Disclaimer: The following is a nonprofit Fan based story; The FLASH and all related characters are owned by DC comics, the CW and anyone I may have missed
A/N: So this is my second FLASH story, this first chapter is basically a gutted and redone version of my first Story, aside from that it'll be completely different. So I hope you all enjoy it and stick around for the long haul. I have decided on Pairings so don't demand too much of those cause I plan to have cute WestAllen scenes, some SnowBarry moments, some SnowStorm, some IrisxEddie and any healthy bonding moments between characters that are not romantically involved before I gradually reveal the official pairings.
Chronologically this will be before Episode 13. Also I will be using quite a bit of lore from the actual comics (both old and New 52), mostly including characters and I will be taking liberty with some of their back stories, but mostly keeping their origins the same as their New 52 since that is the comic book canon.
The Flash: Moving Forward
Chapter 1: The Man in the Black Suit
SWOOOSH a streak of red followed closely by yellow lightning raced through the streets of Central City without a care in the world, hell one could argue that he was on cloud nine. There had been no reports of any meta-human activity for the last week, he had a nice quiet date with Linda Park, his girlfriend and he had just finished another rooftop 'interview' with Iris West, his first love and now he was heading back to STAR Labs so he could head home for the night.
"Barry!" A voice in his headset said.
While still moving at 357 mph and raising one hand to his lightning bolt shaped earpiece Barry replied. "What's up?"
"I've got reports of an armed robbery in progress at 106 uh… Fox Street." Cisco's voice said in his ear. "Take care of it."
WOOOSH Barry took off and in mere seconds he rushed into the house grabbed the burglar and handcuffed him to a lamppost just outside the apartment, but not before removing the ski mask and clothes from the dumbfounded man.
"Alright that's all set." Barry said coming to a stop just around the corner where no one could see him. "What else you guys got for me?" he said back to his friends at Star Labs.
"I think that's good for tonight Mr. Allen." Dr. Harrison Wells interjected. "Come back to the lab. I want to run a couple of tests before you head home tonight. Oh and make it quick, weather reports are calling for a large rain storm tonight. We don't want you catch a cold now do we?"
"Sure thing Dr. Wells." Barry replied before zooming off to Star Labs. "Even if I could catch a cold Caitlin would still get mad at me." Before he went anywhere he stumbled slightly before regaining his composure.
"Don't test me Mr. Allan. I'll have a field day if you get sick at all." Dr. Snow's voice said in his ear.
Over the last couple of hours Barry has been having throbbing headaches mixed with lightheadedness, each one growing in intensity, but none of them lasting more than a minute, which for the flash could be an agonizingly long time.
RMMMMM Thunder rumbled in the air as Barry skidded to a stop holding his head for another moment.
"Whoa…" Barry said feeling light headed once more.
"Barry you OK?" Caitlin's concerned voice said in his ear. "Your vitals spiked for a moment."
"So did your energy output." Wells added
"I'm fine." Barry said "I'm just a little hungry that's all." He replied
"Barry this hasn't happened before. So clearly it isn't because you're hungry. Your hyper metabolism doesn't cause your vitals and energy output to spike. It causes them to drop."
"Guys, I'm seriously fine." He took another step forward and stumbled immediately while yellow electricity crackled all over his body. "Whoa…" he said "OK maybe I'm not fine…" KRRRKKL the electricity amplified and collected around his chest.
"Whoa, what was that?" Cisco wondered seeing Barry's energy levels begin to spike.
KRRKKL suddenly an arm shot out from the electricity on his chest. The arm was covered in black armor with some of the pieces resembling spikes on its elbow and wreathed in crackling red electricity. "What the…"
"His vitals are dropping and his energy output is increasing dramatically. Barry!" Caitlin almost yelled into the microphone.
KRAKOOOOOM with a roar of thunder and a flash of crimson lightning a figure emerged completely from the lightning of Barry Allen. The figure was clad completely in a full body suit of black spiked armor, though the chest and face were red. In the center of the chest was a black circle with a red lightning bolt on it (going the opposite way of Barry's own insignia.) Little red bolts stuck off his ears while three red spiked poked off from his mid calves. His right arm however was entirely mechanical from the elbow down, nothing but cold steel and some visible red electric currents arcing all over it.
"Barry, can you hear us? What's going on?" Wells asked but his questions fell on deaf ears for the moment as Barry collapsed and could only look up at the thing that emerged from him.
