The Psychic

by makoto x chelia

When an ordinary night turns out wrong, and ends up with the world around him opening up, Matt has to learn how to channel his powers, all the while fighting off Metahumans, and other things that are from his, checkered past.

10. Chapter 10

Hello, and welcome to the next chapter!

hellspam; I'm glad that you liked it! Yeah, she gets to live, and she'll be making sporadic appearances as we go on. If that almost made you cry then, I personally believe this is one of the more emotion heavy chapters as we go more into how Matt thinks, and what it is like struggling with these different concepts and such. Hmmm, maybe that could be for later yeah. Let's just say, even if they fix it here for now, Matt's still got this beast inside, and he'll have to deal with that going forward, and he could split off from Matt one day to give him a nemesis, basically himself.

DocSlendy; Indeed it does~ He can be, and will be as we go forward~

Anime PJ; It was hinted a few chapters ago, though it was a throwaway line so it can be forgiven to miss it, there's been several hints though about future content with throwaway lines, even things going into season two as well. But yeah, she survived indeed! Bette and Matt truly kicked some ass together huh. She'll be appearing more in the future~ And yeah, we get to the part that truly has been a troubling thing for Matt since the beginning of the story, and is expanded upon here. Yeah, that's cool, and we'll see it more in this chapter too, sort of anyway. It is simple, but Matt likes simple things, besides Caitlin who's quite complicated. Yeah, it kinda does...as Matt is the 'villain' himself, though it's more like an unwilling tragic villain as he's pretty much forced into that role by Harrison, Rachael, and his own past coming back to bite him in the ass. But there will be chapters in the near future that will have some more original villains coming into the story, villains for Matt, and his team to deal with.

ShadowUzumaki55; Thanks very much! He does yeah, he's been under her thumb for so long, he now spread his wings, and used his own skills to put together a good party. He has indeed, Hartley's gonna be important for Matt, and his team going forward. Ooh Matt will have a profound effect on Hartley, and we'll see him going through changes. Well, Hartley's there for a big reason, and he's a very smart guy, I'm pretty sure he knows something's up with Matt. Yup, they are besties from the past, and we'll be seeing her more in the future~ He's got his costume, name, and he's ready to kick some ass. Yeah, she was in the show, she was basically manipulated by Wells. Yeah, it is a very dangerous situation, as shown in this chapter.

Guest; That would have to be in this season one, right? I've not watched all of Arrow yet (only on about episode 8 of Season 3) and if I remember right, the Lazarus pit gets destroyed in Season 3 Arrow, which is Season 1 Flash, so it would have to be in this first season for Matt to be brought back like that, though it could be cool, as it, I believe (not 100 percent) brings out like killing intent/blood lust thing, that could be cool to explore.

DASTAAN; Hehe, explained over PM's, no worries~

AlphaOmega; He does indeed yeah~ He is glad that he doesn't have to do that~ Yeah, it must've been a sight to behold huh. It is improving all of the way without Rachael. Ooh yeah, Hartley's gonna be important to Matt, and his team going forward. She did yeah, it always seemed sad that she was used like that, and then killed for no reason, since she could've been a good ally of the team. She will be indeed, though she won't be around for a while.

Lightwave; Yeah, indeed it was~ Matt knows how to throw cool parties, and he even has Hartley on his side now. It's gonna be fun going forward. Yeah, I thought it would be cool, gives Matt connections outside of the ones at S.T.A.R Labs, and also possible more interactions outside them guys, and such. Yeah, she knows him quite well, and is protective over him, since she knows things, no one else really knows, not even Caitlin and such. Yup, he's a superhero...well, not in this chapter, at least half of it anyway. At a heavy price, which is shown in this chapter, and shows, how dangerous he can be. We'll have to wait, and see what's gonna happen.

Neonlight01; Hehe yeah, he tried his best, he wasn't going to hold back, and of course, they are his friends. He has done indeed, that's gonna play a role later on. Indeed, it would have been a very awkward moment and then many more awkward moments afterwards, wouldn't it? Hartley doesn't want to reveal himself just yet though. Well, Hartley's there for a reason, and he's a smart dude, so he knows something is going on. I'm glad you do! Yeah, Bette indeed survived, and she's gonna be popping up again in the future. That's a good question, we'll have to wait, and see what they are going to do.

Well, with those lovely reviews out of the way, it's time to start the chapter!

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Dark sides part 1

Two months ago...

"Bang, bang fellers!"

A woman of a dark coloured skin said as she literally disappeared before their eyes.

The cops themselves were shocked by this.

They couldn't believe how she did that.

She reappeared behind the cop, and slammed her palm into the back of his head, knocking him down.

"No!"

The cop took aim, and went to shoot her, but she teleported away, disappearing instantly.

The cop looked on, confused on what the hell just happened.

That was until she appeared right behind him, causing him to be knocked out with her punching him in the head, forcing down his body.

However, that was a mistake as the last copper had seen her, and shot the bullet towards her.

She didn't even realize until it was too late...

Or what she thought.

Just as the bullet was going to touch her, it...stopped.

In midair, it was stopped, like time had frozen.

"You know, you're difficult to track down."

The woman gasped, as did the cop.

However, the cop was then blasted into a wall with red energy, knocking him out.

"W-Who did that!?"

She looked around, but couldn't see who it was.

Then, as she looked around, she saw that there was a man walking out of the shadows.

His blonde hair caught her attention first, and then his red eyes. She looked on and she felt herself blushing at the sight of the handsome man. He even dressed quite, badboyish, wearing a spiked choker, black pants, and a leather jacket, and he looked cute in her eyes. Even though she had a boyfriend, who currently was in jail, it didn't matter right now, seeing this boy before her.

"Hello, I've been tracking you for sometime. Your abilities, are useful to me."

"Who are you?"

She carefully asked, as he walked closer to her.

He grabbed the bullet that was suspended in the air, the boy blowing on it.

"I haven't really thought of a good name yet, I'm sure Cisco probably will think of one. But, for now, I suppose you could call me Matt."

Matt revealed himself, though he was the evil mode right now.

"Matt...w-why...what are you?"

"Me and you, are Metahuman's, and you, my teleporter, are useful to me. Soon, I feel it, I'm going to break free, and I could use a woman, of your talents, beside me."

"And why would I do anything for you?"

Matt cocked his head, then licked his lips devilishly.

"Because I just saved you, and I've been protecting your identity from the police until now. Besides, if you don't want me to kill you, you'll work for me."

The woman slowly backed away, then smirked.

"Hmph, kill this!"

She teleported, so Matt sighed, and reached back towards his right, just as the woman reappeared there, grabbing her by the throat, and held her up.

"Peek-a-boo, I see you~"

Matt tossed the young girl to the side with a creepy smile on his face, her body hitting a wall.

She groaned and got up.

"H-How did you do that!?"

She demanded but Matt just smirked.

Since she didn't get an answer, she teleported as Matt heard where she was going. Just as she reappeared, Matt bent his body down, avoiding a gun shot, and used his telekinetic powers to fling her gun out of her hand, and then spun around her, getting behind her, and his arms put her in a headlock, so she wouldn't be able to escape.

"Now, are you going to listen to me? Or do we have to dance all night long? Not that I mind of course, I like dancing."

"I don't have a choice, do I?"

Matt shrugged then snickered.

"Oh, I can read your thoughts, I knew where you were going to appear, that's how I managed to disable you. I'm probably the worst matchup for you, I know where you're gonna be, and can react fast enough with either telekinesis, my own speed, or I could raise a force-field around myself so you can't touch me, so be a good girl, and listen to me."

The woman grabbed his forearm, trying to think of how to get out of this.

"W-What do you want from me?"

She pleaded, only for evil Matt to let her down, then smirk evilly.

"I said it before, I need a partner, and you're interesting to me. Your abilities might not be much for fighting, but supported by me, you and I could do many things. Besides, if you're a good girl, I'll get your boyfriend out of prison, and you can start a new life with him. Isn't that your deepest desire young one?"

The woman's eyes raised up, and so did her smile.

"You could do that?"

"You, and your beau, could start a new life, together. I can make that happen, if you work for me."

The woman couldn't believe what she was hearing, and it was...good.

Starting a new life, she'd want that.

If she had to, she would work with him, for him. For some reason, even she didn't know, she felt like she could, trust this person.

"I see...yes. I can do that, if you give me what I want."

Matt released a breath, nodding his head.

"I can, now swear your allegiance to me, Peekaboo."

"A-Actually my name is..." Matt stared at her, so she backed down and held her hands up defensively. "Peekaboo is fine, though my name is Shawna. But, Peekaboo is great."

"Then, Peekaboo, when the time is right, I shall call you."

The girl smirked, as Matt offered his hand. She took it, and held it as he peered into her eyes.

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Present day...

DING! DING!

"Wow, is that the time already?" Matt looked at the clock, and saw that it was nearing five in the afternoon. He then looked back towards the class that he taught. "Oh, okay then, I suppose it's time to finish for the day. Okay, thank you everyone for a good lesson. Next week, we'll be doing game designing! How neat, right?"

[Awesome!]

Most of the class shouted out.

They liked Matt as a teacher.

Though he was a little weird, they liked his teaching style, and there was one girl in the class that liked it very much more than the others.

"Yeah, so, everyone come up with some game designs, and we'll discuss it further next time because we'll be designing a game together. It might not be Call of Duty brand, but I'm sure it will be pretty cool with all of us. Class, is dismissed."

The students in the class, ranging from 14 year olds, to 18 year olds got up from their seats, and began leaving the area. One by one, they said to Matt about what they would want and such. Matt offered each and everyone of them smiles, and spoke kindly.

Once they were all gone, he was about to go and collect some sheets, when he noticed that there was a certain girl with some pink streaks in her hair, sat at the back of the classroom, and looked like she didn't want to leave.

Matt walked towards her, and sat down nearby.

"It's the end of the class, you can leave you know? Or, are you waiting for a parent or guardian to collect you…Frankie?"

Frankie looked towards him, shaking her head.

"N-No, I'm not waiting for anyone…I just…erm…" Matt heard the stuttering, and then heard her inner voice. "I don't want to go home yet."

Matt furrowed his eyebrows, wondering why she wouldn't want to go home.

"Frankie, is…are you okay? I mean, is there…something you want to talk about with me? I'm not really a normal teacher or anything, but I still am here if you'd like to, speak with me, about anything Frankie."

"N-No, nothing at all!" She denied the claim, Matt then hearing her inner voice. "I can't tell him my problems."

Matt furrowed his eyebrows, wondering why that was, why she didn't want to tell him. Then again, it wasn't like he knew her completely, and he only had interacted with her a little bit, yet he was concerned for her.

"I see, then I'll have to tell you, your presentation was really great. I enjoyed seeing it, and those codes you cracked, truly you're a great mind."

"It wasn't that good, and I just...did it."

Matt smiled, and leaned closer.

"It was brilliant actually. The different use of colours, the images, and the presentation delivery itself was fantastic. Have you ever thought about working with computers in the future? It seems you can grasp quite a few concepts from what I can tell."

"I-It wasn't good, it was just…that…"

"Well 'that' was great to me. One of the better ones in the class actually. Why do you think it wasn't good Frankie?"

"N-No reason…" She lied, and Matt knew it was when he heard her inner thoughts. "My foster family thinks it was horrible, and he's probably thinking the same."

Matt didn't like what he heard, he definitely didn't like the very thought that someone said that to a young girl.

"You know, when I was your age, my family used to tell me my things weren't good either. My Father in particular always thought anything I did was useless…well, look at me now, I teach the stuff to others, I can't be doing that bad, right?"

"Your family said things like that too?"

Matt nodded with a sad face.

"They did. But only you can determine if your work is good enough. The only person you have to please, is yourself. It took me around twenty plus years to figure that out, but yeah, you only have to make yourself feel good."

"Mr Stone…"

"Hehe, I'm not a Mr by any means…well, I am, but you don't have to call me that, just call me Matt. Everyone else does."

"Hehe, then Matt?"

"Hmmm?"

He answered while humming, having an idea from her mind anyway.

"Can I help tidy up?"

"If you really want to Frankie, but it is around dinner time, aren't you hungry?"

"No…I'm not hungry."

Matt could hear her stomach rumbling a little bit.

"Seems like you're lying to me. Go on, go and get something to eat."

"I'd rather…help you tidy up than…go and eat right now."

Matt could hear how she didn't want to go home. He didn't know why that was though, and he was sure to find out.

"Okay, you help me tidy up, and then we'll leave, okay?"

"Okay Mr…I mean, Matt."

