Seriously, he mentally groaned.

He ticked his pencil three times on the desk, chewed the eraser and groaned after five seconds. Wally hated test. No , not the sciency experiment test, he quite like those. It's the social questionnaires he can't stand.

Are you happy in your home life?

Do you consider yourself a popular kid?

On an average how many friends do you have over in a week?

Use one word to describe yourself?

He repeated his nerve racking cycle, well at least tried to before the jock to the right of him kicked his desk and growled out, "Come on West it's not that hard the answers are no,no, I'm a loser and no".

Of course his response was followed with a boat full of laughter.

It was at this moment Wally discovered he was the only person still mulling over the questionnaire. All eyes were on him and Clint Strem, the jock from earlier. Some of the students had even had the opportunity to get out their cellphones, huddle around the duo and chant fight.

Why?

Besides the fact that it's a total cliché that everyone loves to see, I mean really Wally's a twig and Clint's basically a bodybuilder. A 6 foot 2, blonde, blue eyed, 175 pound, body builder. Who also is the captain of the boxing and wrestling team, yeah besides that there was the fact that these "Wally Clint poundings" were pretty rare nowadays.

You see Wally and Clint both have a history together. Clint has always bullied Wally, since they met in a central city police headquarters nine year ago.

The reason why is a story for another time, but just know the hate Clint has for Wally hasn't lessened in the years. If anything it's gotten worse, but Wally learned to adjust. He would avoid Clint if he could, it's not like they shared the same interest or were in the same intellectually leveled classes. It was a rare occasion when the two would actually have to be in the same room for more than a minute, but just Wally's luck the one day all freshmen are required to do this social questionnaire and he's seated next to Clint Strem.

Clint grinned at the attention and scooted his desk out of the way, Wally suspected he thrived off of it. I mean he was practically the Cheshire cat basking in the glory of his hellcat followers.

"Yeah go get him Clint".

"West is so screwed".

"Dude he's beyond screwed".

In all actuality Wally could have taken Clint, I mean being a superhero does have its perks. As Kid Flash he's fought numerous villains, way scary than Clint Strem. Hell, he faced off the Joker with the team three years ago. He could demolish Clint if he wanted to however, being a superhero also had its downfalls.

A secret identity sucked.

It's what forced Wally to hide his 'super bod' as he likes to call it. Every day he wears the baggiest clothes he could find at goodwill. If he's being honest being poor definitely contributed to how big he would buy his clothes as well. You never know when he would get the chance to buy clothes again.

Then he had to get dressed during P.E in the bathroom. Though if he's being honest again, he probably would regardless, just because he knows Clint and his jock followers would love the chance to steal his clothes.

And finally there's the whole act the complete opposite of your super hero persona. That means, no flirting, no jokes and no fighting back.

Hence the 'let me just stand here and wait because there is no way the average boy can outrun the school running back' pose.

But god he was taking so long. Wally could have completed ten things by the time Clint actually made it next to him, and they were literally one foot away from each other.

With his hot cheeto breathe in Wally's face, Clint took one more second to grin at his audience before grabbing Wally's collar and growling, "Well West, looks like your luck finally ran out. Any last words"?

"Clint"! A girl with tan skin and long black hair exclaimed.

Her name was Beatrix "Trixi" Sanalon. She was new, hadn't even been at Central City High for more than two months, yet she had already become friends with the popular kids. Her best friend was the head cheerleader, certified central city sweetheart and Clint's girlfriend Abigail Caperson.

Clint still a bit excited at the attention, lifted Wally off the ground and yelled over his shoulder, "What Trix".

Rather than yell back at the boy, the girl stalked over to the two, poked the angry blonde and calmly said, "Put him down"

"No way, West has it coming to him! Its his fault were all in-

SLAP

"Clint! Put him down or you could tell Abby how you broke your promise to stop fighting"!

"But…Trix he.."

"Now" she yelled. Clint seemed like he was about to argue again, but one look at her face made him reconsider. Instead he rolled his eyes, ungracefully dropped Wally on the floor and stomped out of the room.

Of course by this time the supervisor Coach Peterson decided to finally do something about the situation. And what was his solution you may ask, a loud "Come back here Strem" followed by , a rudely tossed detention slip for Wally.

Coaches are kinda like the jocks in high school, they can't stand the skinny kid with the book obsession.

Once Coach Peterson realized his yelling was futile and Clint definitely wasn't coming back, he opted to going out to look for him. Without the supervisor the students started filtering out of the spacious classroom.

When it got nearly silent, Wally decided that was a good time to stop staring at his scuffed sneakers and pick himself up off the floor. Except when he looked up expecting to see nothing, a small tan hand was held out to him.

"You okay"

It would be rude not to take it, and Kid Flash wasn't rude. But Wally had decided if he can't be Kid Flash for his super speed and lovability he doesn't have to be him for his manners either. So he ignored the hand and dusted his pants off, half expecting the girl to leave in huff.

Instead she just laughed, "Guess so".

It was at this moment Wally decided to look at her, really look at her. She was pretty, as expected for one of the popular kids, but she was different to. Unlike the snobs and jocks that consisted of the popular kids, not one item she had one screamed designer.

Her skinny jeans were a dark blue, nearly black. Her top was a plain red one that puffed out at the end. Her shoes were plain red flats. Even her hair was absent of any pearl or jewels, it was simply a long black braid with a even longer black ribbon at the base.

Still despite or maybe because of all of these 'flaws', Wally couldn't help but admit she was beautiful.

