- A fight looms for The Flash and team; Iris discovers the cause of her time sickness.
- Team Flash prepare for the battle of their lives as they realize who they're up against. The nature of Iris' time sickness is revealed, as the Forces prepare to bring back an old foe to face Flash. Meanwhile, Meena gets a handle on her speed, and shares it with Eobard.—Gislef
- Central City - 2049
Nora and Bart are playing a virtual reality game in their apartment, and Nora beats Bart despite never having played. Iris calls and she tells Nora that she wants her to do a follow-up piece. Iris disappears from the hologram in a burst of temporal energy, and the Iris from 2021 appears in the apartment.
Iris sits down with her children and tells them that she got lost in the timestream. She wants to talk to Barry, but Bart and Iris explain that he's off-plane with Jay. Nora tries to take Iris back to 2021, but they run into a Still Force barrier and figure that Deon is keeping Iris in 2049. Iris clutches at her head and then says that the pain is gone.
2021.
Flash, Eobard, and Chester, at Fast Track Labs, monitor Meena as she puts on a Fast Track costume and Flash explains that the suit lets them monitor Fast Track's vitals. The speedster assures fast Track that he'll be with her every step of the way. Fast Track gets on a treadmill, and Eobard monitors her speed as she runs. She pushes herself too hard, then flies off the treadmill and slams into the wall behind her. Eobard goes to her, and Meena insists that she's fine. When Eobard warns her that sped healing doesn't make her invincible, Meena snaps at him, then apologizes and admits that he's right. Meena worries that she's a disaster and speeds off, and Flash says he he'll talk to her and goes after Meena.
Meena stops in an alley and berates herself. Flash arrives and Meena apologizes for what he's done for her, but figures she isn't ready. She wonders how she can be a hero, and Flash tells her that she has what it takes. Meena tells Flash that she'll never be the person he is. Barry removes his mask and Meena is surprised that he's so "ordinary". He tells her that she'd be surprised at the capacity of people to rise up to face a crisis, and Meena will be surprised at her own capacity. However, she has to give herself a chance. Meena agrees to give it a shot, and Barry dubs her "Fast Track" and speeds off. After a few moments, Meena goes after him.
On Lian Yu, Thawne tells Deon to start fulfilling Thawne's destiny and giving him his speed back. Deon tells Thawne that he'll get everything he'll deserve, and Thawne wonders what it's going to cost him. The Still Force says that it will cost Thawne his life, and snaps his fingers. Thawne is enveloped in temporal energy and ages to death, and Deon smiles in satisfaction.
When Chester detects the temporal energy, Barry speeds to Lian Yu and finds Thawne's aged corpse. He tells Chester and Allegra over the comms what he's found, and Flash figures that Iris' temporal sickness is affected Deon's mind. With Deon's ability to travel through time, he could pop up anywhere.
At the West house, Cecile admits to Joe that she lied to him and was out patrolling the previous night. She says that he doesn't have to worry about her, because she can not only induce emotions but vertigo. Cecile senses Rosa at the door, and lets her in. Rosa accuses Cecile of stealing her powers, and demands them back. She got a mental image of Cecile in her mind, and tailed Cecile there. Cecile suggests that now she can somehow tap into the powers of any psychic nearby, and she was near where Rosa lives when she took down the mugger. Rosa isn't impressed, pointing out her powers haven't returned. Joe tells Cecile that she has to test her powers, and calls Singh to get access to a meta imprisoned at Iron Heights.
At STAR Labs in 2029, Iris and her children go to Joan Williams for consultation. Joan confirms that Iris has negative tachyons in her body, and they're multiplying and Iris' body can't withstand the strain forever. Iris clutches at her head, and then says that she saw the Forces but they were different. Joan suggests that Iris is having temporal vision, and Nora says that she'll go to 2022 and get help from Barry, while the other stays with Iris and keep her safe.
In 2022, Meena continue training. Eobard warns that she's pushing herself too hard. Deon, Psych, and Fuerza appear and Psych says that they're to kill Eobard. Meena tells them to get out and dons her Fast Track mask to go with the rest of the costume, and the Forces refuse to go. Deon says that they're there to kill Eobard so he can fulfill his purpose. He prepares to snap his fingers and says that he'll make it fast. Fast Track tries to speed Eobard out, and Deon stops time around them.
Deon tells Eobard that he's out of time, and Psych senses Flash and tells Deon that the hero is coming. Deon freezes Flash in time as he speeds in, Flash releases Speed Force energy, stunning the Forces, and freeing Fast Track and Eobard. The speedster says that he's feeling weak, like when Meena attack him at the dam. The Forces recover and Deon says that there's only room for one set of Forces in the universe. and they're the negatives of the other ones and tired of sharing. They say that the normal Forces are out of commission.
Eobard wonders what it has to do with them, and Fuerza tells him that he's not the Avatar and his being there makes them weak. Deon says that Flash has to pay for what he did, and teleports him and his comrades away. Flash collapses in exhaustion, and Chester tells the others over the comms to bring Flash to the lab, where Nora is waiting.
At Caitlin's apartment, Caitlin tells Mark that she'll never stop trying to bring Frost back. Caitlin enters the pod Mark built, planning to reactive Frost's voice in her head. Mark closes the pod and activates the device, and iced air fills the pod.
