Avoiding Past And Future

(26)Alpha Male 2

The tension on the bioship was so thick it nearly made it hard to breathe. It took the team nearly all day to travel and wait for an opportune time to start scouting. The whole time, Captain Marvel would keep trying to start up conversations nobody was interested in. Most of that seemed to go fully over the adult's head as he tried failed conversation starter after failed conversation starter.

Once the time finally came, Robin and Artemis silently dropped out of the camouflaged bioship. The second they hit the ground, they took off running to scout the area. Slowly the bioship landed and a bigger door opened up for the heroes. "All clear." Robin reported back as the others exited the spaceship.

"Switch to stealth. We will review mission parameters." Kaldur commanded what earned him a heated glare from Kid Flash. "Parameters? We don't need no stinking parameters." While disrespectful on its own, the added disdain did nothing to ease the slight to Kaldur's leadership. "It's recon," Robin added, much in the same tone as his best friend. 'We know what to do." As if sharing the same braincell, the boys turned around and started to walk away from the group.

Kaldur took a step forward, trying to close the distance between him and the first friends he made when he came to the surface. "Kid, Robin." He called out softly. The pair turned around. Well, Robin turned around fully, Wally only turned enough so he would be looking at Robin speaking for the both of them. "The three of us started this team because the Justice League was keeping secrets from us." He nearly growled at his once friend.

Dick was beyond pissed. Why was it that everybody seemed to have it out for him lately? Batman is STILL hiding that damn usb drive from him and refusing to share what happened while he was at Belle Rêve. Both Bruce and Alfred don't even believe facts Dick KNOWS to be true. Hell, the entire mess with Danny was one gigantic secret that he was given absolutely no time to even work on unraveling because more shit just kept being added to the propeller of a fan! To add insult to injury, he was also barring Dick from helping in the Red Tornado case. A trusted colleague nearly killed them all yet somehow that isn't enough to let him work on it just like he had done countless times before? And on top of all of that, somebody he held dear to him turned out to have known there were issues all along.

Just how many more things are going to happen that he gets to add to his 13 reasons list?!

"Or did you forget that, like you forgot to tell us about the mole?" Wally added sarcastically as he pulled on his goggles. With both of them being beyond frustrated, they ran off together to do what they do best. Work together as a team who could be trusted.

As they made their way through the forest, Dick couldn't shake the feeling that they were being watched somehow. Of course, he expected there to be animals in their natural habitat.

Yet

Something about the vibe of the forest threw him off. Even though it's night and most animals would be asleep, it's just too quiet. The normal ambiance of the forest seemed thrown off. Somewhat similar to when a forest goes deadly quiet when an apex predator is near. But, they shouldn't have made enough of an impact to have this effect on the creatures here, right?

After a while of being lost in thought, swinging or jumping around and watching Wally nearly run circles to burn off their frustration, the two decided to continue on foot. "You feel it too, don't you?"

"Burning hatred and severe disappointment that fuels the hatred for being betrayed? Yeah, I thought that was obvious." Wally half joked, trying to get out some more frustrations while still keeping his tone light. He snorted lightly as Robin rolled his head at him, having to exaggerate his movement to replace the eyeroll the ginger couldn't see. "Yeah, forest feels wrong. Something's off for sure."