Chapter Three. Hope you enjoy this chapter it's a bit rushed since I'm trying to finish this story within 5 chapters so lets see how it goes. The grammar might not be the ebst since I was trying to update this as soon as possible, but I think you'll be able to read this with ease since it's not that bad. Enjoy!
The early morning sun was high in the baby blue sky was the warm sun rays rained down upon the small municipality of, Happy Harbor. The citizens slowly began to emerge from their homes as they prepared to go along with their usual weekend routines while young teens enjoyed the day of slumber and the night of adventure. Just on the outskirts of the town located deep inside Mount Justice the young heroes slowly began to awaken and head to the kitchen for breakfast.
"Wake up Wally, I'm hungry and I want to get to the kitchen before Megan tries making us her famous pancakes!" Robin shouted loudly as he was banging on Wally's bed room door as he was sporting a pair of black sweat pants with a dark red tee shirt. Both Robin and Wally had became the poor victims of Megan's cooking test subjects and although he's cooking wasn't the worst, her pancakes were disgusting.
"I'm coming!" Wally cried out as he burst through the door ramming his shoudler directly into Robin's chest and sending the two collapsing to the hallway floor.
"You idiot" Robin groaned lowly in pain as Wally slowly lifted himself of his best friend and weakly helped him to his feet the two hoping no one saw that.
"Sorry, I just can't eat those things she calls pancakes again" Wally explained as the two started to make their way down the hall passing by everyone's rooms as they made their way towards the kitchen. Passing by Artemis' room Robin couldn't help but notice Wally's sudden draw of attention to the wooden door as his hazel green eyes were plastered to the door.
"So, what happened last night?" Robin asked curiously as Wally jumped at the sudden question a light shade of red forming upon his face. Wally couldn't figure out what was wrong with him as he had flirted with hundreds of girls in his days and none of them had ever made him feel this way, maybe Artemis was that spitfire he was looking for.
"I have no idea what you mean" Wally answered back trying to keep his cool as he'd share everything with the boy wonder, but he was trying his best to keep his feelings for Artemis on the down low.
"Don't play stupid, or in this case stop acting like yourself. Zatanna and I last night placed a listening device in the living room last night and we heard you two" Robin snapped at his friend as he was annoyed that he was hiding something from him, but he knew it was nothing to get worked up about. Grinning at Wally the boy wonder knew he had the speedster pinned down and with this Wally sighed heavily at his friend's cleverness.
"You were ease dropping on us!" Wally burst out as he jokingly pushed Robin slightly annoyed that he would do a sure thing.
"Don't worry, you were sitting on the device the whole time so all I caught was you two mumbling and a while lot of Titanic music. I also at one point heard you pretty clearly say, Draw me like one of your French girls but we can save that for another time" Robin admitted as he shrugged at the speedster who was grinning at his friend's need to spy on people and was surprised that he hadn't gotten caught yet.
"We watched a movie, she fell asleep, and I carried her to her room. That's it nothign else happened" Wally explained as he swung his arms around in the air crazily trying to get his point around with as much hand motions as possible.
"Okay, I believe you but we both know there was much more going on in both your heads" Robin said in an teasing matter as he jokingly poked Wally in the chest before he disappeared down the hall. Wally stood there confused at first until he finally got waht the boy wonder met and wasting no time he used his super speed to chase after Robin.
"Ummm... What are these by the way?" Rocket asked curiously as Megan carefully began to poor a collection of creamy brown liquid onto her plate, the rest of the team squirming in their chairs at this sight.
"Pancakes!" Megan chirped happily as Rocket slowly poked the liquid with her fork and watched as one of the air bubbles popped, sending the liquid splattering all over her face. Conner struggled to hold back his laughter upon seeing this, but his joy suddenly died as Megan dumped a large pile on his plate. Realizing he'd have to eat it all up to make his girlfriend happy Conner gulped down hard. Zatanna and Kaldur shared nervous glares as they were given two plates almost as big as Conner's.
