Bonus Chapter-- The Background
Whoops, I lied.
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A week later, Red Tornado entered the cave to see Wally watching over Robin's shoulder as the boy wonder hacked something.
"You know, I'm actually okay at hacking myself," the speedster bragged to no one in particular.
"Sure you are," Robin replied sarcastically. "I bet you've gotten into your grandma's computer once or twice without her telling you the password."
Wally looked offended. "I actually got to your homescreen one time."
"No, you didn't."
Red Tornado interrupted. "Might I inquire of what you are speaking?"
"You know that time when I left for a while and came back an insomniac? Kid dork over here decided it was a good idea to go on my computer."
"I actually got to his homescreen!" he boasted proudly. "But I still don't get why it was--"
"You THOUGHT you got to my homescreen. What you actually got to was my 'hacker-deterrent.' Lets people think they're ahead."
"Oh," Wally said in a small voice.
"And what was it?" Red Tornado asked.
"You know that thing from Jurassic Park where it's the guy saying, 'Nuh-uh-uh! You didn't say the magic word!'?"
"I seem to have something of a recollection of--"
"It's that. Once you get past that, the REAL defensive measures kick in."
"What's the real background?" Wally asked grumpily. Then he grinned at a sudden thought. "Is it Batgirl?"
"Who the heck is Batgirl?"
"I dunno, you just see to have Bat-everything else, so why not Batgirl?"
"I'm not Batboy."
"Poison Ivy then?"
Robin shook his head fiercely. "Heck no. She has given me more trauma than all the rest combined. I was ten when she first kissed me. Do you know how scarring that was?"
"Sure. Sure, kissing a beautiful woman at the impressionable age of ten is scarring."
"It was LITERALLY poison."
"Fine, fine. But what is your background?"
"An interactive 3-D model of the Batmobile." He pulled it up.
"Bo-ring. And doesn't that slow your computer WAY down?"
"It's only running when I don't have anything else open. And I even have a driving simulator I can open from it. Chase sequences are in the new upgrade I'm working on."
"Can I try?"
Robin raised his eyebrows. "No way. And by the way? Batgirl sounds like a dumb name."
Wally sat, hurt to be insulted by his best friend, pouting in angry silence and contemplating the uselessness of his humor if no one appreciated it.
Robin was secretly relieved. He had narrowly dodged that bullet.
It was a selfie of himself in a terrible slapdash Robin getup, minus the mask, with Barbara dressed as Batman, pranking Bruce and Alfred. She had no idea of the irony of their costumes, especially since the grandfather clock entrance to the cave could just barely be seen at the edge of the picture. If Wally had seen that, not only would Dick's, and possibly Bruce's, secret identity have been blown, but he would have heard no end about Barbara from his speedster friend.
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