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Back in the Cortex in S.T.A.R. Labs, Cisco and Caitlin were glaring in mistrust with folded arms at the man, who looked like Harrison Wells, reading the autobiography written by his doppelganger as Wells had narrowed eyes.
"Very strange to be holding your autobiography, especially when you didn't write it and it's not about you." Wells closed the book as Barry and Patty turned to Cisco and Caitlin.
"Dr. Caitlin Snow, Cisco Ramon, meet Dr. Harrison Wells from Earth-2." Barry introduced him.
"Hi." Cisco said nervously.
"Hi." Wells said dryly.
Cisco took a breath. "So let me get this straight. You're the doppelganger of the man who murdered his mom and is responsible for both Ronnie's and Eddie's deaths?"
"Yeah, but he's not even the doppelganger of the Dr. Wells that we knew because that Dr. Wells' body had been taken over by the Reverse Flash, who was really Eobard Thawne and Eddie's distant relative from the future." Caitlin added.
Wells shook his head. "Yeah, I didn't follow any of that. I'm my own man." He glanced at Barry and Caitlin and Cisco. "I had nothing to do with the murder of your mother or your friend Ricky."
"His name was Ronnie." Caitlin snapped.
"Him either." Wells said.
"You said you have a proof of your identity?" Patty asked.
Wells approached his bag and handed Caitlin a purse. "This almost hit me when I went through the portal. Your stabilized breach downstairs connects directly to the S.T.A.R. Labs on my Earth."
"Technically, this could be mine, but I want to run some tests on you." Caitlin said.
"I'll be genetically indistinguishable from my Earth-1 counterpart. Your tests will reveal nothing." Wells said.
"Great! Still gonna run 'em." Caitlin said.
"Be my guest." Wells shrugged.
Cisco neared Barry and Patty, lowering his voice. "Why are we even listening to him? How do we know he's not evil like the other guy?"
"He saved me and Barry last night." Patty said.
"The question is why." Barry said, turning to Wells, while Patty glanced at the hi-tech rifle.
"That weapon that you used to kill that giant shark last night." Patty then realized something. "You're the one, who broke into Mercury Labs. Dr. McGee said she saw Harrison Wells steal one of their devices few days ago."
"What?" Barry, Caitlin and Cisco turned to her, staring in disbelief.
"You knew that Wells was alive?" Caitlin asked.
"Why didn't you tell us?" Barry demanded.
"I didn't know what to think, OK? It could've been either Thawne or doppelganger… I just wanted to get all facts straight." Patty said quickly as they nodded in understanding.
Barry turned to Wells. "I'm guessing you didn't travel between dimensions just to meet the Flash."
"That's exactly what I did." Wells nodded, putting on his bag. "I came here to help you, Barry, to stop your greatest enemy."
"He already did that." Cisco said.
Wells shook his head. "I'm not talking about Reverse Flash. I'm talking about Zoom." Everyone stilled. "I see you've already heard of him."
Patty nodded. "Zoom's been sending metahumans from your world through the breaches to kill Barry. One of them kidnapped me and used me as a bait."
"Well, they're the symptoms. Zoom's the plague, one that's infected my world, and now he's coming for yours." Wells said.
"What do you know about Zoom?" Barry inquired.
"Everything. I created Zoom." Wells revealed, much to their shock. "I'm responsible for all the Earth-2 metahumans, a fact I've ignored for far too long, but now I'm doing something about it."
"Yeah, well, we're batting a thousand against these breachers." Cisco snorted.
"You're batting a thousand, Crisco?" Wells asked sarcastically. "What's your sample size? Ten? Less? Zoom is obsessed with speed. He will never allow there to be another speedster in the multiverse, and he's gonna keep sending these metas here, one after the next, all with the same goal: to kill the Flash unless we stop him together."
"The last time we trusted a guy, who looked exactly like you, things didn't end well for us." Patty sneered. None of them were ready to trust Wells yet, even if he was not Eobard Thawne.
