The cave was unusually quiet, with just Artemis, Wally, and Connor present at the time. While Wally was in the kitchen humming a random tune to himself, Connor was in his room doing who knows what, and Artemis was sitting in the TV room, feeling quite bored. Staring idly at the TV, she though back to the news bulletin she had just seen, mentioning Batman and Robin in Gotham city.
Like flint to a striker, this sparked an idea.
Opening her laptop, she typed in 'Robin news', to which a variety of videos came up. As she clicked on one, Wally walked into the room munching loudly on chex mix, much to her irritation.
"Would you mind getting lost? Trying to watch something here,", she snapped at him.
"Well lets watch it together then," he replied, much to Artemis' confusion. He seemed to not take any bait today for an argument. Letting it go for once, she started the video as he sat beside her.
(The video is in italics)
The camera panned from a burning building to the Boy Wonder, who expertly dealt a final blow to some thug. Zooming in, one could see the injuries and weariness settling in on him; he looked to be not much younger than he was now, Artemis thought. The camera man and news lady moved closer to Robin, and proceeded to ask him, "Boy Wonder, what is the situation here? Who were the perpetrators? Where is Batman? Are you injured? What can you tell us about what just happened?" the woman bombarded. Robin just smiled wearily, glancing to his right where he would most likely be heading off to at any moment, towards the batmobile. "I only have a moment, but the person responsible to this was the Joker. He's on his way back to Arkham as I speak. 3 civilians were injured in the incident. The fire department is getting the building under control, so our job here is done." He finished, flashing a bright smile at the camera. He began to walk off, with a slight limp, when the news lady asked him about his thoughts on Batman.
Robin hesitated, but everyone's attention was suddenly drawn to a disturbance to the left side of the camera, which sounded like a crowd. In an instant the lens' on Robin's mask widened, and his demeanor was that of a panicked one. Slowly backing up, he muttered under his breath, 'ohhhhhhh, sugar honey iced tea," then leapt straight up, apparently into a tree. Turning, the camera revealed what the disturbance was...a running, excited, flustered, obsessive-looking crowd of what were obviously fangirls. They began shrieking as one of them caught sight of Robin, but the Boy Wonder wasted no time in disappearing and then reappearing next to the now smoldering building. Upon observation he was yelling at his mentor, who was finishing his discussion with the Police Commissioner. It looked like Robin was telling him, "LETS GO NOW!". The batmobile could be seen a moment later, departing the scene with the crowd of girls pursuing. The camera focused on the Newslady, who then stated, "This is Linda Evans at News5 reporting to you live from 4th Ave and Eastern, situation now under control and the perpetrators are in custody. We now can only hope that the Boy Wonder escapes from the fangirls unscathed', she said with humor evident in her voice. "Back to you John." End of video
Artemis stared at the screen before her, unable to believe what she just watched. Unable to believe what she just found out.
She now new the Boy Wonder's true fear
Suddenly noticing Wally's raucous laughter beside her, she couldn't help but join in; what had just played was one of the funniest things she had ever seen!
Still laughing, she clicked on the next video.
TO BE CONTINUED...