THE DAY OF THE PARTY:
Outside the ready-to-open F.E.A.S.T. Center that Frankie has gotten ready for opening, two people were dragging in a giant metal package. May Parker was dragging in a package with help of Cisco Ramon. He was complaining the entire way.
"I don't get why you didn't ask someone like Barry to help. Or even Peter. Don't you have two grandkids now?" Cisco asked as he pushed the package.
"Grand-nieces and nephew." May corrected him as she finally found a cart that they could drag the package with and make it ten times easier on the two of them. "Besides, this is a surprise for them."
"I need to start charging for my services," Cisco complained as this is the second time, he was helping the Parker family with its gifts.
"Quit winning, Cisco. Think of this as your exercise for the day." May told him.
"I have a teenage boy I need to keep up and stop from opening portals to other dimensions; I get plenty of exercise for the day," Cisco replied in annoyance.
"You know, I should have brought Patty. She doesn't complain as much." May commented as she placed the container inside of Frankie's office. "And she has better hair."
"Why do you people keep bringing my hair into this? My hair is timeless." Cisco stated as he looked at his hair.
"Cisco, I'm from before you were born, and I can tell you this with pure confidence...the '80s aren't coming back," May warned him as she plugged in the package.
Cisco was confused by that and started to run some numbers in his head. "How old are you?"
"I was 35 when the accelerator blew. Raised Peter for ten years." May said as she finished the work. "You're the genius, you finish the math." She then gave him a smug smile while tilting her head and walking out. "Come on, we have a party to get to."
"How is it ten years later she still scares me?" Cisco asks, feeling afraid of this woman.
She is kind, sweet, and caring. But if you threaten someone in her family, she'll pull out a gun and shoot you no questions asked. If you have doubts, ask Marlize DeVoe.
PRESENT DAY:
Once everything with McCulloch was taken care of, the team saw it was okay for Maggie to finally go back home to her father, seeing as he was worried for her. With the loss of STAR Labs, Violet had to move to live with Ralph at his current place with Daniel, and Tula started to live with the Allen family.
Tina was back in P.A.R.K.E.R. Industries and working on something in her labs.
As she was focusing on her work, Tina looked over and saw a photo of her and May from her college graduation. She remembered how proud of them she was. How happy to have been around for them to get those.
Telling them they only scratched the surface of what they could accomplish when they got that Nobel Prize. That their life had only just begun.
Thinking about her, only made things worse as she started to tear up and destroyed her device by tossing it across the room. Once it hit the wall, it almost hit Ollie as he came in and shielded himself.
"I was gonna come in and see how you were doing, but...I guess I should have known not so well." Ollie tried to joke, knowing she needed someone. "But I'm gonna ask. Want to talk?"
"Just..." Tina tried to think of what to say. "Tell me it didn't happen." Ollie walked over to her and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Tell me she's still here. Why did it happen? I messed up everything."
"Hey, hey." Ollie stopped her from blaming herself and turned Tina to face him. "No. Don't blame yourself. You did everything you could, kept all of us alive, and protected everyone. You did the job and got it done."
"Then why couldn't I protect her?" Tina wonders. "Why couldn't I keep her safe?"
"I don't know," Ollie admitted as he kept her close. "What I do know...nobody could have gotten the job done except for you. You were the one who got us working together."
"Technically, it was my clone." Tina reminded him.
Ollie nodded and held her close. "Still you, just with different hair."
Tina chuckled at that and lets him go. "Thanks. I needed that."
The two of them stood there, her arms wrapped around his neck, his hands on her waits to hold them close. They just stayed there and started to lean in close to one another, the two of them didn't know they had these feelings for one another but they were okay with it.
Their lips locked, the two pulling one another closer and keeping them there. As they did, someone walked in. Marley Jane Watson, the secretary of the building, walked in and saw the two. Not wanting to interrupt them, she backed away and left the kids to be.
When Tina finally lets Ollie go, she looked determined at what she was about to say. "When I find that Black Cat...when I find out who she is...I'll kill her for what she did..."
