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Empty street in Central City filled with deserted buildings that is a result of never repaired damage caused by Zoom's earth 2 metahuman army
Currently Savitar in his full suit of armor with Killer Frost standing beside him. A block down and crouched behind a building's wall is Barry in his Flash suit, while clutching his left side that has an ice spike in it. Barry can feel some his ribs are broken with his back hurting, also due to getting punched and thrown around by Savitar.
"Are you ok?" Iris asked through the com in his cowl.
"No, I'm not" Barry grit through his teeth painfully while pulling the ice spike out of his side.
"Alright if you can get your healing to work somewhat, I have an idea or two for how to beat them without you getting even more hurt… hopefully" Cisco said over the com.
"No Cisco you're not. Barry listen to me, get back here and let your other self-come find me. If it's you he'll still be in love with me and I can talk him down" Iris said.
"What? No forget it" Cisco said before Barry even could.
"Sorry Iris I'm not doing that" Barry replied.
"Barry that's an order. Let me do this and I can talk him down" Iris said snapping.
"No" Barry said after a moment.
"What? You have to listen to me" Iris said surprised.
"No letting you order me around is why I'm hurt in the first place" Barry said grimly.
"Besides who put you in charge in the first place?" Cisco asked.
"The both of you, shut up. Let me think for a moment alone… I'm the only one who can beat them. No one else" Barry said.
Hearing Iris and Cisco about ready to go speak again Barry clicks the com off with being, fed up with getting interrupted or the arguments.
Because like saying just a moment before he needs to think, and frankly despite the team with them over the years there will be the part of Barry who is the loner in the lab.
Running through various ideas Barry remembers something Eobard told him once "Your powers are limited by the mental limitations you place upon them. You can do a lot more only you run from it. But the future Flash understands."
Calming his breathing Barry enters his mental mind palace used to store his thoughts in high-stress situations so he can think rationally. Thinking about what Eobard said, along with just how more powerful Savitar is for a few moments.
Suddenly all that clicks together as Barry realizes what Eobard really means and decides that his old mentor is right. Has been placing limitations of his own making from even his own limited thinking plus fearing what would happen if he really went that far.
Closes his eyes, Barry, deciding to for the first time in his entire life pushes that aside, with truly embracing the power from within himself because of the speed force letting it flow through him completely.
Opening his eyes glancing down can see his wound is already healed as the damaged material is replaced too by the speed force itself, and Barry can feel his bones have healed as well.
As the speed force crackles around his eyes, near his hands and feet Barry standing up takes off in a run. The Flash reaches the speed needed to breach the time barrier literally within two seconds of taking off but does not travel years through time in either direction.
Rather just uses it to maintain the same few minutes while simultaneously running around the entire Earth and without tiring, something Barry knows not even Savitar can achieve.
Moving back into the street where Savitar and Killer Frost is, Barry with no longer doing any time traveling. Eying them both for a second The Flash takes off into a run once more as his entire body is filled with speed force energy with it crackling off him as lighting.
Just as Savitar turns to see The Flash coming towards him it is already too late as Barry already upon his future self. Punching directly into Savitar's armor Barry transfers all the built-up energy from running around the world into that punch which flows through Savitar's armor turning it into dust.
As the world for both Barry's comes back to normal Savitar stumbles back in total shock upon having his armor destroyed like that. Before Killer Forst or Savitar can make a move, The Flash with his right-hand vibrating reaches over placing it into Savitar's chest killing him.
Moments later Savitar fades from existence as the future events which created him never comes to pass since he was not around to create them by killing Iris West. The Flash despite disliking having to kill knows it was needed to stop a monster and if no prison can hold him, knows it will be the same for his future time remnant too.
"You killed him, you killed the man I love" Killer Frost screams out angrily.
Barry glances over is in shock for a moment as Killer Frost raises up her hands sending a massive blast of ice towards him. Thinking on instinct Barry controls the molecules inside his own body to let the ice pass harmlessly through him while throwing a small blast of lighting into Killer Frost.
Enough to render Frost out cold with no damage to her body at all, and as she falls downward Barry has already moved forward carefully catching the unconscious Catlian Snow.
Glancing down at her in concern, Barry thinks over what she said referring to his future self and based on that assumes it's not that far from him either, realizes they have a lot to talk about. Especially given his own feelings towards her that are complicated as well, and even more so for still being engaged to Iris.
Something Barry has the feeling is about to change since Iris and he are in for a long overdue conversation.
"Barry, are you there?" Cisco said over the com.
"Yeah I'm here" Barry said with a tired sigh "It's over. I'll explain everything when I get there."
Suddenly the Flash runs where within a minute is already across the entire city and at the Star Labs building.
Later in the training room
Barry now in normal clothes is sitting on the treadmill going over the past hour where after bringing Catlian back with putting her in the pipeline as the sole remaining prisoner they have. Due to giving most of the metahuman prisoners over to Iron Heights instead of very illegal and at times inhuman cells they used to keep most of the metahuman prisoners in.
Which doesn't plan to keep Caitlin in there forever, just until he can get through to Killer Frost to get his best friend back. And if Barry is being completely honest with himself the woman he loves but never perused it due to his obsession with Iris.
