My name is Nora West-Allen, the fastest woman alive. When I'm from, 30 years from now, I'm the guardian of Central City. I'm a speedster, just like my dad. People call me XS. Every day, I hope to live up to the legacy of The Flash But I've still got a long way to go.'
Naruto's Home
Everyone was staring at Nora in shock, "You're saying you're our daughter?" Naruto asked causing Nora to nod,
"From the future?" Iris asked
"Named Nora?" Naruto asked softly causing Nora to look at him with a smile
"After your mother." Nora smiled as Naruto nodded slowly
"Anybody need a refill?" Cisco asked downing his glass, "No? Just me? Mm."
Cisco got up and refilled his glass
"Cisco Ramon, always cutting the tension with a joke." Nora said walking forward
"You know our names?" Cisco asked
"Of course. I know all of you. You're Momma Cait, Auntie Lin, Aunt Felicity, Helen Parr, Mama Cecile. Little Auntie Joanna. She's so cute. Big brother Dash, and Aunt Whitney." Nora listed as Dash laughed reaching for her
"Uh, and your nickname is XS?" Whitney asked getting a nod
"Clearly not my doing." Cisco said refilling his empty glass once again
"No, uh, it's a nickname that you gave me when I was a kid, Mom."
"Mom"?" Iris repeated in shock
"You said I did everything in excess. Guess I've always been like that. Overdoing things, getting in way over my head. Like, uh, recently."
"This mistake that you made?" Naruto asked
"Big mistake."
"Which was.." Naruto trailed off
"Helping you save the city by destroying the Uzumaki Labs satellite last night." Nora said sheepishly
"You were the other speedster?" Naruto asked getting a nod
"I just couldn't stop myself from getting involved. But something happened when I did, because now, I can't seem to go fast enough to open up the Speed Force." Nora said
"Par pardon me. Are we talking about actual time travel here?" Helen asked
"Pretty sure we mentioned that." Linda said
"No, nobody said bubkes about time travel." Helen replied before Joanna began to cry
"Shh, shh, shh." Cecile shushed as she began to rock the baby
'Come on, Helen. You're scaring the baby."
"No, no, she's not scared. She just said she's hungry." Cecile said before she looked to the others, "Uh, I just heard her like clear as day! I heard her! I read her mind!
Cecile walked off happy to have powers that can help her be the best mom ever
"I'm sorry. I know how bizarre this must seem, meeting your daughter from the future as an adult. But really, this wasn't my plan at all, but I'm kind of stuck here now, and you're the only people who can help me. So anybody know what to do?" Nora asked
Later, Uzumaki Labs, Speed Lab
Naruto, and Iris watched as Nora raced around the track, "This is so, so weird." Naruto said
"Yeah, I mean, I can't believe that's our daughter up there." Iris smiled looking to Naruto who was frowning, "We're meeting our daughter for the first time, Nate."
"Yeah, but Nora could say the wrong thing or step on the wrong butterfly and screw up the whole timeline. I mean, she could Marty McFly herself out of existence."
"Mm, "Terminator 2," yeah." Iris nodded as Naruto laughed thinking she was joking but saw that she was serious
"No, that's "Back to the" It doesn't matter. Look, we just need to be responsible, all right? I mean, I think we need to find a way to send her home, fast." Naruto said
"Nate, don't you think future us taught our daughter how not to screw with the timeline?" Iris asked before Nora sped ib
"Wow, this Speed Lab sure is archaic, huh?" Nora asked
"You know what, um, just no future talk, all right, please?" Naruto asked
'Right, I don't want to wreck the timeline." Nora nodded before Felicity, Caitlin, and Cisco walked over
"All right, Nora. This is gonna link us up with your biometrics." Caitlin said stabbinga syringe into Nora's finger
"Ow!" Nora said
"And this little scrunchy doohicky is gonna analyze your connection to the, um, uh -" Cisco slurred
" The Speed Force." Naruto said
"The Speed Force. Thank you.' Cisco nodded
"Great. I'll be back in a flash." Nora giggled before she raced off
"And what does it say?" Naruto asked
"A quick analysis of her DNA shows patterns that are similar to both of yours." Felicity said
"I knew it. She's our daughter." Iris smiled
"I know she is, I can sense her chakra." Naruto said before he looked to Caitlin, "What about her being stuck here?"
