Missing Relic

"Jesse, he's gonna be fine, I promise. He wouldn't want you here sulking, he'd want you up and moving around. And if you are still interested in the hero business then that includes training, proper sleep and more importantly eating." Caitlin had tried for the fifth time to get Jesse out of the medbay in looking alive again. Since the accident she had just stayed by Wally's side waiting for him to wake up. She barely ate and though she slept, Caitlin had explained that a plastic rolling chair wasn't a proper place to sleep.

Jesse looked up, bags under her eyes, and opened her mouth to protest but then slowly shut it as if to admit defeat. She stood up and let go of Wally's hand, letting it fall to his side. "You're right, I'll go and clean up, I feel gross now that you mention it. Just, please tell me if anything happens." Caitlin nodded a promise. Jesse sped out of the room and Caitlin entered the cortex.

"So, I have good news and bad news," Cisco announced as he too walked into the cortex from the hallway a few seconds later. Caitlin walked to his side and studied the tablet he was using.

"Bad news first, just rip the bandaid," Caitlin suggested.

"Bad news is, still have no clue how Tell escaped from Iron Heights."

"And the good news?"

Cisco swiped over a few screens and revealed a design of a suit. Yellow in color, red leggings and a white symbol with a red lightning bolt. "Turned out pretty cool right?" Caitlin gave him a disappointed look. " Ok, no costume designing right now, but I sketch when I'm stressed." Caitlin rolled her eyes and sat down in her chair. Barry came walking in a few moments later.

"Hey guys," his attention turned to the medbay," where's Jesse?"

"I was able to get her out and told her to get proper sleep and eat." Caitlin informed him.

"Cool, been thinking it was time to get her out and about in the field again. Which brings me to Tell, figure out how he did it?"

"Nope, you said nothing in the bathroom seemed out of the ordinary, I even pulled up schematic of the prison and it shows no previous passage ways or tunnels built in that area." Cisco gave the news with a sound of distaste.

Barry ran his hands through his hair, annoyed that they couldn't find out how Tell had pulled a Houdini. He was tempted to visit Iron Heights as the Flash and interrogate Tell, but he knew if wouldn't lead anywhere. "Well, if you find anything out lemme know, he can't have him escaping again." Barry felt his phone buzz and fished it out of his pocket. It was a text from Joe.

"Warehouse. Hit hour ago. No one hurt, but all witnesses say they felt nauseas and then passed out. Possible meta? Need you and Cisco"

"There was a warehouse on the edge of the city that was hit. Joe thinks it could be meta-human, says he needs you and I," he addressed Cisco.

"Alright, lemme grab my things."


Barry sped the two to the address of the warehouse, out of sight of anyone, and popped inside. As they entered they show police standing around, medics taking care of workers and Singh and Joe having a conversation. They approached the captain and detective. Joe turned and faced them.

"So, what we know right now is that, luckily, no one was injured. They just all passed out simultaneously. We've also been told that this warehouse is full of old antique's, pretty rare stuff. The problem is," Joe motioned

"We don't know what they stole." Singh finished for him. "Now we don't have if we are dealing with a group of professionals or a meta human, which is why I'm hoping Mr. Ramon will shine some like on the subject and help us out."

"Captain Singh, I've told you before, call me Cisco. My friends call me Cisco and I," Cisco moved to Singh's side," consider us to be friends. Right, David?"

Singh eyed him down," Don't call me David and unless you want me to cuff you, remove the arm."

Cisco quickly took his arm back and backed away," you know I'll just be over here-doing my thing." Cisco ducked away and went to work.

"So you have nothing to go off of as to what was stolen?" Barry asked.

"We have the storage log but by the time we checked the whole warehouse, these guys will have skipped town." Singh noted. "We-" he was interrupted by his phone," Excuse me I need to take this." He opened his phone and left Barry and Joe.

Joe shared a looked with Barry and Barry nodded. They looked around to make sure no one was looking directly at them. Next thing he knew, Joe heard a rush of air move by his side and then another. He turned and saw Barry. "Damn, that was fast even for you."

"I got mad skills. Anyway, I looked at the log, scanned the house and the antique taken was some kinda relic. I can run the info on it back at STAR LABS."

"Sounds like a plan," Joe nodded at Cisco as he walked up," Anything?"

"Meta alright, possibly two. I'm getting strong readings of dark matter everywhere."

"Ok, well you two see what you can find at STAR LABS. I'll be there later to check up on Wally and see if you found anything." Barry and Cisco nodded. Barry was about to grab Cisco and run back to the labs but Cisco stopped him.

"Can I breach us, the run was fine but I had a breakfast burrito this morning and I felt pretty victorious it didn't come up when we got here. I don't, however, trust a second trip."

"Sure"

They two disappeared to the back of the warehouse. Cisco opened a portal and they jumped through.


"So I pulled the security feed up from the cameras in the warehouse," Caitlin informed them. She played the footage. They watched as a few workers went about their day just to then all appear to get dizzy, as if to be in a drunken state, fall over and pass out. They then saw two figures come out of seemingly nowhere, and make their way over to a stack of crates with boxes stacked atop. Caitlin paused the video and zoomed in on the figures. They noticed that it had been a man and woman.

"Facial recognition identifies them as Sam Scudder and Rosa Dillon. Criminal records, apparently linked to each other. They've been a couple in crime for a few years before Sam was assumed to have been killed a few years ago-"

"Assumingly around the same time as the particle accelerator went off?" Barry suggested

"Bingo," Caitlin confirmed," after his opposed death, Rosa disappeared.

"And she's a meta too then," Barry asked.

"Not entirely sure, possibly, she wasn't arrested at any point after his disappearance. I guess after he came back from here he was he found her and they decide to start up the criminal business again."

"Well you know what they say, couples who steal together stay together." Cisco added.

"Any idea what they stole?" Barry asked.

"I ran all the information you gave me on the relic and it seems to have been some sort of necklace." Caitlin pulled up a picture of what looked like a necklace with brown stones lining the lining, with a brown crystal in the middle. "Say's that it was shipped from an African village of Zambezi."

"Zambezi? Isn't that where Mari, Vixen, is from?" Cisco asked

"Yeah, and if this necklace is anything like her totem, then we have to get it back from these two before they do any damage. Can you run facial recognition through the city, hopefully they are still in the city." Cisco nodded and went away typing on his computer.

Barry studied the camera footage, looking as the couple retreated off screen. He couldn't tell where they had disappeared to. He decides to grab his suit and ran back to the warehouse. Everyone had cleared out and he was the only on there. He studied the area near where the two had seemed to appear from nowhere and then leave. He saw nothing. Just crates, a small office, and forklifts. He turned to leave but caught a glimpse of something in the reflection of the window peering into the office. He looked up to see the face of the man he had just seen in the security footage, standing directly behind him. He turned on his heels, ready to fight, only to turn and see no one there. 'What the-'his brain thought. He looked back at the window and didn't see the man. He was so confused that he did a triple take, checking the window and then behind him. He could have sworn he saw Sam Scudder standing behind him, but he was alone. 'What the hell?' his thought. He didn't know what was going on and had no idea what else was to come.


Hope you guys like the chapter. No long end box of text this time other than me apologizing to the lateness, classes got a tad bit crazy thats why it's also not the longest chapter. Anyway, hope you enjoy. Chapter 27 coming soon