After searching Caitlin's house, Barry had only uncovered scorched marks on both the back and front door to the house, which had burned right through the locks. But no actual fingerprints throughout the house.

"Do you see anything Barry?" Joe asked him as they searched for clues on Astrid's whereabouts. "Whoever took her was very careful. No fingerprints anywhere." Barry told him.

"Whoever it was, was quick about it, too. I had only just left the room," Caitlin added, clearly concerned. "Are you thinking another speedster may have helped?" Cisco asked her.

"I don't know. I guess that it's possible?" Caitlin shrugged, "are you able to get anything, Cisco? she was sitting in the chair right there."

"I can try," he walked towards the chair, placed his hand at the head of it and waited for any vision to come. Though none did.

"Did you find anything at the location that Adrian provided?" Caitlin asked Joe.
"No, nothing out of the ordinary. Barry even scouted the area looking for technology to tap into. They had been there but left no traces of where they had moved to." Joe replied.

"Maybe I could go back there with you, Barry, to see if I could pick anything up." Cisco suggested to Barry. "It couldn't hurt," Barry responded, "let's go." In a moment they were gone.

"Do you think Red will be back?" Caitlin asked Joe, "I should have kept a better eye on her!"

"Don't beat yourself up about it." Joe told her reassuringly, "There was a time where Iris, Barry and I went to the fair, a few months after he came to live with us. I had told myself that I would never let him out of my sight. So it turned out he went to go on the Ferris wheel and Iris had told me to check out the magician. So it turned out I took my eyes off him for a moment and in that moment he ran off. I found him, it took about an hour. But when I did he said he had remembered the last time he was on a Ferris wheel was with parents.

But that fear that I had had. That someone had taken him. I understand where you are coming from. Everything will be ok. We will find her, I promise you."

Meanwhile, at an old abandoned plastics factory downtown, Barry and Cisco went over the site looking for traces of anyone from the group, that had taken Astrid.

"Wouldn't we have known by now if there was another speedster in town?" Barry asked his friend. Cisco had wondered the same thing until he put his hand on an old machine and had an instant vibe. He saw himself in the same factory only it was a gathering site for a group of men. He saw a man, sharply dressed in a suit, enter the room.

All the men looked at him respectfully. Then he spoke "I have succeeded in playing God. We now have our own speedster to rival The Flash and after witnessing the telekinetic abilities of the Robert Sutherland's daughter, we will now be able to embark on a new project of creating people with these same abilities. I myself will be accompanying our new recruit Hypersonic to obtain…" His conversation was broken off by a man in a police uniform joining the group and whispering in his ear. The leader of the group looked at the policeman angrily and spoke back to the rest of the group, "It seems Adrian Winston has allowed himself to be captured. Thank you detective Scotts for your update. You have been a great help." And with that he laid his hand on the policeman. Cisco could barely watch as the man's skin began to turn red from the site and began to blister all over. Before he knew it, the man was screaming in pain as his body went from pink, to red and then decomposing all in thirty seconds.

"Cisco? Did you get a vibe?" Barry asked him when he finally broke free from his vision. "Hypersonic is such a cool name for a speedster." Cisco told him, "looks like he will be your new rival. Red is making more meta-humans. He took Astrid as he thinks she has telekinetic abilities. But what he doesn't realise is that it is not actually her. And what Red can do? Is scary. He also has or had insiders working for the CCPD. This is not good!" He was talking very quickly.

"We need to tell Joe immediately!" Barry told him, he held on to Cisco's arm and took him back to Caitlin's house. "Red is making meta-humans! He killed a detective named Scotts!" Cisco told Joe the instant they were back.

"Detective Scotts? Why?" Joe asked, "I only just spoke with him today."
"He was an insider for Red, and what he can do! It is just creepy. He can decompose bodies just by touching them." Cisco was referring to what he had seen in his vision. "We need to get him behind bars as soon as possible."

"I agree!" Joe told him, "But what concerns me is that we don't know how many other insiders he has working for the CCPD. We're going to have to do some silent investigations through the CCPD, Barry."

"I agree," Cisco told him, "I am pretty sure that I can supply you with some bugging tech that you can set-up at the station. I can also get into the CCPD database. If anyone has been corresponding with anyone through the network on a 'not-so-lawful' basis I can find them."

"I don't really agree with your methods, Cisco…" Joe told him.

"But if it is going to get our man off the street." Barry broke in, "We might have to do it. Red has made a new speedster, Hypersonic, he called him. We have a lot to deal with here and it is just going to get worse if we don't stop him now."

"Fine, Barry," Joe surrendered, "We do it with Cisco's tech. but if we get caught…" he sighed, "…I don't know… fine! But it's on the pair of you!" Cisco grinned. "Let's go to the Labs now. I have been hanging out to do this for ages!" He told them excitedly.

At the Sutherland Labs, Cisco gathered an assortment of equipment, ranging from microscopic cameras to voice recording tools that could be easily disguised.

He ran through all of them and how to use them at a pace that Joe could not understand. Barry understood what he needed to know. "Now while you two set to work at the CCPD headquarters, I will begin working on the databases from this computer here.

Barry and Joe left Caitlin and Cisco to work, while they went to set up the equipment at the police station. "I can't believe that they are making meta-humans, so much for hating them." Caitlin told Cisco.

