Jailbreak.
Disclaimer: Nearly all characters in this story are of DC origin. The only exceptions are Amelia and Echo, who are Sigma and Millie creations.
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Note: Here we are in what I call the Eight Weeks of Sigma due to my ability to update at least once a week for the next eight weeks. Now this story is the sequel to SuperEarth– Empowered, to Mutant Earth and also slightly Sliders: A Millma Verse Mission. But you DO NOT NEED TO KNOW THOSE STORIES if you haven't read them – it's all nicely explained inside these chapters. Also, please remember that while Karry Prime is still in 2017, this story is set so solidly in the present, it's actually August 2018.
Chapter 1 – Bad Decisions.
Barry sat on the couch at his parents' house. It was late, and Henry and Nora had already gone to bed – he'd only just come in a few minutes ago, spending his evenings as the Flash alongside Supergirl; although he tried to cover the Central half of the National-Central Cities, with Kara, aka., Supergirl, covering the National. They made a good team, and with some of their friends – Cisco, Winn, Wally, Jesse, Belle, Professor Stein and Jax, and even Cat Grant's son Adam; not to mention Superman – they had even formed a super team, although they had been debating the name of said group.
This night however, it had just been the Flash and Supergirl on patrol. There were petty crimes that the Flash had helped stop but overall it had been a quiet night. Barry was coping well with his new life – he had taken the advice from both Karry Universe and New Justice to heart, even followed his own heart and since his fiancée had been taken from him, he and Kara were now an item. Of sorts. He wanted to take things slow, while Kara was a little hot-headed in their relationship. It was funny, but annoying at times.
Barry turned when he heard the creek of the staircase and saw his sister looking cautiously at him.
"Millie?" He asked pleasantly. He was trying to keep cool with her too – ever since the events with the Enchantress last year, Millie had been acting odd. Yes, she had become an Empowered like so many across the country, but her focus on finding other Empowered had been a little freaky up until Christmas; coming to STAR Labs whenever she could, working with Cisco and Winn whenever they were free, but since Christmas she had become slightly reclusive and didn't reveal why. Now, he and their parents just let her get on with it.
"Hey. Can we talk?" Millie asked; Barry sat up and nodded.
"You okay?" Barry asked, a little cautiously.
"Erm…" Millie didn't seem to know what to say as she sat on the couch next to her brother.
"Take your time," Barry smiled, keeping distant.
"Do you remember Echo?" The words came out quick, but Barry understood them. Although he couldn't quite remember what she meant.
"Echo…?" Barry asked, frowning. He'd come across a lot of Empowered over the past year, stopping a lot more, it was hard to keep track of who was who these days.
"Echo!" Millie was a little more insistent as she almost growled the words, Barry raised his hands.
"Refresh my memories," he stated calmly.
"The guy last year. He turned up to help us against Enchantress, then recruited Belle and I to that stupid multiverse mission," Millie explained.
"Oh yeah," Barry remembered now. The guy who had decoded the message on Enchantress's tomb, then took the two girls before their family even knew. He frowned at that. It would have been nice for Millie to at least tell them they were going to another Earth before they went…
"Remember what I told you about him? About the injustice that Mutant Earth," she almost spat the name, "did to him?"
"They locked him up because of his connection to his doppelganger who was trying to kill all Ciscos, yeah," Barry remembered that – his Cisco felt insulted no one came to kill him, even after Belle had told him that the multiverse communication system was adapted into a web that protected him. He had always been safe.
"They locked him up simply because they didn't trust him," Millie folded her arms at that and Barry sighed.
"Millie… they had reasonable doubt against him. He turned up at the perfect opportunity to help us – almost too perfect, now I think on it – and then took you and Belle without a word, I don't trust that," Barry reasoned.
"We're grown women, we can go where we want to go. Other women are mothers at our age," Millie countered.
"Mothers who still have parents and family who care for them. What, are you pregnant?" Barry tried to defuse the situation. "Because I thought you and Wally split…?"
"I'm not pregnant, Wally's a jackass and I want your help," Millie stated quickly. Again, Barry sighed.
"This really is about Echo, isn't it?" He asked.
"Yes. I want to rescue him," Millie was straight to the point this time.
