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

Chapter 20__Versus Enemies

Sometimes, terrible things happened to us when we were children. Things that could define who we become, whether we want them to or not. Some of us became stronger. My ordeal was that my family burned alive in a fire, sending me into years of foster care. The people who took me in helped me heal, and move past everything tha happened. They are responsible for who I had become today. And I had moved on. Until the truth of what happened that night was that the Reverse-Flash had manipulated Future-Me into starting the fire that had killed my family. But I knew that I was one of the lucky ones. Not everyone gets the support like the support I got from Barry Allen, Cisco Ramon, Caitlin Snow, Joe  and Iris West, Quinn Tate. Without it, I didn't know where I would've ended up. Or what I could have become.

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It was early morning, and Barry and I were suited up and training at the abandoned Ferris Air strip owned by STAR Labs, which I now owned, which meant I owned this, which was weird to even think about.

"Okay, you guys, we're here," I told them. "You got our location?"

"You good?" Cisco asked. "You don't need to, like, stretch or something?"

"No, no, no, we're good," Barry answered. "We're good."

"Let's take these enhancers for a test drive," Cisco told us.

"All right," I told them.

Barry put a device on his chest.

I put a device with a fluid needle into my arm.

"Ooh, yeah, I feel that," Barry told us.

I smiled. "Yeah."

"Those are tachyon devices powering up the force in your cells like a quick charge battery," Quinn told us. "Vera, the liquid attached to your device is a coolant so that the fire in your system doesn't overpower you, hurt you or anyone else. How do you guys feel?"

"Different," Barry answered.

"Let's see the fire power Vera has now and the speed that Barry does," Cisco told us. "On my count. Three, two, one, go."

I used fire to fly up to the sky. The fire was brighter, hotter, larger and more stronger than ever before, throwing me up into the air, making it a jostling ride that blew down the sign next to us.

Barry laughed. "Whoa. That's a lot of fire power."

Fire spread all over my body without harm. I smiled at the feeling, laughing at the rush.

Barry smiled.

"Race you back to STAR Labs?" I asked.

"Let's just not break another dimensional barrier and travel to other Earths," Barry told me.

"And here I thought you were the reckless one, and I was the responsible one," I told him.

"I'm learning," Barry told me.

We smiled. Barry zoomed off toward STAR Labs, faster than he ever had gone before. I used fire to fly to follow him, engulfed in flame though I wasn't trying to be, going just as fast as Barry, with strength coming from the fire that allowed me to fly.

"Dang," Cisco told us. "You guys are cruising."

"How fast do they usually go?" Iris asked.

"Not this fast," Caitlin answered.

"Not even close," Cisco told us. "And Vera has never had that much fire power."