Episode 16 - Flash Fanfiction - Gotham's Gladiators

Chapter 7

"Your handlers have brought you all here for one reason and one reason only and that is to fight!" A man's voice spoke as Caitlin was dragged and dropped to the floor. She was in a very large room, with tiled flooring, along with approximately twenty other hostages.

She looked up at the man who had spoken. He was dressed in a neat black suit, he was clearly rich – as were the rest of the men and women, who stood with him.

She looked around at the other hostages and noticed a young blonde girl, about ten years of age, among them. She looked very frightened to be there.

The large man continued to address his hostages, "Every single one of you have been recognized to have some remarkable ability that makes you stand out from the rest and will be your advantage against your competitors. But remember, if you attempt to use those abilities to escape, just remember you will not get very far... You have already been implanted with a chip, so if you go rogue, the chips will automatically self-destruct. You will be eliminated immediately. Your fights will be to the death and we will accept no less. We have multiple investors who pay good money to watch you compete... We won't let our pennies go to waste, will we? We look forward to seeing what you all can offer."

Caitlin heard the young girl begin to cry and watched as a man came over and pick her up by the collar of her shirt. It was clearly her school uniform. "Listen, girl! One more peep out of you..." the man threatened.

Caitlin muffled a scream, trying to take the attention from the young girl. It had worked, the man threw the child to the floor and stepped over to Caitlin. He held a gun to Caitlin's head, and she heard a click. But before he could pull the trigger, the man who was clearly in charge ordered him to remove his weapon. "That's not how we do things here..." he had said.

The armed man obeyed and took his place along with the rest of the sharply dressed men and women.

"That's the emergency alert!" Cisco said as he climbed out of the bed, found his clothes and went to check his laptop. Astrid could hear her phone ringing so she ran to get dressed and answer it. "It's Diggle!" she called out.

"Thank god, you finally picked up!" John said from his end. "Are the rest of the guys with you?" she put him on speaker.

"No? Oliver went back to your hotel two hours ago. It's just the two of us here." She replied, with concern in her tone.

"Well, I haven't been able to reach any of them. Barry and Felicity went on a patrol with two officers and I haven't heard back since... GCPD are acting like nothing ever happened, and Oliver never returned."

Astrid's heart sank. "I'm tracing their phones now!" Cisco exclaimed as he started typing on his laptop as fast as he could. "I'm getting nothing! The signal keeps going dead!"

"Is it possible that Ollie went rogue?" Astrid asked.
"I wondered that too... but he would have left some kind of clue. There's nothing. I'm on my way to your hotel room now, I should be there in ten minutes."

"Barry, where are we?" Felicity asked, as she looked around at the filthy concrete room that they had been left in.

"I'm not sure and I can't use my powers... sometimes, I really regret Cisco building these handcuffs. Do you remember being knocked out at some point?"

"No, the last thing I remember is those officers putting us in the back of the patrol car. Why do you think they're after us, Barry?" Felicity asked as she pressed her back against the wall next to him.

"I'm not sure... I'm guessing that they have seen me use my abilities at some point. They're probably keeping Caitlin, Ronnie and Stein here... I think they drugged us. Do you have your phone? I think they might have taken them."

"No Barry, I don't. we need to warn the others... somehow... this whole city is corrupt!"

"Shh... Do you hear that?" Barry asked, focusing his senses on the door. Someone was approaching and dangling a set of keys. Suddenly, the door opened letting the dim light shine through. Standing in the light was a largely built man.

"You can come with me!" he said pointing a gun at Barry. The man lifted Barry up by his wrists which were still firmly cuffed behind him. He held the gun to Barry's head as he led him out of the room.

"Barry!" Felicity called out, in fear.
"Don't worry Felicity! We'll get out of this! I promise!" Barry called back to her as the large metal door slammed behind him.

Felicity brought her knees in and rested her cheek on them as a few tears trickled down her cheeks, "Ollie!" She whispered out to the silence, "Please, find us!"