AN: Hola! So, it's been a few weeks huh? I guess I've got to update this huh? Well, I just did! Do know this comes from real life experience and research, so no disclaiming this. It has happened to at least one person on this planet. Sorry, but I don't have a Beta for this chapter.

Disclaimer: I do not own Young Justice.


The ride back to the mountain extremely uncomfortable for Wally. After Aqualad electrocuted the henchman, Wally had snapped out of his panic. He sat up slowly while staring at his best friend. Now all his teammates were keeping a close eye on him. Out of all of their glares, Robin's was the worst. If looks could kill, Robin would've killed him right there. Wally figured Robin had learned that move from Batman.

Wally sat in awkward silence as his teammate's watchful eyes followed him. He hoped they would get bored at some point and look away, but that didn't happen. Their icy stares continued to haunt his eyes, even when they weren't directly on him.

M'gann tried to break the ice. "I heard that Captain Marvel might be visiting sometime soon. Billy has been begging Batman to look after us again, and when that failed he begged Black Canary to come. She caved!" When she got no reaction she tried something else. "Zantanna might be visiting soon too!"

Robin perked up at this. "Her dad is letting her come?"

M'gann shook her head. "Of course not, Robin." He frowned. "She's going to try to sneak in!"

Artemis rolled her eyes. "Give it up Robin. No way can a magician in training sneak into a place practically guarded by Batman himself."

Wally looked at Robin. He knew his friend had a crush on the young magician. It was pretty obvious by the way he acted around her. Dick didn't seem to notice that the whole team could tell he liked her. His flirting was beyond obvious. Wally was pretty sure the whole world knew by now, so much for being the boy wonder.

"We'll be at the mountain in ten minutes." M'gann informed them as the mountain came into view. Wally could see the beach that was right outside their HQ, and he could also see a red blur. 'Too late for me to run now,' Wally thought. 'Maybe he thought I was in the mountain the whole time?'

The bioship dipped down toward the hanger. Wally gripped the seat as they descended toward the opening in the mountain. Wally bit down on his lip, an old habit he thought he'd stopped, and felt the blood came out. His anxiety started to form in his chest again; Uncle Barry was going to freak out!

Wally wondered why his anxiety issues started getting bad when he found out. Why hadn't they been this worse years ago? The only reason he could figure was that he hadn't noticed earlier, or that's when he thought. He was afraid of social rejection and his teammates dying. They were logical fears. He didn't want his friends to see him as weak when it came to missions. He could still handle himself; he did to a point back in the warehouse. If that guy hadn't kicked him like a dog he would've been able to handle the situation. Robin wouldn't have had to butt in if that guy hadn't taken the situation out of hand. This was his entire fault!

The bioship landed and the door opened in the back of the ship. One by one Wally's friends walked out of the ship. "You coming Wally?" M'gann asked.

Wally looked up. If he didn't leave she'd know something was wrong, but if he did then he could avoid his overprotective uncle. He sat up. "Yea I'm coming."


Wally walked into the debriefing room to see Batman and The Flash sitting down. He knew he was dead at that very moment. "Wally, can I speak to you for a minute?"

Wally shook his head. "I think Batman wants us to debrief the mission." Flash gave him a look. "I have to write the reports and explain that happened."

Batman glared at him. "I think that you can have your discussion outside while we wait."

Wally gulped. 'Damn you Batman! Why can't you make me do paperwork instead?' "Be right back guys!"

The speedsters walked into the hallway. The Flash looked around to make sure no one was listening in. "You ran out of school? DO you have any idea how mad your aunt is right now? She almost forced herself into mount. Justice! If it wasn't for Batman and some pretty convincing words she would be here right now lecturing you."

Wally rolled his eyes. "Instead of you lecturing me?"

"And why did you go on that mission?" His uncle continued ignoring Wally's comment. "You needed time to process this. You needed time to understand that everything is going to be fine. How could you run off like that and scare the crap out of the school? You're lucky no one caught you speeding out of their and exposed you as Kid Flash!"

Wally frowned. He didn't remember running out of the school that fast. He was pretty sure he was running at a regular speed. "I'm fine! Why can't you see that I'm completely fine and that crazy lady had it all wrong! You didn't even ask if it was some sort of cover I had made to protect my identity or something!" Wally screamed.

