There Are Two Speedsters?! [The Flash] [Discontinued]

Barry

"Hartley Rathaway possesses one of the finest scientific minds I've ever encountered," Dr. Wells explains in the cortex after we went to his house.

"Any ties to Rathaway Industries?" Joe questions.

"His grandfather founded it, father expanded it," Dr. Wells answers. "Hartley here was set to inherit the throne."

"What happened?" Riley asks, examining Hartley's photo.

"He came out to his parents," Caitlin states. "Old money, old values."

"They were estranged when we met but brilliant. I couldn't have built the accelerator without him," Wells informs with pride.

"You guys have never mentioned his name," I add in, questioning why Riley and I have never heard of Hartley.

"That's because he had a challenging personality," Caitlin explains.

"What she means is he was mostly a jerk," Cisco states, annoyed at the mention of Hartley. "But every once in a while...he could be a dick."

Joe and Riley let out a chuckle at Cisco's description of Hartley Rathaway before Wells says, "Let's just say that Hartley, like many outliers, had trouble relating to his peers."

"Yes, but he was always your favorite," Caitlin states.

"The chosen one," Cisco adds with a biter tone. "He referred to himself like that."

"So if you two were so close, why would he target you?" Joe questions Dr. Wells.

"Hartley left S.T.A.R. Labs about a year ago after we had..." Dr. Wells pauses with a bit of sadness in his eyes, "...a disagreement."

"About what?" Riley asks.

Dr. Wells looks slightly uncomfortable answering Riley's question so I cut him off before he can say anything, "Look, don't worry. We'll stop him. I won't let him hurt you, any of you." I look at Joe and nod, "Let's get back to my lab."

"I'm gonna look into Hartley a bit more, see how he got the equipment he did I break Dr. Wells' windows," Riley explains as Joe and I walk out of the cortex.

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"Everything has a natural frequency," I state before using a fork to lightly hit a wine glass so it can make a sound. "Since sound is expressed as a vibration," I go up to the dial that controls the sound frequency and put on my goggles. "If the pitch of the sound matches the natural vibration frequency of an object, then..." I move the dial to the right and the frequency matches with the wine glass' and the glass shatters, making both of us let out a laugh.

"So you're saying that can happen to anything, not just glass?" Joe asks in pure joy.

I nod, "Oh, yeah. I think that's absolutely what happened to the windows at Well's house. He's using some kind of sonic technology."

"I'm getting the feeling that Wells is hiding something," Joe informs, making me furrow my eyebrows. "About what's going on with this Rathaway character."

"I mean, it sounds like this Hartley guy was a pill before he went all super villain," I defend. "So I get why he never mentioned him."

"Like he ever mentioned his girlfriend that got killed," Joe mutters, still not believing in Wells.

"No. How do you know about her?" I ask, confused on how Joe knows this kind of information.

"He's taken up a big part of our lives," Joe defends himself and shrugs. "I wanted to know more about him."

"Well, if you wanted to know more about him, you could just ask me," I explain.

"Sounds like you don't know him as well as you think," Joe informs, making me question Dr. Wells slightly.