Welcome to Part 2 of Episode 1. This will finish up episode 1. This episode will follow the pilot for the most part with the changes being more evident in the coming episodes. I hope you enjoy the final half. As always, please remember to review, follow, and favorite. Episode 2 will take a little longer to get out as I'm just tweaking some final things. Enjoy!

Jay Garrick and Caitlin Snow, 2014

"You don't really believe they can run that fast, do you?" Caitlin asked Dr. Wells as she continued setting up her equipment.

"Well, I believe anything is possible and in a few minutes, maybe you will too," he told her.

She'd seen both of them move. She knew that they could move fast but the speed he was talking about was much faster than she saw.

"How do they fit?" Cisco asked as the guys came out of the camper. While Barry was in a red kind of tracksuit, Jay wore the same just a deeper blue color. However, both suits were rather unflattering and made them look like walking disasters.

"It's a little snug," Barry answered as he walked towards Cisco.

"Kinda uncomfortable, actually," Jay responded, feeling rather embarrassed.

"At least you will be moving so fast no one will see you," Cisco said as he guided them towards the open strip. "See, you guys thought the world was slowing down. It wasn't. You were moving so fast it only looked like everyone else was standing still. Dr. Wells will be monitoring your energy output, and Caitlin, your vitals."

"What do you do?" Barry asked him.

"I make the toys, my man," he smiled, fired up. "Check it. These are a two-way headset with a camera I modified. Typically designed to combat battlefield impulse noise or in your cases, potential sonic booms, which would be awesome."

Caitlin walked over for her turn. She started tapping buttons on Barry's suit first to link up the feed to her computer. Barry turned to look at Jay with this look on his face. Caitlin's mood was drastically different than a few hours ago. She was scowling down at her tablet and didn't look at either of their faces. When she finished with Barry, she moved on to Jay. "Caitlin?" he asked, trying to best guess how to go forward. "Is everything alright?"

"I'm not a huge fan of this idea," she told him without looking up at him. She didn't like this. It was dangerous. They could get very injured if they tripped. They could run into those stupid barrels littered on the track and get hurt. If they crashed hard enough into something, Jay could….

"Is there something specific?" he asked her.

"There are a lot of variables that could come in and then the two of you could end up injured, break bones, or even…," she stopped. That couldn't happen. She couldn't lose another person. It was too soon. She couldn't do it again.

This time it was his turn to ease her. He placed a hand gently on her shoulder causing her to look him in the eyes. He watched the anger she'd been clutching slip away into the fear behind it. There was something deeper than he knew but he wasn't going to try and open that door here. Instead, he promised her, "We'll be careful. We have you watching over us. We're going to be okay."

She knew they were going to do this. She knew she shouldn't stop them from doing this either. It didn't make it any less hard to let them both go running to what could be their deaths. "Just," she started, trying to compose something that didn't sound overbearing. "Just try jogging first for a while."

He gave her a soft, promising smile, "yes ma'am."

She nodded gratefully, before heading back to the tent. The boys took their starting positions.

"Mr. Allen, Dr. Garrick," Dr. Wells called to them. "While I am extremely eager to determine your full range of abilities, I do caution restraint."

They nodded and looked at each other, signaling they were ready. They took a breath and then sped off on the track.

Caitlin gasped as she watched the streaks of red and blue. All three of them looked out in awe as they watched the fastest men alive run. She silently thanked Jay as she watched Barry lap him multiple times. She watched as they ran faster and faster. Her heart beat faster with every lap.

"Barry just passed 200 miles per hour!" Cisco told them excitedly as he watched the numbers closely.

"I wonder why Dr. Garrick is so much slower?" Dr. Wells asked curiously.

"He's jogging," Caitlin answered proudly as she watched the streaks zip by over and over. If this was how fast he was at jogging, there was no telling how fast he could go when he started running.

"Hey! Check it out! Jay's catching up to Barry," Cisco yelled. The three of them watched as blurs passed almost endlessly by.

Jay had jogged around the strip just as he promised. Now that he was familiar with the track, it was time to start running. It felt freeing. He could feel the air parting around him as he moved faster and faster. Every step was farther than the last. A rush flew over him as he felt the weight of the world fall off his shoulders. This was incredible. Soon he was starting to lap Barry. After a few laps, he noticed that Barry was starting to slow. He was about to lap him again when Barry crashed into some barrels. He ran back to help him up. "Barry are you okay?" he asked as he leaned down to help him. "What happened to you?"

