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After what happened with Bug-eyed Bandit, Eddie was let in on everything, including Peter being Spider-Man. They've all met up at Joe's wild berry went to get food.
"Where's Barry?" Eddie asks them all. "He should be here any second. I sent him out for..." Joe was explaining when Barry came in with boxes of pizza.
"Pizza! From Coast City." Barry tells them and they all dive in while Caitlin is just sitting on the stairs. "Supposedly the best in the West." Barry tells them as they spread the boxes out on the table. "Why did I not think of this before?" Cisco questions while taking a slice.
"Cait, you not eating?" Peter asks her while taking a slice from the boxes. "I'm not hungry." Caitlin tells him and he's okay with that seeing she's still trying to figure everything out.
"Okay, six months of investigating Harrison Wells has led us nowhere, so we're going back to the beginning to see what we can find out." Joe tells the team. "What does that mean? Going back to the beginning?" Peter wonders not understanding.
"Joe and Cisco are going to Starlight city." Barry explains to them. "To investigate the car accident that dr. Wells was in with Tess Morgan 15 years ago." Joe replies finishing him.
"I don't understand, why?" Caitlin asks them, not seeing why. "Dr. McGee did tell me once that after Wells' accident, he became like a complete stranger." Peter says remembering his talk with Tina once. "He became someone completely different."
"Because someone he loved died?" Caitlin clarifies and Peter knows she's right, technically. "You of all people, Peter, can understand how grief can change a person." She states to him and he does know how it feels, loosing his parents, loosing his uncle, when he thought he lost Ronnie. All things that have encourages him to be Spider-Man.
"Caitlin, we believe that dr. Wells is the Reverse Flash and killed Barry's mother, and he may have done the same thing to Tess Morgan. We have to learn everything we can about that night." Joe tells her, trying to show her what they see.
"Oh, can you guys cover for me for dr. Wells?" Cisco asks his friends. "You mean lie?" Caitlin clarifies to Cisco. "Sure, we can do that." Peter agree since he's done it himself constantly. "I need some air." Caitlin states and leaves the house.
"Doesn't look like Caitlin's with us." Joe says seeing her reaction. "No, I can get through to her, it's just a lot to take in. I trust my instincts about Wells, I just didn't have a reason to trust them until you guys filled us in. I'll have a talk with her." Peter offers to them and they know Caitlin will listen to Peter more than anyone else in the room.
"What should we do with you gone?" Eddie asks Joe. "Business here as usual." Joe answers and Eddie understands. "Well, I want to wish you good luck over there, but also scared what you might find." Barry tells Joe.
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The next day, they've been getting reports on a jewelry thief committing theft but has a solid alibi. "No priors, no arrests, not even a speeding ticket. And everyone who knows this woman, coworkers, neighbors, say that she's the kindest, nicest, most honest woman they've ever met." Eddie tells army trying to figure out what's happening.
"So, unless she woke up this morning and out for nowhere decided to become a criminal, it must be a metahuman. Possibly able to control minds." Barry replies and Eddie wonders if that's possible, but after everything, that's not a real question.
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At S.T.A.R. Labs, Peter heads in and hands Caitlin some coffee. "Hey, can we talk about what went down last night?" Peter asks her hoping to help her see there's something wrong. "There's nothing we need to talk about." Caitlin states to him and starts walking away.
"Come on, Cait, look, I know after everything dr. Wells has done for everyone, it's hard to wrap our heads around this, but even my six sense has been warning me for months something isn't right with Wells." Peter tries explaining to her.
"Wells saved you and Barry's life multiple times. And before I can believe anything about all of this, I'm gonna need a form of proof." Caitlin states when his senses warn him Wells is back.
"Proof?" Wells asks them and they try to stay cool. "Proof of what?" He wonders and they have to think of something fast. "Barry called, said we might have another metahuman on our hands. People committing crimes, doing things completely out of their character." Peter makes up since Barry told him on his way, on the phone.
