Barry couldn't sleep that night, his body was sore all over from head to toe. He wasn't use to still being in pain hours after a fight, Barry really wished he had his accelerated healing right now. He turned to his side and tried to get in a comfy position to fall asleep, he ended up staying awake for the whole night.

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Barry arrived at the warehouse to train with Oliver right on time, he noticed two bows and a few arrows laid down on a table in front of Oliver. "Uhm Oliver?" Barry asked "What are those for? You know I don't have my accelerated healing anymore right? So you can't shoot me with those.."

"I'm not going to shoot you Barry, I'm going to teach you how to shoot an arrow" Oliver said as he picked up the bow in front of him.

"Okay?" Barry said confused. "But why would I need to know how to shoot an arrow? I don't think I'm going to go around shooting people with arrows, that's more of your thing..uhh not that it's a bad thing it's a good thing! It's what makes you a hero..I mean a vigilante or no both you're a herolante! Or a vigihero?" all it took was a glare from Oliver for Barry to be quiet.

"Barry, learning how to shoot an arrow teaches you accuracy, precision, and hand-eye coordination." Oliver said "Which are all just as important as physical strength, if not more."

Barry nodded and starting walking up near the table. He looked at the arrows laid down then back at Oliver. "So, what's first?" Barry asked.

Oliver picked up two bows and handed one to Barry. "You need to know how to hold a bow correctly." Oliver showed Barry the correct way to hold the bow then he brought an arrow up to Barry. "Okay now place this right in the middle, and make sure your hand is below the arrow so you don't accidentally shoot your own arm."

Barry took the arrow from Oliver and followed his directions. "Like this?" He asked looking over at Oliver.

"Yes" Oliver replied "Now pull the arrow back right up to your ear, then aim and release."

"Aim and release." Barry repeated in his head. Barry pulled the arrow back, aimed it towards the target, then released. The arrow hit the ground barely moving an inch. Barry sighed "Wow, that's harder than I thought"

"Again" Oliver said firmly

Barry picked the arrow up and held it on the bow. "Okay, aim and release." Barry said. Barry pulled the arrow up to his ear and was about to release it until he heard Oliver say his name.

Barry turned around startled, causing him to accidentally release the arrow hitting Oliver on his thigh. Oliver loudly groaned and grabbed his thigh falling to his knees. "Aghh, god dammit Barry" Oliver said, his teeth clenched.

It took a moment for Barry to process what had just happened before panicking. "OH MY GOD, OLIVER OH MY GOD I'M SO SORRY" Barry said pacing back and forth "Ollie oh my god I'm so sorry, oh my god what did I do oh my god oh my god" Barry knelt down next to Oliver and put his hand on the arrow that impaled Oliver's thigh. "Oh my god, what do I do? Should I just pull it out? Oh my god, I'm so sorry" Barry said panicking.

"Barry it's fine" Oliver said, his teeth still clenched. "Just help me to the car and drive me to S.T.A.R labs, Caitlin can help me."

Barry nodded and helped Oliver to his feet, he leaded him to the car and closed the door behind him. "Oliver I'm so sorry" Barry said. He felt extremely guilty for shooting Oliver, accident or not. He felt the need to apologize whenever it was possible.

"Barry, just drive. Please. Before I bleed out all over your car"

"Actually this is Joe's car..but that doesn't matter I'll just drive" Barry said nervously. Barry started the car and sped to S.T.A.R labs as fast as he could, going way over the speed limit. Barry didn't care about the speed limit now, all he cared about was getting Oliver to S.T.A.R labs as fast as he could. Barry could really use his super speed right now.

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Caitlin was sitting in the cortex next to Cisco, they were talking about how they were going to stop metas without the flash. "Maybe we can create like a flash hologram!" Cisco said "He can run around the city and the metas will just think the flash is around!" Cisco got up to work on his idea right away, leaving Caitlin sitting in the cortex by herself. That is until Barry walked into the cortex with an injured Oliver leaning on him. "Oh my god what happened?" Caitlin asked while helping get Oliver to the med bay.

"I got hit with an arrow" Oliver replied

"Well yeah I can see that obviously, I meant how" Caitlin said as she was disinfecting Oliver's arrow wound.

"Uhm...I shot him..BY ACCIDENT, I'm really sorry Oliver I didn't mean it" Barry said sheepishly

"Not now Barry!" Oliver said irritated. "Caitlin get this thing out of me now, NOW!" Oliver said, obviously in extreme pain.

Caitlin nodded and put some latex gloves on, she felt around the arrow then took out scissors. "What are those for?" Barry asked.

"I'm going to snip off the tip of the arrow, where the blade is, so it doesn't hurt as much when I pull the arrow out" Caitlin replied not even looking at Barry. She was clearly very focused on getting the arrow out of Oliver's thigh. Caitlin gripped the end of the arrow and looked at Oliver. "This is going to hurt, a lot".

