The day started out like any other. People commuted to work, the cars honked and moved lazily and a few glazy clouds hung in the bright sunlight of the sky. But the mood was shattered by the sounds of a battle in downtown Central City. Four sets of electricity streaks sparked this way and that all over the plaza. They moved so fast the pavement around them cracked and warped. There was a yellow streak, a red one, a silver one and a blue one. They collided at the speed of sound, shattering all the glass in the buildings nearby. People screamed and ran to get clear.
The battle suddenly stopped with two men in almost identical suits and cowls holding a man in a red suit and a boy in a silver and black one by their throats.
"You should never have come back, Swiftlash." The man in the yellow and black suit said.
"Well you know me, never was one for the rules." Barry grinned. He head-butted the Reverse flash in the face and he staggered backwards. He delivered several hundred punches into his chest and pushed him hard into a wall.
"Nice to meet you in the flesh, Mr Hagen." Zoom said.
"Can't say the feeling is mutual." Caleb spat. He vibrated his cells and vanished back through the wall. Zoom was confused for a second until Barry appeared again and tried to hit him over the back of the head with a piece of pipe. Zoom saw it coming and wrench the pipe of him. He swiped Caleb's feet from under him.
Barry was still locked in combat with Wells. They zipped back and forth. Barry moved to throw a punch but Wells caught it and threw him across the plaza onto a car's bonnet. He fell over the other side and disappeared from view. Wells went to grab him but he wasn't on the other side. He looked around and saw Barry holding a pile of shards of glass. He grinned and started throwing them like throwing knives. They rocketed through the air. Wells dodged the first few but they started coming faster. He span around at speed becoming a tornado. The galls got caught in it and the current threw them back at Barry. He dived to the side just as they embedded themselves in the wall behind him.
Wells stopped spinning and laughed horribly in his warped voice.
"In the words of Master Yoda, much to learn you still have."
He grabbed Barry and started punching him all over his body. Barry fell to his knees in pain from the force of the blows. Wells stopped and vibrated his hand. He was about to make a kill strike when Caleb caught his hand and spun around building momentum until he threw Wells into a construction scaffold. The scaffold toppled but Wells zoomed out of the way and delivered an upper cut to Caleb's chin. He then kicked Barry in the head, knocking him out.
"When will they ever learn?" Wells laughed. Seeing the Flash at his feet weakened fuelled Wells desire to vibrate his hand through his head and burst it like a watermelon. But he resisted the urge. His counterpart, Daniel west still needed him and Caleb alive.
Wells raced over to Zoom and helped him up.
"I don't need your help." He snarled.
"Very well, I won't help you in future."
They both stared down at the battered forms of the Flash and Swiftlash.
"Before we take them back to West, let's have some fun."
Wells dragged Barry by his suit onto the top level of the fountain in the centre of the plaza. Zolomon did the same. Ordinary citizens gathered around but kept their distance. Many got out their phones and started filming.
"People of Central city, is this the man you think is your saviour? He is just a boy in a playsuit thinking he's the hero that can protect you. But let me tell you this. He will never be able to save you all. He's not that fast."
The crowd started to back away a little.
"And as for the boy, well, he's just a child who was in the wrong place at the wrong time and lucky, he is nothing."
He and Zolomon hoisted the two heroes over their shoulders and raced away with a crash of lightning, laughing like maniacs.
