The Girl of the Wild {DC Comics/Part 1 The Wildflower Series}

Ch. 2 The Mystery Girl

This chapter is from the perspective of Wally West. Hope you enjoy!

Wally West woke up that day to the sound of banging on his bedroom door. The man, also known as the Flash, made an inaudible mumble and buried himself back in the covers. It had been a little over four years since the invasion and so much had changed. Barry was gone and Wally had now taken his place as the Scarlet Speedster. When the teens had saved the world from the Reech, Wally, who was then known as Kid Flash, had been shot by the Magnetic Field Disruptor that had gone chrysalis. He was presumed to be dead for years until trace amounts of Speed Force radiation had been found at the North magnetic Pole, where Wally disappeared. Young Justice had gotten him back and Wally was now as fast as Barry Allen, but the gift came at a terrible cost. They lost one of their original members of the team, a dear friend. It now seemed like a lifetime ago.

The knocking continued and got louder and louder. He moaned and rolled back into his pillow. "Flash, I know you're in there! It's almost two in the afternoon, get up." The knocking continued and Wally rolled out of bed clumsily. The room was still dark and the only light came from the stars and earth below from the window. He stumbled to the door, shockingly, without bumping into something on the way there. His room was a complete mess and had clothing, pizza boxes, and other miscellaneous items scattered across the room. *knock* *knock* "I'm coming. I'm coming."

The door slid open and Stargirl saw a very sleepy eyed red head. She let out a laugh and covered her gaping mouth with one of her hands. Wally put a hand up to cover up his tired eyes from the protruding light from the hallway. Courtney gave another laugh and Wally wasn't in relatively the same mood. "What is it, Courtney? I was asleep." Wally scrunched up his shoulders and said in a creepy whisper, "you know the morning is evil." Wally continued to rub his eyes, trying to get all of the sleep out of them. Courtney put her hands on her hips and smiled at the tired Flash. "Well, Mr. Grumpy Speedster. It's two in the afternoon and hardly morning, and you need to wake up. By the way, your cousin's fighting with Cassie again, thought you should know." Stargirl stuck out her hand and walked off. Wally gave a sigh, put on his Flash uniform, and walked to the kitchen and cafeteria.

The Flash walked through the clear, metal hallways of the watchtower to see what Bart and Wonder Girl were fighting about this time. Bart had taken up the Kid Flash mantle since when Wally had disappeared and the Young Justice was now officially a part of the Justice League. Since Mount Justice was destroyed they now were living in a wing of the Watchtower with the Justice League members. It was weird seeing your old mentors living with you, but you got over it after a few weeks. Flash started to hear bickering coming from the kitchen and let out a laugh as he walked into the room. "Can you guys not stop bickering for a day?" Flash had a really large smile on his face when he saw Kid Flash and Wonder Girl by an open fridge, facing each other.

"He's eating all the food! What are we supposed to have for dinner if he's eating it all?" Cassie said, pointing a finger at the smaller speedster. "You are so feeling the mode right now, you're just angry 'cause I'm a better hero than you." The copper headed teen definitely had the super speed metabolism his grandfather and great cousin, Wally, had. Flash looked away from the two teens in thought when he heard their bickering starting again. He put his hands on his hips and faced them again. "Hey... Hey... HEY!" Wally screamed and the two arguing teens looked up at the Flash. "What!" they shouted jointly. Wally thought for a moment before thinking up a plan. "Cassie, you can't blame Bart for eating the food, he's got the speed to keep up, and Kid, stop eating Cassie's food. Just have a small snack to keep up your speed, okay?" Wally said this with authority in his voice, and the kids agreed.

Then, M'Gann floated into the room with a grin on her face. "How about some cookies for a snack?" the white Martian said. Kid Flash and Wonder Girl looked at each other for a while, and, then said "Raisin!" and "Chocolate Chip!" at the same time. Then, they began arguing about what type of cookies to make. Bart wanted chocolate chip cookies and said that it was definitely better than crummy, old, wrinkled grapes. "But raisins are better for you than chocolate! You don't want to get fat do you? Oops, you already are." Cassie stuck out her fist, put a hand on her hip, and looked over to Bart, who was now standing there dumbfounded at the Amazon's comment. "Well, if I'm fat, you must be as large as brick house." Bart gave a wide mouthed laugh and held his stomach. Wonder Girl's eyes widened and then her mouth clenched and she glared. It wasn't a Bat-glare, but it was enough to get Kid Flash scared and he sped off, away from the upset Amazon as she chased after him. M'Gann looked back at Flash, stunned and asked, "So, I guess that's a no on the cookies?" Wally just laughed and walked on to roam the hallways of the Watchtower. "It's really funny," the Flash thought and then his face got a little serious, well, for Wally, anyways. "There are starving people in Africa and those two are fighting over what cookies to make."