The night that Peter talked to Norman, the man was taking a sip of his drink when he heard the maniacal laughter throughout his home. Spinning around, he looked and saw there was nobody around.
"Somebody there?" Norman asked, looking around.
"Somebody." An eerie voice called out.
"Who said that?" Norman asked, looking around as he tried to locate the source.
"Don't play innocent with me." The voice warned as Norman walked around. "You've known. You've always known."
"Where are you?" Norman asked.
"Follow the cold shiver running down your spine." The voice dared the scientist.
Norman did just that, looking around the room until he then found himself facing the mirror. "I don't understand."
The reflection then smiled as he took control of Norman's body and strolled closer. "Did you think it was a coincidence? So many good things happening to you. All for you. Norman."
"What do you want?" Norman asked the reflection.
"To say what you won't. To do what you can't." Goblin explains and raises the paper he was carrying. "To remove those in your way."
Norman then took a look and saw it was talking about the attack on STARK Industries. "You attacked them?"
"We attacked them!" Goblin corrected him. "Remember our experiment in the labs?"
Norman then remembered the experiment that he did on himself back on the night the accelerator exploded. "The performance enhancers."
"Bingo," Goblin said as he gestured to himself. "Me. Bringing you all that you wanted. Power beyond your wildest dreams, and it's just the beginning. There's only one person who can stand in our way. First...we need to find out who he is."
Goblin then grew a grin and started to laugh at Norman.
PRESENT DAY:
"Time. Time is the true god among men, always there, but always out of sight. Never there until you think of it." The Watcher says as he looked down as Ronnie Raymond and Martin Stein were stumbling to try and find help. "And time is something they're running out of..."
It has been a while since their last encounter with the Burning Man also known as Ronnie Raymond and they got a report saying he attacked someone the night before and they now know he can't be left alone anymore. Cisco is helping Joe out with something, so he wasn't around for the conversation.
"Well, it appears letting Ronnie roam free is no longer an option," Wells says as they're starting a search for him.
"He's not even Ronnie anymore," Caitlin states while searching. "He's Martin Stein walking around in Ronnie's body, like a vampire." She states.
"I'd think of it more like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, personally," Peter states as he remembered watching the movie with May on movie night.
"Is there a movie out there that you haven't seen?" Bobby asked his friend.
"Is there a reason that Stein's brain is in control of Ronnie's body, not the other way around?" Barry asks anyone.
"Simple Darwinism I suspect." Wells theorizes. "A brand-new organism will select the strongest parts of itself to survive. Survival of the fittest. In this case being, Ronnie's body, steins mind."
"In any event, he badly hurt an innocent man, and we have hunted metahuman for less." Wells states and looks to Caitlin. "Caitlin, we need to know you're on board with this."
Caitlin had already come to terms that Ronnie is gone and they needed to stop the Burning Man from hurting people. "How do you suppose we find him?"
"Quentin Quale, the scientist that Ronnie attacked, he's a former colleague of Martian Stein. If Martin is indeed in control of Ronnie's body, he may be trying to figure out what exactly is happening to him."
"What do we know about him?" Barry asks them. "I mean, I don't know what Stein looks like."
Wells then quickly pulled up a photo of the man and Barry was shocked when he noticed who he was. "Meet Martin Stein."
"Wait. I met him." Barry realized.
"You did?" Peter asked.
"On the night that the accelerator exploded," Barry explains.
Peter then got a message, causing him to focus on that, and became worried. "Okay, I'd love to hear more, but I have a lunch date to get to."
"You do?" Bobby asks.
"Yeah, I'm gonna meet up with MJ," Peter confirmed and sighed, looking at the torn suit. "And I need to get that suit fixed sooner or later. It's gonna become breezy sooner or later."
"Cisco's working on something for you," Caitlin assured Peter. "He thinks it's something you'll be proud of."
"I'll hold him to it," Peter said and started to make his way out.
Meanwhile, a certain someone had been flying around the city using Spot's device, looking through the city for the Web-Headed hero. But while he was waiting for him to show up, he decided to cause some chaos in the streets to draw him out.
He left a pumpkin bomb that then blew up a car in the middle of the streets. That got Peter's attention as he was passing the street just as it was happening. The car was flipping over and the person inside was going to get hurt until Peter landed on the hood, holding his hands and feet out.
