Paranormal/Extranormal Earth.
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Note 1: So, I want to explain this a little bit before you all start reading. Paranormal Earth debuted in Slider – A Millma Verse Mission, and quite frankly, it didn't take off as I expected. Then, Millie and I made plans to use this world for her New Justice story, my thinking it would bump up this world a little more and make it New Justice's twin, in a way – but that kinda backfired on us. There is a genuine dislike of Paranormal which I can understand but don't like, and as I can't write as often/weekly as Millie, I can't write a long story to give this world a better light. So… I've kind of cheated here. What I mean is that on our Facebook page, and through comments left on New Justice, I collated ideas on how to improve this world and this story is the result. I hope it's enjoyed.
Note 2: I don't expect many readers/reviewers to this, but will comment that while this story could be considered a copy of CharmedMilliE's New Justice recent three-parter, I assure you it is not. Millie was very open with her plans for that with me, but at the time of writing this chapter, I had yet to read it. Any similarities are truly coincidental and prove Millie and I can read each other's minds these day. Hehe.
The New Normal – A Paranormal/Extranormal Earth Story.
A portal opened in the streets of Central-National City and a flash of light shot out, skidding to a stop as the flash, a young woman, stopped to take a breather.
"Man, I've not run that fast for… well…" she muttered, stretching as she looked to the sky. "Time travel! Dad warned you about that, Rach, but still you did it. Stupid… Stupid! I hope I didn't mess things too badly because in TV shows… well, better get back to dad, explain myself…" she started to move off, noting she was in the National City part of the twin cities, but paused as something caught her eye in a shop window. It was a merchandise shop, but it was the t-shirt on display that had caught her eye.
'I was saved by the three Flashes' it read. Rach had to pause at that as she muttered "Three Flashes?" – as far as she knew, only her dad went by the title Flash, and only she and he were speedsters on this Earth. Her sister Jonnie had no intention of being a hero and Rach had only been training for a couple of weeks; her connection to the speedforce, having been born with it, had helped her progress a lot quicker, but she hadn't even debuted as the hero she wanted to be yet. The shirt was weird. Maybe it was a typo, or a joke shop?
She was about to move off, shrugging, when someone called to her. She turned to see a woman smiling her way. "Hey Ms. Flash, is that a new suit? I prefer the other one – sorry!" The woman waved though as she moved off and Rach paused once more, frowning. She wasn't even in a superhero suit, just some training thing her dad had put together for her.
"Okay, that was weird," she didn't think people had taken notice of her training or had given her cute nicknames yet. It was weirdly nice though. "Perhaps I better go to POD instead of my dad. They could shed some light on this." With that, she ran off.
…
The headquarters to the military origination her father sometimes worked for seemed the same as always, but Rach had only ever been here a handful of times, so she'd never really paid too much attention, however the military moving about seemed to be in the right dress code and the geeks by their interactive computer screen projectors didn't seem to have changed. She'd have to tread carefully though, as POD were pretty strict, especially with superheroes.
"Hey, Ms. Flash," one of the agents called to Rach and she had to pause once more. It was that name again. Ms. Flash. "What are you doing here?" the agent continued.
"Oh, erm, I just wanted to check something out…" Rach started as she looked to the agent's nametag. "Can you tell me where Director Waller's office is, Agent Vasquez?"
"Who?" Vasquez replied, frowning in confusion.
"Director Waller. The woman who runs the joint," her heart was beating quicker now with worry. What had she done when she'd travelled in time? She'd only gone back twenty or so years. Was this her fault?
"No one here goes by that name," a familiar voice called, and Rach had to smile at Alex Danvers coming up. Without thinking, Rach moved over to the woman, about to kiss her, but Alex pushed her back.
"Hey, watch it, Ms. Flash…" Alex warned, confusing Rach as she paused.
"I thought we'd moved beyond hiding our relationship?" Rach muttered, annoyed now. True, she and Alex had only known each other since Jay had introduced them, but Alex moved quickly when it came to relationships – Jonnie had even joked that the pair would be engaged within six months.
"What relationship?" Alex frowned at that as Rach looked between her and Agent Vasquez, confused.
"Okay. Whatever," Rach sighed, her mind beginning to wonder if her time travelling had been the cause of this change.
"Well, like I said, we don't have anyone by the name Waller here…" Alex responded, trying to remain friendly despite the odd turn of events.