"Everything's normal. She definitely has Speed Force in her system." Caitlin said
She's just not going fast enough to, uh, open up a time portal, so." Cisco added
"How much champagne did you have?" Caitlin asked
"This is the first opportunity I have to process my breakup with Gypsy, okay? How was I supposed to know that your future daughter was gonna come show up and crash my pity party? How was I supposed to "ancipitate" that?" Cisco said as Naruto and Iris shrugged while he laid down
Naruto's phone vibrated, "Thats Linda, I have to meet Singh at CCPD." he read his text
"Okay." Iris nodded
"Hey, Gideon perform a through analysis of Nora's blood sample." Naruto ordered before he looked to the others, "Okay, I'll hurry back. Keep an eye on her." Naruto said before leaving as Iris looked out to Nora with a smile
CCPD
Naruto and Singh were walking up to his old lab, "We didn't fill the position after Julian passed, so we've been backedup."
"I got it Singh." Naruto smiled patting Singh's shoulder and jogging upstairs before unlocking the door and pushing the door open and saw the pile of boxes, "Damn."
Flickers of lightning appeared around Naruto as he was about to speed through the work when Nora sped in abruptly causing him to scream and turn around at super speed
"Ahh!" Naruto yelled with his arm cocked back
"What you working on?" Nora asked as Maruto sighed and grabbed his chest
"I don't -"
"You are crazy behind." Nora noted looking to the boxes
"Hey, so I thought you were gonna stay at Uzumaki Labs, with, um with your Iris, mom. Your mom." Naruto said
"You know I'm a forensic scientist too? CCU grad, just like you. 5.6 GPA." Nora said as Naruto noted how she deflected the question and had a bad feeling, "I could help you get through this."
"Appreciate it but I don't know. I mean, it's-"
Nora sped to the desk, with a folder, "So the fire marshal at this site says crazing in the melted glass suggests a liquid accelerant."
"Mm, any petroleum-based household product could cause crazing." Naruto said walking forward
"Well, like floor wax, or shag rugs, even balloons." Nora listed getting a nod
"Yeah, the glass melts under the surface, like ice cream in the cracks of a waffle cone." Naruto said taking the folder from Nora
"Oh, like when you get two scoops of cookie dough ice cream with extra sprinkles at the Mason Family Ice Cream Shop in Happy Harbor,"
"Rhode Island." Naruto said laughing slightly, "My parents used to take me and Barry there when we were kids. It's my favorite dessert."
"Mine too." Nora replied as Naruto looked off into space as memories surfaced before he school his head, "Hey, look, I'm sorry, um, you're obviously good at forensics, but you shouldn't interfere. I mean, people like us, we need to be responsible."
"Right! Uh, timeline. The timeline, yeah."
"I just think it'll be best to get you home, because if I know myself than my future self must be going crazy wondering where you are and if you're safe." Naruto said as Nora nodded slowly with a sad frown before the police scanner went off
"All available units, M-0-3 in progress, 10th and Neely."
"M-0-3, that's a meta attack." Nora said
"Yeah, I'm gonna handle this. I'll be right back." Naruto said calling upon his suit before he turned to leave but paused and looked back to Nora, "Stay here."
"Okay." Nora nodded before Naruto sped off
10th and Neely
A meta with flickers of blue electricity flickering around his body as Flash shot down the street to see the two officers flying but he caught them and sat them down and turned around and landed a right hook that sent the meta flying into the Police van
"You guys alright?" Naruto asked
"Yeah, thanks Flash."