"No," Barry shook his head; Millie's brow furrowed in confusion at this. "He's locked up on another Earth. We can't go over there and break him out. Besides, we talked about this, remember? Alex even called my counterpart on that world to ask what was going on after you and Belle got back. We can't do this."
"Yes we can!" Millie stood at this, the couch Barry was sitting on suddenly flipping over in her anger, but Barry phased through it before it could do damage.
"Millie!" Barry scalded, moving over and grabbing his sister by the arm now, but she pulled back.
"I'm sorry," she didn't sound it though. "I just… look, please, can we go to STAR Labs? I want to ask Alex… see if Cisco can help. We could do something. I mean we all have powers, don't we? Only some of Mutant Earth do. We could get Echo out, even if it means imprisoning him on our world."
"This means a lot to you, doesn't it?" Barry realized this as he looked back to the damaged couch, then back to Millie who lowered her head.
"Yeah," she stated simply.
"Okay then," Barry said. "Tomorrow morning though. We'll go to the DEO, run this by Director Danvers and see what she suggests."
"Okay." Millie nodded. "Thank you," she moved back to the stairs but then paused. "I am sorry about the couch."
"Tell mom and dad that, not me," Barry smiled as she moved back up to her room.
Barry looked back at the couch though, momentarily running a hand through the hair on the back of his head before speeding around and putting the couch back in place. The back was broken though, and he sighed as he headed up to his room now. That was something else Millie had broken with her powers.
-SuperEarth-
It was close to noon when Barry and Millie had gathered everyone. The room was pretty full as it included Kara, Barry, Alex, Millie, Wally, Professor Stein, Jax, Jesse, Cisco, Winn and Belle – who was stuck in the doorway due to the crowd. After they explained that it was about Echo, the room atmosphere had got colder, but Barry and Millie had convinced Alex to call Mutant Earth – she even used her account to get access, having been heavily modified by Prime for exclusive access at Alex's request.
"Mutant Earth," a teenage boy answered the video chat in what appeared to be a barn. "Kal speaking."
"And Lara," a girl came into view next to Kal, smiling at the camera as Kara Danvers frowned at the girl having the same name as her dog and former aunt. "Wow, that's really another world?"
"Are you really…?" Kara spoke, not helping but smiling at a young version of her cousin.
Before she could finish, or Kal could answer, another Kara's voice was heard. "Kal!" Kara Kent yelled, coming in to frame. She was holding a baby in her arms. "You need to finish your chores. You too Lara. You stay at my house, you work on my farm. It doesn't matter if you're Lois Lane's little sister – those are the rules."
"I heard the phone," Kal interrupted his cousin, pointing at the screen and Kara Kent finally turned to see the system on.
"Oh. I'll take care of this," Kara Kent said. "Go you two." Kal and Lara jumped down and ran out as Kara Kent got into position, carefully holding the baby still. "Well… you're not Karry." She addressed the room. "What Earth is this?"
"SuperEarth," Kara Danvers finally told her alternate. "We wanted to talk to you…"
"We want Echo!" Millie shouted out.
Barry put an arm around his sister, but she pulled free. "Let Kara and Alex handle this," Barry hissed, knowing demanding something of another world would not earn them favors.
"Echo? Who's Echo?" Kara Kent asked, rocking the baby in her arms. Barry pushed his sister back out of the screen at this – that would not cause a good reaction from her.
"Last year," Alex said, deciding to take the lead in a diplomatic matter, "a world hopper and his double came into our multiverse alliance. He recruited many of you for a mission to stop Cisco's death."
"Oh yeah," Kara Kent said. "Cisco's apartment was demolished, but I got to punch him." Kara Kent had a smirk on her face at that. "But he's locked down tight as we all agreed upon."
"The thing is, he did help our world," Alex said, choosing her words carefully. "And we understand why you did not trust him. We also understand that not everyone who helps you has good intentions, but if we could just come by your STAR Labs, maybe talk to him, even just transfer him to our holding cells…?"
