Chapter 8: The Return

I originally did not plan to post this today but I did not enjoy writing "FlashTime" and just deleted the story entirely, so I have decided to recontinue this story.

Cisco's POV

It's been about two weeks since I decided to return home and things have been somewhat normal, besides me being pissed off at Barry. I have been trying to build up the courage to tell Barry about the vibe I picked up a couple of months ago. I walked up to Barry and asked "Hey Barry can I talk to you about something?"

"Yeah sure"

"In private" We walk into the hall and I explain everything I saw.

"When were you going to tell me about this Cisco!?" He yelled

"Look we been busy with Zoom and I haven't really had the time to tell you"

"How long?"

"At what I could see in the vibe only a couple of weeks" Barry walks over to one of the walls and slides down it until he is just sitting against it. He puts his head in his hands. I sat down beside him. "Look we'll save her. We have Pyro in the pipeline. The only person who we need to get to guarantee she's safe is Peek-A-Boo"

"We have to tell Caitlin"

"Barry how do you know that if we tell her, that's not what makes this event happen?"

"How do you know it will?" We stand back up and walk back into the cortex where Caitlin and Harry are still working on the blueprints for the fishing rod for another Wells.

"Ramon we're done the blueprints"

"Okay let's go build it!" I said. We walk out of the cortex and go off to build it.

Barry's POV

"Cait… I have some information that you need to hear."

"Okay" I sat down next to her and explain everything that Cisco told me.

"So I die in a couple of weeks"

"Not if we catch Baez" I notice that she's biting her lower lip. "Cait, we'll catch her, especially since Jesse's here"

Caitlin's POV

I know Barry trusts me and I trust him, telling him that I have cold powers might trigger a subconscious response. He might want to put me in the pipeline because I am showing the same abilities of Killer Frost.

"I'm fine Barry" I lied. Cisco and Harry walked back into the Cortex with good news.

"The machine is finished" Cisco said with a huge smile. We walk down to the breach room, Harry walks over to one of the computers and Cisco walks down towards the last breach that was left over when we closed the singularity.

"Harry are we ready?"

"Yes Ramon, we're ready just I think you need these" Harry said while handing Cisco his glasses. Cisco walks in front of the cannon and aims his arm towards the breach. "What are you waiting for?" Cisco opened the breach and Harry activated the cannon. It was turned on for about five seconds then shut down. "That's it"

"That's it?" Both Barry and I ask. Cisco takes off his glasses and turns around

"Now what?"

"Now… now we go get a Big Belly Burger" Harry said. Cisco rolled his eyes while both Barry and I giggled. Barry kisses me head as we walked out.

A Few Hours later…

Barry's POV

"Barry, I finished running my tests on the scale that you brought us and I detected something strange within its cells" Caitlin informed me

"What is it?"

"What I found was that it was indeed a human but that wasn't even the strange part about it. The strange part was that there wasn't a trace of Dark Matter but there were traces of the Speed Force"

"Don't tell me that we have another evil speedster" Cisco said while walking into the Cortex.

"Unfortunately we do and his name is…"

"Edward Clariss"

"And somehow Barry know exactly who he is. How did you know?"

"He was a metahuman while I was in Flashpoint. He went by the name Rival" We all felt a gush of wind coming from the hallway.

"So you do remember Flash, because I remember everything too"

"How is that possible? How are you here?"

"Someone who gave me EVERYTHING, you took from me! See ya around Flash" He took off running. As I was about to run after him all the power in the building shut off.

"For real, how rude" Cisco said

"What are we going to do about the power?" I asked

"I don't know"

"Oh my god, Barry, Cisco the pipeline. No power..."

"No power dampeners" I run down to the pipeline to see all the metahumans that were in there. Luckily only a couple of metas were in the pipeline when it happened. I see Pyro and Black Siren flying out of the hole still left in it from when it exploded and out the building. I run back to the Cortex to see the power back on.

"What happened?" Caitlin asked

"Pyro and Black Siren got out and escaped. Cisco it's time" As I said that Cisco ran over to grab his glasses, puts them on and walks back towards me and Caitlin.

