Chapter 3 : Discovery
"No..no...no..no..." I whisper inaudibly.
I was shocked at what I did but I was more shocked at what Barry was doing. There is lightning behind him. Just like the man who killed my father. How is that possible?
How is any of this possible?
Barry tries to stop running but ends up crashing into a bunch of old water tanks. I get into my car and I was about to leave but I felt compelled not to. I felt like I needed to stay. Starting the Moc 5 I put it in gear and speed down the runway, coming to Barry's aid. I slam on my break and open the passenger side door asking, "Need a lift."
We head back to S.T.A.R. Labs and Caitlin checks Barry out taking an X-ray of his hand.
"It looks like you had a distal radius fracture." Caitlin tells Barry showing him the X-ray.
He gives Caitlin a weird look asking, "Had?"
"It's heald...In three hours."
"How is that even possible?" Barry and I ask in unison. I was beginning to question all of this. How that hell could we do any of this?
"We don't know...yet."
That's great. Thanks, Cisco...
Cisco continues, "You really need to learn how to stop."
"What happened out there today?" Dr. Wells asks, moving his wheelchair a little closer to all of us. "You were moving pretty well, and then something caused you to lose focus."
"I started remembering something." Barry states, starting to tell us a story. One I shouldn't hear. "When I was 11, my mother was murdered. It was late. A sound woke me up. I came downstairs and... I saw what looked like a ball of lightning. Inside the lightning was a man."
I didn't hear the rest of the story...Images of that night kept flashing through my head. One after another, on repeat, like a movie speed up. I couldn't stop the few tears that made its way down my checks.
Everything was hitting me.
My dad's death... Sprital dying... My new powers... The man in yellow being real...
"Speed?"
The voice seemed distorted and far away, I couldn't tell who it was.
I blink away the tears and see Barry, Cisco, Caitlin, and Dr. Wells all standing or in Dr. Well's case sitting around me.
"On March 18, 2000, my father was killed by a man in yellow. It was the night of his big race. I remember I couldn't wait to see it, it was the only thing I talked about for weeks. They only found his car and a pile of ash next to it." I say, choking back tears.
My mind wondered to Sprital. I haven't even visited him...I can't believe I haven't been to visit him...I'm such a bad sister...
In a flicker, everything faded and I wasn't in the cortex anymore. I was standing in the cemetary, in front of my little brothers grave.
"I'm so sorry...I'm so sorry..." I say to the grave, hoping that maybe he'll here me.
I know it wasn't my fault but he was my little brother and I cared for him like he was my own kid. I was there for him when our mom wasn't, which was a lot of the time because she never really got over dad.
I hear a flicker of lightning and I knew Barry was right beside me. "How'd you know I'd be here?"
"I put two and two together and figured if I was in your position I'd come here." Barry replies turning to face me.
That was pretty smart. But then again he seems like the type that would be really smart. I wipe the tears off my face and say, "After every crazy thing that's happened do you wanna get a coffee? I haven't had coffee in a long time."
He smiles and replies, "Sure, I'd like that. I haven't had it in a long time. Nine months to be exact."
The two of us let out a small laugh at that statement and the two of us head to Jitters to get coffee only when we get there Barry sees two people and I'm guessing the girl did something wrond because when she saw Barry she looked like she just got caught killing someone or robbing a bank.
She comes over to us and says to Barry, "You can't tell my dad. He doesn't know about me and Eddie."
Oh so that guy she was with has a name.
"Doesn't seem like anyone's in on the secret." Barry replies coldly. His change in tone causes me to give him a look of concern.
For some reason we start to walk away from the coffee shop, "I was going to tell you."
"When you were in the hospital, Eddie covered my father's shifts so that we could both be with you. I thanked him with a cup of coffee, and things just kind of happened." The girl replies. She must be family or something. "And it's good."
"Dating your partner's daughter...It's that against department regulations?" Barry asks in the same tone as before.
Oh, so the girls dad must be a cop or something and that Eddie guy is his partner. I think that might be against regulation. But hey, what do I know. I just drive a race car for a living.
"Why are you so upset?" She asks him, grabbing his arm stopping him dead in his track.
"I just don't like having to lie to your dad, you know?" Barry replies.
A bunch of sirens cause us to look behind us and a cop car starts to drift. Barry sprang into action pulling me and the girl down to the grown and then uses himself as a shield. Barry looks up and he must have seen someone he knew in the car because he was up in an instant and was about to run.
