Death surrounds
My heartbeat's slowing down
I won't take this world's abuse
I won't give up, I refuse
This is how it feels when you're bent and broken
This is how it feels when your dignity's stolen
When everything you love is leaving
You hold on to what you believe in

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Barry ran forwards catching the bullet in his hands. Missing the fact that two still remained.

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The last thing I heard was you whispering goodbye
And then I heard you flatline

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When Barry left flash-time, he heard a scream in the corner. Leonard Snart and Mick Rory where there. Mick was clutching at his chest, red already dripping.

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No, not gonna die tonight
We're gonna stand and fight forever
Don't close your eyes
No, not gonna die tonight
We're gonna fight for us together
No, we're not gonna die tonight

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Barry heard another gun blast off. Turning around he saw it aimed at Joe, seconds from his chest. He sped forward, catching it at the last moment. Joe flying off into the distance with the winds left by Barry.

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Break their hold
Because I won't be controlled
They can't keep their chains on me
When the truth has set me free
This is how it feels when you take your life back
This is how it feels when you finally fight back
When life pushes me I push harder
What doesn't kill me makes me stronger

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Barry saw red. Three more shots rang out. Sebastian was let loose. First, he got Leonard and Mick out off the corner - bandaging Mick up.

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The last thing I heard was you whispering goodbye
And then I heard you flatline

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Next, the bullets were rounded up. Sebastian heard the start of a scream, he stopped that as well.

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No, not gonna die tonight
We're gonna stand and fight forever
Don't close your eyes
No, not gonna die tonight
We're gonna fight for us together
No, we're not gonna die tonight

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He must have missed one, as Leonard was the next to shout out.

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Don't you give up on me
You're everything I need
This is how it feels when you take your life back
This is how it feels when you fight back

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Sebastian had enough of this fight. Leonard was checked over thoroughly, bandaged then placed behind a concrete wall. Mick was an afterthought.

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No, not gonna die tonight
We're gonna stand and fight forever
Don't close your eyes
No, not gonna die tonight
We're gonna fight for us together
No, we're not gonna die tonight

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Then all the loads were collected. From the air, the guns and the reloads in the pockets. The others were placed behind a different concrete wall.

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No, we're not gonna die tonight
Not gonna die
Not gonna die
Not gonna die
Not gonna die
Not gonna die tonight

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When Bassy had left flash-time again, the criminals tried to fire on him they found that nothing left the barrels.

The same for when they emptied their pockets out.

Just when one person started to exclaim their confusion and the others looked out from behind their walls, the criminal's feet were swept from beneath them as the chains around their ankles pulled them upside down.

Sebastian could not help but smirk at their expression.

"What is going on here..." Leonard exclaimed softly.

Bassy only chuckled.

"I am not too sure what is happening... Let alone what had happened..." Joe whispered looking around the whole area in astonishment.

"Scarlet!" Leonard suddenly exclaimed, coming fully out from behind the wall. His bandaged wound was also brought into view as the others looked on in astonishment. "Your bleeding!"

"It's your blood. Maybe a bit of Mick's as well." Barry shrugged - Sebastian going away as he brushed aside Leonards worry.

"No, it is yours," Leonard stated, pointing to the increasing scarlet pool at the scarlet speedsters feet.

Looking down, Barry paled. "Oh, yeah..."

As the adrenaline wore out, Barry suddenly found himself unsteady on his feet, collapsing to the floor as he clutched at his chest.

"FLASH!" Everyone that knew him well - so everyone but Mick - exclaimed as they rushed towards him.

Just as Leonard got close to Barry, he felt his own legs go beneath him as his wound split open again thanks to the running. He collided with the floor, inches away from where Barry had collapsed.

"Snart!" Mick roared as he two rushed over. He managed to keep himself together as he kneeled down between the fallen hero and villain.

This just so happened to be the moment that the police managed to get their way into the building, stopping almost immediately in their tracks.

Before them, the reported criminals were hanging by their feet in the air. Each one of the 23 pairs of feet was suspended by chains. Then there was the sight of The Flash and Captain Cold fallen side-by-side as their respective partners tried to bring them back from the dead.

From this distance, the Captain could see that Joe was performing chest compressions on Flash and that HeatWave was performing chest compressions on Cold.

'What had the world come to?' The Captain thought briefly to himself.

Emmitidly, some of the officers were handing each other coins. They all had bets on who would be found first like this or whether they would both be found together. Even as to whether they were side-by-side or at opposite ends of the room.

Many officers were leaving $5 richer.

Suddenly Cold shot up, knocking HeatWave to the floor in the process.

"Scarlet!" Snart exclaimed when he saw that Joe was preforming CPR to him. "Vibe, any tools and spear wires you have. Give them over." At his small hesitation, he quickly barked, "now!!"

As soon as they were in his hands, he started to pull apart his Cold Gun, then did the same to the Heat Gun.

