(Cole's POV)

Cisco and Caitlin stared at me as I finished telling them what Zeke told me about Pyre Night. "Wait," said Cisco. "You actually turned into a vampire?!"

"From what Zeke told me, yeah," I replied as I sipped my beer.

"And you believe him," asked Caitlin.

"Well, considering I woke up the next morning with a migraine and the taste of copper in my mouth, yeah. Well, and there's this." I put down the bottle and reached into my pack before pulling out a silver cross with a wooden stake jutting out from the end of it. "If it weren't for the fact that I found this in my pack and the reports of the people who died that night were thought to be caught in the cave in of the catacombs, I'd have written it off as one of Zeke's tall tales."

"That's…" We were broken from our discussion by Cisco getting an alert that there was something the CCPD wanted him to look at.

"Dammit. Hey, tell me more about the whole Blood Conduit thing when I get back," said Cisco. "And don't skimp on the details!" I looked at him as he walked away.

"I told you I don't remember any of it," I shouted past him. Caitlin looked at me.

"So did Zeke say if they were Nosforatu or Lestat?" I chuckled before sitting across from her.

"What, got a vampire fetish I don't know about?"

"No. It's just a simple question." I chuckled as she hid a blush on her face. "For research."

"Yeah, I'm sure." She cleared her throat.

"Let's change the subject, shall we?"

"Alright." She placed a tablet in front of me showing me footage Team Flash recorded of me showing my powers in their Particle Accelerator. She paused it on me lobbing a Cluster Grenade at a bunch of dummies.

"How are you able to do that?"

"Which part?"

"For one, how are you able to make them in the first place?"

"Uh… I just do. Never really thought about how. My powers just evolved enough for me to do so."

"By acting as a buffer to get generators back in working order in Empire City, right?"

"Yeah. Each time a current was run through me, my powers evolved, and my body adapted."

"I wonder what would happen if we ran another current through you. How your powers would evolve after that, considering we don't have any Blast Cores on this Earth."

"Probably wouldn't do much. My body kind of adapted to convert Ionic Energy to evolve my powers since the Blast Cores."

"Well we won't know until we try, right?"

"Guess you're right about that. But only on one condition."

"And what's that?"

"You show me your other half." Caitlin paused. "Come on. In the last six months since Barry was stuck in that… place, you mean you haven't made a compromise with her? Otherwise I'd have encountered her at least once in the last week. Just based on her showing up on a whim."

"I… it doesn't work like that. Me and Killer Frost do not see eye to eye. I need to keep her in check, so she doesn't hurt anyone."

"Oh, come on. You can't treat her like she's some criminal. She's angry. She just needs to vent. You just need to vent."

"Me?"

"Like it or not, you and her, are one and the same." Cole thought for a second and held up his hand. "Watch." Cole channeled lightning through his hand, letting it arc through his fingers. "This is you." Cole focused on the anger he felt towards Kessler after Trish's death and his anger changed his lightning from blue to red. "And this is her. One is gentle and more passive, the other is more dangerous and aggressive but not outright evil. They both come from the same source. The same person. You just need to accept that she's a part of you and not something you necessarily need to fear. The sooner you stop fearing her, the less you have to worry."

"Is that how you treat your powers?"

"More or less. I'm a living taser. I send too much voltage I can kill someone. Especially if my anger is driving me. Hell, when push came to shove, I drained some of the people I fought to heal myself and protect the people around me. That's one of the few times I use my red lightning when I'm not angry."

"You drained people?"

"Their neurons. The natural bioelectricity every living being has to operate."

"Why would you do that?"

"I didn't have much choice. The Reapers, the Militia, the Ice Freaks and Junkmen? They all got smart. Started turning off the electricity whenever they planned on taking me out. No energy, no way to recharge after taking out enemies at range. No choice." I sighed as I rubbed the back of my head. I felt her hand on my shoulder and gave her an appreciative grin before folding my arms. "So. Can I see her?"