"They must have had a change of heart. But another speedster? Trying to build some with mind-control powers? Ones that have the Midas touch of death? This is only going to get worse." Cisco replied, "I just wish that Astrid was here. She would somehow have some insight that would be of assistance."

Caitlin nodded in agreement. "We will get her back and we will get the nonmeta-human Astrid back too, Cisco. I just know we will." She was trying to convince herself, as much as she was trying to convince him. Suddenly, she received a text on her phone. "It's from doctor Henry Jackson." She told Cisco.

"What does he want?" Cisco asked, irritability throughout his tone.
"He wants to help, I messaged him earlier, I told him about our current predicament. His message then just told me he 'might have a plan'."

"Look where his last plan got us. Freaky Friday through an alternate universe!"
"Well at least it's a start. We can't let this whole end of the worlds thing happen. Astrid would be well on her way with a plan by now. We both know that. Anyway Dr Henry is on his way over, so play nice! We need to help this other girl. I'd hate to see what would happen when Red finds out that she doesn't have powers."

Cisco felt a shiver run down his spine, but said nothing as he continued to hack into to the CCPD network. "OK! Barry and Joe have done it! I've made it into the network and I have surveillance throughout the station. Now we just need to watch and wait! For something or someone out of the ordinary."

"I really don't feel comfortable doing this, Barry." Joe said to him once they reached the detective's office and closed the door. The Flash had turned back into regular Barry Allen in case they had got caught being there. "Captain Singh would have both our jobs and send us to federal prison if we get caught."

"But we can't get caught, Joe. This other Astrid's life is on our hands. We need to do whatever we can." Barry looked at his watch, it had been a gift from Joe a few years back. It was late and there were very little staff on at this time of night.

"We will help her, Bar. Before he does anything to her. I know you feel helpless right now, but you will get to her on time. You're the fastest person I know."

"That's not the only thing that I am concerned about, Joe." He looked at the photo of Iris sitting on the detective's desk. "It's Iris, right?" Joe asked his foster son.

"How'd you…" Barry started.
"How didn't I see it Barry? You have been in love with her all your life and you have always been too afraid to say anything to her. But you will get your chance… and honestly, this new boyfriend of hers? He isn't right for her. She will learn that in her own time."

Barry smiled at Joe. What scared Barry the most was knowing that if they failed… if Astrid failed in this other world. They would die, with him never telling Iris how he really felt about her. This was all too big for all of them!

Only Cisco knew that he had been training in secret to try and become faster than he had ever been. He figured if he was able to time travel in the future, thanks to his speed, that he had to learn it sometime and he was determined to learn it now.

He was scared for his friend, being alone in another world and trying to take on whatever was coming her way. He knew that she was adamant that she would get it done, no matter the cost. But he also knew that if she were to succeed, she would be willing to sacrifice her own life to do so.

She could be ruthless if she needed to be. She would always be willing to sacrifice one for the good of the many, which was something he could never even dream of doing. She would never intentionally put herself or anyone else she loved in danger, but she would be willing to do so if there were so much at stake.

"Barry." Cisco's voice rang out into his earpiece, startling him. "There is someone in Captain Singh's office, and it isn't captain Singh. Ah crap! It's a shapeshifter and he, wait… no now 'she' is coming your way as Iris!"

"Joe, get ready." Barry told Joe, "It's not… Iris," His conversation was interrupted by someone who looked exactly like Iris.

"Dad, Barry. What are the two of you still doing here?" she asked them "It's late and you guys weren't home. I tried calling your phones."

"I didn't have any missed…" It was too late, for 'Iris' had picked up a plaque from Joe's desk and swung it over his head. Barry pretended to run out of the office and immediately turned into The Flash, returning to restrain the shapeshifter, who immediately turned into Joe.

The Flash noticed a set of Cisco's tech handcuffs on Joe's desk, so using his speed he took them and put them onto the shapeshifter. The shapeshifter changed into someone that he could not recognize. Barry was able to keep him restrained and take him back to Sutherland Labs, leaving Joe passed out on the floor. "Sorry Joe." He said as he left.

"We need somewhere to keep this guy, for questioning. This is our shapeshifter." Barry announced to his friends once he returned to Sutherland Labs.

Dr Henry Jackson looked at Barry's prisoner. "I have just the place to keep Mr Keys. He is actually one of our employees. If he does work for Red, that just makes what we are about to do much better for us."

He led the group down to the basement floor, in which he had turned into what seemed to be his own private work area. "Does Astrid Sutherland know what you have turned this floor into?" Cisco asked Henry.

"I doubt that she does, but once she sees the work here, I do not think that she would want to shut it down. This floor is filled with five years of confidential research into the meteor and my abilities. Plus that hospital bed there can strap our prisoner down so I can probe into his dreams. I can receive his memories. Whatever Red told him. I can bring it to the surface. I need your help Cisco, just as we did with Astrid. This will not be as risky as the procedure that we carried out on Astrid."

They strapped down the shapeshifter, who tried to fight them. Henry Jackson placed his palms on the shapeshifter's forehead, while Cisco put his hand on the man's shoulders. Hoping to find something that might lead them to their kidnapped friend