Recognize: Kid Flash.
The feeling of hopes being crushed settled into the hearts of the team as the Zetatubes announced Bart Allen's arrival. They hadn't gotten used to the loss of Wally so when they heard his hero name they always believed it would be him running through the halls and into the kitchen. Eager to grab what ever Megan had bought from the store then hoard it back to his room. As always however, they were disappointed by the arrival of the darker haired ginger who usually just crashed on the couch after stealing the remote.
"Bart! Shut this crap off." Artemis snapped as she reached over the boy's lap and tried to grab the device from him only to have her hand swatted away.
"TMNT Is the best show ever! Besides. I didn't get to watch it as a kid. They took it off the air before I was born." Bart shot back.
"For obvious reasons." Robin, who was still in work clothes muttered, earning a soft giggle from everyone present.
recognize: Night Wing.
The feeling of shock soon hung in the room as the black and blue clad male entered the room, only now wearing civis, consisting on his staple blue hoodie, brown jacket and a pair of dark blue skinny jeans. His sunglasses, were now absent from the newly resigned hero.
"Nightwing." Kaldur began, slowly rising from his chair and walking over to the man and extending a hand. "It is nice to see you again. What brings you to the cave?"
"Just a visit." Dick answered. "And I'm Dick. For now at least."
He was quick to remind them all that he had said he'd return.
The older male nodded, then slowly returned to his chair. Dick slowly crossed over to where his brother had been sitting and sat down next to him, slowly pulling the younger close to him. Truth be told, it was Tim who had convinced him to come for a visit. At dinner all the boy ever did was update his family on the happenings at the mountain, always ending the story with a "The old team asks how you're doing Dick." Followed by Dicks answer and then an OK, I'll tell them. They really miss you Dick. They want you to come visit.". Finally one day after hearing Tim's story Dick cut him off before his could ask his question. "They'll see for themselves how I am." Dick said simply, eating his meatloaf. Tim's face lit up and that was the end of that.
"Dick!" Megan cried as she entered the room, hovering over to her friend and wrapping her arms around his neck. "How are you? You look good, and I see you got your hair cut and your taller than when I last saw you."
Her bubbly voice tried to keep the conversation happy, as if the boy had never left. Dick answered with a soft laugh.
"Thanks Megs. And you look great as always." He smiled gently at her then looked around the room. "Conner here?"
"No, Gar and Conner went out to the store. I had a few things I needed them to pick up." She was suddenly cut off by Artemis.
"A few things? More like a boat load of shit." She said, rolling her eyes when the Martian put her hands on her hips.
Another round of laughs erupted from them all when the soft buzz of the Zetatube opening were heard.
"There they are now." Megan said but frowned when the tube did not announce them.
Instead it kept wiring and glowing white, as if confused.
Recongnize: Kid Flash:
Everyone's eyes widened as the white glow soon dimmed, reviling the red-headed speedster, full alive.
"Hey guys."
Everyone's eyes were as wide as saucepans as Wally crossed over into the room, speed walking over to the fridge and pulling out a banana, all while watching his friends eyes.
"Um, whats up?" He shifted uncomfortably under everyone's gaze.
"Y-your alive!" Artemis managed to gasp out in her state of shock.
Wally blinked once or twice then slowly set his food down on the table, looking thoroughly confused. He then walked slowly over to the rest of the group. Slowly, ever so slowly he inched his way awkwardly over to the team, looking as if he were frightened to use his speed at the possibility of shattering his old team like Bruce's good china two summers ago (An incident that when it came to mind he couldn't help but giggle). He suddenly stopped a foot in front of his blonde partner.
"And this is bad?" Wally smirked, his green eyes sparkling.
The blonde archer, or Tigress nowadays stood with her pink lips agape in shock. The speedster smirked and took that moment to steal a kiss from the girl, who let out a surprise gasp when lips actually touched hers. Soft murmurs erupted into the room, all were the same question or at least spanned from the same thought that the original question had come from.
"N-no. B-but how? We all saw you cease!" She whimpered out, trying to keep from crying when Wally smirked again.
"No. Flash saw me 'vanish'." He pointed out. "But as Rob, well, I think he goes by Dick now, remembers, a few summers ago I learned how to vibrate my molecules to separate so I can go through solid objects."
