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It has been a day since Wells has vanished and everyone is still on edge after he kidnapped Eddie for who knows what reason. They're doing everything they can so they can find Eddie and stop Wells and the first step was to remove all of the cameras well placed.
Peter and Cisco were just looking over them when Barry came in. "You guys planning on keeping those cameras Wells used to spy on us?" He asks the two seeing all the cameras. "That's kinda creepy, don't you think?"
"You talking to the guy who crawls up people's walls and they tried suing for being a peeping Tom. Besides, you can never waste good tech like this." Peter states to Barry when another gold thief is in the process.
"It looks like duty calls once again, team." Cisco tells the heroes and they speed off to stop them.
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At the site, one man is shooting a machine gun at the trucks holding the gold as Barry and Peter show up to stop him.
"You picked a bad day to mess with us, pal." Peter states since he needs to let his anger out on something, when suddenly images start emerging in the hero's minds and they see the same happening to the man as he just walks off and leaves them alone.
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The both of them go back to Star Labs and get checked on by Caitlin. "Your eye movements are normal. There's no signs of neurological damage in either of you." She tells them.
"You think the thief might have been a metahuman who put the whammy on you guys?" Cisco wonders to them. "I don't know. When Rainbow Raider got in my head, all I felt was anger." Barry tells them as they remember that day. "But this was not that. This was just overwhelming fear."
Cisco watches the footage and watched as the thief does the same thing as they did. "Maybe we all got whammied." Peter offers as Caitlin checks him up.
"Then you know how it feels." A new voice says and they turn to see Iris and Peter tries to put his mask on, but realizes he's a little too late.
"Is anyone able to just waltz in here?" Peter asks them wondering why they don't have security doors, or anything to keep people from just walking in and out when they feel like it.
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Later, Barry and Iris walk into another room to talk alone while the others just stay out of it, but are tempted to listen in. "This is one of the few times I would not want to be Barry Allen." Cisco says to them as they see the cameras are on mute.
"I wonder what he's gonna tell her." Caitlin replies to his thought.
"We should...definitely not listen in. We have nothing to do with it." Peter states to them and they're still curious.
"But the Flash is our business." Caitlin tells them.
"And Iris just find out Barry's the Flash." Cisco continues her thought.
"So by transitive property, Barry and Iris are our business." Peter finishes and they activate the speakers to listen in on the conversation and just hear about how she learned he was the Flash after touching the Flash the other night.
Then he goes on filling her in with what's going on and how she's angry about not being let in after everyone else knew and she storms out.
As she storms out, the three of them get busy with other things as she leaves. "I believe that had nothing to do with us." Cisco tells Peter and Caitlin and they agree with him.
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Later Iris had a talk with Joe and she just got more upset and Barry returns with more news. "Just got a call from Joe. The Central City Gold Reserve is about to transport three hundred million in gold bars to heir Coast City vault." Barry tells the team and he explains how they think the man in the iron mask is gonna make another attack.
"Okay, But we still don't know if he's responsible for those weird images you two saw." Caitlin tells them as they get into their costumes.
"How are they transporting the gold?" Cisco asks and Barry explains its by a disguised ice cream truck.
As they're talking, they get an alert that the truck was stopped by a land mine and is immobilized the truck as the heroes approach. The man in the mask starts firing at the guards as Joe was able to get a shot on his shoulder and threatens him off when Barry speeds into him and Peter webs him onto the side of the truck, immobilizing him for now.
"Let's see who's behind the mask." Peter says and pulls off his mask to reveal a familiar face. "General Eiling?" Peter and Barry ask seeing his face and are confused to why he's doing this.
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They bring Eiling to the pipeline after Caitlin removed the bullet from his shoulder and he just stares at them. "What is wrong with this dude?" Peter asks, getting really uncomfortable with his staring.
"I pulled a bullet out of his shoulder, and it didn't even seem like he cared." Caitlin tells them and Joe intersects.
