Hello, and welcome to the next chapter!
LoamyCoffee; Hehe, I'm glad you liked it~
hellspam; Yeah they had a cute moment between the two of them, didn't they? Yup, she pretty much as, as how Matt handles her this chapter, he's done with her, and pretty much shows in the way he fights her and other things as well.
ShadowUzumaki55; Thanks very much! Yup, they surely are, they are a 'family' of sorts, and when Matt's around, Ra's is nicer to Nyssa, and the likes. Yeah he does, he likes her for her strength, and the fact that she's Matt's daughter, and even Frankie can see that there's a change, even Ra's flat out states that there's been a change within him as well. They surely did, and this chapter shows that as well, everyone gets a personal fight. Nyssa's showing why she's a League member, she can even take down Metahuman's. She has yeah, Matt's got no mercy for her anymore.
Guest; That would be cool, no pun intended there hehe~ That would be awesome, I like it~
King of heroes; That would be pretty cool, I do like Perona, and the idea seems cool! Thanks for the suggestion!
AlphaOmega; Yup, they did come and help. He does yeah, he might crown Oliver, but he sees Matt as his true successor. Yeah, they had a cute reaction, don't they? Thanks! Yeah, he'll take that lesson to heart this chapter. She surely is, she's pissed off the wrong person.
Lightwave; He does, no matter what. Nyssa definitely does, at least more than Oliver. Hmmm, yeah, I wonder what is going to happen? He did yeah, he got some good help. Yeah, because she is Matt's 'child' he sees her as such. Thanks! Yeah, everyone's gonna get some screen time here as well.
Neonlight01; Well, he did it for Matt more than anyone else. He doesn't care about Thawne really. Nyssa would, she'd help him no matter what. He was, in a subtle way, but he was changed, and we'll see more of that soon enough. Hehe, they did get on quite well, they built a weird friendship with one another. Ooh he never does, any chance, and he's going to grab it with both hands.
Well, with those lovely reviews out of the way, it's time to start the chapter!
Rogue Air part three
"What the hell is that thing?"
Caitlin stated once more, looking at the weird, and grotesque organ that was pulsating on its own somehow. She didn't understand it fully, she thought it looked like...well, even she didn't know. It resembled a heart, but not fully.
It looked disgusting all the same.
She didn't even want to think what Eobard wanted her to do with that. She guessed that's the only reason that she would have been kidnapped. Unless Rachael was a sadistic woman and just wanted to do the same thing that had happened to Matt beforehand.
If that was the case, then she was going to be strong, she wasn't going to falter, and she never was going to keep herself back either. She was going to be using everything that she held inside to keep herself safe.
Analysing everything that was around, everything Matt had taught her on how to defend herself. She was going to use this, and more to make sure that she was safe, and that she could return to the others as well.
While she did, Eobard walked closer, running a finger across her cheek.
She grimaced, pulling away from him, and made a disgusted face.
"Dr Snow, this is an organ."
Caitlin felt like she was being patronized at this point.
"Don't be clever with me. I know what an organ is, question is, why am I looking at it exactly? And what does it do exactly? It looks like a heart, but not entirely, and yet it resembles a lung in the way that it is moving. Just what kind of mad scientist are you?"
"Oh no, Dr Snow, you misunderstand me. I'm no mad scientist, I am merely a man, seeking to go home."
Caitlin continued her glare upon him, she wouldn't let it go, for anyone. She just didn't like him in the slightest. The respect she had for him, had gone by the time that this was going on, and now, she wasn't pleased at all with him.
"If that was the case, you've got a funny way of achieving your goals. Especially with what you've done to Matthew alone. Don't even start me on what you've done to everyone, and Rachael as well, did she do all those things on your orders? She tortured Matthew to near death. If he's apart of your plans, you seriously have a messed up way of showing it."
Eobard circulated Caitlin, forcing Rachael's hand off the back of her head. Caitlin stiffened her position, and held herself calmly, and intently. She also showed an unwillingness to cooperate, and how that was going to achieve nothing with her.
"That, shouldn't of happened. It seems Rachael had gotten a little...as Mr Stone would say, bitches be crazy, and took it upon herself to torture Mr Stone. That was of course never my intentions-"
"Besides the parts of, you know, torturing him with his telepathy. I'll never forgive you for what you did to him, watching him suffer for all those months, and how you are able to...just sit there, and watch him slowly go insane. You are such a horrible person, and whatever that thing is, I'm not helping you with it."
Rachael leaned closer, and held a blade to her throat, pulling her even closer.
At that moment, Mason came into the room, and brought a surgical device. Rachael smiled at Mason, but Mason glared at Rachael, Caitlin didn't care honestly. She didn't like the man, especially after the petty reason's that she had heard about him.
"Now, now Caitlin, don't be a bad girl. If you don't do as I say, then you're going to get sliced from ear to ear."
"I don't think so Rachael, you need me for something. So take that blade away from my throat right now, or you're going to be sorry."
Rachael giggled into Caitlin's ear.
"That's cute sweetheart, you are adorable, aren't you? Saying such things, and being cute like that, I am surprised that you're not more scared. Then again, you are Matt's future wife, so you have to be a little tough, don't you?"
Caitlin heard the venom in her tone, like she hadn't gotten over what had happened.
"That's right, we're getting married, that must be hard on you, huh? To know that the man you didn't appreciate, is with me now, and that we are going to be the one that are married to one another. Sorry Rachael, just seems Matthew saw something better for himself, than something like you."
Rachael's anger grew, and she tossed her to the side, Caitlin's body hitting the wall.
"You cheeky little bitch, speak like that to me, would you? How about I catch you your death you scummy whore?"
Rachael twirled the knife in her hand, but Eobard grabbed her wrist, stopping her from actually doing what she needed to do.
"Now, now Rachael, don't be a bad girl. You know that if this happens, then the future will be altered very differently, and I can't have that. Unless, you don't want to come back to the future with me? Do you want to stay in this time period?"
Caitlin regained her senses, looking between them.
She saw that Rachael curled up to Eobard, which made her feel sick seeing such a thing.
"Of course I want to baby, it's just she winds me up so much. She knows that I don't like hearing that, yet she says it because she knows it gets under my skin, and I don't like it baby. Please tell her to stop making me feel this way."
Eobard cupped her chin, Caitlin turning her head to the side.
"Don't show such a sad face, soon we'll be away from here, and you'll be back with me in the future. No more having to worry about anything here, no need to worry about this time, they'll soon all be a forgotten memory."
Caitlin turned her head back, and saw that Rachael had pressed her lips to Eobard's own lips. She resisted the urge to gag, he didn't think that he would actually like kissing Rachael, she herself thought that it was disgusting to do something like that.
"Yeah, I know baby, I know. Once we're gone, she wont be able to wind me up anymore, and then we'll do what we always talk about, raising a family together, and having fun in the future...too bad there's no cow meat in the future, I really love my-"
"Penis'."
Caitlin snidely added, causing Rachael to glare at her with rage filling her eyes.
"You cheeky little whore, do you really want to get under my skin for this? Because I don't mind doing something dangerous to you, and that's always a cute thing Caitlin. I don't mind if you lose an arm of a leg. You'll still be alive to screw Matt, right?"
Caitlin didn't show anything other than a hard gaze.
"You're the only one who ever screwed with Matthew, I make love to Matthew, because we are in love with one another. You never understood that, you never even once thought of his happiness, and I can't wait for Matthew to beat you down, because reality is, he's better than you, both of you, especially you Eobard Thawne."
Rather than call him Wells, or Harrison, she used his real name. Eobard was rather surprised by her strength of heart.
"Nice Dr Snow, very nice indeed. You seem to have developed some of Matthew's own strength of heart as well. Well, as they say, couples grow stronger together, and you my dear, have changed into a stronger version of yourself, thanks to your future husband."
"You're saying that as if I don't know, I saw the paper, and he and I are going to be married-"
"With some children as well." Eobard revealed, Rachael's eyes narrowing dangerously. "That's right Dr Snow, you and Matthew, have children together, some very powerful children indeed. It is going to be a delight for you to find out about them, how wonderful they are. So smart, so powerful, so skilled and respected, and in this way, the organ you're seeing here, was a technique to grant someone a very special ability, if known how to use it and how to make it, which is a skill I have picked up after months of research, powers and other things as well."
Caitlin didn't know what he was talking about. But the thought of having children with Matt, made her smile a little bit. Even though that was short lived when she saw the look on Rachael's face, the glaring expression that was right there.
"And you little bitch, you're going to be implanting that little organ there, right into me."
"No, I am not. Find yourself another doctor, or die, I don't care either way."
Rachael moved closer to Caitlin, Eobard watching as Rachael slapped her across the face.
"If you don't want to catch your death, then you'll do what I say or you'll be burning in daylight bitch."
Caitlin held a hand to her face, and even though it stung, she still was resolute with this.
"No, I don't care what you do to me, I'm not helping you, or your demented boyfriend either. I'd rather die than ever help someone like you. Especially what you've done to the people that I love, and care about."
Eobard had to admit that she wasn't half bad when it came to being strong.
"Well, let me put it this way, if you don't do as I say and get me what I want, then I shall let Rachael play with you for a little while, and I can almost guarantee, it isn't going to be pretty." Caitlin held her resolve. Eobard moved closer. "Now, Dr Snow, I don't want to hurt you, it is the last thing that I could ever want to do. However this is what needs to happen, and if I don't have it done soon, then I will begin torturing your boyfriend, and it wont be pretty. Now, either do as I say, or I'll let Rachael begin. Think Dr Snow, because if you don't, then something bad will happen, and I can say you wont like it at all."
Caitlin held her voice down and she didn't say anything.
But, she could feel the deepest feelings inside of her, and she was scared.
She wasn't ever going to deny something like that.
But, she had to keep her wits about her, and that was the only thing that she could do right now.
"...Okay, I understand. Just leave Matthew alone, and I'll do as you ask."
Eobard bowed his head.
"Very well Dr Snow, I'll leave Matthew alone. Now, get yourself prepared for the operation, Mr Bridge here will be assisting you. While he might not be a doctor, he'll be able to help you out with this."
Mason raised his head and Caitlin showed a small glare.
Caitlin looked on, and she looked worried.
When the others returned, they saw what had happened, and immediately, Frankie latched onto Matt, who hugged her into his chest. He looked around as Cisco was explaining what happened with the others fighting and such.
They saw that some of them were hurt, so Jean did her medical studies some justice, and helped the others, healing them and such. That's all she could do now, that's all she needed to do as well, as she couldn't think about what happened beforehand.
"Hey, Matt, it seems like I've finally programmed what I need to, and hopefully, if I can get close enough and upload this virus to the device that is attached to the sword, then I can get it to break down and stop."
Eliza said with a sweet smile.
Matt smiled right back.
"Thanks Eliza, it must be tough for you to do all of this. Considering that you were her prisoner."
At the mention of 'prisoner' Eliza went quiet, and looked towards the ground.
Matt cocked his head to the side, and read her mind "Please don't ask about it, I might not be able to take it." which did worry him even more than he ever thought possible beforehand. Something about that worried him, but he couldn't put his finger on it, since she wasn't thinking about it.
He looked around, noticing that more people were having worrying thoughts as well.
But Matt saw that there was someone absent.
"So, where's Caitlin? Did she finish the drug for Mason?"
Matt spoke up, his red and blue eye looking around. His eyes looked towards Frankie.
He then heard what she was thinking, and his face turned downwards.
"Caitlin's been kidnapped? And she's finished the drug huh, that's good for her."
Cisco grimaced, moving closer.
"W-Well, when the others were fighting, Rachael came, and we couldn't fight her, she's so strong, and we didn't know what she could do, she's a very strong fighter, we tried to stop her, but we couldn't stop her..." Matt's eyes fell upon him, Cisco's eyes widening in fear. "Please don't kill me! I'm sorry combined Matt, with evil Mentalist in there somewhere! Please Matt, I'm sorry, please don't let that prophecy come true, I can't handle it!"
Matt rolled his eyes.
"I'm not going to kill you, don't worry about such things. But I am quite pissed off, Rachael truly is trying my patience now. And she even sent Meta's to attack my daughter when I was away? This bitch is not going to get away with this. She's not even going to know pain by the time I'm done with her, she'll wish she had never met me."
"Well, good, I'm glad that she's going to get what she deserves for what she's done to everyone."
Bette whispered to herself, Cisco silently agreeing with what she said.
Nyssa hung her head low.
"I'm sorry brother, I hadn't realized she had been kidnapped. If I had, I wouldn't of let her even near Caitlin Snow, that snake in the grass Rachael. She truly is testing my nerves this time, and to do this right now, she's clearly up to something."
"But what could she need Caitlin for anyway?"
Bette wondered aloud, Jean from the lab shrugged her shoulders.
"Maybe it is only something Caitlin can do. Unless she just wants to..." She looked towards her brother, who looked pissed off. "A-Ah, I'm sure it isn't anything really, I'm sure that Rachael is just being a bitch and wouldn't hurt Caitlin. And I'm sure Caitlin can take care of herself...ehehe, excuse me, I'm going to look over someone's wound now..."
She didn't want to worry her brother now, and just turned away from him as she continued helping out the others.
Matt slowly hummed to himself.
"Either way, I'm not letting Rachael hurt my Cait, I am going to wring her neck for what she's done to me and my Cait, and my family. Rachael's going to be dead at the end of this day."