"I'MFREE!" The figure yelled in delight. His voice sounded like a mix between the way Barry vibrated his own vocal cords and extremely fast talking. If Barry didn't have super speed there would have been no way to understand him. "AFTERSOLONGI'MFREE!"
After the ordeal of another man emerging from him Barry collapsed to the ground, barely holding himself up as he looked up at the figure who quickly turned around Barry, grinning like a psychopath.
"MythanksFlash!" The figure said to Barry "Ifitweren'tforyouI'dstillbetrappedin…" He stopped talking when he got a good look at Barry. "Waitaminute…whoareyou?" he asked "You'renottheFlash!" SWOOOSH in a blur of red electricity he grabbed Barry by the neck of his costume and hoisted him up. "TELLMEWHERETHEFLASHIS!"
"I'm…the Flash…" Barry managed to squeeze out
"You'refartooyoung!There'snowaythatyou're…"He took a good look at Barry's masked face. Quickly the young Flash vibrated his face in the hopes the man in black wouldn't recognize him. "Ha!YoutotallyareFlash!Hahahahaha!Wait…" He was suddenly hit with a realization and took a moment to ponder it, letting Barry go and rubbing his own chin in the process. "Don'ttellmeitworked!Hahahaha!" He began to cackle like a madman once more. "Itdidn' ." He raised his mechanical arm as red electricity arced all over his body.
"Hey Barry! Can you hear me?" Cisco called into the microphone
"He clearly has a good reason for not responding. Barry!" Caitlin said concerned as she watched his vitals dip fairly low for Barry's standards.
'What's going on?' Wells thought to himself as he observed the huge energy readings from Barry. "His body just discharged a massive amount of energy. Cisco, Caitlin go get him. I've got a bad feeling that Barry isn't going to have the strength to get back-" WOOOSH before Dr. Wells could finish his sentence Barry Allen returned to Star Labs, only he looked a lot worse than wear collapsing on the computed panel between Caitlin and Cisco. "-here."
"Barry!" Caitlin moved immediately to hoist him up, slinging his arm over her shoulder and they all got a good look at him. While his suit was slightly torn (much to Cisco's displeasure) He had a black eye, cut lip, bloody nose, another cut across his nose and a fairly decent gash on his forehead.
"Barry what happened?" Dr. Wells asked rolling closer to the young flash.
"A…man…" Barry said before falling unconscious leaving his friends worried.
Several hours later Barry groggily woke up, lying on a S.T.A.R. Labs med bed. He tried to sit up but Caitlin was there in a heartbeat forcing him to stay put.
"Take it easy Barry." She advised. "You're body's still in a lot of pain and pain killers won't last long enough.
"Oh man…this hurts as bad as that Supersonic Punch."
"Don't deny it was awesome." Cisco said coming into the room sucking on a lollipop. "OK true your fist did collide with a metal was at Mach 1.1 but it was cool!" Caitlin shot him a look that screamed 'not helping' causing Cisco to slunk back some.
"Damn. Why does everything still hurt?" Barry asked his two scientist friends.
"You have four fractured ribs, one of which punctured your spleen, half a dozen bruises both internal and external, a nondisplaced fracture in your left tibia, dislocated left shoulder, a concussion and you lost about a pint of blood." Caitlin recited "I think this beats your last record for injury variety.
"You said 'have' that time." Barry replied noticing Caitlin give Cisco a look before continuing.
"You're also not healing quickly from these wounds." She finished
"What?" Barry asked
"Let me rephrase that." Caitlin began "You're not healing as quickly as you used to. I would guess that this would take two to three hours to heal normally for you, but at the current rate it will take at least another six hours."
"How long has it been?" Barry asked
"You've been here for the last-"
"Nine hours, 26 minutes and" Dr. Wells said as he rolled into the main lab looking at his watch. "39 seconds." Wells met Barry's eyes "It is seven o'clock in the morning if you were wondering."
"How's it possible that I'm not healing as quickly? That guy didn't exactly have cold related abilities or a cold gun like Snart."
"We have no idea." Caitlin replied honestly
"And that Mr. Allen is what we're hoping you could help us with. What can you tell us about the man who attacked you?"
"He came out of me like I was some kind of door and then he beat the ever living crap out of me after claiming that I was too young to be the Flash, though he did seem to accept that I am the Flash rather quickly after he went on about something working." That part piqued Well's interest.
