Laura
Apparently Barry went after a shooting with 3 gunmen and got his ass handed to him, so now I'm tending to his wounds since I'm now his personal physician, well because Caitlin volunteered me to do it, thanks Caitlin.
I was cleaning his cuts with alcohol after Barry got beat pretty badly "Sorry, the abrasions are already rapidly healing" God this guy damaged Barry pretty good. I noticed Barry was staring at me while I'm cleaning his cuts.
"You're staring" I state.
"No, just admiring the beauty" He replies which makes me blush.
"Yeah I got my ass handed to me" Barry replies.
"You got blood on my suit" Cisco states.
"We have bigger things to worry about" I roll my eyes.
"I think some of it belongs to him" Barry replies "Another not so friendly metahuman" He adds angrily. I finish cleaning his cuts and Dr Wells loads a photo on the screen of a man named Danton Black.
"Danton Black, a bio genesis, specializing in therapeutic cloning, he replaced failing organs with improved ones" Dr Wells replies.
"Apparently Stagg stole his research and then fired him" Caitlin explains.
Barry stands up "I saw Black recreate duplicates from his body" He states.
"That's pretty ironic, the guy specialized in cloning and now he can make xeroxes of himself" Cisco replies.
"Are all metahumans going to want revenge?" I asked. Cisco nods at me and I nod back.
"If he was experimenting on his own body when he was exposed to the dark matter wave released by the particle accelerator explosion" Dr Wells ignores my question.
"Meet Captain Clone!" We all look at Cisco and he looks at us "You're right I can come up with something better" Cisco says.
Barry starts to leave which I don't know why "Where are you going?" I ask.
"Joe's right, I'm in way over my head, I'm fast but I'm no warrior man. I could barely fight one metahuman, let alone six" Barry turns around and leaves but I decide to run after him.
"You can't just give up" I call out to him as he rounds the corner to leave, he stops and I walk closer to him.
"I have to, I can't fight this metahuman, and he clones himself! I can't be a hero especially for you" I snap my head to him, after he says that. "This was a mistake" He speeds off, which I drop my head down. Barry Allen you are one crazy boy.
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Caitlin had the idea on how Black duplicates so she decided to run some tests and eventually made one so she wanted me to call Barry to tell him even if he wasn't on the team anymore.
He answered "Look I told you I'm through" He starts.
"I know but you need to get to Star Labs right now!" I say urgently which will send him here hopefully. I see a flash and Barry appears in front of Black.
"Barry it's okay" Caitlin tries to calm him down.
"It's not okay! Black is just standing there, that's not him is it?" We all shake our heads.
"It's one of his replicates" Dr Wells replies.
"So how'd you get him?" Barry asks.
"I grew him" She smiles "I isolated a blood sample of Black's blood from your suit and saw if I could recreate in virto process and learn how Black multiplies. So I exposed the target cells to a protein gel and it replicated to that" She motions to Black's clone.
"Why isn't he, it doing something?" Barry asks while correcting himself.
"We did a brain scan, involuntarily motive functions are acting else" Dr Wells replies.
"We think it's acting as a receiver" Cisco adds.
"The clones aren't in show without Black, shut down the real Black and you might shut them all down" Caitlin explains.
"How do we know which one is the real Danton Black?" Barry questions.
"That occurred to me given your own passing out, Black has limits just like you, controlling all of those clones must require a tremendous amount of physical strength so look for the one showing signs of weakness or fatigue" I answer to Barry while he looks at me in a goofy way again.
"Just a theory, but one you may want to put to the test, Mr Allen" Dr Wells chimes in.
"Plus I whipped up these high calorie protein bars for you to keep your metabolism up" Cisco smiles, the clone moves and it moves towards me and I immediately start screaming, but he gets shot by Detective West thank god. Caitlin and I are holding onto each other for dear life but pull away quickly.
"Any more of them?" He asks us.
"Nope" Caitlin replies quickly.
"Why did it start moving?" Barry asks.
"The prime, it's on the move, this one heard the summon battle" Dr Wells replies.
"I know where he was summoned to, Stagg Industries" Joe answers.
"You should call it in" Barry immediately says.
"Police can't fight this, what's Black become, like Mardon beyond me. Maybe beyond them too, the only person that's not beyond is you, you gotta do this, and I get it. So for once in your life do what I tell you to do, go stop him" Barry smiles and walks off to go put his suit on.
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Caitlin, Cisco, Joe, Dr Wells and I were surrounded by the computer, I was in the middle mostly since I was at the computer first but everyone just swarmed the computer like they were bees, I was scared for my life what would happen to Barry, Black can make clones of himself and I hope that Barry can find the prime.
It was dead silence no one spoke a word because we were waiting for Barry to speak and give us an update on what's going on.
"Remember Barry find the prime" I speak up into the earpiece.
"There's too many of them to fight" He replies, I look at Cisco and Caitlin and we all look at each other with worry.
"Barry you need to isolate the prime" Dr Wells reminds him.
"I can't, it's impossible" He sighs.
"Nothing's impossible. Barry, you taught me that" Joe says into the microphone.
I could hear everyone breathing because it was so quiet, just the sound of us breathing "Barry? Barry are you alright?" Joe asks.
"I'm fine. I'm fine. It's done"
My face broke out into a smile knowing that Barry was okay, I glanced at Caitlin and she gave me a nod that it was okay and we're going to be okay. Barry arrived shortly and he told us that Danton Black died even if he tried to save him. We were watching the TV which had a news report about Danton Black how he died.
"I tried to save him" Barry says.
"Doesn't sound like he didn't want to be saved. Some people when they break, they can't be put together again" Dr Wells replies.
"Some people heal even stronger" Barry argues.
"I hope so" I feel Cisco and Caitlin glance at me at the corner of my eye, which I ignore.
"Well at least Multiplex won't be able to hurt anyone else" Cisco says while he is proud of finding another name for Danton Black.
"You're proud of finding another name aren't you?" I asked, while patting his shoulder.
"Yep definitely" Cisco smiles which sends Caitlin and I in giggles.
"I might be in the suit doing all the running, but when I'm out there helping people making a difference, you're all out there with me" Barry eyes followed all of us.. "Finally realized something, we were all struck by that lightening" We smile at him and next thing I know he's out the door in a flash. I just stand there looking at an empty doorway while thinking of a certain Barry Allen.
What did he mean when he said I can't do it for you?
OMG I updated, I'm back from the dead bc I updated.
SO this chapter was the last one of the The Fastest Man Alive and then I'm onto the 3rd episode which I'm excited to do! Because I've got some Larry or WinterAllen or Baura (you guys pick the ship name) action which involves him saving her from the Mist haha.
So I hope you enjoyed this chapter please give it a vote and leave a comment on what you thought about this chapter. Give me motivation to update my other books bc I want to but lazy as hell.
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~ ciscoed