"Alright Thomas," Cisco said as he walked up to me on the airfield known as, 'Ferris Air.' "This is a two-way headset with a camera I modified, typically designed to combat battlefield impulse noises but in this case, it will combat potential sonic booms. It's the same headset I had Barry use when we first tested his vitals while he ran. The only difference is this will be the first time that you use your powers other than that little vibrating hand thingy." he said as he mimicked what happened after Zoom attacked me. "Dude, if I rupture the sound barrier and make a sonic boom, that would be insane!" I said in excitement as Cisco tighten the headset the red helmet I was about to wear. "The first time Barry ran this runway, he crashed and fractured his hand. Just be careful alright?" Caitlin told me before she walked back to the star labs truck behind me. "Got it, I'll be careful." I told her as I strapped the helmet onto my head. I turned around to look at Caitlin Cisco and Wells, "Hey before we do this, does anyone want to take a bet that I will be faster than Barry when he first tried this?" I said jokingly and all of them chuckled.

"Okay Thomas, on my mark!" Cisco yelled out from a couple of feet away. I bent down and kneeled into a runner's position. "Three!" there was a short pause "Two!" another short pause. I felt the electricity travel through my body again, a rush of adrenaline spiked inside me, the electricity flickered in my eyes and I was ready. "One-" Before Cisco could even finish saying one, I took off down the runway as fast as I could, a gust of strong winds from my speed pushed over everyone who was behind me, oh oops… I thought to myself and laughed. It was as if everything around me froze, it was so peaceful and calm. I reached the end of the runway in what felt like twenty seconds. As I reached the end of the runway I began to lose my balance, I went to stop myself but ended up tripping over my own feet and fell to the ground, bouncing off of the hot asphalt until I reached the grass and rolled to a stop. Unaware of the scrapes and scratches all over me from falling, I pushed myself up and laughed. "Wow twenty seconds to get to the end of a runway, that's insane! These powers are insane!" I exclaimed to myself.

"Thomas? Hello?" A voice called out. "Oh, sorry Cisco." I laughed. I guess I forgot they were there. I pressed down on my earpiece, "What's up?" I asked, looking back down the runway to try and see them. "Dude that was some fall, are you alright?" He asked me worriedly. "Yeah, no I'm fine. That was so awesome!" I told him in response. "Okay, well you should get back here so we can show you something." He told me with excitement ringing in his voice. "Alright man, on my way." I cracked a smile and bent into the runner's position just like before, and whoosh I was off to the other end of the runway. This time, I jumped into a slide to stop. Skidding across the asphalt, sparks bounce from the friction of my shoes against the ground. "Dude Thomas!" Cisco exclaimed while walking over to meet me. "Do you have any idea how fast you just went?" He asked me while walking over to me with a smile, "No, but I know that it only took me 20 seconds to get over there!" I responded excitedly. "Thomas," Wells chimed in, "You broke the sound barrier." All three of them looked at me with smiles on their faces and I returned the smile. "So how fast was I going? 800?" I asked curiously while reaching to take the helmet off, "Thomas dude, you went 1,029 miles per hour, you reached the end of the runway in 4 freaking seconds!" Cisco told me with the biggest smile and my eyes widened. "4 seconds?" I asked in complete shock. "Holy…" "And for the record, Barry only went about 300-400 miles per hour the first time he ran this airfield." Caitlin said to me. "You're telling me I'm faster than Barry?" "Not exactly, just faster than he was when he first started." she told me smiling. "About a month before Barry got trapped in the speed force, his max speed was about 1500 average. The fastest he's ever gone was Mach 3.3 but only for a second." Wells said to me with a serious face. "So he reached 2,500 miles per hour? That's crazy! How fast is Zoom?" I asked curiously. "There the thing, Zoom is about seven times faster than you at this point…" Cisco said with a frown. I walked over to the tent we had set up with water bottles underneath it and grabbed one. "You mean to tell me, Zoom can run 7,000 miles faster than me?" I asked rhetorically as I went to sit down. "Look Thomas, this is your first time running, and I mean damn you can move but with some training and practice, you could open a portal to the speed force and get Barry out. After that, you both can take Zoom together." Cisco told me with a smile. I took a sip of water and wiped the sweat from my forehead. "Before Zoom took Barry's speed, his max was only 4,200 miles per hour. Barry's added speed made it so he gained an extra 3,000 miles per hour speed limit." Cisco explained as he sat down next to me. "Alright, where do we start?" I asked as I took another sip of water.

