I-Ivy!"

Poison Ivy turned from her mirror in time to see her partner coming in with wobbly feet. For the first time there was a clear fear in Datura's face and Poison Ivy soon realized why.

With a shaky hand, Datura touched the skin above her lip and stared at her gloved-fingers stained with red. "It's hurting, and worse than before."

Poison Ivy came striding up to her and pulled her to her vanity desk. "Not on my watch. Time is ours, lovely, don't you remember?"

"It's progressing, can't you see!?" Datura stated at herself in the mirror. Her face, while young and lovely, had blood oozing from her nose. Her face was beginning to pale despite her best attempts to keep getting sun and nutrition. "And that stupid doppleganger of mine has only gotten stronger."

"Then I guess it's time for our final battle," Poison Ivy's lips curled into a smile.

"Final?"

"Yes," Poison Ivy put her hands on Datura's shoulders. "Today's the day we get the doppelganger and get that cure."

~ 0 ~

The wind was strong in the STAR Labs' plane field when it had two botanical metahumans performing the same tactic. Belén and Shivhan both surfed on their own respective matter of vines. They criss-crossed around each other and attempted to knock one out. Belén swung an arm to the side, releasing a wave of sharp petals at Shivhan. Shivhan crossed her arms together to create a shield, but when she did Belén purposely made her vines disappear. She dropped to the ground but landed gracefully on her feet.

Just as Shivhan's shield disappeared, Belén released a shower of roses that exploded in mid-air, knocking Shivhan off her matter. Of course, before she would hit the ground Belén created a flower bed to cushion Shivhan's fall.

Shivhan landed with a 'puff' and laughed as she spread her arms over the flowers. "You've definitely been training with the Green."

Belén beamed. "You could tell?"

Shivhan sat upright and nodded her head. "Oh yeah! You're getting better at this!"

"That's so good to hear!" Belén clapped happily. She'd been working so hard ever since she managed to get into the Green. Rose Red had become her number one teacher, often joined by Swamp Thing, but Belén felt like she truly making good progress on her powers as well as the new abilities she was learning.

"I think we can stop here," Shivhan said after getting up.

"Yeah," Belén agreed. "I have lunch plans today and I cannot be late!"

"Another date?" Shivhan crinkled her nose, making Belén laugh.

"Not quite. I'm finally meeting Iris' brother, Wally. Gotta make a good impression so...bye!" Belén did a quick wave before letting her vines entangle around her body to take her away.

~ 0 ~

Iris had chosen a small Italian restaurant for their lunch plans. She and Wally were already waiting in one of the outside tables when Belén and Barry arrived.

"Oh, I love this place," Belén said giddily as they made their way to the table. "È delizioso!"

"Glad you guys are here," Iris said. "Wally, this is my friend Belén."

Wally gave an awkward smile as he shook hands with Belén. "Hey..."

"Hi, it's nice to officially meet you," Belén smiled as she sat down with Barry. "Although I bet you're kind of tired of meeting so many new people, huh?"

"I haven't met that many," Wally said. "Just the necessary people."

"Oh, then I guess I'm grateful for being deemed 'necessary'," Belén chuckled, although she started to wonder if she was being to cheerful. She looked to Barry to see what he was doing.

Barry was just smiling at her, probably thinking she was just being her normal self. He reached for her hand on the table and looked at Wally. "She is someone very important to this family."

"You guys are really making me blush," Belén said and did her best not to sound nor look that awkward. "Wally, how close are you to graduating from college?" she asked in an attempt to switch topics. She didn't want this to turn into something about her because right now Belén really wanted to focus on other people. She'd done enough wallowing in pain thanks to Datura, losing time of her life because of Datura, so Belén endeavored to make a change.

"Uh, about a year left," Wally gave a shrug of his shoulders.

"And what are you studying again?"

"I'm an engineer major."

"Oh," Belén blinked. Everyone noticed how her smile seemed to fade away slowly.

Wally turned his head to his sister, silently asking if he'd said something he shouldn't have. Iris had a fair idea what it was, as well as Barry, but neither wanted to say anything until Belén did.

"Sorry, um," Belén seemed to snap out of her trance a few minutes later, "My, uh, my brother...he was...he was an engineer...at one point..." She released a sigh and shook her head. "I'm so sorry. My brother...died...last year."

"I'm...sorry," Wally could only say, but Belén shook her head once again.

"Don't be...we really weren't that close anymore." Belén knew how true that was but perhaps the pain it brought was one of the reasons she barely spared Rayan a thought anymore. It was easier than remembering he wanted to kill her towards the end of his life. "I'm so sorry - that is the worst thing to bring up at a lunch. I'm going to be honest, I haven't really done this whole-" her hand made a whirling motion in front of her, "-meeting your boyfriend's family thing...in a while."

"Belén, breathe," Barry sharply instructed.

"I'm sorry, I'm being weird," Belén apologetically smiled at Wally. By now he must be thinking she's insane. "Wally, you seem very nice and you have your sister's determination glint in your eyes. And it's truly very nice to meet you."

Wally could appreciate that honesty. It made him smile and that was what let Belén relax a bit. Maybe she could still pull off not being so weird...

~ 0 ~

Veronica stopped by Joe's desk to leave a file from their latest care. "Alright, here's the evidence we've got. Although there's not much to do seeing as the person literally looked like a volcano threw up on him."

Joe suppressed his chuckle while Veronica went to take a seat in what used to be Patty Spivot's desk. Patty had long departed to finally continue her studies to become a forensics now that Mark Mardon was behind bars, and so Veronica was now officially Joe's newest partner. While Joe did really come to like Patty, he thought it would be refreshing to have a partner who was already immersed into the metahuman world. It would definitely save him the trouble of coming up with excuses for his radical disappearances and 'odd' cases.

"So," Veronica briefly looked up from her paperwork, unknowingly bringing Joe out of his thoughts, "I assume someone will bring this case to STAR Labs' attention?"

"Uh yeah, usually Barry…" joe straightened up in his chair.

Veronica raised an eyebrow and noticed that Joe wasn't really looking at anything in particular, not even her since they were conversing. "I know we don't know each other all that well but now that we're both partners and...well, both of us have kids in this...meta world...can I ask if there's anything bothering you?"

Joe suddenly chuckled. "Believe me, you don't want to know."

"I know enough to know that it's probably not easy building a relationship with an estranged child after their other parent died -oh wait," Veronica put her hands together on her desk and smiled. "I do."

"Alright, you got me there," Joe had to smile at that comparison. He hadn't even thought about that yet. Veronica was right, they did not know each other well enough.

"I didn't meet Wally very well, but he seems a bit...out of place?"

"Believe me we're all out of place. I just...Iris - she keeps telling me that I'm not...being a father...to Wally but I'm really trying to take baby steps, you know?"

