Hi.

Anyway onto today, hacking. I think it is about time Robin showed how good he is at hacking (only the original team really sees it).

This is in two parts, the first happens when he is about eleven and is with the Justice League in the Watch Tower (before season 1) and the second is with the season two team before all the drama occurs (so the end of 5 year gap).

Sorry for any spelling or grammar mistakes and OCCness.

Hope you enjoy.

Robyn

The Watch Tower - Two years before Season 1

When the lights at the Justice League's super secret (yeah, right) headquarters, more commonly known as the Watchtower started to flicker you would think all the heroes remained perfectly calm and didn't panic, right?

You would be wrong. Flash started panicking, narrowly avoided running into walls dashing around the Watchtower until he found Superman, Green Arrow, Aquaman and Black Canary sitting in the dining hall, completely calm. When Flash entered, and failed to stop before hitting a table (making him flip dramatically over it), the heroes jumped up from their seat to see what had their teammate in such a panic. Flash leapt back to his feet, wiping off invisible dust and pretending he hadn't just fallen over the table. He immediately started rambling, unfortunately it was so fast no one could actually understood what he was saying.

"Flash, calm down! What's wrong?" Superman tried to calm the other hero down, bewildered by the sudden panic from the speedster.

"The lights! They're flickering!" Flash finally spat out, looking at them like they should understand why he was panicking about that.

"What's the big deal with the lights? Flash, you haven't been watching Supernatural again have you? You know it scares you." Black Canary stepped forward her arms crossed.

"It does not! Beside that show is awesome!" Flash denied. "But that's beside the point. The lights are flickering everywhere (apart from here), but it's not just them. I went to the Monitor room to check everything there and the screens were messed up! I think we are under attack!"

"What! Why hasn't anyone informed us of this?" Aquaman asked, eyes scanning the rest of the room in search of invisible attackers.

"It just started. And we're the only ones in the Watchtower. Everyone else is either away on a mission or busy elsewhere. Even Batman is away." Flash stated before running off again, not wanting to waste more time trying to explain when they could be under attack.

The remaining heroes looked at each other before running down the corridors after Flash. They headed towards the Monitor room first, when they reached the room they were faced with screens of blurry static. As the last person entered the door, it slammed shut causing everyone to jump. Green Arrow turned around and tried to pull the door open in a fruitless attempt - it was very locked.

"Well, it looks like we're trapped. Just great." Green Arrow declared before turning back around to face the rest of the League who were starting to look more and more worried. They were facing an unknown assailant who knew where their headquarters was and had managed to get into their systems. They were all running through the (small) list of people that it could be.

A sudden crackling sound echoed through the speakers (which were all across the Watch Tower), gaining the attention of the trapped heroes. The crackly static turned into a deep, gravelly voice as it started talking through the speakers.

"I see you have fallen into my trap. Mwhahahhahahhaha. For the supposed superheroes that you are, your security is incredibly easy to hack. It only took me a few minutes. Mwhahahahhah. Now that I have you trapped, with no way out, what should I make you do?" The voice laughed, contemplating his options.

"Be nice and release us?" Flash asked hopefully. It was never that easy but he was allowed to be hopeful.

"I don't think so Bartholomew." The voice stated, unnerving the heroes.

"How do you know his name? Who are you? What do you want?" Black Canary asked, trying to gain any information she could from this mysterious invader.

"Oh I know all your names: Dinah, Oliver, Clark and Orin. As for who I am? Well that will be part of the challenge. And for what I want? I want to play a game. Find me and you will get your answers." The voice cut out suddenly and the speakers died.

The door swung open after an audible click of the lock being released, freeing them. The heroes crept out cautiously on high alert, expecting to find the villain outside, after all he had to have unlocked the door. The hallway was empty with no sign of anyone ever being there. They started moving down the corridor, inspecting every room along it only to find nothing.

