I Didn’t Do Anything Wrong! (Bart/Open)

[SURGE]

Her indigo eyes ranked over the rows of batteries that were on display and in packages. The black handle of blue basket that dangled from her arm, the basket was bulky nearly wide enough to give the small girl trouble with holding it. In the basket were simple packets of batteries, numerous packets of batteries from large seventy six packages to small four and two packets of batteries. Also in the basket was a PSP Vita game system, PSP Vita case, along with a game that caught her eye, something called Gravity Rush. She had went and gotten the game, system case and game system first in order to look like a real costumer so as to not draw attention to herself before she had gone over to the battery section. She figured if she was stuck on this planet called Earth then she might as well see why humans used electricity to power their gaming systems. She had never played a game before and idea fascinated her. Ever since she saw a group of children playing them and she could hear the strange sounds they made, it made her childish curiosity grow and demanded to be quenched. And soon she would find out what made these gaming systems so tempting and fun. No one would suspect a child to steal things, but then again she was no child, she just looked like one.

Aislinn shook her head slowly, reaching out to take another battery pack from the rack, her hand stilled when she heard a voice beside her. “Have you found everything you’re looking for?” she whipped her head to the side and up only to find herself being smiled at by a young man, maybe in his early twenties with spiky brown hair, green eyes and fair skin. The man was wearing a blue shirt with beige pants, a brown belt and brown shoes, and his name tag said his name was ‘David’. She gave the man a smile and nodded a yes. She merely nodded when the man said “Don’t hesitate to ask if you need any help.”. The man was kind or maybe he was just being nice because that was his job. She didn’t know or care to know. It wasn’t her concern. She watched out of the corner of her eye as the man walked away. She snatched up the packet of batteries and walked unconcerned toward the exit, her bag on her arm and left open, where she slipped the game system into the bag, followed by the game system case, Gravity Rush, and several packets of batteries. The man from earlier caught her, red handed. “HEY YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR THOSE!” his voice was loud and shouty catching the attention of the other costumers and employees. She quickly grabbed the rest of the battery packages and dropped them into her bag while she bolted for the exit, tossing the empty basket behind her as she zipped her bag closed. Her small hands hitting the handle of the door and she heard shouts of “THIEF! THIEF!! THIEF!!! SOMEONE STOP HER, THIEF!!!!” along with the sound of pounding footsteps as she shoved the door to Best Buy open and bolted down the sidewalk.

She didn’t like being called a thief, because really could she be called a thief if she was doing it survive? To live? To Eat? She agreed with her ideals but other people didn’t think so. She was just a petty thief in their eyes. But that was fine; they were just strangers anyway and held no real relationship with her. They were just strangers, people she was likely to never see again. In truth Aislinn really didn’t even like being a thief but desperate times called for desperate measures, she presumed. This was a matter of life and death… and maybe a little pleasure as well but mostly life and death. Her feet pounded on the sidewalk, pushing her forward with each step. She needed to get away. She needed to flee. To survive. One hand clutched around the strap of her electric blue backpack which she had slung over her shoulder when she had started running down the sidewalk. Desperately searching for a place to hide. Anywhere would be fine. She just needed to hide from the police, the civilians and most importantly from the funnily costumed heroes who would attack her for stealing. At least that was what she thought they would do to her. That or they would march her back to that store and make her give all she had stolen back because she’d be a child in their eyes.

Aislinn rolled her eyes at herself as she continued to run from the scene of the crime she had just committed. Okay so perhaps San Francisco hadn’t been the greatest place for her steal from a game store, because of the fact that she had been helped before by a heroine, called Bumblebee… she really wouldn’t like it if Bumblebee caught her… the woman had been kind to her and the thought of her(Bumblebee) catching her made the alien feel a twinge of regret and shame but she quickly shook it off. She had to get away and besides there was no way Bumblebee would be sent to stop her. It was just a petty crime after all and a rather unusual one at that! Besides she had bigger problems to worry about like that group of heroes and heroines here… She shivered at the thought. A GROUP OF THEM! How was she supposed to take on who knows how many? By herself? Oh yes she was screwed big time. But surely those people had more important things to do then go after a petty thief like her? Right? Surely there were bigger fishes out there to fry instead of little her?

