Las Vegas, Nevada
November 23, 2019
2:20 PM
In a flash of bright, blinding white light; The Waverider appeared in the Earth's atmosphere a mile or so outside the city of Las Vegas. The Legion's sleek time ship sliced its way through the clouds, high above the desert.
Something was off, Wally could feel it from the moment they entered the decade. He could feel something sinister. Something vile.
On board the bridge Wally sat in his captain's seat, watching out the ship's cockpit as the Waverider passed over Vegas. He tapped an anxious right foot on the floor rapidly as to signal that something was off to his team.
A message not one of them could be sure of.
Micheal and Thom sat next to each other, monitoring the ship's engines and light-drive. Thom took occasional looks up at Micheal then back down at the consol.
Koriand'r was in her quarters, preparing a super suit to help her in soaking in the yellow sun radiation and ultraviolet rays of the planet. Imra was helping her pick the right material and color scheme.
And lastly Brainiac was in the medbay, adjusting the mechanics on his new cybernetic arm. He had to cut the rest of his right arm off from the elbow down as Mano's acid was highly infectious and Querl wasn't about to let that infection spread to the rest of his body.
He twisted a tool inside his forearm, his middle finger twitching each time he did so. Previously that finger was not moving at all.
A look of distress and disdain came over the green skinned boy's face as he glared at his mechanical appendage.
Back on the bridge Wally plotted a course for the Hall of Justice, after learning that it was rebuilt in Metropolis from Giddeon.
"Booster Gold, take us to lightspeed," Wally murmured and Micheal obliged, activating The Waverider's light-drive.
It only took minutes for the ship to enter the state of Delaware and subsequently Metropolis.
Wally's heart sank, the first building you'd see entering the city was the Daily Planet headquarters. Half the building was gone, the large sphere was nowhere to be found and the surrounding buildings were all decimated.
"Bring us to the ground!" Wally shouted at Thom, who immediately controlled the ship to the ground below.
The Waverider touched on the ground, the sound of crunching and breakage from under its landing gear made Wally's skin crawl. The landing hatch opened, Wally and the rest of The Legion exited.
Koriand'r gasped in absolute depression at the sight of ash, buildings that crumbled on their own weight, overturned vehicles and and bodies everywhere.
"Oh my god," The whisper fell out of Thomas's lips in a cracked voice.
Imra knelt down and picked up a burnt and tattered teddy bear. Once pink and lively happy to see the little girl who played with it everyday it was now discarded and singed, missing an eye as well.
Micheal picked up an Iphone from the hood of a car, a car he nearly puked at the sight of its windshield with a woman crashed through it. The phone had recognized its owner's face when Micheal powered it on and without looking pointed the camera at the woman's face.
He pulled it to his face and read off a text aloud.
"Demons, I think they are demons Adam," He whispered, the text was never sent.
Wally, who sat on the ground holding a Superman blanket, a tattered one that'll never warm a child in fear again. He looked up at the bright blue sky and tears welled in his eyes.
"Wally?" Brainiac muttered behind The Flash, who kept it together for only one moment longer.
One moment longer before Wally stood straight up, turned around to the West and ran off, letting go of the blanket behind him.
The blanket blew in the wind Wally made after running, falling to the ground onto a reed bar, the Superman logo ripped, blowing in the wind.
Central City, Missouri
November 23, 2019
2:49 PM
"Thawne," Mano said quietly behind Zoom, who sat on a throne made from a demolished statue of Barry Allen. Thawne raised an eyebrow and groaned.
"What," Zoom growled.
"The Light requires your audience," Mano said, "They are waiting outside."
Eobard growled, and stood up to walk out of his throne room, made from the remains of the Flash museum.
Posters, statues and the entirety of the city's thanks to The Flash was in shambles as Zoom walked out of his new found palace. His new home.
He walked to the outside, the sight of Central City was no different than the sight of Metropolis, buildings crushed under their own weight, flipped vehicles and bodies laid the ground, one in particular Thawne always made sure to kick as he walked by it.
The old speedster's corpse, laid out on the concrete floor, a pool of blood once surrounded the crimson comet. Thawne always kicked at Jay when irritated, it brought him joy.
He approached his fellow members of The Light. Vandal Savage in the center.
"Eobard, we tried contacting you for some time," Vandal's voice boomed, Zoom rolled his eyes.
"Sorry, I shut off Brother Eye in my sector," Zoom said snidely, brushing off the glares from Queen Bee and Lex Luthour.
"Do you know why we are here?" Vandal asked with a disappointing stare into Zoom's beady red eyes.
"No, have I pissed Lexy off again," Zoom cackled, crossing his arms over his wide chest with no care that Lex was now pointing a gun at his forehead, "You can't pull that trigger."
"Why not?" Lex shouted, before the last syllable fell from Lex's mouth Thawne ripped the handgun from Lex's hand, twisted Lex's arm behind his back and pinned the bald man up to a lamp pole, with his forearm pressed tightly against Luthour's neck.
Lex grabbed Thawne's arm and choked as he tried to free himself from the speedster's grasp.
"Because I'd kill you before the electrons in your brain could command your finger to even flinch, let alone pull a trigger," Zoom said with a smirk.
"Yes, you are indeed among our most powerful allies," Ultra Humanite growled, Zoom let Lex go and turned to face the oversized monkey.
"I am your most powerful ally." Zoom snarled, pulling a small knife from his boot.
