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“Cooooommmmmeeeee ooonnn!” whined the seriously bored redheaded teen from the couch.
“Dude! For the hundredth time, no!” yelled an annoyed raven haired teen next to him.
“Argh!” the teen got up. “All we’re doing is sitting here all day! Summer! It’s summer man!”
The raven haired boy sighed. He put away his holo wrist computer. “Wally, I know you’re incredibly bored in the cave, but seriously, chill. Relax.” He tried to soothe the hype teen. It honestly never works.
“We’ve done that for two days already. Flash doesn’t even need my help in central and says that happy harbor might have some action! And where’s the action?” he gestured his hands to the living area of the cave. “NOT HERE. Dude, Rob, buddy, ask Batman for a mission, any mission!”
“I’m actually surprised that you’re not itching for some action, boy wonder.” a voce from behind them said. They turned around to see Artemis drying her hair off with a towel.
The boy shrugged. “It actually feels nice to just relax.” He said nonchalantly.
The two stared at him. “Who are you and what have you done with my best friend!” Wally said frustrated.
“Something seems to be on your mind Robin.” Artemis asked.
“Come on, Rob. What’s on your mind? You know you can tell us.” Wally poked at him him.
The boy sighed in defeat, swatting his hand away. “Batman said the same to me too.”
“About?”
“That he didn’t –air quote—‘require my assistance’ in the field.” Robin grumbled. “He said he could handle things there. So I just came here, thinking that there are some baddies that need some major butt whooping for me to vent on.”
Artemis chuckled as she shook her head. “My mom’s on vacation to Vietnam and whoop dee doo, GA said the same too.” She paused and continued. “No wait!” she paused dramatically. “ Black Canary let me stay with them for a while. I went on my own to patrol and every time I was about to snatch some guy,” she threw her hands in the air “he swoops in and goes all hero! Every single time! So I just backed off and let him handle things there with Black Canary… though they probably wanted me gone so they can have some space and have their alone time.”
She sat on the recliner chair across from Robin and kicked her feet up on the table. “Mom said she didn’t like it if I stay home alone during the time she’s gone so she suggested for me to stay at a friend’s house. I left their place and came here for the time being while Mom’s away. All I’ve been doing so far is using the training simulation. All of my arrows are polished and I made a whole bunch more with the free time I have. I’m running out of things to do. I already finished all of my summer assignment.”
“Hah, with the free time I have I ran and took pictures of all the famous world trademarks. Seriously only took about fifteen minutes.” Wally added.
Robin eyes him. “Took you that long?” he teased.
“This French dude had crepes! Fresh ones! I couldn’t pass. So I then ended up visiting places for famous world dishes but I ran outta money to convert so I came back here.” he pouted.
“How did you manage to go over the water? I thought you weren’t fast enough to do that yet.” Robin asked the speedster.
Wally shrugged. “Turns out I can now.”
Artemis thought for a moment. “I wouldn’t be surprised. With all of our missions and training, Kid mouth here would bound to have gotten faster.”
“True…but this is KF we’re talking about, so it just caught me off guard.” Robin teased him. Artemis chuckled.
“I see what you mean.”
“It was bound to happen one day.”
“Didn’t expect it to be so soon though.”
“Dude! Sitting right here!”
“Guys, guys!” Megan flew in excitedly.
“Hey Meg!” Robin chimed.
“What’s up Megan?” Artemis responded to her.
“Hello beautiful!” Wally sped over to her. “How is it going?”
“Umm…just fine…but oh my gosh, there’s a street festival going on downtown! Conner and I spotted it when we were walking Wolf! We should totally go!”
“I’m in! Anything beats being here!” Wally threw his hands up in the air.
Robin cackled. “I’m in too.”
Artemis smiled. “Sure why not, what about Kaldur? Where is he?”
“I think he’s in the pool area.” Robin said.
“I’ll go get him!” Megan said as she flew off.
“Mean while I’m going to get ready.” Artemis said as she walked off to her room.
