Nora zoomed back onto the scene, having deposited Vanessa at a hospital and with her powers intact. The day was saved in quite an unexpected way. Cicada easily defeated all three heroes and had Barry at his mercy, seemingly intending to kill him. To his credit, Barry took a swing at Cicada, perhaps coming to regret not taking some hand-to-hand lessons from Oliver Queen during one of their crossovers. His dagger somehow managed to sap all of their meta powers, leaving The Flash without his speed, Vibe unable to vibe, and Elongated Man very un-elongated.Ĭisco attempted to pick up the dagger and somehow restore their powers, but all he managed to do was slice his hands up and fail to do any good. It should have been an easy three-on-one fight for these members of Team Flash, but they didn't account for what Cicada could do. Barry yelled for Nora to take Vanessa to a hospital, and he wasn't so panicked that he forgot to call her by her superhero name rather than 'Nora.'Īfter Nora raced off with Vanessa, Barry prepared to battle Cicada with Cisco and Ralph at his side. Unfortunately for Vanessa, another meta didn't intend to be so easy on her.Ĭicada appeared out of nowhere and stabbed Vanessa through the back with his lightning bolt-shaped dagger, shocking both speedsters enough that Iris sent Cisco and Ralph to back them up. All seemed to be shaping up for a relatively easy victory for the speedsters, and Nora clapped a pair of power-dampening cuffs on Vanessa.

They tracked a meta villain by the name of Vanessa to a location, and Barry and Nora raced off to try and stop her.

Team Flash finally got to meet Cicada face-to-face when they least expected it. That realization wouldn't come until the end of the hour. At that point, she couldn't put a name of what it sounded like. While the grainy video didn't get a good shot of the perpetrator who seemed to appear out of nowhere, she could detect an distinctly unsettling sound. Iris also got her hands on security footage of the attack on Gridlock's transport.

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