"You want to transfer a world hopper off the world he's imprisoned on to just lock him up again?" Kara Kent asked, confused by that, obviously finding the very premise ludicrous. "Look, this was handled a year ago. He's going nowhere. As for if you want to stop by STAR Lab Museum, go right ahead. I think Cisco and Caitlin are there today. I've got farm work to do." Kara Kent ended the call as the baby she was holding started to cry.
"That was rude," Millie remarked, but Kara Danvers sighed.
"She's a new mom and works full time on a farm, she didn't need to talk to us," Kara admitted, looking to Millie now.
"Besides, you heard that," Alex stated, sounding a little pleased though. It solved the issue; Mutant wasn't going to release Echo to them, so there wasn't much they could do. "No point, case closed."
"No. They won't give him over," Millie said thoughtfully. "You heard her: Cisco and Caitlin are at STAR Labs Museum, meaning they are not at their jail anymore and Kara and Barry are at the farm. We can go in and get him. If there's anyone there… well, we all have powers."
"You want to jump to another world, possibly fight them, to break Echo out? To just take him out of one prison and into the other?" Alex addressed Millie now, very serious. "Who would this benefit? I agreed to call them, but honestly I do not see the point now."
"It would benefit us," Millie hadn't slept all night but didn't look tired as she stared the Director down. "We can give him a fair trial, a proper release. We can save him."
"And how would we give him a fair trial?" Alex asked. "No trial would be fair. All we have to go by is our gut feelings."
"This was over a year ago, anyway." Stein now spoke up as his other half of Firestorm, Jax listened in. "Why now?"
"Because I figured they had moved on and I was right. They don't even remember him," Millie was true as recently she and Cisco had checked in on Cisco's double on Mutant Earth, and apart from their Jesse waking up as a speedster, nothing too remarkable had happened. It seemed the perfect time to go over there and get Echo out, Millie reasoned to herself.
"Wait, we are really talking about a jailbreak?" Winn now asked, frowning.
"Yes. No. Probably," Millie dismissed. "We just need to go and get Echo."
"So what, you actually want us to go over there and break someone out of their prison?" Barry frowned.
"Uh huh," Millie nodded, not looking her brother in the eyes.
"Look, I'll back your play or whatever you want, Millie, but this is big. It's not like taking down an Empowered on this Earth; this is taking someone out of another world, another prison, and bringng him back here. We won't have friends there after this," Barry realized the precautions as he spoke them.
"Kara?" Alex looked to Kara, who had remained silent at this as she thought things through. Her Kryptonian dog, also named Lara, was curled on her Aunt Astra's lap, who sat nearby, listening in but silent.
"I don't know…" Kara stated as Millie looked imploring. "I mean, nothing they said is technically wrong. Everyone who was on this mission to save the Ciscos, besides Belle and Millie, of course, agreed they could not trust him."
"I was neural," Belle pointed out in the doorway. Millie ignored her – hers and Belle's friendship had deteriorated over the past year.
"Still," Kara dismissed Belle's claim now, "and if I'm honest, I didn't trust him. Echo."
"How can you say that?" Millie turned on Kara now. "He helped us stop Enchantress, he helped you…"
"He came in at the worst possible time, Millie, and with all the information we needed." Kara stated, as Barry nodded. He had told Millie something similar last night. "And a year has given me a chance to think on it all, and I can't help but wonder if it was some elaborate scheme to make us trust him to gain access to our multiverse web thing. How do we know he was not using us for some personal scheme?" Millie seemed lost for words at this. "And let's says you're right and he's innocent. We're risking a war here with another Earth. Who knows what they would do to counteract this invasion? Who knows what Earths would join them? We could be putting ourselves in a giant risk for little reward, and no friends. We'd lose Karry as a friend over this definitely; more than likely Prime as well, not to mention New Justice. No, this is not worth it."
"Kara, if Krypton had not been destroyed you should have joined the Military Guild. You would have made a fine General," Astra spoke up, hearing Kara speak with a very militant attitude – thinking of the results and gains of doing this.
"I probably am on Prime," Kara remarked, remembering something that Kara had told her about their surviving Prime double, but fuzzy on the details.
"I don't know about all that," a new voice entered the room, and some turned to see Adam Grant, Cat Grant's son, next to Belle, who moved off. The man had tried to pursue Belle over the past year, but men weren't her type. She was probably the sole reason he remained affiliated with the DEO at STAR Labs; then again, his powers were useful. "But I could help tip the balance," Adam added.
