And now another bedtime story for you wonderful readers out in the world.

I hope you are all safe and healthy wherever you might be in the wide world.

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Now as expected, this is the chapter where Evelyn and Ruby meets the entire team, including their new sister and their new mother.

So without further ado…

ENJOY!

Chapter 23: The Revelation and Potential Energy

"Soooo you guys just want to let us stand here like idiots with our hands up, or are there actual questions?"

Knowing how her sister is and how she is shaking right now, Ruby felt the need to break the tense silence as they both stood in the middle of the Cortex, suspicious eyes pointed at them from every person in S.T.A.R. Labs. It was like a room full of googling eyes were focused on them and it felt uncomfortable.

While Evelyn tried to try not to keep herself from shaking nervously, she couldn't help but feel her eyes drift to Caitlin and Frankie who both stood with crossed arms and suspiciously looking at them. They looked at them with disbelief and suspicion that felt like daggers.

The young metahuman couldn't blame them, seeing as they arrived at their doorstep and outright told them that they're Frankie's sisters.

Caitlin was curious as to who these two might be and why they said they were Frankie's sisters. But as she let those very words sink in, she couldn't help but think back to her daughter's life before meeting Seth and the rest of their family. Thinking back to the life where her daughter was a foster child, bouncing from foster home to foster home since she was young.

Frankie was just as curious and confused and disbelieving as her mother. She couldn't keep her eyes off the two girls who called themselves her sisters. And she couldn't believe it… but Magenta told her they weren't lying. If it was a lie, then they must believe it. This confused her a lot and she couldn't force her mind off it no matter how hard she was trying.

Joe, Iris were confused as well, but they were still dealing with the shock that their son and brother, Wally West had just visited them on Christmas Eve and met them for the first time ever. It was an eventful evening and couldn't believe he wasn't the only surprise visitor that night.

Barry and Cisco shifted his gaze between the two girls with questioning glances. They didn't know what to say or even think at this moment, just wondering how Caitlin and Frankie are dealing with this strange development.

Jay looked at the brown-haired girl's form suspiciously as though he had seen her before, but he was unsure. But she did seem familiar to the powerless metahuman. He just couldn't place his finger on it.

Matt and Olivia didn't think of anything and shared a look before they both looked to the girls. the kept her telepathy sharp in case of some eerie thoughts forming in the two girls' minds, but so far it didn't seem like that.

The nanite mutant started off the questioning. "Who are you two, and why did you say you were Frankie's sisters?"

Olivia turned to her niece with an inquiry. "Frankie, did you have sisters when you were in foster homes?"

"No, I was alone in most of them. The ones with other children, I didn't last long in." Frankie replied to her aunt before returning her attention to the two girls.

"So again, who are you two, exactly?" Matt asked them suspiciously.

"That's… a bit of a story." Evelyn shyly answered with a scared tone.

Caitlin stepped forward and patted both Olivia and Matt's shoulders. "Calm down, you two. I don't think we have to interrogate them like they're bad people, I don't get that feeling from them."

"Yeah, you're right." Olivia agreed, she mostly felt fear and nervousness from them both. One of them at least, the other one seemed more confident though.

"Sorry about that, girls." Matt expressed.

Caitlin smiled to the two mutants and to her daughter before looking to the girls again. "Let's start off with something simple, how about that?" She directed to both the girls and her friends in the Cortex, this way not to startle the girls or treating them like enemies.

Cisco nodded and gestured to them. "What're your names?"

Ruby started off. "I'm Ruby Hale." That surname caused the two mutants to narrow their eyes with familiarity like they've heard it before.

Evelyn then continued. "I'm Evelyn Sharp."

"Ruby Hale…" Olivia muttered that name to herself.

"Evelyn Sharp…" Jay muttered the other name to himself.

"And how are you my sisters, I've never heard of you two before." Frankie stated, mixture of fear and… something else dwelling inside of her.

"Rubs?" Evelyn got the former assassin's attention. "I think it's better if we tell them everything."

"Yeah, I think Evelyn's right about that." Barry agreed with her.

"Fine, might be the best solution for this." Ruby agreed with a huff.

"Wait." Jay got their attention and pointed a finger to the brown-haired girl. "I think I've seen you before."

"You've seen this girl in the city before, Garrick?" Joe asked.

At that name, Evelyn widened her eyes with realization. "Wait, you're The Flash from my world!" At those words, realization dawned on them all like an avalanche.

"That's him?" Ruby said with disbelief and pointed a finger to the powerless speedster. Getting a nod of confirmation from her sister, the former assassin faced Jay and stated. "No offense, man, but you got no sense when it comes to fashion. Your suit looked ridiculous."

"I think I like this one." Olivia chuckled at her brutal honesty.

"I knew it, you're from my world too, from Earth-2." Jay revealed. "You're a metahuman too, one that was hunted by the police force and Zoom himself."

"You were hunted?" Iris stated to Evelyn. "Why?"

Evelyn didn't answer and Jay answered immediately. "She was hunted because she was responsible for killing her own parents and she kept stealing from a lot of people."

"I-I…" Evelyn stammered with wetting eyes, Olivia perking up at those eyes as did Caitlin. Both of them focused on her.

Jay swung his head to the others. "Guys, we shouldn't trust them. They might be Zoom's enforcers-"

"Garrick." Olivia stopped him with a cold glare. The powerless speedster feeling himself lose all will to move, even the ability to move his muscles itself. "Shut up." The two girls turned surprised.

"Liv, you're not seriously trusting them because they spout some lie about being your niece's sisters, are you?" Jay asked in disbelief.

"What I choose to believe is my business." Olivia countered coldly; she turned her eyes back to the shaking Evelyn. "And I can spot a killer when I see one."

"And Jay, Evelyn's not one." Caitlin added and the young girl looked at her with a grateful smile. "Sorry you two, we're just a bit surprised with all of this."

"It's okay, I guess." Ruby said understandingly.

"How about we dial back then?" Matt suggested and returned to the previous question. "We know you're from Earth-2, but how about you tell us the rest before we throw around any assumptions." The mutant said with a glance to the powerless speedster.

"Earth-2?" Ruby faced Evelyn. "Must be your world then."

Wiping her eyes of the tears, Evelyn chuckled. "Wonder what your world might be then."

Matt twisted his head at those words, wondering what was going on there.

Ruby then inhaled deeply and started. "We're not from this world, we're from… this Earth-2 world." She pointed a finger to Evelyn. "Well, Evelyn's from there at least." The others took note of that. "But we're from that world and we… We were Zoom's prisoners."

"Zoom held other prisoners?" Olivia stated with surprise.

"Yeah." Evelyn nodded. "We were his prisoners for different reasons. I was on the run because the police, my friends and family believed that I was the one who killed my parents because I turned into a metahuman. But I didn't kill my parents, that was Zoom. He got interested in my power and invaded my home and he killed… my parents in front of me." She revealed, haunted by the memories of that horrific event.

"Sorry to hear that." Joe expressed.

Shaking off the feelings that followed the memories, Evelyn said. "It's okay. But I was on the run for a while because of that and tried to get away from Central City, but Zoom caught up to me and kidnapped me. I was his prisoner for a little more than six months because of that."

"Six months?" Barry repeated. "Some time before the Singularity?"

"Yeah." Evelyn nodded. "There I met Ruby." She nodded to her sister.

Realizing what that mean, Cisco states. "Oh you two aren't biological sisters?"

"Nah, we're cooler than that." Ruby smugly answered. Olivia laughing at her attitude. "But we met a guy there, you might be familiar with."

Caitlin realized what that meant and stated. "You two met Seth."

"Bingo." Ruby confirmed and watched as all of them formed smiles. "One crazy guy you guys know."

"No kidding." Matt agreed. "So he saved you guys?"

"After about six months as Zoom's prisoner himself, yeah." Evelyn said.

"Why so long?" Joe asked.

"He couldn't use any of his powers for a really long time." Ruby said.

"Most likely because of him releasing elements in the inner ring of the Singularity." Caitlin suggested.

"Would make sense, releasing takes a shitload of energy." Olivia agreed with that suggestion.

Matt narrowed his eyes on Ruby's hands, shifting between the scars. "Ruby what happened to your hands?"

Ruby held up her hands and rubbed them slowly. "Courtesy of Hotel Zoom, his version of a welcome gift. One of his metahumans burned my hands when I fought back when I was kidnapped."

"You fought back against a metahuman? Tough girl." Iris impressively said.

"Well I'm not a metahuman but I do have powers myself." Ruby revealed.

"What kind?" Cisco giddily asked, wondering what they are and what name would suit her.

"What's going on here?" they all looked to the lab to the left and saw Harry Wells stepping out of it, his energy rifle hanging from his shoulder. Evelyn widened her eyes with shock again. She wondered how many people from her world had entered this world now. The scientist from Earth-2 turned his head to the centres of attention. "You?"

"You?!" Evelyn screamed, her body giving off a mixture of darkness and light that touched everyone's eyes. She felt fear creep into her when Harry aimed his rifle at her. Yelping in shock and fear, everyone watched as darkness enveloped her in an instant and she disappeared in a dark smokescreen.

Though they saw that, they all had other thoughts running through their heads as to what happened to Evelyn.

Matt twisted his head to Harry. "Wells, if you shot that poor girl, I will shove a bomb down your throat!"

"Sounds too easy for him." Olivia growled and took out her whip. "How about we strangle him instead? Let him suffer a bit."

"Guys calm down!" Caitlin told the mutants.

Harry gave them dry looks. "I thought you two were smart, don't you know how a rifle works? You aim, pull trigger and it fires. Nothing was fired! I didn't do anything!" He flatly told them.

"He didn't do anything." Ruby told them and they tuned their eyes to her. "It's Evelyn's power, she can teleport."

"Teleport?" Frankie inquired but felt like there was more to it. The darkness that instantly wrapped around Evelyn seemed familiar to her.

YELP

Matt turned his eyes upwards, instinctively shooting out his arms as Evelyn fell into his arms. "Wow!" He exclaimed in shock of her dropping in on them like that. "What the hell, Evelyn?"

"Sorry, still getting the hang of it on this Earth. Thanks for catching me." Evelyn thanked the man.

"No worries." Matt let her down and turned to his wife. "Never expected to see another one with Nightcrawler's ability."

"Yeah, someone else than Peek-A-Boo." Olivia scratched her hair. Stopping she asked the two girls. "But that doesn't explain why you two call yourselves Frankie's sisters? Did my brother have something to do with this?"

"You're Seth's sister?" Ruby asked and got a nod. "Cool hair. But that's sorta what happened after he saved us and another girl around our age. He saved us and trained us on how to use our powers for a long time. And when Zoom and his goons tried to attack either us or even Central City on that Earth, he stopped them too. He…" she looked to Frankie. "He took care of us." The magnekinetic gaped her mouth.

"Temporarily, taking over The Flash's job, in a violent manner too." Evelyn sheepishly added.

"And what happened next?" Frankie asked, her voice and eyes laced with impatience.

"Seth had this plan." Ruby took over again. "He asked some others for help to find a breach while he took care of a massive problem in the city's underground. And then he brought us to that breach… and Zoom came and kidnapped Jesse."

"Jesse?" Harry asked, his mouth gaping.

"The third girl with us, she was there as Zoom's prisoner too." Ruby said. "Seth saved her too."

"I know that, she's my daughter!" Harry screamed. "Is she here too?"

"Nope, just said she was kidnapped, again." Ruby flatly said. "And by the way, your daughter is a whiney mess."

"Excuse me?" Harry said.

"Another question, another time, Wells." Matt halted him with a palm facing the otherworldly scientist. "But what happened to Seth? Why didn't come with you two?"

"And you still haven't answered why you're my sisters?" Frankie now asked, curiouser than before.

Evelyn answered. "When Jesse was kidnapped by Zoom, Seth tried to fight him but he rushed off with her before his attack hit. And we were about to step through the breach, together, but he decided to stay back because… because he promised Jesse and the rest of us that he would protect us all, all of three of us. He said he couldn't turn his back to Jesse or face any of you if he broke a promise." She turned to Frankie. "He said he couldn't face his daughter or his girlfriend. So he stayed behind… and we called him… Dad."

Now they all looked at them with wide eyes and wide mouths.

Olivia laughed. "My brother treated you two like his daughters…" she threw her eyes to her magnekinetic. "Because he misses his first daughter."

"And you two wanted to be part of his family." Matt smiled.

"Guess it was nice to finally have someone who treated me like his daughter, someone better than my mother." Ruby smiled.

"I missed having a dad." Evelyn smiled.

The psychic looked to the doctor who continued wearing disbelief on her face and she couldn't hear anything in her head.

Though the others appeared to believe those words, Jay remained distrusting. "You guys aren't believing this, are you?"

"No offense, Garrick, but you don't know Seth like we do." Matt told him.

"For once, I agree with Garrick on this." Harry surprised them with his words. "For all we know, Seth is still on Earth-2 because Zoom recaptured him and my daughter and these two here lied their way into a deal, which is why they're here and sprouting lies to gain our trust so they can stab us in the back."

"Seth's not weak to let that happen, and if it meant staying behind, he'd even let others escape to safety." Caitlin defended her boyfriend. "That's the kind of man he is."

"You haven't seen your boyfriend in months now, Snow. He could change." Harry stated while glaring daggers at the girls.

Jay nodded. "He's right, our Earth might change your friend."

"You guys don't know my Dad." Frankie stated angrily, she didn't like how these two were looking down on her father, to the point where they were accusing him. Her eyes shining magenta from her brimming anger.

Barry bit his lower lip before admitting. "I don't doubt that Seth's strong and I don't think he's defeated or turned or anything," he looked to the girls again. "but these two are telling us stuff that we can't confirm in anyway."

"Not like Seth is here to tell us the truth." Cisco mused.

"The bags!" Evelyn realized in her mind, unbeknownst to her Olivia heard her thoughts and looked intrigued. "Ruby, the bags that he gave us."

"What bags?" Iris asked.

"These." Ruby pulled out a filthy bag, one with sparkles of gold. Evelyn pulled out a similar bag, one not shining. "Seth gave us these before we jumped into the breach. He told us to get these to… Matty."

The nanite mutant dropped his head. "Of course, he wouldn't use my real name, the bastard." He sneered as he walked to the girls. "My real name is Matt Stark, so you don't end up calling me Matty every now and then." He took the bags in his hands and examined them. "Yeah, these are Seth's, without a doubt."

"What are those? I've never seen those before." Caitlin asked the nanite mutant.

"Pouches made of possum skin." Matt casually said, surprised at the groans of disgust coming out from the others. "A guy at our school took Seth and I out for a camping trip in the wild."

Olivia frowned at that piece of information. "Logan, wasn't it?"

"Yup." Her husband answered.

"Yeah, sounds like the hairy animal." Olivia admitted with her hand rubbing her forehead. "Wait, why'd you recognize his bags?"

"I have a similar one back home." Matt chuckled at the memories coming back to him. "He and I used this to send each other messages, either on missions or even when we were still studying at the school. It made our shenanigans a lot easier to make with his sister being able to read minds." He glanced at the psychic herself who smiled.

Harry let go of his rifle and let it hang from his shoulder and ran his right hand down his face, as though he was trying to rub off his skin in one motion. That's what his disappointment drove him as he listened to this ridiculous discussion. "Are you two actually this dense?!" He directed to the two mutants, even glancing at Caitlin and Frankie. "I mean, you two have got to have at least some brain cells to see through this ruse."

The former prisoners of Zoom looked to each other, finally seeing the family resemblance between those bearing the Wells name. And it was not a good family trait to inherit. But that train already left the station, way before they knew of this horrible family gene.

Cisco chose to remind the scientist. "You might not wanna insult the two who carries weapons."

"Wells is right." Jay pitched in. "These two could have stolen it from Seth. Evelyn here is notorious for being a thief, she stole from the rich and numerous of civilians."

"Those were the easiest. Speaking of…" Evelyn walked over to Caitlin. She held out her S.T.A.R. Labs ID badge. "Sorry for that, Dr. Snow."

