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Character Name: Cisco Ramon
Series: The Flash (DCtv)
Timeline: 4x8, "Crisis on Earth-X Pt 3"; Shortly after the Nazi's invade the wedding at the church and he gets knocked out.
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Character History:

Cisco's early family life and childhood was a strained one due to his parents tendency to favor his older brother Dante and his musical talents over him and his technical ones. For reasons he never quite understood, they didn't see the good in their youngest son, the genius behind his quirky attitude was often overlooked and through the years the treatment he received from his own family led to a multitude of self-esteem and self-worth issues and a lot of harbored feelings of inadequacy.Even in school, Cisco was the odd one out, the nerd that the other nerds hated because he was so far above and beyond the league of his peers.

When he was hired on at S.T.A.R. Labs by Dr. Harrison Wells, one might say the opportunity came as a shock--as well as an utter delight because wow, this amazing, brilliant man sought him out and was giving him praise for his work. Wells even told Cisco he he was pretty well on par with one of the other employees there, Hartley Rathaway, and all these things went a long way for his confidence. Even if Hartley did tend to take an offensive stance towar that assumptions and it led to a pretty solid and sturdy work hatemance between the pair.

Alongside his mentorship with Wells, another great thing to come out of his time at S.T.A.R. Labs was his friendship with Dr. Caitlin Snow. She was one of the first people to really make him feel welcome and wanted on the team and the pair became fairly fast friends.

Working alongside someone he idolized, toward a vision for the future he believed in, S.T.A.R. Labs became a heavy focus in Cisco's life and Dr. Wells a permanent presence in his life. The pair spent many late nights in the lab preparing to open the door to that future for the world and Cisco grew close to the man he called his mentor. They had a dynamic between them that went beyond boss and employee and ventured more into a father/son dynamic, which was sorely missing in Cisco's life within his own family and he latched onto that feeling and that relationship quickly and steadfastly.

Fast forward a bit to the night everything changed. Dr. Wells gives his speech at the press launch for the particle accelerator and suddenly, everything that was supposed to be a perfect, smooth run was exploding in their faces-- literally. Caitlin's fiance suffered the finality of fate when he went into the core to redirect the blast, saving the lives of many in Central City, and devastated the lives of those that knew him, none more than Caitlin. In the wake of the explosion, the lab is more or less vacated, people rushing to free themselves from the backlash that was coming. Cisco didn't leave, though, the place had practically been home to him for too long now, and Caitlin stayed on as well, the pair of them standing by Dr. Wells, even in the midst of the frenzy and broken reputations.

Little did anyone know just how much everything changed that night.

Nine months, a dude in a coma, and some weirdness later, Cisco finds himself living in the middle of something straight out of the comics he grew up cherishing. Literally. That 'dude in a coma' was one Barry Allen, who had been struck by lightening and lived to tell the tale. Barry was under Caitlin's care with Cisco aiding where he could, and when he finally woke up, he discovered he had...abilities. Particularly, that he could run really, really, really fast...and he wasn't so great at the stopping part. In comes Team S.T.A.R. Labs! Wells, Caitlin and Cisco vow to help Barry get a handle on these new-found abilities and with their powers combined... okay, between Wells' coaching, Caitlin's keeping of his vitals, and Cisco's tech, they manage. But only just-- at least at first.

Eventually, the team slams together into something resembling a working unit using Barry's newly-harnessed skills to help save lives and fight crime. There's some skepticism from Caitlin at first, but Cisco is just utterly enthused about the entire thing. He's basically living a dream for a nerd like him, and he's psyched to be a part of it all. His place on the team is mostly tech-related, building weapons and even providing the suit for Barry that will help him move faster, unrestricted, and protect him from potential damaging effects. Although, he also prides himself on his nicknaming abilities and takes great pleasure in giving all the metahumans they come up against code names-- and don't you dare try to nickname them, that's just offensive.

With the number of metahumans popping up all around the city--inculduing but not limited to, an aptly named Weather Wizard, a meta-ape named Grodd, as well as people with powers like emotion manipulation, teleportation, pyrokinesis, among other things--Team Flash doesn't exactly have a huge amount of down time. And with Barry's outside attachements to people like adoptive father Joe and long-time crush Iris West, things get complicated with his dual-life side. Eventually, Joe is brought in on things and they have someone on the inside at the CCPD to help with some of the necessary coverups and explanations for odd things that otherwise couldn't be accounted for. Meanwhile, the detective's daughter and resident budding reporter, Iris, is looking into all things involving The Flash. Joe's insistence on leaving her out of it for her safety wears on Barry, even though he ultimatelly agrees.

Leonard Snart, a criminal with an impressive record who Cisco later dubs "Captain Cold", causes havock in the city in the form of a bank heist gone wrong. He manages to get his hands on an aptly named 'cold gun' that Cisco had created, designed to slow down The Flash should the need ever arise. This becomes a point of contention between Cisco and both Barry and Wells-- Barry feeling betrayed that he would create something to use against him, and Wells furious that he made the gun without telling anyone.

