It was the next day when Wally could stand the team were seen heading to the main control room to hear the latest update on villains. Green Lantern was seen standing more with the team than with the Leaguers for the entire meeting.
It was after the meeting when Wally was talking with J'ohn about the speed of his healing when his eye patch was suddenly stripped off and hovered in the air. Wally clamped a hand over his eye and growled up at the eye patch hovering ten feet above him.
He glanced back over his shoulder at Anyanka who stood giggling into her hand. Wally snarled and leapt up at the patch, just missing it as it skimmed out of his hand. He landed in a perfect kneeled crouch, his head whipping up at Carlen who held the eye patch, laughing out loud.
In a flash of black he charged her only to see the eye patch thrown to Anyanka. He changed his course, missing Carlen by inches and charged at Anyanka who fazed happily through the wall.
He skidded to a stop before the wall and glanced back at Carlen who had become a crow and was flying out of the doors where Anyanka stood, passing the eye patch to the bird.
Fulton was smirking to himself while the Sergeant was rolling his eyes, a ghost of a smile on his face.
Wally charged at the door and grabbed a hand full of feathers. Carlen quickly changed into a large Panther the same type that came through the portal the first time and the two faced each other, snarling and growling at each other.
The Leaguers looked on in amazement as the two circled each other, noting the fun smile that slashed across Wally's face from time to time.
Wally leapt forward and tackled the Panther to the ground; he then started tickling the big cat till Carlen was forced to change back, loosing her concentration she gave in.
Wally leaned over for the eye patch when it lifted off the floor one last time. With a smirk he barked out one word "Fuego." And Anyanka was blasted back by a mental shield. She shook her head in time to see a triumphant Wally slip the eye patch securely over his temporarily scared eye.
Green Lantern, Shayera and Diana were laughing out loud. Superman and J'ohn were smiling proudly.
Wally helped Anyanka to her feet and then lifted her into a soft hug before helping Carlen, who was by now in tears from laughing to her feet. Wally suddenly stopped and turned to the main door where Supergirl stood holding a tall glass of red liquid.
"Anyanka said you might need it." She told him, handing him the warm glass.
He smiled softly, looking at the glass.
"Well it has been a few days." Anyanka stated.
He held the glass in both hands and breathed in deeply, his smile growing with pleasure. He drank deeply from the glass and almost instantaneously his smaller cuts and scraps and bruises healed to fine, fair flesh.
"Thank you." He said, turning back to the group.
"So this orb is…?" Shayera asked.
"The orb of Floren." Fulton said, picking up a book from is bag. He found a page and went over to one of the tables, setting it down so everyone around the table could see. "It holds Asesino's powers. When he was trapped, his powers were stripped, but could not be destroyed." He pointed to a picture.
"The orb was buried safely away from him, in this very city." The core League members looked at the picture of a black orb shaped stone that had a small, thin dagger through the center of it.
"So it buried somewhere here?" Green Lantern asked.
"Somewhere." Fulton sighed, sitting down. "The only problem is where they buried it was under a mystical tree, but now the city has changed, that tree won't exist, only its roots will."
"So how do we find it?" Diana asked, picking up the book.
"Well its very sensitive to magic. If we could get a spell to work to track it, the roots will repel the spell and it should appear on a map." He said.
"How does the spell work?" one of the magical members asked.
"We get as many magic members to send out a magical pulse while Anyanka tracks the spell across a map. Anywhere, where the spell is repulsed from will appear on the map."
"That will take quite a bit." Batman said.
"Hence why we need as many magical member as possible. Mental powers as well will do, anything that can send out a pulse that can be tracked." He explained.
"Why mental pulses?" J'ohn asked.
"Mental pulses work to keep the magic together, keeping it collectively as a pulse."
"Its worth a try." Wally said, shrugging at the League.
"How many magic and mental members do you need?" J'ohn asked Anyanka.
"Four powerful magic members and perhaps two mental members." Anyanka said, thinking carefully.
"Well J'ohn and I can do the mental." Wally suggested, receiving a nod from J'ohn.
"Dr Fate and some of his trainees might work." Batman added.
By the late afternoon and entering into the evening the spell was set up and the four magic heroes were in a circled around Anyanka with Wally and J'ohn resting their hands on the shoulders of two magic heroes. A rough circle was drawn around them for them to focus their energy into.
Anyanka set off the energy by spreading it into each hero and creating a mental chain in which they were to keep the energy tracked at.
J'ohn and Wally opened their minds to the four magic members and connected themselves to each other, linking it finally back to Anyanka. The problem was when they tried to keep together as a team, they had to pull out of each others minds several times because Wally had never done anything like this and was used to keeping his mind closed up and the magic members were too busy trying to hide their thoughts and memories from each other.
Wally stepped out of the circle once more and sighed, rubbing his head, having been given a mental shock from Dr Fate's mind who had a sort of automatic shocking system to any intruders in his mind.
"That's it." Wally growled, rubbing his head still.
"This isn't going to work!" One of the people in the circle said out loud.
Wally paced slightly then felt Anyanka appear from out of the circle and reappear behind him. "We have to make this work." She said slowly.
"I know." He said, turning back to the circle, his mind racing through each plan. "One last chance." He whispered to himself. "Bring down all you defenses." He ordered them.
They all nodded together and regrouped. Wally took a deep breath and his fangs grew longer, his blue eyes turned blood red and a deep snarl slid from his throat.
