Secrets
Since Barry and Iris have started dating, to help Joe get better at them, Barry had been looking for his own place so Peter offered his second bedroom at his apartment to him for the time being.
"Yo!" Barry greets his partner as Peter leaves his bedroom.
"You know, you don't need to constantly do this, right?" Peter tells him.
"Come on, it's the least I can do. I mean, I love Joe, but at some point, man needs his own space, and until I find my own space, that means your space." Barry says while working on breakfast. "And besides, you couldn't bring Caitlin here because of me, so I thought this would show my appreciation."
"Please, Caitlin hasn't been over that often so you're safe. We've been here while we were together once and that was when we were just watching a movie for date night. Besides, she's out of town for a few days." Peter says when Barry speeds breakfast over to him.
"Well, there's two eggs over easy, bacon, toast. I can't remember, do you like it buttered or not?" Barry asks reaching to the fridge.
"Barry, you're not my servant." Peter informs the speedster. "Except now thinking of it, I could probably afford one. Hell, I could afford a better apartment." He now just realizes while looking around his place. "You know, I should start looking for a better place."
"Wow, this subject got changed fast." Barry says, looking in the fridge.
"Look, don't get the wires crossed, Okay? I like having you here. It's nice to have someone around." Peter says and Barry sits down to eat. "Okay, I gotta run into Mercury labs. Just the last of the paperwork to have the name changed officially to P.A.R.K.E.R. Industries." He says and grabs a piece of toast.
"Oh, I could take you there." Barry offers.
"No." Peter says a little too quickly. "I like to swing around in the mornings, it's my morning thing." He explains before leaving.
But the truth is he's leaving to check up with Fox about the cup he gave him to see if Caitlin is a metahuman. And he also does need to get to that meeting, that wasn't a lie.
"Okay, I'll see you at Star labs." Barry says as he leaves.
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At Star labs, HR has music playing and reveals that he has donuts and other food laid out for the team.
"Sumptuous day." HR says. "Oh, no, on this earth, I believe you day...good morning." HR corrects himself. "And it is, isn't it? I mean..." he starts beating his drum sticks to the music beat. "The music on your earth, well, it strikes a chord, no pun intended. I know PP is your pun man. Please, help yourself. I find a crew works best when it's well fed and well rested."
"Are those coffees for us too?" Iris asks seeing a tray of coffee.
"Yes indeed, ms. West." HR says bringing the coffee over to them. "I took the liberty of reading through your ledgers last night. A lot of information to absorb, but let's see how I did. Skim milk chai latte." He says handing a coffe to Iris.
"And an iced americano with two, no, three shots of espresso." HR says and hands it to Wally.
"Now, for my fleet of foot friend, you best stick to decaf." He says handing a decaf to Barry.
"San Francisco, I have prepared a French roast with a touch of creamer."
"Thank you." Cisco says taking the coffee.
"You're welcome. I also got PP a Spider-Special for when he arrives. Did you know, on my earth, coffee crop was wiped out by blight? I mean, that's one more reason to stay on this earth, for the coffee alone." HR states.
"If you stay." Cisco reminds him, since this is a probationary day to see if he works for the team.
"If I stay. Here's what I suggest, a series of team building exercises." HR suggests.
"Yeah, I'm not feeling it." Cisco says. "Our trust isn't something you can build with games. This is something that goes back three years. It's something that's been forged in fire, sometimes literally, so maybe you should just step back and observe, see what we do here, how we operate. Did you get that?"
"Excellent note. I'm gonna run with that." HR says.
"Has anyone seen Caitlin?" Wally asks.
"Peter said she went out of town for a while, and she warned Cisco to stay away from her pizza pockets." Barry says while Cisco is eating said pizza pocket.
Cisco realizes what he's eating and drops it.
"It wasn't labeled." Cisco tells them nervously.
"Okay, well, I gotta go to work. I'm running late." Barry tells them as Iris and Wally do the same thing.
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Peter just makes it to his warehouse and walks up to see fox analyzing the cup with Caitlin's DNA on it.
"Okay, now you're allowed to tell me what you found." Peter tells Fox while he chuckles at the statement.
"Well, I did a scan like you asked and found nothing in the way of metahuman genetics in her DNA." Fox tells him while pulling up the results and they come up negative. "She's not a metahuman."
