Meanwhile...

Everyone came by to watch their friends off to the new world. This was something all of them had wanted to see happen and wanted to have every second together.

"I'll see you when I get back," Peter started his goodbyes with MJ.

MJ leaned in and pecked his lips, hopefully not for the last time. "Go get 'em, Tiger."

May was next as she approached and hugged Peter. "If you die, I'll bring you back to life just to yell at you."

"Yes, ma'am," Peter said, knowing she was serious and not even joking.

"Good luck," Gwen said, giving Peter a simple friendly hug.

"You die and leave me with these, I won't come to your funeral," Bobby warned Peter as he gave him a fist bump. "And thanks for being my friend."

"Thanks for being a great friend," Peter replied, looking at Harry. "Watch over them for me, will you?"

"Will do," Harry promises.

Barry took a deep breath as he looked at Caitlin. "Look, if we're not back in 48 hours, it means Zoom has us. If that happens... you've gotta close the breach."

Caitlin felt as if the floor had just dropped out from beneath her. She bit down, hard, on her lip. "We're not going to do that," she said.

Barry's eyes tore painfully away from hers and turned pleadingly to Joe. He nodded. "You get yourself back here in one piece, alright?" he said, grasping Barry in a tight hug. "Don't make me come and get you guys."

Cisco approached Caitlin, pulling her away from her boyfriend and stuffing a piece of paper into her hand. "I wrote this for my parents and Dante. If I don't... come back. Please make sure this gets to them."

"Cisco, you're coming back," Caitlin insisted, brows scrunching together unhappily. She hated that she had to send her best friend and the man she loved away. She hated that she couldn't go with him but knew she was needed there.

"Caitlin," Cisco said, more serious than she'd ever seen him before. "Please."

Feeling tears start to sting her eyes, Caitlin took the note and folded it neatly before placing it in her pocket. "Okay, I will."

"Thank you," Cisco breathed, hugging her tightly.

She reached Barry last, and he opened his arms for her to step into. "Be careful," she whispered, pressing her lips to his for a moment.

"Yeah," he nodded, kissing her again, wanting more time.

"You too, Wells," Caitlin said.

Caitlin felt Barry's arm wrap around her shoulders, tucking her into his side for a brief moment of warmth and comfort.

"I love you." He whispered in her ear.

"Come back to me." She murmured back, closing her eyes for a second and soaking as much of him in as she possibly could before he stepped back and stood with Cisco and Harry in front of the breach opening.

Then they all came up to the breach and all of them were having a slight bit of panic. None of them knew what awaited them on the other side. They had small ideas of what was there, but there was no way of really knowing what was over there.

"Once I turn the speed cannon on, the three of you will be able to pass through unharmed," Jay said as he stood next to the controls. "Barry, you need to make sure you keep your speed up."

Barry nodded, looking unnervingly calm. Like he knew that this would either go well or very, very wrong.

Cisco smacked his lips. He, on the other hand, looked like he was on the verge of a panic attack. "I- I got no spit."

"Jaws?" Peter inquired.

"I'm not just quoting Jaws, I mean, my mouth is really dry right now." Cisco babbled.

"Do not get distracted by anything you see along the way," Jay continued, ignoring the short interruption.

Cisco turned, his face pale. "What are we going to see?"

Obviously, the answer he received did not do anything to calm his nerves.

"Everything."

"It's not too late to back out," Barry told his brother, unsure if he should bring him along.

"I'm not going anywhere," Peter promised his older brother. "Let's do this."

Barry saw there was no talking him out and went with it. "Do it, Jay."

Barry gripped Cisco, Peter, and Wells. Caitlin swallowed, her eyes locked on Barry's back. She might never see him again, and the thought terrified her. All of them were practically doing the same thing, unsure if this was such a good idea from the beginning.

Jay pressed the lever, and a swirling blue breach exploded into life. Barry turned and looked back only once, locking eyes with Caitlin and giving her a small smile.

"Okay," Barry muttered, turning back to the portal. "Let's go."

Peter looked back at his friends and offered a quick smile to reassure them. With a burst of speed and a flicker of blue light, they were gone.

A second later, the entire breach machine began to shake and spark. Caitlin slowly walked forward, trying to see what was the matter.

The next thing she knew, Bobby had quickly tackled her with a flying leap, sending her sprawling to the ground as one of the giant circles on the machine rolled off its hinge and came crashing toward her.

Gwen ran over to help them up, looking concerned. "You guys okay?"

"Yeah- yeah, I'm fine," Caitlin muttered absently, still staring at the machine, now completely broken, smoke rising into the air in gray plumes. "Bobby?"

"I'm good," Bobby said as he rubbed his shoulder.

"What happened?" Joe asked, his eyes widening in surprise.

Harry frowned, realizing what was happening. "With the other breaches closed, the energy surge to this last remaining breach must have destabilized it."

Caitlin turned to him, horrified. May looked at the group nervously. "What? What does that mean?"

Jay took a deep breath, his next words sending Caitlin's world crashing down on her shoulders. "As long as the breach remains unstable... they all will be trapped in there."

"Okay, we need to fix this right away," Gwen said with concern. "What if they come back early or something goes wrong and they need help?"

"I thought the protocol was to wait for them here," MJ recalled what they said.

"The one thing you need to know," Gwen told the new girl in the group, "is that Peter ends up being the damsel in distress we need to rescue every once in a while." MJ might have been around for a while, but she's only been a member of the team for a short time.

Then there was an alert on their devices telling them that they were needed for a crime. Bobby groaned as he saw that he was the only one left who could go out there. He knew this was bound to happen, but he wasn't expecting it to suddenly happen the second Peter left the planet.


Bobby made his way through the city and finally reached the scene of the robbery. However, upon arriving, he was confused to find himself standing inside an aquarium display for a rare pearl necklace surrounded by fish. He walked over and, feeling a bit sorry for the helpless creatures, began picking them up and tossing them back into their tank, freezing them with ice to protect them from harm.

"Okay, so there's water everywhere, fish everywhere, and no sign of any guards," Bobby muttered as he looked around, wondering what was going on. "This is a weird one." Then he heard what sounded like someone walking on water with splashes, and he looked over to see someone running away. "Hey!" He began using his powers, freezing the water on the floor. However, to his surprise, whoever this guy was, he managed to escape the freezing water. "Okay, that's new."

