First scene and it's 2.5k words. This is getting out of hand. Since the next locations are going to be longer, I'm going to make one location per chapter or try to hold it to 2k words maximum. This one is just extra long because it explains HOW WALLY DIED. and HOW THEY GOT WALLY BACK. well parts of him anyway.. I don't know if I'll finish the other locations this weekend but I'll try.

WATCHTOWER
June 20, 2017 13:48 EDT
1hour after Nightwing,Kaldur,Tula, and Jason left.

Canary swiped the screen off. She pinched the bridge of her nose while refusing to face the Leaguers behind her. 'Today was supposed to be just another day' she thought. 'Today was supposed to be..' she doesn't finish. She put her hand down and quickly turned towards Kent who still held the helmet in his hands, "Today's the anniversary of Wally's death." He seemed unfazed by her fact, "Fate mentioned the first wave of energy from the North Pole, right?" She could see Billy nod his head from her peripheral. "Do you think the shadows.."

"Reincarnated Wally?" Kent finished her sentence for her. Canary stiffly nodded. Kent brought one hand to his chin, "Nabu mentioned something about how the spell felt different. If the spell really was a reincarnation spell then the energy would've been far greater." Kent stroked his chin with his finger, "He said the level of energy was too high for a retrieval spell but too low for reincarnation. But he insisted that it was a mix of both considering the ankh and djed pendant was involved."

Ted approached him, "I'm sorry to ask but how did Wally die?" Billy turned to him with wide eyes. Ted quickly put his hands up in defense, "I mean, maybe the retrieval part of the spell-"

"Do you think the Chrysalis shot Wally into a different dimension?" Rocket interrupted. Ted gave her a confused look. She turned towards Ted to explain, "The Reach had these MFDs-"

"Magnetic Field Disruptors" Red interjected.

Rocket continued, "One went Chrysalis so Flash and Impulse-"

"Who's Impulse?" Ted asked.

Billy quickly answered him in a rush tempo, "Bart's grandson from the future who time travelled back to make sure the new Blue doesn't go rouge. In shorter words, another speedster."

"Right." Rocket pressed on before Ted could ask about the new blue beetle. "So the two speedsters ran in the opposite direction of the Chrysalis to shut it down with their kinetic energy. But Wally didn't think it was enough so he tried to help them." Rocket paused before she continued at a lower tone. "When the chrysalis and fog were gone, Barry said Wally was slower than them so the Chrysalis used him as an exit valve. It shot him with these currents that seemed to use his body as a conductor."

Ted seemed to consider everything she's said for a moment. Canary took this moment to address Kent again, "Do you think the League of Shadows succeeded in bringing Wally back?"

Kent tightened his grip on the helmet. "I don't know-"

"I don't think Wally was just shot into a different dimension." All eyes turned back to Ted who had one hand on his chin and the other crossed below his chest. He stared down at the floor and spoke in a lower tone. "If that Chrysalis was supposed to be an MFD then the shots Wally took were greater than any voltage measure we've had. It wouldn't have been simple like the lightning strike that created the speedsters' powers. Since the original purpose of the Chrysalis was to pressurize the atmosphere into combustion, its penetration would've been at an atomic level. These shots would have affected Wally at such a level as well-" Ted quickly lifted his head up, "Did his body disappear?"

"Yes." Billy answered and looked away.

Ted noticed the presence of grief that still lingered on the boy. He placed his hand on his shoulder to comfort him. He then turned towards Kent, "I'm sorry but I think we need to talk to Doctor Fate." Kent quickly raised his brow at the man questioning his intentions. Ted continued, "It just seems like he knows exactly what happened to Wally. I mean, why else would he be insistent it was as a retrieval spell." Ted narrowed his eyes, voice stern, "He knows where Wally's body was."

All eyes were on Kent now, waiting for his decision. Kent held the helmet with both his hands and peered into its two holes. He sighed to himself. "Already passed away anyway." They all watched as Kent put on the helmet before he was swallowed by blinding yellow light.