"Superman, use your super hearing. He's got to be around here somewhere." Flash demanded upon seeing the empty space, this was getting creepy.

Superman stopped moving forward and listened carefully, listening for anything that could be used to detect the villain's presence. Then he heard it; a faint clank as if something was crawling along metal. Breaths and mutters were also heard but he was to far away to hear what was actually being muttered.

"He's in the vents, moving towards the private quarters. If he gets there who knows what information he will find. How did he even get into the Watchtower?" Superman declared and then turned to face his fellow Leaguers.

"How are we supposed to know anymore than you do? I assume he hacked the teleportation system. Besides we can figure this out later and up the security, we need to stop him!" Black Canary shouted before running off towards the private quarters.

The others shrugged before running off after her. They dashed down the corridors until they stood in front of the first room; Superman's. The group looked at said hero who stepped forward and unlocked the room with the special code. He opened the door only to find it undisturbed and in its normal condition. He shrugged and looked at the others before they moved onto the next room.

The tried every room they could access (some with a special override code as the person wasn't there) until they were faced with only one more room. Batman's.

"Are you sure he went this way? I mean he could have moved on and I think the batmightjustkillusif..." In his panic, Flash's words started merging together again. That was until Black Canary hit him on the head and told him to calm down.

"It is the only room left. We must check it before inspecting other places my friend. Besides the Bat will never know." Aquaman stepped forward ignoring the quiet 'he will' from worried Speedster. He entered the emergency override code and slowly pushed open the door to reveal a dark room, decorated with a city sky line all around the walls.

The bed in the centre was covered, ironically, in Batman sheets, and upon it sat a familiar young boy with a holographic computer screen in front of him. The screen glowed a light blue and came out of a hidden device on his glove. The boy on the bed was well known to these heroes.. although they had no clue how he was here

"Robin! What are you doing here? Have you seen a villain by the way?" Flash asked sprinting the few steps to the bed to bounce in front of the young boy.

"Batman's away, but he thought I should test this new computer system. Seeing as it was a weekend I thought I would try it up here. As for the villain? You're looking right at him. I wanted to practise my hacking skills and your security is really weak but I've already hacked the Bat Computer a thousand times so I wanted something else." Robin grinned at the shocked heroes.

"Wait that was all you?" Superman asked.

"Yep!"

"Hey Robin, how would you like to upgrade our security. . ."

Mt. Justice - Year 5 of Gap/Pre-Invasion

The team rarely got down time anymore, so on the rare occasion they did, they usually celebrated it by relaxing together in the lounge. It was on one of these such occasions that the team discovered Nightwing's old hobby. You see everyone was sitting around watching Doctor Who when Batgirl gave a frustrated growl. The team all turned to face her, confused by the sudden noise. She was sitting on the floor, cross legged with a laptop on her lap rapidly typing and deleting lines of random words and numbers. As the screen flashed red she threw her hands up in the air, giving another growl of frustration.

"Hey Batgirl. What are you doing?" Beast Boy asked from his position on the couch, he was leaning forward to inspect what his teammate was doing.

"I'm trying to hack the Bat Computer. Batman's been hiding something and I want to know what. The security is annoyingly strong though and I can't get through." Batgirl replied frustration clear in her voice. The others were curious about what she wanted to know and vaguely impressed by the fact she was hacking her mentor's systems.

"Give it me, I'll try." Robin shrugged, he had no idea what Batgirl wanted to know but he figured he could have a go trying to get into Batman's systems.

Batgirl passed the computer to Wonder Girl who passed it to Mal who passed it to Artemis who gave it to Robin on the other side of the room. The rest of the team watched now interested in what the Bats were up to.

A laugh came from the kitchen where Miss Martian and Nightwing were making cookies for the team. The laugh was all too familiar to the original team but sadly rarely heard by the newer team members - Nightwing's laugh. The pair were the only ones not actually in the lounge at the moment and had been mostly silent up until this point.

