CENTRAL CITY:
The time of reckoning is upon them.
Ashley knew there was nothing she could say that could stop Tina and that she was on her own now. She wasn't fooling around as the two stood in a stance, waiting for the other to make their move.
Tina runs at her, shooting webs at Ashley as she goes for a block with one hand and a dodge as she went under her swing to avoid getting hit. Tina froze Ashley's foot to the ground keeping her from moving as she then sends another punch that knocks her down. Tina leaps into the air for a ground pound, shooting a web to pull herself harder as Ashley punched the ice, using her strength, then rolls out of the way with the punch barely missing her and making a dent in the roof.
Ashley extended out her claws and saw she needed to defend herself the best that she could right now. "Don't make me do this."
"You should have thought about that before you murdered her!" Tina cried in pain, not letting Ashley get away.
Tina dodges every swing that Ashley threw her way as she lands a body blow on Ashley's hip which gets met with Ashley punching Tina in the face. Tina kept dodging as she webs one of Ashley's hands to her leg as she dodges into another body blow when she gets cut by her claws.
Tina groans in annoyance and lands a punch on Ashley right in the face. Ashley lets out a battle scream as she goes for more strikes with her claws, Tina then webs her face into her knee and used her webs to flip over Ashley and flip Ashley over her.
Tina ripped off her blindfold and didn't care anymore as she went back over to Ashley.
Tina picks Ashley up as she finally lets out the rage within her and starts raining down heavy left and rights over and over again. Even as Ashley falls, Tina brings her back up to land more blows. Each hitting harder than the last.
Ashley started to bleed from her lips and watched as Tina's eyes started to glow white, as they usually would when she used her ice powers. But then she watched as every hit, the area started to get colder, and snow started to form on her fist like a glove and punched Ashley again.
Ashley became too weak to fend for herself and was now at the mercy of the daughter of Spider-Man and Crystal Frost.
Just as she felt this was the end of it all, several strands of webbing came in and latched onto Tina's back. "HEY!" Someone shouted as Tina was then pulled away and sent skidding across the building than to reveal it was Peter as he came leaping in-between his two daughters. "THAT'S ENOUGH!"
"Get the hell out of my way, dad!" Tina demanded as she started to march over towards Ashley for Peter to stop her.
"Tina. Cool it, right now." Peter demanded her and Tina started to calm down. "You're letting the Frost take over."
"The... what?" Ashley asked, never heard of this before.
Tina looked between Ashley and her father, realizing what she was doing as the entire roof was already covered in a layer of snow. She then stopped and started to use the breathing exercises her father had taught her and her brother. Her hair turned back from white, and her eyes return to their natural color, followed by the snow starting to melt away.
"Why did you stop me?" Tina asked.
"You were about to kill her," Peter stated as he walked over and looked over at the injuries. "Are you okay?"
"I'm pissed, but I'll live, dad," Ashley promised as she was helped up by Peter.
"DAD?!" Tina cried in shock, causing Ashley to freeze and look over at Tina. "What the fu-"
NATIONAL CITY:
Peter and Kara were currently setting up the second set of just about everything. Trying to put a crib together was bad enough for Peter the first time, but putting together a new one after years is painful.
"You know we can hire someone to do this, right?" Kara asked as Peter struggled.
"Let me keep my dignity," Peter said as he finally gave up and just web shot the whole thing and scorched it together. "When the time comes, we scorch it."
Kara chuckled at her husband and felt a kick, causing her to gasp.
"I felt a kick!" Kara said with glee.
"Kicking already?" Peter asked as he felt around himself for a feeling. "Well, seems Lena was on point. Kicking means that you're at six months, going on seven." He then looked down at the belly. "Don't feel discriminated, kids. The faster you get here, the better."
Kara smiled as Peter kissed the belly. "You know, we've only got two days now to think of names."
"Yes, we do," Peter remembered. "Honestly, this whole thing has been a mess, I haven't even considered it."