"We lost people we cared about." Caitlin said sadly.
"Everyone loses someone they care about, Snow." Wells said bluntly. "The real test of character is what you do once they're gone."
Suddenly, Joe entered and upon seeing Wells, he pulled out his gun and fired before Barry caught the bullets.
"Joe! Put it down!" Patty ordered as she neared him.
"How is he still alive? How are you still alive?!" Joe demanded as Patty and Barry held him.
"I don't know, because you missed?" Wells sneered.
"Joe, it's not him. It's not him, OK?" Patty said.
"Let's take a walk, all right?" Barry offered as they accompanied Joe outside the corridor. "It's all good."
"Joe, that's not… our Wells but another doppelganger." Patty said. "And he's the one, who stole the weapon from Mercury Labs."
"Why, to kill Barry?" Joe demanded.
"No. No." Barry shook his head. "He saved my and Patty's lives last night and he says he's here to help us stop Zoom."
"How can you even look at him?" Joe snapped.
"You think this is easy for us? The guy in there looks, moves, sounds exactly like the guy that drove a knife through my mother's heart." Barry shot back.
"Believe me, last night, I almost wanted to put a bullet into his heart." Patty added. "Look, I know this is hard but we need to accept that he's not the other Wells."
Joe sighed. "After all our losses, I thought at least we were free of Wells. I just want one week where we're not surprised by somebody from our past. I better go fill in Iris."
CC Jitters
"This is so crazy…" Patty whispered.
"You're telling me." Barry said dryly as they went with Cisco for a coffee.
"I still have to write a report to Singh." Patty sighed.
"Once we get a coffee, I'll lend a hand." Barry offered.
"Thanks, you're sweet." Patty kissed him on his cheek.
"Hey, how about we go get a dinner? I think we could use a break." Barry said as Patty considered before nodding.
"Sure. I can make a reservation. I actually know a place." Patty said as she left.
"Date? Really?" Cisco raised his brows.
"What? When was the last time you had a date?" Barry challenged.
Cisco turned to the Afro-American beautiful barista at the counter and smirked. "Watch and learn."
"I'm watching." Barry shrugged.
Cisco faced the barista as she smiled at him. "Hi. What can I get you?"
"Hi, there." Cisco said awkwardly.
"Hi... again." The barista said, also in an awkward manner and Cisco was unable to form words from his mouth. "Do you want some coffee?"
"Yeah, I'll get some coffee. No, no, I don't want coffee." Cisco stammered. "You know what I do want though? I want to ask you this. Do you want to go out with me?"
Barry suppressed his chuckle as the barista stared at Cisco like if he was crazy. "Oh…" She trailed off.
"To... we... I mean, we could go get coffee or we—"
"No." The barista shook her head and Cisco felt crushed.
"That's a no. That's totally cool. It's cool. Respect." Cisco drawled as he walked off before he had another vision.
In Central City Bank, a woman in black jacket wearing some helmet and on her hands some gauntlets with which she fired blasts of light to disable the cameras.
"Yo, dude, you good? It's her loss." Barry said as he saw Cisco agitated. "Hey, what's up?"
"We have another breacher." Cisco breathed out.
Barry blinked. "What? How do you know?"
"Central City Bank. You gotta go now!" Cisco ordered.
Barry nodded as he left the café. "All right."
Central City
The woman was walking away with bags of cash, with people frightened and on their knees before the Flash entered. "You got my attention."
"Flash." The woman's voice was distorted because of the helmet before she fired a blast of light from her hand which the Flash dodged before she created a shockwave, sending the civilians flying away before the Flash caught them, while she ran away.
Later, S.T.A.R. Labs
"Her name is Doctor Light." Harry said as he plugged a flash drive into the computer in the Cortex. "Small-time thief on my Earth until exposure to the dark matter from the Particle Accelerator and became a metahuman with the ability to derive power from starlight."
"Oh, very cool." Cisco noted, seeing the news articles that Harry had shown them.
