Chapter 10 You're Kidding
Okay, that meme is just hilarious! The Flash on coffee, we're all DOOMED! (for those of you who can't see it)
Captain America Civil War comes out tomorrow! *squeals* I'm so excited to see it at some point! Literally the only commercial I get on YouTube.
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I slipped my newly painted T-shirt on and grinned. "Ta-da!"
"That didn't take long," Cisco commented, not looking away from his computer.
"Of course not. Super speed, remember? What time is it?"
Cisco glanced at the lower right corner of his screen. "Noon."
"No wonder! I'm going to Jitters."
"Knock your socks off."
I grinned and ran out the door. I was so caught up in running that I almost ran straight passed my destination. I was saved from doing so by tripping on the curb and sliding three feet on the concrete.
"Smooth move Skye."
I looked up to see Barry just coming out of the door. I grinned. "Thanks. I try."
Barry smiled back. "You're welcome. See you at S.T.A.R. tonight."
I got up. "Have fun playing computer games!"
"I would never play computer games to pass the time."
"Tell me why I don't believe you."
Barry laughed and started down the street. "Tell yourself. I'm late."
I rolled my eyes. "That makes two of us," I muttered. I was pretty sure I was late for something, but didn't know what.
I stepped into the cozy cafe to find that it was surprisingly empty. There were only a handful of people sitting at the tables, most of whom appeared to be working on computers. I walked up to the counter and leaned against it casually.
I didn't need to wait long before I saw Iris. "Hello!" I called, waving her over.
"Let me guess," she said with a smile, walking up behind the cash register. "A giant sandwich and the biggest donut of the bunch?"
I feigned surprise. "How did you know?"
Iris laughed. "I'm psychic."
"Ah yes. That explains everything."
Iris handed me the sandwich, which she had clearly made beforehand, along with the usual gigantic donut. "Nice shirt."
I sat down in one of the high chairs. "I made it myself. Caitlin gave me the idea by saying I needed a shirt that said 'Sarcasm Alert' on the front, so..." I gestured to my shirt with one hand and started eating my sandwich with the other. "Voila."
My earpiece crackled a little bit. "Skye. Why didn't you tell me you knew Captain America, The Winter Soldier and Black Widow?!" Cisco's slightly furious, but also amused, voice said.
"One moment Iris. Cisco wants something from me." I got up and walked several steps away. "You're just now figuring this out?"
"Why didn't you say anything though?!"
"You're a smart guy. I knew you'd figure it out eventually."
I heard Cisco sigh. "That doesn't mean you couldn't tell me who they were."
"Oh but it does. Did you want anything else from me?"
"Nope. That's all. I'm done being annoyed with you now."
I walked back over to Iris and sat down. "Cisco just wanted to know if I knew someone."
Iris nodded. "Barry was just here. I don't know if you saw him, but apparently he knows Oliver Queen."
I looked around again. "Oliver Queen is here?" Sure enough, in the back corner of the cafe, there sat Oliver and Felicity. I grinned. "I'm just meeting lots of old friends. I should get struck by lightning more often!"
Iris looked both shocked and horrified. "You don't mean that?"
"I'm kidding! Relax!"
Iris relaxed then frowned. "You know Oliver too?"
I smiled. "I had to help Felicity with a tech problem."
Iris looked at me skeptically. "Sorry, but I don't believe you on that point."
"Alright then." I stood up and walked calmly over to where Oliver and Felicity sat. "Hello there Longshot."
Oliver didn't turn around. I knew he didn't need to. I was the only person who called him Longshot. "Hello Short Stuff."
"She's really not that short," Felicity pointed out. "Why do you call her Short Stuff?"
"Because she's almost taller than me."
I grinned. "Not to mention faster."
Oliver turned around and looked up at me. "Barry said something about being really fast. You might need to test that sometime soon."
I shrugged. "Just ask Cisco. He'll be more than happy to tell you all about the treadmill he built that can move fast enough for Barry and I to use."
"I think about it."
He didn't need to say anything else for me to know he was done talking. He turned back to the table. I smiled at Felicity and walked back to Iris. "See?"
Iris looked stunned. "Why didn't you tell me?"
