Prompt Post - Part Ten
I am REALLY, REALLY SORRY about taking so long, guys, and about not being around much recently. I've been busier than I have in a while, and it just kept slipping my mind between uni applications and volunteering and all sorts- for some reason I thought we were much further off a new post.
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First Slade tried the normal ways of manipulation and coercion. He simply kidnapped the Team and left Wally to decide whether or not to be his apprentice or watch him kill his friends one by one.
But Slade, genius mastermind though he was, forgot one crucial thing.
Wally could travel at the speed of sound, far faster than any mere bullet.
Slade couldn’t even touch him before he managed to pull Robin from his grasp, shut off the security systems (which Robin had been instructing him via mind-link on how to hack since he had been brought in) and escape with the rest of his friends.
Slade was not amused.
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Then he got slightly more devious. He kidnapped Wally and stuck an inhibitor collar on him.
That got his attention. He still refused point-blank to have anything to do with him, but he couldn’t escape. Slade began to plot ways to wear the speedster down.
However, Slade had forgotten that next to Robin, Kid Flash was one of the most loved and protected heroes on the planet.
Three days later, his base was assaulted by the Justice League of America, led by Batman and the Flash. Kid Flash’s stupid covert-ops team had snuck into the building and freed the weakened speedster while the League had ‘stormed’ the compound.
Slade was just lucky he had explosives buried around the building as well as an escape route.
Next time he would succeed. Kid Flash would become his apprentice.
It was only a matter of time.
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Months passed, and Slade’s attempts to capture and force Kid Flash to become his apprentice continued. Wally now considered it weird if he didn’t get kidnapped, knocked out, bound, gagged, and hauled to Slade’s newest hideout at least once a week ( ... )
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Wally groaned and held a hand to his head.
What was this, the third time this week? Seriously, didn’t Slade have a life?
“You’d think you’d be used to this by now. No, I won’t join you. No, I don’t want to be your apprentice. No, I think you look tacky in that outfit. Can we skip to the part where you sprout your evil plan and laugh about it so my team can get here and kick your butt? I have a math test in the morning.”
Slade gave him such a bewildered look (well…as bewildered as you can get for a guy who only had one eye and wears a full face mask).
Seriously…Slade had been seriously scary the first couple of times around, but after you spent enough time with him…you just ceased to be afraid. Especially when you knew your friends were three minutes away and counting.
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It had now been a year and a half since Slade’s first attempt to force Wally West to become his apprentice.
After about the 355th kidnapping, Wally had talked a little with Slade…off the record, of course. They had…bonded, for lack of a better word. Now their little kidnapping sessions had turned into more of a game between the two. Slade would test how long he could keep Wally from escaping and Wally would attempt to beat his record time.
Strangely, it helped Wally become a better hero.
But he was still late. Constantly.
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The world was ending.
No, that was not a dramatic statement, Robin. The world actually was ending.
Well…it wasn’t ending, exactly. More like being taken over by hostile alien forces that wanted the human race to be extinguished. Big difference, right?
So anyway, they had called together every hero they could find, no matter how young, old, experienced or inexperienced they were. They needed every hand on deck.
When Wally West walked through the door with Slade Wilson, everyone was shocked into silence. All eyes were on them as they walked through the Watchtower control room.
Barry groaned and put his head in his hands. Trust it to his nephew to bring a criminal that kidnapped him every other day onto the WatchtowerOf course they were placed on a team together. Of course Slade, however hesitantly, was placed in command of the unit. And of course, Wally had to obey every order from Slade ( ... )
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