"Stars having a temperature of 5,300 degree kelvin and a blinding luminosity, I would say, "Not very cool at all.""
Cisco rolled his eyes at Harry. "You know, our Dr. Wells may have been evil, but you're just a dick."
"OK, so obviously, Zoom brought her here from your Earth like the others." Barry realized as Harry took a bite from his burger, nodding.
"Mm-hmm. Now that we know that, we can use that to gain advantage." Harry said.
"What do you mean?" Barry demanded.
"We capture Doctor Light and use her to lure Zoom here." Harry said.
Suddenly, Jay burst in, glaring at Harry. "You are insane! OK, we are not luring Zoom anywhere!"
"Apparently, they know each other, and Jay is not a fan." Caitlin said.
Harry narrowed his eyes at Jay, putting his burger down on a counter. "Well, well, well. Like everyone else, I assumed Earth-2 Flash was dead. Why am I not surprised to find Jay Garrick here, still alive and in hiding a full universe away from Zoom?"
"I'm not in hiding." Jay sneered. "Zoom nearly killed me and stole my speed before the Singularity pulled me here."
"Is that right?" Harry mocked.
"Yeah, that's right." Jay said.
"Well, whatever the case, in your absence, Zoom has only gotten more powerful, faster." Harry turned to Barry. "Barry, you have to defeat Zoom now while you still can."
"No, this isn't the time to be reckless." Jay protested.
"We don't even know why Zoom sent Doctor Light here. She's a thief, not a killer." Jay argued.
"Zoom can make people do things out of character." Harry turned to Barry. "Thief or not, she'll kill you."
"All right, look, hey, we can decide what to do with Light later." Barry intervened. "First, we have to find her, OK?"
Barry turned to Cisco as Harry walked away with his drink. "Hey, how did you know that she was breaking into the bank?"
"I got an alert on my phone." Cisco lied as he pulled out his phone. "There is a little ring-a-ding every time, like, there's a robbery at a bank."
Barry stared. "What?"
"But you know what? I think I can get the S.T.A.R. Labs satellite to scan for any irregular solar radiation emissions and we can find Doctor Light's… light." Cisco suggested.
"OK, I'm gonna also call Joe and Patty, see if CCPD has any leads." Barry nodded as he turned to Harry and Jay. "Why don't we keep them apart until I get back?"
"I am sure that won't be a problem." Caitlin assured as they saw Harry and Jay locked in heated stares.
CCPD
"So, I made a reservation for us tomorrow." Patty said.
"I look forward to it." Barry said.
"It just feels weird to work with the guy who looks like your Mom's murderer." Patty shivered. "Can you imagine us working with Mark Mardon's good twin?"
"I can imagine you inching to put a bullet into him." Barry said.
"I was this close to shooting Wells the other night too." Patty did a gesture with her fingers, inches away from each other before Barry's phone went off as he answered the call.
"What is it, Caitlin?" Barry asked.
"The silent alarm just went off at the Bank of Central City." Caitlin said.
"That's gotta be Doctor Light." Barry realized.
"Could be a trap." Cisco pointed out.
"Barry, trust me, Doctor Light is not a killer. You can talk to her." Jay said.
"OK." Barry said as he hung up.
"Doctor Light?" Patty asked and Barry nodded before she kissed him on his cheek. "Be careful, OK?"
Barry nodded before speeding off.
Bank of Central City
Doctor Light cut through a wall as she entered the vault before the Flash sped in, nearing the stack of cash. "Looking for this? I know Zoom sent you here to kill me. Good news, you don't have to do that." He assured.
"Not if I can get out of town with that cash." Doctor Light said, her voice distorted because of the helmet.
"And then what? Zoom's not gonna like that you ditched him, right? My friends and I can help you." The Flash pleaded. Even though her voice was distorted because of the helmet, there was something familiar about it.
"Nobody can protect me from Zoom!" Doctor Light snapped, about to blast him as she charged her light.
