Night 49: Room of Earth

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[From here]

"...What?"

The door slammed shut behind them and locked with a rather distinctive click. The Doctor glanced back at the door-which was very different on this side than it had been on that side-but it wasn't the slam or the door that ended up grabbing the Doctor's attention. There was a loud rumbling that did not, he was quite

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[scarletspeedstr]

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"...you have got to be kidding me."

So of course, right after Wally managed to get his hands on some free food, they wind up some place where he couldn't eat it. Or at least, not without a lot of problems. He watched the boulders tumble down from... wherever they were coming from, since he didn't have the first clue where they were,

It probably said a lot that his first concern after finding himself in a room that was apparently raining rocks was how he was going to manage to eat his cake and ice cream now.

He took another bite of the chocolate cake - which was pretty delicious and moist for having been in the fridge without a cover - and turned to his companion.

"So, is it just me, or is it raining rocks in here? Because if it's just me, I'm going to have to wonder what they put in this cake, and if it's really raining rocks..." He glanced back at the rocks tumbling down. "Well that isn't going to be a lot of fun."

[longlivetehking]

Scar had been busy with growing annoyed at these dizzy sensations that kept overwhelming him. They didn't do wonders for his throbbing head for that matter. What also didn't do wonders were the loud rumbling that filled the entire room.

"Rumbling? Where could this possibly--"

Any further words that would have formed were soon cut short when he saw what sort of area they had actually entered. He wasn't even going to ask where, as the what took most of his attention. A large room, with holes. From these holes, giant boulders rained down and rolled from one side to the other before disappearing into a different hole.

Scar stared, trying to wrap his mind around the scene that lay before him. On the other hand, there was also a part of him that was wondering why he was even surprised to begin with; a large room with giant boulders rolling over the ground and crushing everything unfortunate enough to stand there. This was, after all, Landel's Institute. It made perfect sense

[scarletspeedstr]

"You're kidding, right?" Wally asked, though it was more from a very faint (more like rapidly disappearing) hope that Scar had some sort of hidden love of pranks and that the next comment would be something along the lines of 'haha, fooled you!'. But considering how the guy had been acting so far? Wally wasn't going to hold his breath

[longlivetehking]

"Of course I am joking," Scar muttered, sarcasm dripping from his voice. "I simply love making jokes when faced with the possibility of being squashed by giant boulders." Ignoring the other man's hopeful stares towards the door as if the door was going to unlock itself when asked nicely, Scar turned and glared at the infuriating yet out-of-reach door on the other side of the room.

It suddenly seemed tempting to just wait here until the night would end, but with every rumbling sound it began looking like as if his head would explode from the worsening headache. No option, then. But the prospect of being likely squashed to death wasn't too appealing either; Scar happened to find his own life rather valuable.

Until Wally voiced an option that was nearly too good to be true. But the former lion couldn't help but to be skeptical. Before he would allow himself to be carried (trust was a different thing altogether. After all, he had only just met this individual), he had to ask:

"You can get us across? How?" Scar said with a raised

[scarletspeedstr]

"Okay, geez, just asking," Wally said, raising his hands defensively. Trust him to meet someone with not only a sense of humour that rivalled Batman's, but more sarcasm than he'd gotten from anyone in a long time. Fortunately sarcasm or not, Scar was willing to at least hear him out about his plan. Now Wally just had to hope that the explanation didn't raise too many more questions.

"I can run us through it," he said, skipping straight to the point. "I'm really fast when I want to be. Faster than any other human I've met anyway." Superman didn't count, since he wasn't human and all. "I could get us across to the other side and avoid the boulders too. When I run that fast, it's like everything's standing still, so it wouldn't even be that hard..."

This was all assuming his powers didn't decide to not work again, but Wally figured it might not be best to tell Scar that part just yet. "So, what do you think?"