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The young teenage girl looked around the high buildings, chestnut brown hair flowing down her back in a thick curtain as she slowly crouched down, watching the world below her as she perched herself on one of the tallest buildings she could find.
Reaching underneath her hair, she pressed the communicator nestled in her ear, not recognizing the buildings of the city she found herself in. “Um, HQ, this is Bolt, requesting assistance. I think I went a little too far this time. Over?” Only static met her request. Her heart thundered in her chest when she was met with no response, a growing knot of anxiety tightened itself in the pit of her belly. “HQ, this is Bolt, ID number: 035576/B, requesting immediate assistance. Code Dimension, I repeat, Code Dimension, over!” She demanded with more force. Static. “Shit!” Bolt cursed, ripping her hand away from the comm as she stood and her black bodysuit straightened out; the purple outline now clearly visible.
Bolt growled, sweeping her hair back with both hands in frustration as she bit her lip painfully in thought.
The purple piping that lined her suit seemed to slightly crackle with electricity from the inside as she scuffed the heel of her boot against the floor of the roof. “Okay, need to find a way out of this place and find Mum.” Bolt mused to herself before her attention was focused to the commotion below.
(..)
A stocky, suspicious man walked along the street with a massive bag that was filled to the brim with what seemed to be stolen goods, his eyes glowing red as people ran from him, afraid.
From Bolt’s observations, he was seemingly on the verge of turning into something extremely dangerous- right before his body began to change as she had earlier predicted, his skin forming into rock, lava seeping through the cracks as he slowly became larger and larger until he was some kind of hulking rock-beast. “Okay, new plan. Sort out the The Thing 2.0 and then go find Mum.”
Sighing, she bent her knees- about to make her move when a streak of yellow lightning trailing behind a blur of red came into her view. “I think it’s time for you to cool down there, Hulk.” His modulated voice was cocky.
“Seriously?” Bolt asked herself, a deadpan expression taking over her features at the new guys terrible attempt at puns. “How he managed to fit two puns in one sentence, I will never know.” Bolt slowly made her way to a smaller building to hear what the obvious villain and hero were conversing about.
“FLASH!” Rock Boy snarled.
“You don’t have to do this. We can help you.” The Flash implored, genuinely not wanting to harm the man.
“I don’t want your help!” Growled the overgrown pebble.
The Flash sighed, “then I’m sorry for this.”
The only problem was that while the Flash was talking, distracted. His opponent had imprisoned his feet in the warped ground without his notice so when he tried to move- the shackles that crawled up his shins were a rude awakening.
“What the-?” The Flash’s voice had turned normal as his concentration focused to the problem with his confined legs.
“Without your speed you can’t do shit. Now it’s my turn.” The beast roared, his eyes flaming -literally- before he lifted his arms above his head, concentrating his metahuman ability to take form between his stony palms- taking the shape of a massive glowing boulder of magma.
The Flash’s eyes widened behind the mask as he panicked, attempting to phase through the earth that held him hostage with no avail.
“A bit too easy, don’t you think? Maybe you need to spend a few more hours in your training facility, assuming you train. Otherwise you’re kinda the worst hero I’ve ever seen.” A young, teasing voice spoke from the building just above them.
Both meta-humans turned to see Bolt, her long hair tumbling to her hips in a thick, straight curtain with piercing blue eyes and her full, shapely lips upturned in a smirk.
“What are you doing up there?! Get away from here!” The Flash yelled, worried for the young woman’s safety.
“Oh, please. Like that pile of pebbles can punt that all the way over here.” Bolt waved her hand cockily. “Anyway, I need a workout before I go home. . this should be fun.” She grinned mischievously.
“Are you making fun of me, you little shit?!” The meta-human roared, now rounding on her.
“Does a bear shit in the woods?” She shrugged her shoulders.
“What the hell are you doing?! Just get out of here!” The Flash roared at her but Bolt was more or less ignoring him.
“C’mon, rock-boy. Let’s see what you got.” Bolt’s eyes widened in excitement as she bent her knees, straight white teeth on display as she smiled widely; her fingers moving restlessly against the air.
“You’ll wish you had never said that!”
“I doubt it.” Her oceanic eyes slowly crackled with purple electricity and the piping of her suit glowed as the rock-man roared in exertion, flinging the glowing rock of lava toward her.
“NO!” The Flash bellowed, his heart thumping in his chest, worried for the peculiar girl whose grin only widened at the sight of the large blazing piece of earth hurtling toward her.
It was almost too fast for even the Scarlet Speedster to follow.
One of her hands pressed to the floor of the roof as one of her bent legs straightened out while her other hand lifted; palm up to the sky as purple electricity erupted from her body just as the boulder flew over her.
Concentrating, the lightning pooled in her upturned hand before it shot out like a beam from her palm and smashed into the bottom of the massive projectile, completely decimating it mid-flight before she disappeared from view in a flash of purple and dust, her laugh echoing across the buildings as the transformed metahuman whirled around, wildly searching for Bolt.
With flashes of amethyst lightning, the lava-wielding metahuman was thrown around like a rag-doll, pieces of his glowing, brimstone armor breaking apart with Bolt’s reinforced blows. Residual electricity sparking around the borders of his broken body armor as his true self started to show underneath.
