CHAPTER 7:

With one arm broken and the other still bleeding from a bullet it was hard to untie rope from behind your back, it was also painful. Dick soon gave up and just watched as his best friend lay sleeping in blood, with knives embedded in his skin. Dick winced as he thought about how painful it would be to pull them back out.

Zoom walked back in, wielding a bat and sped over to Wally.

"What're you doing?" Dick asked, masking his fear well.

Zoom held the bat up and crashed it down against Wally's collarbone. His eyes flew open as he screamed and rolled over crying.

"WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR!? HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!" Dick shouted, his anger dulling the pain in his arms.

"Just making sure he's still alive"

"WHY DIDNT YOU JUST CHECK HIS PULSE? YOU DRACU SPIRIT!" Dick spat out in Romanian.

Zoom just raised his eyebrow at the boy "Okay then?" He stared quizzically at the enraged child before speeding out.

"Dick, what does that even mean?" Wally looked up, half smiling.

"It means, uh, fuckwit"

The smile on Wally's face grew as far as it could reach "You just called the Flash's worst enemy, a fuckwit in Romanian?"

"Yep" Dick had an expression made up of smugness and pride.

"This is why you're my best friend"

"I'm more than just insults, you know?"

"Yeah, you're also a complete smart ass to just about everyone"

"You're forgetting; expert hacker, super genius, only person that can do a quadruple somersault, awesome acrobat, brilliant in all sorts of fighting styles, almost perfect aim and super rich"

"Right, how could I forget all of those?" Wally mumbled sarcastically.

"Oh don't worry, you have your specialities too"

"Like?" Wally smirked.

"Like; Superspeed, fast healing, brilliant at science and maths, good acrobat, skilled fighter and you're the absolute best at comforting others"

Wally smiled and, for a brief moment, forgot about the intense pain of his broken collarbone.

"You should add that to your list as well" He commented.

"I really should, too bad I don't have the book and a pen"

"The book?"

"Yep, the one filled with all my skills and other attributes"

"Trust you to have a book like that" Wally rolled his eyes.

"I always expected that you would have one too"

"Never thought about it before, but I'm thinking of making one now"

Dick let out a short laugh.

'There is something seriously wrong with those two' Zoom thought as he watched through the double sided window that looked like part of the wall from the inside.

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"Wouldn't it be easier if I just carry you?" Flash asked.

"If you can carry two badly inured children and me on the way back" Batman replied slyly.

"Batmobile it is"

The two guardians prepared for the worst as they went off to save their boys.

XxxxxxX

Wally made a noise somewhere between a whimper and a scream as his collarbone started to move back into place. Dick had to move his head away from the sight and patiently waited for the pained cries to cease.

A growling Zoom angrily phased through the door and started brutally beating Wally up. It happened so quickly that it took Dick a while to realize what was happening. When Zoom finally stopped kicking, Wally felt at least seven broken ribs, his arm bone was sticking through the skin, barely visible through the blood and the knife in his arm had driven in a little further. Zoom roughly grabbed it and ripped it out, earning a squall from the kid and more blood dripping from his arm. Zoom quickly thrust the bloodied knife right down into his shoulder, he let out another short cry and wriggled around trying to ease the pain. It didn't work. Dick was too stunned to say anything, one minute Wally's bone is reseting itself and the next Zoom is beating him up.

"Wha-what was that for?" Wally asked warily.

Zoom didn't answer, he just ran out, faster than he had anytime before.

"Well something made him angry" Dick voiced after regaining his senses.

"You... think?" Wally gasped, the pain getting to him, despite his efforts to force it away.

Dick winced both at the harshness in Wally's weak voice and the blood streaming out and around him. Wally tried to lift himself up, but slipped on his blood. He yawped as the five knives protruding from his body drove right into his flesh.

"WALLY!" Dick shouted in terror as he watched the knives plunge even further into his friend.

The pain that erupted in Wally's abdomen was the worst of all five new wounds. It became too much and he just let go, entering the darkness. He heard the cries of Dick and then there was nothing.