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Chapter 6: Questioning Authority (Robin's POV)

I knew the League was wrong about this. What could they be thinking!? This isn't the way to solve this mystery.

Kid Flash was laying unconscious at our feet. I could tell Aqualad was uncomfortable with what we were ordered to do to our newest teammate, but when the League gives orders, they are always obeyed. Mostly.

"I don't like this, Robin. You can't be serious about letting them just have him. He's the last speedster Earth has." I crouched down, taking three tracking bugs out of my utility belt and placing them in Kid Flash's left boot, his right glove, and against the middle of his collarbone. After I placed those, I activated the three other tracking devices that I had built into his suit without anyone the wiser.

"We can't go against the League about this. But I never told them that he wouldn't be going alone." Wonder Girl floated up from the water behind us, dripping wet.

"Aren't you two ready yet? Superboy and Green Lantern can't keep them busy forever." Speedy ran down the dock with two duffel bags full of black clothes.

"Got them. C'mon, we need to hurry up." She tossed the bags at us before she knelt next to Kid Flash, taking out two pairs of electric bindings that we'd found on a number of black-clad soldiers from the Flash Museum kidnapping.

As the three of us changed, Speedy tied Kid Flash up and activated the oxygen in the modified mask before putting it over his nose and mouth. After making sure Matt and Wanda looked adequate, I crouched next to our speedster, checking to make sure he was secured but not tied too tightly. Matt hefted our limp teammate over his shoulder and started down the dock for the hover car we were going to use to get into the main ship. As he set Kid Flash carefully into the vehicle, I climbed behind the wheel with Wanda in the seat next to me.

"Do you think we look old enough to fool them?" Tanya hopped into the seat behind me, more than ready to go into deep cover.

"We'll be fine, Wanda. I'd be more worried about what they might do to Kid Flash if we're separated from him." I glanced back at her.

"That won't happen. One of us will be within reach of him at all times. Understood?" My closest currently helpless cousin wasn't about to be put in any situation without immediate back-up from one of his teammates. Justice League be damned; Kid Flash is a Titan, and I myself am the leader of the Titans.

I activated the vehicle and sped out from under the docks, making Matt and Tanya get a grip on Kid Flash so he wouldn't slide around. We shot through the aerial battle and straight to the main ship that was still hovering far over the Tower. As soon as we were near, a hatch opened on the bottom of the ship and I maneuvered the hover car into the cargo bay in front of several other ships and hover cars that were actually covering us from behind. The hatch closed quicker than I expected and we were on the enemy's ship. Wanda shot me a glance as several of the black-clad soldiers advanced on our hover car, all weapons at the ready until they saw Kid Flash out cold in the back. They all cheered and congratulated us on a job well done. We were officially behind enemy lines.

I could feel the Gs as the ship rocketed out of Earth's atmosphere. Strapped into a chair near the cell that Kid Flash was in, I glanced at the others to check on their reactions to the force the ship was putting us all through. Wanda looked bored, Tanya had her teeth clenched, and it looked like Matt had already passed out. None of us were expecting to go into space. That was why no one found the speedsters yet. Everyone had been concentrating on searching the Earth. Not off-world. But that still didn't explain why we were headed to the one place not one of us had ever expected to be en route to.

As soon as I was aboard the ship, I got to a computer and downloaded the flight plan. When I saw where we were headed, my mind reeled. The ship full of trained speedster kidnappers was headed for the Justice League Watchtower on the Moon. It would take us 30 hours just to get there. That was most of the time we had before Kid Flash would start to stir; and I only had one dose of the speedster sedative. It wasn't until I delved a little deeper into the flight plans that I found out we'd only be at the Watchtower for an hour and a half before traveling on to a more permanent location. ETA to the last stop: another 30 hours. I immediately started planning with Wanda and Tanya about getting into the Watchtower and getting at least two more doses of sedative while Matt, finally waking up halfway there, would stay to watch over our helpless speedster.

I was estimating on only being out of the docked ship for 30 minutes. My estimation was extremely off. The Watchtower base was much bigger than I had originally expected, and finding the med lab without arising suspicion took at least twice as long. While going through the Watchtower's hallways, I understood why it had been so easy for the kidnappers to be anonymous to the entire League. The enemy's ship had been cloaked to look like a cargo ship long before getting close to the Watchtower and the hallways were filled with personnel wearing the exact same outfit the speedster kidnappers had all changed into before docking. There were at least twenty five personnel to each hero registered in the Justice League. Even if someone were to get onto the kidnappers' ship, the area currently holding Kid Flash was behind a false metal wall that had been made well.

All those precautions the kidnappers took to hide right under the League's nose didn't quite help us though. Our civilian faces were known to certain heroes in the League that we had to avoid at all costs or else blow our cover. It was only ten minutes before the ship was to leave that we managed to get back with only a few close calls with Green Arrow and Batman. While we waited for the ship to disengage, I mentally tallied the amount of people that were going down the same hallway we were on the ship and compared it to before we docked at the Watchtower. By my calculations, there were only about 1/3 of the crew members left on the ship. Why would 2/3rds of the kidnappers be staying on the Watchtower so close to the heroes that were trying to find the speedsters?

Questions flew through my mind as the ship set off from the Watchtower and we reunited with Matt who hadn't moved from Kid Flash's side. After about 4 hours from leaving the Watchtower, the four of us were left to "guard" the prisoner for the rest of the trip which was fine with us. It let us plan and speculate what was going on and where we were headed without being overheard. Both Wanda and Matt wanted to contact the League on what we already knew, but something kept bothering me about the speedster kidnappers. As the other three talked quietly, I sifted through what was nagging at the edge of my brain.

