"I documented everything, just like a real scientist, like Barry," he declared as he produced a lab-book. He smiled at the judge his face open and guileless. He was neatly dressed and look about three-quarters of his twelve years.
James sat on the witness stand, his legs tucked beneath him so he could be seen over the partition. "I didn't notice the exact time," Iris replied. They wouldn't have both happened at say, about 2:17 this afternoon?" he asked. I worried when I heard Flash wasn't seen at either."īarry closed his eyes and groaned. Heatwave and Captain Boomerang got the US Bank. "Captain Cold and Mirror Master cleaned out the First National Bank. "Where were you today?" Iris Allen asked, her expression caught between relief and curiosity, as her husband walked in the door. "Made you work for it," he declared proudly.įlash shook his head and put Trickster back on his feet but he kept a firm hold on the back of the boy's collar. The boy grinned up at him, 'Falling wasn't so bad when you knew you'd be caught,' Trickster thought. He went limp as he fell.įlash skidded to a stop beneath Trickster. Eventually Trickster misjudged the strength of one of the twisters and was thrown off balance. Then he dashed after the boy again, setting up a system of twisters going at different velocities and in different directions. Not gonna catch me with one of those," he laughed.įlash paused to study Trickster's new toy. Trickster countered it with a modified whirly-gig. When he was beneath Trickster he spun up a whirl-wind. He took off running, gaining altitude with every step.įlash shook his head and took off after him on the ground. "So I've got to catch you first?" Flash asked. "Captain Cold says villain-monologuing in the middle of a get-away is for morons."
#GIANT CREAM PIE FULL#
Trickster grinned broadly, his expression full of mischief. "Now, Trickster, what do you think you're doing?" "You forgot the salt," Flash pointed out. "I though I did pretty good, given how much I had to scale up recipe," Trickster protested. "Not too bad but not any competition," Flash said. Play right!" He lobbed a globule of filling at Flash. The boy pointed to the domino mask hiding his eyes. Where did he get a catapult? Better question: Where did he get the stuff to build a catapult?' The boy laughed and pumped his fist in the air.įlash zipped across the intervening distance, crossed his arms over his chest and frowned sternly at the boy. The filling splattered across the collection of corporate execs and city dignitaries gathered for the ribbon cutting ceremony.įlash turned and there he was: A boy in orange and blue stripes, capering in mid-air over a catapult. He found what he was looking for just in time to see the giant cream-pie, Iris' favorite recipe unless he missed his guess, arc gracefully through the air and smack into the gleaming face of a brand new factory. Ninety seconds later he crossed the bridge into Keystone. Hopefully he could head James off before anything happened. "Good luck keeping him out of trouble."Īs he exited the station Barry switched to the Flash and set about searching the city at super-speeds. we're just trying to make sure he's got somewhere to turn to if he gets in over his head." Twelve or not, he thinks he can take care of himself and the last thing I want to do is scare him off completely. He needs a stable home but James doesn't realize that, he's never had one. "Patty, could you cover for me? I need to check on James immediately, yesterday in fact." "It's the crust," Barry remarked absently, then groaned. "But I can't figure out the cookie dough." "Like someone's out to make the world's biggest banana cream pie?" Patty replied. "1000 tubes of pre-made chocolate chip cookie dough, 75 lbs sugar, 50 lbs cornstarch, 30 gal of milk, 417 cartons of eggs, 20 lbs butter, 2 gallons of vanilla, 20 bunches of bananas, 16 lbs of powdered sugar and 1500 cans of whipping cream," Patty Melcher read off the report.īarry shook his head, "Something about that list nags at me." "What was stolen again?" Barry asked his colleague at the police lab.
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