Since Yamato offered to come to Central City and help with the epidemic crisis, things have been crazy, but handling them has been a whole lot easier now that Barry isn't operating alone.
He even got some rest in, on Yamato's orders, and they've got a bit of down time as far as emergencies in the city go so they're using it to work on other problems.
While Yamato recalibrates the S.T.A.R. Labs satellite to track the new meta they suspect is behind a whole bunch of the crime, and a death-trap or two set for Barry, Barry is getting his science nerd-amateur virologist on, trying to find a cure to the bug that has so much of the City down; including his team.
Sitting at a desk in the Cortex, Barry works away with a microscope taking notes on a tablet. Beside him are several boxes of chicken nuggets which he's working through, with a few empty ones already in the waste bin nearby.
In the middle of the space on the floor GP the porg is munching on shrimp treats while bopping around an inflatable S.T.A.R. Labs beach ball.
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Date: Feb. 1st, 2019 11:26 pm (UTC)From:She definitely wouldn't. She wouldn't even give him one (1) delicious fugu fish.
Yamato's distracted from that particular chain of thought by an alert coming up on his console, and he turns towards it. "Looks like our duty officers have checked in. It's nearly go time."
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Date: Feb. 1st, 2019 11:35 pm (UTC)From:He's on his feet and standing beside Yamato a moment after the alert sounds, looking at the screen.
"Hm. They swapped out Doyle on the detail for Thawne. That... that's Eddie." That wasn't necessarily bad it was just... "Huh."
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Date: Feb. 1st, 2019 11:40 pm (UTC)From:Barry did mention, after all, that the Flash wasn't exactly Eddie's favourite person right now.
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Date: Feb. 1st, 2019 11:53 pm (UTC)From:"No, it's fine," he says, smothering apprehension by denying it.
"I mean, he's not going to be thrilled that we're basically setting it up for the guys in his custody to escape, but as long as we get them all back it'll be alright."
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Date: Feb. 2nd, 2019 04:39 am (UTC)From:"Yeah, we will," he says nodding firm. "Let's do this."
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Date: Feb. 2nd, 2019 04:53 am (UTC)From:"Barely any traffic on the roads at this time, we're not going to have long before they reach the ambush," he says. "And I don't have any good sightlines into the alleyways around it, so I can't say what kind of numbers we're dealing with."
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Date: Feb. 2nd, 2019 04:56 am (UTC)From:"Alright," he says. "I guess the good news about that is whoever we're up against won't have any visuals either."
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Date: Feb. 2nd, 2019 05:06 am (UTC)From:He flicks his gaze over to one end of the console, bringing up a map of the city and quickly running a scan for radio signals. Nothing shows up, at least not yet.
"We've got a few minutes yet. You ready?"
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Date: Feb. 2nd, 2019 05:33 am (UTC)From:Straightening up, he reaches back to pull on the mask and then nods.
"Yeah, I'm ready."
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Date: Feb. 2nd, 2019 05:39 am (UTC)From:He runs the scan again. Still no detectable signal. Yamato's sure the Camera Commander is watching, but if they are, the signal they're creating isn't strong enough to be seen through the background noise yet.
His eyes narrow a little as the transport starts approaching the junction. Then, all of a sudden, a lorry rushes in to block the road off, and several shapes start emerging from the alleyways.
"Go."
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Date: Feb. 2nd, 2019 05:51 am (UTC)From:Yamato has hardly finished the word 'go' when Barry's gone, racing off and leaving a gusting blow back behind him.
"Let me know when they open the doors so I can get the cops out."
Blocked in, the officers couldn't just sit and wait to be taken out, they'd have to fight back.
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Date: Feb. 2nd, 2019 05:57 am (UTC)From:"Doors are open. Your route to get them and evacuate them is clear for now, but it won't be for long."
Five seconds maximum, Yamato's pretty sure.
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Date: Feb. 2nd, 2019 06:22 am (UTC)From:Zipping past the armed bad guys, Barry grabs up each officer one by one, whisking them away and back down the alley the transport had come down.
