THANK YOU SO MUCH TO EVERYONE WHO HAS SUPPORTED ME IN THIS STORY. SORRY FOR TAKING SO LONG TO GET THIS CHAPTER UP. MY MIND WAS THINKING OF ANOTHER STORY TO DO INVOLVING ONCE AGAIN A GENDER BENT WALLY AND G.I. JOE CROSSOVER. I KNOW THAT I SHOULD FINISHED MY OTHER STORIES BEFORE STARTING ANOTHER BUT SOMETIMES THE WRITNG BUG HITS YOU AND YOU CAN GET RID OF IT.
Chapter 4
Flash walked down the hallway of the Watchtower that was his new home for a while. The blond haired speedster was over joyed that he found out that his niece that he loved like a daughter was alive and from what he saw was doing great.
It was just hard for Barry to get over the fact that his niece whose death felt like was his fault was alive and had a daughter with Apollo who didn't have any idea that he was a father.
It also looked like that when the Batman of this world found a way to get him and his teammates back to their reality that Willa would not be coming with them. Not that Barry blamed the girl. Willa had a life here. She was a founder of the Justice League and like she had told him earlier that day, she wasn't being compared to anyone. Willa was free to be herself.
Barry was so preoccupied with thinking about his niece that he didn't see the other person that was standing in the hallway until he ran into them.
Both people fell to the floor with a thud. Barry was the first to regain his composure and looked to see who he had bumped into. He had bumped into this reality's version of HawkWoman who he knew from what Willa had told him went by her given name.
"Sorry about that. I wasn't paying attention to what I was doing." Flash told the winged warrior who based from what he had seen of the His Justice League founders was a bit more insecure of herself and not married to Katar.
"It's okay. I should have moved out of the way." Shayera replied with a slight smile. She looked over at the Red and yellow clad man and if she hadn't seen it with her own eyes wouldn't have believe any of what was going on. The man standing in front of her was just like Willa who had told them a long time ago that her uncle had raised her and trained her to be the best that she could be.
"Something wrong?"
"Oh, sorry I was thinking about something about Inertia." Shayera replied.
"Is she okay?" Flash asked in a worried tone.
Shayera looked at the older speedster and could see where Willa got her protective nature from. The man in front of her was radiating with energy that just spoke kindness and a protective nature. Also after being around Willa since the beginning Shayera could see the same type of persona in the speedsters.
"You are most certainly a Flash as Inertia would act the same way when it came to Athena." Shayera replied. "I was thinking about just how much the two of you are alike even though there is no Blood between the two of you."
"Everyone said that. Everyone honestly thought that we were father/daughter but everyone was shocked when they found out that I was Inertia's uncle." Flash replied with a smile as he and Shayera walked down the hall.
"It must be hard seeing her alive after all these years." Shayera asked knowing the answer.
"You have no idea. There is not a day that went by that I thought that it was my fault that she died. I found a note a few days later in her room telling me that I was to never blame myself for what had happened that day in the arctic. In her letter she told me that being a hero meant having to give your life for people that like and don't like you. I remember the day we lost Willa. She was going back into retirement and gave the Current Kid Flash her mantel. Willa also wasn't scared that she was dying. She even made a joke about it and told me tell My wife and Tiger-Eye that she loved them. I never thought that I would see someone as tough as Tiger-Eye cry like that but then again he had just lost the love of his life." Barry told alien warrior.
"Tiger-Eye is Apollo right?" Shayera asked knowing that Willa had talked about Apollo who she could tell was in love with the young man. Then she remembered that Apollo was the son of a Former League of Shadow's assassin and a current Shadow and had a sister that was a Former Shadow who was married to and had a baby with a Clone of Green Arrow's former sidekick Speedy.
"Yes. I'm guessing Willa told you a lot of things about her life?" Flash asked
"Not for the first year. She was apart of the team, Heck, we didn't know that Willa had a daughter except for Batman of course as that Flying Rodent was the one that found Willa Pregnant and starving after she had hacked his Batcomputer for funds. When Willa told us that she from another Reality we thought that she was a Justice Lord but Batman told us more to her story and will honestly say that after most of us found out that our youngest founder and little sister was really from another reality and had lied to us about who she was, we didn't save for Batman of course again treat her like we should have. Sure she worked with her but other than missions most of us had to contact with her. We were hurt by what she had done but over time we realized that she did what she did because she was protecting herself and Athena. The one thing that made me realize just how much of a big heart Willa had was when revealed that I was a spy for the Thangarian Army and I betrayed the League. Some events happened and I realized that my people were changing the plan and were going to destroy Earth. I couldn't do allow that to happen. In the end I chose my morals over my people and because of that I was banished from my home planet and branded a traitor." Shayera told the older speedster who was just looking at her weirdly.
Shayera took a deep breath before she began speaking again. "After the Thangarian army left Earth, the League founders called a meeting to discuss if I should stay in the League. I resigned and Willa came over to me and hug me as if she didn't want to let me go. Later when I rejoined the League after finding out that I was never kick out but it was a split vote and Superman broke it by letting me stay Willa was really the only one that really had anything to do with me. Heck, she even tried to get the other Leaguers to talk to me when nobody was talking to me. She stayed friends with me even after she gave me the riot act
"Reminds me of when the team had a mishap that involved Apollo not trusting the team due to his background and Willa gave him the riot act. But over time she was willing to forgive Apollo for what he did and the two eventually became a couple." Flash told Shayera as he flipped when the cameras showed Apollo picking his niece up bridal style and kissing her. It had taken quite a few of his fellow Leaguers to keep from killing Green Arrow's newest sidekick.
