Mallus6 - Yeah, they did, they just showed up and manifested at different times. They just sort of got of a mix of both powers at once: Tommy hot reflexes and strength for his dad and Frost tipped fingers, and Tina got senses, adapting to cold and strength.
Gust - That was the Post-Crisis Tommy. In that reality, they were supposed to wait until they were 15 years old, (they're currently 6) Frost and Caitlin were still the same person, and they were supposed to have a talk with their mother before about how their father died and about their powers. THIS is a new reality, where everything changed when Peter and Barry survived Crisis. If you recall, in that same reality, Tommy becomes friends with Nora but never met her beforehand, but now in this world, Patty and Barry are together, Dawn is their child, and they're actually even friends with Dawn. They were told about their powers five years too early, meaning everything's gone off the rails. Everything changed because of Crisis and Battleworld. Caitlin and Frost are separated, and they're having another kid. That NEVER happened in a post Crisis reality because the two were still stuck together and widowed in that world. (neither did Battleworld, but that's a whole different story, literally).
(A/N) I was gonna keep everything the same (which is originally how I wrote the last chapter),but decided to show there were consequences to them changing the outcome of Crisis on Infinite What Ifs.
TWO MONTHS AFTER THEIR POWERS WERE DISCOVERED
Peter rubbed his eyes and let out an exuberated sigh at what he was currently seeing. His daughter was currently on the ceiling while mist came off of her fingertips and froze them on the ceiling.
"We're gonna be here all night, sweetie." Peter warned her from the floor as he watched her continuously struggle. Tina was finally getting the hang of her powers, but it's like every time she goes for one power, the other activates. When she wants sticky fingers, she gets frozen fingers.
Sometimes he questions if that Post-Crisis Tommy made up how in six years they're supposed to win that Nobel Prize.
"I'm trying!" Tina cried as she tried to pull her hands off of the ceiling when Caitlin walked in.
"How's it going in here?" Caitlin asked as she walked up to Peter and noticed Tina was still stuck to the ceiling.
"Worse than Miles." Peter muttered to her. "How's Tommy doing with making snow cones?"
"Actually, he was doing well until he accidentally froze Cisco's foot. But in his defense, he walked up behind him when he was aiming at another target." Caitlin confessed.
"Well, at least one of us are getting somewhere with these kids." Peter said as he looked up to Tina. "Okay, listen, sweetie, just relax your fingers. You need to let go. Be in the moment."
"I am in the moment." Tina cried as she tried to pry her fingers free. "It's a terrible moment!"
"Oka, Tina, just do what you usually do to relax." Caitlin offered some advice.
Tina then began to calm down and think for a second. "Relax." She whispered to herself and then started humming I'll kill you that way.
Peter and Caitlin look a little disturbed, but they're used to it...a little.
"Sometimes I worry about her when she does things like that." Peter confessed to Caitlin who only shrugged in agreement.
"She got my strange personality." Caitlin supposed.
"Mixed in with my weird personality." Peter commented.
"Ain't nothing like Camp Crystal lake." Tina kept humming to herself as her fingers began to pry themselves off the ceiling. "It's nothing but a hmhmhm...I'll kill you that-AHHH!" She finally pried herself off the ceiling and began to fall where she flipped over and landed on her hands and feet while panting in fear. She then quickly got up like it was no big deal. "Well, that was easy."
Peter couldn't help but laugh a little at his daughter's craziness and rolled his eyes.
"How about we call it a day? Cisco wanted to see us." Caitlin tells Peter and looks to Tina. "Why don't you take your brother and go out, do something for a while?"
"Sure." Tina supposed and walked out of the room and out of STAR Labs to find Tommy.
"They're getting better." Peter told Caitlin. "I...I think maybe we should put them on a trial run."
"Wait, you want the two of them to...go out in the field?" Caitlin asked as they walked into the halls and towards the lounge. "Tina couldn't even pry herself off the ceiling."
"Well, it helped Ralph with his powers, it helped Frankie learn her limits." Peter listed the reasons why they should. "And these kids need to learn that-"
"That with great power comes great responsibility." Caitlin and Frost echoed before Peter could finish it as she joined them, with Frost now four months pregnant and having a baby bump showing.
"You say that so often, I'm waiting for you to make it the family motto." Crystal commented as they made it to the lounge and saw that Barry was already there with Frankie and Miles.
"Yo!" Miles cheered as they approached.
"Hey, do you guys know what's going on?" Peter asked them.
"Cisco just said he and Camilla have something to share with us." Barry answered
"Where's Patty?" Caitlin wondered.
"She's back home with Dawn." Barry said as they saw Cisco and Camilla enter the labs.
"Hey, Cisco, what's going on?" Frankie asked him.
"Uh, is everyone here?" Cisco asked and noticed everyone who he wanted was here. "Okay, good, if we can all take a seat?" Everyone then took their seat on the couch in the lounge, Barry sitting in the middle whilst Miles and Frankie were to the right of him whilst Peter, Frost, and Caitlin were sitting on the left.
