"It worked!" Joe exclaimed, holding a cup and watching the coffee levitate.
*Whoosh!*
A red lightning bolt shot out of the portal, vanishing in the blink of an eye.
"Barry!" Iris cried out in surprise.
Wally quickly jumped off the super treadmill and chased after him.
Cisco, panting and beaming, stopped Vibe.
Qingshui turned his head and looked at his Promethium dagger.
He had just seen several red and yellow lightning bolts wrapping around the Promethium dagger.
The Speed Force… it seems it can also be absorbed as energy by Promethium.
...
...
"Guys, something's not right!"
An hour later, Iris, back at S.T.A.R. Labs, stared blankly ahead.
Barry, his face covered in stubble, was mumbling to himself, holding a pen and incessantly writing incomprehensible runes on the walls and floor.
"Barry..." Joe reached out and placed a hand on his foster son's shoulder.
Barry turned around, a silly grin plastered on his face.
"Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are… Daddy, I can sing 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star'!"
Joe was even more bewildered.
Qingshui silently took out his phone from his pocket and started recording.
This kind of embarrassing moment, Barry will surely be mortified when he sees it after he recovers, right?
The group tried various methods but couldn't get Barry back to normal.
"So… what do we do now?" Cisco slumped on the table, sounding drained.
"I've examined Barry's body and brain. They're perfectly healthy, but his mind is racing at a speed thousands, even millions of times faster than a normal person's," Caitlin said, looking at the medical test results on the computer.
"I believe the Speed Force dimension exists independently of time and space, possessing high-dimensional characteristics. The sheer volume of information it contains is more than what low-dimensional beings like us can process. Even with the protection of the Speed Force, Barry has to constantly use it to accelerate his thoughts to receive that information. It's reached a point where Barry's brain can no longer handle it, leading to cognitive dysfunction."
Cisco frustratingly scratched his head.
He never imagined such a situation would arise.
"So what do we do now? At least for now, we need a powerful speedster who can defeat multiple robotic warriors in different locations in a very short amount of time. Wally is fast enough but not strong enough, and Watt is strong enough but not fast enough."
"Not necessarily," Qingshui said to Cisco, toying with his Promethium dagger. "When the Promethium dagger was in the Speed Force cannon just now, it seemed to absorb some Speed Force. Cisco, can you activate the Speed Force within it and channel it into me?"
Cisco, stunned, took the dagger from Qingshui's hand and placed it on an instrument for scanning.
"The energy signature definitely matches the Speed Force, but…"
"But the Speed Force cannot directly affect your body," Caitlin interjected. "Barry and Wally's bodies have both been modified by the Speed Force, allowing them to perfectly withstand it. But others cannot. There was a woman, codenamed Trajectory, who stole a speed serum meant to help Barry increase his speed and became a speedster. However, her body couldn't handle the power of the Speed Force, and all her cells were burned away by it when she ran."
Qingshui was a bit disappointed, but Cisco quickly gave him a new surprise.
"Actually, it's not impossible to solve," Cisco said, looking at the dagger before turning to Qingshui. "I once interned in Professor Silas Stone's lab and learned a method for vibration-induced energy release from Promethium. By emitting sound waves of a specific frequency towards Promethium, the energy stored within it can be released."
"Then..." Cisco looked at the large, silver-white suitcase beside Qingshui. "...we can channel that energy into your armor, imbuing your armor with the Speed Force."
"Cisco, I knew you were a genius."
Cisco scratched his head. "There will still be some issues, though. For example, your own dynamic vision and reaction speed won't keep up with the Speed Force's speed. It would be best to have a powerful AI to assist you with the operation."
"What are we waiting for, then?"
Qingshui said with a laugh.
Just then, Mr. Freeze's voice came through the comms device.
"Watt! It's almost thawed here! It's time to save Nora!"
Upon hearing this, before Qingshui could even speak, Barry, who had been dancing the cha-cha on the floor, suddenly froze.
"Save... Nora..."
A red lightning bolt flashed, and Barry instantly vanished from everyone's sight.
Wally had no choice but to chase after him again.
"Nora..."
Iris murmured, staring at the spot where Barry had disappeared.
Only then did Qingshui realize.
Barry's mother was also named Nora; not only did it sound the same, but the spelling was identical to Mr. Freeze's wife, Nora.
"I can't catch Barry! He's gone!"
Wally's urgent cry came through the comms device.
Kid Flash, in his early stages, was nowhere near Barry's speed.
In fact, Barry had spent a long time in the Speed Force, making him much faster than before.
"Wally, go to Villa 403, Zora Community, West Field District!"
Joe shouted into the comms device.
That was the Allen Family's old house.
"Cisco, I'll leave the design of the Speed Force Armor to you for now. Caitlin, let's go help Victor treat Ms. Nora."
As Qingshui nodded to Cisco and Caitlin, he extended his Chakra Threads, dismantling the large, silver-white suitcase into a dozen modules, which he handed to Cisco for research.
Temporarily setting aside the matter of Barry, Qingshui and Caitlin entered the medical room.
By now, the temperature in the medical room had returned to normal.
Victor had also taken off his Freeze Armor, relying only on the condensing device connected to his heart to maintain his body temperature, holding his wife Nora's hand.
"You must be Mr. Watt and Ms. Caitlin. Thank you so much."
The awakened Nora said to them weakly.
"Ms. Nora, because of years of being frozen, your muscle activity has been affected, and you're temporarily unable to move. Next, I'll use equipment to temporarily block the electrical transmission in your spinal nerves, and then hand you over to Mr. Watt for treatment."
Caitlin said to Nora.
Because they needed to treat the nerves, they couldn't use nerve-specific anesthetics. Fortunately, S.T.A.R. Labs had enough advanced technology and powerful equipment to achieve what Caitlin described as blocking nerve transmission.
"Nora, trust us, we'll cure you!"
Mr. Freeze said to his wife with emotion.
"Victor... I've always trusted you."
Nora said with a smile.
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