Chapter 5 is here and things are going to get interesting!
Central City:
Barry was out driving in the Tridoron around as he wanted to think about his decisions: he wanted to tell Caitlin that he had feelings for her, he was furious to see that Thawne was back and hated the DeVoe was willing to do whatever it takes to become stronger and more powerful.
"Barry, what are you thinking?" Krim asked as the belt with his face turned and looked at Barry. "You know I'll try and help however I can." Krim promised his friend, Barry smiled then looked at Krim's belt form.
"I was thinking about how things have changed: I became Drive after losing my powers, Ralph is Mach, I've met my predecessor and we're becoming stronger each day." Barry answered, Krim could see that there was something else on Barry's mind. "Fine. I think I'm in love with someone else that isn't Iris." Barry confessed, Krim's digital face made a smile as he was happy.
"I already knew, Barry." Krim smiled which surprised Barry. "I was a scientist when I was human, I could see the chemistry between the two of you." Krim explained, Barry chuckled as he drove up to the CCPD.
"Thanks Krim." Barry thanked as he parked up and undone his seatbelt. "Let's go to work." Barry smiled as he reached behind him and pulled out a backpack, he then placed Krim inside and zipped it up. Barry opened the car door and made his way up the stairs and towards the elevator.
CCPD:
The elevator opened on the top floor and Barry walked out, he saw Joe talking to Cecile then the pair walked over to the CSI. Cecile hugged the younger man while Joe smiled then Barry looked at Joe who handed him back his CCPD credentials.
"It's good to see you here again, Barry." Cecile smiled, Barry nodded then smiled at the couple. "Is everything okay?" Cecile asked, Barry looked down and the pair could see that Barry wasn't wearing his wedding ring.
"You divorced now, Barr?" Joe asked and Barry nodded, he still looked a bit down. "Why don't you head to the lab and I'll tell Singh that you're back." Joe offered and Barry nodded, he walked up and Cecile went with him to keep him company.
Lab:
Barry and Cecile walked into the lab as they were talking about Barry's new car but their conversation stopped when they saw Eobard Thawne in his Reverse Flash suit.
"Hey there again, Barry." Thawne waved, Barry stood ready for a fight just as Thawne ran towards Barry and kicked him into a wall. "You don't have your speed? Looks like DeVoe's powers worked!" Thawne chuckled but then his eyes widened when Barry's bag opened and out flew Krim who wrapped his belt form around Barry's waist.
"Barry, let's go!" Krim shouted and Barry nodded, Cecile watched as Barry inserted the Shift Formula and shifted the lever up and down. Cecile watched as Barry transformed into Drive's Type Formula.
"Drive: Type Formula!" The belt announced as the two Formula tires flew in and wrapped themselves around Barry's forearms. Thawne and Drive then charged towards each other and started fighting as Joe ran in and helped Cecile up.
"Joe! Barry is Drive!" Cecile shouted, Joe looked at Drive to see that he was fighting with the same anger that Barry had towards the man in yellow.
"Thawne, I'm going to take you down for everything you've done to my family!" Drive shouted which made Joe's eyes widened: Barry was Drive!
Meanwhile:
Ralph had arrived at the CCPD to pick up some information about someone he had been trying to locate for a year. He was about to walk inside the building when Drive flew out the window and landed in the middle of the street. Thawne landed beside Barry and was about to hit when Ralph jumped and kicked him away.
"Hey! Why not try me?" Ralph teased as he put on his belt, he took out the folded up Shift Deadheat and inserted it into his driver then smacked down the left side.
"Signal Bike/ Shift Car! Rider! Deadheat!" Ralph ran towards Thawne as he transformed into Deadheat Mach and started pounding hits into Thawne while Barry got back up. The two Riders then started fighting Thawne together who couldn't block their attacks but things weren't looking good now as Ralph was starting to lose control of Deadheat.
"See you all later!" Thawne smiled then he ran away and while Barry wanted to go after him, he had stayed behind to help Ralph regain control.
"Ralph, this may hurt!" Barry shouted as he stood back, Ralph was staying still as the tire was about to burst and the gauge was flashing yellow. Barry decided to use all his power in Formula to punch the Signal Bike/ Shift Car back in control so he turned the key and shifted up three times.
"For-For-Formula!" Barry then ran and punched Ralph belt which caused the form to electricify but gave Ralph full control.
"Thank you!" Ralph sighed before he fell backwards on to the pavement, Barry ran over to his friend to see if he was alright. They were about to power down when Captain Singh and other officers ran out of the CCPD, they looked at Drive and Mach to see that a fight had taken place.
