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Third Person POV at STAR Labs
"He...he just jumped off?"
Barry rubbed his forehead with his right hand, looking up at Joe's question. "Yeah. You heard him, right? He said something about a giant gorilla, I thought he saw Grodd, I turned, he ran...to the bridge."
"He yelled something as he jumped off," Caitlin observed. "What'd he say?"
"Johnson said something about my city needing a Starbucks. Those were his final words, and they don't make any sense. What is a Starbucks?"
"I can only think of one thing," Cisco mused. "Starbuck singular, the character from the original Battlestar Galactica."
"I'm pretty sure the boy wouldn't say something about a fictional TV character as he was plummeting to his death," Caitlin decided.
"Well, you never know," Cisco huffed turning back to the device in his hands. The thing was slowly taking shape, although it was rather useless now. The gadget had been built to neutralize Johnson's powers, but the kid had killed himself jumping off that bridge. Nevertheless, Cisco was incapable of leaving a project unfinished. Barry peered over and saw the device gradually taking the shape of a sword.
"Something else he said was weird, though," Barry mused. "He said your city needs a Starbucks. Your city, like he wasn't from here."
"You did say he seemed new in town when you met him," Caitlin reasoned.
"Yeah, but," Barry glanced down at the screen with Johnson's information on it, "this says Johnson's lived here his whole life."
"Well, I think," a voice said from behind the four of them, causing all to jump, "that we're looking at a breacher." Barry turned and saw Harry standing in the doorway. He let out a sigh of relief. Only Harry. That's okay, then.
"Don't do that, Harry!" Cisco half-yelped.
"What's with the sword?" Harry asked, confused. "Wouldn't a gun or wand or something work better for whatever you're doing?"
Cisco shrugged. "I'm getting tired of building just guns and wands, so I thought I'd try something new. All you need to do is point the sword, preferably preceding that with something like, "I challenge thee to a duel," at the meta and push this button." Cisco tapped the area next to the aforementioned button. "Then the sword will turn on and, hopefully, neutralize the meta's powers."
"What do you mean hopefully?" Caitlin queried.
"It hasn't actually been tested yet." Cisco's tone sounded like that was more of a question than a statement.
"I don't think it'll need to be," Joe reasoned. "The meta's already dead. There's no way he could've survived that fall." Cisco's alarms blared again. "I just had to say something, didn't I?" Joe continued raising his eyes to the heavens. "What's happening Cisco?"
The engineer turned the computer monitor to show Peter Johnson walking fugitively down the street, subtly glancing left and right out of the corners of his eyes. "I think we got a dead man walking," Cisco declared.
"Who's that?" Harry investigated.
"Not now, Harry," Cisco called out in a singsong voice.
Barry glanced down at Cisco's gadget, which looked finished, that was resting on the chair. "Is it done?"
"Yeah," Cisco confirmed. "Just...be careful. I haven't had time to see whether it explodes or not when you press the button so… Yeah. Be ready for that."
Barry rolled his eyes before flashing into his suit and out the door, taking the sword.
Cisco quickly opened the comns and shouted, "It's name is Killer Whale, by the way!" Joe and Caitlin were giving him funny looks, so he defended himself with, "What? It's water related." When that did nothing to convince them, Cisco went on. "I don't see you coming up with anything better," he finished with a huff.
Caitlin shrugged and turned to explain what was happening to Harry.
Percy's POV
Okay, this was getting annoying. Every time I think I'm safe for the moment and can focus on getting home, the Flash shows up. True, this was only the second time, but still. I just want to go back to my deadly life of monsters and murderous gods, titans, and giants. Was that too much to ask? Also, I was running out of time on the deadline I gave Annabeth and the others: three days. It was now nighttime on my first whole day in Central City.
Anyways, I was walking down the street, minding my own business, when the Flash skids to a halt in front of me holding...a sword? Hang on; did this mean he was a demigod?
"Really, man? Can you just leave me alone?"
The Flash stepped forward, undaunted by my harsh sounding speech. Unfortunately. "Look, kid. I get that you're scared. The explosion changed everything for you. It gave you powers you don't understand and can't always control, but you don't have to hurt people. You don't have to lash out. I can help you."
I looked at him seriously for a moment. "Really?" I asked in small voice.
The Flash nodded. "Yes."
I burst out laughing. "Right, right," I said finally once I could control myself. "Listen, dude. First off, I don't know what explosion you're talking about; second, I don't need help. I can control my powers just fine."
"Then why attack me?" the Flash asked. He paused for a moment, putting a hand to ear like he was listening to something. "Oh. Oh." He turned back to me. "Did Zoom bring you here and tell you to kill me?"
"Nope," I responded promptly. Who the Hades was Zoom?
"Okay then," the Flash sighed holding up the sword. "I guess I'll just have to bring you in."
I narrowed my eyes at him, unsure as to whether I should draw my own sword. Generally, when someone points a sword at you, that's a good idea, but this time I wasn't sure. The Flash wasn't holding it like a swordsman. And his finger was moving towards some kind of button… Oh. I figured it out as soon as the blade started glowing. It was meant to take away my powers somehow.
To see if it had worked, I stretched out my senses and made a little stream of water flow towards me. Thankfully, the Flash hadn't noticed. Well, not yet. Then I got an idea.
I held up my hands and stared at them with a horrified expression, like I was confused or something. "Oh no!" I cried. "My powers are gone!"
"Really?" the Flash asked hopefully.
I immediately dropped my hands and my horrified expression. "No." I swiped my hand across my body and knocked the Flash aside with a wave of water.
"Well, this is new," a voice from behind me sneered. "I thought I was the only one who could do that." I turned and stared into the face of my look alike.
