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Chapter 28

Age 26

Central City

Sebastian walked into CC Jitters. He finally caught up with his workload. And with Zoom gone and the breeches closed, he thought he can finally catch a breath now that his brother isn't chasing some psychopathic speedster.

That was until he saw his brother walk into the coffee shop with a frown on his face. His usual up beat really fast brother was looking bored and tired. Which is very unusual for the speedster.

"Hey, Care Bear. What's with the long face?" Sebastian said poking his brother on the side.

"Hey Seb." Barry said with a deep sigh. "Nothing, just some… Flash Problems."

"Anything I can do to help?"

"Not unless you know how to get my speed back."

"What?" Sebastian demanded silently. Barry gave him a look while he gave his order and waited for his coffee.

"What the hell happened I thought you guys closed all the breaches. And with Jesse here I doubt Wells will be after your speed for Zoom again." Sebastian demanded as soon as the both of them were out of the coffee shop.

"Yeah about that." Barry said rubbing the back of his neck. "So, I wasn't about to let Earth two suffer in the hands of Zoom. And…"

Barry hesitates.

"And?"

He sighed. "And I got Cisco to open a breach and Zoom took Wally."

"Wait what!" Sebastian demanded. "Where's Wally now?"

"He's back at Joe's. Zoom wanted my speed for Wally. And I cannot just let Wally die." Barry said rubbing his face with his hand. "So, he took my speed and Caitlin back to Earth two."

Sebastian hit Barry at the back of the head hard.

"Hey!" Barry cried. "You know I'm having a lousy day as it is. You don't need to make it worse."

"Well sometimes, you need your older brother to slap you at the back of the head for you to realize that your sense of righteousness needs to be backed with some common sense." Sebastian said. "Honestly Barry with a high IQ like yours you should've been able to be anticipate this kind of problem."

"I get it. I get it." Barry snapped. "This is all my fault. You don't need to rub it in."

"I am not rubbing it in." Sebastian remarked. "I am being realistic. You find out that Jay was Zoom. Well big deal. You also know one thing. Zoom is dying. That's why he is looking to take someone's speed. You could've left him as is and he will die."

"Eventually."

"Yes." Sebastian said. "But he will die. Without a Flash, Earth two will be filled with Metahumans of that Earth. But they had their own police system that managed them without a Flash."

Barry just glared at his brother.

Sebastian sighed. "I know that he betrayed you. It was like Thawne all over again. Open your freaking eyes Barry no one in this world is as black and white as you think they are."

"I don't need this right now." Barry said. "You don't know what I've been going through."

"Yes. I don't." Sebastian said. "But unlike you. I'm not always lucky."

"Luck?" Barry asked incredulous. "You think I'm lucky? I've had people die on me. Scars and bruises on places I can barely explain in a physical exam. Hell, I got struck by Lightning!"

"And you are still alive." Sebastian pointed out. "I may not be a metahuman. I may not have powers. But believe me I've been where you have. Betrayed, Blackmailed. Having the pressure of leading a team…"

"This isn't like your stupid little Glee Club Sebastian."

"No, it's not." Sebastian admitted with his own glare. "Because what happened to us is while we were in our teens. You are an adult Barry. Act like it."

Barry started walking away angrily.

"Barry!" Sebastian called causing Barry to stop but not look at Sebastian. "I know in a way this my fault. I didn't want you to be burdened with all the things that was thrown in our face when mom died. I protected you from all the bullshit being responsible can be. But You need to grow up. Joe isn't going to protect you from everything. And I sure can't especially with your new powers. But know that if you fall I will still be there to help you back up. If you need me. I will be here."

Barry didn't say anything as he walked towards CCPD.

Sebastian nodded his head. He said his piece. It's up to Barry whether or not he heeds his words. He headed to work pulling a face when he realized that his coffee was no longer as hot as he preferred.

~()~

Hunter and Sebastian were having a quiet evening in doing some work when they heard a knock on the door. Hunter went to answer the door while Sebastian continued to look through his court notes.

Hunter opened the door surprised to see Barry on the other side.

"Barry."

"Hey Hunter." Barry said sheepishly. "Is Seb home?"

