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"What were you doing on November 22nd, 2016?" The man asked Caitlin, who tensed.
"What… what does it have to do with anything?" Caitlin asked, knowing what was he implying to.
"Answer the question." The man said bluntly.
"I…" Caitlin paused. "It… it was two years ago… I was working in S.T.A.R. Labs—"
"And anything else?" The man asked.
"I…" Caitlin paused before the man showed her on a tablet a footage of her and Julian Albert in a storage room before the Flash entered. No audio was on but then, the screen showed another footage of Killer Frost with Savitar in the forest and then, in a park before showing a footage of a white flash of light killing some policemen underground before Savitar appeared.
"We know that you're a criminal associated with the speedster, who slaughtered the police officers back in November 2016." The man said. "And while we recognize the good that you've done with Vibe in the past year, a handful of good deeds will not wash the blood on your hands."
"I… I…" Caitlin hesitated and right now she wished that she could turn into Killer Frost but the chip they planted in her neck was obviously blocking it somehow. "Please… I… I wasn't in my right mind, I had no control over my actions."
"Sounds like an excuse to me." One of the men scoffed.
"The more she uses her powers, the more likely she succumbs to her… Killer Frost persona." Caitlin's interrogator read as she tensed. "And while we saw and recognize that you've been assisting the Flash and… Vibe… if the name is correct? And Elongated Man… we have witnesses that confirm that you were a follower of this speedster they call…Savitar. The God of Speed. Who was responsible for the explosion in S.T.A.R. Labs and killed dozens of policemen in line of duty."
"Please, it wasn't me, I wasn't in control—" Caitlin pleaded.
"Which is why you're too dangerous to be left out there unchecked." The man finished. "You and dozens of more dangerous metahumans, such as Mark Mardon or the woman posing as Laurel Lance, who was one of the metahumans, who attacked Central City with Zoom. Take her away."
"No, no, please, no!" Caitlin pleaded as the guards dragged her outside the room and down the corridor before they threw her into a small cell with a toilet as she started to sniff in despair as she curled to a ball before she heard another voice that was very familiar.
"Caitlin?" Caitlin looked around. "Cait, is that you?"
She recognized the voice before noticing a crack in the wall as she took a look and saw a face on the other side. "Laurel?"
"Oh, my God, they took you too?" Laurel gasped.
Caitlin nodded. "They… they attacked me in my apartment and knocked me out… they have evidence that I'm Killer Frost—"
"And somehow they found out that I'm Black Siren. The doppelganger of your Laurel." Laurel explained before Caitlin heard the door open.
"Come on, let's go, Siren—"
"No, no, get off me, I said, get off me, now!" Laurel snarled as she screamed in pain, while Caitlin heard cracking of electricity, worried about what would happen next before another guard entered.
Elsewhere
Lex was in his office before Mercy entered. "Mr. Luthor, you have a visitor."
"Who is it?" Lex asked as a man with combed black hair entered.
"Benjamin Lockwood, Homeland Security." The man showed his badge.
"Mr. Lockwood, so nice to meet you." Lex shook his hand with the man.
"The White House has noticed that you asked for many changes in Constitution and alteration of parts with civil liberties, regarding these metahumans." Lockwood said. "They want someone from the DHS to oversee the operation and I'd like to kick the tires and see what is it that the government is funding, exactly."
Lex chuckled. "May I give you a tour?"
"I don't know how fully you are briefed on what's going on here but after the fiasco at Iron Heights few months ago with Warden Wolfe, it is obvious that we need a more well-equipped facility to contain these metahumans. The reason I requested the governmental support and increased funding, was due to LexCorp's limited resources, no matter how vast they are, and reinforce the facility in order to secure these prisoners." Lex explained.
"Yes, since it's all… magic." Lockwood drawled.
"You don't believe any of it, do you?" Lex narrowed his eyes.
"What I do believe that you are keeping here at least a dozen of prisoners, without a trial, warrant, or Miranda rights. Metahumans or not, they're as much citizens of the United States as you and I." Lockwood said.
"Citizens should have equal rights, Mr. Lockwood." Lex said as Lockwood followed him down the corridor. "These metahumans are more than equal to us and could tear down a city with a snap of their fingers. Let me show you."