Bobby saw he wasn't going to stop him with his powers alone and needed to get a closer look at this guy. When he made his way down the hallway, he saw the door to some maintenance area slam shut. Bobby approached the door and quickly froze the handle to bust it open. When he approached the area where he had gone, he looked and saw that there was nothing but the top of the tanks where people would feed the fish.

"Alright, buddy, I can take you in warm or I can take you in cold," Bobby stated as he searched the area.

And that's when he heard some sort of splash, causing him to turn around and see a gigantic wave coming straight at him. Bobby shot ice to try and freeze it, but to his shock, the wave only moved and avoided his hit. Bobby was shocked when he saw the wave actually avoided his attack; he didn't even comprehend the wave was still coming right at him.

When Bobby was hit by the wave, he was sent flying right into one of the tanks. His ice skin only caused him to sink deeper due to its density. When he stopped using his ice skin to climb out of the tank, he was met with electric eels coming right at him. Bobby then immediately used his ice skin to save his life, but it also caused him to sink again. However, before he could hit the bottom of the tank, two webs attached to his shoulders, yanking him from the water.

Bobby let out a gasp of air as he crawled out of the tank and coughed up the water he had inhaled. When he looked up, he half-expected Peter to be back already. But to his surprise, the person he saw wasn't Peter Parker; instead, it was someone else entirely.

"Remember, no swimming until an hour after eating," Jessica Drew said as she leaped from the pipes and landed in front of Iceman. She emerged from the shadows, revealing her new suit for the first time in public. Then she extended a friendly hand out to the hero. "You okay?"

Bobby wasn't sure what to think as he looked over the new suit that Spider-Woman was wearing. "Uh..." He then took her hand and allowed her to help him to his feet. "Thanks. How'd you know to come here?"

"Not that difficult, you can hear those alarms a mile away. And I know I could because I did," Jessica stated as she started to stroll around the room. "Okay, so, we have living water now?"

"Someone who can manipulate water," Bobby guessed as he looked around the area. "Did you piss off King Triton or something?"

"Hey, I've been absent for the past year, don't go blaming this on me," Jessica defended herself as she walked around the area, starting to look for clues. "I don't think this meta touched anything, I can't seem to find any signs of fingerprints."

"Yeah, so where were you?" Bobby wonders, recalling all of the instances that this new girl could have been helpful. "We could have used you when the singularity was tearing up the city."

Jessica knelt down and scanned the small drip of water on the pipe. "I...I was just working some things out. I had some personal problems." She stood up with a sigh. "Normal, average aquatic water. Nothing special about it. No signs of DNA, nothing to help figure out exactly where it came from."

"What did this guy get away with?" Bobby wondered, watching the girl as if she were Batgirl.

"Some of these pearl necklaces on display are worth a fortune," Jessica explained as she walked around, keeping her eyes on the floor. "I read about them while I was searching for you. You're not very stealthy."

"Stealthy isn't my thing; I'm more of a direct approach kind of guy," Bobby explains, wishing the others didn't have to deal with the Speedforce Cannon. "What do we do now?"

Then there was a door slamming, and they looked up to see the guards. "Freeze!"

Bobby slumped, his expression turning sour as he said, "Really?"

The guard sighed in relief and lowered his gun. "Didn't expect to see you here, Iceman."

"You didn't?" Bobby asked sarcastically. "I mean, a break-in and strange things happening, I thought you'd expect it."

"Who is she?" the second guard asked, looking at Spider-Woman.

"I'm Spider-Woman," Jessica said, crossing her arms. "Didn't you think the outfit made that obvious?"

"Hey, to be honest, I forgot about you," Bobby admitted as he walked away. "See you around, I guess."

Jessica sighed and looked down at the water, slowly making its way somewhere. She wouldn't think twice about it, but when she saw the water flowing in an opposite direction, she took a small vial from her pouch and scooped some water into it, watching as it tried to flow somewhere.

Jessica mumbled to the water, "Take me to your leader."


While that was going down, at the Watson household, MJ realized she wouldn't be much help at the labs, so she decided to take the day off with her sister. With Peter off on another Earth, and Bobby working with the group at the labs to keep the city safe, they finally had a chance to just sit and relax together.

The sisters were just sitting around and watching some television while thinking of what to talk about together.

"So, what's up with you and the nerdy boy?" Gayle never got to see what MJ did with Peter. "Last I saw you dating, it was school jocks, not the leader of the chess club."

"Peter's...it's hard to explain," MJ sighed as she thought of her boyfriend. "He's caring, thoughtful, smart, and not a complete douche."

Gayle shrugged as she never got to know Peter that well as of yet. "Well, where is the boy today?"

"Dealing with some family issues right now," MJ said by way of explanation for his absence.

Gayle then received a phone call, causing her to groan. "Can't get a moment's peace around here." She pulled out her phone and groaned again. "Who is this?"

"Still got that snarky attitude, eh?" Gayle immediately recognized that voice and froze.

"Morris?" Gayle asks in shock.

"So you do recognize my voice," Morris commented as Gayle walked out of the room, getting MJ's attention.

Gayle got quiet to make sure MJ didn't overhear this conversation. "What do you want?"

Morris said, "See you." Gayle was unaware that he was watching her from across the street. "Meet me at the lobby of the Hotel Dellivar in twenty minutes," he added. "Alone."

"Why would you ever think I'd do something like that?" Gayle asked angrily.

"Because I know you will." Morris gave an eerie answer. "It's as inevitable as the tide.

Gayle would have responded, but he had already hung up. She questioned her options, wondering if she should go or not. She knew Morris wouldn't hurt her, but he might hurt someone else if she didn't do what she was asked.

Working up the courage, she walked over and grabbed her bag with her keys, and headed for the door. Meanwhile, MJ wondered what her sister was doing and felt a little worried.

"Gayle, what's up?" MJ wonders where she was going.

Gayle tried to give an excuse, but MJ had already become quite the master at sniffing out lies. Her upbringing and her experience around superheroes who tell lies helped her in that department.


