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

Chapter Eleven: I Think It's All Connected

I spelled out what had happened in Jitters to them word-by-word.

"So, what are we gonna do?"

"I don't know. I mean, I'm not sure yet." I replied. "I can't get close enough to her without triggering some seriously bad luck, like mother and baby in the line of fire of a nail gun kind of bad luck."

"Seriously, that girl's a hazard." Cisco said. "Hazard, that's the one. Maybe that means the jinx is gone."

"Her powers only work in her immediate vicinity. She didn't Jinx us." Barry told them.

"And the house is still falling to pieces." Joe pointed out.

"It's been falling apart for years, just like really slowly."

"Well, plus, Jesse dumped me, too." Wally pointed out.

"I know dude, and you know, that sucks."

"And we're up against a meta we can't even touch. And we're the ones who made her in the first place."

"Guys, come on! Where is that signature Team Flash optimism!? We are not cursed, alright?" I asked.

"Easy for you to say, nothing bad has happened to you." Just as Cisco said this, my phone rang.

"Laura Wilson." I answered. 

"Hey Ms. Wilson, this is Jackson, your super. It um...it appears there's been a gas leak in your place, and it'll take at least a weak to fix it and fumigate so um...I'm afraid you can't come back here for at least another week." I nodded.

"Thank you, Jackson." I hung up.

"Who was that?" Barry asked.

"There was a gas leak in my apartment and I'm homeless for the next week." I looked at Cisco. "I rest my case." He pulled up a rolling chair and I slumped down into it.

"Guys, do you have any idea how ridiculous you all sound? We have not been jinxed. Or cursed, alright?  We make our own luck, right? So what do you say we focus and we figure this out?" Barry asked. Then Barry's phone rang.

"Oh no." I muttered.

"Hey, Iris. You're where?"

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Just as Barry got back, Iris in tow, the Metahuman alert app went off.

"Guys, there are low-probability events happening all over the city." Caitlin told us.

"Becky's quantum field is expanding." Iris pointed out.

"Ok, that's not possible."

"Yeah no, her powers are localized." Barry said.

"Yeah, not anymore." Then it hit me.

"Maybe she's having a lot of good luck." I said. "Like...at a casino maybe?"

"Mayday, this is Flight 512 to tower. Lost an engine and are coming down."

"Guys, if Becky keeps winning then bad luck will keep spreading, this could destroy the whole city."

"Ok, keep calm-"

"Keep calm." Cisco and Harry said together.

"-Alright? Nothing's going wrong here." then the alarm started going off.

"Guys, the Particle Accelerator turned back on." I tugged at my hair.

"Remind me why we kept that again?!" I asked.

"Four minutes to Particle Accelerator activation."

"Barry, let's go." I took off my clothes and put on my mask and Barry grabbed me, running me to the Casino.