Barry was freezing, his body hurt like hell. But why would it not, a three-inch needle was sticking out of it. He could not reach it to take it out and he was using most of his energy to try and keep himself warm. They had him locked in the pipeline, at minus 15 degrees. He could not keep the every growing worry away, it grew in the pit of his stomach, bubbling. He knew that he would run out of energy, then he would truly be in hell. 

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How long had he been down here for? He had no way of checking, it felt like days. To him, being locked in this padded cell meant everything slowed down. He could see his breath coming out in icy clouds, his heart, which worried him more, was slowing, it would soon be at a speed of a normal person running. Yeah, nothing to do with him was normal. Because it was totally normal to gain superspeed and for your friends and family to lock you in a cage like some wild animal, just because he wanted... No... Needed to race Zoom. 

They all thought that he was doing it because Zoom wanted to show him that he, Zoom, was quicker than the 'Fastest Man Alive'. No, he was doing it because he needed to... He needed to prove to everyone, to himself, that he was the fastest. It was a blazing burn that had him at its quim, he wanted so bad to get out this godforsaken cell and run to Zoom. Run to Zoom so that he could beat him in a race. He needed the win, the lightning in him needed to win. He has to become one with the, his, lightning, the true 'Flash', that he has had to hold back for so long. 

He could feel it getting closer, breaking free of its compounds, these walls that surrounded him, the agonising cold and pain that held him so tight in its monstrous grasp, all they were doing was lowering his inner walls. Like a werewolf caught in the beam of the full moon, his wolf was coming free. But it may not even get here in time, why, because he was dying slowly, the more time he spent in here, the closer to death he got. 

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The cold did not bother him anymore, he could not feel it, the heat, on the other hand, was agony. He could not lift even his head from the floor, all he could do was sweat and sweat and sweat. His so-called friends and family had long forgotten him. Left him in this cage like some wild animal. In some ways, it was true, he was wild, he was an animal. Now more than ever. He had spent his last moveable moments pacing this cage, memorising each and every point. His back, the dart sticking out of that same back, was facing the camera. Not so that they would see what they had done, coming running down to him, bundling him up and make him feel better, no, he did not want that anymore, what he wanted was for them to see what they had done to him. His suit was dripping, torn in places as he had tried frantically to get the needle out, each wound he had, even though he had been in here for what he does truly know as hours, had not healed. If he was not careful in the way he went around in this cage earlier, the high chance is, that his head would most likely be in a small pond of blood. His own blood. Instead, it was spread everywhere, his suit was covered in it. Luckily, now he was thinking otherwise, he had stopped bleeding, so he won't lose any more blood. He was safe from that, but that left him to the temperature, to the temperature that came from within him. Even the lightning in him seemed to have been affected, it did not approach anymore, just stayed where it was, like it too had collapsed, the lack of energy, burned up almost completely all the food from over ten hours ago.

All in all, he was not so certain that he should feel so lucky to be awake. How he wishes that he would fall unconscious. But he had no luck, he was to stay awake through this gruelling torture. Till, after sixteen hours, he did finally fall unconscious. 

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Cisco reluctantly dragged himself in, they had just spent hours trying to defeat Zoom. Only for him to get away. He was so shattered that he headed to sleep straight after, they all did. Gazing around the room, he was a little surprised to see that the suit was not in its place. 'Oh Barry must be out on an early morning search, he never really stopped when it comes down to Zoom.' He thought to himself, knowing that if he is out, it won't be that long before he is back, he still had to get to work, it is not a day that he could take off. The Captain would have Barry's head. 

Glancing at the clock, he saw that it is way past the time that Barry would start work, being 11:30 when he normally went to work at 9:00 and even then he is late. 'Why is he not back?' He thought to himself. 'He could just be on an early lunch so is doing patrol, yeah, that seems right for him.'

Cisco shook his head, shaking himself of his worries, before he went off to his little 'lab' to tinker with a few different things, not really having anything to do. If anything was to happen, an alert would sound through the whole building. You could be on the toilet and it goes off, blaring in your ear, happened to him more often then he would like to emit, at least the surprise of it meant you could get off the toilet quicker. Catlin's rules, number four, everyone has to sit down when they go to the toilet... and in her elegant words... I don't care if you have a dick, you will sit down on the toilet. She had even written that out on a sign, sticking it above the toilets. 