"I know, I know! Just out the damn thing out, please!" Oliver said sternly

Caitlin pulled the arrow out fast and easy. She applied disinfecting oil and wrapped up the wound. "Okay, you should probably rest before I x-ray your thigh, to make sure the arrow didn't do any fatal damage."

"I'm fine" Oliver said as he got off of the bed.

"Ollie you just got hit with an arrow, you can barely walk you need to rest" Barry said meekly

"I said I'm fine." Oliver said as he limped out of the cortex. It was more of a hop, he could barely touch the floor with his injured leg.

Barry walked up to Oliver in the hall. "Oliver, I'm-"

"I swear Barry if you say you're sorry one more time"

Barry looked down feeling extremely guilty for what he had done, regardless of what Oliver said. What he did was not "okay".

"Look, Barry I'm not mad at you, I'm just-"

"Stubborn?" Barry interrupted, half smiling.

Oliver rolled his eyes. "I'm going back to Star for the week, practice what I told you and I'll be back next week to see how much you've improved."

"What about your leg? You can't just ignore it?" Barry said concerned.

"I know how to mend my arrow wounds don't worry. Speaking of arrows, when you practice your shooting I suggest you do it alone so you don't accidently shoot someone, you should probably wear padding also incase you somehow manage to shoot yourself" Oliver said bluntly

"Okay, let me help you to the car, do you want me to get you crutches?" Barry asked

"Yes, that would be nice"

"Okay wait here, I'll be right back" Barry said as he ran over to grab crutches. Barry returned to Oliver with the crutches and handed them to him. "Here you go!" Barry said smiling

"Thanks, would you mind driving me over to the warehouse so I can drive back to Star?"Oliver asked

"Yeah Yeah, Of course!" Barry said leading Oliver to the exit. Barry and Oliver got into the car and drove to the warehouse. Barry couldn't wait to get back so he could start practicing.

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Cisco was in S.T.A.R labs working on the flash hologram until Barry walked in. "Hey Cisco, where's the punching robot thing I used when I went against Girder?" Barry asked rubbing the back of his neck.

"Uhm it's in the same place we left it, why?" Cisco asked while chewing on his twizzler.

"Oh, I just need it for something, thanks man!" Barry said as he walked out of the room. Barry walked into the room where the training robot was. "Okay I got this, let me just turn down the speed." Barry walked to the control room and turned the speed to low, then he walked over to the moving robot and starting throwing punches. The next thing he knew he was sprawled to the floor in agonizing pain. "Aghhhh" Barry groaned. He got up and turned of the robot. "That's enough of that." Barry kept thinking of ways to become better, stronger. "If I was more tolerant to pain this would be so much easier" Barry thought. Then that gave him an idea. "Pain resistance! That's it! I'll make myself more tolerant to pain then all this will be so much easier!" Barry thought of ways to inflict pain without causing any dangerous damage. He came to the conclusion that he'd just do light burns and shallow cuts on his skin, nothing too bad. Barry got in his car and drove away to his house, ready to start his pain resistance.

Barry arrived at his house, Joe was at home so he had to practice in his room. Barry grabbed a lighter from the kitchen drawer and ran up to his room, he was kind of excited to test his tolerance and improve it. Barry closed the door to his room and sat on his bed, he lit up the lighter and moved it toward his arm. He flinched at the touch of the fire and moved his arm right away. "Okay, if I'm going to do this I need to be strong" Barry thought. He moved the lighter toward his arm again and closed his eyes with his teeth clenched. He kept the lighter on until he couldn't feel his arm. Barry looked at the area of his arm that he burned, it was a reddish bronze color and it hurt like hell.

With no warning Joe walked into Barry's room and Barry hid the lighter behind his back instantly. "What the hell are you doing?" Joe asked, both angry and concerned.

"Oh nothin, just sittin on my bed..heh" Barry said sheepishly

"Is that a burn mark on your arm?" Joe asked. He walked up to Barry and grabbed the lighter from behind Barry's back. "Come on Bar, why are you doing this?" Joe asked gently

"It's not for the reason you think Joe! I swear. I'm just trying to become more tolerant to pain so I can fight metas again!" Barry said smiling a bit.

"Oh no, no way you're going out and fighting metas without your speed no way" Joe said his concern turning into anger.

"Joe, come on. Ever since I lost my powers I've felt..useless and the only way to feel whole again is to help other people, and save my city from metas."

"No." Joe said firmly "And no more of this pain tolerance either, you got that?"

Barry didn't say anything he just smiled at Joe and nodded, but he was never going to stop his pain resistance methods, not until he had bones of steel. He was going to keep doing this even if it killed him.