Author's Note: Glad everyone is liking the cliffhangers. Also we're gonna have some flash-speak in this chapter. For those of you unacquainted with this, it is the term for when a speedster is too excited to actually breathe between words, soitlookslikethis. I own nothing.
4. Revelations
Wally stared at Robin. It all made sense, even Batman made sense. Bruce Wayne would be able to afford all the stuff they used, had the influence to get things done in Gotham. And Diane had been some kind of circus performer before Bruce had taken her in, Wally remembered reading something about it a while ago but he couldn't remember details. The hair was the right shade of black and Robin's skin was just as pale as Diane's and the smirk matched the one she had given him while they were arguing about who was the cooler sidekick. Robin looked at Wally, domino mask covering his… her, eyes and burst out laughing.
"Wow, your face! My god it's priceless, I wish I had a camera." The cackling was a bit unnerving but Wally glared at hi... no her. He would bet every cent he owned that if he removed that mask he'd find a pair of bright sapphire blue eyes sparkling at him in amusement.
"Waitwhat! Howisthatevenpossible! You'reRobin! Butyou'rejustakid! Andagirl! Robin'sagirl!" Kid flash was rambling which just made Robin laugh harder. Barry glanced at Bruce.
"I don't know if you caught any of that, but he knows." Bruce nodded. He did in fact catch all of that. He was fluent in spooked speedster having to deal with Barry on a semi-regular basis.
"Be sure he understands the consequences of telling anyone. Or I'll have to talk to him." Barry nodded solemnly. He'd heard of the talking that Green Arrow had gotten when he wanted to tell his protégé who Robin and Batman were. It had been quite unpleasant, to say the least. Wally was still working his motor mouth and Diane was still giggling like a maniac but really Bruce couldn't blame her, it was pretty funny, and he had to admit the Flash had found an intelligent kid to back him up. He wasn't nearly as smart as Diane but that would be asking quite a bit. He heard the sound of approaching sirens and turned to face his own protégé.
"Robin." She stopped giggling immediately and turned to look at him. They had gotten quite good at reading each other over the past year and she knew exactly what he was telling her to do the second they made eye contact. Just to show off a bit she flipped backwards pushing off from her hands and landing neatly on her feet, five feet away standing directly next to Batman. She grinned and waved at Wally.
"Till next time Kid Mouth." Batman threw down a smoke pellet and when the smoke cleared a second later both were gone. Wally stared, stunned. Barry speed over to his nephew and grinned at his expression. He patted him on the shoulder.
"Yeah they're always like that. Come on, Commissioner Gordon doesn't like powers hanging out in Gotham any more than Batman does, well maybe a little more." Barry grinned and his dumbstruck nephew nodded slowly, a feat in and of itself since Wally almost never did anything slowly. They both raced off and changed back into their suits. Both were dusty and Wally's was slightly torn from the flying debris but that just made it look better. They both slowly made their way out of the building, to find the GCPD talking to the crowd. Iris spotted them and ran to Barry hugging him close. When she finally let him go she checked Wally over for injuries and then hugged him tight.
"I'm so glad you are ok!" Wally squirmed in his aunt's arms and she let him go.
"You must be very proud of your nephew Iris. He was very brave." Wally spun around to see Bruce Wayne and Diane Grayson walking up to them. Both looked a bit worse for wear but neither had so much as a scratch on them. Diane's once pure white dress was now gray and brown with dust and she had lost the flower from her hair along with one of her shoes. Bruce's immaculate suit was also discolored and slightly torn. His hair was a mess. He grinned at Wally who felt himself swell with pride, but only a little. It was too weird thinking that this guy was Batman.
"I saw you save Diane's life in there Wallace, I just wanted to say thank you." Diane grinned at Wally as Bruce held out his hand to shake. A bit awestruck Wally took his hand and shook it. Diane walked up to him, grinned wider, and held out her hand to shake as well. Wally took it and she leaned in a bit.
"Yeah thanks, Kid Mouth." The last two words were whispered for his ears only but his eyes widened to the size of plates as Diane turned back to Bruce.
"Come on Diane, we should be getting back to Alfred, he'll be worried about us."Diane nodded and the dynamic duo walked away leaving Wally stunned, Iris slightly confused but proud, and Barry trying not to laugh. Wally felt something in his hand and found a slip of paper with a phone number written on it. Just below that were the words,
Text me.
Written in a neat cursive letters. Wally grinned and pocketed the note. The two young heroes didn't know it at the time but that one day was to turn into a friendship that would last a lifetime.