Episode Two: The Food-Fight Spell

"NOOOOO. NOT AGAIN." Nilla looked around, then glared at her twin. "WHY DO YOU USE IT SO MUCH?!"

"IT'S FUN TO USE ON BAD GUYS! WATCH OUT!" Lorris yelled back. Then the most unexpected thing happened. As Team Flash watched, Lorris pulled out a violin from her back from a small pocket. Lorris started playing a random tune, moving her bow so hard that the sudden sound scared everyone off their feet. The sharp sound brightly stung. The tune was a weird tempo, similar to something that might be heard from a noob.

Zoom started jerking around and trying to spin a tornado from the case of sap. Bystanders roared in laughter at the sight, drawing a crowd. Then the tune changed to something from the Old West. Now, this violin has a bad case of hypnosis, meaning that it made people dance to whatever it played, or at least made them listen in a trance. So the bystanders started dancing everywhere and partying jovially.

Up on the rooftop, Team Flash was rolling around in laughter. Cisco and the girls had tears in their eyes, Joe was bellowing, and Barry snorted and guffawed. When the music stopped, they subsided a bit and caught their breaths with some effort.

Cisco wheezed, "I can never get enough of that."

Back down there, Lorris finished playing. Nilla roped a line of sausages around Zoom and imprisoned him in Livewire and Reverse Flash's cage, which she had gone back to the park to retrieve.

A sample of the villains' conversation. Reverse Flash: "What are you doing in here, (BLEEP)?" Zoom: "It's those (BLEEP) twins." Livewire: "Same. They're (BLEEPY) (BLEEPY) (BLEEP)." Lorris: (Pops up and shouts) "DO NOT SAY ANYMORE BAD WORDS, PESTS!"

In an hour, the criminals were safely locked up in their own separate cells at S.T.A.R. Labs. Cisco was pacing around and squealing over and over again, "Why can't I get it out of my head!" The Twins were at a desk. Nilla was reading another Harry Potter book (she had the whole collection, all nine) while Lorris was both typing on a computer and drawing at the same time. What she was drawing-a visual of what Team Flash would look like if they were cats. Caitlin, Joe, Barry, Cisco, Wally, Jesse, Iris, and Dr. Wells were in the scene. Alongside that was a drawing of the Supergirl team. Kara, Alex, Winn, Mon-El (Lorris doesn't like him, sadly), and Cat Grant.

Then there was Team Arrow. Oliver, Felicity, Laurel, Thea, Sara Lance, Roy, Diggle, Quentin, and Curtis. All three of the teams were on separate pages and decorated according to their signature stance or expression.

On the computer, she was typing a document that she was sharing with her cousin Cupid to make into another of his famous How to Notice ETRS (Every Tiny Romance Symptom) books. (Cupid was in a group called the NSG, or all the Nine Reindeer and their snake sister Hyperfang. Prancer, Vixen, and Blitzen are the doe team. The other reindeer are bucks.)

Then she opened up a new document. This was just a bunch of random typing all over the place about certain facts, the universe, the multiverse, just a mumbo jumbo of anything. New fact: Livewire is in love with llamas.

The alarm beeped again. This time it was trouble outside of Central City and out on a field. Nilla slammed the book down and roared, "SERIOUSLY? I was JUST about to get to the part where Harry swallows the Snitch!"

Barry got to the scene first. It was absolute devastation. Some kind of weird monster that looked exactly like a hot dog was crumpling the crops and kicking animals everywhere. The hot dog monster was joined by a potato. Both carried wands, screaming spells at anything that moved. Stupefy! Crucio! Impedimenta! Anapneo! WAIT-HARRY POTTER SPELLS?! WHAT JUST HAPPENED HERE?!

Barry rushed about, building a barrier between the monsters and the field. They blasted holes through, but it kept coming back up. Finally the hot dog pointed its hickory wand at Barry in mid stride, screaming, "AVADA-"

"EXPELLIARMUS!" came through a megaphone. The hickory wand flew through the air, right to Nilla, who was riding in her hover-pod and pointing an elm wand with phoenix feather and unicorn hair at the hot dog. She turned to the potato and roared, "STUPEFY!" After that she set a jinx on it.

Lorris came up a second later, sporting a hazel wand with dragon heartstring and phoenix feather. She yelled through her own megaphone, "WINGARDIUM LEVIOSA! FLIPENDO!" The potato rose into the air, the hot dog flipping onto a plain field where no one was. The wands-now shrunken to a diminutive size-were snapped to pieces.

Barry managed to tie the potato down with a bunch of rope and a really big hot air balloon canvas, but the hot dog got out of the way before he could get that one. It retrieved its wand, somehow repaired it, and pointed it at a rock. "Wingardium leviosa!" the huge boulder floated upwards, and when Barry tried to run, he realized that he'd been hit by a leg locker.

