"You don't really look like a Wallace," Robin said as he went through a few combat exercises in the middle of the room, moving in circles around an invisible enemy while Wally sat on his cot, his legs pulled up as he watched.

"That's why most people call me Wally. Fits me better." The drip had gone out this morning, if Robin's telling of the time was true. In here, with no light from outside, it was hard to tell. He had kept the sleeves of his suit rolled up to the elbow, seeing how he didn't have his gloves around and had no use for his suit in general. He actually wished he had some kind of hoodie to cover himself.

Robin made a fancy cartwheel before spinning into a kick. "True. Wally," Robin tried out the name after a successful summer assault.

"Don't wear it out."

"Right," Robin snorted while coming to a halt as his gauntlet made a beeping noise. He stared slightly above the gauntlet as if there was something there, his eyes suddenly having a white gloss as he talked to whoever was talking to him. Wally could only hear Robin's side of the conversation.

"Don't worry about it. Sure, I'm gonna be there….now? Fine." Tapping his gauntlet, Robin turned to Wally and gave him a mock salute. "Duty calls, I'll see you later!"

Wally watched him hurry out of the room and sighed. "Sure...I'll be here." He put his arms around his knees and stared out into the room, towards the other cells. He wondered what they were for. They didn't really look like usual prisoner cells. Although...he had never thought about Batman taking prisoners before, even if it made sense in Wally's case. Batman was cautious of him but at the same time Wally hadn't done anything to actually get arrested by the police.

He wondered if Batman back home did the same. If Supes knew about this? Probably not. Supes would have an aneurism or something about how that wasn't right. Which, to be fair, was also a solid argument. But Batman was his best bet for now so he wouldn't just burst out of there. Besides, it would just make him look even more suspicious.

Of course there was still the other Flash. He glanced at the giant monitor, some kind of screensaver indicating that it wasn't turned off, as he imagined the picture Batman had shown him. He wondered who the Flash was if it wasn't his alternate version. Was it Barry? There was a chance that it was someone completely different, seeing how Wally didn't exist either.

And what was it with universes killing him off or straight up not letting him exist? Should he be concerned when he got back home? Should he turn around and watch his every step because clearly fate didn't like Wally West alive? Maybe he had already died. For the others in his universe. Wally didn't even know what exactly had happened after he stuck his arm into the energy source. Had it all blown up? Had he saved people and buildings or had he just triggered it second earlier? Guilt for something he couldn't even be sure of squeezed his insides and he put his forehead on his knees.

"You look a little glum," an almost mechanical voice from the ceiling suddenly said, startling Wally's head up.

Confused he looked around before glancing up, not that there was much to see. "Uhm..?"

"Oh right, you can call me Oracle," the voice said. Oracle almost sounded amused. "Sorry if I startled you. There's no way to warn you beforehand."

"Oracle? You're another partner?" What was this? Batman in his dimension practically had to be coerced into working together with the League from time to time and this Batman had what? Partners left and right? And he didn't pull a face the entire time? This really was some alternate dimension. It made Wally's head spin.

"Oh, I like you already!" There was something like a breathy laugh but the mechanical overlay made it sound more like a hum. "I am. Robin asked me to watch over you for a little while. You looked a bit sad."

"You were...are watching me? This entire time?"

"Not always. I'm kinda busy but I've made time now."

It made sense. Of course Batman would want to know what a potential enemy in a cell would be doing all the time. Wally just...hadn't thought about that until now.

There was an awkward silence when Wally didn't reply. He could hear Oracle clear her throat.

"You...seem bored. And sad."

"There's not much to do but thinking. And my thoughts are racing, faster than you can imagine," Wally sighed. "Don't you guys have some internet or streaming service? Heck, I would even take some DVDs. Anything to not sit here for another entire day waiting for Robin to come back." The first day inside this cell had been exciting enough, trying to find out what was going on. But yesterday had already dragged on since Robin obviously couldn't be there the entire time. And even when he was there, he couldn't entertain Wally the entire time.

Batman hadn't shown his face here since the first day.

"Oh, that's easy enough to solve," she said as the tiny monitor in his cell suddenly turned on. White static on it. "See the monitor? Give me a second with that."

Wally hadn't known what the monitor, hanging from the ceiling, would be for but at least now something was happening. He turned his body so that he could lean against the wall and look at it, curious as to what Oracle would do from wherever she was.

"Are you an AI?" Wally suddenly asked, causing laughter to come from the ceiling. Seeing how he had never heard from her and the first thing she had done was basically access a monitor from god knows where...it had been a valid question.

