Earth-Prime
Central City
2049

It was morning; the sun was shining and the birds were singing. Barry winced as the sun hit his eyes and turned over with a groan. It was waaay too early to deal with the sun. The sun needed to go away and let him sleep so he could get up early tomorrow to go to work. He suddenly wakes up by sloppy licks. He groans as he sees it was Bolt, his White Swiss Shepherd dog.

"Ugh Bolt! Really? Your breath stinks." Barry said pushing Bolt away.

"Maybe you shouldn't have gave him those tuna treats." Iris said.

Barry smiles as he sees his wife by his side.

"Then again... it's one of the treats we use for training him." Iris said.

"You going to work?" Barry asked Iris.

"Yeah, I still have to write that story about the JL taking down Lex Luthor's monster mutant." Iris said.

"Good luck." Barry chuckled as he dashed off.

While running, Barry was laughing, feeling on top of the world despite knowing he was going to be late for work. He was almost there when there was movement in the corner of his eye. Whipping his head around he saw...himself?! Shit! He was ghosting! Again! Why?! Barry knew from past experiences that something awful must have happened. Before Barry knew it he was almost in front of the precinct and had to stop running. The ghosting stopped but the heavy lead feeling in his gut did not.

"Holy crap, this is no less freaky than any other time I've done this." Barry told himself as he walked a normal human pace.

The worst part about ghosting was that he never knew when he was going to do it and why would he do it. It must have been extremely important for him to run back into the past The precinct was just up ahead and now that Barry had a moment to think, he thought back to the ghost and how he saw himself. This wasn't a normal ghosting. It was usually him dressed the same for that day, but this was different. He wasn't wearing the same clothes as his ghost. No, his ghost form looked haggard looking and was wearing jeans, an off-white wife beater, and black/ white plaid shirt. What concerned Barry more was that he looked like shit, like he was actually in a shit storm and lost. He looked beaten up, clothes ripped, and dirty looking. What was worst was he knows he saw blood. It was on his face and clothes! He cringed at the thought of what he was going to go through to make him run back to the past. Did someone die? Oh my god, did multiple people die?! Barry was completely shaken up by that thought and now he had to go to work, late, and act like everything was normal. God, help him.
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Cisco was typing on his laptop and glancing up at the new machine they had acquired. It was recovered from a black market. Now, it was week two and Cisco was running tests for the sole purpose on getting the machine to run properly. He was so close too! All tests were coming back green and positive. All he had to do was get this last test to run through and he could get this baby to work. The computer beeped and Cisco's fingers stilled as he watched the laptop closely as the computer ran the test or simulation.

"Come on baby... come on." Cisco mumbled to himself. The simulation was almost done when a whirlwind came through the lab.

"Barry!" Cisco jerked back in his chair and clutched the computer to his chest. "What the hell man?!"

"Sorry..." Barry rubbed his neck knowing his scared the crap out of Cisco and didn't mean to.

"Jeez, you're going to get me a heart attack one of these days." Cisco grumbled. "And what are you doing here anyway? You're supposed to be at work right now, right?"

"Yeah, I am. Got done most of my work though and decided to have an early day." Barry started.

"Okay..." Cisco knitted his eyebrows. Something was up. "Is everything alright? There haven't been any meta sightings all day."

"It's just, well uh..." Barry glanced nervously to the side.

"Yeahhhh?" Cisco waved his hand so Barry would continue.

"I-...well, ghosted today." Barry bit his lip. "I looked like shit too."

"No! No, no, no...!" Cisco jumped up being sure to put his laptop on the table gently. "I don't want to know. The less I know the better. God, Barry! I thought you said you weren't going to mess with time again?"

"I know okay?!" Barry exclaimed looking more than just upset but angry as well. "I know a made a promise. Don't you think I haven't been questioning it every single second since it happened? I know I promised Cisco. What concerns me is why I did it? Cisco, you didn't see me. I looked like hell, I had blood all over me, my clothes were basically rags with how torn up they were. And what I mean by clothes, is regular average joe clothes! I wasn't wearing the suit or even the outfit I'm wearing now!"

