Bad tech
Peter and Caitlin have agreed to keep Crystal Frost a secret from the team for now, but not to keep her hidden from anywhere.
They have agreed it's safe for her to be able to train with Peter in the Spider Cave and that's what they're doing as of now.
Peter has Crystal in a hold where he's holding her hands to her chest in a cross. "You can get out of this hold anytime you want. First put you hands like Houndini." He explains to her and she follows his instructions. "Turn your palms down, and all at once, throw your hands to the ground and your hips back."
She does so and gets out of his hold. "Nice work." Peter says as Frost quickly sends a blast of myst on the ground causing him to slip and Crystal tackled him while laughing.
"You done yet, Spider?" Crystal asks him and Peter chuckles.
"Okay, I'll give you that one." Peter surrenders and Crystal gets off of him and helps him stand up. "This is stranger than most of my love life with dating someone with split personalities. But, I barely had a love life, so I'm okay with it." He jokes to Crystal.
"You're lucky you're the only one who can thaw this frozen heart of mine." Crystal flirts before kissing him.
"Caitlin's okay with the three of us, right?" Peter asks without moving his lips off of her as Crystal changes into Caitlin and they don't break.
"I can get used to the idea of us, just like I did with Frankie." Caitlin assures him before they get a call into Star labs.
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After Barry, Cisco and Joe got back from the disgusting elevator crime scene, they called a meeting a STAR Labs to explain details.
"The Cortex's quantum algorithm should decrypt this code in no time. Then we can ID our new hacker." Cisco said, plugging the USB into his computer and watching as it scanned through the code on it in flashes of Java script. "While we wait, I've got a little welcome back gift for you."
Barry quirked his head interestedly, eyes following Cisco as he spun around the desk and strode towards the display case in the front of the room. "Come come!" Cisco called. "Walk with your boy! Gather 'round, class!"
Smirking, Caitlin and Peter exchanged glances and followed Cisco as he dramatically whipped a grey sheet off of the Flash mannequin.
"Ka-blam!" Cisco yelled, wiggling his eyebrows.
"I mean, that was cool reveal and everything, but I've seen that suit," Barry said with a half-smile. "I've actually already...worn it. You know, to save Peter."
"We all know you gave Barry's suit a nice little fancy makeover." Wally grumbled from the corner, sounding a bit jealous.
"Yeah, but you don't know what you don't know," Cisco deflected. "And underneath all of this red beautiful I've built in self-repairing armor, nano-liquid circuitry, full spectrum scanning, and a whole bunch of other big words-chief among them..." He clicked a button on his tablet and yellow sliders came down over the eyes of the mask. "Your very own custom-made hood. This thing is loaded with maps, schematics, delivery menus- you know that Thai place you love so much?"
"Yeah!" Barry agreed excitedly, clapping Cisco's hand and half-hugging him. "Dude! This is awesome. What else does it do?"
He stepped forward, peering up at the suit, and Cisco grabbed a huge white binder from the chair next to him. "Well, lucky for you, I even wrote you an instruction manual."
Barry beamed down at it. "Yay!"
"C'mon," Cisco grinned. "We're not Cavemen."
"Really good work," Peter called, as he watched the whole exchange. "But isn't that all what my suits can do?" He wonders.
Cisco sauntered out of the Cortex. "I know. But if we're team Spider-Flash, why not level the playing field?"
"He has super speed. I'm the field-tech guy." Peter says as he's drinking his coffee seeing that's perfectly even there. Barry's the feet, Peter's the brains.
"I will look at this later!" Barry proclaimed, setting the manual back down on the chair and making for the exit. "I gotta head to the CCPD. And you can blame this on Cisco, but I'm thinking Thai tonight?"
Iris nodded her agreement, then paused. "Barry, we have a training session tonight, though," she said with a sigh. "I'm probably not going to be up for going out to eat after that."
Barry grinned and kissed her on the nose. "I cancelled that. Don't worry about that."
"You canceled it?" Iris asked with an anger smile on her face.
"Yeah, I mean, I don't think we need it, right?" Barry asked. "Besides, I'm back. So is Peter. So I'll make a reservation, Okay?" Barry promises and kissed her before he spun around, waved, and walked off.
"Must be so nice having Barry back." Caitlin says to Iris across the room as Peter is looking over the new suit.
