Cisco here again! But you would have already guessed. I've been here for three weeks now. Man, I miss my computer… my lab, my friends, my work bench and even that annoying water drinking bird that sits on Caitlin's desk. But I am getting used to this whole "no tech" world. Well there is tech… just not for us… unless we sneak into a library or something. Instead, we play poker in clubs and dance, and drink and fight with other gangs about trivial things, really.
Not the life I would have expected for myself… but here we are. Reyes has explained a lot to me about this place… My opinion is that it's like a mirror world compared to the one I'm from, only different. Though, it's a pocket dimension. Not a real world, in a sense. I am still trying to work it all out.
There is even a STAR Labs… but it's not the STAR Labs that I have come to know back home. I even looked into the life of my friend's dopplegangers.
We already saw what happened to Caitlin… But Barry? Well he is no speedster. There is no Flash here. Instead he is just a simple forensic scientist. I tried to speak with him… but I think I scared him away or something. He is certainly not like the brave Barry that I know.
My best friend Astrid? Her story is all the more tragic… Her whole family died in a car accident a long time ago. Including her, I guess even before the other me had the chance to meet her. Its sad, really. It makes me wonder how different my life could have been if not for her. I learnt about her death by wandering into a library and checking out the history on a public computer with limited time. At least it was something!
I also snuck into a movie theatre… they were screening Harry Potter? Would you believe it? Somethings don't change! Even when you travel to an alternate dimension! That was pretty cool… until Reyes and our goonies found me. Reyes told me that I need to stop making things seem so obvious that I am not actually Paco… But, it's just so hard when the man has no taste in anything! Even his dancing is… well it leads a lot to be desired… unlike my smooth moves. Reyes tried to explain the other me's moves… it just doesn't sound like an art at all!
But enough about that, I actually learnt how to control my projectile blast power. For the past week, Reyes and I have been practicing my special moves… One of them being my vibrational projectile blast. I don't think I actually got the hang of it until I had my moment of saving the day. That's generally the way that it happens in the movies.
It's not until our hero is staring intently at their foe. They have had their falls, but then they hear the words of their sensei or the ones they love in their mind and then they achieve the unfathomable. They save the day and they learn that they are in fact a hero.
So let me start at the beginning.
I mentioned that Reyes and I had been working on my special moves, but I left out the part about this girl who is in the gang. She is the one in the photo with the other me. Her name is Gypsy.
She is a pretty cool girl, nothing like my Astrid, but I can see what the other guy sees in her. She is hot, headstrong and she can kick some ass.
We were at the club, playing some serious poker and having a few drinks, when there was a chill in the air… and you guessed it! Who would have made an appearance? Killer Frost. Within minutes the club had turned into a violent version of Santa's North Pole. There was snow everywhere.
Reyes… I mean Blue Beetle… ahem! Was first in the battle. But then Frost froze his blades so he couldn't move.
Gypsy has this really cool power of illusion… She is like a chameleon. Well she tried to camouflage into the wall and sneak up behind Frost… But as she picked up a glass bottle and went to knock her one, Killer Frost saw her and froze her on the spot.
"Caitlin!" I called out at her. "You can't just go around hurting everyone!" I knew that it was not my friend Caitlin but I had a strong belief that there had to be some good in her.
"I haven't heard that name in a long time!" she told me, but she didn't fight me. It was like she was trying to figure out who I was. Fortunately, at that point everyone else had left the room.
"I know who you are. I killed your friend's husband for Thawne… I think his name was Ronnie? and now I will kill you!" I'm certain she said something like that in a very non-Caitlin like fashion. Then she… you know, threw an ice blast at me.
"Ouch!"
But then I imagined everything. I imagined what my friends would say. I even heard their voices in my mind, and I knew that I needed to make it back. Plus, she had just claimed to have killed Ronnie. I needed to show her a lesson and then… BOOM! YEAH BABY! I shot a vibrational projectile at her. She flew backwards and crashed into a few chairs and on to the floor.
And then to make sure it was me, that had done so, I did it again! Yep… "Who's saving the day now!" I blurted out to anyone who might be listening. I was Daniel-San at the end of the first Karate Kid movie and I was ready to continue my journey of being a hero… I might even need to make myself a suit when I get back home! But first I needed to get back home… and for that, I had a long way to go!
So in the end, I was able to free both the Blue beetle and Gypsy and we got back to our poker game… yeah and I lost all my money to them both… and Killer Frost was fine. Reyes stuck her into a locked refrigeration truck... It actually worked and kept her at bay... and I had mastered my first power.
So until next time… Cisco out!