"Well, I was thinking...for the girl...what about Astra?" Kara asked him, feeling the swollen stomach.
"Named after your genocidal aunt who tried to kill us?" Peter clarified with her, needing it clarified.
"Well, I know that you knew her that way, but when I knew her, she was sweet and amazing," Kara explains to him. "And I feel it'd be nice to have a memory of her." She then have Peter a puppy dog face she would use when she eats all the food. "Please?"
Peter sighed and knew he was a sucker for this. "Okay."
"Thank you!" Kara said as she went in and pecked peters cheek. "And if we're going with that theme, how about we name our son after a member of your family?"
"Like what? Benjamin?" Peter asked as he chuckled and pecked her head. "No, that would be ridiculous." He then took a few moments to think. "How about Jeremiah?"
"Well, I don't want to hog your son's name from you," Kara said as Peter went to start baby-proofing the room.
Peter smiled and realized she was trying to be fair to the two of them. "Okay, well...how about Richie?"
"Richie?" Kara asked.
"Richard," Peter explained his answer. "My father."
"Oh, that's so sweet!" Kara was happy with the idea when realizing she was getting emotional. "God, I hate these hormones."
GOTHAM CITY:
Terry was gliding over Gotham City with the suit that he...borrowed from Kate. He glided using the cape and landed right outside of Powers Technologies.
When he landed, he almost tripped and fell off the ledge when he caught himself. Looking at the building right across from him, he glided across and landed right outside Powers' window.
"It's the ultimate in germ warfare," Powers said, causing Terry to look and see the gloves have small listening devices that goes through walls. "A viral mutagen so quick-acting and completely invasive no living cell can resist it. It all began with experiments on plants."
Terry then got some X-Ray vision to see a plant being shown the plant and destroying and corroding.
"Impressive. But we're looking to do more, then wipe out our enemy's crops."
Powers then showed what happened to a cow when exposed to the gas, shocking everyone and disgusting Terry.
"I trust the film destroys every lingering doubt, Mr. Egans," Powers said. "As you can see, the results are the same even with humans. We did have a little accident against Mr. McGinnis. My men are procuring your shipment as we're speaking."
Terry grew angry at hearing that statement when a voice filled his head. "Well, this just became more serious."
"Ms. Kane?" Terry asked.
"What, didn't think I had a way of listening in to my own suit?" Kate asked him. "Be honest, this would be my first time being on this end of the table."
"What do we do?" Terry asks.
"We have to stop that shipment," Kate tells him.
"Yeah, I agree," Terry said when a gun is pointed at him from the side.
"Little early for Halloween." Someone said, causing Terry to look and see the security spotted him.
"You didn't check for security cameras?" Kate asked him.
"Was I supposed to?" Terry asked in shock before dropping and gliding away.
"Activate the thrusters," Kate tells him.
"Thrusters?" Terry asked when his boots on the suit started to thrust him forward and into the facility.
"That'll give you an edge on the group," Kate assured him.
"How?" Terry asked when his suit started to darken and blend in. "Oh, never mind."
As the crew came in to find and eliminate Terry, he jumped down and tackled three of their men. The cape then retracted into the back and allowed Terry to fight the old-fashioned way. The last man aimed his gun at Terry from behind as he started to put a plan together.
"Make a pinch gesture with your fingers," Kate tells Terry.
"What?" Terry asked.
"Do it!" Kate demanded.
Terry did just that and a Batarang formed in his fingers, giving him a weapon to throw and attack the man ending in his gun. The backlash caused the gun to go off and explode.
"Nice job. Now get to the shipment." Kate tells Terry.
Terry sighed and knew he had a job to do to save the people who are going to be killed.
"Let's get to work," Terry said and raced to make it to the platform.
CENTRAL CITY:
Peter and Caitlin were watching as Ashley was holding a pack of ice on her head, Tommy, April, and Tina sitting in the living room. The time had finally come to explain everything to them. It was going to involve a lot of shouting and probably a few choice words from the kids.
