"You want to build Bart a suit." Barry said as Dick sat in his office.

"Yeah." Dick said, "Barry. We're going to see him again one day. I just know it."

Barry looked down, uncertain. "Hmm."

"C'mon, Barry. You've known me for a real long time. You know me. And you've gotta trust me when I say we're going to see him again. I don't know where, I don't know when, but I just know." Dick insisted, "Besides, even if we never see him again, isn't STAR Labs about pushing the boundaries of science? The building of the suit will do just that."

Barry looked up at Dick. "Alright," he said, "Luckily for you, I've already gotten him tailored for the Allen-Ognats lunch from a few days ago. Meaning, if we're gonna build him a suit, the least we can do is get the sizing right. And I think Iris would love to help. Let's go to Bruce first and get a list of what chemicals were extracted from Bart."

Dick smiled, and they both stood up.


Bart didn't need Zatanna's assistance to wake up the next morning, but she still entered the tepee.

"Bart." she said, holding the file. "Jaime told me about what happened last night before he went to bed. I've looked through this."

"What'd you find?" he asked as she sat down next to him. She opened it.

"It basically describes who these people are, and there's some sketches of them." she explained.

Bart looked through it.

The first man was Red Hood. His face was never seen, as he had a helmet that covered it. He wore leather and had lots of guns. He was classified as a human, as he "lacked evidence" for showing signs of witchcraft. He was described as about 5 ft 10 and 170 lbs. Most likely Caucasian. He was believed to be the leader of the group.

The next was Starfire. She often wore "immodest outfits", had green eyes with virtually no pupils, Caucasian but orange tinted skin. She had long, flowing, pink hair. She was about 6 ft tall and 160 lbs. She was believed to be a witch due to her looks and the supernatural powers she's displayed, which were bright green orbs that could be shot out of her hands, and she could fly.

The last was Roy Harper, but he was known as "Red Arrow". He was formerly a resident of the town Northwood and worked as a servant when he was a teenager. Until he had a falling out with his father, of course, which led him to run away and then come back with vengeance with his new group of friends. He was a Caucasian with bright blue eyes, orange hair, and was about 180 lbs and 5 ft 11. He's an archer who has different types of arrows. The ones that he is known to have are the regular arrows, the arrows with poison, the arrows that explode, the arrows with nets, and the arrows with goo. Like Red Hood, he was classified as human due to his lack of evidence for witchcraft.

The last page in the file included a map that starred towns they were known to have invaded, and a list of things that were known to be stolen or destroyed.

"We have to kill these people?" Bart looked up at Zatanna, disbelief in his eyes. "No wonder nobody can catch them. Look at how they're described!"

Valor soared into the tepee, looking energetic. Zatanna jumped at the sudden entrance, and Bart laughed. She spoke. "I'll show Jaime the file later, once he wakes up. I'm going to talk to Chief Shadow about this." she took the file and exited the tepee.

Bart wondered what he could do now. He didn't exactly have a "duty" in the tribe, and he met the members already. He walked out of the tepee and looked into the distance, where the town of Windland was just a speck.

Looking back and forth, he took off into the direction of the town, hiding behind the corner of the building to see what was happening. He gasped as he heard an explosion and the screams of civilians beginning as they began run. The entrance of the town bank was smoking, and something zipped out of the entrance. Soon after, two people ran out with bags in their hands.

In front of the bank, bags of money were laid out and three people were laughing. Bart gasped.

It was them.

How was he supposed to kill them? He didn't have any weapons.

"People of Windland," Red Hood began to call out, "you see this here? This is your money." he gestured to the bag, "This stupid, green shit. You all love it so much." he threw his hands in the air and looked at the crowd of scared people watching, "Well, you know what they say! If you love something, let it go! Star." he turned his head to Starfire.

Starfire blasted one of her green orbs at the pile of money, setting it afire. The people gasped.

Bart ran out. "Hey!"

Red Hood laughed. "And who is this little hero?" he pulled out a pistol and shot at him. "A dead one!" he yelled into the crowd.

"Uh… Ja- Hood?" Red Arrow asked quietly.

"Yes?" Red Hood turned to him.

"You missed. He's standing right there." Red Arrow pointed to the man who stood even closer now, a bemused look on his face, arms crossed.

"I-" Red Hood grumbled. He turned to Bart again, shooting, and again, he missed. Bart had moved even closer now. "What the fuck?"