Immediately after he noted this he mentally kicked himself, 'Dude Wall-man you have a girlfriend. A smoking hot, blonde, superhero girlfriend. Don't go googly eyed after the new kid at school.

He started listing all the reasons he shouldn't ever look at this girl again. Not bothering to listen to whatever she had begun to babble about.

"...already there" she asked.

Wally tried to reply, really he did. But for the first time in his life his mind hadn't caught up with the conversation yet. So while still trying to understand what this girl was talking about, he hadn't really payed attention to how she was moving closer. Nor did he stop her when she brushed her fingers on his neck.

That broke him out of whatever slow down mode he was in. Suddenly his minds had went to lights speed and he could understand that she had asked him if 'this bruise was already there'. He also could vividly remember when his father gave it to him early that morning. It should have healed by now, but Wally wasn't allowed breakfast. He pulled back quickly, not super speed quickly but damn was he close to using it. As he zipped up his baggy jacket to the neck, he unconsciously took four more steps away from the curious girl.

She frowned, clearly upset with his fearful behavior. She didn't understand why he looked so afraid, it was just a bruise.

Realizing that he probably looked like a kicked puppy facing the boot, Wally choose to awkwardly laugh through the silence " Yeah I uh hurt my neck the other day, umm I'm Wally what's your name"

Of course he knew her name, everyone's known her name since she stepped into the school. She knew this just as much as Wally but decided to play along.

"Change" she cheekily replied.

"Change" Wally repeated sounding every bit of dubious.

"Yeah as in you changed the subject and not very well I might add. Before I asked about the bruise you seem to want to avoid, I had introduced myself".

"Oh"

"Yeah….So how'd ya get the bruise, must be pretty embarrassing if you're sweating like that".

His face scrunched up, she was becoming a pest. Rude Wally was back. "Why would I tell you".

Again she didn't see the least bit upset, in fact she pretty much welcomed his rudeness, "I don't know, I did kinda you know save your ass five minutes ago".

"I don't remember asking you too".

She clicked her teeth, still pretty amused, "Touché"

Why was she still here, Wally thought.

Why would she choose to interact with boring Wally West, it's not like he had been the least bit pleasant to her. Was she expecting a favor, if that's what she wanted Wally might consider telling her the most embarrassing story he could come up with in order for her to leave. But, she didn't really seem like the type to believe or even humor lies.

It was a bit frightening for the boy, for the first time in his life he couldn't talk or lie his way out of a conversation, still he knew other tactics to get someone to leave him alone.

"Fine, I'll do your homework for a month".

She scrunched up her face in confusion, "Wha-

With a roll of his eyes Wally continued, "That's what this is about right, you want a favor in exchange for helping me with Clint. I'll do anything, fix your car, do your homework, walk your dog. However, I refuse public humiliation that includes you spreading rumors about how I have a bruise on my neck from being such a klutz".

"Have lunch with me" she asked suddenly.

Now it was his turn to scrunch up his face, "What..no".

Oh god her cat like grin was back on her face, she looked genuinely amused by this whole exchange. "But you said yourself, I want a favor and you'll do anything".

"I remember explicitly saying public humiliation was out of the question".

"And I remember bruises like those don't exactly come from being a klutz".

Damn. She got him there, but he couldn't have lunch with her. Not only would he have to be subjected to the glares of the popular kids at the table, he also would have to hold back on how much he ate. And he was really hungry.

"Uh I don't suppose you would take a raincheck" he answered back nervously.

She seemed to consider it, pondering over the thought for a second, then blissfully replied, "Sure".

Sweet mother of Jesus, she actually didn't pester him on this one. Maybe he could talk his way out of a conversation with her

"But, of course that will cost you", she said after some thought.

Inwardly groaning, Wally let his shoulders hunch just a bit before asking, "How much"

"A month".

Wait was she back on homework again.

"Of homework sure, what classes do you take. I think I may have you in P.E but I can't really help you there", his body was standing straight again, smile threatening to break out in his face. This, this he can do. Dealing with slight blackmailing was like a second nature to him, at this point.

She smiled a bit at his posture before closing the gap between them and whispering, "A month of having lunch with me".

He couldn't move, couldn't speak. This girl, she literally didn't get it. He can't- I mean he's not supposed to...Why can't she be like everyone else.

She didn't bothering letting him reply, just padded his shoulder, grabbed her bag and slowly made her way out of the isolated room. "See ya Monday, Wally. Oh and don't even think of skipping out on our agreement, if you do I may have to tell the school nurse about that nasty little bruise".

What the fuck

That pretty much summarized today.

What the fuck was what he thought as he ran through Central City for the nearest flash supporting diner. It took him fifteen minutes to find one, he ate enough for a small village. Not unusual for Kid Flash. He then walked himself back to school as Wally West, and ate just a bit more to calm his nerves, very unusual for Wally West. But unfortunately as he ate his school funded slop a football kid from earlier pushed him into the wall, resorting in the huge red stain on his pants.

What the fuck was what he thought as he listened to his teacher bore the class to sleep about the appropriate apostrophe to use in a declarative sentence. Of course out of the dozen kids not paying attention the teacher decides to ask the non- paying attention Wally West for the answer. To which he has none, and gets sent to the principal's office. After getting a hefty lecture on the importance of resisting day dreaming, Wally manage to weasel his way out of another detention by promising to compete in the district science fair.

