THIS CHAPTER IS DEDICATED TO Adoglover5 SHE IS AMAZING! She not only went back and reviewed every chapter she missed for this story, but also FOR TWO OTHERS! THANKS! (Also she's the 200th reviewer XD)
Fear Gas
Genre: Family, Hurt/Comfort, Angst (maybe Friendship) -I really like these four genres XD
Rating: T
Pairings: SPITFIRE!
Guest Stars: Bruce Wayne/Batman, Barry Allen/Flash
NOTE: Alludes in with my story Fears, just FYI (but don't worry you'll still get the story even if you haven't read Fears)
Wally screamed twitching on the ground. "UNCLE BARRY!" He screamed wildly as Flash stood above him trying to get his nephew to calm down.
Wally watched in horror as his uncle fell to the ground a bullet wound in his chest, pain sketched forever onto his face.
"Shhh, Wally I'm right here, I'm right—"
"ROB!" Wally screamed again as he began to vibrate from panic.
His best friend was next, a knife creating an opening in his chest, the silver metal materialization from his stomach, stained crimson with blood.
His green eyes were open, but they were glazed over and hazy, empty of all emotions, but fear. The once bright and happy green emeralds were gone.
"Bats do something!" Flash screamed over at the younger hero behind him.*
"A little busy," Batman growled as he threw a guy off his back and punched another into a wall. "Besides," another guy was thrown into the wall. "His metabolism should burn off the effects in a couple minutes."
"MOM, DAD!" Wally screamed out again. "AUNT IRIS!"
The last of his family died out suddenly as they sunk to the bottom of a tank full of water, struggling violently until they struggled no more and just floated there lifelessly.
"A couple minutes? Do you know how long that is to someone with superspeed?" Barry screamed.
"Around three hours and forty four minutes depending on their speed average," Batman said seriously without looking and for a moment Flash stood there shocked before shaking his head.
"I'm not even going to ask," Barry mumbled before turning back to his nephew.
"ARTEMIS!" The scream was different this time, almost more frantic as if the one thing in life that mattered had just been ripped away from the young speedster.
A flash of light and she was gone, disintegrating in a beam of white and yellow, surprise written on her face.
"Anybody?" The sob came out soft and grief filled. "Please, don't leave me."
"Flash behind you!" Barry turned and with wide eyes ducked under a scythe
"Is Baby Flash having problems?" Scarecrow taunted, eyes narrow under his mask, swinging his weapon back and forth.
Flash gritted his teeth and dodged the silver weapon, trying to keep the crazed man away from his thrashing nephew.
"Shut up," he growled.
"Oooh, did I strike a nerve? Let me strike another."
"I never got to tell her," Wally sobbed on the floor. "I never got to tell her."
She was gone, she was gone and he'd never told her, she'd left him thinking he hated her.
"Kid," Barry gasped turning before he screamed as Scarecrow took advantage of his lack of focus and the scythe dug into his leg.
With a scream Flash crumbled to the floor clutching his leg, he could already feel the wound healing, but it was going to slow, he wouldn't be able to move away in time.
"Now, it's time to see what you fear Flash," Scarecrow laughed as he pulled out a gas pellet, before he gasped suddenly as Batman's arms yanked off his mask.
"No Doctor, I believe it's your turn," Batman growled, his eyes narrow.
With a shove he sent the blond man to the floor, the pellet breaking upon impact.
Scarecrow screamed loudly waving his hands in front of his face at invisible enemies.
"Get them away!" He screamed loudly. "Get him away!"
Flash glared at the man, before limping towards his nephew who was still sobbing.
"Shhh, Walls, shhh I'm right here," Barry again tried to comfort his nephew.
The second Barry made contact with his nephew Wally began screaming even more pushing him away.
"No stop! Don't hurt me!"
The Joker grabbed onto his arm violently pulling him up to eye level his eyes gleaming with madness.
Flash winced, but instantly let go. "Bats what can we—?"
"Wait," Batman cut off the Scarlet Speedster his voice dead serious.
"Wait? How can you say wait?" Barry screamed. "You have an antidote why don't you use it?"
"His body is working to fight off the gas, right now if I applied it the needle would shatter on impact from his vibrates," Batman said calmly.
Flash growled staring at the still screaming blond on the ground, "so what about him, does he get the oh so precious cure instead?"
Batman glared at him, "no, he can suffer for a while."
Despite himself Flash smiled a little, before turning back to Wally who was now curled up in a ball and sobbing.
"She's gone, they're gone, she's gone," he whimpered.
So many dead and lifeless faces rushed into his vision as the Joker threw him to the ground laughing crazily.
Barry didn't need to know who she was, he had long ago figured out who Wally's crush was, and despite what everyone thought it wasn't the green martain.