"Oh, I know," Veronica nodded. "My eldest daughter, Maritza, was the one to make me realize that I was overwhelming Belén in the beginning. Of course I didn't learn my lesson the first time."

"Exactly," Joe said a little too quick and immediately apologized, not that Veronica had been offended. "I'm trying to give him space. I mean, he just lost his mom. Just met me and his sister. He's got a lot on his plate."

"Very true, but can I give you a bit of advice? From one estranged parent to the next?"

Joe nodded.

"While you're trying your best to give your son his space...you can't let him believe you're friends. You need to establish that you are the father but also give him a chance to voice his thoughts once in awhile." Veronica smiled to herself. "I know, easier said than done."

"Ain't that the truth," Joe mumbled and willed himself to get back to work.

~ 0 ~

Poison Ivy keenly watched from across a street in silence. People walked by and merely gave the woman strange glances for the flowers in her long orange hair, but since she was dressed in normal clothes, no one would think she was Poison Ivy. Her eyes narrowed down on the building, waiting for the right moment...

"I'm here," Datura's voice rang in Poison Ivy's ear. "And...so are they."

"So we're good to go?"

"Go for it."

~ 0 ~

The dark brunette doppleganger inched down the STAR Labs hallway. She could hear voices belonging to familiar people, people she wanted to murder on the spot.

"I am still so sorry," Belén was saying to Barry as they walked out of the elevator. They didn't immediately walk for the cortex but instead remained in the entrance area to finish their conversation. "I just can't figure it out."

"Bells, don't worry about it," Barry turned to face her, resting his hands on her shoulders. "Wally thought you were funny and honestly, you were just being yourself."

"Funny? I'm a weirdo. That's that I guess," she sighed. "Eternally weird."

"Eternally stupid," Datura muttered from her hiding spot. She could not believe her doppelganger was actually this moronic. Belén had to have at least one bad bone in her body, right? Datura wondered if any other of their doppelgangers were this kind of stupid soft? That just couldn't be right.

"Belén, you are exactly who you're supposed to be. I, personally, love who you are," Barry gave Belén that smile she loved so much. It was goofy but it was lovestruck and that's what made her heart swell.

"Thanks," Belén tilted her head at him, growing her own smile. "I really did mean to be normal, but...I have a lot of things on my plate, you know, not that you don't, but...I also really think I'm just not used to meeting boyfriend's families anymore. Carlton's family, well..."

The mention of Carlton actually stiffened Datura from her spot. "There's one here too?" her face contorted to pure and honest hatred.

"I get it," Barry told Belén. "And I know Iris would get it too. But don't worry so much. Everything really is fine." He leaned down to give her a gentle kiss on the lips.

At this point, Datura wanted to kill them now. She took in a deep breath and reminded herself that if she kept to the plan, this would be the last time she would have to step foot on this Earth, the last time she would have to see any of these people.

~ 0 ~

Poison Ivy raised a portrait of Belén, Maritza and Rayan in Belén's bedroom. She brought a hand to her comm. "Hm, it's just like we thought. The sister's in jail and the brother's dead.

"Wait, Maritza's in jail?" Datura nearly had herself a good laugh. "Maybe she's actually cooler than my sister."

"Focus," Poison Ivy warned. "I can break the sister out, no problem. And you can use your little face to get the kid."

"Shouldn't I use my face to get Maritza out instead?"

"No. Last thing we need is for you to get caught in a no-metahuman site. Who knows what that could do to you. Let's just work fast." Poison Ivy carefully put the portrait down in its place and smiled.

~ 0 ~

After an encounter with the metahuman controlling tar, and with Barry familiarizing himself with the case, it became easier to battle the problem. With new information, they had pulled up a better profile.

"Tar Pit was after one Clay Stanley. Stanley, as it turns out, is a suspected hit man that the CCPD has been trying to track for a while, but they haven't been able to make anything stick," Barry explained, recognizing the man on the screen as the near-victim he had saved earlier. "No pun intended," he added after Cisco had chuckled.

"Do we know why he was attacked?" Belén asked beside him.

"Uh, Stanley wouldn't answer any of my questions. He was pretty scared."

Caitlin made a face. "When a hit man is scared, you know something's wrong."

Barry agreed and asked Cisco, "Hey, did you get an ID on our meta-human?"

"Yeah, I'm running it through five different facial recognition systems right now, so it should take a minute. And there it is. Who's the best hacker in the world, people?"

It was a sad moment for Cisco when all three of his friends answered, "Felicity Smoak."

"What is wrong with you three?" he frowned. "That's not friendship."

Caitlin playfully rolled her eyes and got them back on track. "Our meta-human's name is Joseph Monteleone."

"How friendly...he looks…" Belén gulped at the sight of the new profile of their metahuman.

"Monteleone was reported missing - surprise, surprise - on the night of the particle accelerator explosion," Caitlin read off the profile.

"And what's the connection between Monteleone and the two victims?" asked Cisco.

"I'll call Joe," Barry immediately thought of. "Maybe he and your mother-" he looked at Belén, "-can run background checks on all three guys."

"Okay, I'm gonna run some tests on the tar samples," Caitlin announced. "See if I can find his weakness."

"I have to go to work," Belén turned to leave as well. "Oh, and Cisco, Axel will be over tonight so get rid of your pointy toys."

"Yes, ma'am," Cisco rolled his eyes at her. Once she was gone, he had a different talk with Barry. "You're going slower than normal. You clocked in at 1,450 miles an hour this last time."

Barry didn't think too much of it since this was the first time it was being brought up. "But, I'm sorry, how fast do I usually run?"

"1,500. Are you getting enough to eat?"

"Believe me, I am," Barry promised. "I'm fine, seriously. The difference seems negligible. Fast is fast, right?"

Cisco had to nod but he wasn't so sure. It just sprung out of nowhere.

"I gotta go too, okay? See yah," Barry went after Belén so that the two could leave together.

~ 0 ~

"The background cases aren't available," Veronica tapped her chin. She looked at Joe across from her desk and raised an eyebrow. "I don't think this is the end of it, is it?"

"Nope," Joe got up from his seat. "Cisco will probably have to break into them from STAR Labs."

Veronica's eyes widened. "But that's illegal!"

Joe remained unaffected. "Welcome to the team."

With a sigh, Veronica leaned back on her chair. "I can't get used to it, you know."

"At least yours isn't fighting anymore," Joe smiled, but Veronica mused.

"Don't think that'll last much longer. I can tell when Belén is itching to do something. When she was younger and wanted to do that whole aerial dancing facade, she would jump from one couch to the other just to prove a point."

Joe laughed. "Well, we might as well get going."

"You go ahead. I want to catch up on all these papers here."

