Yasmeen had jumped in front of Razeen so any incoming fragments had bounced off her back. She then sat up and looked around in a daze staring at the raindrops until Razeen had sat up and shaken her.

"What the hell just happened?" He couldn't hide the fear in his voice.

She just looked at him and blinked and there, in the slight distance behind his head was the man she had seen earlier- the one in the navy blue coat that had been inside the storm cloud. Yasmeen scrambled to her feet and sprinted to where he stood in the distance. Her cousin stared after her as though she had completely lost her mind. He looked around him at the strewn metal fragments and wondered how on earth none of the pieces had hit him or Yasmeen. Razeen stood up and hurried inside he would look for Yasmeen as soon as he changed into drier clothing.

Yasmeen could feel the drops of rain on her face like pins of ice and yet she ran toward the man. Well she didn't exactly run. The silver shoes that had been so beautiful only moments ago were now flecked with mud and kept slipping off her wet feet making it difficult to hurry across the yard and street to where he stood. Thank god she was wearing contacts so the problem of fogging up glasses wasn't there. The man stood on the curb and smiled coldly. She stopped short. What had she been thinking? She was going to run up to the man and ... what? She gave him a long look so as to remember his features then spun on her heel and rushed back to the house.

Now dry and warm sitting by a gas heater Yasmeen deliberated about whether to tell Razeen what she had become or not. When she had walked into the house he looked freaked out and so she just walked past him and into the bathroom to try and salvage her appearance. Perhaps telling him would put her mind at ease because as far as she knew she didn't have any enemies and he needed an explanation as to why the fragments hadn't harmed her. It surely hadn't escaped his notice and she just couldn't lie to her closest cousin. Yasmeen got up and walked to the study.

"You okay?" She asked him cautiously.

"I'm fine are you-" He was cut off abruptly as Yasmeen started to tell him about some particle accelerator explosion in Central City and how it had caused people to have all sorts of odd abilities. She then took a deep breath and told him that she had been in Central City that night and she had also been affected.

"What? What do you mean you were affected?"

Yasmeen explains the super-strength and bulletproof skin but leaves out the shadow travelling because Razeen looks as though he might faint from disbelief. She also tells him that she's getting help from S.T.A.R. Labs.

"So you're spending the holidays in Central City because you can crush iron if you grip it?"

"Yeah."

His face slowly lights up with a grin. "That's freaking amazing. Do you have any idea how cool this is?"

His enthusiasm reminds Yasmeen of Cisco and that's why she decides to tell him: "Maybe you can stop by in Central City for day visits or something. You know when you're not busy with extra classes and that."

Razeen just nods. He had gotten over the shock but is still staring at her in amazement. "It's rude to stare." She tells him but her tone is light-hearted. He mumbles something under his breath and then asks if she's hungry. Yasmeen shrugs and so they head to the kitchen.

A day later and Yasmeen is back in Central City helping Barry in his lab. She hadn't forgotten the freak storm or strange man but she decided that it could wait until later. She hefted another box from the floor and slid it on to the top shelf with the others.

"This is why I love having you around."

"Why?" inquired Yasmeen, "Because you wouldn't know where anything was unless I or Iris cleared this place as often as we do?"

"Well that and there isn't anyone to talk to since Iris got that job at Central City Picture News." Barry hadn't been too keen on Iris's new job but that was because she was writing about him as 'The Streak' and it was putting her on the radar for all sorts of nasties who thought that she knew who The Streak was. Joe had made Barry promise not to tell Iris and it killed him but he knew that keeping her in the dark was best for everyone.

"Anything cool happen when I was gone?"

"Nope, in fact it's been really quiet."

"Actually I'm not too sure about that." Yasmeen then explained everything that had happened back in New York all the while drawing on a scrap piece of paper. When she was done she showed Barry the drawing of the man. His eyes widened in recognition and surprise.

"That's Mark Mardon, I thought he died." Barry explained that Mark and his brother Clyde were on the run after some robberies and had taken off in a small plane but then the explosion happened and the plane blew up. A few weeks ago Clyde had come back with the ability to control wind and water vapour but had been killed. It was by some miracle that Mark had survived and now he was back in town. Barry felt sure that Mark was back because he had heard of his brother's death and had come to exact revenge on whoever had caused it.

After hearing all that she did on Mark Mardon, Yasmeen had hurriedly left the CCPD to look for Joe. The secretary at the front had told her that Joe and Eddie had left only minutes ago to check out suspicious activity in Lawrence Hills. Barry wouldn't tell her who had killed Clyde Mardon but Joe would definitely know. Whoever killed him was in major danger.

Barry zoomed out of his lab and all the way down to Lawrence Hills. He prayed with all his heart that he wasn't too late. Clyde's death had been an accident and Joe certainly didn't deserve whatever Mark had planned. Barry arrived with seconds to spare. Eddie was knocked out cold in the corner of what had once been a huge part of the fertilizer corporation LexCorp but was now in disuse. Droplets of water were steadily forming into icicles that were aimed at Joe, Barry rushed forward and threw Mark against a huge metal drum - the drum clanged and Mark crumpled to the floor. With his concentration lost the icicles dropped and rolled away. Joe looked confused as he glanced around the enormous place.

"Barry ..." Joe shook his head as if to clear it but got woozy and passed out. Barry picked up Joe and raced to S.T.A.R. Labs, once he knew the detective was in good hands he went back to grab Eddie who was already groaning as he gained consciousness. The silent humming of a car could be heard passing the fertilizer warehouse and Barry quickly left.

Yasmeen thought that she had seen unnatural mist coming from one of these warehouses but after driving around for fifteen minutes and finding no sign of Mark or Joe and Eddie she decided to head back to the CCPD. As she drove out of Lawrence Hills Barry zoomed in one last time to grab Mark Mardon and take him down to the pipeline.

Yasmeen decided to call it a night at about half eight. When she had gotten back to the lab Barry was nowhere to be seen and so she just continued stacking boxes and putting files in order of importance but by a quarter past eight Barry still hadn't come back and while Yasmeen was concerned she was also extremely tired and so she packed up the last of the papers and closed up the lab and went straight to the hotel. She swung the room door open and standing in front of the floor length mirror was a man wearing a black top hat and carrying a cane that was topped with a bleached white miniature skull. The cane was pure black and seemed to be calling out to her. The man smiled widely, but it was not a pleasant smile.

"I wondered when you'd be in Miss Adam."