Gayle made her way toward the spot where Morris had told her to meet him. As she looked around, someone approached her from behind. Jessica followed the water as it led her to a window outside where Gayle was.

"Boo," Morris said as he placed the recently stolen pearl necklace around her neck. "Guess who."

Gayle gasped and looked down at the pearls as she jumped back, seeing Morris with a grin. "What's this?"

"I once told you that I would give you the world," Morris said to her, gesturing to the pearls. "This is just my down payment on that promise."

"I don't want anything to do with this or you," Gayle stated as she ripped the pearls from his hand and handed them back to him. "Our relationship ended three years ago. You were jealous of everything that I did, you were overbearing, and you just made my life miserable."

"Yeesh, and here I thought I had boy problems," Jessica commented as she watched them for a moment.

"I don't want anything to do with whatever it is you got this from. Or anything to do with you for that matter," Gayle stated as she ripped the pearls off and handed them back to him. "Whatever went on between us ended three years ago."

Jessica then sneaked off to hide herself while Gayle marched off, leaving Morris behind. Jessica watched MJ's sister leave before turning her attention to the water. Suddenly, it seemed much livelier and desperate to escape its confinement. She wondered where it was going and returned to the window, finding no sign of the man.

"Okay, that was just a coincidence. Right?" Jessica asks herself.

But she was too busy regaining focus on the water and focused on where it was leading her. But she missed the puddle that formed and made its way down a drain when she looked away.

Gayle was walking through the park, still, a little angered by her encounter with Morris. She wasn't paying attention to where she was going, which caused her to bump into MJ. The two shrieked in surprise when they saw each other.

Gayle wasn't happy to see her sister Mary Jane out in the dark.

"Says the girl who walks around Central City by herself at night," MJ scoffed as she eyed her sister. "What's got you so spooked?" Then she noticed Morris coming out of nowhere and shrieked. "Watch out!"

Gayle turned to where her sister was looking and scoffed. "Morris, what do you want?"

"Do you know him?" MJ asked her sister.

Bobby was nearby, watching the interaction, as MJ had asked him to ghost her. Jessica was also nearby, still trying to pinpoint where the water she carried was leading her. She happened to land on a nearby lamppost near a fountain and watched the interaction, feeling that this guy might be the source of everything.

"I know why you broke up with me, Gayle," Morris told her. "I had no car, no cash, and I was a nobody."

"And a self-centered, egomaniacal maniac," Gayle stated. "You just don't get it."

"But I do. Things are different now." Morris said, raising his hand and manipulating the water fountain to create a giant stream. "You must come with me."

Jessica quickly leaped down and landed between the two. "Okay, listen, Water Bender Boy, it ends here." When she went to punch the man, his entire chest turned into water. "Wait, what?"

Morris smiled as his entire fist became a giant puddle of water, causing Jessica to look shocked and worried about what was to come. He punched her, sending her flying into the trees.

"How..." Gayle was shocked when she saw him turn his body into water. "How did you do that?"

"He's a metahuman," MJ said in worry.

"As long as I'm near water, I can manipulate it, and even transform my body into it," Morris stated. "With this power, I can do anything. I can provide you with anything."

"I don't want anything from you," Gayle stated as she backed away.

"Wait!" Morris cried, reaching out to her.

"Hey, buddy, the lady said no!" Bobby exclaimed as he blasted a mist of ice in an attempt to freeze him. However, Morris morphed his body so that the ice went right through him. "Oh, God..."

Bobby was then hit by the water coming from the fountain. Jessica then came back around and leaped to kick Morris, not to harm him, but more to distract him. Bobby then got an idea and shot the ground to create an ice wall for them to escape. Jessica then quickly leaped over the wall and helped them escape to somewhere safe.


EARTH-2:

After Zoom kidnapped Barry, the parallel Earth travelers made their way back to STAR Labs with the help of Miles and Anjelica, who helped them shake Zoom. They left messages everywhere for the city to bring him Harrison Wells. By the time they reached STAR Labs, the place was evacuated and they startled Harrison. He raised his speedster gun at them, only for Anjelica to look at him with a dumbfounded expression.

"You thought you were going to kill the Fastest Man Alive with a gun?" Angelica asks him sarcastically.

"Jones," Wells said, surprised to see her. Then he looked over to Miles, confused about who he was. "Who's the boy?"

"Uh, hi, Dr. Wells," Miles said as he introduced himself. "My name is Miles Morales. I'm Spider-Man."

"What?" Wells exclaimed as he continued to get more confused, trying to figure out how these people had all met. Then, he noticed that there was a missing member of the group. "Where's Flash?"

"Zoom took him," Cisco explained to Wells. "We tracked down Deathstorm and Killer Frost and met my doppelganger. The three of them almost took down Barry until Zoom showed up, killed Cisco-2, and killed Deathstorm for hurting a speedster. But he left Killer Frost alive, then took off with Barry."

"He left just before we showed up," Peter explains with a sigh. "I should have been there."

"Why weren't you there?" Wells wonders.

"In defense of him, I zapped him," Miles tells them.

Peter nodded and pointed to Miles as he looked at Wells. "Yeah, this guy has zappy fingers. He zapped me."

Angelica confirmed, "He did. I didn't see it, but I saw what happened. He was out for like an hour."

"Hello?" Someone's voice went over their heads.

Peter gasped, realizing that he had utterly forgotten about Geeky Barry. "Oops."


"Dr. Wells, this is very disappointing," Barry-2 tells him. "I mean, the three of you should be ashamed of yourselves."

"You kidnapped this guy?" Angelica asks Wells.

"We...we were working on catching Zoom." Cisco defended why they needed to do what they did.

"How's that working out for you so far?" Angelica asked sarcastically.

"You can't just lock someone in a room like that," Barry-2 says, as he's being untied. "How long was I in there?"

"Barely a day," Wells says, leaving the closet Barry-2 had been tied up in.

"One day? My wife's going to be worried sick. I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but my wife is a very well-respected detective in the CCPD. She's going to be very upset." Barry-2 informs them all. "And I demand to know what the heck is going on here."