"God no," she chuckled. "But I guess I can come across as one, huh? You're not the first one. Ah, there!"

The white noise went away, revealing the sharp image of whatever he was seeing right now. "Is that a commercial?"

"Yeah. I set up a streaming service for you, the commercial should go away in a second. I can't do more and I can't give you control over it. Either Robin or me can change it or turn it off. Sorry. Any wishes?"

Wally perked up a bit. "That's fine, anything is better than staring at an empty room and overthinking things. Maybe something with action. Or at least fast paced?" The thing shown immediately changed, showing the start of a show or a movie.

"Want to watch the movie together?," she asked.

"Sure thing. Hope you don't mind stupid movie commentary from time to time."

"Don't you worry," she chuckled. "I'm used to something like that."

After that they fell into a companionable silence. Oracle made sure to let Wally know that she was still there and even laughed at some of his jokes. He had a genuinely nice time, if he ignored the fact that he was basically locked away.

Soon enough the movie was over and Wally had stretched his legs away from him, over the edge of the cot, as they argued whether or not the movie had actually been good.

"Look, the stunts might have been good but whatever technical jargon they used, it was so false I don't even know where to start. No one would have been able to hack anything like that!" Oracle reasoned with a huff.

"And I'm telling you that no one but a computer genius would know that. Your average movie watcher, someone like me, wouldn't notice anything!" He wouldn't even have noticed if she hadn't said anything. It had looked exactly like anything he had seen Batman back home do before.

"They could have been a bit more accurate about it!"

"I'm pretty sure all of their money went into the stunts and explosions, not into how correct everything was," he chuckled amused as the sound of that loud elevator echoed through the room again.

Oracle audibly sighed. "I guess you're right. I'm just saying it wouldn't have been that hard. They could have just - Hey Robin! - They could have just genuinely googled it or something."

"Oracle, Wally," Robin greeted them both, his combat stick lying on his shoulders behind his back, his arms lazily draped over it. "You guys having fun while I'm out working? Typical."

"Aww, we can totally watch another movie, if you want to sit in front of the cell," Oracle said, amused, as the credits on the screen ended and the next thing started to auto play. "Maybe get Wally something to eat first, I still have time to keep him company."

Wally straightened his posture, giving Robin an apologetic smile. He could have gotten his own food after all, if he were allowed outside. Speaking of outside. "Will Batman show up again?" He hadn't seen him since the first day where the other had simply left. Wally hadn't even noticed at first.

Robin had turned around to go and get some food but stopped at the question, twirling his combat stick lazily. "Of course. He's just busy, as usual."

"Yeah but...he said I could go outside once I've proven myself. I can't do that in here or without him actually giving me something to prove myself?" Wally asked, slightly concerned. He just hoped that it didn't seem too impatient on his side, he couldn't really help it. He was a Speedster!

"Don't worry Wally," Oracle said. "Even without him being here, he knows what's going on."

Ah, right. Eyes and ears everywhere, even more so with Oracle and Robin around, Wally mused. "I guess," he sighed. "I'm just getting a bit antsy is all. I would love to stretch my legs. Run a few laps around the world."

Robin gave him a funny look again. He did that whenever Wally mentioned his powers, despite there being proof of another Speedster currently out and about somewhere in Central. If anything, it just proved that in this universe heroes seemed to stay in their lane even more than back home before the League.

"Around the world huh? Would love to see that," Robin said after getting over the expression he had made.

"Once I'm out I can totally show you. If you're nice I would even carry you with me."

"You can do that?" Robin asked. "Wouldn't the g-force be dangerous to me?"

"I was wondering that myself."

Wally looked from Robin to the monitor, since he still hadn't figured out where the cameras were, and back to Robin. He shook his head. "Not at all. I'm not a scientist but my mentor, he'd said that whatever we, as Speedster, touch becomes protected or shielded by the same powers that protect us from the same problem. And it just happens. It's nothing I could control or not. Let's say I give you a piggyback ride, you would be totally fine. Your cape might throw off some of my speed but that's the worst that would happen," he explained as well as he remembered. His uncle had used better words for this but Wally really wasn't a scientist. "Well, that and me tripping. That's fairly common as well."

"Tripping at such a high speed doesn't sound like fun," Oracle said at the same time as Robin tried to hold back a laugh. Earning him a reprimanding "Robin."

"What?," he asked with his arms spread to the side. "Just imagine it!"