Before he took off running I jumped up and jumped onto his back. I was making sure he wasn't going to do anything stupid. As he ran everything was just a blur. When he noticed I was on his back he says, "Don't let go."
He flings us into the car and man driving looks really shocked. I mean if I just seen two people just meraculously jump into my car while it was moving I'd be freaking out to. He goes to grab something but Barry stops the guy causing the mystery man to turn the stering wheel resulting the car to flip.
The top of the car smashes into the payvement and Barry gets out. "Speed you okay?"
I have a few cuts and scrapes and I think I might have minor concussion but I diss miss it say, "No go get the bad guy."
Barry screams a guys name and the next thing I know everything's covered in fog. I see the familiar red lightning and when I open my eyes I'm met with Barry's look at me, they were filled with concern.
"I'm okay." I reassure him. "Lets get back."
"That poor man." The girl, who I found out's name is Iris, replies as they wheel away a body in a body bag. "The way that fog came in, I have never seen anything like it."
"Barry! Iris." A man replies running over to us, "Speed?"
I guess he was shocked I was there.
"I'm alright, dad." Iris replies, trying to calm down her dad.
"What the hell were ypu thinking having her out here?" Iris's dad asks Barry, a little mad and frustrated.
Iris tries to tell her dad that it wasn't Barry's fault but he cuts her off saying, "And I told you, when you see danger, you run the other way. You're not a cop."
"Because you wouldn't let me." Iris says, a little snappily. This is just getting interesting.
"You're damn right." Iris's dad replies.
"Joe, I need to talk to you." Barry says, starting to walk over to spot that didn't have that many people, dragging me with him.
"It can wait." Joe snaps.
"No, now." All three of us were shocked at Barry's outbust. I'm judging by the look on Joe and Iris's face he's hardly ever done that.
Joe walks over to us and Barry says, "I know who did this. It's Clyde Martin."
Joe gives a shrug of disbelief but Barry continues, "I know everybody thinks he died in a plane crash after the S.T.A.R Labs explosion, but he's alive. Alright, something happened to him that night. I... I think he can control the weather."
Right when Barry says this Joe's face goes from desbelief to a little worried. I'm guessing he thinks Barry is crazy or something. "The recent robberies, they all happened during freak meterological events. And when I just confronted Mardon, the street was instantly enveloped in fog."
"It really was sir." I say trying to help Barry.
He still has that look on his face causing Barry to say, "Of course you don't believe me. You never believe me."
And that's when I watched the fight evolve.
"You wanna do this now?" Joe asks, not even really carring that if I'm standing here or not. "Out here? Fine. Mardon is dead. There is no controlling the weather Barry. Juat like there was no lightning storm in your house that night."
Joe continues, trying to make Barry understand, "It was your brain helping a scared little boy accept what he saw."
"My dad did not murder my mother." Barry states only for Joe to to fire back angryly, "Yes, he did! Your dad killed your mother, Barry!"
"I'm sorry, son!" Joe replies, calmind back down some. "But I knew it, the jury knew it, and now he's paying for what he did."
I open my mouth to day something but Iris beats me to it saying, "Dad, enough!"
Barry steps back some as Iris walks over to us. I could feel how tense this situation was getting. Heck I'm sure anyone could.
"I've done my best to take care of you since that night, and I have never asked for anything in return, not even a thank you, but what I do asl now is that you for once in your life see things as they are."
Woah, that was a low blow. Very low blow, Joe.
"I don't really care if I'm over stepping my boundaries or anything but that was a very low blow, sir. Very low blow." I reply before I take off running after a very upeset and frustrated Barry.
We head to S.T.A.R. Labs and Barry basically busts into the cortex yelling angrily, "We weren't the only one affected by the particle accelerator explosion, were we?"
I quickly got in front in front of him and said, "Barry, calm down."
Dr. Wells looks at Caitlin and Cisco before looking back at us and replying, "We don't know for sure."
"You said the city was safe, that there was no residual danger. But that's not true."
I look at Dr. Wells and ask, "So what really happened that night?"
"Well...The accelerator went active. We all felt like heroes, and then..." He says, clicking to a screen showing us what happened. "It all went wrong. The dimensional barrier ruptured, unleashing unknown energies into our world."
Then he started to list of the unknow energies, "Antimatter, dark energy, x-element.."
"Those are all theoretical." Barry states in disbelief.