Ra's, listening in, smiled slowly.
"This is the vision I imagined for you, my boy. Do not let this Rachael any longer stand in your way, I am sure that you will be able to defeat her."
Matt nodded, and walked towards the door.
"Wait, Matt I know that you're angry but-"
Matt's hand grabbed Barry by the collar, and dragged him closer, getting right in his face.
"If the next words out of your mouth are anything other than "We're rescuing Caitlin." then I don't want to hear it. And that means, Barry, don't get in my way to save the woman that I love from a psychopath, two in fact, because nothing and no one is going to get in my way for Caitlin."
"Even then, we have to regroup, and think about how to beat Eobard."
Matt rolled his eyes.
"He's kidnapped the woman that I love, and nothing is getting in my way to save her. Not you, not anyone. Eobard can wait until I've saved Caitlin. And if he's there, then I'll show him the true meaning of pain."
Ra's looking on, gained a slight smile.
"Yes my boy, do not allow that fast man to order you around. If anything, you should learn from this and show your strengths as well."
Matt nodded towards Ra's, frightening Barry slightly.
Matt let go of Barry and walked towards the exit.
Barry didn't stop him as honestly, he'd probably do the same thing if he was in his situation. If it was Iris, he'd do the same thing and do everything he could to find the woman that he loved.
"Dad, what are you going to do?"
Frankie called, but Matt merely waved a hand at her.
"Stay here sweetheart, I'm going to go and find Caitlin. Don't worry, I wont be long, if Eobard doesn't want to suffer a thrashing like no other. He better not have hid himself all that well, as he'll know what I am going to do."
Frankie hoped that he could, as she felt slightly guilty about all of this.
The others also felt guilty, in being unable to save Caitlin from this, and God knows what Rachael, had her doing right now, or what torture she would be able to do either.
She just didn't know what she should do, Frankie that was. She wished to help, but she needed to regain her strength, like the others did from the fight before, all of their fights beforehand.
Hartley however rushed closer.
"What are you going to do? Can you find her with your powers?"
"I can't scan the entire city with my mind, it has a range, and right now, she's not in my range. Wherever they are, they have disappeared, and I can't sense them...but, I can feel Cait's alright, but scared."
"You can feel her emotions?"
Hartley was surprised, but Matt nodded his head.
"Lately, a connection has grown between us and I can feel if she's scared or nervous. Maybe it is because of my new form, but I can sense she's not hurt or is she truly frightened. She's scared, but not too scared. Now I have to find her somehow."
Hartley didn't understand the emotional connection, but he could understand that there was something going on and he wasn't going to sit by and do nothing either, Matt was his friend, and there was no way he was going to leave him alone in this.
"Okay then, how are you going to find her?"
"I don't know yet, maybe I can find her location with my powers or something?"
"Then I suggest going to one of the prisoners and looking within their minds for a location."
Hartley advised, and Matt couldn't see a bad side for that, so he inclined his head.
"Sounds good to me."
Matt walked towards the temporary containment cells that were held inside of the newly fixed van, though this time they had placed separators inside so they couldn't try and kill one another, nor could they try and help one another fight.
Matt moved to the van once arriving, and then looked up towards it.
"I just thought, once walking in there, my powers aren't going to work Hartley."
Hartley thought about that as well, and it was something that sparked deeply within Hartley.
"Yes, you seem to be right about it. Since it does dampen all powers, we can't have that happening to yours as well. Though..." Hartley reached into the van, and pulled out some handcuffs. "These, are a smaller version of what is inside of that truck. Same basic technology, just on a shorter scale."
Matt looked at the handcuffs, then cocked his head.
"I don't even know when you had the time to do something like that."
"I've been thinking about it for a while, and thought that I might as well bring them out. Though I only have a few, so that's why I haven't shown them until now. There wouldn't have been enough for such things."
Matt nodded, and took the cuffs.
"I'm going to get Hydro Hunter, or Decoy as I used to call him. Of all of them, he seems to be the most intelligent. But that's not saying anything for Rachael's lackey's, she's never been the most intelligent of the bunch."
Hartley inclined his head, and Matt went into the van.
Stepping inside, he ignored the Metahuman's banging on their cages. But Matt pushed pass them, and went to the back.
Inside of the cage, was Decoy himself, looking right at Matt.
"Well, here we are, my former boss. What can I do for you...wait, why would I want to do anything for you? Why don't you fuck yourself, and die you bastard."
Matt wasn't really surprised by the anger that he was displaying right now. He could also feel Mentalist inside of their shared consciousness wanting to wrap his hands around his neck, and end the young man's life. But he kept up his strength and showed that he was going to be strong.
"Here we are, Decoy. So, really? Aligning yourself with Rachael? Let me guess, she said that she would have sex with you if you did as she asked? I know she's not ugly, but she's very ugly on the inside at least."
He looked disgusted by what he was witnessing, and what Matt had just said, he didn't like it at all, he didn't think that it was right at all, he wasn't going to just be like that.
"Hmph, I'd not stick my dick in crazy."
Matt seemed rather surprised by that.
"You don't want to sleep with Rachael? Then why are you following her orders? It isn't like she could force you to do anything, so why are you...wait, during the time in Arrows city, you mentioned that you had some info, on me and that you implied that you knew I'd come somehow...have you been in league with Rachael since then?"
"How do you think she got the army that she had?" Decoy announced joyfully, leaning on his sticking up knee. "Rachael's not that smart Matt, come on. Just think about it, I've been gathering her the army since back then, and in return, she told me much about you. And when I was locked up, I was waiting and waiting for my chances, and now, I was defeated by a man that can make fire. What a pathetic way to go out again."
Matt hummed to himself, surprised that he truly was going to be working with Rachael, and that he followed her orders, all because of a certain thing as well.
"All because of me leaving you back there, you worked with someone I left with, all so you could kill me. What about Rachael? Why didn't you try and kill her exactly? She was the reason I left, and if I didn't leave with her, then I'd still be there. So, why…?"
Hydro Hunter looked with a smirk on his lips.
"I had thought about it, not going to lie. I thought about just draining that bitch of her moisture, the moment that I laid eyes upon her. But, she then offered me something more than I even thought that I wanted. I didn't know my new heights. Before I met her again, I couldn't control my powers to this extent, and then she came, with a man in a wheelchair, and offered me the chance to use my powers in a good way, and that's what I did."
"And look where you have ended up Hydro Hunter. You've been locked away because you joined forces with the wrong person. Now, Rachael has kidnapped the one that I love, and I am getting the information out of you, one way or another."
Hydro Hunter looked around at the sights he was in.
"My powers don't work in here, and if mine don't, then yours don't either. So, you can't read my mind, and your other weird abilities. I wouldn't try and mess with me either if I was you, to be honest. I don't have time for someone like you, so leave me alone."
Matt rolled his eyes, and opened the cage.
Hydro Hunter looked around at the sights, and then his eyes widened when he saw Matt coming for him. He stood up, thrusting a punch for Matt's face, which he blocked easily, and twisted the man's arm, putting it right behind him and then slammed him against the wall.
"W-What are you doing!?"
Matt put the handcuffs on Hydro Hunter, and then pulled him backwards.
"I'm merely bringing you out of here, you know?"
"Hmph, once I'm out of here, I'll drain you dry, and make sure that you're nothing by the end of this, you know that?"
Matt rolled his eyes.
"Yeah, whatever you say Hydro Hunter."
"At least call me Decoy! That's what you always called me!"
Matt ignored him, dragging him out of the van, and down to the ground.
Hydro Hunter looked on, angrily glaring at the young blonde man.
"I'll drain you!"
He tried to use his powers...but, to no avail.
He blinked, then tried it again.
"Wait, why aren't my powers working? What are these handcuffs exactly? What have you done to me?"
Matt rolled his eyes, moving closer and closer.
"I told you before that I need to find my lady love, and if I have to go through your memories, and see what's going on, then I will Decoy, don't ever mistake that at all. I can't lose my Cait, and I'm not listening to your selfishness either, I have to do this now."
Hydro Hunter's eyes blazed, and tried to scurry away, but Matt crossed the distance, and held onto his body, forcing him down onto the ground.
"Get off me you bastard!"
He growled out, but Matt placed a hand on his forehead.
"I have to do this Hydro Hunter." Matt's eyes glowed the same different colours as before, red, and blue. "I'm going into your mind now, don't struggle, or it will cause physical discomfort for yourself, you know that?"
Hydro Hunter glared harshly, as Matt did what he had to do for the woman that he loved.
He went into Hydro Hunter's mind, and he struggled. He waved his body all the way around, and couldn't handle it. Matt's powers forced themselves into his subconscious, and he fought with all of his mental strength.
Hydro Hunter tried his best to fight him, but Matt was able to scan his memories. He scanned what he needed. The further back, and how Hydro Hunter was trying to block it, Matt had to fight down the mental barriers, and see what he could.
Images went around the man's mind.
When Matt broke his hands from the man's head, Hydro Hunter's nose bled, and Matt wiped his brow, getting rid of the sweat that he had on him.
"Matthew, are you alright? Did you get anything from his mind?"
Matt looked towards him, and the man on the ground and showed that he was still trying his best to recover from the mind memory reading. It was forceful, and it was painful for the young mind, but Matt nodded his head.
"I got an image of a hospital, and the name was...it was Saint Anne's hospital. I don't know where that is though."
"We'll find it, come on."
Matt nodded his head, and forced Hydro Hunter into the van.
Meanwhile, as that was going on, Rachael was on the operating table, and Eobard looked on from the side, Caitlin was dressed in scrubs so she could operate on Rachael. Eobard moved closer to Rachael, as she smiled towards him.
"Don't worry baby, I'm willing and ready to do this for you."
Caitlin couldn't deny one thing.
Rachael, in her own twisted way, did sound like she cared for Eobard.
While she thought it was disgusting, she couldn't deny that Rachael seemed to be standing by Eobard this time.
Eobard's fingers ran over Rachael's face delicately.
"I know, then the backup plan will be complete."
Caitlin registered that, wondering what it was that Rachael was going to do with this organ, what it actually was, and why it was like it was. Caitlin didn't exactly understand that, and she didn't understand how the organ actually was. She could see that it was living like it was inside of a human body, yet it wasn't even in a human body, it was in some strange liquid. This just didn't make sense to her at all.
And she didn't even know what Mason was supposed to be doing. He just seemed to be hanging back for some reason, and that never was a good thing in her eyes, as she was sure that he was going to try and murder Matt.
"Yes, I wont let you down my love, I will do my best for you, and then we'll have that future that we've talked about. I've done good, right Harry baby? You love me for this, right?"
Caitlin was slightly surprised to see a slightly worried look on her face.
"Yes, I will Rachael, you're doing very well right now."
Caitlin rolled her eyes at the sight.
She felt sick seeing their interactions between one another.
"The recovery time for this will be a while, you know? This is an organ transplant, not something you can just heal from immediately. Even Matthew and Barry would take time to heal from surgery like this."
"Oh don't worry about that Dr Snow, Rachael here has a very powerful healing factor. What would take weeks, or months, will take an hour, perhaps. It wont take all that long, that's why she truly is a gem that I am proud of."
"Gem huh..."
Caitlin murmured, Rachael's murderous eyes landing on her.
"Yeah, that's right, gem. You know, me and Harry baby have a true love between one another, I love him and he loves me and we're going to be going to the future together. You wont be getting away with any of this by denying the love that myself, and my love Harry baby have with one another which is totally better than your future husband, I assure you that you wont be."
Rachael daringly shot at her so Caitlin rolled her eyes.
"Okay, if you say so Rachael, whatever you say."
Rachael didn't like how she was speaking to her, and felt like she was going to murder the man that was before them, it just seemed evil to someone like Rachael, even though Caitlin wasn't ever going to back down.
"What are you saying bitch? You do realize that I'm a winner and you're a loser here? Look at you, you're kind of pathetic honestly. Getting captured so easily, you truly aren't worth any time ever, you know something like that?"
Caitlin rolled her eyes, and then sighed outwardly.
Rachael then looked towards Eobard.
"I'm ready Harry baby, I'm ready now."
Eobard's fingers went across her head, and gently, he smiled towards her.
"Good girl, it wont take long. I'm sure Dr Snow will be very, speedy about this, wont you Caitlin?"
Caitlin looked towards Eobard, who looked right back towards her.
"Don't call me Caitlin. And how do you think that I will have time to do this? Matthew will be here before too long."
"Ooh yes, I am sure that he will be. But, I have faith in you. If he doesn't want to find a corpse, I would suggest moving rather quickly."
Caitlin hated being threatened, but she wanted to go back to the people she loved, so she placed the gas mask over Rachael's face.
"Too bad I can't gas you for real, right Rachael?"
Rachael smirked, despite the fact that she was fading out of consciousness.
"Don't be such a bitch...Caitlin..."
Rachael then found herself being knocked out. Caitlin rolled her eyes, and then turned to Eobard.
"You wont get away with this, Matthew will come for me. I know he will, and when he does, I'll feel sorry for you. You don't even realize what he is going to do to you, you know that? He wont be happy about all of this."
Eobard looked rather pleased that she was speaking like that, it made it all the more interesting.
"Hmmmm, yes if that makes you feel better." Eobard laid a knife on the table nearby. "I'm just going to leave this here, in case you have any funny business. I might need you alive Caitlin, but I am confident that you can do this."
