A/N: Wow. Two chapters in one day. I am on a roll! Actually, I'm not. I'm sick and bored, so I watch the Flash and write FanFiction. Hey, don't look at me like that! Y'all do the same thing (right? Please tell me I'm not alone!). Anyways, I forgot to tell you guys this in the last note, but I went back and edited the previous chapters a little, so they should be in better shape now. There's a little more about Annabel's role in Johnson's take-over-Central rampage (get used to those hyphens; you'll see more of them) and a few coversations that I think are a litle smoother.
Favorites: Only one this time: Lauriver4ever. Thank you, dear reader! That brings us up to sixty-five, so yay! I really like it when the numbers end in either fives or zeroes, not sure why. I'm just weird that way... Lauriver4ever, you were also my only follower this time around, so I'm just not even gonna make another thing. Just-
Oh, just kidding. Followers: Lauriver4ever and Bookmaster3470. Bookmaster3470, you folloed literally right as I was typing this, so congrats! You made the cutoff! Love you guys! Keep it up! That's, what ninty followers? Woah, am I dreaming? Two numbers - make that three, thirty reviews - that end in either a five or a zero? My dream has come true! Also, apparently you reviewers have gone nuts, because I got like seven in a hour. YAY!
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Davechaosity319: I have done a little reading on the subject, in passing, but I regret to say I don't seem to be as well versed in the matter as you. But I totally get the ranting thing. There was this one time at school where I started discussing minature black holes and then I was all like, "But if physicists think that miniature black holes can be used to travel to alternate universes, how does the Flash get to alterante universes? Does he somehow shrink himself or perhaps physicists only need the energy generated by these minature black holes to travel to other universes and the'd use something larger to actually transport themselves there..." I could literally feel myself turning red in the face, but I just didn't stop.
Lauriver4ever: Okay, so you were like four of the reviews I got, which makes you an awesome person, especially since you followed, favorited, reviewed four times, and favorited at least one of my other stories. And, just so you know, the numbers is parentheses are the review numbers. Here we go. (1) I hate them with passion and would gladly engage them in mortal combat...if I wasn't a mortal and they weren't immortal, that is. (2) I know, right? Writing Annabel gave me chills... (3) SHE'S HERE! (4) Trust me, they will meet their doppelgangers, and I've already got plans for Team Arrow... Mwah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
"What now?" Harry grumbled.
Cisco ran over to his monitors muttering, "I swear, every time we're about to relax…" He typed in a few quick commands on one of the numerous keyboards. "What the hell, man!" he yelled out of nowhere.
Harry gave him a disparaging look. "What?"
"My system's been hacked. The only person who's ever done that was Felicity. And whoever hacked us freed Johnson and Chase from the pipeline!"
Annabeth cocked her head to one side. "Johnson and...Chase?" Her eyes widened as she turned to me. "You met our doubles? Let me see them."
"Wise Girl, they just escaped. And I'm pretty sure you would get frustrated with your double, and possibly mine. They're very...different from us."
"Who cares about your doppelgangers?" Joe demanded. "Bear, can you go after them before they escape?" Barry stood, wincing a little and said, "I can try." In a flash - dang it. I was trying to avoid bad puns. Barry sped - nope; that's a pun too. You know what? Who cares? Barry ran off in a burst of lightning.
"I don't suppose you'd have any information on my double, would you?" Annabeth asked the room in general.
"Doppelganger," Cisco and Harry corrected in chorus.
"Whichever," Annabeth sighed.
"We do," Iris responded, "but we need the computers right now. When Barry gets back, though, feel free to look at what we've got. On those two. I'm not so sure we can trust you with the other information we have here."
I exhaled quickly. "Woah. Keeping a daughter of Athena from knowledge. Hardcore. And pretty stupid." Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Annabeth nod.
Caitlin raised her eyebrows. "You do realize she just burst in here and attacked one of our friends, right?"
"You're still mad about that? Really, it was an easy mistake." I gave Annabeth a warning glance. I think I can fix this if you don't say anything else that conveys your edginess and occasionally murderous behavior. She glared back at me like, Am I really supposed to trust you with diplomacy?
"How is attacking a hero an easy mistake?" Joe demanded. "She said she read the news reports-"
"She is right here," Annabeth muttered angrily.
"-why didn't she notice that the Flash is a hero?" Joe finished.