Connecting his feet to the street and the undercarriage of the car, he managed to land and save the car from crashing. Sighing in relief, he then dropped the car safely and allowed them to go on about their day.
"There's nothing like catching a car first thing in the morning." Peter joked as he shot a web and started to swing towards the cafe where he was meeting MJ at.
But what he missed was that the Green Goblin came in through a black hole and started to follow the hero. Luckily Peter's senses went off, causing him to quickly stop and land on the side of the building.
Then at that moment before he could turn around, Goblin activated a black hole and escaped. That's when Peter started to look around and notice that there was no sign of anybody. He was looking around, wondering what could have triggered his Spider-Senses, but didn't see anything.
"That's odd," Peter commented, unsure how that was possible. His senses wouldn't go off unless there was a threat nearby. "Meh, must have just been a flunk."
Then he just went back to swinging, his senses constantly going off every few seconds. But every time that he looked back, all he saw was clear and open skies. Deciding to just ignore it, for the time being, Peter made it into the alley near his date and saw nobody around so he could change.
But he missed that the Green Goblin came flying in to watch as he started to change. "Yes, yes. Do it. Unmask yourself to me."
Peter then yanked off his mask just as his senses went off again. He spun to look around the alley and revealed his face to the Green Goblin.
"What?" Goblin asked in shock, keeping himself out of Peter's line of sight. "The Green Goblin's greatest foe is a mere child?"
Norman then forced his way through and was shocked. "Spider-Man is just a boy?"
Goblin however forced his way back out. "Quiet, Osborn. We still need to find out who this boy is."
Peter made it to the cafe and found MJ had already ordered as he walked over. "Hey, sorry. Am I late?"
"Yes," MJ confirmed with a grin. "Which is right on time for you."
Peter was shocked and was a little impressed with how willing she was to wait for him. No matter how much he learned about her, he always learns something new that impresses him.
The Watcher looked down as the rest of the team decide to ask Martian's wife Clarissa if she knows anything about what was going on with Ronnie and Stein.
"Of course, I've heard of STAR Labs. Martin was always vocal about the competition." Clarissa explains to Barry as the others look around their home for any leads.
"STAR Labs is actually helping the CCPD look into your husband's disappearance, Mrs. Stein," Barry came up with the most plausible excuse he could for her.
"Oh, please. Call me Clarissa." She insists while Wells looks at Stein's achievements.
"The Conway Prize for scientific advancements." Wells reads as he was looking at the awards. "I'd always hoped to win one of these myself. Oh, and look at that. He won it three times."
"Takes a special kind of person to make Dr. Wells jealous," Barry says to Clarissa.
"Well, Martin had a talent for making people jealous," Clarissa tells him.
"And you haven't heard from your husband since he disappeared?" Peter asks her. "No." She explains.
Barry then asks if he can show her a photo of Ronnie and she recognizes him, and he's been following her. They believe that they have more than enough and leave her alone.
"So, it appears Martian Stein and Ronnie Raymond have something in common besides sharing a body. They both feel the need to protect the women they love." Wells puts it together as they're leaving Clarissa's driveway.
"You did say she said she feels like she's being watched. What if she's being watched by him...them? Is it they?" Bobby wonders how you refer to two people becoming one. "What if we just waited for them to come by?"
"Well then." Wells stopped his chair, and they clustered around it. "This is the makings of a stakeout."
"Barry's meeting Iris tonight," Caitlin told Wells with a frown. He hadn't gotten to see his friend much lately, and they had finally planned a time to talk to each other.
"I'll cancel," Barry assured her immediately.
Caitlin gave him a small smile, knowing that he was trying to be there for her through all of this.
"No, go," Wells told him, waving a hand. "If we need you here, something tells me you can come in a hurry."
Barry shrugged and decided to just listen to them. He did seriously need to talk to Iris about writing about the Green Goblin and knew she wasn't going to stop on her own.
Back with Peter and MJ, the two were just walking down the street and continued to talk. Peter also had a part in Barry's mission after being told MJ was looking into the Green Goblin.
"I don't get why you're suddenly interested in this guy," Peter tells MJ. "The guy is dangerous."
"Well, you were looking into him, and I am actually enjoying the reporter aspect," MJ admitted with a smile and shrug. "I figured I knew what I wanted to be when I was getting into show business, but now I think I might wanna change that."
"Yeah, but if you wanna report on something, then could you pick a less dangerous subject?" Peter asked of her.
