In sneaked Wally as he tried to get to his room before the others would notice. He just barely got into the living room when a light was turned on, almost blinding him. His 'uncle' was standing there by the door as he glared at him.

"Wallace West Snart!"

He was caught. And his full name was used. Which was bad no matter how it was said.

"Hey, Uncle Lennnnnnnnnnnn…"

"Don't you dare Uncle Len, me!" Len shouted as he stood there by the light switch, "It's almost midnight and you're two hou-"

"Hours late because my curfew is at ten," he interrupted as Len gave him his signature cold stare, "What?"

"Don't try to give me that innocent act," Len continued as Wally took the cape off and flung it onto the couch, "You know that you're not allowed out past ten for a reason. I don't want to see you get mugged or arrested because you're out in the middle of the night."

"Oh, yeah," Wally stated sarcastically as he rolled his eyes, "Wearing a cape over your head definitely makes you a target for muggers and police officers."

"Wally…" The man gave the boy a warning glare before his visage softened, "I was going to ground you, but I want to know why you were this late since you usually are only a few minutes late."

So he told the adult what had happened in his evening from hanging out with Hartley and James to when he met the Flash.(he's not going to tell Len that Flash is his uncle)

"Kid," the man stood directly in front of the redhead, "I'm glad you ran into Flasher. Sam, Digger, and I have been talking today, and we thought it would be best if you joined a superhero group your age."

"Wait…" The speedster's eyes widened almost comically until they were the size of a small plate, "What? Why?"

"Kid, you know that you need to be around other kids your age who can do what you can do." The man gazed at the boy sympathetically as he made the redhead sit on the couch with him. "You need to learn how a superhero works and us Rogues can't do that because we're...well, villains. We don't work the way they do, either."

Wally was about ready to open his mouth to speak when Len held his hand up so that he simply closed his mouth, "Kid, you need to learn skills that we can't teach you like working in a team. I won't mind if you come back and want to be a villain. But we both know that you want to become a hero, so this is your shot. What are you always saying to us?"

"Never leave home without food…" Wally trailed off uncertainly as his head tipped to the side.

"No," Len gave him a 'really?' look before continuing, "What do you always tell us when we are hesitant about trying something that we don't think will work?"

"Oh," Wally stared at the floor before looking up, "Always give it a try. But I already know a lot of stuff so why do I have to go? I know how to pick a lock, hack a computer,(not as well as Robin or Batman though) build simple devices, and stuff like that…"

"Wally," The brunette demanded as he forced his 'nephew' to look at him, "You have learned a lot from us. But you'll probably enjoy it once you get there. And you, sadly, need the interaction with others. You can't just talk to us."

"But isn't that going to get me caught?" Wally asked after he got enough time to wrap the idea around his head, "Last time I checked, going right in the middle of 'enemy territory' isn't such a great idea."

Len laughed slightly as he heard the kid call the heroes his enemy. Wally just gave him a pouty face before smirking along with the man.

"It usually is. I still remember that one time that you tripped while super speeding and landed right between two villains who were ready to attack each other." Len smiled as Wally's face grew red before becoming serious again, "You'll come back every night, Wally."

"Okay," the speedster dropped his head so his hair hide his face, "But how do we keep my identity a secret? And how am I going to get let onto the team? Batman literally checks everything about a person before he even meets them."

"Hey, Kid, you're talking to Captain Cold here!" Len pointed his thumbs at himself, "I'll figure something out. I might not be considered a scary, bad villain, but I am smart enough to get stuff like this to work."

Silence reigned through the living room before Len leaned in to whisper to Wally, "Don't tell anyone that I know this(learned it from Sam; he sometimes looks through mirrors at the wrong time) but Bats makes Robin keep his true identity a secret. Says that it'll get them in more trouble or something if anyone knew. It's a smart idea to hide your eyes. But if we do that though, we are not letting you wear sunglasses all the time. It'll damage your eyes!"

Wally rolled his eyes at his 'uncle's' protectiveness. The man(and all the Rogues) was always ready to start a war to protect him. He kind of liked that they cared so much about him…

"Cool," Wally leaned back as he gazed over at Len, "But what's my backstory gonna be? I can't just tell them, 'I'm Wally West, the kid who is supposed to be dead after five years.' It kind of ruins the purpose of a secret identity."

