Kinda short chapter because I don't want to add in too much. Not proof read, don't complain because this is like a week early.
FUTURE - West Titan's Tower, Jump City 8:14 PM
Wally was sitting on his and Jinx's shared bed in thee Titans Tower. Due to the sudden crisis, they couldn't risk their identities but staying in their home in Keystone-Central.
He was tapping his foot at super speed then at a normal human pace. Inside of his head his thoughts were doing the same thing.
Jinx had gone to all the prisons that the former members of the HIVE were split up in to. The Titans after capturing the HIVE for the final time, each of the five were split into five different parts of the country. The main reason why they were able to escape so frequently was their ability to work well as a team. When Jinx was told of this, she felt a sense of pride. Despite her leaving, they still held a sense of teamwork.
Gizmo upon reaching his teen years decided that he wanted to leave behind crime and try to be a successful engineer. He was on that path to recovery with all the community service hours. The government found his work in hacking to be phenomenal and through extremely supervised supervision, Mikron was granted a position in designing part of the U.S. firewall program.
Mammoth - Barron stuck with Gizmo in D.C. serving as head of the United States Secret Service. She felt joy when she found out that they stuck together all these years.
Jinx had touched down in D.C. with Raven first thing the following day after sending Irey and Jai to the past.
Mikron, like she suspected, had no contact at all with his former teammate. His big eyes widened even more when Jinx told him about what had happened the previous day. Mikron didn't even know Seymour had it in him. Barron had the same view point, he knew at that point in his life he only listened to things he wanted to listen to.
The next person she visited wasn't that hard to find.
Wykkyd now known as Wyatt was in the least favorable part of town in Jump. For some reason, he hasn't told the rest of the rehabilitated HIVE, he wanted to stick around the place that he was found in as a kid. The little orphanage he cared for was a nice establishment compared to the ones they had to endure as children and she was happy all the work he had done. His child care service specialized in meta-human children and helping their non-meta parents help them with their powers. Back in his time, non-meta parents with meta children just threw the child out.
Wykkyd was also surprised by See-more's actions. And this time, Jinx found somewhat of a motive behind his actions.
"Do you know of any reasoning why he would do this? It's been years, Wy."
Wyatt finished signing his last paper and looked at a seated Linda Park-West in front of him.
"When you left the HIVE Five, See-more changed. He wasn't the same forgiving, kind kid we all knew before."
"You're saying that you're not surprised by his actions? Mike said he had no idea."
Wyatt shook his head. "Giz was too young as much as he hates to admit. Soon after you turned sides we did too. Barron, Mike, and me had the closest connection to you. Our whole lives we followed your example and we still do."
Linda looked into his eyes and swore she saw a hint of red in them.
"Seymour fell darker into the pit than any of us ever did."
PRESENT - Mid Colorado 11:35 AM
Kid saw ahead through his blurry vision he was passing the Colorado Springs. Right now, he was moving past the sound of sound and contemplated going lightspeed.
He had to get out of there. What she said,
I'm not sure about our future now.
He nearly stopped on the road he was on.
I just need to think things through.
The sound of the wind from his run made the metal on the Royal Gorge Bridge and Park ding like a bell.
The world felt silent for a bit and Wally wanted to scream out. He wanted to yell and thrash about his frustrations.
The silence was interrupted when a girl was heard crying and a boy yelling. Kid turned his head sharply and found a small little girl clinging onto his shins.
He saw the lightning trailing behind the boy with dark hair and his eyes widened.
"Get off of me!"
Normally, Kid wouldn't be so cold but today was not his day, and these kids had powers.
Irey was roughly shoved from her father. The same blue eyes she got from the being in front of her watered and she sobbed. The canyon under them amplified the sound.
"Irey!" the dark haired boy put a hand on her shoulder, but she shrugged him off and ran in super speed to her dad.
"Daddy! You and Mommy scared us, why would you do that?" Irey sobbed at mach 1 while Kid tried to push her off once more, only to have no luck.
He finally breathed out, his temper almost getting the best of him.
"Little girl, I am not your Daddy. I can help you and your brother find your parents if you let go of meEee-!" He tried to pry her off his shin again.
Irey let go and stood her full three feet. "Yes you are!" Her blue eyes were clouded with something familiar.
"You're the second Flash and your name is Wallace Rudolph West."
Kid's eyes widened and they narrowed in the same way the little girl's did. He just now noticed her uniform didn't have a flash insignia on it. Kid grabbed her by the front of it and held her up so they could be eye level.
Jai's eyes widened at this. In all his years, his father had never hurt either one of them.
"Who are you?!" He yelled at Irey's face who was sobbing again. "I asked, who are you?!"
"Stop it! You put my sister down!" Jai flashed over to him to try and knock him down, to no avail. Kid was used to sudden movements.
"No! Who are you?!"
Irey was pulling at his bigger hands and crying hard. She pulled her mask off of her little face to reveal freckles splayed across her upper cheeks and the bridge of her nose.
"My name is Iris West the II and my parents are Wallace Rudolph West and Linda Jinx Park!"