I smirked. "That's what Cisco said. I didn't think it was important. I have lots of mysterious connections."
"I'm not even going to ask," Iris sighed.
"Good, 'cause I wouldn't tell you." I picked up my sandwich and donut and headed for the door. "I would stay, but I got a job at S.T.A.R. Labs and I said I'd do stuff today."
Iris smiled and waved. "Have fun!"
I left, quickly eating my sandwich and donut once I was a block away. I looked at my watch. "No way," I muttered. I'd been in Jitters for almost two hours. "Time does still fly."
I licked the frosting off my fingers and ran to S.T.A.R. Labs.
Cisco still sat in front of his computer with a sucker in his mouth. I tapped his shoulder. "Don't you ever take a break?"
"Mmm," he looked up at me and took the sucker out of his mouth. "I took one five minutes ago."
"I see. Any updates on the Weather Wizard, Pyro, or Captain Cold?"
"Not yet," Cisco looked over at another computer. "Oh, wait. Captain Cold is going to be by the train tracks tonight just after the sun sets."
I frowned, looking at the same screen. "It's a map. How does that tell us where he's going to be?"
Cisco pointed to a blue-tooth device in his ear. "I put bugs in everything."
I smiled. "Clever."
"Hey, I'm a smart guy. You said so yourself." He put the sucker in his mouth again and proceeded to ignore my existence.
I walked over to the desk I'd claimed, then remembered that my chair was still on the opposite side of the room. I hadn't bothered to move in back after flopping into it. I sighed and ran over, shoving it back over to my desk and sitting down.
My computer hummed when I turned it on. The screen was filled with a picture of Assassin's Creed assassins. I smiled, remembering the day I'd found the wallpaper. I didn't want to change it, even though I hardly had time to play the game anymore, because it looked cool.
(A/N This is what it looks like)
(HOLY COW I WAS NOT EXPECTING IT TO BE THAT BIG! Okay, back to the story)
I opened up a special program I'd created called Auto-Hack and clicked on the word ProudNerd, which is what Cisco had named his computer. There was a dark blue status bar in the center of my screen. A few seconds later the words Computer Hacked appeared. It now showed the map that Cisco kept looking at.
There was a loud ding from Cisco's computer. Cisco turned toward it and frowned. "My computer just got hacked into. Hang on."
Shoot! I quickly hit the Hide connection button, but I wasn't fast enough.
"SKYE ALLEN!" Cisco exclaimed between laughter. "What did you hack my computer for?!"
"I didn't!" I lied, shutting down the program.
"It says right here on my screen! Hacked into by IncognitoAssassin, that's your computer! Wait... now it says undetected..."
I turned away from him to hide my grin. "Whoever it was must have stopped."
Cisco came over and peered at my computer screen. "Yes. It seems they did." He rested his chin on my head and started looking through the programs on my computer.
"Cisco!" I snatched the mouse away from him and moved my head.
"What? I was just looking!"
"Look at your own computer," I snapped, closing the multitude of windows Cisco had opened. "Let me play with my own computer."
Cisco grinned and walked back over to his computer.
"I'm not superhuumaan!" Barry sang, shoes squealing on the tile behind my chair and making me jump.
"Huh, I wonder what song you were listening to," I said sarcastically, turning my chair to look at him. "And technically that isn't true."
"Skye," Cisco said, standing up to look over the extra computers he'd set up. "Don't forget about Captain Cold."
"Tell Sparky that," I said, getting up and sorting through my bag.
Barry looked from me to Cisco. "What did I miss? And where's Dr. Wells and Caitlin?"
"You missed that Captain Cold is going to be somewhere around the train tracks soon. As for Wells and Caitlin, I have no idea," I said quickly, not looking up from my bag.
"They haven't been here all day?"
"Not since Caitlin gave me this shirt and fabric paint."
Cisco started laughing. "You guys are so awesome!"
I stopped sorting through my bag and Barry gave him a quizzical look. Cisco didn't stop laughing. If possible, he actually started laughing harder when the two of us stopped what we were doing.
"Now what did we do?" Barry asked.
"You really didn't notice?" Cisco managed to get his laughter mostly under control. "You two-" His computer beeped, catching his attention. His face fell. "Cold is there. You two should-"
Before he could finish both Barry and I had changed and shot away.