"Something like that should hurt like hell." Joe informs them and Peter agrees remembering the dozens of times he pulled bullets out of himself when he was in it alone.
"I did a compete body scan, and otherwise, General Eiling is perfectly healthy." Caitlin finishes explaining while Peter waves his hand in front of Eiling's face through the glass, and he doesn't even notice him.
"If he's normal, why does he act like he was turned to stone by Madusa?" Peter wonders, seriously getting freaked out when Cisco comes in with news.
"I got off the phone with Argus. Officially, Eiling is on a administrative leave. Also spoke with Diggle's wife, Lyla, and she said Eiling's been missing for the past three months and Argus is covering up for it." He explains to them and that explains some things.
"Makes sense." Peter says and looks back to said General. "Last time I saw him, was when I threatened him to leave Ronnie and Stein alone." He states to them and they're wondering where he's been since.
"General Eiling, why were you trying to rob the gold reserve?" Joe asks the General as he once again says nothing.
"Maybe he's been hypnotized, or something?" Caitlin wonders when Peter starts sensing a familiar presence is near now.
"General, do you know who I am?" Peter asks him while the presence grows larger.
"Peter Parker." Eiling speaks in a menacing voice.
"He knows who you are, Peter." Barry realizes and that gets them worried since Eiling didn't know he was Spider-Man the first time.
"How does Eiling know it's you?" Joe asks them and they don't have an answer to that.
"Eiling not here. Eiling bad." Eiling tells them and that gets them confused.
"Maybe it's a psychotic break presenting itself as dissociative identity disorder." Caitlin suggests and Eiling looks towards Caitlin.
"Caitlin good." Eiling states and that gets them even more creeped out and confused.
"Peter Parker. Bug-man." Eiling says and now they're really confused.
"Forget multiple personalities. You guys have seen The Exorcist, right?" Cisco asks them.
"You and your movies." Joe replies to him.
"Keep talking to him. He seems to respond to you, Peter." Barry informs his friend who removes his mask since there's no need for it.
"Why is Eiling bad?" Peter asks him.
"Eiling hurt me." Eiling tells Peter and that serious doesn't narrow anything down since Eiling probably hurt multiple people.
"I hurt Eiling." Eiling explains to them and Peter asks the most important question.
"Okay, then who are you if you're not Eiling?" Peter asks him, hoping to get an answer.
"I...am...Grodd. Fear...me." Eiling tells them and that shocks Peter, Caitlin and Cisco since they haven't seen the gorilla since the particle accelerator explosion.
"What's a Grodd?" Barry asks them, since he never met him.
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They bring the to the cortex and show footage of Grodd in a cage and Caitlin feeding him. "Oh, Grodd is a gorilla." Barry clarifies now getting annoyed at these metas.
"Five years ago, Eiling and Wells were working on a project to expand soldiers' cognitive abilities during battle." Cisco explains to them.
"What we didn't realize is that Eiling was trying to crate soldiers with psychic abilities." Caitlin finishes his thought.
"What do you mean exactly by psychic?" Joe asks, wanting that clarified.
"Eiling was trying to create these super-soldiers with telepathic and telekinetic capabilities. And he also spent a good part of my high school years trying to hunt me down, this guy's obsessed with enhanced." Peter states remembering the nights he was afraid to sleep, wondering if he did something wrong and Eiling was able to track him.
"But when dr. Wells found out about the terrible experiments Eiling was doing, he shut down the entire project." Caitlin tells the two.
"So our psycho killer has a soft spot for animals." Joe clarifies regarding Wells.
"What happened to Grodd?" Barry wonders since nobody ever mentioned the gorilla.
"Yeah..." Peter starts off, but doesn't wanna finish since he was kinda afraid of Grodd.
"We don't know. After the particle accelerator exploded, we went down to check on him and his cage was empty." Caitlin tells them since that's what she and Peter did after Ronnie died.
"So he could have been affected by the same energy that created the metahumans?" Joe asks them.
