Author's Note: 72 total chapters. 1,341 reviews. 82,802 views as of the last time I checked. 358 favorites. 351 follows. 363,251 words. Those are the stats for this series. This is the final chapter of the series, not including the upcoming one-shots. I cannot even describe to you how I feel right now. I've been writing this story since May 8th, 2016 and now it's finally over. You guys have been the best readers and have made this story as amazing as it is right now. I cannot thank all of you enough for this. So please, read, review, and – most importantly – enjoy!

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Wally stared at the swirling, twisting portal in front of him. This was it. This was finally the way home. They'd finished the research needed and they'd stabilized the portal and Wally had healed enough to be able to run through the portal. The colors of the portal distracted him for a moment – it looked like a mass of lightning and Wally couldn't help the small part of him that whispered that it looked like the Speed Force twirling in that depth and he wasn't sure if that terrified him or exhilarated him. He decided on settling on a middle emotion of charged nervousness. At his back were all of the people whose lives he'd managed to touch in his time here; and wasn't that amazing? All these people took the time out of their horribly busy and complicated lives to help him and save him and send him home and he would never – never – be able to prove how much that meant to him. He could only hope that they called on him from time to time and he could help them then. That was as close to repayment as he would ever be able to get.

Barry dropped a hand on Wally's shoulder before pulling the redhead into a hug, tightening his arms around him and dropping his chin on Wally's shoulder, taking a deep breath that Wally felt more than heard. Wally didn't say anything, simply accepting the hug and reciprocating.

This man was the first person that Wally had seen in almost twelve years. The last thing Wally had seen was a knife bearing down on his eyes and even though he'd hated his loss of sight, he'd been uneasy about the idea of ever getting his eyes back because sight was a part of his life that he'd happily left behind. In his mind, sight equaled his hometown equaled his parents equaled pain and he knew that he would never leave the life he had now to go back to what he had before. Sometimes this life sucked (moments in the past eight or nine months were testament to that) and sometimes he was so furious with his messed up family that he had to run a few laps around the world before he could even calm down enough to think straight and sometimes he spent hours crying in a tree in the mansion's backyard, but he'd never go back to what he had before. Nothing was worth that.

And Wally would never leave the people he loved like that. He'd fought so hard to make this family of his. It was a big family made up of the Young Justice League, the Teen Titans, the Bat Clan, the Justice League, the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, other assorted heroes, and even a few villains here and there. It was perfect. He'd spent years drawing people out and carefully working through their defenses with his speedster charm that a lot of heroes liked to say was a speedster's true power. Wally loved each member of that huge family individually and hoped to continue to add people to it. He would never leave them. Not willingly at least. Even in other dimensions he'd found ways to talk to them, to be with them, to hear them.

And now he got to go back to them. Better yet, he got to go back to all of them. With what they'd figured out with all of the trans-dimensional portals, speedsters would easily be able to travel between them. The Justice League would make sure to monitor the portal in Antarctica. SHEILD would protect the portal in the air about Hell's Kitchen. Barry and his friends would watch the portal here in STAR labs. Jay Garrick was already working on setting up protection for the portal in Zoom's old hideout.

Everything was finally coming together after a long life of struggles and hardships and Wally couldn't help but think back to what Barry had said about the Speed Force blessing him. Maybe it was true. He'd certainly fought hard enough to be blessed. Wally knew that the rest of his life wasn't going to be easy – it never was in the life he'd chosen – but he knew that it was going to be easier than it could have been if he hadn't been through what he'd been through.

Shaking his head and removing himself from Barry's embrace only to find himself folded into Iris's, Wally determined that he wasn't going to think such deep thoughts. He was going to have plenty of time for that later when he was home and in the arms of the woman he loved. Giddy enjoyment filled his heart as he remembered her saying yes when he'd asked her to marry him. Artemis had been so happy and he'd been so happy even though he was talking to her while in a prison cell in a helicarrier in a different dimension. It was so not how he'd been planning to pop the question, but it'd had to do because what else was he supposed to do? How else was he supposed to show her how much he loved her, how much he wanted – needed – her? Artemis was his world and he needed to show her that even from where he was.

And now he was going back to her. Smiling softly to himself as he was passed from hug to hug, Wally decided that he was going to spend no more than an hour with the heroes gathered in Antarctica for him before he swept Artemis into his arms and ran her all the way home to Brucely and the quaint little house they owned in Palo Alto. He'd deal with Wally West-Wayne miraculously coming back to life (it's not like the family didn't have practice with explaining a son that was declared dead suddenly coming back) later. He'd deal with revealing himself as Kid Flash (maybe going back to being Falcon or even becoming something completely different) later. He'd deal with telling the people who weren't involved that he was home (Linda and John and Queen Perdita and the Rogues) later.

