Ladies night

Peter, Frankie, Caitlin, and Crystal put together their apartment the way the four of them agreed upon in time for the bachelor parties for the West-Allen wedding.

And believe Peter, when you date someone with a split personality who's a Snow Queen, it's a difficult task to find a compromise when the two sides disagree.

Barry offered Ralph a place on the team so that he can learn about his powers, and then Ralph said he was told to be on that bus from some guy named DeVoe sent him there and they remember Abra Kadabra mentioned he would be one of their greatest threats.

Cisco, Harry and Barry were working on it as Peter comes into the speed labs and runs into Felicity.

"Hey, guys, look who I found." Peter says as they see Felicity is here.

"Yo, Felicity!" Cisco greets her as Barry hugs her.

"How'd you get in here?" He wonders.

"I literally walked in here. You have no security, no alarms, you have nothing on your door. You guys might wanna consider something, anything at all." Felicity tells them and they see the bachelorette party supplies she brought with her.

"Yeah, well, from Team Arrow to Team Bride, very excited for that bachelorette party." Felicity tells him.

"Yep, getting inebriated with same gender to celebrate an archaic institution?" Harry says.

"Priceless." Cisco replies to that.

"So, where's Caitlin?" Felicity asks Peter.

"She's upstairs in her labs. We just got our apartment together, she wanted to get something done here." Peter tells her.

"You guys moved in together?" Cisco asks.

"You were being hunted at the time." Peter explains why he didn't learn that as Felicity leaves to find the others.

-

Caitlin was in fact in her labs just working on somethings like Peter said when Felicity and Iris approach.

"Well here you are!" Caitlin spun around to find Felicity and Iris walking towards her. "Are you ready for the Lady's Night to end all Ladies Nights?" Felicity asked excitedly. She was holding a large gift bag with balloons floating above it.

"And by that she means a quiet, lowkey dinner at a classy restaurant," Iris corrected.

"Yeah!" Felicity grinned. "That's what I mean. Super lowkey, super quiet." She held up two puffy feather boas. "Do you want a pink, or a blue feather boa?"

"I'll take the blue boa, thank you!" Caitlin tells Felicity, happy to have some time away from the labs as she still needs to tell the team about Crystal, like Peter said they can't keep her a secret forever.

-

Later on, the boys got together at Joe's house, sadly Fox didn't join them and he's offered to watch over Frankie for Peter to have the night with them.

"Bachelor Party!" Cisco crowed, leading the way through the door and Joe greeted them with grins. "Ladies, get out."

Cecil and Joanie, who were sitting together on the couch, stood up. "Well, that's our cue," Cecil said with a laugh, and the two of them headed toward the door.

"Hey, Barry, congrats on getting hitched," Joanie told Barry with a grin.

"Thank you! I didn't realize you were in town," Barry replied, walking into the living room to give her a hug hello.

"I just stopped by for the weekend," Joanie said.

Joe leaned down and gave Cecil a kiss. "Have a great time," he told her. "Don't get too crazy. No drinking."

Cecil shook her head. "No way. Iris promised me a totally chill night that even my pregnant old booty can handle." She turned to Joanie. "You should come with us, sweetie. I'm sure Iris wouldn't mind at all."

"Eh, no, that's okay." Joanie gave her a smile. "I actually have plans. But I will drop you off."

The two ladies left, and the men got settled. "Okay!" Cisco proclaimed, shutting off the lights and pulling a projector screen into the middle of the room. "Barry Allen. Are you ready to have your mind blown?"

Barry nodded eagerly, and Cisco started the video. It showed a picture of an adorable, tiny baby who was laughing and waving it's fists. "Meet Barry Allen before he met Iris West. Before he became an inter-dimensional time-traveling speedster, he was an adorable baby boy with Ewok level chub."

Barry grinned and Joe chuckled, nudging him in the shoulder. The video continued to show a Barry that was about five. Joe shook his head. "Oh, those cheeks."

"Cisco, this is great, but where did you get these videos?" Peter asked his friend.

"Man, I'm a ninja. Watch this part." Cisco says and they see a play coming up of young Barry and Iris.

"Ah, I forgot you two got married." Joe says seeing the video and everyone laughs. "You two were so young. Damn. I was so young."

Then Peter's senses went off when the door opens. "Gentlemen, I have arrived!" a voice called.

"Ralph," Cisco muttered.

"Dibny," Harry sighed.

"Ralph Dibny." Peter complains while dropping his head.

"I wasn't...expecting you..." Cisco said awkwardly.

Ralph frowned. "You said see you later. I assumed this was a superhero hang out and this was a test for my highly attuned detective capabilities. Which, for the record, nailed it!"

"Or..." Harry started.

"You weren't invited," Cisco muttered.