Regarding Iris that is a talk he needs to have, but frankly has been putting it off at the moment. Since he pretty much completely ignored Iris once getting back here, because mostly there were other people around and this a conversation they need to have in private.
"Surprised your not home already" Cisco said walking into the room.
"Needed some time to think. Where are the others?" Barry asked while getting to his feet.
"Joe has some cases to finish up and Iris went to your guy's apartment. What exactly happened out there? Other than Savitar being dead it still doesn't explain how your system went dead for a couple of minutes" Cisco said.
"Probably an effect of me running around the entire earth a few times in the same couple of minutes" Barry replied.
"What?" Cisco asked surprised.
"I needed enough energy to destroy Savitar's armor entirely" Barry said.
"Yeah, how exactly did you pull that off?" Cisco asked.
"I quit putting the mental limitations on myself to keep my powers in check. That's how I healed myself so quickly and beat Savitar" Barry said.
"Yeah" Cisco starts but decides to not bring up the unpleasant topic of killing Savitar for now.
"After beating Savitar I've realized I've really been struggling with certain villains when I could stop them in mere minutes something that I'm going to do instead of wasting time and letting them possibly hurt innocent people" Barry said.
Nodding "I know she's going to be your wife, but Iris is really starting to get on my bad side with how she orders us all around like thinking she's the boss. Reminds me of Felicity's egotistical attitude" Cisco said.
"Yeah it does, and Iris is on my last nerve as well. Besides I don't think you'll have to worry about her being my wife for much longer" Barry replied.
"You're going to call it off?" Cisco asked.
Barry gives a nod in response.
"Thank you, I was wondering when you would come to your senses. Now maybe you are going to stop forgetting about the rest of us" Cisco said with a sense of relief.
"What?" Barry asked confused.
"You really don't know, do you? Barry ever since you've began dating Iris and especially since discovering Savitar was going to kill her she has been all you've been focused on. You don't spend any time with Joe, Caitlin, Harry or me anymore" Cisco said.
"Since all I've been doing is focusing on her" Barry said in realization and understanding "Even at the cost of the people in the city."
"Yep" Cisco replied.
"That's something I'm going to change, I have to" Barry said.
"What are we going to do about Caitlin?" Cisco asked.
"We are going to get her back from Killer Frost" Barry said.
"Yeah but it's not going to be easy. Then again it never is. It might not even work" Cisco said.
"Well I'm like Luke Skywalker, I'm not going to give up on hoping otherwise" Barry replied.
"Yeah tell the people who did The Last Jedi that cause they for sure did" Cisco said.
"Very true. It really was bad and I'm going to be sure to never see anything they produce ever again" Barry said.
"Disney and Lucasfilm for sure killed Star Wars with the last film. With even making the female characters in this new stuff from the films to the comics act like Felicity or worse at times" Cisco said.
"Thanks for reminded me of that" Barry replied with a slight shutter.
"Hey, it wasn't pleasant for me to think about either" Cisco said.
"One thing I've wondered given how you can view other worlds did you ever discover a universe where we actually existed in the Star Wars universe?" Barry asked.
"Yep. I've seen one where Oliver and you are fighting the Empire along with Luke, Han and the rest of them" Cisco said with a grin.
"Ah sweet" Barry replied a similar smile.
"By the way if Iris does kick you our or you need the space my door is always open" Cisco said.
"Thanks" Barry said towards the man he considers his best friend and knows the feeling is mutual.
"Good luck with Iris" Cisco said before turning around and leaving.
I hope you all enjoyed this. As always let me know what you think in a review if you want.
Now the first thing is yeah, I pretty much just let Barry go all the way for using his power and like Eobard said at some point in the Flash series is the future Barry from 2024 can go as fast as he wants.
And really the reason why you never see in shows, films or comics is heroes like Barry or Clark Kent using the full extent of their powers to say just take the bad guys down before they can blink is the story would be extremely short.
I felt like exploring something like that in this fic.
Moving on yeah, I know I threw Iris under the bus for how neither Barry or Cisco like her ordering them around which is my dig at the Flash showrunners in season 4.
Like I know for sure in the Flash 4x02 episode Iris told Barry directly how to beat the metahuman of the week threat. And I know that's just one of the times they kind of have now made Iris the unofficial leader of Team Flash, very similar to Felicity being the unofficial leader of Team Arrow.
Well, the biggest one is Iris being the leader of Team Flash when Barry was gone despite the fact she has no real leadership experience when other people like Cisco or Joe would have been way more qualified.
Since this does take place in season 3 of The Flash I wanted to address one of the biggest issues with season 3 of the Flash, is they've turned Barry into this self-centered winy, jerk who only cared about keeping Iris alive.
Not the hero from the end of season 1 who put everybody else above his own personal needs of saving his mother.
Moving on yes, I know The Last Jedi film was not out yet as of Flash season 3 but I simply moved the film up for being released so I could use it in Barry and Cisco's conversation.
Finally, this is going to be a Barry/Caitlin pairing since I want to actually try my hand at writing this. Personally, I'd say the characters have chemistry and there have been hints of they might care for each more than just friends in the show, but nothing ever really came about it.
Until the next chapter