Yeah, Peter learned about the whole Frankie and Miles situation, and he was okay with the situation. But he did warn Miles if he hurt Frankie in any way, not even Wrath herself would be able to compare to his wrath he will descend down upon him.
"So...you're all probably wondering why I called this team meeting at 9:00 am. On a Saturday." Cisco muttered to himself.
"Oh, babe, we should've brought breakfast." Camilla suddenly realized.
"It's fine." Cisco assured her. "No one's hungry."
"You're kidding, right?" Crystal asked him.
"I could get Belgian waffles. From Brussels." Barry offered to them.
"Oh, yes, just what the mommy ordered." Crystal agreed.
"That sounds great." Caitlin agreed.
"Okay, no, no, no, no, no, no." Cisco stopped all of them. "Okay. As much as I hate to say it, waffles can wait. First, there's something we really need to tell you."
"And we wanted our closest friends to find out first." Camilla continued.
"Are you guys pregnant?" Frankie asked.
"Is there another big bad coming?" Barry asked.
"We have another crisis coming?" Peter asked.
"I'll get the Secret Warriors on the multiverse phone." Caitlin offered.
"I'm sitting this one out." Crystal tells them as she patted the baby bump. "Get our metaverse doppelgänger to take my place. The one with the force powers."
"No." Cisco told them all and gestured to Caitlin. "No." He then looked and pointed to Peter. "No." Then towards Barry. "No." He then looked to Frankie. "And definitely not! There's enough children running around here as it is. No offense, Frost."
"I...I didn't see that as a stab at me." Frost commented.
"Okay, good, because it wasn't." Cisco promised and turned back to the others. "What we wanted to say is..."
"We're leaving Central City." Cisco and Camilla say at the same time.
That news caused the entire room to go dead silent. Nobody dared to utter a word.
Luckily, Frost hasn't learned about this and was the first to say something.
"So, you're gonna leave Central City?" Frost asked. "Like...as in moving?"
"Yeah." Camilla answered. "We both realized that we're ready to begin something new. For me it's my gallery show in Miami, and-"
You guys remember that guy, Chip Cooper?" Cisco asked the geniuses.
"You mean the ARGUS Director of Science and Technology?" Barry asks.
"Well, he's been reassigned to CEMA." Cisco adds on, getting silence once again. "The Cosmic Emergency Management Agency." He explains to all of them. "Wow, I am the biggest nerd here. Anyway, Chip's leaving and thanks to a great recommendation from Lyla and Dig, ARGUS offered me the job. Not to mention my experience with the multiverse and the Metaverse and being a member of the Secret Warriors giving me access to tech on other worlds." He then muttered to himself. "I've got to talk to Ava about trying out that Framework software." He then raised his voice again to talk normally to them. "The thing is they really need me like, yesterday."
"Yeah, and I will be joining Cisco in Star City as soon as my exhibition is done." Camilla finishes explaining.
"Look, I know this is super short notice, but..." Cisco sighs as he looks at the blank expressions everyone has on their faces. "They're both great opportunities for us. And we just hope you guys understand."
"Of course we do, man." Peter said with a smile on his face.
"Yeah, this is great." Barry said with a giant grin on his face.
"So great, we're so happy!" Caitlin said as she put on a smile for him.
"I'm mutual." Frost confesses as she rubs her pregnant belly.
"Yeah..." Cisco says, not expecting them to be thrilled he's leaving.
"It sounds like you guys have a lot to do." Frankie said, playing it cool.
"Uh, I just have to get a couple of things, finish the prototype suits for Tina and Tommy, Dawn's is all ready to go. Then I'll finish packing." Cisco muttered, not really expecting this.
"Well, whatever you need, just let us know." Barry says.
"Okay. Cool. Thanks." Cisco says and walks out of the room with Camilla while they cheered.
"That went better than expected." Camilla commented.
"Yeah." Cisco agreed.
Tommy and Tina looked at the drapes currently hiding their two outfits from plane view after they were told they were officially getting their code names and suits.
"Now, remember, these are just prototypes, considering you both have your parents' powers, I designed them both off of their abilities and designs." Cisco told the kids.
"Okay, we're ready!" Tina stated.
"Are you sure?" Tommy asks.
"Only one way to learn if you're ready." Cisco stated as he ripped the tarp off and revealed their prototypes.
Tina's outfit revealed to be an all one piece outfit that consisted of mostly red in the chest, all the way down along the legs, similar to her father's. The rest of it was completely white all the way down the right and left of her hips and her thighs. All leading down to her red boots, the mask consisting of a similar look to her fathers, only it was attached to the suit and to take down she'd have to yank it down to her neck. The symbols on both ends being a snowflake on the front and a spider on the back. And it left her hair free flowing and the whole suit had the same web patter as her dad's, except it was a more ice colored.
For Tommy's it was an all dark blue suit similar to Spider-Man's suits, but had black boots, black gloves, and black lenses, a snowflake symbol embedded to the back of his suit while the front has a spider symbol and a webbing pattern throughout his suit that was all black.
