Chris looked up at the black hole in the sky. While Leonard and Lisa had gotten out of the blast radius (they were currently chilling in the Annex outside Central City with the elves on strict orders to keep them from taking anything out) he sighed in exasperation.

Barry wasn't nearly fast enough to force the vortex to go into reverse. He could barely break the time barrier.

So with the use of a light stunner, Chris knocked the kid out.

"Barry!" yelped Iris.

"He doesn't need the guilt of the death toll on his conscience, and I'm much faster. If anyone has a chance to stop this, it would be me. He's still too inexperienced to go fast enough to make even time stand still."

Chris then took out a strange contraption that almost looked like wings. But there was no visible way for it to take off.

"I don't think a glider is going to cut it," said Cisco.

Chris rolled his eyes.

"I can launch tornadoes by spinning my arms. I don't need anything to give me lift or thrust, and I've had plenty of practice with this."

Chris adjusted it to his satisfaction, then made small cyclones with his arms. As he got to the right distance, he collapsed the wings and took off running faster than Barry could have managed. He might have been able to barely pull it off, but it would be far too risky for Chris to like.

Down below...

"My god... he's actually doing it," said Stein. The vortex was visibly starting to shrink, as Chris was running faster than it could rotate.

The sky was filled with things and people who were almost in suspended animation hovering the in the air. As if they didn't know whether they were being sucked up or had to again submit to the pull of gravity.

Chris kept up his running for five full minutes before Barry came to. It had only been a light stunner, but speedsters have a habit of abnormally fast recovery.

"What hit me?"

"Chris. He knocked you out so you wouldn't have to be the one who had to go up," said Cisco in disbelief.

Barry looked up and his jaw dropped. Even he could tell Chris was much, much faster than him.

Good thing Chris made it clear he was a "neutral party". He had enough bad luck with Reverse Flash.

It took Barry a few moments before he realized that while Chris was reversing the black hole, he could do something else.

He could rescue the poor saps currently floating.

He took off running.

The entire city watched as the two speedsters worked together...until suddenly the black hole let off a massive explosion of energy and collapsed.

With Chris actively working to reverse the rotation and the hole unable to suck in anything else to sustain it, the vortex was forced to shut down in a rather spectacular manner. The energy released was far more potent than the original explosion caused by the particle accelerator.

However instead of mutating energy that caused the emergence of meta-humans, because Chris was at the forefront of destabilizing the vortex, magic was released instead.

He was going to be out cold for a week once he went between to the first safe area he could think of...but the consequences of his actions caused a massive ripple of magic to pass through everyone in the fifty mile blast radius.

And if those the wave touched happened to have magical ancestry or a natural predisposition to use magic...well, they were going to be in for a bit of a surprise when the American Ministry came to their doorsteps to clean up the accidental awakening of new magicals in Central City.

Ironically, two of the people affected by the wave were Leonard and Lisa Snart. Years of living with an abusive father had forced them to tamp down their natural magical abilities, as limited as they were.

Now they were a full blown witch and wizard.

Chris found himself facing an unamused Leonard Snart. At least Lisa was having fun with her recently awakened magic.

"So let me get this straight. When you took out that black hole you accidentally woke up our magical abilities?"

"Look at the bright side... at least once you've trained up you can learn how to handle cursed artifacts long enough to sell them?" said Chris carefully.

"Exactly what sort of impact is this going to have on us?"

"You get a whole new set of people to rob, and they use gold, silver and copper as currency. Though I'd avoid the UK for a few years until they get their act together."

"Why?" asked Leonard.

"I may or may not have threatened to hold back the libraries I stole from them until they gave equality to everyone, whether they were from an old blood family, a new blood family, or had creature inheritance. Either everyone has the same rights or no one has any rights," said Chris sheepishly.

Actually his ultimatum to the Daily Prophet was pretty damn clear. Either they established a better system that gave the same rights to everyone no matter their lineage, or they weren't going to get their books and artifacts (the ones he hadn't already sold off) back any time this century.

He wasn't going to tolerate their bad habit of catering only to the pure bloods and excluding everyone who didn't come from a pure blood family anymore. And unfortunately for them, the Queen agreed with his judgment.

They were making slow, but steady progress. At least they weren't treating the new bloods like trash, but they had a long way to go before Chris played nice.

Lisa practically glomped Chris.

"I am so loving this new ability," she said pleased.

Leonard rolled his eyes.

"Just wait until I teach you to fly," he said grinning. Lisa's eyes gleamed. "Or show you how to give Mick fire that doesn't burn."

Leonard snorted.

"If Mick has this sort of fire, he'd never turn it off," said Leonard.

"I know. Though if he's lucky, he'll have awakened too. There's actually a charm to prevent fire from burning anything, though at most it creates a mild tickling sensation. At least from what I heard."

Chris carefully didn't mention one woman liked the sensation so much she deliberately allowed herself to get caught repeatedly during the era of the witch trials just to get burned alive.

As Chris delivered Leonard and Lisa back to their preferred hideout (after the two elves made sure they didn't take anything), he made sure to visit the Ministry to register himself as the one who was taking responsibility for the Snart siblings.

No way was Leonard going to trust some random witch or wizard to teach him. He'd be more likely to freeze them, or Lisa would turn them to gold.