"What are you laughing at Bird Boy?" Batgirl shouted at him, gaining the attention of everyone, apart from Robin who was frowning puzzled down at the laptop.

"Hacking was never really your speciality any way, Batgirl, don't worry." Nightwing reassured Batgirl as he came out of the kitchen alongside Miss Martian. Little parcels of freshly baked cookies in their hands. He started passing them out to the group as he continued. "If you really want to know what I'm laughing about - I'm remembering an accident with the Justice League when I was eleven that was to do with hacking." He settled on a spare armchair in the corner as Miss Martina moved over close to Artemis. He ignored Batgirl's grumbles.

"You knew the Justice League when you were eleven? I mean I know you worked with Batman since you were young but. . ." Blue Beetle trailed off as he started nibbling one of the warm cookies he had been given.

"Yeah, I've known most of them since I was about six or seven. Met the original members a few months after I became Robin I think. I used to get into so much mischief. They were my family." Nightwing looked like he was caught in memories of a happier time, but before anyone could ask him anymore questions Robin mimicked Batgirl earlier by throwing his hands in the air and giving out a frustrated growl.

"Not having any luck Robin?" Aqualad asked the youngest Bat kindly. He had been watching the exchange calmly as he ate his cookies, M'gann had certainly improved her baking skills from when they first met.

"No, whoever designed this security is amazing. It's almost impossible to hack it!" Robin cried dramatically. Admittedly, he was still working on his hacking skills but still he knew impressive security layers when he saw them.

"I thought you Bats were the best, especially Robin with hacking." Wonder Girl stated, teasing the pair as she devoured the cookies.

"Hey Rob, pass it to me." Nightwing said as he abandoned his armchair in favour of moving over closer to Robin. He sat on the arm of the chair next to Robin and pulled the laptop onto his lap. He started typing away rapidly, fingers flying across the keyboard.

"I'm sorry Nightwing, you're a talented hero but if Robin can't get it how will you be able to?" Lagoon Boy asked. Nightwing didn't look up from the screen, just smirked.

"Done!" Nightwing declared a moment later. Holding up the laptop to show the team that he had gotten in.

"How?" Robin asked looking shocked, grabbing the laptop and checking that he was telling the truth.

"You guys realise he was our hacker when we went on missions, right?" Artemis laughed, knowing full well most of the newer heroes did not in fact know that.

"Yeah. Nightwing's hacking skills was how we started the team. He hacked the Justice League which lead to Aqualad, him and I finding Superboy and then forming the team after we argued with the League." Kid Flash added, grinning. Those days felt like so long ago and he kind of missed it at times.

"We didn't know that." Bumblebee stated, blinking. The rest of the team looked equally shocked and surprised, the older members of the team rarely discussed the old days.

"Well we don't really talk much about our early years." Superboy sighed looking at his fellow teammates and friends sadly. They had really drifted apart recently, all so busy with other things and the newer members of the team.

"Besides, I was the one who created the security for the Justice League and Bat Computer. Bats got tired of me complaining it was too easy to hack into and told me to fix it. I also trapped and messed around with Green Arrow, Black Canary, Flash and Superman so they got me to fix they're security as well. You guys still have lots to learn." Nightwing declared before strolling out of the lounge.

He left in his wake a group of shocked faces who promised themselves they wouldn't underestimate Nightwing as much. A smaller group of proud grins sat upon the original teams faces. Their little brother was still the best.

Finished.

Hope that was okay.

Sorry if I got information wrong, this story is slight AU ish remember. (I know Robin and Batgirl are brilliant hackers - but they're still learning here while Nightwing ahs had years more practise)

Anyway up nee to recommend The Great Library and Blackwell Pages they are brilliant book series. Also has anyone read Magnus Chase and The Hammer of Thor. I loved it. (No spoilers for anyone who hasn't read it please).

Thank you for all the support this story gets you guys are brilliant!

Again hope you enjoyed.

Robyn out.