Nightwing Josh - Goblin was a one-chance moment. He dropped contact with Cold the moment he was arrested. Also, I needed something to keep Barry occupied while Peter was busy with his own troubles.
"A second chance is a rare opportunity." The Watcher commented as he looked down at the confused Barry Allen, looking around the road. "When you get one...don't look at it blindly."
Barry is completely confused seeing that it's almost like he did get a reset of the past few days. He just looks around sees things happening the same way as just a few days ago and is trying to figure out what happened.
The last thing he remembered was running away from a wave of heat set off by Molten Man. He and the new Sinister Six went in and were trying to kill Peter and succeeded.
His brother was killed, and he wasn't fast enough to stop it.
"Hey, what's going on?" Cisco's voice asks Barry and snaps him out of his thoughts. "What happened? Why did you stop? Peter's waiting for you."
"I just got a little disoriented," Barry informs him and realizes what he just said.
"Well, you better hurry, Peter said he saw something you need to see," Cisco tells him, and Barry's confused.
The flashes of seeing his brother's dead body lying on the ground outside his home ran through Barry's head.
"Peter? What do you mean?" Barry asks, trying to understand.
"Yeah, man, I'm at the morgue." Peter's voice fills his coms and Barry is shocked he's alive. "You need to see this. Looks like this dude was hit with a dozen baseballs."
"The morgue?" Barry questions, wondering what's happened. "We were there yesterday."
"What are you talking about? Dude, just get there." Cisco tells him and he does.
Barry arrived at the morgue to see that some things were slightly different. Like the fact that the coroner didn't have a lightning blast like the previous version of him. Seems that there were a few changes somehow.
Later on, Barry is back with the police and is getting a serious case of DeJa'Vu today. He walks in and sees the coroner dead again for the third time.
"Hey, Barre, what's with all the water?" Joe asks him again and looks at the sprinklers. "Did the sprinklers go off?"
"No...I checked the sprinklers. They're all intact. And the ice on the floor and the bruises on the coroner aren't just on his face." Barry says and Joe removes his shirt to see the bruises.
"How'd you know about that?" Joe asks him and Barry doesn't know how to answer that himself.
"He was killed by hail," Barry tells him, not answering his question. Everything was on a sort of repeat. "We have to listen to the recording."
"Recording?" Joe asks when Eddie approaches with the said recording.
"The coroner's office just installed an automated dictation system." Eddie plays the same message and Barry is getting completely freaked out by what's happening.
But then again, he finds that there was no mention of the Green Goblin.
"It's Mark Mardon," Barry tells Joe.
In the streets, a black hole opened up and sent the Green Goblin falling from the air and slamming into an alley. Groaning out in pain, Norman started to turn from his literal Goblin form to his human form.
Groaning, Norman held his head in pain and saw that the serum wore off. "He...he almost killed us."
"But we killed him!" Goblin forced his way up with glee. "Spider-Man is dead."
"He..." Norman forced his way out. "He was just a boy."
"Who cares?" Goblin asks, knowing that he had won. "We won. Now nobody can stand in our way."
Norman then remembered what happened after Spider-Man died, looking around at the city. "How...how is the city still standing?" Walking over to the trash cans, he pulled out the newspaper from the top of the container and saw the date. "It's...it's yesterday?"
Goblin then became just as confused. "Time travel?" Then he knew that there was only one person who could be responsible. "The Flash. When Allen blew a fuse and scorched the city, he must have run so fast he tore a hole in space and time."
"So... he's alive." Norman was relieved to see. Not to mention, all of the criminals that escaped are now still locked up. "Spider-Man's alive."
"Coward!" Goblin called out, getting Norman to face the mask. "This just means we now have a new world to conquer. You make me sick."
"Leave me alone," Norman demanded him. "Please."
"Hiding in the shadows. Hiding from who you truly are." Goblin stated as Norman picked up a rock. "You can't escape yourself!"
Norman then shattered the mask on impact, trying his best to escape the Goblin. He grabbed a hoodie from the trash as he was outside a charity. It was all he needed so that he could just get home.
But as he walked out of the alley, the Goblin's laugh filled the air.
