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"Flash missing. Vanishes in Crisis. After a epic street battle with the Reverse Flash, our city's very own scarlet speedster disappeared in an explosion of light." Barry reads what the newspaper reads, completely confirmed. "It's from April 25th, 2024." Peter states shocked to how this could be from the future.
"Guys, when I fought the Reverse Flash at Christmas, he said that we'd be fighting for centuries." Barry states and they realize it's true, the Reverse Flash is from the future.
"That would mean whoever Wells really is, he's also from the future." Peter tells them and they're shocked. "I have to say, I'm digging the brighter red suit." Cisco comments on the picture the newspaper has on it. "And the white on the Symbol? That's dope. Wait a second, what if we changed the color on your suit. Will it be because we got the idea from this picture? That would mean we're living in a casual nexus." Cisco wonders, trying to figure this out.
"That's not as weird as the name on the byline." Peter states and they see who wrote the article. "Iris West-Allen"
"Mazel tov?" Cisco says, not completely sure what to say. "Hebrew." A woman voice fills the room and they all jump back in shock. "Ancient language of the Jewish people." The voice informs them all.
"Okay, who's there, where are you?" Peter asks when a face appears where the newspaper once stood. "Good evening, Peter Parker." The hologram greets him.
"Uh, hi." Peter greets the face. "You know who we are?" Barry interrupts them, asking the face. "Of course. Barry Allen, director of Central City Police, CAI Division. Also known as the Flash." She informs them all and they're surprised to hear that.
"Looks like you're in for a promotion, man." Peter states and the face looks to him. "Peter Parker, owner, director and CEO of Parker Industries, once known as Mercury Labs." She tells him and Peter is shocked that he's going to own the place that he currently works soon. "Wait, what are you?" Peter wonders seriously confused now.
"I am Gideon, an interactive artificial consciousness." She introduces herself to them. "She's an AI, Cisco." Peter states to his friend who are both shocked by this fact. "You know dr. Wells" Barry tells her understanding he owns her. "Do you know who he really is?" Barry wonders, hoping to get some answers.
"I don't understand the question." She tells them an they see She probably knows just as much about his identity as they do. "Okay, Hey is he here? What is he planing?" Barry asks Gideon. "To kill the Flash and Spider-Man." Was Gideon's answer and that shocked Barry and Peter.
"Why does he want to kill Spider-Man?" Peter wonders, knowing he has beef with Barry, but not him. "To stop the Spider-Gene before it begins." Gideon says and Peter never took into account that his abilities could be passed down genetically to his kids and so on.
Cisco's phone goes off and he checks it. "Wells is in the building." Cisco warns the team. "How do you know?" Caitlin asks her while Barry and Peter take in the new information they were just told.
"I put a tracker on his wheelchair. Which, if he were actually paralyzed, I would be going to hell." Cisco explains and sees he's in the cortex.
"Why did he kill Nora Allen?" Barry asks Gideon. "Because he was angry that you escaped." She explains to him and Cisco warns that Wells is in his way to the time vault.
"What does he want from me?" Peter asks, trying to figure this all out. "For you to help Barry Allen become the Flash." Gideon answers his question.
"That's probably why dr. Wells constantly wanted you to visit the labs before the explosion, so you and Ronnie would make sure it worked perfectly, so when Barry got struck he'd become the Flash." Caitlin puts together but they don't understand why he needs the Flash. But they know he's almost there so they need to go.
"Wait a second. How do we know that GLaDOS here won't tell him we were here?" Peter asks them and they're now worried she would. "If I can get into its operating system, maybe I can disable the memory core." Cisco offers and they turn back to Gideon.
"Gideon, can you show us where your operating system is?" Barry asks the AI and she reveals part of the wall that just shows bars and a line going through it.
"Ha, forget that. That's not gonna happened." Cisco states to them, seeing it won't work. "Gideon, could you just not tell him we were here?" Barry wonders, hoping that will work. "Of course. I will accept any command given to me by you." Gideon promises and they start leaving. "Wait, why would you accept my commands?" Barry wonders, not seeing a reason for it to do so.
"Because you created me." Gideon tells Barry and he's shocked to learn he creates her in the future and speeds everyone out of the room, before Wells noticed them.
Wells just comes into the room and activates Gideon. "Is everything all right, Gideon?" Wells asks her. "Everything is fine." She tells him, keeping her promise to Barry.
