October 20th - 2014
It finally happened, The reverse flash Finally showed up to challenge Barry during a mission. It started roughly an hour ago, Barry was running people out of a burning building, his speed difficult to calculate since he emptied an entire building in less than a couple seconds. Dozens of people having suddenly appeared at a safe distance outside, Barry was now racing inside trying to put out the fire, until he came flying out a window having been thrown from the inside out. Cisco's computer terminal showing him rapidly accelerating to a terminal velocity.
"Barry, your arms, move them circularly, opposite directions, really fast, now point them down, create a vortex!" I practically shouted over the radio before I began trying to tap into the speed force the way I'd seen Barry do. I'd been trying to do it since I got back, but I didn't have the innate connection he did so it was much more difficult, and I didn't get nearly as much speed out of it. Suddenly I felt it and the world slowed down, my instincts taking over as I shot out of the room, enhanced physiology allowing me to push off with a lot more force and launch myself at nearly four hundred miles per hour before my electromagnetism took over, and I was riding a field through the sky propelled by pure energy.
I couldn't maintain a speed force connection yet, but I was just barely able to use it like a boost for a few seconds. Of course, in those few seconds an eternity could happen depending on how much energy I gathered. I was there in moments, Barry taking my advice as he began trying to slow himself down but having trouble overcompensating since he wasn't used to moving in three dimensions. It was enough however as I caught his now slower falling form, letting the magnetic fields slow the fall further until we were safe on the ground. The crowd began cheering before suddenly screaming as a yellow streak came out and started charging at us before a bolt of yellow energy struck me dead center, my trained defenses collecting the negative tachyon charge and containing it, so it didn't do any harm.
Nodding to indicate I was okay, Barry went after him and I began converting the negative charge to a positive one, storing it as additional power in the hopes I could help him out. It took nearly twenty seconds to absorb and convert the charge, but I'd managed to save eighty percent of it as positive speed force energy and felt my connection grow with the surrounding energy. This wasn't like the small trickle I was used to, it seemingly enveloped me, surrounding my body in blue lightning as the world slowed down again. Grinning like a madman I felt the energy within and reached out to it's source, it was like something broke through from somewhere, and I felt connected to it, far more energy than I'd ever pulled as my power source within was echoing it like two beating hearts. Each one pulsed in sequence until the energy began syncing up, and suddenly it went from alternating forces to harmonic resonance, everything coming into focus.
As the world snapped back I could feel it now, a low hum in the back of my mind, a connection I hadn't been able to make until now, and then I was gone, my plasma barrier shielding me from the atmosphere and preventing energy from damaging my coat and clothes. I wasn't sure how long this would last, but I wasn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth and began honing in on the negative energy charge, each turn like a gentle jog as the world was standing still. Suddenly Barry was running alongside me, grinning like a kid on Christmas morning before shooting out ahead, My own energy growing as I willed myself to catch up. Then Thawn was right in front of us, looking back with shock as he never expected two people to come after him like this.
Nodding to Barry I began converting all the energy that had been collecting against my plasma barrier into positively charged fields and started feeding it towards him, our training helping him gather it into himself as I continued to act as an additional source of power, his speed beginning to accelerate even more as I felt myself starting to slow until I was barely keeping up with them. Barry then gathered all the energy and wrapped it around himself, feeding it into his speed aura, and suddenly he was more than twice as fast. My insanely enhanced senses barely keeping up as it looked like Thawn was struck from multiple angles at once, Barry moving at least double to triple his speed while he desperately tried to move faster. I felt the energy building again, so I began pushing myself and began gaining slowly on the pair as Thawn was desperately defending against strikes from multiple directions, blindsiding him and forcing him to slow down just to defend himself.
"Thawn!" I shouted, causing him to turn and run at me, the moment's distraction suddenly having him get clothes-lined by a speeding Barry before I used the speed to strike him hard. His body coming to a sudden stop against my fist before being thrown back twenty feet from the force, slamming into a pile of boxes. I quickly moved over and grabbed Thawn pulling in whatever energy I could get my hands on, my research into anti-speedster tactics paying off due to my unique way of tapping into the various energy fields of the universe, with him shouting in rage as his connection to the negative speed force weakened. Barry kept his distance like we'd discussed, I wanted to disconnect him before he could escape and prevent further problems when I suddenly got an arm phasing right through my kidney. The pain was immense as I doubled over dropping him before he suddenly shot off with a massive red energy field arcing around his body, the negative speed force being fueled by his rage before he vanished in a tear in reality, Barry running after him.
"Damn it!" I shouted as I felt the reserve of energy begin to fade away. I desperately tried to reach out with my mind clinging to that feeling before suddenly I felt it again, that harmonic resonance and empowering force before I shot into the tear in space/time chasing after them hoping I wasn't too late to fix things.
