Within Seconds: Flashpoint Edition

Barry Allen Brings Home An Alien!

"Ah, not if we get Stein and, you know, all the others," offered Barry optimistically. 

Oliver raised his eyebrows, amused. "They're calling themselves the Legends."

"Egotistical, but catchy," noted Thea. 

"Do you know where they are?" asked Barry. 

"I know where they were."

CENTRAL CITY 

Barry didn't exactly understand what Felicity and Oliver's plan was to get the Legends out of time and back to 2016, but he didn't dwell on it. He zipped an agitated Diggle to the planned Base of Operations for the new scandal, then Thea, then both Felicity and Oliver. 

Cisco and H.R. texted, assuring they were on their way with a majority of the equipment. Caitlin had arrived before Team Arrow joined, bouncing Melody in a baby carrier on her chest and setting up a couple computers on a desk in the center of the hangar. 

"What are you doing?" laughed Barry. 

Caitlin turned around, then looked down to the carrier and posed to model it for Barry, whose grin only widened. "I thought it would be better, you know, instead of having to carry her on our arms. Hands-free babysitting! Don't bother paying me back. It's a gift from me to the team."

"Well, I'll stick to carrying her in my arms, but thank you, Cait. That's really nice of you," said Barry graciously. She smiled. He wiggled his baby girl from the carrier and started to bring her outside the hangar. 

Thea caught up with him and Melody, not noticing the baby, at first, since her interest was in the S.T.A.R. Labs property around her. She spun in little circles as they exited the hangar, taking notice of every little aspect and design within the building. 

Barry looked around with her. It was an expansive space, mostly empty. A few stray S.T.A.R. Labs van were scattered throughout the hangar. It had been abandoned after the Accelerator Explosion, though, for some reason, turned out to be a property included in the will of Harrison Wells. 

"What is this place?" asked Thea. 

Barry looked around with her. "Uh, it's this old hall/hangar thing that S.T.A.R. Labs owns. Er-- that Parker and I own. Well, I own, now, I guess." 

"You should do something with it," she encouraged.

"That's what Park said," smiled Barry softly. He looked around again, imaging Parker twirling with him in circles and examining the place. "There was one day we came here to look at it, see if we should sell it. She said no."

Thea offered a remorseful smile. "How come?"

"She was set on making it into a museum," explained Barry.

"Museum for what?" 

"Me." 

"Smart woman," complimented Thea. She stuck her tongue out at Melody. "A smart woman who makes a beautiful baby, right, cutie?"

Barry withheld his comment to change Thea's sentence into past-tense. Instead, he forced a smile and moved Melody's hand to wave at the woman. 

By then, they caught up to where Felicity and Diggle were standing outside. The two were searching high in the sky for any sign of a ship that wasn't of alien descent, this time.

Felicity did a double-take when she saw Barry with his baby. She twisted a strand of Melody's hair in her finger, chuckling when it bounced back into place, then asked Barry why he brought her.