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The Captain was furious. No one was going near him, even Detective West was staying away. They all knew why he was so angry, CSI Barry Allen had not come into work, it was half twelve. No one was allowed any break, they all blamed Allen for it. He was not a favoured person at this point. Even Joe was upset with him, he was not answering the calls or messages they sent him. He had also heard that he was ignoring Iris as well. They could not remember why he may be doing this, they were all still far too tired to have the thinking ability to do so. 

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At 15:10, Catlin walked into Star Labs, immediately noticing the suit missing. Thanks to getting the chance to sleep in, she realised that this would not be a point that Barry would be out as the Flash. She ran to Cisco straightway, seeing him fast asleep, head on his small desk. "Wake up!" She shouted, shaking him awake. When he did wake up, she continued, "can you track the location of the suit. It's three in the afternoon and the suit is gone, somethings up." 

Cisco shot straight up after hearing that and he quickly ran to the control room, setting work on tracking its location. Only, it did not show up. 'Unless he is in the pipeline, the only strong enough place to block its signal...'  "We left him in there!" Cisco suddenly shouted, scaring Catlin, who also suddenly realised. Cisco hit the emergency alarm. The two of them quickly went to get there friend out of there, leaving a message for the others. When they got there, the sight before them made them feel so guilty and sad that they were both close to throwing up.

Barry was laid out on his side, blood staining the glass, walls, floor, suit and even his own skin. His back was facing them, letting them have a full view of the dart still sticking out of his back where they were too lazy to remove it themselves. He was not shivering, even though he was kept at such a cold temperature for so long. They could see that his mask was pulled over his face, an obvious attempt to keep warm. He was curled in on himself, making him look small and innocent. 

Catlin quickly opened the pipeline up, allowing Cisco to breach the three of them to the medical room. Barry was quickly put onto an IV drip, they took out the dart, linked his suit to the monitors, quite aware that taking his out of his suit could do more damage than good and he was then draped in as many blankets that they had, which as quite a lot. 

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They all waited, he was out for the rest of that day and it was past twelve o'clock the next day when he finally woke up. 

He shot straight up, his blood sugar levels and body temperature already at their correct conditions. The wound on his back had yet to fully heal, it had grown infected and it just seemed like it was going to one that took a while to heal. This did happen sometimes, but is really rare when it does, so they just count it as everything heals quickly, to stop the confusion. 

His eyes shot open, though something was wrong, they looked different... Animalistic almost. Lightning flickered around in his eyes, like when he uses his powers. They where flickering left to right like he was trying to find everything out just from looking. His body was shaking like he was controlling the urge to run. When he finally did notice the others, he did something they never thought they would see him do, much less dressed as 'The Flash'. 

He zipped from the bed, crouching down like a tiger ready to pounce, his eyes sharp like an eagle. What scared them the most was the fact that his lips where pulled back to show his teeth, which, if you ask Cisco, seemed larger and more pointed, baring them at them and that he was growling threateningly at them. 

"Barry?" The growls increased. "Barry? Please, are you there? You are scaring us." Iris pleaded with Barry. Joe pulled her behind him before pulling out his gun on him. 

Barry, catching sight of the gun, leapt forwards, like a tiger to a kill. Cisco, figuring something like this would happen, opened a breach straight into the pipeline. He then ran to the main controls, closing it down, locking him in there.

"What happened to him?" Joe asked him, his gun hand still shaking, the weapon in hand. "He seemed wild, like a predatorial animal kept in a zoo cage?" 

"Maybe, just maybe, that is what happened. He was kept in the pipeline for close to twenty-four hours. His mind must have flipped. The cold and the dart must have only off added to it, as well as the fact that the 'cage' was so small. We all mostly disabled his speed, with the dart and the cold, we left him completely defenceless, most likely starving, in a freezing, small, padded cell. It drove his brain to this. But I don't understand how it happened so quickly like it was already there before this." Cisco replied, before bringing up the security footage. 

They all watched in silence at what was being shown on the screens. 

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Barry was shaking, small noises of pain were escaping his mouth, he glared up at the camera, hoping to probe a reaction out of them. He then tried to reach for the dart, hissing as it caused more pain to flare through him. 

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Barry had his mask covering his face now, he was desperate to stay warm. He had long forgotten trying to take the dart out, it only caused him more pain. 

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Barry was covered in blood, he had tried again to take the dart out, but only caused blood to go everywhere, ripping the suit in the process, he then had tried to break free again, smashing his hands into the glass, again and again, his knuckle bled, some of the bones broken at the raging power he put into each hit, he still was quite strong, even without his powers.

