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Barry was in the Cortex, walking with a cane as Patty was next to him, providing support. "Easy, Barry, OK?"

"Mm-hmm." Barry said as Patty picked his cane and he tried to slowly walk on his own and he almost fell before Patty caught him.

"Whoa."

"I can't do it right now, all right?" Barry snapped.

"Oh, yes you can, Barry." Joe assured, as he and Patty helped Barry sit down as Joe sighed. "We've been making so much progress."

"Yep, six whole steps. Someone get me a Bozo button." Barry muttered.

"Hey, give yourself some credit. You just broke your back." Cisco assured.

"You're lucky you heal fast, otherwise you'd be permanently paralyzed." Patty added.

Barry sighed. "How long until I'm fully healed?"

Caitlin showed the X-Ray scan on the screen. "The initial MRI I took a week ago showed a complete dislocation at the T12-L1 interspace of the thoracolumbar junction. But this is the MRI I took this morning. It's remarkable, but you're almost completely healed."

"I'm still having trouble breathing." Barry said.

"That's totally normal with a spinal injury. It should clear up soon." Caitlin assured.

"We're going to get you back in that suit, Barry. Real quick, trust me." Joe said as Barry was staring at his costume.

"What are we gonna do about Zoom?" Barry wondered.

"Ever since Cisco shot him with that dart, there's been no sign of him." Patty said.

"And I haven't vibed since then." Cisco said.

"He's gonna come back. And I'm gonna go do something about it." Harry said upon entering the Cortex as everyone turned to him.

"What do you mean, go do something about it?" Caitlin asked as Harry put on his backpack.

"I need access to your breach room and your speed cannon." Harry said.

"Why is that?" Barry asked.

"Because, Barry, it's time to go home." Harry said as everyone stared at him.

"So, you show up on our Earth, you screw everything up, and now you want to go home? Sounds very familiar." Joe deadpanned.

"Again, that wasn't me." Harry rolled his eyes as he turned to Joe. "I need to go take care of Zoom once and for all before anyone else gets killed."

"How exactly are you gonna do that?" Patty asked.

"I'll think of something." Harry said before turning to Cisco. "Ramon, if you'll escort me to the speed cannon."

"No, no, you can't go through the breach." Caitlin protested.

"Yeah, he can. Jay taught us how to send people." Cisco said.

"That's not what I mean. Look, if you can figure out how to stop Zoom on your Earth, you can figure out how to do it here." Caitlin said. "We need you to stay here until we defeat Zoom, Dr. Wells."

"What I need, Dr. Snow, is to return home." Harry insisted. "And I'm going to that with or without your assistance."

He walked away as Cisco stared at Caitlin incredulously. "What are you doing? If Harry wants to go... bye."

"Look, like it or not, Cisco, we need his help." Caitlin said.

"I'm not sure another plan from Wells is what we need." Joe protested.

"Last time he seemed to have a good plan, it almost got Barry killed." Patty added.

"I know, but Jay's gone, and Dr. Wells knows Zoom better than anyone, so until Barry is back on his feet again, we need to keep Wells around in case Zoom returns." Caitlin pointed out.

"Caitlin, if he doesn't want to be here, then we're better off without him." Barry assured. "Let him go."

"I can't do that. Not yet." Caitlin shook her head.

Suddenly, an alarm went off on the computer as Cisco rushed to it. "Oh, snap, meta-human attack." Then he took a closer look. "Nope, nope, my bad, that is just an alert for me."

"An alert for you?" Patty raised her eyebrows.

"Oh, it's just a reminder. I have a date in an hour, so..." Cisco blushed as Patty chuckled.

"Is it that barista from Jitters?" She teased.

Cisco smiled. "Oh, she makes a mean latte. I think we're gonna go out for dinner and a movie, and then, I don't know, maybe some breakfast."

Joe snickered as Barry and Patty stared. "Wait, breakfast? Why breakfast? I don't..." Barry asked.

Patty smiled, amused as Cisco blushed. "''Cause, you know, you go home..."

"Cisco." Joe shook his head, amused while Barry and Patty chuckled.

