Chapter 1
Mount Justice
August 15, 14:22 EDT
Saturday after training Wally told he Team he had an announcement.
"My Uncle Arthur managed to get some tickets for the Quidditch World Cup this Monday," he said. "They are insisting that I go, and Uncle Barry is coming too. Uncle Arthur said I can bring two friends, so who would like to go?"
Garfield immediately began waving his hand in the air. "Oh, oh, me, me ,me!"
M'gann shook her head. "Sorry, Garfield, but I don't think that would be a good idea. I doubt being green is normal even for wizards, and you aren't good enough at holding a form for long periods of time yet."
"Awww…" Garfield moaned and he looked disappointed.
Wally gave him a smile. "Cheer up buddy, I'll bring you back an awesome souvenir."
That perked Garfield up a bit.
After a long debate it was decided that Dick and Conner would go with Wally to the Cup, as they were the ones who were the most interested in the wizard sport. Since they were going, they were all going to spend the night before at the Weasley's house.
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The Burrow
August 16, 4:11 P.M.
Since none of them wanted to even try to use floo powder, the two speedsters ended up carrying the other two as they ran all the way to the Wealsey's house from the Zeta Tube in London. They stopped a ways away from the house and walked the rest of the way.
As they walked to the house, Wally gave them all last minute reminders. "They know Uncle Barry is a muggle, but since he's my Uncle it's okay. Dick, Conner remember, I told them that you two are squibs, so if you have any questions about a wizard thing just ask me, Ron, Hermione, or Harry in private."
"We got it, KF," said Dick rolling his eyes. "Also remember that while we're here I'm going by the alias, Rob Haly. Batman's orders. Plus that was the name Wally introduced me as last year."
"No worries, kid," said Uncle Barry.
"Got it," said Conner, grumpily.
He had a fairly good reason for being grumpy. Superman had finally started paying attention to him last New Years. Since then Superman had taken Conner under his wing and began teaching him how to use his powers, and about his Kryptonian heritage. When Superman had heard that Conner was going with the others he had insisted that Conner take a precaution to hide his identity. Superman's idea of a brilliant disguise, wear a pair of glasses. So now Conner had to squint through a pair of specs, and resist the urge to smash them.
When they reached the tall house, Uncle Barry knocked on the door. Aunt Molly opened it and smiled when she saw them.
"Oh, Wally, dear, it's so good to see you," she said. "And Barry, wonderful to see you too." She turned and looked at the other two. "You're Rob Haly, aren't you? We met last summer."
Robin nodded. "Yes, nice to see you again, Mrs. Weasley."
Aunt Molly smiled at him, and then looked at Conner. "And you are, dearie?"
"Conner Kent, ma'am," he said uncomfortably. "I'm another squib friend of Wally's."
"Well it's nice to meet you," she said moving out of the way. "Come in, come in."
They came into the house and were greeted by the rest of the Weasley family including Wally's cousins Bill and Charlie whom he hadn't seen in years, as well as Hermione.
"You can definitely tell you're related," Conner mumbled, causing Robin to snicker. It was pretty obvious as all the Weasleys were red heads like Wally.
Wally shot him a mock glare. "If that was the case then I'd also related to your girlfriend and her little brother."
"Oh, you have a girlfriend, mate?" asked Maybe Fred.
"She wouldn't be anything like the made up girlfriend that Wally has," said Maybe George.
Wally really glared at them. "I did not make Artemis up. All three of us have girlfriends." He turned to his friends and said in a stage whisper. "Ignore them, they're just jealous because neither of them get dates."
"Oi, we get dates," protested both twins in unison.
The rest of the family laughed.
After the laughter died down Aunt Molly said, "Ron, why don't you show Wally and his friends where they'll be sleeping."
Ron nodded and he and Hermione led the boys upstairs, leaving poor Uncle Barry at the mercy of Uncle Arthur's constant questions about muggles.
Ron led them up to the top of the house, and let them into his room. "The four of us and Harry will be staying up here. Sorry it's a bit cramped."
The heroes shrugged and set their stuff down.
"Just warning you," Ron continued. "We're right underneath the ghoul in the attic. We'll probably hear him crashing and banging about every now and then."
Robin shot a skeptical look at the ceiling. "There's such things as ghouls?"
"Unfortunately, yes," said Wally.
The five of them passed the time talking about various subjects, most of it about Quidditch much to Wally and Hermione's annoyance.
Ron had been delighted to find out that both Robin and Conner had become interested in Quidditch, and spent the better part of an hour talking their ears off about it. Sadly, neither of them seemed to mind and paid close attention.
A little over an hour after Wally and the others had arrived, they heard Uncle Arthur calling Ron back down the stairs. They all came back down and Uncle Arthur hurried Ron over to the fireplace in the kitchen where Fred and George were already waiting.
