The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive (Male Reader Insert)

8.3 Future Mistakes, Present Problems

Y/N and his team were all back at S.T.A.R. Labs trying to solve Judy's predicament. They were looking at the tachyon device she had used to travel through time. Dr. Wells explained some readings he and Cisco took while holding onto the object.

Wells: Readings are consistent with the lightning produced both by Judy and Y/N. However, the scorch marks and rusted components seem to indicate some kind of overload of sorts.

Cisco: We did a scan on the power cell unit and found traces of tachyon particles flooding the breach module. Our best guess is that something went wrong with the holding unit. It held onto too much of the lightning Judy was producing and overloaded the unit.

Y/N: Where did you get this thing anyway? Did you build it?

Judy: No. Thawne actually found it in one of your old storage crates. Said it hadn't been used in decades.

Wells: So this tachyon device is-

Y/N: The same one I used last year to get to Earth-27.

Y/N took the device from Wells and examined it. He flipped it over and took off the back case of the central ring. He stared at it for a moment before spotting something unusual.

Y/N: Odd.

Judy: What?

Y/N: There seems to have been some components added to this. They weren't there on the initial design schematics when we created it.

Cisco: Maybe it was added later on at the last minute?

Y/N shook his head.

Y/N: Not likely. Victor always tried to make his toys symmetrical and universal, that way they would be easier to fix and could adapt with any other piece of tech, whether it be made by Cisco or Bruce. But this just looks tacked on.

Caitlin walked over and looked at the added components with him. They were small, maybe about the size of an eraser with wires sticking out and connecting to the rest of the ring.

Caitlin: This looks like a heat sync fused with a thermoconducting magnet.

Y/N: Yeah. It almost looks like someone was trying to convert the synchrotron into a cyclotron.

Cisco walked over and looked at the components they were pointing at.

Cisco: Please. What kind of amateur would try something like that? Except you're right.

Judy: Could this be how my speed was diminished?

Y/N: The synchrotron format was designed to restore and recycle the lightning generated when a speedster runs. Sorta like feeding off of your own energy. That way it could propel you to where you needed to be. But this... The cyclotron method is too wasteful. The lightning has to pass through multiple points before being recharged. Some of that energy is wasted as heat, but this seems to have been doing more than that. It actually seems to have been purposefully holding onto the lightning.

Cisco took the tachyon disk and brought his nose down to it. 

Cisco: I'm getting hints of electrical discharge and isotopic decay. If this thing was holding onto the tachyons generated by Judy's lightning then it's long gone.

Y/N turned to his daughter while Caitlin took a look at the device.

Y/N: Thawne didn't make any changes to the device, did he?

Judy: No. He just handed it to me after retrieving it from the Flash Museum. 

Y/N was about to ask about the whole museum part, but decided against it, getting back on task.