AN: This is BatWingteenavenger's request! If you haven't read any of this person's stories, I seriously suggest you check them out!
Background: it's set in my own universe which is a mix between YJ and the pre New 52 universe. Wally is Flash because Barry retired, Bart is KF, Tim is Robin and Dick is Nightwing.
Also please note that all that I know about Clock King is what I saw in an episode of The Batman but he won't be in this much so yeah… On to the story!
Stuck in Time
"What is it?" Flash asked, holding up a device that closely resembled a stopwatch in one of the labs on the Watchtower.
Nightwing shrugged, "No clue, that's why I called you, I was hoping you could figure it out."
"What made you think I would be able to figure it out?"
"The Clock King mentioned something about it making him as fast as Flash." Robin supplied as he rubbed at a sore spot on his shoulder.
Robin and Nightwing had been patrolling Gotham together while Batman was tending to business at the Watchtower when they had run across the Clock King who had just come out of a watch store that he had broken in to. They had taken him out quickly enough but Robin was sure that the king must have rewound time at least once or twice because he couldn't remember being hit on his shoulder at all that night. Nightwing had knocked Clock King out just as he was busy gloating to Robin about how he would soon be as fast as the Flash, unfortunately Nightwing knocked him out before he could explain how the stopwatch could to that.
"Why would the Clock King want to be as fast as me?" Flash asked as he examined the gadget more closely, "And how the heck would a stopwatch make him that fast?"
"Beats me." Nightwing answered
Robin was about to add something else but was interrupted by a sudden woosh of air and an energetic voice that he could barely understand
"HeyNightwingRobin,Wall-man!Longtimenosee!What'reyouguysdoing?What'sthat?Astopwatch? What does this button do?"
They all heard the last sentence loud and clear as Kid Flash snatched the stopwatch gadget thing out of Flash's hands and hit the big button on it
"NO!" three voices rang out as three different hands reached out to stop him, but it was too late.
There was a blinding flash of light and then… nothing.
"Ahw nothing happened. That's so mode." Kid Flash complained as he handed the device back to Flash
"Dude, nothing happening is crash, not mode." Robin said, "And besides, what did you think was going to happen?"
"I dunno," Kid Flash answered with a shrug, "The way Flash was just examining it I figured it would at least do something."
Nightwing shook his head, "Clock King claimed that that stopwatch would make him as fast as Flash. What if it slowed you down?"
Kid Flash went very pale very quickly before disappearing, leaving only another gust of wind in his wake
"Well I guess it didn't slow him down." Robin said
"Yeah so what-" Flash was cut off with the reappearance of Kid Flash
"Uh guys? Did you know that nobody else on the Watchtower is moving? It's kinda like somebody hit the pause button" Bart said nervously with a thumb pointing over his shoulder toward the lab door.
"What?" Nightwing asked in a voice that sounded calm to Kid Flash, but Robin and Flash knew it was actually his 'You better hope I just heard you wrong' voice.
"You guys should probably come check it out…"
In the main room of the Watchtower Batman was in the middle of discussing something with Martian Manhunter while Superman seemed to be explaining something to Green Lantern and Wonder Woman was laughing at a joke that Green Arrow had obviously just told… and they were all frozen in those positions.
The four heroes that were still able to move stared at the frozen ones in shock for a few minutes.
"Oh I think I get it!" Robin suddenly exclaimed
"Get what?" Kid Flash asked
"I think the Clock King's device actually slowed down time! That's why he said he would be as fast as Flash, because his device slows everyone and everything around it down so his normal speed would be like Flash speed for those effected." Robin explained
"So they're not actually frozen, they're just moving in super slow-mo." Nightwing said
"If I'm right, then yes."
"So what do we do?" Kid Flash asked
"We hit the button on the stopwatch again and see if it reverses the effects." Flash answered with a shrug as he turned on his heel and headed back in the direction of the lab.
"Wait, what if that just slows them down further?" Nightwing called.
"Then we plenty of time to figure out how to fix this." Flash answered as he reappeared a few seconds later, freaky stopwatch in hand.
Nightwing sighed and ran his hand through his hair, "All right, do it."
Flash took a deep breath before hitting the button.
Nothing happened. Not even a blinding flash of light this time.
Flash groaned, "Bart! You broke it!"
"I did not!" Kid Flash immediately defended himself
"If you hadn't pushed the damn -"
"Okay we can play the blame game later." Nightwing cut Flash off, "First let's figure out a way to fix this."
Flash huffed and stalked back to the lab with Nightwing on his heels.
Robin was just about to follow after them when he heard Kid Flash gasp
"Robin! Do you know what this means?" Kid Flash asked him, grabbing him by the shoulders and looking at him with a deadly serious expression on his face.
"You mean besides the fact that the Justice League is moving in super slow-mo and we don't exactly have a way to fix that?" Robin asked a little sarcastically, Flash wasn't the only one annoyed with Kid Flash at the moment
"No…" Kid Flash said as a mischievous glint that immediately made Robin nervous flashed into his eyes, "It means that we have unlimited time to pull pranks on the Justice League!"
AN: this story gets funny from the next chapter onwards!