Wells tries his best to explain quickly. "Barry, this is a very long story. One we don't have time to explain. We're sorry We locked you in the room, but right now, you need to leave." Wells says when the alarms start going off and they know that means Zoom is in the building.

"Zoom," Angelica said, as her watch alerted her of the same thing.

They ran down the hallway that a few of them recognized led to the Cortex on Earth-1, and they made their way down the hallway.

"What is happening?" Barry-2 asks.

"Zoom is coming," Wells tells him.

"Why would Zoom be after you?" Barry-2 asks as they shoved him out into the hallway.

Then Wells opens the time vault doors, looking more like storage than it did a real vault. "You have a time vault?" Cisco asks.

"No time for explaining, he's first," Peter says, pushing Barry-2 inside. "Everyone, in!"

Angelica complied, almost as if she were taking orders from Peter and not an alternative version of him. Miles was frozen in fear as he ran into the vault. Then they closed the door and Barry-2 started panicking as Zoom phased into the room. He walked inside just as Wells activated a fake wall to hide them behind it, and Zoom couldn't see them.

This was Miles' first time getting a look at Zoom, and he had to admit he looked much scarier in real life than he did on the television. Peter and Angelica covered Barry-2's mouth to shut him up and held him down to keep him from shaking. Zoom didn't spot any of them and left the vault to search elsewhere.

Wells turned off the invisible wall, and they all let out a sigh of relief when he was gone.

Miles exhaled a sigh of relief when he watched Zoom leave. "Okay, that...that was Zoom."

"Yep, that's him," Angelica confirmed. "Spookier up close."

"That's one way to put it." Peter joked.

"Okay, we need a plan. We need to figure out what to do next." Wells tells them. "And we need somewhere to hide."

Angelica sighed; she knew she had to help them or else Zoom would get what he wanted. "I know a place," she said.


EARTH-1:

With the threat of Hydro-Man, as Bobby had decided to dub him, coming after her sister, MJ decided that the best place to bring her sister was STAR Labs. They could find some way to protect her, and they could easily work out a way to stop Hydro-Man. And it seemed like Spider-Woman had disappeared somewhere along the way, so they weren't entirely sure where she had gotten herself.

"This... is insane," Gayle said as she walked around the core of STAR Labs. "And you're best friends with Iceman? You know him?" Gayle asked, looking over at Bobby. "Any more surprises you have for me, sis?"

"Oh, I do. But they are a story for after we catch the guy coming for you," MJ said, not really interested in explaining everything to her.

Caitlin asked Gayle, "So, who was that guy?"

"His name is Morris Bench," Gayle said, deciding it would be wise to tell them everything. "We used to date up until...maybe five years ago. He was never really over the breakup."

"Says here that he was working at the aquarium during the particle accelerator explosion," Bobby commented as he pulled up Morris' file. "The only job he could get from the five years he spent in juvie."

Gayle confirmed this was when she broke up with him. "As I had mentioned, he wasn't exactly happy about it."

"My God, can someone get this guy a copy of Love Hurts," MJ scoffed at the guy's reaction to getting dumped.

"Okay, jokes aside, we need to come up with a way to stop this guy," Iris told them. "We're already down several of our most important members, and most powerful."

Bobby commented, "I feel offended."

"Jay and Harry are currently working on fixing the Speed Cannon, so they can come back once they've finished on Earth-2," Caitlin updated them on what their friend and the former speedster were doing.

"Earth-2?" Gayle questioned, eyeing her sister.

"It's a long story, I'll explain the rest of it later," MJ promises.

"We will need to start trying to come up with a way to protect you from Hydro-Man," Caitlin said.

Gwen looked over at Bobby in curiosity. "Are we actually going to call him that?"

"Hey, Caitlin named Rainbow Raider and Chameleon; it's my turn to name the next one," Bobby tells her. "You get to name the next one."

"Why don't I get to name one?" MJ questions.

"You named Spider-Man." Bobby reminded her.


EARTH-2:

The team allowed Barry-2 to go home, so he could explain what happened while she brought the travelers to her secret clock tower hideout. Cisco placed his stuff down as Wells got a good look at the area. He wondered what was going on and was curious why they weren't using Angelica's old base.

"What happened to your old base?" Wells wonders why she wasn't there anymore.

"It was an accident," Angelica explained with a sigh, taking off her mask. "Spot appeared through a wormhole, and dragged everything that belonged to us with him."

"We've been hiding out here ever since," Miles explains as he dropped onto a container. "Working on a resistance to fight against Zoom."

Wells questioned as he placed his Speedster gun down. "You really think that the two of you are enough to defeat Zoom?"

"We are...building a resistance," Angelica muttered to herself.

"We even have our eyes on some outside help," Miles said and noticed their looks. "You really think that all Metahumans and mutants are bad?"

"Okay, this is all very fascinating, but we need to find Zoom's lair." Cisco reminded them.

"Lair?" Peter questions.

"He's a bad guy. He has a lair." Cisco replied.

"You don't think we've thought of doing the same?" Angelica asks them as she activated the computer system. "We have been doing this for months, trying to find him. Peter - my Peter - thought he finally found a way to do it, but he couldn't finish the algorithm."

"Why not?" Cisco asks.

"Because that was when Deathstorm and Frost killed them," Angelica snarled at him, recalling the deaths of her friends. "And I wasn't smart enough to finish whatever Peter was working on. He was tech support, I was the fighter."

Peter stepped closer to the computer and noticed the algorithm. "It looks like he's zooming in on his henchmen. It shows sightings and locations of where all of his henchmen have been spotted." He then turned to look at Angelica. "May I?"

"Sure," Angelica said, shrugging as she let him pass.

Peter got to work and quickly pinpointed one of the henchmen. "Zoom is too fast," he said, "but it seems the henchman who spends the most time with Zoom, aka Killer Frost, has been sighted in the woods. Everyone else is in known locations throughout the city. I think we should start there. It's secluded, hidden, and far away from society so nobody will spot him."

"Then that's where we need to go," Wells said as he picked up his gun. "Good work, Parker."

"I'm coming, too," Angelica told them. "You're going after Zoom; then I want in."

Peter guessed, "The more the merrier."

