|| video | @ciscodelamancha | april 7 ||

[franciscoramon]

[ The camera feed turns on revealing a beaming Cisco Ramon, his hair pushed back by the safety goggles perched on top of his head, for that extra science-y aesthetic. ]

Hellllooo, Quarantine! Cisco here, with my guy Barold, and we're here to introduce you all to the newest innovation in cool!

[ He turns the camera to show Barry Bluejeans in a sunny park, next to a makeshift platform holding up what looks like Silver Surfer's wetdream of a skateboard on it. Silver, sleek, and just generally Dope. Barry boots the board up with a touch, and it begins hovering over the platform, underside and edges glowing with a shifting spectrum of colors. ]

That's right, folks. A hoverboard! We call it the Silver Streak. Up to seven feet of lift over any surface - pavement, water, foliage, snake pit, you name it. Max speed of eighty miles an hour, though good luck balancing for anything over thirty-five! Battery life lasts up to three days, we got built-in stabilizers, we got built-in GPS, we got built-in stereo and LED undercarriage-

-Plus this bad boy has 100% magic back up. EMP- that's... what it was called right? Yeah, EMP? No sweat. Magic takes over. Anti-magic field? Engines kick in. This beauty has magic protection to shield all the uh. Juicy bits insideya from exploding if there's an impact-

- and magnetic netting to catch you if you lose your balance!

It comes when it's called and looks for ya so it's safer than just about anything you can use!

Now, who wants to see it in action?

[ A man's voice from just off-screen calls: ] I do!

[ Cisco's hand is visible in front of the camera, urging Barry on. Barry climbs up on the board awkwardly and... wobbles. A lot. He's not the most athletic dude and that's probably super obvious. He flies a few small loops only to quickly lose his balance and beef it. He doesn't fall straight on the ground? There's a brief flash of light - that magnetic netting activating, cushioning the fall a few inches before he hits the ground. It's still really undignified, though, and drops Barry on his butt onto the grass. ]

Maybe uh...

Baaaaaabe? You mind giving us a hand? Pretty please?

[ And someone else is coming on screen - Eddie Thawne, who gives a sheepish wave to the camera as he walks over to where the board is hovering just above the grass, a few feet away from Barry, who is getting to his feet. ]

Um, okay, I've never really done much skateboarding but I'll give it a go...

[ He sounds just as sheepish as his wave was, and he rubs the back of his neck as he heads over to the board. Stepping up on it, he wobbles for a moment, then catches his balance, and abruptly grins, wide and bright.]

Oh wow, this is so cool.

[ Cue Eddie doing a little jump and getting moving, gliding over grass and concrete, and he catches his footing fast enough that he's doing little ollies and grinding the edge of a concrete planter without doing a hint of damage to the surface. Barry and Cisco, naturally, burst into applause, the video going shaky as Cisco appears to jump up and down a few times in sheer jubilation.

There is one last turn of the camera, towards Cisco and Barry whooping and jumping and laughing at the success of their new creation, and the feed ends. ]

Comments

@NerdAlert

[alldenim]

Cisco... It's so fuckin' beautiful man...

[ He's not crying, you are. ]

Next time tho we gotta make somethin' both of us can y'know... use.

[franciscoramon]

our baby

speak for yourself
you're never gonna catch me walking anywhere again
i'm gonna master this thing and just hover everywhere forever for the rest of my days

[alldenim]

In that case why didn't we build two so we could race??? I mean I'd probably die but. That's just a few months growin' a new body.

text; un: iron.man

[buildsomething]

Oh come on, at least give me some back to the future music if you're gonna show that off.

[franciscoramon]

couldn't.
you know how seriously i take copyright law, tony
i would never!!!

jk i couldn't find a copy
and they call this place civilized....

[buildsomething]

Cisco. Cisco. Have you seen my media library?

@NerdAlert

[alldenim]

Back to the future music...?

[ The fuck is that ]

Is that like some kinda rock genre or

[buildsomething]

Oh, sweet summer child. How has this not been mandatory viewing.

It's a movie. That prominently features hoverboards.

video; un: Reaper

[rapsheet]

This is what you've been working on?

[ He's laughing, but it's not unkind. ]

[alldenim]

[ Fingergun ]

Ya jealous, bossman.

[ Statement, not question. ]

[rapsheet]

Can you imagine me on one of those things?

[ It's a toss up in his mind, and he actually seems to be considering it - it'd either be hilarious and awesome and fun, or the most horrifically embarrassing thing to happen in centuries.

Or hey, both is possible. ]

@sparrow; text

[flowlikewater]

Impressive!
>And very vintage. I like it.

[ He's definitely intentionally teasing. ]

[franciscoramon]

🖕🏽

@lightemup

[umbrastaff]

That looks super cool, Cisco! I wanna try it!

...also, if you fall and break your neck Barry, I'm making a flower pot out of your skull.

[franciscoramon]

any time
but if you break it you buy it

[alldenim]

You gonna put somethin' good in there? And hey, it's designed so we don't die.

audio un:pnwsalex

[11calls]

Okay, that is super cool and Back to the Future-y.

[franciscoramon]

right??
any time you wanna give it a whirl, just let me know
marty mcfly style 80s wear encouraged but not required

@NerdAlert

[alldenim]

Okay I was just told that's a movie and that I gotta watch it. But I take it we're like extra cool for it?

@det.prettyboy; text

[causational]

I seriously want one. Do I get a discount for helping with the promotional materials? I'll pose for the ads if it means a discount!

[franciscoramon]

that sounds like a pretty fair trade to me
here i was just gonna make you one for free...
but sure thing, lend your square-jawed handsome face to our new brand

oh and you ARE willing to pose in a costume, right?
i was thinking silver leotard

text | un: w.west

[otherflash]

[ Wally has to admit that almost everything about the hoverboard looks and sounds pretty damn cool. Still, there's one area he can playfully complain about. ]

Only eighty miles an hour? You guys really need to work on that.

[franciscoramon]

[ This is still an open network post so Cisco's not gonna make speedster jokes, but they're just... implied. ]

you really want your average joe zooming around any faster than that?
we talked about designing a model that went a hell of a lot faster
but we decided it would be a ticket to pandemonium
we could always do a custom job on one...

audio, @chronicler

[scholiast]

(Lucretia can't help smiling while she watches Eddie test drive the board; she hasn't really seen Cisco in his element before. The creating, the building. It's been a while since she's seen Barry throw himself head first into something for fun versus the end of their stolen century, when there hadn't really been time for that any more.

The grin is pretty evident in her voice when she answers their post.)

Will this be patented?

[alldenim]

... Y'know! Didn't even think that far. We probably should, huh?