What the fuck was definitely what he thought when he got home. His dad had been woken up by Wally entering the tiny house. Wally didn't bothering explaining to his Dad that he was being quiet, but the door was broke so he had to kick his way in. He definitely didn't bother asking his Dad how much he had drank today. And he didn't even try to defend himself as his Dad kicked the crap out of him. But just Wally luck all that food he had eaten was making his healing factor go into hard drive. Every bruise, cut and broken bone his Dad gave him, healed within ten minutes. This of course pissed off the man to no end and resorted in a beaten Wally being thrown down the basement.

"Maybe a couple er days in here will make ya learn to listen to me when I say no food for a day, useless rat", his father growled out.

Beaten and chained up, Wally decided now was the best time to cry. Wally cried until his tears just stopped, until he was completely empty and nothing not even a drop of water could be emptied out of him.

By that time it was ten o'clock, he was starving again. He briefly wondered if his mother was working another late shift, if he would get in trouble for missing his detention tomorrow, and if the team had called him today. Then he decide all of those questions were stupid and he was stupid.

Was his mother working another late shift?

Of course, dummy. Mom does anything in order to avoid you, besides somebody has to pay for Dads alcohol obsession.

Would he get in trouble for missing detention on Saturday?

Yes, stupid. Big trouble, super terrible trouble. Might even get expelled at this point.

Did the team call him?

Well that depends, retard. Unless it's a big emergency the team wouldn't call him. Nightwing and Atermis definitely would. But if he didn't answer they would send Uncle Barry to his house to get him. Then his Dad would lie and say he went to spend the night at a friend's house, and whatever they had planned would have to begin without him. That had been happening quite often and Wally knew it was beginning to become a problem with the team.

Artemis told him she hates being ignored, and he was reminding her of her father.

Nightwing and Robin were strangely quiet about the whole thing, which only means they're still looking for evidence before they call him out.

Meghan had asked him if her new recipes were driving him off.

Superboy plain out yelled at him for being MIA.

Aqualad had asked him to try to refrain from doing this on team missions.

Zatanna said he better be a better friend to Nightwing or she'll turn him into a pig.

Batgirl said she'll batarang him into next week if he misses Nightwings birthday party next month.

Bumblebee just straight up called him a weirdo.

And the list went on.

So did they call him, probably. Villains didn't exactly take vacations. It was at this point Wally desperately tried to get out of the chains. He could break them, but that would only make his Dad more mad, he just needed to be free for an hour. Just one hour to do whatever his friends wanted and then he would come back.

Slipping out of them was a bust. It had worked once when he was like five and his Dad hadn't accounted in the weight loss he would have from starving.

Trying to vibrating out of them resulted in the usual, a bloody nose and deep gashes on his limbs.

By the time in was six in the morning Wally had tried every escape method he could think of that didn't harm the chains. He even tried biting his wrist off but determined it unlike the gashes wouldn't heal.

"Wallace" a voice had called out from the top of the stairs. Wally couldn't see her, but he knew by the weakness of her voice that it was his mother. He didn't bother turning his face up to look at her, he had long since decided he didn't like her anymore.

Mary West was a weakling. She had always been a weakling. Never raising her voice in any manner, always following the men in her life. First her father, then her brother and now her husband.

She quietly descended the stairs and went over to the chained up boy, "Oh come on now Wallace, you're being childish. I brought you something to eat and I'm not working till 10 so I can clean you up".

Wally didn't bother lying to her about how much he was starving. His stomach would call him out on it in a second, instead he rolled his eyes at her "I told you to stop calling me that".

She pursed her plain pink lips "Your father doesn't like your nickname Wallace".

He rolled his eyes again, and glared at her, "He's asleep. Let's not pretend like you would be doing any of this if he wasn't".

Now she glared but it was half hearted and Wally suspected the honesty of his words had caused it, "I'm trying to help you Wallace".

He bitterly laughed, "You want to help me. How about you try to stop your husband from beating the crap out of me. Or better yet how about you try to act like you care in his presence".

She didn't stop wiping the blood on his face as she slowly replied, "Your father and I love you Wallace".

"Bullshit. What you feel is obligation, you feel bad so you think feeding me some scraps, patching me up and kissing my forehead will make it all better. And him, he doesn't know how to love. He doesn't even love you, you're nothing more than an credit card for him swipe when he feels the need to make himself feel like a real man".

SLAP

The occasions Mary would hit him were rare and always followed a heft insult on Wallys part. But they always stung, left an ugly bruise on his cheek and maybe a cut from her ring.

She would always feel bad immediately afterwards, spewing apologies left and right. He would of course ignore her and after twenty minutes or so and she would leave, embarrassed by her actions.

That of course is what happened that morning. And like all the other times before, Mary would roam the house for hours looking for suitable present to apologize with.

Wally suspected that by the time she got upstairs, she would notice the message left on the answering machine. It would be from his school explaining how he had missed his detention today, Mary would give a bullshit excuse on how sick he is ,and it would be postponed till next week. If there is one good thing Wally could say about his mother it's that she's easily manipulated.

When she came back later that day it had to be around eight o clock at night. She must have went to work because she was back to wearing her old pink scrubs and her hair was tied up in a bun.

"Wallace, are you still upset with me" she asked when she reached him.

When he didn't answer, she decided to place the items on the floor next to them and sit across from him. Just as before she had come down with some food and medical supplies. "Rudy came back down here I see", she murmured as she once again ran the cloth over the healing cut on his forehead.

Again he didn't reply.