"Peter Parker, are you asking me to run away from danger?" MJ asked him in sarcastic shock. "You of all people?"
Peter then looked around, as if she was referring to someone else. "What...are you talking about?"
"Isn't your entire job as photographer for the Daily Bugle to run towards the danger?" MJ reminds him.
Peter sighed a little, seeing that's what she was referring to and not to Spider-Man. As he continued to talk to MJ to try and talk her out of it, Goblin was just nearby with a small prototype razor bat listening in on their conversation. After it collected enough of their conversation, it flew over to Goblin and rewound the recording to the interesting parts.
"Peter Parker, are you asking me to run away from danger?" Goblin then rewound the recording. "Peter Parker. Peter Parker."
"Peter Parker," Goblin growled with a giant smile growing on his face.
That night, they were in the STAR Labs van keeping an eye out for Ronnie. Caitlin is in the driver seat whilst Wells is in the passenger side and Peter is in the back with his suit on but has the mask off since there's no need for it yet. Barry was still talking to Iris about this story with the Green Goblin so for backup, Peter called in Bobby.
The two of them were in the back of the STAR Labs van and were just looking for ways to pass the time. For them, the only way they could really do that, especially after the whole Bombshell incident, was by playing paper football.
"You two good on food or would one of you like the rest of my fries?" Wells offers them and Peter took the bag for him and Bobby to split.
"Thanks," Bobby said as he took a handful.
"Why would he come back here?" Caitlin wonders not entirely understanding why Stein would risk it.
"Because this is his home," Wells explains as he finished his burger. "I don't mean the actual house, I mean Clarissa. She is his home. You know, where we feel safe. Where we feel loved. Ronnie's your home."
Caitlin sighed and knew maybe after this that it should be time to be out about the relationship between her and Barry.
Just a second later the Burning man comes flying in and FIRESTORM starts walking around the house. The four of them peeked over and watched as he landed.
"I have a feeling that's our cue?" Bobby asks.
"That's our cue," Peter confirmed as the two made it out the back.
"So... I'm assuming you have Barry on speed dial?" Wells commented lightly.
Caitlin nodded and quickly made it through her contacts and
Peter quickly changed out into his torn suit and Bobby started to frost over as they made their way out. Just as they were about to approach the man, Barry appeared as fast as Wells said he would. Barry glanced over at their van to make sure they were okay before approaching FIRESTORM.
"Professor Stein! Hey, we're not here to hurt you." Peter promises the man.
"And I know you don't want to hurt anyone else."
"So, if you could just not-" Bobby was finishing when FIRESTORM's head and hands burst into flame. "Flame on."
FIRESTORM sent a burst of flames towards the three, causing them to jump and scatter. Barry ran to the left while Bobby ran to the right, and Peter (the one in the middle) jumped to dodge. Barry was the only one fast enough to run at him, and he managed to slam into their stomach, knocking FIRESTORM into a pillar.
Peter ran up and shot strands of webbing (luckily it was fireproof) and managed to hold the FIRESTORM against the pillar. Bobby then made his way over and shot a giant wave of mist to try and cool the Burning Man down. But just when they thought it was over, then he burst into flames like it was nothing. Barry was glad, at that moment more than ever, that Cisco had made his suit fireproof.
FIRESTORM shot into the air, Barry still hanging on. Peter tried to grab onto him, but he was too fast for his webbing to latch on and ended up webbing the pillar.
"So... what now?" Bobby asks as they watch the two as they flew off.
Getting an idea, Peter shot a web at the van just as Caitlin pressed her foot to the gas pedal and their van surged down the road. Grabbing onto his friend, Bobby was dragged along the street as he froze ahead of them as they chased after them. Caitlin saw Barry falling, and her heart leaped into her throat.
"I got this!" Peter said as he latched onto the floor, allowing the car to keep driving off. He then created a slingshot due to the speed and went flying into the air. As he was making his way towards his brother, he shot a web to make sure he didn't miss and grabbed him. "Got ya!"
Holding onto one another for dear life, Barry waited for the next part of Peter's plan. But to be honest, Peter was just winging this and didn't think he'd make it this far. Getting a strange idea, but could be his last, Peter shot out two strands of webbing and started to spin them around as fast as he could. That caused his webbing to circle and start to come around them. Once the two flattened on the ground, the webbing exploded and revealed the ball had protected the two of them.
