The Infiltrator (A Flash Fanfic)

Chapter 10

Disclaimer: I don't own The Flash or any of its characters. I only own my OC's. :)

( 1 year later)

I duck Max's punch to my stomach and deliver a quick row of punches to his stomach, using my speed so my hands are a blur as I repeatedly punch him. He stumbles back slightly under the pressure of all the punches. Seeing him falter slightly, I kick his legs, sending him falling to the ground with a heavy thunk. Tony, our instructor whose name I only learnt recently, blows his whistle, signaling the end of the fight. I go to help Max up but he brushes me off, hobbling over to his group of friends who all give me the death glare. I walk over to Dylan, Kyra and Amy. All four of us sharing a group high five.
"somehow, the more times you beat him, the more satisfying it gets," Dylan states, causing us all to burst out into laughter.
The instructor walks over to us which is never a good sign, we immediately go silent.
"Lexi, Mrs. McCulloch requests your presence in her office," He tells me. I swallow hard.
"Good luck," I hear Kyra whisper to me. I leave the training hall and make my way over to her office, knocking on her door.
"You may enter," she calls from inside and I cautiously enter.
"Welcome Lexi, take a seat," She tells me. I sit down on one of the hard plastic chairs, sinking back into it.
"You've been here for a year now and I believe you are ready to become a field agent," she says the words I was dreading but knew were coming. I nod.
"You'll set out tomorrow at 5.30am. Here is your target's file," she tells me, handing me a manilla folder.
"Open it in private. All the details of your mission are in there as well," she instructs me. I nod again. She sighs.
"You may go now Lexi. Good luck for tomorrow." I stand up and leave her office, closing the door behind me. I walk back to my barracks solemnly, already dreading what I'll have to do tomorrow. I open the door to my barracks and sit down on my bed. Everyone else is still in the training hall or in their abilities classes so the room is empty.
I open the file and pull out a stack of stapled together sheets of paper. The first page shows a picture of my target. It is a man in his early 30s or so. His superhero name is aqua. He can control water. His real name is Edward Thomas, he lives alone in the outer rings of Central City. My mission is to lure him out into a public area and fight him. I read further down the page and swallow hard. It says to eliminate the target and spray paint Black Hole onto the ground next to him before running away from the scene. I hear the door open and I quickly shove the papers and folder under my pillow. I look up to see Kyra have entered the room, she sits down on the bed next to me.
"You got assigned your first mission, didn't you," she whispers. I nod a tear trickling down my cheek.
"I'm so sorry," she gasps, hugging me tight as I cry softly into her shoulder. We were hoping to escape before my first mission but we got held up with trying to find my doses of the cure. They keep it in their most secure facility under lock and key.
"What's your mission?" she asks me softly. I wipe a few tears from my face.
"There is a small superhero calling himself Aqua. I have to fight him in a public area and eliminate him before spray painting Black Hole onto the ground next to him," I tell her softly. She gasps. She and Dylan have been doing missions for about 3 months or so now but all they do is gather files and information from over Central City.
"They really are going to use you to get rid of all the superheroes," she whispers. I nod. With my speed just over Mach 8 now I'm more than fast enough for them.
"when do you have to go?" she asks.
"Tomorrow morning. 5.30am," I tell her. She nods in thought.
"Don't worry, Dylan and I will try our best to find a way to get your medicine," she reassures me. But not before tomorrow, is what we are both thinking.
Kyra leaves to go back to her dorm before curfew as I struggle to sleep. Tomorrow, I'm going to have to kill someone that just wants to help people.

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I wake up way before the other girls and quietly climb out of bed and to the bathroom as not to awake them. I quickly shower and brush my teeth before pulling my hair into a high ponytail. I sneak back over to my bed and open the chest with my clothes in it, looking for the mission suit they gave me. It is a pair of tight black jeggings and a black shirt followed by a black, leather jacket and black gloves. I then pull out my military grade black combat shoes, the only pair of shoes that don't burst into flames when I run. Lastly, I pull out the black mask that goes around my eyes to hide my identity. I head out of my barracks, closing the door softly behind me and head over to the loading Dock of the building, thankful for my photographic memory which means I don't need to bring the blueprints of the building with me. I see Eva, waiting for me there at a small table along with two burly men.
"Lexi," she calls me over to her. I sit down opposite her.
"Yes Eva?" I ask her. The time is 5.34am so I have to go soon. She reaches forward and grasps my left arm which was resting on the table, pulling it towards her and pulling up the sleeve of my jacket, exposing my bare arm. I'm about to pull away when the two men step forward, one of them holding my arm down tightly against the table.
"What are you doing?" I exclaim, panicking. She smiles softly.
"Just a little bit of insurance," she answers, making me confused. Before I can think anything of it, the second man brings forward a red hot brander with some sort of hexagon symbol on it and the words Black Hole in the center. The man holding down my arm stuffs a wad of cloth in my mouth as the one with the brander presses it down onto the inside of my arm, just above my wrist. I scream at the searing heat, my vision going splotchy from the pain. He holds it there for a second before he removes it and quickly places a wet rag onto it, cooling it down. Once he is sure I'm not going to pass out, he removes the rag and the first man let's go of my arm.
"Did you just brand me!" I exclaim. Eva nods.
"There was also a tracker in it so don't even think about running away. We will track you down," she tells me. I swallow hard. Eva smiles.
"You should go on to your mission now, here is the location Aqua has been seen fighting most." She hands me a map and I quickly glance at it. There is a red dot over the town square. With my photographic memory, all I have to do is glance at the map before I'm speeding off, leaving a trail of dust in my wake. I run as fast as I can toward the town square from Black Hole headquarters which would take a few people a couple of hours to drive. I run to the town square, stopping in the centre of it in time to see Aqua use a stream of water to knock a thief to the ground. I run up next to him, punching him hard in the stomach with my right hand before he can do anything. He doubles over in pain, gasping as the wind was knocked out of him. He recovers quickly and shoots me with a stream of water to the shoulder of my branded arm, causing me to gasp aloud in pain. I speed over to his side as he starts to shoot another stream of water towards me. As I run, everything is frozen around me. I see the water that was flying towards me and shocked looks on civilians standing around. I close my eyes as I use my speed to knock him against the wall he gasps on impact, his neck cracking to the side from whiplash. I grab his arm and pull it hard backwards until I hear a crack. He slumps down unconscious to the ground. I'm about to step forward to finish him off when I stop myself. Black Hole will still be happy with me if I don't kill him. I seriously broke his arm which he used to control his powers and he probably won't be able to use it again anyway. I pull out my tiny can of black spray paint from my pocket and hastily spray Black Hole on the ground next to him. I look around once, seeing the shocked faces of people as they start to call the ambulances before I speed away and back to Black Hole headquarters.

(1627 words)
I'm so terrible at naming heroes, I know Aqua is such a lame name.
Sorry for the slightly shorter chapter. I promise that the next one will be a bit longer.