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Sorry folks who first read this when it was first posted and realized it was the same chapter as before. I have fixed it and the chapter below is the real one. Sorry for the error XD

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'Everything worked out in the end. Connor and M'gann had successfully stopped the prison break, however thought of Renegade still haunted Connor. He had told M'gann slightly about the encounter he had that night with Renegade, and how he wanted to stay and investigate, but in the end he went back to Mount justice. He told M'gann to keep quiet about it. Whoever Renegade was, he was hiding from Batman. If batman found out, Renegade might flee, that is if he hasn't already. After the stopping of the jail break, Negima, the riddler, was reported missing the next day without a trace. Did Renegade have anything to do with that? When they returned to Mount Justice, it did not take Megan's mind powers to tell that Batman was furious about something and was too busy to grace the team with much of his presence before returning to Gotham.

"Dude, Bat's is angrier than usual." Wally murmured to the team. "I wonder if has to do with the new guy that showed up in Gotham."

"New guy?" Artemis asked, seeming intrigued. "Do you mean that hired assassin? I heard from Green Arrow that he actually beat Batman in a fight once."

"No way! No one can beat Batman!" Wally laughed a bit as it was some joke. " I heard from my uncle that Batman could never catch him long enough to get into a fight."

M'gann pursed her lips, eyes glancing towards Connor, who remained stoic during the entire conversation. She had promised Connor that she would not talk about his encounter, but Renegade sounds like a horrible person. Connor caught on that she was staring at him and shook his head before speaking. "So you know a lot about this...assassin?"

"Oh well yeah... Renegade is well known, but..I guess you would not know about him because you were...y'know...not around when he first showed up three years ago. The guy is super strong and leaves no trace.. That is why Batman is so eager to find him and put him to justice." Wally explained. "Dude must have had years of training to basically disappear like that."

"I doubt it." Connor mumbled slightly, remembering the young face of the boy he had met in Belle Reve. There was no way a child that age could have trained for long, unless he was programmed mentally like he was..which was unlikely.

"What makes you say that?" Kaldur asked, gaze turning to look at Connor.

"He hasn't been trained long..he is too...childish.." Connor finished. There was no point hiding this from his team, it sounded like Renegade has already fled Belle Reve and has returned to Gotham. "Renegade was in Belle Reve when we were undercover."

"Dude what!? You met him!?" Wally stared at awe. "You are pulling my leg right? Right?....Did he look cool? Like the assassins in the movies?"

"Will you shut up Kid Mouth!" Artemis snapped at before returning a glance towards Connor. "Let him finish!"

Connor frowned a bit at Wally's words. The boy he met at Belle Reve did not look at all like an assassin..he was young and he looked so innocent.. "He does not look like an assassin." Connor confirmed, feeling that was a suitable answer.

"What does that mean exactly? Is he like some old man or something? Wait...If he was in Belle Reve, why haven't anyone of us heard of his capture?" Wally had a puzzled look on his face, not understanding.

"He went on his own free will." Connor replied, remembering what Renegade had said, that he snuck in to Belle Reve on his own.

"That does not make any sense." Artemis scoffed. "No one goes to prison willingly Connor."

Connor scowled, not liking how Artemis spoke to him like he was stupid. "It is what he said. He said he went into hiding there...however it seems he had left and returned to Gotham."

"Oh on the contrary Supes, I only visited Gotham." A voice echoed through the halls and a domino masked figure fell from the ceiling, gracefully landing with a flip. He cackled eerily, a laugh connor only heard a handful of times, but he knew for a fact that the masked child in front of them was Renegade. "I was in town so I thought I would stop by for a brief moment before I start off in a new city." Renegade glanced over towards the rest of the team who looked confused but on guard. "By the way... totally rude to talk about people behind their backs." He wagged his finger at them in a scolding manner before looking around the cave. "Not what I expected to be honest..a little underwhelming..heavy on the under." He smirked like he just said some inside joke.

"Connor...who is this?" Wally asked carefully, staring at the younger kid who was waltzing around their base like it was a museum.

"Renegade." Connor's eyes narrowed. "What are you doing here?"

"I just said that I was in town." Renegade grinned. "Honestly, I got bored and remembered our little chat and nighttime stroll. I enjoyed it and thought it would be amusing to chat again considering the closest person I have spent more than a day with is currently six feet underground 'sleeping'." he cackled again, before looking at the pale faces of Connor's friends. "Oh come on, get traught! He was a 'bad guy' anyways. Besides I had to surpass my mentor at some point, and the only way you surpass a known mercenary like Deathstroke is killing him." Renegade paused slightly,as if remembering a fond memory. "Ah I miss those combat lessons, sure punishments were rough when I screwed up, but hey you gotta learn am I right?" Both Artemis and Wally froze at the mentioning of Deathstroke. Come to mention it, He has been inactive for years...and now they know why. This child killed him, and was relishing the thought right in front of them. "Anyways, these must be your friends! I forgot that the heroes had made a mini league! Tell me, has Bats got a little sidekick of his own yet? He might have better chances catching me if he was not so stubborn in getting help." Renegade shook his head slightly letting out a soft sigh before looking back at the group. "Oh relax, I don't have a contract on any of you, I won't kill you. Tell you what, you have my word that I will not take up a contract on any of you, so relax!"

