"Alright, I'm ready!" Exclaimed Cisco, walking in the medical bay with his Vibe's goggles and a pair of headsets in his hand with Caitlin closely following him.

They last received the incomplete communication from Barry over half an hour ago and since that moment, the whole West family and H.R. had been doing the only thing that they could do: wait. Wait and uncontrollably throw frequent glances at the laptop on the desk, not too far from the medical bed as the device was still displaying the unfinished conversation. Iris had been expressing concerns about leaving it open and disconnected from any power source, but Cisco didn't want to risk it. He was afraid about the possibility of Barry jumping of the laptop, accidentally or not, into something else. Plus, he was confident about finding a way to fix this whole situation before the laptop would be out of power, in 3 hours, give or take. And, indeed, Cisco delivered.

"What's the plan?" Wally asked the engineer who was putting everything down on the desk, getting all his gear set up.

"It's pretty simple," replied Cisco with strong confidence, "I've been thinking about this; Barry's body and mind got disconnected from each other because my connection with Barry got cut off while we were vibing together. So, if I can vibe again and find him, I can guide him home the same way I lost him. We just need to repeat the circumstance under which everything unfolded."

"That easy?" Commented Joe, slightly skeptical. As much as he trusted Cisco, the young man seemed a bit too overconfident with his plan.

"It's a gamble, to be honest," Caitlin honestly admitted.

"Hum, no it's not, it's going to work," protested Cisco, "your doubts are hurting my feelings."

"What if it doesn't work? Can we try again after or it's only a one-shot deal for young B.A.?" Asked H.R., hitting his drumsticks together a few times before pointing one of them at the comatose body.

Caitlin shrugged, answering for her friend, "I don't see why not. As long as the computer is fine and charged, Barry should be good."

"Alright, let's try this," Joe reluctantly agreed, they might as well try something.

The clock was ticking, and his daughter was right when she said the young S.T.A.R. scientists were as smart as they come. If they thought it was going to work, there was no reason to not to trust them.

Cautiously excited, needing to fix his mistakes but understanding the odds, Cisco nodded solemnly, "I'll bring him back, I promise. Let's connect us to the laptop and, no matter what happens next, DO NOT intervene or disconnect me or Barry before I say so."

Good advice, especially considering how doing this last time was the reason they ended up in this mess. Iris sure wasn't tempted to repeat the experience. Quickly, the team installed a tablet over the bed before depositing the laptop on it and connecting both headsets to the device.

"Are we really certain this thing won't hurt him again?" Nervously asked Iris as the doctor was delicately placing the device on her patient's head.

"What hurt him was being disconnected while still vibing with me," reminded Cisco, adjusting his own headset before putting his goggles on.

"Good luck, Cisco," Iris wished him.

"Just bring my son back, all right?" Joe nodded at the engineer.

"I will," he assured, activating his goggle, efficiently allowing his power to overtake his mind and to transport him right into another dimension. A dimension he still hadn't visited during all of his adventures.

When the world finally stopped whirling in front of his eyes and his consciousness was done carrying him away from the normal realm, the young superhero found himself in the darkest of places. Everything was just so dark. The incredibly dim light, emanating from an unknown origin, was barely enough for the engineer to see his own hands and feet. Scanning around, he couldn't discern anything, there wasn't any furniture, nor figure or anything else that with any kind of shape. If he had one word to describe this place, it would be emptiness. Or Darkness.

"Hello?" He called out, hoping for any kind of answer from his best friend, except the only answer he got back was just the echo.

Hello… hello… hello…

Hello

Ok…the echo was definitely making this place even weirder, almost creepy. At this very instant, there was nothing more that Cisco wanted in life than making contact and leaving as fast as possible. He tried calling out again, wandering a couple of steps to his right and then a bit forward in this seemingly endless void.

"Anyone in there?" He tried again, forcing his mind into not thinking about the possibility of getting trapped himself in the computer.

Just as he was about to let his brain take him on a whirlwind of crazy and horrific scenarios of what danger could be lurking in the shadow, thanks to his fertile imagination and to his habit of watching scary movies, a shadow appeared not that far away. No, not a shadow, a figure and an approaching one at that.