Barry went to STAR Labs to talk to everyone while Bobby and Peter were making their way into the labs.
"Come on, she's asking you out," Peter tells Bobby, referring to him saying how Crystal asked him to hang out alone. "This is a good thing!"
"Yeah, until I start to hold her hand and freeze it off." Bobby scoffed, raising and waving his fingers. "Then she takes off running."
"You never know." Peter shrugged. "Maybe this time she'll be cool with the idea."
Bobby saw that was a small possibility when he heard what Peter said. "Was that a cold pun?"
"I couldn't help myself." Peter slightly apologized and strolled off.
Barry then noticed Peter and almost cried tears of joy. Running over he engulfed Peter in a hug, shocking his brother.
"What...what's this for?" Peter asks, not seeing what he did.
"Can't I be happy to see my brother?" Barry asked.
"You saw me just a few hours ago." Peter scoffed at his brother's craziness. "School isn't that long."
Barry just smiled and was happy to see his brother was alive. Seeing the confusion, he left Peter alone and went into the cortex.
"What was that about?" Bobby wonders.
"No idea," Peter admitted.
"So, Clyde Mardon had a brother?" Caitlin asks Barry as they were told what was happening.
"So, both brothers survived the plane crash, and then the dark matter released when the particle accelerator exploded affected them..." Wells says and Barry joins in.
"...both virtually the same way." Wells and Barry say at once.
"That's right," Wells tells Barry, wondering how he knew.
"Only Mark's nothing like Clyde," Barry says, remembering his last conversation. "He can do things you couldn't imagine."
"You mean he's some sorta..." Cisco was saying when Barry interjects again.
"Weather Wizard," Barry says and Cisco agrees and takes a drink from his slushie and gets a brain freeze.
"Trigeminal headache?" Caitlin and Barry say at the same time.
All of them were now wondering how Barry was able to guess what they were gonna say. But Wells seems to have understood what and how.
"Mr. Allen, a word please," Wells asks Barry and they leave the room.
They went into the room with the speed treadmill to talk in private. Wells already had an idea about what was going on with his advance knowledge of the Speedforce.
"You ruptured the time continuum, didn't you?" Wells asks Barry. "You're experiencing temporal reversion."
"Yeah," Barry confirmed.
"How long?" Wells asks him.
"A day, and some changes. It's like I'm living it all over again." Barry tells him, knowing some things have changed since Goblin seems to have disappeared.
"That's good, that means there's not too much you could've messed up yet. How did it happen?" Wells asks him.
"I don't know, I mean, I was running faster than I've ever run, and the first time I lived this day some horrible things happened." Barry tries warning his mentor, remembering everything that's going to happen.
"No. Don't tell me. I do not want to know anything about the future you experienced, nothing. Time is an extremely fragile construct. Any deviation no matter how small could result in a cataclysm. Now here's what you're going to do...Everything you did before. Every word you uttered, every step you took, you're going to do it again. And you're not going to tell anyone this has happened." Wells warns him to prevent changes in the timeline.
Barry doesn't know if he can keep that promise knowing what's yet to come.
Needing to check for himself, Wells went into the Time Vault. He needed to make sure that Barry's time travel didn't rupture the timeline.
"Good day, Dr. Wells." Gideon greeted him.
"Time will tell, Gideon," Wells replies, removing his glasses. "Show me the future."
"As you wish." Gideon then pulled up the newspaper.
'FLASH VANISHED IN CRISIS'
'SPIDER-MAN NOT SEEN SINCE THE BATTLE'
BY MARY JANE WATSON-PARKER
"The future remains intact, Dr. Wells."
"If anything changes, alert me immediately," Wells asks of her, knowing he needs to stay on top of this.
Barry makes it to the prescient and sees no sad faces, no darkness, even the city was in one piece. It was like he had woken up from a bad dream. No, it was a complete nightmare. His brother died. His enemies broke out of the pipeline. He plans on doing something to prevent it from happening.
No matter what Wells said, he knows it can't be worse than watching it happen again. Molten Man died, taking the city with him. Flint tried to save them but ended up killing himself.
Peter died to save everyone he knew and loved.
