So much for getting a good night's sleep. Yasmeen had barely closed her eyes when her cell phone started buzzing. She groaned and sat up tapping the answer button on the glowing screen. Barry's voice comes flooding out.
"Hey I'm sorry to bother you but the woman you knocked out earlier is awake and she said she'll talk but only if you're here."
All thoughts of sleep and being tired vanish from Yasmeen's mind. She quickly begins to dress in jeans and a shirt. "I'll be there in a few minutes." She says and hangs up and is already out the door with half-laced boots.
Ten minutes later the elevator doors had opened and Yasmeen sprinted down to the pipeline. Cisco is wearily eyeing the woman and she is simply standing straight and stroking her bracelet. However when she sees Yasmeen a faint smile forms on face.
"You're the one they call Dia'mond Oculos." She says.
"Diamond Eyes." Cisco translates.
"No I'm Yasmeen Adam. But the more important question is who are you?"
"I come from a dimension much like this one but there I was a queen." The bitterness in her voice is evident. "Now I am forced to live among humans, they are such petty and violent creatures. They do not deserve this planet but an empire needs a strong foundation and human bones shall be perfect."
Yasmeen rolls her eyes. "You sound positively delusional. Where were you when the explosion happened?"
"I am from the 7th dimension. What explosion are you speaking of?"
Yasmeen stared at the woman but she seemed to honestly believe in what she was saying. "What do you mean I'm the one called Diamond Eyes?"
"You are much like Kal-El of Krypton. The last of your people sent to earth in a desperate attempt to save them and you shall but I fear that event shall change the very fabric of reality."
Who the hell was Kal-El? What was this woman talking about? Yasmeen had questions swimming in her head but asked only what she knew Barry needed to know. "Why did you break into the jewellery store?"
"For this." She said and held up her arm with the bracelet. The sapphire had started to glow and the woman's form wavered and then a violet ring formed around her and she was gone. The empty glass box seemed to mock Cisco and Yasmeen.
"She just ... disappeared?" Barry is trying to wrap his head around the idea that the jewellery in Central City can zap people out of glass boxes or for that matter, prison cells. "That sapphire works kind of like the Green Lantern's ring."
"Do you think maybe he'd know who that woman was?" Yasmeen asked uneasily because the woman's words were ringing in her ears. 'You are much like Kal-El of Krypton' seemed to be playing on a loop in her head. She needed to know what all of that had meant and why the woman had called her 'Diamond Eyes'.
Barry shrugged helplessly. "Even if he did he's all the way in Coast City and we've got quite a bit on our plate as it is I don't think we should be chasing aliens that claim they're from another dimension."
Yasmeen nodded. Aside from Cisco no one else knew what the woman had told her and she didn't feel up to trying to tell it to Barry just as yet especially since he thought it was a bad idea to track down the sapphire bracelet wearing rouge that had escaped. She bid him goodnight and was going to head back to the hotel when she decided to stop at the alley where she had been taking pictures the night the particle accelerator went haywire. The moon was large and bright tonight and threw ghostly shadows across the sidewalk as she got out of her car and walked to the alley. It was behind the building that Barry had been staying in before he found himself a new apartment. The new apartment wasn't any bigger but it was in a better part of town.
Broken glass shards lay strewn all over the dull concrete and Yasmeen was careful to walk around them. She reached the exact spot where she had been standing when it had started to rain and she had told herself to go inside but then decided that the falling drops would add a more dramatic flair to the photographs she needed for Creative Arts and so she snapped away, taking photograph after photograph of the decrepit alley. Then an invisible force had slammed into her and pushed her back about ten centimetres. She'd thought that it had been wind from the freak storm and took a couple more pictures and then went inside only to receive a phone call from Iris who was in tears as she told Yasmeen that Barry was in a coma because he had been struck by lightning. Yasmeen rushed to the hospital and spent the next three days with Iris and Joe at Barry's bedside and then had went home sorrowfully because he'd been transferred to S.T.A.R. Labs and they were no closer than the hospital in trying to find out what Barry's outcome would be.
Looking back on it she never would have thought that he'd have super-speed and be saving the citizens of Central City and yet here they were, with her asking for help on how to control time-travel through shadows. Yasmeen realized how ridiculous she would sound saying it out loud and quickly shook her head to clear her thoughts. She inspected the alley thoroughly looking in every crevice twice but still couldn't find anything that might link her abilities to that place. A shadow fluttered across her path.
"Is someone there?" She called, with her voice bouncing off the brick walls around her. The wind blew in and rustled a few plastic bags that were laying on the ground. She shivered involuntarily and then quickly walked back to her car. Yasmeen was determined to search for clues but it was late and even with her new abilities she didn't want to stick around here because who knew what lurked around this place.
A man who was leaning casually on the wall further down the alley smiled. He had a metallic stick in his hand that was gold in colour which he quickly pushed into his coat pocket and then willed the winds to carry him back to the abandoned building that he was using as a hideout. He had taken an interest in this girl because for the past week she was seen everywhere with The Flash. The girl wasn't of much use but her connection to The Flash would certainly come in handy.