Short on Time

Chapter 29

"Zoom sent me here to kill you, but I didn't want to," Dr. Light said.

"But you were fine with killing Linda Park," Barry said as we watched on a screen.

"It was the best bad idea I could come up with. Leave her body for Zoom to find, he'd think I was dead, and I'd be free," she said.

"What about Light, was that her plan too?"

Dr. Light scoffed, "she ran and hid. Said that after she found out she hurt her siblings she couldn't go through with it. No matter if it cost her, her life. Traded one sibling for the other I guess."

I looked at Harry as he swallowed hard, "what is she?"

"Later," he muttered under his breath.

"How was he supposed to know where to find her body?" Barry asked. 

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

"You would spend the rest of your life looking over your shoulder, never knowing when Zoom is coming," Barry said.

"Okay. And what's your great idea?"

"How were you supposed to contact him after you killed me?"

"We were supposed to get something, something I could only get if you were dead and then throw it through the breach as proof."

"And then what?"

"Then he'd come for me. Confirm the kill and bring me home. Why do you want to know?"

"Because I want to find him," Barry said.

"You really don't."

"He's gonna keep coming for me. He's gonna keep kidnapping people like you, forcing them to do what he wants. I have to stop him before more people die."

"You can't stop Zoom," Dr. Light said.

"Yes, I can. I will, but I need your help."

~*~

"This is a really bad idea," I said glaring at Barry.

"Zoom wants Doctor Light to send him your new emblem," Caitlin said. 

"Yes. We need it for bait. If we can get Doctor Light to take my emblem, throw it through the breach, then Zoom will come to collect my body, and we can trap him," Barry said.

"You know it took a lot of work to make that emblem, right?" Cisco said.

"This is the woman who was willing to kill Linda in order to escape Zoom, but now she's willing to help us catch him?" I asked.

"She knows it's the only way," Barry said.

"Before I left Earth-2, I worked on a serum to dampen Zoom's speed. All we would need is for Ramon to develop a weapon to deliver it," Harry said.

"Oh, great, that could be this year's cold gun. Maybe another criminal can get it, and then we'd have Sergeant Slow," Cisco said making Harry look at him very confused. 

"I would never let that happen," Barry said.

"Sergeant Slow is a terrible name," Cisco muttered.

"Are we forgetting how much more powerful than Barry Zoom seems to be? I mean, if Barry can catch bullets, what's to say Zoom can't catch whatever you shoot at him?" Caitlin asked.

"Surprise the element of surprise. All we would do is rig a projectile to fire as Zoom crosses into the breach," Harry said.

"He can't stop what he can't see coming," I agreed.