Matt smiled, and they got to work tidying up together.

While doing it, Matt wondered just what was going on with her. There was something, but he couldn't just ask her right out, it wouldn't do any good. He could find out that way, but he didn't want to force it.

"Oh, by the way Frankie?"

Matt brought up as they finished.

"Y-Yes?"

"You can talk to me about anything, and I promise it wouldn't have to go further, if it's normal problems. I mean if it's something, bad then I would have to tell someone. But, just remember, I am here if you want to talk with me. I know how hard it can be to talk to your parents, or super old adults."

Frankie allowed a small giggle to escape her throat.

"I'm really okay Matt, thank you. I can't wait for the next lesson! Game design is going to be so cool!"

"Yeah, there's many different things we could do. A shooting game, a dress up type game, and other things. Obviously it would take more than a session. But it's going to be fun. Heck, I might split up the groups and have them do different games and see which comes out great and such."

"That would be cool, I'd like that idea."

"Great, then you'll have to start thinking up-"

Before he could finish, the door opened to reveal Iris coming through.

"Ah, there you are. This is the right classroom after all." Iris walked in to see Frankie, and Matt talking. "I was waiting outside but you never came so I decided to see what was going on. Remember, we had something's to talk about."

"Ugh, right. Sorry Iris, got to speaking to Frankie here. Speaking of, Iris. This is Frankie Kane, one of my best and brightest."

"Hey Frankie. I'm Iris West, friends with your…teacher I guess is the right word."

Iris greeted, as Frankie shuffled on her feet awkwardly, Matt shrugging awkwardly at the teacher part.

"Yes, hello, nice to meet you."

"So polite, you don't see that in kids nowadays."

"I know, she's a rare one, a polite teenager. Who'd have thought it right?" Matt looked towards Frankie and smiled. "Remember, think about some ideas, and see you next week."

"Y-Yeah, thanks Matt. See you next week."

Frankie took her bag over her shoulder, and left the classroom.

Once she was gone, Iris wrapped an arm around Matt's and they began walking out.

"So, adventurous to take on such roles as a teacher."

"Hehe, yeah you're not wrong, but Jean was right. It is quite rewarding."

He said as they began walking out of the classroom.

"Yeah, seems like it. However, did you hear about that guy that was arrested?"

"Which one? There's plenty."

They continued walking in the corridor, Matt and Iris displaying a closeness.

"I mean, that sick bastard that was hurting those children."

Matt's eyes flashed red for a brief second, so Iris didn't see it. He snapped back to his senses, and gritted his teeth.

"I hate people like that, that hurt children needlessly."

"Amen to that. I heard from my Dad the guy is going to get interrogated to see what he really did. I don't envy my Dad right about now, I don't think I could stomach being near someone like that."

"Very much agreed, there's some sick bastards out there. I hope he gets what's coming to him."

"Me too, ugh. Just thinking about those poor children, and how he beat them…how can people become parents like that?"

"They aren't parents." Matt spoke, a slight redness within his eyes. "People like that don't deserve the title of parent. They are just scum." His eyes continued to shine red as they walked out of the classroom. "What was his name again?"

Iris put a finger to his chin as she thought of the name.

"Hmmm, I believe his name was…Rex Solman. I think he was a geneticist. Such a person is sick. Though, apparently, he also mentioned something about Dr Wells, you know at S.T.A.R Labs."

"Really, that's interesting. Harrison Wells with a geneticist huh...interesting..."

Matt smirked to himself, his eyes shining red.

But then, his eyes changed back to blue.

Matt blinked, then looked to Iris who was smiling to herself.

"H-Hey Iris, should we just forget about this Solman and get something to eat? I'm meeting Caitlin tonight so…"

Iris coyly looked towards him, a small smile on her face.

"Well, seems like someone has a date."

"Not date. Just casual meeting between friends."

Iris' smile grew bigger as they made it to Matt's car.

"Sure, that's all it is. But, I am glad that you're getting over Rachael."

"Yeah…I should've listened to everyone there, no matter how I wanted it to work, it wasn't going to work. Worst part is, I stayed for so long to try and fix something that was broke a long time ago, I wish that I didn't have to do that."

She could understand why he'd think that, even she thought that as well.

"You can move on now. Hey, maybe you, Caitlin, and me and Eddie could do a double date?"

"I'm not dating Caitlin."

He quickly said as they got into the car once Matt unlocked it, his cheeks turning a little more red by the second.

"Okay I believe you."

Matt didn't even need his telepathy to know that she was lying, but it didn't matter now. All that did was he had somewhere to be, and while he loved Iris, he did like spending time with Caitlin as well, in a more, personal way, but he knew that he would have to keep distance, and not rush anything, as they both still grieved, but she did make it better.

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"Aah, that was a good movie."

Matt said as he took a drink of a beer can. Caitlin, who was also near him, watched the television screen going through the credits, and then looked towards Matt himself. The way he looked right now, she didn't know why but she couldn't help but smile.

The pair sat on the couch, on an average Friday night. Because neither had anything to do, Caitlin offered Matt to come around for a movie. Truth was however, that he had been staying over for a number of nights now, he couldn't even remember the last time that he had stayed at his apartment, at least during the current week that was.

"It wasn't what I was expecting."

Caitlin breathed out while sipping on her wine.

"Alien Autopsy, did you expect it to be an academy award winning movie Cait?"

"I thought that it would delve into the science of it, is all. I didn't expect that it would be…like that."

"I liked it, it wasn't a bad movie per-say. It wasn't something I'd pick up and watch over and over again, but for a movie of the night, it wasn't that bad." Matt stretched his arm as he saw a piece of pizza in the box. So, motioning towards it, his fingers gave off a glow, a blue one, and so did the pizza. Motioning closer with his finger, he managed to bring the pizza over to him via telekinesis. "Yummy pizza."

Caitlin watched on with a good amount of surprise. Not only for the pizza consumption, but the very fact that he could begin to use his telekinetic abilities all on his own. She didn't expect it, though she had seen him train his abilities.

"You're getting better at that. You can move it pretty easily."

"Yeah, I suppose so." He agreed, as he pushed the box over to her telekinetically. "Not bad, huh."

Caitlin twitched her nose, as she looked at the time.

"Wow, midnight."

"M-Midnight?" He spluttered, and went to stand. "I best get home."

"You…don't have to go." Caitlin brought up. "I mean, you can stay if you like? You have had a few cans, so driving…yeah, I wouldn't recommend it."

"Ehe, I don't wanna overstay my welcome. I mean, I've stayed the last…three or so nights. Don't you want to have alone time? I feel like I've been taking up all your time lately, and I feel bad."

"What am I going to do at midnight? Throw a house party?"

"Don't you get sick of me being here?"

He countered, but Caitlin showed a remarkable smile.

"I wouldn't invite you over if I was sick of you." Caitlin stated, then she inched closer and closer. "Matthew, I need to talk to you about something…"

"It's about time." Caitlin knitted her eyebrows together. "You've been thinking about it for the past two hours now." Caitlin understood now. "And the answers, no. I'm not going to go to Harrison Wells for help. I'd rather die than get help from him."

Caitlin knew he was being stubborn, and she didn't like it. She budged closer on the couch, and took one of his hands in her own hand. Matt went to pull away, not wanting to have such a serious conversation at this time of night, but she wouldn't allow him to do it.

"Matthew, your condition is getting worse."

"My condition is…"

"Your mind, is a very interesting concept, and I can deal with the pain aspects for the most part, but your powers, they are accelerating at a rate I don't want to even think about. Matthew, for the past few nights, when you have slept, I noticed that you have been levitating things in your sleep. No, it's more accurate to say they have been flying around the room without you even realizing. And your mind reading capabilities, I believe they are also increasing in range, that's why you're going mad."

"Levitating things huh…straight out of Harry Potter there."

Matt deflected with a small joke, but Caitlin pressed on.

"I'm concerned about you, and I don't want you to disappear. I know you don't like Dr Wells, I know you detest him for…well, your own reasons, and I respect that, but not asking Cisco, and Dr Wells for help, is foolish. Can't you see, that I am trying to help you?"

"I know you are, and I appreciate all of the efforts you've done for me…I mean, I really do. Most people would run in the opposite direction by now, and I know I'm quite stubborn with these things, and I really do appreciate your kindness towards me."

"Then let me help you now. I wouldn't let Dr Wells do anything to you. I understand your apprehension with him, I understand. But you don't have to worry Matthew, you know me, I wouldn't allow him to hurt you, not that I think he would do that anyway. Besides, you can tell me my thoughts, and what I am really thinking, and I wouldn't say this if it wasn't true. Please, for me? I, don't want to watch you turn evil, or go insane, please Matthew. I know Dr Wells is the source of your pain and anger...but, please, for me?"

Matt couldn't deny that she was trying to help him. He understood that she was only worried for him. He had his reservations about even allowing Harrison Wells near him. If he could help it, he wouldn't allow himself to come near Harrison Wells for what he had done.

"I don't trust him Caitlin." Caitlin lowered her eyes. "But I trust Caitlin." Caitlin raised her eyebrows. "If you think it's a good idea, then I guess we can go to him, and the others…I suppose…yeah, you're probably right, you usually are. I hate it when you're right."

Caitlin adopted a smile, as she squeezed his hand tightly.

"Thank you. We'll go to the others tomorrow…today, I guess since it's after midnight. Don't worry Matthew, we'll figure out the reasons why and what's going on. I have some theories on why it might be happening, why you might not be able to switch it off, but I would need to speak about it with the others."

"Okay…I know you're probably right, I just feel worried that if I do this, Wells might…I know it sounds stupid. It's not like I am afraid of him, I just don't like what has happened. Even more than just Jean disappearing and possibly being dead, just the lives that have been lost because of this. And I know you're going to say that he's paying for it in his own way…well, to me, it isn't enough. And I still can't hear his thoughts, and I don't know why that is."

"That…is a little suspicious, I do agree with that. And maybe we'll find out eventually, perhaps he knows of ways to block your telepathy."

"If he knows how, why does he do it in the first place? Why hide his identity like that from me? Why hide at all? And why not give everyone the tech, or just switch mine off?"

Caitlin didn't have an answer for him, but continued holding his hand tightly.

"Matthew, I'm glad that you're going to do it for me."

"Yeah, for you I will do it. Okay, so, I wonder what kinda tests are gonna be done on me…ooh God, they aren't gonna start sticking needles into me, are they?"

"Don't worry, the only person who'll stick needles in you is me…that was supposed to be comforting somewhere."

Matt snickered, and leaned his head on the sofa.

"Cait, it's really late…"

"Is your headache coming back? Or should I say, is the drug wearing off?"

"Yeah, I just wanna relax and wish it to go away…damn it all."

He couldn't control the pain that was coming to his mind, she truly could see that he was trying his best to control himself. But, the pain always came too much for him, it was always a pain that no normal person would be able to control.

She understood, leaning closer. She took out a syringe with a strange liquid in it, and stabbed him with it in a kind way. Injecting it right into his body, Matt soon began feeling the effects of it, and his face calmed itself down.

"It should begin feeling better now."

"It is. Thank you."

She nodded, and stood up. He watched as she sat on the arm of the couch, laying a hand on his shoulder.

"We'll figure it out, you know? Everything going on in this brain of yours. I actually have a theory that you could be the next stage in evolution for the human mind. The way that you process information is quite, odd to me. Your brain acts like no other I have ever come across before."

"Heh, makes me a special kind of mind then…n-not in the stupid way."

"Ooh no, your mind could be the next stage of evolution for humanity. But that's merely conjecture for now. Either way, we'll figure out why your brain is doing this. Maybe you will be able to control it one day, maybe you just haven't had the chance to control it, and because you're always around people, your mind simply can't process it because it's always switched on. With time, if it could be switched off, then your mind could begin to handle the change. I theorize it just hasn't had time to theorize. Like Barry was in a coma for nine months, his body was adjusting to the abilities. You, didn't have that adjustment period, your brain went overnight from being normal, to a super brain, without any chance of you having time to adjust. Or maybe that's nonsense, but maybe for you specifically, adjustment could be needed."

"Does that mean I have to go into a coma for nine months?"

Caitlin shrugged her shoulders, and then hugged the top of his head towards her.

"It just means we'll have to figure out a way to shut down your telepathy and allow it to adjust to your new mind. Allowing your brain to make new connections, and to adjust to the overwhelming sensations. Don't worry Matthew, we'll help you."

Matt nodded, but then he smiled.

"Thanks, Caitlin. Thank you."