"I… don't know how to bring her out."

"Just… feel for it. I don't know."

"Feel for it?" I shrugged, not knowing what else to tell her.

"You don't have to do it right now. Just give it a chance in the future. I'll change the subject. You want to know how I can do everything? Truth is, I don't know how. My body just acts on instinct and I keep moving. Never bothered learning how it all works."

"Well, then it's a good thing we found you. We can study it. And honestly, it'll help us counter any electricity based Metahumans like Livewire, here."

"Livewire?"

"Oh, right! So, a couple of years ago, when we first learned about the Multiverse, Barry tried finding Earth-2 so we could get the jump on its Metas coming here and the man sending them."

"Zoom, right?"

"Right. Our first attempt had Barry being sent to Earth-38. This Earth had aliens and…"

"Metahumans as well, I suppose?"

"Right. Livewire and the Silver Banshee gave Barry and the hero he met there, Supergirl, a bit of trouble. Mainly because they didn't know how to handle the team up of sonic attacks and electrical discharge."

"Did they try water? That shorts out my electricity."

"I don't know if they thought of that. They just turned the two against each other."

"Well, whatever the case, let's get to studying. You just need me to do what I do, right?"

"Yes. We have highspeed cameras set up in the Particle Accelerator for when we need to monitor Barry's movements while he's running. Head in there and let loose. I'll record it all from the control room and we'll go over the footage then."

"Sounds like a plan." I followed her directions and decided to find something to drain on the way there and back. I pulsed and felt a room where there wasn't a door. I quirked an eyebrow and traced my hand along the wall. I drained a flow of electricity from the wall and saw it fold in on itself. Inside was a secret room with a single pedestal and a yellow version of Barry's suit. Thawne's suit. The Reverse Flash. I went to the pedestal and grinned. "What was the name Barry said? Gideon?"

I watched as a blue holographic face appeared before me. "Hello," it said.

"You're the A.I. Barry develops in the future, right?"

"That is affirmative, Mr. MacGrath."

"You know who I am?" I watched as a picture of me wearing a blue and black blazer with a golden Amp in hand stood proudly atop a building over a man with grey, rocky skin, a collapsed building behind me.

"Cole MacGrath. Hero of the Apokolips Invasion. Founding member of the Justice League, and only member of the League who's identity is not hidden to the public. Married to…"

"Cole," called Caitlin in the hall. I turned away for just a second before turning back to the A.I. and saw it disappear.

"Stupid machine," I muttered before leaving the room and hearing the room close behind me.

"Something wrong?"

"Just trying to find something to drain before and after everything on the way there. Using my powers takes some energy I keep in reserve."

"Hmm. Hey, do you crave more energy?"

"Not really, I just get a headache when I'm in a powered down zone. Lack of nearby electrical sources tends to feel like a dead zone to me. Why?"

"I just remembered the only Meta like you we've encountered. Farooq Gibran. Cisco called him Blackout. He was like you, but he didn't have as fine a control as you seem to have. And he also had a massive hunger for more energy. When Barry first fought him, he actually stole his energy, like you accidentally did with Wally last week. He could even drain the bioelectric energy in a human, much like you said you do."

"So you're worried I'm gonna behave the same way."

"I didn't…"

"Hey, I'm not judging you. You have the right idea to be worried. I'm an unknown element in this world. So this Farooq guy. He better looking than me?" Caitlin rolled her eyes and pushed me down the hall as I chuckled. We spent the next hour going over each of my powers. I demonstrated my Ice Grenade when Caitlin's voice seemed to change, sounder colder and augmented.

"So you control ice?"

"Frost, I assume?"

"That's correct." I grinned at the camera.

"Mind if I meet you face to face?"

"I don't see why not." I walked back to the control room, draining a power box on my way back. When I arrived, Caitlin's appearance had changed. Her skin and hair had turned pale white and her eyes were shining blue. I smiled at her.

