Author's Note: Well, I'm back from my vacation…only to be sick T_T and this chapter really made me stumped. Let's get going!
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Summary: After defeating the enemy, Inertia decides to make a full appearance at S.T.A.R labs only to have Bart chase after him.
Chapter 10: The Chase is On
Barry brushed his hair with his fingers, trying to rub off the sleep. He had stayed up late last night since he found out he couldn't sleep. Nightmares and Daydreams would always wake him up and he would try to erase them away despite the fact that some of the dreams were good but he couldn't.
The Flash yawned and he felt himself snoozing away until a voice spoke.
"Barry!"
The sudden voice jolted him awake, twirling himself around with wide eyes as he saw Joe entering his lab. The Detective blinked, staring at his adopted son and a small concern etched into his face.
"You look tired. Are you sure you're alright? Do you want a day off? I can ask the Captain and pull some strings."
"Ah, no Joe. I'm fine. I'm fine, really. Don't worry."
Joe gave one last unsure look. "Well, if you're sure. You honestly look like you want to pass out."
"Well anyways, you have another case to work on. It's regarding with murder and the Captain wants you to analyze these fingerprints. If they are the same ones, then we have found our bad guy. And hey, maybe the Flash can help us out if he isn't feeling tired." Joe smirked as he walked away.
This only made Barry more determined. Just like that, Barry quickly got up from his chair and Joe felt the familiar breeze brushing past by him. The Detective chuckled to himself.
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"Hey, ho. What's new, y'all?" Cisco exclaimed as he walked into the S.T. lab.
"Nothing much." Caitlin answered. "I'm surprised that the city had become quiet. Ever since the quartet stopped the water lady, things had gone slow."
"Slow, eh?" Cisco placed on a thinking look. "Maybe they are just waiting at the right moment to attack. This might be calm before storm."
"Maybe so but I don't think so." Caitlin responded. "Or otherwise, Barry would come in here and—"
"Hey guys." the familiar voice announced as he zoomed into the lab.
"And the Holy One has spoken." Cisco replied, mockingly making a bow. Barry sneered, walking towards him and shoved him to the side so that he lost his balance.
"Rude." Cisco muttered.
"Think you can help me find a madman? He's name is Jarren Acevedo. He's been known to kill people and never gets caught until today." Barry smirked, cockily.
"Careful. Your true colors are showing." the engineer said. Barry gave him a look before he turned his attention to Caitlin.
"You think you can track him down?"
"Well…is he still in the city?"
"Yeah, he should be."
"Should or is he." the genius commented.
"Like I said, should. I don't actually know if he's still in the city. He might've run away to another city."
Caitlin performed her task, clicking away. Few seconds passed and the former scientist pulled up the research. Barry and Cisco looked up to the screen that was in front of them and the screen revealed images of the man Barry was looking for. The Flash quickly scanned the picture only to smile in triumph once he found what he was looking for.
"And I got it. Thanks Caitlin." Barry replied, zipping around the room to grab the suit and zoomed out.
"You're welcome." she called out.
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Sound of footsteps splashed through the puddles as the runaway ran through the streets of Central City. Thunder boomed as lightning flashed and the chasee could feel his own heartbeat pounding against his ribcage painfully. His breath was becoming heavier.
His eyes squinted through the rain, studying where his route will take him. He was almost there. Almost.
If he could pick up his speed more…
But it was already too late. The familiar breeze rushed past by him, making him gasp with startle as he saw a person who was covered with red and yellow streak next to him.
"Hey!"
The man gasped, stumbling forward before finally tripping to the ground.
"Woah, easy there." Barry responded, stopping to a halt.
"Get away from me!" the man snarled.
Barry gave him a look, walking towards him cautiously. However, what he didn't realize was that the man grabbed a knife from behind and started to take aim when it was the right moment.
"It's okay. It's okay." the Flash reassured him. "I'm going to take you to the police and we can—"
"Take me in?" he sneered. "No one understands. No one does."
The speedster made a confused look. "Understand what?"
The criminal simply made a psychotic laugh and when he saw that Barry was close enough, he took the knife into the view. Eyes wide, the Flash used his speed in attempt to dodge it by twirling to the side. As if by some luck, the stabber just managed to stab the Flash right at the shoulder, making him shout in pain. The man chuckled, cruelly walking backwards until his back touched the tree's trunk.
"No one can stop me." the man whispered, feeling himself transforming into a total different figure.
Barry, who was clutching his shoulder, stared at him with wide eyes as he saw the fiend being transformed into metal.
"Hello, Flash." he smiled, wickedly bringing his fists together, slamming them against each other.
He then brought his fists upwards, bringing them down to the ground to create a huge shake which what Barry had barely dodged it as he jumped backwards. The metal man then performed several punches all which Barry just managed to avoid to it.
Quickly thinking up a plan, Barry spun around in circles until he charged up enough energy. When he did, he felt as though everything went in slow motion as Barry produced the lightning bolt. When it was released, the motion went back to normal and the red bolt struck the metal man who screamed in agony.
Barry raised his hand in front of his face like a shield to prevent the dangerous sparks that came out of the enemy. And like that, the foe dropped to his knees, smoke coming out of him before he collapsed to the ground, defeated.
The Flash gave a look at the defeated villain. "I could've helped you…"
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"Dude, I think that was your fastest record yet! It usually takes you thirty minutes to defeat a metahuman." Cisco announced.
"See? I told you I was getting better." Barry replied, cockily.
"Yeah…when you're not spending too much time thinking about it." Cisco smirked.
Barry sneered before a thought came to him. "Hey, where are the kids?"
