Skyfall (The Flash) (Book Two) (Vera Pyra Series)

Chapter 3__Family of Rogues

I was sitting at home in my loft, playing electric guitar to 'Until We Go Down' by Ruelle. "And I feel it running through my veins / And I need that fire just to know that I'm awake / Erase darkness till the break of day / And I need that fire just to know that I'm awake / Ooh ooh, ooh ooh / Ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh / Ooh ooh, ooh ooh / Ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh / Until we go down / Until we go down / Until we go down / Ooh ooh, ooh ooh / Until we go down / Ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh." I sang the note higher this time around. "Until we go down / Until we go down / Ooh ooh, ooh ooh / Until we go down / Ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh / Until we go down / Ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh."

I continued to play the guitar solo, which was slow yet trance like.

My phone rang before I could finish the song. I sighed, taking it out, seeing it was Iris calling, answering. "Hey, Iris. What's up?"

I heard gunshots on the other line.

"I need your help, now!"

"Were those gunshots?"

"Yeah. I'm at Baldwin Tower. I can't find a way out."

I instantly grabbed my suit, using fire to fly out. "Uh, window. Is there a window?"

"Yeah. Up ahead." I could hear more gunshots on the way there. "Okay, I'm by the window. Why?"

"Okay, great." I saw the windows up ahead, shooting fire at the glass to shatter them, flying inside, grabbing Iris, flying out of the tower toward the ground below, putting her down. "Okay. You good?"

"Yeah," Iris answered. "That was fast."

"Yeah," I agreed. "Wait, uh, how many guys are up there?"

"Uh, two," Iris answered. "They both have guns."

"Okay," I told her, using fire to fly up to the tower. When they tried to shoot me, I literally turned into fire so they wouldn't have anything to shoot at, punching them both unconscious, using fire to fly out, landing next to Iris on the ground below. "All right, now they're taking little naps till the CCPD wakes them. So, what exactly were you thinking?"

"I got a hot lead on a real estate scam," Iris explained. "I mean, these guys have been illegally evicting people, breaking up families."

"Okay, look, no story is worth your life," I told her.

Iris chuckled. "Thank you for coming."

I smirked. "Yeah."

"I can't wait to write about this," Iris told me. 

I smiled, using fire to fly away.

~

The next morning, the team, Quinn and Jay were at STAR Labs, in the basement, looking at the breach.

"Amazing, isn't it?" Barry asked.

"I still can't believe what I'm looking at," Jay told us.

"52 breaches in Central City, and the biggest one just happens to be in our basement," I told them.

"We need a name for it," Cisco told us.

"It's not a pet, Cisco," Caitlin told him.

Stein walked closer. "No, it's a wormhole."

"Professor Stein, what are you doing?" Caitlin asked worriedly. "Your blood pressure is 147 over 82. You could pass out again."

"Oh, it's merely a few points above the 140 average for someone my age," Stein told her. "Besides, I have some ideas I would like to contribute to this discussion, Dr. Snow."