Peter sighs in relief to see that she's not hiding powers from him.
"Well, that's good to know." Peter says when their alerts go off on a metahuman in downtown. "Did you fill up the bike?" Peter asks while moving toward the Spider-Cycle.
"Did it when I got back. Took the night off like you asked." Fox says mockingly to Peter as he gets on the cycle.
Peter opens the garage doors and speeds out to reach the alert.
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Peter drives through the screaming crowds slowly when Barry appears next to him.
"Nice to see you could make it, fasty." Peter says before turning to why they're running.
"You're seeing this, right?" Barry asks the wall crawler.
"Good. I thought my sensors were malfunctioning." Peter says looking to see a...monster.
Literally, a ten story tall creature and is rampaging the streets.
"Well, this is a new one." Peter states, getting off his cycle.
"An actual monster." Barry says not understanding why he's surprised by this point.
Everyone starts evacuating the streets while crashing into vehicles. One bus accidentally crashes into a light post, jamming the doors.
"Okay, you deal with this thing, I'll get them evacuated." Peter says before turning to help them to spot Iris. "Iris, what are you doing here?" He asks her while ripping the doors off with his strength.
"Working on a story, and last time I checked, you don't need super speed or superpowers to help people." Iris informs him while the people run away from the creature.
"Okay, just get out of here, I need to go help Flash stop that thing." Peter says and runs up to see Barry looking for it.
"Spider-Man, eyes in the sky. Can you see it?" Barry asks while Peter is trying to see where it went.
"I've got no eyes." Peter says trying to see where it went.
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"I don't get it, every metahuman we've encountered has been exactly that, metahuman, so where did this thing come from?" Cisco asks.
"I don't know where it came from, man. It just vanished. That's all I know, it was gone." Barry states.
"In my experience, things are always different than they appear." HR says while walking back and forward around Cisco. "There must be a reason the darn thing can just disappear like that. Maybe it's got a sorta cloaking mechanism."
"That's a good idea, but right now, I would settle for how do Web Boy and Usain Bolt stop it?" Peter asks.
"How? We don't have a magic monster lasso." Cisco responds.
"Really? We don't have some sorta lasso that can make us tell the truth or something?" Peter asks thinking they would have something like that by now.
"But, you know what we could do. On my earth, we have ropes made out of carbon fiber. They are ultralight but strong enough to pull a battleship; we could restrain it with that." HR suggests to them.
"I like it. Better than my thought of just webbing it until it was stuck." Peter adds.
"I think it's worth a shot, we could spin it out down in the workshop. But it's gonna take longer without Caitlin around." Cisco says.
"I'll give Fox a call, get him over here." Peter says knowing he will be able to help.
"There was something else, I saw a transformer explode as this thing passed by it." Barry says and Peter must've missed that while rescuing the bus. "The monster didn't even lay a finger on it."
"Kinda reminds me of that Hitchcock movie where the extra covers his ears before the gun goes off." Cisco says chuckling at his joke.
"You have Hitchcock on this earth?" HR asks. "'Murder on the Titanic!' 'Who did it?' 'Who cares? We're drowning.'" He says quoting one of the movies. "The beast must emit some kind of electrical pulse. Is there way I could get a look at the transformer?"
"No, the whole place is a crime scene now with Julian in charge of it." Barry says.
"Oh, great. Put Spider-Man's number 1 hater in charge." Peter mumbles since Julian hates all metas as Barry leaves.
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Tannhauser labs, Caitlin is trying to find a way to get rid of her abilities before she turns on her friends.
Or more importantly, before she turns on Peter.
"How long have you had these abilities?" Caitlin's Mom asks her.
"They started manifesting a few months ago, but I'm assuming I got them when the particle accelerator exploded, just like all the other metas." Caitlin tells her not knowing that Peter learnt that's not what she is.
"And you haven't told anyone?" She asks Caitlin.
"Just you." Caitlin admits, even though hiding this from everyone is killing her.
"I Told you, you never should have taken that job at Star labs. You could've stayed here, had access to world class facilities."
"And have all of my work be in the shadow of your reputation." Caitlin tells her.
"Of course, the only time you need your mother is when you're in trouble."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Caitlin asks.
