New Earth: Flash

Chapter 9

Here's the rewrite of chapter nine, since that's the one that I need to change. Yes, I have decided to give Iris mirror powers. I was already going to do it, but I wanted to see how well received the idea would be first before I did anything.

Cisco was going through the security footage of what happened to confirm what Thawne had said, since while he wasn't surprised that Barry had been pulled into the new speed force, he wanted to be sure that's what happened to Iris and Jesse. What he found surprised him.

"Dr. Wells, you weren't completely right." Cisco said, getting their attention.

"What do you mean?" Joe demanded as he walked up to Cisco.

"This is what little security footage we managed to get as Iris and Jesse left the safe zone and entered the blast radius." Cisco said as he pulled it up on the monitors.

"Okay, what are we looking at?" Joe asked as they watched.

"Watch closely at what happens when the energy wave hits Jesse and Iris." Cisco said and they nodded as he played the footage in super slow motion for them to see.

"It looks like they're being disintegrated." Joe said as he watched the wave consume Jesse.

"No, that was Jesse being sent into the new speed force. But watch what happens when it gets close to Iris." Cisco said as they watched how right before the energy wave hit Iris, her entire body seemed to refract like a diamond before she vanished.

"What was that?" Joe asked and Thawne's lips curled into a smile.

"I think I know what happened. Follow me please." Thawne said as he wheeled down out of the cortex and the rest of them followed him until they were standing in front of a mirror that had been hung up in the hallway that Iris and Jesse had vanished from.

"What are we doing here?" Joe asked.

"Wait for it." Thawne said and Cisco was the first one to figure it out, but before he could say anything, suddenly, Iris appeared in the mirror.

"What hell is going on?" Iris asked.

"Well Iris, it appears that you are a meta." Thawne said.

"Yeah, I guessed that much when I woke up and found myself inside a mirror." Iris said, still trying to get her bearings.

"How did this happen?" Joe asked.

"My best guess is that the adrenaline rush Iris experienced when she was about to be hit with the speed force energy was enough to trigger her dormant meta powers. And her panic caused her powers to instinctively send her into this mirror, the only place where she would be safe from the blast." Thawne said.

"Great, so now that we know how I got in, how the hell do I get out?" Iris asked.

"That is a good question. One that we can figure out while we also try and get Barry and Jesse out of the new speed force." Thawne said.

"Actually, I think we might have let them get themselves out, while we may have created a speed force, none of us really understand what happens next." Cisco said as he and Caitlin shared a smirk, since they, along with Joe and Iris, knew that Thawne had to pretend like there wasn't anything he knew about the speed force in order to keep his cover.

"I just hope that they're okay." Caitlin said.

"I'm sure that they'll be fine." Joe said, since no one besides Thawne knew the speed force as well as Barry.

When Barry came to, he found himself in immense pain.

"Uh, what happened?" Barry asked.

"You were torn apart and pieced back together instantly." a familiar voice said and Barry got up to see his mother standing in front of him.