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"That was a lot harder than expected." Kid Flash said plopping down on the couch in the recreation room of the cave.
"I know," Artemis said sitting next to him, "Who'd of thought the simple bank robbery we went to stop would be led by Mr. Freeze?"
"Robin I apologize for ever underestimating you, we just took on Mr. Freeze and almost didn't make it out of there, I can barely imagine fighting some of Batman's other villains." Kaldur said sitting down next to Wally and Artemis.
"Don't worry about it," Robin said sitting on the ground in front of the couch, "And sorry about leaving and doing my own thing, it's just that the Gotham villain puts me in the Gotham mindset. For a second I thought I was there with Batgirl." He chuckled and laid down covering his face with a pillow.
Everyone grew eerily silent. Confused, Robin lifted the pillow off his face to see everyone's eyes glued to him. "What?" He asked sitting up, confused at the sudden change of tone in the room.
"It's just- you've never actually mention Batgirl." M'gann responded after a long silence.
After seeing a confused look on Robin's face, Zatanna said, "We never really knew that you guys worked together, we just assumed she was another vigilante who occasionally helped you and Batman."
"Oh." Robin said awkwardly rubbing the back of his neck.
"So she is just another vigilante?" Kaldur asked.
"No- no she's also Batman's sidekick." Robin responded nervously.
"So you guys are close?" Raquel asked.
Robin looked over to Kid Flash for help, only to see that he was completely engrossed with the seams on his glove.
"I don't know, I guess, I mean I see her a lot." He didn't want to talk about Batgirl, not that he didn't like her, it's the complete opposite actually. He didn't just didn't want to have to share her with the rest of the team. He knew the second they met her they'd fall in love and want her to join the team right away. While Robin knew it would benefit the team, a selfish part of him wanted to keep her for himself.
"So if you guys are close..." Raquel started.
"Can we meet her?" Zatanna asked, eyes bright with excitement.
This was exactly what Robin was afraid of.
"What- why would you want to meet her?" Robin stuttered.
"Are you serious?" Raquel asked in disbelief, "She's Batgirl, why wouldn't we want to meet her?"
"Okay everyone who wants to meet Batgirl, raise your hand." Artemis announced.
Raquel and Zatanna's hands shot up, followed by Artemis Kaldur and M'gann's.
"You too M'gann?" Robin whined.
"Sorry Robin, but when I was on Mars, she's one of the heroes my Uncle J'onn would tell me stories about. I couldn't possibly pass up a chance to meet her." M'gann explained.
Robin sulked back and gave a desperate look to Superboy it hopes he would be opposed.
"Connor, do you want to meet her?" M'gann asked her boyfriend.
Superboy looked over at M'gann from the tv static he was watching intently, "Considering I'm only a year old, I didn't even know there was a Batgirl so I really don't care either way."
"I'll take that as a yes." Artemis grinned, "So that's me, Connor, M'gann, Zatanna, Raquel, Wally-"
"I never said yes!" Wally interjected.
"Oh yeah, " Artemis came to a sudden realization, "why didn't you say yes?"
"I have no reason to meet Batgirl." He said nervously.
"I would of thought you'd jump at the chance to meet Batgirl, no offense Artemis, but you're telling me Wally West doesn't want to meet a beautiful, mysterious girl?" M'gann said.
"No offense taken," Artemis responded, "You're absolutely right... what aren't you saying Wally?"
"Nothing! Why would I hide anything from you sweetheart?"
"Wally," Artemis glared, "what aren't you telling us?"
"Nothing, really! I just don't want to meet Batgirl!"
"That could be true, unless-" Raquel said quizzically, "you've already met her!"
"What? No!" Wally laughed nervously.
"You have met her! Of course you have you're the Flash's protégé of course you've met both Batman's sidekicks!" Artemis exclaimed.
"Why wouldn't you tell us you met Batgirl?" Zatanna asked curiously.
"I have my reasons." He said quietly.
"Tell us!" Artemis pleaded.
"Yeah Wally tell us." "Come on Wally." Pleasee." Everyone said all at once.
"Fine!" Wally gave in to their pleas, "I didn't tell you because..." he muttered something inaudible to the team.
"What'd you say?"
"I said she scares me!"
"She scares you?" Robin asked chuckling.
"Yes! she's exactly like Robin but way more intimidating!"
"Hey!" Robin said with fake hurt in his voice.
"Scary or not, I still want to meet her." Raquel announced. The team nodded in agreement.
"Well if you guys want to meet her so bad you'll just have to track her down yourselves." Robin said with a smirk.
"Deal." Kaldur stated.
"Wait, what?"
"It's a deal, we will track down Batgirl ourselves."
"Yeah," Artemis added, "And if we find her she has to tell us anything we want to know about the man under the mask."
"No!" Wally yelled, "I refuse to track down Batgirl!"
"What? Why not it'll be fun!" Artemis countered.
"Yes because it will be so much fun to find a bat ninja vigilante in her own domain when she doesn't want to be found."
"You don't think we'll find her?" Artemis asked.
"What part of bat ninja vigilante do you not understand? Plus I've known her almost as long as I've known Rob, trust me if she doesn't want to be found she won't be."
"Well I think it'll be fun." Zatanna chimed in, "Plus who doesn't want to be like Robin for a night?"
"Can we do it Robin, please?" M'gann pleaded with big eyes full of hope.
"Fine," he said, "but under one condition- no powers."
"It's a deal!" Rocket said grinning wildly. Robin left the room with his phone, most likely going to inform Batgirl of the deal they made.
"This is gonna be so fun!" M'gann smiled, "it's like a superhero scavenger hunt!"
"How about we do it tomorrow night when we aren't all utterly exhausted?" Kaldur suggested.
Robin walked back into the room grinning, "Batgirl's in."
"This is gonna be so awesome." Artemis said enthusiastically.
"Not to mention after we win we'll know everything about Robin." Raquel added.
"You'll have to win first." Robin smirked, he was gonna have a lot of fun tomorrow night.