Bittersweet Love

7. In Pursuit of Poison

BEEP! BEEP!

"It's the meta-human alert!" Cisco announces hurrying to the cortex while the rest followed him.

"Who is it?" Ralph asks as everyone waited for the answer.

Cisco looks at the CCTV footage of the meta attacking and went pale. He shifted the image to the bigger monitor present in the cortex.

"Is that-?" Felicity questioned the images her eyes just saw.

"Snakes," Oliver confirmed.

"Where is the meta then?" Frost asked in her stone-cold voice.

All the snakes clumped together and transformed into a human, precisely, a meta-human in a matter of seconds.

"Whoa!" Ralph exclaimed.

"Who let Medusa out? Y'all, I don't do snakes. Ain't nobody got time for snakes!" Cisco muttered in fear.

"You don't do snakes or bees? What else don't you do?" Felicity turned her attention back to Cisco. She caught Oliver's eyesight who slightly glared at her. Felicity quickly clears her throat. "Right sorry, not the time," She adds.

"Cisco, send the coordinates. Ralph and I will take care of it," Frost starts to walk out of the cortex.

"Actually, I will join you guys," Oliver announces. "You know since Barry is still..." He trailed off not knowing what to say.

It had only been one night since they got the news that Caitlin Snow is no more, and getting back to work with the trauma was extremely difficult for all of them. Barry had still not been back and no one knew where he was, except Frost.

"Downtown 5th street on Lugos." Harry guides them as they reach there.

There stood the woman with snakes on her head instead of hair. People ran around in distress as the snakes spat their poison and hissed furiously.

"Hey, Medusa! What is your problem?" Frost went straight to the point without any bullshit. Medusa turned around smiling.

"Well, well, well who do we have here? Killer Frost and The Elongated Man." She smirked as one of her snakes hissed loudly.

The snake was then sliced in half and dropped dead in front of her feet with an arrow through its eye. Medusa turned around to look at the top of the building to see The Arrow standing with his bow aimed at her.

"Well, you brought a replacement for The Flash. I like it!" She winked at Frost.

The Arrow jumped, zip-lined down the building and landed behind her. Medusa was now surrounded by the three of them.

"Let the game begin then," Medusa took her stance with her fists in front of her.

Medusa released her snakes and all of them scattered over the floor, racing to the three of them. Frost blasted them with her ice blast while Ralph got to higher ground. Arrow shot explosive arrows at the snakes. Yet, no matter what they did, the snakes continue to hiss and attack them.

"This doesn't make sense, they are still alive," Felicity frowned.

"She is controlling them! Guys, you have to attack her, not the snakes!" Cisco informs through the comms.

"We can't get to her. There are too many!" The Arrow grunts while fighting the deadly creatures.

"But I think I can. You guys handle the snakes," Ralph swung across the buildings to get close to Medusa. Taking the hint, The Arrow and Frost continued to harm as many snakes as possible.