[SHE KNOWS- J COLE]
"Orlin Dwyer." Sherloque announced to the team, gesturing to the pictures on the screen.
"Near as we can tell, he grew up in the Midwest. In and out of Juvie, pretty much fell off the map, and then popped up in Central City a few years ago." Ralph tells them.
"Part-time employee of Szrek Chemicals for the last two years." Sherloque goes on.
"Foreman says he keeps to himself, pretty much a loner, gave a fake address." Ralph adds.
"Did take custody of his niece." Sherloque confirmed.
"Grace Gibbons." The two said in unison, changing the picture from Orlin to the little girl.
"After her parents were unfortunately murdered by a metahuman, now." Sherloque said.
"So now we know why Dwyer hates metas." Ralph says and everyone nods, "Once he got his powers, he started targeting them."
"Powers he got the night of the Enlightenment, as we all known, and he was struck by a shard from the Star Labs satellite explosion." Sherloque continues.
"Which was also the night that Grace went into a coma." Ralph informs.
"Where Dwyer visit her every day, every night, for the last three weeks." Sherloque concludes.
"So that means, there's a good chance he's there now?" Y/N asked, walking over to him. The speedster wearing black leggings with black boots and red blouse.
"Yeah." Ralph nods.
"Oui." Sherloque confirms.
Y/N nods and Barry said, "Then let's go get him."
"I'm all in." Ethan spoke up, getting up from his seat.
"'Let's go get him.' How are you guys going to do that?" Sherloque questioned the three, "Look, as always, I respect your needs of being heroes, but as long as Cicada has his dagger to dampen your powers, there's no stopping him."
"I'm not a meta." Ethan reminds him, crossing his arms over his chest, "I can go in, talk to him the nice way. Bring him out in cuffs, we have his dagger."
Liam was silently sitting to the side as he was writing something down in his journal. He glances at the group and he stops to flip through his pages to look for something.
"And what makes you think it's going to end well, monsieur Brekker." Sherloque tells him, "I respect you kicks, arrows, fighting skills but your going to need back up. And no one can back you up if they can't use their powers."
"Let's destroy the dagger." Y/N spoke up with a shrug.
"How are we gonna do that unless we have some kind of power-dampening dagger power dampener hidden away?" Ralph asked.
"We don't, but if we did we'd come up with a much better way of saying that." Cisco mentions.
"Sure, I mean, just, like dagger-dampening." Barry suggest.
The team then breaks into talking about naming the weapon instead. Liam looks up from his journal as he spoke up, "Guys-"
They all stopped talking to look at him and he stood up from his seat, setting his book down and saying, "What if we make one?"
"Make one what?" Barry asked.
"What if we make a weapon more powerful than his weapon?" Liam states, looking between them, "Cicada could control his dagger, so all we need is something to overpower his connection to it."
"Like a super charged magnet?" Y/N asked with a look.
"Yeah." Liam nods.
"I don't know if we have anything strong enough for that. We made Sally out of a micro-composite alloy. As far as satellite's go, she's― she was heavy-duty." Cisco said.
"And even if we could get out hands on the dagger, we'd still have to figure out how to take the Dark Matter out to negate its powers." Caitlin adds.
"Well, exactly right. I mean, what are you're suggesting is we find an alloy." Sherloque said, "No, no, indestructible alloy that has super magnetic properties, but also has the ability to negate dark matter. I mean, where are we going to find such thing?"
"The past." Liam replied, looking at his mom.
"The past?" Y/N chuckles softly.
"You're already come across everything we need to built this weapon." Liam mentions, "A strong alloy with magnetic properties..."
"Savitar's suit." Ethan sighed as he and Y/N shared a look, "Awsome."
"Something to remove Dark Matter." Liam continues, glancing at them.
"The Speed Force transmitter that Zoom used to steal Y/N's speed." Caitlin spoke up.
Y/N sighs deeply and Ethan said, "But that's Speed Force."
"Yeah, but it still consider exotic particles, which are basically the same thing as dark energy." Liam explains, "We just need someone to recarbilate it."
Sherloque looks at Liam suspiciously, crossing his arms over his chest.
"Can― can you do that?" Ralph asked.
"I mean, you'd have to infuse the transmitter with the same kind of dark matter." Cisco replies.
"Like the DeVoe kind?" Ralph asked.
"More like the Particle Accelerator kind." Cisco clarifies, looking at Liam.
"I'm sorry, we― we need to blow up Star Labs again?" Ralph says, looking at the young speedster.
"No, no, not again." Liam tells him and he looks at his mom and Ethan, "The first time it happened."
"This is gonna mess with the timeline too much." Barry says, looking over at Y/N.
"No, it's not." Liam assures him, "Savitar's suit, the transmitter, these are all just discarded objects in time, so if we steal them, it won't affect anything."
"Even if all of that worked, we can't just waltz into the hospital with our soon-to-be-named dampening device." Ralph said, "Dwyer smells us coming, he's― he's gone."
"Then we just do a time-hack." Liam shrugs.
At this Y/N, Ethan and Barry all looked at Liam with confused and questionable looks.
"A time-hack?" Ralph said confused.
"Is when you-" Sherloque starts.
"Plant something in the past so it's available in the future." Cisco said and looks at Y/N, "You go back, you take the device, and you hide it near the hospital. Somewhere it won't be found for five years. He won't even know it's there."
"So you and your mother go back to the past to defeat Cicada in the future." Sherloque says to Liam, "Quite an off-the-cuff plan you've come up with."
"Thanks." Liam grins before looking at him mom, "We can do this."
"No." Y/N shakes her head and Liam frowns as everyone looks at her, "Me and Barry will do it. Um, can you guys figure out the best dates to go, so you know, no surprises."
"We're on it." Cisco nods, walking away with Caitlin.
Y/N grabs her sweater and walks out the cortex as Liam quickly walks out behind her. Ethan and Barry sharing looks as Sherloque caught sight of Liam's journal on the desk.
