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A/N: OK here's Chapter 2. I'm not even going to start chapter 3 until I've seen episode 14, I don't want this straying too far from the main Flash Story. Also keep your eyes peeled for comic easter eggs and lore, I'm gonna be using a crap ton of it.

The Flash: Moving Forward

Chapter 2: Ice to Meet You

"Just this morning Witnesses and Police have discovered three more bodies all around Central City." The reporter spoke through the TV as Barry walked into Joe's house. "It is unknown where these bodies came from or how old they are. Some experts have told us that these bodies are all at least twenty years old if not older."

"Hey Joe."

"Barry!" the detective stood up and embraced his foster son. "Thank God you're Okay. Did you get him?" Barry shook his head.

"He's faster than me, just like my mom's killer. I have no idea how to stop him."

"Son, take it easy. You're getting frustrated, and when you're frustrated you run in blind."

"Yeah…"

"Come on, let's get you nice an comfy." Joe said as he guided Barry to the couch, forcing him to sit down before heading into the kitchen. "Now, you just sit there and relax while I get us a couple of Beers."

"How many times do I have to tell you they have no effect on me?" Barry said grinning

"Shut up." Joe said coming back from "it's the thought that counts." He sat down next to Barry and kicked his feet up onto the table, passing the fastest man alive a beer the two toasted before they began to drink.

The next day at S.T.A.R. Labs, Team Flash was going about their usual routines. Barry trained to get faster, Cisco tinkered with the suit and delved into making some new gizmos, Caitlin was busy studying any changes that may have occurred within Barry when he was attacked by the man in the black suit, and Dr. Wells, when he wasn't doing his own thing, he monitored Barry while he trained.

Ever since his last encounter with the man in the black suit, or as Cisco liked to call him, Paradox, Barry has been extremely focused on getting even faster. Meeting the man in black had been truly frustrating; there was just something about Paradox that made him feel more threatening than the Reverse-Flash ever could, while the Reverse Flash would threaten and taunt Barry, Paradox would just do things.

"Ok Barry, you're approaching your current max speed." Wells said into a mike and his voice transferred into the speakers around Barry. "What's say we challenge that?"

Barry didn't respond. Instead lightning flashed in his eyes as he pushed himself even faster. BOOOM a sonic boom tore out from Barry, shattering the glass in the treadmill room. Wells smiled when the machines registered Barry's new speed; 928mph. Immediately following the sonic boom Barry tripped up and was thrown into the stack of padding behind him.

Cisco was in the monitoring room in a heartbeat followed closely by Caitlin. "Did Barry just cause a sonic boom?"

"Yes he did Cisco." Dr. Wells replied "Caitlin could you make sure our resident speedster is all patched up?"

"What did you say Dr. Wells? I can barely hear anything, my ears are still ringing…" Caitlin said as she massaged her ears. Apparently breaking the sound barrier in a building isn't the best idea, but after a moment or two her hearing came back.

"Could you make sure Barry's OK?" He asked "And run a few diagnostics on him while you're at it, it took him a while to get up to speed."

Barry sat up admits the cushioning "So how fast was that?" He asked with a mix of cockiness and seriousness.

"928mph Mr. Allen." Dr. Wells said rolling over to his coworkers "A new personal best."

"At this rate we'll get to use those drones with lasers." Barry commented to Cisco who started geeking out.

"No lasers!" Caitlin commanded as she helped Barry up.

"Oh, come on Caitlin…" Cisco whined "You take the fun out of everything…"

"I don't know, maybe we should try them." Wells added with a friendly smile.

"Yes!" Cisco pumped his arms into the air in excitement.

"No!" Caitlin disagreed, she did not want to have Barry just get out of a life and death fight just to run headlong into

"Looks like its three in favor for laser drones and on against." the scarlet speedster said "Motion passes, sorry Caitlin."

Dr. Snow rolled her eyes in defeat. "You better hope you don't get seriously hurt form those Lasers."

Barry smiled at the antics of his team before feeling his phone vibrate in his pocket. He pulled it out to see Linda calling him. "Oh, crap." He said to himself as he answered it "Hey, Linda…How's it going?"