"Wow...this house is..." Ralph started.

Peter raised his eyebrows. "Bitchin'?" he suggested, quoting the phrase that Barry's symbols language had translated to back when he had just come out of the Speedforce, still wondering what that means.

"No. Small. It looks a lot bigger from the street. What's all this crap?" Ralph wonders looking around.

Barry glanced at the screen, which was playing footage of him. "This is my Bachelor Party," he told Ralph.

"Oh dear God you're serious," Ralph cringed. "This lameo-fest is your Bachelor Party?"

"This 'Lameo-Fest' is about to indulge in some very fine cigars," Cisco snapped. "And a very nice steak dinner at the Oak."

"Okay. Stop," Ralph shook his head, looking disgusted. "You're gonna pay 50 dollars for some lame steak dinner? I know a place where they have all you can eat steak and chicken for 4.99 and they even throw in napkins."

Barry frowned, confused by this. Where exactly did anyone have to pay for napkins?

"Come on, ladies," Ralph invited and nobody moved.

"I don't wanna..." Peter whispers, knowing this was gonna end badly.

"No, really, Ralph," Barry said, shaking his head, wanting to stay and watch the rest of the video Cisco had put together. "We're gonna stay here and were going to-"

"Slim Jim!" Ralph interrupted. "I insist! You can thank me later."

"That was meant to be enjoyed." Cisco says as Harry slurps down a drink.

"I enjoyed it." Harry replies and gets up.

And that was the end of arguing.

-

Caitlin, Cecile, May, Iris and Felicity all sat together around the square, wood table at the restaurant that Iris had picked out for her Bachelorette Party.

A waiter came by and filled their glasses with champagne. "Ooh, so fancy," Cecile commented as all the girls clinked their glasses together.

"A toast!" Felicity proclaimed. "To the future Mrs. Allen!"

"West-Allen," Iris corrected.

Felicity smiled. "Your life with Barry may be fast paced, but I hope you guys still take the time to enjoy the special moments."

Iris smiled back at her, relaxing just a little bit. "Thank you guys for coming. It really means a lot."

"Cheers!" May agreed, and they clinked glasses again.

Iris, Felicity and Caitlin all tipped back their champaign, but Cecile set hers on the table. "Alright," she sighed. "Well, who wants my champaign? Craziest thing I'm gonna do tonight is order two desserts."

"I'll take it," May offered, already bringing it up to her mouth.

"Yeah, Iris told me you're pregnant!" Felicity beamed. "How's that going?"

"It's good!" Cecile replied happily. "It wasn't exactly part of my plan, but I just could not be happier."

Felicity smiled. "I know exactly what you mean."

Iris raised her eyebrows, intrigued. "Oh yeah, how is everything with Oliver and William?"

That was about the point that Caitlin stopped listening, because across the restaurant she could see none other than Norvock, Amunet's number 1 crony, walking towards their table.

Her breath stuttered and her heart froze. She doesn't know what he's doing here since the last time they saw each other, Deadpool tried to put a bullet through his head. He half accomplished his task by taking his eye, but it was already his fake eye.

Norvock reached the table and stood, staring at them. Felicity looked up and raised her eyebrows. Caitlin couldn't breathe.

"Did you girls order a striper?" Iris asked.

"No!" Cecile protested, laughing a little.

Her laughter, and Felicity's babbling, abruptly died off as Norvock leaned forward and glared Caitlin down. "Amunet wants you." he said in a low voice directly at Caitlin.

Caitlin opened her mouth, but no words came out.

May gave her a look. "Uh, Caitlin? Do you know him?" She wonders, not understanding what's happening.

"You need to come with me," Norvock continued.

"I'm not going anywhere with you." Caitlin disagreed, resisting the urge to grab Iris or Felicity's glasses of liquor to give her some liquid courage, also trying to hold back to not bring out Crystal.

Yet.

Cecile leaned forward. "Please tell me this is just another part of his act." she muttered.

"If it is," Felicity murmured back. "It's taking too long. Take it off!" she called up to Norvock, snapping her fingers.

Instead of stripping, Norvock leaned forward and his eye plopped into Felicity's champaign glass as Felicity squeaked with disgust. "Gross! I meant take off your pants, not your eye!"

Without warning, a pinkish-red serpent began to grow out of Norvock's eye. All the girls, besides Caitlin, screamed and shoved back their chairs, trying to get away from the disgusting sight.

Finally getting ahold of herself, Caitlin jerked to her feet and heaved the entire table over. Plates and glasses slid off of it and shattered, and Cecile, May, Felicity and Iris all leapt up and crowded behind it. Norvock stumbled back. Behind him, everyone else in the restaurant was streaming towards the exit, leaving the girls alone.

