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Casey Storm gave me the prompt for today's entry! It's a speedsters team-up, with Bree working alongside the Flash. This was tremendously fun and frazzling at the same time. Thank you for the idea!
Another short note: I know we're at the end of this 'week,' and Adam and Leo in DC 'verse has yet to show. As noted, I did some shuffling to balance things out, and that entry got rescheduled. It'll be here soon, though.
Onto day fourteen we go!
/day fourteen/
Prompt: (from Casey Storm) speedsters team-up
Featured LR character(s): Bree, mainly, but Leo's also here
"Trailblazers"
A brief visit to Central City lands Bree in an accidental partnership with the Flash to stop Captain Cold and Heat Wave.
Central City, in Bree's opinion, is a really nice place. With the high rise buildings, booming city life, and mostly friendly people, she thinks it's very likeable. She didn't want to come here in the beginning, but now, she's actually glad she had.
Well, maybe not so much.
Because neither of their parents could go and because Adam and Chase can't leave the Academy, she has been given the responsibility to go with Leo to visit a college located there. He had applied at the university months before the Academy was built, and recently he received a letter telling him that he was accepted. She and the rest of their family had thought that he would have turned down the offer because of the new school they're now running, but he had surprised them by saying that he wants to see the place because he's heavily leaning towards leaving California and moving here.
Bree had pretended to be indifferent to this decision but actually, she's having a hard time understanding why her little brother would want to move so far away from them.
She smiles at Leo when he walks back to their table with two mugs of steaming beverage. This has only been their second visit to Jitters, the coffee shop closest to the hotel they're staying at, but she's already started to develop a fondness to it. "Okay. One cup of green tea for you," Leo says as he carefully places a mug in front of her, "and one cup of hot cocoa for me."
Bree chuckles. "You were holding them like they were going to explode," she comments.
"They were hot," Leo says factually. He carefully lifts up his cup and drinks cautiously, but the first sip still burns him. "Ooh, hot! Hot!"
Bree rolls her eyes and shakes her head with a grin.
"Man. They're serious about staying warm here, aren't they?" Leo says.
"Of course. It's freezing outside," Bree notes. The grin shrinks into a small smile as she adds, "You think you're going to be okay with this weather?"
Leo grins, his eyes too focused on his drink to see the expression on his sister's face. "Oh, yeah. I'm starting to love it, to be honest. I mean, I know I'm not going to say that once I start experiencing snow storms and blizzards and things like that, but I could definitely get used to this," he says. He tries to take a sip – and succeeds this time. He looks at her. "It's a great place. The university is awesome, the people are nice, and STAR Labs is here. I know it's closed, but still. It's just great having the opportunity to drive by there every day and see it."
Bree nods. "You're really a big fan of that STAR Labs, aren't you?"
"Dr. Harrison Wells is a genius," Leo replies. Then, he amends, "Well, I mean, Big D's a genius, too. I'm not saying that I like Dr. Wells better than him. I'm not—"
Bree laughs. "Relax. I'm not telling Mr. Davenport anything," she says.
"Oh. Okay," Leo says, assured. As he looks at his sister take a sip of the tea, he finally notices what is amiss. "Bree? You're okay with this right?"
"It's your decision, Leo. You're seventeen. You can do what you want to do," Bree says, pretending that she doesn't really mind.
Leo, however, sees right through it. He only stares at her, communicating that he knows.
Bree doesn't give in and remains unfazed. However, after a while, the false front crumbles, and she's left having to tell the truth. She smiles a small smile. "I just don't get why you want to leave," she says. "I feel like there's more to this decision than just wanting to attend school and seeing the place you've always wanted to visit every day."
Leo ponders over his answer as the pressure to do so shifts onto his shoulders. A sad smile pulls on the side of his lips, but before he can answer a commotion by the bar catches their attention.
Almost everyone in the coffee shop has gathered around the television as a live feed shows a situation at a bank not too far away from them. The footages at the scene reveal an intense sight: numerous policemen have gathered a few yards around the entrance of the building, weapons trained ahead and at the ready. The news caster gives more details about an apparent hostage crisis, telling the viewers about that the two suspects whose names they can't hear from where they sit are holding up the people inside the bank as bargaining chips for freedom.
What moves Bree and Leo out of their seats is the mention of the police's past encounter with these two men: one has a gun that blasts ice, the other a gun that blasts fire.
Bree looks at Leo, alarmed and a bit unsure what to do.
Leo understands why. "I had a feeling that something may come up," he says. "I brought my mission bag. Your suit's in there, too."
Bree grins. "Oh, you're a lifesaver, Leo!" she exclaims, giving him a quick hug.
"Of course I am," he says with a smirk. "You go ahead of me. I'll meet you at the bank."
Bree nods. Then, she super speeds out of the coffee shop to get ready for the mission.
…
Bree stops a distance away from the scene to observe before going inside the bank and disarming the robbers. However, she sees that they are outside already, the one in the blue coat and metallic gun clutching onto a panicked teller. Both of them are facing a person in a red suit, regarding him unworriedly. Looking around, she sees that the police have backed away, as if they're leaving the standoff into the hands of the man in red.
Her brows wrinkle. Who is he?
"Flash. Nice to see you," the man in the blue coat says coolly.
"Hostages, Snart?" the man called Flash says.
Snart shrugs. "Desperate times," he replies.
"You have to let her go," he says.
"I can't. She's my ticket out."
"If someone gets hurt, you know what's going to happen."
Snart smiles. "Oh, I know," he says. He nods at the police. "Tell them to back away and let us go."
The man in red shakes his head. "You know I can't do that. You put yourself in this situation," he says.