He promised he wouldn't do that anymore. It made him angry that he would break a promise like that. It also terrified him. What could have been so bad that he would break a promise as serious as that one?

"Okay, okay." Cisco held up his head and stared at the ground for a second, like the floor was able to come up with the correct answer. Then he looked up to Barry, who he could tell was visibly upset and angry. "Since we know you're going to ghost maybe it won't happen?"

"Yeak, like that's worked before." Barry muttered darkly.

There were plenty of times in the past where he knew that he was going to ghost but could do nothing to prevent it. Most of the ghosts were life and death threats, either to his life or to another. It was like anything he did to prevent it just made it happen all the same. Knowing he was going to ghost was not enough. If it was going to happen, it was going to happen. No matter what Barry felt on the matter.

"Yeah, you're right." the other man said in defeat. He knew as well as Barry that if Barry ghosted, that it was going to happen no matter what anyone did.

"So, you said you looked like hell?" asked Cisco trying to talk about something else.

Barry nodded.

"And you weren't in the same clothes as now?" He asked.

"No." Barry shook his head. "It was the strangest thing. Most times when I ghost, I'm wearing the same clothes as I did when I saw it. This was different. I was wearing jeans, an off-white wife beater, and black/white plaid shirt. I don't even own an outfit like that! I was covered in blood and not just red either. There was black gunk; I'm guessing it was blood too. It looked like it anyway."

"Could it be Bloodwork? That's not too big of a shock considering what we've been through." Cisco said.

"I was thinking about that too, but I just don't know." Barry was frustrated Cisco could plainly see.

"I guess we have no choice but to wait it out and see what happens, huh?" Cisco tried to play it down.

The forgotten laptop started to beep loudly.

"Oh shit."

Cisco ran back to what he was previously doing before Barry almost gave him a heart attack.

"What is it? A meta?" Barry was instantly on alert.

"No," Cisco replied. "I've been running more test and simulations to see if I can get the machine to work properly and all's been a go expect for one. I was running it again before you showed trying to kill me via heart failure."

"God, I said I was sorry." Barry threw his head up but then got serious again and leaned closer to see what Cisco was doing. "So, did it work?"

Cisco's hands stilled and started in wonder on the screen.

"Cisco?"

Suddenly, a wide bright smile graced the darker nans lips. His darker eyes looked over to his friend. Barry could visibly see the excitement in Ciscos eyes.

"It worked." he stated. "It actually worked! Ha!"

Cisco fist pumped the air and whooped. He jumped and grabbed Barry.

"Can you imagine all the possibilities? I know that I can do these things and like time travel is old news but this! This we can use anytime. It won't drain my energy and we can use it to find other heroes like you Barry. There won't be guess work on who is in what Earth. I'll have all the info on every good guy and bad guy their Earth has!"

"That is amazing Cisco! We could have a multiverse alliance or something. We could help anyone in need. Damn this is amazing." Barry put his hands on his head not believing that this was actually happening.

That they won't be completely alone in fights against stronger enemies. The possibilities were endless.

"We should try it right away." Cisco said and he started typing more and more. "Say tomorrow?"

"Wait, what?" Barry stopped and questioned. "We don't know what's going to happen, we should try it gradually in case things go bad."

"What do you think I've been doing this last week?" Cisco raised an eyebrow. "I've been testing and retesting to make sure it's safe for humans to pass. That last simulation was the last thing I need to prove to me that it is indeed safe, and we can use it to our advantage."

"I don't know Cisco. This could be dangerous." Barry cautioned. "We can't afford to be lost in another Earth or worst; this could kill us."

"Have a little faith man." Cisco's voiced laced with hurt. "I would never put you guys in danger like that."

"I know." Barry sighed. "I know you would never do anything to hurt us on purpose, but this is new technology. Something we've never used before and we should be cautious. Just keep doing tests; like using objects and see if it really works or not."

