Surrender: The Flash (2)

16.3

16.3 trajectory

"Hey, any luck locating our speedster since Eliza checked out?" Barry asks.

"I'm still working on it, but..." Cisco is cut off by electrical zapping and short circuits pushing us away from the wall.

Barry puts his mask on and soon, the speedster runs him out of the Cortex.

"Hey! Hey! Cisco! Hey, Joe! Hey, she's got me in the Pipeline!" Barry yells.

Joe takes out his gun but the speedster throws him back into glass, shattering it. When Harry runs for the gun, Eliza grabs it and points it at us. We all put our hands up.

"What do you want?" Harry asks.

"Where's the V-9, Caity? I need a fix," The speedster says.

"Eliza, is that you?" Cait asks.

"Oh, Eliza's not here right now. My name is Trajectory," She replies.

"Oh, why do the crazy ones always name themselves?" Cisco comments.

As Caitlin tries to reason with Eliza, I bring my hands up and pull a knife out of my hair, the one disguised to look like a clip. I lock eyes with Jesse as she slowly moves towards Eliza. I throw the knife but Eliza catches it before Jesse can and grabs Jesse, putting the knife up to her neck.

"Wait. Wait. You want V-9?" Harry asks. "We'll make it for you."

"Dad, you can't," Jesse says.

"We have all the ingredients," Caitlin says.

"I'm not a patient person, so better move fast," Eliza says as Harry and Caitlin run to make it.

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"It's what you wanted," Harry says after Eliza grabs the new V-9. "Now let her go."

"How do I know the two of you didn't lace this with a sedative to put me on my ass?" Eliza asks.

"We wouldn't do that," Harry says.

"You can never be too safe, right?" Eliza says. She goes to inject it in Jesse but I quickly push her out of the way, my arm getting hit by the serum.

"No!" Everyone yelled as Harry pushed it out of her hand.

When nothing happened to me, Eliza said, "Thanks for the fix, Snow."

She runs out after injecting herself with V-9 and Caitlin says, "Get Barry."

I sigh, looking at everyone in relief. I suddenly look at my hands to see them getting red and flames start appearing around my body. I cough, blood splattering out of my mouth as I fall back to the ground. Flames leave my body rapidly as I slowly start to fall on my back. The last thing I hear before I black out is Caitlin's voice.

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B A R R Y P O V

I run into the Cortex saying, "Well, good job on the cell, Cisco."

I see Liv on the ground, covered in flames, blood splattered across her mouth and run over to her. Immediately on her side, I say, "Liv. Hey, hey, stay with me. What happened?"

"Turn her on her side," Caitlin says as we follow.

"Eliza shot her up with V-9," Harry says.

"She's going into shock. It's too pure," Caitlin says.

"Stay with me, Liv. Stay with me," Harry says.

"What do we do?" Cisco asks.

"We've got to get the V-9 out of her system," Barry says.

"She needs a blood transfusion. The new blood will flush the drug out of her system," Caitlin says. "Barry."

I nod, quickly speeding out of my suit.

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O L I V I A P O V

My eyes slowly flutter open and I hear two voices fighting. I groan as the light hits my eyes, causing the voices to stop. "Hey," I say, my voice groggy. "What happened?"

"We... you're fine. You're... you're gonna be fine. We got the drug out of your system," Harry says.

"Oh. Thank you," I say as they nod. "Are you two Okay?"

"Yeah," Jesse says. "Yeah, we're fine."

I nod, not believing them. "What's wrong?" I ask watching them as they give me a look.

"Look," Harry says, sitting down. "The V-9 caused serious cellular degeneration in your body. I checked your cells and the first ones effected were the ones with dark matter attached to them."

"Meaning?" I ask, sitting up, suddenly worried.

"Meaning," Jesse says softly. "Your teleportation power is gone, Liv."

I sigh, my breath shaky. "Ok," I say. "What about the rest of my powers? My force field?"

"They aren't- They aren't made from dark matter," Harry says. "So they'll be fine."

"Thank you," I tell them as they nod. I lay down again as Harry heads out. I look at Jesse who sits down in a chair next to my bed. "You wanna tell me what's bothering you?"