The Flash raised his hands. "All right, why don't we take it down a lumen, have a normal conversation, all right?" Doctor Light turned off the lights as he nodded. "Thank you."
Doctor Light opened her helmet as Barry stared in disbelief as he saw her face. "Iris?"
"How do you know my name?" Doctor Light demanded, wearing Iris's face.
"I don't understand." Barry said, confused.
"I… this was a mistake." Doctor Light said, shining with bright light, blinding Barry, who fell on his knees, while she ran away.
"Barry, what's happening?" Caitlin demanded as Barry looked around.
"I can't see. Guys, I can't see." Barry said.
Later, S.T.A.R. Labs
"I still can't see." Barry said as Caitlin shined the penlight into his eyes. "How long is this gonna last?"
"You're suffering from solar retinopathy. Your retinas are severely damaged. You're lucky you're not permanently blind." Caitlin said.
"But with your rapid regeneration abilities, your sight should return soon." Jay assured.
"6.25 hours by my estimation. All this could have been avoided if you just stopped Light instead of chitchatting with her." Harry said dryly.
"She caught Barry off-guard." Jay protested.
Harry folded his arms, glaring. "Always an excuse with you, right? He's the fastest man alive. How could she possibly do that?"
"Because Light looks exactly like someone I grew up with. Iris West." Barry said.
"What?" Caitlin, Cisco and Patty demanded.
"Did you know about this, Jay?" Patty asked.
Jay looked taken aback. "Iris?" He shook his head. "No, I… I never got to take off her mask and I never saw her real face."
"That's why Zoom sent her. Because he knew you'd hesitate." Harry realized.
"That means Zoom had to have known somehow that Iris is your foster sister." Cisco pointed out.
"Which is why Barry has to act now, before Zoom sends another double from Barry's life." Harry said.
"All right, right now, I'm more worried about Iris." Barry intervened. "When I saw who was under the mask, I said her name. What if Light didn't even realize that she had a doppelganger here until I accidentally told her?"
"Oh, no…" Patty whispered as it hit Team Flash.
"The first thing that Atom Smasher did when he crossed the breach was to kill his doppelganger." Cisco said.
"Yeah, but Light's not like Atom Smasher." Jay said.
"We should keep an eye on your Iris." Harry said as Barry got up and bumped into Caitlin.
"Sorry." Barry said.
"Here. I should guide you." Patty offered as Barry held onto her, while accompanying him out before Iris entered. "Speak of the Devil…"
"Hey, Barry, I came as soon as I heard..." Iris trailed off as she saw Harry, staring in shock. "You look just like him."
"I'm guessing my counterpart did something to offend her as well?" Harry deduced.
"Her fiancé died because of him." Cisco said dryly.
"Oh." Harry said as he entered the lab, deciding it was best to not agitate anyone else by seeing his face.
"Iris, I know it's weird seeing him." Barry said.
"Yeah, it's just a lot to process lately." Iris said, staring at Harry in shock. "Wells, my mother."
"How are you doing with that, by the way?" Barry asked.
"I mean, now that she's gone, OK." Iris shrugged.
"Yeah, Iris, look..." Barry trailed off, wondering whether to mention she might be in danger. "You know you can talk to me about it."
"Yeah, I know, but really, I'm fine, OK? I should be asking how you're doing." Iris said.
"We're working on finding the other metahuman but Iris…" Patty trailed off, not sure how Iris would process that her doppelganger was a metahuman criminal. "That… metahuman might be targeting you, Joe and the rest of us. I mean, if Jay was able to find out about who we are, who's to say that Zoom can't either? It's only a matter of time before he finds out everything about us. If he hasn't already. I think we should assign some officers to—"
"Patty, I appreciate what you're trying to do but I can take care of myself. Don't worry." Iris assured.
"Iris—"
"Look, I'm a big girl, OK? You don't need to look out for me." Iris said before she walked off.
