Cisco Ramon One-Shots

Too Quiet

Summary:  Cisco is captured and placed in an anechoic chamber; the quietest place on Earth, a chamber known to drive people into insanity after minutes because of the silence. The physiological trauma one experiences is horrendous, and the longest someone has been in it was 45 minutes.

Cisco is in it for two hours.
Will Cisco stay strong and endure the silence, or will it be too much for him to handle?

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 Cisco woke up with a start, feeling sore all over. He vaguely remembers getting hit on the head as he walked home to his apartment, but anything after that was blank. He must've been knocked unconscious, which was never a good sign.

He looked around the room that he was in, and admired the ledges that jutted out from every side of the room, some of the ledges going vertical, others horizontal. Cisco looked up, and saw the same ledges coming from the ceiling as well, like strange shaped teeth.

A small lightbulb was hanging from the ceiling, and Cisco sighed with relief. At least he could see.

Cisco glanced down at his feet, which were bonded by rope, and noticed that he was sitting on a metal grating, the ledges pointing upwards from underneath the small covering.

Where in the world was he?

"Hello?" Cisco called, but the noise was loud in his ears, and he quieted down, suddenly worried as to why he was talking so loud. Maybe he hit his head worse than he thought.

Cisco willed himself to stay calm and composed, so that he would save his energy for when Barry and the others came to save him.

But as his breath slowed, he soon realized that he could hear everything. His heart beat, hammering inside of his chest; the rope vibrating against his feet whenever he moved. He could hear his bones grind against his other bones, his breaths quicken, the soft wheezing coming from his lungs.

He could hear a soft buzzing, which Cisco assumed was coming from the lightbulb hanging above him.

It was then that his scientific brain caught up to him. He was in an anechoic chamber. The quietest place on Earth, the place that drove people crazy because of the silence within minutes. The longest anyone has been in a chamber was 45 minutes, and even they were faced with insanity and hallucinations.

The walls were made of super absorbent material, making all sounds from the outer world disappear, as well as sounds coming from inside. Not only did the silence drive people crazy, but caused horrifying symptoms, too.

No human body was used to that much silence, so it was sometimes used for tortue, as the physiological effects were tremendous.

Suddenly, the light turned off, and the quiet buzzing that Cisco had heard disappeared, leaving him to quiet.

But it was much too quiet.

"Don't panic don't panic don't panic..." Cisco said, but even that was too loud for his ears. He struggled to get up, given how his hands were tied behind his back, also, and leaned against the wall, struggling for breath.

He could hear his shirt brush against his skin, his long hair brush against his ears, making Cisco whimper. It was all so loud.

Cisco remembered a time when he wanted to be in one of these, to see how it felt to be submerged in absolute silence. He knew that booking a session was a lot safer than being captured in one, as when it is too much, all he would have to do was ask to be let out.

Boy, did he know better now. This was not fun at all. The silence was deafening.

"Help!" Cisco screamed, trying to get someone's attention, " Please let me out, it hurts!"