"Okay." the other man said in defeat. "I see your point. Give me a week and I should know if it really works or not."

"Hey," Barry called out. "We'll meet back here in a week and if it works, we'll take it for a spin that day. Sound good?"

"Yeah." Cisco smiled and nodded. "The whole gang?"

"No." he shook his head. "We still need people back here to protect this Earth in case a meta shows up. I say it's just us and some of the JL members."

"Why?"

"Just in case we need them." Barry stated. "We can use their unique knowledge anyways. We have no idea what people are like in the other Earths and might need their area of expertise."

"Good point." Cisco said.
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Soon many members of the Justice League appeared in S.T.A.R. Labs. The Ninja were the first as Sonic the Hedgehog and Shadow the Hedgehog arrived next.

"I take it that you guys got the same message?" Lloyd asked Sonic as he pulls off his mask.

"About Team Flash? Said it was important?" Sonic said as Ladybug and Cat Noir showed up.

"Yeah, we heard the same thing." Marinette said to the Hedgehog.

"I wonder why this is so important?" Jim said with his team of Trollhunters behind him.

"Whatever it is, Barry must've had a good reason to." Oliver said with Kara, Sara, Mick, Jessica, and Nanaue behind him.

They hear a door open to see Rykarr the Roar coming in yawning and scratching his butt. It looks like he overslept.

"Rykarr? Wow, I'm surprised you got here first. Guess you must've got the same message." Blinkous said seeing the big himbo troll.

"Uh... totally! I wasn't playing video games with Chester for so long my legs went numb and I needed a walk. That message, which I absolutely got, is definitely the reason why I'm here." Rykarr lied.

"Glad you guys made it." Barry said as he came in to greet them.

"So why are we here?" Dictatious asked.

Barry then explained to everyone what Cisco has managed to do with the machine he recovered.

"That's actually impressive." Blinky said.

"Indeed. The possibilities we can do with this machine are endless." Zane said.

"And you want us to come with you to see the other worlds?" Adrien said.

"Yep." Barry said.

"You sure this thing is safe?" Jessica asked.

"Absolutely. Cisco has ran multiple tests on it.

"Okay. We're in." Lloyd said.

Cisco sighed and refocused on what he was doing. A few more tweaks and some buttons pushed here and there! It was all done.

"Alright you guys! It's all set. You ready?" he asked and was replied with nods and yes.

Of course, that was silly question. Everyone had been ready to go for almost an hour.

"Let's get this baby started!" Cisco put in the calculations and the dimension that they wanted and hit the start button. "Okay, everyone get on the platform."

"You've got the high calorie bars, right?" Barry asked before they headed to the machine.

"Yup!" Cisco popped the 'p' while holding his small bag in his hands. "I've got you buddy. And I have some on me just in case."

"Awesome. We might need those incase we're cut off and we need my speed." Barry said.

"I brought some other stuff we might need." Mick said with a backpack.

The crew that was going crammed themselves on the platform that was near the machine. Iris were the only ones not going and so sat back and watched from afar.

"You come back you guys, you hear me?" Iris warned. "Or I'll come get you myself."

"Don't worry Iris, we'll be fine!" Barry smiled and waved trying to reassure her.

"You better be." Iris had a smile of her own.

Everyone could hear the machine powering up and blood was pumping fast with adrenaline.

"Here we go!" Cisco hit something on his iPad and lightning appeared around them.

It shocked them but it wasn't hurting them. They were taken back in awe at the display until the lighting started to fluctuate.

"What's going on?" Iris stepped back in fear.

The once beautiful display of lightening was chaotic and angry looking.

"I-I don't know." Cisco was taking in readings and trying his best to understand what was going on.

In the tests, nothing like this came forth. Why now?

"Error. Detecting error." IG-11 said detecting a problem.

Barry groaned as he started to feel lightheaded. It was like something was draining his energy. He felt so weak and was getting weaker. It looked like Sonic, Shadow, and Draal were getting dizzy too.

