Chaos on Earth-2

by TrueHorror88

He did it to save his new home. His family, to save his daughter and the woman he loves. But instead Seth Fury was flung into Earth-2 and became Zoom's prisoner. Now aiming to use everything in his powers to find his way back to his Earth and reunite with the ones he loves, he fights. But it won't be easy. How will Earth-2 fare against a true demon? A mutant? A Lethal Protector.

16. Chapter 16: Gorilla Warfare

And now another bedtime story for you guys out there in the wide world.

Sorry for the wait, guys. The old thinking box needed a day or two worth of rest. But all the wonderful and nice reviews kept me going. Thanks for them. They mean the world to me.

Saw the latest Flash episode, post-Crisis, really incredible as always, as expected of CW.

Also, I have small announcement to make at the end of the story, so be sure to keep your peepers open.

Now without further ado…

ENJOY!

Chapter 16: Gorilla Warfare

(S.T.A.R. Labs)

After an incredibly humiliating and massive defeat from Zoom, Barry was slowly taking his first steps with Joe beside him. He was holding onto the same metallic cane that Martin Stein used during his time as a singular part of Firestorm. As he took his steps, the others of Team Flash watched him closely.

"All right, I got you." Joe spoke supportively as he placed his hand on his son's back.

"Mm-hmm." Barry hummed as he agonizingly took his steps again.

In case of this not going so well for the speedster, Cisco and Matt had prepared Thawne's wheelchair so he could use it till he gets back on his feet. The fight with Zoom was devasting enough to leave him more than wounded.

"Try walking without the cane, Barry." Olivia suggested to him with her niece beside her and Iris.

"Good idea." Joe said but was inwardly surprised by the psychic's calm tone when speaking or even referring to his adoptive son.

Barry nodded and handed the detective his cane. Without the cane supporting him right now, he walked a few steps. All of them gave their full attention, honing it on him. However, despite all their hopes and feelings, they watched as the speedster fell. "I can't do it right now, all right?"

"Oh no, yes you can, Barry." Joe encouraged him.

"No, no, no." Barry chanted and limped to the wheelchair as Cisco pushed to him.

"We've been making so much progress." Joe stated.

"He's right, Barry. Believe it or not, you've been improving." Olivia added.

The speedster couldn't help but chuckle hollowly. "Yep, six whole steps. Someone get me a Bozo button."

"Fuck's sake, give yourself some credit." Matt stated. "You did go toe-toe with Zoom and broke your back. Six steps is big progress."

Barry faced him with a shocked look. "Did you hit your head or something this morning?" He didn't understand the nanite mutant's strange change of heart now. Or his wife's new attitude for the matter.

The nanite mutant shrugged. "No more than usual." His wife chuckled.

Iris chuckled. "Matt's right. A normal person would've been paralyzed the rest of his life."

Frankie looked to her mother and asked. "Shouldn't his spine be healed by now, Mom?"

"Yeah. How long until I'm fully healed?" The speedster asked the doctor.

Having done the tests on him a week ago, Caitlin informed. "The initial MRI I took a week ago showed a complete dislocation at the T12-L1 interspace of the thoracolumbar junction." They all looked at the monitors on the wall, seeing the scans of Barry's spine on the screen. "But this is the MRI I took this morning." She switched to the one that she took this morning and said. "It's remarkable, but you're almost completely healed."

"Gotta love that speed-healing." Olivia quipped.

"I'm still having trouble breathing." Barry pressed his hand on his chest.

"That's kind of part of the course with a spinal injury. It should clear up soon." Matt said. The natives of this universe gave him curious looks. Seeing the looks on his form, he cleared his throat and revealed sheepishly. "Seth, may or may not, have broken my spine a few times in the past. And healed it back those times afterwards himself."

"Oh yeah, I remember that. Good times." His wife smiled.

"Not for me, I had your brother poking me with needles the entire time." Matt complained with a frown, visibly disturbed by the memory of those horrible times he had to be treated by the elemental.

Barry chuckled. "Can't believe that instead of being dead, Seth was blasted into Earth-2. And raising hell on that Earth." He was happy within himself, happy that the actions he committed did not result in the mutant's death… merely resulting in him being hurled like a cannonball into another universe.

"He's a goddamn cockroach that Seth." Joe joked. His smiled faded as he asked the present two mutants. "You two think he knows how to find a way back here?"

"Knowing him, he's probably fighting Zoom's metas and Zoom himself right now and making them wish for a speedster." Matt said. "But about getting back, he's on it, I'd imagine."

"How are you guys so sure?" Iris asked the nanite mutant and the psychic at the same time.

Olivia smirked and pointed a thumb backwards to the people behind the main console. "Well, he has a cutie of a daughter here and, at-times, scary girlfriend."

"Excuse me?" Caitlin feigned hurt with crossed arms.

"What, it's true." Olivia admitted. "And my brother's gonna fight tooth and nail with everything in his being to find his way back to you again, Caity. Don't doubt that for a second. Not a single universe is gonna stop him from fighting his way through anything and all things to get back to you all. It wouldn't be him, if he didn't."

Matt cracked his fists. "Lethal Protector all the way. But I am surprised about that sword."

"Dad never had a sword like that before, did he?" Frankie wondered of her uncle and aunt.

"No, he didn't." Olivia said. "That sword is probably a strange souvenir from Earth-2."

"But I'm glad he's alive." Barry said.

"You're not the only one." Cisco said and had a finger pointing at Caitlin and Frankie who both held large smiles on their faces. The mother's face blushing up at storm at the mention of the mutant elemental. The mechanical engineer was happy to see his friend smile so happily once again.

The speedster's smile faltered, and he turned around in the wheelchair and looked at his suit on the mannequin. Joe watched the saddened expression on his adoptive son's face forming. "We're going to get you back in that suit, Barry. Real quick, trust me."

Another frown formed on his face as he asked. "What are we gonna do about Zoom?"

Matt shrugged his shoulders. "No sign of him since Cisco nailed him with that tranq dart." He nodded to the mechanical engineer and said. "Oh yeah, nice shot back then."

"Thanks." Cisco smiled. "And I haven't vibed since then."

"Maybe Zoom's not coming back." Iris stated her hopeful thoughts.

"Highly doubt that." Olivia said with her head looking at the entrance to the Cortex after hearing a series of thoughts. "That's what you wanna say, right Harry?"

"Stop reading my thoughts." Harrison Wells growled as he got all the others' attention. "Zoom's not gone, and he definitely will come back. Which is why I am gonna do something about it." He swung a backpack over his shoulder and onto his back.

Caitlin narrowed her eyes. "What do you mean, go do something about it?"

Walking around the main console, Harry informed commandingly. "I need access to your breach room and your Speed Cannon."

"What exactly do you want to use our interdimensional portal?" Matt had a feeling where the scientist was going with this.

"Well, Stark, it's time to go home." Harry revealed to them.

Scoffs were emitting from the detective's mouth when hearing that plan. "So, you show up on our Earth, you screw everything up and now you want to go home? Sounds very familiar." He couldn't help but draw the obvious similarities between him and Eobard Thawne when he wore the face of Harrison Wells himself.

"Yeah, a coward running with his tail between his legs." Frankie grunted her response with her eyes shining magenta.

Harry faced them. "Again, that wasn't me." Having the eyes of many on him, he continued. "I need to go take care of Zoom once and for all before anyone else gets killed."

"How do you plan on doing that?" Barry asked.

"I'll think of something." Harry replied.

"You do realize that Seth is over there and protecting your daughter as we speak." Caitlin informed him with crossed arms.

"A random guy, that I have never met before is now responsible for my daughter's safety. Even if he is a nutjob willing to fight Zoom, he doesn't exactly inspire me with confidence. And if he's anything like his sister-"

"Oh no, he's much worse." Olivia's words did not help in the least.

"See." Harry gestured to the psychic before asking the native engineer. "Ramon, if you'll escort me to the Speed Cannon."

Caitlin didn't agree with that. "No, no, you can't go through the breach."

"Yeah, he can." Cisco argued. "Jay taught us how to send people."

Hearing her thoughts, Olivia said. "That's now what she means, is it Caity?"

The doctor nodded her agreement and made eye contact with the otherworldly scientist. "Look, if you can figure out how to stop Zoom on your Earth, you can figure out how to do it here. We need you to stay here until we defeat Zoom, Dr. Wells. And like I said before, Seth is gonna take care of your Earth and protect your daughter. And he is no nutjob."

Stepping closer to her, Harry countered. "What I need, Dr. Snow, is to return home. Despite what you think of this Seth, I have my own thoughts on the matter. And I will return to my Earth, with or without your assistance." He finished before walking away.

Cisco walked to his friend. "What are you doing? If Harry wants to go… bye." He directed to Caitlin with a shocked expression.

"Yeah, Mom. He used us like pawns in his game of chess, like the other Wells." Frankie tried to convince her mother.

"I know, sweetie, and he doesn't deserve to have our trust." Caitlin stated and looked at Cisco. "Look, like it or not, Cisco, we need his help."

Holding the cane behind his head, Joe stated. "I'm not sure another plan from Wells is what we need."

His daughter agreed. "Yeah, I mean, the last bright idea he had nearly got Barry killed."

"Upside, we know our favorite cockroach of a demon is still alive." Joe joked, he saw the smile on Frankie's face spreading and a similar one formed on his face.

"Yeah that's true." Caitlin agreed with a smile herself. "But Jay's gone and Seth is raising hell on Earth-2, and Dr. Wells knows Zoom better than anyone, so until Barry is back on his feet again, we need to keep Wells around in case Zoom returns." She gave a glance to the nanite mutant. "Also till Matt makes upgrades to the security."

"Thank you, I can do that." Matt started. "But there is the matter of forcing the guy to stay here, Caitlin. If he doesn't want to stick around, then we're better off without his fucking ass."

"Matt's right." The paralyzed speedster agreed, half-expecting him to disagree abruptly with either an insult or a threat. But neither came, so he turned to the doctor again. "Let him go."

Caitlin shook her head. "I can't do that. Not yet." She was about to walk away but turned her attention to her daughter. "Sweetie, I'm gonna be gone for a while."

"Okay, Mom." Frankie accepted with a nod.

"Where you going, Caity?" Olivia asked.

"Gonna go and meet up with a friend. Wanna join me, Liv?" the doctor wondered.

"Lead the way, Dr. Snow." The psychic quipped and walked with her.

Frankie looked to her uncle. "Where do you think they're going, Uncle?"

"No idea. They might go out for an afternoon drink." Matt shrugged unsurely. They all heard alarms chiming all over their heads and the nanite mutant threw up his arms. "What now?!"

"Oh, snap, metahuman attack!" Cisco screamed and rushed to the main console. His urgency however was replaced with realization when reading the alarm description on the screen. "Nope, nope, my bad, that is just an alert for me."

Curiosity taking over the young metahuman and she jumped onto the railing in a crouched position. She leant over the console to look at the screen. "An upcoming event reminder notification? Cisco Ramon, date night tonight? Guy is using an advanced high-tech computer as a calendar? That's something." Magenta commented.

"Right up there with the top ten greatest hits of Cisco Ramon." Frankie thought to her partner. "Really, Cisco? You're using the computer like this?"

Iris looked intrigued. "What? What for, Cisco?"

Drifting his eyes between those two, Cisco said. "Oh, it's just a reminder. I have a date in an hour, so…"

"Oh yeah." Matt smirked with interest. "Who's the lucky lady to have tickled Mr. Ramon's fancy?" He joked his question in a mock British accent.

The smile on Cisco's face widened. "With the lovely Kendra Saunders, the barista at Jitters. Oh, she makes a mean latte."

"Does she now?" Matt sarcastically said. "Most have brewed you a special love potion."

"You have no idea." Cisco laughed. "I think we're gonna go out for dinner and a movie, and then, I don't know…" he scratched the side of his head unsurely, worried what he wanted to say next would be inappropriate for Frankie to hear. "maybe some breakfast."

Joe and Matt chortled. Iris couldn't keep herself from laughing as well, Frankie chuckled behind a closed mouth. Barry. however, did not understand. "Wait, breakfast? Why breakfast? I don't…"

"Yeah…" Iris put a hand to her chin and tried with all of her strength to not smirk.

"Yeah, why breakfast? Explain Cisco." Frankie demanded amusedly.

He looked like a deer caught in headlights. Sheepishly so, he said. "Cause, you know, you go home."

"Cisco." Matt stopped him with a half-smirk. "They're messing with you. And you better get out of here before you explain the Circle of Life to my niece."

"Heard it once, Uncle Matt." Frankie reminded her uncle with a goofy face.

Cisco laughed. "Oh." He turned on his heels and walked out of the Cortex.

Feeling his phone vibrate in his pocket, the paralyzed speedster reached into his pocket. Puling it out again, he saw who it was. "Patty." He told the detective before rolling away into the room with the treadmill.

Matt watched him roll into the room and felt a pain spread in him. Not physical pain, but something else. "Damn it." He muttered under his breath.

X

Barry rolled into the room and accepted the phone call from Patty. "Hey, Patty." Came the greeting when he put the phone to his ear.

"Hey. I hear you're still sick." Patty replied.

"Yeah, yeah, it's a… Nasty bug." He replied, still sticking with the lie that he told the police department. They couldn't know that their CSI scientist was paralyzed from the waist down at the hands of the menacing evil speedster.

Patty chuckled. "Well, I make a mean chicken noodle soup from scratch. I could bring some by later if you'd like. I could bring some by later if you'd like."

"No, that's sweet, I just…" he began to stutter, and didn't feel the presence of another person behind him. "I'd feel terrible if you caught any of this. Besides, I loved the canned stuff."

"Okay, well, try to stay off your feet." Patty said.

Ironically, it was the only thing Barry was capable of at the moment. "Oh, yeah, believe me, I am."

"You sure you're okay?" Without even looking at her, without even be able to see the look on her face, he felt his mind envision the worried expression on her face at the words she uttered. "You sound like something's up."

"Yeah, no, no, no, no. I'm fine. I'm just not myself right now." Barry told her.

"Okay, well, I hope to see you soon, and, uh, feel better." Patty told him in concern.

"Thanks." Barry smiled.

"Bye." Patty bid her farewell.

"Bye." He said back and hung up.

"When a beautiful woman offers you food, Bar, you take her up on the offer."

Using the stick on his wheelchair to turn around, he saw the nanite mutant leaning against the doorframe. "Matt. You eavesdrop now?"

"Call it a healthy habit." Matt chuckled. He stopped chuckling and walked closer to him. "I wanted to talk."

"About what?" Barry asked curiously.

