A/N: Special thanks to iloveballen For the idea for this chapter.
The car suddenly pulled to a halt in one of the last homes Wally would want to be in at the moment. His home. His parents, who must've gotten a call from a certain hacker who he would not say by name must've called them because the two were outside on the front deck looking very curious. As the car crawled to a stop Wally felt his own heart follow in slowly creeping to a halt.
'Ugh! I wonder what they'll say- wait! What will I say even? Hey sorry you thought you lost your only child but hey I've been alive this entire time and failed to mention it!?' His mental voice screamed at him as he delivered many mental face palms as well.
"Wally." Bruce's voice suddenly turned Batman as he opened up the passenger door on Wally's side, pulling the boy away from his mental turmoil.
Slowly the red-head swung his legs out of the car and even more slowly staggered to his feet. From Bruce's left side he could see his parent's anxiously trying to catch a glimpse of who ever was getting out of the car but Bruce blocked their view.
"Good luck." Bruce uttered before putting a hand on the boy's shoulder.
Barry opened up the car door and let himself out. He walked passed Bruce and his nephew and made his way over to Marry and Rudy. He whispered a few words to the two of them and Wally could see their faces go white from shock and then within an instant Bruce was no longer shielding Wally and the car behind him soon raced off down the street without so much as the sound of the engine flipping over.
"H-he is not my son!" He could hear his mother cry out as she dropped to her knees and began to cry into her hands. "H-he can't be! Wally is dead!"
Barry had dropped to his own knees and clutched her shoulders in trying to calm her sobs. Rudy walked passed the two and made his way over to Wally. He almost appeared afraid and unsure as he made his way over to his son but the quick pace he kept told otherwise.
"Dad..." Wally huffed out when the man got within hearing range. "Look I'm sorry I didn't call sooner bu-"
He didn't get to finish his sentence before he was pulled into a bone-crushing hug.
"A-air." He managed to cough out before being let go and a hand was set on his shoulder.
"I-It really is you..." His dad sighed out in amazement. "B-but how?"
Wally ran his fingers through his hair and took a deep breath.
"Look, I'll explain everything but after we get mom situated and after I eat something." He took another deep breath. "I haven't eaten in a while except the coffee I finished on the way over here but that was back in Gotham."
Ruby nodded and with his hand still on the boy's shoulder lead him back over to Mary, who by now had stopped crying long enough to get a good look at the young man now standing in front of her. He had Wally's eyes, hair, skin, freckles, even a small discolored spot on his arm from when he had gotten stitches as a child after a bike incident. It was her Wally.
"O-oh my God..." She whispered as Wally kneeled in front of her and wrapped his arms around the shoulder's that Barry had abandoned just seconds ago.
"Hey mom..." His whispered back as his hugged her. "I missed you..."
At first Mary was in to much shock to react, but soon she had her arms wrapped tightly around her son, never wanting to let go but soon did so she could slap him.
"WALLACE WEST! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!? DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH HEARTACHE YOU CAUSED! OH IF YOU WERE STILL LIVING HERE I WOULD GROUND YOU TO YOUR ROOM FOREVER! WE THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD!" She yelled as she held her son tighter and tighter with each sentence, but this soon stopped as well so she could continue to cry and kiss his face. "I'm so glad your OK!"
She finally let go of him as she could look him over yet again, searching for any signs of injury and was relieved when she found none.
"But how did you survive? From what Barry told us you just vanished!" Marry cried as her eyes welled with tears again.
"About that, Its a long story mom..." Wally began rubbing the back of his neck and somewhat wishing he never even mentioned inviting Bruce and Barry to the coffee shop or even mentioning leaving the cave.
"I have all the time in the world Wally." Marry said folding her arms.
Wally took another deep breath and rubbed his neck harder.
"Can I eat something first?" He muttered, he could feel his speed slowly returning to him now which came with the metabolism.
Marry nodded, got to her feet (With assitance from Wally) and brushed off her pants.
"Y-yes. Here. We were actually about to sit down to dinner when you dropped by." She said as she turned and re-entered the house followed by the three men.
As they entered a livily little puppy dog with a shock of red fur bounced off of the couch and quickly ran over to Wally, yipping at the boy then licking his legs. Wally smirked and picked him up and petted his head.
"H-hes um... Wally..." Marry blushed and rubbed a hand across her forhead.
Rudy began to laugh a little as she said this.
"Oh so hes my replacement eh?" Wally laughed and kept petting the dog. "Hes like my clone! Red hair, green eyes, and is as adorable as me."
"Even has your energy." Rudy muttered while rolling his eyes, earrning another laugh from his son.
Wally rolled his eyes.