"Stand back, baby mama," Felicity said. "We got this." She raced toward Norvock, picked up a chair, and slammed it into his back.

He stumbled and turned angrily around, but Iris was there was the serving trey that had brought their glasses of champaign. She smashed it across his face one way and then the other, but Norvock's eye soon shot out and shoved her backward.

Iris fell into Felicity, and both of them crashed to the floor, Cecile crouched behind them.

May tries using one of the chairs, but that went as another failure.

"Please don't do this." Caitlin begged, her hands trembling giving him a chance to leave before allowing Crystal to fight him off.

Norvock turn toward her. "It didn't have to be this way," he growled.

Caitlin then took that as his final answer and allowed Crystal to take control. Now she's thankful for Peter training her in secret.

Under the amazed eyes of her friends, her eyes and lips turned blue, frost shot from her fingertips, and her hair became white.

Norvock smirked. "I was hoping to see you again," he breathed.

Crystal Frost stepped forward, throwing the boa off of her shoulders and stepping forward. "Really? So I could give you another scar?"

Norvock lunged, but Crystal was faster. With one carefully aimed blast, Norvock was thrown backward by a stream of frost. He smashed through the window and disappeared, leaving the restaurant in a shocked silence.

Frost sighed in satisfaction and then looked down at herself. She winced. "Ugh, I hate pink."

Then she picked up the champaign and took a large gulp, straight from the bottle and some frost left her lips as she breathed.

-

Ralph has brought taken the team to a club known as the Golden Booty.

"Doesn't it just take your breath away?" Ralph asks them as they enter the club. "Gentlemen, I welcome you to the Golden Booty."

"There ain't nothing golden about any of this." Joe states.

"Nope." Harry agrees.

"Amen to that." Peter also agrees.

"Came through for you, man." Ralph tells Barry. "What do you think?"

"I think I should have brought some hand sanitizer." Cisco states and Harry gives him some.

"Always come prepared." Harry states as Peter takes some as well. Even though his powers stop him from getting sick, drunk and everything this place has to offer, he's not taking chances.

"Ralph, this isn't really my speed." Barry admits.

"Speed jokes? You're better than that, Allen." Ralph replies when one of the strippers greet Ralph as he passes.

"Disney, you're a regular in this joint?" Harry guesses as they see he has his own photo up.

"So much more than that." Ralph says and they see he's their #1 customer. "The girls may be bottomless, but for yours truly, the French fries always are."

"Golden Booty policy." One of the guys tell them with a box. "Out of respect for the ladies, no touching, no pictures, no video, and no cell phones." He says and everyone hands in their phones.

"Now I wish I could get drunk, just so I can erase this from my mind." Peter states and Barry agrees.

"We have incredible gifts, but we get incredible curses along with it." Barry replies.

"Bro's, do you really think I'd let you guys down like that?" Cisco asks and pulls out the concoction that allows them to get drunk. "Guaranteed to give you that gentle, pleasant buzz all night long."

"What if we need the Flash or Spider-Man tonight?" Peter asks.

"I volunteer to be designated superhero. Besides, I called Miles and asked him to take tonight's shift as Spider-Man, weekend." Cisco tells them and they're okay with that.

"To Barry and Iris." They all say and they take the drinks.

That's when Peter's senses went off, but he couldn't tell if it was his senses or the tingle of the alcohol.

But it was in fact his phone that was going off from May.

-

The girls retreated to Star labs being lead by Crystal.

"They're not picking up." May reported anxiously as Crystal led the way into the Cortex.

"What the heck just happened?!" Cecile demanded, still shaken up by the encounter in the restaurant. "Who was that...Medusa man?"

"You know that's not a Cisco-approved name." Felicity states as they make into Caitlin's med lab where she and Peter keep not only the spare Spider-Man suits, but her own suit.

"Don't worry about who that was." Crystal replied, deflecting the question. She glanced down at her clothes and grimaced again. "Caitlin's taste in clothes is matched only in her taste in friends. Both terrible."

"Wait, how are you you?" Iris asked, confused. "I thought Caitlin was cured."

Crystal rolled her eyes, pulling a suitcase from underneath a table and opening it to reveal her suit that Peter kept here for when Crystal wanted to start helping the team. "Caitlin shouldn't be keeping secrets from her friend." Crystal paused. "You are friends, right?"

Crystal chooses to raise her eyebrows and stare Iris down as the reporter hurriedly replied, "Yeah, of course we are."

Yeah, obviously not.

"Where are you going?" Cecile asked, frowning in confusion as Crystal picked out her outfit and unclasped the pink blouse she was wearing.

"To find Norvock's boss," Crystal told her. "And to kill her."

Felicity frowned. "And you need a change of clothes of that because...WHOA!"

