Cave Justice, December 1, 2035, 11:59 PM... 23 days and 23 hours and 1 minute until Christmas Day

"Dammit, you have no atheistic." Rui said to Savannah who was hanging lights in the cave's living room.

"What does that mean?" Savannah asked. That's when Rui lost it, she put on her beetle armor and flew over ripping the green lights off of the wall.

"The theme is red with light traces of green, how do you not understand that too much green will ruin everything!" Rui ranted. Savannah looked at Blue Beetle like she was a cyclops. Rui then grabbed some blue lights and hung them.

"Sexy." She said, Savanna walked away to the tree where Dylan was adjusting the star.

"Should we do a star or an angle?" Dylan asked showing two boxes to Abby.

"I'd go with the angle, because the star is cliche." Abby said, then her phone rang.

"Yeah, really!" She said to the phone.

"Guys, Micheal found a better tree at Lowes, take this one down!" Abby said throwing her phone onto the couch and started taking decor off of the tree. Dylan then walked into the kitchen and saw Marine and Kid Martian making cookies.

"So, you guys are like a, thing?" Dylan asked, Sam jumped and blushed.

"No, we are just friends dude, like how you and Terry were friends." Sam said slowing his speech as Terry walked in. The boy wonder was in his pajamas and opened the fridge to take out a gallon of milk and chugged it straight from the bottle.

"So, Damian said he'd buy me a new phone for Christmas, he's a liar." Terry said walking to the cookie sheet, taking a chunk of dough and ate it. He put the milk on the counter and sat at the table, started doing the crossword from a newspaper Sam had found.

''So Dylan, have you heard from your boy toy this week, since he's in New York." Terry asked Dylan distractedly. Dylan crossed his arms and raised a brow at the boy who wouldn't even look at him.

"Yeah, Bryce called me when he got off the plane." Dylan said, Marine told Dylan in sign language that she would like to meet 'Bryce'. Dylan nodded.

"I dunno about that Mary, he's not into the whole superhero thing." Dylan said, putting the milk Terry neglected back in the fridge. Mary frowned and went back to playing tetris on her phone.

Then Rupert walked into the room, he was in his underwear and grabbed some cheese from the fridge.

"So, the Titans are having this huge ass party for Christmas, and of course we can't have any fun parties." Rupert said, he munched on the cheese stick.

"Well, um, I guess we still have a lot on our plates this year." Dylan said, visibly trying to ignore Rupert's abs.

"Guys!" Abby said running in, "You have to get to the mission room."


The team assembled in the mission room where Ginny and Red Robin were talking about weird sightings of a speedster they could not identify.

"So, we need you to track this speedster, and see if he is friend or foe." Ginny said, Abby and Dylan exchanged glances. Kat did the same with them. They had a hunch, but it was outlandish.

"Shadow, Cosmo, Surge, Velocity, the four of you will go to where we spotted him in Tampa, Florida." Ginny said, she then told Beetle, Impulse, HawkGirl and Robin to go to Keystone. And finally Red Streak(Jai), Batgirl, Roulette, and Black Arrow to take the bio ship with Marine and Kid Martian to Hawaii.


Honolulu, Hawaii, December 2, 2035, 3:30 AM

"Kid, drop us down here, and get you and the others to Seattle." Batgirl said, the door of the bio ship opened as Carrie, Jai, and Micheal jumped out.

They landed on the beach. "Guys, do you really think that footage is real?" Jai asked.

"Kid , I dunno." Carrie said as they walked up the boardwalk. Then they were intercepted by Snowstorm and Pounce.

"What, did you not think we didn't detect you landing on our beach?" Pounce said, her twisted grin pierced into Batgirl's eyes. Carrie the reached behind her cape and took out her tonfa. She stared down Pounce dead in the eyes.

"Roulette, take Storm, Streak, go find the wharehouse." Batgirl said, as Jai ran off, Micheal drew two short blades from his belt and ran at Snowstorm who shot ice at him. Pounce looked at the attack on her teammate, then Batgirl came down with a vertical strike on her shoulders.

"Focus Pounce, don't want me to beat you do you?" Carrie joked as Pounce ran at her, Carrie flipped over Pounce.

"Is that all you got?" Batgirl asked, Pounce then drew her claws and slashed at Carrie, who dodged the attacks.

"I'll show you everything I got!" Pounce yelled, as she well pounced at Carrie.

"I guess it's much much you got." The Batgirl laughed.


Tampa, Florida, December 2, 2035, 5:55 AM

The team sat in restaurant waiting for further orders from Ginny. As they and everyone else came up with the same thing. Nothing.

"So, we are postponing the clone investigation for this?" Rupert asked, the others nodded.

"Okay, so say we never find this guy, could it be someone jsut seeing things." Rupert asked.

