(Cole MacGrath's POV)

My name is Cole MacGrath. A few months ago, I was caught in the middle of an explosion in my hometown of Empire City. After a few weeks spent lying in a coma, I woke up to find I had superpowers. Not long after that, I discovered that a man by the name of Kessler, a version of me from an alternate future, had framed me for the explosion. For two months, I fought against psychotic gangsters, delusional cultists and other people with superpowers called Conduits. Finally, I faced Kessler and learned the truth. He ruined my name, my life and killed the woman I loved to harden me and see that I would be ready to face a threat that had destroyed his world and killed his family. The Beast. A Conduit of immense power and strength.

I was set to meet up with a man who could help me fight the Beast and stop my world from being destroyed when the Beast suddenly appeared in Empire City. I fought him with everything I had but it wasn't enough. Along with my pal Zeke and an agent from the NSA, Lucy Kuo, we traveled south to New Marais to meet Dr. Wolfe, the man who would help me. In New Marais, I got stronger and learned some new tricks as the Beast slowly but surely followed me while I fought with the local militia and a group of artificial Conduits. Finally the Beast was in New Marais and with Wolfe's Ray Field Inhibitor, I faced the Beast one last time.

I surged as much energy into the RFI as I could. The pain was unbearable. It was like every part of me was on fire. Then as suddenly as it all started, the pain stopped. I opened my eyes and looked around, finding myself in the middle of a black void. "Your job's not over, Cole. But you're definitely not ready," came the voice of Kessler from every direction. "You need more time. It's time for a new life, Cole." All at once, I was no longer floating in the black void and the RFI wasn't in my hands. I felt wind rushing past my face and looked down to see I was falling face first to a city that definitely wasn't New Marais down below. I tried activating my Static Thrusters, but my energy was drained from turning on the RFI. Good thing a fall like this wouldn't kill me. I had just passed the roof of a building before I managed to latch onto a ledge and sighed before climbing back up and bringing myself to the roof.

I looked around, trying to place where the hell I was. I turned on my phone in its holster on my pack and dialed Zeke only to be answered by an old lady. I hung up and looked at my phone. I hit speed dial, I know I did. Zeke was pretty much the only contact I had. I put my phone back in place before I noticed something in an alley below me. Someone in a red onesie moving at high speeds fighting a fucking samurai of all things. The red guy was thrown into the side of a dumpster and the samurai got ready for an attack. I drained a nearby fuse box, jumped down and started a Thunder Drop, bringing the attention of the samurai to me. The guy in red sped away as I came down and unleashed a shockwave of lightning, knocking the samurai off his feet. "I think you're in the wrong point in time, man." I watched as the samurai stood up, sparks seeming to come from its body.

"Who are you," it asked, katanas drawn as he faced me. I pulled out my Amp and grinned as I extended it and surged lightning through it.

"Your match." The samurai ran forward and swung for my head. I dodged under it and rolled behind him before slamming the Amp into his back. I hit him once more before latching the Amp onto his neck and lifting him over me before slamming him into the ground. I kicked him away from me and into the dumpster. I pulsed to drain more energy to send an Alpha Missile at him when I felt the electronics in his body. I chuckled before planting my foot on his chest, keeping him down as the red guy came back and I drained him before getting off of him and picking up one of the katanas. "Nice souvenir."

"What did you do to him," asked the red guy.

"Its not a him." I knelt down and removed the face mask, revealing a cybernetic head. "It's a fucking robot."

"What the hell?"

"Wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't felt the electricity in him myself. Thought something was off when he was sparking all over the place after that Thunder Drop. You ok?"

"Yeah. Thanks for the help."

"Don't mention it." I knelt down and pulsed again to make sure it was fully drained and felt a secondary power source. I placed the Amp on its face and surged to overload whatever was still running in it and stood up. "Thing should be dead now."

"Can it technically be considered dead? I mean, it's a robot." I kicked it in the abdomen and looked at him with a shrug.

"Seems dead to me." I leaned against a wall. "So, who the hell are you supposed to be?"

"You're kidding right?" He gestured to his onesie, specifically to the lightning bolt on his chest.

"That supposed to mean something, Speedy?" His shoulders slumped as looked at me.