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Barry glared up at the camera. Even for the few seconds that his eyes where facing the camera. They could all see the sudden change. One second, they were like the Barry they knew, admittedly pain and anger filled, next they changed, became that wild look that they had in his eyes before he turned animalistic... Before he jumped to injure him.

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Barry was pacing now, the lightning and wild look never leaving his eyes, his fist shook, lightning covering them like an electric glove. They all stared in shock, knowing that he should not be able to use his powers at this point. 

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Barry's eyes were taking in everything, learning every little detail in the small room, he was continuously pacing. He was almost covered in lightning at this point, the bleeding had stopped, but not before it had got everywhere. 

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Barry suddenly stopped pacing, collapsing to his knees. Giving one last hate and animalistic frenzied look at the camera, he collapsed completely. He curled in on himself, trying to make himself more protected at what they all presumed was them. 

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Barry stayed like this the rest of the time, till Catlin and Cisco had run down and got him out of there. 

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They all stared in shock at what they had seen on the screen. Them leaving him in there caused all that damage, then they sent him straight back in there. What are they? Barry had emotional and physical damage because they locked him up in the pipeline, then they went and locked him in there again. 

The screen now showed a live feed to the cell, he was curled up in the far corner, trying to get away from them. It stayed like this for a few moments, before he then fell to the centre of the room, landing hard on his back, but he clutched his head like something was trying to attack it with sonic waves. They continued to look on worried, before he got onto his knees, his hands down at his side as he mumbled different things to himself. 

"Yes, the lightning back in its pen. It can't get out. Not again. Need to run. Need to speed. Need to show all. Need to apologize." He kept mumbling it to himself, again and again, he was crying as well, but they could not figure out whether it was because he was sad or happy, maybe it was both?

They all headed down towards him, to see if he was back to how he was before. As the pipeline opened, he jumped up in surprise, flattening himself against the wall, unsuspecting it to open and the glass to move away. As soon as he saw them all, he quickly flew into the arms of Cisco. The last person he could remember properly caring.

"Whoa... Whoa, there buddy. It's going to be ok, it's going to be ok." Cisco whispered to him. Hugging him back, rubbing calming circles into his back. 

As Iris went to touch him, to lend him her comfort, he flinched away, like she had hurt him at one point. 'Which they had,' she reminded herself. 'Why was he not afraid of Cisco?' She then thought when Barry flinched away from everyone else. "Why are you not afraid of Cisco, Barry? He was also a part of it." She asked him. It came out ruder then she meant it to be, but at this moment, she could not find herself to care, even when it caused Barry to flinch away again, burying himself deeper into Cisco.

"60/40," he mumbled quietly to himself. Though, because the room was so silent, everyone heard it. Everyone softened at his innocent words. Cisco felt a bit of pride that he still held trust in him, even when he held none for the others, including Joe, his adoptive father that had got him through thick and thin. "I trust him because he still held trust in me, even when you all thought I could not be..." He added. 

"Ok Barry, just remember something for us, please? We did not mean for this to happen to you, for you to be in there for so long." Catlin whispered to him before she hurried everyone out of the room.

When they were left alone, Barry slowly peeled himself of Cisco, a soft smile, one that Cisco knew was a half-lie, covered his face. Then they both heard a loud bang and shouts from the control room, the noise echoing towards them. In an instant Barry was gone, the wild unpredictable Barry, Animal Barry, was back. 

Animal Barry zoomed Cisco straight into the control room, reaching speeds that he had never touched when giving a lift to someone like Cisco, leaving the man a bit out of place for a moment before he started to track The Animal Flash. He was heading, well, more his inner lightning was heading, towards someone at high speeds, even for The Flash. 

"Guys, he is going way past the speed of sound, I can't track him properly!!" Cisco shouted. 

Animal Flash finally reached who he wanted. Grabbing Snart and a bin, as even he knew that it was not going to be pretty on the other side, he zoomed back to STAR Labs, picking up the unsuspecting Cisco on the way. 

In the control room, they could only watch through the different screens as everything glass that came within a certain radius of where The Animal Flash had run, shattered into thousands of shards. It was chaotic, alarms where going off left right and centre, increasing as the glass in the control room shattered, Cisco disappearing in its wake. 

Both Cisco and Snart where hurling into the bin that Animal Flash had so kindly have got, being one of the larger ones. When both men had got control of their stomachs and the rest of their body from moving so fast, they both looked at Animal Barry, whose mask had full came off, meaning they could see the state of his head and hair, with a slightly angry look. Only Cisco saw how his eyes looked so quickly stopped. Snart did not know this so started to speak, meaning that Cisco had no way of preventing what happened next. 

