John and Shayera
"Look, I don't tell you how to live your life so don't tell me how to live mine."
"But this is-"
"Question. I am your cousin. Your cousin. For god sakes man I can handle my life. I've made it through just fine."
"Yes and have gotten into some… situations."
"For god's sakes man let it go. That was one time. One freakin time!"
"And that-"
"Was well worth it. I have it covered Vic. Don't be such a mother hen. That was Barry's job. And now somehow is collaboration between Batman and John with a side of Shayera and Di, with Superman and J'onn kind of just watching taking more of an active civilian role."
"Are you saying I can't be concerned about my favorite cousin?"
"Pft. I'm your only cousin Vic."
"More reason," he said leaning close to the other's face, "For me to protect you."
"That's what Wing and Arrow said. Don't tell me you're on board with that too."
"Then I won't."
"DAMN YOU! VIC!"
-.-
"Has anyone seen Flash?" asked John realizing how calm it was at the Watchtower. A rare and almost ominous uncomfortable feeling that was not to be truly allowed on board the ship. Flash was one of the even more rare beings that was able to keep this ominous feeling at bay. And even though he wasn't there he was always sending a feeling of craziness and chaos with whatever adventure he had on Earth, only to be calmed by some sort of calamity or attack. Mostly being a Doomsday of sorts.
"Not since last week," Shayera said sitting down at the table with him. John sighed as his eyes instinctively darted around the mess hall looking for their scarlet clad friend. And there was no familiar blur of bright red inhaling food anywhere.
"Huh. I know he's not scheduled to work but normally he still shows up if only to make mess with Batman," he said with a smile thinking about all the oddball times he'd show up, somehow manage to drag Batman, and leave with a smile and have Batman looking somewhat annoyed and mortified. How Flash was able to make Batman of all people look mortified was beyond him. Although he did overhear one conversation that had results of making Batman looking mortified when Night wing showed up and asked for some sort of package.
He had said it was for a friend. Batman asked who. Night wing said WW. John was still trying to figure it out.
"Well Flash has two weeks request for leave. It's nothing out of the ordinary," Shayera said referring to the fact that heroes normally did not stop in at the Watchtower during an extended leave.
"It's Flash though. He's always here if he's not in Central running around saving cats from trees," he said simply also bring up Flash's bright and extremely social personality. He would always be there to chat whether you wanted him or not.
"Alright John. We can go check up on him."
"We don't know where he lives," John stated. Shayera shrugged her shoulders.
"How hard can it be to find a guy running at ridiculous speeds in bright red spandex helping people?" she asked. John smiled.
"Good point."
-.-
"Dammit Dick! I thought I told you to stop coming into my house unless I invite you!"
"Sorry! Yeesh! How was I supposed to know that you were indecent?"
"You could have called you moron. Do they not have phones in Bludhaven? Or as bats in general? My god I swear you are as bad as Bruce. You have my stuff?"
"Funny how you can switch topic so fast and yes. Straight from the Big Bat himself."
"My god. You couldn't go get this yourself?"
"Nope. It's funnier knowing that Batman did anyway."
"Batman? Or Bruce?"
"Bruce. But hey no one is really going to question it. I mean really…"
"Alright I get your point. God you guys just have to make it complicated."
"I think you're more to blame because you won't get this yourself…"
"Hello? Remember what happened the last time I was caught getting this stuff?"
Richard cringed as a memory slipped to the forefront of his mind.
"Right. Well, I'll call later. We need to hang out more. I personally think you like my old man more than me with all the time you spend with him in the tower."
"Kay. NOW GET OUT BEFORE I CALL THE COPS!"
-.-
"Remember when I said that it would be easy to find him?" Shayera grumbled flying over Central with John.
"Yeah."
"I take that back. Where is he?" she growled. Normally this wouldn't ruffle her feathers but it had been a week since she had seen her favorite idiot brother and she was getting worried dammit!
"Lantern? Hawkgirl?" said a familiar voice. They flew down onto the roof of a nearby building where Night wing stood grinning.
"Now what brings you two here to Central?" he asked nonchalantly.
"Flash. Where is he?"
"What makes you think I know?" he questioned feigning innocence. John gave his famous marine glare at the young adult.