Joe agreed and left her to her work. Veronica worked focused on the papers in front of her, but at about an hour later, she got a text message from Belén. She wanted to meet Veronica at Jitters. Veronica didn't think too much on coming out of the station to meet with her. She walked down the street and was attempting to call Belén. She'd realized her daughter was meant to be at work and was worried something may have happened. But as she was about to dial again, someone thrashed her from the back and hit her head hard. Veronica went down in a second, completely out cold.

~0~

After another get together in STAR Labs, the team was able to track down the supposed next victim of Tar Pit. Thankfully, Iris knew where to find the new victim - Clark - due to the fact she'd gone over to threaten him the day before. Now while she and Joe went after the man, Barry and Harry were going to be testing their first device meant to completely shut down a breech. If it worked it could finally close down all the breaches in the city and just leave the one in STAR Labs.

Their stop was at a warehouse shipment.

Harry was giving the device one last tinker before handing it to Barry. "If our calculations are correct…"

"And they are," Barry assured. It had been created by him, Harry and from E-1 evil Wells. That thing was definitely going to work.

"When this device detonates, it will collapse the event horizon on this side of the breach, thereby shutting off any connection to Earth-2 permanently."

Barry nodded, meaning to he excited, when a yawn slipped through his mouth. Harry noticed it and turned away immediately. There were mounds of guilt piling on him. His own secret siphoning device was definitely working and without any trouble. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm just a little tired. I don't feel like myself," Barry shrugged, once more not making a big desk out of it. "I'm good though. Yeah. It's gonna work, Harry."

"Yep, yep. Okay. You ready?"

"Yeah, give it to me." Barry took the device from him, and using his speed, he chucked the device straight ahead. It visibilized the breech and exploded. Barry slowly walked towards it and waved his hand where the breech was meant to be. He let loose a loud laugh when there was nothing there. "We did it!" he laughed and briefly gave Harry a hug. "Come on! You just rewrote the laws of physics!" he wasn't surprised when Harry failed to show any emotions. "Don't smile or anything."

"I guess that was pretty cool," Harry finally relented.

"Yeah, I'd say so. One down, 51 to go!"

"Allen…"

"Yeah?"

"Thank you," although Harry wasn't sure why he was saying that.

"It's just the first step in getting your daughter back. Come on!" Barry led the way back to the STAR Labs van.

~0~

An Iron Heights male guard was making a usual patrol outside the metahuman cells. There was nothing to report except for the occasional banging against the wall and curses here and there. This night, however, there was an odd swishing above him. He stopped in the middle of an aisle and looked up but all he saw were the usual pipes. When he gave up and looked back ahead he came face to face with an upside down female face. She was hanging by a vine and a twisted smile was on her face.

"Your metahuman ward is a joke," Poison Ivy smiled sweetly. "Maybe you should think about spreading that anti-methuman crap to the air-vents. For now, I'm going to need your keys my friend." Before the guard could move a finger, she punched the man and pulled the keys off him. She then hurried down the aisle, ignoring the calls and whistles of the other metahumans begging to be released.

The lucky winner was Maritza Palayta.

"Wakey, wakey!" Poison Ivy called just as she unlocked the cell.

"What…?" Maritza sat up on her bed, eyes wide in alarm at the woman. "Who are-"

Poison Ivy punched her across the face, effectively knocking Maritza out.

~0~

Despite it turning out to be a good, successful night, Barry soon got a call from Iris who was urgently telling him to get over to the street racing area because Tar Pit had decided to attack. With Iris' address, Barry sped there in a snap and found Wally's car making a complete turn over on a tar pit made hill. He sped through the car and got Wally out in time. Of course now the car was flying towards another man - Clark himself - and rushed to get him out of the way next. Just when he thought everything was good, he saw the shattered window pieces flying towards none other than Iris. She wouldn't be fast enough to get out of the way so Barry sped towards to snatch the pieces from her direction.

But, as it turned out, he wasn't fast enough either.

Barry didn't know what to think when the last piece, probably the biggest, slipped his catch and plunged into Iris' shoulder. The woman took the blow with widened eyes and fell back on the ground unconscious.

"Iris! Get her to the hospital!" Joe frantically shouted at Barry. He nodded and sped off, leaving everyone else in a state of horror and anxious.

~0~

Belén entered Axel's daycare and dodged all the lively children coming out with their parents. She remembered where Axel's class was and directly went there to pick him up.

"Mrs. Fallon, hi," she greeted the gray-haired woman in the class. "I'm sure my mother already called to say I'd be picking Axel up tonight."

"Yes," Mrs. Fallon nodded her head but Belén noticed she was receiving odd stares.

"I'm sorry, is there a problem?"

"Well, it's just...you already picked Axel up, and a while ago too. You came early."

Belén didn't know how to respond except to smile on confusion. "I can assure you I haven't."

"Yes, you did," Mrs. Fallon assured, and it began to worry Belén that the woman looked so sure of it. "You came about an hour ago saying there was a family emergency."

Belén could feel her heart picking up. "I-I didn't…."

"We can show you your signature if you'd like. You picked him up, dear. Are you alright?"

"Mrs. Fallon please look at me-" Belén gestured to herself, "-and tell me if I came to pick up my nephew."

Despite the question being totally irrelevant, Mrs. Fallon did as she was asked and looked Belén over. "It was you dear. Are you sure you're alright?"

It was hard to breathe but Belén pulled through for the last couple of minutes she spent in there. "Y-yes. I'm sorry, you're right. I did forget I picked Axel up. I-I need to go…"

"Ms. Palayta?"

Belén ran as fast as she could back to her car. Her heart was racing faster than ever. Before driving off, she tried getting in contact with her mother, although Belén wasn't sure what exactly she would tell her mother.

'Hey Mom! Don't fret or anything but I think a metahuman may have taken Axel!'

"That'll be a conversation," Belén mumbled to herself while waiting for her mother to pick up. Frustrated when Veronica didn't answer, Belén decided to drive back to STAR Labs.

~0~

"Don't worry, we're gonna get him," Cisco told Barry after catching the metahuman blankly staring at his suit with some sort of regret. "I'm sorry, dude." It was easy to tell Barry was blaming himself for Iris' injury, despite the woman turning out to be fine in the end.

"You shouldn't worry. We're gonna get him with these," Cisco made a motion for Harry to pass the small silver devices spread in front of Harry. However, Harry decided to throw one at Cisco instead. "With these nitrous grenades!" Cisco loudly said as a reminder for Harry of how delicate they were. "Each of these has ten times the concentration of a hot rod's nitrous tank and is triggered by extreme heat. We're talking 650 degrees. That's the boiling point of asphalt, so one of these puppies makes contact, you got a Tar Pit popsicle for dessert."

Barry was glad to see that they at least figured out a way to stop the metahuman, but it wasn't exactly what was bothering him. "Um... Hey, look, I think that maybe you were right. I felt slower tonight. You know, not by much, but enough. Well, do you think there's something wrong with the suit maybe?"

