Author's Note: Sorry for not updating in a while but I had my practicum a week ago and I officially finished it which means I'm completely done college. I'm GRADUATING IN OCTOBER! WHOOOO! And I also figured out the schedule of when to update this ^^ and I can't believe it's already June 1st…where does the time go?

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Summary: While on a mission, Bart resumes his scan but gets captured after finding out about important information about Wally's location.

Chapter 9: Missing

Tigress collapsed to her knees as tears streamed down her face. With a slightly worried look, M'gann went down and gave a hug to the girl.

"Wally's alive…" she gasped. "He's alive!" she sobbed.

"Just take it easy…"

But the moment happiness entered, it quickly faded away and Tigress gave an angry glare at Nightwing and Aqualad.

"You! You knew this before! Why didn't you tell us?!" she exclaimed.

Nightwing raised both of his hand, motioning them down. "Easy…" he cautiously took a step back just in case. "I didn't tell you because I didn't want to spread the information only to find out that it's false."

"Fair enough…but where is he?"

"That…we don't know. We're still trying to figure it out. Because he's a speedster, he can be anywhere in Time." Aqualad stated.

"What about Barry? Couldn't we send him?"

Aqualad and Nightwing both shook their heads. "It's not that simple. And Barry's retired."

"So you're just going to let this slip away?"

Nightwing widened his eyes. "What? Of course not! Tigress, we're doing the best we can. Because I'm not a speedster nor is Aqualad, this is going to be a bit difficult and yes, I know we have Bart (Bart placed his hand down and sulked, knowing what he is going to say) it's dangerous. I'm letting anyone else be sacrificed."

Upon hearing the word sacrificed, Tim lifted his head up and stared hard at his brother. The two locked eyes for a moment before Tim tore away. This only rose suspicious between M'gann and Tigress since they saw it.

"Right…" Tigress mumbled, lowering her head as her hands curled into fists.

Aqualad walked up and placed a hand on her shoulder. "I promise we will find him."

She nodded mutely and walked off.

"Now, the rest of you are off but I would like to speak with Bart only."

:(/\):

Robin stared angrily at the punching bag. He then released powerful punches; each time he send punches, they become more powerful. When he performed a kick, the bag was knocked out of its hinges and flew backwards.

He rested his hands on his knees, trying to regain his breath as drop of sweats rolled down at the side of his head.

He couldn't believe it.

He hated Inertia. He wished that he hadn't gone to the dark place. While he was in there, he could literally felt the darkness rising inside of him. It was such a negative vibe place; it was just horrible.

Robin tightened his knuckles until they were white as that flashback came into his mind, haunting him.

That stupid deal. He wanted to knock some sense into Nightwing but yet again, it will be proven futile as Nightwing didn't exactly had any common sense in the first place.

Damn Inertia.

Damn deal.

Because he was too deep in thought, he didn't hear the sound of the footsteps followed by the closing of the door, indicating that somebody had just entered in. His face softened a bit when he looked at Robin's current form.

"I can tell something is troubling you. Is everything okay?"

Because of the voice, he startled him and he quickly performed a kick in the person's stomach and he was sent tumbling to the ground, landing with an oof sound.

Upon seeing the newcomer, Robin widened his eyes and turned around, giving him a cold shoulder.

"What are you doing here?" Robin asked, coldly.

Nightwing raised an eyebrow at the tone before connecting the dots, stating that he was still pissed off at him. This confirmed his theory as he saw the punching bag on the floor.

"I just want to see if you're okay."

"I'm fine."

"Doesn't look like it."

Fists tightened, Robin turned hotly on his knees. "Why would it matter to you anyway? It's not like it didn't mattered to you in the first place when you made that stupid deal with Inertia. Don't you ever think things through?"

"You're still fretting over that?"

"No, I'm just sitting here acting as though nothing is wrong." Robin said sarcastically. "Of course I'm worrying! I don't want to lose you." he said quietly.

"You won't. I promise."

"How can you be so sure?"

"…I'm not."

Staring at him, Robin examined his straight face before he gave himself in for a hug. Nightwing tightened his hug around the boy as Robin whispered.

