Chapter 4.
The door to Wally's bedroom clicked then slammed open. "Good morning Prince!" Wally opened his eyes, rubbing the sleep out of them he sat up.
"My names Wally, not Prince." The Joker clicked his tongue.
"No you're Prince, if I call you Wally what was the point of me changing your hair and costume? There would be none! So you respond to Prince, you really should listen to your master." Wally sighed and looked at the Joker but nodded. "Yes master." His stomach growled hungrily.
"Is my helper hungry? That explains why the bruise it still there, if you do good on this mission I will feed you. Deal?" The Joker smiled showing his disgusting yellow teeth.
Wally looked up "what bruise?" He turned and looked in a mirror by his dresser. Sure enough a angry bruise covered his cheek where he was backhanded the night before. "What mission now?"
The joker smiled maliciously, "I need more of that gas, you're going back to Star Labs. And get going! And I may feed you when you get back." He tossed Wally his black and white suit and left, as Wally got dressed.
The team was sulking around no one really talking, Robin looked around at them all he sighed. "We should probably get this new villain into the database." The team nodded and Kaldur went over to the computer with Robin. Robin sat down and started typing.
"Okay name, Prince of Spades. Powers or Abilites?" He looked at Kaldur, Kaldur sighed and cleared his throat.
"Perhaps we should leave it alone for now until we get an actual battle with him." Kaldur suggested, Robin nodded and they went back to where the team was sitting, Kaldur followed him in.
Batman soon walked in and looked at the team. "The Prince of Spades has been tracked to strike Star Labs again." with that he left not wanting to pressure them to much yet.
Kaldur looked around at his zombie-like friends, Artemis and M'gann were watching a non-violent movie, Conner was tossing a ball at Wolf, Robin was keeping himself busy on his wrist computer, and Zatanna was reading a book. Kaldur cleared his throat catching everyone's attention.
"I know we all miss Wally-" almost everyone cringed at the name. "But if we don't keep going and try to keep moving forward he will have died in vain." You could see the impact the words had on the team, they looked at each other and shared some silent words. One after one they got up and looked at Kaldur awaiting his lead. He smiled. "We are going to go take out Prince of Spades and try to prolong your fighting as long as you can to ask him questions. We need to know how he is tied to the Joker." The team nodded and took off.
Wally had the gas in his hand ready to go back to the Joker, just as Kaldur stepped in his path. "We will not hurt you if you give up now." Wally smiled happy to see Kaldur was alright but looked at the team behind him. Joker started barking orders into his ear and Wally threw Kaldur out of the way.
"Move it fish boy!" Artemis and Robin looked at each other and attacked him simultaneously. Artemis focusing on fighting and Robin asking questions. Wally sadly but quickly focused on Artemis taking her down then faced his best friend alone as the teams waited Kals signal to show when to help Robin.
"Big bruise you got there, where did you get it." Robin started. Throwing kicks at him, which he dodged easily.
"I upset my Master, none of your concern!" Wally said trying not to throw punches and hurt him.
"Sounds like you'd better quit trying to please the Joker you just get hurt." Robin tried, seeing the other was not really wanting to fight.
Zatanna saw Kaldur give a signal and started a spell. "Sgel dna smra sih dinb!" She said and the Prince of Spades arms and legs locked to his sides and he fell over.
"We will bring him in for questioning." Kaldur nodded, and Conner picked him up throwing him over his shoulder. M'gann looked at the boy curiously. "Do you think we can get him to turn sides?"
Wally sighed and growled at her. "Go to hell!"
M'gann gasped, and Zatanna glared and did another spell. "Mih ecnelis!" Wally became silent, glaring at them all, he winced as Joker screamed at him in his ear. Conner winced his sensitive hearing hating the sound, sadly Joker didn't shut up anytime soon. "And I can't even activate the virus because you still couldn't move if she stays conscious, and I can't kill them yet! Now I have to come get you! See if I feed you now, Prince!" He was screaming. Wally looked down as his stomach growled loudly. Conner almost but not quite felt sorry for him hearing the entire thing. When they got to the cave Robin locked Wally down anyway possible and Zatanna finally let down the restraints and silence spell.
Batman walked in to start the questioning allowing the team to stay. "Now I'm going to ask you questions, you WILL answer." Wally looked down.
Batman started. "What's your real name?"
"Prince." Wally lied not wanting to hurt his friends.
"Why do you work for Joker?" Wally was about to answer when a loud crashing noise reached everyone's ears everyone spun around to see Joker standing in the doorway. No one dared to fight him without Batman's okay. He walked in laying his hands on Wally's shoulders causing him flinch and gulp.
"All the trouble you get into, Prince. I swear!" Joker laughed and plopped down next to Prince, deciding to you with their minds before leaving. "So sorry for the trouble Prince has caused you, Batsy! Trust me he will be thoroughly punished when we get home." Joker hissed at Wally. Wally looked down uneasily.
"Why do you have a sidekick, Joker?"
Joker cackled "to perform tasks I don't want to, of course! And here I thought you were smarter than that Batsy."
Batman's eyes narrowed. "Why him?"
Wally tensed under Joker arm that was just draped over his shoulder. "We are so much alike, he was perfect! He loves to laugh, I love to laugh. My father abused me, his father abused him! It was perfect!" Wally looked down at the mention of the last fact. Batman watched Wally's expression carefully then looked at Joker.
"It looks like you are doing the same thing, based on the bruise on his cheek." Wally didn't like this conversation and squirmed under everyone's looks but stopped when Jokers grip tightened, he winced slightly.
"I don't abuse my sidekicks, Batsy. You know that, he disrespected me. Don't tell me you've never backhanded Bird Boy?!" Joker asked surprised.
Batman growled "no Joker that's cruelty, there are other ways to deal with them."
"Well no wonder birdy boy runs the streets catching all the good people and sending them to prison! You aren't raising him right!" Wally's stomach growled loudly interrupting the conversation.
Joker glared at Wally. "Prince I TOLD you if you did good on this job I would feed you, so how do you think you did?" Wally stayed silent and looked down, embarrassed that everyone was staring at him but refusing to show it. "PRINCE! How do you think you did?!" Joker growled making Wally's attention snap to him.
"I uh..." Wally stuttered.
Joker glared. "Do you plan on ignoring your master's question? Do you need another punishment, Prince?" His eyes narrowed threateningly.
Wally gulped and looked down. "No Master, I don't. I didn't do well on this job..." Joker nodded.
"Wasn't that hard, was it? Well you said so yourself, maybe you can be fed after your next mission." Wally looked down, he didn't bother argue knowing it would only end in pain. "See Batsy?! That's how you raise a sidekick!" Joker stated proudly.
Batman leaned back studying them both. "You don't feed him? How is he supposed to keep up strength to do your jobs with no food?" Joker shrugged like it didn't matter. He arose from his seat, keeping his hands on Wally's shoulders.
"It's been fun, until next time Batsy, Baby Heros."
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