Though he wasn't sure about it, he didn't want to make Caitlin sad, it was the last thing he wanted to do, so he was going to swallow his pride, and...ask Harrison for help, even though he felt like it was a bad idea.

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Later that night, or in the morning would be more accurate, Matt sat at a table, and was writing something out.

Caitlin, who was on the bed behind him, slept peacefully, while blissfully unaware of what he was doing.

However, as he wrote down what he wanted to, a surge of pain entered his skull, the thoughts getting louder...and then his eyes flashed red once again.

Matt summoned all the will power he had, and forced down the being inside...

But he knew he wouldn't be able to do it forever.

He just knew that he wouldn't be able to do it.

He gripped his hair, trying to resolve himself for the fate that he had, he didn't want to do that though, it seemed very hard for him to do it.

"Aagh...damn it..."

He gritted his teeth in pain at the increasing thoughts, even tears dangling within his eyes.

Constant torture, would even be too light of a word to use as the pain he was receiving.

It was like being in a crowded room, all sticking swords into his pain, piercing, driving him more, and more mad.

Painful, and he knew...he didn't have long left now.

So, that's why he was writing what he was writing out.

However, as he was, Caitlin ran her arms across the side of the bed...and felt nothing.

In her sleepy state, her eyes opened, and she looked around.

"Matthew?"

She called, not seeing him sat at the table.

"I'm here."

He replied looking back towards her.

Caitlin sat up on the bed, and then got out of the bed. She walked over towards him, and then sat on his lap in her nightgown, Matt was sure this was a torture all in a different way.

"What are you doing out of bed?"

Matt tried to secretly turn the paper over so she didn't see it, but she noticed, and grabbed it before he could stop her.

"H-Hey, that's private."

He complained, trying to rip it out of her hands, but she didn't stop, and looked over it, her face falling.

"What the hell do you call this?"

"It's called a will, I presume you know what that is? It hasn't been finalized though, haven't had the chance."

He didn't mean it in a condescending way, he only said it so he could grab the paper back, but she didn't let it go.

"I know what a will is, why are you writing one out?"

"Because...I don't have much, and I don't have long left, but I have something's in this world, and I want them to go to the people I care about."

Caitlin shook her head, throwing the paper to the side.

"Do you have that little confidence in me?"

"No, I don't have much belief in Wells. I know he's your boss, but the odds of him suddenly finding a miracle cure for me is slim, and even if he does, don't you have to wonder, if he knows how to help me, why hasn't he done it before? He must be thinking about it, otherwise, why couldn't I read his mind? He knows more than he's letting on, he knows ways to block my telepathy, otherwise I'd hear his thoughts. Haven't you wondered in these ten months, why hasn't he said anything, when I've confronted him about it?" Caitlin could understand that, and could see some of his reasoning's. "Besides, I am just making sure, whatever happens, happens and I get the people I love to have what I love. Hey, do you think Iris would want the club? Maybe Bette would be cool. I can't see Cisco running a club so...Iris would be cool, she's quite like me in some regards, and then there's Barry, he's too busy being a CSI and a superhero to run a club..."

"Are you thinking you're going to die or something?"

Matt lowered his eyes.

"Yes, I do. I don't have anyone else in this world now. Jean's gone, most likely dead, my parents are bastards, and wish I was dead, and my brother was murdered so I have you guys, that's it really. Well, unless you wanna count Ra's as a friend, but he's more of a..." Caitlin looked lost, so he cleared up, sort of. "It doesn't matter. Either way, I'm gonna make sure that my things go to the people I care about. It was brief, but I kinda got attached to you guys. The S.T.A.R Labs nerds, I didn't think I would. In the beginning, I thought Cisco was nutty with his obsession with costumes and heroes and such, but since I got to know him, he's really cool, he's probably one of the most intelligent people on the planet, and he's really great. Barry, I wasn't sure on until lately, when he did...just being there with us, and fighting crime and such, and being attached to someone that, doesn't even acknowledge his feelings, I can understand that. Iris is really awesome, she's probably one of my dearest friends, we both just click together. And then there's you..." Matt paused, as his eyes danced with tears. "My lovely Caitlin, who came to my rescue for so many months now, and has been my rock through all of this, even when Rach did what she did, you stuck beside me, even when I showed pathetic moments, even when I was turning to the dark side, you anchored me in the good, and I have you to thank for me being here today, tonight, here, with you. I, really, like you."

Hearing that, Caitlin adopted a wider smile, and hugged around his neck.

"I really like you too, that's why, I don't want to hear this talk again from you. I'm going to fix this, other you, and this telepathy, then we're gonna, see where it leads us. If that's to...a relationship, or something else entirely, I want to see where it goes. And w-when you speak like yo-you're going to die, I can't handle it. I already lost Ronnie, I can't lose you too Matthew, I can't."

Caitlin began crying, something Matt couldn't stand, so he hugged her tightly, her head resting against his chest.

"I'm sorry, I just wanted to...prepare for the worst. I can't, see a good way to end this...of course, I don't want to die...but, I'm terrified, if this thing gets out, it's going to kill someone, I can feel it even now, wanting to escape. And I don't want to go insane either, I'm scared Caitlin. Maybe it's unmanly to be scared, but I don't care. My two options, go evil or go mad, or third hidden option, go both. I've never felt so terrified before, at least when I was young, I knew one day, I'd escape that life...but, this? I have no control, and that's so terrifying. In a few days time, or week, or whenever it is, I'll go mad or I'll become a killer, and I don't want to become either of those things. I don't want to hurt people...but this thing inside of me will, and I just...want to prepare you, and everyone for that, so when it happens...just kill me."

She could understand that, and could only sympathize. Being told you're going to turn into a killer or go insane, must be terrifying, especially for someone who had been through such an event.

But, she wasn't going to loose hope now.

"Don't say that, I'm not going to kill you."

Matt could feel even more tears in his eyes, but he refused to shed them.

"You might have to, and I don't blame you, or Barry, or Cisco, or whoever does it. If it means, I don't hurt others, then I'll be okay with that. In the end, that's how it is."

Caitlin couldn't wrap her head around that idea. She didn't want to hurt him, much less kill him...but, she also understood his own morals, and how, the beast inside might do things...no, would do things that Matt wouldn't, and he wasn't a bad person, so the thought of turning into a killer, must be petrifying, even more so when he could hurt his friends, and her.

"You forgot the forth option just then."

Caitlin breathed out, as she wiped under his eyes, and then cupped his face with her hand.

"W-What's that then?"

"Where we S.T.A.R Labs gang, as you call us, save you. I also have to confess...I've talked to Cisco about-"

"I know."

Matt cut her off, so Caitlin nodded.

"Telepathy, you already knew."

"You didn't speak to Wells, at least as far as I know, so I am okay with it. You respected my wishes with Wells at least, so I am okay with that."

"I didn't tell Cisco everything, but I did speak about the Telepathy aspect, and he's pretty intelligent, he's been working on something, maybe with Dr Wells, and myself, we can come to a solution. So, don't give up now. I won't let you."

Matt, despite the sadness, began chuckling.

"You're so odd, going out of your way like this for me. No one's ever really done that for me before, at least to this extent."

"It's because, you don't even realize what you've done for me. Not only saving my life, but, you gave me a reason to, continue. Maybe I could've done that without you, but I know for certain I wouldn't nearly be as happy as I am now, if I hadn't met you. So, these thoughts of wills, I don't want to hear it again, I want you to think positively, and believe in me. You can't in Dr Wells, but in me, you can. Have I let you down, before?"

Matt inhaled two deep breaths, trying to think straight about what was going on.

"No, you haven't...okay, I'll believe in you."

"Good, now come to bed with me. I'm lonely without you there."

"Hehe, sure."

Caitlin stood up, walking over to the bed, never letting go of Matt's hand which she took.

Falling onto the bed, Caitlin's fingers ran across his shirt, sliding it off his frame. Peering deeply into his eyes, she leaned closer, and hugged onto his upper naked body, his underwear only remaining on his frame now.

"What you said before, about being unmanly. I, don't think you were right, because, you're very manly, for going through all of this, and still fighting. I, admire that about you. You still fight, even when the odds are against you."

"Thank you, Cait."

Caitlin snuggled down against his chest, giving it a small kiss, something that surprised Matt.

While holding one another in the bed, they both had to think about what was going on between them now, and what was going to happen in the future.

When he fell asleep, at least for Matt, Caitlin looked up towards him, and smiled gently.

"I'll save you, I promise."

She made that resolution within her heart, Caitlin wouldn't let him go through this anymore.

---

The next day, Matt, and Caitlin walked into the labs together. Caitlin had gathered the others, Matt having second thoughts and third and fourth thoughts about it. Cisco, and Barry, he was cool with. He was okay with them, he didn't trust Harrison Wells though, and he wouldn't be able to do it either.

"Are you ready Matthew?"

"I feel uneasy…I guess it's just, I've been lying to the others. I didn't intentionally want to lie to Barry or Cisco, I mean they're cool guys, and I really like them, I just know that if I had told Cisco, he might've let it slip to Wells, or Barry, as we've not known one another all that long. I just…I don't like bothering people with my own problems."

Caitlin stuck out her hand, and held it tightly.

"It's okay, I'm quite the same sometimes. Having people interfere, it isn't a thing I like to do, either. But this is for the best Matthew, I know that it is. You don't have to worry, as I said, Dr Wells won't do anything you're uncomfortable with."

"Heh, sounds like you're protecting me Dr Snow, you're not going soft on me, are you?"

"No, just going real on you."

Matt chuckled, and they walked into the cortex together.

When arriving, Caitlin sat everyone down, and began explaining. All Matt could do was look away while the others had a mixture of confused, and worried looks for him. The only one who didn't look worried, was Wells. He looked, intrigued, fascinated, and that's why he didn't like him, because he never showed any feelings for others.

"Well…I gotta say, I'm sorry you have to suffer through things like that Matt. I didn't think it would be to the point where you were going insane."

Cisco offered his words of sorrow to Matt, who shook his head.

"It's okay…it's not your fault Cisco."

"But why does his powers do this to him? I mean, why can't he turn it off? I can move at normal speeds if I want, why can't he switch off the telepathy?"

Barry brought up, Matt looking away as Harrison Wells came into the conversation.

"There's a number of possibilities why his abilities act like this. Perhaps, and the most obvious explanation is simply, overload of his mind. The human mind is a very delicate thing, and Mr Stone's mind here has been bombarded with many different and new concepts. The mind processing such information is unheard of. Mr Stone here, hasn't had a chance to control his telepathy because, it is simply switched on all of the time, and controlling something you've never had the chance to switch on and off would be difficult. The very fact that he experiences chronic headaches, and is still able to do day to day activities is a miracle in of itself."

"Yeah…damn, and I only become hungry, I couldn't imagine going through that kind of pain for over nearly a year now."

Barry did feel sorry for Matt, considering he was the only other friendly metahuman, discounting Bette, that was actually on his side, and had to suffer through such things, more than he had to suffer through.

"It's not a walk in the park Barry, trust me."

Matt tried to make a joke, but he could see that there was sorrow within Barry's eyes, and he felt bad for making Barry worry like this. He didn't want to make anyone worry, he'd rather just deal with the problem himself. But, he couldn't, he wasn't on the level of being able to handle this kind of situation on his own.

"We'll have to test out your abilities Mr Stone, we'll have to do several tests on you, with your permission of course."

Matt looked towards Caitlin who nodded. So, he did as well.

"Test away."

"Very well, then proceed this way."

Harrison began wheeling himself off, so Matt stood up, and walked away from the others, following after him.

While they walked away, Cisco budged closer to Caitlin and so did Barry so they could have a conversation.

"Why didn't he tell us Caitlin? I mean, we're friends with him, so why…"

Cisco was a little hurt that Matt didn't feel like he could trust him. He thought Matt, and him were good friends, but now…it felt like Matt was keeping this secret and didn't feel like he trusted him or Barry enough to say anything.

"He doesn't trust Dr Wells. Because of…certain reasons, I can't really explain because he told me confidentially, but he doesn't trust Dr Wells. It wasn't anything against you Cisco, or you Barry. He just thought because you two are tightly close with Dr Wells…"

"We'd tell him, and betray his trust."

Barry finished off, Caitlin nodding her head.

"I can't really blame him though, after all of the things that he has been through. For nearly a year now, he's been in constant pain, and I don't mean just normal pain. You haven't seen him at his worst, he is in much pain, so much in fact that he's passed out a few times. And the reason for that is…"

"The Particle Accelerator."

Caitlin inclined her head towards Cisco.

