#flashpiedpiper

Song: There's Nothing Holding Me Back by Shawn Mendez

I wanna follow where she goes

I think about her and she knows it

I wanna let her take control '

Cause everytime that she gets close, yeah

Len started it.

It was another robbery. Diamonds or something. Barry thinks Snart, Len, whatever, mentioned that Lisa's birthday was coming up or something.

She pulls me in enough to keep me guessing (mmm)

And maybe I should stop and start confessing

Confessing, yeah

They'd been trading their usual banter when Snart, no, "Call me Len, Scarlet" had kissed him. He hadn't gotten his senses together before Len was just gone. He later found one of the diamonds, a red one, in his pocket.

Barry would admit to himself he'd thought about it, it being Len. But he convinced himself it'd just been a ploy to catch him off guard.

Oh, I've been shaking I love it when you go crazy

You take all my inhibitions

Baby, there's nothing holdin' me back

You take me places that tear up my reputation

Manipulate my decisions

Baby, there's nothing holdin' me back

There's nothing holdin' me back

There's nothing holdin' me back

Then it happened again.

Pied Piper had played a song that'd made Barry's head feel light and dizzy. But instead of taking advantage of the moment to hit and run, Hartley had kissed him, smiled and said something in French, and then ran.

She says that she's never afraid

Just picture everybody naked

She really doesn't like to wait

Not really into hesitation

There had been a fire at a bar and of course Heatwave was there. Only he hadn't actually caused it, but almost gotten trapped in it. Barry had waited with him after using the man's burner to text Len to pick him up, then checked him for smoke inhalation.

Pulls me in enough to keep me guessing, whoa

And maybe I should stop and start confessing

Confessing, yeah

He'd been completely unprepared for Mick to grab him, crush him to him so he could feel how very okay he was, and kiss him until he felt like he was the one suffering oxygen deprivation.

He'd stumbled and then ran away when he'd heard Len's motorcycle coming.

Oh, I've been shaking I love it when you go crazy

You take all my inhibitions

Baby, there's nothing holdin' me back

You take me places that tear up my reputation

Manipulate my decisions

Baby, there's nothing holdin' me back

There's nothing holdin' me back

Barry hadn't thought he would need his guard up around Mark Mardon of all people. The man had mellowed considerably over time after joining the Rogues, but he was still him.

Cause if we lost our minds and we took it way too far

I know we'd be alright, I know we would be alright

If you were by my side and we stumbled in the dark

I know we'd be alright, I know we would be alright

Until during a bank robbery, after everyone had been evacuated, and Mardon had pushed him onto a pile of money and kissed him, muttering something about dreams come true after all.

Barry had not been at all prepared, and apparently neither had Mark, for their powers to cause a reaction between them that felt like licking lightning. Barry had ran away after almost coming in his suit and nearly setting the money on fire.

'Cause if we lost our minds and we took it way too far

I know we'd be alright, I know we would be alright

If you were by my side and we stumbled in the dark

I know we'd be alright, we would be alright

Barry was a bit more prepared for Trickster Jr.

Or at least he'd thought so. He wound up triggering a trap and hanging upside-down with a sprinkler system going off as Axel laughed and then leaned in for a Spider-Man style kiss. He'd escaped with the new tech and Barry was more confused than ever before.

Oh, I've been shaking

I love it when you go crazy

He didn't even put up much of a fight when Mirror Master and The Top pulled him into a dizzying dance after crashing a fashion show and took turns kissing him until he couldn't think straight.

You take all my inhibitions

Baby, there's nothing holdin' me back

Barry was starting to worry about his Rogues. Was this a ploy to mess with him? Or had some Meta whammied them?

It turned out the second one was true.

Sort've.

You take me places that tear up my reputation

Manipulate my decisions

Lisa, Shawna, and Bivolo showed up to ask for help. Barry tried to the stupid little sting of disappointment. Of course they'd been whammied. He'd never been this popular personally in his whole life.

The Rogues had been pulling a lot more jobs lately with less planning than usual, but Barry had been too confused by their attention to think about it.

Lisa explained that Roy had gotten drunk at a party and developed a new level of power. Lisa and Shawna had been away on a shopping trip when it'd happened.

As far as they can tell, Roy's new color orange had unlocked their inhibitions to take more risks and it was getting dangerous.

Baby, there's nothing holdin' me back (oh whoa)

There's nothing holdin' me back I feel so free when you're with me, baby

Barry helps and so does Team Flash, of course. (Lisa is happy for get the chance to work closer with Cisco and Shawna thinks Caitlin is actually kind of cute when she's not keeping people in a pipeline.)

After all is said and done, Barry is ready for things to go back to normal and forget it ever happened.

"Is that what you think we want?"

Maybe they can make their own new normal.

Hmmm an interesting mix.

I'm feeling a few Rogues with this. Maybe there's a meta that messes with localized time that the Rogues are beefing with and Barry shows up to stop collateral damage. The meta's ability interacts with Barry's speed, causing him to keep getting pushed into each of the Rogues' personal pasts.

He ends up in Len’s past first. Right on top of a half naked, in his early twenties, Len about to have his first time with a sex worker and mistakes Barry for an expensive one. (We'll say the meta isn't able to send Barry through with clothes, cause shenanigans)

The next past he ends up in is Mark's, just after his first bank heist and thinks Barry is a stripper Clyde got for him. Barry doesn't act very impressed by him and Mark is interested when Barry talks about having 'better game' as a criminal.

He falls through into Hartley's past. He'd just come out to his parents and was trying to get drunk, feeling miserable and- there is a very cute naked guy in his lap and he feels a little bit better. The naked guy is also very sweet and Hartley doesn't have the mental faculties to even try to hide the need for affection.

In Shawna's past, she's just been dumped by her latest boyfriend. Having a very cute naked guy tell her she deserves better is actually kind of flattering, but do you need help cutie?

Barry ends up back in the present, still very naked, the meta knocked out, and a handful of Rogues very interested in having a talk with him.