"Yeah, whatever you say Eobard Thawne."
Caitlin defiantly looked at him.
Eobard tilted his head to the side curiously.
"Don't worry Dr Snow, Caitlin. You are a remarkable doctor, and I am very proud to have had you in S.T.A.R Labs. This is also a reason why I chose you, I know you wont do me any wrong. Because if you did..." Eobard slammed a hand on the table, Caitlin jumping. "...then I wouldn't be happy, and you Dr Snow, wouldn't want to make me unhappy, right?"
Caitlin bowed her head, nodding her head.
"As long as you don't even think of hurting Matthew. You've done more than enough to him."
"I don't want to hurt him either Dr Snow, he's rather important to me personally."
"Whatever, Mason, hand me the scalpel. If you're my assistant, then do it."
"Sure, just wait until I get my hands on your boyfriend, that's going to be interesting isn't it?"
Caitlin glared, and she did the operation.
Though it took a while, the threat of his eyes on her form, was terrifying. Each little move she made, his eyes were carefully on her. If she could, then she would just end Rachael's life by sticking the blade into her neck, but she couldn't.
As she was operating, the thought of going back to her loved ones stayed true in her mind.
The thought of the others looking for her, she knew Matt would be looking for her. No matter what, she was sure that he wouldn't give up, and now all she had to do was stall for time.
The operation took just under an hour, something that even surprised her. She had to admit that Eobard did assist rather well, but even then she didn't like this, and when she was done, she looked at Eobard strongly.
"I'm done now, the operation was a success, and is in her...body, so you've got what you wanted, even though I don't understand what that organ actually does. Now, let me go, and I can go back to my loved ones, who will stop you by the way. Barry and Matthew, and everyone else will beat you."
"I'm not so concerned about that, I know you've brought Firestorm back, along with Frankie and Miss Stone as well. Even with them, I'm confident that myself, and Rachael along with the impressive people she's gathered for me, can do this."
Caitlin sharpened her eyes at him.
"S-So, you know then..."
"I've known for a while now, I have been keeping my eyes on you, everywhere that you live, and breathe, I've been watching and waiting for my time. Caitlin, I don't hate you, nor Cisco, nor even Hartley, or Matthew. I only hate Barry for what he's going to become, but now, I am going to be using them for my own goals."
"So, this organ...why have you made it...and what does it do exactly? Is it to do with Barry, or Matthew?"
"Well, it is thanks to your boyfriend that this can be made. I've spent a long time, extracting blood from him, and gathering his powers-"
"I've just given Rachael his powers?"
Caitlin felt horrible if she had done.
She couldn't live with herself if she had just given Rachael something that could happen to be the end for her boyfriend and her friends.
"No, I've given her one aspect of his powers, more twisted version of it though. It takes a lot of time and effort to do this. I've been waiting for a long time now, and along with the treatments I've given Rachael, allowing her to get used to it, this is one power that Matthew has yet to display, yet he holds it within himself, but this is going to be different."
"A power he's not used yet...and you've replicated it?"
"I can't replicate all of his powers with this, nor would I want to. Only Matthew can hold such things due to the conditioning that he has been through since his inception, not even Rachael could deal with it despite how fast her cells regenerate. But, this is what is going to happen, Caitlin. And now, how am I going to deal with you?"
Caitlin's eyes widened, and looked at Eobard with real fear.
"N-Now hold on, please wait...you said that you wouldn't do anything to me."
"I did, but what am I supposed to do with you, Dr Snow? Should I kill you? Or should I get rid of you somehow? Or should I let you-"
"Go?"
Caitlin's heart filled with hope when she saw a two people teleport inside, and then a combined blast of sonic, and psychic energy clashed against Eobard, slamming him into the nearby wall, and through the wall.
Matt with Hartley looked at Caitlin, offering his hand to Caitlin.
"Cait, come on, lets go."
Caitlin rushed to his side, hugging around his neck, and he hugged her back.
However, Mason grinned, and walked closer.
"Hey, blondie, remember me?"
Matt turned and saw Mason's eyes shoot something out, and he reached into his pocket. Just before he could move, he was affected by the power, making his body stiff.
"Matthew, he's..." Mason grabbed a scalpel from nearby, and rushed him. Caitlin stood in defence of Matt, she wouldn't move. "I won't let you hurt him!"
Caitlin boldly declared strongly, but Mason didn't care at all, and went to stab…
But then a barrier was erected, blocking the knife, and Caitlin felt arms wrapping around her body. She turned back to see a fully recovered Matt, she blinked rapidly, as he gently placed a kiss on her cheek playfully.
"Thanks for the drug Cait, works fast."
"Ooh Matthew..."
She fell against him, as he dropped the barrier, only to use one hand to make a barrier for teleportation to the side. He went to strike Matt, but Matt blocked the shot with his own hand, then delivered a bone crushing punch to the man's face, knocking him out. Immediately, Matt grabbed him via telekinesis and threw him through the teleporting barrier.
Then, Hartley noticed that Eobard had gotten up.
"Matthew, we need to go!"
"I know, get going!"
Hartley went through the barrier and Matt teleported him away, as Eobard rushed forward.
"Come on Matthew, I want to see your powerful abilities for myself!"
Thanks to the power enhancement due to his combined form, he managed to track Eobard, and opened his mouth, releasing a sea of flames right before him.
Eobard jumped backwards, and went towards the side, but Matt followed him with the psychic flames.
"Burn in hell bitch!"
Eobard rushed past a window, which he had no choice but to jump out of it, and then before he could come back, Matt rushed into the barrier with Caitlin, saving her from Eobard, teleporting away.
Later on, after recovering from getting Caitlin and despite her being the one who was shook up, Matt was being looked over by Caitlin. She took his vitals, and gently brushed a hand over his cheek, and slid it down his face, slowly taking in his features, glad that he wasn't dead or hurt nor the others.
"Seems like your temperature is normal from what I was told that you had been frozen."
"Because I'm kind of a fireman, you know? Psychic fire or something, you know?"
Caitlin lightly smiled, sitting beside him.
"While you were gone and before I was kidnapped, I managed to make that drug for you and the others, in case Mason tried something. Frankie's thinking of calling him Paraleye, or something like that." Caitlin's hand slid onto his own hand, and held it tightly. "I'm so glad that you're okay."
"Yeah baby, I'm alright, and you, you were kidnapped, how are you holding up?"
Matt laid his head on her shoulder, and she used her other arm to cup his head, bringing it closer to her body.
"I'm okay. But Matthew, I'm sorry about...they made me transplant some kind of organ into Rachael."
"An organ?"
She gently nodded her head with bewilderment.
"That's right baby, I don't know what it is, but Eobard mentioned that it would be...or is because of your powers somehow. Though he said that it wasn't all your powers, it was a power that you haven't used yet, or something that Rachael's power and yours combined would do, he was confusing, I think that it was on purpose."
"A power I haven't used yet or is mixed with her? What kind of power could that be? I don't have some kind of hidden power or anything, do I?"
She nodded her head, and then kissed the top of his head.
"I don't know what it meant either, but he's been planning it for a long time, whatever it is. But he could be lying and I had just transplanted into her your powers, and if I have, and you get hurt because of me then..."
Matt could feel the intense sadness that was running through her right now, and it made Matt feel sorry for her that she felt like that and he knew that he was going to make it right somehow, he didn't know how yet, but he was going to do it somehow, and that involved hurting Rachael, which as something that he wanted to do anyway, so that was a bonus in his eyes.
"Hey, don't worry about that." He soothed from her shoulder, and then looked into her eyes once lifting his head. "We'll deal, I'm just glad they didn't hurt you. Even if she had all of our powers, Barry's, mine, and everyone's, she's not going to be able to beat me, I promise you my baby. I'll fight her until I've got nothing else left inside of me and then find the strength to beat her down with all of the powers that I have inside of myself. She's done too much this time, I'm not letting her go this time."
This is one of the things that Matt brought out in Caitlin and how much she genuinely did love him. Even during times like these, they had the best kind of relationship that they could have with one another.
"I'm glad, soon we'll be facing Rachael, and the others, this is going to be...fun."
"I'm going to say you should stay here, but I know you're not the type of girl to do that. So I'm sure that you wouldn't stay here, so this part is meaningless, just thought I should tell you. On request of Barry, I didn't ask Iris to come, even if he kind of is a little bastard and was going to tell me to not rescue you, be different if it was Iris or something." Caitlin lightly petted his head, making him realize what he said. "Sorry about that babe, can't control the angry side of me."
"It's okay, you did it for all of us. And you're right, I'm not going to stay behind, I'm going to be right there with my boyfriend, no matter what happens., especially with what Rachael has said, and done, I can't forgive her for that now." Gently, she pushed him down onto the medbed, and climbed in next to him. Allowing her head to rest on his chest, his arm went around her gently. "I love you Matthew, and I hope that after this, we could...maybe we could go somewhere together?"
Matt turned his eyebrows upwards.
"Oh? Where is it that you want to go babe?"
Caitlin thought about that, but she didn't have a good answer for that.
"I don't care where, maybe we could just take a break and go on a holiday together. I don't care what destination, but me, you and Frankie, could go somewhere, together, just to get away from all of this. What do you think?"
Matt lightly smiled, his fingers running through her hair.
"Sure, we could go somewhere together. We could have fun together. Yeah, lets have a family vacation together, I'd love that. Our first real one together, it would be amazing, wouldn't it Cait?"
Caitlin's eyes went up towards his own, and her lips lightly pulled together, then pushed apart, and moved upwards. Her head slid up his body, laying kiss after kiss on his skin, up his neck, and then to his face, and then capturing his lips briefly, his arms going around her, and her own hands going down his back, and resting on his butt, gently squeezing to her own delight more than Matt's himself.
"So, where should we go Matthew? Should we go to a hot or cold destination?"
"Ooh, definitely hot. Mai Tai's and all the rest. Baking under the sun, swimming in the pool, and then night time fun time~ Frankie would have fun too~"
"Ooh, that does sound good. Hawaii, that could be fun."
"I've always wanted to do the Hawaiian thing, where they put a ring of flowers around your neck. I'm sure that it would be fun if we did something like that. First, we have to take care of Rachael, and make sure she's gone before anything else happens."
Caitlin nodded, allowing her head to fully flow onto his chest, loving the feeling of being held like this, and didn't want to give that up, ever. She, wanted to have some fun with him, and wanted to always stay together with him, no matter what. Especially after what happened, she wanted to be with him, always.
But then, as they basked in their love, alarms began going off. Hartley came rushing into the room, and quickly said "The Particle Accelerator is fully charged and online. Whatever Wells needs it for, it's ready." and then exited the room.
Matt and Caitlin looked to one another, then got out of the room.
They walked into the Cortex, to see the alarms flashing. Matt felt his head pounding a little bit, though it didn't matter in the end. Matt knew what was going to happen now, he was going to have to fight together with the others.
Hartley pulled up the camera for the outside, and Matt saw that it was Eobard, Rachael and the others as well. Matt saw the Metahuman's, and the guys Rachael had gathered to fight the bad fight, and Matt shared a look with the newly arrived Barry.
"Barry, don't even think about it. Barr, no. You can't go out there by yourself."
Joe warned him, but Barry dismissed him, waving his hand.
"Yeah, I can."
Barry equipped his outfit, and then rushed out of there.
"Cait, I've..."
"I know, Matthew. Good luck. I love you."
"I love you too my love."
Matt looked towards Caitlin and the others, nodding his head, and moved out as well.
Getting outside, Matt looked at Rachael, and Eobard, along with the others behind him. Matt's eyes went towards Eobard, and shook his head.
"Ah, Eobard, seems like you've got a little army behind you."
Matt noted, carefully eyeing up Eobard, and made sure that he didn't make a bad move at that moment in time.
"Matthew, what a cute surprise to say the least. Thank you for the blasting beforehand, it was nice of you." Matt tightened his eyes, as Eobard shifted his eyes between the two of them. "Well, I heard your prison transfer didn't go so well. I'm so sorry."
He wasn't sincere in the first place, though he thought that it was obvious.
"Actually, we only lost one, the rest are fine."
"All a part of your plan, I assume?"
Barry shot back, Matt's hands dancing with some psychic energy, Rachael's powers growing with the device on her chest.
"Actually, that didn't factor into my plan at all, but I'm impressed you went to such great lengths to keep those people from harm. Ever the hero, huh, Barry?"
"You've hurt enough people."
Matt growled out, Eobard smiling softly.
"I know. You see me as the villain, but, Barry, Matthew, if you were to look back, look back carefully at everything I've done, every wheel I have set in motion, you would realize I have only done what I had to do. Nothing more. Nothing less."
"And the Particle Accelerator? How does that fit into your grand plan?"
Barry demanded from the man before him like it wasn't a big deal in the slightest even though it was pretty huge on why Eobard was doing everything that he was doing.
"Well, why don't you go on inside, and let me show you."
Eobard suggested, but Matt snickered.
"Yeah right, as if you're getting past us you idiot."
Eobard's menacing eyes went towards Matt's own eyes.
"Matthew, even with you and Barry here together, thanks to Rachael, I have an entire army behind you. Since the beginning, I've been terrified of you, ever since I met you."
"The moment I met you is-"
"I've met you across time, I've seen you across time, and how scary you are. But right now, you're not nearly as scary, and those eyes you have, it seems like you've come to an agreement?"
