Chapter 23: Central City Loses
It didn't take long for Tom to end his stream.
We then had to calm an angry Buzz down by promising to game with him all night another time soon.
"Lucas, we need to increase your training amount! How can you be slacking and chasing after women when an entire world needs saving!"
As I ignored the rambing toy, I went to Steel who seemed to be extremely concentrated at the formulas that Tom had written and grabbed him.
"Unhand me human! I have unlocked 2 new modes! If I solve this we can get one more!" He screamed as he tried to break past my grip.
"Yeah yeah, continue the formulas after you have merged with me." I said, to which Steel quickly merged with me and went back undeterred to his research.
"Alright, I am ready." I told Blair as I walked out of my house with Tom, who now had a cap on backwards and some sunglasses on.
"Where are we walking to?" Blair asked as we saw Tom move on ahead from us and we both followed him along.
"There is this really nice place that sells smoothies 24 hours near Central Picture News 20 minutes from here." I suggested to which Blair hesitantly nodded.
"What's up? Is it about the diet thing you mentioned last time?" I asked.
"You…remember that?"
"Well yeah, I was thinking about how ridiculous for a girl as beautiful as you needed to diet."
"You drive a hard bargain…let's go get us some smoothies." Blair said happily as she leaned into my hand and wrapped her arms around mine.
It was a fairly cold night, but my Turbo Energy kept both of us relatively warm.
And for a couple of minutes we enjoyed a nice silent walk, as we watched Tom comically chase after almost anything of interest to come back disappointed when he couldn't catch them.
"You know you have changed my mind." Blair said as we continued our walk.
"About what?"
"I think I am not a dog and cat person."
"Any sane person would eventually like cats. I mean how can you hate that?" I questioned while pointing towards Tom who was trying to dive into a dumpster.
"Tom! Get down now!" I told him, trying to keep my voice down since it was the middle of the night.
Blairs melodious laughter was then spread across the place as we saw Tom behaving like a baby as he tried to explain himself but couldn't speak.
As we reached the smoothie place, there was a small crowd since it was basically the only place that was open at this time and like us some…people were here in duos.
As Blair and I were talking, the energy inside of me suddenly began to give off a weird reaction…and the only time it had ever given this reaction was during 1 thing.
"Lucas, something is approaching you, FAST!" Steel shouted inside of me, as Tom himself sniffed the air and realized that something was wrong.
My heart rate began to increase since what was approaching us in our direction, felt, much faster that Barry had ever run.
I grabbed Blair by her hand and decided to run for cover and not let anyone else see us while we hid inside of an alleyway right opposite of CCPN.
"What the hell?! What is going on?" Blair asked as I dragged her without even replying to her. Right as we reached the alleyway, I grabbed Blair by her shoulders and shook her slightly.
"Listen to me Blair, if you don't trust me we might die." I told her as she looked at me weirdly but nodded regardless.
I would rather risk looking like a lunatic than be dead, and right now my instincts were screaming at me.
Tom himself was trying to stand tall, but his feet were quivering in fear.
"LUCAS!" Steel shouted inside of my head, as I turned around to face CCPN in shock as a dark blue blur zoomed inside of it and what I saw appalled me.
I immediately stood in the way of Blair, who got a glimpse of what was happening and her brain went into shock as she hid behind me.
The man in Blues suit was a menacing, pitch-black ensemble that exudes a sense of dread.
The suit's intricate design features a skeletal, almost decayed appearance, with deep grooves and textured patterns.
His mask, with its soulless, glowing blue eyes and cracked facade, completes the terrifying visage of a demon in the human world.
I stared at him in shock, as in his hands was the symbol of peace inside of the city.
The Flash was first slammed into a table, and then dragged across the floor without a care in the world.
Some of the reporters inside of the new station brought up their cameras and began to record what was going on inside of it.
"Look at your Hero." The demonic voice spoke as I couldn't help but shudder at it.
"Tom, I need you to calm down." I said in a calm tone as Tom was biting his nails so much and they were coming back so fast so a pile of nails were just beginning to stack up.
Normally I would laugh at the situation but right now I really was in shock
Iris was in complete shock as well as she saw Barry being lifted up like a toy for all of the world to see.
"This man is no god." The man spoke in a condescending voice while addressing everyone else as he looked down upon all of them.
"He. Is. Nothing!" The man said, and in the next second vanished out of where he was standing and all that was left was a blur of blue light.
"What the hell…that was the flash." Blair said finally as she was able to think straight and I turned around to face her.
"Was that the Flash?!" She asked me in panic as she grabbed my clothes.
"Blair, take a deep breath." I tried to calm her down as tears began to fall down from her eyes.
"Don't tell me to take a deep breath! I left Starling City because it was a hell hole and now the Flash was destroyed by this monster?!" Blair questioned in anger.
But I knew that she wasn't angry at me, she was just feeling hopeless at the whole situation.
"Come, I don't think it's safe for us right now, let's go back." I said as I grabbed her hand and I tried to make her walk quickly.
But Blair was in heels so she couldn't brisk walk without getting hurt.
"Slow down a bit." She asked as I stopped and looked at her for a while.
"Blair. Stand still." I told her as I bent down a bit and positioned my hands under her knees and lifted her into the air.
"Put me down, I am heavy!" She complained while training to get out of my hands but I was having none of it. Being out here in the open with a villainous speedster is suicide.
"Blair, please just wait for a moment."
I rushed back to my house while carrying Blair, and made it back to my house in under a minute with Tom following behind me and Steel enhancing my base physique by circulating my Turbo Energy.
Blair seemed awfully quiet the whole time as I carried her all the way to my apartment door as she buried her head into my chest.
Tom was also able to keep up with me and now he was wearing a detective outfit, more confident when the Blue Speedster left.
"Blair." I called out to her but she didn't reply.
Her hands held my neck tightly and she didn't even move when I called out to her. It was then I sensed her breathing and realized that she was sleeping.
I turned to Tom who was behind me and said, "Tom, could you take the keys from my pocket and open the door."
Tom dead panned at me, and revealed one of his claws and picked the lock to open it.
"Now that I think about it, it is time to cut your nails isn't it?" I questioned to which Tom seemed offended.
"What do you mean your claws saved the day? If you accidentally scratch something we will have to replace them again."
"Tom, I don't care that you have money right now."
"That's not the point, it is also for Buzz, we can't buy another him."
"No, I don't want to throw him?!"
As I argued with Tom, I moved towards my bedroom with Blair in my hands and put her down gently onto my bed and she immediately grasped my neck harder.
She finally seemed to have woken up, and I could see her make up being ruined as she looked at me pitifully.
"Where are you going?" She asked.
"Just to drink some water." I told her honestly.
"Well take me with you." She said as she wrapped her feet around me and clung onto me like a koala.
"Alright."
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