"Easy said coming from someone whose name literally beans 'to betray'" Artemis commented coldly, not relaxing at all.

"Oh come on, It is not like I chose that name, I would have chose something cooler if I had the choice." Renegade chuckled again. "But names stick so I have been Renegade for years."

"Years? You hardly look ten!" Wally blurted out.

"I'll have you know that I am thirteen and one fourth." Renegade stated proudly," I am far more mature than I look thank you very much."

"Thirteen is still a very young age to be trained to kill." Kaldur added in a worried tone, wondering how someone could allow a child to kill without any emotion.

Renegade shrugged. "THe green one is being pretty quiet, is she in shock or what?" Renegade began to take a step towards M'gann , but Connor stepped in front of his path. "What? I wasn't going to do anything." Renegade pouted slightly. "I was just gonna poke her and see if she was breathing." He moved around connor stopping right in front of M'gann who was staring at him in horror. "I guess she just did not like what she saw when she was snooping around." He shrugged slightly. "Tell me martin, what did you see that has you frozen in place? Was it the people I killed, the moment I slit my mentor's throat? Please do share."

"Your....Your parents.." The martian whimpered slightly, her eyes widening more, and quickly shaking her head frantically as she seemed to be watching a horrific scene right in front of her eyes.

Renegades expression soured slightly. "Oh, that's what got you so upset?" He tsked "If it makes you feel any better, I killed the man who did it." His smile returned, but it was the cold and twisted one that Connor saw in Belle Reve where it felt like the room grew ten degrees colder. "I showed you my past, I expect you to keep quiet about it because when I opened up my mind to you, you opened yours up to mine as well. I know your secrets and fears little martian girl" Renegade cooed softly stepping back again and his smile returned to the innocent one like nothing happened. "So, let's chat shall we! I bet you have tons of good stories to tell, it is a shame I will not be here long enough for you to tell them all." Childishly Renegade walked over to Artemis and started playing with her ponytail. "Let's start with you, you look like you have quite the story."

"Get your hands off of me." Artemis warned but realized that Renegade had at some point grabbed her bow and was now messing around with it.

"Never tried archery before..is it hard?" He asked, examining the bow pulling the string in a calculating matter. "Seems so, the amount of muscle needed to even pull this..and then there is accuracy to take into play..color me impressed." He tossed the bow back to Artemis. "So I take it you're Green Arrows partner then." He nodded absently "Supes is Superman, the Martian is obviously with the other Martian and The speedster is without a doubt Flash's..." He stopped at Kaldur " And you are....." he focused on the teen before recognizing the symbol at his belt line. "Aquaman, of course...Atlantean then?"

"Yes." Kaldur answered, slightly confused at the others sudden interest with them and the fact that he was talking to them like they were old friends.

"Oh this is definitely a fun crowd." Renegade clapped his hands together in delight. "Maybe I should visit more often, surely you would not mind."

"We do actually." Artemis frowned, not wanting to have anything to do with this murderer.

"Wow, I am hurt." Renegade held a hand to his chest in mock pain. " I already promised that I wouldn't kill you, I thought that proved that I was not a threat."

"But you are still a threat to others who you do have contracts on." Kaldur commented, siding with artemis.

"Well yeah, but common, all I am doing is cleaning up the streets a bit. Most of the people I killed are the heartless ones, the last kid had this thing with a child that he took to his apartment and--"

"Enough!" Wally snapped at. "Cleaning up the streets is not killing!"

"Oh let me guess." Renegade spoke with a hint of amusement in his voice. "Justice is putting criminals in jail just so they can escape again and do the same thing over and over again. The way you do it is an endless cycle. Doesn't that get boring? Beating up the same people over and over and over again? What every superhero has a small handful of super villains, like roughly five to eight? And of that handful, how many actually stay in prison? Hm?" Renegade paused but did not wait for the group to answer. "My way, they never can commit the crimes they had done, they cannot put others in harms way..It is a simple way that does not need some long monologue to explain why you do it." Renegade paused slightly when he heard a robotic voice echo through the cave. "It looks like my time is up for now. It was fun!" He waved a bit and started to briskly walk away. "Try not to have too much fun without me Supes! I will come back sometime...maybe we can have a stroll around here next time!" And with that he disappeared into the shadows, nowhere to be seen.

"Anyone else think that Renegade is sort of a dick." Wally muttered after there was a brief silence.----------

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Holy shit this was a long chapter...Anyways... Hope you enjoy the first real update of this story. Thanks for reading!

~Ringleader_Robin

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