As part of the week of special training the team is working on their interrogation skills (with varying success).

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Robyn

The team was sitting (on the floor)in a small room in the Mountain. It had one way glass looking into an even smaller room, designed to look like the typical police interrogation room. It held two chairs facing each other and a table between them. The room they were currently in was the observation room, it held nothing in it bar a single set of shelves, as it was made to watch interactions in the interrogation room.

It was their third day of 'special training' (as they had spent the last two days working on languages, they were still working on them just not as the main focus) and today they would be working on interrogation. It was perfect timing seeing as a horrible crime had been committed by someone in the Mountain. The only people who had been scraped from the suspect list was the team, as they had been away on a mission when the incident had occurred. Meaning it could only be one of their mentors or someone else from the League who had been visiting at the time.

They had managed to narrow down the possible suspects to Green Lantern (John Stewart, who had been visiting), Green Arrow and Flash. Black Canary had decided to take advantage of the crime and had enlisted the team to interrogate them, leaving them to decide how they wanted to do so. The team had discussed it before deciding to split into pairs and take turns interrogating each person to see who had committed the crime.

Only one pair would be in the room at one time with Black Canary and the other suspects (Black Canary needed more eyes to help assess the team's ability) watching the pair interrogate the suspect. The other two pairs would be in the main room so they didn't get any advantages or new ideas.

The first pair up was Kid Flash and Artemis interrogating suspect #1 - Green Lantern.

Green Lantern sat in a plain hard metal chair, handcuffs stuck on his wrists around a bar on the table, trapping him (to make the experience feel more real). He was facing Artemis - who sat in the chair opposite - and Kid Flash that stood at her side.

"Let's make this simple. You tell us if you did it and we'll let you go." Kid Flash smiled sweetly at him. Wally had been excited when they were told they would be practising interrogation skills as he loved police/crime dramas. His current favourite was Brooklyn-99 and he really wanted to practise some of the things he had seen on the programme (but Artemis had hit him, knocking down most of his ideas - it had taken them a while to agree to something).

Green Lantern just looked bored.

Artemis slammed her hand down on the table causing a large thud. "Just tell us! You did it, didn't you?!"

Green Lantern lifted an eyebrow, really, good cop and bad cop. How cliché.

Kid Flash groaned as Green Lantern was led out of the room, several minutes later without saying a word. Things weren't exactly going well.

Next up suspect #2 - Green Arrow. He was brought out by Black Canary and placed in the same position that Green Lantern had just vacated.

"Sooooo Ollie, are you going to admit to this horrendous crime? Or are we going to have to do this the hard way?" Kid Flash attempted to punch his hands together to look menacing but missed and punched Artemis.

"What was that for Kid Clumsy?!" Artemis screamed at KF. Green Arrow ended up having to try and calm them down, when that failed Black Cnary had to come in and separate them before leading Green Arrow out the room again.

Finally suspect #3 - Flash was led in.

Artemis took the lead this time. "Why did you do it?! We know it was you!"

"Come on Arty, Flash wouldn't do it." Kid Flash tried desperately to defend his uncle.

"Yes he would. He is a Speedster and a Speedster is a prime suspect!" The pair ended up fighting again and were separated this time by Flash (he had vibrated his way out of the handcuffs when they started fighting). Both teens were led back to the main room with their friends and told to play nice. Maybe in retrospect it hadn't been a good idea to pair them together

The second pair of Superboy and Miss Martian didn't do very well either as Miss M was too nice and Superboy only grunted and said the occasional thing. Neither really had any idea how to get the heroes to confess (yet). They had however done slightly better than Artemis and Wally, which wasn't that hard honestly.

The last team of Aqualad and Robin however, well they did better, but what else can you expect from the protégé of Batman? Plus, it wasn't like Kaldur was a slouch, he was calm and collected normally but could definitely be scary if needed.

Suspect #1 - Green Lantern, was led back into the room. For several minutes nothing happened, neither of his interrogators were in the room. Then Aqualad walked into the room calmly and sat down in the chair. An evil cackle echoed through the room causing Green Lantern to become slightly nervous.

Then a bat-a-rang flew past his head, nicking his ear. His expression moved from nervous to mildly terrified, he looked like he was about to pee himself. He was soon stuttering excuses and saying he didn't do it. He was trying to comfort himself by saying this wasn't an enemy or a real interrogation but it wasn't really working.

Suspect #2 - Green Arrow, lasted slightly longer, but looked absolutely petrified when Robin flew at him and demanded that he tells them if he was guilty in his 'tell me or you will never see the sun again' voice. The kid was eerily like Batman at times. Kaldur just stood at the side grinning, occasionally offering increasingly scary options of whet would happen if he didn't confess.

Suspect #3 - Flash, however didn't last very long at all. He vibrated out of the handcuffs (again) and through the door after Robin had jumped out of the shadows at him. Aqualad sighed but had a small smile on his face that showed his amusement (he had been excited to try new ideas out on the Speedster). Robin on the other hand was on the floor laughing so hard he was almost in tears.