"Oh, it's okay." The doctor assured her and took her badge back. "And just call me Caitlin, it's okay."

Evelyn nodded and looked Matt. "Sorry." He looked confused. But only for a moment as the metahuman held out his wallet. "A bad habit." The nanite mutant just laughed at her "habit." He stopped laughing when she walked to Joe, with his badge in her hand. "Damn, this girl is good."

"No kidding, downright an expert." Olivia noted when Evelyn walked to Cisco and gave his wallet back. The native engine gaping his mouth in shock, releasing his mouth to dramatically new limits.

"Sorry, but it's something I'm working with." Evelyn sheepishly apologized. "But what else can we tell you guys to trust us."

Widening eyes with realization, Ruby twisted her head to Matt. She remembered that there was a single word Seth told them to tell Matt if he or the others didn't believe them. "Latveria!"

That single word didn't mean a single thing to the natives, the other humans from Earth-2, not even Olivia. But that single word had the nanite mutant focus his entire mind on what the bleach-haired girl had just said. However, his thoughtful and analytical trance came to a single conclusion. "They know Seth, not a doubt in my mind."

"What?" Harry said in disbelief.

"You're not serious, right?" Jay stated in equal disbelief.

"Earth-2 men, shut it!" Olivia scolded them, feeling she was back to being a teacher and telling her students to behave. She missed those days now. Curiosity and worry made her face her husband. "Matty, what makes you so sure of that? Just because of that single word?"

Matt clenched his hands and breathed. "Seth, you really have a way of grinding my gears by using that word." He faced his wife with a sour expression. "It's a word that he'd know I alone would recognize because it's from back in our world." She and the others waited for him to elaborate.

Since none of them knew of his past or his father's past, the nanite mutant started from scratch. "My father was kidnapped by a terror organization called the Ten Rings." They were all riddled with shock in an instant. "It was a terrorist organization dedicated to destroying world peace by any means whatsoever, they were multinational so they could speak various languages. My father was a weapons engineer at a point in his life, building weapons that could change the tide of a war with a single push of button. Few years ago, his partner, someone he considered family even, Obadiah Stane sold some of my dad's weapons illegally to one cell of the Ten Rings, and he then arrange a deal with them to attack and massacre a military convoy."

Olivia knew the rest of the story. "But that deal turned into something much worse. Ten Rings didn't realize that the convoy they attacked was transporting one of the most rich and intelligent men on the planet, Tony Stark, the genius behind those weapons they used themselves. Once the organization found about it, they stopped the attack and took him prisoner. They held him hostage and demanded more money to kill such a high-value target. While they waited for that, they forced Matt's Dad to build a missile."

"Wait, your old man supplied a terrorist organization with weapons of mass destruction?" Joe asked in disbelief. Matt was smart and his father would be smarter as they both are incredible engineers.

"No, that's what the Ten Rings believed but my Dad fooled them." Matt proudly said. "While he was kept captive for weeks, Dad made the very first Iron Man suit in a cave." Ruby's eyes widened with realization. "He used it and he took down the cell's forces enough for him to escape."

"That's incredible." Iris said. Had this Tony Stark been in their world, then he would be on every page of every newspaper from every newspaper publisher. A question mark appeared over the reporter's head. "But what does that have to do with… Latveria?" She had to think back to the word Ruby said.

"Years later, it happened around the time Seth, Olivia and I graduated from SHIELD Academy." Ruby's mind began to flare with other thoughts, Olivia taking heed of those thoughts but left her questions for later. Matt continued. "I had channels and contacts all around the Earth thanks to my Dad's tech." His fists clenched at the memories creeping back to the forefront of his mind. "One of my channels picked up chatter about some cells of Ten Rings gathering in Latveria and I… felt my anger spike when I heard of them talking about getting revenge and attack my home and Father's home."

Olivia had a feeling where this story was going, and she didn't like it.

"I took off without telling anyone and flew to Latveria in a jet. I was going to find their base and destroy them all without leaving a single bone." His skin began to ripple with his nanites running frantically under his flesh. "That's how angry I got from hearing they were still strong and I was going to take them down. But Seth was waiting for me right in front of the landing field in Latveria."

"Dad found about this? How?" Frankie asked.

"Think Jarvis sent a silent alert to him or something." Matt unsurely stated. "But he stood in my way… and we fought." They looked confused at that. "Yeah, my best friend challenged me to a fight that ended up with the two of us too battered to even move a finger. But after some rest we agreed that we call in backup and we stop the Ten Rings… as official SHIELD agents."

"Oh yeah, I remember that story… I also recall you two being suspended without pay for two weeks for destruction of property, unofficial deployment and damaging a quinjet." Olivia casually listed off and left the others bewildered.

Joe faced the nanite mutant. "Why can't you two just be like normal boys your age and drink beer without causing problems for others?"

"Sounds normal, normal is boring. We're abnormal." Matt simply answered with a smirk. "But what matters is…" The nanite mutant looked to the girls again. "These girls here are telling the truth, and apparently," He turned to his niece. "Frankie, Caitlin, your family just got bigger."

Caitlin laughed. "Yeah looks like." She was in complete disbelief at this situation.

"Thanks." Evelyn directed to Matt who gave her a thumbs up.

"Is there anything I don't know about you and my brother, babe?" Olivia suspiciously asked her husband.

"We have done our fair share of trouble, most of which we've swept under the rug." The nanite mutant shrugged.

"Explains the bumps." Olivia quipped. She looked past her husband and made eye contact with the girls. "Sorry for doubting you two, healthy habit of ours."

"I still doubt them." Harry flatly said and the psychic didn't respond with words, but she did flip the scientist the bird.

"Thanks." Evelyn breathed in relief.

"Yeah." Ruby chuckled. "Thought I had to break out the fact that Seth is Weapon X Hades if you still didn't believe us."

That name caused the life to instantly dissipate from the eyes of both mutants, like their souls evaporated and left behind their lifeless husks. Both of they looked at Ruby with lifeless eyes, making her squirm and gulp at those reaper-like eyes. It was like two predators were glaring at their prey and circling around it, ensuring the prey that it was at the end of its rope.

Caitlin shifted her gaze to meet the rest of Team Flash's eyes, she and the others seeing the mutants peering into the young girl's soul with dead eyes. "Guys, what's wrong?" She recalled what Seth told her of the past, regarding Matt during the year of hellish experimentation. "Weapon… X…? But that's-"

"What the heck is Weapon X Hades?" Harry asked them curiously.

Joe knew of that word. "That's…" he trailed off, knowing that only the mutants and Caitlin knew of this.

"It's something… bad…" Matt muttered just at the high level so the others hear him. "How do you know that name, Ruby? That specific name."

"And before you say it, Seth didn't say anything about it, he promised himself and us that he would never utter that name." Olivia stated immediately.

"Well… He didn't exactly want to say it, but he did confirm it when I asked him about it on Earth-2." Ruby sheepishly said, she still felt their eyes drill into her soul.

"Wait." Olivia abruptly said. "He confirmed it when you asked about it… You knew he was Ha… what he was going to be… from the beginning." Realization fell on her like a meteor shower. "You're not from this Earth, or even Earth-2, are you Ruby?"

"No, I am not." Ruby confirmed with a shaking head.

Like the female mutant, everyone felt realization envelope them all, everyone except the two Earth-2 men. Frankie was the one to state the realization. "You're… You're from the same Earth as my Dad."

"Earth-616." Barry breathed in shock, the others wearing shocked expressions themselves.

Evelyn raised an eyebrow and looked to her sister. "Your universe is six hundred universes from this one?"

"Looks like…" Ruby said unsurely, still feeling the two mutants glare at her. "Okay, is something else the matter?"

"Ruby, how exactly do you know about… the experiments?" Matt asked.

"I read about them, when my Mom gave those old files." Ruby said.

"Your Mom?" Olivia asked. "Who's your mom?"

"And will someone tell us what's this Weapon X thing is?" Jay demanded.

"I think I'm gonna leave the second one to these two." Ruby gestured to the mutants. "The first one is easy. My Mom is Brigadier General Hale of the United States Air Force. But in reality, she's actually one of HYDRA's heads."

"HYDRA?!" Olivia screamed surprise, booming like a speaker in an underground party.

"That Air Force bitch actually has a daughter?!" Matt screamed, completely bewildered by this piece of information. "What the hell?!"

"Matty, tone." Olivia scolded him.

"Sorry, Air Force witch." Matt corrected, his wife finding that somewhat better.

"Wow, no one likes my mother, huh?" Ruby was genuinely surprised by their words.

"She's pure insanity in a spray can that just keeps spraying." Matt said groaningly.

"Guys?" Jay got the mutants' attention. "Will you guys please tell us what Weapon X is?"

Olivia felt herself lose all will and one of her hands slid into her long hair, travelling through the strands of magenta hair on her head. When reaching her left temple her fingers began to quiver, trailing over the distant feeling of healed holes. The scars of her life as that disgusting thing on Stryker's table. "Matty."

She noticed that her husband was clutching his nape, his palm feeling the healed scar of the upper cut of the Y-incision on his back. Olivia wasn't the only one to feel the memories of their past come back to him, like snakes travelling up his body before slithering into his body. "You're not alone."

"What's wrong with them?" Harrison directed to Joe.

"Something not good." Joe stated sourly.

"What is it?" Jay asked.

Nodding to her husband, Olivia let Matt take the reins. Which he did. "Weapon X was the codename of a secret U.S. Government experiment by the human military in our world, Earth-616, many years ago. It was intended to instigate superpowers for military purposes. It was genetic engineering, either creating mutation-based powers in normal humans or…" he gestured to his wife and himself. "Pre-existing mutants, like the two of us and Seth."

"When we were younger, around eleven years ago I take it, the two of us plus my brother were kidnapped by the army." The psychic continued while grazing the scars of her past hidden by her hair. "We were thrown into a military compound and were just tortured for an entire year, poked… prodded… cut open as they changed us into their military weapons of mass destruction. Three mutants selected because of their powers, weaponized to be the derived Weapon X mutants, new and more dangerous. All three young enough to let the experiments' intended effects to fully sink in and increase their powers through tests. Plus… with Matt's bio parents dead and me and Seth without parents, they also thought we wouldn't be missed." She sadly added, getting sympathetic eyes from her friends and family.

"You two are the other Weapon X mutants?" Ruby asked, fighting the urge to smile at the fact she was conversing with the others of her role models.

"Yeah… we are." Matt sighed and looked upwards. "Jarvis, bring up the three Weapon X files, please."

"Are you certain, Sir?" The AI asked. Ruby and Evelyn didn't appear to be surprised by the sudden voice, least strange thing for them to have experienced so far.

"Yeah, I am." Matt looked to his wife, needing her consent.

"They need to know everything. Bring them up, J." Olivia gave her consent, despite every nerve in her body telling to retract those words.

"As you wish, Mrs. Fury-Stark." Jarvis replied and brought up three files on three monitors.

Facing those three monitors, the natives and those from other universes saw the files with different names, with mugshots of the three mutants when they were kidnapped. When they were just children. They saw the two mutants look miserably at the monitors. They didn't want to dig deeper into the matter.

But after Harry looked at them for a while, he asked the two mutants emphatically. "You two gonna mope all day or tell us what these files mean?"

"Wells! That's my aunt and uncle you're talking to!" Frankie defensively said, her eyes brimming with magenta energy again.

"I know, I asked them." Harrison answered uncaringly, making the young metahuman growl.

"These are the files on the three of us, what they wanted from us. Their sick goals if you will." Matt said, his left hand still glued to his nape.

"Yeah." Olivia walked to the monitor on the left. Gesturing her hand to the project name, she started. "Weapon X Isis, the mutant with the powers of advanced telekinesis and telepathy to infiltrate and get past guards and a nation's defences. Her powers allowing her to retrieve information without breaking the target's body, able to move things with her minds… take control of others' actions with telepathy and make them turn their own weapons against their own." She held up her hand, waving it slightly. "That's me. I was engineered to slip into a nation while their defences were weakened, like they were at war."

She sucked on her bottom lip as she looked to her husband. "Which leads to the second Weapon X mutant."

"Weapon X Vulcan." Matt groaned, choosing this moment to both walk to the monitor with his file and removed his hand from his nape. "The mutant with the powers of the first Weapon X mutant, Wolverine, allowing him survive bullets and attacks of various kinds with an incredible healing factor, similar to that of his predecessor, and infusing adamantium to his skeleton, making sure that his nanites are created from metal and not bone marrow. This allows him to create weapons in the middle of a battlefield, surviving the gunfire while producing weapons to strike back in the process." The nanite mutant held up his hand. "The one to have that honour is this guy. Engineered to be the weaponized mutant to distract the nation's forces with overwhelming firepower."

"Always a package deal with you, huh?" Joe tried to throw in a joke.

"Before and after hell." Matt smirked to his wife, who nodded in agreement.

"Always and forever." Olivia pitched in.

"But what about the one in the middle here?" Jay asked with a finger pointing to the monitor. "Weapon X Hades, that's the one Ruby just said."

"That's Seth. He didn't say the name, but he did say everything about it before." Caitlin said. "Using the mutant elemental, one who was considered an anomaly in your world because of his powers, as a basis they expanded his powers to a new level, new capabilities following. The power to use other elements, outside the four basic elements and store them in his body or take in others for a bigger arsenal."

She clenched her hands as she continued, using the words of the man she loves. "A weapon that was to be dropped behind enemy lines to use six different elements to dispose of any enemies in the blink of an eye. A weapon that can walk into a storm of bullets and shrug off any slugs without problems. A weapon that was able to take out multiple enemies from any angle without even looking for them with the powers of the alien symbiote clone the harvested from the original and implanted into his body."

Caitlin looked to the two mutants here. "The ultimate mutant killer…" She shifted her gaze to the project name. "…Weapon X Hades…"

"Yeah." Olivia nodded. "Caity, don't blame my brother for not telling you this. But when we got out of that hellhole, out of Stryker's grasp, we promised each other that we'd never tell anyone of those horrible names. The only ones who knew of it are… our parents."

"They had to know so they could help us get control of our powers." Matt aided his wife.

"I'm not angry, guys." Caitlin assured them. "I just… I hoped Seth would be the one to tell me this."

"We know, Caity, and we're sorry." Olivia told her apologetically.

"Well, I'm angry!" Cisco exclaimed, breaking a heartfelt moment. "How come we didn't know any of this?!"

"Yeah, I hoped we'd know this as well, not just Caitlin." Barry said in hurt.

"Seriously, what's the deal with this?" Iris asked.

"I knew bits of this." Joe revealed, getting bewildered looks from Iris, Barry and Cisco. "What? Seth and I are friends, we talk."

"And I'm his girlfriend." Caitlin added. "And we have a child together." She gestured to her daughter. Chuckling she pointed to Evelyn and Ruby. "Children together." She corrected herself.

"Well… this was shocking and informative." Harry admitted with a flay tone, speaking slowly.

His tone not giving the others any good thoughts. "Yeah, that's not creepy at all." Cisco admitted humorously.

"Sorry for bringing up that stuff again." Ruby apologized to the mutants.

Quickly telling the AI to close the files, Matt calmed the girl down. "It's okay, Ruby, you didn't know it. But I gotta admit you, a HYDRA member, daughter of a HYDRA head, looking up to three weaponized mutants for military purposes, is really strange."

"Definitely not something we could expect." Olivia chortled.

"Wait." Joe got their attention. "Matt, you said you and Seth used those bags for messages, right? What'd he write in them."

"Let's hope…" Matt took the bags and opened them both. He smiled at the contents. "Nice job, Seth. He used magnetic dust." He closed the bag with sparkles and placed it in his pocket again.

"What's that about?" Olivia asked as the nanite mutant took out a stack of paper.

Placing the paper on the floor in front of him in a line, he bent down to a crouch and poured the magnet dust over them. "We learnt this when we would send each other messages, burning magnetic dust into paper to form words." He stated as he poured a bunch of magnetic dust in the middle of the two first papers.

"How do you form the words?" Cisco asked intrigued.

