How To Guess a Robin's Identity

When Superman called Green Lantern to act as back up for a mission the Bat and he were doing, he could honestly say he did not expect to find a small traffic-light coloured boy standing next to the Dark Night. Though thinking about it he should have expected it, he had heard lots about Batman's new protégé - Robin.

But that didn't mean Hal had appreciated having a kid with them. It was kind of insulting to be fighting alongside a literal child and honestly - what was a small child doing fighting crime?

The mission itself was fairly simple, not exactly a universe or even world threatening one but still quite important - more small city important if we were sticking to that scale. Their mission was to find out as much information as they could about a new group of assassin called the Vipers. They had spent most of the day on a stakeout, waiting for the trade to go down and then stopping said trade - which would have given the Vipers access to several dangerous weapons and they even suspected kryptonite. Superman suspected they were in league or at the very least trading with Lex Luthor, which was why the Boy Scout was along for the ride. To say things went south quickly would be like saying Batman was only a little bit scary.

That led to all three league members trapped in various cages in the large empty, dusty warehouse the trade had been going down in. Robin had been left outside for the actual battle despite his complaints which had reassured Green Lantern that Bats hadn't completely lost his mind (not that he would say that out loud ever).The good news however was they had definitely confirmed the trade included kryptonite. Bad news was that meant Superman was essentially out of action, he was lying in his steel cage barely conscious, surrounded by said kryptonite. Both Batman and himself were wrapped up in rope and chains and shoved into similar steel cages. Batman had been stripped of his utility built and had noticeably more rope and chains then him - which he wasn't sure how to take, and his Green Lantern ring had been taken which meant the villains weren't completely stupid (despite their appearance). Both utility belt and ring were left on a small table next to some of the weapons from the trade.

And the head of the group, the one that seemed to have been controlling the trade, seemed to have taken classes for classic criminal work wear. The man was tall about 6"2, and had noticeable muscles. He wore a classic black ski mask and matching black clothing, which seemed to be the group uniform as the men that surrounded them wore similar outfits and were heavily armed. The only thing that separated him from the others was the snake skin shoes he wore. Green Lantern was thinking about taking back the whole 'not completely stupid' comment seeing as the leader, who he had started to refer to as 'Snake Shoes' in his head (give him a break - he was tied up, he wasn't exactly a writer who comes up with brilliant villain names) had started the classic evil monologue. Green Lantern was pretty sure that all villains really needed to do to defeat the heroes was bore them to death by talking about their plans.

Despite the seemingly sour and hopeless situation Batman seemed to simply be waiting for something. He was wearing his normal scowl not the 'I'm in serious danger scowl' or 'I'm furious scowl', at best he looked mildly annoyed. He barely seemed to even notice the villain and was watching the shadows. Green Lantern tried to find what the Dark Knight was watching, it took a minute before noticing a slight movement in the shadows, back-up had arrived. Almost as soon as he had spotted the movement it was gone, the villain continued monologuing without noticing anything.

Then the commotion started. He heard a series of faint thuds and the occasional gun shot from the small store room behind the cages. The noise seemed to startle Snake Shoes as he finally stopped talking (blessed mercy). Silence rang through the warehouse before Snake Shoes ordered some of the armed men guarding the door to investigate. More thuds echoed and a small scream before it was cut off suddenly. Green Lantern tried to turn around to seem more (not that that would help as there was a wall between them but still) but only managed to find himself in an even less comfortable position (which was an achievement). Batman seemed smug and poor Superman was still fighting unconsciousness.