Just A Glitch || The Flash

Chapter 3: P̶͚̪ͅe͓̼̘͕̲rs̱̣̘̹̝o͔͜n̯̜a̛l͎̻i͉ṱ̶͍̜͕̩̱y̘̭͕

Finally Cisco could manage to repair the comms just enough to hear Barry crying out for help. The sounds in the suit were getting worse as Barry continued to clutch his head, suffering from it.

"Cisco help! Make it stop!" Barry yelled out, coming to his knees as he continued holding his head.

At first both Caitlin and Cisco were confused as to what they could do to help without revealing his identity. The entire suit seemed to be malfunctioning.

"Barry! Can you hear me?" Cisco asked in a panic while he tried to regain control of the suit "I'm trying my best but nothing seems to be working!"

Caitlin stopped, an idea quickly came to her "The sounds seem to be resonating from all of the speakers in your suit, maybe if we restart the power in the suit it'll stop?" "We could try it" Cisco replied as he quickly typed things onto the computers "but if this doesn't, you'll have to take the suit off."

"Just hurry" Barry groaned in reply, not knowing how much longer he could take.

Quickly Cisco turned off the power to his suit, stopping the piercing sounds from affecting Barry. He held his breath anxiously "did it work?"

Barry nodded as he gathered his strength to get back up "yeah it worked but she's gone-" "she?" Cisco asked "the robber's a girl?"

He nodded "yeah, and a meta.."

"Well we can figure this out when you get back" "On my way" Barry nodded before running back to Star Labs. He was definitely gonna have a headache for the rest of the night.

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After Barry returned to Star Labs, Caitlin gave him a quick diagnosis to make sure there was no long term damage from the suits malfunctions but fortunately all of the tests came back good.

"Looks like you're good to go" Caitlin smiled at Barry as she finished running her last test "next time try to avoid contact with the bad guy.."

Barry nodded "I'll try not to.. That girl had to have been a Meta, my suit didn't start to malfunction until she touched me" he replied.

Both Caitlin and Cisco nodded as they all walked back into the cortex. Cisco went straight to the computer while Caitlin sat down with Barry "Since the cameras were all down during the robbery, maybe you can help me draw out what she looks like" Caitlin suggested as she handed him a notepad.

"I'll give it a try" Barry nodded.

Caitlin watched as Barry took the notepad and quickly began to sketch out a profile of what he saw.

"Who knew speedsters could draw" She chuckled as she watched.

Barry chuckled as well as he finished the drawing within seconds, handing the notepad back to Caitlin "hopefully this will get you a lead.."

Caitlin nodded "hopefully" she replied before walking over to her computer.

Barry remained seated, watching as she ran the sketch through the CCPD database. At first there were no matches but after a few minutes of continuing to search, the program stopped, getting a match. A picture of the girl of the girl Barry encountered popped up on the screen.

"That's her.."

Both Caitlin and Cisco turned their attention to the screen as Barry walked over.

The girl in the picture had short to medium black hair and dark green eyes. Her appearance surprised the team a bit. She looked younger than they thought.

The file read:

Name: Audrey Leigh

Age: 17

"She's just a kid.."

Barry was just as surprised as them. The girl he saw in the bank looked so much different compared to the picture in front of them.

"Do we have any information on her?" He asked Caitlin but she shook her head "not much to go on besides her school records.. It looks like she was set to graduate a year early but dropped out nearly a month after the particle accelerator explosion, she's been off the grid ever since."

"So she basically went missing. Did anyone file a missing person's report? Her parents or any relative's maybe?" Cisco asked but she shook her head again "nope, there's not much information on her parents, almost as if it was wiped clean" she replied "maybe there's still some files on paper down at the station or city hall?" Cisco asked "maybe" Barry replied.

Caitlin nodded "it's strange, all of her files seemed to have been deleted like some sort of-" "Glitch?" Barry asked her and she nodded "possibly, why?" she asked.

"Because of what she did to my suit and what happened to the equipment at the bank, it looked like a-" "Glitch! That's it!" Cisco blurted out.

Caitlin gave the boys the look but Cisco shrugged it off "What's with all the interruptions lately?" she didn't seem to understand where they were leading with this yet "I'm not following.."

"The girl obviously has control over technology, like The Matrix in a way" Cisco explained "she must be able to send out these viruses that causes these glitches like what happened to Barry's suit.."

"So you're basing this off a movie" Caitlin shook her head, seeing the flaw in Cisco's words "But without any DNA samples we have no way of proving your hypothesis or create a way of stopping her" "Then Barry will just have to get us that sample so we can confirm what we're up against, right Barry?"

He nodded quickly "yeah, all we need now is a plan" he replied but Cisco smirked "already ahead of you, Flash. I'll just triangulate a location to her last cyber footprint since the girl is basically a walking virus."

Barry nodded again, this time he had a plan as well, and this time he knew what to say "good. Let's find this new meta.."

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