When Barry saw that it was testing day, he thought the worst. Needle's and wire's prodding him everywhere.

"Barry, we're going to test your stamina," Caitlin said, "but out in the city."

"Isn't that dangerous?" Barry asked

"If we didn't have a rough idea of where it would cut off? - Yes. But we do as we have an idea," Caitlin explained, "at that point, you come to the fields, where you will continue to run there until it does go."

"So run until I can't anymore?" Barry sighed, "food will be one of the reasons why I would stop."

"I think it will be the water intake in the end," Caitlin commented.

"Either way, you are just running for a day," Cisco shrugged as he opened up the door. "You need to run as if you are looking for something."

Flashing into his suit, Barry smiled, "when do we start?"

"When you eat those," Caitlin said, pointing to five energy bars before turning towards her screens.

"I knew it was too good to be true..." Barry sighed before he started to eat the bars.

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"How are you doing there, Barry?" Cisco asked over the comms.

"Fine at the moment," Barry replied as he continued to run. He'd been running around the city for over an hour, and it seemed to have brought the attention of people who came out onto the streets to watch him flash by them.

"Alright, tell us if anything changes."

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It took another five hours of running for something significant to happen. Barry's vision of the distance started to blur. Buildings far away were beginning to become blobs.

Barry came to a skidded stop, clutching slightly at his head as he spoke into his comms, "vision of distance starting to blur."

"Alright, start making your way to the fields," Caitlin spoke over the comms this time.

Barry agreed back to them as he took in where he was. It seems like the city wanted to mess with him as he was at the other side of all the buildings to the fields. Barry needed to go all the way through it again. So with one final deep breath, he shot off back.

Snart was one of the people that were out on the streets watching him. He was on a road that Barry was flashing by, but not as often as the others as it was near the fields that he had spotted Barry's team set up in.

He should have expected something to go wrong when Barry wasn't flashing through the street at his usual time. When it went over a minute, then he was on edge.

When Barry did appear, Snart was leaning against the wall. Snart hopped off the wall when he saw the reason as to why he was late. Barry had collapsed halfway down, coming to a rolling stop.

While checking that there was no one else there, Snart ran towards the fallen speedster. Turning him onto the speedsters back, Snart made sure the man was breathing before picking him up.

In the end, he had to rest the featherweight man on his hip as he bent down to pick up the ball that was in the speedsters hand when he fell, it was around the size of a tennis ball as well.

It was strange—Blue in colour, made of different parts of a lightweight metal of sorts. Between the cracks, it glowed bright orange and red colour. But it wasn't entirely made of the metal as it seemed. At the top, it had a space of plexiglass where four symbols were located in a clear liquid. There was also a floating arrow that moved around to different edges and corners each time it was shaken.

Why the speedster was holding this, he didn't know.

Shaking his head of that thought, Snart focused on getting the unconscious speedster to his friends that were currently trying to talk to Barry over the comms.

To say that Team Flash was shocked to see Snart carrying Barry back to them would be an understatement. Their jaws were on the floor by the time that he got there. Caitlin's shock faded when she saw that the speedster was unconscious and set to work setting up IV lines for the speedster.

While they fussed around the speedster, Snart leaned against their car as he sat on the floor trying to figure out what the ball was for. Thinking that it was maybe like a magic eight ball, he thought of a question before shaking it. 'Why was Barry Allen unconscious?'

The arrow finally settled on one of the symbols. A fleeting thought came to mind as he saw the sign that was pointed to glow. 'From lack of fluids.'

To see whether his assumption was correct, his head looked up to where Caitlin was now looking over some screens. "Was it from lack of fluids?" He questioned suddenly.

Caitlin jumped, not realising that Snart was still there and that he would ask something like that. "Yes, it was from lack it fluids; like we thought it might have been," she replied, puzzled as to how Snart had figured it out from his position on the floor.

"Hmm," he hummed before looking back down at the ball in his hands. Now that he had no question in mind for the symbols, they made no sense to him again.

There had to be a logical explanation as to why Barry had this. Because while Barry believed in the impossible, this was too far even for him. Another fleeting thought came to mind. 'How does this work?' He thought before shaking it.

The arrow moved from one symbol to another, as if the ball was writing a sentence. 'The speed force.' He heard in his head as his mind worked out the sentence.

"What's the speed force?" Snart asked again.

Cisco was the one that jumped this time, turning to face the thief with a shocked expression on his face. "The speed force is a sentient force that gives Barry his powers and makes him a speedster," Cisco explained, "why are you asking?"

"Just wondering," Snart mumbled as he looked back down at the object. "Is it a red, orange colour, maybe also blue?" He furthered as he looked up again.

"Yes, the power tends to be red, the speed can often be orange, and the portals it makes are blue," Cisco said, slightly worried as to how Snart was pulling up this different information.

"I see," Snart commented before looking down at the ball as he turned it over in his hands. He then held the ball up so that the others would be able to see it, "is it possible that it could be contained within something?" He asked, drawing both of their attention.

"Yes..." Cisco said as his words trailed off when he saw the object in Snart's hand.

"Does that have some of the speed force in it?" Caitlin questioned.

"I believe so, but Scarlet was holding this when he collapsed," Snart said as he pulled in back closer to himself as he continued to look at it. "He will be the one to know."

"It does," came a raspy voice of Barry Allen as he woke. "It contains some of the speed force in it. Such, meaning that it can provide the answers to whatever question as long as you can understand it."