"I give to you...Spinneret and the Winter-Spider!" Cisco cheered at the naming he did for the two of them.
"Spinneret? Really, Ramon?" Harry asked as he was watching everything from the doorway.
"I'd like to see you come up with something for the Rogue Squadron." Cisco dared him.
"Snow-Spider and Winter-Spider." Harry stated. "Winter-Spider was all right."
"That's too obvious!" Cisco stated as Harry just walked away just as Cisco was attacked by the twins and pulled into a hug.
"We're going to really miss you, Uncle Cisco." Tommy tells him.
Cisco returned their hug and rubbed their heads. "I'm gonna miss you two little troublemakers." He began to tear up a little on the two of his niece and nephew hugging him. "But hey, I'll be back when your younger sibling is born."
"Yeah, but it's not gonna be the same without you here." Tina stated.
Cisco smiled and pulled her closer. "You know, you guys are the first to be actually taking in the news I'm leaving."
"What?" Tommy asks. "Uncle C, you're basically a brother to our parents."
"They say that constantly." Tina confesses.
"You know, maybe you two are onto something." Cisco finally realized. "This is such a big deal they need time to process it. Well, I gotta go pack." He tells the kids and breaks it off before walking off to his labs.
Once he made it to his labs however, he was shocked to see everything was already packed and boxed ready to go.
"What the..?" Cisco questioned as he saw a note from Barry.
'Happy to help - Barry'
"So I guess that's done." Cisco muttered just as Frost strolled in.
"Well, that was fast." Frost commented on how everything's already done. "Well, it helps when your best friend's the Flash, doesn't it?"
"Hm. It does sometimes." Frost agreed.
"So, you're holding it pretty well." Cisco stated.
"Well, I blame this little one." Frost stated as she gestured to her baby currently making it difficult for her to sit down. "But there's something I'd like to tell you."
"What's that?" Cisco asks.
"You suck forever. But I love you anyway." Frost stated as she gave Cisco a hug.
"Frost...you kill me." Cisco chuckled.
"I try." Frost stated as she then strolled out of the room just as Caitlin made her way in.
"Hey, how are things going?" Caitlin asks.
"You know, I'm still not used to the two of you being separate." Cisco admits. "Because from one minute, you're pregnant, and the other, you're not."
"Well, I can't blame myself for what happened between them on Valentine's Day." Caitlin shrugged. "I just wanted to say..."
"What?" Cisco asks.
"Can I have your ID Badge?" Caitlin asks, shocking Cisco again.
"Right." Cisco said as he reached into his pocket and takes his badge to get into the labs to her.
"Thanks. And your access code, please." Caitlin asks.
"Yes, ma'am, happy to help." Cisco says and sighed.
Peter was looking around at Cisco's labs that were now empty, and he was sadly already getting ideas to set up a second lab here instead of keeping everything at the Spider-Lab.
Just then, Barry came in speeding and says they have a new metahuman out there who just robbed a bank.
"How much was stolen?" Caitlin asks.
"Ten million. But nothing was actually stolen." Barry explains, getting confusing glances from them all. "Somehow our suspect got Ellis to give her a cashier's check, then she just strolled out of the bank and drove off in a blue van. But Joe said Ellis was acting so weirdly happy, I thought I'd check to see if our suspect used a neurotoxin on him and found this instead." He typed into the computer and revealed a trail of dark matter.
"Wow, that's more dark matter than I've ever seen." Frankie comments. "And I've seen a lot of it."
"So she's a meta, not a mutant." Peter sighed. "We just need to learn how her powers work now."
"I might be able to help." Caitlin stated as she went to her computer and Frost was downing a Crystal Frost smoothie. "She makes people euphoric."
"What's that mean?" Miles asks.
"She makes them happy." Frankie answered.
"Which is why there's such huge levels of dopamine and serotonin in his scan." Caitlin says.
"These levels are definitely enough to make him...loopy for lack of better term." Barry replies.
"Yeah, he would've done anything she asked him to do." Caitlin confirmed.
"So literally someone who can happy you to death." Frankie commented. "Bad week to have Dawn and Patty be out of town."
"Yeah, well, we thought if Wally and Jesse gave Dawn a new perspective of her powers, she would be able to use them better." Barry tells her just as Cisco came strolling past in the halls but backed up to the cortex when he heard them.
"The good news is the blissful effects of her powers wear off in 24 hours." Caitlin assured them.
"Are you guys debriefing without me?" Cisco asked, getting their attention.
"Hey." Barry greeted.
"Yeah, we didn't wanna bother you, dude." Peter explained. "Figured you'd be busy packing."
"Yeah, well, I wouldn't pass up the chance to solve one last case together, now would I?" Cisco asks.
"Cisco, this is a meta that makes people happy." Frankie informed him. "I think we're over prepared for this one with Metalla, Ultimate Spider-Man, Frost, Flash, as well as mom and Harry on the behind the scenes."