"About… how I've been acting. Guess, I'm speaking for both Frankie and Olivia's sakes as well." Matt started and the speedster looked shocked. "I wanna say I'm sorry for how I've been acting all this time… ever since…" he chuckled. "We thought Seth died."

"Matt, you don't-"

"Yes, I do." Matt interrupted him. "We were jackasses for being so hard on you for so long. And what I said about you being like The Reverse-Flash? That was too, too far." He admitted. "And I'm sorry for it. It wasn't right to do so."

"You thought you lost your best friend, Matt. Don't worry about it." Barry assured him.

"Doesn't excuse how I've been acting, man." Matt said.

Seeing the struggle inside of him, the metahuman confessed. "Actually, I was kind of happy that you guys did go hard on me. I knew Iris, Cisco or Joe wouldn't be hard on me like you guys would. But I deserved to be insulted, to get a harsh punishment for opening up the Singularity above the city. I honestly thought I had killed Seth and taken away Frankie's father like Thawne was responsible for putting my Dad behind prison all those years. So thank you for being so hard on me like this, means a lot." He chuckled at the end.

"I promise I won't do it again. It was wrong." Matt stated. "God that was harder than I thought." He sighed with those words.

"Yeah. I thought you had hit your head or something with your sudden personality change." Barry joked.

"Glad that was wrong." Matt tapped the wheels of the wheelchair with his right foot and asked. "How are you handling the Hot Wheels?"

"So far so good. Hope I can get out of it soon though." Barry tapped his knuckles against his kneecaps.

Matt shrugged. "We all do. But in the meantime, don't worry. Me, Livia and Frankie will take care of the city until you're back on your feet again."

"Thanks." The speedster nodded. "Think it would be good to see that Seth's city is in good hands."

"And feet." Matt joked.

X

The elevator kept going up and up the floor levels as Olivia Fury and Caitlin Snow was waiting in it. They had arrived at the building and taken the elevator to the top floor to talk with someone there.

The doctor looked to the mutant and saw her neck. She something missing from there and thought. "She's not wearing it anymore…"

"Caity." Olivia's words snapped her out of her trance. "I'm not wearing my inhibitor, yes, which means that I can clearly and easily hear your thoughts again."

"Sorry, but I guess I had gotten used to seeing that on you and you not using your telepathy anymore." Caitlin said. "Guess this means that you won't wear your inhibitors anymore?"

"Not now anyway." Olivia played with a strand of her magenta-colored hair, her finger spiraling the hair strand and wrapping it around the digit. "I have to back on the horse again at some point. And knowing Seth's still out there… can't find a better reason than that."

"Yeah… he's still alive." Caitlin smiled happily with her fingers rubbing the necklace. "He's on another Earth and fighting his way back here." She smiled lovingly. "I can't believe that he's alive and out there. It's unbelievable."

"Yeah. Seth's stronger than I thought. Much stronger, than any of us thought." Olivia admitted.

Caitlin leant her head back against the elevator wall, pointing her head upwards to look at the ceiling. "Think she's really here?"

"Oh, she definitely is." Olivia said, her head filling with the thoughts flowing through the walls from the top floor and entering her mind. She grimaced in slight disgust of the thoughts. "And if I didn't know any better, I would swear she knew we were coming."

"Think she'll be happy to hear Seth's back?" Caitlin asked.

"No more than you and Frankie, Caitlin." Olivia smirked knowingly. Ever since the metahuman's vibe, where they all witness the elemental mutant take up his large crystal sword, Caitlin's thoughts of Seth have showed no signs of stopping. Thinking of how she would act when she would see the man she loves again, like it would be the very first time she ever met him. And it was though her heart was beating so quickly, that even the mutant's telepathic powers couldn't keep up with the new thoughts of love.

"You know," Caitlin gave the mutant her full attention. "Seth's gonna not give you a chance to speak those thoughts."

"What makes you sure of that?" The doctor wondered in slight worry.

"You're a smart girl, Caity. You'll figure it out." Olivia replied with a wide smirk.

DING

The psychic perked her head up. "And we're here." She announced at the sound of the bell chiming as they reached the top floor of the building. The elevator doors opened up and the two women walked inside. "Still as clean as ever." The mutant replied as she and Caitlin looked around the penthouse.

"Wow." The doctor let out at the floor's beauty.

A marvelous penthouse with elegantly made wooden floors. Marbled pillars placed around the penthouse loft. With the building built near the wide blue oceanic lake, the owner and anyone else within the loft was granted a majestic view through the massive two-way glass-wall on the corner and spread to the left and right sides.

Caitlin also found the living room was connected to the beautiful artistic kitchen. In the living room, were a pair of blue plushy chairs and brown recliners. A black couch was there as well, wide and comfortable for anyone to find blissful.

The doctor faced the mutant. "You didn't say that she lives in a penthouse loft that looks to be way out of my paygrade?"

"Guess her venue never came up in our conversations, you know." Olivia said as she opened up the fridge and looked around. "Of course, the girl has no beer," she pulled out a bottle of bourbon. "but she does have an expensive bottle of bourbon."

"By all means, make yourself at home."

The two women turned their attention to the living room where they saw Felicia Hardy descending the staircase and to the floor, clad in a simple white top and black pants with thigh-high boots. Her long platinum blonde-hair pulled into a ponytail. With a hand on the railing, she spun around and faced the other women. "What brings the two smart doctors of S.T.A.R. Labs to my humble estate?"

"Nice to see you again, Felicia." Caitlin greeted and walked to the infamous thief.

"What up, Cait?" Felicia wrapped her arms around Caitlin's form.

"Hey, Cat." The psychic poured bourbon into two glasses. "Caity, you want some too?"

"No, have to go find Harry, and don't need any alcohol in my system, thank you very much." Caitlin smiled as the mutant brought her glass and the other one to Felicia. "We have some news."

"Very good news." Olivia added.

Felicia pulled the glass from her lips and directed at the psychic with a raised eyebrow. "What? You pregnant?"

"NO!" Olivia screamed loudly as though it was a lioness roaring her response. "I'm not pregnant. And before you ask, neither is Caitlin."

"Damn, would have loved to crash a baby shower and gave a pair of jewels. Best gifts for both the kid and the baby mama." Felicia smiled villainously.

"Don't get ahead of yourself." Caitlin smiled. "But down to the news."

Black Cat listened to the two women's words and widened her eyes in shock. It was one heck of a conversation that lead to her glass refilled at least two more times. And pouring them her throat at light-speed.

Downing her third glass of bourbon, she exclaimed in shock. "So Ace is alive and on another Earth in another universe?" Felicia had to be sure she heard correctly.

"Yup. My brother's one hell of a demon." Olivia joked.

"But he's got the worst luck when it comes to interdimensional portals." Felicia couldn't help but laugh.

"Yeah, but he's gonna come back again. He said that in the vibe." Caitlin smiled warmly. "And I can't wait."

"Not the only one, I imagine." Felicia smirked. "Rose, she hear the same too?"

"Yeah. She did and can't wait for her dad to come back to this world." Caitlin said. She stood up and got up on her feet. "I'm gonna go and find Harry now. Make sure he doesn't jump out of this frying pan and into another one."

"Need me to come with?" Olivia wondered of her.

"No need." Caitlin shook her head and took out a familiar Karambits knife. "I am prepared." She spun the blade around her hand before making her way to the elevator.

"Did she steal that from your brother?" Came the query from the infamous thief.

"Absolutely no idea." Was the response from the psychic.

X

It was a slow night at the bar. Joan Celia looked around and saw that the amounts of customers were low. Ever since the damage done by the Singularity, the number of people showing up here have decreased significantly. She sighed. "Dad would hate this."

JC put her towel and placed it over her shoulder before taking the tray of empty glasses in one hand. She walked to the bar counter and inside of it. Putting the tray on the table, she looked to the customer by the counter. "Need a refill, pal?" She asked with a bottle of whiskey raised.

The costumer in a jacket and a cap kept scribbling on a map of the city he got on the table. But at the offer, he replied while gesturing to the empty glass of whiskey with his pencil. "Would appreciate that, thanks." He answered in a hoarse voice.

"No trouble." JC poured the whiskey into the tumbler. While she did that with one hand, she used her other one to put a small plate of cheese curds and sauce beside his glass. "Here try these, pretty popular around here."

"Guess, I'm gonna have to take your word for it." Harry replied. "Not a lot of people tonight." He said after looking around.

"The place was totaled after that freaky black hole in the skies six months ago. Not a lot of people wanna be near, much less inside, of a place that might fall down on top of them." JC responded while cleaning the insides of another glass.

"Sorry to hear." Harry replied.

The bartender chuckled humorlessly. "Trust me, this doesn't even sum to what happened to my family." She downed a shot of whiskey for herself.

"Sorry for that." Harrison Wells offered his apologies.

"Don't go soft on me now, pal. Drink and get wasted, make bad decisions, then my mission is completed." JC joked and walked away.

Chuckling to himself, Harrison Wells returned to his drawing and continued to draw on the map.

"You should stay away from the cheese curds." Without even having to look at her, he knew that Caitlin Snow was looking at him. "They're addicting." She looked at JC and waved her greeting, the bartender did the same.

He scoffed. "I'm gonna take a wild stab and guess that you're here without the consent of the rest of your fabulous team."

Taking a seat on a barstool, the doctor began. "It's been difficult, having you here. For all of us, not to mention my own daughter."

"You don't have to worry about that anymore because I'm leaving." The otherworldly scientist informed her.

Caitlin narrowed her eyes on him. "We can help you save your daughter." Harry faced her. "I'm a parent too, Harry. I know that's why you want to go home. But you don't have to worry about that, she got Seth on her side and protecting her as we speak."

Harry put down his pencil and said. "Look, I made a big mistake coming here. My plan… was to get the Flash's help and use that help to stop Zoom, and my plan failed. I don't have another plan, except go back home and face Zoom myself, and make sure that a nutjob like this Seth doesn't do anything to my daughter."

Caitlin stated seriously. "So let's say you go back to your Earth, and you fight Zoom. He will kill you. And then, how does that help your daughter?" Harry didn't answer her rhetorical question. "Look, the best way to save Jesse is for you to stay here, and work with us as a team, and trust Seth to protect your daughter. He's a protector and won't back down from any fight."

"No." Harry shook his head and turned to the map again. "Now, leave me alone, while I discover which one of these breaches is gonna get me home."

The doctor was fighting the urge to not chuckle or scoff, if not both before she said revealingly. "You know, you're lucky Professor Stein, Cisco and Matt never figured out how to close all the breaches, cause then you'd be stuck here. And Seth would be stuck over there."

A flash of inspiration came over his mind and he said. "Wait." Caitlin frowned and faced Harry. "We close the breaches." A wave of confusion fell over her next while Harrison elaborated. "All of them, except one, so Zoom only has one way to get to this world. Same goes for this Seth character that you speak of." He drew a large circle on the map, around the area of the S.T.A.R. Labs facility.

Deducing what he was going for, she stated. "The breach at S.T.A.R. Labs."

"Exactly." He agreed with a smirk. "And then we set a trap, plus a welcome home party for your friend."

"He's not my friend, he's the man I love." Caitlin said lovingly.

Harry looked at her like she was crazy. Anyone who's not a speedster and willing to fight Zoom would probably be crazy. "Tell me about him. I'm curious about this Seth now."

X

"The Princess Bride" the title on the title board read with black metal letters.

As they were walking to the entrance, Cisco announced enthusiastically. "It's got fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles, and," he looked up in deep thought with a sheepish expression. "it's ranked as one of the best date movies of all time."

Kendra Saunders couldn't help but smile at his enthusiasm, finding it an absolute delight. Almost contagious even. "Well, let's see if that's true." She said with her hand stretching out for her to hold.

But then the unexpected happened, in a series of flashing blinding lights, a vibe came over him.

X

Before his eyes… a winged being took flight... wearing brown armor-like clothing that clung to her body…

The winged being turned around and it was though the vibing metahuman could see into the being's eyes… and watched… saw that it was woman… with wings.

X

The vibe ended and Cisco's mouth was opened in a gape and his eyes peering motionlessly forward. Kendra got a worried expression and asked him. "Cisco?" her words appeared to bring him out of whatever state he was in. "Are you okay?"

Realizing what the vibe meant and what just happened, Cisco abruptly stated. "I gotta go."

A wave of confusion came over the Jitters barista. "What? Why?"

Starting with a gaped mouth, the viber apologized. "I am so sorry that this is happening right now. I am so, so sorry." He mimicked the motion of hitting himself with his hand. "Um, I have to go." He went to walk away, but not before he pointed his eyes at her. "I'll call you, okay? I'll call you, I swear."

As he walked away, a grunt came through his closed mouth, and Kendra was left alone to watch him run away. And she didn't know she was being stood up by a guy who actually showed up or he was too scared to even follow through with the date.

X

A new day had begun, and it was a day for Barry Allen to get back on his feet. With Joe West, Iris West and Matt Stark watching from the other side of the glass panel, they watched the paralyzed speedster walking on the advanced treadmill at the same speed as a normal human being.

He looked to be struggling with breathing as he tried to increase his speed.

From the other side of the glass, Matt pressed the microphone and spoke through the speakers. "Come on, Barry. take it up a notch."

"He's right." Joe leant to the mic himself. "Faster, Barry!"

Glancing at his adoptive father, the speedster bit the insides of his mouth and increased his walking, kicking it up to the level of running now. Joe smiled. "There you go." He encouraged and watched the speedometer on the treadmill increased slowly. "Push yourself!"

Barry heard the encouragement from Joe, and he pushed himself to the limits. He increased the pace he was running at, increasing the very speed even and ran and ran on the treadmill. But it backfired, as a series of images returned to the forefront of his mind.

The images came back, showing him the images from his fight with Zoom… and the sensations that hit his body like a lightning bolt. The pain of Zoom smashing his hand into his back, almost as though he was trying to force through the spine. The feeling of his claws penetrating his flesh tearing through his skin and bone and striking her insides.

But worst of all… he remembered the face of the merciless demon that had his hands wrapped around his throat like he was gonna suffocate him with his bare hands.

The visions overwhelmed him and Barry lost his balance and fell down on the treadmill with a grunt. He pushed off it and shot into the back of the room with another pain grunt. "Barry!" Iris screamed in fear and rushed into the room with Matt and Joe. The reporter ran to him while the speedster was trying to get back up. "Are you okay?"

Barry got up again. "Oh, yeah, you know, I'm not great right now." He struggled his way back to the top of the treadmill with long agonizing strides. Matt narrowed his eyes on him with realization.

"What happened?" Joe walked closer to his adoptive son.

"It's nothing. I'm good, all right?" Barry panted. "Just forget it." He covered his face with both hands as he got down in a crouch.

