Episode 26 - Flash Fanfiction - Vibe and Frost Save the Day

Chapter 5

A whirling of grey energy surrounded Astrid. She was lost on an endless path. She couldn't see past the grey abyss. But she could hear screams and voices all around her. Some were familiar, the voices of her past and of her present. But there were some that she didn't know.

It was as if she were lost within her own mind. She heard the voice of a man pleading for someone to take his child. For them to love the child as if she were their very own. There was an eerie familiarity to the voice that she could not determine. Astrid continued to walk, hoping that she would find her way.

She heard the voice of her mother, the voice of her father. Then as they disappeared again she could hear the voices of her friends. Cisco, assuring her that everything would be alright. Caitlin talking to her about somebody's vitals. And then she heard Barry's voice, telling her that she was an inspiration.

She remembered most of these conversations. Was she sleeping? She needed to wake up. She told herself to wake up. Just as she could hear her friends telling her to wake up.

But then the grey abyss disappeared. She found herself dragged and sitting bound to a chair. The chair was bolted to a grey narrow metal platform. She looked down, the platform was elevated, she was up high in a cold place that she could not recognize.

But then there was someone standing beside her, they wore a surgical mask. It was a man that she recognized very well. It was her father, Robert Sutherland. But he was not the father she knew. He was possessed by something, but she couldn't determine what or who.

He brought a scalpel to her arm, cutting her. He held a vial to her blood collecting it. "What do you want from me?" She screamed out. "Let me go!" But he refused to answer. She screamed out for help, but nobody came.

Caitlin strapped Wally to the second medical bay bed and went over his vitals with Harry's assistance.

"Barry said something about Wally ingesting a vial that contained Barry's DNA..." Joe said to Caitlin.

"There's a little more to it than that..." Caitlin said, "we believe that he may have ingested the speed and DNA of multiple speedsters. So I intend on doing everything in my power to help him."

"Multiple speedsters? How did he get a hold of that? Look, forget I asked... Just help him, please!" Joe begged. He was alerted to his phone ringing. It was Iris trying to find out how Wally was doing.

"I better take this, its Iris." Joe said.

"Please, don't tell her anything that will make a good story for the newspaper... or bring on any attention on to STAR Labs." Caitlin pleaded.

"I promise, Caitlin." He said as he put up his hand to excuse himself.

"So, what do you propose we do?" Caitlin asked Harry.

"We continue to monitor the speed going through his body. There's not a lot that we can do... If it works, then Wally will become a speedster." Dr Wells said.

"Woah woah woah... Man, you're even colder than Frost herself!" Cisco said as he interrupted the two. "You're proposing that we do nothing... Wasn't it your idea to bring him here? And you're saying that we just monitor him? I'm not a doctor, here... but if I were, I would be looking at this as a chance to create an anti-speed solution. What do you think, Snow?"

"I think that might actually work... if we can study the chemical compound itself, then maybe we can look at a way to slow down the process that the chemical is doing on his body..." Caitlin said. She left to get to work, and Cisco smirked at Dr Wells. "So much for waiting and seeing." He said with a grin.

"Cisco, for a smart man... You're not all that bright... if this chemical works, we would have a way to get Barry's speed back, which right now is something that we're meant to be working on, unless you've forgotten." Harry said.

Cisco stared at him, "and if it doesn't work... and it kills Wally... well than... that just shows that you have no heart. Which has me wondering, why you're even still here." DR Wells shook his head slowly and headed towards his office.

"You and Harry are having a lot of trouble seeing eye to eye, at the moment aren't you?" Barry said to Cisco.

"What can I say? The guy's a dick! Let's go work on getting your speed back."

Cisco led Barry back over to the cosmic treadmill and Barry started running.

"Come on, Barry!" Cisco called out, "Think about Wally in the situation that he's in... think about Astrid... They both could die if you don't get your speed back! Come on, Barry! Run Barry, Run!"

Barry kept running and running. He felt himself growing faster and faster... But then there was no lighting, there was no speed. He just fell.

"Ouch! A little help?" he asked.

"Sure," Cisco said, giving him a hand. It was useless.

"So, I had a theory...When Frost shoots particles of ice, it freezes the Flash's cells in place, slowing them down. So, on that thought I synthesized a chemical that contains a mixture of my own cells with the speed cells... the speed cells stopped phasing..." Caitlin said, holding up a glass vial of blue liquid, as she made her way to Barry and Cisco, after about half an hour.

"So, what you're saying is that if you and Barry ever had a baby... it wouldn't be a speedster..." Cisco joked. Barry and Caitlin stared at him awkwardly.

"Sorry, wrong time for those sorts of jokes." Cisco replied.

"No, what I'm saying is that, it counteracted the speed... I might have the cure for Wally!" Caitlin said with a smile.

"Well done, Caitlin!" Dr Wells said as he reemerged, "I'll help you deliver it to him."

"Oh no no no no no!" Cisco replied. "That guy is not to be trusted with a job like this!"

To his disappointment the emergency alert went off.

"Cisco... you and Caitlin deal with that... I'll ensure that Harry is good on his word. We need to trust him!" Barry said.

"You're sure about this?" Cisco asked him, he then glared at Harry.

"Cisco, I'll handle it. I wouldn't let him hurt Wally." Barry said.

"Okay, let's roll, Frosty!" Cisco said as he ran to collect his suit.

"Woo!" Caitlin called out as she followed after him, turning into Frost at the same time.