Chapter Nine Wally West
Wally stretched, opening one eye, then the other. He felt some soreness in his arms. Where was he? Percy had shot him with a tranquilizer dart. The covers rubbed over Wally's bare chest and he realized that they'd removed his flashsuit. Fat chance he would ever see it again. Jeff wouldn't like that.
He got out of bed, eyeing a clean white shirt and brown cargo pants neatly folded on a small bedroom dresser right across the bed. Wally slipped them on, then rubbed his eyes, gawking around the room in disbelief.
He was in a transparent cell. There was a brown pillar in each corner of the space, but other than that sign Wally wouldn't have been able to tell he was in a cell. It was entirely transparent in appearance. About 15 ft. by 25 ft. He could see that the cell was in a long rectangular room with three cells on the left and right sides of it. His cell was at the back of the room facing two double doors at the front of the room.
He sliced his hand through the air. "Oh, I've still got my speed," Wally could at least take solace in that. Nothing about him had changed, he could sense that.
Wally took several steps back until his back was against the back of the cell. True, this was obviously a metahuman cell but he wasn't gonna just sit here. In superspeed he charged and right before reaching the other side he flipped in the air kicking the wall as hard as he could. There was a loud reverberating thud. Wally ricocheted off the wall flying a few feet backward and hitting the floor awkwardly.
The part of the wall that Wally had hit flashed red, bulged slightly before reverting back to its normal state.
Wally winced. He was sorely missing that flashsuit. He got up and tried 3 more times with the same outcome. Wall: 4 Wally: 0. Not good.
The double doors burst open. And a man came through them. As he came nearer Wally was able to make out who it was.
Shoulder-length black hair, green eyes . . . he was the same guy from the Harbourfront. Without his mask, Wall could see that he had a Mediterranean complexion.
Percy stopped a few feet short of Wally's cell, his attention on Wally.
"I know you're thinking that what I did to you is inconsiderate and that I endangered the lives of many people back there but there was no other way I could subdue you especially when you disagreed with me. I knew you were fast enough to save the people."
Wally couldn't believe his ears. "And what if I wasn't?!" Wally shrieked. "Somehow I could've messed up while you played Monopoly with people's lives. Where would they be now? Every single person was literally terrified for their life."
"Things were under control," Percy insisted.