A day without the Flash
Peter and Caitlin were at their place in the middle of a crucial time. Peter is carefully following Caitlin's instructions as she guides him through it.
"Careful." She tells him as he's being as careful as he possibly could.
"I know. I know." Peter whispers.
"This is a critical time." She states as Peter continues. "Steady hands." She says, as she keeps trying to guide him as Peter failed.
"Call time and death." Peter tells her while looking at the thanksgiving pie.
"It's okay. It's a pie, it's not supposed to be a piece of cake." Caitlin quips and Peter looks to her with a brow raised.
"You're making quips? You're the one making the quips?!" Peter questions as Caitlin laughs.
"Well, I have a boyfriend who is getting me into some stupid habits." Caitlin replies as Peter pulled her in for a kiss and they get back to it.
"It's nice that Cicada is still hiding after his beating in the woods for trying to hurt Miles. It gives us some time to prepare for our first Thanksgiving together." Peter says as he cuts the ingredients for more food.
"What about May, she stopping by?" Caitlin asks.
"She promises to be here around eight, that's the earliest she can get off her shift. And I offered Harry and Cisco to join us as Barry and the West's are spending it together with Cecile's family and Nora is going to try talking to them again. Fox is gonna be held up with Parker Industries paperwork and promised if he can make it, he will." Peter explains to her.
"You still don't think that May and Harry are...dating, do you?" Caitlin asks.
"So you have noticed them recently?" Peter sees she sees what he's seeing. "I don't know what to think about it. If she wants to date Harry, it's her decision...and then there's me thinking about her dating Harry. It's weird." He confesses what he feeling. "But, yeah, it's gonna be the six of us, if Fox makes it."
Caitlin's eyes suddenly go white for a second as Crystal talks to her.
"I'm down." Crystal says and her eyes return to normal.
"Seven, actually." Caitlin tells Peter. "Crystal just RSVP'd."
"Wait, you guys can talk now, without the dampener?" Peter asks.
"Today's the first time, actually." Caitlin says.
"Has Frankie been acting strange to you recently?" Peter wonders.
"Yeah, she's been kinda jumpy and nervous recently. I mean, she knows she can tell us anything, so she will tell us what's bothering her soon." Caitlin promises as they both know Frankie won't keep secrets from them when they get alerts on their phones.
"A massive electrical surge at the downtown power station." Peter says as Caitlin sends a alert to Frankie and he rushes to get his suit on and leaves.
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Peter and Miles come in swinging as Peter said he can help out more now he's all healed up.
Frankie comes in flying and lands on her feet.
"Guys, what's the problem here?" Peter asks when their senses go off and lightening nearly hits them.
"It's lightning." Miles says.
"Skies were clear a moment ago. That storm seems to have come out of nowhere." Caitlin tells them.
"We got a bigger problem." Cisco says. "There's a experimental cold fusion core from Parker Industries in the plant, and if it blows..."
"It can take out the block." Peter knows, since he's the one who authorized this and makes it to the core and lightning nearly hits it.
"Miles, Frankie, you guys get the workers evacuated, I'll get the core out." Peter tells them as he knows how to get it out.
"Wait, wait, something doesn't feel right." Frankie tells him.
"It's gonna be fine, go get the workers out of here." Peter tells them and they leave when Peter sees another bolt is about to come in. He sends a web at the core and manages to web the core before it could get struck, but Peter's web did and it sends the power of the bolt down back at Peter and sends him flying back.
"Peter? Peter!" Caitlin yells as Peter can't hear her.
Miles and Frankie evacuate everyone and make it to see him unconscious.
"Dad!" Frankie yells as the two of them run over to him and can't feel a pulse.
"Guys, what do we do?" Miles asks, completely lost at what they can do.
"He's going into cardiac arrest." Caitlin says.
"Morales, strike him." Harry tells them.
"Wha-what do you mean?" Miles asks.
"Charge up a venom strike, and strike him with it while giving him a chest compression." Harry explains and Miles quickly starts to charge up and slams his chest and nothing happens.
"Do it again." Frankie tells him and Miles is one step ahead of her and charges another strike.
"It's not working!" Miles yells when Peter flatlines.
"We lost him." Caitlin says in shock.
"No, no!" Frankie pleads and Miles charges up his biggest venom strike and slams Peter hard in the chest and he gasps for air and wakes up.
Everyone sighs in relief seeing he's gonna be okay.
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"I promise you, I'm okay." Peter promises Frankie as they make it to Star labs and Miles went back to his family.
"Caitlin?" Frankie asks.
"His vitals are stable. Spider healing to the rescue." Caitlin assures her.
"He shouldn't have needed to be saved." Frankie states.
