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Let's get one thing straight first: I'm not JUST annoying, kiddo, I am EXTREMELY annoying. I've PERFECTED annoying. I've made annoying into an art form.

i dunno you dont seem THAT annoying more like just a little annoying but mostly pretty hilarious tho gramps did kind of groan when i asked about you either that or it was the guy hanging around his neck i mean we were working with a tsunami hey how do you perfect annoying anyway i mean some people think youre fun so doesnt that mean youve only gotten kinda good at being annoying?

It's kind of an eye of the beholder thing, but I'll take hilarious. Hilarious and annoying are good buddies.

But despite what you may have heard, I don't do that stuff anymore.

Let me specify: not for the bad guys, anyway.

shade said that too and he robbed a bank

[just saying]

but dude sorry for not recognizing you i was hit by lightning

Guys like us fall off the wagon sometimes, munchkin. Old habits and sticky fingers and missing the good old glory days.

... wait, what?

yeah but its even more fun catching bad guys and you can do it and not get arrested

unless youre here
sometimes

[Bart may or may not get arrested if he tries to hero right now, but that's beside the point]

lightning made me a cowboy

Hence the FBI. We'll come back to that.

How did lightning make you a cowboy?

i dunno it was probably either magic lightning OH or telepathic lightning

hey do you know any telepathic lightning villains?

Not off the top of my head. It's usually one or the other. Both, and you're just getting greedy.

uuugggghhhh then i dunno what it was but thats what happened

Huh.

Well.

Feeling better, I hope.

toootally better i mean better enough that i know who you and piper are tho are you really from another universe? since you know an older wally and you did look a little different

OH dude are you from blues universe blue beetle the uh younger one with a scarab on his back i think hes from a universe a lot of the people wally and i know are from

It's possible. I know OF a Blue Beetle. Who else is around here?

its me kf rb and bb from my world

i think blue spm bm gl pg bg and another blue are from the same universe tho theres a lot more but those are the ones i know for sure

[For shame, Trickster, taking advantage of this kid]

[ ABBREVIATIONS... Well, some of those are a headache to figure out, but he's pretty sure he's got it. ]

Gotcha. Very informative. Thanks a million.

Has anyone else from our neck of the woods shown up? Or is it just me and Piper?

well shade too but i dunno if he counts i mean id barely heard of him i think he only really likes jay

hey look can you maybe not break into anywhere or steal anything? i know you said you might have a lapse but i mean this world has a lot of things going on right now a lot of places have been bombed recently and someone was just killed

or maybe if you did really get tempted can you wait until things are a little less tense? i think kf would appreciate it too

[Bart Allen, ladies and gentlemen]

[ It's a really good thing this conversation is happening over text, because James stares at that message for a really, really long moment, wondering just exactly what kind of ridiculous karmic retribution this kid is supposed to be (and if the universe laid on the guilt any thicker, he'd lose it), before he replies. ]

Well. Since you asked so nice.

[ And as long as the guilt's gnawing a hole in him... ]

And don't you worry about Piper, either. He's the genuine article. A real good guy. Probably the goodest good guy I know, and that includes the Justice League types.

crash thanks jj

[You better bet that Bart will be calling you that from now until the end of time, Trickster. And you have no one to blame but yourself.]

i knew someone like that i mean hes different now but from where im from

you ever heard of neutron?

Heard of him. Nuclear guy, right?

yeah he did a lot of moded stuff where im from and killed a bunch of people but he also helped me out

[It's weird- Bart's never told anyone about Nathaniel. About what he did under the Reach's influence, how he carried that guilt around, believed himself to be the worst of all bad guys. And yet, something about what Trickster said about Piper, about him being an honest to god good guy despite what Bart knew him as?

It's suddenly really important that he makes sure James knows Bart actually understands, and isn't just nodding and smiling and accepting it only to shrug it off later. Because, well, a lot of people just don't get why Bart always talks to "bad guys" before getting up in arms about them, no matter what's said.]

i guess he was kinda my only friend growing up so i totally get it if you say pipers a good guy i believe you

Huh. Sounds like you do get it.

You're a swell kid, Bart.

you seem pretty crash too

i mean for a maybe retired bad guy

No maybe. Definitely retired. 100% not into that anymore.

totally believing you dude but i mean gotta prove it to solidify it or something right

anyway kf and i are here with our team so well probably be the ones checking in hey do you like burgers cause theres a totally crash place in downtown heropa

I like most food! The junkier, the better.