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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

[goodviberations]

A few people have disappeared, so, maybe?

I don't know for sure.

[commanderspecs]

Are there more of your colleagues here?

[He is looking around to see if he recognizes anything. Nothing yet.]

[goodviberations]

Yeah. My best friends are here with me.

[He honestly doesn't know if he could handle this place without them.]

[commanderspecs]

Best friends. That's...that's good.

[He's barely handling a place like this. Barry stays close to Cisco as they make their way through.]

I take it metas are more commonplace there?

[goodviberations]

After the particle accelerator explosion, yeah. Kind of a fact of life.

[commanderspecs]

Particle Acc--were people hurt? Or did they just turn into metahumans?

[goodviberations]

Both. About a dozen people died that night, but way more than that became metahumans.

[commanderspecs]

[He lets that sink in]

I'm so sorry.

[He genuinely means it as well.]

[goodviberations]

[He shakes his head.]

A lot of people lost more than me that night.

[commanderspecs]

It still couldn't have been easy.

[The sparks start to die down a little]

For you or anyone that's lost someone that night.

[goodviberations]

No, it wasn't. But we've all had to find ways to move on from it.

[commanderspecs]

[He nods]

I take it all this isn't part of that incident?

[goodviberations]

No. No, this is something else.

[commanderspecs]

[Barry huffs a sigh and takes off his glasses, pinching at the bridge of his nose]

Timing couldn't be more perfect, actually.

[goodviberations]

How's that?

[commanderspecs]

I just bumbled asking Miss West to dinner.

[He winces.]

It was...pretty bad. Last time I ever take direction from Hal Jordan when it comes to women.

[goodviberations]

[He's seen his Barry do the same thing multiple times, and he always felt badly.]

Not great at talking to women, huh?

[commanderspecs]

Is it that obvious?

[goodviberations]

It's apparently a problem every Barry Allen has.

[commanderspecs]

Your Barry has problems with that too?

[goodviberations]

Yeah. Yeah, it's bad.

[commanderspecs]

[He groans a little and covers his face]

Hopefully one version of me outgrew that.

[goodviberations]

[A laugh.]

Maybe at some point, man.