Here is the next chapter where Robin shows his mathematical genius and M'gann finds out his identity.

The first part is set just after season one and the second about a year before the invasion. Also apologies I am Scottish I don't know much about American school systems or subjects.

Anyway as usual I own nothing (darn it), sorry for spelling/grammar mistakes or OCCness.

Hope you enjoy

Robyn 

The Mountain - Post Season 1

It was a peaceful day in the Mountain, the birds were singing, the trees swayed in the gentle breeze, Wally was moaning. Who am I kidding? It was definitely not peaceful. The team were all relaxing in the cave, doing the one thing most teenagers universally hate. Homework. You see with all the missions they had been on they hadn't had much time to keep up with school work. It didn't help that the teachers had been pilling homework and assignments up recently.

Which is how the situation arose. Picture this; the team is in the lounge. Artemis leaning over some science work, Conner looking puzzled at some English research essay, Kaldur helping Raquel with some history assignment, Wally lying on his belly cookies in hand as he struggled through Spanish, Zatanna trying to do Geography, M'gann attempting maths and Robin was looking smug as he had already caught up with all his homework (Batman wouldn't let him out if he wasn't keeping up).

Wally moaned for what was like (exactly) the twenty third time in the past hour. "I give up. Why did I chose Spanish!? Why? Why?" Robin's chuckles interrupted his dramatic monologue. "Oh, shut up you! You don't have to be so smug just 'cause you don't have any homework to catch up on."

"I am allowed to be smug after all I don't allow myself to fall behind in school." This statement had the added extra of Robin sticking out his tongue at Wally.

"Shut it Boy Wonder and Kid Idiot! I am trying to finish this stupid chemistry work. When am I ever going to need to know all the elements in the periodic table?" Artemis exclaimed throwing her hands up in the air in frustration.

"Well if you go into chemistry or even for quizzes." M'gann answered helpfully.

"That was a rhetorical question M'gann she didn't actually want an answer." Zatanna tried to explain gently.

"Don't listen to them sweet cheeks. Besides I am awesome enough that I do know all the elements." Wally shouted across the room, he may struggle with Spanish but he knew his science.

"Shut up science geek. We don't want to hear it." Robin groaned.

"Hey! Don't call me that, math nerd." Wally argued. The two continued to bicker back and forth while the rest of the team watched.

"Why are they being so mean to each other?" M'gann asked looking like she was about to leap forward and interrupt.

"Don't worry girl. It's just their way of showing they care. They're teasing each other." Raquel stepped forward, stretching as she'd been sitting for so long.

"That is a strange custom." Kaldur added furrowing his eyebrows.

"Yep!" Chorused Zatanna and Raquel.

The team watched as the two continued to argue. Artemis even muttered something about getting popcorn. Soon the pair were rolling around the floor wrestling, homework completely forgotten.

"What did they mean by science geek and math nerd?" Conner asked, he understood the terms he just didn't get why they were calling each other that.

"Yeah, Boy Wonder, Kid Mouth! Why are you shouting about that?" Artemis yelled at the pair, trying to get their attention away from their roughhousing.

The two sat up hurriedly, Robin was unharmed while Wally's hair was wild and his clothes were dirty. Giant smiles spread across their faces.

"Well, this jerk is the biggest science geek in Central City. Meaning he is really into science and has a surprising knowledge on it. He's not a complete idiot sometimes." Robin grinned, poking his friend who tried and failed to bat him away.

"This weirdo actually enjoys maths. He is a mathlete even and competes in competitions for his school." Wally poked Robin back. Soon the team went back to finishing their homework, having got their answers. The distraction had been nice but they really did have to complete their homework.

Later that day when most of the team had left or gone back to their rooms in the Mountain. It was only M'gann who was left tidying and Robin who had stayed behind to help. The pair were cleaning away stray paper and left over snacks, they had agreed to keep the Mountain tidy and knew the adults would be on their backs if they didn't.