"I really don't wanna do this," Peter whispered to Caitlin, Frost having bailed to see if she could find Aster.
The two of them immediately knew that it was really so that she didn't need to be here when the shouting started.
"Neither do I, but unless you plan on shielding Ashley until she is of legal age, or even until either one of you dies, we need to explain to them why you are doing this," Caitlin said, trying to comfort him.
Peter groaned and knew one of them needed to start it off, the other one needed to keep the situation under control. "You thinking what I'm thinking?"
Caitlin smiled as she knew exactly what he was planning and raised her hand and made a fist and put it under her palm. Peter mimicked the action and the two of them started doing Rock, Paper, Scissors to decide. On three, Caitlin ended up doing Paper while Peter did Rock.
Caitlin pumped her fists in victory as Peter groaned in defeat. This was a constant thing between the two of them, Peter always ended up losing the game.
"Let's get this over with," Peter whispered as he walked over and took the head seat as Caitlin stood next to him. "I'm sure you all have a lot of questions.
"When?" April wondered. "When did this happen?"
"I and your father were on a break when a seductive ex of his came around and... seduced him." Caitlin defended her husband.
"It wasn't supposed to happen, and I was never made aware she existed until the STAR Labs incident." Peter continued and defended their actions.
"You mean when she exploded the labs and she killed May?" Tina asked him, her anger and annoyed tone easy for them to spot.
"Tina, it wasn't her fault." Peter defended Ashley's actions.
"ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND, DAD?!" Tina asked as she stood from her seat and even scared the other three kids in the room. "How could you defend her after everything she has done?! How could you let her live with us instead of letting her rot away in some prison like she should be!?"
"Tina, calm down and let your father explain himself." Caitlin tried to calm the flames of their anger. Well, Tina's anger. Tommy was more shocked than anything right now and April was just...distraught is probably the right word.
"She broke into our family's company, she framed both mom and aunt Frost, manipulated April and Aster, formed the Syndicate to kill us." Tina went over the list of things she's done in the last few months.
"The Syndicate was actually Carolyn's idea," Ashley muttered to herself.
"And let's not forget attacking everyone we ever cared about!" Tina exploded, letting all of her anger out. "Also, do I need to remind you that she's responsible for May's death!? The woman who raised you for years, the woman that she meant so much to us." She didn't notice, but it seemed that statement struck a nerve in Peter as he looked down at the reminder. "The woman who told me and Tommy about how proud she was when we graduated college, and we only scratched the surface of what we could accomplish! There's no way I'm going to forgive her!"
With that, Tina stormed off and left the family alone to think of what to do now with that knowledge.
"So what exactly was that about the Frost taking over?" Ashley finally asks.
Peter rubbed his head and started to get a headache. "Growing up, we learned that the twins' Frost side seems to have a darker side."
"When they use their cold powers for too long, especially when they're angry, it causes them to become subjectable...to killing." Caitlin was sorry to say. "They never got the split personality like Aster, but they got the anger."
Ashley was shocked to hear that and was happy Peter got there when he did as it sounds like Tina was willing to kill her. Once upon a time, she thought this family was the luckiest people in the world. Now it seems they were the unluckiest people in the world being dealt bad hand after another.
Meanwhile, Barry and the police were going around a new crime scene with a new metahuman who seems to have caused some significant damage recently.
"Victim number five is Grady Scraps," Patty reported to Barry as he looked over the victim. "Seems no connection to our other victim."
" Worked at Horizon Labs, promising scientist, killed by a black flame." Barry recapped everything he found out. "Just like our other victims, Donna Winters, Parker Destefano, Johnathon Ohnn, and Stanley Mullen."
"What do these guys have in common?" Patty wonders.
"Absolutely nothing." Barry sighed and wondered what to do. "This meta seems to be on a random streak of kills, we need to find and stop it before it kills again."