"Nice to meet you."

"Likewise. So, who are you, Handsome?"

"Handsome? Helluva complement. Name's Cole, Beautiful." I grinned as she blushed lightly and hid it by turning away.

"Don't try and butter me up."

"Do you hear anything she does?"

"No. Why?"

"Well then you should hear the compromise I suggested for you."

"What compromise?"

"Instead of you fighting over who gets control, you share control. You both inhabit this body. Sharing it equally like sisters makes more sense than her fearing you and you pushing through. It's not like you can argue that it's not beneficial to both of you. This way you get some leg room and Caitlin knows she doesn't have to fear you. You don't have to be like the Earth-2 version." Frost looked me over before smiling and walking over to me.

"Well, Cole. Why would you suggest this?"

"I know something about duality." I sparked up my hands from blue to red and grinned at her. She smirked at me.

"I think you've given me something to think about. Tell Caitlin I'm not against your little compromise, Handsome." I grinned as she closed her eyes and her appearance returned to Caitlin's. She blinked as she noticed how close we were and blushed before backing away.

"Um… did… did she…"

"We had a pleasant chat. I told her about my suggestion. She told me to tell you, she's not against it."

"Oh! Uh… that's good, I suppose. Um…"

"Look at you two getting all cozy," said Cisco as he, Barry, Joe, Wally and Iris walked into the control room. I chuckled.

"Your timing sucks, Ramon."

"Hey, don't call me that. Alright? It's Cisco." He plugged in a flash drive into his super computer and turned it to us. "Alright, so this is the code I found at the crime scene. I'm using the Cortex's quantum algorithm to try and ID the hacker. But while we wait…" He turned to Barry with a shit eating grin. "I've got a welcome back gift for you." We followed him to where he unveiled Barry's new suit. "Ka-blam!"

"You made me a new suit," asked Barry.

"That I did."

"Yeah," said Wally. "We all know you gave Barry's suit a nice little fancy makeover."

"Envy thy name is Wally," I said with a grin.

"That's not all I did," said Cisco. "It's also got some upgrades. Underneath all this beautiful red, I've built in self-repairing armor, nano-liquid circuitry, full-spectrum scanning and a whole bunch of other words. Chief among them…" he pressed a button and the eyes of the cowl were covered by yellow lenses. "Your own custom HUD." I shook my head.

"You teched out… a suit."

"Excuse me. It's a super suit, thank you very much."

"And what happens when, I don't know, something makes those things a detriment rather than a helpful asset."

"Ok, one: nothing like that is gonna happen. And two: who are you the tech police?"

"I'm a guy who knows technology can be as troublesome as it is convenient. All that tech is gonna come back to bite you in the ass."

"Again. Not gonna happen."

"Well," said Barry. "I for one appreciate it, Cisco."

"Thank you." Cisco grinned and then handed him a binder. "And here's the instruction manual."

"…Yay."

"Really great work," said Iris with a smile as Cisco walked away.

"I know," he shouted over his shoulder.

I looked at the code being looked over by the quantum supercomputer as Barry started talking with Iris. I turned to him as he told her he cancelled the day's training session and Iris' hidden surprise and disdain. I tapped Barry on the shoulder. "Buddy, no offense, but you've been out of the game for six months. You sure cancelling training is smart?"

"Sure. I don't think we need it. Besides, me and Iris should spend a little more time together."

"Have you even spoken with her about this?"

"He hasn't," said Iris. I shook my head.

"You can't just be gone for six months and expect everything to be the same, guy. You want some advice? Sit down and talk. Otherwise you'll be doing more harm than good."

"What," asked Barry. "No. I…"

"He's right, Barry," said Iris. I walked away as Iris started to talk with him and went to the tech lab where Cisco went. He looked up at me as I placed the Amp in front of him.

"Mind giving me some suggestions?"

"On what?"

"The Amp, man. While I'm on this Earth, I might as well get a bit of an upgrade to the Amp."

