AN: I was reading my collection of Flash comics again and it just amuses me how often the Flashes get a call and are all: "Oh sorry I was in such-and-such country my bad." or the person on the other line is all "...Where are you anyway?" This isn't my favorite, but I wanted to see this in YJ so...please enjoy the silliness.

Robin glanced at the clock as he tried to ignore Artemis impatiently tapping her foot.

3 o'clock.

An hour, their speedster was an hour late for their team building exercises and even Robin was beginning to feel impatient and ever-so-slightly worried about the absent speedster.

Kaldur was standing with his arms folded, his gaze sweeping from the harbor entrance toward the entrance hall that housed the zeta beams and back again.

M'gann and Conner were off to the side playing with Wolf and talking quietly.

After another long moment Artemis threw her arms in the air, "Where the heck is he!"

M'gann looked up from where she was scratching Wolf's belly, "I hope nothing has happened to him."

Conner shrugged, "Maybe he forgot."

Robin sighed, "I want to give him the benefit of the doubt since he's always on time and he's never flaked on me before."

Their archer frowned at Robin, "He's been late before."

"Only when he's with Flash," The Boy Wonder turned to smirk at the irritated blond, "Flash is always running late, but Wally always tries to be on time."

Artemis snorted, "The two fastest people on the planet should always be on time."

Robin chuckled, "That's how Wally feels, but Flash doesn't really worry about it. It's the only thing I've ever seen Wally get annoyed with him about, in fact I think it's the only thing they ever really disagree on."

Kaldur smiled, "I suppose even people as close as they are have at least one thing they don't agree on. Robin can you call him?"

"Sure."

The team formed a small circle as Robin pressed the call button on his gauntlet.

The device beeped and they were promptly greeted by a speedster who was just barely suppressing his laughter enough to talk.

"Hey Rob! What's up?"

Before anyone could speak he continued, but it was obvious he wasn't talking to them, "What? It's just my bluetooth Babe...yeah it's a little one, super high tech. Listen I gotta take this, it's a work call..."

"K.F!"

"Ack! Yeah, sorry Rob!" the speedster let out an undignified laugh, "Give me a minute beautiful."

Artemis was growing impatient again, "Wally!"

"Artemis? Jeez you don't have to yell!" they heard a mumbled voice and the blond sighed irritably as their absent teammate answered, "How about you go grab some sodas while I take this okay? It's on me...can you go with them Jake? You're awesome man, thanks girls."

They heard their friend sigh, "Finally. Sorry Rob, what did you need?"

It was Kaldur who answered, "You are late for our team building exercises Wally."

"Kal? What are you talking about?"

Conner rolled his eyes, "Did you forget? You were supposed to be here for team building an hour ago."

"What? But it's not even noon yet!"

Robin frowned, "Dude, it's already past three!"

"No way! I'm looking at a clock! It's only-...oops."

Kaldur reached up to rub at his temples, "What do you mean 'oops'?"

The red head gave a nervous chuckle, "I kinda forgot about factoring in the different time zones. I'm really sorry guys I-"

Robin interrupted him, "Time zones? Where are you Wally?"

"Uh, California..."

Realization dawned on Robin and he brought up his other hand to stifle his laughter, Artemis groaned and M'gann turned to Conner with a shrug.

Kaldur crossed his arms, "Wally, what are you doing in California?"

They could practically hear the speedster smiling, "Nothing much, I heard there were going to be some awesome waves this morning so I came out. Since I was already here I decided to hang out, you know enjoy the sun, the surf, the beach babes. All that good stuff."

M'gann giggled, "You have friends in California? Is that who you were talking to?"

"Huh? Yeah, GL lives here, but I met those guys today."

Artemis threw her hands up once more and walked away from the group mumbling about idiot speedsters.

This time Robin didn't try to hide his laughter, "Dude, only a speedster!"

Kaldur put a hand to his forehead and sighed, "Wally, how long will it take you to get here?"

"Only a couple of minutes, I'm authorized to use GL's Zeta tube. I just need to say goodbye to my beach buddies."

Robin was still laughing when Artemis' irritated voice drifted to them from the other end of the room, "Hurry up you breach bum I don't have all day!"

"Keep your pants on Blondie I said I was sorry!" the speedster shot back.

Robin got control of his laughter and intervened before they could get into a full tilt argument, "Okay, okay, don't worry about it dude, just come to HQ."

Wally laughed, "Alright bro, I'm on my way."

Robin ended the connection and turned to the rest of the team with an amused grin, "Well at least we know he's okay. Pretty funny though."

Artemis had returned to the group and she frowned at The Boy Wonder, "Are you serious? He's off playing around while we're waiting here, why is that so funny to you?"

Robin leaned over into a handstand and smiled up at the archer, "He's my best friend, and he's a speedster. He isn't usually late, but sometimes I call him and find out he's in all kinds of weird places," the younger hero flipped back to his feet, "I called him three days ago and found out he was at a restaurant with Flash in Italy across the street from the Leaning Tower of Pisa."

Artemis raised an eyebrow and he slung an arm around her shoulders, "Look when you're friends with a Flash you never know where they might be, it's easier to just go with the flow."

Conner snorted, "Someone should put a tracker on them."

Robin shot him a devious smirk, "Who says there isn't one?"

AN: As for Invasion, until further notice I am considering Invasion to be its own series until it proves otherwise to me. Also I actually like the way the characters have been represented (and the new characters) and the storyline, but I hate the fact that they are trying so hard to be secretive with what happened. I also hate their sudden obsession of starting us off in the middle of the action then telling the stories in flashbacks. They started that toward the end of the last season and while the style was interesting initially it's beginning to get on my nerves. And I miss Wally *sigh * I'm worried about my speedsters.