When the others return to STAR Labs, Nora tells them that Iris' tachyons won't let her travel though time. Nora points out that there was no Negative Nora, and Barry figures that his severing Thawne's connection to the Negative Speed Force erased Negative Nora, and that's what Deon says he had to "pay" for. Allegra figures that the Negative Forces want to weaken the Forces they know, and Iris's sickness spread to the Positive Forces. If the Negative Forces are the only ones left, it could eliminate every speedster on the planet. Barry tells Nora to go to 2049 and protect Iris, while they deal with the Negative Forces in 2022. Nora reluctantly goes, and Chester wonders how they can fight the Negative Forces which are literally gods.
The three go to the lab and detect the Forces gaining energy on their own planes of existence, and the energy is bleeding through. Barry warns that it's power unlike any they've ever faced, and Cecile is at Iron Heights.
At the prison, Cecile and Rosa meet with Queen, and Cecile removes her meta-dampening cuffs and tells her to try and read Cecile's mind. Queen-Mona--uses her powers but gasps in shock and discovers that her telepathy is down. Cecile realizes that she's taken Mona's powers. She can read the thoughts of everyone in the city, and senses Barry's thoughts about what they're facing. Cecile tells the others that they have to go, and Mona wonders how Cecile can read minds through the meta-dampened walls. Rosa suggests that Cecile is becoming one of the most powerful metas on the planet.
In 2049, Bart and Nora watch over Iris. Joan warns that the tachyons in Iris' body keep multiplying, and she might not survive another attack. She tells Bart and Nora that defeating the Negative Forces is the only way to save Iris' live.
Eobard tells Meena that something is bothering her and asks why she's been pushing herself beyond her limits. Meena says that she told Barry that she can't be a hero like him, and she's worried about letting Eobard down because having superspeed is his dream. She doesn't want to be a speedster, but wants to share meta-powers with the world so people could live fuller lives, and now she's afraid of losing her dream. Eobard tells her that fighting with Flash to save the city is her fulfilling the city, and she's sharing herself with everyone. He says that he couldn't be prouder, and Meena kisses Eobard.
Meena wishes there was a way to give Eobard some of her speed. Barry comes in and says that there is, and that he'll teach Meena how to share her powers and turn Eobard into a speedster.
As energy clouds gather over Central City, the others and Meena enters the BLOC chamber to charge up. Chester confirms that the energy is heading toward them, and Chester, Allegra, and Cecile go out to stall the Negative Forces. Barry has Meena take Eobard's hand, after giving Eobard his Flash ring. Eobard puts it on and Flash assures them that the love they have balance any negative impulses they might have.
The trio confront the Negative Forces as they arrive. Fuerza stomp on the floor, unleashing a shock wave.
Barry talks Meena through transferring some of her speed into Eobard. She starts to glow with speed force.
Cecile uses her enhanced powers to negate Deon's powers. Allegra blasts Psych, who teleports away and taunts her, and she goes after him. Fuerza jumps at Chester, who uses a force field device to imprison her in a sphere of inverse energy that absorbs her strength.
The speed flows into Eobard, who says that he feels alive but there's so much hate and it burns. Barry tells the couple that they have to find a balance.
Psych continues teleporting in and out, and Allegra tries to blast him without success. He tries to scare her and then kill her, and he stops long enough for her to blast him.
Deon and Fuerza start to break free of their respective containments.
Psych teleports away.
Fuerza breaks free, as does Deon. Allegra and Psych return, and Deon sends the trio to the ground with a snap of his finger.
Barry tells Meena that she can be a hero, and she's not alone.
The Negative Forces confront the trio, and Deon tells them that they have to bounce... permanently. Flash arrives and speeds his teammates away, then returns and faces the Negative Forces. He gives them one warning to back off, but the Forces aren't impressed. Fast Track and a costumed Eobard speed up. Flash says that they have to work together, and they speed at the Negative Forces. Jumping to avoid their attacks, Flash takes down Psych and Fuerza. Deon manages to freeze time around Fast Track and Reverse-Flash, slowing them down, but they hit him at superspeed and he teleports away. He teleports behind them and knocks them back.
In 2029, Iris wakes up and she tells the others that it's a new moment in time, because it's happening. Nora figures they have no way how thing will turn out. Iris has a vision of Deon killing Thawne, and realizes the visions aren't random.
In 2022, the two sides regroup and Deon tell Flash that they can't win. Flash accelerated the other two so they can talk privately, and tells them to hold the Forces there. He speeds off while the other two speed around the Forces.
In 2049, Iris says that she has to give in so she can see what's really happening. She does so and realizes that the sacrifice isn't Thawne.
Flash runs up a building then runs down, gaining momentum. He speeds back to the fight and Fast Track and Reverse-Flash get out of the way as Flash unleashes lightning. Deon snaps his fingers, teleporting Iris from 2049 into the path of Flash's lightning. Flash stares in shock as his lightning hits Iris. He removes his mask and stares in shock, as Iris dies.
Barry catches Iris as she falls, and Deon says that Iris won't be the only sacrifice. He teleports himself away, while Iris' body turns into temporal energy and flows into Eobard. He groans in pain, clutches at his head, and rips his body apart to reveal Thawne beneath.
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