"Frankie, it's fine. I'm fine. If that core detonated, a lot more people would've died." Peter tells her.
"You almost died! How can you take that so casually?" Frankie asks.
"I'm almost killed every week, I kinda get used to it. I know I'll always find a way, and if I can't, I have you and Caitlin to help me." Peter explains.
"Yeah, but someday we might not be there and you'll die." Frankie states as she marches out of the room.
"What..was that about?" Cisco wonders.
"She's been acting off recently. We don't know why." Peter says.
"I mean, she's right. You did die for a second, maybe she's just on edge." Caitlin defends, not knowing the truth.
"So, what about this storm? Where'd it come from?" Peter asks them.
"A storm like that coming and going, disappearing and reappearing in the matter of minutes, it should be impossible." Cisco says.
"Unless somebody is making it possible." Harry says, sipping his coffee.
"Well, we've seen it before with Weather Wizard." Caitlin agrees.
"Yeah, except Oliver said that after Lian Yu blew up, all the metas we sent there were either released or killed and Mardon was one of the few who died, confirmed." Peter says.
"What about Electro?" Cisco asks.
"They moved him and a few of the less dangerous mutants back to Iron Heights after some of the inmates planned a breakout. I'll grab Fox and stop by." Peter agrees and leaves with Frankie.
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The three of them make it to Iron Heights and to the metahuman wing.
"You have to excuse the dim lighting." The warden tells them. "Today's storm at the power plant knocked out the main generator. So we're working for a backup for the time being."
"Does that mean you can't dampen the powers?" Peter asks.
"The dampers are down, but we got them in power dampening cuffs incident free." She tells him and they walk into the meta wing. "After the corruption of the last warden, I am eager to assure the public and others that their safety is in good hands. So which inmate did you want to see?"
"Max Dillon? Or commonly known as Electro." Peter explains and they are lead to his cell that is a complete plastic cell and door.
"We weren't taking any chances for him to escape again." The warden explains the new cell he's in.
"And he's been here all day?" Peter wonders.
"Never once left our sight." She assures him.
"Mind if I were to look over the security tapes? We believe he might've been involved in some way." Fox asks her.
"Anything for our friends making our jobs easier." She agrees and brings Fox to the tapes.
"Well, this was a dead end." Peter tells Frankie.
"Looks like you almost died for nothing." Frankie comments as she leaves.
"Frankie." Peter called after and catches up to her. "Is something bothering you?" He finally asks. "We've been living together for almost a year, you know how I work and was okay with it until recently."
Frankie was about to respond when they got word on who could be behind it.
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"Weather Wizard has a daughter?" Peter asks.
"Meet Joslyn Jackum." Caitlin says as she pulls up a file on the new girl. "She was born while Mardon and her mother was in high school and has reportedly ran away after some fall out. She is a delinquent teen turned amateur storm chaser. A self taught expert in theoretical meteorology."
"How do we know she's a storm chaser?" Cisco sarcastically asks. "'Cause Helen Hunt here has a blog."
"She lost her grant from the Science Center for doing too many dangerous experiments on the weather," Caitlin says and starts to think for a second. "Ooh, Weather Witch?"
"I'll allow it." Cisco says.
"Any idea what she's after?" Peter wonders.
"Oh, I don't know. Revenge?" Harry guesses. "Is there anything else that a criminals spawn want on the man that had a hand in their parents death?"
"That could explain the attack on the power plant, get Spider-Man's attention...and finish him off." Caitlin says and sees that would mean she might strike again.
"Well, anything to help us track her?" Peter asks.
"Well, we found this." Harry says as he pulls up a photo of her holding some weather equipment and zooms in to show its glowing.
"It's a shard from the satellite. She has meta technology." Caitlin sees. "She has instant lightning on command. There's no way you're gonna be able to get close to her without a speedster. And the metal it's made out of is non metallic, so Frankie can't swip it from her. She's gonna have to give it up willingly."
They then get an alert on a severe weather approaching the city.
"We've got a problem."
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Peter goes in solo and his senses go off to see Weather Witch come in on a bolt of lightning.
"Nice entrance. Solid seven out of ten. Points taken away for lack of originality." Peter tells her while clapping. "I see the rottenness of the apple spreaded all down the branch."
"You're a quipper just like everyone says. Awesome. Now I can get revenge on what you did to my dad." Joss tells him.
"I did nothing to him, I wasn't there when that prison exploded and had no control over the people who did it." Peter informs her.
She just keeps approaching and swings the staff around. "Yeah, but you put him there."
"He was a maniac who was hurting people." Peter defends his actions.
"Okay. Now it's time to get this over with." She says as she swings her staff and Peter feels lightning coming from him as he gets shot across the park. "This city will drown, crumble, burn, starting with you!" She promises.