"He came out of you?" Cisco asked confused
"Yeah…" Barry sighed "I felt all this electricity generating off me, collecting on me and then boom! This guy just suddenly comes out and starts to beat me up."
"Fascinating perhaps he's a meta-human who can travel through electrically charged objects."
"But that still doesn't explain how he 'came out of Barry." Caitlin chimed in looking up from her med kit.
"Or he's a ghost." Cisco said "The Ghost! That's what we're calling him."
"He was pretty solid for a ghost Cisco, Sorry but I think that Dr. Well's is right about his ability." Barry said as Caitlin used some wet gaws to clean one of the cuts on Barry's face. He twitched slightly at the sting.
"Sorry." she said putting the gaws down and picking up a syringe. "I need to take another blood sample." Barry rolled up his left sleeve in compliance and she drew out some of his blood.
"Anything else about him?" Wells asked "Any distinguishing features that will help us identify him?"
"He had this full body spiked suit, it covered his face, generated red electricity and he's got a metal right arm. Oh, he also talked very strangely."
"How strangely?" The paraplegic doctor asked
"Well he was vibrating his vocal cords like this and talkedreallyfastlikethis. So it made it hard to understand him."
"Uh...dude. We couldn't even understand what you just said." Cisco pointed out.
"It's quite simple Cisco. Barry is saying that this meta-human's voice is both oscillating and extremely fast paced to the point of no control." Dr. Wells surmised.
"Yeah, it definitely sounded like he had no control over his voice."
"I could do a lot with those." Cisco said pondering up a new nickname. "Got it! How about the Crimson Arc!"
"Didn't a character on Heroes have that name?" Caitlin asked tilting her head slightly
"Not your best work Cisco." Barry said sitting up.
"You're right, I'll think of something better later." Cisco said
Barry smiled at Cisco's optimism before feeling a headach for a split moment and winced, which didn't go unnoticed by Dr. Wells or Caitlin.
"Are you OK Barry?"
"I'd be lying if I said yes." Barry said as he lay back down. "I was having moments where I've felt a mix of a massive headache and lightheaded at once."
"You've been having something akin to migraines? How long?" Caitlin asked slightly irritated that Barry had neglected to tell them this information.
"All day yesterday." Barry replied "Though I haven't had one since that man emerged and attacked me." Caitlin pondered for a moment before responding. She went over to the glass cabinet and pulled out an IV bag.
"Here let's hook up this IV of electrolytes. Have you been drinking?"
"You know I can't get drunk."
"I mean water. Lightheaded and headaches are common with dehydration."
"Kind of," Barry replied "but honestly that last one wasn't even much of a thing. I really don't feel them anymore."
"You're going to be drinking more in addition to the large amounts of food you eat." Caitlin prescribed. "For now I think you should drink at least three waters a day, and that's without using your powers. Your body needs a lot of fluids."
"Since we have no clue as to what this new Meta-human did to you I advise that you stay here where we can monitor any changes in you." Wells said removing his glasses and rubbing his face. "So get some sleep for now Barry, your body still needs to heal. I'll let Joe know what happened."
"Thanks Dr. Wells." Barry said as he closed his eyes, though that didn't seem to help the throbbing pain that was growing in his head. "Let's just hope the Day job doesn't call within the next day." No sooner than he finished his sentence that his cellphone began to ring. "Speak of the Devil…" He looked at the name, Joe. "Hey Joe." Barry said answering the phone. "Oh, me? I'm fine. I'm at S.T.A.R. Labs, ran into a nasty meta-human last night."
"Oh, that's good to hear." Joe said as he arrived at a new crime scene. "Just wanted to know when you were going to get to the station, cause I've got a strange case with your name on it."
"How strange?" Barry asked
"You'd have to see it to believe it. Double homicide. No witnesses or evidence of how they were murdered, all that's left are two dusty skeletons." Joe replied as he stood just outside the crime scene. "We don't have a clue as to who they are. Or anyway of identifying the bodies."
"That sounds like a challenge to my awesome forensics skills."
"Yeah, well I have everything I need except for one thing."
"What might that be?"
"My forensics scientist."
"OK, I'm so sorry Joe." Barry said as he slapped his forehead, realizing that he needed to be there. "I'll be there in a flash Joe." He hung up but before he could leave Caitlin stopped him.
