"God dammit Barry!" A boy with blonde hair and startling blue eyes growled out, his face set in a sneer.
"Hey! Don't blame me it! It's not my fault we're late!" Barry grumbled back at the boy. Barry was of average height for a 27 year old, about 5'9 to 6 foot. He has brown hair and green eyes. He has on a jacket, red shirt and tie, with black slacks and converse.
"Sorry!" He yelled as he bumped into a guy.
"Geez, first a clumsy partner, now he is a chronically late one too!" The blondie mumbled.
"Shut up Max!" Barry yelled without looking behind him before bumping into someone and apologizing profusely.
Max just rolled his eyes and grumbled before hurrying after him.
'This guy is a wreck.' Max thought to himself, 'I join the CSI and I get this clumsy dude as a partner!'
They saw a bunch of people crowding around a court building and Max sighed in relief, pulling his bag up his shoulder, "Finally!"
Barry just grumbled something about stupid blondes under his breath and hurried into the crime scene, Max following after him.
"Let us through! CSI!" Barry said to the guard who was holding him back.
Barry and Max held up their badges and the guard nodded, letting them through the barrier of people.
"We'll just have to continue without him." A man said.
Barry ran up to him, "Sorry we're late Captain Sing!" He panted out.
"What was is this time? Forgot to set your clock?" Captain Sing asked.
Max smirked and Barry opened his mouth to respond.
"Before you answer, the excuse you used last time was car troubles." Captain said with an exasperated look.
Max's eyebrows scrunched, "You own a car?"
Barry just shook his head.
"He was running and errand for me." The other man talking to Captain Sing said.
He was an African American man in the detective trench coat and uniform.
Max's bright golden blonde eyebrows scrunched again.
"Barry, did you get was I asked for?" The man asked.
Barry looked at the man uncertainly before he nodded quickly, "Yeah… Yeah, I did." He said, rummaging through his pockets, "I have it right…" He pulled out a half eat chocolate bar.
Max put his head in his hands.
"Sorry, I had a few bites." Barry said and the man took the chocolate bar with a slightly miffed expression.
Max just shook his head and pulled on surgical gloves, making Barry do the same before the both walked over to the scene and crouched down.
Max pointed at the indents in the soil, "Rear super-wide tires." He said quietly to his new partner.
Barry nodded, "About 12 inches wide."
"Asymmetrical tread." Max pointed out.
Barry stood, "Getaway car is a Mustang Shelby GT500."
"Shelby's have rear super-wide tires specific to that model." Max added in.
The African American man just smiled and shook his head, writing down on a notepad.
"Twelve inches with an asymmetrical tread-" Barry cut Max off.
"And there is something else." Barry said before taking a pen Max handed to him, digging it into a brown soil like substance in the tracks.
He brought it up to his nose and sniffed it, "Fecal excrement. Animal I'd guess."
"Poop." Max elaborated.
The men nodded.
Barry took out a baggy and dropped the pen in it.
"Seriously dude?" Max asked him.
Barry just chuckled nervously.
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Max sat in a swivel chair, his feet propped up on a desk.
"So," Max asked ask he picked his teeth with a toothpick, "What animal is it from?"
Barry sighed and pushed Max's feet off the desk.
"Okay," An African American girl with a zipped up sweatshirt, pink undershirt, jeans, and heels walked into the room, "I'm ready to see this atom, smasher, thingy."
Max's eyebrows rose.
"There was a shooting today." Barry said, looking up from the computer, "Your dad needs me to process some evidence. Which means I don't know if we are going to make it to S.T.A.R labs."
"But seeing this thing turn on, is like your dream!" The girl said, following him as he stood and walked over to the board.
"Okay," Max said, getting their attention, "Either this thing turning on is Barry's new girlfriend," Barry sighed and rubbed him face while the girl giggled, "Or you guys are talking about the particle accelerator."
"We are, and I don't get why this thing is so important." She said.
"Harrison Wells work in Quantum Theory is light-years away from anything they are doing at CERN." Barry said, looking at her incredulously.
"Um, English?" She asked.
"He means that with this new big clunky particle SMASHER!" Max said, throwing his hands out to the side, "We could learn a million times more things than we do now!" He said excitedly, standing up with a grin.
"You two need to get yourselves girlfriends." The girl said with a sigh.
Max adopted a hurt look on his face and Barry just rolled his eyes.
"Hey! Leave them alone their working." A voice said.
They looked over to see the man that Barry gave the chocolate bar to in the door way, his jacket off leaving him in a white dress shirt, a black tie, suspenders, tan slacks, and black dress shoes.
"Hi Dad." The girl said with a smile.
A ding sounded through the room and Max hurried over to it.
Max ran his eyes over the screen, "Cow manure. They have to be hiding on a farm."
"It contains traces of Oxytetracycline." Barry pointed out.
"An antibiotic." Max said.
"Pin point any farms in the area that use it." Barry said.
Max nodded and quickly typed on the keyboard making four yellow dots appear on the screen.
"Only four in the area." Barry observed and he turned to the man with a paper in his hands, holding it out to him, "Bet you'd find a pretty sweet Shelby parked at one of them."
"Dad," The girl said, "Seeing how Barry solved your poop problem, why not let him go to S.T.A.R labs?"
Her dad looked at Barry uncertainly before he smiled, "Fine go."
The girl cheered and Barry smiled.
Max just smiled and patted Barry's back, "Have fun dude."
The girl looked at him, "Why not come with?"
Max looked at Barry uncertainly, "I mean, this seems like something you two might wanna do."
"No come on dude," Barry said, smacking his shoulder lightly, "It'll be fun."
Max looked at the girl who gave him a pleading look before he conceded.
The girl cheered again and Max stood.
"Thank you Joe." Barry said as they hurried out of the room.
