Batman smacked into the wall, Superman picked him up,
"Bruce stay up! i can't keep saving your life!" He yelled,
"What's happened to you?" Flash asked as he whirl winded two droids sky high,
"Well first you call me on a mission at 4:00 in the morning, two Dick has been having nightmares ever since he started to sleep outside of my room and three it took almost 15 minutes to promise that i would be back. Do you get the slightest idea of what happened Flash?"
"Oh kid troubles, i deal with those every day,"
"What? I thought you didn't have kids,"
"I don't, he's my nephew,"
"Who?"
"Kid Flash,"
"Your sidekick?"
"Yep, super speed isn't a great thing to put in an 8 year old's body."
"Yeah but it's a great thing to put in yours,"
"Hey don't be harsh i mean i know your Batman and all but- Whoa!"
Flash dogged a few flying bullets,
"What kind of idiot gives a gun to a robot?"
"The Strategic Science Division that's who." Batman answered.
"The S.S.D.? Aren't they suppose to be like the smartest people in the world?"
"The smartest people in the world who just lost control over their most deadly robot, yep smartest people in the world,"
"Boy did they get that wrong,"
Green Arrow jumped in beside them,
"You know what i would do Batman, to get ride of the nightmare's i would take him somewhere. So then all he can think about is how much fun he had. It worked with Speedy."
"That's no a bad idea, maybe i'll try that. Where'd you take him?"
"I don't remember, he was 9 back then, it's impossible to make him have fun ever since he turned 13."
"Hmmm...Well maybe-"
Black Canary ran up to them,
"ARE YOU GUYS DONE TALKING ABOUT YOU KIDS NOW? LOOK YES THEY'RE CUTE BUT RIGHT NOW WERE TRYING TO SAVE THE WORLD HERE!"
Bruce sat down on the bed, Alright, it's 5:30 in the morning, still got 30 minutes to sleep and then i can-
"Daddy?"
Bruce took in a deep breath trying to hide his annoyance,
"Yeah,"
"I had another nightmare,"
Bruce thought for a moment,
"Where do you want to go tomorrow Dick?"
"Like i can go anywhere!"
"As long as it's in the state,"
"Splash Down Water Park! I've seen that add on TV like a million times, it looks so much fun!"
"Alright well maybe tomorrow we'll go,"
"Really!"
Dick gave him a huge hug,
"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!"
Dick let go and ran back to his room. Bruce turned out the lights and went to bed as fast as he could.
Bruce sat down in the living room of the WatchTower. Dick had made a fort out of the blankets and pillows. He had crayons, paper and coloring books everywhere.
"Some mess you got there," Flash said as he sat next to him.
"Yep," Green Arrow sat on the other side of him,
"Alright spill it, what do you want?"
"What? We don't want anything, nothing at all."
"Barry stop, ok you got us Bruce. we wanted to ask if we could tag along with Roy and Wally to Splash Down."
"How did you hear about Splash Down?"
"You mean how could we not hear about it, dude your son has been running around non stop telling everyone about it." Flash answered.
"So can we?" Green Arrow asked again,
"Yeah sure, Dick need's some friends anyway."
"YES!" Green and Flash said in unison.
"So when are we going?"
"When Dick comes back and cleans up this mess, right now he's-"
Flash ran around and cleaned it,
"Are we done?"
"I guess, meet you guys at my house in 15 minutes?"
"Be back in a Flash!"
Barry ran out of the room while Bruce and Oliver shook their heads,
Dick was jumping up and down with excitement, Dick said he never had kid friends before. Bruce felt better since he was going to be with Olli and Barry. Dick was wearing a small backpack that held a pair of red swim trunks, a blue towel and a boat load of sun screen. Bruce insisted that if he didn't wear enough he would be burned alive. Barry pulled up in his bright red pick up truck. Dick was leaning from side to side trying to see Kid Flash.
"Bruce! Hi!"
Barry walked up and shook hands with him.
"Is Wally here?"
"Wally! Come on!"
"One second!"
Bruce could see Dick was having a hard time staying calm,
"Dick, why don't you go help him?" Bruce asked
"Ok!"
Dick ran straight to the truck,
"So how old's Wally?"
"He's 8, but don't worry he'll make friends with anyone."
