered boy down after Canary's order. And realization dawned on them, he had been playing with Conner up until Canary had cut him off, Robin could have easily taken down Superboy whenever he chose too.
The young acrobat sprang over to the Superboy, offering a hand, Conner looked at him in anger before picking himself off the ground, feeling utterly humiliated.
"Don't feel bad Supey," the Boy Wonder said with a grin, "If it makes you feel any better I took down Superman years ago and he was a total wimp about it," he continued with a pat on the older teens back. Which in turn caused Conner to look at the young acrobat with a raised eye brow in disbelief.
"Bats are frigging crazy," Wally mumbled, which earned him many head nods.
"And Bats don't play with their food," came a growl from one of the shadowed corners of the room. The Dark Knight walked out with a Batglare that would scare some of the worse criminals in the Gotham but only caused Robin to roll his eyes behind his shades.
"Ya ya, don't waste energy, blah blah blah. I was just trying to give Supey a good fight, let off some steam and learn a few new moves," the little bird said with a grin to his mentor. That earned him another glare, which resulted in Robin turning to his friends with a mock salute "Gotham calls," he said with cackle and followed his mentor as they both left the training facility.
"How do they do that?" Artemis asked in awe.
"Bat talk, no one ever really understands it," Wally said with a smirk.
"Wait so did Robin really take down Superman?" Conner asked still confused at the little bird's statement from before.
"Oh course he did. I don't think Bats was real happy at first. Well with the other leaguers, I'm pretty sure he was overjoyed his little bird took down the man of steel. No I'm pretty sure Bats was angry when lil Robbie took down all the other members of the Justice League," Wally said was a full out grin, looking at the flabbergasted faces of his teammates and then at Canary who had a look of disapproval, though really only brought on because she had been one of the ones Robin had bested.
"When was this? I do not remember hearing of it? Was it recently?" Kaldur asked, voicing everyone's general confusion.
"Recently? Pffffttt, no, I think he was the ripe old age on nine, just like when he overpowered Martian Manhunter. Ya Bats wasn't too fond that his little bird decided to take on every leaguer he met."
The team looked at each other in awe. They had no idea their little bird was so- well lack of a better word, awesome.
With a nervous laugh Artemis stated, "Wally is right, Bats are frigging crazy."
So this is just something I typed up real quick, if yall have any ideas for other Robin one shots let me know please! I'll be updating the deaged Robin story within the next few weeks so don't worry!
SO please review with any ideas or thoughts or anything!