"Yeah," Iris sighed. "Yes, it is. I mean, it's just gonna take some time for him to get used to the new dynamics around here."
"What new dynamics are those?" Peter asks her, not following.
"You know, like me as leader of the team." Iris explains and they're seriously confused by that news.
"When did that happen?" Peter asks and even Caitlin is confused by that. "When I left, Cisco was left in charge. Me and Barry even agreed to leave him to be third in line if we weren't around. And...I haven't seen you make any decisions that were good. Why would you be in charge?"
"Because...I'm Barry's soon to be wife." Iris informs him.
Peter just looks completely more confused and raises his brow to Caitlin who doesn't know what to say to that.
"Iris, we've been working together for four years. Working alongside each other, learning from one another. Making decisions together. What makes you think you can just walk in and say you are the leader?" Caitlin asks, agreeing with Peter.
Before Iris could respond to that, the alarms go off and Peter looks at the computers.
"Unauthorized breach incoming," Peter reported, looking up at Caitlin in alarm. "We gotta move."
Uninvited fear spiked through Caitlin and Peter looked worried as he sees Crystal Frost's presence starting to bubble up inside of her, and turned her eyes flashing blue.
"Don't change don't change don't change," Caitlin begged herself under her breath.
"Caitlin!" Iris yelled, already halfway out the exit, not knowing what's happening between the two of them. "Let's go!"
Caitlin blinked, got ahold of herself, and followed Iris and Peter out of the Cortex.
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Caitlin and Peter stand in front of the breach as Wally speeds in and brought Miles with him, ready to help Peter.
"You ready?" Wally asks when Cisco runs in.
"Hey, Hey. Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Cisco calls out as he runs in front of them. "Hold your fire!" He asks as Gypsy steps out of the portal.
"Hey." Gypsy casually greets them and they're all relieved it wasn't a threat.
"Hey, you wanna give me a little more notice next time? You know, people who wanna kill us come though here, right?" Cisco asks her.
"My bad, guys." Gypsy apologizes.
"Cisco, that was heroic of you to jump in and protect Gypsy like that. It's very impressive." Wally comments on him.
"Dude, I'm protecting you from her. She would have vaporized you guys." Cisco informs them.
"Yeah, I believe that." Peter admits, remembering their last encounters with her.
"As you were." Cisco tells them and they all leave the two of them.
"You think we were kind of hard on Iris?" Caitlin asks Peter.
"What? God, no. I just assumed she was constantly around the labs because she was going to die last year, and we were the only ones who could protect her. Cisco said that Barry left him in charge, and that's what she needs to see. She's not the leader of team Spider-Flash." Peter states since it's literally in the name.
"Fair enough." Caitlin assumes when they get an alert.
They run into the cortex and see Iris isn't even here. Which isn't exactly unwelcome or matter.
"There's a car going 120 swerving between lanes." Caitlin tells him.
"Call Barry, I'm headed there now." Peter says and grabs his mask as he makes his way out and rips his clothes to reveal his red and black suit.
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Barry sped up to to beside the car and sees that it's a runaway car as the driver is screaming out the closed window.
"Driver's trapped inside. I'm gonna change his trajectory ." Barry tells Peter as he runs across the rooftops to help the best he can.
"Good idea. Turn him left on the upcoming turnoff." Peter says as his mask does a quick search of the area.
"No, I'll push him right. That streets empty." Barry says and does exactly that.
"Barry, they started construction on that street!" Peter informs him and Barry just noitices it as he comes to a stop.
Peter quickly leaps in and crashes into the engine and connects two webs to buildings and starts to hold the car up as Miles comes swinging in and keeps the back tires from touching the road.
"Basic mechanics." Miles says as his suit scans the car for the tires and quickly breaks the tires off and they place the car on the ground and Barry is relieved they were able to stop the car.
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"I know a guy almost died, but what happened to this sexy beast here today is the real tragedy." Cisco comments as Peter ripped the system out of the car for Cisco to look over it.
"That could've gone a lot worse." Barry admits. "This was all on me."
"Not your fault, man. You didn't know." Peter assures him. "So, what have you got for us, Cisco?"
"I'll start beginning an auto-topsy right now." Cisco says and plugs it into their computers.
"That is the same weird code from the elevator murder scene." Barry comments on it.
"So the hacker has a hit list. That's bad." Peter adds on.