The light dimmed and Doctor Fate stood before them with his arms crossed. He narrowed his eyes at Ted, "Your assumptions are correct. On both accounts." Breaths were held waiting for Fate to continue, "Wally did die from the shots of the MFDS." Rocket brought her gaze down to the floor. "And that I do know what happened to his body." Ted nodded for him to continue. Fate didn't blink but his gaze softened, "After death, only your soul leaves your body to move on to the ethereal plane. Some people call it purgatory but really it's just a plane where all thoughts and memories exist. But only thoughts and memories." He paused allowing the other Leaguers' gaze to harden. "The shots the MFDs hit Wally with were equal to that of a disintegration ray. Since Wally's body was shot at an atomic level, that would mean his whole physical self were to be destroyed-"

"But," Ted took a step forward, bothered by the sudden suggestion of breaking the laws of physics, "matter cannot be created nor destroyed-"

"Precisely." Fate continued unaffected by the interruption. "That is why Wally's body tried to follow its soul into the ethereal plane. His soul could not leave his body because they didn't separate on the physical plane. However, his physical body could not enter the plane so both his soul and body were suspended in between the physical and the ethereal plane."

"Wally's body was stuck in between planes?" Billy's eyes widened at the thought.

"Yes." Fate answered, "However, there's no such thing as a gap between planes. Hence why Wally ceased to exist because he remained in a plane of non-existence."

"Are you saying Wally's been suspended in nothingness like he didn't exist?" Rocket's eyes were narrowed at Fate but her arms were crossed and shaking.

"Yes." Fate floated towards Ted. He stared at him for a while. Looking through his eyes as if looking at the last piece of this puzzle. Ted caught a glimpse of Fate's eyes widening but it quickly went away. Before he could ask him anything, Fate spoke, "I see that I made a mistake."

"Oh? What about?" Ted inquired almost cautiously.

Fate's gaze on Ted didn't falter, "I understand now. You and Kent. And I presume the other three as well-"

"Who are the other two?" Billy whispered to Ted.

It was Fate who answered him, "Jason and Tula." Canary's eyes widened at the sudden news. "The five of you.. you were never part of the reincarnation. You're just accidents."

"What?" Ted was looking at Fate like he was crazy.

"The five of you aren't real. You're not the real soul of Ted Kord. "Fate watched as realization dawned on the late Blue Beetle. Ted stared at the ground as if his answers were there. "You know that your memories are incomplete and almost exclusive.."

Ted's face quickly turned back to Fate. "Of Wally."

"Yes." Fate continued to watch the man take in the information. "I can sense that the soul you bear is a fragment of Wally's."

"What?" It was Canary who couldn't take in the slow revelation of the Lord of Order. "Nabu, please explain to us what exactly is going on."

Fate finally turned away from Ted who continued to stare at him. "The spell wasn't a reincarnation spell at all. It was a retrieval spell that reached out to a plane that wasn't supposed to exist. The purpose of the ritual was to retrieve only Wally's body from this non-existent plane. They used the ankh symbol so that when the body is returned, it would function as though it has life. The djed however would've been unnecessary if they didn't need to retrieve his body. But at the same time I believe the djed is being used for another reason-"

"Wait a second." Ted almost whispered but everyone in the room could hear his desperation, "If Wally's body was the only objective of this spell then how come-" Ted gritted his teeth and thought for a second before he continued, "How come the others and I are here."

Fate turned his gaze back to him but showed less emotion. "Like I said, you are an essence of Wally. Wally's ethereal self could not leave its body so it remained in the non-existent plane as well. His body and soul were intact-"

"Wait. 'Were'?" Canary interrupted, fists clenched.

"Yes." Fate turned away from Ted again angering the man. "Remember, the spell only wanted Wally's body. In the process of the incantation, his body and soul were ripped apart." Fate could see the horror in their eyes and he could tell Canary was about to burst in again but he continued, "It is likely that they didn't expect the process to be so drastic that when they tore his soul out, it opened a rift where Wally's strongest thoughts dashed into the physical plane with his body. But since the caster didn't want any part of his soul, his thoughts took form through different means." Fate turned his head to the side, allowing him to see Ted from the corner of his eye, "You, Kent, Jason, Tula and Marie were the last thoughts of Wally West. His memories of the five of you have taken form into the last physical replicas Wally imagined. In the case of Marie and Kent, he last saw them at their funerals. You, Tula and Jason were always envisioned by him through your holograms."

"That's impossible." Rocket whispered in anger. "Artemis and his family would've been his last thoughts. Barry said-"

"It's possible." Fate interrupted, facing Rocket with passive eyes, "The moment Wally started to feel his non-existence, his life was flashing before his eyes. If my knowledge of Wally has any credibility, then I would say that the moment he remembered Kent Nelson's funeral, he thought of what it felt like to be the ones left behind." He paused as he watched Rocket's eyes glisten with tears threatening to drop. "He recollected the memories of how Marie's death felt for Logan, Jason's death for Nightwing, Tula's death for Aqualad-" He turned back to Ted, "Your death to Booster and the rest of the League-" He paused again gaze towards Canary. "He was thinking of their deaths because there was something dawning on him."