"Ah. We are always happy to help, as you know." Wells tells Peter and looks around for Cisco. "Have you heard from Cisco? He hasn't arrived." Wells asks the others.
"He has to help his brother, Dante. He might need a few days off." Caitlin explains when Peter's crime system alert goes off. "I've gotta go, crime." Peter says and runs for the exit while changing.
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Few seconds ago..
The man who stole all of the diamonds is trying to sell them and the buyer knows they're stolen and calls the police while buying some time. Eddie makes it since he was in the area and Barry had to run to S.T.A.R. Labs to get his suit.
Eddie starts following the man as he seems to have made Eddie and Peter comes up and webs his leg down and Eddie tries tackling him and he tries escaping.
Peter drops in and chased him while Barry showed up to help. "You can't outrun the two of us!" Barry tells the man as he looks at the heroes. "I won't have to." He states while touching a passer and runs down the street corner, they go down the same corner and he disappeared.
"This could be harder than we thought." Peter states and Barry agrees since this something they haven't seen this before.
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They make it to S.T.A.R. Labs and fill them in on what they saw. "A shapeshifter?" Caitlin questions surprised. "We literally saw a grown man, like, morph into a teenage girl." Barry states to them still getting his mind over what he witnessed.
"Interesting. Today's physicists have always regarded programmable matter as nothing than a theory, but I guess your shape shifter probes it can be done." Wells states to them.
"So, this guy/woman can actually transform into anyone they touch?" Peter clarifies hoping he couldn't copy powers. "So if you are touched while you're the Flash or Spider-Man, and he transforms into you guys, we run the risk of him either exposing you guys about who's under the mask." Caitlin explains to them both.
"Because at this point we don't know if they're capable of absorbing more than just your physical characteristics." Wells states what Peter was thinking. "Like, he could possibly copy my speed or Peter's abilities." Barry understands. "That would be even worse than Venom." Peter states to them.
"Got it, if we confront him, leave Peter to web him up. Simple." Barry states to them and they see nothing wrong with that. "So how do we find someone who can transform into anyone?" Caitlin questions not seeing a way to do that.
"Well, like any problem, you just go back to the beginning. In this case, finding the first person the shapeshifter transforms into." Wells tells them and Barry gets an idea. "Can you pull up the CCPD records of cases where the perpetrator plead innocent, even though they were caught on camera committing the crime?" Barry asks the team and they do just that and get dozens of results.
"This guy's been extremely busy with his powers. And they all go back a month after the particle accelerator explosion. "And who was the first one?" Peter asks and Wells pulls up the case file. "Jacob Fisher. A teller at the Federal Credit Union, claims to have been framed by his best friend, Hannibal Bates." Wells reads and Barry tells them he'll head to the prescient and tell them what he learned.
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Staring City. Joe and Cisco go to the police station and meet up with detective Quentin Lance and gives them the case on the crash 15 years ago, and it's not as big as Joe could've hoped. "This is all you have?" He asks Lance.
"Well, It was a pretty cut and dry case, Detective. Harrison Wells, Tess Morgan are out on a Sunday drive, tires blow, Wells loses control, and sadly Tess dies on the scene." Lance recaps what they were able to discover themselves. "So, What are you two hoping to find?" He wonders.
"We're not exactly sure what we're looking for yet." Joe confessed to him. "You come all the way from Central City, you don't know what you're looking for?" Lance questions not seeing exactly what they're doing.
"Just following a hunch." Joe explains to him and Cisco asks if they could be taken to the site when Laurel Lance comes up to them. "Captain, I need those witness statements for the Joshua Brown trial." Laurel tells Lance. "Heal, Well, ole I told you, end of the day." Quentin replies to her.
"Sorry, Detective West, disco Ramon, this is A.D.A. Laurel Lance." Quentin introduces them to her. "Related?" Joe asks him. "Daughter." Quentin responds and Laurel greets the two of them.
"You work at S.T.A.R. Labs with Peter Parker, right?" Laurel asks Cisco remembering when Peter talked about his friends. "Well, he works at Mercury Labs, but yeah I know him." Cisco corrects her and she asks to talk to him alone.