"Actually, you two won't be working on this one." Peter broke to Miles and Frankie.
"Wait, what?" Frankie asks.
"Really?" Miles asks.
"Yeah, this time, I'm gonna have Tina and Tommy help us." Peter breaks to them. "The first mission of Spinneret and Snow-Spider."
"Still stupid names." Harry stated.
"Or we could make taking her down part of our last mission together." Cisco said to them and they're not sure. "Guys, come on, I wanna do this with all of you."
"Well...okay." Barry guesses.
"Great." Cisco stated as he grabbed his Who's Who binder from Crisis and flipped through it. "I heard about the brain scan, and I had major déjà vu. Folks, we've been on this exact emotional roller coaster before. Well, sorta." He muttered on as he went through the binder. "Last time, it was Roy G. Bivolo."
"You mean Rainbow Raider?" Miles asks.
"Exactly." Cisco confirmed. "Except this one makes people happy, not angry. Rainbow Raider 2.0. Which means we already know how to stop her and her weaknesses. Remember that Peter never went mad because his powers didn't work through his lenses? And now we've got three Spider-Men! Well, technically it's Spider-Man, Winter-Spider, and Spinneret."
"Spinneret? That's the name you went with?" Caitlin asks her friend.
"Yeah, I was proud of it, and she seemed to like it fine, especially the suits." Cisco stated with a laugh. "Man, how many people do you think we named over the years? Really, when you do the math, that's a lot of bad guys over the years."
"Hey, when you leave, you should take all those plans with you." Caitlin told him. "I'm sure everything here means a lot to you."
That's not the reaction Cisco was expecting yet again. "Yeah, it does."
Just then, Peter's senses went off and he ducked to avoid a strand of webbing before looking to see it was Tommy and Tina, both now dressed in their outfits, trying out their personalized web shooters.
"Sorry!" They both cried to the room before the alarms went off and saw they found their meta
"Actually, it's a good thing you're here." Peter told them. "It's time to get the two of you some field work."
"Wait, really?" Tina and Tommy asked, shocked to hear they're getting a chance in the field.
"Yep." Peter confirmed.
Cisco then placed his hands on Barry and Peter's shoulders. "Let's do this, one last time."
Their meta was just walking out of a bank when her legs were immediately webbed up, followed by a flash of lightning and Peter landing beside Barry.
"All right, crime spree is over, hand over the case." Barry demanded of her.
"You think I'm a crook?" She asked the two of them.
"Uh, yeah." Peter stated, waiting for his kids with the device.
"Flash, Spider-Man, you've both got it wrong." She informed the two of them.
Just then, they heard screaming and saw Tommy was falling off the side of a building and crashed onto a parked car with their prismatic light grid.
Luckily, Tina had much better luck due to the fact she took gymnastics and leaped from the roof of the store, down to the light post that she used to grab onto and flipped over before landing on her feet.
"Nice moves, kid." Their meta congratulated Tina as her brother pried himself off of the car and dragged the device. "Who's the new members of the super team?"
"I'm Spinneret." Tina introduced herself before pointing at her brother with her thumb. "And that's my sidekick."
"Wait, no." Tommy groaned as he placed a hand on his knee. "If anything, you're my sidekick."
"Oh, right, said the trainee who couldn't even land on his feet." Tina scoffed.
"Let me guess; siblings?" Rainbow Raider 2.0 asked them. "Yeah, kinda obvious, kids. A dynamic duo with the powers of Spider-Wait!" She then looked over to the elder two heroes. "Are these your kids?! Oh, my god, this is just too god! We've got a family of spiders. What are those called?"
"A clutter?" Tommy asked, confusing everyone on why he knows that. "I did a whole assignment on them."
"Overachiever." Tina muttered.
"Let's just end this." Tommy stated as he raised the light grid and waited for something to happen. "Well this is awkward."
"You're supposed to turn the thing." Tina informed him and flipped the switch, causing the lights to begin to flash and they wait for it to work, just as it short circuits.
"Well, that was cute." Rainbow Raider comments. "Wanna see a real light show now?" She then threw her hands out, causing all of them to hide their faces and they saw she left a trail of lights exiting from her hands.
They saw that everyone who was hit by the lights then began to become overjoyed as someone got into a car and got ready to race and someone further was running with a shopping cart, giant grins on their faces.
"We've got this. You guys watch her." Barry tells the Rogue Squadron and speeds off to stop the vehicle and Peter webbed the shopping spreer just as Barry brought them both to the hospital.
When Peter returned, he saw Tommy and Tina standing still with their backs turned to them.
"Where'd she go?" Peter asks the kids. "Winter-Spider? Spinneret?"
The twins then turned to face their father.
"That's our name!" Tina cheered.
"Don't wear them out! We just got them." Tommy stated.
"Dad, I'm so happy that you trusted us enough to bring us out here on a mission like this!" Tina stated as she walked over and hugged her dad, followed by Tommy.
"Okay...this is happening." Peter whispered as he kept his kids close.
