Same day update say what?
Buckle up kiddies, this ones an acid trip.
Dc owns this, though I feel like Dc the way I'm bending story plots and backgrounds.
Bart had returned friendless at about 5 A.M and passed out in the living room chair. Iris returned shortly after James and Hartley (Who had to be home at seven for some reason) left the next morning. Barry returned a little after noon.
Wally and his younger cousins droned on and on about how cool his new friends were. All in all, it was a good day.
A bad night, but a good day.
(..) (..)
At about 8 that night Bart and Wally were playing the cheateyist game of Go Fish the world had ever seen in the middle of the living room floor when Jesse and a blond woman who Wally assumed was her mother burst in the front door, looking worse for the wear in Jesse Quick and Liberty Bell dress.
"Bart, suit up. BARRY!" The woman called loudly into the house.
Wally's uncle appeared in full Flash garb in a matter of seconds.
"I know Libby, its all over the news, Iris took off about twenty minutes ago. I thought you had everything under control or I would have already been there,"
Wally wished someone would tell him what the hell was going on.
Bart disappeared and reappeared a few seconds later as Impulse. Wally wasn't jealous of that at all.
"Dad took quite the hit," Jesse said, eyes downcast.
"He'll be just fine, no need to worry," Libby said, squeezing the back of her daughters neck.
"Wally you're in charge of the kids, keep the T.V. turned off, and do not let Jenni out of this house," Barry ordered, then in a sweep of wind and speed formulas, they were gone.
It was all cool though. Wally didn't mind being treated like some live in babysitter. Or like an incompetent child. After all, Wally was only a sixteen year old street smart superhuman, what the hell could he do to help someone out in a crisis. Not a thing, apparently. A good twenty minutes after they left Jenni came rushing down the stairs in her XS gear, only to be denied exit from the home by Wally himself.
"They are getting killed! They need back up bad! Jay's out there for Leagues sake! They are the definition of desperate!"
"What is going on anyway?" Wally snapped, frustrated with the whole thing.
"You really left the T.V off?"
"Yeah Barry said to," Jenni rolled her eyes and flipped on the television.
On screen reporting was Iris West-Allen. "This is a deadly night folks! It is advised that every body stay in their homes for the rema-!" An explosion went off and everything was fuzzy on screen for a few seconds before the image cleared to reveal Iris standing in a new location, arms wrapped tightly around The Flash's neck.
If people only knew.
"Well thank you!" Iris said breathlessly as her husband set her down.
"Any time mam," Barry nodded, giving her a wink.
The Flash took off and Iris started talking breathlessly again, advising people to stay safe as the camera panned out over a strange sight.
There, in the middle of town, was a giant crater. In that crater stood Professor Zoom, a small boy, and Captain Boomerang. Wally could see they were screaming at each other, he just couldn't make out all the words. Gorilla Grodd appeared to be the only supervillan actually robbing places while Jesse Quick and Liberty Bell tried to stop him. Zoom and Inertia were the only other villans in costume, the entire Rogue Gallery appeared to have thrown on whatever had been on hand. Weather Wizard was only in jeans and a tshirt, Weather Wand in one hand the other holding on to a dark haired baby on his hip.
They hadn't been expecting whatever this was.
Zoom and the Rouges appeared to only be concerned with each other, the heroes were obviously not the issue here. The Rouges were mainly keeping The Flash's at bay while Impulse was clearly losing a battle with Inertia. Old Flash and Barry were not fairing well at all against the Rogues that weren't Boomerang.
"We're takin' care of our own here, Flash! Leave! Don't involve you in the slightest!" Captain Cold bellowed as he froze the original Flash's legs.
The old man was not doing well at all.
Piper was keeping Wally's uncle pretty preoccupied with a horde of rats while the other Rogues moved into the crater. What the hell was going on?
"They are getting killed out there Wally! They need back up!" Wally considered that. Five against twenty? Not good odds at all. The Rogues were usually pretty harmless but they seemed almost...bloodthirsty to Wally tonight. Someone had to help them. Somehow. Not Jenni, hell Bart couldn't handle Zoom Jr., she was gonna get murdered if she tried to help. What was he gonna do? Try and..and now Max Mercury was in the mix, being handled just as easily as Old Flash. They were good, no doubt, but time had worn their bodies down. They weren't going to last much longer.
"No, Jen, you'll get yourself killed. Look, the pros are even burdens out there!"
"The..then...then you go!" she insisted, her voice wobbly.
Wally go? That was cute.
"Jenni I'm not a damn superhero, okay? I'd just get in the way!"
"You don't really think that! You're just scared!" Was he? Not of villans of course, but of failing...yes. He didn't want to disappoint anyone. How could he?
"Jenni, I'm not trained to handle situations like this!"
"Give me a break!" Jenni stormed upstairs and Wally rested his head in his hands.
