52. The Book of Ralph

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"So you're not stuck here." Iris noted.

"No, we're not." Alex admitted.

"So the reverse tachyons in your systems?" Caitlin asked.

"Were put there because of us."

"Are you kidding?" Cisco asked. "You know how many credit card points I just blew trying to get rid of your negative tachyons? I just bought a brand new spectral tachyeometer when I could have my Fiji get away. Not that I have anyone to go with, anymore. I'm not taking you to Fiji, Ralph." Cisco added.

"Why didn't you guys tell us about this before?" Iris asked. Nora held up her wrist band, showing a newspaper from 2040.

"Oh, my God!"

"Barry never returns?" Cecile asked.

"That's why you came here. To see your father, because you were raised without him." Joe noted. "And you brang him along so he could help." He motioned to Alex.

"So what?" Iris asked. "So what that that article says that you never come back. So what if the other one says that you vanished. I mean, it's said other things before, right? We made it say other things before. So whatever the future brings we are gonna deal with it when it gets here. And change it if we need to."

"She has a point. If there's anything Team Flash is good at, it's handing the future its own ass and then some." Cisco said with a smile.

"What he said." Caitlin said.

"Yeah."

"Well, looks like Alex and Nora's are gonna need more training after all." Iris noted.

Jenna cried from the other room. "Oh, okay. She's hungry."

"Yeah, why don't we, uh, all meet back at S.T.A.R. Labs, all right?" Barry started to get up.

"Actually." Alex stopped them. "Me and Nora talked and...I would love to stay, but I don't see my point of being in this spot of the time line anymore. I already have my parents, and my sister in the future, waiting for me." He gave a small smile to Caitlin and Anna.

"Did he say sister?" Anna whispered.

"So, I'm going back to the future."

"Haha, movie quote." Cisco chuckled.








"Time to go?" Anna asked Alex, who was placing his leather jacket back on.

"Yeah. I love you guys." Alex hugged Anna and Caitlin tightly.

"We love you too." Caitlin said.

"We'll see you in a few years." Anna smiled before Alex sped out, and in seconds, he was gone.

"That kid has the personality of you and the features of me." Caitlin noted, tilting her head.











"He..." Cisco started as Caitlin and Anna walked into his workshop.

"Hello there. What are you doing?" Caitlin asked.

"I was just trying to get Anna and Barry's new suits into these rings. Oh, it's... it's tiny." Cisco said fakely.

"Yeah, you weren't watching old holograms of Gypsy."

"Why would I be doing that?"

"Because you miss her."

"We just had something so special. Shouldn't it have work? Of course now it's not so special anymore now she's just rattlin' around inside my head." Cisco noted.

"I'm sorry this is so hard for you. But it's okay that you are still thinking about her."

"Yeah man."

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