Barry had managed to retrieve a very angry Jefferson and return him back to STAR Labs. "I don't want to be a hero!" he yelled at the group. "I barely just graduated from high school, you guys need someone smart and brave… I'm not your guy!"
"Actually Jefferson, you are exactly what we need," Martin said, "your DNA make up, your physical strength and athletic ability is entirely what Firestorm requires."
"Right, because you're the brains? Yeah, I'm still out!"
Sara approached Jefferson, "Look, I get it… I was young once too, but there are people out there who need Firestorm, and by the looks of it… Firestorm needs you."
Jefferson seemed a little smitten by the girl, "Okay… I'll help."
Barry scoffed, "it was that easy?"
"When you got the looks, it is." Sara said with a laugh.
Suddenly the emergency alert sounded. Caitlin ran over to Cisco's computer. "Barry? There's a heist going down in an old warehouse! How do you feel…"
"I feel great, Caitlin! Ready for work!" Barry said, and he was gone in a Flash.
He returned, ten minutes later with two unlikely visitors strapped in cuffs, just as Cisco and Astrid had entered the office.
"What the hell are they doing here!" Astrid yelled.
"They kidnapped us!" Cisco snapped.
Barry had brought in Leonard Snart and Mick Rory.
"They trapped me, now they know my secret and they need our help!" Barry replied.
"Barry, you're not helping your case. Didn't you want Cisco and Astrid to forgive you? You risking your identity and bringing in two people they despise, does not help your cause!" Caitlin added.
"At least they're cuffed?" Barry joked, "That's beside the point... You guys, I need you all to listen… in the alternate world Captain Cold and Heatwave came through, they helped us… just as they need our help now."
"Heh heh… Such cool names… but still… What?" Cisco asked baffled.
Barry forced the two crooks to sit. "Speak!" he ordered them, as he handed Cisco, their weapons.
"Oh my babies, welcome home to papa!" Cisco said to the guns, as he went to lock them away.
"We're not dogs, you know!" Mick spat at Barry.
"Mick… if we're going to get them to help us, might I suggest that we play nice?" Leonard asked his partner. Mick grumbled in response.
"Wow, Sutherland… it seems your group has grown a little." Leonard said to Astrid.
"Just tell us what you want, or we'll offer you the same hospitality that you offered Cisco and I when you took us hostage." She snapped at him.
"Snart…" Barry began, "It's not wise to make her mad… she's moments away from frying your brain, as we speak."
"You better listen to Barry… he would know." Astrid said directing her glare at Barry.
"Okay," Snart began, "do you remember when you and I took a little field trip to Mercury Labs and we tangoed a little?" Leonard asked her.
"Tangoed?" Cisco asked with a smile.
"Spit it out, Snart!" Astrid snapped.
"I'm surprised that you don't just read my mind and get it out of me yourself. But anyway, I might have taken something that was worth a whole lot of money… and sold it to a very wealthy buyer." Snart explained.
"Sutherland, you went pick pocketing with a criminal?" Sara joked, "You haven't changed one bit, since high school!" Astrid raised her eyebrows at her friend in disbelief.
"Why would you care? You got the money! What do you need our help for?" Barry asked him.
"Well, that's what I thought at first… a little ignorance is bliss, if you will. But that was before I realized what this small piece of jewelry could do. So I tried to steal it back… A thief's gotta thief, right?"
"You want us to help you steal it back?" Barry asked, trying to find his agenda.
Astrid was growing tired of Snart's procrastination, she read his mind. "Barry… I think that for now, you're off the hook. This necklace is dangerous. We're going to get it back…" she said directing her glare back at Snart.
"No! Why would we help the villains?" Jefferson said, "Aren't we supposed to be the good guys?"
"Hey, when did you change your mind about joining us?" Cisco asked him.
"When Sara spoke to him, batting her eyelashes!" Caitlin added with a laugh.
"I should have known…" Cisco replied.
"Jefferson, while we generally don't help the bad guys at will… I believe that Astrid might have another agenda about what to do with the necklace when we find it." Martin explained.
"Martin's right! I do… we either destroy it, or lock it away… Professor Stein, do you remember what you said about it last time? Something about the totem being able to absorb the powers of the animal kingdom? That's the one we're talking about… that thing, in the wrong hands… Could be really bad!" Astrid said.
"Yes, miss Sutherland. I will go and gather my research now!" Martin said as he left to do so.
"So you'll work with us?" Leonard asked.
"I wouldn't say working with…" Astrid said.
"Using you for what you know, sounds a little more fitting," Sara finished.