This isn't the last of Snart by a long shot. He makes a return later with his firebug buddy, Mick Rory--aptly nickanmed Heatwave--and sister, Lisa, in tow. They kidnap Cisco and hold him hostage, executing a plan to make him make special guns for the trio of criminals. By the cunning use of threatening his brother, the crew manage to get Cisco to reveal the true identity of The Flash. Despite Cisco's own obvious guilt over the incident, Barry forgives him. During this time, Lisa practically pouts her way into getting Cisco to nickname her and she's dubbed the "Golden Glider".

Eventually, suspicions arise about Dr. Wells potentially being the Reverse-Flash, the bigger villain in the picture as metahumans continue springing up in every direction wreacking havock on the city. Caitlin staunchly denied the possiblity of their mentor being some kind of monster, but Cisco recounts weird dreams he'd been having about Wells killing him.

With a bit of detective work, a little stumbling into a secret room in the lab, and a luicid dream experiment, which unknowingly tap into hidden metahuman abilities, with Cisco later, it's all too quickly and officially confirmed that Wells isn't the man they all thought he was, right down to his name-- and even his face. It turns out he was, in fact, a time-traveling villain from a distant future named Eobard Thawne, and he was, in fact, the Reverse-Flash. Who also happens to be a relative of Iris' fiance, Eddie. Talk about complicated family situations.

A capture and interrogation of Thawne leads to the discovery that Thawne really just hated the Flash in the future and and like all villains, mostly he's just a petty brat. All in all, he couldn't kill the tiny version of Barry after going back in time like he'd set out to do because Barry's future self followed him, so in retaliation, Thawne killed Barry's mother and set into motion a whole slew of events to ensure Barry become The Flash as he should have all along. An agreement was made after Barry discussed what he'd found out with the rest of the team-- he had to go back in time and save his mother from her fate. They just... kind of also needed Thawne's help to do so, which meant Barry had to cut a deal with him to get him back into his own time.

We all know how well deals with Devils work out, right?

In the end, Barry didn't change the timeline like everyone thought he was going to and once he was back from the past, this led to the inevitable showdown between Barry and Thawne once and for all. But it isn't Barry that saves the day this time. Being Eobard's ancestor, Eddie realizes that the only way to stop him is to sacrifice himself. He shoots himself, effectively erasing Eobard from the timeline entirely, and saving the day.

Unfortunately for everyone in Central City, the wormhole used to travel in time caused a singularity and it's destroying the city, and presumably, if it's allowed to continue, the world. With help, Barry manages to close the wormhole, but there's still one teensy little problem-- there are breaches to other worlds in the multiverse that are open, allowing threats from other timelines and realities to cross through and wreak havock on the city.

Six months go by and Team Flash has disbanded, with Barry doing the bare minimum to maintain the lab he was left in the wake of Thawne's death, Caitlin has taken a position with Mercury Labs, and Iris is still trying to pick up the pieces in the wake of losing Eddie. And Cisco? Cisco has been working as a liason for CCPD with Joe's Meta Task Force, creating high tech weapons to help in metahuman takedowns and helping build containment cells for the metas they capture.

Eventually, the team does come back together, but their celebration of their reunion is cut short when a man by the name of Jay Garrick, who comes through a breach and warns them of an evil speedster named Zoom.

And so begins the next chapter of Team Flash VS Psycho Speedsters.

The team soon learns that Jay is the Flash of his world
-- and he's also without his speed and on a quick path toward death thanks to Zoom. There's a treatement, a speed drug called Velocity-6, but it's only just keeping him alive. Caitlin works toward making an improvement on the drug to help keep him alive.

Jay isn't the only one from Earth-2 to join Team Flash in the endeavour against Zoom, Harrison Wells joins them as well after saving Barry from an attack by a man-shark metahuman by the cunning use of a gun he'd previously stolen from Mercury Labs. This tentative alliance causes a lot of waves among the team, particularly for Cisco, who still has the image of a man with his face killing him pretty freshly stuck in his mind. He seems to have his own personal agenda against Zoom, but he's willing to help the team when and where they need it, as long as he can achieve his goal. Through time and a lot more effort than either of them initially wanted to give, Cisco and Harry form a working bond for the time being. More tension brews between the pair when Harry reveals him as a metahuman to his friends before Cisco has a chance to tell them himself. Barry is the one that eventually suggests "Vibe" as Cisco's codename, which he sticks with.

Lisa Snart returns to ask for help from Team Flash, beliving her brother to be kidnapped, only to find out that it's their own father who has taken Leonard hostage. Cisco learns through his talks with her that Lewis was an absuive drunk. Leondard essentially raised her and that's why he's so important to her. It's soon discovered that Papa Snart has implanted an explosive chip in his daughter's head, and Leonard was working with him on a heist so he wouldn't kill Lisa.

The team keeps tabs on Lewis to make sure he doesn't detonate the bomb and while Barry goes undercover as a tech genius willing to lend a hand to the job Snart is trying to pull, Cisco is busy at the lab with Lisa, trying to devise a way to extract the bomb. He has a possiblity, involving a highly pressurised gun, but he's worried it won't work. Thankfully, it does, and the device is removed successfully. Despite this wonderful news, which Barry relays to Leonard, the elder Snart sibling kills his father on the spot, with only the reasoning, "He broke my sister’s heart. Only fair I break his," to support him. He lands himself in Iron Heights for the offense, despite it all. Lisa is left to go free, the Team deciding that she had suffered enough trauma thanks to her father.