"What the hell you do that for?! Thought we had an understanding?!" Snart questioned him. In a flash, he was pinned against the wall, Animal Barry having using his arm to push Snart's shoulders into the wall. Animal Barry was visibly shaking, his lips pulled back in a loud snarl. 

Snart felt like he was going to wet himself, he had never seen The Flash, let alone Barry act in this way. It terrified him, reminding him of his father but mostly of a rampaging animal in a zoo. Was that it, was he like an animal, was he his prey? Were Cisco and himself going to be a snack for him? The fact that he had no idea terrified him more, he always had to know, he had to, had to have control. 

Cisco quickly spoke up, as much as he did want to see Captain Cold wet himself in fright, he knew that he had to get their Barry back. But he also knew that he could not give away his identity. "Flash, you there?" He asked him softly. Animal Barry's head whipped around, a low growl answering his question. "Flash, please, come back to us, take control, don't let the lightning rain over." He whispered softly to him again. Animal Barry, as he fully registered what had been said, lowered his growl, the lightning fading ever so slightly from his eyes. 

"Hey, Barry, it's alright. You did not mean it." Snart added, meaning the two of them flicked their head round to him. Cisco looked on in shock, while Animal Barry took in what he had said. The lightning fully faded, eyes returning more to how they used to be, while his arms dropped. "Barry, you back?" Snart then added softly, having to make sure. Snart could see Barry nod slightly before he was pulled into a tight hug, feeling his shoulder dampen as Barry cried onto him. 

"How did you know who he is?" Cisco asked him softly, once Barry had cried himself to sleep, which happened quicker then they thought it would.

"I worked it out a little while back, I don't call him it where others can hear, but Scarlet does know that I know his identity and trusts me enough to keep it a secret. I did not realise that you all had no idea." Snart whispered, holding the sleeping Barry. Between the two of them, they managed to get him up to the medical room, laying him on the bed. The others all stood in shock as 'Captain Cold' came in carrying the sleeping Barry. As Snart laid Barry on the bed, Cisco was dragged away by the others. 

"What's HE doing here?!" Iris all but shouted. Pointing at Snart, who was gently cleaning away the blood that was still on Barry and the suit. 

"Because Barry trusts him, a lot more then we would have thought. He also knows his identity. Known for a while, says 'Scarlet' knows that he knows. Barry trusts him to keep it secret. He trusts a villain more than his own team. What does that truly mean for us? He trusted Snart more than me, he allowed him to hold him during his weakest point, eventually crying himself to sleep. I have a feeling that it will take an age to gain his trust again. Some longer then others, it is all about how we behave around him now. Also, who yelled and slammed something, it caused him to fall back into that animal stage and judging by the broken glass, he came in here at a high speed as well." Cisco said before he turned and left towards Snart and Cisco.

"I take it he has major trust issues at this point, anything happened to cause it? Also, Leo, call me Leo. I know who both you are, you should be able to call me by mostly my name." Leo asked Cisco, as he stared down on Barry, whose hand was wrapped tightly around his.

"He went angry a few days ago, he was going to race Zoom. So we all came to the idea of sedating him and locking him in the pipeline, long enough that we could deal with Zoom. He was forgotten about..." Cisco started, but Leo butted in.

"You forgot about him! How long was he left in there?!" Leo growled, surprising them all at the burst of strong emotion.

"He was left in there for close to twenty-four hours, minus 15 degrees, with a three-inch dart sticking out his back. When he finally got out, he was out for about twenty more hours as we stabilised him. He got hypothermia and hypoglycemic shock..." Cisco then continued.

"Hypothermia and hypoglycemic shock! Where you trying to kill him?!" Leo almost roared.

"...No. He got close to it though. He also got an infection. If you did not see, there was blood splattered everywhere, the wound from the dart and from where he tried to get out. He ended up breaking bones in his knuckles, trying to punch himself out. I should be able to show you the videos." Cisco ended. 

"Videos?" Leo asked.

"Yeah, from being sedated, to in the pipeline, where he attacked and how he was when he was put back in there for our protection. Then also how he behaved being let out the cage to how he is now." Cisco sighed, feeling ashamed with himself.

