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.

13. Chapter 13

Hello, and welcome to the next chapter!

DocSlendy; Yeah, team up's happening here!

bigfan22; They are yeah, it's gonna be fun going forward! Eeh, she'll mostly be on Matt's team, though of course if they need her, then she'll help Team Flash. Yeah, those are pretty accurate in the ways that I see their positions. Take the lead huh, eeeh, I dunno about that. I suppose they'd take joint leadership, as they pretty much are equals, the fight two chapters ago proved it, though Barry won that due to, different reasons. So yeah, I guess joint leadership roles. A new addition huh, that could be cool. Griffin Grey could be cool one, Fraooq, I have some ideas for going forward. I know yeah, you'd think they would add different types to the team, though they do have Vibe and Killer Frost (when she's not trying to kill them) there so, they aren't doing so bad I suppose. We are yeah, we're quite close, though there are two important chapters I wanna get out before I go to episode eight, with one of them centred on Frankie, and another based around Hartley, and Rachael, to develop their actions during this season, but the relationship between him and Oliver...hehe, it's gonna be an interesting type of relationship, quite different to the one that he has with Barry. And thanks very much, here's the next chapter!

hellspam; Thanks! Yeah, they really are showing adorable sides to their relationship, aren't they? He is yeah, he's beginning to hone his potential. I thought that would be a fun scene to do, and it was even Caitlin's idea! Yeah, they really have, we'll delve more into it as we go through the chapters. Yeah, Frankie's got a role here, it is going to be a helpful one at that.

JimmyHall24; No, he hasn't forgiven Harrison, and he won't ever fully forgive him either.

ShadowUzumaki55; He is yeah, after 10 months of constant torture, he's finally getting his life back on track. He did yeah, Matt doesn't care what Hartley's sexual preference is, he even said that Hartley's way more intelligent than he is, no matter what. He does yeah, while not liking what happened to Barry, he could see Matt can fight off speedsters, and can ask him for help. Yeah, at the end of it all, Matt does care for Barry a lot. She does yeah, and she's finally began forming a team with him. I'm glad you did, gives both characters time to shine, but in the future, they are both gonna have separate villains. And yeah, we'll be seeing Frankie this chapter and is gonna be playing a crucial role in helping Matt.

pyrojack25; Hehe, sneaky indeed~ They do quite the believable evil don't they? Yeah, she's got some dark plans, and she's gonna show more of them as we go into the future. And yeah, you're right there.

Guest 1; While that does sound like an interesting storyline, Matt wouldn't do that to a friend, he wouldn't erase Iris' mind like that even if she got hurt. Yeah, I understand how you feel, but in season one, neither Joe, nor Barry wanted Iris involved, Matt's different in that regard. And maybe in the future she will, but right now, she's gonna be on Matt's team. And yeah, that's pretty much the team I see going down. And thanks very much!

MysteriousGinseng; I suppose so yeah. I suppose you're right there yeah~

Ragna; I do, I am always looking for villains, there are at least four seasons, so even if they aren't shown in season one, they could show up in season two, three, and four. Reaper huh, yeah I know what that is, and that seems like a pretty cool idea. Yeah, you're right there, he can't read the mind of machines, if they have minds to read that is.

AlphaOmega; Yeah indeed, they have become, somewhat lovers now. She has yeah, and we deal with the ramifications of that this chapter. She does, and she will starting with this chapter, they work together, quite a few times, and show how they can work together quite well. They did work well huh, and in this chapter...well, let's see what happens~ That was fun to write, I liked writing it~ They got them good huh. Yeah, we'll be getting more from Frankie this chapter, and showing her unique bond with Matt.

Lightwave; He's back (not this chapter, but the next one yeah) and he's really butting heads with Iris huh. Well, I can't reveal that, but let's say, he's going to be playing a big part in a future storyline (this season) regarding Matt, and a few others. They are quite powerful together, and will show more powers in the future too. Yeah, they did, but now, with a frightening experience, they seem to have mostly put that to bed. He's showing more powers yeah, we'll be seeing some more going into the future. They're working together, we'll see more of that quite soon. She has, let's see how that went down huh~? Team Flash will be largely the same.

Neonlight01; Indeed, and even in this chapter as well. No, it was a frightening thing to see your friend suddenly wanting to kill you. But, they'll get over it, eventually. Hehe, that was a fun part to write. She has yeah, and we'll see what comes of that this chapter. And yeah, we'll see a major Frankie part this chapter, and we'll soon be hitting her personal chapter.

Guest 2; I would, since Final Fantasy is one of my personal fav franchises for gaming. That could be quite interesting for a story idea. i think Sice from Type 0 uses a scythe, but I can't think of anyone else off the top of my head. And yeah, those ideas do seem pretty cool, thanks for the suggestions!

Guest 3; First of all, thank you, I'm glad that you like them together~ Yeah it is going to be fun progressing their relationships forward. I have done, but I haven't read all of the books yet, I do plan to do that though. Yeah, that could be a cool idea, and I love Luna Lovegood she's awesome.

Guest 4; That idea seems quite cool, I like it. Yeah, if I could in the future, I'll try my best to make a fic like that. And yeah, that sounds great!

Well, thank you everyone for the reviews, now it is time to start the chapter!

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Power outage!

"Baby~ I wish he'd come back soon~"

Rachael sighed as she sat down in a room that held different looking tiles on the walls. A towel like hand scanner was in the middle of the room, and there also was a…giant floating head, a hologram, that was blue in colour.

She looked towards the floating head who looked at her back.

She always felt unnerved when she looked at the end, like it was going to murder her, and she didn't know why that was. It was those cold eyes, those lifeless eyes that she could see, and she didn't like it one bit.

"Miss Rachael, is there something I can do for you?"

The hologram asked, Rachael snickering at the voice.

"Gideon, stop being adorable, and tell me what happens between Matthew Lee Stone, and Caitlin Snow please? I mean, in the future? You're a fucking floating head device thingy, can't you just give me a little bit of info about the future? I mean, if I beg, pretty please you sexy piece of technology? For me? For your Rachael? For your Harrison Wells' Rachael?"

Gideon just stared at her.

"I'm sorry, Dr Wells has denied you access to that information."

"You fucktard!"

Rachael growled out, but Gideon just stared.

"What is a fucktard Miss Rachael? I currently do not have that information."

"You, you dumb hologram."

Gideon blinked at her, and Rachael blinked right back, feeling the eyes of hell on her.

"Should I look up the word?"

Rachael sighed heavily, shaking her head.

"Fuck sake! Come on, please just tell me what happens to Matt and Caitlin! Please with sugar on top!"

"I am sorry, but Dr Wells has-"

"Yeah, yeah whatever you say you bitch." Rachael sighed out. "May I ask why he doesn't want me to know?"

"I am just programmed with his instructions, I do not have the information available."

Rachael felt like punching a wall right now, she truly did feel like she could punch a wall, and make everyone suffer for something like that. But she couldn't, she had to make sure that nothing happened, she had to make sure that she stayed on Harrison's good side.

"Okay, you win Gideon. Could you at least tell me something funny about the future. Like, I don't know, does…uuu, I don't know. Gideon, play some music for me please. Play, Tata Young's Sexy Naughty Bitchy Me for me, would you?"

"Of course, Miss Rachael."

Rachael then heard the song come on, so she squealed, and jumped up in place, and began dancing around the area, shaking her body left, and right, enjoying the very feeling that she was having right now, her body shaking around.

"Ooh yeah! This is my jam Gideon!"

"Do you require toast?"

Rachael looked at the floating head quizzingly.

"No…jam, as in, song. This is my song."

"No, you are mistaken Miss Rachael. A woman by the name of Tata Young was the person who-"

"Gideon!" Rachael snapped as she danced around. "I meant, I love the song. I know who made it, but…ugh, God, you're going to drive me to an early grave, aren't you? Do you like bullying me Gideon?"

Gideon was about to answer when the door opened.

Rachael looked on and then she saw Harrison wheel in.

"Good day, Dr Wells."

"One can always hope, Gideon." He replied, then he stood up, as Rachael showed a pout. "Gideon, switch that music off."

"Anything for you Dr Wells."

Rachael showed an annoyed face, and growled in discontent.

"You didn't have to switch off my music. I was having fun."

"Don't you already have plenty of fun killing people for me?"

He countered, as Rachael walked closer, hugging around his upper body.

"I guess, but I wanna do more for you Wells. My baby cake's."

"In time." He announced, as she looked on as he looked at the floating head. "Bring up my log, would you Gideon?"

"Certainly." The head agreed, bringing up his log, ready to record his words. "Go ahead, Doctor."

He nodded, and folded his arms.

"New entry. It has now been 311 days since lightning struck. Subject has begun relying on his speed in everyday life, using his extraordinary powers to solve ordinary problems I'm late. And accomplish ordinary tasks. Unfortunately, his penchant for the heroic persists. And while his desire to help others is commendable, it is impeding him from realizing the full scope of his abilities. But there's still time, as the future remains intact."

The log had been wrote down as Rachael curiously looked towards him.

"Wells, baby."

"What?"

He answered, not really that interested.

"This Barry Allen always seems to interest you, why is that?"

"Because, he is quite useful to me. And so is your former boyfriend."

"Ah, yeah. How is that project coming along anyway?"

Wells showed an evil smirk on his face.

"In time, he'll slip back into evil, if I have anything to say about it anyway and he already has established a connection to the Sp...none of your business. His powers are useful, and I am sure that he'll be useful to me in the future, as you are, my pet." Rachael whined as he ran a finger over her face. "Something wrong?"

"You won't let Gideon tell me what happens to Matt, and that bitch Caitlin in the future. I mean, this thing can tell future events. Can't she just look it up for me? Or, why are you denying me access to it anyway?"

"Because it doesn't matter right now, it doesn't at all, don't worry."

"But, I just want to know. Do they get married? Do they pop out a few kids? What happens? You're from the future, you must have a good idea on what's going to happen, right? Come on Harry baby, please tell me about it."

Harrison sighed in annoyance, then grasped her wrist, pulling her closer.

"You really want to know?"

"Yeah."

Harrison smirked, then told her.

As he did. Her face contorted into a truly anger filled one. He couldn't remember the last time he had seen someone so angry before, she looked like she was going to butcher everything that she came across.

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"Where's Barry? He's late."

Harrison growled out as Matt curiously looked on. They sat or stood in the area where the treadmill was. Matt saw that Caitlin was rather close to him, and it made him smile that she was that close to him.

"Late is kind of his signature move."

Caitlin murmured as Cisco's eyes lit up.

"Hey, you guys want to see my signature move?"

"No."

Matt denied him the chance to say anything else, causing his face to scrunch up into an annoyed look.

Barry came flashing in as he did, and breathed out.

"Sorry, guys, I got a little held up. You had to be there."

Harrison didn't look pleased at all, Matt couldn't really understand why that was.

"I'm gonna need a moment or two alone with Barry."

Taking the notice to leave, Caitlin and Cisco head for the door.

"Ooh, you're in trouble."

Cisco announced as he walked out.

Matt just stayed there, genuinely interested what he was going to do.

When Harrison looked towards Matt, Matt waved his hand.

Barry held a grin on his face, like a couple of children playing a prank on their Father…which, kind of was how their dynamic worked sometimes. That's how Harrison acted…a very strict Father type figure, that's how he was.

"Mr Stone."

"Yes Dr Wells? What can I do for you?"

Matt said with a cheery grin, Wells sighing deeply.

"Could I have a minute with Barry?"

"Have as long as he has, I don't mind."

Harrison didn't know if Matt loved to piss him off, or he loved to just play pranks.

"I meant alone with Barry. Meaning, could you leave?"

"I could."

Barry snickered as Matt said that, only to be stopped when Harrison glanced at him with those round eyes that he has.

"Come on you."

"Caitlin! I wanna hear what's going on!"

Caitlin walked back into the room, and dragged Matt out of the room by the hand as he protested, but it fell on deaf ears.

She dragged him down to her own private lab where she pushed him against the table. He was surprised by her forwardness, and thought that she was going to kiss him, but that wasn't the case at all.

"Matthew, remember those tests I did on you?"

"Yeah, what about them?"

He asked, so Caitlin brought up some results.

"Matthew, your brain…how to say this…you have quite the brain. Since the incident with the whole you going evil part and allowing your brain to not be hindered by the increased activity due to the overwhelming telepathy, your brains processing power, has increased. Have you, noticed any increase of this activity? I mean, does anything…seem different than before? Can you, retain information quicker? Or, have you read something that before the accident, you wouldn't know what it means, but after, you understood it perfectly?"

"Erm…well, Cisco was doing something the other day, to do with EMP pulses, and such, and as he was doing it, I memorized it detail by detail, and performed it later on just for a laugh to see if it worked, but he said it was exactly perfect."