They stopped at a camera as Lex turned on the monitor to show Caitlin restrained to a chair, with heat lamps shining on her as she was sweating before she tried to turn into Killer Frost and Laurel and Dinah in two other rooms, with collars on their necks and the sight of the feed disturbed Lockwood. "That… That's Laurel Lance. District Attorney of Star City—"
"She's not real Laurel Lance but an impostor. The DNA may match to her but there are traces of metahuman DNA and dark matter and we have evidence that the real Laurel Lance is dead and the other woman is an extremely dangerous metahuman as well. They kidnapped and killed people, tore down buildings. And also, the other woman slaughtered dozens of criminals before the Green Arrow decided to take her in, as a vigilante of Star City, when she is unstable, unpredictable killer—"
"Lex, what is this insanity?" Lockwood demanded. "They are shackled to chairs, for God's sakes!"
"That's why I need better funding—"
"Funding?!" Lockwood snapped. "No. The operation is getting shut down. Tonight. Because I'm making a call to Attorney General and I am going to file a human rights violation against you. You're torturing them." He walked down the corridor as Lex got in his way.
"Mr. Lockwood, just suspend your disbelief for a moment and imagine that there are more like them out there." Lex pleaded.
"Metahumans with dangerous powers or not, that's no excuse for torture." Lockwood sneered.
"I'm talking about people, who can blow things up with a touch of their fingers, control weather and summon a tidal wave onto a city on a whim, mind control—"
"So they're all so dangerous that they have no constitutional rights?" Lockwood snapped. "What about the Flash? He's been protecting a city from metahumans just like him—"
"But there are hundreds, maybe thousands of more metahumans like him…" Lex said.
Caitlin was going down the corridor with the guard before out of the sudden, she felt something in her body and she turned into her Killer Frost persona, grabbing the guard by his neck.
"You're going to get me out of here, or I will freeze you to death."
They went down the corridor before an alarm blared and they moved quickly before in a corridor, Kane and Lex and Lockwood and more guards showed up.
"Don't move, Snow!"
"Caitlin, don't. Don't make this harder than it has to be." Lex pleaded with apparent concern.
Frost hesitated but then, she heard a gunshot as she turned around, using her captive as a human shield before firing an icicle, killing one of them by shooting him in the heart before Kane fired a Taser dart, hitting Frost in the back as she groaned and passed out and collapsed down on the floor, reverting back into Caitlin, much to Lockwood's horror.
"I'm sorry you had to witness this today, Mr. Lockwood." Lex told Lockwood, who was looking at the photos of metahumans and the Flash. "It must have been quite… upsetting."
"I certainly am not going to forget this anytime soon." Lockwood admitted.
"I wouldn't be doing any of this, if I didn't believe from the bottom of my heart that they are all too dangerous to walk among us." Lex said.
"Don't worry. I'll make call to the White House tonight and you'll have all the funding you need to stop all of these metas that are dangerous." Lockwood assured.
"What about the Flash?" Lex pointed out and Lockwood raised his brows.
"The Flash is a hero of Central City—"
"Theoretically, he could time travel. For all we know, he already did and you should know from books and films and that kind of stuff that time travelling has consequences. He is a wild card we cannot allow to walk loose." Lex said.
Lockwood narrowed his eyes. "I don't think it will sit well with public, if there was a manhunt on the Flash."
Lex nodded. "I understand."
"But, Luthor…" Lockwood looked around. "As far as the other dangerous metahumans go… make sure that they can't hurt anyone else ever again."
"I am working on a way to strip them of their powers permanently… even though… there may be some setbacks and not all may survive it… and I will need some… test subjects to test the cure." Lex said and Lockwood narrowed his eyes.
"How many of these prisoners you have?" Lockwood asked.
"As of tonight, over two dozens. All of them criminals or escapees from Iron Heights. Confirmed murderers, thieves, you name it." Lex said as Lockwood considered.
"That woman that just killed one of yours? Make sure she doesn't hurt anyone else, ever again." Lockwood instructed.
"How did she turn into Killer Frost, when we put a dampening chip into her neck?" Lex demanded.
