Chronos Paradox Ch. 3
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A/N: I don't have a good excuse for why this took so long except you know, college, so here you go! My roommate is on my ass to write more often so future chapters should be fast I promise.
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"Alternate Universe." Cisco said after a very long and awkward pause.
"What?" Diggle asked, knowing he would probably regret it.
"I'm betting she's from an alternate universe." Cisco said. "We already had time travel and this doesn't feel the same. It could be like the ekpyrotic theory and she could be from a reality where all the genders are swapped. I'd say she's the female version of Oliver."
"Cisco you literally just described a 'genderbent fanfiction.'" Barry said while Caitlyn and Diggle simply stared. Barry suddenly blushed; that wasn't something he wanted his friend's to know he knew.
"You know what, I'll take that bet." Caitlyn said suddenly. "$50 it's time travel again. This is probably Oliver's crazy ass vigilante daughter or something. Oh, another $50 on that!"
"Really?" Barry asked weakly. A small part of him wanted to savoir this moment of normalcy between the trio that they hadn't had in, well, a very long time.
"Can't it just be some total coincidence that this stranger shows up with no connection or crazy super power or time travel or universe shit?" Diggle blurted out. "Can't we have something semi-normal happen for once."
"Probably not." Barry replied, the sides of his lips almost twisting into a rare smile. He hadn't done that in about a month. Suddenly his work phone went off and saw Joe was calling. "Great, I have to get to the station. Give me a ring when Oliver and Felicity get here." And with that he raced off.
"Allen!" The captain called over the minute he walked in. "Get in here!"
Barry walked over to the meeting room where everyone was gathered. Something major had happened and Barry was instantly in CSI mode.
"Alright, so at exactly 0800 hours this morning the top three banks in Central City were robbed by a single gunman each." The captain shouted so everyone could here. "Each robber avoided security, cameras, and got in and out under the police response time. No finger prints, no good clear image, and over a million dollars stolen in total. Eye witnesses all reported each robber to be a short, lanky man dressed in all green and seemingly disappeared after they ran into a back alley by each bank. I want to know who these jokers are, where they are, and get this money back."
Barry did not have time for this. He already had a strange girl that appeared out of nowhere and now these mysterious robbers? A small part of him really wanted to hope this was a coincidence but the logical part of his brain screamed at him that even hoping so was stupid.
"I know that face." Joe whispered to him. "What you got?"
He quickly filled Joe in on what happened at the lab as they went back up to his office to analyze the security footage further.
"You think that girl and these guys are related?" Joe asked.
"It would seem like it, but who knows." Barry sighed. "That seems almost easy." He trailed off at the last word however and stares at the video. He pulled up multiple camera shots analyzing it. There was something so familiar about the three men. It was extremely practiced the way they avoided the cameras and they were nearly identical. Barry pulled up a similar angle of the three robberies to try to spot anything that can help when the captain called to tell him they were ready for him at the first bank for more CSI analysis. The other CSI agents were spread thin enough as it is so he quickly, or at least regular non-meta human-ish quickly, got to the scene.
"Well Allen tell me what you got." Captain Singh said as he walked up to him.
"This is the cleanest hit I've ever seen." Barry murmured almost to himself. "There really is no evidence left. I want to examine the back alley where the guy supposedly disappeared."
"Get me something Allen." The captain said as he walked away. Barry went out to the alley and saw that it was indeed a dead end. He went to the corner he knew was just out of the view of the cameras that he had been watching all morning and looked around. He noticed some slight scorch marks in a pattern that seemed familiar. Looking around to see if anyone else was here, he sped to the other two alley ways and saw the same patterns. Returning to the bank he was supposed to be working at in just a few seconds.
"Hey Joe," Barry walked up to him. "I think you were right to ask if this is related to the incident last night. I'm going to give Cisco a call to analyze the area."
"Let me know what you find." Joe sighed as he walked away.
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"It's the same energy signature all right." Cisco said as he looked at the results.
"That's what I was afraid of." Barry sighed and turned to face the unconscious girl. This was getting more complicated by the hour and Barry was glad Oliver and Felicity were on their way for backup.
Suddenly the machine the girl was attached to began beeping more rapidly. Caitlyn ran over, Barry coming up to help, and began assessing.
"Her heart rate is increasing." Caitlyn said.
"Is that good or bad?" Cisco asked.
"I don't know just …" She gasped. Barry and Cisco looked where she was and saw her index finger moving slightly.
"Is she waking up?" Barry breathed.
"Possibly, but I'm too nervous to give her something because of the pregnancy." Caitlyn explained.
Just as suddenly as it started it stopped. Her heartrate slowed and her finger stopped moving.
"What just happened?" Cisco asked.
"She's trying to wake up on her own." Caitlyn replied. "It's similar to Barry; she needs time to heal from whatever happened."
"Oliver and Felicity are just getting into town." Diggle said walking in. "They'll be here in about ten minutes."
"Perfect." Barry said and started to fill Diggle in on the robbery when the machine started beeping again.
"…aaaa…" the girl mumbled very lowly. "…aaaawn…"
"She's trying to say something." Diggle stated the obvious as Caitlyn checked her vitals. "On? Something on?"
"…dawn…" the girl moaned.
"Dawn." Barry frowned. "What about the dawn?"
But it was too late; her heart rate decreased again and she was still.
"Hey guys, traffic wasn't too bad!" Felicity's voice suddenly came from the doorway and they all jumped to see her and Oliver. "What did we miss?"
