Time line wise, this takes place sometime after Dick's fallout with Batman and before he returns to Gotham.

NOTE: Replying to a review by theawesomeflash; I've added Nightwing to the story. Wally and Dick never met in the Timm's DC Animated Universe due to copyright issues with all of Batman's character aside from Batman himself being used for The Batman, a different continually all together. I'm not really familiar with their relationship in the comics, but I know their relationship from Young Justice. In Timm's universe, Dick is older than Wally, having already gradutated college. Timm described Wally as being "just out of puberty" at the start of Justice League.

Hawkgirl has been on Earth only a short time and still unaccustomed to humans.

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Chapter 12-Nightwing and Hawkgirl

Flash made his way to the interstate highway bridge, one of the busiest stretch of roads in the state, just outside of Central City. He could see the high dark smoke from the middle of the city. When he got there, the fire was so massive that it practically engulfed the bridge. Fire trucks were stuck due to the massive traffic jam. Flash has no idea what to do about the fire, but thinks he should try to put it out. He gets in front of the fire, and starts fanning.

"STOP!"

Flash jumps. What was that?

"Don't do that!"

Flash is dumb founded and zips around. Where's that voice coming from?

"Who are you?! Where are you?"

"People are stuck! Get them out!"

Flash stops dead in his tracks.

"NOW!"

Still dumb-founded, Wally known the less snaps into action, without thinking, he runs through the flames and finds that cars and people are indeed stuck on the bridge within the flames. He starts carrying people out, mostly one by one. There must be about a hundred people in here. After thirty or so, Flash is getting tired. He's never done work on this scale before, but he keeps going. After a few more people, he humps over to catch his breath.

"Keeping going;" comes a voice; this time a females; "I'll help."

Flash thinks he sees somebody with angel wings flying over him, and he follows the flying figure back into the fire. Working together, they manage to get everybody out. Some people are too heavy to for him to pick up, but the flying angel picks them up, Wally getting glimpse here and there of a winged female with a strange mask. He also thinks he sees somebody swinging around, over the bridge, but doesn't get a good look at this figure.

When the last person is brought to safety, Flash finally gets a good looks at the winged woman. She has gray, angel-like wings, a mask that looks like a hawk-face, and red hair sticking out from underneath. She's wearing a yellow top, red bikini pants, black leggings, and red boots. She has a strange type of medal weapon on her.

This must be Hawkgirl. Boy is she hot!

Flash zips over to her; "Hey there babe. Thanks for the help."

She glares at him; "Not over yet. The bridge's about too…"

"On it;" Flash speeds away towards the bridge.

"Wait!" calls out Hawkgirl, but the speedster disappears into the smoke.

Flash is once again on the bridge, in the middle of the fire, when he suddenly realizes he doesn't know what to do.

"Guess I should put out this fire now, but how?" As Wally tries to think of solution, he hears a load explosion, and the bridge starts to collapse. He runs, but isn't able to get off the bridge in time. Hawkgirl is flying above, but she can't find this fast kid in the yellow and red suit. Then she sees something emerging from the flames. Actually, it's two figures flying, or rather swinging, away from the fire. One figure is Flash, being held by another figure in black. They were about land outside of the smoke when Hawkgirl races towards them, snatches both of them off the cable, and gets them both to safety.

"I didn't need any help!" says the guy in black.

"You're welcome;" replies Hawkgirl; "and I saw what you were doing, and I appreciate it. Thanks."

The man in black, with a blue V across the chest, had temporarily strength the support of the bridge with unusually strong cable wires, which had bought enough time for the other two to get the people off. He then turns to Flash, who's still a bit confused by what just happened.

"The fire!"

"Excuse me?" ask Wally.

"Make a waterspout and put out the fire. NOW!"

"Oh yea. Right!" Flash runs on top of the river, creates a waterspout, and directs it towards the fire. He only put out a small portion of the fire.

"Try again;" shouts Hawkgirl, "and this time, don't waste it all in one spot. Spread it out!"

"Right!" Flash creates another waterspout, and this time, he gets out the rest of the fire.

Flash returns to Hawkgirl, but instead of the praise he was expecting, she slugs him, landing on his back.

"Ouch!" Flash sits up and rubs his face, "Man, that's quite a punch babe. What was that for?"

Hawkgirl gives him an angry glare, clutching her weapon; "What were you thinking? You could have been killed."

Flash shrugs his shoulders; "I don't know. Hey, you're Hawkgirl aren't you? You're HOT!"

The winged warrior rolls her eyes; "That's what people are calling me. And hold the flattery. Just who do you think you are?"

Wally has gotten to his feet; "I'm the Flash of course. Central City's proud protector."

