MASK OR MENACE IC INBOX

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WALLY WEST
"You've reached the personal voice mail of the Wall-man. The honor is yours! Leave your deets, I'll holla back atcha."
[ BEEP. ]

KID FLASH
"This is the contact for Kid Flash. If it's an emergency, call Robin; he'll know where I am. Otherwise, leave your info and I'll get you back ASAP."
[ BEEP. ]


[ voice | text | email | action ]

( Please specify in tag subject line if the contact is for Wally West or Kid Flash! )

Comments

[boobwindow]

Are you okay?

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i dunno maybe
probably

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we got really close here and apparently we arent close back home because im a huge jerk in the future

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if he doesnt come back thats all gone

or if he DOES come back but he doesnt remember

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can i ask you something?

[boobwindow]

[ This doesn't sound good. ]

What is it?

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you said barry dies but comes back

howd it happen

[boobwindow]

I don't know exactly. I've never fully understand how or why some people come back and others don't.
It was during the Crisis. A lot of things happened then that didn't make any sense.

[runningstart]

right

ok thanks anyway

[boobwindow]

Wait. What is this about?

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nothing im just trying to figure something out
its fine

[boobwindow]

Which is?

[runningstart]

you

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dont wanna know

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trust me

[boobwindow]

You do not get to do that to me.

call.

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[He really does not want to tell her. He doesn't want to tell a single person that he thinks this could hurt, and even if she wouldn't be too hurt by the news-

Something like this could happen to her Wally. Especially if the Reach exist there. Jaime told him that they stop the invasion, but if they still exist, something like this could happen. The universes have too many similarities between them. And- Okay, so he'd sat Carrie down and made her tell him all about an alternate Barry he'd never meet because he had to know if something happened. So.

Plus. He doesn't want to go through with her what he went through with Robin. She'll be angry enough he took this long to tell her. And if she hears it from Jaime or something for whatever reason, she'll be angrier. And...she's been here for years. Maybe she can help.

So.

Ring ring ring.]

[boobwindow]

[ She picks up after the first ring. Once the conversation has transitioned from text, something slightly impersonal when communicating, to actual voice she figures something is wrong or there's something important he needs to tell her -- or both.

She doesn't have the best feeling about this, but she answers swiftly, her tone cautious. ]

Wally?

[runningstart]

Hey.

So, look. Uh. [is the casual approach a bad one? it's the only one he's got in his arsenal with the lack of sleep he has under his belt so that's how it's gonna go]

Lllllook. First promise you won't freak out. Or at least that you won't get mad and yell at me or something.

[boobwindow]

[ While she doesn't sound too alarmed, Peej is getting an even worse sense about this. ]

That... that doesn't sound good, Wally.

[runningstart]

[is he going about this the wrong w- yeah probably]

I've just kind of had a lot of yelling in my life lately and I'd be good without any more. But. [SIGH] Okay uhhh...Bart told me some...stuff. About what happens in the future. And apparently I [nope can't say die] disappear. After this mission. ...Disappear for a while.

[boobwindow]

Disappear?

[ That's too vague. Did Bart give him specifics? ]

What did he say?

[runningstart]

Something about this thing the Reach come up with to destabilize the Earth's magnetic field. It needed kinetic energy to interrupt the process, I dunno...me, Barry and Bart all provide that energy, and I'm...y'know, the slowest. So all the runoff hit me. And I disappeared. [Just...keep it matter of fact.] Happens about five years from where I left off.

[boobwindow]

People don't just--

[ "Disappear", she wants to say, but she knows that isn't true. Wally did disappear in her world and his entire family had gone with him. Lost somewhere in the Speed Force. ]

That can't be right.

[runningstart]

Bart was there, he saw it. And he wouldn't just make something like this up.

That's why I was asking about Barry. I dunno if that- I dunno if I like, y'know, die or if it's something that can be fixed. So. I'm researching.