"It's supposed to minimize the effects of dark matter on her. We've been trying to come up with another chip that limits all higher brain functions, since her DNA didn't come from dark matter." The scientist explained.
"What does that mean?" Lex demanded.
"She is a metahuman… but not a classic variety of a metahuman. Her DNA is different than from most of them." The scientist explained and Lex looked intrigued.
"We should take a closer look at her."
When Caitlin woke up, she groaned before she felt cold metal on her bare skin and was stripped of all articles of clothing, strapped to a table that limited her movement and she groaned, trying to turn into Killer Frost but nothing happened before she felt intense heat from lamps above her as Lex neared her and she was unable to move.
"You better get used to that heat because that's all you are going to feel… for a very long time." Lex said.
One of the scientists cut into Caitlin's skin on her arm with a scalpel as she hissed before the sun lamps were losing their power and Caitlin's wound seemed to heal quickly.
"Cryogenic levels are rising." One of the scientists said.
"I'd like to know how did she bypass the power dampening chip." Lex ordered.
"You can't do this. This is… inhuman. I have rights…" Caitlin growled.
"Rights that you lost the moment you killed one of my men and dozens of people two years ago." Lex sneered before walking away as they injected something into Caitlin's neck and her hands started to crackle and ice formed in them before it melted. Then, they put some electrodes on Caitlin's forehead and electricity sizzled as she screamed in pain.
"When I said I wanted you to convince the White House that the metahumans are dangerous, I didn't have in mind to offer one of my men as a sacrificial lamb." Lex told Kane.
"Sometimes, in war a soldier must fall on a grenade to protect others." Kane said.
"He did not fall, you threw him." Lex pointed out.
"I did what had to be done to make sure that this project goes on. You said it yourself that these metas are dangerous." Kane said as Lex growled.
"Be careful, Kane, because next time you decide to throw away my resources to save our asses, it won't end well for you." Lex warned.
S.T.A.R. Labs
"We can't trust the Flash to protect us anymore." One of the men in the news said. "One meta on our side is not enough… this is a threat that needs to be addressed on a much larger scale."
Barry turned the TV off and walked away, feeling uncomfortable before Patty followed him to a lab with Joe.
"I… they stopped believing in me. They're all losing faith." Barry sighed.
"You can't let what happened yesterday get to you." Patty assured. "No one's perfect—"
"But look around. Lex is winning." Barry said.
Patty smiled. "Barry, you can't give up yet. When you feel down, you need to get back up and fight back. There's always a way."
"How do you know that?" Barry asked, unsure as Patty held his hand.
"My Dad used to tell me, 'Why do we fall? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.' You'll find a way, Barry, I know it." Patty said.
"What do you mean, you can't vibe them?" Barry demanded.
"I mean, I could see where they were few hours ago but after that, nothing. It was a remote area and they were there with more metas. After that, I got only blurry images and it wasn't good." Cisco wiped his bleeding nose. "I don't know how but they got countermeasures against my powers too."
"Like DeVoe." Barry nodded.
"If we can get evidence that Lex Luthor is conducting inhuman experiments, maybe we can take him down." Felicity suggested.
"How exactly are we going to do that?" Joe asked.
"You said that they had Julian. Do you think you can vibe him too?" Barry asked, an idea forming in his mind.
City Hall, Star City
"So far, the council hasn't made a decision yet, since they bought the story that you had been fooled but we gotta give them a good reason not to impeach you for taking in an impostor." Quentin said as he followed Oliver in the office.
"Redemption? Maybe we can tell them that Laurel has been trying to turn over a new leaf…"
"I don't know if Pollard is going to buy it but maybe Parks and Brown will agree…"
Oliver's phone then rang as he picked it up. "Barry?"
"Oliver, I need your help." Barry said.
"Look, Barry, my hands are tied right now—"
"Not that kind of help."
Later
An armored convoy was driving down a highway before the Green Arrow fired onto the tires, causing for the van to stop and A.R.G.U.S. agents were surrounding the convoy. The Green Arrow opened the van, knocking out the guard before pulling the bag out from the man in cuffs.
"Julian Albert?"
"Who… you're the Green Arrow." Julian gasped.
"We need your help." The Green Arrow said.
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