A Nightmare Come True ch. 5

There was no rain this time, just darkness and my friends in front of me. I'm glad that it's not like last time I had a nightmare, last time my friends were far away from me and walked away into the darkness. This time they were telling me to stay behind, that they don't need me.

Aqualad was the first to speak. "We will be fine Kid, just stay here."

"You'll just get in the way."

"You don't have to worry about us Wally."

"Just shut up and stay put Baywatch!"

"C'mon KF, just stay here okay?"

They just turned around and like last time, walked away. "Guys! Remember what Red Tornado and Bats said. They're trying their best to make an antidote, and that I'll be back in action in no time and-"

"Give it up kid, they don't need you anymore. It's pointless to have a speedster that can't even run. Nobody wants you, needs you, cares about you, you're just a nobody!"

"SHUT UP! This is just a stupid nightmare that I'm going to wake up from!" and all I could hear was the evil laughter, then a sudden flash of light surrounded me.

~ In reality~

He was bored; if Robin was with him he would say that Wally wasn't "feeling the aster" it was hard enough to take a shower of even put some pants on, it was worse that they banned him from using super-speed on the wheel chair and taking large amount of sugar.

Without thinking he went to the training/briefing room. He saw that the others were practicing hand-to-hand combat from Black Canary, but soon started to play with his side pocket making a "snap" noise each time he opened or closed it. He couldn't help but be entertained by saying "Snap, snap, snap, snap..." as the pocket did the same, which earned some annoyed looks from the team (except for Kaldur, who was sparring with BC), until Superboy simply told him to stop it. He eventually stopped but this time he took out a candy bar, unwrapped it and started to eat while moving the wrapper in his hand making a noise as it went with a "crackle"

"Well you stop that? It's so annoying!"

"I think your voice is annoying! Besides I need to eat because of my metabolism!"

"That doesn't give you any excuse to make all that noise!"

He was going to argue back but instead got interrupted by the computer announcing the arrival of Batman, Flash and Green Arrow. He wasn't pleased at the interruption but was glad that the argument stopped before it got worse and that his mentor walked up to him and ruffle his hair with a gentle smile like he usually did. Everybody saw that Wally's body had relaxed to the gentle hand that messed up his hair, it had made him forget the fact that he was on a wheel chair until the hand was lifted. "Thanks Uncle Barry…" he whispered to himself.

"You said something kiddo?"

"Uh…no. Hey why are you guys here anyway?"

"Because," the sudden deep voice startled the young speedster."The team has a mission." Batman was now staring at Wally who only managed a small nod and looked away to watch Green Arrow talking to Black Canary. He knew the young boy was hiding something and was not going to tell anyone until it was necessary. The boy may be immature and act stupid, he cared for his new family, and didn't want them to worry about him.

Wally did in fact notice Batman staring at him but simply ignored it. He searched around in his pockets to find a way to entertain himself (Artemis threw away his wrapper), and came across a small cubed object that was colored blue and realized that he brought it for the simple joy of annoying someone (mostly Artemis). With his thumb he pushed the small button on the top and made a "Pop" sound that echoed throughout the room.

'This…is going to be FUN!' with a small grin he repeatedly pushed the button with super-speed which made it sound like multiple fireworks going off, earning a very annoyed/angry looks from everyone in the room. "What! Can't a guy enjoy his popper?"

Everyone (except for Flash who was giggling) answered with a simultaneous "NO!"

He simple narrowed his eyes and slowly pushed the button one more time. Artemis groaned and tried to take it away from the red head but failed as he dodged her with his speed. Each time he moved his hand, he made a popping noise that fueled her anger each time it happened.

"So Kid, were did you get that from anyways? It's really funny."

"I found this store in New York that sells a lot of weird, stuff but I thought this was the best choice out of all of them." He took out two spare poppers and tossed a red one to Flash and a black one to Robin. "Try it!"

First one to do so was Flash. He pushed the button that responded with a "pop" then snickered and repeatedly pushed it like his nephew did a couple of minutes ago. Robin on the other hand was trying to make Batman push it, but failed miserably. It ended up with Batman taking the device from the Boy Wonder and also from Flash and Wally, threw it to the floor and stepped on it and braking it. The three of course, started to complain.

"You didn't have to break it!"

"I was playing with that!"

"You owe me five bucks, Bats!"

But was soon silenced by the famous batglare, but Green Arrow spoke up and killed the moment of mental torture from the Bat. "I think it's time to talk about the mission. Don't you agree?" And with that everybody looked at the holographic screen to get some idea about the mission.

Wally on the other hand, left the room with an expression that will make anybody who saw it sad. His usually bright green eyes were dulled and were staring at his unmoving legs. He felt useless, unneeded, and alone. "Why did this have to happen?" He whispered to himself and rolled down the hall to his room.