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Kane and the soldiers burst in through the windows as Felicity and William woke up, screaming and startled as the soldiers aimed their weapons. Felicity and William were frightened to see Kane in charge.

"You two are coming with us." Kane said as he pulled out a gun, when a moment later a flying arrow shot it off his hand as Nyssa al Ghul jumped down from the ducts, with a bow in her hand as she fired two more arrows, shooting down more of the soldiers.

Kane pulled out his sword as Nyssa blocked with her bow and knocked him back before engaging him. Felicity and William were looking for a way out but the soldiers had them surrounded before Arsenal and the Huntress jumped through the windows and shot down the soldiers in quick succession. Nyssa knocked Kane on the ground, who, realizing he was outnumbered, pulled out a small ball that exploded and he disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

"You OK?" Roy asked.

Felicity and William nodded frantically. "What… what…"

"We need to get out of here, now." Helena ordered.

Team Flash's secondary lair

"Wait, Gypsy has been missing?" Cisco demanded as Breacher calmed down and explained the situation to him.

"Cynthia has been missing for a few weeks now. I couldn't vibe her and I thought you had something to do with it." Breacher explained.

"I swear, I haven't talked to her in months." Cisco said.

"Wait, you said 'few weeks'?" Barry interrupted.

"Yes." Breacher nodded.

Barry, Cisco and Harry looked at each other before the pieces fell together. "I guess there's a lot we need to fill you in on."

Breacher fumed with rage as they finished their story. "When I get my hands on that smug bald…"

"Hey, hey, calm down, calm down." Barry held him down. "Listen, we're going to get them all back but right now, the public is wary of metahumans. We need to be smart about this, otherwise, we're all outlaws."

Breacher glowered. "You think I care about law—"

"They're afraid of metahumans, weren't you listening?! You try to attack Lex directly, we'll all be hunted down like animals!" Barry snapped and Breacher stopped as Barry's words seemed to have some effect on him as he considered.

"How did Lex get the government's support in the first place?" Oliver questioned before turning to Sara. "Isn't there anything on Waverider that can help us?"

Sara, Oliver, Barry, Cisco and Breacher entered the Waverider as Gideon turned on.

"Ah, Miss Lance, Mr. Allen, Mr. Queen. Welcome." Gideon said.

"Gideon, we need your help. How did Lex Luthor get so much support in his anti-metahuman movement?" Sara asked.

"Oh, let's see." Gideon turned on the screen as it showed a footage of Lex Luthor and his men examining a room that Barry immediately recognized.

"That's DeVoe's hideout. When is it?" Barry inquired.

"June 2018." Gideon said.

"Sometimes after we beat the Thinker." Barry realized.

"They're searching the lair… but why?" Oliver said.

Barry then noticed the soldiers taking vials of some blue liquid as he recognized it. "Oh, no…"

"What? Barry, what is it?" Oliver demanded.

"Those are Weeper's tears." Cisco explained. "Basically, it's a psychoactive drug that compels people to listen to someone's orders."

"Like Vitura." Sara realized.

"Explains how they made Julian talk." Barry nodded.

"This is a footage from April 2018." Gideon explained.

"Lex…" A dark-haired woman said, lying on bed.

"That's Lena Luthor." Oliver said.

"I thought she died three years ago." Barry whispered.

"She did not." Gideon explained. "Her illness grew so serious that Lex was desperate in trying to save her and afraid of public disapproval, he had announced to the world that she was dead and in secret, he tried every scientific method he could think of to cure her. However, this had an… unfortunate outcome. This is from May 2018, a month later."

The footage showed a man around 20 years old next to Lex at Lena's bedside, while she was in a coma.

"Gideon, who is it?" Sara asked.

"William Burnett, another metahuman. His ability helped him heal people but he lacked control of his powers and that sometimes resulted in those he had tried to help, dying, instead of healing them." Gideon said.

"You can save her, can you?" Lex pleaded desperately. "You could even bring squashed bugs back to life—"

"I told you, I don't know how my powers work, if it doesn't work, I might kill her—"

"Please…" Lex begged and Burnett reluctantly touched Lena's hand and at first, she regained her color as Lex seemed hopeful, when suddenly, she went into seizure and Lex panicked. "No, no, no, no, no… Lena, no!"