Kid felt something inside him drop. His grip loosened and Irey slipped out to be caught by Jai.
Jai was fawning over his sister, checking for injuries. Kid snapped out of his thoughts and reached a hand out to help, but Jai flashed them a few feet away.
The boy's eyes showed fear and anger towards the person in front of him.
Kid put one foot forward, still with his outstretched hand, "Stop, no, I can help-"
"You've done enough!" Jai moved some hair out of Irey's still wet cheek, "We want our Mommy!"
Kid looked down at his hands and then at Irey clutching the same spot he held her up.
"Follow me then," Jai still looked uncertain, but put Irey on his back.
Kid felt immense guilt when Irey locked eyes with him, but quickly looked away.
West Teen Titans, Jump City 11:51 AM
Jinx was laying on her bed. Still replaying what she said to Wally before he left. And the face he had on when he left. Raven had tried to come and confront her about what had happened, but she wouldn't open the door.
There was a knock on the door, but it wasn't like Raven's. It was hard and it was rapid.
She quietly padded to the door in her white camisole and baby pink shorts.
"Yeah-?" She let out an oof when a fast force knocked into her and stayed hugging her thighs.
She heard crying, coming from a little girl and both her thighs were getting wet. Kid was looking down at his boots, not meeting her eyes.
"Wally, what's going on?" She stared at him and expected him to look up and answer her.
He didn't look up at her and answered, "They'll explain everything, I don't think they want me here."
With that said, he left the sobbing children in the company of their mother.
12:05 PM
Irey and Jai properly introduced themselves as her twin children after Irey stopped her sobbing. Jai wouldn't admit it, but he had to wipe a few tears away as well. They were really shaken up after what happened with their dad.
Jinx was seated with her legs crossed and Irey embracing her close. Jai was sitting close to Jinx while she was consoling her newfound child. They had changed into some left over pajamas Timmy and Teether left behind.
"I don't get it Mommy," Irey still had a hint of a sob in her voice as she spoke into the crook of her mother's neck.
Jinx continued to rub her back soothingly. "What don't you get, baby?"
Irey's little hands clenched and unclenched on her mom's long pink hair.
"Daddy had never looked so scary and he never hurt me like that."
Jinx knew they would get to talking about Wally before they fell asleep.
"Well, Irey, your Daddy had no idea you were his little babygirl. He probably saw you guys had powers and thought you were up to no good."
Jinx continued, "Your Daddy would never hurt either one of you, or me, do you understand?"
The twins sleepily nodded and after a few minutes they fell asleep. Before she left, Jinx arranged pillows around the two to make sure they wouldn't roll off the bed in their sleep. She also grabbed her phone and took a picture of the two twins sleeping close to each other.
When she arrived in the ops room, Raven and Robin were already sitting on the island waiting for her arrival.
"Kid didn't say anything to us when he showed up with two toddlers in spandex, so I'm hoping you'll explain what's going on."
Jinx handed her phone to Robin with the picture of the twins. She stalked to the fridge to get water and talked as she looked into it.
"The little boy's name is Jai Park-West and the girl's name is Iris Park-West the II. They're twins and if you didn't catch on by their last names, they're mine and Wally's kids."
Robin raised a brow under his mask.
"I knew Wall was fast, but I didn't know he was that fast."
Jinx took a seat on the other side of him and hit him on the back of his head, snatching her phone back.
"They're four years old and from what they told me, future us threw them through a portal to this specific time period. The little things don't know why and we don't have any way of contacting our future selves."
"Not to mention," Raven spoke up, "there is a possibility of breaking this reality's universe by talking to your future selves, so that's a big no no."
Robin nodded.
"I guess all we can do is take care of them until their parents come and get them. For all we know, we could be protecting them from some threat in their time period."
Both girls nodded.
"Why didn't Wally stick around? I know he loves kids, and kids of his own must be something," Robin asked Jinx.
Jinx cleared her throat.
"He kinda, scared them a little." Robin laughed and Raven smiled somewhat.
"What are you talking about? Wally has no ounce of terrifying in him."
Jinx looked away and said, "I asked him for something like a break before the twins found him so he probably wasn't in the right state of mind when he was threatening him."
Robin did a double take.
"You guys are taking a break?" Raven intervened, "There is no such thing as a break, Jinx, you're either together or not."
Jinx rolled her eyes and looked at Raven.
"We're not breaking up Raven, I just told him I need to think things through first."
Robin made a clicking sound.
"You know Wally, Jinx. He's an old fashioned guy, he doesn't see things like you do at times. What Raven said applies to his mentality."
Jinx rested her face on her hand and continued to listen.
"You see," Robin turned to look at her, "if you don't make things clear to Wally, he'll think of-"
". . . the first thing to come into mind," Jinx finished off, "I know, Dick. I've had enough experiences with Wally the puppy to know where his mind goes."
Raven locked eyes with Jinx, "Don't you see it Jinx? If he doesn't think you guys are together, then he thinks you guys are broken up."
The realization hit Jinx like a truck and she sat frozen in her chair.
In the hall behind the three Titans stood a three foot dark-haired boy with misty hazel brown eyes.