But Mary wasn't one for silence so she insisted on still speaking with him, "He said he may let you out tomorrow. Won't that be great!"... Your friends called earlier, I told them you were at a friends house…..Don't worry dear, it wasn't for a mission. It was some hang out thing watching a movie I think…. Oh dear this bone healed in the wrong spot. Wallace I have to break it again, okay".

She sighed as she was yet again met with silence and grabbed a baseball bat to the left of them. She tried to make it as painless as possible as she swung the bat toward the chained up boys abdomen. It only took sixteen swings for the rib to break again, and Wally barely made a sound as she did so. She held up the rib so it could heal in the right place and stared up at her son.

He was handsome, she noted. The black eye he was sporting when she first arrived had disappeared and now his brilliant green eyes were free of any marks. Well any marks besides his freckles that he had received from Rudy's side of the family.

He looked just like his aunt Iris, she nearly laughed as she remembered the many occasions people mistook Iris for his mother instead of her. The then twenty four year old looked so startled, as if a recent college grad with her career just starting could have a son. Iris was pushing thirty she noted, when was the girl going to have a baby. She should really talk with her about-

Her thoughts were interrupted when Wally slightly murmured "It's healed".

She nodded her head slightly, surprised to find no bite in his voice. When she realized it was probably because she forgot to feed him this morning and he was tired, she hastily moved on to the next injury.

When they were done, she picked up the bowl of soup she had made and started spoon feeding her son.

"I made it this morning, your father seemed to like it" she said after feeding him another spoonful.

Wally of course ignored her and simply opened his mouth for more. It was embarrassing really to be fed like and infant. But this was the only way he would get food today so he didn't argue.

After finishing the bowl, Wally was still hungry but knew Mary wouldn't go up to get more. Instead he closed his eyes and feigned sleep until she left. Once he was alone he opened his eyes and stared at the wall.

As he stared at the wall he pictured all the things he could be doing instead.

On hour one, he pictured pigging out on some Mr. Vetti's hot dogs with Nightwing. They hadn't been since Jason had died and he really missed the smile Dick would have when Wally would point out how mad Alfred would be.

On hour two, he pictured taking Artemis on a date to the beach. Somewhere isolated, where they wouldn't have to be superheroes for once. Where he could tell her how much she means to him, and how he's so not trying to ignore her.

On hour three, he pictured just hanging out with the team. Just roaming around, making jokes and laughing all day. It had been weeks since he had been to Mount Justice to just hang out. He really missed it.

On hour four, he pictured running a race with Uncle Barry and Jay Garrick. The last race they had ran, Wally had came in last but still he had fun. And besides he's almost certain he's gotten a little faster since then.

On hour five, he fell asleep.

"Get up, ya worthless pile of crap" an angry voice growled out.

Wally had but one millisecond to register that it was his father, before the man kicked the boy and unlocked his chains.

Coughing up blood, Wally slightly grinned at the mans retreating back. Finally, he's free. The first thing he did was zoom out of the basement and into the safety that was his room. He took a moment to give his body the good ole health check, before grabbing his comm and placing it in his ear.

Each comm is personalized so it only works for that specific person. Once the comm scans your ear it decides if its being used by its appropriate owner and turns on accordingly. After which it notifies everyone that said comm is online.

Wally seriously regretted forgetting about the notification effect.

"Kidd Idiot your on". Who was that Dick, no Tim. That was definitely angry Tim.

"About damn time get yer ass over to Star City", and that would be his lovley girlfriend.

"Yes my friend, we require your assistance immediatly" and their goes Kaldur.

Many other voices were yelling out at him, but Wally choose to ignore it and put on his suit. God he loved his suit, hand crafted by Uncle Barry himself. Kid Flash's suit was amazing, the kevlar was laced with a special polymer than not only felt amazing on bruised skin, but cooled his body down enough to where his speed wouldn't burn his clothing. The suit also had some morphed technology adapted from the Martians, it didn't do much just changed his voice a bit and turned his hair from pumpkin orange to a deep ruby red.

He must have been admiring his suit to much as he ran because by the time he got to the scene everyone was giving him the stink eye.

"Hey, Kid Flash. At your service" he grinned out.

Of course Wally was disturbed by the negative energy his team was dishing out on him, but Kid Flash didn't get disturbed. Kid Flash made jokes, laughed and had fun. And after the past two nights Wally just had, he decided he'd rather have fun than worry.

"Yeah that's great for you Kid Idiot. Now you mind acting like your apart of this team and helping out" said Nightwing from the left. Ouch okay that one hurt, if Dicks upset with him, it means he's really screwed up.

He turned to look at his best friend to see just how mad the boy was. Fortunately for him Nightwing's attention had been on the skinny red clad boys fighting against him. Under further inspection Wally noted that each boy looked exactly the same. They each were wearing the same red unitard, with the division symbol in the middle and each of them were laughing as they kicked, punched and ran from his teammates.

There had to be at least fifty of them he noted before looking around at the other villains. Shimmer and Mammoth weren't new faces but the last time Wally saw them they were behind bars. Icicle Junior wasn't new either, but the last time Wally saw him Roy was a part of the team. The alien dude fighting Aqualad was definitely new, and good, really good.

Wally decided looking around wasn't going to help and began to round up the red clad copies in a speed tornado. It worked and he notice the more he rounded up the sooner the red clad boy fighting Beast Boy would absorb them.

Robin must have noticed to, because he yelled out "Beast Boy knock him out he's the original".

That was the only warning the boy got before a big green elephant trunk smack him into the ground. As he laid unconscious every copy of the boy absorbed back into him, until there was none left.

