Closed(ish) Investigation team tinies

[demon_brat]

Characters: Robin (Damian Wayne), Robin (Dick Grayson), Zatanna Zatara, Bean, Ender Wiggin, Sadie Kane
Date: During the investigations times!
Location: Around Keeliai, mostly Water Sector
Situation: The tiniest self-organized investigation team in action?
Warnings/Rating: Tinies dealing with adult things; violence possible.

Damian had seen Evandau's message, of course. He had reported - as Robin - for at assignment work, but there was nothing for him. Then he waited around for the assignments to be completed.

Neither Bean (or Ender) nor Grayson were put into teams.

Well, then. At least this way he was going to keep an eye on them. And he was sure they could find something odd to investigate. If there were, what, two dozen and more things wrong? There would be one more, he was sure.

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Five are a team

[demon_brat]

Of course, it was not just Damian, Grayson, and Bean. Ender was a logic addition, and Zatara... as Rayner had informed him that he was going to be under cover, Damian guessed she could join them, rather than remain alone and vulnerable.

So five of them did go out, asking question. And, yes, there was something odd in Water Sector.

ooc: This one is for settling down of the five who more or less know each other. Including Bean and Ender reactions to the two Robins, if wanted!

[justlittle]

Bean was surprised when not one, but two people claiming to be Robin showed up at his suite. It was clear just from speaking to them which one was the one he'd spoken to on the Nets, and he quickly aligned himself with that one, though never revealing himself as Julian.

He was glad to get out and involved, and glad to have Ender along as well. The girl was new, and Bean was still forming an opinion of her. But all in all it felt good to get out of his suite for a change.

[backwordscompatible]

He was staring at her. Somewhat. Glances had been thrown her way. It might not've been the most obvious of staring, but it was obvious enough to her.

Zatanna had only been mildly surprised when two boys even younger than the other Robin showed up. Of course. Why not? She didn't question, if only because no one else did.

"...if you have something to say, might as well get it out now." She gave a faint grin in his general direction. Her tone was casual, like there was little he could do or say that would actually bother her. "Otherwise this is going to be a really, really long mission."

[justlittle]

He was surprised at being caught out, but then again he wasn't being very subtle in his measure of her.

"I don't know you," he opts to say. "I was merely trying to assess your place on this... team, of sorts."

[backwordscompatible]

Just like the other Robin.

She was honestly tempted to ask if the two of them were related.

"And I don't know you, either. So I guess that makes us even." Straightforward and to-the-point, but with a hint of playful tone behind the otherwise truthful statement. "Though I'd be more than a little impressed if you actually could figure out what I can do just by looking at me. Most people at least try to ask a few questions first."

[justlittle]

"Alright then." If she wants questions, she can have questions. "What is it you can do? Or are you one of many who can no longer do what they normally could? And how do you know Robin? Either one."

[backwordscompatible]

"You don't waste any time, do you?"

Though, to be fair, she had challenged him. Challenge Accepted, she supposed.

"Alright, in order...I think..." since her memory wasn't quite as good as some, "I can do magic. Yes, my powers are temporarily gone...and no, that's not going to stop me from helping out. I know the older Robin because we're from the same world, and I know the younger Robin because he keeps following me around everywhere."

...okay, so that last one might've been a slight exaggeration. But not a total lie.

[justlittle]

"Is there time to waste?"

The look on Bean's face makes it clear what he thinks of "magic," but he doesn't say anything. "Are you a superhero?" Because he's pieced together from talking to Damian and various others what certain worlds are like, and the Robins seem to be superheroes.

Which just makes Bean wonder what Damian is doing in all this.

[backwordscompatible]

She's seen that look before. Whatever. She'll just have to prove him wrong when the power's turned back on.

"More or less, yeah."

[justlittle]

Bean nods. He supposes that's good enough. He's still not 100% sold on the idea of superheroes, but if what he knows about them is true, then they're worth having around.

[backwordscompatible]

"What about you?"

It was an open-ended question. Referring to the query or whether or not he was some kind of superhero as well. Or what he was capable or. Or why he was here. Or how he knew one or both Robins.

(Because she assumed, based on his question, that was the common link between them.)

[justlittle]

"Back home I commanded armies. And under Ender's leadership, we won the war that saved the human race." He doesn't always talk about his role in the Formic Wars, and he rarely ever brags about it, instead stating it simply as a fact. To look at the two Battle School boys, you'd think Bean would be the one in charge, given Ender's more relaxed nature, but Bean knows what Ender is truly capable of.

"Robin" he gestures to the smaller one, "and I have a mutual friend."

[backwordscompatible]

Well.

That was.

Not what she had been expecting at all.

Superhero vigilantes? No big. But commander of armies? Zatanna had a strong feeling he wasn't lying. Or exaggerating, either. He really didn't seem the type.

"Which mutual friend?"

[demon_brat]

"Rayner." Damian's answer was quick. He had no doubt that Bean could answer, but, well. Sometimes (like when he was very worried about somebody) he kind of felt the need to parade with the proximity to the threatened person.

(And the Lantern was under cover, with a strong possibility of not returning.)

"Who will not be joining us for the moment."

[justlittle]

Bean nods, going along with Robin's answer. He wasn't about to divulge his Net persona just yet.

[backwordscompatible]

She didn't quite understand the secrecy, but she also didn't doubt the validity of the statement. A smile appeared, considering her own relationship with Kyle.

"You know, I'd like to be surprised. But I'm really not. Kyle seems to have a habit of collecting strays." Herself included.

[justlittle]

As opposed as Bean is to being referred to as a "stray," he can't disagree with the statement.

"It seems that way."