"Well you know, I was in the neighborhood." Flash said as the meta began to stand
"Hey, uh, you might want to do something." the officer said pointing to the meta causing Naruto to see the meta walking forward
"Now it's my turn, Flash." the meta said as Flash sensed Nora approaching who paused
"Gridlock? Schway!" Nora smiled excitedly
"What are you doing?" Naruto asked
"No, no. I just I just wanted-"
Flash turned to Gridlock who punched him in the stomach but in a puff of smoke a log split in half went flying while Flash appeared behind Gridlock and wrapped him in a hug before he suplexed him into the road and sped to his legs that he grabbed and spun him around before tossing him into the air before he reappeared over Gridlock and slammed his feet into his torso driving him into the road below
Naruto wasted no time and slapped power dampening cuffs on Gridlock, looking over to Nora who was in awe he sighed, "She really is my daughter." he thought
Uzumaki Labs
Naruto was standing across from Nora with Iris, as Cisco was in a chair, "Oh, grife. You're mad at me." Nora said
"No, Nora, we're not. We're just-"
"Please don't say "disappointed." That's so much worse. I mean, I just didn't think it was a big deal. It was only Gridlock." Nora said
"Oh, Gridlock, huh? Boy, the future's got some great names." Cisco smiled before he hissed as he looked to the light, as Caitlin gave him something for his headache, "This lighting!"
"How did you know who he is?" Caitlin asked
"Flash Museum." Nora said causing everyone to raise an eyebrow
"Did you say "Flash Museum"?" Felicity asked
"Yeah. It has all the villains and battles in chronological order. I've studied everything."
"That's insane." Felicity laughed looking to Naruto
"So you know this guy's real name?" Caitlin asked
"No, you had scrubbed all the names because you didn't want the descendants of the villains to be ostracized or the descendants of heroes to be glorified by the actions of their families." Nora said looking to Naruto
"It's okay, look in the end Gridlock is on his way to Iron Heights, and we need to get you home." Naruto said
"But I can't go fast enough to get home."
"What about the tachyon absorption enhancer? The one that Thawne used to increase his speed?" Caitlin asked
"Ooh, and if we charge it up, we could uh, boost the Speed Force in her cells, like some kind of, um thing that boosts Speed Force in cells." Cisco said
"Alright." Naruto nodded before he sped off and returned with Thawne's wheelchair, "That's a good idea. Getting Nora home need to be our priority."
"No, no, no. Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. Wait." Helen said rolling a board into the cortex
"Loud!" Cisco yelled
"Okay, so this needs to be our priority. Now, I realize that you're all way ahead of me in this time-travel business, but guys, I think I just discovered something. So if if Nora can time travel, that means she can create new timelines, right? New timelines means that parallel timelines can exist. So, guys, I think that a whole other universe could exist."
"Helen you know about the multiverse already. Breacher? Gypsy? Harry? What did you think we meant when we said Harry was from Earth-2?" Caitlin asked
"That he is from Earth "also." Oh, my God. You guys really need to make, like, a welcome pamphlet, or at least a Powerpoint or something." Helen said
"Can we get off time travel, maybe, please? Let's focus on something else, like the wedding, all right? Thank you." Naruto said as Caitlin smiled
"You thirsty?" Iris asked Nora
Later, Jitters
Nora sat in a chair looking bored before Iris walked over with two mugs of coffee, "Okay, latte for me, and a decaf Flash for you."
"Wow." Nora said looking at her fathers emblem design in her cup, "Dad's lightning bolt is way cooler than Lightning Lad's. And do you think he's gonna be back soon?"
"Well, you know your dad. Whenever there's a problem, he's gotta run off and fix it. But, you know, this gives us a chance to connect." Iris smiled as Nora who was looking down perked up
"You're not worried about messing things up, like he is?" Nora asked slightly surprised
"I well, I just, I want to get to know you a little. How about this? I will ask you questions about your life, and if I'm right, you just blink twice. I mean, blinking never broke the timeline, right?" Iris asked eagerly
"Okay, yeah, I mean, if you really want to." Nora nodded
"Yeah, I think it'll be really fun. Okay, um, so let's see. You are a reporter for a newspaper that you can only read on Instagram." Iris guessed only for Nora to raise an eyebrow, "Um, okay, you you are a cop." Iris tried only for Nora to sip her coffee, 'You're a a CSI?" Iris asked
Nora blinked twice and nodded slightly, "You're a CSI. Just like your dad." Iris said her smile shrinking slightly, "Okay, well, what about you and I? Do we do we, like, have dinner every Sunday? Do we talk on the phone? Do we still get coffee at Jitters?"
