WRITER'S NOTE: I just wanted to apologize. I've been putting "ADMIN NOTE" instead of "WRITER'S NOTE". My bad. I'm so used to "ADMIN NOTE", because I have a Facebook page. I went back and corrected all of them.
A panic-stricken Kiera ran into Flash's headquarters as the sun was setting. She saw Caitlin pacing before the desk, Cisco sitting at a computer typing frantically, and Detective Joe West and his daughter Iris standing nearby. Their faces showed what Kiera felt- fear.
What happened to Barry? Where was he? He could be in danger at this very moment and they had no clue where he was.
"Kiera!" Caitlin said as she rushed to her. "Do you sense anything? Barry said your connection allows you to sense when the other is in trouble. Is he is trouble?"
Kiera sat down in a nearby chair as she took a deep breath and closed her eyes; frantically trying to read any signals that meant Barry was in danger. After a couple minutes of trying, she shook her head. "I don't feel anything. I haven't all day. I'm sorry."
"There has to be a way to find him," Joe said.
"We tried using the suit's tracking feature, but it's been disabled somehow. And we've tried hacking into the FBI's facial recognition software to use cameras around Central City to find Barry's face. It couldn't find him either," Caitlin said with a frown. She glanced over at Cisco. His eyes were wide as he stared off in space. It looked like he had just inhaled, but hadn't exhaled yet.
"Cisco?" Joe asked as he looked at the young scientist. "Are you okay?"
Cisco didn't move, or even blink for a minute. Then his hands started to shake and he gasped. He looked around as if he didn't realize where he was.
"A vibe. I just had a vibe," he managed as he caught his breath and started to relax.
"What did you see?" Iris asked as they all stepped towards him.
"I saw Barry dressed in his suit. He was-" Cisco paused, confusion written on his face. "He was robbing a store with a woman."
"What? No. No! That's impossible. Barry wouldn't do that. He's a hero, not a thief!" Kiera said loudly.
"There must be a reasonable explanation," Caitlin stated, trying to remain calm. "Can you try to use your connection to see what he sees?" she asked as she turned to Kiera.
"I can try," Kiera said and nodded. She closed her eyes and focused on Barry. She thought about seeing through his eyes. It took longer than usual, as if she was fighting to enter his mind. Kiera felt a little dizzy by the time it finally worked. She was seeing what Barry was seeing. He was in a dimly lit room. There were lit glass counters containing sparkling jewelry all around him.
"He's in a jewelry store," Kiera said to the team. "I can't tell which one. It's dark."
Through Barry's eyes, Kiera saw a form walking towards him as he picked up a necklace from a broken counter in front of him. Kiera's heart raced, expecting this person to attack, but then his eyes focused on the person and she realized it was a woman who looked to be in her late twenties. She her smile displayed her greed and excitement. She was wearing a skin-tight black and red leather body suit that showed off her slender figure and displayed her cleavage. Her bright green eyes sparkled from behind a small black eye mask that concealed her identity and her curled black hair had deep red highlights. Barry didn't move away from the woman or try to fight her, instead he placed a diamond necklace with a large ruby in the center around her neck and she smiled wider.
Kiera's unknowingly formed fists. Who was this woman? What had she done to Barry? Why was he stealing jewelry for her?
"What is it?" Caitlin asked Kiera as she watched her tense up.
Caitlin's voice snapped her back to reality. She blinked and her vision returned to her own eyes.
"I saw the woman. She's in a leather suit. It looks like they are robbing the store together," Kiera said as she shook her head. Why would Barry rob a store? And why did he trust this woman?
"Do you know where?" Joe asked.
Kiera closed her eyes again and tried to focus on Barry again. "He's still in the city," she said and tried again. "I can't pinpoint the location for some reason. It's like I'm being blocked." Kiera said as she opened her eyes, looking as confused as the others in the room. Cisco pointed to his top lip as he looked at Kiera, trying to tell her something. Kiera looked confused and then put her finger to her top lip. She felt a warm liquid and as she pulled her finger away, she saw it was blood. All of her efforts to try to find Barry had affected her.
"I'll keep trying," Kiera said, not wanting to give up so easily. She closed her eyes again and tried over and over to locate Barry.
An alarm sounded a few minutes later and Cisco looked up at the screen. "We might have just caught a break!" he said as he read what was on the monitor before him. "A jewelry store robbery in progress at Luxury Diamonds Jewelry Store on 21st street."
Kiera stood up and pulled off her clothes again to reveal her Telegirl suit. At first, Cisco's jaw dropped and he stood up, not sure why she was taking her clothes off in front of all of them- though he wasn't complaining. "Uh you're doing that out here?" He asked, his voice cracking as he asked. Then they saw the grey, blue and silver suit and he closed his mouth. "Right, you had your suit on underneath. Smart." He sat back down awkwardly and returned his gaze to the computer before him.
