A/N: In which minors make the most boss gangs, Wally is (still) an idiot, and Red Hood is discouraged from covering the Team with red paintballs.
…I'm doing this just because I can. I don't own anything.
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"Kasumi, Demon!" Robin called, gesturing to the thugs with crowbars.
Demon grinned as he rushed forward with his twin hunting knives, and Kasumi moved quickly as she kicked down her share of the simple criminals. Behind her mask, the faintest smirk briefly touched her lips before she was moving again.
Red Hood, on the other hand, had an entirely different approach. Since Robin refused to let him have actual guns because of the whole 'no killing unless absolutely one-hundred-percent unavoidable' thing (although Demon still got to have his sword and knives and Kasumi got twin katana, go fig), he had fallen back to using paintball guns he had picked up, and although they weren't as good as the genuine article would be, even he had to admit that they were pretty decent for taking out people, and the fact that they could blind was rather useful.
"Spoiler, Turbo, how much more time do you need?" Robin asked, smashing back those who were coming too close with his eskrima sticks and red throwing disks.
Turbo paused for a moment before answering proudly, "Finished." Spoiler, knowing that he could now cover himself, leapt into the fray with a handful of shuriken in hand.
The first idiot who thought he could take on the now alone Turbo was met by a quick blow to the head from Turbo's collapsible staff. The second idiot had failed to notice the first one getting taken down.
Robin, who had become more aggressive as soon as Turbo had said he was finished, glanced over and noticed that his team had taken out most of the drug trafficking ring criminals that had been there. "Outsiders, fall back."
"And it was just getting fun, too," Red Hood complained in jest, but when the smoke bombs Robin and Demon had thrown cleared, the warehouse was empty of all except for the unconscious criminals.
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"So what is it this time?' Wally asked, annoying Roy already. "More nano-bot clouds? Some crazy assassin who wants to kill Superman with a feather?"
"No, and who the hell gave you sugar for breakfast?" Red Arrow asked, giving his 'younger brother' a strange look for the second theory. "Actually, it's that new gang, the one that keeps moving around. Although, really, I don't know if 'gang' is the best term…"
"Explain," Batman said, startling both of the teenagers because they hadn't heard him approach.
"They were in Star City last night," Roy elaborated after a moment's hesitation. "They took down a drug trafficking ring without any serious injuries to the members of it. Admittedly, a decent number of the perps were either lightly slashed up with a knife or covered in red paint, but they didn't kill them. And I know it was the gang because they left this," he placed a bagged red disk on the table, "behind."
Batman didn't say anything for a moment, just looking at the disk. "Tell the rest of the team you have a new mission."
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"So, what do you think is gonna happen?" Wally asked, vibrating his seat, although he tried not to. He hadn't liked it last time when M'gann scolded him for it.
"Hopefully one of them knocks you out," Artemis said, causing Red Arrow to glare at her.
"Hopefully we do not have to fight them," Aqualad said. "From what we know of them, they are all rather skilled in combat, especially the leader and the one with the paintball guns."
"And the pair with the blades," Kid Flash added in before he frowned. "How is it that the Justice League has this little information on these guys?"
"Because they came out of nowhere and don't stay in one place very long," Red Arrow said. "Batman thinks that by reviewing where they've been in the past might reveal something, but he hasn't found anything yet."
"Which is why we are to avoid fighting this group if we can avoid it," Aqualad added in, backing up his friend. And hopefully we can.
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Kid Flash was nervous. The team had already walked right into a trap when it was revealed that the 'supposed current location' of the 'gang' they were after turned out to be someone the gang had crossed, and then somebody had thrown a bunch of smoke bombs into the room.
"Hey!" a new voice said, and Kid Flash was barely able to make out someone standing just a few feet away, holding some kind of gun. Unconsciously, he edged closer to Red Arrow. "Who the hell do you think you are, messing with Outsider business?"
"Stand down, Red Hood," another voice said as the fan whirred to life, the smoke clearing away to reveal six kids, each of them wearing a mask of some sort. Three of them wore domino masks, one of them had on what looked like a dark purple ski mask, another had a full-face red mask, and the last had on what resembled a futuristic gas-mask.
"Uh…" Artemis said. "Not to be rude, but who are you?"
"Robin," the oldest of the boys with a domino mask on said, and the team realized he was the one who told the other to stand down. "And this is Red Hood," a gesture to the older boy with the gun and full-face mask, "Spoiler," the girl with the purple ski mask, "Turbo," the second boy wearing a domino mask who held up some type of tablet-like thing in greeting, "Kasumi," the girl with the 'gas-mask', and the team saw that she had two katana strapped to her back, "and Demon," the last boy, whose domino mask was green, and the two knives and sword he carried were easily visible, even though he didn't look very old at all. "And hello to you as well, Kid Flash, Superboy, Aqualad, Red Arrow, Miss Martian, and Artemis."
"…dude…" Kid Flash said, clearly impressed.
"Oh, great, more idiots," Red Hood said.
"Red Hood, I said stand down," Robin said, shooting a quick glare to the other boy. "Sorry 'bout him, he can be a little blunt. So… What'd we'd do to get the Justice League interested enough to send their little covert team of 'partners' after us?"
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E/N: Ok, so before anyone gets confused, here's a list of who's who for the Outsiders…
Robin-Dick Grayson, age 13, leader
Red Hood-Jason Todd, age 14, second-in-command
Kasumi-Cassandra Cain, age 11
Spoiler-Stephanie Brown, age 10
Turbo-Tim Drake, age 8
Demon-Damian (Wayne/al Ghul), age 6