Disclaimer: I do not own Young Justice
Chapter 7
The Team was sitting in the living room watching Journey to the Center of the Earth which was coming to an end. They were currently on the part where Sean and Trevor met up with Hannah again in her Dinosaur jaw boat.
Kid Flash was leaning against the arm of the sofa, Kaldur beside her with Artemis resting her feet on his lap, Megan and Conner were on the other side of the couch practically cuddled together while Robin sat on the floor, head rested on KF's knee with Zatanna sitting beside him.
The young superheroes watched as the water shot up and launched the 3 main characters out of the center of the Earth. Wally scoffed. "They would not have been able to do that. The pressure change itself would have killed them."
On screen, the jaw dropped hard on the hill, continuing down the field. "If the pressure change didn't kill them, that drop would have. Their heads would have been cracked open with the force they hit the ground with." Robin pointed out.
Artemis glared at the two. "You both have been pointing out every scientific and logical discrepancy the whole entire movie."
Not removing her eyes from the screen, Wally replied, "Wouldn't have to if there wasn't so much BS in it."
Now Hannah and Trevor were sending Sean off.
"Um, So Hannah moved in already? Did she not need to go home and get anything? What about citizenship?" Robin asked, chuckling.
"They like almost died together. They have that special kind of bond now." Zatanna replied, smiling at the new couple.
"Having that special kind of bond does not mean she doesn't have anything valuable in her old house." Artemis countered.
"Well technically, Sean's mom said he was staying at Trevor's house for 10 days. Sean was only at Trevor's house less than a day before they shot off to Iceland so that all happened in 3 days max. Then they were only in the center of the Earth for 2-3 days since Trevor said they could only survive under there for 72 hours tops before they were cooked to death. In total that was 6-7 days, give or take. They could have gone back to Iceland to get Hannah's stuff in the time left." Wally explained.
The ending credits rolled by. "She dropped her whole life to come live with this professor she's known for 3-4 days. Who does that?" Artemis snorted in disbelief.
"She lived in the middle of nowhere in Iceland by herself. When the opportunity to escape was provided, she took it. Besides he's rolling now. Did you see how many gems Sean picked up?!"
Robin rolled his eyes. "I'm pretty sure all those gems were the reason they even fell into the center of the Earth. If he had just left them alone, they would have been able to avoid the whole situation."
"That would have defeated the whole point of the movie where they find out that Sean's dad was in the center of the Earth and the whole heartfelt moment with the message, he left." Zatanna replied.
"This movie was pointless. Why were we watching it again?" Wally asked.
"It looked like a good movie." Megan said.
Wally's eyes widened before grinning. "And it was a good movie despite all the illogical and impossible events that happened."
"Please. The only way you would have enjoyed the movie is if it was a documentary on cell division."
"Team, suit up and report to the briefing room now." Batman's strong voice boomed above their ears.
Wally shot off the couch with a smile. "Finally! I was getting bored of sitting here anyway." With that, she zoomed away, the rest of the Team following after her at a normal speed.
The team was currently standing before Black Canary and Batman, waiting on their fast teammate to arrive.
"Where is Kid Flash?"
As in on cue, the speedster walked in with a scowl on her face.
"I can't find any of my suits."
Black Canary hid a smile from the Team.
"Don't you have like 10?" Robin asked.
"Yeah. I can't find any of them. I ran home and there weren't any there either. Which one of you stole my costume?" Wally asked though she was looking at Robin. In fact, everyone was looking at Robin.
"Why does everyone think it's me?" Robin asked.
"Artemis wouldn't touch my stuff with a ten foot pole, Superbly wouldn't even think about stealing my suit because that'd be pointless, Miss Martian and Aqua lad are too polite to go in my room without permission. Batman would have told me if he didn't want me on the mission instead of stealing my suit. Besides you bats are the only ones who know the code for my room."
"Anyone who knows Roy's birthday knows the pass code to your room." Robin replied.
"Dude!" A bright blush rose to Wally face as the girls let out a united 'awww' though Artemis's was more mocking.
"That's so cute." Miss Martian gushed.
"Robin, I swear you live to embarrass me." A flustered Kid Flash muttered.
Robin cackled. "I can't wait for 'Embarrass your best friend day'."
Black Canary cleared her throat. "We can't lose time. Wear this." Black Canary seemingly producing a bag out of nowhere.
With an audible sigh, Wally sped off to change only to return a minute later, scowling.