He instantly felt the defenses in each magical members minds rise but persevered through it, feeling the pain rising through his body as all minds attacked his. Beside his he felt J'ohn getting the same reaction. The two clung to each other and shared the pain, but finally held the link, long enough for the magic to gather in the ring.
The flow circled around and around till it became a spinning blur of sparks. He heard Anyanka in his mind, transporting the instructions to the four and then the command that sent the magic out in three waves.
He was pushed in from all sides as the magic blasted out, he followed it with Anyanka's spirit until she came back and ordered them the stop. They all fell back, panting and puffing from the effort but watched as Anyanka frowned over the map.
She sat back and held her chin in one hand.
"Well?" Wally asked, gasping for breath, J'ohn leaning next to him.
"Well you're not going to like it." She said.
"Its not there is it?" Wally asked, falling flat on his back.
"No. It's here, but it below us." Eyebrows were raised around the room.
"As in…" Carlen trailed off.
"Directly below us." Anyanka nodded.
"Well we might as well go down." Wally said, sitting up swiftly and jumping to his feet.
"We'll need equipment." Superman said, turning to arrange some breathing equipment.
"You're coming?" Wally asked.
"Yes, but it will take us a while to dig down. Anyanka do you know exactly where?"
"No. But I know there appear to be tunnels down there. I can transport a small group of us down." She said, indicating to the team.
Superman nodded, understanding whom she wanted to take down. "Five breathing apparatus." He told one of the workers.
"I don't need one." Anyanka explained.
"But I will." J'ohn said. "I can faze down with you."
"Sounds good to me." Wally shrugged.
Within the hour the team and J'ohn were kitted out with cameras and head sets so those on the surface could check their progress and gas tanks in case there was limited air.
Wally adjusted his camera on the side of his headphones and gave the thumbs up to one of the staff members who were setting up the connection.
"Ready." Wally shouted over to Superman who cleared an area for Anyanka.
"Can you keep up?" she asked J'ohn off to the side.
"I can manage." He smiled.
Anyanka stepped down to the center of the cleared area and the team moved in around her, they each seemed to have their own place around Anyanka.
"Don't send us to another dimension." Wally muttered, sending the team into laughter.
"For that, your eye patch will mysteriously disappear." Anyanka answered back, grinning.
In a swirl of black mist the group sank into the floor and disappeared. J'ohn quickly followed them down. Anyanka stopped when she saw a large tunnel slide into view. She relaxed her powers and set the team down, watching the ceiling for J'ohn.
Wally took a quick breath and shook his head, throwing on his gas mask, the others following his lead.
J'ohn came through the ceiling, and put his gas mask on. Wally looked left and right as J'ohn set down next to him.
"Which way?" J'ohn asked.
"Three down that way, three this way." He said.
J'ohn smiled. "Anyanka, Fulton and Carlen left. I go with J'ohn and The Sergeant."
The group nodded and divided. Fulton led his group down to the left while Wally led his group up to the right.
"Are you seeing this?" Wally asked into his microphone.
"Yes. I can't believe there was something like that below us." John answered up top.
"How are the others doing?" he asked.
"Still going down." John answered.
Wally walked further into the large cavern ahead of them and looked around, his eyes sharp to the darkness, taking in the tall ceiling and stretching walls.
"I think this might be the right place." Wally said.
"Duh, you think?" Sergeant said sarcastically. Wally smirked.
"Split up?" he asked.
"It would be better. But stay within sight, we don't know what defenses they have down here." J'ohn said.
"Agreed." Sergeant said, taking the far right side while J'ohn took the far left, leaving Wally with the center.
They walked down, keeping each other in sight, just enough so as to see their lights, Wally just leaving his on so they could see him.
He reached about center of the cavern after ten minutes and a report from the other group that they had reached a dead end and were heading back to them, when Wally suddenly stopped, his senses going crazy.
"No one move!" he shouted.
"What is it?" Sergeant asked.
"Something's starting." Wally hissed, crouching slightly and pulling his blades free. The Sergeant saw the flash of the blades and also got into a stance.
Wally snapped his head to the left and shouted out. "J'ohn!" just in time to see a wall of shimmering light fly at the Martian and pass right through him. Once it had passed, all that was left was a smoldering spot where he had stood.
"Wally!" he turned to see the werewolf also get absorbed by another wall.
Wally turned slowly to look ahead and froze as another wall headed straight at him. He ran to the left and just dodged it in time, having to jump at the last second to reach the end. But he couldn't stop there; another wall was heading for him. He ran at it and spun around it at its edge.
He continued to dodge it until he saw a set of stairs that rose to a decorated balcony. He charged at it, a blur of black, but was forced to run back by another set of charged walls. Once he had dodged past them he turned and ran back to the stairs. He had barley moved when the wall extended to the full length of the cavern.
Thinking quickly he shot back and set his blades twirling, hoping that this worked.
He ran straight at the wall, ignoring the cries to retreat from John and the other Leaguers.
He put all his mental powers, all that Anyanka had helped him unlock and put them into his twin blades. His blades grew red as he put all his rage and pain into the blades and forced a charged power to rise. His speed flashed him into a blue flame and his blades grew red, just like his eyes.
Gritting his teeth he cried out with power and met the wall, blades puncturing the wall and he pushed and sliced at it with all his might.
Something gave and a large flash split into the wall. The other group watched from the entrance as the wall flashed gold and then red and then exploded, sending them all to the floor with it power. Lights extending in all directions.
His remaining team sat up and called out. "Wally!"
"Answer me!"