"How do you know Peter?" Cisco asks as Laurel leads him into a back room. "You guys friends or something?" He wonders and she closes the door. "Not exactly the case. We dated a while last time he was visiting Starlight City last year with my friends. John Diggle, Felicity Smoak, and Oliver Queen." Laurel explains and Cisco's shocked to hear Peter dated someone from Starlight City and never mentioned her before.
"Three people who have absolutely nothing in common." Cisco clarifies about what she said about team Arrow. "Cisco, I know Peter's Spider-Man, I know Barry's the Flash, and Oliver's the Arrow." Laurel tells him and is shocked to hear that.
"How do you know all of that?" Cisco asks her. "Because I'm the Black Canary." Laurel whispers to him and is shocked to hear that Peter was dating Black Canary and stated he didn't have luck with women and decided to leave this out. "That liar said he didn't have luck with women and decide to leave out he dated the Black Canary. Wait, why are you telling me this?" Cisco asks not seeing why she's telling him.
"Because I need some technical expertise." She explains and shows him a device. "I've been using my sister's sonic device. I was hoping you could modify it. Peter always said you were clever." Laurel explains and Cisco looks over the device and gets a few ideas on it.
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Back in Central City, S.T.A.R. Labs, Caitlin is doing her own research on Wells trying to figure out what the others see when Peter approaches her. "Hey, Cait, What are you doing here so late?" He woders since everyone called it a night earlier.
"I was looking into Wells, trying to get some answers of my own." Caitlin explains to him. "I mean, am I really supposed to just stand by and watch all of you ruin this man's life?" Caitlin asks him and Peter understands and just walks closer to her and holds her shoulders. "I mean, through everything we've done, Harrison Wells stood by my side. Especially when you left the city and basically dropped all contact. He told me everything was going to be okay." Caitlin explains to him and Peter understands where she's going.
"Cait, If what they say is true, everything he's done for us, he's been doing it for his own benefit. But if they are right about everything, and he learns, he will hunt down everyone we love and know." Peter explains to her and holds her tight.
"I know, he meant so much to all of us. But we need to wait and see what Joe and Cisco found, and if they found nothing, we'll see what else it could be. Just promise me, Cait." Peter asks her and she decides to trust him.
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Barry and Eddie went to visit Hannibal Bates grandmother to see if they could learn anything anything about him, but instead it ended with them learning Hannibal was impersonating his grandmother and framed Eddie for shooting two cops, luckily they weren't killed but Eddie was arrested because of it.
Now they're doing what they can to prove he's innocent and that he didn't do it. Peter was just walking home to see if he could enhance his suit maybe to scan for molecular changes, or anything he could to help Eddie when his senses go off and he spots said Eddie walking down the street and follows him.
Eddie starts walking faster seeing he's belong followed by someone and leads them down an alleyway. Peter follows him, getting his web shooters ready, remembering he can't touch him and suddenly gets punched in the face by Hannibal, knocking him out.
Hannibal-Peter makes it to Peter's house and drops the unconscious Peter in his closet and ties him up. He then searches Peter and finds his wallet, keys and phone, he just didn't notice the web shooters being covered by his jacket and the suit under his own clothes when there's a knock at his door and he closes the closet with Peter inside.
"Peter, it's me." Caitlin calls as she enters and sees Peter, not suspecting anything is wrong. "Hello...you." Hannibal-Peter greets Caitlin, having no idea who she is.
"Listen, I think I figured out a way we can stop this shapeshifter from morphing into people. What if I create a serum that will terminate the polymerization reaction, essentially forcing the bonds to revert to their original form stopping him from being able to control his power." Caitlin theorizes and Hannibal-Peter gets worried if she could.
"You think you could do that?" Hannibal-Peter asks her. "Yeah, I believe I can." She tells him and they get ready to head to S.T.A.R. Labs. "Is something wrong, Peter?" Caitlin wonders since he seems to be acting strange.
