Chapter 15
It been 2 days since Jay told them. Luis been in depression ever since. Cisco finally finish the suit he made for him, but he sat in the speed lab looking at the wall. Cisco walks in, he's debating should he talk to him.
Luis: I don't want to talk...
Cisco: no, but you gotta like a normal human being...well metahuman.
He hands him of bag of burgers from big belly. Luis doesn't move,
Cisco leaves to go back in the workshop. Harry was still working on a way to get him home.
Harry: Any luck Ramon?
Cisco: nothing yet. He just depressed.
Harry and Cisco kept trying to figure out ways to get him home.
Cisco: how about we make a time sphere? Like the one Thawne was gonna use but this one dimensional travel.
Harry: nope. Cause Barry would have to do what he did last time. Which ended up causing a black hole. This is risky but... what if Barry goes back in time to see what exactly the breach was. Maybe when the particle accelerator went off and blasted a hole in sky, he said he saw a orange light that has description of the blast.
Cisco: If Barry brings some a scanning device, he can bring it back to see the data it collected. But I don't know Barry not so quiet time travel, he kinda spoiled a few things.
Barry: that's not true!
They see Barry at the door. Cisco looks at him with a obvious look.
Harry: ok but he's only scanning it and he has to come right back.
Barry: won't that effect the timeline.
Barry: I don't know if should do this.
Cisco: think about it, this could be the only to get him home.
Barry didn't want to do it, he was kinda nervous about time travel. The last time he did it, a time wraith came after him and almost strangled him. But this could help them. Barry agrees to do it. Harry made a device that Barry has to use on the breach.
Cisco: why does it look like the sonic screwdriver from Doctor Who.
Harry: Barry just has to go to the breach and wave the wand around the edge.
Barry: what about the time wraith?
Harry: you gonna be there for a few minutes. By the time it gets there you already left.
Barry gets ready to go, Cisco, Caitlin and Harry watch him from the cortex. Luis walks in looking at the computer.
Luis: what's Barry doing?
Caitlin: he's going back in time.
Luis: he can do that? When he going?
Caitlin: the night of the particle accelerator went off.
Cisco: to the breach that blasted into your universe.
Luis: is that breach gonna open?
Cisco: yeah?
Harry: Luis No!
Harry knew exactly what Luis was doing. Luis zooms out the cortex and into pipeline follow Barry. He did not see Luis, the portal opens and they both go in. Barry looks around and see the events of the past 3 years. All of a sudden the time wraith comes right at him.
He ducks down and looks to see if it's gone, Instead he see Luis. He slows down and grabs him. They arrived and land in a alleyway. Luis slides across the ground.
Luis: Okay...OW!
Barry: What are you doing here?!
Luis: you mean "when" am I doing here? You can time travel?! Why am I surprised?! You can ran faster than the speed of sound!
Barry: you can't be here! I'm only here to scan the breach!
Luis: the same breach that's gonna be open to my earth! Don't you get it?!
The moment the breach appears, I'm going home!
Barry: and what? You're gonna arrived 3 years early!
Luis:... so I didn't think it through! I heard a possible portal to home! How was I supposed to react?!
Barry: oh my god, I can't believe this! Listen, stay here I'm gonna scan the portal and then we go right-
?: CSI been over it?
?#2: uh..no.
?: where's Allen?
Barry and Luis peeked out the alleyway and see Captain Singh with Joe in front of a bank. Past Barry runs up to the captain.
Barry: Damn, we've overshot, it's a few hours before the accelerator supposed to blow up. We have to get back in our regular clothes.
Luis was looking at the event going on with Past Barry.
Luis: that's your excuse? A piece of chocolate?
He grabs Luis and they speed into their regular clothes and their suits under a dumpster. Go into a store where Barry buys a hat and glasses. They headed to jitters to wait the next few hours to wait. They sat on the higher level. Barry grabs 2 drinks.
Barry: okay we're gonna wait here until it's time. We're can't mess with today, it's when I get my powers.