"Amazing, perhaps you have the ability to copy actions perfectly. It would make sense with the increased brain activity." Caitlin was fascinated, and watched on as a smile appeared on his face. "What's with the smile?"

"I just find it cute when the cogs in your brain go on and on. Trying to always do more work than necessary. I mean, I'm not ready to delve into my brain just yet. I can barely understand my telekinetic powers. I don't really wanna go with my telepathic powers. I've not really tried since I wore this necklace and showed Barry that memory, it's just…"

Caitlin raised a hand to his head, stroking his blonde hair.

"Are you worried?"

"I just don't want to have to go through that pain again honestly."

She nodded in understanding, she'd be the same.

"I understand Matthew. When you're ready, we'll help you with your telepathic abilities. They won't always hinder you. Cisco's working on tech that can help you use them without you having a mini stroke or something else even worse. You have them inside of you, and they could be used for the greater good. Though I do agree that we should wait, until it isn't a danger to use your abilities of a telepathic nature. For now, we'll just focus on making sure that you stay healthy."

Matt smiled as he put his hand out. From his hand, blue lights swirled around his palm Caitlin being quite impressed.

"More than attacking, seems like I can use it for a light source."

"That's quite beautiful…" She paused when she recalled something from the other day. "About what Iris said to us…you know." She looked around, thankful no one was there. "What are we going to do about it?"

"That's a good question. I've been thinking and thinking, and I don't know. I want to say yes, but I don't want Iris in danger. Yet, the more I think about it, this city is getting increasingly dangerous anyway, so she'll be in danger no matter what. Urgh, this is really difficult! Cait, I don't know what to do…"

He sighed out, and Caitlin could see the inner turmoil, so she took his hand and held it gently.

"Don't worry, I'm sure we'll find out soon what's meant to happen."

"Not very scientific to believe in fate."

Caitlin had to agree, giving a small smile.

"Not very scientific, what is before me either. Barry, you, neither of you are scientific."

"Very, very true indeed." Matt stretched his arms, as he heard his phone buzz. "Ugh, that's gonna be Iris."

"You can't keep dodging her phone calls. I know you were doing it this morning."

Matt grimaced, and knew she was right…he just didn't want her to be right.

"I'm not doing it to be mean, I'm doing it so no one dies, or I put her in danger. I don't wanna do that." He sighed out, and answered the phone. "Iris, sweetie, what's going on?"

[Stop ignoring my phone calls!]

He grimaced as did Caitlin.

"I'm not doing it on purpose…I'm just…ugh…"

[No point trying to feed me a lie, I know you are, and I don't wanna hear any excuses. We'll have to meet up again soon, to discuss what I talked about. You know, with the whole, team up thing. I do want to talk about that, preferably soon. Preferably before the end of the day.]

Matt looked towards Caitlin who held a slightly bemused look. He was sure she loved seeing him getting off on things like this.

"Okay, I'll meet up, and talk. I don't know where though…erm, maybe tonight, maybe we could…erm, maybe tonight…"

[I need to go to the police station later around, around 8 or so, bit busy right now, meet me there, then we can talk about it.]

"Okay, sounds perfect. I'll meet you there at 8, promise."

The phone call ended, and Matt felt like he was dying right now, and looked at Caitlin.

"Seems like it was inevitable either way."

"As soon as she found out, I guess this was always bound to happen. I just didn't think that it would be like this…great, I need to go and make sure that we're not, like you know, in a dangerous situation. Iris isn't going to tell anyone, but still, the thought that she could be in danger…it isn't exactly what I need right now."

Caitlin brushed a hand over Matt's face, and then smiled gently.

"Don't worry Matthew, it will work out. And when we go home…I mean, to yours, or to mine, we could have a cosy night in."

"That would be nice. We could, maybe open some wine or something, and then maybe…"

Matt leaned closer as did Caitlin. Teasing a kiss.

But it didn't happen as Cisco came walking in, cutting off their moment.

"What do you think Dr Wells is yelling at him about?"

Matt stood up, shaking his head.

"I have no idea, probably because…I don't know. Either way, I suppose I better go and do my job…ugh, that seems like a chore. Fucking Mason Bridge..."

"You seem a little down all of a sudden, something up?"

"No, I'm okay Cisco. A little tired, think I've been using my powers a little much, with the whole saving people, and such. Done quite a lot today, and it isn't even night time either, and then there's that douche Mason Bridge, just because he's more experienced, he's always being douchy with me, makes me want to throw heavy objects at him. Well, I need to get going anyway. See you all later."

"Bye dude, see you later."

Matt smiled at Cisco, and smiled towards Caitlin then left the area.

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A little while later, at S.T.A.R Labs, the gang had gathered, Barry and Matt both in their costumes. Matt, because he had already just been saving people, draining his powers a little more, and Barry because he was ready to go and catch anything that needed to be caught.

Cisco sat at the computer, while Harrison sat off to the side. Caitlin stood next to Matt who looked at her kindly.

"Facial reconstructive software it's designed for archaeologists, and it should help us ID your crispy corpse."

"The question is, how did he get fried in the first place? Is there a Metahuman out there that can control electricity?"

Barry brought up seriously, Matt wondering the same thing. Wells was the one who answered the doubt.

"It'd take a serious electrostatic discharge to cause that level of tissue damage."

"Guys, according to the software, there's an 82% chance your victim looked like this." Barry folded his arms at the image, so Cisco looked on with a sly look on his face. "Hey, it was zero when you walked in here, pal."

"Can you cross-reference that with the DMV database, maybe get a name?"

Cisco nodded strongly.

"Absolutely. This software can do just about anything now that Matt reprogrammed it."

Matt smiled as he looked on, Caitlin impressed.

"I didn't know you could do that, I didn't even know you did that."

"Well, I was asked to do it by Cisco, and he showed me…different things. Give and take kind of scenario, and all."

As he said that, an image appeared on the screen.

"Casey Donahue. No wife. No kids. Used to work at the Petersburg electrical substation."

"That can't be a coincidence."

As Barry said that, Matt noticed something so he got onto the computer, and tapped on the keyboard rapidly. Once he found what he was looking for, he showed it towards Barry.

"That's weird. Someone just used his ID to enter the substation."

Matt explained, with Caitlin following up.

"The Petersburg grid is experiencing a power drain right now."

Barry knew what he was going to be doing now, he knew what he needed to do, and not everyone agreed to something like that.

"Barry, be…" Barry rushed off, before Dr Wells could finish. "Careful."

Caitlin looked towards Matt, who knew what she wanted.

"You want me to make sure he doesn't get hurt?"

"Don't get hurt yourself either."

"Right, I'll go. Be back soon."

Matt used his powers to take off to the sky, and flew out of S.T.A.R Labs.

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When he got there, he noticed that there was a man that held electrical abilities, and he was shooting it off at Barry.

Matt landed on the ground, panting from the speeds he had to go. He still didn't have full control over his abilities, and he was trying his best to raise the strength level, but he right now couldn't go amazing speeds of power.

"Hah! Hah!"

Barry used his speed to dodge the first one, and the second one. Matt looked on as the lightning tore through the sign that was up. Matt wasn't about to go and punch this person, it wouldn't be right, and he was pretty sure that he'd end up dead if he tried to do something like that.

But then the electricity seemed to, latch onto him somehow. Matt watched on, as the energy was…siphoned from Barry and went into the Meta. Matt already knew this was dangerous, so he gathered energy around his palms.

[Matthew, what's going on?]

Caitlin called through the comm's, Matt couldn't really explain it.

"It's…this Meta is draining Barry somehow. I can't explain it, but I feel the energy from Barry going into the Meta."

[Mr Stone, this is important, you have to stop the Meta somehow, before it kills Barry. His vitals aren't the best, you have to do something.]

Matt nodded, knowing that in this instance, he was right.

"Yeah, I'm on it."

He replied, taking in a breath.

"I have to feed."

Said the Meta as Matt was ready. He was now ready, the energy swirled within his palms.

"Feed on this bitch!"

Psyche thrusted his hand forward, shooting off a blast of energy.

"Aaargh!"

Squarely hitting him in the chest, the Meta stopped draining Barry, and went back into the chain fence behind him, Barry falling to his knees.

"Flash!"

Matt rushed over to Barry who was…panting.

It was odd to see Barry like that, but here he was, panting like he had just done a marathon, as a normal person.

"Flash, are you alright?"

Barry put out his hand, and tried to shake it…

But it felt wrong.

He felt wrong.

He didn't know why he felt wrong, but he did. Matt could tell that something was wrong. Matt usually sensed much from him…but now, he couldn't sense much at all. It was like he wasn't looking at a Meta, it was like he was looking at an ordinary person.

"I-I feel weird Psyche, I don't understand why…w-what's happening to me?"

Matt didn't have an answer, but then he felt something from behind.

Quickly turning, he saw that the lightning Meta once again was walking towards Matt and Barry.

"I need to feed! I'll feed from Harrison Wells who did this to me!"

Matt took that strangely, but he couldn't think right now, and had to protect himself, and Barry.

"No!"

Matt stuck out his hand and made a barrier, protecting both him and Barry. Barry tried to stand, but he felt dizzy, the powers inside of him, weren't responding. It was like he wasn't able to move at all, and he didn't know why that was.

"Psyche…"

Barry murmured as he saw Matt being pushed back. Matt also saw cracks within his barrier, and couldn't explain it. The same feeling Barry had, Matt was having, and he could see that the lightning was absorbing the energy somehow. Or maybe, because he was exerting so much, he was losing some of his powers.

Just then, the barrier broke down, and the lightning clung to Matt himself. As it did, he felt the charge going through his system...

But then so did something else.

Sparks ran through Matt's eyes, as a cloak wrapped around Matt's form, his energy.

It was an instinct, but Matt's body didn't receive a wound, but his energy output was more than normal, it was more than Matt had done before...

But, he couldn't control it.

Something, was forcing the power to protect his body, he had no control over it, and he was draining, fast.

"Ooh my God, my powers are going to drain if this continues on…"

"You have to stop it somehow."

Matt looked around and saw that there was a sharp looking pipe on the ground. Turning his hand towards it, he used telekinesis to move it. But it seemed to take a little longer than normal to lift it up.

"Haaah!"

Matt launched the pipe, which pierced right through the mans arm. He let out a bellowing cry, and then Matt gathered some energy in his hands once again as the lightning stopped hitting Matt's body and the cloak of protective energy stopped as well as the sparks between his eyes, launching it without a second thought, hitting the Meta away.

Matt turned to Barry.

"Flash, we need to go. Can you get us out of here?"

Barry went to run, but something definitely wasn't right.

"I can't. My speed is gone."

Matt didn't like this at all, and he could see the Meta was recovering, pulling out the pipe.

Knowing that there was no other way, Matt grabbed Barry and hauled him over his shoulder.

"You've carried me, and now I'm gonna carry you."

Matt used his flight ability to take into the air, and flew off with Barry, his powers feeling weaker by the moment.

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When Matt arrived back at S.T.A.R Labs, he placed Barry down onto the ground, and then fell down to his knees.

"Matthew!"

Caitlin went to his side, seeing that he was panting heavily.

"I-I feel so weak…"

"I-I'll take care of you, Cisco, look after Barry."

"Sure."

Cisco went over to Barry and took him away with Dr Wells.

Caitlin led Matt to her lab, and began performing tests, as Matt continued to pant. The tests she did, Matt wasn't sure if they would accomplish anything, he wasn't sure, since he felt so weak right now, the Meta having done something to him that he didn't like at all.

While Caitlin ran tests, they also heard about Barry and his condition of not being able to use his speed either, like it was gone.

Matt didn't think it would bode well for him either.

"Matthew, try and levitate this cup for me."

Matt looked on as Caitlin laid down the cup on the table.

Sticking out his hands, he concentrated, and concentrated, but all he managed to do was lift it up slightly.

Seeing that, Matt felt dejected.

"Great, my useful powers have gone."

Caitlin shook her head, and leaned closer, placing a hand on his thigh.

"Your DNA was transformed by the particle accelerator blast. There's no way to untransform DNA. Your powers, have been drained, Matthew, but they are still there. Unlike Barry's, this absorbing Meta person wasn't able to absorb yours, it has to be as you said, you used all your energy to keep yourself alive when the lightning struck you. Because, unlike Barry, your powers aren't electrical based, you were pushed beyond the normal limits. From what I can tell, your powers are regenerating on their own, since you managed to at least lift the cup up, Barry can't move at least a little bit of super speed. Matthew, you're going to be okay, your powers will come back, they are just recuperating, maybe in a day or so, you'll be fine. And your telepathic abilities, as far as I can tell, shouldn't have been affected as that's different with mental energy and all, I wouldn't worry so much Matthew, your powers are going to return."