"Yeah, and who made that was, Dr Wells. It's easy to make that connection. The person who caused pain was obviously someone you'd want to dislike, even hate. I know if I was in his shoes, I would probably hate the person who had done this to me. Who had made me suffer mentally, physically, and emotionally. It is easy to understand why he dislikes him."

"I know, while my abilities are helpful, his are like, trying to kill him."

"That's a good way of putting it Barry. It's more than that, the scans of his brain shows that it is…different to others."

"How?"

Cisco asked as Caitlin took in a breath.

"Well, it's capable of storing more information. While humans only use a small percentage of the brain, Matthew's mind is operating on a different level, a higher percentage, and I couldn't even tell you how high the percentage could be. He has the potential to process information quickly, absorb information quickly, enhance aspects of his body, quicker reflexes, and things of that nature."

"Wow, so he's got a super brain."

Cisco was by now quite invested.

"I think so, but it's not like his intelligence has shot up to levels above the normal level. I am saying that he could be able to learn most if not all things pretty quickly…though, I do think that there's a limit to it, or rather, it hasn't been shown to be used yet. I think the telepathic powers are blocking this aspect, trying to deal with the information overload from everyone else. In theory, he could learn how to perform neurosurgery, however, I'm not sure if it would stay permanently in his mind, or it would only stay for a little while."

Cisco couldn't be more happy about this, he was a nerd at heart, and hearing this was something like out of his dreams, he wished to know more and more about it, about everything else, he wanted the knowledge of everything that was going on with Matt.

"Still, that's pretty cool, isn't it? If he could do things like that then…"

"However, perhaps, he might only be able to steal information, or intelligence from others minds. It's possible that if he pulled the information from my head, he could do. Perhaps it works like that, and he wouldn't be able to just read a book and understand everything about that subject. Perhaps it only works if he can gain the knowledge from others minds. So, if he absorbed my intelligence, he could become a neurosurgeon if he wished, or if he did it to Cisco, he could perhaps invent things that normal people wouldn't be able to invent, and so on and so forth."

Barry looked on with an impressed look on his face.

"Wow, it does seem his abilities are pretty cool. And that's just the mental side. I wonder what he could do with the telekinesis of his?"

"Well, that's a very good question Barry." Cisco spoke up. "He could do a few things with it. Perhaps, he could learn how to fly with the ability, using his own mind to lift him up, he can lift up objects, and we saw that he can produce blasts of energy. We've only hit the tip of the ice berg on what he could be capable of. It's really fascinating what he is capable of doing."

They all did have to wonder what was going to happen with him though. While he did have cool abilities, he couldn't exactly control them that well. It would be like trying to understand much of the universe, and they couldn't do that right now.

---

Matt didn't like spending time with Harrison, and even now to help him, he hated it.

But he was doing it for Caitlin.

He was doing this for Caitlin.

He himself would rather die, but he didn't want to upset Caitlin, so he was doing it for her.

"Well Mr Stone, I do have to say that you're quite remarkable."

Wells spoke as he conducted the last of the tests. Matt was forced to use his telepathy and telekinetic abilities to their utmost, and he felt pain in his mind. But he kept his wits around Wells who was unusually close.

"Hmph, another pet project for you no doubt."

Wells casually glanced at Matt, and offered a cold smile.

"You'd like to paint me as a murderer, wouldn't you?"

"That's because you are a murderer."

Matt spat back, only for Wells to snicker uncharacteristically.

"I'm sure you would think that. If you think I'm a murderer, why are you allowing me to help you?"

"Because I don't want to make Caitlin sad, that's all. And before you try anything with me, I'm gonna make damn well sure that it isn't a part of your messed up game. I know there's something off about you Wells, and when I get proof, I'll make sure you pay for what you've done."

Wells almost laughed at the very notion of it, and moved closer.

"In time, you'll come to see me as nothing more than a paralyzed man. Don't forget others lost in that experiment, not just you."

"Ooh I remember everything that you've done to everyone else. I feel sorry for Caitlin the most, after what she had to go through because of you. Her fiancée died because of you. I remember all the names of people who died, or went missing because of you. Don't you feel any remorse at all?"

"Of course I do Mr Stone. But, doesn't this work to your advantage? I mean, I am not a blind man, I can see your growing feelings for Dr Snow."

"E-Even if I did, this wouldn't be working to my advantage, I wouldn't want her sad."

Matt couldn't look at Wells anymore, and faced away.

Wells himself wheeled ever closer.

In his palm, there was a small red jewel looking device, which with speeds Matt didn't even see because he was looking away, placed it on the back of Matt's neck.

"What was that?"

Matt looked back to Wells who looked innocent.

"What was what Mr Stone?"

Matt looked suspiciously towards Wells.

"…Nothing I guess. So, are we done with these experiments? I wanna be with people I actually like."

"Of course, I just need to collect the data in full and I'll be along soon."

Matt watched as Harrison wheeled towards the door.

Matt hung back because he didn't want to be around him at all.

When Harrison got to the door, he looked to the side to see a certain girl stood there, who nodded right back at him, as Wells took out a device.

"You know what I want. Push his buttons as much as you can. I'm sure a capable girl like you could make him turn, with a little help from this device."

"Got it baby, leave it to your fav Meta now."

The girl who he was talking to was smirking dangerously.

Harrison flipped the switch while wheeling away, and the device on Matt's neck gave off a glow.

As soon as it did, Matt's mind was bombarded with more information than he had before.

"A-Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!" He let out a bone chilling cry as he fell down to his knees. "CAITLIN! SOMEONE HELP MEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH! GET OUT OF MY HEAD PLEASE! SOMEONE! ANYONE HELP MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

Matt cried his eyes out with the pain that he was receiving.

He was on the ground, clutching his head.

He was receiving the minds of almost half of the city inside of his head, causing his eyes to shed so many tears. Even a small amount of blood came out of Matt's nose, the mental stress being more than he could handle.

He kept crying out, and he couldn't understand why he was suffering like this.

He didn't understand.

What came over him?

Why was this happening to him now?

He didn't understand…

But then at the door, a female stepped through the door, and who he saw, shocked him.

"J-Jean!?" Despite the pain he had, he cried more because he saw Jean walking in, her long flowing hair looked the same as he remembered. "J-Jean! Y-You've got to help me! P-Please Jean, you've got to help me…"

Jean walked closer and closer.

She then bent down to his level, and showed a sad look on her face.

"Matt, big bro, you've got to help me."

"W-What's going on!?"

He could barely contain the sadness and pain he felt, more and more thoughts bombarded him.

"Matt, it's Harrison Wells, he keeps hurting me…please, make him stop hurting me."

Matt's eyes flashed red, and blue, indicating his control was losing, and his darker side was coming through.

"Jean…"

Though he was feeling sad, and in so much agony, he couldn't be more happier to see her, yet angry that Harrison had been doing things to her. It was pushing him over the edge, he couldn't have someone hurting his previous sister, he didn't happen while Matt was around, it wouldn't happen while he was around, and that line of thinking was dragging him unwillingly to the dark side, also aided by the device Wells planted on him.

"Shhh, big bro. Please, make him pay Matt, for killing me. He won't stop, he never stops hurting me, and you, and everyone. And he's going to hurt Caitlin too. He's going to hurt Iris, he's going to hurt everyone you care about. Matt, you've got to stop him before he hurts everyone else. He's exactly like our parents. Evil…he'll never stop like them…make him pay, stop him before he can hurt anyone else Matt…please, for me, for your little sis, who loves you so much. I love you Matt, make him stop before he kills again. Before he kills you…before he kills Caitlin, like he's done to me."

That did it, and Matt's evil side took over.

His eyes shone brilliantly red.

Due to the fact that his brain was being pushed to its very limits thanks to that device, and now Jean appearing to him, telling him these words, Matt's good side couldn't take it anymore, and the evil came in, taking over him.

"Don't worry Jean." Matt's voice had turned echo-like. "I'll make sure that no one hurts you again, or Caitlin."

Jean hugged onto Matt, and removed the device from the back of his neck.

"Thank you big bro. I love you."

"I love you too…don't worry Jean, he'll die for what he's done, and anyone else that gets in my way."

Jean pulled away from Matt, and walked out of the room, as Matt began chuckling evilly.

Once around the corner, Jean's face went under a change, and she turned her face into Rachael, showing that it was Rachael all along.

"Good thing Harry or my Reverse Flash gave me that device so Matt couldn't read my mind. Well, I wonder how evil Matt's gonna be now? Don't worry Harry, I got him for you baby, right under my finger. This shall surely test Mr. Allen and give you more data on Matt's capabilities, like you wanted baby."

Rachael walked off from the area, leaving evil Matt to do what he did best.

---

A little while later, Harrison came back without Matt. Caitlin was concerned for him, not being able to see him.

"Where's Matthew Dr Wells?"

"He's currently getting a drink. He said he was thirsty." She didn't have a reason to distrust him. But she would feel better when seeing him. "While we're alone like this, we can discuss about his abilities."

"What did you find out?"

Barry asked, wondering about his fellow Metahuman.

"Yes, it does seem that my initial thoughts are correct. I did several tests on him, and it just confirmed my theories. He has a connection to a force known as psychic energy, also called psionic energy, whichever you would prefer. It exists within our world, with everything giving off a certain, field of it. Mr Stone has the ability to manipulate it."

"Manipulating it how exactly?"

Barry pondered the thoughts that pretty much everyone was having.

"He can interfere with a persons mind via these abilities, like he has been. When he erased General Eiling's mind or rather changed his thoughts of Plastique as Cisco called her, and with his ability, he could have a few different mind related abilities. That's why he is able to hear thoughts, because he is connected to everything around him. In other words, he's connected to everyone at the same time. And using his powers, he can manipulate these forces in different ways like I have just explained. He could even use them to manipulate feelings of others, emotions and such. And as he has shown, he can also use it to read the memories of others, tapping into the mind of others to relive past experiences that person has gone through, like when he did it with you, Mr Allen."

"Wow, that's pretty amazing. He…wow."

Barry was left speechless, he was now more intrigued than ever to go out fighting crime with Matt. Together, he was sure that they could do real good in the world, he just knew that they would be able to do real good in the world.

Caitlin however was suspicious about something.

"You seem…to get a lot from that one examination."

Caitlin couldn't help but notice this, even Barry found that suspicious. Cisco was too busy thinking of things for the boy, and what he could potentially do.

"Well…I have been doing some tests myself, from blood samples, and other things, like scans. He is, a unique person, and I wished to understand his abilities even more. So, these tests I performed, just gave me the answers that I desired, and I believe that he could become a very good asset to us here."

"Before all that, why can't he turn off the telepathy? He can use telekinesis pretty well-"

"He's not begun to harness his full potential yet, Dr Snow." Wells cut off Caitlin. "He's got access to telekinetic abilities as well as telepathic abilities. His ability is to manipulate psychic energy as a whole, and he might even have abilities that I am unaware of, he might even be able to manipulate matter, and other things that I don't know about, his abilities could be vast, we still have a lot of learning to do with him and his powers. The reason why he can't switch it off, is because he's connected to, everything on this earth, at least everything within a certain range. People, the air, the trees, grass, everything around him. That's why, he can't switch it off, because he hasn't had adjustment time with his mind, it came all at once, and his brain can't handle the stress of it, it hasn't stopped. With time, and training, and also without any telepathy affecting him, he could learn to block off the thoughts, to strengthen his own mind to handle the stress, to cut off ties with others, and use his telepathic powers with less drawbacks. But, right now, Mr Stone cannot control this aspect, he hasn't been given the chance. The new energies that he is connected to are all bombarding his brain and causing him pain. First of all, we have to find a way for others minds to not affect him, then he can begin adjusting his own mind to compensate with the minds of others, and I have been devising a way to block off the telepathy, and allow him to control it in small doses."

"I'm sorry, but I'm gonna have to say that it is pretty cool! We've got the fastest man alive, and we've got the strongest mind alive here! Just think of the possibilities that he could do, it will be amazing!"

Cisco cheered out, seeing the ultimate hero team up here.

"That's great and all Cisco, but I'm worried for Matthew. He can't continue suffering through these headaches, they are killing him. It's not…right for him to suffer like this."

"Very much agreed Dr Snow. The human mind isn't equipped to deal with all of this mental stress, even with his mind opening new pathways, without control, he is being driven to a point he might not be able to return from. And there's also…another concern."

"Another concern?"

Barry looked on as Caitlin became more concerned.

"Yes, and I am sure you realize it yourself, don't you Dr Snow? About the second brain wave pattern within Mr Stone."

"Another brain wave…like someone separate from Matt? Are you saying that there's…two different thought patterns within him?"