"Barry." Iris called caringly.

"You saw him again, didn't you?" they heard the mutant say. "Zoom, didn't you? You saw him again while you were running. The fight you two had, you saw it like it was a video on repeat in your mind."

Iris had a shocked expression. "Barry is that true?" the metahuman didn't reply a single time. "Talk to us. We can help you."

"No, you can't help me. Not this time, I'm sorry." The speedster said defeatedly. He got back to his full height. "You just… you wouldn't understand." He sat down on the treadmill and saw a hurting look of sadness come over the reporter before she left. He sighed in hurt when Iris walked out of the door and left them alone.

As they were left alone now, Joe took a seat beside his son and Matt took a seat in the wheelchair. The detective started by asking, "What's up, Barry?"

"Was I right when I said you saw Zoom again?" Matt asked of him.

While Barry may not have nodded, the expression on his face said it all, giving them the wordless confirmation that they already had. And his next words, uttered with complete defeat in his words. "Zoom destroyed me. He showed everyone in Central City what he could do, and that I'm powerless to stop him. They gave me a key to this city, guys. I'm supposed to be their hero." He glanced at the nanite mutant. "One of them, anyway."

Matt waved off his concerns. "Don't kick yourself in the nuts like this, Barry. Me and Livia didn't stand much of a change against this bastard, ourselves."

"Yeah, but they still gave me a key to the city. I'm supposed to be the guy that can protect them from something as evil as that, and I failed in front of all of them." Barry raised his voice. He got up on his feet again, as did Joe and Matt.

"You can't think like that, Barry. you get back on the horse again." Matt tried to help him.

Stopping halfway through his walk to the exit of the room, Barry stated. "When they think of The Flash, all they see now is someone not strong enough to protect them." He turned to the nanite mutant and added solemnly. "And they're gonna think… Venom had to be here to fight Zoom… and not The Flash." He finished off and walked out of the room.

"You think he'll be alright?" Matt heard from the detective.

Shrugging, he replied. "I have no idea. This thing is more than what he's used to, I'd say. But something about your kids, they always get back on their feet, right? Heck, you have one on the other side of the panel skydiving out of a sky tower not too long ago. Either both of them are hopped on drugs, or you've given them enough confidence to fight the entire world."

"Thanks. But trust me, it's no drug." Joe assured him with fatherly proud smile.

"So they're natural-born crazies with crazy pants." Matt joked.

"Watch it." The detective mocked a threat. He lowered his jokes and said seriously. "Thanks for going easy on Barry now and all. Means a lot."

"Don't mention it, man." Matt calmly said. "Besides," he inhaled sharply. "Seth's gonna wanna put in some words of his own when he gets back."

Joe's faced paled. "Why do I feel like what you, Liv and Frankie said or did, is gonna be like a walk in the park compared to Seth?"

"Night and day, detective. Night and day." He empathized slowly… because he could imagine Seth throwing a building or two on top of Scarlet Speedster. Just to flatten him out before deep-frying him… in a volcano.

X

(S.T.A.R. Labs, The Breach Room)

Frankie crawled on the ceiling above her mother and Cisco's heads as she asked. "You and Aunt Olivia went to meet with Felicia, Mom?"

While the mechanical engineer paced back and forth on the platform, the doctor answered her daughter's question. "Yes, we did, honey. We thought it would be good for her to know that your Dad is still alive and coming back."

Detaching from the ceiling, she landed beside her mother and asked. "You did mention he's in another universe, again, right?" She asked him curiously.

"Yes, we did." Caitlin ruffled her daughter's head, "I still can't believe Seth's alive again. It's… incredible. Really incredible, that he survived the Singularity exploding in the skies."

"Can't believe he could escape that." Frankie admitted. "He's really strong."

"And now all, we can do…" Caitlin faced into the swirling mass of the breach. "is wait for him, with open arms." She wrapped her arms around her daughter's form tightly. "You happy, baby?"

"I am. Really happy, Mom." Frankie smiled and leaned against the front of her mother. She turned her head to the side, one eye pointing at the mechanical engineer who kept pacing. "What's with Cisco? He's pacing like he's preparing to take on a marathon up a long staircase."

"Mystery for another day, honey." Caitlin leant down and kissed the top of her daughter's head. "How about you go up and check on your Uncle Matt? He might thinking of how to help Barry or something like that. And he could need an extra pair of hands, or tendrils."

"Alright, Mom." Frankie dislodged her arms from her parent's waist and walked to the small staircase. "See ya, Cisco!" she called out after passing through the threshold of the door.

"See you, Frankie!" Cisco called out without looking in the direction of her passing. He then asked Caitlin as he turned to her, while she walked up to the computer on the platform. "Oh, hey, I know I keep asking, but have you read any reports or anything recently about a Birdman attacking anywhere?" he asked after stepping closer to the doctor.

Caitlin smiled, he told her about his vibe earlier today. One about a man with large feathery bird-like wings before his eyes, during his date with Kendra Saunders, which he had to end abruptly. "There's no such thing as a Birdman, Cisco." She tilted her head knowingly. "At least, in our universe. Think there's one in Seth's universe. Though, that one was called Angel, I think."

Cisco gave her a dry look. "Okay, like that's a stretch in this city? I mean, we had a guy who turned into metal, just like theirs, a Birdman is entirely possible, Caitlin." He said before adding. "Look, I know what I vibed." Caitlin returned to her work as he continued his thoughts. "It was a man with these big, wide wings. It was crazy."

The doctor's head perked up, the sound of a high-pitched ringing ran through her head and the words uttered by her friend faded like background noise. But a series of strange images appeared before her eyes. Images of masked doctors appearing with syringes and scalpels.

A series of those images continued in her head. And she found herself… bound. Like strings attached to her limbs and as well as her mind, covering Caitlin's own thoughts… her control even and her facial expression was cleansed of any emotions.

"It was an angel."

Cisco's words of hopefulness didn't reach her ears, more images continued to flood her mind and she couldn't help but feel like her will… was not her own, like her free will had been shut off and locked inside of an iron mental vault. Her brain was shut off, screws unscrewed somehow and allowed something to come into her.

And new thoughts entered her mind like an avalanche hurling into her mind…. Burying her own mind underneath piles of something more… animalistic.

"It was an angel." Cisco confidently stated and his smile was wide. He noticed the lack of participation from the doctor and asked. "Caitlin?" She remained still like a statue. Thinking the reason behind her stillness was due to his words, he said. "Okay, come on, like that's a crazy idea."

He watched as Caitlin turned around and faced him and stepped closer to him.

PUNCH

Cisco didn't have time to react when Caitlin reeled a hand back before launching it forward and slamming it into his face. He grunted in pain and held the side of his face with his hand. All the while his friend walked to the exit. "What is wrong with you?" he exclaimed from the ground.

But like a mindless drone, Caitlin continued to walk out of the breach room.

X

While Matt and Frankie were in the Cortex, working on the mutant's suit they thought, Detective Joe West and his daughter were walking through the corridors with saddened expressions. Even though the mutants have lessened their hate of the speedster, Barry was still in a state of despair and self-hate after losing to the overwhelming strength of Zoom.

"Just don't know what to do about Barry." Joe voiced his thoughts to his daughter as they walked through the corridors. "I mean, all the test results say he's fine, but it's like there's something holding him back." He couldn't come up with a better way to speak his thoughts. "I keep trying to talk to him, but I can't get through. Maybe Matt was right. Something's going in his head, and no one can get through it."

A flash of inspiration fell over the reporter, and she stated. "Then maybe we should get the person who can."

The smile on her face gave Joe some confidence. Enough to let her handle it, hopefully paving the way open for the speedster let down his barriers again. His phone began chiming and he received a phone call from his partner, Patty Spivot.

He knew that this was about what they found at Vaughn Pharmaceuticals. A biochemistry engineer, Dr. Jeffrey Shore went out of control and stole tanks of a serum, called Cortexin from the lab storage cooler, hurt his colleagues out of the blue, and was found splattered on sign above ground level and found dead. He was also the second lab worker to be found in this kind of state. Joe found it strange that a serum used for treating encephalopathy, a blood disease in the brain, was stolen.

When they investigated the crime scene, Patty found a bunch of weird-looking hairs. And found out that the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head… a lot of it, too. Because of that, an eerie feeling sprouted within his guts.

Pointing a finger at his daughter, he said. "We can talk about that when I see you at home. I gotta take this, okay? Okay. Bye, baby." He bid farewell to his daughter and he got the same. Accepting the call, he put it to his ear. "Patty, what's up?"

"Turns out our dead scientist cases are linked."

Those words did not spark any happiness to the detective. "Okay, hit me." He allowed her to continue.

"Well, the other scientist stole a large quantity of a racetam drug, typically used to treat patients with Vertigo." Patty revealed.

Connecting the dots, the senior detective stated. "Okay, so we got two stolen drugs, one for blood disorders of the brain, and the other one for Vertigo. What's the connection?" he asked his partner.

Patty answered. "Well, they are both nootropic drugs, used to enhance intelligence." The detective elaborated through their connection.

Once again the eerie feeling erupted in him and he said, "Hey, did you get results from the hairs you found?"

"Yes, I did." Patty said. "Uh, apparently they were all over the other crime scene too. The weird thing is, they're not human hairs. Uh, they're hairs from a…"

"From a gorilla." He finished off her sentence, already knowing who did this to the two scientists.

"How… How did you know?" Patty's confusion was lacing her every word.

"Patty, I gotta go." Joe didn't answer her question. He quickly hung up and rushed through the Cortex, as only one thing could have done this.

X

(S.T.A.R. Labs, The Cortex)

Matt was holding the left gauntlet of his suit while he was on the private lab on the right side of the Cortex. The entire suit itself was placed on the table in front of him as he used a screwdriver to adjust the repulsor on the gauntlet. "Think this should do it. Now to check on the Arc Reactor…" he stated his next instructions and turned to his armor again.

His eyes widened when seeing that the entirety of his Iron Knight armor wasn't on the table that he placed it on. "The hell…" Matt asked himself when looking around the private lab. "Frankie did you-" His question was stopped halfway when seeing the young metahuman attached to the ceiling and spinning her fingers around.

Looking up to the ceiling himself, he found his Iron Knight armor again. Though it was strangely enough, acting like some kind of salamander and crawling on the ceiling in a circular formation. However, as he saw it crawling with one arm… reminded him of the times he saw "Rings". Facing his niece, he said with narrowed eyes. "Really, Frankie?"

She shrugged uncaringly. "I was bored, Uncle Matt. And this is kind of funny." Frankie twisted her fingers around, the suit lashing out its limbs and the helmet spinning around its place on the armor's torso. "And cool, Uncle."

"You really are like your father." Matt stated as he saw his suit wave is singular hand at him. "The creepiness is a tad too much, though."

Barry rolled over to the entrance of the private lab and saw the armor clattering around its way on the ceiling. Turning to the nanite mutant, he said. "Think Caitlin might give her less TV time."

Matt nodded his agreement. "Yeah, she's definitely a "Ring" fan."

"It's a good movie." Frankie admitted with a smile.

"Walking Dead's better." Came the response from the symbiote within the magnekinetic, followed with a long mental lick of her shark-like teeth, licking up the saliva. Magenta could envision the tasty organs ripped out of the innocent survivors' stomachs. Lungs, intestines, hearts pulled out of their bodies with ease by walkers who chowed down on them like it was their first meal as they accepted their new lives as zombies.

They then heard a series of rapid feet touching down on the floor and the three turned around to look into the Cortex. They saw Cisco walking around the main console with his hand on his cheek. "Did Caitlin come through here?"

"No. Why? What's wrong, Cisco?" Frankie asked as she stood up from her chair.

"And did something happen to your face?" Matt asked, pointing a finger at the native engineer's face.

Pointing a finger to his own face, Cisco exclaimed. "Caitlin just hit me in the face and ran away."

Frankie's hand fell down, as did the suit on the ceiling, the armor falling down on the table and it's pieces falling off and clattering on the ground. "Mom? My Mom hit you, Cisco?" Her disbelief was reaching the skies.

"Yo!

This time, all four looked to the entrance and saw Joe rushing in with a fearful expression. His fears were let known when he stated out loud. "Grodd!"

"What?" Cisco said with a confused expression.

"Grodd's back." Joe revealed.

Frankie's face paled. "Mom."

"Shit. Caitlin." Matt stated and pressed the chest plate of his suit, the Arc Reactor installed in it shining intensely before swarming into nanites and ran up his body. Adapting to his body, they formed the Iron Knight suit.

"That must be why she was acting like that." Cisco deduced.

Frankie's hands clenched. "Grodd's mind-controlling her." Her clothes changed color and turned into a symbiotic mass that enveloped her entirely. Donning the form of Magenta, she sharpened her claws. Her mouth splitting open, "Cisco, where is she?"

Cisco quickly went to work, and his fingers pressed the keys on the keyboard at lightning speed. Passing by a few security camera footages, he stopped as he found a security camera… filming Caitlin stepping out of the building.

"Mom." Frankie grew worried at the sight of her mother walking away like a robot.

But then their eyes widened at what happened next… the mountainous form of the hairy meta-gorilla… Grodd… walked past a corner and… in the same direction as Frankie's mother. "MOM!" Magenta screamed before shooting out her arms and stretching them out, her hands grabbing hold of the rims of the skylight and pulling on them as she shot through it.

Surprised at her missile-like speed, the nanite mutant exclaimed. "Frankie!" before his mask materialized over his face and he jumped into the air, taking flight and following the magnekinetic.

Joe turned to the others. "Let's go!" he took out his firearm and ran after them with Cisco and Barry limping behind them.

X

But even through, they managed to there quickly, they couldn't find her anywhere. Because of that, they were all left with sadness and hurt. The most overwhelming, however, was without a doubt, fear.

Fear that the large meta-primate would hurt the doctor.

After seeing that and seeing his niece's eyes leaking tears of sadness, Matt called his wife back to the facility. He couldn't be the only one to console their niece, not while she was like this. After that, he went to help Cisco who got Harrison Wells from Earth-2 to come back to S.T.A.R. Labs and help them after informing them of their current predicament.

Olivia rushed through the entrance to the Cortex, surprisingly so with Felicia. The psychic faced her husband. "Grodd really came back?"

"Yeah." He walked closer to his wife. "And for some reason, he kidnapped Caitlin." The words he uttered were spoken through a whisper for the sake of his crying niece.

"Seriously. A big-ass Gorilla with telepathic powers kidnaps Caity? Oh, he's gonna regret that." Olivia cracked her fists loudly.

Felicia looked to the private lab with Frankie. From this distance, she could clearly see the tears trailing down the sides of her young disciple's face. "Is Rose doing well?"

