Hello again, and welcome to a new chapter of RCCD!
Of course, this one continues from the exact point that the 3rd one ended: Dick and Wally falling in a hole.
BTW, I just realized hat I haven't done a Disclaimer. So, here I go:
I do not own Young Justice. Young Justice © DC.
I do own The Doctor. The doctor © HeavenIsn'tTooFarAway.
I recommend you to listen to the song after which this story is named: Rain comes crashing down, by the American 80's rock ban Night Ranger. RCCD © Night Ranger. Here's a link to Youtube: www. youtube watch?v=McxuSquUCeU&feature= (minus the spaces).
The chorus of the song starts here... this means smething important is about to happen, doesn't it?
Warning: contanis references to classic rock. Couldn't help it...
Please, keep reviewing, it helps me a lot.
Chapter 4: The shadows you leave behind you
Kid Flash and Robin stood up. They looked around them. The hole was completely dark, because something had covered the light that came form up there. They were trapped!
Out of nowhere, a screen appeared in a wall. It showed the face of a man. He was normal except for his eyes. If you had experience in dealing with lunatics, as Robin did, you could easily realize that that man hadn't been sane fro a while.
"I'm The Doctor." He introduced himself.
"Oh, what an original name" said Wally "Maybe I should change my name to The Superhero."
But KF didn't sound normal, and Robin realized that he was nervous. Very nervous.
The Dr. continued as if nothing had been said.
"I've been experimenting on drugs for a long time. But I've never had the chance to try them on… special people like you. this is the opposite to the drug I used on Captain Cold and the other guys… You should feel extremely vulnerable."
As he said those last words, from somewhere a white gas was released. Robin reacted quickly. He had to put himself to sleep. Maybe he wouldn't wake up until the drug's effect had stopped. Maybe the combination between the two drugs didn't see had a side effect. But Robin as willing to take the chance. If The Doctor didn't have cameras, and according to his not-reaction at Wally's comment, the Boy Wonder assumed he didn't, he would think that he was vulnerable. And then Robin… do something.
So his hand ran quickly to his belt, form where he took two pills. He should take four, but he wasn't sure if something could go wrong with the gas and the pills and the stress he was filling and Wally was falling at his feet, coughing, and, as he swallowed the second pill the world just disappeared and…
And Robin fell asleep.
"We should stop kissing and see how the other's are doing." Said Connor.
"Totally" agreed Megan.
And they kissed. Once more. But then, Superboy checked his communicator. And so did Miss Martian. And they stared at each other in horror as they saw the distress calls from Kid Flash and Robin. And Megan almost started crying when they couldn't contact them.
And then Connor said:
"This can never ever happen again. We cannot date if it may out our partners in danger. Either we learn to deal with it, or we break up."
Only then Megan actually started crying.
"It's been a while. Let's get into the wood and contact the others." said Aqualad.
Five minutes later, the four non-trapped superheroes met. they were in shock. They wouldn't admit it, but they expected an of them getting caught. But not Robin.
"I think that the fact that none of has been attacked by whatever got KF and Robin proves that we haven't been detected yet." said Connor.
"Actually," said Artemis "We were followed by a flying camera. maybe we were seen."
"We should contact Batman! Things have already got way out of control!" cried Megan.
"Already tried, we can't" was Superboy's short answer.
"Well, we could search for them, but we could probably be attacked too. I think we should wait. If I know Robin, and I do, he already has a plan."
But Aqualad was the only one of them who was optimistic.
And he was right. Robin did have a plan.
He woke up screaming, and realized he almost couldn't even open his eyes. He was sweaty. He focused on the dream.
The nightmare.
He had seen his parents death. Once and again. It wouldn't stop, and Dick just had to watch.
The millisecond that the rope was cut.
The scream.
The corpses in the ground.
But what had the drug to do with anything.
Suddenly, the truth hit the young superhero. When The Doctor said vulnerable, he didn't only mean physically vulnerable, but also mentally vulnerable. And weak.
Robin couldn't stand feeling weak. Luckily for him, sleeping as the drug affected him helped him.
Slowly, he began to take control of his body. He knew that if his mind could stand, he would. And Dick was an expert t not falling apart.
When he succeeded, when he finally stood up, he felt dizzy. But only for a second.
Then, he saw Wally.
The older hero was completely destroyed.
His eyes looked like he had cried all night long. His hands were red, as if he had been hitting on the walls. And, horrified, Dick realized that he probably had.
Wally spoke.
"It's like the rain, you know? You want to stop it, but it just keeps coming and coming and coming and coming. And you can't do nothing 'bout it. I can't do anything about anything. Not anymore. I eel so weak. I don't think I…" by this point, his voice got completely lost in a murmur and as he cried again.
Dick hold him.
"Shh… don't say that. We're superheroes. We can make everything. You're My hero, remember'" But Wally was still crying.