"Liam, the answer is still no." She tells him, the two walking down the halls.
"Mom, come on." Liam said, quick to stand in front of her as she stopped in her tacks with a sigh, "Look, I'll do as you say. Just let me come with you."
"Liam is not that I don't trust you coming with me, but it's dangerous." She says with a look, "When I try something like this I almost end up killed."
"More reason to go with you." Liam said with a small smile, "I can go and watch your back, so you don't get hurt."
"I told you, your Dad is coming with me and it'll be risky taking you." She argues with a small sigh, "Time travel is complicated, Lee."
"I know, I've already done it." Liam chuckles.
"Yeah, and look what happened since." Y/N snaps lightly.
Liam's smiles drops and Y/N regrets her words as she shook her head and quickly adds, "I― I didn't mean it like that. Liam, I need you safe here."
"And I love that you want to keep me safe but this is a way I can fix my mistake for bringing Cicada early." Liam sighs softly, "Please, let me come with you."
Y/N shakes her head, "Sorry, Lee, not today."
Liam only nods before walking away from her as she ran a hand over her face. Ethan and Barry overhead everything as the archer pushes the speedster into the hallway, giving him a look.
Y/N hears and looks over to see Barry trying to catch his balance as he tried to fix himself. Barry looks over at her and says, "Hi."
"You were listening, weren't you?" Y/N asked, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Yeah, okay." Barry shrugs as he walks over to her and gives her a look, "Look, I agree with wanting to keep Liam safe and everything, but it feels like this is about something more."
Y/N looks at him before leaning against the wall and saying, "Barr, I take him to any of those times it also means him having to come across really horrible speedsters. Savitar, Velocity, Zoom and most specifically Thawne."
"That's why it's called the past." Barry tells her, "And they're not going anywhere, well, look, all I'm saying it you defeated all of them."
"Okay, then why don't you just come with me." She suggested with a small shrug, "Just run in get what we need, that's it."
"Because Liam feels really horrible about everything that's been going on." Barry said, placing his hands on her shoulder and giving her a small rub, "It's a good solution. But if there's something else that wants you to stop Liam from going, then okay, I won't argue with you there."
The girl only gives a nod as he smiles at her before leaning down to press a kiss at the top of her head.
Soon enough the rest of the team returns and they show Y/N the best dates to go back in time.
MAY 23, 2017- SAVITAR SUIT.
APRIL 19, 2016- SPEED FORCE TRANSMITTER.
DECEMBER 11, 2013- PARTICLE ACCELERATOR.
She looks over them and breathes heavily as she nods and turns around to face the others, "Yeah, good idea. Time to go."
"Cool." Cisco said as he twirled something between his fingers, "You're not gonna want to forget this."
Cisco throws her the ring with her suit in it as she caught it with a small smile. Y/N looks at it and he said, "Had to make some adjustments to the suit, but I finally figured it out. For emergencies only. You don't want to get caught running around the past in your future Electric-Flash suit."
"You got it." Y/N nods, putting the ring on.
"You might get ideas." Cisco says, walking over to her and patting her shoulder.
"Thanks by the way." She calls out with a smile.
"You're welcome." Cisco said, walking out the room.
Liam was sitting to the side as he was playing around with his locket. Y/N sighs in relief as she looks over at Barry and Ethan, the two glance over at Liam.
The speedster looks over at Liam and she exhales softly. She walks over to him and he looks at her as she smiles, "Let's go."
He smiles brightly and she smiles as she walks out the cortex. Liam quickly got to his feet and he went over to Barry, sharing a high-five before fist bumping Ethan. The archer chuckles and the young speedster quickly took off after his mom.
The two then change out of clothes as they were wearing all black. Y/N had on black jeans with a black tank-top, oversized sweater and converse. Liam had on black sweats, black t-shirt a leather jacket and boots but not forgetting his beanie.
Y/N makes sure the ring is on before looking at Liam and stating, "Remember follow me. We're not going to go off book and if something, anything happens you'll do as I say."
"I promise." Liam nods and he playfully grins, "Things usually go wrong, don't they?"
Y/N scoffs in amusement before taking off in the pipeline and Liam goes after her. The two quickly speeding around the pipeline as the rest of the team watched from the cortex.
Ralph takes the chance to play a song: Back In Time.
Ethna looks at him and chuckles, Ralph smiles at him. Barry shakes his head with a small smile but the rest give him a look.
"What?" Ralph defended, "When am I going get the chance to do that?"
"Hey, game face." Cisco said, putting down the volume.
"All right, so what do we do while they're gone? Do we stake out the hospital? Get everything ready here or what?" Ralph asked.
"Oh, nothing." Barry shakes his head, "They're literally going to come back to this exact same time."
"Wait, so, they're gonna go, but to us it'll be like they've never left?" Ralph asked confused.
"Yeah, time travel is weird, isn't it?" Cisco says, looking at the screen.
"Here they go." Caitlin said.
"Good luck." Ethan muttered, sitting in front of the computers.
The two speedsters continue to run around the pipeline before opening the Speed Force portal. They jump inside and Liam looks around to see everything, the time Y/N and Ethan were locked up at Iron Heights, DeVoe taking over Ralph's body, Y/N coming out the Speed Force and Y/N entering the Speed Force.
"All right-" Y/N spoke up, catching his attention, "-on my mark. Come on!"
She takes hold of Liam's arm before the two jump out of the portal.
[MAY 23, 2017: SAVITAR-ERA]
A portal opened and the two speedsters jumped out of it as it closed behind them. They looked around to notice that they were alone in the dark woods.
Liam looks over at Y/N and asked, "Um, did we make a wrong turn?"
All the sudden they hear rustling behind them, they turn around to see Savitar speeding by them. The evil speedster continues on his way as he jumps up, white lightning following.
