This was born while I was reading fan feedback a website . Someone wondered:
Prompt: So, how did Kid Flash and Artemis even get to that shack in the middle of the desert?

Time: Takes place during Bereft.

Young Justice: Desert Maze

Kid Flash and Artemis: Burning Heat

He woke up to sunlight and burning sand. His face was half in the sand. He groaned and rolled over; moaning as the sunlight burned more brightly into his eyes. What he wouldn't give for those mask lenses right now...wait.

Sand? Beach?

He shot up but was instantly A; disappointed and B: in pain. There was miles of sand and a killer headache just decided to announce itself, throbbing through his skull and ringing in his head. Pinpricks of light danced in his eyes.

He rubbed his eyes and pulled his goggles down, breathing a sigh of relief as the light from the burning sun dimmed. Wait...he looked down. He was in his uniform-why was this black? No wonder he was burning up.

Slowly, slowly he stood. He noticed he was standing at the foot of a sand dune. Cramps were just beginning to throb, the heat seeping through his uniform. He stretched, reaching to his toes, trying to get his muscles warmed up.

Clearly this was a desert. These thoughts ran through his mind as he went through those warm-up stretches Flash had taught him.

Warm up when you can; unless you want your muscles to shred in mid-run.

A desert with lots of sand, lots of burning, killer sun and no people in sight. Where was Flash? Where was everyone? Where was this? The Sahara?

Kid Flash sighed and started doing those yoga poses Flash had drilled into his head, trying to calm his mind down.

When you find yourself in a fix, stay focused!

Wait, what was that? He paused in bridge and craned his back to look again just to make sure he wasn't seeing a mirage or something. Was that...blonde hair? But it was draped across the top of a sand dune...

He fell; his hands slipped from under him and he collapsed right into the sand.

He rolled to his feet and jogged to the top of the dune-he didn't think he could run yet after laying out in the burning sun for god knew how long.

The hair (or whoever was attached to it) definitely wasn't moving. Kid Flash approached it cautiously, reached the top, bent down and tugged the hair. Nothing happened, unless you count the faint moan.

He crawled up a bit farther and found himself looking into the face of a girl with blonde hair, dressed in green sprawled almost facedown in the sand with a bow lying inches from her outstretched hand.

Well, it's not doing her any good suffocating in the sand. he thought, carefully turning her over and clearing the sand off her face with his glove, getting the grit away from her eyes and mouth.

Wow...she's really pretty. He shook his head. Focus! He pressed a hand to her pulse and was relieved that it was still going and faint breath escaped from her.

"Good, she's still alive. But how did we get out here in the first place?" He looked up, scanning the horizon. I need to get her under cover...passing out in this temperature can't be good.

He paused, spotting a distant blot.

"That looks like a shack. Maybe someone lives there..." He looked down at the girl in the sand and up at the sky. We need to get out of this heat and the faster the better. He hooked her bow over the arrow shafts on her back and scooped her up bridal style, wobbling slightly.

Collapse when you get to that shack. He directed himself silently. And not before! After taking another glance around, Kid Flash took a breath and took off down the dune and across the sand plains, a black blur across the sand.

I had a block on this for the longest time but now it's finished! \o/

I imagine that after getting to the shack Kid Flash sets her down and takes a cat-nap until she wakes up then wakes up a few minutes before she does. I decided to end it here though instead of letting it drag on.

And yay! The newest episode should be coming out this Friday! (so i heard but now i'm not so sure...*sigh* I hope it is.)

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