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[commanderspecs]

[How does this happen. How. How. Barry moves out of the way when he sees a stampede of...vikings?! He's standing out on a sidewalk somewhere downtown, not seeing a familiar sight anywhere. At least not like how it is back home. He sends out the all video signal]

Just what the heck is going on here?! Who's Gideon? Where am I?!

[He's hyperventilating or close enough to it, not amused at what is going on, and tries to make sense of it all.]

Comments

[kid_flash_found]

Um, apparently one of the side-effects of being brought here can be spontaneous generation of meta-powers?

I don't get it.

[commanderspecs]

[He swallows thickly]

I'm--I'm a meta now?

[kid_flash_found]

Possibly? Look, being meta isn't like a recipe for instant criminal psychopathy. Not everyone goes 'Hey, I've got superpowers, I should go on a killing spree.'

[commanderspecs]

Back home, a lot tend to do so.

[kid_flash_found]

Powers don't change people, they just...refine traits that might already be there.

[commanderspecs]

That...oh my gosh, that means that Central City is a lot more crime ridden than I thought.

[kid_flash_found]

Or the people you meet are the ones who choose to use their powers for personal gain. Not the ones who try to just live normal lives.

[commanderspecs]

Wh-wh-what am I supposed to do with these powers?

[kid_flash_found]

Learn how they work, and then decide what to do with them, or how to contain them. That's your choice, not anyone else's.

[commanderspecs]

Sounds like you’ve been through this before.

[kid_flash_found]

Me, no. Not personally.

[commanderspecs]

Then you know others?

[kid_flash_found]

One or two.

[commanderspecs]

This is—this is a lot to take in.

[kid_flash_found]

Like I said, it's not the powers, it's the person that make the decisions.

[commanderspecs]

[he is not pleased with this change of events]

Is there at least a STAR Labs here that I could ask to get some tests done?

[kid_flash_found]

Yeah. Possibly. I'm just not a fan of labs, personally.

[commanderspecs]

Why not?

[kid_flash_found]

You don't want to hear about my childhood trauma.

[commanderspecs]

Oh.

[That puts Barry in check.]

...I'm sorry for your traumatic childhood, Mr. Allen.

[kid_flash_found]

You've got nothing to be sorry for, Mr. Allen. I'm not.

[commanderspecs]

[Allen's a common last name so he doesn't think much on it.]

If it's all the same, I mean it.

[kid_flash_found]

I wouldn't be the person I am today without the way I grew up, for good or ill. I like to think most of it made me stronger.

[commanderspecs]

Are you--is-is this your Earth?

[kid_flash_found]

Nope, already said that, didn't I?

No, I don't know how I ended up here. Or even where here is beyond the easy answers.