Chapter 2: Fastest Man Alive
This is the part where Barry does the intro thingy, Barry Allen Fastest man alive, Lily Williams, strongest girl alive. That's me, the one talking to you right now. But you already know that, so lets get to the good stuff.
Lily what are you doing? I'm telling everyone the good parts or I was until you interrupted. Yeah okay fine, we're going to tell them the good stuff, sound fair? I'm going to do one of this solo, mark my words. Yeah, fat chance. Alright, you see that smoke. That's a fire on western and third, downtown Central city.
You see those blur, that's us on our way to it, I'm going 352 miles an hour and it's a slow day. It such a very slow day, shut up, Lils.
"This is Ladder 52, we're still at least two minutes out." the head fireman informs over the radio, "People are going to die in there." the another man said through the radio, but then Barry passes them.
"Barry, Barry!" Cisco said over the comm. He stop both him and Lily were in uniform and she had her hood up and secured on his back, legs held tightly on his sides as her arms were wrap around his neck. "What did I miss it?" Barry asks him. "You shot over about six blocks." Cisco informs him, Barry sighs. "My bad." he states and ran back.
They then returned the burning building and Lily jumps off his back and they look around, "Are you there yet?" Cisco asks them. "What are you doing?" Caitlin asks him, Cisco quickly turns back around and the monitors were turn off. "Nothing." he answers. "Who are you talking to?" Caitlin asks again, "No one." he answers. "Are you talking to Barry and Lily?" she asks again. "Who?" Cisco asks. "Barry Allen, Lily Williams. Struck by lighting, was in a coma for nine months both woke up. Barry being able to run faster then the speed of sound and Lily with not one, but four abilities. Ring a bell?" she reminds him, Cisco shook his head. "Nope. Haven't talk to them." he tells her.
"Cisco, there's fire everywhere!" Lily shouts as she looks around, "Cisco, are you still there?!" she asks him, but then heard a little girl calling out for her mother. She founded the sound and saw the little girl and ran to her, then just as a pillar was to hit the girl. Lily got to her in time, pulling her into her arm and moves back.
She saw that her way back way block then saw Barry on the other-side. "Go get the others I got her!" she shouts at him, Barry nods at her and sped off. Lily walks into the girl's room, kicks out the window, climbs through and was outside. "Alright, I need you to hold on tight and whatever you do, do not let go." she tells her. The look girl nods at her and wraps her arms tightly around her neck and Lily jumps down and lands perfectly on her feet. She then squats down and gets the girl on her feet. "Go to your mother." she whispers to the little girl, she nods and runs to her mother and her mother turns and picks her up in her arm. Lily smiles at them then jumps over the wall and onto the street.
Then was suddenly pick up and sped away. Barry sets Lily down on her feet and she stood there, she smiles up at Barry and he smiles back at her. "Nice work back there… Hoods." Barry tease her, Lily groans "I hate that name, they need to come up with a better name." she mumbles and pulls of her hood, but was still wearing her mask as her hair was a fiery red and eyes were neon golden. "Aw come on it's not that bad." he states she narrows her eyes at him, "Looks whose talking… the Streak." she snaps back at her.
Barry narrows his eyes at her, "That was uncalled for." he states she just smirks, "So was my nickname." she states Barry sighs and leans against the dumpster. "Cisco, everybody is out, what else do you got for us?" Barry asks through his comm as Lily leans on the dumpster beside him. "Barry it's Caitlin." Caitlin states and the two look at each other as they knew they were busted. Lily raises her hand to the side if her mask. "Hey Caitlin, how's your day?" she tries to play it cool. "Get back to S.T.A.R. labs. Now." she tells them.
"On our way." Barry tells her, then walks to Lily to pick her up, but staggers a little bit, Lily notices this and helps him stand. "Barry are you okay?" she asks him, holding his shoulders. He grips her arms and steadies himself. "Yeah, I'm fine, lets get back to S.T.A.R labs." he tells her, picks her up and speeds off.
~8~8~8~
Barry and Lily arrive as the lab, Barry was still in uniform as Lily had hers pack away in her sidebag. "Have you all lost your minds? Who do you think you are?" Caitlin questions all three of them, as she walks pass them. "Well, I'm the eyes and ears and their the feet and arms," Cisco tells her as they walk after her. "This isn't funny, you both could of gotten yourselves killed." she states as Barry and Lily walk up to her. "You both can not be running around the city like a super sonic fireman and his sidekick." she tells him as Lily was offend by that.
"Sidekick?" she question, Cisco rubs her shoulder. "Why not? This is what we talk about, me using my speed and Lily using her abilities to do good, and for the record, she is not my sidekick. She's my partner." Barry informs her, making Lily's heart jump a few beats. Cisco saw that her cheeks flared a bit, "We talk about you helping contain other people who might have been effected by the Particle Accelerator Explosion; Meta-humans. And aside from Clyde Mardon, we haven't found any." she tells him.
"People in this city still need help and we can help them." Barry tells her, "We all can help them." Cisco adds, Caitlin looks over his shoulder. "Will you please say something." she states, Barry and Lily look over and Harrison wheel himself into the room. They both sigh, "I think what Caitlin is trying to say, in her own spectacular angry way; we are just beginning to understand what your bodies are capable of. But not to sound like a broken record, Mr. Allen, Ms. Williams I do caution restraint." he tells them. "Dr. Wells. I doubt restrain got you to the man you are today." Barry tells him.
"In a wheelchair and a lack of restraint, is what made me these things. Know your limits." Harrison tells him and wheel away, then Caitlin walks in front of him. "Don't except me to patch you everytime you break something." she state and walks off. Lily rolls her eyes and saw that she is way overprotective of her and Barry. Then Cisco walks in front of him, "Hey anything happen out there today, the sensor in the suit were kicking back some weird telemetry, like your vitals spike for a few seconds." Cisco asks him, but Barry shook his head at him, "Never felt better." he answers then Barry's cell rang, Cisco reaches into his pocket and handed Barry the cell and he answers it.
"Hey Joe everything alright?" Barry asks him, "Great. I got a fresh crime scene, a dead body, detectives interviewing witnesses, miles of yellow tape stretch over everything. I'm only missing two things… can you guess what that is?" Joe asks him as both Barry and Lily sighs, knowing what he means. "We'll be there." Barry tells him and hung up the phone. "Our day jobs beckons." Barry mumbles, Lily sighs and places her hand on his arm. He picks her up and speed away and out of S.T.A.R labs. They call saw that the two were gone, papers flew and they look at the door then Harrison spoke when do you think he's going to realize that he didn't take his clothes?"
