On screen Wally had come out, still wearing the leather duster. He walked straight over to one of the walls and pulled down a pair of long daggers. He'd worked most of the night in the Gym and had learnt briefly how to use long bladed daggers with his speed, all thanks to Carlm.
"Well my Nephew!" Cobalt started, leaning over his balcony and studying him. "I've set you a right challenge today. Something that hasn't been beaten ever since I bought her…Well You beat Gabriel." Wally snarled at his uncle.
"Let the games…continue!" he laughed, watching the door beneath him open.
Wally bent, ready to charge whatever came out. He quickly, however stood up and stepped back, eyes wide.
Those watching the screen suddenly became concerned with Wally's sudden turn. "Shit." They heard him mutter.
The floor of the arena shook and quacked. A loud roar erupted from the open door and a large black panther leapt from within. It stood over twenty feet tall with paws large enough to crush Wally. It's head was just short of the force-field.
It roared a second time, high pitched and long, before it swiped its paw at Wally.
He ran away from the paw and under the creature, lashing out at one leg and cutting deep into its hind leg.
The Panther screeched and swirled around, catching Wally with its strong tail and whipping him across the arena. He slowly sat up and gasped as a paw came down on his chest. With a quick thought he stabbed a dagger into the pad of its paw and rolled out as the creature stumbled back. Wally gasped as he felt bone grind on bone, but he still got to his feet holding his ribs.
Batman slipped into the control room and set up a bat-bomb to blow the security outside.
Wally stumbled back as the creature continued to jump around him. He fell to his knees as a large explosion shook the floor. Cobalt stood up and shouted out.
"Outside security's gone!" A guard shouted back.
Wally glanced up, just in time to see a set of teeth falling down to him. The teeth themselves were at least a foot long and were able to catch him across his stomach and back as he slid away from them.
He hissed as he stood up, hand to his stomach, trying to stem the flow of blood. The world became a grey haze for a brief moment and then returned to colour.
As he blinked a second time and stumbled back he saw the wall to his left shoulder explode into the arena as Superman and Wonder Woman both hit the cat creature across the remaining arena.
Wally fell to one knee as the haze returned. Still he looked up in time to see the cat creature fall dead. Gazing around, his vision flickered back and forth between colour and grey until finally it was all red. He pressed his other hand to his head and came back with a thick liquid on his palm, unable to tell colour and judging from where it was he guessed his head was also bleeding and running into his eyes.
"Wally!" he heard. Looking up he saw the large door to the slave quarters burst apart and several superheroes and fighters were running out into the arena, guards fighting them from behind.
"Wally?" He looked back around and found Shanner suddenly at his side.
"Shanner?" he asked, suddenly realising he was on both feet and feeling very unsteady. She reached out and helped him to sit down.
"You said they would come and save us." She stated, glancing over at the fight that was coming closer to them as fighter and superhero fought guards and gladiators.
Wally slowly seemed to be coming to himself because he pushed himself to his feet and Shanner away.
"I have to end it." He said, feeling like he was watching it all from above his body.
"Wally?" he smiled at her and then at the flying gladiators fighting the flying superheroes and realising that the force-field above was cut out. With a deep breath he ran off to one end of the arena, circled round, and ran back to where his Uncle's balcony was. With enough speed he took leaping steps up the wall and stopped on the edge of the balcony, a grimace of pain on his face and a hiss in his breath. Without thinking he jumped over the blue fire aimed at his head.
"Fast as ever Wally." Cobalt Blue cackled at his nephew.
"You told me to toughen up." Wally growled back. "I think I've improved a bit." Then he ran at his Uncle, dodging left, right and then skidded to the floor before him. Cobalt became confused with the pattern and failed to see Wally as he skidded to a stop under the hilt of his upturned sword. Wally lashed out an arm and punched the blue crystal, effectively cracking it. Cobalt stumbled backward in surprise and was then thrown forward and over his balcony.
"Run for life, before they take it from you!" Wally shouted, looking down upon the destruction as the last of the crowd from the arena seats escaped and the last of the guards were knocked out. The Slave Fighters soon gathered around Cobalt who stood quickly, holding a limp arm to his side.
"It's not over nephew." He hissed to himself, scooping up his sword and in a blur, raced out of the hole in his arena wall.
The haze returned to Wally's vision just as Green Lantern landed next to him. "Kid?" then his eyes rolled into the back of his head, and his body fell to the floor, saved only by John's reflexes.
"We got you hot shot." He said, picking the now much lighter hero up and flying him off to one side so they could be transported up to the Watch Tower.
Well, we're nearing the end, good bad? anyone tell me?