"Uh -" Nora looked down and wiped her eye
"Was that a blink?" Iris asked slightly hopeful
"Uh, no, I just I have something in my eye. You know, a coffee in my time at Jitters is $43 a cup." Nora revealed causing Iris to look surprised
"Wow."
"That's one thing I really like about now. 2018 is way schway."
"Schway"?" Iris asked
"Oh. Yeah, I guess it's a future thing." Nora nodded
"Oh oh, no. Oh, "schway." No, I know, I'm hip. I know what schway means. Like, I'm schway, you're schway. We're we're schway, baby." Iris said causing Nora to look at her weirdly, "Stupid." Iris whispered to herself
"Do you think maybe they'll need any help?" Nora asked
Iris frowned and put her mug down
Later
Nora wore her suit as Cisco tweaked a tachyon device, "All set." Cisco said handing it to her
"What if you guys made one for my dad, if he wore that one, he could harness tachyons and share them with me." Nora said
"Hey, fangirl, relax." Cisco said hing up a smaller tachyon device the size of a bar of soap, "We know."
Naruto walked in with his old suit since there was no place to store a tachyon device on his vibrainum suit, 'Did this suit shrink?" he asked stretching
"No, you got bigger." Caitlin said
"Alot of time has passed since you got the nanotech suit." Cisco said
"Around the time you swam with King Shark." Nora nodded, "Flash! Zoom wants you dead!"
Naruto smiled and nodded
"I know King Shark is technically a bad guy, but you should just wait. When he fights Grodd, it's - "
"Um! Spoiler alert." Cisco interrupted
"We should be going, actually, let's get ready." Naruto said
"Right. Then this is goodbye. From your guys' perspectives, at least. I'll see you again in a minute and 27 seconds, but when you see me again, I'll be a baby." Nora smiled
"Get home safe, Nora." Caitlin said smiled
"I'm sorry we didn't get to spend more time together." Iris said
"Oh, it's fine, Mom. We spend our whole lives together." Nora nodded before she looked to Naruto who was trying to get comfortable in his suit and suddenly hugged him
Naruto looked surprised while Iris looked hurt as Naruto returned the hug, and nodded at Nora, "All right. Ready?"
Nora nodded and with that the two got ready and when Cisco opened the pipeline they shot forward into it
An alarm suddenly began to go off, "I wouldn't advice that." Gideon said
"Gideon? What do you mean?' Felicity asked
"The sample of Nora West-Allen's blood sample has been thoroughly scanned, I have found a substance that can prove fatal if a time portal were to open." Gideon said
"We have to stop them." Caitlin said
In the pipeline, Naruto and Nora were running when their tachyon devices began to sync and a portal opened before they rushed to it but it repelled them violently sending them flying back and landing unconscious,
Later
Nora was on the bed in the medical ward, as Naruto held an ice pack to the back of his head, "Gideon, what did you find?"
"Negative tachyons."
"Negative tachyons? So, what, instead of speeding you up, they slow you down?" Cisco asked jokingly
"Affirmative." Gideon said
"Oh, damn, I was just joking. That's a real thing?"
"Yes, it is currently unknown where they come from or how they're generated."
"Like dark matter for the space time continuum." Naruto sighed
"Correct, and they're saturating Nora's body and keeping her from entering the Speed Force." Gideon said
"Well, there's got to be a way to get rid of them, right?" Naruto asked
"I mean, I don't know about getting rid of them, but maybe we can offset the tachyon absorption enhancer to negate the reaction somehow." Cisco said
"Let's try it. We also need to figure out something for the lost satellite, without it we've lost our eyes, our ears, our dark matter scanner, our facial recognition I mean, we're always gonna be one step behind these metas now." Naruto said before he grabbed the tachyon absorption device, "I'll work on this."
"Uh, I can come help." Nora said sitting up
"Please, no, just we just can't let this get any worse, all right? Just relax, okay?" Naruto asked getting a nod from Nora before he left
Later, Cisco's workshop
Caitlin and Helen walked in to see Cisco looking at a picture about Gypsy, "Cisco, come on." Helen said as Cisco quickly hid the picture
"I'm fine!" Cisco said going to fiddle with a device
"No need to lie, you miss Gypsy."
"We could've worked."