"The Amp." Cisco picked up the double pronged cattle prod and looked it over. "Not a bad name. What kind of upgrades did you have in mind?"

"How about something to help me shoot from it."

"Shoot from it?"

"Like this." I blasted one of his monitors.

"Hey! Watch the equipment!"

"Sorry. But I want to do something like that but at long range."

"Don't you have a Precision Strike?"

"I do but I use too much energy when I shoot it. I figure if I use a buffer, I can make more accurate shots at range with half the output."

"I see… Leave the Amp with me for a few days. I'll see what I can cook up."

"Nothing on the scan yet?"

"No. It's weird. Normally, we'd be able to figure out where you're from by now. Might be just a glitch though."

"See, technology can be a hassle."

"Not the tech I put into the suit, Sparky."

"Sparky? That's the best you could come up with?"

"Hey, they can't all be winners, alright?" I shook my head and looked over a random device as he looked up at me. "So. You and Caitlin?"

"What about us?"

"Nothing. Just noticed she was blushing as we walked into the control room."

"That was after she resumed control from Frost." Cisco turned to me slowly.

"Frost was in control?!"

"Would you calm down? She was interested in my ice powers and took control to speak with me. While we spoke I put the idea of coexistence in both of their minds."

"Is that such a good idea?"

"The more Caitlin fears her other half, the more dangerous Frost will be. This way she gets peace of mind and you get an ally you can trust."

"How sure are you that this will work?"

"Better the Demon you know, right?" Cisco was about to speak up when his phone beeped.

"Gah…" I followed him as he rushed from the room and alarms started going off in the lab.

"The hell is going on?!"

"My girlfriend is coming!"

"And what's with the alarms?!"

"My girlfriend is coming!" I just kept following him. Cisco stood in front of Wally, Iris, and Caitlin as a blue portal opened behind him. "Whoa! Hey, hey, hey! Hold your fire!"

"It's his girlfriend!" Iris and Caitlin lowered the weapons they were holding as Wally relaxed his stance. As the blue portal closed, a woman jumped out and smiled at us.

"Hey," she said.

"Gypsy," said Cisco. "Can you give me more of a heads-up next time? People who want to kill us come through here."

"Oh. Sorry guys."

"I think this guy damn near had a heart attack at the thought of them firing on you," I said.

"Yeah," said Wally. "Very cool of you to protect your girlfriend like that."

"Dude," said Cisco. "I was protecting you from her. She'd have vaporized you guys."

"Well," I said as I sparked up my arms. "She would try."

"Oh he's right," said Gypsy.

"As you were," said Cisco before turning to her and I shook my head before zapping him in the ass as I walked away. "He-ey!" I chuckled as I felt him glare at me before heading back to the control room. An alert sounded as I was passing lightning between my hands out of boredom and Iris pulled up a screen as Barry and Wally stood beside her. I barely paid attention until Barry raced off with Wally saying he could help.

"He always like that," I asked.

"No," said Iris. I turned to Wally.

"Get me on that car and let me work. I get the feeling something bad is gonna happen." Wally nodded and suited up in a second before racing with me after Barry. We overheard Barry mention it was a runaway and Iris tell Barry which way to send the car with Barry going the opposite way thinking it was safer.

"Barry," shouted Iris on the coms. "That way isn't safe! They started construction on that street three months ago!"

"Wally," I shouted. "Get me onto that car!" Wally raced ahead as Barry raced away for some reason and put me on the car, keeping pace with the vehicle as we came closer to the construction site. I activated my Kinetic Pulse and lifted the car into the air with me on top of it. I hopped off, keeping the car in the air as the tires continued to spin. I looked at the unfortunate driver. "Get out, now!"

"The doors are locked," the man shouted. "I can't get them open!"