“Meet up in ship in ten then!” Robin said as he walked towards his room to collect a few stuff.
Wally groaned as he slumped over and slouched his shoulders. “Come on! More waiting!” he dramatically ran his hands down his face.
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Artemis went into her room and got ready. She walked over to her dresser and grabbed a band and went over to the mirror to tie her hair up. She walked on over to her closet and opened it up to see a line of clothes. What to wear? She grabbed a shirt and held it in front of the mirror across the room.
Nope. She threw it back to her bed. She took another out.
Nope. She threw it behind her. She repeated the process about ten times till she finally decided her outfit: A small light blue jacket that reaches about midway to her chest. She wore a white blouse along with some jeans that was about the same color as the mini jacket. She took out some black boots. She looked at herself in the mirror. Hmm…too bright. She changed the white blouse for a black v neck and swapped the black boots for some brown ones and added a brown belt. [1]
She looked once more and smiled. “Better.”
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Robin walked into his room. He took his shades off and locked the door, careful of anyone to not see his eyes, as to Bruce’s commands.
He went under his pillow and retrieved his ever so yellow belt and put it over his body under his clothes. He tugged the inside clothes to check for his suit. Check.
His domino mask? He checked his pockets. Nope, he was sure there was one in his pockets. Under his covers? Nope. Under the bed? He crouched down to see a box. He grabbed it and pulled the box out and set it on his lap. He lifted the lid and grinned. Check. He dug around it and took one out of the pile of masks. Before he closed the box, his eyes came across a necklace with a bright, triangular blue gem pendant, similar to his own eye color. The pendant had a vine like mount around it.
“Weird…when did I get this?” he said to himself. As he tried to remember, a memory came up. It was during a patrol. A man had dropped it. Robin tried to return it, but he disappeared. Robin thought he must’ve stuck it in the box frantically before setting out again and not remembered.
“Who knows maybe I’ll meet him today.” He said as he slipped it on and tucked it under his clothes. Then he face palmed. “I didn’t even get a good look at his face and it was nearly a year ago…in Gotham. How the heck did It get here.”
“Dude! Everyone is waiting for you!” Wally yelled all of a sudden from outside his door.
“I’m coming!” he quickly put his shades on and ran out the door.
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“FOOD!” Was all Wally said as he ran into the crowd and gathered as much food as possible.
“Wally!” Artemis tried to stop him.
“When it comes to free food, nothing will stop him.” Robin cackled.
“Ugh, I’ll go after him so he won’t cause any trouble.” And with that she left after him.
“I will go around to see if there aren’t any trouble brewing.” Kaldur said.
“Kaldur, this is a festival! You should relax.” Megan smiled at him.
He gave a small grin back to her. “Just cautious. If I do not spot anything, I will then relax.” He walked off.
Robin huffed. He never did just relax. Sooooo it was just him and…
“Oh…I wanted to have fun together.” Megan sighed.
“Don’t worry Meg, we’ll all meet up soon.” He assured her.
“Hey…what’s a love tunnel?” Conner asked. Megan’s ears perked as soon as he said that.
“Where?” she said too happily. When she saw it she gasped and gave off a huge smile.
“OH MY—” she paused. Wait! No leaving anymore behind! Together! “I-it’s a ride for couples...” she calmed down, though eyes keep glancing at the ride. Robin of course saw this and chuckled.
“It’s fine, you two can go. How about we meet up somewhere in about an hour? Good to you?” he asked.
“You sure..?” Conner asked him.
“Yea, we can all have our alone relaxation time and then meet up and have fun together.” He assured the ‘older’ teen.
Megan was extremely happy. “Oh my gosh, thank you! I’ll make you a batch of cookies when we get back! I’ll tell the others to meet us up at the fountain over there.” She pointed to it from a distance. She waved off to Robin as she dragged Conner towards the ride.
It was just him and himself. Greaaat. Robin just walked off and disappeared into the crowd, alone. At least he was out of the cave and had some fresh air.