"No." Matt shook his head. "First Seth's gone in another universe and now Caitlin's taken by a massive psychotic gorilla? She's not doing too well. Pretty much on"

"Want me to talk to her?" Felicia asked them both.

"Sure thing." Olivia nodded and her husband nodded as well.

Nodding her gratitude to them both, the infamous thief walked over to the private lab. Leaning against it, she whispered and the young metahuman looked up to her. Felicia quipped, "Now, I think roses are supposed to be watered. Not watering themselves with tears."

"Hey, Felicia." Frankie saw her mentor through the tears cascading down her cheeks. A wave of emotions was trying to soothe her from within, but the hurtful feelings trumped those helpful feelings with ease. She tried wiping away more tears, but it didn't do much as even more took their place. "Aunt Liv brought you along?"

Chuckling, she said. "Try not to sound too excited, Rose." She walked closer to her young disciple and wiped the tears away as best as she could. "Tears really don't suit you either, you know."

"… You think Mom's okay? Or-"

"She's not dead, Rose." Frankie snapped her head to her mentor in confusion and shock at the confidence of her words. "Caity's alive and well. Well, as well as she can be with King Kong Jr."

"Why do you think she's alive? And that's she's not dead?" Frankie wondered seriously.

Felicia held confidence in her face. "Your Dad and Uncle Iron Jr. told me about their first little visit from King Kong Junior. Funny thing, the monkey likes your Mommy. And he needs her for something now, and she has to be alive for the monkey's plan to work."

"You really think that or just hope that?" Frankie asked in concern, parts of her wanted to know what her thoughts were.

"I know that." Felicia ruffled her disciple's head. "I mean, Ace does have a strong thing for strong, tough women like your Mommy." Frankie smiled warmly. "Don't worry about your Mom, alright? Me and your Aunt will get her out of this pickle."

Olivia heard her words and walked closer to them. "You gonna help us, Cat?"

"Yeah, I am. Besides, us cats does know how to always land on their four legs. And we always stick together to scratch each other's necks." Felicia smirked and got up from her chair. Nodding to the nanite mutant who stood behind Cisco with Harry, she said. "Let's see what the geek squad has for us."

Frankie, Felicia and Olivia walked into the Cortex and heard the nanite mutant say. "So Grodd decided to find a new venue, he's nowhere his old territory."

"Guess, sewers weren't up to his taste after his last unwanted guests showing up on his doorstep." Felicia quipped with a chuckle.

Harry crossed his arms over his chest. "I'm continually amazed by the similarity between our worlds."

Joe grimaced. "You got talking gorillas on your Earth too?"

"Oh yeah." Harry let out. The mutants swallowed their disgust.

"Remind me never to go there." Joe said with a soft scoff.

Olivia scratched the back of her head. "What the hell is wrong with this part of the multiverse? I mean, a shit load of Earths here has a creepy fetish of experimenting on animals."

Frankie chuckled. "Gorillas specific. I mean, why not, a racoon or something?"

Facing his niece, Matt gave her a weird look. "You find a talking racoon anywhere, sweetie, I will gladly make you a suit like mine."

"Promise?" Frankie smiled happily.

Not taking heed of the jokes going back and forth between the two family members, Harry directed his question to Cisco. "Ramon, why would this…. Grodd abduct Dr. Snow?"

"I don't know. It doesn't make sense." Cisco said. "She was always so nice to him."

"Could be revenge or a rematch, maybe." Matt had to the one to say and the eyes of the others came to him. "Last time we saw Grodd, he went up against Seth, Livia and me, and had to run away. Maybe he took her to draw us out again, or maybe he thinks he can get Seth to come up and face him, mano a gorilla." He added at the end.

"He might not know Ace isn't here?" Felicia suggested.

Though those thoughts did make sense in the detective's mind, other scenarios were birthed instead. "He mind-controlled two lab technicians to steal chemicals that enhance intelligence. He wants her for something."

Cisco got a disappointed look and said. "Well, looks like Matt was right. He left his bachelor pad in the sewers."

Lashing his hands out, the detective said. "Grodd's a big-ass gorilla. He can't just waltz through downtown in the middle of the day without anybody noticing."

"Right, and if there's been sightings, then we might be able to approximate his location." Harry suggested.

"I can call CCPD. They can access the tip hotline, send over files of Grodd's recent attacks." Joe stated his plan.

"Me and Felicia check out some high vantages points in the city, see if they're any cameras that we can hack into." Olivia offered.

"And me and Jarvis can hack into them from here." Matt said as he moved to the main console. "Frankie, you go with your aunt and Cat. Your extra senses can help them a lot out there."

"Will do, Uncle." Frankie instantly said with a determined look. Determined to find her mother again and back home to her.

"Good." Cisco got up with a steadfast expression. "We gotta get her back."

"We will." Harry faced the young metahuman. "We'll get your mother back, Frankie."

"Thanks, Wells." The magnekinetic stated before her form was swarmed by the symbiote and she jumped out of the skylight. Olivia followed her niece with her own suit materializing over her body and Felicia followed her with her grappling hook attaching to the edge of the skylight before pulling her through it.

Cisco and Harry went to do their work with Matt. Joe faced his adoptive son who had his eyes pointed downwards at the cane in his hands. "Barry." When not getting a response from the speedster, the detective raised his voice. "Barry!"

"Yeah?" Barry faced his adoptive father.

"You can't blame yourself for this. There's nothing you could've done." Joe tried too ease his mind.

As though he was struggling to breath, he said. "I still don't have my speed. Without Seth here, how are we supposed to save her from Grodd?"

"You may not have your legs just yet, and we don't have our crazy psycho elemental demon, but you still got that brain and mutant friends here as well. Use it. Help us figure that out." Joe suggested to the speedster and walked to his side. "Plus, if Seth does come back and hears what happened here, he might just kill Grodd and you."

Barry's faced paled as he heard the shockingly joking voice that Joe used to speak to him. As he felt him pat his shoulder, he gulped again in rising fear of what might happen if the elemental were to learn of this. Cause Seth would have been pissed beyond the normal limits of humans.

Which would probably lead to him being peeled like a ripe orange.

X

The inside of the tower was abandoned. The tower-like structure's top level was left with boxes of tools around the floor. Ropes attached to the ceiling with one end and hanging down till they piled on the floor. White sheets covering various large objects on the floor. Light shining through the windows and hitting the reflective surfaces of the dozens of large chains spread on the floor.

The light bouncing off the chains hit the form of a sleeping beauty. It was the only light source that connected with her form that was hidden within the corner of shadows, on top of an old mattress. Her eyes slowly opening. Blinking a few times, she pushed herself up and took in her surroundings. Her mouth opening and letting out short gasps of shock as she didn't recognize any of the things around her to be usual environment.

Dr. Caitlin Snow looked around and saw various objects. Even noticing a very large gear. But that's now what she found the most curious about the surroundings within her field of vision. Narrowing her eyes, she focused her vision on the scribbles on the walls and windows. While she kept them narrowed, she saw what the scribbles were.

They were chemical formulas and chemical equations. Pretty advanced stuff even actually written on the walls. A genius must have written them down on the walls, especially the ones higher up the wall surfaces. Drifting her eyes to the side, she saw dozens of large keg tanks piled on top of each other. Her confusion was climbing higher and higher up a mountain of bewilderment at the sights being taken in.

"Caitlin."

Hearing the growling voice echo in her head, finding it strange and familiar before instant realization fell over her. She heard how Seth felt like during and after the mind-control. Caitlin remembered how he would describe the voice as a growling beast grunting gruffly whenever the beast would send out his heinous commands.

"Grodd?" Caitlin softly called out. Her eyes trying to peer into the shadows and look for the meta-gorilla. "You… remember me?" With slow movements, she got back on her feet again. Hearing rumbling sounds coming up above, she looked up in the direction of the ceiling.

The familiar large form of the meta-gorilla landed on a support beam and used its natural animalistic mobility to swing from that beam to the one below, landing on it before jumping off it and landing in front of the frightened doctor who once took care of him.

Grodd faced her and sent thoughts to her mind. "Caitlin… always… kind…"

Parts of her wanted to run away, but against a primate with human intelligence? She wouldn't get far.

So Caitlin asked another question. "Why did you bring me here?" she stepped closer to the gorilla.

"Need… help…" Grodd telepathically informed her.

"I… I don't understand." She said confusedly.

With his gigantic fingers curling, Grodd stated his query. "How did I become Grodd?"

"Oh." She quickly realized the reason behind her abduction. "That's a long story, Grodd. Um…" Caitlin had to think of how to start. "The dark matter from the particle accelerator explosion? That's how this happened." She could feel the Karambits knife in her pocket but didn't dare to reach for it.

Stepping closer to her, the meta-gorilla said. "Repeat."

"Repeat?" she was confused.

Grodd growled and she stepped back in fear. With a wave of his large hand, he gestured to the chemical tanks. "Need to repeat Grodd."

Now it all became much clearer to the doctor. "You want me to make more like you? I don't know how to do that."

Leaning his head down to meet hers, close enough that their eyes were pointing directly into one another, the meta-gorilla growled his response. "Learn."

X

The shine of her psychic energy was hitting the surfaces of every buildings that she flew by. Angel Fury's head looked to the sides with a snap of her head in search. After finding high vantage points around Central City and finding no Caitlin, the three girls decided to split and search different locations of the city to continue their search for the abducted doctor.

Halting her flying, the psychic mutant hovered above the city streets and looked around with her soulless white eyes. "You can't be dead, Caity. Not you. If you are…" her knuckles cracked when she clenched them with immense force. "That bloody monkey is gonna wish he killed me and the others the last time, if he's even touched a hair on your head."

"Let me in on that slugfest, would ya?"

Olivia turned around and saw Black Cat walking over to the edge of the tall building on the mutant's right side. She jumped onto the ledge and walked on it with her arms stretched out to the sides like she was playing on the ledge like a kid not fearing the danger of falling into running traffic.

Chuckling the psychic said. "Funny, how you're still who you are even in another universe. Dozens of months passing, and you're still Black Cat."

"Thank you." Felicia gave a mock bow. "But you're not that different yourself than when you were back on our home turf." Even though she was wearing her mask, the burglar knew there was a confused look behind it. "Come on, Livy. You're smarter than that. Back home, you were a loving incredible aunt to the one little goofball that Ace adopted. Here, you're still a loving incredible aunt to one little rose."

".. You think so?" She asked in doubt and confusion.

Hearing the confusion and doubt didn't sit right with the infamous thief. "Why are you talking like that? Doesn't sound very… "Fury"-y." She quipped.

"A monster attacked Bucky and Stef and killed them; I couldn't stop that from happening." The psychic started. "Over six hundred universes away from home, and now a monster kidnaps Caity, and I can't do squat about it. And…" She slammed her hands together. "No matter how much, I wish for it to happen, I'm still not strong enough to protect my friends and family from danger. I hate it."

"Have i ever told you how much you and your hubby are alike?" Felicia surprisingly said.

"What do you mean?" Olivia stated her question.

"You forget who knew Stef longer than you, even longer than Ace." The burglar said. "She used to say that the two of you were the perfect match. Because you kept becoming stronger and stronger to take care of each other. To protect your family, to be strong enough to protect Seth from harm." She flipped on her hands and landed on her feet again before stepping backwards and deeper into the rooftop. "Anyone could see that was your motivation for always training and getting stronger."

"Still don't get your point, Cat." Olivia said.

"I mean, you two fight better together than separately. And that's your real strength." Black Cat said with a smile. "The source of your strength is your family. Right now, Livy, you're out here to protect the mother of your niece, and you're willing to even slaughter that gorilla."

Olivia gained a steadfast expression that pierced through her mask and revealed itself to the infamous thief. "Nothing and no one is gonna get away with harming my friends and family. I'm erase em if I have to."

"That's a Fury for you." Felicia admitted. "And that's what our Caitlin Snow needs right now, so she can get back home to her beautiful daughter… and wait for that Ace to get his ass back home."

"Oh yeah." Chuckling the psychic asked. "You remember when you started calling him that nickname?"

"You mean when, Stef took the two of us, Ace, herself and Bucky out and play mini-golf?" This time Felicia had to laugh as well. "God, can't believe he actually destroyed the entire course with his club." She remembered it like it was yesterday.

The entire group had some time off from their usual work, so a little family trip for some fun was what was on the agenda back then. The entire group planed a trip to the local mini-golf course to play. It was fun. The ladies were enjoying themselves with a couple of wine glasses and taking photos of each other while being a bit tipsy. Seth was with Bucky the entire time, enjoying the time to its fullest to forge greater bonds with his son.

He even let his at-the-time 2-year old son hold his club and swing it to hit the ball. Bucky even managed to get the ball into the hole after a few small tries.

The same could not be said for his old man, however.

Seth had difficulties whenever he would try to hit the small white ball with his club. His anger spiked back then when he heard the ladies began giggling at his embarrassment. It increased tenfold when the infamous thief called him "Ace", because he could never get an ace in the hole no matter how hard he tried.

Which led to him to, in a fit of rage, increased the strength of his muscles with earth before swinging the club blindly again and again and hit everything around him. When he finally stopped and calmed down, he and the others realized that he had destroyed the entire course.

Thankfully SHIELD destroyed any and all footage of an unorthodox doctor wreaking havoc on a mini-golf course… with a golf club of all things in the world.

Felicia looked at her. "How long did it take for him to finally talk to us again?"

Olivia smiled behind her mask. "Two whole weeks. God, that brother of mine can be more stubborn than a thick-headed bull." Donning another serious expression, she turned to the thief. "Let's get back in the game and find Caity."

"Right behind you, Angel." Felicia shot out a hook from her wrist and hooked onto the top of a building before leaping off the rooftop. Using the hooked grappling hook, she swung to the other building before detaching and swinging again.

"Behind me, my ass." Olivia said with a quip and shot forward to follow Black Cat like a hack on a mission.

X

(S.T.A.R. Labs, Treadmill Room)

Once again, the speedster was back on his feet and on the treadmill again. Running and running with all of his might, with every cell of his body pushing themselves through the barriers of his limits. The yellow lighting residing in him erupted from the back of his body and the back of his limbs.

The lightning erupted from his body and he gritted his teeth and panted through his teeth. He struggled and fought through the pain of his horrific memories of his fight with Zoom. The fight with his memories of that battle was storming over his efforts and threw them overboard of the ship that they tried to remain on.

But it was a losing battle and the fight with his memories forced his lightning to dissipate. Pain took the form of a raising tidal wave and reached the skies before crashing on top of the speedster's inner work. Barry reached for the panel beside him and pressed the panel. Slowly the treadmill's speed decreased and began to stop.