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Leo had to watch them all on Cisco's phone, unable to leave Barry's grip, nor wanting to really. The rest of the screens were broken as well. The others had left, thinking it best to leave the three alone, not wanting to provoke Barry when he woke up. Cisco watched his reactions as Leo watched the videos, seeing it range from pity to anger, to surprise, to worry. Seeming to flick between them all at speeds even The Flash would be impressed with. In the end, Leo thrust the phone back into Cisco's hand, deep in thought about what had happened.

"Why did you all allow this to happen? You could have had someone watch him, making sure that he would be fine, that could have prevented all this from happening. Also, it's clear that he has not had the chance to fully form with his powers, why he said 'lightning' repetitively, he meant the rest of his powers. He has not had the ability to fully use his powers, you all kept him back, meaning that it caused this animal feel. Yes, when he goes fast, he forms a portal, but he can easily go past that speed. He just keeps staying away from it. As you all kept saying not to push too hard." Leo suddenly said, staring at Barry. He then looked up, staring directly at Cisco, "he now has to have the chance to run... He has to run the fastest he can go otherwise the lightning could take over, then Animal Barry could be the only one you get."

"Alright, so we let him do so, take him to the biggest stretch of land, then tell him to run, run as fast as he can go?" Cisco asked him, not caring that he was asking advice from a villain for a hero. 

"That's exactly what I am saying," Leo replied strongly. 

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It was decided. When Barry woke up, they got him fully sorted, filled with protein. A note was left to inform the others as to what they were doing, they did not say where though. Cisco breached them all there, all having thermal balancers on them, as they would be going to the Sahara desert. They also brought a small tent, so they could also get out of the heat of the sun. 

When they got there and everything was set up, they both approached Barry, informing them of what they were going to be doing. They knew that they would not be able to track what he does, but when he returns the speed that he reaches should catch up.

"You ready Barry?" Cisco asked him, Barry nodded, "ready to run?" Another nod.

"Then run," Leo said, beating Cisco to it. 

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Barry felt like laughing, he let the lightning out its cage, letting it fuel him while he ran. It had gone past freezing, now they were all moving backwards. He ran in giant loops, circling the whole of the desert. He ran and ran, going quicker and quicker, not stopping, not slowing. Finally, like a bolt of lightning struck down on him, sending waves of power and force flooding out over the whole of the planet, he crossed the path, he went full power. He felt himself merge properly... He became one with his lightning, he felt himself change, even as he continued to accelerate.

His muscles increased again, his lightning brightened, he felt the power that he once held so weakly in his hands' flood through him. He had got one better than the race, he got to reach his limit without having to worry about Zoom racing him, or that others may get in his way. He got to go to a wide-open place, only worrying about the animals but after his first lap he knew where they all were, so could run without worry. He knew that no other speedster had done this, he would know if they had, a power would come off them, his own lightning would have not been able to become one with him. For only one true speedster could exist, as, through knowledge from the speed force, as he becomes one fully, he knew that they would be seen as The Speedster, a God almost. 

He quickly flashed over to where the others were, knowing that they would not have moved at all from where they were in the tent. He could see the wave pass through them, knocking them from their feet. He knew that everyone and every animal would also suffer being knocked from their feet, but he knew that there was no way to stop it from getting to them. 

When they got to their feet, Cisco went straight to the console to look at the measurements of his speed. Quickly though the console started to smoke, before it gave up, blowing up slightly in a small cloud of smoke. Leo was looking at Barry, completely frozen as he saw how he had changed, he had changed more then Barry had thought he had.

His muscles had increased, so had his height, instead of being 6"5', he was now close to 7"2'. A clear difference, though his suit had ripped as it changed to fit him. He had lost the baby look to his face, shown as he removed his mask. His eyes had changed slightly, they where a livid green-yellow and when you looked close enough, you could see small bolts of lightning running through the whites of his eyes. His jaw was straight and angled, his hair seemed to stick up more like he was struck by lightning again. There was a layer of lighting running around his body, a bright orange, red and yellow in colour. When he smiled he could see that his teeth had whitened, now a bright dazzling white, they also looked a little more long, sharp and pointed. 

At the same time that Cisco cried out,  surprised by the reaction of the console, Leo whispered, "Whoa... Cisco might want to have a look at this..." He then tugged slightly on his sleeve, so that he would look. 

Cisco turned around, obviously wanting to try and work on the console, before he, like Leo, froze at the sight of Barry. "What the hell?!!" He shouted out in surprise, Leo nodding as well.

"I full went with my powers..." Barry replied, rubbing the back of his neck in embarrassment. "Surprise?" He said, shrugging his shoulders slightly. 

