BACKDATED TO 6/21

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WHO: Artemis (real_archer), The Shade (foreshadower) and Kid Flash (runningstart)
WHERE: Heropa High football stadium
WHEN: Early morning (2:00 AM), June 21st
WHAT: Robin disappears, so Kid Flash and Artemis go on a culprit hunt while Wally overreacts. Artemis and Wally conclude there's obviously nobody but the Shade to blame. Clearly. The Shade indulges the children.
WARNINGS: PROBABLY NOTHING.



Kid Flash knows he's not going to have to wait long for the Shade to show up. He agreed pretty easily to meeting in the football stadium; is it because he thinks Wally is alone, and therefore can't possibly spring a trap? Or is it because he just (rightly so) believes that Kid Flash is absolutely no threat to him whatsoever?

Or maybe he's just bored. Must get boring, living forever and not sleeping at all during it.

Either way, Wally is hoping against all common sense that this won't come to blows, because after what Jay and Flash have told him, Wally's pretty sure he won't be able to take on the Shade, not even with Artemis's help. The best he can hope for is cooperation, maybe some info on where Robin could be because he's sure as hell nowhere in the county.

It's to find Robin, Kid tells himself. He's not picking a fight. He's not trying to live up to any inane expectations he sets for himself. He's trying to find Robin.

Yeah.

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[runningstart]

Kid was going to try and grab Shade, but that giant set of teeth just leaps up and snatches the flashbang out of the air, chomps on it like it's made out of matter and KF slides across the wet grass on his side a foot before he skids to a stop and gapes.

Shit.

Shit.

The floodlights for the stadium come up and throw everything into starker relief, and from this angle Kid Flash can see the grin on Shade's face and he realizes with a sinking feeling that they didn't think about how many shadows the light makes. It's not bright enough.

"Not the right angle," Kid whispers under his breath, shoving himself up. They can't shine the light down on Shade, it just throws more shadows across the ground. They have to get Shade to stand on the light; then the shadows have nowhere to go.

"Artemis!" Kid shouts, looking over at her only to see her absolutely frozen, her bow still half-raised as she stares down at Shade. "Dammit, Artemis, go hide!" He shoves himself up and slips on the wet grass as he tries to bolt over to her before Shade gets bored of playing around and goes after one of them.

asdkf I'm so sorry this took so long!!

[foreshadower]

The creature itself, the one that swallowed the flashbang only looked at the two of them, its dark eyes, almost more like a blacklight than eyes themselves looked from Flash to Artemis, before it almost looked pained, and then the thing exploded. It burst into shreds of shadows that drifted to the floor, but they didn't move when they hit the ground, only faded to nothing.

Of course, Shade was giving them some hope. They were starting to look scared, and they were outclassed, but Shade wasn't exactly the sort that was going to meet his class often, or even at all. It was a good thing he was more interested in paling around with Oscar Wilde than he was with taking over the world.

Shade, of course, turned to find Kid Flash dashing at him, and he laughed, as he started to fade. "Running only goes so far, Flash! Did Jay teach you nothing?" he asked, but even as he faded, he let the fabric drift slower and slower, and when Flash's fingers found his arm, coat, leg, whatever, it solidified, under his fingers, and he let off a dramatic hiss of disapproval.