Matt released a breath of relief, which was odd for Caitlin to see.

"Thank God…"

"I thought you'd be more…relieved that you might lose your powers."

Matt chuckled.

"Maybe I would be, if I didn't feel like I am connected to them now…at least, my telekinetic abilities, I feel…I do good with my powers Caitlin, and if I never got my powers…I never would've met you." Caitlin smiled, as she felt his hand enclose around hers. "Without my powers right now, I feel like the new part of me is gone, and it's, scary. I've been getting used to this…new me, moving forward with my life, and now…without my powers, I feel like…I'm not the new me anymore, and the old me is…I don't want to be the old me anymore."

"Matthew, you're still you, with or without your powers."

"Am I? I mean, am I really? You never knew me without my powers, and if they went away, maybe the thing that interests you about me would…"

Caitlin began laughing as Matt was giving a sad look.

"Did you really think that the only thing I cared about was your abilities?"

"Well…don't you?"

"No." She said gently, squeezing his hand gently. "Matthew, I liked you long before you could lift up things with a flick of your wrist, before you could make energy weapons, before you could fly, well before you became Psyche. I like the kind, sensitive, manly, and gentle person you are. Powers, don't really factor into anything for me. You could be the weakest person in the world, as long as you've got your personality, then I'm content, that's what I like about you. Powers, or no, you're still my Matthew."

Matt began chuckling and leaned closer.

"You're too kind. I really do care about you Caitlin."

"I care about you too."

She whispered, then proceeded to kiss him. He kissed her back, pulling her closer.

When they broke apart, Matt held onto Caitlin's hand.

"I'll protect you."

"Matthew I…"

"Even without powers, I will protect you." He stated again, then chuckled. "Even from this power stealing Vampire. Even if something happens to me, I will protect you Caitlin, no matter what else happens, I'll protect you. I don't even care if I get hurt, I won't let this thing hurt you, or Barry, or Cisco, or Iris, or anyone. Even without my powers, I'll still come to your side if you need me."

Caitlin hugged Matt tightly, falling against his chest. Respond to that, he ran his fingers through her hair, kissing the top of her head.

"That's the part of you that draws me to you. Not the powers, but your kindness, and your bravery, even without powers. Matthew, as long as you stay like this, I'll stick beside you. Besides, who else is gonna make sure you don't go overboard?"

"You're my anchor then."

Caitlin giggled, removing her face from his chest, and stared at his own face.

"I'll be your anchor, if you're mine."

"You're on Dr Snow."

Caitlin pulled away from Matt, but still held onto his hand.

"I'm going to go and see if there's anything I can do to help restore Barry's speed."

"I need to go and see Iris, it's nearing that time. Wonder how it's going to go down?"

"Hey, you're a pretty smart guy, you'll figure it out."

Matt chuckled as she walked away.

Matt quickly changed into street clothing Matt, consisting of jeans, a shirt, and a jacket.

Making sure that he has everything, he walks out of Caitlin's private lab, and went for the exit…only to be stopped when he sees Barry, staring at his costume longingly, Matt could relate with the way that he was staring right now.

"Barry, are you okay?"

Matt walked closer, seeing that he might need someone, someone that understood what's going on.

"You think I'll ever wear it again?"

"Everyone's working on it, I'm sure they'll figure it out, they are smart sons of bitches, and Caitlin who's so…ugh, yeah, they're working on it Barry."

Matt placed a hand on Barry's back, as Barry folded his arms.

"I didn't have my speed for very long, but now that it's gone, it feels like part of me is gone too."

"I know what you're feeling, I felt it too. I feel like…a part of me has just died. And I'm sure that you're feeling the same right now."

Barry turned to him, and nodded his head.

"You get it, it does feel like that. And I'm not the best version of me. I love being The Flash. I love everything about it: The feeling of running hundreds of miles per hour, wind and power just rushing past my face, being able to help people. I'm not sure I can live without it, Matt."

Matt could understand, he felt the same about his powers.

"You lived without it before, and so did I. We'll live, even if they didn't return. But I understand your pain, because I have it as well, inside of me. Barry, I understand, but don't worry, we'll get your speed back, somehow. Caitlin was telling me that your cells are still unchanged, we'll just have to jolt your powers awake again or something."

"Heh, maybe we could do. But you know…I'm kinda glad someone else knows what it is like."

Matt nodded, understanding completely.

"Cisco, Caitlin, and Wells have all this intelligence…but, not the feeling of it. You can't describe it, the rush it gives you, the feeling of wanting to protect, it does, doesn't it? No matter how intelligent, or understanding you are. Until you have these…abilities, then they can't understand what it is like to lose them. Essentially, they are apart of what makes you, who you are."

Barry nodded his head, taking in a deep breath.

"You're not wrong. That's exactly the thought process I have right now."

Matt patted Barry on the back once more, and turned to the door.

"I've gotta meet, Iris for something to do with…something that doesn't really matter, just some paper stuff. Want me to pass on a message?"

"No, I'm good, thanks. But…hey, when we find this Meta…what do you think we're gonna do? We're down two powered people."

"We'll find away, we usually do. I took out Meta's before I had my telekinetic abilities, we'll do it again afterwards. Don't worry Barry, leave it to big brains in there, let them figure it out. Just take a few minutes to yourself, and allow yourself to relax."

"Right, thanks."

Matt shook his head, and took to the door.

"Don't worry Barry, we'll win this day, I assure you."

Barry felt genuinely, good about that, he felt, calmer, relaxed, and like a weight had been lifted. Though some remained, Barry could breathe easier than he could beforehand.

---

Matt walked into the police department, and went inside of the elevator.

He took it to the floor that he wanted, the place he knew Iris would be. Or rather, where she had told him to meet her, and he knew that something was going to go down, he didn't know what was going to go down, but he knew something was going to happen, and he didn't like it at all.

Stepping outside, he saw her immediately, waiting patiently by where her Father's office would be. Inside said office, he also saw Joe present, and some other people. One person he did notice was the man that had weird looking glasses, and seemed to keep looking at watches.

He smiled sheepishly, and walked closer. Iris just stood there, and then saw the stairs to the left, so gestured over.

Matt followed, his curiosity growing by the second.

"Matt, it's about time you came."

"Sorry." He apologized, stretching. "I've, been having a little, drainage today, my powers, have been drained."

Concern immediately came to her eyes, and face.

"Oh my God, are you…going to be permanently like that?"

Matt shook his head as he sat on the stairs, glad that others weren't around.

"No, Caitlin assured me it's just because I have been using them too much, and there's this Meta that forced me to use more energy than I am used too, so yeah, it's gonna take a little time. They'll return in a matter of hours, it's returning as we speak. Either way, I suppose you wanna talk about…well, that aspect of me."

She nodded seriously, made sure no one was listening, then continued.

"Yeah…you've been, kinda avoiding me lately, ever since the whole, team up thing came up."

"It's not like I wanted to, it's just…I'm concerned that, it might put you in danger. Heck, if I didn't have powers, I don't think I would put myself into danger like this. I don't wanna put you into a situation where you could be hurt."

"I thought it was like that. You know, my Father's the same. I just thought that you might be different than that."

Seeing the sadness that was coming to her eyes, Matt placed a hand on her back.

"It's not like I don't think you're capable, clearly you are. You're very capable, you're intelligent, and I know together, we'd do amazing things. I just…I don't know, I feel apprehension about it."

"If you're worried about me getting hurt then, you don't have too. I'm quite capable, even you just said I was. I just thought, we'd make an amazing team. Like we have done before. Remember, even before I found out about your powers, we went too…places, and we did things that stopped the bad guys. I just thought…cleaning up the people that Flash, or the police can't. There will be times when The Flash isn't here, and I thought, we'd make a great different, we'd make a team that no one would could have."

Hearing her words, he couldn't deny that she was right.

That she could be right. They did, and could make a great team. And if she said it like that, then he would be alright with saying it.

"Iris you know that I really value you, and maybe…heck, maybe we could make a great team together. Even with Caitlin if she likes. We'd be great together, no doubt. But, it would mean, lying to your Father, and Eddie, do you really wanna do that? Keeping secrets, it isn't exactly like it is that easy you know?"

"Of course it would be hard lying to my Father, and Eddie about it. But, I really do believe we'd be awesome together. And I don't just want it to be like, because you have powers, and I want to become famous or something. I really do want to help people."

Matt could understand that, he never thought Iris would be the type of person to do it for fame anyway or anything quite like that.

"I know, and maybe we could…"

Matt then saw someone he didn't think he would.

He saw, Frankie walking past, with a policeman following behind her.

"Frankie? Why is she here?"

"I dunno, come on, let's check it out."

Together with Iris, Matt walked towards the central part of the office, where the police where, including that of Joe.

"Frankie, what happened?"

Frankie was startled at the name drop, and she looked…but then her face softened when she saw it was only Matt.

"Matt, why are you here?"

"I asked first."

He reminded as Joe walked closer.

"You know her?"

"She's in my class." Matt replied. "She's one of my brightest students…but, why is she here? She hasn't…"

He didn't think that she would, but he wasn't going to be too careful here, he was going to assume what might be if he had to.

Joe shook his head.

"She's filing in a report, apparently she witnessed a theft going down, and saw the mans face and she's giving her details now."

Matt nodded, and looked towards her with a kind smile.

"Are you okay? Do you want me to call your parents to come and be with you?"

"No!" She quickly got out, driving home some suspicions. "I just…I'm glad you're here. C-Can you…I mean, c-could you…s-stay with me f-for a little while? Please? I-I trust you…please Matt?"

Matt walked closer, petting the girls head.

"Sure, I don't mind. I'll stay here with you until you're done and make sure you're okay. But we'll have to give your parents a call, they'll be worried about you."

"N-No, please…please don't Matt, please."

Matt cocked his head as Frankie looked down. Even Iris looked suspicious about this.

"Frankie…is everything alright?"

"Y-Yeah, I just don't want to…involve them, okay?"

Matt nodded his head, he was okay with it.

"Sure, for now, we don't have to."

Suddenly, as they were talking in the office, the power went down.

Lights flickered on and off, and soon they went off all together.

It was a blackout.

"Ooh no…"

"What?"

Iris whispered to Matt, who grimaced.

"Remember when I talked about that Meta?" She nodded. "He had powers to do things like this, so either he's here, or…"

"He's at…ooh God, what if he's at the…"

Before she could finish, Iris saw that her Dad moved closer, so she stopped speaking.

As it was dark, Matt felt...something moving.

He noticed that on the tables, metal objects seemed to be shaking. Though only the light of the moon could bright up the office now, Matt saw that it was moving, and it wasn't him doing it.

"A Meta...but where?"

He thought, looking around.

As he did look around, he placed a hand on Frankie's shoulder for comfort.

As he did, Frankie looked back towards him, and he saw the shaking of the metal stop.

He looked between the metal objects, and Frankie herself...

But he didn't have time to think as Tockman, a guy that had a weird clock fetish stole a cops gun, and shot one of them in the back, killing him off instantly.

"Aaagh!"

Frankie clung to Matt immediately as Iris hid behind him.

As she did that, Matt heard "Don't change, don't change, don't change..." coming from Frankie, not seeing her eyes flickering between normal, and the colour magenta, due to her head being buried against his chest, and he felt the shaking of metal all around him, even the metal in the building's support structure seemed to be shaking as well.

Another cop tried to do something, but Tockman used his gun that he stole, shooting him in the chest, knocking him down to the ground, most likely killing him, Matt looking at Frankie with some suspicious looks.

"Could she be doing this...? Is she a Metahuman...?"

Though a gun was firing, Matt couldn't help but think that Frankie could be the cause of the shaking.

"Guns on the floor! It should take you less than three seconds to discard any thought of rebellion and comply. I take it I don't need to count out loud." The cops left inside dropped their guns, and did what he said. He walked closer, and closer to Iris, Joe, and Frankie along with Matt, looking between Joe, and Iris. "Hmm. Striking resemblance."

Joe stood in front of Iris like a protective Father would do, Matt watched as the man walked towards Frankie, and tried to touch her, but Matt got in the way.

"Leave her alone."

He threatened, pushing Frankie behind him as her eyes turned back to their normal colour, the metal shaking stopped.

Tockman cocked his head.

"Oh? What time is between you? I'd say a few years worth of time, it would be wonderful to count it up."

"I don't care about your clock crap, you leave her alone. She's a child for God's sake. Just let her go."

That didn't even seem to even affect him in the slightest.

"Child or not, it doesn't matter. Now, everyone get in the lobby area, now!"

Frankie jumped, so Matt walked closer, and held onto her shoulders, soothing her so she didn't freak out, it wouldn't do anyone any good.

"It's alright Frankie, don't worry, we'll get out of this."

He couldn't fight back right now. If it was just him, he would do it. But, as it stood, he had people around him, and his powers weren't exactly the best right now.

