The Great Escapes

[run_barry]

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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[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato is starting to realise that he hasn't actually eaten yet. Not for lack of availability of food, and he's pretty sure he could ask Barry to go and get him a burger, but he's been absorbed in work -- recalibrating the satellite is a slow, careful process, not least because the data he got from his scan is, while useful, not extensive.

Still, Barry might occasionally catch Yamato's attention drifting over to his chicken nuggets, and the brief flickers of a facial expression that would not be altogether out of place on a puppy watching someone eat.

At the moment, the computer is building a predictive model (the fourth one, after Yamato decided that the first three weren't fit for purpose and set about changing the parameters) for dealing with shifts in the signal, which means that Yamato just has to wait.