"And—"

"He's just kidding." Patty said as they all laughed.

"Go." Barry waved his hand as Cisco left before his phone rang. "It's Julian." He answered the call. "Hello?"

"Allen, are you feeling alright?" Julian asked over the phone. "Or are you still sick? Because there's quite a lot of work back in the lab and—"

"I'm not feeling much well, I'm sorry, Julian. I think I'll be out for a few days… look, I can ask Patty if she—"

"No, no, no worries, mate. I'll handle it somehow. But there've been some strange cases we might need to look at, so hope to see you soon in the lab. Get well soon, Allen."

"Thanks." Barry hung up.

The following day, Central City

In the morning, Patty and Julian were examining the crime scene at Vaughan Pharmaceuticals as Julian picked some hair from the crime scene.

"What do we have here?" Joe asked as he entered.

"Some hair all over the street. I'll need to get back to the lab to run the tests later and compare them with our database." Julian said.

Patty pointed at the dead body. "Here, our victim. His name's Dr. Jeffrey Shore. He's a biochemistry engineer here at Vaughan Pharmaceuticals. This is the second dead lab tech in two weeks."

"That ain't a coincidence." Joe said.

"Yeah, and like the other tech, he had just stolen a serum from their storage cooler." Patty said.

"Really? What kind of serum?" Joe asked.

"Cortexin. It treats a blood disease in the brain called encephalopathy." Julian explained.

"The serum's missing, but his colleagues found him here a couple of minutes later, dead." Patty turned to the dead body.

"He didn't get far." Joe noted.

"Cause of death was blunt force trauma aimed at his head." Julian said as he lifted the sheet.

Joe groaned. "Ugh, and apparently a lot of it."

"Yeah, check this out." Patty pointed up as Joe saw the blood spatter on the outer wall of the upper corridor.

"Is that his blood?" Joe asked.

"Point of impact." Patty nodded.

"Whoever did it, managed to get him very high to kill him." Julian said. "I'll see if there's any relation between our victim and the other cases."

"Thanks." Joe nodded.

"How's Allen doing?" Julian asked.

"I'll head home and bring him my homemade soup." Patty said.

Later, S.T.A.R. Labs

Barry was running on the treadmill as Joe and Patty observed him before he suddenly had a flashback of being beaten by Zoom as he fell off the treadmill.

"Oh, my God! Barry!" Patty exclaimed as she helped him on his feet. "Are you OK?"

"Oh, yeah, you know, I'm not great right now." Barry groaned.

"What happened?" Joe asked as Barry got up.

"It's nothing. I'm good, all right? Just forget it." He sat down, frustrated.

"Barry, come on. Don't do that. Let us help you." Patty said.

"No, you can't help me. Not this time. I'm sorry." Barry protested. They had rarely seen him so devastated. "You just... you wouldn't understand." He took a breath.

"Try us." Patty said.

Barry took a breath as he looked down. "Zoom destroyed me. He showed everyone in Central City what he could do, and that I'm powerless to stop him." He looked them in the eye. "They gave me a key to this city. I'm supposed to be their hero. I'm supposed to be the guy that can protect them from something as evil as that, and I failed in front of all of them." He sighed as he got up, limping as he leaned onto the railing. "When they think of the Flash, all they see now is someone not strong enough to protect them."

Patty held his hand and gave him an assuring look. "Barry. You got knocked down. That happens. What matters is that you need to find the strength to get up on your feet and fight back."

Barry sighed and walked away, not listening to her as Joe and Patty felt sad for him.

"Oh, hey, I know I keep asking but have you read any reports or anything recently about a birdman attacking anywhere?" Cisco asked as he was with Caitlin in the breach room.

"There's no such thing as birdman, Cisco." Caitlin assured.

"OK, like that's a stretch. In this city?" Cisco paced. "Look, I know what I vibed. It was a man with these big, wide wings. It was crazy. Like it was an angel." Suddenly, Caitlin seemed like under some trance. "Caitlin? OK, come on, like that's a crazy idea." Next thing Cisco knew, she hit him in the face as he fell down, staring at her. "What is wrong with you?"

