"Are you sure you will be fine without me?"
Current Titans leader Donna Troy emitted what must have been the tenth sigh since the video call was initiated. "If you ask one more time I swear I'll hang up the call." she threatened seriously.
Dick Grayson-Wayne peacefully raised his hands in the air with an amused smile between his lips. "All right! Geez, how mean you are!" he chuckled at the Amazon's glare as he settled better on the couch in his Bludhaven apartment, staring directly at the laptop screen. "Where are the others?" the first Robin asked curiously as he saw that only his Wonder Twin was in the Titans Tower's main living room.
Donna looked around briefly before returning her gaze to the screen. "Gar and Vic are probably arguing about what food to bring with us with Kory watching them to keep them from escalating into another one of their food fights, Rachel is probably controlling her powers to keep herself from killing Gar and Victor, and Garth is probably wondering what he has done wrong in his life."
Dick laughed at his best friends' antics, and Donna smiled sweetly at her best friend's laughter. "Didn't you say Wally and Roy were coming too?" the acrobat asked curiously, noting that his two longtime best friends as well as part-time members of the Titans (like himself) were not mentioned by Donna.
She nodded. "Yes but they are still not coming. This delay I would expect from Wally but not even from Roy!" she complained.
The former Titans leader chuckled. "Probably Wally has infected Roy or something."
"Obviously when I'm the leader." murmured Wonder Woman's sister but he heard her anyway.
"Hey! I have suffered years and years dealing with all of you! Now it's your turn to suffer!" the hero of Bludhaven showed her his tongue.
"Don't talk nonsense, Dick. You were literally the worst of all of them put together." declared the Amazon impassively.
Dick winced dramatically at her words and he faked a hurt look. "Donna! And I thought you loved me! You can't hurt your only Wonder Twin this way!"
Donna good-naturedly rolled her eyes. "You just have to accept the raw truth, Boy Wonder."
"Not if you're lying, Wonder Troy." hummed the last Flying Grayson.
"I told you a thousand times not to call me that." Donna stared at him coldly but the menacing look was marred by the smile that threatened to emerge.
"I know you like the nickname!" Dick smiled when his best friend did not deny it.
Donna let out a dramatic sigh. "At least this space mission will keep me away from you."
Dick pouted. "That was a bad one."
"Well, desperate times call for desperate measures." Donna smiled innocently and then chuckled at her Wonder Twin's offended look.
"Where did you get your badness from?" the Wayne eldest son asked in a mutter.
"Obviously from the best of them all! That is you, dear Dickie!" hummed the Amazon happily.
"Ouch. Now Wally is my favorite best friend!" growled Dick jokingly, showing her his tongue in vengeance.
Donna gasped as if he had just told her the worst thing she could ever hear. "Wally? Geez, you got a really bad replacement Dick."
Dick's typically creepy laugh made Donna involuntarily shudder even though she was on the other side of the screen.
"Years go by but your laugh will always and still scare me."
"Don't worry Donna." Dick gave her a playful wink, ignoring her comment. "You will always and always remain my favorite best friend."
Donna smiled at his words and she victoriously raised a fist in the air, emitting a small cry of victory.
"Don't tell Wally though. He might stay crying in the corner for whole months and Linda would kill me for making her boyfriend depressed."
"Don't worry, Dickie. Your secret is safe with me!" she smiled sweetly before a sudden gust of air sent her long hair backwards.
"What secret?" asked Wally West, staring curiously at Dick and ignoring the deadly glare that Donna was sending him as she readjusted her hair.
"Nothing!" shouted Dick and Donna simultaneously sharing a smirk and a wink.
"Probably something you wouldn't like to hear." speculated another male voice.
"Hey Roy." the archer grunted in greeting. "How did Jade take it?"
"How do you think a highly trained assassin wife might take the news that I have to go on an off-world mission leaving the daughter alone with her for who knows how long?" asked Roy Harper rhetorically.
There was a pause.
"Hot sex?" proposed Wally innocently.
Roy smiled and patted him on the back. "For once you are right my friend."
"Thank-hey!"
"I hope you didn't do that in front of Lian. I don't want my favorite little niece to be traumatized by her own parents."
Roy stared impassively at Dick. "Very funny Dick."
"Lian is also your only niece." Donna pointed out helpfully before pausing. "Unless your brothers have a secret son or daughter."
"They won't have children until they're at least 30!" growled the acrobat protectively, making his best friends laugh.
"I kind of feel sorry for them." chuckled the speedster. He took a sniff in the air and smiled, elbowing the archer. "I smell good food. Let's go before the others put it away."
"Don't finish the food we're going to need!" shouted Donna to the two red heads who ran toward the kitchen. She exasperatedly shook her head and stared amused at her Wonder Twin. "You know, I think you can help before I lose my sanity with all of them."
"Really?" asked Dick with eyes sparkling with hope.
"No! I was just kidding!" groaned Donna exasperatedly.
"See how mean you are?" said Dick pouting. "You just shattered a poor man's hopes to pieces."
