~One kiss before angels fall, and now I'm falling too far. One kiss before angels fall down.~
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Geek in fourth period, hero at lunch.
Wally frowned, listening to the class radio in fourth period. They always had it on in Society and Environment, because Mrs. Kara was simply awesome like that. They were all listening to a local report where Central City fire fighters were fighting against a fire caused by a faulty electronics at a local hotel. Flash was already on it, but there was still a lot of people trapped inside the burning building.
'There are people inside, needing Kid Flash,' He thought. He couldn't race out of the class, though. And the downside of Mrs. Kara was that no one could go out for toilet breaks because apparently it was disturbing the class. 'Why in fourth period? Why not lunch?' He complained to himself, tapping impatiently. He had already finished all his work, and the minutes were going by so slowly. He was forcing himself to stay calm and stop from vibrating on the spot.
'These minutes mean everything,' He thought anxiously, 'that building could collapse any second and lives go down with it. Come on you stupid bell, KF has lives to save!' He narrowed his eyes at the clock, challenging it.
"Alright class, I'm sure you've all finished those booklets by now!" The teacher said, and everyone but Wally groaned. Apparently, they hadn't finished the booklet. "James, go around and collect them and I'll mark them later," James nodded, standing up and collecting papers with his scrawny arms.
Wally sighed as the teacher decided to do a quick test on them all. Basically, she'd ask questions and whoever got the most right on their answer paper would be allowed to go out 5 minutes earlier.
Score! Finally he was getting a little luck!
He wrote down answers as the teacher called out questions. Handing it in, the teacher went over it and smiled,
"Mr West, you may now leave." Wallace gave a woop, grabbing his stuff and shoving them in his locker, searching through his school bag for his uniform which was hidden in a secret compartment built into the bag. Just in case anyone managed to get hold of his bag.
Quickly changing, he ran as he saw the smoke. He arrived on scene, next to an officer. "Flash Boy! You're here!"
Wally almost face-palmed, "It's Kid Flash! Honestly, is it really that hard to remember?" The officer ignored this statement, "I say you have five minutes maximum. Where have you been?"
"Ever heard of hel-school?" Wally caught his slip-up. Alright, five minutes. He could do this. He ran inside slipping his goggles over his eyes and jumping through the already smashed window- the door was blocked. 'Uncle B must have jumped through it earlier,' He thought, running around the building. He saw the scarlet speedster pass him and he followed, "Flash!" His uncle turned. "We have five minutes!" He called over the flames, his uncle nodding. "Thanks Kid. I've got most of the floors done except 20 to 25, think you can manage?" They conversed in speedtalk.
"No problem," Wally grinned, racing up. He found sight of the stairs, running up them and dodging falling building. He rubbed his goggles, clearing most of the soot and smoke from them. He was breathing into his elbow which covered his mouth. Didn't need to take in too much smoke.
He finally reached 20 and saw the man in the room. He grabbed his candy from his cupboard, chewing it before running to him, "Is anyone else here?" He asked and the man shook his head. No, that was good.
Wally nodded and picked the man up, slinging him over his shoulder. He was light and scrawny at least. He raced up to floor 21, seeing a little girl cradled in the arms of her apparent mother.
He raced over, bridal scooping the mother holding her daughter. He raced back down, placing the woman through the window that was soon surrounded by fire fighters, grabbing the woman and covering her with blankets with her child. He did the same to the man before running back up, passing Barry, "I've got 23," Barry said in speedtalk as he raced by. Apparently 23 had about 4 residents as they were all somehow slung over Barry. Wally raced up to 24.
Ten. Bloody. People.
Was that even allowed? He thought, quickly scanning the room which only contained two bedrooms. He'd have to take turns.
