Rating: Still T.
Disclaimer: I don't own The Flash. Or Sky High. Sucks.
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Barry had a dream that made it awkward to look at Caitlin in the eyes (asdfghjkl;). Good thing she is running late to STAR Labs.
Warren and Layla attended their Alumni Homecoming but Royal Pain gate crashed (boo), opening a blue wormhole (breach) in the middle of Sky High gymnasium.
The wormhole took Principal Powers and Layla to who-knows-where (we do!).
And Caitlin, having a bad morning, bumped into someone she thought that was having her walk of shame but then it turned out to be (another) doppelganger (how many times a normal person get to experience that?).
Earth-1
"What is up on this day?" Barry almost jumped hearing Cisco exclaimed the words.
"I'm sorry, what?" he asked his friend who is looking quite annoyed.
"I know you're always late, but you're later than your usual late,"
"Okay, what is up with you?" Cisco being grumpy is weird, but it is usually with cause.
"Barry, we need Big Belly Burger, stat!" Barry almost rolled his eyes figuring out that Cisco is probably just hangry.
Not ten seconds later, the two of them are enjoying BBBs.
"Is someone from your family visiting you this week?" Barry asked after few moments of eating in silence.
"What?" Cisco asked, confused with his question.
Barry shrugged his shoulders, "I don't know, I just figured there must be a reason why you didn't got the chance to eat breakfast at home,"
"Dude, I don't get breakfast at home by default," Cisco answered as he stuffed some fries to his mouth.
"You don't?"
"Yeah," Cisco affirmed, "Caitlin usually brings me something to eat," he says, "But usually healthy food, though. Something about being healthy and breakfast being the most important meal of the day,"
"Wait, where is Caitlin?"
"I don't know, dude," Cisco said.
"Come to think of it, she did not send her usual remark to my daily pan1." Barry muttered.
"I am actually kinda worried," he paused, "I mean, I already ringed her phone and her apartment,"
"What the flock?!" Layla said, "Lady, you're crazy," she said, "Or maybe I'm crazy," she muttered as an afterthought. "I knew those Sweet Alyssum and Butterfly Bush ought to do something to my head," she mumbled to herself.
"Okay, listen," Caitlin said patiently, "First, calm down," she said slowly, "What's your name?"
"Layla Williams," she answered looking like she's in a daze.
"Layla?" Caitlin repeated sounding doubtful. Layla looked at her asking her what impatiently. "My name is Caitlin Snow," she said waiting for any reaction from the red head. This could be a trap.. but nothing. This Layla person just looks confused. She decided that she would trust her, it won't be the worst decision on her part since she did trust an established evil doppelganger before. "Tell me, Layla, how's your science?"
"What?"
"I mean, are you familiar with Physical Cosmology?"
"My best science is biology," Layla said omitting the fact that she's actually a botanist, Caitlin smiled a little, "Other sciences are a blur, but are you going in for the multiverse theory right now?"
Caitlin tried to hide her grin, she loved the fact that two of the doppelganger she met aresomewhat drawn to science. Though she does wonder why this doppelganger had a different name, she decided not to think about it after all, Killer Frost did have a brother. "That's exactly what I'm saying,"
"Where am I?" she asked.
"You're in Central City,"
"In where now?"
"Central City.. where are you from?" Caitlin asked, guessing that from where the girl is from, there is no such place as Central City.
"I'm from Maxville." she answered.
A car's engine blurred which made Caitlin more aware of how the sun is high in the sky. She looked at her wrist watch which reads 9:47.
She looked again at Layla and she decided that it will never be not freaky to experience looking at someone and seeing yourself. A bit different, but basically the same. "We need to get out of here," she said grabbing Layla's hand.
There is only one place Caitlin knows she can take her doppelganger.
As they were about to turn to the corner, Caitlin stopped.
That's right, I don't have my car right now, great, she thought sarcastically. Without thinking about it much, she fished out her phone and was about to call Cisco (she'd call Barry but she's hate to add bad hair to her already bad day) when she realized she had a dozen messages and few more missed calls from Cisco himself and Barry, too.
Earth-5
"You have fifteen seconds to tell us where that thing took Layla—" Warren said as soon as Royal Pain opened her eyes.
"—and Principal Powers," Will cut/added trying hard to keep Warren's cool—if that was even possible—literally and figuratively.
Royal Pain smiled seeing how riled up the Pyrokinetic lad. She saw him even more annoyed seeing her smile, "Relax, no need to be murdery, I'll easily tell you." she says. "She's in another world."
"What the f—"
"Whoa, hold your horses, hothead," Will pulled Warren off Royal Pain and hurriedly said, "You better explain what you mean by that because I will and can only hold him off for so long."
Earth-38
"Who sent her to this Earth?"
Principal Powers barely had time to register what is in front of her when she heard an awfully familiar voice saying that. And when her vision cleared, she saw a vaguely familiar emblem of 'S' in a young woman's chest.
"She's waking up," another person said. "Ma'am, are you okay?"
Her vision finally cleared and she almost burst into a comet seeing a very familiar face—hers.
Prime Earth
"So you're telling me you found another doppelganger and you decided to trust her. You remember what happened the last time you tried that, right?" Cisco whispered to her.
Caitlin's eyes looked at Layla in the monitor looking amazed with some of her plants in her lab.
"Layla's different from Killer Frost," she said almost automatically. "She's warm,"
Cisco rolled his eyes and said, "Barry, what do you think?"
Caitlin's eyes turned to Barry who stayed quiet.
"I think," he started, "We can trust this Layla person," he said, "But, it'll never hurt to be a little more careful."
...
"Do you know how to get me home?" Layla asked when the three of them entered Caitlin's lab where they let her stay as they 'talk'.
The three shared a look and it was Cisco who said something, "Actually, we can, but what makes that difficult is to determine where actually home is.."
"Great!" she said sarcastically.
1 That's a pun for daily bread. This is so embarrassing explaining the joke, but the daily pan is like a daily bread but full of puns. I am sorry I actually typed in those words.