Post 39 is a blog post from The Chronicles of Cisco. It was released on May 20, 2016.
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For a second there, I thought Barry was like magic. Dude casually walked over to coma-induced Jesse, grabbed her hand and—poof!—she instantly woke up. Seriously?! No wands or Hogwarts' degree needed (I'm convinced that a Potter-verse exists.) Barry's time in the Speed Force was like a reawakening; he's high on life and has a new sense of purpose and invincibility. I've got to take out this new Barry for a test drive, try something we've never done before.
Literally. We're going skydiving, baby! Never thought I'd be the one to come up with this plan since I'm kinda (very) terrified of the idea of jumping out of a plane from 14,000 feet... Barry met me at S.T.A.R. Labs and burst out laughing the second he saw me decked out in my diving gear. I had on my helmet and knee and elbow pads (safety first!); fog-resistant goggles (they're the size of my face, but I need to be able to see when my adrenaline-induced body heat combines with the cold air); and my fanny pack (sometimes being fashion forward means having to take a fashion step backwards.) We drove out to the plane hangar. He would not shut up about how exciting our first time skydiving would be and assured me that nothing would go wrong. Man, his enthusiasm was infectious. Plus, I was in the Speed Force, too, for a couple hot seconds, so maybe I contracted some invincibility that I just don't know about yet. Once we got to the hangar and boarded the plane, I was ready to go!
...Maybe not. 14,000 feet makes skyscrapers look like the tiny lego pieces that children under three can choke on. What did I sign up for?! Barry grabbed my shoulders, shook me out of my panic, and reminded me that: 1) I've been in quite a few compromising situations scarier than this, 2) I'd have an awesome adventure to tell the ladies and 3) the Speed Force wouldn't let anything bad happen to us. (Huh?) I agreed with his first two points so we took a pre-dive selfie then started our countdown. Three, two, one...
AAAGH! My limbs were flailing, and my cheeks were flapping uncontrollably. But once I starfished my arms and legs out, I looked over at Barry and we both started to laugh from the adrenaline and the amazing, surreal feeling. I saw Barry start to reach for his parachute tab, so I followed his lead. I pulled the tab and...nothing. Ohmigod ohmigod. I pulled again and again, and on the fourth attempt I yanked the tab off and started to fall faster. I could hear Barry yelling, "I got you!" while hovering above me and all I could think was, YOU CAN'T RUN ON AIR, BARRY! Suddenly, I remembered that I was wearing my fanny pack! It's not just any fashion-forward fanny; it's my voice-recognition I-need-to-escape-now-and-Barry's-not-around travel pack. I yelled "help!" and airplane-like wings quickly unfolded out on either side of me. Go go gadget sail-plane! I took a couple of deep yoga breaths and enjoyed the view.
On our drive back to S.T.A.R. labs, Barry was euphoric. My near-brush with death proved to him that the Speed Force was looking out for us. Me, I think we have to look out for each other. But whatever Team Flash has to face next, with Barry's speed and my penchant for life-saving fanny packs – we can handle.[1]
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- All posts are from the perspective of Cisco Ramon.
- This post features footage from the episode The Runaway Dinosaur.
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