He had to bide his time, and wait, until he was able to make his move.

He had his hands bound behind his back, as did the others. They were all gathered in the lobby area, and forced to their butts.

Frankie, who was frightened, stuck close to Matt who could only rest his head on top of hers. Iris moved closer to Matt as the madman went around them, circulating them like he was going to pick them off one by one.

"It's okay Frankie, it's alright, don't worry. Don't feel frightened, we'll get out of this somehow."

Frankie, with frightened eyes, turned them towards Matt.

"Matt, are we going to die?"

To hear that from Frankie was so heart breaking, it made his world feel like it was crumbling down.

"Shhh, no sweetheart, we're not going to die. We'll do something, I promise. I'll keep you safe."

"What are we going to do Matt?"

Iris asked from the side, with Joe gesturing with his eyes, Matt knew what that meant, but he shook his head ever so slightly then looked down.

"I don't know, we'll figure something out, don't worry Iris, we'll definitely figure something out."

"I hope so…" She looked towards Tockman, and then lowered her brows. "I really hope we do."

"We'll just have to think of something, partner."

Now was as best of time than any to drop it in.

Iris smiled despite the situation, then laid her head on Matt's shoulder.

"Yeah, we will, partner."

The situation was dire, and they didn't know what they were going to do. Whatever it was, Matt knew that he was going to have to do something. Iris knew as well. This time, they didn't have Barry to come to their aid, they had one another…they had to think of something.

However, Matt then felt that his phone was buzzing.

Again and again, he felt like it was buzzing, and he couldn't get to it.

"Iris, could you get into my pocket, and press the accept button on my phone. It might be Caitlin, and she's at S.T.A.R Labs…she might be in danger, that Meta from before mentioned something about Wells…I need to at least tell her something."

"I'll try my best."

Iris shifted her body around, and tried her best while the Clock King as he called himself was looking around at another place.

Doing the best she could, she managed to get into his pocket, and press what she hoped was the accept button, guessing since she remembered all the times that she had seen him answer his phone, and her own phone as well, she was doing it from memory.

---

Back at S.T.A.R Labs, Barry had rung up the police department, and got through to his sergeant, and it wasn't good news.

He heard that Joe, and Iris were both being held hostage, and Caitlin heard that as well, knowing that Matt had gone there as well, and without his full powers, worrying thought after thought exploded in her mind.

And now with Farooq in the building, the Meta with electrical abilities, it wasn't looking good for our heroes. Caitlin could barely think, she couldn't even act properly, she held herself, and wondered how many scenarios were going through her head.

She tried calling Matt, several times, but nothing went through. Or rather, the phone just went dead, and he didn't answer it. She even sent messages that Farooq was in the building. Just hoping, praying that he'd get it.

"I need my powers back now."

Barry snapped, desperate to save Iris, and Joe, and Matt as well.

Harrison put his fingers together, then expressed his thoughts.

"I have a theory. It's untested."

"I'm willing to roll the dice."

Barry didn't care, he had to do something to get his powers back.

"Okay, you've lost your speed, yes, but nothing has changed inside you on a subatomic level. In other words, your cells are still primed."

"They just need a jumpstart."

That sounded good to Barry, but still, he wasn't sure about all of this.

"Okay, how do we do that? How do we jumpstart me?"

"We need to replicate the initial jolt to your system."

"But that would mean a peak current of at least 20,000 kilo-amps."

Cisco brought up after Wells, Caitlin hearing that and she wasn't exactly pleased with it. With Matt missing, and now hearing that they were going to do this to Barry, they didn't have a choice they didn't have a choice at all.

"Are you insane? That's more electricity than they give to people in the electric chair."

Harrison turned towards Caitlin, clearly able to see the worry on her face.

"Caitlin, with Farooq in the building, we're all looking at a death sentence here. We don't even have Mr Stone here right now, the probably most capable one of us without any powers. And we don't have time to wait for him either…"

Cisco, seeing that Caitlin wasn't liking how Harrison was speaking, diverted the topic away from Matt for the moment, if only to save her some sanity.

"The spare generator's offline. If we reboot it, we could get a charge that big."

"We need something that can transmit the load from the generator to Barry's body without shorting out."

Harrison looked around, but Cisco had a…somewhat good idea.

"The treadmill. My baby could take the charge."

"What if Barry can't?"

Caitlin complained, worried for both men now. Harrison though,

"Well, that's up to Mr. Allen."

As he said that, Caitlin took out her phone, and rang the number again, she had to try Matt once more. Even if it was futile, she had to at least try and do something against this person, whatever it was.

Then, she heard a voice, and she felt relieved.

"Matthew I-"

[You won't get away with this Clock King! That's what you're called, isn't it!?] Caitlin instantly knew that Matt was in the hostage situation, putting a hand to her mouth. [But, you know, even if I am here, I can still protect the people that I care about!]

[What are you talking about?]

Caitlin heard the Clock King's voice, hoping Matt wasn't going to get hurt because of this.

[I'm just saying, even if I am stuck here, I always make sure my friends are protected! And, I always make sure that I leave special things in desks that have draws! But my favourite number is three, did you know that!? I've always loved Romeo and Juliet!]

Caitlin walked over to her desk, and went through the draw that was the third one from the top, looking for Romeo and Juliet because she knew there must be a reason why he was saying that, as she heard Clock King's voice again.

[Have you lost your mind?]

Caitlin was watched by the others, as she pulled out a weird looking gun from the book in question, that had almost an energy type power flow. It looked like a revolver, but Caitlin could see that the energy was almost like Matt's, and wondered when he even made this, as Cisco looked shocked at seeing it so he didn't make it.

[Maybe I have, but I just want to say, that these last ten or so months now, would've been torture if I hadn't been with a special girl. If I die here…I just want her to know that, I really did love the time that we spent together, and I'm glad…that I met such an amazing person. She really is, my life saver, and I feel…no words can express right now, how thankful I am to her and for her to even look at me…was the greatest pleasure. So, thank you, my lovely doctor.]

Caitlin put her hand to her face, tears stinging her eyes, as she heard the line go dead.

She didn't know what happened, if he was discovered, or not, but whatever happened, she wished that he was okay, that he wasn't dead, that he didn't have a hope…she prayed that he was okay, no matter what.

"Where, and when did he even make a gun like that? I haven't seen it before."

Cisco was intrigued, but Caitlin didn't have the answers.

"Let's hope we can ask him if we all get out of this."

Even though Barry heard all that, he still went towards the door.

"Where are you going?"

Harrison demanded from him, as he didn't understand what the hell was going on.

"I'm gonna talk to him."

Harrison, and the others couldn't quite believe what was going on right now, they didn't even understand it at all.

"No. No. Okay, you didn't see him at the substation. He needed to feed. I got super speed out of the particle accelerator blast, but his best friends died. He woke up with a disease. It's like Matt himself. His powers were killing him, Wells, and this Farooq is the same."

"Earlier today, you worked a crime scene where this Metahuman electrocuted an innocent man. He's a murderer! And you are powerless to defend yourself against him. And I would hardly call Mr Stone's case and this one the same. Mr Stone didn't murder anyone innocent, and even when he went evil, he snapped himself out of this. T-This person isn't a good person."

Though Harrison said it with urgency, Barry couldn't believe him, and felt sickened at the same time as this was going down.

"He may just need help like I did. I don't need my powers to offer him that. I have to try."

Barry in the end, just did what he thought was right, and tried to go and speak him down. Caitlin looked at the gun in her hand, and tightened her fingers around it.

---

Back at the precinct, Tockman strolled over to Matt, and held the gun to his face, his forehead to be precise. Iris, and Frankie began panicking, but Matt didn't even blink, like he wasn't afraid, or maybe, he had gotten used to hiding his fear.

"I don't know what your weird little rant was about then, but I don't want to hear anymore of it, alright? Or, do I have to put a bullet in your brain? Your time, would be out then, wouldn't it?"

Matt inhaled a breath, as Frankie began crying.

"Please…don't hurt him…please."

She begged, as Matt offered her a smile, despite the situation.

Tockman considered it, before he brought up the gun, and whacked it across Matt's face, and with enough force to cause Matt to spit up a little blood, a cut appearing on his bottom lip.

"No! S-Stop it, please!"

Frankie begged as Iris was too stunned.

"I'm okay Frankie, don't worry about me."

Frankie held her head down, as Matt rubbed the top of her head with his own, his own way of comforting her.

Tockman pulled away, and then walked backwards.

"Next outburst, I'll kill you."

Matt just looked at him defiantly, like he was going to do something. Tockman sniggered at the brave sight before him, then walked to the window.

Iris looked at Matt, as did Joe. Joe wasn't close enough to say anything, but he wished that he could right now.

"Are you mad Matt? What if he killed you?"

"I was…saying goodbye to Caitlin, that's all…just in case." Iris could understand that, wishing she could do the same with Eddie right now, though she knew that he was somewhere else entirely, and wouldn't be around here. "But we've got to get out of here right now Iris. If he's there, then…"

"Can you, make a knife of energy and cut through these cuffs?"

Matt tried to do as she said as he heard over the walkie talkie that Tockman had.

[Tockman? Tockman. Tockman!]

"I am presently in control of eight of Central City's finest, three underpaid assistants, and one very brave civilian girl along with a teenage girl and a very brave but foolish civilian boy as well."

Tockman said as Matt continued concentrating…but it wasn't happening. He could only get a few whisks of energy to appear.

[You've got demands; I want to hear them. But first let the civilians go. Especially the teenage girl, let her go.]

"Would you prefer I sent them out alive or dead? Please be more specific."

Tockman walked past Frankie, and tried to touch her head, but she thrusted her head towards Matt. The man himself walked closer to the window, and looked out of it as he made his demands to the police, Matt finding it futile at this point to continue on with the telekinetic energy.

"One helicopter, one vegetarian takeout meal, one laptop with eight gigabytes of RAM will be delivered on this roof at exactly 53 minutes and 27 seconds from now, or I shoot a hostage. Perhaps, I shall start with the child, how about that?"

Matt put his head on Frankie's own, seeing that she was shivering.

"Don't worry Frankie, I won't let him hurt you, he'd have to shoot me first."

Frankie's eyes went towards Matt, and more shock than anything was there.

No adult had ever been so protective over her.

No adult had cared so much for her before to put their own lives on the line for her.

[There is a citywide blackout. I'm gonna need more time.]

"Captain, you may delay, but time will not."

"Benjamin Franklin."

Tockman turned to Joe, impressed that he even knew what that was.

"Very good, detective."

Tockman went towards the window, and looked out of it again, as Iris looked at Matt, but he shook his head.

"It's a no go, I can't do it. Damn that Meta, if I had my powers, then I'd be able to…even if I could just get to him, I could outfight him. But with that damn gun in his hand, he could shoot a lot of people before I could make it to him."

That was the only thing that was stopping Matt right now going over, and punching him out. Otherwise, Matt would've gone over, and knocked the man out. But he couldn't do that, he wouldn't do that when people were around.

"What about your telepathic powers? Can't you think about something? I know you have it."

Matt leaned his neck back, showing the necklace around his neck.

"This blocks it off…though, maybe because…hmmm, Iris. I need you to take this off me. There's a hook at the back. If I can get if off, maybe I can use some kind of mental attack…I've not done it before, but, maybe I can now."

"How am I supposed to get it off?"

"Teeth, I guess."

He responded, as he looked towards Tockman, seeing that he wasn't looking.

Iris didn't know if she was going to be able to do this, but she didn't see another way out, it had to happen like this. She moved her head towards Matt's neck, and desperately tried using her teeth to unhook the necklace from his neck.

They made as less noise as they possibly could do, but it was difficult. Somehow though, Joe thought that Iris was…trying to do things with Matt, and looked on with a quizzing look, Matt didn't have the heart to tell him that Iris knew about his powers and such, it wouldn't be right at all.

"Damn it." Iris cursed as she couldn't get it. "I can't get it Matt, when I pull down the release part, I can't yank it away at the same time."

Matt was afraid of that, and he didn't know what the heck to do now.

Tockman slowly turned away so Matt grunted at Iris.

"What are you two doing?"

He demanded, as he saw Iris kissing Matt's cheek. She tried to kiss Matt's lips, but before she could, Matt turned his head so she couldn't.

When she pulled away, she looked unsatisfied that she couldn't kiss his lips.

"I'm kissing my fiancée, goodbye potentially. Something wrong with that?"

Joe was livid, and genuinely believed that Iris and Matt were fiancée's despite knowing that she was dating Eddie. Frankie cocked her head, she didn't quite believe it on the same level as Joe had been beforehand.

"Fine, whatever. As they say, time flies. And yours shall be flying as well."

Tockman turned back to the window, as Iris looked into Matt's eyes.

"Fiancée?"

