Ruin ⇝ The Flash [01]

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F O R T Y - N I N E:
errors of time travel

"Hey, what's going on?" Cisco asked Barry over the comms. "Dude!"

"Yeah. Cisco, I'm here," Barry replied, still in shock of what he was seeing. The lady yelling at the taxi and the dogs barking; they were things he saw yesterday.

"What happened? Why'd you stop?" Cisco asked.

"I just got a little disoriented," Barry answered, looking at everything around him.

"You need to make up some time, man. You'd better hurry up. Bibiana is probably already there," Cisco told him.

"Hurry? Where's Bibiana? What are-?"

"Hurry, as in, get to the morgue. Where Bibiana is at," Cisco answered Barry's questions.

"The morgue?" Barry asked confused.  "But I was there yesterday."

"What are you talking about?" Cisco questioned. "Come on, you gotta go."

Barry took off running towards the morgue.

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The speedster looked at the crime scene weirdly. He had just seen it the night before. Everything was repeating.

"Hey, Barr, what's with all the water?" Joe asked. "Did the sprinkler system go off or something?"

"What? No, I checked all the sprinklers. They're all intact," Barry answered him. He moved closer to the body. "But the water has ice in it. And the bruises on the corner aren't just on his face. Check. Look at his torso."

Joe lifted up the deal victims shirt to reveal bruises. Barry was still shaken by everything that was going on.

"Whoa," Joe said, looking at the bruises. "How the hell did you know that?"

"He was killed by hail," Barry replied, getting up from the floor. "We have to listen to the recording."

"Recording?" Joe asked.

"Joe, we got something," Eddie informed them. "The coroner's office just installed an automated dictation system. Listen to this."

"Please, no more," a man's voice said.

"I'll stop when you tell me," Mark Mardon spoke.

"Stop."

"Who killed him?"

"That's Mark Mardon. He wants revenge," Barry told them. There was screaming following the sentence.