We continue Barry's amnesiac adventures here. Hope you're enjoying it so far. I know I am.
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Joe returns home after another day at work. What he sees first after entering the front door is a blue jacket on the floor. He recognized the jacket. It belonged to Crystal.
"Barry?" called Joe.
No response.
"Ms. Frost?"
No response gain.
Joe goes upstairs and heads to Barry's room. He knocks. After the knock, he heard some noises inside. One of them is something, or someone, hitting the floor.
"Bar?" Joe called again.
After a few more seconds, the door opens, allowing Joe to see Barry. He was wearing a red buttoned shirt, which was unbuttoned.
"Hey, uh... dad," greeted Barry. "Or adopted dad. Is it okay if I call you dad?"
"What's going on in there?" asked Joe, suspicious.
To Joe's surprise, Crystal emerges from the room. She looked nervous as she adjusted her hair.
"Detective," greeted Crystal. "Don't mind me. I was just leaving."
Joe was about to say something, but Crystal just proceeds walking downstairs. Joe looks at Barry with a dumbfounded look on his face.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" asked Barry, confused.
"You and me are gonna talk about this right now," said Joe.
"I would love to, but I'm really tired," lied Barry.
"Downstairs. Right now," ordered Joe.
"O-kay," said Barry nervously.
Barry was about to grab something else from his room when, all of a sudden, he runs at super speed and crashes into his cabinet. Joe was shocked to see this.
"What just happened?" asked Barry, frightened.
Barry looks at his hand. It was vibrating.
Meanwhile, back at the warehouse in Central City, Kid Flash and Jesse Quick show up and look for Savitar.
"This is the place, alright," said Kid Flash.
"Keep your voice down," said Jesse Quick softly. "We don't want him to know we're here."
"He doesn't remember who he is. I'm sure he'll come quietly if we ask him politely," said Kid Flash.
"I hope so," said Jesse Quick.
The two speedsters tread lightly as they look for a metal suit of armor. After just a few seconds of searching, they found who they were looking for. Kneeling on one knee in the middle of the room is Savitar.
"Let me handle this," said Kid Flash. "Uh, hello?"
Savitar didn't move.
"Hey, uh, we're here to take you home," said Kid Flash. "If you'll just come quietly, please."
Savitar still didn't move.
"Okay, this is taking too long," said Jesse Quick.
Jesse Quick walks towards Savitar. Once she put her hand on his helmet, Savitar finally moved. He steps back in super speed, keeping his distance away from the female speedster.
"Who are you?!" asked Savitar.
"We're superheroes," said Kid Flash with a smile. "And we're here to bring you home."
"Where is home?!" asked Savitar. "I don't understand this."
"It's okay. We can help you," said Kid Flash.
"I'm having visions. Images in my head. Of... of.. this woman," said Savitar, putting his hands on his head, feeling as if he has a headache. "Crystal... I feel like I'm with her, but I'm not there at all. What is happening?"
Jesse Quick whispers to Kid Flash. "He must be getting Barry's memories."
"Then let's get him out of here before he remembers how to run," whispered Kid Flash.
Suddenly, electricity started surging through Savitar's armor.
"What is this power?" asked Savitar, sounding afraid.
In the blink of an eye, Savitar runs out of the warehouse in super speed. Kid Flash and Jesse Quick chase him through the streets. However, Kid Flash started slowing down until he trips himself and crashes into a mailbox. Jesse Quick had to stop to check on her boyfriend.
"Are you okay?" she asked.
"My powers. They're gone," said Kid Flash.
Jesse Quick's eyes widened with shock.
The next day, Joe and Crystal take Barry back to Mercury Labs so they can have him examined since he just realized he has super speed. Barry couldn't stop marveling at what he could do.
"These powers are so cool. I can literally feel electricity coursing through my body," said Barry, smiling. "I mean, is it always like this? This is amazing."
"Okay, calm down, Bar," said Joe. "Talk to Cisco and let him check on you."
"Okay," said Barry.
