"Uh, sirs? My mother sent me these after the event with Robin" She explained, unzipping her sports bag and opening it to reveal the set of equipment having already put on the bracers. 

Batman and Wildcat both looked in the bag. It looked like a hundred pounds of body armor with a couple weapons as well. It was obvious it all came from the Amazons on Paradise Island. Batman picked a piece of the armor up. Before he could give his thoughts the tall young woman spoke up again. 

"Also, Mr. Batman and Mr. Wildcat sirs I'm not entirely sure how uhm," she moved a strand of hair away from her face before speaking once more, "Well put it this way, I'm rather tall and I'm not sure getting a part time job will make me blend in as such."

Batman finished looking at the piece of armor and dropped it back into the bag. At the sound of hearing the seven foot tall Amazon call six foot three inch Batman 'Mr. Batman' Bruce cringed a little bit inside. Like he didn't already feel as old as somebody like Wildcat. The streets of Gotham and the inmates in and out of Arkham had been wearing him down the last several months. He welcomed the idea of more assistance. 

"You know sweetie, you'd make a great lamppost, or a tree, must be some job openings in those departments here in Gotham," Caitlyn suggested, "Some of us have real physical afflictions and we're still going to blend in nonetheless."

"We've all had a rough week. Could we maybe try to make this less painful than it already is?"  the one called Foo Dog asked passing by.

"I actually had something in mind for you already, Vesta. I've still yet to figure out who paid off Multiplex and Deadshot. It'd have to be someone with money to burn, and I happen to know of a dive where a lot of the crooked cops and high class criminals of Gotham congregate. The Iceburg Lounge is in need of a new metahuman bouncer down in Crown Point..." Batman began to explain to the young woman. 

"So um..." Zero started to say now in costume, "...why is everyone getting transferred to [i]my[/i] school of all places?" it wasn't exactly a pressing question, but he was curious.

"The Gotham Academy didn't have enough room for the lot of ya," Wildcat began answering, "..and we're still not sure how your social skills will be effected by the people of Gotham. This isn't Central City, everyone isn't happy, and the hero isn't running around at super speed with a cheesy smile in a bright suit. Every other weekend some district of Gotham becomes a warzone..." Grant said going off into another tangent conversation, the old man was bad for that sort of thing.

"Oh and... why does my mask make me look like Firestorm of all people? I mean... I'm an ice guy so... looking like a fire guy seems a bit strange."

"What's the matter kid, a thirty thousand dollar suit isn't good enough for ya?" Wildcat said raising an eyebrow under his mask. 

Robert and Daniel didn't know what to think about the suits that had been provided for them. Scales and calf fins like Aquaman? The brothers thought the blue and black suits were cool, but it wasn't like they had applied to be in a team with the Atlantian. Maybe Robin's files had been tampered with, at least that's what the younger of the two thought. So he approached Batman as he was finishing up with Vesta. 

"Um... Batman?" he managed to say loud enough for Batman's attention to be grabbed, "I think you got me and my brother confused with somebody else..."

"Your brother was an all state swimmer for three years in high school, and you've been on your school's diving team now for just under a year. Robin's file said you could swim as fast as you run in giant form, the suit will help you swim even faster... now go fuse. I'm going to need a Leviathan..." Batman instructed.

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Across town two shadowy figures met out by the docks.

"Lawton and Plex managed to keep their mouths shut." one silhouette said to the other.

"Good. The Bat can't know we have plans for one of the kids." replied the other as smoke surrounded them from one's grape smelling cigar.

"Do you really think.." the other began to question before the cigar smoking one interrupted.

"The Boy Wonder did his homework, it's just a matter of leaving the right breadcrumbs to get Batman and these 'Titans' where we want them. When the last of them are standing, the Bat won't be a problem and we'll finally take this city..."

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Several days of training, school, and getting jobs had gone by. It was late September, and the air of the Gotham night's blew cold...

~KL~