One Week Later

It was the annoying sound of my alarm clock that woke me up this morning, the clock read "9:40" in big red numbers. I hit the snooze button and rolled over to the other side of my bed and pulled the covers back over me, "Just a few more minutes." I yawned out. 5 minutes go by and the alarm clock went off again, "Oh fine, I'm up!" I growled annoyed. "9:45" I whispered to myself as I sat up and rubbed my eyes. Then it hit me. "Shoot! I'm going to be late for work!" I threw the covers off of me and stood up using my super speed to rush over to the closest to grab some clothes. I turned to the mirror and looked at myself, "This will have to do." I told myself as I ran to the bathroom to brush my teeth. When I was done using the bathroom to get ready, I looked in the mirror, smiled and zoomed out of the front door into the hallway of my apartment building, and locked the door. "That's a new record!" I laughed as I finished locking the door. "30 seconds to get ready, not bad."

As I arrived to work, police officers rushed out of the office doors and ran past me into the elevators, and I saw Detective West on the way too and I grabbed his arm, "Hey Joe, what's going on?" I asked curiously. "We have a homicide at Jitters and the perp may still be there, don't go anywhere, we might need you at the scene soon." He told me as he made his way again to the elevators. "Huh." I quietly stated as he walked off. A homicide at jitters was an interesting place to kill someone, it seems as though everything happens there. I started to walk up the stairs to get to my lab. When I got to the top of the stairs, my phone started ringing, I pulled it out of my pocket and looked down at the number. Cisco was calling me, "Yeah, what's up?" I answered. "Hey Thomas, when can you get to Star Labs?" He asked me, "I can come in a few minutes, why?" I asked curiously. "There's no rush, get here when you can." Cisco told me, excitement was in his voice. "Okay, I'll see you in a little bit man." I told him as I hung up. I made my way down the hall to my lab and got right to work, finishing my work from yesterday's crime scene. Lately, suspects have been killing themselves after they commit grand thefts, yesterday's suspect died from jumping off of a building after he robbed the 'Central City Museum.' He took some special Russian totem and did something with it before he killed himself. Officers and detectives are still trying to find where he hid it, but haven't had any luck. Even I have tried looking for it but still came up with nothing. And none of the suspects or maybe victims, I don't know what to call them actually. None of them had any priors, warrants, arrests, or anything out of the sorts, they all worked at the places they robbed from as well. There have been about three robberies so far that resulted in deaths just this week. One was the Bank where $500,000 was stolen, another was at Mercury Labs where they stole a classified piece of technology, and the other one was the museum yesterday.

My phone began to ring again and it was Cisco, I picked and I answered, "Yeah?" "Thomas! officers are being killed at Jitters! Get down there and hurry!" He yelled through the phone. He was clearly worried judging from the sound of his voice. "On my way." I told him as I hung up. I felt the electricity run through me, and the lightning flicker in my eyes, and I shot out of the lab. Without a suit, I had no idea how I was going to stop the killer and slow down at the same time. Wonder when Cisco will make me my suit? I thought to myself. I'm running to Jitters as fast as I can, so fast that everything around me almost froze, I've reached 1,300 miles per hour since last week. As I approach the coffee shop, I see all the cops shooting at each other, killing one another. "What the hell?" I questioned. Confusion broke through my brain. But I didn't see Joe, there was no Joe for the time being I was at least grateful for that. I placed my two-way radio headset over my ear to hear Cisco. "Cisco my comms are on." I said, holding my earpiece to talk. "Okay Thomas, what do you see?" He asked me immediately. "The cops in there are shooting at each other!" I yelled over the sound of gunshots. "You need to stop them, try handcuffing them all, they are under some sort of whammy." He told me. "Whammy?" I asked him, "Yeah, kinda like being under a spell, it can make you do stuff you normally wouldn't." He responded. "Go Thomas, you're wasting time!" He yelled at me. "Right, sorry." I Sped into the building and within 5 seconds every cop was handcuffed to a table or a pipe in the building and unconscious. I took all of their guns were away too. After I stopped them from killing each other, I did an entire sweep of the block just to make sure whoever whammied them was gone or incarcerated. I stopped on the street outside of Jitters. "Oh man, that was a handful." I breathed out, a little exhausted from all the running. "Thomas?" A familiar voice called out as a car door slammed. "Damn." I breathed out quietly as I hung my head lower. "Heeyy Joe..." I stretched out. "You're fast." He stated while studying me. "You're a metahuman?" "Uh… Yeah." I told him hesitantly. "How? When?" He Questioned. "It was latent dark matter that was activated about a week ago." I explained to him. "Do you know about Star Labs?" Joe asked curiously scratching the side of his head. "Yeah, Cisco Caitlin and Wells have been helping me a lot actually, this was the first crime that I stopped since I got my powers." I explained. He nodded and leaned against his car. "You'd think they would tell me about this." He said bitterly. "Thomas, you there?" I heard a voice say from my ear. "Yeah, I'm here with Joe, what's up?" I asked Cisco. Come to Star Labs, there is something you should see." he told me, excitement still ringing in his voice. I turned to look at Joe, "Hey, I have to get back to Star Labs. I'll get to the scene after that." I told Joe, he nodded. "Alright." he told me.