While the team deals with metahumans as they appear from both their own and other worlds alike, Zoom continues to wreck havoc on Central City, jumping back and forth between Earth-1 and Earth-2 whenever the whim suits him. Eventually, it's learned by Barry, Caitlin, and Cisco that the reason Harrison is so adamant about taking Zoom down is because he's kidnapped his daughter, Jesse.

A particularly difficult point for Cisco arrises when Grodd, the meta-ape that had been experimented on by Thawne and caused a lot of havoc for the team just a short while ago, makes a return. With Barry injured from a previous incident with Zoom, Harry agrees to help the team take the giant gorilla down and save Caitlin, who'd been kidnapped Grodd, by masquerading as his E-1 counterpart. In order to accomplish this, Cisco takes it on himself to help coach Harry in Eobard 101, primarily by practicing the scene in which Thawne had killed Cisco in the altered timeline repeatedly. The whole thing seemed to not even phase Cisco, as he eyerolls and almost mocks Harry's delivery of the line about feeling as though he was a son, until Harry hits the nail on the head and it hits Cisco harder than he anticapted it could after so many practice runs.

The plan works almost flawlessly once it's in action until Harry asks permission for the release of the team's resident doctor and bioscientist, which is something Thawne never would have done. In the end, he's able to inject WheGrodd with tranqs and the team uses a speed canon to send Grodd to a refuge for gorillas like him on Earth-2.

When Eobard Thawne manages to make a return to the present, the whole team is shaken. Evenually, it's learned that a piece of him called a Time Remenant was locked in the Speed Force and essentially, in a very confusing mess of an explanation, it's stated that he would always be meant to come back to this moment and discover the Flash's true identity. This sent Barry into a spiral of anger and grief and with intervening from Joe, he didn't kill him and instead locked him away. However, with Thawne disrupting the timelines, his continued stay in their time was having quite the effect on Cisco-- he was literally fading out of existence, losing himself to the rupture of the timelines this insane paradox has created. Barry was distraught over fixing this because it was learned this version of Thawne had yet to kill Barry's mother, but the fact remains that piece of the timeline is a fixed point in time and in the end, Barry does the hero thing and sends the jerk back to his own time and Cisco is saved.

Harry works with the rest of the team to work togehter to close most of the breaches around the city, leaving only the one at STAR Labs for Zoom to jump into the next time he crosses over from E-2.

Eventually, it's revealed that in order to save Jesse, Harry has agreed to steal Barry's speed for Zoom and it was a very dramatic thing because how dare he betray them once they all began to trust him! Despite it all, though, a jaunt to Earth-2 with Barry and Harry to save Jesse from Zoom is in the works. And this all leads to Cisco meeting his E-2 counterpart, who goes by the name Reverb and is basically the guy-liner-and-leather-wearing version of Cisco who sees himself as a God. Cisco thinks that's creepy and it freaks him out about just how much more he can do once he really harnesses his powers, but watching Zoom kill his counterpart really did not do him any favors.

With Jesse saved, the trio return to Earth-1 and things are really getting serious-- like they weren't already, right? With suspicions arising, and a vibe from Cisco that confirms it, the team is hit with the devestating realization that yet another person they looked to for mentorship, someone they worked so tirelessly to save, was a liar and a manipulator.

Jay Garrick was Zoom.

Equipped with the Tachyon device, Barry is ready to face Zoom, with just one teesny problem-- the breaches have all been closed and they have to sort out a way to open one to get to Zoom again. Except Barry brings an idea to the table! Cisco could totally do it! And he tries. Except it doesn't work so well. Until Harry helps them recalibrate the vibe goggles to the proper frequency to help him focus his powers.

So, with the newly calibrated glasses, Cisco tries again. And he's doing it, he's opening the breach, and he can feel it and-- and he promptly stops and throws the goggles at Barry and begs him not to ask him to do this again as he rushes off.

The truth of the matter is, Cisco is kind of terrifed of his powers at this point. There is so much he could do, so much power at his fingertips and he saw how dark and twisted that power made his E-2 counterpart. And to think how easily the scales could be tipped for him is just a bit too much.

But before any super feelsy bro-time conversations happen, Cisco is wandering straight on through to Wonderland because this is his life now. Other worlds and alternate realities and things that don't make sense.

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However, one heart-to-heart conversation with Barry later, and Cisco decides he's ready to give it a go. Again. They open a breach to Earth-2 to lure Zoom to STAR Labs, where Zoom and Flash get into an altercation, by the end of which, Zoom kidnaps the newest kid brother of the West family, Wally, demanding Barry give up his powers in exchange for Wally's life.

Seeing no other way out of it, Barry eventually agrees. Cisco vibes the message to Zoom and he arrives to STAR Labs shortly after with Wally in tow. With Wally being carted off to safety and Barry's speed in hand, Zoom kidnaps Caitlin.

