Sick Day

March 16th-2:30pm, Eastern Time…

"Ok, this is not exactly how I wanted to spend a Friday afternoon." Said Kid Flash.

"Me either but, hey, we gotta do what we gotta do." Flash agreed.

"Yeah," Wally sighed.

It was raining heavily in Central City, having spent almost two hours tracking down Tommy and Tuppence, both Barry and Wally were soaked.

"Watch out!"

He and Flash darted out of the way, barely missing the Terror Twins.

"Ya'll might as well give up, ain't no way you can catch us." He said.

"Uh, Tommy…" Tuppence said nervously, tapping her brother on the shoulder.

"What?" Tommy asked.

Tuppence then pointed at a red and yellow blur coming towards them.

"Oh…snap." Said Tommy when he saw Kid Flash and Flash coming closer.

Moments later…

"Kid Flash! Ya might think you're all that and a bag of chips, but you ain't!" Tommy shouted.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah whatever…" Kid Flash said in a dull tone.

As he and his sister were being taken away by Flash, Tommy sneezed.

"Ugh! Say it, don't spray it!" Kid Flash exclaimed.

Later that day…

"Hey guys, you won't believe the weather… it's really coming down in Central City." Said Kid Flash as he entered the Hall of Justice. His costume was still soaked from the rain.

"Wally, I just mopped!" Artemis exclaimed.

Wally looked down at the floor and saw the tracks he left behind.

"Sorry, I'll get it up." He offered.

Just then he let out a loud sneeze.

"After I change."

He quickly ran off to the locker room and changed into a spare costume.

"Ok, all dry." He announced.

Grabbing some paper towels from the utility closet he cleaned up the tracks on the floor.

"See? It's all good." Said Wally, before he sneezed again.

"I think I might've been out in the rain too long, I'm not feelin' too good."

Artemis got up from her seat and placed her hand on Wally's forehead.

"I think you better go home, you feel kind of warm." She said.

"Good idea." Kid Flash agreed.

He felt a sneeze coming on and paused.

"It's ok, false alarm."

"Oh good," Artemis sighed.

Just as she started to relax, Wally sneezed but managed to cover it with his sleeve.

"Sorry, I'll see you later guys." Said Wally before he left and headed home.

"At least he covered," Artemis pointed out.

"Yeah, half the kids at school are out sick." Robin added.

"I don't need to catch this," said Artemis.

2 days later…

March 18th- 3:15 pm, Eastern Time

"Ok, how did I catch this?" she asked herself.

She was looking at herself in the mirror. That morning Artemis woke up with a sore throat. She didn't think much of it until later in the day when she started coughing.

"Hey Artemis… whoa! What happened?" Robin asked as he entered the lounge at the Hall of Justice.

"Wally happened, I caught his cold." Artemis answered.

"Yikes," said Robin.

"Look, I'm goin' home so tell Green Arrow I'll have to take a rain check on that stakeout tonight." Artemis explained.

Earlier that week she and Green Arrow had been following a lead on some illegal imported diamonds and had planned a stake out.

"Sure thing," said Robin.

"I don't understand how come I got it and you didn't?" she asked as she sat down.

"Strong immune system… I was in the circus and around people who had the flu and bronchitis, sure I caught it once or twice but now I'm pretty much immune to it." Robin explained.

"Uh-huh, sure, Richard." Said Artemis.

"I'm serious, nothing can keep me down and I mean nothing!" Robin insisted.

The next day…

"Except for a fever…" he said to himself.

Leaning over to the left side of his bed, he pressed the intercom button on the wall.

"Alfred, can I get a glass of orange juice?"

Richard sighed and looked up at the ceiling.

"Why me?" he asked himself.

Later that day…

Artemis groaned when she heard her cellphone ring.

"Hello?"

"Hey there." The person on the other end greeted her.

"Batman?" Artemis asked.

"No, it's me, Richard… I've been running a fever and now my throat's messed up. I think I caught your cold." Richard explained.

"Oh, sorry…" said Artemis.

"Guess my immune system wasn't as strong as I thought…" Richard admitted before he started coughing.

"I'm gonna get to the bottom of this, I'll talk to later."

"'Kay, hope you feel better." Artemis replied before hanging up the phone.

She then let out a loud sneeze.

"Mom, can I have some soup, please?" she called.

Meanwhile in Central City…

2:15pm-Eastern Time

"This bites…" Wally muttered.

Just then his phone rang.

"Now who would call me on a day like this?" he wondered.

"Hello? Oh hey, Dick… uh-huh, you got it too, huh?"

"Yeah, I sure did… say Wally how'd you get sick anyway?" Richard asked.

"Not sure, all I know is Tommy Terror sneezed on my costume then I started feeling bad." Wally answered.

"That's it!" Richard exclaimed.

"Ok that explains a lot…" said Wally.

"I'll talk to you later…" Richard continued.

"All right, bye." Said Wally before he hung up the phone.

He sniffled and grabbed a tissue off his nightstand.

"Well that's just great, I'm out of Kleenex."

Later…

"So, let me get this straight Wally got his cold from Tommy Terror?" Artemis asked over the phone.

"Sure did, then… well, you know what happened." Richard answered.

"Yeah, I got it and now you do too." Said Artemis.

"Well, we're all in it together…" Richard pointed out.

"That's true," Artemis agreed.

"I wonder if anybody else besides us is sick?" Richard wondered.

Meanwhile, at Lexcorp…

Lex Luthor looked out the window of his office at the city. After a moment he went back to his desk to finish organizing the documents on his desk. Many of them were from Star labs for a project he had been working on. Just as he was about to put his signature on the last sheet of paper, he sneezed, scattering the papers different directions.

"Great, it took me half an hour to sort through those…" he muttered.

Lex sneezed again, followed by a cough.

Picking up the phone he pressed two on the speed dial.

"Mercy, cancel that press conference with Cat Grant I think I'm coming down with something." Said Lex before he hung up.

"This… is the worst moment... of my life."