"Is that Savitar?" Liam asked, staring at the evil speedster.
"Yeah, definitely him." Y/N replies with a small sigh.
They watch as Savitar throws lightning, all the speedsters going after him. It blasts them back and the two speedsters take cover. The speedsters following him go all over and unfortunately Past Lightning Storm and Electric-Flash land in front of them.
The two past speedsters quickly back on their feet and Y/N makes sure Liam stays silent. Past Lightning Storm was about to turn around but stops as past Y/N speeds away with him following after.
"Let's go." Y/N tells Liam.
The two speedsters run after them but don't notice a time-wraith were behind them. They hide behind a pillar to see Savitar take down Ethan and Y/N.
"We only have a few minutes left." Savitar spoke looking down at the speedsters, "If we're left to die, then everything you love is going to die too."
"Holy shrap!" Liam whispered shouted.
Past-Lightning Storm gets back on his feet and phases through the suit causing for Savitar to come out of his suit and fall back on the ground. Suddenly a red streak takes hold of Savitar-Ethan and shoves a vibrating hand through him as it killed him.
Y/N looks away as she sighs deeply and Liam stares at the scene in shock. Past-Electric-Flash gets up on her feet as the other evil speedster takes off her mask to reveal evil-Y/N. She throws him aside and glares at them.
"He was a good for nothing." Velocity spat, "It's not over! I will get to be a God, and it's going to be done without his help or the suit!"
All the sudden a familiar shrieking sound was heard causing for the girl to turn around. Y/N goes wide-eye to spot the time wraith.
"What was that?" Liam asked, turning around to look at her.
"Time Wraith, they protect the timeline." Y/N replies, looking at him and taking hold of his shoulders, "Liam, I need you to grab the piece of the suit. I need to get out of here. Meet me in the forest where we first arrived, okay?"
"Okay." Liam nods with a worried expression.
Y/N gives him a reassuring look before speeding off with the time wraith going after her. Liam turns back around to see Past-Ethan destroy the suit from the inside causing all the pieces to go all over the place. Liam quickly reaches for a piece but makes sure not to be seen, he then heard a gasp causing him to quickly turn around to the scene.
He sees Velocity with an arrow through her chest before she fell on her knees and fell down. Liam then spots Past-Barry putting the bow down as he looked surprised by his own actions.
"Dad?" Liam said in shock.
He then watches Savitar Ethan and Velocity being erased from the timeline, Liam looks down at his hands to see the fragment disappear before it appeared again. He smiles and then quickly speeds to the woods to spot the purple lighting. He quickly speeds past the time-wraith and jumps inside the portal with Y/N.
[APRIL 19, 2016: ZOOM-ERA]
A portal opens in the middle of the street as the two speedster quickly jump out, losing the time-wraith inside. They breath heavily and Y/N asked Liam, "So, you got it?"
"Yeah, right here." Liam replies, showing her the fragment.
"Great job getting that into the Speed Force in time." Y/N tells him.
"Oh, yeah, easy-peasy." Liam waves off sarcastically and she chuckles softly, "Um, Mom about Savitar and Velocity-"
Y/N starts to walk but stops when a sudden blue streak runs past them causing her and Liam to jump back.
"We're definitely in 2016." She confirms with a nod.
"How do you know?" Liam asked, walking over to her.
"Because if I'm right that's Zoom with Wally." Y/N replies, looking at him, "And I'm about to give up my speed. We need to go."
They quickly speed to Star Labs after Hunter Zolomon was done injecting himself with Y/N's speed. The two speedsters hide behind the other side of the door as they peeked inside to see Past-Y/N on the ground.
"Y/N, are you okay?" Past-Barry asked.
"I'm okay." Past-Y/N assures him and he helped her to her feet.
Zoom suddenly speeds inside the room and grabs the girl by the throat and he pins her against the wall, lifting her up.
Y/N glances over to see Liam with a sad expression but he couldn't help but to glare at Zoom.
"Thank you, Electric-Flash!" Past-Hunter said.
Past-Caitlin runs inside the room and yells, "Jay, stop! If you have any humanity left, then please, please let her go."
Past-Y/N gasped for air and Zoom drops her to the ground as she coughs and breathes heavily. Past-Barry quickly makes his way over to her and she was quick to wrap her arm around him.
Liam couldn't help but to smile softly at the two.
Zoom then takes the chance to take Caitlin and speed away from her. Y/N and Liam quickly move out the way as Past-Cisco yells, "Caitlin!"
They see a sudden yellow streak run out after the two.
"Was that Uncle Ethan?" Liam asked in a whisper.
"Yeah." Y/N nods, "It was. I need you stay here okay. Stay, I'll be back."
Liam nods and the girl quickly runs off to enter inside the cortex and into one of the work rooms. Y/N walks over to a desk but notices that the transmitter is gone, causing her panic.
"What?" She whispered shouted, starting to look around, "Come on."
Liam then hears a familiar voice in the hallways, he tip toes over to see Past-Barry and Y/N. He remains hidden as he listen to their conversation.
"I'm okay." Past-Y/N tells him, looking around the halls, "Just― I― I need to breath. Okay? I― I just-"
"Hey-" Past-Barry said, taking hold of her face as she had tears in her eyes, "What happened with Caitlin isn't on you?"
"It's not?" Past-Y/N questions with a look, "I was stupid enough that I thought he could be outsmarted, look where that go me. Caitlin's gone, Ethan is trying to find her, but he's more likely gone by now with her. Barry― God!"
The speedster runs a hand over her face as she walks away from him, gripping her hair. Past-Y/N hits the wall before wincing in pain and placing her forehead against it.
Liam frowns as Past-Barry approaches her, placing a hand on her back and giving it a small rub. The speedster quickly wraps her arms around him as she cries into his chest and Barry holds her.
"Your okay, everything's going to be fine." Past-Barry tells her, rubbing her back and planting kisses at the side of her head, "Your not alone, okay?"