~8~8~8~
They arrive at the scene and Barry sets Lily down on her feet as they look from behind the corner, Barry then looks down at himself and saw that he was still in his suit. He sighs and looks over at a Harrson's clothing store. "Hm." Barry hums to himself and dashes over into the stair then Lily sighs and ran into the robbed gun store. "This is going on your record, Ms Williams." Singh tells her. "Thank you." she mumbles and stood next to Joe. "So what's the situation?" Lily asks them. "The robber made off with a few hand guns, at least six gluk 19s. Fitted with extra ammunition, someone was looking to do a lot of bad." Joe states and Lily pulls out her black gloves and steps under the yellow tape as Barry walks into the store.
Then he step to Joe, "Hey, sorry I'm late." Barry tells him, Joe eyes the price tag on Barry's jacket. "Doing a little Fall shopping Mr. Allen?" Singh asks him as Joe pulls of the tag. "Oh, I was going so fast this morning, I didn't even notice." Barry tells him. Singh does an unamused laugh as Lily glares at him. Joe have Barry is gloves, he takes them and got to work. "Barry come take a look at this." Lily calls to him, Barry kneels down next to her. "What's is it?" he asks her, "Are you really sure you're alright?" she whispers to him.
He realizes that she was refuring to when Barry look like he was going to pass out earlier. "I'm fine." he tells her, but she gave him the look, he saw that she didn't believe him. "Barry Allen you can't lie to me, I taught you how to lie, remember?" she tells him, he sighs. "Okay, for the pass couple weeks I've been feeling light headed." he tells her. She nods, "Have you been eating lately?" she asks him, "Yeah… why?" he asks her, "No I mean… have you been eating more than a regular person should?" she asks again, he shakes his head, "Then there's your problem." she tells him then stood up. Barry sighs and stands up with her. Lily uses her power eyes and looks at the footprints. She then sees that some cross one another. "Hey Eddie." she calls out, "Yeah Williams?" he asks.
"How many men came to this store in the robbery?" she asks him, "Just one, why?" he asks her, her eyes fade back to green, "Really, because there about six sets of footprints, men size ten, set for all of them, we have a crew on our hands." she tells him, "Are you sure, William?" Singh asks her, she turns and looks at him, "Have I ever or has Barry ever lead you astray?" she questions him. Joe sighs, knowing that she was crossing a line, Captain Singh looks away and left the scene.
~8~8~8~
"Your abilities to multitask is truly remarkable, but the way you can embarrass me, the captain, Barry and yourself all at the same time." Joe lectures Lily on her attitude. She sighs. "Joe, I'm sorry." she tells him, trying to explain herself. "I'm starting to think that, 'Joe, I'm sorry.' is my actually name, considering how often you say it to me." Joe informs her. She sighs. "Look we're dealing with a lot right now." Barry tells him, "I know you're dealing with a lot, believe me, I'm dealing with it too. I always had a very simple sets of beliefs; Gravity makes things fall, water makes things wet, up until a few weeks ago… I believe that the fast man can ran 400 miles in 4 seconds and that a young woman can left ten cars with just her hand." he tells them. "Bet I could do it in three." Barry states with excitement.
"I can lift them with just my finger." Lily smiles, Joe glares at them and the smiles drop. "Not relevant?" they asks at the same time, "You haven't said anything to Iris about this, have you?" he asks them. "No, we had you a promise and we keep our promises." Barry tells him. "Keep on lying like that, you two might get struck by lighting again." he tells them Lily wanted to say something, but no words came to mind as Barry went to say something. "Get up to the lab, both of you and start processing the evidence from the gun store." He tells them, they both sigh and ran up to their labs as Joe remembers that they were always running.
~Flashback~
Barry and Lily ran down the sidewalk as their legs could carry them, but then were stop when a police car stop in front of them, they stop on their tracks and they saw Joe step out of the and he looks at them. Both Barry and Lily were panting for air.
~8~8~8~
Joe opens the door letting both Barry and Lily walk inside, Iris walk into the door way. "Hey Iris." Joe greets his daughter. "Did Barry and Lily run away again?" she asks him, "Unless that's one of your homework questions little lady, it's none of your business, now go to your room." he tells her and Iris walks of as Barry and Lily sat on the couch in the living room. "I want to see my dad." Barry tells Joe as he closes the door.
"I already said no Barry." Joe tells him and places Barry and Lily's bags on the hooks. "He didn't do those things, he didn't hurt my mom or Lily's parents. We were there that night, there was a man." Barry tells him, as Joe walks in front of them. "Yeah I know, we've gone through this already." Joe tells him. "Then why can't we go see him?" Barry asks him, Joe pauses for a moment. "Because I said so." he tells him, Lily caught onto the pause. "You're not my dad, you can't tell me what do!" Barry snaps back as they both look at him.
"Right now, I am the only adult that gives a damn about the both of you, so yes I can tell you want to do. Now go to your rooms." he tells them. "I hate you!" Barry shouts and ran up to his room, Lily stood up and follows after Barry Joe just sighs to himself.
~End of Flashback~
At the Station, Barry walks up to the mixer and places the evidence in and saw that the mixer wasn't moving. He smack the top, "It's broken Barry, remember?" Lily calls out as she was going over what the notes from the witnesses told the detectives. He looks at her, "Yeah… forgot about that." he mumbles and pulls the test tube out and looks at it, "Hey, Lils." Barry calls out. "Yes Bar?" she asks him, "Come here, I want to show you something." Barry states, Lily moves away from her laptop and walks over to him. "Check it out." he states and he started to speed his hands, mixing the sample.
Lily watches with amazement as her face brightens, after a few moments, the sample was done and they look at it. "Now, that is impressive." she states as Barry scoffs in wonder. Barry then sets the sample down and stood up from the stool and pulls off his gloves and walks over to the other table along with Lily. But as Barry reaches the other table, he suddenly leans against it feeling another wave hit him, Lily was insistently at him side. Griping his shoulder. "Barry… are you alright?" she asks him. He just pants, "Sorry, it's nothing." he tells her.
Lily went to say something but instead, "This is all your fault. I could of taken P.N folklore sociability requirement. But no… you said 'Take Journalism Iris. The reporters have all the fun.' guess what, the reports have none of the fun. Journalism is boring… I'm bored. I blame you." she tells him as he just looks at her, Lily moves herself away from Barry and went back to her laptop. "What, why are you staring at me like that?" Iris asks him, "You look… really nice." he tells her. Then walks over to the next table, next to Lily was she was typing away.
"Thanks, why don't you look nice?" she asks them, but they look at her in confusion. "This afternoon. Suit and tie, dress. The university is giving Simon Stagg…" she starts. "Simon Stagg." Barry states as realization hits them, "…Some big award and you both agreed…" she went on. "To explain the science stuff in your article… it's all coming back to me." Lily states and looks at her. "I am so sorry, my live is a little jumble right now, Iris." she adds and groans in her hands. "How fast can you both get home and change?" she asks them. "Uhhh… pretty fast." Barry tells her. Then Eddie walks in. "Hey Allen, Williams. Joe ask me to ask you to see where you're at on the gun store shooting." he tells them, then looks over at Iris. "Oh hey Iris." he states. "Detective." she said back in a sweet tone, Lily turns and walks away making a gagging expression.