"It's unlikely," Harry's mouth without his control. He frowned at himself but once again the gnawing at his mind began.

"The readings from the suit are normal," Cisco promised. "You know I take care of that thing."

"Yeah, what? Am I sick?"

"I don't know, dude. Feel any different?"

Barry shook his head after a moment. "No, not really. I mean, I know that I'm slower in the moment, but I can't tell by how much."

Caitlin stood up from the desk and brought over a tablet with his readings. "2%. Tests on the components in your blood show the Speed Force at a 100% for the last 60 days until today, it dropped to 98."

Cisco got to thinking after a moment. "Zoom stole Jay's speed. Do you think maybe, during your fight with Zoom, yours might have diminished?"

"But that was weeks ago. Why would I just be feeling those effects now?" Barry couldn't find a plausible answer and tjrned to the only man who give some explanation. "Dr. Wells? You've studied the Speed Force more than anyone. What do you think could have happened?"

Harry swallowed hard but surprisingly spoke without difficulty. "It could be any number of things…"

"Yeah. All right. I just looked, I mean, Iris could have died tonight…" Barry sighed and put a hand on his forehead.

"She's gonna be okay, Barry," Caitlin reminded him.

"You know, this time, but the fact is, she is hurt right now because of me. I wasn't fast enough to protect Iris just from some meta-human tonight. When Zoom attacks again, I need all of my speed and then some. I can't lose anyone else."

Harry squeezed his eyes shut for a second, his mind screaming him to do one thing while his heart told him another. Finally, he slammed a hand on the desk and got up. Ignoring everyone's reactions, he confessed. "I did it." He went directly towards Barry's suit and pulled off the emblem to pick up the small octagonal device planted on the back. "I stole your speed. I gave it to Zoom."

At the same time he confessed those words, Belén and Joe came in, although no one saw the grim face on Joe and the frantic one on Belén.

"What... you're working with Zoom?" Barry angrily stepped forwards. Had he really fell for the same trick again!?

"No, not at first, I mean-"

"We trusted you. I trusted you!"

Joe decided enough was enough and strode towards them. He punched Harry to the floor then picked him back up and started dragging him away.

"Joe!" Barry and the others went after him but Belén latched a hand on Cisco's arm to keep him back.

"We've got another problem! It's Axel! I-I think a metahuman took him! A shape-shifter!"

Cisco stopped in his tracks and stared with wide eyes at her. Belén pulled him back to the desk.

"I-I don't know how but I think they can shape-shift or something. They took Axel and my Mom isn't picking up either. Please, you have to do some of that security camera stuff to see what's going on!"

Without a word, Cisco plopped down and started to work.

A couple minutes, Barry and Caitlin came back with Joe after seeing him practically throw Harry into the pipeline.

"Why did you put him in there?" Caitlin still had to ask.

"Because if I didn't, I would've kill him," Joe answered in an unusual dark voice. "We need to find this tar freak."

"What are you doing?" Barry asked once he saw Cisco fiercely working on the computers. "Did you find Tar Pit?"

"No, he's looking for Axel," Belén answered with a shaky voice. At everyone's look, she told them the story of her visit to Axel's daycare.

Barry slapped a hand to his face. "How much do you want to bet Harry knows about this too?"

"You think Datura did this?" Belén's eyes widened with a new sense of fear.

"Well, if it was her, then there's definitely a chance of shape-shifting with her siphoning powers," Caitlin joined Cisco at the desk and started to help him.

"I don't know, I just...I don't know. I'm trying to get in contact with my Mom and she's not answering either," Belén felt like a child the way she was acting, but she truly didn't know what the hell to do.

"I was coming in to tell you…" Joe began, "No one's seen your mother at the station. As far as I knew, she was going to be doing paperwork all day."

"That's what she told me too," Belén rubbed her face.

Barry came over to her side and hugged her. "We'll find them."

"Uh...guys…" Cisco's voice reeled them to the back of his and Caitlin's chairs.

One screen had Poison Ivy knocking Veronica in the street, and the next had a dark brunette in a mask - Datura, without their knowledge - holding Axel by the hand. She was waving at the street camera with purpose, wanting to be seen.

"Oh my God…" Belén nearly pushed Cisco out of the way to see closer. "Datura has Axel."

Caitlin hated bringing her more bad news but she tapped Belén's shoulder and pointed to the computer in front of them. It was a news report in front of Iron Heights. Caitlin unmuted the reporter so they could all listen in.

'Earlier this afternoon, there was a break in at Iron Heights' new metahuman department. Sources say it was conducted by yet another metahuman. Only one inmate was taken, or broken out: Maritza Palayta, aka Plasticine…'

"NO!" Belén put slammed a hand on the desk, startling the rest.

"They orchestrated this," Cisco told them all.

"She wants to meet," Belén straightened up, suddenly emotionless. "Fine. I'll meet."

"You don't want to do that…" Barry went after her, towards her unused suit. "I know how that works. You go out all emotional and next thing you know you get your ass kicked."

Belén turned around, red in the eyes, with pursed lips. "That's my family out there. She kidnapped them because of me. If it had been Zoom you would be out there right now doing the exact same thing I'm going to do."

There Barry didn't have the courage to disagree. If it had been Zoom who captured his family, including her, there would be nothing stopping him from going out to the streets to search. "Okay, but you don't have to go alone. Let me give the streets a quick scan, yeah?'

Belén figured that would get them somewhere at least.

Just as he was about to speed out, Cisco called to them.

"Yo, incoming message…" Cisco pulled up the video feed.

Belén had chills.

Datura stood tall and smug in front of the screen. She tucked a dark curl behind her ear and smiled at the camera. "Good evening, Central City. You have the honor of meeting the finest woman of the hour."

"Is she for real?" Cisco made a face, but even his sarcasm wasn't enough to pull Belén away.

'For the past few months, I have made my presence known very well in this city, on this Earth. Truth is, I only come with one target and she's letting you all get hurt. All she had to do was let me take her away. But you know what? I am so tired of this cat-and-mouse game so..."

"Cisco, I hope you're tracking this," Barry turned away from the screen. Cisco was indeed working on it and held a finger to indicate he needed some time.

Datura straightened herself up, raising her head as she began to say, "Azalea, you know this has been coming for a long time. One final battle between us. Tonight at 9 pm, at your beloved favorite park. Let's find out who's really the strongest."

"You're on, bitch," Belén didn't hesitate to respond.

"Cisco!?" Barry called again, and sharper.

"I can't!" the man exclaimed. "The signal's coded and I can't work around it."

Belén furiously stalked out of the cortex and headed for the pipeline.

"Uh, where's she going?" Cisco turned on his chair.

"Where do you think?" Barry muttered as he followed his girlfriend out.

