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Barry Allen didn’t realize the trouble he was bringing upon himself by inviting his nephew's two friends to sleepover. In fact, he had thought it was a great idea, the young sidekicks deserved a break to feel like normal kids, to just be young. Besides Robin and Roy were good influences on Wally, polite young men.
Boy was he wrong.
It has all started shortly after Wally first became Kidflash. He and Olly had decided it would be a great idea to get all the sidekicks together, they knew themselves how much the understanding of another super helped them, and the boys were all around the same age. Batman was much harder to convince, he didn’t even argue, just said no and walked away. Something must have changed because he came back to them a week later.
He had even sought Barry out, making a rare appearance in the Watchtower Canteen.
“I have considered your offer, I think it will help Robin work on...teamwork”
They didn't manage to bring the boys together for a good while after that, things kept coming up in all their cities. It wasn't until they established a link on cases they were all working on, a smuggling ring was using Gotham, Star, and Central to run operations. They decided to come together to cross-reference notes in the Arrow cave, bringing the sidekicks along with them. Wally and Robin had already met briefly, having run into each other when Wally had just gotten his powers and was being monitored in the watchtower med bay. Roy was initially apprehensive of the two younger boys, scoffing at their antics as they messed around. By the end of the night, however, it was clear he had slid into some kind of older brother role.
Wally was ecstatic when Barry told him the others were coming to stay, bouncing around the room at top speed repeatedly thanking his uncle for setting it up. The boys were coming over that Saturday, and Wally had never felt a week drag by so quickly. Eventually, the day came. Under strict instructions from his aunt Iris he spent the morning cleaning his room. This normally wouldn’t take him super long, but he had been forbidden from using super-speed in the house for three weeks after he broke Iris’s favorite vase. There was no being sneaky either his aunt always knew.
He had only just finished when Roy arrived. Iris let him in, as Wally made his way down the stairs to greet him.
“Olly made me bring some chili, but I wouldn’t recommend eating it,” He said, gesturing to a container under his arm, filled with something that looked completely the wrong consistency to be chili. Wally leads him into the kitchen to get drinks, where Barry was working at the island on his laptop. He looked up when they entered, spotting the chili he went a bit pale “Oh god, is he still making that? You’d think after making both green lanterns throw up he’s at least change the recipe”
“He keeps telling me they were just being babies, I’ve tried to explain, he’s a lost cause” Roy replied solemnly
Drinks and snacks in hand they retreated upstairs, Roy dumped his bag beside the mattresses set up on the floor and they .fired up some video games.
“Where’s the bird boy?” Roy asked settling himself into Wally’s desk chair.
“Dunno, I think Batman insisted he come when it’s dark, should be another hour maybe?2” Wally told him through a mouthful of popcorn.
“Man, I thought Olly was anal but bird boys got the strictest dad in the world,” Roy said
“Do you think he is his dad?” Wally pondered “Like I just can’t imagine Batman tucking in a small child”
“I just can’t imagine what an even smaller Robin would be like - kinda convinced he just came from an egg”
“Actually, I was created in a lab, when Batman was mixing the ingredients for a little boy and accidentally added chemical X,” Robin said from where he was leaning against Wally’s door frame.
Both Wally and Roy jumped in their seats, Wally tumbled right off where he was sitting on the bed, knocking his elbow off the locker as he went. He scowled up at his friend as he rubbed it “You’re lucky I have accelerated healing bird boy” he told him.
Robin just laughed and jumped onto the bed beside Wally. “Also I don’t only travel at night, not to destroy both your dreams but, he’s not actually a bat”
“You sure? Could have fooled me into thinking he's a vampire or some shit” Roy said, passing Robin the third controller.
“I can neither confirm nor deny that - you’re always welcome to ask him yourself.”
“Pass - I like my limbs”
“Boys we’re going out for a bit, don't burn down the house” Barry yelled from downstairs. The boys had been waiting for this moment, they had been planning for this.
“Have you got the stuff?” Wally said, putting on a joking mockery of a typical bad guy goon.
“Yeah man got it all right here,” Robin said, in a bad new jersey accent.
“You two are ridiculous,” Roy said, raising his eyebrows at their antics, trying desperately to hold back from breaking into laughter.
“Oh, a cynic aye?” Robin prodded him in the shoulder
“Real wise guy huh?” Wally said appearing at his other side
Both boys leaned in over Roy, giving their best impressions of sleazy con artists. Roy looked at them both, and they looked at each other and broke. The three boys fell into peals of laughter, leaning on each other as it began to pain their sides. Once they had all calmed down enough, Wally spoke
“Okay seriously, we don’t have all that much time”
Despite being alone the boys still used every bit of stealth training they had to get downstairs and into the Allen-West living room. Pausing to lightly mock Wally’s childhood art that decorated the walls. Roy and Robin marked each piece out of ten and gave them names as if they were displayed in the finest of art galleries. Their personal favorite was “exploring joy”, a crude crayon drawing of the flash fighting a dinosaur robot hybrid.
“An amazing execution of expressionist style”
“The use of color here is just supreme”
“Will you two shut up? We have work to do here” Wally shot back at them
“Alright don’t get your goggles in a twist KF” Robin replied, placing a large duffle bag in the center of the room.
They set the plan in motion, they all had their own task, working through to the same goal. Havoc. The smell had been unexpected, and it was harder to get to some of the frames than expected, but as they heard Barry’s car pull back into the drive, they had just finished. As the key turned in the lock they had just enough time to retreat back into hiding.
Barry felt content with life, just going out for a small grocery run with Iris was fun. He spent the whole trip making bad puns based on objects around them, causing her to groan at him and try to hide her smirk. When they got to the candle section he started holding up random objects for her to smell, she fell for it every time. And now they were returning home to a happy child and his cute little friends. Not that he would ever call either of them cute to their faces, he didn't even want to imagine the rath that would bring. He grabbed the last few bags and joined Iris where she was opening the door, he shared a content smile with her and they both stepped in the door.
It was eerily quiet for a house with three kids in it, and did he turn off the light when he left? Iris was always nagging him to be he always forgot. Shrugging, he flicked the light on and stepped into the living room, he nearly walked straight past it on his way to the kitchen. He froze in the door frame, turning slowly. Iris was similarly frozen on the other side of the room.
Sitting on their couch, were three inflatable dinosaurs. One in Barry’s usual seat, wearing one of his work shirts and reading a book called “101 Dad jokes”, an Iris dinosaur behind him, dressed in one of her pantsuits for when she was on the air, holding a microphone. On the opposite couch was the Wally dinosaur, wearing one of his hoodies, and holding his DS. The DS was even turned on somehow the game was being played. Barry scanned the wall and noticed that every single one of their family photos had been replaced, by perfect replications containing the dinosaurs. There was a dino wedding, the prehistoric first day of school, and Jurassic Christmases.
Unsure what to do Barry looked over at Iris, as soon as she met his eye they both broke down in laughter. Catching her breath Iris called out
“Okay boys, very good, you can come out now”
Roy slid out from under the couch, Wally appeared in the kitchen doorway and Robin unfolded himself from the cabinet under the tv. The three stood together and shared a look that seemed to say “if we go down, we go down together”, before beaming back at the adults.
Barry felt a several year headache beginning, but the joy in Wally’s face made it all worth it.