And I'm back again.

This time - 3 ninja moments as Robin and 1 as Dick (in front of Artemis).

Still season 1.

WARNING - Dick gets bullied, so some horrible insults towards his family (Don't bully people!)

Hope you enjoy and thank for reading.

Robyn 

1

The team were on yet another covert mission and as usual with these covert missions their cover had been blown. For a supposed covert operations team they didn't really have much success with actually remaining covert half the time.

It was a simple mission, trying to find information on a small group of criminals attempting to expand their numbers and operations. They had been told not to engage, to just observe and find out their actual plans for their expansion. They had split up, Robin, Artemis and M'gann were hiding on a small platform overlooking the make-shift boardroom where the higher-ups in organisation were meeting, while Conner, Wally and Kaldur had snuck amongst cargo crates and wooden boxes that surrounded the meeting table.

It all went south the moment Kid Flash tripped over a wooden storage box as he tried to sneak closer, he stumbled right into the middle of the criminals, narrowly avoiding face planting on the table. The only good thing about the situation was the criminal's expressions as he stumbled out of the shadows, however that didn't last long as they gathered their weapons ready to face their attackers. Artemis soon followed, shooting arrows from the platform as cover, then Superboy and Miss Martian leapt into battle. Kaldur sighed before jumping out from behind a crate to help his teammates. Once, just once he would like a mission to go without anything going wrong.

The next thing the team knew they were fighting the amateur criminals. The commotion caused by the fighting alerted the minions (who had been all around the criminal's base - an old abandoned house instead of a warehouse for once), and they swarmed into the room to join the fighting. The team were outnumbered but still fighting strong, although they did seem to be missing a member.

"Hey, anybody seen Robin?" Kid Flash shouted as he took down several armed minions in one go.

"I do not believe I have seen him since we entered the building." Aqualad replied as he also took down a minion, not even glancing at Kid Flash.

Evidently he had done what Kid Flash called his 'ninja thing' and disappeared into the shadows. It wasn't even a second later when said Boy Wonder's signature cackle was heard. It echoed through the room, making it impossible to tell where it had come from. The criminals looked about, even more nervous and showing it (they really were amateurs). Robin swung into the room on his grappling hook, letting go at the right time and flipping down onto one of the men.

"Do criminals keep getting stupider? Or is it just me?" Robin cackled as he took down two men in one swing.

"Nope, it's not just you Wonder Boy." Artemis laughed as she shot off an explosive arrow into the midst of the fight.

Soon all the criminals were taking care of, knocked out and tied up in the centre of the room. They had called the police to deal with the criminals, while the team looked around the house for more info. When they were looking around they noticed they were missing a member again.

"Where's Robin gone to now?" Kid Flash sighed, why did Robin always have to vanish?

"Oh, you don't think he's hurt do you?" Miss Martian asked worried.

"I'm sure he's fine." Aqualad replied calming his teammate down.

"Yeah, he's just being the freaky ninja that he is." Artemis said.

A loud cackle echoed around the room making the team shiver in unison.

2

The next time they were back in normal weekly training. Black Canary was coordinating the new activity designed to work on their covert operation skills. It was pretty much a game of paintball - the point of the game was to hide, if you were hit you were out. They were all on their own, team work wasn't banned but it wasn't the main point of the game on this occasion.

Black Canary had recruited Green Arrow and Flash to help her man the 'paint' guns which in this case were a bit more high tech than a typical paintball game. They didn't fire paint at all but a laser that caused the person hit to glow blue for several minutes. So it was more like laser tag than paintball really. The training room had been altered into a better course for the exercise. It was covered in obstacles that you could hide in and behind such as tyres, boxes, wooden planks and other stuff. Plus, the lights had been dimmed to give the impression of late evening, providing shadows for the team to hide in.