“Oh, I get it now! You use your power to create a thick barrier between outside threats and your real body. Like an exoskeleton- an outer shell we have to get through to get to you. Challenge accepted!” Bolt’s energetic voice bounced off the high-rise buildings, inflaming her opponent as his damaged armor glowed with imbued power.
“Show me what you got, you little bitch!” He spat, his hands started to steam as he searched wildly for her, flinging the conjured lava in the directions of her echoing voice. “Too scared to come at me face to face?!” He taunted, his breaths coming out as labored growls.
“SURPRISE!” Her voice sounded loudly before there was a streak of violet from the side and Bolt’s electrically charged fist smashed into his glowing face, the entire bedrock exoskeleton crackling with her unique lightning before it crumbled apart into dust violently as the man underneath fell to the ground, unconscious and defeated.
Bolt stood over him, unharmed and frankly- unimpressed. “Man, you were all talk,” she pouted, “talk about lackluster.” A loud crack stole her attention from the unconscious thief and she turned to see the Flash finally free. “Oh, hey.” She waved lamely.
“Who are you?!” He demanded, stomping toward her, his own eyes crackling orange.
“Sorry, that’s for me to know and for you to never find out.” With a two fingered salute, Bolt winked before she zipped away with a trail of violet lightning.
“Barry! Go get her!” Iris screeched in the comm, temporarily deafening him before he shook his head and followed the young speedster in a blur of red and a crack of yellow lightning.
She was fast, Barry had to give her that.
He was following Cisco’s instructions on where she was heading, “damn, she’s fast! The satellite can hardly track her movements!” The dimension manipulator complained.
“Is there anyway I can catch up to her?” Barry asked, weaving through the streets and alleys of Central City.
“It looks like she’s inexperienced in the city. She’s run through the same streets a few times. She doesn’t know where to go.” Caitlin’s voice sounded through the receiver in his suit.
“So all I need to do is corner her somewhere where she won’t be able to get away.” Barry surmised, running down a street, congested with traffic- skillfully snaking between the cars.
There was silence on the other end until- “I’ll get one of the meta cells open!” Cisco yelled as Caitlin took the helm, guiding Barry.
“If you take the next left, she’ll move to the right- running the route here, then you can manipulate her movements.” Caitlin suggested as Barry took her advice.
Zipping through the street, he turned left harshly and with a burst of all his speed, he cut across Bolt’s path who skidded to a halt for a split second before taking the path toward Star Labs. “Cisco, you got the cell open?” Barry followed her, throwing bolts of his lightning toward Bolt when she tried to deviate from the route.
“It’s good to go, Bar.” Cisco chimed through the receiver as Star Labs came into view.
“Get ready, guys!” Bolt sped into Star Labs with Barry hot on her heels, running her to the holding cells. Bolt realized what they were about to do so she quickly turned but stopped when she saw her pursuer standing in front of her. “There’s nowhere to run, kid.”
“There’s always somewhere to run, it’s just a matter of if your willing to do what it takes.” Bolt’s tone turned serious, eyes hard and unforgiving, “and I’m more than willing to take you out and be on my way home.” The ferocity in her eyes, the hard edge to her voice, the way her lithe body tensed; ready to attack.
“I’m sorry, but right now you need to cooperate with us.”
“No, I’m not going to be holed up in some cell like a prisoner when I’ve done nothing wrong! I saved you from that Brimstone Beast!”
“Damn, that’s a good name!” Cisco’s voice filtered through the receiver but Barry ignored him.
“We’ve had people come into our lives, save us from meta’s we can’t beat, gain our trust and then they turn out to be the enemies we’ve been fighting all along.” Barry said, looking down at the young girl between him and the cell.
Azure eyes flicked from the red-clad speedster to the group of people on guard behind him- blocking the exit. “You claim you want me to cooperate but you bring reinforcements?” She growled, knees tensing as she glared at the newcomers who stiffened.
“Hey, hey!” Barry interjected, his arms raised on either side of him slightly as if to shield them. “We’re not going to hurt you, these guys won’t either. They’re my team, they won’t fight you without cause.”
“All I want is to go home.” Bolt growled, glaring at the older speedster as her hands clenched into strong fists.
“I understand that, but right now, please just cooperate with us and I promise that we’ll help you get home.” Barry reasoned, eyes pleading.
Bolt’s jaw clenched as she glared at the speedster before her, shaking her head. “I don’t believe you.” She ground out.
Barry sighed, “then I’m sorry for this.” Sparking up, Barry’s orange lightning crackled around him as he got into position as Bolt kept to her normal posture but the amethyst electricity that burst from her was dangerous, powerful as her eyes sparked with that same electricity.
“Give it all you got, Spandex- cuz I ain’t gonna hold back.”
In a flurry of movements, violet and red blurs clashed.
A fight between two speedsters and only one would win.
(..)
“We’ll find her.” A man spoke quietly, voice hard- unyielding. Unwilling to give up hope. “Don’t lose hope.”
“It isn’t hope I’m losing, it’s time.” A woman growled, fists tightening around the protective steel fence of the balcony, her grip threatening to bend it like play-doh. “I don’t care how many worlds I have to rip apart, how many armies I have to defeat or how many people I have to kill- I will find her. . . before. .” Her voice cracked with unshed tears.
“Hey,” his voice sturdied, one hand on her trembling shoulder, “you’ll find her before that’ll happen. She knows the dangers.”
A sigh, a head upturned to the sky- E/C eyes staring at the stars, “I just hope she’s alright.”