Reality Crisis

They'd kept the fire going all night to ward off any other small things that might be exploring the cave system now that the dragon was dead and Bruce eventually woke Dinah for her turn at keeping watch. It wasn't the most comfortable bed in the world and he slept with one ear open in case of trouble but the last thing Bruce was worried about was a little lack of sleep. That was pretty much his entire life after all.

The next day they had looked around to map out the immediate area of the caves before packing up to head back to the city when they heard the storm. Apparently it was going to be a wet trip back to the city. That meant new sorts of hazards on the slope back down and various situations were running through Bruce's head when he stopped short at the exit from the cave.

"Are those toads?"

Harry had found out from Carlos why Molly is the way she is. It wasn't pleasant knowledge because it was all his fault. That wasn't surprising. A lot of things were Harry's fault, but the guilt was pretty overwhelming. He had to do something about it. There was no doubt about that. He even had an idea of what, but it was drumming up the courage to face her again now that he knew what he did that Harry was stumbling over. He'd pretty much come home from talking to Carlos and curled up around Murphy (with their size difference that was almost literally) verbally puking everything he'd learned on her. Since then he'd been walking around lost in his thoughts and muttering to himself. Bob said this was no different than Harry's normal level of intellectual conversational skills.

As if all that and trying to figure out why they were here wasn't bad enough it had to go all Old Testament on them outside. Harry was in a basement apartment so he hadn't known what was going on until he'd taken Mouse out for a walk. Neither of them were thrilled with the rain of gross. It had been the fastest Mouse had ever seen to his business. There were more than a few natural cases of frogs, birds or even fish falling from the sky, but to have an entire tossed salad of creatures was indicative of something more.

He was lost in pondering that while Murph was out to check on the neighborhood. Some of those snakes and spiders were poisonous. They both wanted to make sure no one got bit and took it in turns to see if anyone needed help. A knock on his door made him frown in confusion. No one came here except for Carlos and that wasn't his knock. He gave Bob a warning glare then went to see who was there. Opening the door his brows bounced back up to find Baby Superman standing there. "Hi."