The only rules were no powers, leaving the room or attacking the gun men. They just had to survive as long as they could while the adults moved around the room trying to hit them (Green Arrow and Flash were definitely excited about having the opportunity to help - viewing it as a chance for payback from pranks over the years). The blue glow of the guns would also allow the adults to know when they actually hit their targets as the low would be noticeable in the dim lighting.

The first person to be hit was Miss Martian. Black Canary had spotted her trying to move in the shadows by a collection of boxes. Once hit she got to leave the room and watch how the rest of the team got on through the cameras, set up around the Mountain, from the safety of the lounge. She had managed to remain hidden for 3 minutes and 26 seconds.

Kid Flash was hit soon after by his uncle (who he glared at annoyed - the man had seemed a tad to smug about hitting his nephew). He hadn't really been trying to hide, more running from the shots so it was kind of his own fault. He had lasted 4 minutes and 13 seconds, and he had only lasted that long because he was too fast for anyone but his uncle to hit.

Superboy was the next to be hit. Again by Black Canary, during his attempt to run straight through the course to the other side of the room were there was better cover. He had lasted 4 minutes 48 seconds.

Next out was Artemis, she had been unfortunate enough to catch her foot on the rim of the tyre she had been hiding in as she attempted to move for better cover. Instead of gracefully leaving the tyre in favour of the shadowy boxes nearby, she had fallen out of the tyre, landing face first allowing her to be hit by Green Arrow in the moments it took for her to regain her footing. She had lasted 7 minutes and 4 seconds.

Aqualad managed to survive for another five minutes after Artemis was hit. He had been trying to move to a better position, away from the wooden planks and towards a stack of crates where he could climb for better viewing while staying in the shadows. Unfortunately, he hadn't noticed Green Arrow coming up behind him as he slunk through he shadows and was hit. He lasted 12 minutes and 37 seconds.

Robin was the only survivor (as expected) but...

"Where is Robin?" Wally exclaimed.

"He's done his ninja thing again hasn't he?" Artemis questioned knowingly.

"How does he even disappear like that?" Conner asked confused.

"I do not think we will ever know my friend." Kaldur sighed. They had left the lounge when Robin hadn't been spotted for another ten minutes, coming to help the adults find the elusive ninja.

"Yeah, where is the kid. I want to shoot him!" Flash moaned.

"That sounds so weird." Green Arrow shaking his head as he looked at his teammate.

A spine shivering cackle bounced around the room. "I'm right here!" Robin cackled.

"Where's here Robin?" Black Canary exasperated, she should have known better than to play this kind of stealth game with Robin.

"Where I am." Robin replied mysteriously, voice echoing preventing them from tracking his position down.

"Get down from the rafters Rob." Wally shouted running around looking up to the roof - he made a loud 'oomph' as he promptly ran into a wall.

"Wow Wally. I knew you were clumsy but that was just stupid! I'll come down, I have won after all." Robin laughed before flipping down from his hidden position. He managed to dodge all the lasers shot at him.

"Oh come on, how did he manage to dodge all our shots and now we've run out of ammo." Flash pouted.

"He's a Bat what do you expect?" Green Arrow said. The game had been going on 25 minutes and 56 seconds when they gave up.

3

"Hey, guys do you want to play a game?" Wally asked.

They were all staying in the Mountain for the weekend (as 'team bonding') and they had been getting bored with the lack of anything going on. Even the more mature members of the team.

"Sure, what game?" Robin asked as everyone else agreed, they were really bored. So bored they were even willing to go along with one of Wally's ideas.

"What about that game I saw on a program once - ninja?" M'gann suggested innocently and unknowing. So maybe they weren't bored enough to go along with Wally's ideas.

Wally groaned.

"What's wrong with that?" Conner asked.

"You want to play a game called ninja - with our resident ninja boy here. He's beaten me every time we've played it." Wally explained.

"I think it will be fun to try. How do you play?" Kaldur smiled ignoring the groaning Wally.