"How?" Helen asked causing Caitlin to slap her arm, "No seriously, you wanted kids and a girlfriend, you can see every day, she didn't want that so you broke things off, it was the smart decision."
"You just need to take your mind off it, come on, maybe if you vibed something it'll help." Caitlin said
"Vibed what?"
Caitlin looked to Helen who shrugged, "How bout me?" Caitlin offered
"Huh?"
"Yeah, there's a necklace my dad gave me when I was little and maybe if you vibed me you can help me find it for the wedding." Caitlin said
Cisco sighed, "Alright, let's try it."
Cisco stood and walked over to Caitlin and placed a hand on her shoulder, and vibed her and himself back to the last time she had her necklace
The two appeared on a street, "What the.."
"That's me." Caitlin said seeing her younger self on the ground as a car was totaled while her bicycle was overturned
"Caity! Oh, no! Caity! Caity, are you okay? Stay still! We're gonna get you help!"
"Dad?" Caitlin asked looking around before she looked to her youngerself who reached for a mirror that was in front of her
"Caity honey, don't!" Cisco and Caitlin's eyes widened when they saw younger Caitlin become Frost and scream
The two snapped out of the vibe, 'Frost. She was part of you even then." Cisco said in shock
"The particle accelerator hadn't exploded. How is that possible?" Caitlin asked
"You've been a meta since you were a kid?" Helen asked
"I guess so."
"Did you see anything else?" Helen asked
"Just that my dad was there."
"Well, that's something." Helen said
"Except her dad's been dead for years." Cisco replied
"But none of this matters right now. We have much more pressing things to deal with." Caitlin said walking off
With Naruto
Naruto was looking at the readings of Nora's blood sample as he worked on the tachyon device, when Iris walked over, "So, figure it out yet?" she asked
"Whatever these negative tachyons are, it feels a lot more like science fiction than actual science, even by my standards." Naruto said
"I wasn't asking about the science. I was asking about the scientist." Iris said handing Naruto his coffee, which he took as he looked at her, "You and Nora, you guys have such a strong connection. I mean, it's effortless. So why are you so intent on sending her back?"
"I mean, what do you mean? First of all, she can't stop talking about the future. But I mean, you know the danger that her being here poses to the timeline." Naruto said walking down to sit on a table as Iris sat beside him in a chair,
"Yeah, I do, but I also know you, Nate. What's up?"
"Nora shouldn't be here. Look, I'm - I've always wanted a family. You know, and one day, we will decide to have a baby. We would try, and you'd get pregnant. I'd be there for the sonogram, I'd hear her first heartbeat, and then she'd come. And we'd take her home, see her first smile, her first tooth, the first time I read to her. Her first steps. The first time she ran. But her being here now, don't you feel like we missed all those firsts? That we skipped all the good stuff?" Naruto asked
"Baby, we will still have all of those firsts. Just not in that order." Iris said
"But that is the point. My whole life's been out of order. These powers, time travel. That's the reason my mom and brother were killed, why I grew up with my dad in prison. They missed so many firsts. They'll miss my wedding."
"I know."
"I don't know, I just thought that when I'd have kids, that life would let me have this one little thing the normal way. Just once. But we lost that chance." Naruto said causing Iris to shake her head and put a hand on his knee
"No, we're not losing anything by having her here now. We're only gaining something extra, Nate." And look, if we figure this out, I mean, by the time we do have a baby, we are gonna be the best parents ever."
"Maybe you're right." Naruto sighed rubbing his forehead
"I know I'm right. You're gonna be there to put that quarter under her pillow, and you're gonna be there to drive her to her first day of school, and you're gonna be there to cheer on her first run. And we are gonna have all of those firsts. I promise. And think about it. We have a kid who defied the laws of physics to hang out with her parents. I mean, that's pretty, that's pretty schway."
"What?' Naruto asked as Iris giggled from the way his face scrunched, "Yeah, as eager as she is, you'd think that she's the one that grew up with a parent in-"
"What's wrong?" Iris asked as Naruto gained a look of realization
"Nothing. Um, nothing. I'm gonna be right back." Naruto said leaving
With Nora
Nora smiled down at baby Dash as he slept while looking at a picture of her dad, "Nora." Nora turned around and saw Naruto standing in the doorway, "What happens to me in the future? You said that you spend your whole life with your mom, but you didn't say the same for me."
