Baby Speedster - The Flash

Chapter 18

"What did you want my help with?" Was the first think that came out of my mouth.

Barry jumped a mile high and dropped the file he was holding.

Laughing, I apologise. "Sorry."

"Warn a person when you're about to do that!"

I sat on his desk and shook my head. "Not my style." Barry thrust the file at me, and I looked up at him. "What's this?"

"Read it."

Using my superspeed, I read the entire thing in two seconds flat. "That's....really not good."

"Joe and I investigated it while you were busy at S.T.A.R. Labs. He got me to write the report and I really thought you should know."

"No kidding." I looked down at the document in my hands again. It was a case report for a man in yellow breaking into Mercury Labs and trying to steal a tachyon device. It described the crime taking place on a floor with highly secured vaults, and a witness said he was looking for something. Badly enough to kill for it. "What are we going to do?"

Barry shrugged. "Joe suggested we get Dr Wells involved and go from there."

Oh dear lord have mercy on us all.

.....

"Mercury was one of S.T.A.R. Labs' major competitors until our little setback, and then it catapulted to the forefront led by Dr Christina McGee, brilliant but egocentric physicist. Dr McGee has secured half a billion dollars in private funding to develop, and I quote, "prototypes for the technology of the future. Tina's messing with tachyons, superluminal particles," explained Dr Wells.

"So what could someone do with one of those-" Joe made a vague hand gesture.

"Tachyons," supplied both Cisco and I said.

"Thank you," said Joe. We nodded back to him.

Dr Wells shrugged. "Well, I don't know. Become invincible? If you could devise a matrix stable enough to harness their power, you could travel faster than light."

"So he wants a super powered device. But the question is what are we going to do about it?" I asked. I looked at the ones I trusted the most, my eyes stopped on Dr. Wells. He was looking straight back at me. Never once was his look wavering.

"I'm glad you asked," said Cisco, snapping me out of my trance. "This is where you come in."

"You seem to have something the Reverse Flash doesn't. The ability to move your body so your in more then one place." said Dr Wells. He gestured to one of the computer screens. "When the Reverse Flash tasered you, it caused a mutation in your DNA. Possibly activated some sort of vibrancy gene, or possibly something more like the effects of the Accelerator explosion. We don't have the technology to investigate it further at the moment."

"So there's no way I could get the ability to make copies of myself?" asked Barry, frowning at the scan on the screen.

"It's highly unlikely. We would have to recreate the exact conditions in which Lotte was tasered. The speed, the electric charge, the adrenaline, and even then it is not guaranteed since she is much younger than you and is still growing."

Caitlin nodded slowly. "I guess that makes sense."

"Here's the plan. We get the tachyon device and use it to lure the Reverse Flash here. Then we trap him," said Dr Wells.

"Trap him how?" asked Cisco.

Dr Wells smiled. "The wonderful thing about force fields, Mr Ramon, is that they are impervious to speed."