I got to Star Labs In a few seconds, 10 to 15 maybe, when I did, I sped to the elevator and took it down to the Cortex. Ding the elevator sounded, and I walked out into the hallway and into the Cortex. "Thomas, glad you're here man, check it out!" Cisco exclaimed while pointing to a white box. "What is it?" I asked confused. "Why don't you open it and find out." He told me with a smirk on his face. I walked over to the table where the box lay and opened it. My eyes widened. "Holy- Did you make this for me?" I asked him excitedly still holding onto the box. He nodded with a smile. It was like it was glowing out of the box, kind of like in the cartoons, only it wasn't. "You wanna take it for a spin?" He asked me as he nodded at it. "I sure do!" I told him excitedly and picked up the suit.

I took but a second for me to get into my new suit, it was friction proof, just like Barry's. It was crimson, maybe a little darker and had a gold lining on the elbow and knee creases, it was kind of like a single suit onesie. The lining was like a sharp lightning bolt and the cowl had a chin strap. I looked down at my suit, wow this is awesome. "Cisco- This, this is incredible!" I Told him, and gave him a bro hug not to make it awkward. "That's not the only thing I made either." He said with a grin. "Check it," he said as he pulled a circular thing from his jacket pocket. "This is your emblem!" He told me as he attached it onto the front of the suit. The emblem was so cool, It had a gold outline of the circle and a white background, but on top of the background were two gold lightning bolts that crossed over one another from the right and the left sides. "A new suit and a cool emblem." I laughed still looking down at how well the suit fit me. "And a name." Cisco said, once again smiling, "I was thinking… maybe 'SpeedStream'." He said, raising his eyebrows up and down. "Huh," I said out loud, thinking about the name. "I like it!" I told Cisco excitedly giving him a high five. "Hey thanks man, I mean it, I know Caitlin and Wells aren't here right now but all of you have helped me so much, and I mean it when I say, thank you guys so much. I wish I could tell them right now too." Cisco nodded and smiled, "Welcome to the family Thomas." He told me with a fist bump.

A Few Days Later

It's about 9:30 pm, I'm in my lab at the CCPD Precinct and it's really quiet. Most of the detectives left to go home but a few of the police officers are still here writing reports on their patrols for today. It started to rain about an hour ago but just a few minutes in, thunder began to roar in the clouds creating an ominous feeling. I kept getting the feeling like I was being watched from across the street but I was on the top floor already so the only way that could be possible is from the rooftop across the street. I keep glancing over just to be sure.