"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry." Past-Y/N sobs quietly as she holds him tight.
"You didn't do anything wrong." Past-Barry said softly, "No one's upset with you. I know Caitlin isn't. We're all here to help you, Y/N. I'm going to be right here to help you, I'm not going anywhere, okay?"
Past-Y/N only nods as Past-Barry holds her close and continues to whisper nice things in her ears.
Liam smiles at his parents as his heart gave a small ache. He reaches for his locket and holds it close.
Y/N was still in the room looking frantically for the transmitter as she checks all the cabinets. She then hears something loading behind her causing her to slowly stand up and raise her hands up. Y/N slowly turns around to see that it was Harry Wells with his blaster pointed at her.
They stare at each other for a moment as Harry puts his gun down and said, "You change quickly."
"What?" Y/N said confused, putting her hands down.
"Out of your suit." Harry points out with a look.
"Oh, oh!" Y/N nods quickly before stuttering slightly, "I― I― I just thought it'll be stupid for me to have it on when I have no speed, so."
"Well, that's your own damn fault, isn't it?" Harry scolds, walking past her.
"Um, I think so." She mutters quietly, staring at him.
"I know so." Harry states, looking around for something.
"What are you looking for?" Y/N asked curiously.
"I'm looking for anything to help me find my daughter. All right, just-" Harry huffs and throws things around as she watches with a small frown. Harry exhales deeply and faces her, "-I don't have my daughter. You don't have your speed. Zoom has Caitlin, Ethan is speeding around to find them. But this whole thing is going to hell-"
Harry pulls out the transmitter and was about to smash it but Y/N quickly runs over and takes hold of his hands, "Wait!"
Harry glances at her Electric-Flash ring and wedding one. She quickly pulls her hand back and says, "Her frequency."
"What?" Harry said confused.
"Jesse's frequency." Y/N continues with a look, letting his hand go, "You can look for her like that, right? Earth-2 people vibrate a different frequency than our Earth, so. I mean, why not?"
Harry stares at her suspiciously and she shrugs as he said, "Figure out how to find Snow."
He walks away but not before handing her the transmitter. Y/N sighs in relief as she watches him walk out.
Just then Liam speeds in to her side and asked, "You got it?"
"Surprisingly, yeah." Y/N nods, showing it to him, "Time to build this thing, come on."
Zoom suddenly speeds in front of her and she quickly pushes Liam behind her as the young speedster stares at Zoom.
"You're not going anywhere, Electric-Flash." Zoom said.
He takes off his mask and Y/N glares at him, anger flashing through her eyes as she spoke through gritted teeth, "You got what you came for. Now leave, Zolomon."
Hunter's gaze then falls on Liam and he grins as he looks back at Y/N, "And who's this? Another speedster."
Y/N quickly punches him across the face, sending him back before quickly taking hold of Liam's hand speeding away with him. The two speedsters run around the city with Zoom hot on their tail, they open a portal and jump inside and so does Zoom.
Zoom took hold of Y/N and was about to kill her but a time-wraith comes and takes Zoom. This causes for the two speedsters to get thrown out the portal and thrusted to a random time.
[2014]
The two speedster fall out the Speed Force portal as the transmitter falls from the girls hand and roughly to the ground. Y/N and Liam both look to see that it came apart, the girl panics and runs over, "No, no, no!"
She picks it up to see that it was destroyed, "Damn it! Great, great, great, great! Now our plan to stop Cicada is down the drain. I mean, when are we?"
"Mom." Liam spoke up, walking over to her, "Calm down. We can fix this."
"We can't fix this Liam." She tells him, showing him the pieces, "Cisco can't. This is Wells' tech."
"Then let's go back to Wells." Liam states with a look.
"We can't go back to Harry, Lee." Y/N sighs softly as she ran a hand over her face, "His mind isn't like before. He can't rebuild it again."
"No, I'm talking about the Wells that built the Particle Accelerator." Liam clears out.
"He's not Wells, Liam." Y/N states with an upset expression, "His name is Eobard Thawne; The Reverse-Flash."
"I know, but he's really smart." Liam tells her, "I thought if we go look for him, he could help us out."
"No!" Y/N shakes her head and Liam stares at her seeing how angry she got, "I am not going to him. He wouldn't give a damn if we need help, unless it benefits him."
She turns away from him and Liam frowns as he said, "I'm sorry, Mom. I shouldn't have-"
Y/N catches sight of someone behind the dumpsters and Liam catches eye as he asked, "What's wrong?"
"I know when we are now." Y/N sighs.
She spots her other past-self unconscious on the ground. Liam looks at her and was about to check on her but Y/N stops him.
"No, leave her." Y/N tells him, "The less we mess-"
"Mess with the timeline." Liam nods, "I know."
"Three years ago I traveled back here to get- get Thawnes help unfortunately." Y/N admits, looking at Liam.
"So you have done this before." Liam said.
Y/N nods as she turns around to see Star Labs and she groans softly.
-
Inside the timevault; Thawne was sitting on a chair as he was staring at the unconscious Y/N cuffed to his wheelchair. At that moment, Y/N and Liam make their way inside as the girl looks dreaded to be in there. Liam glances at her and looks back at Eobard Thawne.
"Well-" Thawne spoke up in a low voice as the girl exhales deeply, "-things just got a lot more complicated, didn't they? Y/N Harper."
The speedster raises a brow as Thawne grins at her direction. Liam looking between the two with a conflicted expression.
"But which Y/N Harper?" Thawne questions, "Clearly you're from a lot later than this one."
"Way later." Y/N said.
"Way later." Thawne mocks her words and she shrugs as he nods and glances at Liam, "Who's your friend? Let me guess. John Fox. No. Maybe, Mercury. Wait. Johnny Quick."
"Yeah, your guessing game is over." Y/N spoke up and he looked at her, "He's no one interesting to you."