Dick took a step forward, since his name had been brought up he deemed it right to get to insert his two cents.
"Still doesn't explain how you survived." He pointed out.
"All that blast did was separate my parts, so after floating around jumbled up for a few hours I was able to put myself back together." Wally said in a cheerful tone, instantly silencing any further questions Dick had in mind.
Wally cept up his smile but soon stopped when it was wiped from his face by and now fire-headed girl.
"YOU IDIOT! WHY DIDN'T YOU COME STRAIGHT HOME WHEN YOU PUT YOURSELF BACK TOGETHER!? WE THOUGHT YOU DIED! YOU WERE GONE FOR FIVE MONTHS! WE WERE WORRIED SICK ABOUT YOU! WHY DIDN'T YOU CALL!?" Artemis shot out, heavily enforcing the 'should've called bit'.
"Jeez Flash, calm down." The ginger answered, rolling his eyes as he thought of the teams first mission when his uncle had said the same thing. "I'm sorry for not calling but I ended up all the way in the UK, so the cellphone I left at home would've been out of range and apparently no one can lend 'Kid Flash' a nickle to call home."
Robin, who had taken off his mask to get a better look at the male claiming to be Wally so at this point without the mask he was dubbed Tim, had taken a step forward.
"Super speed?" Tim pointed out why the speedster hadn't just ran home.
"Dude, do you know how badly it hurts to be jumbled up, tossed around for like five hours and hit the concrete going seventy miles per hour?" Wally asked folding his arms. "Kinda hurts like a bitch to run, that an I think that shot did something to my powers, I could only run like ten miles per hour when I had tried to make if passed the pain."
Like his brother, Tim had been silenced from anymore questions. Megan was the next to speak up, or rather act up, by running at a faster pace to her friend and throwing her arms around his neck, tears poured down her eyes like a waterfall as her sobs cut her off from speaking.
"Ow, um good to see you to Megs." Wally grunted out, trying to pry the girl off of him before she accidentally strangled him back to death.
An unsettling silence suddenly fell over the group, except for Megan's sobs of happiness which had now been stifled to quiet cries. In trying to ease the atmosphere, the red-head turned to the oldest member of the group, Kaldur, and smiled brightly.
"Haven't seen you in the old uniform in, God knows how long Kal. It suits you better, but the hair-cut. Not so much." Only thing that was thought of to say.
Kaldur's lips twitched a bit upwards in the faintest form of a smile he could muster at the comment. Realizing this conversation was going nowhere the original Kidflash tried to start a different one with the girl glued to his shoulder.
"So Megs, wheres Conner at?" He asked softly.
Megan, who was finally able to compose herself, wiping away her tears and fixing her hair. She cleared her throat and thought back to a few hours earlier when the man in question had first left the cave.
"H-he and Gar went to the store. To pick up some stuff for dinner. It was only a few things so they should be back soon." She said nodding to confirm her answer.
At that moment, as if on que the Zetatubes whirred to life.
Recongnize, Superboy. Recongnize, Beast boy.
It beeped, one after the other as the males soon came into view. Like the other had been seconds before, both stopped and stood frozen in shock at the sight of their fallen teammate, alive, in their living room. In a cartoonish fashion, both dropped whatever they had held, which lucky didn't hit the floor because of Megan's mind lock on it.
"You almost broke the eggs." She muttered, making the bags float over to the counter and place themselves down.
Ignoring her, Gar quickly approached the boy and slapped his arm.
"He really is alive!" The green-teen said with a laugh as he then found the non-ghost no longer amusing and instead found interest in the TMNT show that everyone except the kids seemingly forgot about.
Wally smirked and walked over to Conner, patted his shoulder then proceeded to walk down the hall.
"Well, if anyone needs me. Or when dinner is ready. I'll be in my old room. Its tiring walking from the UK to here you know?" He sighed heavily through his nose and went to where his old room was located.
In everyone's hopes of him returning to the team one day, he was glad to find the old room the same as when he had left it and the bed made with still clean sheets. Tossing himself down on the bed face first he fell instantly to sleep, not noticing the glare Conner had shot him.