"We had different methods." Matt continued while continuing to pour dust over the papers. "I would use throw my nanites into the mix, making them react to heat and shape them into words. Seth would use some sort of concoction he made himself, drenching his fingers with it as he shapes them by running his fingers through the dust. He keeps the concoction in Venom's body, so he just pours it over his fingers to write it. It's the same way as nanites, reacting to heat and burns into the paper forming letters." He made sure that the dust on each paper was connected.

"Sort of like a shape-memory metal." Cisco compared.

"Yeah." Matt nodded while emptying the rest of the dust.

"What's shape-memory metal?" Joe had to ask, once again the science of this place going over his head.

"Metal that can be deformed when subjected to coldness but returns to its "remembered" shape when exposed to heat." Harry said.

"Yeah, that's helpful." Joe dropped his head, inwardly wishing for them to continue to dumb down their science. Or maybe just reduce the science all together.

"Let's see what our annoying elemental has brought to us." The nanite mutant said as he brought out a lighter with a long nozzle. He bent down to the first paper and pressed the trigger, igniting a flame that connected with the magnetic dust. Once the heat touched the dust, a chain reaction followed and the flames travelled across the papers, following the trail of magnetic dust.

The dust reacted to the heat, reddening for a brief moment before spreading over the papers. While still aflame, the dust began to form words and continue burning. Once the flames had burned the magnetic dust on every piece of paper, words were burned into it.

"That was cool." Iris admitted, impressed at the fire show.

Olivia used her powers to collect with the papers and brought them into her hand. "Let's take a look at this." Pointing her eyes downwards to the papers, she read the first line. "To Everyone:"

"If you're reading this, it means I had to stay behind, most likely because of some trouble brewing on my end. I'm sorry for it, but the big deal breaker: I'm not dead and is on another Earth, again. The Singularity connected to another Earth. I'm stuck in it for now. I know of the way to come back through a breach, a gate connecting back home."

The team was shocked to hear that the elemental already figured out that a breach is a gateway back home. Some of them doubted he was alone in figuring it out.

"I really am sorry that I wasn't able to come back, guys. But I promised Ruby, Evelyn and Jesse that I would protect them above all else, including sticking around on this other Earth to save them. They attract trouble wherever they go, the usual. Take care of them all while I'm finding another breach to go home through, they're good kids and needed to get away from this Earth, out of the trouble in Central City here. There's a speedster here too, Zoom, a speedster that might be faster than Barry, maybe even faster than Reverse-Flash. I wouldn't be surprised if this were the case, since he's the reason behind Ruby coming to this world, ask her and she'll tell the entire story."

The two mutants grew curious and shifted their glance to Ruby for a short moment.

"I know that Zoom's been invading your Earth, dropping off metahumans from his section at random for some reason. I will figure out why he does that and take care of him. Trust me. But like I said, this speedster might be worse than Reverse-Flash, so it might not be as easy as I make it out to be. If that does happen, I will find a breach again and find my way back to you guys, this way we can fight as a team again and defeat Zoom. His posse's no joke either and keeping me busy on this end."

Ruby and Evelyn knew what he was referring to, seeing as they are standing before their doppelgangers at this very moment. Each of them the mirror opposite to their villainous counterparts, both a relief and a weird experience that took some adjustments.

"I will come back guys. I promise you that. I'm fighting to return home. Until then, take care of the girls, yourselves and make sure that you're all safe."

"P.S. Ruby's bit of a swamp mouth and Evelyn steals and Jesse complains a lot. Good luck dealing with them."

"Swamp mouth?" Olivia perked her head up with a frown, Matt chuckling to himself. "Why does this sound familiar?"

Still in a chuckling fit, the nanite mutant stated. "That's what he used to call you when you were younger, babe."

"Oh yeah." Olivia remembered now. "I will throw him into a train when he gets back."

"Of course, you will." Iris chuckled. "But why'd he include Wells's daughter if she's not here?"

"Seth probably made this message when he thought he'd send all three of them to our world." Joe said.

"Makes sense." Barry looked to Ruby. "Ruby, why'd Seth say Zoom was faster than Reverse-Flash and tell us to ask you?"

"I don't know who this Reverse-Flash is, but I can tell you guys but that's a bit of a long story, one I will get to later." Ruby said with a groan.

"Alright." Barry accepted and looked to Matt. "Matt what about the second bag? Don't you need to read it aloud too?"

"That one is for me, specifically." Matt revealed. "There are small amounts of gold in the magnetic dust, it's how we told each other of specific information, something about these two's powers, I'm guessing."

"Technical stuff?" Cisco asked with a giddy expression, one that increased even more when Matt nodded. "I am so helping."

"Acceptable. You two?" He pointed two fingers at Jay and Harry. "Not so much."

"Why?" Harry asked.

"You two just turned against our nieces, that's not actually something we're fund of." Olivia said with a growl and brought the papers to her. Her eyes expanded with a happy glim at the last pages. "What do you know…"

"What is it, Aunt Liv?" Frankie asked.

"Big Bro didn't forget about you and your mother, Frankie." Olivia said as she held out two pages for her and Caitlin. "He left you both messages." They took the pages in their hands.

"How about we leave them alone for this?" Joe said and walked out of the Cortex with the others following.

Ruby and Evelyn were about to follow, but then Caitlin called to them. "Ruby, Evelyn, you can stay here."

"Really?" Evelyn asked in confusion.

"Yeah, of course." Caitlin told them and the two decided to stay.

Frankie didn't participate in the conversation, looking at her message. She smiled as she read aloud, her father's voice echoing in her head with each word.

The young metahuman's eyes wettened at the first sentence. "Frankie… There are no words I can write that can sum up how much I miss you, baby girl. I know you're always gonna be with your Mom and your aunt and uncle now, but I still feel like I left you all alone, Frankie. I am so sorry that I left you alone like this. To others, maybe the entire city, it feels like I did the most heroic thing in the world, the ultimate sacrifice, but it doesn't feel like that to me. I feel like I abandoned my daughter, and I don't know how you're feeling about this Frankie. That your old man used this chaos to get away? Parts of me knows you don't believe this, Frankie, you're better than that. But other parts of me can't help but think that, that you think that I ran away from you. I know it's impossible to think that, even as your father, but I miss you so much. I really am sorry that I'm not there with you now, hugging you so hard it's gonna feel like you're suffocating. I will come back to you and your Mom. I know it's uncommon for an absent father, well back-to-life father in my case, to send sisters instead of something else… But I really do believe that Ruby and Evelyn will fit right in, in our family. Take care of them till I get back. They're your new siblings, baby girl, and I know you're gonna love them when you meet them."

"Cause that's how I felt when I met you, Frankie. Even before I finally manned up and adopted you. Before I was hurled into this other world, I fought for the two lights inside of my heart. Your mom and you. That's why I kept fighting, just to make sure the two of you kept living a life where you're weren't constantly exposed to danger."

Tears began to fall from her eyes, trailing down her cheeks like raindrops. She couldn't stop them from coming as she read the words that her father put his entire heart into, each syllable coming out to in his voice and making her miss her father in an unimaginable way.

"Now… I have four lights. Your mother, you, Ruby and Evelyn. With the four of you in my heart, I know I can't lose to anyone. I'm gonna fight harder and harder than ever before to come back home, home to you and our family. I gotta make up for bailing our first Christmas."

"I love you forever and always, my daughter Frankie Fury, the Magenta of my heart. Love, your father, Seth."

"Daddy…" Frankie covered her mouth and continued crying, tears almost covering her entire face now. "Thank you…"

"Your father loves you, Frankie." Caitlin stroked her daughter's hair. "It's a beautiful letter." She chuckled and looked up to face Ruby and Evelyn. "Did you two do something to make him write like this?"

"Honestly, we're surprised the guy who jumps like a demonic ape is able to write at all." Ruby joked.

"Oh yeah." Evelyn laughed.

"How about we get some Big Belly Burger for the four of us and we go home?" Caitlin suggested with a happy smile.

"I could use some food." Ruby admitted sheepishly.

"Alright." Evelyn nodded.

"Mom, what about your letter?" Frankie asked her mother curiously.

"Think I will read it to myself, in our family home." Caitlin said with a motherly kind and proud smile. "Let's go."

X

Caitlin dropped her form onto her bed, her arms sprawled over the bed surface as she exhaled heavily. Big Bely Burger menus for them all but it was a hearty meal between the four of them. Frankie didn't appear to be socializing as much as she would usually do, without a doubt due to the addition of her new sisters.

Frankie wasn't sure she could get used to the idea of sisters; Caitlin was unsure of if she'd get used to the two new daughters she just got. It was a strange adjustment, and it would take time as she would have to ask Cecile Horton for help during the adoption process once more.

"What a strange world it is…" Caitlin trailed off with a smile. She was gonna have to venture through this strange parental landscape, full of new challenges. At the thought of the two new family members, she reached to the side and took the folded paper with Seth's message for her. Inhaling deeply, she unfolded the piece of paper before her face.

With a heart that beats for the man she loves; she reads Seth's letter.

"Caitlin. You know, this is the first letter I have ever written to you, and it felt like it took forever for me to finally write the first sentence. I was stumped. But I guess the first thing I should tell you, is that I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I'm not there right now to hold you. To love you, and our daughter. I'm sorry that this letter means that I have to stay on this other Earth longer. But you getting this letter, means that I had to stay behind for the right reasons, meaning that I'm alive and not dead and is stuck on another Earth. I've had to encounter this world's threats and for the moment, the city believes that I'm its protector. The only kind of protector I want to be though, is yours, Caitlin Snow. Your protector, the Venom that protects the Cure, the two of us."

Sensations runs through her body at those words. Emotions that she hadn't felt in any months returning to her at an incredible rate, making her heat beat like she was in ecstasy. Pieces of something lost, something that was shattered many months ago was slowly raising from the ground and touching one another, assembling something that once came undone.

"I can't help but think that I betrayed your trust and, more importantly, your love, when I remained on this Earth. It feels like I just betrayed our entire family. Like I betrayed you, Frankie, Matt, Olivia and our two new additions to our crazy family. I hate it ended up like this, that I left you alone like this, for months now, and instead of apologizing in person, I had a letter in case of something like this, like a coward. I really hope you don't hate me, Cait. Then again, I don't blame for you feeling that way with everything as they are, especially me dropping two new kids in your lap like this. But knowing you… You don't hate, Cait. You love and care. That's your real strength, a power stronger than any of the powers on our team. It's a strength that's much stronger than the entire city."

The pieces of a lost and shattered key were fully put together again. As though it had never been broken.

The pieces of a lost and shattered world were fully put together again. As though it had never been broken.

"I don't know what you make of me jumping into the Singularity and trying to sacrifice myself, but I did so to protect you and our family, our home, Cait. Not to be the hero of Central City, to be the guy who saved this entire Earth itself. I did it for you and our family. And I would do it thousand times over, even if it meant the same result repeating itself. It's the same situation that happened on my home Earth, where I jumped after Carnage into the portal to protect my sister. The day of the Singularity, I jumped into it to protect the love of my life."

The key neared the lock that kept the world locked and secured, waiting for the two worthy ones to enter it once more.

"Never thought in my life that by jumping into a new world again I would meet two new children for the two of us. They're strange ones, Ruby and Evelyn. But they helped me a lot on this Earth and I know you'll love them. You and Frankie are my lights. The ones in my heart, and the number of lights in my heart went up by two now. You four are the reason I continue to fight, to protect the people I love above all else."

"I will come back, and love you, and our bigger family. And raise our children with you, I promise that with all my heart, my love. I love you forever and always, and will continue to fight for you, to get back to you, the love of my life, Caitlin Snow, the Cure that protects my Venom."

"Love, the man who loves you, Seth Fury."

Caitlin felt her eyes water at the letter, she had to place her hand over her eyes to try and push the tears back into her body, but it was a losing war as more tears began to flow through the gaps between her fingers. Removing her tear-soaked hand from her eyes, the doctor tried to look at the letter again.

She laughed at the last piece of the letter. "P.S. Hope you're not mad about Christmas, I will make sure to buy loads of presents to make it up to all of you. You have my word." Caitlin stopped laughing and placed the letter to her chest.

"Seth, you dork." Caitlin laughed again. "I love you… and come back soon."

The key was right in front of the lock and ready to be inserted to reopen the grand world that only she and Seth knew about. But the key remained in front of the lock, mere inches from it. And it would remain so… till the man she loves comes back to her.

She's patient… For him.

X

(S.T.A.R. Labs)

Harry Wells was standing in the room with the modified treadmill, standing before a large transparent glass board with hundreds of equations and formulas. All of them written with a single purpose.

To steal The Flash's speed and give it to Zoom.

He was done with trusting and putting his faith in this Seth Fury person, this person that the entire team was trusting above all else now. Because of him, his daughter was once more in Zoom's clutches. Proving in a single moment that it was impossible to trust him with the task of protecting his child.

Harrison had to take matters into his own hands now, even if that meant getting them dirty with red stains of blood. Even the blood of his friends.

Nothing like that mattered, just so he could get his daughter back again.

With those thoughts and feelings fueling him, Harrison continued writing his formula. But then he realized what he was writing and quickly ran those equations in his head. He placed his hand on the board, his fingertips lightly touching the board before rage followed the realization of his mistake.

He swung his arm and pushed various items off a cart and onto the floor. A clattering mess that seemed to echo throughout the entire facility of S.T.A.R. Labs.

It was the sound of clattering metal that got Matt and Cisco's attention as they walked into the room.

"Hey… No! Absolutely not!" Cisco reprimanded the scientist.

"Looking good, Wells." Matt mockingly complimented the scientist's work, the kind that he threw to the floor. The mutant shuffled some papers around in his hands.

Cisco gave Matt a disbelieving look, thanks to that compliment, while he said and picked up the items. "You don't get to throw somebody else's stuff when you're pissed off."

The very moment Cisco placed his tools back on the cart, Harry pushed off even more items to the floor, while wearing his signature emotionless expression like he was a mummy.

"Someone not getting his daily fill of throwing things?" Matt asked with his eyes focusing on the papers in his hands, running them over the instructions. "Not bad, Seth, quite a challenge, actually." The mutant admitted impressively at those instructions that came with learning his new nieces' powers.

"Thank you so much, Matt Not-So-Helpful-Stark." Cisco stated with a snipe as he picked up more items. When getting to his full height, the engineer looked to the board with the thousands of equations. "What is this?" Matt looked up from the papers to turn to the board.

Harry saw their eyes looking at the board and quickly snatched a towel. "Wrong answers." He tells them while wiping off the formulas and equations.

"Or maybe you're just asking the wrong questions, Wells." Matt stated.

The otherworldly scientist looked to the mutant. "What does that mean?"

Matt remained silent. Cisco placed his hands on his hips and said. "I've been thinking about this a lot recently. Matt's been consulting now and then."

"I have?" Matt wondered surprisingly, temporarily looking up from Seth's message.

Nonetheless, Cisco continued. "We keep trying to come up with ways to make Barry faster, but I still think we can figure out a way to make Zoom slower."

As he continued to angrily erase his work, Harrison reminded the native engineer flatly. "We tried that already, remember? Those darts didn't slow him down at all."

"Yeah, I know…. I'm not talking about the darts, okay?" Cisco told him. "The darts clearly didn't work. They just pissed him off."

"Yeah and made him use Barry as a shield." Matt frowned at the memory of the speedster being shot by his and his wife's attacks. He should maybe consider apologizing for that at some point.

"Exactly, not working in anyway." Cisco smirked as he slowly revealed. "I'm talking about something else…A way we can steal Zoom's speed."

Halting his erasing, Harry lowered his hand and snapped around to face Cisco. "How?" Matt walked till he stood in front of the native engineer.

"The Turtle." Cisco revealed in a low voice.

"Oh God, not The Turtle again!" Matt slapped his own face.

X

(S.T.A.R. Labs, The Cortex)

Cisco brought Caitlin, Frankie, Matt, Olivia, Barry, Jay and Harry into the Cortex, about to reveal the greatest mystery of his life, his foe that he fought in secret. One-sided, but still a battle.

