performance | IC CONTACT - MASK OR MENACE

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Were you bitten by a radioactive grandma or something?

This is how my mom always did it! I'm nesting. [Wally gets bored of it soon enough and wipes his hand on his tank. The gas station is right there, and inside of it are his Skittles so that's enough tomfoolery for now.] Okay get your camera ready.

I'm soooo not your baby bird.

[ He follows, fiddling with camera settings while Wally buys inadvisable amounts of candy. ]

[Wally scoffs as he heads inside, and scoffs again when he comes back out five minutes later, just for good measure. He's got a bag full of Skittles.] C'mon, we should get a good backdrop for this. What do you think, a park? A police station?

I still don't even know what "this" is, dude, but my vote goes to the beach, because it's so close I can practically smell it, and we so don't have that in Gotham. Whatever you do is gonna look better on the beach. I promise.

You know, you say that but it's not true. Nobody looks good running on the beach. Baywatch is a lie.

Aww, and here I thought it was a documentary. That said, I wanna see your best fake slow motion beach run.

With that one song playing over it, right? [Wally mimes running in slo-mo.] Chh-chh-chh-chh haa-haa-haa-haa. Dunnn dun dun da dunnn dunnnn, dun dun dun da dunnnnn!

Haha! Perfect. Okay, dude, we definitely need to film that on our beach trip.

We gotta think of something else to do with it though! It needs a twist.

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Are we gonna have to take a bus?

[ Dick's shoulders slump, his face falling. ]

Oh. I... didn't think about that.

[EXTREMELY SLOW PUBLIC TRANSPORT......the bane of wally's existence]

Well, I guess we were gonna have to learn the bus system sooner or later. Let's get this over with. [Wally vanishes back inside the gas station to see if there's a brochure available for the nearby bus routes.]

[ Dick is wondering if there's any way he can go back on his SECRETS ARE IMPORTANT talk with Wally. Why'd he have to have it now... He's rich, he's not used to buses. ]

[Wally comes back with an unfolded route map, squinting and turning it onto it's side.] I think I can read this. What street are we on?

Maple. Which is...

[ He squints, running his index finger over the map. He's the Boy Wonder. He was trained by Batman. Why do bus route maps look like arcane demon-summoning runes or something? ]

Here?

Wait what? [Wally squints at the map.] I thought that was Sycamore! Where the hell is Sycamore?!

I think it's two streets up. Or three? I can't keep the tree names straight.

Geez, you're telling me. I can't even tell which way is north.

[Wally stuffs the map into the bag with the Skittles and sighs, glaring down the street. He shoves a hand into his pocket and pulls out his goggles.

Grins at Dick.] Hey.

[ Dick grins up at him, hesitant but hopeful. ]

... yeah?

Doesn't count as breaking cover if I'm too fast to see, right? [Wally snaps his goggles on.]

And if anyone figures you out, we can always pretend Dick Grayson is the president of the Kid Flash fanclub.

[ It's not a total lie. ]

Only if we get to keep that going back home, too. [POSITIVELY GLEEFUL AT THE THOUGHT.]

[ Dick rolls his eyes, but he's grinning. ]

I'll put your picture in my locker and everything.

Oh my god, you promise? With a little frame made out of hearts? I wanna be in the locker of the richest boy in America!

I'd say glitter hearts, but that would be tacky. Are there tasteful heart frames for teen hero heartthrobs?

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