"Can I take the van again?" Kiera asked as she put the mask on, referring to the time when she hotwired the S.T.A.R. Lab's van in order to get to the precinct to save The Flash from Nightsense.
Caitlin walked over and handed her the brain activity-monitoring circlet. "Sure," she said as she nodded.
"I'll drive you," Joe volunteered and Cisco threw him the keys.
"Thank you," Kiera said as she followed the detective out of the lab.
A few minutes later, the van pulled up along in front of the jewelry store. Before it could stop, Telegirl hopped out and ran into the store. Joe followed her a few seconds later.
Telegirl stopped in her tracks as she saw the two thieves.
The Flash stood before the black and red woman that Kiera saw earlier. They did not seem to be in a rush to leave with their stolen goods, like most thieves who don't want to get caught.
"You're under arrest! Hands behind your head!" Joe said as he aimed his gun at the woman. "Move away, Flash!"
The woman turned towards them and smirked, speaking in a sultry voice. "Well well, look who's here, Flashie, your little sidekick. And she brought the police," she added as she turned her gaze towards Joe, then back to Telegirl. "I saw you on the news. What's your name again? Telephone? Tele-something right?"
"Telegirl," Kiera spat out, starting to get annoyed by this villainous woman. She glanced over at The Flash, who was standing next to the woman and hadn't spoken a word. She noticed he looked at them with a blank expression, as if he didn't recognize Joe or Kiera.
"Ah, Telegirl. That's right." The woman ran her finger over the diamond and ruby necklace she wore, the same one Kiera saw Barry put around her neck earlier.
"Hands behind your head!" Joe repeated and glanced over at Kiera, her confused face mirroring his own.
"Oh, no. No. That won't happen. You see, officer, I have a life to live. And it's not going to be in jail," the red and black woman said before turning back to The Flash.
"Flashie, please show this two out. We need to get on our way now," she said in a voice as smooth as velvet as she looked into The Flash's eyes. Kiera watched confused. Why would Barry listen to this woman?
The Flash nodded his head at the woman and in a blink of an eye Kiera and Joe found themselves outside. They had heard the woman laugh- a laugh that almost sounded evil- as they were taken outside. Joe stepped forward and looked down over the edge.
"That's not good," he mumbled. Kiera followed and looked down also. Far below Joe and Kiera, cars drove up and down the street. They were on top of the building. Kiera turned and scanned the roof for a door that led down off the roof. Finally spotting what she was looking for, she ran towards it.
Kiera pulled on the door's handle, but the door didn't budge. "It's locked from the inside," she said as she tried to wiggle the handle. Joe holstered his gun and frowned. "Guys, is there any other way down?" she asked into the microphone.
"That's the only way… unless you want to jump," Cisco said and received a glare from Caitlin. "Actually!" he leaned forward in his chair as a thought came to him.
"What?" Caitlin asked in a tone that said she knew she'd regret asking later.
"I've been doing research and-" He paused. "I think Kiera could use her Telekinesis to make herself fly."
"What?" Kiera asked, stunned.
"What kind of research? Science Fiction movies?" Caitlin muttered as she glared at him.
"No!" Cisco said quickly, acting shocked that Caitlin would even think that.
"Well a guess isn't good enough," Kiera said as she returned to the edge of the roof and looked down at the street below. She could fall to her death and be no more than a splat on the road. Yes, they needed to get back down there to stop the woman and get The Flash back, but this was extreme!
"It should work. It will work!" Cisco insisted.
"It's too risky…" Caitlin said.
"What are they saying?" Joe asked as he watched Kiera's scared reaction.
"Cisco thinks I can use my Telekinesis to fly down there," she said as she stared down the side of the building.
"Fly?"
"Well actually it's not really flying. Not like using wings like Hawkgirl, but more like you can make your self float and move through the air. " Cisco explained to Kiera.
"Who's Hawkgirl?" she asked, confused.
"Never mind," Cisco mumbled.
"Kiera this is too risky. We'll find another way to get you down," Caitlin said into the microphone.
"Barry's down there. Who knows what that woman will make him do next," Kiera said and inhaled deeply to calm herself as she tried to convince herself it would work. "I have to try."
"What? No! Bad idea!" Joe shouted and looked at her as if she was crazy. "This has to be the stupidest idea Cisco has ever had!"
"Hey!" Cisco said offended, even though Joe couldn't hear him.
"If I don't make it, tell Barry I had a great time the other night," Kiera muttered before inhaling again and stepping up onto the roof's short parapet wall.
"We can find another way!" Caitlin said into the microphone, trying to convince Kiera not to jump.
Joe stepped forward and reached out to try to pull Kiera back, but she jumped feet first before he could grab a hold of her arm.
Kiera tried to remain calm as she fell. She tried to not focus on the fast approaching street or the wind blowing back her hair, but instead on trying to make her self float in midair. She closed her eyes tight and focused as hard as she could on stopping her falling body.