Patty's apartment
"Since we can't have a proper dinner in the restaurant and we had to cancel, how about we try my lasagna?" Patty offered as Barry sat down. It felt strange to be blind, while having a dinner in his girlfriend's apartment as she helped with his hands. "Easy, the fork and knife are here."
"Thanks." Barry said, while tasting it. "It tastes good." He reached for a glass but almost spilled the wine.
"Barry, easy." Patty grabbed his hand. "You're cute, when you're blind, you know that?" She then smiled. "Do you remember, when we were working the case of… how did Cisco call that metahuman that threw these tattoo cards?"
"Double Down?" Barry asked and Patty laughed.
"Yeah, him. That nickname never made any sense to me because it was the tattoos, not the cards. He grazed me in the arm before you sped me out of there." She nodded, pointing at the scar on her arm. "Pity he bailed town before we could catch him."
"At least Oliver got him in the end." Barry said. "Do you remember what I told you, when I brought you into the hospital?"
"Don't ever try to take them head on and be more careful. And I've been trying, Barry." Patty assured.
"No. I mean… after you got released." Barry said.
Patty considered. "I'm glad you're fine. I can't imagine you losing your life to a metahuman. The world would be much poorer, if it was full of metahumans…"
"…but with one less decent kind person like you." Barry finished. "It doesn't matter if you have powers or not. You have heart and courage and that's what I admire about you."
"And what I always admire is that you never give up, even if everyone convinces you not to. You beat the Reverse-Flash, Snart, Mardon and you've saved this city ten times over from metahumans. I'm sure we'll find a way to beat Zoom and the metas he is sending, together." Patty assured as Barry turned to her.
Next thing either of them knew, they kissed fiercely as they gave into their feelings before Barry pulled away and smiled.
"I'll never forget how beautiful you are." Barry said.
Patty laughed. "Now you can see?"
"Yeah." Barry nodded.
"That must have been some kiss." Patty said.
"I guess so." Barry shrugged before both their phones buzzed.
"Uh-oh. Both our phones going off at the same time is never good." Patty said.
Later, CCPN
"How did she even look like you?" Linda demanded as Iris was apparently in shock. Her doppelganger from Earth-2 was trying to kill her but her colleague shielded her from him, losing his life in the process.
"I…" Iris paused, unable to form words.
"We're gonna figure it all out, Linda." Joe promised as Barry and Patty took Iris aside, clearly still in shock.
"How you're doing?" Barry asked.
"She… she was my doppelganger, wasn't she?" Iris asked. "Why didn't you tell me?"
"We thought you were safe. Jay, Caitlin and the protective detail were outside, so we thought you were in no danger, besides we told you that Zoom might be after you." Patty said.
"But… but…" Iris swallowed, unable to process that her evil twin was trying to kill her.
"Because of this. Because of how you're acting right now. And we tried to tell you but you didn't exactly give us a chance to do so." Barry held Iris by her shoulders gently as she breathed out. "Iris… it's OK. You need to know that what happened to Larkin, isn't your fault."
Iris nodded.
"I should've been here." Barry sighed.
"Barry, you were blind, there was nothing you could've done." Iris said, not blaming him this time.
"You knocked her mask off?" Patty asked, picking Doctor Light's mask.
"I managed to shoot it off her before she revealed her face." Iris nodded.
"You think this mask can help us find that woman?" Joe wondered.
Patty shook her head, turning to Iris. "No. With Doctor Light being Iris's doppelganger, it's no use."
"We'll think of something else. Light's not gonna kill again." Barry said.
"I'll take you into protective custody, honey, until they find Light, OK?" Joe offered and Iris nodded.
Later, S.T.A.R. Labs
Barry entered the Cortex as Caitlin was treating Jay's injuries. "Caitlin, are you guys OK?"
"Yeah." Caitlin nodded.
"Barry, I'm sorry. Doctor Light's never killed before." Jay said apologetically. "I thought we could reason with her."
