Okay, bit of a shorter filler chapter but it's needed to let the story play out.
It's a bit confusing but i wanted to try and get a bit of S1E11, S2E17 and S5E8 in it. Turns out a lot happened that day... Hope you still like it though.
Barry woke up early, he needed to get to the lab before anyone else.
He quickly flashed in and out of the time vault to get a USB drive with the speed equation for his future self. He didn't want to be knocked out again so he came up with an alternative solution.
The day was going as planned when they got notified that Rathaway Industries was under attack.
He did the same as before and when he got blasted by Hartley, his future self swooped him into the alleyway nearby.
They fought for a few minutes before Barry injected his future self with the dart he brought.
He left him with the USB drive and note that read. "Everything you will need is on this drive, good luck."
With that out of the way he grabbed Hartley and sped him into the pipeline.
"Scanner's picking up foreign metallic objects in your ears, take 'em out." Cisco instructed the now imprisoned Rathaway.
"I can't, I suffered head trauma when Star labs exploded, my hearing was severely damaged, without these I am in pain you can only imagine." Hartley said.
At that moment Barry remembered the explosives. "Cisco, see if the devices in his ears are generating any low level electromagnetic pulses."
Confused Cisco turned to him. "You want me to scan for e-bombs?"
"I mean, don't you think that is what could've been interfering with the comms?" He explained.
Cisco proceeded and to his and Hartley's surprise he found the explosives.
"Pump in some sound stimuli to counteract his tinnitus." Dr. Wells said as he came rolling up behind them.
"Then we'll make some non-explosive replacements for him. Deal with you later." He said before giving Barry a suspicious look and turning around.
Cisco when to get Hartley to take them out when Caitlin came up to Barry.
"What was that about?" She whispered as to not attract Cisco's attention.
"Mr. Allen, a word please." Was heard from the hallway.
"I'll explain later." Barry whispered back before running off.
Wells lead him to his office. Barry sat down but he got knocked out from behind.
He woke up a few hours later in the time vault, cuffed to Wells' wheelchair.
"At least I don't have to deal with another me, so that's nice." He thought as he remembered that this was when he came back to let Thawne fix the speed force transmitter to use on Cicada.
He looked at Thawne trying to look confused but he knew he wasn't buying it.
"Now, who are you, I mean, who are you really?" Thawne asked with a creepy grin.
"Dr. Wells, what are you doing?" He asked.
"None of it adds up, your vitals, the predictions, none of it."
"Dr. Wells, come on, it's me, it's Barry." He said still trying to seem unaware of anything.
Dr. Wells clapped. "Really, you are good and I would believe you, except that..."
He speed closer to Barry. "Nothing? I move like this, you barely flinch. You know who I am."
Barry laughed for a second. "Let me out of here Thawne."
"Why are you here?" He asked ignoring Barry's threats.
Barry pulled his sleeve up to show the cut left behind by Cicada's dagger.
"Ah, Cicada." He said in a creepy tone.
"This is preventing me from going back to my time, as soon as it's healed I will go back."
"No no no no no no, you'd only come here if something went wrong and that means I haven't beaten you. If you're still alive, that mean my plan fails." He said still relatively calm.
"And if my plan fails, I don't get to go home and if that's the case, then..." he yelled angrily as he moved over and started vibrating his hand.
"Wait Wait Wait." Barry yelled panicking. "I'll make you a deal, once I am healed, I will take you home."
Thawne stopped and took and few steps back. "Why? Why would you do that?"
"Because I have learned first hand what messing with the timeline does and I do not want that to happen again." He explained.
Thawne had to think about it for a moment but agreed. He removed the cuffs and shook Barry's hand before letting him go.
Barry left and found Caitlin sitting in her lab. "Hey, where have you been all day?" She asked.
Barry sighed as he sat down. "I've been in the time vault with Dr. W..." He blurted out before covering his mouth with his hand as he realized what he just said.
He told her a lot about the future but he didn't tell her about Wells.
"The time what? She asked confused.
He sighed again, he knew he couldn't keep this a secret anymore. "I've got something to show you." He said as he reached out his hand.
She took it and he led her to the time vault. The first thing she noticed was the reverse flash suit sitting on the mannequin.
She stared at it in shock for a while before turning to Barry. "I don't get it, what does this have to do with Dr. Wells?"
"Cait, Dr. Wells is the reverse flash." He confessed.
She was about to say something but at that moment, Thawne came walking in.
Caitlin stared at him and he stared back equally surprised. "Well, things just got a lot more complicated, didn't they?" He said.
"Cait, this is Eobard Thawne." Barry said, eagerly awaiting a response. He then turned to Thawne. "She knows."
"Wait, you are working together?" Caitlin asked in shock.
Barry nodded and with that she shook her head and ran out.
Thawne was about to go after her but Barry stopped him. "I've got this."
Barry looked throughout the lab and found her sitting in the pipeline.
He sat down next to her and tried to put his arm around her but she pulled back. "Cait, I'm sorry."
"Barry, how could you? I mean he's the man that killed your mother and you're working with him?" She said sobbing.
"I didn't mean for this to happen, he noticed something was off and i couldn't do anything else but tell him who i was." He explained.
"But if you knew who he was, why didn't you stop him?"
"Cait, I have tried messing with time before by doing exactly that and it just made things a whole lot worse." He said.
They sat there for the rest of the evening as he explained everything that he hadn't told her before, he wanted to be honest with her.
After a few more minutes they made their way out and as they passed the cortex, Barry nodded Thawne's way letting him know everything was going to be fine.
A bit of a rough ending but i couldn't come up with another way to do it and anything else just felt weird. As i was writing this i was constantly getting ideas and jumping ahead for the next chapter, i've pretty much already written most of it. It's like my brain just skipped ahead. XD
Anyways, hope you still enjoyed it nonetheless. Next up, Ep 12. ;)