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

Chapter Sixty-three: Edwin Gauss

Harry called for a meeting at STAR Labs this morning, but there was no way I was going to be able to function without coffee, so I headed to Jitters. 

"Hi, can I get one Killer Frost Iced Mocha please?" I asked. The blonde girl behind the counter looked up at me and her eyes widened. I furrowed my eyebrows.

"Uh...hi." She said.

"Um...hi..." I looked down at her name tag. "Hannah. I've always liked the name Hannah."

"Yeah? No kidding." She said, almost nervously, her hand flying up to the necklace around her neck. I recognized it as the same necklace that Ralph had given me for Christmas.

"I love your necklace." I told her, holding up my own.

"Thanks. You have good taste." She told me. "I'll get your coffee."

That was easily the weirdest interaction I think I've ever had with a barista, but whatever.

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We now stood in the speed lab, Harry standing in front of us, wielding a weird metal thing in his hand.

"That's the big news?" Cisco asked. "You're taking a sculpture class at the community college?"

"It's not art. It's science! And as such, it is the thing that is gonna help us defeat..." He pulled a sheet off of something to reveal a dummy with DeVoe's face taped on it, sitting in an office chair. "DeVoe."

"Recall if you will, the one thing that we've seen-nay-heard, that can hurt DeVoe."

"Izzy Bowen's soundwave powers."

"Well Izzy was killed by DeVoe so whatever powers she had is in his hands now." Joe pointed out.

"And now Joe, they're in ours. Watch this." He turned, standing in front of the dummy. "So...actually, maybe you should take a couple steps back, if you value your internal organs." Ralph grabbed my shoulders, lightly guiding me back with him. Harry hit the object on the ground and aimed it at DeVoe, sending him flying up the ramp and into the back wall.

"I know how that feels." Barry stated.

"One strike incapacitates the Thinker, two strikes, no more Thinker. I call it a Sonic Scepter."

"Ok. Points for alliteration." Cisco said.

"Basically, just a big tuning fork." Caitlin added.

"My goodness." Harry said.

"Well, like, I mean it's not just any tuning fork. This might be to most powerful tuning fork in the multiverse. You must have laser shaved this thing down to the nanometer."

"Shaved it right down to the last angstrom, as a matter of fact."

"Do you have any idea what they're saying?" Ralph whispered in my ear. I chuckled, shaking my head.

"It is in fact, Child's play for me and my thinking cap. The Sonic Scepter mimics Izzy Bowen's sonic frequencies, so we can penetrate  a heretofore impenetrable force field of DeVoe. And here's the best part, because there's no tech involved-"

"It's Kilgore-proof." Barry finished. "Nice."

"Yes."

"So now we just have to figure out where DeVoe is gonna appear next."

"As a matter of fact before you got here, I scripted a subroutine on the pocket dimension predictor, and it's gonna give us a massive head start."

"Good work Harry." I praised.