This chapter has swearing in it, so if ye be of faint heart, ignore the swearing!
Wally was pissed. He couldn't believe J'onn would do that, especially to his own kid. Wally didn't care that she was a clone, she was still a really nice person.
When Flash came back, Batman knew that there would be trouble. He was walking, slowly. This was not something he did unless he was really mad. Batman was scared, for only a moment, when he looked at Flash's eyes. He had never seen so much anger and hatred there.
"What the hell do you think your playing at?" Flash said slowly and clearly, his voice lowered in anger.
"What is to be expected." said J'onn completely oblivious to Flash's anger.
"Listen, you asshole," J'onn was shocked that Flash said this, but it only got worse, "I'm an orphan, and it really sucks that when a kid has two parents and they still consider themself an orphan. You're a jerk! You just abandoned her because she isn't the original. The original is dead, and she is here, why don't you accept that!" he screamed
"My race does not accept clones and that is final."
"Uhh!" Flash screamed in frustration. John tried to put a comforting hand on his shoulder, but Flash shrugged it away.
"Let me tell you something Mr. High-and-Mighty. I was eight when my parents got killed in a car accident. So I went to live with my Aunt Iris and my Uncle Barry. But then, Iris got cancer. She died and my uncle abandoned me because I reminded him of her!" Flash was almost crying now.
"I know what it's like to be rejected because of something stupid. I was nine! When people came to look at us, some wouldn't want me because of my hair or my eyes. They didn't fit the family" he said in a mocking voice. "I stayed there for ten years." he said angrily. "And your daughter's going there too. She won't be accepted. She'll be a social leper. I know what it's like. Society doesn't want us. But we live anyway. It really is a sin that a child should have to go there when they have parents capable of caring for them. I'm ashamed of you two. And from me, the jokester, that's really bad." he finished quietly.
He stared at them a moment and walked away, to where his quarters were. He sighed as he climbed the steps slowly, savoring the experience. Then he did something he hadn't done in years. He sat on the steps, wrapped his arms around his knees and cried. When he heard footsteps, he sped to his room and wouldn't come out.
All this while, J'onn was sitting and thinking about what Flash said. He couldn't help but think that Flash was right. He had judged her harshly. He got up and walked over to the transport pod. He left before anyone could say anything.
Poor Flash! I didn't mean to make it this sad