"Please guys, just kiss already. We already know, remember?" Barry tells them and walks up next to Lily. She looks over and saw then kiss, she looks away then looks at Barry, seeing that he was suffering. She then looks away as Iris and Eddie looks at them. "Thanks for being cool about this Barry, Lily. I know it's not easy keeping a big secret." he states, wrapping his arm around Iris's shoulder. "Believe me… we're going use to it." Barry mumbles as they both had their backs to to them.
~8~8~8~
At Stagg industries, people arrive at the party, dress all fancy like. Iris was wearing a short white dress, Barry was wearing a gray suit and Lily was wearing a red cocktail dress with matching red heels. Her hair was pinned back in thin curls and light make-up. The audience applause for Stagg as the three just watch. "I find it quite remarkable, having once been a timid freshmen at Center city university, to be standing before you now for the reigns choice for the man of the year, while I very much appropriate the award. The real honor for me is knowing that my work in organ transference helps give people a second chance at live, thank you all very much for coming." he tells them, raising the reward.
Everyone claps for him, and he walks off the stage, "Okay, first things first, Stagg's cellular cloning has lead to huge advances of organ replacement." Barry informs her and Iris grabs three drinks, "Are Journalist allow to drink on the job?" Iris asks then and Lily took the drinks from her, "Okay, if you are already bored, then we'll have to wait to see the cellular regeneration." she tells her and places the drinks down., Iris smiles and hooks her arms around their. "I miss this Barry and Lily, I feel like we don't spent quality time together since you two woke up from coma." Iris tells them, moving in front of them.
"Yeah, we've had a crazy few weeks, we know." Barry tells her, "I though that maybe you two have been avoiding me because of Eddie. I know you two thinks it's wrong me dating my dad's partner and I just…" Iris tries to explain herself, but Lily cuts her off. "No that is not it, at all." she tells her then Iris spots Simon Stagg walking pass them, "Oh, Mr. Stagg I was wondering if I can get a quote from you for my article?" Iris asks him, "Not now miss." Stagg's bodyguard tells her and they walk off, "We are partially avoiding her because of Eddie aren't we?" Lily whispers to Barry. "Pretty much." he answers her and they walk over to Iris.
"I'll just make something up." she states and turns to the two, "So what were you going to tell me, you look like you were about to say something." she tells Lily. Lily looks at her, the words stuck in her throat, and just as they were about to leave her mouth. Gun fire went off. Everyone went to the floor, Barry and Lily turn and saw a few men walking up and pointing their guns at everyone. "Quiet down, all of you!" one of them shouts. "Oh my…!" Iris gasp, the two grip a hold of her and they squat down. "I'll consider it, if you're wearing your finest jewelry, almost you knew we were coming to rob you!" the man shouts, Barry exchange looks with Lily as she mirrors his look.
~8~8~8~
"Now everybody line up." he tells them as everyone stood in a line, the people drop their jewelry into the bag and the two watch the man walk pass them, Lily growls and went to charge, but Iris held her back, "No, Don't!" she whispers to her, Lily looks at her, then back at the men, "Freeze!" the guard tells them, aiming his gun at them, they turn and aim their guns at him, Lily notices that they moves at the exact same time, in the exact same way, she took note of that.
"Drop your weapons!" the guard orders them, and they open fire on him, but everything slow down for Barry and Lily, Barry moves the guard out of the way and the men take off, Lily follows them and Barry follow her, the two step outside, but Barry staggers a bit and leans against the dumpster, Lily was griping his arm, "Barry…" she states, he looks at the men as the five got into the van and take off. Barry went to give chase, but he collapse onto the ground. Lily kneels down next to him, "Barry… Barry, wake up!" she states, shaking him, no response and she pulls his head onto her lap and cradles it in her hands. "Barry wake up, Barry!"
~8~8~8~
"Barry, Barry, Barry!" Iris calls out to him, he walks up and saw both Lily and Iris in front of him. "I turn around and both you and Lily were gone, what happen, are you okay?" Iris asks them. "Yeah, yeah, I'm fine… We went after them to try and stop them and get the plates. I fainted." Barry informs Iris, she looks at Lily and she nods in confirming his story which wasn't a lie.
They then walk back into the building and up to Joe and Eddie, "Where were you two?" Joe asks them, "Go easy on them Dad, Barry fainted and Lily stay with him, to make sure that he was fine." Iris informs him, Joe rolls his eyes. "Do you need a paramedic, Allen?" Eddie asks him, "No I'm fine, thanks Eddie." Barry tells him, "Well thanks to your girlfriend, she kept you safe." Eddie states, juestering to Lily, she and Barry were now scarlet red.
"Oh no… she isn't…" Barry starts, pointing at her as she points at him, "I'm… not his…" they both studded, Iris smiles at them as they went quiet, Barry stuffs his hands into his pockets as Lily folds her hands behind her front, both in an awkward moment, Iris giggles at them. "I thought I was dead, I saw the gun go off, and then boom, suddenly I'm outside. I have no idea how I got there." the guard tells them.
The five happen to overhear that the man was talking about, "May I talk to you for a second?" Joe asks Barry and Lily. "Yeah." Barry answers and they both walk with Joe. "You both chase those gunmen didn't you?" Joe asks them, "Yeah, I mean they much be the same guys that rob that gun shop earlier today." Barry answers. "And what were you going to do when you caught them?" Joe asks them. "Banshee scream, like how I did with Mardon." Lily answers her, Joe looks at her, "You're not Bulletproof Lily." he tells her and he looks back at both of them, "Wait, are you?" he asks and they two shook their heads.
"Ok, no more heroics, the both of you. Chasing bad-guys is not your jobs, it's mine, you two are not cops." he tells him and Lily sighs and crosses her arms. "Promise me." he tells them, They both look at him, "Promise." they both answer him. "And you know Iris is not stupid, you both need to make better excuses than I fainted." he tells them, Barry went to protest, but Joe states him. Then he walks off, Lily sighs and looks down at her feet.
~8~8~8~
"How could you not tell us, you're experiencing dizzy spell?" Caitlin questions as Cisco checks Barry's vitals. "We're your doctors, God knows what's going on inside your body. Your cells are in a constant state of flux." Caitlin went on, "Caitlin." Lily tries to get her attention, "You could be experiencing cardo pulmonary failure or a transient skim-it attack." she ignore her, Barry was confused at her words and looks at Dr. Wells for a translation. "Meaning stroke, probably not." Harrison states. "Caitlin…" Lily tries again, but she as ignored again "You of all people should know, in science we share, we do not keep secrets." she states.