"Then explain why West and his new team have not been taken care of?" Queen Bee asked.
"I left those idiots in the dust, they're probably either trapped in the past or in a cage with the others," Zoom protested, bringing himself inches from Queen Bee, ready to strike her down.
"Neither outcome you predicted months ago as to what happened to them is accurate," Ra's said, "In fact, Grid reported seeing them arrive in Metropolis hours ago."
Thawne's heart stopped, his hands shook in rage. He underestimated Kid Flash. Kid Flash! The boy was nothing!
How do you underestimate nothing!
"Allow me to rectify my wrong doing." Thawne growled, turning his back to the Light and starting his stride back to his throne.
"Lex will be taking care of this Legion of Superheroes from now on Eobard, your faction will be dissolved into Lex's forces," Vandal said, Zoom stopped in his tracks and jolted his head and then body around.
"What!" He shouted, "I am the one who made this perfect reality of yours even possible! I am the one who locked the heroes up in a cage on Apokolips, I am the one who took care of Darkseid for you!"
"And you are the one who allowed a great threat to remain," Deathstroke spat, "A threat that can go back in time and stop you before you used the daughter of Zor El to make this perfect reality."
"Tharok, can you track the Waverider?" Thawne whispered into his commlink, "They tracked us, I'll track him and Wallace West will die."
Mount Justice, Rhode Island
Wally sat on the beach, the waves crashing only inches from his feet. He had ripped the Flash suit from his body only moments earlier, revealing the Kid Flash uniform underneath.
The newer red and silver uniform lay next to him on the sand, he dared not look at it, staring off into the blue abyss of the Atlantic Ocean.
His green eyes were filled with regret and sorrow. A sorrow that only increased when he heard a voice call out to him from behind.
"So this was where you met her," Koriand'r said softly, walking slowly away from the Waverider, parked next to the ruin of the original Mount Justice.
Wally did not answer, verbally or physically. Yet Koriand'r knew, this was where Wally met the famed Artemis Crock. The woman of his dreams, the fire that burned in his heart.
"You don't think she's still out there," Kori asked.
"Our house in Palo Alto is cleared of our stuff, some new family lives there," Wally said at last.
"Maybe she couldn't afford to live there longer," Kori suggested.
"What if she moved on?" Wally asked, "She hasn't seen me in three years."
Kori sat on the sand beside Wally and stared off into the beautiful sea with him.
"I suppose our cultures are different, on Tamaran you are bonded for eternity," Koriand'r said.
"Not how things work on Earth usually," Wally said, "I can't even find my family, parents Iris, Barry. None of em."
"The world is in shambles, people are dislocated and their homes destroyed," Koriand'r said, "But that does by no means necessitate that they are among the deceased."
"Also doesn't mean they are alive," Wally murmured.
"Well, Wallace if that is the case," Kori said, "We owe it to them to break everything Thawne did down, and fix reality."
Wally did not answer, opting to bury his face into his knees. Koriand'r sighed and stood back up to walk back to the ship.
"Wally, if I have learned anything from you," Koriand'r said, "Is that you are stubborn, for better or worse, I hope that you continue to be so for the better."
Wally did not answer her and even looked at her as she walked to the ship, talked to Starboy and the two boarded the ship and The Waverider left the beachside.
Wally looked down at his Flash uniform and picked it up. He stood up and chucked the Flash uniform into the ocean. All while screaming Artemis's name at the top of his lungs and collapsing to his knees.
Wally turned over onto his back and stared at the sky, watching it turn pink, then purple as the light of day faded into the blackness of night. And he watched as his friends flew away aboard The Waverider, away from him.
Away from the failure of Wally West.
And with that being said, Wally's eyes slowly shut. The sound of waves crashing mere inches away from his head, and the golden sun sinking in the horizon, Wally frowned as his consciousness slipped out of his grasp.
Aboard the Waverider the Legion sat in disarray. Their leader was gone, the symbol they'd rallied behind faded into the night on the beach below and there was nothing they could do to light the fire in that man's chest.
Koriand'r sat in the captain's seat, but it felt as if the fit on her was too tight. Like it wasn't where she belonged. At least at this moment in time. He who belonged would be comfortable at the helm, right?
Her gaze lay beyond the cockpit, into the clouds at the lights of New York City beyond. New York had no resident hero, so The Light left it alone for the most part.
Only areas where heroes were known to call home were desimated, as if to say 'fuck you' to the hero that protected said city.
New York had no problem of the sort. So that was where Kori sat her navacomputer to take them.
"Kori," Thomas mumbled in front of her, in the co-captian's seat where she'd flown before.
Kori nodded, as if to say she was listening to the boy without saying a single word.
"When we get to Queens, what do we do then?" Thom asked, his eyes mournful and confused.
"I- Just like most times in my life Thomas Kallor," Koriand'r said in a defeated sigh, "I do not know."
Thom nodded and turned back around, leaning over on his console and propping his head up with his arm.
"We're landing," Micheal's voice echoed, to which no one responded, no one flinched, or said anything.
The Waverider turned invisible, cloaked to the human eye. It landed on a marina, only a mile or so from the Williamsburg Bridge. Its landing hatch opened, and the five heroes exited their vessel.
"I say, we find some shelter," Koriand'r suggested, her gaze on Queens, NY.
The others nodded, first they boarded their ship to get some civilian clothes as to blend into a city that Inertia patrolled, looking for heroes that were not able to be captured by The Light.