Surge's lavender purple lips twisted into a smirk, Bumblebee wouldn’t know it was her if she disappeared from this city quickly enough; at least that was what she thought. No human had ever gotten as close to her as she had. Granted no human had tried before but still it was no small feat that that kind woman had accomplished. Bumblebee had gained a small portion of her trust and had even made her feel ashamed of her own actions, no one had ever managed to make her feel ashamed before and within the small time she got to know Bumblebee the woman had impacted her greatly. She stopped running, pausing only for a moment. Her human form suddenly started vibrating at lightning speeds seconds before a small, thin, lethal, feminine-looking purple electrical being took the human girl’s place, goggles now coming over her electric blue eyes, her bag now slung over both her shoulders nanoseconds before she suddenly raced away at blinding speeds toward the nearest exit that would lead her out of San Francisco. Traveling at the speed of lightning, there was no one who could catch her now, at least that was what she thought…

[Bart Allen]

He could feel the wind whipping through his hair as the earth sped by underneath him. This is what he lived for, this is what life was all about for him. Running. The world was a blur as he passed it by, but every image, everything he passed, he saw and understood. He wasn’t really running for any purpose, but to run. Soon, the ground beneath his feet turns into sand, then in another second, water. It’s like running on anything else, just as solid to him as he runs faster than the speed of light and sound.

Bart zips around the Titans tower for the third time in the last ten minutes, then loops back towards the city he had found himself in just over six months ago, his golden amber eyes sparkling in delight as water arcs behind him as he lays on the speed just a little bit more. Suddenly it’s sand beneath his feet, then suddenly it is pavement again as he turns to the outskirts again, past Chinatown, past the beautiful rich looking houses he so desperately wanted to look at it to see what they looked like inside, out to the mountains again.

Back to the city he goes, slowing slightly to catch a few of the sights around him until he reaches downtown. There he stops and slows to a walk, wandering among the booths, once in a while picking up an item and checking it out before setting it back down. He’s not really paying attention to anything really, until a gust of wind hits him- his head snaps up, just barely catching the blur of colors passing him.

He knows what that gust is, what that blur of colors means. It means he is not alone, that there is someone else just like him. Instantly, he drops the miniature Golden Gate Bridge he was holding, allowing it to clatter back to the table he had just picked it up from, earning a shouted “HEY!” from the booth owner, but Bart pays him no mind as he takes off after that blur of colors.

It doesn’t take much, Barts trail of cackling golden lightning to catch up with this unknown blur of colors, only a few seconds. He slows his speed just slightly as the figure ahead of him snaps into focus. It’s a woman. A womanly shape at least. The woman was all… Purple. Not that people who were strange and random colors were really a surprise to Bart, after all, he hung out with Eddie quite a bit. And he had horns.

Quickly, realizing she didn’t know he was behind her yet, he slides the golden cowl with it’s almost menacing red eyed slits on over his face, leaving just his jaw and mouth exposed to the elements. His suit is already on, since obviously, he is never able to take it off… Which definitely made showers difficult, that was for damn sure. He shakes his head, throwing that thought out the window as he focuses on the purple woman in front of him.

This had all taken just moments for Bart, as he speeds up and catches up to the woman. He is finally running beside her, finally running next to someone that could do what he could do, that could keep up with him! By now, they had hit the desert again, sand once more flying in an arc behind him as he ran effortlessly beside this strange woman. “Hi!MynameisKidFlash!What’syours?Whoareyou?Howcomeyoucanrunasfastasme??” He speaks rapidly, so fast that a normal human being would have had no chance to understand Bart, but this woman… He just knew she could understand him.

His golden amber eyes are wide with delight behind his cowl, an unique innocence in his young face as his reddish-brown hair trails behind him. There is a wide smile upon his face as he gazes at the purple woman next to him, white teeth practically glowing between his lips.

Oh, he hoped they could be friends.