GOTHAM CITY:
Terry was walking through his home and came across his father. "Hey, dad."
"Terry, I'm busy." His father warned him as he was working on something important.
"Dad, I gotta go out," Terry tells his old man.
"You forget you're grounded?" His father asked.
"I didn't start the fight!" Terry defended his actions.
"I'll hear about it when we meet with your consular." His father promised. "Now get out."
"Mom would hear me out," Terry stated.
"You're not living with your mom." His father reminds him.
"Don't remind me!" Terry stated and slammed his hand against the wall.
"That's your problem, you can't control your temper. You better learn to get better control over that or you won't get anywhere in life.:
"Yeah, I'll be a big success, like you." Terry scoffed and marched off.
CENTRAL CITY:
After a few days and getting everything sorted with the adoption agency, giving the kids time to pack everything, and allowing the moving company to move all of their stuff into their new home. Stepping off the elevator and then looked around the small hallway that led into the main living room.
"What?!" Tommy asked as he looked at how big the living room was. "This room is bigger than our entire home."
"This is our home if you recall." April reminded her brother as they walked around the room and started to get the lay of the land.
Tommy sighed and knew he was going to deal with having a second Tina. "I'm becoming outnumbered."
"You know how I've felt over the years." Tina mocked as she strolled past her brother.
Tommy didn't even think of that and was left silent. "Huh."
Caitlin and Frost watched them take a look over their new home, them already having their stuff in the halls leading to the separate bedrooms. They didn't want to decide for them and allowed the three of them to decide where they would be staying.
That's when the elevator dinged, and they looked to see that Peter has finally arrived with Ashley. Frost and Caitlin walked over to greet them first before they introduced her to the kids. They never really discussed this decision with the others, not knowing how they'll feel about sharing a roof with the Black Cat.
Peter thought it would be best for them to meet Ashley first and explain who she was before revealing her alternate persona. Just saying that she is his daughter should be a good starting point for now. At the end of the day, however, he will inform them of who she is. He doesn't want to keep the secret forever or longer than he needed to.
"Hey." Caitlin greeted Peter first, looking to see his face to get a reading of where their relationship stands with Ashley right now. Seeing the small smile, she sees it's a dangling relationship. A split between good and bad, meaning they should avoid some subjects to tick her off. Looking over to Ashley, she offered a smile. "Hi, you already know me, and I already know who you are, but...I'm Caitlin."
"Ashley Moon." Ashley greeted and shook her hand.
The four of them just stood there and fell into an awkward silence. "Dear, god, someone says something. The silence is killing me." Frost pleaded with the others.
Peter laughed, pushing Ashley a little. "Come on, Frost will show you where you'll be staying."
"Okay." Ashley supposed and followed Frost through the household.
Caitlin walked over to Peter and held him close. "She seems nice."
"She has her mother's sweet side, and also her dark side." Peter sighed, knowing that was something he would need to work on for her later on.
"Should we be worried about her powers?" Caitlin wonders.
"No, we talked. She offered to wear power-dampening bracelets, necklaces, like what we gave to the twins for years." Peter explained and gestured over to Ashley as she walked around the place. "Her idea."
"Well, that makes me feel a little better. I'll just avoid ladders and black cats." Caitlin joked and went to unpack her things. "Make sure those kids don't rip her a new one."
"Yeah, way ahead of you," Peter assured her as he and Ashley walked down the halls.
As they keep going down the halls, Ashley was amazed at the view of the city.
"Beautiful, right?" Peter asked as he walked over to her side. "Over a million people in this city. And once upon a time, it was just me to protect it."
"How do you deal with it?" Ashley wonders. "All of these people relying on you to save them. To make sure that they make it home okay."
"I keep reminding myself I can't do it alone," Peter said as he leaned on the window. "I can't possibly protect them all. But that's why I depend on my family and friends to help."
"Hey! No!" They heard Tina call out from down the hall. "I call that room!"
"Oh, come on!" Tommy cried out in defense. "There's no difference."
