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[Action - 1665 Nelson - Morning] [When Wally wakes up, the world is molasses.

No... that's not right. The world is still the world, it's just he's moving through it like it's molasses.

Okay that's kind of overstating it. But still. It's obvious from the moment he wakes up and tries to look around the room that he can't move even a tenth of the speed he's used to. In fact, he falls rather spectacularly out of bed when he tries to zip around the room and ends up flailing, tripping, and landing quite gracefully (and loudly) on the floor.

He's stuck at normal speed.

How...

He's kind of freaking out. The room is weird, there are weird pictures with him in them and the clothes are all wrong... and everything he does is so slow. True, he wasn't The Flash his whole life, he was normal once, too, but just like he had to get used to suddenly having super speed, now he's suddenly without it and he has no idea what's going on. Time to start talking himself through it.]

Okay. So I have no idea where I am, my suit's nowhere to be seen, and my powers are completely gone.

[He scratches his head.]

Guess this calls for some investigating.

Crap. Never was really good at that.

[He sighs.]

Guess I should start by getting dressed. Don't want to start an investigation in my PJs.

[He'll do so and start poking around the house.]

[Phone - Later that morning] So hey, Wally West here. Sorry for interrupting your beautiful morning but I'm randomly dialing and you're the lucky winner! I seem to be new here... uh... I think I got the basics down... mind helping me out with some specifics?

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[sjkfalsdjfsdf crapcrapcrap okay calm down Wally. She doesn't know who you are, so reacting weirdly would give it away.

But wait... two years? Really? But Wally had heard reports of Harley and the Joker being active just before he left... weird.]

Two years? Holy crap.

Yeah, I know. It stinks.

But I can probably answer a lot of questions you might have.

Well ones we know answers for anyhow.

[...Huh. Well she's being helpful. That's... good.]

That'd be great.

Uh... who's in charge around here? Is there anybody in charge?

Well there's the Mayor, but we're pretty sure he isn't really in charge. A little girl named Lucy seems to have the real power.

...a little girl? Man, this is... [Sounding an awful lot like déjà vu, but he can't mention that.] ...really messed up.

Yeah.

Okay so....

Don't drink the milk it's poisoned half the time.
If you die you wake up in your bed the next day.
You get assigned jobs and you have to work them or you'll get droned.
Drones are the people who think all of this is normal and the town can brainwash you to make you act like a drone.

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[Not only is she being helpful, she's being really helpful. Huh. Maybe she's changed? Two years is a long time, after all.]

No milk, jobs are mandatory, drones are what happens when people get brainwashed and death... isn't permanent. Got it.

Man this place just gets more and more messed up with everything I hear.

Oh it get's better.

Strange things happen once a month. Usually around the holidays. Strange, as in trapping us in an abandoned town for a week without food or water and people in suits trying to kill you. Poisoned candies, candies that make you act totally crazy. Locking you in rooms with people. Turning the town into a Communist place and executing people for not doing their work.

Lots of stuff.

[She's been trapped here, going through Hell, constantly losing people she be-friends for over two years now. Harley has changed a LOT.]

[Wally's slowly warming up to her just from how helpful and sincere she's being. He's smart enough not to trust her completely, not yet anyway, but... she sounds like she's been through a lot, and he's always willing to give people another chance.

And she's not talking like she usually does, especially not about what she's describing.]

...strange is probably an understatement. Yikes.

Yeah.

[A sigh. Explaining all of that always makes her a little mopy because she has to remember all of it again. Normally she's a little happier.]

But hey, that's life here I guess.

[You're making Wally concerned, Harley.]

Hey... you okay? Anything I can do?

Eh, I'm fine. Place get's to you if you think about it too much.

Sounds like it would.

Look... thanks for all your help. I really appreciate it.

No problem.

[And she sounds a little cheerier at that.]

The place is less horrible if we all stick together and help each other.

Well I'm all for that. Best way to solve most problems, really.

I know! No one ever listens to me about that.

[Seriously villains are not team players.]

But yeah. Lots of people here, you'll meet some from all sorts of different worlds here. It's nuts.

All different worlds? Like... aliens and different dimensions and that sort of thing?

Yup. Plus people who say they're countries. Witches, wizards, talking animals.

...okay wow that's weird. I mean yeah there's a talking pony with wings in my house, but... still. Weird.

Yup. My "husband" here is a giant robot that turns into a car.

...a giant robot.

Who turns into a car.

That. Is awesome.

Pretty much.

Whoever came up with that idea was a genius. So what, does he just stay in the garage?

Right now yeah. He was human for a while.

...that is so weird. But so cool.

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