And though this was a big moment for Cisco, Caitlin had her thoughts and eyes on another matter, focusing them on the letter that she got from Seth. A smile glued to her lips as she re-read the words for what felt like the tenth time, taking them in slowly. Piece by piece, like a rare delicious dessert.

Frankie smiled at her mother, loving and pleased that she was smiling so genuinely again. It was all thanks to her father's letter. At the thought of her father's letter, she couldn't help but think back to her own letter. The thought of it made her smile fade.

Feeling the thoughts in her host's mind, Magenta asked. "Are you okay, Frankie? You seem down."

"…" Frankie didn't reply, her thoughts empty as a void.

Olivia drifted her eyes to her niece, noticing the mind devoid of thoughts with narrowed eyes as she had her telepathy focused on her mind.

Cisco began, adding dramatic effect by having his back face the team. "As some of you my well know, I've been deeply embroiled in a secret, one-sided battle with an invisible enemy."

The psychic scoffed. "No way, not the Turtle again." She let out in disbelief, inwardly hoping her disbelief would shock the doctor from continuing to read the letter, but to no success.

"What? What is the…" Barry directed to her. "Or who is the Turtle?" He directed to Cisco next.

"Mr. Allen, you just discovered Mr. Ramon's white whale." Matt quipped.

Jay, getting the wrong idea, stated. "Half whale, half turtle."

"No." Cisco shook his head. He faced Caitlin. "Do you see what he's doing, Caitlin? He's confusing everyone, right?" He waited for her agreement. But when he didn't hear anything from his colleague, he narrowed his eyes on her, seeing that she was still locked onto her letter. "Caitlin?"

Olivia chuckled as Cisco didn't get any response from her and looked to her. "Earth to Dr. Snow? Your patient is crashing." That did not do anything to get Caitlin's attention. "Gotta admit, that one worries me."

"Seth's a bad influence." Matt joked, but Barry and Cisco nodded seriously at that joke, accepting it as a valid statement. "Frankie you got anything to get your Mom's attention?"

Frankie smirked and looked to her mother. "Mom, Felicia broke into the apartment again."

Caitlin's head snapped up so fast it almost cracked her neck, facing her daughter with a disbelieving and shocked look. "Again? Seriously, I already told her not to do that, and then she does it again?! Really?"

"That seemed to get her attention." Cisco let out, feeling hurt that his friend didn't share his excitement.

Caitlin looked between them all, "What are we meeting for?"

"Wow, you must have really been reading that letter like it's won an Emmy." Matt stated in shock. "We're talking about… The Turtle." He added in monotone voice.

"Not this again." Caitlin voiced her opinion with a laugh.

"You don't get a say in the matter now, Dr. Letter-Obsessed Snow." Cisco scolded her and she held out her hands like she was standing before a loaded firearm.

With his hands on the back of his head, Harry stated impatiently. "Get to it."

Losing his enthusiasm, Cisco pointed a remote to the monitor beside him, pressing the button and bringing up an article. "I stumbled upon a few of these cases when we were looking for the Reverse-Flash, robberies that were seemingly committed at high speed…people holding their beloved items one second. Those items were gone the next."

"You got some proof or something?" Frankie asked.

Giving an immediate nod, the engineer turned to the monitor again. "Tell me what you see." He instructed after pressing play, starting the video footage from his research. A running time code in the upper right corner of the footage.

The video started with people attending their own business and conversing with one another. But for some reason… they all came to a stop, frozen in place… All of them… But a single hooded man walking through the mass of people in long strides.

Caitlin leant over the console and narrowed her eyes to slit as she examined the video footage. She then came to her conclusion. "So he can… What? Stop time?"

"That'd be crazy to tackle?" Frankie admitted with a groan.

However, Cisco shook his head repeatedly, relieving them of those thoughts. "No, no, no. Look at the time code." He pointed to the upper right corner of the footage.

"It's still running." Matt noted as he walked closer to it.

He wasn't the only to inch closer to the monitor, the other followed. "Yeah, okay. So if he's not stopping time, what is he doing?" Barry asked confused.

With a proud smile and upheld head, Cisco unveiled the big mystery. "He's slowing down everything around him." He pressed a button on the remote and looked to the others again. "And that is why we call him the Turtle."

Barry felt a little hurt. "Why have you never mentioned this guy to me before?" He asked with a gesture to the monitor and then to the mutants. "Matt and Liv already knows this."

"Oh, I don't know, I think we've just been a little distracted, you know, what with Captain Cold and the Weather Wizard and Gorilla Grodd, plus our elemental friend is stuck on another Earth again, with his telepathic sister here who has no respect for others private thoughts and invades their heads. Do I need go on?" Cisco gave the speedster a dry look who nodded, all the while the telepath cackled like a hyena.

Jay then realized their plan. "Okay, so if we can catch him, figure out how he uses his powers…"

"Maybe we can show Zoom what life is like in the slow lane." Cisco followed the powerless speedster's words.

"How would you even know where to find him?" Harry asked.

Having done quick work on the computer, with some help from Jarvis, Matt stated. "Well, the robberies in the videos all correspond with police reports that were dismissed as lost or missing items instead of thefts."

Olivia looked to her husband. "With the suspect's M.O. being…"

"Looks like…. Items with immense personal value." Matt said, he saw Barry walking to the adjacent keyboard and used his superspeed to work.

Barry looked at his findings for a short moment, looking over the results and itching them into his mind.

WHOOSH

In a second, Barry sped and put on his suit and rushed off in a flash.

Caitlin got up from the computer to look at his findings. Reading what he found, she states. "It appears that there's a press conference at CCPD, because the Vandervoort diamonds have just been recovered."

"Should we go and help him?" Olivia looked to Matt with a hand twirling her boxed suit.

"No, not this time." Matt held out a couple of papers for her. "Seth left some instructions for both you and me, regarding Evelyn and Ruby."

"What about them?" Caitlin asked.

"Something about their powers, he's asked us to teach each of them specifically because of their powers." Matt said.

"Looks like I got Ruby." Olivia said.

"I got Evelyn." Matt said.

"Take care of them." Caitlin said, she didn't notice Frankie looking down to the ground.

"That means, Barry's dealing with The Turtle now." Cisco stated with deadpan expression. ""From Hell's heart, I stab at thee."" The engineer stated with a reference.

"Didn't think Cisco was into Moby Dick." Olivia said in shock and amusement.

X

(CCPD)

A collection of reporters and photographers from various news stations from Central City were taking photos and holding out their microphones to record everything that Captain Singh of Central City Police Department. They wanted to bring it to every house in the city tonight.

Captain Singh stated. "The perpetrators who committed this heartless crime have been apprehended and are now in our custody." From above one of the floors, The Flash looked down in search for the Turtle and listened as his boss continued his press statement. "And we're happy to report that the famed Vandervoort diamonds have been returned to their rightful owner."

The rightful owner of said diamonds stepped forward and announced. "The real gem is the return of my great-grandfather's ring." The ring was displayed in a box, surrounded by a ring of diamonds. "Getting that returned to the family is what's most priceless to me."

A reporter moved away… and then Barry saw the person he was looking for: The hooded individual who bears a look of desire, pointing his eyes to the ring of immense personal value. "Gotcha." The Flash said before moving.

But mere seconds before the speedster moved, the Turtle made a move and with narrowed eyes unleashed a veil-like pulse from his body. Anyone who were touched by this pulse lost all motion and time, completely frozen in their place. Captain Singh and the rightful owner of the ring shook hands, but because of the pulse they were locked in that state with their hands interlocked.

Barry came down to the lobby area, but he ran into the pulse-infected space… and like the civilians felt his body slow down and remain frozen like a statue to the ground. But that only his mind that played tricks on him as he came to the realization that he could still move his head.

With his head moving around, he saw The Turtle casually walk past the frozen reporters and photographers, not giving the chief of police a single thought as he walked to the box with the ring. Like he was taking out his favorite piece of candy from a jar, he snatched the ring as he walked to the nearest exit.

Briefly stopping when noticing The Flash, also frozen in his infected space, and giving him a wink, he continued walking to the exit. The moment he stepped out of the lobby; the pulse that infected the space faded in an instant.

WHOOSH

The rest of Barry's speed took over and made him rush to the other end of the lobby. His mouth agape at the shock of finally coming out of that pulse-infected space.

Captain Singh, feeling like nothing happened, turned his eyes toward the cameras with the owner of the ring. He glanced down at the box, only to see the ring gone and not in the box. "The ring is gone. What happened to it?" The owner didn't know. The captain of the police department looked to his officers and ordered. "Lock this place down. No one leaves this room. Sweep the precinct!"

WHOOSH

The Flash rushed off, needing to consult his team about this metahuman's powers.

X

(S.T.A.R. Labs)

Caitlin, with some help from Jay, examined Barry when he returned from the precinct, feeling strange that he, a speedster, was frozen in time because of the Turtle's powers. When the examination ended, she concluded with an announcement. "Well, the good news is whatever the Turtle did, it only affected you temporarily."

Barry liked that and moved into the Cortex with the others, noticing that Matt wasn't there now. "Yo." He looked to Cisco who called out to him. "What was it like being in Turtle Time?"

"Yeah, no, it was weird." Barry started. "It was like waves of inertness… like all the energy was suddenly sucked out of my body, and then it would return."

"That's because that's exactly what was happening." Harrison stated with a notepad in his hand.

"Care to share, Wells?" Olivia rhetorically asked.

"He has the ability to transfer all the surrounding kinetic energy into himself." Harry said.

"Leaving everyone else in a temporary state of potential energy." Jay pitched in.

"That's right." Harry confirmed the powerless speedster's words.

"But how come Barry could still move?" Frankie asked from her seat beside her mother.

"His speed." Harry answered, his eyes pointing to the questioning look on Barry's face. "Your speed allows you to change positions faster than anyone else." He dramatically closed the notepad in his hand before walking away.

Jay then added explanatorily. "So you can convert your stored potential energy back to kinetic energy."

"Excuse me, where are you going?" Cisco directed to Harry who reached an exit.

"Trying to figure out how to use this against Zoom." Harry placed a hand on the handle as he sarcastically asked. "You remember Zoom?"

""Cisco, please join me. We'll use your idea and take it to new scientific heights and save the world." Yes, I'd love to!" Cisco exclaimed after thinking another course for their conversation out loud, completely triggered by Harry's lack of asking for help as he walked after him.

Caitlin was busy with the computers and Barry directed to Frankie. "Frankie, you know where Matt is?"

"He's picking up Evelyn and Ruby from the apartment, he and Aunt Liv are going to train them or something, I think." Frankie said in a low voice, one that both Caitlin and Olivia took notice of.

Caitlin was about to address the issue with her daughter but then her searched chimed and she revealed. "Okay. Facial recognition found us a match from the press conference footage." While she brought up the mugshot that followed the personal arrest record, she stated. "The Turtle's name is Russel Glosson."

"Small-time thief who stopped thieving after the particle accelerator explosion." Olivia read out loud as she looked over the doctor's shoulder. "Yeah, looks like they're dead wrong about the entire thing."

Barry nodded in agreement. "All right, I'm gonna head to work… catch Joe up. Let me know if you find anything else." Caitlin and Olivia nodded while the speedster walked around the console to get to the exit.

Olivia looked up and turned to Jay. "Garrick, you doing okay there or something?"

Jay smacked his tongue against the roof of his mouth and said. "Yeah, yeah, it's just… it's hard to… look at that and not think about how I can't help people anymore."

Frankie then added. "Well, we have lots of technology here." With a shrug of her shoulders, she stated with a suggestion. "Why don't we figure out how to get your speed back?"

Jay chuckled at her suggestion. "It's nice of you to think of that, Frankie. But like your mother here, I'm a scientist too." He made sure all of them looked at him. "When I first got here, all I did was work on how to get my speed back. Believe me, whatever test you could run… I've already done it." He walked around the console to the exit.

"Poor guy." Frankie said.

"Yeah, can't be easy feeling useless like he does." Olivia stated. Hearing footsteps behind her, she saw her husband walking into the Cortex with both their new nieces. "Bout time you came."

"Sorry, traffic was a bitch." Matt quipped before gesturing to Ruby and Evelyn. "But got our two troublemakers here."

"So what are we supposed to do?" Ruby asked with crossed arms.

"Apparently your Dad wanted me and your aunt here to help you two with your powers." Matt answered "Ruby, you're stuck with your Aunt and Evelyn you're with me."

"Alright."

"Okay."

Ruby and Evelyn both answered.

Frankie looked to her mother. "Mom, mind I go swinging a bit, could go on patrol and see if I can find Glosson myself?" Olivia and Matt narrowed their eyes on that request.

"You sure, Frankie?" Caitlin asked her concerningly and got an immediate nod. "Okay, honey, be careful, alright?"

Before Caitlin even got a response, the young metahuman performed a jump and jumped through the skylight. "What's wrong with Frankie?" Evelyn concerningly asked, but she did have some idea

"Don't worry about that one, she's strong." Olivia said to ease their concern but she the reason for it, or at least part of it anyway. She looked to Caitlin, cupping her hand and assured her. "I can talk to her if you want me to."

"I want that, but I also think I should be the one to talk to her." Caitlin stated unsurely. "I'm gonna see if I can find her, I know where she usually swings and patrols at, even her favorite spots." She said as she took Seth's trenchcoat in hand, she had to give it to her daughter when she finds her.

Turning around to face Ruby and Evelyn, she tells them. "You two, don't give Liv and Matt any problems, alright?"

"Yes, Caitlin." Ruby said.

"Yeah, Mo- Dr. Snow!" Evelyn corrected herself with a blush of embarrassment.

Caitlin chuckled. "Caitlin's fine, Evelyn, no need to be so formal with me." Evelyn nodded, but still blushing embarrassedly. She then faced the mutants with a stern look. "And you two, don't start any problems, alright? I mean it."

"What's supposed to mean?" Matt asked with his arms stretched to the sides in disbelief. "We're not the kids here?"

"Yeah he's right, Caity. How dare you?" Olivia added with a scowl.

But both mutants lowered their complains and their defenses when Caitlin threw them a cold glare. "I'm sorry, I didn't quite get you both." She stated with crossed arms.

""We'll behave."" Both mutants unitedly said with a nod of their heads.

Caitlin smirked with her head held up high in triumph. "That's what I thought. Bye." She said and walked to the exit.

"Think this Caitlin might be as scary as Killer Frost." Ruby thought to herself, but Olivia heard it and got curious.

X

The mutants moved to each their own areas to train their new trainees.

Matt moved into Cisco's private lab to talk with her about her powers, but he made sure everything was pushed to the sides so he could work with Evelyn's powers. He took a seat on a chair and gestured to another before him, "Take a seat, Evelyn."

Taking a seat in it, Evelyn said. "I thought Seth was the doctor."

"Well, he's the one who's comfortable with poking and prodding people when they're on a gurney in front of him." Matt joked. "But when it comes to making something like weapons or something, that's my department."

"Weapons…" Evelyn widened her eyes. "Dad said something about me needing weapons to channel my powers through."

"Yeah, he said the same in his message." Matt held up the paper with the elemental's message. "I believe him, no doubt about that, but he doesn't say exactly much about you and Ruby's powers, so can you maybe show me your powers now?" Evelyn nodded, if Seth trusted him so would she. She got up from the chair and stepped back from him.

Matt watched as the metahuman closed her eyes. But he had to shield his own eyes as a strange mixture of both light and darkness emitted from her body. Through the gaps between his fingers, he managed to see strange markings appear on her face.

A black circle taking form in the middle of her forehead, formed with luminous light. The contract, onyx darkness gathering around the rims of the circle. The darkness converging to the left and right sides of the circle, spreading from those points and taking on their own forms. The forms of two crescent moons, each moon pointing to each side, left and right.

The moon in the middle of her forehead gained a bright light, similar to that of a full moon. Black crescent moons pointing their own way beside the full moon. The same bright light that formed the moon, emitted in the form of a dot under her right eye. That dot enlarged and formed a crescent moon under her eye.

