The Flash: Broken Bonds: A West-Allen Family Story

Chapter Eight: Barry West-Allen & Cisco Ramon

Chapter Eight: Barry West-Allen and Cisco Ramon

Central City, 2019, Star Labs

" I can't do all of this at once!" Cisco yelled, panicking as he tried to talk to and help both Barry and Ralph at the same time.

" Cisco, can you track where they're going?" he heard Barry say into his comm.

" Yeah, pulling it up now," Cisco responded frantically, his hands working furiously on his keyboard as he pulled up an analysis of the paths that Zoom was taking.

" Looking at it now."

" Good, analyze the next ten seconds of the routes he's taking. If he didn't leave the city before, he's not going to just leave as soon as he sees me." Barry explained.

" On it!" Cisco said, starting the ten second timer. As soon as it went off, he stopped tracking Zoom and sent the data back to Barry.

" Got it! Uploading it to your hud now."

As Cisco finished his sentence though, his eyes caught something on one of the monitors in front of him.

" That looks weird," he thought aloud.

The Starchives footage appeared normal at first glance, but as he leaned in and squinted at the screen, he noticed how a small corner of it had the edge of Frost's boot on it, and then it would disappear, only to return in the same spot again a few seconds later. Not only was Frost still operating on Nora, but the footage clearly looked off.

" It's on a loop." Cisco realized. " That's why the others haven't left yet. They're after something in the Starchives!"

" I can't leave Barry and Ralph alone though," he said to himself, trying to think about what he should do.

" Leave that to us." Joe said, as he and Ceclie briskly walked into the room.

" How did you guys get here..."

" Iris told us what happened." Ceclie blurted, cutting him off. " You think that we wouldn't come and help?"

" Now go!" Joe exclaimed, sitting down in a chair and wheeling over to the console, " We'll take care of this."

" Right. You guys got this!" Cisco said encouragingly, opening a breach to the Starchives.

When he entered the Starchives, Cisco was expecting to be met by some kind of supervillain, or have some kind of trap laid out for him, but to his surprise, he didn't see anything out of place. All of the experimental tools, gadgets, weapons, and all other sorts of gizmos were 'methodically' placed on several racks that spanned the length of the room. As he walked down the rows of dimly lit tech, he strained to see anything that was out of place.

" Maybe it's just my imagination," Cisco shrugged.

But just as he finished saying that, he felt himself step on something small. He bent down and picked up the small object, and saw that it was a prototype spy pen that he had made (before just throwing it down here).

" Why isn't this filed away?" he voiced aloud, examining it in his hands.

A loud clang brought Cisco's attention to the far side of the room, as he heard numerous gadgets crash to the ground. He quickly ran to the source of the noise, and skidded to a stop at the end of the fourth rack. There, he saw at the end of the row someone dressed in a white and gold speedster suit, with a bag full of tech, throwing various objects onto the floor as he frantically looked for something.

" Hey!" Cisco called, " Don't you know that it's not nice to touch other people's things?"

The white speedster spun around, startled to hear Cisco's voice.