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WALLY WEST
"You've reached the personal voice mail of the Wall-man. The honor is yours! Leave your deets, I'll holla back atcha."
[ BEEP. ]

KID FLASH
"This is the contact for Kid Flash. If it's an emergency, call Robin; he'll know where I am. Otherwise, leave your info and I'll get you back ASAP."
[ BEEP. ]

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insanity?

bad decision making?

close but WRONG its called HEROISM and a THIRST FOR JUSTICE

Okay okay fine

I had a lapse in judgement and became a hero for a day

nah youll be back out there

once you pop u cant stop

That was terrible.

[Can you tell she's laughing?]

dont blame me blame the pringles marketing team

now im hungry
dammit

i gotta stop for a refill

Are you still going to head out here?

I probably owe you lunch for dealing with my newbie freakout.

oh dude id never say no to food

ill be there in like forty min

[Texts him an address about ten minutes later.]

[KF screeches up to the address twenty minutes later, out of breath and trembling and sweating and- okay, so he's gonna bend over and catch his breath first. Also he probably smells awful. Gogo should consider ordering for them and bringing it outside, he's going to stink up the whole building.]

[She recoils maybe an inch, but after the day she's just had her tolerance for disgusting has been raised several more bars.

She waits until he's collected himself well enough to at least sit down or something and then she's offering a convenience store bag.]

Here. Some fuel while they work on making two of everything.

[KF's BO ranks just beneath flesh eating slime monster on the grossness scale, good to know.

When Gogo produces that bag Kid gives her a wobbly look, like he's about to fake-cry and he digs through the bag for the energy bars inside.] Hmigod.

Okay, [he swallows] technically I should be treating you? Since this was your first monster fight, I'm guessing? You did good though. [another] Sorry I didn't make it in time to help out.

What are you talking about? I've been freaking out on you the past several hours. If that's not considered helping then I need to edit my dictionary.

[She got him several bottles to drink, too. One day she'll make up a list of exactly what he needs to refuel properly, but for now she figured a scientific guess would have to do.]

Yeah I'm not usually the emotional support from the sidelines guy, I'm the [he thumps a fist into his palm for emphasis, third energy bar between his teeth] 'punch, run away, rinse and repeat' guy.

Oooh, Powerade! [Kid unscrews the cap and drinks half before coming up for air.] -Anyway, if you could schedule any future crises around my calendar I'd appreciate it, thank you.

Well now you can add something new to your resume. [Do superheroes even have resumes?]

And sure, just leave me a copy of your itinerary and I'll be sure to ask them next time 'could you wait about six more hours? A thing has come up elsewhere and I need to move you to a new timeslot'.

Thank you Beverly. [Scheduling assistants are always named Beverly.]

So! C'mon, give me details. I seriously have no idea why you aren't bragging my ear off right now, I'd have already told half the town.

Ethel, thank you. [If he's going to give her a middle aged woman secretary name, might as well use the one that belongs to her.

She leans back against her hands, wrinkling her nose distastefully.] I'm not even entirely sure this is a thing that happened to me. It's going to take me a week to get the slime off my armor. [Which she had changed out of at some point between the fight and now. Though she's still exaggerating. It all pretty much dissolved with the solution Honey had made up, but still. It'll feel gross until she cleans it properly.]

I will never underestimate the stupidity of mankind ever again. Can you believe people were trying to take selfies with the things? [There's a bit of a shudder at that. The kid had almost lost his leg. If she'd hadn't been there...]

Ethel? Geez. [Why would she willingly pick a name like that as her secretary alias? The girl's got a few screws loose but whatever.]

Yeah. I mean- that sorta stuff happens back home all the time. People don't really get the danger of it 'cause there's heroes running all over, or 'cause they've never been in danger. [KF mimics her posture and shrugs his shoulders, crossing his ankles.] I mean it's stupid, it's really stupid, but I'd rather have a city full of stupid happy people than a city full of scared people.

[If only he knew.]

I can get behind reasoning like that. I'm going to upgrade the armor as soon as I can. Probably isn't the best idea to run field tests against living jello, but we work with what we've got, right?

Besides, it all worked out. Honey and a couple other chemistry people figured out a solution to dissolve it so after that it was just a matter of getting it into position.

Aww yeah, science saves the day. [Kid grins to himself and drinks half of his blue Powerade so he can mix it with the red.]

Anyway, sometimes you gotta field test in crisis situations. Spontaneity is the ally of the physical scientist or whatever.

You can quote me on that, that's mine.

I'll be sure to do that. Do you want me to leave in the 'or whatever'? [She's laughing, but it's friendly. If she gets the opportunity she will definitely quote him.]

Would you go by Dr. Flash?

Ehhh, Dr. Kid is fine. Dr. Flash sounds like a porno character. [PURPLE POWERADE aww yeah.]

So you really don't wanna do the hero thing, or was that because this time it really sucked?

It probably exists. [Which isn't a thing she tends to think about at length, so moving on.]

I...

It wasn't that bad? I can't deny the thrill of it, and I really don't like the taste of sitting back and watching while people get hurt. But I'm not a hero, you know? I put on the armor to capture one guy, and I was told we won, but I don't remember that at all. I kinda feel like a kid just dressing up and pretending to be important.

[She winces slightly. It sounds like she's crying for attention or something and that's just...no.]

I've used the armor all of a day before being brought here. Beyond our objective I'm just an engineer that likes to race.

[KF shrugs his shoulders, unconcerned as he sits back on his hands again.] Loads of heroes feel like that sometimes, it doesn't really go away.

My mentor told me that he feels like that at least once a month, and he's been doing this for years and years. But then he remembers what you said, about not wanting to see people get hurt when he knows he coulda stopped it, and it's an easy decision then.

[She watches him for awhile, thinking about that with the same amount of attention she gives a new design. Finally, she smirks.]

Your mentor must be a pretty lucky guy.

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