Crystal had abruptly yanked her pink blouse over her head. All four girls spun around to give her some form of privacy. "Okay," May huffed. "Apparently somebody doesn't have any form of boundary issues."

Iris led the girls outside, wishing to talk to them, and Crystal rolled her eyes. She pulled out a pair of black leggings and a blue jacket, an outfit that looked and felt good for her and Peter designed as her super suit. (Yes, he did the whole Incredibles-super suit moment with Fox when he revealed it).

Smirking at her mental memory, Crystal fluffed up her hair, and started getting change.

"Can we take it back for a minute?" Cecile asks outside. "Since when did her superpowers make her a super villain?"

"She's not a villain, okay?" May corrects her. "Peter was able to break through to her."

"Weren't you kidnaped by her last year?" Cecile asks.

"What?" Felicity asks confused, never hearing that before.

"Because she was manipulated by a psycho Barry from the future and in the end, saved us. If it weren't for her, we wouldn't have been able to stop Savitar." May states. "Besides, there is no way that Peter or Frankie doesn't know about this, and if she was still evil, they wouldn't be together."

"Okay, I get it, Peter's not the guy that goes looking for bad girls and that technically, Caitlin is underneath all of that somewhere, but she is still dangerous." Cecile says.

Crystal then leaves to join them and sees them talking. "What're you all talking about?" She asks them.

All them spun around. Felicity's eyes went wide. "Ooh, nothing, just talking about how cool it is to kill people, and such. No pun intended."

Crystal didn't crack a smile. This blond was as irritating as Peter with the quips. "It's been real, ladies," she said, and strolls out of the room. "And FYI, I'm no Killer." She states as she leaves them.

-

"You gotta stop doing that." Joe tells Ralph who has his arm stretched out.

"I'm just getting change for a five." Ralph says. "Did you think I was stealing?"

"It's not about your sticky fingers, Ralph, it's about your stretchy arm outwardly displaced." Cisco states.

"Oh, so I should be like the Discreet Duo over there." Ralph replies as he pulls his arm back and they look to see Peter is doing sit-ups on the ceiling with people cheering him on and Barry at the bar cheering; I'm the Flash.

"I may have slightly miscalculated their bachelor elixirs." Cisco confesses since they both have different type of metabolisms.

"I got Barry. Cisco, you get Peter off the ceiling." Joe says and they split up.

"Hey, Buddy. How you feeling?" Joe asks Barry as he puts his arm around him.

"I feel good." Barry admits as he's completely drunk.

"You're gonna need to walk this off." Joe states chuckling.

"Or run it off. Because I'm the Flash." Barry says and several men laugh.

With Peter, several people are cheering around him when Cisco approaches him.

"Hey, Petey. Whatch'ya doing here?" Cisco asks him.

Peter then just stops and looks to Cisco. "I should be asking you that, Cisco." He states and Cisco's confused. "We're not suppose to use our powers in public. Why are you hanging from the ceiling?" He whispery asks him.

"Peter, you're the one hanging from the ceiling." Cisco informs him as the people broke apart.

"Prove it." Peter dares and Cisco lightly pushes Peter, causing him to loose balance and his feet unstick from the ceiling and he drops to the ground.

"Cisco?"

"Yeah, man?"

"The world is upside down and I can't feel my legs." Peter says and Cisco helps him back to the table and he looks to the stage. "Hey, she looks like Cecile's daughter."

Cisco looks for himself and sees he's not seeing things as that is in fact Joanie on the stage.

"You're not seeing things." Cisco assures his friend.

-

Crystal returns to the Lucky Horseshoe where a month ago, she, Deadpool and Spider-Man trashed the place and hears the blasting music as she enters.

One man got a bit handsy and she grabs his hand in return and starts lightly freezing it. "I'm sorry. I thought touching without permission is what you wanted." She tells him and makes her way through the bar where everyone seems to be drinking something glowing.

"I'd let me pass. Unless you wanna know what it feels like when the liquid in your eyeballs crystallizes." Crystal warns the guard that's hiding Amunett.

"Darling, you're here!" Amunett cheers seeing her. "Let her in, let her in."

Crystal then walks past him and sees Amunett and Norvock are waiting for her. "Amunett. Next time you wanna talk, come yourself. Don't send your eye-hole to attack me."

"Did you start a fight?" Amunett asks him. "Honestly, Norvock. That's why you're my third favorite henchman. I mean, what do I always say?"

"Never start a fight you can't finish." Crystal reminds him.

"And that, my dear, is why you are my favorite. You listen." Amunett tells her.

"Well, apparently, you don't. I'm out, Amunett." Crystal states.

"Out of what? Options? Your mind? Out of the closet? There are just so many outs for the lady in blue." Amunett tells her.

"Are you asking me to dance? I'll have you know, I'm in a relationship." Crystal warns her, sarcastically.