"Hey." Joe greets as he saw Barry, breaking him out of his thoughts. "What's going on with you? How'd you figure that stuff out at the morgue?"
"Lucky guesses, I guess," Barry answers, going with the most logical answer. He knew he couldn't tell anyone he could time travel, but he could still change things. "Look, I gotta run an errand. I'll see you later."
Barry walked away, leaving a confused Joe behind.
Barry runs, in his suit, to the building where he knew Mardon was. Joe talked about hideouts that he and his brother would hide in, so he decided to check those out first to stop him.
As he ran across the city, searching for the monster who would lead to his brother's death, he found him inside a run-down building.
"I didn't know there was anyone else like me," Mardon stated as he looked over the Flash.
Barry gets angry seeing the man who is responsible for Peter's death, Flint's death, and many more deaths. He wasted no time as he quickly grabs Mardon and speed him to the pipeline.
"I'm gonna break out of here!" Mardon promises the team. "I'm gonna create a tidal wave that destroys your entire city!"
Mardon keeps making threats as Cisco closes the pipeline.
"I'm still confused, how did you know where to find him, man?" Peter asks Barry, not seeing how he knew where to find Mardon.
"I... just had a hunch," Barry tells him, happy to know Peter's future is now safe with Mardon out of the picture.
"Okay, but why didn't you call for backup?" Peter wonders and Barry can't tell him about Mardon and Goblin killing him.
"I was just looking into his hideouts. I didn't expect to find him." Barry admitted, hoping he buys it.
Peter hummed, seeing that's a plausible excuse. "Fair."
"That's gotta be some kind of record," Caitlin says to.
"Well, there goes my excuse for bailing on my brother's birthday," Cisco states to them as he strolled off.
Peter shrugged and saw that he had time now to go out. "Well, I'm gonna go see what Mary Jane's doing. Bobby has got a date tonight, so I'm on my own."
Wells waited for Peter to be a distance away so that he didn't hear their conversation.
"Do you have any idea what you've just done?" Wells asks Barry, hoping this doesn't change anything drastically.
"Yeah, I do," Barry replies as he walked up closer to Wells. "I just saved a lot of lives."
"I warned you not to mess with the timeline," Wells states to him.
"Dr. Wells, if you would let me tell you what was going to happen, you'd understand why I did what I did," Barry tells him, knowing he couldn't live with himself if he allowed Peter to die this time around and if he could've prevented it.
"Whatever tragedy you think you've just averted; time will find a way to replace it," Wells warns Barry, but he doesn't see how it could've possibly gotten worse than everything being scorched. "Trust me, Barry, the next one could be much worse."
Peter was about to head out when Cisco pulled him aside to show him the new and improved Spider-Man suit he created to replace his damaged one.
"So, I took the liberty to create a few different variations of the suit," Cisco tells Peter as he unveiled several versions of the suit. "Go ahead."
Peter looked over the different versions of his Spider-Man suit and was amazed at the differences.
The first one had a design pattern that resembled those of his current, this suit's color scheme, however, consists of blue, black, and some neon blue lines, while the lenses are a pale white color. The suit also sports gauntlets with blades on them, but they are mainly cosmetic and do not affect combat. The lines on the suit, including the web pattern, glow.
The next suit is predominantly ultramarine with red highlights, including a large red spider partially resembling a skull as its chest insignia. Unlike most suits, this suit does not have visible eye lenses, but rather red highlights on the mask to indicate where the eyes are. The suit also features red spikes on each of the arms.
Then the final suit bears a strong resemblance to his current suit, with a red and blue color scheme. The suit also includes some black highlights in addition to the expressive shutters on the eye lenses. The spider looked more mechanical on his chest, and he had pouches on like a belt for extra web cartages.
"I like this one," Peter said as he took the mask off and looked it over. "It's similar, yet different enough."
"Really?" Cisco was surprised.
"Yeah, why not?" Peter said as he took it. "I'm gonna try it on."
"Oh, and this is for you," Cisco said as he handed Peter a small paper.
"What's this?" Peter asked as he looked it over.
"The suit has a few mechanics you should look over," Cisco explains and took off. But then he stopped and quickly turned around, pushing the spider emblem, causing the suit to expand and slip off the manikin.
