21. A defeated hero
The preparation of all actions is always tedious.
For the extraordinary power of the god speed force, absorption is not a big problem, the selection and recognition of the so-called god speed force is the most troublesome part, no one can help Quicksilver at this point, he can only rely on himself, the energy of the cane full of speed force is slowly depleting, leaving not much time for Quicksilver to prepare.
In addition to this life-and-death decision, another person in a bad situation also faces a difficult choice. For a person who used to respect a lot, suddenly turned into a conspirator with a bad heart, this speed of change is really a bit too fast, Barry is not a very rational person, so after waking up, he decides to find the truth in his own way.
Luckily, in addition to a large group of people who have become untrustworthy, he has a brother who can be trusted.
"Sisko, I know it's going to be hard for you. ”
Barry held his phone and said weakly, "I know you've always admired Dr. Harrison like your father, you've said that more than once, but I really need you to help me now... I can't believe anyone but you. ”
There was silence on the other side of the phone for a moment, and Sisko's somewhat trembling voice came over:
"Is it really that bad? You just listened to him, he lied to you before, he attacked you with Cyber, and he may be lying to you this time... Have you ever wondered how much you would break the doctor's heart if he was found out?"
"That's what I'm trying to prove!"
Barry's tone was a little more stubborn in his weakness, and he whispered, "You know what the Yellowman Reverse Lightning means to me, you know, right? I wouldn't expect what they told me to come true, even if there was a hundredth hope, but Sisko... We can't be ostriches in the face of fear, if he's fake, not only me, but also you and Caitlyn..."
Barry's breath was a little shorter, and he took a deep breath to calm himself down:
"You were there when I went to separate the battlefield that day, and if it was really just mishandling, I might have been able to convince myself that it was just an accident, but what if it was premeditated? What if it was deliberate? What if he was the master behind it all?"
"Sisko, there are many ways to get me on the side of the Devils, but he chose the most brutal one, and 300 people died in that accident... That's 300 lives! That's not 300 chickens or whatever, if it's a deliberate plan, what a cold-blooded person he must be, aren't you afraid to be by such a person's side?"
The breathing on the other side of the microphone became heavy, and Barry sincerely persuaded:
"Would you be proud to be valued by such a cruel man? Tell me, Sisko, would you be happy about it?"
"Say no more! I'll help you!"
Sisko's voice sharpened, and he screamed, and after a few seconds, he seemed to calm down, and he asked:
"So what are we going to do? Doctor, he's in the lab almost 24 hours a day..."
"I'll hold him back!"
Barry gritted his teeth, and he said in a deep voice: "I'll buy you enough time, because he stays in the lab 24 hours a day, if he's fake, he's bound to have some clues, I need you to find it, I trust your insight... Don't tell Caitlin, it's going to put her in danger. ”
"Good!"
Sisko hung up the phone, he took a deep breath, he had never smoked and went to the convenience store next to him to buy a pack of cigarettes, forcing himself to calm down, and on the other side, Barry dialed the phone, he adjusted his breathing to make himself look calm enough.
"Hey, Barry, what's the matter?"
Dr. Harrison's voice came, and the concern in it was self-evident: "You should have a good rest now, I have analyzed your blood composition, I am sure that your speed has subsided only temporarily, maybe you will recover after a period of rest." ”
"About this... Doctor, I have something to tell you. ”
Barry recalls the days he spent with this doctor who doesn't know whether it's true or not, and when he recalls it from a very calm angle, Barry is shocked to find that during this time, he has almost lived around the identity of the Flash, how long has he not eaten with Joe and Iris?
Oh my God! There seems to be another person who dominates his will, sketches a bright future that belongs to a superhero, constantly induces him to break away from the life of ordinary people, and every time when he is depressed, the first person to stand up and comfort him and encourage him is the doctor...
He used to think of that as a concern, but now it seems... It doesn't seem to be the case.
Barry felt as if he had grasped something, but the next moment he lost that inspiration again, and he could only say in a dejected voice:
"I lost speed this day and I thought a lot, maybe... Maybe that's the best option for me, Doctor, and I think the average person might be a better fit for me. ”
In the lab, Dr. Harrison's fingers snapped to a halt as he was revising a drawing, and his worst fears had happened... The Flash has lost the will of a superhero, and he intends to return to the ordinary.
It doesn't get much worse than that!
Could this be the terrible aftermath of a timeline distortion?
"You can't do that!!"
The doctor subconsciously accentuated his voice, but he quickly realized his gaffe, he took a deep breath, calmed down his slightly irritable will, and said softly:
"Don't think too much about it, Barry, I'm going to the hospital soon, you know, I also have a PhD in psychology, maybe you can confide in me what you think... Stay in the hospital, I'll be here soon!"
Hanging up the phone, the doctor turned to look at Caitlin and said with a wry smile:
"There's something wrong with Barry's mentality, Caitlin, please take me to the hospital, why didn't Sisko come today?"
Caitlyn rubbed her forehead with a headache, and she walked over, pushing the Doctor's wheelchair, and said with some complaints:
"Sisko's family situation is terrible... You know this, he had some very troublesome problems at home today, and he rushed to deal with them. ”
"Oh, okay. ”
Dr. Harrison's mind was now full of ideas about how to persuade Barry to get back on his feet, and when he had time to take care of Sisko's housework, he said perfunctorily: "It's really hard for a young man as good as Sisko to be born into that kind of family." ”
The two of them talked, walked into the garage, and a moment later, Caitlin drove the doctor out of the lab, and after 5 minutes, after changing his clothes, the sneaky Sisko poked his head out of the corner, he took out his phone, pressed a series of buttons, and the 7 cameras in front of the experiment turned to other places at the same time, leaving him a safe enough passage.