"Come on, man. Speedy's not even a guy."

"Alright then, tell me who you are."

"I'm the Flash." I stared at him as he looked at me expectantly.

"No idea who you are." He deflated slightly before looking at me.

"Why don't you tell me who you are."

"Guess you're as clueless about me as I am about you."

"Should I know who you are?"

"Most people either flock to thank me or run at the very sight of me. You're doing neither, which means either you've been living under a rock, or I'm a long way from home."

"How long?"

"Don't know for sure." I looked out at the street before looking at him. "Ever hear of a city called New Marais?"

"No. Should I have?"

"Empire City?" He shook his head. I chuckled coldly. "Oh, that's just wonderful."

"What is?"

"You got a place I can crash at? This is gonna take some explaining."

"Uh… what?" I noticed his hand move slightly to his ear. Probably had an earpiece under that cowl he was wearing. "Uh… just hold on." I looked at the katana and grinned as I put the Amp back in its place and swung the sword around as I channeled electricity through it.

"Take your time talking to whoever you need to, man. You know how often I've wanted to own an actual katana?" I swung it around like I would the amp and stabbed it through the robot's head before flicking it off. "Oh yeah. I'm keeping this."

"Hey, that's evidence!"

"Evidence? Has this thing killed anyone? Threatened anyone? Or just attacked you?"

"He caused a lot of injuries to the police last night."

"Oh, come on! It's not even moving. You can just say it didn't have a second one out when you encountered it." I picked up the sheathe from the robots back and put the katana in it before slinging it next to the Amp. I looked at him. "Got a place or am I gonna have to find another place to hide me from the rain?"

"Just… hold on." He grabbed my shoulder and took off. We made it about five blocks before my body instinctively drained the lightning that he was generating with his speed and we slowed down until he looked at me and saw my arms sparking with his yellow lightning. "What the hell?"

"Sorry. Body kind of does that on its own when getting struck. I'll try and control it."

"See that you do, man. I don't like going slow." I controlled the drain and this time we sped off like he meant to. Within a second we were in what looked like a science lab. I looked around and spotted a few people in the room.

"These your friends?"

"Yeah."

"You're the one that killed that android samurai," asked a guy with long hair.

"Yeah. Took his sword, too." I slung it off and unsheathed it before channeling lightning through it with a grin.

"You can generate lightning?"

"Generate it, drain it, convert it, throw it. I can do it all."

"Who are you?"

"Name's Cole MacGrath. Don't suppose any of you have heard of me?" I saw each of them shake their heads. "Figures. Dammit, Kessler."

"Who's Kessler," asked a woman with long brown hair.

"You want the short version, or the long version?"

"How long could your story be," asked the Flash.

"You're gonna want to sit down. This is gonna take some time to explain."

(Caitlin's POV)

When Cole was finished telling us his story, I couldn't help but feel sorry for him. His life had been changed so much in so little time and he'd lost so much. And he doesn't even know if the Beast was stopped. It didn't take a genius to tell Cole was from another Earth. Only problem was to see which Earth he was from. "I'm sorry you had to go through all of that," I told him. He gave me a reassuring nod before looking at all of us.

"So I take it," he said. "The idea of alternate universes isn't a stretch for you?"

"Not really," said Cisco. "We've actually been to Earth 2 a number of times."

"Earth 2?"

"The version of Earth closest to this one," I said.

"Got it. Since you guys are the experts compared to me, you mind helping me get home?"

"That shouldn't be a problem. We just need to figure out where your home is."

"And how do we do that?"

"Well, each Earth has their own vibrational frequency," said Cisco. "We just need to see which universe you're from by seeing how your molecules vibrate then I can Vibe you home."

"This won't hurt will it?"

"It won't," I reassured him. He gave me a quick smile before standing up.

"Alright. Do what you need to do, then." I nodded and me and Cisco got to work on scanning Cole. He turned to me as we started working. "What's your name, by the way?"

"I'm Caitlin." I shook his hand. "That's Cisco, Iris and her brother, Wally, and father, Joe." Wally removed his cowl and shook Cole's hand.

"I take it you're all a team?"

"Yeah," said Iris. "Together, we keep Central City safe."

"From anything other than robotic samurai?"