Barry just sped back and saw the family. "What..."
"They got whammed." Peter explains and Barry couldn't help but laugh at them.
Caitlin, Peter, and Frost sighed as they saw their kids were just talking back and forth on just about anything that interested them.
"You know, maybe I should go by Winter, and you should keep going by Spinneret." Tommy tells his sister. "That way, when they put our names together, we get Winter-Spinneret."
"At least they're not raging out or trying to kill us." Caitlin guesses.
"Why didn't the prism grid work? Did Tommy damage it?" Peter asks Caitlin.
"No, actually, it was designed to withstand that type of fall." Cisco informed him.
"The theory we've come up with is that Roy used one color of the spectrum." Harry tells them.
"That being red." Caitlin continued.
"But our new 2.0 version uses the whole rainbow." Peter realizes. "Making her powers seven times stronger than Roy."
"So using the grid, she just overloaded it with vibrational energy from the entire electromagnetic spectrum." Barry finishes.
"All things considered; I think it was a successful first mission." Tommy tells his father. "Dad, I am your son." He said in a Darth Vader voice.
"Did you know that Leia was supposed to be the real last Jedi?" Tina questioned her family. "Yeah, that was gonna be the focus of the last movie."
"That would've made that trilogy better." Cisco commented just as Tommy accidentally rolled too far and fell off the bed.
"Speaking of which, they're going to be like this until tomorrow." Caitlin says.
"We'll have to come up with a better plan to stop her. If she got through to their lenses, she could get through to mine." Peter tells the team.
"We'll find her, I'll work fast, meta cuff her." Barry promises.
"Okay, but what about them?" Frost asked, looking at the twins.
Tommy jumped up off the ground with a wide smile. "I love superhero durability."
"We're gonna need a babysitter." Peter sighed.
Later on, Caitlin located their Rainbow Raider 2.0 again and Barry was on his way there.
"Satellite's picked up our perp's van parked outside of Ferris airfield." Caitlin reported whilst Peter and Frankie were with him on standby whilst Miles was on babysitting duty.
"There's no banks or jewelry stores out there." Peter commented. "What's she doing this time?"
Barry sped over to the location, but the second he turned around, he was met with Rainbow Raider 2.0 looking right at her eyes.
"Looking for me, red?" Rainbow Raider asks. "You heroes, always on a mission. I'm on one too. So be happy boy and enjoy some me time, somewhere else!"
"Okay." Barry said and sped off.
Peter and Frankie just made it to where she was and watched Barry speed off and that Rainbow Raider was nowhere to be found. "And now the Flash just got whammed."
"Where's he going?" Frankie wonders.
Caitlin was watching as he left the city and then lost the signal on him.
"I don't know where he is." Caitlin warns them just as her phone goes off and she sees its Patty. Quickly answering it, she wonders what's wrong. "Patty?"
"Hey, what's wrong with Barry?"
"Found him." Caitlin tells them.
Peter, Caitlin, and Frost all sighed as they were able to get Flash back...but he's currently dancing with the twins and Cisco's enjoying the whole thing.
"Barry, honey, sweetie, why don't we take a break from the dancing?" Caitlin called to her friend and children.
"Yo! She said break dance!" Tommy cheered.
Barry then sped and slid access the floor before break dancing.
"Since when could you break dance?" Frankie asks.
"Since I sped watched 17 break dancing videos online." Barry stated.
"It's like raising a house of children." Frost sighed as she held up a device. "Hey, children! Say cheese!"
All of them came up to Frost and had smiles just as she pulled the trigger, and several flashing lights came in and blinded them for a minute.
"You guys good?" Peter asks.
"Not the word I'd use." Tommy groaned as he grabbed his head.
"Oh, I haven't felt like this since that brain freeze for eating all that ice cream." Tina groaned as she also held her head.
"I'm a lot less happy." Barry agreed.
"Perfect." Frost sighed.
"How'd you do that?" Caitlin asks Frost and Cisco.
"I thought that if we focused Carrie's full spectrum light particles through a vibration filter, then it'd counteract her effects." Cisco explains. "Cisco Ramon saves the day one last time."
"Carrie put a Ferris Air logo on her van." Barry groaned out.
"I think I know why." Cisco said as he pulled up blueprints on a blimp. "This is a stealth dirigible with a bleeding edge auto-navigation and a two ton payload. And guess where it just got stolen from?"
"Why steal a blimp? I'd steal like an invisible plane or something." Tommy commented.
"Note to self, make that." Peter commented and quickly wrote that down.
"The blimp actually can cloak itself, making it untraceable even to all of our satellites." Cisco tells them.
"Hey, Cisco, you're gonna be like a boss at ARGUS, so maybe they might have something to help us." Barry said and that only seemed to annoy Cisco.
"Yeah, why don't I just show up a day early, report for duty and ask them in person? Why don't I just do that?!" Cisco asked them before leaving the room.
"I think he's taking him leaving harder than the rest of us." Peter took a guess.
