CHAPTER

4

Robin stood in front of the refrigerator at Titans Tower. He was staring at all the red marks on his test.

“So, you failed your driver’s test?” said Raven.

All the other Teen Titans laughed.

“Master driver, huh?” Cyborg guffawed.

Starfire giggled. “Laughing at your shortcomings makes us all feel better about ourselves.” Then she flew over to Robin and tried to act nicer. “It is okay,” she told him. “A lot of people fail the test of driving.”

From the table, Cyborg looked at Starfire curiously. “Will someone please tell me who that strange woman is?” He still didn’t recognize her.

“Look, I’m a great driver,” Robin insisted to Starfire. “I’m just not a great test taker. The good thing is, I can keep retaking the test until I pass. And I will pass! Because I am a master driver!”

As soon as Robin left the room, Raven looked at the others. “He’s going to fail, isn’t he?”

Cyborg nodded. “Big-time.”

Later that week, outside a pawnshop, Robin met up with Ed again. As before, Ed stole lots of cash and used Robin as the driver of the getaway vehicle. Once again, Robin had the radio blaring and couldn’t hear the shop’s alarm going off.

As Robin drove away, he turned to Ed and said, “So last time, I think you freaked me out a little, but now I’m ready.”

At that moment, shots from a police officer’s gun nearly hit the car.

“Did you hear that?” Robin exclaimed. “It sounds like—”

Ed immediately looked down at his clipboard. “That’s going to be—”

“Okay, okay!” Robin said quickly. “No deductions!” He sped off, with a slew of police cars in pursuit.

“This music is terrible,” Ed said, wrinkling his nose. “That’s a deduction.”

Robin became flooded with determination. He was not going to fail again. He pressed the gas pedal to the floor and zoomed right over the roadblock that had been set up by the Jump City Police Department. The car flew through the air—and landed safely on the ground. But that wasn’t good enough for Ed.

“Only three seconds in the air?” said Ed, looking at a stopwatch. “Deduction!”

Ed instructed Robin to drive straight into Food Bear, a local supermarket. A line of police cars followed them inside. As Robin drove, Ed rolled down his window and picked up some bananas and crackers along the way.

“I asked you to turn down the cereal aisle,” Ed said, annoyed.

Robin sighed. “I know… that’s a deduction.”

It was the ultimate game of cat and mouse between Robin and the police cars. Up and down the aisles they sped, but in the end, the police cars just crashed into one another. Robin and Ed zoomed out of the market scot-free.

Outside, Ed finished marking up Robin’s latest test results. He wrote a big FAIL on it—again!

“Meet me for a retake in front of the casino,” said Ed.

Robin put his head in his hands. He wondered if he would ever pass his driving test.