Explained Through Science

Hi! This is ClearcloudofRiverHuffle. I really wanted to make a crossover, so here it comes! Also, in this, Trials of Apollo hasn't happened for those who know what I'm talking about. Hope you like it and be sure to review. You guys were really charitable on my other stories. Two reviews! Wow!

Wally

Wally had just died. At least, he thought he had died. Maybe... had he disappeared into pure energy? But he was dead... how was he thinking? He didn't even have a body. There was only light surrounding him, like he wasn't the only pure energy here. Suddenly, everything went black and he swirled around. Suddenly, he was sprawled on a grassy field, his head throbbing with pain. He rubbed it. Where was he? It was pitch black outside. He sat up and rubbed his head. He yelled, "Nightwing? Are you here? M'gann? Kaldur... Aqualad?" Then he remembered. He croaked, "A-Artemis?" Her voice didn't answer. He missed her. He missed the whole team. What had happened? Oh, right. He had saved the world. But Flash and Impulse ran too fast and he was... transported. Here. Wherever he was. He looked down and realized he was still wearing his Kid Flash had to find a place to stay. He was starving and there was nothing in his snack compartment. Most of all, he was tired. He felt like he couldn't even run a mile, which was usually easy for him. Wally painfully for up and looked over tall grains of grass. He was on the side of a highway and there was a city a long way away. He was overjoyed until he saw the sign to say "San Francisco Bay - 15 miles." He had been in the North Pole a few minutes ago. Now he was in California.

Wally ran slower than ever. His speed wasn't working and the closest city was about 11 miles away. To top it off, he was on the side of a highway and it was probably 6 in the morning. He put his thumb up so that someone might pick him up. He felt so vulnerable, so small. He remembered how he had kissed Artemis in Paris. Then his memory shifted to his picture fading, him telling Barry to tell her that he loved her. And everyone now probably thought he was dead. "I'm not dead!" he yelled to the sky, knowing nothing would happen. He sighed and kept running. Then he spotted a small road off the highway that looked like peopled lived there. But there were no cars or anything off that road. He said to himself, "This is a disaster, heavy on the dis!" Wally remembered Dick, always taking away prefixes and stuff like that. He ran all the way to an open field and saw a bunch of kids playing. No, they weren't playing, they were running towards him! A girl was leading them, in armor and with a sword. Wally wasn't surprised, he'd seen stuff like this before. The girl had dark skin and curly brown hair and had a fierce glare on her face. But he wasn't exactly excited when she said, "Halt, in the name of Rome!" She definitely wasn't feeling the aster. Then Wally saw the city.

Artemis

Artemis woke up, sweating and panting. She had had another dream about Wally, but this time it had felt so real. He had said, "I'm not dead!" straight into the air. Was he calling to someone? But who? It had been a month since he had died and she couldn't put it off. How could she? She loved him. She got up and found her mother watching television from her wheelchair. She said, "Good morning, Artemis! I got your breakfast ready." She said, "Thanks, Mom." Artemis hadn't really had an appetite since Wally died, so she had gotten a little smaller over the past month. She sniffed and her mother wheeled over to her. She said, "Artemis, I know you're sad because this is the one-month anniversary, but you can always find someone else."She glared at her mother. She yelled through sobs, "Listen, Wally was special! And now he's dead!" And she stormed back into her room. She stared at the picture on her wall of the Cheshire Cat for a few seconds and then changed into her Tigress costume. She took a deep breath and yelled to her mom, "Sorry, Mom! I'm leaving!" There was no response because Artemis usually jumped out her window anyway. She went to the phone booth and heard a voice - "Tigress, B-06." At the Watchtower, she saw Batman discussing something with Batgirl and Robin, Static messing around with some metal, and Beast Boy as a dog playing fetch with Kid Flash. She was always convinced Bart was Wally until he started talking about how things were "crash." He had taken on the Kid Flash role when Wally had died and was, to Artemis's dismay and delight, doing pretty well with it. When M'gann and Conner walked in, holding hands, she walked over to them.

"Hey," she said. "So, any missions or something to get him... off my mind?" Miss Martian hugged her and Conner even managed to wipe his eye. He usually had a straight face, but Wally was one of the heroes who rescued him, so even clones could be sad. M'gann said, "Sorry, Artemis. We don't have anything right now." She sighed. Suddenly, the monitor came on. It was Green Lantern, saying, "We need the team in California to check out an immense power surge. It is in a small town near San Francisco Bay. And one more thing. I need the original team only. Green Lantern out." Aqualad ran into the room. Batman turned around and the new team, "You guys can move out. Veterans, you'll be teaming up with Zatanna and Rocket once again." Batgirl, Robin, Static, Beast Boy, and Kid Flash left the room and Zatanna and Rocket came in via Zeta Tube. Batman pulled up a picture of a small town in the Bay Area in San Francisco. There was a small tornado swirling around and a crowd dispersing from the area. Batman said, "The tornado has stopped, but there has been disturbance. For example, apparently there have been sightings of animals coming from the site. We need you to check it out. I will send coordinates." There was muttering as they walked out to the Bioship. Zatanna said, "Could it be a member of the Red family again? A tornado droid like Red Tornado?"

"It could be a distraction for the real thing. I mean, animals?" Everyone was silent on the way to San Francisco. When they finally got there, invisibly shielded by Martian tech, they descended and walked out of the ship. There was absolutely nothing odd about this place. Aqualad urged, "Come. We can look around the area for anything suspicious." They came to a highway that looked pretty barren with a sign: "San Francisco Bay - 15 miles." And then there was a laugh that Artemis hadn't heard for years. Nightwing appeared from nowhere and smirked. Everyone ran up to greet him. He had been missing for a month! He said, "Yeah, good to see all of you, too." He looked around at his old team. "Well, you should see this. I went through a portal and I found this." He held up a pair of red goggles. Artemis gasped. She choked out, "If you didn't find body, then he's still alive!"

Well, hope you enjoyed my first chapter. And I haven't even gotten to the Heroes of Olympus part yet... Well, thanks for reading and be sure to review!

-Clearcloud