With Caitlin captured, the search is on. Cisco tries to keep his panic in check and uses something of Zoom's to vibe his lair and finds that Caitlin is alive, but for now they don't have a plan of attack, especially with Barry without his powers or a way to fight Zoom.

While trying to reconnect with his runaway daughter, Harry ends up kidnapped by an angry meta who's power also ages him every time he uses it. He has mistaken Harry for the Wells that created the particle accelerator on E-1 and demands he make a cure. The team enlists Jesse's help to get her father back and they devise a plan to use Harry's kidnapper's powers against him. Cisco and Jesse make adjustments to the Flash suit to give Barry a one-time advantage in the fight he has to face without his powers. Barry wins the fight, Jesse decides to move back in to the lab with her dad, and Harry comes up with a crazy plan to get Barry his speed back: Re-create the particle accelerator explosion.

While Harry is trying to convince the rest of the team that this is, actually, not the terrible idea they all think it is, and that he can absolutely keep the explosion contained, the team is using a hologram of Barry to keep the idea of The Flash alive in the city. That eternal beacon of hope in Central City that refuses to be pushed aside, even in the wake of this sudden issue.

Cisco vibes his brother and leaves to go talk to him. He finds Dante at a bar and the pair argue. On the TV in the bar, Cisco sees a report that Zoom has taken over CCPD and darts out to leave. His brother follows him and the pair are attacked by a meta by the name of Rupture, who calls Cisco "Vibe" and soon reveals that he is the E-2 version of Dante, and he's still pissed about his brother's death, here for revenge in Reverb's name.

Back at the lab, Harry explains Rupture and his powers, which come from the weapon he wields, and Cisco devises a plan to separate him from the scythe. Soon, the team gets a text from Caitlin, letting them know about a conversation she overheard between Zoom and Rupture, and giving them a headsup about Rupture's planned attack on Central City's finest.

While at STAR Labs, where Cisco knows he'll be safe, Dante finds a note that Cisco left for his family in case he didn't make it back from his Earth-2 trip. Dante questions him about it and Cisco reluctantly admits he has powers, but Cisco has to leave and help with Dante's doppelganger before they can finish talking.

Barry and Cisco deter Rupture's attack, but Zoom appears and kills the officers his foot-solider couldn't, and for extra measure, Rupture as well. He demands Captain Singh keeps his boys in blue off the streets, and reveals that the Flash is no more, and the one they've all been seeing is just a projection.

Back at the lab, Cisco and Dante have a moment together. Watching his brother's doppelganger left him pretty raw and Cisco insists he wants them to be closer.

Later, Barry decides to go through with the new, contained particle accelerator explosion to get his powers back so he can stop Zoom. Harry and Cisco set up the experiment, but it seems to go awry-- when he's hit with the lightning, he disintegrated, nothing more than a cloud of energy left behind.

While Barry's father is mourning his son, the team cracks down and tries to find him, not convinced he's gone. Cisco keeps the search going in earnest, never allowing a single ounce of doubt to creep in and force him to face the idea that maybe his best friend really is just gone.

A little while later, Cisco ends up vibing Barry in what looks to be the eye of an energy storm. Harry deduces that it means Barry is actually in the Speed Force. He helps Cisco create a feedback loop to be able to serve as a homing beacon to bring Barry home. It takes more than one try, but eventually they manage to do it, just in time for Barry to stop the zombie-like meta that's been rampaging through the city.

Attacks on the city under Zoom's order by his merry band of E-2 metas leave the team scrambling. It's all part of his plan to keep Barry too distracted saving people to thwart him. Meanwhile, Harry and Cisco come up with a device that will help them take down the Earth-2 metas.

While Black Siren is making an attack, the team is at a crossroads: Barry wants to stop her, but Harry needs him to run around the city and create the right energy field to help them use the device that will knock out every E-2 meta in the city. Cisco comes up with a plan. A terrible plan, but a plan all the same. Siren will be distracted from her attack long enough for the plan to be put in place.

Cisco and Caitlin don costumes and play the parts of their Earth-2 counterparts and go meet with Black Siren while Harry and Barry go to work. Their con falls apart when Siren gets an inkling something is hinky and proves that they aren't who they're pretending to be. She's on the attack again and Cisco unwittingly blasts her with a beam of energy. The unexpected defensive attack buys just enough time for the device to start knocking out anyone from Earth-2. Zoom escapes before he's affected.

Despite Zoom's escape, the team celebrates a victory, having scooped up all the E-2 attackers and incarcerating them in the meta prison at STAR Labs. During a team and family dinner, Cisco has a vibe-vision of Earth-2 Central City collapsing. Just in time for Zoom to appear and kidnap, and murder, Barry's dad right in front of him-- after zipping off to Barry's old childhood home first, of course. They fight, but Zoom escapes, claiming Barry is "almost ready".

The funeral for Henry is hard on the team, but none more than Barry, who can't even hold himself together enough to deliver a eulogy. He vows to get revenge on Zoom, but later the team is at a loss while their leader is busy spiraling further and further away and into this idea of revenge.