The clock read 11:50 pm now and I was Just finishing up the rest of the reports from the suicide suspects. I was tired but I really didn't feel like using my super speed to hurry things along tonight. Sometimes it felt good to act normal, and this was one day I could do that, no training, no crimes for me to fight, nothing. So I sat and finished the reports. "Done. Wow, that was a lot." I stood up and grabbed my coat from the back of my chair and put it on. There was still a thunderstorm outside, it lasted for just about 3 hours now. "Now I can go home." I said out loud to myself as I began to walk. Lightning struck outside the window just as I was about to leave through the door into the hallway and I felt a strange presence behind me like something was definitely watching me this time. I slowly turned my head in curiosity but cautiously, when I couldn't turn my head anymore, I turned the rest of my body. In the dark night, across the street Zoom stood on the building. Blue lighting striking around his body and lighting up his suit. Besides for the actual lighting from the rain you could barely see him standing there only his lightning. But that's all he did, he just stood there, watching. I slapped myself in the head repeatedly. That's not really him. I kept telling myself. We held eye contact for a moment, he tilted his head and sped off out of sight. My hatred for him lit up my body with anger when he ran off because at that point I knew he really was there watching me. The anger brought lightning from the speed force out of me with orange lightning striking all around my body, this was the first time lightning has actually appeared from me. When I realized how obvious I was being with my powers, I tried to calm myself down. Why was he watching me? How long has he been watching me? The questions in my mind only outraged me even more. "Okay, breeaathe Thomas," I told myself to calm down. "Zooms gone and you're okay now." I turned around and used my super speed to get from the station to my apartment.

It's 3:00 in the morning now and I woke up to my phone ringing. "Oh what now?" I grouched rhetorically before grabbing the phone and answering it. "Yeah, hello?" I answered bitterly from the sleep that was interrupted. "Thomas, It's the Museum again!" Cisco's voice ran through my ears like an air horn, he yelled so loud. "Ugh." I groaned as I rubbed my eyes with one hand. "Don't you sleep?" I asked Cisco annoyed. "Stop wasting time. Hurry go!" He replied to me. "Okay, okay, I'm on my way." I hung up and stood off of my bed and stretched while releasing a yawn. I walked over to my closet and grabbed my suit, speed dressed and rushed out of the door with a trail of lightning following.

I reached the museum and skidded to a stop just outside on the street. "Okay Cisco, what are we dealing with? How many? Do they have guns?" I asked too many questions but it was 3 in the morning, I get the right to. "Okay Thomas, there's one guy, and he only has a knife." Cisco told me as he watched through the security cameras. "I'm going to try and talk to him first before punching him." I told Cisco Heroically. "Fine by me." He said. I sped inside the building where the robber was, and stopped him from grabbing a famous renaissance era portrait off of the wall. "Hey buddy, that's not yours." I told him as I spun him the other direction. He just stood there with a blank stare looking at me. "Okay well that's not creepy." I said out loud to try and provoke some sort of response from the robber. "Not a talker huh?" I asked him. "Okay why don't we put down the knife before someone gets hurt, alright?" I asked politely while pointing at him. The man was older, he had gray hair and looked like he was homeless. At that moment, a tear ran down the man's face. "You okay pal?" I questioned in confusion. He raised the knife with both hands and the blade pointing at his body and attempted to bring it to his stomach. Before the man could take his life, I used as much speed as possible to get to him before he did it, "NO!" I yelled as I got to him. I grabbed the knife and knocked him out with a single uppercut to the chin. As the man fell to the ground I stood there, holding the knife in confusion. "Cisco, this man almost jus-" I was cut off, "I know, I saw the whole thing." Cisco remarked. "Okay, but the real question is, why?" I responded to him glancing down at the knife. "I'm going to bring him to the police." I told Cisco as I began to pick the man off of the ground. "Okay Thomas but meet me at star labs before you go home, Caitlin and Wells just got back." "Got it Cisco," I responded, as I started to drag the old man up on to my shoulder.

Then all of a sudden I felt my body go into complete lockdown mode. I dropped the man and stood up straight, unable to speak or move. What's going on? What's happening to me? I asked myself in my head. I was unable to speak or move and I was barely able to think, so much was happening. Immense pain sprawled through my brain and there was nothing I could do, I just stood there in my body unable to move and I can barely even think. Through the comms I heard a feminine voice, most likely Caitlin, say something, "His brain waves are showing irregular signs of intrusion, he's experiencing some sort of seizure and his brain isn't the cause." And then Cisco said something, "Thomas?! Thomas?! Hey buddy can you hear me? Thomas?!" I could barely hear them. Still unable to talk the pain stopped, and I dropped to my knees. Still unable to move, something began to control me, I was moving but it wasn't me. I picked up the knife and held it above me, still on my knees. "Welcome to your death pretender." A dark and mysterious voice said, his voice rang through my head. "Thomas no! Put the knife down, fight this man you're being controlled!" I heard Cisco this time, I tried to resist but it was no use. I raised the knife up higher and It was over. I stabbed myself on the right side of my lower abdomen and whatever was controlling me left, I had gained full control of my body again just in time to feel all the pain from the impalement of the knife. "GAHH" I screamed out in pain as I lay on the floor struggling to keep my head up to see the protruding knife in my side. "Thomas, can you run?" Caitlin asked me with a terrified tone over the comms. "No, I can barely move. Guys, I'm sorry." I told them all over comms knowing I wasn't going to be able to get Barry back out of the speed force, I thought I was about to die and then I blacked out. My death would not mean anything, I let them all down.