"We'll figure out something," the adult reassured him, "But we're not using the excuse that you're Flasher's nephew."

Len never quite noticed that Wally's eyes widened slightly in surprise of what he had said. The villain just kept talking, mostly to himself, "I mean, Green Arrow's 'niece' is using that, and she is on the team so…"

"Uncle Len?"

"Yes?"

"What about a suit?" Wally asked innocently.

"You'll probably get one from them," Len stated as he stood up and Wally joined him, "We can modify it later."

With that, he draped his arm around Wally as they both left the living room to go to their bedrooms. When they got to Wally's room, they went in. Sitting onto the bed after the speedster had changed into his night clothes, Len began, "You'll be fine, Kid. We'll get you onto the team somehow. You know how I can usually get my way."

"Except when it comes to dealing with Flash." Wally smirked as his 'uncle' smiled back while gently pushing him on the bed.

"Yes, Flasher can be a bit tricky," he covered the boy, who yawned tiredly, with a blanket before he got a reply of, "Uncle Len! I'm fifteen. I can tuck myself in…"

"Well," he ruffled Wally's hair and got a humf from him before he got up to shut the light off, "I am family. And you should be used to it."

"Good night, Uncle L…" the redhead trailed off as sleep claimed him.

"Good night, Wally."

The lights went off as the door was left open, and he left to go to sleep in his own room. Before he left Wally's room, he muttered something under his breath as he continued on his way, "No one's going to hurt you, Kid. Never again. I'll make sure of it...even if I have to kill to do it!"

NEXT DAY

"Make sure you eat some of your energy bars before you leave," Digger shouted out as the kid sped out of the apartment, "Bloody hell. How do we even deal with the ankle-biter?"

"Did he just run out of here without-"

"Yes," Digger interrupted Sam, who shrugged his shoulders before grabbing some breakfast.

"He'll be fine." Another voice joined them.

"Len," the two just nodded their heads as they went back to eating. Len raised an eyebrow before grabbing himself some food to eat. He then sat at the table with the others.

"So…" Sam questioned after a moment of silence, "What are you doing today?"

"Actually," Len smirked as the two glanced at each other, "We're all going to be doing something."

"What?" The Aussie asked.

"We're thinking of a way to get Kid onto that Young Justice team."

"He agreed," Sam concluded after a few minutes of them eating.

"Yes, he did." Len stated as he finished his meal, "Kid's going to talk to Flasher while we figure some way to get him on the team."

"You know that Batman checks everyone." Digger stated flatly as he sat there messing with one of his boomerangs, "How are we getting it by him without revealing who Kid is?"

"Well," Len leaned onto the table, "Here's my plan…"

Meanwhile with Wally

He was currently racing up, down, and across the city. He wasn't completely sure where to find his uncle at so he tried the most logical area, yet not places he knew the hero would be like his house or CCPD. When nothing came up, he huffed in frustration before he zipped to the slum part of town.

Yeah, Central City was such a peaceful city and nothing terribly bad happened on a daily basis like it did in Bludhaven or Gotham City. Most parts of the city were safe to walk around in the middle of the night, but like any urban area, it also had a slum area. Most people, even villains, thought that just because the city was so sunny and the people were just about the nicest a person could run across, that it had zero crimes. But only a Central City native could really understand that was completely wrong.

Many illegal things went down in the dirty streets of the slums in the city. Although few people ever died from activities in the area, other worse things happened. There were a lot of dangerous drugs, the type that was definitely more intoxicating than some other drugs like cocaine, that were sold. If you needed a illegal chemical to use in some experiment that you might be doing or whatnot, this was the place to find it. Many people were beaten in this part of town just for being within a certain distance of the slums.

And if the Flash ever needed to be found, it might involve this part of town.

So that's when Wally came across a crime scene that was on the edge of the no-go zone. Yellow tape was up in the street in a parking lot. Officers swarmed in and out of the scene as they secured the area for investigation. Wally moved stealthily closer to the crime scene, and no one saw him as he slipped by them. Turning to a dark corner so he wouldn't be seen, he observed the scene at superspeed.

A man stood off to the side while talking to one of the officers. He was acting like he was in charge of the whole thing, so he must have been the captain of the CCPD. Most of the officers were gradually moving away from one spot so that must have been where the body was. The captain started demanding to know where Wally's uncle was, so the redhead figured out that his uncle must still be frequently late. It made him smile a bit.