Thawne looks at her closely before looking back at Liam and spoke in his low voice, "He's your son."
Liam doesn't reply as he stares at him before looking back at his mom.
"You brought me your son." Thawne said and Y/N looks at him as he turns back to Liam, "It's um- Don, if I'm not mistaken." He bows slightly.
Liam stares at him and mutters, "It's Liam actually."
"Liam." Thawne said softly as he smiles, "Oh, that's nice. At least you still have one."
Y/N glares at him and spoke through gritted teeth, "Watch it."
"Well that must mean-" Thawne ignores her and looks down at her hand to notice the wedding ring. He looks back at her and smirks, "-you and Barry Allen got married. That's sweet."
She sighs deeply and shakes her head as the man looks back at Liam, "What― Liam, time travels so weird. What do you want, Y/N?"
Y/N bites her tongue and holds out the transmitter, "I need you to fix this for me."
Thawne stares at her and realizes something, he looks at her wedding ring and then at Liam. He shakes his head and turns away from them, "No― No, if you're here. And the wedding― this one's here that means-"
"Guess someone planned what they're going to do once they go home a little early, didn't they?" Y/N mocks with a small pout, "Boom! News Flash, you don't get there to do it."
"I get home! I get home!" Thawne shouts and Liam jumps back as his gaze doesn't leave him, "I go home. I get everything-"
"No you don't." Y/N shakes her head with a look and she holds up transmitters, "Unless you help me, hmm?"
Thawne glares at her and he glances at Liam before turning away from the two. He turns back around and asked, "What do you want?"
"I told you, I need this fix." Y/N said, holding up the transmitter.
"To do what?" Thawne asked, walking over to her.
"Drain Dark Matter." Y/N replies simply.
"Who's Dark Matter?" Thawne asked.
"Don't worry, it's not you." Y/N narrows her eyes on him.
"But it's my business in knowing." Thawne argues with her.
Y/N scoffed and rolled her eyes, "No it's not-"
"There's no chance that I can help you-"
"I said it's none of your business!"
Liam watched them argue but he steps forward and blurts out, "Cicada!"
The two look at him and Y/N sighs softly but Thawne grins.
"Cicada." Thawne said softly as he looks at Y/N with a smile, "The one that got away. You want to destroy Cicada's dagger, don't you?"
"I'm doing it to save lives." She states with a look.
Thawne laughs, "You want to save lives. I bet you do. I bet you do. Especially your own, right, Y/N Harper-Allen?"
"Okay, she wakes up and sees all of this. Me, you standing, Liam, what makes you think she won't get angry with you first." Y/N tells him with a raised brow, "At that, your blown, bye-bye Thawne and your stuck here with her angry ass."
"I know! I know!" Thawne said angrily before he took a breath and looked at Liam, "Where are my manners? Can I get you a cup of water?"
Moments later; They were all in his office as Thawne hands Liam a bottle of water and he takes it with his lips pursed lips. Y/N then hands him the transmitter and he begins to work.
"So who made this?" Thawne asked.
"A very smart man." Y/N replies, leaning against the wall, "Better than you."
"I doubt that-" Thawne laughs as he turns around to face her, "-You know, Harper, for your plan to work, you're gonna actually have to have his dagger in your possession-"
"Yeah, that's taken care of." Y/N cuts him off.
"Oh, really?" Thawne said turning back around to work, "How's that?"
"We have this." Liam said, holding out piece of Savitars' suit.
Thawne reaches for it but Y/N quickly takes it from Liam and puts it away. Thanwe looks at her and said, "Is that-"
"Piece of Savitars suit." Y/N nods.
"You want to know what's funny about your mom, Liam, is she hates me. Hates me with a passion-" Thawne spoke up and she rolls her eyes, "-and yet a version of her and your Uncle Ethan, were much more jerks than I ever was, messed up people. I mean, did you see the face? Did you see Ethan's, pizza face?"
"You mind working faster?" Y/N questions him.
"Yeah." Thawne said, "I gotta tell you, Harper, using a piece of Savitar suit, it's a smart idea."
"It was his." Y/N says, gesturing to Liam.
Thawne looks at him and said, "Clever boy. Must've got your smarts from your father."
Liam only looks at him and Thawne makes finishing touches on the transmitter, just as Past-Y/N wakes up in the time-vault.
"Oops. Gotta go." Thawne tells them, turning around to hand the transmitter to Y/N, "I still look forward to seeing how this all pans out. Liam."
He then speeds inside the time-vault and Y/N exhales softly as Liam glances at her and nervously said, "Mom-"
"It's time to go back to the night." Y/N said, looking at Thawne through the screen, "We're done here. Come on."
She speeds out of the place.
Liam was about to go after her but he looks at the screen one more time. Thawne was already looking at the camera as he gave him a small wave.
He furrowed his brows before quickly taking off after Y/N.
[DECEMBER 11, 2013: WHERE IT ALL BEGAN]
"Tonight, the future begins. The work my team and I will do here will change our understanding of physics, will bring about advancements in power, advancements in medicine, and trust me, that future will be here faster than you think." Wells spoke.
Y/N and Liam walk past the crowd but make sure not to get seen. They walk through the back door and enter the elevator as it takes them down. The doors opened and the two walk carefully to make sure they don't make a sound.
"Uh, why are we going this way?" Liam asked Y/N, "Why don't we just speed inside the time-vault?"
"Because it's a big moment, Liam." She replies, as they eye up a cage, "Thawne's been planning this for 14 years. We use our speed he'll feel it."
Liam smiles at the sight of small Grodd, putting a finger inside and spoke in a yoda voice, "Feel a disturbance in the Speed Force."
"No, don't do that." Y/N said, pulling his hand back, "He may look unharmful but this guy will surprise you."
Liam nods and quickly walks past the cage with Y/N. They were about to walk past the cortex but heard a familiar voice causing them to hide.