"Were you hiding your identity Wally?' The Flash asked.

"No, but that still doesn't mean anything! You didn't even ask me before you started yelling!" Wally yelled at him. "Since when have you even gotten into my school life anyway?"

Flash shook his head. "Since Miss Lewis asked to speak with me about you. I didn't just walk in at my convenience Wally. I was there because she was worried about you, and I happen to agree with her. I'm worried about you Wally. I truly am."

"I don't see why! I've been this way since the accident! I've been like this the whole time, and you didn't even notice till some guidance counselor says something!" Wally argued back. He didn't realize it till now, but ever since his accident he had felt different. He worried more and felt out of place.

Uncle Barry flinched. "And you didn't mention this before today?"

Wally glared. "Does this matter? Right now I have a responsibility to my team. So if you'll excuse me…" Wally said walking off.

Barry grabbed Wally's hand. "We're not done talking Wally! You can't keep running away from this."

"Who says I'm running from anything?"

"If you don't stop I'm taking you to Agent A!" The Flash threatened.

"You can't, you're not my father!" Wally screamed.

Barry stepped back shocked. As much as Wally felt like a son, The Flash still felt like he was one. Barry knew Wally had an amazing father that loved him, but he'd always felt like Wally thought of him as a second dad. It hurt when Wally said those words. "I know." He paused. "Bruce has informed Canary that you will be speaking with her after your debriefing. I know it's sudden, but I think it's the best for you."

Wally's face turned. "Fine! Have it your way!"


Entering the debriefing room was awkward for Wally. He was sure the whole team had heard his little outburst outside, and they knew exactly what his problems were. He was surprised to find everyone sitting in their seats playing with their phones. Batman sat in the head spot glaring at Robin's phone. After walking in, Batman declared they had to put their cell phones away.

"As it is clear to all of you, the mission had some issues. Aqualad, would you please explain to me what went wrong?" Batman said in his low voice.

Aqualad gave Wally a glance then went to look at Batman. "We split into two groups of three in the beginning sir. I was informed later that Robin's group separated moments after they entered the building."

Batman turned to Robin with a long look. "We entered the building and found three different hallways. I thought if we split up that we wouldn't waste any time. We agreed to keep contact on the mental link and split up."

Batman turned back to Aqualad. "Did you agree with this decision?'

Aqualad shook his head. "I was not contacted by the group, so I was not aware that this decision was made in the first place."

"Would you agree with the decision made?"

Again Aqualad shook his head. "I paired the group together because it was covert. We needed at least one person who had the ability to sneak around without being seen. Splitting up would ruin the entire purpose of that choice."

Robin glared at the atlantian. "We had to go through that warehouse as fast as we could! We didn't have the time to stay and search all the hallways together."

"I believe you would have Robin." Aqualad informed him. "Considering all the information we needed was on our side of the building."

"I beg to differ!" Artemis snapped. "We didn't know that at the time of the agreement, so it shouldn't count! We thought we would find something. Besides, how do you know that there wasn't something on our side? You didn't get a chance to search the place did you?"

"Actually we did." Superboy mumbled.

That silenced the group. "I still can't see where the mess up was." Batman told the group. "Wally, I haven't heard from you this whole time, what happened?"

Wally gulped. "I was ambushed by one of Joker's top henchmen. Had a lovely conversation about his time in Iraq, and his family." Wally grumbled.

"So you were ambushed, how did the others react to this?"

"I figured I got cut out of the mind link at some point, but I can't be sure why." Wally stumbled over his words.

Batman turned to M'gann. "I couldn't help it. His mind was filled in total chaos! The whole team couldn't function with all the noise." M'gann explained.

"I think I'm aware of what happened here." Batman mumbled. Wally forgot Uncle Barry told him about his little problem at school. "Wally would you care to step out?"

Wally blinked. He turned to see Black Canary stepped into the room and shut the door. 'Great time to go to therapy!' He sat up. "Ok."


Robin gave him a curious look. He figured the Boy Wonder was curious why Wally had left without a fight. Usually Wally hated being excluded from Team activities, but that was because that was all he had. He was pretty sure that his teammates were his only friends. But today he left without one word.

