Chapter 5: "Do the Reverse Flash, Barry"
Summary: Barry may have misunderstood what Cisco meant during the battle against Solovar. Post 3x13 Episode.
"How about a lightning throw," Caitlin suggested. Cisco nodded, as he watched Barry run, flashing around the arena walls in a vain attempt to escape Solovar's punch. Team Flash (currently consisting of Cisco, Caitlin, Julian and the recently awakened and still dazed Harry) watched through their barred vision, but it wasn't hard to tell that they currently were on the losing team.
"Worth a shot," the Flash breathed out, and he sped up, the yellow lightning flooding the arena walls. Barry focused on the speed, picking up the electricity around him so that he charged enough to completely knock out the Gorilla standing in front of him. Unfortunately, that was taking too long.
Solovar had different plans. Trying to pinpoint Barry was obviously a bad strategy, so the King of the Gorillas decided to use his ace card. Picking up his stride, he jumped into the air, letting his shield free fall from that height, as the goliath himself came crashing down onto the earth.
And he smashed his spear at the center, sending a tremor across the arena, almost like a ripple across water. Barry stood no chance as he stumbled, yelling as he toppled from his vertical stride and was tossed, once more, like a ragdoll.
"Come on, Barry, get up," Caitlin whispered, just as Julian murmured the current score. Caitlin looked away, almost despondently.
"That was a horrible idea, Ramone," Harry berated, as he watched Barry crumble to the ground. "Solovar won't give him enough time to charge," Harry explained. Cisco glared back, before turning his attention back to the downed hero.
Barry rolled to a stop at the other side of the stadium, coughing pathetically as he tried to push himself up from the ground. He was outmatched against the strength of the white Gorilla. And the entire team seemed to be outmatched against his wisdom as well.
Maybe the sonic punch? Barry mused through his pain, as he clutched his mid-section and tried to get back to his feet. 5.3 miles…
Julian shook his head, sadly. "This quite the reversal of our fortune," the meta-human specialist said, as he clutched the cell bars, pushing himself closer to the fight.
"Thank you, Indiana Jones, for summarizing that," Harry replied haughtily, abandoning his spot near the opening to pace the cell.
"Reversal," Cisco whispered, an idea striking him and he glanced at Julian. Why hadn't they taught of this before! "Barry," he called into his phone. "It's time to pull a Reverse Flash."
Barry finally got to his knees, confusion and hesitance clearly showcased on his face. He heard a growl from behind him, and through the dust, saw Solovar leap, his spear aimed at the Scarlet Speedster's chest.
"Do it!" Cisco urged, forcing the words out with as much conviction as he could. Of course, none of them wanted Barry to use any method taught by the Evil Dr. Wells, but in this case, at this moment of life and death, they had no choice.
And then Barry ran away.
Cisco frowned as he watched Barry disappear from the arena. Solovar crashed into the earth once more, this time breaking the closest arena wall, and sending another tremor across the stadium.
This wasn't what Cisco had in mind…
"Where did he go?" Caitlin asked, just as Julian shrugged. Even Harry returned to the opening in a vain attempt to locate the speedster.
Solovar looked around, prying his spear lose from the dirt, and waited for any flash of lightning. His eyes furrowed into thin slits, impatiently scanning the area, and he twirled to face the rest of the stadium.
Suddenly, Solovar's eyes widened, and he dropped his spear. He gave one look around the stadium, before decidedly running to the nearest corner, and curled onto himself, rocking back and forth in a gesture to calm himself.
And the entire stadium fell silent.
The team looked, shocked. What did Barry do?
And speak of the devil, as he zoomed into the stadium, past the stadium, and into their cells. Barry pulled down his cowl, breathing hard as he walked up to the lever, and grunted in an effort to open the cell doors.
"What did you do?" Cisco asked, confused with their current reaction and situation.
"I did what you told me to," Barry responded. With the confused looks he got back, he elaborated, "I did a 'Reverse Flash'." Even Harry looked at him skeptically.
Julian laughed in happiness. "I don't care what you did, mate," He said lightly. "I'm just glad we're out." He grasped the hero's shoulder just as everyone else held onto him as well.
And Barry zoomed them all out of the city, and into the jungle.
"No, this conversation doesn't end." Cisco glared at Barry as soon as the speedster stopped.
"Does it have to be now, Ramone?" Harry grunted as he glanced in the general direction he knew certain gorillas would be running from.
"Yes," Cisco replied curtly before turning back to his friend. "When I said 'Reverse Flash', I meant the vibrating hand through the chest. Like how he first killed me."
Barry eyes widened in understanding, his mouth forming into a small 'oh'. "I thought you meant 'go back in time and kill his mother when he's young child so that he would be traumatized and can never become king'?" The ending came out more feeble than Barry intended.
Caitlin gasped. "You killed his mother?"
Barry held up his hands, "In my defense, I was hesitating. Cisco told me to do it."
"I told you to shove a hand into his chest. Not traumatize baby Solovar!" Cisco exclaimed.
"Can we have this conversation in STARLabs?" Julian asked nervously as he heard the growls of the sapiens approaching them.
"Yes, remember Grodd is probably in charge right now. And we don't really have a stellar performance record with him," Harry added in, prompting the young engineer to open a breach back to Earth 1.
Caitlin and Julian jumped in, followed by Harry. Barry glared at Cisco, "It's not my fault you suck at giving instructions." He jumped in as well.
Cisco shook his head. "It's not my fault you misunderstood what I meant…" and followed his friends, just as the breach closed on Earth 2.
A/N: This idea wasn't really mine. I read a comment on YouTube somewhere and I thought it would be funny to make it into a story. Obviously didn't do a great job with the ending punchlines, and the beginning wasn't really funny, but this whole fight was a lot of fun to write.
In my version, I woke Harry up (just because). And I also know time doesn't really work this way. Plot holes within plot holes :D
Please review and leave back any comments! If you have story ideas you want me to write about, I can do that as well.
Preview Chapter 6: The Great Mathematicians at STARLabs.
Barry is less than amused at the horrible math skills of the so-called geniuses at STARLabs. Post 3x14 episode.