Wally stood facing his new opponent. The woman stood a little way from him, crouched slightly. She was tall, even crouched she equalled Wally's size. She was dressed in black combat pants and had a matching bikini top on. Her hands were more like paws, which had protruding claws that as Wally watched extended further.

She sauntered over to Wally, her ears twitching upon her head, brushing her hair left and right with the movement.

Her cat like eyes widened slightly as she took in Wally.

"Pathetic." She purred, a tail appearing from behind her and wrapped its way around Wally as she circled him.

"Begin!" Malcom yelled, causing Wally to jump back as the woman went to kick him. In a blink of an eye he dashed forward and punched her in the face. She slid back, back flipped and leapt forward. Wally however, was not expecting this movement and was too slow to avoid the attacking claws as they slashed across his face. He stumbled with the force before throwing a punch back at her. She caught his hand, but with his speed he caught her in the stomach with his foot.

She flew into the wall, and staggered to her feet, hissing at him and bearing her sharp fangs. She reached above her and grasped a chain. With the flick of her wrist a large metal ball fell at her feet, attached to the chain in her hand. With a flashed smile, she strode forward and began throwing the ball around her head with the chain.

She suddenly swung her head to the side and wrapped the long chain around her shoulder and around her body. Wally stood confused until she flicked her wrist again and the metal ball flew straight at Wally, catching him full force in the chest and sending him off his feet. He landed with a cry, flat on his back, feeling blood pushed into his lungs shoot up his oesophagus and out of his mouth.

He hardly had time to think through the fog as he saw the heavy ball falling down towards his face. With his speed he rolled up and away from the falling weapon. It left a large crater in the ground.

Wally rubbed at his lower left jaw trying to get rid of the blood he'd coughed up from the blow. He could hardly see out of his left eye as the blood from the deep scratches on his face trickled into it.

"You really are pathetic." The woman taunted.

Wally stood straight and watched as she started the ball and chain back up. He breathed through the pain and concentrated on the movement of the ball. Slowly as he ducked, dogged rolled and ran from the weapon he discovered a gap, a weakness…and much to his disgust, a kill.

He rolled to the far wall, planted his back against it. He reached a hand behind him and grasped at the handle of the long sword. As the ball flew at him he pulled the sword free and caught the chain of the ball, tangling the ball and stopping it.

Wally pulled with all his might, catching the woman off guard and launched her toward him. She fell to her knees in front of Wally as he turned the sword down and into the centre of her chest.

She gasped, her eye matching his. Wally stared at his feet, his face darkened as the woman fell onto her back, eyes wide and dead. He dared a glance into those dead eyes and something inside him shattered, falling about him, nothing but dust.


Everyone in the Watch Tower murmured, unsure as to how to react. Thankful that The Flash had lived, shock at the kill, and (in the core members case) concern at the sudden darkening off the young man's face.

Wally stood straight on the screen, and walked towards the opened door. His shirt was stained with red dust and blood as he walked out of the arena.

He walked into the main room and came face to face with Gabriel and Marcus.

"Wally?" Gabriel asked, stepping forward and trying to read his face.

He shook his head and walked off to his quarters. Gabriel looked after him as he left the room, her mind fighting itself to think of what to do. Marcus sighed, patting her on the arm.

"Your match is soon." Still she didn't move, chewing on her lip. "You have to leave him after his first human-a-like kill." He told her going off to check on the sibling snakes, Shanner and Carlm.

"Yeah." She whispered, sitting back down, but staring at the door, knowing that look on one's face when your soul was shattered.


The Watch Tower was still talking; ready to get updates on how the tracking went when Cobalt Blue came back into screen.

"And do I have an extra surprises for you." He smiled widely. "A preview of a breaking man!"

The screen flickered and a small room came into view. A small bed took up one corner of the room with a wardrobe at the end. A figure knelt at the toilet bowl in the next room. He stumbled to his feet, wiping his mouth before falling against the wall by the basin. His white shirt was stained and his face was a bloody mess, but two tracks of tears had cleared away the mess slightly.

Wally curled up on himself and sobbed into his arm, his soul…shattered.

Those up at the Watch Tower either turned from the screen, unable to face the pain, walked out of the room or shared in Wally's pain with renewed tears.

"Batman!" he looked down at the com link in his hand.

"Yes?" he asked, turning from the screen and trying to keep his emotions under control.

"We lost the signal." He looked up at the screen to find it nothing but static.

"Send images of every satellite position, pin point the direction of the signal up till you lost it." He ordered.

"Yes Sir." Came the response. Batman looked up at the remaining core members as they took in the news that they couldn't find Wally again.

Diana walked out of the room in a daze, Green Lantern close behind. J'ohn fazed upstairs, while Shayera stumbled off to her room. Superman didn't know whether he wanted to break everything in the room or to slink off and feel guilty.

Wally on the other hand sat, broken in his slave quarters and sobbed his pain to the room, that he was trapped in a hell where he fought for the entertainment of people.


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