He placed the wires over The Flash's chest and the embolism and suddenly shouted, "clear it if you don't want to fell what it is like to be struck with the force to power a lightsaber!"

All hands shoot quite quickly into the air as Snart used the joint power of the Cold Gun and the Heat Gun.

Everyone could see that the moment he used the Cold and Heat Guns, that he too was hit by the force of the electricity.

The Flash was on his feet before any of them could even process the fact that Captain Cold had referenced Star Wars before shocking himself with more power than a lightning bolt - to make sure that the Scarlet Speedster lived.

"Ok, what was that!" The Flash exclaimed, his whole body smothered in lightning. Slowly it settled into him as he took in his surroundings.

Silently, more officers became richer. Everyone thought that one was going to risk their life for the other. Only a few betted on Cold though.

Barry's eyes landed on the prone form of Leonard. Mumbling a few words that would make a sailor blush in flash-speed he rushed over to Leonard.

Officer's swore under their breath. They were going to be so poor after this.

Silently, as no one even dared to breathe anymore, he hovered his hand over Leonard's burned and shot chest. He slowly removed his glove and pressed it down, the clothing already burned off the man's chest.

Barry closed his eyes in concentration as he focused on all the energy shooting through Leonard's body. He felt the lightning leave Leonard's body, creeping up his own arm as he kept his eyes closed only focusing on the man in front of him and his own powers.

The lightning stopped once it had covered his whole body, then he started to use the rest of it in an ability only known through the sudden instinct he held.

He started channelling the Speed Force through himself, through the energy that flew between himself and Leonard. He brought his other hand to rest on the Cold Gun, though after throwing the Heat Gun away, using that as a way to build the full-bridge between them.

Visually, to the amazement of the others watching, the wounds that covered Snart started to heal and icy-blue lightning dancing between the three links and each wound on the two living bodies.

The electricity disappeared between them leaving them both staring into each other's eyes.

"Not gonna die..." Barry breathed in relief.

"Not gonna die tonight..." Leonard breathed back in return.

The officer's only had the time to pocket their winnings and losses before another bolt of lightning hit the pair.

This time, it was an icy-blue colour, breaking through the ceiling to hit the pair. Strangely, the two did not scream out. It was only everyone else that did as they were hit by stray bolts ricocheting off of the pair.

When everyone had finally scrambled to their feet, in the dead centre of the massive burn mark was The Flash and Captain Cold. Both hero and villain had fallen down, laid atop each other in complete unconsciousness.

When ElasticMan was the only one to fully recover from the shock - more ways than one - he started forwards towards the pair.

The moment that he got within a metre of the pair, Barry suddenly sprung to his feet. It was only a blur of lightning that showed them that he was the reason that suddenly all their weapons were in a pile before his feet.

The Flash's eyes continuously glowed with orange lightning. Team Flash realised that it was not their friend that was facing them at that moment in time. It was the Speed Force protecting its carrier.

"Hold!" Joe ordered as a few officers went to move forward to collect their weapons. "That is not The Flash facing us at the moment. That is the giver of his speed protecting his body." Joe explained at the slight angry but confused faces.

"What do you mean?" The Captain asked.

"The Flash got his powers through something called the Speed Force. The Speed Force is sentiment and The Flash is the only speedster that was truly chosen by the Speed Force, so as such, the Speed Force will often come to his rescue. At the moment, the Speed Force might be believing that its host is threatened." Cisco explained to The Captain.

"So that's not Scarlet at the moment?" Leonard asked groggily, holding his head in his hand like he had a massive headache.

"No, I am not who you call 'Scarlet'. I am the Speed Force." The Flash spoke. Even though it was his body, it still sounded different. "Also, stop betting on them will you?"

At least the officers had the decency to look guilty. Some even shuffled at the feeling of both the look they were receiving from the Speed Force and the look of sheer shock and bewilderment from their Captain.

"Hey!" Even Captain Cold glare joined in with those looks.

"Snart, you are the only one that will be able to get to Flash at the moment. Mind giving us a hand?" Cisco called over to Leonard.

"I am not sure as to how the hel I could do that! You are his best friend, not me!" Leonard fired back.

He ignored the scoff that he received from both Catlin and Mick. He did, however, raise an eyebrow at the one that he received from the Speed Force.

"He did bring you back from the dead pretty much." The Speed Force explained.

"Yeah..." Leonard sighed before - after what looked like a mental battle with himself he started to address The Flash. "Flash? You there? You are safe. Everyone is unarmed, a few are hurt."

The Speed Force turned to face Leonard again, almost like it was questioning him.

"We really need you back now, Scarlet."

The lightning stopped flowing continuously through his eyes as he stumbled forwards, the only reason that he stayed standing was that Leonard had caught him.

Barry looked around before he saw who was supporting him. He shot upright and continued to glance around the room again.

Damn, The Captain was going to be leaving a $100 richer today.

