"So you're not stuck here." Iris clarifies after Nora finally told them the truth as they're all sitting at Joe's house.

"No, I'm not." Nora confesses.

"So the reverse tachyons in your system?" Caitlin asks.

"We're put there because of me." Nora explains.

"You kidding?" Cisco asks. "You know how many credit card points I just blew just trying to get rid of your negative tachyons? I just bought a brand new spectral tachymeter when I could have my Fiji get away."

"What are you complaining about? That was my credit card you were using." Peter reminds him.

Cisco takes a minute to remember if that's true or not. "Oh, yeah I did, didn't I? Well, it doesn't matter anyway now I have nobody to go with." Ralph turns to face him when Cisco stops him. "I'm not taking you to Fiji, Ralph."

"Why didn't you guys tell us about this before?" Harry asks, taking a sip from his coffee.

"Show them." Barry tells Nora and she pulls out a bracelet and a newspaper article similar to the one they saw in the time vault, except this is dated 25 years after the old paper and Barry hasn't returned.

"Barry never returns?" Cecile asks.

"That's why you came here." Joe understands. "To see your father, because you were raised without him."

Nora then shuts down the paper as the team process what they were just told.

"So what?" Iris asks and now everyone is confused about what she means by that. "So what that the article says that you never come back. So what if the other one says that you vanished? I mean, I said other things before, right?"

"Yeah, like Spider-Man vanishes in Crisis, you didn't write the article but it said the exact same thing." Peter reminds her and he has no plans on vanishing. "And changing the timeline never exactly worked in our favor. Savitar, Flashpoint, Alchemy, Reverse Flash, the singularity, these are just off the top of my head."

"He does have a point." Cisco agrees.

Peter lets out a quick sigh and knows that maybe this one time they can be like the Legends and mess things up for the better. "But if it comes to it, we'll find a way to save you, man."

"What he said." Caitlin agrees.

-

They return to Star labs as Peter and Caitlin walked in to see Cisco listening to one of Gypsy's message boxes and when they came in he quickly hid it.

"Hello there." Caitlin greets him.

"Hey!" Cisco greets them.

"What are you doing?" Peter wonders.

"I was just trying to get Barry's suit into this ring. On, it's...it's tiny." Cisco quickly lies.

"Yeah, you weren't watching old holograms of Gypsy." Caitlin says.

"Why would I be doing that?" Cisco asks.

"Because you miss her, man." Peter informs him.

"We just had something so special." Cisco finally breaks. "Shouldn't it have worked? Of course it's not so special anymore now she's just rattling around inside my head."

"I'm sorry this is so hard for you." Caitlin tells him. "But it's okay to still be thinking about her."

"I don't think you guys understand." Cisco tells them. "I mean, she's literally...inside my head. I can't vibe. Everything I vibe is connected to her. I put some music on, I hear her voice singing along. I'm painting my figurines, I see her face on Captain Kirk's body. shh...do you smell that?" He asks as he stands to face them.

"The realization that you're loosing it?" Peter asks.

"Of course not." Cisco sees. "Because that's her perfume and I'm only one smelling it."

"Of course." Caitlin says, trying to calm her friend down. "Your powers lined you guys over pan dimensional spacetime, so it makes complete sense that you vibe echos would still be connected-"

"Connecting us to each other. Yes, I know. Thank you for the diagnosis." Cisco says.

"I'm sorry. You don't need a doctor. You need a friend." Caitlin says.

"I'm sorry, I'm just...I'm a mess." Cisco apologizes when Ralph comes in.

"Oh, perfect. Been looking for you three." Ralph says. "We need to talk. I've hit a real wall trying to figure out who forged this death certificate, Fox says he's looking into it on the computer half but to speed up the process, I was thinking Cisco could give this a little bit of a...vibe."

"Cisco is not available right now." Cisco says as he drops back down in his seat. "Please leave a message."

"Oh, hey, Cisco, it's Ralph. Hope you're doing well. Just get back to me. I need you to vibe this as soon as possible." Ralph jokes.

"And then there were two verbal gestures on the team." Cisco says, referring to Ralph and Peter.

"Ralph, Cisco can't vibe right now, so we're just gonna have to deal with this a little later." Caitlin says, taking the certificate from Ralph, not wanting to talk about that.

"Why can't he vibe? What's going on?" Ralph asks.

"Because...we need to help him get over Gypsy." Caitlin explains. "Cisco gets his vibe back, we can crash this case."

"Please stop caring about me." Cisco pleads and curls up into a ball.

"Peter, you don't have any ways to get over heartbreak, do you?" Caitlin wonders.

"I never even heard a relationship for that long before you." Peter informs her. "I dated a Kitty Pride for maybe one date at Homecoming where I had to leave to fight the Vulture and I ended up resting the pain and broke her heart. Not even a coffee date with Harleen Quinn where she psychoanalyzed everything I did. Then maybe a few dates with Laurel Lance which ended because we both knew I couldn't stay in Star City."

"Ralph, how about you?" Caitlin asks him.