"Does that mean Snart can understand it?" Cisco asked as he managed to prise it from Snart so that he could look at it.

"Don't ask me, ask him," Barry coughed as Caitlin got him a glass of water.

"Well, can you?" Cisco prompted.

"Kind of, I can't understand them when they are just like this," Snart emitted as he took the ball back from Cisco, "but if I think of a question, then I see them yet get a thought that is a translation of what the arrow points to with the symbols."

"Alright tell me what Barry will answer to this question," Cisco said as he got a paper out of his pocket. He didn't let Barry or Snart see it.

'How will Barry react?' He thought as he shook it. He knew it was childish of him, but he didn't get anything like this when he was a child, so give him a break. He barely managed to keep himself from laughing instead of only allowing a smirk to cross his face. He whispered it to Caitlin, who also ended up smirking as the two watched Cisco show the question to Barry.

Smack.

Just as the ball told Snart, Barry slapped Cisco. Both himself and Caitlin were almost in tears as they laughed. Snart was thankful that he was sitting when Cisco proceeded to turn to face him, pouting.

Snart watched with keen eyes as he stood up, his eyes trained on Barry. The ball had also told him that Barry would walk and fall within two steps. If someone is not there, then he would bash his head again. Just as the ball said, Barry stood and fell, but Snart held his hands out as he fell, a smirk across his face as he cheekily said, "you're falling for me a lot today, Scarlet."

"Oh, shove off," Barry laughed, pushing himself up and away from Snart. "I wonder if the reason that you're able to understand it is that I've sped you around a lot causing you to get used to the speed force, maybe even have a trace of it left on you?" Barry questioned aloud as he looked down at the ball that was now in his hands.

Snart grunted in annoyance before taking the ball back from Barry, "I think you'll find that's mine now."

"Why's that?" Barry asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Because I can understand it, and I brought you here when you collapsed in front of me. Maybe I understand it because I have intelligence?" Snart said.

A smirk crossed Barry's face as Sebastian rose. Using his speed, he grabbed the ball before turning towards Cisco as he threw it to him. "Cisco, you're more intellectual than a high school drop out, right?" Bassy smirked as Cisco fumbled to catch the ball.

Cisco puffed up as if Bassy had insulted him, "of course I am! I could use this no problem then!" He then proceeded to try and use the ball.

Snart and Bassy watched in quiet amusement as Cisco tried many different ways to make it work and to understand the symbols. He tried the shaking effect that Snart did but to no effect, he still could not understand them.

"How did you know that he had collapsed because of thirst?" Cisco questioned Snart after nearly throwing the ball away.

"I thought 'why was Barry Allen unconscious?' Before shaking it, then the arrow pointed to that symbol," Snart said as he signalled at the parts that he meant.

"Let me watch as you do it!" Cisco huffed, thrusting the ball into Snart's chest. "Find out what my favourite Earth is."

Bassy was watching amused as they almost bickered over a new magic-eight ball.

"Alright," Snart shrugged. 'What is Cisco's favourite Earth?' He thought before he shook and got his answer. "Earth three," Snart said smugly.

"How..." Cisco whispered.

"There's more..." Snart said as the arrow started to move again. After a moment, his face scrunched up in disgust, "I don't want to repeat that..."

Bassy, who had moved to look over Snart's shoulder, also cringed, "I can see why you don't."

Cisco grunted in annoyance before blushing as he realised what the two probably was told.

"I don't want to know..." Caitlin said, backing away before continuing to look at all the different

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"Snart, give it back!" Barry hissed at the next time Snart pulled a heist.

"Don't think I will," Snart smirked.

"I think you will," Bassy said before quickly flashing and checking the warehouse, appearing back with it snugly in his hand. "You just made yourself defenceless against me getting in, taking the only weapon that has a chance with you and away from there."

"How about the pressure plate floors," Snart questioned.

"When moving at super speed, I can climb and run on the walls - ceiling as well," Barry smirked.

"Lazers?"

"I can phase through walls, flooring and ceiling," Barry smirked.

"You sure that you're sound on your side of the law?" Snart questioned, his head buzzing with how efficient and straightforward Barry could be as a thief.

"Don't worry; I reassure you that I am not going to be changing sides anytime soon," Barry said, hiding a smirk.

"You'd make sure a fine thief," Snart commented.

"I know that I would," Barry smirked.

"Didn't know you could smirk, Scarlet," Snart commented.

Flashing over, circling him, Barry said quietly, "there's a lot that you don't know about me."

"And what's that?" Snart asked, trying to keep his eye on the speedster without moving.

"That there's a reason to why I know that I would be a good thief," Bassy smirked, holding the gem that Snart had snatched in his gloved hand.

Patting down his pockets only to realise that it was the stolen gem, Snart growled, "how did you do it?"

"A magician never reveals their secrets," Bassy whispered before flashing Snart back to his warehouse. "Thanks for the ball and gem," Bassy smirked before shooting back out, leaving Snart to be surrounded by stumped Rogues.

Making a pit stop to return the gem, Barry made his way back to S.T.A.R Labs. Some equally stumped friends greeted him as he entered the cortex.

"What was that?" Cisco asked, his hands flailing everywhere.

"Stopping the heist without gunfire and getting what's mine back," Barry stated simply.

"Sounded more like you were calling yourself an ex-thief," Caitlin stated with her arms crossed.

"Call it what you want, but the gems back in place, Snart's gone, and I have my ball again," Barry shrugged before he sat down and started fiddling it.

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