"Whoa." Peter was shocked to watch the suit expands and shrinks.
"And that's it," Cisco said as he walked off. "Take a look at the manual."
"Okay...I'll..." Peter sighed and put the paper down. "...look over this later." He then placed it down and walked over to the suit. "Right now, I got some new spandex to break in."
"The city is safe." The Watcher was happy to say, seeing the timeline would have a few hiccups to their personal life, but nothing major. "Peter Allen is safe. The city is safe. Everyone is safe..." but then he saw a huge change to the timeline. "Wait, what?"
As Peter was starting to make his way out into the city, someone was watching him through a spyglass. He wore a giant lion vest over a dark brown shirt and military-grade pants. There was a spear on his back with a few choices of weapons.
"Ah." He commented as he looked over the Spider-Man swinging through the city. "There you are. Sigh agility. Such grace. Truly prey worthy of Sergei Kravenoff."
As Peter was swinging, he landed on the side of a building to take a breather.
"Notes for Cisco," Peter commented as he reached down to stretch the suit out a little, "the suit is a bit tight around the web-shooter."
But before he could make any more comments out loud, his senses went off, alerting him something was coming.
"Wait, what?" Peter asked when he looked in the direction and saw an arrow flying at him. Quickly ducking to avoid it, he saw several more coming, and he ran up the side of the building. "Who the heck is shooting arrows at me?!"
Then he looked across the way and noticed the man in the lion's skin. Quickly swinging over to get a closer look at him up close, he crouched at the end of the building.
"Where did you come from?" Peter asked the arrow guy.
"Mother Russia." Kraven proclaimed as he drew two knives from his pants. "By the way of Mother Africa!"
Peter quickly dodged the knives with his speed and was trying to get more information. "Wow, you had two moms, yet you're still this ill-behaved?"
Peter easily dodged all of his attacks and when he flipped to hang onto the side of the building, he waited for Kraven to prepare for the plunge. When Kraven was ready to draw his knives into Peter's body, he quickly shot two webs to knock the knives out of his hands.
Seeing he lost his weapons, Kraven dived himself and tackled Peter. Peter immediately started to try and lose him, but to his credit, he was mad strong.
"Okay, what is your game here?" Peter questions as he tried to get his hands free to shoot a web.
"Big game!" Kraven proclaimed as he held his grip. "Now be still, the noblest prey ends the hunt in silent dignity."
"Silent? Dignity?" Peter repeated as he managed to get his hand free. "Wow, you don't know me at all."
When he shot off a web, he directed them to ram into the wall to try and get rid of Kraven. But to his shock, the hunter managed to take the hit as the brick left a dent.
"Ha! You cannot be rid of Sergi Kravenoff so easily." Kraven mocked the hero's attempt to shake him.
"Buddy, trust me, Spidey doesn't do anything easily." Peter proclaimed, realizing what he just said. "Oh, man, now you're getting me to talk in the third person." Then he shot his hand out and rammed them into another wall. "Just for that..."
Peter kicked off the wall and managed to kick Kraven off of him. He went plummeting to earth when Peter quickly shot a net to save him.
"Amazing," Kraven commented as he was dangling in the air. "No beast has ever managed to break the grip of Kravenoff."
Peter came down and was confused about what he was saying. "Wait. What? Oh, I get the confusion. It's Spider-Man. There's a hyphen between those two words."
"No matter," Kraven comments as he pulled a spear out of his back. Ripping his way out of the net, he landed on the roof with ease. "Kraven always dampens his skills, gives his quarry a chance. Now, Kravenoff can be Kravenoff. And thrill to a true challenge!"
Peter then dropped down on the roof and sighed, seeing that this man wasn't gonna be easy to take down. Kraven then took out several boomerangs and tossed them at Peter.
"Missed," Peter proclaimed as he easily dodged the first boomerang. Then he quickly dodged the second one. "Missed again."
But then as Peter was distracted by the boomerangs, Kraven tossed several bolas that ended up entrapping him.
"What the hell?" Peter asks as he started to struggle to get out.
