" Come on. Can we just do this thing?" Bart asked impatiently messing around with his suits stealth mode and looking around unable to stay still. He had become Kid Flash months ago and had learned to tap more into the power source of speedsters the Speed Force and learned more about the present to better adapt. " Why couldn't Blue be here? Or Tim or anybody that could help pass the time?" He asked bored only to receive glares and looks of annoyance. For this mission Bart had been paired with Zatanna, Tigress, Miss Martian, and Batgirl.

" Look we've been sent to investigate a Russian Mafia organization that's thinking of spreading to America." Batgirl said looking down at Bart who sighed looking around impatient. " This place is remote in the middle of nowhere and they the Bravta practically have a small army to fight for them armed with illegal weapons. They will destroy all available information and documents if we attack. We need you to download the information with the flash drive we entrusted you with before we go in to attack"

Zatanna and M'gann looked at Bart. " We are creating a link between all of us connected to you for the mission alerting us of an danger your in and experiences.'

Bart sighed and nodded. " Can we get this over with?" He half listened as Zatanna spoke in reverse and M'gann's voice appeared in his head. He did not care to listen in to their explanation. Then he became a blur rushing into the facility which did not look like much from the inside but inside where crates and men in suits armed with military grade weapons. ' They treat me like a little kid all the time. They don't know what it's like. Hearing them talk for me a natural born speedster so slowly is like a hour. It's like I am the annoying little brother to them that needs to be protected.'

Bart really should have listened to them explain the link. That they could hear and listen to his thoughts right now.

He slammed into most of them at high speeds while also taking out the ammunition out of their firearms and easily got to their computers. Bart put in his flash drive and started to get to work transferring everything and getting very bored tapping his fingers on the monitor but then he screamed in pain. Burning pain as he twitched and hit he ground. He hit the ground hard only to be dragged hitting his head several times. His left leg was broken when he struggled causing him to cry. The girls could actually feel his pain And his agony at that point.

He was brought to another room and partially strapped to a chair and his costume was ripped away. Revealing scar tissue all over his chest. All four of the girls faces went pale and they rushed in. " Little boy I doubt you even know what the KGB is but this little drug a old relic by now and quite illegal was a parting gift given to us." One of them said with a frighting smile. Bart saw a huge needle with a greenish liquid and struggled only to receive a punch in the ribs. " It'll make you beg for death and make you feel old wounds like they are happening again and again.

" No." Bart cried out before he was injected. As his scars were lightly touched he could feel them all over again.

" On your feet now." Bart was barely able to stand bleeding from his nose bleeding the pain of starvation for his metabolism was agony. He was barely ten years old and wearing some baggy blood stained clothing. Blue Beetle did not care when Bart's stomach rumbled and Bart looked sickly. The sky was dark and ash came from the sky. Rubble was everywhere. Bsrt wore a collar and had more scars than his age should have.

" P-" He couldn't even finish his plea before feeling his skin burn and his back starting to smoke. He could smell his back hair and skin sizzle. He could hear the dark creepy laughter for weeks.

Bart slammed the rock into his attacker's face while prying the hands away from his throat. He heard a crack but kept bashing the rock into his chest over and over shattering his ribs. Tears came into Bart's eyes but he kept at it. He didn't feel regret just empty. When he pushed off his now limp and barely breathing attacker he saw for the last time a face almost just like his own.

The only differences where blond hair and eye color. Bart limped away trying not to think about the Reach made copy that took his family from him. A sadistic disoriented reflection of Bart that just enjoyed killing.

Bart was flailing his arms unable to stand after gaining a critical injury from scavenging and stealing from the wrong group. " I can't feel my legs. Someone. " He cried out but no one come. It took him using his hands to crawl for help. Two and a half hours of hell.

Bart held back tears and his lunch as he buried the dead. Almost none of the bodies where in one piece. Most of them were charred or skeletal. Bart tried to ignore looking into the eyes of one inparticular. His mother.

Zatanna could feel every time Bart went hungry and bled for most of his life. M'gann felt Bart's mourning and sorrow. Artemis could picture perfectly Bart crying and throwing up gastric juices instead of food. Batgirl felt Bart's temporary handicap.

Bart felt a heavy cold revolver be placed in his hands. " I wonder little boy if you can endure whatever hell your feeling or blow your brains out?" The men laughed and Bart cried. He couldn't think of anything but ending the pain. When they reached him he had just put gun against his head. Artemis had to knock the gun out of his hand.

Batgirl jammed the empty syringe after taking it out of the man's hands into his kneecap before throwing him into a wall. M'gann made some of the men attack themselves. Bart was still going through it when Artemis grabbed him but he felt way too light. " Let's go." She ordered. Throughout the flight on the ship Bart needed several spells to relax.

" Thankfully with his metabolism it'll pass quickly but what we saw.." M'gann trailed off." It didn't take a genius to know how Bart's been lying about his future. It's weird who he never talked about going home. And always seemed surprised to see us. "

" He arrived at the nick of time to save the Flash and save Blue from being controlled. " Artemis added." He is too light.

" He will be traumatized about this." Zatanna said looking at Bart who was asleep soundly. " We will be there for him." Artemis said.