Later, Zoom demands a race against Barry to see who is truly the "fastest man alive". If Barry refuses? He'll kill Barry's friends one by one until he sees it his way. Back at the lab when Barry explains it all, Harry realizes that Zoom's ultimate goal with the race is to use a device he stole from Mercury Labs to siphon the speed energy and use that to destroy the multiverse. Barry decides he has no choice but to race zoom, but the team has other ideas. In realizing Barry is only out for revenge, they trap him in one of the meta cells in the pipeline to give him time to clear his head.

Meanwhile, Jesse and Cisco have found a way to track Zoom down and Harry is planning to use Caitlin as bait to draw Zoom to them. Once he's there, they can hit him with a pulse rifle and Cisco can shove Zoom back to E-2 through a breach. Harry will destroy the device from Mercury Labs.

The plan goes sideways when Joe's gun jams and he has to tranq Zoom up close and personal. Joe ends up falling through the breach with him.

The team is at a loss and Wally insists they need to let Barry out of the pipeline to save Joe. Iris pushes the point that they can't open the breach again since they finally got rid of Zoom. Wally makes a decision on his own and releases a furious Barry to get his dad back. The team tries to calm him down, but he insists they're running out of options and he's going to beat Zoom with or without them.

Using the tech they used to get Barry out of the speed force, Cisco sends a message to Zoom to accept the race, under conditions that he returns Joe unharmed. Zoom agrees, but says he won't release Joe until the race is through.

Cisco and the others follow Barry to the race, insisting that if it doesn't pan out, then they're all going out together. The race is a brutal one, but in the end Barry wins, and Time Wraiths come to collect Zoom for all his time crimes.

During a later celebration of the defeat of Zoom, Barry mourns the loss of his father. Too eaten up by the grief, he makes A Very Bad Decision and goes back in time to stop his mother from being killed.

And that's how Flashpoint happens!

Unknown to any of the others for awhile, Barry spends his time in this new timeline. A timeline where his mother lived, but where he knows none of his Team Flash friends. He never became the Flash, he never met Wells or Cisco and Caitlin, and Wally is the protector of the city as part of a crime-fighting duo with Iris. It's also a timeline where Eobard Thawne exists in the present again, this time as himself and not the Wells-impersonation version. Barry has him locked up in a cell to prevent him from going after his mother again. Thawne predicts that Barry will restore things before it's all said and done. The former timeline starts fading as the new one cements, and Barry has to decide if he can live with never knowing his friends. In the end, he returns to ask Thawne to go back in time and kill his mother, in hopes to restoring the timeline to what it was.

However, despite Barry's assumption that this would put everything back to the way it was, time travel is a tricky and pesky thing. And there are always consequences and ripple effects, one of which was Cisco's brother, Dante, being killed in a car wreck with a drunken driver. Caitlin having the same meta-powers as her E-2 doppelganger, and Barry gaining an aggravating CCPD co-worker by the name of Julian, also seem to be part of the effects of those changes.

Barry has to learn to live with the mistakes he's made, because the original timeline can never be repaired exactly. He keeps all of the secrets of the last several months, and the altered timeline, to himself for the time being.

Things get into a more regular rhythm as the team begins to deal with a new threat, Alchemy, who is going around bestowing powers to people from the Flashpoint timeline. Alchemy sends visions of their powers to his targets and makes promises to grant them that power in exchange for helping him prepare the world for the arrival of the Speed God called Savitar.

Harry and Jesse return to E-1 to reveal Jesse is, in fact, a speedster due to the exposure to the dark matter experiment that granted Barry his powers back. Wally was there when it happened as well, and seems to have no powers and is jealous about it. However, soon, Wally finds himself having visions of being a speedster in the Flashpoint timeline. He becomes one of Alchemy's next targets.

Upon the departure of Harry Wells back to E-2, the team seeks the help from a new Wells, of Earth-19 that goes by H.R. HR is not a scientist, nor a genius, but an author and a spazz and nothing at all like either of the Wellses of the past. It takes awhile for him to find a place or rhythm on the team. Particularly with Cisco, who is strongly suspicious of him and distrusts him greatly for awhile.

During all of this mess, Caitlin has finally revealed her powers to Cisco and he assures her that just because her powers are the same as her evil E-2 doppelgangers does not make her inherently evil. He had similar fears and doubts about his own powers after meeting Reverb, but he's grown more confident in his powers and is none the worse for it, and neither will Caitlin once they understand her powers more. Caitlin is a lot less sure about it all because her alter ego takes over her completely when she uses her powers and she has no control over it when it happens, either.

Alchemy's continued pursuance of the metas leads to Wally being used as bait to discover the location of the villain. Savitar shows up and thwart's Team Flash's attempt at apprehending Alchemy, and Wally ends up trapped in the cocoon that pushes the change on his targets.

Killer Frost eventually takes over Caitlin, and she seeks a meeting with Alchemy to fix her. But her secret has been put at risk because Julian got in the way. He promises to keep it, but demands that in return, Barry resigns from the CCPD. He reluctantly agrees, for Caitlin's sake.