"That's right, we've come to an agreement now, and to kick your uptight ass, and will end you, you get me?"
He raised his head slowly, and then bowed it serenely.
"I do admit though, if I didn't have Rachael, I would be more scared of you and Barry together." Eobard's finger went over Rachael's face, disgusting Matt. "You couldn't understand how many times I've almost slipped around you, your presence is terrifying for me, I will admit that, and now, seeing all of this going forth, isn't it great you and Barry are friends? But, you're alone, no hopes at all, no hopes for the future."
Matt tilted his head.
"You think we're alone?" Matt clicked his fingers, and people began coming out. "We're not alone."
From the sky, Ronnie flew down, and Jean did as well. From behind him, Hartley came out, along with Frankie. Caitlin stayed behind the pillar, and Ra's along with Nyssa came out of the woodwork as well with Bette. Eliza was also nearby, and was ready to fight for what she needed to fight for, she wanted to prove herself this time.
Eobard looked between them all, feeling a little nervous right now. He never expected to see Ra's al Ghul there, nor Nyssa, though he was more nervous about Ra's al Ghul right now. Matt felt happy right now though.
"Wow. You brought yourself some friends."
Eobard was rather impressed with the amount of people that had shown up.
An arrow shot down from up high, and Oliver came slipping down the line, landing to the right of Barry. Oliver briefly looked towards Ra's who turned his head to the side, they had unfinished business, but right now, they didn't care.
"Welcome, Mr. Queen."
"Hope we're not too late."
Oliver nodded at Barry who held a gleam in his eyes.
"You're just in time." His eyes shot at Eobard, who looked back daringly. "I don't care how fast you are. You can't fight all of us at the same time, even with your little army, there's no way that you're going to be fighting us all."
"Oh, I can't?" Eobard began laughing to himself. "Trust me. This...This is gonna be fun."
Everyone got ready. Withdrawing their weapons or powers, everyone got ready. Barry and Eobard locked eyes, as did Matt and Rachael. This was going to be a hard battle, and this is what was going to happen now.
Rachael moved forward, so Matt did as well. He ripped off the telepathic necklace blocker, and placed it in his pocket. His eyes and Rachael's met one another, and they both smirked at one another.
"All the times you messed with me, or my family, ends today. All the times how you've hurt us and betrayed our feelings….no more Rachael. You are the bitch to all of us, and today, you're going to pay, one way or another, you're going to pay for what happened to all of us."
Rachael didn't even seem to care honestly, she looked rather excited than worried about anything else that was going on.
"Then, lets get too it, charge!"
"Everyone, go!"
Immediately, both Rachael's, and Matt's armies ran forward as Matt along with Rachael shot at one another, clashing in the middle, but Matt grabbed her body, twirled her around and launched her away from his body, through the streets, slamming her body down onto the ground and then he grabbed some cars from nearby, slamming them into her again and again, burying her under the cars to distract her, just as Barry and Reverse Flash rushed at the other, fighting one another in a circle, going so fast others couldn't see what was going on.
"Then, allow me to go first."
Ra's held a sword in his hand, as two of Rachael's holders, swung their light swords at him. Ra's pieced one in the chest, delivering a punch to the other at the same time, avoiding both blades. Then he turned around, stabbing the man in the head. Withdrawing his blade, he slammed his foot into the enemy before him, knocking him back, then jumped as he twirled, slicing the man from head to toe, right in half, and he fell down to the ground.
Matt flew down beside him, and made a sword of energy in his hands, getting back to back with Ra's.
"How about we work together Ra's?"
Ra's tipped his head to the side, seeing a few Multiplexes arriving on the scene. Matt knew that this one would be dangerous. He didn't have the light device, but he could create many, and they all had bladed weapons, scary in of itself.
"That sounds interesting my boy. Let us work together then."
Going back to back, Matt and Ra's sliced and diced through the enemies all around them. One came for Ra's, so he ducked and Matt cut backwards, cutting through him, then he lifted his arm upwards, allowing Ra's to stab under his armpit, as an enemy came from behind Matt.
Their skills together were like no other. Steel and energy blades went around the battlefield, showing how Ra's and Matt truly did work together beautifully, it was almost an art in some way how they were swinging their blades.
"Don't worry brother, we have this."
Nyssa took out her bow and arrow, firing an arrow that pierced one of the man's heads, knocking him down. Then she went to reload her bow and arrow, but a man came up to her with a sword of light in his hand.
He swung for her, so she ducked the blade, grabbing said blade, and turned it around, using the blade to pierce his own stomach, kicking him away, then shot an arrow towards another enemy, killing him instantly.
"Then, try this!"
One member had a device on his chest, and went to slice Hartley with a sword of light, but Hartley ducked from what he had learned from Matt, then placed his hands on the man's chest, activating his power, and blew him off his feet.
"I'll fight too!"
Bette moved forward, and was about to fight, when she saw a tongue going for her. She moved to the side, the tongue hitting the side of the ground, and then she saw some slime going for her, so she shot her explosion forward, hitting it and caused it to disappear with the blast.
She looked to see that it was Toad who was coming for her, so she looked around fort allies, seeing that Hartley was there, using his sonic blasts to knock away some of the enemies, then coughed into her hands.
"Hartley, how do we kick Toad's ass exactly?"
"Erm, he's not tough, just agile, so we just have to give him one big blast, alright? It should be enough."
She nodded, seeing the tongue go for her again. She jumped forward, shooting her hand upwards. The explosion went to hit him, but he used his tongue in the middle of the sky, latching onto a lamppost, and pulled himself to safety, Bette growling.
She then looked towards Frankie, and rushed to her side.
"Frankie sweetheart." Seeing an enemy coming from behind her, Bette yelled "Duck!" which Frankie did, Bette thrusting her palm forward, and exploded the man right backwards, spending him away from the young girl, and then punched another man in the chest. "Hmph, don't mess with my Frankie."
"Aunt Bette, are you alright?"
"Besides a Toad problem, sure, I'm good. Help me?"
Bette saw her nod, and together, they rushed forward.
Toad jumped around the area, thrusting his tongue towards the pair of them. Frankie stuck her arms outwards, and from her arms, a pair of metal shield's came out, and blocked said tongue from touching her.
Bette saw this opportunity to grab his tongue, but he retracted his tongue.
"You'll never catch me like that!"
Toad growled out happily, and unleashed a hail of acid like spit towards them. Bette thrusted her palms forward again and again, shooting off explosions and collided with the acid like spit, dispelling them from the area.
Frankie then grabbed a nearby car, seeing Toad going for Frankie and the others again. She forced the cars in front of her, and then into the air. Toad looked around at the sights before him, and went to jump right, but…
"Don't think so!"
From the side, Ronnie sent a flaming sphere at Toad, forcing him backwards. He jumped to another place that he tried to escape to, Frankie made a barricade of the cars, and Ronnie made a flaming wall with his powers, trapping him in despair.
Seeing her chance, Bette prepared her power, and summoned it thanks to Cisco's gauntlets.
"Bye!"
She shot the blast outwards, colliding with the man's body, and knocked him off his feet, smashing him against the wall, and knocked him out. Bette smiled at the sight, glad that she, Frankie and Ronnie were able to pull together like that.
However, as they were fighting strongly, Barry's mind suddenly came under attack, gripping his head. The pain was excruciating, forcing Barry down to the ground, and then Eobard took this chance to punch him across the face, and his face knocked down to the ground.
Oliver though took out an arrow, firing it right at the enemy speedster, but Eobard saw it coming, and grabbed the arrow right out of the air.
"Nice one Mr Queen-"
"Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"
From the side, Jean thrusted her palms outwards, sending a huge gust of winds at the enemy, knocking him off his feet. Oliver took this opportunity to take out an arrow, and fired it towards Eobard. Eobard however saw it, and avoided it quickly.
But Ronnie appeared, shooting his flames to block his path. At that moment, Oliver managed to shoot him with an arrow, stabbing into his leg. He grimaced, and saw Ronnie in the sky, waving his arm around at him, creating a blast of wind.
Due to his weakness, Ronnie's body went flying away at top speeds.
"Ronnie!"
Jean called with worry.
Matt heard, so turned towards him, stuck out his hand and grabbed him with his telekinesis, and brought him down to the ground.
"You alright Ronnie?"
Ronnie nodded his head slowly.
"Yeah, I'm good, thank you for asking, and for saving me, again."
Matt was about to nod but then the cries of Barry alerted him to his presence.
"Aaaaaah! Matt, help! Aaah, damn it, I can't move at all..."
Matt turned to see Barry's head hurting, so he looked around the area, searching with his mind.
Matt saw Grodd there, so he looked towards Hartley.
"Hartley!"
Hartley looked towards Grodd, so, he nodded his head.
"Got it!"
Hartley rushed forward, putting his hands forward, sending a sonic wave towards him. Grodd stopped the attack on Barry's mind, just as Barry dodged an attack of him, only for Matt to slam Eobard with a psychic blast, knocking him off his feet, and into a nearby wall, smiling slightly.
Grodd was slammed with the sonic wave, but he wasn't pushed back that far. Grodd looked towards Matt, who looked right back with his glowing eyes. Grodd's eyes and Matt's eyes glared at one another, then Grodd growled deeply.
"Grodd, will kill you..."
"Okay, I'll put you down as well."
Matt dared him with his red and blue eyes glowing, ready to face Grodd.
Hartley shook his head towards Matt.
"Matthew, don't waste your powers on him, you need to focus on Rachael, we'll deal with this one. Rachael, next to Thawne there, is the most dangerous, we'll deal with Grodd, don't worry, we've got Grodd."
Matt knew that he was right, so he nodded his head, consenting to what he was saying.
"Yeah, we've got this one bro."
Jean came into the side of Hartley, along with Ronnie as well.
"Yeah, go and get Rachael, we've got these guys."
Matt looked on towards the cars Rachael was in and saw that she came out of it. So he nodded.
"Got it, leave it to me! Be safe, all of you!"
Matt took to the air, and flew at Rachael. Rachael smirked, and then flew forward as well, they collided in the middle, and then flew off to the side, hitting the wall that was nearby, and then delivered a punch to one another's faces.
Rachael took out her sword, and slashed at Matt. He pulled backwards, then made a blade of psychic energy, blocking her blade. However, the blade that Rachael had, sliced right through the sword that Rachael had going on, and his body was on the receiving end of the blade, cutting into his body.
Matt growled, summoning his energy into his hand, thrusting it to the side, and created a flashing light, blinding Rachael for a brief moment, then Rachael growling and chased after him as he flew off, making sure no one else got hurt.
Meanwhile, Eobard's body suddenly stopped vibrating, and he couldn't work out why.
"Nanites, courtesy of Ray Palmer."
Oliver spoke up with the arrow inside of Eobard, Frankie whispering "Meme started right there..." but no one heard her, and she was glad about that.
Though Cisco in her ear said "You're damn right, Meme started right there~" causing Frankie to giggle.
"They're delivering a high frequency pulse that's disabling your speed." Oliver spoke again, getting his attention, Eobard's eyes blazing. "You're not gonna be running around for quite a while."
"Very well, I'll kill you with my own fists."
Eobard rushed forward, and went to strike Oliver. Oliver avoided the fist, and then punched him in the face with his bow. Eobard took out the arrow embedded in his leg, turning it on Oliver. Oliver brought up his bow, wrapping the string around Eobard's arm, and then he pulled him backwards again, knocking the arrow out of Eobard's hand, kicking Eobard right in the stomach.
"Have this, and this!"
Eobard let out a small cry, but charged forward, sending out a few fist strikes at him. Oliver avoided the fists rather easily, ducking and slamming his bow into Eobard's torso.
Eobard responded by moving backwards, but Oliver was on his trail, spinnng and hitting Eobard in the stomach, and did it once more, hitting Eobard hard in the face, knocking him down onto the ground, right near a construction site.
Eobard quickly recovered, grabbing a metal bar from nearby, and whacked Oliver across the face with it. But he didn't stop, Oliver blocking the second strike with his bow, then grabbed the bat, forcing his fist into Eobard's face, and ripped the bar away from him, and twirled, slamming it into Eobard's rips, knocking him down to the ground.
"Very good Mr Queen, you're very interesting to say the least."
Eobard took in a breath, and then his body began shaking, vibrating.
Because he was doing that, he managed to get out the nanites that Oliver gave him, just as Oliver took aim. When he went to fire, Eobard used his speed, and pinned him down to the ground, and his hand vibrated rather fast above him, in a threatening manner.
"The history books say you live to be 86 years old." Eobard taunted with a grin. "Well, I guess the history books are wrong."
Eobard's hand went to penetrate the man's body, but suddenly, Barry came back into the picture, grabbing Eobard so hard that he threw him against a wall, making Eobard cry out a little bit, even then it didn't matter as Eobard just got up without a care.
His eyes went towards Barry in a condescending manner.
"That's the spirit. You can't stop me, Flash. And you never will. Now, want to see who is the fastest man alive?"
Eobard goaded, then took off running as fast as he could. Barry inhaled a breath, then chased after him as fast as he possibly could go. But Barry was clearly not as fast as Reverse Flash, and they weren't going to be able to beat them in this, but Barry had an idea, once Matt was done with Rachael.
As that was going down, Hartley, Jean, and Ronnie all looked towards Grodd as their opponent. His large hands banged on his chest, and his eyes followed all three of them. Jean looked between the two male's of the group.