"Well this is POD, isn't it?" Rach was getting scared now.
"Urm no," Vasquez stated.
"It's the DEO," Alex filled her in, a confused frown on her face now.
"DEO?" Rach practically squeaked this.
"Department for Extranormal Operations, yeah," a new person joined the conversation, a young man holding a tablet – his curiosity having got the better of him.
"Extranormal…? Okay then, remind me who runs this place?" Rach tried to keep her cool.
"Director Michaels. Your dad's friend," Vasquez replied.
"Or Lyla as Flash senior calls him," the young man replied. "I'm Winn by the way. Big-time fan, recent recruit…" Rae paused. She had seen this man before when she had gone to New Justice. He had been by the computers and was a member of their League. He hadn't really liked her then, but this wasn't him. Or at least, this wasn't New Justice's Winn – that was for sure.
"Agent Schott, no flirting," a fourth voice joined them, and Rach looked up to see an attractive woman, in her mid-thirties, supporting a pixie cut brown hairstyle similar to Alex and Vasquez and a grin, "especially not one of the Flash Family."
"Flash Family?" Rach repeated to the woman who'd joined them.
"Yeah of course. All of you, dismissed. Ms. Flash walk with me?" the new woman stated politely.
"Um, okay…" Rach stated, moving off with the woman.
"Are you okay?" the new woman asked after a moment.
"I think so," Rach stated. A lot had changed, and she was having a hard time keeping up. "Director Michaels, right?"
"Yeah, of course, you know me, Rachel. Although you never call me that even in here," Lyla replied, a little worriedly.
"I don't? I erm…" she was a little lost as to what to say, her mind trying to focus on the changes so far.
"Did I here you call this place POD?" Lyla asked curiously, and Rach nodded. "You know they were dismantled nearly twenty years ago, right?"
"Twenty… years ago?" Rach did the math in her head. This had to be a direct cause to her meddling with time. She sighed as Lyla frowned. "Okay, remind me. About a year ago did some world hoppers come in to set up multiverse device thing? I think I could find need of it," she had to contact another world, find another Flash. They might help her understand. That is, if that history still happened.
"Yes, but it's been malfunctioning for a while," Lyla frowned. "Your cousins are working on a new one though apparently; well your dad said so the other day."
"Cousins? Barry and Amy?" Rach didn't stop herself. She had to know.
"Yeah of course…" Lyla stopped and took Rach by the shoulders. "What's wrong kiddo? Tell me."
"I think I hit my head," Rach lied quickly, her brain running through scenarios quickly. If she ran to her aunt and uncle's house she could ask Barry to use their device and contact a world and ask for advice. "Hang on, why are my cousins working on a new device? What happened to the no world hopping rule?"
"What rule?" Lyla kept frowning at this.
"There's no rule? You mean I can just go to any world and it wouldn't be a problem?" Rach asked, dumbfounded.
"You'd have to ask your cousin or Franco and Gypsy to make a portal for you but yeah," Lyla replied. "If your cousin is around of course. She does like jumping about the multiverse and causing trouble. You know, your dad should have a word with her about that…" Lyla pouted thoughtfully as she said this.
"Yeah, I'll tell him to. Can I go?" Rach suddenly asked. "I need to speak with them…"
"Yeah, of course. You're not under any rule to remain here, Ms. Flash," she smirked now as she said the name, but Rach was already running, her head spinning.
So, she had run back in time, some twenty or so years when training with her father, that she knew. She had interacted with people in the past, she hadn't been able to help it and she may have saved some people who might have died, or their deaths led to something else, or a person she had saved had been important later on while their death had prevented that in the original timeline, whatever, but she was a hero, surely it was her job to save people, regardless of the timeline? She didn't know it would affect the future though. Now she was known as Ms. Flash, an actual hero, there were more than two Flashes in the city and POD was now the DEO, Waller was gone, she apparently wasn't dating Alex, and they could hop worlds freely. It was so weird. What else had changed?
"Barry!" She stopped in his bedroom, having ran up the side of the house and in through the window. Her cousin jumped as he slammed his laptop lid down.
"Rach!? I keep telling you not to do that, you don't know what I was doing…" Barry moaned.
"You were looking at images of some hot actor or singer or someone," Rach stated, having seen it in a second before she'd called to him. He seemed embarrassed.