"Barry." Oliver's voice cut through his haze. "Are you alright?"

Barry wanted to so badly say he was fine, but he wasn't, far from it.

"I'm-I'm goi' be sic'." Barry mumbled out before he collapsed to his knees.

"Barry!" he heard people scream his name before a bright flash of light blinded his vision and then darkness as he passed out.

Earth-210

A flash of light left the surrounding area blind for a moment. It was so hot and intense, that all animals fled as quickly as possible. The light faded almost as quickly as it came leaving behind the group confused and frightened people behind.

"Where the hell are we?" Mick growled as he searched the surrounding area, the heat gun at the ready.

"I-I don't know." Cisco stuttered as he frantically worked on the iPad in his hands. The readings and words made no sense to the engineer.

"How did I get here? I weren't in the machine." Iris got up as well.

"You must have got caught in the blast, and that's why you're here." Kai theorized.

Both Iris and Caitlin were kneeling next to an unconscious Barry. Cait was checking him over and was doing everything she knew to get Barry to wake up. Nothing was working but she continued her efforts.

"Barry..." Iris called out softly to her husband as she cupped Barry's cheek. "Come one, Barry, wake up. What's wrong with him?"

"I don't know." Cait shook her hand. "Physically speaking everything is normal. He shouldn't be unconscious like this."

"This is anything but normal!" Iris shouted. "Barry is not responding at all! Obviously, something is wrong! Fix it!"

"Hey! I'm doing the best I can!" Cait shouted back. "I have no idea what's going on or what happened either."

"Iris, stop it." Lloyd put his hand on her shoulder. "This isn't Cait's fault. She's doing her best. How about we give her some room to work, yeah?"

"It's not making any sense." Sonic said as he started to pace.

"Okay, okay." Cisco combed a hand through his dark locks. "This is what I can tell so far."

Everyone but Cait was giving their full attention. Cait was only giving half of hers', the other half focused on trying to get Barry to wake up.

"We are not in any of the Earths that I saw through the machine and we're certainly not on the one I programmed to land on."

"What does that mean?" asked Iris. "If we're not on any Earths then, are we on another planet?"

"No, we are on Earth, but just not any of the Earths we know of." Cisco said.

"You're not making any sense Cisco." Marinette frowned not able to follow what Cisco was getting at. "How are we on Earth but not on Earth?"

"Let me see if I can make it clearer. Hold on." Cisco grabbed a nearby sick and started to draw in the dirt.

He drew a round circle.

"This is our earth."

He drew another circle next to the first one.

"This is Earth-2. And these are on the multiple Earths that I saw in the machines data base." He drew several more circles next to one another. "Each Earth in our universe is connected somehow. There is a line that connects us all, which is why I can take us back to our Earth if we needed to."

Cisco drew lines to every circle connecting each one.

"And this is where we are. Outside of that connection." Cisco drew a single circle far away from the others.

"I still don't get it." Draal shook his head so confused.

Iris and Aarghaumont nodded their head in agreement.

"I get it." Mick surprised everyone. "We are not in the same universe anymore. There won't be doppelgängers or any similarities like you saw with Earth-Prime and 2."

"Bingo!" Cisco pointed to the pyro with his stick. "Unfortunately, we have no connection with this Earth whatsoever."

"I hate to ask this," Iris started. "But if we have no connection to our Earth, how are we going to get back home?"

Everyone looked at Cisco, even Cait stopped what she was doing to look for that answer. Cisco looked down and then to each individual people in the eye.

"We don't. There's absolutely no way to get back."

Cisco words would forever haunt their minds.

"WHAT?! You mean we're stuck here!!!" Jay exclaimed.

"There has to be a way! What about our families? My mom!" Jim said.

"Pfft. Well, that's just great." Shadow said sarcastically. 

"Look, I'm sure there is. We just have to find it." Cisco said.

"We best get moving then." Sara said.

"Help me with him." Cait requested when she heard they were moving.