"Oh no, you are not going out there, not when you still haven't fully recovered." His personal physician ordered.
"Come on…" Barry whined as Caitlin forced him back onto the bed. "My day job beckons and they need me."
"No, Caitlin's right. We have no idea what this meta-human did to you. For all we know he's just like Farooq and siphoned off some of your powers." Dr. Wells said seriously "When we know what exactly happened to you and you're healed you can go. I'll tell Detective West since you are incapable of even doing that right now."
"Fine…" Barry complied as he lay back down on the bed and rolled up the sleeves of his S.T.A.R. Labs sweatshirt. "Guess I'll take a nap. Wake me up when I've healed."
"Will do dude." Cisco told the Flash as he closed his eyes and went to sleep.
Hours later, a little longer than Caitlin's prediction, Barry was finally discharged form S.T.A.R Labs and the first thing he did was meet up with Joe at the CCPD.
"Hey Joe!" Barry called out to his pseudo father.
"There you are Barry!" Joe replied in serious cop mode before pulling him to the side "Dr. Wells told me what happened are you OK?"
"Considering that the Flash was caught off guard and beaten up by a meta-human with some crazy ability that seems to be almost exactly the same as mine, I'm fine." Barry replied sarcastically.
"You just referred to yourself in the third person Barry." Joe pointed out which Barry kind of ignored "Was it him?" He asked cautiously
"The man in yellow?" Detective West nodded "No it wasn't him, but he was very similar."
Joe took a deep breath. "Well, whoever he is. You've got to forget about him, for now here's the evidence from the double homicide." Joe handed a box of evidence to Barry. "Now listen, right now our top priority is identifying the bodies. I am almost positive that you'll need some help from our friends at S.T.A.R. labs."
"Yeah, I'll bring over some images and samples later. So it doesn't seem too conspicuous."
"ALLEN!" Barry and Joe turned to see Captain David Singh angrily walking towards them. "Where the hell were you this morning?" he demanded
"Captain Singh I was…"
"He was feeling under the weather." Joe interjected to the Captain before Barry said a dumb and silly excuse. "I told you about it this morning captain, remember?" Singh's face relaxed slightly before turning to Barry.
"I want that evidence processed and a report on my desk by 5 tonight." The Captain ordered before heading off to his office.
Joe turned to Barry who just smiled at him. "Well? You head the Captain. Get to work." Barry continued smiling at Joe as he headed up to his lab.
"This is so weird. Everything points to these bodies being hundreds of years old, but we've got witnesses that saw the victims yesterday." Barry said to himself as he combed every inch of the evidence.
Going through the photos of the crime scene Barry finally noticed a clue. Portions of the sidewalk no bigger than a size eleven shoe were severely damaged while everything else was completely new; or much newer by comparison.
"Clearly this was the work of a meta-human, but what kind of ability does this kind of damage and why would he attack random innocent people?" That just seemed way to out of the ordinary that Barry couldn't process it. "It has to be him, but this doesn't make any sense!" Barry practically yelled.
"What doesn't make any sense?" Barry looked up to see Iris walking into his lab carrying two cups of Jitters Coffee.
"Oh, hey Iris." Barry said putting on the face he usually showed Iris. "Just some of the evidence in this case. What brings you here?"
"Well for starters I was visiting my boyfriend, and I learned from my Dad you were working late on a case, so I thought I'd bring some coffee to my favorite forensic scientist." Iris said handing him one of the coffees.
"You know I am a forensics assistant right? And for the record I am the only forensics scientist you know." Barry replied taking a sip of coffee. Decaf just how he liked it, as long as he had super speed there was no way he was going to even try caffeine, besides he never really liked it in the first place. "Also I wasn't just working a case last night; I was on a date last night." Barry said taking another sip of coffee.
"With Linda?" Iris asked
"Well, yeah. Who else would I be going on a dinner date with?" Barry replied smiling "So why are you really here?"
"Hey, I'm trying to lighten the mood." Iris explained "My editor wants me to write another article on the Flash. Honestly I'd rather write about something else. Improve my credit as a journalist you know."
"And this has to do with me how?" Barry asked
"Well, I was wondering if you could tell me anything about any ongoing police investigations that may be involved with him."
"Can't say we do; besides I don't think I'm at liberty to discuss any ongoing investigations." Barry said "The only case we have that could even be remotely related to the Flash is this." He said handing her an envelope of the double homicide.