Ouch.
There's a wall there Barty.
That looked like it hurt.
Him help. He..no..he would seriously just be in the way, a burden. Much to Wally's surprise Jenni returned soon with a bag.
"I've seen you use your powers, you're just as good as Bart, if not better. Experience is all you lack Wally, and there is literally no time like the present to get some. C'mon, Wally, do it! For all the people out there getting their asses handed to them. Do it for the family! Please, Wally! They need you!" She wasn't wrong. She sure as hell wasn't right either.
Jenni pushed a bag into Wally's hands before turning and walking up the stairs.
"I'm gonna go be with the twins,"
Wally looked back at the screen to see his uncle get taken down hard by Mirror Master. It took him a little to long to get back up.
Could he really help? How? He was just...just Wally. Just Wally was no day saver. Wally frowned down at the bag in his hands and moved to open it. Red boots and goggles, black spandex pants...Who was she kidding? Maybe he could just try them on..
The pants were to long, probably Barry's old work out pants or something, but the boots conformed to his feet and were knee high, easily hiding the pant legs. The goggles were nifty as shit, some kind of infer red build into
them. Probably Bart's spare or something.
Was he really considering this?
He was considering it to the point were he actually went to his room and dug a Flash t-shirt and a yellow jacket out of his closet.
He had lost his damn mind.
He walked across the hall to the girls room to see Don and Dawn sitting on Jenni's bed with her. Jenni eyed him with a smile.
"Gloves," she said zipping out of the room and back with a pair of red gloves.
Wally quirked an eyebrow at her as he slipped them on.
"Thanks," he murmured.
"So, who are you?" Don asked, sliding off the bed to inspect his older cousin.
"Kid Flash obviously," Dawn snapped from her perch on the bed.
Wally smirked "Seems a little done don't it?"
"No. If it were Flashboy maybe. But I dig Kid Flash, it has a ring to it. Rolls off the tounge," Jenni nodded her approval.
"Yeah, well, I'll think about it. Absolutely no promises though. I have a feeling this is probably the first and last time you'll see me like this," Wally sighed.
"I still think as far as names go, its a good one," Jenni said.
(..) (..)
When Wally arrived on scene The Flash had managed to crawl his way into the crator and was attempting to get between Zoom and Boomerang.
"..Ye lost yer eva lovin bloody mind ya bastard! Causin a scene like this! I'll fuckin' take 'em with me! So overly dramatic! Bet tha' bitch ain't makin sucha fuss abou' all this!" Boomer shouted, grabbing hold of the little boy's arm and jerking him towards himself.
The boy reminded Wally of Don in a way, same age, maybe younger, red hair, darker but still red.
"Like hell you are! I raised him! He's my son!"
"Ya cared so damn much ya wouldn't a drug 'em out!"
"Don't you question my parenting!"
"He ain't yer fuckin kid! 'Es mine! And ya sure as 'ell ain't leavin with 'em!"
Holy shit. Wally had seen some white trash 'you slept with my wife you bastard' fights before, but this was...unreal. Flash was trying to get a handle on the situation, ripping the boy away from the mess and handing him to Jesse Quick.
Max Mercury and Liberty Bell still fought hard against Grodd, trying to subdue the simian. Old Flash was literally a block of ice and Impulse was...Hmm.
Odd.
Impulse was unconscious on the ground, Trickster and Pied Piper were having it out, full on, with Inertia. Piper's face was swelling and Trickster's nose was a fountain but both boys appeared to be giving as good as they got if the way Inertia was favoring his left side was any indication.
Wally didn't know what to do with himself.
In the crater, Golden Glider had managed to pull the little boy out of Jesse's arms and slip him to Mirror Master, who pulled the boy right into the Central Jeweler's window.
Zoom was out raged, but the Rogues and Flash were doing a great job keeping him subdued. Inertia, however, was freaking the hell out.
"Fine! Take him! We'll just take one ourselves!" Time slowed to a crawl around Wally. Inertia pushed up into Trickster's chest, causing the other boy to go slo-mo flying. With all the speedsters preoccupied there was nothing to stop him from literally walking around Piper straight to Weather Wizard, who had literally been shooting lightning at Inertia. Inertia touched the boy in Wizards arms, transferring kinetic energy at the speed of light.
"Lights out, Junior," he said.
Holy shit. Wally's feet were moving on their own accord, carrying him right at the smaller boy. Wally's fingers brushed the baby right as Inertia pulled his hand away. 'Absorb it!' he commanded himself. His body listened, pulling the assess energy straight out of the baby and into himself. He sent his elbow right into Inertia's nose, the baby falling with Wally to the ground.
Time snapped back.
Both Trickster and Inertia let out a pained yelp, and Weather Wizard appeared to be trying to comprehend what had happened in the last few seconds. The extra kinetic energy shot strait to Wally's head, giving him some kind of freak adrenalin rush that powered him and made his head pound, static in his ears, vision shaky. The baby started crying.