"You and Batman have the location of every heroes home. If you're here and Flash isn't out that means Flash is at home," he deduced. Night wing began a slow sarcastic clap.
"Bravo. Looks like we have another runner for 'World's greatest detective'," he laughed.
"Where is he?!" Shayera said pulling out her mace. Night wing put his hands up showing no sign of aggression.
"Easy. If you must know, Flash lives about two blocks from here. Brick apartment. Kinda on the small side. Third floor. Room 314. You can't miss it," he said with a shit eating grin before jumping off the roof into an alley.
"He's as annoying as Batman," Shayera grumbled. John sighed.
"At least we know where to go now," he said floating toward the location.
-.-
"Where in the world is my wrap?"
-.-
"312, 313. Ah. 314," John said as he and Shayera approached the modest apartment dwelling. They looked at each other before John started knocking. Inside they heard scuffling of feet across the floor. The door swung open with a very angry looking person.
"WHAT NOW WING!? Oh, John, Shay. What are you guys doing here?"
"Uh…,"John gaped rather unintelligently.
"No matter. Get in here you two before someone notices!" hissed the person as they dragged the dumbfounded John and confused Shayera into the dwelling, "Yeesh. You people and your bad timing."
"Who are you?" Shayera growled coming out of her stupor. Her eyes glaring at the person in front of her. The person cocked a brow.
"What are you… oh right, you guys haven't seen me in my civvies," they smiled gesturing at themselves.
"C-c-c-civvies! You're a freaking tranny!" John yelled.
"I'm a wh-?" the person paused before smacking John, "I am not! How dare you! John, in a world like ours you freak out over a little thing called gender and protection?! Shayera please hit him."
"I'm still trying to understand this. You're a girl?"
Flash frowned and crossed her arms, cocking her hip slightly to the left.
"Yes. I'm a girl. I thought you guys knew," she said calming down.
"You flirt with all the girls-"
"Told you before John, I'm bisexual. Is it really that hard to follow?" she said walking into the kitchen and grabbing a Coke.
"But why is Flash then…?" Shayera began not sure how to ask.
"Why is Flash a 'guy'? Well that's an interesting story that involves my uncle and the big Bat," she said sitting down, taking a gulp of her drink, "Back when I first got my powers, there wasn't very many female heroes. Heck, it was pretty much unheard of. So when I wanted to be a hero, my uncle went psychotic mother hen more and told me no, saying there was no way he was going to let his niece out to fight villains."
Shayera scoffed at the notion.
"Well, I still had the powers so I needed to learn to control them. So he took me to Gotham to work with Batman for control where Joker happened to attack and actually capture both Batman and my uncle. Since I wasn't exactly sure what I was doing I decided to get a lot of padding and wear what I could to protect myself. This ironically included a cup I found figuring 'never too little'. Then I ran in, tripped over a bunch of Joker's crap, got caught myself but ended up distracting the Joker long enough so Batman and my uncle could escape, free me and catch the Joker. After that the news got ahold of rumors of a 'Kid Flash', a young boy following in the footsteps of Flash."
"The idea just stuck. It was just a rumor until one of the rogues caught me. It was James. He was the one who told the rogues I wasn't just an idea. He even brought me over to their hang out a few times, but given I couldn't tell them who I was, James made me wear this get up he made over a few weeks for me to wear as a hero since I was 'their' baby. Then Flash found out," Flash sighed rather embarrassed.
"It was then that I became a hero. So Flash could keep his eye on me. Though I still went out as a boy for my safety."
"So you had a reason for your way of dressing?" John asked. Flash nodded making John release a sigh of release. But Shayera looked pissed.
"Your villains know?" she questioned. Flash averted her green eyes.
"Ah, well… You see… I went to school with James and Hartley so they figured it out real early and became instantly over protective. Also Cold knows because of Golden Glider and the incident that shall not be named," she said in a way that sparked curiosity and instilled fear at the same time.
"I think it should be Flash," she said, "Obviously we don't know you as well as we thought."
"Wally. My name is Wally. Not Flash. And if you want to know about… that particular adventure you should probably ask Di. She was there too."
"Diana knows?" John questioned. Wally sighed and leaned back taking another gulp of her coke.