Meanwhile, Cisco went to his cleaned out labs and looked at the photo taken on their first year as a team, when it was just the five of them.
The OG Wells (technically Eobard, or maybe not Crisis did change a lot), Caitlin, Peter, Barry in his OC, and himself. So young, just starting their careers as crime fighting heroes. Even though Peter's been at it long before that.
Before everything became bigger than they could possibly imagine. When it was just a new metahuman of the week versus all of them. Before the multiverse, before Flashpoint, before their sidekicks, before the Crisis, before their families grew, before Battleworld.
Thinking back to the Glory Days.
Later on, he walked into the lounge to find only Caitlin, Harry, Barry, and Peter were there. Frost stayed behind with the kids while Miles and Frankie just stayed behind with her as May was supposed to be coming in soon and she needed to hear the news too.
"Listen, I don't know what's got you guys so ready to get rid of me, but maybe we should just say goodbye now and get over with it." Cisco said, missing their shocked looks on their faces, except for Harry who just looked...like Harry.
"Cisco, we really messed up." Caitlin confesses as she has a crack in her voice.
"Yeah, we did." Peter agrees with just as much sadness.
"Man, we're barely holding it together." Barry agrees.
"Really?" Cisco asks. "This whole time, I thought you guys just didn't care that I was leaving."
"We are so sorry we made you feel that way." Caitlin apologized. "But when your told us, I mean, we just decided to put on a brave face so we could get through our last day together so you could move on." She began to break down and tear up. "And your last day wouldn't be a tear fest."
"Come on, Caitlin, have you met us?" Cisco asks her. "I was there when you and Frost nearly got rid of Peter's right hand from giving birth to twins. We were all there for the fall of the multiverse and its rebirth. I designed your children's super suits, even for the one that isn't even born yet!"
"Wait, you did what?" Peter asked, this the first he's heard of a suit for the child that has yet to be even born. And if Caitlin's tests are any indication, they might not even be a meta or mutant.
"We were all there when the multiverse all came together and became part of an inner-dimensional super team called Secret Warriors, which by the way, what is so secret about us?" He finally questioned just as Caitlin just smiled and pulled him into a hug.
"We're gonna miss you so much." Caitlin cried as Peter placed a hand on Cisco's shoulder.
"You and Ronnie were there for me when I first began this crime fighting spree...without you even knowing it. You guys gave me strength to keep fighting." He then joined in on the hug, but then whispered closely. "We're talking about that suit later."
"Fine." Cisco sighed. "I'm gonna miss you guys, too."
"Honestly, I thought if we started talking about you leaving, we'd try to convince you to stay...and you would." Barry confesses.
"We've all taken leaps in life to get where we are." Peter tells Cisco. "If I didn't take a leap, I wouldn't be married to this beautiful and intelligent woman." He says while looking to Caitlin.
"What about Frost?" Caitlin asks him.
"She's a completely unrelated and completely related subject on the matter." Peter whispered back. He loves Frost, cares about her, and all. But he fell in love with Caitlin first and will the one holding his heart. Frost does have it too, but again, Caitlin had it first.
It's a strange relationship, we've established that.
"There wouldn't be a team Spider-Flash without Cisco Ramon." Barry agreed with his friends.
"I did build some pretty rad suits." Cisco muttered happily.
"Yeah, you did." Peter agreed.
"Remember when me and Fox had that huge argument on how to design Miles' suit?" Cisco asked with a chuckle.
"You guys wrecked half of my suits on that day." Peter laughed at the memory.
"Hey, I fixed them all." Cisco defended.
"Except from the electrical insinuated suit." Harry stated as he drank his coffee. "That was fun to learn when he was fighting Electro."
"It's a good thing you had backup on that mission." Caitlin joked, getting Barry thinking of their meta again.
"What do you say we learn why our thief stole the blimp and we can celebrate?" Cisco asks.
"I think I know what her plan is." Barry confesses.
"Wow, look at that, Allen was right." Harry said as he looked over the information on Carrie Bates. "She's been fired from six different collection agencies in the past three months."
"Why?" Frankie asks as she was sitting in the right side of the computer.
"Says because when someone had a medical debt, she'd cancel it instead of collect it." Peter answers.
"That makes sense." Barry understood. "Carrie didn't steal all of that money and jewels for herself."
"She's gonna use the blimp and make it literally rain money and jewels." Frost finished just as the alerts went off and they finally caught the blimp.
"If she drops all of that on the streets, it's gonna be chaos." Peter stated and turned to the twins. "We can't swing or run up to the blimp, but we could use an ice slide."
"Wait, us?" Tina asks. "I...I don't know if I can do that. I mean, I'm better at the ice thing than Tommy, no offense."
"None taken." Tommy whispered.
They then looked and saw something on the news that made this day worse. "The Gotham Goliaths are feeling small in Central City, where the Sharks are leading by 21 points in the fourth quarter."
"Great. As if things weren't bad enough." Cisco muttered. "20,000 screaming football fans are about to exit Shark Stadium all at once."
