Barry' s pov
We were all hanging out in the cortex a few days after my still confusing and unsettling coffee break with Killer Frost,and we all looked up from our little conversations, or the couples kissing, or Lydin and Jazmyn devouring a bowl of chili at the ring of Cisco' s metahuman app. Berry and I spoke in sync, every eye in the room facing the screen "What's up?"
Cait was the one who replied " A new meta in town, oh joy. She's robbed two people so far, but the weird thing is how she does it. She just stands there, does nothing, they start crying and having violent breakdowns, fall to the ground crying, then she plunders them."
Cisco spoke up, looking up from his computer " She has light brown hair, piercing blue eyes, blue highlights in her hair, smoking hot;and she's one of those annoying villains that name themselves. Meet Lady Torment." after a while he spoke up again " Real name Cassidy James, I have her home address, school address, she's sixteen, so forgive my smoking hot comment, she looks older onscreen."
Austin looked up "How did you do that so fast, Cisco?" Iris nodded "Yeah, that was faster than you usually hack. less than two seconds."
I was beginning to form a hypothesis of my own when he smirked " Your boy here has mad skills." Laughing, I teased " Mad skills that include asking Felicity Smoak for help?" he shrugged "Maybe, maybe not. Lady Torment' s power is to project your worst memories right in front of you, over and over until you have a emotional meltdown, thus leaving you at her mercy. Do NOT let her lock eyes with you. Do NOT!"
After that, we set off to fight this new meta, me knowing she had a lot on me if our gazes DID happen to meet. She could potentially destroy me...
Once we suited up, we sped to her location,her lair not that far from the house I grew up in for the first eleven years of my life. The way she smirked at me makes me almost perfectly guarantee she picked it on purpose. She knows me. She knows my story, my past, my identity.
While the girls recovered the plunder and gave it back to the rightful owners, sending the catatonic villains to the hospital, the boys started to fight Lady Torment, using their speed to tire her out; very attentive as to not meet her gaze. After I blocked off that part of the neighborhood to protect the civilians, heard choking sounds and Lady Torment's cruel voice
" Oh, Barry... I'm choking Austin..."
That, of course made me turn to free him, but, in doing so, I accidentally locked eyes with her.
Suddenly,everything stopped, I was in some sort of trance. I saw my Mother' s murder right in front of me, as if in 3D , for who knows how long, then my Dad being killed by Zoom right in front of me. These memories were being played like an endless movie that I had no idea how to break free from. They were soon joined by a third memory, the real Jay Garrick, my father's doppleganger; and how I nearly lost it when I first saw him without the mask. A fourth memory joined the sequence, me witnessing my Mom's Earth-5 counterpart being murdered. I felt myself slip from consciousness into a catatonic state, similar but more severe than being in a state of shock; then everything went black; with me still crying.
Berry's pov
We all gathered around Barry, with Lady Torment safely locked in our metahuman prison. No one knew how to get him out of his catatonic state, not even Caitlin back at STAR Labs. Suddenly Iris spoke up
"Let me try something." We backed away and held our breath in anticipation, hoping her plan would work. She grabbed his hand and placed it on her now bulging six-month-pregnant baby bump, and kissed him; successfully bringing him back.
Our happiness was short lived, since Killer Frost suddenly appeared in our midst, no doubt having been breeched over by Reverb.
Barry' s pov
Now recovered, I got up
" Why come to the one place with dozens of speedsters and a power-dampening metahuman prison?"
She smirked, leaving me uneasy again " Fine. But catch me first." I laughed until I saw her superspeed while leaving patches of ice on the floor!
"HOW do you have superspeed?!" Making me feel like a total idiot, she smirked, and my Forensics background did the math for me "By the way, I never thanked you for the coffee... "
What were we gonna do? she could be breeched anywhere on command, she had ice powers and now she has superspeed! I KNEW there was more to her coffee plan!
KF comes and showcases new powers after saying thanks for the coffee he asks how she had speed she explains