Matt questioned, only for Iris to roll her eyes.

"Only thing I could think of."

"You just tried to kiss me on the lips."

"Yeah, and I am never gonna be able to do that again, and I wanted to do it once in my life but you stopped it..."

"I'm with Caitlin, she'd...God knows what she might do."

Iris still looked unsatisfied.

"But Matt, this necklace isn't coming off, if someone else could help…"

"What are you talking about?"

Frankie came into the conversation. Matt was about to dismiss her…when, he realized something.

"Frankie, could you help Iris take my necklace off? It might seem weird, but I'll explain…eventually. For now, please?"

Though she didn't understand, she could see that it meant something powerful, so she consented.

Together with Iris, who bit down on the release part, Frankie used her teeth to release the necklace from Matt's neck, then dropped it so it landed on her lap.

As soon as it was released, Matt didn't miss this pain.

Thoughts flooded into his mind. From Iris, Frankie, Joe, Tockman, and even people outside as well, and Caitlin's drug wasn't in his system either, so he had to deal with the full force of the effects, and it was overpowering.

"Are you alright?"

Seeing the pain on his face, Iris couldn't help but ask.

Matt chuckled awkwardly, trying to fight off the ensuing pain that was breaking his mind down to places Matt didn't even want to think about, it felt like he was being tortured, and he didn't like it at all, he wished that the pain would stop.

"I feel like I'm dying right now, but beyond that, peachy keen."

Matt tried his best to gain control, and he did, for some part.

He could at least hear his own thoughts, and then remembered what evil Matt did to Barry, so he tightened his eyes on Tockman, and concentrated.

Sending all the thoughts that he had at someone else.

It wasn't an easy task, it was hard to pull off, concentration was key. Though Matt hadn't done it before, he couldn't help but think that it was going to be very difficult. But he had to do it, Caitlin, Iris, Frankie, and all of the others were at risk.

"Aagh…"

Matt could see that it was working.

More and more thoughts bounced off Matt, and went channeling right into Tockman.

He leaned against the desk, putting a hand to his head.

More and more psychic blasts went off, Matt doing it mentally.

A mental attack.

It was hard to deflect, but also hard to use.

Matt wasn't used to flexing these powers, and it caused his own nose to bleed, worrying Iris, and Frankie along with Joe, but he didn't stop, as Tockman felt more and more pain entering his mind, so much so that his vision was blurring.

"It's working Matt, it's working. Just hold on a little longer."

Matt winced at Iris' praise, trying his best to make sure the man went down.

When he put his hands on the floor, Matt knew that this was the time when he was going to be the most vulnerable.

Matt took to his feet, and rushed forward.

Joe watched with baited breath as Matt jumped, bringing his arms downwards, and under his feet. With swiftness, he changed the position of his hands so they were now in front of him, not behind him, Iris immediately trying to do the same so she could help.

"Hyaaa!"

Matt kneed the man in the face, sending him down to the ground, he kicked the gun away so he couldn't use it.

"Aaagh! Young man! Don't you know it isn't very polite when doing things like that!? I was suffering, and you hit me!?"

The man took to his feet as Iris managed to get her hands to her front, and rushed over.

"Bring it on."

Matt said as Tockman charged. He swung for Matt's face, but he pulled away, and brought up his bound hands.

Quickly, he wrapped them around his wrist, were Matt used to his advantage, bringing his hands down, and causing Tockman's body to go down as well, hitting his head on the table, knocking the wind out of him.

"Bastard!"

Iris, with her hands together, slammed them across his face as he was already dizzy, Matt slamming him backwards towards the table with his foot, knocking him out.

As soon as he was knocked out, a pained smile came to Matt's face as Iris smiles herself.

People that were captured, began clapping, the police getting up, and undoing the handcuffs off everyone, and making sure that Tockman got handcuffs on him.

"Damn, we're good."

Matt placed a hand to his throbbing forehead.

"Ooh God, I need to get my necklace right back, now…"

"Frankie's got it, I'll get it."

Matt nodded, as he leaned against the table, the pain increasing…but, it was more tamed than last time, it seemed to be anyway.

Joe walked over, and undid Matt's cuffs.

"Did you use your…Meta powers?"

"Yeah."

"Does Iris…"

"No, she doesn't."

Relief came to Joe's face, and he felt bad about lying but he had to for now.

"Did you really have to kiss my daughter?"

"She tried to kiss my lips but didn't. Don't tell Eddie, I don't wanna deal with that drama. And Caitlin is...she'll understand that she's my one and only, and it didn't even happen anyway."

Joe didn't know what to say as a response to that.

Iris came over with Frankie, both now unbound.

"Matt!"

Frankie hugged onto Matt's body, as he petted her head. He took the necklace off Iris, and put it back on. Just before he did, he heard "I wish I could stay with Matt always…" coming from Frankie's mind, wondering what that was about.

Once it was one, Matt turned to Frankie with a kind smile.

"It's okay, I'm okay now Frankie. Are you okay Frankie?"

She nodded, placing her head on his chest, as he petted the back of her own head.

"We've done our bit here…"

"Damn, S.T.A.R Labs!" Matt took out his phone, and saw that Caitlin had sent a message. "It's from Cait."

Iris looked over his shoulder as they both read the message, Matt continuing to comfort Frankie with his hand.

[Farooq is in S.T.A.R Labs, and he's looking for Dr Wells. We're gonna try on our end to stop him. But Matthew, if something happens, I just want to tell you that, I also cherished our time together. Thank you for everything.]

Matt put on a frown, and then rung Caitlin…but she didn't answer.

He tried a few times, but nothing worked.

"Damn…"

"Who's Farooq?"

Iris wondered, and Matt did…but, then it clicked.

"It must be that…lightning dudes name. He's at S.T.A.R Labs, and I don't have…my gifts, and I don't think my other gifts would work here…but, maybe I have something back at my hideout."

"You have a hideout?"

"It's under the club." Matt explained, as Iris cocked her head. He looked towards Frankie. "Frankie, I need you to stay here while I go and deal with something. I promise I'll be back soon, okay?"

"Matt…"

"Don't worry Frankie, I'll be back soon, I promise. Stay with Iris, and Joe, they'll look after you until I've come back."

She nodded, and Matt went towards the door.

Iris looked on, then rushed to his side.

"You're not going without me."

"Iris I-"

"Didn't we just proved we can work together? Come on, two heads are better than one."

Matt relented with a sigh.

"Okay, let's get going."

The pair grasped hands, going for the elevator, but remembered the power was out.

"The stairs!"

Iris called, so they rushed down the stairs, towards Matt's hideout, hoping that he wasn't too late with the others.

---

Barry either being brave, or foolish, went onto the part where he would have to do things like this, and looked down the corridor, where he could see Farooq coming, lightning dancing around his palms. The others hid behind the walls to the place Barry came from, listening into the conversation.

"Hey, whoa, whoa. Whoa, whoa, easy." Barry put his palms out, not wanting to be shocked. "I'm not gonna hurt you."

"You can't hurt me. Where is Harrison Wells?"

That's all the thoughts that were in his mind right now, that's all he needed to even think about right now.

"Look, I know what happened to you. The night of the accelerator explosion, it changed you. It changed me too."

Farooq looked on at him, then it clicked within his mind.

"You were the one in the red suit. I fed from you. I have to keep feeding."

Barry wondered what that would be like and how alone the Meta must feel right now.

"All right, I know this has to be terrifying. That's why I want to help you, okay?"

He tried to reason with him, but it was difficult.

"The night of the explosion, when the light hit me, it stopped my heart. Jake and Darya."

"They were your friends."

Farooq walked closer and closer.

"I woke up, and they were beside me, dead. They tried to give me CPR. They were touching me, and I electrocuted them."

Barry felt saddened by that, knowing that it could be very painful to deal with something like that.

"This is not your fault."

"I know. Wells did this to me."

"Farooq, you need to listen to me."

Farooq was done listening, sending a bolt of lightning right at the man, flinging Barry through the air, and to the ground.

"Leave!"

Caitlin rushed from where she was, directing the gun she had and fired a blast. She was surprised when the concussive force was enough to knock down Farooq.

Cisco and Harrison dropped the doors, so Farooq was stopped for the moment.

"Done being noble, Mr. Allen?" Barry let out a sigh as Harrison looked towards Caitlin. "Caitlin, get him to the treadmill."

Caitlin helped Barry to his feet, and took off with him, as Harrison looked towards Cisco.

"Cisco, bring the generator online. Make sure Barry gets the charge."

Harrison turned to the other way, to go, but Cisco was conflicted.

"What? You're not coming with me? I am not leaving you."

Harrison stopped, and turned his neck towards Cisco.

"Listen to me. Of everything I've done in my life, of everything I have invented, my most important creation is The Flash. Barry Allen must have a future. Now, go. Go!"

Cisco did as he asked, and took off in the opposite direction.

Harrison moved in his wheelchair, and got to the special room he had. Going inside, he saw that Rachael was sat there.

"Rachael, I need you to do me a job."

"Is it kill that Farooq guy for you?"

Harrison shook his head.

"It's too dangerous for you right now. I want you to go and release Tony."

"Release him? To kill Farooq?"

She was aware of the situation, even knowing about Farooq himself, and his past, she was crafty that way.

"Exactly. I've got to check on something Rachael, I'm counting on you to do this for me. Remember, Barry must not die. Use your powers to convince him to kill Farooq. It's the best chance we have right now."

Rachael nodded her head, formulating a plan of her own.

"Sure, leave it to me."

"Make sure you aren't seen by others."

"Got it baby. I'll get him out, then come right back here."

"Good."

Rachael left the room, and went down the corridors.

However, as she got to the place where Tony was being held, she changed into the appearance of Iris, and she opened the door. Since it was sealed when the power went out, she lifted it up, and saw Tony there, in his cage.

"I-Iris? W-Why are you here?"

Because Tony held feelings for Iris, he didn't know what to say.

Rachael walked forward, swaying her womanly hips, in Iris' form.

"Tony, I'm so glad you're okay. I could only get this chance now, to get you out."

"Y-You're gonna let me free?"

He couldn't quite believe it, but Rachael nodded her head.

"I was forced to put you in here, by that damn Flash. If he didn't…h-he would've hurt my family Tony. The powers gone to his head." Rachael adopted teary eyes, making her look like she was on the verge of crying, playing on Tony's affections for Iris. "I-I didn't wa-want you in here Tony. Y-You're the only man for me Tony, I love you. Please, make them stop doing this, these people are S.T.A.R Labs are evil, especially that Caitlin Snow, you have to kill her as well."

Tony looked on as Rachael cried, feeling bad inside.

"Iris, don't worry, I'll squash these bugs for you."

Rachael smiled despite the very good tears that she produced ran from her eyes.

"Tony…you truly are a great man. Now, there's another Metahuman in here, and I've agreed along with his friend, to have you two team up together, to take them out Tony. These bastards are crafty, and he's strong, and you're strong too. Together, you'll win."

"Right, I get it, I'll work with him."

"Farooq. He might seem scary, but he's been abused by these bastards too." She released the lock on Tony's cage, letting him out. He took a step out, and looked at Rachael as she smiled at him. "Good luck baby. Can't wait to hear the good news."

"Leave it to me baby."

The man cupped her face, and squashed his lips onto her own. Though she felt disgusted, she acted like she loved it, even moaning deeply.

When breaking the kiss, Rachael reached around, and rubbed his back.

"Nice, now, go, and I'm gonna get out of your way. And when you kill them, I'll give you a big reward."

Tony was very intrigued by this reward, grinning from ear to ear.

"Right, leave it to me."

"Remember, kill Caitlin Snow and the others for me."

Tony nodded, and Rachael walked away.

As she did, a sinister sneer appeared on her face.

She then went to find Farooq.

---

When she did, she saw that he was walking towards the Cortex. She changed into one of his dead friends, to play with his already fragile mind, and make him comply with her.

"Farooq?"

Farooq stopped, and looked.

He saw that it was his dead friend, shocking him.

"Y-You're dead…"

"Farooq, I don't blame you for killing me. I know it wasn't your fault. It was Harrison Wells' fault. It was also, Caitlin Snow's fault. She is a big culprit here."

Farooq looked down, his anger building.

"I'm gonna kill him, and her for you."

"Yes, but also, remember, Caitlin Snow, Cisco Ramon, Harrison Wells, and Barry Allen also did it too. They killed me Farooq, you've got to make them pay. Especially that Caitlin Snow."

Farooq, in his messed up mind, agreed strongly. Because of his powers, he was more messed up than before, and he couldn't even think correctly. But, his friend was telling him this, and he couldn't help but believe it.

"I'll make them pay."

