"Peter Allen and Bobby Drake watched their relatives become close and noticed how they got along." The Watcher commented as he looked down. "But as Peter and Mary Jane became closer, Bobby put their plan into action. And I have to say...it's definitely a sibling moment."

Barry was currently walking up to a restaurant that Peter called him to. Walking in, he started to look around to find where he was. But as he looked around, he then noticed that he wasn't anywhere around. But there was a certain familiar doctor of his.

"Barry?" Caitlin asked as she strolled over to Barry. "What are you doing here?"

"I'm supposed to be meeting Peter here," Barry admitted, gesturing to the door. "But I think I might've been given the wrong address."

"Yeah, I was also meeting Bobby here," Caitlin admitted. "But...I don't know, something doesn't feel right."

Barry then got a thought and walked over to the man behind the desk. "Excuse me, I think I have a reservation. Not quite sure. Under the name Peter Parker or Barry Allen?"

"Let me see." The receptionist said as he opened a book and looked through it. Taking a moment, it felt like an eternity for someone like Barry. "Ah, here it is. Barry Allen and Caitlin Snow. Table for two."

Barry laughed at that while Caitlin only became confused. "I don't get it. What's happening?"

"Our Peter and Bobby set us up on a blind date." Barry couldn't believe what he was saying. "That cheeky little..."

Caitlin blushed at the thought, not believing that Bobby did this. Yet again, she should have known this was coming after their talk the other day about Peter being Spider-Man.

"What do we do now? Leave?" Barry asks Caitlin, even though he'd willingly stay.

"You know what? Why don't we have something to eat?" Caitlin asked Barry. "I mean, the place looks nice a lot. And we could get back at them if they chose a place with terrible food."

Barry couldn't help but grin as that sounded like two birds in one scenario he'd willingly take. "I like that idea."

A waitress then led them to their table once it was ready and allowed them to look over the menu. "Hi. I'm Karen, I'll be your waitress today. You need a minute, or do you know what you want?"

"We're going to need a moment," Caitlin confirmed to the waitress.

"Okay. I'll be around when you're ready." Karen assured them and walked off after leaving menus with them.

The two then started to look over their menus, wondering what they were going to be eating. Barry remembered he needed to be careful with his calories due to his power and speed. Not to mention his heart is pounding so fast, even for him.

"Where's a crime when you need one?" Barry asked, trying to break the silence.

Caitlin laughed, knowing exactly what he was talking about. "Yeah, seems the city went quiet for these two to pull a fast one on us."

"I don't even get what they were thinking," Barry commented, thinking back. "Did they think that we spend so much time together we need to like each other?"

"Well, you have to admit, we did spend a significant amount of time together outside the labs." Caitlin reminded him, thinking back to when he showed her around his labs, then the time at the movies. "You gotta admit, from their point of view, it is understandable."

Barry thought about it and saw that she did raise some good points. "Okay, that's fair enough."


Back with Peter and Bobby, they were currently outside the restaurant on the rooftops, Peter messing with the signal going in and out of the building.

"And for the next two hours, neither of them will be receiving any calls or be making any," Peter said as he finished his work. "Some other guys in there are gonna be thanking me."

"That also means for the next two hours, we gotta keep the city safe," Bobby said as he was trying to use his powers.

Even when he's able to use quick blasts of mist, he knew he needed to be able to at least form his ice skin to be helpful. He's slowly getting there, and with the temperature dropping, and the holidays coming around, his powers are becoming stronger.

"And by we, you mean me," Peter replied when his senses suddenly went off. "Uh-oh."

"What?" Bobby asks as they looked out in the sky.

In the air, they saw a giant cloud of sand flying through the sky. Seeing as there has never been a sandstorm in the city before, they knew that there had to be someone or something behind this.

Taking off as he changed into his suit and puts on his mask, Peter started to chase after the sandstorm.


Down the street that the sandstorm was going down, an armored truck on its way to a bank was on the same road. Sad for them, this was the location that the sandstorm was coming after. As they drove down the street, there was a thump on the ceiling, followed by the roof being crushed before they could even react.

When the roof was smashed open, they saw that there was a giant man that was made of sand. When one of the guards pulled their gun, the sandman just flooded the compartment, causing the car to speed up due to the weight on the pedal.

As the car was speeding up, Peter was swinging through the streets and shot a web onto the back of the truck. This gave him the power to pull himself and reach the truck. Leaping off the roof, he made his way inside to see what the metahuman was doing

Flint was currently taking the giant compartments of money and shoving them inside of some duffle bags that he brought with him. But he quickly stopped when he heard someone else coming in through the same way he did.

"Jiggs up, pal," Peter informed the man, ready to take him down.

Until he saw his face.