Caitlin reluctantly nodded at Barry's inquiry.

"Yes…I had discovered it, and I have already told Matthew of it. I don't know how it is there, but I can only assume that it is the evil persona of his. But it is mostly in his subconscious rather on the conscious level. However, sometimes it…does come out, and it is, different to Matthew in many ways. And, it's also taking over him, it's switching places with Matthew, and becoming more, dominant, than the other one is."

"It must've been created the day that the accelerator went off. Perhaps, before all of this, Mr Stone had struggles, and repressed, certain aspects of him, his rage, sadness, and other negative things. And when the accelerator exploded, it divided his personality traits, and while he can still become angry, sad, and so on, it made this, other being within him. Something that is Mr Stone's repressed rage, his repressed emotions. However, I wouldn't know the cause of these represses emotions, and why it was created within him. If we could force it out, then maybe we could-"

"No Dr Wells."

Caitlin cut him off, knowing where he was going with that.

"Excuse me?"

"I said no, we're not going to force out this other persona of Matthew's. What if it takes complete control and Matthew can't come back? We'd have a strong Metahuman to deal with that can potentially leave us as vegetables mentally, and blast us away. So no, I'm not going to allow you to do that to him Dr Wells, no matter how it would advance the studies on him. It's already trying to take over him, we have to stop it from coming out, not help it."

"I'd have to agree Dr Wells, we can't force Matt to go through something like that so we could find out more about him. There has to be another way."

Barry threw in his own two cents on the matter, he didn't want to have Matt go super evil so they could get some more information, it wouldn't be right.

Wells had to look between him, Caitlin, and Cisco who even had a reluctant look on his face.

"Maybe you're right, it was only a thought that I was having. It just seems like a perfect study. Either way, we really should be-"

"Getting on with the work?"

Their eyes widened a little bit when Matt came walking around the corridor. Evil Matt made sure that they couldn't see his red eyes for the moment, using his powers to craft an illusions to their eyes via the energy of psychic.

"H-Have you been listening long?"

Cisco brought up, as Matt walked closer.

"Just a little bit, and I heard how Caitlin and Barry defended me, even Cisco did within his head, so thanks everyone. Seems like my abilities are gonna end up driving me mad, or I'm going to turn into my evil self then."

"We're not going to let this other persona take control over you. You're not going to turn evil."

Barry said with his refreshing look on his face, Matt giving a smile.

"Even then, you should all prepare for it. One day, I might not be able to control it, and if I end up going evil, I don't want to hurt anyone."

"We wouldn't let you hurt anyone dude. We'll work on ways to deal with it, and make sure that the telepathy side of you can't overwhelm you, we'll deal with it somehow."

"Thanks Cisco, but you're a little late in that."

"What do you…"

Before he could finish, Matt's eyes shone red, and a smirk crept onto his face. The smirk looked like it could even tear through reality. He put up his hand, and a dagger was formed of energy of the psychic kind, a red one at that.

Matt twirled the blade and threw it towards the sitting down Wells.

Barry quickly got up, and dashed for Wells. Just before the blade could pierce Wells, Barry pushed the wheelchair out of the way, avoiding the blade which kept going and pierced the wall behind Harrison.

"M-Matt dude! C-Calm down! W-Whatever's happened, you don't need to hurt us!"

Matt cocked his head towards Cisco, and smirked.

"Cisco, Cisco. You're so…intelligent, mind if I take a little?"

Cisco didn't know what that meant, but Matt jumped upwards, and reached Cisco. Barry went to take down Matt, but a barrier of energy erupted around them, blocking them off from the world around him.

"M-Matt please!"

"Shhhh, Cisco, it won't hurt I promise."

Matt placed his hands on Cisco's head, and began absorbing his intelligence, and adding it onto his own. Cisco was helpless, he just stared on.

Once it was done, Matt let Cisco off him, and stood between all of them as Barry punched the barrier he had made.

"Damn Cisco, you're quite intelligent. Wow, what a buzz, not been quite this intelligent in my life before, new and lovely experiences…hmmm, seems like it won't last long however, that does seem to be a sad thing. Only temporary…but, this might do for me as well, yes, I like this. I can…ooh, what a thing."

Cisco pulled away from Matt as he twitched his neck. Caitlin looked on with worry and sorrow mixed into her, she couldn't stand the very idea of Matt being like this now.

He could see that the barrier was beginning to break, so Matt dropped it only to fire off a concussive blast of energy that forced Barry off his feet, and through the glass, smashing against the table inside there.

"Barry, please don't get in my way. I don't want to hurt you." His eyes went towards Harrison Wells. "I wanna hurt him."

"Mr Stone, we can help you."

"Ooh, like how you 'helped' Jean, by killing her? Like how you 'helped' kill people in your experiments?" His eyes briefly went towards Caitlin. "Your 'help', destroyed peoples lives, so don't sit there pretending to give a shit! It's not just me, but people in this room. Barring Cisco, everyone in this room lost something because of you. Me and Caitlin, loved ones, Barry, nine months of his life. So, what 'help' could you give me? A swift death? Because yours is going to be anything but swift."

Caitlin...could understand where he was coming from.

While she didn't want to say it out loud, he was making sense, she just couldn't agree with the evil Matt's method's of revenge.

The blonde then twirled his hair, and sighed deeply, as Barry returned to the room once more, standing between Matt, and Harrison.

"Convenient that as soon as you left me alone, I began receiving voices from half of the city, that overwhelmed me, and broke me down. Yeah, I think...no, I know you did something to me, to us, and I wanna know what, right now!"

Caitlin looked suspiciously towards Harrison who held his hands together.

"I assure you, I haven't done anything to you."

"Liar, you are such a liar. You might hide your thoughts from me, but your emotions, I sense deceit from you. So, don't bother lying to me, I know you did something to me, I know it. So, for that, you're gonna die, painfully. The worst pain you've felt in your life, is gonna be a daydream compared to the nightmare I'll put you through!"

"I can help you Mr Stone."

Matt scoffed.

"Yeah, look what your 'help' has done to me so far. You've destroyed me." Caitlin, Barry and Cisco all looked down as Matt confessed that. "I've been breaking because of you. You, did this to me. I don't blame Cisco, or Caitlin, I blame you for this, because unlike you, they feel remorse, you don't at all. You're loving this."

"I assure you, I do not love seeing you like this."

"Hmph, try and lie to me, your emotions tell me the truth. You want this, and I don't know why yet, you wanted me to be broken, to be damaged, and you're probably working with that speedster as well, who's been doing fucked up things to me."

Barry caught that, knitting his brows together, Caitlin wondering what this speedster had been doing to Matt that they didn't know about.

"What speedster?"

Matt's red eyes turned to Barry.

"If you don't get in my way to murder Wells, I'll tell you everything you want to know. I'll even tell you Wells' dirty little secrets."

Harrison's eyes narrowed slowly, his plans had hit a slight error.

"You know I can't do that."

"Always a hero, aren't you Barry?"

Barry inhaled a breath.

"Matt, we can help you, we know this isn't you."

"I don't need anymore help Barry. I'm being driven mad because of Wells, and what he's done...say, I've got an idea, wanna hear it?" His eyes went between the three people that weren't Harrison. "You guys, stay out of my way, and let me kill Wells. Then I'll leave you to your miserable lives, and go off on my own."

None of them answered, as Harrison thought of something to say.

"Mr Stone please…"

Harrison begged, but Matt's hands began leaking energy off them.

"Please, please stop. I've said that enough in my life. But people like you really don't care, do you? You really don't care about what kind of damage you cause people. And now, I'm going to kill you, make you bleed, suffer. Maybe not for so long, but it will be fun to see how long I can keep it up, huh. Since, you've tortured me for this long, I'll have to make sure you suffer the same amount. This is for Jean you fucking monster!"

"Yes, paint me as a monster, because what I have done to you, is terrible. I caused this pain to happen to you, I also affected your sisters ways, she has disappeared, most likely because of myself, and for that, I am truly sorry."

Matt shook his head, disappointed.

"Nice apology, but that wasn't for me." He glanced at Barry, then back to Harrison. "That was for Barry's benefit, so he doesn't turn on you. Your lies don't work on me Harrison, so just fucking die!"

Matt reeled back his hands, and went to fire off some blasts of energy.

However, Caitlin got in the way, and stopped him from using his powers, by standing there, and not moving.

Matt surprisingly stopped, and tilted his head.

"Matthew, please stop. I know this isn't you, whatever has triggered this, you don't want to hurt anyone. Remember, you said to me that you don't want to hurt anyone, and even if you don't like Dr Wells, you don't want to hurt him."

The evil Matt cocked his head to the right, peering into Caitlin's eyes.

"Sorry Caitlin, Matthew's not here anymore. And I don't want to hurt you. So, get out of the way Caitlin. Don't make me hurt you."

"No."

Caitlin watched as he cocked his head to the side.

"How fascinating, you're trying to stop me. He's a murderer, he murdered people you care about. Yet you defend him? Why is that? I'm genuinely curious."

"Because if he is or isn't, isn't up to us. Matthew, you're not a bad person. His actions towards you, have been terrible, but you're not bad, you don't want to kill someone."

"Oh but being bad feels so good, and I do, that's what we murderers do."

The boy played with a teasing voice, Caitlin shaking her head as Barry recovered from the attack he received before.

"Matthew, please fight him, I know that you can! I know you're in there!"

""We're your friends!"" Caitlin was shocked when he said that at the same time. ""We're here for you! You don't have do this Matthew, I'm here for you! I won't let you turn evil!""

Caitlin watched on as the evil Matt smirked.

"Did you forget I can hear your thoughts? I know what you're going to say before even you do cutie. Because of that evil monster over there. I've been suffering for months on months now and I am gonna be gone in a sea of thoughts soon, and now he's hurt Jean, he's been hurting her since that day. I am dying anyway. And that man there, stole everything that meant anything to me. So, he has to die. And if you want to help him, then you'll all die too."

Rather than hurt Caitlin, his body gave off a glow of red, and he went into the sky. He was using his powers to fly essentially. Barry and the others looked on as Matt used different hand movements to manipulate objects around him, to make them fly around.

"Matt! Please!"

Cisco pleaded as Matt put his hand towards him. a blast of energy erupted, so Barry used his ability to get Cisco away. The blast was fast, but not as fast as Barry who managed to get Cisco out of the way.

"Matt, don't make me hurt you."

Barry said while trying to calm down the evil Matt.

Matt just shrugged his shoulders, and saw a computer monitor, not the main one however.

"Here, you're so smart, have this."

Using his ability, he lifted up the monitor telekinetically, and flung it at Barry. Barry pulled back as the monitor smashed against the wall. He turned his sights on Harrison Wells, and Barry realized what he was going to do.

"Matt, don't-"

"Die!"

Using his power, he gathered the psychic energy in his palms, and made two blades of energy, throwing them quickly at him. Barry used his incredible speed to take Wells out of the wheelchair, and out of the room.

Upon noticing that, Matt landed on the ground, and walked towards the door...but stopped, and looked at the remaining computer.

A smirk graced his lips.

He rushed the computer, erecting a barrier around him, and the station, as he hacked into the computers programs, looking for something.

"W-What's he doing!?"

Cisco tried to get close, but the barrier expanded, forcing him, and Caitlin to stay on the other side, so they couldn't see the screen.

Matt flied through some programs, finding what he wanted. He grabbed a memory stick that he left in the desk once, and plugged it in, downloading the files, and also used his own genius with computers to do something.

Then he smirked towards Caitlin and Cisco, who looked on, the barrier dropping.

"Seems like I have to hunt down the evil myself."

"Matthew, please…"

"I said before, Matthew isn't here anymore. He's dead, and in a little bits time, I'll be insane too. Before that, Wells is gonna die. My last act of charity for everyone he's hurt or killed. They'll all thank me for taking him out."

Matt replied as different things went around the room thanks to his abilities.

When a sharp object went towards Caitlin, she gasped, and called "Matthew help me!" without even thinking right.

Matt snapped around, and his eyes turned briefly blue, stopping the object from stabbing Caitlin with his own powers. Matt looked around and made all of the objects stop going around the area, and looked into Caitlin's eyes.

"Matthew…you're stronger than him, please don't go…"

"I'm not stronger…Caitlin, please just stop him…"

"We will, we'll stop-"

"Kill me if you have to! I don't want to…" Matt gripped his head in pain, it is ripping through his mind. "No…get out of my head…please…Jean…Caitlin…someone make it stop…" Seeing the struggle, Caitlin walked closer as Cisco looked on with worry. "No! Stay away! I-It's coming again! I don't wanna hurt you! Please just run!"