All I remember after blacking out is slowly regaining consciousness while being dragged out of the building. I saw Harry and Cisco holding onto both of my arms, then I slipped back to darkness. The next time I woke again in a star labs van where I lay bleeding with Caitlin and Cisco talking about me, the knife lay beside me and Caitlin sat next to me. She was putting pressure on my wound to try and stop the bleeding. I could make out what they were saying. "We need to cease the bleeding." She said, still putting pressure my wound. "When the bleeding stops, his vitals will stabilize." Assuming because Harry wasn't with them anymore, he was the one driving. The van hit a bump and bounced me up a foot in the air, when I landed back down pain shot through my body, originating from the stab wound. "Ugh." I moaned in pain. "Harry a little easier on the speed bumps please." Cisco yelled out both bitterly and sarcastically using his hand to amplify his voice. "Don't worry Thomas, we're going to fix this." Cisco said while patting me on the shoulder. I gathered just enough energy to raise my head off the floor of the van, "Thank you, guys." My head dropped back to the floor and I slipped into a deep sleep.

A Day Later

My eyes began to flutter open, slowly I continued to grow conscious of my surroundings. There was the blurry shape of a human standing over me, as my sight came back to me, I started recognizing particular details of his face "Hey buddy." I was greeted with a smile from Cisco looking down at me. "Cisco? How long was I out?" I asked as I began to sit up. "Dude you were out for about a day." He told me with a chuckle. I looked around the room to notice I was in the same medical room as before when Caitlin put my shoulder back into place a two weeks ago. I started to remember the horror of what happened the other night. "Cisco, it was like I was being controlled by something man. I mean I was conscious of what I was doing but I couldn't stop myself from doing it. And the brain aneurysm? What was that about?" "Woah, woah, woah." Cisco stopped me as he put his hands up to calm me. "You just recovered from a major brain seizure and stabbed yourself, take it easy for a moment." "Look man I'm fine, my speed healing already kicked in and I'm as good as new now." I told him reassuringly. "Okay. But at least let Caitlin do some tests to make sure." He told me comfortingly placing his hand on my shoulder. "Let me go get her real fast."

A few moments go by of me laying back and staring at the ceiling just collecting my thoughts when Caitlin walks in with a tablet. "You're awake." She said with a smile as she continued walking towards me. "So what kind of tests are you going to run?" I asked her curiously while nodding in the direction of the tablet. "I'm just going to test to see if your brain scans show any lasting signs of intrusion like the night before." She told me with a soft voice. A few moments go by while she checks and I can't help but think of the nightmare I lived the other night. "Well, you seem to be all good, and your knife wound is fully healed. I think your good to go." She told me as she turned off the tablet. "Great!" I said as I stood up from the bed, pushing away all the bad memories from the museum. "Okay, so when you say signs of intrusion, are you saying I was telepathically controlled by a metahuman?" I asked while rubbing my side where the knife entered. "Yep, you sure were." Cisco stated as he walked back in. "It was freaky as hell to watch as well." Confusion started to flood my brain with questions. Telepathy? That's new. I thought to myself. My eyebrows narrowed, "It all makes sense now. The suicides are not actual suicides, it's whoever is controlling the robber who kills them. He has them steal, then he kills them to make it look like it was a suicide and he runs off with the stolen items." I stated as I rubbed the spot where I was stabbed once again in remembrance. Whoever this guy was, there was no way for the police to catch him. "Cisco could you get onto the criminal database from the CCPD and snoop around to hopefully figure out who this guy is?" I asked him while pointing at the consoles in the back of the Cortex. "Yep, I'm on it." He stated as he walked out of the room. Caitlin looked at me, "What will you be doing?" She asked. "I will be going to grab something to eat. I'm famished." I responded with a smile.

