"Do you ever wish none of this ever happened?"
Nathan was sitting across from Bart, staring into the fire they started just outside the barracks. He had saved Bart from Mulligan and his gang a few weeks ago. "That the Reach never came, that your loved ones never died, that your life wasn't such a mess, that the world wasn't such a mess?"
Bart looked up from his nutrient pack to stare at Nathan. "Of course. But it's not like we've got a time machine." Bart shook his head. "If we're gonna fix the Earth, we gotta fix it in the present"
Nathan stood up abruptly, knocking the bucket he was sitting on over, "But.. What if we DID have a time machine?!"
"Shh!!" Bart shrunk into himself, looking around for anyone eavesdropping on them. "We don't have a time machine. And even if we did, you can't go shouting things like that, especially out in the open like this. And sit down!"
Nathan sat down next to Bart.
"What's wrong with you anyway?" Bart squinted his eyes, he hoped this guy wasn't some crazy old geezer bent on escape; no one ever escapes the Reach.
"Sorry, I just, when I was your age, I read a theory, one that could help us build a time machine,"
"What kind of theory?" Bart whispered, scooting closer to Nathan.
"Uh, well, it boiled down to using nuclear energy to tap into this thing called the speed force,"
"The speed force?" Bart asked, scooting even closer. 'Speed force' sounded familiar, really familiar.
"Yeah, the news said that that was how the Flash ran fast without blowing up the Earth,"
Bart nodded, smiling. He remembered Dad telling him about that when he was little.
"I think we can work with that- if we can get this thing off me," Bart pointed at his collar.
"Really? We'd have to get away from the main camp, get to the island, where there are no Reach soldiers, but I think we can do that. I know a few people. What's your plan, kid?"
Bart tried to appear nonchalant, but he was practically buzzing with excitement. "I can tap into the speed force. Flash was my grandpa, and I think I can power your time machine"
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Bare Love
Fanfiction-Keep in mind that Bart comes from a Reach ruled future, M/M would not be logical or productive, so it would have been punished- Bart Allen had done it. He'd traveled to the past, and now he was going to stop the Blue Beetle form causing the apocaly...
