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Unexpected Aid

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“I don’t get it.” Kid Flash frowned at the door. “Luthor’s got ungodly power, and he puts an electronic lock on this thing? Why not just seal the room entirely?”

“Luthor’s mind thinks in locks.” Flash shrugged. “He can’t help himself. Though I will admit that’s the first chess-based lock I’ve seen.”

Sasuke didn’t bother to comment. The door was glass, as was the wall it was set in, and through it he could see all the other ninjas, lying each on their separate bed, sustained by various life-support devices. For some reason, the sight of his old teammates, helpless in such a state, affected him… unusually.

“Well, whatever.” Kid Flash strode confidently forward. “There can’t be more than 9000 combinations to this game, right? This shouldn’t take long.”

“Wait!” Flash blurred in front of him. “Omniscience, remember? The first wrong answer will probably set it off!” Another blur, and he was in front of Sasuke, gripping his sword arm. “Or the first attempted breach! The second he knows we’re here, everyone in that room is dead!”

Sasuke glared back. “I’m sure you’d be fast enough to save at least half. Do you have any better strategies?”

“Well, no…”

“Then think fast, because one way or another…”

“Uh… guys?” Kid Flash’s nervous voice broke in on them. “There’s something… sorta freaky going on here.”

Both of them turned to behold something very strange. A dark shadow, much like a snake, had just darted out of the ventilation shaft and was gliding toward them at a disquieting rate of speed. It shot to the wall, up to the lock, and immediately began working out the chess game.

Sasuke was slightly less confused as the others. Shikamaru. But how? Even if he was here and conscious, even if he could stretch his shadow so far, even if, conceivably, he knew where the ninjas were, how could he play the chess game without even seeing it? At most, he couldn’t have had more than a glimpse of the starting position…

Could you really determine the entire course of a game, and your responses to it, from a single starting position? Was that even possible?


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Scene from this week's chapter of Connecting the Dots, "Evasion." [link] Sasuke and the Flash team, as the only people left conscious in Luthor's mind-controlled world, must find a way to break out the ninjas and return them to their rightful minds. Meanwhile behind the scenes, other forces are in motion.

This is a decent pic, though I had to change it at the last minute to make sure it didn't seem like Sasuke was stabbing Kid Flash. Originally I was going to show all the unconscious ninjas asleep behind the glass, but gave that up as overly complicated, especially since I had another picture I wanted to draw for this chapter. Cosmic Conference, featuring Kyuubi, Trigon, and the Spectre! [link]

Kid Flash looks a little wonky, but I like how Flash himself turned out.
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RexBlazer1's avatar
I think you might want to distinguish which Flash is which. The Flash from the Justice League cartoon was Wally West, and the one from the Teen Titans cartoon was hinted to be him as well, though never confirmed. Maybe...Bart Allen?