Suddenly, all - except Leo - their comms went off, blaring loudly. Barry, as it was too loud for his hearing after becoming 'one', threw his away from him, meaning that it ended up hitting Leo in the chest, who also then threw it away from him. "Guys what's going on, a massive power wave just covered the whole of the planet, nothing is messing up, only everyone got knocked to the floor?" They heard Catlin yell over the noise. Soon both of the comms were on the floor, the yelling being too loud to have it closer. 

"Yeah it hit us too, Both Leo and I were knocked to the floor, don't know if Barry was though," Cisco replied. 

"Ah, any idea what caused it?" H.R asked, also yelling over the noise.

"That would be me..." Barry replied nervously. He saw Cisco and Leo heads flick straight towards him. "When I reached to correct speed, that I merged with the lightning, causing this, a wave released from me, a wave of pure power and strength. I did partly know it was going to happen, but I did not realise that it was going to knock everyone from their feet. Sorry." Barry replied.

"Nah it's alright buddy," Cisco said.

"No harm was done," Leo added. 

"They're right, nothing is wrong, just surprised everyone, that's all." Iris agreed. 

"Except to the sand that has most likely turned to glass now..." Barry added, shrugging. 

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They had all returned back to STAR Labs when a couple of breaches came through. They all rushed down, Barry taking Cisco and Leo, making sure that he did not go too quick that they all felt ill. Through one of them, Supergirl and her team came through, the other, Team Arrow came through. When the breaches closed, they all got knocked off their feet, as another small wave came off Barry, affecting everyone in the room.

Supergirl was the first to recover, getting back to her feet, before she noticed Barry. She squealed before pulling him into a tight hug. She quickly let go, thinking she had broken him as she did not control her powers fully. When she looked at Barry, she could see that he had not been affected, though everyone else in the room, even John, had flinched seeing as she had used some of the strength of her powers in the hug. Barry just smiled at her, his blinding white teeth showing. She pulled him back into a hug, spinning him around slightly. "You did it! You used your full powers! You have bonded fully!" She shouted, as both herself and Barry laughed. 

When he was let down, everyone slowly - far to slow for Barry, who headed off to go get food for them all. Though they all knew that it was mainly for himself. By the time that they were all seated in the control room, he was back with a load of different snacks and meals in his hand. He passed them all out to everyone, loving the way they were all surprised by the fact that he had got what they love to eat. He kept a bag of food next to him, knowing that they all knew that it was the food for himself. He also sat between Cisco and 'Captain Cold' surprising everyone.

Barry explained why they were all knocked off their feet, grabbing a screen from his room so Cisco could show them the videos that he had shown Leo. They all also watched in silence. Before they all looked at Barry.

"Yeah, that is what happened, the lightning, that I described, was part of my powers, it was trying to break free, all speedsters had it, but thanks to me becoming one with it, there won't be any more that can. In a figure of speech, I am the 'God' of speedsters." Barry summarised. Everyone was left gobsmacked at what he had said.

They all, in the end, started to talk about what had been happening, catching up with each other. They had not seen each other, in what it felt to Barry, in a decade. 

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Barry still had trust issues with everyone, only staying with Cisco and Leo after the others left. He had not gone to work, the Captain only knowing that an emergency came up and that he was in STAR Lab's hospital again, a few of the other police - after hearing about this - felt bad for him, but joked that he was struck by lightning - that's what they went with - Barry Allen was struck by lightning...again. They all agreed at STAR Labs that that is what they were going to say when Barry goes back to work. 

Barry ran out of STAR Labs, his suit having been modified so it worked better with his powers, overall giving a better effect, especially with the suit of lightning, almost like armour, that surrounded him now when he became The Flash. 

Zoom was standing in the middle of the street, a hefty crowd already formed. Everyone, including Zoom himself, took a step back, seeing The Flash for the first time after the 'accident', as it had been dubbed. 

Barry felt like smirking when he saw the worry and shock cross Zoom's face, he counted it as a mini victory to himself. "Now Zoom, are you going to hand yourself over, or have everyone watch as you are defeated by me?" Barry asked a little bit of playfulness in his normally serious tone. Barry knew that he had every right to be playful when it came down to dealing with speedsters that underestimate him, well, any villain or criminal that underestimates him. 

"What makes you think that, Flash?" Zoom called to him, taking a few steps forwards.

"Oh, I think you know why..." Flash drawled.

