Chapter Five
A/N: Only one more chapter after this one! Thank you for all the wonderful reviews!
Also, thanks to setalmage for coming up for a name for the metahuman. I love it!
"I find it unnerving how you just lock up metahumans in here," Snart said, as they closed the container to the latest metahuman Cisco had named "Singe."
"This is the safest place for them," Barry explained. "And for others."
"Yeah, I suppose," Snart said thoughtfully. He turned to
Barry, "Remember our deal, Barry," he said. "You have
a heist in thirty minutes."
Barry sighed, "I remember."
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"What took you so long?" Mick asked impatiently as Barry finally arrived at the rendezvous point outside of Mercury Labs.
"Sorry, I was busy."
"It's not like you to be late," Mick said.
"Yeah," Lisa agreed. "What's going on?"
"Nothing. Let's just get on with it," Barry said.
Lisa and Mick exchanged a look. Barry led them to the access point just like Snart instructed.
"Do you have the detonators?" he asked Lisa.
"Since when do you ask?" she said. "You know I always have your back," she said and handed him the detonators.
Barry looked at the detonators. He had no idea how to use them. He looked at the hatch he was supposed to put the detonators on.
"Why are you taking so long?" Mick said, roughly grabbing the detonators and placing them on the hatch.
Lisa quickly activated the detonators, and the hatch blasted open. Barry entered the hatch, and Mick and Lisa followed.
They walked down a tight corridor that was made for maintenance crews to use. It was built inside the walls of the building, so the labs could look as pristine as possible. It was unseen from the outside and had limited surveillance. Every few feet there was a hallway or door that stemmed off into another wing of the building. It was extremely narrow and extremely dark. Barry nervously wiped the sweat off of his brow. Snart had instructed him on the directions, but it was much darker than he anticipated.
"How long do we have?" Lisa asked.
"Uh, what?" Barry asked confusedly.
"You know, how long do we have until the alarms go off and the police show up?"
"Oh, right," Barry said, recalling Snart telling him the exact amount of seconds they had. "Um," he hesitated as he tried to remember. "Four-hundred thirty-two seconds," he finally said.
Mick and Lisa exchanged another look.
Barry ignored them and led them through the maze of the maintenance passage. He remembered most of the way through the winding passage. He took the fourth right. The second left. The third left after that. Then he paused, was it the second left, or the second right?
"Lenny!" Lisa whispered urgently.
Barry quickly turned right and abruptly stopped. The door in front of him read "Sprinkler Room." He had chosen the wrong direction.
"Are we lost?" Mick asked.
Lisa shushed him, but then whispered, "Lenny! What are you doing?"
"I just took a wrong turn," Barry whispered back.
Lisa looked at him suspiciously, "This isn't like you! You need to focus!"
"I know, I'm sorry," Barry said.
"Did you just apologize?" Mick asked in astonishment.
"We need to go back," Barry said.
Mick grunted angrily, but turned around. Lisa gave Barry a worried look and then followed Mick out. Barry then took the lead again. They didn't get lost this time.
They finally arrived to the door they were supposed to enter, and Barry opened the door to the room that contained the new, shiny, expensive equipment that they were supposed to steal. Scientific instruments lined the walls of the well-sized storage closet. Barry never realized how much equipment Mercury Labs had. Some of the equipment was even better than the stuff they had at S.T.A.R. Labs.
Lisa and Mick immediately began to fill the duffel bags they had brought. Barry walked over to one of the shelves and also began to fill his duffel bag.
"You're filling your bag with microscopes?" Mick asked incredulously.
"Uh, yeah," Barry said. "These microscopes are the most expensive things in the room. These kind can measure electrons. You're just grabbing common petri dishes."
Mick looked at the handful of petri dishes he was holding and then set them down and began to take microscopes, "If you say so."
Lisa gave Barry a quizzical look but also began to fill her bag with microscopes.
Barry looked down at his watch, "Alright. We need to go."
"We could've taken more stuff if you hadn't gotten lost," Mick said bitterly.
"C'mon, Mick," Lisa said. "Let's go."
Lisa, Mick, and Barry were suddenly blinded by a harsh, white light. Sirens blared loudly.
"Snart!" Mick roared angrily.
"We need to leave!" Lisa said urgently.
Barry immediately raced back through the maintenance corridor, Lisa and Mick close behind him. They ran through the winding passage until they reached the exit. Barry, Lisa, and Mick were greeted by cool, fresh air as they finally left the building.
"Freeze!"
The trio spun around and were greeted by five guards all pointing guns in their direction.
Mick and Lisa immediately drew their weapons. Barry awkwardly raised his in the guards' direction.
"Just let us go," Barry said. "No one has to get hurt."
Lisa and Mick looked at Barry in surprise.
"Drop your weapons!" one of the guards commanded.
Mick smiled gleefully and Lisa smirked.
The guards fired.
Barry ducked out of the way and barely avoided getting shot. He stood up and saw two of the guards had been turned into golden statues and the other two were attempting to avoid the flames jettisoning from the Heat Gun. Barry heard the sound of a gun cocking and turned around to see the remaining guard pointing a gun at him. Barry went to reach for the Cold Gun.
"Don't do it," the guard warned.
"Hey!" the guard turned to see Heatwave quickly approaching him. "Stay away from my partner!" Mick blasted the guard with a stream of flames that sent him flying.
"Thanks," Barry said.
Sirens wailed in the background and quickly drew nearer.
"Mick," Lisa said. "Take the goods to our buyer."
Mick nodded, but his gaze lingered on Barry, "When we get back, you owe me an explanation." Mick went to gather the duffel bags.
"Look, I - " Barry began.
Mick stopped him with a fiery glare and shoved past him, the bags in hand.
Barry turned to leave the way Snart had instructed, but Lisa grabbed his arm and pulled him to look at her. Her eyes were filled with concern and anger.
"You're explaining all of this!" she hissed.
Barry nodded. The sound of sirens growing closer. He looked out at the street nervously, "We should go."
Lisa released him and began to walk away, but paused and turned around. She gave him one last lingering glance and then disappeared into the night.