This is the second chapter of my fanfictions. So basically the story is full of one shots but in moments and sorta storylined Complicated. Yes. Honestly, I can't agree any more,the story is just a full story with an ending, and almost each chapter would be about Dick Grayson showing off, I would probably add in a part where the team watches him because they think he is SUS! And this time Wally would not be the ignorant one. I've never really read a fanfiction out there which is like this. Therefore, here I am writing this.
I wanna make one thing clear, I can't exactly write batman x dick closure good. Since, I don't know why, but it's a bit... Ah... Cringy for me. When like Bruce calls Dick Dickie and baby bird and all. Sometimes it's okay. But seriously, I just don't feel the feeling of those nicknames. And the parts where Dick says Romani about the things and all. Yes he is Romani, but... Uhm... Not me. Sorry, if you're the type. Really sorry, I really am.
Oh, and a heads up is that Barbra is really bat girl yet. I decided at last. I want to focus the story more on Dick Grayson and adding a Bat girl would mean the story would basically last for only like 2 chapter lol. She's too awesome. All of them are.
Also another thing is that the part about Artemis knowing Dick Grayson is a bit messed up. Like I know she's been already going to school at Gotham Academy, but like she already knows Dick. And I need a character which is suspicious about Dick, Artemis supposedly for the job is now on another one. So I'll use Connor for now. She and Bette are friends, and they hang out at Barbra and Dick sometimes according to 90% of the fanfics I read. So sorry, this is too messed up here. I still need to find a way for the team to actually get suspicious. Wally is of course the guy defending Dick because he knows he is Robin. Artemis will defend him sometimes because they are friends, but she will get a bit suspicious maybe. Connor will be suspecting. Yada yada.
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"So, on your right is Mr Paul's classroom, he's probably the nicest teacher in the school, so just relax in his class. Down the hallway is Miss Jennys' class, nobody likes her, please don't bother trying to make a good impression..." Dick felt like he would've become a tour guide in a circus or something. He tried to sound as normal as possible and avoid making the team suspicious of him. Although he is the boy wonder, a ninja acrobat jacker to be exact, he felt quite anxious about this.
Connor shoved his hands in his pockets, and scowled,
"Wow. You seem to know a lot about the teachers," He eyed him suspiciously.
Dick thought Gee great, so much for not being the suspicious one
"Uh... May I ask when the classes start?" M'gaan asked shyly.
"Well, right now homeroom, meaning class in around a few minutes. Just head over to your lockers right now and get your things."
Without a word, the team sauntered into the hallways after some of them genuinely thanked him the tour.
Dick watched as they left sight as someone tugged him violently.
Barbra Gordan, the commissioner's daughter and his best friend, asked, "Hey, Dick. Who are those people you just talked to? I know Artemis, but..."
"Oh, just some new people, I gave them a tour around the school a second ago." He slowly walked to the hall with her. "They're nice I guess." Dick said after a moment.
Barbra asked with concern hinting at her voice, "I hope Simon and Nat won't get to them..."
"Oh shit..." Dick sweared and he meant it.
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Wally West, aka kid flash, a speedster, can no longer stand an hour of class with Mr Brian. Ever. He was never coming back to this school in his entire life. Never in a million years.
He silently prayed that the threat will be over very soon. It should be only a day right? If it isn't, he was going to sue the Justice league.
When the bell rang, he almost jumped himself out of the window and ran across Antarctica. Freaky things always give him the instinct to do extreme things. And yet it takes all his powers to stop himself.
That experience was pure torture. First, none of his friends were in that class. Secondly, he's a speedster, meaning time goes extra slow for him. And yet worst of all, somehow Mr Brian just loves picking on redheads.
How the hell was he supposed to know anything? He just joined this hell hole of a school today! And it's only MONDAY! Plus the first class of the first day of school.
"Alright, who knows what is the mass of the sun?"
Wally sweated.
"Ah, yes. Mr West?"
What the heck? The one year he doesn't learn earth and space. The fact he just joined the class today was ironic enough. Yet Mr Brian was treating him as if he was the straight A student who knew the answer to every question. Uh no. He mentally snorted and rolled his eyes.
"AHEM, Mr West?"
"Sir... I joined the class today."
"Pardon me?"
"I only joined today? So I don't know?"
"Mr West, if you don't know I'll be outing you in detention."
"But... I don't know! Please seriously, I really really don't know."
"You have the right to remain silent."
"...Mr Brian, If I had-"
A whiteboard eraser was thrown in his direction, while he barely dodged it. Such a cliche move for a teacher.
"Look, Mr Brian, I-" He dodged another eraser.
"Seriously-"
"Ow-"
"How many erasers do you even have?!" Wally cried. He winces as an eraser flew by again.
Good going there, West. Only a temporal stay here, plus its the first day and you're already getting erasers thrown at you by a teacher.
This is going to be a long day.
After Mr Longre and Mr Carter's classes. He had enough. Seriously enough. Somehow Dick explained that they were apparently 'okay' teachers in the tour. As much as terrifying a ninja acrobat hacker can be, seriously, he is the biggest and best mathelete who won over like 20 competitions gold medal in a row.