"Good, because, I have a partner for you to work with, his name is Tony, and he's a Metahuman these people have hurt. Work with him, he's a man made of metal. You can do it, I promise that you can do it. And then, I can rest in peace Farooq. Please, do this for me Farooq. Work with him, and he'll help you kill them all. For us, for your friends. We love you."

"I love you too…"

Rachael began shedding tears, and then nodded her head.

"Thank you Farooq, I am so happy that I got to see you again. Goodbye, and I love you forever."

Rachael walked backwards, and then she rushed away before Farooq could see her. A smirk was on her face. She truly was a devious person, and this time, she was using all of the stops to make sure that she got her own way.

---

Matt and Iris made it to Matt's special hideout. Iris looked around at the different monitors, and other devices that were out and even some that had been put away. She was amazed by it all, and she watched as Matt was plugging something in.

"What are you doing?"

"Setting up a spare generator, to power this place." He responded as he did what he needed, switching it on, the lights coming on. "There we go, we have power." Matt went over to the computers, and switched it on. "Okay, let's see what's going on in S.T.A.R Labs right about now."

"You can hack it from here?"

Iris was surprised as she sat down beside him.

"Yeah, Cisco gave me the access codes in case anything ever happened, and besides, I know a thing or two about computer systems. Since it seems like they could be there, let's have a little look on what's going on? Though I'm sure there aren't any cameras in important places…there should be some in the hallways and such. I'm hoping, they've got the power on."

Matt typed on the keyboard rather fast, Iris surprised that he could.

For half a minute, she waited, until she saw inside S.T.A.R Labs, the hallways.

"Okay, I'm in."

"Wow, that's awesome."

Matt smiled gently.

"I suppose so. But this should be…let's see if there's anything here…"

He looked through the cameras, as she did.

That's when, she noticed something that she didn't like.

"T-That's Tony, and is that guy this lightning guy?"

Matt looked on, and saw the same thing, shocked as it looked like they were, conversing, and seemingly getting along.

"Does it look like they are forming partnerships to you?"

Matt didn't even want to ask, but he didn't have a choice, as Iris nodded her head.

"God…two of them together. Tony's tough on his own, but this lightning guy as well? Ooh crap, what are we going to do? No Flash, no Psyche powers. Just what are we going to do about these two bastards?"

Matt furrowed his eyebrows, and looked between them.

"I don't know about lightning dude…but, I can only presume, water might work. Maybe, but I am not that sure. It's just, water is what I saw happen once with electricity, I remember it could potentially stop it."

"It might short circuit him." Iris weighed in her thoughts. "It's all we've got though I don't know where you're gonna get loads of water to throw at him, unless you want to flood S.T.A.R Labs. But, what about, Tony? If the Flash is…out of action, what about Tony? Short of you gaining your powers back, I don't know what to even think."

Matt furrowed his eyebrows, and thought about it.

"Metal…metal, what defeats metal…that we have access to right now…"

Iris put her hands on the back of her head, deeply thinking about it.

"Well, metal is super…conductive to electricity, too bad electric man there doesn't want to turn on Tony."

Though she joked, Matt gained an idea.

He rushed to the side, and opened a box. Inside, was a gun that looked similar to Captain Cold's gun, but not completely and other things in there as well, but he focused on the main gun.

Iris watched as he took it out, and also fished out something that looked like batteries.

Iris looked on as Matt smiled gently.

"What's that anyway?"

"It's a gun I made, that can use different elements. And these little devices contain a strong high voltage. These, coupled with the power already inside of the gun, should be able to kill Tony if it came to that. As you said, high voltage, and these are high voltage."

"Wow, you made that thing?"

Matt chuckled.

"Yeah, had a little help though. I've never tested it out, but it should…hopefully, work in our advantage, maybe. But while I'm gone Iris, you've gonna have to slow them down somehow, while I make my way over there."

"How the hell am I going to do that?"

Matt walked over to the console, and mashed buttons, bringing up some codes of the doors.

"These should be able to slow them down. Closing the doors, and such. That's the only thing that we can do. I'll keep trying them at S.T.A.R Labs, as I go. If you run into trouble, contact me, and I'll help in anyway I can. Are you up to this, partner?"

Iris gained a smile, cracking her fingers.

"Leave this to me. But, does that mean…"

"Hey, we just got out of a hostage situation together, and now we're saving butts at S.T.A.R Labs, we are partners. I'm just sorry I thought what I did and was apprehensive. Clearly, I was wrong when I thought about it. We do make a pretty great team."

"Yeah, we do. Now go, and save the day."

Matt nodded, grabbed some stuff, and quickly changed, before leaving Iris to do what she can to slow down the Meta's.

---

While that was going down, Caitlin and Barry made it to the treadmill. Cisco had managed to turn on the power, thankfully. But that still left the question of Caitlin being able to actually do something like this. She couldn't even feel her phone buzzing because of the feelings she held deep inside right now.

"I'm not healing fast anymore."

Caitlin looked at him with a mixture of worry and doubt.

"That's unfortunate." She went over to switch on the treadmill. "Don't worry. When Dr Wells has a theory, he's usually right."

"What if something happens to Joe, Matt and Iris first?"

Caitlin was apprehensive.

Of course she wanted to help Matt, but she didn't want Barry to do this, she didn't want Barry to die either.

"Turn on the treadmill."

"You're still hurt."

She explained, but Barry snapped at her.

"We don't have time! Caitlin!"

She still wasn't sure, she couldn't do it to someone else.

"I can't."

"We don't have a choice."

"If I turn this on, it could kill you."

She reasoned, but Barry still wasn't having any of it as he laid his hands on the treadmill.

"If you don't, we could all die." She looked away, she didn't know, her mind was clouded as she could only think of her situation and the fact that Matt could be dead right now, and she didn't even know it. "Listen, someone once told me that I was struck by that lightning for a reason, that it chose me. I'm not sure I believe it. Right now, it doesn't matter what I believe. What do you believe?" Caitlin still wasn't sure what to do…but then Barry thought of something. "To save Matt…don't you want to do that? What would Matt want you to do? He'd do it, if it meant helping, and I'm sure you're the same too."

Caitlin wished that he didn't do that, but right now, she did want to save Matt, but she didn't want to put Barry in danger either.

"Okay. Let's do this."

Caitlin went over to the switch, and yanked it downwards.

Barry, who was on the treadmill felt electricity go through him, and his body was forced off the treadmill, and he hit the back wall, Caitlin letting out a gasp.

"My God, are you okay? Did you feel anything?"

Barry looked at his hand, and saw that…nothing had changed.

Nothing at all had changed, and though he could move it a little bit, it wasn't enough.

"It didn't work."

"Damn…we've got to get out of here then, let's meet up with Cisco."

He nodded, and together, limped out of there.

They had come out of the Cortex, Barry and Caitlin, and were walking towards the room where Cisco should be, where he restored the power. however, they hit a snag when both Tony, and Farooq came walking out together. Something went down, and now they weren't…fighting, they were, seemingly working together.

"Ooh my God…"

Caitlin couldn't believe it, she held up the weapon, but didn't know which one to even point it too.

"Tony? You're working with him?"

Tony showed an uncaring look on his face.

"Hey, someone's gotta pay you back for what you did to me, don't they? Besides, I've been promised a reward if I work with him, something from your friend."

"Friend?"

Barry didn't know what that meant, but Caitlin took the gun, and fired a shot at Farooq, not expecting it was pushed back, and hit the wall. She then turned it on Tony, shooting several rounds at him.

However, because of his steel like skin, he didn't feel much of the effects, and was only pushed back a little bit.

"Did you forget little girl? My power can't be blasted with that toy gun of yours."

Barry and Caitlin backed away as Caitlin fired some more, only delaying the inevitable honestly at this point. She wished that Matt was here right now. She knew that the time might be odd, but she was going to wish anyway, wishing that he would come.

However, when they reached a certain threshold, metal doors suddenly came shooting out of the wall, blocking off Tony's and Farooq's path towards them, Barry and Caitlin looking at one another, unsure.

"W-What the hell?"

"Cisco?"

She guessed, but she wasn't confident that it would've been him.

She then jumped when her phone buzzed. This time, she did feel it.

She looked, and saw that it was Matt, relief coming over her.

"Matthew…"

[Cait, I'm on my way. It's about time you answered, been trying for ages now. Just hang on, the doors should've just blocked their paths.]

"Yeah…were you the one…"

Barry looked intrigued.

[Yeah, or rather, me and Iris…don't say her name out loud, but she's gonna be doing all she can to block their paths to you, with doors, and such. I'm, on my way with backup Caitlin, don't worry now.]

"Are you okay?"

That's the first thing she could even worry about right now, she needed to know if he was okay, it was almost worrying that she didn't know.

[Yeah, I'm good. The situation at the police station has been dealt with, it's just you guys now.]

"Your powers?"

She hoped that he did have them, but she then heard a sigh.

[No, don't have them, but I have a plan for Tony, saw him through the cameras. Farooq, we need to do something about him, but I don't know yet. I'm sure you guys will come up with something. But yeah, we'll be there soon Cait, I'll be there soon I should say, don't worry.]

"Okay Matthew…see you soon. I'm just so glad…you're alive."

[Me too, Cait. Me too.]

She put down the phone, and looked towards Barry.

She explained what she could, leaving Iris' name out of it, relieving himself when hearing that.

"Let's go to Cisco, and Dr Wells."

Barry agreed, and together, Caitlin helping him since he was still injured from the limping that he was doing due to what happened before.

When they arrived, they busted through the door. Caitlin held Barry to the wall, as Cisco looked on at Barry's condition.

"You're winded. That's not good."

Caitlin took out a needle, as she set up a laptop.

"I need to take your blood and figure out what happened."

"I can't believe he did that…"

Cisco was confused on what Barry was talking about, seeing Caitlin taking his blood, and then began examining it.

"Dr Wells?"

"No, no. Tony Woodward. He escaped from the pipeline. He must have got out when the blackout hit."

Cisco shook his head.

"Not possible. The pipeline was designed to withstand a power outage. Someone had to have let him go."

"I did." Harrison appeared from behind the others, at the doorway, shocking Barry. "I released him."

"Why?"

"To divert our intruder's attention while we worked to restore your speed."

Harrison answered very coldly. Barry just couldn't believe this, he really couldn't believe this at all.

"You used him as a distraction?"

"Unnecessary one, as it turns out. It seems the plan has failed. It seems, like they have decided to team up together, just what we need. Two powerful Metahuman's, and now, we have no superpowers of our own."

Barry couldn't believe what he was hearing, he felt sick to his stomach.

"Wait, they've teamed up!?"

Cisco felt frightened now, even he couldn't deny that he did.

"Yeah, they've teamed up in a serious way, though I don't know why."

Barry spat out, as Caitlin looked between them.

"Matthew is on his way, he said he has a plan to deal with Tony. He's keeping them busy with shutting doors, and making it harder for them to advance. Apparently, he's hacked into the systems of S.T.A.R Labs, and is using what is around to buy us time."

"Ooh…that's wonderful, but what about lightning dude out there? Taking Tony would be good, but still have to deal with him."

Caitlin didn't know what to even say, and just held her head down.

Barry however, couldn't let go what he had just heard from Wells.

"How could you do that to Tony? Using him as a distraction?"

"You're showing a lot of kindness for a man who tormented you as a child."

"Tony might have been a bully then and now, but he didn't deserve to die, and now you've made it worse, they have teamed up, what does that entail for us exactly?

"Does Caitlin or Cisco or Mr Stone or me or you deserve to die?" Harrison snapped, Barry biting his bottom lip. "I had a choice to make, him or us. I chose us without a second thought."

Barry inhaled a larger breath than normal, and felt like smacking Wells right now for what he has done. Caitlin and Cisco stayed quiet, they didn't know what to say, or even what to do at this point, they couldn't understand what to do.

"Well, all your talk about miracle cures and scientific breakthroughs, but you don't care about people at all."

"Well, maybe you care too much, Barry." Harrison countered cruelly. "I know being a hero is important to you, and I respect your ideals. I just don't have the luxury of sharing them."

"I forgot. Your game's chess. We're all just pawns to you, right? So what's your move, Doctor? Which one of us gets sacrificed next? You were willing to kill Matt off, when he's done much for you, and now you let Tony go to go to his death, making it worse, what else do you have planned for us good Doctor?"

Harrison tightened his expression, and released a sharp breath of air.

"We have to get out of the facility."

"We just left him on D level." Caitlin said. "We'll never make it to the main entrance from here. Even with Matthew blocking their paths, we wouldn't be able to get to the main entrance."

"What about the garage, the mobile lab van?"

Cisco offered, so Caitlin quickly rang Matt, and told them what they were doing, and he understood. When she came off the phone, she saw that Wells had a look that most would be displeased with, a look that said that he was acting quite superior right now.

"It's my move, Mr. Allen, and I say we make a run for it."