"Well Numerous is down" Shimmer yelled before touching the metal truck to her left and coating her skin in the same metal. She was fighting Miss Martian and it was beginning to look like a stalemate. It was probably true Meghan was more powerful than Shimmer, but Meghan was innocent where Shimmer was vicious. Soon Meghan feared the only way she could win is if she shut down the frightening girls mind.

Her brother nodded and asked in a gruff voice "Time to go"?

"Not a chance", Superboy replied before knocking Mammoth into a crater.

"Only place you four are going is back to prison" Bubblebee sassily replied. She along with Artemis were fighting Icicle Junior.

"No their not Bubblebrat" a childish voice said. Immediatly every team member began looking for the source of the voice. Only Robin, Superboy,Wally, Nightwing and Bubblebee had noticed the sound came from above. Just as they craned their necks upward a giant green circle that suspiciously looked like an eyeball appeared.

Out of the green circle dropped five figures.

The first was a boy covered in machinery, a really small boy. Wally suspected he was the source of the voice, he looked extremely childish and the ear splitting grin pinpointed into Bumblebees direction didn't exactly hurt his chances.

The second was an even smaller boy...if he could be considered even that. This boy looked like pinocchio, straight up. His body appeared wooden and his nose even had a tiny leaf growing out the side. Wally vaguely remembers Nightwing telling him how he faced off with a villain that fit his description. If his memory serves him right the boy's name was Puppet King and he had the ability to control the weak minded. When the boy raised his glowing blue hand and the civilians started leaving the safety zones, Wally knew he was right.

The third was a boy looked pretty badass if Wally was being honest. This boy was wearing what appeared to be a motorcycle jacket under a plain black and red kevlar suit. On his face was a metal red mask and strapped on his belt were about three guns. Though Wally assumed based on the boys demeanor and the fact that he was holding his own against Tim, he probably didn't need to use them.

The forth was a black boy with a mask that resembled a giant eyeball. It was obvious his powers are what brought the five there. He took a second to survey the scene before disappearing in yet another green circle, and grabbing the multiplying boy off the floor. Wally tried to stop him but that's when the last person decided to step in.

She was pretty, Wally noted and for the second time that week he mentally scolded himself.

She had bright pink hair tied up into two horn like pigtails with a black ribbon. Her skin was tan adorned with pink marking near her fingertips and toes. Her eyes were a bright pink, brighter than her hair and he noticed like the jewel on her forehead and the markings on her cheeks, pink was a reoccurring color for her. Her outfit was a black halter that showed off pink belly ring and a black skirt with slits on the sides showing her pink shorts. She was breath takingly beautiful.

"Hey gorgeous, I'm gonna need you to get out of my way" he said with a cheesy smile. He tried to side step her but her glowing pink hands made him reconsider. She didn't even give him a chance to throw in a joke about a spark being between them before she shot the pink energy at him.

He dodged and just barley at that, he had to run all the way to his left to fully get out of the target zone. Unfortunately he hadn't taken in account the amount of time he should have before he stopped running, so he ran straight into Artemis.

"Watch where you're going Kid idiot" Artemis yelled as she misfired her arrow at the Puppet King.

It probably was the lack of food, or the fact that the whole team was still giving him the stinkeye, or maybe it's the fact that out of all people he expected Artemis to give him a chance.

"What's your problem Fartemis" he growled.

She growled right back, "My problem is while you're out ignoring everyone and flirting with the villains, I would think you could at least try not to bump into me".

"I wasn't flirting". He yelled.

"Oh come on Kid Mouth. Everyone heard you" Artemis said.

Wally started to reply but was cut off by Nightwing, who apparently had decided to join Tim in fighting the red masked badass.

"Fight the villains not each other", he yelled out before sending a kick and batarng the other way.

One missed and the red masked villain growled before finally decided to speak, "Seriously can I fight anyone else" he growled out towards Wally.

That was the only warning Wally got before another pink wave of energy entered his sights. He dodged yet again and the girl sent two more in the form of blades before replying to the red hooded villain. "I don't really think they'll let you Hoodie".

Dick grinned at fixed his staff into two poles, "She's right. What's wrong Robin and I not pretty enough for you, Hoodie".

The red masked villain sighed, "Ignore Jinx I go by Red Hood, and either you hate me or Daddy bats hasn't exactly told you yet".

Tim had suddenly decided to go back to being on the offensive, he sent a fury of weapons at Red Hood, only seven were dodged.

"I know you were in Gotham six months ago, killed a lot of Black Mask men. I know your gave B a run for his money in the hand to hand combat part. Good for you by the way, I haven't had this much fun fighting a villains in ages" Dick cheekily replied. He too sent a fury of weapons onto the Red Hood, one of which loaded itself right into the eye of the mask.

"So not aster" Dick mumbled as sparks flew out the red mask.

"Nice aim" Tim sarcastically replied.

The Red Hood had about four seconds before the self-destruct mode would ignite on his helmet, he had to take it off. But he really didn't want to be the one to tell Dick, so he hastily threw the red helmet above his head, and threw about six smoke bombs on the floor.

The smoke bomb had infiltrated not just Tim and Dick's area but everyone's as well. Wally didn't even have time to react before a quick flash of pink hit his ribs.

"Sorry, by the way", Jinx murmured before gathering more pink energy and sending it his way.

"You know normally people don't say sorry, and then attack the person again", Wally yelled out.