Ever since the heroes found out that speedsters were disappearing, they'd been wondering why them and not the more "powerful" members of the hero community like the Kryptonian or Amazon bloodlines. I had been right along with them until I started putting together several different things about the kidnappings and the speedsters themselves.

Contrary to popular belief, speedsters are the most powerful and most unpredictable heroes there are. Everyone always underestimates them. They may not be the strongest physically, but their speed and stamina more than make up for the lack of physical strength. With their speed comes a very long list of other abilities they have. One of the most aggravating to other heroes and most troubling to villains is the speedsters' ability to think at an accelerated pace. With a mind that can think faster than the speed of sound and a body that could go as fast if not faster, it is almost impossible to catch one if you don't know what you're doing.

Almost.

Someone that truly knows the ins and outs of speedsters could catch the speed demons but they are notoriously hard to keep in one place for long due to their other speed-related abilities. Which would explain the mask and several other "toys" that each of the kidnappers have in their arsenal. Each object, from the small screaming speakers to the electric bindings, were custom made to take down the fastest beings on Earth. Very few people know the intricate details about speedster abilities. I happen to have very fast relatives due to the West line in my family, so I know a lot that others don't. That is what was bugging me. Other than family and the highest Leaguers, no one else really knew how to trap and immobilize them successfully for more than ten or fifteen minutes. And yet, here we were on a long flight to who knows where in space on the track of speedsters that had been missing for several weeks.

Since there hadn't been a Flash for more than 50 years, there really were no official Flash Rogues left. Most of the villains that speedsters went against were petty thieves or villains from the other heroes. None of the villains knew that much about speedsters except that they are extremely frustrating to fight against and they always turn the tides of any world, galaxy, or even universal crisis. But someone must have really dug for the information to get as far as the kidnappers have.

"Hey, E?" I glanced at Tanya for a moment to let her know I was listening. "What if...when we get to wherever we're going...they try and put Kid Flash to death right away?" My eyes narrowed for a moment.

"Perhaps we could make it look like he escaped somehow." Wanda cocked a blond eyebrow.

"How do we do that? There's no hiding the fact that he's out cold." I looked at Kid Flash and then at her as a plan came to mind.

"What would any of you do if you found yourself captured and surrounded before seeing a door on the other side of the room that could be your only means of escape?" Matt smiled, understanding.

"We'd take down anyone between us and that door."

"Exactly. We need to find more of the kidnappers' clothes. T?" She nodded and went out the door.

It was a very long trip to wherever we were headed. The only semi-exciting thing was me getting to shoot my cousin with sedatives again when he started moving a little in the cell. Only twice did anyone come back to check that everything was okay during the whole trip. They barely stayed a minute to look at Kid Flash before heading back out. Apparently, guarding the prisoner was the most boring job on the ship but we were content on making sure nothing happened to him.

An announcement rang through the ship that we'd be at what they simply called "The Base" in about forty-five minutes. It was ten minutes later that we put our plan into action. While Matt and I freed and dressed Nick for his part of the unconscious soldier, Wanda and Tanya were making a fairly quiet mess of the whole room worthy of a raging speedster. I managed to tuck Nick's cowl and wingtips into the thicker part of the black turtleneck sweater after getting the knockout mask off of him and tossing it into a corner while making sure none of his costume showed out of any part of his clothes. The shoes of his costume were another story altogether. I managed to find a can of matte black spray-paint and as Matt held his feet up, I sprayed the boots until it almost looked like the black combat boots we were wearing.

We only had twenty minutes left until we landed. I could feel the ship slowing down as three of us took our places on the floor, me being the closest to Nick, while Wanda took the cage he had been in and aimed at the wall, throwing it just enough to make it crack wide open. The sound that reverberated from the impact was louder than any of us expected. Wanda drooped herself over a broken crate as the rest of us started acting like we'd been recently tossed around. About twenty black-clad men busted through the door ten seconds later, weapons drawn and looking all around the wrecked room. I yelled at them as I held my stomach.

"The bastard! He somehow...got out! We didn't have a chance." I groaned as the men split up to make sure the others were okay as a few ran out of the room, yelling down the hallway that Kid Flash had gotten out. One of the soldiers that helped me up off the floor looked down at Nick.

"As soon as we land, we'll get you guys to the medic." I looked down at Nick in concern.

"He brought down Tom first then the rest of us. Tom fell like a bag of concrete. That devil was too fast for us." The soldier shook his head, sighing in frustration.

"They're not gonna be happy about this. This is the first speedster that got loose since we started two months ago!" Two months!? They've been at this for two months!? How come we hadn't noticed sooner!?

Twenty-five minutes later, the four of us were fake limping and groaning behind two soldiers that were carrying Nick to the medic as the other soldiers were scouring the ship for the supposed escaped speedster. There must have been a mastermind behind this whole thing since the soldiers seemed pretty dim-witted. As we passed a set of double doors, I could feel my heartbeat speed up when I saw a number of villains from several different heroes' galleries milling around what looked to be a giant conference table. I only got a glimpse at who was sitting at the head of the table. One of Superman's main enemies, Greed, was sitting calmly with his hands folded and a wicked smile on his face. That wasn't what shocked me though.

How could I have not thought of him? Between all the heroes, only the speedsters had to deal with constant Rogue team-ups. That's why the Flash's Rogues are infamous. But the man standing behind Greed was so much more than a mere Flash Rogue. He had been the brains of countless team-ups between countless villains and had ferociously fought every Flash that had come up through the decades. He was the missing puzzle piece. The mastermind behind everything.

Vandal Savage.

Chapter 6 End

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