A/N: Back with another chapter. Grappling with a sudden attack of writers block as well.
Prompt: Wally, Roy, and Robin decide to play around with the Batman's giant penny for a lame-brained prank. They don't just fail, they terrorize Happy Harbor. Takes place during Season 1.
The Penny
So, it's not every day one finds themselves in great peril. It's even rarer for one to find that source of peril to be coming in the form of a giant cumbersome penny. Yes, a penny, dating back to 1945.
So when this young, four year old boy saw a humongous penny, the size of which was only exponentially enlargened in his view by the fact that he was, well, a four year old, he quite literally wet his pants.
Now, how this penny came to be rolling down the sidewalk of Happy Harbor, letting loose all sorts of chaos and having, to date, crushed three cars, destroyed two ice cream stands, and lodging a stuffed fish into the behind of a stuffed moose, that was an all altogether different story.
So let's go back to approximately noon, on this fine Saturday.
Approximately three hours earlier
La la la la la. La la la. La la la la.
The incessant tune, annoying to most people above the age of 7 who haven't gone senile, continued to play in the kitchen, originating from the hand-held radio Megan had placed there to keep her "in the groove", while she cooked. As she danced and pranced around, carrying out her duties as the resident cook with a smile on her face and a syrupy look in her eyes, she was entirely oblivious to the happenings of the world around her.
Turning around to dip the cookies into the oven, she missed the arrival of a giant penny rolling into the "living quarters" of the cave from the vehicular entrance, being rolled in boy three of the team's prime suspects: Robin, Wally, and Roy.
Well technically Roy wasn't on the time, but that's a subject of intense legal dispute (in the hallowed halls of Wally bedroom of course).
The three groaned and moaned, they huffed and puffed, the rolled and rolled. And the three rolled this humongous, entirely solid metal, and yes, legally usable for tender in every state of the U.S save for Kansas and California, right into the living quarters, and into the hallways. Or at least the entrance of the hallway.
You see, hallways, even ones built to accommodate usually tall men such as Superman, Captain Atom, and the likes, aren't ever built to accommodate giant pennies, unless one is in a wealthy mansion, such as the Wayne Manor.
"Dammit! I thought it would fit!" exclaimed Wally, taking a closer look at the top-of-penny to top-of-hallway situation.
Yep, the penny was clearly far too large to fit.
"You thought?!" exclaimed Roy, himself living up to the name "Red Arrow", given the red nature of his face. Unlike usual circumstances, his panting red face was due to exhaustion rather than anger. It was no easy task, rolling a huge piece of metal for so long.
"Wally, please, please-" began Robin, punching his nose has he leaned against the coin, "-Tell me you didn't forget to measure the hallway before we started this entire project."
The speedsters response was to look sheepish, and avert eye contact.
"I can't believe it." muttered Robin, face palming as he left his post at the coin's side, to go and check the front.
"How could you even think it would fit, the hallway isn't even halfway there!" he exclaimed, gesturing towards the obvious shortness of the entrance into the halls that they were supposed to roll the penny down.
"Let me take a look at that, I swear t-oh my god Wally seriously?!" said Roy, looking in exasperation at the clear folly of his fellow redhead.
"Oh come on, we go down this hallway practically everyday, I could have sworn it would have fit!" said Wally, defending himself from the onslaught of criticism.
"But it's not even close!"
"I don't walk down this hallway every day!"
"Come on Rob, if it's so absurd a difference, how come you didn't think it wouldn't fit?" pointed out Wally
"Because I thought you measured!" gritted the bird.
You see, when three adolescents attempt to covertly transport a humongous, 216 pound penny across multiple state lines and hundreds of miles, and break multiple laws and rules set down by their mentors, they tend to do it for serious reasons.
In this case, placing it in Artemis's bedroom to await her reaction.
But, when such a serious endeavor is vanquished by the failure of a one red head speedster, a 'man' who goes by the name of Wally West, tensions flare. And in the process of these tensions being flared, more often than not these three adolescents will fail to pay attention to the previously mentioned penny. Now, when a gigantic penny is left to it's resources, it will do one of two things: Fall to the side, or roll away.
As fare would have it, this penny decided against the 50/50 chance of crushing our favorite trio of troublemakers, and instead decided on the wise move of rolling.
And roll it did, straight back across the living quarters, into the the vehicular exit/entry area, and past a bewildered Superboy, arriving on his super-bike to see a gigantic penny roll out.
Finally, Megan turned around, all of her little "snugly wuglies" carefully placed exactly 1 inch from one another and shaped in perfectly circular dimensions, as was required of them to be "fantastically tantalizing" like the fantastically tantalizing cookies she expected them to be.
Noticing the arrival of not just the original three, but four of her teammates, she waved over and loudly exclaimed "Hey guys, what's happening?"
"What's happening here is, that this doofus-" began Roy, poking Wally pointedly in the shoulder
"-Forgot to measure the hallway length-" continued Robin
"And now we lugged a 216 pound giant penny all the way here for nothing." finished Roy, poking Wally again, much to the speedsters chagrin.
"Uh...where's the penny?" asked Megan, slightly confused.
...
"Oh crap" began Roy, while Robin and Wally simply looked around dumbfounded, wondering how in the hell does a 216 lb penny disappear?!
"A penny doesn't just disappear!" exclaimed Robin, once he finally regained his cool.
"OhmygodwearesodeadBatmanwillkilluswestolehisgiantpenny-" hyperventilated Wally, entering his speed-talk mode.
Roy happily shake him out of it, ordering him to "Get yourself together" and following up with a stern slap to the face.
"Your penny didn't disappear, it rolled out the exit, right while I was coming in. And from the looks of it, it's probably headed downton." remarked Conner in his first sentence to the gang.
It would probably the longest sentence he'd say for the period of the day.
"Crud, we have to stop it now!" stated Wally, zinging past Conner.
"So not feeling the aster right now." stated Robin, he and Roy hot on Wally's trail.
That evening a one Bruce Wayne sat down on his deluxe, probably grossly overpaid for couch, and leaned back in. It had been a long day, both as Batman and the CEO of Wayne Enterprises. An escape of the Joker on one end, and a financial crisis on the other because of said clowns decision to attack a Wayne Enterprises factory, which made headlines and sent stockholders running.
Right now, all he wanted was to relax, drink his Alfred-made Cocoa of heaven (a phrase he'd deny every even thinking of), and see if there was any non-Batman or Wayne related news tonight.
Today Batman battl-
Change.
Analysts are calling it the worst run on the Wayne-
Change.
Today in Happy Harbor a giant penny wrecked havoc-
Cha-wait, what?
"Officials are saying that the damage done by this unseemly large penny, reportedly dated to 1945, was immense. However, it was largely mitigated by the heroic and timely bravery of the heroes Robin, Red Arrow, and Kid Flash. The Mayor has thanked these three heroes for-"
The cup slammed down on the table. That was his goddamn penny.
A/N: Well, I manged to get this up in exactly one week of my last update, so I haven't missed my self-imposed update schedule yet :P. Please review if you've read, it makes my day!
