Author's Note: Hello, hello! I haven't abandoned this story—I've just been slightly studying for the exams :3 my final one is on April 26 and I'll be done…then I would have my practicum…anywho, I've been also updating Young Justice just because that one is taking forever since I usually struggle with few chapters…but, let's get going!

Shout Outs: Thanks to saturnv100 for favoring and following the story. Thanks to BetterTitles for reviewing the story.

Response:

BetterTitles: Unfortunately no. Ollie will not be in this story.

Summary: The group decides that Bart should train in order to help his grandfather. But after a little frustration, it caused Bart slip a piece of information about the future and this raises questions. Reluctantly, Bart tells the gang what happened in the future after he had surrendered. Barry goes with him.

Chapter 4: Discovery

"Are you sure you want to do this? I mean, it's not too late to back out now." Barry said, watching his grandson as he had a face of determination.

Bart shook his body to be loosened up and then he stood still, giving a look at Barry. "I'm fine. I want to do this. I want to help you as much as I can while I'm here." he answered.

Barry studied his face, the expressions, the movements…The Flash sighed, realizing that he wouldn't change his mind. An idea came to his mind, though, the moment Bart had said "…while I'm here."

"Um…are you ever thinking of going back to the future?" he asked, quietly.

This made Bart be slightly off guard and he took a sharp breath. He stared at his grandfather, a mixture look of incredulous and uncertainty.

"I…I don't know." he said, honestly. "I don't know."

Before Barry could say anything, he felt his eircom going on. He pressed the button to speak with the speaker.

"Barry, it's time." Caitlin announced.

Barry nodded. "Alright."

He gave one last look to his grandson before he zoomed off. As he ran, he couldn't help but to feel that his grandson…Bart…was hiding something. And that feeling just won't be shaken off.

Whatever you're hiding, Bart, please let us know. We can help you. Trust us. Barry thought, sliding to a halt as he joined the group.

"Alright, let her rip. The training is activated in…five, four three…."

"I can do this, I can do this." Bart muttered before he went into the starting position.

"Two…one." Cisco said, pressing the button the small computer screen he was holding.

Like a missile, Bart took off but because he was at a rapid speed and was focusing on getting rid of the obstacles, he didn't see that a ramp came out of nowhere and it struck Bart, forcing him fly off course. He landed painfully on the ground, making the gang wince from the impact.

Bart grunted when he rolled twice until he stopped. Not wasting any second, he quickly got up and zoomed forwards.

He then saw several poles that shot lasers. Smirking, Bart studied them before he zipped through them as though there weren't a problem. Seeing the progress, Cisco spun the button around which increased the obstacles' difficulty.

Halfway through the course, Bart suddenly felt something rumbling and he looked down at the ground with eyes wide as he saw the ground was about to crumble. Determined, he pushed himself to run even faster than before but at the last moment, the step which Bart had stepped it gave out and it caused him fall backwards.

"Bart!" Barry exclaimed, ready to safe him but Wells stopped him.

"Don't worry. He'll get through and if I'm right, he will think the way you will think." Wells said.

"And what's that supposed to mean?"

Trying to regain himself, Bart saw a falling rock that was diagonally in front of him and he used that boulder to lift up. With a liftoff, Bart felt the speed coming back, running from rock to rock until he clumsy stumbled to the ground.

Barry frowned. "I do not think like that. Do I think like that?"

Cisco and Caitlin stared at the ground as though it was suddenly fascinating.

"Yes, yes you do." Wells answered. "You leap before you look. The other way where Bart could've done it was too run up the wall as it will be easier."

Barry mocked him. Even though Wells didn't see him, he felt it. "I saw that."

And near the end, there were several small flying ships that shot lasers. Bart performed a zig-zagged until the ship came in front of Bart. With little time to react, Bart just managed to perform a forward flip just as the ship released its attack. Bart went over the machine and the machine's power hit one of its own, causing an explosion just as Bart made a touch down at the ground.

"Yea! 5.0! New high score!" Bart cheered.

"He was faster than you." Cisco said with wide eyes.

