Like the day before the cave was now filled with everyone besides Artemis, they had just been called in for a mission also so they knew she should be there. When it comes to missions she's always the first one there and so Wally being the protective boyfriend left the room to call her. He ran directly to her room before making the phone call. "Hey beautiful, we have a mission and you kind of need to get here for it." Wally said to the voicemail.
He walked back into the main corridor so he could be with the others. Batman was standing there with his usual scowl present on his face as he waited for the speedster to come into the room. "Kid Flash," he said in a gruff tone. Wally sped over to stand in front of him before he opened his mouth to speak.
"Hello Batman, Artemis should be here soon." he told him in reportive way. In a mere second the bat's face softened and he showed actual emotions when he turned to the boy right in front of him.
"No she isn't because she resigned from the team, as of effective immediately. She gave me a note and she gave me one for you also, so um here." Batman said before giving the shocked teenager a envelope with his name on it. "I'm sorry." he told the rest of the team. Their mouths were gaping at the news as they looked at their redheaded speedster. "Anyways," Batman said changing the subject, "your mission is on Infinity Island. Sportsmaster, Cheshire, and Bane have been doing some dealings and your job is to find out what of. Try to avoid a confrontation." Batman said. "Now go," he spoke in a gruff voice. Everyone turned to leave when Wally felt a hand on his shoulder. "Not you."
"What, why not? I want to help," Wally challenged. Batman gave him a look before taking his arm off his shoulder.
"You're going on the mission, I just need to speak to you really quick." the teenager nodded. "You can't let this situation with Artemis get in your way on the mission, don't lose control of your actions, and don't be reckless." Batman told him before letting him go for the mission.
A couple minutes later all the heroes were on the bioship, flying in silence. That was until Wally decided to open up his letter. "Hey KF, I'm sorry for what happened. She'll come back to the team though, she could never leave you, or this life behind." Robin told his best friend. Wally didn't really listen as he unfolded the letter and began to read.
'Hey Wally. I'm guessing by the fact that you're reading this now you know that I have quit the team. I know that you're probably thinking that this is your fault because you always find a way to blame yourself when you've done nothing wrong at all. I didn't leave because of anything that you've done, I promise. This is all me, I have to do this and I guess I can't tell you why either. I do however love you very much, and would like it if you just move on from me. I'm going away and don't plan on coming back. I'm sorry for hurting you, but I can't mess up your life. Find someone better than me, someone worth your love. I won't forget you but I hope you can me. I just want you to know that the times that I've had with you were my best that I've ever had, I'm not forgetting anyone on that team and I definitely refuse to forget about you. Don't ever think that I don't love you. Love, Artemis.' Wally looked with with tears now streaming down his face, his eyes now dull and shadowy with darkness. He was shaking in his seat as he thought about what he just read. "She left the team, and she, she left me." he choked out. The others looked at him from their seats. M'gann shifted the bioship into autopilot before walking over to her teammate. "She's not coming back." he whispered. The others gave him a look.
"Yes she is, why do you say that?" Wally handed Robin the note before curling up into a ball. The boy wonder read it over and over again before he handed it back to Wally. "I'm so sorry, we can help you find her, I promise." Wally only cried even harder as he began to rock himself. "You'll get her quick, maybe she'll just come back to us." Robin said trying to make him feel better. The speedster only shook his head back and forth before biting his lip.
"No she's not, when she doesn't want to be found she can disappear, I want to find her but that's going to be close to impossible. She's not coming back to us, she's not coming back to me." he said as he began to panic. His chest became stiff and heavy as he tried to breath.
"Calm down." M'gann told him as she watched him. He shook his head before bringing his knees closer to his chest. "We're uh, we're here." she announced. Everyone stood up and walked towards the doors.
"I think it would it be best for you to stay back on the ship, friend." Kaldur told Wally. He turned around using his quick speeds and stood inches away from his friends face.
"No, I'm not staying here while you guys go on this mission, that's not fair, Batman thought I was fine enough. He just told me what I already know, don't be reckless, I'm going on this mission. I need to get the emotion out some other way then crying my eyes out." he said. They each gave him weary looks as they went anyways.
