JLA

Chapter 4

Wonder Woman noticed Wally wasn't behaving like he could when he had crossed the finish line so she tried to speak with him, but before he could answer he just went limp and fell to the ground. She caught him before he actually hit the ground, but Wally was already unconscious in her arms.

- " What happened?" Now GL had also noticed something was wrong with Wally.

She felt after his heartbeat and she found a weak one and she told GL Wally needed to be taken to a hospital. GL created a bubble around all three of them and moved towards the Watch Tower. Wally may be guilty of drug use, but he still doesn't deserve to die like this and the Watchtower is the closest to hospital GL could think of.

At the Watchtower's infirmary, Wally was hooked up to an IV and doctors worked around him to figure out why he blacked out in the first place. None of them got a clear answer, the only thing they could do was to try to get Wally's energy levels back to normal and an oxygen mask was placed over his mouth to ease his heavy breathing.

On the other side of the observation glass stood the two, which brought him here in the first place. Both looked a little puzzled and GL couldn't look straight at the young man, the only thing he could feel was shame. GL had left whatever was inside the bag at the black knight and not many moments later did he get the answer of what was inside it. It wasn't some sort of drug like Wally had said, just some sort of energy bar. Some more research also showed everything Wally had said about himself also was true, except for the orphanage thing. Wally told them he had lived there when he was younger, but the truth is he still lives there.

They also got an answer to why Wally was so much younger then his friends; Wally had skipped two classes and was already in collage. The man on the bed was an orphan; a genius and he had one of the biggest hearts GL have ever seen. Wally had probable known what would happen if he finished the race without eat that thing, but he did it anyway.

GL thought about what Diana had said when they separated from Wally just a few hours ago on the racetrack, he remained her of Flash and now GL understand what she meant. Wally was like a copy of Flash, except for the costume and the flirty attitude. Even if Flash never showed it, the rest of the league knew he sees the league as a family.

They don't know much about the man behind the mask, just that he was from Central City and the youngest of the founders. Not even the black knight knew who he was, Batman wouldn't admit it, but the only thing that he really knew about Flash was the same thing everyone else does. Flash is pretty good at hiding his identity from the world and when he left the Watch Tower to go home, it's like Flash vanishes into thin air. Untraceable.

Almost two days later, Wally woke up in the infirmary with a huge headache and his stomach felt like it had been turned inside out. When the worst pain had disappeared, he took a moment to figure out where he was and what had happened. He recognized the Watchtower's infirmary easily, just by a quick look out of the window to see open space. Than the flashbacks from the race came to mind and now he knew what had happened.

He was alone at the moment and guessing on the position from the sun, it was the middle of the night, but it's hard to know when sun doesn't go down in space. He guesses everyone is asleep except from Batman, he never sleeps and by that it wouldn't take long before someone comes checking on him, Wally is sure they wouldn't let a civilian be alone for long in the Watchtower by itself. He was right because not long after he woke up, the dark knight himself came walking in with a tray of food and placed it on the end of the bed.

- " Do you know where you are?" the bat asked with a dark, manipulated voice. The big bad bat never talked with his own voice with civilians, so Wally knew his identity was still safe.

- " I can only guess space, based on the view… Why am I here anyway? Shouldn't I be in a hospital on Earth?" He knew he has to play this smart, Bats is smart and tricking Batman isn't something you do everyday.

Bats didn't answer his question, just nodded and helped Wally take all the IVs out and helped him to his feet. He tried to take a few steps, his legs felt like noodles, but after he ate the tray with food he felt like new again.

Batman told him they had covered for him back on Earth, his collapse had spread to the news and rumors said the league had kidnapped him. Batman said the orphanage knew he was safe and his collage believed he recovered after the race after he collapsed because of exhaustion.

Some hours later he had made a full recovery and he could return back to Earth. GL took him back to the planet, because he felt it was his fault all this happened. If it wouldn't be for him Wally wouldn't have ended up in the infirmary in the first place.

Safely back on Earth and covered by the trees so no one could see them.

- "Well that was an adventure, wasn't it?" Wally put his hand behind his head and gave GL a great smile. "No need to be angry about what happened, anyone can make mistakes you know. Next time just think before you act, huh. Not everyone is a drug user just because they can run a race without getting tired or they eat weird looking food. Sometimes they just are that good at running, shouldn't you know that by the way?

- " Yeah kid, maybe I should. I will think about that next year okay."

- " Next year? Does that mean you will come back? Awesome dude!"

- " I sort of enjoyed the challenge so yeah I will. And you? What will you do know?"

- " I got a some homework to do, so yeah. No rest on the top I guess, but I better be going, see you next year then." Wally turned around and starts running, but he hadn't come far when he stopped and turned around and called: " Do you know what time I got?"

- " 2:57:15 kid, you made it before three hours."

Wally only raised his arms in a victory pose and started running again; soon he was out of sight and GL left to head back to the Watchtower. He got a call from Hawkgirl saying Flash had reported in a few seconds ago and explained what he's been up to the last couple of days and that he would be back tomorrow and he wanted to hear how it went in the race.

When GL was on his way back to his apartment, he flew over the racing track seeing it from a bird's view. He was high enough to see both the start and finish line from his point and in a split second he saw a red streak with what looked like lightning bolt chasing it, run the whole race in just seconds.

- "Well hotshot, you make it look so easy…"

JLA

Author's note:

So the last chapter, what do you think? Actually this is the first fanfic I have finished, because my others either got deleted or I'm half done with chapter 2 and haven't posted them yet…

I'm so proud over myself for doing this and I got more stories coming in a while, but now I got test until the last school week and I haven't studied a bit… Yay!

If I got the time I will make more of these and I actually have a story there the first chapter is almost done.

Here is just a teaser for what will come:

My name is Wally West, and I'm known by no one to be the fastest man alive.

My goal: To save my city and protect its citizens. In people eyes I go under many names such as "the ghost of Central" or "the Streak", and the Lords are still running in my dust. But lately they have come closer and I'm afraid someday I won't be the one to cross the finish line.

It's an origin story of the Wally West Flash from the Justice League Series and a little bend on it from the Justice Lords, just something that came to me one night. Sounds interesting?

I know there already are a lot of Origin stories about the Flash, but I gave it my own twist J

Please leave a review of what you thought of the end of Race against the Flash and if you think the "untitled fanfic" is something you might read.

Until next time… I don't own the DC universe in this universe, but maybe in some other multiverse. Who knows?