Weather Wizard sprang to life, seeming to understand that Inertia, not Wally, had just taken a swing at the infant's life. Wally pulled himself wobbly to his feet, stumbling over to Trickster and grabbing the other boy by the collar for support.
"Ake..em!" he spluttered out, shoving the baby into the other's arms. Trickster looked at Wally's face, wide eyed and he could see him mouth the word "Wally?"
"Whah?" Wally said, feeling dizzy. It made since. Sure kinetic energy was kinetic energy, but the type Wally siphoned his speed off of was drug induced chemical kinetic energy, Inertia's was natural born. That's why his body was handling it so poorly.
Wally focused in on Trickster's face, smeared with blood, nose gushing still, bent ten different ways, mask firmly in place.
Wally could still tell it was James.
"Piper! Take Josh, give 'em to Sam!" James called, handing the baby back to Pied Piper. Hartley, Wally recognized, face swollen and hair literally a mess.
"Are you okay man?" James shouted, shaking Wally by his shoulders.
Time slowed down again and Inertia slammed into Wally, taking the older boy off his feet.
Pow!
Pow!
Pow!
Pow!
Punches rang fast, each one to Wally's face. The world was pretty fuzzy so he closed his eyes and rolled, trapping Inertia under him and hitting the younger boy all over at twice the speed. He felt like he'd been there for hours, but it must have only really been minutes before someone pulled him back, hard.
"Enough, Kid! Dammit enough!" Barry? Why was Barry here? Wait, oh, yep, he remembered. Shit, his head hurt.
Wally looked around to see Captain Cold backing into the mirrorverse behind the other Rogues, shooting ice at Libby. Max trying to unthaw Old Flash, Grod being taken away by police, and Jesse crouching by Bart's side. Oh and Barry's most evil glare. Directed at him.
(..)(..)
"Do you even comprehend danger? You could have died!," Barry fumed, his bottom lip and left eye getting bigger by the second. Injuries healed fast, but these were pretty deep. It would take a few days. Bart sat next to Wally on the couch, ice pack to his head, eyes swollen shut and gauze in his mouth. He had bit through the inside of his top and bottom lip.
Wally's head hurt like a bitch and Inertia had landed some pretty decent punches to his jaw, bruising proved it.
"Do you comprehend that I literally saved someones life?" Wally shot back.
"Wally, what we do is rewarding in that way, and I am proud of you, but you have no training, safety precautions, experience, and apparently common sense in the field! You had no idea how that kinetic energy was going to effect you!"
"I knew how it was gonna effect the kid! BOOM! Wasn't lettin' it happen!"
The fight lasted until Iris ordered everyone to bed at about 4 A.M.
(..)(..)
When Wally awoke late that afternoon there was an empty house, a note on his bed, and someone beating at the door.
Went to dinner.
Will bring you something back.
You are grounded until further notice.
Home, school.
Do NOT leave the house for any purpose.
Love, Barry.
Bastard.
Wally walked downstairs, ready to kill whoever was pounding on the God dam-
"James? Hartley? What are you two doing here?" Wally asked, eying his..friends? Were they still friends?
James's nose could literally not look worse than it did now. Ten shades of black, blue and purple, crooked, swollen..eesh. Hartley didn't look much better, his right eye swollen shut, along with the majority of that side of his face. Battle Royal really did a number on everyone.
"You're gonna be so excited! We told Len what you did and now he said he wants to talk to you! Len never wants to talk to people!" James was ecstatic, bouncing up and down.
Captain Cold wanted to talk to Wally?
Did talk mean murder?
"So were gonna kidnap you!" James continued, pulling a compact mirror out of his pocket, opening it, and handing it to Wally.
Wally looked at the compact in confusion for a few seconds before a hand popped out, grabbed hold of his hair and literally pulled him into the mirror.
Bum bum bum.
OK so if your confused a bit, read this.
Owen Mercer was Captain Boomerangs son in the comics with Melody Thawne. Melody is Bart and Thad's(Inertia) mom as well. So in my AU I've used him to plant hate seeds between the Rouges and Zoom by making Melody Zoom's wife. But not Bart's mom. Basically the fight was over the fact that Zoom discovered that Owen is Boomerang's son and not his. Owen was Crater Boy FYI. Give it time, you'll see why Thad was able to beat Bart's ass. Also in the comics, Inertia, as Kid Zoom, kills Weather Wizards son Josh, so I let Wally save him so that the Rogues would take an interest in him.
That doesn't mean Wally's going all Rouge or anything.
It also doesn't mean he's not.
Confusing chapter, I know, but it'll all come together soon. You'll see.
Review, but if some parts seemed sketchy, don't worry, I got this.
Promise.