Rachel and Wally are helping Iris make dinner, as it would go quicker with them helping out, Barry had finally returned from his grocery run, he hated the times Iris took advantage of his speed. He always would, but he could see her point, plus he knew she had wanted to talk to the younger speedsters alone. Once dinner has been eaten, which in the case of three speedsters would be enough to feed a normal family of fifty, Barry is forced to clean up as the others had all prepared the meal. Wally and Rachel set to work on their homework, knowing that they had to get it done, Rachel getting caught up quickly with what she had missed.
" You know, I love being able to get my homework done quickly. " Wally says.
" No kidding, especially since we never know what will happen from one day to the next, well, for us one second to the next to force us to delay doing something. " Rachel says.
" I wouldn't know, as I got my powers when I was already out of school. " Barry says, done with the cleanup.
" Well, believe me, being a teenager and a hero is exhausting work, especially when you have to continually come up with reasonable excuses if you have to cut and run. " Rachel says.
" Hey, at least your dad knows. " Wally reminds her.
" And is also a villain. " Rachel returns with.
" So's Trickster, but that doesn't stop you from hanging out with him. " Wally points out.
" He's my cous, besides, he's not that bad, he just has to remember to take his meds. Piper's decent too. " Rachel quips.
" True, the Rogues aren't that bad, " Barry says, " If I wouldn't know CC then I wouldn't believe you could be his daughter. Thankfully you've inherited most of your personality from CC and not your mother and the rest of her psycho family. "
Rachel rolls her eyes at this, " I didn't ask to have my family dynamics this messed up. "
" Yeah, yours are messed up more than most peoples. " Wally admits.
" Except for Raven's, now hers are way seriously more messed up than mine. " Rachel states.
" You two talk. " Wally asks.
" Mostly for her to bitch about her father and me to bitch about my mother, nothing too serious. " Rachel states.
" I get it, you both have similar family problems and because of that you can trust each other to an extent. " Barry states.
Beast Boy had been quiet until this point, " They're more like sisters whom only tolerate each other when it's necessary. "
" Watch it, BB. " Rachel quips.
Beast Boy turns into a kitten and Rachel sighs, " Damn changeling powers. He knows damn well that I love kittens. "
Of course I do. This way you can have a kitten to cuddle when you need one, unless you're going to convince Iris and Barry to let you have one.
Rachel looks at the green kitten and rolls her eyes, " I'll introduce you to Ace. "
Beast Boy changes back in a hurry, " Not Bat Hound. "
Wally chuckles, " Ah, Ace isn't so bad, especially when Rob views you as a bro. "
" Ace knows I'm the Alpha, he'll listen to me over Bats, because he knows the Bat bows before me. " Rachel states.
" Hey, we need like a cheetah or something. We need an animal partner too, think about it, it would be so cool. " Wally says.
Rachel looks at him, " You want a Flash Dog? "
" Yeah, I do. Even Superman has Krypto. " Wally states.
Barry looks thoughtful at this, " You know, he's right, the Flash family needs an animal partner. "
" Iris, how do you manage it? " Rachel demands to know.
" You've got an advantage over me, you can understand the speed speech. " Iris states.
Rachel chuckles at this, " True, and I can keep up with the infamous appetites as well, though Thanksgiving should be interesting, as I told mom that I wanted to spend it with Dad, and he knows it'll be easier to get together with the other speedsters, plus James'll be coming along too, actually I think all the Rogues will. "
Iris groans at this, " Dear Lord, the Rogues and Speedsters together for Thanksgiving. "
" Hey, they all know to behave or they deal with me. " Rachel tells Iris.
" Is that why Wally can go over to your place, or hang out with any of the Rogues? " Beast Boy asks.
" That would be why. " Rachel admits.