"Okay. So, privacy isn't in your dictionary … but what can I do for you cuz?" He half-smiled at this.
"Lyla Michaels said you and Amy have been working on multiverse device thing? Is it working?" She stuck straight to the point now.
"Urm yeah," Barry frowned. "Why?"
"I need to use it," Rach grabbed a spare chair as she sat next to Barry by his computer table. He reopened his laptop and quickly closed the webpage he'd been looking at. Then he opened his desk draw and pulled out a USB stick; it had various wires attached to it and pieces of gadgetry Rachel didn't even know how to start with.
Rach momentarily wondered what world to call. The only one she knew was New Justice and that Rae was not a big fan of hers. The feeling was mutual now, but that Rae might know if she was willing to talk – even just to push her off to another world for information.
"It can only connect to Prime for the moment." Barry told Rach, which took New Justice off the table – Rach didn't know Prime, but it would have to do. "Amy's been helping me with her Vibe powers and those goggles Karry made for her – boy genius here, as you know…" Barry started to explain his device, Amy noting Barry had brains in this timeline too – some things never changed as she smiled at the thought, but she was in too much of a rush.
"Connect us, please – I need to know," Rach stated.
"Know what…?" Barry asked as he nevertheless plugged in the USB and pulled up an app on the computer. After a minute there was a dialing tone noise and then, after six rings, a voice answered.
"Hey, Cisco Ramon here. Who's hacked into my multiverse network?" He sounded pleasant, despite the defensiveness to this sentence. He sounded like Franco too, who Rach had met on a few occasions and wondered if he was the alternative – without seeing his face though, it was hard to tell.
"Cisco, I'm Rachel Garrick from Paranormal Earth – I need your help," Rach stated quickly.
"Paranormal? But you're offline. Wait, did someone make a new device without telling me?" Cisco asked.
"I did," Barry spoke up. "Barry Garrick, nice to meet you. Well, hear you. This thing doesn't have video, I'm afraid…"
"Barry… Garrick? No way!" Cisco sounded thrilled at this, but Rach didn't have the time.
"Cisco, I think I did something stupid and now everything's messed up," Rach stated.
"Explain," Cisco spoke.
"I ran back in time when training with dad and I think I messed up the timeline… the world I came back to – it's not the world I came from," Rach was desperate now.
"Oh, Rachel…" it wasn't Cisco's voice to reply as Rach turned to the doorway. Her father was standing there, looking both bemused and disappointed.
"Urm, we've got to go," Barry cut in as Cisco was saying something on the other end. Before Cisco could even call for them to stay, Barry closed the app and removed the USB stick.
"Do you mind…?" Jay looked over to Barry who nodded and suddenly vanished with a little pop. He having teleported out of the room.
"Dad, how…?" Rach started, but Jay held up his hand to stop her.
"Lyla, she told me you were acting weirdly and wanted to see Barry or Amy. So here I am," Jay stated.
"Oh. And you overheard us?" Rach indicated the computer which Barry had vacated moments ago.
"Yes." Jay nodded, moving over to the bed and taking a seat opposite Rach, who remained in her chair. "You know, when I was young, when Jane and myself had just started out, we challenged each other. She, a super powered Kryptonian, me a super speedy human. I broke more than just the sound barrier one day and ended up five years in my past. I did things there that, when I came back, the world I knew was gone. Jane was not my friend and Nora, your mother, who I was only just starting to date, didn't know me. Do you know what I did?" Jay asked.
"Um…" Rach didn't know if she was being told off or not, although the bit about her mother sounded very much like herself and Alex now.
"I ran back and fixed it. I changed everything back and the world that I returned to, it was the one I'd originally left. More or less. But I told you this when you were sixteen. You and your brother. I guess I didn't in your original timeline," he shrugged.
"No, you… wait, brother?" Rach had picked up this. She had her younger sister, Jonnie, but no brothers.
"I guess you didn't have a twin there either," Jay muttered, Rae's mouth falling open at this. So, it was true! She'd gone to New Justice that time looking for a twin, believing she had a twin in their Rae, and here, in this timeline, she did. How did she know? Was it some sort of echo back through time? Was she destined to make this new timeline? Or had she had a twin in the other timeline and he had died in the womb? Maybe her parents had just never told her.