"Come on, darling. You ran off to Central City to play scientist with that disgraced quack." She states referring to Harrison Wells.
"I was trying to make a name for myself." Caitlin informs her.
"For three years, barely a word, until trouble hits, and then here you come walking through the door and expecting mommy to drop everything in her life to get to fix it."
"You have no idea what I've been though." Caitlin replies to her.
"Dr. Tannhauser, look at this." Nigel, someone who works for Tannhauser calls out for her looking at the data back from Caitlin's tests.
She walks over and sees that Caitlin absorbed the energy from the device she cooled down.
"She absorbed all that energy? How?" She asks Nigel.
"I'm not sure yet, but if we can figure that out, this could change everything we're doing here." Nigel tells her and they look back at Caitlin who scoffs at them.
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Back at Star labs, Cisco and Fox are working on the carbon fiber rope HR suggested to them hoping it works.
"So then the Flash, my Flash, we hatched a plan to gather all the remaining metahumans into one place for a final showdown. They called it World War M. It was glorious. It was like that movie where the gladiator was the lead gladiator. What was it called?" HR asks as they're working on the rope.
"Gladiator." Fox and Cisco answer at the same time.
"Oh, better than what we call it on our earth. Sweaty men, and that didn't take." HR says.
"I need to take 5, Fox." Cisco says as he leaves.
"Got it, I'll keep working." Fox says not minding HR since he's used to being alone, he's a nice change of pace. "Besides, I need to leave for the press conference today at Mercury labs." He informs the two of them. Today is when Peter announces the changes of Mercury labs into P.A.R.K.E.R. Industries.
"So, where was I?" HR asks Fox going back to his story.
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"What exactly are you testing for now?" Caitlin asks her mother.
"Any polymorphism that could help us understand how you're able to absorb that much energy from molecules to create gelid surroundings." Tannhauser explains to her.
"You realize I've run these tests already?" Caitlin tells her.
"Then what was the point of coming here?" Tannhauser asks.
"Seriously, Mom? I'm terrified of what I'm becoming." Caitlin states to her. "I've got people I care about and I don't want to hurt them. You realize you haven't asked me once how I'm feeling?"
"I'm trying to keep emotion out of this." She tells her. "Believe me, it's for your benefit as much as it is mine."
"Right, because that's your specialty, isn't it?" Caitlin asks. "Being cold, just like after..."
"After what?" Tannhauser asks.
"After dad died." Caitlin explains to her.
"I did everything I could to save your father." Tannhauser defends to her.
"Well, you lost your daughter at the same time." Caitlin says.
"You're the one who went away, Caitlin." Tannhauser says.
"Because I had to." Caitlin replies. "You realize you never acted like my mother again after dad got sick? You would barley even look at me."
"I couldn't handle the pain." Tannhauser says and looks wats. "My work got me through it. Loosing someone like that, you have no idea what that feels like."
"Actually, I do." Caitlin says referring to Ronnie. Even though she broke things off with him before he died, it still hurt when he was gone. "My fiancé died over a year ago. And it was because of my friend I was able to push forward." She tells her mother not wanting to think of how she's going to explain these powers to Peter.
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Back in Central City, Barry and Julian are checking out where the monster came from.
"What do you got?" Barry asks Julian who just notices his appearance.
"I said get here quick, but that was...quicker than I expected." Julian says.
"Oh, crazy Uber driver." Barry quickly comes up with a lie.
"Well, the blast pattern and the scoring on the insulation suggests that it was a power surge that blew it out." Julian says regarding the transformer.
"So it's a coincidence?" Barry questions.
"I highly doubt it. But I'll figure it out." Julian promises. "Someone in this city has to do something about these metas."
"What do you mean?" Barry asks, not following. "We have a whole police force working to stop these metas."
"No, you have the Flash and Spider-Man." Julian corrects him.
"What's wrong with them? Spider-Man's been keeping the city safe for longer than a decade." Barry says when he realizes something. "It's not just the bad metas you don't like, it's all people with powers."
"I'm just saying because of them, the police department has got lethargic." Julian tells him. "I mean, why do anything at all if the Flash and Spider-Man are going to save the day every time?" He asks while looking around at the destruction left from the monster encounter. "It's a bit like you with the rule breaking. A momentary fix, and now you're lazy, sloppy."