Monday, Central City, Before School:
Wally and Rachel are just making their way to school when Sinestro drops by unannounced, " Well, what do we have here, Kid Flash and Quick Flash. "
Rachel immediately dons her costume and starts dodging Sinestro's attacks while Wally quickly dons his own costume. Quick Flash was able to keep ahead of Sinestro, redirect his attacks and telekinetically attack him as well. Kid Flash groans at this, why Sinestro of all villains, and why in their city? The pair keep Sinestro busy and lead him out of the city, all the while both are thinking at super speed in order to try and come up with a way to beat him. We need help, can you call your uncle?
Mission, Guy Gardner is the only GL left on Earth.
This is just friggin' perfect. Raven, we need help, now!
Raven appears in her usual fashion and blinks before attacking Sinestro, Quick Flash sets up a telepathic link to all of them, knowing that they couldn't speak out loud or they'd be done for. With the link they were able to keep Sinestro off balance, as the master of the color of fear was actually scared of Raven's power and Quick Flash was just waiting for an opportunity to start attacking Sinestro's mind, if he thought Parallax knew fear then he had never met her grandfather. Quick Flash knew she would have to try and get his mind out of the game.
" Children, you cannot beat me. " Sinestro says arrogantly.
Kid Flash nails him with a super speed punch and Raven chants, " Azarath Metrion Zinthos! "
Raven's attack distracts Sinestro from the car that was thrown at him telekinetically by Quick Flash. Quick Flash had already moved by the time Sinestro recovered, but Kid Flash was there to nail him with several super speed punches. Kid Flash disappeared as Quick Flash moves in before she moves out of the way for Raven. Raven blasts him with her power and Sinestro goes tumbling, he rights himself as Kid Flash and Quick Flash start running in a circle around him, fast enough to create a tornado. The former Green Lantern was starting to get very angry at the thought that mere teenagers might just be able to beat him.
He sends a wave of yellow energy out from his ring and the teen speedsters go sailing. Quick Flash stifles the scream as a jagged metal post is rammed through her none too gently. Kid Flash got off easy, and he casts worried eyes towards his girlfriend, he knew she'd be all right, but he hated it when she got hurt on the job, Raven was keeping Sinestro's attention away from Quick Flash and Kid Flash joins her in that endeavor. Quick Flash kept the link up and she curses, Robin, get your ass to Central City now and bring Artemis with you.
Gotham City, Gotham Academy:
Dick Grayson nearly stumbles at the call and ducks into the restroom, after making sure no one else was in there he hacks the school computers and gets himself and Artemis excused for the day, sends a brief message to Alfred and then was in the ventilation shaft, making his way out of the school. He was out and took off running, diving into a building owned by Bruce he dawns his costume and heads for the Zeta beam, waiting for Artemis, " What gives, Robin? "
" QF and KF need help, QF told me to grab you and to get my ass to Central City. "
Artemis nods and they were off, entering the zeta beam.
Central City:
They exit and look around, orienting themselves. Artemis had never been to Central City, while Robin had to hang out with the speedsters or maybe track down Riddler or something like that. Robin hears the sounds of a fight coming from just outside of the city, realizing that QF and KF would have made sure innocent civilians couldn't get involved in the fight, and both of them kick in the afterburners. Both attack immediately upon arrival, Robin going over to help Quick Flash, " You all right, QF? "
" Get the damn thing out of me, I'll heal. " Quick Flash hisses.
Robin nods and Raven shields them both, while Robin frees the post from Quick Flash's flesh, Thanks, Raven.
Not a problem, we need to end this.
I know, but Sinestro is a GL enemy, and Guy Gardner is a hot head.
No kidding, but we need help to bring him down. This is said by Artemis.
I've got that covered, if you guys can distract him enough I should be able to trap him in his own mind for a while. Quick Flash states.