"Please sit Wally" Black Canary said sitting down into her plush green chair.

Wally sat. "How are you feeling Wally? I'm pretty sure you've done this before with me before, so you know where this is going."

Wally had done this before. He'd come in to talk with her when they had the team exercises. He had been eating popcorn and pretended it was all a joke, but this time wasn't a joke. This was the real thing.

"I'm really not that sure." He said honestly. "My uncle is acting overprotective like he always is, but I don't see the difference in myself. My uncle's tried to talk about it before debriefing, but it just ended in a fight. I think I hurt him a little."

"I'm sure you did, but it's not your fault. You've got to realize that you've just realized something about yourself you weren't aware of. You haven't had time to deal with the shock and fear. Wally, just because you've had this for a couple of years, doesn't mean it won't scare you. I'm pretty sure you're frustrated with yourself right now." Black Canary explained. "This is something you need to adjust to."

Wally nodded. "But I've had this forever, why is it spiking up now?"

Black Canary sighed. "You're under a lot of stress Wally. Regular teens don't have to worry about saving the world every day, but you do. Before when you were just working with your uncle Barry you only had him to worry about. Now with the team, you have at least five other people you have to look out for. Adding this to your everyday life can cause chaos. You have to balance your life for school life, social life, partner time with The Flash, training with the team, and then missions with the team. You have to work more than every other child in our school. Now that you've joined the team, you have more to worry about. "She placed her hand on his knee. "Wally, this will be a struggle, but you will learn to deal with it."

"I get that, but why did this happen in the first place? The Flash doesn't have to deal with this! Why does it always have to be me?" Wally complained.

"How do you know Barry doesn't have this problem as well?" Canary asked quietly. "He had the same accident as you did right? Have you asked him?"

"Well, no," Wally mumbled. "But, he hasn't brought it up before? Why wouldn't he mention this to me before?"

Black Canary laughed. "Did you?" Wally looked at the ground. "Didn't think so. Look Wally, not everybody likes to share much about themselves. You should understand considering you feel that way yourself. You can't always assume that everything is the way it looks. For all you know I could be some zombie ninja thing."

Wally gave her a weird look. "Are you?"

Canary laughed. "Wally, zombies don't exist."

"They can though!" Wally piped up. "If you're a cannibal and you eat too much human flesh than your mind goes all funky. You continue to eat human meat, even without thinking about it. Soon, when the food supply runs out, a ton of people will be eating each other. That's when everyone turns into zombies!"

Black Canary jaw fell. "And you know this how?'

"I watched a documentary on it. It seems like a logical explanation for it."

"Ok, back to you Wally." She said shaking her head. "Why don't you have any friends at school? Isn't there anyone who has something in common with you?'

Wally shook his head. "I can't stand those people! Who the heck thinks Africa is a country? I mean seriously, it's a continent! Plus, everyone else likes to hit me with dodge balls in P.E. I fell like a freaking target all the freaking time!"

"Wally, the world isn't out to get you. It isn't everyone's goal to make your life a living hell. I'm pretty sure they have more important thing to do then ruining your life. Trust me on that one." Black Canary said.

"No, I'm sure they have a check list." Wally muttered darkly. "Have I stolen lunch money? Yep! Have I done half of my homework? You bet! Have I made the teacher cry? Totally! Have I ruined Wally West's life yet? No, but I will soon!"

Canary looked at him. "I'm pretty sure most bullies don't have lists. From my understanding, they do things at random. They mostly attacking someone who is always alone or weak."

"So now I'm weak?"

"You're not weak Wally. You've never been weak. You were the person who is always alone. Wally, right now you're just struggling with day to day life. A lot of people have this problem. It isn't something only you have." Black Canary tried to explain.

"So I'm a freak? I might as well be a rouge!" Wally exclaimed loudly.

Canary waved her hands as if to surrender. "That's not it at all. Do you know how many people have this sort of problem? Some people just lay in bed all day they're so afraid! Do you do that Wally?" he shook his head. "Then stop complaining!" Wally bolted up and ran out the door. "You can't run forever!"

"I can try!"