"We have camera evidence of him." Kat said, Rupert bit a lip and nodded.

"Well, I think it's safe to say, holy shit!" Rupert said, Abby raised a brow.

"What?" She said, Dylan turned her to the window where they saw a weird monster looking experiment.

"Jesus, Cadmus needs to stop doing this shit." Kat said, taking out her suit.

They ran outside suited up ready to fight it, then they saw a streak of dark red and yellow zoomed by and took the monster away.

"What the!" Kat said. Dylan went to run after but Abby put a hand on his shoulder.

"Too fast for you to catch up dude." Abby said, Dylan shrugged and turned on his com.

"Ginny, calm down, he's what, at base." Dylan said.

"Cosmo, get us to Cave Justice now." Dylan said to Abby. She opened a portal and they ran through it.


Cave Justice

Once they got there they saw the others knocked down and on the floor with a clone of Wonder Boy standing over them who was fighting what appeared to be the mystery speedy guy.

"The hell?" Rupert said as he went in to attack 'Jacob'.

The clone saw this coming and created a sword from a shadow and slashed at him. Surge jumped over it. Then he didn't land, he opened his eyes.

"Guys I can fly!" He said as he was speared through the shoulder into a wall. Kat dived at Wonder Boy and slapped him with her whip.

"Wonder Boy, it's us, your friends." She said then she was tossed aside. Abby teleported over and kicked him over the head, her leg was grabbed and she was thrown into Velocity who was coming at them fast. He caught he and dropped her to the floor, he slide backwards under a sword being swung at him. He shot up and kicked Wonder Boy in the stomach. He then had his leg snapped in half. He yelped in pain as he grabbed hi throbbing left leg. Then the unnamed speedster grabbed Wonder Boy and threw him into a wall, and into a cell where they would have kept prisoners. He locked it and stood there with the team who gathered to him.

"Who are you?" Kat asked, then he took off his red mask. His brown hair was pulled out of the top of cowl and fell onto his face, he brushed it to the side and smiled at the others.

"Hey guys." Brendon said, he smiled at them.

"Brendon?" Terry said limping over.

"Yeah, I'm here but no for lon-" He said as a crack of lightning hit him in the back.

"What's going on?" Beetle asked, her scarab answered that Brendon was being pulled back to the speed force.

"I'm going home." He said as the shocks eased, "Can't keep a presence here much longer, guys I love you, I may not have been here the whole time and probably not the nicest guy around, but you taught me that I'm not the center of the universe, and to be humble. You showed me love, and hate, and how to feel, now I thank you, and tell you to keep doing that for each other, we are strong, and because of you guys I can finally be laid to rest with love in my heart and joy in my brain." He said as he started to fade away, then Abby grabbed his hand and tried to pull him out of the lightning, Kat joined grabbing his other hand. Yesenia the grabbed Abby's hand to help, Terry with Kat, and then Dylan limped over and grabbed Terry, and Rupert grabbed Yesenia. They pulled on Brendon, to get him out of the storm in the room.

Guys it's not going to work." Brendon said, as he screamed being torn between realms. Beetle and Batgirl exchanged glances and joined in. Then within a minute the whole team started pulling him out of the speed force. Then suddenly the storm stopped. They huddled around each other and waited. They all got up and in the center sat Brendon in his old suit torn up with lightning generating off of him. They all went back to helping each other heal their wounds while Kat, Abby and Dylan sat with Brendon in the middle of the room.

"Damn, this is weird, actually felling my own body." Brendon said, he stared at his hands in awe. His cousin patted him on the back.

"Well, I got to go tell Bart, I swear he's going to have heart attack." Dylan said as he limped away. That left Brendon sitting with the girls.

"My gosh, it's really you." Kat said crying, she hugged him tightly. Tears streaming out of her eyes and onto his almost bare chest.

He returned the embrace.

"Yeah Kit Kat, it's me, I'm back." He said, starting to cry as well.

"Oh shit, I need to go with Dylan, he's going to need a witness." Kat said, winking at Abby. Abby rolled her eyes. Kat got up and ran after Dylan, leaving Abby and Brendon sitting in silence. He grabbed her hand and smiled at her softly. She returned it, a tear streamed down her face.

"Abby," He said.

"Yes." She replied.

"I love you." He said, she then grabbed him in a hug.

"I really thought it was the end for me." He said laughing a nit, the two stood to their feet holding onto each other. Abby smiled.

"Guess I'm an idiot in that regard." He joked. Abby wrapped her arms around his neck and he placed his hands on her hips.

"In more regards than one." Abby said, then she went up and placed a kiss on his lips.

"Abigail." Brendon said breaking the kiss.

"Yes, Mr. Allen." She replied.

"Do you want to go out with me?" He asked.

"No duh." She said kissing him again.