"Kick out the windshield! Kid Flash, help him out!" He kicked at the windshield a few times before he managed to break it off. Wally hurried and helped him out of the car. I drained the car while it was still in the air until the tires stopped. Iris had explained to me that cars in this world could be controlled by onboard computers and were practically self-driving. I drained the car completely and dropped it after magnetically locking the brakes as Barry ran back with a toolbox in hand.

"Thank you! Holy crap!" Barry and Wally asked the man if he was ok and what had happened as I looked around. I idly ignored the construction workers as I looked around. Months of fighting gangs meant I was always listening for gunshots, screams of fright, shouts of anger, and anything that could put lives in danger. Wally tapped me on my shoulder, and I turned to him.

"You ok," he asked.

"Kid, I've been in two cities controlled by trigger happy psychos before ending up here. Do you expect me not to be on edge out of instinct?"

"Right. Sorry. Forgot about your situation for a second."

"It's fine, kid." I nodded to the man from the car. "He ok?"

"Shaken up. But he's fine. You should stick around. Tell the police how you helped."

"Yeah, I'm not one for sticking around after helping someone."

"Hey, while you're here, you gotta used to how things work."

"Yeah, yeah."

"Hey. Not everyone is in danger of an out of control gang on this Earth. You don't have to worry."

"Habits, man. Can't really shut them off." I sighed and looked over the car before spotting something on the screen in the dashboard. "Hey, doesn't that look like the code Cisco is going over?" Wally looked in the car and nodded.

"It looks exactly like the same code."

"Looks like our hacker's targeting specific people. Which means there could be more people being targeted. We should show Cisco this. Though how we're going to get it out without driving a potentially compromised vehicle is…" I blinked as Barry dismantled the car before handing me the onboard computer. "…beyond me. Ok, that was annoying."

"You get used to it," said Wally.

"Well, that's going to take a while." I looked at the man before thinking for a second. "Hold on. I want to try something." I walked over to the man. "Pal, I'm gonna need you to stay still, alright?"

"What are you…" He started before I tapped my fingers against his temple and surged my electricity slightly. I groaned before flashes of the car ride from hell played in reverse until the beginning.

"What the hell is going on with my playlist? What?" I looked up when I felt someone watching me. "Ramsey Deacon? What the hell?! Whoa! Whoa!"

I groaned as I shook my head and he scrambled backwards staring up at me. "You… what'd you…"

"What did you do," asked Barry.

"I reviewed his memories," I said as my vision cleared. "There was a man beside his car before the thing went haywire. A man he knew. Ramsey Deacon. What's weird is the memory showed his eye glowing purple like the coding from the elevator Cisco is reviewing just before the car went haywire."

"How did you know that," asked the man.

"Your memories showed me. Mind telling us how you know him?"

The man, Tim Kwon, let us know exactly what had been going on. He and Deacon had been co-partners with two other people on a malware program they called Kilgore. Deacon was credited for its creation but with success comes envy. Their partners, Kurt Weaver and Sheila Agnani, had convinced Tim to sell the program to a tech company and leave Deacon out of the deal, swiping the program out from under him. The three of them rose to success while Deacon fell to obscurity. And now it turns out that he's finally taking out his grudge against the three. He'd already killed Kurt Weaver and nearly did the same to Tim. He was out for revenge and wouldn't stop until he got it. And to make matters worse, from Tim's memories, it looked like Deacon was now a Meta. The police soon arrived and took Tim into protective custody. I went with them to help protect him while Barry and Wally took the computer to Cisco to analyze the code. When I arrived, Joe started taking statements from both of us.

I sighed as I walked beside Joe after giving my statement. "Suck it up," he said. "It's procedure to have to do this."

"Doesn't mean I have to like it. In Empire City and New Marais, the police were more than happy to let me move on to wherever else I was needed."

"Those cities were under quarantine and marshal law. Central City isn't. We still have to follow the law here."

"I get it. It's just gonna take some getting used to." Joe bumped into a man as we walked past him.

"Oh, sorry."

"No," said the man. I glanced at him and stared. "It's my bad."