"Dr. Wells, the accelerator is primed and ready for particle injection." Cisco spoke
"I feel I should say something profound like, "One small step for man." Wells says.
"What's going on?" Liam whispers, looking inside the cortex.
"He's preparing to blow up the city." Y/N whispers, staring at Wells.
"All I can think of to say is I feel like I've waited for this day for centuries." Wells said.
"Wow, how ironic." Y/N mutters with scoff.
"Without further ado." Wells clears his throat.
He was about turn on the machine but hesitates, he starts turning around as the speedster take a chance to quickly run off. They quickly made their way inside the time vault as they looked at one another but were sure to stay quiet.
Wells walks into the hallway and was about to open his time-vault but someone stops him.
"Dr. Wells?"
He turns around to see Caitlin and Cisco looking at him with concerned looks and Cisco asked, "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm great." Wells sighs and he glances at the wall, "I'm― Caitlin, do you think you could have Ronnie run the Particle parameter numbers one more time? Just for good measure."
"Sure." Caitlin nods and turns to walk away.
"Great." Wells nods, "And, Caitlin, the bottle of Dom we've been saving."
"Is today the day?" Caitlin asked with a smile.
"I think today is the day." Wells confirms.
"I'll go grab it." Caitlin smiles and walks away.
"Great, be long in a minute." Wells calls out.
"You got us on pins and needles here, Dr. Wells." Cisco said.
"Exciting, isn't it?" Wells says.
"Yeah." Cisco nods.
"Well, it's all thanks to the team, right? Caitlin, finance Ronnie, Hartley." Wells said and Cisco hums in disagreement as Wells adds, "Hartley contributed. Especially you, Cisco. I have to say I have a vibe about you. About what you're destined to become. I want you to know I'm very eager to be along for that adventure."
"Thank you, Dr. Wells." Cisco says, "That means a great deal."
Liam and Y/N were inside the timevault as they were listening. They hear footsteps disappearing and the girl sighs, "He's gone."
Y/N walks over to Gideon and takes out the transmitter as she puts piece of Savitars suit inside before putting to the side and turning the A.I on.
"Good evening, Y/N Harper-Allen. I was not expecting you this soon." Gideon spoke.
"She knows you?" Liam asked curiously.
"I know you as well, Liam Harper-Allen. Also known as Impulse. Fourth recruit in the rebooted Legion of-"
"Gideon, the Particle Accelerator is about to explode-" Y/N cuts her off, "I need you to recalibrate the systems chain reaction so some of the dark matter is repositioned into this vial-"
Liam looks over to see Thawne's suit, he looks over at his mom before walking over to the suit. He looked at it curiously and he reached over to touch it.
"Liam!" Y/N said loudly.
Liam jumps away and looks at her and she sighs deeply. Liam said, "You hate him that much, huh?"
The speedster stares at him and asked, "You don't know what he did?"
"I know he was your archenemy." Liam says.
Y/N nods and takes a deep breath, "Thawne killed my mom, at our home when I was only 11-"
Liam's expression fell as he stared at her in shock.
"Yeah, that's what brought out the bad habits of Harper." Y/N chuckles dryly, "His reason for doing it, was because he hated me and he thought that if I were to suffer a horrible tragedy, I won't recover. He almost won there, he wanted go back to a world with no Electric-Flash."
"I― I didn't know that." Liam shakes his head as his voice came out quiet and his eyes glazed.
"It's not your fault, I mean the museum doesn't even know who the Electric-Flash is." She said with a small shrug, "A lot of things that happened to me as Y/N Harper won't be in there, so."
"That's why you didn't want me to come with you, isn't it?" Liam questions, "It's not because it's dangerous or the timeline it's because you wanted to protect me from everything awful that's happened to you."
Y/N gives a small nod and Liam's voice breaks, "So when I went back all I can know is all the good and happy moments in your life. Mom, you don't need to protect me from that."
"Yeah, I do." She nods with a knowing look.
"No, mom, you don't." Liam shakes his head.
"Yeah, I do." Y/N tells him with a small frown, "You're my son. It's my job to protect you."
"And you're my mom." Liam states with tears in his eyes, "All I want to do is get to know my mom. Everything, good or bad because I know that you were strong to go through it. Because my real hero is you, not the Electric-Flash. Okay?"
Liam quickly wraps his arms around her and Y/N hugs him back. Liam buried his face in her neck and she hugged him tightly.
"Re-calibration complete."
"All right." Y/N sighs, "Ready?"
Liam nods as he doesn't pull away.
The Particle Accelerator explodes: Ronnie was in the pipeline intake as the wave of Dark matter hits him, sending him back.
"Ronnie!" Caitlin yelled as her voice broke.
Martin Stein was outside with his Firestorm work as he looks to see the wave of Dark matter.
Clifford DeVoe was out with his helmet on as he was struck by lightning and the Dark Matter washes over him.
Y/N Harper was in her lab as she looked out the window and went wide-eyed to see the explosion. She runs over to the chains to make sure the water doesn't come in anymore in the lab, and lightning strikes through the ceiling and it hits her, sending her back to a bunch of chemicals.
Ethan Brekker was in Mercury Labs as he saw the explosion and before he could check on Damian Wayne, lightning struck through the window. It sends him back to a bunch of chemicals.
The Mardon brothers were on their getaway plane when the explosion happened. The wave causes for the plane to explode.
"Dark Matter retrieval successful."
Liam and Y/N pull away and the girl walks over to take out the transmitter to see the Dark matter in. She smiles slightly and turns around to face Liam and says, "Time to give Cicada what he deserves."
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The hospitals were being overtaken with people coming in with effects after the Particle Accelerator explosion.
"Spinal cord trauma, he's lost all feeling to his lower quadrants." A paramedic said, wheeling Wells in.
"That's Harrison Wells-" Dr. Ambers rushes over, "Dr. Wells, I need you to squeeze my hand."