"I have plenty." Ralph says and kneels down to Cisco. "Cisco, you wanna know why I'm the perfect guy to help you to get over this? Because trust me, buddy, nobody and I mean nobody has been kicked out of that more than me."

Cisco knows he's in for a long day and he tries to find some way of getting out...and he has nothing.

-

The four of them go to Ralph's place and he shows them a book he wrote.

"The book of Ralph." Caitlin reads the cover.

"Yep, And we're gonna start with a page of Ralph 'cause he's nowhere near ready for this whole book." Ralph says and takes out one page that looks like it's worn down and written all over it.

Ralph Dibny's 27 steps to get over the love of your life.

"Are you kidding me with this?" Cisco asks them.

"We just want to help you get past Gipsy, man." Peter tells him. "And if this has worked for the Waistband-"

"Multiple times I will add." Ralph interrupts.

"Then it's worth a shot." Peter finishes.

"What's step one?" Caitlin asks Ralph.

"Shark Cage diving." Ralph says and now the couple is seriously confused.

"What's step two?" Peter asks.

"Affirmations." Ralph says.

As Cisco starts to do it and Peter looks over the other steps and they just get weirder. Going to Vegas, every time you think of your ex you have to give your friends 20 bucks.

"Okay, you know what, guys? I changed my mind, all right?" Cisco tells them. "I-I don't care about the Gipsy vibes. So let's muscle through them, let's just help Caitlin with her father thumb and get me the hell out of here, please?" He begs.

"Cisco, after Ronnie and Jay, I had Peter to help me get past them. Now we're going to help you." Caitlin says and takes the list. "We don't have time to find ourselves in Thailand."

"And we're definitely not watching Beaches while painting each other's toes." Peter tells Ralph, wondering where he got these steps from.

"That's a really important one." Ralph tells him.

"But step twelve isn't so bad." Caitlin says and shows him what that step is.

"Dear god, no." Cisco says.

"Come on, Cisco, change is good." Caitlin tells him.

"No, no. Change is pain." Cisco states.

"It's not as painful as seeing you all mopey like this." Peter tells him.

Cisco then stands up and gives up. "Whatever you say, doc."

-

The team later gets called in on a new metahuman that can create blocks out of thin air.

"Cisco, were you able to get the satellite up and running again?" Barry asks and Cisco is staring off into the abyss.

Peter and Caitlin wait a second for him to say something and he's just frozen.

"We weren't able to track Vanessa, but we did find a scientific anomaly that we've never seen before, right, Cisco?" Caitlin asks and he's still frozen.

"I got this." Peter assures her and approaches his friend. Cisco used to freeze up like this a lot back before the particle accelerator explosion, when he would think too hard and get lost in his own world. Ronnie and him later found the one phrase that breaks him out of the trance. "Han shot second."

Cisco immediately broke out and got up and pulls Peter close to his face. "That doesn't even make any sense!" He states before realizing what's happening. "You promised you wouldn't do that again."

"You promised you wouldn't freeze up again." Peter tells him. "We need your help here, man."

"Right." Cisco says and gets to work on the monitors and shows the footage of Vanessa using blocks. "Vanessa Jansen's concentrated air squares are dense, very dense, stupid dense. The kind of dense reserved for people who still believe...in love."

"I think what Ramon is trying to say is Vanessa can manipulate the movement of atoms to created concentrated air molecules in cube form." Harry tells them. "The space between the molecules is so compact that..."

"There isn't enough room for a speedster or about anything to vibrate through them." Peter finishes.

"And what do you all someone who can compress air molecules into solid blocks?" Barry winders as Cisco walks off.

"I don't know, Block." Cisco guesses as he leaves the room.

"So, I guess Cisco is taking the Gypsy thing pretty hard." Iris sees.

"We're working on it." Ralph tells her. "But you can't expect real progress until you hit step seventeen." That gets some confused glances from everyone in the room.

"Don't ask." Peter warns them.

"It's this thing we're working on with Cisco. You can do without us for a little while, right?" Caitlin asks.

"I mean, we are blind without our satellite so we're just gonna have to wait until Vanessa makes her next move anyway." Barry guesses and they leave to work on Cisco.

-

"All right, you're in for a treat. He initially said no, but after I told him that your cousin was John Stamos." Ralph says as he leads the three of them somewhere.

"My cousin is not John Stamos." Cisco states.

"He agreed to take you on." Ralph says as he stops in front of a door. "I proudly present my personal stylist, Bruce." He greets the, And then opens the door and the guy looks like if DeVoe placed a razor to his head and left it there and grew a goatee. "This guy does it all, hair, makeup. He picks everything I wear."

"That explains a lot." Peter mutters.

"Come on." Caitlin pushes Cisco inside. "Bruce is going to help us accomplish step twelve. Metamorphosis."

"Does that mean you think there's something wrong with me?" Cisco asks them.

"Buddy, we love you, and we want to help you." Peter says and Cisco decides to go with it.

After a while and a threat by Cisco when Bruce went to cut his hair, they're waiting as Cisco comes out with his hair combed back and he's wearing some half professional looking clothes.

