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Title: A Touch of Camouflage
Characters/pairings: WallArt, Robin
Genre: Humor
Rating: K+
Promptee: Myself. This was just a silly little idea. I noticed Artemis seemed to finally have the same camouflage tech in her suit as Wally in the episode Humanity, so I thought, well, what if Wally himself created that technology and was nice enough to install it in Arty's uniform for her?
o.o.o.o
She couldn't find her unifrom.
Well, she couldn't find the other half of her uniform.
This left her traipsing around Mount Justice in the pants and combat boots of her uniform and a white tank top in place of the rest. Batman had called them nearly 5 minutes ago for briefing, so that meant 5 minutes of the precious 10 minute warning he'd given them had already melted away, and she was topless!
Er, so to speak.
She tore through the closet of her "room", wondering if maybe it had somehow ended up in there, but that was a no go. She growled in frustration and stood up from her crouch to think about the next logical place to look.
If she was late, Batman would either get really pissed or else brief the team without her...or both. She winced, not liking the idea of getting on the Dark Knight's bad side.
Artemis had just left her room and was turning to go down the hallway when she collided with someone.
"Oof!"
"Ouch!"
"Wally? Watch where you're going!"
"Here's a better idea, how about you stop wearing freakin' cleats. Jesus, I think you broke my toe."
The archer rolled her eyes. She was prepared to make yet another snarky comment back to him when her eyes landed on something in his arm.
She smacked the back of his head. He yelped and dropped the dark green material.
"Ow! What the hell was that for?"
She scooped up the top half of her uniform and shook it in front of his stupid, freckly face.
"Why do you have this? Are you trying to get Bats pissed at me?"
"What? No!" he defended, holding up his hands in a placating gesture.
"Some sick prank?"
"Never! I-"
"Ugh, Wally, why-"
"I was installing a camouflage mode in your uniform!" Wally finally yelled over her, and then poked the lightning bolt symbol on his chest, causing the vibrant yellow fabric to slowly meld into black.
Artemis narrowed her eyes.
"Honest. Look, will you please just put that on and try it out?" he gestured to the limp cloth draped over her arm. He sounded irritated.
"Fine."
She slipped into her room for a moment to switch out her tank top for the uniform, then popped back out, mask down, her arms crossed over her chest.
They stared for a moment, then he shook his head in exasperation.
"Well?"
"So...what? I just push this?"
"Yes."
"And it'll turn my suit black?"
"Well, more of a really dark green."
"That seems kind of redundant."
"Yeah, well, it's not. Just push it."
"Okay, I...wait."
"Now what?"
"How is this going to change my whole suit, if you just stole the top half?"
"Oh. That. I, uh, kinda took your pants earlier today and did them, too.
Silence.
Artemis cleared her throat, then raised one hand and pressed her fingers lightly against the arrow symbol on her chest. A deep green that might as well have just been black spread out from the center and cascaded over her body as if she'd been splashed with paint.
She smirked.
She had to admit, that was pretty cool.
"Wow."
"Pretty nifty, huh?" he asked, waggling is eyebrows. Her eyes rolled yet again as she pressed the arrow once more, her unifrom returning to it's usual color.
There was a bit of silence, then she allowed him a smile.
"Um...thanks, Wally."
"No problem, beautiful."
Really, she was going to have to quit rolling her eyes so much or they'd get stuck that way.
Still, it was pretty decent of him to fix up her suit like everyone else's.
Camo mode.
Now she wouldn't feel like a sore thumb on missions.
Normal mode.
Not that her suit was exactly a bright color to begin with.
Camo mode.
Still, it was nice.
Normal mode.
She wondered what kind of technology he used to make it do that? It was seriously cool.
Camo mode.
Normal mode.
Camo mode.
Normal mode.
Camo mode.
Normal-
"Will you please quit touching yourself!"
Artemis's eyes widened.
"What?"
The two teens stared at one another, Wally's face flushed a delicate shade of red at his sudden outburst. She'd become lost in her thoughts and had been activating and deactivating her suit over and over again without meaning to.
"I...quit pressing...button.." he stuttered lamely, and if possible his cheeks got even redder.
Then she realized why he was blushing.
And she smirked.
Memories of Bialya flooded her senses, and she'd be lying if she said her face didn't get a little warm itself.
"I'm just getting back at you for touching yourself in Bia-"
Suddenly, Robin was there. There had been no rush of wind, no tap of footsteps to announce his presence, but he was suddenly there, standing between them with the most disturbing grin on his face, looking highly amused at the conversation he'd just popped in on.
"No, please, don't stop on my account. You were saying?" he weedled, putting one hand on his chin as if paying deep attention.
Wally and Artemis's faces were surely now generating enough heat to be their own personal suns.
They both spluttered and Robin cackled gleefully.
"Look, I just came to find you guys because Bats is getting a little testy, what with you being a minute late and all."
"A minute!"
The Boy Wonder nodded, still looking far more happy than the situation called for.
"Briefing started a minute ago, but if you want, I can tell Batman you two are much more busy, ah, touching yourselves-"
He trailed off as a gale force wind buffeted him. Wally had taken off at a blinding sprint and Artemis was hot on his heels, leaving Robin in the dust.