I was sick, but I got better.
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Wally sat down on the couch.
"I suppose, I owe you guys an explanation."
"There is no need." Kaldor said. "We all have things we want to keep quiet."
"Yeah..." Wally said. "But I kind of lied to you."
Super boy raised an eyebrow.
"When?" Artemis said.
"Remember how we … shared our back stories?" He asked.
After looking at each other the others nodded.
"I … I lied..." he said and rubbed the back of his neck.
Artemis narrowed her eyes in a confused grimace. "What?"
Wally looked down. "I said that I … found out that my uncle Barry was flash and wanted to become his sidekick … that was a lie..."
"Why would you lie about something like that?" Robin asked.
"Because if I told you the truth, I would have had to admit how smart I was." He just said.
"Who cares about that?" Zatanna. "So you're extremely smart, that doesn't matter."
Wally signed. "Maybe not, but you wouldn't have believed me anyway."
"Probably not." Raquel commented.
"Wait, if you didn't want to be Flash's sidekick, why did you get your powers." Super boy asked.
Wally rubbed the back of his neck and bit into his lower lib.
"I … did find out that my uncle was Flash, when I found his notes on the experiment, but instead of wanting to be his sidekick, I wanted to cure cancer." He said.
"Cure cancer?" Zatanna said, clearly not believing him.
He just nodded.
"I thought that his ability to heal could be used to fight it, but as I was trying to extract the molecules, it blew up in my face." He shrugged. "I ended up telling him, I did it because I wanted to be his sidekick."
Robin signed. "It still doesn't make any sense."
Wally looked up. "I know, but it's the truth."
His phone biped.
Lea and Hero wanted to video chat.
He sat down at his desk and turned on the computer.
"Hey, What's up?" Lea asked.
"Just told my team I have lied to them. What about you?"
"You're … superhero team?" Hero asked.
Wally rolled his eyes. "Yes..."
"How did you get your powers?" He asked, tapping his chin.
"You know that experiment with cancer treatment I tried … it went a little wrong."
"Still cool," he said.
"Did you lie about that to your friends too?" Lea asked.
He nodded. "They don't really understand lying about being smart."
"Not surprisingly," Hero said and played with a pencil. "We are three extremely smart people, normal people are a little like goldfish, they can't comprehend what's going on."
"This coming from the guy, who spends most his time in his lab making toys?" Lea said with a knowing smile.
"What do you mean." He said irritated.
"Anyway," she said. "Have you looked at Lex Luthors files yet"
He shook his head. "No."
"Wally," Hero said, completely serious. "Why do I get the feeling, you know why Luthor was building the war machine? And what he was up to?"
Wally signed. It had been a really long day.
"I don't exactly know what going on, or why he wanted to build that thing. That's why I wanted the files, but … Luthor is in this group of … bad people..."
"And you can't tell us more?" Hero said.
"No," he said. "It's suppose to be a secret."
Before Hero could say anything, Lea smiled.
"We understand," she said. "If Luthor tries to contact us, or we hear anything, we'll let you know."
"Thanks," he said with a smile. "I appreciate it."
Then the videocall was disconnected.
He leaned back in his chair and signed.
So far these last few months had been one problem after another. First The Light, then Ra's al Ghul kidnapped him and Lia, Then he introduced Artemis to Lia and they didn't like each other. He signed. They couldn't stand each other. Then he was kidnapped by Luthor with Lea and Hero, and of course then he had to explain everything to both sides, that he was both a superhero and genius.
He sat straight up again.
Should he tell Lia he was a superhero?
He knitted his brows together, he could explain it with his genius club, as she called it.
It was probably best not to tell her, but he should thank her. If it wasn't for her, he and the others would still be working for Luthor.
Suddenly his bedroom door opened and his mother appeared in the opening.
"Wally, it's time for bed."
He smiled at her.
He was getting a bit sleepy.
"Okay, goodnight." he said and turned off the computer.
"What do you think?" One of the boys said proudly and spread his arms out wide.
"Well..." One of the girls said, as she walked through the room. "It's abandoned, it's spacious..." She picked up an old fast food bag. "It's dirty and smelly and lacks our basic necessities..." Then she stopped at a big window. "And it has a great view." She turned to the others. "It's perfect for us."
"Good," The other boy said and slid down along the wall. "But we still need some things … right."
"You okay?" The girl asked from the window.
"I'm so thirsty I think I'm withering." He said, barely keeping his eyes open.
"That reminds me, we don't have so much as couch to sleep on. What are we suppose to do?" The girl asked.
"Leave that to us," the other girl said, as she came out of the shadows.
"Me and my brother were taught in the dark arts." She said and walked towards the boy still standing proudly in the middle of the room. "Creating our basic necessities shouldn't be to much trouble."
The girl, still standing by the window nodded.
"I the mean time, I see about getting us something to eat."
"Remember to cover your face," The boy, sitting by the wall, almost coughed, in a tone a parent might have when speaking to their child.
If it's not good, it probably because my fever hasn't gone down yet.
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