"We have to defeat Grodd. If he continues, we'll be defeated."
Ronnie and Hartley nodded.
"I've got a plan, but it is going to be risky. We've got to work together in this, and it isn't going to be pleasant either." Hartley put on the headband, as did Jean and Ronnie. "But, he's not invincible, we can do this together. All we have to do is prey on his weaknesses, and I am sure that I have a plan for this."
Hartley quickly whispered his plan to the others, and they didn't see it as a bad thing. In fact, they thought that it was a good idea honestly, and that's all they could do against Grodd, he was a very terrifying creature though to say the least.
Ronnie and Jean nodded their heads at the same time.
"Then, lets do this together."
Jean said strongly, and walked closer.
Grodd's eyes focused on Jean and the rest of the boys...but, nothing happened.
His eyes rapidly blinked, and once again, didn't understand what was going on.
"Sorry Grodd, but we've got protection from you."
Ronnie answered with a grin on his lips. Grodd's eyes narrowed at the young man, then banged on his chest. Grodd then charged forward, swinging his arms right and left at all three of them. Ronnie, and Jean took to the sky, while Hartley rushed to the side.
Grodd's eyes went towards Hartley, so he placed his hand outwards, and released a sonic wave. Grodd's body accepted the wave easily, only being pushed back slightly. Hartley grimaced at the sight of that.
"Oh, seems like my powers aren't on a level that can knock back Grodd yet."
He chuckled awkwardly, Grodd charging for him.
Before Grodd could make contact with him, Ronnie shot a blast of fire at Grodd, hitting his shoulder. Grodd roared, smashing his fists on the ground, and uprooted some. From the concrete, he launched it right towards Ronnie.
"Don't think so!"
Jean came in, and directed her hands forward, sending a blast of winds forward. The winds connected with the concrete, and blasted it right back to Grodd. Grodd raised his fist, smashing the rock easily, Jean grimacing at the sight.
As that happened, Hartley thrusted his hands forward, knocking into Grodd's head was a sonic blast. Grodd's head moved forward, and he growled out, making the glasses wearer grin at the sight. But then Grodd turned towards Hartley angrily.
"Grodd, your telepathy wont work anymore, so don't even try anything like that. You know, we're going to be beating you soon? Wells, is using you. You wont be able to live a happy life with Wells. And you said that Matthew is a telepath and you hate him, you don't have to, he's someone that could actually understand you."
Grodd tossed his head to the side curiously.
But then he released a large howl, charging Hartley. Hartley rushed towards the other side of the area, but Grodd was on his tracks. Hartley put his hands towards Grodd, sending out a powerful blast of sonic power, but Grodd stood his ground, and took the power head on.
"Ooh damn it all!"
Hartley hissed out, as Grodd appeared nearby. Grodd raised his hand and swung his fist for Hartley. Hartley raised his arms to block, but then a gust of wind brought Hartley off his feet, and towards the side, saving him from the fist, at the same time, a powerful blast of flames slammed against Grodd.
"That's right big guy, right here!"
Ronnie sent a few more blasts right towards him. The flames hit Grodd again and again, drawing his attention. Grodd turned towards him, banged on his chest, and then charged for him. Ronnie thrusted his hands downwards, and shot fast towards the side.
Grodd charged forward, and jumped onto a building, rushing upwards. Ronnie flew highly into the sky, up the building. Grodd jumped higher and higher, gaining ground on Ronnie. Ronnie grimaced at the sight of the gorilla following him.
As he was about to get onto the roof, Ronnie felt something wrap around his leg.
"Ooh no..."
Grodd angrily tossed Ronnie away through the sky. Ronnie's body flew through the sky, and twisted backwards. But by twisting in the air, he managed to regain his balance, and propelled himself into the air.
At the same time, Jean appeared on top of the roof, and looked down towards Grodd who looked right at her.
"So, Grodd how about a little blasting, am I right sweetheart?"
Grodd didn't know what she meant, until she placed her hand on the roof. The molecular structure of the roof became weaker, and weaker. Grodd felt that it was breaking due to his hands on it, and he went to attack…
But then, a ripple went through the particular place Grodd stood, and Grodd's body was released from the roof, and he fell down towards the ground. On said ground, Hartley's hands laid on the wall, and had challenged his sonic power into it.
"There, Grodd, enjoy that."
Hartley moved out of the way of the falling monkey. His large body smashed against the ground very harshly. The impact caused Grodd to cry out in pain, Ronnie, Jean and Hartley giving off little pants as they made it to one another.
"Damn Hartley, what an ingenious move."
Ronnie praised, but Hartley shook his head.
"No, I merely remembered the fight that he had with Matthew, Mentalist, whatever. Dropping him from a high place seemed simple enough, but getting him there was a hard chore to say the least. Though I suppose for this, we three did work well together."
"Naturally, we're apart of my brothers team! We can't lose to some monkey!"
Jean cheered, but then her eyes widened when Grodd got off the ground.
He was rather injured, but he was able to get up, and grab into the ground, launching it at the three.
Jean went to raise her hands, but she wasn't going to make it in time. Ronnie however pushed her out of the way, and the stone slammed into him, knocking him down onto the ground, and due to the energy he had used, along with the pain, Ronnie, and Martin separated from one another.
"Ronnie! Professor!"
"Miss Stone, we have to fight this gorilla!"
Hartley quickly pushed his hands forward, shooting off his sonic wave. Jean also joined in, and sent her winds right at him, and their combined power, managed to hold Grodd at bay. But, the strength of the gorilla managed to fight back.
"Hartley! We can't push it back, we're running on low here!"
"I know, but we have to try, without Ronnie, I don't know what else to try! If Matthew was here, then it would be different, but we have to do this!"
Try as they might, they couldn't fully push him back. He was pushing against them, and they couldn't do anything else. If they dropped it, they knew that they were going to be dead, and they didn't want to die.
But then, in the midst of that, Grodd felt something touch his back.
"Time out, monkey."
Suddenly, lightning ran across Grodd's entire body. The pair looked at one another, not sure what was going on. The lightning continued to shock the monkey, but then after a minute or so of shocking, the monkey fell down to the ground, revealing Shawna and Farooq.
"W-Where the hell have you been?"
Hartley demanded, so Shawna twirled her hair innocently.
"We've been taking care of business for Mentalist...Matt, or whatever he's called now."
At her answer, Jean just shook her head.
"Either way, lets just be grateful that you're here now. Thank you for the assist!" Jean said kindly, then remembered Ronnie, and Martin, so turned and went to help them. She got to Martin and looked over him. "Professor, are you alright?"
"Yes, Miss Stone, I am perfectly content."
She smiled, then turned towards Ronnie, and moved closer, cupping his head.
"Ronnie, are you alright?"
"Yeah, I'm okay. I'm glad that I could protect you...c-could you tell your brother that?"
Jean rolled her eyes, seeing the fear that held within Ronnie's eyes for Matt. Probably more to do with Mentalist, than Matt himself, as Mentalist could be very scary if he wants to be, and he didn't want to relive that experience once again.
"Geez Ronnie, you don't need to be scared of Matt."
"I-I'm not scared." Jean deadpanned. "I'm actually terrified."
Jean giggled slightly, and kissed the top of Ronnie's head.
However, Grodd then got up. He looked around, then he heard in his head "Grodd, go until the times right." as Eobard zoomed past with Barry. So, that's what Grodd did. The others tried to stop him, but Grodd managed to get away, frustrating all of them.
"Try this!"
Frankie looked around, and saw a nearby car, along with Multiplex running towards them. Lifting the car up, she thrusted her hand forward, and knocked down the men with the car. However, it wasn't enough as more and more kept going.
Caitlin shot her cold gun from behind, and knocked down one of the men that was going for Frankie. Frankie looked towards Caitlin who smiled right back towards her.
"Mom, I..."
Caitlin laid a hand on her shoulder soothingly.
"Don't worry so much about it Frankie, we'll fight together."
Frankie inclined her head slowly, knowing that she would have to do this now, for the rest of them. But then, another man appeared before her, though an arrow pierced its head, and knocked him back, onto the ground, followed by a dagger being thrown to an enemy on the left.
Nyssa jumped down towards her, and withdrew a short blade from her hip, standing beside Frankie, watching her father ploughing through the enemies like they were nothing. His sword was stained with blood, and his eyes were cold, but this was what they needed right now, the blade seemed to be rather powerful to say the least.
"No, leave this to us, please go and assist brother, we'll deal with this."
"But Nyssa…."
Nyssa shook her head, seeing her father taking down several Multiplexes at the same time. He looked to be having a dream fight right now, he looked somewhat happy, and that never truly happened, at least she couldn't remember a time when it happened anyway.
"No, Frankie. Your duty is to fight with your father, as is mine this time. Do not worry, we have the rest here, do not be concerned about us, go and find your father now and we'll deal with these."
Bette moved closer, grabbing a clone of Multiplex, and exploded off his head, shocking Caitlin.
"She's right. Frankie, take Caitlin and Eliza to help Matt, we've got the rest here."
Frankie didn't know what to do, but then she saw Farooq sent a bolt of lightning towards the enemies nearby, shocking them. Shawna teleported behind one of them, and whacked one clone in the back of the leg, knocking him down to the ground.
Frankie looked towards Caitlin who nodded.
"Okay, we'll leave the rest to you. Mom, Eliza, lets go!"
Frankie rushed towards them, and got on a prepared piece of metal on the ground, and then using her powers, they flew off to go and find Matt.
Once they were gone, Bette turned to the enemies with the others. The only one that wasn't exhausted after the fight with Grodd or at least the least exhausted, was Hartley, but he was busy taking care of them, and that's what he had to do now.
"Well, this power is interesting. Too bad that I never gained this power, the League wouldn't even be needed if I could replicate myself."
Ra's mused to himself, twirling around with the sword that is in his hand. His blade cut down many of them, without breaking a sweat. For the seasoned warrior, Ra's didn't find this much challenging, he found it rather fun.
"No kidding, father. If I could do this..."
Nyssa thought to herself darkly, shooting off arrows left and right towards the enemies. One enemy got close, so she withdrew a short blade. The man slashed upwards, so she ducked, and slashed him in the stomach. His body went forward from the pain, then she got high, stabbing him in the back, killing him off easily.
Since Oliver wasn't busy right now, Barry still running around and having a fight with the other speedster, he withdrew an arrow, and bow, shooting one right in the head that got close to Nyssa herself.
Nyssa looked back, and then slowly narrowed her eyes. She turned her eyes back to the enemy itself, Oliver inhaling his breath, and then shot some more arrows, defending the others, namely Hartley and the other three that fought Grodd beforehand.
"Geez, how many of these guys are there?"
Shawna demanded, teleporting around the battlefield, and took out a few.
Farooq placed his hands on the ground and sent lightning through said ground, and shocked a few of them.
"I don't know, we just have to do our best for boss, stop complaining."
"I'm not complaining!"
Shawna growled back, avoiding a blade from the sword of one of the clones, then knocked the lock of the clone. The clone went to his knee, then whirled around, knocking him in the face, knocking him out of the fight.
Bette looked around seeing all the fighting and even blasted one that came close to her, but saw that there was no end to them all, and it was getting stressing to say the least, then placed her hand to her ear.
"Cisco, there's endless of these people, what can we do?"
Bette asked, kicking one in the face, and knocked him down to the ground. She then thrusted her palm forward, sending an explosion right into his face, knocking him unconscious, since she could control the rate and power of her explosions thanks to the gloves she had on.
[You have to find the real Multiplex. Knocking him out, will stop all of the clones, find him Bette.]
"How do I know which one is the real one?"
Bette asked, thrusting her hand to the side, and sent an explosion towards a clone coming towards them.
[W-Well, the last time we did was to find him by using Matt's mind reading. This time, we have to...erm, ooh! Fatigue! Find the one that looks exhausted, and or is showing signs of fatigue as well! That's what we have to do now Bette! Please get too it!]
Bette rolled her eyes, but nodded her head all the same.
Her eyes scanned the area that she was in, and looked at all of the clones.
She looked far and wide, but couldn't see anyone exhibiting tiredness.
As she looked, Ra's slowly walked closer towards Bette.
"What are you looking for?"
She felt uncomfortable looking at Ra's and was scared of him. But she inhaled, and controlled her worries the best that she could.
"W-Well, I am looking for the one that is tired, and if we find him, and knock him out, then we can stop all of these endless clones. But everyone of them seems fine, and well, I don't know where to look."
"If I was this man that could create clones, then I wouldn't stay in the front of battle. Tactically, I would either keep myself at the back, or hide myself. If it was myself, then I'd keep at the back rather than hide, and from the personality my boy told me about this man has, then he would want to watch the carnage that is unfolding, so he shall be in the back watching this happen."
Bette had to admit that he was probably right this time.
So, she looked towards the back, and looked as hard as she could.
She looked at the back, and ran her eyes through all of them. Keenly, her eyes met one of the other's in the back. His eyes widened, and she smirked.
"Found you."
Bette kept her eyes on him, as she ran as fast as she could towards the back. Rushing through the crowd, he attempted to move, but Bette looked towards Nyssa, who nodded once seeing what was going on, and shot off an arrow.
The arrow blocked the man's path, so he rushed the other way.
Before he could though, Ra's threw a knife that he had handy, stabbing in front of the man.