"You sure about this?" Wells asks her.

"That freak killed my boyfriend, and her boyfriend scorched Bobby's arm off. I am going to rip her a new one," Angelica promises.

"Can...mind if I joined you?" Miles asks.

"Miles, no, you are not ready to handle someone like Frost." Angelica wasn't going to send Miles into harm's way again for selfish reasons. "You barely fought her off the last time."

"I know, but this could be my only chance to get some real tips from the real Spider-Man," Miles said, looking at Peter. "I could really use the help in trying to get my skills under control."

Peter thought of it and knew he would have liked some form of help when he first started out. "Alright, come on."


EARTH-1:

At STAR Labs, everyone was trying to work out some way to try and fight someone who was entirely made of water. That was something they never considered to be an issue, so it was a bit hard to consider how to fight it. How do you fight against water?

Gayle, Iris, and Caitlin were roaming the halls when she found the kitchen and heard a dripping faucet. She was a little spooked by it but didn't see it as much to worry about. No, that only came when she watched the facet suddenly spring open and pour out the water that began to form. She began to panic and backed up into a wall when the water morphed into Morris.

"Get back!" Caitlin cried as they tried to escape.

Morris however stopped her from escaping when he shot a giant blast of water to send the tables toward their path. Caitlin stopped in her tracks and was frozen in fear.

"Morris?" Gayle whispered as Iris dragged her away from the man slowly.

"Sorry for spooking you like that, ladies," Morris said as he slowly approached Gayle. "But I just had to see you."

"How did you get in here?" Gayle wonders.

"I was able to go in through the water pressure pipes," Morris explains. "It's how I have managed to get around the city unnoticed by anyone. I can take whatever I want, and go wherever I want. I can give you anything!"

"I don't want you to." Gayle was getting a little sick of him. "I don't love you, Morris, don't you get that?"

Morris only grew angrier as Gayle sensed something was off beneath her feet. "Then I will flood the city! I will create a tidal wave that will force everyone to evacuate." Morris then reached out toward Gayle. "Leaving it-!"

Morris couldn't finish his sentence when suddenly, a device was shot and wrapped around Morris' neck like a collar. When they looked over to the entrance, they noticed Gwen and Bobby looking at MJ who had just shot Hydro-Man with the B.O.O.T. and saved Iris, Caitlin, and her sister. She was once again shocked by her actions as she looked down at the gun in her hands.

Gayle was shocked when she saw her sister save her life. "Wow. Nice shot, sis."

Gwen was a little curious about something. "Now hold on," she said. "Were you actually aiming for his shoulder or his neck?"

MJ was embarrassed to admit the truth. "Actually, I was aiming for his leg."


EARTH-2:

The away team was looking through the forest to try and track Killer Frost to find out where Zoom's lair was. They were walking for some time, as Peter didn't see any reason to waste his or Miles' web fluid.

"You sure this is the place?" Cisco asks when they suddenly feel the drop in temperature.

"Spider-Men? Your senses telling you anything?" Wells asks him.

"If they were, don't you think I would have told you?" Peter asks him sarcastically.

"How do our senses work exactly?" Miles wants to know. "Do they alert us of danger, or just anything that's a threat?"

"It depends on how long you've had your powers," Peter explained to him. "The more you train your mind, and train your skills, the easier it is to pinpoint what your senses are saying."

Both Peter and Miles felt their senses alert them to something happening just as Frost marched from behind a tree. "You lost or just looking for more fun?" Everyone went into defensive mode as Angelica raised her fists and ignited them into small balls of fire.

"We just came here to talk," Wells explains, gesturing with his weapon as he lowered it.

Frost asks them, seeing their weapons. "Oh, really? Do you always bring your toys to every conversation? Or do you just want to see me burn again?"

"After what you did to my friends, the thought has crossed my mind," Angelica tells Frost.

"Look, before you turn us all into sherbets, we just wanna know where Zoom hangs his tights, we don't want any trouble," Peter explains to the villainess.

"You really don't know how to use your abilities do you, breacher?" Frost asks Cisco.

"It's a work in progress, Elsa," Cisco tells her.

"Frozen reference, really?" Miles asks

"Zoom killed the love of your life," Peter broke it to the villain. "That hurts, even for somebody with a heart as cold as yours."

"And you think that will make me turn on Zoom?" Frost asks him, seemingly unconvinced by his argument.

"Enemy of my enemy is my friend, right?" Cisco asks.

That just got him looks from everyone else. Seems nobody would believe anyone to oblige to that rule.

"Don't tell me it doesn't work that way over there," Cisco asks them.

"No, I don't think so," Miles told the traveler.

"If I tell you, he'll kill me. But if I kill you and bring you to him, I bet he'd be pretty pleased with me. Maybe even let me off my leash." Frost said as she emitted a cold mist from her hands. "So, take a wild guess. What do you think I'm going to choose?"

"Things just went south, didn't they?" Miles asks.

"Yes," Peter confirmed.

Angelica, Wells, and Peter yelled, "Run!" as they all quickly scattered.

Cisco and Wells ducked behind a tree, while Angelica shot Frost with a blast of fire to provide them some cover. Meanwhile, Peter ran ahead, with Miles trying to catch up.

"All right, time to swing! Just like I taught you," Peter said as he quickly shot out a strand of webbing.

"When did you learn that?" Miles questioned.

"I didn't," Peter said with a smile. "It was just a joke for team-building." He took Miles' hand and shot a strand of webbing. "You ready?"

"Of course, I'm not ready! I've never swung on one of these before," Miles said as Peter pushed him onto the swing just before Frost could blast icicles at them.

"Well, no time like the present!" Peter said as he swung with Miles.

Miles, however, only got so far before he hit a tree and smashed into the ground. "Ouch!"

Frost shoots several icicles at him, causing Miles to shriek and climb back to his feet. He then starts running to try and escape Frost while Peter is on a tree, shooting Frost with webbing.

"What are you doing down there?" Peter questioned what the kid was doing.

"I run better than I swing," Miles explains.

"You've gotta swing, or she will catch you!" Peter said as Frost shoots at him, causing Peter to abandon his advantage point. "This is what you wanted!"

