The Flash Beginnings

Psyionic

    It’d been several days since Caitlin had revealed to me that the corpses of the first two powered people I fought had disappeared. Where they went was a mystery. No video recording showed anyone. There was no evidence of a break-in, and since we were the only two that knew about them, it was impossible to know who could’ve known.

    After some time thinking about it, I ended up quitting track and field. I just didn’t think that it was fair to me nor my opponents. Even with my inhibitor, I felt as though I still had an advantage since the inhibitor didn’t affect my perception at all.

    But right now I don’t want to worry about powers or Powereds at all. Right now is only about Barry Allen and friends.

    “So what movie do you guys want to watch?”- Cisco turned to us motioning at the list of movie names- “Or listen. There’s also that,” He added looking at Miranda.

    “Thanks Cisco,” Miranda looked grateful at his inclusion of her, disabilities.

    “I was thinking maybe… The Man in the Iron Mask, it looks interesting,” I commented.

    Several posters on the wall near us were demonstrating each of the movies in the list. They were all good, but the one that caught my eye was the Iron Mask one. The image had someone on the floor, his face covered by shadows, and someone in an iron mask towering over him.

    “A slasher movie? Seriously?” Cisco asked.

    “Well it is halloween,” Miranda defended me, “What are you? Chicken?” she clucked laughing.

    “Easy for you to say. You don’t have to suffer jump scares.”

    “I love slasher films. I used to watch them with my dad every Friday,” Mauricio jumped in.

    “Looks like we got you beat Cisco,” I smiled.

    “Fine! Let’s watch the king of cli…”

    I stumbled as I felt the world spin under me. I leaned on the wall to prevent myself from falling to the floor. My friends looked at me worried. Cisco grabbed me and steadied me.

    “Whoa there, are you okay?” he asked worried.

    “Yeah, yeah I’m fine,” my vision was still swimming but I was starting to feel fine again, “Must’ve been a dizzy spell.”

    “What’s going on,” Miranda tugged Mauricio’s shirt.

    “Aghh!” I dropped to a crouch as my head and stomach began to hurt.

    I squirmed in pain as Cisco tried to carry me up. It felt as though someone smacked my head with a bat and kicked me in the groin. I had never felt anything so intense before. I grimaced as I tried to pick myself up to no avail.

    “Barry what’s wrong?” Miranda asked worried.

    I guess she heard my painful wheezing cause she was kneeling beside me trying to help Cisco stand me up. Sweat was dripping down my forehead which was strange. I stopped sweating the moment I woke up from the coma so this was something new and scary.

    They managed to bring me back up to my feet but I doubled down again and fell to the floor, this time vomiting.

“Whoa dude, you’re not okay. I’m gonna call an ambulance,” Mauricio took out his phone and began to dial.

    “No.. Don’t.. Call Cait…” I wheezed before returning to vomiting more.

    “The science girl?”