Caitlin ignored him as she left.

"If he's not gonna listen to us, maybe he'll listen to someone else." Patty said and Joe immediately realized who was she talking about before her phone went off as she picked it up, noticing it was Julian calling as she turned on the speaker. "Hey, Julian."

"Well, I found a relation between the dead scientists but it's quite strange." Julian said.

"What is it?" Patty asked.

"Well, the other scientist stole a drug called racetam. Quite a large quantity. It's used to treat vertigo." Julian said.

"OK, so we got two stolen drugs, one for blood disorders of the brain, and the other one for vertigo. What's the connection?" Joe asked.

"Well, they are both nootropic drugs, used to enhance intelligence." Patty said.

"Exactly. Whoever stole them, might be trying to find a way to become smarter." Julian said.

"Hey, did you get results from the hairs you found?" Joe asked.

"Yeah. But one thing's strange, though." Julian said.

"What?" Patty asked.

"First of all, the hair were all over the crime scene and I did run a DNA test but they're not human hair. The results say that they're hair…"

"…from a gorilla." Patty and Joe realized in unison.

"Yes. How did you know that?" Julian asked.

"Julian, we gotta go." Patty said.

"But—"

Patty hung up as she and Joe ran to the Cortex.

"Did Caitlin come through here?" Cisco asked Barry as he was rubbing his face.

"No." Barry shook his head.

"She just hit me in the face and ran away." Cisco snapped.

"Guys! Grodd! He's back!" Patty exclaimed.

Then it hit Cisco. "Caitlin." He approached the computer. "That must be why she was acting like that. She was being mind-controlled."

They looked at the footage and saw Caitlin leaving S.T.A.R. Labs with Grodd following her. But as they went out to look for them, they had already left.

"I'm continually amazed by the similarity between our two worlds." Harry mused as Cisco showed him the footage.

"You got talking gorillas on your Earth, too?" Joe asked.

"Oh, yeah." Harry nodded.

"Remind me never to go there." Joe grumbled.

"Ramon, why would this Grodd abduct Dr. Snow?" Harry inquired.

"I don't know. It doesn't make any sense. She was always so nice to him." Cisco sighed.

"He mind-controlled two lab technicians and had them steal intelligence-enhancing drugs. He needs Caitlin for some reason." Patty said.

"Well, looks like he left his bachelor pad in the sewers." Cisco said, looking over the satellite imaging of the city.

"Grodd's a big-ass gorilla. He can't just waltz through downtown in the middle of the day without anybody noticing." Joe said.

Harry nodded. "Right, and if there's been sightings, then we might be able to approximate his location."

"I can call CCPD. They can access the tip hotline, send over files over Grodd's recent attacks." Joe said as he left.

"Good. We gotta get her back." Cisco said.

"We will." Harry assured as they left.

Patty turned to Barry, who was staring at the floor. "Barry. Barry."

"Yeah?" Barry looked up.

"This isn't your fault, OK? You're still healing." Patty assured.

"I still don't have my speed. How are we supposed to save her from Grodd?" Barry wondered.

"You can still use your head." Patty assured, tapping Barry on the forehead. "It's not just your legs that make you a hero." She kissed him. "We're gonna find a way to save Caitlin and stop Grodd."

Later, Barry was in the treadmill room as he continued running before he stopped, panting out.

"Keep that chin down, slugger."

Barry turned his head and smiled to see Henry as he hugged him tightly. "Dad."

Over Henry's shoulder he saw Patty, realizing she called him as they smiled at each other.

Henry examined Barry's X-Ray scans. "No spinal cord edema. I don't see any subacute hemorrhaging. Bone fused beautifully. You're all good, Barry. I'd give you some physical therapy, but you don't need it." He turned to Barry, who smiled.

"I'm really glad you're here, Dad."

"Me too." Henry nodded. "You know, I tried to call, but you can't get a cell in Granite Peak National Park, so—"

Barry blinked. "Granite Peak... what are you... You went camping by yourself?"

"Yeah, yeah, I got a tent." Henry nodded. "I went fishing every day. I have had my fill of largemouth bass for a while. Sometimes you just have to slow down to get back to where you want to be."