"Ow." Barry groaned as he and Peter lay next to one another. "Never do that again."
"Don't fall from the sky next time and I won't have to." Peter came to a compromise.
But FIRESTORM caught him seconds before he hit the ground. Caitlin slammed on the brakes and threw herself out of her seat as the Burning Man approached her boyfriend, about to kill him.
"No!" Caitlin cried as she ran in front of Peter and Barry, trying to keep the two of them safe.
FIRESTORM then stopped before he sent the blast and just ended up shooting into the sky again, and she followed the light with her eyes.
Then she knelt at Barry and Peter's side. "It's okay. You're okay."
"Did it work?" Peter asked them, hoping that their plan worked.
"Yeah, I got the tracker on him," Barry promised.
"Thank god." Peter sighed in relief and laid back down.
The next day they take Clarissa to try and talk sense into FIRESTORM and find him under the Central City highway.
"Looks like Cisco's tracker worked," Caitlin says and FIRESTORM tries walking away.
"Professor Stein?" Caitlin calls out.
"I told you to stay away from me." FIRESTORM reminds them as he keeps walking.
"And I will, but there's someone else who wants to talk to you," Caitlin explains and Clarissa walks ahead closer to him.
"Martin?" Clarissa calls out and he stops to see her. She then took a few steps closer to her husband. "Do you know who I am?"
"Clarissa," FIRESTORM says and she's surprised.
"Is it really you?" Clarissa asks him.
"I don't know. I hear the other inside of me." He explains referring to Ronnie. "He wants to go home to her." He says looking at Caitlin. "But we can't. I want to be me again."
"Martin...what's my favorite color?" Clarissa asks to make sure it truly is her husband.
"You could never decide, so you chose stripes." FIRESTORM answers and she knows it's him. "You shouldn't see me like this."
"I see you. I see you, Martin. These people can help you. Please let them." Clarissa begs Martian and he agrees to let them this time.
"Well, we got him," Barry told Wells as he strode into the Cortex, standing as close to Caitlin as possible without making her uncomfortable. "Now what?"
"Professor Stein thinks that he can separate himself using Nuclear Fission," Wells commented.
"But what do you think?" Caitlin asked her mentor, her voice becoming quiet.
"What do I think? Is it possible? Theoretically." Wells fiddled with his fingertips. "But splitting an atom and splitting a man are two very different things."
Caitlin looked away, trying not to cry. When she looked up, her ex was right there. Clean haircut, in a sports jacket and jeans. "I don't suppose it's necessary to point out that you're all staring?"
All of them looked away sheepishly.
FIRESTORM strode forward a few steps. "It is remarkable. I feel clearer than I have since the accident. What did you give me?"
"A cocktail of antipsychotics," Wells responded calmly. His face didn't show any emotion. Caitlin didn't think she was the same right now. "Depressants and mood stabilizers."
"The same formula used to treat identity disorder." Ronnie, or Stein, realized as he walked toward Caitlin. "I assume this was your idea." She wanted to run. She wanted to look away from the man she once loved now basically a walking corpse. Instead, she just nodded. "Very clever, Cait."
Barry looked like he wanted to go to her side. She gave him a look, telling him she could handle it. "Don't call me that. Please."
FIRESTORM nodded and backed off. "I apologize."
She snapped out of it as best she could. "We'd... like to run some tests on you. If you don't mind."
"Of course not." She led him out of the room, and Barry tagged along at her heels.
When FIRESTORM entered, he grabbed her wrist and hugged her quickly. "I'm so sorry, Caitlin. This isn't right. It's not fair that you guys could help me and not him. I wish- I wish I could switch with him."
Tears filled her eyes as she looked back up at him. "Barry, I need you right now. A lot. And I'm glad that you're here. I wouldn't switch anyone with you. I just wish-"
"I know." Barry kissed her forehead for a long moment. "I'll let you go test him."
Caitlin nodded and wiped her face, before turning to go inside the room.
Back with Norman and the Green Goblin (it is quite the day for identity disorder, isn't it?), the two of them/one of them were discussing what to do. They now had the name of the man underneath the mask. They/he had the power to go after their/his greatest enemy.
"Spider-Man is all but invincible." Goblin commented as Norman was hanging onto the fireplace. "But Peter Parker? We can destroy him."
"I can't." Norman whimpered, not wanting to hurt an innocent child when he was the monster.
