Locked Away

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Barry wakes up and finds himself in the meta-human pipeline. He starts to get a little nervous when he sees Iris, Joe,Caitlin, Jesse and Harry all standing there.

"Why did you put me in here?"

"Because you're too angry right now. You can't race him like that."

"Without a plan, you're You'll lose."

"Keeping me in here is gonna get everyone killed. I'm the only one that can stop him; you know that."

"You race Zoom on his terms, - you'll lose."

"This is not your decision to make!"

"It is this time."

"No." Barry was feeling pretty nervous at this point.

"We all made it together."

"What?  All of you?"

"Bro, I went back and forth. I was, like, a good 60/40 at first."

"Ramon."

"Yeah, yeah, we all made the decision."

"Come on."

"Allen...Allen! This is for your own good."

"Don't do this. Guys, come on. Iris? Cisco, come on, man. You have to let me You have to let me stop him! You have to let me-" Barry was terrified, shaking and lashing out.

"Did we make the right call here?"

"I don't know."

Barry was now alone and locked up, like in the locker when he was 13.'The Locker. Alone. Locked Up. No. No. No. I've been betrayed by my best friends. What did I do wrong? Why did they do this? Is it my fault?"

When everyone got back up to the main part of S.T.A.R labs, they looked at surveillance videos from when they left him in the pipeline. As they watched him, nobody knew why he was acting like that. They were shocked as to what he was saying. Cisco, Caitlin and Jessie walked away first. Then Harry. That left Joe and Iris to watch Barry suffer. All of a sudden, Wally walks in. "What's going on?" Then he sees the video of Barry in the pipeline. "Oh hell no." He races down there before anyone sees him.

"What the hell were you thinking?"

"Allen, there was nothing we could do."

"You could let me race him!"

"Allen! You're not racing Zoom!"

"Look I know you guys made a pact to keep Zoom on Earth-2. But you did it without Wally or me."

"What are you gonna do?" Barry paused for a moment before speaking again. "Are you gonna tranq me again?

"Don't tempt me." Barry starts to tremble again. Cisco looked at Barry and said "We saw the surveillance video of you. We never knew you were thrown in a locker at 13 years old and left there, scared, cold and lonely for 6 hours. We wouldn't have put you in there if we knew." Barry was shaking, crying and fell to the floor. He started mumbling to himself "13. Betrayed. Locker. Scared. Cold. Lonely. 6 hours. Why. No. Why. This can't be happening. What have I ever done?" Joe and Iris ran to Barry's side. They tried to calm him down while Cisco went down to his own lab to add this to Barry's report. Eventually, Barry calmed down and Joe and Iris brought him home for the night. What a wild day it had been.