"You could!" Millie jumped at the opportunity. "You can easily present the image that everything is fine while we get Echo out." Adam's power was to create visual illusions to anyone in range – fake an image of calm or danger when the reverse was actually going on. He had been great help in the past year in stopping confused or dangerous Empowered.
"We haven't even decided if we're going over there…" Alex stated.
"I kind of want to," Cisco spoke up as Alex turned to him. "Prime and Mutant are so arrogant with me. I'm just as good as them and I could prove it."
"I'm with you brother," Winn stated, almost automatically as they fist bumped. "Besides, stopping time would kind of help with this rescue mission."
"Rescue mission? I thought this was a Jailbreak?" Kara pointed out.
"Tomay-to, tomah-toe," Belle smirked, and Kara blinked at that. "I'm still neutral over this whole situation, but I do see Millie's point and if this helps wake up some of the arrogance on the other worlds, then I'm all for it."
"What arrogance?" Barry was the one to speak up.
"They all got their powers ages ago," Millie added, seeming happier now the tables were turning in her favor. "They made this multiverse web, they think they know better… well, they don't always. Prime, Alien, Karry, Mutant… they all think they know better than us, but just because they've been doing it longer, doesn't mean they honestly know what they're doing. Or can accept change when it's dancing naked in front of them in a big hat."
"I'm out," Wally said, having been standing to the side, his arms crossed and listening. "This is stupid and I don't think they are arrogant. I think they are being cautious."
"Who asked you?" Millie snapped, not seeming to happy that her ex was even here. She hadn't paid the slightest bit of attention to him since they gathered. Wally just glowered at her.
"I'm not in either," Jesse spoke up. She was standing next to Wally by the door and Millie turned to her now. Jesse would have been useful with her abilities to walk through walls. "This is not a good idea. It's not right. Mutant is not our world. We get no say on who they imprison or not, and Echo isn't even from our world anyway. It's too high a risk," With that, Jesse and Wally walked out together, their voices now heard.
"I also do not see the logic in this," Stein said, standing with Jax next to him. "Possibly starting a war with another Earth for a man we barely know who could have been using us the entire time. It is not a good decision."
"If Gray's out then I'm out," Jax said. "Sorry." The two halves of Firestorm promptly left the lab.
"Oh, who needs them," Millie glowered at the door where the four people had already left.
"I can't condone this," Alex stated, a little loudly to draw attention back to herself. She had been thinking it over as people lad left and the cons far outweighed the pros. "If you do this… it's not with the DEO's backing. Winn, Cisco, Belle, you're all under DEO orders not to do it and breaking that…"
Winn and Cisco looked at one another at this warning before Cisco sighed. "I'm sorry, Director. If it costs us our jobs, then so be it."
"Yes!" Millie punched the air at this as she now moved over to Winn and Cisco before looking to Belle who hadn't moved. "Belle?" she asked as Alex muttered something under her breath.
"Dad would tell me not to do this… he'll be so pissed I disobeyed orders, but screw him, like I said, this could send the other worlds a message," she moved over to Millie at this as Adam silently followed her, not under DEO orders, so had the freedom of choice. The five of them seeming confident already.
"I'm sorry, but this is just stupid," Kara stated, moving over to Alex now as her aunt watched on and her dog slept. "I can't do this. I can't go."
"Kara…?" Millie looked suddenly upset on this.
"I'm sorry Millie but no, you're all making a mistake. Maybe I think like those worlds who you call arrogant, maybe I am more like them than you think, because I agree with them and your brother should agree too," she looked to Barry who bit his lip. "Barry?"
"I already agreed to help her, no matter what," Barry stated. Kara groaned. He had, she knew. "I get what you're all saying, but I can't break a promise to my sister."
"If you guys start a war…" Alex now warned.
"We won't bring it back home," Cisco stated as Barry gave Kara genuinely apologetic look as he moved over to the little group.
