Chapter 26

Wally was getting used to his new home and had already talked with Black Canary, she was still upset with him for making the decision but glad he cleared it all up. He was dressed as Nightmare and ready to go out, he and Batman agreed not to work as partners. But they had decided Batman covers one part of the city and Nightmare the other, if anything big showed up they would meet and deal with it together. Wally was fine with it and as was Batman.

Wally was perched on a building, watching closely. He looked down in an alley when he heard a noise, he made a surf board with his aura and levitated down. A hooded man slammed into him, Nightmare was still standing but the man was in the ground.

"Don't hurt me! I was just running from him-" the man cried he pointed back at a figure running towards him. Nightmare glared at the man.

"Stay here, if you move I will just drag you back here." Nightmare said doubting his innocence, he looked at the figure who had started slowly towards him.

Nightmare drifted into a battle stance. "Stop! Stay where you are." He wasn't surprised when the figure didn't stop, he kept coming towards Nightmare until he spoke.

Nightmare was surprised when he heard. "Stop there, give back the purse and surrender." Nightmare used his power to trap the figure in a bubble. Then went over and stepped on the mans chest, to stop him from fleeing.

He radioed Batman "hey Batman I'm in need of assistance, on Harbor street." He didn't have to wait long until Batman stepped out of the shadows, Nightmare explained the situation and Batman nodded.

"I'll take the robber to jail and help you interrogate this one." Wally nodded as Batman took the man under his foot and left, he let the mysterious figure out of the bubble.

"Dude you work with Batman?cool! I'm a hero too! What's your name?" The figure came into the light. He was wearing a black cape

With on the red on the inside and a plain black suit with a red Eagle head on the front.

"I'm Black Eagle." The boy grinned, he looked to be Nightmare's age. Nightmare smiled trying to hold back the laugh, but he barely managed.

"Wow you look like my age are you 15? I'm 15!" Black Eagle sounded excited,Wally shook his head.

"For a hero you're too easy to give out information, I'm Nightmare. If your Black Eagle, what's with the red Eagle?" Black Eagle's excitement obviously deflated.

"I thought it would look cool..." He moped, he didn't stay depressed for long. "Well Nightmare I'm glad to meet you, we should be friends!" Nightmares eyes widened, this boy... Was awesome! Wally came out from behind Nightmare, Wally smiled he was just like him! Except he wasn't too good at hiding his real personality, Batman came back and saw the two boys talking. He sighed and let them continue, thinking it wouldn't hurt Wally to socialize.

"Alright Nightmare, lets go." Black Eagle's eyes widened, he grinned.

"Batman! Awesome, well bye Nightmare! See ya around!" Nightmare and Black Eagle continued to talk, Nightmare showing Black Eagle techniques and how to hide his personality. And soon the two were best friends, Batman after a while allowed the boys to share secret identities. But only after he had checked everything and knew everything there was to know about the boy. James Carson/Black Eagle and Wally West-Wayne/Nightmare was inseparable.

6 months later

"Ready Wally?" Bruce said from the Batmobile, Wally walked out in his costume.

"Yeah I'm ready!" It was the first time he was going to see his group since he left, he could barely wait. He told Black Canary everything about his new life, about Bruce and his new friendship with James. He got in the passenger seat of the Batmobile, both heard a noise and Batman sighed while Wally smiled.

Black Eagle came from no where and hopped in the backseat. "Alright lets get this show on the road! Mush Batman!" Batman turned around and glared at James.

"I. Do. Not. Mush." James shrunk back in his seat and gulped, but smiled sheepishly. Wally laughed, and smiled at James. They started off, it took a good 5 hours to get to the orphanage. They stopped in the front and Batman smiled at Wally as he got out with James, then he left, still not on good terms with Black Canary.

Black Canary ran out and hugged Wally and smiled at James. "I've missed you so much Wally, I'm so glad you're alright! Everyone's been worried sick and Huntress just knows you haven't trained. I'm glad you brought James." She turned to James. "Wally's told me a lot about you." They walked in and Wally was greeted by his group, he was able to convince Bruce to stay here for a week.

Huntress smiled "You better have practiced while you were gone or I'll kick your butt." She smiled bigger and reached out and hugged him "We were all so worried for you and missed you tons."

Wally smiled and hugged her back. " I missed you all too, but I did remember to practice, even punched Batman in the face while doing so." Huntress laughed and led James and Wally inside.

They all sat down at the conference room, they got caught up in everything from the past 6 months. They even worked out the schedule so that everyone got training with Wally at some point, so that he could remember everything he was taught; mostly Huntress's doing. Wally smiled and left the room to get settled in, while they all talked to James, and introduced themselves. He sat in his room and thought about everything.

He smiled. "I've finally got that father relationship with Bruce, I get to see my group, I have a best friend who gets to fight crime with me. I've finally been able to heal from the hate my father gave me, I can see the League any time I want. " he sighed content, and fell into his bed. "I finally have the dream life I always wanted but thought I could never have." He smiled on thought of how good his life become, he grinned at the thought of how it all got started just from him leaving his room for the first time. He was smiling when James walked in, he sat down on the bed near Wally.

"What are you thinking?" James asked seeing his friends smile.

Wally smiled. " I was just thinking how good my life became when I came out from behind closed doors.

"Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else."

― Tom Stoppard

The End, thank you all for reading, I hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it. I think we all knew this was coming to an end but I couldn't have carried it on much longer without losing readers. A Special thanks to yuriAMANDAyaoi and Kyer who reviewed almost every chapter I hope you both enjoyed it and thank you for your encouragement. Oh and Kyer, my next coming story involved Wally as a speedster.

Once again, Thank you. - Breannlt