Part 54
Caitlin was working in her lab when Oliver pulled up a chair next to her.
"What do you want Oliver?" asked Caitlin
"To see how you are really doing. Caitlin, you do know that you are going to spend the rest of your life fighting that darkness you almost gave in to last year."
"I'm doing ok. I do know that I will never truly be free of the darkness that nearly took my soul."
"Barry, helped keep you from falling right?"
"Yes. The speed force said that I am his lightning rod. The one person in all the multiverse that keeps him grounded. That prevents him from losing himself."
"I don't even begin to understand any of this stuff. But I do know you bring out the best in him."
"That is what I am told. Oliver, I never planned on getting pregnant. I just wanted to stop Savitar."
"You did what you had to do. Caitlin, maybe all this was meant to happen. These kids of yours might be a light that this world needs."
"Yeah I know. I just don't know if I will be a good mother."
"I believe you will be. You are no longer the scared woman that I met when you came to Starling with Cisco to clean out that warehouse. But a strong confident woman."
"You do know my kids are going to call you Uncle Ollie."
"Yeah I kind of figured. So what are you doing?"
"Well after I went to see my mom for a few days. I went to Kara's Earth and helped her out with her boyfriend's mother from hell. While I was there Kara's adopted sister told me about this part of space that Krypton use to send their most dangerous criminals to. They call it the Phantom Zone. Basically it is a part of space that is nothing but a void. No light time doesn't pass there anything sent there is suspended in time. Krypton's explosion sent Kara's ship there. She spent twenty odd years there. The plan had been for her to arrive with her cousin who was a baby. She was thirteen. But by the time that she got free and arrived at the her cousin had grown up and became known as the hero Superman."
"So you are looking to see if this place exists here so you can send Thawne and maybe some other bad guys there so that if possible you don't have to kill them."
"Nothing else has worked with Thawne. Heck killing Malcolm Merlyn and Damion Darhk didn't work out so well either. Both came back because of Thawne to try and fuck up our lives. Which from what I have found out from their altered reality. You, Barry and every other hero were dead with Darhk keeping your masks as trophies. Well Sara and the other Legends were their play things. Thawne probably altered my fate making me Killer Frost."
"Caitlin, I don't believe for a minute that you could ever become evil. Not permanently anyway."
"Thanks Ollie."
"Don't call me that."
"You even try and shoot me with an arrow and I will freeze your fingers off."
"That I actually believe you would do. So Barry bought you a house?"
"It is actually like my dream house. Big backyard that is perfect for summer barbecues and kids to play in. The master bathroom has a whirlpool bath tub. Plenty of bedrooms for a big family or to have friends stay over. Oliver, my childhood was very lonely. I was always the smartest kid in school so that made me an easy target for bullies. So I learned not to let anyone in, scared of being hurt. Ronnie was the first person that melted the ice around my heart. But when I thought that he died the first time I rebuilt that ice wall. But then my coma patient woke up and in a flash the ice melted again. By letting all of you in I gained more then friends that I longed for. But I also gained a family. Cisco, Wally, Dig and you have become like brothers to me."
"Well in that case next time you run into one of your childhood bullies let me know. I will shoot them in the leg with an arrow."
"Will you believe that while I was undercover I had a nightmare where I actually was Killer Frost and you shot me saying I had failed this city? It wasn't a kill shot. You did have something that arrow that injected into me that knocked me out. I woke up in the pipeline."
"Caitlin, even if you did go evil I won't kill you. Just lock you up until we could bring you back or you died."
Just then the computer beeped. Caitlin broke into a big smile.
"Yes there is a phantom zone here. We now have somewhere to s3nd Thawne. If we could replicate the projector then we won't have to keep borrowing Kara's. Oliver I will be back I got to check something."
Caitlin got up and headed to the time vault. She entered and walked over and activated Gideon.
"Good day Dr. Snow. How can I help you?" asked Gideon
"Gideon, if I were to bring you a piece of alien technology would you be able to scan it and tell us how to replicate it?"
"Depending on the alien race that built it."
"Kryptonian."
"While Kryptonians have been one of the most advanced races in your time period of the multiverse it would not be hard for me to give you plans to build it. Though Mr. Ramon would need the help of Dr. Palmer and Ms. Gordon to do it."
"Thank you Gideon."
"You are welcome Dr. Snow."
Caitlin walked back into the cortex and smiled at the group.
"I know what we can do with Thawne once we capture him. But one of us needs to go see Kara and borrow a piece of tech that was sent with her and her cousin from Krypton. We are going to send Thawne to the Phantom Zone." Said Caitlin
"What is the Phantom Zone?" asked Thea
"A place in space that is a void where time doesn't exist. Anything sent there remains frozen in time. Krypton use to send their most dangerous criminals there. They used this thing called a Phantom Zone projector. I talked to our future AI in the time vault and she can scan it and tell us how to build our own. Sara, we are going to need Ray for this. I will have to call my friend Barbara to help." Said Caitlin
"Barry, you and Cisco go see Kara. Sara call Ray. Caitlin call your friend." Said Oliver
