(Barry, alone near the Pipeline cell)
Barry was the last one still looking at the ashes of the monster on the floor of the cell and he came to a decision.
Seeing Andrew's reaction to having to kill the creature made him feel that he could begin to trust him again. If he was being honest with himself, he wasn't sure he would've been able to stop himself from hurting Eiling and could have killed him if he wasn't careful.
He was mostly worried that Andrew would start to kill indiscriminately without remorse. But, based on his reaction to Eiling and this poor creature, it is clear that he isn't some unfeeling monster and if one day in the future, he is in the same predicament as Andrew, he'd hope that Andrew would treat him with the same care that he would give him.
Barry was glad that one good thing came from the whole Eiling situation, Iris had stopped blogging about him and Andrew. He didn't know if it was permanent, but at least she was safe for now.
A few hours later, Barry was in his lab at the precinct and he heard the police sirens through his open window.
(Streets of Central City A few hours later)
A bunch of cop cars are chasing after a yellow Hummer through the nightscape of Central City, the driver of said Hummer laughing as he enjoys the chase and the thrill of driving the car.
Eventually, the cops to include Eddie and Joe set up a roadblock for the driver to help stop him.
The guy in the Hummer didn't even slow down and a kid was walking across the street with headphones on and didn't hear Joe shouting at him to get out of the way
Thankfully, Barry showed up and ran him out of the way.
Joe and the rest of the cops started shooting at the guy in the Hummer which did nothing as his body turned into metal as the bullets impacted.
Eddie even walked ahead of the group to shoot him and he saw that a bullet hit the guy's head but it turned to metal as it had done before except this time, Eddie witnessed it.
"What the hell?" Eddie exclaimed.
The guy slammed on the accelerator to try and ram through the roadblock and run over Eddie, but Joe saved his life by tackling him to the ground out of the way of the car which proceeded to drive through the two cars and keep going.
As he was driving away, if he was to have looked at the rooftops to his left he would've seen bursts of orange going from rooftop to rooftop as I was smoke dashing from roof to roof.
He did see a blur of orange electricity appear next to him and rip one of his side mirrors off.
The man looked shocked and then saw that blur coalesce into a man in a red suit.
He slammed on the brakes and stopped in front of the man in red.
"Step out of the vehicle." Barry said to the metal man giving him a chance to surrender as he thought he was a normal human who went for a joyride.
"If you say so." The man said as he got out, ripped the car door off its hinges and threw it at Barry.
Barry dodged and then quickly sped up to him to punch him in the face, but his face seemed to turn to metal instinctively on impact.
*Crack*
"Aggh" Barry shouted in pain as his hand broke on impact with his face as he hit it at super speed.
Barry held his hand while graining in pain.
The man changed his arm into metal and tried to hit Barry, but as he was attacking at the speed of a normal human, Barry dodged his attack easily.
Barry kept dodging him as he didn't want to risk damaging his other hand by trying to hit him.
As they were playing this game of tag, an explosion of smoke appeared and sent the metal man skidding back from the impact.
"Hey Flash, need some help?" I asked as I had dashed next to him.
"I can't hit him, his body turns to metal on impact and all I end up doing is breaking my hands. He also seems to have increased strength while he is covered in metal." Barry explained as the man slowly walked over after recovering.
"Whether there's one or two of you, it makes no difference. He can only dodge. It looks like he was born to take a beating." Tony said which caused a slight reaction from Barry as it sounded familiar.
"Well Colossus, considering you can't even hit him, you have no room to talk." I said as a chain that was wrapped around my hand dropped to the ground, the other end still in my hand.
As I prepared to swing the chain it got covered in hot cinders and I smacked him across the face.
*clang*
*clang*
*clang*
I attacked multiple times and all that was heard was the sound of metal hitting metal.
Realizing that I wasn't making much progress, I tried a different approach.
I wrapped the chain back around my hand and then the floor beneath me opened up and the earth started to form around me until I had an armor of earth surrounding me and I looked a couple feet taller and bulkier because of the added earth but was glowing with a white blue aura (think Avatar:The Last Airbender earth armor but made of concrete)
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"Now let's see what's truly more powerful, earth or metal." I said as I rushed over to him and punched him in the face.
He staggered back several feet from the punch and after he recovered he saw a giant fist made of the earth coming towards him.
He punched it and it shattered but he was still sent flying back till he hit the metal fence behind him.
Went he got back up he saw an even bigger hammer made of earth ready to slam him to the floor.
He could only cover himself in metal as the super compressed earth hammer smacked him to the floor.
He groaned from pain as even though he didn't get hurt externally, the force of the blow had reverberated through his body from the metal vibrating on impact.
He looked up and saw the Hanmer up in the air again.
"You done?" I asked.
"Why don't you put the hammer down and fight me like a man?" He asked egging me on.
I smirked before replying.
"You want me to put the hammer down!?"
He just tried to get up and attack me and I put the hammer down on him again.
He still tried to get up so I slammed him down again and then I saw he had passed out and the metal on his body was gone.
"Well, that was anticlimactic." Barry commented.
"Well, I have been practicing with my Geokinesis." I replied.
"Meanwhile I had to just stand by and watch." Barry replied.
"Hey don't beat yourself up. He was just a bad match-up for you. If he had to consciously activate his metal skin you could've beaten him by hitting him with a speed punch before he could react, but it seemed to activate whenever he was hit. I'm sure if you experimented with your powers more you could find a way to hurt him" I explained referring to phasing or throwing lightning.
"Yeah, you're right, I just need to explore my powers more." Barry said his earlier frustration was dissipating.
"Yeah, now let's get this guy back to S.T.A.R. Labs." I said to which Barry nodded and grabbed who I knew to be Tony and ran to put him in the Pipeline.