Chapter 4: Heigh-Ho
In a cave deep in the mountains, seven children were working to get some precious stones to be able to survive in the world. Originally, they were part of the Legion of Superheroes, literally, they were parts of the members, but after a prank by Zyx, magical clones of the Legion were created at very early ages.
The leaders were child forms of Lightning Lad, Superboy, Saturn Girl, and Cosmic Boy. They were physically ten but held the same memories as their adult counterparts far away in the city of New Metropolis. Right under them was a nine-year-old version of the hero known as Brainiac 5 and an eight-year-old version of the hero Shrinking Violet. At the bottom of the chain of command was a seven-year-old version of Chameleon Boy. They still wore the same outfits their adult selves wore, but they were obviously smaller and slimmer. To make things go by quicker, and to stop Beast Boy from complaining, they sang a work song, which only Lightning Lad objected to.
We dig-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig
In our mine the whole day through.
To dig-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig
Is what we have to do.
"It's not a trick." Superboy said as he used his heat vision to easily cut through the walls. "You get rich quick."
"If you dig-dig-dig with a shovel or a pick." Lightning Lad said as he dug out a diamond the size of Albert Einstein's brain.
"In a mine." Brainiac 5 said as his echo repeated, "In a mine."
"In a mine!" Saturn Girl repeated as she liked the way the echo sounded. "In a mine!"
Where a million diamonds…
Shine!
As they blinked in wonder, Shrinking Violet was driving a cart while she was reading a book called The Once and Future King.
We dig-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig
From morning until night.
Shrinking Violet saw a fly buzzing around and smashed him.
We dig-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig
Up everything in sight.
Shrinking Violet then dropped the diamonds in front of Cosmic Boy, who used his abilities to see how good the diamonds were. If they weren't good, he'd toss them on the floor.
We dig up diamonds by the score.
Diamonds rubies sometimes more.
And we're not sure what we dig them for.
We dig-dig-diggity-dig.
Chameleon Boy's job was to sweep up the rejects and throw them in a landfill. As he watched Cosmic Boy observe a very large diamond, he picked up two of them. A few minutes later, he tugged on Cosmic Boy's sleeve, and he turned around to see Chameleon Boy with the diamonds in his eyes. Cosmic Boy then knocked the diamonds out with a slight thump on the head.
Cosmic Boy then looked at the clock to see that it was already five in the afternoon.
"Heigh-ho!" Cosmic Boy called as a way to sound the end of the day.
"Heigh-ho!" Everyone called back to show they heard. They then headed back home.
Heigh-ho! Heigh-ho! Heigh-ho!
They then walked off with about three diamonds each to tide them over for a while.
Heigh-ho. Heigh-ho.
It's home from work we go.
The rest of the diamonds were then put into a safe as Chameleon Boy put the key in his pocket to keep safe until the next day.
Heigh-ho. Heigh-ho.
Heigh-ho. Heigh-ho.
Heigh-ho. Heigh-ho.
It's home from work we go.
Heigh-ho. Heigh-ho.
Heigh-ho. Heigh-ho.
Heigh-ho. Heigh-ho.
Heigh-ho, hum.
Heigh-ho. Heigh-ho.
It's home from work we go.
Heigh-ho. Heigh-ho.
Heigh-ho,
Heigh-ho. Heigh-ho.
It's home from work we go.
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Heigh-ho,
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It's home from work we go.
Heigh-ho, heigh-ho.
Heigh-ho, heigh-ho.
Heigh-ho.
Yeah, that's what I'm using for the dwarves. Deal with it.
No flaming if you don't like it by the way.