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“Paper…. Paper is one of the most inefficient materials ever created by man”, Eobard said aloud to himself once again while he sat in his office while working on his paper work as the Speed Force Dept. Head. To the left and right of him lay small piles of reports, test results, and faxes. No matter what he did or what he knew of the future, there was no way for him to predict the amount of paperwork he would have on a daily basis. “Sign those, authorize these, review that report, fill out this…” he then sighed and leaned back in his comfortable desk chair with his hand over his face in exasperation. “And the worst part of it all is that I have to use a FAX MACHINE to send most of this to people. A Fax machine!?” He then turned his chair to face the abominable contraption in hopes that it was merely a delusion. However he was wrong and glared at it with uninhibited disdain. “It’s like I’m in the Dark Ages….”

Before Eobard to could say anything more about his personal feeling over the machine his A.I. named: ‘Alphonse’ suddenly displayed a building wide alert. “Attention: Two Meta-human test subjects are attempting escape from the facility. All security personnel report to the site. All non-security personnel remain in your respective departements.” This alert was accompanied by alarms that could be heard outside of Eobard’s office door as well. He spun his chair back around to face the screen which Alphonse displayed and looked over it with little interest. Eobard put his head in his hand as he leaned on the top of the desk. “What kind of Meta-humans escaped Alphonse? I hope it’s something that won’t bring the S.T.A.R. Labs budget down too much.”

“The two Kryptonian subjects are currently in the attempt to escape S.T.A.R. Labs”, Alphonse stated while bringing up the photos of the subjects. One a blonde female and the other a male around the same age and of similar coloring. Underneath the pictures displayed their names: Elle Summers and Hallam-Ko. “Additionally there is no estimate of how this will affect the S.T.A.R. Labs overall budget as of yet.”

Eobard smirked at this news and then continued to go over his paperwork. “And that’s why I don’t work with test subjects that are stronger than me. It’s not my problem anyway. All I need to concern myself over is getting the genetic technology ready to bring down The Flash.”
“May I remind you that without The Flash’s DNA the genetic technology will be useless?”, Alphonse inquired with a hint of annoy in his tone.

“Is that your inflection software kicking back in Alphonse? I haven’t heard it used in a while. It almost makes you sound alive, huh? But you’ve got a point….Without my powers, it will be difficult to acquire The Flash’s DNA.” Eobard folded his hands together and furled his eye-brows in contemplation. “If only I were fast enough…fast enough” he mumbled to himself as he looked at the screen in front of him displaying the alert. “That’s it!”, he said with excitement. “Superman himself was almost as fast as The Flash in the alternate timeline. Although these two clearly aren’t Superman, and probably are not as fast either, neither is The Flash of this timeline as fast as his predecessor. Plus, there being two of them, may prove to be an advantage over the speedster.”

Eobard stood up from his chair and with great determination said, “Pull up the current location of the Kryptonians, Alphonse.” A map of the Meta-human testing Dept. appeared on the screen and two red dots which represented the Kryptonians were moving down one of the hallways. “It appears they’re heading to the Kryptonian armor….Right. Jam all the security feeds immediately and have my car moved to the emergency escape point.” Eobard then dashed over to the door and raced down the hallways towards where the Kryptonians were.

He was running as fast as his body could move without the Speed Force, yet it was still pretty quick for a normal human. Eobard had made sure that he didn’t get out of shape while powerless. By the time he reached the location of the Kryptonians they had already gotten the armor and had no security forces around to impede their escape. However, instead of escaping just yet they were holding each other close like lovers. “Great. Lovebirds, huh?”, Eobard thought to himself. “At least it’ll be easier for me to convince both of them to come with me.” He stopped his running abruptly in order to gain their attention and feigned being out of breath and leaned against the wall of the hallway where they were standing. Once he saw that they were looking at him, he straitened up and put his hands up to show that he was unarmed.

“Wait! Don’t kill me!”, he yelped with expertly performed surprise. “My name is Dr. Edward Thorne” as he said this he pointed to the S.T.A.R. Labs badge on his white lab coat. He swallowed and took a deep breath before continuing. “I don’t want to hurt you. In fact, I want to help you escape from here. I’ve jammed all the cameras and I have a car which will take us somewhere safe.” He took a small step towards them in hope that this action wouldn’t get him obliterated. “If you intend on just busting your way out of here say, through that ceiling above you, it will only draw more attention to yourselves not only to S.T.A.R. Labs but to the entire city also. All you would be doing is making it easier for them to find you.” He took another step forward, very gingerly as he didn’t want to make himself seem like a threat. “See, I don’t work in this department of S.T.A.R. Labs. My job is in the Speed Force Department….If you don’t know what that is, it’s what makes that guy called The Flash go super-fast and such. Anyways, I have never approved the methods in which S.T.A.R. Labs has researched Meta-humans or, if you forgive the term, aliens such as yourselves.”

He looked into Elle’s eyes with great concern and sadness, which he had perfected after all these years. “What they did to you two was wrong… keeping you locked away and branding you as a number without a soul....I…I want to help you get your lives back, or at least start a new one.” He gestured at how they were being a bit romantic earlier, and gave them a half smile. “Plus, I’m guessing you two would like to stay together, am I right?”

After a little silence he said,“If you don’t believe me though, and you have every right to, then you can read my mind.” He took a step backwards and opened his arms to show them that he was willing. “I’ve read that Kryptonians are telepathic. So, go ahead and see if I’m lying.” Little did they know that Eobard already prepared for this, and blocked off certain things in his mind that he didn’t want the telepath to know. “If he asks why he can’t see certain things, it’ll just be a S.T.A.R. Labs’ security training to block off classified information from telepaths.”