The heart monitor flatlined and Lex looked broken before Burnett backed off, frightened. "I tried to tell you, I can't control it… I'm sorry—"

Lex sobbed and wept for a while before his face turned into one of relentless rage as he lunged at Burnett, roaring as he grabbed the metahuman by his throat and everyone felt great deal of sympathy for him.

"So, because one metahuman who had the power to help but couldn't control it, couldn't save his sister, Lex blames other metahumans." Oliver realized.

"Poor man…" Sara said.

"Do you think that the Waverider can find where's Caitlin and the rest?" Barry turned to Sara, an idea forming in his mind before an alert bleeped.

"I'm afraid there's another problem." Gideon said.

Elsewhere

"When the world finds out, what kind of metahumans really are, the world will be restored back to its natural order. They are nothing but freak accidents." Lex said as the man in front of him nodded, while they injected him with Weeper's drug.

The man teleported himself into the Mayor's office, wearing a suicide vest.

"Let this be a message to anyone, who hunts us metahumans down, like animals and wants to kill us. We are content with who we are. And we are the next stage of human evolution. You will not take away from us what makes us special and we will rather die fighting, than live in fear from you forever." He pressed the trigger as the office exploded and Cecile gasped before the Flash sped her and other civilians to safety, away from the blast.

Later, Team Flash's secondary lair

"Cecile, are you alright?" Joe asked as Barry and Felicity treated Cecile.

"I'm alright, Joe. A little in shock but alright." Cecile assured.

"Jenna's with Rene. He's taking care of her." Oliver assured Joe and Cecile.

"Thanks, Oliver." Joe said.

"Who else wants to bet that this has Lex all over him?" Sara deadpanned.

"No bet." Barry said. "The fragments of the bomb were LexCorp issued and Waverider showed me. Lex manipulated some teleporter into attempting to assassinating the mayor."

"And things have gotten from worse to much worse." Ralph said as he picked a remote and turned up the volume on TV.

"This attempt at the mayor's life due to the rising panic over the metahumans is a clear declaration of war." Lex said.

"We cannot confirm for sure that the bomber was speaking on behalf of all metahumans—" The anchor protested.

"I offer them olive branch and they spit our faces. This is why we cannot trust metahumans. Nor the vigilantes, since the Green Arrow kidnapped my assistant—"

"I think that some of them still deserve a benefit of the doubt—"

Diggle hung up his phone as he sighed in frustration. "That was Lyla. White House has just ordered CIA, NSA, A.R.G.U.S and other agencies to hunt down all dangerous metahumans and if the Flash attempts to interfere, they're ordered to shoot on sight."

"It's bad. Luthor set up a suicide bomber to frame the metahumans for the assassination attempt so that he'd prompt the government to hunt them all down." Sara realized.

A few moments later, Felicity, William, Roy, Thea, Helena and Nyssa entered as Felicity and William hugged Oliver tightly.

"Oh, my God… you're OK." Oliver sighed in relief.

"If it hadn't been for them, we'd be dead right now or worse." Felicity turned to Nyssa and Helena as Oliver turned to them gratefully.

"Thank you. Really." Oliver said.

"When you said that it was going to get ugly and that you needed help, you weren't kidding. Getting innocent kids dragged into a war is just wrong." Helena said.

"Hey, has anyone seen Cisco or Breacher?" Barry asked.

Elsewhere

"You sure you saw her here?" Cisco asked as he and Breacher went out from the breach and were in some kind of a warehouse. "I don't like it, this is too easy—"

"Trap or not, I'm going to rip apart every last person, who was responsible for taking away my little girl." Breacher sneered.

They saw Gypsy in some kind of a cell she couldn't breach out of. "Daddy! It's a trap!"

Suddenly, soldiers surrounded Breacher and Cisco and they tried to use their powers but nothing happened.

"Oh, no…" Cisco paled and realized this was a lost fight.

Breacher pulled out his knives and attacked the soldiers, stabbing one of them in the heart and cutting the head off another before repeatedly stabbing another and then slicing through more as one of them fired a tranquilizer dart at Cisco and they kept on firing more and more darts at Breacher, who kept on fighting and it took quite a dose of the tranquilizer to take him down.

"Targets acquired." One of the soldiers said.

"Good, now we have three vibing metahumans. And now, with the public on our side, we can prepare the next stage of our plan."

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