"Hurry up, Ron. We're already late to pick up Harry," Uncle Arthur was saying and he picked up the flour pot the Weasleys used to hold their floo powder. Bill and Charlie were also there, eager to meet Harry when he came through.
Ron glanced at his watch and hurried over to the fireplace. Wally had the enjoyment of watching his nonmagic companions' faces as the four of them vanished into the green flames. Thankfully, the rest were too focused on the fireplace to notice the two supposed squibs' jaws drop at the sight.
After they left Aunt Molly bustled off to do more housework and Uncle Barry followed, offering to help (he seemed to be relieved Uncle Arthur was gone).
About fifteen minutes later Fred, George, and Ron came back through the fireplace. A couple minutes later Harry stumbled out of the fireplace and fell over.
Maybe Fred hurried over to help him up. "Did he eat it?" he asked excitedly.
"Yeah," Harry replied. "What was it?"
"Ton-Tongue Toffee," Maybe Fred said cheerfully. "George and I invented them, and we've been looking for someone to test them on all summer…"
Everyone but the three heroes (who had no idea what was going on) burst out laughing.
After Harry was introduced to Bill and Charlie the fireplace burst to life again and Uncle Arthur stepped out looking furious.
"That wasn't funny, Fred!" he yelled. "What on earth did you give that muggle boy?"
"I didn't give him anything," said Fred with an evil grin. "I just dropped it… It was his fault he went and ate it, I never told him to."
"You dropped it on purpose!" Uncle Arthur shouted angrily. "You knew he'd eat it, you knew he was on a diet-"
"How big did his tongue get?" George interrupted.
"It was four feet long before his parents let me shrink it!"
That caused another round of laughter, but Wally wasn't very amused. From the sound of things Fred had messed with Harry's cousin's food. He knew Fred and George never meant any harm by their jokes, but if a speedster was cut off from their food…
"It isn't funny!" Uncle Arthur shouted. "That sort of behavior seriously undermines wizard-muggle relations! I spend half my life campaigning against the mistreatment of muggles, and my own sons-"
"We didn't give it to him because he's a muggle," said Fred indignantly.
"No, we gave it to him because he's a bullying git," George said with just as much indignance. "Isn't he, Harry?"
"Yeah, he is, Mr. Weasley," said Harry.
"That's not the point!" snapped Uncle Arthur. "You wait until I tell your mother-"
"Tell me what?" asked Aunt Molly, coming up behind him, with Uncle Barry trailing after.
She smiled and greeted Harry when she saw him then turned back to her husband. "Tell me what, Arthur?"
It was obvious from the look on Uncle Arthur's face that he hadn't really planned to tell Aunt Molly, but there was no going back now.
"Tell me what, Arthur?" Aunt Molly repeated in a voice that was almost as scary as Batman.
"It's nothing Molly," Uncle Arthur stammered. "Fred and George just- but I've already had words with them-"
"What have they done this time?" Aunt Molly asked impatiently. "If it's got anything to do with Weasley's Wizard Wheezes-"
"Why don't you show Harry where he's sleeping, Ron?" Hermione said quickly as she entered the room with Ginny.
Ron shot her a confused look. "He knows where he's sleeping, in my room, he slept there last-"
"We can all go," Hermione said pointedly.
Ron finally got was she was saying and he, Hermione, Ginny, Robin, Conner, and Harry all hurried out of the room. Fred and George tried to follow, but Aunt Molly stopped them.
Wally made his way to the doorway to follow them, but turned back. "You two aren't going to do something like that to me or Uncle Barry are you?" he asked in a subdued voice.
Everyone remaining in the room looked at him in confusion. "What d'you mean, Wally?" asked Fred.
"From the sound of things you messed with Harry's cousin's food and did something to his tongue," Wally said seriously. From the corner of his eye he saw Uncle Barry's eyes widen. "You guys remember about my extremely high metabolism, right? If someone messes with my food, or for some reason I'm unable to eat, well, bad things happen. Uncle Barry has the same metabolism problem that I have, so-"
The twins' eyes widened when they realized what he was talking about. "We promise not to mess with your food," said Fred.
"All bets are off with everything else though," said George with a smile, causing Aunt Molly to swat his arm.
Wally gave them a smile and hurried after the others. As he shut the kitchen door he could hear Uncle Arthur explaining what had happened to Aunt Molly. He hadn't even reached the stairs when he heard her response.
"SO NOT ONLY DID YOU TWO HARASS THAT MUGGLE BOY, YOU ALSO FRIGHTENED YOUR COUSIN WALLY! WHAT WERE YOU TWO THINKING?"
Wally chuckled and hurried up the stairs back to Ron's room. He got there in time to hear Ron complain about how Percy wouldn't shut up about his new job. "… I don't think he'd come home if Dad didn't make him. He's obsessed. Just don't get him onto the subject of his boss. 'According to Mr. Crouch… as I was saying to Mr. Crouch… Mr. Crouch is of the opinion… Mr. Crouch was telling me…' They'll be announcing their engagement any day now."
