Mr. Allen, while I am extremely eager to determine your full range of abilities, I do caution restraint," Dr. Wells comes closer and advises Barry.
"Yeah." Barry nods his head and takes position, placing his feet on the starting blocks.
He looks back at Dr. Well and Cisco and sees that they are ready.
"Here I go," Barry says and once again enters a state in which time slows down for him. The world slows down for him.
White lightning flashes in his eyes and some around his body, and with one strong push from his legs, he shoots forward.
Dr. Wells, Caitlin, and Cisco immediately become the victims of the shockwave that Barry generates as he begins his run. Cisco falls on his ass while Dr. Wells and Caitlin are pushed back from their original spot.
Cisco can't stop smiling while Caitlin is bewildered as they see Barry just zoom away at incredible speed, leaving a streak of lightning behind him.
"He just passed 450 miles per hour," Cisco says.
"It's not possible," Caitlin says as she puts down her binoculars. She couldn't see anything but a blur.
Dr. Wells has a poker face as he watches Barry run 'He is faster than I expected,' He thinks, but no one is wiser to his thoughts.
As Barry continues to run faster, he sees the lightning flashing around him and then suddenly, a core memory that has been etched into his body's mind flashes before Barry's eyes.
The memory of his eleven-year-old self watching his mother being trapped inside a storm of lightning and inside the lightning, a man in yellow.
This momentary distraction is enough for Barry to lose focus as he crashes hard into barrels filled with water at 600 miles per hour.
"Aaaaaa, fuck!" Barry yelps in pain as he feels a stinging sensation in his arm.
Seeing that Barry crashed, Caitlin and Cisco immediately ran toward him.
"Are you okay?" Caitlin asks as soon as she gets closer to him.
"My arm, it stings," Barry says holding onto his arm. "Let me check," Caitlin says and takes an x-ray of his arm with her tablet.
"Let me help you up," Cisco helps Barry get back to his feet as they make their way back to the van.
"We should head back to the lab immediately," Caitlin suggests.
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The team makes their way back to the lab in a hurry. Barry is taken to the lab and is immediately placed under observation.
"Guys, the pain, it's gone," before Caitlin could even begin any tests, Barry says twisting his hand in the air.
Caitlin approaches him and scans his hand once again, worried that Barry's nerves might have separated, leading to him not feeling any pain.
But as she looks at the scan, she can't believe her eyes. She immediately takes another scan of his arm and gets the same result.
"How long has it been since you felt any pain?" Caitlin asks. "I felt pain only for like the first few minutes after the crash, then it was gone," Barry says.
He thought he just twisted his muscle or something when he crashed back then, seeing that he was not hurting much.
"Why, what happened?" Barry asks, looking at Caitlin.
"It looks like you had a hairline fracture in your distal radius," Caitlin shows him an x-ray of his arm in which he can see the hairline fracture. "Had?" Barry questions. She then slides her finger to show another x-ray of his arm, "It's healed... In a few minutes, if we go with your words," Caitlin says, bewildered by how fast Barry's fracture healed.
Though it was not a serious fracture, it would have still taken six to eight weeks for it to heal. For his injury, to heal within minutes, it's a miracle.
"How is that even possible?" Barry asks. "We don't know... yet," Caitlin says.
"You really need to learn how to stop," Cisco teases.
"What happened out there? You were moving pretty well, and then something caused you to lose focus," Dr. Wells asks getting closer to Barry.
Barry pauses as he recalls his memory, this particular memory seems to hold a lot of weight, enough to influence the new Barry as well.
"I started remembering something," Barry says. Dr. Wells gives him a questioning look, trying to pry deeper.
"When I was 11, my mother was murdered." His words immediately make the people inside the room uncomfortable, especially Caitlin because of the previous interaction between them.
"It was late. A sound woke me up. I came downstairs, and I saw what looked like a ball of lightning. Inside the lightning, there was a man. He killed my mom.
They arrested my dad. He's still sitting in Iron Heights for her murder. Everyone, the cops, the shrinks, they all told me what I saw was impossible.
But what if the man who killed my mom was like me?" As Barry asks this question, he can feel the tears building up in his eyes.
Though a foreign soul in a new body, the emotion he is feeling from this memory is beyond any other memory. Now the new Barry wants to find out who killed his mother.
He can see the resemblance between himself and the man in his memory. Someone moving fast and generating lightning around them.
"Well, I think I can say unequivocally you are one of a kind," Dr. Wells says, and his words do make sense.
Barry got his powers due to the particle accelerator exploding, while his mother was killed when he was just 11 years old.
Dr. Wells puts his hand on Barry's leg to provide comfort before rolling away. Barry gets off the chair and tries to wipe his tears with his hands.
"Here." Caitlin hands him over her handkerchief. Barry smiles at her and takes it. "I am sorry to hear about your mother," Caitlin says placing her hand on his shoulder.
"Thanks... It's been 14 years since her death..." Barry says.
"You must have been very close to her," Caitlin says with sadness in her voice.
Barry looks deep into his memories and finds all kinds of great memories he has of himself with his mother, which makes him smile. She was definitely the person Barry loved the most, which is why even the new Barry feels emotional when remembering her.
"Yes... Yes, we were. Also, thanks for this," Barry says, showing the handkerchief in his hand.
"You can return it later," Caitlin says and leaves Barry alone.
"I need some coffee. Do you guys need anything?" Barry asks.
"No need." "I'm good." They both reject his offer.
"Then... I will meet you guys later," Barry says and leaves.