How To Guess a Robin's Identity

Mental Barriers

This time the team is learning /practising their mental barriers - as you have to admit they come in contact with a lot of people with mental abilities like Psimon.

Warning: Implied/Referenced child abuse (if that triggers you just skip Wally's turn practising his barriers)

Hope you enjoy and thank you for reading.

Robyn

The team was waiting in the training room for Black Canary to start the final day of special training. They had spent the rest of the week improving their language skills and interrogation skills and they had been told this was the last part of the 'special' training. They were all incredibly curious to find out what they would be doing today (no one had given them any clues no matter how much they asked/pleaded).

"Today team, we will be working on creating mental barriers to stop other telepaths messing with your minds." Black Canary announced as she entered the training room. She paused, glancing at the team's resident Martian. "No offence of course M'gann."

"Mental barriers?" Wally asked. He really hadn't been expecting that.

"Yes mental barriers," Black Canary smiled. "They are kind of like a force field inside your mind to stop anyone getting in and messing things up or stealing secrets." She explained.

"Cool!" Wally grinned, causing everyone else to laugh.

"Yes Wally. Now sit down in a comfortable position and close your eyes. M'gann I know you are already aware of this, so just use the time to practise your barriers as the others form them." Black Canary instructed.

Everyone sat down in a circle. Robin had Wally on his right and Kaldur on his left. Artemis sat on Wally's other side with M'gann between her and Superboy, who had Kaldur on his other side completing the circle. Black Canary stood behind them, slowly moving around the outside of the circle. They were all sitting with crossed legs and closed eyes, some taking it more serious than others.

"Now focus on creating some kind of barrier around your mind, maybe a brick wall or electric fence, whatever you think will work." She continued instructing them as she carefully inspected the group.

Everyone focused and sat silently for a few minutes, then Wally started to twitch and kept shifting around causing everyone else to lose concentration and open their eyes curious as to what the noise was. Artemis was the first one to spot the source of the obnoxious noise.

"Well done Kid Twitch! You made us lose concentration." Artemis exclaimed frustrated.

"Yeah, well you were probably already failing Arty farty!" Wally shouted back, arguing for the sake of arguing. It wasn't this fault that he struggled to sit still for long periods of time.

"Stop it you two." Black Canary interfered. She managed to corral the group into concentrating again eventually). After half an hour of silence she spoke again. She allowed them to open their eyes as she made her announcement. "Now, Martian Manhunter has thankfully agreed to work with you and test out your barriers." She declared. "He will be here in about ten minutes so try and practise until he gets here."

The team settled down, trying to do as they were told and concentrate again, well everyone but Robin, who was sitting cross legged and grinning, unseen to the rest of the teams closed eyes. M'gann was also smiling, happy to see her 'uncle' - she didn't get to see him that often although he did come and visit her occasionally.

On time, Martian Manhunter glided into the training room ten minutes later. Once the team heard him enter, they gave up trying to concentrate and looked up to watch the League member's entry.