18.0 keystone
"Okay, you guys. I'm here," Barry says through the comms. "You got my location?"
"You're good?" Cisco asks. "You don't need to, like, stretch or something?"
"No, no, no, I'm good, I'm good," Barry responds.
"Let's take this tachyon enhancer out for a test drive," Cisco says.
"All right. Hoo, yeah. I feel that," Barry says putting on the enhanced.
"That is the tachyon device powering up the Speed Force in your cells like a quick charge battery," Caitlin says. "How do you feel?"
"Different."
"Let's see how long it takes you to get back here. On my count," Cisco starts. "Three, two, one. Go!"
We see Barry take off and Cisco says, "Dang, this thing got you cruising."
"How fast does he normally go?" Iris asks.
"Not this fast," I say.
"Not even close. Are his vitals okay?" Cisco asks.
"Yeah, they're perfect," Caitlin answers.
"Cool. It's like having a pit-stop attached to your chest," Iris says.
"Guys, I can go faster," He says.
Me and Cisco share a smile as we say, "Do it."
He soon lands in front of us and takes off his mask, saying, "I'm back. What... how long was I gone?"
"Let's put it this way, you just annihilated your old record," Cisco says.
"Yeah, you went four times faster than you have ever been," Caitlin says.
"Four times?" Barry asks. "That's as..."
"Fast as Zoom," Harry says. "Well, faster actually."
"Hey, uh, do we think that, um, we can get this thing smaller?" Barry asks Harry. "It kind of sucks."
"If it sucks, then, yeah," Harry says, grabbing the enhancer.
"All right, so now all we have to do is figure out how to get back to Zoom," Barry says.
"Yes, uh, just a minor issue," Cisco says. "We closed all the breaches and have no idea how to reopen them."
"We don't... Um, Wells?" Barry asks.
"Yeah, I have an idea, Allen. Let's keep the breaches closed forever. Forget about the breaches. Forget about Zoom," Harry says.
"Wait, I'm sorry, I thought that you were on board with this," Barry says.
"No. No. I said I would help you get faster. I did not say I would help you give the man who kidnapped my daughter and tortured her a chance to do it again," Harry says.
"Hey, we are not gonna let that happen," Iris says.
"Oh, you're not gonna let that happen. Gosh, I wish I'd known that the first time. You don't understand Zoom is different than us. Zoom is not tied to anything. Zoom does not care for anyone. I do," He says. "My daughter's out here on this Earth somewhere. I have to find her. We all have people that we care about. Zoom will use that against us. Believe me."
"Maybe we should just leave it be," Caitlin says.
"No, no. Look, no. Look, we're... We're not turning our backs on another Earth. We're not gonna let Zoom get away with everything that he's done," Barry says.
"Right now, there is no way to another Earth, Allen," Harry tells him, "Let's keep it that way."
When Harry leaves, Barry says, "We're getting back to Earth-2. With or without his help."
"Let's go to work," Cisco says as Caitlin and him walk out.
When Iris is about to leave, Barry stops her. "Hey, where are you going?" He asks. "We could use your help."
"Uh, yeah, I would. It's just I have a date with Scott," She says.
"Ooh. The editor?" I ask.
"Yeah, yeah," She nods.
"Oh, he is cute, good job," I say bringing up my hand towards her, which she high-fives with a chuckle.
Barry clears his throat loudly and I turn to look at him. He looks at me with a raised brow. "Of course, he's not as cute as you sweetie," I say, kissing him on the cheek.
He smiles as I then say, "I gotta go. I'll see you guys." I walk out, heading in the same direction as Harry.
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"Hey!" Barry says walking in with a pizza from Keystone.
"Hey," I say, getting up. He hands me the pizza as I set it down on the table. "Ugh, I love it when we have you train in Keystone."
He chuckles. "You and Joe are Keystone pizza addicts," He says, walking over to me.
"Well, maybe we should start going to meetings," I say with a smile, and lean forwards to give him a kiss.
He kisses me softly before pulling away. He goes to grab two plates as I grab two beers. He hands me a plate as I hand him a beer and then, we sit down at the table grabbing a slice of pizza each. As I take a sip of my beer, I get a notification and quickly put down the beer to look at me phone.
My expression drops when it's a weather alert and I put the phone down sadly.
"Hey, you okay?" Barry asks.
"Yeah," I sigh looking at him. "I was kinda just hoping it was Carter."
"Carter?" He asks, confused.
"Carter Hall?" I specify as he then nods in recognition. "He was supposed to help me with my powers... I just have to find him."
"Don't worry," He says. "You'll find him... I'll help."
"No, you need to focus on Zoom," I tell him. "I hate that I can't help much on it, but I don't want you losing focus because of me either."
"I'm not- I'm not losing focus," Barry tells me. "I'm just dividing them. Plus, we have so many hands working on Zoom."
"And we need you completely focused on Zoom if we ever wanna beat him," I say. "I'll be right here afterwards."
"But I-" He cuts off when I give him a look. He sighs in defeat. "Fine."
"Thank you," I say. "Now eat."
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"Hey. Wow," Barry says as we walk into S.T.A.R. Labs after our dinner. We look to see Cisco leaning against the board, holding it from the top. "Um, any ideas?"
"Well, the best plan we've come up with so far is to set off a nuclear warhead next to the city's electrical grid, so..." Cisco trails off.
"We're not gonna do that," I say.
"Um..." Barry trails off. "I think we thought of something though."