"I could arrange that," Robin offered with a trollish smirk.
"Have you had a good summer, Harry?" Hermione asked, changing the subject. "Did you get our food parcels and everything?"
Apparently Harry's entire family decided to go on a diet that summer, so Harry had sent letters and texts to all of them, asking for food.
"Yeah, thanks a lot," Harry replied. "They saved my life with those cakes." He then glanced at Conner. "And tell Megan that I appreciated the cookies."
Conner grunted a yes.
"Have you heard anything from your godfather?" asked Ron.
Harry sighed. "Yeah, he writes every other week. He's still tied up in legal stuff though."
"I think they've stopped arguing," said Hermione who was closest to the door. "Shall we go down and help your mum with dinner?"
They all agreed and hurried back down stairs. They found Aunt Molly in the kitchen, taking her frustrations out on chopping some vegetables, and grumbling to herself. She told them that they'd be eating out in the garden, as there were too many people to fit in the house. The teens all were directed to take out the plates and silverware and they went out of the house to help the others set up in the garden.
When they found the others they saw Bill and Charlie using their wands to cause the two tables to float around and crash into each other. Uncle Barry and Uncle Arthur were watching from the sidelines looking amused. Ginny ran on ahead to watch, and the others hung back a ways. Bill and Charlie didn't stop until Percy pocked his head out the window and told them to cut it out.
Eventually dinner began and everyone settled into their own conversations got into a conversation and Percy mentioned the big event that happened after the World Cup.
"You know the one I'm talking about, Father," said Percy in a smug voice. "The top-secret one."
Ron rolled his eyes and muttered to the rest of them. "He's been trying to get us to ask what that event is ever since he started work. Probably an exhibition of thick bottomed cauldrons."
The Golden Trio missed the glance exchanged between the three teen heroes at the table. They already knew exactly which event Percy was talking about.
As dinner progressed Aunt Molly asked Harry and Wally to give her their school lists so she could go and pick up their supplies for them.
Wally suddenly became more interested in his food than usual. "Um, that won't be necessary, Aunt Molly. I'm not going."
It suddenly became so quiet you didn't have to be Superboy to hear a pin drop.
"What?" Hermione asked. "Why?"
Wally picked at his food with is fork. "Something came up, and Mom decided to have me home schooled me this year. But only for this year, I'll be going back next year."
Uncle Arthur looked confused. "What could possibly happen that would cause Mary to decide something like that?" he asked in concern for his sister.
Wally stared down at his food silently. Everyone turned to Uncle Barry hoping he had answers. He looked as uncomfortable as Wally felt. "It's personal," he said.
"But what about accidental magic?" asked Hermione. "Your lack of control was the reason you had to come to Hogwarts in the first place, rather then an American school."
Wally didn't look her in the eye. "I have a handle on it now."
That was a lie. He still made strange things happen when he was angry, startled, or scared, though he was better at it than before. If only at making excuses for when it happened.
The Weasleys and Harry and Hermione continued to try to get answers, but the four heroes remained silent on the matter. Eventually the conversations started again, and turned to other subjects.
After dinner the Golden Trio cornered the teen heroes.
"Alright, what's really going on?" demanded Ron. It was common knowledge that Ron hated it when people kept secrets from him.
Robin sighed. "It's part of a new long term mission from Batman. All of this year we're going to be doing undercover work, and it'd be kinda impossible for KF to go to Hogwarts on top of that, even with the Time-Turner."
Hermione looked puzzled. "I wasn't told about this."
Conner shrugged. "We all knew you'd never give up a year of school unless it was a mission to stop an Armageddon emergency."
"It's not as bad as that, but it's still important," Robin assured her.
"And unless you are in on the mission, you can't be in the know for now. Sorry," Wally concluded.
The Golden Trio weren't too happy with that, but they excepted the explanation.
As they headed into the house Hermione asked Robin and Conner, "Something I've been wondering. The World Cup will have tons of anti-muggle security, how do you two and Barry plan to see it?"
"Since Uncle Barry is part of the family, Uncle Arthur was given permission to cast a charm on him so he'll be immune to the security," Wally explained.
"And as for me and Supey," said Robin holding up his wrist and showing the others a band on it. Conner had a similar one on his wrist. "Zatanna made us these to stop all of the security from keeping us away too."
The three nodded. Aunt Molly chose that moment to walk by them. "You should really be in bed, the whole lot of you-you'll be up at the crack of dawn to get to the Cup."
Heeding her advise, they all went up to their rooms and went to bed.
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A/N There we go, they're all going to the World Cup. Wally's not going to Hogwarts because it would just be too complicated to be part of the Tournament and study there at the same time, plus it'd be even more confusing to write.
Mission ideas are welcome and appreciated.
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