Miles tried to keep running, but Frost was starting to get closer and closer, so he decided to try and shoot a webbing. But that didn't work out as everywhere he shoots, the webbing never stuck to anything.

"Aim with your hips! Look where you want it to hit!" Peter tried to give him some pointers. "Square your shoulders. Don't forget to follow through." Miles started to try and escape by climbing a tree, but Frost began to freeze the bark. "Don't shoot off your back foot!"

"That's too much information!" Miles exclaimed, trying to recall everything he had just said.

"Then stop listening to me," Peter stated.

"That's the best idea you've had all day," Miles stated, recalling that this was all his idea in the first place.

Then the bark Frost was freezing finally snapped, causing the tree to begin to plummet to the ground. In a last effort to survive, Miles shoots out a strand of webbing and hits a tree. Finally allowing him to swing and get away.

"Ha!" Miles cheered when en saw it was working. "I'm doing it!"

"You've got it!" Peter confirmed as he swung over to him. "Double tap to release, and then thwip it back out again."

Miles started to get into the rhythm of it and cheered. "This is amazing!"

Peter was happy to help, then noticed the dust cloud around Frost would work as cover as he zipped into the cloud and punched her in the face. Frost got up for a second fight but was immediately attacked when Cisco raised a gun to her head, and Wells came out of the tree for backup.

"Stop," Cisco warned her, "or you'll never make another icicle again."

Angelica dared her to make one wrong move. "And I'm totally okay with that," she said.

"Where's Zoom?" Wells asks the question again.

"If I tell you, he'll kill me," Frost informs them all.

"He's going to kill you eventually, Caitlin," Cisco tells her.

"Don't call me that." Frost snaps at him. "That's not my name."

"Yes, it is. You just don't want to hear it because it reminds you of someone you used to be." Cisco tells her and by the face she gives, he sees he's right. "Trust me, I know that person pretty well."

Frost tells him, "You don't know anything about me."

"I know Caitlin Snow on my Earth," Cisco says and walks towards her. "And I know when she loved someone, that person is all she cared about. That person was Ronnie Raymond. That devastated her, and I see that it's hurting you as much as it did to her. Zoom took him away from you. His daughter. His brother. My friend, he's going to take them away from us just like he took Ronnie away from you. Caitlin, all you have to do is tell us where he's keeping them, and you'll never hear from us again. And you can go."

"Wait, when was that part of the deal?" Angelica asks.

"It's fine," Frost said, stopping the argument quickly. "I know you wouldn't even give me a second chance to throw me in prison. And I know I deserve it." She then stood and gestured to an area with her head. "This way, come on."

Everyone saw that she seemed willing to help now, and allowed her to lead the way to find Barry so they could escape this world.


They made their way through the forest until they arrived at a cliffside. There, they saw a hole that Zoom could easily access as a speedster.

"I gotta say, at least he's creative on where he hides his lair," Peter says seeing the location. "The only way up there is flight or speed, and not many have either."

Angelica commented, "You'd be surprised."

"A place only a speedster could get to," Wells agrees with Peter.

"It's like the Cliffs of Insanity," Cisco comments.

"So, how do we get up there?" Miles asked Frost.

"I can make you something to climb on, kid," Frost offers, raising her mist-filled hands.

"Are you serious?" Peter asks. "You want us to climb to the top of those cliffs..on ice?"

"You got a better idea?" Frost asks.

"Uh...not really," Peter admitted.


Barry felt like an animal in a zoo, trapped inside a glass cage.

Zoom was long gone. He had left Jesse sobbing quietly to herself in the corner of her captivity, her dirty arms chained to the wall. Barry tried to reason with her but she just looked at him like he was insane.

"We're not getting out of here."

He had partially reconciled her when he stopped trying to be hopeful, and they had worked together to figure out what the man in the metal mask was trying to say. Jesse came up with the alphabet idea, crossing taps with letters until they spelled a word.

JAY.

It unnerved Barry down to his very core. What did Zoom want with Jay Garrick?

Before he could get an answer, Zoom arrived on the scene. He glared at the man in the mask. "Don't talk to them again."

Then he faced Barry's cage and phased through the glass. Barry stepped back, feeling trapped. Which he pretty much was at this moment.

The next thing he knew, Zoom's hand was at his throat. Barry however still stared him down. "I'm going to get out of here." He threatened. "And when I do, I'm going to destroy you."

"All I need from you is your speed, Flash," Zoom growled. "And you only have to be barely alive to give it to me."

Zoom attacked him with a force that sent him flying against the glass of his cage. He was beaten mercilessly for what felt like hours, unable to fight back, unable to even keep his feet. Jesse's screams for Zoom to stop were the only sounds in the air other than Zoom's fists into Barry's stomach, his face, and his chest.

Once Zoom had left, Harry slunk to the corner of his cage, aching and wiping blood from his nose. He sat for a long time, his mind lost in its own thoughts. He wondered where his team was, if Zoom had left Cisco alive, and if he had found Wells and Peter. He then began to wonder what Caitlin was up to on Earth-1, if she was thinking about him right now, and wondering what was taking him so long. He wondered if he would be able to escape before his allotted 48 hours were up. He wondered if he'd ever see her again.

He tried to escape a few times, using his speed to phase through the wall, just as Zoom had. However, he found he couldn't. He couldn't even vibrate. There must have been some sort of power-dampening field in the cage, something that was stopping him from accessing his speed.

Beginning to feel hungry, Barry stopped his efforts and crawled back to the corner of his cage, head drooping between his knees in defeat. He didn't know how long it would be before he heard a very familiar voice calling his name.

Peter called out, "Barry?" as he looked for his brother.

Barry staggered to his feet and pressed his hands against the glass. "Peter!"

"Oh, thank god, Barry!" Peter grinned as he ran over to his brother. "We made it."

"How did you find this place?" Barry inquired incredulously.

Peter stepped back a little and nodded back toward the group of people that had also entered Zoom's lair. "We had some help."

There she was. Caitlin, with white hair and blue lips, but Caitlin nonetheless. Now he was sure that her heart belonged to Caitlin as well. If it didn't, she never would have helped his friends. She never would have betrayed Zoom.