Caitlin danced her eyes between them, and then looked at her computer, seeing her analysis was done.

"Oh, my God. Barry, look." Everyone gathered around the computer, to see cells on the screen moving at a good rate, a better rate than normal. "Your cells, they're rapidly regenerating."

Barry put out his hand, and tried to vibrate his hand…but, nothing was going on, only a little vibration.

"I still don't have my speed."

"It must be mental, not physical."

Harrison explained, but that didn't help Barry. Cisco though, now knew what was going on.

"Oh, you have the yips."

Barry turned to him in a state of unsureness.

"The what's?"

Barry didn't understand, so Cisco filled him in.

"You know. When a second baseman all of a sudden can't throw to first or a golfer tries to putt and they get all embarrassed and upset, and then that makes the yips worse, and it's a hot mess, and then they feel like even more of a failure."

That really wasn't helpful to Barry at all.

"It's not helping."

"Look Barry, before Matthew had the abilities that he had, he still fought Metahuman's. besides mind reading, he only was a normal person, and that's what I really…admired about him. and you asked if you were struck by lightning for a reason. I believe that you were, and I believe Matthew was struck by that energy for a reason, you both have the power to do good in this world. I believe in both of you. And right now, even though he's powerless, Matthew is on his way here, and wants to help us. The least we can do, is do our best."

Caitlin's words reached Barry, and some sparks went off in his eyes.

"Come on, we have to go!"

Cisco insisted, so that's what they did, and went to the garage all together.

---

Once getting there, not having much problems, they rushed to the van, with Barry going first.

"Second van, keys are inside."

Cisco said as Barry got there. He hoped into the drivers seat, fully intending to make it start.

But then…something else happened entirely.

Lights began flashing on and off, he didn't like it, and all of them knew what was going on now, all of them did. Even Harrison's wheelchair began to move, due to it being an electrical device, and now they all knew what was about to happen, and none of them…felt safe anymore.

"He's here."

Cisco warned, only for the doors to come crashing in. Both Tony, and Farooq came walking through the doors. Cisco, and Caitlin watched with horror as Farooq sent a bolt of lightning towards the van, Barry jumping out just in time for it to be blasted.

"Nice shot."

Tony grinned, as he thrusted his steel hand towards a car, showing off his strength.

He smashed the car backwards, and caused it to be broken down with his fist alone.

"Barry!"

Cisco rushed over together with Caitlin, as Harrison sat in his wheelchair.

They got to him, and tried to help him up…but Farooq walked closer, and closer, lightning dancing between his fingers. Tony himself cracked his knuckles together, Barry not believing that he'd actually do this.

"Tony, why are you doing this?"

"Locking me away, beating me? Stealing Iris away from me? Shall I go on? If I do this, Iris will love me, not you!"

Barry ground his teeth together at the stupidity that was going on right now.

"Hey!" A voice commanded, stopping Tony, and Farooq from what they were doing. Turning, they saw that it was Harrison Wells who had stopped them. "You're here for me."

"Finally you show your face."

The trio tried to pull away from them, but Tony wouldn't allow it, and slammed the car near them, blocking their path. Caitlin and the others huddled together, afraid of what was going to happen to them now.

"Well, I wasn't exactly eager to be killed."

"Neither were my friends!"

Farooq growled out, as Harrison held his head down.

"I know. I hurt a lot of people that night."

It was almost a laughable notion that he said that, if Farooq could laugh that was.

"People? You don't even know their names!"

Farooq spat out, while Tony didn't really care. He did find it funny to see Wells get what's coming to him though.

"Jake Davenport. Darya Kim. Ralph Dibny, Al Rothstein, Grant Emerson, Will Everett, Bea Da Costa." Harrison looked towards Caitlin. "Ronnie Raymond and Jean Stone." Caitlin looked down at the names. "I know the names of every person who died that night. I know they all mattered, and the fact that the world is now deprived of their potential is something that I have to live with every day, but these people." He looked towards Caitlin, Barry and Cisco. "These people have done nothing wrong. You want to punish me? Fine, let's do that, but let these people live."

Farooq turned his head to the side, and then set a blast of lightning towards his chair, knocking him down onto the ground.

"Noooooooooooo!"

Barry cried out, as Tony became more menacing than ever.

"You died that night too. You just didn't know it till today."

"Heh, hear that Barry? He died that night, and you're about to die right now you little pipsqueak. And that Snow woman as well."

"W-Wait, why me?"

Caitlin didn't know why she was being singled out specifically, she didn't understand at all why it was going down like this.

"You're the route cause of this, you have to stop hurting her."

"Hurting…who?"

Tony just cracked his knuckles together tightly.

Caitlin looked between the two, and could see that Harrison was on the verge of being electrocuted, and Barry was on the verge of being smashed to pieces by Tony himself, and she wished, she prayed that Matt was there right now.

"Oh, my God! Oh, my God! No, please! Matthew!"

As if something responded, a burst of electricity came from a nearby door, hitting Tony squarely in the chest, and knocked him away from Barry and the others, slamming him down into the car that was before them.

Then, Farooq turned, only to get a stream of high powered jet stream water smashing against him, bringing him off his feet, and hitting the wall near the exit of the car park, causing him to wince in pain.

Everyone looked there, to see who it was…

And walking inside, with a gun in his hand, was Matt himself, looking confident as he came through the door.

"Expecting someone else?"

Cisco felt amazed right now, everything he could see, the gun itself, was beautiful in his eyes, and he wished he had built it, but wondered…when Matt built it and why. Caitlin was so relieved to see him, and she couldn't help but shed a few tears when seeing him.

"Matthew…"

She breathed out, excited that she could see him again, and was glad that he wasn't dead, or worse.

"You little shit!"

Tony growled as he charged for Matt. Matt pointed the gun towards him, sending off a bolt of lightning. Tony went to dodge it, but he wasn't fast enough, receiving a blast to the chest, forcing his body backwards again, hitting a car.

Matt then turned off his earpiece so Iris couldn't hear him, and made sure that she couldn't see him, blaming it on Farooq later on.

"Barry! You've got to pull yourself together!" As he said that, he saw Farooq getting up, so he sent another blast of water, once turning the dial on the gun itself, knocking Farooq down to the ground again, sparks trying to go off, but it wasn't working. Cisco was fanboying…no, he was full on fangirling at this point. "Caitlin filled me in, your problem is mental, right?"

"Yeah…"

"Then it's time to stop disconnecting and connect with yourself!"

"Fucking die!"

Tony charged, and sent a few punches towards Matt, but Matt dodged each of them with ease, and then pulled himself back, and changed the gun to lightning again, sending it right at Tony, forcing his body to skid across the ground.

"I can't fight these two off on my own Barry! You've got your powers! Stop thinking about what could be, and focus on what is right now! Wells, Cisco, and Caitlin are in danger! Think about it, and I know you Barry, you're a good person, just show everyone you are. And if not for us, then for Iris. She's counting on her Flash to still be around, are you really going to let her down?"

Something sparked within Barry's eyes, sparks going off, and he felt it again.

The rush came back, as Matt smirked, seeing him speed off to Harrison, taking him off the ground, and dumped him near the others.

He then went to face Farooq while Matt faced down Tony.

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

"Funny, because I want to hurt you!"

He growled, only for Matt to pull out some electrical devices, and hooked it up to the gun itself, Cisco looking on and could tell what he was doing. They held electrical energy inside of them, and he didn't want to use them, but he would if necessary.

"Take another step, and I will be forced to use these. Tony, they will kill you. All of them together, will kill you. I don't want to do it, but I will if I am forced to do it. Because of your metal body, a powerful blast of this magnitude shall take you out. You don't believe me? Try me Tony, because I've had to kill before, and if I have to do it again, then so be it."

Tony looked between them, and then at the door behind Matt, Matt and the others didn't see, but he could see her…

He saw Iris.

Obviously it was Rachael in disguise because of the way that her face looked, completely twisted and evil, but to Tony, it was Iris, and his eyes looked on as she nodded with a sinister sneer on her lips. She then pointed towards Caitlin, and Tony looked.

Snickering, he tightened his hands.

"Fine, let's gamble then. First, I'll be taking this bitches life!"

He turned the tables on Caitlin, and lunged for her as the disguised Rachael fled the scene before anyone noticed her.

"No!"

Matt wouldn't allow it, and fired the gun.

As soon as he did, a huge bolt of lightning came from the gun, and hit Tony.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!"

Tony let out a cry because of the lightning blast, and it ran across his body. Because of the extreme power, the guns capacitor blew, but Tony's eyes turned lifeless, smoke coming from his body, and he fell down to the floor, dead.

Matt looked at the gun, and saw that it had been fried, showing that it wasn't going to be working, unless it was fixed. He sighed at his gun being broken and knew he wouldn't be able to do that again, he didn't have anything that could do that again. He would have to fix it, somehow, maybe asking Cisco to help him out, or have Hartley help him perhaps, or maybe just stealing Cisco's intelligence again to add onto his own, he didn't know yet, but it wasn't the last time the gun was going to be seen.

"Damn, he's down then."

Cisco chuckled awkwardly, as Caitlin walked towards Matt.

"Matthew!"

The relief in her voice couldn't be conveyed in words alone, she was above, and beyond relieved that he was okay.

She hugged him around his neck, and brought him closer than normal, holding onto him tightly, and wouldn't let go. He hugged her back, and watched as she kissed his cheek, though no one else could see it, not that he cared, and just held onto her as tightly as he could.

"You're okay now Cait."

"Your lip, what happened?"

Noticing the cut, she couldn't help but be concerned.

Matt smiled, as she ran a finger over the lip.

"Just a little price to pay to get here, is all. Don't worry, let's just worry about Barry."

They watched as Barry dodged a number of lightning bolts.

However, Farooq managed to capture him with the last one, and once again, he was stealing Barry's energy…

But this was different this time.

This was very difficult indeed. The pair fell down to their knees as the spectacle went on, and it showed how much of struggle it was.

But the energy that Farooq was absorbing was too much for him.

As he did, the sadness of killing Tony kept coming back into Matt's mind again and again.

The very thought of doing it sickened him, and lowered his mental barriers, which someone took advantage of.

The evil Matt forced himself out into the world through the raw emotion of sadness.

He looked around at everything there, and saw Farooq, and Barry.

"He can absorb the Flash's speed and with my powers, he won't die, I'll use my powers to boost his own, which means...he'll be useful to my plans, he can't die, I'll have to contact Peekaboo later on about this and break this guy out when I'm back to full power. Yes, with him, my plans can move faster...no pun intended hahaha."

Matt looked between the two of them, wondering which one he would fire at, Farooq or Barry.

Evil Matt made a choice, and fired a gun right at Barry, water, knocking him back into the wall.

As he did, Evil Matt smirked a little bit, though it couldn't be seen.

"Sorry Barry, I've got butter fingers."

Evil Matt went forward as Farooq turned towards him.

"You're eager to die."

Matt chuckled a little evilly as he saw Harrison near a car. Using what telekinesis he had, he moved the car a small distance, colliding with the back of his head, Harrison's head jolting forward as pain erupted in his skull, evil Matt made sure to keep his eyes hidden from the others by looking away, Harrison eyed up Matt's body regardless as Matt snickered "Had enough power to do that~" quietly.

"Awwww, you're speaking to a former member of assassins and trained by a very powerful, and scary man. You don't frighten me. I've seen children scarier than you. Then again, you look like Pikachu on acid so that's scary, to someone, maybe."

Cisco snorted, as Caitlin held a hand to her mouth.

"You should be scared of me!"

Farooq put out his hand, and fired a blast of lightning.

Matt grinned like the Cheshire cat, as he jumped onto the cars, running as Farooq blasted him again and again. He judged were Barry was, and then landed in front of him, as he was recovering. Before he could recover, Matt jumped out of the way as Farooq sent a bolt of lightning towards him, hitting Barry in the chest.

"Aah, sorry Barry, didn't see you there."

Evil Matt resisted the urge to snort as he rushed towards him.

Farooq fired a bolt of lightning from the left, Matt jumped to the side, and avoided it, then he brought up the gun and fired off a blast of highly pressurized water, knocking him down. As he did, Matt rushed forward, removing the necklace around his neck, and bent down towards him, touching his forehead, as Farooq stared up at his red eyes, afraid.

"Don't worry Farooq, I'm not going to hurt you, if you comply with me."

Matt thought to him, shocking him.

"How..."

"I can, connect with you mentally. Don't speak aloud, because I'm gonna offer you the chance to join my ranks now. With these dodgy assholes, excluding Caitlin, they'll hurt you, kill you. You want revenge with regards to Harrison Wells, don't you? Just think your answers to me now, I'll hear them, don't worry Farooq."

"Kill Harrison Wells...that's all I want."

