AN: This is my first fanfiction on this account, so any support is great. Other than this, I have been Co-writing Young Justice Season Three: Uprising with Softballplayer363 and we will have chapter four of that out to you soon, or so we hope.

Disclaimer: I don't own Young Justice or anything famous, except my pet rock.

Run…Escape…Run…

Those few words were the only words that Wally was able to mutter to himself the whole time that he was trapped in the speed force. While his mind wasn't able to form many words, it was always racing and lingered on one thing… one person that would keep him sane… his Artemis, and the only goal that his scrambled brain could muster was to return to her. While it was true that his mind was in pieces, he knew one thing… and that was if he could only just keep running, then he could escape and make it back to her; unfortunately the longer he was trapped into the speed force, the more it hurt.

The energy of the speed force was still attacking his body, and was slowly beating it to a pulp. His head throbbed, arms burned, and his legs ached as he continued his horrible trek into nothingness. Just as he had decided to give into the energy, an opening in the speed force had somehow appeared. Mustering every last bit of his possible energy, he threw himself through the opening and landed on the ice, his body sizzling. Laying face first, he sighed in relief as the ice provided at least a little comfort to his overheated body. Once the sizzling had come to a stop, he slowly managed to get into a sitting position. The starving and exhausted speedster, took in his surroundings and he realized that he was where it happened…but something had changed, for no longer did the reach boom tube occupy the spot in which he sat. Shrugging it off, he wobbly got to his feet before limping his way to civilization, almost 50 miles from the spot in which he had started. Upon entering the only gas station in the almost abandon town, Wally was shocked by the many looks of disgust and fright that were sent his way, and he even overheard a scared little girl ask her father,

"Daddy is that man a Zombie?"

-I can't look that bad…can I? - Wally asked himself as he walked towards the men's restroom. Making his way straight towards the mirror he jumped and almost fainted at the sight of himself.

"I guess it's the Wally dead know," he joked to himself as he looked his appearance over.

No longer did he look like the Wall-man, for the whole left side of his mask was gone and replaced with a third degree burn, he hadn't exactly noticed it before…but no longer did he have shoes for his feet were burned a charcoal black. His costume barely hung to his frame, for it was in rips and pieces and exposed varies other bruises and burns that covered his body.

"Artemis…is going to kill me" he muttered hoarsely to himself as he started to carefully wipe off some of the dried blood from his face.

After attempting to clean himself up, somewhat, he ventured back out into the store where he scared the daylights out of even more random people. Limping over to the counter, he let out a sigh.

"Do you have a phone that I can use?" he asked as he kept his "good side" towards the employee.

"Y…yes" the man replied fearfully as one of his shaking hands held out a cell phone to Wally.

Taking the phone, the speedster dialed a number that everyone on the team had to memorize, Dick's emergency number, as he listened to the dial tone, he prayed that his best friend would pick up but it was not meant to be. Cursing under his breath as he heard the beginning of the voice mail box, Wally decided to leave a message.

"Hey…its Wally…Wally West…Yeah I'm back now, so it would be nice if you could come pick me up." He said into the phone and hung up angrily as he started to get even stranger looks from some of the costumers.

"What?" He asked in a growl of annoyance because of all of the looks that were being sent his way, when suddenly a girl in a Flash t-shirt stepped up to him.

"You said your name was Wally…? Wally West?" She asked in confusion as she look at his tattered costume.

"Yes! My name is WALLY WEST! And I am KID FLASH!" Wally announced to the whole gas station population, getting agitated over the whole situation.

"That…That can't be possible…" The girl who was in her late teens said, "The Original Kid Flash died 5 years ago."

Upon hearing those words, the speedster dropped the phone and sunk to his knees in disbelief.

"5…5 years…?" He asked in complete disbelief as he stared at the ground.

"No…no can't be possible…I disappeared only yesterday" he said as he closed his eyes tightly wishing that this was just a nightmare and that he would wake up with Artemis in his arms, but upon opening his eyes…realization settled upon him that this was not some façade from his imagination but was indeed real life.

"I'm afraid it's true…its 2021…I am truly sorry" she said softly before leaving his side only for a moment and returning with a deli sandwich.

"Here," she said as she handed it to him," go to her…" she said softly before slipping out of the door.

Wally felt as if he had failed…he had left Artemis in pain for 5 years…how could he possibly confront her now? Now that it has been 5 years, half of him hoped that she had forgotten about him and had a nice family of her own know. Choking back tears he got to his feet and gave the employee back his phone before eating the sandwich that the strange girl had given him. With even that little amount of fuel in his body, he would be able to just make it to Mount Justice. Running out the door, he sprinted to the place that had served as his second home for all of those years, in just a few minutes he made it to the spot where it used to occupy. Looking around at the nice little park that occupied the area, he let out a cry of despair as he remember that had be destroyed along with himself, or so it seemed. Taking a moment to remember all of the good times that he had with the team, he turned on his heels and sprinted towards Gotham, knowing full well that if this plan didn't work then he was as good as dead. As soon as he saw the familiar surroundings of Gotham, he made straight for Artemis's old apartment. Upon arriving there, he was overjoyed when Paula opened the door only to see Wally leaning against the railing to support himself for he knew that he would crash any moment now.

"Hi…it's been a long time… and I promise to explain everything later." He said quickly as he pushed past her and laid down on the couch, moaning in pain.

Suddenly he heard a voice from the kitchen, "Mom what was that?" The voiced asked as she walked out of the kitchen and gasped at the sight of the half dead speedster that occupied her mother's sofa.

Much to Wally's disappointment it wasn't Artemis…It was Jade.

"You can kill me later" Wally half joked as he closed his eyes and wanted nothing more than for sleep to claim him.

"While that is very tempting, I'm not going to make my sister attend your funeral twice," She muttered as Roy walked in with a now 6 year old Lian.

"Mommy…who is that..?" asked a fearful Lian as she look at Wally in his current condition.

"That's your uncle Wally" Roy replied quickly as Jade shot him a look.

"I'll take care of things form here," Roy said as he carefully picked up Wally and carried him out of the apartment.

Running as fast as his normal human legs could possibly go, Roy made for the nearest Zeta Tube. Stepping out of the Zeta Tube, now in the Watch Tower, he was greeted cheerfully but the greetings were cut short at the gruesome site of the speedster that lay in the archer's arms. Roy rushed Wally to the infirmary where he was put onto the table only to be surrounded by senior members(Batman, Black Canary, etc..), hooked up to IVS are prepped for surgery.

END NOTE: Surgery huh? Oh no poor Wall-man! Please review any criticism welcomed and appreciated. Will update in the next few days.

Until then stay whelmed,

-MOONTRANCE6