An important, winning obsessed, male character will be re-introduced this chapter. Well, technically two, I guess.
The black bird enveloped the tower and shrieked as it vanished. Raven hurriedly rushed for the door of the main room and she walked right through it. "What's wrong with her?" Roy demanded lazily as he searched through the kitchen for a beer. Wally looked between one of his best friends and the woman he believed he loved.
He settled for saying: "Don't insult her Roy" and tearing out of the room after the empath.
"Where's Dick?" Roy yelled from the kitchen. "Kor, sweetheart, you still there?" He looked up from the fridge. "If you were here you would've skinned me alive for that comment".
"You're probably right" Harper tried to look up and slammed his head onto the top of the fridge. "Damn it, man!" he cursed at the acrobatic wonder who was currently eating ice cream and sitting on the counter.
"Donna's right" Dick commented. "The Amazons are geniuses for inventing this". Roy rolled his eyes.
"What is it?" the archer asked dryly.
"Do you think it's working?" the former traffic light grinned. Roy stared at his friend. The darker vigilante always kept his eyes shaded by either glasses or a mask. But when Dick smiled like that, Roy knew, even when most people didn't, that his eyes were shining. It was why Batman hadn't trained Dick as well as he should've to hide his emotions.
"Dude, she knows" Green Arrow's first protege hissed. "Knows, knows".
"Awesome" the former boy wonder replied. "Then it's working".
"Should we be talking about this in the tower?" the honorary Navajo demanded. "We know she knows. Does she know, we know, she knows?"
"I don't know" Grayson replied. "She could." As an afterthought, he added: "And yes, Roy, I understood you. I was trained by Batman. And don't worry about her. She's out right now".
"How do you know that?"
The play boy smirked. "I have my sources, Harper. But do you think it's working?"
"I don't know" Roy rolled his eyes. "I'm no detective".
KLANG! The noise echoed through the tower's basement as Dick Grayson attacked the training drones. He smacked one with his bare foot. It toppled over as one right behind him (the largest) stared down at him.
"Bring it o-" The bot fell to the floor as all of the drones shut down. Grayson looked around wildly to see what had happened.
"Couldn't resist taking out at least one" Kor'I was waving a giant robot part in the screening room. "You don't need to beat them all up like that, all you have to do is reach up into it's-"
"I think I prefer it this way-"
"-stomach and toss the power core at the other". The former Leaguer stared down at the adopted billionaire's face. "Yeah, that's the reaction we usually get. It's pretty funny to see the looks on faces when we tell people that". She looked possibly about to laugh, but stopped herself short.
"Well?" Dick demanded, almost harshly. Kor merely shrugged. "You didn't just shut down my training exercise to tell me to break into the robot's stomach, you'd rather see me break my hand. You obviously have something to say, so spit it out so you can leave or go do whatever or whoever you wa-"
"You've been talking to Arsenal" the former Starfire sighed. The disguised vigilante spun around to see that she had moved again and was currently leaning on the wall to her left. "But you are one to talk, we've all heard the stories, especially with people like Roy and Wally on this team."
"Just say whatever you have to say and get o-" Grayson barked.
"Weneedyoubackinthefield" Kor said very quickly, combining the words into one. "Bye". She turned and walked right off.
"I have no idea what the hell you just said" Dick shook his head and sighed. "If you want to have a conver-. I know you're right behind me, aren't you?"
"Very good" Kor'I replied mocking. "You learned something today. Good dog-boy". Bruce Wayne's adopted son chuckled.
"And here I thought you didn't like me".
"Not really" Kor told him dryly. "Not a fan of stupid arrogant people". Dick smirked and faked a shiver.
"Scary".
"Shut. Up". The teasing expression on her face faded entirely. "We almost got killed yesterday".
Grayson's eyes opened almost entirely under his glasses. "Is this an expression thing or did you guys really almost get killed?"
"We got beaten pretty badly, if that's what you're asking" the Titans' current leader replied. "So, yeah. I do have something really important to tell you-".
"I figured that was it".
Kor'I rolled her eyes. "I'm not gonna tell ya if ya aren' gonna listen, 'kay?" She stared at the former Flying Grayson for a second looking very serious and then smirked. "If you were in your right mind, I wouldn't say this, but someone needs to and even though everyone's pissed at you, they won't say anything. We need you back in the field, you fucking idiot".
Sorry about that, but when I re-read this chapter it sounded wrong so I split it into two parts. Believe me when I say I DIDN'T want to, I just had to.
sparklebluelemon: Well, dude, now he has been. You'll get to see the reaction soon. As in, I'm typing it up right now and have an outline in the 'notes' thing on my ipod.
