Test Run

Previously on A Superflash Story:
Kara was standing there looking at me shocked. I had no idea what was happening to me, but I was scared.

Kara POV:
I looked as Barry pulled himself out of the laundry truck, shoes still smoking. Barry looked terrified by what had just happened, and I was just confused. He had no powers before he went into the coma, but now he has superspeed, the only variable during this time frame is the lightning bolt. But people get struck by lightning all the time and they never get superpowers, so maybe the particle accelerator had something to do about it, it did release a wave of dark matter, strong enough that we could detect it in the fortress.

I called Winn and told him to head straight to STAR labs, I needed to talk to him about something, and then I called Cisco and informed him that I was bringing Barry back, but that something had happened that I couldn't really explain.

During all of this Barry was just looking at me, and I explained what I had planned.

"Hey babe, we are going to STAR labs. I think the lightning strike affected you more than I thought, Winn is going to join us, as he has experience with superpowers. We will figure out what is happening, I promise."

"But, what do you think it is?"

"I think that it was the lightning strike, I can't explain how but I am pretty sure that that is the cause of your sudden speed.

"This would also explain a lot, your racing pulse, the fact that the machines thought that your heart had stopped beating, but in reality, it was just beating to fast. I might even explain why your muscles have developed more. We would have to run some tests, we know nothing about your condition, but I promise you I will keep you safe."

Barry just hugged me as I came to the end of my rant, and I could tell that he was just as concerned as I was. Grabbing Barry I flew us to STAR labs, I didn't even bother to change into my suit I just flew and landed right inside the building. I made Cisco jump.

Everyone but Winn was there, but I knew that he wasn't much farther away. Caitlin and Cisco were already waiting for me, as was Dr Wells. When Wells saw me he narrowed his eyes, I knew that he didn't know my true identity before, but he does now. Dr Wells was the first to speak up.

"Ms Danver's, or should I say Supergirl, why did you call us all here?"

"Let's wait for Winn to arrive before I explain what is going on. I don't want to have to keep on explaining it."

"Well, how long is your friend going to be?"

"If I am hearing correctly he is about ten minutes out, so just hold your horses."

Wells just rolled his eyes and wheeled into the other room. I told Barry that I would be back and I followed him.

"Wells, I know that you are not who you say you are, and I know that you probably know what is going on with Barry, but I have no proof. So I will keep my mouth shut about you if you keep your mouth shut about me."

"For Mr Allen, and the people standing in there I am sure that we can come to some kind of an agreement."

He held out his hand and I reluctantly shook it, I didn't want to make this agreement but I knew that this would be the only way that I could keep mine and Barry's secret. After all, if I was to show them the secret room, then people would wonder how I found it when no one else did.

I came back into the Cortex and Cisco and Caitlin were looking at me funny.

"It's okay, I just wanted to make sure that he is going to keep my secret."

"Oh okay."

At that moment Winn came rushing into the Cortex. "What... Is... The... Emergency?"

"Catch your breath Winn, it is not exactly an emergency but a development has occurred."

"What... Development? Phew. Oh, hey Barry. It is good to see you up and about mate, we have missed you."

"It is good to see you again Winn, even though to me I only saw you a couple of days ago."

Everyone laughed, but it hurt me that it was true. To Barry, no time has passed at all, yet for all of us, the world has kept turning. But this was not the time dwell on that fact, a fact that Caitlyn brought to our attention.

"This is nice and all, but Barry I need to finish giving you your physical. And we need to start weaning you on to solids and..."

"Caitlin, I know that you need to do these things but there is a bigger issue to contend with. Umm, I don't really know how to say this, without sounding weird. But... Ummm... Barry?"

"Well this is going to sound weird but... Umm... earlier... you know when... Kara?"

"Well... Hahaha... this is kind of funny but... Umm, it seems that Barry might have superspeed."

Barry POV:
Everyone just stared at us after Kara's statement, Winn looked excited, Caitlin looked disbelieving, Cisco looked like he was planning something and Dr Wells, well Dr Wells looked almost smug like he knew that this was coming.

Cisco was the first one to break the silence. "Dude, are you serious?"

"I swear on Rao, Cisco, that I saw Barry speed up. And being someone with superspeed I know exactly what I saw."

Caitlin piped up. "It is impossible, people don't just come out of comas, suddenly with superpowers."

"Well, why don't we go somewhere where we could show you? Somewhere I could run without crashing into things."

Cisco and Dr Wells just looked at each other, smiling. "Man I think we know just the place, we just need to get the van."

Cisco loaded up the STAR labs van and drive us all to a hangar with an airstrip that STAR labs own. Once there Cisco gave me a red and black lycra suit to get into, it was, err, it was very fetching. Yeah, let's say that it was fetching, and very tight. When I walked out of the trailer I saw Kara suited up in her supergirl suit, I had to say she looked amazing. It was like she was a different person in that suit, more confident and more sure of herself.

She must have heard me exit the van because as soon as I stepped out of the van she turned to face me. I could tell that she was trying not to laugh, but she was failing.

"Oh... Hahaha... Barry... Hahaha... that is just... Hahaha... Oh, ah, sorry I just... Hahaha."

"Yeah yeah, laugh it up, Kara. You love this sexy bod really."