"Never heard of you;" replies Hawkgirl in a firm tone; "And you obviously don't know what you're doing."

"So I've heard;" says Flash holding out his hand; "By the way, it's a great to meet you. I've been longing to meet you. You're such a babe!"

Hawkgirl starts to raise her mace when the black-clad man, who's been trying not to interrupt, gently urges her to lower her mace; "Calm down. He's just a kid. And shouldn't we be checking on the people?"

Hawkgirl lowers her mace; "I guess you're right. Come, but both of you stay out of my way, or else."

Flash watches her fly away, he whistles as he admires her; "Wow what a babe. Little moody though;" he turns towards the other guy; "By the way, do you need…"

The black clad hero shots some kind of rope, or cable, latching on to one of the still standing bridge supports, and swings towards the same direction as Hawkgirl.

"I can get there much faster than that." Flash takes off and stops in front of the medical teams before the other two heroes land.

"What took you guys so long?"

They both ignore him and check on the situation. There aren't enough emergency crews, so Hawkgirl, and Flash following her lead, take some waiting people to other units still stuck in traffic. Some people suffered some burns and some are in shocked, but no real serious injuries. Some people complain about the loss of their cars and possessions, some hated the fact that they had to rescue. Some even complained about the way Hawkgirl and Flash rescued them, some suffering burns as Flash ran them through the fire. Most people, however, are just happy to get out with their lives, and thank the three heroes. Some are even curious as to who these three are.

Hawkgirl and the hero who calls himself Nightwing, barely interact with the people and move on. Nightwing stays only briefly, just long enough to make sure everybody's alright, then heads back into the shadows towards the damaged bridge. They also avoid the news reporters wanted a few words. A couple reporters tried sticking microphones at Hawkgirl, but she bashed the microphones and a couple of cameras with her weapon and flies away.

Flash, however, is thoroughly enjoying all the attention and not only talks with reporters, he acts very cocky and brags to them, exaggerating on the events somewhat. He also says that he thinks the other two acted rudely, especially Hawkgirl, but that he couldn't have done it without them. He hopes to work with them again soon. Flash is on a very high cloud 9.

After nearly an hour of talking with reporters and curious civilians, Flash finally decides to head for home. He knows he's going to be on the news and he doesn't want to miss it. He's need to ask his mom to tape it for him. As he passes the collapsed bridge, he spots a dark figure moving about the damage, probably Nightwing, and runs over to investigate. Nightwing turns around as he feels a gust.

"Hey there buddy;" Flash greets cheerfully; "What are you doing back over here? I thought we saved everybody."

"We did;" Nightwing turns back to his investigation; "You're the Kid Flash I assume."

Wally's taken aback; "Ah, yea. But please don't call me Kid Flash. I really don't know why they're still calling me that. Just call me Flash."

"Ok, Flash." Nightwing still doesn't look up.

"That's better. What are doing anyway? The dangers over."

"I'm investigating."

"Investigating?" ask Flash; "Why?"

Nightwing finally looks at speedster; "Why? Now that's a dumb question." Nightwing gives a little chuckle.

Flash is offended; "Dumb question? Dude that was just rude. What's there to investigate? Everybody's alright. We've saved the day. End of story."

Nightwing thinks that this guy is just plain weird; "Aren't you interested in why the bridge caught fire?"

Flash scratches his head; "Ah, no, not really. Actually, I never even thought of that."

"You're new at this aren't you?"

Flash is amazed; "Sort of. How can you tell?"

"Very green and inexperienced."

"What do you mean by green?" ask Flash; "And I've got experience."

"Not much obviously."

Flash zips next to Nightwing and puts his fist on his hips; "Alright smart guy. Tell me what I did wrong."

"Where should I start?"

Flash shakes his head and taps Nightwing's shoulder, who looks up.

"First, look at me when you talk;" Nightwing stands straight up, surprised by what this kid just said.

"By the way;" says Flash; "who are you anyway? You seem familiar, but I've never heard of you either. You can't be much more experienced them me."

"Try me;" replies Nightwing.

"Ok then;" Flash puts his hand on his stomach; "but let's talk over some burgers and shakes. I'm STARVING!"

"Burgers and shakes?" ask a very surprised Nightwing; "Are you crazy?"

"Nah;" answers Flash; "just hungry. There's many great burger places in Central City. We can check out several if you like."

"Ha?"

"Oh, but I've got to swoop by my place first and tell my Mom that I'm going to be out longer."

Is this guy for real?

"Come on. Race ya?"

Flash takes off. "Hey, wait a minute!" Nightwing takes out his grabbling hook and follows the odd ball speedster.

Note: What is Nightwing doing in Central City? Following leads and traveling about. Hasn't yet returned to Gotham.

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