Author Notes:

Hey! I'm Starglitch and I'm new to this website and community! this is my first fic, and I'm challenging myself a bit since dialogue heavy writing isn't my forte, so I'm hoping for some constructive criticism.

Just a quick bit about the characters so you don't get confused.

Third Eye aka Mary Grayson | Daughter of Nightwing and Oracle

Kid Flash aka Iris II (Irey) West | Daughter of Flash and Tigress

Ren aka Raoi Todd | Son of Red Hood and Artemis of Bana-Mighdall

Zatara aka Zachary Zatara | Son of Zatanna and John Constantine

Eclipse aka Eddie Grange | Son of his parents

Everyone except Kid Flash and Third Eye aren't playing any major parts in the story,
be noted that part of this chapter may be rewritten seeing as I'm writing a time travel story and I'm trying to avoid plot holes. (Though that may still happen)

That's it, Hope you Enjoy!

Keystone City | March 17th 18:27 EST

Sometime in the Future

"Alpha squad everyone in position?"

"Affirmative."

"Yep!"

"Yeah boss."

"Got eyes on the sucker, he's waiting in front of the warehouse."

"The contact and his party are about two miles out."

"Good, Ren and Zatara get ready to intercept them." Both boys gave sounds of acknowledgment.

"Eclipse, Kid Flash keep your eyes on Interia, make sure he doesn't make it to Professor Baxter."

She got a whine from Eclipse and a resigned "yes ma'am," in response from Kid flash.

She sighed. "I'm going in, wait for the signal."

Third Eye pulled her hood over her head, activating her suit's cloaking mechanism. She slunk over towards a lone robot that had wandered away from the others stationed around the wearhouse, a rather annoying gift to Interia from Deathstroke.

She slid down the mound leaving a trail of dust in her wake and pressed herself against the curve of the hill, sticking to the shadows as she closed in on her target.

Pulling her staff out of its hold she extended it and made quick work of the robot.

Third stretched her hands out and cracked her knuckles. "Alrighty, let's see what we got."

The red head yanked open the hatch to reveal a blinking circuit board covered by a mess of wires. She smirked, pulled out her holo glove and got to work.

Kid Flash, tapped her foot impatiently against the rock scowling as she heard a crackle from the comms which meant that Third Eye had likely already started to hack some HIVE bot.

She glanced at her partner who was draped over a rock, his contacts causing his eyes to now be tinted an unnatural shade of blue as opposed to their regular dark brown.

She groaned. "E, the blonde copycat do anything yet?"

Eclipse adopted a slightly exasperated expression. (He was probably about as entertained as she was.)

"Nope, he's just standing there lookin bored, sorry KF."

Kid Flash sighed, slunk down onto her back and resigned herself to boredom.

The team had been sent out to intercept Interia's shipment of Velocity 9 from a scientist from S.T.A.R Labs who had the gall to steal the serum and think he could get away with it; especially when he took it from Central City of all places.

Kid Flash idly wondered what could possess people to be so dumb. The only problem was Deathstroke had given Interia some robots as some sort of bribe to join a knockoff version of the light, so they'd have to wait until those were out of commission till they could attack.

She grumbled.

Man, Zatara and Ren get to have all the fun, while she and Eddie, the most antsy squad members, have to sit behind a boulder watching the dumb blonde clone of her cousin. Bart looks so much better as a redhead.

She's brought out of her musings by E's voice clear in one ear, and crackling in the other.

"Hey guys, he looks like he's about to move,"

"Third you finish with those HIVE Bots?"

"Almost just give me- "

There was a collective whirring noise as the bots shut down. Then the shuffling of feet, and a distant chanting of a spell in her ear.

"Package is secure," said Ren.

"Alright E, KF move in," Third instructed.

Finally.

Kid Flash sped down from her perch, spinning her fist causing it to spiral with lightning, Aiming the punch at the offending blonde, she pulled her arm back and let the energy shoot forward. Interia, yelped and shot backwards. Once regaining his focus he scowled in her direction.

"Kid Flash! honestly I was hoping for someone else."

"Yeah figures, but no drug-dealers will be joining us tonight."

Interia growled and leapt into the fray. The two speedsters were a blur of yellow and red lightning, twisting and swerving across the landscape.

Kid flash managed to latch onto Interia's forearm and swung him towards the trees. In a flicker of black and white Eclipse appeared behind the blonde, he latched onto him from behind and grit his teeth as he sent positive and negative energy through the rouge's body.

The clone screeched in pain and threw Eclipse forward using his speed. He dashed off toward where his shipment was, Kid flash on his heels.