"Yeah. Look, Dad—"

"Hey, guys. I think we've found them." Cisco said as he entered, interrupting Barry before he could speak up.

"Yeah?" Barry got up as Cisco showed them the approximate locations on the screen in the Cortex.

"Grodd has to be in one of these three bell towers. The only reason we couldn't find him on any cameras underneath the city before is because he upgraded from a bachelor pad to a penthouse, like a baller." Cisco said.

"OK, so we know where he is. We still don't know how to get her." Barry said.

"We got a plan for you." Cisco said.

"What's the plan?" Barry asked.

"We use me."

Barry turned around and saw the Reverse-Flash and on instinct, he pinned him to the wall and Patty aimed her gun before Cisco intervened. "That's Harry! That's the other Wells!"

"Barry…" Harry choked.

"Let him go." Cisco pulled Barry away as he and Patty relaxed, while Harry took off the mask.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry." Barry apologized as Harry breathed out.

Patty stared. "How—"

"We found another suit in the Time Vault." Cisco explained.

"I thought he was dead." Henry stared at Harry in confusion.

"He's dead. This is... this is Harrison Wells from Earth-2." Barry explained.

"Earth-2?" Henry asked, confused.

"I'll explain later." Barry said.

"If we can get Harry to convince Grodd that he's Wells, that he's his father, maybe we can convince him to let Caitlin go." Cisco said.

"Cisco, are you sure about this?" Patty asked.

"We don't have a choice." Cisco said.

Barry nodded as he turned to Harry. "I'm not gonna be able to help if anything goes wrong."

"That's a chance I'm willing to take." Harry said and Barry and Patty shivered. The way Harry spoke sounded a lot like Thawne.

"We're moving on to the third location." Cisco said.

"Copy that." Barry said as he hung up. "Now we wait."

"So this is what it's like every time you go after one of those metahumans?" Henry asked.

"Uh, pretty much." Barry nodded.

"Only, Cisco and Caitlin are normally the ones in here and occasionally, I either help out here or out there with Barry." Patty added.

"Well, there's no reason you shouldn't be." Henry said.

"I told him what happened with Zoom." Patty said.

Henry looked at Barry in sympathy. "That was hard to watch. I can only imagine what that must have been like for you."

Barry stared at the wall, feeling humiliated. "He showed everyone in Central City that their hero wasn't good enough to stop him."

"Well, that's certainly what it looked like. Was he right?" Henry pointed out as he leaned back onto the desk, looking into Barry's eyes. "Your body's healed, Barry, and yet here you are, feeling the shame of losing."

Barry sighed. "I can't stop him. I know it. He knows it. And now everyone in this city knows it too. They don't believe in me anymore, Dad."

"At my trial for your mother's death, a lot of our family and friends were in the courtroom. They heard awful things about what I had done to your mother. It didn't matter that it wasn't true." Henry said. "Every day, I could see it on their faces, the moment when I lost them, until everybody had stopped believing in me. Well, that was my reality.

You know, I was gonna serve a life sentence for a crime I didn't commit, but worse than that, every time I looked at someone in the eye from that moment forward, they were gonna believe that I had killed the woman I loved in front of our son."

Barry nodded, looking at him with a thoughtful look as his father continued. "So yeah, I do know what it's like being destroyed."

"How did you get past that?" Barry asked.

"I embraced it." Henry smiled as he went behind Barry, placing his hands on his son's shoulders to reassure him. "Accepting it was the only way that I could move forward, but I know that if I could survive that, and learn to believe in myself again, then I could survive anything. You know what lit that belief in me, Barry? You." They all chuckled. "11-year-old you, running around, believing in me, gave me that hope." Barry got up as he looked at Henry. "And now I'm giving it back to you, son. No more monsters can take that from us."

"You're a good man, Henry." Patty said as she turned to Barry. "Even if you don't believe in yourself anymore, we still believe in you. So you can't give up, OK?" Barry nodded. "Come here." Patty and Henry pulled Barry in for a hug as they were in warm embrace.