"Is everything alright?" Captain Singh asked as he walked towards the Riders. Drive nodded as Mach walked over to his Ride Macher and started up the engine.
"Reverse Flash showed up and tried to attack Mister Allen and Miss Horton," Drive explained, Singh nodded then they both watched as Mach rode away. "I promise that we'll stop him and protect everyone." Drive promised then walked towards the Tridoron as he changed into his Type Speed form. Captain Singh and the other officers then saluted to Drive as he drove off, not knowing that Drive's identity was someone close to them.
S.T.A.R Labs:
Chase was in the Cortex while looking at Caitlin as Barry made him promise to watch her in case DeVoe tried to take her again. Cisco walked in and saw Chase watching Caitlin who was in the medical bay, Cisco thought that Chase was being weird watching his friend like a hawk watching their prey.
"Are you always such a creep?" Cisco asked, Chase didn't answer and kept watching Caitlin. "Hey! I'm talking to you!" Cisco shouted as he walked over and grabbed Chase by his shoulder. "Why aren't you helping Barry and Ralph look for DeVoe?" Cisco asked, Chase removed Cisco's hand from his shoulder then looked at the engineer.
"I promised Barry Allen that I would protect the one he cares the most," Chase answered bluntly. "I don't have emotions like humans do but I do understand protecting people who are important to others." Chase answered then he walked towards the med bay but Cisco stopped him.
"Cisco!" The engineer looked behind him to see Barry standing in the doorway with his belt in his hand. "Why are you questioning, Chase?" Barry asked as he walked towards them and nodded at Chase who walked into the med bay and sat with Caitlin.
"He was watching Caitlin like he was obsessed over her!" Cisco shouted, Barry shook his head then Krim coughed.
"Cisco, Chase is a Cybernetic Lifeform who has no human emotions. You can't programme feelings into Chase but he understands who we are and why we do things." Krim explained, Barry sat down and looked up at Cisco.
"Chase is trying his best to understand us, don't make it harder for him." Barry told his friend then he turned around and started working on the computer to try and track Thawne's Negative Speedforce readings.
Hidden lair:
Somewhere secret, DeVoe was finishing his creation of a weapon that could take out both Barry and Krim once and for all. Marlize was helping with the building thanks to her engineering skills, they were almost finished when Thawne ran in and removed his crowl.
"I'll tell you one thing, Allen is getting stronger." Thawne told them then started chuckling. "I had more fun than I did when he was The Flash!" Thawne shouted with happiness in his voice.
"While you've been messing about, we've developed something that takes out both Mister Allen and his belt," DeVoe explained which made Thawne smile. "All we need to do is lure him out and we know how to do that: get Doctor Snow." DeVoe told the speedster, he nodded then he ran off to capture Caitlin while Marlize went to the location they were going to use to take out Drive.
Dockyard:
After a quick grab from Caitlin's apartment, Thawne had brought the doctor to a dockyard in Star City where they were going to end Drive and secured her with Meta Damperling Cuffs.
"You can try and break free but you can't," Thawn told her with a smile, he knelt down and looked at Caitlin. "I hope that you enjoyed every moment with Barry as he won't survive what's going to happen to him when he comes here." Thawne then started laughing but stopped when he heard a car engine pull up: it was the Tridoron and Drive got out and ran towards Thawne as he changed into his Type Formula form.
"Thawne!" Barry shouted as he jumped and punched him in the face, Thawne took the hit then the pair started fighting to their heart's content. "I'll finish you here and now!" Barry screamed as he started to punch so fast and hard that one punch sent Thawne flying into several metal containers.
"Barry, stop! It's a trap!" Krim shouted which made Barry stop moving, he started to look around but it was too late: a powerful beam came flying and hit Barry in the chest and sent him flying into the Tridoron as his Drive armour shattered away like glass.
"It's done." Thawne chuckled, he looked behind him nodded at Marlize who disappeared into a portal. Thawne was about to run when he was hit with a blue and purple blast to the chest: Mach and Chaser had arrived with Green Arrow, Spartan, Arsenal and Speedy.
"Thawne!" They all shouted as they ran to attack the evil speedster. Mach, Chaser, Arsenal and Spartan took on Thawne while Green Arrow checked Barry and Speedy freed Caitlin.
"Get Barry out here! Me and Ralph will handle Thawne!" Chase shouted, Oliver and the others nodded as their black van arrived with Quentin at the wheel. Roy and Thea went in the Tridoron while the others got in the van with Barry's body, leaving Mach and Chaser fought Thawne with all their might.
