Hey guys! Sammy Randolf here with another story. So the plan is to have Wally to surrender himself to some villain holding a team member hostage until they run out, and I finally have him kidnapped... We'll see how to goes from there.

Rated M for safety.

Disclaimer: Sadly, I don't own DC... the movies would be better if I did.

Wally tackled Artemis behind a wall to save her from Captain Cold's freeze ray. It was the third time this week that Cold and the Rogues had specifically targeted Kid Flash, and they had been causing general havoc throughout Central City all week. Flash had asked for Batman to send someone from young justice over for backup because he had to leave in the middle of "the Crazed Rogue Week" (as Wally was now calling it) for an off world mission. Sadly, Batman was undercover in Tokyo as Bruce Wayne trying to bust a huge Asian drug cartel, so Robin had to watch over Gotham while he was away. So, he was stuck with Artemis for the rest of the week.
"I thought your Rogues were 'messy, disorganised' and 'had a moral code'" Artemis said.

"They usually do… I don't know what's going on with them. They won't even talk to me except for villain talk" Wally replied.
"What other kind of talk is there?!"

"Oh, well, yeah know… Like this?" Wally stepped out from behind the wall and stood facing the group.

"Wally… what are you doing?" Artemis said nervously. She hadn't dealt with the rogues before.

"Hey guys," Wally said casually, as if just talking to a group of friends. No one responded, which was weird for the Rogues. Usually by now they would have launched into a full scale rant about how good the latest movie was, or something like that. "What?" Wally stated challengingly. "No 'baby flash'? No, where's papa flash' No, 'Have you seen the new NCIS episode'? No, 'Oh my gosh, your so cute, can we adopt you, baby flash?'" He stared at each of the different Rogues. "What's going on guys?"

"Just trying to rule Central City," Cold said like it was an everyday occurrence. The rest of the Rogues looked nervously between Wally and their leader.

"Ok, seriously guys what's going o-" Cold shot Wally with his cold gun, but Wally dodged using his speed and was casually leaning against a streetlight the next second. "Too slow" He said on an impulse. The Trickster started to giggle. "There it is!" Wally basically sang, "Now, can you tell me what's going on?"

"Mirror Master" Snart called. Sam nodded, and he used his gun so that all of the Rogues could drop through the other dimension, but then closed it before Wally could follow. Artemis came out from behind the wall, looking confused.

"What the heck is going on"

"I don't know… all of the Rogues are acting odd, and they've been unusually active throughout the entire week."
"And they've been targeting specifically you instead of Flash."
"Yeah," Wally said frowning, "I just don't get it. I even saw James taking his meds this morning when I was playing darts with him," he said thoughtfully.

"Why were you playing darts with the Trickster? A registered psychopath," Artemis asked incredulously.

"Because he asked me too," he stated as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. He knew that most villains were not like the Rogues, but it was fun to mess with her. "So Snart is actually aiming in kill anyone but me, James is on his meds but he's still in his Trickster costume..." he paused, but then the realization dawned. "That's it!" he exclaimed.

"What?" Artemis asked. She had no clue what any of those things had to do with each other.

"Hartley isn't here, he hasn't been on any of the missions this week."

"What does that have to do with anything?"
"The Rogues are very overprotective of Hartley because he's the youngest and he comes from a complicated background, they wouldn't leave him home alone without someone else. Also, he loves hanging out with me, so he wouldn't miss this chance if he could."

"The fact that the Pied Piper enjoys hanging out with you makes me wonder what you actually do in your free time."

"Oh shut up" he said with a slight laugh.

"Sooo, Hartley?"

"Oh yeah, so it's obvious that Snart and Trickster wouldn't be doing this if they had a choice, and since Hartley isn't here there's only one option…"

"Hold up, we can't just assume that because Hartley's not here. They could've let some other random guy stay with him," she said.
"You don't understand the Rogues like I do. It's obvious. Someone's holding Hartley hostage in exchange for-" he half paused.

"You," Artemis said, finishing his sentence.

"Yeah," he nodded glumly.

"Who and why?"

"I've got no idea," he stated, puzzled, "it has to be some other evil speedster."

"Wait, what? Why?"

"Because if it was someone like Lex or basically anyone else, they would've just called us, and we could've gotten him out." he thought for a moment "Unless it was the Joker, but this isn't anything like his style."

"I don't want to know how you know that."

"Spend enough time with Rob and you'll find out."

Artemis nodded. She knew that Wally and Rob were 'best bros' and were often in each other's city. Wally was the only other superhero who could go into Gotham to find Robin or just go on patrol with him without getting smited down by the Bat. Even then, smiting was always a risk. "We need to find a way -" Artemis was interrupted by the Rogues coming in right in front of them from the mirror dimension. Before anyone, even Wally, could register what was going on, Heat Wave had Artemis in a headlock with his heat gun against her head. They started going back through the portal without even looking at Kid Flash.

"Woah, woah, woah, Guys." Wally yelled desperately. The Rogues paused. "I'm going to take a wild guess and say that she's not the one the guy who has Hartley wants for the trade." The Rogues all looked to Cold.

"How do you know about Hartley," Cold asked harshly.

"He's not here… Logic"

"We were going to take her and then make you give yourself up to us," Trickster said gleefully.

"Ok, how about we not do that" Wally said cautiously.

"Can't do that mate," Captain Boomerang said, speaking for the first time this week. Actually, if Wally thought about it, this was the first time this week any of them had talked except for Cold. "We need to get Hartley back."

"He's family," said Weather Wizard.

"Maybe you could tell me who it is and I could flash over there and have him back before you could blink."

"'Fraid I can't do that Kid. Zoom almost beat Papa Flash once." Heat Wave said before Cold glared at him. "...whoops?"

Wally was shocked. Zoom was back and he was targeting Kid Flash? This was seriously bad. Seeing the look on her friend's face, Artemis started to struggle.

"Sorry girl," Heat Wave said, "but you're the only chance we've got to get Pied Piper back now."

"Take me," Wally said on impulse.

"What?" Captain Boomerang said, as if he couldn't believe what he was hearing. I mean, sure, Kid was a superhero, and superheroes were prone to do brave, noble, and selfless things, but give himself up to that monster?! He was insane.

"Let her go, and I'll come willingly," He said, sounding more sure.

Wally, no-" Artemis started to yell, she didn't know who 'Zoom' was, but it didn't sound good if the rest of the Rogues sounded terrified of him.

"Kid, are you sure about this?" Mirror Master asked, flustered.

"Yeah" Kid Flash said, way more confidently than he felt. He put his hands up in surrender. "Take me."

"No," Cold said. "I can't do this. We'll find another way to get Hartley."

"But-" Heat Wave started to say.

"No," Cold said more firmly. "Look at them. They're just kids. Battling them is one thing, but handing our Baby Flash over to that monster is nonsense. We will find. Another. way."

With that, they released Artemis and jumped through another mirror dimension.

"Wally!" Artemis basically screamed at him, "What were you thinking?!"

Wally didn't answer. He was still in shock over what Cold had said. He shook his head to clear it, and said "We should get back to the cave, I need to contact Flash."

Yay! Get pumped for the next chapterrrrrrr!

-Samantha Randolf