Dr. Wells does so and Dr. Ambers nods, "That's a good sign."
At that moment; another set of paramedics rush in with another person, that person being Y/N Harper.
"24-year-old female, struck by lightning." A paramedic informs.
Wells glances over at the unconscious Y/N as Dr. Ambers said, "Need a full trauma. Get her to bay one."
The paramedics quickly rush her inside the place as they do with Wells. Liam and Y/N arrive at the scene as they watch him get wheeled inside.
"Grace's room is on the fourth floor." Liam said.
"Okay." Y/N nods, "Let's put it right here then."
Y/N vibrates her hand with the transmitter and puts it inside the pillar before pulling her hand back.
"We did it." Liam sighs.
"Let's go home." Y/N nods.
The two quickly speed out the scene.
[BACK TO THE PRESENT]
The speedsters speed inside the cortex with the rest of the team. Everyone looks at their direction and Ralph looked confused as he asked, "Did you guys even go?"
The two glance at one another and chuckle softly.
"Told you time-travel was weird." Cisco mutters, looking at the two speedsters.
"Everything went according to plan?" Ethan asked them.
"Yeah." Liam nods.
"Dwyer still at the hospital?" Y/N asked the team.
"Hasn't left her side." Caitlin replied.
"Did you plant the transmitter?" Cisco asked.
"Yeah, we sure did." Liam said.
Y/N smiles and Barry looks at them, "Let's go get Cicada."
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Orlin Dwyer was inside Grace's room and the team was getting positioned. Iris, Caitlin and Sherloque were inside the Star Labs van. Ethan was across the room from Grace's room in his Artemis suit. The speedsters were standing outside the hospital as they were waiting for Ethan's signal.
Ethan fixes his hood before walking out the room and standing at the doorway of Grace's room. Orlin's back to him, the archer whistled and the man glanced over his shoulder to see him. Ethan saluts him and nods outside the place before two streaks of lightning pass by the window.
Orlin gets on his feet as the archer quickly makes his way out, the meta rushes out to see Ethan make a turn. He walked back inside the room to pick up his dagger and costume before rushing out of the hospital.
Artemis walks out of the hospital not being seen by the doctors and nurses. He meets up with the speedsters and nods before speaking through the coms to the others, "Get ready."
Cicada walks out of the hospital to meet up with the speedsters and archer.
"Cicada." Barry spoke up.
"Is that what you call me?" Cicada says, his dagger in hands as it glows.
"Not all metahumans are responsible for what happened to Grace." Barry tells him.
"Yes, they are." Cicada said, "The destruction they cause, the death, pain."
"Pain and death, it's easy to take it on the world but in the end it'll never get rid of that anger in you." Ethat states, "Your a father, think about what's going to happen to you after this. Think about the little girl in the coma. Grace."
"She's all I think about, Artemis." Cicada tells him, "And I'm making the world safe for her. Every metahuman must go."
"What about you, huh?" Y/N questioned him with a look, "Did you forget your a metahuman, too? Or is dagger completely brainwashed you."
"I know I am, but after you two are gone, I'll join you." Cisco replies, "All five of you. And Artemis, you could walk away."
"This is my family." Ethan states, narrowing his eyes on him, "And your messing with them, you also get me."
"Fine." Cicada says.
Liam, Cisco and Ralph all walk out of their hiding places.
Cicada launches his dagger at Ralph but before he could move, the dagger changed directions on its own. It flew past the speedsters and went straight to the pillar with the transmitter inside, crashing in. Cicada tried to pull it back but it wasn't working, this caused for all the heroes to continue having their powers.
"Not so much fun is it?" Y/N questions.
Barry and Y/N both super speed over to him as Barry punches back before grabbing him again. Y/N takes the chance to punch him in the jaw sending him back to the ground.
"Cisco, now!" Iris said.
Cisco rushes over to pull the dagger out the pillar and Ralph said, "Breach it out of here!"
Vibe opens a breach and throws the dagger inside before it closed behind it. Cicada glares at the group from the ground.
"Gotcha." Ralph tells Cicada.
"Oh, man. You look like you're having a day." Cisco said, looking at Cicada, "Is it 'cause I just threw your dagger into outer space, or 'cause you're just now realizing you didn't kill me."
"Your done Cicada." Liam says.
"I'm not. You stopped nothing." Cicada replies, getting to his feet.
He then roars to the sky as his face starts to glow.
"The satellites tracking the dagger back through the exosphere." Caitlin tells the team.
"Guys, Cicada's recalling the dagger back from space." Iris adds.
They all watch the dagger flying back from the sky as it roughly lands to the ground. A wave of the dagger's powers knocks all heroes back.
Just then Sherloque and Caitlin rush out the van with weapons but Cicada throws the dagger at the two sending them back. The dagger flies back to Cicada's hand as he makes his way over to Electric-Flash.
He was standing above her and she looks at him as he holds up his dagger and said, "This ends now!"
Killer Frost emerges and sees that he was about to kill Y/N but she shouts, "No!"
Everyone looks at her direction and Killer Frost blast back Cicada sending him to a van. Cicada gets up and looks at Killer Frost.
"Let's dance, cricket freak." Killer Frost says.
Cicada only stares at her for a few seconds before flying out the scene.
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"Dwyer's not popping up in facial recognition." Iris tells the team, sitting in front of the computers.
"And there's dark matter traces from his dagger." Cisco adds.
"Well, he won't stay away from his niece for long, and when he returns, we'll be ready." Ralph states.
"Yeah, we will, thanks to Killer Frost." Barry said, glancing at Caitlin.
"How's Killer Frost able to appear?" Liam asked, looking at the dark-blonde.
"She didn't come from dark matter, so I guess she's immune to Cicada's dagger." Caitlin replies and he nods.
"She could be the key to stopping Cicada once and for all." Ethan says.
