Batfamily one-shots

This might explode on us

Jason didn't know why he hung out with Roy Harper. Even the good days were usually filled with an excess of gunpowder. And the bad days?

The bad days were like today when they were staring at the rapidly decreasing timer on a dirty bomb. This is what I get for trying to have friends, Jason thought as he held the bomb steady. Roy was busily trying to disarm it while Kori was fighting off the rush of terrorists trying to stop them. 

He knew his conscience wouldn't let him just leave the bomb to decimate all of Washington D. C and probably the whole of the Eastern coast, but he liked to think he could have enough self-preservation to leave before the timer dropped low enough that he couldn't escape the blast. Their ship wasn't too far off, and he figured he could clear the area in time.

"Stop making that face," Roy smirked. "I'm like seventy-five percent...this won't explode on us."

"Well, that's comforting," Jason sneered.

Roy snipped a line and the timer stopped. Before they could celebrate, however, the bomb made a loud beep and the countdown continued with five minutes less than when it stopped. Roy gave an uneasy laugh.

"Okay, seventy percent."

"Harper."

"Sixty-seven percent," Roy amended.

If it weren't for the years of training he'd had from Batman and the years he'd known Roy, he'd have taken his chances with running.

"I'm going to kill you," he replied instead.

"Aw, Jaybird. You have such an explosive temper."

Jason looked at his, unfortunately, best friend, dumbfounded.

"You did not just make a bomb joke right now."

Roy laughed before snipping another wire. This time the timer slowed, but not by much. Jason had had enough. Most of the terrorists had either been vaporized or otherwise burned into submission, so he didn't feel at odds with calling Kori over. She seemed amused that they hadn't handled the bomb yet.

"I can fly it into space," she offered.

"No!" Roy growled the same time Jason nodded.

"Please."

"I've almost got it!" Roy insisted even when Kori took it away from them and began flying up. As she disappeared into the sky, Jason could have sworn he was pouting.

Jason didn't know why he hung out with Roy Harper.