She laughed, moved a little closer to him and then attacked him once more, "I'm not sorry for attacking you. But I guess, I am a bit sorry I got your little girlfriend mad".

Wally dodged but unfortunately for him wounded up even closer to her"She would have been mad at me regardless so it's cool"

She gave him a cat like grin, her pink eyes sparkling, "Really? Well then let's give her something to be mad about".

That was the only warning he got before she closed the gap between them and pressed her mouth against his. He gasped and she took that as the ample opportunity to explore every inch of his mouth. It seemed like they had been kissing for weeks, months, years. The only reason they had stopped was because Wally had heard Meghan scream.

He took this opportunity to tunnel whatever smoke had blinded the team and filter it elsewhere. Then he nearly shat his pants.

There in the middle of the ground stood a frightened Tim, and an angry Dick. Across from them was the Red Hood but without the red mask it became frightfully apparent who he really was. His hair was black, scruffy as if it hadn't been combed that day. His jawline was pronounced and his mouth was pressed in a thin straight line. He had a black and white mask, a Robin mask. One that only three people Wally had ever known had.

"How'd you get his DNA? He was careful there no way you could get enough of his DNA to clone him" Dick gritted out. He wasn't speaking to the Red Hood. Wally supposed he couldn't bring it in himself to yell at the face of his dead little brother.

One by one each villain had begun to stand beside the Red Hood.

Jinx had long since walked over the trio and draped her arm around the Red Hood. He instantly pushed her off and she rolled her eyes in annoyance. "Why don't you ask him how we got him".

If they were paying attention they would have seen the eyeball kid from before was creating whatever teleportation circle power he had behind the villains. But instead everyone's eyes were trained on the Jason lookalike, everyone except the look alike himself. Wally supposes he was the only one still staring at Dick's angry face.

When both boys refused to ask and the one next to her refuse to answer, she continued" Hoodie do you care if they know, or…"

She must have took his silence for approval because she then turned her head back to Dick and grinned.

"Sorry to break it to you, but he isn't a clone".

"Liar" Dick spat.

"Numele de asteptare este prost" the Red Hood muttered. Now Wally's Romanian sucked but he's certain he heard Dick say that phrase to Jason a million times. Every time the boys temper would get the best of him, he would spit out the worst name he could think of even at Dick sometimes. Dick would just laugh and reply 'Numele de asteptare este prost'. Name calling is for the stupid.

Wally wasn't the only person who remembered, he knew the gasp besides him weren't mere coincidence. He also knew Dick had remembered when his face changed from angry to surprise.

No one got a chance to respond before the villains were surrounded in a ball of green light and gone.

Dick immediately turned to Meghan. He couldn't imagine Jason telling anyone about that, but Dicks said it so many times, in front of so many villains. He's a clone, maybe he knows that because Simon implanted a memory or something. He has to be a clone.

Meghan slowly rubbed her head and grimace, "All of them have blocks in their minds. I couldn't infiltrate a single person".

Dick growled and started off towards the Zeta-Beam.

As everyone followed Wally noticed just how beat up everyone was, not that the villains were much better, but still the fact that this team did that is frightening. Bubblebee was probably the worst, she and burns and cuts just about everywhere.

When she noticed Wally's staring she weakly mumbled out, "I' knew Gizmo, way back when. Guess I thought our history would mean we wouldn't hurt each other that much…. guess I was wrong".

Wally nodded and watched as Wonder girl carried her to the nearest infirmary.

Normally this would be the time when Batman would order a report, but given the injuries reported by the Zeta-Beam all of the league was present.

Batman immediatly noticed Dick's mood, and asked Tim for a report. Before the young Robin could do so, Dick decided now was a good time as ever to ask him, " Who is the Red Hood, and don't give me any crap about how you don't know".

Green arrow and Black Canary who had been checking on Artemis, Martian Man hunter, Superman, Wonder woman and even Wally's own Mother Hen Uncle Barry had stopped to stare. Dick rarely if ever yelled at Bruce, especially in front of the team.

"You saw him" was Batman emotionless reply.

That only seemed to make Dick angrier, "Yes, I saw him. Care to tell me why I saw my dead brother fighting with a group of villains".

Batman sighed, "Nightwing he isn't the same person you once knew. He's changed and its our duty to stop him before-

"He's my brother! Regardless of however they brought him back, as our father it was your responsibility to bring him home".

"He came to Gotham! He's killed millions without batting an eye. Regardless of how you feel, as far as I'm concerned your brother is still dead".

PUNCH

Nightwing had punched Batman. He really had punched Batman. Holy shit, the world has ended.

He didn't even spare Bruce a glance before turning away and yelling out, "Fine he's not your son anymore. Then consider me not, either".

It was silent for a moment, the only sound was the feminine voice of the Zeta tube explaining that Nightwing had left Mount Justice.

Finally after what seemed like hours on Wallys part, Batman turned to him and gritted out, "Status report".

Wally fumble for his words. What exactly was he suppose to say. Yeah I was late and all but first we were fighting some multiplying guy, then the other guys showed up, one of which was your dead son, oh and the pink haired leader, yeah totally made out with her, but thankfully no one saw because of all the smoke. Then we had the biggest shock of all, when Nightwings batarang hit Red Hoods helmet. And now here we are, you missing two sons and me sweating bullets. Yeah he was definitely not telling pissed off Batman or the Arrow family any of that.

