𝐉𝐎𝐋𝐓 - caitlin snow

45. Dreamy But Still Screamy

Anna sat in the Speed lab, a cup right next to her. The cup was filled to the brim in ice cubes. She had been staring at it for hours, partially depressed, but getting through it. Suddenly, an alarm rang.

She got up slowly, walking at a normal pace into the cortex, where everyone was gathering.

"DeVoe?"

"Uh, satellite's picking up three different pocket dimensions opening in Key Stone. Let's each..." Barry paused as he looked at Caitlin. "All right, you and me, Anna, let's go."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, wait. They all just closed." Iris called them back.

"What?"

"Huh. Wrong coordinates? Maybe he made a mistake." Cisco questioned.

"He doesn't make mistakes. He must want something in Keystone."

"Tracy Brand's lab. He's going after Fal Fut."

"All right, call Tracy. Tell her we're coming for Borman, okay?" Barry instructed.

"Wait, and gonna do what?"

"Just to take him somewhere else." Barry said.

"Well, we can't take him here. We can't even contain his fallout." Cisco added.

"Tracy's barely been able to contain his powers as is."

"Yeah, the guy's a nuclear explosion waiting to go off. And I don't know about you, but I... I've had my fill of nuclear bombs this year." Cisco admitted.

"But if we can cool him down, we can get him somewhere safe."

"What about Snart's cold gun?" Iris suggested.

"I mean, I have a prototype, but to modify it to our needs, that would take at least a day." Cisco said. Anna rubbed her eyes in aspiration.

"We don't have that kind of time. DeVoe's coming for him."

"DeVoe has known our every move. I mean, we've gotta do something that he hasn't accounted for." Iris said.

"How are we supposed to find a way to cool down Borman and take him somewhere DeVoe won't know about with a plan he won't see coming?" Cisco questioned.

"Call Lyla. See if A.R.G.U.S. has anything off the grid." Barry instructed.

"Okay, but even if they do, I mean, what are we going to do about the other two problems?" Iris questioned.

"So, you're trying to stop a guy who thinks he's smarter than everyone and his true-believer lover, who are hell-bent on achieving their evil machinations at any cost. Well, it's right up my alley." Earth-2 Snart questioned.

"Except DeVoe actually is smarter than everyone. He created 12 meta-humans just so he could steal their powers." Barry explained. "And he left everybody dead in the process."

"Including Ralph Dibny, who was a team member of ours."

"I'm sorry. That's rough."

"All these deaths have been rough. We can't dwell on it right now. You know, we have to focus so DeVoe doesn't know what we're doing and we have a shot at saving Borman." Barry added.

"Which is why we came to you."

"Oh, I see, and I'm just outside the box enough to catch DeVoe off-guard." Snart assumed.

"That, and we need your cold gun."

Snart held it protectivly."Oh? For what?"

"We've been working on modifying a radiation hazmat suit to regulate his internal temperature to keep his core from raising to the point of detonation during transport." Caitlin motioned to the screen. "Your cold gun would be our backup."