Iris scanned through the documents, stopping at the pictures of the dusty skeletons. "My god…"
"I know right? Those have had me stumped for…" He looked at his watch trying to come up with some crazy length of time. "At least the last ten hours."
"You must really want to catch this bad guy if you're willing to forego sleep and work at three oclock in the morning."
"I did take a six hour nap last night." Barry corrected "Eleven to Five."
"Aw, you're so cute when you've been working really hard; you should take a break once in a while."
"Can't do that." Barry replied "The bad guy'll get away if I don't. That and Captain Singh will yell at me for not doing anything."
"You should leave catching bad guys to the Flash Barry." She didn't even notice the slight change in his expression.
"You seem to have your faith in him restored." Barry commented.
"Yeah well…I figured that since Eddie did risk his own life to save the Flash a few weeks ago and the fact Eddie says that there's someone else just like him I should have given him the benefit of the doubt." Iris sat down on the edge of Barry's desk.
"Well in that case you wanna grab some lunch?" Barry asked quickly changing the subject "I've been working this case all morning and I'm dying to get away from it. Plus I'm starving."
"Are you, like, stress eating or something?" Iris asked "Is that why you've been eating so much over the last several months?"
"Uh…yeah…" Barry replied smiling
"You must be running like a madman for those pounds to not catch up to you."
"You have no idea." Barry said standing up. "Let's get some lunch, I'll pay."
Meanwhile back in S.T.A.R. Labs Dr. Harrison Wells entered his secret room and addressed his computer.
"Good Day Dr. Wells."
"One can always hope Gideon. Bring up a search please." He asked "Search for anything related to a man in a black suit with red lightning."
"Searching…0 results found."
"Keep looking!" Wells ordered
"Searching…0 results found. Would you like to reset parameters?"
"New parameters add Metal right arm and abnormal speech." Wells was getting impatient. If this meta-human was capable of harming Barry to such a degree he was dangerous, highly dangerous.
"Searching…0 results found."
Wells slammed his hands down in frustration. "It's like whomever, or whatever attacked Barry, doesn't even exist. Keep looking Gideon, and adjust the Parameters to include Barry Allen, the Flash and…The Reverse-Flash."
Later that day Barry and Iris were leaving Jitters just talking like they usually do.
"I'm serious." Barry said to her smiling
"There's no way that's true." Iris shot back with a smile of her own. "You made that up."
"I swear I didn't, 7000 deaths occur each year because of a doctor's crappy handwriting. You've never noticed that all doctors had bad handwriting?"
Iris just laughed at Barry's silly nerd facts. "I don't know if what you're saying is true or not but I don't think Caitlin has bad handwriting."
"Are you kidding? I have to ask her to read what she writes aloud for me. It's kind of embarrassing for both of us. Hell, Cisco calls it a gift that he can read anything she writes. Even Dr. Wells can't really read it, he admitted to guessing half the stuff Caitlin was writing about."
"Hey, me and Eddie are having a lunch date tomorrow. You and Linda should totally join us."
"I don't know." Barry sighed "Linda's going to be covering the Miners Kings game."
"Ah, one of the Gem Cities' greatest rivalries. I didn't know you were a fan of basketball."
"I'm not, but Linda got me a free pass since she's with the press, and the seats are fantastic! So I think we'll have to pass on a double lunch date."
"Ok, maybe some other time then." Iris' smile just got bigger. She was happy that Barry had found someone to be with. Soon she felt a buzzing in her pocket. Pulling out her phone she saw someone had posted something new about the Flash. "Hey, Bear check it out!" she said nearly shoving her phone into Barry's face in an extremely excited manner. "Someone just posted a Flash sighting on my blog." Those words stung at Barry a bit. It was impossible for anyone to have seen the Flash all day.
"You still run your blog?"
"Yeah, it's actually an excellent way to get stories about the Flash. Pictures, not so much."
"So, are you going to go and interview him?" Barry asked cautiously "Ask him how his day was? Or what crimes has he recently thwarted?"
"Like I said, my boss wants me to write about him and I don't think he wants me writing about some creepy double homicide with dusty skeletons." Iris put her phone back in her bag. "I'm still a cub so my first couple of stories need to be really good."
"So, where does it say the Flash was spotted?"