"I'm a lefty, so why don't I get the one with bathroom on the left side?" Tina asked him.
Peter rolled his eyes and went over to find the kids talking about the rooms while April was just watching.
"Bad timing," April warned Peter.
"I've got it," Peter assured them and let out a whistle. "Hey! We've got a guest."
The three kids stopped and looked over to see Ashley standing there, waiting to see their reaction. The hate in their eyes. The anger in their voice.
But to her surprise, all she got was Tommy raising his hand and waving at her. "Hey."
Ashley smiled at her half-brother and waved back. "Hey."
"Ashley is going to be staying with us for a while, I was hoping you wouldn't mind if you guys helped her get settled in?" Peter explained all he could, leaving out enough information. "We can talk after everyone's settled in."
"Sure. Come with us." Tina said to Ashley, knowing that her father was hiding a few details with his vague explanation. But if he promised answers later, then he was going to give it to them. Peter never lies to his kids...Anymore.
And when he does, Tina tends to...discover why he's hiding by any means necessary.
Carrie was still wandering the streets, trying to pinpoint anywhere in the city that Aster could be hiding. BD-1 did have some sort of built-in detector in his body to detect things like cold locations. But after STAR Labs went down in flames, there was nothing they could do to fix it.
"Come on, anything?" Carrie asked BD.
BD chirped and nodded negatively, knowing she can't understand him.
"He has to be somewhere close by. There were no ice slides, so he's running around on foot." Carrie commented, wondering where he could have gone to.
The storm clouds started to pick up, so Carrie raised her hood, that way it won't get her or BD. She sighed and started to look around and see they were in the darker corners of Central City. These weren't the type of places that she should be at alone.
Yet she seemed to have mistakenly taken too deep a turn. When she turned around, she saw several guys coming up from both sides of the alley.
"Oh, boy," Carrie said in fear, wondering what to do now. She then looked over to BD and sighed. "You happen to have any gadgets on you?"
Before the droid had the chance to answer, a figure wearing a hood came up behind one of them. The figure raised its hood to show glowing blue eyes and froze his hand to create a giant fist.
The fist then went swinging and punched the guy at the back of the head. That caused the rest of them to react and the guy next to the one the figure knocked out to turn and face him. That's when he was shoved into the wall and his head slammed into the dumpster.
"Hey, guys. Looking for a fun time?" The figure asked and removed his hood to reveal half his head was white on the left, and the rest on the right was his normal brown. "Because I'm known to be a fun guy." He then started to reveal mist coming off of his hands. "Duck." He whispered to Carrie, and she did as he said just for him.
As she ducked, the mist was sent flying over her head and knocked the two of them down as if it were nothing. Carrie looked back and was shocked when she looked and saw Aster and Sub-Zero at the same time.
"Long way from home, ain't ya?" Aster asked as his hair started to go back to normal and smiled at her.
"Looking for someone," Carrie said playfully. "Someone I'm worried about. Whose family is worried sick for him."
Aster nodded, knowing exactly what she was talking about. "Yeah, I know." He then looked upset and down at his feet. "I was there. At May's funeral."
"Looking a lot better than you did the last time I saw you." Carrie complimented. "Now you're not trying to murder any of us."
"How's Tommy and Mom?" Aster wondered, worried for the two.
"Doing fine. Healed up. They just moved; your dad seems to have taken some Ashley girl in." Carrie reported him in on his family's current life.
"Ashley?" Aster was shocked to hear, knowing exactly who she is. "They took her in?"
"Yeah," Carrie confirmed, confused at his response. "So... what have you been doing?"
"Trying to figure things out." Aster sighed. "Trying to figure me out. Us."
"What are you?" Carrie wonders.
"I'm not sure yet," Aster admitted, looking down at his hands and one of them was covered in frost and pale while his other was normal. "I'm working on what we are."
"Then...why save me?" Carrie wonders.
Aster chuckled at that. "You're not gonna believe me, but he actually likes you."
