A few quick notes that I found super helpful when I found the Rouges tunnel in the Young Justice fandom hole.
Captain Cold-Lenard 'Len' Snart
Heatwave-Mick Rory
Trickster-James Jesse-16, just slightly older then Wally
Pied Piper-Hartley Rathaway-17, I feel like he should be nineteen but then he would be missing, and I feel like the story would be much less entertaining without him
(Sorry this was re-uploaded, and a new update will be coming soon, but as I was writing the new chapter I realized that I had been calling The Rogues 'The Rouges', and rouge is a color, so I had to fix it.)
Central City
November 5, 19:18 EDT
James Jesse had been waiting for much longer then he had wanted to. True, he has the patience of a toddler, (and Pipers constant 'pipering' away on his flute in the other room wasn't helping) but that wasn't the point. He needed to finish his homework if he wanted to catch his favorite show, and he couldn't finish his homework if the older rogues didn't hurry up and get back from the bank (that they may or may not have been robbing).
What made his teacher think he knew every French rebellion? History was always more of Captain Cold's game. Of course Captain Cold knew history, he seemed to know the history of every hero and villain in Central City. So James sat and waited for Len and the others to get home.
Now, there isn't a certain amount of time it takes to rob a place, but if it takes more then an hour, there's most likely been complications, usually ending in handcuffs so as the hour rolled around, James turned on the TV. It would have been reported if the Rogues were arrested, and while he had all of the Rogues phone numbers, (though Heatwave's went MIA after a battle with the Flash last week) you should never call someone while they may or may not be robbing a bank.
As the screen lit up, James was left very confused. The anchor that should be reporting wasn't, and it wasn't like a new anchor was stepping in for her like they sometimes do, there was just no one on screen. And it was creeping James out.
"Piper!" The music in the other room stopped abruptly, "Can you come in here for a minute?" The redhead emerged. "I'm a little busy here Tricks, what do you need?" James pointed at the TV. "Please tell me you don't see anyone either?"
"Thats odd..." Piper agreed, a touch of caution in his voice "But maybe they accidentally left the camera running?" James shrugged. If there was a situation, the Flash would handle it. Hartley started walking back to his music as James flipped to the next channel. And the next. And the next. "Maybe this guy has a vendetta against news people?" He thought out loud.
Hartley turned back around. "Let me have the remote." He held out his hand but James shook his head "Have you finished your homework?" he asked grinning from ear to ear. Hartley was not. "James this is serious, just give me the remote." James weighed his options, if he got Hartley to chase him now, he might get a smile out of him, but if there was bad news, James didn't want to see the hard worked smile wiped of his freckled face. He handed over the remote.
Hartley immediately checked a national news station, no one. He checked an live awards show that was on, no one. Finally, he checked a local baseball game, and that is what unnerved the two of them the most.
The baseball players, announcers and most of the fans were gone. The remaining fans were all children. James' face was about an inch from the screen, trying to get a better look. Most of the children were panicking, but to be honest, James was panicking.
Where were all the adults? Were they dead? Was this permanent? James wasn't ready to be a grown up yet, and if the rest of the Rogues were missing, was Hartley going to be the leader of the Rogues? What would happen when Hartley became an adult, would he disappear too? Would James be left alone? Hartley's hand on his shoulder pulled James out of his thoughts and he realized he had been shaking. "I think we should call the Rogues" he said softly. "And if they don't answer?" James squeaked out fearfully. "Then maybe we should call Wally."
*The Theme Song*
A little background would be helpful right about now. James Jesse, Hartley Rathaway and Wally West had been friends since they had met in the earliest days of Kid Flash. The Rogues had botched up a robbery (It totally wasn't Tricksters fault) and now they had The Flash and the newly christened Kid Flash on their tails. As Wally was not used to his powers, he ended up crashing into Piper. There was bruising all around, but the greatest casualty was Pipers flute which had snapped in half. Piper was distraught that his favorite instrument was broken and Kid Flash took it upon himself to fix it. In the middle of the battle. Captain Cold saw this as an opportunity to distract the young speedster (the Rouges had their hands full with one enemy.) and sent Trickster to help. When the dust finally settled, The Flash turned around to see the three teens attempting to fix the flute with acid from Tricksters Snot Gun, and a lighter that they must have gotten off of Heatwave. After the first battle, the friendship grew, and eventually Wally shared his secret identity with the two teens, they formally shared their's too, but Wally already knew James' and Pipers identities, because they were on the juvie records.
Piper was unsuccessful in contacting the rest of the Rogues, but they had expected that. Not being able to contact Kid Flash was a little more worrisome. While James decided that calling Wally fifty-nine more times would yield results, Piper went out side to play some music, perhaps something calming. Being born deaf, Piper had implants, and after tampering with them, he now had super-hearing. Right now he almost wished he didn't, because he could hear the screams of terror and whimpers of lonely children. 'Yes, something calming would be nice' he agreed with himself. The music would quiet them enough that he could at least think, so the Piper began to play.
Though his mind really wanted to be carried away by the music, he couldn't let that happen. He needed to decide what to do, if Kid Flash was gone then all of the young heroes were gone, which left the villains, and while Piper wasn't that into risking life and limb for people he didn't know or care about, he did want to know who did this and punch them. In the face. With their own fist (He could use his Flute, he didn't need to damage his own fist.). The Rogues had a list of rules, and hurting innocent kids was pretty high on the list besides, the Rogues look after and if necessary, avenge their own. Piper was hoping it wouldn't have to come to that.
It might have been thirty minutes or so before Piper considered stopping. His throat was dry and he needed to check on James who had most likely been calling Wally over and over again the entire time, but before he could finish his song, he heard footsteps coming toward the hideout. Piper hastily finished the section of the song, and stood to see who was approaching. Though it was dark, Piper didn't need to see anything more then the silhouette to tell who this was. "Icicle Jr.?"
Please excuse the cliché ending
I call Hartley Piper 99% of the time because I only heard about the Flash tv show versions of the characters before I read the fanfictions, so I read into their backgrounds and besides getting super confused as to where everyone got the idea of the Rogues having a soft spot for KF, I read that James never called Hartley by his real name, so I decided to keep that.
I really like the idea of the Rogues being friends with Kid Flash and I love those kinds of stories, so for me there just isn't enough, so I made one of my own. I was also really surprised there weren't very many 'Misplaced' stories, and the thought just popped in to my head.
I kind of rushed this one, so please message me if it seems off or if I made a mistake, besides that, please review! I am not the best writer, and I need all the help I can get.