'Link established, is everybody on?' M'gann asked through the link. She got a stream of yeses as her answer and they began to figure out who was going where. '2nd link established, you guys on?' she asked. Everyone besides Wally responded. 'Good. Someone needs to stay close to Wally.' M'gann stated.
'I'll do it, I know how to handle his mood and can keep him in line.' Robin volunteered. They each responded saying that it was a good idea. They each turned back to Wally who was waiting there still and with a solemn look on his face.
'Ok, Robin and Kid Flash, you guys are together trying to get the sample of whatever they're dealing. Conner and Rocket, you guys will be watching over Bane and his henchmen. M'gann, Zatanna, and I we'll be watching over Sportsmaster, Cheshire, and their henchmen, everyone remember that we're not trying to have a confrontation here. If we do, which we know will more than likely happen, always stay on guard.' they each nodded before speeding off to where they had to be.
Robin and Kid Flash were watching as some crates were being moved into these big trucks. They were in viles so they could take multiple samples of it, they just needed to find a way to get what they needed without getting caught. They moved a little closer to the trucks before Wally tripped on a tree trunk a fell before sliding. "Great," Robin said to himself. He ran after his friend to see that some henchmen found him already. "Sugar honey iced tea," Robin whispered. 'We've got trouble, Wally fell and the henchmen found him but he didn't get captured, which is good, but still.' Robin told the rest of them. In response he got a couple of groans. 'I'm going to get the samples while they're distracted but I got to help him soon, he should be able to hold his own for a little while though.' he told them before slipping into the back of the truck. Before doing anything he placed a tracker on the inside where they couldn't see it before grabbing five of the viles and placing them in his utility belt. He hopped out and took off to the rooftop of the warehouse next to him so he could see better.
The speedster was putting a good fight up against the henchmen as he punched ferociously, his fist locked, and as he kicked you could see that he was putting more force into it than usual. There was at least forty-five guys that he was going against all by himself and he only had a few scratches on his face. Robin was shocked but gave respect where it was due, he stopped admiring it and jumped down from where he previously was and did a spinning kick as he landed, he did a round house, then a flying back handspring which knocked out ten of them in itself. 'So, you weren't doing to bad by yourself, you've got more strength in beating them up now. I got the samples, so let's finish this up and go see what the others are doing.' Robin told him. The moment he looked at his friend he was sure he could see a smirk on his face.
'I'm okay with that.' he thought before cracking his fist and knocking out some of the other henchmen. When there were only two of them still standing Wally let out a laugh before jumping up and kicking them as hard as he could across the face which caused them both to drop to the ground. 'That was fun.' he growled out. Robin looked at the redhead with a look of concern before they ran off to see what the others were doing.
'Does anybody need help?' Rob questioned.
'We could use help over here.' Kaldur said. As soon as he said that somebody else spoke up.
'We need help also, we can't knock him out.' Conner grunted. Wally nodded his head before he turned to Robin.
'Do you guys have any knockout gas there with you?' Wally asked with a smile. Robin looked at him funny for a second before he smirked. 'Can you give me some?' he asked his best friend. He nodded at him before throwing him two. 'Thanks,' he sped off to help the others.
As soon as Wally arrived he could see Conner and Bane hashing it out and Rocket trying to get a perfect timing to throw a force field around him. 'Thank god you're here, now can you do your whole plan thing now or?' Rocket asked him. He nodded his head before reaching into his pocket and pulling one of them out.
'When I tell you go, you throw the force field up around him. Superboy, you have to push him toward me okay, just give us a five foot difference so I don't get murdered here.' he told him. The boy only grunted in response before he nodded his head. 'Good, go.' he called. They did what he said and he rolled the gas in right before the force field closed so now Bane was floating unconscious.
'Good plan.' they told him with a smile. He only nodded his head.
'Can you guys take care of the henchmen me and Robin knocked out?' they groaned before walking in the direction Wally came from.
'What do you mean that we took out, you knocked out more than half off them while I was watching. Now can you come and help us over here, the henchmen are interfering with us getting to Sportsmaster, right now we're dealing with Cheshire but if you don't help Sportsmaster might get away.' Robin grunted.