In the midst of all of this, however, there is an invasion of an alien species called the Dominators. Their intention is pretty much stated in their name-- they are here to maintain a status quo in the universe and target any who threaten to disrupt that status. In this case, the metas on Earth-1 are their primary target.

This attack calls to arms the forces of Team Flash, Team Arrow, the Legends, and Supergirl from Earth-38. Together, the giant band of superheroes manages to thwart the Dominators, but not without all of Barry's lies of omission about the Flashpoint timeline coming to a head. Probably the hardest temper Barry has to deal with is Cisco's. Learning that in the original timeline, his brother was still alive, was pretty hard for him to take and for awhile, Cisco is livid about Barry's selfish move and blames him for his brother's death.

After the Dominators are handled, Team Flash gets back to tracking down and defeating Alchemy. Eventually, it's revealed that Julian, Barry's former co-worker, has been behind the mask of Alchemy all along. Turns out, Alchemy has just an extension of the Even Bigger Bad, Savitar, all along. Mind-controlled individuals who are dragged in by promises never intent on being filled-- in Julian's case, the resurrection of his lost sister. Savitar lured him to the location of the Philosopher's Stone, the artifact that allows Savitar a physical form, as well as the restoration of meta powers that Alchemy has been doing all this time.

While the Team has the Stone, Cisco gets called by it with visions of his dead brother. Promises to bring him back almost lead him to taking the stone out of it's protective storage box, but Caitlin intervenes and saves Cisco from a very grave mistake.

The Team finds a way to communicate with Savitar through Julian, though he mostly just leaves them with a dark and gloomy prophecy that: "One of them will fall, one will betray the others, and one shall suffer a fate worse than death."

A plan to ensure the Philosopher's Stone stays out of Savitar's reach is devised: Throw it into the Speed Force and destroy it. It works out, but in the process, Barry is thrown into the future and witnesses important key allusions in this future point, least of which was Savitar killing Iris. This becomes his entire focus. There is a very small time clock counting down on them, and they have to find a way to save Iris before that possible future becomes reality.

During the team's attempts to change small portions of other things Barry saw during his trip in the future, an Earth-19 bounty hunter comes to take H.R. back to his home-Earth for a trial and execution for breaking a number of regulations of Earth-19. Cisco, however, comes to his aid, demanding a trial by combat with the bounty hunter, Gypsy. It's a close battle, and Gypsy has additional skill with her viber powers, but Cisco wins in the end, meaning H.R. gets to live, though he is never allowed to return home.

Jesse returns to E-1, declaring that her father has been kidnapped and taken to E-2's Gorilla City and she needs their help getting him back. Barry had seen something about a gorilla attack on Central in the future and sees this as yet another opportunity to change the future. The Team gears up and head to Gorilla City on Earth-2, where they left Gorilla Grodd not so long ago. Grodd enlists Barry's help to overthrow the gorilla overlord in exchange for helping them return home safely. Except that was never really in the cards at all and Grodd reneges on his deal, keeping Team Flash hostage while he sets out to attack E-1's Central City.

Some cunning and crazy plans later, the team manages to escape back to their Earth and, with the help of the gorilla that Barry help Grodd defeat, stops the attack on the city.

Later, it's revelation time as Wally confesses about his visions of Savitar and Caitlin reveals she's kept a piece of the Philospher's Stone in hopes of finding a way to use it to remove her powers. When they get another message from Savitar, through Julian, later on, they realize that the "speed God" is trapped in the Speed Force.

Wally, thinking that it's the last piece of the stone that's necessary to defeat Savitar completely, steals Caitlin's stone piece and throws it into the Speed Force, unknowingly playing right into Savitar's hand. The final piece of the stone is what Savitar needed to escape, and he does in spectacular fashion, forcing Wally to take his place in the Speed Force prison. Barry and Savitar fight, in which Savitar taunts Barry, and Barry breaks off a piece of Savitar's armor suit.

Barry runs into the Speed Force to find and save Wally, but it's determined that he can't get Wally out unless there is a speedster to replace him. In the end, it's decided that Jay Garrick, the E-3 Flash's identity who Zoom assumed before his villain reveal, will take the place of the youngest West.

A time-traveling future-foe of the Flash, by the name of Abra Kadabra, has been on the search for the way back home to the 64th century on E-1. He's traveled the multiverse to collect technologies required to achieve that goal, and in that travel, he hit Earth-19, where he got on the radar of bounty hunters like Gypsy. He's on E-1 in more of his pursuit of getting home and the Flash has a run-in with him, where Kadabra reveals he knows "everything" about Savitar. Barry tries to capture him to get what he knows from him, but Gypsy arrives and attacks him in efforts to collect on the bounty he has on his head from her Earth, but Kadabra manages to escape. Later, Barry apprehends him and throws him in the pipeline for questioning.

After some attempts at negotiating a deal for himself--in exchange for the information they want, he wants his freedom guaranteed, so that Gypsy can't take him for his E-19 execution date--Kadabra finds himself still stuck in the cell. Not to worry, though, as Joe is more concerned about his daughter's safety than anything else and he agrees to the deal without the knowledge or consent of the rest of the team.