Barry gave a shrug. "I uh…I must've slipped a little…you know, to make things easier for him…I could beat him."

"Sure you did." Caitlin replied, amused.

"Not bad, Bart. Not bad."

Bart gave a huge wide smile as Wells was checking out the data on the computer screen.

"But you still need more practice if you want to help Barry." Wells continued and that smile automatically got wiped out of Bart.

The young speedster crossed his arms and gave a frown. "Gee, is he always this much of a downer?" he asked when Caitlin joined him.

"Most of the time." she smirked.

"I heard that and I resent that."

Caitlin giggled. Bart still resumed smiling even after that. He so much liked the present better than the future. For some odd reason that he can't explain…it just feels like when he lives in this present, he has less complications…less trouble and he kind of liked it.

Maybe because he didn't had a bad guy chasing after him for his speed.

Unware to him, Caitlin was studying his expression. They would often either be turned into a frown or a happy one which got her puzzled and wondered what he was feeling and thinking right now.

"Hey Bart?" she asked, quietly.

Upon hearing the voice, it snapped Bart out of his thoughts and his eyes landed on the brunette.

"Yeah?"

"Are you…okay? You seemed…upset a little. Is there anything you want to talk about?"

He wanted to say it. But he can't. Caitlin could see that the young speedster was struggling to say something. Anything. But for unknown reason, he couldn't.

He either couldn't or doesn't have the guts.

"It's nothing." Bart sighed at last. "It's just that I would rather live here than in the future."

"Wait, what?"

Bart froze, realizing that he accidentally slipped a piece of information. He inhaled a sharp breath as he knew his grandfather was behind him.

Slowly, Impulse turned around and gave a nervous smile as he watched the frown on Barry and the confusion on everyone else.

"What do you mean by that?" Barry asked.

"I—uh…er…heh, did I say that? Uh, I meant, I—um…" he gulped, realizing that he is going to have to explain everything to them.

Wells shook his head. "You have a lot to explain, son."

Bart groaned. He hated explaining things. Especially about the future.

:(/\):

"Okay, so talk. What did you mean that you would rather live here than in the future? What was so bad in the future that you had to ran away from it?" Barry demanded, bombarding his grandson with questions.

Caitlin placed a shoulder on him, telling him to take it easy.

"You don't understand." he muttered.

"Try us." Cisco challenged.

Bart lifted his head up and stared at everyone. After a minute of silent, Bart kept on opening and closing his mouth until he let out an exaggerated sigh indicating that he was defeated.

"Fine." he replied. "But just know that what I said when I first came here was true. I did want to come here to be trained and to continue the family's legacy."

"But why couldn't you do that in the future?" Barry asked.

"Does he always ask a ton of questions?" Bart asked, being a little irritated. He felt like his privacy was being invaded.

Actually, it was.

Cisco nodded. "Guess you could say that."

Sensing a little tension, Caitlin jumped in. "Bart…we're sorry to bombard you with questions and invading your privacy. I can tell that you do not want to talk about the future because it makes you uncomfortable and you hate it—I've noticed it. But please…if there's anything in the future that is causing problems, just know that you can count on us. We will always be here but you have to tell us everything in order to do so." she responded.

Bart bit his lip as he slowly realized that she was right.

Like always.

He looked to the side where his grandfather stood and he nodded, signifying that he was agreeing with her.

"And you know…sometimes it is okay to be afraid." Caitlin replied. "And being afraid doesn't make you weak…it only makes you stronger."

Another silence fell and this time, Bart was ready to tell.

He took a deep breath before he nodded. "Alright." he spoke. "Okay…but please bare with me. What I'm going to tell you will not be pleasant."

"I think we can handle it." Barry said.

"The reason I came here was that to find help…someone who can help me in the future. It's a mess—there's a bad guy named Inertia and he wants my speed. I tried to stop him before but it's just wasn't enough. I knew I needed back up so I came here…where my grandfather is." he told them, giving a glance at Barry. "I thought that if you came with me, we might have a better chance to defeat him."