"I think they're actually a source of inspiration for the city. They give people hope." Barry informs Julian.
"Yes, well, that's one of many things that we'll have to disagree on, Allen." Julian says when he looks and sees something behind Barry.
"What, you see something?" Barry asks and Barry looks to see a tall building, nothing more.
"A pattern." Julian says. "The creature's movements, they seemed random at first, but they were contained to a prescribed area." Julian explains. "Like the creature was stuck in an invisible fence."
"Traffic cameras were down, right? Maybe it was being watched or controlled by somebody that needed to keep it in visual range the entire time?" Barry questions and sees that could be something with it.
"Constricting the creature's movements to the line of sight." Julian adds on. "That actually makes sense. Maybe there is a brain in there after all, Allen."
As they're talking, they hear transformers blowing up and the monster has returned and Julian calls CCPD for backup and pulls out a gun.
"Don't worry, I have four years' training in the military." Julian tells Barry.
"Even still, since when does CSI carry a gun?" Barry asks him.
"Since there were monsters in our city." Julian says as he moves ready to shoot when more wires start exploding and Barry quickly moves Julian before it could reach him.
"Cheers." Julian thanks Barry as they see Spider-Man driving after the monster on his Spider-Cycle.
"Where does he get these gadgets?" Julian wonders and wondering who he is.
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Back at Tannhauser labs, Caitlin is getting ready to leave knowing she needs to get back to Central City for the Mercury labs conference.
"You're leaving us?" Nigel asks coming into the room seeing Caitlin getting ready to leave.
"Yeah. Things between my mother and me are...complicated." Caitlin says while grabbing her purse. "Besides, my boyfriend has a press conference back in the city and I want to be there for him." She explains and starts walking to the doors.
"We can help you." Nigel assures her.
"I don't need your help with the science. I can do that myself. I came here to get something from my mother that I realize now I'll never get." Caitlin says but knows that she doesn't need her mother when she has friends.
Nigel pulls out an remote and locks the doors and steps closer to Caitlin.
"What are you doing?" Caitlin asks, getting worried.
"Sorry, frosty, but you're not going anywhere." Nigel says and Caitlin runs to the doors to try to get out.
"Let me out of here!" Caitlin commands him. "Open these doors!"
"I said no!" Nigel shouts to her as she is wrestling with the doors. "I am sick of working day after day, night after night, only to have my work benefit your mother. With the information I can get from you, I can finally get out of this place, so you're gonna stay here until I get everything I need." He says.
Now Caitlin understands what Peter was talking about never getting professional help when he got his powers, because people might want to research him about his powers. And now it's happening to her.
"You are not going to test me." Caitlin states to Nigel.
"Yes, I am." He informs her while grabbing her.
Caitlin starts freezing his hand and takes it off of her. "No, you're not going to test me, now or ever." She says as her voice starts to sound exactly like her Earth-2 counterpart.
Nigel falls to the ground in pain as the doors start opening and Tannhauser sees what's happening.
"Caitlin! Don't do this." She pleads to her daughter. "This isn't you!"
"You don't know anything about me, mother." Caitlin says still angry at Nigel.
"I know I wasn't much of a mother, and I know I have a lot to make up for, but I know I didn't raise a killer." She says and Caitlin starts calming down. "For whatever it's worth, I am so sorry." She apologizes to Caitlin and she returns back to normal.
"It's worth a lot." Caitlin tells her mother and they quickly hug.
"Now go." Tannhauser tells her and promises to take care of Nigel and nobody will know she was involved.
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Now in Central City at CCPD, Barry and Julian are looking over the new information on the monster.
"Every time there's been a sighting of the monster, multiple transformers blow." Barry says as they're looking at the map of transformers.
"So it's definitely feeding off of electricity." Julian says.
"Yeah, I mapped out all the streets that it's been spotted around. Never leaves a ten block radius." Barry explains.
"You know, this is exactly what I was talking about. Some metas been gifted this incredible power, and this is the best thing they can think to do with it." Julian says regarding why he hate metas.
"Why exactly do you hate metas so much? Spider-Man isn't even a meta." Barry says trying to figure out why he hates them.