"Can you crack this?" Miles asks him.
"Man, I've been trying to crack this code all day." Cisco informs the kid.
"It looks like a virus." Caitlin comments.
"Well, yeah, because...it's a computer virus." Cisco replies.
"No, no. Scooch." Caitlin tells him and pushes Cisco out of the way and starts messing with the computer.
"I feel violated." Cisco says.
"It looks like an organic virus." Caitlin shows them.
"With a digital sub-base." Peter adds. "He isn't just hacking machines, he's controlling them."
"So he's a metahuman?" Barry guesses.
"Anything that connects the two people he's attacked?" Miles asks Cisco.
"There's nothing online. But their names, Weaver, Kwon, they sound very familiar to me." Cisco replies to him. "I started collecting these tech magazines in high school. They were like-"
"Those were the magazines you collected in high school?" Wally asks him.
"Okay. That's-that's hurtful." Cisco says as Peter, Caitlin and Barry look sympathetic since they're all nerds. "I'm 90% sure that's where I read those names."
"Well, then let's start digging in." Peter says as they all start heading to Cisco's labs where he for some reason keeps his magazines.
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"Hello, mamacita." Cisco says as he opens one of the magazines. "They don't make them like you anymore."
"What the hell?" Gypsy asks looking at a computer chip in the magazine.
"It's just the Motherboard of the Month, July of '07, Okay? Look at her." Cisco tells her.
"Kinda wish it was a girl." Gypsy replies to that knowledge.
"We are such nerds." Peter complains to himself.
"Baby, it's been hours. You guys made any progress yet?" Gypsy asks them.
"No mention of Kurt Weaver or Tim Kwon or any connection between the two of them." Caitlin tells her when Cisco finds something.
"Until now. Got him." Cisco says and they move over to his magazine. "Take notes, people, it's only hoarding if it doesn't pay off."
"Okay, that's Tim Kwon. That's Kurt Weaver. That's Sheila Agnani." Caitlin lists them and they see a forth guy.
"Who's the big dude?" Peter asks.
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Miles was visiting his father at the CCPD to see if they have any leads when he sees one of the bomb robot's walking out with a grenade and they evacuate everyone.
As everyone runs out, Miles sneaks away from his father and quickly changed into his outfit just in time for it to walk into the office with Joe and Tim Kwon to shoot a impact web to wrap the grenade up and it explode inside the web.
"You guys okay?" Miles asks the two in the room.
"Yeah, thanks Spider-Man." Joe says as Miles makes his way out of the window to get away quickly before anyone questions why he's here.
Later the team came by and learn it's the same code and same metahuman who did it.
"The good news is I found a connection between our victims." Cisco says and hands Barry and Joe the magazine. "Four years ago, Kurt Weaver and Tim Kwon created an app in their garage with two other programmers. Some malware called Kilgore. And then they sold it off to a big tech company."
"So that's how they made their money." Peter adds on.
"I saw this guy. He was here." Joe tells them, referring to the last guy.
"Ramsey Deacon. Looks like we found our meta. And for some reason he's going after his old partners." Barry adds.
"It's like Silicon Valleyif Richard went nuts and stared killing everyone at Pied Piper." Cisco says.
"Nah, I'm feeling more of a anarchist Gilfoyle type of vibe off him." Peter corrects.
"Erlich, maybe." Cisco compromises.
"What about Sheila Agnani? He hasn't gone after her yet." Caitlin asks them.
"Well, she's like a big deal tech guru now." Cisco tells him.
"Well, she's definitely on his hit list. We're gonna have to protect her." Peter adds. "I'll pick up Miles and swing by her place, literally."
"And I'll keep working on the coding." Cisco promises and they leave.
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"This guy is a living computer virus." Caitlin comments on the Ramsey's powers as she, Cisco, and Fox are working on decrypting it. "That's a new one."
"Look at this code. From the elevator, to the car, to the bomb robot, this code keeps changing. But I can't figure out why." Cisco tells them.
"Well, it's not just a digital code, it's human and digital." Fox reminds him.
"And most viruses mutate to avoid being killed." Caitlin replies.
"So, if we managed to create digital antibodies, then we can shut this guy down." Cisco says as Gypsy comes in. "Hi."
"Hey." Gypsy greets him.