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They make it to Joe's place and fill him in on what they found out. "Really? For four very smart people, that was really stupid." Joe states to them. "Okay, I know we've seen a lot this past year, but time travel?" Eddie asks, not believing it.
"I did it." Barry confesses, thinking back to when he traveled back a day during the Weather Wizard incident. "Or I will do it." Barry says, not wanting to talk about how Peter died, he and Caitlin confessed their feelings, and everything else.
"Excuse me?" Eddie asks, not understanding. "One of the two speedsters in Barry's House the night his mother was killed was Barry." Cisco explains to them.
"Which means that in the future, Barry will travel back to that night while battling the Reverse Flash." Peter finishes Cisco's thought. "Actually, I wasn't talking about that." Barry says, thinking it's time they all knew the truth. "I kind of already time traveled. I was running to stop a tsunami from hitting the city, it was a few weeks before Cisco started getting the dreams." Barry explains to them. "Oh those dreams where Wells uses his super shedding hand to shred apart my heart?" Cisco asks him and that puts mental images into the others they didn't want.
"What if those dreams were actually memories?" Barry questions them. "What if that day, coach found out that Wells is the Reverse Flash and then Wells killed him? But when I ran back a day, changing the timeline stopped that event from happening." Barry explains to them, but that leaves a question unanswered.
"If it never happened, then how is it that Cisco remembers it happening?" Peter asks and Joe agrees wondering the same thing. "I think the important thing here is that he does remember. I think I've got a really bad idea." Barry tells them and they know they're gonna go along with whatever he says.
"We have to access Cisco's memories somehow. Somewhere in his subconscious could hold the key to everything." Barry explains the plan. "Okay, I know this is gonna souls strange coming from the guy who has a six sense, can lift ten times his own body weight and swings on rooftops, but how on earth do you plan on achieving that?" Peter asks, not even knowing where to start on that.
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Despite what Peter said, they actually easily found a way to create a device to help Cisco see into his memories. "Okay, I was wrong. It's fairly easy, who knew?" Peter states to them while they're building a pair of glasses with green lenses and a blackout outline.
"So this will allow Cisco to see into his dream?" Barry asks them while working on it. "I got the idea from a journal article on lucid dream therapy. They think it can e used to help people suffering from PTSD." Caitlin explains and that makes sense since Peter doesn't read those kind of articles. "Traumatized, stressed? Check and check." Cisco states since he is both of those things as of now.
"The theory is that it will allow people to objectively enter their dreams and face their fears. Still working on the talking part." Caitlin explains. "Are you sure this isn't gonna like destroy his brain?" Peter wonders, not entirely on board with this. "The amount of electricity required to trigger lucid dreaming is harmless." Caitlin tells him, trying to ease his fear when Wells comes in.
"Who's going to b lucid dreaming?" Wells asks them and they have to quickly come up with an excuse. "With all of the metahumans in Central City, people have been seeing strange things, things they can't understand. And it's really just a matter of time before psychological issues develop." Caitlin tells him and Wells moves to look over the glasses.
"And lucid dreaming will help the doctors better understand their fears. Intriguing. Of course, you still need to guide the patient from the outside. When we dream, the middle brain lights up with electrical activity, whereas the higher brain remains dormant. Once we find a way to make both parts of the brain active, then it's just a mater of finding the frequency that will stimulate the language center. Then the dreamer could speak to the outside world." Wells offers while working on the computers and shows them what he means.
"I would try a frequency of 45 hertz to start." Wells offers to them and leaves them and Peter is left wondering if he knows what they're planning and is just helping because it's part of his plan.
Since it's taking them a while, Peter just thinks back to what that AI said comes back in his mind about how his place of work is supposed to become Parker Industries in time.
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They take everything to the prescient so Wells doesn't walk in on them doing it. "Okay, can we go over this one more time?" Cisco asks them, even though they went over it at least a dozen different times.
"Okay, you put the glasses on, fall asleep, start dreaming. Not exactly that difficult, man." Peter states to his friend. "Yeah, except I'm pretty sure I die in this dream." Cisco replies to them. "I mean, is this like Inception or Dreamscape?" He questions them all and Joe hands him a glass of milk and he gets ready.
"The glasses are emitting a low-level delta wave which should help you fall asleep." Caitlin tells him while placing the glasses in him as he lies down and as he's talking about how it's difficult for him to go to sleep, he imminently passes out mid-sentence. "Oh, so that's how you get him to shut up." Joe jokes and Peter laughs.