'Yeah, I'm on my way, leave Sportsmaster to me though, we have some unfinished business.' Wally said as he ran towards where most of his friends were fighting.
'Look you can have him if you want, we can't really fight him right now if we wanted to but just don't go killing anyone, okay?' Robin questioned. Wally chuckled before showing up in front of Sportsmaster with a huge grin on his face.
"It's not very nice to leave a party early, but then again, it's not nice to do a lot of the things that you've done." Wally smirked even bigger when he finished the sentence. "I think you should do the good thing and turn yourself in," Wally started before stepping into fighting stance, "but you never take people's advice, or do the right thing." Sportsmaster pulled out his mace and began to swing it back and forth. "That supposed to scare me?"
Sportsmaster laughed before trying to hit him. "No, it's going to hurt you really bad though." he said before fake swinging to the left and trying with the right but Wally sped out of the way.
"Going to have to be faster than that." Wally said before kicking thee older man in the chest. As the wind was knocked out of him he jumped down and swiped his legs from underneath him. "Like that." he chuckled after. The thing was, old bone crusher doesn't need to have speed on his side if he found the right things to say.
"Still with that disobedient ass child of mine," he asked with a smile. Wally now had a glare on his face before storming even closer to him and kicking him straight in his rib cage. "Strike something in you, I thought she was smarter than to go out with someone like you anyways, guess she's not too bright." he told the redhead in front of him. In a second Wally was right on top of him a punched in across the face until he coughed up blood.
"You don't know me, and you don't know Artemis, stop pretending like you do. Assholes like you shouldn't even be able to talk about her, so don't say anything else about her!" hee growled out before kicking him again. This time he hopped up though and punched the boy before swinging his mace into his area three times. Wally was about to fall but refused, he was just too pissed off, he grabbed the javelin on the man's back and stabbed it all the way through his thigh. "I'm done with scum like you," he said before knocking him out with a blow to the head. He still had the javelin through his thigh as he walked towards the others with a limp. On the way there he collapsed though and clutched the newly added injury.
Soon he started to see darkness and it all took over, he was out like a light within the following five minutes. When he woke up he could see some fluorescent lights all around him but didn't hear anything around him for the thought of the Med Bay. "Guys, where," he was cut off by Conner speaking.
"Right now you're in the back of the bioship and we're like ten minutes away so just lay still. Good enough for you?" he asked. The redhead nodded slowly before picking himself up with caution. "You were insane on the field, it was cool, how could you think of that plan so quickly." He sat holding himself as he began to speak to Conner.
"I was just mad you know and I guess I just channeled that anger for some good, and thanks. The planning thing was really nothing, I just knew that you guys were having trouble and needed a quick plan, so I threw one together." Conner smiled before giving him a high five.
"Smart," he said before walking away. Wally slowly climbed off the bed he was in and followed his friend to the front. He walked over with a limp before sitting down in the chair that became his.
"Hey everyone," he said in an exhausted tone. He got a stream of hellos as his response before laying his head on the back of the chair. "Did you guys speak to Batman yet?" he asked curiously.
"Yeah we did, he says they have to check you out in the med bay and then he needs to talk to you after they're done doing what they need to you." As soon as Robin answered they arrived at the cave. Wally let out a groan as he tasted the saltiness of his blood on his lip.
"Okay, now I'm going to get in trouble," Wally said before climbing out the open door of the bioship. He walked into the main area to find Batman waiting for him with his normal scowl.
"Straight to the med bay, Kid Flash, now," he said. Wally lowered his head before limping to the med bay with a angered expression on his face. He didn't really mess up the mission to badly, they got everything they needed but he fell down and made it so they knew that they were there. He also wasn't smart enough to keep pushing when Artemis wouldn't admit what was wrong with her and now his girlfriend quit the team and dumped him.
He walked into the med bay and sat at the bed that Black Canary was standing in front In an instant he took a deep breath before speaking. "Not to you know, but I have been through some things tonight and was wondering if I could get someone else to check it out." she gave him a look before he began speaking again. "I was, um, hit in my uh, you know three times with Sportsmaster's mace." he whispered. She still understood what he was saying and turned away from him. "Can you call my uncle?" he asked. She nodded before walking off.
