Author's note:
Katie: Thanks for everyone who favorited A protege of the flash! I decided to write a series of one-shots like I said I might :) This first one features Bart. It's not very long, you might call it a drabble, but I promise the others will be longer, so enjoy! ^^
Disclaimer: I do not own this no matter how much I wish I did.
-A Whole New World-
Bart's never seen the world so colorful before. In the future, it is rare to find pictures that are not ruined by the destruction. CDs in good shape that were able to be read by CD players are even rarer to find, and even if you found a perfectly preserved one, you would need to generate electricity to hear something on a CD player.
The world in 2016 was beautiful and a stark contrast to the grey, dreary world of 2056. There was plenty to eat and the people who lived during this time period, seemed so… carefree. True, there was the constant threat of super-villains, but the superheroes were always there to stop them from taking over the world and save the day, right? The speedster never had seen green grass, sweet-scenting flowers or even a tiniest green sprout of a plant that was actually alive. All the plants he ever seen in his time period were dead. The land was very habitable for plants.
As the matter of fact, he was more fascinated by animals then plants. He had never seen so many live, living creatures other than other humans, roaches and bugs of the sorts, and a few scavenger animals such as vultures.
Teenagers in 2016 worried about things that seemed so petty than what teenagers in the future would worry about. Teenage girls worried about make-up and clothing while most teen guys cared about getting a girlfriend or beating their high score on a video game. Meanwhile, in the future, they'd worry about one thing, living to see one more day.
Sometimes, the futuristic speedster wishes he could just blend in with the surroundings and pretend that he belonged in this time period, but he knew very well that if he didn't do something, this wonderful world full of life, would be lost to an alien invasion and would turn into a world of ashes and dust. The reason he and Neutron worked on so hard on making a time machine was to save the future. In the future, it was hopeless; there no way earth could be fixed in its current state. Food was scarce and it was a struggle each day to survive. Now that he was back in the past and saw how breathtaking it used to be, it meant even more to him to fix the future than ever.
-KatieTheTroll-
Author's Note: As always, please review! :)