Bending down, he put his hands on his knees and breathed out heavily. His entire face riddled with defeat and self-loathing from both his incapability to reach his ultimate speed… and from losing to the menacing speedster from Earth-2.

Thankfully… he wasn't the only one to witness those feelings on his face.

"Keep that chin up, slugger."

Snapping his head to the entrance into the room, Barry widened his eyes at the shock of seeing… him…

Barry Allen saw… his father… Henry Allen standing there with a smile. "Dad." The speedster said with shock at the sight of him. Within a moment, he rushed off the treadmill to meet his father in an embrace.

"Yeah." Henry caringly breathed out as he held his son and patted his back.

Perking his head up from his father's shoulder, he watched the reporter, Iris West standing there with a loving expression. Loving that the speedster was bringing down his barriers and let someone in. She gave him a nod and walked away.

Iris walked over to her father who stood by the exit with proud smile of his daughter's decision. "That was a hell of an idea you had, bringing Henry here."

The detective reached her father's side, throwing a quick glance at the direction of the treadmill room before saying. "Well, he may not have his mother, but he's got two amazing fathers." She made eye contact with Joe. "Seemed like he needed both."

"Hmm." He hummed bemusedly before wrapping an arm around her. "Good girl." He said after kissing the side of her head.

The two West family members walked out of the Cortex, decided to leave the Allen members to rejoice in this reunion.

X

(S.T.A.R. Labs, Cisco's workshop)

Inside of Cisco's workshop, the native engineer, the weapons expert from Earth-616 and the infamous founder of S.T.A.R. Labs on Earth-2 were working on a way to find the meta-gorilla's location.

Harry looked at Matt before drifting his eyes to Cisco. Temporarily stopping his work, the otherworldly scientist asked out loud. "How did Grodd become sentient?"

Cisco was the one to answer with his eyes meeting Harry's. "A few years ago, S.T.A.R. Labs had this contract with the military to research and awaken latent mind-reading capabilities for "interrogation purposes"."

Matt then added while typing on the computer, "Smart as you are, Wells, you should already know who the lucky winner of Test Subject Lottery was?"

"Grodd." Harry deduced instantly.

"Right, but then Dr. Wells shut down the program, and we all thought it was to save Grodd from all the crazy mind-control experiments, but it was really so that Dr. Wells could use the accelerator explosion to create a 1,500 pound mind-controlling gorilla that he could manipulate." Cisco said.

"Cause nothing says "house pet" better than a huge-ass gorilla that can dig into people's mind like they're his playthings." Matt followed bluntly.

The otherworldly scientist narrowed his eyes on the man and asked. "You said this Grodd fought against you and your wife, correct?"

"And Frankie's father, Seth Fury. Olivia's big brother and my best friend and brother-in-law." The nanite mutant stated. "Grodd might be looking to get some payback now."

"Why?" Harry asked with a tilted head.

"Grodd took control of Seth once." The nanite mutant started, surprising Harrison Wells. "That gorilla use his telepathic powers to take control of Seth, and he forced him to fight us, fight me. I was about to be killed by my best friend, but Frankie called out to her dad. And Grodd was forcing him to attack his own daughter, but that son of a bitch Seth managed to break through the monkey's control and give that bastard animal all hell."

Harry rubbed his chin. "What kind of metahuman is he?"

Laughing shortly, he revealed. "I thought Caitlin had told you all about him before?"

"She did. But sounds like you have known him much longer. Wanted to pick your brains." Harry leant against his chair.

"Remember we said that we are from another universe? That we are mutants, a species of powered beings from another universe with powers from a special gene in our bodies?" Harry nodded to his question, Caitlin told him that as did the strange beings, mutants a while back. Matt continued as he made eye contact with him. "Seth is a mutant elemental, an anomaly in our world. A different type of elemental. One that store various elements through absorption and manipulate the elements stored within his body. He has seven elements inside of his body."

Harry opened his mouth to speak, but the nanite mutant held up his hand and stated. "I can't say how he got those. I know how, but it's his choice to say that, not mine. And not just that he's got a symbiote like Frankie does."

"What is the name of his… heroic alter-ego?" Harrison asked the mutant.

Cisco laughed and the otherworldly scientist watched him gain a smile. "Hero… is not what most people would think when they see him." he spoke honestly.

His honesty did not go unnoticed and the scientist asked curiously. "What do you mean?"

"That, you're gonna have to see for yourself, otherwise you're not gonna believe it, man." Matt smirked. "But he's name… is Venom, an anti-hero."

"Venom?" Harry repeated and was shocked inwardly to hear a renowned hero on this Earth. The heroes he's heard of never had such a vile name. A name better suited for a villain than a hero. "And this man, is currently protecting my daughter." He chuckled.

"Seth's not gonna let anything happen to your daughter, Wells. Trust me. No one's better at this than him." Matt assured him confidently.

Returning to his work, Harrison said. "Guess I will have to take your word for it, Stark."

Cisco walked closer to the otherworldly scientist and saw his work. "What kind of algorithm is that?"

Smirking, as though he was impressed by his own work, Harry said. "It's an algorithm meant to extrapolate Grodd's location from places we already know he's been." In almost an instant, the algorithm came up with three circled areas that Grodd's been seen at in Central City on the monitor. The three circles connecting at a single point and the three men knew what that singular point meant. "Hello."

The native engineer glanced at Matt. "There we have it."

The nanite mutant smirked menacingly. "Think the ladies will be up for a gorilla hunt?"

X

Inside of Caitlin's private lab, Henry Allen was watching the large monitor before his eyes. The large screen on wheels displayed the internals of his son's body. His eyes running up and down the 3D image Barry's spine. The speedster himself was sitting on the gurney behind his father who was examining the screen.

"No spinal cord edema." Henry inspected. "I don't see any subacute hemorrhaging. Bone fused beautifully." He pointed to it. "You're all good, Barry. I'd give you some physical therapy," he faced his son. "but you don't need it."

The speedster chuckled. "I'm really glad you're here, Dad."

Henry smiled. "Me too." He put his hands in his pockets. "You know, I tried to call, but you can't get a cell in Granite Peak National park, so…"

Barry got confused while his father stepped closer to him. "Granite Peak… what are you…You went camping by yourself?"

His father nodded. "Yeah, yeah. I got a tent. I went fishing every day." He patted his son's leg. "I have had my fill of largemouth bass for a while." Henry admitted with a chuckle and saw his son dip his head downwards. "Sometimes you have to slow down… to get back to where you want to be."

Knowing what he was going for, the speedster said. "Yeah. Dad, look."

"Yo, guys." Matt let out as he entered the Cortex with Cisco behind him. "We found Grodd and his not-so-lucky captive."

"Yeah?" Barry and his father rushed to his side.

Cisco showed Harry's algorithm on the main console. With the eyes of the Allens on the screen, he explained. "Grodd has to be in one of these three bell towers. The only reason we couldn't find him on any cameras underneath the city before is 'cause he updated from a bachelor pad to a penthouse, like a baller."

"Yeah, this bastard's gonna have his hands full with us now." Matt threatened. "The girls are coming back to get the locations too so they can help us check them out."

"Yeah, we know where he is. We still don't know how to get Caitlin." Barry said.

"Actually, we got a plan for that." Cisco confessed.

"What plan?" Barry wondered.

"We use me."

Barry turned around to look into the corridor… and found a familiar concealed form that have brought him nothing but pain and torment…

… The Reverse… Flash… standing there and looking at Barry.

Seeing red the very moment he placed his eyes on him again, the speedster sped forward. Despite his body not erupting any yellow lightning, he still slammed into the evil speedster and pinned him to the wall with his forearm pressed to his throat.

Cisco saw it and exclaimed urgently. "That's Harry! That's the other Wells!"

"Barry." Harry spoke while donning the mask of Reverse-Flash.

"Let him go." Cisco tried to pry his arm away from Harry's throat.

"Let him go, Barry." Matt said and walked to the speedster.

Peeling the cowl off his face, Harrison Wells from Earth-2 breathed heavily as the speedster spoke. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry." He was let go immediately.

"Told you this would happen, a bad idea. I was about to tear off his face before when I saw him." Matt told the native engineer with a gesture to the otherworldly scientist.

"Thanks for that." Harry said rubbing the back of his neck, still feeling some strain there from Stark's grip on his throat in the Time Vault.

"It's not a bad idea." Cisco argued to the mutant before elaborating to Barry. "We found another suit in the Time Vault."

Henry was wearing disbelief on his face. "I thought he was dead."

"Accurate." Matt commented.

Barry nodded and gestured to him. "This is… This is Harrison Wells from Earth-2."

Disbelief now mixed with shock and confusion. "Earth-2?"

"I'll explain later." Barry said.

Cisco continued. "If we can get Harry to convince Grodd that he's Wells, that he's his father, maybe we can convince him to let Caitlin go."

Barry understand their plan and stepped closer to Harry with a worried expression. "I'm not gonna be able to help if anything goes wrong."

"That's a chance I'm willing to take." Harrison admitted adamantly. "Besides, I feel like I will have the aid of a couple of deadly women on my side."

Matt tilted his head. "Yeah. An infamous thief from another universe, my fiery and fierce wife from another universe, and of course my magnekinetic and cannibalistic niece."

Henry's eyes threatened to explode out of his eye sockets.

"I'm sorry, "cannibalistic"?"

X

After a while Caitlin had begun to work on her quest, she had begun checking the chemicals she's been given and now was holding a writing pad. Grodd was there behind her and watching her movements and listened in on her thoughts birthing.

Strangely enough, the meta-gorilla found… thoughts of anger in her mind… which was unlike Caitlin.

As she checked her chemicals, the doctor stated. "So, one of the main differences between ape and human brains is the white matter and connectivity in the brain cells." She faced the large gorilla, Caitlin said. "The chemicals that you were treated with as an infant were meant to overcome those differences and cause an explosive growth of both… similar to what humans experience in their first few years of life."

Grodd seemed to her understand her words and the doctor turned back to her work. "Maybe these chemicals can be used to duplicate that growth, and then we don't need a particle accelerator explosion."

Tilting his head unsurely while questions kept bugging his mind, he finally inquired of the doctor. "Caitlin…" his growling thought caught her attention. "Caitlin… Angry… at Grodd? Why?"

Strengthening her mind and spirit like a sword being sharpened on a whetstone, she put on a serious expression and said. "Grodd… You almost killed my daughter."

The large meta-gorilla was confused. Back when he was under the care of S.T.A.R. Labs and under Caitlin's care, he didn't recall the mention of the caring doctor to have a child. "Caitlin… a daughter?"

"Yeah, I have a daughter, Grodd." Caitlin began. "Remember Venom? Demon? The girl you had him attack, was his daughter… and mine." Grodd's face paled with fear. "You know, I can't forgive you for that so easily."

Pointing his dead downwards, the ape said through his thoughts. "Grodd… is sorry, Caitlin."

"Like I said Grodd," she turned her back to the ape. "not easy to forgive."

Grodd looked saddened when hearing those words. He didn't expect the caring and kind doctor that once took care of him to change feelings and began to develop feelings of hate towards him.

Before he could continue the conversation with her, the sound of a door opening behind him. Grodd turned around and saw to his surprise…

… his father… Reverse Flash standing there…

"Hey, buddy." "Reverse Flash" greeted the gorilla. When he heard the gorilla growl at him, Harrison said. "Easy, buddy. It's me." His eyes briefly drifted to the surprised doctor who was unharmed. "I'm back."

"Father, you died." Grodd exclaimed in shock at the sight of his living and breathing father.

"Reverse Flash" shook his head. "No." He began walking. "No, buddy, I didn't die. I just went away for a while."

"Keep him talking, Harry. Liv and the others are en route." Matt replied to him through the comms.

He didn't reply to the nanite mutant, but instead he directed to the gorilla. "But now that I'm back," Wells pointed a finger at the female doctor. "we don't need Caitlin anymore, do we, buddy?" Caitlin didn't dare to speak. "So you can let her go." Harry faced Grodd again. "Come on, buddy."

Walking closer to the doctor till he stood only a few inches away from her, he continued. "Let me get her out of here." Turning a single eye on him. "Please."

Caitlin got a grateful expression on her face, thinking that this plan would work and she would be able to return home and spend some time with her loving daughter again. Practically hug her in a vice-grip like a beartrap.

But a swift glance to the gorilla's face told her that it was not meant to be. Grodd. through gritted teeth stated. "Father never ask. Father take!"

Hearing those words and seeing the confidence on Harry's face take a skydive, Caitlin stated urgently. "Run." Taking her advice, she ran away herself and tried to make a break for the exit.

But a high-pitched sound rang through her mind and echoed in her head as Grodd ordered her to stop. The gorilla then faced the man wearing the suit and the face of his father. "Who are you?!" He growled his words and swung his left arm for his head, hurling him into the air and into a table. His body collided against it and fell to the ground with a thud.

Cisco ran into the room quickly and saw Caitlin standing like a statue. Taking out a pair of earbuds, designed to prevent telepathic intrusion and mind-control, she put them in his friend's ears. The moment they found their place in her ear canals, she found herself out of Grodd's control. "Oh, Cisco, thank God." She expressed her gratitude. "Frankie's not here, right?"

"Trust me, she's waiting for you and we better get out of here before we're caught in the crossfire." He urgently grabbed her wrist and pulled on her.

"Crossfire?" Caitlin managed to get out before she was dragged out of the room.

"Wells, you gotta hold out for a while. Just hang on." Wells heard the paralyzed speedster tell him. He wasn't at S.T.A.R. Labs to see a flash of inspiration come over Barry's face. "Wells… an overdose of the drugs that Grodd stole will shock his brain. Okay, just hit him with as much as you can. Just for a while. Help is on the way."

Grodd walked closer to the table and growled in anger as he sent his thoughts to the man with his father's face. "You are not him! You are not Father!"

Hearing the growling thoughts enter his mind again, the man from the other world dejected the gorilla's thoughts. "I am father. And you hit… father. Grodd." Grodd faced another direction and Harry used this chance to grab hold of three syringes with the stolen drugs. While he rose himself to his full height, he demanded. "Look at me. Look at me!"

Finally, Grodd got a saddened expression while facing his father who stepped closer and closer to him. "I would never leave you here alone." He kept the three syringes behind his back. "Grodd, I made you a promise." Standing near the primate, he looked into his hurt eyes. "I have bigger plans for you. Remember? One day this city will be yours." Grodd calmed down. "I promised you. I intend to honor that promise."

The meta-gorilla seemed to believe that the Wells before him, believe with all of his heart that this man is indeed his father that he thought to have perished in a battle for his way back home.