"Somethings wrong with my wrist," Barry told him as he tried to get up. While it didn't look too bad, he should still get that checked out by Caitlin.

"Here," he offered his hand to help him up. Barry took it and pulled himself to his feet. "Come on, Caitlin is not going to be happy with you," he teased as they started walking back to the group.

Caitlin's heart started getting much quicker as she didn't see either of the two streaks passing by anymore. She looked down at her computer. There were vital signs and they were strong. That should be enough to ease her mind but it wasn't. She couldn't see them. Where were they? Did they run off the track? Were they hurt? They weren't dead. That was the only thing that was certain. She kept telling herself that as she grabbed her binoculars and searched for them. Where were they?

"Hey," Jay called as they walked up behind them. "Barry here crashed into some barrels. His wrist is really bothering him but other than tha, oh!" he stopped as he caught Caitlin before she crashed into him. He held her as he felt her body almost trembling against his. Barry moved over to Cisco and Dr. Wells to get his wrist looked at. Jay turned all his attention to Caitlin almost caving in his arms. He knew there was more. Something happened and now that fear was building up inside her. He would find out later. Right now, she just needed some reassurance. He rubbed her back to help her know that he was here, alive and well. "Hey, we're okay. We're here. We're taking a break."

"I knew it was a stupid idea. I knew that one of you was going to get hurt. I knew that and…," she began as she started to feel like she could breathe again.

"I know, but Barry's wrist needs attention and as far as I know, you're the only one here who has a medical background," he told her, trying to get her to focus on something other than her immediate fear.

"You're right," she agreed as she slipped out of his embrace. "You're right. I should look at it. In the meantime, I think it's safe to call your family, let them know that you're alright."

"Sounds like a plan," he told her encouragingly as they headed back to the group.

Current Timeline, Jay Garrick, 2014

His call went over well. Everyone was so happy to see him. They wanted to take him home but he had something more important he needed to do tonight so he said that they were going to keep him overnight for some observations but that the prognosis was very good. He promised a visit with everyone in a few weeks. When he finished, he walked into the main area where everyone was gathered.

"It looks like you had a distal radius fracture," Caitlin told them as they gathered around.

"Had?" Barry asked for all of them.

"It's healed," she showed them the x-ray. "In three hours."

"How is that even possible?" Jay asked as he looked closer at the x-ray.

"We don't know yet," she answered with faith that they would sooner than later.

"You really need to learn how to stop," Cisco told him playfully, giving him a pat on the back.

"What happened out there today?" Dr. Wells asked Barry. "You were moving pretty well and then something caused you to lose focus."

"I started remembering something," Barry told them as he started thinking about it again. A visible pain washed over him as he began to tell them what happened. "When I was 11, my mother was murdered. It was late. A sound woke me up. I came downstairs and… I saw what looked like a ball of lightning. Inside the lightning, there was a man. He killed my mom. They arrested my dad. He's still sitting in iron heights for her murder. Everyone, the cops, the shrinks, they all told me what I saw was impossible. But what if the man who killed my mom was like me?"

Jay started wondering about his own past. The man who had taken him here had lightning surround him when he ran. Was it the same person as Berry's lightning man? No, it couldn't be. Zoom's was blue lightning not yellow or red. Not to mention, Zoom had taken him to a better life. Barry's killed his mom. They couldn't be the same people. The fact that they both had supernatural experiences like this was inexplicable. The fact that both he and Barry saw people who were wrapped in lightning at such young ages. That couldn't be just a coincidence. This was starting to get really weird. He should tell them about his own experience. This could help Barry. It could make him feel so much better. Then again, it could just as easily hurt him. His saved him and Barry's killed his mom. That could definitely put a wedge in everything. Also, Zoom told him not to tell anyone. So far, everything he told him had come true. He stayed silent.

"Well, I think I can tell you that you two are the only of your kind," Dr. Wells told them before he left. Barry started heading out the doors looking confused and angry.

While Jay wasn't going to tell Barry about his own experience, he could give him something else. He jogged at normal speed to catch up with him in the hallway. "Barry," he called.

He stopped and turned to face him, "Yeah?"