Depositing the first man against the safe cover of a wall at the mouth of the alley, Barry goes back for the next and then the last which is Eddie who he yanks out just as the first bullets start hitting the cab of the transport.
Vibrating to blur his features and his voice, Barry instructs the stunned Eddie, "Stay here, I've got this."
Eddie shouts something at him, but Barry isn't there to hear it. He's back in the alley, trying to tackle the four armed men on one side of the transport.
"Cops are safe," he calls back to Yamato."
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Date: Feb. 2nd, 2019 06:32 am (UTC)From:He runs the scan again and, this time, he actually gets a match, the faintest trace of the strange radio signal accompanied by a tiny flicker of dark matter energy.
"You've got Camera Commander's attention, too."
At the moment, all the scan can tell Yamato is that the signal is coming from somewhere in the city, but as it keeps running, it starts to slowly narrow down the areas it could be coming from.
His gaze flicks back over to the cameras, in time to see three of the men go down, and one of them careen backwards into one of the alleyways that Yamato can't see.
"You've got two guys circling around the back of the transport to free the prisoners," he says. "And two more guys have exited the truck they used to block off the road and are heading your way."
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Date: Feb. 2nd, 2019 06:58 am (UTC)From:He's only stopped in place for a moment before he has to duck out of the way of a volley of bullets.
He knocks the two going for the rear of the transport backwards, then zips around to duck behind the front, asking Yamato, "How long until you have his location?"
Barry can't mop up the rest of the guys here until they have Camera Commander pegged.
Of course, bullets ripping through the air again are a good reminder that taking these guys down isn't quite as simple as all that.
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Date: Feb. 2nd, 2019 07:34 am (UTC)From:One of the two going for the rear appears very much to be down for the count from the impact of a speedster knocking into them at high velocity -- Yamato can see him roll onto his side, and can practically hear the pained groan the man must be making. The other one struggles to his feet and starts going for the back door of the transport again.
Worse, Yamato can see that the two coming from the front are practically spraying the entire area in bullets.
"Two at your twelve, one at your six trying to open the transport again, and one -- I don't know, somewhere on your right, but he's in my blindspots," he says.
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Date: Feb. 3rd, 2019 10:21 pm (UTC)From:"Twelve and six, eye out for the other guy, got it," Barry replies, trying to work out just how he's going to handle the situation.
Keeping everyone in the transport is still top-priority, but with the gun fire Barry can't get up to deal with the guy moving on the backdoor again.
"Can you tell me when the two up front are going to need to reload?"
On Yamato's screen the search area narrows down to three parts of the city, and then two, just before it goes down to one it winks out. A moment later and the screen comes back on, only now the image is Yamato looking back at himself.
The comm-link connection between Yamato and Barry breaks, and over the earpiece in Barry's cowl and the speaker in the Cortex a synthesized voice speaks up.
"Trying to find me?"
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Date: Feb. 3rd, 2019 10:27 pm (UTC)From:"Well, look who finally decided to chat. I was starting to think you were giving us the cold shoulder," he growls, opening up the display on his wrist computer and starting up Koushiro's cracking program, typing away at it as he works to get back into the Cortex's systems. "Still not brave enough to put in a personal appearance, though."
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Date: Feb. 4th, 2019 04:03 am (UTC)From:"It did take me awhile to locate and get into your system," the voice admits. "But now that I have-- "
On Barry's end the line goes dead.
"Yamato?" Frantically Barry tries again and again to connect and gets no response from Yamato or the other person. "Dammit!"
With no outside help, and knowing there's a strong chance that Yamato and the others in S.T.A.R. Labs could be in danger, Barry starts frantically looking around, trying to figure out what to do.
His gaze falls on the door to the cab of the transport, and an idea forms.
"I think he can handle things on his own for awhile, don't you?" the voice says to Yamato. "As for personal appearances, why do that when I can send someone instead?"