"When the dark matter hit Grodd, all the drugs and serums that Eiling injected him with could've activated." Cisco tells them and they realize Grodd's now a meta-gorilla.
"And we know what happens when a intelligent ape who hates humans escapes captivity." Peter says, thinking of all the Planet of the Apes he and May have watched over the years.
"Cisco's right about what he said, not so much about what Peter said." Caitlin replies knowing what Peter was thinking.
"This is the first brain scan that I did on Grodd." She says while pulling up the pictures. "His primary motor cortex and Broca's area are lit up like a Christmas tree." Barry states seeing the photo.
"All from Eiling's experiments." Peter says and Caitlin pulls up a photo of Eiling's brain and they're exactly the same. "So Grodd and Eiling are connected somehow?" Joe asks them, seriously not liking the thought of a psychic controlling gorilla out there.
"What do we think Grodd wants?" Barry asks them. "I do not like the fact that Wells rescued Grodd. And I don't think it's a coincidence that this gorilla shows up at the same time we're looking for Wells." Joe tells them and they agree this has to do with Wells.
"So if we find Grodd, we might be able to find Wells. We find Wells-" Peter was saying when he gets interrupted. "We find Eddie." Iris tells them and Peter starts shaking his head wondering why his senses aren't alerting him anymore.
"And I'm gonna help." Iris states to them, and they wonder why she wants to but decides to let her, since it's her boyfriend in trouble.
"Know anything about gorillas?" Caitlin asks her and she pulls up news sightings of a gorilla.
"There have been reports of some sort of animal down in the sewers." She explains while they look over it all. "Alligators. C.H.U.D.s. R.O.U.S.s." Cisco says and they're confused, except for Peter. "Are we the only two who watch movies around here?" Peter asks his friends.
"A few months ago, two sewer workers went missing. The search party reported hearing strange animal like noises down in the tunnels." Iris explains to them and Peter runs an algorithm to track all the sightings. "Looks like we can get in two blocks east of the intersection they went missing." Peter tells them and they start coming up with a plan.
Barry, Peter and Joe go in, locate Grodd and stop Grodd. They had to get Cisco to come with to help track their monkey since Grodd hates all of them.
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They go through the sewers with Joe carrying a flashlight and Peter uses his lenses to see in the dark. They walk to the point and are seriously creeped out since all of them have seen at least one horror movie and this is how they all end.
"I have been in these sewers fighting my greatest enemies, and it never looked like this before." Peter informs them as Joe places a flare on a pipe wanting a trail to lead them back.
"Give me that banana." Joe says and takes the banana from Cisco.
"You know Grodd hates bananas, right?" Peter informs them and they just toss the banana away, not wanting to upset the gorilla.
"Stay close." Joe tells them as Peter has his arms out, ready to shoot his webs, knowing it's strong enough to hold back Grodd for a while.
"After this, I'm giving this suit on super cycle." Peter comments since his suit is going to wreak after this.
"I can't believe I'm down here looking for a supernatural gorilla. I'm terrified of regular gorillas." Joe tells them and they agree with him. They hear a noise and Peter spins and fires a web and they see it was a rat.
"Sorry. I'm on edge. I'm starting to think Grodd is messing with my senses with his powers." Peter tells them and since that makes sense since his six sense are mind based and so is Grodd's powers.
"Hey, guys, you should see this." Cisco tells them and they look to see writing of the word Grodd everywhere.
"Grodd's getting smarter." Peter warns them, not liking that they might become slaves to intelligent gorillas.
"Somebody wanna tell me what we're looking at here?" Joe asks and they see more showing Grodd is getting smarter. They keep walking and they hear growling from down the tunnel. "If I hadn't seen Jurassic Park, I wouldn't be nearly as frightened right now." Cisco informs them as Peter starts trembling at the fact the same gorilla that hated him for some reason is free and is in walking distance.
"So if he's getting smarter, you think he might be getting bigger too?" Joe asks and that thought never occurred to them when they keep hearing growling and it's getting louder.