"Sounds just like our loveable speedster. She has a big heart." Shayera said with a smile.
"That much is very true." Flash replied with his own smile.
Meanwhile Apollo walking through the Watchtower trying to find someone since he had taken a wrong turn trying to find someone to tell him where to go but after two hours he had not find anyone.
"Why does the Watchtower have to be so hard to navigate?" Apollo yelled annoyed to the empty hallway.
"Keeps the enemy occupied and annoyed." A female voice called out from behind Apollo causing the Archer to quickly turn around to see the Flash of this world leaning against the wall smirking.
"Haha." Apollo replied sarcastically.
"Believe me when I say this but I got lost in the Watchtower when it was first built." The female speedster replied with a laugh.
Apollo looked at the speedster amazed at how much she looked like his Flash if Barry was a woman. Part of the archer thought that maybe this is what Willa would have looked like if she was still alive. Tears came to his eyes at the thought of his late girlfriend and the life they could have had.
"Hey, are you okay?" Apollo heard the female speedster ask.
"Sorry. Just thinking of someone that was dear to me that died 4 years ago." The blond replied as he wiped away the tears from his eyes.
"Sorry, didn't mean to bring up sad memories." Inertia replied.
"Not your fault. Even after 4 years it's hard to deal with the fact that she is gone." Apollo said.
"I know the feeling of losing someone. I lost my boyfriend and the sad thing is he never even knew that I was pregnant with Athena. Luckily my little speed demon has lots of uncles to be father figures but even if they are in daughter's life it still not as good as having her father to be with her." Inertia told her boyfriend who had no idea who she was.
"I'm sorry. I always wondered if I would make a good father given my family background but I guess that I'll never know." Apollo said sadly.
"Well Based on what I have seen, I think that you would make a great father." Inertia said with a smile.
"Ya really think so?"
"Yeah. I didn't think that I would be a good mother to Athena but I was. Now she is spoiled rotten by the League and The Central City Rogues who she has wrapped around her little fingers." Inertia told the father of her daughter.
"You leave your daughter with your villains?" Apollo said with shock in his voice but then again the Rogues in his reality weren't as evil as some of the other heroes villains.
"They were the ones that kept Athena safe from the Justice Lords. I don't even want to think about what would have happened if The Lords found out about me having a daughter. But if any of those Lords ever touch my daughter, then all hell would break loose." Inertia growled out as she showed Apollo just how protective she was of their daughter.
"You really are a Flash as our Flash was insanely and still is protective of both Kid Flashes." Apollo told the speedster in front of him who was so much like Willa it was scary. Maybe this was her counterpart. If that was true it was nice to know that somewhere in the universe Willa was alive.
Inertia smiled in her mind. She had no doubt that her Uncle was very protective of Bart and the twins. Heck Barry was against her becoming a superhero when she first got her powers but over the course of a few months and LOTS of begging later Flash had a new sidekick.
"I think that it's standard procedure for speedsters to be protective of their loved ones. That and Bats as well." Inertia said as she remembered just how protective Batman was of her and Athena. The kindness Batman had shown her when she first arrived even after hacking into his BatComputer and stealing money from him. It was Batman's kindness and willingness to believe her when she told the Dark Knight her story that Willa made Batman her daughter's godfather.
"I thought that Batman wasn't known for showing emotion?" Apollo asked, eying the speedster with a keen eye. There was just something about Inertia that he couldn't put his foot on. It was like he had met her before.
"He's not but ever since the incident with the Luther/Brainic hybrid where I went so fast that I was in the Speed Force which is the source of all Speedster's powers. I wanted to stay in there as it was paradise but my friends pulled me out by telling me that I needed to come back and that Athena needed her mother. Sorry got of track. Anyway, the founders were always protective of me but the protectiveness got worse when with the situation of the Justice Lords when they found out that it was my counterpart's death that caused the Lords to become evil. Batman won't admit it but he became more protective of me to the point that he wanted Athena and I to move in with him but I shot that down in heartbeat. I didn't want my daughter to be around media idiots all the time. I wanted Athena to have a normal childhood, well normal when you're a speedster and the daughter of a founder of the Justice League. I knew that Batman wouldn't stop at nothing to keep Athena and myself safe to I compromised with him. I allowed him to put a tracker in Athena's bloodstream with her permission to keep track of her. Before you say anything Apollo, I explained to Athena what 'Uncle Bats' was going to do before he put the tracer in her blood. Athena is very smart and knows when to trust someone and when to not. Batman is someone that I trust with my life. Batman is the one that helped me deliver Athena." Inertia told the Archer with a smile as she told him about the Batman that helped her deal with everything that had happened to her in the four years since she had arrived. If hadn't been for Batman, Inertia didn't know just what she would have done.
"Maybe there is hope for your Batman." Apollo replied with a smile.
"Maybe." Inertia replied with a grin.
Apollo was going to say something but the sound of his stomach caused him to blush bright red.
Inertia let out a laugh. "Normally I'm the one that does that." Inertia pointed out. "Come on, I'll lead you to the cafeteria. There you can get something to eat."
"Thank you." Apollo replied as he followed the speedster through the halls all the while still thinking that he did know Inertia from somewhere. That was going to drive him nuts and he was bound and determined to find out just who Inertia was.
Next chapter Inertia lets something slip that causes her former teammates sans Apollo to figure out who she is.
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