"The trail must not be countenanced!" Goblin cried out. "Parker must be educated of that."
Norman then let go of the fireplace and looked towards the mask. "What do I do?"
"Instruct him in the matters of loss and pain," Goblin tells him as Norman started to crawl towards it. "Make him suffer. Make him wish he were dead. And then grant his wish."
"Bot how?" Norman asks.
"The cunning warrior attacks neither body nor mind." Goblin informed the man.
"Tell me how!" Norman pleaded.
"The heart, Osborn. First, we attack his heart!" Goblin cried victoriously. "But to accomplish this...we will need recruits. Time for the Sinister Six to reunite!"
When Caitlin came out from running her tests, she felt her hands shaking. Barry was leaning against the door flame.
"You okay?" Barry asked her
Caitlin nodded shakily. "Yeah. It's just... confusing."
He reached up to rub her arm with his palm. Wells, who had overheard them, was watching the screen of the computers.
"What isn't confusing is what's happening to him now," Wells said to them, looking at what was happening. "Ronnie's body is rejecting Stein's atoms like a host rejecting a parasite. The resulting instability is causing an ex other mic elation. I worry that if his temperature continues to rise, it will set off a chain reaction."
Caitlin felt her feet moving on their own accord. Barry voiced what she was thinking. "And then what happens?"
Wells looked up at them in worry. "He could go nuclear."
Caitlin felt her knees turn to Jello. Barry placed his hand on her lower back, steadying her. She resisted the urge to lean against his chest, be surrounded by the warmth of his arms, and have a good cry.
They had to figure this out. They were still discussing the problem and how to fix it when Cisco walked in. He shut the door behind him with a very disturbed look on his face.
"That's not freaky at all," Cisco commented looking at his friends "
"Seems Ronnie and Stein's fight with Spider-Man, Iceman, and Flash has exacerbated the FIRESTORM Matrix," Wells explains as they walked into the cortex to get away from them. "It's unstable."
"How long does he have?" Caitlin asked in worry
Wells wheeled his chair around to face her. "If his temperature keeps rising at the current pace, no more than a couple of hours."
Again, her knees felt weak, shaky feeling in them. "But you can fix it?" Barry asked. "Right? I mean, you can separate them before it's too late."
"Any attempt we make," Wells told him gravely. "To separate them could be catastrophic. It could make an explosion. And a nuclear explosion of this magnitude would blow up this entire city." Barry looked at his shoes. He couldn't meet Caitlin's eye. "Unless..."
"Unless what?" Barry asked.
"Unless the host body was no longer functional." Wells was sorry to say.
Caitlin felt her eyebrows creep up to her hairline. "You want to kill Ronnie?"
"No, I don't want to kill Ronnie." Wells ground out. "But in this scenario, Ronnie is the host body."
"If you kill Ronnie-" Cisco spoke up for the first time, his voice stronger than Caitlin felt her's would be. "You kill Stein. That's two people!"
"I don't know how else to stop it. And my guess is if Ronnie and Professor Stein knew the consequences, they were both facing that they would make the same decision."
Barry reached up to rub his face, hating that his mentor was right.
"It's two lives," Wells added. "For a million."
Caitlin's voice was quiet but not trembling as she spoke to Cisco. "Can you give us a minute?"
Cisco turned and left the room as did Barry to give them some space.
Wells held her gaze. "Caitlin-"
"I already lost Ronnie once." Her voice was hard, her gaze harder. "I'm not gonna do it again. You said we had a couple of hours. Use them."
She felt tears beginning to sting behind her eyelids again, so she turned and strode out of the room.
Barry followed her, and she finally got to have that good, long cry in his arms. He held her tightly, kissing her hair and rubbing her back until she controlled her emotions enough to calm down. "You know what I think, Caitlin?"
"Yeah?" Her voice came out scratchy, so she cleared it.
"I think that the people working on this problem are the smartest people who have ever lived. And I think that more than that, they both love you, and want you to be happy. They are going to figure out how to fix this." Barry promises her.
Wells knew what he had to do when he walked into the vault to pick up a gun. He was going to end FIRESTORM before the city and his plans went up in smoke. But then he thought of another idea. Something that would help him keep the team's trust and not lead them to suspicion.
"Gideon, could the tachyon enhancer prototype be converted into a quantum splicer?" Wells asks Gideon.
"Theoretically, But I must warn you, dr. Wells, converting the tachyon prototype will delay your timetable." She warns him.
