New Earth: Flash

Chapter 13

"Dr. Wells, do you have any ideas on where whatever is causing this storm is?" Barry asked over his comms.

"Best our satellite can find is somewhere at the docks." Thawne said.

"Huh, that's different." Barry mumbled to himself as he ran towards the docks.

"Cisco and Frost will meet you there." Thawne said.

"Copy." Flash said as he sped towards the docks and as he arrived, he realized why it was so hard for the satellites to get an exact location on Mardon. The whole area was covered in a fog.

"Cisco, Frost, I'm here. Where are you guys?" Flash asked, right as he heard a breach open up and Vibe and Frost jumped out of it.

"Right here. But with this fog, it's hard to tell where anyone else is." Vibe said, since none of them could tell where their opponent was.

"I think I know a way to help with that." Thawne said over the comms.

"What do you mean?" Flash asked.

"Barry, if you create a funnel while you run, it should." Thawne said.

"Clear the fog. I'm on it." Flash said as he sped off and ran around the docks fast enough to dispel the fog, but not fast enough to tip Thawne off. He'd wait until he and Thawne locked horns to reveal his increase in speed.

Sure enough, the fog quickly faded as the Flash came to a stop next to his teammates.

"Okay, now the fog is clear, but I still can't see our target." Vibe said.

"Maybe you're just not looking in the right place." A new and familiar voice said to them, though they were surprised by who it was.

"And you are?" Vibe asked, even though all three of them knew who it was.

"Call me, Weather Witch." Joss Jackham said and to their shock, she held up her hands and summoned lightning to both of them.

"Seriously." Vibe complained.

"Scatter." Flash shouted as the three of them jumped out of the way right before Joss blasted lightning at them.

"I thought she needed her staff to do any of this?" Frost said.

"New Earth, new possibilities. I guess she really is the apple of her father's eye." Vibe groaned.

"You two need to clear any civilians left around here. I'll deal with her." Flash said and Frost and Vibe both nodded as Flash turned back towards Weather Witch.

"Dr. Wells, any suggestions on how to stop someone who can control the weather?" Flash asked.

"Use the fact that she seems to prefer lightning to your advantage." Thawne said.

"What do you mean?" Flash asked, though he was pretty sure he had an idea.

"Use your lightning as a magnet to attract her's to you. Turn her lightning from a problem into a fuel source." Thawne said.

"Got it." Flash said as he began running around Joss.

"You really think running will save you?" Joss asked as she continued to try to throw lightning at Flash, but to her surprise, not only was this guy faster than lightning, but he seemed to be feeding off her attacks. However, before she could switch weather tactics, the Flash sped right up to her and lightning punched her, sending her flying backwards and knocking her unconscious, right as the CCPD arrived, with Joe leading them, a pair of meta cuffs in his hands.

"Evening officers." Flash said and Joe had to stop himself from laughing at the Flash's casualness about this whole thing.

"Who are you?" Joe asked, even though he already knew.

"I'm the Flash. And this woman is responsible for the chaos that happened tonight. She's a meta with the ability to control the weather." Flash said, grateful that thanks to Superman already existing on this earth, metas were already a bit of a common occurrence in the world now, since several of Superman's enemies had found ways to give themselves powers to try and level the playing field against the man of steel.

"I figured there was a meta here, that's why I came prepared." Joe said as he locked the cuffs on Joss's wrists.

"Take her into custody." Joe said as the other cops nodded as they took Joss into custody.

"Guess it's time for me to go." Flash said as he heard Vibe and Frost breach out and he then proceeded to speed away with Joe watching him speed away.

"Welcome back Flash." Joe said.

As Barry ran back towards the Star Labs, he couldn't help but feel a bit guilty about keeping Jesse out of the loop. Sure she hadn't existed on the old earth, but she looked exactly like Jesse Wells. That had to mean that her mind was able to be restored with Jesse Wells memories.

He knew that the speed force had warned him not to, but honestly, Barry had enough secrets in his life already, he didn't want to have to keep any from his own sister. Especially since she was the only member of the team out of the loop. It didn't seem fair to her and if Jesse did find out, it would likely only break trust between her and the team. He'd seen the effects keeping secrets had had on Oliver's team and that was a small and relatively necessary secret, but a secret like this, could end up turning Jesse from his sister into his enemy. And he had no intention of doing that.

So, once he figured out how to do it without J'onn's aid, he would give his sister the memories of the old universe. Even if they weren't her memories exactly.