"My poker face is that bad, huh?" Nora asked
"I need to know." Naruto said
Time Vault
Naruto and Nora were in the time vault looking at the future newspaper 'Flash Vanishes'
"How long?" Naruto asked
Nora aimed her arm guard and pressed a button before a purple flash appeared and the news paper changed
25 Year's Later Flash Still Missing
Naruto looked horrified at the title, "You never come back." Nora said causing Naruto to look at her
"H-How old were you when it happened?" Naruto asked after a moment
"I was born, um, a few years before you vanished, but I don't have any memories of you."
"So Barry's wedding was-"
"Was pretty much the first time I met you. I'd imagined so many different things to say to you. I guess things don't always go the way you plan them."
Naruto sat on the ground running his hand through his hair before he looked up to Nora, "You're not stuck here, are you?"
Nora took a small glowing chip from her arm guard, "I found it in the museum archive." she said handing it to Naruto, "Negative tachyons, harnessed on demand. Really should work on that poker face, I guess."
"This didn't have to be a secret. Why did you keep this from us?" Naruto asked
"Because if you knew I could have gone home, you would have sent me back the second I walked into your house. I mean, it's like you said, Dad. Speedsters have to be responsible. But...but I'm not responsible, am I? I'm just selfish and really, really bad at being a speedster."
"Nora, you're not bad. Trust me, I've seen a lot of bad people and your definitely not one of them." Naruto said
"I mean, I can do some cool things, you know? Sometimes, I run so fast, I reverse time a bit, but I can't do the things you can. I don't even know how to phase yet. Guess there's only so much you can learn from a museum." Nora sighed
"What about your mom?"
"Yeah, I she's around, you know? It's just, uh Just me and her."
"You and her? What about Felicity, Linda, Caitlin, Dash, Helen, Cisco?" Naruto asked
"I don't know what happened between them but the only time I see them is on holidays. They don't talk." Nora said causing Naruto to frown before he shook his head as Nora saw a tear leave his eye, "I'm sorry."
"Yeah, I know." Naruto nodded
"I shouldn't have lied. I just wanted to see you so badly and spend a day with you. Go for a run for the first time together." Nora said as tears were full on streaming down Naruto's cheeks
"I missed all your firsts. I was so worried about screwing up your childhood and screwing up our family, but I'm not even there, and our family falls apart anyway." Naruto frowned before he stood up and hugged Nora, "I'm sorry."
Nora hugged her father and sniffled
Later
Naruto was sitting in the cortex going over everything that was revealed to him. The one thing he didn't want his children to experience was being an orphan, he wanted to be there and be a father, he's been through that pain twice granted the second time he managed to be taken in by the best human being he ever met, but still,
"Hey, you okay?" Felicity asked as she, Caitlin, Cisco, and Caitlin walked in followed by Iris and Nora
"Yeah, um, I've decided to put a pin in this for a minute." Naruto said holding up the tachyon device
"You want Nora to stay?' Iris asked
"Um, yeah, I thought getting her home was our priority." Cisco said
"No, it is, I just but now, I'm thinking that maybe we should make sure her powers are working correctly before we send her home." Naruto replied
"And what about the timeline?"
"It's risky, but I talked with Gideon and she has a theory."
"There are some historical events that are soft. While some are fixed, the night Nora and Barry Allen died is a fixed point, and once changed created Flashpoint. You mess with them, and all sorts of craziness starts to happen."
"It looks like Nora is gonna need a place to stay, "Iris smiled
"She can stay at Joe's, with Cecile. It'll give you lots of space." Naruto said
"Thanks." Nora smiled getting a nod from Naruto before Iris noticed a news report
"Hey guys." Iris said turning up the tv
"If you're just joining us, shortly after take-off, Central City Airlines, Flight 287 bound for Markovia, is experiencing some loss of altitude. The pilot seems to be circling the city after apparent engine failure."
Naruto stood up as news footage captured the plane losing another set of engines
"That's an Antonov An-225. Can you vibrate that?" Cisco asked
"Not by myself." Naruto said looking to Nora who school her head
"Me? I can't faze anything let alone myself at G-Force."
