It's been 5 years since the crisis of 2019. Barry Allen disappeared vanishing missing in crisis 5 years ago. Wally West has taken up the mantle of The Flash and is mentored by Jay Garrick who appears from time to time during his retirement.
Elongated Man and Killer Frost still have been joining up with Wally as The Flash plus Gypsy as well while Harry Wells is on comms. Over the past five years, Wally West took on Godspeed, all the rogues uniting against him in a rogue war, Daniel West reverse flash, and fell in love and married Linda Park, who has been Iris' closest friend for the past half decade.
Ralph is married to Sue Dibny, and has become Central City's number one high profile private investigator. Meanwhile, Caitlin and Gypsy aren't interested in meeting anyone. Caitlin became the top doctor in Central City and Gypsy is the top assassin.
Iris has been away for a long time, living on her own as a reporter for CCPN. She lived with Clark and Lois in Metropolis for a year until she got her own new place.
One day, Iris published something to the digital newspaper that got her trending across all of social media, that would go on to change her life forever. Iris West published "The Story of The Flash", telling the whole world the story of The Flash over the five years he was a superhero, and exposing his identity as Barry Allen.
She got to the top of trending pages and everyone was coming to her apartment to interview her. However when Team Flash realized she can get attached any moment now, Wally sped over and brought her back from Star Labs.
Iris: Wally! What the hell are you doing!
Wally: What am I doing? You're going to get yourself killed!
Iris: Not even close!
Wally: Yes you are!
Iris storms out. Wally and Iris lost their friendly brother sister bond over the best half decade, Iris hates that Wally took the mantle of her husband, and Wally hates that Iris is being distant from everyone.
Even though she is mad at Wally, she knows he is right. Iris decides to take on a brand new identity, by heading over to Star City to accept an offer Diggle and Lyla made to her a while ago- living under a new name and identity under the Argus custody. Her name is now Michelle, Michelle Williams.
Wally and Linda hang out with Ralph and Sue a lot, they decided to go bowling one night, leaving Caitlin and Gypsy to have a very much overdue conversation. Gypsy has been this ruthless hero in Central City, with no outside life and Caitlin has been doing the exact opposite, she's simply a hero but her outside life matters much more.
Caitlin: Gypsy. Or Cynthia Reynolds.
Gypsy: Don't call me that, I'm just Gypsy.
Caitlin: You need to have a life outside of being Gypsy. You can't just be hard assassin and vigilante all the time, it's enough you torture your enemies, one day that can turn to killing.
Gypsy: It won't turn to killing, you know why? Because I don't kill, and neither does this Killer Frost.
Caitlin: That's not my point, my point is that you need to be you too. I'm Killer Frost out in the field protecting this city but without my suit, I'm Dr. Caitlin Snow MD and I help people.
Gypsy: That's just career and crime fighting. My career is crime fighting.
Caitlin: And? That's it? Just, wear something other then your suit I promise you'll have a nice time.
Gypsy: Fine.
Caitlin and Cynthia go out for dinner.
Caitlin gives Cynthia flowers at dinner.
Cynthia: When you said wear something nice I didn't realize you were asking me out.
Caitlin: I'm not, I just want to have a nice evening with you with confidence. I don't have to look nice only when I'm on dates.
Cynthia: Well you look really nice.
Caitlin: Thanks so do you.
Cynthia and Caitlin talk for an hour or so then the food arrives. After lunch, they head out to the movies and watch The Little Mermaid 2. After the movie, they head to Caitlin's house to play multiple games with each other for a while until later the two fall asleep on the couch.
Wally, Linda, Ralph, and Sue have been spending the evening and night hanging out playing bowling then they went out for dinner before heading home.
The next morning, Cynthia and Caitlin woke up on the couch.
Cynthia: Good morning Cait.
Caitlin: Good morning Cindy. Had fun last night?
Cynthia: Yes seriously you're the best friend ever.
Caitlin: Glad to hear it, you're my best too. Coffee at Jitters?
Cynthia: Yes sure, I'll change.
Caitlin: Great.
At Jitters, Cynthia and Caitlin pick up their coffee and go out for a walk and they talk about last night. Because there's been no meta issues lately and Wally has been taking care of everything, Caitlin and Cynthia have been hanging out together a lot for the past month or so, and grown very close.
Wally and Ralph have been crimefighting with Harry on comms for the past month and they have grown very close to their partners, including Harry who married Tess Morgan long ago before the founding of Star Labs.
One day when Ralph is benched due to an injury, Wally deals with a meta human who is not a human at all. But it's a suspicious energy source, one that hasn't been seen from anyone but him and Jay for a very long time. He suspects it might be the Reverse Flash again but it was different.
When Wally arrives to where the energy source is- on a farm, he hears a very familiar voice.
Voice: Wally.
Wally: Jessie?