His whole body felt numb. His head was pounding yet he didn't feel the pain, instead, he felt his rapidly beating heart trying to escape his chest as his legs moved, both of them shaking more and more with each step. This was it.. It was now or never..

Barry moved his right hand towards his comm system, taking a huge deep breath before speaking, "I love you, Iris Anne West.. Don't ever forget it"

He launched himself towards the burning satellite, feeling the heat melt his skin. He pulled back his right arm and collided his fist against the object, his world going black seconds later.

Star City

Three hours earlier

Barry was busy walking around the city as his phone pinged. After the fight with Cisco, he decided to go on a walk to try and clear his head, hoping that if he scoped out the potential site for where the satellite would be then he'd feel even more prepared. He pulled his phone out of his pocket, frowning as he read Iris' text.

Iris Marliese won't help. She refused to do anything against her husband no matter how badly he had been treating her

He slipped nonchalantly into an alleyway, putting his phone against his ear as he rang his girlfriend. She answered on the first ring.

"What happened between her and Clifford then?" Barry asked immediately, continuously checking between the two exits of the alleyway, making sure he could escape if something were to try and attack him, even if he was The Flash.

"Apparently he's gone full on psychopath," Iris told him, "He no longer cares about building a better world, instead he wants to officially rule it when everyone is brainwashed"

Barry groaned angrily and was tempted to throw his phone but he didn't, but he did tighten his grip on the object. Iris could hear in Barry's voice how angry that made him, and she wished she could do anything to help him but she couldn't, instead she would just let him get it all out of his system.

"We're running out of time, Iris," Barry told her desperately, "If we can't get Marliese to side with us then it's game over unless that satellite is the right one!"

"Iris, please tell me you've got a backup plan," Barry asked her, his body starting to shake, "Please Iris.. please tell me you know how to fix this.."

Tears were slowly falling down Barry's face as he continued to cry into the phone, begging Iris to fix it all. The last time he had felt this overwhelmed was the day Wally had gotten stuck in the speed-force, he had just been stabbed by Savitar and they had all left him to deal with the thoughts by himself. It just wasn't fair.

Iris was at a loss for words as she listened to Barry crying into the phone. She knew how stressed out he was but this just didn't seem right. This was more personal than that, it was about his son.

"Babe," Iris began, interrupting his sobs, "We will stop DeVoe and you'll get to meet your son"

It was a promise that she knew she might not be able to keep. It was out of her control what would happen to Barry's son but she just hoped that her words were enough to calm the Scarlet Speedster down, she hated seeing him distressed.

"You-you really think so?" He asked quietly, empty, finally drained from everything.

Tears were built up in her own eyes as she took a second to compose herself. Swallowing the lump in her throat, she said, "Yes, I know so. We will stop DeVoe and get your son back"

Barry took a deep breath and nodded his head, thanking her before ending the call, wiping all of his tears away. Just as he went to speed away though, something was jammed into his neck and everything faded away from him.

Unknown location

5 minutes later

When Blaine finally woke up, his head was pounding, his vision was blurry and the room just so happened to be spinning. He looked around the room as his vision cleared up, his blood running cold as he saw a figure lying in the cage beside him.. Barry.

He seemed unharmed, just unconscious and that was a relief for him, mainly because it meant that he could use his speed and get them out of here before it escalated further. He checked his watch, surprised that they let him keep it on, and checked the time. It was 4:32 pm, the last thing he remembered before he was taken was that the time was somewhere before 1 pm. He had been held hostage for a while then unconscious for the same amount of time. Why they had taken him though was still beyond him, hell he didn't even know who anyone was.

He watched as Barry began to stir, rolling onto his back from his original position where he was propped up on his side. Blaine ran to the edge of his cage, his hands gripping the rails as he watched Barry's eyes flutter before they opened and his whole body shot upwards.

