AN: Will be lot's of AU events: Barry's defeated Savitar and escaped the speedforce, Kara has only just been let down by James, my attempt at a Karry fanfiction, and I don't own flash or supergirl
Heart broken Hero's
Barry Had only been out of his bizarre post-speed force scrambled brain state when everything went to hell. It started with Iris talking about work at joe's house during supper one day. A new intern had just started at her work and she just wouldn't stop talking about him. Joe kept glancing towards Barry to make sure he was okay, but Barry didn't even acknowledge being bothered…. He trusted Iris after all. Apparently, that was a mistake, a week later he came home and immediately zipped to his room… Only to find Iris with the new intern balls deep inside of her. They didn't even notice him until he broke the sound barrier and shattered anything glass in the house in his attempt to leave.
Barry couldn't stay at star labs, not with Wally and Jessie there, he was little more than hired muscle. He had felt like since he came back everyone simply wanted to know what Iris wanted or what Iris thought, how could he be around that all the time. Of course, that only left Barry one place to go. Star city, he quickly scribbled out a note saying he had to put some distance between some people around here and he would be away for awhile then he took off.
He wasn't even able to acknowledge how fast he ran in his distraught state of mind. He arrived at their lab and simply collapsed, he began to sob and simply cried himself to sleep.
It was an extremely surprised Felicity that arrived in the lab the next morning to find alcohol bottles strewn across the room and the Flash on the floor, apparently, he had attempted in vain to get drunk. The phone rang "Felicity speaking" it was Iris, "Yeah, Barry's here, why? Oh well I guess you can come get him. Yeah same spot as before ok see ya soon." Felicity looked up to see Barry had woken and was listening intensely to her conversation with Iris.
"Iris is coming here?" Barry asked in a pained voice.
"Yeah, as soon as Wally or Jesse can bring her. Why are you here Barry?"
"I was hoping to lay low here for awhile, start fresh I guess…"
Felicity tilted her head, confused, "What about Iris though?"
A pained look flashed across Barry's face, he then proceeded to explain why he was here and now that Iris was on her way, why he couldn't stay. "Where will you go Barry?" Felicity was now concerned for the friend Oliver considered as his younger brother. "They have Cisco and two speedsters, they can find you anywhere on earth pretty much."
"Felicity, thank you for your help, your right, I'll have to visit a different earth then. There is one earth no one knows I visited, earth 38. I have a friend there… Maybe I can crash there." Barry realised he was thinking out loud and turned to Felicity. "Please Felicity, I need your help, this may be the only way for me to recover. Don't tell them where I am going."
She knew instantly how important this was to her friend, "Ok Barry, your secret's safe with me" she smiled at him. "You better get going before they arrive though, I can't imagine they will take long." She added seriously.
After a quick goodbye Barry took off, beginning to vibrate at the same frequency he felt on Kara's earth, the breach opened, and Barry jumped through.
Barry arrived to see a familiar red cape and smiled, rushing towards Kara who was dealing with some bank robbers on a sidewalk. It wasn't until he was within ten feet that Barry realised this figure seemed more muscular… and didn't where a skirt… Then his whole world went black.
Superman
Clark was dealing with a typical bank robbery, easy work for Superman of course but it needed to be done. When he first noticed the red blur, he thought nothing of it. Then it began speeding towards him, Superman responded as per usual to the blur's approach. When the blur got close… he punched it square in the face. Imagine his surprise when it turned out to be a man in a full body jumper.
The man moaned questioningly "Kara?" before he passed out. Clark immediately grabbed hold of the strangely dressed man and took off with only one thought on his mind. If he thought I was Supergirl from my outfit, Kara's identity must be compromise! Clark considered his options and realised the DEO would be the best at extracting information from this man. So, he flew to the DEO and left him in Hank's care.
