Once they were back inside the Mountain, the Rogues were met with a very angry looking group of superheroes. Batman, Flash, Red Tornado, Black Canary, and Green Arrow were the only heroes they had bothered to learn the names of, but they weren't the only ones in there. There were other heroes in here, most probably the rest of the Team's mentors, but the Rogues were a bit too busy worrying over Kid Flash's life to bother with any of them.
"Where's the Med Bay?" Captain Cold asked Robin as the boy teleported in beside him.
Captain Cold had been the first to enter the Zeta Beam with Kid Flash in his arms, followed by the rest of his teammates. After, Red Hood had come inside, and finally the rest of the Team.
"Follow me!" Robin commanded, immediately beginning to run in the direction of the medical center inside the mountain.
Without much hesitation, Captain Cold ran behind the young boy. He didn't think about the danger he and all his team now found themselves in by being inside the very headquarters of the Justice League. Because all they cared about at the moment was getting Wally to the medical bay and getting him the medical attention he desperately needed.
As the blue villain and the young hero ran in the direction of the med bay, the rest of the group was stopped by the large group of heroes that were found in the Mountain at the moment.
"What happened?" Batman asked in his gravelly tone, even though Flash and Red Tornado both took off at that very moment to race after the villain and young hero.
Red Hood glared at his ex-father, immediately going up to him with anger pouring from every pore on his body, "What the hell were you thinking, Batman, when you sent these kids to Star Labs?! Do you know who we found in there? Zoom, Cheshire, Sports Master, Black Adam, and fucking Lex Luthor! Did you even do any investigating before you sent the Team into that death trap?"
Batman's face remained stoic and cold even with Red Hood's angered barrage of words, but the other heroes behind him were shocked at those words. Green Arrow even turned to the Bat, eyes wide, "Did you know any of those guys would be there?"
It took the Bat a moment, but eventually he answered with, "No."
The scoff that came from Red Hood was as angered and annoyed as the Rogues were feeling at the moment, and nobody could blame him for feeling like that.
"Nice job, B. Just send the kids into a death trap without finding anything out about it beforehand." Red Hood told him condescendingly, then asked, "Just what are so many of you capes doing in here? I thought Red Tornado was the den mother."
"We were having a meeting about Young Justice." Green Arrow answered immediately, looking over at the kids, "We were talking about how well they were working now." He added, knowing they might have felt insulted if they didn't know just why the adult heroes were gathered together.
Then Black Canary stepped forward, looking at the large group of villains around the kids with uncertainty, "I don't want to sound hostile or rude, kids, but... What are you doing with all of these villains?"
Aqualad very well knew that the Rogues didn't like being called villains and he was also aware of how heated and angered they all were at the moment, so he answered before any of the grown men could say anything too insulting.
"The Rogues are the reason we are here now, Black Canary. Along with Red Hood, they staged a rescue that succeeded in both saving my team and in destroying all files that could be used against humans with meta genes that were inside STAR Labs." And after he had said this, the dark skinned teen turned around and looked at all the men behind him, "And for all of that, I am extremely grateful."
Every Rogue had a different reaction that ranged from smiling at him to waving over the thanks, but Captain Boomerang spoke up, "Twas nothing, really." He said, then looked over the kids, "I don't really know enough of you, but you mean enough to Wallabee that we hear 'bout you almost every time he's at our hideout." He informed them, "So when Red told us you were in danger, we couldn't just let the issue lay."
Trickster jumped at this, smiling at all of the teenagers, "Besides, it's not like Pipes or I would let them go out to break laws knowing you guys were in peril! It was about time the Rogues proved we aren't so bad!"
Rocket smiled over at Trickster, which made the blonde blush and hide behind Pied Piper, but soon enough their small moment was cut short by Batman asking, once more, what had happened.
"Aqualad, you and Robin can take care of that, right?" Artemis asked her leader, looking over at the fidgeting adults known as the Rogues. "I really want to see Kid Flash."
"You aren't taking those villains with you, young lady." Black Canary chastised, which immediately made all the teenagers start arguing with her.
"They saved us! They should be allowed to see Wally!" Robin fought, which made the blonde woman immediately scold him.
"Secret identity, Robin!"
"We already know the bloke, woman!" Boomerang growled, "We've known him fer longer than you!"
"Come on! They're the reason we're here! If it weren't for these villains we'd still be held captive by Luthor and his lackeys!" Conner shouted out, all the while M'gann said, "Please, Uncle J'onn, you must see reason."
"Flash trusts KF with them! Why can't you trust them?" Rocket asked and Zatanna nodded in agreement, "They deserve to see Wally!"
All of the adults in the room were shocked by the vehemence the teens' showed in their arguing, both villains and heroes. Heroes because they were not expecting to see the kids stand up for villains, and the villains because they too had not expected the kids to be so... Intense.
Luckily, though, Green Arrow stepped forward and held his hands up, "Artemis, take them over to the med bay. We'll follow behind once Aqualad and Robin have explained everything that happened."
The blonde man's apprentice smiled broadly and turned to all the men, motioning for them to follow before any of the other heroes could deny them. And so a good part of the Team, the Rogues, and Red Hood went over to the med bay to see what news there were about their injured teammate. Which left Aqualad and Robin to explain everything that had happened to the rest of the heroes that stayed behind.
"He's stable." Flash breathed out heavily after the large group of assorted villains and heroes settled outside the room separated for Kid Flash. "Red Tornado is finishing up with the bandages, but..." He drifted off then, not saying anything else.
This immediately worried all of his Rogues. Flash was the talkative kind. Not as much as Baby Flasher, but he was still known for always cracking a joke, even in the worst of circumstances. Him falling into silence because of what he had seen with Kid Flash... It proved things were serious.
"What did they do to him, Flash?" Mirror Master asked, taking a step forward and towards the red clad man.
But Flash remained silent. Instead of answering the question, he kept his head down. But Red Hood noticed the man's body tense up and begin to vibrate. Actually, the vibrating coming from the man became so violent that everyone around him noticed it.
"Who did this to my nephew?" He asked in a growling tone that just did not fit him.
This was supposed to be the Flash! Not Batman...
Nobody answered the man, the Rogues were too shocked by what they were seeing and the teens found themselves too confused to speak up. Since when was the Flash so serious?
Flash, though, didn't like the lack of answer and raised his head to glare at them, "Answer me right now, kids." He growled, taking one step towards them, "Who dared hurt Wally like this?"
"F-Flash?" Trickster dared ask, "What are you g-going to do?"
Flash's frown was deathly serious, "I'm going to hurt him as bad as he did Wally."
So there you go! New chapter in months! But this story is about to be finished and I'm extremely happy that so many of you guys liked the idea and stuck with it! I'll try my best to update some time during the week. Promise.
And, please review.
