Prompt Post - Part Ten
I am REALLY, REALLY SORRY about taking so long, guys, and about not being around much recently. I've been busier than I have in a while, and it just kept slipping my mind between uni applications and volunteering and all sorts- for some reason I thought we were much further off a new post.
If there is anything I haven't responded to, as of now, I'm ( Read more... )
| September 5, 2:32 AM
"Hey everyone, I've got Superboy, and I'm on my way."
"Who are you? And how did you get inside my head?!"
"Hello Megan! Aqualad's memories! I knew I forgot something!"
"Hello guys, we're still missing a member!" Wally practically shouts into the link. He completely fails to hide his worry. Yeah, sometimes he teasingly calls Robin the boy hostage, but it's obvious the boy is the least likely of them all to get captured with his absurd knack for disappearing in thin air. If anyone would have put two and two together about this situation by now, it would be his best friend.
His still missing best friend.
His still missing best friend whose been avoiding him for weeks, and Wally is pretty sure he knows why. It doesn't bode well.
"It's the boy wonder," Artemis reasons, "who knows, maybe he's already back at Mount Justice waiting for us."
"Except he doesn't even know we're a team yet!"
"Maybe he's at Gotham then," Artemis retorts, but with much less conviction now.
"Look," Wally enunciates, “haven’t you guys noticed that Rob’s been a bit...off? Last month, he had the stomach flu and he’s been avoiding me since!”
“He looked fine to me last week,” Megan chimes in from the link, confusion in her voice.
“Of course,” the speedster replies a bit bitterly, “he always is.”
They lapse into a silence until Megan arrives with Conner and a large sphere. Wally is pacing, almost a blur in the space ship. Kaldur watches the group with interest, and soon has his memories returned as well.
The Atlantian groans after the memory transfer, holding a hand to his head. All too soon, Kid Flash is in his face. “So what’re we going to do about Robin?”
And he’s beginning to wish that he was back blissfully unconscious, but he is the team leader, and he must take responsibility. “We are in Qurac now, are we not?”
Megan glances to a hologram screen on her bio ship and nods.
“Then we shall break radio silence.”
| GOTHAM CITY
| September 4, 4:40 PM
(Notice timezone difference)
Bruce Wayne is at a meeting when his communicator vibrates. With a sheepish smile, he excuses himself for some reason or another - no one complains.
“Batman?” It was Kaldur.
“Aqualad,” he replies expectantly.
“Robin’s missing, we were wondering if he has contacted you.”
Batman frowns. “No, I ordered radio silence. What happened?”
“We got attacked and separated by a mental attack from a man named Psimon. We have been unable to track Robin after our separation.”
“He hasn’t contacted you?”
“...No.” Batman can practically hear the unease in Aqualad’s voice, and he struggles to keep his voice flat.
“Find him.”
He shuts off the communicator, then brings his personal phone to call Alfred. A limo picks him up minutes later, and he makes it to the batcave in record time.
“Master Bruce,” Alfred is holding a platter with a drink, “has something happened to Master Richard?”
The dark knight doesn't even avert his eyes from the screen that continues to flash the words “scanning” over and over again. Eventually, a red “no signal” appears, and he bites back the first stirrings of frustration. He should have figured. The Bialyan military has invested heavily the last few years in state-of-the-art jamming technologies. They kept their secrets close, and Dick could be one of them now.
When he first gave his ward permission to join the group, he knew he was entrusting them to handle such situations as this. But now that he finally has to say the words, “He’s missing,” Bruce can't help but want to take a jet to Bialya immediately.
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