"It's going fine Barry." Linda's voice replied on the other end. "Except that I'm at your place where I'm supposed to pick you up for the Miners Kings game yet imagine my surprise at not finding my boyfriend here."

"Right, the game…" Barry sighed "Um, listen I'm running a little late over at the precinct right now so do you think you could head to the game now and I'll meet you there?"

"Alright," She replied "I'll meet you there. I'll be by the precinct to drop off your ticket shortly."

"OK, see you soon." Barry said as he hung up. "That was Linda…I kind of almost forgot that she invited me to the Miners v. Kings Basketball game today."

"Dude that is sweet!" Cisco practically cheered. "I wish I could go."

"Maybe next time Cisco." Barry said before rushing out of the lab to get to his forensics lab before his girlfriend gets there.

In a heartbeat Barry is just outside the precinct and is about to enter when he hears his name.

"Barry!" He turns around and heading his way is Linda.

"There you are, I thought for a moment you weren't going to show." He said as she gave him a hug and a peck on the lips.

"Really?" She cocked an eyebrow with a questioning look. "You thought I wasn't going to show up? Let me remind you who has missed or nearly missed five out of seven dates."

"I know, I know…" Barry said raising his arms in defeat "Me…"

"Exactly. Now how about instead of going back to your boring forensics job, we go to the one of the biggest games central city has ever seen."

"I, uh…I um…" Barry stuttered while Linda looked at him like he had grown an extra head "Sure." He finally caved. "Just let me go put some stuff away. We've been working on this case and it's just…well it's just…difficult to explain to say the least."

"Uh huh." Linda replied.

Several minutes later Barry and Linda were off to the home of the Central City Miners to witness their demolition of the Keystone City Kings.

While Barry was on a date with Linda Park, Iris West was on a lunch date with her boyfriend detective Eddie Thawne.

"Hey Babe" Iris said as she hugged the blond cop and kissed him on the lips.

"Hey Iris" the detective replied. He helped her take her coat off and pulled out a chair for her like the gentleman he was. "So how was your day?" He asked sitting across from her.

"Honestly, it could be going better."

"How so?"

"I mentioned this to Barry yesterday, but my Editor just wants me to write about the Flash. I got a really good article yesterday like flawless good and when I brought it to my editor he read it over and said it was good."

"I don't see how that's bad."

"Then he tossed it in a garbage can and told me it wasn't what he wanted." Iris began to pick at the bread that had been placed in front of the couple "And then he has the gall to say to me that he only brought me on because of my connection to the Flash."

"Uh…Maybe we shouldn't talk about our jobs…" but Iris continued

"He told me I have to get him a great flash story by the end of the week." Iris's expression changed to worry. "Eddie, if I can't do that, I think I'll lose my job."

Eddie took her hand "Hey, hey it's going to be fine Iris." He promised "You're a smart, beautiful resourceful woman. If anyone can pull this off it's you."

"Thanks babe."

"And if he doesn't like what you come up with I can always punch him in the face." This got Iris to laugh.

Meanwhile a shady figure walked into one of Central Cities biggest banks. He wore blue jeans, black boots, a navy blue muscle shirt, a white sleeveless hoodie, which was up and covering the majority of his face. Patiently he waited in line before it was his turn to talk with a teller.

"Listen very carefully." He said to the teller with a voice so cold even hell could freeze just from listening to it. "You're going to go in the vault and fill this bag with all the valuable jewels and cash you have."

"Is this some kind of joke, cause if it is it isn't funny."

He looked up at her, revealing his icy pale blue eyes. "Do I sound like I'm joking?" he asked as his skin turned a blend of icy white and blue. KRICK KRICK The floor at his feet began to freeze, as did the section of the counter that he was touching. The teller began to panic "Do as I say or you'll soon find out what it's like to be an ice sculpture.

Meanwhile at the Miners v Kings Game. The entire populace of Central City seemingly went ballistic when their star point guard earned his team another three points. Even Barry had stood up to cheer.

"Enjoying yourself?" Linda asked him

"Uh, yeah!" Barry replied back. Suddenly he felt his phone vibrate in his pocket "Oh come on… not now." He pulled it out to see Cisco was calling him.

"What is it?" Linda asked

"This'll only take a minute, promise." He said to her before answering "Hey, what's up?"