"This is my power." Evelyn said as her light and darkness shine lowered so the mutant didn't have to use his hands. "Light and Darkness."

"Incredible." Matt got up from his seat and looked over the shine of both darkness and light. "You can manipulate this at will?"

"Yeah, my darkness and light have different abilities." She started. "My darkness has the ability to let me teleport, kind of like I'm in a cloak of darkness and I end up in a different location. When I did on my Earth, it was easier to control there. Here, I feel like my powers are… easier and it's making it hard to control them."

"Might have something to do with this being another Earth." Matt mused. "What else can you do with your powers?" He took Seth's message in hand. "Seth said your powers are light and darkness, and that your darkness is strength-based, power, and your light is velocity-based, speed."

"Yeah that's about the gist of it." Evelyn concentrated and flexed her hands, darkness coming out of her like a thick smokescreen, slowly taking the form of smoke-like tendrils. Matt continued to be impressed by her powers as they wrapped around carts and lifted them off the ground with ease.

"Frankie said something about tendrils that looked like smoke coming out and destroying those flying elves she had to deal with… that was you wasn't it?" Evelyn blushed embarrassedly and Matt laughed. "Glad to see you're helping out your sister already, especially in life and death situations."

"Sister?" Evelyn clenched her hand, the darkness compressed and crushed the cart. "Oh I'm sorry, I didn't mean to." Her darkness tendril dissipated and the crushed cart fell to the ground. "Sorry again." She said in a gasp.

But instead getting angry or scared by her sudden display, the nanite mutant laughed. "That's an incredible power, you can crush metal carts and weaponized flying elves with just a mere swing of those darkness extensions. They crushed the cart because you were shocked of something, right?"

"Sorta." Evelyn said as she brought the darkness extensions closer to her. "I want to be able to use these things like Dad's tendrils, but it's hard. I mean Seth's tendrils."

Matt gave her an assuring smile. "It's nothing that time and training can't fix, Evelyn. And you can call Seth your Dad around me and Livia." She looked surprised at his words. "If he accepts you and Ruby as his children, then we accept you both into the family with open arms." He caringly told her.

"You mean that?" Evelyn asked, like she needed confirmation.

"Definitely, always and forever." The nanite mutant told her and she smiled. "But what else can you do with your powers? Can you combine them?"

Instead of replying or giving a nod, the metahuman placed her hands together. The space between them formed a warping mass of light. Matt continued to look intrigued as Evelyn concentrated such a mass of light, shaping it into an orb.

"In this form, I can throw light as a sphere and emit something like a flashbang." Evelyn said.

""In this form?"" Matt said knowingly with more intrigue.

Evelyn smirked and exhaled, darkness spewed out of her palms and wrapped around light orb. The two opposite elements mixed together into a swirling mass of both light and darkness.

Massive strength from the darkness compressed and reshaped the light, flattening it even and the darkness continued to give it a new shape. Elongating the light, Evelyn's hands closed in on the light with curling fingers. A second later, she put her hands together and showed the mutant her power.

Matt had his mouth gaped as he saw the metahuman now wield a shining light sword, complete with hilt and handle. The light blade was accompanied with streaks of darkness wrapping around it, shimmers of both light and darkness coming out like a fiery aura. "That's incredible, Evelyn. Seth teach you this?"

Although he asked this question, he didn't find it likely that his best friend taught the young metahuman this ability, to shape and forge weaponry from her two elements. Seth can do the same with his ice element, but his preferred fighting style is close range combat, not weapon combat like him.

He got his answer as Evelyn shook her head. "No, he taught how to combine my two elements inside of my body, so they're not hurting my body, like they did in the beginning. But after I learned I can project both light and darkness, I learned that I could do the same… as Dad and make weapons from my powers."

"That's incredible." While he may not have known her long, Matt was still shocked that Evelyn had come so far with her powers under Seth's guidance. Thinking of the elemental, he returned his attention to the message. "Says here your old man wants me to make you arrow and bows, some that withstand the powers of both your elements. You're an archer?"

"My Dad was one in high school and he taught me the same when I got old enough." Evelyn said as the mutant continued running his eyes over the message. "Something wrong?"

"Nah, just curious as to where that blabbering chocolate-addict got the idea of using bows and arrows." Matt mused.

"I took up parkour and athletics in school, and with archery from my Dad, think Seth thought it would be the best way to implement my metahuman powers. Also because my light attacks come out in the forms of arrows." She stated.

"Yeah, that'd do it." He said with short chuckle. "A bow that can handle the strength of darkness and arrows that can handle the heat of light. That sounds specific."

"It's because of I tried to use my powers on a bow and arrow on the other Earth, and I could fire them off but both the bowstring and the arrows either burst into pieces or were damaged." Evelyn stated.

"Guess I have quite a challenge on my hands." Matt smirked gleefully, different ideas popping into his mind as he thought of how to construct weapons for the young metahuman. "By the way, you got a name for yourself?"

"Eclipse." Evelyn said after nodding with a smile. She wouldn't change her name anytime soon.

It was the name her father gave her, after all.

X

"You're from the future of my world?" Olivia asked after hearing Ruby's story of how she got to Earth-2.

Ruby nodded and leant against the wall in the wide room. "Yeah, I am. 2018 to be exact."

Olivia chortled. "More time-travel. First one didn't go so well, and that was because of a friend of ours. An enemy speedster does it, we suddenly get a new family member. Things are weirder than ever now."

"That's one to say it." Ruby smirked. "I can't believe I'm talking with one of the Weapon X mutants right now."

"It's not a favorite memory for me or my family, Ruby. Mind keeping a lid on it?" She kindly asked the former HYDRA assassin. Ruby nodded and the mutant smiled.

"But I can't believe Angel Fury is the sister to Venom and the husband to Iron Knight." Ruby chuckled. "I used to have posters of you three in my bedroom, you are complete badasses. And you're way prettier in real life."

"Thanks, and wow, you're one strange fangirl." Olivia said with a chuckle. "But guess there are worse things than this." The mutant got down to business as she pulled out her brother's message. "Seth wants me to train you because of your powers are similar to my own."

"You're a telepath and telekinetic, not an enhanced human with small amounts of Gravitonium infused into her body." Ruby reminded her.

"That is true, but he thinks it's the best way for you get a better handle on your powers." Olivia smiled. "Fighting against Gravitonium? A rare element with unique gravitational properties. It's a dangerous gamble you took, Rubs and there's no side-effects now?"

"Back then it was the only way to get my mother's approval." Ruby said. "But I did have some side-effects right after the infusion." Olivia looked at her with a waiting look, expecting the girl to elaborate. "After the infusion, it felt like my mind was being both overwhelmed and spilt apart at the same time." She could still remember that painful experience that came from her mind. "The Gravitonium had absorbed two people, two scientists who were enemies in real life. And I felt them fighting in my head, fighting against each other and me and tried to take over my body."

"You had two other fighting inside of your head…" Olivia clenched her hands; she couldn't bear the thought of a child experiencing such destructive pain. "Immediate deterioration in the infused subject's mental state."

"Yeah the absorbed people weren't exactly stable to begin with." Ruby raised her hands and looked at them, feeling like blood was dripping down from each digit. "I couldn't handle the voices of those absorbed people. Even though it was a fraction, I could hear them clearly and felt them fighting like bulls striking my head with their horns. A guy I liked, Werner, he tried to help me but… I went mad and my powers accidentally killed him… right in front of me."

The psychic gently placed her hands on top of the girl's hands and cupped them, getting the former HYDRA assassin to turn to her with surprise. "There's no easy way with powers, they're like tools. They have the potential to do both good and bad, but it comes down to the user's intention. You didn't mean to kill this guy you liked, I know that from meeting you, Ruby. Don't blame yourself for that… and don't worry, I'm gonna help you make sure your powers are under control, your control."

"Thanks… Olivia. But why?" Ruby inquired.

"Because we're family, I'm your aunt, kiddo." Olivia told her as though it was the obvious response. "We help each other." She heard her new niece giggle. "But for now, we're not going to train yet, we're gonna do some psychic treatment to check on your brain. Just in case those creeping voices are still in there."

"How?" Ruby asked as she was directed to a chair.

Olivia waved her fingers, showing a shroud of pinkish psychic energy. "With my powers. My brother's the doctor sure, but I'm the shrink who can dig into people's minds with her powers. Trust me I can fix you if there's anything that's broken, of course."

"I'm in your hands… Aunt Liv." The girl said as she leant against the back of her chair. The moment she did, the psychic placed her hands on her temples and her psychic energy slithered into her mind.

At the first image of Ruby admitting to cutting off an SHIELD agent's arms, Olivia realized this girl might not have been having the most stable life that a girl her age should have. Then again, she is the daughter of a HYDRA head.

X

Wind brushed over her long hair, making it flow in the wind as she kept her eyes downwards, pointing them to the message her father gave her while he's still on Earth-2. While seated on the ledge of a tall building, Frankie ran her eyes over the letters one by one, slowly letting them sink in.

But that wasn't the only thing she was doing; she was thinking back to her new… the new… members her father helped escape to this Earth. Even though she was far from them she couldn't help but think back to them. They were stuck to her mind right now and she couldn't help it… and she didn't know how to deal with them now.

"What's wrong with you, Frankie? Tell me." Magenta tried to help her host while sending an array of soothing emotions to her. Frankie didn't say anything in response, merely sucking the nightly cold air that made her lungs cold. "Hello! Don't leave me hanging like this, Frankie?"

"Not now, Magenta. I'm not in the mood for a talk." Frankie replied out loud, the fingers on her left hand brushing the strands of hair away from her eye. "Not even with you."

"Not even with your mother?" Caitlin announced her presence as she stepped out of the doorway. Her daughter's head turned around to look to her. "You look busy… "Patrolling."" She stated with air quotes.

"Sorry… I didn't find Russell." Frankie told her before turning her eyes back to the city.

Caitlin walked up to the ledge, standing beside her daughter and looked over the darkened city. "You wanna talk, baby? Especially about you suddenly leaping off like you did?"

"Not really, Mom." Frankie looked to her. "I guess I'm just… Never mind." She put a stop to her own words as she saw the waiting look on her mother's face.

Caitlin knew better. She knew there was something bothering her daughter, something that appeared to be twisting and turning her insides. And no matter how much she wanted to pry into it, she couldn't force her daughter to open her heart.

As a mother she couldn't do that to her own child.

She had to be patient and let her do it herself.

Sliding an arm around her daughter's waist, she pulled Frankie closer to her. "Frankie, you can always talk to me alright? I'm always going to be here and listen to everything on your mind. Nothing's gonna change between us… even if we have more members in our strange family."

"I know, Mom." Frankie placed her head on Caitlin's shoulder. "I love you, Mom."

"I love you, too, Frankie." Caitlin said as she kissed the top of her head. "Nothing's gonna change that."

X

(S.T.A.R. Labs)

The next day, the team was hard at work on trying to find The Turtle, using every resource in S.T.A.R. Labs to track him down. Matt and Olivia were working with both Evelyn and Ruby in either of the private labs to the sides. Frankie was beside her mother and watching her work with Cisco and Jay.

"Hey." Barry greeted them as he walked through the entry. "You guys got anything?"

Cisco straightened up. "I think we found the next target for our 30-something, metahuman, not-a-Ninja-Turtle."

Caitlin tilted her head in thought while Cisco gaped his mouth, impressively shocked at his own words. "How long did it take you to come up with that one?" She inquired, her daughter forming the same expression and looking at Cisco.

"It just came out of my mouth… did you see that? That was amazing." Cisco quickly stated while Caitlin patted his shoulder. Frankie clapping in mock applause.

"That was nice." Barry complimented.

Matt walked into the Cortex with a towel wiping his hands. "What's the status on the Turtle? We got some ideas as to where this guy's going next?"

Cisco nodded. "Central City Museum is hosting a special black-tie event tonight showcasing "The Crystal Ball.""

"What's that?" Olivia asked as she entered the Cortex too, Evelyn and Ruby behind her.

Barry was glad that question came up because he didn't have the foggiest idea what it was himself. "It's a famous painting, apparently, recently recovered from Markovia." Jay revealed.

The psychic felt like she knew of a certain cat who would love this painting.

"The painting is on loan to the museum from the Silverberg family." Cisco informed as he walked around Jay and went to another screen to read from an article. "Jacob Silverberg himself said, "The painting's safe return means more to us than all the money in the world."" He laid it on thick. "It's like they're begging Turtle to rob it."

"Lovely." Frankie said as she crawled on the ceiling. "But what then? Is it a plan?"

"It is a plan." Barry told her and walked around the console, stepping past Evelyn till he stood before them all. "So the Turtle will make his move, and we can be there waiting to take him down."

A flash of inspiration came over Caitlin's mind and she suggested. "I have an idea, guys." They looked to her. "If we're dealing with a thief, why not bring our own into the mix?" She said with a knowing smirk.

"You want to bring Felicia into the fold?" Olivia asked with an intrigued smirk.

"She's the smartest thief we have and know aside from Snart, and I'm vaguely certain we could use her help this time." Caitlin stated.

"I like it." Matt voiced his opinion. "Yeah, let's bring her into the fold."

Olivia looked to Jay. "Garrick, how do you look in a tux?" Matt looked to her disbelief, briefly wondering if he was gonna be sidelined for this mission.

Cisco scoffed and gestured to the powerless speedster. "Come on, he's 6'2'', he's square-jawed, and he's jacked. I think he looks fine."

"I'm 6'4''." Jay corrected.

"Don't tell me I'm being sidelined?" Matt asked with crossed arms.

"Of course not, but we gotta get Felicia's attention somehow, right?" Olivia casually answered, everyone realizing that Jay was gonna be used as catnip. Jay didn't know how to feel about that plan.

"I can come with, more eyes in the field." Frankie offered.

"You sure honey?" Caitlin asked her.

"I am, Mom. You gotta stop asking me this, Mom. I know what I'm doing." Frankie told her. Caitlin reluctantly nodded and share a brief glance with the psychic.

"Oh, crap!" Barry exclaimed out loud, his clenched fist placing it against his forehead.

"Problem?" Caitlin inquired.

Barry lowered his hand with a look of revelation, a light bulb lighting above his head. "No. No." He reached into his pocket. "An opportunity, maybe. Hold on." He dropped his face as he felt a void in his pocket. "Where's my phone? I had it with me when I came in here."

"Evelyn." Caitlin sternly called out to the metahuman.

"Sorry." Evelyn pulled out Barry's phone. "Old habits."

Matt chuckled as the metahuman gave Barry his phone back. "A symbiote-bearing metahuman with Magneto's powers, a former HYDRA assassin from the future with gravitational powers, and a metahuman thief with powers of light and darkness… What a strange set of kids you got, Seth."

"Amen to that, Hubby." Olivia quipped with her thoughts entering the nanite mutant's mind.

The speedster dialed a number on his phone and brought it to his ear. He felt the others look at him with peering gazes as he listened to Patty excitedly talk to him. "Hey, you. I'm excited to see you tonight."

"Yeah, me too." Barry told her agreeingly before adding. "Actually, about that… so I know I said "let's have dinner," but…you've been wanting me to share more." The two mutants shared looks of confusion with the natives. Frankie looking between them as well, but actively keeping her eyes off her new siblings. "So I thought that I would share that… I love art."

This time his entire team gave him shocked looks, devoting their full attention to the speedster as he rescheduled his date with his girlfriend.

"Okay, interesting." Patty replied.

"Yeah. No, I just, you know, I can't get enough of art." Barry lied, the others finding it unbelievably unconvincing. "Anyway, there's this event at the Central City Museum tonight. They're showing this really famous painting that I've always loved."

From the other end of the phone call, Patty sheepishly admitted. "Actually, I don't know anything about art, but what's the saying? I know what I like, and I like you, so count me in."

"All right, great. I'll see you at 8:00."

"7:00!" The others in the room shouted to him.

"Or 7:00." He corrected himself. "I'll see you at 7:00."

"Okay, 7:00 it is." Patty said.

"Bye." Barry bid his farewells with a gleeful smile.