He continued to shoot wildly, and the crowd ran, Red Hood getting frustrated as Bart missed every shot. Starfire and Red Arrow joined, shooting their orbs and arrows to try and hit Bart. Red Hood then cried out in pain as he felt himself get punched in the face and fall backwards. Bart dragged him away from his friends to the other side of town. Bart grabbed his gun, and pointed it directly at Red Hood's head.

"You know, I've never killed somebody before. And honestly, this is nerve-wracking. But I've gotta do what I've gotta- I'm monologuing, aren't I?" Bart asked. He was about to pull the trigger when he cried out in pain as he fell over from one of Starfire's orbs. He screamed as he felt his skin sizzle, and he could see lime green seeping into his body.

Red Hood grabbed his gun back and shot at Bart, but the bullet went directly into the ground. Bart had managed to run away, but he was limping, holding his arm as he did. He gasped for breath.

Starfire threw another orb, and he screamed as he barely dodged it, falling to the ground as it exploded above him, directly into the restaurant he ate in when he first arrived to Windland. Red Arrow released an arrow directly towards Bart's head, and Bart grumbled in annoyance as he felt himself entangled in a net. "Dammit, wrong one!" he could hear Red Arrow yell.

"No, no. It's perfect." Red Hood walked up to Bart, and he got down on one knee, smiling at him. Bart gasped for air. Though he couldn't see it, Bart knew Red Hood was smiling.

"Nighty-night, hero boy."

x

Bart woke up inside a dark cave, strapped down to a chair that was cemented into the ground. He was about to vibrate so the ropes that held him down would burn off, when Red Arrow walked up to him.

"Name?"

"Bart Allen." Bart replied.

Roy stared at him for a few seconds. "You wouldn't happen to be related to Iris West, right?"

"Why do you ask?"

"Answer the question."

"I am. She's my grandma." Bart said, figuring he had nothing to lose, because Red Arrow was going to die soon enough.

"Ah." he said.

"How do you know about Iris?" Bart asked.

"None of your business." Roy spat. Bart could feel himself getting angry.

"Who're you working for?"

"I'm not working for anybody."

"Bullshit."

Bart got even angrier. "Why didn't you and your friends kill me back there?"

"Ransom." Roy said simply. Bart had to admit, that was a good reason. But there was still a flaw.

"I thought you guys didn't care for money. You destroyed it all back there."

"We're not asking for money for ransom. We're asking for goods. Food." Roy explained. He then asked again. "Who're you working for?"

Bart bit his lip. "Lex Luthor." it felt strange saying that.

"Oh?" Roy cocked an eyebrow, "Why'd he hire you?"

"To kill you and your friends." Bart bluntly stated.

Roy laughed. "You?" he asked. "But you're just a… you're just…" he started to laugh.

Bart was so angry that his ropes burned right off, and he threw Roy against the wall so hard that he was knocked unconscious.

"Hold it." Red Hood commanded, a gun pointed directly at him.

"You know I'll dodge every bullet you shoot at me." Bart said, starting to get cocky.

"Which is why my lovely lady is right here." Starfire strutted up from behind him, her arm extended with a green orb around her hand, and she leaned in to give Red Hood a kiss on the side of his helmet.

Bart stood still. They were blocking the rest of the narrow cave. Bart looked behind him, and there was nothing but a dead end.

"Sit." Red Hood commanded.

"I'm not your dog." Bart sneered.

"Sit." Red Hood commanded, this time more irritated. The green orb that Starfire had lit began to pulse.

Bart sat back down in his chair. "I'm sitting." he said, looking over to the unconscious Roy.

"Good. Now you'll stay there." Red Hood said. "Star. Keep watch." he walked away.

Starfire nodded, her pupil-less eyes digging into Bart. He shifted uncomfortably.

He could probably vibrate out of this cave if he really wanted to. He imagined a thick layer of stone would be difficult to get through, though. He thought about it. Eventually he decided to just do it. Starfire attempted to shoot him but to no avail, as he was already gone.

Vibrating through the stone took a lot of energy out of him. And took his clothes, too. He shivered, as it was cold. The air up here was thin, and he looked down. They were on top of a small mountain, it seemed. As he'd fallen to the ground once he got out of the cave, he was about to push himself back up when he felt a heavy boot shove him back to the ground. He heard Red Hood laughing uncontrollably.