Thirty seconds passed. Kiera thought she would have hit the ground by now. She regained her senses and realized there wasn't any more wind. Did she hit the ground and paralyze herself? Was that why she couldn't feel anything? Or maybe she was dead?
Kiera slowly opened her eyes. Everything slowly started to come into focus. She saw herself in a mirror. No, not a mirror, it was dark windows on the side of a building standing before her. She looked at her feet in the reflection. They weren't touching anything. She was floating. She slowly looked down at her feet and then past them. She was floating about ten feet from the ground. She exhaled quickly, not realizing she had been holding her breath. Kiera had succeeded at making her self float. She remembered why she had jumped off in the first place and quickly made her body float down to the ground.
Telegirl ran back into the jewelry store and looked around for the woman and The Flash, but the shop was empty and all the jewelry was gone.
Kiera sighed. "They're gone," she said into the suit. Kiera felt disappointment in her self for not being able to catch them. What if she had gotten there sooner? Maybe she could have caught them. Maybe she could have saved Barry.
Kiera took off her mask as she entered the lab's main room. After arriving too late back at the jewelry store she went up the building's stairs and helped Joe off the roof.
Kiera placed the circlet on the table and frowned. Hundreds of questions ran over and over in her head. Some of them being:
Who was this woman in red and black?
How did she get to Barry?
How did she control him like that?
Where was he now?
What was she going to do to him now?
Caitlin frowned as she saw Kiera' s expression. "It wasn't your fault," the young doctor whispered. "We will find them. We will get Barry back."
Kiera looked up slowly and Caitlin saw the hurt and confusion in her eyes. Kiera couldn't get over how Barry had acted around that woman. "He didn't even remember us," she muttered.
"Dude! I think it's mind control!" Cisco said as he watched the footage again from Kiera's suit cam and the store's security cameras.
"Mind control?" Kiera asked curiously as the two women walked over to watch also.
Joe was on the phone with his boss and ended the call when he heard Cisco's guess. He walked back in and stood behind the women, curious as well.
"Yes, watch when she looks at Barry," Cisco said as he rewound the recordings. He pressed play and zoomed in on the woman's and Barry's faces. When the woman turned to Barry and told him what to do, they looked at low-resolution footage of Barry's eyes. It lasted only a second, but Kiera could have sworn his eyes turned completely white. Kiera felt her stomach do a somersault and her heart pound in her chest. This woman was controlling everything Barry did. Who knows what she would do next.
Kiera stepped back, stunned, and bumped into Joe. "Sorry, I…" she couldn't even form a sentence. Her mind was jumbled. She stepped around the detective and then ran out of the room before tears could come to her eyes.
Nearly blinded by her tears, Kiera ran as best she could until she made it out into the night air. She managed to make it to the bench overlooking the river before her legs gave out from under her. She pulled herself onto the bench and looked out at the city across the dark water.
This might have seemed like an overreaction for most people, but to Kiera it felt like she was totally alone again. The same feeling she felt on the day her parents died and then the day her grandmother died. She was just starting to feel like someone actually cared for her again, but now Barry was who knows where doing who knows what and not being able to think for him self. She was utterly alone again. What if they never find him? And he's stuck doing that woman's bidding until she's done with him?
Out of desperation and fear, Kiera tried to reach Barry's mind again. She knew it had a very slim chance of working, but she had to try. She just wanted to talk to him.
Barry? Where are you? I'll find you. I promise, she said mentally.
For a few brief seconds, Kiera felt a change. She felt relief. She felt love. She felt him.
Barry? Is that you? Can you hear me? she asked again, trying to find him mentally.
Kiera? came an answer. It was very faint, but Kiera knew she hadn't imagined it. Suddenly she felt as if she was yanked away. She felt alone again. He was gone again. But not before she got a reading on where he was and that he was scared.
Kiera jumped up from the bench and ran back into S.T.A.R. Labs. Once she reached the room, she grabbed onto the wall's edge and tried to catch her breath.
"I know where he is! I know where Barry is!"
WRITER'S NOTE: There you have it! Kiera learned she can make her self fly/float! You guys voted for it, so I made it happen. (: Kiera/Telegirl's abilities are stronger when she's in the heat of the moment. Her intense emotions help her abilities emerge.
The moment when Kiera enter's Barry's mind and looks through his eyes is sort of inspired by a new show called "Stitchers" that I've been watching. If any of you watch it, you'll see how similar it is to what they do in the show.
And I've been thinking about a Meta-human name for this Mind-controlling woman. What do you guys think of "Ruby Siren"?
If any of you have anything better, please put the name ideas in your review or PM me. Thanks so much! (:
I have to thank you all for consistently reviewing! You guys are awesome! Your reviews help keep my ideas flowing and keep the Writer's Block at bay! (: So please keep reviewing. (: Your feedback is amazing!