"If you think I'm gonna break down and tell you one killed my parents and that's why I have to do this job, I'm not, okay? I don't need a deep, personal reason to hate these freaks, Allen. I just need to see person after person transformed, given these extraordinary abilities, and watch them be squandered." Julian says and recaps how everyone with powers have been doing nothing but commit crimes with them. "I mean, can you imagine what it would be like to have those powers? I would be helping people, improving the world." Julian says what he would be doing with powers.
"That's it? You're mad at them because you weren't chosen to become one?" Barry asks him. "I mean, it can't be easy being a metahuman with the bad reputation most of them are given and having your lives change in a way that nobody could imagine." Barry defends knowing how powers change everyone's lives forever.
"Right. So you're defending them? This internship thing we're doing is completely over." Julian informs Barry not liking this.
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Barry returns to Star labs and sees Cisco is working on locating the creature after Fox finished the rope and left to prepare for the conference.
"Anytime the monster shows up, any transformers nearby have exploded." Barry explains to them.
"The car alarms keep malfunctioning too." Cisco says looking over the data they collected.
"Car alarms, transformers. What is the connection?" HR asks and goes motivational about how they'll solve it.
"Well, my cycle didn't have any problems going against it, and it's energy powered." Peter says.
"Maybe someone's pulling power out of the transformers and uses it to power the monster." Cisco says.
"Like a portable Tesla tower." Barry adds on.
"PS, where I'm from, on my earth, we call that a problem solved. I'm gonna go on a coffee run, I'll be back." HR says and leaves.
"Okay, now something about him seems off now." Peter is realizing about HR. "I mean, he just rephrased what we say."
"Thank you!" Cisco states trying to say the exact same thing.
"He did have the idea for the rope, thought." Barry says.
"No, reverse inception. He made you think he had the idea for the rope, but he didn't tell us how to use it." Cisco informs Barry.
"Well, Peter, your Spidey senses saying anything about him?" Barry asks looking to Peter.
"You know, this is the quietest they've ever been when there's a Wells in the room." Peter says a little surprised and worried about that. "When Thawne was in the room, my senses went into car alarms for a second. When it was Harry, they were slightly alert. But with him, it's like there's nothing. Like an average joe."
"Well, we won't be caught off guard again. To be safe, maybe you should vibe him." Barry tells Cisco.
"It'd be my pleasure." Cisco says and leaves to go find something to vibe.
He and Barry head to the workshop and find his bag of stuff.
"What even is the thing?" Cisco asks holding his own recorder when it goes off.
"Now I seem to have won most of the teams trust, except Francisco's." HR says on the recorder when HR and Peter enters and sees them.
"Those are my things." HR tells them. "What are you doing?
"What are you doing?" Cisco asks. "Who are you really? We know you're hiding something."
"You've been burned, by a man with the same face as me. I imagine it's hard to trust after something like that. So play the rest of it." HR tells Cisco regarding the recorder.
"I've read his journals, I found nothing that can tell me why Francisco feels the way he does, but I do hope I can change his opinion of Harrison Wells and the two of us can rebuild that friendship what a fantastic C-story to within the narrative." HR says before turning it off.
"What narrative?" Peter wonders.
"Narrative. I'm writing a novel." HR says and takes the recorder out of Cisco's hands with a smile on his face. "The Tales Of H.R. Wells."
"Wait, you're a scientist and a novelist?" Barry asks him.
"Yes." HR confirms for him. "That's exactly it. I'm a scientist and a novelist; I run Star labs, and also I'm an author of science-romance. That's my niche. Write what you know. And I thought, what better opportunity than come to another earth and pen yet another best seller about my adventures here?"
"Why didn't you just tell us this in the first place?" Cisco questions him.
"I guess it didn't really seem relevant, also I didn't think you guys were gonna rifle through my belongings." HR says and now they're feel a little guilty.
As they're talking, Caitlin comes up and Peter is happy to see her back and quickly kisses her as she kisses him back, missing him just as much.
"That's all I have to hide. Do you think you can trust me now, or is that not something you have on this earth, trust?" HR asks.
"Trust?" Caitlin asks causing them to jump seeing they haven't noticed her yet.
"You scared the dickens out of me." HR says as he calms down.
"Trust who?" Caitlin asks worried.
"It's nothing to worry about." Peter assures her when their alerts all go off and they see it's back.
"It's the monster." Barry says.
"Monster?" Caitlin asks, confused to what they're talking about.