Dick looked through the window an saw him, a boy about half a foot taller then himself with shaggy red hair. He was wearing a bright yellow shirt with red swim trunks on.
"Hi,"
The kid jumped then smiled,
"You scarred the living daylights out of me kid,"
"Do you need help?"
"Yeah sure. See my bag is in the back caught on this pole and i can't really reach it. You think you could-"
Before he said another word Dick did a double back flip then a kick off the roof of the car and was standing with the bag in his hand,
"This yours?" He asked
"Uh...yeah, thanks'. So you Bat- i mean Bruce's kid?"
"Yep,"
"I'm surprised your not a sidekick yet,"
"Me a sidekick? I'm only 6,"
"And I'm 8, your only 2 years younger then me. I bet you could be a sidekick if you wanna,"
"That would be so cool! So your a sidekick? To Flash?"
"Yep, Kid Flash at your service."
"Cool."
"But you can call me-"
He jumped out of the car and picked up his bag,
"Wally, or Wally West, or Mr. West if you prefer,"
Dick started to giggle,
"My name is Dick, Dick Grayson, or Mr. Grayson if you prefer,"
Wally laughed back.
"Wait, Grayson? I thought it would be Dick Wayne."
Dick thought for a moment,
"Well i was adopted, but it you want to you can call me Mr. Wayne if you like,"
They both started to laugh at each other.
"How about we just stick with Dick and Wally,"
"That sounds easier," Dick replied.
Bruce looked at the sidewalk as Wally and Dick walked up laughing.
"I told you they would be great together," Flash looked at Bruce,
"Just don't expect me to call you brother Barry any time soon,"
"Ha ha, that would be the last thing for me to expect,"
"So who else is coming?" Wally asked,
"I know! i know! It was...I know it started with an R," Dick said as he went into thought mode,
"I got it! His name is Roy, right?"
Bruce looked down at Dick,
"Yep, Roy Harper."
"I've heard of him! He's Speedy right? Green Arrow's sidekick."
"That's the one Wally," Barry replied.
"You know when they're coming?"
Barry looked expectantly at Bruce.
"Any second now,"
Roy couldn't believe he was going through with this. He was going to go to Splash Down with a pair of little kids. Oliver said it was going to be fun, fun! He was 13, how was he suppose to have fun with a 6 and an 8 year old? Roy was sitting in the back of
Oliver Queen's black Bentley staring out the dark window. Oliver tried to talk about the other kids but he ignored him. When they finally pulled up to the Wayne's mansion Roy felt like he was going to puke. He forgot how stinking rich Mr. Wayne was and how spoiled rotten his kid probably is. He saw KF standing next to him waving along with that other kid. Roy rolled his eyes.
"Try to be nice ok?" Oliver asked.
"Whatever,"
Roy grabbed his bag and got out.
"Oliver! Your here!" Barry ran up to him.
"Sorry i'm late, there was this huge..."
Whatever he said after that Dick didn't pay attention. He was to busy looking at Roy. He had his arms crossed as he starred off in the distance. Dick had never been around a teenager before. Bruce said that he wasn't allowed to be a teenager cause they can get really bad. Dick didn't believe him. So today he was going to prove him wrong so he could be a teenager.
"Hi, i'm Dick."
Roy just grunted.
"This is Wally,"
Dick could tell Wally looked a little annoyed at him.
"And so this is my house."
Dick pointed at the mansion.
Roy completely ignored him. Dick looked up at Wally who shrugged.
"Alright you guys ready to go?" Barry smiled.
"Yeah!" Wally and Dick said in unison, Roy just rolled his eyes again.
Everyone got into Bruce's limo. Dick sat next to Roy with Wally on the other side of him. Bruce sat with Barry and Oliver up front. Dick opened his bag and pulled out a note pad and a pen.
"What to play tick tack toe Roy?"
Roy just rolled his eyes again.
"I'll play,"
Wally picked up the pen and drew the board. On the ride there they played and Dick laughed as Wally cheated and made up his own rules. When they got there it was better then they could imagine, and by they i mean not Roy. There was water slides, wave pools, snack bars and tons more. Bruce payed for the tickets and asked them what they wanted to do first. Dick said he wanted to do the water slides while Wally said he wanted to get some snacks. When Bruce said they would eat in an hour and that the water slides where all the way in the back they all agreed to go to the wave pool. And again, by all i mean not Roy.