I didn't get all this sciency stuff so...I'm in the dark about all of this.
"And how theoretical are the two of you?" Dr. Wells questions.
He pulls up a map of glowing little tagets and says, "We mapped the dipersion throughout and around Central City. Though we have no way of knowing exactly what or.. Who was exposed, we've been searching for other meta-humans like yourselves."
"Meta-humans"?" I ask, is that what they're calling us now? Is that like the scientific word for freak?
"That's what we're calling them." Caitlin replies.
"I saw one today." Barry says, grabbing everyone elses attention. "He's a bank robber, and he can control the weather."
"This just keeps getting cooler."
After Cisco says those words Barry says in frustration looking at Cisco, "This is not cool! Alrigh? A man died."
Barry looks back at Dr. Wells and says, "Mardon must have gotten his powers the same way I did. From the storm cloud. He's still out there. We have to stop him before he hurts anyone else."
Barry goes to leave but Wells stops him saying, "Barry!"
He turns around and faces Dr. Wells, "That's a job for the police."
"I work for the police." Barry states, trying to justify the means.
"As a forensic assistant."
Wow Dr. Wells, you just had to state the obvious didn't you.
"You're responsable for this. For him." Barry states, poking a bear with a short stick.
"What's important is you!" Dr. Wells yells, causing me, Caitlin, and Cisco to jump. "Not me. I lost everything. I lost my company. I lost my reputation. I lost my freedom. And then you broke your arm, and it healed in three hours."
Dr. Wells continues his rant, "Inside your body could be a map to a whole new world...Genetic therapies, vaccines, medicines, treasures burried deep within your cells and we cannot risk losing everything because you want go out and play hero!"
"You're not a hero. You are just a young man who was struck by lightning."
After he says that I yell, accidentally sending out a small wave pushing everyone back a few feet," That is enough!"
"I'm so sick entired of everyone fighting today. Seriously what crawled up everyone pants? Do you have a stick that needs to be taken out? God what hell?!"
And with that me and Barry left.
He picked me up and just started running. We didn't stop running until we got to starling city sign. Barry set me down and had to take off his jacket because his jacket was on fire.
Then now were on a roof top talking to Oliver Queen who is the Green Arrow. "So thats my story."
"I've spent my whole life searching for the impossible, never imagining that i would become the impossible."
"So why come to me?" Oliver asks; I was kind of wondering that to. Why? "Something tells me you didn't just run 600 miles with a girl to say "hi" to a friend."
"All my life, I've wanted to just do more...Be more. And now I am. And the first chance I get to help someine, I screw up. What if Wells is right?"
"What if I'm not a hero? What if I am just some guy who was struck by lightning." Barry asks Oliver, but I end up cutting Barry off.
"Barry, Wells was out of line when he said that. I think you'd be great hero. You saved my life today and I think I'm a better judge when it comes to saying this, you'd never screw up becasue you care to much."
"I'm with her on this one Barry. I don't think that bolt of lightning struck you, I think it chose you." Oliver replies, giving me a small smile.
"I'm not sure if I can be like you, Oliver. I don't know if I can be a vigilante."
"You can be better." Oliver replies, "Because you two can inspire people in a way that I never could...Watching over your city like a guardian angel...Making a difference...Saving people...In a flash."
He walks over to the edge of the building and says, "Take your own advice. Wear a mask."
And then he jumps off the edge of a building and then uses an arrow that has a string attached to it to propell him to the side of another building.
"Cool." Me and Barry say in unison as we watch in awe.
Barry picks me up and takes off running back to Central City and back to S.T.A.R. Labs. When he sets me down I head over the trash can and was about to puke.
"Oh my god are you okay?" Barry asks quickly rushing over to my side.
"Yeah, it was just a little bit to fast with out a warning."
"Sorry..." He replies before heading over to Cisco and Cailtin.
"I've been going over unsolved cased from the past nine months, and there's been a sharp increase in unexplained deaths and missing people. Your meta-humans have been busy. Now, I'm not blaming you. I know you didn't mean for any of this to happen. I know you all lost something. But I need your help to catch Mardon and anyone else out there like him." Barry says to Caitlin and Cisco.
I walk over to them and Barry says, "But I can't do it with out you."
Caitlin looks at Cisco and then Cisco says, "If we're gonna do this, I have something that might help."
He brings us down to his little work station and show us a suit. "Something I've been playing with. Designed to replace the tunouts firwfighters traditionally wear."