"Sometimes, I think you're stupid."

:(/\):

Bart gave a small sigh as the echoes of his footsteps were heard. He felt bad for Tigress. After thinking that she had lost Wally completely and then suddenly find out that he was alive this whole time?

A person can take only so much.

And here he was…at an odd place where Aqualad only wanted him to go.

If he thinks this place…this sanctuary has the information, then so be it. And hey, the words might be in "speedster" language so that would be fun to translate.

Halfway of the hall, Bart felt his foot sunk and he heard a click sound as though something had been activated. Eyes wide, Kid Flash looked down and saw that he pushed a button down and then multiple clicks were heard. He looked to the side and saw many holes and from those holes, arrows were shot out.

Smirking, Bart took one step forward before in a flash, he zipped through the booby trap hall and made it to the other side.

Ha, for the speedsters, this is easy as pie. For humans…not so much.

You forget. You were once a human…

Bart scowled when he heard is "consciousness" speaking.

No one asked you…

According to Aqualad, there was supposed to be wall with a button behind it. He took a look at his surroundings and gave a blank expression. There hundreds of walls…

And he sweat-dropped.

Aqualad and his brilliant ideas…

He stared at a wall that was diagonally in front of him and he shrugged, walking towards it. When he did, he extended his hand out so that he could start searching for that hole. To his luck, there was a small opening, just big enough for a hand to go through but he made a cringing expression when his hand felt the old cobwebs that were lingering there.

He then felt a bump, grinning and pushed it. The speedster had no idea what did that do since nothing was happening…

At all.

Raising an eyebrow, Bart turned to the side and saw that there were two closed gigantic doors ahead of him and he stared at them with eyes filled curiosity. After another second, the place started to rumble and he gave a small squeak, looking around the hall for a safe place to hide—just in case if the ceiling decided to tumble down.

But before he could even have the chance to zoom off, the huge doors started to open themselves and a bright light emitted out of its place, making it harder for him to see and he shield his eyes from the intense light.

Before he knew it, he felt himself being picked by an invisible strong wind and after his eyes was adjusted, he lowered his arm.

What was happening?

He soon found himself in a tunnel of a vortex but while the tunnel was spinning around, he himself didn't. The vortex had blurs of yellow and red lighting flashing here and there.

"The one who seeks the answer, speak now." a booming voice came.

And for a minute, Bart felt intimidated and he felt frozen, not knowing how or what to say.

"Uh…uhm…my friend, Wally. Wally West—the first Kid Flash and the third Flash…he sacrificed himself when the wormhole came. We thought he was dead but he ended up being alive. We thought it was him who sent that signal from before. All I'm asking is where Wally is."

Strong invisible winds started to pick up even harsher and the voice spoke again after a minute.

"Wally is indeed alive. He is in the Future but his presence is growing weaker."

"Where in the Future? What century?"

"We cannot speak of that. If we do, the information can fall into the wrong hands and drastic changes to the timeline will occur. You, yourself as the fourth Flash and second Kid Flash, must find the location you seek."

Bart muttered in thought. Damn and their sacred rules.

"Now go. Your friends await you…"

And just like that, everything started to fall and Bart had his eyes wide as he was falling down…

:(/\):

Two eyes opened followed by a short gasp. Bart hurriedly pushed himself up and checked himself, making sure that there were no injuries. He frowned when there were none and then he looked up, still staring at those majestic doors.

What happened now…

Was it real?

Bart brushed his bangs upwards, letting out a welcoming sigh and he got up though when he did, he felt like he had gotten drunk since he had hard time regaining his balance. Bart then stumbled towards a wall, leaning against it as his upper body slouched down.

Ungh…what exactly happened? Did I really just spoke with the Speed Force…? Bart thought.

He wasn't sure. He just wasn't sure at all.

But one thing what he did know was that he wanted to get the hell out of here.

As he took a few steps forward, he didn't notice that a shadow was behind and then, there was a hard impact on the head and he felt…

Nothing.

Author's Note: A short chapter…I apologize but I hope it wasn't too bad. Sorry for the long wait but since I figured out what my schedule is, I should have no problem updating the story. Toodles!