"This is going to be so fun!"
Dick ran up to Roy,
"Don't you think this is going to be fun?"
Roy looked away and shrugged.
"Don't worry he'll come around." Wally promised.
When they got to the pool Dick and Wally took off their shirts, Wally jumped in, as Dick ran to join him Bruce stepped in his way.
"What is it?"
"You forgot sunscreen,"
Bruce started to spray him and as he did so Dick spat out and covered his face from the spray.
"Can i-" spit "go-" spit "now?"
"Yes, just be carful," Bruce called as he jumped into the water with his black and white goggles on.
"If your so worried about Dick why don't you get in there with him?" Barry smiled.
"Bats don't swim."
"Oh yeah i forgot." Barry pulled up a chair and laid out in the sun.
Bruce sat down under the umbrella watching Dick.
"Are you going to get in there Roy?" Oliver asked.
"No thanks,"
"Why not?"
"Cause i don't feel like it,"
"There's kids you age in there too, maybe you can-"
"I said no thanks,"
Roy got up and walked over to the water fountains.
"Some piece of work you got there,"
Barry was looking up a Oliver.
"Teenagers, you can't live with them, you can't live without them."
Barry laughed,
"I heard Brucy here forbid his kid to become a teenager."
Barry looked up at Bruce, he had a "Don't ever call me that again" kind of look.
"If only you could really do that," Oliver said as he watched Roy get a dink from the fountain.
Bruce turned his attention back to Dick. Everything seemed fine until he realized Dick was being sucked in by the waves in the deeper end. He looked a the measuring line and saw him disappear at 7ft.
"DICK!"
Bruce took off his shirt and jumped in the water. He had always hated swimming ever since he was 4 and almost drowned but right now he didn't care. All he could think of is Dick. Bruce dove under water and found him being sucked against the wall and shoved back out. Bruce scooped him up and carried him out of the pool. Dick started to cough and spat out all the water,
"Can we do that again!"
Bruce sighed in relief, He's ok, he's ok.
Wally ran, (at human speed so he wound't blow his cover) up to Bruce and Dick.
"Is he ok?"
"I'm fine, but a little hungry."
"Let's go get something to eat," Bruce smiled
Wally and Barry sat in front of 7 plates, 3 bowls, 16 cups and 12 cotton candy paper sticks. Everyone, including Roy and Bruce had their mouths dropped open in astonishment.
"So...you guys want to go get some ice cream?" Wally asked.
"How about we go to the watersides," Oliver answered.
Everyone got up and walked their way there.
"Dick, what's wrong?" Bruce looked down as Dick fidgeted around.
"I have to go to the bathroom." He whispered.
Dick crossed his legs.
"Ok-uh..." Bruce looked around
"What's wrong?" Barry walked up to Bruce,
"Nothing, Dick just needs the restroom."
"How about Wally take him?"
"What?"
"I mean this way we might be able to get Roy to do something, Olli looks pretty desperate. Plus this is a way to test the no nightmare always have to be with you thing."
Bruce noticed he had a point. Wally looked like a nice enough kid.
"All right just this one time,"
Bruce leaned down to Dick.
"I know it's going to be hard but i want you to go with Wally to the bathroom while we take Roy to the slides ok?"
"Ok!"
Bruce was surprise of how happy he looked to go with Wally, maybe this will actually work, Wally ran up,
"What's up?"
"Can you take Dick to the bathroom really quick?"
"Come on, I'm Kid Flash! I can do it in no time,"
Bruce looked at him very seriously,
"sir." Wally added.
Wally walked up to Dick,
"Let's go!"
Dick and Wally ran at human speed down the walk way.
"You done?"
Wally was standing by the stall where Dick was.
"I am now."
Dick opened the door and washed his hands.
"Where do we go now?"
"To the slides, that's where Bat- where Bruce said to go."
"But the slides are everywhere! How are we going to find them?"
"By going on each slide to see if their there."
"But that's not-"
Wally nodded.
"Oh! Ok, let's go "look" for them."
Then they ran off giggling to the nearest slide.
Roy looked around. He, Bruce, Barry and Oliver were sitting by the slides. Where are the little twerps.