"You cannot reason with someone under Zoom's influence, and now a man is dead because of you, Garrick." Harry snapped at Jay. "This whole thing is because of you. He doubts himself because of you, but believe me, Barry can do what you could not. Barry can stop Zoom."
Jay shot up from the chair, glaring at Harry. "I spent two years hunting Zoom."
"Wrong! Zoom hunted you!" Harry pointed at him accusingly. "You spent the last two years of your life running, running, running from Zoom."
"Zoom would have killed me just like he will kill Barry if you lead him down this path!" Jay exploded.
"No, because he is not like you. Barry runs towards danger, not from it, because Barry's not a coward." Harry said.
Next thing he knew, Jay hit him in the face as Harry leaned onto the computer counter. He whirled on Jay as they exchanged blows before Barry stepped in between them, stopping the fight. "Enough!"
"You were pretty hard on Jay in there." Barry said as he and Harry talked in Cisco's workshop.
"Maybe you should be hard on Jay too." Harry said. "I've seen what you can do, Barry. I've calculated how fast you can run, and you should be teaching Jay, not the other way around." He wiped his face as turned around.
Barry considered. "You know, before I learned that the other Wells was the man who murdered my mom, I looked up to him. He was my mentor, actually."
"So my doppelganger, a man who looks exactly like me, betrayed you." Harry realized, turning to Barry in understanding. "I'm sorry. I'm not him, so you need to listen to me when I say you can take care of Zoom, and all we have to do is capture Doctor Light."
"I thought about testing the mask for Light's DNA, but it would only have Iris's." Barry said.
Harry looked at him in surprise. "The mask, what mask?"
"Light's mask." Barry said.
In the Cortex, Barry showed Harry Light's mask. "How did you get this?" Harry demanded.
"Iris shot it off Doctor Light when she attacked her." Barry explained.
"You know how to use the mask to find Light?" Jay inquired.
"Yes, I do. All we have to do is give it to him." Harry turned to Cisco, who looked puzzled.
"Why me?" He asked.
"Because you have powers." Harry said as everyone stared at Cisco in shock.
"What are you talking about?" Cisco shook his head, trying to deny.
"I developed this watch to detect metahumans." Harry opened his watch and pointed at Barry, as the watch bleeped before nearing Cisco. "You never got an alert on your phone. You never reprogrammed the S.T.A.R. Labs satellite, and this is why." The watch bleeped at being near Cisco, who paled. "He's a metahuman." Harry revealed and Cisco tensed, while everyone stared at him in disbelief.
"Cisco, have you known about this, and you didn't say anything to us?" Barry demanded.
"Yeah, I was gonna tell you." Cisco glared at Harry. "Thanks a lot, Harry." He looked Barry in the eye. "I swear I was, but I didn't. I was just... I was afraid."
"What exactly were you afraid of?" Patty asked as Cisco turned his back on them.
"Dr. Wells said the dark matter gave me this, this gift. He said that one day I'd thank him for it. What if I become like him?" Cisco said, obviously frightened of his powers.
"Cisco, I don't think any of us would become evil if we all of sudden got powers, even if they were from Dr. Wells." Caitlin assured.
"Yeah, maybe you're right." Cisco nodded as he turned to them again. "I should have said something. That's my fault. I'm sorry."
"Well, you can be sorry later, because right now, we have to use your powers to find Doctor Light." Harry said.
"Cisco, do you even know how do your abilities work?" Patty asked.
Cisco took a breath. "I get these feelings sometimes, these vibes, visions of the breachers when they come to this Earth. I just... I'm not sure what triggers it. Sometimes it just happens. Sometimes it's when I'm touching something of theirs."
"Touch the mask." Harry said as Cisco turned to him. "You want to find Doctor Light, do it."
Cisco hesitantly touched the helmet but nothing happened. He tried but still, nothing. "I don't think it's working."
"Try again." Harry said as Cisco hesitated. "Try again!"
"Hey, come on." Patty glared at Harry.
Cisco tried again but nothing happened. "I'm sorry, it's not—"
"Again!" Harry yelled.
