How To Guess a Robin's Identity

Meeting Green Arrow

I'm back, and this is before GA takes in Roy.

All of the league had been told about Robin after Superman's encounter. He hadn't been able to shut up about the small sidekick to the famed cape crusader. And it was safe to say everyone wanted to meet this apparently talented yet cute little boy.

Green Arrow was proud to say he was the second to meet the kid, even if he met him as Oliver Queen first. It had happened during a charity gala, similar to the ones Wayne industries semi-frequently held, the difference being that it was being held in conjunction with Queen Industries.

Robin unfortunately had been dragged along as Dick in what he called a 'stupid monkey suit from Arkham'. It had been seven months since his parents had been murdered and three since he was aloud out on patrol. Only if he had Batman with him though of course. In that time as Bruce's ward he had already attended several galas and had already learnt to hate them. All the adults were either condescending, sickening sweet or stared down their nose at him.

So when he first met Oliver it had mainly been a formal interaction for all the reporters circling like vultures. Robin of course knew that this billionaire was Green Arrow protector of Star City. While GA could only guess that Dick was Robin for he knew Bruce was Batman.

Luckily after an hour of smiling and acting for the cameras Dick managed to sneak away from the main hall way into a quiet room near the back with a large window seat. Dick slowly made his way to the window seat enjoying the peace and quiet away from the music and repetitive flashing of cameras and constant questions. All these events were the same and such a drastic difference from his life before. Normally he would have tried to play sick or stay with Alfred but this gala was far too important and he had been a bit curious to meet Oliver Queen.

He knew he shouldn't technically be on his own but the whole environment was far too suffocating. He would enjoy a few minutes peace before returning t the chaos in the main hall. His few minutes of peace looking into the fading daylight above the town outside the hall were shattered as fast footsteps made their way towards him.

Dick quickly made the decision to hide in the shadows and see who it was. After all, if it was the majority of party goers or a reporter he didn't want them to notice him. He backed away and was hidden seconds before the door was gently opened to let in the co-host of the charity ball, Oliver Queen.

Queen walked quickly over to the window seat, where Dick sat moments before, and practically collapsed down onto the seat, like a puppet with his string's cut, giving out a long sigh. Deeming it safe Dick came out of the shadows towards the man on the windowsill completely oblivious to the young six year old watching him.

When Queen finally noticed him, he jumped in shock from seeing the boy seemingly appear from nowhere. Kids were normally fairly noisy but this one was completely silent in his approach.

"So your Dick Grayson, Bruce's kid?"

"Duh, and you're Oliver Queen. And I'm not a kid!"

Both just stared at each in silence, trying to inspect the other without revealing that was what they were doing. Dick achieved this to a better degree than Oliver.

"Call me Ollie, kiddo." He broke the silence which had started to edge towards being awkward.

"I'm not a kiddo either!" Dick squealed in protest. Again it went back to an awkward silence.

It was shattered by a gun shot.

Which came from the main hall. Both superheroes looked at each other and nodded, coming to an understanding, Ollie slightly reluctantly. They split up, Ollie now in Green Arrow mode ready to barge straight through the double doors as the frontal assault and Dick now dressed as Robin sneaking into the rafters as backup.

The first thing Robin did was assess the situation as Batman had taught him. There was no point jumping straight into a situation without knowing what was going on, all you would do is make the situation worse.

A group of robbers wearing black masks and holding guns had everyone surrounded. Well, that was pretty cliché, but thankfully not anything new for either heroes. They had taken any children (who had been unlucky enough to be dragged along to the event like him) and were threatening to shoot them unless the adults gave any money, jewellery or anything else worth money.

Robin was disgusted, yet not that surprised, to see that some adults were still reluctant to hand over any of their belongings despite guns being aimed at the crying kid's heads. Finally he spotted Bruce also being held at gun point and being questioned on the location of his co-host.

At that moment Green Arrow burst into the room, bow loaded with an arrow ready to shoot.

"Let them go!"

"And why should we?" The leader of the gang of robbers asked in a classic gangster voice.

Because the situation wasn't cliché enough thought Robin.

"Because I said so!" He shouted making Robin want to hit his head against a wall. Clearly these robbers weren't the brightest and Green Arrow wasn't exactly displaying the maturity you expect of someone his age.

"Ok then." The leader said smirking, which is never a good thing. He whirled around and grabbed the closest kid, aiming his gun right at her head as his arm wrapped around the kid's neck. The kid, a young girl with long blonde hair looked about twelve years old, she had red tear tracks down her face and was occasionally sniffling but had managed to control her tears. When she felt the gun pressed against her head she started shaking.

Green Arrow and the criminal were at a impasse, neither could move without the other reacting. Definitely time to interfere. Robin flipped down from the roof at that second delivering a kick to the leaders face. The shock of a small kid flipping off of the roof froze the room for a second before chaos erupted. The criminals tried to keep a control on the hostages and the civilians started to run, leaving through the doors that Green Arrow had broken open on entry. Robin and Green Arrow teamed up, working in sync to release the remaining hostages and take down the criminals.

Bruce gave Robin a look then went outside to help the civilians, knowing it would be suspicious if he disappeared too.

I think it was safe to say out of the dozen or so armed robbers, Robin knocked out more than Green Arrow (not that any one was counting).

When they had them all tied up, the pair of heroes ran knowing they had to get changed before the cops came, it would be suspicious if they couldn't find one of the hosts and the other host's ward but could find two heroes (one of which was a child).

Minutes later they were back in the quiet room with the giant window pretending to have been hiding once they, claiming they had heard the gunshots and decided to bunker down in that room. When the cops came in no one suspected anything they were just a billionaire and a different billionaire's ward cowering in fear.

Later Robin got in a lot of trouble, no patrol for a week so not aster, and Green Arrow got a glare from Bruce for putting Robin in 'unnecessary danger' which made him shudder a bit in fear. You would think that he would be used to it with the amount of times GA had worked with Batman, but parental Batman was a whole new level of scary.

But even with the scary Daddy Bats, there was one thing both Green Arrow and Superman could agree on which was, Robin was absolutely adorable. He went straight to the Watch Tower and told everyone one who would listen about his encounter and had a long discussion with Superman.

Hi guys it's Robyn again.

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