Thankfully for him Tim decided his open mouthed fish face wasn't funny and helped him out, "Kid Flash wasn't there in the beginning. But I put up some spy cams around the area, so we could study some of the new villains new abilities"

Batman nodded and each superhero watched as Tim displayed the fight from eight different angles on the screen. It was all fine in the beginning, Uncle Barry congratulated him on the speed tornado and his reflexes. It was all fine until Wally noticed the camera was showing Wally and Jinx alone, surrounded by smoke. Unlike the rest of the cameras which only showed shadowed figures, Wally camera showed everything vividly. Perhaps it was from all the wind Wally supplied as he ran way from the pink surges of energy. Perhaps it was because he was truly unlucky.

"Oh no" Wally squeaked. Blue Beatle and Beast Boy both laughed at him as he inched away from Artemis.

She rolled her eyes, "Oh come on Baywatch I won't hit you".

"Not taking any chances, Wally murmured. He was this close to the zeta tube when a green arrow zipped past his head. Artemis...no Green Arrow.

"You think it's cool to kiss other girls when you're spoken for Flashy" Green Arrow growled. Artemis and Black Canary were standing beside him looking absolutely pissed.

Instantly Uncle Barry came in front of him and sheepishly began replying to Green Arrow, "Now Green Arrow, Canary, I know Kid was wrong but-

"He was more than wrong" Artemis growled. Wonder Woman and Wonder Girl stood beside her in agreement. Superman ever the boy scout had stopped whatever conversation he was having with Conner to glare at the redhead, he glared so hard Wally would swear heat vision was about to come out.

"But she kissed me", Wally whined.

"Yeah only to give me something to be mad about because I would have been mad anyways", Artemis screeched.

Wally was beginning to get a little irritated. There was no getting to her. True he was guilty but defiantly not the only guilty person there. It's not like Artemis wasn't going to mad regardless if he had met Jinx or not. Every time he had seen her she had an attitude with him. Granted he had missed a lot of their dates and hadn't been calling, but damnit it wasn't his fault he was chained up in the basement.

So in spite of his better judgement, he spat out, "Well at least we agree on something" .

"Kid apologize"! Barry yelled out as he avoided the dozen arrows Green Arrow sent their way.

Wally glared out at Artemis. "Why she's the one with the mega attitude".

"I only have an attitude because you're being a lousy boyfriend", she scoffed.

"Well honey you're not the best girlfriend to hit the market either", he quipped.

"At least I call", Artemis yelled.

Wally rolled his eyes, she wasn't seriously using that one. "Only when you want something. Take me out Baywatch, why weren't you at the mission stupid, help me with my aim by being a moving target Kid Idiot"

Artemis looked genuinely disturbed, was he mocking her, "Are you calling me selfish"

"No I think every caring person calls only if they want something. Hey do you think every once in a while you could call and ask how I'm doing or maybe just call to hang out", Wally sarcastically drawled.

"Kid enough" Barry whined yet again, he wasn't having trouble avoiding the arrows but if Artemis started joining in…

"Oh god do your parents even like you" Artemis screamed.

It was a low blow but not in Artemis eyes. Of course his parents like him, she thought. Who doesn't like him? She figured that this would be the part where he would see unlike him, she didn't call just to hang out because she's not adapt to it. Her father is a monster and her mother's... learning to express her feelings, Artemis is learning with her. She doesn't know how to call and ask how someone's doing.

For Wally her question was definitely a low blow. Of course she didn't know it, but no, his parents didn't like him. And right about now he's starting to believe no one did. But he couldn't let her know that, so he instead of the truth he opted for a low blow himself, "Well they certainly don't hate me, baby girl".

Maybe it was the spite in his voice or the fact that he had used her Dads infamous nickname for her, but that was the final straw. She didn't bother looking at him as she muttered out, "Its over".

Instantly Wally felt bad. He didn't mean to go there, but he was so angry and she-. She was close to tears he noted, her eyes were near the brink and for the life of him he couldn't remember just when she started tearing up. Artemis didn't cry, it was unheard of. She was huddled around a few of the female superheroes. All of which and some of the men as well were glaring at him. This was bad, maybe if he apologized, "Wha... Artemis look I didn't mean-

His thought were interrupted when his Uncle grabbed his shoulder, "Maybe you should let her calm down for a while, Kid".

"Yeah... okay" Wally sighed. He then looked up at his Uncle, "Is Au-aaah is it okay if I crash at-

"Sorry kid, I'm gonna be caught up here for a while and I-I don't think our other scientist will be at the lab tonight" Barry quickly replied. After which he swiftly turned away from Wally and huddled over to Artemis. Wally knew he was just trying to comfort her, tell her how much Wally didn't mean it...but still another part of him felt betrayed.

Was Uncle Barry was mad at him? Was Aunt Iris? He hadn't stayed with Uncle Barry and Aunt Iris in the longest. They were both so..busy. Sure he knows they have to work but..still.

" Kid, skiddatle will catch up later kay" Barry called over his shoulder.

Wall didn't think twice before nodding his head and running out the cave. He was overreacting, Uncle Barry said they would catch up. It will be fine, it has to be fine.

He then grimanced as he realized his destination. If he was going to go home, he was taking the long way.

As much as Wally would have like to keep running for hours, he entered Blue Valley in less than thirty minutes. Usually towards the middle of Central City he would have changed into his civvies and walked the rest of the way, but because of his anger he ran passed it. He was nearly home when a strangled cry met his ears.

"Please Miss, spare me", a weak old man begged. It took Wally about two seconds to realize that that was Ole man Vetti, the hot dog vendor.