"Are you done?" Lily asks her and Caitlin turns to her, "And you, you should of told us something, isn't he your best friend, are you that desperate for him to die, because you sure do show it." she states and walks off, "Wow, I haven't seen anyone make her that angry since Ronny." Cisco states and walks off after her, giving Harrison the Ipad. Lily walks over to the medical bed and sat down on the other side. "Ronny was Caitlin's fiancee, the one that die on the night of the Accelerator explosion?" Barry asks Harrison. "Yeah… he is, missed." he tells him, and Barry hung his head. "Now, lets figure out why this is happening to you." Harrison states.
Then Barry was taken into a train room, "We're all set." Cisco tells him as he walks into the room and Barry looks at the boxes, "Little padding, just in case." Cisco informs him, and walks out of the room, "You sure about this Cisco?" Barry asks him as he steps onto the machine. "Most home treadmills have the maximum speed of about… 12 miles per hour. This one has been Cisco. Trust me, it can handle your speed." Cisco tells him and the treadmill started up, and it was at his maximum speed.
"Heart rate, blood pressure, nerve conduction, are all normal." Caitlin states. Lily walks in and looks at the monitors. "Very." Harrison states, "Breathing functions within standard limits." Caitlin went on, "I told you three treadmill could take it." Cisco said with glee. "Caitlin." Lily calls out, she looks at her, "Glucose level." Lily points at the monitor, she looks over at the level. "Oh my god, of course." she mumbles, "Right. Glucose levels." Harrison tells her, "It was so obvious." she mumbles. "Barry, we think you know why you…" Harrison states, but Barry passes out on the treadmill and was flung at the boxes, Lily flinches as Caitlin makes a face, "…Passing out." he mumbles.
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At the station, Joe walks into the lab, looking for the two, "Barry, Lily." he calls out, no response. He then looks over at the screen and saw that there was another set underneath it, so he walks up to it and pulls the first one up and saw that they both were investigating into Nora Allen, Richard Williams and Cassie Williams' murder for 14 years.
~Flashback~
Joe came home with a bag in his arm, seeing that Iris was in the kitchen doing her homework and no trace of Barry or Lily, so he then walks into the kitchen. "Where's Barry and Lily?" he asks Iris, "Barry's taken a shower and Lily's laying down in her room." she answers before pausing. He looks at her.
"At three o'clock in the afternoon? If I go up those stairs, am I going to see Barry Allen and Lily Williams or are you going to be grounded for a week for lying to me?" he asks her. "I'm sorry Daddy, but don't worry, I know where they went." she answers him, he sighs, "Me too."
~End of Flashback~
Joe then turns around and looks at the sweater on Lily's chair; S.T.A.R labs, that's where he knows they are.
~8~8~8~
Lily was now in regular clothing as she helps Barry sit up, "I pass out again?" he asks her, "Total metabolic failure, brought on by acute hypoglycemia." Caitlin informs him, "I'm not eating enough, so I need evict and I'm good to go." he states Cisco and Lily scoff and Lily pats his chest, then turns him around. "Try 40. guess you were thirsty." Harrison states as he rolls out.
"We're going to have to fashion you a new diet base on your metabolic changes." Caitlin informs him, "I've done a few calculations, you need to consume about amount equal to roughly 850 tacos. Unless we're talking cheese and gawk, which is like a whole other set of equations." Cisco states. Lily giggles at him, "For Mexican, I recommend Totes, on Brooklyn Ave, best place on the city." Joe tells them as he was standing in the room, Lily and Barry sigh as they sat down, "Detective West, what brings you to S.T.A.R Labs?" Harrison asks him.
Joe points at them, "When I couldn't find you both at your lab, I started to do a little research, turns out there has been reports of a red Streak and a hood girl around the city. Stopping muggers, rescuing people from burning buildings." Joe states, "You didn't tell him we were working together?" Harrison asks them, "Joe, we can explain…" Barry tells him, "You two already have a job in Law enforcement. Barry, Lily, I suggest you get back to it." he tells him, "Mm-hm." Caitlin hums and Joe looks at her, "Don't look at me, I'm on your side." she tells him, "Detective, we all wants whats best for Barry and Lily." Harrison tells him.
"If you wanted what's best for Barry and Lily, you would try to talk them out if this lunacy, instead of encouraging them, going out there, risking their lives." Joe snaps at him, "You saw a man control the whether. What can the police do against some one like that?" Barry questions him, Joe just looks at him, "Since the Accelerator explosion, we suspect there maybe more like him." Lily states, Joe crosses his arms at them, "And you're going to do what, catch them? Are you insane? You think because you can run real fast and stronger that you're invincible? You're not. You're just kids, my kids." Joe states and snaps a look at Harrison.
"We're not your kids, Joe!" Lily snaps, he looks back at her, "And you're not our father." she tells him and he nods a little, "Barry's dad is sitting in Iron Heights. Wrongfully convicted of murder as mine is six feet under the ground, dead." she tells him and she pushes herself to her feet. "You were wrong about him and you're wrong about this. And I know that we may not be able to help him, but if we can save someone from a burning building or stop some armed thrives. Then we're going to do it and you can't stop us, so don't try." she tells him and Barry stood up next to her.
"You think you're so smart? All of you? But you don't know what you don't know." Joe states, looking at them, "But I hope you'll be able to figure it out before somebody gets killed." he tells them and walks out. Barry sat down as Lily crosses her arm, both exhaling.
~8~8~8~
Next day at the Police department, Barry walks to the table where there was ten empty boxes of donuts and Lily snag a box for herself as she sat on the table as she was reading over a file. "Come to yell at us again?" Barry asks as Joe walks in the room. "Simon Stagg's head of security was murdered last night, the concrete took some skin samples. Hopefully they belong to the killer." he tells them, handing Barry the envelop, Lily jumps of the table and looks over Barry's shoulder at the envelop.
"See if you both can find a match." he tells them, "Can't be a convenience, if Stagg's benefit was attack last night." Barry states, "I'm going to interview Stagg now." Joe tells them, "We'll come with you." Barry tells him, as Lily sets down the box and brushes off her mouth and hands with a few napkins. "You're job is in here, stay here and do it." he tells them, "Hey Dad." Iris states, "Hey baby, got to go." Joe tells her and walks out. "Why is my dad mad at the both of you?" she asks them, "Work stuff." they both answer, going over the sample. Then they both look at her. "Why are you mad at us?" Barry asks her.
"You both were suppose to meet me at Jitters to give me scientific background for my article." she tells him, realization hits them both, Lily buries her have in her hand and Barry turns around and sighs. "And we didn't show up." he mumbles and pulls off his gloves. "And now I have to come up with a new article topic in 24 hours or I fail the assignment." she tells him and they both turn to her. "Iris… we're…" Barry states as they both walk up to the table.