"Nothing, I'm good." Hannibal-Peter assures her and she doesn't believe him. "Look, about what you said last night, I just wanted to thank you. I mean, you brought up some things that made sense and I should know by now to trust your instincts after everything they and you've done for me." Caitlin tells him, still believing it's the real Peter.
"So let's just bury the hatchet, and we'll go back to S.T.A.R. Labs. Figure out a way to stop our Everyman." She states trying out a name. "Everyman?" Hannibal-Peter asks liking the name. "That's a pretty good name." He tells her and she smiles at him. "Then let's get going." She tells him and they leave his apartment and head to the labs.
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Hannibal-Peter is looking around the labs as Caitlin is working on the serum for Everyman. "Good to go, just need to give it a spin." She tells him and he realizes he's blocking her way."So, this serum is it a temporary fix, or will it stop him permanently?" Hannibal-Peter asks her.
"No, not permanently, just long enough so he can be stopped." She tells him while watching it, waiting for it to finish. "And how long will it take?" Hannibal-Peter asks Caitlin as she removes the serum. "Not long." She clarifies and turns to see him standing behind her. "What are you doing?" She asks knowing Peter has a sense of humor, but it's starting to get strange with him and she is just too close to his face. What she wished she could do, she knows he doesn't feel the same way as she feels about him and quickly moves to the other side of the lab. Hannibal-Peter notices her reaction then decides to take it further and walks back over to her.
"Something I think I should have done.." Hannibal-Peter says and spins Caitlin so her to face is facing his, "a long time ago." He states and quickly kisses her. Caitlin has to take a minute to realize what's happening right now. After everything she's been through, she started developing feelings towards Peter, but just assumed he never felt the same. But as of now, Peter is right in front of her and is kissing her, but she breaks it to get a explication, which is met with her automatically going back in and kissing him again when the alerts go off and they see Barry is in the elevator.
"Oh, it's just Barry." Caitlin says, relieved that nobody was here to see what just went down since she doesn't know how they would reacted. Since she herself hasn't figured out how to react to what just occurred. I mean, Peter Parker, the man that she has fallen in love with after everything just kissed her. And it felt better than she could've ever dreamed it would feel, it was more than what she felt with Ronnie. It was a kiss that a teenage girl would gossip with her friends just how great it was that made her weak to the knees.
"Hey, Peter, Cait, what's going on here?" Barry asks them and Caitlin is slightly blushing. "What's wrong with you guys?" Barry wonders and Caitlin studders to get something out. "Nothing. I didn't do anything." She state sto Barry and he wonders if they were actually getting together like the previous timeline where Peter and her told each other how they felt and he just walked in on a bad time.
"Well, anyway, we have a way of stopping Hannibal. Did you find anything else?" Caitlin wonders and Barry gets serious again. "Well, I was reviewing the footage for Hannibal shooting the cops and I realized that he's left handed, that's not entirely enough to get Eddie out even though he's right handed, but it's a start." Barry tells them while Hannibal-Peter takes the gun he still has when a taser hits him in the back and sends him to the ground.
They turn to see Wells with a taser. "What did you do that for?" Barry asks Wells, not understanding why he would do that. "Hannibal is indeed left handed, mr. Allen...as is this man." Wells tells them while pointing to Peter. "And mr. Parker is right handed. Besides, if this were Peter, his senses would've warned him I was planning on tasing him." Wells states and they realize it's Hannibal and Caitlin sighs realizes she wasn't kissing Peter. "I knew it." She states causing both men to look at her. "Wait, if this is Hannibal impersonating Peter, where's Peter?" Barry asks and Caitlin is starting to get worried again.
"We've gotta go find him." Caitlin tells them both. "Caitlin, retrace his steps staring off where you found mr. Hannibal, find if Peter's alright. Mr. Allen, Get mr. Bates to the pipeline and get some evidence for the police to get everyone who he's framed cleared." Wells tells them and they got the plan and head out to do what they need to do.