"Yeah." Hunter said opening the door to let Barry in. "Come on in. I'll go get him."

Barry sat on the couch as Hunter went to fetch Sebastian.

Sebastian came out of their bedroom wearing his pajamas and glasses still perched on his nose.

"Hey."

"Hey."

"So, what's up?" Sebastian asked gently

"You were right." Barry admitted reluctantly. "For so long. Everything was like a big game. Dealing with metahumans I guess made it a little less real. And now with Zoom. And Caitlin. I guess with my speed it was so easy to take so many shortcuts. It feels like I've had it easy."

"I never said you've had it easy." Sebastian said sitting beside Barry on their couch. "We both have it pretty easy after mom died. We both got really lucky."

"I guess after seeing how our lives could've been at Earth two then seeing how Jay turned out after losing both his parents. I realized it could've been either of us. If it wasn't for Uncle Alex, for Joe. What happened to Jay could've been either of us."

"I don't think either of us would've become a Serial killer Barry."

"How did you know?"

"Barry, Zoom killed hundreds of people. It's no secret he's a serial killer."

"Oh." Barry sighed. "That's what you meant. Turns out that Zoom is a serial killer even before he was Zoom. "

"I am no longer surprised."

"I am sorry, Bas." Barry said. "I hate this. I hate being so helpless. Especially since I brought this danger to our world."

"Well you hate being in helpless. Do something about it."

"Harry thinks that he knows a way for me to be able to get my speed back."

"How?"

"By recreating the Particle Accelerator explosion."

"What?!" Sebastian demanded looking at him with wide eyes. "Getting struck by lightning again?"

"What other choice do I have?"

~()~

"Barry there's a high-speed chase heading south on Milton Ave." Cisco said his hand on a joystick while they were watching the high-speed chase from the birds' eye view of the S.T.A.R. Labs Satellite.

"Alright." Barry said then ran towards the side lab where Sebastian was walking around the room with a treadmill.

Sebastian was strapped with small lights that connect to a machine. "You know when I said I would help I didn't think you would ask me to work out."

"You offered, Bas."

"I know." He said running on the treadmill.

"Alright guys get ready to bring it!" Cisco called. As Sebastian started to pick up the pace. Barry was watching the speedometer curiously. Something seems off.

"They're headed to the fifth street tunnel." Cisco said. "Satellite cannot project in there."

"You just thought of this now!" Barry demanded.

"I didn't think they would try to out run the Flash."

"Well I am not the Flash. So, they can out run me." Sebastian called sarcastically.

"Not helping, Sebastian!" Cisco and Barry yelled.

"Do the lightning toss." Barry said. "The wind up will block their field of vision."

"Of course." Cisco mumbled. "Alright Cisco this is where countless hours of gaming are about to pay off."

The robbers stopped their car after being blinded by the lightening.

"Yes!" Cisco exclaimed as the cops caught the robbers. Sebastian started to slow down on the treadmill, getting off it barely winded.

"That was great!" Sebastian said high fiving Barry. "I haven't went running in a long time."

"I didn't think this satellite thing was going to work." Iris admitted then high fiving Cisco. "But so far so good."

"Well I mean, I figured if they can get Tupac rapping again in a concert, we could definitely get the flash running around again in Central City."

"It's not going to last." Harry countered.

"There it is." Cisco mumbled.

"It's not going to be long before someone figures out. 'Oh, wait you never touch anything, you never say anything, you never goes indoors.'"

"Okay, well, without Barry's speed, this is as good an idea as any."

"Actually, I beg to differ." Harry said. "I think a better idea, instead of playing "Hoodlums and Holograms" would be to rebuild the particle accelerator to get Barry's speed back."

Barry sighed "Yeah, Wells, that's what you keep saying."

"That's right.

"Your plan involves Barry getting stuck by lightning, again!" Sebastian pointed out with his arms crossed

"and Look at what that explosion did to this city." Cisco said. "Not to mention, last time we tried something like that, we blew a hole in the universe and created, like, 50 portals to your Earth."

Iris interjected. "Which is exactly how Zoom and his henchmen got here in the first place."