"I'm starting to worry about Dick and Wally." Bruce looked at the path that lead to the slides.
"I'm sure their fine," Barry said as he looked up at a huge waterside.
"You guys know what the age limit is here?"
Oliver laughed. Bruce was starting to look scarred.
"I'm going to go find them,"
"Bruce, their fine. Look the'll be back in any minute, trust me."
It's been about 10 minutes since Bruce asked that. Roy was getting sick of how Bruce would keep listing things that might have happened or how worried he was.
"Bruce, look they'll be here-"
"You've said that like 300 time Barry, what if he was hurt or taken or even-"
"I'll go find them!" Roy yelled as he stomped down the sidewalk.
This is so much better then sitting there listening to Bruce go on on about his precious spoiled kid. Now if i was a brat where would i be? Roy walked on. He noticed how better it was to know someone else screwed up for a change. He also liked to be by himself.This is what i need, space. Not some little kids trying to be my "friend" but peace and quiet. As Roy breathed it all in he saw two girls wave a him, he found himself doing the same. He hadn't smiled in a while. Roy walked to the sunscreen stand when he noticed his skin getting hot. When he bought some he decided to pick up some shades with it. Roy put them on, when he did this he noticed a lot more girls waving at him. Roy smiled and nodded at them. When another girl was going to do the same she slipped, Roy jumped out and caught her, She looked up at him,
"Hi," He replied with a smile.
It's been about 20 minutes since he left Bruce. Roy had hung out with the girl until she had to leave. Before she left she kissed him on the cheek. That's never happened before. Most people disgust him, but he's never talked to a girl before. Roy watched her leave with a smile on his face.
"Hi Roy!"
Roy jumped and turned around to see Wally smiling.
"Roy kissed a girl!"
"Shut up!" Roy was so annoyed of how this 8 year old was talking to him.
"Hi Roy!"
Dick was peaking over the table. Roy groaned. What will it take to get rid of them? Then he remembered why he was alone in the first place.
"Hey i need to take you guys back to the dads"
Kid Flash smiled, "He's my uncle,"
"Whatever, let's go ok?"
"Wait!"
Dick grabbed his hand.
"I need to ride this one slide first!"
"In your dreams brat,"
Roy flicked his hand off. Dick had tears in his eyes. Wally's face turned red with anger.
"WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?!"
Roy was blown away at the anger that came out of those 4 words.
"W-what do you mean?" Roy was a little scared to ask.
"I MEAN ALL DAY HE'S JUST BEEN TRYING TO PLAY WITH YOU! HE'S NOT DOING ANYTHING WRONG! YET FOR SOME REASON YOU ACT LIKE HE'S ALL THE VILLAINS COMBINED!"
"WELL MAYBE I JUST NEED TO BE ALONE FOR A WHILE!"
"WELL MAYBE YOUR JUST A JERK!"
"YOUR CALLING ME A JERK! I DIDN'T ASK TO BE DRAGGED OUT HERE-"
"QUIET!" Dick's voice rose above the others.
"Look, let's fight later Wally, and Roy,"
Dick looked straight into his eyes.
"We're not going anywhere until we ride this slide."
Dick crossed his arms. If it had been any other time he probably would have laughed at the kid but he knew right now that if he didn't get them back he would get in huge trouble.
"Fine, whatever."
When they got there Roy looked at the line.
"This is going to take forever,"
"Come on it's not that bad." Dick smiled.
When the got to the back of the line Roy noticed that what he saw was just half of it, there was another 20 people ahead of him. He grumbled,
"What you say?" Wally asked,
"I said if they knew who we were we would be back with Oliver now."
"If they knew who we are we'd own the place," Wally laughed.
Roy almost smiled but didn't want to kids to know he actually listened to them.
They were next in line. Roy's heart was racing in his chest as he looked down. The slide went straight down and dropped at some points, he had even heard some stories of people dying on it.
"Are you, shaking?" Wally was laughing,
"What?"
Roy noticed he WAS shaking,
"No, i- i'm just cold,"
Roy put his arms around him, Wally looked at Dick and rolled his eyes, Dick giggled. Roy looked back at the slide and saw the people ahead of him scream as they went down the slide.
"Next,"
Dick jumped into the tube,
"Wait, you, kid with the red hair."
Wally and Roy in unison, "Me?"