"For the record," he paused, searching for the best way to go about this. "I believe you. I think you saw what you say you did that night. I know what it feels like when you wonder sometimes if maybe you are crazy when something inexplicable happens. I just want you to know that I don't think you're crazy. I think you're right. If you ever need someone to listen to you about this," he placed his hand on his shoulder in full support. "I'm here for you."

He watched as Barry's hard expression softened into a thankful smile. It looked like Barry had needed this for a long time. Barry nodded slowly, "Thanks Jay."

"Sure thing," Jay said as he let Barry get back to doing what he was doing.

Current Timeline, Caitlin Snow and Jay Garrick, 2014

Jay decided to take an opportunity to figure out what was going on inside Caitlin's head. "Caitlin, I'm going to go for a walk. Would you like to join me?" he asked her, figuring she'd be more likely to open up if they were alone.

"Yeah, I could go for one," she said as they headed out toward the main doors.

After about 10 minutes of walking in silence, Jay motioned her to sit down on a park bench. She did and he followed behind her. Neither one of them really wanted to talk about it. There was something hanging in the air that just felt unmovable. He knew he had to start. He just hoped he did it right. "Caitlin, I know we're just getting back in the swing of things and being friends and I know that people change. But I remember what you were like back before we said goodbye. I can tell that something's changed in you. I understand if you don't want to tell me but I do want you to know that I am happy to sit and talk with you about anything. You were a good friend to me and I will always be your friend."

She nodded softly. She should tell him. He deserved to know. She knew that she'd been over the top and that he knew something was wrong. If she were going to tell anyone, he would be her first choice anyway. "You're right," she started slowly. "You don't know this but I had a fiance. His name was Ronnie Raymond. He used to work at Star Labs here with all of us. He was the light of my life. He could bring me out of my shell just like you used to do. He often referred to us as fire and ice as we were so different but somehow it worked."

"I remember seeing something like that on your Facebook page," he told her. "Well, I remember seeing a guy who looked like he was in love with you. I haven't checked anything in almost two years. I was happy for you."

"I checked on you too every once in a while," she admitted with a small smile on her face. "I saw you were doing really well for yourself."

"Yeah," he agreed as they let the moment hang for a moment before returning back to their original topic. "So what happened with Ronnie?"

"That night when the particle accelerator was turned on, it was working perfectly. Until suddenly it wasn't. Ronnie sacrificed his life to save everyone. He gave up everything in order to lessen the fallout. I begged him not to but I couldn't stop him. I was heartbroken for months after he died. All I felt was so much pain that made it hurt to breathe at times.

"Four months later, Dr. Wells tells me that there is another person that was struck by lightning just like Barry. I got to the hospital and I saw you. One of my dearest friends is lying in a hospital bed, looking like you were almost dead. I couldn't bear the thought of losing another person that meant so much to me. So I decided that I wasn't going to let you die. I was going to do everything in my power to bring you back.

"For the first time, I didn't have this unfillable pit in my heart. I found a purpose again. When Barry woke up and you didn't, I was so scared. I sat next to you and I pleaded to you for the first time that I needed you to wake up. That I didn't think that I could handle losing someone else.

"Then you woke up. You were up, you were walking, talking, standing, and all this fear I had just left. Seeing you alive was one of the best days of my life. After months of hope being slowly taken by fear, there you were. I can barely remember myself starting to run to you. When you hugged me back, I knew everything was going to be okay. I knew I was going to be okay.

"Then when you started getting super speed, you were in danger again and I started to get that feeling again. When I couldn't find you out on the strip, I knew you were alive but the thought of you back in that coma. It just…. I just got you back and I'm not ready to lose you again," she finished, nearly in tears. Her hands rubbing at her eyes.

He got it. If he was okay, she was okay. He reached out and pulled her into his side. His hand moved gently over her arm as they looked out over a lake. "You are going to be okay one day just because you will be. It won't matter what anyone tells you. You'll just find that solid rock inside of you that you'll stand on confidently, saying that you are okay. It'll take a while. At times, you'll feel like you can't even see that rock. When that happens, I'll be there to help you on to mine until you can find yours once again."

Caitlin relaxed even more into his side as he gave her this promise. "I don't know how I got you in my life again, but I do know I won't regret it," she told him.

"Me too," he told her as they sat together in that peaceful air once again.

