The room was silent. Everyone was scared and worried. No one knew what could be happening to Kara. But she wouldn't go through it alone.
Alex ran out the door and started bursting into tears. This was her little sister. She couldn't stand to see anything happen to her. Especially when they don't know what was wrong.
Beeps lit up the room with noise, as the meta-human app alarm went off.
"Barry, come here now," Alex said, trying to wipe away the tears covering her face.
"On my way," Barry replied.
"Meta-human downtown, be right back," Barry said as he raced off in his red suit.
Why was there a meta at night? Maybe they had thought that the Flash would be sleeping or there would be no one around, so they wouldn't get caught.
Barry stood on the street where a young woman lay on the ground unconscious.
"Good she is still breathing," Barry thought to himself, as he quickly ran her to the nearest hospital.
Then when he returned, he couldn't believe what he was seeing. Maybe it was because it was dark, but standing infront of him was Shade. In human form, not shadow form. Shade had been locked up at Iron Heights, but must've escaped.
Realising why Shade was attacking in pitch darkness, Barry looked around for some kind of light source. None were to be seen. So he tried to just run up to Shade and stop him. But of course, it can never be that easy.
Instead, Shade vibrated his molecules at such a high frequency, that Barry was unable to see him. With a small gust of wind, Shade was now far in the distance.
Nothing could get any worse, could it?
Just when Barry had stopped thinking about how Shade could've gotten out of prison, Cisco took over on his comm.
"Hey, Barry."
"Yeah Cisco?"
"We have a problem. Iris' panic alert went off," he replied, sounding worried.
"Okay, I'll check it out."
Running into their apartment filled Barry's mind with great memories.
When he had arrived, he saw Iris in the air. Then he noticed there was a shadow on the ground, choking her.
Fortunately, Barry had gotten Cisco to make a bright fancy light for Iris' birthday, and he ran to find it.
It was quite big, but also quite bright. Could light up a whole house.
The light used L.E.D. and spelled out in big letters 'BARRY AND IRIS'.
Barry could tell that Iris had stopped breathing. He was desperate to get the light turned on.
Shade was unsure what Barry was doing so he just stayed there, choking Iris more so she would die. His revenge. Someone that the Flash cares about, because they had stopped him and locked him up.
Finally, he plugged in the light and shone it at Shade, and Shade ran away.
"IRIS!" Barry screamed, as he checked her pulse.
Her pulse was barely there, and she was nearly dead. But thankfully she wasn't.
He ran Iris to the hospital. Because of Kara and everyone else in S.T.A.R Labs at the moment, it would be better to just take her to the hospital.
As soon as Barry got back to S.T.A.R Labs, he began to start crying. It was his fault. If only he'd been there to protect Iris, she wouldn't have been hurt. All he wanted to do was be alone.
Barry had ran back to his apartment and slept on the couch. If he were to sleep in his bed, it would constantly remind him of Iris, and how he couldn't save her.
Sometime in the morning
"How is Iris?" Cisco asked, walking into Jitters next to Caitlin and Barry.
Barry spoke, with worryness in his voice, obviously scared for Iris' life.
"She's in a coma, and she only just survived. If I hadn't run my fastest to get her there, she would be gone."
Cisco gets an alert on his phone.
"Guys, someone needs us at S.T.A.R Labs, we should probably go.
"Dude, what about our coffees? I need one!"
"Just superspeed us coffees and we can be on our way."
"Fine!"
They arrived at S.T.A.R Labs, unsure of why they needed to be there.
Suddenly, a familiar figure stepped out of the shadows.
"Hello Barry," the mysterious voice said.
