This took me forever to write, and my friend helped a little- she doesn't have a Fanfic account but thanks to her! I hope you enjoy this as much as she did when she read it, and as much as I enjoyed writing it. Stay tuned for the Christmas edition! Enjoy, ~Helen (BTW: for those who are confused about her powers- read Cisco's report (it's toward the end))
Traffic at 8 in the morning was a killer,
"what time do we have to be at the crime scene by?" I ask, Barry fumbles for his cell phone,
"like 9:00" he mutters rubbing his sleepy eyes- for a guy who could run faster than sound, you could at least expect him to get ready faster in the morning.
As I drive down to the scene, Barry sits shotgun and fumbles with the radio
"what was your first crime scene" he asked, the takes a sip of his coffee,
"When my father was killed by the vigilante" I spat out, "I was just an intern at the office, and my first case in the field was my father lying on the ground with an arrow through his chest"
Central City was a hell hole of bad nightmares, and I never want to return. Barry stops moving,
"the vigilante killed your father?" he asks
"yes, because my father was just like all the other men the Vigilante has killed- filthy,dirty rich" I huff "I knew he was doing something illegal, but the Vigilante had no right to kill my father. He doesn't get to play God." The light turns green, and I slam the accelerator. We make it to the crime scene in 10 minutes.
"look who's early" a tall Caucasian man arrives a few minutes after us, he eyes me- and looks at Barry "who is this?" he asks
"Quinn Lan" I say and extended my hand out for a handshake- "I work with Barry for the Central City Police department, I believe we talked on the phone." He smiles, and shakes my hand
"ah, yes" he looks at Barry with a not so friendly look "thank you for being on time" he says, "we have a lot to do." He eyes Barry again, and walks away.
"Barry" a man walks toward us
"Joe!" Barry says and walks quickly toward him, I smile and nod in Joe's direction. I bend down and observed the glass case that took an impact of a bullet. I observed the drag marks on the floor, and a girl walks by talking to a blonde man "I've never felt so angry before!" she starts to sob.
"Joe, this is Quinn Lan, she is also a CSI person. Quinn this is Joe, he's the lead detective" I take off my glove, and shook Joe's hand.
"nice to meet you sir" I say, I turn to Barry "was the Flash here?" I ask, and Barry nods.
"They were just fighting each other- it was crazy in here" Barry whispered,
"like you said, everyone was whammied" Joe adds.
"Looks like you save a man's life" I whispered, Joe looks at me, and then at Barry
"she knows?" he whispers
"yep" Barry says
"I have powers to" I whisper, Barry laughed. Joe raises and eyebrow
"Do show me," he says "wait, not here" he adds. "Get your evidence first-" he says,
"okay" I say, but I couldn't resist the urge to show off a little.
"Joe watch this" I motion toward the tall, and rude man who greeted us today, with a flick of my hand, the man trips, and when he fell his coffe cup flew out of his hand. I twitch my fingers and the cup hovers a little before it lands on the floor. Joe just stares,
"you just knocked your boss over" Joe says, trying to be serious, but after 3 seconds a burst of laughter follows. "She's good, Barry- you got a person to keep you on time, and to knock over your boss" he smiles "Bonus for you"
Thunk, Thunk, Thunk. All of the knifes hit the center of the target. I throw one at the target, and I stop it right before it hits the target. I try out my new suit, I turn into metal, shot tendrils of electricity, and tested out my reactions. I started to train with a 30 year old guy who is teaching me how to fight. I'm getting better, but I'm not good enough.
"sweet" I hear Cisco say behind me, a knife I had kept hovering in the air clattered to the floor.
"Oh sorry" he says, "I didn't mean to bother-" he begins, I turn around.
"It's fine," I roll my shoulders.
"can you still turn into metal, do the electricity, and speed thing?" Cisco asks. I nod,
"it really saps my energy though" I answer, "if I do all 3 at once- I'm going to need at least 3 Cisco bars after a few seconds of combining them or I'll blackout or something" I sit down, and Cisco sits down next to me.
"can you keep your powers? like forever? I mean I would be so cool, what if you could borrow Barry's power? What if you could transfer powers?" Cisco starts punching buttons things on his tablet.
"your force field produces a lot of energy, you could cut down on the amount of energy you exert into them, then you can focus more on using the other powers you have absorbed" he smiles and shows me some calculations
"you absorb energy, and create energy shields- I want to call you… hmmm" he thinks for a while
"Aegis?" I say
"Yes!" he gets up, "yes!"
"thanks Cisco" I say, a hear a breeze that knocked over paper, and footsteps. A scream, echoes through the room. Cisco and I run into the room to see a blond girl's shirt of fire. Barry tries to pat it out, but it didn't work. She strips off the shirt, revealing a black bra underneath
"I'm glad I didn't go bra-less" she exclaims,
"here, have my sweatshirt" I take off my jacket, she takes it and puts it on quickly.
"Felicity Smoak" she says with a smile.