"Uh…" Iris looked at the post "looks like he's down by the old bowling alley." Barry gave her a confused expression since there were about ten bowling alleys in Central City. "You know the one my dad took us to when we were kids, Lucky Lanes? Why so curious?"
"No reason." Barry replied "Just wondering if that's included…hey what time is it?" he asked out of the blue.
"Uh, 4:37"
"Crap I left the report for the double homicide on my desk. I've gotta send some of the evidence to Cisco and Caitlin seeing if they can identify the bodies. If I don't get it finished and give it to Singh in the next 43 minutes he's gonna get pissed at me. So, I'll see you later." Barry said to Iris taking off towards the police station leaving a confused Iris. "I'll let you know about going on some kind of double date later!"
"OK Barry…See you later…" She waved slightly confused
In mere seconds Barry was at S.T.A.R. Labs and suited up. He had called Cisco and Caitlin ahead of time so they would be ready shortly after he got there.
"Barry, are you sure you want to investigate this?" Caitlin asked "A picture like that could have been taken yesterday or even earlier than that."
"It wasn't. I know it." Barry replied "I haven't been to that part of town since that Bowling Alley closed. It's that meta-human from last night, he's calling me out."
"Barry, take a step back and analyze the situation. We know nothing about what this man can do and last time you confronted him he beat you up pretty good." Well interjected.
"And how do you know it's even Electrojumper?" Cisco's expression changed to excited while everyone just shook their heads. "No one thinks we should call him Electrojumper?"
"I'm sure you'll come up with a great one next time." Caitlin said reassuring her friend
Barry smiled as he rushed out of the Lab.
"Alright Barry remember you're here to investigate. We still have no idea what his abilities entail so do not engage this man, he is dangerous." Well's voice said in Barry's ear as he arrived outside the bowling alley.
"No problem Dr. Wells." Barry said "I'll make this quick, in and out."
The Flash entered the abandoned bowling alley and almost immediately regretted it. Spread out all over the place were more dusty bones from skeletons, there was no way of telling how many complete skeletons there were.
"This guy's a psycho." Barry said to himself
An instant later the overhead lights began to flicker on until they illuminated the man in black. He was sitting on a bar stool in the middle of a bowling lane and had his back turned to Barry. His head was hunched over as if he was sleeping but that was quickly remedied.
"SoyougotmymessageFlash." The man in black said raising his head, though Barry couldn't see it, the man in black was grinning madly.
"Who the hell do you think you are?" Barry demanded
"Barry! Remember you've got to get out of the-" Suddenly Barry's communications cut off completely
"You murdered those innocent people!" Barry accused, unaware that he lost communications with S.T.A.R. labs
"I'vekilledalottoday." The man in black replied suddenly standing up, moving quickly between several spots like he just cannot stay still. "Bemorespecific."
"You killed two people earlier today, turned them into dusty skeletons!" Barry accused "That you?"
"Yesthatwasme."
"WHY?" Barry demanded
"TheyhadsomethingIwanted."
"What is it you want?" The flash was getting angry. The man in black's grin seemed to widen with excitement.
"You'rerilledup?Goodit'llmakethismorefun.Butifyouwanttoknowwhati'mafter" KRRRRKL red electricity arced all over his body and it began to vibrate, making it appear like there was five of him. "Beatitoutofus,hero."
WOOOOSH all five men in black rushed Barry and proceeded to attack him from every which way with blows clad in spikes and electrical shocks.
Barry tried to fight back but every time he threw a punch his target just moved out of the way, like he knew what Barry was going to do before he even did it.
Barry threw a kick with his left leg but one of men in black caught his leg under his left arm and slammed his mechanical right elbow and right knee together with Barry's leg sandwiched between the two.
"AAAAGH!" Barry yelled in pain as he flet the bones in his leg crack and maybe in some cases splinter completely.
"He's hurt." Cisco said looking at the monitors.
"Barry, get out of there!" Caitlin pleaded hoping that he could hear them.
"Something's blocking our transmissions to him." Wells said "Or rather it's this Meta-human that's blocking them.
"Who the hell are you?" Barry demanded
"Ifyoumustknow…Comparedtoouryellowcladfriend…I'msomethingofaParadox." The main man said.
"Paradox? That's actually a cool nickname." Cisco said aloud receiving looks from Caitlin and Wells.