He gasped, and Bette looked at Shawna who teleported beside her, and then placed her hand on her back. Using her power, she teleported both of them towards him, behind him rather quickly, Multiplex turning angrily, and grabbed a gun.
Bette quickly grabbed the gun, and turned it into a bomb, making it explode in his hand.
He cried out from the pain, and the burns on his hands.
He cringed as Bette walked closer.
"Stay away from me! I wont let you kill me!"
Multiplex stood up, withdrawing a knife. He came at the right, slashing. Bette ducked the blade, then placed a hand near his chest, releasing a point blank explosion. The explosion forced the man's body backwards, and his body hit the wall, and the impact of the explosion knocked him out.
As soon as he was knocked out, the clones all fell down at the same time, saving them from what was happening.
Hartley looked towards everyone that had defeated their enemies, and he was glad. However, there was one last one that needed to be defeated, and he wasn't exactly thrilled about this one in the slightest.
"Barry, what's your status?"
[I can't get him! He's too fast for me Hartley, what do I do about this?]
Hartley placed a hand on his chin, and thought about it deeply.
Then he came to a conclusion.
"Okay, I've got an idea, now listen carefully..."
Hartley explained his plan to Barry and the others that were around the area. They all nodded their heads, and then Hartley heard from Barry down the line as well, and then the plan was all set up, they all had a part to play.
Barry and Eobard rushed through the streets, and try as he might, he couldn't catch up to Eobard's full speed. Eobard was simply faster than Barry could run. But Barry still tried his best, he knew what he had to do.
He waited for the word from Hartley, and the others, knowing that he would come up with some kind of plan. Since it was Hartley, he was rather intelligent, and if they couldn't catch Eobard, then they had to do something else.
[Okay Barry, we're ready. Come back to S.T.A.R Labs, we've set everything in motion, and if this goes down as I hope it does, then we'll be ready. So, come here now!]
Hartley spoke after a minute of running. Barry nodded to himself, then looked towards Eobard running in front of him.
"Hey! Eobard! Lets settle this, now!"
Barry shouted towards him, Eobard smirking and looked behind him.
"You think you can take me now?"
"Yeah, follow me!"
Barry hoped that he took the bait, and rushed to the left.
Eobard followed.
They ran all the way to S.T.A.R Labs, where Eobard finally had had enough of Barry so he rushed at him faster.
He punched towards Barry, Barry using what Matt had taught him, and allowed the fist to go above him, then he grabbed Eobard's arm, and twirled around at superspeed, keeping Eobard with him, and threw him into a wall.
Eobard was surprised, and then more so when Barry rushed forward, with his fist pulled back. Eobard raised his arm to block, but then Barry's fist switched places, slamming harshly into Eobard's stomach, using his other fist as a trick, Eobard's eyes narrowing.
"I see our dear psychic taught you a thing or two."
"Right from the League!"
As Barry shouted that, arrows shot out from besides the skies. Eobard looked on, as he kicked Barry backwards. The arrows came from Nyssa, and Ra's respectfully. Using his speed, he caught the arrows, only for Farooq to appear from the side, thanks to Shawna, and attached his lightning towards him.
Using his powers, he began absorbing the power from Eobard, Eobard's eyes widening.
"S-So, Matthew, kept you around for this reason! Even then, I wont lose!"
Farooq tried his best, but Eobard vibrated very fast, and the lightning passed through him. Then he moved out of the way and went to rush to the left. But suddenly, explosions went off in front of him, knocking him back.
Eobard looked up to see Bette, who smiled towards him.
"Don't think so Eobard."
He then rushed towards the right to get around this, but Jean's winds suddenly blocked the man's path.
"Nahahaha, you're not going this way~"
Eobard growled, forcing his body upwards.
He rushed up the building, and upon reaching the top, he was greeted to Hartley's face.
"Smile for me, bastard!"
Eobard's eyes widened, when a sonic wave erupted from his palms. Eobard rushed to the left to avoid it, but the sonic wave managed to catch his arm, and he went staggering near the edge of the building.
During that stagger, Barry rushed up, and ran towards him, delivering a heavy punch on him, forcing his body off the top of S.T.A.R Labs. He went hurdling down towards the ground, and his body met a car down below.
He let out a cry of pain, and then, an arrow pierced his body.
Eobard's eyes widened at the feeling of the arrow impaling him, and looked to see Oliver being the one who shot him. Whatever was in the arrow, made Eobard feel dizzy and he couldn't see straight honestly.
Then, Eobard's body fell against the metal below him, and Barry looked around, seeing everyone was exhausted. But he smiled at everyone's help, glad that they managed to finally beat Eobard, though he could see that they weren't going to be using their powers in awhile.
Meanwhile, as that was going on, Matt and Rachael were having their battle in the air. Rachael charged up a blast of light energy in her hand, shooting it right at the enemy Matt. Matt flew to the side, forming a dagger of energy in his hand.
"Have this!"
He threw it right at Rachael, but she brought out her sword, and cut through the dagger easily, charging right for him.
"Did you really think your blade was going to be enough? Give me more credit than that Matt!"
The blade in her hand swung to Matt's left, so he avoided it, then put his strength into his arm, slamming it into Rachael's face.
Rachael let out a cry as she was shot towards a building, crashing against the side of it.
"Burn!"
Matt took the chance to charge psychic fire into his palms, and sent it right at Rachael.
Rachael grinned at the challenging sight, and tapped more into the devices power, erecting a barrier around her body, blocking the flames.
"Very good Matt, seems like you've got a handle on your powers now. I remember a time where you were crying because of your telepathy. Awwww, I always thought it was sweet, and adorable when you went through that. Hahaha, I thought Stone's don't cry?"
Matt's mind briefly flashed to an image of his father saying the same thing.
When he was snapped out of her, a fist of light energy dug into his stomach, forcing his body through the air, crashing into a building. Matt recovered quickly, slamming his hand on the building and broke some pieces off with his telekinesis, launching them right at Rachael.
"That's right Rachael, they don't, and you're never going to make me cry ever again, because you'll be gone by the end of this! I'll make sure of it!"
Rachael paused in the sky, gathering bolts of light in her palms, firing them off at the incoming projectiles. The light crashed right through the rubble, Matt using his powers to teleport himself, having enough time to do it since she was distracted.
"Is this the best you can do?!" She growled, turning her eyes to the place Matt was, stunned when he wasn't there. "What the fuck?"
"Indeed!"
Matt flew out from the teleport, a sword in hand. Rachael withdrew her own blade, and placed it in front of her just in time. The blade lost itself, turning into particles, Rachael smirking right at the sight of the boy's face.
"Well, looks like you aren't happy Matt. But you're on the losing team there. You, and your slag's, especially Caitlin. Though I have to thank you to leading me to Eobard, my lovely man. He's a real man, with ambitions, power, and I respect him so fucking much, he's better than you in everyway!"
Rachael spun the sword in her hand, swinging it at Matt again and again. Using his training, he avoided the sword swings without summoning his psychic energy, knowing that she would dispel it with her own blade.
"You're delusional, always have been, always will be. You're weak, and prey on others to try and become strong! But you're not strong! You're never going to be strong! You know that, don't you?! You, can never be strong again!"
Rachael growled out, and went to stab Matt. But he moved his body so the blade harmlessly passed through his armpit, gathered energy into his fist, slamming it against Rachael's face. The impact was enough to break her nose, and sent her flying through the city.
Her body smashed into the ground, and uprooted it harshly. The area around it was protected as Matt raised an omni-directional barrier around the area, so the others wouldn't be hurt by the sudden appearance of Rachael.
She cried out in pain, Matt flying over to see her in the ground.
"Everyone, please leave this area immediately!"
Matt called out, and screams could be heard coming from the ground, they all rushed away as fast as they possibly could.
Figuring that this was his chance, Matt flew down with a sword in hand, his telekinetic powers forming it. Flying as fast as he could, he made it towards her, and went to stab her in the head, but Rachael's eyes shot open, and thrusted her own blade for Matt's torso.
He couldn't protect himself with his powers or she'd cut through it, or in this case, pierce through it, so he pulled away with his powers aiding him. But Rachael's sword cut into his side, making him wince at the pain.
"Try this!"
With her free hand, she blasted him in the torso, knocking him backwards and through the air. Matt spun in the air, Rachael standing up and cracked her nose back into the right position, allowing the nose to be fixed again.
Matt regained his balance in the air, only to see blasts of light coming for him.
"Damn you Rachael!"
Quickly thinking, Matt raised a dome around his body, blocking the blasts of light energy from Rachael, and Rachael then took to the sky, flying fast for him, sword in hand.
"Don't you see Matt!? This is it! Eobard, and I are going to be useful to one another! He gives me what I want, and I get what he has inside of myself! That's all I've ever wanted in my life! A man with power, and someone to love me!"
Matt just thought she was crazy at this point.
"Well, you've gone about it the wrong way bitch!"
Matt dropped the barrier, and opened his mouth, releasing a blast of psychic fire for Rachael. Rachael didn't expect it, so the flames slammed against her, and she felt like both her mind and body were on fire.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
Rachael's cries filled the air, but Matt didn't care, grabbing several cars, and smashed them against her body. Again and again, she was slammed, hammered into the ground with the cars, Matt wasn't taking prisoners this time.
Then, using his psychic fire, he set the cars on fire, causing an explosion to erupt in her area, protecting the outside world from the explosion with his powers, erecting a dome around it. The explosion burned the ground, scorching the ground itself.
Matt panted from the overuse of his powers, landing on the ground, and stopped the dome. The flames disappeared a minute later, Matt smiling to himself as he panted, thinking "Finally over." but it was premature.
"W...What..."
Matt placed a hand on his head, and sensed the mind of Rachael.
It was activate, and he knew that meant she was awake.
Matt brought his hand back, making a dagger of energy, and launched it at the cars. However, a hand sprung out, grabbing the dagger, and then the remaining cars were blasted out of existence by the light device on her chest.
Walking out of the wreckage, was Rachael herself, burns all over her body, and she was panting terribly. But Matt could see that the device on her chest was slowly beginning to go a little, off. He could sense the power on it, and it wasn't a good feeling that he was having right now.
"Seems like you've done well Matt, well done indeed. But you forget something Matt, I'm not someone you can take down so easily, especially when I am pissed off, and right now, I am truly pissed off."
Matt watched as she raised her katana in the sky, and her wounds, healed themselves. But it was slower than beforehand. Rachael was usually faster at healing, but because of the device on her chest, she couldn't hold it forever.
"Rachael, you need to take that device off before it explodes, don't you understand that!? This city will be destroyed!"
Rachael didn't seem to care, and puffed her chest out, the circular device releasing a strong concussive beam right for him. Matt raised a barrier, and blocked the shot. His water like energy barrier rippled from the light energy's attack on it.
"I don't care Matt! Let it explode! My Eobard will get us out of the city before it does!"
"He doesn't even care about you, you idiot! He only cares about himself, and that's it!"
Matt argued, continuing to block the shot. Rachael glared, and then put more power into it, pushing Matt back, but also pushing the device to limits that it shouldn't be pushed too either.
"No, he does care about me! We love one another! He promised me that we'd be together, always! There's no alternative to this! He's going to be with me because I love him very much! That's what love is! Doing everything for the other person!"
Matt ground his teeth, feeling the force of the blast, and then was blasted through his barrier, smashing his body against the wall. He let out a small cry, only for Rachael to jump forward, using the device to enhance her power, and go stabbing towards Matt's body.
He pushed off the wall, just as she was going to make contact, and grabbed the back of her head, slamming her head against the wall, making her cry out in pain this time. He didn't stop though, and swung her around by her hair, launching her into a nearby building, smashing right through it, and appeared on the other side.
She landed on the ground, panting a little bit.
"Eobard baby...this is...hard...but, I will do it for you my love..."
She could feel the effects of the device on her body, tearing her inside. But, she could feel what else was inside of her, what Caitlin put into her.
She looked towards Matt, and saw that he was draining as well, so she leapt towards him, landing on the ground and spun the sword in her hand, Matt making daggers of energy in his own hands.
"Well, we are League Members, so I suppose going this way would be fun."
"Indeed."
She made another katana out of energy from the device, Matt noticing that the device was acting up even more. Matt grimaced at the sight, knowing he'd have to stop her soon, so he rushed forward, throwing the blades at her.
Matt's blades were deflected by Rachael's blades, and she swung her light katana to the left. Matt ducked the blade, as Rachael stabbed with the other. Matt twisted his body so the blade would go between Matt's legs, then he wrapped his legs around her neck, twisting it and launched her to the left, smashing against a building.
Telekinetically, he ripped off a nearby door of a car, and threw it out at her. Rachael came out of the building, and swung the katana's in tandem out in front of her, cutting through the car door itself.
"Have at thee!"
She came at Matt, and swung for him, which he ducked, then did a handstand of sorts, his foot going for Rachael's body.
She crossed her blades out in front of her, blocking the foot, but she felt the push of his telekinetically enhanced strength knocking her backwards. She skidded across the tarmac, but composed herself when Matt came lunging at her, with his fist extended, psychic energy around it.
"Fuck you!"
Tapping into the power of the device, she sent a wave of energy for Matt. Matt stopped midair, and blocked the blast with a bubble of energy around him, only for Rachael to use this chance to stab right into the bubble, the blade going for Matt's upperbody.
