Brave New World: Flash

Chapter 22

Allegra was doing her best to get comfortable in her new cell at Iron Heights, hoping that Barry and the team would realize what was going on before she found herself sold into slavery to a crime boss, when her cell door opened and a guard came in.

"What do you want?" Allegra asked.

"I see someone still needs to learn respect." the guard said as he smacked her with his baton.

"Try that again without these power dampeners, see how well that ends for you." Allegra said as she spat some blood out of her mouth.

"You're lucky Warden Wolfe doesn't let us be too rough with you prisoners. Otherwise there are a few ways I could teach you some obedience." the guard said and from the look in his eyes and the tone of his voice, Allegra could tell exactly what he meant and she tried to keep it out of her mind, if only so she didn't show any fear to him.

"What, does he have a conscience after all?" Allegra asked, only to earn another smack from the baton, this one in the stomach.

"More like he doesn't want to damage your value. Though in your case, maybe he'll make an exception, since it's clear you need an attitude adjustment." the guard said.

"I don't think so." Wolfe said as he joined them.

"Sorry sir, but she's being a bit too chatty for her own good." the guard said.

"Well, she's not going to be our problem anymore, since Amunet is here." Warden Wolfe said.

"That's right. And I am very eager to see what my newest acquisition can do." Amunet Black said as she approached.

"Meet Allegra Garcia. She's able to harness all forms of radiation on the electromagnetic spectrum, but her primary focus is UV light." Wolfe said.

"Now that has potential." Amunet said with a grin.

"Screw you." Allegra said.

"Oh, feisty. I like that. Just as I'll like the profits I can make from selling you off. Assuming you survive of course." Amunet said.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Allegra asked.

"Oh, you mean you didn't tell her. Now that's cold. You should at least have the decency to tell the girl she's going to be fighting for her life." Amunet said.

"What are you talking about?" Allegra asked.

"Well after all, buyers are only interested in metas that can be useful to them and they require proof. I hope you know how to use those powers of yours, because that's the only way you'll survive." Amunet said and now Allegra was panicking, since she'd never really used her powers in combat before. Not like she'd seen her cousin use them.

"Now, off we go." Amunet said as she injected something into Allegra's neck that knocked her out.

"Okay, so are we thinking that Warden Wolfe is behind this?" Barry asked after Cecille and Iris had told the rest of Team Flash that Allegra was missing from Iron Heights.

"It makes sense. We know in the old reality he had a side business selling metahuman prisoners to Amunet Black. No reason to suspect he's not doing it again." Harry said as he and Cisco worked on the computers.

"What are you guys doing?" Joe asked them.

"Trying to use the Star Labs satellite to locate Allegra's UV signature." Cisco said.

"Waste of time. You can't track her powers if she's not using them." Barry said.

"So what do you suggest?" Cisco asked.

"If we can't track Allegra through her powers, we track her through what's dampening them. There are only two locations in the city that should be using meta dampening tech. Iron Heights and here. Any other places would be considered suspicious." Barry said.

"Good point. We really need to build another satellite so we can do more than one thing at once." Harry said.

"Already working on it." Cisco assured him.

"Good. But I'm gonna search the city for any trace of Allegra." Barry said.

"I think I can help." Frost said as she and Caitlin entered the Cortex.

"So it worked." Cisco said as he hugged Caitlin.

"Yeah. Sorry it took so long, but we needed to be sure we wouldn't suddenly recombine. However, it's been nearly a week, so I think we're good." Caitlin said.

"We'll need to run some tests to be sure, but that can wait until we save Allegra." Barry said.

"I agree." Caitlin said.

"So do I and I think I know a way to find her, since we all know who Wolfe would sell her to." Frost said.

"Amunet." Joe said.

"Exactly. We find her, we find Allegra and I think I know just who to ask. Her pet snake." Frost said.

"Norvok. One problem though, he doesn't know who you are. Or at least he's not your friend anymore, since in this reality, you never broke bad." Cisco said.

"True. But I can always get reacquainted with him." Frost said.

"Let's take this one step at a time. Priority now is finding Allegra and exposing Wolfe." Barry said and they all nodded.

When Allegra came too, the first thing she noticed was that she was no longer wearing a prison jumpsuit, but instead, a black, one piece full bodysuit, which was honestly a bit embarrassing that someone had undressed and redressed her. Anyways, the next thing she realized was that her power dampening cuffs were off, but now she had some kind of collar around her neck. A collar that zapped her when she tried grabbing it.

"What the hell?" Allegra asked as she tried to use her powers, only to get zapped again.

"I wouldn't bother. That collar is designed to keep you from removing it or using your powers without permission." someone said from the other side of the door.

"Where am I?" Allegra asked.

"Trust me, you don't want to know." the person said.

"Probably, but tell me anyway. Is this where I wait until the auction?" Allegra asked.

"Something like that." the guy said.

"Who are you?" Allegra asked.

"Call me Trickshot. Not that it'll matter. You'll never see me again. Now if I were you, I'd get some rest. You're gonna need it." the man said as he walked away, leaving Allegra to wonder what was going on here.