"I told you." Harry insisted "I know how to contain the explosion."

"Really?" Barry asked incredulous. "You know how to contain a dark matter explosion that, last time, just radiated all of Central City? You tried this on your Earth, remember? Didn't go so well."

"And, even if you could contain it, I thought you said that Barry couldn't tap into the Speed Force anymore."

"It wasn't connected the first time he got his powers." Harry countered then looked at all of them and sighed.

"How sure are you it will work again this time." Sebastian asked skeptically

"Look, I have your Wells' data. The Harrison Wells from this Earth, I have his science." Harry admitted "I know what chemicals need to be in your body. I know how the lightning needs to bond with the dark matter from the particle accelerator explosion. I can recreate the circumstances to get you your speed back. This will work."

Harry pointed at the computers "Your subterfuge... is not gonna last. But more importantly...it's not gonna save Snow."

"It's not gonna bring your Caitlin back. You wanna be ready should Zoom return…if Zoom returns... when Zoom returns... there is only one way to do it, and that's by getting your speed back."

Harry looked at them determined and stubborn as he walked out of the cortex.

"I think I may have a solution to get the Flash back in the City." Barry looked at Sebastian. "But I need your help."

"Anything." Sebastian said.

~()~

Jesse and Cisco were on one side of the glass while Sebastian was inside the treadmill room with his shirt off while Barry was attaching some sensors on him.

"What am I doing again?"

"We're testing the chances of you being a speedster."

Sebastian looked at Barry incredulously. "What?"

"You heard me."

"Barry, I do not have super speed. I wasn't struck by lightning. I wasn't even affected by the Particle Accelerator." Sebastian said. "How in the world do you think I could be a speedster."

"Just trust me." Barry said. "Those will sense if you have the speed force in your system when you run. And It will also monitor your vitals."

"Right." Sebastian said. "I still think it won't work."

"There is no harm in trying." Barry said "Now eat this."

Barry offered him one of Cisco's power bars.

"Okay there is no harm in me running on a treadmill with sensors on my body. But there is a harm in eating ten thousand calorie cardboard for a speedster." Sebastian pointed out putting on the S.T.A.R. Labs sweatshirt.

"Fine. Just get on the treadmill."

"Barry? Are you sure about this?" Cisco asked through the microphone.

"There's no harm in trying." Barry said going to the control room. He pressed the button on the microphone. "Whenever you're ready Seb. Just run as fast as you can."

"You're going to be severely disappointed, Bear." Sebastian said. "The only reason I have a faster reading on this than when you lost your powers is because I'm more athletic than you."

Sebastian started jogging on the Flash Treadmill. Slowly getting faster and faster.

"He's going faster than he should be." Cisco noted. "He's already at fifty miles per hour."

"Is it proving my point yet." Sebastian called out while running.

"No, because you're not running at all. Are you sure that's the fastest you can go." Barry taunted.

"Just because I'm not the Flash doesn't mean that I am less of an athlete than you are Barry!" Sebastian called looking forward determined.

Soon Sebastian started running on the treadmill with small spurs of lightning erupting behind him.

"Whoa!" Jesse exclaimed. "He's now going a hundred miles per hour. One fifty, two hundred."

Barry had a knowing smirk on his face not dissimilar to Sebastian's. He looked at Sebastian's Vitals. It all looked normal except…

Barry quickly leaned down towards the microphone. "Seb, slow down before you…"

Sebastian stumbled and flew to the ever-present wall of boxes.

"Seb!" The Three of them took Sebastian back to Caitlin's med bay that they had set up.

"Acute Hypoglycemia." Barry said as he and Cisco dragged Sebastian's unconscious body on to the bed.

"But how?" Cisco asked. "I'm pretty sure Caitlin had checked him for being a Metahuman when she checked him up that time that Evil Thawne had kidnapped him."

"I don't know." Barry admitted. "Without Caitlin, here we don't have anyone who can examine him for sure. But for now, we need to get him better. We can have a possible solution."

~()~

Sebastian came to a few hours later completely disoriented.

"What happened?"