"That must be a truck passing overhead, right?" Joe hopes and they know it's Grodd when the hearthe growling coming at them and Peter's senses start going crazy as Grodd comes behind them and throws Barry down the tunnel.
Joe tries shooting Grodd but doesn't know where he went.
"We have to get out of here." Joe tells Cisco as he's checking on Barry as Peter's screaming as all of his senses have been dialed to 20, making even the slightest water droplet unbearable. And his friends screaming, shooting, and yelling isn't helping. Especially from Grodd.
"Barry's our cold." Cisco says when Grodd grabs Peter and everything goes silent when they realize Peter's gone. "Peter!" Joe and Cisco shout seeing him disappearing with the gorilla.
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Peter finally comes to after some time and sees lights buzzing on and off. Peter tries keeping his head as he realizes he doesn't have his mask so he can't call for help as Grodd approaches him. Peter aims his web shooters at him when his hands starts slowly turning to aim at him.
"What are you doing, Grodd?" Peter asks in more fear than he's ever felt when he sees just how big Grodd has gotten.
"No help here." A voice fills Peter's head and he knows it's Grodd.
"Hi there, Grodd. It's been a while." Peter greets while still trembling in fear.
"I guess since I just heard your voice in my head, you are telepathic now." Peter says trying to calm him when Grodd comes into the light and he gets seriously afraid.
"Father hate Spider-Man." Grodd informs him and Peter realizes Grodd could've known he was Spider-Man this whole time and that's why he hated him.
"Father? You mean Wells." Peter says and decides to get some answers while trying to get his strength and calm himself down. "Where's Wells?" Peter asks the telepathic gorilla.
"Not here." Grodd informs him and Peter wonders if Wells isn't with Grodd, where is he?
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At Star labs, they're checking in Barry after he was thrown across the room. Joe took Iris to talk about everything that's happened and Caitlin is looking over the information they got from Peter before he went offline.
"Grodd was somehow able to take Peter's six sense and dial his enhanced senses from regular 11 all the way to a 23. Even a drop of water would have the equivalent of hearing the Krakatoa eruption to Peter's ears." Caitlin informs them explaining why Peter couldn't sense Grodd or defend himself against him and she starts getting worried about Peter since Grodd never really liked him.
"We're gonna save Peter, Cait. I promise that." Barry promises and he wants to save his friend from the clutches of that ape.
"Hope up, I put a tracker in the Spider-Man suit just shortly after Peter told us his identity, Peter also knows about it. We just have to wait for him to activate it." Cisco tells them and Barry can't wait.
"No, Cisco. I can't wait for that. I will search every inch of that sweee if I have to, to find Peter." Barry promises them and they still don't have a way of fighting him against his psychic abilities. "Can you guys build something to make it so he can't get in my head?" Barry wonders hoping they can and they get some ideas.
After a few trial and errors they finally get something to help Barry. "An anti-telepathy strip." Cisco as he shows the device that's similar to what climbers use to hold the cameras on their helmets. "It uses magnetic resonance to neutralize any foreign neurological stimulus." Cisco tells him and warns they don't 100% know if it'll work or not.
As they're talking, Peter's suit comes back online. "We've got Peter's coordinates." Cisco states and runs to the computer and Barry reads it and flashes into his suit and hurry's to save his friend.
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Barry speeds into the sewers and places the device on his head so Grodd doesn't control him. Cisco activates the gas they hid inside the flares they placed in the sewers and Peter watches them go off and knows it's them, but it's also making Grodd mad. Peter tries getting away as Grodd leaves.
While he's distracted, Barry speeds in and moves Peter out of the tunnel so he can get into position. The plan is to use the same super sonic punch that Barry used on Girder on Grodd, stopping him.
Barry waits for Cisco to give him the all clear and runs through the tunnel right at the gorilla, Barry gets closer and Grodd starts running at him and was able to toss Barry across the room.
"Here we go." Barry states when Grodd tries messing with his mind and nothing happens so he does odds to uses his speed to fight him off and Grodd grabs him by the neck and raises him to his face.