Seeing what is making The Flash so secure in what he was saying, he zoomed away. Flash stood there for a second, before he zoomed off to STAR Labs, then flashing back, cuffing Zoom before he reached the end of the road. He could hear the cheers from the crowd as they watched him, eventually seeing his lighting trail catch up to him. He then flashed towards the Police station, making sure that he vibrated himself enough so that they could not recognise him or his voice. He walked up to the Captain, who was only just responding to the call of Zoom. 

"There you go Captain, one meta-human called Zoom," Barry said to the Captain, holding out Zoom for them to see. His lightning trail only just become visible to them. A few of the heftier police officers came forward, taking Zoom from The Flash's hands. "He won't be a problem anymore," Flash added, glaring slight to Zoom, making sure that he got his point across.  

"Thank you, Flash... What caused this sudden change?" The Captin asked.

"The easiest way to put it, I used my powers fully." The Flash replied.

"Alright, I presume the wave of power was you then?" He asked, receiving a nod in reply.

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In the end, Barry went back to work, saying how he got struck by lightning again, helped to the fact there was a lightning storm the night team Flash went after Zoom without him. They all complained, quite a few where along the lines that it is unfair that he gets stronger with each strike.

Not too long after, team Flash decided they were going to have a karaoke night in celebration. Meaning that Barry had to sing again, but that's a whole other life. But here is how it went at this point.

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"Come on Barry! We all have sung now, just you to go!" Cisco said.

"No thank you, but I won't sing," Barry replied. 'Not again'. He added to himself.

"Come on Scarlet, there is guaranteed to be people up there today who sing worse than you. It's all a little fun... Even I have gone up there." Leo drawled. After everything, he stayed quite close to them all, having earned all their trust as he was the one Barry had trusted most during the 'accident'. Cisco and he had formed quite a strong friendship between themselves.

"I don't know though..." Barry said before he finally gave in to them. "One song, that's all you are getting!"

"That's all we ask," Leo stated friendly.

Barry dragged himself up to the Dj, before going up on stage. An unfamiliar song started to play. Barry quite quickly adjusted to singing the main part of the lyrics, instead of being a background singer for the song.

"Guys here's Barry Allen, with Dark Side!" The Dj introduced.

"Uh-ooh,
Uh-oh-oh, oh." Within moments of singing, he was like a different man, he walked off stage, while continuing to sing, leaving the mic behind, knowing he could carry his voice well enough.
"There's a place that I know,
It's not pretty there and few have ever gone." He walked up to them, a smirk spread across his face, dragging Leo to his feet, seems as he is the only truly competent singer out of the group and seemed to know the lyrics.
"If I show it to you now,
Will, it make you run away,
Will you stay." Barry led the two of them up onto the stage. Leo had no idea as to what he was doing so stood off to the side.
"Even if it hurts,
Even if I try to push you out,
Will you return?" Barry started to dance to it, matching the beat perfectly, falling straight back into his high school years.
"And remind me who I really am,
Please remind me who I really am.

Everybody's got a dark side,
Do you love me?" Barry could see that team Flash, everyone one of them, had their eyebrows raised at him.
"Can you love mine?" Cisco seemed to have figured out what the words where implying, whispering it to the others, who suddenly understood.
"Nobody's a picture-perfect." Leo raised his eyebrow, pointing between himself and Barry, a silent questioned shared between them.
"But we're worth it,
You know that we're worth it.

Will you love me?
Even with my dark side?" Without anyone noticing, as they were all entranced in how Barry knew how to sing and dance so well, Leo picked up the mic, realising why he was brought up onto the stage.

"Don't run away.
Don't run away.
Just promise me you will stay, 
Just promise me you will stay." They all jumped as they heard Leo start to sing, acting as a background singer.

"Promise me you will stay, 
Promise me you will stay." Barry sang out, spinning slightly, much to the amusement of the singing Leo.

"Will you love me, with my dark side? Oh..." More eyebrows raised as he continued to note, voice-only raising, not lowering.

"Everybody's got a dark side,
Do you love me?
Can you love mine?
Nobody's a picture-perfect,
But we're worth it,
You know that we're worth it.

Will you love me?
Even with my dark side?
Don't run away.
Don't run away..." He dragged it out slowly, just to be dramatic.

The two of them walked off stage, many people calling out to them at their singing and how good it is.

When the two had finally got to their seats and sat down, Cisco asked Barry, "why you chose Leo to sing with you?"