"What are you doing?" She asked

"I'm going to vibe the future through you and Barry will see what I saw the day you were taken by Peek-A-Boo." He put his hand on both of us and I saw the city on fire and Laurel with a gun to Caitlin's head. I was a bit confused because Cisco said it was Baez who had the gun but now it's Laurel but over all, I just want to do is cry. I exit the vibe and start to get teary eyed.

"You Okay?"

"No Cisco I'm not. I just saw the love of my life die right in front of me"

"I know I shouldn't be making this comment right now but now you know how it feels to lose someone you care about"

"Something did change though"

"What do you mean?"

"I didn't see Baez holding the gun, I saw Laurel. We should call Oliver ask him to help as well."

"Speaking of help, has anyone seen Harry or Jesse?"

"We're right here" They both said while walking into the cortex.

"Where were you two?"

"We have been stuck in the elevator. So what happened"

"Well a new speedster from Flashpoint called Rival was here. He shut off the power and Pyro and Black Siren escapes the pipeline" We all came up with a way to find them before they could do mass damage, infrared.

"It worked before"

"Okay let's do it"

"Guys we may be too late. Look" We look at the monitors and see part of downtown Central City on fire.

"It's coming true" I said "How do we stop the fire?"

"I know how" We all look towards Caitlin.

"How?" I asked. She started to emit frost from her hands.

"Caitlin, no, we can't be putting you out there, especially now."

"Barry if I do not help hundreds of thousands of people will be injured or worse… killed"

"Okay let's go but I'm not letting you out of my sight" Cisco breached us to the middle of one the fires in a building and we started to put the fire out. I look over to see Rival running towards Caitlin and before he could grab her I create a wind current throwing him out of the building. We continue to put of the fire until I see Black Siren throw Caitlin out of the building.

"Caitlin!" I yelled. I ran down the building and caught her. "Are you Okay?" I asked

"Yeah I'm fine" I put my hand on her forehead.

"You're burning up"

"Barry I'm..." She passed out. As I was still holding her Pyro landed in front of us as well as Black Siren.

"Give it up Flash, you lost, and this city will fall" Black Siren taunted. I put Caitlin down behind me.

"Cisco I need to get here now" I said but heard static. I start to charge up a lightning bolt but I got hit by Black Siren's sonic scream. I got thrown back a couple of feet. I try to get up but I see Black Siren holding a gun to Caitlin's head.

"I see that she means a lot to you. Time to take that away from you"

"Noooo!" I yell while starting to run toward them but I see another speedster run towards them and grab Caitlin. This speedster has orange and white lightning. I look over towards Pyro who is now unconscious with another speedster holding him down. I passed out from what just happened. I get woken up by Cisco in the Med Bay of STAR Labs. "What happened? Where's Caitlin"

"She fine. She still in shock" I look over to see the two speedsters helping Caitlin. I get up off the bed and walk over to Caitlin"

"Caitlin!" I yelled while giving her a hug. "Are you Okay?"

"Yeah I'm fine thanks to these two"

"Speaking of you two, who are you?" I asked

"This might sound confusing but I'm Thomas…" He said

"And I'm Nora.." She said

"Allen" They both said "Snow-Allen" Both Caitlin and I look at each other and back at them.

"You're our… kids?" Caitlin asks.

"Yeah and nicknamed Tornado Twins, from our time"

"That's a sick name" Cisco piped in

"You came up with it, Uncle Cisco"

He looked at us and said "Uncle Cisco" He looked back at the twins. "Kinda like it"

"So why are you two here?" I asked

"We're here to prevent your death, dad" Thomas said

"My death? How did I die?"

"I can't tell you everything but I can tell you the person responsible for it is in this time"

"Before we do anything I want to run some tests, see if you are telling the truth"

"Of course Dad. We knew you might not trust since Wells and Zoom." They both walk over to the Med Bay.

"Do you think they are our kids?" I asked Caitlin.

"Kinda yeah. Orange lightning like yours and white like my frost. I'm going to go test their DNA"

"Yeah i have to go to CCPD. See you at home?" She nodded and I gave her a quick kiss before speeding off.