"I got him." Aarghaumont said as he went and pick his friend up.

Aarghaumont had more muscle mass. It was easy enough to pick him up.

"Do you know what's wrong with him yet?" Iris asked.

"No..." Cait shook her head. "I can't find anything. There are no signs of blood loss, injury, or anything that would indicate something was wrong. It's like he's sleeping."

"W-wait, wait!" Cisco stopped causing them to follow suite. "Remember Barry not feeling good when we activated the machine?"

Everyone nodded.

"Then the machine overloaded causing us to come here?" Sonic said.

"Get to the point, poindexter." Mick urged.

"Okay, okay." Cisco held up a hand. "I think I know how we got here and why everything happened the way it did. Barry is a speedster who produces lightning because of his powers. And lightning is a form of...?"

"Energy." Cait gasped as she looked over Barry again. "That's why I can't find anything wrong with him! There is nothing wrong with him."

"Then why the hell isn't he awake yet?" asked Sara. "If he's fine, he shouldn't be unconscious."

"Hold up!" Iris hugged Barry closer to him. "Are you saying that, that machine literary sucked Barry dry of his energy?"

"Exactly!" Cisco pointed his finger at Iris. "The machine siphoned Barry's naturally produced energy and in result caused it to overload."

"Well that's just great." Adrien said.

"Best if we take cover. It's starting to get dark." Dictatious said.

So, they walked on, and walked some more and more. It felt like they were walking for hours in the woods, with no real direction to go.

They walked for a few more hours after that and found nothing. It was almost pitch-black outside and still they hadn't found shelter of any kind. They were lost and they were no sign of people anywhere in any direction. They had no choice but to stop and make a makeshift camp in the woods.

"You can't be serious?" Nya stared in disbelief. "We have no idea what's out here and you want to camp in the middle of the woods. Have you seen any horror movies at all?"

"I'm with the lady on this one." Cisco agreed. "One, I hate the dark and two, this is worse than a horror movie! Literary anything could come out and kill us!"

"Calm down Cisco." Cait tried sooth. "We don't have much of a choice."

"Cait's right." Iris supported. "There's nothing around but trees, we haven't seen a living soul in miles. Everything will be okay."

Mick surveyed the area. It was true, they were very vulnerable here and they haven't crossed another living being since they got here, but that also worried him. Except for birds and the occasional squirrel there was nothing out here. There were no people or large animals from what Mick could see, not even a rabbit has passed them by yet. That was never a good thing. He glanced over at his friends worried about them as well. They set up camp or something similar to a camp, they had very limited supplies for they weren't properly prepared for this. Mick volunteered himself to get wood, Iris stayed by Barry's side not willing leave for any reason, and Cait was right next to Iris hoping to figure out how to help Barry more than they already were. Kai was trying to get a fire going with the wood Mick had already brought back, and Sara with Zane were getting what little food they had prepared for them to eat. Cisco, well, he was on the iPad, mumbling to himself and rapidly doing something on the screen. No one knew what but they could guess what Cisco was doing. He was trying to find a way home, or at least something to help them out. It was well into the night when it happened; the fire had gone down and was just ambers now. They didn't really need it now that the food was cooked and eaten. It was a warm night; they could do without it. Draal was on lookout making sure nothing surprised them while they slept. He looked to his right and saw Jim and Claire huddled together with Cisco not far away from them. Draal glanced around the quiet woods, and couldn't help but think, what would become of them?

Snap!

A twig snapped made Draal jerk straight up. More twigs snapped under the weight of something heavy, and it was making Draal nervous all the more. A groan sounded and Draal felt a chill go done his spine. Something was terribly wrong. He immediately got the others up.

"Get up! Get up!" Draal sounded the alarm as quietly as he could.

He got Iris up first then Mick. They proceed to wake everyone else up.

"What's going on?" Sara asked immediately when she felt Mick wake him up.

There was only one reason for Mick to wake her up in the middle of the night and it was always bad.

"Something's coming." Mick explained.