Before she could do anything, dozens of cars come flying at her and she gets smacked by one of them and quickly escapes and Peter sees Frankie approaching.
"Thanks." Peter says as he gets up and groans. "I gotta follow her."
"Wait, are you serious right now?" Frankie asks. "You were just struck by lightning, again! And you don't seem to care. If you die, what's gonna happen to this city? To me?!"
"Okay, where is this coming from?" Peter asks. "You know how dangerous my job is."
"And I don't want to lose you, but it seems that I can't do anything, you can lose me, Caitlin, all for your job! I can't loose you! I wish I could stop it!" Frankie tells him.
"Stop what?" Peter asks as Frankie flies off, leaving Peter confused.
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Peter leans on the balcony of Star labs as Caitlin approaches him.
"Nora told her something about the future." Peter tells her.
"What could she have told Frankie to cause her to act this way?" Caitlin wonders as she joins him.
"I think...based off the data so far, I think I die." Peter guesses and now Caitlin understands and she places her hand on his. "She's worried that she might loose me, might go back to the foster system maybe. I remember after loosing my parents, when I went to live with Ben and he would constantly go to his job and I'd pray for his safety."
"I forget, what did Ben do again?" Caitlin asks.
"He was police officer." Peter answers. "I would pray that he would come home safely and I would sometimes ask him why he would keep putting his life on the line. Guess what his response was."
"With great power, comes great responsibility." Caitlin guesses.
"Word for word. It became the word of the house. Then...my powers came, and I didn't have the responsibility. And he died." Peter says. "When I first started this, I never imagined that I would come this far in life. A daughter who looks up to me, a amazing girlfriend, and incredible friends."
"Is there anything we can do?" Caitlin wonders.
"Not unless we can stop this crisis." Peter tells her.
Caitlin tries to think of anything that can work around this and she just pulls him into a hug, not wanting to loose him in eight years.
Peter was the one person she could always rely on, she doesn't want to keep loosing the people she loves.
"Why does Spider-Man bring you so much?" Caitlin wonders.
"It's my gift, and my curse. If I were to die doing anything, it would be to keep you all safe." Peter knows. If it were for any other reason, he would happily die protecting his family.
"I might have an idea on something to start with." Caitlin offers.
"What?" Peter wonders.
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They find Joss at the airport and Peter takes Crystal with him this time to be prepared.
"So, you got an idea to fight the weather?" Crystal asks him.
"Don't have to fight the weather. But this should help." Peter says as he hands her the Weather Wand. "It'll enhance your powers if you focus, counteract her weather. She wants me, she has to catch me first."
Joss notices him and starts to create a tornado out of lightning.
Crystal looks to him and looks down at the wand. "If we absorb that, it'll flood through your veins." He says and looks for a second option when suddenly the airplane comes apart and starts to surround Weather Witch and they look to see Frankie on the terminal.
"She's using the metal to attract the lightning." Crystal says.
"Giving us time to stop her." Peter adds.
Joss notices Frankie after some time and goes in to strike her with lightning when she slips from ice on the floor and Peter webbed the staff away from her and Crystal freezes her wrists as makeshift cuffs.
"Well, wether you're ready or not, you're out." Peter quips and Crystal raises a brow at him. "I know, it wasn't good." He assures her.
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Peter places the staff inside the pipeline and closes it with Caitlin behind him.
"Better safe than sorry." Peter gestured to the staff closing the doors. "Now that we're done with the crazies, why don't we tell Frankie the news?"
"Let's do it." Caitlin agrees and they leave.
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Frankie makes it to the living room and sees they have a paper in front of them.
"What's happening?" Frankie asks.
"Well, we remember your talk about me putting my life on the line constantly...and we came up with a solution for in case I were to never die so you never need to go back into foster care." Peter tells her and hands her the paperwork and she sees its adoption papers and Caitlin added herself to it.
"Really?" Frankie asks Caitlin.
"Frankie, I love you and would be proud to be your adopted mother." Caitlin says and walks into a hug by her.
"But there's something else..." Peter says and Frankie looks to him. "Whatever Nora told you, we kinda figured it out, but she said something about me dying, didn't she?" Frankie confirms by nodding and that confirmed their fears. "Look, whatever Crisis is coming we'll deal with it together when it comes." She promises her. "I will never leave you or Caitlin if I can avoid it. But if I can't avoid it, it's because there's no way around it. I will always return to my girls."
With that, they all come in for a hug and stay for a while when people started showing up.
Later, Harry and Cisco show up and Peter is wondering where May is when she comes in.
"Hey, May. What's up?" Peter asks and notices her face. "What's wrong?"
May approaches him with the most disturbing news. "I know who Cicada is."
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