It was a much better idea for him to do the training, if only to help expedite the process for everyone.

It was as he was dodging the hexes, curses and spells sent his way (mostly for the sheer amount of paperwork involved), that he discovered one disquieting fact.

His speed was gone. No doubt it was only temporary, but it still made things a little harder.

Good thing he didn't use his speed all the time, and was more likely to rely on his wandless magic than his super speed.

In the hideout...

Mick, as Chris was disappointed to learn, did not awaken to any magic outside of the amount needed to qualify as a mere hedgewitch.

Chris promptly taught him the few charms he knew Mick would like (and thus practice regularly) and left him alone.

He could dance in flames, have blue fire all over him whenever he wanted and the basic household charms (like summoning a beer without having to get up or unlocking a door). He didn't need to know the fancy stuff. Nor did he care.

Though he was disappointed to learn that owning dragons was illegal, but he might be able to own a phoenix.

Chris made a mental note to get Mick a salamander sometime in the near future.

Leonard was reluctant to learn, but agreed to it since Chris said he didn't have to use magic regularly. Lisa was more eager to learn, if for no other reason than the fact that Chris could teach her how to fly using a broom.

About the only reason Leonard agreed to learn at all was because Chris explained about what he jokingly called a "rare candy hack".

Leonard could go to any bank in UK and exploit the loophole that prevented the goblins from keeping up with current gold exchange rates.

The pound-to-gold ratio was heavily skewed toward gold, and he could converted his entire account to gold and then back to American dollars...all of it perfectly legal.

It meant he could make a hell of a lot of money without doing much work at all.

It took Chris over a month and a half to make it known he was still alive. Barry and the others were not pleased that he had waited so long.

Several "metas" had sprung up after the event, only to mysteriously lose their powers and gain unusual jewelry. Cisco had been going nuts trying to figure out how to replicate it.

Once they were over the shock, Cisco was quick to drag Chris over to his play area. He had gotten a lot of ideas to modify the flight tech Chris had shown him for Barry to use. However he wanted to see Chris' gear to hash out the kinks first.

Chris was fine with it, so long as Cisco could help create a way for him to fly without having to rely on his arms, his magic or the wind.

He was a big fan of the back up plan.

"What the heck are these scribbles?"

"Runes. Before you ask, if you haven't been approached by the government asking about strange accidents yet, odds are you aren't qualified to know how they work. Just know that a few of these can do things that it would take a bulky machine to pull off."

"Prove it," said Cisco.

Chris grinned evilly. He channeled a bit of magic into his finger, before drawing a rune to create ice in Cisco's hot coffee. It wasn't until he went to take a drink and yelped as the slushie mess hit him in the face that he started to believe.

"I love the slushie rune. Makes it so much more fun to drink soda," said Chris snickering.

He was barely old enough to legally drink. Of course he was going to abuse his knowledge of magical runes to master making slushies in a few seconds as opposed to hours of waiting.

Liquid Nitrogen cooled things too quickly. Freezers and the arctic cold took hours to chill a case of soda into a slushie.

The moment he found a rune that created ice, the first thing he did was learn how much magic it took to turn carbonated drinks into slushies.

It took him a week, and ever since he abused the rune to have nice cold drinks during hot summers...or when he was in a hot climate. He also used it to have cold water, even when he was previously carrying a warm water bottle.

He abused the heat rune for the same reason when it came to his tea or hot cocoa. Unless it was summer, in which case he used the cold rune.

Needless to say Leonard was also making some impressive strides in runes...particularly ones that affected temperature.

Lisa...well she was still reading the books in the English annex that Chris brought back for her. She found it fascinating that the English magicals still hadn't caught on to the idea of charging someone who used "muggle" methods with murder, even if it happened in front of them, so long as the weapon wasn't enchanted.

She could literally walk up to the Minister, shoot him with the toy she had blackmailed Cisco made for her and not be arrested for it. After all, they didn't officially exist in the eyes of the world unless they were born in the non-magical hospital.

Chris actually made a decent amount of gold selling what hackers liked to call "shelf babies" tailored to fit magicals who wanted to 'fit in' with the muggle world.

If they really annoyed him, then he made a point to hand them identities that were used by other hackers to hide their own crimes. All of them were sold to hackers with nonviolent crimes.

Chris wasn't about to let someone who thought murder or rape was acceptable escape justice.

"Dude...this is so cool."

"Which reminds me. I plan to drag Barry into real training soon."

He could juggle training the Snart siblings and Barry. That's what made going Between so useful.

"Yeah...Barry hasn't..."

"He's moping, isn't he?" asked Chris.

"Yeah. Pretty much. Hasn't said a word to any of us since the incident."

"Time for me to employ my most devastating skill."

"What is that?" asked Cisco.

"Why I'll be the most annoying son of a bitch on the planet until he gets so irritated that I force him to get off his ass and do something productive until the next crisis shows up," said Chris cheerfully.

And as Judson and Charlene could attest, most vocally and with a great deal of swearing, he could be VERY annoying. So much so that he could literally make a saint snap and try to strangle him.

Not that Judson went that far, but he did throw a book at Chris once to get him to shut up.