"I can't control it." Cisco protested.
"Because you're afraid." Harry said.
"I'm telling you I don't know how it works! I can't just make it happen!" Cisco snapped.
"I'm telling you, yes, you can!" Harry put the mask on top of Cisco's chest as he breathed out, getting a vision.
Doctor Light was in a train station as Cisco took a closer look where exactly she was.
"South Plaza train station, platform 15." Cisco said.
Harry turned to Barry. "What are you waiting for?"
Central City
The Flash sped into the train station, looking for Doctor Light. "Oh, guys, the platform's crowded. Are you sure she's here?"
"She should be wearing a black trench coat." Cisco said.
The Flash saw Iris's doppelganger in black trench coat about to enter a train. "Black trench coat. Found her. Everybody, get out of here. Go, go, hurry!" He ordered to the civilians, who ran off.
"Why can't you just let me walk away?" Doctor Light demanded, taking off her coat.
"I can't let you leave. You killed an innocent man." The Flash said. He didn't like fighting someone, who looked like someone he cared about as a family but he kept telling himself she was not Iris.
"I didn't mean to. It was an accident." Doctor Light protested.
"Trying to kill Iris West wasn't." The Flash said.
"I'll never be free of Zoom. Unless I either kill her… or you." Doctor Light glared.
"I can't let you do that either, so we've got a problem." The Flash shrugged.
"We'll see." Doctor Light said.
The Flash dodged and took cover behind suitcases. "Guys, should have talked about this before I left, but how should I stop her?"
"Keep trying different angles, Barry. Find her blind spot." Jay suggested.
Barry went out from his cover but was forced to dodge as Doctor Light attempted to blast him again as he took cover behind a train. "I can't get close enough. What should I do?"
Jay considered. "I don't know."
Barry sighed. "I gotta tell ya, that's not exactly the answer I was looking for."
"You need to confuse her. Give her more than one target, so she does not know who to fire at." Harry advised.
"All right, how do I do that?" Barry asked.
"By running so fast, you create multiple afterimages of yourself, you create a speed mirage." Harry said.
"A wha... speed mir..." Barry then remembered what Thawne had told him. "I've never run that fast."
"Well, from what I've been told, you've traveled through time. You'll be more than fast enough." Harry said.
"OK." Barry took a breath and sped around Doctor Light as he formed multiple afterimages of himself, with Doctor Light blasting them but to no avail before she knocked Barry away.
"Barry?" Caitlin called out.
"I can't do it." Barry said.
"Yes, you can, Barry. Hey, Dr. Wells is right. You are fast, faster than I ever was and better than I ever will be. Don't let fear and doubt hold you back like it did to me." Jay assured. "You're the Flash, Barry. Show Light what that means."
Barry took a breath before he again created more speed mirages around Light, who attempted to blast him as she looked around. "Where are you?"
Barry sped towards Light and knocked her back, sending her flying against a pillar and knocking her out. "I'm right here. Sorry, Iris."
Later, S.T.A.R. Labs
"Doctor Light is safely locked in the pipeline." Caitlin assured.
"Nicely done." Cisco said.
Iris turned to Harry. "Wells, thank you for helping Barry put away Doctor Light." She was relieved that her evil twin was not going to hurt anyone, ever again. But still, Barry beating her felt like an unpleasant thought. She was glad they never did fight, when they were kids.
"So what now?" Jay asked.
"We do what Dr. Wells said. We use her to lure Zoom here, end this once and for all." Barry said.
Jay looked at him incredulously. "You can't be serious."
"Barry, are you sure that's a good idea? I mean, we don't even know how fast Zoom is. He may be even faster than the other Wells." Patty pointed out.
"More breachers are gonna come. More innocent people may die. I can't let this happen anymore." Barry said.
Jay shook his head in disapproval. "You're making a mistake. OK, Zoom is a nightmare you can't wake up from."