"Drunk sports fans tearing each other apart, fighting over diamonds and cash falling from the sky?" Caitlin asks.
"We need all hands on deck for this one." Barry agreed with them. "Not you, Frost."
"Thank goodness." Frost sighed. She was getting more and more tired due to the pregnancy, mostly because she's working , seems this baby might not be a meta but he's an active one that loves to tire his mother out.
"We've got to stop this before it starts." Barry stated. "We still need to get on that blimp."
Tommy and Tina both looked at one another and just sighed and knew they needed to step up.
"How do we do this?" Tommy asks.
"Together?" Tina guesses.
Carrie was taking the blimp right over the city when she looked and noticed an ice slide being formed and making its way up towards her.
"What is that?" Carrie asks.
"This was a mistake!" Tommy cried as he and Tina were currently back to back, him using his powers to freeze them a slide and Tina using her powers to push them.
"You chose the front!" Tina reminded her brother.
"I thought it'd be less stressful!" Tommy stated.
"Just calm down and focus on getting us up there, you're doing great, buddy!" Peter said as he and Barry were right beside the twins, keeping them together.
The second they got close enough, Barry grabbed ahold of everyone and knew what he had to do. "Hold on." He began to phase all of them, and they fall straight through the ice slide and into the blimp.
"Flash? Spider-Man?" Carrie asks and gets ready to release more energy onto them, but just ended with Tommy and Tina both blasting her with either ice or webs and entrapping her hands, followed with Barry handcuffing her with meta cuffs. "Come on, red and blue, give me a break! I'm just trying to help ordinary people get ahead."
"Yeah, we got that, but there's a better way to help people." Barry stated as Peter went to the controls.
"Is there?" Carrie asks. "Because folks are really hurting right now. Some people can barely put food on the table, let alone pay rent. Wanna know why? Because the system left them behind. They need help. Real help. The kind that comes after you're gone. That's where I step in, I car what happens."
"I do, too. Which is why instead of sending you to Iron Heights, I'm gonna recommend what sentence you get with Mayor Sampson's economic development committee." Barry stated to her. "And I'm seeing you're the perfect woman for the job."
"So...slight problem." Peter warned them. "The ice might've made its way into the controls."
Tina looked towards Tommy and her lenses looked down on him and Tommy widened his lenses in shock. "Hey, I'm trying!"
"And you guys have got two minutes before you run into the stadium!" Harry warned them all.
"Great, time for Plan B!" Peter called in.
"We had a Plan B?" Tommy asks.
"Of course dad had a Plan B." Frankie said as she landed on top of the stadium. "He's working on three backup plans at once. He's been doing this a long time." She then raised her hands and began to slow down the blimp and stop it from crashing. But it seemed to be heavier than she expected as it came down and she began to hold more than she can keep up.
Frankie groaned and kept the blimp up as long as she could whilst the others did their best, but she began to be pushed through the ceiling of the stadium due to the magnetic pulse.
"Okay, she's buying us some time." Peter said as he pried open the panel. "But just in case, Barry, get down there and empty that stadium."
"On it." Barry promises and phase through the floor and got to work exiting the stadium.
"Now it's up to us." Peter tells the kids.
"Us?" The twins asked in unison.
"Yeah, I need the two of your to help me thaw this ice and I work on the controls." Peter tells the kids.
"Wait, we can melt ice?" Tommy asks.
"You guys are more powerful than me or your mom." Peter tells them as Barry was just finishing getting everyone out. "You can manipulate the ice particles and remove them."
Tommy and Tina looked to one another, no idea how they're gonna do it to a small area like this and just walked over to the controls and placed their hands on it.
"Come on, guys. You can do it." Peter said as he watched the ice begin to slowly thaw. "Not to worry you kids, but we're running out of time."
Frankie then fell to her knees as the blimp was coming too close for comfort for her as she did her best to keep herself and the blimp steady.
"This isn't working, dad." Tommy informed her father.
Peter would've responded, but he was immediately zapped by the damaged controls. "Yeah, I'm agreeing." He said as he held his zapped hand. "We need something else to freeze this blimp."
Tina then suddenly got a better idea. "Wait a minute...we can't free the controls, freeze the blimp!"
"You want us to freeze the entire blimp?" Tommy wanted to make sure he understood his sister.
"Yeah, then Frankie can set it down in the park or something." Tina stated.
"That's not a bad plan." Peter agreed with what she was saying.
"I hate you both." Tommy stated and just began to release mist from his fingertips. "You ready?"
"I was born ready." Tina stated as she repeated her brothers action.
Then in unison, the two of them crossed their arms and then shot them out, releasing a blast of mist that froze everything within the blimp and caused it to shut down.
Frankie sighed in relief as the blimp stopped fighting against her and she was able to get it far enough away and back to Ferris Air.
It didn't take long for the news to catch wind of their new two members and the city seems to be split on the new members Spinneret and Winter-Spider, they got Carrie set up to work out her sentence by helping the Mayor's office, whilst the rest of the team were making sure they had no plans to have their surprise party for Cisco.