Out of the periphery of his vision, Wally saw a blur as wind picked up some random trash and it was thrown around in the air. His uncle was finally here...

Barry rushed out onto the field and the captain yelled at him to get started. The forensic scientist did his thing and was done in a good ten minutes. Wally thought out his plan on how to get his attention without throwing it out there that he knew the man's identity...that would be hard to explain to him.

Wally ran through the whole crime scene without being seen except by Barry, who happened to see a flash of deep red leave from into an alleyway. He quickly left with the excuse of running the evidence into the lab, and took off after the boy.

"Flash," Wally greeted him as Barry had somehow changed into his hero outfit before confronting the hooded kid.

"Hey, kiddo," Flash stayed a few feet away, "What do you need? I know I said that you could find me at any time, but I wasn't expecting you call on me this soon."

"Um…" Wally trailed off before he sighed anxiously, "This is going to be hard to explain."

"What is going to be hard to explain?" The red-clad hero questioned as he moved slightly closer to the other speedster.

"IwanttobecomeasuperheroebecauseIwanttosavepeoplebutIcan'tsinceIdon'thavethesuppliesorthestuffthatheroesneedtobeabletobetobecomeahero…" Wally supersped as he got it all off of his chest. Flash just stared at him until he knelt by the younger's side.

"Whoa," Flash suddenly cut off the rambling teenager, "Calm down. Slow down! Breathe!"

Wally calmed down enough for the other to pat his back before Flash continued, "Better. Now why can't you be a hero? And don't give me anything about supplies or stuff like that."

After a long breath in, Wally began to speak again, "Well, I want to be a hero but I don't know how."

"Kiddo," Flash attempted to reassure the doubtful speedster, "You do know how. I've only seen you out there once, and I know that you are a hero."

"How do you know?"

"Yesterday, you had three options," his uncle explained when Wally gave him a blank look. "You could have left the situation to the police and me."

"But people could have gotten injured…"

"Exactly," he listed off the next one, "Once you were inside, you could have taken the criminals out."

"But a kid just had gotten shot…"

"Yeah," he stated before telling his last thing on his invisible list, "But you decided that the kid was the one who needed to be dealt with first."

"Well, yeah," Wally rolled his eyes before staring at the man, "I couldn't stand by and let innocent people get hurt. I couldn't let that boy get killed over something that he had no control over."

"And that's what a hero does!" The scarlet hero answered back to him as he smirked, "A hero tries to save anyone that they can. Being a hero isn't about being stronger than your opponent or whether you get all of your bad guys. It's about being strong enough to see that one decision is the one that needs to be made in order to save others. And that's what you did."

Wally blushed slightly as he looked down at the ground as Flash continued, "So I know that you're a hero, kiddo. So we're going to get you to become a superhero."

"But…" Wally trailed off uncertainly as he raised any eyebrow, "Why do you trust me already? Aren't you worried that I'm a bad guy or something?"

"Well, I'll admit," his uncle gave in as his expression softened some, "I didn't completely trust you last night, but I can tell that you are an okay kid...So why can't I give you a chance to be a hero?"

"What about…"

"If you mean passing it through the others,(cough Batman cough) I'll get it through somehow." Flash smiled he saw the kid relax a tiny bit, "And you don't have to tell us who you are yet. Let's just take it one step at a time. So do you have any name choices? I don't think you want me to pick your name for you..."

"Awesome," the redhead shook with happiness before entering a pondering pose.

"So...Baby Flasher?"

"Yeah," James shouted with ecstasy as I stared at him in complete confusion, "You're our baby, and you love Flasher."

"I know," Wally stated as he was pulled out of his thoughts to see that his uncle was curious, "I'm want to be called Kid Flash."

Flash dramatically acted as if he were thinking about the pros and cons of the name before he let out a laugh as he dropped his hand on Wally's shoulder, "Sure. At least I'll be able to see something on you other than a hooded face. Now why don't we get you on the team?"

With that, they both raced away as the Flash led him to a Zeta-beam…

They were going to get the speedster onto the team.

THANKS SO MUCH! I LOVE how everyone keeps giving me reviews and favorites and follows! I was planning on just having the next chapter be when he meets the whole team, but should I do the meeting on how the Justice League decide to let him on the team? I mean, it can't be all that hard since Artemis is on the team and they know about her background(family).

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