She walked over to me and hugged and kissed me. "Yeah I do, but please never wear that in public."

"I promise, I will only wear it for you." I started to kiss Kara, but Cisco interrupted us.

"Well, at least you will be moving so fast that people won't be able to see you." I looked at Cisco, puzzled. "You see Kara was right you only thought that the world was slowing down, but in reality, you were speeding up. Dr Wells is going to be monitoring your energy output, and Caitlin your vitals..."

"And what about you and Winn, what are your roles in all of this?"

Cisco looked back over at Winn, psyched to see another nerd in the team. "Winn will be tracking Supergirl and her energy levels and vitals. As for me. Well, I make all the toys." Cisco held up a device that looked like it had lightning bolts on it. "This is a two-way headset, with a camera on it, typically designed to combat battle impulse noise, or in your case potential sonic booms. Which would be awesome."

As Cisco was fitting the headset to my helmet I overheard Caitlin and Dr Wells talking.

"Dr Wells, you don't really believe that he can run at the speeds that the two of them say he can do you?"

"I believe anything is possible after all Ms Danvers over there can fly and lift a building, why can't Mr Allen run incredibly fast."

She just shrugged, I suppose believing in aliens is easier than believing that a perfectly normal human could just suddenly develop super speed. She headed this way and fiddles about with a tablet, and a device that she had strapped to my chest, to monitor my vitals.

"Thank you."

She looked at me, surprised by the fact that I just spoke to her. "Thank you? For what?"

"For looking after Kara while I was in my coma, and for not revealing her secret."

"It is not my secret to tell, and you're welcome. Okay, Barry is all set, Winn, sorry Telle, what about Supergirl?"

"We are good to go Caitlin."

Dr Wells wheeled towards me, and he looked serious now, a stark contrast to everyone else around us. "Mr Allen, while I am eager to determine the full range of your abilities, I do caution restraint." I nodded and moved towards the start line.

Kara POV:
Barry and I lined up at the start line, he did look ridiculous in his lycra suit, with that stupid helmet on. But we were not here to discuss fashion faux pas we were here to see just how Barry's new-found speed actually works.

I was here to race alongside Barry as a control because we know how my powers work and what speeds I can do comfortably, and I am also here to help see things from a ground perspective. Barry will be moving too fast to see with the naked eye unless your eye can also move at super speed as well as having telescopic and microscopic vision.

Wells was right though, Barry did need to caution restraint, I am physically able to move at these speeds due to the yellow sun, but I don't know how this works with Barry.

So we lined up and took our starting positions. Cisco counted us down and we were off. And Barry was fast, faster than even I imagined. The force of us moving at that speed blew everyone back and I could hear Caitlin exclaim in shock. Winn started to inform me of the speed that we were going, I knew that I was nowhere near my top speed yet, but I wanted to stick a little behind Barry so I could observe. And what I saw surprised me.

There was a force around him, it was like lightning, yellow lightning, and it was everywhere. When Barry turned to face me I could see the lightning sparking in his eyes, it was a part of him and I wondered if he could control electricity too. Barry was fast, faster than me on land, and I was also curious as to why he wasn't carving up the tarmac as he ran.

Barry POV:
I couldn't believe the speed that I was running, I must have been grinning like a Chesire Cat. Kara was just behind me and I could see that she wasn't even really trying to keep up, but I wasn't really trying as well. I could hear Caitlin in my ear mentioning that I was moving at over 200 miles an hour.

It was astounding, I could still see everything clearly, it really was just like the entire world was moving in slow motion. I wonder if this is what the world looks like for Kara when she is flying at these supersonic speeds, I wonder if she sees the world in slow motion, and with her heightened vision, it could be amazing. I also noticed that there was like yellow lightning surrounding me, yet it didn't hurt me. It actually felt... Well, it felt good, like my body was being charged up, I feel powerful.

Then I remembered something from the night my mother was killed. There was almost like a lightning storm with red and yellow lightning, and the man in yellow. What if the man in yellow was just like me? What if he had super speed too? What if...

Kara POV:
Everything was going well, but all of a sudden it was like Barry became distracted, he tripped over his own feet and crash-landed into the cardboard boxes. I raced over, calling the others to get up here, and checked over Barry. He had managed to break his wrist, the break was clean yet it would still take about six weeks to heal. Yet by the time that we got Barry back to STAR labs his wrist had already started to heal, visibly.

I couldn't believe it, when I x-rayed his wrist it was a fresh break, yet by the time that Caitlin x-rayed it, it looked like the break was a week old. Barry was healing, and fast. At the rate that he was healing his wrist would be fixed in just three hours. Caitlin ran a few more tests but she wouldn't have any of the results for a few more weeks yet.

During this time Barry explained to everyone what caused his momentarily lapse of concentration, it still breaks my heart every time I hear his story. He had this feeling like he was not the only one who had powers like this, I know that it is true because he tried to kill me, and I believe Alex. For now though I will keep that to myself, I will tell him soon when the time is right.

So I was right, after three hours Barry's hand was completely healed. And after checking it out Barry was discharged. We wanted to go back to my place, but Joe was adamant that Barry was going to be coming home for the night, so we headed to Joe's and before we entered we agreed that we wouldn't mention to Joe what happened today.