Lost and Found-1

Crashing Down

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"Killed by a shadow? That's a new one." Caitlin exclaims.

"Maybe that's what killed Edward Clariss." Cisco offers but Barry shakes his head.

"Clariss was a meta-human. This victim doesn't appear to be."

"Do we know if this shadow meta is from the particle acceleratory explosion or from Doctor Alchemy?" I ask Barry.

"Not yet, no. we actually haven't found any evidence to process."

"If only we had a way, Francisco. To see what happened." H.R. looks at Cisco.

"Where was the crime scene located?"

"In Chubbuck, uh, Palmer and Racine, around 11:00 last night." Cisco pulls up the footage and we flinch seeing the evidence. A dark shadowy figure is strangling the victim.

"Whoa. That's gonna give me night terrors."

"Shade."

"What?" I ask H.R. who is watching the footage with a smile on his face.

"We had a meta-hominid on my planet who could do virtually the same thing. Called himself Shade."

"What did he do, throw his side-eye at his enemies?" Cisco sasses at H.R.

"No, I know it's a terrible nickname, right? But what Shade could do was vibrate at such a high frequency he created the illusion that he was a shadow."

"That's how I phase." Barry states.

"Do you think he's doing the same thing?"

"He has to be." I say as Cisco pulls up the heat signatures. "Heat signature's fluctuating. Redshift is abnormally high."

"Okay, so he is. He must be slowing down his molecules whenever he attacks." Caitlin hypothesizes.

"So, we just have to figure out a way to keep them slowed down. And that should be enough to grab him."

"All right, can you get started?"

"Okay, but like right this minute?" Cisco questions Barry.

"Yeah, I'm sor...we...just...we gotta stop this guy fast. So we can focus on Alchemy. Wally has been having dreams about being a speedster. Alchemy dreams."

"Wally was a speedster in Flashpoint?" I ask Barry and he nods.

"Anyone else gonna have powers we should know about?" I don't look at Cisco as he asks this. I have to keep it under control.

"No." Barry shakes his head.

"Okay, Cisco and I are going to work on Shade." I speak up gathering our stuff.

"I'll supervise."

"Uh, Anna ran a billion-dollar company. I think she's fine." Cisco fires at H.R. "Besides you're gonna find my cuffs."

"I'll find some cuffs."

"Why do you think H.R. stole your cuffs?" I ask Cisco as I test the device's electrical circuit.

"Because he did!"

"You just don't like him."

"Like? Of course, I don't like him. I don't trust him."

"Cisco we all agreed to give him a shot. He apologized for deceiving us about being a brilliant scientist."

"There's still something off about him."