Hi Peeps! THE EIGHTH CHAPTER! ME SO HAPPY! I'm thinking this will maybe be 10-13 chapters. Give or take. I never imagined that I'd be able to have a multi chapter fic! This is gonna be great. After I'm done with this and my other story, I plan on doing an Artemis Fowl, Avengers, Fantastic Four, Percy Jackson, Transformers, and maybe Maximum Ride and Virals. (I love superheroes if you couldn't tell.) just to let you know. I will also do a Young Justice fic and maybe one or two crossovers. I'm also trying out a new writing style with the spacing of dialogue at the request of my beta. (Thanks OutlawqueenFTW by the way!) Anyway, yeah. I think you'll notice. Let me know either via PMing or reviews. I WANT FEEDBACK! GIVE IT TO ME.
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To say the least, Batman and Green Arrow were very hesitant to call their ex-proteges. They decided to make the call together. First, they did Roy, also known as Red Arrow.
"Hi Ollie! Why are you calling? ARE DICK AND WALLY OK?"
"If you'd calm down, I'd tell you!"
"Right, sorry. Continue."
"Thanks. However, I'm afraid I do have a little bit of bad news." Roy's eyes narrowed, but he didn't say anything. Oliver was grateful for the lack of interruptions.
"There was an accident at the Watch Tower, and Wally is now an 8 year old." Roy's eyes widened under his mask. Surprise and horror flashed across his face.
"You didn't scare him, did you? He's very... cautious as a kid... and... timid... and..." Roy stuttered, before shutting his mouth. Batman narrowed his eyes.
"You were aware that Wally was abused as a child?" Roy looked offended.
'Of course I did! Somethings happened to Dick, Wally and I that you don't know about!" Roy looked down, sheepish.
"Remember that time we went missing... and you guys were freaking out, only to find us all sitting in the middle of a corn field 4 days later?" The mentors present nodded hesitantly. The teenagers had been very tight lipped and they still had no idea what had happened.
"We had kind of been... kidnapped... by Scarecrow... and given a new strain of fear toxin that made it so that everyone exposed to it would see each other's fear. It was temporary and wore off on it's own... but... yeah... That's how we found out." Green Arrow was sitting there, slack jawed, Batman with his usual schooled expression. Roy cleared his throat.
"I'm coming to the Watch Tower. See you once I get a baby sitter." With that, the Red Arrow's video feed was cut. Bruce was nervous, not that he'd show it. He hesitantly dialed in Nightwing's frequency and password required. A video feed popped up about 15 seconds later of Dick sitting in his living room, with his Nightwing costume on.
"Hello Bruce. What do you want?"
"Hello Dick. There's something you need to know."
"Whose injured and how do I know them?"
"It's Wally, but he's not exactly injured..." He was cut off with a glare.
"What. Happened. To. KF." He demanded. Batman wanted to sigh, but decided against it.
"There was an accident, turning Wally into a kid. BEFORE YOU SAY ANOTHER WORD." Dick had just been about to sat something and had opened his mouth with an angry expression when his mouth closed with an audible clop.
"As I was saying, Wally is now a kid, and YES. We know he was abused as a child. Not that hard to figure out. Yes, we know how you know." At Dick's expression, he said,
"Roy spilled." Dick glared, and muttered curses towards Roy.
"I'm coming to the Watch Tower. No questions." Without giving either mentor a chance to respond, Nightwing had cut the feed. The mentors looked at each other. Their expressions : Where did we go wrong?. They knew their proteges were wonderful and amazing people. They wanted to know why their ex-proteges hated them. Wally had loved his mentor until Barry took his last breath, and Wally still loved the man MUCH more than his real father. Bruce gave a Batman equivalent of a sigh and went the zeta beams to wait for Nightwing and Red Arrow's arrival. They arrived at the same time. Dick marched towards Bruce and Roy towards Oliver.
"Where. Is. Wally."
"Follow me." They walked off towards the room that Wally was staying in.