"Fine. Suit yourself," Snart says before pushing the woman to the ground.
Before she can hit the pavement, Bree speeds forward, grabbing the teller then transferring her where it's safe. The woman stares at her wide eyed when she realizes what just happened. "Are you okay?" Bree asks.
The woman nods shakily. "Y-yeah," she says.
Bree smiles at her. "Okay," she says, and then turns back towards the three men.
All of them are looking at her, the two with the guns unhappily so. The man in red only appears surprised.
Snart holds his gun up towards her as he says, "She's not part of the deal."
Before he can fire it, Bree speeds out of the way.
Unknown to her, the man in red has moved, too, to protect her. He runs towards Snart to push the weapon off his hands. The impact causes it to fly off and Snart to be knocked off his feet.
Seeing what has happened, the other man raises his weapon and begins firing at the blurs. Bree immediately realizes that his reckless aim will hurt the policemen in the front line, so she runs towards them and moves them out of the way. Unlike the first time, she is not able to check their conditions because she's too focused on disarming the two men. She concludes that without the freeze and heat guns, they will not have much of a good defense.
She peeks out from the alley where she has deposited the men to check where the opponents are, but she doesn't find them anywhere. She walks out of the hidden place cautiously, glancing left and right to check, before continuing in her search.
After a few steps, she's startled when someone places a hand on her shoulder. She spins around, ready to fight, but only sees the man in red. "What are you doing here? Who are you exactly?" he asks.
Bree opens her mouth to answer but notices the man with the heat gun appear not too far behind the man in red. Swiftly, she runs towards him, tackling him to the ground with enough force. When he's down, she kicks the gun far away from him. "Who are these guys?" she asks as she walks back to the man in red.
"Heat Wave. Captain Cold," the man in red says as if it should be obvious. His brow wrinkles. "You haven't heard of them?"
She smirks, somewhat offended by what she mistakenly though he's implying. "Nope. I'm not from here," she says.
The man only frowns.
A blast of ice suddenly surges from behind Bree. The man in red's periphery alerts him to this and so moves her out of the way, causing the ice to hit a car and freezing it.
"Okay, if we're going to bring them down, we're going to have to work together," the man said to her after checking their surroundings.
Bree nods, biting her lips as she covers the part of her shoulder that has been hit with the ice.
"Snart knows what to do, and… You got hit?"
Bree shakes her head. "It doesn't matter," she says resiliently. "I've had worse injuries from missions before. I just want this guy put away."
The man still looks worried. "No. I have this. Just sit still here, and I'll take care of it," he says. Then, he's gone.
Bree doesn't heed what he advised. She takes a look from behind the car he hid her at to watch. She finds that the other man, Heat Wave, is back on his feet. "Bringing in another meta in the picture? Not the best idea, is it?" he asks the man in red, who stands in front of him, with a grin.
Bree notices Captain Cold step out from behind the man in red then focusing his gun on him. Knowing what's going to happen next, she runs ahead and moves the man in red out of the way to save him.
However, the poor calculation results in her feet being cemented with ice. The force also causes the man in red to crash then skid on the cement, which has him struggling to get up.
Heat Wave watches Bree with interest as he and Snart come closer. "Oh, this is a new one," he says.
Captain Cold smirks. "You're sticking your nose in grown-ups' business here, little girl," he says. "Haven't your parents taught you not to do that?"
"Leave her out of this, Snart," the man in red demands.
Captain Cold chuckles. "I don't know. I don't like unpredictable people, and she's certainly one of them," he says. He points the freeze gun at Bree. "I hope you don't take this personally."
The man in red poises to tackle him, but before he can move, a blast of energy flings Snart into the air then down onto the street, knocking him out.
Heat Wave looks at his fallen partner in surprise then swivels around to train his heat gun at the newcomer. The fire that shoots from his gun, to his shock, is only absorbed into the person's hand before the energy from it is used to flare him off into unconsciousness.
"Don't touch my sister," Leo tells the unmoving figures on the ground spitefully before focusing his attention on Bree. He hurries to her side then regards her worriedly. "Bree, are you okay?" he asks.
"No, not really," Bree says with a grimace, attempting to move her feet out of the ice but failing at it. "One of them got me."
"Okay, uh, here." Leo places his hand over the part of her shoulder where a thick glaze of ice sits then allows the residual heat he has absorbed from the gun to radiate on it. Once that chunk melts, he moves on to the block on her feet. While he works on it, he comments, "This city's getting better and better every minute." It's then that he notices the man in red standing close by, staring at them, puzzled. "Hello," he says.
The man in red backs away and then speeds off.
Bree snaps her feet out from the remaining ice hurriedly when she finds herself able. She gets up, keeping her eye on the direction the stranger has taken.
Leo gapes. "Whoa. That guy is bionic?" he asks.
Bree shakes her head. "I don't think so. I think he's something else," she says with a look at her brother. "They keep referring to me as another meta."
Leo makes a face. "Meta? What does that mean?" he asks.
"We can find out," she says as questions multiply in a worrisome rate in her mind. She holds her arm out.
Leo looks at it and grins. "I'm always game for a road trip!" he exclaims, holding onto her.
Bree nods. "Hang tight," she says. Then, she takes off, set to find the man who's alike to her and who, twice, has saved her life.
It's just a fact of life now that musicnotes093 cannot write complete fics that involve action sequences within an hour and a half.
Yep. Though it may look it, this is not quite done. Bree and Leo are supposed to find Flash at STAR Labs and to see him without his mask on. They're also supposed to meet Caitlin, Cisco, and Iris - and man I DEFINITELY need to come back to this after the 25 days is over so I can work on it. -_-
Anyways, reviews are appreciated!