8.1.0 kendra saunders
"Hey," Barry says, walking towards me. I was hopped up on a table in the Cortex, my legs hanging off the edge. "You okay?"
"Yeah," I say, as he rests his hand on my thigh, massaging it slowly for comfort. "Just thinking."
Barry raises a brow at me in question and I nod, understanding him. Barry sighs, "I found something."
"Oh?"
"Well, it was Cait but I- I helped," Barry says making me chuckle.
"What'd you find?" I ask.
"Wells was right. Whatever this thing is, it disrupts your powers but it also, helped reveal another power," Barry says. "Your wings are permanent, your teleportation, it seems like it'll come and go. Your teleportation is gone for now but I think your wings came instead of it. You just have to learn how to control them."
"How are you even supposed to control these?" I ask, letting the wings pop out from behind my back.
"I don't know," He says. "But we'll figure it out. Together."
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We watch Barry run on the treadmill for a while. "He just hit 1,375," Cait says.
"What's the fastest Barry's run?" Harry asks.
"Little over Mach two, when he ran back in time," I answer.
"That's not good," Harry says and then turns to Barry. "That's good, Barry."
"We have our work cut out for us," He says back to us.
"I'm not getting faster, am I?" Barry asks, coming up to us,
"Well..." Me and Cait trail off.
"No, you're not," Harry says.
"All right, well, let's fix this, right?" Barry asks. "I mean, I can't beat Zoom at this speed. It felt like I was standing still next to him."
"That's because you practically were," Harry retorts. "Zoom is at least three, four times faster than you at this point."
"How is he so much faster than Barry is and Jay was?" Cait asks.
"Physiology, form, strength, could be a number of things..." Harry starts. "Attitude, diet."
"Okay, all right, well, there's got to be something we can do about it, so let's just figure it out... fast, okay?" Barry asks as we all nod. Barry checks the time and then says, "All right, we gotta go."
He holds out his hand to me as I grab it. "We have a date."
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"I can't believe you're the Flash," Cisco's kind-of-girlfriend, Kendra Saunders says. "And that you work with The Flash." She was attacked by a weird looking guy and Cisco revealed Barry's identity. You would think he had a hang of it by now.
"Yeah, let's keep that on the DL," Cisco chuckles.
"This is the same knife that was used to kill the men at the docks," Barry says. "Residue is a perfect match."
"So it is the same guy," Joe asks.
"Definitely. But the thing is, these blades are old... centuries old," Barry says.
"Do you have any idea why this guy would be after you?" I ask Kendra.
"No, I've never seen him before in my life," Kendra answers.
"Well, he was certainly acting like he knew you," Cisco says. "He kept calling her Priestess Chay-Ara."
"That's Coptic," Harry says.
"You mean Egyptian?" I ask.
"That's right," He answers.
"Well, I grew up in Wisconsin, and I've never even left the States, so..." Kendra trailed off.
"This guy, he's clearly incredibly dangerous, so we need you to at least let us try to protect you," Barry says as I nod.
"I can put a detail on her," Joe suggests.
"You didn't see this guy, Joe," Cisco says. "No offense, but I don't think a cop is going to be able to protect her."
"No, but we do have a few friends who could lend a hand," Barry suggests. "But we're going to need to leave Central City."
"And go where?"
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"You really want to go to Star City?" I ask.
"Come on, we don't need Team Arrow's help," Cisco adds.
"Yeah, I think we do, man," Barry says.
"Man, you've fought meta-humans with abilities a lot worse than knife-throwing," Cisco says.
"I don't think this guy's a meta-human," Barry says. "There's something different about him, something, ah, mystical."
"Mystical, really?" Cisco asks.
"We stop meta-humans because we're scientists," Barry starts. "We can figure out what their weaknesses are, but we don't have any experience when it comes to guys like this, with magic. They do."
Cisco gives me a look. "They do know about this stuff better but-"
When Cisco sees I am not agreeing with him, he turns to Barry and asks, "Mm, this wouldn't have anything to do with Zoom, would it?"
"No," Barry says. "I'm just trying to keep Kendra safe. This is the best way to do that."
"Right. Okay, I'm with you," Cisco says. "But how do we even know Oliver and them even have time to help us?"
"How busy can they be?" Barry asks.
I then start, "Welll..."
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We find out the place Oliver, Thea and Diggle are. They get stuck with Damien Dark as Barry speeds Thea, Dig, and Oliver over to where I was waiting for them. "Damn it," Diggle says as he takes off his mask to throw up. "Every time."
Thea then looks at me as I take off my mask. "Y- Y- You're the Phoenix?! Good- Good to know."
She looks over to Barry. "It's The Flash. Did I know we knew The Flash? We know The Flash. Okay. I didn't know we knew The Flash. No one tells me anything."
"Thank you," Oliver says to us. "But I don't think you ran all the way here to protect us."
"No, not to protect you," Barry says. "We need to protect a friend."