Episode 5 The Flash Fanfic

Chapter 9

Lisa, her brother Leonard and Mick had acquired a van and were escaping town with Cisco and Astrid Sutherland in the back. Lisa Snart looked at her phone. Caitlin Snow was ringing.
"You're best answering the phone, sis. We need to keep up the charade." Leonard told her, referring to the phone call. The phone stopped ringing, before she could answer it.

"Mick, pull over at the next exit." Snart told his friend. "I promised the heiress that we would leave Cisco here in Central City."
"What why?" Lisa questioned him, with annoyance throughout her tone. 

"She promised that she would go of her own volition, if we spared him." Leonard told his sister, "so that is what we are doing. So when they call you back, you need to bring Cisco back to his friends and ensure that he doesn't speak to anyone about where we are going. We can come back later to pick you up."

Lisa looked back down at her phone which was ringing again. She held her finger to her lips, gesturing that they not say another word. She answered the phone and spoke to Caitlin. "Hi Caitlin. Is everything ok? Yeah, I heard the news. No, I have not heard from Astrid. Cisco spent the night with me. Sure. I will see you then." She ended the call and smiled at her brother. "That was easier than I had expected. Drop Cisco and I off at the next exit. We'll get a car back to Sutherland Labs."

They stopped the truck and walked around to the back, opening the big heavy doors and letting the blinding sunlight shine in the gagged faces of Astrid and Cisco, making them turn their heads away.

"It is time to part ways." Leonard declared as he, Lisa and Mick pointed their weapons on their hostages. Cisco stood up and looked at Astrid, nodding his head 'goodbye' to his friend. His wrists were bound behind his back. He stepped off the truck and as Mick held his weapon pointed towards him, Leonard examined his wrist restraints.

"This can't be..." But before Leonard could finish his sentence, Astrid had jumped out of the truck and removed the golden pistol from Lisa, knocking her to the ground unconscious and pointing it directly at Leonard Snart. Mick pointed his weapon at Astrid, forgetting entirely what had baffled his crime partner in the first place. That Cisco's wrist restraints had been cut.

Cisco, remembering one too many movies that he had seen, took the weapon from Mick Rory's hands and pointed it at him.

"Clever, Miss Sutherland." Snart said as he pointed his cold gun at her, "We both know that you're a killer. But does your friend have what it takes to shoot another person?"

Astrid knew that her friend didn't. But her eyes didn't waver. She glared at Leonard, daring him to move.
Mick Rory attempted to take back his weapon. Cisco reacted with a swing of his arm. Instead of shooting the arsonist, he knocked him over the head with the large weapon, causing him to drop to the ground.

Astrid and Snart both saw this action. Without shifting her gaze, Astrid told Cisco to grab Micks phone and contact The Flash. Just as she was distracted, Lisa Snart awoke from behind Astrid and picked up a large rock from the ground.

Lisa hit Astrid in the back of the head, making her fall to the ground, dropping her weapon.

"Thank you for giving me my gun back, bitch!" Lisa Snart shot at Astrid, who was now unconscienced on the floor. The golden glider picked up her weapon and both she and her brother Leonard pointed their weapons at Cisco.

"Drop the weapon and the phone, right now, Cisco!" Leonard said.
Cisco did as he was told, very slowly. He stood back upright, with both of his hands in the air. "Ok, I surrender." He told them, "You got me, Captain Cold... Golden Glider! But not until..."

His last few words stumped Leonard Snart and his sister. But only for a brief moment, as The Flash turned up and apprehended them and the unconscious Mick Rory. Tying them up with extra rope that he found in the truck. He confiscated all of their weapons, dropping them off at CCPD, before anyone could notice.

He put the master thieves into the truck and ensured that they could not escape. He did all of this before Cisco could finish his sentence,
"...I could call The Flash!" He wasn't surprised at how quickly Barry had done so.

Cisco and The Flash checked on their friend Astrid, who was still out cold. As she awoke, she rubbed her head, which had been cut by the rock, and was bleeding heavily, she was quite groggy.

"I think you are going to need to see Caitlin." Barry told her.
"I'm fine, guys. It's just a scratch." She told them. She grimaced at the pain. Barry sent a message to Joe about the three criminals that were sitting in the back of a delivery truck. They waited a few moments until they heard police sirens approaching, before Barry swept Astrid and Cisco back to Sutherland Labs.

"How is Astrid doing?" Joe asked through their phone call, as Barry paced Sutherland Labs, later that evening.
"Caitlin checked her over. She is fine. No signs of concussion, whatsoever. She just needed a few stitches." Barry replied.

"That's good, but I am calling for another reason. So it turns out that the truck of criminals was not where you told me it would be." Joe replied.
"What do you mean?" Barry asked, puzzled.
"I mean that the truck was gone. Leonard Snart and his accomplices made another escape."

Barry's face fell. "There has got to be a mistake." Barry said.
"No mistake, Bar. Word has it that those weapons you confiscated, that you dropped off into CCPD, they have been stolen as well. These master thieves are good at what they do. But we suspect that they have skipped town." Joe told him.

"Let's just hope that they don't come back." Barry replied.
"We can only hope, Barry. We can only hope. Also, before I go... Eddie is here. He wants to speak with you. I think you should come here and, you know... have a brotherly chat."

"I'll do that, thanks Joe." Barry said, ending the call.

"So, by the look on your face, I take it that things didn't go well with the arrests." Cisco suggested, noticing the look on Barry's face.

"No, right before Joe got there, the truck was gone. They even stopped by CCPD to take back their weapons before fleeing town." Barry replied.

"They're clearly master thieves." Ronnie chimed in.
Caitlin nodded in agreement. "And now they know Astrid's super power. I guess our only weapon against them now is The Flash."

"But even so..." Astrid chimed in, as soon as she ended her phone call to Oliver, "They were able to infiltrate Sutherland Labs. They played us for fools. I can't believe that we had no idea that Jane was Lisa Snart this whole time. Because of our stupidity, they almost burnt Sutherland Labs down to the ground."

"You shouldn't be that hard on yourselves, Miss Sutherland." Dr Stein said, upon entering the room.
"But she's right." Cisco added.
"So that is why we need to be prepared for next time." Barry told them. "We upgrade the security levels and we put measures in to ensure this doesn't happen again."

"I agree." Astrid told them, "Sutherland Labs needs a big makeover! I didn't mention this sooner before but..." she sighed in the middle of her sentence, "...before my father died, he suggested that I make Sutherland Labs my own. He told me to even change its name. So I came up with STAR Labs."

"STAR Labs?" Cisco repeated.
"As in Science, Technology and Research?" Dr Stein asked.

Astrid nodded. She wasn't going to tell them that the name had come from Oliver's nickname for her. Though, the look on Caitlin's face, meant that she already knew so.

"I think it sounds good!" Barry said, but his mind was elsewhere, "I will catch up with you guys later." Before saying 'Goodbye' he left.

"I still find the speed of that young man, really quite strange." Dr Stein said.

"More strange than two men who can merge and become a human torch?" Cisco asked, in return.

"Good point." The professor replied.