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[commanderspecs]

[The glitchy video opens to focus on Barry's metahuman watch on the table right in front of his communication device. If someone looks carefully, they could see just beyond that is the unfocused figure of Barry Allen...2 and the entire apartment surrounded by bolts of electricity emanating from his body. Instead of the usual fear that comes with Barry using his abilities, he seems to revel in the fact that his room is in disarray, that he could easily send bolts of electricity to destroy a lamp.]

[He turns his focus onto the meta watch and his face twists up into an angered expression before he extends a hand toward it and lets loose a bolt - destroying it and knocking the communication device off the table, effectively ending the broadcast.]

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[kid_flash_found]

"Maybe, but if you keep upping the power, you're going to short something out. All those joules have to go somewhere," Bart said, brow furrowing a little as he tries to pin down why this feels so wrong.

"Normally, I'm all with the whole 'embrace what you've got,' but what gives?"

[commanderspecs]

"You're right. They do need to go somewhere."

Barry turned his full attention on the youth and aims the bolts in his direction.

[kid_flash_found]

Well, that was rude. Bart doesn't even blink before blurring out of the way of the channel of superheated plasma arcing towards him, but the damage it does to the wall behind him may need some explaining.

"I didn't mean me. I'm already riding the lightning, thanks."

[commanderspecs]

"Riding the speed! But I suppose that's a great idea."

Barry's body seemed to turn into pure electricity before he lunged at the speedster.

[kid_flash_found]

The transformation is enough that this time Bart isn't quite fast enough to dodge, and he can't help the pained sound that escapes him as lightning of a different sort courses through him.

He stumbles backwards, trying to break the grip before it does more than just overload his synapses.

[commanderspecs]

He solidifies after he charged through Bart. He's no longer the mild mannered, bookish nerd. Barry is standing taller, more solidly, as currents run all over him.

"Stay out of my way, Bart," he warns darkly.

[kid_flash_found]

"Don't do this..." Bart manages to get out, his whole body still feeling like it's alight with pain. "Don't make me have to stop you."

He can't hurt Barry, not really. They're family, and that always makes things harder when they go wrong. Alternate universes and broken time don't matter when blood is involved.

[commanderspecs]

Barry scoffs at that, turning into electrical currents and charging at him again, this time concentrating on the voltage it would take to knock him out.

[kid_flash_found]

Bart screams at the pain Barry brings as once again every nerve is firing at once, the energy coursing through him faster than the Speed Force can heal him, and after a moment that seems to last forever, blackness consumes him, and the last conscious thought Bart has is a concern about just what he might wake up to.

[commanderspecs]

Once the kid falls, Barry frowns deeply.

"I can't have you here but I can't have you following me either."

He grabs the watch that Harry gave to him and puts it on Bart, turning up the dampener to the max, and somehow charring the bands so that it wouldn't be easily taken off.

[kid_flash_found]

The kid looks even smaller unconscious, somehow. All that bravado and energy make him seem larger than life, but even as his body continues to twitch irregularly from the current still wreaking havoc on his nervous system, he doesn't actually react.

If anything, then device on his wrist will mean he stays under longer, as his body tries to respond to everything at normal speed.

[commanderspecs]

Barry picks him up. He really does look like a kid. He puts him on the couch so that he could recover and the communication device nearby so that he could call STAR Labs for help. He leaves the apartment after draping a blanket on the kid.

He isn't inhuman.