First Mission. KF blows their cover.

Nightwing's POV

"Seriously, who trained you?" Wally asked, after getting his butt kicked for the fourth time in a roll.

Riptide smirked, pulling up KF from the floor, "The heroes of the old, plus their mentor." Nightwing wasn't sure what she meant by that but he decided to let that pass.

"So, who's next?"

"Team, report to the mission room." Batman's voice sounded around the cave.

In the mission room, there stood Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and Black Canary. The Team plus Riptide the new recruit all gathered in front of them, waiting to hear out their mission.

"There have been reports that black-mask has been sighted harboring illegal drugs and weapons at Star City's harbor. I need you all to spy on him and gather intel. Remember, don't be rational, and don't let yourself be seen. Are we clear?" They all nodded.

They were all getting ready to go aboard the bioship when Riptide stepped back and eyed the bioship wearily.

"Um, are we gonna fly there on that thing?" She asked with nervousness in her voice. Nightwing raised an eyebrow at her, silently questioning her.

"I'm not allowed to fly." She stated simply. Kaldur looked concerned.

"Why? Are you scared of heights?" Megan asked her. The raven-hair heroine shook her head no.

"Then what?" Riptide looked troubled, she looked at Kaldur for support.

"This has something to with her past, it brought back bad memories," Kaldur explained. Riptide nodded her head, with her mask on, Nightwing couldn't see her eyes but he was sure the girl was hiding the pain in her eyes. In the last two days, Nightwing had noticed a lot of things in Percy, how she always had this cheery personality, how she always scanned her surroundings before walking into a room... But her eyes were what made Nightwing confused, they looked like broken pieces of glass. What had that girl seen to have that broken look? That's the look a veteran would have after returning from war. They were never the same again.

"If you are not flying, how are you gonna get there?" Nightwing asked Riptide. She smiled mischievously

"I'll swim," She stated easily. Wally let out a laugh.

"Right, you will probably get there in time to see us finishing the mission.

Riptide gave him her signature grin, "We'll see about that, Kid Bluff." With that, she jumped into the cove disappeared out of sight.

"She is serious?" Artemis's eyes widened while Kaldur laughed a little.

"Come on, we don't want to lose the race."

They were riding in comfortable silence when Kaldur asked out of the blue,

"Miss Martian, can you tract where our friend Percy is?"

Megan looked confused but did as she was asked. A holographic screen appeared in front of them. The team's eyes widened and their jaws hit the floor.

"How is she going so fast?!" Superboy exclaimed. There on the screen, the red dot representing Riptide was moving at an inhuman rate, faster than the flash on land.

"Is she an Atlantean?" Nightwing asked Kaldur. The Atlantean shook his head with a smile.

"No, they are a race far more mythical than us," His smile saddened a bit. Nightwing frowned, something is bothering his friend and it has something to with Riptide.

"What do you mean by mythical race?" Artemis asked, clearly confused.

"That would be her choice to tell, not mine."

After that, they stay silent until the landing. Riptide was waiting for them at the dock, she was completely dried and ready, her figure was relaxed yet alert. She smirked when she saw them.

"Took you guys long enough, now what's the plan?" Wally huffed and grumbled something Nightwing couldn't make out under his breath. Percy clearly heard it for she raised an eyebrow at him as if challenging him. That shut Wally up.

Kaldur cleared his throat, "As Batman had instructed us, we are to spy on Black-mask and gather intel on this drug deal. Remember, do not let yourself be seen." They nodded and divided into groups. Superboy with Miss Martian, Nightwing with Riptide, and that leaves Artemis, Kid Flash, and Aqualad a team. They moved in under the cover of night and went into their position.

Nightwing and Riptide were hiding behind a stash of boxes. They stayed quiet and inspect the scene in front of them. There stood Black-Mask with a bunch of ugly blocks around him, all carrying weapons. BM was inspecting a box full of newly made weapons and having a conversation with a man, who had his back turned from them.

"We need to move closer to listen to their conversation." He leaned in and whispered to Percy, inhaling in her ocean sent. That made his heart skipped a bit but his training made him snapped out of it immediately. Percy nodded in understanding,

"I'll go first." She said and moved out without a sound. Nightwing watched as the girl navigated smoothly between boxes and ducked the watchful eyes of Black-Mask's gang. He also noticed that she blends in with the shadow-wait, he narrowed his eyes, the shadows seem to bent to her, whenever she moves the shadow followed, hiding her wherever she is. That's interesting, he thought.

Finally, Riptide is in position. She looked directly at Nightwing and gave the all-clear signal. Nightwing nodded in acknowledgment and moved out to join her.

"-These are the last of your order, I hoped that our partner is satisfied with the last shipment?" BM asked the man.

The mysterious man chuckled without humor. "Oh, he is happy, in fact-" he was cut off by a watcher shouting.

"Attack! Don't let them get away!"

Nightwing peeked out and sighed inwardly. Someone had blown their cover. The rest of the Team were all engaged in battle.

"The young heroes again, they are missing one, where is he?" Black-Mask growled and picked up his gun. He opened fire on the boxes. Nightwing and Riptide jumped out and ran.

"Get them!"

They reached the Team and got into fight stands.

"Alright, who messed up this time?" Nightwing asked bringing out his Escrima Sticks the same time Riptide bring out her twin daggers.

"Kid Idiot, of course, who do you expect?" Artemis snorted firing an arrow.

Riptide laughed as she charged forward and kicked one of the ugly in the face and dogged another's punch. "Is there anything he won't mess up?"

Wally pouted as he zipped by, "Of course there is! You people just haven't realized how awesome I am."

"Sureeeee"

Superboy dropped down from the sky and grabbed the nearest guy by the collar and throw him towards the other guy, knocking them out. "Can we discuss this later and deal with the matter at hand?"

"Yeah, good point."