"Maybe we should check in with her." Ralph suggest walking towards Caitlin.
"What do you think?" Cisco asked her.
"Yeah." Caitlin nods.
The three walk out with Iris and Ethan behind them, Liam smiles and looks over to the desk to notice his journal gone. His expression falls and he quickly walked out, leaving his parents alone.
Barry wraps an arm around the girl and she looks up at him as he smiles at her, "Seems like you two had it handle pretty well. Good job."
Y/N smiles and hums in response as they share a small kiss before giving each other a big hug.
Liam makes his way inside the workshop to see Sherloque sipping tea and sitting in front of the computers.
"Yo, Sherloque." Liam spoke up, digging his hands inside his leather jacket pockets and he looked slightly upset, "I was wondering have you seen my-"
"Journal." Sherloque said, turning around in his seat and holding it up.
"I don't know how things on your Earth work or whatever-" Liam said, walking over to him and snatching his journal back with an upset expression, "-but you don't take things that aren't yours, Sherloque."
"My apologise, mousire Liam." Sherloque said, standing up from his seat as he gestures to his book, "But I couldn't help to notice the composition."
Liam opens up his jornal to show the symbols as he shrugs and looks back at him, "It's nothing."
"But it feels like something." Sherloque said and Liam rose a brow, "I don't like to brag, but I speak a lot of languages and yet that one I don't recognize."
"Time language." Liam replied simply.
"Time language-" Sherloque said, trying to reach for the journal but Liam pulls it back. Sherloque puts his hand down and Liam narrows his eyes on him, the man adding, "-really?"
"Yeah." Liam nods, "I use it to record everything that happens, so regardless if the timeline changes I'll always remember my family."
"Hmm, where does one learn something like that? Time travel school?" Sherloque asked.
"I don't like to brag, but I created it." Liam informs him with a small grin.
"You created it?" Sherloque asked.
"Yeah." Liam nods, crossing his arms over his chest.
"Clever boy." Sherloque said and Liam stares at him, "Again, my apologise."
"No, prob-" Liam said, turning around to leave and he adds, "I guess."
Once he was in the hallway, he makes his way inside the timevault and sits on the ground. Liam looks over to see where Thawne's suit used to be with a glare. He then looks back down at his journal and opens it up, he looks through all the pictures he has there.
One of highschool Y/N and Ethan, the original team Electric-Flash and Lighting Storm. The speedsters wedding, Joe and Cecile, and then he finally stops at one page. It was a picture of Alice and Kaz Harper with wide smiles with baby Y/N.
Liam smiles softly before he gets an idea.
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Liam speeds to the past as he spots the Harper home. He walks over to the house and to the porch, he peeks through the window to see Kaz and Alice with a small Y/N as she was learning how to walk.
The two were smiling widely as the girl stood up on her own and ran over to Alice Harper. Kaz cheers happily and the woman was holding her daughter with a bright smile. Baby Y/N had a smile on her face as she was getting kisses attacks by her father.
Liam smiles at the family as he looked at Alice with a small frown. His mom walked over to him, standing by his side as she looked inside the home with a sad smile.
"God, they were amazing." Y/N said softly, Liam looking at her, "Best parents any kid could ask for."
"Mom― I'm sorry-" Liam starts off.
"Hey, it's okay." Y/N assures him, placing a hand on his shoulder, "I understand."
She looks back inside the home and sighs softly.
"See, I told you not to worry." Alice Harper tells her husband as she had baby Y/N on her lap, "All she needed was some time."
"Yeah, she did." Kaz grins, taking hold of baby Y/N and holding her up with a smile, "My little double trouble is one of kind. Aren't you? Yeah?"
Baby Y/N only giggled making the couple laugh softly.
Liam looks back at his mom to see her looking at her both of her parents with a sad expression. Liam quietly asked, "Do you ever think about stopping it?"
She laughs softly and looks at him, "Yeah. But― but I know now all they will want for me is to live my life. So I do, for them. They were my heroes growing up. Always will be."
"Thanks for bringing me today." Liam tells her, "It meant alot."
"Yeah, well it was a really great adventure." Y/N smiles at him.
He nods with a small smile as she looks back inside the home with a small frown. Liam looks at her sadly before looking back inside the home.
"Okay, I think it's time to set this little one to sleep." Alice coes as she takes hold of the baby girl, "Come on."
The couple turn off the lights in the living room and make their way upstairs with the baby.
Y/N sighs softly and bites the inside of her cheek. Liam looks at her and had a small grin, punching her shoulder playfully as she looks at him.
"Hey, let's not get all mushy, you know how that goes for the Harper's." Liam tells her and she smiles, "How about a run? Unless your afraid of breaking a hip."
Liam smirks before running down the stairs of the home. He glances at her once more, "Come on."
He starts running before speeding down the street.
Y/N scoffed with a grin, "Who the hell does he think he is?"
The girl quickly runs after him, both spending son and mother time.
[EARTH-90]
An explosion happens as all the heroes there were sent back. Most of them were scattered around, not moving at all. A sudden figured gasped as she looks to around to see all her friend around, dead.
She sees one of them moving around with a small groan, she crawls over to him and groans softly. The woman wearing a speedster suit as she removes her mask and approaches him, in this earth she was the Electric-Flash.
"Hey, your going to be okay, all right?" She tells him softly, "We need to get out of here."
The guy only inhales deeply and said, "The book, you need to get the book."
Electric-Flash hesitates before doing so, slowly getting up as she limps on her way over. Although before she could reach it, a figure appears and takes hold of it making her cry.
"You failed." He tells her.
"Why are you doing this?" She asked with as she sniffles.
"You did to yourself, and now, all of you will perish." He states.
He opens the book and a bright light is seen, the speedster pushes through the pain and starts jogging. Pink lightning sparking around her before she fully got her speed back, and like that she speeds away.
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POSTED: JANUARY 7th, 2023