"Matthew!"

Caitlin tried to move closer, but she was stopped when she saw it.

Matt's eyes returned to their red form, and he smirked.

"Damn, it's hard to put his consciousness down with you around. Just what kind of spell do you have over him doctor?" Caitlin didn't know what he was talking about. "Now, bye bye everyone. I'll be seeing you real soon."

Before either could say anything, Barry flashed into the room, and Matt saw him, giving off a small smirk.

"Matt, please don't make me fight you. We're friends, we help people together. Come on, you don't want to hurt anyone."

"Barry, my speedy friend. I don't wanna hurt you, I don't wanna hurt Cisco, and I definitely don't want to hurt Caitlin, but if you are going to protect that monster, then I'll have to hurt you. People like him, need to suffer for what they have done."

"Matt…"

Barry tried to reason, but Matt locked eyes with him.

Barry stared into his eyes, and a red glow went off.

As soon as he did, Barry began feeling pain erupting within his mind.

"A-Aaagh! W-What is this…?"

Matt walked closer as Barry was brought down to his knees, holding his head tightly.

"The pain you're feeling right now, I feel that all of the time, every second of every day, I feel that amount of pain, and more."

"Please make it stop Matt…"

Barry continued holding onto his head, his brain felt like it was being crushed, like he was being crippled. Matt walked closer, and punched Barry in the face, knocking him down to the ground, and caused him to hit his head on the wall.

"There, stopped. You should be thankful, I have to suffer, but I saved your miserable life with my powers. Enjoy that Barry, that's only a taste of my powers. And if you don't give up Wells soon enough, then I'll come back with a bloody vengeance, and I'll kill all of you."

Matt went airborne, and he flew out of the area, leaving behind Caitlin, Barry and Cisco. They didn't know where Barry had taken Wells, only to presume that he had hidden him somewhere to Matt couldn't find them.

Caitlin couldn't stand it though, she grabbed a device from the side, and rushed out, before Barry could recover.

While flying, Matt got out his phone.

"Peekaboo, time to follow me."

[My name isn't...whatever, I'm ready.]

"Good, meet me at..."

Matt then explained where he wanted her to be, and she consented.

---

Matt flew off towards a special kind of lab, a lab that houses technology around.

He walked into the lab without a care in the world together with Shawna. His eyes shone beautifully, yet horribly, red at the same time. People all looked at him like he shouldn't be there.

"Excuse me, do you have an appointment?"

One of the guards said, only for Matt to swing his arm, and due to his power, he increased his strength, and sent him away with a single punch, knocking him down onto the ground a fair distance away.

"No but he's making one."

Shawna threatened, as she smirked devilishly.

Matt looked on as some more security came to try and take him out. Matt cocked his head with amusement at the efforts of everyone around. With his fighting skills, he dispatched of them pretty easily together with Shawna. Even without his powers, he was able to deal with them, but he used his abilities to increase his strength to a good level. While it wasn't super strength, it was more than normal strength anyway.

Once they were done, others looked towards them and he just snickered.

"Oh, frightened little rabbits. Don't worry men and women, I'm not going to hurt you…unless you give me a reason to."

His hands began to shake and following that, a red aura came around the room. Because it was so large, the room began to shake, as did the glass around him. the people in the building began becoming panicked.

Matt then put his hand upwards, seeing a camera.

"Here's looking at you."

Matt sent off a blast of energy towards the camera, and destroyed it, frightening everyone in the area.

[Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!]

People screamed and wanted to run out of the building, but Matt put his hand back, and shut the door with his psychic energy, which manifested as telekinesis. Everyone in the building looked towards Matt as he smirked.

"Now, now children, no need to be frightened. I only want some special parts, then I'll be on my way."

"That's so cool, threatening them like that."

Shawna admitted, hitting one of them in the face that tried to rush Matt.

"Waaaaah.."

A little girl cried, so the presumed Father hugged her, but was doing it aggressively.

"Shut up, or do you want us to die?"

Matt noticed to the side that there was a man trying to comfort their child, but was growling at her. So he walked over, and grabbed him by the back of the head and glared right at him, his eyes blazing with fury.

"Don't you dare speak to a child like that! She's scared, comfort her right! That's what parents are for! Don't you even realize that!? Parents protect their children! They never hurt them! You're scum if you hurt your children! Comfort her right now!"

"O-Okay! Please don't hurt me! Please!"

Matt released the mans hair, and he comforted the child in a more friendly way, whispering sweet words to her, Matt nodding his head.

"Good, you shouldn't hurt a child, they're precious…never hurt a child in my presence or you'll die." Matt bent down towards the young girl, and petted her head even though she looked frightened. "Shhhh, it's okay little girl, I'm not going to hurt you. I just need something, and then you all won't remember this anyway. I won't hurt you…children shouldn't be hurt."

The little girl seemed confused, but Matt just petted her head, and was about to walk away when he heard someone's voice behind him, attacking him.

Quickly, he stood up, and put out his hand. The object that he was going to be hit with, Matt stopped it before it could make contact with him. The man struggled, trying to hit him but Matt's powers stopped the baton to hit him, and then Shawna slammed the baton right in his face, knocking him out, something evil Matt nodded at.

"Good work Peekaboo." Shawna smiled happily, as Matt looked towards the downed man. "Now, that's not very nice, trying to hit me. Discipline is a very good thing sometime's."

Everyone gasped, fearing for their lives.

He looked around and saw some scientists.

"Now, get me the materials that I require, and no one is going to die, okay? If anyone tries to fight back, they shall receive the same treatment as that man, or worse. Anyone disobeys me, and they'll be murdered."

"He's not joking either, he'll kill you."

They all looked on as Matt ordered what he wanted.

He said the materials that he wanted, and looked at each of them. They didn't know why he wanted them, but they just did what they could do, and make sure that he doesn't get hurt, or killed from the boy.

They got the materials that Matt wanted, and the alloys, compounds, and other things. He made a sphere of energy to contain all of the things that he wanted, displaying a good control over his powers indeed.

"Aah, so that's what you wanted?"

Shawna asked, Matt nodding.

"Indeed Peekaboo, this is good." Matt looked at the people around. "Now, be good boys, and girls and line up for me. So, I can make sure my tracks have been covered."

They didn't want to, they were worried with what Matt could actually do, and what his memory erasure actually meant.

And when he decided to leave, he erased the memories of everyone that was around, however it was painful for him, and he ended up having a nosebleed. Even though he could use his powers, didn't mean they didn't have negative effects on him at all. He even erased the security footage of himself so he wasn't caught.

As he was walking, Matt felt incredible pain coming to his mind from using his abilities, so much so that he was crying, but he didn't stop moving, he had something to do.

"Are you alright?"

Shawna asked with some concern, Matt nodding with a pained face.

"It's that Harrison Wells' fault. That's why, we're gonna kill him."

As he walked outside, the police happened to be coming towards him.

Matt heard the sirens along with Shawna, and he knew he wouldn't be able to cast illusions and or erase all of their minds, so he used his psychic energy construction ability to form a skull mask around his face, and did the same for Shawna.

"Want me to take them out?"

Matt shook his head as the cars pulled him.

"Don't worry Peekaboo, you just worry about getting us out of here. I'll strengthen your powers with my telepathic abilities to share my energy, you'll be able to take us out of here, just keep hold of me."

Matt snickered out as he saw them getting out of their cars.

"Put the items down, and you won't be hurt!"

One of the police spoke towards him, but Matt yawned in disinterest.

"Please don't point your things at us, your bullets won't ever touch our bodies."

One of the police behind their doors took aim at Matt.

Matt heard within his head what was going to happen, so he put his hand that way, and controlled the gun, whipping his hand, which whipped the gun out of his hand, and fell down onto the ground, shocking everyone.

"I told you, you don't want to mess with me. If you do try, then I will have to become heavy handed." Matt put his hand forward, and took control over the cars, thrusting his hands upwards, along with the cars going up, and chucked them to the side, breaking them apart as they landed upside down, the police in awe. "See? Police can't handle me, you should get The Streak to deal with me. Hahahaha. Now Peekaboo."

With an evil laugh, Matt placed a hand on his stuff, and Shawna did what she could, placing her hands on Matt's back, teleporting them, and the items out of there, leaving behind a very baffled looking bunch of police who didn't know what they had witnessed.

---

Matt eventually found himself at a place that he could use together with Shawna, a place no one else knew about, yet was a place he knew all too well, a place for his own base of operations, a place that he could use for his own practices.

Bringing in the stuff that he stole from the lab he was just in, Matt got to work with making things.

Because he had Cisco's intelligence inside of him, and his own as well, he was able to understand all of what he was doing right now.

He understood what he was making, the mechanics behind it, and even what else he could do with the intelligence that he had now, he really felt good, and could understand, everything was going on, and loved it.

He made some bomb looking devices that fuelled different things inside, and he also made what appeared to be a gun as well.

As he was making the items, he could feel the intelligence of Cisco's fading away from his mind.

However, he was able to finish what he wanted before the intelligence disappeared.

Before him, he saw that there was a gun and a few different bomb looking devices. The gun looked like a version of Captain Cold's gun, but modified in a different way, and the bombs all had a blue aesthetic going on. There were also other devices around the lab that Matt has set up, things of a futuristic nature it seemed.

"Perfect." He murmured aloud. "Cisco, my man, you surely are intelligent. But, with my intelligent boosted on top of it, it really is a pretty good deal. I think even you wouldn't think of these right away hahahaha. Let's see, I have my cold bombs, my multi-purpose gun, my supercharged electrical packs, and also my special device and others...yes, this shall do me."

"They all look awesome...can I have one? We are partners and all."

Matt nodded, throwing a rubber duck towards her.

She grabbed the duck, and held it confusingly.

"What's this?"

"It's a rubber ducky."

Shawna sweatdropped.

"I'd prefer one of the guns."

"That duck can be used as a taser, long distance as well, it can shoot small volts of lightning, electricity, whatever you wanna call it, out of its mouth if you squeeze the head. Try it on the wall."

Shawna pointed it towards the wall, and then squeezed the head.

As soon as she did, the small blast of lightning escaped its mouth, denting the wall, and made her smile.

"Awesome."

Matt couldn't be happier right now, and he picked up the gun while he looked at the other devices.

Moving towards a hidden compartment, he placed the gun inside there.

"Just in case, contingency plans and all."

Matt turned back towards the other items he made, and walked forward.

He noticed on the side, was a tablet, and he smirked.

Walking closer, he tapped a few buttons on it once switching it on, and smiled to himself.

"Here I come."

"Where are we going now?"

Shawna questioned, as Matt nodding.

"We are going to the police station to gather some information, and you're gonna get us inside without a hassle. I got some info from S.T.A.R Labs before I left, and it does indeed confirm that Wells, and this Rex Solman have had some kind of interactions, and with his job, I am suspicious so I am going to go and see what is going on. But, first you need to go on ahead."

"Why?"

Matt began chuckling.

"Because, a certain scientist has been following us, and I am going to confront her, and I'd prefer to do that alone."

Matt's red eyes lit up the darkness of the world around him, and Shawna smiled wickedly.

---

Rather than fly there, Matt walked along the road, knowing that he would be able to get out of there if Barry or whoever showed up thanks to Shawna.

He sensed Caitlin behind him, following him, something he had been feeling for a while actually.

So, he stopped, and turned.

"I know you're there, you might as well come out."

Nothing.

For a few seconds, nothing happened.

But then, out from the shadows, Caitlin came out with a handheld device.

Matt raised his head.

"So, you've come to confront me. Where's your backup, or are you it?"

"I came on my own, following your phones tracker that you placed on in case of things like this, no one knows I'm here, read my mind if you don't believe me."

He did just that, and found out that she was telling the truth, but still, Matt glared.

"Ooh yeah, I did do that didn't I? With my headache, I can't remember much."

Caitlin thought that was troubling, she didn't like that at all.

Matt himself stared at her as his eyes briefly flashed blue.

"Get out of here Caitlin. For your own safety."

Caitlin shook her head, walking closer as his eyes turned back to red.

"You won't hurt me."

"You seem very confident to say that to someone who just took down that speedster. What makes you think I won't kill you? A powerless human? Didn't think it through, did you sweetheart? Not very smart of you."

"Might not be smart, but because Matthew wouldn't let you hurt me, that's why I am here." She answered strongly. "He protected me before, and I know Matthew wouldn't hurt me. You had plenty of chances to do it back there, you could've killed me when I got in your way, but you didn't. You protected me...no, Matthew protected me, he broke through your control, and protected me. I don't know why you're out, but you need to go back and let Matthew out now."