When Kadabra is just nearly about to reveal everything they need to know, Gypsy appears from a breach and Kadabra uses the distraction to escape. In the end, Kadabra is apprehended by the efforts of Team Flash and Gypsy takes him to his execution, and Barry is nowhere nearer getting the information he needs to defeat the speed God.

While Barry takes (another) trip to the future in hopes to get some more answers, Killer Frost meets and teams up with Savitar. Barry returns with information that may lead them to getting the speed force trap built quicker and the team seeks out Tracy Brand, a scientist who helps them build the device.

Finally, Savitar's identity is revealed: He is actually a Time Remnant of Barry who was shunned by Team Flash and decided to wreck his OG counterpart's life, by going back in time and killing Iris. Savitar has known every move Team Flash was going to make before they made it, because he's already lived it.

When Barry returns to the team with this new trippy information, Cisco decides to try and make it impossible for Barry to create new memories. This plan backfires entirely when Barry forgets, well, everything, including that he's The Flash or what a metahuman even is. Cisco reverses the process, and they're back to square one.

Tracy completes the design of the trap, but they're still missing one very important piece: a power source. They need something that contains more power than the sun and the only thing on Earth that will work is a piece of Dominator tech that's been locked up, protected by a meta of the past, King Shark. Eventually, some time-traveling hi-jinks and a friendly kidnapping of everyone's favorite thief, Leonard Snart, from his hero days on the Waverider with the Legends, an elaborate heist, and a piece of face-swapping tech from H.R.'s Earth later...the team finally manages to get their hands on the power source they need. Finally, the trap--now named the Speed Force Bazooka--is complete and ready to be used to take down Savitar.

Joe decides the best way for Iris to stay safe is to not even be on this Earth, and takes her to stay with Harry in the STAR Labs on E-2. Meanwhile, the Speed Force Bazooka is rendered useless in seconds by Savitar in the fight between him and Barry; Savitar breaks Wally's leg to prevent his interference; and Cisco is in a battle with Killer Frost (which he foretold as a future possibility in an earlier vibe).

With every avenue seemingly used up, and Iris' fate closing in harder and harder with every second, it seems there is no way out. However, H.R. came up with a plan that would save Iris. Using that face-swapping tech from his earth, he and Iris traded places. Iris, disguised as H.R., was safe and H.R., disguised as Iris, went to play the part. Barry was kept out of the loop of the plan the entire time, which ensured that Savitar had no knowledge of it, either.

With H.R.'s sacrifice comes a very big time limit for Savitar: With the real Iris not dead, Barry isn't driven to create the Time Remnants of himself, and so Savitar is never created. Now, he has to find a way to make sure he continues to exist, before the timeline cements and he's gone forever. So he kidnaps Cisco and pushes him to modify the Speed Force Bazooka into a quantum splicer, which Savitar plans to use to essentially split himself across all of time, every possible timeline would have it's own version Savitar, and then he could truly take up his status as a God by existing in all of time simultaneously.

While Barry tries to appeal to some likely non-existent humanity still left in his evil Time Remnant twin, Savitar orders Killer Frost to kill Cisco. Fortunately for him, Gypsy arrives and saves him just in the knick of time.

Savitar attempts to open a portal into the Speed Force, but the Black Flash--who is, essentially, the Grim Reaper of Speedsters--emerges and comes for him, intent on erasing Savitar for good. Killer Frost freezes Black Flash, allowing the Time Remnant to continue his efforts with the modified bazooka-- just one tiny problem with that plan: Cisco didn't make the modifications he was instructed to make. Instead, he made it into a skeleton key of sorts, unlocking the speed force prison and releasing Jay Garrick.

With the help of Jay and Wally, Barry battles Savitar in a huge, final showdown. While they're busy with Savitar, Cisco and Gypsy are battling Killer Frost. There's an intense moment where Cisco has a chance to kill her, but he doesn't--can't. Instead, he promises her a cure, which Julian had developed. Killer Frost doesn't take it, but does turn on Savitar and throws an ice beam at him. This distraction gives Barry enough time to land his end-move: phasing into Savitar's suit and destroying it before knocking him out. When Savitar gets up, ready to attack again, Iris puts a bullet in his back and he flickers completely out of existence.

But let's not forget, it was already said before that the Speed Force Prison needs a speedster in it to keep it stabilized, and Jay has been released, putting it into a wildly unstable state. A Speed Force lightning storm rushes across Central City and the team realizes that if they wait, the storm could destroy the whole city, or even more-- the world. Barry wastes no time in deciding to use this as his penance for everything that he caused--with Flashpoint, and Savitar, and everything in-between.

One tearful goodbye and a promise by Cisco to get him out one way or another later, Barry disappears into the speed force.

For six months, Cisco tirelessly seeks a way to get Barry back and bring him home. Loyalty lives down in his bones, as he never gives up on his efforts to save his best friend. In the meantime, Iris took up the leader mantle of Team Flash, doling out orders and running comms on crises that Wally and Cisco, as Kid Flash and Vibe, handled together as a team.