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Max winced as he saw a giant crowd of people in the room, "Why does there have to be so many people?" He asked himself.
Barry patted his shoulder, "Come on, there isn't that many."
"So Barry," The girl said, "How was your trip to Starling City?"
Max raised his eyebrow.
"Actually while I was away I had a chance to think about… you know relationships." He said, looking down at her as the three of them walked.
Max just put headphones in, choosing not to invade on their privacy.
"How I'm not in one… and you're not in one. And you're my best friend Iris." Barry said.
'So Iris is her name huh?' Max thought to himself, music blasting in his ears.
"You're mine too." Iris said before looking around, "Why else would I be here?"
"That's not what I meant, what I meant was-"
'I know what you're going to say." Iris cut him off.
"I'm not sure you do." He said back.
"Even though we pretty much grew up in the same house together, and we're kinda of like brother and sister," Max saw Barry slightly deflate at that but Iris didn't seem to, "Because if we're not brother and sister, it can get really… weird to talk to me about girls!"
Max sweat dropped at that.
Barry just nodded his head, "Took the words right out of my mouth."
"Aw, aren't you glad I know you so well?"
Max saw Harrison Wells step onto the stage and he nudged Barry, pulled out his headphones and motioned to the professor.
The crowd cheered and Wells held up a hand, "Thank you. My name is Harrison Wells. Tonight!" He said, holding onto the mic, "The future begins."
"The work my team and I will do here, will change our understanding of physics."
Max looked at the man, his icy eyes tracing the stage.
"And trust me that future will be here faster than you think."
The crowd cheered again.
"No!" Iris yelled when a guy took her bag, "That's my laptop, it's about my dissertation!" She said.
Max and Barry pushed through the crowd and ran after the man.
The man ran outside and jumped over and fence, making Max and Barry run around it, pushing people out of the way and apologizing.
They ran into an alleyway and Barry got hit in the face by a bag.
He yelled out and hit the ground.
Max tackled the man and held him down.
"Barry! Get up and grab the bag!" He yelled at the downed man.
Barry grunted and stood up.
Max just kneed in the stomach, making him groaned out and roll onto his back. The boy stood up and ran away.
"Max! Barry!" Iris yelled as she ran towards them.
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Max sat in a chair, an ice bag on his stomach and Barry held his head back, a tissue on his nose.
Iris scoffed and walked over to the two, "Who does that guy think he is?"
A man with dark blonde hair and grayish green eyes smiled at other officers patted him on the back.
"He's a transfer from keystone." Barry said, his voice nasally.
"Started a few weeks ago I think, Eddie Thawne." Max said, winced as he moved farther up his seat.
"Mr. Pretty boy detective." Iris said.
Max and Barry looked at her strangely.
She saw their stares and quickly elaborated, "That's what my dad calls him. Says he keeps score when it comes to arrests."
Max scoffed/chuckled.
"He is pretty though." Iris said and bit her lower lip.
Barry looked down.
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Barry and Max sat in their office, the tv showed the new at S.T.A.R Labs.
"I'm Linda Park, and we're live outside S.T.A.R Labs despite the weather which will only get worse."
Max snorted, "She is soaked and she expects us to take her seriously? I don't even take her seriously when she isn't soaking wet." He said and sat back, his chopsticks digging into takeout.
Barry chuckled.
Max put a small plastic ball on the table, "I bet I can move this," He said to Barry before he touched his temple, "With my mind."
Barry just shook his head, "Yeah, and I'll get struck by lightning."
A loud alarm came from the tv, making Max and Barry turn to it.
"Wait, we are now being told to evacuate the facility! The storm may have caused a malfunction to the primary cooling system. Officials are now trying to shut down the particle accelerator."
Max shrugged, "Oh well, guess it isn't happening today."
He went back to trying to make the ball float.
Suddenly, a giant explosion blew through the sky.
Max and Barry looked up at it, surprise etched into their features.
A wave of energy hit the building and Max cried out in pain.
Barry looked back at him and saw blood dripping from his ears along with grey goo.
"God it hurts!" Max yelled out, grabbing at his head.
Barry was about to help him but Max stopped him.
"No! Close the skylight! The weather will blow away all of our tests." He said.
Barry nodded and hurried over to the chain before he pulled at it.
Max screamed out as it felt like lava was being poured into his brain before he passed out.
Barry looked around and saw liquid floating out of their containers.
He looked up just as a bolt of lightning hit him.
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Max snapped his eyes open and he gasped out, sitting up fast. He looked down at his body to see his bare chest and blue scrubs. Little suction cups stuck to his chest and a needle was in his arm.
He turned green and pulled the needle out and held his head, "Where am I?" He said to himself as he looked around.
"This is any hospital I've ever seen, looks more like a lab." He said.
The walls were covered in shelves that had beakers on them.
"That's because it is." A voice said.
Max quickly turned towards the voice and his eyes widened when he saw Harrison Wells in a wheelchair.
"Dr. Wells!" Max said.
"Hello Max." Wells said back with a slight smile.
"Where am I?" He asked quickly.
"S.T.A.R labs." Wells said.
"Why?"
"Because your brain seemed to have deconstructed and reconstructed itself after the particle accelerator exploded." Wells said in a slightly upset voice.
Max's eyebrows scrunched, "Why did it do that?"
Wells raised his hands, "Who knows?"
They sat their in silence before Max broke it.
"Where is Barry?" Max asked.
"Barry has slipped into a coma." Wells said slowly.
"What!?" Max asked loudly.
"His heart, after he got struck by lightning, is beating to fast." Wells explained.
"Why? Lightning should only have a quick speed up of the heart, not a continuous.
"Because Barry, along with you, have become metahumans." Wells said, looking at his reaction.
Max's eyes widened.
"HUH!?"