But he received the cold-hard truth when the man before him slammed the needles of three syringes into his right hairy thigh. Grodd let out a pained howl as he felt the liquid contents within the three needles travel through his body.

Harry turned to the exit and saw both Cisco and Caitlin still standing there. "Go!" He tried to run but Grodd was swinging his arm for the man with his father's face.

Another howl of pain had to be forced out of his mouth when sharp metallic blades wrapped around his raised wrist. Feeling the blades dig into his skin, he felt his hand pulled backwards and forced his head to point to the back. His eyes widened at the sight.

"Remember me, Groddy?" Angel Fury said with another powerful pull of her razor-whip and had the Grodd staggering towards her. The primate growled as he was closing on her. "You don't touch anyone I care about and leave without a scratch, you stupid ape!"

Before Grodd could respond with either thoughts or growls, he felt a small foot slam into the side of his head followed by a blur of black and white. The kick was quickly followed by a pair of sharp claws grabbing hold of the top of his head. Next, a pair of feet slammed into his face and caused him to stagger backwards as Grodd noticed the absent feeling of the claws digging into his head.

Performing a spin in the air before she landed, Black Cat flicked her platinum blonde hair over her shoulder and looked at the gorilla through her red visor goggles. "I know I expected to find a gorilla here, since you guys said gorilla. But you never said anything about an ugly gorilla."

"What can I say?" Yanking her adamantium razor-whip back to her, she wrapped it around her right arm. "Thought you'd like the chance to see Grodd's hairy ass just once before making any assumptions."

The infamous thief smirked. "Trust me, he's worse than anything I imagined."

"Angel! Cat!" Grodd still staggered, but he managed to pound his chest like a true gorilla readying for battle. "Must die!"

"You're certainly welcome to try." The psychic said with her neck craning from side to side.

Cisco, Harry and Caitlin watched the large meta-gorilla growl before charging the two women with staggering movements.

Grodd raised an arm and brought it down like a sledgehammer. However, at its current speed as it came for the women, they were able to dodge it with easy and saw the fist cracking the wooden floor.

Angel Fury spun around in a jump and landed on her feet before shooting forward with an aura of psychic energy around her entire being. Her whip-armored fist reeled back before sent forward to slam into the gorilla's face. The impact pushed him back again.

With his back to her, Black Cat charged. She lashed out with both clawed hands and slashed the gorilla's back, causing him to roar in pain. His left arm came her way, swinging for her head. But using the out-stretched arm as a platform for her footing, she jumped backwards and stretched out her hands to the ceiling.

Both of her grappling hooks shot out and wrapped around the ceiling pillars above her head. The two hooks reeled in and pulled the infamous thief to the pillars. Landing on them with a flip, she lashed out both hands again, thrusting the hooks out once more.

Feeling himself disoriented from the drugs still affecting his body, Grodd tried to dodge the two hooks. But it was unnecessary because they passed by his form and hooked into something else. Despite the dizziness of the drugs continue to course through him, he managed to gain a smirk and looked at the thief. "Missed."

However, a similar smirk formed on Felicia's face. "Think again, monkey."

Skipping backwards, she dropped down from the ceiling and the grappling hooks followed her descending form. Pulling on a large empty chemical container, it was lashed forward and slammed into the back of Grodd's head and threw him forward to land on the ground.

The collision with the primate's head forced the hooks to get out of the container and retract back to her clawed hands. "You should really learn to look around, Grodd. You never know what might hit you from behind."

Grodd growled again, roaringly so. "Grodd… will… END YOU!" He screamed in her head, using his telepathy to dig into her head to infiltrate her mind and break her down from the insides.

But not a single thought that he projected to her mind, didn't make it through in the least. Like something was blocking his efforts. Blocking his very force even. "How?" Grodd demanded to know from the thief.

Felicia pursed her lips and feigned surprise with a hand placed in front of her mouth. "You can't seem to find your way into this old' thing?" she tapped the side of her head. "Well, I know a telepath. She's just a tad better than you. Oh yeah, and a bit pissed."

Grodd's eyes widened and swung his head around to face the psychic mutant. His eyes widened when seeing the psychic energetic aura around her body intensifying and circulating around her razor-whip armored arm. Angel Fury peered her white eyes into the animal's. "Miss me, Grodd?"

A single second passed after she said those words and the mutant launched herself like rocket to meet him. Standing even closer to him now, she thrusted out her arm. With the force of a meteor, she slammed her fist into the gorilla's stomach and hurled him into the wall. Pieces of the wall were sent flying and fell over Grodd's large form. His eyes slowly closing shut as he lost consciousness.

"He's out. Good." Olivia let out and unwrapped her whip from her arm and back to her hand again. "Time to finish him off." She reeled the whip back and about ready to crack it into the gorilla's head.

"Liv! Don't hurt him!"

She stopped and saw Caitlin with clear distress on her face. Both Felicia and Olivia looked shocked at her words, as did the two men beside the doctor.

"What? Why?" The infamous thief asked. "Caity, the gorilla tried to hurt you."

"I will tell you back at S.T.A.R. Labs, when I'm with my daughter. Please." Caitlin pleaded.

Even though she was wearing a mask, the infamous thief was able to see that the psychic was having conflicts within her mind. Sighing to herself, she turned to the mutant. "Livy, we got Caitlin back. We get her back to Frankie, then we can come back later and take out this gorilla. Rose's more important."

"Fine. Let's go." Olivia nodded and ran to the natives with Felicia behind her.

As they rushed through the exit, Caitlin looked at Grodd's downed form. Finding sorrow and hurt in her core at the sight of the meta-gorilla's state.

Cisco quickly rushed back and grabbed Caitlin's forearm. "Come on." He said urgently and dragged her once more.

X

(S.T.A.R. Labs)

"Mom!" Frankie rushed to her mother and hugged her tightly. Her aunt and mentor told her to continue the search for the gorilla's alternative hideouts, going to the other tall vantage towers in the city while the other women fought against the gorilla himself.

She didn't like it but had to do what she was told. But she then heard that her mother had returned, she put in extra effort to swing back to the facility. When she jumped through the skylight, she saw her mother applying bandage to the otherworldly scientist who was damaged from the plan.

"Hey baby." Caitlin spoke caringly with her arms wrapped around her daughter's form. "Sorry, I worried you like that, sweetie." Bending down, she pressed her lips on top of Frankie's head and kissed her.

Frankie's smile widened and looked over to Harry on the gurney. "Thanks for bringing her back."

Caitlin chuckled and face him as well. "Thank you for rescuing me." She then faced Cisco and the two women from Earth-616. "You two as well. Thank you, both."

Felicia gave a mock bow. "What can I say? I couldn't stand to see Rose sad."

"She's right. Promised to find her mother, and so we did." Harry admitted and got their attention. "We're a team, right?"

Barry smiled and said. "I'm impressed. I think we all are."

"Without a doubt." Matt agreed and saw his wife have narrowed eyes on Caitlin.

"Yeah, well, we need to do something about Grodd." Joe stated.

"Like what?" Caitlin asked suspiciously.

Olivia crossed her arms and said. "Think he means getting rid of that psychopathic monkey once and for all."

"You mean kill him?" Caitlin clarified.

"Considering how many people's killed, yeah." Joe confirmed and pointed at the psychic. "Liv, didn't you have the chance to get that ape to drop his shoes?"

"Yeah, I did. Caity here stopped me from having a big-ass monkey coat that I could use as bonfire material." Olivia answered with a gesture to the doctor.

"This isn't Grodd's fault." Caitlin surprisingly said in defense of the meta-primate. "He's only like this because Wells made him this way."

"Caity, what are you talking about?" Felicia asked. "Sure he had a crazy childhood, but the guy kidnapped you."

Matt nodded his agreement. "Cat's right. You could have died, Caitlin."

"I know." Caitlin said and patted her daughter's hair, comfortingly running her fingers through her hair and along the pink streaks in Frankie's hair. "But you didn't see what I saw. Grodd's getting smarter. He's lonely and sad. He wants mores apes like him."

"What are you saying? He wants kids?" Cisco asked, Caitlin giving an unsure look while he quipped. "'Cause I'm pretty sure one telepathic Grape Ape is more than enough for this city."

"Yeah, Central City isn't exactly ready for Zootopia: Psycho Ape Special." Matt quipped.

From within her young host, Magenta raised an eyebrow. "What the hell is with those two and these strange comparisons? They're really stupid."

Olivia chuckled and thought. "You and me both, sister." She projected her thoughts into the young magnekinetic's mind. Hearing the squeal of shock from within, the psychic added with a smirk. "Oh yeah, still here. Creeping in everyone's noggin without care."

"Oh boy." The symbiote said with a scare.

Harry put on a shirt and stated at the same time. "I know somewhere we could send him."

Iris narrowed her eyes. "What are you talking about? Where?"

Pushing his arms through his sleeves, Harry explained. "When the Singularity exploded and I discovered the breach in S.T.A.R. Labs, I ran similar tests and discovered the same thing," he walked into the Cortex. "51 additional breaches."

"Breaches, like those wormholes on our universe after the portal exploded?" Felicia directed to the nanite mutant.

"Yeah. Just less "sucking everything into them like a vacuum."" Matt answered.

"Sounds fun." Felicia chuckled.

Harry walked over to the main console, "The difference being the breaches in Central City are scattered all throughout the city whereas counterparts in my world most definitely are not." As he spoke, he put the breaches' locations on the monitors around them.

Frankie tilted her head. "And you know where they lead?"

The otherworldly scientist faced her with a smirk. "Well, I was in the process of figuring all that out when your mother so gallantly convinced me to stay," Frankie giggled and her mother smile. "but if I am correct, this breach is gonna get Grodd" On another monitor, a specific breach was shown. "as close to home as he's likely to get."

"Okay, even if you're right," Joe began. "how do we bait Grodd to go through it?"

"We shoot that bastard through the breach." Matt suggested.

"Not a good idea." Joe stated. He knew that Matt's weapons tend to leave one hell of a mess where he flies. And he was tired of writing reports for Captain Singh on how much property has been destroyed by Iron Knight.

Henry faced his speedster son. "My son'll do it." All of them watched the former inmate of Iron Heights gain a fatherly proud smile. "Won't you, Flash?"

"So how are we gonna do this now?" Felicia asked with her right hand putting her goggles back over her eyes.

The psychic turned to the doctor. "Caity? You wanna jump into the fire again?"

"Yeah, I will." Caitlin looked down to her daughter's face. "And I am gonna come back again. Promise."

"I'll be there too, Mom." Frankie assured her mother with a smile.

X

After a while, they had got their plan ready and ready to execute it.

"So the plan is to get Caitlin to call out to Grodd, and then Flash, Magenta and Black Cat are gonna lure Grodd back here?" Olivia had to be sure she understood the plan as she watched Matt and Harry paint a circle around the breach's pinpointed location.

"Yeah. And then we're gonna have Cisco blast him with the Speed Cannon and send Grodd's hairy ass straight to Earth-2." Matt stepped slowly as he formed the circle. "Wonder what Seth would do if he found out Grodd was on Earth-2 like him."

Olivia chuckled. "Probably go bonkers and scour through the entire planet to find that bastard ape and roast him on a spike."

"Sounds like Seth alright." Matt chuckled. "He's raising gell on another Earth and we're here, waiting and hoping he's gonna come back here. I hate it."

"You know I can hear your thoughts still. I know what you're really thinking, Matt." She walked over to him and crouched down beside him. "You hate that we have to wait for him."

"Oh yeah." He didn't want to continue this conversation, his wife hearing those thoughts, while he faced Cisco. "How's it looking for our speedster and our girls?"

"Oh, I'm your girl now, huh Knight? Careful, your wife might get jealous." Felicia quipped loudly with a teasing voice while the sound of her running reached their earpieces.

"Not what I meant, Cat!" Matt shot to his feet with his correcting words.

"Please don't give me nightmares!" Came the response from Magenta.

"Yeah, don't wanna see Magenta get nightmares here, guys." Barry admitted through the rushing of wind slamming against his speeding body. "Cisco, almost there. Are you ready?"

"I'm in position." The native engineer answered.

Harry painted the last bit of the circle and said. "Now, once you turn on the Speed Cannon, the quark matter will stabilize, stretching the breach about so big, so anywhere in this circle will suffice." He finalized before he and Cisco walked to the stabilizer rings behind them.

"And worse comes to worse, me and Livia will take of things." Matt put his Arc Reactor on his chest and the nanites swarmed out of it and formed his Iron Knight suit.

"Either blast his ass through the breach or just blast a hole through his guts." Olivia's suit formed as well. Forming the armor of Angel Fury over her body. Seeing that a bright light of yellow lightning emitting from the bridges over their heads as well as two forms flying with hooks attached to buildings, the psychic said. "Right on time." Both she and her husband jumped into the air and hovered in the air.

X

WHOOSH

Barry sped into the area and his acceleration decreased greatly, stopping himself and looked around in search. As he noticed that the two girls had decided to stay hidden for this, he also noticed. "Okay, come on. I don't have eyes on Grodd. Does anyone see him?"

None of the people near him had to answer. The sound of enraged animalistic growling emitted from above their heads.

Swinging his head to the direction of the sound, he saw the large primate grab onto the railing of the bridge and swung his body downwards. With the force of his swinging body and the velocity of from his descent, he aimed for the Scarlet Speedster.

However… Barry did not feel like becoming the gorilla's doorstep.

WHOOSH

He sped away and dodged the attack. But the gorilla faced him and stepped closer to him with menacing steps. "Where is Caitlin?" he demanded to know of the speedster. Grodd found some interesting thoughts inside of his head and infiltrated the metahuman's mind.

Barry felt the familiar psychic attack and felt it bring out horrible memories again. His eyes were clenched but were riddled with the images and sensations of his fight with Zoom again. Every crack of his bones returned tenfold. Every menacing glare hitting his mind like a freight truck. Every painful moment from that fight hitting him like an endless meteor shower at point-blank.

With the Flash still disoriented from his psychic assault, Grodd lashed out his arm and swung his fist into the speedster's form and hurled him into the air. He rushed forward to get him again.

But a blue repulsor blast from behind him shot right in front of his feet. Grodd swung his head back to them and his eyes narrowed as he hissed at the hovering forms of Angel Fury and Iron Knight. "You two!"

"What? You expecting Santa Claus? He's not here to give you presents, Grodd." Angel Fury quipped with her clawed hands flexing enticingly at a rematch with the ape.

"We're his replacements, monkey." Iron Knight raised his hands, both palms shining with repulsor energy. "And you just got yourself on the naughty list."

