Episode 27 - Flash Fanfiction - 16 Again

Chapter 1

Harry sat in his office with his door closed and set his voice recorder to record himself.
"The subject has awoken from her coma for the second time, and if you ask me I believe that her mind is protecting her. She believes that she is of the age of sixteen and has somewhat thrown away all of her inhibitions. Her friends are struggling to deal with this newfound persona that she has adopted, which I have been told was the way she was back in high school, carefree and with a taste for danger. I'm curious to see how the next few days turn out."

Cisco ran into Harry's office, immediately closing the door behind, so he placed his voice recorder into his top draw.

"Ramon... What's going on out there?" Harry asked him.

"Nothing... why would something be wrong? Why can't I just visit my good ol' pal, Harry? Why do you have to assume that something is wrong?" Cisco asked, locking the door and checking the window to ensure he hadn't been followed.

Harry got to his feet and studied Cisco. He was trying to keep a straight face. He knew that Cisco would break at any moment and tell him. "Cisco, you said yourself... that we're not 'pals' so what's going on?" Harry asked him, a little humored.

Cisco huffed. "So, you know how my girlfriend awoke from her coma, thinking that she was sixteen and invited Caitlin to go shopping with her?"

"Yes..." Harry said, waiting for him to elaborate.

"Well..." Cisco began, he unlocked Harry's door and led him out into the cortex. "That is Astrid from high school..."

Astrid who had lightened her hair, applied makeup with some emphasis on the eye liner and was wearing something that Astrid wouldn't generally wear, was currently using Frost's black nail polish to paint her own nails. Astrid got to her feet and raced towards them.

"Hi..." she said with a smile, "I'm Astrid!"
"Hi, Astrid... we do already know each other, you hired me." Harry replied.

"Yeah... but right now, I can't remember that so I figured I would be polite and say hi. Caitlin said I should speak with you... so that's what I'm doing... Caitlin, Cisco, Barry... am I done here? I've been nice! Can I go now?" she asked looking at them.

Cisco and Barry grinned. "Astrid, what else do you have planned, for the day?" Caitlin asked her, curious.

"Not sure yet... but there's no way in hell am I staying here all day! We have powers! We should be having some fun! Not wasting them away! Barry... You're the fastest man on earth, if what Caitlin was saying is correct... There's gotta be something that you've always wanted to do... and don't lie! I can read your mind, remember? Man, this is so cool!" Astrid said looking around at the group.

"Astrid, I'm not sure that we should be being reckless with our powers..." Barry said.

"God, who would say that?" Astrid asked them.

The group stared at her, but Cisco was the one that spoke "Astrid... that's something that you have reminded us of, far too many times!"

"Dude, really?" Astrid asked him, "Yeah... that doesn't sound like me... that's sounds something like my dad... never mind... But no, that doesn't sound like me!" she shook her head.

The group stared at each other, she read their minds. "Look... whatever I would or wouldn't say doesn't matter right now... I'm getting bored! Let's go have some fun! Cisco, please! Don't make me call Sara and Ollie." She pleaded with him.

"Why do I feel like I'm in our own version of that movie with Zac Efron?" Cisco grumbled.

Astrid laughed as she got his movie reference, just as the emergency alert went off. Barry changed into the Flash and went to help with the crime. "Man, that is just so cool!" she squealed in a high pitch tone, almost deafening them.

"Go! Will someone just take that girl out of here!" Harry snapped.

"Hey, I took her shopping!" Caitlin said to Cisco.

Cisco grumbled again... "Why do I always get the babysitting job?" he asked them.

"Because you love me, Cis!" Astrid said, answering for the rest of them.

"Yeah... I do." He said shaking his head slowly. She took hold of his sleeve and led him out of the cortex.

"That... is going to be trouble!" Harry said pointing as the two of them left.

"I'll say. She even tried to give me a makeover." Caitlin replied. They heard Barry's voice coming from the computer speakers. "Hey, you guys! A little help?" he asked.

Caitlin ran over to the computer, "Yeah Barry, it's me... Cisco and Astrid are gone so I will talk you through, what's the problem?"

"Always so good to hear your voice, Caity... But you're going to hate this news... Amunet escaped from Iron Heights, last night! I'm fighting a meta who has informed me that she is making an army!" Barry informed her.