Part 4
Alex walked out of the medical room after hooking up a couple glucose IVs to the female speedster.
"So how's the kid?" asked Kate
"She will be fine. Being in the speed force let her keep her memory. But it is only complete up to the point she entered it. She knows nothing . about the crisis or M.A.R.A. once her blood sugar is returned to normal J'onn can show her what happened like he did with me and some of the others." Said Alex
"What about Barry?" asked Kate
"He is in scary good health. Nothing wrong at all. He is just hanging out with Jesse to keep her company. I think the members of Team Flash well at least Barry, Cisco and Caitlin see her as their little sister. From what I have gathered she makes Caitlin look average in intelligence."
"There is nothing average about Caitlin's mind. That woman is a genius."
"Jesse Quick is even smarter." Said Barry
"You are kidding right?" asked Kate
"No I'm not Kate. She had five majors in college." Said Barry
"So she is a fast geek."
"Yeah."
Kate walked off leaving Barry alone with Alex.
"Alex, what do we know about this organization that is after metas and aliens?" asked Barry
"Well it was formed right after you disappeared into the speed force. Due to the passing of the super powered registration act being passed. It was pushed by Lex Luthor."
"Yeah why doesn't that surprise me? I mean he made himself a paragon replacing the Earth-96 Superman as the paragon of truth."
"Well as part of the way the act is written all those with powers no matter what they are have to register with the government on a public record. You would have to reveal that you are not only a speedster but your identity as the Flash."
"Which puts a target on my back."
"Right, so most of the heroes didn't register. STAR labs was raided as in became known that it was your base. Cisco was able to open a breach here for your team to escape. They nearly got Caitlin though. She was forced to kill two of the agents to get away."
"Don't you mean Frost?"
"No, Barry in the pass two years Caitlin and Frost merged into one personality. She is somewhere between who you knew as Caitlin and who you knew as Frost. When she goes out in the field she still takes on the appearance of Frost and uses it as her code name. But there is only one of them in that body."
"How did that happen?"
"The only thing anyone, even Caitlin could come up with is the more they accepted each other the more intertwined they became. The time that Caitlin let Frost have control before crisis may have been what let it happen."
"So she is now a mix of the two?"
"Oh yeah just don't call her Caity Frost. She hates that more then Elsa. She told me that if I ever called her that again she would freeze off my man part." Said Cisco walking in with Jefferson Pierce
"Cisco, good to see you man." Said Barry
"You too man. Barbara told us about Caitlin." Said Cisco
"We will get her and the others back Barry." Said Jefferson
Barry nodded then turned to Cisco.
"Can you try and vibe her?" asked Barry
"Yeah. Let's go to her room. It might help me get a sense of her." Said Cisco
Barry and Cisco headed to the dorm and Caitlin's room.
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Caitlin laid on her cot with her back to the door. She was torn. She had a choice to make. A choice that had no guarantee of saving Ronnie's life. She knew Lex, Eiling and Lane couldn't be trusted. But if she was right and Iris betrayed them. Then she couldn't be trusted either. Not that she was going to trust anyone in this place. Well at least not anyone who wasn't locked in a cell. At this point she was more willing to trust Peekaboo more then that bitch Iris.
"Caitlin are you ok?" asked Dinah
"I know what I have to do. I don't want to. But I have to at least try and save Ronnie's life. He may not be my Ronnie. But he doesn't deserve to die if I can prevent it."
"You really have become a hero Caitlin. I am sure your Ronnie would be proud of you." Said Laurel
"I never wanted to be a hero. I just wanted a happy life with the man I loved."
"I understand how you felt about your Ronnie. I felt the same way about my Oliver. He might not be your Ronnie but if I learned anything you need to honor his memory. So if saving this Ronnie is what you need to do then your friends will understand. Besides if you are forced to fight one of the Supers or J'onn you could pass on information."
"That is what I was thinking Laurel."
"So you are going to take a deal from someone that you know that you can't trust." Said Dinah
"Like Laurel said I'm a hero. I have to do this weather I like it or not."
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Ronnie Raymond paced in the small room he was locked in. He had no idea how they found him. He had a bad feeling about the metahuman registration so he didn't do it. But they found him anyway. Now he was locked up like a criminal. The door opened and a woman walked in.
"Ronnie Raymond also known as Firestorm. You think yourself as some kind of hero."
"I don't know what you are talking about lady." Said Ronnie
"You are a meta. A monster that shouldn't even exist."
"Yeah I got powers. I didn't ask for them. But I got them and I use them to stop those that do harm, people like you."
"I knew some so called heroes once. Even loved one of them. But here is the thing about heroes, they will do what is right even if it hurts those that love them. You sacrificed yourself once. You don't remember but I will help you with that."
The woman grabbed his arm and pressed a ring into him. Ronnie was hit with images and memories of a different life. The clearest was of a woman with auburn hair and soft brown eyes. A name came to him. Caitlin. He turned to look at the woman and he knew her name.
"Iris, does Barry know what you have become?" asked Ronnie
"Not yet but he will. The thing is you are my bargaining chip. What I need to control one of the most powerful metas alive."
"You better not hurt Caitlin."
"I need her so she is safe for now. You I only need alive to keep her in line."
Iris walked leaving Ronnie alone.