"Don't say that you're sorry, I know that you two are. What don't know is what is going on with you, the both of you." she tells them, they both sigh. "We all grew up, one bedroom down from one another, do you honestly think I don't know when you're happy or sad or depress or lost?" she questions them as she rips open the sugar pack, "I am going to ask you one last time you two and you better be honest with me. What the…" she states and everything slowed down, Barry flashes over next to her. "You want to know what's happening?" Barry asks her, then flashes over to the other side, "I'm fast now." Barry states, "I am the strongest woman alive, I can scream like a Banshee, I have faster reflexes, I can see the world in a different way. My hair and eyes turns a different colors and I can heal within seven seconds." Lily states with a smiles as she smiles sadly.
"God, we both want to tell you, I want to tell you how I feel, how you make me feel." Barry states and flashes back next to Lily, "But I can't. Neither of us can." he states, "…Hell is going on with you." Iris asks them, as time sped back up. Then the scanner beeps, getting everyone's attention, the two turn to it. "We are not done talking about this." Iris tells them as she walks up to them. The results appear, "That's impossible, these skin cells belong to the murder from last night, but these cells are naive. Stem cells, they can repudiate. Become any cell the body need." Barry sates, "But those types of cells come from babies." Lily states.
"This means what, you're killer's a newborn?" Iris asks them, then realization hits Lily, "Something like that." she answers and looks at Barry.
~8~8~8~
"You honestly think that someone want to kill me?" Simon asks them as Joe and Eddie walks with him, "We're not sure Mr. Stagg, but the event you were being honored at was robbed at gun point." Eddie tells him, "And your head of security found murdered this morning." Joe adds, "I am a scientist and a philologist, we're not all targets for assassin." Simon informs him.
"What about lawsuits, you got twenty of those pinning against you." Joe tells him as he show Stagg a thick file, "It is a sad fact of life, Detective. That when you earn a lot of money, people who haven't think to take you as you are." Simon tells him, then Joe opens the file. "People like this for example; Danton Black." Joe states and shows him the photo of the man. Simon took the photo. "Danton Black." Simon states, "You fired him and now he's suing you?" Joe questions. "Unfortunately our working relationship wasn't working, I can assure you both of one thing, Danton Black is not the killer. His a clinical researcher, not a criminal mastermind." he tells him and handed back the photo.
"Now if I can help you in anyway, please, let me know. I want these people caught as much as you." he tells them as he moves out behind them, Eddie and Joe turn and look at him, but then look over his shoulder. "Then here we are." the man calls out, Simon turns and saw three of them, and they raise their gun to them and fired, "Get down!" Eddie shouts, as he and Joe pulled Simon back and behind a few barrels.
~8~8~8~
Back at the station, Barry and Lily walk down from the lab and look around, seeing that everyone was getting ready for an assault or something, they then look up at Singh was walk out of his office, "Captain, what's going on?" Barry asks him, "Not now Barry a few armed gunmen are shooting up at Stagg industries." he informs them and left.
Barry then turns to Lily, "Joe." he states, she got the message and her face went pale, Barry then wraps his arm around Lily's waist and he flashes them both up at the lab, he lets go of her and they both walk to their locker, and open up their bags, their suits sat inside them and they look at each other and nod.
~8~8~8~
The three men fired at the three taking over behind the barrels, "Get him out of here, I'll cover you." Joe tells Eddie, "Ready, go." he tells him and Joe fires back at them and Eddie got Simon out.
Joe manages to hit one of them and they hit the ground and Joe takes covers, Danton pulls off his mask and reduplicates himself, Joe sees that Danton was a meta-humans as well, and that the third steps out, then keeps up the gun, they fired at Joe, walking up to him and when they were right at him, they saw that their guns were suddenly gone from their hands and Barry stood next to Joe and Lily jumps off his back.
Barry drops the guns to his feet and Joe looks up at him, "Go." Barry tells him, "No." Joe protested, but Barry flashes him out of the building and stood next to Lily, "Whoever you are, give yourself up." Barry orders him, "I'm sorry, we are not going anywhere, until Simon Stagg is dead." he tells them, then Barry flashes at two off them and stood in front of one, then Danton repudiates himself again in three people. "Oh boy." Lily mumbles and she walks up to Barry and took her stance.
They then fight them off, but Danton just repudiate himself into three more of himself. Lily was then throw back and she pushes herself up, seeing Barry getting beaten up, "Stop… leave him alone." she begs them, pushing herself up, she then glares at them with her neon golden eyes, "I said… STOP IT!" she shrieks at them, letting out her Banshee wail and the Danton clones covered their ears from the sound as Barry was unaffected by her scream, Barry look over and saw that her nose was starting to bleed, and she stops her scream and exhaled, exhausted from screaming so hard, she hands onto her hands and kneels and the clones turn to her.
She looks up at them, seeing that they hard their guns aim at her, Barry then flashes over, grabbing her and just barely missing the bullets. They back it outside and lean up against the fence, as Lily grips it for balance, Barry pants and places his hand on her shoulder and looks back at the building.
~8~8~8~
After returning to S.T.A.R Labs Caitlin treats both of their wounds, Barry finches a little, "Sorry. The imprecations are already rapidly healing as for you Lily your has already healed." she informs them, "Yay me." she said in a dry tone, "Yeah, we got our asses handed to us." Barry tells her, "You got blood on my suits." Cisco tells them and the two look at her.
"I'm pretty sure that some of it belongs to him, another no so friendly Meta-human." Barry mumbles and Harrison pulls up the files on the monitor.
The two stiffen as they saw Danton Black's picture, "Danton Black. He's a bio-geneticist, specialist in therapy clone. Growing new organs to replace failing ones." Harrison informs them, "Apparently, Stagg stole his research and fired him." Caitlin adds, then the two stood up, "We saw Black create diabetes from his own body." Barry informs him, "That's pretty ironic, the guy specializes in cloning. Now he can make xeroxes of himself." Cisco states, "If he was experimenting on himself when he was expose to the dark matter wave release by Particle Accelerator explosion…" Harrison concludes.
"Meet Captain Clone." Cisco states with a smile, then Caitlin, Barry and, Lily look at him, and his smiles fall. "Don't worry, I'll come up with something cooler." he tells them and them Barry and Lily looks at Danton Black's photo and then started to walks away. "Where are you going?" Caitlin asks them, they stop and turn to them, "Joe was right, we're in way over our heads. Yeah, I'm fast, Lily's strong, but we are no warriors. We could barely one meta-humans, let alone six." Barry tells them and they turn to leave. "Barry, Lily." Harrison calls out, they stop and look at him, "I understand. Today was a set back, but any grant enterprise has them. We can never learn to fly without crashing a few times." Harrison tells them.
Barry sighs, "This wasn't a grant enterprise Dr. Wells, this was a mistake." Lily tells him and they both walks off. Barry flashes out of S.T.A.R labs with Lily on his back and they both flash down the streets as they think back.
