What Brings Us Together (A Ralph Dibny/ The Flash Fan-Fiction)

Chapter Nine: What The Freaking Heck Just Happened?

"Can you see them?" I asked Caitlin as I tied my short brown hair up into a ponytail. 

"No. They've disappeared." I looked up to see a teenage boy sneaking up behind Caitlin. 

"Heads up." I said, shooting over her shoulder. His vest rang out the buzz that told me that I'd gotten him. "Yes! I'm sorry!" I called to the kid. I turned around and saw Barry and Cisco. "Found  'em." Caitlin and I walked over to them.

"Are you guys dead already?" Caitlin asked.

"Well, Chad..." Cisco looked pointedly at the kid in the level above.

"He just told us..." I aimed my gun up, shooting the kid, causing his vest to buzz.

"Gosh dang it!" He yelled.

"Thank you, Laura. We have been avenged! Suck it, Chad!" I chuckled.

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We finished playing and headed outside for lunch, where we met Iris, Cecile, and Joe. Joe and Cecile was currently getting the food.

"You better watch yourself, Chad," Cisco called as Chad and his friends walked by. "Come at me at the paintball field next time, I'll kick your little a-Hey Mrs. McConnell. How ya doin'? Chad's a treasure. He really is." She scowled at him, walking away and I laughed, leaning my head on Cisco's shoulder.

"Ok, Pretzel for Caitlin, Corn dog for Iris, two franks for Cisco," Joe said, handing out the food.

"Yes, thank you."

"A burger for Laura." He gave it to me.

"Thank you, Joe."

"And three burgers, five churros, and six funnel cakes for Barry."

"Look at all this junk," Cecile complained, "Guys, I'm so sorry. If the pipes in the house weren't making this weird, annoying sound, I would have just actually had you all over for dinner."

"Squeaky pipes at the West house, what a surprise." Barry said sarcastically. Iris nodded in agreement.

"Really? You're familiar with this sound?" Cecile asked.

"Oh, yeah. The..." She imitated the squeak noise. Cecile nodded.

"It's been doing that for...eighteen years?" Barry confirmed.

"Yeah."

"Every house has a personality, Iris. Our just likes to be heard." Joe told her.

"Hmm." Iris' phone buzzed and she looked at it. "Oh my gosh, they broke up! The Wexler-Waclawiks broke up."

"For real?" Barry asked.

"Yes."

"Heck yeah!" The two of them high-fived, leaving the rest of us confused.

"Who is the owner of that unfortunate name, and why are you high-fiving on behalf of their emotional pain?" I questioned.

"They're a couple that were getting married at the Propizio the weekend of the second, which means now the venue is open."

"That's amazing, what good luck." Caitlin commented.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, so now we just have to put a deposit down."

"I'll run it over." Barry offered.

"Nope. Already covered." She showed him her  phone just as all of our phones started going off."Oh my gosh, the breaching app, guys we gotta go. We all ran into the Speed lab to find Harrison and Wally, who was holding a teddy beat and flowers.

"Seriously, is this Earth the only one that thinks it's acceptable to call first?" I asked.

"Hey Harry, is Jesse coming?" Wally asked.

"So um..." Harrison trailed off.

"I thought Jesse and I were having date night."

"Yeah...that's what you thought. Let me just...ok." He took a metal box out of his backpack, handing it to him. Wally put the stuff down, taking it from him. Harrison pressed a button and a holograph of Jesse's face appeared.

"Hey Wally, it's me."

"Good to see you." Harrison said.

"So, I've been doing some thinking, and you-know-we've-both-been-so-busy. You and earth-" The message fizzed out and Harrison stopped, dropping his bag and turning around.

"Stupid hologram. You know it's that darn Atlantean plastic." He took the box from him, hitting it. "It's really shoddy workmanship. Sorry about this."

"What is-What is this thing?" Wally questioned. 

"Break-breakup cube." Harrison said awkwardly. "You don't have breakup cubes on your earth?" I winced. Poor Wally. "Oh, that's not good. Ok. A breakup cube is, uh...kind of what it sounds like. You know, you record a message for the person you want to...the person, and you uh...pick a music setting, then there's a tissue that pops out if you need that. you know, a breakup cube." Wally ran a hand over his mouth.

"Jesse's breaking up with me with  cube?" Harrison touched a finger to his nose.

"Seems like a convenient way to break somebody's heart." Caitlin said.

"Exactly."

"What did she say in the message?" Wally asked.

"You know, you heard. You-you're a great guy-I don't remember."

"Don't you have total recall?"

"Yeah-no, no. Don't-I did. I don't. I did, but I don't. Come on, don't make me...she-you heard. She said that you're a great, great guy and that she was busy on our earth and that you're busy here filling in for, your know, shh, on this earth and you were a little out of sync. You know, and that she might need some time to work on her stuff. You know, it's not you, it's me. Not me, her, me. Her, not me. Her. and she said, you know, 'I'll never forget you, Wally West, because you're amazing. And then, uh, that you were her..." He cleared his throat. "First. And a bunch of other stuff, not important. So-but he's tough. You don't need that, right? You're a tough guy, right, West?

"Yeah."

"Yeah, um..." He held the cube out to Wally, but Wally didn't take it, he just walked away.

"He doesn't want the cube. I don't blame him." Harrison stated. Suddenly the alarm went off.

"Two-elevens at First National and O'Sullivan bank." Iris told us.

"Could be a spree." Caitlin suggested.

"Central City Bank's on that avenue, too. We'll check it out." I pulled my dress over my head, revealing my suit. I slid my mask on and Barry picked me up, running me to the bank.

The told us on the way that the culprit was a woman in a red dress.

"I see her." Barry said, throwing me up so I could start flying.

"She's getting away in a Prius."  Iris told us.

"Last time I checked, the Flash and Skyrocket are faster than a Prius." Just as he said this, a barrel of marbles fell off of a truck, causing him to slip and slide into a telephone pole, which then fell and hit me, sending me to the ground. I groaned in pain.

"What the freaking heck just happened?!" I asked.