"Bank robbery in progress at Central City's First Bank!" Cisco said cutting to the chase.

"I'm kind of on a date." The fastest man alive whined.

"I understand that dude, but we all need to make sacrifices. Either way, may I remind you that you're going to be there sooner or later? Remember, day job and all?"

Barry sighed in defeat. "Ok, fine I'll be there as fast as I can." He said hanging up before turning to Linda. "That was Joe" he lied quickly "There was a bank robbery they need me down there."

"Oh," Linda sounded disappointed "Ok, well I'll let you know how the game ends." She said.

"Yeah, I'm really, really, sorry about this. I'll make it up to you I promise!" Barry said struggling to put his jacket on as he left the aisle.

Barry raced through the streets of Central City to the bank that was being robbed, and when he got there he moved so fast that the world stood at a near standstill while he cased the crime scene before him.

It wasn't a pretty crime scene, there were at least three security guards frozen completely solid while another one was missing a leg and a fifth one was missing his left arm at the elbow. The floor just before the main counter was an ice rink with streaks of ice reaching out to those security guards while the teller immediately behind the frozen counter had been completely frozen. The large steel vault door had been completely shattered and somewhere close to ten million dollars in valuables was missing. Also large icicles pierced through the security cameras and their central hard drive.

Barry felt awful. He wasn't fast enough to save these people. While still moving superfast Barry looked for any clue as to who did this. At first he thought it was Snart back in town but this didn't fit his MO at all. Snart didn't attack innocent people for no reason, besides this was on a whole 'nother scale than what Captain Cold's Gun could dish out.

"Guys!" Barry said into his headset, moving slow enough that they could hear him but fast enough so no one could see him.

"What is it Barry?" Cisco's voice said in his ear.

"Tell the nearest hospital that they've got half a dozen people coming in with near or severe frostbite!" Barry yelled

"Ok, nearest hospital is St. Andrews!" Cisco replied

"I'll be there in a few seconds!"

"What are you gonna do, melt the ice?" Caitlin asked

"Um…yeah!" Barry replied. "I can try can't I?" Barry immediately went over to one of the frozen victims and began rubbing his hands all over him. Slowly the ice encasing his body began to melt and run off his body. As fast as he could, Barry did the same thing to the other three frozen victims before moving all six injured people to St. Andrew's hospital in the blink of an eye.

Half an hour later the police arrived on the scene, followed shortly by Barry pretending to be the slowest man alive.

"Barry!" Joe called as he walked over to his foster son. "So? Anything from when the Flash was here?"

"Well I learned that I can thaw out people that have been turned into popsicles." Barry said discretely causing Joe to chuckle

"Anything that could help us catch whoever did this?" Joe asked

Barry shook his head. "I can tell you it wasn't Snart, Joe. This type of crime doesn't match his MO at all. He's methodical, planning everything down to the last second and not once does he intentionally kill anyone. Besides, last I checked he's locked up in Iron Heights Prison and his cold gun is locked safely away at S.T.A.R. Labs. Whoever did this; froze those people with the clear intention of letting them freeze to death or even shatter them."

"Got a call from St. Andrews" Eddie said coming over to Joe and Barry. "They say they've got half a dozen victims with mild to severe frostbite and hypothermia, all of them were from this bank. None of them have any idea how they got there or how they were thawed out. Any idea who or what did this?"

Barry set up his gear and combed the crime scene for evidence. "Well to be able to freeze the human body in an instant without causing any terminal damage would require liquid nitrogen."

"So, Snart's back with his freezing gun thing." Eddie said trying to understand what Barry was saying. "Anything about his partner?"

"No, Snart's gun reaches a temperature of -273.15 degrees Celsius, Absolute Zero. It would have caused instant death. These people were exposed to something much warmer."

"I can't imagine it being that much warmer?" Joe asked

"I'd say it can't be hotter than -195.97 degrees Celsius, that's the temperatue the human body freezes nearly instantly. The only thing I can think of that does that is liquid nitrogen." Barry crouched down and picked up a small piece of frozen flesh. "Though for this to remain frozen for so long without turning back to gas form, I'm going to need some help analyzing it."