"Before you two go in, I'd suggest you don't make any sudden moves. He's very shy." They nodded. Batman knocked on the door.
"Come in." Said a faint and clearly very scared voice. Batman slowly turned the knob and they walked in very slowly, making no sudden movements.
"Wally, this is Roy and this is Dick. They want to hang out with you." Said Batman in a voice that Dick had only heard him talk in a couple of times. All of them had been when he was Bruce Wayne. He smiled at his best friend in the form of an 8 year old.
"Hi Wally. I'm Dick." The red head waved and gave a tiny smile.
"I'm Roy." The boy looked at the archer's head.
"Your hair is like mine. Daddy says my hair is a freak of nature and no one else has red hair. Are you a freak of nature too?" Dick smiled behind his hand. Roy gave a half glare at Nightwing before turning his attention back to the little boy who had jumped on the bed.
"No. It's a hair color. A lot of people have red hair. I have red hair, you have red hair, and I know a girl named M'gann who has red hair. A lot of people have red hair."
"Oh. Does that mean I'm not a freak of nature?" Dick shook his head.
"Of course not. Red hair is completely normal." Wally nodded and slid off the bed. He walked towards the duo.
"I'm hungry. Let's go get something to eat."
"Sure Wally." Wally grabbed Dick's hand and they walked towards the cafeteria.
"Why do you wear masks?" Roy smiled.
"We're superheroes." Wally stopped and looked at them in amazement.
"You're really superheros? Like Batman and the Flash? Flash is my favorite." Dick grinned.
"I'm called Nightwing, and this is Red Arrow. I used to be Batman's sidekick and Red Arrow used to be Green Arrow's sidekick. When we got old enough, we became our own heroes." Wally looked at them like they were gods.
"That is so cool! I've met Batman, Wonder Woman, and some others, but it's still cool! All my friends, if I had any, would be so jealous!" Dick smiled sadly. Who knew that in a year, while in costume, everyone would want to be friends with Kid Flash. It was hard to imagine that the person behind the mask was a boy that had been abused his entire life and was bullied relentlessly at school. No one would have ever thought the abused boy who was bullied was a superhero that risked his life on a daily basis to the make the world a better place. He watched at the boy chattered on about his school and how exciting these days had been. When they reached the cafeteria, they went to an empty table. Dick noticed a sign that said: RESERVED. Dick assumed it was meant for Wally to have a quiet place to sit. They sat down. Dick stood up to get something for the three of them when Batman took him to the corner of the room.
"Nightwing, are you getting along with Wally?" Dick was puzzled at the question, but nodded.
"Yeah. A lot easier then I thought we would, considering his past."
"I have a theory about why he gets along with other people better than others. When he was first transformed, he remembered everyone. However, something happened and he forgot all of it, only remembering things that happened when he was that age. It's possible that the older he gets, the more of his memories he gets back. Maybe not complete memories, but impressions and things like that. When he saw me, he was extremely suspicious." Dick nodded.
"Makes sense. I expected him to be a lot more wary. I guess he felt like he could trust Roy and I." Dick was glad that Bruce and him were on some sort of speaking terms. There had been spots in their relationship where Dick refused to talk or even acknowledged Batman. He had a feeling they might bond a little more over this experience. He got into the cafeteria line and got 3 trays of food. He did an amazing balancing act that elicited a round of applause to get to the table.
"That was really cool." The red heads said in unison. Dick took a bow before sitting down. Roy rolled his eyes.
"Always the drama queen." Dick stuck his tongue out at Roy as Wally giggled.
"I learned from the best." He said cheekily.
HI! I AM SO SORRY! I've been super busy and I've ran out of ideas. I'll try to get longer chapters for you though. ATTENTION! MY OTHER STORY IS GOING TO GO ON HIATUS UNTIL I FINISH THIS STORY! I am sorry, but I need to concentrate on this story before doing the other one. I'm going to publish a couple one shots in between chapters, just to let you know. I already have the first one. It's a Transformers one, if you're interested in that sort of thing. UNTIL NEXT TIME!