The two speedsters began to circle each other in a mass of lightning and energy. The surrounding dry bushes creaked, and dust whipped into the air twisting and turning in an angry cloud of wind and warm colored lightning.

Taking a page from her book, Interia reared back his forearm. Crimson fingers of electricity struck Kid flash, earning a pained yell. That the rouge used to his advantage as he slammed into the teen. Despite both speeders having stopped running the cyclone still persisted.

Interia had straddled Kid Flash and had clasped his hand around her neck. The clone's arm was held menacingly above Kid Flash's chest vibrating, with all intent to remove the life beating organ.

She could wait any longer.

Third eye jumped in blasting Interia with a wave of kinetic energy that had been collected in her gloves. Sending him flying into the air; the action inviting KF to use her conduit ability. Her chest heaved with a large breath as she took in all the flaring energy around them, causing her torso to burn with fluorescent light. With a forward flex of her muscles and a scream she released the surge of power towards the dark speedster, causing a loud ring to emanate around the hills, and swallowing every figure in white brilliance.

Taos | March 17th 22:30 MST

It's Dark.

Her muscles are stiff and she can feel them beginning to numb.

Mary takes in a shaky breath and reaches out, (bad idea.)

Pain shoots through her body, encompassing her every nerve.

She doesn't scream, she doesn't cry. (Bats don't cry)

Instead she hisses and carefully retracts her arm. The movement sends her into a sharp vertigo. The sensation seems slightly familiar, and not in a good way.

The thoughts in her head turn from dizzying confusion to fear.

She calms herself, like she's trained to do, and let's her senses comprehend the situation.

Mary takes in the sounds of the night air, and cars in the distance. She's strewn across concrete ground, eyes sealed shut in pain. She attempts opening them only to be hit with that stupid sense of vertigo again.

(Please don't let it mean what I think it means.)

'Okay,' she thinks to herself as she tries to sit up.

'Stay whelmed.' 'What's the last thing I remember?'

The team was on a mission, she recalls she was on Alpha squad with four others. Something with a stolen serum. It was around evening, and they had split up. There was a flashy cyclone. She jumped in front of someone, and everything went white after that.

Ok well, not the best information, but she'll make due. She hears a small moan off to her left and her heart stops.

Irey.

Mary turned sharply to the left; pain flared up in her side, but she ignored it, crawling towards her friend.

Irey's body was twitching and writhing, her back bouncing up and down on the concrete with heaving breaths. Her eyebrows were drawn together, And her sweat-matted hair was strewn across her face. She had a split lip that was gushing blood that painted her clenched, chattering teeth crimson. Her eyes held unsheathed tears and sclera that danced with yellow strings of lighting.

Mary's brain froze at the grotesque sight before she folded her legs under her, and grabbed her friends shoulders.

"Irey? Irey can you hear me!" Mary pressed.

The older teen gave a minute nod. Mary figured she'd take it.

"Ok, ok easy." She soothed.

"We're gonna try and get traught alright?" "I need you to count to three as you breathe in, hold it, and then count to three as you breathe out. We're gonna try and get to ten. Can you do that for me?"

Irey let out a strangled gurgle, but her chest began to rise and fall systematically.

"Alright that's it." Mary whispered.

"Just keep going; You're doing great Rey."

Irey's dry heaving eventually came to a stop. She gave a long contained breath and curled into herself.

Mary leaned forward, peering into Irey's pain drawn face. "You back with me?"

Irey nodded sluggishly, leaning more into Mary's chest.

"What happened?" Irey rasped.

"I think we may have had a dimensional accident." murmured Mary.

Irey gave a breathless cynical scoff. "Hmm, what makes you say that?"

Mary gestured to their current unknown location and the Ford Mustang parked across the street. Irey squinted her eyes, and her lips turned down.

"yeesh, this place's got retro cars and all." Irey drawled.

"So time travel or an alternate universe? She continued.

"Not sure," Mary replied, "we'll have to get some more info after we find a place to crash."

Mary gathered her arms under Irey's armpits, and began to pull her up. She slung her friend's arm over her shoulder and placed hers around the girl's middle. They began to make the trudge to the tacky AirBnB they spotted across from their landing spot.

Mary's eyes swept over her surroundings. Her gaze latched on to a billboard looming over the street, and her mouth fell open aghast. As if it was mocking them, the cursed thing read in big, bold lettering:

Are you ready for 2021?

Dang it.

The girls are in for a ride! Feel free to review and ask questions, and thanks for reading!