Entry tags:

dc: ray palmer, ~inactive: cisco ramon, ~inactive: five hargreeves, ~inactive: leo snart, ~inactive: sara lance

Who:Cisco and rescue team
What:A scene setting and a rescue
When:Today
Where:Hydra base in Europe!
Warnings:Canon typical violence, some mentions of mind control

The message had been a distraction. A trap of sorts, the GPS had sent them to an abandoned warehouse in Europe. One meant to throw off the team looking.

But inside?

Nothing. Not a single guard or message. Only an eerie sense of past occupation. Someone had been there once, but years prior. Nothing had been moved or disturbed in a long time. There were remnants of test subjects left behind, but that was it. No warm bodies. No portal activity.

There was a massive explosion of portal energy, one that read off the charts. One from Cisco that caused the Earth itself to shake from a distinct location in Eastern Europe. It sent out all kinds of seismographic information. Then, nothing. But that trail of energy remained. His breacher energy was different from that of the ones on this world.

The second? Active. And the site of the Avengers most dubious win. The locals called it a profound loss, an entire nation brought to ruin. It all started there.

If anyone scanned it, there was portal activity inside. High amounts of it. The outside appeared to be quiet in nature. Nothing gave away the fact that inside the place was as active as a hive. Humming with activity. There were guards at every pass inside the structure. Security to bypass.

Cisco wasn’t there anymore, his body was. His mind? Not so much. He sat in the experiment room where he used to be strapped down, a metal table nearby with his blood still pooled on it remained unoccupied. The lab room itself was unguarded.

He sat in the shadows, a subtle soft blue glow the only thing that gave him away in the darkness as he wrote on the walls with chalk. He’d been left there for who knew how long now. His body was covered in blood, both dry and wet. None of the injuries appeared to be life threatening though. On his wrists remained the slender cuffs that had been placed there before.

Any light that once was in his eyes was gone, there was no fear there. There was just nothing. The warmth that once wrapped around him was gone. Equations written on the dark walls stood out in white. There were phrases mixed in that didn’t make sense. He’d written them, but none of it added up to anything.

The light was then lifted to full blast, and he looked over and stood. She’d entered that way every time now, and he was used to it. A familiar cold voice stated. “Well, Mr. Ramon, it appears your friends have decided to come for you after all.” He only stared this time, standing with the bit of chalk in his hand. She stood across from him in her lab coat. “Repeat what I say. Take a deep breath and clear your mind. It’s best if you comply.”

Cisco repeated her to a tee.

“Remember your training, compliance will be rewarded.”

A pause as the chalk fell from his hand and broke on the ground and responded in turn

“I am ready to comply.”

She gave a cold smile as she crossed the distance between them and touched his arm with her false sense of comfort once again. This time he didn’t react at all to it though. He just kept his eyes on her as she left. “Good. You know what to do.” Then she walked past him, leaving him alone in that room again and exiting through a pair of doors behind him that unlocked with her code.