impossible | barry allen

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We were all clueless about what Thawne really had planned.

We were all ready to blast that dagger into nothingness, and end this.

To end Cicada's reign on this city.

But, it seemed that Ralph has solved what even Sherloque and I couldn't.

Because he had caught us all off guard when he shouted for us to not shoot that dagger that night.

But it had been too late, as the blast got closer and closer to the dagger in the air.

And what Ralph did was complete in impulse.

He jumped right between the blast and the dagger, the dagger bouncing off him and back to the ground, the blast coming in contact with his body, as he fell onto the ground with a thud, turning into something I couldn't even describe.

We all rush towards him, confused and shock present in all of our expressions.

"Cicada-" Ralph muttered out even through his condition, "Thawne, dagger-"

Cicada got up, calling upon the dagger, then escaped.

-

"How's Ralph?" Barry asks when we were all changed out of our suits and in the cortex.

"I've never seen anything like it." Caitlin admits, walking over to us, "I can't quite figure it out."

"His cells are kinetically inverted." Caitlin pulled up the results she got from her tests, "It's like they're the reverse of themselves."

"Should've spent more time trying to figure out how this thing works." Cisco sighs, setting down the Mirror Gun.

"I just don't understand why he would jump in front of that blast." Nora admits, "I mean, why would he do that?"

"That's the question, isn't it?" Sherloque mutters, leaving the cortex, "That's the question."

Cisco sighs, "In other news, Cicada deuce is still MIA."

"All right, we should get to CCPD, see if we can find anything that could help us track her." Barry nods towards Nora and I, then walks away, Nora and I quickly following him.

-

Cecile walked through CCPD with Captain Singh and Joe, "All the metas that we couldn't cure, we got safely evacuated and they're waiting at a protected holding facility."

"Nice work, both of you." Captain Singh nods, walking towards his office.

"Well the work's not done yet." Joe said, "I mean, the metas are safe for now, but Cicada's still out there, so the people are still in danger."

"Fill me in on the details." Barry calls out from where we stood when Joe, Cecile and Singh head into the office, as he pulled on the glove on his hand, "I'm ready for this nightmare to end."

Nora puts on her gloves, "It should've been over already."

I sigh, "Nora, look, I'm sure Ralph had a good reason."

"Until we figure out what it is, we just gotta concentrate on this, all right?" Barry agreed, then grabbed his tweezers and crouched over the glass, "Wait a second."

Nora crouched also, "What is that?"

"Looks like wood." Barry held up for me to see, as I crouched down also to get a better look at it.

"From what?" I thought out loud, "I mean the floor is marble, furniture's untouched, and the skylight's made of glass and metal."

"Well if it didn't come from Cicada's point of entry-" Barry trailed off, looking between us.