The Flash: Repentance

Chapter XIX

Barry wakes up to his phone vibrating on the nightstand.
He looks next to him, Wenn stirrs but doesn't wake up.
He grabs his phone and pushes the home button. A message pops up.
'Gideon: Sir, when you receive this message please come to the GPS location it is sent from.'

"Gideon?" Barry whispers. He remembers her from when they found Wells' timevault.

He can't be back AGAIN, now can he?! He then remembers Gideon telling him that future Barry Allen designed her.

Against better judgement, he speeds towards the GPS location from where the message is sent.
He arrives at a rundown, abandoned apartment complex. Cautiously he enters and climbs the stairs. When he arrives at the second floor he notices the signal getting stronger.
Only one door is ajar. He carefully approaches is and pushes open the door.
It looks like it has been occupied recently.

"Sir?"

Barry jumps at the sound of the voice. He turns and tries to locate the source of the voice.

"Gideon? Where are you?"

"I do not know sir, he threw me across the room and landed on my head." Gideon answers.

Barry chuckles, "You don't have a head, Gideon."

"Figure of speech, sir."

Barry locates a small device at the left corner of the room. He picks it up and a distorted image of Gideon pops up.

"Uhoh, you don't look so good sweetheart!" Barry looks to see if there are more pieces of the device lying around. He finds 2 more pieces.

"Man, he really did a number on you." Barry sits down.

"No! Sir! We have to get out of here, before he returns!"

"What? Who?! Zoom?" Barry asks.

"Please, sir, we need to go now!" Gideon pleads.

Barry gets up and Flashes back to Wenns apartment.
Upon entering he sees Wenn making coffee. She looks up. "Emergency?"

"Sort off" Barry walks over to the dining area and puts the pieces of Gideon in the the table.
Wenn follows. "What is that."
Barry smiles at her "The future."
He sits down and starts fiddeling with the pieces. He sighs.
"I don't think I can put you back together again, Gideon"

"That's okay, sir."

Wenn jumps at the sound of Gideon's voice. "What the hell?!"

Barry starts laughing.

"What?! That thing is friggin' talking!?!" Wenn looks at the device as if it just grew two heads and tentacles.

Barry is now laughing uncontrolleble.
"You mean to tell me, that after all we have seen and been through, you're afraid of a talking device."

Wenn glares at him, "It's just unexpected."

"Alright, alright." Barry guides her on to a chair.

" Gideon?"

"Yes sir?" Gideon's distorted image pops up again. Wenn blinks. She reaches for the image and runs her hand through it.
"Wow... Is this... Artificial Intelligence?" She asks
"Hello, m'am."
"M'am?" Wenn snorts.
A picture pops up next to Gideon, it's of an older Wenn.
"Full name; Anderson-Allen, Gwendolyn. But referred to as Wenn." Gideon answers

Both Barry and Wenns eyes widen and reply at the same time, "Anderson-Allen?!"

"Yes," Gideon continues, "You started working together in 2015 and got married..."

"Okay, stop, stop, stop!" Barry orders.

Wenn is still staring at the device, wide eyed.

"Gideon, we can NOT know anything about the future. It could potentially influence our actions and decisions and therefore interfere with the timeline. We can't do that! The ramifications can be disastrous!" Barry now paces the floor and rubs his temples.

Wenn snaps out of her initial shock, "Barry, how did you come across this, her?"

"I got a text with GPS coordinates. Went there and there she was." Barry answers

"But how did you know to trust the text? How did you even know what this device is?" Wenn asks him.

Barry smiles. Of course. She doesn't know. He's so used to having her around, he forgets that it has only been for a couple of months and she wasn't there when they found Gideon in the time-vault.

"Wells, or Thawne had a version of her. We found her last year. She told us I had designed her and that she always had to obey my orders."
"That is affirmative, sir. It's a failsafe. I am also incapable of harming any living thing." Gideon confirms.

Saying it out loud, how Gideon was Thawnes, makes him think about it. Maybe now she belongs to Zoom. Maybe Wenn is right, they shouldn't trust her and Zoom is lurking right around the corner.

Barry gives Gideon the side eye. "Yet you are working with this Zoom."

"Yes and no," Gideon answers

Barry walks to the table and pics her up, "What do you mean 'yes and no'!? Either you are, or you aren't. There is no in between."

Gideon's image crackles, as if she is 'thinking' about it.

"It is not that easy, sir. You see Zoom, is a Symbiot..."