"Yeah, and Batman, J'onn, Night Wing, Red Arrow, Supergirl and Question all know. Welcome to the club, you two," she said with a trademark Flash grin.
"Really?" questioned John.
"Yep. You are part of a very exclusive club," Wally said.
"Actually I was thinking more on the fact that Supergirl knows," he said with a smirk. Wally grinned back.
"Bats and I are seeing how long it's gonna take Big Blue to figure it out. I think he even bet Bat butler on when they think he'll figure it out," she laughed making the other two heroes laugh too.
-.-
Night Wing
"Robin, this is Kid Flash," Batman said lightly pushing on the back of his young ward towards the other child. Kid Flash smiled, pearly white teeth gleaming in the Gotham night air and green eyes peering into young Robin as if trying to dissect his very soul.
"Hi!" Kid Flash squeaked in a girly manner running up and grabbing Robin's hand.
"Hi," Robin said trying to sound older than he was. The other just laughed at him.
"Hey Flash! Can we patrol Gotham together?" Kid Flash asked zipping up the Scarlet Speedster. Flash sucked in air between his teeth and glanced over at Batman. Robin raised a brow.
"C'mon Batman," Robin said trying to help the other younger hero out, "I'm sure we'll be fine," he said with a cheeky grin. Kid Flash grinned back.
"Yah! C'mon. I promise nothing will happen to my lil' brother Flash," Kid Flash said throwing an arm around Robin. The Dark Knight gave the speedster a look.
"What? I think it's adorable. You should've seen Speedy when he met kid," he answered with a cocky grin.
"But I really don't know you," Robin said shyly.
"S'okay! We're in the hero biz. Things are always different."
"Okay big bro," Robin said joining in. Kid Flash gave a look of confusion.
"Um… okay? That's gonna be kind of hard being your brother given that I'm a girl."
And with that, the Boy Wonder, who fought psychotic clowns with knife fetishes, men with split personalities, fear itself, fainted. Flash whistled in amusement.
"Takes a real man to faint like that!"
-.-
J'onn
"Flash?"
"Yeah man?"
"Are you a woman?"
"…"
"…"
"YES! Finally! Someone who can easily figure it out!" Flash said running up and hugging the poor unprepared Martian. He did not know Flash well, only knowing him for a few days. He knew the speedster was spunky but this was ridiculous.
"How'd you figure it out?" she asked with a grin.
"Your presence matches more of Hawkgirl and Wonder Woman rather than Batman, Green Lantern or Superman."
"Oh. A Martian thing then. Okay. Carry on!"
-.-
Red arrow/Speedy/Roy Harper
Roy looked at the speedster in front of him that he had to babysit on account of one "lovely" broken arm.
"You tried to sneak up on Grodd? What the hell is wrong with you?" he yelled at his pseudo sibling. He normally would think brother. But given some resent events he was starting to question Wally's gender/sexuality. Including flirting with different guys at the mall.
"I was strapped for time!"
Roy snorted, "Never thought I'd hear that one."
"Har-dee-har. Pass the popcorn would you?" Wally asked.
Roy handed the speedster the bowl in which was inhaled just moments later.
"Black hole," Roy grunted. This was followed by Wally childishly sticking his tongue out at Roy for a moment before clutching his stomach. Roy raised a brow.
"Are you still hungry?" he asked jokingly. Wally sent Roy a sad death glare before doubling over. Roy inched closer to the fellow ginger and jumped back as Wally bolted to the bathroom.
"Oh, something didn't agree. That's a first," he grunted. The room was eerily quiet until Wally called for Roy.
"Um... Roy? I need you to call Uncle Barry," Wally squeaked.
"Wally?" Roy asked jumping to his feet going into worried big brother mode, "What's wrong? What's going on in there?"
"Nothing you need to worry abou-"
"Bull. Wally what is going on in there," he said jiggling the handle. He could hear Wally move quickly in the bathroom.
"NO! Don't come in here!" Wally yelled making Roy more worried. Realizing the door was locked, he rammed the door making it fall. He then realized that he had walked in on something he did not want to see. Blood. And it wasn't from an injury...
Roy paled but remained upright.
"I'll-I'll go see if Canary left anything," he grumbled leaving quickly leaving a flushed Wally.