Matt shook his head, energy dancing around his palms, and made two knives.

"Matthew's gone Caitlin, only I prevail now. Trying to talk sense into me? That's your only power now."

"No, I'm trying to bring you back now, the real you. Powers or not, it doesn't matter."

Caitlin said it without even a shred of fear.

"If you don't leave, I'll kill you."

He threatened dangerously, snarling at her to add fear.

Caitlin took that bait, walking ever closer. Matt's eyes wavered as she became within distance to him.

"You're a killer, then?"

"That's what I am sweetie, I am a murderer."

He said with a sadistic sneer, but Caitlin still held her ground.

"I know Matthew. He wouldn't hurt me. He stopped you from hurting me, he won't let you hurt me now. That's why, you need to stop, and let Matthew go."

Matt's blue eyes slowly came into play once more, but then his eyes flashed red once more, it taking control.

"Don't pretend you care about me."

"I do care about you. I care about Matthew."

She said as some tears entered her eyes, Matt's eyes briefly flashing blue, as he felt the cold energy that was the knife in his hand still pressed near Caitlin. He moved the hand away, letting it dangle as his eyes turned bright red again.

"You only care that I look like Ronnie, don't lie to me. If I didn't remind you of Ronnie, you wouldn't be here and we both know it. I'm sick of being used by people. No one is going to use me anymore, no one. Not anyone ever again, I'm strong now. No longer weak."

Caitlin inhaled a breath, then placed a hand on Matt's face.

Matt tried to pull away, but she pulled closer, her eyes fresh with wetness of her tears she tried desperately to not shed.

"Truthfully, at the beginning, yes. I did but not now, you're so different in great ways. You reminded me of him, and I'm sorry for treating you like a replacement, it was wrong of me and I shouldn't have done that, but I don't think like that anymore. I lost Ronnie, and you were there for me in ways, no one else could be because you understood me. Even during that first time, when we met, you saved my life. I felt so down that day, I felt so alone, and scared of the future, and I didn't even think about it until later, what it meant to be in that would be gunman's arms, and how frightening it was. But...you were there, you saved me, and you continue to save me. Matthew, I know how scary this world can be for you...what you've had to go through, because of what we did that day...the accelerator, it destroyed you, I watched you being broken down piece by piece, things in your life just crumbling away before your eyes, and even being driven insane before my eyes because of that accelerator...yet, there were moments, when you looked at me, and I looked at you...and we got it. We understood one another, I understood the pain of loss, and we clicked together. When I was close to you...I felt...I felt again, you did that. You made me feel again, and my heart opened for you, in ways I couldn't predict. Please, just come back to me now, we'll get through it together, because you're not alone, I'm with you. You're never going to be alone with me. Remember, Matthew, you believed in me, believe in me now, this is for the best, just come back with me."

Matt turned his eyes downwards, his eyes flickering between red and blue.

"Caitlin I..."

It was hard to tell which Matt said that, maybe even both of them, they switched so fast even Caitlin couldn't tell.

But, she grasped his hand tightly, causing him to stop himself, looking right into her eyes with his flashing red and blue ones.

Caitlin's eyes began leaking tears, crying and lowered her head so she couldn't see his eyes, causing Matt's eyes to turn blue again.

He looked at her, then dropped the weapons he had, visibly shaken.

"What have I done...? Caitlin...what have I done...? Oh God, I attacked Barry, Cisco, and Wells..."

Caitlin looked into his eyes, seeing that he was shedding some tears, and saw his blue eyes.

Relief came over her, wrapping her arms around his neck, as he latched onto her as well, shaking.

"Shhh, it's okay now...it's okay. It's all okay, we're going to sort this out, we're going to make sure that you're okay now, we'll stop this. None of this is your fault, you stopped, and that's the most important thing, you stopped for me. I knew you were stronger than him...I knew. And you're not going to go mad, we're going to save you. I won't let you disappear. Just hold on a little longer, because I've got a very promising...not antidote because it isn't a cure, but to restore control, so you can remain here, and he stays buried in your subconscious, I've developed a very promising drug for that."

Rapidly, she kissed all over his face, escaping the lips for the moment, and then hugged his head, kissing his nose, then moved downwards. While both were crying, they held one another tenderly in the street.

"Caitlin, I'm so sorry...I can't control this...I'm breaking, it won't stop...even now, it's trying to come out, and I can't hold it back...someone's done something to me...and the usual control...is gone, I just...I'm trying to be strong...but, this thing is so powerful..."

"It's okay, I'm gonna to make sure that it is okay now. Come on...let's go back now, and sort this out. Remember, just believe in me, and we'll all help you."

"I'll always believe in you...Caitlin, I'm so sorry..."

"I don't blame you, this isn't your fault, we'll deal with this."

Caitlin smiled, cupping his face and smiled gently, then kissed his forehead.

They were about to take their leave when suddenly, a yellow blur clashed with the young boy, smacking away from Caitlin and into a stone wall, causing a cry to escape his lips.

Caitlin gasped, looking at the yellow blur, stunned by what she was seeing.

"W-What are you?! Leave Matthew alone!"

Caitlin threatened, but the yellow blur just snickered and rushed Matt.

Matt tried to fire a wave of energy towards him, but he dodged out of the way, and grabbed Matt by the throat, lifting him up.

"Matthew!"

Caitlin grabbed a nearby pipe, and went to hit the yellow blur, but he caught it, tossing it, and her aside as well.

"Caitlin!"

Matt went to punch the blur, but the blur stopped him, backhanding Matt across the face.

He then vibrated his hand, Matt's eyes widening.

"I still want to see your power grow, and I want you to be evil, so be evil!"

Matt went wide eyed and motionless as the mans hand went through his chest, but didn't break the skin. The vibrating hand latched onto Matt's heart, squeezing it.

Instantly, he felt it, and he felt the hand squeezing his heart, making it stop.

"Come out, or you'll die. Don't make me kill you! I haven't done this before, so forgive me if I damage anything too important, but because it is you, you shouldn't die from this, if you come out again."

Matt tried to move, but the pain was immense, he felt his heart slowing, being destroyed by the blur.

Caitlin cried, watching and feeling so helpless as he was essentially dying in front of her...

But then, Matt's eyes changed blood red, and a wave of energy erupted from him, blasting the blur away, Matt falling down onto the ground.

Though, because of what he did, the blur that was, Matt still felt his heart wasn't working, that it was stopping.

"N-No..."

"Matthew...use your telekinetic powers, and pump your own heart! Listen to me, you can do it! Even send a shockwave through your heart to stimulate it, to simulate a shock to your system, it should work!"

Caitlin called from the side even if she had to help evil Matt, as long as good Matt survived, then she'd help the evil one.

Matt weakly raised a hand to his chest, and used a telekinetic pulse like a defibrillator like Caitlin suggested, pumping his own heart with his telekinesis.

Because of that, his heart began beating again, and soon returned to normal levels.

Caitlin smiled, seeing that he was going to live.

The blur grabbed Caitlin by the shirt, dragging her to her feet.

"Tell anyone about me, and I'll kill Matthew Stone, and I'll make you watch his suffering."

Caitlin didn't know what to do, other than shake.

But then, evil Matt fired a wave from his hand of telekinetic energy, crashing against the blur, blasting him away from Caitlin.

He walked forward, putting his hands outwards.

As soon as he did, things began to shake around, the ground, the trees, the building. Matt used his telekinesis to do that. The pavement became unraveling, breaking off thanks to Matt's powers, making projectiles out of the ground itself, and looked at the blur as he stood up.

"You piece of shit, coming after Caitlin and me like that, hmph. Well, you're no longer gonna be safe from me!"

Matt launched the pieces of the ground right towards the blur.

Rather than face of a pissed off telekinetic, he ran away at top speeds, his task accomplished.

Matt sighed, putting the pieces of the earth back onto the ground.

He looked towards Caitlin, smirking as his eyes shined a scary red.

"Nice try, Caitlin. You almost stopped me, gotta give you props for that."

"Matthew please..."

She pleaded, but Matt shook his head.

"No, I'm not done yet. Don't follow me again." Matt's eyes returned to blue briefly. "I'm not worth saving, just do what you need to, to stop me." Matt's eyes returned to red, giving Caitlin a smirk. "See you later Cait~"

Matt kicked off the ground, then shot into the sky.

Caitlin saw on the ground, that Matt left his phone, so she walked over to it, picking it up.

She hugged herself...but, she wasn't going to give up now, she can save him, and she was determined to do so.

---

At the police station, within an interrogation room, Joe was interrogating the man who had been spoken of by Iris, and Matt a day prior to all of this happening.

"I know you did it, I wanna know how many kids you abused!"

The man sat at the table just smirked.

"Wouldn't you like to know detective."

Joe didn't like that, in fact he hated the person in front of him.

Usually, he could keep his cool, but under such a thing right now, he couldn't keep his composure, he wasn't able to think right.

"You're sick, what you did to those kids, you know that?"

"I just did what they were begging me to do, that's all detective."

Joe felt his eyes blazing, and his hands sweat.

He felt the rage boiling inside of him…

However, there was a knock at the door.

Joe shook his head in discontent for the man before him, walking towards the door.

He opened it, to see a worried looking Matt, his real eye colour being concealed with an illusion on Matt's part. Shawna was right beside him, but Joe couldn't see that, Matt used his abilities to make her appear invisible by affecting his brain with his telepathy, casting the illusion that she wasn't there at all.

"Matt? What's wrong?"

"Joe, I'm so glad that I found you, it's Barry."

Joe's worry came up even higher than before.

"Barry? What's happened?"

"It's those freaky Meta's Joe, one has got him, and broken his leg. You need to go over to him. We tried calling you, but we think this Meta has the ability to control electricity and such, and stopped the calls going through, so I volunteered to go and get you, then hunt down the Meta. Please Joe, Barry is calling out for you."

Joe inhaled a few breaths, wiping his brow of the worry he felt.

"Okay, okay. I'm gonna go and find Barry…are you going to be okay with tracking down this Meta?"

"I have an ability that can counter his, don't worry Joe, just go and be with Barry now. He needs you. A parent with their child, even if not biological, needs to be their for their children."

"You're right, I'm going."

Joe shot out of the door, and ran down the corridor.

The door slowly closed behind him, but then stopped when Matt used his telekinetic powers to hold it open.

"I have to admit, that was pretty awesome."

"Thanks to you getting us inside, Peekaboo. Affecting so many people causes great stress on my mind. But, having you, I can mostly bypass that, you're earning your potential Peekaboo."

"You know, Peekaboo is growing on me."

"As it should be Peekaboo."

Shawna twirled her dark hair, and had to admit, this wasn't bad.

Taking out a device from his pocket, Matt hacked the security cameras, and turned them off before he entered the room with Shawna.

"Hello, are you Rex Solman?"

Matt stood rather politely, holding a deeper hatred than he ever could for anyone else.

Rex looked up from his table, and cocked his head.

"Who the hell are you?"

Matt rolled his eyes as he forced the chair forward, causing the man to sit down.

"My name doesn't matter. But, I heard you have a connection to Harrison Wells, and I would like to understand things about that. So, if you'd please?"

Matt walked over towards the table, along with Shawna.

When the man didn't answer, Shawna grabbed the back of his head, slamming it against the table, causing him to cry out.

"He asked you a question, I'd suggest answering it, because I'm the nicer between the two of us, and I slammed your head against the table. So, just imagine what he'd do to you."

The man, Rex, began shaking, as Matt smirked, sitting on the table.

"Good work Peekaboo." Shawna giggled dirtily, as Matt made a dagger of energy in his hand. "Now, as the lady said, if you don't answer my questions truthfully, I'll get knife happy. Oh, and don't bother lying to me, I can read minds, and emotions, I can detect deceit within most people, Meta's are harder due to their unique biology, but normal humans, yeah, I can tell when you're lying, so start speaking bitch, or I'll get happy with my knife, and it won't be pretty. Oh yeah, don't think I wouldn't hurt you, because people like you, who abuse children physically, hitting them, locking them away, doesn't fly with me, so start answering."

Rex nodded his head so fast that he was frightened.

"Y-Yes, I'll answer anything, just please don't hurt me..."

Matt was now getting somewhere.

"Good man, now why was Wells coming to see you?"

"H...He was asking about my studies on Psychic's, and the very real powers of manipulating telekinetic and telepathic powers."

"Why?"

"I-I don't know."

Matt inhaled a deep breath, then slashed the man across the cheek with his knife, causing him to cry.