"Dude, really?" Matt asked.

Cisco had to agree with the nanite mutant and said. "You know, you're a really great superhero…"

"Thanks." Barry loved the praise.

"A really great superhero…" Barry thanked Cisco for the praise again. The mechanical engineer then continued with a frown. "But do you think it's a good idea when you're fighting crime to bring a date?"

"Yeah, I agree with Cisco, not the smartest idea." Matt said and then admitted. "And I say this, knowing full well that it's basically date night for me and Livia when we go out in the field and take out Rogues."

"Really?" Jay asked with a skeptic smile.

Olivia smiled lovingly to her husband. "Way to keep the love going." Matt blew her a kiss and she made a show of catching it with her hands, placing the caught kiss to her heart.

"Ew." Frankie, Ruby and Evelyn groaned together at the mutants' display of love.

Olivia glared at the three of them with psychic energy shrouding her eyes. "You three have a problem or something?" She asked them in a threatening tone, the three of them remembering this is the sister to Venom and shouldn't mess with her even though she's family.

Barry, forgoing the other's antics, stated with hands placed together. "I'm gonna tell Patty… That I'm the Flash." After his conversation with Iris yesterday, he reached the conclusion that he had to be honest with her. To truly show her that he trusted her.

Ruby looked to Evelyn. "Is telling your secret identity a must when you're in relationship on this Earth?"

"I mean, Seth did with Caitlin, I'm guessing." Evelyn unsurely answered.

Barry heard the two girls' words and then shifted his eyes between the others. "Is that a bad idea? What do we think?"

"I will say, she put bullets in King Shark and Harry." Cisco reminded them all, they nodded in response as they recalled those moments. "So as far as I'm concerned, that's Team Flash material to me."

"I mean…" Caitlin started. "Seth did tell us all about him being Venom before he and I got together, and it did make our lives better. So… maybe." She unsurely said.

But that was good enough for Barry. "Yeah, thank you both. Cool." He walked around the console and headed for the exit. "I'm gonna do this… I'm gonna tell her."

"Matt?" Evelyn got his attention. "What about me and Ruby? We're gonna stay here with Wells?"

"We're all going out on this mission, so there's only Harry here. But I don't trust him with you two, not after he doubted you two, along with Garrick." Matt stated with a glare towards the powerless speedster. "So, we're gonna call Joe West, see if he can play babysitter for a while." He took out his phone and walked to the other end of the room to talk in private.

"Caity." Olivia got the doctor's attention. Nodding instantly, the two women moved into the private lab to the right. "How'd it go with Frankie yesterday?"

"Not good. She didn't want to talk or anything. She didn't say anything when we got home, she just went straight into her room… I don't know what I'm doing wrong." Caitlin sadly replied.

"That's not the case, Caity." Olivia bit her lower lip. "I'm gonna come home to you two later tonight, after the mission of course. And talk with you two, cause I have an idea of what's going on with my little niece."

"You think you know why?" Caitlin asked.

"Yeah… because I had a similar feeling when I was younger."

X

With a great sense of relief from his teammates giving him their consent with him telling Patty his secret identity, Barry Allen walked into the corridor. He had to ready himself for his date with Patty.

"Don't tell her."

Barry stopped and turned around, seeing that it was Harry Wells who spoke to him. "Huh?" He muttered loud enough for him to hear before walking closer to him.

Harry chuckled. "You care for this woman." The speedster nodded his confirmation. "That's nice." He flatly said. "Then keep her as far away from this as possible. And here's why." He stepped closer to Barry. "If Zoom finds out who you care for… who you love… who you live for… he'll take them from you."

Barry didn't seem to find the words to respond and walked away from Harry.

The otherworldly scientist wanted to add one more thing, how the menacing speedster would try and use Barry's loved ones against him, use them to attach strings to the limbs of the speedster. Then he'd use the speedster as a puppet that will follow his every command.

Just like with himself as his daughter was used against him. Zoom already had his strings around his limbs.

And Harry needs to do what his puppeteer orders him to do.

X

(Central City Museum)

"John William – Waterhouse Exhibit – Crystal Ball"

The banner read as the black tie event for the display of the "Crystal Ball"- panting was well on its way.

Waiters in black and white suits walking around with trays with either bubbly champagne glass or small tasty appetizers. Each of the waiters maneuvering their way among the mass of wealthy guests with skill. The two-story building decorated with the finest material and light shining down over the other attractions, making them shine out like diamonds. Guards walking around with radios equipped to their belts and earpieces placed over their ears as they communicated with one another, assuring them of the safety of both the guests and the main attraction.

The entire museum was pleasing to the guests who admired everything, not just the main attraction but also the other displays of art that were inside of display glass cases.

Barry and Jay revealed themselves in black tuxedos, white shirts under their blazers with black bowties around their collars. Matt stepped up to their side in a dark-red tuxedo. Like the other men, he too wear a white shirt under his blazer with a black bowtie around his collar.

Caitlin came up next, wearing a beautiful long dark-blue dress with a single strap reaching to her right shoulder. The strap held up by a single ornamented brooch. Her soft brown hair pulled back into a bun. Both her hands placed at the upper corners of her purse. Her ears accompanied with silver lineal earrings.

Walking up to the doctor's side, Olivia Fury-Stark revealed herself, wearing a light-yellow laced dress with flower patterns around her waist. Her magenta hair straightened and flowing down the side of her right shoulder. Her hair tickling the side of her deep V-neckline.

Felicia Hard walked up to her girlfriends, wearing white opera-like gloves on her arms, extending all the way to her elbows. Her body clad in a skin-tight black dress, white ornaments attached to black strap that reached up to her left shoulder. Platinum-blonde hair braided into a bun on the back of her head with wavy strands of her hair hanging on the sides of her face.

"You look good, Felicia." Caitlin praised the thief as she took in her dress.

"Thanks, Caity. But have you looked at yourself lately? You look like a million bucks." Felicia said in what sounded like a flirty tone. Caitlin rolled her eyes; she should have gotten used to the thief always speaking in such a seductive tone by now.

Olivia narrowed her eyes as she turned to her husband who looked everywhere else but her. "Should I be wondering why you aren't complimenting me on my looks?"

Matt smirked and lowered his head to her ear. "Thought you'd hate it if I kept stating the obvious."

Olivia smiled. "You look good, Matty."

"You too, Livia." The nanite mutant praised back.

"Yeah I don't get tired from it, not from you." The psychic admitted with a quip. She looked to Caitlin. "Caity, Frankie ready?"

Nodding her head upwards, Caitlin had the psychic turn her attention to the ceiling. Olivia focused her gaze to the ceiling and saw the big chandelier shaking. "Oh, she's gone invisible and staying on the ceiling." She realized as the chandelier stopped shaking now.

"Yeah, she did." Caitlin told the mutant. She then gave Felicia a quick and stern gaze. "And Felicia, you keep your fingers off that painting´, all right? We know you like the five-finger discount here."

Felicia gave a smirk and a not-at-all-convincing scout salute. "Scout's honor, Caity. I swear."

"Oh yeah, why didn't Cisco come? Wasn't that the plan for the get-go?" Olivia directed to Caitlin.

"He decided to stay behind for support with Harry." Caitlin answered.

"All right." Barry said after exhaling, having prepared himself for the mission. "Keep your eyes open for the Turtle." They all looked at him as he admitted to himself. "A sentence I never thought I would say."

"At least we're not looking for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." Matt said with a quip.

"That'd be easy, find the closest pizza place." His wife said.

"Shall we?" Matt said with his arm held out for her. Olivia shortly bowed and hooked her arm around his before scattering with Barry and Jay.

"Guess it's the two of us now, Caity." Felicia told her with a champagne glass in hand.

"Guess so." Caitlin said back with a smile before pressing her ornamented brooch. "Cisco, are you and Harry in position?"

"I'm in the security feed. I've got the facial recognition software running, so we'll be able to spot Turtle before he makes his move." Cisco replied before returning to his work in the S.T.A.R. Labs outside the museum.

"Let's go and mingle then." Felicia suggested as she handed Caitlin a glass of champagne. "So what's this I hear about you getting two new daughters? One of whom, a girl from the future of my home world."

"Seth sent them through a breach with letters to the group and Frankie and me." Caitlin said as they walked amongst the place.

Felicia looked around, turning her gaze to upwards. "How's Rose dealing with this?"

Before she could answer that question, Caitlin took a big swig of her glass, swallowing a mouthful of champagne. "Sorry." The doctor apologized as she wiped away some drops from her lips. "It's just… Frankie seems distant now."

"Since those two girls showed themselves?" Felicia wondered.

"Yeah… I feel like it's my fault, if I did something wrong as her parent, maybe." Caitlin said in a regretful parent. "But I really don't know what I did wrong?"

"I'm guessing, Livy said she knew the answer, didn't she?" Felicia asked and Caitlin nodded. "Then it's nothing to do with you, Caitlin, trust me."

"Liv seemed sure herself, and you too now… What makes you two so sure?" Caitlin asked.

"Livy might be a psychic and a shrink but she is something else too. And I know what it is, and I know that's why she's so sure." The thief stated confidently as she sipped on her glass.

X

Olivia plucked two appetizers from a nearby waiter's tray and handed one to her husband. "Chicken Cocktail Wieners, perfect for an appetizer."

"Yeah, thanks." Matt thanked the psychic as he accepted the stick with the cocktail sausage. He and his wife ate the sausages in one bite and quickly swallowed them. He gestured to the dance floor, various couples already slow dancing. "Wanna join them?"

"Sounds good to me…" Olivia trailed off as she let her husband lead her to the dance floor.

Twirling her around, the nanite mutant placed his left hand on her waist with his other one taking hold of hers. The psychic intertwined fingers with his as she raised her other hand and placed it around his neck. The two began to sway to the soothing music.

"Now that I think about it…" Olivia started with a smile. "We never got to have our first dance as a married couple before."

"Yeah, but then again." He spun his wife around and brought her closer to his front and the two continued swaying. "A Singularity is a big-time showstopper, wouldn't you say?"

"Not to mention, Seth jumping into it to try and take it out with himself." The psychic added as she was spun around again, this time stepping forward to meet his face. "Glad to know that he was just hurled into another universe." She noticed that Barry and Patty were dancing on the dance floor as well, swaying to the music.

"Yeah… and now he's got one crazy big family." Matt thought back to a conversation he had with Caitlin. "Think that was one of the many things we never could have expected…"

"No kidding." Olivia lowered her gaze.

Matt grew worried and stopped their dancing. "Liv, what's wrong?"

Swallowing deeply, she looked up to his eyes and asked. "Matty… You ever think about-"

"We've got eyes on Turtle." Cisco put a stop to the mutants' conversation.

The two mutants pulled away from each other and turned their attention to Russell, his hands grabbing hold of the invaluable painting. They rushed to the area where the metahuman was and Frankie deactivated her invisibility as she jumped onto a nearby wall before jumping to the ground.

Russell took the painting in his hands and turned around to see three heroes standing before him, fully armored. "Well… isn't this a surprise."

"Drop the painting, Russell." Iron Knight demanded while he raised his repulsors to him.

"Easy way or hard way? You choose." Angel Fury said as she and her niece armed themselves.

"I choose… the slow way." The metahuman pretended to give it some thought.

"CCPD! Freeze!" Patty Spivot shouted as she brought out her gun and pointed at the man holding the painting.

Narrowing his eyes, the metahuman sent out a pulse from his body that connected with everyone, slowing down their sense of time too. The mutants and their niece were just as affected and couldn't move. But like Patty Spivot, they saw glimpses of a moving form… like he was moving at superspeed.

When the veil faded and their sense of time returned to normal, the mutants searched for the metahuman but found him nowhere. "There!" Magenta got their attention as she pointed to the staircase to the right side, where Russell was holding Patty's gun… aimed at Patty herself.

X

"Are you as fast as The Flash?" Detective Spivot asked curiously as she held her hands up in fear, the other guests scrambling and bolting to the exits.

WHOOSH

The Flash appeared at the top of the staircase and looked down at them, while they looked to him. "Oh, no. He is much slower." Barry stated.

The two mutants took to the sky and Frankie landed on the ground and raised her hands. With metal here, she could rely on her magnekinetic powers.

The Turtle shifted his gaze between the speedster and the other heroes. "This is a trap?" Olivia and noticed that he didn't appear the least bit worried, especially since he was standing before four heroes. "I'm slow… not stupid." He unleashed another pulse of slowness.

"NO-" Frankie's words came to a stop as she tried to yank the gun out of his hands, but she was already hit by the pulse. Matt's hands remained in a frozen unclench when he connected with the pulse. Olivia's hand was above her head and her whip frozen in midair.

Barry saw his friends and allies and his girlfriends frozen because of the pulse. But he remained able to move in the space of slowness that The Turtle started and then saw the enemy metahuman point the gun to the ceiling.

Pulling the trigger, the metahuman fired off an array of lead bullets for the chain that held the chandelier in the air. After each of his bullets connected with the chain, sparks going from the collision between metal and metal, the chain lost the battle and the chandelier fell.

With all the other guests gone, The Flash realized that the chandelier would fall down and crash on top of Patty. He wouldn't let that happen, he couldn't!

Barry sped down the staircase with incredible speed and neared Patty.

The Turtle noticed how the speedster was rushing towards the detective. Once again, narrowing his eyes he unleashed another pulse of slowness. This seemed to slow down the Scarlet Speedster a bit. But when he did manage to power through a bit, another pulse came from Russell and made it appear as though he was frozen to a single spot despite being still able to move.

As he saw that, Russell rushed away with a smirk and the invaluable painting.

Barry grunted through gritted teeth and powered through the veil of slowness, pushing Patty away, at the same time the pulse faded, and the chandelier collided on top of his body. Shattering into million pieces and left the entire room darkened due to the lack of lights.

The two mutants and Frankie regained their sense of time and saw Barry unconscious, under the shattered chandelier. "Flash!" The nanite mutant stated as he and his wife rushed to him.

"Let me." Frankie told them as she lifted the metallic pieces off his body.

"Guys, are you okay?" Caitlin asked them in a whisper as she and Felicia and Jay stepped into the room. She had to watch her volume as she saw Patty on the floor. "Is everyone here okay?"

"All of us are okay." Angel Fury twisted her head in realization. "Well, except for Barry of course."

"I got him." Matt said he put the speedster over his shoulder. "Let's get out of here." They nodded and left the museum in a hurry, just as Patty began to stir and wake up again.

X

(S.T.A.R. Labs, The Cortex)

After that disaster at Central City Museum, everyone returned to the facility where Caitlin flashed light into Barry's eyes as she treated him after his brief but shattering date with a chandelier. The others watched as the doctor kept flashing light into his eyes and then stopped and revealed.

"Your pupils are normal." Caitlin looked to the monitor with his vials. "Your heart rate's a little low. But other than that, no concussive symptoms."

"I really do feel fine. What about Turtle?" The speedster directed to the others.

"No sign of him." Harry said with a hollow tone.

"Or that beautiful painting." Felicia said with a pout.

Elbowing the thief in her stomach the psychic added. "He must have gotten away with it in the chaos." Felicia gave a pout while rubbing her stomach.

Cisco agreed. "Yeah, things went a little sideways after your girlfriend decided to go all "Lethal Weapon" 1 through 4 on Turtle."

"No kidding, Patty's fierce." Matt admitted.

"And she almost went splat." Frankie put in a dark joke.

"Not now, honey." Caitlin chastised her daughter.

"Oh, my God." Barry remembered and placed his hands on his head. "Patty's gonna think I ditched her." Caitlin and the others shook their heads, knowing what he was thinking. "I… no, I got to go." He got up from his chair.

"Where are you…" Harry dropped his hands to the sides as the speedster walked past him. "…finding Turtle is what's important right now."

As Harry turned around to face him, Barry stated. "Yeah… this is important to me too."

"Shouldn't we see if his speed still works?" Jay said suggestively.

WHOOSH

If it was to answer Jay's question or to get to Patty quickly, they didn't know, but Barry used his superspeed to speed to his girlfriend's house.