"Well, you just ran faster than any human physically can." Cisco said. "But seeing as you didn't eat the ten thousand calorie cardboard you ended up knocking yourself out from acute hypoglycemia."

"How is this even possible?" Sebastian demanded. "I wasn't affected by the particle accelerator. All victims who became metahuman had something happen to them. Either black outs a coma or even getting unusually sick. I was fine after the accelerator exploded, distraught but fine."

"I don't know." Jesse said. "Without Caitlin, we can't really determine for sure if you're powers are from the accelerator or from something else."

"But the speed force is in his system, right?" Barry asked. "That's how he's able to run that fast."

"There are some signs of the speed force in his system." Jesse said "But it's not as potent as yours was Barry. It's like Sebastian's cells are still adapting."

"Again, how is that possible?" Sebastian demanded. "Barry's the speedster not me."

"It is possible that when Barry's blood entered Sebastian's system it didn't just flush out like what usually happens."

"I am still confused."

"When you receive blood from a donor the blood lasts for about two weeks at most before it flushes out." Barry explained. "Your own blood replenishes daily. So, when you get blood transfused it should be gone by now."

"And how do I have your blood in my system?"

"Well, you lost so much blood when Eobard hurt you." Barry said. "So, we had to do a blood transfusion. And since we are identical and we do have the same blood type we didn't think it would be a problem."

"Okay, I get that part." Sebastian said. "But none of you guys thought that with your blood mutated as a Metahuman. That it could have some side effects."

"We did, but we already checked a week after the transfusion. There was nothing abnormal that came out."

"And how did you get my blood after the fact since I was in Ohio."

"Well Hunter got it for us." Cisco said. "I honestly didn't know that he was certified to take blood."

"What is it with my husband and needles that seems to always get me in some sort of trouble."

"What?" Barry, Cisco and Jesse asked in confusion.

"Nothing." Sebastian said quickly. "So, what now? I'm sure not going to be running around as the Flash."

"Would it work if we do what we did in reverse?" Barry asked. "If we transfer Seb's Speed to me?"

"That would work if Sebastian was a full-on speedster."

"Meaning?"

"Meaning." Harry said surprising everybody as he entered the room. "Even with the speed force in Sebastian, the Speed force hasn't had enough time to settle in Sebastian's body. When Barry gave his blood to Sebastian, the mutation of Barry's blood merged with Sebastian's."

"Then why didn't it show in the first test?"

"In one week, his blood hasn't mutated yet." Harry explained. "It took Barry about nine months for the Speed Force to Settle into his system."

"But I was in a coma"

"Hence, why it took Sebastian twelve months to start to show signs of being a speedster." Harry said. "The mutation is settling and his metahuman powers are setting in."

"So, I am basically Barry in a coma but I'm awake. But will it work?" Sebastian asked. "When the mutation finally settles, can we transfer the speed back to Barry?"

"Without a connection to the speed force, Barry will just inject lightning into his bloodstream inevitably killing himself." Harry said. "What we need to do is to get Barry his speed back."

"Or we can have Sebastian running around as the Flash."

"No!" Sebastian and Barry exclaimed.

"I'm sorry guys," Sebastian said. "Hunter's already been on my ass for handling metahuman cases. I don't think running around as the Flash while Zoom is running around Earth One will help. And I don't have Barry's sense of justice."

"Setting Sebastian's first Flash mission on Zoom is not a good idea."

"What else needs to happen for you to realize that we need to get your speed back or Zoom will lay waste to this Earth."

Harry walked out of the Med bay while Barry had a serious look on his face.

"What are you thinking?"

"It's nothing." Barry said absently. Then looked at them all determinedly. "We'll figure this out. I promise."

~()~

So another part into the Zoom timeline. I am already thinking of how to add Flashpoint into this story.

I just got endorsed in 75% of my Thesis. Just barely but I need a break. So after this back to work :P

I'm thinking of adding Flashpoint in a different story. The title still escapes me but you know it's there :D I'm debating on adding a new story soon that one I will surely write around May. I love the story Karry Universe from A03 and FF dot net. I'm thinking of adding a story with a similar feel. Revolving around playing with Arrowverse, maybe some Glee Characters stay tuned for that :D

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