"Don't even get me started on this guy." Cisco groaned, gesturing the Miles Morales, who smiled and waved awkwardly. Cisco rolled his eyes exaggeratedly. "Oh boy."

Wells shoved past Angelica and Miles and strode toward his daughter with a disbelieving look on his face. Jesse pressed against the edge of her cell bars, eyes filling with tears at the sight of her father.

Wells wrenched the cell door open and wrapped Jesse in a hug. Barry blinked back tears, feeling all of Wells' happiness and relief rolling off him in waves. Cisco sent him another grin, nodding his approval.

When the two of them pulled apart, Wells inspected the chain binding Jesse's wrist. He tugged on it a few times, but it wouldn't budge. Wells locked eyes with the white-haired woman standing behind the rest of the group.

"Frost."

Frost just raised her eyebrows, and Cisco let out an annoyed sigh. He seemed to be taking the sight of his best friend's evil nature pretty well. "A little help?"

"Not part of the deal," Killer Frost shrugged.

"Frost!" Wells bellowed, his voice of worry and stress mixing into a rage.

"Bringing us here wasn't part of the deal either," Cisco said, glaring Frost down. "But here you are. Something tells me you're not as cold as I thought you were."

That seemed to break down her walls, just a little. She strode toward Jesse and Wells, taking her eyes off of Barry. "Maybe. Maybe not."

Jesse's chains froze and shattered the moment Frost touched them, and then she turned to Barry's cage. She held out her hands, ready to freeze the glass and break it in the same way.

Nothing happened.

"What's going on- why isn't it working?" Miles asked.

"I don't know!" Caitlin growled in frustration. "I've never had this problem before."

"Like I've never heard that one before." Angelica scoffed.

He couldn't get out.

"Dr. Wells?" Barry asked, looking for at least an explanation.

Wells stepped away from his daughter's embrace and looked over the containment unit. "Carbine," he muttered. "It's a form of carbonite. The cell's made of some sort of carbonite- you'll never be able to freeze him out of there."

"You can't phase out of there?" Cisco asked desperately.

Barry's hands dropped to his sides, and he shook his head. He knew what he had to do.

"Just go," he said, his voice shaking. "Alright? Before Zoom comes back." He swallowed, knowing that if they left, he would never escape. But he could not be the reason they got caught.

"We're not leaving you here!" Peter declared, looking at Miles. "Miles, do you think you can do that zappy thing you did to me on the cage?"

"Zappy thing? What zappy thing?" Barry questions.

"Just trust me on this," Peter said, looking at Miles. "Can you, Miles?"

Miles looked down at his fingertips, trying to cause the zappy fingers to happen again. But every time he tried, all he did was grunt and wiggle his fingers around.

"I can't do it on command," said Miles apologetically.

"Well, there's that idea," Angelica sighed. She walked over and lit her hands on fire. "Let me try something."

"Don't even dare." Wells quickly stopped her from even attempting to do it. "If you were to do that, all you're going to end up accomplishing is cooking him alive."

Barry was afraid of the idea. "Uh, yeah, let's not do that," he sighed, knowing that there wasn't anything they could do. Not to mention he didn't even know who Angelica was. "Look, just get out of here. You need to go before Zoom comes back."

Peter marched forward and placed his hand on the glass, his brother doing the same on the other side. Barry had to admit that this felt like the times when he used to visit his dad in prison.

"I'm not leaving you," Peter promises him. "We've been through too much together to let something like this slow us down. Now you find a way to get out, because I've seen the impossible happen over and over again, so go ahead and make it happen one more time."

Barry sighed as he nodded to his brother and tried to phase at the right vibration in order to escape. An image filled his mind. It was his favorite one of Caitlin, where she was grinning at something. She didn't know he was taking the picture, and she looked so perfectly beautiful that it made his heart clench just thinking about it.

Barry raised his hand, keeping her face in his mind. He would see her again. He had promised her.

His hand began to vibrate.

Barry exchanged looks with the rest of his team. Cisco, looking pained and upset, stood next to Angelica and Miles, both of them waiting for him to get himself together. Wells, his arm still around Jesse, smiled at him, believing in him.

And Killer Frost, watching him with brown eyes so much like Caitlin's.

He saw the look of plea on Peter's face and saw that he hoped that this would work. Then, in one burst of concentrated speed that almost hurt because it was so fast, he pressed through the glass and to the other side.

Cisco's mouth dropped open and he broke into a wide grin. "Okay, let's go."

"Wait, wait, hey hey hey!" Barry commanded. "We're not leaving him." He pressed his hand against the glass of the man in the metal mask.

"Barry, there's no time." Wells protested.

There wasn't. Peter and Miles both felt a sense of horror in their heads.

A flash of blue light, followed by Jesse's horrified gasp, and Zoom was standing before them. "He's not going anywhere... And neither are any of you."

Angelica lit her fists again and got ready to fight back.

"Thank you..." Zoom growled, his gaze shifting to Killer Frost. She looked at the ground. "For bringing them to me."

"You double-crossed us?" Cisco cried, looking hurt and angry. "He killed Ronnie!"

Killer Frost turned her back. "I guess my heart really is as cold as you thought," she said.

"I can't believe you," Cisco hissed. "The Caitlin we know would be very disappointed in you right now."

"Is that really what you're worried about right now?" Angelica questioned.

Barry stepped forward, trying to ignore the hurt from Caitlin's betrayal. "Zoom," he said. "Let them go."

Wells stepped up, too, joining him. "All you need is me and Barry."

"You're right," Zoom growled. "I may not be able to kill you yet, but I can kill them." He raised a leather-clad finger and pointed at the rest of their team. Then he zoomed off, knocking Wells, Angelica, Miles, Peter, and Barry to the ground and grabbing Jesse by her hair, holding her roughly at his side. "I told you I'd kill you in front of your father."

"No-" Wells choked out. "NO!"

Zoom slowly raised his hand and aimed it at Jesse's chest. But before he could finish the task, a blast of icy frost shot towards Zoom, knocking him backwards.

"Get out of here," Frost said, striding toward her old master with a fury that matched nothing Barry had ever seen.