Donna laughed. "I bet something will happen during our absence that will require Justice League intervention."
"I hope so or I'll die of boredom." Richard nodded.
"Doesn't patrolling Bludhaven amuse you?" she teased him with a smirk.
"Nah. Missions with a team are the best."
"Quick poll. Are better missions with the Justice League or with the Titans?"
"...You know I think someone is calling you."
"Traitor!" gasped Donna dramatically. "Besides, I'm the bad guy!"
"That's called revenge."
Donna sighed good-naturedly but before she could say anything she briefly glanced to the side for a couple of seconds before returning her gaze to her (secretly favorite) best friend, a pained and sorry look on her face.
"Let me guess: you have to go right?" the acrobat asked with a sad smile.
Donna nodded sadly. "Yes, we have to leave in half an hour and we still have to finish getting ready."
The former Robin sighed and nodded. "Take care, all of you."
"We will be." promised the Amazon.
"You be careful too, Donna. I can't lose you now or ever." confessed Dick seriously.
Donna's blue eyes softened considerably, and she sent him a tender smile. "I'm not going to leave you now or ever." she gently reassured him.
"Good." the Justice League hero nodded in satisfaction. "And don't let the others kill each other."
Donna laughed. "That will be the hardest thing but I'll do my best." she joked and then sent him a mischievous smirk. "And when we return it will be better for you if I find you with a great girlfriend."
The 20 year old chuckled and amusedly rolled his blue eyes. "But if you said earlier that something will happen that will require the help of the Justice League." he pointed out with a smile.
Donna shrugged her shoulders. "One thing doesn't rule out the other." she replied with a smirk.
"Do you know that the chances of this actually happening are almost zero?"
"It had better happen otherwise I will personally find a girl for you!" she growled jokingly.
"I still don't understand why you are so fixated on me finding a girlfriend."
"Because I want the most important person in my life to spend the rest of his life most happily and with his true love." said Donna in a serious and firm voice, no hint of doubt in her voice.
Dick's heart warmed with love at his Wonder Twin's words and he smiled sweetly at her, ignoring the burning sensation in the corners of his eyes. "This means a lot to me. Truly it does. I love you, Donna."
"I love you too, Dick." Donna returned the sweet smile before they both heard a scream coming from somewhere in Titans Tower. "I'd better go before someone dies before we even embark on the mission." she joked.
Dick smiled and nodded. "I'll see you in a while, then."
Donna nodded. "Yes. Bye Dick!"
"Bye Donna! Say hello to the others!"
"I will!"
The laptop screen went black and Dick sighed. The acrobat closed it up and put it back in place, and soon afterwards he walked out of his bedroom heading for the living room.
The last Flying Grayson dropped dead weight onto the sofa and lay comfortably intertwining his legs lazily, mentally thinking about what he could do.
This was his day off from his police job at the Bludhaven GCPD, and Amy would kick his ass if he showed up there (as she had literally done a couple of months ago in fact), so that idea was out.
For once there wasn't some organized crime in Bludhaven that required some monitoring or something, and all the reports he had written were fully completed.
He could use his free time to set up a prank on some of his brothers or his father or even some poor unfortunate Justice League.
His thoughts about a future prank were interrupted when a yawn involuntarily escaped his lips.
Dick decided that the prank could wait and that a nap would do him good, so he closed his eyelids.
Dick suddenly opened his eyes again when he suddenly heard his phone ringing and he groaned desolately. Picking it up he noticed first that it had not even been forty minutes since he had fallen asleep and second that Bruce was calling him.
Fantastic.
"Hey B! Is there something special going on that's worth ruining my beauty sleep?"
"Dick." Bruce grunted in greeting and he got right to the point. "I'm sure the reason will be more than worth it and to find out it all you need to do is turn on the TV by putting on the national news."
As Dick turned on the television he had the distinct feeling that something unpleasant was happening. When he put on the news he opened his eyes wide in surprise.
Some sort of humanoid alien race whose helmets and wings reminded the Wayne eldest son of hawks was attacking Washington and there were many of them.
"The White House was evacuated immediately and the president and other American officials are currently safe." Bruce informed him.
Dick irritably pinched the bridge of his nose as he turned off the television. "Why the hell any alien race, between practically infinite planets, has to attack Earth I will never understand."
He smiled slightly when he heard his father chuckle. "I want you here in seven minutes already dressed and equipped. We'll go together to Washington with the Bat-plane."
"All right, see you later."
Bruce grunted in response and the call ended. Dick chuckled briefly before throwing his phone at the couch as he headed for his secret base.
His steps slowed slightly as he recalled that earlier Donna had said something would happen that would require Justice League intervention and that was already happening.
Damn you Donna! Dick growled affectionately before emitting a small, amused chuckle.
The first part of the notorious prophecy of the wonderful Donna Troy had just come true.
Now all that was missing was that he would become engaged to a female of those Hawk Aliens.
Dick mocked mentally.
As if that could have happened.
I'm sorry Donna but for once you are wrong.