Before anything else cloud occurs, Peter comes swinging back in and drags Barry free and Grodd gets angry. "I didn't think of step 2, just a long FYI." Peter warns Barry as Grodd kicks the hero into the wall onto a train track.
"You know, what? Octopuses, scorpions, rhinos, vultures, now a giant gorilla. Do I have one villain who isn't based off of a animal or is an animal?" Peter wonders when Grodd starts messing with his head again as Barry's fighting him off.
"Peter, can you hear us?" Caitlin asks and that brings Peter's ears excruciating pain again. Everything from Barry's lightning crackling, Grodd's roaring and the approaching train..wait what?
There's a train coming in close and Peter can't fight back as he can barley stand on his own two legs and every time Barry tries to run and help, Grodd stops him.
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At Star labs, Cisco is helping Barry fight off Grodd while Caitlin is trying to help Peter get back on his feet and thinks of something when people are suffering from sensory overload. "Peter, I need you to listen to me." Caitlin tells him in a calm voice, trying not to cause his ears to bleed while hearing him scream.
"Focus on my voice. Pretend there is nothing there beside the sound of my voice." She tells him and it seems to be working as his vitals are calming down little at a time. "What you're feeling right now, you have to fight it. You're feeling fear, Peter." She informs him since she knows he doesn't like to admit when he's afraid.
"I know how strong you are. After everything you've been through, loosing your parents, loosing your uncle, you still find ways to see light in the darkness and lead others towards it. Let me be you're light for once after everything. Stand up and fight. You can do this, Peter." Caitlin promises him and sees he's actually fighting it.
"You can do this, Peter. After all, who are you?" She asks him and hopes it works.
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In the tunnel, Peter starts remembering everything he's been through and the light that has come of it. He lost Ben, but got to know his amazing aunt, got the chance to be a hero to the city and met Ronnie, Caitlin, Cisco. Everything that happened after the darkness. Everything that happened since that day he became who he was always meant to become.
Peter starts rising, fighting Grodd's mind control, focusing on Caitlin's words and gets ready to fight as the train approaches.
"I'm Spider-Man." Peter answers her and comes up with a plan. He moves out of the way by leaping onto the ceiling as the train passes making and Grodd finishes off Barry and leaps into the tunnel to fight Peter, when a second train comes by and hits Grodd.
"Peter?" Caitlin calls out, hoping he's okay.
"I'm here. Looks like I'm dragging a speedster back with me." He states jokingly and hears Caitlin laughing and he loves hearing that sound.
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At Star labs, Barry lets Eiling out of the pipeline since he's been cleared and he tells him what he's done will come back to bite him and Eiling makes an oath to stop Grodd.
In the medical wing, Caitlin is struggling to keep Peter down while he is put on bed rest after everything. "I keep telling you to be still. You have three fractions in your arms and leg." Caitlin tells him. "I can't believe Grodd became so violent." She says since she spent so much time with him before everything.
"What was his lair like?" Cisco asks Peter trying to figure everything out. "Does he like King Kong?" He wonders and Caitlin pushes him out, so Peter and her could talk alone.
"I'm just glad you're okay, Peter." She states glad they were able to stop Grodd for now.
"Well, I'm just adding Grodd to animal crazy enemies I have. Yet again, if Otto learned about him, I don't wanna know what would happen. Yet again, Grodd would probably turn him into calamari." Peter jokes and Caitlin can't believe he's still about to makes jokes after everything he went through.
"You're voice helped me out there." Peter informs her and she's glad she was able to help.
"You know, maybe it's a good thing we didn't catch Grodd. I mean, there's nowhere we could possibly keep him." Caitlin tells him jokingly.
"Oh, now you're making jokes? I don't know what I'm bringing now if you start taking that from me." Peter tells her and Caitlin's happy that he's obviously okay and wonders if she should tell him how she feels, or should she just keep these feelings locked up?
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