Skyfall (The Flash) (Book Two) (Vera Pyra Series)

Chapter 6__Enter Enemies

I stood in the pipeline, suited up as Pyra, talking to Dr. Light in her cell.

"So, which one was it that sent you here to kill me and Barry?" I asked. "Phoenix... or Zoom?"

"Phoenix," Dr. Light answered. "But she's always working with Zoom. And I didn't want to kill either of you."

"But you were fine with killing Linda Park," I told her.

"It was the best bad idea I could come up with," Dr. Light told me. "Leave her body for Zoom or for Phoenix to find, they'd think I was dead, and I'd be free."

"How were they supposed to know where to find her body?" I asked.

"Just let me go," Dr. Light told me. "Let me disappear."

"You would spend the rest of your life looking over your shoulder, never knowing when they would be coming," I told her. 

"Okay," Dr. Light told me. "And what's your great idea?"

"How were you supposed to contact them after you killed us?" I asked.

"I was supposed to get something," Dr. Light answered. "Something I could only get if both of you were dead. And then throw it through the breach as proof."

"And then what?" I asked.

"Then they'd come for me," Dr. Light answered. "Confirm the kills and bring me home. Why do you want to know?"

"Because I want to find them," I answered.

"You really don't," Dr. Light told me.

"They're gonna keep coming for us," I told her. "They're gonna keep kidnapping people like you, forcing them to do what they want. We have to stop them before more people die."

Dr. Light shook her head. "You can't stop them."

"Yes, we can," I told her. "We will, but we need your help."

Dr. Light nodded.

~

Dressed normally, I stood up in the Cortex with the others.

"They want Dr. Light to send them your and Barry's new emblems?" Caitlin asked.

"Yes," I answered. "We need it for bait. If we can get Dr. Light to take the emblems, throw it through the breach, then they will come to collect our bodies, and we can trap them."

"You know it took a lot of work to make those emblems, right?" Cisco asked.

"This is the woman who was willing to kill Linda in order to escape," Caitlin told us. "But now she's willing to help us catch Zoom and Phoenix?"

"She knows it's the only way," I told them.

"Then you better hope that they come one at time instead of together," Cisco told us.

Harrison walked closer. "Before I left Earth 2, I worked on a serum to dampen Zoom's speed and to... put Phoenix's fire out, so to speak. All we would need is for Ramon to develop weapons to deliver them."

"Oh, great," Caitlin told us sarcastically. "Those could be this year's cold and heat guns. Maybe other criminals can get them, and then we'd have Sergeant Slow and Extinguisher."

"I would never let that happen," Cisco told us. "Those are terrible names."

"Are we forgetting how much more powerful than Barry and Vera Zoom and Phoenix seem to be?" Caitlin asked. "I mean, if Barry can catch bullets, what's to say Zoom can't catch whatever you shoot at him? And if Quinn said that Phoenix's fire is a lot stronger and a lot bigger than hers, and therefore, more powerful than Vera."