Grodd roared in anger and charged for them both. The two mutants shot to the sides when seeing the gorilla jump into the air after them. Grabbing onto the pillar on the right, he climbed up on it and leaped off again, dodging a pair of repulsor blasts again.

Seeing the gorilla intertwine his hands and forming a hammer with them from above, Matt placed both hands together and formed a large rectangular shield. Grodd brought both hands down on his shield and the force sent him flying down to the ground. the earth cracking from the impact. The ground cracked more when the primate landed on top of him.

Tearing his arms from each other, he lashed them upwards and formed elongated repulsor cannons, aiming them at Grodd's face, he fired repulsor blasts into his face. The combined blast of two repulsor blasts pushed him away from his body.

The thrusters on his feet flared, pushing the nanite mutant off the ground and flipping him back to his full height again. He looked up, and through his visor, he saw the gorilla hitting his chest like it was a drum as he is readying for a battle with the mutants. "Come here, you fucking ape!"

Grodd charged again and swung his hand for the nanite mutant again. His right hand lashed out, forming a circular shield with the nanites coming out of his gauntlet. Blocking the attack with his shield on his right hand, he reeled back his left hand. Nanites swarmed over it and formed a semi-circular blade charged with repulsor energy.

He swung it upwards, once again aiming for the gorilla's head. But Grodd reeled his head backwards, dodging the attack and grabbed Matt's forearm. With a roar, he swung the mutant around before letting go, throwing him in the direction of the pillar.

Forming wing stabilizers on his back with more nanites, he stopped himself from flying into the pillar and formed ion cannons again. "Son of a bitch!" He exclaimed his insults and unleashed an array of repulsor blasts after the gorilla.

But Grodd jumped onto the pillar again and used its form as a platform to jump off. The gorilla leaped off the underside of the bridge again, attacking the mutant from again with a clenched fist. This time, however, Iron Knight increased the power of his thrusters, shooting him out of the way and avoiding the attack.

Landing on the ground, Grodd peered at the flying knight. "Knight!"

"Don't forget my angel." Matt said with a smirk behind his mask.

"He means me!"

Grodd felt his throat tighten, and it wasn't because of his choices.

No. No. It was because of the feeling of cold steel wrapping around his throat from behind, tightening around his air canal with an energetic aura around its long form. Managing to turn his head, he saw Angel Fury with her hand around the handle of her razor-whip.

"Wanna dance, Groddy!" she lashed out her free hand, sending out a psychic blast that hit his back. Roaring in pain, the gorilla lashed out with arms to the sides and his entire front was exposed.

Iron Knight saw the same and shot forward with both hands forming small repulsor blades. The stabilizers on his back blazed with energy and he crossed them over his front when meeting the gorilla's front.

However, before he could even connect with his blades, Grodd slammed both clenched hands into both sides of his helmet. Matt screamed in pain and the primate used that moment to grab his entire head with both hands.

"Matt!" Olivia screamed when seeing the gorilla swing her husband around before releasing him and throwing him in her direction. Releasing her whip from Grodd's throat, she encased her entire being with psychic energy and braced herself for the moment when Iron Knight's body connected with her body, landing in her arms.

"You okay?" The psychic asked him in concern.

"Been better. And might have a concussion right-"

SMASH

The nanite mutant was unable to finish his words as the meta-gorilla charged into them with his shoulder like battering ram. His crashing ram into them, sent both mutants flying off the ground and into the ground, rolling on the earth before they were separated from each other.

Olivia rolled onto her back and looked up. She couldn't speak when Grodd returned to her field of vision and slammed his foot into the center of her stomach, pushing her down and pinning to the ground.

Matt rolled onto his stomach and looked at Grodd, pinning his wife down on the ground with his foot. "Angel!"

Leaning his head down closer to the other psychic, Grodd roared into her mind. "Where is Caitlin, Angel?!"

"Sorry to tell you, Groddy. But she's taken. And you're not exactly worth her while, you know." Olivia quipped despite the pain of the foot on her stomach. Giving the animal cold eyes through her mask, she continued. "And you won't hurt her, cause when Venom comes back, and he will… he will make you beg for death, you fucking stupid ape."

"Demon's dead!" Grodd stated.

"Guess again. He's coming back." Olivia clarified. "Wait till he sees you again, just an overstuffed pinata. He'll be whacking you even when you're guts and pieces and blood, Grodd."

"Where is Caitlin?!" he roared again.

"Right here." Caitlin called, gaining Grodd's, Matt's and Olivia's attention.

"Caity, get out of here!" Olivia screamed; further words were halted when the meta-primate added more pressure on her core.

Seeing her state, Caitlin demanded. "You need to let her go, Grodd."

"Flash is my enemy. Knight is my enemy. Angel is my enemy." Grodd growled. "Now, you too."

"No." Caitlin assured him, stepping forward with her hands held down. "They were trying to save me from you. We didn't understand what you wanted, and they thought you were gonna hurt me just like you tried to hurt my daughter, but now we understand." She stopped and saw that Frankie and Felicia were above her heads. "I can give you what you want. I can give you a home. You just have to trust me."

Somehow, the doctor's words managed to go through the gorilla's barriers, and he got a softened expression. He removed his foot from the downed psychic's stomach and walked in the direction of the doctor.

Using his thrusters, he flew over to his wife and landed beside her. Placing his hand on the back of her head and around her waist, he held Olivia up. "You okay, Livia?"

Olivia chuckled. "Really thought I had gone over the entire "damsel in distress" thing."

"Even heroes need heroes sometimes, right?" Matt quipped and ran an armored hand through her floating crimson-red hair.

"And right now," she and Matt faced the direction of Caitlin and Grodd. "Caitlin's my hero."

"Ready to flip the switch?" Matt asked Harry and Cisco when seeing Grodd stepping past the white circle and stood within it.

"Yeah." Came the response from Cisco.

Using his HUD screen to construct a quick 3D imagery of the current situation, he saw that the primate was standing right before Caitlin now. Establishing a connection with the speedster's comms, he stated. "Now, Barry!"

The moment the nanite mutant let out those words, Harry and Cisco activated the Speed Cannon. The ring unleashing a swirling mass that shot out towards the large primate like a spinning mass of a whirlpool shooting out. In response to the activation of the Speed Cannon… the breached opened up behind Grodd.

WHOOSH

Barry heard the knight's cry and rushed into the targeted circle, picking Caitlin up and away from the swirling mass of energy. At the same time, Grodd felt himself being pulled from behind by the pull of the breach. But the gorilla wasn't fully pulled through the breach yet. He was merely feeling the pull of it.

Matt and Olivia landed beside the speedster and doctor. Pressing the side of his helmet, the mutant sneered. "Cisco, full power!"

"It is." Cisco answered with a fearful voice.

"Matty, you might wanna add some kind of overload function to Cisco's toys." His wife said.

"Jarvis, put that on my agenda for tomorrow." Matt said to the AI.

Much to their dismay, they saw Grodd fighting against the pull and walking forward. Despite having been raised by a genius of a time that have not yet to be formed, he was still an animal in his core. And right now… that very animalistic strength and ferocity was brimming right now, his will putting everything into the escape from the breach's pull.

They weren't the only ones to see that.

"Barry," they heard Henry speak through the comms. "you can't let Grodd get free. Conquer your fears, son. Believe in yourself."

"He's right, Barry." Matt added. "You can't let yourself be dictated by your fears anymore. They're walls. Others climb them, but you can run up them." He made eye contact with him after opening up his helmet. "We forgive you for what we thought happened to Seth. I forgive and so does everyone of my family."

"He's right." Olivia pitched in. "Seth's alive and he's gonna come back. We forgive you Barry Allen."

"Time for you to forgive yourself, Flash!" Magenta shouted.

They were right… now wasn't the time to be burdened by the crimes he's been forgiven for now.

Now was… the time to run…

WHOOSH

He ran away in a bolt of yellow lightning.

"Does that guy know anything else than running away from a fight?" Felicia asked the two mutants.

Matt chuckled. "It's what he does best, Cat."

WHOOSH

In a flash, he returned with a veil of air around him as he launched himself from the ground with a leap. With his hand stretched out front with a clenched fist. He slammed it into the gorilla's torso, the supersonic punch was unleashed and was what was needed to send Grodd into the eye of the breach, capturing him in an invisible hold.

"Come on, come on, come on." Barry chanted hopefully.

He and the others saw Grodd's form pulled deeper within the breach. Deeper and deeper… til his entire being was swallowed up by the gateway to Earth-2.

"Yes!" Olivia jumped up and down in excitement before she embraced her husband in a bear hug. "We finally got rid of that fucking ape!"

"Hell yeah, we did!" Matt wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her closer for his lips to connect with hers.

Frankie landed down with Felicia. One taking off her goggles and the other one's mask slithered off. The metahuman stated to her uncle and aunt. "Come on, really? Now?"

"Get a room, you two. There's kids here." Felicia gestured to her disciple.

Caitlin walked to her daughter. "Close your eyes, sweetie." She said in mock disgust as she embraced her child in a motherly hug.

"Haha, funny, Caity." Olivia said after disengaging with her husband. "Thanks for saving me back there."

"You're welcome."

Cisco rushed over to them and saw that all of them were unharmed, more or less. He did notice Matt holding his head with one hand. Smiling, despite that, he turned to the speedster. "Welcome back, Flash."

Smiling himself, The Flash held out his hand and shook hands with Cisco. "Thanks, bro."

Thanks to the aid of the two mutants, their niece and their infamous friend of a thief, a mad gorilla… The Flash had returned once more to the battlefield.

X

(S.T.A.R. Labs)

All of them had complex feelings about watching the mannequin before them. Despite all the harm its previous wearer had done to this team, not to mention the entire city itself, the Reverse Flash suit itself have now proven itself to be useful for the sake of the team.

To say that they were surprised… would be an understatement.

All of them watched the suit. The only ones not there are Felicia Hardy and Matt Stark.

Caitlin continued watching the suit with her hands on her hips and said. "I can't believe something good finally came from that suit."

Frankie tilted her head to the side, placing it on the side of her mother's waist. "Yeah. A surprise that Thawne's suit would actually be useful."

Barry agreed with Seth's daughter. "First and the last time."

"Can't believe that we're just watching this thing right now." Olivia admitted. "All the things this suit has brought us, it's just a nasty reminder." She noticed that her husband was nowhere to be found and looked suspiciously around them.

"You're right." Cisco frowned in disgust. "That thing still gives me the creeps. We should destroy it."

Mentally agreeing with the engineer, Barry held Thawne's Reverse Flash Ring. "Let's do that, but see if you can figure out how to get it back in this ring first." He threw the ring to Cisco. "Might be nice to have something like that instead of carrying around a bag all the time."

As he fiddled around with a pen in his hands, Harry stated. "I can help with that." Everyone watching him like he's crazy. "What? I know a thing or two about micro-technology."

Frankie put a hand over her mouth. Fake coughing, she let out. "Show off."

Caitlin pinched her daughter's cheek. "Little troublemaker." She playfully said.

Cisco chuckled. "Yeah, you know a thing or two about a lot of things."

Henry smiled and walked to him. "Well, as long as what he knows keeps my son and these good people safe, the more you know, the better." He stood before the man and held out his hand. "Pleasure to meet you, Harrison. Again."

Harry grabbed his hand and shook Barry's father's hand. "Dr. Allen."

Henry smiled and turned to face Caitlin. "Good to see you and your daughter too." Both of them waved their hands. "Seth would have been proud of you both." Now they both smiled happily at his words. Facing Olivia, he said. "You too, Olivia." The psychic winked at the elder doctor who turned to Cisco. "Cisco." The engineer nodded his head in acceptance.

"Let's go." Barry told his father before they both moved to the exit.

Caitlin smiled and then walked over to Harrison. "So, Dr. Wells, this place on your Earth that we've sent Grodd, what is it exactly?"

Harry held up his finger as he walked to the computer. "It's a refuge where gorillas subjected to lab experiments, like Grodd, can roam freely." They saw him show a map, that was revealing the location of a tropical rainforest.

Seeing the face on her mother's face, Frankie asked. "What's wrong, Mom? We just gave Grodd an easy way out and a home on top of that. It's not a bad deal."

"I know it's for the best sweetie," Caitlin began. "but I still feel like I betrayed him."

Hearing her words, Cisco comfortably said. "No, don't say that. You didn't betray him. Instead of having two friendly, and at-times-not-so-friendly, mutants make him look like an animal meeting a guillotine," Olivia raised an eyebrow. "you gave him a better life."

"What's this about us "not being friendly at times", Cisco?" Olivia coldly asked with her hands cracking loudly for empathizing her words. Cisco shivered and wanted to run away, inwardly hoping a lightning bolt would hit him and give him superspeed to escape her wrath. Having just his thoughts, she said with projected thoughts. "Try to run, and I will hunt you like a bloodhound, pal."

This time all colors left him...

Frankie faced Harry with a query coming his way. "I still don't understand, though…" she had trouble forming the question properly. "Why do the breaches on our Earth lead to different places on yours?"

"I don't know yet, Fury," he took out the flash drive from the imports. "but I do know we have to close them all, after we figured out how to get your father back, and I don't know how to do either of those." Frankie looked hopeful.

"You don't have to it alone anymore. Any of it." Caitlin assured him. "Together, we defeated Grodd, and if we stay that way, we fill figure out how to close the breaches, get Zoom, get you your daughter back and get Seth back here in one piece."

"Thank you." Harry smiled.

"Honestly, I am more worried about Earth-2's condition after Seth's done there." Olivia faced Harry. "He might leave it worse for wear, you know."

"Sounds like a walking disaster, that Seth guy." Harrison admitted.

"That's one word our Dad have repeatedly used before when describing Seth." Olivia confessed.

Looking around in search, Frankie asked out loud. "Where's Uncle Matt? He went away the same time Felicia went home to change clothes."

"I know where he is." Olivia said and walked to the exit with a sigh. "If you guys hear something that sounds like a building falling apart, then it's probably me beating some sense into my husband." She finished off.

"Wait, Liv!" Caitlin managed to stop the psychic from walking onwards. "Wanna meet up later at JC's bar? Just for a drink. Felicia's coming too."

Olivia smiled. "A girl's night out, is exactly what the doctor orders. Sure thing. Meeting at JC's bar, right?" Caitlin nodded. "Cool. See you there then."

X

(S.T.A.R. Labs, The Breach Room)

Standing before the large swirling breach with crossed armored arms over his armored chest and green eyes uncovered. Each eyeball showing a determination unlike anything that's he's ever shown before. At least on this Earth.

When he was still a young child and was kidnapped by the human army of his world, he showed a similar wrathful flame in his eyes. Whenever a pair of guards would walk through the doors of his cell back at that hellhole, he would always glare daggers at them and still struggle in their grasps when he would be brought to a new section.