"Me as well, he hurt me too. He took away my sister, and he's gonna have to pay, that's why, join me, and I'll take care of you. Even the need to feed for power, I can cure that."

Farooq was surprised, and didn't quite believe Matt.

"You can't..."

"I can, and will, if you join me. You've got a mental block in your mind, it has you always craving electrical energy, I can cure that with my psychokinetic powers, so what do you say? Join me, and thrive in the new world order? Or, die by the hands of Harrison Wells? Because don't doubt it, he'll kill you, he sees you as a threat, and will take you out. But me, I see the potential within you, and I'll defend you from him, all I ask is, work for me, I'll take care of you, and get your revenge for your friends. You'll be apart of my family now, my Rogue's that will take charge of this city, and my other plans too."

Farooq thought about it.

Matt did offer him very good offers, as he believed Harrison Wells would kill him.

Also, a cure for his constant hunger for electrical powers, he believed Matt, and could see that he was speaking truth...

Or rather, Evil Matt was sending calming emotions into him, using his powers over to the brain to cause good feelings within him when Matt suggested that.

Farooq, in the end, wanted to be saved, so he bowed his head as Matt smirked.

"Please...Please help me."

Evil Matt smirked, nodding his head.

"I will. Now, I have to knock you out to keep face. But, I'll be back for you, and cure your feeding problem. Now, swear your allegiance to me."

"I swear it."

"Good man."

Evil Matt thrusted his head forward, colliding it with the mans head, so hard that it knocked him out.

Evil Matt shook his head, and stood up.

"All over."

He said as he put the necklace on again, his mind hadn't adjusted to the telepathy just yet.

Caitlin, Cisco, and Wells breathed a sigh of relief, as did the now recovered Barry.

"Aah. Barry, you okay my friend? Sorry about the lightning blasts that hit you, I'll make it up to you."

Evil Matt spoke with a chuckle, feeling his slip falling, but looked away so the others couldn't see his eyes.

"Y-Yeah, I was afraid he was going to die. Thanks."

"Ooh no, thank you Barry, for protecting Caitlin for me." Matt smirked evilly, as he looked down at Farooq. "Thank you very much Mr Allen for this lovely gift." His eyes briefly went towards Wells, and contemplated turning the gun on him, but knew he was down on energy right now, and couldn't fight Barry, so he stopped. "Soon you little shit, you'll be on the end of a skewer, and my Blackout here is gonna help me. Soon Wells, you're gonna die."

Evil Matt slowly was forming his plan, becoming more and more excited.

He looked out of the corner of his eye at Barry again.

"By the way Barry?"

"Yeah?"

"I was just wondering, who's faster, you or Sonic?"

"That's a very good question."

Cisco added, as Barry looked confused.

But then Evil Matt felt a pain in his chest.

"Ooh no, not now, I didn't even get to kill anyone..." He gripped his chest so the others couldn't see it. "No, no, no, no, no..."

Evil Matt lost control over himself, and turned to good Matt once more.

Matt looked around then sighed "Not again..." he whispered to himself, but he couldn't remember what Evil Matt did.

Matt looked around, as Caitlin walked over, and placed a hand on his back.

"Are you okay Matthew? Killing...I know it tears you up..."

"I'm okay Cait, don't worry...there wasn't a choice."

Matt turned towards Caitlin, who hugged Matt around his neck, and held him tightly.

---

A little while later, Harrison wheeled himself back to the place Rachael was within S.T.A.R Labs, and saw that she was on the ground, 'crying' causing Wells to turn his eyebrows upwards in a confused way.

"Rachael, what is wrong?"

She looked up, and whined.

"I'm sorry that he didn't try and kill Farooq, I was so scared for you baby. I didn't know what to do. I didn't want to defy your orders, and go and search for you because I know you didn't want me to be revealed to the others, but I didn't want you to die, I was so sick with worry. I cried, and I heard noises, and I heard screams…no one died, did they? Barry, Cisco…Caitlin?"

Some hope leaked out at the end of her sentence, but Harrison denied it while shaking his head.

Harrison got out of his wheelchair, and walked over. Standing her up, he looked into her eyes.

"That wasn't your fault, you did as I asked, we couldn't know he'd team up with him. And no one died, we're all okay. Mr Stone came and helped us."

Rachael nodded, wiping her eyes.

"I'm just so glad you're okay. Don't scare me like that again Harry baby."

She hugged him, her head on his shoulder. He patted the back of her head, as a sinister sneer graced her lips, Harrison couldn't see that though.

"It's fine, don't worry. The important thing is, Barry has got his speed back."

"Yeah, that's the most important thing, I'm so happy for you Harrison."

"Yeah, it all worked out in the end. So, no more tears."

Rachael wiped the fresh tears away, and gained a gentle disposition.

"No more tears. So, is the future okay again?"

"Let's see. But first..."

Wells gripped Rachael by the back of her head, pulling her backwards.

"O-Ow babe, w-what are you doing?"

"You're not lying to me, are you? I don't like liars, Rachael. If you're lying to me then..."

Rachael tried her best to shake her head.

"N-No, I promise...I wouldn't ever tu-turn on you, you know that...please, you're hurting me, I love you, please don't hurt me..."

Wells looked at her for deceit as she cried real tears, and though he didn't fully trust her, he still needed her, so let it go for now.

"As long as you're aware to not cross me." She nodded, as she fell against his chest. Wells then looked towards the hologram. "Gideon, show me the future."

Gideon showed him a holographic paper, as Rachael looked on, pissed that her plan didn't work, but still, glad that Harrison didn't find out that she essentially just tried to have him killed.

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Matt returned towards the police station once it was all over, and Caitlin decided to go with him.

He explained what was going on, and she said that she wished to go, so they decided to go together, hand in hand.

As they walked in, Matt noticed Tockman was being taken out in a stretcher due to what he, and Iris did to him beforehand.

"Time will end-"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever."

Matt brushed past him, and Caitlin followed beside him.

"So, he's the one that almost killed you."

"Yeah, seems crazed, doesn't he?"

Caitlin briefly looked back towards him, then shook her head.

"Indeed, he is. So, where is this Frankie?"

"My student, she's here somewhere."

Matt went into the office, and saw that Frankie was sat there.

As soon as she saw Matt, her eyes lit up happily, and rushed off the chair, hugging Matt around his chest area.

"Ooh Frankie, are you okay?"

"Y-Yeah, now that y-you're back."

Matt petted the young girls head, as Caitlin looked on.

"Yeah, I'm back now. Sorry for leaving, but I, had to do something-"

"Who's that girl? Your girlfriend?"

Caitlin blushed a little bit at being referred to as such, though she didn't mind. She was oddly okay with being referred to as his girlfriend.

"W-Well...Caitlin is...erm, she's very important to me..."

"Ooh, so your girlfriend?"

"Will you leave that alone please?"

Frankie giggled as she continued hugging Matt.

"Yeah...I'm just glad you're back, I was getting worried."

"Awww, don't be worried about me Frankie, I'm as tough as nails. Speaking of tough, I'm gonna have to get you back home, your parents will be worried about you."

Frankie's eyes went down to the ground.

"...No, they won't be..."

She spoke, barely above a whisper, so Matt didn't hear her.

"Don't worry Frankie, I'll explain to your parents what happened, I'm sure they'll be happy to see you."

He didn't know the truth, therefore, she couldn't say anything and stuck close by to Matt.

"I suppose..."

At that moment, Frankie's stomach began rumbling, and she gained an embarrassed face.

"Frankie, are you hungry?"

Caitlin asked kindly as she bent down to her level.

"A-Ah well, hostage situation, an-and all, m-made me a little hungry..."

"Aah, food. I'm hungry too. Hey Frankie, wanna get some food with me, and Caitlin?"

"Y-You sure it's okay? I don't really have any money-"

"It's okay Frankie, I'll get you something."

"But..."

"Hey, I'm super cool teacher, you're my cool student, I'll get you something after an ordeal like this, God knows I need something."

"O-Okay then!"

Like that, Matt, and Caitlin, still holding hands, walked towards the exit of the station.

However, as they walked, Frankie took Matt's hand shyly, and he looked down towards her.

She still seemed to be shaken up a little bit, so Matt gave her a smile, and held her hand like an older brother or father would their sibling or child comfortingly, something he had practice in with regards to Jean.

Caitlin also looked on, and saw Frankie looking at Matt like...the only adult that ever cared. She didn't know why she felt like that, but the admiration, and the look a teen gives an adult that they trusted, made her feel like that, and if Matt could make her feel like that, then Caitlin was happy.

---

The next day, Matt and Caitlin laid down on his bed together, mostly clothed, holding one another's hands tightly, so relieved that they could do this again. Since they had just woken up, they were in that morning bliss, the sun shining through the windows, and their warmth from the blanket over them made it all the more better.

After that night had gone down, Matt put away the gun and made sure that it was going to be fixed somehow. Cisco asked where he got it, but he was reluctant to say that he made it when he was evil to kill Barry and the others with, it wouldn't of been right.

He had taken Frankie home. She was a little shook up, but she'd be alright. Though he couldn't help but feel like, she was holding something back, and he didn't even know what that thing was either, and he was damned sure going to find out. And the parents themselves...it wasn't something that he cared to revisit honestly, he got bad feelings from them.

"I'm so glad you're okay Matthew."

Caitlin said as she smiled at him.

Matt himself looked towards her, and nuzzled her with his face.

"I'm okay, I'm just glad you are. I was worried sick about you."

"Me too." She smiled, running a finger over his healed lip. "And I'm glad this has healed. Your powers, are returning."

"Yeah, they are." To prove a point, Matt grabbed a cup, switched on the tap, and poured some water then brought it to the bed, glad that he could see it from here. "See? They're coming back, I'm glad."

"Yeah, but you still saved us without your powers. Just using yours, and Iris' heads, even helping Barry clear his own. That earns some brownie points."

Matt leaned closer, as he felt her finger brush over his lips.

"How do I get to spend them good doctor?"

Caitlin shook her head, and leaned forward.

"Anyway you like. Since you saved my life, a few times actually. Spend them anyway you like. But I do know, I'm not moving from this bed till at least, 12."

"Hmmm, sounds ambitious, not even leaving till 12? Sounds unlike you."

Caitlin leaned ever closer, so closer that their breaths could be felt on the other.

"I know, but after last night, I just…want to spend time in this bed, with you, and not move. Don't worry about S.T.A.R Labs, I'll smooth it over, somehow."

"Good, because I am not leaving this bed either. Metahuman's can wait."

"Yeah...ooh, by the way...that gun..."

"Eeh...I know where you're going with this...and let's say that I made it when I was evil...to kill Barry, Wells, and that man in yellow."

Caitlin was going to say something, but then she stopped herself, and hugged his head to her chest.

"I see, so you did huh..."

"Are you ashamed of me for using tech my evil side made to kill Barry and Wells to save you?"

Caitlin immediately shook her head.

"No, it was rather smart of you to do. So, got any other tech I should know about?"

"Hmmmm, a few. I'll tell you about it, but...hey, I remember, there's a cold gun kinda like Snart's, I have one of them. Do you want it? You could become semi Killer Frost?"

"But, I'm not evil, and that's my evil name."

She giggled out, as Matt chuckled as well.

"Alright then, Snow Angel, how about that."

"Corny." Matt stuck out his bottom lip, as Caitlin's eyes scanned his face. "D-Don't do that, it's too cute..." He continued to do it, knowing it worked on her, so she rolled her eyes, and kissed the top of his head. "Okay for now, it is Snow Angel. And me having a cold gun huh...you're really sure I'd have ice powers if I was a Meta."

"Eeh, I just thought it would suit you, pure like the snow you could make."

"That's sweet...and yeah, maybe I could have a cold gun in the future, would be nice. But, for now, forget all that, and come closer to me."

Matt began chuckling as he moved closer, and closer, Caitlin smiling as she giggled as well, just enjoying a quiet, normal day together, as…whatever they were.

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End chapter!

So yeah, that happened! A few things happened actually. Rachael, showed just how manipulative she can really be, and played Farooq and Tony together to kill the others, and is quite good at being an actress actually. Frankie, Iris, and Matt saved the day at the police station, and worked together to save Barry and the gang, even Matt showing off the gun he made way back when he was evil. I'm sure most guessed what it was, and someone on the team might be receiving that in the future. Speaking of Frankie, we got hints to her powers, and her 'other side' showing up, and we're super close to the Frankie centered chapter now.

But, Evil Matt saved Farooq, just what are his plans? He's got Peekaboo, and a mysterious man already working with him, and now wants Farooq. Well, we'll see more of his plans in the future. Next chapter, we're gonna be delving more into Hartley's friendship with Matt, and Rachael as well, learning a little more about her as well as the return of Top, and two other previous Metahuman's.

Well, that's about it for now, until next chapter! Thanks to reading!