I just realized that Tom Cavanagh played Park Ranger Smith in Yogi Bear, and I choose to believe that right after Eobard Thawne stole Well's body, he was forced to make money to fund the particle accelerator and had to work as a park ranger. I dare you to watch Yogi Bear after reading that, your mind will blow up. Also, I know I haven't been uploading consistently, but what do you think of me uploading every Wednesday with some breaks?

My name is Iris West. I am a victim of an over-protective best friend with superpowers.

"Come on, Bar." I said, trying to look innocent and cute. "All you guys get to wear costumes and do cool things and even Cisco gets a suit today, and you're not letting me in on this?"

Barry sighed, "Iris, this is a dangerous thing to do. You don't have any powers or training and I don't want you to get hurt."

He can be mean sometimes. "Okay, how about we do rock-paper-scissors? If I win, I get to wear a suit and do cool things today, and if I lose, I stay home and make you a sandwich?"

"That's not what I meant. And fine."

"And you're not allowed to use your powers to see which one I choose in a millisecond and then make your decision, we draw at the same time. Okay?"

"Alright."

"Rock..."

"Paper..."

"SCISSORS!"

"..."

"You just used your powers, didn't you?"

"Please just stay home."

So after that, he tried to make me feel better by speeding me off to STAR labs. Usually the speed distracts me from things and Barry smells like coffee, and that's fun, but I was pretty focused on the costume thing. After a few rounds around the city, we arrived at STAR labs, where Barry put me down and checked the computer for crime.

"Hi, Barry, Iris." Caitlin smiled. "Have a good morning?"

"It's about to get worse." Cisco sighed, walking in while checking his metahuman alert app. "I got a call from Oliver. Anarky is burning down an entire city block and they could really use some help dousing the flames. Preferably from someone who can create empty space by spinning their arms really fast."

"I'm on it." Barry grinned, racing over and putting his suit on. It did occur to me that whenever Barry puts on his suit, he's taking off all his clothes right in front of us at super-speed, but Caitlin and Cisco never mentioned it, so I think they decided not to talk about it. He sped over to me and put a tender hand on my shoulder. "You promise you're not mad at me about the costume thing?"

"Of course not." I said. "Now go and save the world."

"Thanks, Iris." Barry smiled, and there was a flash of lightning as Barry made his way to Star city.

It was only a few seconds after he left that there was another beep from the computer. Caitlin clicked some things and suddenly had a very worried face. "Uh-oh. The Mist back and he's breaking into Iron Heights."

"But Barry's busy with Anarky, and our giant fan blew out last week. What are we going to do now?"

I suddenly got a very awesome idea in my head and smiled at Cisco. "Well, Barry told me about what you were doing with switching costumes and all that, and he said I could have a costume today."

They looked like they believed that, but Cait looked doubtful. Well anyway, Cisco shrugged and said, "Okay. Oh! I've been working on some costumes for the CCPD that I want to try out on you! This is gonna be epic, I have gauntlets that shoot lightning!"

"Eh." I said. "What else do you have?"

"There's goggles that shoot lasers."

"Too scary. What else?"

"There's a black combat suit with a cape and a bat symbol."

"That sounds like a horrible idea."

"Okay, okay." Cisco thought for a long time and finally came to the last resort. "Well... I made an extra gold gun in case Lisa Snart's ever broke, and I made a Golden Glider costume in case she ever wanted one."

"Wait." Caitlin said. "Why did you make another gun and costume for Golden Glider?"

"Umm... well, I – I mean I didn't... uh,"

"That sounds kind of cool, actually." I said.

Cisco grinned and said, "Cool, I'll go get it."

Well, since Cisco made it for Golden Glider, that explains why it was so tight. It was a pretty nice black catsuit with golden stripes over the arms and utility pouches on the shoulders and belt. Yellow goggles covered my eyes and there were some yellow streaks to clip into my hair. I have to admit, it looked pretty badass.

Along with that, there was my gold gun, a few gold bombs, and these special shoes that I had that Cisco wouldn't tell me what they did. He said that he'd come with me and try to help with a special laser gun, and Caitlin was going to supervise and drive us to Iron Heights.

When we were almost there, we found a green gas flowing out of the windows and a bunch of inmates running free outside. Some of the gas flowed onto the ground and materialized into the form of Kyle Nimbus. Just in time for us to get there.

Cisco and I jumped out of the van at the same time, which would have looked cooler if Cisco didn't trip. He got up anyway, and we aimed our guns at the bad guys.

"Return to your cells right now." I said.

"Psst," Cisco whispered to me. "I don't think they heard you."

No, they certainly did. The Mist turned into green smoke and crawled up into the noses of all the inmates standing outside. They all straightened up and their eyes turned green, and they all turned to face us like zombies.

"Ha!" Cisco grinned. "I theorized that Kyle Nimbus would be able to control henchman because of the mind-numbing properties of Hydrogen Cyanide combined the particle accelerator's effect on hydrogen-" he said, before promptly getting punched in the face by an inmate.

I turned on the gold gun and fired it at the inmate, and a stream of golden liquid exploded out of the barrel, coating the goon's arm in gold. He yelled in pain and fell backwards.

"This won't kill anyone, will it?" I asked.

"Don't be ridiculous." Cisco said, blasting a goon in the face with his laser gun. There were about twelve more coming onto us, all with misty green eyes. I threw one of the gold bombs on my belt and covered three in gold, while the gun took out another two.

"Iris!" Cisco yelled, blasting his gun like a maniac. "Back to back!"

I stood with my back against his and we blasted all around us, either burning or bedazzling the goons all around us. When they were all down, green smoke came out of their mouths, coming together to form a giant cloud. The Mist was getting pissed.

"Use the boots!" Cisco yelled. "When the metallic particles in the gold composite comes in contact with the helium-hydrogen components in the cyanide, the metal will absorb the-"

"Don't care!" I said, and blasted the green smoke with my gold gun. Something awesome just happened, and the gold solidified in midair. Streams of gold dropped onto the ground with a green tint in them and the green smoke writhed like it was in pain or something. I kept shooting at it, and soon, I was left with a puddle of gold a few feet away from me and a little green smoke in the air in the shape of Kyle Nimbus.

I tapped the heels of my boots like Cisco told me to and I was suddenly blasted up into the air. I closed my eyes because it was just a little bit utterly terrifying, but I felt myself hit something. When I opened my eyes, I was back on the ground and standing on top of an unconscious Kyle Nimbus.