An AU of Barry teaching Wally to phase
Wally blinked as a he looked at the large brick wall of the building several feet in front of him, a disbelieving look on his face through his cowl.
"You've got to be kidding me."
Barry stood beside him with his arms crossed over his chest and a light smile tugging at his lips.
"Nope," the older speedster replied. "You said you wanted to learn."
"Yeah, but preferably without breaking every bone in my body. That'd be great."
"We heal fast," Barry pointed out, his smile widening as he watched Wally's reaction. "You'll be fine. Now, take a step back, take a deep breath, and focus. Focus on vibrating; it has to be at the natural frequency of the air. You'll know when you get there."
"How?" Wally questioned, raising an eyebrow, and Barry shrugged.
"You just will," he said. "I did it, and I had a bomb strapped to my wrist when I did. If I failed, I would've blown up. The stakes are much lower for you," he added with a chuckle. Wally's eyes widened a bit; that was a story he hadn't heard before. With a sigh, the younger man took a step back as Barry had instructed, closing his eyes and taking a second to simply breathe, emptying his thoughts of everything but the task ahead of him. And then he tapped into his speed and ran –
Directly into the brick wall. He fell backwards with a grunt of surprise, landing on his back on the ground and staring dazedly up at the sky. The sound of Barry's poorly contained laughter brought him back to reality, and he sat up with a groan.
"It didn't work," Wally snapped, shooting a glare Barry's way.
"You didn't do it right," Barry countered, shaking his head amusedly, and Wally huffed. He stood indignantly and moved back towards Barry, staring at the wall and gearing up to try again.
"Focus," Barry said, very unhelpfully in Wally's opinion.
"I got it," Wally said, eyes narrowed as he stared ahead. He took a breath and shot off again, praying, praying, praying –
Smack.
He hit the wall again and landed flat on his back again with a curse, in no rush to get up again as he laid there, bitterly watching a cloud float by.
"I'll tell you what," came Barry's voice from behind him. "We'll see if not having a set of eyes on you will help. I'm gonna take a lap around the city, grab us some coffees. And when I come back, I want to see you standing on the other side of that wall instead of cloud watching."
Wally let out a noise of mild frustration.
"You know, Deadpool wouldn't treat me like this." The younger speedster heard a snort of amusement.
"Deadpool would kick your ass," came the reply as Barry vanished in a gust of wind and lightning.
Prompt: Deadpool wouldn't treat me like this.