"Inertia, eh? How bad is bad?" Cisco asked.

"Oh you know, he has the power of time manipulation—instead of using the speedforce like how we do, he can alter it. He can make deadly traps and he's also a persuasive git. When he wants to, he can kill people. He's a sadistic sociopath." he added.

"Alrighty then."

"I'll go with you." Barry suddenly said, catching Bart off guard.

Eyes wide, he turned to face his grandfather.

"You what?"

"I'll go with you. If there's this evil guy out there, chasing after you, I'll go with you. I want you to be safe…I want the future to be safe. I don't know what exactly happened in the future but by judging how you explained, it sounds bad so I'm going." Barry declared.

"That's quite a declaration there, son but it's dangerous. The future itself is dangerous."

Everyone turned around to see Joe standing at the entrance.

"Joe—"

"I'm not letting my son go to the future if this…madman is out to get everyone. You could get yourself killed." he then shot a look at Bart. "That goes for you too as well. Both of you are staying here until we figure something else."

"If you continue to wait, we give Inertia more time to terrorize and time is something we don't have. Time has never been on our side." Wells responded. "It's either the future or the lives of the people. You choose."

A small tension in the atmosphere started to settle and Bart stared at the floor, awkwardly. He honestly didn't want any trouble to come.

"Um…look, I can understand that this is going to be a problem so…by all means, you don't have to come. It's your decision anyway." Bart replied.

Joe let out a sharp breath. "Barry, can you come with me?"

Barry shrugged and the two went out of the room and into the hallway.

"What's up, Joe—"

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Joe asked, instantly going to the point.

"Like Bart said, it's my decision and I already made my decision. No one forced me to say yes—it was of my willpower. And Wells is right too. If we continue to linger around here aimlessly, the future will be messed up than it already is. Joe, I'll be fine."

"That's what you said when you came back from Earth-2." he muttered. "You were pretty shaken up when you came back."

Barry quirked an eyebrow. "I promise I'll be fine. I'll look after Bart so that nothing bad happens. And I promise I'll be back as soon as I can."

Joe gave him a look.

"Well…I would say "I'll be back in a Flash" but that's irrelevant…"

"No kidding."

Barry gave him a look, a pleading one. "Well? What do you say ol'chum?"

"I'm not that old but…" he paused, trying to make a decision. After a few minutes, Joe sighed knowing that he was defeated. "Alright, alright. But you better make those promises or otherwise I'll throw you off a cliff and say it was an accident." he threatened.

Barry smiled. "Thanks, Joe!"

And the two walked. As they did, Barry spoke. "And I know you don't really mean it."

"I don't know…I'm tempted to do it."

Bart heard footsteps and he lifted his head to see the two figures. His eyes were lit up hope…hoping that his grandfather could come with him.

"Well?" Wells asked.

Barry looked at Bart who had his eyes wide. "When do we leave?"

:(/\):

"I'm assuming you know when to stop?" Barry asked as the two speedsters stared at the large time machine.

Bart nodded. He couldn't help it but to smile like an idiot. He was coming. His grandfather was coming with him to help him save the future.

"Alright. Everything is stabilized and everything is normal and…" Cisco faltered.

"Cisco, I'll be fine." Barry insisted. "You all need to stop worrying about Bart and I. We will come back."

Cisco took a deep breath. "Alright…" he walked over to the button panel on the wall and pressed in some keys. "The machine is activated…you know what to do."

Barry nodded, putting on his mask and he could feel his speed running inside his body.

"You ready?" he asked.

Bart nodded. "Yes."

The machine whirred to life and they saw that a blue opening was appearing. the two speedsters took a deep breath and then in a flash, they ran towards the opening when it was the right moment.

As they ran through the time-travel, Bart had a thought going into his mind.

He was going back.

And this time, he wasn't alone.

Author's Note: Dadaaa! I think this is my longest chapter yet :p hopefully, the rest of the chapters will be long…maybe even longer than this. So, Barry and Bart are travelling to the future…what will they find and what will happen? Toodles!