"Quinn Lan" I answer. Barry's face is still red from what just happened, but Felicity doesn't seem to notice.
"are you like Barry?" she asks, I nod,
"want to see?" I ask, and Felicity nods. I create a force field and I lift her up. She gasps, and flaps her hands
"This is amazing!" she says, when I set her down.
"so why are you in town?" I ask her, she eyes Barry
"Um, well I'm here on a mission" she begins
"She works for the Arrow, and the Arrow is in town" Barry finishes
"he's what?" I growl, electricity crackling off my hands
"he's in Central City" Barry's eyes filled with fear.
"this murderer is in Central City? The man who killed my father?" I nearly scream, why now? "if he comes here I'm going to kill him" I mutter. I walk into the practice room, and slammed the door behind me.
"Why is she going to kill the Arrow" I hear Felicity and Caitlin ask.
"He killed her father" was all Barry said, and silence followed.
"He shot 2 arrows at me!" Barry yelled, Felicity gasps
"He actually did it?" she exclaims
"you knew!" Barry yells.
"Whoa Barry, calm down" I was in between them, I put my hand on his chest, and I felt a weird buzzing sensation go through my body. Barry's eyes turned red, and I felt a spike of anger go through him. He grumbles at me and walks away. I hear Caitlin exchange a few words with him,
"I'm not Ronnie! Stop treating me like I am" and he was gone. We stand there for a few minutes, Felicity seems close to tears, and Caitlin is steaming.
"Well, uh, I'm going to go talk to Cisco" I awkwardly leave the 2 girls to their boy problems.
"Cisco, Barry is being really-" I stop in mid sentence,
"you like it?" he asked, pointing at the suit he was working on. It was jet black, and had golden stripes on it. On the arms there were pockets for my knifes, and little exploding circle things.
"I have a little chip built in to the suit so we can monitor your vitals, and you're going to have to wear an earpiece" he adds. I run my hand down the arm of the suit.
"-it also tells you how much volts you are putting out with electricity, and the density of metal you can be." he points toward the armbands on the arms.
"last- see that little pouch" he points at a liquid thing "it's a 'liquefied Cisco bar', push that button on the pouch- and you'll get an injection of carbs, energy, and everything you need." he does a little bow,
"thanks Cisco!" I say and I get him a little hug, he almost drops his tablet-
"you're welcome Quinn, you deserve it" he says, "go try it on" he adds, and I went to go do that.
"Quinn, Cisco!" Caitlin comes charging in, "Joe just called and said Barry was going crazy"
"So did Oliv-I mean the Arrow" Felicity says "hey nice suit" she points at the gold part "this is really nice"
"I'll go find Barry" I said, putting the mask on, I look at Felicity- "call the Arrow" I mutter, Felicity raises an eyebrow
"aren't you going to kill him?" she asks,
"after I get Barry back" I stated
"oh okay" she dials numbers on her phone, I feel a tap on my back- it was Cisco
"used this instead of your car" he hands me a jet pack, I raise an eyebrow "trust me it will work" Cisco says
"thanks Cisco- and tell the Arrow not to shoot Barry. I have an idea" I yell as I sprint out of the room
I found them in the middle of the street fighting, honestly, could they be more obvious?
I hit the ground, and the little jet pack turns off, I see the Arrow and Barry. A girl is and a guy rush into a blue car and drive away. Arrow shoots an arrow, at Barry,
"NO!" I scream, and I stop the arrow. "You are not shooting people, you asshole" I yell, but the Arrow shoots another arrow, and it ties Barry up
"Barry you need to calm down" the Arrow yelled,
"you better hold on" Barry smirks and runs off- dragging Arrow behind him. Why are they so stupid? I run after them,
"Barry please look at me, this is not you!" I scream, he looks at me and his eyes turn red. I walk slowly toward Barry, "hey, look at me" I start, the vigilante is slowly recovering from his 7 block drag. "Barry, please, don't do this, you're going to hurt your friend." Barry's face softens for a minute, right before he was going to open his mouth, an arrow hits him point blank in the back.
"augh!" he screams, and falls onto one knee this Arrow guy is so stupid
"horse tranq, that'll put you down" the Arrow yells, Barry yanks out the Arrow
"Barry- stop!" I stand right in front of him, "you need to stop, this is not the guy I meet when he accidentally plowed me into a bank counter, this is not the guy who is willing to sacrifice himself to save the one he loves. Please Barry, stop" he starts to fade away, but his eyes glow red again, and a green mist starts to vibrate off of him.
"horse tranq doesn't work on me" he whispers
"I am tired of all of this" he whispers again. Everything slowed down, and a second later the arrow in Barry's hand has gone through my shoulder. He pushes me away, and I slam into a brick wall. I feel my arm snap against my body, and a scream tears out of my throat.
I fall to the ground, and I see a red blur and a green man getting punched. Barry starts to run in circles around him, but before I could process what was happening, the Arrow gets launched out of the air. I pull my self into a sitting position, slich the arrow comes out, and it clatters to the ground. I see a dark figure falling off a building, but before I knew it, he was back on the ground safely. Barry appears next to him, and the Arrow fires an arrow- he misses-
"you missed" Barry yelled, but the wall explodes behind him.