He walked quickly into the lab, his face not pretty.
As Barry said, Sisko, a young man who grew up watching superhero comics, is actually very hot-blooded, and under the cowardly appearance, he also has a heart that is not brave, but not weak either, he is Barry's good Maji, a real academic genius, a weapon designer, and a good assistant.
He had an admiration for Dr. Harrison, who appreciated him, and otherwise he wouldn't have felt angry that Barry had asked him to search for the doctor's information, but there was a rational part of Sisko's personality, and after realizing the disastrous consequences of what Barry had said, he agreed to the risky request.
But after exactly 40 minutes, Sisko found nothing.
The lab, which he had almost rebuilt with Caitlin and Dr. Harrison, was almost a secret to him, and it was difficult to find details in such a familiar environment that he didn't normally pay attention to, and he searched every nook and cranny without finding anything of value.
But the more this happened, the more relaxed Sisko's expression became.
"Ha, Barry, you guessed wrong, the doctor is real!"
The big boy, who was of some Mexican descent, laughed and sat down in his chair and spun around, he was absolutely willing to do something that could clear the doctor's suspicions, but just as his eyes fell on the desk, he found the drawing that the doctor didn't have time to put away.
With just one glance, Sisko's eyes widened.
A moment later, he walked to the wall with the drawing, which he never paid attention to, he glanced at it, then groped around the wall, and after ten minutes, he dismantled the entire wall and found the switch hidden in it.
Sisko pressed his finger on the key in despair, and the door to the hidden compartment opened at this moment, and he glanced inside, and shook his body in despair.
"No... This is not true. ”
"Bang"
The toolbox in his hand fell to the ground, and he looked at the yellow outfit in the glass case in front of him, the inverted lightning bolt emblem on the costume, even if Sisko frantically told himself that it was just the doctor's private hobby, he couldn't deceive himself anymore.
Dr. Harrison is a fake... He is the murderer of Barry's mother, the most feared opponent of the Flash, Reverse Lightning!
Sisko's eyes shone with anger, it was the hatred of being deceived, he carefully pulled out a special goggle from his collection, like an agent on a special mission, carefully dodged the seven surveillance devices in the small cubicle, and sat down on the only chair.
At the moment when he sat down, the "table lamp" in front of the chair suddenly lit up, and in a flash of blue light, a blue light swept over Sisko's body, and then an alarm sounded:
"Didi, a non-Mr. Swan's manipulator has been detected, please identify yourself immediately, otherwise the deportation procedure will be carried out!"
"Click"
Four futuristic sci-fi guns ricocheted out of the console in front of him, and Sisko's expression immediately became frightened when the muzzles of the four black holes were pointed at his head.
"Didi, please identify yourself immediately, the eviction process is about to start!"
The four guns automatically completed the last trip, and the next moment they were about to shoot deadly bullets or other things, Sisko was pressed by death, a trace of madness flashed in his eyes, and his fingers slammed into the console in front of him, and under the desperate tearing, the steel shell was torn off.
He grabbed the connector, which was still flowing with electricity, and pulled it away a moment before the gun fired.
"Bang"
The action of the firearm was forcibly stopped, and Sisko, who had escaped, slid off his chair with a limp all over, he looked at his hands, it was impossible for ordinary people to tear the steel shell in front of him, he did it, and it could only mean one thing.
He... Also not an ordinary person, at the moment of the explosion of the particle accelerator, he was almost the closest person to the explosion site, and at the moment when Barry was struck by lightning, he was also transformed by the particle wave.
"Hehe... Does this count, does this count as a blessing in disguise?"
Sisko lay on the ground, the anger caused by the deception had disappeared, replaced by a kind of ecstasy, this young man who had longed for superhero dreams since childhood, perhaps from this moment, embarked on his own dream journey.
But after a hard time of calming down, Sisko, who hadn't forgotten what he had to do, quickly began to get busy in the complex circuit in front of him, his fingers flying, taking the complicated lines apart, and finally connecting them in some way.
"Let the superhero Mr. Sisko see what kind of secret this "Swan" has!"
On the other side, Barry and the Doctor seem to have a good conversation, and as the Doctor is leaving, Barry casually asks:
"Doctor, you've been in Central City for so long, haven't you thought about going back to Star City? ”
As he spoke, Barry stretched his shoulders and looked out the window, "It's a good idea to take a trip before we start again." ”
The doctor smiled and shook his head:
"Let the memory pass away, people have to look forward and rest, Barry, I'll come to see you another day. ”
Caitlin pushed the doctor out, and the moment the door closed, Barry felt chills all over his body... Dr. Harrison had only one wife, and the poor lady was Fenna.
His fists clenched... He lost, and the original enemy was truly trustworthy, while the comrades standing behind him were strangers bent on pushing themselves into the unknown.
"Ding Dong"
His cell phone rang, and he picked it up and saw that it was a picture sent by Sisko, which was the anti-lightning combat suit that the doctor had placed in the cell, and there was a sentence underneath, which was Sisko's warning:
"He's not Harrison!"
"He's your 22nd century enemy! Run!"