"Yeah, you missed a lot. I'll explain it to you on the way." Peter promises.
"Come on, we need you." Cisco tells HR.
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Peter and Barry make it and see the monster and transformers exploding.
"Okay, so what's the plan?" Barry asks Peter as he's holding the rope.
"How about we do Empire strikes back?" Peter asks and Barry likes it.
"The bigger they are, harder they fall." Caitlin says through the comms which surprises them all. "Come on, even I've seen Empire." She defends.
"God, I love you." Peter says back to that and Barry sees where he can tie the rope.
"All right, here we go. I always wanted to be a Jedi." Barry says before tying the rope around the monster and tries pulling it down when it goes right through it.
"Wait a minute." Peter states to her before walking up to the creature and shoots a web at it and the web goes through it.
"It's a hologram." Peter and Barry say at once as they see the monster vanish.
"CCPD sent snipers to kil it." Iris' voice says through the comms.
"That's bad. The bullets will travel through the hologram." Peter states and they need to find it.
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"HR, triangulate the signal. We need to disrupt the monster before someone gets hurt." Cisco tells him and he tries using the computers and he's failing.
"This is a different type of computer than what I'm used to." HR tried defending when Cisco finally realizes something.
"I knew it. You're a fake." Cisco says which confuses everyone. "This whole time, he's been acting like he can help us, but he can't because he doesn't know how." Cisco says before taking over and triangulates the monsters location.
"Found it. It's at Second and Fulton." Cisco says and the heroes make their way.
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As soon as they get there, they see the monster and hundreds of CCPD cars ready to fire.
They see a sniper on the roof and he shoots. Barry slows down time to see where the bullet was heading and grabs it before it could impact someone.
"Stop firing!" Peter tells them and they see the monster glitching. "It's a hologram." He explains and they all lower their weapons and all the civilians are confused to what happened.
Barry looks around and sees Joe. "Detective West, where's Julian?" Barry asks knowing he must've learned where it came from.
"He was here." Joe says and looks around to see he's vanished.
"Cisco, find out where it came from." Peter begs into his comms.
"Hamilton building, 25th floor. There's more power going there than anywhere else in the building combined." Cisco tells them and Barry speeds off.
Peter looks up and sees that from that location, you could see the monster in every direction where it's been attacking.
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Inside the building, Julian has found the man behind it and tells him to stop but he gets up and Julian fires only for Barry to come in at the last second and moves him out of the way revealing that it was a kid behind the monster.
Barry hands him over to Julian to take it over and starts leaving.
"Hey, Flash." Julian calls out and he looks to him. "Thank you."
"You're welcome." Barry says while vibrating his voice and speeds off.
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Barry and Joe learned that the kid was just sick of feeling powerless against people and wanted others to feel the same way he did.
As for HR, they learned everything about him.
"You were named Entrepreneur of the Decade by Tech Magazine?" Caitlin asks seeing the information HR gave them.
"That's right." HR says.
"Is any of what's on here true?" Cisco wonders.
"All of it." HR tells them.
"How? You can barley turn on a computer." Barry states.
"There are two parts to every idea. There is the inception and the execution. I provide the former." HR explains.
"So you're the one who comes up with the ideas." Iris clarifies.
"Yeah, I don't know how to implement them. I'm the idea man." HR says to them.
"So you didn't actually solve the cryptogram that we sent you?" Peter asks.
"No, that was my partner at Star labs on my earth. I'm not the face of the company. I'm more of the inspiration behind the company. Then I was exposed. People thought I was something that I wasn't. It all fell apart for me. Then I got your message. My partner brought me the message. I saw he was bringing me an opportunity to come to this earth to write this book." HR explains to them all.
"So many planets in the multiverse, and we happen to pick the one Wells who isn't a scientist." Cisco recaps.
"It sounds like you're a con man." Wally states to him.
"Was I a con man when I showed San Francisco here how to track the beast using alarms? Was I a con man when I showed him and Foxtrot how to fashion a rope using carbon fiber?" HR asks back.
"I came up with those ideas." Cisco says.
"You were prompted by my suggestions. That's how ideas work. You need a muse. I can be that." HR tells them.
"What about stopping all the metas on your earth?" Peter asks.