"I've already had my worst nightmare. His name was Reverse-Flash, and I spent a long time being afraid of him. I'm not gonna be afraid anymore." Barry said confidently.
Jay took a breath. "OK, Barry. You may be faster than me, but you're not ready to fight Zoom by yourself."
"That's just it, Jay. I'm not gonna fight him by myself. I've got all of them to help me." Barry looked at his teammates. "I've got Dr. Wells. I've got you."
Jay stared before shaking his head. "No, I can't in good conscience help you when I know it'll only lead to you losing your speed, or even worse, your death."
"Optimism must be an Earth-1 thing." Cisco said.
Jay turned to Harry, pointing at him accusingly. "You all need to ask yourself why this man, for years, wouldn't admit that he was responsible for the particle accelerator exploding underground. He may not be Harrison Wells from your Earth, but he has just as many secrets as the one you knew."
Jay was about to leave as Caitlin stepped up. "Jay, please don't go."
"I'm so sorry, Caitlin." Jay said as he left.
Later, CC Jitters
"Are you OK?" Barry asked as he, Caitlin, Patty and Cisco were in the café at their table.
"Yeah, I just... I was getting used to Jay being part of the team." Caitlin said.
"I think he'll be back." Patty assured.
"Well, look, Jay is a hero. They always seem to show up just when you need them." Barry said before Cisco returned with a phone number of the barista at the counter, revealing her name as Kendra Saunders.
"Yo, peep that." Cisco said.
"Wow!"
"Nice!" Barry and Patty high-fived with Cisco.
"That's how it's done, young Padawan. Going on a date next week." Cisco said.
"Things are looking up for Cisco Ramon." Barry said.
"I guess so. Still stuck with these powers, though. Just don't know how to feel about them." Cisco muttered.
"We'll help you figure this out." Patty assured as she and Barry held Cisco by his arm.
"And now you need a cool name." Caitlin added.
Cisco's eyes widened. "Oh, snap! You're totally right. I gotta think about this one. Well, you know me. It's gotta be perfect. Something that really sings, you know? Something like..."
"Vibe?" Patty asked.
"Vibe." Cisco smiled, liking the name.
Unknowing to them, Harry was observing them from outside the door.
Earth-2
Zoom faced a young girl in chains in a cage in what seemed to be an abandoned train station. "Your father has abandoned you."
"You're lying! My father's the smartest man alive. He'll find me, he'll save me, and then he'll kill you." The girl sneered.
"I will not die." Zoom gloated. "What happens to you and your father is still to be decided." He sped off as the girl glared hatefully.
I actually found Cisco/Kendra cute until Carter showed up and then Kendra turned into a whiner with the whole "I'm a barista, not a warrior" crap. Wanted to put a gag into her mouth. And since Barry never dated Linda in my previous story, I had to use someone else close to Barry and I SWEAR I didn't use Iris's doppelganger as Doctor Light because of my dislike towards her but because I wasn't sure who else to use. Plus, imagine that Doctor Light had a motorcycle helmet that covered her face entirely and that's why Barry didn't immediately recognize her and that's why Harry had any idea who she was either. It's obvious that "Jay"/Zoom used a doppelganger of Barry's ex to screw with him, so it's not far off the stretch that he would use a doppelganger of someone close to him.
I used Iris not because of my dislike towards her since I've softened around her a little in Season 6 but since I didn't know who else I should use and Iris was the one, who made sense, since I have some changes planned once we get to the traveling to Earth-2 part.
And those, who see a lot of Iris's flaws, must have been satisfied by Barry kicking her ass.
But to those, who support WestAllen, I swear that using Iris as Doctor Light's doppelganger wasn't my first decision, I actually considered for example Bette, Lisa, Chyre, Eddie but eventually, Iris's doppelganger won here. But don't roast me, since I swear that this was nothing against Iris here. Cross my heart. Believe me, when I say I took no pleasure in writing this regarding Doctor Light, just as much as it gives me no pleasure to write the changes in the next chapter.
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