Robin grins at this and pulls his ninja routine. With the Boy Wonder off doing his thing, Quick Flash quickly eats one of her candy bars and can feel herself healing already. Once she has recovered she was back in the fight, Artemis and Raven were working well together, both of them instinctively knowing what they needed to do. Robin and Kid Flash were doing the same, the four of them combined, doing hit and run fade attacks on Sinestro was seriously starting to enrage the villain. Quick Flash saw her opportunity and took it. As she and Sinestro fought for control over his mind the others stayed alert. Sinestro broke free and headed for Kid Flash, Quick Flash teleported ahead of him and nailed him with a super speed round house kick and followed that up with a high velocity upper cut. Her eyes had taken on a hard cast, " Haven't you heard, moron, you don't mess with Kid Flash, it has a tendency to piss me off. "
Sinestro glares at her, " What can you do, little girl? "
That was a huge mistake, Quick Flash was on him in a second, he sends her sailing and she manages to twist in the air and stick her landing, Guys, he is seriously pissing me off, we need to take him down.
How can we, we need a Green Lantern. Robin says.
Well, we'll have to think of something, because we can't let up on him.
Quick Flash, what about the Rogues, think they'd help us?
Kid Dork, are you insane?
No, I'm not, Artemis. The Justice League heavy hitters are busy and we don't want to try and keep Guy Gardner under control. Double C is Quick Flash's father.
Is that true, Captain Cold is your father?
Yes, Artemis, he is, why do you think none of the Rogues try to seriously hurt any member of the Flash family. Can't though, Dad promised no more antics until I'm out of school.
Shit, what do we do? Kid Flash says.
Mount Justice, Happy Harbor:
Kaldur is stunned by what he sees going on, " Miss Martian, Conner, Zatanna, Red Arrow come in. "
" What is it? " Red Arrow asks for everyone.
" There is trouble in Central City. Artemis, Robin, Quick Flash, Kid Flash, and someone currently unknown to me are battling Sinestro, it looks like they need help. " Kaldur says.
" I'm close to there, I'll go on ahead, everyone else, get there as soon as possible. " Red Arrow says.
Star City:
Red Arrow curses vividly at the news Kaldur had just delivered and knew he had to move fast. Sinestro was no joke, however, neither was Quick Flash. The girl was deadly when pissed off, no two ways about it. If Sinestro happened to hurt Kid Flash all bets were off, she would go ballistic and take him down, by any means necessary. Red Arrow enters the Zeta tube and heads for Central City. Hoping that the others already fighting could hold out until help arrived.
Central City, outskirts:
Quick Flash was already moving when Red Arrow arrived and she shoved him out of the way, He's already pissed that he hasn't beaten us yet.
Perfect, of course you would piss him off.
Shove it, RA, I could have let you take that hit you know.
You love me too much for that.
RA, focus on the battle. Kid Flash interrupts.
Quick Flash rolls her eyes at this and speeds off, Red Arrow now a part of the link up. Who's the newbie?
I'm no newbie, now focus on the task at hand, please.
That's Raven. Kid Flash says to Red Arrow.
Red Arrow assesses Raven even as he starts to fire arrows at Sinestro, he knew red was the color of anger in the Lantern world. His fellow archer was working with Raven, his younger brothers, Robin and Kid Flash had paired off and now he had Quick Flash watching his back. Two cars and a giant mace made out of water suddenly hit Sinestro head on and then he goes sailing from a well-placed spell, " Damn children. "
Someone's cranky, huh. Artemis quips.
We need to find some way to bring him down.
No duh, Aqualad, what do you think we've been trying to do.
Yeah, he's not exactly easy to take down, and soon KF and I are going to need to refuel and come back, I'm out of back up food.
So am I.
Go then, Miss Martian will maintain the link while you two are gone.
They speed off and Young Justice starts going at Sinestro hard. Superboy manages to nail him with a solid uppercut, which Miss Martian follows up with a telepathic blast. Robin throws one of his sonic birdarangs at him. Sinestro is sent reeling by this action and the speedsters return, each hitting him with a solid kick to the solar plexus. Raven and Artemis go next and Raven's power envelopes one of Artemis' arrows, the combined attack hitting Sinestro hard, he sends another wave of yellow energy out and the psychics were quick to throw barriers up, Zatanna's almost didn't hold when she felt Quick Flash twine her power in as well.
