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Previously in An Unforgettable Trip: story A
Nightwing walked in to see the team sitting around looking depressed.
"What did you do?" he asked looking at Flash.
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Chapter 10
Flash was about to answer when a computerized voice rang out.
"Recognized Tempest 033"
"Why is Tempest here?" Nightwing asked looking towards his friend suspiciously, his previous question forgotten.
"What your friends can't visit you?" Flash asked nervously. Nightwing's eyes narrowed and Flash took a step back as Tempest walked in. The team froze; Tempest looked just like Kaldur - was that who he was?
"Hey Tempest, not to be unfriendly, but why are you here?" Nightwing asked. Tempest glanced over to the Flash who was making wild gestures with his arms behind Nightwing as if to tell him to say that he had come for a random visit. Tempest grinned.
"Flash called me and told me to come over if I wanted to see something interesting" he said.
"Dude!" Flash cried withering a little from the glare that Nightwing was sending his way.
"Thanks Kal" Nightwing said returning his attention to the other hero. He gestured to the team. "I suppose they are who he wanted you to see."
Tempest – calm as ever, looked over to the team. "I assume that they were sent here from the past" he inquired.
"Yeah, pretty much" Flash replied. Tempest walked over to greet the team while Nightwing turned back to Flash.
"You called the others, too didn't you?" He asked.
"No" Flash replied nervously not looking at his friend. Just then the computerized voice rang out once more.
"Recognized Ms. Martian 035, Kon-El 034"
Nightwing looked up to the ceiling as if to ask 'why me?' while Flash chuckled sheepishly. The new arrivals walked in to join the rest of the group. Ms. Martian's eyes lit up as she saw them, Kon-El just stared with his usual lack of interest.
"Oh my gosh, they're so cute!" Ms. Martian gushed "or… we're so cute?" she added unsure. Kon-El nodded a greeting to Tempest and the teens before turning his attention to Nightwing and Flash.
"What's going on?" he asked.
"They were sent into the future, or our present, I guess" Flash explained excitedly. A look of understanding crossed Kon-EL's face as he looked back to the teens.
They chatted for a while, the team getting to know their older selves and the others reminiscing about their time as a team. Eventually the older heroes departed, leaving Nightwing, Flash and the team by themselves once more.
"Well, everyone should get some rest, it's been a long day" Nightwing said glancing at the clock and seeing that it was four in the morning.
"I'll say" Kid Flash replied with a yawn. The others chorused their agreement.
"Can I stay here for the night?" Flash asked hopefully.
"Sure, but since I didn't ask earlier – why'd you come to Bludhaven anyway?" Nightwing asked.
"Oh-uh…well you know" Flash replied rubbing the back of his neck nervously. Nightwing raised an eyebrow at his friend.
"Um, no, I'm pretty sure I don't" he responded.
"Well" Flash started, "I was kind of hoping that you would hide me?" Nightwing crossed his arms.
"Hide you from whom, exactly?" he inquired. Flash scowled, knowing that his friend knew exactly who he was talking about and was just messing with him.
"My wife, she's going to kill me" he said.
"You're married?" Kid Flash interrupted.
"Poor woman" Artemis said shaking her head in mock despair.
"Hey, I'm not a bad husband" Flash said in defense.
"If you have to hide from a wife that wants to kill you, then I can't believe you when you say that" Artemis said.
"Stop insulting future me" Kid Flash said, stepping up to defend his older self. Nightwing sighed as Artemis and Kid Flash started arguing, Flash watching with an expression that bordered on amusement.
"Why does your wife want to kill you exactly?" Nightwing asked stopping the argument before the teens could get going for real. Aqualad sent Nightwing a look of thanks for preventing the argument as Flash threw his arms up in exasperation.
"Because she's pregnant and has crazy moods swings and she had some morning sickness today and decided that she would blame me – then she tried to kill me!" he exclaimed.
"And why should I hide you?" Nightwing asked raising an eyebrow.
"Because, you're like my best friend" Flash replied.
"Yeah, what a privilege" Nightwing said rolling his eyes.
"Come on dude, you know you'd miss me" Flash said hopefully and grinning a little. Nightwing stared at him emotionlessly for a moment and the other hero's shoulders started to slump a little.
"You can stay for the night, I guess." Nightwing said with a sigh. Flash brightened immediately.
"Thanks Wing, you're the best" Flash said glomping his friend before he had time to move out of the way.
"Yeah, yeah" Nightwing said trying to remove himself from the Flash's clutches. "Let go so I can show the others to the rooms."
"There are rooms here?" M'gann asked.
"Of course, I have several rooms available just in case they are ever needed" Nightwing replied. "They're just through that door over there in the kitchen."
"You just have to be ready for anything, don't you?" Flash asked.
"What can I say, it's how I was raised" Nightwing replied with a shrug leading the way into a hall full of doors.
Soon everyone was situated and had gone to bed. No one noticed the shadowed figure that snuck in except Nightwing who heard the announcement that marked the arrival of the mysterious person.
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Ha, keeping the team in the dark on the Robin thing, hooray for timely interruptions.
Yeah…so names…I've seen where Aqualad becomes Tempest, but I don't know if it was Kaldur or Garth. Ms. Martian is practically the same, except I see a difference between Miss and Ms. I'm not sure, but it seems that Miss would be younger while Ms. is slightly more mature. I didn't know what to do with the older version of Superboy name-wise and I couldn't call him Superman, so I just used his Kryptonian name (I think that I got it right).
***names had to be changed 'cause it would seem weird if they went by their old names, and there had to be some difference for the Zeta Beam (the numbers were, of course, made up again) ***
Anyway, as always I'll try to update soon.
Byes!