Or maybe he would speed him and Artemis over to their house, grab Brucely, and then run the two of them (his own little family) home to the mansion and stay there for a while to get back into the groove of things. Then he'd have his own little family and the family that had adopted him all those years ago.

Wally would flit from his house to the mansion to Artemis's mom's house to Uncle B's house to the Garrick's house to the Mountain (or wherever they were staying now; he kept forgetting that the Mountain wasn't there anymore) to wherever there were people who wanted him because he wanted them too. He was so close. And it was going to work this time. He felt it in his bones in a way that he couldn't describe, didn't even want to try to take the words to describe. There was just this feeling that told him that this whole ordeal was over and that he'd be home soon. And, despite how many times he'd been disappointed, he decided to trust this feeling just this once. He would trust it and hope and he'd be home.

Once everyone had finished hugging him, they starting setting things up. He'd start running around the room the moment they started a countdown. They'd start at fifteen and, once they reached zero, he'd have gained enough momentum to run through the portal. Max Mercury would take Conner through after him (apparently he was still too weak to carry someone as big as the half-Kryptonian). The countdown started and Wally was vividly reminded of the first time he tried to get home.

"Fifteen." Barry Allen. Oliver Queen. Iris West. Cisco Ramon.

"Fourteen." Matt Murdock. Foggy Nelson. Peter Parker. Johnny Storm.

"Thirteen." Barry Allen. Artemis Crock. Bruce Wayne. Dick Grayson.

"Twelve." Caitlin Snow. Joe West. Roy Harper. Ronnie Raymond.

"Eleven." Steve Rogers. Nick Fury. Natasha Romanoff. Loki Laufeyson.

"Ten." Damian Wayne. Conner Kent. Hal Jordan. M'gann M'rozz.

"Nine." Martin Stein. Jay Garrick. John Diggle. Thea Queen.

"Eight." Sue Storm. Reed Richards. Tony Stark. Clint Barton.

"Seven." Colin Wilkes. Jason Todd. Kaldur'ahm. Alfred Pennyworth.

"Six." STAR labs. The Arrow Cave. The West house.

"Five." Matt's house. The Avenger Tower. The helicarrier.

"Four." The mansion. The Mountain. The house at Palo Alto.

"Three." Finally getting his sight for the first time.

"Two." Increased senses and speed.

"One." The place where his life started.

"Zero." An extra burst of speed and a flash of white light and the world twisting and turning and bending and shrinking around him and his molecules are rearranging themselves and switching around and floating back together again as he finally comes through and…

The room he'd been staring into for weeks came into focus and Wally couldn't do anything but stand there as his whole world rushed up to him and grabbed him around the middle and tousled his hair and gripped his hand and patted his shoulder. Wally felt tears gather in eyes that finally weren't useless as he burst into motion, burying his face into blonde hair that smelled like home, gripping onto a glove that sheltered what he knew to be an acrobat and superhero calloused hand, leaning into the firm hand that felt of the Speed Force that was buried in his hair, using his free hand to grip onto the glove of the person he considered his real father. The tears slipped past, falling down his face as he hiccupped in his joy, trying to get his emotions under control as his senses worked in overdrive to take in everything that he'd missed in the months he'd been gone.

The scents of joy and sweat and gunpowder and blood and lovingly cleaned weapons permeated the air. The taste of a science lab settled around Wally like a blanket. The feeling of his family surrounding him served to press that blanket tighter around him until all Wally felt was comfort. The sounds of everyone he loved crying, laughing, cheering, just talking because they were all alive and safe filled the air around him and didn't sound as overwhelming as it usually did. And, finally, the sight of those he loves for the first time in the flesh instead of slightly distorted through a dimensional screen.

It wasn't long before Wally had the love of his life swept into his arms and the wind brushing around him like a loving friend. The world disappeared under his feet and he felt like he was flying as he ran – ran into the light.

The End

Author's Note: PLEASE READ! PLEASE READ! PLEASE READ! The first chapter of the one-shots story should be up in a second! It's under Young Justice/Avengers crossovers and it's called "In the Universal Chords" (kudos to cheesy cheese for the name!)! Thank you so much for taking the time to read this series!