Flint turned around to face Spider-Man, missing the look of shock and terror on Peter's face. He stared into Flint's eyes and immediately recognized the man in front of him. He thought of that face for the past year. Every day, he would memorize the image of the description drawn by the sketch artist.

"Flint Marko," Peter whispered in fear.

"How do you know my name?" Flint asked him.

"That doesn't matter." Peter snarled, not going to let him escape. "I won't let you leave!"

"Alright." Flint supposed.

Flint went in to punch Peter, but he immediately ducked to dodge the punch. He then went in for his own punch, hitting flint in the stomach. But to Peter's shock, when he did hit him, all it did was end up turning into sand.

"What?" Peter asked as he looked up at Flint.

Flint then enlarged his fist using sand and punch Peter. That sends Peter at the door, knocking it off its hinges, and the two go flying. Working fast, Peter shot a web at the truck, using his feet on the door like a board.

"Whoo! I got lessons from Marty McFly!" Peter joked, using the webs to stay with the truck. Then he noticed Flint was making his way up to the roof, two bags full of cash in hand.

Not letting him get away, Peter leaped up and sent small projectiles of webbing in his direction. The projectiles left small dents in his body, but it wasn't enough to stop him. Peter dodged the swing Flint went with, allowing him to land on the roof.

Working with his powers, Peter spun around and hits Flint's legs. It seemed he was able to predict what would happen, as his legs turned to sand. While he was trying to catch himself, it gave Peter the chance to grab the bags of money and toss them back inside.

It seemed Flint was angered by this as he turned his fist into a giant hammer and punched Peter, sending him flying. Landing on the side of a building, Peter quickly leaped back at Marko, not wanting to let him get away.

But as he went back in, he was blinded by rage that he missed the second swing of his fist. Shooting a web, Peter stuck to the truck when he was sent flying. He went swinging into traffic, landing face-first into a bus before swinging back at the truck.

Landing on the side, Peter tried to shake off the injuries from the truck. But then Flint punched him with a hammer fist again, sending him into the truck.

"The hammer thing is getting old." Peter groaned as he climbed to his feet.

But then he noticed that they were heading towards a garbage truck, with the two drivers stuck in the sand. Their voices were muffled, the sand reaching their mouths, but they could breathe from their noses.

But Peter immediately understood they were calling for help and grabbed them both, pulling them through the window and tossing them out the back. Shooting a web net out to catch them before they hit the road, but he wasn't fast enough to save himself.

Peter ended up taking a stumble and fall. Flying around the car, he waited for it to finish crashing. Once the car stopped moving, Peter crawled his way out and landed on the sand.

He grabbed his arm, feeling like the crash might've broken something, and saw that the guards survived thanks to him. But it didn't matter. As he looked around, he saw that there was no sign of Flint Marko anywhere.

Grunting in anger, Peter smacked the ground in anger and leaped off. Shooting a web, he landed on the roof of a building to take a minute. Removing his mask, he spat out the sand that made its way into his mask.

"I hate my life," Peter stated as he reached down, removing his boot, and allowing more sand to get out.


Barry and Caitlin, however, we're having a good time. With their phone service coming back online in ten minutes, they enjoyed the silence that Bobby and Peter gave them.

"I wish you have let me pay for at least half of the meal," Caitlin said to Barry. "I didn't want you to pay for the whole thing."

"Well, it was my pleasure," Barry tells her. "Besides, isn't it like some sworn rule the man needs to pay for the meal on the first date?"

That comment left Caitlin shocked as she looked at Barry, a little flustered. "So...this was a date?"

Barry didn't even realize what he had said until Caitlin pointed it out. "Well...is that okay? To call it a date?"

Caitlin needed a moment to think about it and shrugged. "You know what? Sure. I don't get why we think that we can't do this."

"Really?" Barry was shocked to hear that. "Well, what do you think of an idea for a second date?"

Caitlin smiled as she walked closer to him. "I say you better get your brother to repeat this."

"How about instead we do it on our own terms?" Barry asked, feeling he and her shouldn't need to rely on Bobby or Peter anymore.

"Fair." Caitlin shrugged as they came up to her car. "Well, I'll see you at the labs tomorrow."

"See you then," Barry confirmed as Caitlin got in her car and he watched her drive off.

Just when he was about to run home, his phone went off and he saw it was Joe. "Hey, Joe. What's up?"


When Barry made it to the crime scene, he was shocked to hear that Peter didn't call him in for this. Seeing the damage done, he wondered who could have done all of this.

"Witnesses say that they saw a man made of sand," Eddie commented to Joe and Barry. "Fought with Spider-Man down the street before escaping."

"Well, the money is still here, so it seems whoever it was didn't get away with it," Joe commented, looking back in the truck.

"But who was it?" Eddie asks.

