I widen my eyes as I stared at the breach literally in the middle of the room. "Pretty amazing, isn't it?" Barry asks as I see the blue portal swirl. "Fifty-two breaches in Central City." he says and I turn to him my eyes still holding their shocked reaction. "I'm sorry, fifty-two?" I ask in shock and Barry looks over to me with a nod. "And the biggest one just happens to be in our basement." Barry says and I look back at the breach. "We need a name for it." Cisco says and I look over to him with narrowed eyes. "It's not a pet, Cisco." Caitlin tells him and I nod in agreement. "No, it's a wormhole." I hear Professor Stein say and I turn to the doorway with wide eyes. "Professor Stein, what are you doing?" I ask him as we both walk over to him. When we found out about the breaches, or mainly Barry, Cisco, Caitlin, Jay, and Professor Stein because I was asleep, Professor Stein had passed out for an unknown reason, so he needed to rest and take it easy until we knew the cause. "Your blood pressure is 147 over 82. You could pass out again." Caitlin tells him and I nod in agreement.
"It's merely a few points above the 140 average for someone my age. Besides, I have some ideas I would like to contribute to this discussion, Dr. Snow and Ms. Gomez." he says to us.
"And I wanna hear them. This isn't just a wormhole. It's my way home." Jay says looking at the breach.
"Back to Earth-Two." Caitlin says.
"Jay, you really think that we can use this as some kind of bridge from your world to ours?" Barry asks him.
"Zoom uses the breaches. Why can't we?" Jay asks.
"Well, we don't know how. Everything I put through just bounces back." Cisco says.
"If Zoom's using these breaches to transport people from Earth-Two, maybe it takes a speedster." Barry says.
"Please don't tell me that you're doing what I think you're doing." I say.
Barry speeds to the other end of the room and I sigh in disappointment, "He's doing it." I say and Caitlin nods. Barry speeds into the portal, but bounces back and falls to the ground rolling to the edge of the steps. "Maybe I'm not fast enough." Barry says on the ground looking at us and I just glare at him. "Pendejo! I told you not to do that again!" I yell at him as I walk over and help him up. "I don't believe your speed is the entirety of the issue, Barry. It might be the breach's stability or lack thereof." Professor Stein says. "He's right. We need to think of the breach as a door. And on Earth-Two there's another door. In between we have a hallway. But the hallway's constantly shifting, twisting, collapsing upon itself." Jay says in a way I could understand. "And the doors keep moving with it." Barry says wrapping his arms around me as we stare at the breach again. "So we stabilize the door, we stabilize the hallway." Cisco says. "And then I can jump through it." Barry says pointing at Cisco. "Exactly. It would serve as a kind of cannon. A speed cannon." Jay says and I look at him with a glare. "You really had to go there?" I ask him and he looks at me in confusion as I point at Cisco.
"We should hangout more." he says and I nod at Jay.
"Thank you for giving him the name." I say with a fake smile.
"Alright. No more tests today. All of you are leaving now. As am I. Cherish the gift of youth as I will go cherish my much-needed nap. Clarissa's already on her way to pick me up." Professor Stein says.
"Jitters?" Barry asks and I nod.
"I'm in!" Cisco says. "Caitlin?"
"Sure. Why not?" she says and I smile.
*~*~
I was at a table with Caitlin, Cisco, and Iris, who tagged along after we bumped into her at the entrance, as Barry ordered our drinks. I look over to Barry with the drinks only to see him talk to Patty. "I'll be back. I'm gonna go help Barry." I say to the three and they nod as I start to walk over to them. "Hey, Bar. Need help?" I ask him and he smiles at me. "Yeah." he says and I grab two mugs that were in his hand. "Who's this?" I ask Barry looking over to Patty, but I had to act like I didn't know her since she didn't know Tori, but she knew Hummingbird. "Tori, this is Patty. Patty, Tori." Barry says introducing us and she holds out a hand making me move one of the mugs to the other hand. "It's nice to meet you. You must be Barry's girlfriend." she says and I nod. "You're right. It's nice to meet you Patty. Barry actually told me that you wanted to join Joe's meta-human task force." I say and she nods. "Yeah, I'm actually a part of it now. It sounded really interesting and I'm all about stopping those metas. Not the Flash and Hummingbird though." she says and I nod. "You gonna stick around to celebrate?" Barry asks her. "I don't think I should. I gotta head in to work." Patty says and I nod. "Oh, well, ok. See ya around, Patty." I say to her and she nods as she waves goodbye.
"Alright. Five "Flashes" Be careful, apparently they are super-caffeinated." Barry says and I look at him with a raised brow.
"Wow. You have a drink named after you." I say in a whisper and he nods as we both take a sip.
"I know. First, I have a day named after me, now I have a drink." he says and I laugh.
"Well, all the things you do, rebuilding this place, protecting people, everyone's appreciative, right?" Iris says.
"Mmm-hmm. I'll drink to that." Cisco says and I laugh as we all clink our mugs and take a sip.
"I wish that'd happen to me. But I'm not the one who saved Central City from a black hole." I say and I feel Barry wrap an arm around my waist.
"No, but you help me a lot. That's all that matters." he says and I look up at him.
"I guess that counts." I say and he kisses me.