Bart, too exhausted to even try to run away, just lay there, humiliated, as Red Hood tried to control his laughter, boot still on Bart's back. He then heard the laughter of Starfire as well.

"Come on, get up." he said, slinging Bart's arm over his shoulder, and Bart just groaned. "By the way, nice ass." he commented, "I'm sure your husband must love it." he then started laughing uncontrollably again, and Starfire did as well. Red Hood handed Bart off to her, and she flew back in the entrance of the cave with him in her arms. He blacked out again before she even set him down.

When he woke up, he had his clothes back on and he was placed back in the chair, but without restraints. Roy was holding a packet of ice by his head and watching him, a scornful look on his face.

Bart thought about what he could do. He obviously couldn't vibrate through stone without collapsing with exhaustion, but perhaps he could manage to vibrate through the front entrance of the cave, which was metal. He'd lose his clothes again, he knew, but it was worth getting out.

So, again, he ran. He ran until he saw the entrance, and he ran straight out without any problems. However, he couldn't manage to slow down in time, and ran right off the mountain the cave was on. He screamed as he tumbled down, his exposed body getting scraped up and bruised by the rocks and plants. He finally stopped at the bottom, and he sat there, breathing heavily, watching the blood from his cuts pour out. He looked up in the sky, and he saw Starfire soaring down directly towards him.

Bart screamed once again and ran, and he barely managed to avoid the starblasts that Starfire was sending down at him. The grey sky above them began to pour rain, and he grumbled as he continued to run and get soaked. He had no idea where he was or no idea where to head next.

He saw a body of water and dived in, and as he swam towards the bottom, he could see one of Starfire's blasts launch and explode into the water. The shock wave from the blast sent Bart tumbling further down the water, and more blasts were sent. Now too far away to be affected by them, Bart used the blasts to his advantage- they temporarily illuminated the water in a green hue, and Bart could see a cave with an air bubble. It was only halfway filled with water. He swam into it, then gasped for air as he surfaced.

He watched as the starblasts illuminated the body of water for a few more moments, then everything went dark.

Bart sat there, cold, and still gasping for air. He knew he had to swim out, so he felt his way around the cave until he found the entrance. He held his breath and swam out and up the darkness, until he surfaced, and once again, gasped for air.

Around him were the floating corpses of fish.

He quickly swam out of the water, shivering as the rain bombarded him. He had no energy to run, and he tried to vibrate to warm himself up, but he couldn't. He limped and shivered, convinced he was going to die.

He collapsed and gave up. How stupid he was to try and handle Red Hood and The Outlaws by himself. Now he was going to die cold, alone, and naked to put the cherry on top. His stomach growled. Make that two cherries.

What seemed like hours passed. He heard a noise behind him, and he moaned in pain as he felt himself be picked up. He didn't want to open his eyes, because he knew it was Starfire.

"Come on. Let's get you back to the tribe."

Bart opened his eyes and looked up to Jaime, fully covered in his armor, holding him.

"I'm so stupid." Bart mumbled.

"Yeah. You are." Jaime agreed before taking off.

x

Bart was healed by Zatanna and got some fresh clothes. Apparently Jaime had been flying around all day looking for Bart, and Khaji Da finally spotted him below.

"So you were just bored, so you ran off to Windland?" Jaime asked as he handed Bart dinner after Bart explained what happened. The rain hadn't let up and a fire couldn't be started, so it was a cold bowl of food.

"Yeah. And when I saw The Outlaws there, I thought I could take them all by myself. I almost killed Red Hood, but I was monologuing." Bart explained.

Jaime slapped himself in the face. "I think the tribe regarding you as a 'God' has gotten to your head."

"Probably." Bart said.

Jaime sighed, "At least we know where one of their bases are. I mean, you had to go through a lot of suffering to find out, but at least we know."

"A lot of suffering." Bart emphasized. "Thank God Zatanna exists."

Jaime nodded. "She's a good addition." he then frowned. "But I'm still thinking about what Roy asked."

"The question of whether or not I was related to Iris?" Bart asked.

Jaime nodded. "Yeah. That. Makes me wonder if he's friends with the Wests. And there's lots of Wests in the west."

"I honestly think Iris is the only West in the east. The Allens are the eastern people. Roy knew this." Bart insisted, "He knew Allens meant east, and Iris was the only eastern West."

