Finally Found One

Panic immediately breaks out and people crouch down.

Six men, covered from head to toe, enter waving their guns around. They immediately take down some security.

"Quite down! All of you!" One of them shouts making the screaming women shut their mouths.

"How considerate. You're all wearing your finest jewelry! Almost like you knew we were coming to rob you!" One of them says waving his gun around.

"Now everybody line up!" He orders

Barry watches and wonders if he should take action, but decides not to. No one is in immediate danger right now, so he shouldn't take any action and make things go out of control.

The people do as they are told and make a line as one of the robbers starts collecting their precious jewels.

The robbers get done collecting everything and are about to leave. A security guard runs in, pointing his gun at the robbers. "Freeze!" he shouts. The robbers turn around and all six of them point their guns toward the security guard.

"D-D-Drop your weapons!" the security guard says, but instead of listening to him, all six of them shoot at him without hesitation.

Barry sees the bullets leave the barrels of the gun and immediately enters super speed. He runs up to the security guard and drags him away before the bullets even travel half the distance.

He leaves the security guard at the back exit and returns to his original position without anyone noticing.

The robbers are confused when they see the security guard suddenly vanish, so they immediately turn and run with their stolen goods.

"Iris, call the police. I will follow them," Barry says. "No, stay here," Iris tries to stop him.

"Don't worry, I won't confront them. I just want to identify their getaway vehicle," Barry says and follows after the robbers at normal speed, and just as he takes a turn, away from prying eyes, he enters super speed and immediately catches up to the robbers outside.

They are all running in slow motion. Barry doesn't waste any time and immediately knocks all of them out, one punch each. They didn't even know what hit them.

Now all six perps are on the ground, Barry decides to see who they are. Still, in super speed, Barry begins removing their masks. As he removes the second person's mask, he is shocked to see that it's the same face as the first person.

He then removes the third perp's mask. It's the same person. He removes all six of their masks and they all are the same person.

"A Meta-Human," Barry says as he returns to normal speed, suddenly the six clones in front of him start to decompose and turn into dust.

"This is a mind fuck," Barry says and goes back in as he hears police sirens.

He runs in at a normal pace and sees Iris looking very worried for him. "Iris!" he calls for her.

"Barry, oh my god, I was so worried. Are you okay?" she asks. "I am fine," Barry reassures her.

"Did you get their runaway vehicle?" she asks.

"No, they suddenly disappeared," Barry lies, as there is no way he is going to tell her that all six perps turned into decomposed dust after he knocked them all out at super speed.

"It's fine. I am just glad that you are safe," Iris says.

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The police are all over the university building as they take statements from all the victims.

Joe finds Barry and Iris standing in a corner and approaches them. "You two okay?" He asks.

"We are fine, dad," Iris says. Joe then looks at Barry and mouths what happened while Iris's attention is away. 'I will tell you later,' Barry mouths back.

"I thought I was dead. I saw the gun go off, and then — Boom. Suddenly I'm outside. I have no idea how I got there." Joe hears the security guard's statement and looks at Barry, knowing that he is responsible for saving the security guard.

"Let me talk to you for a second," Joe tells Barry when Eddie suddenly walks up to them. "Joe, you need to see this," Eddie says.

Joe looks at Barry and decides to postpone the talk. "You too, Barry," Eddie says.

Barry and Joe follow Eddie outside the university's side exit, where Barry knocked out the six perps.

Joe looks at the scene and is confused. "What's this?" he asks.

"The perps left everything behind. The stolen jewelry, even their weapons, and a lot of dust. The weapons are the same ones stolen from the gun store this morning," Eddie says.

Joe looks at Barry and approaches the scene. "What do you think, Barry?" Eddie asks.

Barry needs to play along, so he puts on a pair of gloves and begins investigating the scene.

"The dust is shaped like people, six of them. It's like our six perps turned into dust," Barry says.

"How's that possible?" Eddie asks.

"I don't know..." Barry answers.

"Barry, a word," Joe says.

Barry looks at him and nods.

Barry and Joe walk away from the scene where there is no one around.

"What happened Barry?" Joe asks.

"Look, after those men were done robbing and tried to get away, I ran after them and knocked them out," Barry says.

"You did this to them? You killed them?" Joe asks, shocked.

"What! No, let's me finish," Barry says calming Joe down. "After I knocked them out, I removed their masks to check who they are. All of them were the same person, Joe," Barry says.

"What do you mean, all of them are the same?" Joe asks, confused.

"They were some kind of clones, they all had the same exact face, Joe. Then the clone bodies began to decompose in an instant and turned into dust, and then I got out of there," Barry says.

"So you are saying..." "Yes, this person is just like me, a Meta-Human," Barry says.

"Meta-Human?" Joe asks.

"That's what the guys at S.T.A.R. Labs call them," Barry says. "This all is getting freakishly weird, Barry," Joe says.

"I know Joe," Barry. "Joe, there's a suspicious black van outside. We should check it out," Eddie says, approaching the two.

Joe gives Barry and look before they both follow Eddie.

Just like Eddie said, there is a suspicious black van, Barry immediately gets to work and starts looking around and he finds evidence of someone being inside this van recently, he pulls off some fingerprints from the steering wheel and some hair strands and bags them as evidence.

"What did you find?" Joe asks.

"There was one more person here recently. He must have fled on foot as soon as he found out the other six were incapacitated. I believe he is the real deal. The ones I knocked out must have been his clones," Barry says.

"Ok, now I need you to do something. No more heroics. Chasing bad guys is not your job. It's mine. You're not a cop. Promise me you will stay away from all of this," Joe says. Barry nods his head.