From outside the room GP comes squawking and shrieking, flying in a wild panic into the Cortex and straight to Yamato.
The feed on the monitor switches from the frontal view of Yamato to one coming from the outside corridor. It draws closer and closer and then it shows the open doorway to the Cortex.
The video is coming from the robot Girder that Cisco built to help Barry train, and the big bot now stands in the same room with Yamato.
Imposing to start, the robot has been upgraded since. In addition to being bigger and faster than the previous version, this robot is also mobile and seems to be carrying what looks like Cisco's prototype lightsaber in one hand.
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Date: Feb. 4th, 2019 04:16 am (UTC)From:He leaves Koushiro's cracking program running on his wrist computer, although without a human operator, it makes for a rather clumsy, brute-force way of getting into a computer.
"Kiddo's going to kill me for wrecking his robot," Yamato says, cracking his neck and taking some steps away from the console, into the more open area of the middle of the Cortex. "C'mon, then. Let's see how fast this thing is now that it has legs."
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Date: Feb. 4th, 2019 04:51 am (UTC)From:Back in the alley Barry is working to be quick himself. Yanking open the cab door, Barry uses it for cover as he jumps inside, slides across to the driver's side and throws that door open as a shield while he jumps back out and speeds around the back of the truck.
The man back there almost has the door open and Barry hits him in the jaw with a speed punch. Watching the man fall, Barry is just turning around to deal with the two with the guns up front when he gets struck in the face with a fist out of nowhere.
Hitting the ground he suddenly remembers about the one on the right in a blind spot.
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Date: Feb. 4th, 2019 04:56 am (UTC)From:He ducks under the follow-up punch, although it's close enough to ruffle his hair, and lashes out in response -- a quick strike of his knife towards Robot Girder's neck. He doesn't expect it to do much damage if it lands, he just wants to test the robot's reaction time, and just how sturdy and flexible its joints are.
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Date: Feb. 4th, 2019 05:55 am (UTC)From:In retaliation Robot Girder draws back for another punch, marching forward to try and crowd into Yamato's space before throwing the blow.
Barry meanwhile has a bad guy looming over him, and with the gun fire stopped he can assume there are two more now coming around the transport to join him.
Looking up at the man Barry realizes there is something he can do in this situation, but he hasn't actually ever tried it for real. Still, Yamato isn't back in his ear yet so something must be happening, and in less than five seconds others are going to be coming around to kill him and let more bad guys loose so...
Bracing himself for a moment Barry then moves, kicking out in a leg sweep X had shown him. His motion and aim is a little off and he doesn't quite catch the man's ankle properly, but it does enough to knock him off his feet and Barry is quick back onto his.
"Holy cow that worked," he says, stunned. His momentary elation is ended when one of the men with guns finally rounds the truck and sees Barry. Immediately the gun fire starts up again.
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Date: Feb. 4th, 2019 06:07 am (UTC)From:With the robot moving forward and not a lot of space to maneuver in, the best Yamato can do is turn his face with the punch. That redirects most of the impact, but it's still a metal fist colliding with his face at high speed, and there's a slight spray of blood from a split lip, and Yamato stumbles to one side as the force of the blow rattles his brain around.
"Not bad. But you're telegraphing too much," he growls, backing off, although he's still grinning. "And I don't have time to give you a boxing lesson today."
He's moving forward again immediately, moving to jump on one of the consoles and spring off it and around Robot Girder, landing behind it.
He's moving as soon as he lands, trying to use one hand to wrap his belt around one of Robot Girder's wrists, and the other to drive his knife into the gap between two metal panels where Robot Girder's arm meets his shoulder.
If he gets both the wrist caught in his belt and the knife wedged in, he fully intends to follow up by dragging the wrist back and pushing the shoulder forward, jimmying the knife deeper in, trying to rip the arm clean off. He's plenty strong, and he has every intention of using that strength and the leverage the knife and belt give him to tear through the arm.
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