"Because he was the only one who showed that he knew the song," Barry replied simply, leaving out the fact that he was the only one that knew how to sing properly. "Besides, that was not that impressive." Barry added, taking a drink of his 'french-mans delight'.

"Not impressive! Why the bloody lord is that not that impressive?!" They all shouted.

"Because when I had first sung that I was not the lead singer, so don't know the song so well as lead and I was not on performance in that one either..." Barry realised what he said, sinking into his seat, hiding his face.

"Not the lead singer? Not on performance?" What do you mean by that?" Catlin asked.

"Oh, just my high school years... If I sing a song that I was on performance and lead singer will you leave this all alone, forget about it?" Barry asked, sighing slightly.

"Agreed... If I get to film it." Cisco replied, before anyone else, but his final bit seemed to make them agree.

"You don't need to, plenty of videos out there..." He mumbled to himself, before replying, "alright."

The Captain walked in, as Barry was dragging himself back over to the Dj. He came and sat down next to Joe and Cisco, seeing that Cisco would be filming, he asked for a copy.

He walked up to the Dj again, who seemed surprised that he came out again. He had to promise Leo that he was not going to drag him out to stop the man's complaining. Meaning that he would sing the other part by himself, he would just change his voice slightly.

Just like before he walked onto the stage, only making sure everything was off of the stage, he was going to go full out with this performance, just so that they truly will go silent, he had debated quickly running home to grab his school uniform, but that would just be pushing it. He still had the Dj introduce him as his high school name though.

"Here's Sebastian Smythe, back at it again, with a Glee cover of Live While We're Young!"

Barry felt like glaring at the Dj for adding that bit.

The song started to play, only, as Barry had asked, it was not instrumented, it was his old group, only without any lyrics.

"Hey girl, I'm waitin' on ya, I'm waitin' on ya." Barry sunk straight into his high school years, the smirk and all the moves coming straight back.
"Come on and let me sneak you out,
And have a celebration, a celebration,
The music up, the window's down,
Yeah, we'll be doing what we do,
Just pretending that we're cool,
And we know it too,
Yeah, we'll keep doing what we do,
Just pretending that we're cool,
So tonight..." Out of the corner of his eye, he could see that they were all surprised at him, especially the Captain...

"Let's go crazy, crazy, crazy till we see the sun." He continued to dance around the stage keeping perfect timing with the Glee song.
"I know we only met but let's pretend it's love,
And never, never, never stop for anyone,
Tonight let's get some,
And live while we're young!

Whoa-oh-oh-oh,
Whoa-oh-oh-oh,
Wanna live while we're young!
Whoa-oh-oh-oh,

Tonight let's get some...
And live while we're young!

And girl, you and I,
We're 'bout to make some memories tonight!" Yet again they were all surprised at the way that he behaves and dances up on stage.

"I wanna live while we're young!
We wanna live while we're young!" This part flew by without a problem, easily able to change his voice to fit.

"Let's go crazy, crazy, crazy till we see the sun,
I know we only met but let's pretend it's love,
And never, never, never stop for anyone,
Tonight let's get some,
And live while we're young,
Crazy, crazy, crazy till we see the sun,
I know we only met but let's pretend it's love,
And never, never, never stop for anyone,
Tonight let's get some,
And live while we're young!
Wanna live, wanna live, wanna live,
Come on, young!
Wanna live, wanna live, wanna live,
While we're young!
Wanna live, wanna live, wanna live,
Tonight let's get some!

And live while we're young..." Barry, yet again, let the song drop slowly before moving away. As he walked back, he could hear people cheering him and congratulating him.

"So, that fit your needs?" Barry said, sitting in his chair quite quickly.

"Yeah... Though who is Sebastian Smythe?" Cisco asked.

"Yeah, you need the Id of that person to sing," Leo asked.

He could see that the Captain had walked away. So Barry pulled out his two Ids.

Leo quickly started to look at both of them. The others agreed that he would be able to tell a false one a mile off. "Where the hell you get this one Scarlet," Leo questioned.

"I think you know, Len," Barry replied.

"I thought you agreed not to use that!" Leo replied.

"Why, afraid they will figure you out? It's French, the Ids French." Barry replied leaning back smugly on his chair.

"A French Id? Can you take me up there sometime to get a false for me?" Leo asked.

"No, because this one is not false," Barry replied.

Joe quite quickly added, "This one?"

"Left the false ones in France... You know what, I'll take you there now!" Barry said before walking out of the bar, pushing a slightly confused Leo out with him. Before he sped away to France to get his villain a false Id.

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