Vera Pyra (The Flash) (Book One)

Chapter 16__Out of Time

Somebody had broken into the morgue.

As Pyra, I used fire to fly to the scene, walking inside.

"What's going on?" Cisco asked. "What do you see?"

"A dead body," I answered.

"Vera, you're in a morgue," Cisco told me. "You're gonna have to be more specific than that."

"The coroner," I answered. "He's dead."

I got out before the cops came, using fire to fly, trying to find any sign of who could have killed him, but there were none.

Yet, anyway.

~

At STAR Labs the next day, Joe and Barry came to tell us that the police had found automated voice recorder evidence of Mark Mardon, Clyde Mardon's brother, who had killed the coroner because he wanted to know who had killed Clyde.

Mark found out that Joe had killed Clyde.

"So, Clyde Mardon has a brother?" Caitlin asked.

"And both brothers survived the plane crash, and then the dark matter released from the particle accelerator explosion affects them both in virtually the same way," Wells told us. 

"Yeah, only Mark's powers seem to be a lot more precise," Barry told us. "To be able to control the weather like that indoors..."

"You'd have to be a Weather Wizard," Cisco told us. "Ooh. Been waiting since week one to use that one." He drank from a slushy, closing his eyes in pain. "Mm."

Caitlin walked toward Cisco. "Trigeminal headache?"

"What?" Cisco asked.

"Trigeminal headache, brain freeze," Caitlin answered.

"Then why didn't you just call it brain freeze?" Cisco asked.

"So, I'm guessing Barry running around a twister in the opposite direction and Vera using fire to hold a Mardon off isn't gonna do the trick this time," Joe told us.

I shook my head.

"I just remembered, during our run-in with Mardon, Clyde Mardon, I was tinkering with something to help attract unbound atmospheric electrons," Cisco told us. 

"Like a grounding mechanism?" I asked.

"Yes," Cisco answered. "The only way Mardon can control the weather is if he can tap into the atmosphere's natural electrical circuit." Joe's phone vibrated. "And if we take away that circuit, clear skies."

Joe pulled out his phone. "Singh's checking in. I gotta go."

"Yeah, I'll meet you at the station," Barry told him.

Joe walked toward the door.

"Joe," I told him. Joe stopped. "We'll find Mardon. Don't worry."

Joe shook his head. "I'm not worried at all."

Joe walked out, leaving.

"Well, he's taking being targeted by a revenge-seeking metahuman rather well, I must say," Wells told us. "Don't worry. Joe will be fine. I promise."

"Yeah, no, I know," Barry told us. 

I looked at Barry. "Where were you last night? Normally when something happens, you're there at the crime scene before I am."

"Yeah, that's actually something else that I wanted to talk about," Barry told us. "Look, last night, on my way to the morgue, I saw something."

"What did you see?" I asked.