Robin's Diary - Part 51

By Haruka

I felt badly about this story Starfire told, because it sort of involved me …:

I am not feeling very well right now. At least not my bottom.

Wonder Woman and Hawkgirl had Green Lantern and The Flash over here for dinner tonight. I felt a little odd, being the only child present, but I did my best to be quiet and let the adults talk.

It was not difficult until they began to discuss what happened with Robin and Slade. Of course, none of them had even known of Slade's existence before this incident, but we Titans had agreed to share the information after what happened. I am sorry now that we did. They all think we should have told them about Slade much earlier, when Robin was first blackmailed into being his apprentice. They think if we had, this incident would never have happened. I do not see why it would have made a difference, but I did not protest.

However, when The Flash said that Robin acted irresponsibly by moving in with Slade and not telling Batman where he was, I could not keep silent any longer. I told him that he was a chlorbag varblernelk (the closest translation would be 'jerk') for saying such a mean thing about Robin. I told him that he was a fine one to talk about acting irresponsibly when he all but threw Impulse away. Not only that, but at least Robin was a respected leader of our team whereas everyone knew The Flash could not lead sheep!

Diana decided I had said enough and got to her feet, catching my arm and spinning me around. She bent me over and began to spank me there in the dining room in front of everyone! I began to cry because I was both humiliated and angry. I did not think it was fair to be punished for being honest when grownups are allowed to say whatever they want, even if it is mean and untrue.

She spanked me only ten times, but she made each blow count. When she released me I flew from the dining room to my bedroom and shut the door very quickly and firmly. I am very glad that I do not have Raven's powers like I did once before when our bodies got switched, because if I did, everything in my room would have exploded from my surging emotions. They have not improved since Shayera came in and told me that I would have to come out and apologize to the guests for my behaviour before they left and I refused. I am now grounded everyday after school until I _do_ apologize to them (they are teachers at Hero High, so I will see them every day.) I can apologize to Green Lantern, because he did not say mean things about Robin, but I can not and will not apologize to The Flash.

Starfire

The next day, Star added this:

Today I _did_ apologize to John (Green Lantern.) He apologized FOR Flash - he said he did not agree with him, that Robin had proved his abilities time and again. While I appreciate that very much, it is not the same as Flash apologizing for himself.

Then Bart got into it:

After school today I went looking for my cousin Wally (you know him as The Flash.) I was mad because of what his stupid attitude toward Robin was making Starfire go through, and I decided to tell him so. I sped right up to him and said, "Wally, you should apologize to Starfire for what you said about Robin because you don't know ANYTHING about what he went through with Slade in the past and how hard he tries to protect everyone around him. At the very least you
should find out all the facts before you spout off on someone like that, and if you don't, then you really are a chlorbag varblernelk!"

He glared at me and said, "Bart, this is none of your business, and if YOU don't stay out of it, I swear I'll -"

"What, spank me?" I said, then laughed. "You'd have to catch me first!"

And the race was on.

There's a reason why The Flash is called the 'Fastest Man Alive.'
That reason is that _I_ haven't grown up yet, so technically, I'm still just the 'Fastest Boy Alive.'

But guess what? I'm faster than Wally. He chased me all over the globe today and never did catch up to me. Granted, I have an advantage of being able to vibrate through things, but that's still speed (you have to move pretty fast to be able to vibrate your own molecules.) I'm not sure when he gave up the chase (somewhere in Australia, I think) but I've been home for a few hours now and haven't heard from him. Neither has Max, or he'd sure be in here telling me about it.

Hmmm ... not sure what to make of this, but the main thing is that my butt's fine for now and I was able to tell Wally off. That's always a good thing.

Bart

Donatello did something he knew he wasn't allowed to do last night:

Yeah, I know I'm stupid (kind of funny for a supposed genius to be saying, BUT...) I'm sneaking out of the lair to go pick up some new supplies. We used to be forbidden from going topside because people might panic upon seeing us, but Hero High is so well-known now that our existence is no surprise to anyone anymore. So that's not why I'm still not allowed to go up and scrounge for parts.

It's only about ten minutes before we're _supposed_ to be in bed. After we've said goodnight and Master Splinter has checked on us, I'll go.

Why don't I buy them now that I can go out in public in the daytime? I don't have that much money, and free parts are plentiful in the garbage if you know where to look, and I do.

I didn't tell my brothers about my intentions - I don't want to get them involved in case I get caught.

Ten minutes and then I'm off. Wish me luck.

Unquote. This morning, he added this:

It looks like for once I might have gotten away with it (sssh ...) I found some cool new parts and after breakfast I'm gonna start seeing what I can do with them. Master Splinter has been up and around with us for a while and hasn't said anything to me about sneaking out.

Donny

Unquote. Wonder if his luck will hold?

Speaking of luck, here's what's up with Kurt this weekend, according to his post on the list (I'd say his chances are 50/50 of getting Rogue's co-operation ….):

I can hardly believe my and Nosedive's luck! ALL of the adult Mighty Ducks have gone away for the weekend, leaving Dive on his own in the house and you know what that means for the two of us!

I know what you're thinking - won't Wildwing have warned my parents on the other list that Dive would be alone? He may have wanted to, but he simply didn't have a chance. The Ducks' manager had set up something for Wildwing, Mallory, and Tanya to do publicity-wise that's supposed to last all weekend and he didn't bother telling them about it until TONIGHT (typical Phil, I guess), which meant they had to high-tail it out to Anaheim. It didn't take them long with Tanya's transporters, but they still needed to get there because one of the events was happening tonight. He wanted Duke, too, but he had already left (he had weekend plans of his own back on Puckworld - something to do with his old gang, the Brotherhood of the Blade.) As for Grin, he left this morning on a weekend meditation retreat. Nosedive was the only one without any obligations, so now he's got the house to himself!

I know most of you won't tell your folks that Dive and I will be together every chance we get at his place, but there's still the matter of my twin. Rogue, if you read this, I will owe you BIG TIME if you don't breathe a word to Mother or Logan. Please? It's so rare that Dive and I can spend more than five minutes ALONE together with so many adults watching us - this weekend will be a dream come true! I won't make a move to go over there until you tell me that you'll keep my secret (I know if you say you will that I can trust you.)

Kurt

End of Part 51

No characters here are mine.

(2003)

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