"More than that," said Cisco. "We help stop Metahumans from wreaking havoc in the city."

"What's a Metahuman?"

"I think," I started. "Your closest equivalent is Conduit based on your story. Though our powers seem to manifest differently than yours."

"Yeah, that's a give in. I'd been brushing up on Conduits back in New Marais. None of them can move as fast as Wally. Even the Ice Freaks were only about twice as fast as a running back."

"You've got football on your Earth," asked Wally.

"It think it's a standard if there's a US."

"That and the Godfather, apparently," said Cisco.

"Oh, now that's a classic."

"We really should be thanking you, by the way. With the Samu-roid, boom, first try, no longer threatening the city, we can focus on helping our friend Barry, that's the real Flash, by the way."

"And what's wrong with your friend?"

"That's…"

"Also a long story," said Iris.

"Well," said Cole. "Until Cisco figures out where to send me, I've got time. Go on. Tell me your story." So we told him. Everything from the Particle Accelerator explosion to Thawne, Zoom and Savitar. When we told him about Barry having just returned today, Cole turned to us from his pacing. "So your friend is back? What's wrong with him?"

"We were getting to that," said Cisco. "When he was found and brought to the police department, he… wasn't himself. The things he was saying were random, jumbled words and his mind started to drift off to something else at the mere mention of a word."

"And he was writing these strange things on the walls," said Joe.

"Let me see."

"What," asked Cisco. "You think you can decipher it?"

"Hell no. But Trish studied cryptography in college before starting medical training. I think I can help at least start the deciphering process."

"I got pictures of them," said Joe before holding his phone out for Cole. Cole backed away slightly.

"Uh, you're gonna have to put them up on a screen nearby. I touch your phone and I'll short circuit it."

"Uh… Cisco, you mind?"

"On it." Cisco took the phone and downloaded the image onto his computers before showing it on a screen nearby. Cole looked at it for a moment. "Anything coming to mind?"

"Well, one of the things Trish did was sync things up to different lettering systems. English, Spanish, Greek, Sanskrit, whatever she could until the letters could match up properly." Cisco bopped his head.

"Greek? Duh! I've been using a monosymbolic alphabet instead of a multi. Dammit…" Cisco left the room and Cole turned to us.

"Mind if I take a look at the guy? I think I can be of some help. Maybe."

"What can you do," asked Iris. Cole's answer was to simply spark up his hands. We looked at him skeptically before Iris, desperate to get her fiancé back to normal, led him to where we had Barry sedated. I followed them and Iris showed Barry to the electrokinetic. "What are you gonna do?"

"Don't know if it'll work but bear with me." Cole sparked up his hands and laid them on Barry's chest. All at once, the lightning passed over Barry and around Iris and I and Cole started absorbing some of Barry's Speed Force energy before he backed away, his arms sparking with yellow tinged energy. Cole shook his head from the feedback of dark matter energy flowing into him before chuckling. "Well that was new."

"Barry?" Iris went to her fiancé as he groaned, and I turned to Cole.

"Are you ok," I asked him.

"Yeah," he said. "Got a bit of a charge from that. Feels different than normal."

"That would be the Speed Force. It's how Barry and Wally draw their speed. It's an energy that seems to be powered by dark matter."

"Guess that's why it feels differently than I'm used to. But lightning is lightning."

"I think you should rethink that statement. We don't know if this will have an adverse effect on your powers."

"You've got a place to train, right? While I'm waiting for Cisco's program to work, I can just practice there. But I may need a generator or two."

"Actually, I think I can help with that." I turned to Barry as he stood up and looked at us.

"Where's Cisco," he asked. "And why do I have a massive headache?"

"That'd be my fault, bud," said Cole. "Kinda drained some of your… what was it?" He turned to me.

"Speed Force energy," I said. Cole snapped and pointed at me with a smile.

"Uh," said Barry. "Who are you?"

(Elsewhere in Central City)

Clifford Devoe stared at the man covered in lightning from the still image of his android's final moments before it was completely deactivated, much to his anger and surprise. He had the knowledge of the multiverse at his very disposal. Why couldn't he have predicted this man?! This electrokinetic was in none of his predictions! Who was he?! And how much would things change from his predicted path because of him?!