"It doesn't matter what I do."
They spend hours that way. Wally cried, Dick talked to him. He wanted him to react, to try to move or something, but it seemed that Wally didn't even care anymore.
At one point, the screen appeared again. The Doctor announced that he was going to "go check on you, you little… little." Robin spit at the screen, and there were no reaction. Two things became clear: The Doctor didn't have any cameras in the hole and he was completely and irreversibly out of his mind.
He even thought about kissing him. it would be romantic, wouldn't it? But he rejected the idea.
The solution to the problem came by chance. In his desperation, Robin thought that giving Wally another drug could help somehow. So he reached his utility belt and grabbed a syringe.
When Wally saw it he went pale. Ok, paler. He was already white as a paper, but now even his eyes, which were red before, turned white.
"Wh… what are you gonna do with that?"
"I'm gonna give you some…" but then Robin understood. Of course! It was so obvious! After years of dealing with the Scarecrow, and Batman himself, who had became a bat to scare criminals, he should have thought about the strongest emotion ever.
Fear.
And Wally was scared. Extremely. His weakness had probably affected his needle phobia. How didn't Dick remember that he's friend was terrorized by needles?
He slowly approached Wally, his mouth shut.
"N… no." screamed the redhead "No!"
And then, to Robin's happiness, he did something amazing. He stood up. Fast. Very fast. Robin had to hold him so he wouldn't fall to the ground. He smiled as he noticed some color coming back to his friend's pale face.
"That's it!" he said "You need to defeat this drug. Inside your mind. Think of Bon Jovi! Keep the faith! Come on, what would Jon say if he saw you hope departed?" He put together the three things Wally loved the most in the same sentence: Jokes, Rock and Jokes about Rock.
They stood in that position for a few minutes. Then Wally started to speak.
"I never told you, but I also saw my father die. I was just two years old. I never remembered the exact moment he died. I only remember his shadow falling to the floor as he did. I thought not remembering it was terrible. So I never thought about it. Until tonight. It was too much to bear. all at once. 'Coz at the same time, for the first time, I remembered my dad's face when he…" at that point, he started to cry.
Dick was completely out of words.
"That's what I meant by "it's like the rain. I can't get it out of my head now. Just like those stupid raining outside."
From inside the whole, they heard the drops falling above their heads. It was driving Robin crazy.
"Think of something else" he said "You need something to replace it."
"You" thought the redhead "You can cover even the rain coming down."
But he didn't say anything.
Only the Dick realized that they didn't have much time left until The Doctor came. he needed to get to work. Luckily, he had a detective mind, In all this time, he had thought of a new plan.
"Done!" shouted Robin, sounding happy.
"Done what?" asked Kid Flash. he was still recovering, but he felt better than before. Not perfectly yet. but watching Dick work had helped.
"Fixed the communicator so it will send and receive short messages without any radar knowing! I'm gonna contact with the guys."
"Hello, Young Justice, respond."
"Oh dear God Robin is that you where are you and what about Wally?" Megan made the long question sound like just one word.
"Trapped in hole. Can't talk much."
A short pause.
"Go our way, hundred meters, cliff, then covered hole in ground."
"We're going there." This time it was Kaldur. And even he sounded nervous.
"Stay close but hidden. Tell if Dr coming. Don't attack, may kill us or have guards."
"Affirmative"
15 lifetime-long minutes later, they were contacted again.
"We're there. Waiting. Over."
"Great" answered Wally. Dick had made him respond so they knew he was alive, and so he would do something.
"Dr. coming!" they heard Artemis voice.
The doctor pushed a button in the ground. The hole was opened again. Bu didn't get to see him, as a birdrang hit him in the face. And then, he fall. A red boot stepped on him.
"You know, I said I didn't have powers" said Kid Flash. "But I'm so angry I think they're coming back." As he said this, his feet slapped The Dr.'s face so fats it seem he was gonna take his head off. Bt he didn't He stopped, and the lunatic was all right.
They were helped to come out by their friends. (No pun intended, since nothing has happened... yet.)
"So there were absolutely no one in the island but The Doctor'!" asked Wally.
"Nope, he was completely insane" answered Megan.
The whole Young Justice team, plus Red Tornado and Batman were at the Hospital inside the YJ Head Quarters. Wally laid on the bed, but he didn't look sick anymore. He was eating a sandwich and showing his usual appetite.
Then, Kaldur, Megan, Artemis and Connor told the other guys the story of how they entered the crazy old man's laboratory to find no one in it!
Only Dick wasn't smiling. He wasn't sure of Wally being truly OK.
But then Don't stop believing started sounding in the radio, and the boy found his redhead friend staring at him as he mumbled the piano riff.
Only then the boy Wonder smiled.
"Now what?" he wondered.