"What did I say about lying to me? Now if you pull that shit again, I'll stab you in places, you don't wanna be stabbed." Matt ran his eyes downwards, the man shaking. "Now, tell me, why does he want to know more about this? And how are you connected to this? I thought you were a geneticist, what do you have to do with Psychic's exactly?"

"I-I...I have been researching them for years...the powers known as psychic energy, or you may know it as psionic energy, and how it can be manipulated for different means and desires. Dr Wells wished to have my research on the subject at hand and he..."

Matt then listened to what he had to say, and it made him all the more curious than ever before.

Matt darkened his eyes once he finished.

"And, what else did Wells want from that? Why would he want that exactly?"

"I-I don't know, I swear! Please don't stab me! I don't know!"

Shawna tightened her fist, moving closer.

"If you're lying..."

"I'm not, I swear to fucking God, please don't kill me..."

Matt waved a hand at him, firing the chair to the side with telekinesis, him landing on his ass, Matt beginning to chuckle.

"Well, good sicko, seems like I have some good inside. Peekaboo, wanna kick crap out of him?"

Rex's eyes widened with fear as she smirked.

"Why?! I helped you!"

"Yes, but you've been abusing children, young children that can't defend themselves. Do you know how damaging it is, to children to experience that? You're sick you are, thinking of even laying a finger on a child, hitting them, locking them in closets, and denying them food!? What the fuck is wrong with you!? Peekaboo, knock some sense into the pathetic shit."

Shawna tightened her fists, standing up.

"Thought you'd never ask." She took out her duck, and shot a bolt of lightning towards him, forcing him backwards. "Now, that's what I call shocking."

"Peekaboo, no bad puns please."

Shawna stuck out her tongue as did Matt, who then proceeded to beat down the man with their fists.

---

Once Matt and Shawna were done, he dropped the man to the ground, leaving him a crying mess, something the evil Matt thought was justice, and the very fact that he could do it like this, he was happy, of course he also made sure to erase his mind so he couldn't tell anyone he or Shawna were there.

He walked out of the room together with Shawna, and shut the door, walking away.

"Have a good life Rex, if you call that living."

Matt snickered out sadistically, as Shawna turned her head towards him.

"What are we going to do now with that info?"

"We need more, and S.T.A.R Labs might be able to give us that info. Though, with those do-gooders there...well, I just thought of something, yeah, that'll do it."

"Willing to share?"

Shawna asked, as Matt patted her face.

"All in due time Peekaboo. I just need to pay a visit to a certain West, this'll make them leave, for better or worse. I don't wanna hurt her, but sometimes, you have to do things that you don't want to get what you do, and while I'm doing that, I have an assignment for you Peekaboo. Now, let's go Peekaboo."

Shawna allowed a smile to appear on her face as she placed a hand on his back.

Matt curiously looked on as she ran her hand downwards.

"Are you trying to grope my ass? What about your boyfriend?"

"Well, it was only a fleeting thought, and what he doesn't know wouldn't hurt him."

She went for the plunge, and went to grope him...

Matt took her hand, and then pinned her to the wall, Shawna's heart rate increasing.

"Sorry Peekaboo, my heart belongs to Caitlin."

The way his voice was playful, was very scary at the same time, but not to Shawna.

Shawna smacked her lips together.

"Now, shall we go?"

"Indeed Peeks."

"I really wish you wouldn't call me Peeks. Peekaboo is great, but not Peeks, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth."

She complained, though it was half hearted, Matt letting her go, and walked on without addressing it.

While walking, Eddie happened to come out of a different corridor, and came across Matt along with Shawna.

"Matt? Hey Matt, is there something going on? Who's your friend?"

Matt stopped in his tracks, and turned to face Eddie.

"What are we doing with this one?"

Shawna questioned, Matt placing out his hand, showing he'll deal with it.

"Eddie, I'm going through, changes right now."

"Changes?"

He nodded and walked closer. Eddie couldn't see Matt's eyes because of his mental ability to make illusions.

"Yeah, my eyes have been opened to this world, and I have discovered how evil, and hateful this world really is. And I have to make sure the bad people are punished, and I'm sorry Eddie, but I can't let you remember I was here."

Before Eddie could question it, Matt enhanced his strength via telekinetic powers, grabbing Eddie by the throat, and placed a hand on his head, a glowing began to happen.

"W-What are you going to do to me!?"

"Shhh Eddie, nothing at all, at least nothing bad. It's just going to feel like amnesia, you're just gonna forget about seeing me, and Peekaboo."

Eddie didn't know what Matt was going to do, and tried punching him. But Matt made a barrier to block the hit and kept on his erasing powers.

---

Back at S.T.A.R Labs, Barry, Cisco, and Caitlin all sat together in the lab, with Wells over the speaker phone of Cisco's phone, just in case Matt showed up, they didn't want him and Wells to meet, something bad could happen and they couldn't have that. She had returned, alone, and the others didn't want to ask her what happened, she looked frazzled, she looked so depressed, and scared for Matt, for what happened.

"Owwww…"

Barry complained as he kept a hand to his head.

"Dude, is it easing?"

"Yeah…but wow, if Matt feels that constantly…no wonder he's pissed off at Dr Wells. I think I would be too with the amount of pain that was." Barry looked at Cisco's phone. "No offense Dr Wells."

[None taken Mr Allen.]

Harrison answered over the line, Barry though still had a solemn expression on his face.

"But yeah, that's one of the most painful experiences I've ever had, and he has to live with that…we have to help him. That wasn't comfortable, and I can see myself going mad if I had to experience that constantly."

Cisco couldn't agree more, as Caitlin looked down at the ground sadly.

[I am devising a way to block off the telepathy so he can't hear others thoughts thanks to the research of Dr Snow's, it has helped me tremendously. I have been for a time now since the first time that evil Mr Stone came into being, but there's a problem if he's evil now. We'll have to fight against him, and stop his progression.]

"How are we going to do that though? We can't just force him to stop."

Barry didn't know how they were going to get out of this, but Cisco, who was studying the examinations of Matt, had his brain clicking.

"From these tests Dr Wells, it seems like there's a weak point that his telepathy can be exploited, I should be able to make a headband to make sure that he can't use his mind torture techniques on you Barry. Though, he'd still be able to throw around rocks and such, and fire those energy blasts, and those weapons as well. But it might take a little time…I've been devising it for a while now, even made some schematics and everything on the computer."

"Do it Cisco, we have to be prepared for anything. He could do anything."

"Right, I'll begin working on it. In the meantime, how are we going to find him?"

At that, everyone fell silent, and they didn't know what to even think. They didn't know how they could find him. a super charged Matt out there, is a very dangerous thing. Yet, the only thing Caitlin could think of was what Matt said before, the real good one, that asked for her to kill him and what happened out on the streets.

For that to happen, she could really tell that he didn't want to do any of this, and he wasn't in control, and wished she could do something to stop him, to get him to his normal senses again, so he didn't have to be like this. She had no idea, truly how much he was suffering right now, especially with some evil force controlling his body, and also with the blur seemingly interested in him, she was immensely worried for him.

Cisco went over to the computer, and began typing away on it.

At that moment, Joe came walking through into the room.

"Barry! Barry, you're okay!"

Barry and the others looked confused.

"Joe I'm okay."

"Are you sure? What about that Meta?"

Confusion was more prevalent than it was before.

"What Meta?"

Cisco conveyed a confused face, as did the others.

"The Meta Matt said you were facing, he said that the Meta broke your legs, and is going after it…"

"Y-You've seen Matt!? Where is he!?"

Barry hurriedly questioned, Joe still not knowing what was going on right now.

"Last time I checked, he was at the police station, why?"

"No time to explain!" Barry donned his costume rather quickly. "I gotta get over there before he kills someone!"

As Barry was going to go, Cisco's computer suddenly began making unusual noises, and it broke down, shocking Cisco.

"W-What?!"

"What's wrong?"

Barry asked hurriedly, only for Cisco to be baffled as he typed on the keyboard, but to no avail.

"He's, I tried looking at what he was looking up, but when I tried, it was like a virus spread out, and I can't even get into the system. This kind of level of encoding is ingenious, I am not sure if I can hack through this...damn he's good. I underestimated him...but, if he encoded this, he had to have had a reason too..."

"We'll figure it out what his endgame is later, I've gotta go!"

"Barry wait-"

Before Caitlin could finish, Barry was gone, and they all knew that whatever business Matt had there, he would be long gone now.

---

Meanwhile, as that was going on, Iris was blissfully unaware of what was going on, and because it was near closing time and she was the last one left to clean up the café all by herself, in a darkened room.

Going from table to table, she cleaned the tables, and made sure that there was nothing there that could get her fired, due to the fact it was her job to also keep the place clean as well.

However, she couldn't help but think something was off.

She didn't know what it was, but something, definitely was off.

Whatever it was, something was off, and she didn't care for it either.

When she turned towards the door-

"Aaah!" Matt was standing there, Iris couldn't see his eyes due to his powers. "Oh, Matt, sweetie, don't give me a jump like that. I didn't even hear the door."

"Sorry Iris baby, I am feeling a little sad right now. Didn't mean to scare you."

Concerned for her friend, Iris walked closer and closer towards him.

"What's wrong? Has something happened?"

"Iris, everyone's being mean to me. Barry is picking on me, and so is Cisco. Even Dr Wells is being mean to me. I was talking about my sister, and they said rude things about her. I didn't want to tattle on them, but I feel extra sad that they are abusing my sisters memories like this."

"Ooh, Matt. I'm sorry, come here."

Iris put out her arms, so Matt gave her a hug, her head against his chest, and his near her shoulder.

"Thanks Iris, you're like my best friend."

"You're like mine too." She looked up at his face as he smiled down towards her. "Don't you worry about Barry, Cisco, and Dr Wells, I'll go and tell them a piece of my mind and make them apologize to you."

"Awww, you'd do that for me? For your friend who loves you very much and wouldn't hurt you ever unlike meanie Barry Allen and Cisco Ramon, and that thing Dr Wells?"

He put on the cutest expression that he could while he couldn't hide his disdain for Wells, even in this acting he was doing, making Iris bite her bottom lip.

"That's too adorable…yeah, of course I would. You don't have to worry, I won't let them bully you. Even if it is Barry, I won't let them bully you over your sister."

Matt allowed his smile to grow bigger by the second, enjoying this more than he thought he would.

"They are at S.T.A.R Labs right now, would you tell them off now? I don't wanna have a bridge like this between us."

"Sure, just let me finish here, then we'll go together."

"Thank you Iris. You know, if Caitlin wasn't around, if I had never met her, I'd seriously consider becoming serious with you, even though you're with Eddie. You're, quite my type."

Iris paused, and felt her heart rate increase.

"W-Well, that's sudden..."

A part of her couldn't deny that she had, thought about it before. She wouldn't do anything, because they both had respective love interests, but if neither were around she would entertain the idea of them hooking up.

"I know, but I quite like Iris, she's awesome. Though I hold my heart for Caitlin, you're very important to me, and I wouldn't let anything hurt you."

"W-Well, you're important to me too. Now, let me clean up, and we'll go and tell off those bad people."

"Thanks sweetheart."

Matt nodded, and Iris split off from him to continue her work.

When Iris wasn't looking, his eyes gave off the deadly glow of red.

"You made me involve Iris Barry, if only you gave up Wells for me. Well, let's see what happens next with this."

Only he knew what was going to happen next. If it was good, or bad, was anyone's guess. If he was truly going to hurt her, or was playing some kind of joke, wasn't certain. Time, was a deciding factor in this.

---

Alright! So, that's the end of the chapter!

Matt's gone to the dark side…thanks to Harrison and Rachael working together. Why Harrison would want this, shall be revealed in the future, though it probably is pretty easy to understand why, maybe. Before that though, Matt talked a little with Frankie and had a few moments with Caitlin, showing that he really was afraid, though with the conditions he was in, it makes sense. Then a huge moment with her downright stating what she feels without saying the actual words, getting through to him, only for The Reverse Flash to stop it, nearly crush his heart, and Matt (evil version) has teamed up with Shawna/Peekaboo, and they are...quite scary together, especially with what they might be able to do together. But now Matt's with Iris, what's he gonna do with her? We'll also get more into the Matt/Shawna side of things, their partnership/relationship as we go forward into future chapters.

We're also getting to see some unique powers Matt has access too thanks to this evil side of his showing up, thanks to a combo of Wells, and Rachael. He even stole some info from S.T.A.R Labs, but what did he steal, and why? He even made some weapons, devices, some of them shall be given to...a certain someone in the future. All shall be revealed, eventually.

Well, thanks for reading!