Chapter 21:
Central City with The FLASH
The day had come for them to recreate the circumstances. Cisco was exhausted, within the past two days he had vibed a dozen times. Caitlyn was going to enforce bed rest after this. Barry and Wally were practicing his running. They needed to be at the perfect speed for this. Ronnie was checking over and over that the accelerator was ready for this. He wanted no accidents to happen.
Earth 16- Watchtower
Nightwing had filled in Blue Beetle and asked if he knew anything. Unluckily the Scarab refused to say or just didn't know. The league had been prepping nonstop. Batman kept coming up with missions to distract the team. When they were occupied and he wasn't in Gotham he was helping the Atom with prep. Flash took Kid Flash/Impulse running all the time to get ready. They had fixed up a room for Wally on the watchtower. Barry and Dick had collected some of his stuff from their respective houses to bring there. They completely believed he would get home.
Ms. Martian and Superboy told everyone they needed a vacation. Both were having trouble keeping the secret. So they rented an apartment in Metropolis together. The night before the attempt to bring Wally back they stayed in the Fortress of Solitude. That was close enough to the site of the attempt so they arrived at the same time as the people who were elected to come. That list included the main scientists of the League, Batman, Nightwing, Flash, Impulse, Blue Beetle, Martian Manhunter, Superman, Vibe, Green Lantern and themselves.
They all arrived in different groups or on their own with their own methods of transportation. Then they waited for the signal. The speedsters couldn't start running till they knew the same was happening on the other Earth.
"It's Cisco," Vibe spoke after they had been standing there for ten minutes. "They are ready to start here in 5 minutes. I'm going back now, you should be set your timers."
Flash's Earth
Cisco got back to his own body when there where 3 minutes left. Everyone was hugging Wally goodbye and getting into their positions to make sure this went right.
"We're good. Both of you into the accelerator. You need to get ready to run. Are both your watches set?" Cisco asked. They both nodded and Cisco pointed to the door. With a burst of wind they were gone.
"The structure is steady. It should be safe but there is always the slight chance of something going wrong," Ronnie said.
"The particle is prepped for injection. Start running in 3….2….1!" Caitlyn said into the intercom.
From the video feed they could see streaks of yellow and orange racing through the particle accelerator.
"Speed is right. If they run the same time on the other world we'll be fine," sighed Caitlyn.
Earth -16 with the League
The timer went off, with a single shared look the speedsters began to run. The others stood as the speedsters created a whirlwind of speed. A synthetic blaster was hitting energies into an empty spot. This recreated the reaches one which Wally was hit by. It was this that would bring Wally back.
Flash's Earth
"The particle is going in now!" Cisco said. Wally hit the particle and Barry kept running. A hole was in midair getting bigger and bigger. Wally gave a salute at super speed then ran in. He thought of Artemis, he thought of Dick, he thought of Uncle Barry and Aunt Iris. He thought of the team. He thought of home.
Wally disappeared and Barry stopped running. He sighed in relief. No giant black hole this time. He sped into the cortex and looked at his team.
"We did it!" he laughed.
"I'm not sure of that. There was a lot that could of gone wrong. I'll need to Vibe in a few minutes to see if Wally made it."
Earth-16 with the League
As the two speedsters ran the blaster kept shooting. Each shot seemed to make something appear. There were dashes of yellow or red hair. Images of Wally seemed to appear but he wasn't actually there. The blaster kept hitting that same area. Wally started to materialize. When he was fully materialized he started to slow down. He almost collapsed when Bart stopped and called to Barry.
"It worked!" Both speedster ran to catch their relative newly returned from another world.
"Uncle B? Bart? I'm back?" mumbled Wally as Bart and Barry towed him over to the other heroes.
"You're back Wallman," Dick said with tears in his eyes.
"Dick!" Wally smiled before falling unconcious. His friend put his arm under his shoulder taking Bart's place. Together he and Barry towed Wally to the waiting League. All of them smiled when they saw Wally and got him aboard one of the ships that brought them there. Now they just had to tell everyone. To be honest Dick thought that was the most dangerous part.
Just then Vibe spoke, "Did Wally make it?"
"Cisco?" asked Nightwing.
"Yeah. Did it work?"
"It did. Thank your team for us. Wally's finally home safe."