~Flashback~
Barry and Lily sat at the mess hall in Iron Heights, they then heard a buzzer go off, they both look over and saw a guard walk into the mess hall and pull Henry long with him, the two ran up to him and gave him a hug, but the guard pushes him back. "Sorry, no physical contact." he tells them, "Sit down you two." Henry tells them and they sat down.
"Barry, Lily how did you get here?" he asks them, "We ran here, Joe wouldn't bring us, he wouldn't let me see you. I hate him." Barry tells him, but Henry shook his head. "No, don't say that. It isn't Joe that doesn't want you to come here, I… don't want you to come here, either of you. I don't want you to see me like this." he jesters to his cuffs. Then Barry stood up, "You have to let him go, my dad didn't do these things, he didn't hurt my mum or Lily's parents. It was the man in the lighting, the lighting man killed them." Barry tries to tell the officers, but Henry tugs at Barry's arm gently.
"Barry look at me." Henry tells him, "Not my dad." Barry insists, "Look at me Barry." he said again and Barry looks at him, "Neither of you can help me. Now Joe is going to look after you both until I can get out of here, just be the good boy and girl I know you are." he tell him, Lily jumps out of her seat, ran up and both her and Barry hug Henry tightly, Joe watches as Henry cared for the both of them deeply. They then pulled away and the officer pulls him away and to his feet. "Dad. Dad." Barry calls out to him, but he was gone, they both watch him leave and Lily grips Barry's hand and he grips her hand in response.
~End of Flashback~
Barry showed down in his running and came to a stop, he pants and Lily jumps off his back and looks at him. They then look at each other and enter Jitters, hearing about the news of what happened at Stagg industries, Iris and Eddie were in front of the T.V as Eddie was on the news, being declared a hero.
Iris hits the off button and turns to Eddie with a smile, "Nice work, Eddie." Barry tells him, he turns to them. "Right place, right time." he tells them, "Nah, you were a hero today." Barry went on. "But the CPD still has a killer one the loose." he tells them and turns to Iris. "I should get back first thing." he tells her and he gave her a kiss. He then pulls back and walks out of the cafe, the two watch him go and they frown, "Do you come here for the caffeine or are you going to finally tell me what's going on with the both of you?" Iris asks them both as she walks up to them. Barry sighs and they both turn to her.
~8~8~8~
Back at the station, Joe was talking with Simon to get him to reconsider the protection, but Stagg tells him that he increase his security and was hopping Black finds trouble, because he'll find plenty. Then Mr. Well wheels in.
Clapping his hands, getting both of their attention, "Spoken like a true philologist or was it humanitarian?" he questions rolling into the room in his wheelchair, "I'm sorry, I can never figure out which one you're pretending to be Simon." he states as the two lock eyes. "Harrison." Simon states as the elevator doors opens, "Don't get up." he jokes, "HAHA." Harrison fakes a laugh and Simon left the area. Joe looks at him, "Another fan of your doctor?" he asks him, "Can we talk detective?" Harrison asks him.
The two walk through the hall, "So you were right. Barry and Lily aren't the only ones that are special. This guy that tried to kill Stagg today, he can…" Joe states as he pulls off his coat, "Repudiate spontaneously, yeah we know." Harrison tell him.
They stop in front of Joe's desk and he turns to him, "Did you know about Barry and Lily?" Joe asks him and Harrison looks up at him, Joe toss his coat onto the desk and takes a seat, "When they were first in their coma, you came to the hospital and you asks me if you can take both of them to S.T.A.R labs." Joe states, Harrison nods a little, "Did you know what they can do?" Joe asks him, "Hah." Harrison exclaims and folds his hands behind his head, "I had my suspensions that they both were… affected." he answers and Joe sigh.
Harrison pulls his hands back behind his head, "Joe, I wasn't looking to become the OC of a crime fighting unit. You and I both know, we are the only ones that are equip to protect Central City." Harrison tells him, "Maybe I'm more interested in protecting Barry and Lily. But of course they're both set to fly in the fire right along with you." Joe starts as Harrison to the desk decoration. "No, they're not, not anymore. They both quit, they didn't tell you?" he tells them, setting it back down. Joe shook his head, "I haven't seen them." he answers, "I'm sure it's only temporary, we all know when Barry and Lily set their minds to something, no one can't talk them out of it, but the next time they suit up… run head long into danger, they well fail." he tells him.
Joe listens to him, "Why, because they don't think they are capable, they are fill with doubt and his real enemy. Joe, not whatever is lurking out there and as long as you continue to doubt them, they'll keep doubting themselves." Harrison tells him, them turns his wheelchair around and went to leave but stops and looks at him, "And for the record, I care about them too." he adds and left Joe with his thoughts.
~8~8~8~
Back at Jitters, Lily and Barry were sitting at a table with five plates that were clean off from food. Iris walks over to them with two glasses of water, "Guess you were hungry." he states and set their glasses down. "Stress eating." Barry answers, Iris mumbles an 'Ah' and then takes a seat next to Lily, "We both came to say we're sorry, you're right we have been distant." Barry tells her, as Lily nods. "Correct." Iris tells him, "Kind of two jerks." Lily adds and Iris smiles at them.
"You two should apologize more often, you're really sensational at it." she tells them and they both throw playful smirks at her. "So what were you going to tell me the other day?" Iris asks them. "Well, we had to do something the other day, something we thought was important, but turns out we are not very good at it." Barry tells her and she listens. "But what we are good at is being your friend, so if you need help coming up with a new topic for your article, we can…" Lily starts. "I found one, something that actually interest me." she tells them and sets up, Barry and Lily exchange looks and followed after Iris.
"I know this is going to sound crazy, it's been all over the internet this last week. At a building fire, at a bank heist, even the other night when through robbers shot at the security guard, he said he was swoosh outside." she tells them as their looks grew concerned, "Someone out there, some people out there are helping people." she states, "I though you were talking journalism, not science fiction writing." Barry asks her, Iris turns to them, "Ever since I have known you two, you both have believe in the impossible." she tells them.
Lily closes her mouth as she scratches behind her ear, "What if you both were right, what if you were right about the night your mom and your parents died?" she asks them, Lily went to answer, but her phone vibrates, she and Barry look down at it and saw that it was S.T.A.R Labs calling her, she sighs, answers the call and turns away, Barry turns with her and leans in close to her to listen. "I already told you, we're through." she said to Caitlin. "I know, but you need to get to S.T.A.R Labs right now." Caitlin said in a frighten tone as Danton Black was standing in front of her and Cisco.
~8~8~8~
Barry arrives back at the Lab, places Lily on her feet and they both stood in front of Black, "Barry, Lily it's okay." Caitlin tells them, "It is not all okay, Black is here and just standing there…" Barry states, as they both realizes why they were called over. "That's not him, is it?" Lily asks them, Cisco and Caitlin shake their heads and Harrison rolls up behind the two.