"Don't bother. That rope was laced by titanium steel." Kraven informed Peter, taking out a blow dart. "This dart is laced with poison. It will all be over soon."
Peter was shocked by how dedicated this guy is and quickly shot a web to block it. "Cool. But guess what? I've got the propulsion strength of a spider."
Peter and ripped free of the rope after a second of working to get out, seeming to be stronger than steel. And while Kraven was shocked by the fact he escaped his strongest weapon, Peter leaked and kicked Kraven and this time managed to put him in a hold.
"Now...let's get this over with." Peter cried as he kicked Kraven, webbing his feet so that he would now dangle on the streetlight.
Peter then came down and poked Kraven a few times.
"You're good. Maybe at the hunting stuff, you're the best. But when it comes to the superhero scene..." Peter then came closer and pulled him close. "...you're out of your league."
Peter then swings off, leaving Kraven behind to be caught. Or at least dangle for a while as he wasn't exactly like he did any real harm to Peter.
Barry made his way back to STAR Labs the next day when he got a call from Peter. Caitlin and Wells were already there, and Barry didn't see Cisco anywhere. But considering the other night when he and Cisco went out for drinks, he figured he knew where he was.
"Do you know what happened?" Wells asked, just as Caitlin was about to.
"I'm...I'm not sure." Barry shrugged. "Anyone talked to Peter?"
Caitlin has noticed that Barry has been acting off, but she would cut him some slack for now. "Have you talked to Cisco? I've been trying him on his cell, but he's not answering. I'm worried about him. He had a rough night."
Barry cracked a small smile at that. "Trust me. It got...better."
Peter came in with a groan. "At least someone's night did."
The three were shocked when they looked and noticed the bruises Peter received from slamming into the building and the rope burns from his bolas.
"What happened?" Wells was surprised to see the boy bruised.
"You won't believe me," Peter admitted with a sigh. "A hunter happened."
"A... hunter?" Barry clarified.
Barry was shocked to hear a hunter managed to do this to his brother.
"Told you that you wouldn't believe me." Peter scoffed. "Said his name was Sergei Kravenoff."
Caitlin quickly searched for the guy, coming up with a lot of different articles from Africa.
"Kraven the Hunter." Wells reads as he went closer. "Known as the most dangerous hunter in the world."
"Seems that he goes around the world hunting the most dangerous animals," Caitlin mentioned the most common thing on all of them.
"Yeah, trust me, he kept gloating about that all night." Peter groaned as he rubbed his shoulder.
"I'll go run by the precinct and see if we can maybe get a warrant out for him." Barry supposed, not wanting this guy to go after his brother again.
Before he could get to the elevator, Caitlin ran after him. "Hey, Barry!" She called as Barry turned around to face her. "Ok, what is going on with you?"
"What... do you mean?" Barry asked, not meeting her gaze.
"Did I do something?" Caitlin was starting to wonder. "Or are you, I don't know, breaking up with me or something? You've been avoiding me all day, and you're acting strange, and-"
She was cut off by his lips on hers. Her back hit the wall and he ran his hands down her sides, his mouth was attacking her with more rough force than usual. She responded with her raw anger; anger at him pushing her away; anger at him not telling her what was going on; and was left in a weak-kneed, breathless mess when he pulled away.
"I'm going to take that as... not breaking up with me, then." Caitlin breathed.
Barry puffed out a laugh, hands planted on either side of her face. "No, I'm not going to break up with you, Cait. I'm sorry I've been so... distant lately. I just- I did something that I can't tell anyone about, and..."
Caitlin blinked at him, feeling like she starts to see through his eyes. "Oh my god. You time traveled!"
Barry took a step back, eyes wide with shock. "How did you- what- when did-?"
"This makes total sense!" Caitlin was on a role now, sure of her theory. "You knew exactly what Dr. Wells, Cisco, and I were going to say because it already happened. That's why you were so confused when you had to go to the morgue. That's how you knew where to find Mardon because we already did it." She stared at him, eyes huge with shock and amazement. "How did you do it? What was it like?"