"I think… I think it still works." Cisco sheepishly admitted.

Harry then added. "We still have to find out how Turtle drained him of it." He said, referring to his speed before moving away with Cisco Ramon.

"Mr. Garrick." Jay turned around and saw Felicia holding up two champagne glasses including a bottle of champagne. "You never got your champagne." The powerless speedster chuckled.

"Do I even wanna know how you got those flutes?" He asked as the thief poured him a glass.

"Do you even have to ask?" The thief bemusedly said. "Here you go." She handed him one and the two clanked their glasses together. "Cheers."

"Cheers." Jay said back with a smile before downing his champagne the same time Felicia did. Exhaling after enjoying the bubbly beverage, he placed the flute back on the table as he said. "Let me go see if I can make myself useful."

"You do you." Felicia playfully said as he moved away.

"Didn't think you had a thing for Garrick?" Olivia asked in surprise.

"Oh I don't." Felicia surprised the psychic with that answer. "This?" She referred to the drinks she shared with Jay. "Was because of Caitlin." She took Jay's glass and gave it to Caitlin.

"Thanks." Caitlin said.

"What are you going to do with that?" Frankie asked her mother.

"Something that can maybe help Jay." Caitlin said, but the others felt that was a vague answer.

X

(West Residence, Front Porch)

Joe stood on the porch and exhaled. He had just returned from an illegal street race in the middle of the darkened city's limits. He was there to confront Wally West who won a race, getting the other racer's race car as his prize per their agreement before the race.

The detective was there to get some answers behind his newly revealed son's intentions, as he didn't come to dinner with him, Barry and Iris last night. Joe got the most stupid response as Wally said he couldn't make it.

Back in the middle of the lanes, Joe threw in a little parenting. "You tell someone you're gonna be somewhere, you show up." He told Wally, but he didn't accept it and ignored. Joe wondered if Wally decided to visit Central City, not to meet his father or his sister he didn't know he had, but to race instead.

All signs points to that being the right answer as the street racer said no one in Keystone City would race against him anymore. Everything he said and everything Wally did, it all screamed that he didn't want to be part of the West Family here.

At this point, the detective didn't know what to do so he returned home and opened the door. He walked and didn't know what to expect but he didn't expect to see Ruby on the couch and reading a newspaper and Evelyn coming down the staircase.

"Hey you two?" He got the girls attention.

"Welcome home, Detective." Ruby greeted him in an unconvincing tone, not sounding the least bit honest to the detective. It sounded she didn't care about him returning to his house.

"Welcome home." Evelyn welcomed him home in a more friendly tone, unlike her sister.

"Hey, you two, did you finish your meals?" Before he left the house, he made sure the girls had something to eat, something that wasn't Big Belly Burger. He exhaled in relief when the two of them nodded. "Glad I can manage your kids, Seth, instead of my own."

Ruby perked her head up and looked at the detective with a curious gaze. "What's wrong? You look down?"

"Just something with my own kid… well the kid I found about the night of Christmas Eve before meeting the two of you." Joe answered.

"Let me guess he doesn't want anything to do with you or Iris and doesn't want you to act like his father?" Evelyn asked, throwing a sideway glance to her sister.

"Low-blow, Evie!" Ruby retaliated and threw the newspaper after Evelyn, who instantly teleported away from the incoming newspaper. Seeing her sister teleport into a recliner, she looked back to the detective. "But yeah, I know how and why he's acting like that."

"You know that how?" Joe widened his eyes as he understood immediately. "You were like this with Seth, weren't you?"

"Yeah… I… I wasn't used to him treating me like that, with care and… like I wasn't his enemy, just someone who needed saving." Ruby said. "I… I treated him badly and I snapped at him because he treated me like his daughter."

Joe chuckled and dropped down to the couch beside Ruby. "I'm guessing he didn't do anything but apologize to you, maybe say he's sorry for treating you like that."

"You really know the guy." The former assassin stated and Joe nodded. "He's a good person."

"And a better father." Joe told them and the two girls looked down in response. "He's gonna come back, you two. Don't worry… and we're not going to give you the boot. We're not going to mess with Seth and Caitlin's kids. We're not that crazy."

Evelyn looked to him. "You mean that… Because Frankie doesn't seem to like that idea."

"She… She doesn't want to know us." Ruby said sadly.

"I don't know about that, and I'm saying that because I have Wally telling me straight into my face that the role as the man of the house has been taken." The detective said. "There's something else going on with her, I'm sure. You two just be patient and let her come forward and say she cares about the two of you with open arms."

"You sure about that?" Ruby asked.

"I don't know my own kids well enough sure, but the kids of my best friend… Those I know pretty well." Joe admitted with a chortle.

"Wally's gonna come around, Joe." Evelyn assured him.

"Just be patient." Ruby smirked, throwing back his own words.

"It's Uncle Joe, you two. Any daughters of Seth are my nieces." Joe told them firmly. He then felt his phone chiming and pulled it out of his pocket. "It's Barry." He said at Barry's name coming up on the caller ID. "Barr, what'-"

"Joe!" Barry stopped him urgently.

Joe leant forward, the two girls looking to him in worry. "What is it, Barry? Talk to me."

"Joe… I think The Turtle has Patty."

"What?! You sure about this, Barry?" Joe shot up from the couch.

"I… Look, just meet me at S.T.A.R. Labs, all right?" Barry told him urgently before hanging up.

The detective placed his phone back into pocket. "You two, come with me. We're going to S.T.A.R. Labs. We got trouble." Joe told them rapidly and they ran after him till they got out.

X

(S.T.A.R. Labs, The Cortex)

"Barr… we'll find her." Joe comforted his adoptive son. He arrived at the facility in record time, only to see the team hard at work and Barry pacing back and forth.

Matt wiped his hand down his face with a groan. "Damn it, we're not getting any leads on this bastard."

"It's like he's totally fallen off the grid." Cisco admitted with his hands on the back of his head.

Felicia stepped forward. "What about the stuff he's stolen?"

Cisco shook his head. "You know, it… any of the stuff he's stolen, I can't find it."

"He keeps them." Harry realized.

Black Cat snapped her fingers in agreement. "Exactly, Creepy Wells." She looked to the others. "Take it from a seasoned thief like me, no good thief is gonna waste their precious scores."

Harry nodded in agreement. "He keeps them the way a serial killer collects trophies."

Caitlin realized. "He's stolen a lot of stuff."

"That's an understatement." Frankie stated in agreement.

Ruby then added. "But with a lot of stolen goods, means Turtle needs a lot of space to store it, right?"

"Sounds like a start." Evelyn pitched in.

"The three of them are right." Olivia turned to the screen. "Jarvis, check if Russell rented any storage spaces."

"As you wish, ma'am." The AI replied and sent an array of searches to Cisco's screen.

"No, no…I'm not getting anything." Cisco said after chanting regretfully.

Matt perked up his head and widened his eyes. "Wait a second, Cisco. His ex-wife, remember her?"

"Oh right!" Cisco exclaimed with realization. "His ex-wife used to be an archivist for antiquities…" he brought the profile for Rosalyn Glosson. "…at the Naydel Library before it shut down."

Frankie looked over at the screen herself. "And guess what? It shut down three months after the accelerator exploded."

Joe pointed his hand to them. "That place is big enough to hold Turtle's stuff."

The speedster accepted that. "Okay, all right." He couldn't be held back anymore, not with Patty's life on the line and rushed to the mannequin with his suit.

"Wait, Barry… We haven't even figured out how to neutralize The Turtle's power." Jay reminded the speedster. "Matt and Liv couldn't do anything to him, what are you going to do?"

Barry snapped around with a shrug. "Well, I'm gonna have to power through it."

WHOOSH

The speedster disappeared in a flash, putting on his suit and rushing out of the facility in an instant.

X

(Naydel Library)

Coming to a stop outside Naydel Library, Barry arrived outside the library and saw the lights on. "All right, I'm outside the library." He informed his team back at S.T.A.R. Labs.

"Barry, the only way to save Patty is if you grab her in between each of the Turtle's pulses." Cisco informed the speedster.

"We know Matt and Liv can't do much against him, they're not speedsters like you. You'll only have 2/10ths of a second to make your moves." Caitlin stated.

"Barry, you're gonna have to rely on both speed and strength, enough so you can power through the pulse." Matt told him.

"Draw on your powers, your rage, your feelings anything that's enough to light a flame in your body, Barry." The psychic told him.

"I got it, thanks." Barry told them. Inhaling and exhaling a few times, he readied himself mentally before speeding into the place.

X

"No! No! No!" Patty chanted in fear as the metahuman neared her arm with an injection needle, she was trying to struggling away but her bounds kept her to the chair. In the very place that his ex-wife Rosalyn used, Turtle was gonna inject a substance into her body… and stop her from moving… forever.

And put her in a display case like he did with his ex-wife…

All of this is not to kill her, too fast and messy… Russell is gonna take a much… nicer and slower approach…

All of this is not to hurt Patty Spivot… It was about hurting someone else… someone who values Patty…

None other than The Flash…

And Turtle was gonna do that this very moment….

But a strange thundering sound got his attention, one that made the criminal metahuman get away from Patty and place the injection needle on the nearest table. Turtle made the right decision as The Flash appeared inside of his field of vision.

Turtle unleashed a pulse, touching the speedster and slowing him down. Despite being a metahuman, blessed with the powers of the Speed Force and gave him superspeed, he found himself slowed down to stand, like he was frozen in a world.

The only able to move in that world, was its creator. Turtle walked over to the fastest man alive. Standing before him, Russell raised his fist and send it flying, slamming it into the side of his face. While his reaction was still being slowed, even his grunt of pain, the enemy metahuman threw another fist. Then another one.

Three consecutive strikes were then followed up by an uppercut. Mere seconds after the uppercut connected, the pulse that put everything in the space to a halt came to an end. The speedster landed on the floor, turning around and looking up to the enemy metahuman.

WHOOSH

Not even a second later, the speedster ran out of the library. Russell and Patty shocked by his actions. The former turning around and walking towards the latter as he stated callously. "I guess he doesn't care about you as much as I thought."

Patty's fear intensified when she saw Turtle grab a massive knife. "No…" She tried to struggle away from him as he neared her with his murderous look, looking at the next fish he was gonna gut. "No, no… please!"

But like before his intentions met another pause as familiar thundering sounds reached his ears once more. While still holding the knife, he spun around to face the speedster coming back inside.

Russell thought the speedster was stupid for a moment, wondering if he already forgot about the pulse. Thinking that The Flash needed another reminder, the enemy metahuman unleashed another pulse.

The Flash met the pulse, slowing down greatly with his warcry being halted and coming out in an echoing mess. But though he was slowed down, Barry managed to take slow steps through it, more than the first time he rushed into the library.

That new progress, those extra steps made the criminal send out another pulse, affecting the speedster and making him slower, slow enough to match the same speed as a real turtle.

But even though Barry felt himself slower than he's ever felt in his entire life… he couldn't give up now, not with Patty's life at risk.

Taking another stance, forcing his muscles to surpass the slowness that was affecting him right now, he unleashed the reserved Speed Force inside of him and rushed through the veils of slowness…

And within the 2/10th of a second…

WHOOSH

He sped through the veils and tacked the enemy metahuman with his shoulder, hurling Turtle into a wall. With the veils faded, the speedster bent down with his hands on his knees while he panted in exhaustion. His left arm wiping away blood from the corner of his mouth and his nose.

He swung his head to Patty who was still bound to the chair and grabbed the knife that fell from Turtle's hand. "No, it's all right." The Flash told her as he cut her bindings.

The moment her bindings were cut, the detective leant forward and wrapped her arms around The Scarlet Speedster's form. "Thank you. Thank you." She chanted in gratitude with a stammering voice. "Thank you, whoever you are."

That last sentence made the speedster look up in self-hate. As it wasn't her boyfriend, Barry Allen who saved her.

It was the hero of Central City, The Flash.

X

(S.T.A.R. Labs, The Pipeline)

Russell Glosson woke up in strange surroundings as he twisted and turned, his eyes registering his environment, finding himself in a blue patted cell. Shooting up to his full height, he heard.

"Hey, Turtle." The Flash casually greeted the newest inmate of the Pipeline, who tried to push his way out of the panels.

Olivia, as Angel Fury, stepped closer to the panel. "Wanna know our new definition of irony?" She had to speak a little louder as the metahuman pathetically tried to force his way out of the cell.

"Now you…" Her husband continued. "Are our most prized possession."

Turtle let out another pulse and it didn't affect those outside the cell in anyway.

"Oh yeah, that little party trick ain't gonna work on us, man." Olivia said before mockingly blowing the metahuman a goodbye kiss, whilst Turtle screamed in retaliation. But that scream was cut off shortly as Caitlin turned the disk on the panel, closing down the gate.

"Yeah, we got a turtle in our underground zoo now!" Frankie mockingly mimicked the behavior of an enthusiastic child at the zoo.

Dismantling his helmet, the nanite mutant looked to his niece. "Frankie, you are too much like your old man, and it so damn worrying." Frankie just continued to smile gleefully like she was watching a comedy.

Evelyn then asked. "So instead of giving the criminals a fair trial like normal criminals should have, you throw them into an illegal black site?"

"Pretty much." Caitlin sheepishly answered the young metahuman with powers of light and darkness.

"So there is something cool about this place." Ruby empathized in shock. "But why Turtle? That's a bad nickname."

"Hey!" Cisco said in hurt.

Frankie faced Ruby, for what might be the first time ever. "Yeah, it's sort of Cisco's thing, you kind of get used to the strange names."

Evelyn smiled to Frankie. "You better not be saying his names can get worse than this?"

"You might wanna be prepared for that, yeah." Frankie joked.

Cisco threw a gaping mouth to Caitlin. "Do you hear what your children are saying about my skills? Churlish! I'm blaming you, Caitlin."

"You do realize they're Seth's children too, so you're also insulting him, you know." Caitlin stated casually.

Cisco's face lost all color, an impressive feature to witness the others thought. The engineer looked beggingly to his friend. "Caitlin, please, I'm like your brother, don't throw me under the bus. Seth might just do that, you know, really throw me under a bus and make Cisco Sandwich S.T.A.R. Labs Deluxe."

"Your secret's safe with me." Caitlin assured her friend with a giggle, making him exhale in a dramatic manner. She turned to Barry. "Patty okay?"

"She is, yeah." The speedster answered. He moved away with the others following.

"Frankie, Caity. Mind staying a bit with me?" Olivia stopped the two from moving onwards.

Caitlin nodded and looked to Matt. "Matt, mind talking with Jay about… my findings?" She knowingly stated to the mutant. "And take Ruby and Evelyn back to my place?"

"Sure thing, don't worry about that, Caitlin." Matt assured her with a thumbs up and gestured for the other two girls to follow him as he walked out of the Pipeline area.

Cisco followed, continuing to give Caitlin a shocked stare because his daughters' words.

As they were left alone, Olivia took a seat on the opposite side of the ramp and then pointed to the side behind Frankie and Caitlin. "Take a seat, gals." They took a seat on the side. "You both know why we're here, right?"

"You're really taking this the way a shrink would?" The doctor asked in disbelief. Olivia merely gave a smirk. "Okay, you are." Caitlin conceded. "Yeah, we're here because of our new family members."

"Specifically, how I act around them…" Frankie added.

"Yeah, how you act around Ruby and Evelyn." Olivia nodded. "It's because you… don't know about… being a sister, right?" Frankie perked up in surprise. "Your mom here, thought it was her fault, maybe." Her niece turned to her mother in surprise. "But the thing is what you're experiencing right now is normal, considering you were a foster kid bouncing from home to home."

"What do you mean, Liv?" Caitlin asked.

"It's been a while now, Caity, but Frankie was a foster child before she met you and my big brother." Olivia told her. "Frankie… You don't know how to have siblings nor how to act around them, because you've never had them before. It's pretty normal, also because it scares you. The fact that you're not… you're no longer an only child and that you have to adjust to life with others now, with sisters."