Cisco was just taking his last time looking around STAR Labs and saw that Peter left some of his stuff in Cisco's old workshop.
"An end of an era." A familiar voice called making Cisco look to see it was Frankie. "I can't believe this is happening."
"Yeah, well, it's time for all of us to move on." Cisco guessed.
"I'm really gonna miss you." Frankie confesses as she hugged him.
"What, couldn't wait for the party?" Cisco asks.
"Actually, I'm not gonna be there. I'm taking the twins to go and see a movie." Frankie informed him. "And then maybe take them out on their first night patrol with Miles."
Cisco laughed and broke the hug. "Have fun growing up with a third sibling."
"A sibling with no powers and I won't be around often to be waken up by his crying every night this time?" Frankie sarcastically asks. "I will be perfectly fine."
"You say that now..." Cisco drew off jokingly.
Frankie then made her way out of the labs as Cisco just thinks back to all of their memories: All of their villains they've fought over the years, all the worlds they've saved, all the heroes they've met, all the friends they've made. It's been a long road, but it's time to move on to the next lane.
Snow-Parker-Frost house
"I'm gonna miss speedster delivery." Cisco admits as the ere eating pizza straight from Italy. "Like what am I gonna do the next time I want pizza this fresh?"
"Take a trip to Italy?" Frost guesses as she took a piece.
"Or come back and visit us." Peter stated.
"Just watch me." Cisco stated.
"So you're actually buying a place in Star City?" May asked.
"That is the plan." Cisco confirmed.
"That's a big step, but I'm proud of you." Joe stated as he held a drink.
"And it goes without saying, you'll always have a place here." Peter promises him.
"Just maybe not here." Frost warned him. "With three kids and number 4 on the way, the house is getting a little crowded with the whole two wives and one husband situation."
"Thanks, guys." Cisco said with a laugh. "Oh, I almost forgot, I have something for you to remember me by." He said as he reached down and picked up a bag before tossing shirts at the team.
Joe caught his and it what looked to be two narwhals fighting with lightsabers for horns.
"As a token of how special you all are to me." Cisco stated as Harry looked at his and he saw it had a face of annoyed cat with the phrase: Ask me how my day is going
"I should've seen that coming." Harry muttered to himself.
Caitlin opened her shirt and recognized it easily, it was an all red shirt with the phrase: Keep calm and Han Solo shot first on it.
"You wore this on your first day at STAR Labs." Caitlin remembered easily.
"What can I say?" Cisco shrugged. "Form the beginning, you made me feel right at home."
Frost opened hers and it wasn't a shirt, but a baby sized suit that looked similar to her original outfit, with a light blue jacket, a shirt with a snow pattern all around it, black pants, and then there was a small mask that covered only the eyes on a doll.
"What the hell is this?" Frost asks him, but the others laughed a little at the sight.
"Well, I designed the first pack of children's suits off of Spider-Man, I thought one of them should've been based off of you." Cisco shrugged.
"Well, that's sweet." Peter guesses as he opened his shirt and saw it was one of Spider-Man and Vibe hanging out with the other Spider-Men of the multiverse they've met, portals opened around them to show off their unique worlds. "Okay, this is pretty cool."
"Well, how many times do you get to say you've met yourself?" Cisco asked.
"You've literally met two alternative versions of yourself." Peter reminded him.
"Yeah, but one was evil, one came from another reality-dimension." Cisco stated.
"All right, it's your night," Barry tell Cisco. "What do you want to do next?"
Cisco grew a gigantic grin and knew exactly what he wanted to do.
They brought out the karaoke machine that Peter got Caitlin for their anniversary as a joke and Cisco began to play Poker Face.
"This song?" Caitlin asks as it began to play.
"You know, I didn't even put this as my favorite song on my Facebook, I don't know who did that." Barry confesses.
"You already know what time it is." Cisco stated, and they knew there was no turning back now.
"This is my jam, though." Barry guesses.
"This is my jam." Cisco informed Barry and began beating to them beat and dancing. "I wanna hold 'em like they do in Texas, please."
"Oh, god." Frost groaned at how bad this is.
"Fold 'em, let 'em, hit me. Raise it, baby, stay with me." Barry keeps singing.
"Luck and intuition play the cards with spades to start." The two began singing in a duo. "Yeah, and after he's been hooked I'll play the one that's on his heart."
"Oh, oh, oh. Oh." Joe suddenly got in on it.
"Come on, Parker family!" Cisco cheered on the Parker's in the room.
"I'm good, thank you." May said as she laughed.
Peter looked to Caitlin and the two just went for it. "Can't read my, can't read my, can't read my."
"Can't read my poker face!" Caitlin cried into the mic.
"Oh, this is sad." Frost sighed.
"Agreed." Harry scoffed.
The next day after Cisco left they found a note in his workshop along with a phone.
'I promise if you need us- -if you need me, I'll be there.'
A hero's work is never truly over...