"What do you mean I have to work today?"

Wally sat in his lower-middle class apartment with the phone in his hands, twiddling with the curled cord as he spoke to the man on the other end. And who else was it? The Batman aka Captain Buzzkill aka Wally's boyfriend.

"You heard me Wally. We have strong leads CADMUS is doing some serious genetic testing and we need someone to fill in for Shayera. She broke her wing, remember?"

The scarlet speedster easily remembered how the firecracker known as Shayera Hol broke her wing when she in Vixen got into a serious fight about what else: John. Ironically, Vixen gained some very feline-like powers and ripped up her wing like a house cat on a wounded bird. Thank god Vixen was put off the roster for a month.

"But Bruuuuuce"

"Don't you 'But Bruce' me. Head up to the Watchtower now before I come over there and drag you up myself."

Damn, he hated when Bruce bossed him around like a child.

"Fine, fine, fine. I'll be up there in a few. Love ya."

Wally didn't give Bruce enough time to respond back. He just hung up the phone and rushed to get his uniform. Grumbling in utter annoyance, Wally contacted J'onn and he was soon beamed up to the familiar surroundings of the Watchtower.

The team to investigate the new CADMUS headquarters wasn't all too big, nor special. It consisted of Fire (and boy was Flash happy to have her tag along...), Black Canary and Green Arrow. Prepared to find any strong evidence against the rouge government team, Wally and his co-investigators were well equipped with just about anything you would find in a James Bond movie, but with a nice little dash of Batman added to it.

The last thing the League wanted was to have any more dirt on them by the US Government.

Thanks to Diana, the team was able to use the invisible jet, the perfect aircraft for a total stealth mission. As the team climbed aboard the large aircraft carrier, Wally was sure he had caught Fire glaring at the Scarlet Speedster with those piercing green eyes.

Wally thought of the past quietly as he flew the jet to the headquarters on how Fire and Wally had dated for some time. He thought of how was nice, though it never really felt right when he dated her. Something just felt a tad bit off. So, they broke up with a rather harsh argument and soon after, Wally came out of the closet. Despite telling her numerous times that the relationship was real and he did love her (sort of), Fire kept telling herself and others within her little clique that the whole romance was just a cover up for Wally's sexuality.

Shortly after the two had broken up, the redhead soon took an interest in one of his colleges, the Dark Knight himself. For a while, Wally kept quiet about it and never really showed (as far as he knew) any signs that he was crushing on the million dollar playboy. But, Bruce began to suspect something was up and using his extraordinary detective skills, he somehow managed to find out that his close friend was indeed crushing on him.

Surprisingly to Wally, Bruce made the first move. Fireworks went between the two, and ever since then, about three years ago, they've been together ever since.

Snapping out of his thoughts of those wonderful days, an alert beeped on the control panel indicating they were at their location. The location looked very simple, really: It was a small building that was roughly the size of a family house. There were no cars, no signs, not even a single guard and was just located on the edge of a small city in Nevada. Attempting to make a quiet landing as possible in the dry and grassy field close by, the rest of the spy squad began to prepare for one hell of an investigation.

Being as careful and quiet as possible, the group initiated the camouflage-mode on their stealth gear and made their way towards the building. Their stealth gear certainly helped, making them invisible to even the best heat or security goggles that many CADMUS guards are given or the various scanners that were set up all around their usual buildings. As the team snuck into the building by using a lock pick, the team began to split up and search for clues.

At first, Wally thought this was just a false lead. Nothing seemed all too suspicious within the building. It had a lobby but no receptionist; a few offices that were so clean and organized you could eat off anything, a empty basement and just a couple random hallways.

"Flash, we found something." said Arrow's voice over the ear set.

Dashing over to the archer's location within the clean as a bone basement, the speedster saw Ollie reach his hand to the wall. Expecting his green gloved hand to touch the cream painted wall, Wally was surprised to see it go clear through

"A hologram…" said the speedster quietly.

After calling Canary and Fire over, the squad ever-so silently walked through the fake wall and ended right into a dimly lit hallway. Guards stood at the entrance of each branching hallways, each holding a very large, very dangerous looking gun.

Quietly signaling the team to move out, the redhead quietly crept through the hallways. Should he had not used this equipment; him and his team would end up as swiss cheese in a matter of seconds. Slowly, the heroes branched out and made their way carefully around each guard and entering the unknown hallways. Choosing the farthest down passage, the speedster sped quietly around the well-armed guard and walked down the hallway.

While the hallway seemed fairly normal looking on the outside, as though it were a dimly lit hospital corridor, a horrible, sinister vibe came off it. Like something was really wrong, and it gave Flash the heebie-jeebies. After what seemed like an eternity, he reached a door. It was huge and heavy looking, as if it belonged in a maximum security prison.

Surely a door like this had to hold something big and important.

Searching for a key-swipe or something that would allow him access, Wally spotted a key swipe panel. Vibrating his hands, he placed his hand on the device in a hope it would trick and confuse the circuitry and scanners to let him in.

Success!

As the door slowly creaked open, Wally saw two scientists within the room. One was an older man, about 40 years old with a terrible comb over with his brown-ish gray hair and the other was a younger woman with a pinched face that gave her this constant scowl as if she were about to say "I'm gonna eat your kids, rawr."

Rushing over to the two, Wally very quickly overpowered the two and knocked them clear out. (Wally had to admit, the looks on their faces were pretty hilarious as they were being beaten up by an invisible force, that's for sure.) Pushing them into a closet filled with various empty petri dishes and vials, the speedster began to search the large lab.