"Barry, wait," Caitlin's soft voice pulled him back. She pointed at her screen that rang with 'incoming call'.

~0~

Veronica wriggled and wriggled against the rope around her wrists keeping her tied to a plain wooden chair. Beside her, Axel was in the same predicament, only the four year old was mighty confused. On her right was Maritza, out cold, and also tied up. Thankfully, she seemed to be waking up.

"Mommy's awake!" Axel cheered. His voice was enough to fully stir Maritza from her slumber.

"What the hell?" Maritza looked around the dusty old warehouse they were in. "Where are we?"

"Never mind that. Use your powers to get us out," Veronica urged. "They're using us as bait for your sister, I'm sure of it."

Maritza didn't need any more explanations than that. But just as she was about conjure up her old powers, a needle was stabbed into her neck. She gasped from the sudden contact and looked up to find Datura - covered up with a mask - injecting a strange fluid into her.

"Nighty night," her modulated voice sarcastically said.

"What are you doing to her!?' Veronica demanded, once again wriggling against her bindings.

"Putting her to sleep," Datura pulled the needle from Maritza's neck then moved around to face her. She patted Maritza's cheek just to see if the effects were kicking in. Maritza's eyes had a loopy tinge to them and in a matter of seconds she was unconscious again. "This should knock her out for another two hours. Made it myself."

"Am I supposed to be proud?" Veronica sourly asked.

"I wouldn't mind," Datura moved on to her and pulled out a cellphone. "Yeah, we're probably going to need to destroy this." Veronica and Axel were startled as Datura's gloved hand cackled with electricity at the same time her eyes glowed white. "STAR Labs is full of geniuses I heard. Can't have them tracking you down. Don't worry, I memorized numbers. I'm good with memory. Or was that Johnson I took that ability from? I can't remember."

"Who are are you?" Veronica could not figure it out for the life of her. "What are you, I should say instead. Belén's told me things about you, how you want to hurt her...but why?"

"Quit asking so many questions," Datura turned away.

"Just...just let my daughter and grandson go then," Veronica looked at Axel then at Maritza. "They don't need to be here. A-Axel shouldn't be here, he's just a kid."

Datura swiftly turned around, eyes locking with the child for a moment. "He's not in any danger," she said in an unusual soft voice. Veronica noticed it straightaway but it didn't make her feel any better. "I may be a monster but I don't hurt kids. He's only here to get the message across to your dear daughter." She grabbed an old phone and started dialing in a number, turning said call into a video call.

Once she saw the familiar faces of the STAR Labs inhabitants, she began.

'I'm sure by now you're all scrambling…'

~0~

In STAR Labs, everyone except Belén was in on the video call. Cisco and Caitlin were automatically trying to trace the call.

'...but I do hope the Azalea responds. We wouldn't want anything to happen to her family would they?' Datura showed them Axel, Veronica and Maritza behind her.

"You need to let them go," Barry's warning did nothing for him. "I don't care who you are, we're going to find you and we're going to lock you away. You and your little friend."

'Good luck, Flash. No one's been able to handle me. I'm invincible. Remember my powers?' Datura raised her free hand and made it crackle with electricity first, then vines raised from it, and then suddenly there was energy fields. 'The Azalea will meet me at the spot or her family dies. And don't try to trace me, I've made sure it's impossible. I'm the complete package. Genius, you see,' Datura tapped the side of her curly haired head. 'Oh, one more thing: Flash, if you dare to help the Azalea fight this...I won't hesitate to show you how poisonous I am. I'll start with the boy." With that, Datura ended the transmission. Barry turned to Cisco, hoping for some good answers, but Cisco was discovering that Datura was being honest in that she was smarter than she looked.

"I don't understand what is the point in all this," Caitlin gave a shake of her head. "Except to be crazy."

"I think we should focus less on the reasons and more on the 'how the hell are we solving' this," Joe pushed them for the better stance. "The woman's a siphoner - that should be complicated enough."

"She's not invincible," Belén appeared at the threshold with Shivhan at her side. They turned to find Belén holding a notepad in her hands.

Barry quickly went towards her. "Hey…"

Belén raised a hand to keep him away for the moment. "She's not invincible," she said with a rough voice that indicated she was taking extra care not to cry again. "Harry wrote down some notes on Datura. Look at this," she started to read off the notes out loud, "'Different voices at once could be an indicator of multiple personality disorder. Seems to be uncontrolled.'" Belén's eyes looked up to her friends. "You see that? Datura's sick and maybe now with an idea of what she might have, we could end this."

"How does one fight a woman with multiple personality disorder?" Joe looked around for any answers to that question.

"Lock her up in a psychiatric ward," Cisco replied without a second thought.

"Maybe we don't have to fight her to win her," Shivhan's odd statement earned herself the group's collective confused stare.

"Uh, we kind of do," Barry said slowly.

"No, if we want to be smart about this then we don't have to fight her to win," Shivhan took the notepad from Belén and went through some of the things Harry had written down. "Look, Harry was very specific on the fact that Datura and Poison Ivy were a duo. They hardly do things without the other."

"Yeah no offence, I don't think we should be trusting anything that man has said...or written," Joe shook his head. "He's been lying to us."

"But he's not wrong about this," Belén realized. "I've seen it myself. Poison Ivy is always there to back Datura up."

"And when Datura is going to far, Poison Ivy is there," Shivhan added. "She's the one who reels Datura back when the psycho needs it."

"Remember how she lost her deadly scream?" Belén began to smile. "Poison Ivy warned her not to exert herself and Datura didn't listen. Datura on her own may not be as smart she claims to be."

"So what are we thinking, then?" Caitlin asked.

"I need to lock Poison Ivy in the pipeline."

"That's a nice plan and all but how the hell are we going to do that?" Cisco wondered since they'd failed multiple times in defeating the woman.

"I don't know," Belén straightened herself up. "But I'll find out when I'm out there."

"Let me take a better look at these notes," Cisco took the notepad from Shivhan and headed for his working room. "Maybe there really is something we can use in here."

"Alright…Barry, we still need to find Tar Pit," Joe reminded the younger metahuman. "Better we find him and get that out of the way before...you know…"

Barry followed his gaze to Belén who'd taken to stare at her suit silently. "Yeah, we should."

"Cisco did already figure out a way to stop him," Caitlin offered the solution that was already at their disposal.

"Okay, and I think I know a way to lure him out," Joe said, meaning for him and Barry to get going.

"Yeah, alright, just let me…" Barry made a motion to Belén, and Joe nodded. As Joe headed out, Barry walked over to Belén. "Okay, we're going to stop Tar Pit and then we're going to focus on Datura and Poison Ivy."

"Mhm," Belén said without much emotions on her face.

"Bells, please...don't do anything stupid. I say that from experience," Barry sighed.

"Mhm."

