"Hey dude! Where have you been!" Kid Flash called between handfuls of ruffled chips from his position on the couch. He hadn't heard anything from the boy wonder in over a week and quite frankly was starting to maybe get a little worried.
Robin grinned with a shrug before bumping knuckles with his red-headed speedster in greeting.
"Oh man! The Plurganaught had me trapped in his dungeon! It took me days to finally crawl my butt out of there- barely alive myself, let alone the hostages! Then the minions swarmed us and I was forced to reroute our escape back through that hell before help arrived." Robin plopped on the couch (and what would have been Wally's legs if he hadn't moved them at super speed) with a tired but proud little smirk.
"Oh my god! You should have called! I would have zoomed over and backed you up!" Wally rattled off as he wrapped his head around it. His best friend was trapped in a dungeon for days! Where was he for his bro? Where was Batman?
His mind nudged him that he'd heard of the Plurganaught before, that he was monster that tortured his captives, crushed their skulls, and enslaved their souls. He wrapped an arm around his best friend, suddenly all the more glad to see him here and okay.
"Uh…" Robin returned the hug with a few added pats on the back before shrugging him off. "I figured you were having the same problem. Wanna compare notes? How long did it take you to clear the graveyard level? Or should I ask how many lives?"
"Wait. You're talking about a video game aren't you?" His mind caught up and he could smack himself. He'd heard of the Plurganaught before because it talked about him in Game Explosion Monthly he was the villain in…
"Well yeah. Evil Hunt: The Revenge" KF heard the 'duh' there perfectly well and hid his pout behind another handful of chips while Robin continued. "Don't tell me you haven't played it yet! DUDE! It's killer! What are you waiting for?"
Another handful of chips to keep the bitter sounding jealous comment from slipping out. What was he waiting for? He was waiting for the game and more importantly, the next gen gaming console it comes bundled with to be available to the general public. Even then, he'd have to wait till it was marked down to a few hundred bucks.
Stores weren't even taking preorders yet because it was JUST released at the electronics show last weekend. The first time the world had seen the most buzzed about finished product. The only way to get one was to be at the electronics show and buy one of the few boxes on display at the price of a rather nice new car.
"I don't own it." He finally gritted out when it became apparent the boy blunder wasn't getting the level of privilege he was shoving in Wally's face.
"Oh yeah! You and Flash were fighting Captain Cold last weekend huh?"
KF nodded. Of course not going to the electronic show had nothing to do with not having the gaming console like most of the population. Sometimes he hated being best friends with a billionaire's ward.
"Hmm! I'll get my extra then. I was going to stash it in the Batcave for the next time it got boring or we had a level 3 lockdown but there's only one game out so far so I'll hook it up here in The Cave for you guys."
"DUDE! That would rock!"
Robin grinned and flipped over the back of the couch back toward the way he came from minutes earlier.
"Be right back- save me some chips!"
Kid Flash grinned so hard he felt he could almost burst. He was about to be one of the few kids in the world to play Evil Hunt: The Revenge.
Sometimes he LOVED being best friends with a billionaire's ward.