If he was a science geek who didn't know the mass of the sun, Dick better be a techo and math geek who can't calculate and hack chocolate chip cookie recipes.
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Lunch turned over with an overwhelming bell ring. They played the most complex combinations of different notes, and it gave Artemis a ringing headache.
She was on fact not used to it at all. Its fair enough since she's only been going to school for a few months. Knowing the team is here with her as well in school just felt so weird but reassuring. She had never really socialised or eaten with a large amount of people in one table.
Her teammates were the possibly most closest people have ever been to her. They still didn't know about the bad family DNA, with her sister Cheshire, and her dad as Sportsmaster. Once she opened it all up, most of them would probably understand after some time. But Wally and Red Arrow would be yelling and everything. The team knows Roy pretty well, and Wally of course. So they would all assume she's the mole with such clear evidence of Family line.
She wasn't the mole, nor did she choose her family. The team became her new family who knew absuloutely nothing of her background and accepted her. Except Wally. She had the chance there, but there was no way she wanted to lose it.
Someday, they will know anyways, but she'll just treasure and love she has for now. Wally would definitely hate her so much and be angry at himself for ever trusting her. Like he ever did.
Something about Wally always made her tick. And no matter how much times she's tried. She just can't stop moving her thoughts to him. Wally this. Wally that. No matter how much she didn't want to admit it.
That stupid Wally-
"Artemis, are you okay?" Robin... No wait. Dick's voice rang.
How did she just do that? Compare Robin and Dick's voice-
"Uh Crock?"
She blinked a dozen times to make sure she wasn't crazy or insane.
She turned to him, "What?"
"You seemed to zone out and literally got pushed by the students in the hall all over to the cafeteria."
What? Dick Grayson. She has talked to him before, but something about seemed familiar suddenly.
"Y-you're the freshman who took a photo of me." She blurted out. Wait no. But yes. He was. No wonder he was familiar, but there's something else, just something-
"It took you nearly half a year to figure it out," He snorted and almost doubled over laughing. His laugh was like a mix of a cackle of some evil villian and a cartoon character. Something about the laugh.
She said, "What, Grayson?"
"Oh yes, I wanted to ask whether your friend group wanna join me and my friend Barbra for lunch?" Dick proposed. All of a sudden, he had very much second thoughts. Gods, I'm so stupid, now theyll be more suspicious of me. What the heck was I thinking?
Strange. Artemis had known him for a while, and only now was he asking if she and her friend group wanted to join him and his friend which should be Barbra Gordan.
Actually, she had had lunch with them and Bette a couple times. But Bette was taking a break somehow and hasn't been to school for a few weeks. Suddenly when the team and her shows up, he asks himself.
But it was understandable. Bette had been her only friend in this school, but she only got to see her for a short amount of time since she left the school for some time.
Today got to be strange. Just today, she felt like she was a new student and met Dick Grayson for the first time. They had been pretty good friends for sometime, but suddenly she felt like a stranger.
Freaky.
She didn't really have much of a choice since well...the cafeteria looked like the place was going to burst and explode any moment with almost every single table full with laughter and loud hollers.
"Well?"
"I guess we can make that happen, but just give me a sec to find my te-friends and see how they think about it." Artemis nearly let the 'team' word slip out of her mouth. Even the slightest little words can cause a disaster, or what Robin would say an anti aster.
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The cafeteria was in disarray. Well it always was. After all, the lunch place just typically was that one sole reason janitors quit their jobs at this school.
One look at it and you'll already regret you ever applied for the job. Why? The walls were orginally clean and beautiful with a modern pattern curving around, they still are, but the stench and the dirty stains of food were plastered all around there. Mac and cheese, corn, pieces of lettuce were scattered around like a graffiti by an unprofessionalist.
The fact that the floor didn't even look solid scared the lights out of people sometimes. Despite the fancy school reputation and image, it looked so horrendous that it would've been considered the messiest school.
Seated at the very end corner of the cafeteria, the team had lunch with Barbra and Dick.
Dick introduced Barbra to the team, which led Wally to send Dick the hidden questioning of 'Wait... Is she in the batclan? "
He completely ignored him.
(M' gaan) Is everyone online?
(Artemis) Yeah, it's nice to remember we can talk mentally y'know
(Kaldur) Dick and Barbra seem nice
(Connor) The Grayson kid is suspicious to me, after all, he is the ward of Bruce Wayne, a multi billionaire playboy. Rich people are always the ones capable of being behind everything
(Wally) Hey, you can't be that sure
(Artemis) Last checked, you aren't exactly the kind who would hand out with Dick Grayson
(Artemis) But you're partly correct, I've been in this school for a while and hung out with Dick Grayson, Barbra Gordan and Bette Kane. I know him long enough to know he shouldn't be behind it... Although he has great acrobatic skills and disappearing...
Dick who very much knew they were speaking in a mind Link, "Uh, are you guys okay? All of a sudden you've stop talking and kept making faces at each other..."