"I'm so glad you're here, 'cause I truly, deeply, from the bottom of my heart...I am sorry, but I'm gonna have to cancel our date." Cisco tells her. "If you're gonna vibe blast me, can I pick the spot?"
"It's fine, Cisco." Gypsy assures him. "I get it."
"You get it?"
"Yeah, what's not to get? You have to work, so...we will cancel our date. Good luck. I hope it works out." Gypsy says as she leaves them.
"What a cool chick." Cisco tells the two of the men in the room.
"You're in trouble." Fox breaks to him.
"Yeah. When a girl says she gets it, what she really means is she doesn't get it at all." Caitlin confirms.
"I'm confused." Cisco replies.
"Don't be, it's simple." Caitlin says and walks up to him. "You, my friend, are in so much trouble." She breaks to him and leaves.
"You just had to fall for the girl in head to toe black leather, didn't you?" Cisco asks himself and sees Fox nodding his head in agreement.
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Peter and Miles are in the Star labs van outside Shiela Agnani's home as they send several Spider-Drones inside with listening devices and cameras so they can see what's happening.
"Let's see what we've got in store for us." Peter says as they activate the cameras to see Tim Kwon visiting.
"Tim, what the hell, man?" Shiela asks, seeing him, "you can't just come into my house."
"Because you wouldn't return my calls. I really need-"
"Is this about your weird crush? Let it go, Tim. We're not happening." Shiela tells him.
"Sheila, listen. Deacon's coming for us. He wants payback for what we did to him." Tim tells her.
"What did we do to him? Kurt scrubbed any connection between us from the net, so as far as the world's concerned, we're innocent." Shiela tells him.
"But were not. I should have never let you talk me into going along with this. And now Kurt's dead. Deacon killed him."
"He did not."
"Oh, yes. He did." Deacon says as he enters the house and the cameras start glitching out and they grab their masks to get out and make their way inside to see that she's in insulin shock.
"Okay, I have something for this." Peter says and pulls out a syringe of glucose and injects her with it.
"You just carry that around with you?" Miles asks him.
"No, I grabbed it from the truck. Knew she was a diabetic." Peter expains and they look around for Tim.
"Deacon took him." Sheila tells the heroes and they're gonna need help.
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They return to Star labs and fill in the team on what happened and they spent the day searching for them.
"No sign of Deacon or Kwon on facial recognition, traffic cameras, nothing." Caitlin tells the team.
"We don't even know if Kwon is still alive." Wally states.
"No, he wants him alive for something from what he said in the house." Peter states as Miles went home for the night. "Cisco, how are we with the bio-digital Antibodies?"
"I'm nowhere. Actually, no. You know what? I am somewhere. I'm in the doghouse. Apparently, the pan-dimensional doghouse." Cisco says as he starts walking around the cortex. "I don't know if this doghouse has a door or a window, but if it did, I'd be jumping out of it!" He says as he leaves the room.
"What was that about?" Barry asks.
"It's nothing, I'll go talk to him." Caitlin promises and leaves the room.
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"I'm gonna take a guess and say that the reason you can't focus on the science is because you're so worried about what's going on with Gypsy." Caitlin guesses with Cisco.
"I'm sorry, I didn't hear anything you said. But I think I figured it out." Cisco tells her. "I think I can't focus on anything 'cause of this whole Gypsy situation. I think I'm just gonna have to talk to her."
"That's a great idea." Caitlin says, knowing he just said what she said, but like he said he isn't focused as he opens a breach and Gypsy appears.
"What's up, Cisco?" Gypsy asks.
"You're mad me. Rule number one, when a girl says it's fine, it's not fine." Cisco tells her.
"Amen!" Caitlin says and feels like a third wheel suddenly. "I'm gonna go." She says and leaves the two of them.
"Cisco okay?" Peter asks her as they run into each other.
"He's having girl problems." Caitlin explains to him.
"I would make a joke about that, if I wasn't shocked Cisco is having girl problems." Peter replies when Cisco comes back in with an idea.
"Guys, I have an idea." Cisco says when a video comes up from the internet about Tim.
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"I have something to confess. Kurt Weaver, Sheila Agnani, and I we stole the Kilgore malware program from Ramsey Deacon. We sold it for billions. But it was all his idea. We got rich, and he got nothing." Tim confesses.
"Well, looks like Deacon did need Tim for something." Wally sees.
"Can we track his livestream signal?" Caitlin asks cisco.