"Alright, we'll see what we can dig up. Eddie, why don't you get a sketch artist and interview those hospital victims, maybe they'll be able to describe the attacker since the security records seem to be trashed."

"OK Joe." Eddie replied.

Later, back at S.T.A.R. labs

"So we've got another meta-human out there who can manipulate cold temperatures." Caitlin said worriedly.

"Just like the Cold Gun." Cisco pointed out. "First, armor clad red lightning bolt and now a freezing freak…Freezer." Cisco said fairly proud of himself for coming up with that name on the fly.

"Eh" Caitlin was uninterested in the naming process.

"I tried running a sketch from eye witnesses but so far it hasn't matched with anyone in police data banks." Barry said

"I'll run it through our facial recognition software. Maybe something will come up." Cisco said hopefully."

"If this really is a meta-human who can manipulate the cold just like Snart's gun, then I cannot emphasis how important it is for you to be extremely cautious of him Barry." Wells said resting his chin on his knuckles.

Suddenly Cisco's computer lit up like a tree. "Got him!" the engineer practically leapt out of his chair with excitement.

"Who is he?"

"His name is Cameron Mahkent." Cisco said "Apparently he dropped out of High School and has been dabbling in petty crime ever since. A few major robberies here and there, but he was caught at every single one."

"Then why is he out and about?" Barry asked

"Apparently any evidence connected to him disappeared, and anyone involved in the cases dropped all charges and retired wealthy or ended up dead."

"So, he gets powers from the Particle Accelerator and he decides to rob the largest bank in Central City?" Caitlin asked "Great, why can't we ever find a friendly meta-human?"

"We are batting one out of one out of eleven on good meta-humans." Barry replied

"Two out of eleven." Caitlin fired off receiving a confused look from Barry and Cisco "Ronnie isn't bad, he's alone and confused, and has another man inside his head."

"I'm sure we're bound to come across at least one other good meta-human sooner or later." Barry answered "but, yeah, not that I think about it two out of eleven hasn't been great odds for us.

"Traffic cameras just picked him up entering a bar over in Keystone called the Keystone Saloon."

"Let Joe know where he is." Barry said

"Where do you think you're going?" Caitlin demanded

"I'm going to stop him before he hurts anyone else." Barry said to his personal physician.

"Last time you fought someone like this a train was thrown from its tracks and he was a normal human with a cold gun. This is a meta-human. We don't even know enough about his powers or how they work and there's no telling-" WOOOSH In a scarlet swoosh Barry was on his way to the Keystone Saloon leaving Caitlin flustered that he didn't quite listen to her.

Moments later he arrived at the Keystone Saloon and everything seemed fine and dandy. Well, everything was fine and dandy before a man was thrown out the front window of the Bar. Crash landing right at Barry's feet. Almost immediately Barry recognized him as the man from the sketches.

"Damn~you~bastards…" Cameron slurred his words in a drunken stupor, before taking another swing from the bottle in his right hand. "I'll~freeze-all-yer-arses…!"

"Guys, I found him." Barry said into his headset. "And he's pretty wasted."

"Hey…" He turned around to face the Flash "I'm~not~a~wastebin…" He took another chug of alchohol. "But~thank~you~for~calling~me~pretty…I'll~cherish~yer~compliment…Though~I~don't~roll~'at~way…"It was then that Mahkent finally seemed to notice Barry as he squinted and leaned forward to get a better look at him, before his eyes widened in realization "You…You're…you're…"

"The Flash? Yeah I know right." Barry's face turned into a slightly cocky grin. "Look, could you just make this easier for everyone and just surrender quietly?"

"Let~me~think~abou'~it…" the drunk meta-human said while bringing his bottle up, chugging the last bit. "Aaaaaaahh…" He let out satisfied belch " 'Ats~some~good~booze…" KRASH With speed and precision that shouldn't be capable from a drunken man he smashed the bottle across The Flash's head, knocking him to the ground before he ran away.

Barry pushed himself back up from the surprise attack and in a red blur was in front of the runaway drunk. He appeared so suddenly that the drunk fell flat on his ass in shock.