"Last time I checked…they went out to train with Wells and Caitlin. They should probably still be there."
"Alright."
Barry and Cisco met up with Wells and Caitlin about ten minutes later. The two walked to join their teammates and when they did, Barry spoke.
"So…how goes the training?"
"Well, Bart has really improved since he had gotten here. Don and Dawn are easily getting the hang of their powers considering the fact they had been manipulated from Inertia." Caitlin answered, checking over her notes before she added. "But they seem to be having problems dodging at the last minute; they either go too early or too late. And also having problems on concentrating their powers whenever they are trying to make an object. But Dawn is a lot better than Don, however."
Barry winced when he saw Don getting smashed by an oncoming boulder. It wasn't too soon that Dawn produced her power that sliced the rock in half.
"So I see."
"And Bart? Does he have any difficulties?"
"According to my notes, he doesn't. I guess he had an awesome teacher." Caitlin grinned.
Just then, an exclaim of a victory shout came which gained their attentions. They saw Bart cheering, indicating that he had reached the finish line.
"Yeah! 5.0! New high score!"
But unfortunately, he didn't see the unexpected boulder that smacked right at him, knocking him away.
"Oof."
Don came, laughing his head off at the scene. "Yeah new high score for your brain or for your speed?" he laughed.
"Boys." Dawn muttered as Bart groaned. But deciding to make his brother miserable, Dawn smirked. "Might I remind you that Bart had defeated us?"
And in an instant, Don's smile fell.
"Shove off."
"Well, well. You guys are really improving!" Caitlin replied, beaming. "Congrats."
"Thanks." Dawn smiled.
Wells looked over at his watch. "It's getting late. You three should be getting to bed."
There were grumbles and complains.
"Sleep is the best. It refuels your energy so that when you're up and fully charged, you can defeat Bart the next time around." Cisco responded.
"Doubt it." Bart muttered.
As the group headed back, Cisco immediately halted in his tracks as he felt his vision going off. He found himself in the familiar empty room, indicating that his powers were kicking in.
The figment of Cisco stared around the empty room until he noticed a figure at what it looked like an entrance. The image was dull and he could faintly see a dull color of yellow and red.
And like that, the vision ended, having Cisco going back to reality. He blinked, confused at what he had just seen.
"Cisco, are you coming?" Caitlin called out.
"Uh…yeah!" he stammered. "Yeah, I am."
As he joined them, Wells couldn't help but to stare Cisco with a peculiar look. After staring at him for a few seconds, he shrugged it off, thinking nothing about it.
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Bart walked down the hall of S.T.A.R labs where he knew he find the group. Sure, he was supposed to go to bed but he had to see them. Sure, they wouldn't be too happy about him not resting and he agrees. Right now, he could feel himself that he could faint at any time now.
But he had to see Barry.
For what reason? He didn't know. He just had to see him.
Impulse came to a halt, smiling as he saw the three—Wells was nowhere to be found—and they all appeared to be talking on some sort of case it seemed or maybe their "prison cells".
"Well, I think we should update the prison. Give it more of a sturdier look." Barry replied.
"It's fine the way it is." Cisco argued. "Besides, we didn't had any problem regarding with metahumans escaping."
Caitlin gave him a thoughtful look. "I dunno about that Cisco. When we placed Pied Piper in the cell, he escaped…"
"He got lucky." Cisco mumbled.
"Right…" Barry drawled.
Caitlin was about to speak but she looked up and blinked, staring at the figure that was at the entrance.
"Bart…" she called out. "What are you doing here? You should be sleeping."
Bart grinned as he had gained the other two's attention. "Sorry…guess I couldn't sleep." he sheepishly rubbed his neck with his hand.
Caitlin nodded, understanding.
"You think we should do some hypnotic on him?" Cisco suggested, amused. Naturally, Caitlin threw him a look.
"No, Cisco."
He frowned. "You think every single of my idea are bad."
"Well, that's because they are bad." she responded, smirking.
"You're not very nice." he sulked.
Caitlin laughed. "Usually, whenever you make a plan they either turn to be irrelevant or not logical at all. So, I'm only saving you from being embarrassed."
"Barry." Cisco whined.
"Alright, guys." Barry said, firmly.
Poor Cisco pouted while Bart laughed in amusement. As Bart walked towards them, the lights in the room suddenly flickered on and off which instantly grabbed their attentions.
"Woah, no one told me that we're having a power outage. Barry, is it you again?"
If the lights were still on, Cisco would've seen Barry glaring at him.
"No." the Flash answered, angrily.
Cisco then went towards the computer so that he can regain control of the lights to return them back to normal but before he could, the lights went back on and everyone paused what they were doing.
"What was that about?"
Cisco looked up from what he was doing and suddenly had his eyes wide. "Uh, guys I think we have a bigger problem."
He pointed towards the entrance, a familiar scene rushing through his eyes and the gang turned around to see a figure that was dressed in yellow and red and streaks were speeding around him. The minute Bart looked at him, his mouth went dry before anger started to come into his veins and he clenched his fists, his jaw tightened.
"Well…isn't this sweet? Friends bonding…and family bonds…" the laughter rang out, sending chills down their spines. "You better hang on to this moment, Impulse because this will be the last moment you will ever see them." he grinned, sadistically.
And like that, the fiend zoomed away but it wasn't too soon that Bart kicked in and sped after him. Seeing this, Barry screamed at his grandson.
"NO!"
Author's Note: A cliffhanger! Geh, because we all know that you love them XD lul, just kidding. I'm not exactly too pleased considering that I had a hard time writing this but I guess it will pas...But what happens next? Find out! Toodles!