"Robin?" M'gann paused as she washed the dishes.

"Yes Miss M?" Robin looked up at his friend from his place drying the dishes that M'gann washed.

"Wally said you were a mathlete, right?" With a nod from Robin she continued. "Would you be able to help me with my maths homework? We're having a test next week and I really don't understand how to do some questions. I was wondering if you could help explain them to me?" M'gann questioned nervously.

"Of course Miss M I'm happy to help, always. Let's finish up and then I'll explain it to you." With that the pair finished tidying up and then went back into the lounge where Robin explained to M'gann how to do everything she couldn't understand. As they were working away, M'gann was piecing together some things; Robin was from Gotham, he had dark hair, was a mathlete, plus that accident with the media? She finally figured it out.

"Richard Grayson!" She suddenly exclaimed, interrupting Robin as he explained a problem. He looked up startled by her voice and the words, he dropped the pencil he had been twirling in his fingers. His expression confirmed her theory, but she still wanted him to say it. "That's your name isn't it? I should have known sooner, it seems obvious now!"

He grinned at her, glad she had finally discovered her identity. "How'd you figure it out?"

"I was watching the news this morning and you were mentioned as you won a recent math competition. I think it just clicked after Wally said you were a mathlete." M'gann shrugged, smiling proud of herself. He grinned wider at her and explained more of the story. Finally the original team all knew his identity. They finished her math homework before discussing other things. She even managed to convince him to tell her some old traditions. If M'gann happened to start making some special cookies every so often than no one commented (even Wally who knew the cookies were Robin's mom's speciality).

Now if this was a children's book there would be an important message, I guess you could say that the message was never be afraid to ask people for help and don't underestimate people. After all who would have thought that Dick Grayson was Robin?

The Mountain - 1 Year before Invasion

It was a similar situation which led to the team discovering about the original Robin, now Nightwing's, mathematical ability. The team were relaxing and by relaxing I mean doing school work. Once again they had gotten behind on homework and those who didn't go to school were taking the time to read or other things while everyone else struggled to complete their assignments. Even members of the original team, specifically Wally and Artemis were there.

Nightwing was lounging in a chair reading a book, every so often his eyes would glance over at the younger group attempting to do their work. He kept a careful watch out for any possible trouble, you never knew what could happen especially with this odd mixture of teens. Though he was enjoying his book, he admittedly was also enjoying seeing everyone together even for a little while. It was so rare these days for them all to be together without being busy.

"I give up! This is stupid! I swear math exists to infuriate people!" Garfield cried interrupting the peace that had settled for the past hour. Until now, only the occasional mumble had broken the silence. "It doesn't make any sense and they tell you all these rules but there are always exceptions that don't make any sense."

"For once I have to agree, mi amigo." Jamie nodded, with sounds of agreement from Cassie, Robin and Batgirl. They had all been attempting to do math and struggling, it didn't help they were at different levels and had learnt different stuff. You would have thought they could help each other but they couldn't as they all barely understood it and were all at different stages. Though Batgirl and Robin did have a better understanding of the work, they had no idea how to explain it to the others.

"Math is like one of the worst subjects out there. You learn all this stuff then never use half of it, and all the numbers give me headaches." Cassie moaned.

"I bet it isn't that bad. Besides you can use it in lots of different stuff, but yeah admittedly you never use half of it unless you actually go into a math heavy degree." Nightwing tried to cheer them up. "Besides if you want a subject that makes no sense and has contradicting rules, you should try English."

"You can't say that! It is probably horrible like all math is. You also can't say anything about English, you had so much fun butchering it. Although I am surprised, I thought Bats wouldn't let Batgirl and Robin out if they weren't caught up on their work, he never let you away with it." Wally exclaimed, turning contemplative at the end, it had been bothering him as he remembered how much Nightwing used to complain about it.

"I think he is easing up on his Daddy Bats act slightly. He isn't as overprotective and gives Robin and Batgirl more freedom." Nightwing shrugged.