"Damn~you're~quick…" Mahkent said drunkenly, as he tried to stagger to his feet. Failing to do so he reached out his left hand "Mind~helpin'~me~up…?" Barry made a move to take his hand, but the man immediately placed his hand on the ground. KRIK Almost instantaneously the area around where he touched the ground froze; the ice even speedily crept up Barry's left leg effectively freezing him in place.

"Agh!" Barry went down on his right knee clutching his left leg as he did.

"Nice thing 'bout ice running though my veins, the buzz wears off faster than normal." The formerly drunk freezer taunted as he easily stood back up, towering over Barry. "Oh, come on Flash, ain't ya got nothing witty to say?" KRIK Ice surrounded his arms, making a pair of icicle gauntlets. He slammed his fists together and cracked his neck in anticipation for a fight.

VRRRRRRR Barry quickly began to rub the ice on his leg. In no time at all the ice on his leg had melted. BZZZT in a flurry of yellow electricity The Flash was standing behind the icy meta-human.

"Looks like you've got some tricks up yer sleeves." Cameron said turning around "but I've got some t-" WHAM He was cut off by Barry punching him across the jaw, cold cocking him.

"Alright guys, he's out." Barry said grinning. "I'm bringing him back to S.T.A.R. Labs now. Prep the pipe for a chilly guest." FWOOSH "AAAAGH!" Barry yelled out in pain as extreme cold enveloped his back. The wave of cold forced him to his knees. He looked over his shoulder and there stood a large muscular man, holding the young drunk over his shoulder.

This man stood easily at 6'2" with a very stalky build like he was a professional body builder or something. He wore a white muscle shirt and navy blue pants with black shoes. His head was completely bald and he wore a pair of white sunglasses on his face.

"Barry? Barry! Are you Ok?" Caitlin's voice sounded off in his ear.

"Get your hands off my son you red leather clad ass." The man said as he aimed a small white gun at Barry's head. FWOOOOSH He pulled the trigger and it unleashed a torrent of white flames as cold as hell.

Barry barely moved out of the way as he watched the mini cold gun freeze the ground solid before the muscle man proceeded to use it to create a thick Ice wall between himself and the Flash.

Later, once Barry had returned to STAR labs Barry sat shirtless on the med bed as Caitlin patched up the frozen skin on his back. Cisco on the other hand wheeled over a monitor.

"Once again Mr. Allen you're lucky you have fast healing." Dr. Snow said to her patient "You're also lucky that the cold blast you were hit with wasn't as powerful as the one Cisco designed."

"That doesn't make this any less painful."

"Well the good news is, compared to yesterday, you're healing."

"And the bad news?" Barry skeptically asked

"Why do you assume that there's bad news?" the doctor asked "try looking on the bright side Barry, you're back to normal, or at least you will be in an hour or two." Barry gave her a confused look, she sighed in defeat and gave him the quasi-bad news "Your accelerated healing isn't completely back to normal yet. In fact I just saw a scan of your cells and you need to see this." She held up her tablet showing Barry an image of hundreds of cells rapidly moving around the screen. Some of them were moving faster than others others were moving at a normal human speed and a few weren't moving at all.

"So, my cells are all out of whack?" Barry asked

"That was yesterday." Caitlin replied "Here's today." She swiped the screen and showed him a new image. This time the vast majority of his cells were all moving at their normal lightning speed while others were still slow. "It actually gets fairly interesting if you look closely at the cells moving supper fast." Barry starred at the cells in awe.

"They're generating sparks?"

"Some of your cells are moving so fast that they're literally acting like fuel cells, storing up the energy you generate naturally. When you use your super speed they don't even slow down, if anything they're even faster, like a supercharge. They build up even more speed and in some cases they discharge it."

"So that's where all the electricity I generate comes from."

"In theory anyway." Caitlin added. "Whatever the man in black did to you, it affected your very cells. Like he put a block on your powers or he's-"

"Joar Mahkent."

"Who?" Barry asked as Caitlin was cut off by Cisco entering the room.

"The big guy that attacked you from behind, turns out he's Icicle's dad." He said. Swiping across his tablet a mug shot of the large man from earlier appeared on the screen.

"Icicle?"

"That's the nick name I came up with for him. Though I assume we should call him Icicle Jr. and call his cold man Icicle Sr." Cisco wore a sense of pride across his face.

