About three years ago. Back when I was still watching the CW TV Flarrowverse shows I had thought up and drafted a few chapters of a Flarrowverse and Avengers Crossover. With Endgame blowing us off our seats I decided to trial run this story and get my readers opinion on whether they want me to try and continue this. It will be slow since I am more dedicated to completing Last Refuge but I wanted to throw this out there. Tell me what you think.
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Cisco Ramon sat in his uber comfortable swivel chair tapping his fingertips against the cold steel panel of the large desk that was his worktable. His eyes flitted from the Flashes ear piece which he was supposed to be working on to his wireless PS4 controller that was lying conveniently right next to the aforementioned ear piece. True Barry needed his earpiece fixed; after his tussle with Zoom which resulted in the death of the evil speedster had rendered it damaged, but these last few weeks had been just tension and pain and heartache and desolation. He could barely handle looking at Barry these days as the pain in his eyes at having to take a life and also the pain that Zoloman had put him through shone so clearly.
He was sure that his friend was going to do something immensely stupid soon, hence Cisco's current residence was permanently fixed to Star Labs because the nerdy genius knew whatever Barry was going to do would involve their headquarters and, he dreaded to admit it, the Particle Accelerator pipeline. As soon as he picked up Barry's signature Cisco planned to talk the man out of attempting some ludicrous plot that involved Barry, the Speed force, possible his parents and maybe even Zoom.
But until the Flash decided to show up Cisco had to make a choice. To work or to play, to pass the time? Ciscos flitting gaze switched from controller to earpiece until be picked up the blue dualshock, it was calling to him!, and swiped at the TouchPad to bring the console to life.
The entire screen in front of him lit up and Injustice Gods Among Us came on. He grinned and tapped the X Button on the start screen and began choosing a mode to play. Out of the corner of his eye though he caught a glimpse of a red light blinking rapidly and turned around sharply minimizing the game and gaping at the image in front of him. It was a radar view of STAR Labs and the pipeline and a heat signature was flitting around the Accelerator so fast that the imaging system couldn't keep up. It kept showing the heat signature jumping from place to place.
"Barry! What the hell...?" Cisco muttered to himself and hit the comm button to ask his friend what he was doing...only to hear his own tiny voice broken up in static come out of the ear piece sitting on his desk. "Shit!l" He cursed and leapt for the phone pressing the emergency button signaling all of Team Flash available to make their way to headquarters ASAP.
He then turned on the internal speakers in the accelerator and tried to speak to Barry. But the Flash was not listening, not slowing down, if anything he was getting faster by the second. Cisco glanced at the glass case and cursed once again realizing that the Tachyon device was gone as well. "Shit, shit, shit. Fucking shit, Barry! What the hell are you thinking?!"
The comm rang in and he jabbed at the accept button. "Cisco?" Came Caitlins worried voice over the speaker. "What's going on?" he voice reflected controlled panic and the rushing noise in the background suggested she was in her car probably heading towards the lab.
"Cait!" Cisco yelled into the comms. "Barry's gone crazy! He snuck in to the lab and stole the speed cannon and is now zipping around the pipeline." If it was any other day he would whooped at the curse that Dr Snow let out, but right now all he felt was panic. "His comm is with me and he won't stop even when I yelled at him through the pipeline speakers."
"Hold on, Cisco. I'm on my wa-" Cisco frowned at the abrupt halt in Caitlins words.
"Cait?" he asked hesitantly.
"Cisco... I... uh... I just turned into the corner leading up to STAR Labs and... There's something going on..."
"Something? Cait what...?"
"People are running away and there's... there's this reddish cloud forming around the lab..."
Cisco's heart plummeted and he switched the monitors to the closest CCTVs that showed the lab. "Fuck me," he whispered in shock at the massive static cloud being generated from STAR labs and knew the cause immediately.
"Caitlin?"
"Yeah." Her voice was subdued almost fearful but at the same time determined.
"Run. Go as far away from STAR Labs as you can get. Please."
"I'm not leaving you." She replied the steel in her voice hardening.
"Cait. I don't know what's going to happen and I don't know what this cloud Barry's creating will do but trust me; the I've met the metahuman you and I like you a whole lot better. Please please please get out of town before this thing blows. I'll try to talk Barry down from this. Please Caitlin." His imploring must have worked because a second later...
"Okay Cisco, but I'm not giving up. I'm calling Felicity maybe Oliver can talk some sense into Barry before it's too late."
Cisco nodded even though she couldn't see him and disconnected the comm. He turned the comms in the tunnel back on and tried to get Barry to stop but the Flash just wasn't listening.
That's when it hit him. Cisco clutched his head in agony as image after image of people and places he didn't know and had never seen started appearing in front of his eyes.
The first image was of a young beautiful blonde woman wearing a blue suit with red knee high boots and a flowing red cape, there was a large red 'S' embedded in a triangular shield emblazoned on her chest. She seemed to be under a very large spacey looking thing that she was lifting out into orbit.
