Disclaimer: Justice League Unlimited? Mine? Ha.
Movie Time
Wally West, the costumed hero known as the Flash, looked at his surroundings with a whistle. This room in the Metro Tower had been successfully turned into a makeshift movie theatre. And he was very impressed with the results. "How'd you get Supes to agree to this?"
Oliver Queen, dressed in the colourful garb of the Green Arrow, winked at the Scarlet Speedster.
"I have my ways. Knowing the Question has its' advantages."
The young speedster smiled and nodded. "I see… good job."
Green Arrow bowed melodramatically. "I learn from the best."
Flash put his hand to his cheek in mock modesty. "Oh, please."
Black Canary rolled her eyes. "This is all very nice, but can we sit down now? I've been my feet all day."
"I'll be happy to sweep you off them, my lovely birdie," Green Arrow said, smirking as he scooped her up in his arms and took them to their seats. Flash shrugged and sat down, munching away on his mountain of popcorn.
"OOOOOO!"
Flash leapt out of his chair and turned on his heel to see the grinning face of the Creeper leaning over the chair.
"Can I have some popcorn?" he asked, chuckling.
Flash let out a breath, relaxing. "Geez, Creeper. You scared the crap out of me."
The slightly insane hero laughed. "Okay! But can I have some popcorn?"
"The popcorn dispenser's just outside."
"The what dispenser?"
"The popcorn dispenser."
"The popcorn what?"
Flash sighed. "The popcorn dispenser!"
"The what what?"
The scarlet speedster took a deep breath. "Okay, fine. You can have mine. I'll get some more popcorn for me."
"Okay!" the yellow skinned hero said. He clapped loudly as he danced around singing 'popcorn'.
Flash was back in a second with another tub of popcorn. He merrily munched away, happy that the unpleasantness was over and done with.
"OOOOOO!"
Flash ducked his head in shock. A scowl on his face, he turned to once again find the Creeper staring at him.
"Can I have some popcorn?"
"You already have some popcorn! I gave you mine!"
"That popcorn was stupid, so I threw it away!"
"Why was it stupid?"
"Because popcorn is better when it's someone else's!"
Flash sighed. Fire entered and sat down next to him.
Oh great. Like I need this.
He really wanted the movie to start soon.
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Ray Palmer, the costumed scientist known as the Atom, brushed the last of the popcorn from his costume. He still didn't know who threw that tub of popcorn on him, but Booster Gold had found it suitably funny. He turned to the laughing superhero, scowling.
"And this is why I'd rather be in the lab."
Booster stifled his laughter with a cough. "Sorry, Palmer. It's just not something you see everyday. And I've never heard such a girly cry from a guy in all my life."
Atom was ready with a biting response when the lights went down. Booster was under the impression that he had won their little argument. The Atom would have to change that. He leaned over to the blond superhero.
"What movie is it, anyway?" he whispered, keeping his eyes on the screen.
Booster shrugged. "Dunno. Something about a deer."
A deer?
He put his hand over his face. "Not Bambi…"
"What?" Booster asked, turning towards him.
"I believe he said 'Not Bambi', sir," Skeets added loudly. The other audience members didn't take kindly to this exclamation.
"Ssssh!"
"Quiet over there!"
"Shut that thing up, Gold!"
Booster grabbed the floating orb and pulled it down. "Keep it down, Skeets. You don't want to get kicked out, do you?"
"Certainly not, sir," came the quieter reply.
"Good," Booster said, nodding. He turned to look at the Atom. "What'd you say, P-" Booster stopped himself as he realised that the Atom was gone.
"Palmer?" he whispered, trying to keep his voice down.
"I SAID, 'NOT BAMBI'!"
Booster screamed girlishly, leaping up in fright. The Atom jumped out of his ear and grew back to his full size. With a smirk on his face, the nano-scientist sat down in his chair, taking a handful of popcorn from Booster's tub.
"I have to say, Booster, I've never heard such a girly cry from a guy in all my life."
Booster just scowled and sat down. If Skeets were human, he would have shaken his head. He just didn't understand humans at all.
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"My name's Thumper!" the happy rabbit exclaimed onscreen.
Some men rolled their eyes, as did some women. However, some men were completely enraptured in the animated rabbit's words, as were some of the women. One of these men was Vigilante, though he would never let it show, especially not to Shining Knight, who was sat next to him. They had had a little rivalry going on ever since they met, and they were always trying to out do each other, whether it was in battle or in playing chess. And Shining Knight seemed completely disinterested in the movie. So Vigilante tried his best to seem even more disinterested, short of pretending to fall to sleep.
A farting noise came from the back of the make shift theatre. Vigilante tried to ignore it. He knew how it was with the Metro Tower food. He turned his attention back to the movie, being careful not to show it in the least.