"No, the older kid,"
Roy walked up,
"You with this kid?"
"Yeah, why?"
"The kid can't ride without someone, 8 or older."
"Uh...yeah so,"
"You have to ride with him,"
Roy turned around,
"Wally, you want to go ride with Dick?"
"Nah, i'm good." Wally was smiling. He knew Roy was scared.
"Come on, he can't go without someone 8 and over,"
"Why don't you do it? I mean it's not like your scared or anything," His smile got bigger,
Roy gave an, (I'm going to kill you) kind of look and got in the tube. Dick was smiling as the man pushed them off, Roy screamed his way down. When the were gone Wally gave the lifeguard 5 bucks,
"Thanks,"
"No problem."
Roy was screaming at the top of his lungs as the plunged into the water, Dick was screaming with laughter when they got to the bottom.
"That was so fun!" Dick yelled,
Roy was taking deep breaths as the made to the stairs. Wally stood in front of him,
"What? How did you get here?" Roy asked,
"Oh well i decided to ride a different, faster one so i could see you face, you screamed like a little girl!" Wally and Dick started to laugh their heads off.
Roy rolled his eyes and walked off,
"Where are you going?"
Dick looked sad,
"We didn't mean too,"
For some reason he didn't want the boy to cry so he said he was just going to the restroom, instead he went behind the bathroom and sat down with his back against the wall.
"When will this day end!"
"Sooner then you think kid,"
"Wa-"
A bag dropped over his head, then turned over to where he laid upside-down with two men holding it,
"Ha ha, that was easy,"
"So where only getting one today?"
"That's all we need, the boss said so."
"Let me out!" Roy was so angry that his face was almost as red as his costume.
"I SAID LET ME OUT!"
Dick and Wally finished laughing when they heard it, a big angry annoyed cry from Roy.
"What happened?" Dick looked scarred as he looked at the bathroom.
"He's probably just throwing a tantrum,"
"No, something's wrong."
Dick ran behind the restroom with Wally at his tail. When they got there they saw two men loading a sack into a truck. Wait a second, that sack is moving! Without thinking Dick jumped onto the nearest one and started punching at him, Wally was confused at first till he saw the bag. Wally slipped on his mask and raced around the other one sending him into a whirlpool. Dick jumped off the man and slipped under his legs. He then kicked him in his back making the man fall to the floor.
"DON'T EVER TOUCH OUR FRIENDS AGAIN!" He yelled as the two men ran out of sight.
When they were gone Wally (or Kid Flash as he was now) untied Roy's bag letting him out.
"Thanks," Roy was embarrassed.
Dick smiled, "That's what friends are for,"
Roy smiled back and hugged him. Wally ran up to them,
"Group hug!"
When Wally started to hug Roy let go,
"I'm done,"
Dick laughed when Wally pretended to look sad.
"So about me getting captured, don't tell anyone about that, ok?" Roy looked at Wally and Dick.
"No prob," Wally shrugged.
"Just don't tell my dad that i fought anyone." Dick looked worried,
"You secrete is safe with me," Roy smiled again, it felt good to to smile.
"You know, you could be a great sidekick with all your fancy moves and all," Roy looked down at him.
"Yeah! You could be called, that Batkid! Or or or The Boy Wonder! Or or or-"
Wally was making up all kinds of names on their way back to the grown ups. After he was done Dick talked about how cool it was to fight crime and to play hero. He also promised one day he would be a sidekick like them. Roy smiled as Dick held his hand on their way back and talked about being a sidekick.
"WHERE WERE YOU!" Bruce demanded after he had hugged Dick 7 times and checked for marks.
"I'm sorry Daddy, w-w-we-"
"We got lost." Roy answered quickly.
"Yeah, what he said." Wally winked.
"Yeah, then Roy found us, he brought us back." Dick looked up at him with happy eyes.
Bruce sighed.
"Let's go home."
Bruce looked straight ahead,
"Bruce, Bruce look!"
Barry was whispering as Oliver tapped him on the shoulder. Bruce turned around, Roy sat between Dick and Wally. Dick held his hand and rubbed his little eyes. He then leaned on Roy and fell asleep with Wally doing the same. Roy leaned back to close his own eyes.
Bruce smiled, "It worked, it actually worked."
THE END