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chapter three

chapter three - welcome to happy harbour

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STAR CITY
JULY 17th — 23:16 PDT

roy harper was a belligerent asshole, but he was still one of dick grayson's friends, and that was why, late sunday night, dick, kaldur, and wally set out to recruit him to join the team. unluckily, this meant tracking him down whilst he fought Big Red Supreme™️.

big red must of been orchestrating some kind of illegal goods trade. dick couldn't get a good look at whatever was in the boxes that his lackeys were moving, but they looked heavy enough to be weaponry. or maybe it was really big fish.

dick watched as the red guy pulled out a gun, shooting a half-dozen bullets at roy, who ran along some nearby scaffolding to avoid them. he nocked an arrow, hitting the guy's gun and smirking as it exploded.

yeah, belligerent asshole.

"i'm starting to get offended that green arrow won't show up himself," reddie yelled, turning to his lackeys. "gut him, boys."

dick took that as his cue to help him; after all, he did pride himself on his loyalty. he jumped out from where he was perched, throwing a couple bird-a-rangs at the lackeys. wally stole the guns, throwing them across the yard.

kaldur took out the last of the lackeys, jumping in front of roy as reddie threw a boulder toward him. kaldur sliced the rock in two with his water bearers, turning toward their friend.

"the cave has everything the team needs," kaldur started.

dick flipped over to where they were talking, landing just behind roy. "we're doing covert missions, you've always loved the espionage lifestyle."

wally ran up beside dick, shooting finger guns at roy. "plus, there's superboy and miss martian! we're all friends and well, i know you could use a few of those-"

"shut up, kid idi-," roy said, stopping mid-sentence as the crimson rogue threw another boulder at them.

dick and wally both dove out of the way while kaldur smashed the boulder into pebbles. roy nocked a few arrows, shooting them at captain boulder, but they didn't even seem to hurt him.

"you shouldn't send a boy to do a man's job." reddie laughed.

roy nocked another arrow, shooting it directly into where reddie's heart would've been if he had one. the arrow exploded into a chemical foam, swallowing the guy in it before hardening and leaving him immobile.

"high-density polyurethane foam?!" wally yelled, his eyes sparkling with admiration. "that is so cool."

"last chance, speeds," dick said, leaning on one of the storage crates. "are you joining us?"

"no," roy answered, slipping his bow on his back. "i'm not having arrow- the league tell me what to do. they're just trying to keep you in your place. have fun with your clubhouse, because 'justice league junior' is a joke."

roy walked into the shadows, jumping down to a nearby road. wally crossed his arms, turning to the others. "well, that was a bust."

dick sighed, glancing at the big mass of polyurethane foam that was big red. "he's always been a sore loser. i guess i'll call the local pd to pick this guy up?"

"sounds good to me," wally said, shrugging. "let's go home; i'm starving."

WAYNE MANOR
JULY 18th — 10:56 EDT

apparently, to wally, "let's go home; i'm starving" actually translated to "let's go to dick's house and steal all of his pop tarts." dick had stacks of pop tarts. and wally managed to eat them all.