"I don't think that is ever going to happen, especially concerning you 'Wing." Artemis scoffed looking up from her book. Nightwing rolled his eyes at her but didn't argue, knowing it was hopeless.

"Moving on. What are you struggling with Garfield?" Nightwing asked strolling over and sitting down next to the frustrated hero.

"I don't understand how to do this." Garfield sighed pointing at a question. "It's been explained to me several times but I still keep messing up!"

"Well, you have to do this . . ." With that Nightwing explained as best as he could how to answer all the questions that Gar was struggling with, helping him work through several problems until he started to get the hang of it.

"You're good at maths?" Robin asked his face pulled in an expression of surprise, he really hadn't expected that from his older brother. He knew Nightwing was a talented hero but he acted like such a dork at times it was easy to forget he was actually very smart.

"Don't look so surprised. 'Wing here was a mathlete and a maths genius. He won a ridiculous amount of competitions. You do know he skipped a couple grades right? You're brother is like a secret genius." Wally bragged for his friend, he knew the younger heroes kept underestimating him, especially in terms of smarts and it frustrated him sometimes.

"Ignore him. Kid Mouth never shuts up, but if you struggle with any science work Kid Moron here is a science geek." Nightwing pushed said moron, rolling his eyes again.

"I am very proud of being a science geek! Which is why I'm going to share my genius with all of you impressionable young minds by singing the new periodic table song." Wally grinned ignoring the groans from the Artemis and Nightwing whom had had the displeasure of hearing it before (way too many times).

"There's hydrogen and helium and lithium, beryllium-" Wally started singing, very off tune.

"No, stop him!" Nightwing leapt after his friend. Artemis soon joined him trying to catch the speedster as he ran around the room, barley dodging the angry pair.

"Boron, carbon everywhere and nitrogen all through the air. There's oxygen so you can breath and fluorine for your pretty teeth. Neon to light up the signs and sodium for salty times. Magnesium." Wally continued his voice reaching a terrible crescendo.

"Nooooooooo!" Artemis screeched as she attempted to catch her boyfriend alongside Nightwing as the rest of the team watched the show eagerly. It wasn't every day that you got to witness the speedster being chased around a room by his girlfriend and best friend. Actually, scratch that it was fairly common, well it used to be.

It didn't look like Artemis and Nightwing would be able to catch Wally until Wally turned around to look at his pursuers and bumped into something, or rather someone. He turned around only to gulp at who he had ran into. It was the Dark Knight himself. Wally received a Bat Glare for his unfortunate situation. Luckily he had been on the receiving end so many times he was fairly used to it, though that didn't really make it any less scary.

With a glance at the rest of the (now silent) team Batman turned with a swirl of his cape and disappeared around a corner. He was leaving to do something important, probably. Unconsciously almost every one of the non-Bats let out a breath of air they didn't know they had been holding.

"You know? I think you're right. He isn't as scary anymore. He's slipping." Wally tilted his head contemplatively, still collapsed on the ground in a rather odd position.

"Yeah you can go tell him that." Batgirl snorted, gaining a quick head shake from the speedster who had finally sat up.

"Wally, I never said that he wasn't scary-." Nightwing sighed, shaking his head at his friend.

"Scary schmary. Well, now that he is gone-." Wally leapt up and resumed his horrible singing drawing groans from the whole room. With a cackle he was back off speeding around the room.

Nightwing grinned, it was just like the old days. He was glad they had gotten off topic about his abilities. He enjoyed people underestimating him, it gave him an advantage. It was also great to get a break rom everything, things had slowly started going crazy and he had this terrible feeling that something really bad was coming.

And finished.

I hope you all enjoyed and I would love suggestions for the next chapter, maybe Donna or the Teen Titans or even Deathstroke. Maybe something completely different.

I will try to update as quickly as I can, however there is no guarantee.

Once again I hope you enjoyed.

Robyn out.