"Hello?" Called out the figure.

That voice. Cisco would've recognized it anywhere and he instantly sighed in relief. Striding forward, he managed to get closer and closer, 'til he was finally able to see the face and confirm the identity of his interlocutor.

"Barry!" He exclaimed with the widest smile on his face, going ear to ear, "I've never been happier to see you."

The speedster looked confused and a little bit out of it, but he was there, he was alive. Well, sort of alive. They really were right, Barry wasn't brain dead, not exactly. The man was wearing the same clothes and beige jacket he had worn during that Vibing to the future fiasco.

"Cisco? Where are we?" Asked Barry in a detached tone, looking around, "what's happening to me?"

Finally, only inches away from his best friend, his not-so-dead-after-all best friend, his very-much-alive best friend, Cisco strongly gripped Barry's shoulders. For some reason, Cisco just felt the need to touch him and feel he was really there, which was a weird wish considering their physical bodies were still in the lab.

"It's going to be difficult to believe, but you're in Iris' computer," he said, letting go of his friend, "you've been separated from your body when we were trying to vibe the future."

Just another Tuesday for them.

"I've been trying to communicate with you, it's been difficult. I've been trying…" Stuttered Barry, looking at something that wasn't there over Cisco's shoulder before looking back at his friend. It wasn't exactly clear if the man actually heard a single word of what Cisco just said. All right, so he definitely confused, but who wouldn't be in his situation?

Well, to be fair, there was no known precedent for being an actual ghost in the machine, so no way to tell if Barry's confusion was normal or not. With a serious expression on his face, Cisco grabbed back his friend's shoulder and forced the speedster to look him straight in the eyes:

"I'll explain everything later, but right now, you have to come with me."

"How are you even here?" Asked Barry, recovering a bit of lucidity in his eyes.

"I'm actually… vibing inside the computer," proudly smiled Cisco under Barry's slowly blinking eyes.

"…what?"

Yep, definitely another regular Tuesday for the team.

"Do you trust me?" Asked Cisco, slowly reaching forward with his right hand, "I can help guide you back where you belong."

***FLASHFLASHFLASH***

The tension was high, and the silence was deep for each and every person sitting or standing in the medical bay as they were all anxiously watching the comatose man and the engineer sitting next to the bed in a complete trance. There's nothing they wouldn't have given to be able to know and see, what was going on in there. Was Cisco able to make contact? Was Barry really still alive?

During the whole process, Iris had been fighting off the urge to grab her boyfriend's hand to comfort him. She just wanted to make him known she was there, but she didn't want to risk interfering again considering how everything turned out last time.

"We're all here, you can come back now," she whispered, softly. Her tone of voice was barely audible, but, in the deafening silence, it still got heard by everyone.

Cisco inhaling sharply draw all their attention toward the first of the two men who decided to join them back into reality. Taking his goggle off, the hero had no chance to take a breather because, realizing Barry wasn't waking up too, Iris, Joe, Wally, and H.R. all jumped on him with questions.

"Cisco, what happened?"

"Was B.A. there?"

"Is Barry ok?"

"What did you see?"

Except, they weren't the only one noticing how Barry still wasn't moving a single muscle, staying completely dependent on the machines to keep him alive. Not taking a single second to answer all the questions, Cisco focused all of his attention on his friend.

"Barry!" Exclaimed the engineer, struggling to get out of the chair and clumsily mixing his short legs with the furniture and the people around him. Cisco almost went down, only avoiding it thanks to the three pair of hands rushing to help him.

"Easy, Cisco," Wally steadied him, "what happened?"

"Barry-" He simply repeated as it was supposed to explain anything. Every single bit of his attention was completely directed toward his friend as he pushed the hands away and moved closer to his friend, with his headset still on, "come on, wake up now."

He turned toward the anxiously waiting group, "he was right next to me, he's supposed to wake up now."

A/N: Almost done guys, leave a comment

See you Friday for more Europe's adventures for Barry :)