Barry glanced at Shivhan, silently hoping she'd look after Belén. Shivhan smiled softly and assured him she'd be around.

"I will be...right back," Barry promised Belén. He kissed her temple then sped out with his suit.

"You do you, Barry," Belén mumbled under her breath. "And I'll do me."

~ 0 ~

Poison Ivy walked through the old warehouse with a look of distaste. "Alright, it's almost time," she caught sight of Datura tinkering with some toys left on a table. "Which means you can start releasing them. I'd send the kid off first."

Axel was falling asleep in his chair, utterly bored.

"The metahuman needs to go first," Datura turned around and jumped on the table, crossing her legs where she sat. "The syringe I injected in her is going to end soon. Can you believe she was a metahuman on this planet? What a waste."

Poison Ivy snickered and whispered, "Meanwhile your sister was nothing but a boring ole-"

"Sh," Datura raised a hand to stop Poison Ivy from talking. She pointed a gloved finger at Veronica who was narrowly glaring at them both.

Poison Ivy glanced at Veronica and raised an eyebrow. "Got a problem there, sweetheart? Besides your current situation."

"All I heard was that you're being sent off to return my nephew and daughter," Veronica replied, eyes glued onto Datura.

"We told you we're not interested in any of you. You were just the insurance that your daughter got the call."

"Datura, it's time," Poison Ivy gently shook Datura's arm. "And you remember, you can't exert yourself-"

Datura rolled her eyes but said not a word of argument. "I won't."

"I mean it," Poison Ivy yanked the woman off the table, harshly that even Veronica was startled by. "You need to listen to what I say."

"When don't I?" Datura asked with a sweet smile on her face.

~ 0 ~

Cisco emerged from his work room with the notepad in hand but all scanned and done. "Alright, so I think I might be able to answer some Datura trivia now." He found the cortex empty but didn't really panic until he saw that Belén's old suit was also missing. "Oh no, no, no, no!" he rushed to the computers and started calling out for Belén, Caitlin and Shivhan.

In a matter of moments, Caitlin came rushing into the cortex with half a cup of coffee. "What's going on!?"

"Belén's gone! How could you have left her!?" Cisco angrily motioned to the empty display behind him.

Caitlin's eyes widened. "Wh-what? She just...she asked me to get her some coffee for the nerves and I-"

"Caitlin," Cisco sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose, closing his eyes for a second, "When someone who's not meant to leave asks you to get them coffee in another room...it's always a lie!"

This time Caitlin didn't fault him for his sarcasm. She put the cup down on the desk guiltily stared at the empty displays. "Well, Shivhan's suit is gone so at least we know Belén isn't entirely alone. What do we do now?"

"We call Barry, that's what we do," Cisco started on the computers again.

With nothing else to do, Caitlin sat down and helped him. As Cisco went to his work table in the cortex, scouring for the communicator Belén left behind, he came up short with another invention of his.

"Where's my prison field?" he turned back to Caitlin.

Caitlin could only shrug.

~ 0 ~

Because of the public video challenge, Datura and Poison Ivy appeared in the Central City park subjected to crowds of people with flashing camera phones and the usual police siren lights. From a distance, Belén watched the two smug women waiting for her.

"Are you sure about this?" Shivhan stood right next to her and despite her mask covering her face Belén could still see the clear nervousness on it.

"Yeah. You don't have to be here, though. They challenged me."

"I'm not leaving you to fight those two psychos on your own," Shivhan scoffed. "It's what they want. Numbers is a huge game changer."

"Yeah but maybe you could go find my family instead."

"Tell you what, we can do that after we kick ass," Shivhan bumped her shoulder with Belén's, making the latter smile. "You know, after you get an earful from Barry for not listening to him."

"Eh, I can kiss him and make him forget about it," shrugged Belén. Shivhan chuckled. Belén took in a deep breath and stepped forwards. "Ready?"

"Bring it," Shivhan nodded.

"I do believe it's 9 p.m…" Datura spoke purposely loud to the crowd watching them. "Could it be your coward flower princess isn't showing up?"

"You wish," Belén's figure formed over the park fountain.

"Well, at least this way I won't have to go looking for you," Datura raised her hands, letting them shine with gold electricity. "Ready?"

"Always," Belén smiled much too cheerfully for Datura's taste. The Earth 2 metahuman scowled and fired first. The electricity went directly for Belén but ultimately missed her as she disappeared into vines.

Belén reappeared behind Datura, striking her with a vine over the head. As she was about to hit again, Poison Ivy snuck behind Belén to do the same...only for Black Orchid to make her appearance and wrap a vine-lasso around Poison Ivy's body. The ginger shrieked when her body was thrown in the opposite direction.

Datura used the momentary distraction to her advantage and blasted Belén with a flame sniper. Belén felt the angry burn slash across her abdomen after sitting up on the ground.

That's really going to leave a mark, she looked down at her suit.

Datura laughed as she walked towards Belén. She let her hands dangle on her sides but they were glowing brown. "Dear me, I guess all that practice in the Green didn't do anything for you, huh?" she raised one hand and with it came a chunk of cement. Belén's eyes widened at it - it was pretty huge. "You're still as pathetic and weak as before." Datura threw the chunk of ground at Belén.

Belén thrust her two hands above her head and created a shield of pure vine matter. The cement still crashed over her but she was relatively safe with the extra layer of protection. Of course when Datura saw her fatal attack had done next to nothing, she growled and lunged on Belén altogether.

Black Orchid wanted to help Belén get the woman off her, but Poison Ivy was a menace. Poison Ivy thrust a hand forwards to knock her out with a vine, but Shivhan used her own vines to jump over the ginger woman. As soon as her boots touched ground, Shivhan swiped her vines across Poison Ivy's legs. It didn't last long because Poison Ivy jumped back on her feet and commanded the trees at her will. Shivhan, in her shock, only stepped back once, before she was wrapped up.

"I thought this would be a little more fun," Poison Ivy moved forwards, making the mistake that the battle was over. She twisted her hands to produce the same movements but missed the fact there were some vines escaping through the ground. Before she knew it, Black Orchid had reformed right behind her. Her foot connected with Poison Ivy's back and kicked her down.

Belén did a semi-spin to shower the air with deadly rose thorns. She did admit in taking pleasure hearing Datura's shrieks when some of the thorns struck her skin. The woman owed her one of many! Datura tried to strike back with a sharpened vine her way, but Belén used one of the new tricks she learned in the Green. She jumped on the vine and dashed across it, almost laughing when Datura yelled in angry surprise. She took even greature pleasure throwing a foot directly at Datura's face.

She might have broken the woman's nose.

"Datura!" Poison Ivy saw the attack in horror and forgot all about Black Orchid. She brought down a lasso vine over Belén's body, keeping the woman locked between it and the ground.