"Reminds me of the king jelly fishes I use to fight when I was a kid" Kaldur commented to Zatanna as he examined one of the large air bubbles that doweled on the liquid's surface.
Suddenly, bursting through the main hall came Robin his face bright red as he was almost out of breath. His eyes scanning the room nervously looking for Wally and as he realized the speedster was no where to be found his eyes fell upon the open seat near Zatanna. Grinning at the sight that he had been able to out manuever his chaser Robin was about to start making his way over to the open seat when suddenly, Wally bursted through the main hall tackling Robin to the ground.
"Got you!" Wally shouted as the two would always have tag games in which Robin could use his ninja like skills to out maneuver the speedster, but ti was hopeless as Wally would always catch him in the end. Megan giggled softly in amusement at the two of them but as she did this Conner quickly dumped the so called "pancakes" into Wolf's food dish and kicked the dish across the room hiding it under the sofa.
"Ekam siht pols raeppasid" Zatanna muttered lowly under her breath as she suddenly made her and Kaldur's "pancakes" disappear with a puff of smoke, but left a small puddle or two to make it look like they actually ate it.
Rocket quickly looked back and fourth trying to find a spot to hide the meal before Megan turned around, but before she could do anything the female martin turned around. Realizing she had been caught the new member of the team slowly brought a spoon full of the slop and gulped it down. Wally and Robin watched with amusement as they joined the team at the table as Rocket's face turned a dark green, the feeling of the liquid slipping down her throat was to much for her to handle.
"Robin and Wally, I gave most of the pancakes to the others but I can always make some more" Megan offered with a smile as she felt bad that the two boys would be unable to have her famous pancakes which she'd make only once a week.
"No!" Wally cried out.
"What KF means is... Don't stress yourself over us, please just sit back and relax. We can make toast" Robin assured the Martin as he patted her on the shoudlers and gently pushed her down into an open chair near Conner who was nervously starring at his hiding spot under the sofa where about six of Wolf's bowls hid with pancakes filled to the rim.
"Yeah, no worries beautiful" Wally stuttered as he realized his reaction was probably not the most reasonable. Searching through the kitchen the two boys grabbed some potato bread and threw them into the toaster happy to avoid the almost life taking meal that was waiting for them only minutes ago. Escaping death was something they both were use to when eating Megan's food.
"Morning, Artemis" Kaldur's voice run gout loudly as everyone spun around to see the blonde haired archer entering the kitchen area her hair let down and wearing the same clothes as she was wearing last night as everyone else hadn't changed yet.
"Morning, Kal" Artemis greeted him warmly as she approached the table patting Rocket on the back warmly as she noticed what was sitting on her plate and what was dripping from her hanging mouth.
"Artemis, do you want some pan-" Megan cried otu as she was always happy to make food for her friends, especially Artemis who she considered to be her first Earth sister.
"We have toast!" Wally cried out as he jumped in front of Megan cutting her off as he carried a large pate stacked with toast and butter. Grinning he placed the plate in the center of the table and in a matter of seconds the whole team swarmed around the toast.
"You can thank me later" Wally said jokingly as he handed Artemis a plate of toast grinning as he realized he had just saved her from having to suffer Megan's cooking.
"Thanks" Artemis giggled softly as she was slightly blushing at his comment. Artemis was shocked at how girly she had just acted around the speedster as everyone knew her as the tough girl attitude type.
"So, I checked the weather report and it looks like it's suppose to be pretty hot today" Rocket called out as she was slowly and secretly dumping the pancake liquid into her cup of milk hoping the two would mix together.
"It's the perfect day for the beach!" Megan cried out excitedly as going to the beach was one of her favorite activities to do in the team's free time.
