Catching Up || Barry Allen [2]

13| Unexpected Outcomes

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Joe walked around the warehouse with an amused expression as he looked at the cardboard cut out of himself. "Heh, dude. How long you been sitting on this?" He asked Cisco while he set up more cut outs of the rest of us.

"It's important to have hobbies." He argued as he showed us a cut out of himself.

"When did you even take this picture? I asked looking at the cardboard cut out of me in pajamas. "And why does Caitlin get a good picture?"

Cisco sighed and looked over at me in annoyance as he stopped setting up more cut outs. "First of all I didn't take that picture. Second you don't look bad. And finally I just wanted to annoy you."

"Whatever." I muttered in irritation. "But this isn't over."

A few moments later The Flash and Dr. Light came into the room. "This is ridiculous." Linda commented as she looked down at her suit.

"No, it's not. You look just like Doctor Light." Barry told her. "And with these gloves that Cisco rigged up, you'll be able to do what she does."

"Don't worry, they are totally safe..Ish." Wells tried to assure.

"Ish?" Iris questioned.

"Well, come on, it's gotta be believable, so they really do fire and explode things." Cisco defined as he handed Linda the gloved. "And you are going to have to let her hit you with those blasts when she gets the hang of it."

"Who exactly came up with this terrible idea?" I asked as I crossed my arms over my chest.

"Okay, it's not a terrible idea." Cisco stated. "The suit can absorb the blasts."

"For real or ish?" Iris continued to tease.

"What does a terrible idea look like to you, Cisco?" Joe asked as he crossed his arms over his chest.

"Okay, you know what? I like to think I can see the bright side of things, okay?" Cisco asked as he waved his hands around in irritation. "Positivity, people."

"All right, all right." Barry said focusing everyones attention back at the task at hand. He turned toward Linda and pointed at the Flash cut outs that were spread across the whole warehouse along with the one of Team Flash. "So just hit the ones of me. Okay?"

"Got it." Linda assured as she took a deep breath. She held one shaky hand up as she attempt to fire only for her glove to catch on fire. "Oh! Oh! Oh!" Linda panicked as she held her hand up.

"Uh, you know what? I'm just gonna adjust those a little. Screwdriver." Cisco ordered and I quickly pulled one out a drawer and handed it to him. "Coming. Coming." He exclaimed as he rushed over Linda and adjusted them.

"Okay, so, um, do the opposite of that, and we'll have it." Barry assured Linda. She simply nodded as she continued her training and even though she would scream every time she fired she stopped hitting the wrong targets.

"Whoo-hoo-hoo! I did it!" Linda exclaimed in excitement as he fired at the last Flash cut out. She turned around towards the rest of us and we all gave her smiles of encouragement before she turned back to a masked Barry. "Did you see that? Yeah! Ooh!"

Barry held his hand up for a high five and just as Linda raised her hand up to return it one of the blast came shooting out of one of her gloves. Seeing the blast heading right at us Cisco and I immediately dropped to the floor. We both looked at each other in horror before standing up again to find the computer on fire.

"Sorry." Linda said as she let out a string of apologies.

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"Okay, no offense to Linda, but there is no way she can pull this off." Cisco stated as we entered the Cortex after Linda's training. Iris took Linda home leaving us to figure out what we were going to do next from here.