A Few Hours Later

I walk back into the Star Labs Cortex after coming back from Big Belly Burger. It's been a few hours so I assumed he had to have found something by now. "Man this whole needing to eat 10,000 calories a day thing is both a blessing and a curse." I said out loud while taking a sip of my drink. "Hey Cisco?" I said, walking up behind him. "Did you find anything on our meta?" "I've been sitting here for hours and still haven't found a single thing." He said, lightly banging his head on the desk. Harry walked in now, "Ramon, have you tried Vibing yet?" He asked him. Vibing? I thought to myself. "No Harry, I told you It freaks me out." Cisco snapped at him turning in his chair to make eye contact. "Ramon, we need to find this metahuman before he hurts anyone else or worse." Harry glanced at me, "Kill him." I looked to Cisco, "What's he talking about? Vibing?" I asked him. "Ramon, you didn't tell him?" Wells asked with disappointment. Cisco returned a glare to Harry, "Look I have powers." He told me with shame. My eyes widened just a little to the surprise. "I get these visions, They allow me to see things before they happen or in this case find people." "Why didn't you say something about them before?" I asked confused. "I'm terrified of these powers, and honestly I felt normal not telling you about them, I haven't felt normal in a long time." he looked up at me, "I'm sorry I didn't tell you, I just wanted to feel normal for a change, you know?" He apologized. "I'm not mad at you for not telling me, I just wish you did," I told him with a pat on the shoulder and a sincere smile. "Harry is right though," I told him, removing my hand. "You're going to need to vibe his location if we want to stop him." Cisco nodded. "There is just one problem." He mentioned hesitantly. "What's that?" I asked curiously wondering what it could be. "I need to touch something to find his location. We don't have anything that belongs to him or that he's touched because got rid of the knife." He said sadly letting his head droop a little bit. I began to ponder the possible answers to this problem. My brain lit up, "That's not necessarily true." I stated while pointing at him. "Maybe if you touch my side where the knife went through, It will be enough?" I asked, unsure how his powers even really work. "I mean that might work. Right?" "He's onto something Ramon," Wells said with a nod. "It could work." Cisco glanced at both of us before making his decision. "I'll do it." He said. "Lift up your shirt Thomas."

Caitlin walked in on the conversation just in time to here Cisco say that and she let out a laugh. "Caitlin, why do you always walk in on these conversations without any context." He asked rhetorically. Caitlin and I shared a laugh this time. "Cisco is going to see if he can vibe this meta with the healed stab wound from the other night." I told her. "Gotcha." She smiled. "You ready Cisco?" I asked to make sure he was okay with it. "Yes. Can we just get this over with." Cisco sighed. I pull the bottom of my shirt up and over the side where I was stabbed and he put on a weird pair of goggles. Or was it glasses? I couldn't really tell. "Nice glasses." I remarked to lighten the mood once again. "Thanks, I got them off of my dead doppelganger." He said with sad eyes. Doppelganger? I thought. I brushed it off for the time being though. Cisco reached slowly to my side until he touched it with his hand. He gasped a ghostly groan and within seconds he was in vibe time. After he was done with the vision, he was able to tell what he saw.

