How To Guess a Robin's Identity

Renegade

Hello everyone!

This time be prepared for angst and hurt!Nightwing (he really isn't alright).

It is set after Invasion so he isn't in the best of a mind set plus there are plenty others here including the Titans, Bat Bros, Deathstroke and a couple others. In my universe there has been more than one apprenticeship between Nightwing/Deathstroke so they did some bonding so Deathstroke is a bit more caring towards him. No one know about the second apprenticeship though. Also, Grant isn't dead - just badly injured and unable to fight (and pretending to be dead to most people).

Oh and Wally didn't 'cease' here. Nightwing jumped in and ended up getting badly hurt but saved Wally. He has still left the team for a while though.

Be prepared this is pretty AU, OCC and may have spelling/grammar errors.

As usual I own nothing.

Hope you enjoy.

Robyn 

It was about a week after the Invasion and tension were still running high amongst certain members of the team. After Nightwing's plan, things had been a bit more interesting and suspicious of each other. Arguments and fights between members happened frequently. The only apparent good thing to come from the whole event was that most villains had been laying low. That meant the week had been extremely quiet leaving many (cough all cough) members of the team bored. Which led to even more fights.

Having so many teens in one place, especially when deathly bored, meant they probably should have predicted the outcome of the day, which was in one word - disastrous. To be fair it had been coming for a while and being bored was only a small factor in it.

It started with the majority of the team hanging around the holograms, due to it being a quiet space where they could meet. The Watch Tower wasn't really the same, it didn't quite feel like a home or base and they were constantly surrounded by League members, but Mount Justice was still under construction.

Lagoon Boy, Blue Beetle and Impulse were hanging around the second Robin's hologram with tense shoulders. Lagoon Boy and Blue Beetle were face to face glaring at each other while Impulse tried to calm the pair down. Impulse's attempts were to no avail however as the pair were soon wrestling each other. This wasn't the first argument between the pair but it was the first time it had escalated into an all out fight.

Beast Boy was the first to notice as most of the senior members were talking further out of the way, amongst the tress. They had separated themselves from the rest of the team quite a bit recently. He had glanced at the pair out of the corner of his eyes while talking to Wonder Girl and when he saw what was happening he rushed over, ignoring Wonder Girl's confused shout. He started shouting at them to be careful as they were getting scarily close to the hologram of Robin and if they weren't careful they would damage it. However as he closed the distance (still in his vaguely human shape) he tripped and rolled straight into the bottom of the statue he had been trying to protect.

The thud he made as he hit it echoed into the now silent clearing. The sound had made everyone stop to see what was happening, including the pair fighting and older members of the team. The part of the pedestal he hit made a weird clicking noise before a shallow draw came out revealing a piece of cloth that looked like a costume. Beast Boy, having sat up with a slight rub of his head peaked into the draw first, curious to why and how it got to be in there, followed be the rest of the team that had run over at some point.

Beast Boy lifted the costume out of the draw swiftly, curiosity quickly changing to a terrified expression after seeing what exactly it was. He stood up unravelling the costume by accident, revealing it to the whole team. It was similar to Nightwing's suit, except instead of a mask there was a half mask that covered down to the bottom of the nose, while leaving the hair uncovered. Instead of a blue bird there was a red pattern that snaked all around and down the suit. The gloves were long and went to a point at the elbows. There was also a pair of large black boots.