We wove between cars in an unspoken race. I could feel and see the green lightning clearly in the somewhat dark streets we ran through. We both stopped at exactly the same moment at the tracks. There was a wide open space where we stood with a handful of trees scattered around.
Barry looked around, humming the Skillet song Hero quietly. There was a train rumbling toward us, the three lights on the front making me squint.
There was a flash of blue that sailed between Barry and I and hit the tracks. I flinched away from it instinctively. Ice spread across the metal and wood with a crackling sound. Someone laughed behind me as the train hit the ice and flew off the tracks in slow motion.
I didn't even look at Barry to see if he was running for the train too. I ran forward, leaping into the engine. I picked up the portly conductor and tried to lift him up. He wasn't as light as the people I'd saved in the theater.
The train was tilting slowly. I grunted and heaved the man out of his seat and managed to drag him out of the train to safety. Panting, I turned back to the train in time to see Barry, surrounded by yellow lightning, place a woman gently on the grass.
"Anyone else?" I called. "Did you check?"
Barry shook his head. "Just her and the conductor, and you got him."
I relaxed and the train crashed to the ground. The woman and the conductor looked around in shock. They looked from me to Barry to Captain Cold.
I didn't dare turn away from Cold. "Run," I said over my shoulder.
Neither one objected. They both jumped up and started running away from us.
Captain Cold smiled wickedly and clicked his tongue. "Why risk your lives for two people? Wanted to play the hero once again I suppose? Well, I'll put a stop to that."
I glared at him. "That's two more people who can live another day. That's enough reward for me."
Barry was also glaring daggers.
My earpiece buzzed. "Skye? Skye?! Barry's thingy's off! Are you okay?" Cisco asked.
Cisco you have the worst timing! I shouted at him in my head as his voice distracted me. Less than a second later I heard Barry shout. "SKYE!" just before I was knocked backward by an icy blast from Captain Cold.
I shouted from pain and surprise as I crashed against the train with a loud metallic thud. My vision blurred for an instant, but was back to normal in no time.
I tried to get up but Barry shoved me down again. "Stay."
I laughed weakly. "I'm not a dog Barry," I groaned.
"I know but- AGH!" Barry thumped against the train next to me.
A sentence from one of the books I'd read popped in my head as probably the only clear thought besides 'ow'. This wasn't exactly the best time for references but... "Blast you six ways from next Wednesday!"
Despite the amount of pain I knew he was in Barry started laughing. Captain Cold tilted his head in confusion but didn't point his gun away from us.
"Drop the gun!"
I turned my head in surprise at Cisco's voice. He stood with Caitlin behind him holding up the gigantic hose from the S.T.A.R. Labs vacuum cleaner. I had to hold my breath to keep from laughing as he pointed it at Captain Cold. "This is Mega-Freeze. It's got sixty times the power of that little on in your hand."
Captain Cold smirked. "You won't shoot me."
I glanced at Barry and had to go through the painful process of not laughing again. His expression was something between relief at Cisco being there, confusion that was likely from the vacuum, and horror, also probably from what Cisco had made up about the vacuum.
"Try me," Cisco growled.
Cold hesitated a moment before he dropped the gun on the ground. "Fine. Have it your way. But I swear, this isn't the last time we will meet."
He marched away between two warehouses. A movement on the roof caught my eye. A hooded figure was crouched on the edge with a bow in hand. I almost waved, but then realized that Oliver probably didn't want me knowing he was there.
Cisco and Caitlin abandoned the vacuum and ran over to us.
"Are you two alright?" Cisco asked, pacing between us, probably wondering who to help up first.
"Just a little frozen," Barry said with a shiver.
I grinned up at Cisco and Caitlin. "Nice vacuum."
Barry looked shocked. "That... that's a vacuum?!" He started laughing. "I couldn't figure out what Skye's expression was for!"
Cisco grinned. "It's literally the most threatening thing I could find in the entire building."
"It certainly looks the part," Barry said. "Mind helping us up so we can actually get defrosted?"
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Hey guys! I'm sorry it's been so long but I've been interrupted a lot.
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