The Team took in their companion's new appearance. The speedster's cowl was the same despite the smaller goggles but after that there were the major differences. The speedsters yellow top was less armor-like, the sleeves reaching her elbows before stopping, her gloves ending at her wrist but the proud Flash symbol remained unchanged. Instead of completely red bottoms, there were now yellow shorts that ended just above her knee with two red lightning bolts met at her navel and two red lightning bolts at the end of her shorts as well. Her red boots came up just before her knee. The whole costume pretty much highlighted all her feminine features that her former costume concealed, even her unruly hair looked cutely tousled in the outfit.
"You planned this!" Kid Flash glared.
"Snack compartments are in your boots." Black Canary happily chirped.
"Um, I don't think yellow screams stealth." Superboy commented.
"You just tap your chest like you did before." The sonic screamer instructed.
True to her word, the costume changed from yellow to black, the only red remaining was the lightning bolts.
"How come you didn't change my cowl since you didn't have a problem changing everything else?" Wally asked albeit a bit sarcastically.
"The cowl seemed a bit too far."
The look of disbelief on Kid Flash's face was hilarious. "And everything else wasn't?"
The aura cast by Batman's glare silenced both heroes.
Seeing he had everyone's attention, Batman started the briefing.
"This is Alexander Kurtz." A picture of said man appeared.
"Damn. He looks like Ryan Gosling.""Right!" "So hot." "Mmm that man."
"He is one of the major drug lords on the West coast."
"Officially unattractive." "He was so hot too." "What a damn shame." "Why do the hot ones have to be bad?"
"He sells this new drug called Stamina but we currently have no idea what it does. Sources say that he'll be at the Reiara warehouse tonight by Tori Bay. Your mission is to find out what Stamina is without being seen before he leaves tomorrow morning. Any questions?"
It was silent.
"You leave in 10 minutes." And with that Batman was gone.
Now in the bioship, the Team was currently flying to Tori Bay, Kid Flash's amount of discomfort tangible to everyone on the ship.
"Wally, are you okay?" M'gann asked.
"No. I feel extremely awkward and not adequately prepared for battle in this at like all. And I also have this nagging feeling that something's going to go wrong." Wally replied immediately.
"Eh, with us, something probably will. That's not something new." Robin said.
"No but like something different from the usual type of wrong."
"Don't worry. It always works out in the end."
"Alright. Team, switch to stealth mode." Kaldur commanded. On cue, Kid Flash, Aqualad and Miss Martian switched to stealth.
"Kid Flash, circle the perimeter."
"Ay ay, captain." Wally mock- saluted before running off. A minute later she was back with a confused expression on her face.
"There was no one guarding the place from the outside at all." She reported, scratching her head.
"Check again. Maybe you missed something."
The speedster was off again and this time didn't return for another 5 minutes.
"I ran around the 30 times. I saw nothing."
"We still have to check inside…They might not have wanted to look suspicious by having guards outside." Artemis said.
"Even though I haven't been doing this too long but don't they usually put thugs around to stop random folks from poking in their business?" Zatanna replied.
"Kid Flash, are you okay?"
Everyone turned to said speedster who didn't like quite look well, whose gaze was unfocused and who was swaying a bit.
"Guys….I'm..not…" Was all she could get out before she promptly passed out.
"Kid!"
It was then Robin noticed the faint smell in the air that was hardly noticeable.
"Crap!..This is a…trap." Robin said before he was knocked out as well, one by one the rest of them following him.
Kid Flash woke up with a startled gasp, immediately shooting up and surveying her surroundings. She was in a pretty empty room; the only things in it were a nightstand and a screen that could possibly be a TV. It was then she noticed she was on a bed. She also noticed the door was right there in front of her.
'M'gann! Miss M!' The speedster cursed as she realized her green friend was probably unconscious.
"You're finally awake. Much faster than I would have anticipated."
Wally looked up to see the man they were sent to spy on, Alexander Kurtz. Now alert, the speedster shot up and out of the bed and into a defensive position.
"Now, now, let's not get violent here. You wouldn't want anything to happen to your friends, would you?"
"What is that supposed to mean?" Wally didn't move out of her stance. With practiced movement, the man pulled out a remote and turned on the screen, showing her teammates all knocked out on a stone cold floor.
"One wrong move and I get my men to shoot all of them." As if on cue, 6 men stepped out and if you looked closely, they all had guns.
The speedster frowned. The only one who could survive was Superboy and they couldn't be a team with just two people, and besides she would miss all of them and wouldn't be able to live with herself like that.
Wally glared at the man. "I'll give. What do you want?"
"When I first saw you, I was immediately enthralled by your beauty. You're going to have sex with me."
Kid Flash burst out laughing. "Ha! No I'm not."
"Or I could get that cute little brunette to satisfy my needs." Kurtz's suave voice didn't match his cruel words.
