Two days later, the circus was packing up to move to their next stop of the European tour- Geneva. By now, Robin was over the flu, however, there was an increase of people with the flu which included Miss Martian.

"Who knew a martian could get sick?" asked M'gann hypothetically as she lied down on the couch of the girls' trailer with the rest of the team gathered around her.

"H.G. Wells?" piped Robin which caused Artemis to elbow the younger boy. "Okay. When did you first start feeling sick?"

"Just right after boarding the train- it came on suddenly. Now that I think about it- I think I started to come down with it right after talking to Ray," answered M'gann.

"Yeah," agreed Robin, nodding. "He rubbed my head for good luck that night before I came down with the flu."

As Robin slowly put together the pieces in his head, he came to the conclusion that Ray wasn't who he said he was. However, Robin wasn't sure if he was correct or not. Robin moved out from the cabin with the rest of the team following him.

"I heard Ray's down with the flu, too," said Robin as he stopped in front of the sleeping compartment that belongs to Ray. Robin slowly opened the door before peeking his head inside to find that Ray wasn't in his bed.

"I guess he wasn't that sick," commented Superboy once he made it inside the cabin after the team.

"Hey, guys," said Artemis catching everyone's attention. Artemis was holding up a mask that looked like Ray's face. "I found Ray."

"Split up! Search the whole train!" As soon as those words left Robin's mouth, everyone began to move, each going in different directions in hopes of finding where "Ray" had gone.

As Robin was running through the train, looking into each compartment for any signs of Ray when he stumbled into a storage cabin. Robin took a step inside the cabin and opened one of the trunks in curiosity. His breath got caught in his throat when his eyes landed on the silk fabrics that were in the trunk. The fabrics had belonged to Faith.

Robin closed the trunk and opened another one right next to it. Inside this trunk were all the pictures that Robin had seen hanging up in Faith's trailer. He picked up a picture frame that contained a picture of him and his family and Faith and hers smiling at the camera. Robin turned the picture frame around and undo the small hinges that were keeping the picture safely inside the frame He then removed the back, took the picture out of the frame, folded the picture in half and tucked the picture inside his shirt. Robin repeated this action one more time when he saw the same picture of him and Faith on top of an elephant. Realizing that he was in the middle of a mission, Robin closed the trunk and walked out of the cabin. He could come back at a later time

As he continued his way down the train, a muffled sound behind a closed door caught his attention. Robin reached forward to open the door, but it was locked. He took a step back and gave the door a hard kick that caused the door to open. Inside the room was Jack Haly tied up on the floor with a piece of cloth tied around his mouth to keep him silent.

Robin quickly rushed over to the ringmaster and pulled down the cloth from around his mouth. "Who did this to you?"

"Ray! Right after the train left Bruges," exclaimed Haly. Robin got up from where he was crouched beside Haly and ran out of the room leaving Haly still tied up.

Robin reached up to his comlink turning it on when M'gann didn't respond over the mind link. "Dawn, come in."

"Dan?" asked M'gann not used to speaking over the com link.

Robin continued to run down the train. "I tried to reach you the other way."

"I think the flu's taken out my other way."

Robin was positive with who they were dealing with now. Parasite. It would explain how the entire circus was suspected for stealing technology as well as everyone coming down with the "flu." Robin quickly alerted the rest of the team with whom they were dealing with so that they could stay out of the Parasite's reach.

It wasn't even five minutes later until Superboy spoke up over the com link saying that he's got Parasite. Robin quickly ran to where Superboy had said he was and ended up being the first one to arrive to help. Parasite's eyes glowed green and Superboy found himself being pulled into Parasite's hand as the rest of team showed up

"Now, that's the full body Kryptonian flavor that I love," growled Parasite as he drained Superboy's power before dropping him to the ground.

Artemis and Red drew their bows back, aiming at Parasite, but Parasite quickly disintegrated their bows using laser vision that he had absorbed from Superboy. Turning back around, Parasite took off towards the sky with the technology that he had come for. Acting quickly, Robin leapt up onto to the technology which was flying lower than Parasite and used it as leverage to get to the thief.

Robin quickly grabbed the flash drive that was in Parasite's pocket before pulling his arm back to punch. Parasite, however, responded much quicker and threw a punch at Robin before the boy could attack him causing Robin to fall back down and slide off of the train. M'gann reacted quickly and reached out for the Boy Wonder's hand before he could plummet to his death once again.

M'gann struggled with her grip on the youngest team member. The train continued over a bridge, and Robin could feel himself slipping off the side of the train. When Artemis and Red Arrow saw that M'gann was struggled to hold up Robin, the two archers ran over to where Robin was hanging off of and helped pull him back up. Robin collapse against the roof of the train once he was safely on top of it, breathing heavily.

As soon as M'gann knew that Robin wouldn't fall to his death, she turned her attention onto her boyfriend. "Conner!"

Superboy groaned as he pushed himself up. "I'm fine."

Robin stared at the clone in disbelief. "You're drained! Parasite took more power than you even had. Heat vision?"

"I have the genetic potential for it," retorted Superboy. "It must've been enough for him."

Robin let out an angry yell that Parasite was able to escape. He walked over to the back edge of the car they were on top of and lowered himself down and entered the back door. Not only did they lose Parasite, Robin still had no clue where Faith could've disappeared to.

The rest of the team slowly followed after Robin back to their train cabin. By the time the rest of the team entered the cabin, Robin was already out of his Dan costume and in his Robin uniforming sitting on the couch. The team walked over to where the Boy Wonder was seated and watched as Robin pulled out a flash drive, plugging it into a USB port on his glove.

As soon as the computer recognized the device that was plugged in, it pulled up a holographic screen that showed coding on it. Robin tapped a button on the edge of the holographic screen which allows Robin to bypass the security feature on the flash drive. A green robin popped up on screen notifying Robin that he was in.

Robin read what was on the flash drive out loud to everyone in the room. "Looks like Parasite's working for Intergang. Everything he's stolen has been a part of something. They're putting together something that looks like it could generate . . . black holes."

"Oh, come on," scoffed Red Arrow as he brought his arms across his chest. "To build something like that you'll need a particle accelerator.

"Like the large Boson Collider in Geneva?" asked Artemis glancing over at the two.

"That's the circus's next stop."

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