Barry quickly flashed over to the others, standing in his place of team leader.

Leonard looked questionably over at Barry - why did he decide to run normally over there? Maybe he is still not in complete control of his powers?

When Leonard started to jog away from the police he suddenly found himself crashing into a body and a wall.

Barry was the only one that saw it coming. Leonard suddenly started sparking, blue lightning leaving his body as he shot forwards in flash-time. The only thing that Barry could do to prevent the inevitable crash was for himself to rush forward and take the hit for Leonard, meaning that he was the one to go through the wall. Leonard did follow and land on top of him though.

All that the others saw was a band of blue lightning from where Leonard had been standing and a band of white lightning from where Barry had been standing.

Then their eyes were drawn to the massive hole in the wall that was not there previously. They could see a pile of pale blue and red groaning.

Like the groans that some of the officers were giving. Some of them only had $5 left in their pockets now. One officer did have the actual bet book out recording the results so that everything could be pulled from the others as well.

Quickly The Flash zoomed the both of them out. The two of them were a sight to see though. They were covered head to toe in wall plaster and powdered brick.

"That should wear out by tomorrow," Barry stated to Leonard.

"Yeah, how do you control it though?" Leonard asked, looking at Barry in a new light. "Like, you run at human speed sometimes as well as flash speed."

"You just have to continuously think slow. You won't have the speed enough to get the practice of controlling it," Barry shrugged.

Placing his hand almost casually on Leonard's shoulder, Barry made his way into flash-time, forcing Leonard with him.

"What is this?" Leonards asked as he walked up and waved in The Captains frozen face.

"This is what I call flash-time."

"Oh, so this is how you seem to pull the impossible out?"

"Yeah, here time is frozen in a sense. I could most likely pull Mick or such into this if I keep contact with them - or keep up a high concentration." Barry shrugged.

"Wait, could I also do that?" Leonard asked highly interested.

"I am not sure. But I see no reason not to try," Barry shrugged.

Silently, Leonard walked over to Mick before placing his hand on his shoulder. He glanced at Barry in confusion when nothing happened.

"You need to focus on making it happen. You want him to vibrate so quick everything is slow in comparison."

Leonard tried again, his eyes closing as he concentrated.

Barry knew the moment that he had succeeded when blue lightning started to travel between both Leonard and Mick.

"Whoa..." Mick slowly whispered, his eyes wide.

"Confusing the first times it happens, isn't it?" Barry stated.

"What is this?" He asked.

Answering for Barry, Leonard explained, "this is flash-time. Where speedsters vibrate so fast that everything slows down around them. Though it takes a lot of concentration to bring someone else into this time."

Barry quickly reached forward and took control of Mick from the wavering Leonard. It would not be good for him to collapse now.

"Thanks. That really takes it toll on you," Leonard sighed.

"Yeah, no worries. Can he go back to being frozen again or do you want to continue confusing him?" Barry questioned.

"Want to see you try and keep him in this time without contact!" Leonard stated, smirking smugly.

"Do or do not, there is no try," Barry smirked releasing his hold on Mick.

Mick just looked between the two smirking speedsters. "Please let me go back to being frozen again."

Barry looked over at Leonard, who only shrugged back to him.

"Nah."

Mick was so going to run his head through a wall if the two of them kept this up.

"You want to annoy the cops?" Barry asked Leonard - he was feeling a bit like Sebastian at the moment.

"Where did this come from?" Leonard asked, raising a single eyebrow at Barry and his new behaviour.

"Its a trap!"

Both Leonard and Barry were rising an eyebrow this time.

"... Wait... Shoot... You got me doing it!" Mick growled.

Ignoring Mick again, Barry replied to Leonard, "I am no Jedi."

A large smirk covered both their faces at that moment.

"What's that meant to mean..?" Mick questioned. It was quick to say he did not get an answer.

"So how do you suggest we go about that then?" Leonard drawled, his eyes twinkling.

"Well, we have all their weapons don't we?" Barry pointed out.

"I know."

"Then how about we put the skill or rewiring to the test?"

"The odds..."

"Never tell me the odds!"

"Let's get started then," Leonard smirked.

Both Barry and Leonard shot forwards at 50 knots, almost pulling Mick of his feet with the wind caused by their sudden speed.

By the time Mick had steadied himself, all he could see was a blur of blue and white lightning.

Barry and Leonard looked at each other and took their original positions.

"Your focus determines your reality," Leonard said, looking around at the final moments before the ice broke.

"Stay on target."

With one final nod between them, they left flash-time ready for the kayos about to arise.

"What did you two do?" Cisco asked after watching Mick run over to the nearest barrel to throw up.

"I'm just a simple man trying to make my way in the universe." Barry shrugged, hiding his smirk.

"Great kid. Don't get cocky."

Everyone heard Mick heave the rest of his lunch into the barrel at those three lines.

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