Belén struggled against it but Poison Ivy piled several more vines to keep her tucked inside. And she may have been cutting the air a bit too thin, Belén was sure. I will lose it if I die by asphyxiation, Belén tried pushing her way through to no avail.

"Black Orchid!" she began to cry out as a last resort. "I can't - no air!" she pushed her hands over the thick vines, but nothing seemed to move them. In fact, they seemed to be pressing down on her body. "AIR!"

"You're suffocating her!" Black Orchid ran for Poison Ivy but the ginger managed to keep her force on the vines and take on a side fight with Shivhan.

Belén felt dizzy and she knew that was just the beginning of such a crazy end. I can't, I can't, not now, I can't...

Her eyes closed.

And when they opened, Belén found herself in a bright green forest. "What...?"

"Belén?"

Belén began to realize that she wasn't alone. Rose Red and Swamp Thing were in front of her, both seeming concerned for her.

"Am I...am I dead?" Belén clapped her hands to her face, panicked for a moment she really did die.

"No," answered Rose Red. "The Green pulled you in but if you don't go back soon you'll die from asphyxiation."

"Datura's kicking my ass - again!" Belén actually shrieked out of frustration. "And she's gonna hurt my friend!"

"Don't worry," Swamp Thing said, "You are not alone."

"I know, but..." Belén trailed off when more figures began appearing behind them. She recognized a few of them as people she'd met during her training sessions. "Sequoia? Mayflower?" the two women in question nodded their heads with similar smirks. "Chloroplast?" she face one of the men near her. "What are you all...what...?"

"Poison Ivy and Datura put all botany metahumans to shame," Rose Red spoke up and had the agreeing nods of the others. "It's time we showed them what it really means to be part of the Green."

"If you allow us to help you, we can win this battle," the metahuman Sequoia moved forwards. She had long, dark hair wrapped in a single braid over her chest. Her brow suit was outlined with golden hemlines and golden cuffs on her wrists. "Finally strike back."

"What do I have to do?" Belén urgently asked. Even in the Green she could begin to feel the strains of air loss. Her chest felt tight.

"Let us follow you back," Sequoia smiled.

Out in the real world, Black Orchid was failing against Datura who had taken over as Poison Ivy continued to seal Belén under her vine mass. Datura fired a jet of red energy that threw Shivhan towards the water fountain. She would've fallen in if Barry had come in and swiped her just inches from the water.

"Thanks," Shivhan breathed in relief as she got back on her feet.

"What the hell were you thinking!?" Barry scowled.

"Uh, that Belén was coming with or without us so she might as well have back up!"

"Where is she!?" Barry fiercely looked around but stopped when Shivhan pointed him to the mass of vines.

"She's a bit busy," Datura mirthlessly laughed.

Barry glared at her and was about to move when the ground began to shake. It wasn't one of Datura's tricks since she herself looked confused. Poison Ivy was knocked off her feet, landing in a roll. Belén broke through the vine mass and rose to her feet (quite literally). Her body glowed a bright green, matching her emerald-green, scaly skin.

"What's going on!?" demanded Datura.

Poison Ivy seemed a bit more worried than her partner as she scooted away. "The-the..."

"I warned you, Poison Ivy, that you should not misuse the power of the Green," Belén's voice was not of her own and Poison Ivy knew exactly who was in control. "But you continued to choose wrong and look where that led you? Look where you led a fellow sister."

"What the hell is going on?" Datura fired a jet of electricity only for Belén to swipe a hand to the right and capture the electricity in a thick vine mass. Belén then re-directed it back on Datura. The siphoner had no time to realize before the mass hit her square in the chest and shock her on the ground.

"It's the Green!" Poison Ivy jumped on her feet.

"It's the Green?" Barry was a bit afraid but he looked at Shivhan for some more information.

"They're helping," she smiled smugly. "Oh and they are about to get it. The Green is very clear about the rules."

Belén thrust her hands forwards, releasing chunks of tree bark - sequoia pieces to be exact - as sharpened knives at Poison Ivy. The woman quickly put her shield up but her feet still slid backwards with each blow. Belén's body rose into the air and let a series of vines extend from her body, threatening to snap over Poison Ivy's head.

"Stop it!" hissed the woman as she tried to defend herself. However, she realized some of the vines were part of rose roots and therefore felt the sting of the thorns.

But one of the vines struck harder than the rest - it was even bigger and thicker than the others - and it pushed right on Poison Ivy's left arm. The woman's shrill scream of pain as her arm disconnected from her shoulder was enough to make the crowd cover their ears. With a broken arm, there wasn't much Poison Ivy could do.

"I'LL KILL YOU!" Poison Ivy shouted at Belén. She sent streams of poison towards a number of people, knowing it was exactly the type of thing that would get Belén to stop her attacks.

And she was right.

Belén quickly moved for the crowd and blocked the way with numerous tendrils of vines. She started breathing harder, in and out, in and out…

"Wait - don't do that!" Shivhan yelled and the fact she'd done that made Barry panic. "She's not trained yet to intake all that poison! It can kill her!"

Belén was sucking in the poison no matter how bad it burned her throat. Barry went straight for Poison Ivy and rammed the woman to the ground. Datura's eyes flashed with fury but Black Orchid began a new fight with her. She tossed the siphoner to the side with a tendril and made for a good distraction.

Poison Ivy was subjected to thorns again, that made her quickly spring vines to block them. Belén disbanded and reformed from behind in less than a second, giving her a momentary surprise attack which she used to conjure up vines that entangled Poison Ivy. She then pushed Poison Ivy into a park bench and tossed Cisco's gadget. It exploded over Poison Ivy and trapped her in an electrical boundary.

"You did it," Barry blinked at Belén with a growing smile on his face. But Belén did not smile, her body was still being shared by multiple botany metahumans. She turned to Datura who had yelled for her partner once she saw the trap.

"Datura, get out of here!" Poison Ivy quickly instructed, but Datura shook her head in tears. "I said leave! If you get trapped then we're both done for!"

"But-"

"GET OUT!"

"Pamela!" Datura cried, but once she saw Barry making a move towards her, she quickly sprung her own gadget that opened a breech for her. She disappeared just a second before Barry would reach her.

"Dammit!" Barry hissed and turned around.

"She'll be back," promised Poison Ivy, looking very certain of her words.

Belén looked at her but said nothing. The green glow around her body began to fade like the green scaly skin. She took in a deep breath after knowing it was just her in her body now.

"Azalea," Barry rushed back to her side, helping her stay on her feet. He cupped her face and searched for any clear physical injury. "Are you-"

"It's..." Belén felt a terrible sting in her throat that forbade her from saying more. Instead, she pulled Barry down for a kiss. She'd been very scared and only now could she truly admit it.