"You should know by now I don't ask for anything." Amunett reminds her. "I tell, and I take. Now, come along. I want to show you something that can make us both very rich." She promises and Crystal decides to hear her out and hopefully just walk away with her death so she doesn't bother her again.

At the entrance, Iris and the gang have just arrived after tracking Crystal here.

"All right, do you think they're gonna be able to tell that we don't exactly fit in here?" Felicity asks them.

"It was your idea to wear the boas, so no." Iris states as they go inside.

"Have we heard from the guys yet?" Cecile asks.

"No, and I'm getting a bit worried but we're on our own." May tells her when somebody comes up selling something in a canister.

"How about a little love?" He asks them.

"No! No, no, no, no, no." Felicity tells him. "No love."

With that, Cecile look and see everyone is drinking it. "Is it just me, or does it seem like everybody here already bought what that guy is selling?" She asks and they spot the man from the restaurant.

"Let's try and find Caitlin, okay?" May says and Iris follows Norvock.

Amunett brings Crystal to the back where she sees that she has someone tied and chained up. "You got a pet. Congratulations." She says sarcastically.

"I call him the Weeper. I love naming metas." Amunett tells her.

"I know someone like that." Crystal admits.

"Three weeks ago, this young man became a metahuman and I acquired my new favorite product to sell in my network." Amunett explains and Crystal knows that means he's one of the metahumans thwyre looking for. "Did you notice? Love...is quite literally in the air. Do you know why?" She gives the Wheeper a kick and he cries in pain before he starts crying and his tears are glowing.

Amunett takes the year and sniffs it in. "Pure."

"His tears are a drug?" Crystal clarifies.

"His tears, my dear...are a gold mine. One taste and Central City will be hooked." Amunett tells her.

"And why do you need me?" Crystal asks.

"Well, if I'm going to be selling something quite valuable, I'm going to need protection."

"That's why you have Snake Eyes for." Crystal says looking at Norvock. She's been hanging around Peter too much.

"A deal like this requires a woman's touch. And in your case, strength, and I'll cut you in for 10%." Amunett promises and Crystal just gives her a I don't give one look. "15%, And I throw in not killing you right now for your misguided rebellion and collapsing my meta trafficking ring and for siding with that spider. And that is only because I've got forgiveness in my kidneys, right?"

"I think you mean heart." Crystal corrects her.

"No, there's no beat beat in this chest, sister." Amunett confesses and Crystal realizes that she could be telling the truth. Peter even said he met a guy who was a vampire and had no heart...think he said his name was MoreBS or something like that.

"As much fun as it is to play I'm the Bigger Badass, I'm bored. And like I said...I'm done." Crystal tells her. "And if you've got a problem with that, maybe I'll call the merc that can't die to finish you off." She dares.

"Do you know what everyone's mistake in business is? Not realizing who has the power in the room." Amunett says and gets ready to call all the metal shards to her hand and Crystal gets ready to fight her off with Peter's training when Iris comes running in.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Iris yells as she comes in. "Hey, ladies, lets put the meta-abilities down."

"I'm sorry, who is this chick?" Amunett asks Crystal.

"Her? She's a nobody. Forget her." Crystal tells Amunett.

"This chick is trying to stop a meta-fight from destroying your very enchanting club." Iris tells Amunett.

"Yeah, like she cares about messing it up. A month ago, I nearly tore it apart with backup." Crystal informs Iris, ready to end this.

"Frost, lets go." Iris tells her and Crystal wonders who she thinks she is to comand someone like her? But she also knows that the last time she fought Amunett alone, she and Peter almost died so she's going to need him and decides against fighting her. Besides, if it goes wrong, she could learn about Frankie and use her against her and she doesn't want that, so she leaves.

-

"You're lucky she didn't kill you, West." Crystal tells Iris as the team returns to Star labs.

"Who was that?" Iris asks her.

"That was Amunett Black." Crystal answers.

"Of the underground market?" Cecile asks.

"I'm guessing she has a criminal record?" May says.

"She's been linked to metahuman trafficking, black market, selling stolen technology, but we've never been able to nail her down." Cecile replies.

"How exactly do you know Amunett?" Felicity asked.

"Caitlin," Crystal responded simply, before deciding it was worth elaborating on. "Six months ago, Caitlin thought she had everything under control. Then she felt me becoming much stronger. She found out that Amunet had some tech that would let her stay in charge. She got desperate, so she decided to use it. But it came with a price tag."

"Which was...?" Felicity prompted.

"Being her muscle." Crystal explains.

Cecile looked at her, horrified. "Did you kill anyone?"