"It's okay, I'll help you through it." Naruto said smiling as Nora nodded before Naruto looked to Cisco, "Can you breach us onto the plane?"
"I'll need to see it." Cisco nodded
"Alright lets go." Naruto said before he and Nora sped off while Cisco ran to his gear and headed for the exit
"Uh, don't drink and vibe. I feel like I'm gonna hurl." Cisco said
Flash and XS sped through the city, "Okay, Listen to me, just breathe. When we get onto the plane, feel the floor beneath your feet. Feel the rumble of the plane. Feel the air and the lightning. Fell it traveling through your body through every cell, every atom. That power belongs to you, and only you."
Nora nodded listening to her father before they ran up a building into a breach Cisco opened for them
Plane
Flash and XS landed in the plane, "Okay, everybody stay calm, all right? Just stay calm." Flash said as the people looked up with relieved looks seeing Flash remembering how he phased a plane before
"All right, come on. Take a wall, all right? We got this." Naruto said to Nora who nodded
Naruto placed a hand on a wall and the floor as Nora placed her hands on a wall, "Ready?" Flash asked XS
"Ready." XS said
"Okay, let's do it." Flash said before they began to vibrate
XS took a deep breath and focused like her dad told her to,
The plane began to vibrate as it descended toward a building and fazed through it, Nora smiled in awe looking through a window,
"Everyone hold on." Flash said
The plane continued to phase through the buildings and a bridge and landed in the water with a splash,
Everyone cheered as Flash walked over to XS and helped her up, "You did it. You fazed." he smiled
"For the first time." XS smiled as they hugged with Flash laughing proudly
Later, Uzumaki Labs
Naruto smiled as he leaned on a wall watching Nora chat with Felicity, and Linda, "You okay?" Iris asked
"Yeah." Naruto nodded as Iris hugged him while he wrapped an arm around her
"I thought I missed out on my chance to connect with Nora, but now that she's staying, I get another shot." Iris said watching as Nora laughed
"She was fearless, just like you." Naruto smiled causing Iris to return it, "We have a daughter together."
"Yeah. We make a person. In the end, everything works out. We get our happy ending." Iris smiled not seeing Naruto's frown
Helen walked into the Cortex over to Cisco and Caitlin, "Hey." she said
"Hey, where have you been?" Caitlin asked
"I was, uh, running this down." Helen said handing Caitlin a envelope
"What's this?" Caitlin asked opening it
"An answer. And a lot more questions." Helen said
"It's my father's death certificate." Caitlin noted looking up at Helen
"A friend at county helped me out with that. The ME who signed off on it, Cameron Mahkent? He doesn't exist." Helen revealed
"So then, this death certificate-" Caitlin slowly said
"Is a fake." Cisco finished looking at Caitlin in sympathy
Later, Joe's House
Nora was jittery as she sat on the bed while Naruto and Iris retrieved some extra blankets and sheets for her to use, "You should get some rest. You've had a long day." Iris said
"Ooh, I'll try. I'm just so excited." Nora replied causing Naruto to smile, "Like, literally. Phasing excited all of the electron clouds in my body."
"Well, if you're not tired, two scoops of cookie dough ice cream sound good right now." Naruto said
"From Happy Harbor?" Nora asked eagerly
"Just, uh, bring me back some mint chip." Iris said as a smiling Naruto nodded to Nora before they both sped away as Iris sighed
Flash and XS sped down the city smiling as they raced to Happy Harbor
My name is Nora West Allen, and I'm the fastest woman alive. When I was a child, my father disappeared. Then I grew up and became the impossible. Now I'm trying to live up to the legacy he created so that one day, I'll stop him from ever disappearing. I'm XS. How schway is that?
Meanwhile
Gridlock looked up as he heard screaming outside the transport van, he wished more than anything these power restraints weren't on so he could burst out and go get his payback on the Flash when the door opened amd he heard weird breathing as a man in a mask and a black trench coat with a dagger shaped like a lightning bolt was there
"Who the hell are you?" Gridlock asked only to receive no answer, "What do you want?"
"For all of you to die." the man said stepping forward.