THE CAVE

DECEMBER 20TH, 2010

17:06 EST

He sped throughout the cave, decorating it as if there were no tomorrow.

"Woah, Wally, calm down there, man." Dick encouraged, though the speedster didn't hear him above the sound of his feet padding throughout the cave.

Artemis rolled her eyes, "I swear that kid never calms down."

"Oh, he's like this every Christmas." Dick added. Wally suddenly stopped to catch his breath, and admired the scenery displayed around him.

"Santa Clause would be impressed." Dick joked, "C'mon Wally, you've worked hard enough. Take a break."

"Yeah. Wanna go get some Chicken Whizees or something?" Wally asked, still breathing heavily. Dick nodded, and Wally smiled. They began to walk towards the kitchen, when Wally froze.

"Wally? Is there something wrong?" Dick asked, concern high in his voice.

"Iforgottoputthestarontopofthetree!" Wally gasped, turning around, eyes widening with horror.

"It's fine, Wally." Kaldur tried to calm him down, "M'gann is putting up the star." he gestured to the twinkling star that was sitting in the Martian's hands.

"No!" Wally insisted, "I needa put up the star! C'mon."

"The tree is like, thirty feet tall, genius." Artemis rolled her eyes once again, "M'gann is the only one who can fly and get it up there."

"I can prove you wrong, blondie!" Wally insisted. He quickly sped and grabbed the star out of M'gann's hands. He then faced the tree, deciding which way he should get up.

"Oh, come on, we don't have time for this!" Conner grumbled from the background. Wally ignored him, and quickly began to run up the wall, speeding up as fast as he could, before getting onto the ceiling and jumping down onto the tree, grabbing onto it as if he were a sloth clinging to a branch. The tree wobbled somewhat, but managed to stable. Once it did, Wally attached the star.

"Ha! Told you!" he spat at Artemis. She folded her arms in response.

"Wally, come on down." Kaldur commanded.

"I can see everything from up here! Wow, this is so cool!" he insisted, looking around. He shifted to get a more comfortable position, but slipped in the process. The other five gasped. Wally screamed in horror, bracing himself for the impact. Instead, he never met it. He looked up by his foot, which was tangled in Christmas lights. Almost instantly, he heard the snickering of Dick from down below.

"Oh, come on!" he grumbled, trying to figure out a way to get himself loose but not fall.

"O Christmas Flash, O Christmas Flash!" Dick sing-songed.

"Somebody please help me!" Wally begged, but the roar of laughter filled the large room and his plea was quickly washed out.

"M'gann!" he said, almost annoyed, looking down, his body swinging back and forth, "Help me!"

Though the alien girl was laughing far too hard to focus on rescuing Wally. She wiped tears that formed in her eyes, and tried to breathe from all of the laughter.

Wally sat there for another thirty seconds before the Martian was able to rescue him, though the Team still gave him hell for it after the fact.

"Nobody's going to remember after today." Wally tried to assure himself, "Surely, they won't..."

KEYSTONE

DECEMBER 24TH, 2010

12:45 CT

"Oh, would you look at that. Your Robin friend dropped off a Christmas card today, Wally." Wally's mother informed.

Wally looked up curiously, "Did he?"

Mrs. West began to open up the envelope, and gasped at the cover of the card. Wally looked concerned. "Mom, what is it?" he asked.

"Oh my!" she chuckled, "Wally..."

Wally grabbed the card from her, and he groaned. Mrs. West continued laughing. Wally examined the card. Not only was it of him being caught in the lights from four days ago, but Dick had photo-shopped a Santa hat on his head, too! He groaned with a mixture of annoyance and embarrassment.

"Oh, don't be a Grinch." Mrs. West insisted, "It's funny!"

Wally didn't respond.

Mrs. West hugged her son, "Come on now. Merry Christmas, Wally."

Wally's face softened, and he let out a small smile.

"Yeah... maybe a little bit. Merry Christmas to you too, mom."