She had been waiting for that question. Smirking, Crystal glanced over her shoulder. "Some people lost their fingers and their toes, but...no. No one died. Then five months later, Spider-Man appears into her metahuman trafficking with a friend. The merc with a mouth that they call Deadpool, he was looking for someone named Francis and Peter tagged along to free the metahumans and mutants they were selling and I decided to help him out and even changed my name."

"You're not Killer Frost?" Cecile asks her.

"I never killed anyone, so the name was kinda redundant." Crystal replies.

"Who are you now?" May asks.

"Crystal Frost." She tells them. "I liked my last name. Ever since last year, I was developing...feelings for the Spectacular Spider-Man myself. The same feelings as Caitlin. So we basically agreed to both date him since it's not exactly cheating when it's the same person."

"So, Peter does know about you and didn't tell anyone?" Iris asks her.

"Caitlin didn't want anyone to know about me, and Peter being the kind boyfriend he is, respected her wishes. But he taught me how powerful I was and was teaching me how to defend myself using my powers and not kill anyone." Crystal explains.

"How are you here now?" Iris asked, getting back to the point.

"While Caitlin sleeps, I am awake." Crystal answers.

"Oh my gosh, you're like the Incredible Hulk!" Felicity gushed. "That's-" She broke off as Crystal turned around, raising her eyebrow. "I said that with too much exuberance. Dialing it back."

Iris shook her head. "Look. What are Amunet's plans for the Weeper?"

"Not my problem." Crystal shrugged.

Iris bit back a groan. "Look, he was on that bus! We helped create him, we need to save him!"

"No," Crystal argued. "I need to get in touch with either Peter or Deadpool to put an end to her." It was truly impossible to get anywhere with this woman. "Listen. There's a reason the CCPD has not caught her, and you idiots just realized that there's a major crime lord living under your noses for the past three years. She's too powerful. We can't stop her, at least alone." She says and goes to try and contact Peter or Wade but she needed to make sure Frankie was okay before anything so she gets her phone out to call Fox.

"Guys, we have a responsibility to the Weeper and to the city." Iris tells the other women in the room.

"What do you suggest we do?" May asks, not seeing what they can do with their superheroes offline and the one they do have isn't going in without backup.

"We need to rescue him before Amunett does whatever she's planning, okay? Cecile, you need to gather information on Amunett, and Felicity, you need to pull up the blueprints to the club. May, be on standby for of the Weeper needs medical attention. We got this. We're strong women." Iris tells them.

"Yeah. #Feminism." Cecile says.

"#Feminism." Iris repeats and the others the same as May knows this is a stupid idea, but she needs to help them if she can. Or stop them from doing something stupid.

-

Back at the Golden Booty, Joe and Joanie are talking about what happened while the heroes are still wasted.

"This isn't what you think, Joe." Joanie tells him.

"Good, 'Cause I thought I saw you dancing on that stage in a gold sequin bikini." Joe replies to her.

"No, I'm writing a book on the female experience." Joanie expains to him.

"I'd buy that book." Ralph says, eavesdropping in on the conversation.

"Why does your female experience include you dancing at the Golden Booty?" Joe asks her, ignoring Ralph.

"Because we live in a society that's dictated by the male gaze." Joanie tries explaining. "I wanna control he narragive of feminism, okay? I wanna show the world that a powerful, strong woman, she can wear anything, be it a bikini or a pantsuit."

"Or nothing. Feminism." Ralph says, interjecting.

"That's not how feminism works." Cisco tells him. "Will you cut it out? Joanie's practically his daughter." He says when he sees Barry is sad. "Hey, sad Flash, why the face?"

"Nothing, I just...I love chicken wings so much." Barry states while his voice breaks.

Ralph looks and sees Peter is staring off into space. "What are you thinking about?"

"An octopus has eight arms." Peter answers.

"Yes...That is correct." Cisco says seeing his friend's mind's still spaced out.

"Dr. Octopus has six arms and two legs." Peter continues on slowly.

"Yeah...?" Cisco says, waiting for the point.

"Doesn't that mean that he's really a Doctor Lesser Octopus with two legs? And who gives an octopus a doctorate?" Peter asks and Cisco sees he should never let Peter get drunk again. Or at least record it next time, knowing Caitlin would love to see this.

"There's a strong, powerful woman that we both love and fear and her name is your mother." Joe tells Joanie. "Does she know you work here?"

"Of course not. She would just jump to all the same conclusions that you are."

"Joanie, your mother and I just want you to be happy. But I think you need to ask yourself why you're keeping this a secret from her."

"Joe?" Barry's sad voice calls out and gets his attention. "Why didn't...why didn't Rose make room for Jack on the boat on the door?" He wonders, referring to the ending of the Titanic movie. "There was plenty of room for both of them."

Peter just looks over to Barry and gets confused to who he is. "Hey, Matt, why do you look so sad? What happened to your shades?" He asks, confusing Barry with his other friend.