"Really? Cold man?" Caitlin said "I think Barry's heard enough ice puns to last a life time."

"Calm down Caitlin, Cisco does this all in good fun." Wells said rolling into the room. Barry was half expecting wells to scold him but he didn't.

"Any way, Icicle Sr. is a physisit from Europe and a career criminal, a lot like Captain Cold. Though, he and Icicle Jr. seem to be from Coast City. And they're pretty good at it, well at least Icicle Sr. is. He's gotten away every time while his son apparently wasn't so lucky, though his dad seems to pay good money for lawyers to get all charges dropped."

"Mahkent isn't a meta-human like his son. He uses a cold gun like Snart." Barry said

"That makes taking out Icicle Sr. easy." Cisco said "You just need to disarm him."

"Easier said than done, he's freakin' huge. And how do you expect me to do that when his son is there."

"You said you knocked him out with a single punch?" Wells asked. Barry nodded "If that's the case then I have reason to speculate that there may be quite a bit of frozen tissue under his skin"

"Making him very vulnerable and fragile." Barry finished

"My thoughts exactly. I honestly believe you can take both of them down easily." Wells finished before letting out an audiable sigh "Caitlin, Cisco" The two turned to Dr. Wells. "Could you two give us a few moments?"

With nods Cisco and Caitlin left the room, leaving Barry alone with the wheel chair bound man.

"Aren't you going to call me out on being reckless?" Barry asked to which Wells chuckled

"No Barry, I'm not. I see no point in scolding you like a child. As you said yesterday you're an Adult and I should treat you as one, not as a fragile child that can break at a moment's notice. None of us could have foreseen that Mahkent was working with his father."

"It's just…" Barry sighed in frustration as he put his shirt back on after being given the all clear by his personal doctor. "Ever since the Man in Black showed up…"

"Paradox!" Cisco interjected from across the lab like he had super hearing.

"I've been feeling sluggish and… rather frustrated." Barry admitted "It's like every time I feel like I'm at my absolute best…"

"Someone comes around and shows they're better than you." Wells finished

"Yeah" Barry admitted "How'd you know that."

"As difficult as it is to believe I have had my share of lows Mr. Allen. In fact an old colleague of mine, He was brilliant at what he did in the fields of renewable energy. I wanted him to join me on the Particle Accelerator but…" He trailed off

"What happened to him?"

"Let's just say he values money above actually helping people or scientific progress." Wells said "but honestly without him or Hartley I never would have been able to design let alone complete the Particle Accelerator, with a bang." Now it was Barry's turn to lightly chuckle. "The point is Barry, No matter what life throws our way it's all about how react to the things we least expect. And it is honestly moments like these where the true measure of one's character come out and we push ourselves to become better than ever." Those words made Barry smile as his confidence grew a little more.

Meanwhile somewhere in Central City

"Dad!" Joar turned to see his son clutching his arm. Ice viciously crawled up it with no restraint. "It's getting worse dad!" Cameron was in a panic. Ever since he got these powers they've been constantly growing out of his control.

"Quit your winning."

"I can't control it!"

"If you can't control it then you aint my son. What do you want me to do every time you fall on yer arse? Kiss it to make it feel better? You're old enough to wipe your own goddamn arse."

KRIK More ice crept up his arm. "DAD, PLEASE!" Cameron pleaded while tears fell down his face, unfortunately for him they proceeded to freeze nearly instantly. "EVERY TIME I USE THESE POWERS I LOOSE MORE AND MORE CONTROL! HOW LONG UNTIL I'M A FROZEN STATUE MYSELF!?"

Joar silently turned around, facing away from his son. "Fine, I'll help you one more time. Remember what I told you. Your abilities are also tied to your emotions. The more you use them the more unstable you become and the more unstable you become the less control you can exert over them."

"Thanks Dad." Cameron said regaining some of his composure. As he did the ice on his arms retreated until they were as normal as can be. "So, where are we going?"

"Now, because of you we need to get another ten g's. Getting you slightly fixed is going to take some major cash. That guy aint cheap."

"Who's that?"

"Dr. Elias." Icicle Sr. replied

Here ends the chapter

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