"Okay he is tall, short black hair, and tanish white skin, with a light bluish gray eye color," Cisco told me from his vision. "And one more thing." He said reluctantly, he glanced at Harry. "He isn't from this earth." "From this earth?" I questioned anxiously. "You mean he's an alien from space?" "No I mean he's from another Earth." Cisco told me as he laughed. "Another earth?" I paused. "Are you talking about the multiverse theory?" I asked excitedly. "Yes Thomas, I thought you knew that already." He asked rhetorically. I scratched the back of my head in confusion. "What did you think we meant when we said Harry was from earth 2?" Caitlin asked jokingly. "I thought you meant 'Earth' 'Also'," I replied playfully agitated. They all sighed at me and my face grew red. "Okay, so this metahuman who can control minds and the movement of your body is from a parallel universe, the same one Harry is from," I asked myself out loud trying to make it not seem crazy. "And let me guess who else is from Earth 2." I sighed and rubbed my eyes with one hand. "Zoom." This was all so new, so much has happened these past 2 weeks so far, it was becoming overwhelming. "So, Zoom what? Brought this meta over to kill me?" I asked with a dramatically impatient tone. Harry nodded, "He did this to Barry as well." He said. I already hated Zoom, and the fact that he brought a meta from his earth to kill me made me hate him even more. If you ask me, Zooms a coward. He won't even kill me himself. "Zoom needs something from me guys." I told the three of them. Caitlin glanced towards Cisco and then Harry before saying, "Zoom wants your speed." It looked like the three of them all found that out at the same time. "He stole Barry's speed, and now he wants to be the fastest man alive 'again' without a competition." Harry said motioning his hand to me. "He wants me to get stronger then. More speed for him to take that way." I explained out loud so they could hear. "Okay wait," Cisco said putting up his hands to stop us. "Why don't we focus on one thing at a time?" He glanced around at all of us once. "Harry, what did they call him on your earth?" I asked curiously. "They don't have a name for him, I've never even seen or heard of him until just now." He told me seriously. I shook my head and laughed, "Okay so how do we stop someone we know nothing about?"

Caitlin grabbed the tablet that she used to run tests on me earlier, "Actually we know how he psychically attacked you." She said holding up the tablet. "The reason you couldn't speak is because he took control of your Occipital Lobe, that's the part of the brain that controls speech. You couldn't move because he took control of your cerebellum as well, the part that controls balance and movement." Great a meta who can control more than one part of my brain. I thought to myself l. "Okay, but how did he give me a brain seizure?" I asked bitterly while pointing to my head. "He was able to take control of your mind the same way Grodd took control of Barry's when he went up against his the first time. He too experienced the same thing you did, you just experienced it in an amplified state." She explained, "If you didn't have your powers, I'm not sure you'd even be alive right now Thomas." I noticed Cisco was no longer in his chair, "Hey, where did Cisco go?" I asked curiously pointing to the empty chair. Cisco walked back into the room carrying a tiny white but box, "I've been saving these bad boys for the next time Grodd attacks." He said as he opened the tiny white box. What lay inside were two earpieces that lit up with a light blue glow. "I call these the-" There was a sudden pause, "The-" another sudden pause. "You don't have a name for them do you?" Caitlin laughed. "It'll come to me… Eventually." Cisco stated he picked one of the earpieces up. "I can attach this to your comms, and they will probably protect you from this meta." My eyes widened in surprise at what he just said. "Probably?" I asked confused and sat down in the chair Cisco moved from to get the earpieces. "Well, when Grodd psychically attacked Barry, his attack wasn't as strong as this guys." He responded sarcastically. "Look Cisco, I like the Idea, I do but I would rather not die out there because it didn't work. Could you make sure they will work? Please?" Cisco's eyes narrowed at what I said. "Yeah, I guess I can run a few more tests on these." He stated before putting the earpiece back in the box and walking out of the Cortex to his workshop.

There was something about this guy that was really unsettling, he felt so much more dangerous than Zoom. Caitlin and I exchanged looks, "What's wrong?" She asked me in a cautious but sensitive tone, not knowing if I wanted to talk about what was bothering me. "It's just this guy, he just seems so… So much more dangerous than Zoom. I just don't get why he would trust this guy to do his dirty work when guy can literally make you kill yourself." I stated rubbing my closed eyes with my fingers. She moved closer to me and placed her hand on my shoulder, "Don't worry, we'll stop this guy." She said, "We always do." I looked at her and smiled. "Okay, I have to get back to the station, Joe need's me to run a DNA scan on a murder weapon." I told Harry and Caitlin as I got up. "Alright." Harry commented before getting up from his chair and walking off and Caitlin nodded. "See you guys later," I told them. I grabbed my coat from the chair and walked out to the hallway.

My phone started to buzz and I pulled it out of my pocket to check who it was. "Issac? What's up man?" I answered, "Hey Tom, how have you been?" He answered my question with a question. It was odd. "I've been good actually, do you want to hang out sometime soon?" I asked him as I continued to walk down the hall to the elevator. "Sure, I'm free tomorrow. Does that work?" He asked me. "Uh yeah, that works." I answered him as I got in the elevator. "Great, see you then Tom." He responded to me. We both put our phones away and the elevator opened, a flicker of electricity sparked in my eyes and I flew out the doors and headed to the Precinct.