"Cisco, when do these gifts of yours stop giving?" Joe asks him getting tired of these heroes acting like paranoid children.

"Man, I don't know. I thought we'd be watching home movies right now." Cisco tells him.

"Again, you're welcome." Ralph interjects again.

"You steal 20 from me, Ralphy?" One of the strippers ask him.

"When? I mean...no." Ralph says when someone walks up with his photo.

"Yeah, you did. I saw it. I've been waiting a long time for this, Dibs." He says and breaks his photo.

Peter, who was falling asleep, smacks back to attention hearing the glass shatter and Ralph's screaming.

"You moster!" Ralph says and starts a fist fight with the man that escalated into the whole club fighting.

"Everybody, stop! I'm a cop!" Joe tells him before he gets tackled.

"I'm the Flash!" Barry screams without a care in the world while Peter is watching the fight next to a plant.

"Hey, I'm dating Elsa." Peter informs the plant, referring to Caitlin while his mind is half gone. "You're looking a little green there, man."

-

Iris found Crystal in the medical lab. "Where are you going?" she asked, coming slowly into the room.

"Going out to either find Peter, or wait for him at the apartment before Amunett puts a tail on me."

"And that's...Killer Frost," Iris confirmed. "Right?"

"Don't be cute, West," Crystal glared. "I told you, that's not my name."

"I wasn't planning on it," Iris shrugged. "Look, I know you could kill me, just like I know you could have killed Amunet tonight or Peter last year. But you didn't," she continued. "There's a part of you that is good and decent, and you just don't know how to accept it."

Crystal spun around. "You think you know me now? Last I checked, you spent all last year trying to get rid of me."

"No!" Iris said quickly. "But I do know what Caitlin looks like when she's scared, and you have that very look in your eyes right now. You're just as afraid of being Caitlin as Caitlin is of being Killer Frost. I know you won't leave, Frost. Because deep down, even if it's only Caitlin who knows it, there is a life here for you. People here that love you. A man who loves you. You don't want to lose all that."

"Sorry to break it to you, but we're not bestie's. Peter's the only one who believed in me and you just want to use me to help you take on Amunett which is a suicide mission. So if you still want to have a hand for Barry to put a ring on, I suggest you move it." Crystal warns her, and left the room to go find her partner or his daughter to make sure she's safe.

-

Iris had made the dumb move of trying to capture Amunet with just her, May, Cecile and Felicity. Now she and Felicity (thankfully Cecile and May were safe) were being held at gunpoint by Amunet's men.

That wasn't going to work. Caitlin knew that. Crystal knew that. They also knew that hanging back, just because she was afraid of what might happen if they got hurt with Peter not there to watch her back would happen.

And neither Crystal nor Caitlin are a coward.

"Hey, Amunet!" Caitlin called, stepping forward, toward the half-circle of cronies with guns and the big boss herself. "This is between you, and me. Let them go, and I'll come back and work for you."

Amunet shook her head. "It's too late for that, Caity," she said, tutting softly. "Do you know why no one has ever testified against me over the years? Hmm? Well, it's because they're not alive to. Sorry."

Not looking terribly apologetic, Amunet spun around and walked back to her henchmen. "Take care of them," she ordered.

The men raised their guns.

Caitlin just opened her mouth and screamed as loud, allowing ice to shoot from her lips and hit the men, throwing them backwards. A frosty smoke filled the air, and when it cleared, Crystal Frost was back.

"Well hello, chilly," Amunet murmured. Felicity and Iris ran to stand behind her, and Crystal raised her arms. Amunet reached down and her hand was once again covered by her metal gauntlet. "And here I thought I wasn't going to be able to kill anyone today." She muttered, preparing herself for the fight.

She sent a dozen shards of ice toward the three women, but Crystal acted first. She created a large dome off ice around them, keeping them safe, at least for the time being.

"Kill them!" Amunet bellowed, filled with rage. Her men stepped forward and began rapid-firing bullets toward the icy dome.

"I don't think this is gonna hold much longer," Crystal warns them.

"Okay, think," Felicity muttered. "This is a steel factory, and you move steel plates with-"

"Magnets," Iris finished. "Really, really big magnets."

"Cecile, May, turn the crane on!" Crystal commanded.

"What?" Cecile asked through Iris and Felicity's coms. "How?"

"It should be in the schematics, just highlight it and turn it on!" Felicity instructed.

As Cecile got to work, Crystal took a deep breath and smashed her own ice structure into pieces. The henchmen were blown back to the ground and Amunet stared at them in fury, breathing heavily.

"You and I could have been gods," Amunett hissed, stalking forward.

Crystal shrugged. "I used to work with a god," she deadpanned. "Over it."