"Ok, don't be so romantic right now. You two are making me sick." Iris says and I laugh at her.
"Hey, you guys think Professor Stein is ok, right? I mean, Clarissa would call if there was anything wrong?" Caitlin asks.
"Yeah." Iris and I say together.
"Alright. I'm just gonna call and check in. I'll be back." Caitlin says walking away.
"I don't see that call going well." Barry says and we all laugh.
"Young lady, these repeated intrusions are interrupting what should be a speedy... Oh! I'm sorry." Cisco says as he stops imitating Stein for a moment to apologize to a woman he bumped into.
She turns and I realize that it was Lisa Snart, "Don't apologize. You can bump into me any day, Cisco" she replies to him and Cisco just freezes in his place as Barry and I take a sip of our coffees. "Huh. Lisa Snart. You here to double-cross us again or are you and your big bro holding up coffee shops now?" Cisco asks her. "I need your help." she says and Cisco just scoffs in disbelief. "In your dreams, Sister Cold. You know, I could call the Flash and Hummingbird, they'd be here in, like, two seconds. Probably one." Cisco says and I glare at him. "Yeah. Keep going and watch me kick your ass later for doing this to us." I say to him. "Call them." Lisa says and I grab Barry's hand, squeezing it tightly to refrain from doing anything I'd regret. "Oh! Ok. Imma call 'em. Mmm-hmm." he says starting to type on his phone and I look at Cisco. "You really want me to call The Flash and Hummingbird?" Cisco asks her. "I need their help, too. My brother's been kidnapped." she responds and I widen my eyes and look at Barry.
Barry and I leave Jitters after Lisa had left with Cisco and Barry sped us back to S.T.A.R. Labs and I dashed into the suit room to get into my suit. Soon, Cisco comes back with Lisa and we talk to her. She eventually tells us the same thing she said back at Jitters and I look at Barry. "Alright, so you really want us to just believe that Captain Cold was kidnapped?" Barry asks her and I put my hand on my hip as I look back at Lisa. "I saw it happen. Last night, Lenny, me, and Mick were knocking over the cashier's cage at Central City Racetrack." Lisa says and I raise a brow at her. "Does it physically pain your family not to rob people?" Caitlin asks. "I never finished the job. Well, after Mick torched through the side entrance, I looked back for Lenny, and saw him getting thrown into the back of a van." she says. "And why didn't you and Mick follow?" I ask her confused just a bit. "I would have. Someone hit me from behind and knocked me out. When I came to, Lenny was gone and Mick already made off with the cash." Lisa says.
"How do we know this isn't some kind of a trap?" Caitlin asks and I couldn't argue with that knowing that it might be true.
"If Lenny wanted Flash dead, he would've let Mardon, Simmons, and Bivolo take that honor, remember?" she says.
"Yeah. I remember that night. That was the night you gave me a bump on my head." I said rubbing the spot she hit.
"Good. Then you'll also recall that you owe Lenny a favor for saving your life. Time to make good on that debt, Flash." she says.
"I do not like her." Caitlin says and I nod in agreement as I glared at Lisa.
"Yeah, but she makes a point." Cisco says and Caitlin and I glare at him. "What? We should at least hear her out. Right?"
"Is that team Flash Cisco talking, or having-feelings-for-Lisa Cisco? " I ask him telepathically and he just looks down.
"Even if we wanted to help, how are we supposed to find him?" Barry asks her.
"Not a problem." Cisco says and we turn to him as he walks over to the computer. "See, when I rebuilt the cold gun, I didn't have time to place a tracker on it. So I devised a method of locating it by borrowing some military technology. See, the gun works the same as thermal imaging, only instead of infrared heat signatures, it's looking for ultraviolet cold signatures." Cisco says and the computer suddenly beeps. "Whoa, look at that. The gun's UV thermal reading was last picked up at 5th and Hoyt. 8 minutes ago."
"Alright. Let's see if you're a liar." Barry says and he picks me up bridal style and speeds us to the place.
When we get there, he puts me down and I look around for Snart. "I could've taken my bike you know?" I say to him as he looks around too. "We wouldn't have had time." he replies and I roll my eyes. I hear something move to my left and Barry speeds us over there and that's when I spot him. "Snart." I call him in a whisper manner and he looks over to us. "Barry. Tori." he calls us and I look at him. "Are you ok?" Barry asks him, but Snart just shrugs. "Peachy." he says and I look at him confusingly. "Ok. Well, uh... We're supposed to be here to rescue you." I tell him as Snart walks away and we follow him. "That's not necessary. You can speed along now with your boyfriend." he tells me and I roll my eyes at him. "Look, Snart, if these guys are making you do this..." Barry was suddenly cut off. "No one makes me do anything." he says and I look at him confusingly. "Then why does your sister think you've been kidnapped?" I ask him and I suddenly hear the door close. I hear Snart power his cold gun up and I put a force field around me as he shoots at Barry freezing him in his place. "Why did you do that?" I ask Snart angrily as I take my force field down. Snart walks over to me trying to hit me with his gun, but I block it and take out one of the batons shocking him with it and he screams in pain. "What's taking so long?" I hear a man say and I turn to see a bald headed man walk out distracting me giving Snart the upper hand to attack me. He hits me with his gun and I fall to the ground and black out.