Chapter 4

If you've read any of the other chapters (if you haven't this will be very confusing), then you know the drill. Recognize it? Don't own it. Don't recognize it and I don't explain? Ask me and I will.

"Do I get an explanation?" Oliver demanded the second the sleep deprived archers entered the foundry the next morning.

"A prankster friends of mine who happened to be a meta visited, me and Roy gave chase." Artemis said as she sat down.

"I don't believe that for a second Felicity."

"It's the truth." Artemis said. Technically, she wasn't lying. Wally did have a talent for pranks. And when Roy and Artemis had started running, they had started chasing a solution to help Wally.

"Oh, we got a call from STAR labs." Diggle said.

"How's Barry?" Artemis asked.

"Powerless. They're going to make another accelerator explosion with the stuff that made him the type of meta he is to get them back."

"Really?" Artemis asked. "Wouldn't that be dangerous?"

"From what I understand, he could disintegrate." Diggle said.

"What?" Artemis said. That's how Bart had described Wally's 'death'.

"They're insane." Oliver muttered. "I'm going to go talk some sense into them."

"I can go!" Artemis offered. She was willing to bet this was what Bart had been talking about, just a bit earlier. "No offense, but I think I'm better in the area of kindly persuading without threats." How ironic. she thought. When she was Tigress, or even still the green clad Artemis, nobody would have thought that of her.

"The labs may not be safe if they're making another explosion." Oliver protested.

"Exactly. This city needs you and Diggle. If anything happened to you to to put you out of commission, this city would be without its vigilante. I can do my job with a broken leg, you can't. And that's if the explosion goes wrong. They have it contained this time."

"They did last time too."

"Eobard Thawne wanted it to blow."

"Just let her go Oliver." Diggle said. "She's right."

"Thank you." she told him.

"Hey, I didn't say I approve, I said it was the right choice."

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"Seriously?" Bart asked.

"I'll be fine." she protested.

"It goes wrong. Barry gets sucked into the speed force, and two more speedsters are made."

"And everybody else there?" she asked.

"Is fine." he admitted.

"Exactly. I'm gonna have to hang up now I'm here." she said. She had been on the phone with Bart, and had arrived at Star labs.

"Be safe." he said.

"When am I not?"

"Think about that for a second."

"Bye Bart. I'll call you when it's over."

"You better."

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"Felicity?" Barry asked as she walked into the cortex. Everybody looked up in surprise.

"Oliver sent me. Said you're going to set off another explosion."

"We'll leave you to talk privately." Caitlin said. The rest of the team quickly departed.

"Are you going to tell be to not be stupid?" Barry asked her.

"No that's Oliver's message." she said. "I want to tell you to do what you think is best, and if you do go through with it, don't die."

"Really?" Barry asked. "No your powers aren't worth it lecture?"

"No lecture. I only want to tell you to do what you think is best."

"Barry it's time!" Harry yelled.

"Well?" she asked him. "What are going to do? What is the best option?"

He seemed to hesitate for a second. "Going through with it." he said.

"Then why are you still standing here?" she asked. "Go."

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"Ready?" Harry asked the depowered scarlet speedster. He nodded, and glanced at Artemis, who was leaning in the doorway. She gave him an encouraging nod.

"Let's do this." he said, sounding confident, but Artemis could hear the faint nervousness underneath.

The machine went off, and he dissolved, the waves rolling outwards. As they passed Artemis, who had stepped out of the way, she saw saw a yellow blur, much more clear, running at the front of it. Her eyes widened. "Wally!" she called. Nobody else heard her over all the noise, but the blur changed course, and ran to her.

"I'm back Artie. I'll wait for you behind the building."

Her heart was pounding so much, she had forgotten to withdraw her hand from where she'd reached for Wally. "Ow." she hissed as the waves collided with the tips of her fingers.

"Barry!" she heard Iris cry. She looked over and saw everybody's horrified looks at where Barry had been. After acting distressed, even though she knew he would be fine, she walked out of the hall and found Jesse and the other Wally in the West family.

"You're family just can't stay away from this, can they?" she whispered, crouching down next to him. She was willing to bet Iris and Barry ended up together. "Joe! Harry!" she called. They came rushing to their children. While Wally woke up right away, Jesse wouldn't. Silently, she snuck away to behind the building. As she turned the corner, her breath caught in her throat.

"Wally." she whispered. Wally was standing right there, waiting for her. He had changed out of his old Kid Flash suit, and had on normal clothing.

"Miss me?" he asked.

"You have no idea." she murmured as she ran to him and embraced him.

"I'm sorry I took so long." he said.

"You better be." she told him, leaning back to see his face. "If you ever go missing for this long ever again, you are a dead man.

"I figured." he told her with a smile.

"Here." she said, them reached up and kissed him. They held it so long they barely had time for Wally to hide when they heard footsteps approaching.

"Hey." Caitlin said. "Are you ok?"

"I blame myself." she told her. "Oliver sent me here to convince him not to, but I told him to do what he thought was right instead. Now he's dead because of it."

"It was everybody's fault Felicity." she said. "Or, at least all of us feel like it's our fault."

"Caitlin!" Cisco called from inside. "We need you!"

"Come on." Caitlin said, helping Artemis to her feet. "Let's go see what they want."

"Can I stay out here a bit longer?" Artemis asked.

"Fine, but it's not good for you to be on your own." Caitlin cautioned. "Come in soon." She left around the corner.

"Is she gone?" Wally asked, speeding to her side again.

"You can see that she is." Artemis teased. "So, what happened?"

"I was trapped somewhere. I could see things going on, but I couldn't do anything. I followed you, and eventually felt you like, pulling me. I got about halfway out when the connection seemed to snap. Then I felt there was going to be a big release of whatever energy was in that place, and I rode it the rest of the way out."

"You make it sound so simple." she murmured into his chest.

"It felt like it. Even though I feel like I could run forever now."

"Bart came up with a theory that said that would happen." Then Artemis mentally smacked herself. "I told him I'd call him to make sure I was ok when this was over."

"Can I say hi?" Wally asked mischievously.

"You'll scare him half to death."

"Exactly."

Artemis sighed and called Bart.

"Artemis? Are you ok?" was the first thing he said.

"This was an amazingly successful trip." she said. Then she sighed. "Why am I doing this?" she muttered as she passed the phone to Wally.

"Doing what?" Bart asked.

"Hey!" Wally said cheerfully into the phone. Suddenly Bart had sped there with his phone, and was hugging Wally.

"You're alive!" he cheered.

"Quiet." Artemis reminded them. "We don't want Barry's team hearing us."

"We've seen and heard plenty." came Harry's voice from the corner Caitlin had walked around. With him were the rest of team flash.

Here's my attempt at a cliffhanger, hope it leaves you in suspense!

Happy reading!

-LeiaKasta