Kaldur takes the opportunity to nail Sinestro with electrified water maces. Sinestro goes down and the telepaths lock him in his own mind. Quick Flash collapses into Kid Flash, who also would have gone down if not for Superboy, who had moved to catch them both when he noticed them going down, " Call the Justice League for pick up. " Robin says, as he makes his way over to the speedsters and collapses as well.
Kaldur makes the call as the others start the cleanup process, Raven stayed with Superboy to protect the three exhausted teens. Batman, Flash, and Earth's first Green Lantern, Hal Jordan show up, twenty minutes later, " You kids took him down? " Hal asks.
" Not easily, Miss Martian and Quick Flash combined their telepathic efforts to lock him in his own mind temporarily. " Kaldur says.
" She called in Robin and I, Kaldur must have noticed the disturbance and called everyone else, I think she also called in Raven. " Artemis says.
" She did, Raven will only come help when Quick Flash is involved. " Flash states.
" True, I'll take my leave now, keep them safe, Flash. " Raven says and is gone.
Robin starts to stir and he slits his eyes open, " Oh, hey, Batman. "
" You all right, Robin? "
" Just extremely tired, Batman. " with that said Robin was back under, both he and Quick Flash curled into Kid Flash.
" I'll take them all to my place, if Miss Martian would be so kind as to help me. " Flash says softly.
" All right, I know Robin will be safe with you. I'll get their reports later. " Batman says as Hal rounds up Sinestro.
" I'll take him to Oa, and be back, help with the clean-up process. " Hal states.
" Understood, I'll stay here and help as well. " Batman says, he was immensely proud of the kids for being able to take down a villain like Sinestro, though he knew that Raven girl had a lot to do with it, though if Quick Flash trusted her that was all he needed, he had learned long ago to never go against Quick Flash, the Joker was scared of the girl and even he had to laugh at the Joker dressed up as a Ballerina Batman. To think that Quick Flash and Trickster were able to keep Joker out of Central City, then again, as had been pointed out, Quick Flash was the Queen of All Things Prank, you did not infringe upon her territory without facing dire consequences, she had literally humiliated the Joker in front of the rest of Gotham's psycho's.
Seeing that picture in Penguin's lair had sent Robin into a fit of laughter, amazingly enough Penguin waited until Robin composed himself, as he had gone into a fit of laughter at the sight as well. Robin had asked for a copy of the picture and the Penguin had supplied it, then they had gotten down to business. " Batman, can we trust this Raven? " Kaldur asks.
" Quick Flash and Kid Flash trust her, that's good enough for me. " Batman replies as Miss Martian and Flash remove the tired heroes and take them onto the bioship before heading for Barry's place. Batman quickly supplied the necessary excuses for all of the kids, minus Robin and Artemis, he knew Robin had already taken care of that and had notified Alfred as well.
" I've met her before, she helped Quick Flash rescue me. " Artemis says.
" I see, she needed someone who could shield her, and Raven could do that for her. " Batman says.
" Green Arrow knows her. " Artemis adds.
" I'll make sure to talk to him then. " Batman states as they all continue the clean-up process, at least Kid Flash and Quick Flash had taken the fight out of the city. Flash would be able to fix up the damage there easily enough.
Superboy was doing the heavy lifting and Batman was quickly checking license plate numbers in order to reimburse the owners of the cars that had been used as weapons. The League always tried to make restitution for property damage. Superman's fights tended to be damage intensive as most of his opponents were super powered or used nasty machines, Lex Luthor for one, the League would love to be able to take him down once and for all. Hell, if they could get Quick Flash near him then Luthor was toast, telepath testimony was recognized as state's evidence.
" I just can't believe Quick Flash and Kid Flash held out as long as they did, in speedster time that had to take an eternity. " Red Arrow states.
" You're right, they probably discussed calling the Rogues in to help, am I right? " Batman asks.
" Yeah, you are, but apparently Captain Cold promised to stay out of trouble until after Quick Flash graduated. " Artemis supplies.
