"Your first order of business to survive is to find water." Batman said. They'd just stepped off the ship and looked around, slightly shocked. They were in a valley with a mountain far off in the distance. It was cold, and the brown, waist high grasses were all blown to the left.
"But it's... flat." Roy said, rubbing his upper arms, trying to get some heat back into them.
"So? We go up the mountain- water flows from high elevations." Wally said. "We just have to get to the mountain. I can carry Scarlet and Dick... Maybe you, too..."
"What about Batman and the others?" Dick asked, looking at the mentors. "How will they get there?"
"We won't be. It's up to you to find water. We'll be there once you've found it." Batman informed them.
"Then let's go." Scarlet said, jumping onto Wally's back.
"Make sure the toilet paper stays securely in the bag." Wally ordered, before taking off. He returned for Dick, then Roy. He awkwardly put his arm around the larger boy before taking off. Roy gasped- the speed was blinding. He choked on multiple bugs, his toes burned as his shoes scraped the bottom of the ground, and he staggered and fell as soon as Wally stopped, lying on the ground, staring at the sky, shocked.
"I vote we leave Roy behind. Survival of the fittest." Dick said.
"G-gimme a minute." Roy demanded. Finally, he staggered to his feet. "Okay... What next?"
"We hike. There's bound to be streams running down from higher elevations..." Wally said, science coming in handy now.
"Let's go, then." Roy was still a little winded, but they all started walking anyways. It was a steep incline, with their path filled with frost-covered grass and clumps of shoulder-high grass in large clumps... They were fighting through one if them when it seemed as though the ground fell out from under them...
They landed on moist rock, all shaken and shocked. They were surrounded by darkness, which shocked and terrified them both, except for Scarlet and Dick, since they were Bats.
"We're in an underground cave system." Dick said calmly. Twenty feet above them they saw a hole that they'd fallen through and a spot of gray November sky... The hole had been concealed by the tall grass.
"Are you sure we should've let them go alone? I mean, Roy..."
"Roy was raised on an Indian reservation. He has skills I'm sure you don't even know about." Batman said.
"What about the weather? It's freezing..." Flash said.
"Scarlet and Dick were both born in Russia, they're used to it." Batman said. "They'll be fine. At least, they shouldn't end up dead."
Just then, Oliver's communicator went off. "Ollie? We fell into an underground cave system and..."
"Hey, do you guys hear that?" Wally asked. Between the eerie echo of dripping water there was a squeaking sound...
"Bats." Dick and Scarlet said in unison, grinning. Just then there was the screeching of bats as they swarmed them, like a tornado of furry rodents cascading around them...
"They're everywhere!" Roy screamed. There was a large sound of swooshing, shrieking, as well as Wally's terrified screams in the background and Scarlet's laughter...
"What the heck!? Roy, what's going on? What's happening!? Roy!" But the communication had been ended.
Oliver paled. "W-what was that..."
"Sounded like a swarm of bats." Batman said.
"Bats?" Flash said, looking shocked.
"Underground cave systems are where bats like to be..." Batman said.
"Great! They're trapped in an underground cave-system with wild bats! Get out the tracking devices Now!" Flash ordered. Batman rolled his eyes but obeyed. Five minutes later they were landing near the hole. Wally was the first to come out, pale and shaky... The bats had all evacuated the cave by then, and Roy came out next...
"Uncle Barry... they... there were so many bats..." Wally said, sweating and shaking...
"They just kept clawing and screaming and flying..." Roy muttered.
Scarlet and Dick grew tired of waiting and fired their grapple guns, each emerging, Scarlet was laughing.
"Have fun?" Batman asked.
"Yes! It was awesome, there were almost as many bats that were in the bat cave, and..."
"You should've seen their faces!" Dick fell, to the ground laughing then, and Batman hid his smile...
"Not everyone had been raised by a freak who lives in a cave with Bats!" Wally said indignantly.
Batman sent him a batglare, however, that sent him reeling.
Wally dove behind his uncle for cover then, and both birds laughed even harder.