"I...I- Caitlin, I changed things, and the consequences... Wells said that there are consequences, and I'm scared that I'm going to wake up tomorrow and the world is going to be in ruins, all because I did time travel and wrecked everything." Barry said and gestured to the labs. "Peter is already suffered because of my changes."
"What?" Caitlin was surprised to hear that.
"Yeah, Peter..." Barry definitely wasn't getting into the Sinister Six, Peter's death, Caitlin's injury. "...he never dealt with this Hunter in the day I dealt with." Then he started to panic. "But the original day was worse, and I thought that by stopping Mardon, I thought that I could save him."
Caitlin quickly wrapped him up in a hug, the only thing she could think to do at the moment. "Whatever happens, Barry, we're going to figure it out. Just... next time, if there is a next time, tell me. Okay? Tell me."
Barry nodded, starting to calm down, knowing that at least Peter won't die in his new timeline. "Look, I have to go."
"Yeah, yeah, go talk to Joe about Kraven." Caitlin smiled at him and turned to go back into the Cortex.
Finally, Kraven has released himself from the web net that Peter kept him in and managed to find a fragment of Peter's suit. It was pierced off during the fight and it was small enough that he didn't even notice.
Looking around the alley, he let out a whistle and after a few minutes, a giant lion found its way to Kraven.
"My loyal friend," Kraven said as he plucked some of his hair. "Thank you."
Kraven then looked down at the hair and quickly sniffed it.
Once he had, his entire body started to modify with the scent.
Kraven the Hunter is a metahuman.
Barry got an alert from Joe that there was a casino run by a crime family. He makes it to see Snart and Mick and Lisa with her new gun and a man made entirely out of gold in the center of it all. He quickly gets everyone out and leaves the three of them and comes back to them.
"How many times are we gonna go through this, Snart?" Barry questions this being their third encounter.
"Until the best man wins!" Snart answers and tries shooting Barry and he grabs Lisa and holds her gun to her head.
"Drop the gun!" Barry demands him and Snart lets the gun down and raises his hands.
"We both know you're not going to do anything to her." Snart states and Barry knows he's right. "Oh, by the way, meet my baby sister. Lisa, Flash. Flash, Lisa."
"Cisco has been very, very busy. His hands are a little tied at the moment. He and his brother. And unless you want me to mail small, frozen pieces of them back to their families, I'd take your hands off her." Snart warns Barry and he does so to keep his friends safe.
"Let them go, Snart," Barry commands him knowing he's a man of his word, and when Snart said something, he won't go back on it.
"I'll think about it," Snart replies and leave with Lisa and Mick.
Back with Peter, he was on the phone with MJ to make up for the date he missed. Since that he needed to be out of the way to heal.
"I'm on my way now," Peter promised as he swung through the city. "It was just a crazy night last night."
"Hey, it's okay, Tiger." Mary Jane promised him over the phone. "Things happen. I'm not the type of girl who dumps someone after they ditch me once."
In reality, she was already made aware of the fact Peter was fighting some Hunter from the news. She also did her own research and found out he was Kraven the Hunter.
Girl's got skills of her own.
"Besides, you usually have to call it short because of the Bugle, so I'm used to it." Mary Jane assured him.
"What did I do to get a girl like you?" Peter questioned, not sure how he managed to get a relationship with her.
"Your and my aunt set us up." Mary Jane reminded him jokingly.
But as Peter and she were talking, his senses went off just as Peter was tackled for a second time.
At STAR Labs, Barry and Wells were reviewing the footage of Cisco getting kidnapped.
"Cisco is getting into a car with Snart's sister," Wells commented as they saw the license plate is iced over so they can't track the car itself.
Barry just slams his fist against the table in anger at how things are just as bad as it was in the original timeline.
"All right, Wells, you were right. I screwed with time and now time is screwing with me." Barry says seriously hating himself today. "Cold is back, he kidnapped Cisco and..."
"Stop right there before you cause another disruption to the timeline," Wells warns him.
"Please, dr. Wells." Barry starts begging, knowing he needed to talk to someone about this and he decides to listen. "In the previous version of today, Peter gets killed in a breakout due to his enemies and Mark. And I thought...removing Mark would save him, but now..."