Current Timeline, Caitlin Snow, 2002

Caitlin Snow was sitting at her desk, quietly doing her work. While she loved learning, she hated the people here. She knew she was a nerd/dork/geek, whatever, and she used to like that about herself. Then when she got to Junior High, it was like it was a bad thing. She would get picked on all the time. She was always targeted by these queen bees that had nothing better to do. Sometimes she really hated being so smart. What did it matter anyway? Her dad was smart. He was amazing. He was the best dad she could have asked for. Her mother was smart too. They were both so smart and through all of that, they couldn't fix him. Her dad was gone. So why was it so important to be smart again?

"Mr. Garrick? What could possibly be so important that you feel the need to interrupt my lesson?" Mrs. Galveston asked as she gave up trying to outlast the kid.

"Mrs. Galveston, That girl's been putting gum in that one's hair for the past ten minutes," the kid told her.

Wait, he was pointing at her. She pulled her hair in front of her shoulder to find it was full of chewed wads of gum at the ends. The whole class started laughing. Why were they laughing at her? Why? Lexi LaRoche had been doing this since elementary. Why was it she who was being laughed at?

"Ms. LaRoche," Mrs. Galveston called angrily. "Hand over all your gum immediately."

Lexi pouted and handed over a half-empty package of gum before she sat back down behind Caitlin again. Caitlin hated her. Why did she have to be the one to get picked on all the time? She was so tired of being the one that everyone decided was okay to bully. Was she that ugly? Was she that smart? Why? What was wrong with her? All she wanted to do was get the gum out of her hair but she couldn't miss any part of the lecture because she could miss something important.

"Mrs. Galveston! She's doing it again!" the same kid told the teacher.

"Ms. LaRoche!" their teacher was fed up with this. "When I said give me all your gum, I meant give me all your gum. Now." Lexi gave the kid a really dirty look as she handed over her other pack. She gave Caitlin a dirty look too as she sat right back down behind her.

"If I ever catch anyone in this class doing anything like this again, I will ban gum from my classroom and anyone who has it will be immediately sent to the principal's office for disciplinary action. Is that clear?" she asked firmly. It wasn't a question. This was a threat and a promise. The kids nodded and Mrs. Galveston was just about to go back to her lesson.

"Mrs. Galveston? Shouldn't she switch seats with someone so she can't bully her anymore?" that kid asked her.

"Thank you for volunteering Mr. Garrick," Mrs. Galveston said, wanting so badly to be done with this thing and continue with her lesson. "Ms. LaRoche, switch seats with Mr. Garrick. The two of you will be staying there for the rest of the semester.

"What?! NO!" Lexi cried out like someone being separated from their best friend.

"Now Ms. LaRoche," Mrs. Galveston almost growled.

Anger rolled off Lexi in waves as she grabbed her stuff and stomped off to her new desk. The kid that had stopped her for now, made his way over to his new desk much less dramatically. At least she wouldn't have to deal with Lexi anymore. Now she got to have someone new torture her. She turned her head back down to do her practice problems again. Why couldn't she be homeschooled? Then she wouldn't be bullied. Her mother could finally have some time for her again. She wouldn't have to go around looking like an idiot with gum in her hair. Why did school have to be anything other than learning?

She was working on one of the problems when a little thing of tissues landed on her desk with a post-it note that read, For the gum. I hope she won't bother you anymore. Sorry it took so long. -Jay Garrick

She looked back at him. He gave her a small smile. She gave him a smaller smile. It was still a smile. He was nice now but it probably wouldn't last for very long. Nothing good ever did. She took the first tissue and started to clean the gum out of her hair. The bell rang fifteen minutes later to say that class was over. Caitlin began packing up her stuff. Lexi LaRoche came over to her desk.

"See you next class Caitlin," she told her with this evil-looking smile on her face. Great, That's all she needed. A bully out for revenge. She was going to have just the most fantastic day. Why couldn't she just disappear?

"Leave her alone, Lexi," she heard Jay say as he got up from her desk.

"Shove it, foster kid," she told him harshly.

"You ought to learn some manners," he told her without a single speck of fear in his whole body. "Leave her alone or I will make sure every teacher knows exactly what you're doing."

"I said shove it," she told him angrily before storming out of the classroom.

Caitlin watched baffled, as the bully, who had been messing with her for years, left defeated by the kid that now sat behind her. She turned around to face him. He had short dirty blonde hair, with deep silvery blue eyes. She was tall but he was a whole head taller than her. Usually, she would find it intimidating. Except, the way he was looking at her with such kindness that for the first time, she didn't feel the urge to start running.

