Because someone on tumblr wanted Kitties.

Could have been a Catastrophe

"This …this is not happening." Iris threw up her hands. "Nope, this is not happening. Telepathic murder gorillas, sure. Guys who control the weather or turn into poison gas, fine. But this is not happening. Nope." She sighed, still very much seated at STAR Labs and not taking up from the dream she'd hoped this was. "Barry I know you understand me, get off, this skirt is new."

The lean brown-and-white cat blinked up at her and yowled. Iris put her head in her hands, and he rubbed his face against her cheek. He purred, and Iris sighed.
"Jay? Are you having any luck?"

Across the room, Jay was seated at a work station, Caitlin peering at the computer screen. Whatever had turned Barry into a kitten and left him a tangled mess inside his Flash Costume, wailing to be freed, had also affected her. Looking like the poster cat-child for "Dainty" she had her fluffy ginger tail curled around white tipped paws, and kept her own voice down, patting at Jay's hand, or Iris's, when she wanted attention, careful to keep her claws sheathed.

At least Caitlin appeared to be a full grown cat, or at least old enough that her tailbones weren't fused the way Barry's and Cisco's were. Iris picked Barry up and set him on the desk. He leaped back onto her lap. She pointed at the floor sternly.

"Ah, no." Jay admitted. "Not yet. But getting close. It looks like the Metahuman that got in here is behind it." Meaning, the five year old child who was currently locked in a pipeline cell, as a kitten. Joe had gone to the station to see about missing children cases. "If we could get her to change back, she might be able to do something…I'm working on a cure, but honestly, this isn't something that ever happened on earth two. We may be in it for the long haul."

"Great," Iris sighed. "I guess I'll feed them, then. Hope they like tuna."

Barry yowled again, a ringing "Mrrrawwwwllllll" that sounded far too Grown Cat for his kitten face, and Caitlin leaped down from her perch gracefully to smack him in the face with her tail. From a nearby chair, sitting on Jay's jacket looking as pathetically upset as a kitten could without being soaking wet, Harry sneezed twice, his curly dark grey fur even wilder now.

"Poor baby," Iris couldn't resist offering a quick pet. "Are you sick?"

"Harrison Wells is allergic to cats," Jay said absently. "Seems that hasn't changed. Hey, maybe we should just keep him as a kitten. He's not nearly so hard to get along with like this."

Harry sneezed again, and rumbled the least-threatening growl Iris had ever heard. "I don't think that's a good plan." Iris giggled, heading for the kitchen.

"You're right, it's not a good plan. It's a fantastic one," Jay called back.

Iris found a few plates and a can opener, glad for the fact that Cisco over prepared and kept a year's supply of tinned food in one of the empty offices. There was not only canned Tuna, but some sardines, and even some imitation crab. Iris grabbed a bunch and took then back to the break room, when a thought occurred to her.

"Uh, Jay? Have you seen Cisco?"

"Um…nooooo?"

"Crap, we lost him."

Iris dumped the food onto the plates and carried it out to the main room, where Barry started attempting to climb her skirt to get at it before Harry and Caitlin had a chance. "There's enough for everyone, stop it, Barry, Barry, No, bad kitty."

Barry purred.

"Cisco!" Iris decided to let the three kitties tend for themselves. "Cisco, diiiinnnner. Where are you?" Had he fallen down a heater vent or something? He couldn't have gotten far, he was a tiny black and brown kitten the size of a hamster. A small hamster.

Like most cats, he did not come when called. Iris started her Very Thorough And Somewhat Panicked Search, because STAR Labs wasn't exactly kitten proof. Four offices later, Jay called over the PA system, very softly, "I found him, Miss Wes—Iris."

Iris came running, because Cisco was her friend, and she was concerned, and the fact that he was a Tiny Baby Kitten at the moment absolutely did not increase that urgency. Jay pointed at the desk she'd vacated. Specifically, at the empty mug she'd been about to fill with coffee when Barry's worried shouts had turned into yowling.

"Oh for the love of—oh my God that's adorable." Iris peered into the mug, currently full of sleeping kitten.

"I think I solved the problem, too. Shouldn't be too hard to come up with an antidote."

Barry looked up from a second go at the tuna, and twined around her ankles. Caitlin licking her paws with the elegance of royalty. Cisco yawned and tucked his head underneath a paw with the teeniest of squeaks. Harry sneezed again. Twice.

"You're absolutely sure we can't keep him as a kitten?"

"Another half hour wouldn't hurt," Iris conceded, scooping Barry up and settling him on her shoulder. "I need to get some pictures. The internet's gonna love this."

Don't worry the little metahuman girl is fine, Joe's gonna adopt her and she'll turn Zoom into the fluffiest cat ever and stick a bow on his head