At the DEO
Barry was having a literal day from hell… First, he finds Iris cheating on him, then Felicity accidently tell Iris where he is, someone in Kara's clothes knocked him out and probably broke his jaw, which already has healed but still hurts! Now to top it off, he's been sent to the DEO and they refuse to believe he's Kara's friend!
"How do you know that name!" An agent he learned to be Alex Danvers asked after delivering another blow to his kidney.
"I'm her friend," Barry gasped finally he managed to get out the rest of what he wanted to say, "I helped her defeat Livewire."
This made Alex pause her next blow, "Wait, you're the Flash? Barry Allen?" Despite not meeting Barry personally last time he was here she had heard plenty about him from her sister once he departed.
"Yeah, that's what I've been trying to tell you," He murmured. Alex reared her arm back and punched him out this time.
"Hey Kara, yeah it's Alex. Listen you should come down to the DEO like ASAP… There's someone here I think you'll wanna see." Alex hung up her phone and then headed for main OPS to meet Kara.
Kara
Kara didn't know what to make of Alex's phone call. She didn't seem distressed yet at the same time she sounded nervous about whatever she needed to show Kara. Why would my sister be nervous to show me anything at the DEO? Kara wondered. She quickly changed into her Supergirl outfit and flew off towards the DEO. Upon her arrival she noticed Alex waiting in the main OPS room, glancing down at her shoes. Weird for the normally confident and assertive agent.
"So, who is so important that you felt I needed to rush to the DEO to see? No sign of villains, no new agents. Why was I needed?" Kara prodded her sister slightly, hoping for some straight forward answers.
Her hopes turned out to be in vain because Alex said was, "It would be better that you just come see him, we aren't even sure he is who he say's he is. Follow me." Kara new she wouldn't be able to pull anything more from her sister, so she just shook her head and did as her sister requested. Upon reaching a door labelled advanced interrogation techniques in the supermax holding facilities they stopped. Alex seemed to cringe slightly as she opened the door, "And here he is."
Kara was horrified by what she saw. She dashed to the garbage can at the corner of the room and hurled up her lunch (which was an extraordinary amount of food) upon seeing the man in this condition. There on the table with his arms and legs bound eagle was the Flash. Except she knew Barry had a natural super fast regenerative system which meant two things. First this was recent and second, what she saw wasn't even close to as bad as it was before.
Barry was barley conscious, he had his left eye swollen shut it liked like his jaw had been shattered. His knows still hadn't been healed which meant the speedforce was focusing all it's efforts into more important injuries, like the complete facial reconstruction needed after superman basically closelined him. The constant abuse via brass knuckles at the DEO certainly didn't aid his appearance, nor did the fact that he had now been here three days and had yet to be fed… All in all, this Barry Allen did not look like the one Kara knew. Barry finally looked up when he noticed Kara in the room, "Supergirl? You came?" He asked.
Kara, ignoring all DEO protocol went over and snapped the metal restraints around Barry's hand's and feet, and helped him stand. Barry attempted to stand up before stumbling forward. Kara managed to catch him before he hit the ground. "When was the last time he ate?" She asked Alex.\
"Umm I think we fed him three day's ago when he first came in…" Alex replied hesitantly.
Kara glared at Alex, "Are you crazy! His diet demands even more calories than mine! We are lucky he hasn't starved to death yet!" She then proceeded to the lunchroom and raid anything anyone brought… The other agents were not to impressed when they found out later. Kara fed Barry the food before he passed out in a chair in the conference room they had moved to. Kara picked Barry up and began to take off.
"Where are you going?" Her sister exclaimed.
"Home," Kara replied simply.
"With Barry?" Alex wasn't sure that was a good idea.
"Yeah, because he doesn't know anyone else and evidently the DEO can't be trusted with his care. Oh and Alex, we are going to discuss this later by the way." And with that Kara took flight. Upon arriving home, she laid Barry down on the couch so he could finally sleep peacefully before heading to bed herself. Hopefully she'd get a chance to figure out what exactly was going on from Barry tomorrow.