"So he knows you're not from here." Jaime concluded. "Maybe we could track down some of your family and question them about him. Maybe they could reveal things about him, like places where he likes to hide, and hopefully about the other two as well."

Bart nodded, going along with it.

"However, tonight, you're going to have to lead me to that cave and we'll get inside and see what's there. If The Outlaws are there, we're going to try and kill them."

"What about Zatanna?" Bart asked.

"She'll stay here. She needs to, anyways. In case we're injured, she can heal us. If she went, well, it's not good when your healer is injured." Jaime explained. "Rest up. We'll leave in a few hours."

Bart did just that.

x

By nightfall, the rain had let up. Jaime woke Bart up, and they ran and flew up to the mountain and to the cave. They stood on the side of it, peeking around the corner to the entrance. When all was clear, Jaime walked up the front, and just stood there.

"What are you doing?" Bart asked. Jaime shushed him.

"They're not inside." he said, disappointment in his voice. He sighed, looking bored as he pulled out a plasma cannon and shot the door open. He walked inside, and Bart followed.

Inside the cave there wasn't much except a few empty wood boxes and Bart's now-seared clothes that were left behind when he vibrated through the door. He looked around, and saw one of Red Hood's guns, except it looked cracked and nearly broken in half. "This worth taking?" he asked. Jaime shook his head. The chair was still there as it was cemented to the concrete, of course, but that was it.

"I guess it's time we start visiting your family." Jaime said. Bart looked out of the cave and into the world in front of him.

"Tonight?" he asked.

"Tonight." Jaime nodded. "But first, we've got to pay a visit to Lex Luthor."

Bart grumbled, but Jaime was already flying away, and he dashed after him.

x

The fat mayor yawned as he heard the knocking on his door. He opened it up and his eyes filled with fear, but he pretended to be cheery. "Gentlemen!" he said, "What brings you here today?"

"Got an office in here, Luthor?" Jaime asked.

"Ah… yes. Why?"

"Bring us to it." Jaime commanded.

Lex reluctantly nodded as he let the two inside and shut the door. On his way to leading Bart to his office, he began to mumble a thank you to Bart about protecting the town today, and then mumbled an apology in regards to him being kidnapped.

They arrived in the office, and Lex pulled a lamp cord to softly illuminate the room. Everything in the room was tiny- tiny chair, tiny desk, tiny filing cabinets.

"We need to know where all of the people with the last name West are located. Do you have any files of that?" Jaime asked.

Lex's eyes lit up. "Ah, the Wests! Of course we have files on them, they're the richest people in the land. Many go to them for trade opportunities." he began to go through his filing cabinets, until he pulled out a cream colored folder and opened it up, going through the papers before finding one that showed where all of the Wests lived, and there were a lot of them. "The closest West is this man, Wallace West. He lives in the next town over, Northwood."

Both Jaime and Bart looked at each other, connecting Wallace's location with where Roy Harper used to work as a servant. Jaime grabbed the paper. "Thank you." was all he said. "Come on Bart, let's go." he began to speed out of the office.

"But we don't have a map!" Bart yelled after him.

"Where the hell do you think Northwood is?! North!" Jaime insisted, "And we have Wallace's address right here. We'll be fine, ese."

"Have a good night, gentlemen!" Lex said as he shut the front door behind him, leaving Bart and Jaime on the porch.

They flew and ran north until they did stumble upon the town of Northwood. They slowed down once they entered the town. This was a town of rich folk, judging by the sheer size of the houses. They even had electric street lights. Jaime shed his armor as they walked down one of the streets and began to locate Wallace's house. Finally, they stood in front of it, and lots of voices and music could be heard from the inside, and the entire damn house was illuminated.

"Think he's having a party?" Bart asked.

"No doubt." Jaime said. They walked up the many steps to the front door, and knocked.

A blonde woman in her mid-twenties opened the door. She had olive skin, grey eyes, her lips were cherry red, she wore a frilly red dress that matched, and her hair was done up in curls. She leaned against the door frame.

"Is this the West household?" Jaime asked.

"Sure is, sweetheart. What are you here for? You two look kind of…" she looked Bart and Jaime up and down, scanning their clothing. "...barbaric."

Bart rolled his eyes. "We're not barbaric. We're here to talk to Wallace."

"Well, why didn't you say so?!" she chuckled, then hiccuped, obviously buzzed. "He's my husband!" she turned away from the door frame and shouted inside, "Wally, baby, come here. A couple of men out here wanna talk to you."