WOOOSH Each one of the men in black grabbed one of Barry's limbs, forcing him to his knees and holding him still, while the last one reared back his mechanical right hand. "YoumaybetheFlash,butyou'regoingtohelpmeacomplishmygoals." The tips of the fingers jutted out like syringes, before he stabbed it into Barry's chest.
"Aaaaaah!" Barry yelled in pain as he felt the man in black's crimson electricity arc all over his body like it was alive, pulling the yellow energy into the red emblem on his chest. Whatever that arm was supposed to do it felt like it was draining the life out of him.
Back at S.T.A.R. Labs Barry's team watched as the instruments that read Barry's vitals and energy output spike and drop exponentially.
Well's grabbed the communication device in great concern. "RUN BARRY! RUN!"
"Somuchenergy!WiththisIcanfinallydoit!" The man in black pulled his metallic arm out of Barry's chest. KRAKLE Red lightning crackled around his body as it began to vibrate at hyper speeds. "Hehehehehe!" He chuckled menacingly before the lightning began to die and the vibrations began to stop. "Damn" He said as his voice began to flux between a normal tone and speed and his usual vibrated and fast tongue. "It'snotenough." He turned back to Barry who was lying on the ground clutching his chest. "Ineedmore."
WOOOOSH The World seemed to be at a standstill as he charged Barry once more only this time Barry saw him coming and using almost every ounce of strength and energy he had left Barry escaped.
"Heh,guesshe reallyisthe fastestmanalive." The man in black chuckled before looking over his mechanical right hand, as he did his voice leveled out to one that could be perceived as normal "Oh well, it's a start."
"He got out of there." Cisco said reading the homing beacon on Barry's suit. "Barely."
"Barry?" Caitlin asked still concerned for how weak his vitals were. "If you can hear us please respond."
WOOOSH In a blur of red Barry was back in the main lab, he looked a lot worse than last night when he first fought this man in black. "Sorry guys" He replied with ragged breathing, as he walked out of the suit storage in his regular clothes, gripping the chair nearest to him to support his broken leg. "It didn't go quite as planned."
Immediately Caitlin and Cisco helped him over to the medical bed so the bio engineer could get to work on patching up the fastest man alive while Cisco began to clean and patch up the suit.
"Dude, you messed up my suit pretty good this time." Cisco complained as he wiped dried blood off of it. "You got it torn, scorched and covered in blood."
"Hey, some of that blood may be his." Barry shot back as Caitlin but his leg in a brace so it could heal straight. "And didn't we agree last Tuesday that it was our suit?"
"We did no such thing." Cisco replied "Next time you go out there, be more careful with my suits, I only have two left!"
"Two others aside from this one?"
"Hey, after Bette accidentally blew the first one up and you ruined the second one when you went all ghost busters on Captain Cold and Heatwave I had to make some new ones." Barry just smiled innocently.
"Lift your shirt Barry." Caitlin ordered. Barry complied and waited as she wrapped his chest. "Your tibia was broken again, several cracked ribs and multiple bruises and lacerations…If this is going to be anything like the last time, you're going to be here for some time while you heal."
While his friends tried to help him feel better Wells rolled up to Barry with a displeased expression. "What were you thinking Barry?" Wells demanded angrily. "I told you not to engage him! We were going to study his abilities and figure out a way to defeat him together!" Before Barry could reply Wells continued. "I don't want to hear it Barry! He could have killed you!"
"Then what do you want to hear?" Barry demanded, cutting Wells off. "'Sorry I got so worked up and fought the man in black'? 'I'm sorry that I wasn't thinking?' Is that what to hear?" the fastest man alive was very frustrated and quite upset. "I just got my ass handed to me twice in one day by a psychopath who has abilities almost identical to mine and the Revere-Flash!" His side ached and he winced in pain.
"Jeeze…" Cisco sighed from over by the suit. Apparently his conversation with Joe last Christmas about there being more than one Reverse-Flash was coming true. "That's not good."
"You know what else Dr. Wells? Because I can't beat him he's gonna keep killing people! And I have no clue why he's doing it or how to even stop him from killing again! I'm not a little kid that needs to be told what he can and cannot do Dr. Wells. Even if I have no way to stop him I'm going to keep trying until I do!" Barry stopped ranting and took a deep breath before continuing. "If you don't want me to kill myself in my next fight, you better find a way to neutralize his powers and fast. There's no telling when he'll strike next."
Here ends the chapter
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