"How this is even happening…?" Alex stated, but Kara had already turned on her heel and marched out of the room, her face thunder as Barry momentarily considered going after her, but knew he'd made a promise to Millie and he wouldn't break that. Kara would understand, she should. Kryptonian attitude was all based on honor, after all. Besides, Astra had already moved to follow her niece, and Lara, annoyed at being woken, trotted after her mistress with Astra too.
"I'm sorry boss," Winn spoke up, not able to say anything else at this, but Alex sighed as she shook her head.
"On your heads, be it. Go before I have you all arrested or something. And if they catch you and arrest you, we're not coming for you," she stated as she now followed Astra and Lara out of the room.
"Cisco's the only one who can Earth hop, so she has a point," Adam spoke up thoughtfully.
"Thank you," Millie however grinned now at the other five.
"Save that until we have Echo locked up here," Belle snapped at her friend. "I'm doing this for other reasons. Wait, where exactly are we going? Last we checked their jail was in STAR Labs, but they just said the labs were now a museum?"
Winn and Cisco looked at each other before Cisco spoke up. "They moved it to the STAR Labs owned warehouse; I looked while you lot were discussing."
"Heh," Millie smirked as she looked to Cisco who now moved his hand – his powers were different on this world compare to the others, as he didn't need goggles or equipment to look into, and breach, other worlds. Just concentration – and he concentrated now on Mutant Earth. Just outside the warehouse.
A blue rip opened before the small group and Millie ran forward first, followed by Adam, Winn and Belle. Cisco turned to look at Barry at this, as Cisco needed to be the last one through to close the breach.
"Bar…?" he started, knowing the man had doubts.
"My double's going to kill us for this," Barry sighed as he nevertheless moved through the portal. Cisco chuckled to himself as he left, and the breach closed.
-SuperEarth-
Astra, Alex and Lara found Kara in Alex's office by the computer. There was a dent in the metal desk, proof that she'd pounded the thing in anger, but this didn't bother her aunt as Astra took a chair next to Kara.
"Little one…?" she started.
"They're stupid. I can't believe Barry went along with this. All year and Millie, after all this time…" she wasn't making too much sense, but Astra didn't care as she put an arm around her niece. "We can't let this happen."
"Who you going to call?" Alex spoke up by the doorway and Lara looked over to Alex and yapped pleasantly.
"Sorry?" Astra asked this before Kara.
"The multiverse system," Alex explained. "This is my office and my login has unrestricted access thanks to Prime Earth's special modifications."
"Then how did we make that call before?" Astra asked, confused now.
"Because it's run through the users here and I logged in on my account out there…?" Alex stated, confused to this question. Why were they bothering about this now? They had a mess to clean up.
"We're going to call another world. Warn them," Kara confirmed. "Stop this before it goes too far."
"You want to tell on your friends. Are you sure that's wise?" Astra asked.
"Prime, Karry, they are my friends too," Kara said. "They have helped us a couple of time. If it wasn't for Prime… well, I might have never found Barry and Zoom might have destroyed us. We can't do this to them."
"Okay little one," Astra said with a nod
"So, which Earth are you calling?" she looked to Kara, "Mutant to warn them?"
"Prime," Kara turned to smile weakly at her sister. "You heard Kara Kent. They are doing farm work and we don't know if anyone is near their system. Besides, we need advice. And fast."
"Okay," Alex had moved into the office now and put her hand on her sister's shoulder. This wasn't the best day for her being the Director to the DEO.
"Sorry about the desk," Kara added suddenly as she turned on the computer. Alex had to laugh at that.
Post-chapter note 1: I hope you enjoyed. This is part 1 of 4 chapters, the next one to be updated next Monday. As I've said on Facebook and above, this is the Eight Weeks of Sigma, with more work on the way after this story.
Post-chapter note 2 (PLEASE READ): While my stories are not as well-received as CharmedMilliE's, and I cannot update as regularly as her (these eight weeks aside), I am aware that plenty of people read my work, but do not review. This is perfectly fine, but discouraging when you don't really know who's reading or what people genuinely think. It only takes 30 seconds to put a simple 'good chapter' comment or even 'bad chapter' or similar, and you don't even need to log in (although having an account helps for communication), so I urge you, if you're reading this, please leave a comment, negative or positive so I know that I have an audience. Thank you.
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