"I hope I didn't make things worse for you," he told her sincerely. "I just wanted her to stop bullying you. I know what that feels like and nobody should have to go through that."

"Why?" she asked him with a wondering voice. No one her age had ever said anything like that to her before. What made him different? She had to know. "You don't know me. We've never even really met before. Why did you think that?"

"I guess it was kind of a gut feeling," he answered her honestly. "You kinda remind me of me."

"Really?" she questioned. He didn't know her. He didn't look like your typical nerd/dork/geek. He looked rather defined for his age. In fact, wasn't he on the track team?

"I got bullied a lot when I was younger. I remember that feeling and it was awful. I wanted to help you," he said as he grabbed one of the tissues off her desk. "Turn around, you still got some gum in your hair."

"Really?" she asked him, horrified. The thought that she could have walked out of here with gum still stuck in her hair for everyone to see. She quickly turned around to let him get it out. Jay gently got three more wads of gum out of her hair near the top of her head. The entire time he worked, she never felt a shred of pain. She wondered how that was possible after fifteen minutes of literal hair pulling.

"There we go," he said as he grabbed the other tissues filled with gum off her desk. "All gone."

"Oh, I can throw those away. Don't worry about it," she told him as she tried to take the tissues from him.

"No, it's okay, I got it," he told her with confidence. "Lexi couldn't have put so much of this in your hair if I had noticed earlier. It's the least I can do." He didn't give her a chance to argue as he went over and put them in the trash.

"Well, your least is better than most people's best," she told him as she put her backpack on her shoulders. That was what puzzled her. Why was he better? What made him do the things he did? She'd never met a boy like Jay Garrick. All the boys she knew were immature, rude, and loud. Jay Garrick was none of those things. Why?

"You're joking right?" he asked her with a smile on his face. When he realized that she wasn't, his smile faded as it settled in. He had this look on his face of disbelief as he tried to understand. He walked back over to her and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Caitlin, if you are ever, ever, being bullied by someone, come and find me and I will make them understand that it is not okay to bully you. You should never be bullied like you have been. It's not okay. Promise me you'll get me or a teacher if you are being bullied."

She stared into his eyes. He meant every word that he'd said. She knew he did. She could feel it in the way he was holding her hands. The way that he told her so firmly. He was sure in the idea that she didn't deserve to be bullied. He had no idea just how much that meant to her. He didn't know how long she had gone without hearing those words by someone who meant it. She could feel the tears she'd held back for so long starting to form in her eyes. She didn't know why. She didn't know how but she didn't care. Her arms wrapped around his back. Her head pressed against the cotton of his shirt as she hugged him tightly. "I promise," she whispered as she didn't think she could say it much louder without falling to pieces.

She fully expected him to push her away in disgust as he realized his mistake just like anyone else she knew. She was bracing herself for all of the possibilities that could happen except the one he chose. His arms wrapped around her and held her with more strength than she'd felt since she was 10-years-old. She let her guarded heart sink into his strength as she realized that he wasn't going to let her fall like so many others.

Whatever Jay Garrick was made of, she didn't care anymore. She would have believed he was made of real pure magic at this point. Real magic wasn't meant to be explained. It was meant to be relished and enjoyed. That was exactly what she planned on doing with Jay Garrick before he disappeared like everything else.

Current Timeline, 2014

Jay Garrick was sitting on the medical table so Caitlin could run some more tests when Barry came storming into the main area like an angry bull.

"Jay and I weren't the only ones affected by the particle accelerator explosion, were we?" Barry asked Dr. Wells, enraged. Jay and Caitlin went over to where they were and so did Cisco.

"Is he right?" Jay asked him as he found a good spot to stand. Were there others like him and Barry? It was certainly plausible. With the right conditions and timing, there could be hundreds of them out there.

Dr. Wells looked at the others. They couldn't give him any help with this one. He sighed and answered, "we don't know for sure."

"You said the city was safe," Barry snarled. "That there was no residual danger but that's not true, so what really happened that night?"

"Well," Dr. Wells sat back against the seat of his wheelchair. "The accelerator went active. We all felt like heroes, and then… it all went wrong. The dimensional barrier ruptured, unleashing unknown energies into our world. Antimatter, dark energy, x-elements…."