While Barry walks into the lab, Joe decides to have a talk with Crystal. The psychologist felt uneasy when Joe shot her with the look that a cop gives a juvenile delinquent.
"That wasn't funny," he said.
"What isn't?" asked Crystal.
"Last night," said Joe.
"Oh, that." Crystal rubs the back of her hair, embarrassed at the memory.
"Listen to me," said Joe, looking at Crystal directly in the eye. "Barry just lost the woman he loved. Right now, he doesn't even remember who he is. I don't need you taking advantage him. Do you understand me?"
"Detective, I assure you, what happened last night was not my intent," said Crystal.
"So, you're saying it was Barry's?" accused Joe.
"It wasn't his intent either," said Crystal.
"I'm warning you, young lady. Do anything like that again, you're gonna be in serious legal trouble," warned Joe.
"I'm sorry, Detective," said Crystal. "But if anyone is taking advantage of something, it's Barry with his amnesia. He doesn't want them back. He wants to be free of the pain."
"And what did you say?" asked Joe.
"I didn't approve of it," said Crystal. "I told him that he can't be his true self without his memories. That his relief from his pain isn't real."
"And yet, you still took him to his room," said Joe.
"I promise. It will never happen again," said Crystal.
"It better not," said Joe very seriously.
"What do you mean you lost your powers?" Joe asked Wally, who just told him what happened the previous night.
"We were running after Savitar and then my powers just disappeared," said Wally.
"Cause and effect," said Crystal.
"What do you mean?" asked Joe.
"You said that Savitar gave Wally his powers, right?" asked Crystal.
"Yeah," said Cisco.
Crystal continues. "So, if Savitar has no memory of giving Wally powers..."
"He never got them in the first place," realized Cisco.
"I have no idea what's going on here," said Barry, feeling hopelessly confused.
"Why don't you wait in the medical bay?" suggested Joe.
"Okay," said Barry.
As soon as Barry left the room, Team Flash continues to discuss.
"So, Cisco, how are we doing with the device?" asked Crystal.
"So far, so good," said Cisco. "I just need your brain expertise to help me finish it."
"And Barry?" asked Jesse.
"Just teach him how to use his powers," said Crystal. "We don't want him accidentally revealing himself to the public."
"No problem," said Wally.
At the lab, Cisco and Crystal continued working on a way to restore Barry's memories.
"Barry's been acting pretty awkward around you lately," said Cisco.
"I'm pretty sure he'd act like that around any pretty girl," said Crystal.
"It's almost not fair. He feels something when he sees you but not his best friend," said Cisco.
"I thought Caitlin was his best friend as well," said Crystal.
"Tell that to Iris West," replied Cisco sadly and sarcastically.
"How many times do we have to talk about this, Mr. Ramon?" complained Crystal.
"Sorry. It's just hard looking at you," apologized Cisco.
"Yesterday, you and your friends expressed your paranoia with no restraint," said Crystal. "Is it because Barry has amnesia and he couldn't say anything?"
"No," lied Cisco.
Crystal glares at Cisco.
"Okay, maybe," admitted Cisco. "It's just that he trusts you too easily. I thought he, out of all of us, would be most affected seeing you."
"What you guys are going through with me, it reminds you of Earth-2 Harrison Wells, right?" asked Crystal.
"In more ways than one," answered Cisco.
"Barry trusted him immediately," said Crystal.
"Okay, point you," said Cisco, feeling defeated.
"He wasn't the Harrison Wells who killed his mother. I'm not the woman who killed his girlfriend," said Crystal.
"Still, doesn't help when you look like her," said Cisco.
"This is getting tiresome," said Crystal, annoyed. "Let me guess. Does that sound like Caitlin?"
"You got her sarcasm and bite, that's for sure," said Cisco.
Crystal sighs. "Hand me the girard processor. It'll help me prime his neocortical and medial frontal lobes."
Cisco hands Crystal the device she asked for.
"Bet you wish it was Caitlin you were working with," said Crystal, noticing a particular look on Cisco's face.