"Yeah, you guys good?" Barbra asked, actually concerned whether the team was sane or not.
Robin who once again knew Barbra didn't know about the superhero biz, was obviously debating if the team was sane.
He mentally slapped himself for the team being that obvious while they communicate through mind link. He did a quick reminder to tell the team when he reveals his identity.
Wait...
He most certainly did not make it sound like he was already planning to tell the team. Thank the gods, that batman does not actually read minds and kill people like some people thought so.
Wally hesitatedly replied tgoughtfully, "Well, we like... Umm... We have a secret language like bats-
"Sorry, this moron here is still learning to stop running into walls, don't mind him. Right, it's just a little perk we have since we're all close friends and developed a little facial language with each other. Sorry about that." Artemis coughed.
Dick was very thankful for that quick save.
"So how did you guys meet?" Barbra asked. She brushed her red hair behind her and ate a scoop of her chicken salad.
(M'gaan) How are we gonna answer her?
(Kaldur) Perhaps we should quickly think of a good cover up story
(Wally) We... Met at a pizza place?
(Connor) It's sounds too raw and common
(Artemis) We met at summer camp years ago?
(M'gaan) Sounds good enough
(Connor) Agreed
M'gaan said with her usual light-hearted cheery tone, "Well, years ago, we met at a summer camp."
"Nice," Barbra shrugged.
Dick said thoughtfully, "Oh Barbra, are you trying to avoid bringing up your... Ah moment in a certain summer camp."
Barbra deadpaned, "Shut up, you dick." She punched him on the arm, hardl
Dick rubbed his sore arm and retorted, "I see what you did there."
Everyone even Kaldur and Connor bursted into laughter after realising what Barbra really meant.
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(Kaldur) Has anyone noticed anything off in the school?
(M'gaan) While I was walking to my first class, while the entire place was crowded with students, I felt a wave of multiple emotions from people around me. And I felt one which came from a student who seems to feel like a... Villainy feeling, I can't describe it, but it obviously means-
(Connor) Someone in the school is up to no good
(Kaldur) Stay alert-
The mind link was interuppted rudely by a large slam.
"FOOD FIGHT!"
Followed by a soft 'Ow, my hands hurt from slamming the table'
Dick slumped his shoulders, "Took long enough." He lay back and sighed.
"If a food fight doesn't happen once everyday, there gotta be something wrong with Gotham," Barbra muses.
"Is this not violent behaviour of children I suppose?" Kaldur frowned.
"Nah, this happens every time, the cafeteria is that one chaotic place where life happens." Artemis rubbed her temples.
Megan bit her lips a bit, "Does anyone get hurt...?" Connor once again put his protective arm around her like usual.
Wally bit his hamburger, "Megs, don't worry. It's just a little thing that high schools just well... have?" He suddenly remarks thoughtfully, "Wow the food here is amazing."
"Wait till you see the dessert," Barbra chuckled. It was no flex that despite the cafeteria's displeasing image, the desert was surprising good. The chocolate chip cookies were banned after students started only eating cookies for lunch, breakfast and dinner on a daily basis.
"Oh my gods, dessert? WherehaveIbeenmywholelife?" Wally gasped dramatically. He sped-talked so loudly it earned him some glares and only one weird look from his table.
"Geez, I thought you were the one who immediately complained about how utterly boring the classes are and how you wish you could go home." Artemis scoffed.
"When have I ever rejected this place, pfft."
"Didn't reject this place my ass. Not to mention Mr Brian has already starting throwing erasers at you."
"Hey! The man just never runs out if it! It's crazy!"
A pile of so-not-hygienic French fries were thrown suddenly straight onto Wally's hamburger.
Before he could move, a large pile of pudding following dropped onto his burger.
Wally groaned, "I BARELY GOT TO FINISH MY FOOD!" He somewhat dodged a scoop of mashed potatoes flying over him.
The food fight appeared to have spread out to nearly every table. Forcing everyone to participate in this foody war.
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"Where the heck is my letter to resign?" Artemis moaned with chocolate mud stuck all over her hair, her clothes smudged with grease stains and pancakes.
Wally rubbed his eyes, "Darn it, I'm out!"
"Is there anywhere we can get a spare uniforms to change?" M'gaan asked with a watery tone.
Barbara replied in monotone, "There is a counter over there down the hall on your left which was specifically made for the consequential messes after lunch."
"I hate monkeys," Connor murmured. A students happened to bring an actual monkey today at school orginally for a prank, which went our of control, resulting in Connor having to pick a fight with the monkey.
Dick snickered, "Heh." He winked at Connor, "Oh and by the way, Felix wants to say he is not sorry, but he'll make sure to bring his monkey to school everyday to keep you company."
Connor did not look grateful.
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This is the end of Chapter 2 for now. I wonder if I should add bullies into the story as well? Maybe? I could make a list of things I would like to include:
-dick Grayson shows off
-kidnap
-...
My mind is so clouded right now, so I just forgot all my ideas in a split second. This gives me so much frustration when this memory loss situation occurs to me. Sigh.