I walked into the labs holding my stomach. "Hey Barry so I think if I keep doing these training sessions I'm gonna lose so much weight. Dude my stomach is burning!" I looked down at the computer screen Cisco was sitting in front of. "Hey what are you doing?"
"After the accelerator exploded I built a 3D model of the labs so I could pinpoint exactly what caused the malfunction."
Barry leaned foreword to see the screen better. "You've never ran this test..?
Cisco scoffed. "Of course I did I just never had a reason to look at any areas outside the pipelines or the cortex it's a big building lots of places for Wells to hide something."
The computer began to beep. I shifted around in an attempt to look at the screen better. "What's that?"
Cisco pointed at a room lit up in red in the center of the building. "That... shouldn't be there.."
My breath caught in my throat. What does that mean? We all looked at eachother before scrambling up. Cisco grabbed a gadget of his from a side table. "What's that?"
Cisco rushed back to the monitor to take one last look. "You'll see"
We followed Cisco as he turned on the gadget and it began to light up blue. As we walked down a hallway it began to beep more and more frequently. "Picking up more activity.. right here."
The machine began to go frantic at a panel in the wall. I glanced at the identical ones around it. It didn't look out of place in any way. Barry glanced at me before he began to feel along the wall. Suddenly a small part of the wall beneath his hand lit up blue and the wall slid away. Barry looked back at us shocked. I shrugged and we walked in. As we entered the room the door behind us closed and the room lit up, showing a glass case with a yellow suit. The reverse flash's suit.
Caitlin gasped. "Oh my god.."
We all looked around, stunned by the sight.
"Guys.." I looked over at Barry who was standing in front of a podium with a screen on top. On the screen was a headlining news article. 'FLASH MISSING VANISHES IN CRISIS'
"What the frak..?" Cisco breathed.
I looked up at the date. "April 25 2024"
Barry began to read the article out loud. "After an epic street battle with the reverse Flash our city's very own scarlet speedster disappeared in an explosion of light. Guys when I fought the reverse flash at Christmas he said that we'd be fighting for centuries."
Caitlin spoke up. "Wait, you can't really think this is from... the future."
That would mean Dr. Wells, whoever he is, is also-"
"From the future" Barry finished for Cisco.
"I have to say I'm really digging the redder suit. And the white on the symbol. That's dope. Wait if we change the design on the suit, will it be because we got the idea from this picture? That would mean were living in a casual nexus. Wow this is so trippy. Like marty and the Polaroid trippy."
I grabbed Cisco's wrist and gently put it down as I pointed to the screen. "Not as trippy as trippy as the name on the byline."
Barry spoke softly. "Iris West-Allen...?"
"Mazel tov?" I smacked Cisco on the arm for that one. I went to whisper in his ear about the inappropriate comment at the moment when suddenly an automatic female voice spoke out.
"Hebrew. Ancient language of the Jewish people."
Cisco's shoulders squared. "Uh-uh what the hell was that?"
Barry looked around "is someone here? Hello?"
A hologram of a face came up from the screen. "Good evening Barry Allen."
Barry looked at us confused. "Uhh..."
Caitlin only shrugged and I raised an eyebrow when he looked to me.
"Hi.. you know who I am?"
"Of course. Barry Allen. Director of central city police. CSI division."
Barry looked back at me. "Director?"
"I guess you get a promotion."
"Also known as the flash"
Barry spoke up again. "What are you?"
"I'm Gideon an interactive artificial consciousness."
Cisco laughed lightly. "AI. Sick"
"You know doctor Wells?"
"Yes."
"Do you know who he really is?"
"I don't understand the question."
Barry began to stammer. "I'm mean what is he doing here? Why did he come here."
"To kill you
Cisco's phone began to buzz. "Wells is in the building."
Caitlin looked at him surprised. "How do you know that?"
"I put a tracker in his wheelchair. Which if we're wrong about him and he is paralyzed I'm going to hell for that one. He's in the cortex ask questions fast!"
Barry turned back to the AI quickly. "Why did he kill Nora Allan?"
"Because he was angry."
Barry began to stammer again. "About what?"
I tried to put a hand on his back for comfort but he shrugged me away.
"That you escaped."
Cisco held his phone up higher. "He's on B level. He's coming this way."
"What does he want from me?!"
"For you to be the Flash."
"What?"
I looked at Caitlin as she began to speak. "Well, maybe that's why Wells let the particle accelerator explode. So that you could become the flash."
"Why? I mean for what reason?"
"Guys we gotta go he's almost here!"
I could feel my heart rate in my ears. "What if it tells Wells we were in here?"
"That would be bad." I nodded my head at Caitlin.
Cisco began to pace. "OK if I can get into its operating system, maybe I can disable it's memory core."
Barry stepped in. "Uhh Gideon can you show us where your operating system is?"
"Certainly"
The screen lit up and Cisco began to sarcastically laugh. "Yeah nope, that's not gonna happen."
Caitlin showed us Cisco's phone. "Guys he's in the corridor."
"Uhh Gideon, could you just. Like, not tell him we were in here?"
"Of course. I will accept any commend given to me by you."
"Wait why would you accept my commands?"
"Because you created me."
Barry looked back at us shocked before grabbing each of us and rushing us out.
I sat curled up on the bed next to Cisco, idly scanning social media on my phone. As hard as I was trying to pay attention to my phone, I couldn't get what happened today out of my mind. I glanced up at Cisco who was watching Doctor Who. I could tell he was in the same boat as me.
"You're stressed out." Cisco jerked and looked over at me.
"How could I not be? The man I looked up to for so long is a villain. He's the bad guy."
I could tell saying that hurt. "Doesn't change that he did help you with so much."
Cisco scoffed. "For what? Doesn't mean he didn't do it for some long run plan he has set up."
I clicked my tongue. "I suppose that could be true." There was a long silence. "Cisco he did a lot of good for you. The conflict in your mind is understanding. Don't think that you're suppose to suddenly hate him."
"I should hate him though"
I bit my lip. "I know baby.. but you guys just learned about this recently. You think this doesn't effect me at all?"
Cisco began to studder. "Well.. I.."
"Listen. Wells gave me the chance of a lifetime. He gave me a job he didn't have to give, but because he did I now have amazing friends, a wonderful job and a fucking doctorate! He's helped me a lot too. I don't like to think that because of a horrid man I have a wonderful life. I mean I've called a man Harrison Wells when he wasn't even him! If it wasn't for this imposter I would have never met you!"
Cisco grabbed my hand and squeezed. I sighed softly. "I'm sorry.. I guess I'm just as surprised as you are. So, what's the plan now?"
So I'm trying to follow more of the storyline so hopefully this is still good! I'm unsure about this so please let me know how you guys feel about the story!
