Chapter 3: Crimson
"Lex Luthor was just arrested for sending a group to war against all authorities across the country. Luckily that war was stopped by the mysterious vigilante that some people are calling The Batman…" said a woman on a radio while a man stood over a college kid who was currently in a coma.
"I could kill you right now Flash, but unfortunately I can't. I need you to become fast enough to help me return home. Only when I'm able to go home you will die," said the man before he he heard some footsteps getting louder.
Just before the door opened he put on his suit and ran away. A woman walked in and sat down next to the coma patient as she stared at him with sadness.
"Come back to me Barry. I hate seeing you like this, but I don't want to leave you alone," said the woman sadly right before Barry groaned and asked, "Uhhh. What happened?"
The woman stood up and leaned over and said, "Barry! Oh my god, I was so worried!"
Barry smiled once before he slowly sat up and said, "Ah. You don't need to worry about me, Caitlyn. I'm too stubborn to die. Why am I in a hospital?"
Caitlyn automatically said with evident pain from the memory, "When Star Labs exploded you were knocked unconscious after the wave from the particle accelerator explosion. After Superman rescued you from the falling debris, the ambulances brought you and some others here to the hospital. Afterwards, everyone but you were sent home. You've been here in a coma for six months."
An hour later...
Barry arrived at the new Star Labs location and whistled.
"Barry, mi amigo! You're awake!" said an excited man with fairly long hair who was wearing a shirt that said Guardians of the Galaxy on it.
"Hey Cisco. I feel like I slept for two thousand years." said Barry with a smile as Cisco pulled him into an over enthusiastic hug.
"Mr. Allen. Welcome to the world of the living." said a man with a smile as he walked forward with a walking stick.
After Barry shook hands with the man he said, "It's good to be back."
A few minutes later Barry was working on a machine alongside Cisco that had somehow survived the particle accelerator explosion.
"Hey Barry would you mind getting that doohickey that is sitting on the edge of that desk." said Cisco as he tried to get something to fit on the device. As he got to his feet Barry accidentally knocked something down, but it fell down too slowly for it to be normal. He had enough time to tell that it was a No. 2 pencil with the words To Infinity And Beyond as well as Cisco's initials. Suddenly it hurried up and clattered on the floor which confused Barry, but he decided to figure it out later. However the universe decided for him as he walked to get the doohickey, because he sped into the corner of the table causing him to stab himself in the groin by the table's corner. Cisco looked up as he saw Barry crouch and clutch his groin in pain.
"Barry? You okay? What happened?" asked Cisco but gained a pained look from Barry before Barry said painfully, "I have no idea."
A few minutes later...
Caitlyn was looking at some scans of Barry's blood, skeleton, and anything else after they saw the security footage of Barry moving faster than the eye can see.
"This is impossible," said Caitlyn as she finished looking at the scans.
"What is impossible, Ms. Snow?" asked Harrison Wells with curiosity as he sat down in a chair.
Caitlyn looked at him as if he was stupid before she said, "Barry having superpowers. There is nothing wrong with his biology at all either. Superpowers are not real. They are nothing but fiction,"
Dr. Wells chuckled before he said with amusement, "That may have been true a year or two ago Ms. Snow, but Superman proved to us that both aliens and superpowers are real."
An hour later...
In a few minutes Barry had put on a suit that was given to him as he ran around a four hundred mile track and ran around it five times.
"So. How fast am I going?" asked Barry when he stopped next to Caitlyn, Cisco, and Dr. Wells.
"You are going 400 miles per minute, dude! This is sooo cool!" said Cisco excitedly before he got a glare from Caitlyn who countered frantically, "This is not cool. Barry could die any minute if he keeps doing this!"
Harrison Wells sighed before he said, "I know how you feel about Barry, Ms Snow. However we have to be professional with this. We are scientists, we investigate the unexplained. In the meantime, Barry go home and don't do anything rash. We will do whatever we can to help you understand this."
As he was walking home he saw a car speeding away from the police, but unfortunately the car was too fast for the cops to catch it. Then he got an idea, after he smiled he ran into an alley and changed into his suit before he sped out of the other end to catch the car. Once he passed the car he stopped in front of it and smiled at the driver which freaked him out. Before the driver could do anything Barry ran into the car and proceeded to push it till it was angled at a light post. A few seconds before the cops arrived he ran home, but his smile faltered when he saw Caitlyn standing there with her hands on her hips.
"Barry. You were supposed to be taking it slow, and not doing anything rash," said Caitlyn angrily and in concern.
Barry sighed as he took his mask off and said, "Caitlyn. I'm not going to just sit around while people are in danger. If I have the power to save lives, then I have to. I've always wanted to help people, and with this I can. I'm not going to stop, so you can either help me do this or look the other way."
Barry and Caitlyn stared at each other for a long hour before she said angrily, "Fine. At least if I help you, you'll have more chance of surviving this suicide mission of yours."
