Navy Storm ~*~ [ RALPH DIBNY ]

fifteen

based off 4.16
run iris, run

~*~

     It had been almost a week since DeVoe took Izzy. Olive had recovered faster than normal, and was back to S.T.A.R. Labs. She was walking down the hall with a coffee in her hand when she almost ran into Barry. She pulled back the coffee just in time so that it wouldn't spill everywhere. 

     "Slow down there, speedster," Barry said with a slight chuckle. Olive smiled lightly, nodding at him. 

     "Uh, any updates on DeVoe?" she asked crossing an arm over her chest. 

     "No, not really," Barry said scratching his neck. "But we're getting there. Harry has a great idea, but Cisco doesn't really like it." 

     "I'm sorry, Harry has a great idea of how to defeat DeVoe and Cisco 'doesn't really like it'?" Olive asked narrowing her eyes at Barry. He stuttered on his words as Olive nodded, then shoved past him towards the cortex. "Ramon!" 

     "Oh, god," Cisco muttered as he looked at the doorway. Olive walked in, setting her coffee down and grabbing Cisco by the collar. 

      "Harry has a way to stop DeVoe and you don't like it?" Olive asked quickly. 

      "You don't have all the facts!" Cisco said in a panicked voice. 

      "Which are?" 

     "He wants to pump loads of dark matter into his brain to make this plan work!" Cisco confessed. 

      "At least he's contributing an idea to the table, sacrificing himself for his friends," Olive remarked. She let go of Cisco's shirt as he stumbled back a few feet. "Because while Barry, and Ralph, and me are all risking our lives on the front lines to live, you're sitting here on your ass cancelling out every idea that could help us defeat DeVoe." Olive turned around again, walking out of the room quickly. 

     It takes a lot to make Olive want to leave a place right after getting there. With everything that's happened to her since October, Olive was tired of being chased by death. She almost welcomed it at this point, but she wouldn't stop fighting. And after what happened to Izzy, she was even more motivated to fight off DeVoe. 

          *****

     "So, I can think of a couple of ways this might have happened. If this Eric Fry metastasizes solar radiation to create heat we could put him in the dark to de-power him," Caitlin explained as everyone watched the security footage. There was a bank robbery earlier that day, and now it was Team Flashes problem to solve it. Seeing as they are looking for meta's. 

     "But it was still broad daylight," Joe pointed out.  

     "Okay, maybe his internal biochemistry has been altered to create its own internal thermal combustion and he just ran out of fuel," Caitlin said, trying a different route. 

     "Okay, so if this guys not one of the bus meta's, then that means that there's still three more out there before DeVoe gets to me. More importantly, Olive," Ralph said motioning to her. "So, I'm safe. I'm safer, safer..." 

     "Those are innocent people, Ralph," Barry told him. 

     "So are we," Olive said looking over at Barry. "We're still gonna get terminated."

     "Oh, my god," Ralph muttered, "I'm Sarah Connor." 

     "What? No-" 

     "I'm gonna go back to my room, get some comfort food," Ralph said with a nod as he turned around.