Central City

Caitlin was in Grodd's lair, helping him boost his intelligence before Harry, in the Reverse-Flash suit, talking coldly like Thawne, entered. "Hey, buddy." Grodd growled as Harry tried to calm him down. "Easy, buddy. It's me. I'm back."

"Father, you died." Grodd said.

"No." Harry shook his head, walking down Grodd's lair. "No, buddy, I didn't die. I just went away for a while."

"All right, that's great, Wells, keep talking." Barry said.

"But now that I'm back, we don't need Caitlin anymore, do we, buddy? So you can let her go." Harry turned to Caitlin as Grodd growled lowly as Harry neared Caitlin. "Come on, buddy. Let me get her out of here. Please."

Grodd growled, seeing through the act. "Father never ask. Father take."

Harry and Caitlin paled. "Run." She ordered as she tried to run but Grodd stopped her with his telepathic powers before turning to Harry.

"Who are you?" Grodd knocked Harry away as he crashed against a table.

"Cisco, you gotta get in there, man." Barry ordered.

Cisco entered, putting mental dampeners on Caitlin's ears as she came to and sighed in relief at seeing Cisco. "Oh, Cisco, thank God."

"OK, you guys gotta get out of there." Barry ordered.

"Harry's trapped. We can't leave him here. What do we do?" Cisco said.

"Wells. The drugs that Grodd stole. If you can overdose him, it should stun him and overload his brain. Hit him with as big dosage of them as you can and then get the hell out of there." Patty advised.

"You are not him! You are not Father!" Grodd snarled.

"I am… father." Harry tried to put on a fatherly tone as he got up on his feet. "And you hit… father." He picked the syringes as Grodd stilled. "Grodd. Look at me." Grodd hesitated. "Look at me!" Grodd looked ashamed and like a little child scolded by its parent. "I would never leave you here alone." He assured while slowly nearing Grodd. "Grodd, I made you a promise. I have bigger plans for you. Remember? One day, this city will be yours. I promised you." Grodd relaxed as Harry smirked. "I intend to honor that promise."

The moment Harry found an opening, he injected Grodd with the drugs as Grodd roared in pain.

"Go! Come on." Cisco yelled as he, Caitlin and Harry ran off, while Grodd fell down.

Later, S.T.A.R. Labs

"Thank you." Harry said after Caitlin treated his bruises.

"Thank you for rescuing me." Caitlin smiled.

"Well, we're a team, right?" Harry said.

"I'm impressed. I think we all are." Barry said.

"Yeah, well, we need to do something about Grodd." Joe said.

"Like what?" Caitlin asked.

"Like get rid of him for good." Joe said.

"You want to kill him?" Caitlin stared.

"I may not like it but haven't enough people died already because of him? What else are we supposed to do?" Patty said.

"This isn't Grodd's fault. He's only like this because Wells made him this way." Caitlin protested.

"Yes, but, Catie, he kidnapped you and you could have died." Barry argued.

"You didn't see what I saw. Grodd's getting smarter. He's lonely and sad. He wants more apes like him." Caitlin said.

"What are you saying? He wants kids? 'Cause I'm pretty sure one telepathic Grape Ape is more than enough for this city." Cisco said.

"And I don't think we want a real-life version of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"." Patty added.

"I know somewhere we could send him." Harry offered.

"What are you talking about?" Barry asked.

"When the singularity exploded and I discovered the breach in S.T.A.R. Labs, I ran similar tests and discovered the same thing, 51 additional breaches." Harry approached the computers. "The difference being the breaches in Central City are scattered all throughout the city whereas counterparts in my world most definitely are not."

"And you know where they lead?" Cisco asked.

"Well, I was in the process of figuring all that out when Dr. Snow so gallantly convinced me to stay, but if I am correct, this breach is gonna get Grodd as close to home as he's ever likely to get." Harry showed them a breach on the map of Central City.

"OK, even if you're right, how do we bait Grodd to go through it?" Joe questioned.

"My son'll do it. Won't you, Flash?" Henry smiled at Barry.

Later, Central City

Caitlin returned to Grodd's lair as she called out. "Grodd?"