"It's one of his republics." he answers him and Lily looks back at the clone, "How did you get it?" Barry asks, looking back at it. "I grew him." Caitlin answers and the two turn and look at her.
"I isolated of Black's blood from to see if I can trigger the evy-tro cultivation process and learn how Black multiple." Caitlin informs the two as Lily pulls her hand up and waves it in from of Black's face and Barry pokes him in the shoulder. "So I expose the target cells to a preteen gel and the begin republicing into that." Caitlin adds and then Lily snaps her fingers in front of his eyes. "Why doesn't he or it do anything?" Barry asks her, "We did a brain scan of volunteer motor function were interactive, little else." Harrison states. "We think it's acting as a reverser." Cisco states. "Almost like a shadow." Lily adds, "the clones are an enemy shell without Black, shut down the real, and you might shut down them all down." she said to them both.
"How do we know which one is the real Danton Black?" Barry asks her, then realization hits Lily, "Remember who you kept fainting because you weren't eating enough, due to the fact that you can run real fast?" Lily asks Barry and he looks at her. "Yeah…" he asks her, she then circles around Black. "He almost has limits too. Controlling all those clone takes a lot of strength and it can be very draining, we need to look for the one that is showing signs of tiredness or exhaustion." Lily said to him, "The one that is showing those signs, he's the prime." Caitlin adds on and Barry nods at her.
Then Lily walks back over to him, "One you might want to put to the theory to the test mister Allen." Harrison informs him. Then Cisco walks up to Barry. "Plus I wipe up this high calories proton bars for you to keep your matapisum up." he informs him, Barry just smiles and then Lily turns and looks at Black seeing him moves, Caitlin scream, Barry turns back, sees back move and picks Lily up in his arms. Cisco took a step back, then Black was fired at.
The clone collapse onto the ground as Joe walks in his gun held out, "Any more of them?" Joe asks. "Nope." Caitlin answers him, then Barry places Lily back on her feet and turns to Harrison. "Why did it start moving?" he asks him, "The prime. I guess this one was summed to battle, the prime is on the move." Harrison states, "Yeah and I know where it's summed to." Joe said, placing his gun away and looks at them. "Stagg Industries." he answers, Barry and Lily look at him. "Then you should call it in." Barry tells him.
But Joe just shook his head, "Police can fight this, what's Black's become, like Marton… beyond me." Joe tells them and they turn to him. "Maybe way beyond them too, but the only ones it's not beyond. It's you two, only you can do this. I get it, so for once and your lives, do what I'll tell you to do; go stop them." he tells him, Barry and Lily smiles at him and then they both walk up to their suits.
~8~8~8~
"Just get me those figures by morning, ok?" Simon said and turns off the office phone, but then he heard gun fire, he stood up from his desk and left the office.
He walks into the work place and saw the security guards dead and three Dantons. "Hello Danton." Stagg said. "Good-bye Simon." Danton said raising a gun at him, but then Lily jumps down in between Simon the Danton, she snaps her head up, looking at Simon, hood and mask over her golden neon eyes and fiery red hair, she then flash stood and turns to the Danton, banshee scream at them, making them fly back, then Stagg was suddenly gone from their sight and then came back Barry. Lily then quickly hid behind a pillar and looks out seeing many Dantons. "I know Stagg stole your research, but that doesn't give you the right to murder." Barry tells him and a gun went off, then suddenly Barry was right next to Lily.
They both came out of hiding and look over, then Lily turns and grips a hold of the gun in Danton's hand, "You think this is about my job?" he questions and Lily socks his in the face. Then threw the gun at the other behind then and knocks him out. "This won't bring her back!" Lily shouts at them, then Barry grips a hold of her and they flash away. "Your wife, Elizabeth. I know about her coherently disease, I know that she was on the transplant for years." Lily calls out.
"Then you know that time was running out for her and I knew if I couldn't get her a new heart." he starts. "You were going to grow her one." Barry states a the clone turns to them and fires, but Barry wraps his arm around Lily's waist and pulls her along and the two clones kill one another, "I was so close, until Stagg stole my research, so he could reap the glory!" Danton shouts out. "And you had to bury your best friend." Lily calls out, Danton looks around for her. "And now… I'm alone." he said lowering his gun and Barry attacks, he then lets go off Lily and she backs up away from Barry and the two look at Danton, seeing more and more come at them.
Lily takes a deep breath and lets out a scream, the Dantons stop and covered their ears to block out the ear tearing sound. Then Barry took his chance, wraps his arm around Lily's waist and they both flash out of the room. They both hid the ground and were on their hands and kneels. "Remember Barry, find the prime." Caitlin tells him, "There's too many of them to fight." Barry said to them, as Lily quickly wipes away the blood from her nose. "Barry, you need to isolate the prime." Harrison tells him, "I can't, it's impossible." Barry said to them as Lily looks over, keeping an eye out for the clones.
"Nothing is impossible Barry, you and Lily taught me that. You can do this, both of you can do this." Joe said to them, "Barry, they found us." Lily warns him as she stood up, Barry did so as well. Then Barry pulls her onto his back and flashes forward, pushing past all the clones and Lily looks forward, seeing one with sweat dripping off his forehead. "That's the prime!" she tells him, then Lily held on tight as Barry grip a hold of him, flashes down the corridor and slams Black up against the pole, knocking him out.
Lily gets off his back as Barry pants, she then looks over the railing and saw all the clones here down, she chuckles and pants, Barry looks as well and he laughs a little, "Barry… Lily… Barry, are you two alright?" Harrison asks them, Barry looks at Lily and nods at him, "Yeah, we're fine. It's done." Barry informs them as they step over Danton, Lily sigh with relief but then Danton stood up. Lily notices him. "Barry move!" she calls out, shoving him out of the way, then Danton ramps into her and they both crash through the window, Barry flashes over to them, leans out of the window and catches Lily's hand as she catches Danton's wrist.
She groans and looks down at him, "Just hang on!" she calls down at him, "No!" Danton argues, then Barry uses his other arm to hold his grip. "It doesn't have to be this way, Black. There are other alternatives!" she tells him, he looks up at her, "Elizabeth wouldn't want this for you." she said to him, his gaze softens and he replicated a hand out of his arm, "No, no! Don't!" she she said to him as she felt his hand pry off her fingers, "Thank you." he said to her, and makes her hand let him go. She gasp as he fell and smack down onto the floor.
"Lily, come on!" Barry tells her, she looks up back at him then swung her arm about and grips onto Barry's arm and with all his might, he pulls her back into the building. Once her feet touch the ground, she went back to the window and looks down, seeing Danton's body dead on the ground, Barry moves over next to her and looks down as well. Tears well up in her eyes as Barry pulled her back and held her tight in his arms, trying his best not to cry.
