It's been around two months since Westfield, Joss escaped with her new partner in crime, and Cicada has started killing again. Though, way more, as if he knows exactly who the Meta's are. You are currently meditating in the speedlab until you get slapped out of it by Sherloque."Wake up mon ami! We've got a location on Cicada!""Shoot! Where?!""Just follow Nora's GPS, the others are already there.""WHAT?!"You immediately speed away to Barry, Nora and the others.
On arrival you see Nora's back getting hit by Cicada, the damage is unknown.
Your powers get dampened, and you fall next to Nora, you kneel over her motionless body and look at Cicada with tears in your eyes while breathing heavily in anger. "You monster... You'll pay for that! YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT! "You lunge at him, but he quickly flies away using his dagger.
You feel your powers returning and you immediately speed Nora and Caitlin to the med lab."Well?" Iris asks Caitlin."Cicada caused an axial burst fracture in her L3 , L4 , and L5 vertebrae. He also severely displaced her fourth thoracic vertebrae. It's not good."But her speed healing is going to kick in, right?... Right?""Cicada's cut flooded her body with dark matter. It's affecting her powers. Her speed healing should kick in... for now. I'll keep monitoring her progress."Caitlin walks out of the room. You're sitting on a chair next to Nora's bed opposite of Barry and Iris, you're leaning forward with your elbows on your knees and your hands in your hair, holding your head up."Barry, Damian. It's okay, she'll heal. It'll be all right. This has happened before, she made it then, so she'll make it this time too."Your heel begins tipping on the ground out of anxiety, fear and anger."Iris, the reason I went after Homelander back then during our fight, was because I was sure her speed-healing would kick in and get her up on her feet quickly. But now, it's not working. Is it? And because of that she could become paralyzed, and worst case, she could die. And I don't care which monster does that, anyone who tries to take her from me, will get no mercy."A wheezing breath can be heard from Nora, indicating that she woke up. "Nora?" Iris says. "Oh, what happened?" Nora asks.
"Honey, um..." You say as you try to bring the news to her. "Oh, why does it hurt to breathe? "It's gonna hurt for a little bit." Iris says. "Why? I can't move my legs. Um, why can't I move my legs? Mom, I can't move my legs! "Nora starts to panic so you caress her cheek. "Nora. "Mom? Damian, why can't I move my legs?!""Nora, look. You can't move your legs because... Cicada broke your back." Iris says. "What? So, I'm paralyzed? What, forever? "No, no, not forever. "Well, for how long then? "We don't know. "A few minutes pass of you stroking your hand through Nora's hair, and you decide to speed to Wally and Joe who are in Tibet, because you don't know what to do.
And they'll have advice, right? They always do. Upon arrival a bunch of papers get flown off a table and some candles go out due to the wind created by your speed. Wally and Joe look at you as they have just received the news. "Damian, I'm so sorry..." Wally says.
"Don't be, she's not dead. "No, but still...""Why are you here, Damian?" Joe asks as you three sit down on a couch. "I'm here because I have no clue on what to do, Joe. I mean, if I go back, I'll be met with a Nora who doesn't know if she'll ever walk again, her parents who are scared out of their minds, and a serial killer still on the loose. I just can't stand to see all of that, not now, not when the reason why she's paralyzed is because I was stuck in my own little damn world while meditating! If I had heard the Damn alarm, I could have stopped Cicada! "Damian... She's not hurt because of you. Had you been there, what would've happened? Your powers would be gone, and you wouldn't be able to do anything. It would've ended up the same, with you blaming yourself. Even if you had intervened, that dagger would be lodged in your heart. And then what? Nora would blame herself and kill Cicada, and anyone else who got in her way.""Hmph...""Just like you would. Now, I know you're angry, but don't let that anger have you make the wrong decision. Because, what if your decision ends up being the wrong one in the end. "You stand up and walk to the door, you look at Joe and Wally over your shoulder. "That won't happen, because I'm not wrong. What's wrong, is this messed up world. "You speed out of the door to the CCPD, upon arrival you see Captain Singh speaking to his officers.
"I want this guy caught!" He says. His officers go do their work and he turns to you."Mr. Thawne, what can I do for you? "Um, I'd like to have a talk in private. "Singh nods and leads you to his office, he closes the blinds and locks the door. He sits down on his chair. "So, what do you want to talk about? "I assume you know of Dwyer's new murders, right? "Yes, of course I do. "Yes well, he broke XS'S back. "My god... Um, one question though, how do you know that? "You vibrate your hand in front of him. "Because I... am Paradox. "Singh looks a bit shocked "But, what will your wife think of it?... Oh wait, she's XS isn't she? "Yeah... And she isn't my wife. Yet. That's just a cover. "Oh, what do you mean by yet? Are you gonna propose? "Eventually, yeah. To be honest though, she'll probably beat me to it, heh. "How is Nora doing? "Well, because of Dwyer's power-dampening dagger not all of her powers are working, so her speed-healing is not kicking in fully. So, as of right now she's paralyzed. I mean, not even an hour ago I thought I lost her...""Oh Man... It must've been terrifying to not know if she would make it.""Yeah. It happens nearly every two months with The Flash, but you can't get used to it.""No, I'd imagine. "So, I guess you're here to see if we know anything new? "Yeah, that...""Okay, well, sorry to disappoint you, but we have none.""Hm... I'm sure Barry will, hell, he's probably on his way here right now. "Yeah well, he's one heck of a CSI.""Heh, tell me about it. I'll be getting back to Nora. "Okay, say hi for me, will ya?""I'll do that, goodbye."You speed out of the office and see Barry approaching with some list in hand. You speed further to STAR Labs and into the med lab, there you just stay with Nora while Caitlin performs a couple of tests. You're currently at Jitters
getting coffee for you and Nora, though as you turn around a woman is suddenly standing there. You bump into her and accidentally spill Nora's coffee over her. "Oh! Sorry!" You say. "No no, it's okay. "It's not! I'll get you a napkin. "That's not needed. "The person scurries to the bathroom and returns a few seconds later, fully cleaned. "That was... Fast? "Heh, it kinda runs in the family. "Uh-huh... Say, have we met before? You kind of look familiar.""As far as I know we haven't. "Huh, what's your name? "Lia... Uh, Lia... Moy.