They found water by sundown, a large lake, and the mentors arrive and taught them to purify it. By nine, they al, sat on a log in front of a roaring campfire. Wally was counting rolls of toilet paper, making sure they were all there. Roy pulled out his phone- he'd seen a cute girl and was hoping she'd text him back.
"What did you two pack?" Wally asked.
"Marshmallows and explosive devices." Dick said, pulling out a bag of marshmallows.
"I packed batteries and explosive devices." Scarlet said, pulling out some batteries.
"Okay, the explosive devices I an understand." Roy said, looking at the siblings, Dickg broke off a stick and began to roast his marshmallow.
"I can't. Why explosives?" Wally asked.
"What better way to attract a passing pilot's attention than a big friggin explosion?" Dick asked, before blowing on his golden-brown marshmallow.
"You want it?" he asked Scarlet. She nodded, popping it into her mouth. "Thanks."
"But- wait- where's your flashlight?" Roy asked, looking at Scarlet, confused.
"Flashlight?" Scarlet asked, looking confused.
"Why else would you have batteries?" Roy asked.
"Oh." Scarlet grinned. "Because- they work great with fires. Watch." She threw a D-battery into the fire and it exploded in a shower of sparks and a bang.
"Who did that!?" Flash demanded. The mentors had been talking from a safe distance away.
"He did it!" "she did it!" they all pointed to each other so it was an un-determinable mass of fingers.
"Don't do it again." Batman said to everyone in general. "Now, shouldn't you be focusing on building a shelter?"
"From what?" Dick asked, looking around. "I mean, sticks, mud, bark, animal skins?"
"Sticks." Roy said decidedly. "We already wasted daylight. It you can get me some vines I can make us a stick hut... Peel some bark too, for covering." his skills from being raised on the Indian reservation were already showing.
"Right. Let's move." Dick said, standing.
"Wait. What if we get lost?" Scarlet asked.
"Everybody grab some toilet paper." Roy said, handing out rolls. They tied part of it to a tree and were going to unroll it as they went.
"No! Toilet paper is for bathroom use only! We can't waste it!" Wally said, frantic.
"Chill, Wally, we'll rewind it onto the rolls. It'll be fine." Scarlet said, before they all disappeared into the night.
"The certainly do have a unique way of doing things..." Oliver said, looking at the toilet paper tree.
"Well we can't expect them to be just like us, now can we? Especially in your case, Queen- that would be disastrous." Batman said, smirking.
"Should we wait for them to build it or just sleep now?" Flash asked.
"Sleep now. Trust me, we'll hear it if anything happens." Batman said, pulling out his sleeping bag. They all didn't know what had happened that night, but they woke up t an odd sight. It looked like the kids hadn't found any bark, but had decided to simply cover the walls of the teepee-like structure with toilet paper. And they were sleeping in.
Flash walked over, snapping a picture and smiling. They were all curled up together and huddled for warmth, cuddled together in a heap...
"We need to wake them up." Batman said.
"Are you crazy? Look how adorable they are!" Oliver said, smiling. His son had spread himself over the smaller three, protecting them from the harsh west winds, and he smiled slightly...
"They're wasting daylight. They need to get up." Batman said.
"Come on, Bats, let them sleep a little longer..." Flash pleaded.
Just then, their communicators went off.
"Batman. We have a situation. Raging forest fires moving to nearby towns. You need to go there and evacuate them and aid in fire prevention methods now." Superman said.
"But we have the kids with us..." Batman said.
"You'll have to leave them. They're not on the fire's path, they can stay, and when the civilians are taken care of we can pick them up..."
"Can't one of us stay?" Oliver asked.
"There are 7,521 people in that town that need help. We'll care of the kids after the civilians. We need you all out there now. You need to go." Superman said. "I'm transmitting you coordinates now. You need to go."
"They can't come with us?" Flash asked, shocked.
"Superman is right. They'd slow us down. We'll write them a note and come back, but we have to go." and they were gone.
Still, as they took off to help those in need, they couldn't help but wonder as to he kids they were leaving behind.