Luis: are you sure we won't run into yourself?
Barry: positive, I don't even remember coming here. But we have to let everything happen. We can't interact with nobody. I can't believe you followed me here. You were supposed to stayed back in the present!
Luis: I'm sorry, it's not my fault that I want to go home!
Barry:*angry whispering* I swear. if you mention home one more time, I will lose my shit.
Luis went silent, Barry's face was pissed. He takes a deep breath.
Barry: you have no sense of anything. Once you hear a way home you tried to used it. That's why you got fried twice by the portal. That's why you had that "anger" moment. You also try the same again!
Luis looks down in guilt, he realized he does this. But now he knows it's affecting Barry.
Barry: listening... what I'm trying to say is...don't be irrational. We're all trying to get you home. But we don't want you to get killed doing it! So all I'm asking please be patient.
Luis:...I guess I never realized the way I been acting. Excuse I have to used the bathroom...
He gets up and walks away. Barry sits there wondering if he was too hard on him. Barry didn't act like this when he was stuck on Kara's earth. Then again, he wasn't there long. 2 days at least. They been figuring out ways to get him home. Barry takes a sip of his coffee when he hears 2 familiar voices.
Luis: what's it like working for the CCPD?
?: it's only my first week, I have to give it time! *small laugh*
He looks down and sees Luis talking to Eddie Thawne. Barry's face went pale.
Eddie: I have to get going the captain calling me. We'll talked later.
Luis: heh. Talked to you later cuz!
Barry walks up to him and grabs him on the shoulders.
Barry: *whispering* what are you doing?
Luis: I'm talking to some stranger! Who are you?!
Barry: we're supposed to hide and y-
He looks up and sees Luis coming out of the restroom walking back upstairs.
That's when it hit him. He was talking to Luis's Earth 1 doppelgänger.
Barry: I-I-I'm so sorry. I have this...paranoia sometimes. I feel like people are watching me! Have a good day!
He quickly walks back upstairs, where Luis was drinking hot chocolate.
Barry sits down, wondering how does Eddie know him? He'll have to ask Iris when they get back.
Luis: Hey you okay?
Barry: Yeah...I'm fine.
Luis: Anyway I want to say I'm sorry. I'm not only trying to get back because of Nitrous. I trying to get back because...I don't want to lose it.
Barry:...lose what?
Luis: the life I have... think about when we're not The Flash and Velocity, we're Luis Acosta and Barry Allen. We have lives without powers. I'm have friends I like to hang with, family to have fun with. I see this girl I like...I want to talk to her. I had birthdays and Christmases...if there's no way for to get back then... it's all gone...my life basically ended the second that portal opened.
Barry: I guess I never realized it liked that. But, you shouldn't worry about what the bad side of what could happen. I keep promises, I promise to get you home.
Luis smiles and they wait for the next few hours.
—
It finally time Barry and Luis are waiting in the rain on the rooftop across Star labs. Barry has the wand in his hand. Luis was nervous.
Barry: ok see one towers on the building, we're gonna run up one use our speed and gravity for help. But we have to be quick, the blast is fill with dark matter and we shouldn't be that close to it.
They hear alarms going off, then the rain floats around them. Barry looks right in the middle. The blast goes up in the sky, it's turns orange. Luis was looking up at the sky where the blast was heading, he see the energy going into a portal.
Luis: there it is! Oh my god Harry was right!
Barry: let's go we have to build enough momentum!
The 2 speedsters run around on the roof of Star labs with all the ruckus no one will notice them. Finally launched themselves in the air, they getting close to the breach, Barry was slowing down. Luis speed kicks him from behind launching him high into the air, closer to the portal now Barry can actually very faintly another City inside. He puts the wand quickly in the portal. The wand signaled green. Falling back towards the earth Luis grabs Barry. He prepared for the ground impact.
*CLANG*
Barry: what the?! How?!
Luis: I have certain metal in my shoes. Now what?