"You'll regret everything you've done!" Ralph shouted, he and Chase opened their drivers then smacked the white button and closed their drivers.
"Hissatsu! Full Throttle! Mach! Chaser!" Both Ralph and Chase jumped up high as they were glowing rainbow colours, they flew down towards Thawne then kicked him so far that he broke through the wall and landed in the water.
"Let's head to the bunker and find out Barry's condition." Chase suggested and Ralph nodded so they ran over to their bikes to head to the bunker. What they didn't know was that Thawne was still alive and a portal had opened to pull him out.
Bunker:
The elevator opened then Ralph and Chase ran out and saw Oliver and Thea around Barry's body. Oliver was trying to remove the belt and brace but for some reason, they weren't coming off. Caitlin was in a corner of the bunker with Felicity hugging her to try and comfort her.
"I'll inform everyone. We need to end DeVoe for what he's done!" Ralph shouted, he then walked off and Chase could tell he was filled up with loads of anger.
"Tell everyone to come to the bunker; Kara, Sara and everyone else." Oliver told everyone, they all nodded then started contacting their friends and told them to come to the bunker in Star City.
Later:
After waiting an hour, all members of Team Flash and Team Legends even Kara came over with Alex, J'onn, Winn and James. They all arrived at the Arrow Cave and waited until John, Lyra, Thea and Roy walked in the room from out of the shadows.
"What's up? Is there another Earth that wants to attack us? Or something worse?" Asked Alex, everyone looked at four members of Team Arrow until Oliver and Felicity walked out with a gurney covered with a white sheet. All the teams were confused then Caitlin noticed something.
"If there's some kind of problem that needs all of us, then where's Barry and Krim?" Asked Caitlin and everyone looked at Team Arrow. All members of Team Arrow looked down apart from Oliver, he stepped forward and held his hands together.
"The reason that Barry and Krim isn't here is that…." Oliver stopped as he walked over to the West Family and looked down. "I'm so sorry." Iris looked at the gurney then looked back at Oliver, she shook her head as tears fell out her eyes. Everyone was thinking the same thing, they all thought they were in some kind of nightmare.
"Ollie, is it true?" Asked Sara as she looked at her friend with as she knew how Oliver treated Barry like a brother. Oliver nodded and without him seeing, Caitlin walked over to the gurney and removed the top half and there she saw the worst fear and nightmare: Barry Allen was dead.
Few days later:
It had been four days since all the teams found out that Barry Allen was dead and for some people, they found it hard to keep it a secret; Joe told Captain Singh, Sara told Ava and Cisco told Gypsy. Unknown to everyone, Caitlin never left S.T.A.R Labs and was trying to find any to relieve Barry but she was too focused that she didn't notice Ralph Digby walk up behind her and place his jacket on her shoulders.
"What are you doing here this late?" Asked Caitlin, Ralph could tell that Caitlin had spent almost an entire day crying. Ralph took out a handkerchief and wiped the tears away from her eyes.
"I'm here because I don't think he'll be happy if you were here alone." Ralph said as he pointed to the picture on Caitlin's screen: a cheerful picture of Barry and her at a cinema.
"I want to bring him back! It seems like I'm the one who wants to bring Barry back!" Caitlin shouted just as a breach opened and out came Harry with Jay Garrick. Caitlin ran out of the Cortex and towards the Speed Lab, Ralph was about to follow but saw that Chase was already going after Caitlin so he started talking with Harry and Jay.
Speed Lab:
On her own, Caitlin was working on any possible way she could think of to try and bring back Barry. She heard footsteps coming from behind, she looked up at the doorway and saw that it was Chase who was still wearing his driver.
"You trying to find a way to bring Barry back?" Chase asked as he walked towards Caitlin, the doctor nodded then got back to work. "I'll help however I can." Chase offered which made Caitlin happy then together they started thinking of all sorts of ideas. Chase looked at Caitlin who was looking at a photo on her phone: it was a photo of Caitlin and Cisco with Barry in Drive's Type Speed form.
"That's it!" Caitlin exclaimed as she held her phone tight, she then turned to Chase with a smile and tears rolling down her cheeks. "Can you make a new Shift Car, Chase? One that can hold the power of all the Shift Cars?" Caitlin asked as she looked at all the Shift Cars next to her, Chase nodded then the pair started work.
The end of chapter 5 and Barry is dead! Will Caitlin and Chase succeed in bringing Barry back to life? Did Thawne survive the finisher from Ralph and Chase?
Find out next time! Ciao!