Chapter Two - A Heat Wave in October

Streets of Central City, 11:30

"Hey babe" said the young speedster through an earpiece while running in a different red and yellow costume with a yellow lightning bolt in a white circle and a cowl that covers his whole head that was kept in a spare flash ring.

"Morning" a young blond girl wearing green said with a yawn on the other end of the call.

"My bad, did I wake you?"

"Na it's fine I just got to HQ" Artemis replied.

"Good, I wouldn't want to disturb that adorable sleeping face of yours" he said complementing his girlfriend before letting out a sigh.

"What's wrong?"

"Barry's missing"

"WHAT HAPPENED" she asked him with shock and concern in her voice.

"Batman said he went missing on a league mission and had been 12 hours, that was 4 hours ago. That's all he told me, luckily my parents and aunt Iris are away so they don't know."

"I'm sure they'll find him Wally, but the news might cause a panic if they notice he's gone."

"As far as the city knows he's still here. I've been wearing a copy of his costume since I found out he was missing."

"Why do you have a copy of his costume, cosplay?" Artemis asked making Wally laugh.

"HAHA, no" Wally said through his rather loud laughter. "It was my first costume, but people kept calling me Flash Junior, so i came up with my current design."

Suddenly Artemis began laughing "Flash Junior."

"Thanks babe" the young man said genuinely.

"For what" asked the girl through her laughter.

"For laughing it really brightened up my day."

Apartment Building Fire, 18:00

"Wally, reports say there's thirty six stuck inside and the firemen can't get in because of debris."

"Got it" with that he shot off like a BULLET feeling the speed and vibrating every molecule of his being, passing through the side of the building. He began pulling people out by phasing them through the wall too.

With the bottom floors cleared the speedster ROCKETS up and down the stairs his speed increasing with every person he saves, his body feeling like it was charged with lightning. Picking up the last two in the building and racing toward the stairs which have now just crumbled into two rapidly falling pieces, but to Wally it looked like they were floating letting him move from piece to piece and out of the building with the two people.

"Thanks for saving everyone Flash, thanks to you nobody was hurt." said a woman pointing to the crowd while standing next to her child.

"No problem, but what happened here?" asked Wally with a smile on his face to calm the people.

"A man with some kind of mini flamethrower set fire to all the floors" the mother replied.

Must have been Heat Wave. He thought as the child stepped forward and began to speak.

"Um, Mister Flash?" the little girl said in a quiet voice.

Wally kneeled down to hear what the she had to say.

"This is for Kid Flash" she said holding out a drawing of Wally as Kid Flash, "he's my favorite because he has red hair like me."

"What's your name kid?" he questioned with a friendly tone and expression.

"Gwen"

"Nice to meet you Gwen, I'll make sure Kid Flash gets this I'm sure he'll love it" he said taking the drawing and tucking it into one of his boots for safe keeping.

"Hey Artemis, you still there? He asked leaving the scene of the fire.

"Yeah, it sounds like you have a new fan."

"Gwen seems like a good kid, can you find the tallest building close by with a view of the fire?"

"Why?" his girlfriend asked confused.

"Because if i'm right this guy will want to watch his work, he's obsessed."

"There's a tall building with a water tower on the roof not far from from your location."

"I see it, thanks" He said racing up the side of the building to the roof.

The Roof, 18:10

"Hey Heat Wave?"

"I wouldn't bother child, this human won't answer you. He is under my control" the villain turned around to reveal a pair of eyes glowing purple and firing his weapon.

Leaning to the side Wally is able to see the flow of flames slowly twist past him and impact with the water tower causing damage to the middle, due to his speed it makes a single instant seem like a couple dozen seconds.

"MAN, looks like things are really heating up" the speedster quipped still weaving between blasts causing the water tower to be hit repeatedly. Seeing the tower was about to burst from the damage Wally quickly moved away causing the full force of the water to hit the fire crazed maniac with a load CRASH sending him into the air landing on the other side of the roof.

Wally dashed over to the mind controlled villain and asked "Grodd?"

"Yes child and I have your mentor" Grodd was cut off when his puppet was knocked out by a swift hit to the face.

"I heard what he said Wally, are you okay?"

"I will be Artemis once I take down Grodd and save Barry."

Back in a Flash!


Authors Note

Thanks for reading chapter two hope you liked it and nobody was too out of character. If you left a review that would be cool. Thanks to everyone who reviewed, followed and favorited so far and the people who might in the future.

Also I don't own Young Justice and sorry if my punctuation isn't quite right.