Everyone was up and ready, with the exception of Barry, with their limited weapons up but holding to see what was coming at them. The more noise that was coming towards them, the more tense they got. The groaning and moaning was the worst part. They knew that whatever was coming towards them wasn't good and it made their hearts race from the unknown.

"Oh my god! What is that?!" Kara shouted as the creature came into view.

Everyone in the group was shocked at what they were seeing not believing their own eyes.

"Is it human?" Cisco's voice waivered.

"It looks like it might have been at one time." Cait pointed out.

While everyone was distracted by the danger in front of them Cait grabbed her bag and hugged it towards her chest like a lifeline. Shit was about to go down and her bag had much needed medical supplies in it should anyone get hurt. She couldn't lose the bag; it was greatly needed. The creature indeed looked to be a human at one point, a woman to be exact, but the skin was grey and falling off. Blood was splatter all over the body and its' torn dress. It had dull lifeless eyes as it growled at the sight of them. It flared its' hands out, snapping its' jaws towards them.

"Everyone get back!" Oliver whipped out his bow and arrow. "Stop! Or I'll shoot!"

The creature ignored Oliver's words and continued on; growling, clawing, and snapping.

"I said stop!" Oliver warned. "This is your last warning."

It didn't.

Oliver had no choice. With a wince he fired his bow. The noise of the firing sounded all the more loudly in the empty woods. The arrow hit the woman's shoulder to effect.

"What?" Cait questioned not believing her eyes.

The creature got hit but all it did was push the thing back a few steps before it continued on like it was never hit.

"Hit it again." Shadow said.

Oliver fired again, this time it was the chest. The result was the same, it staggered back a little more than before, but it still held its' ground and came back for more.

"How is this possible?" Oliver asked in bewilderment, his eyes widened from disbelief.

"Shit man..." Cisco whispered. "This can't be! There's no way...Oliver! Shoot it in the head!"

"What?" Oliver looked over to Cisco.

"Do it. It should go down for good." He answered back.

"What? Like some fucking zombie?" Mick inquired. "How is that fucking possible?!"

"We're in a different reality with Meta-humans and Trolls and you think that zombies are impossible?" Toby says.

"Tobias got a point." Blinky drawled out; eyes narrowed not liking this new development.

"Well, whatever you're going to do, do it fast!" Jay urged. "It's getting too close for comfort."

"Shoot it in the head!" Cisco yelled again.

Oliver wasted no time and did just that. However, this time Cisco was right, the creature staggered and fell, dead for good this time.

"I still can't believe it..." Cait gazed on confused. "Zombies don't exist! They can't. It's not physically possible."

"Well, what do you make of that?!" Jay shouted as he pointed to the thing.

"Whatever it is, it's dead now." Blinky confirmed as he checked on the kill making sure it wasn't going to get back up anytime soon. "We should move."

"He's right. Us shouting was loud. We're too exposed and I don't want to be here if more show up. I have a very bad feeling about this." Oliver said.

Suddenly more zombies started coming out of the woods moaning and snapping their jaws.

"Cisco...?" Barry shook his head and his vision was crystal clear once more as he surveyed the area around him, he almost wished he'd never woken up.

"Oh, thank god!" Cisco was so relieved to have his friend back, but the relief was short lived when reality hit back home. "We need you! There's too many for us to fight! They're zombies man! Zombies!"

Barry then gets up as they are now fighting against the zombies. The Ninja began to use their Elemental Powers to kill the zombies herding on them as they do their best not to get bit.

"Okay, now this is something I thought would never happen in my life!" Jay says as he goes to lightning blasted a zombie.

"CHAOS SPEAR!!!!" Shadow shouts firing multiple spears at the zombies.

Kara uses her heat vision to destroy the zombies as the Trolls, Zane, and IG-11 are spared by the zombies due to not being made of flesh. Draal does his Dpin Dash as he crushes dozens of zombies. As the fight goes on, a small capsule pops out of Mick's backpack as it was a capsule full of Dark Matter!