"There's not going to be a timetable if Central City goes up in a mushroom cloud," Wells states and starts getting to work to save the city from a nuke.
"We're done," Wells called to them, setting down his tool, while Cisco, on his left, did the same.
FIRESTORM ran away, but Caitlin was able to track them down. They were apparently somewhere off the coast of Greenland.
"What is it?" Peter asked as he and Bobby had recently arrived.
"This..." Wells set the last piece into place. It turned neatly in its spot. "Is a quantum splicer."
"Will it work to separate them?" Caitlin said.
"We'll know in twelve minutes." Not exactly reassuring, but it was better than nothing. "Now, Barry, even you can't outrun a nuclear blast so bring this device to Professor Stein and get out of there as fast as you can-"
Caitlin grabbed the quantum splicer out of his hands before Barry could and strode towards the exit. "What are you doing?" Barry asked.
"I'm going with you," Caitlin stated.
"No, you're not!" His opinion was almost as set as her's was... almost.
"It's too dangerous!" Wells and Bobby called over to them.
"Barry doesn't know how to operate the splicer," Caitlin argued, shrugging on her coat.
"But I do." Peter declared as he quickly webbed the device to him. "Cait, Bobby needs you. Barry, you need someone who knows how to operate this. Now we got somewhere to be?"
Barry decided to just go with it, feeling it was the best compromise, and quickly picked his brother up and sped them off.
Out on the shore of Greenland, Barry and Peter come to a stop to see FIRESTORM holding a gun to his head ready to shoot. He was standing on one of the many icebergs, knowing that nobody would be around to get hurt if he were to die and still explode.
"Professor Stein!" Barry calls out as Peter regains his legs after that run.
FIRESTORM looks behind him to see them. "What are you doing here? You can't be here!"
"Look, we have a way of separating the two from each other," Barry says and allows Peter to move closer to him. "We can stop the explosion and your deaths."
"This is designed to bombard your atoms with as much energy as they experienced in the accelerator explosion," Peter explains the plan and FIRESTORM agrees to it as Peter attaches the device to his chest.
They started to back off and waited to see what was going to happen. The results they were hoping for however never came as suddenly FIRESTORM started to burst into flames.
"It's not working!" Peter cried as he backed away from the man.
"We gotta go!" Barry said as he ran over, picking up his brother, speeding off as fast as he could to escape.
FIRESTORM started to ignite into flames and was becoming too hot to handle. They managed to get a safe enough distance for when the explosion finally happened. They were both pleading that they would make it and survive the explosion when Barry suddenly tripped and sent the two tumbling.
"Are you two alright?" Caitlin asked in worry.
"You okay?" Barry asked as he helped his brother sit up.
"I think so." Peter started to shake, never being that close to death before.
"I think so!" Barry repeated into the mic.
They looked out over the snowy expanse from where they had run from. The dust hadn't yet settled, and light could be seen from in.
"Oh gosh." Caitlin gasped. "The nuclear explosion. There's no telling how much radiation you were exposed to."
"Wait, wait wait, wait, wait, this can't be right," Cisco muttered. "The gyre counter in the suit: It's reading less than one milliard."
"But... that's normal." Barry frowned in confusion.
"There's no radiation." Wells realized.
"Should we check that out?" Peter asked, looking at the giant explosion and the shards of the iceberg that was flown around everywhere.
"Let's go," Barry said as they sped back.
The blow had left a deep trench in the middle of the snowy landscape. They began to climb down it. Barry couldn't see anything through the dusty smoke; no bodies, no quantum splicer, nothing. He wasn't sure what to expect and kept close to his brother's side.
"Did it work?" Cisco asked anxiously. "Did you separate them?"
The two then looked and noticed two impacts on the ground and both had their own bodies inside. "I think we did it."
Barry walked over to try and help Ronnie up whilst Peter went to Stein. "Professor Stein?"
"That would be me," Stein promised as Peter helped him to his feet.
"We did it." Barry sighed in relief to see the two of them were separated.
The Watcher was happy for the two brothers and the now separated FIRESTORM. "Two lives were saved. But they also caused a few problems that will have to be sorted out." He knew things were going to be awkward between Barry and Caitlin with the appearance of her dead ex. "But they knew they have done the right thing."
What the four of them didn't realize was that the explosion set off a chain reaction that revealed someone buried in the ice for a very long time.