"I thought if S.T.A.R. Labs could do something nice for the community, maybe people wouldn't be so angry with Dr. Wells anymore."
"How is it going to help me?" Barry asks, confused as to why Cisco was even showing us.
"It's made with reinforced tri-polymer. It's heat abrasive resistant, so it should withstand your moving at high-velocity speeds. And the aerodynamic design should help you maintain control. Plus it has a built in sensor so we can track your vitals and stay in contact with you from here." Cisco replies, with a smile on his face.
"Thanks," Barry says, "Now how do we find Mardon?"
Caitlin taps on her tablet and says, "I retasked S.T.A.R. Labs satelite to track meterological abnormalities over Central City."
The three of us walk over to her and look at the tablet as she says, "We just got a ping. Atmospheric pressure dropped 20 millibars in a matter of seconds. I've tracked it to a farm just west of the city."
Barry suits up and I put on a hoodie, then tie up my hair before grabbing a helmet that I left in Cisco's work station before the accelerator accident.
Barry pick me up and takes off running to the farm. When we get there the top of a shed comes flying at Joe, Barry sets me down.
"I got it!" I yell over the wind, putting my hands up. I concetrate on the roof and it stops in mid air like I did with the piece of tar.
I throw it behing me and then hear Cisco say in the coms, "Barry, Speed! This thing is getting closer. Wind speeds are 200 miles-per-hour and increasing."
"Guys, can you hear me?"
"Yeah, loud and clear." Me and Barry say in unison.
"If it keeps up, this could become and F-5 tornado." Cisco tells us.
"It's headed towards the city, how do we stop it?"
"Barry what if you unravel it?" I ask him through the coms.
"How is he going to do that?"
Barry understands what I'm getting at and says, "I'll run around it in the opposite direction, cut off its legs."
"He'd have to clock 700 miles-per-hour to do that." Cisco says to Catlin.
"Your body may not be able to handle those speeds. You'll die." Caitlin says to Barry.
Barry looks at me and I could see the determination in his eyes. He's going to do it no matter what we tell him. "I have to try."
And with that Barry ran into the tornado and starts to run around the bottom of it. He gets thrown out moments later. "It's too strong!"
I quickly run over to Barry and when I reach him I hear a voice I wasn't expexting to hear, "You can do this Barry. You and Speed were right. I am responsable for all of this. So many people have been hurt because of me, and when I look at the two of you, all I saw was another potentiel victim of my hubris."
"And yes, I created this madness, but you two, Barry and Speed, you two can stop it. You can do this." Dr. Wells says into the coms.
I look at Barry and say, "What Dr. Wells said, you can do this."
"Now run, Barry, run!" Dr. Wells yells into the com, causing me jump a little.
He takes off running into the tornado and it starts to unravel it. A giant dust explosion breaks from where the tornado was and Barry and Mardon geet up off the ground. Barry's mask is off and Mardon has a gun pointed at Barry.
I qucikly take off running over to them and Barry says trying to reason with him, "Hey."
He puts his hands up in defense and Mardon says, "I didn't think there was anyine else like me."
"We're not like you." Barry says, "You're a murderer."
Mardon fires off a shot before Joe fires a couples of rounds into him. The bullet was about to hit Barry but I focused on the bullet and it disintegrated.
At that point my head was pounding and everything was spining. I feel my legs start give way but I didn't fear of hitting the ground because right when I started to fall I heard the sound of Barry's lightning and I felt his arms around me.
I feel the helmet come off my head and a gush of cool air smacks against my face. I feel a little bit of blood trickle down from my nose.
"Barry? Speed?" I hear Caitlin's voice ask.
"Its over. We're okay. Speed's worn out." Barry replies.
I could see Joe's figure fall onto his knee's from Barry's lap. I was tired but I know I needed to stay awake. Barry didn't stay and talk to Joe he took me to S.T.A.R. Labs, Dr, Wells insisted I got checked out by Caitlin.
Everything turned out fine, I just used to much energy and it resulted in my nose bleeding. So I just needed to sleep it off and let me tell you, that's exactly what I did.
A/N
Alright, so I hope you like the new chapter. I haven't updated in a while, but I'm working on trying to update some stories ever week or at least I'm gonna try. I'm not making any promises.
Also if you guys watch Stranger Things I put in an Elven reference. I for one am in love with the show and I literally went though the second season in like one day.
Until the next time...
~ Arixa