"No.." Canary whispered. Tears bordering her eye line. "Wally-" she choked out.

Fate continued in a lower tone, "His last thoughts were what his fallen friends left behind, because he was thinking of what he was about to leave behind." Fate took a short moment to compose his objective self and trained his eyes on Canary, "When his last cell left this plane, he was about to wander the possibility of how Artemis would feel upon his demise."

When Fate finished, all Leaguers in the room refused to train their eyes on him. All eyes were glaring, staring, and tearing up at the floor. The degree of how possible Fate's conclusion could be left them to their thoughts, wondering how Wally must have felt while he spent his last moment saving the world instead of being with his loved ones. Instead of being with Artemis.

"You said-" Canary, the emotionally strongest of the team, as expected of, spoke first, "You said something about that djed symbol being used for another purpose." Fate was looking at her now. Canary affirmed her voice, "Tell us what else it's for."

Fate waved the screen on, bringing the djed symbol to life behind him, accompanied by hieroglyphs, "The djed symbol is a symbol for Osiris the god of resurrection. It is foretold that with this symbol, Osiris can control the body of man who has passed through the underworld. If one were to use his sacred symbol to summon a body, the one who holds the pendant wills the body." Fate addressed Canary in a stern voice, "I am certain the mystical energy I sensed in the North Pole belongs to Klarion."

"Klarion?" Canary's eyes widened, "The Light.."

"The Light? AGAIN?" Billy's face crumpled, the obvious annoyance portraying on his features, "They've been dormant for the past year ever since Gamma found no leads on Savage since he left Apokolips!"

"But Jade gave the pendant to the Shadows," Rocket chose to step in, "If Klarion used the pendant then they must be working together."

Red Tornado brought up his own screen showing the back of Ra's Al Ghul beside a Bialyan tank, "After Savage's sudden disappearance from Apokolips, Gamma redirected their efforts into investigating the other members of the Light. This is their intel from last month."

Canary quickly turned her back to them and typed hastily on the screen keyboard, "While we were searching for Fate, I noticed this sudden boom tube spike from the capital of Bialya." Canary pulls up an infrared image of Bialya with a pulsating red dot over Al-Qiwaya.

"So that puts Queen Bee, Klarion, Ra's, and.." Billy crosses his arms with one hand out, "maybe Savage into the picture."

"Their groups gotten smaller since the summit." Rocket's hands were on her hips and her eyes were narrowed, angered at the pieces that were slowly falling into place.

"Hmm." Ted had one hand on his chin while his gaze was tilted up, "Isn't it a bit odd that Sportsmaster was in Central today? And the moment Wally 'shows up' he's right on time to save the day." Ted looked down, anger knitted on the creases of his forehead, "Not to mention," he continued with a sting to his tone, irritated by how much they're being played, "How conveniently placed all of his loved ones were on the scene?"

Canary's eyes widened with one brow raised, "I called Artemis out there-"

"Exactly." Ted continued, unaffected by her suggestive tone, "They knew you would do that because," Ted held up one finger, "it's Central City," another finger, "S.T.A.R. Labs have always been a priority for the speedsters. And-"

"Sportsmaster." Ted held up three fingers as Canary finished the sentence. "I thought Sportsmaster was done with the Light after Artemis' fake death."

"Oh my god." Rocket interrupted, her hand suspended over her mouth, "Artemis. Someone has to tell her-"

"RECOGNIZED. DOCTOR FATE ONE-SEVEN."

"Are you serious!?" Billy shouted at the disappearing figure, "Where's he off to now-"

"RECOGNIZED. SUPERMAN ZERO-ONE. BATMAN ZERO-TWO. WONDER WOMAN ZERO-THREE. GREEN-"

"Ugh!" Canary groans over the continuing sound of the zeta tube. "You have got to be kidding me."

So the Rimbor community service crew comes home. Canary tells them what happened. And little Batsy and Aquaman immediately zeta home to see their zombies :D you all knew that was coming. Next chapter maybe tomorrow if not then next weekend. Next locations will be Qurac, Atlantis, Manor, Central, and Bialya so the baddies can tell you their whole plan for Wally :3