ALL OF THE LIGHTS , young justice

[02] this bird can't fly

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THE FOUR OF THEM approached the Cadmus building. Fire trucks were staked outside and men in uniform were holding the hoses towards the tall window.

The young heroes watched from afar, trying to find their best entrance point. "I don't know why we can't just go through the window." Again, Juniper suggested.

"Despite his namesake, this bird can't fly." Wally pointed a lazy thumb in his friend's direction.

"This bird has several ways he can reach that window. Don't use me as an excuse for you not being fast enough to run up the side of the building." With his gloved hands clenched at his sides, Robin didn't take his eyes off Wally as he pointed to the burning building.

"What! I can totally make it. Observe." And he was off. Wally sped at killer speeds in the direction of two lab workers falling to their death from the broken window.

He grabbed both of them and hauled them up to the roof before losing momentum and beginning to fall.

Great.

"So smooth," Robin smugly remarked. Even though Wally had managed to scale the entire building, he just couldn't quite stick the landing so the Batman's apprentice felt no pain rubbing it in—dare he say—his best friend's face.

Juniper took it upon herself to leave the two other boys be, taking off into the air to save her best friend from plummeting and breaking a mass amount of bones.

Her hair levitated around her head, her hands surrounded by red tendrils of magic as her being was propelled into the direction of Wally's dangling body.

By some witchcraft, Robin had appeared out of nowhere—beating her to Wally and safely launching through the broken window and hauling his friend through.

The girl in the red and black suit slowly went in feet first meanwhile the two boys watched in awe.

"It's always the coolest thing seeing you fly," Wally placed his hands on his hips as he jutted them out to the side.

Her lips curled at the corners. "You look like your mom when you stand like that, Mrs. West."

Robin ignored the two of them, taking off to the nearest computer to do. . . Well, to do whatever he does.

Aqualad finally joined the group of them after securing the scientists Wally had disposed on the roof to the safety of the ground. "Appreciate the help." It was funny because Juniper didn't think Kaldur had a sarcastic bone in his body.

Barely sparing a glance over his shoulder, Robin answered the white haired boy. "You handled it. Besides, we're here to investigate—poetic justice, remember?"

So much was happening at once it was hard for Juniper to focus on who she should be following, but Aqualad was as good a leader as any, so she took her chances by taking after him down the hall.