Medical Lab: Oyvah gets tested, Lisa Snart gets questioned

The Medical Lab

"So," Oyvah said. "You're taking your time to do a thorough analysis, and so far you've proven that I have blood, a pulse, a body temperature, eyes, ears, and a brain." She nodded. "Good use of time. Glad to be a part of it."

"It's a pain in the neck but we've learned to find out everything we can," Cisco said. "We've been screwed with a few too many times for comfort." He turned and smiled faux-sweetly to Lisa Snart. "Did I mention it was so good to see you again? 'Cause I feel like I've been impolite."

"You only say that because you stripped me, put me in lingerie, chained me to a post and dropped me in your command... center... thing," Lisa said. "Which may, in fact, be considered impolite."

"I told you," Cisco said. "That was an accident. I made a wish without meaning to make a wish."

"Yeah, that still implies you described stripping me, putting me in lace and strapping me down."

"You know what," Harry said. "There's that headache coming back. The lack of pain was nice while it lasted."

"Let's get a little focus," Barry said. He'd changed out of his uniform -- which made sense, since Lisa Snart was one of the few outside of S.T.A.R. Labs who knew Barry's identity. As with her brother, she kept that secret to herself, and in return Barry and Team Flash foiled her plans but didn't throw her in jail -- contingent on Lisa not killing any innocent person. "Lisa... you said that Darhk wants to... destroy the world?"

"Pretty much." Lisa took a deep breath. "He's gone a little off the deep end."

"He knows that... all of his stuff is here on the world, right?" Iris asked. "And how did he get his idol back?"

"He doesn't have his idol. He has some kind of ring that lets him do almost anything. I'm stunned at how different some of his powers are. Summoned creatures made out of gold... heat blasts, giant spiked balls of ****... it's like nothing I've ever seen. And it seems to feed on fear."

"Which brings us back to his destroying the planet," Barry said. "I know that he wanted to start a horribly destructive war so he could rule over a post-apocalyptic wasteland, but how does destroying the planet do anything for him? Is he so... angry... he's suicidal? Because that's not like him."

"The ring feeds on fear," Harry said, rubbing his brow. "Damn, this used to be easier. Feeds on fear... which means a whole planet of panicking people, with all that fear being sucked into his ring. Then... assuming the ring lets him survive in space or breach to another Earth or move through time or do any of the thousand things we've seen other people do, he's practically omnipotent."

"...oh man," Cisco said. "I don't think Kara could stop him then." He blinked. "Hey, Ovyah -- can I wish for an Earth-1 Kara to show up and join the team?"

"Absolutely!" Ovyah said with a grin. "You just have to have sex with her immediately after she shows up!"

Cisco lifted a hand, thought, then put it down. "That seems like a potential minefield."

"Well, as bored as she was, I've run every test I can think of," Caitlin said, beginning to remove probes from Ovyah. "Like she said -- she tests like an absolutely normal human being. She's in excellent health, but has no sign of metahuman activity or dark matter in her system."

"Except she can make supervillains appear in fetishwear," Iris said.

"Yeah, but according to what we can detect? She does it without having any powers at all."

"Hey, speaking of no powers -- why am I in metahuman cuffs?" Lisa Snart asked. She was indeed wearing a pair of the power inhibitor cuffs, as well as sweatpants and a S.T.A.R. labs sweatshirt they'd given her. "I don't have any powers either."

"Yeah, but last time we saw you, your gun disgorged blobs of metal and transmuted organic matter. You got a whole new raft a'tricks since then." Cisco smiled. "Like I said to Ovyah, we're trying our best not to be fooled by preconceptions.

"You should get used to that," Lisa said. "I know you guys think you still have the market cornered on superscience and tech and powers, but there's more and more people out there building things and improving tech, not to mention showing off superpowers. It's not just Central City or Star City any more. And you may have noticed there aren't that many other heroes out there in all those other places. You guys are going to get snowed under.

"And I'm sure that breaks your heart," Iris said.

"My brother ran with you guys for a while. And he went off with a bunch of heroes in a timecraft. And he died. You think I'm that worried about you?" She shook her head. "I wouldn't have even warned you but Darhk's ring is dangerous to everyone."

"So wait," Barry said, frowning. "You said Darhk's... super... power... ring... whatever's fueled by fear. So why did he want Ovyah's lamp so badly? I mean, it seems like he knew Ovyah was in it, and Ovyah's not a fear djinn. She's a desire djinn. How does that fit?"

Lisa leaned back on the medical table she was sitting on. "From what I gathered? The fear ring's not the only one out there. There are others... and they cover other emotions. Anger. Greed. Even things like compassion or hope. One of them's powered by love... and from what Darhk was saying lust would work in a pinch. With your friend here, he could apparently get his hands on one of those rings too, and then she could supercharge it."

"And... what, give everybody the warm fuzzies?" Cisco asked.

"The rings are fueled by emotion. Just because the power source is love instead of fear doesn't mean he couldn't use it to crush you under a giant anvil." Lisa shivered. "I saw him do the anvil trick. That's about when I was ready to punch out and never stop running, and then bang I was here."

"Does all this make any sense?" Cisco asked Ovyah. "Is that why someone like Darhk would want you?"

"You know I can't out too much info. I will say that I know about the kind of rings Miss Snart's talking about, and she's not exaggerating. Give me a violet ring and I become functionally omnipotent."

"I thought you were functionally omnipotent," Iris said.

"Conditionally omnipotent," Ovyah corrected. A violet ring on my hands means no more conditions.

"Great. That's... wonderfully vague," Harry said. "What else can you tell us about these rings?"

Ovyah smiled, cocking her head and shrugging.

"Oh come on!"

"Whoa -- calm down Harry," Cisco said. "She's got rules. It's how it works."

"Calm down? No, you calm down, Ramon! Do you know how frustrating it is to feel like I could almost get my intellect back, but never get, and there's someone standing right there who has everything I used to have and won't... do you know what that kind of loss is like?"

Cisco stared at Harry. Slowly, he lifted one of his bandaged hands.

Harry paused. "Ramon--"

"You know what? I'm gonna take a fifteen. Maybe do something in the lab. Do something useful for someone."

"Ramon -- Ramon!" Harry turned, frustrated, rubbing his face with his hands.

"I'll go after him," Caitlin said. "Talk to him. He's been feeling really frustrated."

"No." Ovyah stepped forward. "I'll go talk to him. He's my Master. Without him here there's even less I can tell you, and you can all work on figuring out how to stop Darhk before he destroys the planet."