His eyes then turned bright blue, indicating she was talking to Sub-Zero now. "What can I say? I like your attitude and willingness to dump bullies to help innocent kids."
Carrie thought that might be an insult and compliment wrapped into one, and she was okay with that. "Thanks. I guess."
Aster then took control again and agreed with him. "Yeah. We like you."
"You ever going to go home?" Carrie wonders.
"I don't know," Aster admitted when he noticed BD-1. "BD?"
BD-1 jumped off of Carrie and ran over to Aster and climbed up his leg and up to his arm then to his shoulder.
"He was worried about you. They all are." Carrie informed him.
"I'll go home. When I know who I am." Aster promised.
Carrie nodded and saw a police car coming with the sirens distracting her. As she turned to face them, she turned back and saw that Aster was gone.
"Ma'am, you okay?" The male officer asked as one of the two approached her.
"What happened here?" The woman officer asked.
Carrie looked around and recognized the criminals were frosted over and got an idea. "I was just rescued."
"By who? Killer Frost?" The man officer asked.
Carrie smiled and looked over to where he was once standing. "Not exactly..."
Frankie had officially opened FEAST, getting everything together, and already had most of the homeless people inside. She smiled at the work that she accomplished but wished that May was here. She was the one who helped encourage this moment and everything that happened.
Miles was also with her, a volunteer who came in and was willing to come by and help her out as much as he could. She was happy she was going to give him a second chance.
She walked into her office and sighed. This is something she needs to do. Protecting people inside and outside of the suit. Metalla isn't the only legacy she wants. She didn't want to only be known as the daughter of the Snow-Parker people.
As she looked at the pictures of all the times that they have shared over the years, she accidentally smacked over a name tag. The tag fell, smacking her on the foot, causing her to cry in pain.
"Gah! Ow!" Frankie called out in pain.
That's when there was a beep in her office, getting her to look towards the end of her office, where there was a case that activated. Once it did activate, the casing revealed a familiar face and Frankie was shocked when she saw Baymax from the movie Big Hero 6 coming out of it.
As soon as he made it out, he waddled his way over to Frankie and blinked. "Hello. I am Baymax, your personal healthcare provider."
Frankie couldn't help but smile and knew who was responsible for this. "Yeah, I know who you are. But am I going to have to guess who made you?"
"I was created by Cisco Ramon, asked by Maybelle Parker," Baymax confirmed.
Frankie smiled and rolled her eyes, knowing this was the last present from May, and this was something to use for the FEAST center.
"And you were alerted when I said ow." Frankie skipped ahead.
"Correct," Baymax confirmed.
Frankie rolled her eyes again and noticed there was nothing but a bot. Well, sorry to say you don't come with an Ironman suit. But, hey, I can learn to love with this. Hell, I already do."
Killer Frost, Louise Lincoln was in a secret hideaway that she escaped to after being broken out by Misty. While she was looking around the abandoned warehouse full of snow globes (the irony isn't lost on her), there was a blast of wind came in and revealed Godspeed.
"I've finally gotten my vengeance on Black Hole," August told her as he walked over and removed his mask.
"Did it feel good?" Louise asked as she strolled over to him.
"Yes," August stated. "But now I have a promise to keep."
"Oh, yes. I think you do." Louise started as the two embraced and kissed. The two stayed like that, neither of them bothered by each other's powers. "I'm thinking of a small wedding."
"How many guests?" August asks.
"I want to start with Crystal Frost. That bitch has taken everything from me." Louise started off. "I hear she's attached to Caitlin Snow-Parker."
"Well, if we're going to bring in Caitlin, then we might as well bring in the whole family..." August stated. "And I want the Flash and his daughter."
"Last but not least, I want that man the media is calling the Prince of Ice," Louise stated as she caressed his head. "I want Sub-Zero."
"Then it's a good thing I know where to find him," August said and showed the newspaper he grabbed while he was out.
Daily Bugle:
Villainous Sub-Zero turned to hero?
Witness Carrie Carmichael explains everything
"What do you say we pay this Carrie girl a visit?" Louise asked her fiancé.