"I'm only kidding. This Wally West is one of a kind." He pointed a thumb to his chest, smiled, set the dog down then went back to rubbing his neck.
"Something wrong with your neck kid?" Barry piped up, finally saying something to Wally since the car-ride over.
"Nah, I just realized how awkward that sounded. And how pissed Suppey would be if he heard me say that." He shook his head. "So mom is dinner ready."
"In about five minutes, and you better eat quickly, because when your done I want some answers." She said as she walked into the kicthen.
Wally rolled his eyes and went into the dining room. The same table that had been there all his life was waiting for him. He slowly took a seat in the chair he always sat in as a kid and tried to ignore the dog that was now barking at him yet again.
'One of a kind' He heard himself repeating in his mind as the dog yipped.
Dinner was anything but normal in the West house hold that night. Mary couldn't take her eyes off of her son and Rudy was buzzing both Wally and Barry with questions, because due to him not being a Speedster he had no idea how vibrating their molecules actually worked, or if it was even a possible for his son to be there if he had done that.
"When the beam hit me it scrambled them but since I'm a Speedster I was able to vibrate them back together and re-animate myself." Wally groaned as he scooped up another spoonful of mashed potatoes and shoved it in his mouth to prevent himself from being able to answer anymore questions asked.
"Thats amazing Wally. And to think I wanted you to study Football in High School." Rudy muttered in an awestruck type voice as he watched the boy eat now.
"Not really. Its just sience." Barry muttered under his breath as he rubbed his head, ignoring the annoying yipping coming from the Wally pup playing at his feet under the table.
Wally snickered in between spoonfuls of food but when he discovered that his plate was now empty and his mouth was now free to answer more questions, his face fell.
"So Wally-" His mother began but was cut off by a knock at the door.
"I've got it!" Wally yelped as he jumped from the table and raced towards the door and opened it.
There in the doorway stood Iris, in her arms were two small bundles, one pink and the other blue.
"Hey Aunt Iris." Wally greeted, completely ignoring the shocked look on his aunt's face but one thing he did take notice of was her sudden swaying and was quick to catch her before she could fall and drop what ever it was she was holding. "Hey uncle Berry! Your wife is here!"
Berry got up and rushed over to the two and quickly helped his wife back up and found that she hadn't fainted rather was just a bit shocked.
"W-wally!?" She yelped as she looked up at the male and got a better look at him.
"Yeah, um, long story. Not gonna explain it. I'll just type it out on a little note card and give it to anyone who asks, I'm kinda tired of explaining." Wally said quickly as he walked back into the house with the other two adults. "Hey, question for you Iris, whatcha got there?"
Iris shook off her shock and held out both bundles for him to see. When he got a closer look at them, he discovered that they were babies.
"Your little cousins." She said sweetly, completely ignoring the fact that the newphew that she had thought was dead was now standing before her fully alive.
Both of Wally's little cousins had blonde hair and icey blue eyes like their parents and by the color of the baby blankets Wally could easily guess they were boy/girl twins. Upon seeing him, both babies cooed softly and tried to reach up to touch the red head.
"Aww, their cute." Wally said as he patted their heads lovingly but also a bit hesitantly, as if he didn't know what babies were or how to react around them. "I'm glad I was here to meet them."
"I'm sure their glad to." Barry muttered from behind his wife as he watched his nephew with the babies. "Want to hold them Wally."
Wally looked at the babies, then at their parents, and then back to the babies. He was somewhat scared to hold the baby. By the way everyone was reacting to him, and from the story he told he was scared that his molecules would jumble up again and the baby would fall right through or that he would disappear all together at any second.
"Yeah sure." He said, holding out his arms to take the male infant and held him a bit closely to himself and much to his relief the baby did not fall and he stayed in tact.
He silently held the baby in his arms for a few minutes before handing it back to its mother. He would have held the other but before he could pick her up his cellphone rang and he quickly went for that instead. When he looked at the caller ID he saw that it was Dick calling him.
"One sec. Let me take this." He said as he flipped open the phone and put it to his ear. "Yeah Rob?"
"Wally, do you still remember where Roy's apartment is?" Dick's voice came through the phone immediately.
"Um yeah. Why?" Wally asked, trying to think of all the reasons why Dick might be asking him this.
"Because we need you over there ASAP." Dick said quickly.
"OK, why- Hello?" The call had dropped as soon as Dick had finished speaking.
Rolling his eyes, Wally flipped his phone closed then walked towards the door.
"Welp, I'm off again." He called over his shoulder but was stopped by his mother.
"Where do you think you're going young man?" She asked sternly. "You just got here."