[SURGE]

Surge wasn’t quite sure where she was going, she just knew that she had to get out of that city, out of San Francisco. As she hit the desert sands, she looked over her shoulder watching as the dust was kicked up in an arc, she had never ran on something that wasn’t solid before, so the experience was new to her and she wondered if she could run on her weakness. Water. Would water affect her like it normally did? Would it short her out? She wanted to find out but what if she couldn’t and she drowned? She shook her head, causing her hair to spark and crackle with the movement; her worrisome thoughts vanished as quickly as they came. She would worry about that later. She had no idea that she was being followed at least not until the person suddenly started running beside her. She blinked in confusion and wonder. How could a human keep up with a Voltriaian? As far as she knew she was the fastest creature on this slow planet. No one could keep up with her; at least that was what she had originally thought. Not that she minded about being proven wrong.

She gave the strange tall human a once over. Reddish-brown hair trailing behind him, eyes covered by a strange golden and red eyed cowl, he was wearing a gold and dark red suit and there was a trail of golden lightning behind him. She wondered what it would taste like if she ate it. She quickly shook off her feelings of hunger when the human spoke. In speed speech! She was excited and curious about this human. Her lips twisted into a wide grin, she didn’t even think about hiding her toothless indigo gums, her electric blue tongue moving as she spoke, finally able to speak with someone who could understand her speed talking and without having to slow her speech down for their benefit. “Hi!Kidflashnicetomeetyou.IamSurge.I’manalien.AVoltriaianfromtheplanetVoltria. We’rebornthisway,torunandmoveatthespeedoflightning!We’relightningbeings.Nowyou!Whatareyou?Whycanyoumoveasfastasme?” she spoke, her toothless grin never once leaving her lips. Her eyes shinning with delight. She couldn’t help but not be suspicious of this young man, for he was something she had never expected to encounter, at least not on this planet a human who could run and speak at the speeds she could.

He had caught her curiosity and had her full and undivided attention. She wanted to know more about this stranger called Kid Flash. She was completely oblivious to the fact that they had hit the ocean now and were running across it. She had never guessed that she could run across other elements such as a water and desert so effortlessly, then again this was her first time ever experiencing such a rush and the blur of colors that came from the planet Earth. She had only ever known flat hard concrete and running through electricity and absorbing it. On her planet other elements such as sand, water, grass and rock were nonexistent on her homeworld. So the feeling of the different elements amazed and fascinated her. Especially the blurs of color! She had never seen such glorious colors before. “Thisisfun!Andsoamazing!Yourworldissocolorful!” she couldn’t help blurting out.

She wanted to be his friend. She truly did. But the harsh reality was settling in. He was a hero. She was thief? Could a thief and a hero still be friends if they were on different sides of the law? Would he be friends with a thief? Would he disapprove of her ‘stealing’ electricity? Even if it was to survive? Would he still want to be her friend even though she was a thief?

She really hoped that he could and would look past that part of her.

[Bart Allen]

Bart was truly smiling now… Not that he ever smiled falsely… He was after all, a very happy young man. If not a little naïve. Well, maybe more than a little.

“I’maspeedster! IguessI’mrelatedtotheFlash,butIdon’tknowforsure.WeusethisthingcalledtheSpeedforce.ItmakesusgosuperfastandsoemtimesIcantalktoit!!” His feet barely touching the ground, he takes them through a rain forest. Wanting to show the purple girl the rain forest a little better, he slows down, allowing them more a view of the beauty that was the rainforests…

Blue and green sped by, the sounds of parrots and monkeys chattering in the trees, Bart caught a glimpse of a sloth, hanging precariously to a branch, out of the corner of his eye. Soon though, the rain forest comes to an end, and now they are racing through another desert, the harsh rays of the sun barely touching Barts skin as they speed beneath it. His photographic memory takes in every single beautiful detail. He smiles in delight at his companion, happy to finally be able to share this experience with someone else.

“Voltria?HowdidyouenduponEarth?Whatsyourplanetlike?” He dodges around a tree, never taking his eyes off of Surge. She had a grace that only people like him… and well, people like her had. Something that being super fast just seemed to lend them a hand in. Until Bart slowed down. And went at normal speed. Then Bart became incredibly clumsy. In fact, Red Robin had told Bart not to touch anything that could possibly break if he could help it. Something about how if Bart touched anything it would seem to break within minutes.