He was currently cowering on the floor as Jinx smirked wickedly at him. Just as she had fired a handful of pink energy at the man, Wally swooped in and carried the man away. Her blast hit the concrete and for a second nothing happened. Until the ground shook and nearby telephones exploded.

"Picking on old men after a major jewelry heist. Isn't that beneath you" Wally quipped after he had put old man Vetti into a safety zone.

Jinx smiled once she saw him a lightly started tracing the green light pole with her index finger, "I just wanted some chili dogs, old man shouldn't have started arguing".

"Pretty sure if you were buying them he wouldn't have to" Wally supplied.

His response was a halfhearted shrug as she stopped tracing the pole and a surge of energy shot out her finger tips. The pole exploded near the base and nearly crushed Wally as it fell down. It was easy enough to dodge but the six pink energy blades she sent toward him, and the five kicks after were not.

One of the blades hit a nearby mailbox, and like all the other objects, exploded.

Wally let out a low whistle, "Been meaning to ask ya doll face. What exactly is your power, kinetic touch that cause explosions"?

She grinned before sending three more energy fueled kicks his way, "Something like that"

Wally dodged two of them and groaned as one got him in the right knee, "See except I'm not exploding, kitten. Hurts like hell, but I'm still in one piece. Care to share why".

When she didn't answer he zoomed around her and created a light tornado to lift her off the ground. "Oh come on you explore the fuck out of my mouth and you can't even tell me how your powers work, he paused for a minute to watch her futile attempt to get out of his tornado. "I thought we were passed the awkward phase doll".

When he finally did stop, she fell to the ground instantly. Surrounding her form was a deep crater, definitely not the amount of damage Kid Flash would usually give out. But damnit he was having a bad day, and most of it was her fault.

She groaned loudly before jumping out the crater and shaking her head, "Is that it, did your little girlfriend see the kiss, break up with you and now your pissed".

He growled at her, she was definitely having way too much fun at his expense. "No I just hate when I have to encounter the same villain in one day".

She suddenly stopped, the energy in her hands began to disappear as she stared at the boy in slight confusion.

"What" Wally asked after some thought.

"What are you doing in Blue Valley anyways" she asked. Instantly he had paled, Kid Flash was never in Blue Valley. Sure it was poor but it wasn't Gotham, crime was pretty low and the cops pretty much handled everything.

"I uh was in the neighborhood" he supplied.

She obviously didn't buy it because her reply was "Bullshit".

"Well why are you here" he asked. Blue Valley hot dogs were the best in his opinion but he doubted Vetti reputation surpassed his city limit.

Rather than avoid his question, she ruefully smiled and picked up a half done hot dog, "Hoods not too happy with me. This is his favorite place to grab a bite".

Wow, honesty. It had been so long since Wally had truly heard it, he halfway didn't believe her. Then he thought about it, of course she's getting them for Jason. He did look pretty angry when she was taunting Dick, and Vetti's chili dogs were always Jason's favorite food.

It was at this moment Wally decided he was going to be honest for once, just a little bit. It's only fair, she was honest with him. "I was taking a run, trying to clear my head. My girlfriend broke up with me.".

Her eyes widened, she had not expected him to reciprocate, but still by her smile he could tell she appreciated it.

"Fine, I'll do us both a favor then" she said. Wally started to ask her what, but as she pulled out the three dollars and forty five cents, he slowly understood. "There that's enough for two chilidogs, I only need to apologize to Hood anyways".

Kid Flash was supposed to take her in, or at least follow her as she started to run away. But at that moment Wally didn't feel like being Kid Flash. Mr. Vetti was safe, she paid for her food and the team wouldn't be there to help him if he ran into her friends.

Instead he ran all the way to the nearest woods, changed back into his civvies and walked home.

When he finally reached the old blue house it was eleven o'clock. Eleven o 'clock was always a tricky time, either his dad would be too drunk to stay awake or so drunk he'd forget Wally didn't have curfew.

Luckily for him, this time his father was asleep. It took a while but Wally actually manage to open the broken screen quietly and sneak his way upstairs. Crashing on his worn out bed, he noticed for the first time in maybe six months he would actually get to go to sleep without a beating.

Maybe today wasn't so bad after all.

Okay that is chapter 1, finally completed!

If you've noticed, I am not following the young justice story line at all. I'm mixing teen titans and justice league character and reshaping ages. I want to say this explicitly so there will be no confusion, everything that's happened in young justice has not happened in this story.

Obviously characters back round will diverge from the show but I will still keep their personalities, that's a promise.

Major changes I think you should know are.

Roy is not a clone, there is no Roy clone. His whereabouts will be explored later. Also he's only a year older than Wally. No Lian.

Jason died, and came back. How will be explored later.

Jinx is reflective of both her Teen Titans and dc comics' version. If you read the comics you know Jinx is Indian, I really like that culture aspect of her and decided I'd like to keep it for my story.

The Wonder Girl discussed in this chapter is Cassie Sandsmark. Donna Troy will be introduced later.

Again I'm not following the young justice story line at all, so I will alter the organizations as I see fit. i.e, the light, the hive etc.

Superboy and Superman have a rocky relationship. Yes, Clark is stand offish, I will explore why later.

Some characters such as Joker and Poison Ivy will not be explored as their young justice counterparts. Similar to Jinx, I may morph certain versions of a characters together. However, for those two I will not be using the yj version simply because I don't like it.

As you've probably noticed this stories a little dark. It will get darker and not just for Wally. Fair warning for anyone who hates dark stories.