Racing over and wiping soot from his goggles, he saw the four young children. Three girls, one boy. No older than the age of 10 at least. He nodded to the frantic parents who pushed them forward. 'Come on Uncle B,' He thought, hoping he got floor 25 at least. He picked up one girl bridal style, another slung on his shoulder and the last girl on his other shoulder. He propped the boy onto his back like a 'piggy-back' ride. He raced downstairs, clutching onto the children who were clutching onto one another. He could feel them slipping from his shoulders and he ran faster, almost colliding with the window. He placed them down and raced back upstairs within a few seconds. He was losing energy fast, and he had to continuously cough into his arm and wipe his goggles which were becoming just so black he just knew he was going to have racoon eyes when he took them off.
He knew the adults were about twice the size of their kids, and instead of taking four he took two. One bridal, one piggy-backed. Running down, he saw Barry,
"I don't have time for twenty-five!" Wally shouted in speedtalk, and Barry just nodded kicking up his speed a notch.
He placed the two adults down, and another 3 minutes later was placing the other two.
'2 more to go' he thought, racing back up. He passed Barry who was holding about three people. When he was running down with them and the window was now visible, he narrowly dodged a falling flaming beam. Coughing and removing his goggles which were just so dirty and refused to clean, he cursed under his breath and went around. Too bad that was a wall. The only way out, it seemed, was to vibrate straight through the wall and go through from there. Burning through the flaming beam would just hurt.
Groaning, he shifted slightly as he felt the adult slipping from his back.
Closing his eyes, he stepped closer to the wall. The heat was so intense and any minute or even second this whole building could just go down in flames.
The thing he was worried about most, though, is what usually stopped him half way through vibrating. What if he just couldn't do it.
'Shut up West. You still have another 2 periods to go too' he thought, feeling the tingle as he began vibrating. The adults let out surprised shrieks* as he was halfway through the wall. 'Keep going, you can do this West. Don't get stuck now!' He encouraged himself, feeling his leg step through to floor and then the rest of his body. He laughed, realizing he had done it. He had finally done it!
The building let out a groaning noise and he ran. He could see another exit (which was blocked off as well) and a window beside it. He shrugged off the passengers and dived through the window, coming up in a tumble. He went back in, helping the others through. One of them, it seemed, had a twisted ankle.
He went through after them, and Barry held him in a hug. 'Kiddo! I saw the beam drop and I thought that… But I knew that-" He was cut off as a little girl (one of the children from the 24th floor) handed Wally a tissue. He tilted his head in confusion, crouching down next to her.
"Uh, thanks," He said, reaching for it. The girl shook her head and pressed it to his nose.
Oh. Right. Nosebleed.
Barry was chuckling. The building collapsed. Wally took hold of the tissue and tilted his head forward.
"Kiddo, I know you are pretty much covered in ash, but isn't your lunch period almost up?" By the time Barry finished the sentence, Wally was off still trying to contain his nosebleed. He looked at the time through one of the stores. He had 10 minutes. Racing to a zeta-tube, he ran around the cave to the bathroom. The cave was empty.
Seeing himself in the mirror, he did a double take.
'Racoon eyes' he thought, scrubbing his face and hair. Once clean (5 minutes to go) he ran to his temporary room at the cave and changed into civvies. Satisfied, he snacked on an apple as he went through the zeta-tube, running to school. His nose wouldn't stop bloody bleeding! ((That was a horrible joke. Excuse me.))
Running to his locker (at a normal speed) he grabbed his books for double English. Still holding the tissue to his nose, he walked into class. The teacher raised an eyebrow, seeing his nose.
One period later, his nose was still bleeding. And it still was as school finished.
30 tissues later, he arrived at the cave.
Robin stood there,
"Nosebleed?" He asked, smirking.
"…Shut up."
Hope you enjoyed it. It's not proofread. None of my chappies are now xD Robin is such a troll ;)
Okay, the reason he could carry that much people was because I think I've seen him to it to Supes, Artemis and someone else at the same time. I don't remember. Haha.
*- I have no idea if he can do it whilst holding onto passengers, but for this sake, let's say he can.
(( )) – I don't even know where that came from.
Next! Wally's got himself a stalker ;)
Till next time!
~Kayla (:
