The Devil on Our Backs*Matt Murdock*Daredevil x The Flash* Damned*

8) Just another Tuesday

The pipeline is a prison designed by the Team Flash to contain metahumans (people with powers), placed in the STAR Labs. Just to clear things out.

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Cisco didn't stick around when Caitlin was stitching up Vera's injuries with the assistance of the blind man – he would be no help and they had another pressing issue. Matt was now fully focusing on Vera, obviously relieved she had survived, and while Cisco was happy about it as well, he was able to keep his distance and think about everything Wilson Fisk had said.

The kingpin knew Matt was Daredevil. Cisco wasn't quite informed about just how far his influence went, but he could tell Fisk knowing meant nothing good. Actually, it was a ticking bomb.

So while Caitlin and Matt had their hands full, he exchanged a glance with Barry, who had already managed to return from another trip to the warehouse Vera had been held in and where he had been playing guard and had a short chat with the NYPD – and immediately recognized his friend was thinking about the same thing.

"Ideas?" Cisco asked the minute they left the hotel room.

Barry grimaced. "Well, we can lock him up in the pipeline. He won't tell anyone there. Maybe I should have just taken him there in the first place, not letting the NYPD get him."

"Well, it's not like you can't take him now. But even if you did, I'm not sure how much of a help it would be. All of his minions probably know. God knows who else."

"I'm open to any ideas," Barry noted wryly.

Both men fell into an uncomfortably long silence.

If Cisco was Oliver Queen or someone similar, he would have probably just locked them up all on a stranded island like Lian Yu, which was clearly an alternative to STAR labs pipeline. The thing was, there was no way they could find out who else beside Fisk knew, who was the 'all' – unless they would have tortured Fisk, which was another no-no as much it might have been Oliver's M.O. once.

Mentally, Cisco whined. This was getting from a ticking bomb to a Ticking Time Bomb scenario and he did not like that in the slightest.

Why were there people so evil that they would simply deserved to be erased from the Earth's surface?

"How bad would you feel if you walked into someone's consciousness?"

Cisco's eyebrow rose, his curiosity spiking.

How exactly Barry wanted to do that? It wasn't like they could just shrink into some tiny nanobot and find the right synapse between neurons in Fisk's brain to destroy; the neurons didn't have it written on them and human mind was much more complicated than that. Plus, Cisco wasn't quite sure how to shrink – the last person talking about shrinking was Ray Palmer and where was he? Gone. Puf. During a shrinking experiment. So... yeah. May he rest in peace. Cisco had no desire to follow his example.

But hey, a nice thought.

To answer Barry's question – not too bad. Sure, it was mean and invasive, but it wasn't like they would be hurting the guy, the bad guy, on top of that. They had erased Eobard Thawne from existence. If they would be somehow able to make Fisk not thinking Matt Murdock was Daredevil without killing the guy, it would barely be close to the stunt they had pulled once before.

"Go on, Allen. I'm listening."

"The goggles we created when you first discovered your abilities. I think that if we modified them, you might be able to enter his dreams. His consciousness."

"Sure. Just enter his dream and tell him he's wrong. Piece of cake. Really, Barry?"

His superfast friend didn't seem to be discouraged by the amount of scepticism in Cisco's voice.