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[backinakidflash]

[The feed clicks on to reveal a red-headed teen with yellow eyes, who's currently peering at the device like it's going to explode.]

Okay, power button. Check. I thought this could be like that episode of The Twilight Zone where they execute people by blowing up in their rooms and that maybe someone was clever for a change and made the self-destruct button look like the on/off. But! Obviously not, because I'm still here.

I think I'm getting paranoid. It's like there's this voice in my head going -

[Bart holds two fingers up to either side of his head, so they stick up through his hair like ears.]

"Trust nothing."

[He puts his arms down, and he really drops them. They're just suddenly gone, and the camera picks up maybe two frames of the action, but even that's a little lost in a yellow flash. Bart only laughs with relief.]

Hey! Look at that, they weren't lying about that either. Now, if it would just hurry up and work all the time.

So, uh. Hi. Bart Allen. Anyone know where to find the games on this thing? I gotta pass the time until the rest of you slow down.

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[hackingyoursensors]

[Ohhhh boy. Batman reference, pop culture references, speedster, the last name 'Allen.' So is it time travel or alternate universes or both?]

The consoles are fine but you might want to watch out when you flush the toilet.

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[backinakidflash]

[Hm. Text. Well, when in Rome, right?]

What happens when you flush the toilet? Wait - I'll go check.

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[hackingyoursensors]

[Yeah, that's definitely an Allen.

When Bart comes back, there'll be another message on the console.]

Forgot how gullible speedsters are. ;)

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[tactile_telekinesis]

[Kon had been on the other side of his room when he heard someone talking over the network. He'd left it on to maybe talk to people, but this voice grabbed his attention and he's literally dropped everything to zip over to the console and sees Bart before the name is even said. He hits reply so damn fast and his face is close to the camera.

So here Bart, have a screen full of Kon's chubbier than usual face.]

BART?! Oh my GOD it's rrally you isn't it? I've not just drank some kind of drugged soda and hallucinating this?

[If he was more like the youth of today, he'd have keysmashed right about now from the excitement at seeing someone he knows. Ignoring the fact he looks older and has more...slightly tamed hair.]

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[backinakidflash]

[Head. Tilt.]

Kon?? Yeah, it's me, but I'm worried that there's drugged soda. There's not, is there? I'm okay with this being a straight-up hallucination.

[Because that would explain why Kon looked at least two years younger than the last time Bart's scene him. This is going to be a time travel thing, he just knows it. He'll headdesk later.]

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[tactile_telekinesis]

Dude! It is you! Aw man this amazing! [Then there's a pause and his face falls. Bart is here...which means he was taken from their home and...aw damn, not so amazing anymore.]

I don't think there is? Pretty sure what I was drinking was untouched and... [Internal keysmash.]

You have no idea how happy I am to see you. Even if it's in this place.

[Private, 100% Batcryption, Video]

[mrsarcastic003]

[Hey, it's a Kid Flash Tim knows!

Have a video of Tim holding his own fingers up next to his head.]

Be prepared for everything.

[Video; private if it's easy enough to figure out]

[backinakidflash]

[Bart's laughing in that sped-up way of his, somewhere between a chainsaw and Chip & Dale.]

T- Thank god. I am so glad to see you.

[He caught himself there on the name, because he doesn't know what Tim's okay with getting called here.]

Okay. I've got questions. Why do you look like you, but Kon looks like we should be roasting marshmallows?

[Video; private He had Bart in mind when he set it up.]

[mrsarcastic003]

Well, time is a little wibbly wobbly here. Kon's taken from... oh, about a minute and a half after I told you guys my name. I'm from kind of a lot later. After Batman disappeared and came back, if that means anything to you?

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[chiot]

If you're seein' voices in your head, then you've gone mad, Monsieur.

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[backinakidflash]

[Aww, hey there, little guy. Gavroche being so young is worrying.]

Maybe. I've got a pretty overactive imagination, and I know a few telepaths.

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[crotcharrow]

[Hm. Hm.]

'Slow down'?

[His interest is piqued.]

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[backinakidflash]

[Oh, the irony.]

You have no idea how weird it is when you can't always see a bird's wings.

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[raptorcanaria]

How are you at Mahjong? That's the only game I could find.

[It's someone she recognizes! Albeit not someone she's ever actually met.]

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[backinakidflash]

[Black Canary is totally hotter than he remembers from the training vids they have at the Titans Tower.

I rule at Mahjong. Sorta. It depends on who I'm playing - I have way more time to stare at the tiles.

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[animalhats]

[ HEY! She recognizes that kind of blur!!! ]

Hi! I'm Molly, are you a speedster? My brother Tommy is, too! Okay, he's not actually my brother, but he's just as good, and he's super fast. Are you a mutant or did you get like radioactive or something?

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[backinakidflash]

Hi Molly!

[Speedster brother? You have his total attention - well, okay, not total, but the focus will keep returning.]

Yep, I'm a speedster. Just not so much right this second - I'm kinda fading in and out on the connection. I didn't get radioactive, so maybe? I'm a metahuman - what's a mutant?

[urbanmagic]

[She's yet to meet Kid Flash, so here's a semi-familiar 'I have heard of the Teen Titans but never met them' person to her but not really familiar either.]

Whoa, speedster alert. Which one are you?

[backinakidflash]

[Sadly, Tim has been bandying about codenames and not real names, so Bart's actually being cautious.]

Like I said, I'm Bart Allen. Who are you?

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[zerotoawesome]

Wait, you mean this is just an on button? That's a relief! [He reaches for the button, but then BOOM! Santo explodes into a thousand tiny little pebbles.

... Only to reform a moment later, laughing.]

Just kidding, dude. What's up?

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[backinakidflash]

[Bart is totally bug-eyed at that. What. the. hell. just happened. There's this frozen half-smile on his face, like he's not sure if he should laugh or freak out.]

You just exploded. That wipes out anything else I'd say.

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[wintershepherd]

If you don't trust anything, how are you supposed to listen to the voice in your head?

[ He doubts there's really a voice, but it's as good an introduction as any. ]

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[backinakidflash]

[Shock and bewilderment. He never thought of it that way.]

Woah. I'm going to ask that the next time I see him.

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[sciencewhizard]

[ There's something vaguely familiar about this guy the moment Wally sees him over the network. It's a passing resemblance to one... or two other people he knows? Maybe? He's tilted his head this way and that for a minute or two, trying to put his finger on it, but nope- nada. Bart Allen?

... Squint.

No, there can't be a touch of Barry there... So he tries to pick things apart from the other responses...

Wait- he's seeing mentions of Barry and Jay- and- It clicks for him, then. This must be someone from Kyle's universe. But who the heck is he??!?

Have a cousin-not-cousin who's been frustrated with parallel universe shenanigans for a while, Bart! ]

What do you mean "Barry's back?" Who's Linda? Twins!? [ He may or may not be flailing. ]

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[backinakidflash]

[Bart has seen enough old pictures to recognize that this youth doesn't just have a striking resemblance to Wally West. He doesn't look exactly like the original Kid Flash. Certainly not like Wally looks now, at home. But in comparison to teenaged Wally?

Between the old photo albums and the questions, this is the Wally West that Tim told him was here. And he's been reading everything that Bart's said.

Shit.]

Woah.

Uh. Hey, Wally. So. You just jumping in on the worst questions to ask isn't just an adult thing.