~0~

Though it was really late, STAR Labs was up and active with different tasks. Maritza was subjected to a check over just to make sure Datura hadn't slipped anything else into the sleeping drought she'd been given twice. Veronica had gone under a head ran for the bump on the back of her head. Axel was the only one who didn't receive any treatment from either villain. The only one who was under more check overs was, of course, Belén.

When she woke up - because she had no idea when she fell under - she spotted almost everyone around her bed. She was about to retort that she didn't need so many eyes but all that came out were squeaks followed by groans. Her throat hurt.

"Yeah I wouldn't try to talk for a while," Cisco whistled. Belén's eyebrows knitted together, confused since her mind wasn't all there yet.

"You took in a heavy amount of poison," Caitlin put a hand on Belén's arm. "If you didn't already have some immunity to poison you would be dead by now."

"I can't believe you did that," Shivhan chuckled. "But if the Green hadn't been helping you, it would've done more damage to you."

"Not..." Belén cringed, "...was...metahumans..."

"Oh," Shivhan blinked. "They were helping you, then? All the other metahumans? That was amazing!"

"But still dangerous," Barry said, looking down at Belén with a sigh. "I told you we would figure it out together. You could've waited, you know. I was really scared something could've happened to you."

Belén apologetically smiled. She pushed herself to sit upright and extended her arms at him. She couldn't talk but she could still hug.

"Don't do anything like that again, please," Barry kissed her temple and hugged her a bit tighter. He already had Iris in the hospital, the last thing he needed was for Belén to wind up connected to a machine as well.

"Auntie Belén needs to eat a lot of chicken soup," Axel was pushing forwards a chair towards the bed.

"She's not sick, Axel. Some very bad women hurt her," Veronica moved to help the boy but Maritza rushed to do it herself. She wanted to take advantage of every second she had outside with her son.

"Still, she hurt them back really good too," Maritza smirked. "That's my sister."

Belén matched her sister's smile and looked around at the others. She wanted to say something, clearly, but she couldn't do it.

"Here Bells," Cisco gave her a tablet. "You can use this to communicate for the next few days."

Belén beamed and quickly typed on it. 'Can I have the room with my sister, please?'

"If you need anything, we're right here," Barry told her. She nodded and accepted his kiss on the lips with another cheery smile. For someone who nearly poisoned and asphyxiated, she was very happy.

The group began to file out after Barry until it was just Belén and Maritza in the room. Maritza didn't know what to do for a moment except wait for Belén to say (or write) first, but everything that Maritza had been thinking and feeling since she'd been locked away overpowered her patience tactic.

"I'm so sorry for everything I did!" she exclaimed. "I know I've apologized but it's not the same doing it with a wall between us. And I know it probably doesn't mean much but I need you to know that I really am SO so sorry for everything."

For the first time, Belén didn't roll her eyes or discard the apology like she'd done so many times before. The fact was, she wasn't angry anymore. And it didn't feel wrong. She watched her sister go into tears after making her apology and was about to write something on her tablet when she thought of something else.

Belén reached for one of her sister's hands, startling Maritza in the process, and with a strain she said, "I...for...give you…" It physically hurt like hell to say those words but the burning in her throat was worth it when she saw Maritza's lit up face.

"Belén...do you really mean that?" she asked. When Belén nodded, Maritza laughed of joy and hugged her sister. "I really don't deserve a sister like you, Belén. You really are the best in this entire family." Belén chuckled as much as she could before her throat raged again. Maritza drew away with a kind smile. "I really don't deserve to be your sister."

Belén quickly typed on the tablet and turned it around for Maritza to see. 'You're genuinely repenting for what you did. I'm proud.'

Maritza's smile widened and her eyes teared up a bit. "Thank you. I, uh...I guess I should go, huh? Everyone still thinks I broke out of prison."

Belén bobbed her head for a few seconds then wrote something new on her tablet. 'I think the Azalea and the Flash didn't find you until the next morning…'

Maritza knew exactly what that meant. She could spend a night with her son. That alone made her burst into tears. "Thank you, Belén!" she took her sister into a tight hug again.

~0~

Poison Ivy had seen better days, much, much better days. Ever since she could remember nothing had ever trapped her, and the only person that did, she killed. Now she found herself trapped inside a small, blue prison that sucked her powers. Still, she did not look defeated.

This was what bothered Barry the most.

He stared at the woman with the coldest face ever yet all she did was smile, and flirtatiously too. A full ten minutes had passed before Poison Ivy got bored and spoke up.

"Hello there, Barry Allen," she dragged a finger along the wall of her prison pod. "I suppose I should be laughing at the irony of finally properly meeting you. And it's funny, really, because I can already name everything about you; your parents, your job, weaknesses, personality...you name it."

"How?" It was the question he and Belén had asked over and over. How the hell did Datura and Poison Ivy know their identities even before meeting them? That didn't make sense. "How do you know about us?"

"Let's just say...my friend told me," Poison Ivy bit her lower lip to stop herself from laughing. They were so clueless it was hilarious!

"Yeah, well, we learned something about you tonight too, Pamela," Barry could see the anger flourish in the woman, making her almost as red as her hair. "That's your real name isn't it?"

"My name-" she slammed a hand on the wall, "-is Poison Ivy!"

"So you hate it, and yet that's what Datura called you right before she left you. Makes me think you're strongly attached to each other...meaning if you're in here, Datura will fall much easier. I guess I have to thank Shivhan for that tactic. We take you away, Datura will crumble."

Poison Ivy mused over the threat and started to smile again. "You won't touch her."

"Yeah?"

"Mhm. You won't be able to defeat her. And it won't be because you can't; it'll be because you won't want to."

Barry laughed for a moment. "That's the joke of the century. I'll be sure to pass on the message to Belén. I'm sure that'll make her smile too."

Poison Ivy watched as he went to close her in the pipeline. "You won't be laughing when you find out!"

"Mhm…" Barry ignored her and started the closing sequence.

"She'll get me out and then I'll make you swallow that laugh," Poison Ivy made the vow as she was sealed in.

Barry rolled his eyes and took no attention to her words. He really only wanted to see her realize she was never getting out, but it turns out she was delusional. Still, he had to try. After sealing her up, he moved the coding around to bring in Harry's cell.

When Harry was released, he assumed they'd agreed on his proposition to just send him to E-2 and leave him there. "Well... I guess this is good-bye," Harry stepped outside of his cell.

"No, it's not," Barry shook his head, now serious. "I told you, we're a team. Now you're a part of it. We're gonna help you save Jesse. We're not sending you through alone. We're going to Earth-2."

Author's Note:

Finally, this has to be my favorite chapter out of the entire story! The Azalea vs Datura vs Poison Ivy vs Black Orchid! And Belén finally forgives her sister, that made me tear up a bit! Next time, though...EARTH 2! I loved writing those chapters!

P.S did yall see Crisis on Infinite Earths? LET'S DISCUSS!

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