Team Flash were standing in the secret room, waiting for Barry. As soon as Barry sped through the door the team's mood cheeried up.
"How did the talk go?" Cisco said while trying to conceal his laughter. "I mean you are still alive so you must have calmed him down, right?"
"Yeah… well I did more than that. I opened up a place in his heart that has never been opened. I let him feel an emotion that he has never felt before. That no one has shown towards him."
"What is that?"
"His trust." Barry said, turning looking around the room, one person at a time. "The same I have… the same I was given and have from all of you."
"Well done on getting him calm and getting his trust. Let's go and see him." Harry said.
Later
After Barry and the others arrive back, Victor suddenly looks around - happily but as soon as he sees Harry he grows angry again. His left arm had transformed into a cannon.
"Two things. First, why is he out of his restai… oh." Harry said but stops when he sees the cuffs lying on the ground - they are completely destroyed and somehow - burnt. "Secondly, I thought you said you had calmed him down ."
"I had." Barry said, turning to Harry. Then Barry walked over a hand on Victor's shoulder. "hey , Vic." He says, softly. "It's okay. We're not going to hurt you. So just back down and put that gun away." Victor looked down at him and smiled and transformed his hand back into a hand.
"Sorry, it's just that my cybernetics thought of Harrison as a threat. To be honest so did I but now I realise this isn't the same one - the one I know. He's from earth 2 rather than earth 1 - our earth."
"Yeah, that's right. Also we call him Harry, you can call him that too. These are Cis…"
"Cisco Ramon, Harrison/Harry Wells and Caitlin Snow.." Barry nodded and Victor put by his waist and looked at each member in turn. "I am so sorry with how I treated you guys." Victor told them. "I guess… I guess I was scared so my cybernetics went on high alert. GRID - the other side of me - if he thinks that his host - me - is in danger then he will take control of cybernetics and attack the threat. My body hasn't got the handle of human emotions yet. Don't think it ever will, really. Thank you, Barry."
"For what?" Everyone except Barry asked Victor.
"For showing… no telling me that… that I am still a person even if I do look different."
"Why did you steal from the store? I mean you say that you realised that you are the person you always were." Harry asked."
"Yes, I did realise that after Barry talked to me, here. See, I thought that after the accident I wasn't and would never be Victor Stone again. That because I didn't look human, that I wasn't. I was going to build a hologram generator. To at least look human.
"We can do better." They all said.
"You can make me human again."
"No." Caitlin said, resting her hand on his shoulder. "Sadly, you can't be completely human again, but, that doesn't mean we can't make your life better."
"How? Is that even possible?"
"Yes, it is. Harry, please explain."
"We thought for a bit. They were wondering if you want to join Team Flash. I don't think it is a good idea. I mean, your record is nowhere perfect."
"Name one person whose record is. No one is perfect but I understand if you don't want me."
"That's not what I mean. Yes, you're right. No one's is but… but you have the record of a prisoner."
"I understand that you don't want me. I'll just go. I'm a waste of space and technology anyway." Victor turned to leave but felt a hand on his shoulder.
"Harry doesn't mean to act like that." Cisco said. "He just is a bit scared. Like you were when you first came here - just without the murderous AI. No offence."
"None taken. You guys weren't lying when you said I could kill Superman."
"Ehh… we were joking."
"About the Superman thing?"
"Yes. But that doesn't matter." Cisco looks up at him and holds his hand. "You want to join the team, Cyborg?"
"Cyborg?"
"Cisco is good at coming up with names and you are a cyborg, so Cyborg works perfectly well."
"Well in that case. Cyborg reporting for duty." Victor says and everyone starts laughing. "What is so funny." Victor asks them all."
"You don't have to say 'reporting for duty."
"Oh, sorry."
"You don't have to say sorry, Stone and welcome to the team." Harry said. "Cisco you know what to do." Victor suddenly looked scared and worried at the same time.
"Don't need to worry, Victor. Just upgrading your suit."
"Ehh… you know how to?"
"Of course. You're not the only amazing hacker in the room." Cisco said, smirking and walking down the hall to his lab.
"You didn't, did you?" Victor shouted at him. "Cisco answer me you bastard!" With no reply, Victor went running after Cisco and leaving the rest in the room.
"Do you think Cisco will be okay?" Caitlin asked.
"Oh Ramon will be fine. You should be worried about what he will do to Stone." Harry said. Barry just shook his head and left, unnoticed by the arguing pair.
"Victor is a cybernetically enhanced superhuman. Cisco has no powers that I know. Tell me why I should be worried about Victor instead of Cisco who has no means of defence."
"He does have powers."
"Oh yeah, he does. But still against Victor he's a goner."
"Ramon can hack Stone. Stone may be a half alien with powers beyond anyone's understanding but Ramon keeps an EMP in his belt for some reason."
"Oh so he can EMP him. He would have to get it near him first. Victor will shoot him before he will even get the chance."
"Ramon is capable of opening portals."
"So is Victor."
"He is?"
"Yeah, you think that I wouldn't run a power scan as well as a diagnostic scan. You're crazy."
"Invasion of privacy much."
"You staked on your own daughter and I'm invading privacy. Just saying."
"I was doing it for her own safety."
"I was doing it for the safety of all of us. You know what I'm going to check on them."
"You want a burger?"
"What?"
"Never mind. Forget about it." Suddenly they heard screaming and gunshots coming from Cisco's lab. Harry turned to Caitlin scared.
"You know what. I will have that burger."
THE END