That instantly sobered the speedster. Kid Flash looked at her young friend on the screen. The magician was only 14 years old and had just lost her father not too long ago. She was still mostly innocent. The 16 year old highly doubted that she would be able to handle getting taken advantage of too well while she was probably a virgin.
Knowing what she had to do, well not really had to but wanted to, she let out a resigned sigh. Kurtz's grin was victorious and perverted as he approached her, gently pushing her on the bed. The redhead had to force the impulse to kick him down as he caressed her body.
"Atta girl. What's your name, dear?"
"Kid Flash."
"Oh? I love the outfit change then, very sexy."
The glare she sent him had no effect.
"Anyway, don't be shy dear. I love it when they scream."
And scream she did.
"That was lovely. You were beautiful, sweetheart."
There was no reply from the young superhero as she slowly put her clothes back on.
"I really had a nice time. It was even better since you weren't a virgin. I haven't been with someone with experience in awhile."
Silence.
"Really dear. It was so good; I'll tell you something you don't know. Stamina is a drug that I had my associate Dr. Taylor Young develop to help stimulate the sex organs and to increase the user's stamina during sex, improving the user's sex life tremendously. And you know for the high as well."
Kid Flash paused and looked at the man. "So are you telling me it's sorta like Viagra and weed mixed together?"
"A wonderful way to simplify, but essential that's it."
"Alright. I'll let you take your friends out. I hope we meet again, darling."
The speedster felt like she couldn't get out of that room fast enough.
"Mmm, God, my head feels like it got hit with a bus." Artemis groaned.
"You're not the only." Zatanna agreed.
Slowly one by one the Team woke up from the floor of the spacecraft.
"Glad you guys are awake." The Team turned to Wally who was sitting in one of the seats of the bioship, knees pulled to her chest.
"Kid Flash, what happened?" Aqualad asked.
Wally couldn't make eye contact. "We all got knocked out by this gas. I woke up first, took you all in the bioship and found out what Stamina was in the time you all were knocked out." It was all true, just not in that order and with a few details left out.
"How long have we been out?" Superboy asked.
Wally shrugged. "I don't really know. Couldn't have been more than 5 hours though."
"Nice, KF. Finished the mission all by yourself. Asterous." Robin congratulated, albeit a bit suspicious of his friend's actions.
Wally shrugged once more. "Kid Mouth, not taking this once in a lifetime opportunity to gloat? The world is coming to an end." Artemis joked.
Silence.
"Wally, are you okay? You're not hurt, right?" M'gann asked, worriedly. The speedster had a tendency to hide injuries until they got back to the Mountain.
"I'm fine." Kid Flash replied tersely. The Team exchanged a series of worried looks at the withdrawn friend.
"Let's return to the Cave, Batman is most likely anticipating our return." Aqualad said. Everyone looked to Wally to make some joke about Batman getting his Bat- panties in a bunch.
Red Arrow was awakened from his sleep by the beeping of his phone. The archer groggily pulled out his phone and looked at who dared text him at this unholy hour. Robin, of course. Better see what the pipsqueak wanted.
"Red, something's wrong with KF. Don't call after you get this."
Roy felt his heart stop in his chest.
"What's wrong? What happened?" He texted back immediately.
"Don't know. The rest of us were K.O.d for most of the mission. Something happened and she won't tell us but I can tell she's upset."
"When are you guys getting back." It wasn't a question. It was a demand.
"We'll be at Mount Justice in like 30 minutes.
The Bioship landed in the hanger and the Team walked out, Kid Flash walking out last and slowly, head down and arms crossed. Batman, Black Canary and Red Arrow waiting for them.
"What is Speedy doing here?" Artemis asked, with a glare in her fellow archer's direction which he steadily ignored in favor of his walking towards his girlfriend, who was still looking at the ground.
"Kid?"
That was all it took before the speedster jumped into his arms, sobbing loudly into his chest. Right away, Roy wrapped his arms around her, whispering sweet assurances into her ear and rubbing her back gingerly.
The young superheroes were shocked and saddened to see their friend in such a state. The glare the redheaded archer sent them was enough to get them to evacuate although very reluctantly, Black Canary and Batman right behind them. They felt like they were intruding a bit anyway.
Once the couple had their privacy, both League members asked in perfect harmony, "What happened?"
Young Justice exchanged another series of looks before Kaldur stepped up and answered for all of them "We don't know."
Hope you enjoyed that. I didn't
Oh my gosh. Still in school. I don't even know why exams are freaking over and we aren't learning. Stupid 180 days of school. I'm already so done.
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