"Those are all theoretical," Barry said.

"And how theoretical are you and Dr. Garrick?" he asked him, wanting to just get through his story. "We mapped the dispersion throughout and around Central City. Though, we have no way of knowing exactly what or who was exposed. We've been searching for other meta-humans like yourself."

"Meta-humans?" Jay questioned.

"That's what we're calling them," he explained.

"I saw one today," Barry told them. "He's a bank robber and he can control the weather."

"This just keeps getting cooler," Cisco said as he started mulling the possibilities of superpowers that could be a reality.

"This is not cool, all right?" Barry told him. His anger had become stronger than ever. "A man died. Mardon must have gotten his powers the same way Jay and I did. From the storm cloud. He's still out there. We have to stop him before he hurts anyone else."

"Barry!" Dr. Wells stopped him as he was about to leave. "That's a job for the police."

"I work for the police!" he said obviously.

"As a forensic assistant," Dr. Wells clarified.

"Okay, okay, wait," Jay said, trying to diffuse the situation. "Is there a way the police can stop him?" he asked, trying to pull some logic into play.

"No, They don't even believe that he exists," Barry answered him. "The guy supposedly died nine months ago in a plane crash so they aren't even looking for him. Even if they found out who he was, they aren't prepared to handle him. He's got powers."

"Okay, so is there anything we can do?" Jay asked him calmly.

"Yes! We can stop him!" Barry told him getting really fed up with what he felt like was nonsense.

"How? How can the two of us stop him?" Jay asked as he tried to get Barry to see the problem with running in without a plan. Barry was just so angry that he wasn't thinking straight. He knew that if they didn't go in with a plan that the two of them could end up dead.

"I don't know. We'll figure it out but we have to go now and stop him!" Barry rationalized.

"That's not important! What's important is you! Not him," Dr. Wells raised his voice, effectively getting their attention. "I lost everything. I lost my company. I lost my reputation. I lost my freedom. And then you broke your arm and it healed in three hours. Inside your body could be a map to a whole new world. Genetic therapies, vaccines, medicines, treasures buried deep within your cells and we cannot risk losing everything because you want to go out and play hero! You're not a hero. You are just a young man who was struck by lightning."

Barry was about to blow with all this rage, anger, guilt, hurt, and confusion. Jay was about to ask if Barry would come with him but he was gone in an instant. He figured that it was best to just let him breathe on his own and when Barry felt better, Jay would talk to him.

He turned his attention back to Dr. Wells. He didn't like what he'd said. Something about what he said just felt wrong. He turned to him and said, "Dr. Wells, my whole life, all I've wanted to be was a good man. A good man helps those who need it. The best people in this situation to help the city are Barry and I. We can come up with a plan, analyze him for weaknesses, find a way to take him down without going in blind. Barry's not going to let this go and I'm not going to either."

"Dr. Garrick," Dr. Wells started. "While I appreciate your level-headedness and your well-intentioned promises, there is something far greater at work here than you seem to understand. I'll thank you not to encourage Barry to get himself killed when he has so much potential to offer the world."

Something was wrong. There was something that just didn't sit well with him. Dr. Wells was supposed to be a good man and scientist. So why would he not want to help solve the problem he created? He let him go do whatever it was that he was doing before while he went back to the lab with Caitlin. The way Dr. Wells….

"Did you mean what you said?" Caitlin asked him as she went back to procuring samples. Caitlin didn't like the idea any more than Dr. Wells did. This was too dangerous. Jay and Barry were still trying to manage the use of their powers. They hadn't mastered them yet. Barry got distracted and had a distal radius fracture. What happened if one of them lost focus and rammed into the other one? What if there were unintended consequences that they weren't aware of yet? Then they both could die. There was so much more that they could do being safe and sitting here rather than risking their lives for something that could kill them.

"I did," Jay answered, knowing that she would rather he not run into dangerous situations. "Barry and I got the superpowers we did for a reason. Being the men that we are, I think it was because we were meant to do more than just sit still. Caitlin, we have been given this gift and we need to use it. There are people out there that are not good and they will use their powers for evil. I can't sit by and watch innocent people get hurt. I know that together, we can make a big change in this city."