Barry: we have to get going! This blast is gonna get worse!
Barry starts running with Luis following behind, Running even faster the portal opens. Heading back to the present.
Unaware that a certain man in yellow was following in the distance.
—-
The team was working on the data, they ask for Luis's blood. Luis was spinning in chair in the cortex while eating. Cisco was on the computer.
Cisco: how you feeling?
Luis: I feel great! I get to go home soon! *chewing* wow this burger good!
Cisco: woah, what going on with your hair?
Luis's hair had a few sparks in it. He just laughs.
Luis: it does that when I'm excited!
Cisco: wow.
The rest of the team walks in, Luis gets up. They weren't smiling, Luis looks knew the answer. He sits down and looks down at ground. Caitlin hands him a vial that had what looks like a scab.
Luis: what's this?
Caitlin: that was your blood. It was fill to the brimming.
He instantly dropped it. Almost pale from looking at it.
Luis: that's my blood. How?!
Barry: we found your earth. We sent the blood to see how it would react.
We think it took 30 minutes to burn.
Luis: so you're saying even if I get through... I'll burn to death.
Caitlin: I think your speed force is somehow overwhelming your body.
Harry: it wasn't the portal that was stopping you.
Luis: it's my speed...so how can we fix it?
Barry was surprised by this. Caitlin took more blood from him. Luis finally looks at the suit made. It had blue gloves and shoes. It had a lightning bolts shaped like the letter V. The top of the mask was cut out. It had blue visors in the eyeholes.
Luis: wow Cisco, looks better than the one I had.
Cisco: this is still my suit through.
Luis: but-
Barry: I wouldn't fight it, he still says my suit is still his.
Cisco: that's cause it is.
Barry: Hey Luis, that was really grown up of you to act like that.
Luis: I just know you guys are trying. I'm gonna get home soon. I just gotta wait.
Cisco puts his hand out.
Cisco: to home!
Barry: to home!
He puts his hand out
Luis: to home!
He puts his out.
—
Later, Harry goes back to Earth 2 to get more help from lab. the team go to Jitters. Where everyone gets hot chocolate. They sit and talk. Barry talks about the time he met supergirl.
Luis: so you can shoot her and the bullets bounce off?!
Barry: Yeah. She can also fly and shoot laser out of her eyes.
Luis: so how long where you there?
Caitlin: to us, he was gone for a second.
Barry: but I was there for 3 days. Kara help me by throwing me while running super fast.
Luis: Man, what other powers you have?
Cisco: He can be in 2 places at once, throw lightning, time travel.
Caitlin: dimensional travel, phasing, speed mirage, Aerokinesis. He can move his arms really fast to create powerful winds.
Luis: wow I can't even do that! I don't think any other speedster do th-
He stops and doesn't move. The team looks with worried. A huge grin goes across his face.
Barry: Luis, you with us?
He gets up and hugs Barry who's confused by this. He hugs back leaving Cisco and Caitlin wonder what is happened at the moment.
Cisco: what's...what's going on right now?
Luis: maybe there was I reason I came here. Because of Barry!
The team still at a lost.
Luis: I can't do what Barry can do! I can run really fast, throw Lightning and barely phase through walls. I realized Nitrous he can only do what I know!
Caitlin: Barry has more experience with his powers and you want him to train you!
Luis: exactly!
Cisco: so when you go back, you have the upper hand.
Luis: I don't know about you guys, but when I get back Nitrous...
He won't know what'll hit him.
—-
Luis felt good. Everyone left and went home. He laid back on his hammock. He open up his phone and saw a photo of him and Gwen. Everyone gonna asked what happened to him. He closed his eyes. At that moment, red lightning started to surround him. He gets up and runs only to get knocked back into a wall. He looks up and sees a man in a yellow suit.
Luis: Reverse-Flash?
Thawne: it's seem you already know who I am. Velocity, we need to talk...
Luis gets up to fight him
Then everything went black...
here's the suit cisco made:
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