"Every day," replied Cisco.
H.R. returns to the lab where Tracy was working on the trap for Savitar. However, he couldn't see her.
"Hi," greeted Tracy, popping up from under a table, holding a circuit board in her hands.
H.R. jumped with a little fright, surprised by Tracy's greeting.
"I'm still here," said Tracy. "I'm sorry, I..."
H.R. silences Tracy by putting up his finger. "We have to talk about the elephant in the room. I-I-I have a job to do. We have to build that device! We have to focus on the task at hand. You understand what I'm saying?"
"I totally understand," replied Tracy.
H.R. continues. "From here on out, whenever I look into your azure eyes..."
Tracy walks closer towards H.R. and smiles. She wanted to get close to him as physically as possible. H.R. begins to stumble in his words as he stared at her eyes.
"... flecked with gray, like a... summer rainstorm... coming to kiss my lips..." H.R. tried to get himself to focus, almost feeling lost staring at Tracy's happy face. "The only thing I'm gonna be thinking about is how I can best to inspire that beautiful... sexy... brain..."
Tracy puts both her hands on H.R.'s face. They both leaned in towards each other. This time, they kissed. The kiss was full of so much passion, H.R. didn't even bother retreating this time.
"Sparks," said H.R., feeling the "sparks" from the kiss.
"Sparks," muttered Tracy.
"You feel them too?" asked H.R.
"No," replied Tracy.
"No?" H.R. felt disappointed.
"No, I mean yes, obviously," said Tracy awkwardly, correcting herself. "Sparks... traveling between two parallel wires. A modified high-voltage climbing arc."
Tracy goes to the computer to continue her work. H.R. smiles, feeling proud of himself once again for inspiring Tracy.
"I guess my work here is done," said H.R. proudly.
While H.R. walks out of the lab, Tracy smiles, still thinking about the kiss they shared.
Meanwhile, outside Keystone City, Wally and Jesse, dressed as Kid Flash and Jesse Quick respectively, train Barry how to run. Using her super speed, Jesse Quick run in circles around the dirt as fast as she can, causing her feet to burn through the dirt. She stopped after she was finished making a track for Barry. After running in circles around the dirt track for a couple of minutes, Barry stops in front of the two young adults. He almost falls over from the breaking, but he remained standing.
"Wow!" he exclaimed. "Guys, I still can't believe I have these powers. They're amazing. I mean, I think I can be a superhero."
Wally and Jesse giggled to each other.
"Is it cool if I run some more?" asked Barry.
"Just don't wonder off," said Wally.
Barry continues running around the dirt track.
"It's really nice seeing him happy," said Wally. "Feels like it's been a lifetime since we've seen him like this."
"Almost makes me wish we could keep him like this," said Jesse.
"But we both know we can't," said Wally.
"I know," said Jesse. "It's just... seeing him like this, it's a big reason why I look up to him. He's always so upbeat and positive no matter what."
"I know how you feel," said Wally. "He's been so down in the dumps because of what happened to Iris, I was beginning to doubt if he'll ever recover."
"Well, before now, he was starting to feel better," said Jesse.
"Thank Crystal for that," said Wally.
"I just can't believe this," said Jesse.
"Believe me, it's hard to resist the urge to kill her because of who she looks like, but we both have to accept that it's not Caitlin," said Wally.
"It's not gonna be easy," said Jesse.
"I know," said Wally.
"I'm really glad to have you in my life, Wally," said Jesse. "I'm always afraid about what I would become if you weren't a part of my world."
"I'm always thinking the same thing about you," said Wally. "We could've been the worst versions of ourselves. Fighting criminals with no restraint. The danger of crossing the line, all because Caitlin took a lot from us."
"But being together, it's keeping us in the light," said Jesse.
Wally smiles at Jesse. She smiles back at him. The two leaned in for a brief kiss.
I wish I can continue, but I still need more time to plan for the end of Barry's amnesiac adventure. I hope there was something to enjoy about this chapter. Leave a review and let me know, please.