"You have to stand in a circle and take turns to try and hit the wrist of the person next to you in the circle. You can only make one move to hit or dodge than you move on to the next person. Right?" M'gann questioned hopefully, unsure if she was explaining it right.

"Yep, correct Miss M." Robin grinned, chuckling at Wally's continuous groans.

Everyone moved into position, forming a circle as they did a practise round. They quickly understood the appeal of the game, easily becoming more and more competitive as they went round. Robin won very quickly. Very, very quickly. Which to be fair, it was the first time most of them had ever played the game.

"I know why Wally hates playing this game with you now. Have you ever lost?" Artemis asked, she was very competitive and was already desperate to do well at this game.

"Well I've lost a couple of games with Cheshire. The score is currently 134 to 121 with me winning." Robin grinned (he knew exactly what kind of reaction that would elect from his teammates).

"Wait Cheshire!? When did you even play ninja with Cheshire?!" Artemis screeched, whirling around to face Robin.

"She's really fun to play with once she stops trying to kill you. I play with her when we both have spare time and run into each other." Robin replied like it was completely normal to play a game called ninja with a literal assassin. A literal assassin that was his teammate's sister. The rest of the team watched their teammates' interaction with varying expressions. Wally's face was a weird mix of shock, exasperation and joy (mainly at Artemis' reaction). Robin could have sworn he saw Kaldur roll his eyes at all the shouting.

"Come on, let's play another round. I'll even go easy on you." The insane Boy Wonder was grinning like a maniac.

The team continued to play for the next hour, Robin winning each time but everyone was having fun. They even played several rounds without Robin taking part, to allow the others a chance to win (Artemis won most rounds, but Wally won a couple as did Kaldur). When they finally gave up playing (choosing to watch the tv) the team tried to question him more on Cheshire. It didn't go well as their youngest member did his signature cackle and disappeared.

4 - Dick and Artemis

Artemis walked purposely along the corridors of Gotham Academy pulling on her annoyingly short skirt. She really disliked the uniform, and the Academy if she was being honest (so many snobbish rich kids - she only had a few friends, at least the classes were mostly okay). As she moved past another collection of lockers she heard a commotion up ahead. She walked faster towards the source of the noise.

Turning the corner she came face to face with three big junior boys pushing around a skinny younger boy. On closer inspection she found him to be the weird black haired, blue eyed boy that had come and taken a photo of her on her first day. She had later been informed (from Barbara and Bette) that said kid was Dick Grayson - Bruce Wayne's (her sponsor's) ward.

For some reason the sight of him getting pushed around made her feel like she needed to protect him, almost like an older sister would. Which was strange as she hadn't interacted with him much. The most she saw him was in the corridors or when he talked with Bette and Barbara (who were apparently friends with him as well).

"Hey Grayson going to go cry to your dirty gypsy parents. Oh wait, they're dead aren't they. How did it feel to watch them fall to their deaths? They deserved it after all, they're dirty gypsies." The obvious leader of the group mocked the young boy before punching him in the face, knocking him to the floor. The sight of the huge red mark (that would bruise horribly) on the kid's cheek and tears in his eyes made her want to kill the boys for an unknown reason.

She did the next best thing.

She stormed up to the boys pulling the leader off of Grayson and punched him in the face, see how he liked it. "Leave him alone! You're just a stupid insecure idiot with daddy issues - what do your parent's not pay enough attention to you? Stop picking on other kids." The three boys sprinted away from the angry archer, even as a civilian she could be terrifying. She glared the onlookers into submission, making them disperse now that the spectacle was over.

She leant down to give the kid a hand to help him up. "Thanks Arty, no one ever stands up for me." Grayson gave a grin that seemed really familiar, and yet she couldn't place it.

She turned away to look at something only to turn back to discover Grayson was gone.

Now that she thought about it, that was really familiar.

Artemis gave a mental shrug before walking away, maybe she would figure it out sometime.