Despite the times he felt the cold steel of a operation table touch the front of his body when he was placed on it, despite the times he could feel scalpels of various sizes cut lines on his body before pulling flesh away to reveal his skeletal structure… despite the times he would feel his own bones being punctured by inhumanely big injection needles… injecting boiling warm and melted adamantium into his skeleton…

He had to grit his teeth and bite his tongue during those horrific… "treatments" as the doctors said… but he still showed that defiance no matter what. But when those scientists called… called him by that name that wasn't his…his wrath took on the form of rising inferno and he wanted to tear them all just for calling him by that name.

Matt hated that name above all else in this entire world… it wasn't his… it was only the name that the scientists called him. Stryker didn't. Merely to give the mutant and the two others a false sense of humanity in a place of hell.

But Matt's determination was unlike anything… it had to be. He had to have that to survive a place like that. Because he was waiting for the chance to use his very new and experimented powers to break out of whatever hold the facility had on him and kill every single person in front of him. That was the will of the nanite mutant back then. And it was only intensified now.

Matt was rescued by Seth, his best friend, and that was only one of the countless times. It wasn't even the beginning of the times. Because of him, the nanite mutant was once again able to see his best friend and the girl he loves. Because of him, he was able to enroll at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters after his powers manifested and after his parents committed suicide. Because of him, he was given a better life that lead to him training at SHIELD Academy before officially becoming a weapons expert and engineer of their organization. Thanks to him, he was married to the woman of his dreams… on the grounds of another Earth.

Thanks to Seth Fury… Matt Stark was able to become Iron Knight. Son of Tony Stark, Iron Man. Agent of SHIELD.

Uncrossing his arms, the nanite mutant breathed in sharply and said. "Time to save that parasitic bastard." His helmet materialized quickly, and he walked closer to the breach while wings formed on his back. "Let's go." His thrusters flared and he shot up from the ground and flew towards the breach.

"Oh no, you don't!"

His flight into the breach was halted by pink psychic energy forming a large wall in front of him. The nanite mutant was too late to counter it and he collided into it. His form bouncing off it and slamming down on the floor with his suit emitting loud clangs.

Facing back to the breach, he saw a brightly shining wall of pink energy blocking his path to the breach. "Come on." He faced the platform and saw his wife walking down the stairs till she stood on the same floor as her husband's downed form. "Livia, what's the big deal?"

A vein popped above her shining right eye. "That's my line, Matty!" She exclaimed. "You know, I was just agreeing for a girl's night out with Caitlin up there and then I found out my husband's trying to jump into another universe to find my big brother. Both of you guys, really know how to be a pain in my ass."

Matt gathered energy in his repulsors with clenching hands. "Don't stop me, Livia. I'm going to Earth-2 to get Seth back."

Olivia smirked daringly. "I could stop you pretty well on my own, Matt. The only way for you to actually stop me… is if you stop holding back."

The nanite mutant unclenched his fists, the energy dissipating and returning to their original course in his armor. "You know I would never do that."

"I know that, which is a bitch." Olivia annoyedly stated. "What's on your mind? I won't read your mind now; I want the answer to come out of your mouth."

"Shrink 101: Get the patient to own up to their own problems without having the psychologist set them on the path, right?" He deduced out loud with a chuckle. "Dad used to call it that when I told him about your profession back when we were still training at SHIELD Academy." When he didn't hear the absence of laughter from his wife, the nanite mutant faced the giant breach once more. He felt his wife's blue eyes peering into his back and looking into his heart, only intensifying the weight on his.

Sighing once, he spoke. "No matter how much I wish for it, even if I have trained for it my whole life I still have to be saved by Seth. I can't save him once. Even when he was mind-controlled by Grodd, I couldn't do shit." Matt finally turned back to his wife. "All my life, I've been protected by Seth and I can't protect him myself. Heck, the only reason I'm standing here and able to call myself Iron Knight is because of your brother, Livia."

"Because he saved us from Stryker's facility." She walked to his side. "I can still remember the times those scientists called us… those names." Olivia felt like she was swallowing poison when saying those words. The memory of that hideous name still grinding her heart and mind till it was turning into dust.

"And Seth saved us from that." Matt looked to her. "How am I supposed to protect you, Olivia? I'm a knight, I wanna be your knight. One who would take up arms for battles to come to protect you. You don't need my help every time, but I want to be that guy."

"You are that guy, Matty." Olivia stroked the back of his head calmly. "I don't know what to say to make you realize that right now, but you really think that you're like that?" He didn't do anything. Neither a nod nor a shake of his head being made, which was everything the psychic needed for confirmation. "Thought so. In that case, there's only one thing to do then."

"And what's that? Cause the only thing I can see right now that's gonna work is rushing into that thing," he pointed at the breach. "and drag Seth back home again."

"Good Plan B." Olivia joked. "But here's my idea. Get stronger and protect his family, his girlfriend and his daughter so they're safe when he comes back to them." She spoke seriously while revealing her inhibitor to her husband. "With this thing around my neck for so many months, my telepathy is still resetting in my brain so I'm not at full strength, yet." She clutched it tightly. "We get stronger. Angel and knight together till the end. Tomorrow we begin retraining ourselves. Get stronger."

"Together?" he asked her with a single word.

Olivia intertwined her fingers with her husband's armored ones. "Together. But that means your armored ass's gotta stay here and protect this universe. Promise me that."

He turned around and his suit dematerialized, till he stood before his wife. Cupping her face with both hands, he stated. "I swear, I'm gonna stay here with you and protect this world… as your knight." He leant down and kissed her lips. Both of them closing their eyes and enjoying the kiss between them, the moment between husband and wife.

Disengaging from him, Olivia clapped her husband's armored torso and said. "Now that that's settled, I have a girl's night to enjoy." She turned around, walking up to the platform to reach the exit.

"Enjoy yourself, babe!" Matt exclaimed. With his wife passing through the exit, he faced the breach again. "Get back Seth. We need you."

X

"Pardon me? Did a frigging talking gorilla of all things in Central City kidnap Caitlin?" JC asked out loud in disbelief from what she heard from the thief and psychic from Earth-616. "Are you serious?!" The bartender didn't have to worry about costumers hearing voice as only she, Caitlin, Olivia and Felicia are present.

"Yeah, it's official." Felicia poured whiskey into her tumbler. As she rose it before her lips, she continued. "Caity here attracts all the crazies in town. The wrong type of crazy apparently."

"Hey!" Caitlin slapped the thief's leg in mock offense.

"Yeah, no kidding." Joan Celia stated in agreement and sipped on her drink. "No offense to your brother, Liv."

"None taken. I've called him something far worse than that. Even to his face." Olivia admitted with a smile. She looked to Caitlin. "Really glad to see you back with us, Caity."

"So am I." The doctor replied with a smile. "When Grodd captured me, all I was thinking about was Frankie. How she must have felt when I wasn't there with her. I was scared beyond anything I've ever felt before. I'm really glad to be back here again. With Frankie and you guys."

"So are we." JC nodded in agreement with a smile.

"Yeah, and thanks for saving my ass before there, Caity." Olivia expressed her gratitude. "Seth said you always had a hero inside of you. Back there, under the bridge and with us, you proved it to us all. You showed us your inner hero."

"Rose got to be a proud little daughter right about now." Felicia chucklingly said. Her chuckling increased when seeing the doctor smile with a blush. "Olivia you got to be proud of your little niece, too?"

"More than I could have possibly thought." Olivia got a serious expression and looked to the thief. "You're still training Frankie right? As her mentor." Felicia got a serious look too and nodded her confirmation. "Think you can add one or two more on that list."

Those words caused the infamous thief to cough on her drink. And Caitlin and Joan had eyes shooting out of their sockets when registering the psychic's words. Felicia put down her drink, wiping away the spilled alcohol from the corner of her mouth before confirming. "You want to train with me and Frankie? Why?"

"I need to get stronger. I had my inhibitor on for months, remember? I need to make up for all that time." Olivia revealed. "And if that makes getting training under your wings, I guess." She faced Caitlin. "I managed to punch Grodd, knock him out cold. There was a time, I could maybe punch a hole in his stomach. But my powers been weakened from the inhibitor's effects."

"You want to grow strong enough that you don't have to feel weak again." Joan deduced.

"Yeah, specifically so I don't find myself staring upwards and into an incredibly ugly gorilla's face again." Olivia quipped and the girls laughed at her pain. "But also for my family that's gonna need me." She looked upwards, giving the others the impression that she's peering into the ceiling for some reason. "Also for that jackass."

"Seth's gonna come back and find you to be much stronger than you ever were, Liv." Caitlin cupped her hand. "I know that."

"Thank you, Caity." Olivia smiled. "And I will be stronger. Me, Matt and Frankie will all get stronger. So when Seth gets back here, he's gonna have a few more rivals."

"That reminds me." JC got their attention. "Liv, you told me about this thing Cisco does, vibing. And in his latest and greatest, he found about Seth and saw him using some big and crazy-looking sword right? How does one guy, mutant or not, a stranger in a world that looks similar to this one, find a sword like that?"

"No idea. Strange thing, I never heard of a sword having a crystal-like blade." Caitlin admitted.

"It's a different world, one that's gonna have its fair share of problems with Seth running around there." Olivia confessed.

Chances of that world not having problems with Seth Fury in it is… not even a chance, it's a guarantee signed on a contract with blood-written words.

X

(CC Jitters)

With a sigh escaping her mouth, Kendra Saunders was finally done with all her final tasks at the coffee shop. She was ready to return home from a busy day at the office. Grabbing the shop keys and her jacket from behind the counter, she made her way to the exit.

Only to stop in surprise at the sight of who was on the other side of the entrance door.

Standing on that side of the door, was none other than Cisco Ramon. Wearing a goofy but apologetic expression on his face and his arms raised high up with his hands holding the sides of a basket above his head. A smile spread widely over his mouth when seeing Kendra's eyes on him from within the coffee shop.

She opened the door for him, Cisco bringing his hands down to his sides and he greeted. "Hi."

"Hi." Kendra greeted back and stepped to the side, allowing the man to walk inside.

"I didn't know if you liked flowers or chocolate, so…" Cisco put the basket on a nearby table and looked to her. "I got you both."

Kendra looked downwards. "Well, I'm allergic to chocolate, and I think that flowers are a waste of money." As she spoke through her words, a huff had come out of her mouth.

"Um…" He didn't know what to say and felt like a senseless idiot at this moment. "I have lollipops in my car?" he unsurely and sheepishly offered, hoping to the high heavens that those suckers would pave the way back into Kendra's good graces.

The Jitters barista could no longer keep herself from laughing, letting out the expression of amusement to the world. "Cisco, I'm joking." She assured the man with a wide smile.

"Oh, God." Cisco breathed out in relief.

With fingers outstretched from shock on her hands, she walked closer to the basket. "This is great. Thank you."

Wearing a saddened expression, he explained to the barista. "Listen, I wanted to come over here and say I'm sorry… for bailing the other night." Kendra looked at him with shock. "I… I'm a liaison with the CCPD and there was an emergency, and I had to be there."

"The CCPD?" Kendra asked.

Cisco answered. "Yeah."

"Wow, that's really cool. And very brave." Kendra confessed.

"Thank you." Cisco expressed.

Pointing at the basket, Kendra added. "And this is very, very sweet, Cisco." She put her jacket on the chair near the table and noticed something in the basket. Pulling it out of the woven container, she directed at the CCPD liaison while holding the small metallic device that she found. "Um, what is this?"

"Well, see, that right there." Cisco pointed at the device and Kendra hummed agreeingly. "That's a digital movie projector. I've loaded all of "Princess Bride" on there." The barista giggled. "Mm-hmm, that's right. So, all we need," he spun around on his feet and gestured to their surroundings. "or, you know, some place where we can pick up our date where we left off."

Gaining a mock coy expression, she walked to him. "Well, if we're gonna pick up right where we left it…" Kendra put her hand on his forearm and leant closer to his lips, placing a kiss on them.

Once again, a vibe came over him.

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Once again, the figure in golden brown feathery armor with large feathery brown wings appeared.

Spinning around to reveal a helmet on her head, the sides of it accompanied with sharp feather-like edges. Her body was clad in a tight brown suit and her shoulders were clad in feather patterned shoulder pads.

For some reason, the vibe appeared to direct itself to the armored winged woman's lips. Cisco found them to be familiar somehow. Her eyes too… appeared to be familiar to the vibing metahuman too.

As welcoming and worth exploring as It was, the vibe ended in a series of flashing lights.

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Her lips dislodged from his and he opened his eyes again, finding that he was staring into Kendra Saunders's eyes. Shock and disbelief still fused into his cells and making him let out. "Whoa."

Kendra got a worried expression. "Whoa what? What's wrong?"

Cisco didn't say anything for a few moments, the feeling of shock and disbelief blowing away like the flame of a candle weakening from a small and weak breeze. "Nothing." He said, fully purged from whatever was left behind by the vibe vision. "You're just a really amazing kisser."

Giggling at his words, Kendra said. "Okay." She took the jacket. "Let's go watch "Princess Bride."" She said slowly and walked backwards.

"Let's." Cisco agreed wholeheartedly while taking the basket by the handle.

"There's a great wall up on the roof." Kendra pointed upwards.

Cisco was butting his clenched fist with shock on his face as he walked after the barista to the rooftop. This date was officially…

RESCUED!

To be continued…

And that's a chapter, peeps!

As Barry was still dealing with wounds and damage left by Zoom's claws, trouble kept brewing

Grodd had returned and kidnapped Caitlin, on a quest to make more apes of himself, to not be alone anymore. But that plan was foiled by Team Flash and Black Cat. And strangely enough, the psycho gorilla's return was the Scarlet Speedster needed to get back on his feet again.

Barry thought that he had lost Matt and Olivia's friendship forever as he was thought to be responsible for the death of Seth Fury. But as the revelation of him still alive have reached them, the two mutants and their young niece have decided to lay off their hate on the speedster and finally forgive him.

And now Harry decided to put his faith in Caitlin who believes with all of her heart that Seth will do anything in his power to protect Jesse as he roams the limits of Earth-2. Despite the fact that he still believes the elemental is a nutjob.

And now something different is gonna happen in the next two chapters.

Normally the following chapters of an Earth-1 chapter would be an Earth-2 chapter. But instead the next two chapters are gonna feature Earth-1 chapters, featuring the Flash & Arrow Crossover "Heroes Join Forces" with the menacing Vandal Savage in the mix.

And don't worry. Following those two chapters, are gonna be two Earth-2 chapters with our favorite elemental again.

So until next time, Folks!