"He's entering REM. It's working." Caitlin tells them and they're shocked to what that. "Cisco, you hear us, man?" Peter asks his friend.
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Inside Cisco's dream, he's in S.T.A.R. labs with Caitlin holding a newspaper and she's sad at what she's reading. "Okay, I'll take dr. Wells to Jitters So you can do whatever it is you think Peter was on to." Dream Caitlin tells him and she drops the newspaper and leaves.
"Guys, this is mad freaky." Cisco states while looking around the labs. "Okay, where are you?" Barry's voice asks him. "In the cortex. It feels so real." Cisco states when he looks at the newspaper and is shocked. Spider-Man/Peter Parker is dead. City memorial made for the fallen hero
"Peter's dead?" Cisco asks shocked to hear that.
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Outside at the prescient, they're shocked to what he told them, all except Barry. "Wait, I'm dead?" Peter asks his friend. "Yeah, man, there's an entire article dedicated to you and Spider-Man." Cisco tells him. "Okay, Cisco, What is Dream you doing?" Barry asks, getting back on topic.
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"Uh, Caitlin just left. I asked her to take Wells to Jitters so I could look into something Peter discovered before his death. I think Peter discovered that Wells tampered with the trap. I need to check." Cisco tells them while grabbing Peter's computer, uncontrollably and walks through the halls and looks at his shirt. "Oh, man, I love this shirt. I thought the dryer ate it." He states and hears Joe and Peter laughing in the real world.
Cisco looks and he's in the bunker with Peter's computer hooked up. "Okay, now I'm running tests on the containment system that Peter already ran, and this data doesn't make sense." Cisco explains to them seeing nothing wrong with the trap. "All the supercapacitors were all still fully charged. There is no reason Reverse Flash should have escaped." Cisco states as he boots up everything that Peter did and the Reverse Flash appears inside the trap.
"My god. The Reverse Flash was just a hologram. He tricked us." Cisco tells them when the elevator shows up. "Hello, Cisco." Wells greets him and Cisco starts feeling out.
"My name is Eobard Thawne," Wells tells Cisco in the dream. "Eobard Thawne." Cisco says and they hear that. "Thawne? Like Eddie?" Joe asks him. "You killed Nora Allen." Cisco says as Wells closes down Peter's laptop. "It was never my intention." Wells confesses to him. "What's happening?" Barry's voice asks Cisco. "He's confessing. He didn't want to kill her. He was trying to kill you, Barry." Cisco tells him while Wells starts vibrating his hand and they just wake him up.
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In reality, Cisco gasps awake in fear after experiencing it while his friends try calming him down while Barry takes in what was said. "My mom. This was my fault." Barry states when Wells calls him.
"What's going on?" Barry's asks and gets told there's a fire and he rushes with Peter in his hand to put it out knowing Peter has some spots web foam grenades for situations like this.
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Barry and Peter speed in and quickly see the dozens of people trapped by the fire. "Do your thing, man." Barry tells Peter and he shoots a web grenade and it explodes and puts out small portions of the fire. "Okay, this isn't helping." Peter says seeing they need some improvement.
"You need to rotate your arms at superspeed, that'll create a vacuums to suck the air out of the room." Wells tells them and Barry starts trying it and needs to work faster and he takes a minute and was able to put it all out.
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They come up with a plan for Wells to once again confess to Nora's murder. So they go to the bunker and show Eddie the hologram. "So Wells set up a fake showdown with a fake opponent who was never really here?" Eddie asks them.
"He figured if we saw them in the same room together it would prove that he wasn't the Reverse." Peter explains to him. "This all just keeps getting crazier and crazier." Eddie states. "What I've been telling myself ever since the accelerator exploded." Peter jokes as Caitlin joins them.
"I just talked to dr. Wells, he's attending a lecture downtown, won't be back for a few hours." She tells the team. "Okay, Cisco, when he gets here, you need to be working on the trap so he sees you set off the hologram." Barry tells them the dream and that gets them concerned.
"But didn't he die in the dream because of that?" Peter asks him. "Yes, But this time I'll make sure I don't get Temple of Doom'ed." Cisco says and walks up to inside the trap. "I originally designed this to keep a speedster from escaping. But I reversed it, now it won't let one in." Cisco explains and turns it on. Barry decides to test it out and speeds up to the trap and is thrown back.
"It works." Barry tells them obviously. "As long as I'm in here, Wells can't touch me." Cisco says and Caitlin explains she'll be in the cortex recording everything. "As soon as we get what we need, I go in and stop him." Barry says his part.