"Caitlin." Grodd jumped down and was about to grab her before Barry sped her away and then faced Grodd. "Flash."

"You want Caitlin, Grodd, you're gonna have to catch me first." Barry said.

Barry sped through the streets as Grodd leapt on the buildings, chasing him. "Cisco, almost there. Are you ready?"

"I'm in position." Cisco said.

"Now, once you turn on the speed cannon, the quark matter will stabilize, stretching the breach about so big, so anywhere within this circle will suffice." Harry said, while spraying a white circle on the ground. They waited until they saw Barry near them. "Right on time."

"OK, come on." Barry looked around. "I don't have eyes on Grodd. Does anyone see him?"

They heard a roar as Grodd jumped down to face them and Barry sped off.

"That is a big gorilla." Harry said.

"Where is Caitlin?" Grodd demanded. He attacked Barry psychically, incapacitating him as Barry got flashbacks of Zoom beating him before Grodd knocked him away before he stepped on his chest as Barry choked. "Where is Caitlin, Flash?"

"Right here." Caitlin said as Grodd stopped, his face softening.

"No. No, no, no." Barry whispered.

"You need to let him go, Grodd." Caitlin ordered.

"Flash is my enemy. Now you, too." Grodd said.

"No. He was trying to save me from you." Caitlin pleaded, nearing him. "We didn't understand what you wanted, but now we do. I can give you what you want. I can give you a home. You just have to trust me."

Grodd softened, letting Barry go as he coughed out. He neared Caitlin before Cisco opened the breach, while Harry called out. "Now, Barry!"

Barry grabbed Caitlin and got her out of the way as the breach was slowly sucking Grodd in.

"Full power." Harry said.

"It is." Cisco said as Grodd was nearing them and Barry hesitated.

"Barry, you can't let Grodd get free. Conquer your fears, son. Believe in yourself." Henry said.

Barry sped away before speeding back, delivering a supersonic punch and Grodd was sucked into the breach before Cisco closed it.

"Welcome back, Flash." Cisco high-fived with Barry, who panted out.

"Thanks, bro." Barry smiled.

Later, S.T.A.R. Labs

"I can't believe something good finally came from that suit." Caitlin said, as they had the Reverse-Flash suit on a mannequin.

"First and the last time." Barry said.

"That thing still gives me the creeps." Cisco said. "We should destroy it."

"Let's do that, but see if you can figure out how to get it back in this ring first." Barry showed threw to him Thawne's ring. "Might be nice to have something like that instead of carrying around a bag all the time."

"I can help you with that." Harry offered as everyone turned to him in surprise. "What? I know a thing or two about micro-technology."

"Yeah, you know a thing or two about a lot of things." Cisco said dryly.

"Well, as long as what he knows keeps my son and these good people safe, the more you know, the better." Henry said as he shook his hand with Harry. "Pleasure to meet you, Harrison. Again."

"Dr. Allen." Harry nodded.

Henry smiled at Caitlin before turning to the rest. "Good to see you. Cisco. Patty." Barry and Patty accompanied Henry out.

Later, Patty's apartment

"Patty, I wanted to thank you." Barry said as they entered her apartment.

"It was nothing. You would've done the same for me." Patty assured.

"I know." Barry nodded. "I don't know what I would've done without you. When I doubt myself, I can count on you to lift me up."

"My Dad used to tell me, "Why do we fall? So that we can pick ourselves up."" She assured. "And if you can't, I'm always going to pick you up, Barry."

Barry and Patty smiled at each other as the air was filled with tension neither one of them could resist as they started to kiss as Patty unbuttoned Barry's shirt, while he took off her top as they laid down on the couch, tossing their clothes across the floor, while making out.

I've been going back and forth, whether I should do the Vandal Savage crossover but quite frankly, I just don't see what changes could be made with the involvement of Patty, asides from that she doesn't shoot Harry, I'm guessing nothing would be different from the actual crossover. Let's just say Caitlin and "Jay" tested the Velocity drug later and Harry doesn't get shot, so I'm skipping that and going right to 2x09, which should be very interesting.

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