Another farting noise. And a giggle. A very familiar giggle. The giggle of Plastic Man. It was only there for a second, and it was so quiet only the most trained ears could have heard it, but it was there. Vigilante had learnt the hard way to always be listening out for Plastic Man, ready for some humiliating prank or practical joke. The stretchy hero could do any number of things with his powers, and Vigilante had no doubt one of them was to make raspberry noises at will.
A third farting noise. He almost stood up and shouted at the elastic prankster, but remembered that Shining Knight had shown no such annoyance.
All right, you shiny goose stepper. You want to pretend it don't bother you? Fine. I won't be bothered so much you ain't gonna know what's happening.
He let his eyes drift closed, but not to the point where he couldn't see what was happening onscreen.
Fart number four. This time Creeper laughed too, though he was nowhere near as quiet about it as Plastic Man was. Several Leaguers protested.
"Ssssh!"
"Quiet, you crazy moron!"
"I resent that! I'm not crazy!" he said, letting out a hoot of laughter before falling silent and into his chair.
Fart number five. Another giggle. Flash snickered behind his popcorn. Vigilante's eyebrow twitched imperceptibly. He briefly considered standing up and shooting Plastic Man, but then realised that he would just bounce the bullets back at him.
Another fart.
Just watch the movie.
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"Whoever keeps on cracking ones off better stop soon," growled Hank Hall, the superhero known as Hawk. He was already irritated that Elongated Man had decided to sit in front of him while wearing the biggest Santa Claus hat in existence. Now some jerk was making raspberry noises at the back of the room.
Donald Hall, otherwise known as Dove, sighed. "Just watch the movie, Hank."
"How can I watch it while whoever it is keeps making noises?"
The green haired Brazilian known as Fire inserted her head between the two bickering siblings. "Would both of you please be quiet? I'm trying to watch the movie."
Dove smiled apologetically. "I'm sorry. It's just that-"
Another fart.
Hawk sprung to his feet. "That's it! I'm putting a stop to this right-"
Fire grabbed his shoulder and forced him into his seat. "Just ignore him, and he'll stop."
"Yeah, right, like that'll work."
Yet another fart. Flash smirked, though he tried to hide it.
Hawk scowled at Fire and Dove. He let out a low growl.
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"Mother! Mother!" the small deer called out, searching for its' mother in the snow. Flash fought the tears that were threatening to burst forth.
Come on Wally. Fire's sitting right there. You can do this.
She looked over at the woman in question, and found the tears welling up in her eyes as well.
"Tissue?" he croaked, and her green hair shook gracefully as she nodded. With a slight gust of wind and a red blur, Flash was back with a box of tissues. Fire smiled and gratefully took the box.
"Thank you."
Flash smiled. He was just glad to be distracted from the tragic scene unfolding onscreen.
There was another fart noise. Flash grimaced. He had to admit, he had found it funny the first few times. Who wouldn't? But now it was getting out of hand.
Another fart. Creeper burst out laughing, hysterically. "Bambi's farting!"
Vigilante leapt to his feet. "All right! That's IT, you horse loving, weak stomached, stretchy excuse for a superhero! I know for a fact that Green Arrow here spent a long time tryin' to get us this movie night, and I'm sick o' your stupid noises! So would you ever so kindly SHUT UP?"
A few cheers went up.
"Couldn't have said it better!"
"Right on, buddy!"
"I'm Creeper!"
"Just watch the movie!"
"Hear, hear!"
"Tally ho! I'm the Creeper!"
"And you can shut up, too!"
"My name's Creeper, not too. Ooo, who threw that? Because now I must get my revenge!""
Green Arrow looked over to his significant other and sighed. "I love doing a little something for the kids."
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(A/N: I consider Bambi a Christmassy film, though I'm not really a fan. It was originally going to be It's a Wonderful Life, but it seemed funnier to have Vigilante get annoyed about Bambi instead. And the lack of attention Creeper gets in JLU is criminal. I'll have to write a gritty crime thriller story with him sometime.
I'm kidding.
And reading this again, I realised that I'm using the Flash in quite a few of these chapters. Apologies for not being more balanced, and rest assured, I'm not trying to force him into every chapter, he only ends up in them when it works for the story. For Learning a Lesson, he's the only superhero I know of that does community service stuff. Meeting New People was the official Flash chapter for this fic, and his mention in Let's Review just grew out of the conversation. And here, well, who better to sit next to Fire?
Anyway, I realised that I haven't done a Shayera chapter, or a Green Lantern one, for that matter. So guess what's coming next?
Can't think of a good present for me? A nicely wrapped review would suit me just fine.)