"Wouldn't be the first time a hero has gone bad," Annabeth complained.
"Well not this hero," Cisco huffed as he worked to find Johnson and Chase on a security feed.
Barry voice crackled over the comns, "You know guys, as much as I appreciate the support, that's a little distracting."
"Sorry, Bear," Iris said into the microphone.
"I'm fairly certain that they're dating," I whispered into Annabeth's ear.
"Who, the Flash and that girl?"
"The Flash's name is Barry and that girl's name is Iris. And don't you think so?"
Annabeth deliberated for a moment. "Mmm, I don't know. I'm not sure they are just yet, but I think they're close. You saw the way Fla- Barry was looking at her?"
"Please," I scoffed. "How could I not see it? He looks like Mrs. O'Leary whenever we play Get the Greek and I'm still holding the dummy. Big, pleading eyes that just don't stop looking at you."
"Not the analogy I would've gone with, but you're right," Annabeth admitted. "He does look like that." I saw Caitlin glance up and got the feeling she had heard almost everything we said. I decided to start one-sided introductions. "Okay, so that guy over there's…"
Third Person POV, Wherever the Heck Barry is
The first places Barry checked were the hallways that led away from the pipeline. Unfortunately, the metas had not been stupid enough to linger (although Barry suspected that was due to Johnson) and there were no tell-tale signs showing him which way they had gone, such as a trail of feathers or wet footprints in the hallway.
Barry dashed outside, hoping to catch a glimpse of one of the two metas, but saw nothing. Just to make sure there was absolutely no trace of them, he started combing the streets; and that was when he saw it.
Streaks of blue lightning racing through the streets. Zoom. Barry quickly sped up, chasing the blue lightning that always evaded him in the end.
This time, though, it stopped for a moment next to two familiar figures: Johnson and Chase.
Johnson faced Barry with a sneer on his face. "Tell that tech idiot that his system was ridiculously easy to hack. Hell, I did it from one of his cells."
Chase glanced over her shoulder. "You were like, way too slow. Ta ta!" She wiggled her fingers in farewell before Zoom grabbed the teens' shoulders and whisked them out of sight.
"Guys?" Barry touched his comns. "I lost 'em. They're working with Zoom."
"Then come back, Barry," Caitlin instructed. "We don't have a way to track him yet, and we don't know how to beat him yet."
"Yeah. Okay." Barry flashed away before he even finished speaking.
Percy's POV (A/N: Sorry, I can't stay away from it for long.)
Seconds after his team called him back, I heard the crackling of electricity that I had come to associate with Barry, and not Jason or Thalia about to use their children-of-Zeus powers and zap me with a lightning bolt. Then air rushed into whatever room we were in and he just materialized, almost like when the gods did their not-teleporting-actually-really-fast-air-travel thing. Barry just made a lot more wind.
"I saw them," he panted. "Zoom took them before I could do anything though."
"Huh. That's interesting. Well, while you were doing that, I came up with their names," Cisco announced to no one in particular. "Johnson shall be known as Rogue Wave and Chase - um, the other one - shall be known as Screech."
"What's with the code names?" Annabeth asked, confused. To be honest, I was a little confused too. I got the feeling stuff like this happened a lot, which made me want to know some of the other names they had come up with. Cisco actually seemed okay at it, unlike a certain other person I could mention (cough - Leo - cough). Rogue Wave is a lot cooler than Aquaman or Waterboy. Or is that just me? "Do our doppelgangers have powers or something?" Annabeth continued, taking no notice of my temporary zoning session.
"Yeah," I confirmed. "Johnson has water powers and Annabel can shape-shift, into an owl at least."
"Annabel? Mr. D called me that once. That - that's really her name here?"
I nodded. "Guess what mine is? Peter Johnson."
Annabeth blinked rapidly. "I'm...not sure how to respond to that."
Caitlin gave Cisco an unimpressed look. "Why Screech? Rogue Wave I get, but not Screech."
"It makes perfect sense!" Cisco protested. "She turns into an owl all the time, and owls screech."
"Owls hoot," Iris corrected, speaking to him like he was a small child. Poor guy. I had been on the receiving end of that tone (not to be confused with the you're-an-idiot tone) plenty of times. Generally from my girlfriend and Thalia.
Cisco shrugged. "Well, yeah. Some of them." Caitlin and Iris almost simultaneously put their heads in their hands.