"It can be pretty funny, especially on video," Wally said amused, rubbing his nose due to some phantom tingling by just remembering such an occasion. "Just not in the moment it happens. Thankfully I heal fast too, so it's fine."

"Now it's slowly starting to get unfair, just saying," Robin obviously teased but probably meant some of it anyway.

"Depends on how you view it. I do have to eat a lot. All the time, just to keep that machine going," Wally argued which earned him a that's-fair-expression, while Oracle butted in again.

"Speaking of which, you really should get some food. We just got the drip out."

"Yeah, yeah, I'll be back in a few." Waving Oracle off, Robin quickly went out of the room again, the sound of the elevator soon following.

"Wally, not that I mind but should you really just...tell us these things?"

Confused, Wally stared at whatever was currently playing without actually seeing it. "I trust you guys. So far you've only helped, safe for the keeping me inside a cell thing. I've seen an alternate mirror verse where...Batman was not that good and I feel like I've got a good gist that you guys only mean well. At least for the city. And not in a 'I mean well but I'm actually doing bad things because of that' way." He meant it too. Lord Batman had had seemed...strange, even back then. But he had been a Batman and since his Batman had also trusted him to a certain extent Wally had dismissed it as well.

He could hear her sigh. "We do. Mean well, but coming from someone who's worked with Batman for quite a while now, I just can't help but think what I would do in your situation."

Wally leaned back against the wall again, crossing his legs as he thought about it and ultimately shrugged. "That seems to be the difference between Speedsters and like...you guys. The Batmen's?" He chuckled amused, getting an overdramatically "God no!" from Oracle.

"My mentor was like this too. Like me I mean. Or I'm like him. Back home I even made sure to talk and visit my Rogues once they were behind bars. Making sure they're well. That's what my mentor did and that's what I do. The same way you probably inherited Batman's all-encompassing distrust."

"Thats-"

"We're back!" Robin called out from outside of his view before Batman walked briskly towards the computer, followed by Robin carrying an array of food that he immediately went to give Wally over the tray in the wall.

"Oh god, did he hear me!?" Wally whispered to the left of him, away from Batman.

Oracle just chuckled and whispered back, despite the volume of her voice remaining the same. "I'm sure it's fine, don't worry!"

"Oracle," Batman simply said, not acknowledging them whatsoever. "I'm sending you some data to analyze. The origin of it is scrambled. We need to find out who sent it and where it came from."

"On it!" With that her voice seemed to cut out while Wally took the food from the tray. It was almost already a routine, getting all the food in, eating it, and then giving whatever boxes it came in back to Robin.

Wally didn't even bother sitting down while he finished it all off, some of his attention span used to find out if Batman was in turn paying him any attention. If only to find out if he was any closer to proving himself anytime soon. Although by the furious typing that he could hear he figured that he wasn't a priority right now.

He sighed. He supposed as the food kept on coming it would be fine. At least now he had something to do with the streaming service inside his cell. Wally watched Robin get the used boxes to the side while also paying attention to Batman and Oracle.

"Found it," Oracle said as data appeared on the screen. Some kind of map that zoomed in to a place, but as usual most of it was too blurry for Wally to actually read any of it.

Batman continued his typing but paused once in a while to watch where the zoom would focus in towards. "There," he added and stopped typing. "One of the goons actually mentioned this area. Maybe he left something behind that will clue us in to the next murder."

"Or we look at the calendar, what kind of special day comes up next," Robin provided. Apparently, it only earned him some kind of Batglare that he shrugged away with a simple "Just saying."

Batman took a step back from the computer and tapped around on his right gauntlet, a common theme it seemed. "I've uploaded the location to my HUD. You two take care of everything else that comes up," Batman told the two of them while he turned around and left.

Wally couldn't even be mad. If there were lives at stake, he absolutely understood the urgency and didn't mind being ignored. He just hoped that whatever Batman was searching for he would find sooner rather than later.

Robin looked after Batman as well before turning to the Computer and then Wally. "That's my cue to leave as well. But I'll be back as usual," he offered him with a small smile before giving a mock salute and following to where Batman had left.

"Great," Wally sighed. "But you still got some time, right?" He asked towards the ceiling.

"Sorry," Oracle piped up. "I need to focus on this as well. Will you be alright with what's on to watch?"

His shoulders slumped forward a bit but it wasn't like he could change the fact. "Yeah, yeah I'll be fine. Thanks!" It wasn't her fault that he was in here. He would manage with a movie or two.