"I might have an answer on that," Yuriko commented as she came in and raised a paper to them. It was a sketch artist's claim of what the man looked like, according to witnesses. It looked exactly like a familiar paper that was sketched a year ago. "Look familiar?"

"Oh my god," Eddie said in shock, looking at the photo. "That's Flint Marko."

"Who?" Barry asked, feeling he missed something.

"He murdered a retired cop last year," Yuri informed them. "A Ben Parker."

Joe was shocked to hear that as this was the first that he's heard of it and looked to Barry. Barry was looking just as surprised, being told by May during dinner how she lost her husband. But the way she worded it, it sounded like he died during the explosion, not a homicide.


Peter was in STAR Labs with Bobby, Wells, and Cisco, telling everyone there about the man he had fought.

"Incredible. This man has the ability to transform every molecular being in his body into sand." Wells commented as he looked over the footage that they attained.

"A man made of sand," Cisco commented, thinking of a name. "Sandman!"

"Very original," Bobby commented on the name.

"You got something better?" Cisco dared him.

"Sand Demon?" Bobby asked.

"Terrible," Cisco replies.

"Call him whatever you want. We need to take him down." Peter stated, not ready to let this man get away. "We need to find him. Track every grain of sand in the city."

"Hey, Pete, I get you want payback, but-" Cisco was saying when Barry and Joe came in.

"Actually, you don't." Joe was sorry to say as he eyed Peter. "Eddie just informed us of something very interesting."

"Flint Marko is someone of personal interest to you, isn't he?" Barry asked, looking as Peter looked down. "He killed Ben Parker."

"Ben Parker," Wells repeated, looking over to Peter. "I'm guessing a relative?"

"He was my uncle," Peter confirmed in sadness.

Barry knew that this was something that they needed to talk about alone. "Can we have the room, guys?"

Everyone decided to do just that, leaving the siblings alone to talk. Peter walked over and lays against the wall as Barry leaned against the computers.

"What are you thinking?" Barry asked him, wanting to hear Peter out.

Peter looked up to Barry, tears in his eyes. "That I had my uncle's killer in my grasp and let him slip away. I almost had him!"

"Pete, there is nothing you could have done to prevent his death." Barry tried to help, thinking of what people have told him over the years.

"That's where you're wrong," Peter whispered in anger at himself. "When I learned I was adopted, I went home, and I was out late. When I got back, Ben was yelling at me for being out too late. When I had had enough...I blew up on him."

"How dare I?! How dare you! You had ten years to tell me the truth and you chose not to!"

Peter then lets tears flow as he remembered their last conversation. "He tried to teach me important, and I threw it back in his face." He then wiped the tears from his eyes. "If it weren't for me blowing up on him, he would still be here."

Barry remembered this is almost exactly how he sounded when their mother was killed. After everything that has happened, and his want to try and get his father out of prison, he could understand the want to try and get vengeance.

"Peter, you shouldn't go after him again," Barry replied. "I think you should go home."

Peter sighed, knowing that Flint wasn't going to reappear anytime soon. "Barry, I will give you a fair warning. I have searched for this man for a year. I will not stop."

Barry was sorry to hear that and sighed. "Then when the time comes, I'll be sure to stop you."

Peter then walked off, getting tired from such a long day. Barry was left to watch him leave the labs, wondering what his brother was willing to do to stop the man who killed his uncle.


"Peter Parker has no idea how far he can go to take down this man." The Watcher commented as he looked down on the city. Even he himself doesn't know. "In every world, Peter Parker is capable of stopping himself from going too far. But...there are some universes where Peter Parker goes too far. What kind of universe this is, we are left to wait and see."

Peter laid back in his bed and sighed at what happened. His uncle's killer was back. He had him. Flint Marko was right there, but he still got away. He needed to talk to someone.

Taking out his phone, he shot the only other person he knew that knew his story.

Peter: Hey, can we talk?

MJ: I'm always here for you, Tiger.

Peter: My uncle's killer is back.

After reading that, it took him a moment as all Peter saw was those three dots coming in and out. Seems it's taking her some time to figure out what to say.

MJ: You just cut to the chase, don't you?

Peter: Funny.

MJ: Sorry. Not helpful.

MJ: How do you feel?

Peter: Like I failed.

Peter: Failed to bring him to justice.

MJ: Tiger, you're one guy. You can't be expected to stop a murderer.

Peter: He's got powers.

Peter: He can turn himself into sand.

MJ: Ugh. Sand. It's coarse. Rough, and irritating.

Peter ended up laughing after reading that and quickly texted back.

Peter: And it gets everywhere.

MJ: Wanna meet up tomorrow?

Peter: Yes, please.

MJ: Meet me at Jitters?

Peter: Sounds like a plan.