Part 64

Barry stood staring in shock as Iris's lifeless body bleed out. This monster that was inhabiting the body of the father of the woman he was in love with had just murdered Iris. Kara could not believe what she had just seen. It wasn't the first time she had seen someone die. But by far it had been the most brutal. Oliver just notched an arrow as he raised it to take aim. He was the least affected by what he had just seen. He had seen too much death in his life. One of the worst being when Deathstroke killed his mother right in front of him and his sister.

"If you think that we are going to let you hurt Caitlin or her mother you got another thing coming." Said Oliver

"I would never hurt my daughter Khione Mr. Queen. I just plan to rid her of her weaker too human side." Said Icicle

"There is nothing weak about Caitlin. She is the strongest person I have ever met. It is one of the things that I love most about her." Said Barry

"Love? That is what is making you weak Flash. Once I am through Khione will be free of these human weaknesses and embrace being the Goddess she is meant to be."

"Hate to beak it too you but I am over the whole being a god thing." Said a familiar female voice.

Barry don't worry Caitlin is safe back at Star labs. Said J'onn in Barry's head.

"My daughter join me and embrace your true power." Said Icicle

"I already have. Giving and receiving love is the most powerful thing you can experience. Icicle, you are not my father. My father is Thomas Snow. The man that taught me to ride a bicycle. Who took care of me when I had the chicken pox. Flash, Green Arrow and Supergirl are my family. You are just the monster that took my father from me." Said J'onn repeating the words Caitlin was saying over the coms.

Icicle roared in anger. He sent an ice blast at "Caitlin" but Supergirl jumped in front of it. She then shot her heat vision at him as Firestrom and Heatwave came out of hiding and fired at him. Icicle was knocked out unable to take all the fire power. Supergirl grabbed him and she and Barry took him back to Star Labs and locked him in the pipeline. Oliver, and the others returned through a breach the Cisco opened for them. Carla watched on the monitor as Icicle was sealed into the cell.

"Are you sure he can't get out of there?" asked Carla

"It is made of super dense carbine. It just looks like glass. That is the same cell I was locked in after I uh attacked CCPD. Mom the one thing we did learn from Zoom was that my powers don't work on carbine. Barry has a hard time phasing through it. So we upgraded all the cells downstairs." Said Caitlin

"You seem strangely at ease with having a prison for some very dangerous criminals in your work basement." Said Barbara

"Yeah well that isn't so bad as finding out well after the fact that the psycho you were working for blew up the particle accelerator on purpose to create the Flash and he was doing who knows what to the bodies of the dead metas that ended up in our makeshift morgue." Said Caitlin

Barry returned to the cortex and headed over to Joe.

"Joe, I am so sorry that I couldn't save Iris." Said Barry

"Bare, it's not your fault. I don't blame anyone but myself. I knew that she was not well long ago. The whole time you were in the speedforce she only talked about finding Caitlin and making her pay for destroying everything." Said Joe

"Detective West, I sent the CCTV footage to Captain Singh." Said Felicity

"Thanks. I should go and make sure that everything is taken care of. Let me know when you get Thawne." Said Joe

Joe walked out. Sara turned to Mick, Stein, Jax and Ray.

"You should get back to the Waverider. Make sure nothing is screwing with history. We are still trying to stop that time demon." Said Sara

The men nodded and headed out.

"Time demon?" asked Oliver

"Damion Darhk's daughter Nora is the vessel for this time demon call Mallus. She ended up in his cult after both her parents died. She brought her dad back and they are now behind all these aberrations to break him free of his prison." Said Sara

"Sorry I asked." Said Oliver

"Constantine is helping us. We are also looking for the lost totems of Zambezi which were once used to imprison him a long time ago. Zari has the air totem and Amaya has the spirit totem. Amaya is Mari's grandmother. We picked her up back in 1942 she was part of the Justice Society of America." Said Sara

"So the JSA did exist. I had heard rumors of it but never found any evidence of it." Said Bruce

"You most likely won't. They kept it top secret." Said Sara

"Ms. Lance before you return to your shop once Thawne is dealt with let Oracle know how to reach you. I might have something you can help with in the future." Said Bruce

"Sure. I will at least listen doesn't mean I will help though."

"Of course."

Caitlin looked and noticed that Barry had left the cortex. Knowing where he most likely went headed down to the pipeline. She found him sitting on the step against one of the walls outside the blast door. She sat down next to him and pulled him against her. He laid his head on her shoulder.

"He killed Iris, Cait. I wasn't fast enough to stop him." Said Barry

"Barry, don't blame yourself. You weren't the only one there. There was nothing any of you could have done. Icicle is much more dangerous then nearly everyone you have gone against."

"Cait, I know Iris was sick and wanted to hurt you. But I still cared about her."

"Barry it's ok that you still loved her. She had been part of your life a long time. I may not have liked what she tried to do to me. But I didn't hate her. So grieve for your life long friend. Not what she became in the last year."

"Thanks Cait. I love you."

"Love you Barry."

They just sat there Caitlin comforting Barry for at least an hour. Neither needing to say any more. It was several kicks from the triplets that finally broke the silence between the two. Barry stood first then helped Caitlin up and the two of them headed back to the cortex to help come up with the plan to bring Thawne out in the open so they could hopefully rid themselves of him for good.


Merry Christmas everyone. I will be back with more after the holiday.