The team was soon reunited and given tips on how to do better, comparing techniques that had worked and what hadn't. Kaldur and Robin had easily been the best pair, however they still didn't have their answer. They still didn't know who was evil enough to commit such a horrible crime.

The crime in question? Who had eaten all the cookies Robin had brought over (which he claimed were made by another Bat Clan member, Agent A) and even worse - who had replaced them with sugar free cookies (shudder).

No one noticed the dark shadow leave the room with cookie crumbs on their face and a small smile tugging at their lips. His cape swept around his shins as he finished watching the CTV of the team's interrogation techniques and exited the cave.

It was two weeks later on a mission when the team needed their new interrogation skills. They had captured a member of a new terrorist group that was about to bomb fifty big cities across America and needed to know the location of the missiles, which were being launched at the cities from an unknown location.

They handcuffed the frightened man, who was attempting to put on a blank face, to a chair in a dark room (location unknown). They hadn't exactly informed the League of what they had planned to do yet, but they didn't know how much time they had before the missiles were launched.

They all agreed that it should be Robin that interrogated him, seeing as he and Aqualad had done best in practice. Plus, Robin was probably the most well known of the heroes and the youngest so they hoped he would be underestimated. Aqualad was supposed to help him, but he had been distracted last second as Kid Flash and Artemis started fighting about something, so Robin was left on his own.

The rest of the team were in the shadows observing their youngest member work. Aqualad had finally managed to separate the Archer and Speedster but was still carefully keeping an eye on the pair so they wouldn't jeopardise the interrogation.

"Where are the bombs?" Robin growled out imitating Batman's voice, with impressive success (then again, he did spend most of his time with the Caped Crusader - so if anyone would be able to do so it would be Robin). He had remained in shadows, taking advantage of the fact the terrorist didn't know who had attacked them.

The poor terrorist didn't understand that it wasn't Batman and started stuttering out the location of the bombs. He looked like he was about to pass out from fear. In fact he did pass out from shock and fear when Robin bounced into view (instead of the expected Dark Knight) and smiled at him. "Thanks!" Robin shouted at him.

Thankfully the location was nearby and the Team quickly leapt into action to take out the missiles before they launched. The terrorists were swiftly stopped and put away in jail. The man they had interrogated was still passed out (and handcuffed) when the police came to collect him and the rest of the group, which drew a few curious glances.

When they finally made it back to the mountain, after debriefing (also known as getting shouted at for not keeping the mission covert and interrogating a suspect without adult supervision), the team cornered Robin. Kid Flash started to say something but it came out too fast, so that no one understood it.

"What Kid Mouth is trying to say is, when did you learn to interrogate people and how could you intimidate Batman's voice so well Bird Brain?" Artemis questioned, ignoring the glare from Kid Flash.

"It was part of my Bat training and I learnt a bit of mimicking voices when I was little, before I started training to be Robin." Robin grinned. The circus had definitely left him with a weird collection of skills even before becoming Robin, it was part of the reason he knew so many languages - the circus had had people from all over the world employed and they travelled the world, of course he knew more languages than most.

"Bat training?" M'gann asked.

"Yeah, you didn't think Bats just let me out onto the streets straight away did you? I went through a couple of months of training first." Robin snorted. "Not that it stopped when I got out onto the streets."

"Why Robin?" Superboy grunted.

"Well that was random. What do you mean why Robin?" Said hero asked curious. That was abnormally cryptic even for Superboy.

"Why the name Robin? It has nothing to do with Bats." Superboy extended his original question, looking a bit awkward at gaining the attention of the rest of the team.

Robin hesitated a moment, trying to decide how much to tell them. "It was a kind of a tribute I guess. Robin was an old nickname, a family name. I took it up when I discovered who Batman was and asked to fight crime with him. It just seemed right." Robin had a slight smile on his face as he shrugged, as if he was remembering good memories.

"What do you mean when you discovered who Batman was?" Artemis shot back at him the team had gotten very interested in the conversation when Superboy had explained his original question. They couldn't say it was something they thought about often but it was definitely something they had questioned briefly at one time or another.

"What is this twenty questions? But I meant exactly what I said, Batman took me in after an accident and I discovered who he was a while after.. He wasn't actually that good at sneaking around" Robin answered vaguely.

"Wait, he's not your dad?" M'gann asked.

"No .. yes ... kind of? It's complicated, but he's not my birth dad." He looked the clock on the wall. "Sorry guys, got to go. See you tomorrow." He waved goodbye as he walked to the Zeta Beams. Quickly leaving the cave - he did genuinely need to leave but it did help that he could escape the awkward questions.

The team was left standing in the hall in silence for several minutes before Wally decided to break it. "Well, this has been an eye opening afternoon, but I have to make like a cheetahs and run." With that Kid Flash disappeared. Everyone else soon followed, those that lived outside the cave returning home and those that lived there heading towards their rooms.

They had found out a little more about their little bird and were getting closer to his identity.

But they were still quite far away from the truth.