"He is being hunted by a hunter," Wells recalled as he removed his glasses. "This new ability of yours, Barry, it's dangerous. You only traveled back a day. What if you accidentally traveled back decades?" Wells asks questioning if he sees that time travel has consequences.
"But I will have the opportunity to travel back in time soon and save my mom. Or...you're saying I shouldn't?" Barry wants to see what he thinks.
"I'm saying, how many more people can die if your mother lives?" Wells asks and Barry never considered it.
Going back to before even Peter was bitten by the spider, he could erase Peter's powers, he could erase Spider-Man, Caitlin, Cisco, May, and even more people.
Was that worth the risk of living with his mother and brother?
Peter quickly shot a web and pulled himself back up to the top of the building as he looked down at the attacker. But he was left awestruck when saw that the attacker was a giant tiger-man hybrid.
"Wait..." Peter immediately recognized the outfit. "I know that animal skin. Kravenoff, is that you?"
The hybrid didn't respond as he used his claws to climb up the building, tackling Peter before he even had the chance to process what was happening.
"You can call me Kraven, now," Kraven said as the two smashed into another ceiling.
On the way down, Peter and Kraven ended up separating. Peter was shocked that Kraven seemed to be a metahuman, taking up animal traits of some kind. Man, he is dedicated to the hunt.
"I could call you a lot of things," Peter commented as he looked over the hunter. "But I rather call you out on this getup."
"Kraven never gives up on hunt." Kraven proclaimed as he got back into the fight. "Something happened to Kraven."
Before Peter could jump a safe distance, Kraven grabbed his foot. Followed by Kraven smashing him into the glass roof of the museum.
"Now I climb and leap like a leopard," Kraven announced as he raised Peter in the air. "Have speed of cheetah. And possess strength of lion!"
Peter was then thrown through the glass and landed in the animal exhibit of the museum. Seems like his day is very animalistic based.
Peter quickly jumped out of the way as Kraven followed him down and landed on the glass of one of the exhibits.
"Okay, I need a plan," Peter muttered, trying to come up with a plan. Then his senses went off and made him flinch when Kraven tacked him. Managing to get free of him, Peter looked up to a fake leopard pouncing. "Don't get any ideas."
"Before, your powers gave you advantage," Kraven commented as he pulled off the horn of a stuffed animal. "Now Kraven has leveled the field. And you will fall like any prey!"
Peter sighed and knew he was in for a long night. "Hate to break it to you, Dobby. But you're not the first genetically mutated metahuman I've gone up against. You're just the first to smell like a cat's litter box."
To be fair, the last one he went up against smelled like the sewers.
"All I smell is fear." Kraven proclaimed as he went in again.
Peter just prepared for it and used his attack to his advantage by laying down and using his feet to direct Kraven towards the stuffed elephant. Ramming into it, Peter had a chance to get his bearings together.
"Okay. Psycho hunter now mutated animal." Peter tried to come up with a plan.
Getting an idea when he looked around the room, he turned back to Kraven has vanished.
"What?" Peter asked as he looked around the room. "Come on, do you have the camouflage of a chameleon? That's not the type of enemy I wanna go up against."
But then his senses missed when Kraven came, grabbed Peter by the head, then tossed him through the brick wall. Slamming into the street, Peter ended up smacking into a bus, causing it to crash into a taxi and another pedestrian car.
Praying that this will get Barry's attention, Peter quickly led Kraven to the nearest park where he could start his plan.
Peter shot out several web nets around the trees and allowed Kraven to come closer and dodge them as he and Kraven start to become entangled in a web cage.
"The werewolf was passé at best," Peter said as Kraven started to get entangled. "But the mummy look definitely suits you better."
Kraven fought as hard as he could to get out of the net. But as he kept fighting, Peter kept webbing him and kept him entangled. The more Kraven fought out of the webbing, the more that Peter kept webbing, to the point that he became too entangled to escape.
At STAR Labs, they're still searching for their friend and aren't getting anywhere with it.
"Nothing is appearing on the satellites," Caitlin states, getting worried about her friend
"You were right. This is seriously my fault." Barry states to Wells and Caitlin gets confused about what he means.
"We'll get Cisco and Peter back safely, Barry," Wells promises when they look and see Cisco was back.
