Chapter 5.

"You're not going anywhere Joker, especially not with your new sidekick." Batman stood up.

The joker cackled and undid Wally's binds, forcing him to stand as well. "Who's going to stop me?!" Joker quickly threw down a ball that covered the whole room in green gas, Wally was pulled roughly from the room while he could hear Batman yelling at everyone to hold their breath.

Joker went outside to a helicopter flying above, he shoved Wally up the ladder and followed him inside. Joker cackled as the team and Batman ran out, he threw an explosive at them. Wally looked just in time to see it blow Artemis into the cave entrance knocking him unconscious.

Wally panicked "ARTEMIS!" Conner looked up hearing it he narrowed his eyes, he said something to Batman and both now looked in his direction. Joker cursed pushing Wally inside the helicopter.

"You idiot!" He screamed and backhanded Wally across the face. Wally fell to the floor from the force of the impact, he cried out in pain and say there dazed. The joker was irate, he wrapped his arms around Wally's throat squeezing tightly.

"You will learn you insolent boy! If I have to beat you bloody!" He growled but Wally couldn't hear him as his air was cut off and his vision went black.

After Artemis had woke up with only minor injuries, Batman called a meeting with them. Everyone filed into the room and looked at Batman, waiting. He looked at each of them.

"I have news from careful research and help from Superboy's hearing...I have concluded that, Kid Flash is not dead."

Everyone's mouths hit the floor, Artemis spoke up. "But we saw-"

"It was a fake, Kid Flash is alive but not under the best circumstances." Batman glanced at them.

"How so?" M'gann asked quietly she looked teary eyes.

Batman sighed. "He doesn't go by Kid Flash anymore, but now prefers Prince of Spades." Batman pulled up a picture. "We must assume the worst, he has switched sides because of a personal problem with his father he may want revenge and decided this was the only way to get it." Batman stated.

"B-but Wally would never betray us." M'gann started crying.

"We CAN'T be soft about this, he is a villain and you will treat him as such, take him down bring him in for questioning then send him to prison. We know he's dangerous now." Batman left the room, leaving a horror struck team.

"It's not true! I know he wouldn't do that!" M'gann cried.

Conner moved to comfort her he looked up. "He still cares, I heard him scream Artemis's name when she was hurt. He still cares."

Robin nodded typing on his computer. "He held back fighting with me, he rarely threw a punch. Something's up he wouldn't hold back if he was a villain even if he still cared."

Zatanna looked down not knowing what to say. Artemis, was fighting back her feeling she stood up. "Batman's right, he's not one of us anymore. We need to forget about him, he works for Joker and he deceived us. He's a villain, end of story." Artemis growled.

Kaldur looked around at them all. "As much as it will be hard to fight out friend, Batman is right we must treat him like a villain. But I feel something is more than it seems, I plan to look into it."

Robin shakes his head. "I know something's up, Wally left his tracking device on. He couldn't have forgot, I...I have his location."

"We will come up with a plan then attack, but no sooner." Kaldur nodded and say with the team to plan.

Wally woke up feeling sore, he looked around his vision slightly blurred. He blinked a few times making it clear up, he was in a dark room. Not his bedroom, he stood up then felt the pressure on his hands as they were chained to the wall. "What the-" the door to the dark room slammed open.

"I see you're awake." Joker smiled cruelly. "Now time for your punishment, for many things." Wally's eyes widened and he struggled against the restrains to no avail.

Joker took out a small knife, he cut Wally's shirt off. He grabbed Wally flipping him over making his back face the joker. "Now lets let the world know what you are." Joker smiled cruelly and started carving into Wally's back ignoring his grunts and occasional screams of pain. A little while later Joker stepped back to admire his work, he drooped the bloody knife to the floor. He grinned and got a mirror and held it behind Wally. "Look at it." Wally hesitated but looked over his shoulder, he refused to burst into tears at the words carved in his back. It was hard to read the words covered in blood. It hurt his eyes to look at it, mostly because it was true. The Joker grinned, "what does it say?"

Wally gulped and took a few breaths he stared at the wall in front of him, he whispered looking down. "It says Traitor..." Joker sneered.

"Louder."

Wally let a few tears roll down his face. "It says Traitor." He growled. Joker grinned, and clapped. He released Wally bound hands and looked at a guard. "Wrap up the cut and send the naughty boy to bed without supper." He cackled and left as Wally was dragged back to his room, roughly wrapped up and thrown into the bed. He sat on the edge of the bed away from the door. He groaned, he was hurt, and he was starving, he needed something to eat. He would never heal from all of this if he didn't eat, a few tears went down his cheeks from the pain of the word now carved into his back. He hated how they hurt him physically and emotionally, he never thought he would be a traitor. But he was, he couldn't deny it, he had betrayed everyone close to him to protect them. He had to suffer through it.

Hey guys! :) how are you liking the story so far? Thanks for reading chapter 5! Here's the reviews:

Sassbrat: haha thanks, I'm trying to make it good.

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tsurara619: well this is what happens! Hope you liked it. I know Jokers just giving him enough to live, not enough to heal his cuts or anything!

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