The Dark Matter capsule hits the ground as it explodes it's energy. It creates a massive energy wave that waves all over the world.

"LOOK OUT IRIS!!!" Kai shouts as a zombie goes to bite her.

Barry jumped in front of the undead shielding his love from the onslaught. His scream was bone chilling and heart wrenching. He felt them. All of them. Multiple bite marks could be felt on his back, each one just as painful as the last, the blood soaking his white t-shirt.

"Barry!!!" Iris shouts as Blinky helps her.

"Oh shit!" Cisco ducked and waived as best as he could while holding Barry up, but unfortunately one did seek up on them. "Ah!"

Barry might not have his powers, but he wasn't going to let any one of those things hurt his friends, not again. Instead of biting Cisco, Barry threw up his other arm and took the bit for him. Barry screamed in pain and tried to throw the dead man off of him.

"Help!" Cisco yelled as he struggled to pull the dead creature off of his friend.

Cait, hearing Cisco's cry, picked up a nearby rock and smashed it into the undeads' skull, effectively killing it. In that short amount of time, Iris, Mick, Kara, Sara, Blinkous, Dictatious, Aarghaumont, Rykarr, Marinette, Adrien, Jim, Toby, Claire, Nanaue, Sonic, Shadow, IG-11 got separated from them. They had not heard the cry for help and pressed on not realizing that they were leaving their friends behind.

"Barry!!!" Iris shouts as she goes back but Aarghaumont carried her on his shoulder.

"I'm sorry, Miss West-Allen, but we must go!" Blinky said to her.

Iris could only watch she was forced to leave behind her beloved and some of her friends.

"Oh god, what are we going to do?!" Caitlin cried as she realized they were surrounded.

Inch by inch the undead were getting closer, Barry was down, they had no weapons, and their friends were long gone.

"Shit, shit, shit...!" Cisco was panting above Barry trying to get the other man to move. It was no use though; Barry was barely conscious and was all but dead weight.

"Cisco..." Caitlin whispered, tears raining down her face. As the zombies started to reach their hands out for them, Cait closed her eyes. She was accepting the painful death that greeting them.

"Caitlin!" Cisco yelled as the dead descended upon her. With a shout of fear and adrenaline Cisco grabbed Cait and held his hand out.

Crashes of bodies littered the area. Cait gasped as she jerked her head up. She watched as Cisco shot vibrations out his hands, left and right none stop. There was no control, only outburst of energy flooding the area.

"Go! Go! Go!" Cisco screamed as he pushed his attacks passed his limit.

He had never been able to use this power before to such a degree. It was taxing on his body. He could literally feel his energy draining. Sweat was pooling down his forehead and into his eyes, breath was uneven and hitched as he tried to gain control over himself.

"We need to get Barry!" Cait struggled to get the man in question up. "I need help. Stand up Barry!"

Barry groaned and tried his best to follow her command. It wasn't working, but thankfully he didn't have to. Cisco dropped to his knees panting. He lifted his hand to attack again. There were still zombies around, but thankfully only a few. They kept running until they couldn't hear the zombies behind them.

"Stop!" Cait left Barry and knelt next to her other friend. "That's enough! We have a clear path now. We can try to catch up to the others."

"Y-Yeah..." Cisco panted and coughed. "Ju-Just give me a se-second."

"We don't have a second." Cait insisted.

True, most of the undead were gone but the few that remained were heading right for them and this time Cait knew that they were truly defenseless. There wouldn't be another miracle moment.

"Oka-ay." Cisco grunted as he got up.

He didn't know how they did it but they were able to get Barry up and started to drag themselves to safety, and hopefully back to their friends.