"What about me and Peter?" Eddie wonders what their role is in all of this. "Wells threatened Iris and aunt May, so if something here were to go wrong, he might go for them. I'm gonna be staying with May, she thinks it's just another all night movie marathon we do all the time, while you keep Iris safe." Peter explains what they're doing.
"I'll always keep Iris safe, guys." Eddie promises and they don't know that it was directed to Joe who refused Eddie when he asked Joe to propose to Iris.
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Later, they put the plan into affect, Peter's keeping May safe at her place, Eddie is with Iris and Caitlin is in the cortex recording as Wells makes his way to the bunker. "Hello, Cisco." Wells greets while standing and Cisco is acting shocked. "You've been busy." Wells states laughing.
"You're really incredible, Cisco. I always said it." He says walking closer to Cisco.
"You're him, you're the Reverse Flash." Cisco states, still trying to play his part while still being scared of what has to almost happen. "Joe was right this whole time, wasn't he?" He asls Wells as he closed the computers (not Peter's computer this time).
"Joe West had his doubts all along. Even from that first night in the hospital. Joe knew something wasn't right." Wells says while Barry and Joe are waiting on the other side of the room. "Cops, the same as they will be in a hundred years. Sadly, the same goes for Spider-Men. Always saving people, always quipping, I think it's in their genes." Wells states regarding Peter's relatives.
"You killed Barry's mother. Why?" Cisco asks, getting it out of the way to get it over with. "It was never my intention to kill Nora." Wells tells him and they know that's not a confession. "But from my perspective, she was already dead." He tells Cisco while raising his hand. "It just happened sooner than it was supposed to."
Cisco backs up into the trap and activated it, keeping him out. Wells just laughs at seeing it. "Oh, you're smart, Cisco." Wells says and steps into the trap and they see it failed. "But you're not that smart." Wells says and Joe pulls out his gun and tries shooting him, Barry shouts and speeds to stop the bullets and grabs all but one of them as he runs into the trap and the bullet kills Wells.
"He didn't confess." Barry says as he gets back up and sees that there's no way to get his dad out of prison. When they suddenly watch as Wells transforms into Everyman.
"I told you this before. I am always one step ahead...Flash." The voice of Wells fills the labs and they see he knew about everything. "Allow me to reintroduce you Rome. Hannibal Bates and his incredible ability to transform into any person he touches. I knew that ability would come in handy. I did not expect it to be this soon, though." Wells states to them.
"You used him!" Barry shouts, happy to finally say everything he kept inside for the past few weeks. "Like you used all of us!" Barry claims, hanging every bone in his body.
"It didn't take much convincing. Just the simple promise of his freedom." Wells tells them. "You ruined my life! All of our lives!" Barry tells Wells. "We stood by you after everything that happened." Caitlin states, joining in.
"I can see how this must be difficult for you to understand, but trust me, your lives now are so much better because of what I've done." Wells states since he changed everything over the past 15 years from Barry's mother being killed, to Peter having to leave New York.
"You don't have to hide any more, we know you're not Harrison Wells." Joe states to him. "Just tell us who you are."
"A confession will get you nowhere. You've seen who I am. You knew what I can do." Wells tells them loving every second of this.
"You want to kill me, go ahead. I'm not gonna fight you. But just tell the police what you did. Let my dad out of prison." Barry pleads with the psychopath.
"I don't want to kill you, Barry." Wells admits to him. "I need you. And...I also did not anticipate as difficult as the past 15 years have been for me, how much I would come to love working with you and the Amazing Spider-Man." Wells admits to them. "And yet, the doesn't change what needs to happen. We will face each other again." Wells assures them when Cisco gets a ping on his phone.
"He's in the time vault!" He tells Barry and he runs to catch him.
When Barry gets there, he sees the wheelchair is there, but the RF suit is gone and the hologram is showing footage of everything from Joe's house all the way to May's home. "It was all a setup." Barry realizes, Wells was always watching, he always knew. And Iris was the only one that isn't being protected by a hero.
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Iris and Eddie are strolling across a bridge and Eddie is planning on proposing when the Reverse Flash comes speeding in and kidnaps him. Barry comes speeding up to see them vanish. "Hey, Iris. It's okay." Barry reassured her.
"He took Eddie." Iris tells him. "I promise I'll find him, okay?" Barry says and promises to bring him back and speeds off, but hit before Iris felt a jolt of electricity, something she only felt once in the hospital with Barry.
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