"More of an advisory role for me, but I was there. I remember how it happened. You don't think that's something?" HR asks them. "Let me present you with a scenario. You're confronted with something, a threat never seen before. You don't know how to stop it. Who does? That's value to you. Let me prove my worth." He begs and promises to go home if he doesn't succeed.
They decided to give him a shot when Peter's alert goes off.
"Okay, well, you do that. I need to get to Mercury labs. Press conference in half an hour." Peter says before leaving and Caitlin is close behind him.
"Should we get going as well?" Cisco asks them and he's right.
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At the soon to be P.A.R.K.E.R. Industries, Fox had already arrived and was setting everything up when Peter comes back all dressed for the conference and just gets off the phone with Jessica, checking in on how Frankie is doing.
"Ah, glad you got my message." Fox says seeing him here a few minutes to spare.
"Hey, you deleted Caitlin's DNA tests from the computers, right?" Peter asks not wanting her to know what he did.
"You know the computers here are separate from the ones at the warehouse. But I'll also do it at the base." Fox informs him when Caitlin comes in in her dress ready for the conference herself.
"But I think you should ask her what she's hiding." Fox whispers to Peter before leaving.
"What was the whispering about?" Caitlin asks Peter who knows he's right. She should know the truth.
"Look, Cait...while you were gone, I had Fox analyze your DNA for metahuman genetics." Peter admits and sees her face changes to fear.
"Why would you do that?" She questions her boyfriend.
"I thought you were hiding something from me and was thinking maybe you were getting powers." Peter says before continuing. "But, I learned you're clean." He says which confuses Caitlin.
"What do you mean?" She asks him, now even more confused.
"You're not a metahuman, but you seem like something's still bothering you. Where'd you go?" Peter asks her.
Caitlin tries to get over the new information she received from him before answering him.
"I went to visit my mother. Seeing if we could work through some of our issues." She says and Peter is happy to hear that. "And I think we might be on the road to recovery."
"I get it. When it comes to family, you got to do what you need to do, because one day you might not be able to do that anymore." Peter says thinking to what he wished he could say to his parents and Ben. "I'm just happy you're back."
"This is my home. You're my home." Caitlin says while leaning in and kissing him. "Now let's get out there and introduce them to Personal Artificial Resourceful Kinetics Enhancement Researchers Industries." She says and they go out hand in hand to the main room of the labs where the press are all waiting.
"Thank you all for being here today." Peter starts off with and tries to find his wording. "A few months ago, I was handed Mercury labs from dr. McGee. She was a great scientist and a good friend. She saw greatness in me and believed there was no one more worthy of her legacy than me. And I plan on living up to her expectations. All of us have been working here with one goal in mind, use science to make the world a safer place. And in the last few years, the technology from these labs were used to terrorize the city we live in. So we knew Mercury labs needed to be something more." He says and looks behind him and they remove the curtains.
It shows P.A.R.K.E.R. Industries has been placed on the windows of the building and everyone claps to seeing it. Peter hoped this was the right thing to do, and from what he can see so far, he's been doing a good job so far seeing how everyone likes it.
As for Caitlin, she looks to see her mother send her a video message she needs to look at in private.
In the crowd, Fox was clapping happy to see Peter up on top of things when his own phone goes off and he sees the computer was still running Caitlin's DNA through his system.
Unknown anomaly detection his phone says and Fox sees that there is something inside Caitlin's DNA, but it's not a metahuman stream. It's something different. Now Fox is confused, but now wonders if he should tell Peter before figuring out what it is.
He decides to run some tests first, seeing it could be just a error in the system.
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But what Barry never learned, was that in Flashpoint...there was another Spider-Man. And it wasn't Peter.
In the bedroom of a teenager in an apartment building in Central City, Miles Morales was peacefully sleeping when a voice wakes him up.
"Miles Morales." The voice calls out and Miles starts freaking out.
As soon as he hears the voice, he starts getting visions. He sees himself, wearing a black and red Spider-Man suit, swinging throughout the city of New York.
"Find me." The voice tells him.
"Who...Who are you?" Miles asks, trying to figure out where the voice is coming from as he looks to the window to see a name is being carved into it.
"Alchemy"
Alchemy is calling him.
And is offering to give back what was taken.
He's offering him the chance to become the Ultimate Spider-Man once again.
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