"My god, what happened?" Caitlin asks and runs to check on her friend.
"How did you escape?" Wells wonders.
"He let us go," Cisco informs them and is mad at himself for what he did. "He...first froze Dante's hands and threatened to kill him unless..." Cisco stops and is seriously scared of how his friends will react to what he did, "if I didn't tell him who the Flash really is.
"They could've killed me, Dante was in pain, I couldn't let them do it." Cisco tries explaining and Barry understands why he did what he did.
"I put you in that position, both of you," Barry tells them and forgives his friend. "I'm the one who should be sorry."
Later Barry interrupts Snart from doing another heist and runs him away from the others without his mask.
"Good to see you...Barry." Snart says and Barry just looks angry at the man who almost killed his friend.
"We have to talk," Barry states to him. "I know Cisco told you who I am to protect his brother."
Snart just removes his cold glasses. "Can't really blame the kid for giving you up. You or his brother? Come on, I put him in a tight spot. The same kind I've got you in right now." Snart claims and Barry is confused. "You can't exactly stop me now that I know who you are."
"I could speed you to my own private prison where you'll never see the light of day again," Barry promises him, seeing how there is no way he could tell anyone his identity that way.
"You could, but then I won't be around to stop my own uplink that'll broadcast your identity to the world," Snart explains the tough spot he put Barry in now. "So, the million-dollar question, what to do with me now, Allen?"
"I won't let you keep stealing whatever you want, whenever you feel like it," Barry tells him. "It needs to end."
"I can't do that." Snart proclaims.
"Why?" Barry asks.
"It's the same reason you people run after guys like me, the adrenaline. The thrill of the chase." Snart explains to Barry, and he explains how he just loves the game. "I love this game. And I'm very good at it."
"Then go play this game of yours somewhere else and never step foot in Central City," Barry tells him seeing there's gotta be some way of keeping him from the people he cares about.
"Can't do that either, I love it here," Snart tells him, and Barry starts walking toward him.
"You've seen what I can do, what we can do. You know the two of us can stop you. If you want to keep pushing your luck, go for it. But from here on out, no one else dies. If you're as good as you say you are, you don't need to kill to get what you want." Barry claims, trying to find a middle ground. "And if you or anybody in your rogue's gallery goes near any of my friends or family again, I don't care who you tell my identity to. I will put you away." Barry promises and Snart agrees to those terms...for now at least.
Back at Norman Osborn's penthouse, he had just made it home when his strength finally gave way. Passing out on the floor of his bedroom.
And that's how his son found him.
"Hey, dad, I thought you were gonna meet me at the airport. Dad?" The voice of Harry Osborn filled the room when he walked into his father's room and found Norman on the floor. "Dad!"
Running up to Norman, he saw Norman manage to take off his armor before he fell unconscious.
"What?" Norman asked as he woke up and saw his son. "Harry, you're home."
"What are you doing on the floor?" Harry asked him.
"What?" Norman asked and realized he was indeed on the floor.
"Have you been there all night?" Harry asked him.
"Uh...yes. Late night at the office." Norman quickly lied.
Norman believes that he has full control. That he is the only one left in his head now with him becoming stronger. But little did he know that the Goblin was just growing stronger within Norman's mild.
The Watcher watched the two interact and grew angry. "You'll get what's coming to you, Goblin. One way or another."
"Do you think I made a mistake letting Snart go?" Barry questions Wells, wondering if it was the right decision.
"I think you did what you felt was right at the moment. And really, Barry, that's the best any of us can hope for. Now, let's be thankful the timeline remains intact." Wells states happy nothing drastic has changed yet.
"Oh, I keep forgetting. I've been meaning to ask you. It's about Simon..." Barry stops when he looks and sees a report of how Mason Bridge is missing, and Barry is starting to think Wells is hiding something.
"You were saying?" Wells asks.
"Nothing, sorry," Barry tells Wells and leaves to find Joe. "Good night, Dr. Wells."
"Night, Barry," Wells says as Barry walked out of the labs for the night.
Jason Momoa as Kraven the Hunter
Joshua Bassett as Harry Osborn