Wally came up, obviously a lot more intoxicated than his wife. He had fiery red hair, a crisp, white tuxedo on, and emerald green eyes. "Now what are you two fellows just doing standing there?! Come on in, join the party!" he broke into a fit of laughter and gestured for Bart and Jaime to come inside.

The place was huge. Not as big as the manor or the Allen mansion, but it was huge. People in formal attire sat down, drinking wine or champagne. A band played in the corner. Wally led him to his office and closed the door, where the noise was muffled.

"Go on, sit." Wally encouraged, gesturing to the two chairs that were placed in front of his desk. They did. He sat down in his desk, spinning around. "So, what's crackalackin?"

"We wanted to ask about Roy Harper." Jaime said.

It seemed like that sentence seemed to sober up Wally for a moment, but then he was dragged back into his drunken haze. He bent down into one of his lower drawers in his desk, and spoke as he was down there. "Roy Harper? Yeah, I know him. He was my man!" he came back up and pulled out two glasses and a bottle of champagne. "Would you two gentlemen like a drink?"

Both Bart and Jaime rejected, but Wally insisted that they have a glass, so they did. As Wally was pouring them their drinks, he spoke. "What'dya wanna know 'bout Roy?"

"What do you mean he was your man?" Jaime asked once Wally finished pouring and began to put the bottle away. He took his drink and sipped, then winced. Bart did the same, and he understood why. It was almost fizzy, but it didn't taste too amazing.

"My father hired him as a servant when I was a teenager. Roy and I became best a' friends, we were such shitheads." he laughed.

"You were?" Jaime inquired.

"Yup. Until he ran off with his little group, of course." Wally said, "He tried to get me into it, but I'm not like that."

"He did?" Bart asked in surprise. "Did he show or tell you anything that was considered a secret?"

"Well, yeah." Wally said.

"What'd he say?"

Wally hesitated. "Well, I can't exactly go around telling this stuff to random people…"

"I'm not random. We're related." Bart insisted.

"Hmm? How's that?" Wally seemed interested.

"Your aunt- Iris West, now Iris Allen- is my grandmother. I'm Bart Allen. Son of Don Allen, whose father was Barry Allen, whose wife is Iris."

"Oh jeez, well if that's the case, you're still just a kiddo then! How old are you?"

"Sixteen."

Wally laughed, "Shoulda never given you champagne, but whatever. Who's your friend over here?"

"Jaime." Jaime answered for himself.

"And how old are you?"

"Nineteen."

"Ah, alright. I guess I'm not too much of an outlaw myself, then." Wally laughed at his own joke. "Why are you two so interested in Roy?"

Jaime and Bart looked at each other, not sure whether or not they should tell Wally the truth or not. Bart went ahead. "We've been hired by the town of Windland to assassinate him and his friends. We need to know any place they can be hidden, or any extra secrets."

"Thought so. Nobody talks about Roy Harper these days without an intent to kill him, and I honestly can't blame 'em." Wally said almost sober, pouring himself a glass of champagne. "I'll let you in on a secret then- I know the identity of the Red Hood."

"Really? Who is he?" Bart asked.

"His name is Jason Todd, but that's all I ever really knew. No idea where he came from." Wally admitted, "But you didn't hear this from me."

Bart sat there in surprise. Both Jaime and Wally noticed. "I know Jason," Bart said, "well, know of Jason."

"Oh yeah," Jaime said, "Didn't you mention that Dick Grayson and your grandfather told you about him?"

Bart nodded.

Jaime turned to Wally. "What else do you know?"

Wally was already back down in his desk drawer, and Bart wondered if he was pouring more alcohol for himself.

"I have a map that Roy gave me, of the locations of the hidden bases of where he and his friends were. However, this was years ago." he unfolded the map and smoothed out the crinkles, "There you go. I'm not sure how much of this still applies to today."

"Thank you." Jaime said, taking the map. "Anything else?"

"Nnnnnnope." Wally said. A knocking was heard on the office door, and his wife's voice came from the other side.

"Cm'on baby, what's taking so long? Get back to the party!"

"Soon, Artemis!" he yelled to her. He turned to Bart and Jaime. "You two want to stay?"

"No, we've gotta get back home." Jaime said, "Let's head off, Bart."

Bart nodded and they left the home, quickly getting back to the Longshadow tribe.