"I just… I don't know what's it's like to a sibling, Aunt Liv." Frankie looked down. "What's it like to have one?"

Olivia sighed and then stated a serious question. "Here's another question for you two… How either of you ever wondered if me and Seth are actually siblings?"

"What do you mean?" Caitlin asked at the shock of that question. "Why would we question the fact that you two are siblings?"

"You two are siblings, aren't you, Aunt Liv?" Frankie asked.

"Neither have biological parents, we only know that my brother was 2 years old and on the front doorstep of Xavier's school, holding little old me in his arms, a barely two months old future badass psychic." Olivia stated, and the two before her were shocked. The psychic continued. "Both of us had some doubt about it as we grew up, in that big house full of people, siblings really, who were sure they were related to one another because of their mommy and daddy telling them so or something like that."

She gestured to herself. "Me and Seth… we kept those doubts about each other for most of our lives. But we kinda forgot about that doubt for a long while when we were kidnapped by the military. We… We then felt that doubt creep back when we got out again… slowly but intensely."

"At that age, Seth had already learnt the advantages of DNA, how it could even prove if someone even had relations to someone else, like proving if two people are really siblings. He learnt how to use that machine quickly, to run the scans and whatnot, at S.H.I.E.L.D. and he was about to show the results…" Olivia stated and saw that the mother and daughter are giving their undivided attention. "But then my Dad, Nick Fury, came in, having eavesdropped of course, and then asked us… why?"

"Why what?" Caitlin didn't understand the question.

"Why… we were taking that test in the first place?" She repeated the question her father asked her and her brother in the past. "He didn't get it and it was because of a simple reason, actually."

"What was it?" Frankie asked, impatiently waiting for the answer.

"What role did blood or DNA play into how you feel about your family?" Olivia smiled and raised her right hand, raising her thumb and pressing it to the middle of her chest. "DNA sure is important, no doubt about it. But what does that matter with family, the people you love? All you need is a good heart and the will to be there for them through thick and thin. And you just to love them because they're family… A bond that transcends blood and DNA."

"… Is that how you think about Dad?" Frankie asked almost spellbound. She couldn't believe that there was such a simple way to think about family, a way that's not based on blood. One that's based on how you feel about the other one, as a family member.

"Surprised it took you this long to figure this one out, Frankie!" Magenta screamed in her host's mind, shouting like the symbiote was trying to overcome a speaker. "I mean, you've been like this ever since you met Father's host. You just love your old man because you love him, not because of something trivial like blood or DNA."

"Exactly, Magenta." Olivia agreed with a smirk, having heard the symbiote speak her mind. She looked to her niece again. "You want to see them as your sisters, Frankie… You just have to love them and care about them like your sisters… It's not an easy task sure, but it's definitely possible."

"… Does that mean you and Dad aren't related by blood?" Frankie asked, but in her heart of hearts it didn't mean the slightest to her nor would it change how she feels about her father or her Aunt Liv.

"Actually, we found out about it two years later…" Olivia admitted sheepishly as she rubbed the back of her head. "I had a bad accident against a major green rageaholic, who punched me into the ground, and I was bleeding pretty badly. I needed a blood-transfusion. At that moment, we found out that Seth Fury is really my brother, blood and all."

"But before that and before you knew about it… it didn't even change how you felt about him." Caitlin said, she had a feeling she knew what the answer was already.

"Yeah… of course. He was my only family, with or without blood." Olivia stated. "Always."

"… You really think I can be like you and Dad, Aunt Liv? Just love them as sisters, because of my heart?" She asked unsurely.

"You're stronger than you think, Frankie." Caitlin was the one to answer. "You have a big old good heart of gold, baby girl. That's never gonna change. You're the daughter of Seth Fury."

"And Caitlin Snow, Mom. You're just as important to me as Dad is. There's no me without you two." Frankie placed her head on the side of her mother's arm. "Guess there's no Frankie Fury, Evelyn Fury or Ruby Fury without you two, our parents."

"That's one wise young girl you've turned into, Frankie." Caitlin praised her daughter and kissed her forehead. "I'm proud of you." Frankie giggled and pressed herself into her mother's embracing arms.

Olivia couldn't help but take in the moment between a mother and a child, happy for them both to be able to speak like this, to unburden their hearts of their doubt… the love of a parent… the love of a child… the love between family members with a bond that is greater than blood…

…seeing that made her jealous…

X

(West Residence)

KNOCK

KNOCK

Joe West, while holding his box of Chinese takeout, walked to his front door and opened it. He was shocked to see Wally standing on the other side of the door. "Hey." He greeted the child he didn't know he had for a long time.

Stepping inside of the household, the street racer informed. "I think I left my sweater here the other night. It's green."

"Oh, yeah." The detective recalled and closed the door. As he walked to it, he noted out loud. "I thought that didn't look like Barry's."

"Not one of them small white girls you had here before?" Wally asked casually.

Joe glanced at him. "Those are my nieces; they needed a place to stay for the evening before." He explained before picking up the jacket.

"Didn't need an explanation." Wally sniped as he accepted the jacket again. "Heading back to Keystone tonight."

"That's a fast trip." Joe remarked.

"Yeah, well, it's getting a little hot in Central City for me." Joe didn't say anything to his counter. "Don't worry. I'll try not to run too many lights on the way there." He began to walk, and mentally noted the detective's lack of reply. Wally stated, after turning to face Joe. "You know, if you're waiting for an apology, it's not coming."

"If you mean an apology for calling my nieces small white girls, then yeah, I'd like an apology. They're my friend's daughters and I treat them as my own…" Wally looked shocked at those words. "But for what went on between us before then… No." Joe shook his head as he stood behind a chair at the dinner table, his hands placed on the back of it. "No, I'm… I'm the one that should be apologizing to you."

This time, Wally looked confused and then listened as the detective elaborated.

"I felt bad… not being there while you were growing up, and…" He gestured to them both with a wave of his hand. "I was pushing this whole father-son thing. I'm sorry." He apologized and Wally seemed to accept it. "Let's just slow down a bit. I won't try to be your instant dad, and you won't have to pretend that you want to be my son."

The street raced took in the words and let them sink in. "Deal?" Joe asked.

Wally didn't say any words, appearing to be unwilling to show his desire to agree with that agreement. Instead, he directed his eyes to the dinner table with Chinese takeout boxes. "All that food for you?"

Joe drifted his eyes to the boxes himself and answered. "Doesn't have to be. You like chow mein?"

"No." Wally admitted. But he shrugged his shoulders and revealed honestly. "But I like kung pao chicken." The detective picked out two plates, one of both him and Wally. "Joe…" Joe looked back to Wally. "Sorry for calling your nieces small white girls before."

"All is forgiven." The detective assured him as he placed a plate on the table.

Wally took a seat at the dinner table, at the same time… his father retook his seat on the table.

X

(Note: Play "Hero Too" from "My Hero Academia")

"Hey, you two." Frankie greeted Ruby and Evelyn as she stepped into the apartment.

"Hey." Ruby greeted as she took a box out of one of the spare rooms. "Caitlin have me and Evelyn move out a few boxes out of the spare rooms so we can use them as our bedrooms."

Evelyn wiped sweat off her forehead with the back of her hand. "She's set on the two of us moving in here."

"I asked if we could make this happen." Frankie stated and the two girls looked shocked. "My way of apologizing… to my new sisters." Their shock intensified. "I'm sorry for how I've acted with you two before. I didn't mean to make you guys feel unwanted or anything… I wasn't used to-"

"To have sisters, right?" Ruby interrupted her and the magnekinetic nodded sheepishly. "You're not alone on that. I'm an only child from the future of another world, Frankie. Evelyn is an only child from another world. You're-"

"An only child who's been bouncing from foster homes for a very long time before she met Seth Fury." Frankie admitted instantly. "I'm just sorry for acting like that, like I don't want anything to do with you guys."

"Don't worry about it, Frankie." Evelyn stated comfortingly. "I mean, we're supposed to be family now, right… Sis?"

Frankie blushed at that word. "How about… I help you guys settle in? Like sisters would." She offered in an embarrassed manner, finding it hard to speak with her new siblings.

"Sure thing…" Ruby said, using her powers to lift the boxes with ease. "But you have to help me with Evelyn's room, a lot. She's been on another spree and stole a bunch of stuff from the neighbors."

"I'm giving them back!" Evelyn shouted defensively and then the three of them laughed happily.

X

On top of the Fury loft, sitting on top of the roof with her legs hanging off the ledge while laughing loudly was Olivia Fury. She's been sitting on top of the house and laughed as she used her telepathy to listen to her nieces as they conversed. She was there to make sure that neither of them felt pressured or saddened by trying to become or to act like siblings.

Wiping away a tear, she realized her worries were for naught as she used her telepathy to listen to the talk between the siblings. Their reactions making her laugh loudly. Sighing in exhaustion, she raised herself to her full height and craned her neck. "Gotta at least respect their privacy, I guess."

"That might be impossible for you, babe."

Olivia chuckled and looked backwards, seeing her husband descend to the rooftop in his Iron Knight suit. Under his left arm, was a package in a transparent plastic bag. "You doubting your own wife now? Sounds like someone's asking for sleeping on the couch tonight, all by his lonesome and without his hot wife."

"Oh please don't do that, I don't think I can handle that kind of torture." Matt joked as he let the nanites disassemble and converge back into his arc reactor on his chest. "Everything going well with our nieces down under?"

"All good." Olivia assured him calmly. But then her demeanor changed as she placed her hands behind her back and looked really nervous, blushing with raw embarrassment. "About what I was saying before. You know, what I was trying to say back at the museum before Turtle showed up."

"I remember that…" He took out the bagged package from his armpit and held it front of his wife. "For you… For both of us, really."

"What do you mean? What about my thing?" Olivia asked in confusion.

"This is something for the both of us, it's about that thing of yours, if I am right that is." Matt said with a happy smile.

"You…" She stopped herself and took the bagged package in her hands. For amusement's sake, she shook the package and rattling sounds came from within the package. Curiosity took over and she instantly took the package out of the bag to see what it was.

The psychic's eyes expanded with surprise, tears swelling at the rims of her eyelids at the sight. Of all things, her husband could have shown her, it was a baby doll with plastic white skin and plastic blue eyes. Clothed in stripped white and blue striped pajamas and a sleeping hat of the same pattern. Inside of its plastic package, there was a blue binkie and yellow bib with a teddy bear embroiled onto it.

"You… Knew…?" Olivia couldn't make herself finish the sentence, her tearing eyes stopping her. Her arms wrapped around the package and brought it closer to her chest, embracing it tightly.

"Yeah, I did." Matt said and stepped closer to his wife. "Cause I feel the same… always…"

"You mean that?" Olivia was scared and had to ask.

"I do. I was just terrified that you didn't want the same. But then back at the museum, you spoke and I… felt like I knew what you were going to say, is all." Matt revealed.

"You really think… we'd make good parents?" Olivia asked.

"Definitely." Matt wrapped his arms around her and pulled her into a warm embrace, the packaged doll pushing against both of their bodies. "So what do you say… wanna take this next step together?"

"The two of us… yeah." Olivia said as she placed her head against her husband's shoulder. "Let's have a baby."

"Wanna cross something else off our list of missing things while we're add it?" The nanite mutant asked. Olivia leant back but kept her arms hooked around his neck. "Wanna go on that honeymoon we've always been planning?"

"Where to?" Olivia asked, immediately agreeing to that plan.

"Was thinking of a very expensive place that my Dad's been recommending back home, well it's more accurately dozens of expensive places." Matt announced.

"Back home? But with things as they are…" Olivia stated unsurely.

"It won't be so long for us, I swear. But… we deserve some happiness, too, don't you think?" Matt then added. "But there's also something else I need to do back home, something I have to pick up for Ruby and Evelyn."

"Oh a second agenda, huh?" Olivia formed a mock pout. "Using me like that, your own wife? That's a dangerous gamble." She said in a playful tone.

"Good thing I know you pretty well, then. Wouldn't you say, babe?" Matt said in a playful tone, matching her own.

"The only one for me…" She leant up and kissed him. The packaged doll falling out of the space between their bodies and landing on the roof.

As it collided with the surface, pressure was applied to the doll's stomach and it spoke in a childish manner.

"I love you!"

X

(S.T.A.R. Labs.)

A beeping sound came out of Harry's watch as he flipped the lid open and spoke into his device, recording once more. "Journal log entry number 113." He closed the lid and spoke… truthfully and with fearless determination.

"Jess… I'm coming for you soon. I promise." He walked to the table beside the board with all of his equations. "I was thinking earlier today about the time when you were four. I took you to the planetarium, just you and me."

"I remember because it was the first time I took you out all by myself." He retrieved an item from the table.

He moved into the Cortex, continuing to record his entry. "The planetarium was crowded, and you held my hand for dear life, or maybe it was the other way around."

He headed for the exit, leading deeper into the facility. "But it was in the Mars exhibit that I lost you."

He entered the corridor. "Panic. I had that place locked down in one minute."

He entered the Pipeline area. "I had every security guard looking for you."

He walked up the ramp, towards the entrance to the Pipeline cell. "And I could feel the fear rise in the back of my throat and something else rising also…"

He entered the code on the key panel. "…Some… dark instinct inside me…"

He watched as the gate opened, revealing Turtle's cell. "…about what I would do…"

He sees the door opening, getting Turtle's attention and he looked at Harry who entered the cell. "… To the person who had taken you…"

He listened as Russell Glosson grunted in pain as Harry held up his head by his hair, forcing it back to have his nostrils flare and look up. "…The things I would do…"

He kept his eyes on the metahuman criminal, watching as he drove his gun-like device into his left nostril, making Turtle scream in further pain. "Unspeakable things."

He pulled the trigger, retrieving what he needed and Turtle's body going limp as he yanked it out of Russell's nose. "And it was in that moment that I realized, for certain…"

He let go of the criminal's head, watching him fall to the floor, his nose bleeding. Harry looked to his gun, the tip of the barrel dripping with the fresh blood drawn from the metahuman.

"…that I would do anything to get you back…"

X

Night fell over the Central City, entirely covering the streets and houses with shadowy darkness.

The only source of light to bring luminance in this darkened time are the headlights of driving cars, street lamps and the shining moon in the sky.

WHOOSH

But that changed in an instant when suddenly a blurring form speeding out of a blue hole came running… running at superspeed… with red lightning seeping out of his body.

Coming to a halt, the person in the blurring… yellow suit… looked around in confusion. His yellow suit with red lightning bolts enlightened with moonlight touching his suit.

Particularly, bringing light to the symbol on his chest… the emblem on his chest… the complete reverse to that of a certain speedster.

As his confusion intensified, the man in yellow took off his cowl, stopping his phasing and returning his eyes to normal, he looked around again. His blond hair shining with moonlight touching it.

Breathing heavily from exhaustion, he unclenched his hand and showed blue light coming out, revealing the familiar floating blue head of a certain AI. "Gideon." The metahuman greeted the AI.

"Yes, Professor Thawne?" Gideon inquired of the professor.

At this moment, Eobard Thawne held his head up as he asked. "Where the hell am I?"

He didn't have the foggiest idea what this city was…

Or what his presence would do to the world they are living in.

To be continued…

And that's a chapter, peeps!

Frankie and Caitlin's family just got a whole lot bigger with the addition of both Evelyn Sharp and Ruby Hale, both powered individuals from other universes. Multi-versal family is the new thing, peeps! ?

But that was not the only thing to have taken place.

Following the defeat of The Turtle, which also meant imminent his death by the hands of Harrison Wells from Earth-2, a familiar face reappeared.

The face of the evil Reverse-Flash, Eobard Thawne himself… What evil could he have brought with him now?

With bad things comes good things also. Frankie learnt to accept her new sisters with the aid of her dear and loving Aunt Olivia Fury. And both her and her husband have decided to finally go on their own delayed honeymoon… with some goals for reproduction of theirs.

So next time, we will see how the team will handle the threat of Reverse-Flash without the trusty mutants and with the new additions of the new Snow-Fury daughters.

Stay tuned and find out.

Until next time, peeps!