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Chapter 8- A Life Without the Flash!

"Flash! Flash!" Hawk Girl cried out entering the room Flash was suppose to be in. Hawk Girl turned and yelled after seeing her team mate was not there. "Guys he's gone!"

Soon enough the entire team was up there glancing around, wondering where he went. Batman shook his head with disbelief and handed a piece of paper over to Superman.

"Dear Friends," Superman started. "It is not safe to have me around anymore! I didn't do those crimes but I don't want to risk anything. I saw on the news... Can you believe it, I actually watched the news on my own! Bats must be rubbing off on me.... Well, I saw that people were shaming you because of me. I don't want that. So from here on out, Flash is no more. Don't coming looking for me, you won't find me. You don't even know my real name. So anyways I wrote this letter to say good-bye. I'll start with my buddy GL...

Stay green and will you hook up with HG already! Jeez even I could see that you two had a thing for eachother.

Wonder Woman stay strong and fight for the amazons. GO AMAZONS! Sorry bout that, couldn't resist.

HG same with GL. Hook up and keep flying high, literally!

J'ohn stay the last Martian. Don't lose that name. The last Martian, sounds sweet. Probably isn't though.

Supes your turn. All I can say is kick some bad guy boodey for me! K?

Bats... Hmmmm.. Can't think of anything to say about you. Too mysterious, too dark... Too YOU!

And last but not least Black Lightning! BL guess you'll be taking over my title as fastest man alive. Oh well.. Stay fast and show those bad losers up! AND DO NOT COME LOOKING FOR ME! TELL NO ONE OF MY REAL IDENTITY. AS A BROTHER I ASK ONLY THIS OF YOU!

One more word of advise to you all, don't trust anyone!
Well I guess that is really all I have to say except, good bye! Flash..." Superman casted his look down along with everyone except BL.

"It won't be the same," Green Lantern finally sighed.

"Yeah.. No more bad jokes," Hawk Girl stated.

"No more bad manners," J'ohn added.

"No more food disappearing without a trace!" Superman joked.

"No more Flash," Batman ended. The entire League gazed at eachother with a look of sadness. They would miss him, truly. Too bad Wally didn't know that, or would ever know that they really did like him.

The League, in dispair, didn't even notice that Black Lightning had left them.

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Wally yanked the collar of his jacket up as he turned onto his block that led to his apartment. As he entered the dark room, he shook the water from his water by spinning real fast.

"Quitting already?" a voice suddenly cut through the darkness. Wally flicked on the light to see his brother in the kitchen also without his costume. BL was more built than Wally, but other than that and black hair the two didn't look too much different. They were brothers, anyone could tell. BL wore a black tee with blue jeans.

"What are you doing here, Harold?" Wally asked pushing right past his brother to get to the fridge.

"Wondering what the hell you are thinking?... God Wally, they trust you! Why did you leave?" Harold questioned right back. Wally just glared at his older sibling.

"They don't need me! I'm a criminal, remember?" Wally snapped back with another question. Harold slammed Wally right into a wall across from the fridge, spilling the pop Wally had received from the fridge.

"Coward! You get blamed for one thing and you run!.. Guess I'm not too surprised, you always were a chicken!" Harold joked.

"Two! Robbery and.. Murder," Wally corrected. Harold, angered about being corrected, upper cutted Wally right in the stomach. Harold released Wally and watched him crumble to the floor, gasping for breath.

Harold just grinned at his handy work. "Guess it's better that way. I was ALWAYS better than you!" Harold stated before leaving Wally in a crumbled mess. Wally forced himself up to face Harold.

"You'll never be better than me!" Wally choked out at Harold as he left. Harold never glanced back, he just growled silently to himself as the door slammed shut

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"It worked... Flash in now out of the picture... Well mostly," the shadow cackled. He turned to Grodd. "Draw the speedster out. Make him want to help, then we'll be able to start phase 3 of our plan to destroy the League!"

Grodd nodded to the shadow before exiting the dark room.

"We'll see how much more he can take before he totally crumbles.. Then we'll see who's better, Wally!" the shadow whispered to the air.

Author Notes: There you go Chapter 8. R&R!