A couple minutes later Barry walked into the room holding a clipboard with a smirk on his face. "How you doing today, Wally?" he asked. Wally only shook his head before answering the question honestly.
"I'm doing terrible, I have these pains in my lower section, and since I got hit with a mace there it wasn't the best thing. It's the only pain that I'm feeling." Barry now looked down to see the next question after he wrote down the previous response.
"Yeah that's definitely a no." Barry said about to write down a response when his nephew stopped him.
"Wait, what's the question?" Wally asked. Barry looked at him with his face turning kind of red.
"Have you been you know," clears his throat, "active in that type of way?" Barry coughed out. Wally took a deep breath before he turned red.
"I uh, Artemis and I, yeah, I've been active in that way, but like a month and a half ago." he finished with his face as red as his hair. His uncle looked thrown back before logging down the important part of what he heard, the answer.
"Okay well, we're done here and I would like to not bring up the events that just occured here." Wally nodded his head vigorously before sitting up further than before. "I heard about Artemis leaving the team, how you taking it?" Wally's eyes became dull in a second.
"Not to good, it really hurts. She didn't say goodbye to me, she dumped me through a letter and it hurts. I don't even know what I did, she said she was leaving and not coming back. She said I shouldn't blame myself and to find someone better than her, I don't want anyone better than her because there's nobody more perfect for me. I already thought about forever with her, how couldn't I, she means the world to me. How do I move on from someone that I want to spend my life with?" he asked. Barry smiled at his nephew before taking a step closer to him. He placed his hand on the boy's shoulder before making eye contact.
"The truth is Wally, you never truly will, that's if you're meant to spend the rest of your life together. You've got to just never give up on her, she loves her mom and will keep in contact with her so just leave a message with Paula. Don't give up on love, or Artemis for that matter, if it's worth something then it's happen the way it's meant to." Barry said before the two of them walked out the room.
"Thanks Uncle B, I'll see you later, I have to go speak to Batman." Barry nodded.
"Oh, and Wally, you might want to put some ice on that and rest for a while soon because you fractured your, um, yeah." Barry said before speeding off into the zeta tubes.
"Hello Batman," Wally said in a nervous tone before walking with him. Everyone else was in their own rooms so he was going through this all on his own, usually Artemis in there with him but I guess that won't be like that for a longtime.
"Kid Flash, you didn't do bad today, as you were knocked out they told me all about how you were. I just want to congratulate you for not letting a situation like the one you were in mess up your concentration on what was important at the task at hand. The only thing I have to question is what happened to make you do that to Sportsmaster?" Wally looked down for a second before looking at the Bat's cowl.
"I took it pretty far but I was kind of on a roll with the bad guys. I told the others to let me have Sportsmaster and then we were only a foot apart. He started to talk about Artemis badly and I couldn't take it. I lost it and I beat him up a little, when I was about to walk away he hopped up and punched me. After punching me he got his mace and hit me three times in the private before I got his javelin, stabbed him and then knocked him out." Batman nodded as the teen just stood tall.
"Okay, so anger issues is something that we need to work on for you." Wally nodded before he began to rock back and forth. "You can leave now," as soon as he was released he ran through the tubes and to Artemis's apartment. He ran to the front door and knocked as quickly as he could. Her mom opened the door and welcomed him in without saying a word.
"Hi Mrs. Crock, is um, is Artemis here?" he asked hopefully. He knew she probably wasn't but that wouldn't stop his hopes.
"I'm sorry, she isn't here and I don't really know when she's coming back. She told me that when you come over to say that she loves you and is sorry for how everything happened. Do you want me to tell her something for you?" Wally choked back a sob before nodding his head yes.
"Can you tell her that I know she loves me and I refuse to give up on her because that's what it means to love someone?" he asked. She nodded her head in his direction before strolling down the hall to grab a wet cloth.
"Here you go, clean up your lip." she told him. He nodded before running down the hall so he could be in the mirror and see what he was doing. While he was in the bathroom Paula rolled into Artemis's room and pulled out a shirt and some pants for Wally. As soon as he came back she gave him the clothes. "Can't go roaming around in that." she told him before just waiting in the living room.
He went home after they talked for a little and fell straight to sleep.