"I'm already on it." Cisco says. "Papa loves having his own satellite."
"What do we do when we find him?" Joe asks them.
"We hit him with this." Caitlin says and holds up a serum.
"Deacon's powers are derived from the binary code in his DNA. So, we created a compound encoded with a numerical string pattern of ones and zeroes to invert the order of the code." Cisco tells them.
"Ones becomes zeroes, and vice versa." Caitlin finishes.
"All right, we're on it. Send us the location once you have it." Barry says as the three heroes get ready to head out.
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When they made it to the warehouse, they see Tim's arms are about to be dislocated and Peter shoots a taser web to shut it down as the speedsters free him.
"He and the others destroyed my life!" Deacon informs them.
"Listen, I know you feel wronged, betrayed, but that doesn't give you a right to take his life." Barry states but Deacon seems to be focusing on them.
"I smell technology in your suits." Deacon tells them. "What you got in there?"
Suddenly, Peter's web shooters start frying themselves and Peter drops the serum as his mask starts going black.
"I can't move." Barry tells them.
"Weapon system online." Cisco's voice tells Barry as his suit takes over and aims his hands at his friends.
"Run!" Barry warns when his suit shoots blasts at the two and Peter dodges it as Wally gets hit.
"Call me Kilgore." Deacon tells the two of them.
"Remote access complete." Cisco tells him.
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"You put your voice in Barry's suit?" Joe asks Cisco.
"Well, it had to be somebody and my voice is very soothing." Cisco states.
"How much tech did you put in this new suit?" Caitlin asks.
"So much." Cisco admits.
"Peter, can you shoot a taser web?" Caitlin asks into the comm.
"No, he fried my web shooters. I'm grounded and blind." Peter tells her since his mask has gone dark. Luckily, he took some lessons from a blind friend how to use his powers to see without his eyes.
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"I've actually been a huge fan of you guys for years." Deacon confesses to them. "But this is like having a Flash action figure." He says and makes Barry hit himself in the face.
"Someone listening in? We can't have that." Deacon says and shuts down his comms, not knowing Peter has a spare not tech based. "You have a defibrillator. How about I stop your heart?" He asks when Tim starts getting up and Deacon was distracted enough for Barry to get the two of them away from him.
"Okay, we need a plan." Barry tells Peter.
"Yeah, I'm all for that." Peter says as he gets up. "Can you take the suit off?"
Barry tries to and sees its stuck on.
"That would The the deadlock function." Cisco tells them. "I built it in case he ever got knocked out so a bad guy wouldn't reveal his identity. It seemed like a smart idea at the time."
"Flotation mode activitied." His suit says and Barry inflates.
"What does he need to turn into a raft for, Cisco?" Peter asks.
"He runs on water. He might lose his speed out there." Cisco explains.
"A oxygen tank would've worked better." Caitlin informs him.
"That's a valid point." Cisco admits as Barry's suit deflated.
"How is this thing still intact?" Barry asks while feeling his suit.
"Babel protocol activated."
"What's Babel protocol?" Peter asks as they hear the suit ticking.
"It's the self destruction sequence." Cisco tells them and they hear everyone freaking out. "I'm sorry, have we not faced an evil Barry before? My mistake!"
"How can we stop it?" Barry asks and Peter hears a sparking fusion box.
"I've got the best worst idea." Peter tells him and activates his spare web shooters that can only shoot normal webs, and none of his other gadgets and have no technology on them.
Peter then webs Barry's chest and webs looks to Barry. "I'm gonna short circuit the suit by allowing the electricity to flow through my webbing and into your suit."
"Do it." Barry agrees.
Peter shoots a web at the fusion box and upon impact, the electricity flows through him and onto the second webbing attached to Barry and they both feel their suits starting to short circuit as Peter holds on a song as he can before dropping the webbing and they feel the suits are shut down enough for them to run and Barry speeds to Kilgore and gives him the virus that shuts him down.
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Returning to the labs, Cisco and Gypsy finally got to their date and they got Kilgore arrested and sent to Iron Heights.
Peter and Caitlin fixed up the suit and learned that Deacon didn't get his powers from the particle accelerator three years ago. Cisco promised that he would remove the tech from Barry's suit.
But what they don't know is that all they did was do their part in a plan of Clifford DeVoe.
And this was only the beginning.
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