"Are you serious?" Wally turned away from the window that showed a really nice view of Earth. The side they were currently seeing shrouded in darkness. The lights were so pretty from up here, despite being all black and white and grey.

"I'm just saying that you can't go on like this," GL argued as he leaned with his back against the giant window, arms crossed. "It's throwing everyone off balance. We're concerned."

Was GL for real? "Are you saying that because you're concerned about me or concerned about how I behave during missions? Because let me tell you I would never let anything happen to you guys. Or someone else. But thanks for the vote of confidence," Wally scoffed and rolled his eyes, a frown on his face.

"You know I don't mean it like that."

"Do I? Last time I checked I wasn't the one having rejected my soulmate and stopped talking to everyone for an entire month. If it hadn't been for some missions, I wouldn't even have seen you at all!" This was just getting ridiculous. He wasn't even allowed to sulk for longer than two days? How did everyone expect him to behave after what happened?!

GL sighed, as if Wally was a kid that didn't really understand what he wanted to say. "Which is why I'm trying to help you. Learn from my mistakes! I know now that I could have handled that better."

"Your mistakes?! Your mistake was rejecting your soul bond on your own. You two ended up together anyway," Wally said, mildly insulted. "I haven't done anything like that. I didn't choose this."

"See!" GL perked up as if that was the answer to everything. "You didn't choose it. Which is why you could just...accept it? Okay, no sorry, that was lame," GL quickly corrected upon getting a mean look from Wally. "What I mean is, in the end you can't change it. Do you want to be hung up on this your entire life?"

The hand on Wally's shoulder was a welcome weight, if only to know that GL truly cared and was just really bad at words. "Of course not," he admitted. "But can't I be sad about it at least a little while? I promise to be back to the old me soon enough…"

GL gave Wally a small strained smile. "Fair enough." He squeezed Wally's shoulder before removing his hand. "Take your time, kid."

Wally watched Robin pace back and forth during their conversation. Then again it had turned more into a monologue, since Robin wasn't really paying attention. Hadn't been for a little while now. It had started the day before as well and had gotten worse this day around.

"And then," Wally began as Robin continued to make some agreeable noises that were meant to show he was still listening. "I straight up killed the guy."

"Good good," Robin nodded and glanced at the Computer before suddenly stopping and turning to Wally. "Wait, what?"

"Heh, knew that would get you," Wally chuckled from his cross-legged position on the cot. He hoped that he could get out of there soon, he was getting kind of antsy. And watching Robin pace and forth wasn't helping at all. "I was just kidding but you weren't really replying anymore. Had to get your attention somehow."

Robin's shoulders slumped as he sighed and sat down on the one chair that was there for the computer. "I'm sorry. I'm a little tense right now. I know I shouldn't be but…"

"Did something happen? Are the other's alright?" Ever since Batman had walked in and asked Oracle to analyze some data he hadn't seen or heard from the both of them. That had been three days ago. Ever since then Robin's anxiety levels had slowly gone upwards.

"Oracle is fine," Robin waved off. "Batman...it's not the first time that he doesn't respond for a day or two. I'm just worrying too much. It's fine."

"It's not. If it's worrying you?" Wally frowned. "I get that you're worried. I'd be too. I am now too."

Robin stood up again and turned to the computer. "Sorry, I didn't mean to do that. How about I get us some food and watch a movie?" He wasn't even looking at Wally while he spoke. Robin furiously typed on the computer, activating some kind of searching program that Wally had seen the day before.

He just stared at Robin who finally turned around and sighed. "Not the most subtle change of topics but it will have to do."

"It's fine," Wally assured him. "If you want to watch a movie to take your mind off of it? If there's something I could do to-"

"I'll keep that in mind thank you." Robin turned to walk out of the room. "I'll be right back with some food. Just give me a few minutes."

"Sure." Wally said as he watched after Robin until he got out of his field of view. At least now he knew why there was such an ominous cloud over Robin's head. Why no one else had showed up. Robin never really forgot about him but there were extended periods of times where Wally was left alone. He had never before been so grateful for a never-ending stream of random movies like he had on the small monitor inside his cell.

Otherwise, he might have been tempted to just vibrate out of here.

It was two days later when the door to his cell suddenly opened up, the glass pane sliding away as Robin appeared over Wally's head. "Hey, wake up."

Wally blinked his nap away and sat up, giving the open cell a confused look before getting down from the cot as Robin took him by the wrist and pulled him right outside of it. "What's going on?"

"You wanted to prove yourself?" Robin asked, tense. "Now you've got your chance. You need to find Batman."