The late morning sun was even brighter then any other time in the day as it showered the warm sun rays down upon the young teens. The water was ice cold as Kaldur enjoyed the comfort of it as it reminded him of his home and Conner enjoyed some silence as relaxed on a beach towel near the shore. Robin and Wally both weer struggling to set up the umbrella.
"Hey, bay watch we're here" Artemis called out as she was referring to Wally by his nickname. With this the four teen males all turned their heads to face the four girls who stood before them all of them wearing two pieced bathing suits. Instantly, Robin turned a bright red shade as he noticed Zatanna who had shot him a wink jokingly flirting with him but everyone knew that it wasn't so much a joke.
"You hit puberty just now?" Wally asked jokingly as he received a punch to the gut for his comment.
"This is going to be interesting" Conner whispered lowly as he noticed the looks the other boys were giving the girls as Megan joined him at hsi little resting spot near the ocean.
"I agree" Megan giggled as she rested her head on his chest and sighed lwoly the two of them enjoying the warm sun light.
"Let me help you with that" Kaldur offered as he launched himself out of the water and was by Rocket's side almost right away trying to help her with the bags of beach toys that she had brought with her.
"You going to just stare or are you going to finish putting that umbrella in" Artemis teased Wally who hadn't taken his eyes off he yet since she had arrived. Realizing that he had been creeping hard on her Wally quickly started to twirl the umbrella stick into the ground trying to act like nothing happened, but that's when it happened. Wally felt her soft white hands touch his hands and as if they were one she twirled the umbrella into the ground in the same motion as he was preforming.
"Need some help?" She asked curiously grinning at him as she brushed a strain of hair out of her face.
"I've never seen her act this way" Robin spat out shocked at seeing Artemis acting in such a flirty way as he dropped the beach ball to the ground.
"I agree, she must share some sort of mutual feeling for him" Kaldur stated as he was also shocked to see Artemis to throw away her tough girl attitude away to take on the role of a love struck teenager.
"Etativel siht llab" Zatanna called out as she used a spell upon the ball and with this the beach ball lifted into the air hitting Robin in the face.
"Boys just starring at those two it's no proper" Rocket teased as the two boys looked at each other confused.
The sun was now slowly going down as the sky was now a orange taint the citizens of Happy harbor were now retreating into their homes to have a dinner with their families. Yet, over at Mount Justice the team had retreated into the base to shower and get dress as they were now preparing a large bon-fire on the beach to enjoy the nice summer time weather. Sitting peacefully on the grassy cliff side that over looked the beach was Wally and Artemis the two watching as everyone were carrying out the supplies for the bon-fire and Robin who had volunteered to start the fire.
"The sun set looks so beautiful" Artemis sighed heavily as she had enjoyed the day at the ebach especially since she got to spend most the day with the speedster.
"Almost as beautiful as you" Wally said with a smile as he was trying his best not to sound so cheesy.
"Where did you get that line from a chick flick?" Artemis teased him as the two shared a good laugh.
"Arty... There's something I need to ask you" Wally admitted as the young blonde haired archer looked up at him curiously by what his question could be.
"You're not one of those freaks who like to collect hair samples and smell them, are you?" Artemis asked curiously but in a joking matter.
"No, no... Wait... Do I seem like one of those guys?" Wally asked as he was slightly surprised she would even considered such a thing about him like that.
"Um... No" Artemis answered trying to sound unsure of herself to screw with Wally's mind, but ti didn't work as he knew she was joking.
"I wanted to know if you'd like to..." Wally started to ask as he began to take a long deep breath as his heart was racing rapidly and Artemis' heart skipped a beat as she realized what he was going to ask her.
'He's actually going to do it!' Artemis cried out in her head.
Suddenly, a ear piercing explosion ripped through the air and everyone spun around to see a firy explosion erupted from the harbor's factory. With this the base's alarm was set off and giving Artemis a nervous look Wally realized his question would have to wait until later.
"Artemis! Wally, lets go!" Kaldur cried out as everyone was gearing up to see what was occurring over at the factory.