Eventually, all of Cisco's work pays off and he comes up with a way to "trick" the Speed Force and get Barry home. When Barry was brought out of the Speed Force, a lot of energy came along with him and it caused a bus accident that led to the creation of a handful of new metas--12 of them, to be exact. The search for these metas has been a central point of recent history. Especially when it's discovered that the whole thing was more or less orchestrated by Clifford DeVoe, aka The Thinker, a man hell-bent on ruining Barry's reputation and credibility, as all part of some grand-scheme plan of enlightenment of the world.

Barry's release back into the real world and outside of the Speed Force proves to be a bit hard on him-- and at first, he isn't quite all there. Time doesn't pass the same way in the Speed Force and it's a lot of energy and time for even a speedster to handle. If a few screws are a bit loose, it's understandable.

However, soon enough, Barry's back to normal and donning the newly updated Flash suit and hitting the streets to save the day again while also trying to balance his new-found relationship issues after having to make the tough call and abandon Iris to be the balance to the Speed Force.

Cisco is having his own relationship problems-- work keeps getting in the way of chill time with Gypsy and he also has to meet (and attempt to impress) her dad. That goes over about as badly as possible. Breacher decides he hates Cisco and, as is a multiverse bounty hunter's prerogative, he decides to hunt Cisco (which Gypsy says is a common thread in her dating life, unfortunately). However, by some twist of fate, Cisco manages to impress Breacher enough to be considered acceptable to date his daughter. Not without threats to finish the job if he hurts her, of course.

Despite the insanity of DeVoe and working on finding these new metas and figuring out their part in his plan, the team connects to the regular running of their lives as well. Which means Barry and Iris are still due a wedding. But it wouldn't be a Team Flash wedding without a crisis, and right in the middle of the ceremony? Nazi's attacked. A fight broke out as the multi-earth-gathering of superheroes fends against the intruders. In the midst of the battle, Cisco ends up knocked unconscious and out of commission.

And he just happens to wake up in the all-too-familiar halls of the Wonderland Mansion.

Abilities/Special Powers:

Abilities
•Genius-level intelligence: Cisco is one of the brightest minds of the times and most of his skills lie in the areas of computer hacking and engineering. Given the right equipment, parts, and time, Cisco can build almost anything. He is definitely Team Flash's "Gadget Guy".

•Expert tailor: Cisco makes all of Team Flash's super-suits, complete with all of their flashy looks and high-tech gear incorporated into them.

•Skilled combatant: Cisco can hold his own in a fight, even if he isn't the strongest in straight hand-to-hand. He relies on his powers more, now that he's in much better control of them.

•Skilled guitarist: What is says on the tin. The Ramon's are a musical family; Dante's instrument of choice was the piano, Cisco's is guitar. He prefers acoustic.

Powers
•Dimensional energy manipulation: Cisco has a psychic link to the energies of reality, which allows him to connect with various vibrations of the multiverse and manipulate them for various effects.

After gaining a modified visor engineered by Earth Two's Harrison Wells, Cisco can trigger his vibes easily and control how long he stays in a vibe.

•Precognition: Cisco can see various events in both the past and future, and sometimes these visions are based in parallel universes to his own. The visions come in the form of dreams or from touching a person or something belonging to them. He can trigger and control the length of his vibes better with a modified visor that was created by E2-Harrison Wells.

•Interdimensional travel: With his connections to the multiverse, Cisco can open breaches and travel to other dimension. He doesn't have much of a handle on this power yet.
[Note: I fully expect this power to be void for game-breaking reasons!]

•Vibrational blasts: He can generate powerful blasts of vibrations from his hands, strong enough to propel people throuh the air. He seems to only be able to use this power in high stress moments and has yet to manage it at will. Note: Injuries to his hands will impede this ability.

•Vibe connection: "Vibers" are connected to each other through their powers and, if they're skilled enough, they can observe each other through the use of their powers. Cisco does not have much in way of control of this aspect of his powers yet, however.

Third-Person Sample: There's always been certain patterns to the way things work in Wonderland. People who disappear can come back, even though they don't always, but they only have their memories of Wonderland in tact within a specific time-limit between their disappearance and their return; memories are currency; and Events have a rough time-table of both their frequency and how long they last. But for whatever reason, this time, it seems like all the rules have been tossed aside.

Cisco has been here for almost two weeks, which is far beyond the length of any Event he can recall being part of the last time he was here. His memories have been perfectly in tact since the second he re-emerged in the hallway that first day. But... he's still here.

He's still here and he isn't entirely sure how to feel about it. There are so many things going on at home that he needs to get back to, but he knows that isn't possible. He won't dare consider tracing his footsteps down that path again. His heart skips in his chest at just the thought of it. It's been almost two years since then for him, he's removed enough from the brunt of it all that the memory can't threaten to drown him, but like every other transgression in his history, it's written into his skin, burned down into his bones, as something he will have to carry with him forever. And the portal project in Wonderland ended worse than the particle accelerator had ever dreamed of being. So. There's still a little knee-jerk twist in his chest when it crosses his mind.

But... if he is truly going to be staying for the foreseeable, again, he supposes he should focus on gathering whatever information he can about the changes around here. And he knows exactly which people to seek out to get the rundown.

First-Person Sample: 4th Wall Thread