The Cave
14:34
February 23, 2011
Wally West was happily surfing the Internet when he happened to stumble across something very interesting.
"Young justice fanfiction? What the heck?"
Intrigued, he browsed through it, which almost instantly resulted in the annihilation of his self esteem.
"What is this! I don't suck at everything that bad!"
"What are you yelling about this time, Baywatch?" Artemis had walkers in at precisely the wrong moment.
"Oh, uh, nothing," he responded too quickly.
"Wally, I can see your reading fanfiction about us,"
"Wait, you knew about this stuff?"
"You didn't? I found that site ages ago. What got you so worked up anyway?"
"All these stories make me look like an idiot!" He wailed " I never win at anything. I lose bets, dares, arguments, fights, I think I even read one where I lost a foot race to Robin!"
"Okay, even I find that ridiculous. Highly amusing, but ridiculous,"
"What's going on? I heard my name" asked Robin after walking into the room normally because he wasn't on a mission.
"Wally is being melodramatic about some fanfiction he read online," replied Artemis.
"What's fanfiction?" asked Robin.
"You mean you didn't know about this stuff?" Wally questioned.
"No, actually, contrary to popular belief, Batman and I are not omnipotent beings that know everything. I only have so much time to spend researching everything in existence after training, crime fighting, sleeping, and this AP Calculus class everyone seems to think I'm in. Now answer my question," Robin replied quickly.
Wally sighed. "Well you see..."
1 hour later
"And so they all think that I'm some kind of incompetent moron. Yeah, I hit on girls a lot before Artemis and I got together, and I lost to Sportsmaster that one time, but why can't I win anything? Just once?"
"Wally, can you please calm down?" asked Aqualad, who had entered the conversation.
"Yeah Wally, we don't think any less of you" came M'gann's calm voice.
But there was no stopping him.
"And why does everyone make fun of me for my eating habits? It would be like making of Conner's weakness to kryptonite or Kaldur's weakness to fire,"
"Okay, I think he's lost it" Robin suggested
"No, I'm serious. The dictionary defines weakness as" he paused as he looked I it up "an inadequate or defective property. I need to eat that much or I will die. I didn't just wake up one morning and decide I would spend the rest of my life shoveling food into my mouth. If I ate normally, I wouldn't get hungry. I would die," Wally argued as he munched on a banana.
"Fine, you win, now will you shut up?" asked Connor, who had been silent up to this point.
"I win?" Wally was speechless. "I actually won something! In a fanfiction! And it wasn't a short lived victory where I got my butt kicked five minutes later!" he went for a run to celebrate.
Everyome was quiet.
"We listened to that for an hour and it only took two words to shut him up? Why didn't you say that earlier?"
Connor shrugged "He had a point. The last one about the kryptonite was a little over the top, but those stories were pretty demeaning,"
"I don't know what you guys are complaining about. These are asterous! There's this one where I beat the entire Justice League,"
Everyone groaned
"We just heard this speech from KF, we don't need it from you," said Artemis
" You didn't let me finish. I beat the entire justice league when I'm six"Robin walked away cackling madly.
"I think I've discovered my new favorite author"