She sighed, refusing to look him in the eyes. He knew that he was her lifeline. He knew that she needed him to be alive and well. He knew that she couldn't handle losing anyone else. He knew all of this and yet he was going to purposefully get in harm's way. He'd always been a protector. He protected his brother, he protected her, and now he wanted to protect the city. She knew that this was who he was and it was what had made him such a good friend. This was who he was and had always been. It was admirable and she would be an idiot not to support him. She reached out her hand and he took it. His strength and confidence slipped their way into her heart like it always did.

"Then I'll stand by your side," she told him as she looked him in the eyes. "But there is no reason we can't start preparing before you go."

Jay gave her an appreciative smile. Things were changing. To him, it was good. "I bet Cisco has some ideas already. We should talk to him too," he suggested as he hopped off the table. Both of them, getting prepared for the coming fight.

Current timeline, 2014

Caitlin, Jay, and Cisco were all working diligently in the main area. Cisco was working on finding out how to locate Mardon and he and Caitlin were working on finding weaknesses they could use. They'd been working for about half an hour before Barry walked into the room.

"Barry, perfect timing," Jay told him as he moved over to give him the rundown of what they were doing. "We've been working on figuring out how to take down Mardon and how to locate him. We need your help if we're going to take him down. Are you in?"

Barry looked very surprised as if he'd walked into an alternate dimension. This was obviously not what he was expecting when he walked in. That was okay. It would take a minute to process but fortunately, they had that right now.

"For the record, I was already in. Jay just had to convince Caitlin to get on board," Cisco piped in proudly.

"Uh, yeah, I'm, I'm in," Barry said as he led him into where all the action was.

"Fantastic," Jay said as he brought him over to the control consul.

"Since we've decided to do this, I've got something that might help," Cisco told them as he headed over to a wall. He pressed a combination into a keypad and most of the wall disappeared up into the ceiling.

The one on the right was a full-body suit, dark red, with yellow lightning bolts on the sides of his helmet-like mask and another one in a white circle for his emblem. The one on the left was part of a deep ocean blue color with electric blue lightning linings on the sleeves and sides. There was a black belt around the waist to separate the same colored pants and boots. The emblem on the chest was a three-pronged white lightning bolt. Instead of a mask like Barry's he had a black domino mask. Lastly, there was a silver kettle helmet with two small lighting bolts, one on each side. These looked a lot better than the ones they were wearing earlier.

"Something I've been playing with. Designed to replace the turnouts firefighters traditionally wear. I thought if Star Labs could do something nice for the community, maybe people wouldn't be so angry at Dr. Wells anymore," Cisco showed them.

"How are these going to help us?" Barry asked sincerely.

"They're made of a reinforced tripolymer," Cisco started explaining. "They're heat and abrasive resistant so it should withstand your moving at high-velocity speeds. And the aerodynamic design should help you maintain control."

"Plus, it has built-in sensors so we can track your vitals and stay in contact with you from here," she added.

"Cisco these are awesome," Barry fawned over his new suit.

"Amazing work, Cisco," Jay complimented him. These were so much better than the last ones were. Jay had to hand it to Cisco. He definitely knew what he was doing and an eye for design.

"Thanks," Cisco appreciated it.

"Now how do we find Mardon?" Barry asked them as he went over to the consols.

"I retasked Star Labs satellite to track meteorological abnormalities over Central City," Cisco answered as the computer beeped. "We just got a ping. Atmospheric pressure dropped 20 millibars in a matter of seconds. I've tracked it to a farm just west of the city."

Jay gave Barry a small pat on the back, "Alright, let's go save the city."

Jay and Barry reached the farm in only a minute. Both of them stopped stunned when they saw the huge tornado not too far away.

"Barry! Jay!" Cisco called on their communicators. "This thing's getting closer. Wind speeds are 200 miles per hour and increasing. Guys, can you hear me?"

"Yeah. Loud and clear," Barry answered first.

"You're coming in perfectly," Jay responded too.

"If it keeps up, this could become an f-5 tornado," Cisco warned them, "and it's headed towards the city."

"Okay, so how do we stop it?" Jay asked, starting to build a plan.

"Guys? What if we unravel it?" Barry offered.

"How the hell are you going to do that?" Cisco asked them.

"We'll run around it in the opposite direction, cut off its legs," Barry explained further.

"One of you would have to clock 700 miles-per-hour to do that," Caitlin said as she calculated out what that would do to them. "The fastest Barry ever went was in the 300 range and we don't know if Jay can go that fast. Your bodies may not be able to handle those speeds. You could die."