Caitlin's POV

I walk over to the Med Bay and take blood samples. I compare them to Barry's and my blood and find that they match.

"So I have found that their blood does match mine and Barry's" I informed Cisco

"So they are your kids?"

"Not entirely. With specific modifications you're able to reconfigure your blood to look like another's. I also found something weird in Nora's blood that is different to Thomas' blood" We turn around to see them walking out of the Med Bay.

"Look we know that you still don't trust us but hear us out. Uncle Cisco when you were fifteen your brother, Dante, owned a bookie which he couldn't pay off but you gave him all the money you earned during the summer delivering pizza to help him and mom, when you were in an accident while biking with your father and was stuck because of the injuries and you blacked out and don't remember what else happened." We were both in shock from what they told us. How could they know, unless they were from the future. I walk up to Thomas and gave him a hug.

"I believe you. We should go tell Barry and maybe Captain Singh" They flashed us to CCPD where we were welcomed by Joe.

"Hey Caitlin, who are those two?"

"They are Barry and I's kids, from the future" He looked a bit surprised.

"Does Barry know?"

"Not yet but that's why we are here I also wanted to talk with Captain Singh"

"I'll go grab him"

"Nora, Thomas go with Joe I'll go grab your father" They walked off with Joe towards Captain Singh's office and I walked up to Barry's lab. I knocked on the door before entering.

"Caitlin what are you doing here?" Barry asked

"Can I talk to you for a second?" He look back at Julian

"Julian?"

"No matter what I say Allen you will do it anyways" He said without look up from his work. We walk out and into Captain Singh's office where Joe, Nora, Thomas and the Captain were waiting.

"So you wanted to talk?" Barry asked

"Yeah and the Captain should also be informed on this. I've tested Nora and Thomas' blood and they match ours."

"Wait so they're your kids?" The Captain and Joe said.

"Yes but from the future" Nora responded

"Time travel is possible?" The Captain asked confused. Everyone in the room nodded.

"Cait, even though the tests may show them to be our kids doesn't make it true"

"Barry they knew about my bike accident when I was a kid, they knew about Cisco helping Dante when he was fifteen. Everything adds up" Captain Singh stood up and signaled Joe to the door. They walk outside and start talking about what I presume to be the current situation.

"Cait we have been fooled too many times. I'm sorry, but I still don't believe it" As Barry started to walk out Nora stopped him.

"Dad, after you were taken in by Papa Joe you tried to sneak out of the house many times but was caught every time except for one where you were able to get out of the house and ran to Iron Heights and learned your father was the one not wanting you to see him, not Papa Joe" Nora said. Barry's face turned from not believing to believing in an instant. He hugged Nora and she hugged back.

"I'm sorry for not believing before, it's just…"

"I know Dad you have been through a lot." Captain Singh and Joe walk back in.

"Allen take the rest of the day off l. Work out this whole situation with you family."

"Thank you Captain" We walk out of his office and leave to return to our house.

"So we have an extra room but one of you might have to sleep on the couch" Caitlin informed them.

"Nora take the room" Thomas said

"Tommy are you sure? You have been under more stress than I have" Nora said

"No, it's fine sis" We walk over and sit on the couch so we can talk about the person who killed Barry in the future.

"So your Father and I want to know about the guy who kills him in the future and before you say anything you said you want to stop him and the only way we can help you is if we know."

"His name is Cobalt Blue. We don't know who is really is just that he's fast, faster than you dad" We talk about it for hours before we realize the time and all went to bed. We were woken up by the noise of stuff breaking in the living room and Barry ran us there to see Nora and Thomas fighting someone who has blue lightning, darker than Zoom but still blue. Barry runs in and started to fight him as well. They all stop fighting and are just looking at each other.

"Ah the Tornado Twins, heard a lot about you from my future self. You're not needed to preserve the timeline, so I guess it's you unlikely day" Cobalt Blue taunted. Before he could make his move I shot him with an ice shard which knocked his mask off. He looked back up at us.

"Eddie?!"

To be continued...

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