Matt calmly clapped his hands together, capturing the blade with his palms, energy around his palms to protect him, but he could feel that he was lowering his energy a bit, the drain was more than he thought it would be.
Rachael's eyes turned wider with anger, and the pure rage that she was feeling right now.
"Let go!"
She demanded, but Matt didn't let go, and instead, slammed the butt of the blade right into Rachael's face, knocking her back a little bit. She cried at the impact, then Matt tried to grab the device off her chest, seeing that this was the chance.
However, when his hands touched the device, Rachael's eyes glimmered, and the light burst right out of the device, smashing Matt into the ground. The beam went a fair distance, and so did Matt's body, tearing into the ground harshly.
Rachael grinned from ear to ear at the sight to behold, and Rachael moved closer towards him. Matt's body was burned from the light, but he wasn't going to back down ever, he got up off the ground, and looked at Rachael with a wide grin on his face.
"What's with the smile, Matt?"
"Nothing at all, Rachael." From Matt's head, a mind blast came about, hitting Rachael in the head, making her cry out. Matt used this chance to send a concussive beam at her stomach, smashing her into the ground. "Have that you bitch."
Rachael bounced off the ground, and then rolled.
She rolled to her feet, and panted, sweat glistening her face. Matt tried another psychic blast, but Rachael cut through it with her sword, and walked closer.
"No psychic energy can get through with the sword that I have Matt, don't even pretend to think you can do this."
Matt clenched his fingers together, and charged forward. Rachael blasted forward with some light energy. Matt pushed himself off to the side, then formed a dagger of energy, launching it quite close to her.
"Doesn't mean I am not going to try, does it?"
Matt smirked, Rachael deflecting the blade, but then Matt got close, headbutting her, swiveling behind her, lifting her up, and threw his spine backwards, her head smashing against the ground rather harshly.
"Aaaaaaagh! Fucking bastard!"
Rachael reversed the grip, wrapping her legs around his waist, and pulled her closer. With the sword in hand, she went to thrust it downwards. Matt was about to block, when a coin slammed against Rachael's body, forcing her off Matt.
Matt gasped, and sensed for mind's all the way around.
He sensed Frankie, Caitlin and Eliza right there, helping him.
Matt smiled, and then turned to Rachael, Eliza tapping away on the device.
"Hey Rachael, you coming for me or what?"
Rachael's face was scarred from the fight, but she still got up, with her destabilizing device, and her katana in hand.
"Oh look, it is the whore brigade, come to help out their loser for a hero. Well, one or one hundred, doesn't matter to me, I'll kill all of you all the same. I'll make sure that you all disappear in a glorious light!"
Matt looked behind him briefly, seeing Eliza working, so Matt turned back and saw Rachael charging. Frankie went to intercept, but Caitlin stopped her, Matt avoiding the sword swing and jumped backwards. The sword cut into the ground,
Matt read Eliza's mind and heard "It's done." making him smile, forming a katana of his energy in his own hand.
"Oh, you do remember my sword can cut through your energy, right?"
Matt smirked at her, as she swung her sword for him. He blocked her sword with his own, showing that it wasn't doing as it should be anymore.
She pulled back, Matt delivering a punch to her face, and knocked her backwards.
"You do remember I have something called loved ones, right?"
Rachael's eyes tightened on Matt, Caitlin from the side held up her gun.
"Freeze."
Caitlin said, and with the coldgun in hand, she froze the sword that Rachael held in her hand, and then Matt swung his sword out in front of him, shattering the sword itself into nothingness, Rachael releasing a cry.
"What the hell?! No, I can't accept this!" She sent a punch at Matt, but he grabbed her hand, and then chanellged his power into his fist, backhanding her across the face, and down the street along with a torrent of energy towards her to add to the distance. "Aaaaaaaaaaagh!"
She cried, Matt turning to her with a sneer.
"This is what you wanted, isn't it Rach? You wanted to fight me, well here we are!"
Rachael got off the ground, staggering on her feet.
"N-No way! I can't let this go! I wont let you! I'll never let you do this to me!" Rachael put her hands to her chest, and switched the device to full power. "Now, taste defeated at the hands of me you little whores! I'll kill all of yooooooooooooooooooooooooooou!"
From Rachael's device, she shot forth the beam that was quite strong, condensed and high.
Matt immediately responded with thrusting out his hands, and shot forward a beam of energy all of his own. Matt felt tired from his fights already, but he still continued onwards, and the beams clashed against one another violently in the middle.
The impact sent a shockwave of wind to erupt from the colliding powers.
"D-Damn! That powers too high!" Eliza cried from the side. "I-It's too much, somehow she's exceeded the limits I put on it! N-No way, if she releases that much, Matt's not going to be able to..."
"Then I'll-"
Frankie went to attack Rachael, but Eliza stopped her.
"You can't, if you destabilize that device now, then we're done for. We have to believe that Matt can pull this off somehow. I don't know how yet, but he has to...he just has to make it through this somehow, he just has to. Hopefully, he can stop her before we're all dead. Though maybe it's already too late..."
Though what she didn't reveal was that Matt was struggling with the beam. She could see that he was already tired, and he was being pushed back. The pain on his face was real, and Caitlin could also see that his eyes were flickering between red and blue, to just blue, showing that he was losing power.
"We have to help him somehow though..." Caitlin looked towards Matt once more. "I'm going to help him."
"Wait!"
Caitlin ignored Eliza's words, and rushed to his side. The energy was dense and powerful. Matt's feet dug into the ground, and Rachael looked on with a pained grin, seeing that the power was depleting for whatever reason was going on.
"Cait, g-get out of here, I can't keep it back much longer!"
Caitlin laid her hand on his body, and moved closer.
"There's nowhere I'd rather be, than with you right now."
"Cait..."
"That's why, take my energy, I don't mind."
Matt couldn't believe what she was saying, he couldn't do just that.
"I-I can't Cait..."
"Me too!"
Frankie rushed forward, and latched onto him as well.
"Even Frankie too..."
"Let's work together in this babe, you, me and Frankie, beating that bitch once and for all."
Matt looked towards the young girl and his girlfriend, and saw their resolute eyes.
Seeing that, Matt nodded his head.
"Right, lets do it together then. Place your hands on top of my own. You might feel weak...well, you definitely will, and dizzy, but that's normal, I promise."
Nodding their heads, they did just that. Their hands went across Matt's hands, and held onto them. And then, Matt began absorbing their power for himself. Caitlin and Frankie held onto Matt, as the beams of energy increased in size and power.
Rachael gasped, and put more energy into the attack. She poured what she could into it, but she could see that the device was slowly breaking down, and that she wasn't going to be able to keep this up forever.
"N-No! You can't do this to me!"
Rachael growled, trying her best.
As they fought with their clashing energies, from the energies itself, it seemed to mix, and blend together, and sparks began running through Matt's eyes, and he instantly knew what this feeling was.
He had it beforehand, he knew what it was, and he didn't like that he felt it now. From the clashing powers, above it, a small pocket opened in the sky. Inside of the pocket, a strange coloured lightning appeared.
"Oh my God, what is that…?"
Frankie murmured, feeling weaker.
But Matt knew what it was, he just knew. He didn't understand why, but the information was going through his skull like nails, and the words "Speed Force." came out of his mouth, and then lightning sprung out of it, hitting various parts of the ground, obliterating it.
Eliza panicked at the sight of lightning bolts, and ran for cover.
However…
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!"
Eliza's body was pierced with the lightning, and her eyes gave off sparks. Her body shook, vibrating slightly and then she was thrown down to the ground, her body unconscious from the feeling of the lightning itself.
"Eliza!"
Matt noticed, but saw Rachael continuing, so he poured all his remaining energy into the attack, together with Caitlin and Frankie. Rachael felt herself being pushed back until one final burst erupted from the trio, breaking through Rachael's beam, and broke her down, smashing against her, and smacked her into the ground again and again, and through her slamming's, and fell down onto the ground, and she landed on the ground.
With her last bit of strength, she did something to the device, throwing it to the side where it began buzzing in a dangerous way, she fell unconscious.
Matt, Frankie, and Caitlin all fall down to the ground, completely exhausted.
Matt's blue eyes came back to full show, Matt having lost too much power to keep the transformation and now he was low on energy...no, he was downright tapped out at this point, and he couldn't summon anymore energy.
He also saw that the hole in the sky, hadn't closed yet, and was worried about it.
"W-We did it..." Matt grasped the hands of both Caitlin and Frankie, holding them tightly. "Couldn't of done it without you..." His mind went into realization. "Shit, Eliza!"
Matt, on shaky legs, got off the ground and rushed towards Eliza. Her unconscious body on the ground was reached by Matt. He hovered above her, and shook her, she didn't respond. His heart beat increased, and he felt dizzy.
Caitlin came over, and checked on her.
"She's alive Matthew, don't worry, she is alive. Unconscious, but alive, I don't know what has happened to her though...that lightning, just what kind of lightning was that…?"
Matt was relieved by that, and sank to the ground, still tired.
They all sat together, panting from exhaustion.
But then Matt saw that Caitlin grabbed a knife that she had, and walked towards Rachael.
"Cait, what are you doing?"
"Ending her."
Matt got off the ground, exhausted, and moved closer.
Reaching her, he grabbed Caitlin's hand and stopped her.
"Cait, no, you're not a bad person. I wont let you kill her."
"Matthew, after everything she's done, she's not allowed to get away with this, she can't baby, I have to-"
Matt disarmed Caitlin quickly, spinning the knife in his palm.
"No, this isn't you, Cait. You aren't a killer, you're adorable, and kind. You're the sweetest girl I've ever met, and I'm not letting you become a killer for her, she is not going to be someone who you kill."
"But Matthew-"
"She's my responsibility." Matt looked at Rachael, then moved closer. "Cait, you don't have to worry, she is my problem, and I'll clean away this mess. I should have done this awhile ago. As Ra's said, you sometimes have to kill to save the ones you love, and not everyone can be redeemed, he was talking about Rachael, she's not redeemable. And she took you and threatened you, and Frankie, this is not allowed."
Caitlin looked on as he moved closer.
"I can't let you bear this burden Matthew, it isn't right."
"No, none of this is right, but Rachael...she's too far gone, for a time, I thought that she could be saved...but, she can't. She's evil, and Eobard twisted her beyond saving. Don't worry, to save the ones I love, I'll take her out. Maybe before Eobard, she could have been saved, but he twisted her too much and now...she's nothing like that Rachael, she's completely gone."
Caitlin and Frankie looked on, but Caitlin then brought Frankie's head to the side, and avoided her seeing it.
Matt got to the young woman on the ground and got on top of her. With the knife, he held it in both hands, and aimed it downwards.
"You've caused enough problems, you've hurt all of us, you are evil Rachael, and today, your vileness will be gone from this world."
STAB!
"Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"
Rachael was woken up with a start, her eyes shedding tears, as Matt plunged the knife into her heart. Matt didn't look angry, he didn't look sad, he had a stoic face as he looked down at her. Rachael's eyes leaked massive tears, but Matt just looked at her. Caitlin looked on, not being able to imagine how he was feeling right now.
"You brought this upon yourself, Rachael. You've threatened, hurt, and even killed your way through life when you didn't have to. Not anymore, your darkness is going to be wiped away."
"N-No...please...Matt...please..."
Matt mercilessly pulled the knife out, Rachael looked relieved, but he stabbed her once more in the stomach, blood leaking out of her wounds.
"Sorry Rachael, you've pushed me past the point of caring now. You're evil, everything you touched, was hurt, and broken because of you. You broke me down piece by piece, you've targeted my friends, my loved ones, for months now. You've kidnapped my Caitlin, you forced Frankie to watch me getting tortured, you kidnapped Hartley, and stabbed him, you've been causing so many problems. You know, I'd feel more sorry for you, if you weren't such a bitch. You had a bad childhood, you're talking to the King of bad childhood's, and you can't say that I have a split personality, I came through that, and work with it, I conquered by inner darkness, you could have, but you didn't. This is where you end."
Rachael's eyes looked up at his own, and he showed no remorse, he showed no care, he wanted her gone.
She couldn't believe it, she cried out for "Eobard!" but he didn't come. She couldn't understand why.
She shed tears, as she bled out slowly. Because of her powers, even weakened, they kept her alive more than humanly possible.
"No...Grodd...please baby...come..." Something within Rachael sprang forth, the 'thing' Caitlin put into her, began to glow, and she grabbed Matt's arm. "Y-You fucking shit..."
Her touch, drained him of something. It wasn't his powers, it was his life force. He could feel his skin growing older, and older, his life force left him. And in turn, Rachael's wounds were gradually healing more.
"G-Get off me!"
Rachael didn't, and continued on.
Matt grabbed the knife, and plunged it into Rachael's hand, making her cry and she let go.
Matt rolled to the side, where Caitlin and Frankie came, and held onto him. Though she wasn't fully healed, it was enough for her to stand.
"No, I'm not letting you go!"
Caitlin held up the cold gun, but before she could do anything, Grodd came jumping down, and grabbed Rachael.
"No!"
Frankie lifted a nearby car, and threw it at them, but her powers fell flat, and she dropped the car before it could hit her.
They didn't have a choice, as she was rescued by Grodd, and taken away.
"Damn it!"
Matt snapped, seeing his hand slowly returning to normal.