Batman shakes his head at this, only Quick Flash could elicit that kind of promise from her father, that and one from all the Rogues to not hurt Kid Flash, or Robin, while not as protective of his partner she still allowed no one to mess with him, neither did Trickster, because he recognized Robin's style of acrobatics. Trickster knew what it was like for Robin, the two of them never battled each other and if Trickster ever came across the Boy Wonder in trouble then he always helped him. The Rogues baffled him quite frankly and he didn't like what he couldn't understand. Quick Flash he did understand, she loved her father and cousin, Kid Flash could understand the problems with being a teenage speedster, Robin, well, he was the little brother to them all except for Zatanna.
New Zealand:
" Sinestro failed to capture any of the teens. "
" They are powerful together, we shall have to devise a way to keep them from getting together. "
" Agreed, Toyman, Poison Ivy. Sinestro did fail, but what have we learned from his defeat? "
" Well, Dark Side, sir, we have learned that the new girl is not to be trifled with and anyone messing with Kid Flash will have to deal with a pissed off Quick Flash. Robin is a complete anomaly because we can't track his movements at all, the Batman has taught him well. Superboy seems to be coming into his powers quite nicely, he may have half human genetics because he's a clone, but the older he gets the more dangerous he will become. Aqualad will be easy to deal with, we just have to keep him away from water, the archers will be easy as well. Zatanna on the other hand will be tricky. Quick Flash, well, she's damn hard to capture and control, look what happened when Luthor caught her, even a control collar can't control her if the ones she cares about most are in danger. Luthor didn't even know what he had on his hands, he just wanted an in with her family. " Slade says.
" This will be most tricky, if we try anything overt then the League will get involved, not to mention if we threaten the Earth too much and the League can't handle it their allies will, and we don't want to piss that individual off. " Dark Side says, he'd met up with that individual and had barely made it out with his life.
Barry Allen's home:
Kid Flash moans as he comes to, " Unc, I need food. "
Moving carefully he is able to eat the food his uncle brings him, he knew Robin and Quick Flash were still exhausted from the battle, both of them had decided to use him as a human pillow, Rob was used to his vibrations, so he didn't mind, and Quick Flash was content. " You know Batman will want a field report, he wants to know everything, though he is proud that you all were able to take Sinestro down alone, though he'll want to talk to Raven. " Barry says.
" Yeah, right, like that will happen, Raven will not give Batman a report. " Kid Flash states.
" Yeah, I know, but that's Bats for ya. " Barry remarks.
" How very true. " Kid Flash says as he's given more food, Iris kept a stock of ready-made food, in case her speedsters needed something quick. Once he's refueled he relaxes, he had no clue how the three of them had managed to hold out that long other than adrenaline.
" You all right, Kid? " Barry asks.
" Yeah, Rach took a bad hit, but she was able to heal from it, once Robin got that jagged steel post out of her. Raven protected them until that was accomplished, then Robin did his ninja thing and we kept on fighting, Rach keeping us all telepathically connected. " Kid Flash states.
" Yeah, we've all discovered that J'honn's telepathy is easier to use, it can't get hacked as easily and he knows when someone is attempting to do so and he warns us and then drops the link. " Barry states.
" I'm just so glad we were able to take him down, but there was something off, it almost seemed as if he was aiming to capture. " Kid Flash says.
" Why do you say that? "
" He wasn't going all out, I've seen him go up against Uncle Hal, the dude is tough. " Kid Flash replies, not to mention that he was thoroughly pissed off that he was restrained in that fight.
Batman shows up then, " Report, Kid Flash. "
So Kid Flash gives an oral report, rattling off everything, including his impressions. Quick Flash moans, " Go away, Bats, I'm tired. "
Batman laughs at this and changes into his civvies, " Sorry, I forgot, you weren't just using your speed, you were using your psychic abilities as well. "
Quick Flash just snuggles back into Kid Flash, stealing a cookie from him and scarfing it down before she settles back into sleep. Neither she nor Robin stirred for the rest of the day, they'd been through a lot. Though they did set up an IV to keep food in Quick Flash. Kid Flash had to sneak away, change into his civvies and sneak back before it was noticed he was gone. Neither one liked to be woken up after a major battle.
