Short on Time

Chapter 103

"We are back in business," Cisco announced. "And by business, he means the better-than-Sally the satellite business."

"And what does that mean?" Nora asked.

"That means we're getting closer to identifying the ever-elusive Cicada," Sherloque said with a terrible accent.

"It's Cicada, Sherloque," Cisco said.

"Once I hacked DeVoe's satellites, all I had to do was just use an impact extrapolation algorithm to predict where the shrapnel would've fallen after Barry and Nora pulled a Johnny Cage on Sally the satellite," Cisco said. "May God rest her soul. So now we got forty-six locations where forty-six pieces of shrapnel landed."

"And one of these locations is where Cicada will have been injured," I said.

"Except we don't know which one," Iris added.

Cisco smiled, "or maybe we do. You see, after my hands got sliced by Cicada's dagger, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, here measured the dark matter in my system."

"And its levels of concentration were higher than any I'd ever seen before," Caitlin explained.

"Insanely high, and the only part of the satellite that would have dark matter levels that high Is the core, which is where Cicada's dagger came from," Cisco said.

"So, we find the location of the core and we'll know where Cicada was that night," Nora concluded.

"You know, FEMA set up sites to help people after the Enlightenment," I said. "If Cicada was injured, maybe he received medical treatment at one of them."

"That's a great idea," Iris agreed.

"I mean, we could check with FEMA to see if any fathers matching Cicada's description reported any injuries near the crash site," Barry suggested.

"So, we split up," Cisco said.

"Okay, great," Iris agreed. "I'm good at tracking things down. So I will try and find the satellite core."

"I will come with you and everybody else look for the names," Sherloque said.

"Um, do you mind if I actually come with you too? It's just that I saw you jump off a building last week and that was awesome," Nora said to Iris. "So I thought maybe I'd come with you while you did some detective work."

"Oh, I think that two people is going to be more than enough-" Sherloque began and I silenced him with a glare. "For what we need-"

"What he's trying to say is that we would love to have you come with us," Iris said as Barry and I smiled.

"Okay," Nora agreed brightly. "I'll see you later, mum," Nora said kissing me on the cheek before following after Iris.

"All right, well, why don't I talk to FEMA and see if I can get some names," Ralph said.

"Hey, I know Joe's been itching to get out of the house, and it might help to have an actual badge," Barry suggested.

"Nobody does case snacks like Joe West," Ralph admitted. "I'll swing by on the way."

"All right, cool," Barry agreed as Ralph left.

"So, Snow Patrol, what's going on?" Cisco asked.

"You tell me," Caitlin said. "I'm guessing it's not a coincidence that we're left here with nothing to do for the next few hours."

"I know we were supposed to wait until you were ready to locate your dad," Barry said.

"But I had the satellites track down all the decommissioned Tannhauser black ops sites that your dad could possibly be in," Cisco said.