"Joe," I said as the man started walking away. "That's him."

"What," asked Joe.

"That's Ramsey Deacon." Joe looked at the man he just bumped into and took a step forward.

"Excuse me. Sir?" Deacon glanced back as the door he had just past opened and a roving bot came out with a…

"Grenade," exclaimed a cop as people started running away. I drained the bot before it could drop the grenade and turned back to the exit before racing after Deacon who made a break for it in the confusion. I called up the lab using the number Caitlin gave me in case of emergencies.

"Cole, what's going on," asked Caitlin.

"Tracking the Meta who hacked the elevator and just tried again to kill Tim Kwon! Send Wally here, now!"

"I can get there faster," exclaimed Barry.

"Bad idea. All that tech in your suit can most likely be sensed by him like I can sense electricity! Wally doesn't have that downside. Hang back or get into a less tricked out suit! Wally, need you here now!" I followed him outside and fired an Alpha Bolt that struck Deacon in the back and knocked him off his feet. A few seconds later, Wally arrived as Deacon stood up and turned to me.

"What the hell," exclaimed the Meta.

"It's over, Deacon. I'm handing you over to the police for the murder of Kurt Weaver and attempted murder of Tim Kwon."

"I didn't do those things."

"Oh really? Then I'm sure those lines of code aren't yours? Guess someone else should take the credit for Kilgore 2.0." He winced before glaring at me.

"Kilgore was my idea! My invention! And they stole it from me! But now?! I am Kilgore! They deserve what's coming! I'm just dishing out justice!"

"Here's what I think of that." I blasted him into the air with a Graviton Blast. Wally went to catch him and diverted course as Deacon started controlling nearby traffic lights to cause several wrecks to stop Wally from getting him. I sent a Bolt Stream into his body until he was on the ground. He groaned as he moved to his knees. Several cops ran up alongside me. He glared as they pulled out what Caitlin described to me as Meta-cuffs. Deacon glared at me before his eyes glowed again and one of the cops faltered slightly as he clutched his chest.

"Modern pacemakers. Useful piece of technology."

"Stop it!"

"Let me go free and I'll let him live."

"I said stop it!" I shocked his head while he was down and started to Pulse Heal the cop who had collapsed to the ground. I restarted his pacemaker and healed whatever injuries he had. He groaned as he sat up and I sighed. I looked at Deacon and saw he was lying still. My bolt had killed him. I frowned as the cops turned to me. "Dammit." Joe ran out and spotted the incident. I turned to the cop with the cuffs and held out my arms. He looked at me in surprise and I nodded. "Gotta follow protocol, right?" The cops hesitated briefly before putting the cuffs on my wrists. I followed them back to the building and glanced down at my fingers before attempting to surge electricity through them. When it worked, I closed them and continued following the cops with Joe standing nearby.

(Hidden Location in Central City)

Clifford Devoe watched the camera footage as the mysterious electrokinetic killed Ramsey Deacon. Twice now this man had disrupted his plans. Not only had the Flash returned at a different point than his plans required, but now one of the elements of his ultimate goal was now dead! Clifford glared at the image as his wife turned to him. "Will this cause complications to the overall goal?"

"…No. It just means I need to rework some things. This anomaly will not even hinder me despite this… unfortunate outcome." Devoe glared once more at the electric man before going to work thinking of a new means of achieving his ultimate plan.

(Author's Notes)

Thanks for taking an interest in this story, guys. This story has been on my mind for a bit and I thought I'd put it out there and see where it takes me. As for the dialogue, here's the explanation. The inclusion of a new person in certain events will only change the major moments, such as Barry's return to sanity, his new suit and Kilgore's fate. Minor things such as dialogue initially isn't something affected too much by an anomaly like Cole until he puts in his two cents. And yes, for the sake of Cole's powers when he uses his evil karma state, I gave him the experience of using it through the events of Festival of Blood. Review and let me know what you guys think of this. Until next time, Y'all!