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"This is the future?" Wally gaped, "This is what you were trying to protect?"

"Trying to change!" Bart snapped, there was no long a need for him to act the way he did in the past, he wasn't putting on a show anymore, "You think I consider this a place worth coming back to?"

Barry placed a hand on Bart's shoulder, trying to calm the boys, "What happened here? Why is the future like this?"

"If I knew that, I would have changed it already." Bart frowned, "That's what I was doing in the past, I was looking for the catalyst that caused all this. Apparently I didn't find it, which means we're not safe here."

"Not safe?" Artemis frowned, "What do you mean by that?"

"I mean if we're caught here, we'll be arrested and it won't take much for us to be deemed "heroes" and executed." Bart started off away from the beach of what the heroes were slowly recognizing as Happy Harbour, "Our best hope is to find Kid Flash and the others."

Wally looked surprised, "Kid Flash? Haven't I out grown that title yet?"

"You have." Bart frowned, "You assume I'm talking about you."

"There's a new Kid Flash?" Roy looked surprised, "Have we all been replaced then?"

"Uh, yeah, pretty much." Bart shrugged, "Could you guys walk a little faster?"

The small group of past heroes jogged a little to catch up. Wally looked curious about this new Kid Flash, "So, uh, what's the new guy like? Does he live up to my standards?"

Bart ignored the questions beyond a funny little smirk, "Last I saw the others, they were a few block's that way in an abandoned building. With a little luck, they haven't moved."

"By others you mean other heroes, right?" Artemis wondered aloud.

"Heroes, refugees, kids," Bart shrugged, "Whatever you want to call them. Most adult heroes and anyone affiliated with them are gone now."

Barry looked alarmed, "And by gone you mean…?"

The young speedster didn't have time to answer before he was tackled by a blur of red and yellow, "Bart! Where the hell have you been, I've been worried sick!"

Wally stared at the newly arrived hero in shock. This was clearly the new Kid Flash, decked out in a modified version of his old costume, but there was one major difference between him and the new speedster, "Kid Flash is a girl!"

The girl turned to face him and shot him a look under her mask. She looked oddly familiar with her green-grey eyes, flaming red hair and a spray of slightly darker freckles speckling her almond skin. Her stance was defiant and full of attitude, arms crossed over her chest, chin up and out as she stared down her nose at Wally and the others, "Bart, what are they doing here?"

"They got pulled along with me when I came back!" He hurried to explain.

"Came back?" She gave him a sharp look, "What did you do?"

"I wanted to change things! To fix them!" The young boy babbled nervously, as if he'd been caught stealing cookies by his mother, "I wanted this world to be better for you and the others… but I failed. I'm sorry."

"Bart…" Her gaze softened, "What you've done was incredibly dangerous. There's no way you could have known what would happen if you changed the timeline."

Bart stared at the ground, looking small and child-like, "I could have saved you."

"No…" Both young speedsters froze as a siren sounded in the distance, waiting stiffly to hear if they got closer. Eventually the wailing faded and Kid Flash turned back to Bart and the others, "We can't stay here. It's not safe. Follow me."

Can a write a DC fanfiction without Irey West being in it? Pfft, apparently not! Please review!