"Easy, Barry," Blaine said to him, his whole body shaking unwillingly. Whether it was fear was unknown but he did know he was very happy to see Barry awake that's for sure. Barry looked at Blaine in shock before rushing to his feet, running towards the rails on his own cage, trying to get a good look-over of Blaine.

"Good Morning, Mr. Allen," A voice said, and Blaine watched as Barry paled at the voice. Whoever it was seemed to know Barry, and that meant he probably knew about the whole 'Sebastian Smythe' fiasco. Uh-oh.

"Why did you kidnap us?" Barry asked, and Blaine watched in both horror and shock as a chair floated into the room, a bald man sitting on it. If he looked hard enough, he'd be able to see some resemblance between him and that old McKinley music teacher who had a crush on children.

"Well, Mr. Anderson here is because my wife is in love with him and you're here because of the Enlightenment" DeVoe explained to the duo, whilst Blaine looked down at the ground. What was the Enlightenment and why did it involve him and Barry?

Just as Barry was about to retort, a doorbell ringing caught all of their attention. DeVoe smirked as he turned the security footage on. They must've found out what he looked like then, considering both Joe and Harry Wells were on his doorstep, a gun in the younger man's hands. Somehow Barry went even more pale as he looked at his foster father and friend outside of the house. He had no idea as to why they were also in Star City but they were regardless, and a knot had formed in the pit of his stomach.

"If you've figured out a lot about me, then you'd know that I am a teacher before anything else so let me teach you a lesson, Mr. Allen," DeVoe began, his chair hovering towards the exit of the room, "The first lesson is about loss. Have a good day, Mr. Allen"

Barry began screaming DeVoe's name, punching the bars to try and get his attention away from his team and onto him but it didn't work, and in return, left Barry with very sore and bruised knuckles.

"We need a way out of here," Barry told Blaine, who nodded his head frantically, "and we need one now"

Unknown Location

25 minutes later

Barry had started pacing moments after DeVoe had left, trying to formulate some type of needed one if they were to escape unharmed. Barry sighed and sat on the floor, his eyes going wide when he felt his phone in his pocket. He may not have been able to speed out of there but he just hoped that nothing was blocking the signal between him and his team.

He turned it on, hope dying in his eyes as he looked at the service. One bar.. They needed two to make a call that would actually go through and a text would require three bars for it to send. Barry looked at Blaine, an idea forming in his head the longer he looked at the man.

"We need to bring those bars down," He told the singer, "When we do that I can get closer to the console and hopefully have slightly better service for a call."

Blaine smiled and nodded his head, grabbing the bars that were in between him and Barry.

"Can't you just speed us out of here though?" Blaine asked and Barry sighed.

He shook his head 'no' and confused the man but he didn't question it, instead, he continued to hold onto the bars as if they were his lifeline. He just hoped that Kurt was okay, he wouldn't be able to live with himself if Kurt was hurt.

Foundry [Star City]

10 minutes later

Both Team Arrow and Team Flash were waiting impatiently for Joe and Harry to return after their little excursion to DeVoe's house. Once they had finally figured out what DeVoe looked like to the outside world, they found his location and happily let Joe and Harry leave as they offered to be the ones to go confront the mad man as Cisco so eloquently put it earlier.

Iris was standing by Oliver as Oliver's phone ran, making them all fall silent. Oliver just raised his hand though, and they all began talking to each other once more, tuning out Oliver and the phone call. He was shocked though to see that it was Barry calling him instead of Quentin Lance.

"Barry I can't hear you, what are you saying?" Oliver asked rather loudly, gaining everyone's attention once more. Cisco turned to Caitlin, worry evident on his face about his best friend as Oliver began yelling Barry's name into the phone. Once the call had officially ended, he grumbled and pulled his phone away from his ear, concern visible on the Vigilante's face as he nodded towards both Cisco and Caitlin before running off to grab his gear. Iris turned to Felicity, worried about her boyfriend. She had been on the phone with him earlier and everything seemed fine, so she was confused as to what could've happened in the space of 40 minutes. Whatever did though, must've not been good.