-.-
Diana
Despite having a slight dislike of man's world she enjoyed looking around their various stalls of merchandise. She had actually come planet side to get civilian clothes so she wouldn't need to keep borrowing Canary's clothes. She was not as fond of leather as her fellow hero. She had stopped in various stories now entering one that seemed specialized in sleep clothes and undergarments. She idly walked around bumping into another woman.
"Sorry," Diana said.
"No problem," the woman grinned sheepishly not looking at Diana. The woman was much younger than herself. Maybe about twenty years old. She had short vibrant red hair and a spray of freckles across her nose. Her electric eyes zipped up to a lacy bra before grabbing instead a simple sport's bra. She seemed somewhat unhappy and yet thrilled at the same time.
"Is that a good style?" she asked. The girl looked up at her for a second, her eyes twinkling with revelation soon hidden in the bright mossy jungle.
"If you're active. I'm a runner so I need some serious support. You though," she said taking a step back, "Could pull off some really nice ones."
"Nice ones?"
"Bras. And sexy ones at that," she said muttering to herself. She looked back up at Diana and blushed slightly, "Sorry. Went off ranting again."
"It's not a problem. I am having trouble selecting."
"Get out. Really? I mean with girls like yours I would think you've been hear at least a few times in your life," she grinned. Diana shook her head.
"I'm not from... around here," she stated delicately. The red head nodded.
"Okay. Well, the help here should be able to get your measurements so that shouldn't be a problem-"
"Wally?"
The girl yipped and tried to hide behind a rack of pajamas before a busty blond walked over and grabbed her forearm.
"Eh-heh-heh, Hey Lisa. What are you doing here?" Wally asked nervously.
"Oh a girl has her needs," she said with a laugh. Diana felt herself tense up. She felt oddly protective of the red haired girl who was trying to distance herself from the blonde.
"Look Lisa I really need to-"
"Oh no you don't. You have been spending way too much time with those boys. We need to have a good old fashioned girl's night," she said happily, "Don't make me kidnap you."
Diana relaxed a little thinking it was a joke. But Wally paled.
"Lisa, you really shouldn't," she began before Lisa zipped off with her out of the store. Faster than a normal person. In fact her movements reminded her of one of Flash's villains. Golden Glider. Her eyes widened in revelation and tore after the poor girl.
She flew quickly and soon caught up with Glider to a unique sight.
"LISA! THAT WAS WONDIE! She's probably going to chase us down and there is going to be hell!"
"Oh relax Flashy and get changed," she grinned throwing something at Wally.
"Really?"
"Flash is more fun to fight. And you've been spending more time with the guys. Whatever happened to a girl's rumble?"
Diana gaped as she saw the girl in a flash become the Flash.
"Alright let's do this," she said.
"Flash?" said a Diana zipping down to him. Before Flash could blink she removed the mask. Behind was Wally. Lisa smiled.
"I love being a part of the crazy."
-.-
Superman
"...And further more Flash you need to act like a man and focus," Superman stated angrily unaware of the snickering from John, Shayera and Diana and the slight grins from both J'onn and even more surprisingly Batman. Flash however had her arms cross and a more annoyed than life look on her face.
"Look as much as I'd love to hear this well-rehearsed speech on how I need to be a man," more snickers from John and Shayera, "I really need to go."
"Go where exactly?" he questioned. Wally had a pained look on his face.
"Trust me. Batman can vouch for me!" he squeaked. Superman looked over at Batman who looked over at Wally.
"Early?"
Flash nodded, "I don't pick Bats."
"You can go," he said creating a familiar gale from the rushing of a speedster.
"You all go too easy on him. He needs to learn to focus," Superman said leaving the conference room. The other founders looked at each other.
"Someone jumped on their minstrel cycle and ran his ass over," Shayera remarked crudely.
"Yeah. And thy name is Flash," Diana added.
"Amen," John quipped. J'onn merely nodded.
"Dumbass," Batman muttered under his breath.
Nine and a half pages of 'I'm bored… I wonder what I could write' syndrome has now passed. I hope you have enjoyed the stupidity and will not kill me by chopping my body into microscopic pieces to be fed to plankton to be eaten by fish to be eaten by even bigger fish and then end up on some old guy's plate to be served with slaw. I hate slaw.