~8~8~8~
Later the next morning, the five were gathered in front of the T.V as Danton Black was clarified dead, "I tried to save him." Lily mutters, with her arms cross, Barry look at her, seeing the strong look in her eyes. "Sounded like he didn't want to be saved. Some people when they break, they can't put together again." Harrison tells her, "I look into Danton's eyes and they weren't the eyes of a broken man, they were of a man that found peace and he thank me for it." Lily adds and Barry rubs her back then places his hand on her shoulder.
Then he looks at Harrison, "Some people heal even stronger." he tells him, Harrison looks up at him, then back at the news, "I hope so." he states and Cisco looks down at Caitlin. Lily inhaled and Barry looks at her, she nods at him, scratching her forehead. He then pulls his arm away and pats Harrison on the back as he walks by and Lily follows him, "Well, at least multiplex won't be able to hurt anyone else." Cisco states, Barry and Lily look at him with smirks on their faces. "Told you I would come up with a cooler name." he states and the four smile at him.
Then Lily crosses her arms again, "Listen Barry and I may be the ones on the suit doing all the running…" she starts and the four look at her, "But when we're out there, helping people, making a difference, you're all out there with us." she adds on and Cisco looks down at the floor and back at her, "And we finally realize something, we were all struck by that lighting." Barry finishes and Cisco smiles at them. Then the two left the lab and the three went back to work.
~8~8~8~
Night had fallen and the two were at the station in their lab, "So how did you know about Danton's wife or that he even had a wife?" Barry as her as they walk back to the table with packets in their hands. "I check Danton's profile and saw that he was married then I check his wife's files and learn of her condition. You should know this Barry, I'm pretty good a reading people and besides…" she said and tosses the packet to the table.
"Someone has to be the prepared one in this duo." she states and smirks at him. He looks at her in a little amusement, "What, not true, I can be the prepared one in this duo." Barry tells her, she smirks at him as she leans against the chair, "Name one time that I wasn't prepared, but faking that I was, doesn't count." she tells him, he went to answers, but couldn't recall the last time she wasn't unprepared then sighs in defeat, she giggles to herself and took a seat and Barry does as well and there stood Joe. "Hungry?" he asks them.
They both look up at him as he was holding four boxes of pizza, "Pepperoni, olives and jalapenos along with meat lovers straight up." he tells them, walking up to them and Lily was in awe as he sets the boxes down. "Just the way you like it." he tells them, "Ah, thank you." Barry tells him, taking once box, opens it and takes the pizza as Lily opens the next one and takes the meat lover and they both bite into them. Joe walks up to the board with the map showing and then turns to them. "You were wrong." he said to them and they look up at him, then at each other.
"We were wrong about a lot of things this week, you're going to have to be more pacific." Barry asks him as Lily sets her pizza down. "You said that one of the things droving the both of you to run round out there with Lily was that you couldn't help your dad." Joe reminds them. They look at him and Joe rolls up the map, showing them their case that they have been working on for the past 14 years. And Joe turns back to them, "You can help him, we can." Joe said. And the two listen. "We're going to figure out who or what killed your mother and your parents that night and then we're going to get your father out of prison. Together." he jesters to all three of them.
Barry and Lily nod at him and Lily exhaled, "Look Joe, what I said about you not being our father…" she starts and Joe held up his hands. "Lily I know, I know I'm not your father." he tells her and she looks over at Barry. "You're right, you're not." Barry said, getting Joe to look at him. "You're just the man that kept us feed and in clothes. Who sat beside my bed at night until I fell asleep because I was scared of the dark, who would tuck Lily into bed and give her a kiss good-night." Barry tells him, and Lily smiles at him then look up at Joe, "You help us with our homework, taught us how to drive and shave and you drop us off at collage, and I don't know about you, but… that sounds a lot like a dad to me." she said to him and smiles.
Joe just looks at the two then way, holding back his proud tears, he then smiles at them and sat down with them and they enjoy their pizza.
Every kind wants to be a superhero. Having powers, saving people, but no kid thinks about what's its like when your a hero and you're not out saving the world.
Barry and Lily were in uniform, Lily was on Barry's back her eyes golden and hair fiery red.
Truth is not much else changes, you still hurt, you still loves. You still wish and hope and fear things and you still need people to help you with all off it.
Iris checks her updates on the red streak and the hooded girl. Then she smirks to herself.
And in some ways, that's the best part
"Barry, Lily an armor car was just on Griffin avenue." Caitlin informs them as Barry runs down the street. "Get your asses over there." she orders them with a smiles, "Roger that." Lily answers her with a smiles as well and she laughs as she was holding on tight.
Actually the best part, is this…
Barry then dashes pass the cars, a red-yellow and fiery red streak blurred on the streets.
~8~8~8~
Back at Stagg industries, Simon was in his office, glass of whiskey in his hand as he was replaying the event of the red headed girl with the golden eyes and the man in the red suit and their abilities. But then he turns his chair and say Harrison in front of his desk. "Wells? Who let you in here?" he asks him, tossing something back onto his desk.
Harrison just smirks at him, "Have you been having a party out there?" Harrison asks him and Simon sets his glass on the desk. "Well, I'm sure you saw on TV, former employee of mine, tried and kill me." he tells him and then takes a sip, Harrison nods his head. "Former employee with the ability to replicate, face off with a man that can move a super speed and a woman the can scream like a banshee." Harrison tells him as excitement slowly shows on Simon's face. "You've seen them both before?" Simon asks him.
Harrison look at him and nods, "Indeed I have." he answers him, then Simon smiles at him, "Extraordinary." he states, letting his excitement show, he then stood up from his chair, "The powers that they possess, it's like the gods of old, like Mercury and Saturn on Earth." he starts as he walks around the desk in front of Harrison. "Could you imagine if you could control their powers, if you could harness it. You could change what it means to be human." Simon goes on as Harrison just looks at him, "The man in the red mask and the woman in black hood are they key and I'm going to get them." he said with a smile.
Harrison pulls off his glasses and pockets them, "The man in the red mask and the woman in the black hood. They are called the The Flash and The Masquerade… or a least they soon well be one day." he said and then stood up from his wheelchair. Simon looks at him in shock, then looks down at his legs, "What the hell?" he questions, but then Simon pulls out a knife and stabs Simon in the chest, making him gag in shock, griping Harrison's hand.
"Forgive me, Simon." Harrison tells him, backing him up to the desk, "I'm worry that you think this is personal, but it's not… it's just that the man in the red mask and the woman in the black hood…" Harrison starts as Simon felt the life leave him, "The fastest man and strongest girl alive, they must be kept…" Harrison states, pulling the knife out, Simon gasp and then collapse onto the ground, dead. "Safe."