"My work here is done." Bruce says as he leaves and Cisco looks over himself.

"So...I hate it." Cisco says. "I hate it all. Great, now that that's over and done with. Why don't we focus on the death certificate?" He asks them.

"We would need you to vibe it." Peter reminds him.

"Or we could ask Joe or Lucius to do their thing. Some old fashioned police work on Joe's end and Fox can look into it from his the computer end. Did you ever think of that?" Cisco questions.

"Let's not worry about it, okay?" Caitlin asks him.

"Well, it is a good idea." Peter agrees.

"Yeah, I agree." Ralph says and Ralph heads to his phone and Peter gets ready to call Fox and ask him.

"Guys, no. Seriously, cut it out!" Caitlin yells over their talking getting their attention. "Forget about the death certificate and let's just focus on helping our friend, okay?" She tells them and leaves.

"I'll go check on her." Peter says and leaves to find her.

-

He later finds her at Jitters after he had to take a detour to stop a robbery and a car theft.

"The sugar pastry." Peter comments on what she has and the thing is the size of the plate it's on. "I think as far as avoiding feelings go, cinnamon bun is a good way to go. Mind splitting that? Had a bit of a workout on my way here."

Caitlin smiles at his attempts to cheer her up as he takes a seat across from her. "So...why don't you want to search into your dad's death certificate?"

Caitlin immediately stops smiling and sighs. "Because...if it's true, and he has been alive this whole time...it just means he didn't want to see me."

Peter understands where she's going with this now and places a comforting hand over hers. "There is one thing that I don't think I told you...because I never told anyone." He tells her and Caitlin wonders what it is. "My parents, when they died, I looked into their deaths. The plane, the airport, the tickets, anything I could get my hands on at the time. I learned that they lied about where they were going. They weren't on the plane when they died. I don't know where they were, but the plane was a cover story. I looked into their pasts, looked for everything that could lead to the truth. And the truth was just as scary as the lie. They were government agents, never told anyone, lied about everything. I stopped looking into it after going that far. I spent a lot of time wondering why they never said anything to me, May, or Ben. Then I came up with the accusation that they wanted to protect us."

"So keeping secrets to keep others safe is coded on your DNA." Caitlin jokes and Peter laughs at that.

"Maybe your father did the same, he wanted to protect you, so he had to leave. I'm not Barry, I can't change the past. But there's a chance for you to get to know your father. It's not too late." Peter says as Caitlin starts to tear up.

"But what did he doesn't want anything to do with me?" Caitlin asks through her breaking voice.

"If he doesn't, wouldn't you want to face the truth then spend your life wondering?" Peter asks her.

-

They return to Star labs and learn Barry's in trouble and they go in to help him with Block.

Miles and Frankie come in with the others as they finished her off.

"Well, my work here is done." Cisco comments.

"Looks like she's a regular chip off the ol' Block." Ralph quips.

"Hey, I do the quips around here." Miles and Peter say at the same time.

Suddenly, their senses go off and a lightning shape dagger stabs Block.

Someone new comes out and he's wearing a dark cloth with a mask covering his face. His breathing sounds like a chirping Darth Vader.

"Who's this Sith Lord, Darth Vader knockoff?" Miles asks as Nora speeds Block to the hospital.

The man throws his dagger and it hits the ground before giving off an orange glow around half the team and their powers stop working.

"I just lost my speed." Barry says.

"A metal dagger?" Frankie smirks and goes to use her powers and the dagger doesn't move. "Okay..." She says and goes to use the metal surrounding them and nothing works. "I've got no powers."

"Guys, I know we're six against one, but something tells me this guy's got the advantage." Cisco says as Barry goes to fight the guy only to get beaten up followed by Ralph.

Cisco tries to lift up the dagger of his and Peter goes in and punches the man, still having his powers.

"Why can you still use yours?" Ralph questions.

"Don't know, kinda don't care right now." Peter says and the man gets up and calls his dagger back and cuts Cisco's hands in the process.

He swings the dagger at Peter and he easily dodges the attacks as Miles sneaks up and kicks the man in the back. The man then throws his dagger at Miles and Peter pushes him out of the way and it ends up cutting his shoulder.

The man walks up and punches Peter while he was weak, sending him toppling to the ground. He goes in for a final strike and Frankie interrupts.

"Dad!" Frankie yells and the man faces her and stares for a minute before getting up and leaving.

Miles tries followng him and he somehow vanishes into thin air.

-

Cisco's hands seem to be damaged so he can't use his powers for a while or his hands for a while longer.

But before he decided to stop using his powers, he used them for a quick second to see exactly what he could about the certificate and all they saw was her mother and someone else.

"This guy...is something else." Harry comments looking over the footage from Peter's mask Fox sent over.

"His dagger seems to have dark matter properties." Fox comments.

"And his breathing." Harry replies.

"It sounds like an insect." Caitlin says.

"Like a cicada." Nora says and they all face her.

"Who's Cicada?" Barry asks.