"Are you sure there's nothing we can do?" Flash asked begging for the answer to be yes, but all the Dark Knight did was shake his head.
Flash looked down at the yellow and red blur in front of him, "Why did he follow me?" He asked himself. "Why didn't he stay put like I told him to?"
"Because he's your partner," Batman answered for him, putting a hand on the worried speedster's shoulder. "He wanted to help."
"But it's my city I'm supposed to protect it and everyone inside it including him," Barry said softly looking at his hands.
"It's his city to protect too Barry, you decided that when you too him on as your protégé," Batman reminded him.
"Ya, but he should've known better! I mean the last time he ran into Scarecrow….." Barry trailed off, not wanting to think about it. "I mean I get it, this time it was different Scarecrow was in Central not Gotham, he felt like he had to help, but he didn't. This is all my fault, if I had made sure he was with Iris, or at the Cave before I left..."
Batman looked down before turning and glaring at the still screaming blond man on the ground, "You shouldn't blame yourself there wasn't time."
Flash gave him a doubtful look, "I'm the fastest man alive, I'm sure I could've managed something."
"Flash," Batman growled. "This is not your fault, if anything it's my fault. He's my villain, he's my responsibility."
"Whatever," Flash said before turning back to Wally.
"Go away," the youngest speedster began mumble. "Go away, leave me alone." Before the mumbles turned into sudden screams. "No! No! STOP! STOP! DON'T HURT THEM!"
The flash of Joker's smile, the madness in his eyes and his blood splattered clothes made it obvious that he wanted to kill. With a flash of silver a knife slit through the rest of his friends, each one dropping to the ground, like ragdolls.
Suddenly the Scarecrow replaced the Joker appeared a tiny mask in his hands, pushing it towards Wally's mouth.
"No! No! No!" Wally kept screaming.
He wasn't going to go through the pain again; he wasn't going to let this mad man laugh as he suffered.
"Batman!" Flash screamed. "Give me the cure!"
"Flash at this rate it might not even take affect—"
"Just give me the stupid cure!" Flash screamed and Batman handed it to him quickly, without thinking Flash vibrated quickly to match Wally's speed before jabbing the needle into his nephew's arm.
The mask was brought down over his face when suddenly—
Wally sat up gasping, his eyes still wild from the affects of the gas, but before he could say or do anything he found strong and familiar arms hugging him.
"Uncle Barry?" He croaked, scared he was wrong, that this was just another nightmare.
"Shhhh its okay Walls I'm right here," Barry said softly.
"You were dead, she was dead, everyone was dead," Wally sobbed clutching to his uncle as if he were 5 instead of 16.
"Shhhh I'm right here, see I'm not dead, Hot Shot** I'm right here," Barry continued to try and calm down his weeping nephew.
Before long Wally had calmed down, but he still clung to his uncle's hand, afraid that if he let go everything that he had just seen would become real. That he would be pushed into his nightmare once again.
"So what do we do with him," Wally asked the disgust clear in his voice as he glared at the ex-doctor that had caused him so much pain.
"I'll take him back to Gotham, lock him up," Batman said.
Wally scrunched up his nose, "you know what, I've decided that you can keep your crazy villains, I don't care how much mine treat me like a kid it's better than people like him."
Despite himself Batman smirked slightly before grabbing a whimpering Scarecrow and dragging him towards the Batplane hovering outside.
"Say hi to Robin for me!" Wally said waving as the plane took off, before turning to his uncle. "I really hate that stuff," he said quietly as Barry pulled him into a hug.
"I do too, trust me."
Neither speedster was sure how long they stood there; it could've been hours or mere seconds, before Wally broke the silence.
"So ice cream is on you right?"
"Huh?" Barry asked surprised. "When did I?"
"I've just been through a terrible and horrible ideal I think I at least deserved some ice cream," Wally stated.
Barry laughed and ruffled his nephew's hair, "sure, come on let's go." Running off.
With that Wally laughed and took off after his uncle, leaving behind his nightmares, and hiding them with the mask he worked so hard to build.
* - Barry is in fact younger than Bats O.o Who saw that coming?
** - - So John called Wally this a lot in Justice League/Justice League Unlimited, I just decided that Barry was going to call him it instead
So this alludes to my story Fears a lot, because it was easier to set it up on something I knew and already wrote. Lots of Wally angst/torture and Robin's in there as his best friend of course :D If you liked this story I suggest you go read that one too
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UP NEXT: Alive (Part 1 of 2)
Summary: Failsafe Aftermath (This was one of my very first fics for this story so if it doesn't line up well I'm sorry XD)
She was alive; he reminded himself as he sat down outside her door and listened to the archer on the other side move around in her sleep.
It was stalker-ish he knew that, he also knew that if she ever saw him he would probably get shot by an arrow, but he didn't care.
He needed to know that she was alive
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