"Well, we know what power she's got, that's what he meant by twisting it...Rachael's powers are connected to her own, the power you have, sharing, maybe you can drain energy, and her's was twisted so she could drain life force to heal herself even quicker, makes sense from what I saw. Damn, this is all my fault Matthew..."
Caitlin eyes began brimming with tears, blaming herself.
But, Matt held onto her body, and brushed her lips with his own, wiping away the tears.
"We'll get her, she can't heal me cutting her head off, she's a dead woman walking. I don't care how fast she can regenerate, she's not regenerating her head being cut cleanly from her body. And this is not your fault my love. This circles back to Eobard, he forced you to do this, don't worry now. It might be one more complication, but we'll get through it." He grabbed both Caitlin's, and Frankie's hands, and brought them together. "Us three, we're the best team, along with the rest, but we're the cool family members~"
Frankie giggled, while Caitlin wiped her eyes, and the pair held onto the young man, the three vowing to kill Rachael, no matter what.
Literally a few seconds later, Barry came zooming in with some of the others. Matt saw Hartley, Ronnie, Jean, and Martin coming up. He guessed Bette was taking care of the others that were left,, so he was okay with seeing them. And he also guessed that since they were there, Barry and the others had taken care of Reverse Flash, which he was happy about.
"Aah, Matthew, everyone, you're alive and well."
They all nodded, clinging to one another like a family would.
"Don't worry about Reverse Flash, we got him, and the others as well." Ronnie explained, then turned to Matt. "Oh, Ra's said that he's going now, and hopes to see you soon. He said something about not needing to see you win and assumed you would. Oliver's also left as well."
"That's Ra's for you. Doesn't like making a scene at all."
Matt chuckled out, Caitlin hugging onto him.
"We all did it Matthew, Rachael's finally been stopped of that damn device..."
Matt went to thumb up Caitlin when they all heard the sound of metal shaking.
Pausing their bodies, they turned to the device, and saw that solar energy was leaking out of it.
"Ooh no..."
Matt murmured, Hartley looking at the others.
"It's like I thought, she used it too much, and the stored energy inside, is going to explode."
Barry and the others gasped.
"C-Can't you stop it Hartley?"
Jean asked in a hurry, but Martin laid his hand over her shoulder.
"Unfortunately, if he were to attempt to try, he could accidentally trigger it, and it could explode then. Even I am at a loss on how to switch it off. If we forcefully try, it could explode...no, it very well could." Martin moved closer and looked at the device. "From the energy output of the device, it seems like, this is a pure guess but-"
"What Professor?"
"Ronald...everyone, this entire city is going to be caught up in the radius of this blast. We'll all be killed."
Everyone gasped at the sight of it all.
Barry looked at the device, and thought of something that could help the situation.
"What if I run it out of the city?"
"You'd be killed then Barry, you wouldn't be able to escape in time to avoid getting caught up, if my calculations are correct, and unfortunately, I confirmed them with Cisco before we started this, and he concurred with me...you'll die as well."
Hartley explained sadly, feeling more angry by the second.
Barry's eyes widened.
Was he ready to die for this?
However, before he could make up his mind, Matt silently walked to the device.
"Hartley, can this thing still be worn? I mean, can you still use its powers?"
"We-Well, yes but..."
Matt took the device off the ground and held it to his chest before even Barry could react.
"Matt-"
"Don't come near me Barry." Matt stopped him, holding the device even closer. "I'll wear it, and fly it up as high as I can. If I can make it up there, up high, then the blast radius would only affect the sky, and not down here...you'd all be safe from this."
"N-No! Matthew, you can't!"
Caitlin objected, but Matt smiled gently.
"I can, and will. Rachael, is my fault. If she never was here, then this wouldn't be happening...well, I mean, really it is Eobarsd's fault as Rachael wouldn't be smart enough to use that damn solar device, so yeah, technically it is his fault. I should have stopped her earlier though, I...I have to Cait, everyone. I'll take it up there, and allow it to detonate safely. That'll work, right Hartley?"
Hartley didn't want to answer that, but Martin did.
"Indeed, if you...could get high enough, then it would explode up there, and keep us all...safe."
Matt nodded his head.
"Thanks, Professor."
Caitlin began crying, trying to grab the device, but Matt kept it out of her reach. He wouldn't let her have it, knowing what she might do, he wasn't going to let her do that this time.
"Matthew, please don't do this..." Her tears rained off her face, as Frankie hugged onto him pleadingly. "Matthew, you can't...we're supposed to get married...how can we get married if you're dead…?"
Matt began shedding tears too, putting his head to her own, gently kissing her on the lips.
"I'm sorry Cait, I have to, I want to marry you one day as well my love, but if this thing detonates with you here, then I'll never forgive myself. Me, or the city, and you're in this city, my Frankie's in this city, my sister is in this city and my friends are too. I wont let you die Cait. You, Frankie, Jean, and everyone else, I'll use this power now, and fly this away. I love you Cait, Frankie, Jean, I just have to do this." Matt's eyes went towards Hartley. "Hartley, look after them for me, okay? You're like one of my best friends now, and I trust you to look after them."
"Matthew, I..."
Hartley shed some tears, but Matt smiled.
"Please, for me?"
"I'd do anything for you...yes, of course, I'll look after Frankie, Caitlin and Jean for you. I'll do my best."
"Thank you, Hartley."
Matt went to put the device on, but Barry laid a hand on his arm.
"Matt I-"
"Don't you have to see your Dad out of prison Barry?" Matt cut him off, giving him a smile. "Say "Hey!" for me to your Dad, alright? I might have had a bastard for a father, but you've got a pretty great one, make sure he gets out of prison, and live your life with him. And make sure Eobard is stopped for good, and do what you think is right Barry. Even though...I saw a future where the world is sucked into a black hole...please make the right decision, and don't let my Cait, Frankie or Jean die."
Barry's eyes teared up, nodding his head. It's all he could do. It was Matt's decision in the end, and Barry knew that there was no talking him out of it now.
"Daddy please don't leave me..."
"Matthew, you can't go, I love you..."
"Bro...this isn't fair, please don't die now, please..."
Frankie, Caitlin and Jean all hugged onto him, trying, pleading to him to not do this, but he knew that he had to.
"Shhhhh now, everything is alright, don't worry about me. This is the right thing to do."
Ronnie looked on from the side, and saw how loved Matt was, and how much he was needed. He looked at himself, then looked at Matt once more, and made a decision, picking up a pole from the side, slamming it into the back of Matt's head, he was too tired to even notice.
The device fell out of Matt's hands and Ronnie quickly grabbed it.
"Ronnie!? What are you doing!?"
Jean cried out, as Barry tried to stop him, but Ronnie placed the device on, sending out a burst of light towards Barry, knocking him down to the ground. Unlike Rachael who had powers to cope with the energy, he could feel it coursing through him and destroying him slowly.
"Ronald, cease this immediately, you don't need to do this! Don't do this, I am ordering you not to do this!"
Martin tried to persuade, but Ronnie just shook his head.
"Sorry Professor, I can't honour that request this time." Martin's eyes raged, while Ronnie turned back to Jean who was shedding large tears. "Jean, I have to be the one to do this. Your brother...he's already done enough for everyone here. He's saved this town many times, he's saved my life many times too. And it was my fault that he felt sad for a while, and I can see, he's needed here. To marry Caitlin, to be your loving brother, to be Frankie's Dad, and to be a protector of this town. If anyone has to go, then it's me. I have...I have to protect you, just this once, I have to keep you safe."
"You always did...for that year, we were together, and you kept me safe..."
Jean couldn't accept it, and shed even larger tears. She just couldn't do it, she couldn't have this happening. She had just gotten with Ronnie, she didn't want to lose him. She didn't want to lose her brother either, but she didn't want Ronnie to die either.
"Ronnie..."
Caitlin murmured, cradling Matt in her arms, he was quite dizzy right now.
"It's alright Cait, he's your guy, I know he'll look after you." His eyes went towards Jean lovingly. "I love you Jean, I'm sorry it took me this long to say it, but I do love you with all my heart. I wish I could have said it sooner, but don't worry about me. Live, happily, for me."
"I love you too Ronnie, please don't do this..."
"Goodbye."
Ronnie took one last look at everyone as well as gave Jean a goodbye kiss, then shot into the sky.
"RONNIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
Jean tried to follow him, but Barry held her back, knowing that Ronnie wouldn't want her to die like that either.
Matt's head throbbed from the impact of Ronnie's attack, looking up to the sky, as Caitlin held onto him tightly.
"No, I have to..." Matt tried to fly, but he only got a small distance into the air, before he fell back down, causing pain to ripple through him. "Ronnie...no, get back here Ronnie! You can't do this to my sister...you can't...it should be me..."
Regretting it, Matt furiously tightened his hands and cursed his power, but Caitlin held onto him and comforted him by saying "This is not your fault." and wouldn't let him go.
Getting high into the sky, the others couldn't see him anymore.
He was even higher than he could truly breathe properly, but he held a smile on his face, knowing that this was the right choice, to save everyone.
"Goodbye Jean, Cait, Matt...everyone. Thank you. Jean...goodbye my Jean..."
And then, it happened.
The detonation, happened.
Erupting in the sky, Ronnie was caught with the explosion, and it was like, everyone's world stopped.
Jean looking on, lifeless, and Caitlin held onto Matt, shedding tears, as did Matt and the others. Martin rubbed his forehead, and felt sick right now, he couldn't even think, he felt, lost right now.
"Ronnie...please don't..."
Jean shed some more tears, Matt laying a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"I'm so sorry Jean, I am so sorry..."
Jean shook her head, tears streaming out of her eyes.
"No...that's my Ronnie, always doing the stupid things, always thinking about the right thing, he...he was a good man..." Her eyes went to Barry. "Barry, please...go back, go back and save Ronnie...go and save him please...h-he can't die like this..."
"J-Jean, the thing is..."
Barry didn't know what to say, and everyone knew what Barry was thinking, it was similar to what the others were thinking.
Martin, while his head was down, sighed deeply.
"Dear, if Barry did, and stopped Ronald, who else would wear it? And suppose Barry went back before then, and ripped it off her...it would have triggered the self destruct, and could be even more potentially dangerous, it was designed to only come off if the user disengaged it safely, or someone else did. If the wearer was unconscious, or dead, then it could be disengaged safely, it takes a little time, but otherwise... And if Barry went back even further and stopped her from getting it...then the future would drastically alter, and we could all be dead, time travel is very messy my dear, Eobard could have gotten Rachael something even more dangerous, and it could have been something none of us would have been able to stop. Ronald knew doing this, would...mean the end, but he did it all for you, my dear. During that year, you gave him the strength to fight my control...he loved you, so much Jean, I felt it, he truly did, and he did this because of your courage, so let's not let his sacrifice be in vain. You have to be strong my dear, I know it is hard, but you have to be very strong for him, like he was for us all. In his final moments, he thought of you. I felt it. Nothing but you."
Jean began crying even more, holding onto Martin for dear life. Like a father, or even grandfather, he stroked her hair, and whispered comforting words into her ear.
"Ronnie...I love you so much Ronnie...damn it all to hell...Eobard...Rachael...all of this is their fault...they're gonna pay for this...they're going to die for this..."
Jean declared, and Matt felt the same, with the others silently agreeing. Though Barry wasn't sure about killing Eobard right now, the others felt like he should die.
But then, from the hole that was made in the air beforehand from the clash of powers from Rachael, and Matt, Time Wraith's came out, two of them in fact. And their eyes went towards Matt immediately, and he froze, looking at the lifeless eyes of the creatures.
"What the hell are they!?"
Barry yelled, as they shot for Matt.
Matt jumped up, and went to run, but the Time Wraith's grabbed Matt's arms, and dragged him to the portal. Desperately fighting, didn't get him anywhere. He couldn't escape right now, he was trapped, and couldn't move either. He was exhausted from the fight both physically and mentally as well. He tried, but he couldn't fight them.
"Cait! Frankie!"
"Matthew!"
Caitlin tried to reach for him, but she slipped, and fell onto the ground.
Barry rushed forward on his own speed, and tried to grab Matt's hand, but he couldn't, and missed it by mere inches, Matt disappeared into the portal.
"Mattheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew!"
Only Caitlin's cries could be heard, as they had just witnessed Ronnie's death, and Matt's disappearance, with only a flicker of energy remaining where the portal was, Hartley looking at it with interest...
End chapter!
Wow, what a roller-coaster, am I right? Along with the feels hitting hard. The large fight happened, and I think everyone got some good spotlight. But it seems that Rachael has been transplanted with a weird organ, the final battles happened, and after beating Rachael and nearly killing her though she was saved by Grodd at the last second, the device she wore, as predicted a few times, was going to explode. Matt was fully ready to accept that responsibility, but Ronnie surprisingly saved the day and exploded, and died, poor Jean lost her boyfriend, and now Matt's been dragged into the Speed Force, things really haven't been great for Jean. What's going to happen next? And what's going to happen with the whole what happens with the wormhole and what Ronnie does there in canon will be taken by someone else but who that is...well, we'll see soon enough! And I wont spoil it, but it's going to be quite the shock what is going to happen there, and will lead into some interesting things for the future! More about that will be explained in the finale chapter of season one.
Thanks for reading everyone! We're very close to the finale now, only a few chapters left, and next chapter is going to be very emotional for a few characters, especially Matt, it's going to be quite the emotional ride.