“Howdoyousurvive?Whatdolightingpeopleeat?” Bart realized with delight that they were approaching another ocean. He sped up, having kept the same slightly slower pace since the rain forest. His amber eyes look at her again, his whole face smiling in happiness.

He was just so happy to find someone like him. He just hoped she wasn’t a super villain.. He didn't even mind that she had no teeth. In fact, it looked pretty cool.

[SURGE]

Surge automatically followed the speedster’s lead, slowing down a bit, her protected electric blue eyes wide in wonder as she looked everywhere at once taking in every single bit of detail about the rainforest as she could. It was beautiful. So much more so than her own planet. Her planet wasn’t pretty like Earth was; Earth was truly more magnificent and beautiful. This planet definitely trumped over her own planet when it came to beauty.

She didn’t bother to turn her head to him; she was too focused on trying to take in everything the rainforest had to offer. Her eyes widened again as she watched a large spotted cat(a jaguar) lounging on a tree branch as she answered him. “Really?Thatssocool!Whatisthespeedforce?Howcanyoutalktoit?” she asked finally tarring her gaze away from the rainforest to look at him for a nanosecond as she gave him a smile before her gaze was once again captured by the rainforest as they raced out of it and came to yet another desert with endless sand, and the sun is what caught her attention, it was pretty as she watched the sun’s rays touch the landscape around them, making the tan sand seem more like it was grains of gold. She smiled wider; she never would have guessed she would have had the chance to run with someone like herself again, someone who could keep up with her speed, like her own race could so easily. She was glad she had found him… or rather that he had found her.

“YesVoltria.Itsaplanetfarawayfromthisplanet.Ithinkitsgalaxesawayawayfromhere.” she said thoughtfully remembering her own planet her smile lost some of its luster as it turned into a wistful one. “Myplanetisverybright.Itsalwayslightnomatterwhattimeofdayitis.Wehavenonightordarknessorshadows.Myplanetispoweredbyelectricityitisconstantlyflowingandweuseeletricityformanythings,itisourpowersourceandallowsmyplanettoliveandthrive.Myplanetisntasniceasthis,everythingisaflatsurfaceandmadeofconcrete.EverythingmaybebrightbecauseoftheflowingelectricitybutthonlycolorswehavearegrayforlandscapebutweVoltrianianscanbeanythingtoyellow,blue,whiteorpurple.” she explained trying to explain everything she could as her mind wandered to her homeworld and how her planet was so different than Earth. Her smile vanished completely when Kid Flash asked her how she had gotten to Earth, that wasn’t something she really wanted to talk about, so she decided to give him the truth yet not going into any details. “Icameinanescapepod,theescapepodcouldnthandletheatmosphereanddisintegrated.IdontknowhowIservivedit,fromwhatIknowIshouldhavebeenburnedtoacrisp.” she said explained at least a small part of how she got to Earth, not the whole story but a small part of it that was the truth.

As they reached another ocean she was tempted to simply stop and see what would happen but she thought better of it as she matched his pace speeding up when he did. A laugh escaped her as she took in the ocean around her, curious about what lived under the waves but she wasn’t about to try and find out. She turned her attention back to him when he asked her what she and her race ate. Her fingers sparked in uncertainty. Was it alright to tell him? She figured it wouldn’t cause any harm. “Weeatelectricityandlightning.Weneedtoeatandabsorbelectrilictyinordertosurvive…” she said. “Youknowtheblackoutsthathavebeenhappeningrecently?” she asked looking at him and hoping he wouldn’t be angry with what she was going to tell him next. “Thosewerecausedbyme.Imnottryingtohurtanyonebutitsnotlikeyouhumansneedittosurvive.Icanonlysurvivesevendayswithouteatinganyeletricityanythinglongerthansevendayswillkillme.Illdiefromstarvation.” she said as she stared into the eyeholes of his mask, at the lower half of his exposed face, trying to see how he would take such news. God she hoped he wouldn’t take it too badly… or at least not badly enough to attack her because of it.