"Barry, stop" I growl- I was getting tired of Jackass Barry, he growled back.
Barry pounces on the Arrow, time slows down, and I summon my shield. It turns into metal, and Barry bounces off of it, I push him against a wall, and I feel a warm energy flow through me.
"stop taking my powers" he snarls, and lashes out at me and I duck, but the force pinning him to the wall gives away. He comes at me, I duck his punch, and kicked his feet out from under him. My shoulder is starting to heal, he gets up, and catches me by surprise. He fakes a punch to my face, and also punches me in the gut. I hear a rib crack, but I ignore it. When his next fist comes, my whole body becomes metal, and his hand bounces harmlessly off of it. A solid kick to his chest launches him halfway across the alley, he comes back, but I punch him in the chest- he wheezes, and falls onto his knees he tries to take in a breath, I punch him in the face for good measure. The Arrow (finally) gets up and puts an arrow in Barry's leg.
"arugh" Barry screams, but is cut off when the Arrow puts him in a choke hold. A car comes screeching into the alley way where were they when we needed them, and the doors open up to reveal bright lights. Barry's eyes turn red, but when the lights kept getting more and more intense, the red started to fade out- and finally they returned to his regular green eyes. He slumps down onto the ground, and mutters "this is going to be a different kind of hangover," the Arrow looks in my direction, and he nods.
I catch myself by surprise, and I punch him in the face
"how many times did I say don't shoot him?"I exclaim, "I was almost able to get Barry to stop with talking, but NO you had to put a few arrow in Barry," he doesn't say anything "are you jealous of something? Is it because of Felicity?" the Arrow flinches, and Barry sits up. "Look at this!" I point at Barry, my arm, and his whole body "all because of you" my voice is unusually calm.
"I'm sorry I had put a few arrow in him" the Arrow spat out, "but he had to be stopped"
"Oh that's your justification huh?" I snarl, "is that what you though when you put an arrow through my father's chest? Because he had to be stopped- because he failed the damn city?"
The Arrow stiffens up, Barry tries to stand, but he just whimpers about his leg, and stays on the floor.
"That was me before I-" he begins, but I put my hand up- I didn't want to hear it.
"I wanted to kill you when I was little, I wanted to spill your blood on the streets. But I would be just like you." I pause, I see the pain in Arrow's eyes, and I just walk away. The Arrow helps Barry up,
"Who was your father?" the Arrow asks,
"Steven Lan" I answer, my back turned to him. I hear the Arrow stop, and Barry curse.
"That was not my work, I don't shoot people point blank" he says quickly, I spin around
"who else wields an arrow like you? Mr. Queen?" I ask, he stiffens,
"the black archer- Malcolm Merlyn" he replies, this time it was my turn to stiffen.
"my father's best friend" I snarl, and the Arrow stays still.
"why would-" I start but an explosion of pain interrupts my sentence. I try to speak but all that came out was blood.
"Barry!" the vigilante screams, I feel a breeze, and I see red and green- like Christmas.
"take her to star labs now" their voices were so far away, everything blurred together.
"I'm fine" I mutter, and I try to get up
"whoa there girl, you're not going anywhere but Star labs" I feel a needle pinch my arm, and everything starts to fade away.
"take her quickly" was all I heard before i let the darkness take me.
Barry (POV)
Cisco's report (pt1):
The good people:
Person: Barry Allen (alive)
Powers: Super fast everything
Name: The Flash→ (side note from Cisco: this is amazing!)
Person: Quinn Lan (alive)
Powers: Force field creation, and power absorption
Name: Aegis→ (side not from Cisco: too cool)
I watched Caitlin wrap up Quinn's arm, and helped her get the other half of an arrow out of Quinn's shoulder.
"her shoulder has practically healed, but her head, and ribs are my main concerns" she checks the IV drip. "She keeps crashing at awkward times- I think she over extended her powers" Caitlin added. She checks Quinn's eyes and motions me to come closer, "they've been like this for the past few days" she adds. Quinn's eyes are gold with yellow, orange, and red streaks in them
"wow" the streaks of color float around in her iris- they're like paint droplets in water.
"I'll give you guys a few minutes" she says and walks out.
"Quinn, I know you can hear me, so I just wanted to say- well, first of all I would like to thank you for saving my ass, and stopping me from killing my best friend. Also, I wanted to say sorry- I didn't mean to put an arrow through your shoulder, I didn't mean to break your arm for the 2nd time." I pause, "I'm sorry" I put my hand on her arm. Quinn slowly opens her eyes,
"apology accepted" she muttered with a smile.
"oh, Quinn you were waiting for an apology?" I ask a smile sneaking onto my face,
"no-" she said, "just needed some flash power to come back" I realized my hand was still on her shoulder.
"well then, Aegis- welcome back"