A small amount of lighthearted fluff, as things have been getting pretty dark lately.
"What's the point of this again?" Dick asked as they trudged along in the forest.
"Something about tracking skills. Heck, I haven't seen a track in miles. We lost our mentors. They'll be the ones tracking us down." Roy said.
"At least we have twinkies." Scarlet pointed out.
"Rrrroooyyy..." Wally whined.
Roy sighed. His feet hurt, he was covered in sweat and bug bites, since they were hiking through some south Anerican forest, and they were hopelessly lost.
"What?"
"I have to pee!" Wally said.
Roy looked like he was considering this fir a minute "Fne. Go ahead. Pee, let loose, be free- whatever." he turned back, working towards finding the non-existant trail leading back to their mentors.
"But... Roy. This is the middle of the woods." Wally said quietly.
"So? Take a leak anywhere you want. Wait! Take a leak on anyTHING, that means not on me, Scarlet, or Dick, we clear?"
"But there isn't a bathroom!" Wally said, clearly upset.
"Well no duh. The world is your bathroom Wally." Roy said, rolling his eyes. Wally looked at him, surprised. "The... the world is my bathroom?"
"Yeah. Now go, pee, do... whatever it is people like you do. And come back here so we can keep moving."
Wally nodded, unzipping his pants. No one turned around, not until they heard Wally start screaming.
"Holy crap! I peed on a fire ant nest! Roy- help!"
"What!?" Roy ran over beside his younger brother to find hhis ankles covered with fire ants, that were rapidly stinging him, THROUGH his pant legs, and climbing up towards his nether regions.
"Pee on them! Drown them!" Roy yelled, trying frantically to brush the ants off his brother's pants.
"I'm empty!" Wally yelled. Roy was feeling his legs start to smart then, as well, the fire ants had found their way onto him.
"Don't just stand there, then- zip up your pants and run!" Roy yelled.
Just then, Scarlet ran over, spraying something everywhere.
Roy watched the ants fall off him, onto the grund, spazzing out like they were on crack.
"Are the ants... twerking?" Dick asked, smiling slightly.
"No- they're convulsing." Scarlet said calmly, spaying the nest before nodding to Roy. Roy could smell something spicy...
"Is that... mace?" he asked, surprised.
Scarlet nodded. She was still spraying all around them. "Die ants, die!"
"So violent..." Dick said, but he was grinning. Scarlet finished spraying the ants and tossed the can back to Dick, who pocketed it.
"Did you guys just... mace... fire ants?" Wally asked, as they continued walking on, both Roy and Wally more itchy than normal from the fire ant bites.
"Yep. Mace. Never leave home without it." Dick said simply.
Wally grinned mischeviously, before snatching the can of mace and spraying Roy in the eyes.
Roy gasped, staggering back, screaming all the way, and Wally gaped. "Come on- it can't hurt that bad."
Roy just kept clawing at his face, screaming and writhing around. The mace was EVERYWHERE- in his eyes, nose, mouth, he could barely breathe...
"It can't really hurt THAT bad, can it?" Wally asked, He sprayed the air in front of him, curious. And at that moment the wind blew it into everyone's faces.
"I was wrong! I was SO wrong!" Wally yelled, falling to the ground, trying to find something to do to stop the burning on his face.
Dick ran into a tree and ended up rolling into Roy, who was cursing under his breath, and Scarlet just curled into a ball, breathing raggedly, waiting for the burning to stop.
"Shouldn't they have found us by now? We've been waiting for an hour..." Flash said, looking bored.
"Give them time. This is their first tracking excersise, they'll screw up a lot. They'd let us know if something was wrong."
Just then, they heard the screaming n the distance.
"Roy!" Oliver yelled, notching an arrow. Flash moved quickly, but couldn't run all out because the trees were so plentiful and close together.
They were all tearing through he trees, then, and slowly, to their horror, the screaming stopped.
"Guys! Guys, what happened!?" Flash yelled.
They finally burst into the clearing to find all the kids covered in dirt and mace, their eyes tearing like crazy.
"Wally- you're an idiot, you know that?" Roy asked, rubbing his irritated eyes as he coughed.
"I know!" Wally sobbed. His eyes were still burning and he was wiping his eyes. "I get it- don't play with mace!"
"What happened?" Oliver demanded.
"Wally maced us all." Dick said, holing his cape to his bloody nose from the tree. "ALL of us."
Wally noticed Baman and started to hyperventiliate. "Please don't kill me, please, please don't kill me..." he pleaded, whimpering.
"Your stupidity punished you enough already." Batman said, picking up the discrded can of mace. "Next time, don't spray Mace in the wind."
DON'T PLAY WITH MACE, KIDS!