Cisco groaned as the image flashed in his head and he fumbled for his visors. The next image was of a dark haired woman dressed in combat attire similar to what ARGUS field agents wore normally. She was stumbling up to what looked like a one man space pod and opening the cockpit. One last look around for her showed him his previous vibe being displayed on a large screen; the woman in red and blue lifting the space thing out into orbit. Also strewn around the room Cisco could see people all over the floor rolling and clutching their heads in painful agony much like Cisco was doing.
He finally clasped his hands around the visor as the second vibe ended but putting it on did nothing to ease his pain and he tossed the visor aside stumbling towards Caitlins triage area already feeling another vibe coming on. He grabbed a morphine drip and hung the bag in the stand, he tired a surgical glove tightly around his forearm to pop up a vein and unceremoniously pushed in the intravenous needle. He turned the wheel of the dosage to maximum capacity and screamed out loud as the next vibe assaulted his mind.
A tall man in a black high tech looking suit with a long black ominous looking cape and wearing a cowl that had pointy little horns sticking up each side of it, stood next to a man wearing similar colors to the woman who had gone into orbit previously; even the S was there. In between them holding a sword and a shield was an Xena-esque woman dressed in form fitting armor and a headdress that was more or less a crown.
In front of them towered a huge mountain of a thing that put King Shark to shame before his very eyes Cisco saw the monster run towards the trio and the three get ready to fight a losing battle.
The vision faded leaving Cisco gasping for breath but the morphine had finally kicked in and as the pain in his head lessened he settle back, knowing that the world was going to hell outside, not knowing what happened to Barry or Caitlin but knowing that another vibe was on its way.
And so it went; endless visions that had him screaming or gasping or crying desperately.
'A man leaping across rooftops wearing a dark red outfit with small horns on the top. He had a baton in his hand which split in two and a long cable shot out hooking onto a fire escape and enabling him to swing over to another rooftop.'
'A woman sat in a chair fielding calls with a dark skinned man looked on eagerly. The door of the office had a plaque that read "Alias Investigations".'
'Another man swinging across the city only this one was dressed in a red and blue skin tight costume that had weird ropes shooting out of his wrists latching onto the sides of a building and supporting his weight so he could swing effortlessly.'
'A man in a metal suit with thrusters under his feet and in his palms propelling him into the sky.'
'A man wearing red, white and blue, star spangled suit holding a circular shield, also red white and blue with a star in the center.'
'A woman with super fast reflexes, dressed in a black skin tight body suit with deep red hair, taking out a group of attacking men. Occasional sparks flew out of her wrists as it made contact with their necks.'
Cisco screamed once again this time not in pain, because of the morphine, but at the sheer intensity of the images. He was unconsciously drooling from his mouth and tears had long since been flowing down his cheeks.
In between images having a sense of clarity he somehow grabbed the straps on the side of the bed and haphazardly restrained himself across the chest and legs. Then the visions came again. Faster this time.
'A golden city suspended in space on a supposedly floating island. A man with long blonde hair and short beard wearing battle armor and a red cape holding a hammer. A slim dark haired woman standing next to him, holding two swords in her hands. A group of monsters lay dead at their feet.'
'A farmhouse in a remote area. A man with short cropped hair, a dark haired woman and their three children.'
'A large green something; angry and desolate but slowly calming enough to change slowly into a tired middle aged man.'
'A huge robotic head the size of the moon floating in space. A dog in a space suit. A man in a long red coat and mask. A green skinned woman. A talking tree and a bipedal also talking murderous racoon.'
'A Strange man with a short beard. Bandage wrapped arms slowly unraveling to reveal pale scarred hands. A high collared colorful coat and underneath a crisp suit. There was a strange glow around his hands.'
The screams that Cisco let out at the intensity of his visions could have been heard for miles if the effect of Barry's running had not caused the whole building to start collapsing in on of itself.
As the final vision faded Cisco gasped a tired breath. His eyes were no longer leaking tears but trails of blood were leaking from the whites of his eyes. His nose and ears had bled too and even the morphine flooding his system could not dampen his pain any longer. He lost consciousness.
Barry whipped into the room and looked around horrified at the destruction he had caused. Or more specifically had been forced to cause. Seeing his one of his best friends lying there on the bed that he normally occupied bleeding from his eyes and ears was not something he was prepared for, though.
He flashed in dodging the falling debris of their headquarters around him and scooped his friend up in his arms, taking him outside the Flash deposited Cisco on the sidewalk and checked his vitals as STAR Labs finally not able to handle the stress, collapsed.
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So the scale of this crossover is rather large. And it needs commitment which I'm not good at. But I want to give this a go at some point. At any rate I will be posting the remaining chapters immediately so readers can see where this is going but as it stands positive response is what gets this fic off the ground. Next Chapter is up!