"I know mom, but Dick apparently wants me to go over to Roy's apartment ASAP. He wouldn't tell me why though. But I promise you I'll be back." He said as he quickly took off running before she could say anything more to him and headed towards the local bus stop which was just on the way to said destination.
Wally raced down the familiar bunching of buildings and was currently headed in the direction of the only apartment complex in this city that he would even bother taking a second glance at. Clone or not, Roy Harper was still his friend and that crappy apartment was still his.
'Wonder what Roy-boy needed me for.' He thought as he skidded to a halt as a stop light flashed red and let an oncoming traffic onto the rode that had just been empty a while earlier.
The impatient speedster rolled his eyes and tapped his foot as he waited for the walk light. After just a few seconds of waiting, he turned on his heels and took off in the other direction for another route and lucky, he found a short cut, which was basically climbing up one building, messing with the Batsignal, having to stop to get a stern talking to from Batman, who then drove him the rest of the way in the Batmobile and then dropped him off at Roy's and sticking to tradition, Wally climbed up the side of the building and into the apartment window which was always opened, only to discover Cheshire there, who promptly went on the defense until she realized who he was and pointed him in the direction of the living room.
"Cute kid by the way." Wally mumbled sheepishly as he entered the room where four familiar faces were found.
Roy stood with his hands clasped over the back of the loveseat, Dick was standing with his back to Wally and Kaldur and Conner were the only ones comfortably placed on a squishy looking brown couch. All of them had grim faces, well at least from what he could see from Dick.
"Hey guys." Wally began in his usual jaunty tone but he let his voice drop to a more serious tone when the four appeared unfazed. "Whats up?"
"Have a seat Wally." Roy said, patting the top of the loveseat with one of his gloved hands and moving aside so his friend would sit.
Hesitantly, the red-head walked over to the seat and sat down tensely and looked between his friends and found that Dick was messing with some type of scanner. He then walked over to his friend and scanned him with it a few times an a loud BEEP was let off.
"That's what I thought." Dick muttered sourly as he placed the device back in his pocket. "That's Wally West alright."
"Woah! You guys thought I wasn't me!?" Wally exclaimed as he flung himself out of his seat in surprise.
"Walls, we're all on the defense here." Kaldur said sternly as he stood up. "But not for the reason you may think."
"Oh really, then why?" Wally shot back as he folded his arms but was answered with a file tossed at his arm.
"The White Mark." Dick started. "This group surfaced the day before your return. Little is known about them, but they seem to be going after the surviving scientists from the original Kamdus lab. Projects Included."
"So why did you scan me? Is this like a group of shape-shifters or something?" Wally rose an accusing eyebrow and looked between his friends.
"We discovered that a member is in fact a Martian." The oldest of the group explained. "So yeah, one of them is."
"How did you make this discovery?" The red-head asked and soon found himself being lead to what looked to be a baby's room.
He wasn't really surprised when he learned Roy had a kid so the room was no surprise to him. What was a huge surprise was the chunk of wall taken out on the left side, from the cracks, a thick gel was dripping down. It was a deep purple color, the same color Wally recognized to be blood of a Martian (Miss. M was just as clumsy with a knife as she was anything else)
"What happened here?" The male asked, his green eyes never leaving the wall.
"The mark tried to kill my daughter." Roy replied gruffly as he went over to the wall and ran his hand over the singe mark. "Lucky Jade and her weren't home when it happened. Lucky I wasn't home. I would've killed them."
Wiping away a bit of ash, a circle with an overlapping WM was found in white chalk like substance, which is what Wally assumed was the 'White Mark'.
"So why do you guys need me?" Wally piped up suddenly, getting back to the matter at hand as to why he had been called over. "I'm kind of dead to the world you know. And I'm sorta having second thoughts on the whole hero thing."
Okay, so maybe he made that last part up, but really he was considering it.
"We know. And so do they." Dick began, walking over to his friend's side. "As far as the world and the Mark are concerned, you're still dead."
"What are you getting at Grayson?" Wally all but growled in his confusion.
"The mark is already suspecting a member of the Young Justice or the Justice League. They have files on the placements of all of the projects and in turn their friends and family. They don't have one on Wally West, or at least a living Wally West. They wouldn't even bother going after you." Roy started, folding his arms over his chest. "Though they also assume my family has gone into hiding already. They still wouldn't be looking for you"
"So what your saying is, I'm 'going on an adventure'?" Wally asked sarcastically "To find out more about this group and what they want."
Wally considered his options. He was as good as dead already so if the group caught him then there wouldn't be much of a lose but he still wasn't officially back in the game and after these events, he was still considering moving on with a normal life for once. Then again, If he said No then there ran a higher risk of the men he called brothers getting killed, and Lord only knew that to Wally, family was more important than pride.
"OK. I'll do it."
