"How? Her physiology is all wrong!" Wally turned to his mentor's predecessor.

"How is this happening?" Artemis asked the man with a polite, yet clipped tone.

"Well, Barry and I have only done it a few times. When our bodies have the ability to take kinetic energy and manipulate it into or taking it away from other beings and objects."

"Have you had a seizure during the transfer?" Kaldur asked. "Wally was having a sort of episode before Artemis grabbed his hand."

"It's called grounding!" Artemis yelped in a form of defence from beside the pizza box, grabbing a slice of pinapple- not that she noticed he had gotten her favourite.

"Look who's paying attention to science class." Wally stuck his tongue out, trying unsuccessfully to hide a smile of approval.

"I'm smart." She flicked her hair back behind her, giving a gentle elbow to the speedsters ribs-

-resulting in a slight blue flicker of electricity to spring from him into her.

"Back up Wally." Jay said. Wally took two cautious steps back. On his third step, he twitched again and lost his footing, slamming backwards into M'gann.

"M'gann!" Connor yelped. "Wally." He offered him a hand. With a zip and a cry, Jay zipped over and pulled Wally to the side, M'gann deposited next to Connor and everyone was sitting on the couch.

"I think it's best if we all keep distance from Wally- just for a few minutes while we figure out what's up."

RECOGNISED BATMAN 02
GREEN ARROW 08
BLACK CANARY 13

"Ja-Flash One? What are you doing here?" Oliver Queen, or Green Arrow, asked stepping into the Cave. Batman gave this a quick once over, seemed to shrug his shoulders and nodded at Jay.

Must be Tuesday for Batman. Robin sniggered over the mental link. M'gann must have left it up or had re-established it.

Good one, Rob. Would Bats ever laugh at that? Wally sniggered back.

Where's Artemis?! Superboy asked, suddenly alarmed looking around wordlessly.

I'm here. In the kitchen. I'm starving.

Ahhh, not so jealous now, are we? Wally teased, eye brows rose.

Jealous of you? I think you got it backwards, Flash Jr.

Wally sent a waved of apathy. Seriously?

"Team." Batman called the focus back. All the teenagers looked to the adult heroes.

M'gann flushed and shut down the link. For now, as she and the others always seemed to like to talk in each other's heads. Or not mind it.

"So, it seems like Wally has the ability of Speed Lending." Jay said with a light-sounding tone.

"Kinetic absorption and re-distribution. Makes sense." Batman nodded- no inclined his head.

"So, I can make speedsters?" Wally looked stupefied. Then, horrified. "No. How do we stop this?"

"Why is this so bad?" M'gann asked.

"Because the-" a four way tie started between teenage boys. Kaldur finished: "Wally's body required an intensive explosion, altering his biological chemistry. If Artemis is the test, we don't know how much she has received."

"It could hurt her." Superboy finished.

M'gann flinched. "Jay, Mr. Flash, could you undo this?"

Jay turned to her. "I'll try. To be honest, I haven't done it in a while. My wife would probably kill me if she knew I was back in the ring."

This got a smile from Green Arrow, a grin from Black Canary and an indifferent nod from Batman, whom Wally saw relax his left hand. Slightly.

"Artemis is in the kitchen." Robin said, leading the way. The collection of protagonists made a small parade into the other room.

"I feel like a pig." Artemis moaned, a tall glass of water in one hand, a banana in her other. "We're out of cereal." She warned.

Wally giggled.

"Shut it. We don't speak of this. Ever." Artemis hissed, trying to compose herself. "Can we solve this?" She asked.

"Yup. Wally, put your hands on Artemis."

Both teens looked at him as though he had suggested something impossible.

"Can we stop the "tension" here and just touch her." Superboy ordered.

Everyone just looked at Superboy. The boy was so innocent, yet had no idea what he said.

"Not after that!" Wally panicked. "Ja-aaaay!"

"Oh for the love of!" Artemis grabbed his hand in hers and squeezed it.

"Ouch! You have strong hands." He tried not to feel the callous' in her hands.

"Take a deep breath." Jay instructed.

"Rob, put away your phone." Wally growled looking at his shoes.

"Wally, I'm offended." Robin said in a mock-hurt voice. He whispered something into Superboy's ear, who grinned and rolled his eyes.

Artemis bowed her head. "Can we not do this with everyone looking?"

"Agreed. Team, dismissed." Batman spoke frankly. "Kaldur, a word."

Kaldur nodded and the two leaders left the room, followed by a slightly grinning M'gann- having Artemis shoot her back a hard-glare, Connor walking out arms crossed and Robin looking peevish.

"Oh great. Rob's probably going to hack into LexCorp. Again." Wally grumbled under his breath.

"What?" Artemis asked.

"When he gets bored, he does things like hack into corrupt businesses, hacking and… possibly looking through security files."

Artemis blanched.

"Shit." Artemis bit her lip. "Jay, I need my hands. Is there a chance we can speed this up?"

"Okay. Wally, I need you to take a deep breath. Good. Now with the next breath, imagine a gold thread of energy pulling from Artemis into yourself. Just a thin one now. You don't want to hurt her…"