Oh look! Chapter three! Short little thing today. This wasn't where I wanted this chapter to end, but I felt the need to post something to celebrate the CW picking up The Flash, so I made it work. Turns out there will be more than the originally planned four chapters, but I don't know how long it's going to take. I know where I want to go with this, but not how to get there. Warning, I kind of winged it with Barry's abilities, so sorry if I got it wrong. I promise I'll research when I actually get more into it. Anyway, here's chapter three

"No. I've explained this. It's not disappearing from one place and showing up in another. It's more like moving at the speed of light between two places."

Barry looked between the two faces staring at him with varying degrees of confusion. Only Felicity looked even close to understanding, and even she looked lost.

Diggle shook his head like he was trying to clear away cobwebs. "I get that part. What I don't get is how."

"This didn't happen until after I got hit by lightning, so it would be reasonable to assume that was the cause. I haven't figured out how lightning could give me superpowers yet, though."

Barry turned back to the computer in front of him, studying the screen that was showing a digital rendering of his own DNA. It had been a few days since they came to the foundry to find answers, and all that Barry had found so far was that his DNA was acting weird, regenerating at rates he's never seen before, and that whatever this new ability was, it was difficult to control. He had already crashed into three walls and a computer tower, none of which were in the directions he was trying to go in, before Oliver forbade him from practicing inside.

Of course, Oliver wasn't there at the moment, off with Sara dealing with someone named Nyssa, so Diggle and Felicity were more than eager to let him show off.

"Probably, when the S.T.A.R Labs reactor blew, it did something to the atmosphere, and that, mixed with the exposed chemicals you had sitting around, did something to you. I think." Felicity said, shrugging at the raised eyebrow she got from Diggle. "What? It's not like this is something I can google search. 'Radiation powered lightning strikes' would probably give me some D&D site or something."

"Is it permanent?"

This time, Barry shrugged. "I honestly don't know. So far, yes, but it hasn't even been a week. There's no past cases of this for me to base anything off of."

They lapsed into silence that, each of them turning back to their own projects. It was a few minutes before Felicity broke the silence.

"How are you feeling anyway, Barry? Are you doing okay?"

"For the most part, yeah, I'm feeling great. A little jumpy and fidgety, but I think that has to do with the powers. It's been like this for a few days, but it always gets better when I practice."

"So practice. Oliver isn't here to yell at you to stop."

Barry nodded, standing up and moving out of the way of the computers. He focused on a clear part of floor, concentrating as hard as he could to actually end up there.

'Okay, Allen, you got this. Clear your head. Just concentrate. Close your eyes... And...'

"Oh, fuck!"

In the next moment, Barry was on the floor, surrounded by the shattered remains of the glass Arrow suit case he had crashed into.

"Barry! What the hell?" Oliver was suddenly at the stairs, looking down at them with incredulous anger. "This is why I said no practicing in here. We just had that replaced."

"In my defense, I wasn't aiming for the sharp, breakable glass."

Oliver shook his head. "Out. If you insist on doing that, you have to go outside."

"Is that a good idea? I know if I saw some random person appearing out of nowhere I'd be a little freaked out," Diggle stated. Oliver went over to one of the chairs, picking up the red hoodie sitting on it and tossing it to Barry.

"Here. Roy uses it to hide his identity. It'll work fine for you."

Barry slid his arms into the jacket, pulling the hood over his head and feeling utterly ridiculous.

"I'll go with you." Felicity stood up from her desk and led Barry out of the foundry, through Verdant, and out into the city.

Hmm I wonder what the purpose of that red hoodie could be.

I'll try try to get chapter 4 out ASAP, but until then, review please?

Until next time,

Cadet Eyes