She held out her hands again and aimed her icy ray at Zoom, stopping him from moving. Angelica was shocked when she saw the woman who had killed her friends was now risking her own life to save theirs.

"You were right," Killer Frost glared over her shoulder at them, but her anger wasn't directed at Cisco. "He killed Ronnie."

Barry swallowed hard, watching her face transform into something he recognized. Something beautiful and powerful and wholly Caitlin. He looked at her with a sad expression on his face, knowing that she was sacrificing her life to save theirs.

She caught him looking. "Go. Get back to- to your Caitlin." Her voice broke, remembering the love that she would never get back with Ronnie.

"Thank you," Barry whispered, almost reaching out to brush her shoulder but holding back.

With one last look behind him, he ran after the others.


Barry took turns flashing everyone back to their STAR Labs headquarters. He brought Wells in last, releasing him to run to his daughter and hug her. Then he strode over to Miles and Angelica, who stood next to each other.

"You two need to get out of Central City. Any place you think you'll be safe from Zoom." He instructed them.

"We...we don't have anyone." Angelica was sorry to say.

"Yeah, my dad was killed by a meta a year ago, and my mom's currently in Atlantis," Miles confirmed.

"What about May?" Wells questions Angelica.

Angelica became sorrowful as she recalled what had happened. "She died of a heart attack a while after Peter did," she said.

Peter knew that Miles wasn't powerful enough with his skills to last long on his own, and Angelica was going to be hunted by Zoom. "Come back with us."

"What?" Angelica asks.

"Come to our world," Peter explains. "You can regroup there, and we can all work out ways to stop Zoom."

Angelica wasn't sure of that request as she looked at Miles, and he shrugged. Nobody knew he was Spider-Man, so his mother would be safe from Zoom. And they won't be able to do this world any good if Zoom kills them.

"Alright." Angelica nodded and followed them to the breach. "Let's go to Earth-2."

"This is...Earth-2." Peter muttered as he followed them.

Cisco and Barry made their way towards where they would open a breach, with Wells and Jesse close behind. The last two were forced to return to Earth-1, with nowhere else to go where Zoom wouldn't find them. An alert went off as they were collecting their things, and Barry rushed after his friends, knowing Zoom was close.


Back on Earth-1, Iris was glued to her phone. "It's almost time," she breathed, watching the clock as it counted down to the heroes' return.

Bobby muttered worriedly, "They have to make it on time."

"I don't care what time it is," Joe muttered. "After all we did to stabilize this breach, we're not closing it until they get here. You all hear me?"

Caitlin nodded immediately, unable to bear the thought that Barry and Cisco would be stuck on that Earth forever because of her. Joe stood in front of the open breach, arms crossed as he waited. Caitlin drummed her fingers on her control board, holding her breath. Where were they?

With a flash of light, two figures appeared in front of the breach. "Cisco!" Joe yelled.

Cisco patted himself down, looking surprised to find he was still in one piece. Next to him was a girl with brown hair, looking bedraggled and dirty. Caitlin's breath caught. It was Jesse. They had done it. But she also noticed that another kid was wearing an outfit similar to Peter's, just with a different color scheme of black and red.

"Get ready to close the breach for good," Cisco yelled frantically, darting down the stairs to the main floor of the room and towards the rest of his team.

"The zoo's coming!" Miles cried as he ran away from the stairwell.

The rest of them stood frozen in wait. Caitlin couldn't take her eyes off of the breach, even as she squeezed Cisco's hand, relieved beyond belief to have him home. The clock ticked down, faster... faster... faster.

"It shouldn't be taking this long..." Cisco murmured nervously.

Jay hovered at the edge of the breach, holding the closing device like a football he was about to make a touchdown with. He would throw it in the second someone told him to... or when the clock ran out.

Caitlin's hands started to shake. Where were they?


Barry sped back to pick up the others, but he was left with seeing Zoom, holding Angelica up and Peter and Wells on the defensive. None of them moved, fearing what the group was going to do with Zoom holding Angelica up.

"Forgetting someone, heroes?" Zoom asks them.

"Let her go, Zoom," Peter demanded, seeing Wells slowly reach for the serum MJ injected into him.

"Close the breach," Angelica muttered through her pain. "Just go."

"I'm not leaving you," Peter promises.

"You're not going anywhere," Zoom tells him.

"Wanna bet on that?" Peter challenged.

Angelica let out a giant fireball of energy, similar to when she had witnessed her friends' deaths, causing Zoom to be blinded by the heat and light. Wells took the opening to shoot the serum at Zoom, causing him to drop Angelica. Barry sped in and grabbed Angelica before going back and grabbing the others before leaping into the portal.


Suddenly, a breach burst into the containment field, and Peter, Angelica, Wells, and Barry hopped through. Everyone was relieved to see everyone else return safely, as well as a few new faces joining them.

Barry yelled at Jay, "Close it! Close it now!"

Jay threw the device through the hole, and the breach began to flicker as it started to close.

"Ha!" Harry cheered as he watched them accomplish their task. "We did it!"

Caitlin raced down the steps and grabbed Barry's shoulder, as he was still carrying a passed-out Angelica. "You did it- you made it!"

Barry was so happy to see her after everything. But he also knew Angelica need some medical attention. "I think she needs some help."

Caitlin looked over the girl and knew she needed to get her to the medical labs. "Should I ask where she came from?"

"Long story," Barry stated.

MJ ran over and enveloped Peter in a hug, pressing her lips to his cheek. "Oh, you have no idea how glad I am to see you!"

Peter chuckled as he looked around the room, but then noticed that Gayle Watson was in the room. "Uh...did we miss something?"

Gwen scoffed upon hearing that. "You have no idea."

"Yeah, you're never allowed to leave this earth again," Bobby agreed as he hugged Peter.

Jay stood outside the breach, grinning at all of them. Barry frowned at him, and the still-flickering blue mass behind him. He was about to tell him to move, just in case, when a leather-clad hand came diving through the breach. And straight through Jay's heart.

Before any of them could move, Jay was dragged through the breach, and the whole thing closed with a flicker of blue light. The bunker was completely silent; everyone stared at the spot where Jay had just been. Nobody moved for a very long time.