Iris West was watching the battle between the CCPD and Zoom's metahuman army on the monitors inside Star Labs, and the sights from the news coverage were terrifying her. The police were putting up a solid fight, bringing to bear all the courage they could muster, but it was clear that they were outmatched and outgunned. She could see officers ducking to avoid being assaulted from above by two winged metahumans or the small cadre of other flying metas. And even if the flying metahumans hadn't been there, there was still the fire power being exhibited by the ones on the ground. Some had super strength, others some manner of projectile power, and others some combination. As she watched officers diving for cover, or firing their guns when a quick enough lull happened, and worse still, others screaming from being hit or being too close to something that had exploded, there was no other way to put it.

The Central City Police Department was plain and simply losing.

"Come on Barry," she muttered under her breath as she watched, her heart beginning to race the more she thought about her father being in all that fray. "Guys, where's Barry? Why hasn't he gotten to the downtown area yet?"

"Because he's still in the north side of town putting out a fire at…," Cisco answered, trailing off as he checked the map on one of the other monitors, "At a hospital."

"Chemical plant now," Caitlin corrected. "He finished with the hospital a few seconds ago."

"Well he needs to hurry it up because I don't know how much longer the police can hold their own," she said.

"He's working as fast as he can, but Zoom brought some pretty powerful people through," Caitlin said.

"Yeah, he definitely went for quality over quantity," Cisco added.

Iris just shook her head and fiddled with the necklace around her neck. She watched for a few more minutes, starting to zone out what was happening in the lab when suddenly she heard her phone ring. She considered just letting it go to voicemail, but decided that whoever it was, it was probably urgent. Tonight's situation didn't seem like it would cause someone to reach just to say hello for no real reason.

She grabbed her phone from console and looked at the screen, her face showing immediate bewilderment. "Linda?" she asked after answering.

"Is there anything I can do to help?"

Iris processed the question, not sure she'd heard correctly.

"Help?" she asked looking for clarification.

"With what's happening?"

"H-how could you…," she started, stopping mid-sentence for fear of the rest of the question coming out wrong and making her sound kind of bitchy.

On her end, Linda didn't really care about the tone of Iris's voice, she just went full steam ahead. "I was thinking that maybe…if you guys needed the help, I could offer to suit up as Doctor Light."

Iris let out a breath that she didn't realize she was holding and then let a small smile of appreciation crease her lips. Leave it to this girl to think of that, she thought as she stayed quiet on the phone. And as much as she did appreciate the offer, she knew that she couldn't let that happen.

"Sweetie, no."

"Iris, have you seen what's going on out there?" Linda implored.

"Yes, I'm watching right now, and that's why I can't let you go out there. Barry and my Dad are already out there, and it's got me so worried I feel like I might have a heart attack."

"All the more reason I could help. I remember how to use the gloves, and the helmet took a shot from a bullet without even denting. I figure…"

"Linda, no," Iris almost shout, grabbing the attention of Caitlin and Cisco. "Linda; Barry and my Dad have experience and training, and they're still struggling. And you, and I don't mean this to be mean, because I understand that you want to help, and I think it's great, but you haven't used the gloves since the night Zoom kidnapped you, and even then, you weren't exactly an expert."

"I just feel like…like now that I know that what's going on, I should be helping more."

"Then stay home," Iris said gently. "Stay home, where you're safe, because even if I did let you go out there, all that would happen is that Barry would start worrying, and with this kind of army to go up against, he needs his head clear." The line was silent and Iris started wondering if Linda had just left. "Linda?"

Iris heard a heavy sigh on the other end. "Fine, but if things get worse, metahuman army or not, I am finding some way to get down there and we are suiting me up."

"Whatever you say," Iris said, hoping that Linda could tell from her voice that she wasn't going to let that happen. Without saying good-bye, Iris heard her phone alert her that Linda had hung up.

"Did Linda really want to –" Caitlin began, then got cutoff by Iris.

"Yup."

"Maybe if she was better trained, like tenth degree black belt in meta-fu," Cisco said, getting a small chuckle out of both girls, the first time they'd done that all night.

Seconds later they heard an explosion on the monitors and when they turned to watch, they saw a police cruiser being turned into a fireball. Oh my God, Dad, Iris thought. As she watched another cruiser trying to make its way out, only to be surrounded by pissed off Earth-2 metas, she felt herself begin tear up. Then, like a yellow-streaked angel, Barry arrived on screen, and the metas immediately started disappearing from it.

"Oh thank God," she gasped as she watched the battle come to an end, for the moment, though even she knew the night was far from done.

Thanks for the offer Linda, but Barry seems to be doing just fine, she hoped, doing her best to convince herself that Linda really was safer wherever she was, and not out there trying to be Doctor Light.