"Huh, nice meeting you Lia.""Nice meeting you too...?""Oh right, Damian Thawne.""Well nice to meet you too Damian. "You take a sip of your coffee. "So, who's the lucky girl?" Lia asks, motioning at your ring."Hm? Oh, her name is Nora. Nora Thawne.""Nora... That's a nice name, I'm guessing the other coffee was meant for her? "Yeah, she's a little... Under the weather.""Hm, I'll get you a new coffee. "Oh that's really not necessary, I can buy it myself, after all I spilled it on you.""Nah, it was my fault, I was standing in the way. You couldn't have known I was there."Lia orders a coffee while you try to stop her, but to no avail. She hands the newly made coffee to you."Here you go, one Decaf Flash.""How did you know which one to get?""I saw your receipt, and you don't really look like the Decaf Flash kind of guy so I ordered it.""Huh, you're smart.""Thanks, I get that a lot. Hey, you seem to be checking your watch a lot, everything okay?""Yeah no I'm good, I told my wife I'd be back at 12:30.""You'd better get going then, it's 12:25.""Oh yeah, see you.""See you."You walk out of Jitters.'I could've sworn I've seen that woman somewhere before...'
You're currently with Barry and the others getting the Meta's on the helicopter, all those that were remaining on the list. It approaches, but so does Dwyer's dagger. It cuts the landing gear and Dwyer lands in front of everyone, depowering all of you. You and Barry immediately stand in front of the group."Thank you, Flash, for bringing them all to me. And Paradox, how is your little girlfriend?""She's doing fine, thanks for asking."You walk to Dwyer but stop halfway due to Barry grabbing your shoulder."Are you sure it's a good idea to go at him alone?" Ralph asksYou saw what happened to Nora, you can get killed!" Caitlin yells."Yeah, that's right, "You look back over your shoulder."Now will you shut up?!"You engage in combat with Orlin Dwyer."The chopper's not going to be able to land. Take everybody out the back and get them on it somehow." Barry tells Ralph.Ralph and Caitlin take all the Meta's somewhere else to be flown away with a helicopter, meanwhile, Barry helps you and you transform into Killer Frost."A new trick, it won't help." Orlin says.He knocks out Barry and flings him into a container. Frost creates a dagger out of ice which briefly flickers with red lightning and charge at him, engaging in a knife fight. Eventually you get knocked back into the hangar, and Dwyer runs through the building towards the Meta's. You feel Killer Frost leaving you and now helping Caitlin, for some reason, your speed returns. You grab Dwyer and throw him into a wall, you grab him again and run to China, dragging his back against the Great Wall of China. At the end you send him flying across the water, Barry shows up and catches him, he takes him to NASA, where a rocket is about to be launched and puts Dwyer underneath it, blasting him with the heat made from the rocket propulsion. Dwyer still lives due to his Meta powers, so Barry ties him to a pole with a rope. You speed around the earth multiple times until you hear something in the comms."Paradox, Barry! You're killing him!" Iris says."No Shit!" You say back."You're generating enough electricity to give Europe enough to go for a day! Dwyer won't survive that!""Kind of the point! "You're about to punch Dwyer until you get knocked out of the way by a mysterious red, purple and orange streak. Nora then appears in front of you and Barry."Paradox! Dad!" She yells.You and Barry immediately go to hug her. Barry quickly let's go to give you and Nora some Privacy."Glad to see you back on your feet honey." You say."We need to have a serious talk about your emotional control, darling." Nora says.Dwyer then flees using his dagger."You too Barry!" Iris says through the comms.You hear Barry mumble shit which makes both Nora and you chuckle.The West-Allen family and you are currently getting ready to go to bed, Barry and Iris in their room upstairs, and Nora and you in your room beneath it. You both get in bed."We still need to have that talk y'know..." Nora says."Yeah yeah, I know. I need to control my emotions.""You sure do,though,a normal talk is a little boring. Don't you think?""... What are you implying,Nora?""Why don't we have a more... Adult conversation?""Oh, uh... Well, I mean... Uh, we've joked about it a lot, but we've never really done it...""First time for everything, right? So, what's your answer honeypie?""You Suddenly Blush"Hehe, I'm taking that as a yes.~"It's been like two hours and neither you or Nora can sleep due to the sound of a creaking bed from the room above you."I mean, we kinda had it coming with us being so loud..." Nora says."Yeah, maybe they're making you.""Ew dude!""Heheh, good luck sleeping now.""I don't think you're that comfortable with those thoughts either, honey.""... Good point... If I had earplugs, I'd be sleeping like a baby right now.""Even without them, you're my baby.""Aww, you're really sweet.""Well you wouldn't be here if I wasn't,and you are too. I love you, Damian Thawne."You're a bit surprised at this, since neither of you have said it yet. Those words have meaning y'know."I love you too, Nora West-Allen."You both hug each other tight and drift off to dreamland.