"We have to try," Barry told them.

"Barry, I see some civilians down there," Jay pointed at two people out in the middle of the field. "One of us needs to clear this area while the other unwinds the tornado."

"You get the civilians," Barry told him. "I'll take care of the tornado. Once you're done, start running in the same direction as me a little bit away to help."

"Sounds good let's go," Jay told him as he ran towards the two civilians he spotted. He grabbed them and ran with them until he reached the edge of the city and put them on their feet before racing back for more. He did the same thing with what he assumed were four ranch hands, two children, and a woman. Once he made sure that there was no one left, he started running alongside Barry.

"The suits are holding up," Cisco updated them as he watched the monitors.

"But Barry's not," Caitlin told him, checking both Barry and Jay's vitals. "Guys, what's going on?"

"I don't know," Barry answered her. "It's too strong. I'm not fast enough."

Suddenly, Barry wasn't running around the tornado. Jay wanted to stop and check on him but the tornado was getting bigger by the second. He moved closer towards the base of the tornado. Objects started coming at him. Bricks, planks, gutters, fence parts, started flying at his face. Even with his heightened abilities, dodging everything was getting harder and harder. He needed Barry's help or they were both going to die.

"Barry, you need to listen to me," Jay told him through the coms. "You are stronger than you know. I know it, Dr. Wells knows it, everyone knows it but you. I'm telling you now. I have seen what you can do. I know that you fight for what you believe in. Barry, you have been told all your life that you were this scrawny kid who wouldn't amount to anything but that isn't true. You have become something bigger and better than anyone could have ever even dreamed for you. You became a superhero. I need your help. Together, we can do this. We can save this city."

Barry had been dragging himself up onto his feet while he listened to him. Jay could see electricity starting to crackle around Barry before he launched back into action. "Let's do it!" Barry shouted. Jay grinned as he watched Barry getting faster and faster. He picked up his own pace until the tornado completely dissipated. They saw Clyde Mardon falling down to the ground and ran to where he lay.

He looked up at the two of them and said, "I didn't think there was anyone else like me."

"No," Barry told him. "We're not like you."

"We are the newest protectors of Central City," Jay said proudly as he grabbed Barry's shoulder in a job well done.

"Barry?" Cisco called trying to make sure he was alive. The coms had been off and the two dots had stopped moving on the screen.

"Jay? Jay?" Caitlin called to him trying to do the same. She knew from their vitals that they were still alive but they could be unconscious or injured.

"It's over," Barry said into the com system as they watched Clyde Mardon collapse unconscious.

"We're okay," Jay told Caitlin, filled with pride and happiness. "We'll drop him off at the CCPD and then…" he stopped to take in another moment of victory and looked in the direction of Star Labs. "Then we're coming back to you guys." He could imagine Caitlin smiling full of pride in them as she listened.

Jay and Barry walked into the room feeling like they were on top of the world. They were met with hugs from both Cisco and Caitlin.

"Dudes, that was awesome!" Cisco cheered, just as excited as the rest of them. "And you guys look sick in those threads."

Cisco and Barry started geeking out about the fight as they moved over to a different console. Caitlin was standing near him and her eyes wandered over him as if she were taking him in as he donned his new suit. He tried to search her eyes for what she thought but they revealed nothing to him. A small smile had crept across her face. "What's that look for?" he questioned, a smile starting to form on his own face.

"I've always remembered you as a hero. This," she gestured to his uniform, "looks right on you."

"That means a lot coming from you," he told her. He would never forget the moment that she told him that. The moment she embraced his decision. An idea popped into his head, "Hey guys," he asked the three of them, "why don't we go and celebrate our first victory?"

"Yes! That sounds awesome," Cisco told him as he started packing up his things.

"I'm down for that," Barry told him, "just let me change quickly."

"Sounds fun," Caitlin said as she took off Jay's hat, "but you might want to change first too."

"Yes ma'am," he smiled as he took his hat and placed it on her head before he went to the men's room to change into some normal clothes. While none of them knew what lied ahead, they all knew that they were going down the right path.

I've been working on a suit design for Jay, however, I'm not the best at it. If anyone wants to try to draw it, I have a preliminary sketch I can send for the basic idea. Just let me know. Thanks for reading. Episode 2 will come out sooner than later. Until then! :D