It had been a relatively normal day for them in the months in the aftermath of the Singularity and ‘death’ of Dr Wells…actually Eobard Thawne. Not that Carrie thought he was truly dead, but still they had to deal with the legal aftermath.
Legal bombshell more like it.
With her head resting in her hands, she stared blindly down at the paperwork from 'Wells’ her lawyer that she had not been wanting to open. Paperwork that turned out to be a last Will and Testament…that named her as his heir…
Paperwork that named her as the new owner and CEO of STAR Labs.
As if she didn’t have enough on her plate already!
What else could go wrong? She mentally grumbled and regretted it moments later when the perimeter alarm shrieked loudly, waking Henry from where he had been napping in the bassinet beside what was now her desk.
Scooping her infant son into her arms she hurried into the Cortex where Cisco sat at a console.
“Someone’s rammed through the barricade in the visitor’s parking deck!"
The visitor’s parking deck was the primary weak spot in the Lab’s security and it had been ruthlessly exploited as they watched the security feed. A large Humvee had rammed through and six armed men had exited it. Each wore generic black fatigues with no identifying patches.
If the were with ARGUS they would have used stealth to enter, like before.
Common thieves thinking the Lab easy pickings? Henry wailed and squirmed in her arms, his cries of distress mingling with the alarm.
"Shut off the alarm,” Carrie ordered and was relieved as Iris hurried to her side. Turning to her sister, she regretfully passed her Henry. “Calm him down while I greet the visitors. Cisco, put the sub-levels into lock down.”
The six men were almost to the main entrance, moving in a sloppy formation. Obviously not professional soldiers or mercenaries then.
In a crackle of gold lightning each found the rifles they carried removed from their hands.
“Fuck! Its the Flash freak!”
In the Cortex, Cisco winced from where he was watching the monitors, all but sensing the surge of rage coming from Carrie’s scarlet-clad form right before she unleashed a beating on the men. One of them managed to get back to the Humvee but he wasn’t getting into the driver’s seat. Baffled, Cisco zoomed in on the man and called over the comm, “Carrie, one of those bozos—”
The explosion ripped through the visitor’s parking deck, the Humvee becoming a fireball. Among the fire, he saw the crackle of her lightning trail, able to snag the closest pair of attackers and yanking them out of the blast zone. Another glance at the monitors showed him that the police and first responders were there. Pushing to his feet, he saw Carrie on-screen putting out the fire caused by the explosion and then secure the pair she had grabbed.
Firefighters and what looked like the bomb squad were swarming the scene and in a crackle of gold, Carrie departed the crime scene, taking a different route back to the Cortex.As she arrived and changed back from Flash to her civilian clothing, Cisco was double checking the footage to make sue there was no signs of Carrie’s running around in her Flash suit in the main corridors and erasing the alternate routes footage.
When he looked up, Carrie had cleared the Cortex of anything connecting the Flash to STAR Labs. A moment later, Cisco took a breath as the Bomb Squad and Fire fighters gave an all clear to the police officers just waiting for the signal that the scene was safe to enter.
Above ground, Joe and Eddie approached Ethan; Eddie’s phone was firmly attached to his ear.
“Crane!” Joe called out in greeting. “The CSIs are on the way, though once lock down is disengaged, Carrie will be able to join us from below. She was visiting with a friend of hers when whatever this is went down.”
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