Wally (part V)

Sorry for the filler chapter

It was all going too fast. Before she was training with Conner and then she was stolen at superspeed which reminded her of the way Wally used to pick her up and travel someplace else. The flash of yellow and red almost made her believe that it was Wally. But it wasn't Wally holding her but Bart. As quick as she was swept off her feet she was put back down. In the last place she wanted to be. Antarctica. Her eyes swept the area, not actually looking for the sake of her sanity. She marched over to Dick to whom she saw through the fuzzy snow. Probably because of his Nightwing suit that had been dyed green. Neon green. By the famous brothers she supposed.

"What is this?" Minding her language after glancing at the little boy who was currently sitting upon her friend's shoulders. Was that a brother?Dick looked up at her from a bunch of papers and frowned. "Haven't you been receiving my messages in morse code?"

"I have, I've just been ignoring them because they're all lies. Wally's gone Dick." She added in a sympathetic voice, remembering of the morse code taps on her door. The taps that told her that Wally was alive and she was going to see him again. What bullshit… that kept her awake all night with the possibility.

Dick rolled his eyes, "I brought you here because you'd kick my ass if this worked out and you weren't here. I'm not asking you to believe me, I just want you here." Artemis was going to argue further but the little boy riding Dick's shoulders gave her a really intimating glare and she gave up.

"So what's your plan?" Dick looked up at her, eyes full of gratitude. Her gaze swept the area that she was in but hadn't bothered to look at before. Rookie mistake. There was a massive, expensive looking tent, right next to the batplane (Did they steal it?), and inside, only seen through the opening flaps when Robin stepped out, was a medical bed surrounded by many machines and heaters. Robin approached them quickly, pulling his winter styled cape more tightly around him, reminding Artemis she was in workout gear and they were in the snow. She shivered slightly and waited until Dick started explaining.

"Wally is moving at a pace so fast that he's transparent. So Bart, Barry and Jay are going to help us reduce his speed even to catch him." Artemis nodded, seemed easy enough.

"Once he's stopped we're going to have to stabilise him and get him proper care before we can even think about moving him. Hence the get together." Artemis nodded once, shivering along with it.

"I'm going to need you to be the one to talk to the speedsters while we wait for Wally."

Artemis nodded and shivered once more, not for once believing his story but playing along. After this she would make sure he got the proper care needed. Not as full out as what they did to her, she wasn't a monster, but even just a full night's sleep and maybe a break from being Nightwing. And he should maybe keep a journal, those helped heaps. Wally was dead. Black Canary helped her realise this. Maybe she could help Dick realise this too.

She walked into the tent finding all three speedsters there, stretching their limbs and eating. Artemis was shocked at their activities and thinness of their uniforms. Usually heroes just burst into action, no need to stretch mainly because if there is a robbery going on there is no time to stretch. They've all dealt with the cramps and aches that come with not stretching. "They will be running faster and harder than what they've ever run before. And we decided to save weight and remove any armour to their uniform." Dick explained after seeing her shocked face. "From previous experiments and missions with the Reversed Flash we've figured there's an end to the supply of energy speedsters are supplied. If it was possible to do so without risking your lives we would have made the Reversed Flash also run."

Artemis noticed the speedster group was nodding along, bored, meaning they've already heard it before. Which means Dick was either rambling from nerves- a habit she thought he broke out of- or filling her in politely.

"So the plan is-" Dick supplied, "you three, "He pointed to the speedsters," are going to run across the world on the same route that Wally is, which I've already pointed out to you and set beacons so you know you're on the right track.. And you three, " He spun around pointing to three boys ranging in sizes and ages, obviously his brothers," plus me are going to wait for Wally to start appearing. When his appearance lasts longer than ten seconds we're going to trap him to get him to stop running and bring him here to stabilise him. For our years of experience of doing just that. "He shared a hard look at the boys, no doubt remembering them on their deathbeds.

"And Artemis," he said finally turning to her," you have the job to talk to them while they run and inform them of everything that's happening." Artemis nodded and seated herself in front of a monitor with three heartbeats, obviously Bart, Barry's and Jay's. Bart's was a bit sped up whether because that's his natural state, he was excited or nervous. She smiled encouraging at him and he smile back, a little shaky. Nervous then.

"Are we ready?" Dick asked, clapping his hands together and jittering as if he was also nervous. Everyone nodded with her and watched through the flaps as everyone got into positions.

If this worked…

Which it wouldn't

But if it did…

She wouldn't be so lonely anymore

She looked up in shock as Dick dropped a massive jumper on her, remembering only then that she was cold and probably shivering throughout that into meeting? Pep talk? Whatever it was.

"So since when did you become Santa's new elf?" She gestured to his neon green uniform.

He sighed, "A drunken bet with a sober brother." She smirked.

"Okay guys let's do this." Dick said into the microphone that she was to use when addressing each speedster. With a whoosh of a biting cold wind they took off and Dick walked out of the tent. Artemis watched the heartbeats slowly speed up. Artemis sighed.

It was all going so fast.