Amunet raised her metal-encrusted hand, and Iris yelled: "Cecile, now!"

There was a whirring sound, before all of the small metal pieces on Amunet's fist wizzed off and stuck to the magnet. She stared at it in shock, and then back down at her now powerless hand.

A dagger formed in Crystal's hand. She grinned widely, ready to get the revenge she deserved. Amunet had tried to hurt her, well Caitlin's, friends and tried selling the man she loved, and that wasn't going to be forgiven easily. "Not so scary without your bling, now are you?" She asked, walking slowly forward as Amunet continued to try and tug her metal back to her.

"Caitlin, stop," May asked as she joins them. "If you do this you will always be a killer. No matter what you call yourself, people will see you as a killer." She warns her, knowing she doesn't want to be seen as one.

Her arm dropped. The icicle shattered on the ground and she sent Amunet a glare. "Get out of here...before I become an antihero." She warns Amunett and she didn't need to be told twice as she leaves.

Iris helped the Weeper free, but he just ran off on them.

-

The police got involved and the boys were brought into holding after everything that happened at the club.

"Jerry, Buddy, we gonna get that phone call or what?" Ralph asks him. "Hey! Come on, man. I know you can hear me."

"You just know everybody, don't you?" Cisco asks while Peter was sleeping the alcohol off on his shoulder.

"I've been in here a few times." Ralph admits. "You know, I could wiggle through these bars and get us out of here. Maybe make my finger into a key, that'd be pretty sweet. A lot of pressure put on the index finger, though. Iron versus flesh. What do you think?"

"I think you should stop talking immediately." Cisco says as Barry is throwing up in the stall toilet with Joe.

After some time, Fox came in as it seems he got Peter's message as Harry couldn't come in since his face is tied to a killer. So Fox has him with Frankie in the car.

"I'll take those five." Fox tells the guard and gets the boys free.

-

The women were exhausted. It was around 3 in the morning, and none of them had slept all night.

The boys have just got out of jail and joined Harry and Frankie in the car and they made their way to Star labs.

"I'm never drinking again. Not ever." Peter promises as the headache he has is worse than anything, and he's including the time he was mind controlled by Dominators.

"Worth it." Ralph says.

"Agree to never speak about what happened tonight?" Cisco asks and everyone agreed as they exit the elevator and meet Iris.

"Hey, I saw you called seventeen times. Everything okay?" Barry asks as May sees how Peter's doing.

"You doing okay, Peter?" May asks him.

"If I ever say, I'm going out drinking, I want you to taser me. And tell Caitlin the same." Peter states.

"Yeah, speaking of Caitlin..." May starts off and they enter the cortex.

"I'm pretty sure nothing could make tonight any worse." Cisco said, but his voice abruptly died off as he saw Crystal standing in the middle of the room. He let out a long sigh. "I'm so tired. I'm so tired; can we please do this tomorrow?"

Ralph, Barry and Iris filed into the room beside him. Barry's eyes went wide when he saw Frost. Ralph's jaw dropped a little. "Ohhh...chicks with white hair: hot."

"Why is Crystal here?" Peter asked, his voice confused but gentle as he's trying to figure out if she's really there or it's his imagination again.

Crystal noticed that her boyfriend's hair looked a mess and he had stains on his white shirt. She wondered exactly what had happened during the Bachelor Party that could have led to such a disheveled appearance.

Slowly, the icy exterior of Crystal Frost faded away and Caitlin was left standing in the Cortex. There was blood clotted on her left eyebrow, and her bottom lip and cheekbone were bruised and puffy. Her eyes were large, a little scared, and red-rimmed, and there was no way of knowing what other injuries lay under her blue-and-black outfit.

"Aw..." Ralph sighed, disappointed. "It's just Caitlin."

Peter sent him a glare so dark it actually shut him up.

"We can explain everything," Caitlin started referring to her and Peter.

After explaining everything, they all started splitting up for the night after everything went down.

She blinked tiredly up at him, and Peter smiled gently. "Should we head home?"

"Yes," Caitlin breathed. Peter wrapped his arm around her and picked up Frankie who fell asleep in a chair. "How was your evening?" She asks on their way out.

Peter grimaced. "There was...a lot of crying. Puking. More crying. More puking. More hallucinations than Mysterio could conduct."

"Oh, honey," Caitlin murmured, pressing a kiss to his cheek. "I'm sorry."

"It's alright. It sounds like your night kinda sucked, too," Peter said with a shrug. "We can let Frankie tell our kids about it when they're in their teen years."

Caitlin let out a half-laugh-half-sob, that's when she realized that he just brought up kids and she actually wasn't afraid of what the future would bring. Because after everything they've gone through, they can face just about anything together.

Together, the three went home.

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