As he quickly dashed from table to table, cabinet to cabinet but nothing seemed all too special. Rummaging through the drawers in some of the desks, Wally pulled out some very important looking files.

'There I got my evidence.." Wally thought to himself "Let's just round up everyone and…"

Suddenly Wally turned around. He was facing a large, black curtain and from behind it he could catch a dull orangey glow. Something felt very wrong. He didn't want to pull that curtain back, he didn't want to see whatever the hell was behind that damned curtain.

But, he had to push through it.

As an unsteady gloved hand reached for the smooth curtain, Wally prayed it was just something small and nothing that would mentally scar him. He then yanked open the curtain and became wide eyed at what his electric green eyes saw: There behind the curtain were 5 large test tubes one would see in a cheesy sci-fi flick. They were about 7 feet tall each and filled with an orangey-yellow liquid that bubbled from time to time. Floating within the strange and unknown liquid were 5 fetuses in various stages of development. Some of the farther along ones appeared very human-like, but some appeared like a sort of alien with very unhuman features.

"This is so wrong…" Wally mumbled to himself in fear.

Quickly grabbing one of the cameras in his gear, Flash began to snap various photos of the fetuses and their containment units as fast as he could. He just wanted to get the hell out there as fast as he possibly could.

Suddenly, a small whine or cry came from one of the doors exiting the lab. Jumping nearly out of his skin, the speedster let out a squeak from his jaws. Was it a live experiment? Was it just an animal? What was it? Shakily making his way to the door, he placed his quivering hand on the cold metal handle.

'Just see what it is and run.' Said the hero in his scared mind.

Flinging the door open, he entered another room nit was rather spacious and only had one thing in it: a very high tech looking containment unit. Recognizing the type of unit, it was a MHC-U Class 12. This kind of cell was meant to hold people with the ability to have super strength of super speed. Then, after looking into the cell, Wally's jaw dropped.

Sitting in the corner in a tiny ball was a toddler. He couldn't be more than a year and a half old, but looked some frail and skinny. His green eyes were sunken in and dull, his cheekbones creating pits in his round little face, his raven black hair messy and matted, and he was wearing little more than a pair of pajama pants that looked ragged and old. Turning off his camouflage disguise, the child raised its tiny head and began to scream bloody murder in complete fear.

"No! No!"

Trying to find an entrance into the advanced cell to help the horrified child, the scarlet speedster managed to find a keypad that asked for a 6 number code. Growling in utter annoyance, he began to punch keys in quickly in an attempt to try every possible combination. Finally after 2 minutes of pressing random keys, the door sprung open. Rushing over to the toddler, it only screamed louder as tears streamed down his face. As Wally reached forward to grab the child, it rose up and toddled away as fast as it could.

But something odd happened.

Out of the blue, the boy's running stopped as he surged forward at an inhuman speed before smacking into the wall of the cell before falling backwards.

"What the…?" gasped the speedster.

Now sobbing from fear and the pain of slamming face first into a wall, the poor kid was now curled up like a baby armadillo on the tile floor of the cell. Shushing the baby softly as best as he could, Wally reached his gloved hands forward to grab the terrified toddler in his arms. He writhed and squirmed in a attempt to get free and even tried to claw at Wally's face, the Flash wasn't going to give up on this kid. Bring his close, he began to hug and hush the scared and sobbing child and he rocked back and forth to calm him down. Slowly, ever so slowly, the boy began to calm down as his cries turned into soft whimpers. Wrapping his frail arms around the masked man's neck, he clung for dear life as Wally whispered silently

"Why are you here, kid?"

Initiating his stealth disguise again, Wally called the team's channel as he said in a rarely used serious tone "Head back to the jet now."

"What, why?" said Black Canary questionably "We barely have any evidence and Batman said-"

"Forget what Batman said. I found some evidence and we need to get back to the Watchtower soon. I'll explain everything when we get on board."

It wasn't that difficult to return to the jet. Wally simply kept the kid as quiet as he could as he held the files he grabbed in one hand, and the boy in the other. Once they returned to the invisible safety of the aircraft, everyone had disarmed their stealth gear and stared wide eyed at Wally and baby.

"Why do you have THAT thing?" scowled Fire ever so rudely.

Growling at her teammate, Black Canary punched the Brazilian hard in the shoulder as she turned her icy blue gaze back to her team leader "What Fire meant saw was: why do you have a baby?"

Smiling lightly as he turned to look at the little tyke who somehow managed to fall asleep in his arms, the redhead said quietly "I found him in one of the laboratories in a MHC-U Class 12 cell. Batman was right…" his voice suddenly changed to a grim and sickened tone "CADMUS has been doing genetic testing. I found test tube babies in there. I think this little guy might have been one of them."

Arching an eyebrow from under his black mask, Ollie asked "Well… seeing how he was held in such a high security cell, I can only assume they're trying to make their own superheroes again, like those Ultimen guys from a few years back."

"Yes, I think that may be the case… He seems to have super speed powers. He was trying to run off when he had a speed surge and crashed into a wall." Replied the redhead.

"Hm… I wonder." Raising his gloved hand to stroke his blonde beard in thought, the quickly shook the thought off "Nah, it couldn't be… Move over there, I'll drive us back. You keep the kid calm; it looks like he's taken a liking to you."

As the little toddler slept, he continued to hold his saviors neck tightly like a baby koala bear. He was nuzzled closely into the Flash's crimson chest as he soaked up the warmth of having a human body close to his own. As he looked over the kid, Wally thought there was something familiar about him. He couldn't put his finger on what, but the child bared a resemblance to someone.

Oh well, he was certainly going to have fun explaining to Bruce on why he had a baby in his arms.