Mount Justice 15:21 EST
Tigress was over being, well, Tigress. She had promised herself that Tigress was going to be a solo act: Artemis was Kid Flash's partner. But now her Kid Flash was back. And she wanted nothing me than to be Artemis again.
She was still standing next to Wally, neither has left the other's side. Neither were going to. She finally had gotten him back. And she was never going to let him go. She leaned up onto her tiptoes and kissed Wally on the cheek. He just smiled down at her and squeezed her hand.
"Hey," Nightwing said waking over to the pair. He locked eyes with Wally. "It's good to see you again."
"You knew I wasn't really gone, didn't you?"
Straight to the point. Dick gave a weak smile. His friend knew him too well.
"I... had my suspicions."
"How did you know?" Artemis asked. She should have been mad; Dick had known, or at least guessed, this whole time that her boyfriend was safe, and he hadn't bothered to tell her. But she was just too relieved. Wally was actually alive.
"I was only 70% sure," Nightwing admitted. "But what made me guess was the energy patterns. I knew I'd seen them before, they're the same ones that the zeta tubes pulse to function. Of course, there were other factors, and it was alien technology, but I figured that it had to be some sort of transportation method. I just... I just couldn't figure out where to."
Artemis thought for a minute. "That's why you didn't grieve as much as the rest of us."
"And why I decided to leave The Team," Dick finished. "To investigate on my own."
There was a silence as Artemis and Wally let it all sink in.
"Wait, you left The Team?" Wally asked.
Tigress punched him in the shoulder. Nightwing just laughed at his two best friends. It was good to see them being themselves again.
"Business as usual," he said with a smile.
"Wally," it was M'gann's voice this time. She walked over to him, with Superboy close behind her.
"Hey, Megalicious," he said, using the nickname he'd given her when The Team had first started.
Megan just hugged him, which surprised Wally.
The younger Kid Flash was watching from across the room, with the younger Team next to him. He leaned in towards Miss Martian with a cheesy grin.
"See? Told you I'm irresistible."
Artemis smacked him in the back of the head.
"Ow!"
"Oh grow up!"
Tim Drake had been standing around for too long. He was like the little boy he'd been before Bruce had taken him in; alone and far away from anything familiar. That was until Bart ran in.
"What the-" he said. "Where did you go?"
Bart pulled him to the side. "Listen," he said. "I was out looking for someone; the person who helped me travel through time in the first place."
"And?"
Bart shook his head. "The situation is worse than we thought. Traveling through time backwards is easy. It's like falling. Going forwards... that's the tricky part."
Tim didn't speak. He should have known there was bad news coming the second he heard the seriousness in the speedster's tone.
"So what are you saying?"
"I'm saying that you should get comfortable, Rob. We might be stuck here."