The sad truth was, they weren't able to catch up with the rest. After the herd had come it was a disaster. Wounded and barely alive, they only had one choice. They had to stop and take shelter. Thankfully, they found a nearby house that was left abandoned by its' owner. The housing was a mess, and everything was scattered and/or shattered on the ground, but it had its beds and a lockable door. It wasn't nearly enough but it was all they had in this new world. Cait immediately put Barry on the closet bed, which, thankfully was on the first floor. While the team recovered, Cait was using whatever she could find as bandages for Barry. In her bag, were supplies, but not nearly enough to cover this. She had to cut away his already torn shirt to reveal the dozens of bit marks in his skin.

"Oh god..." Cait cupped her mouth at the extent of the injuries. "I don't know how I'm going to fix this, but I'm going to try."

Barry was completely gone. He had tried to help them by walking earlier but it was no use, his legs gave out followed by the rest of his body. It was too much for him to handle, even with accelerated healing. Cait used her medical supplies at first, then bed sheets and tape to recover the rest. She already knew that the blood was going to soak through the gauze in less than an hour hence the bed sheets, but she needed more. She was able to find some water and alcohol as well in the bathroom. There wasn't much left in the house, but it would be enough to take care of Barry. Barry was bleeding heavily, and only time would allow the wounds to heal. She worked for hours, carefully cleaning the bits, padding them as much as she could. She found a few that were too deep and need stitches if Barry was going to have a chance to heal. She only had a small sewing kit in her bag; enough to stitch a few small deep wounds but that was it. She used all she had on Barry. She prayed that it was enough. God, she felt so unprepared. She felt so stupid for not bringing more! What kind of doctor was she?! Everyone here was depending on her to make them better, to heal them and she didn't even bring enough supplies to do so!

"How's he doing?" Cisco slurred from the couch interrupting her hate filled thoughts.

"Better." Cait responded back while shaking her head. "The bleeding is finally slowly down."

"That's fantastic." Cisco coughed and groaned. His body was shivering, and he could feel sweat coating his entire body.

Cait frowned as she took more notice of Cisco's condition. She was so focus on Barry that she had completely ignored her other friend. She got up and walked over to the couch. Her footsteps were heard as Cisco peaked through his eyelashes at hearing her movement.

"Are you okay?" she asked.

"Just peachy..." Cisco moan and another shiver racked his body.

"That's not your line." Cait attempted to joke but there was nothing funny about this.

She started to inspect Cisco and brought her hands up to his forehead. She winced at the temperature.

"You have a fever." Zane told him as he scanned him.

"I think I used too much energy." He said.

"Yeah. I've never seen you like that before. What you did was very brave and I'm glad we were able to survive that. All of you were brave."

"Thanks." Kai said.

"I don't feel brave." Cisco admitted. "In fact, I'm scared shitless. I was so worried and scared that I just reacted. I'm not brave."

"Well, I don't believe that." Cait said with a hint of a smile. "You might not have been able to control it, but it worked, and you saved our lives Cisco."

"Yeah, after sending us here to our deaths." Cisco reminded her. "It was the least I could do."

"We're not doing this again Cisco." Lloyd urged. "We couldn't have foreseen this! It was no one's fault. It's just how it is."

"We're not. I could have! Should have! It's not. It's mine. They're dead because of me!" Cisco brokenly urged because he was too damn tried to have a full blown debuted.

"Okay, you're exhausted. You need to rest. Have some water and I'll see if I can find us something to eat." Cait said as she held some water to Cisco to drink.

"Thanks." Cisco accepted the water but continued to hold her arm. "Whatever happens, don't worry about us. The first sign of trouble you get yourself out and leave Barry and me behind."

"You know I can't do that." Cait placed her other hand onto Cisco's trying to get as much comfort as she could. "I'm not leaving you here."

"You got that right." Cole said.

"We're not gonna abandon you." Oliver said.

"You will if things start to get hairy." Cisco insisted. "I don't want anyone to die."

Cait gave a small sad watery smile. "No one is going to die today. Don't think about it. Just rest and we'll deal with it tomorrow, okay?"

Cisco looked like he was going to urge with her again but eventually he just sighed and relaxed back into the couch.

"Okay." He said trying to rest.

"So... what do we do now?" Lloyd asked the group.