The hot dog levitated the boulder over its head, then released the spell and let it drop. Before it could reach Barry, Nilla shouted, "Protego!" The rock bounced off the air harmlessly. Then Lorris roared, "EXPULSO!" The boulder exploded in midair.

FINALLY, after a few hours, both potato and hot dog were dragged to the city square to be eaten. Nilla had used Incendio on them, making the foods burnt and cooked (they were raw before that). A great feast gathered up. Mostly the kids in the city were celebrating until the music on the radio came on, and then everyone started to party.

The Twins groaned at the next song that came up. Apparently it was on their block list because it was so deafeningly BABYISH. No one could exactly identify what they heard, but it was so horrible that they dragged Team Flash to a place in S.T.A.R. Labs which no one ever used-the library. Seriously, all of the books there were ancient tablets and scrolls which no one could read-mostly ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, Indus script, Cretan hieroglyphs, Rongorongo, Jiahu symbols, VinĨa symbols, Olmec, and more. There were also secret codes that no one could decipher.

"Um, exactly why did you choose this place to get away from the noise? We can't read anything in here! These are all unknown languages!" Cisco demanded as the twins rummaged. Lorris hissed at him like a cat. He sighed, "We've only deciphered a few of the Egyptian scrolls! I CANNOT understand." To Barry he whispered, "I kind of understand Nilla a bit better, but Lorris is a wackadoodle donkey."

The phrase "Wackadoodle donkey" turned out to be true. Lorris pulled down a scroll of Olmec and began reading. READING AN UNKNOWN LANGUAGE. NO WAY. HOW.

They left them to their business and wandered back to the main lab room, where Caitlin searched up "Twin Terrors." Surprisingly, there were whole pages full of stories about them. One was where they set Golden Glider up for a date with Grodd at a nursery. The little kids there then thought that the two were clowns and began playing for at least half an hour. Then Lorris entered the scene and shot a water balloon at Grodd. Nilla brought in a pack of water balloons with different temperatures (from just above freezing to just under boiling), and a water war ensued. The villains hightailed it out of there immediately.

All the other stories had at least five elements of weirdness. Then Cisco found a story that said "CROSSOVER TO ANOTHER UNIVERSE." In the story, a reporter who was trying to interview the duo was suddenly bombarded with a story about how the Flash had gone fast enough to travel into another dimension. This one had a superhero of its own, Supergirl. They defeated two villains named Livewire and Silver Banshee before Flash returned to his world. Then the two told another story about how a villain called the Music Meister had sent both Flash and Supergirl into a coma where they were in a reality that only could be escaped by following the script. There happened to be a lot of singing and dancing to that kind of reality before the superheroes were brought back.

Team Flash remembered that significantly. It was pretty funny in Barry's mind, now that he thought back. A faint sigh escaped him that no one heard but that the Twins smelled. He remembered how fun it had been with Kara and the dancing part, and Winn playing the piano alongside them.

Lorris and Nilla smelled the sigh and also smelled a scent of heaviness around Barry. Nilla raised an eyebrow. "Why does he smell so super lonely? And everyone else just smells intrigued? They're right next to us and I can scent them reading out loud about the crossover." Lorris, the one filled with fantasies and imaginations and cupidity expertness, gasped extremely loudly. "We have to get to the hover-pods RIGHT NOW. I'm calling a friend to do this." She charged out of the room, screaming, "I SHALL SUE YOU FOR ALL THE TROUBLE THAT YOU HAVE CAUSED ME!"

Jumping on her hover-pod, Lorris flew up a rainbow to Cloud Cuckoo Land. YES, THE ONE FROM THE LEGO MOVIE! Princess Unikitty was hopping around and dancing to some upbeat music. "HI! Welcome back! Do you need anything to cheer someone up today? Like: no rules, no bad guys, no loneliness? YAY!" she yowled. Lorris called at her, "Well, you know who Barry Allen is, right? And Kara Danvers?"

"Yep! Cloud Cuckoo Land is crossed over ALL the dimensions!" Unikitty squeaked happily. Lorris called again, "Well, Barry was listening to Caitlin read a story about how the Music Meister attacked, and he kinda remembers the time! Do you have one of my cousin's spare boxes?" (The cousin: Blitzen, mad genius. She specializes in chemistry, electronics, and physics.)

Unikitty gave Lorris a box of colored wires. Back in the library, Lorris and Nilla started sorting the wires. There were three colors; red, yellow, and blue. Lorris put them back in the wooden box and the Twin Terrors headed to the main lab room. Cisco noticed them. "Oh, hi. You're back?" he asked. Lorris shrugged, "That doesn't matter. What I wanna say is that there is a bad case of sadness in here. The air's heavy. And it's coming from one person. The rest of you smell intrigued."

She surreptitiously flicked meaningful looks at Barry. With a small jolt, he realized that she had smelled his sigh. She tapped the wire box and stated, "There's only one cure for this. It has nothing to do with this box of wires but it does include opening a breach."