Earth 5 Part II

Genius Snart x FBI Lance

xXx

"No, that doesn't make any sense."

"What do you mean it doesn't make any sense? It make perfect sense."

"No it doesn't the variables are all over the map, this would never work."

"They are not, stop being dramatic Cisco! Just because you don't get it doesn't mean it's it's wrong."

"I'm not being dramatic Wally!"

The voices had grown steadily louder as they approached Professor Leonard Snart's office. Said man looked up from the case file Sara and Lisa had been explained to him, and swiveled his head to look through the open door just as Cisco and Wally stepped through the threshold, neither paying attention to their surroundings as they argued back and forth.

"Guys." Leonard called out as their voices grew louder still.

"The equation is perfectly sound!" Wally snapped.

"No, it really isn't. You're going to blow yourself up if you try to build an engine based on this." Cisco threw back.

"Guys." Leonard tied again, throwing an apologetic look at Sara and his sister. Lisa chuckled turning a smile back on Sara before stepping toward the arguing pair.

"Hi Cisco." Lisa greeted the shorter man. Immediately his head snapped around, looking toward the young agent, eyes wide.

"Hi Lisa." Cisco replied snapping the file closed and, in Sara's opinion, looking rather awkward. She tried not to laugh when she caught Leonard rolling his eyes. "What are you doing here? Visiting Len?"

"Sort of," she replied. "We're actually here on official business." Lisa explained gesturing to Sara, standing on the opposite side of the desk.

"Official business?" Wally questioned confused looking between everyone present. Leonard sighed.

"Agent Lance, this is Professor Ramon and Professor West." Leonard introduced them.

"Uh, please," Cisco said as he stepped forward to shake her hand. "Call me Cisco."

She nodded her understanding before turning to shake Wallys hand. "Wally." the young professor said.

"It's nice to meet you both." she replied.

"Did you need something, or did you just come here to scream at each because of the horrible acoustics?" Leonard asked.

"Huh? Oh, no, um, Wally's got blueprints for a new Hybrid engine he's working on and he asked me to look over his math, but now we can't agree on whether or not the numbers are right." Cisco explained.

"And you want me to look them over?" Cisco and Wally nodded. Leonard extended his hand asking for the file. Cisco handed it to him and he set it aside to look over later.

"I'll get it back to you as soon as I can." Leonard told them before turning back to the case file. Sara watched amused as Wally and Cisco remained where they were, Cisco smiling awkwardly at lisa, much to Leonard's annoyance. "Is there something else?" Leonard asked and Sara resisted the urge to laugh.

"Um… uh…" Cisco stuttered. Sara decided to put him out of his misery.

"Your both engineers right?" she asked drawing their attention.

"Both mechanical engineers." Wally nodded.

"Then maybe you could help." She said gesturing to the case file Leonard was looking over.

"Sure, if we can." Cisco snapped out of his awkward stupor, walking up to Leonard's desk. Leonard pushed the file across so they could see it.

"Street racing?" Cisco questioned before turning back to look at Wally. Wally stepped up as well.

"Do you have some experience with street racing Professor?" Lisa asked.

"Yeah, back when I was an undergrad. It was mostly sanctioned races outside of town but there were a few street races too." Wally hesitated as he caught sight of a photo in the file. The body of an older man laid out on the sidewalk beside a wrecked custom car. "But never around people." he added. "It's one thing to put your own life in danger…"

Sara nodded her understanding. "We're trying to figure out what exactly happened." she explained. "So far we know that this car came around a corner and lost control crashing into the cafe and injuring several pedestrians. The victim of the accident was trying to push a baby stroller out of the way." there a solemn moment of silence before;

"The CCPD Accident Trajectory Model should tell you what happened." Cisco spoke up. He turned to Wally. "You helped update that last year didn't you?" Wally nodded.

"That's the problem Agent Lance was just explaining to me." Leonard added. "The model isn't working."

"That's...not possible." Wally said.

"The model isn't working with the scenario we have from the crash sight as well as what we know so far. We were hoping Len could figure out the variables we're missing." Lisa added.

"You might need a little more than that." Cisco told them. "If the variables are off then we might need more data."

"Ramon's right." Leonard replied. "We can't solve anything without more data, all we can do is experiment, hypothesize what it would take to make the scenario work."

"Could you do that?" Sara asked him. Leonard nodded.

"It shouldn't be a problem for me." he looked questioningly at Cisco and Wally.

"Yeah, no problem I have a new upgraded version of the Accident model I've been working on, if we run it on the supercomputer we should be able to get results in about an hour." Wally explained.

"Good, we'll leave you to it then." Sara told them, she smiled and bid farewell to Leonard before heading out, Lisa just behind her. Leonard scowled as he watched Lisa smile at Cisco as she walked out.

xXx

"Wow, this place is so cool." Cisco said his eyes darting around the major crimes bullpen as he and Wally followed Leonard out of the elevator and toward the conference room where he could see the team gathered. Their attentions turned to the scientists as they entered.

"Did you find anything?" Diggle asked as he caught sight of Leonard. Leonard nodded, before turning and introducing Cisco and Wally to Agents John Diggle, Felicity Smoak, and Dr. Caitlin Snow.

"According to the model, the only way to account for the damage done to the storefront is an extra two hundred and sixty pounds inside the car." Leonard explained.

"There's no way the kid who came out of that car is 260 pounds." Sara said looking to Dr. Snow for confirmation. She nodded.

"It could be another person, a very big person." Caitlin explained.

"So, what if this kid was a passenger and not the driver?" Lisa suggested.