" Wally, where did you get most of your impressions from, I know you and Quick Flash are always telepathically connected, but she doesn't do feelings. " Bruce says.
" Hello, speedster, I can read body language extremely well, probably better than you. " Wally retorts, he was bound and determined to keep his secrets, especially the one about his empathy.
Bruce lets that go, as he knew speedsters were very adept at reading body language. Wally, it seemed was better at keeping secrets than he was. Finally Wally was asleep and Bruce was left alone in the house, as Iris had some conference to go to and Barry had gone out on patrol. He never noticed the possessive grip Wally had on Quick Flash, Wally had always been protective of her, so Bruce had no way of knowing that there was more to their relationship than just being friends and partners. He thought it was a brother/sister relationship.
He blinks when someone knocks on the door, he goes to answer it and is stunned to find James Jesse and Hartley Rathaway at the door, " We know why they missed school and we brought their assignments over, we figured they'd be able to get them done in the morning. " Hartley says.
" Yeah, cous doesn't like getting behind, even though she can catch up in about twenty minutes. " James adds.
" Come on in, boys. " Bruce says.
" Look, we know who you are, and we also know that you won't start something if we don't. Rachel is like a sister to both of us, and as stated numerous times before she and James are the only decent members of the family. " Hartley states.
" You've been helping Robin make sonic birdarangs, right? " Bruce asks Hartley.
" Really, I'm more of a consultant, a sounding board if you will. Oh, Wally would like his goggles to also have electromagnetic and ultraviolet capabilities as well. " Hartley replies.
" I'll take that under advisement, it would make sense. " Bruce says.
James looks at his cousin, " Are they all right? "
" Yes, the IV is to just keep her nourished, as she's too tired from the battle to actually eat. " Bruce replies.
" Smart, can't have either of them crashing out from lack of fuel. " Hartley states.
" I'm surprised Captain Cold didn't come himself. "
" We're allowed over. We are friends with Wally, for us it's really just playing, you could call it sparring, only the adults take it seriously with each other, though only to a knockout. " James says firmly.
" You kids just have fun with it, huh? " Bruce asks.
" Yeah, though Captain Cold knows better than to mess with Kid Flash, they all do, really, as none of them want to deal with a pissed off Quick Flash. " Hartley answers.
" I'm in agreement with them on that. "
James stiffens just then, " Rach, cous, I know you're tired, but that damn clown is making a move again. "
Quick Flash was up in a flash, IV disengaged, cupboards restocked, and she was eating, fast, " That damn clown needs to learn to stay the hell out of my city. "
" Our city. " James states, getting his costume on, neither one of them were going to let it stand .
Bruce blinks, " Joker's here, how do you know? "
" I always know when that clown is making a play, ready cous? " Trickster asks.
In answer she grabs onto him and they teleport away. Hartley whistles at this, " The Joker is really going to regret this, you do not infringe upon their turf. Wonder how it will end this time? "
Hartley ends up sleeping at the Allen home and Bruce decides to turn in as well, they both had absolute faith in Central City's resident pranksters. John Stewart, the second Green Lantern of Earth had agreed to patrol Gotham for him, so he had no worries.
Gotham City Harbor:
John Stewart curses as Clay Face continues to go on a rampage, why did Batman have to have most of the crazy ones in his city, he swore he was going to make him pay for this, maybe he'd sic Static and Gear on Batman. Clay Face was matching him move for move and the night wasn't even half over. How did Batman do it, and still have time to be Bruce Wayne? Finally, he catches Clay Face in a green sphere and delivers him to Commissioner Gordon. The Commissioner putting a control collar on Clay Face.
" I swear I will make Batman pay for this. " John mutters under his breath as he continues to patrol, his eyes widening when he finds Killer Croc mauling a couple of college kids. Rolling his eyes he sets to work, swearing once again to make Batman pay.
Disclaimer: I do not own Young Justice.