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Caitlin searches Peter's apartment getting more worried as she can't find anything, and searches the closet and finds him tied on the floor. "Oh, Peter." She states relieved to see he's at least alive and just unconscious. She turns him to face her and slaps him across the face and his scream is muffled from the duck tape covering his mouth.
Caitlin rips the tape off of his mouth so he could talk again. "For real, Cait?" Peter asks her as she helps him get free from the ropes as he tears himself free with his strength. "Why did you slap me?" Peter asks her as he gets back up.
"Because you were unconscious in your closet." She states to him. "Smelling salts gets the same result, you know." Peter replies to her. "Sorry, are you okay?" She apologizes and asks him.
"Wait, Bates, he was here." Peter states to her. "Yeah, don't worry, we already have him in custody." Caitlin reassured him and he's happy with that repose.
"He didn't do anything embarrassing with my face, did he?" Peter wonders and Caitlin questions if she should tell him about the kiss that she shared with Hannibal-Peter. "No, he didn't do anything that can't be fixed." She tells him, not wanting him to know about her feelings towards him yet.
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Barry was able to get Eddie and was able to get everyone Hannibal framed cleared. Now, Hannibal has woken up and he's not angry being in the pipeline. "Let me out of here!" He yells wearing Eddie's face and Caitlin, Wells or Peter don't react to that. He then transforms into Caitlin and looks to Peter.
"Hey, cutie. Wanna let me out of here?" He asks Peter who just laughs. "Who would ever be dumb enough to fall for that?" Caitlin questions, still a little worried Peter might find out about the kiss.
"We've seen a lot of things you can become, but who are you, Hannibal Bates?" Wells asks him and he transforms into a man with no hair, eyes, just a mouth and normal clothing. "I...can't remember." Bates admits to them and starts mumbling about how he can't remember anything.
"Well, let's lock this up, that's going to be a face to remember." Peter jokes and Wells leaves the pipeline leaving them both alone.
"What about dr. Wells?" Caitlin asks and Peter brings her to the prescient.
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Once there they're shown the body that Cisco and Joe discovered at Starlight City. "This isn't possible." Caitlin says seeing that this body belongs to Harrison Wells. "Caitlin, we ran the DNA test twice. It's a perfect match." Cisco tells her while looking at the computers.
"This body is the real Harrison Wells." Joe states while looking at the body. "If this is the real dr. Wells, who have we been working for this whole time?" Peter wonders swing this is bigger than he could've thought.
"Peter, didn't you say. Dr. McGee said that Wells became a completely different person after his accident?" Barry asks remembering what Peter said at the beginning of all of this. "Yeah, She did." Peter confirms with him. "What if it was because he did is a different person?" Barry asks and this brings up a whole new question.
Who is Harrison Wells?
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The four of them head back to S.T.A.R. Labs to check on something, Cisco is looking over schematics for the labs, while Peter looks over security. "After the accelerator exploded, I built a 3-D model of S.T.A.R. Labs so I could pinpoint exactly what caused it to malfunction." Cisco tells Barry and Caitlin as he continues to look over it and Peter finds something interesting about what happened with Hannibal and Caitlin.
"And you never ran this test?" Barry asks Cisco who assures him he in fact did. "I just never had any other reason to look outside the pipeline or around the cortex." Cisco states and he finds something. "Wait, what's that?" Peter winders, shutting the footage of Caitlin and Hannibal-Peter kissing and looks at it.
"That shouldn't be there." Cisco says and they know where to look. They head into the halls and Cisco uses his tachyon tracer to find a hidden room in the halls. Peter and Barry feel around and they were able to open it and they see the Reverse Flash suit on display and Barry pushes a button and a newspaper being shown from a projection. "Flash missing vanishes in Crisis. April 25 2024".
The team looks shocked, but Peter looks below the top headline and reads the second headline.
"Parker Industries and Wayne Enterprises merged". "What the hell?" Peter questions, never hearing of Parker Industries and is left to wonder if this is real.
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