"It would certainly explain why a fifteen year old kid with no priors could somehow get his hands on a custom car." Diggle added.

Wally inhaled audibly. "Ohhhh, it was a hazing." he said and everyone looked to him confused. "New guys, usually young teenagers without their own cars, who want to get in on the street racing scene have to ride in the trunk. It's a hazing ritual. If you can survive riding in the trunk you get moved up to the passenger seat the next time."

"Just when I thought this couldn't get any worse." Felicity muttered under her breath. Not a second later an alarm on her lap top dinged. "Looks like my algorithm finished pulling all the footage off line. There's a lot of it."

"Better start going through it then." Diggle told her and she nodded, standing with her computer.

"You know I have a program that could help you narrow down the amount of footage you have to comb through." Cisco suggested.

"Really?" Felicity asked. "Well then, by all means, I'd appreciate the help Professor." she gestured that he follow her out.

"Call me Cisco." they heard him correct her as they disappeared into the tech office.

"Alright, let's get searching for that driver. Lisa, go back to the hospital, see if this kids father has any names or acquaintances or new friends his son is spending time with. Sara, go back to the crime scene and talk to witnesses again. Actually, if you don't mind Professors, you might find something useful if you go with her."

xXx

"Thank you for your help." Sara spoke kindly to one of the witnesses before turning and heading toward Leonard where he was looking over the street with a practiced eye.

"Any luck?" Leonard asked. Sara sighed, shaking her head.

"Nothing new, no. Looks like everyone was so distracted with getting out of the way they didn't see anything that wasn't directly in front of them. How about you guys?"

"Well, I don't know yet. Wally thinks he's found something but he's not telling me." Leonard pointed across the street where Wally was carefully examining skid marks.

"Come on." Sara prompted, looking both ways before crossing the street. Leonard followed close behind and they came to a stop beside Wally. "Len says you think you've found something?" she asked as Wally stood to full height when they stopped beside him.

"Yeah. nothing I can confirm until I run it through the simulator but, I think there may have been a second car."

"Of course." Leonard breathed and Sara looked between them.

"What does that mean if there was a second car?"

"It means that the extra 260 pounds could be accounted for with a collision and would explain why a car with a slip diferential lost control in a fairly basic maneuver."

"Are you saying our car was hit with a pit maneuver?"

"That's exactly what I'm saying." Wally replied. "But until I get back to the lab and run calculations I can't say for certain."

"Then let's get you back to the lab."

xXx

"Hey, Agent Lance said you think you found something." Cisco said by way of greeting as he entered the lab. He found Wally hunched over his computer while Leonard scribbled equations on his clear dry erase board.

"Yeah, there may have been a second car. We're testing it now. Will you plug the differentials in?" Wally replied pointing to the second computer set up on his other side.

Cisco agreed easily getting to work. The only sound between them as they worked; the clicking of keys and the impact of marker on plexiglass.

"So, how did it go with agent Smoak?" Leonard eventually broke the silence.

"She's amazing." Cisco replied. "She'd make an amazing addition to Calsci. How did she end up at the FBI?"

Leonard smirked. "She got caught." he told him. Cisco and Wally both looked up confused.

"You remember the White hat hacker Overwatch don't you?"

Cisco's eyes widened. "Are you telling me I just spent two hours with THE Overwatch?" his voice high pitched and a little shreeky.

"She prefers Felicity actually." Lisa's replied drawing their attention as she entered, Sara close behind.

"Perfect timing." Leonard told them. "We're just about ready to run the simulation."

Within minutes they were watching the 3D animation on the large flat screen, confirming what Wally had suspected. As if on cue Sara's phone rang and she excused herself to answer it, coming back not long after to tell them that Felicity had found footage of the wreck and driver of the car.

xXx

"Looks like he skipped town." Sara explained as she hung up her desk phone. Leonard stood above her leaning against the cubicle partition. "We'll find him though. His picture is out with every patrol officer on the west coast."

"Good." Leonard replied. "And in the meantime?" he continued.

"We move on." she replied laying a hand on a large stack of files. "There are new cases coming in daily."

"Well, you know where to find me if you need any help… not that you would need my help to do your job… or…" Leonard's rambling was cut off as Sara laughed.

"I get what you're saying Professor." she stood, stopping in front of him. "You weren't too far off honestly. We have needed you a few times to do our jobs."

"Yes well, my math is nothing without your expertise." he replied with a light smile.

"You know," Sara smirked. "In a different light that could have been very romantic." she told him grinning as she watched him look away blushing.

"I'll have to keep that in mind." he told her.

xXx

"Is there something going on between Agent Lance and your brother?" Cisco asked Lisa as he helped her and Felicity pack up the conference room. Lisa looked up confused before turning her gaze out through the glass walls toward the bull pen. She deflated considerably.

"Oh you've got to be kidding me." Lisa grouched turning back to her task. "Lenny has shown absolutely no interest in people romantically in years and then he meets the one person who could royally screw me over if it doesn't end well."

Felicity chuckled. "You have to admit, they're kind of cute." she said. Lisa rolled her eyes.

"Don't encourage them. I don't need my big brother dating my S.O." she sighed "No matter how right you are." she looked over her shoulder as she spoke and shook her head. She watched as Leonard smiled, looking away to hide a blush from Sara.

"I'm screwed." she continued turning back around. "He hasn't looked that happy since Mick died."

"Mick?" Felicity asked confused. Lisa shook her head.

"It's a long story." Lisa took a deep breath. "Guess we'll just have to see what happens."