"The thing is," Jay continued as Rach's mind raced. "Time traveling is very dangerous. Even if things are better for you personally there could be people in the world who are worse off. People who are now dead when they were alive, or now villains when they were heroes. Its why the speed force frowns on time traveling itself. But it's your choice whether to keep it or to go back. The longer you keep it though, the longer this timeline stands and the harder it will be to get the old one back. Even if you do eventually decide to change it back, the timeline will never be a hundred percent."
"You're not telling me off for changing the timeline then?" Rachel finally asked.
"No," Jay smirked. "You're a born speedster. You were bound to break the time barrier sooner or later."
"But I can keep this timeline, if I wanted?" Rach asked, curiously. True it meant she and Alex weren't an item any more, but was that a small price to pay for a larger picture? What was the larger picture, in fact? What else was different?
"You can," Jay said, "if you want to. Only you can change it back."
"But what about other worlds?" Her mind fell on New Justice. It had been Maxwell Lord who had led to the death of that Rachel's father, and then her hate against this world.
"I don't know. I'd imagine there are factors…" Jay muttered thoughtfully.
"Maxwell Lord?" Rach voiced, and Jay pulled a face. So, he did exist in this timeline to. Or had existed.
"The Justice Alliance couldn't stop him.," Jay shook his head sadly at this and Rach had to pause. She knew her father, back in his youth, had been part of the Legion of Superheroes, it's lead with Jane Marley, the Kryptonian Superwoman, but it seemed their name had changed to Justice Alliance now. Kind of like Justice League, the New Justice name. Was this change a good thing or bad?
"What about them? The Justice Alliance," Rach asked, curious despite the Lord issue.
"We're still going, sweetheart," Jay smirked. "Jane and I are still leading it. What happened to it in your original timeline?"
"It disbanded," Rach stated, thinking of her father's Legion of Superheroes and deciding against telling him of the different name. "Besides, The General and Director Waller thought they could do better than superheroes."
"Director Waller? The General?" Jay frowned at this.
"Oh, yeah, Waller doesn't exist now or something. Director Michaels, Lyla, is in her place. And the General is the leader of this country. Or he was." Rach paused at this, wondering what was to come from this revelation.
"The Leader of this timeline is the President, Rach," Jay smiled. "About twenty years ago the people got tired of military controlled governments. Power changed hands and we became a democracy. We're on our fourth President now."
"Really?" Rach had been fascinated by the concept of a President since she'd been to New Justice, as their Rae was going to be awarded by the leader; now it seemed her world had one too.
"Yeah. And Waller's been dead for a long time. Surprised she survived in your timeline," Jay bemused now.
"Huh," Rach didn't know what to say to this, but she had to know something else: "What happened to Maxwell Lord?" she went back to that topic. From what she knew, the man had been returned to Paranormal and been imprisoned for his crime. If her changing the timeline somehow transferred him back to New Justice and he was free, she could picture that Rae coming here to shout at her again, or worse. Then again, if it didn't affect worlds outside this, he may be in some form of limbo forever.
"He went to New Justice," Jay supplied. "It was a while back, they came here. Their Rae had stopped him from destroying us – the same thing that killed her father. They stopped him and returned him to us. The DEO has him imprisoned."
"And I guess Rae was still a complete jerk to us?" Rach said, remembering that lunch she had ruined.
"Rach…" Jay sighed, a look in his eyes that confused her. "I told you back then that was uncalled for. Yes, Rae was a little mad at our world and it fell on the worst day for her, being the anniversary of her own father's death, but she did save us and returned Lord to us. She might not have wanted anything to do with her alternate family but she was very appreciative when I told her I should have been the one to die. Not her father."
"But… you did?" It confused Rach. He hadn't managed to get more than two words in when Rae had come to get her goggles in her memories – it seemed that had changed, too.
"Maxwell Lord was my responsibility. Mine and the Justice Alliance. We couldn't stop him, and once he left this world, we couldn't track him. Hell, their Rae didn't know until he tried to destroy us again," Jay stated, but Rach was still frowning, assuming Jay felt some sort of responsibility to the other Rachel; something she couldn't share. "Look, she's had a lot of bad in her life. She's never going to like us, and I am not asking you to like her, but we left things in somewhat good terms – I hope we left a positive impression on her."
"Yeah, I don't think so now, especially if she has memories from before I changed the timeline," Rach said with a sigh.
"I'm going to want a better explanation of that," Jay said, a little more sternly, a look in his eyes that Rach did not understand. "That is, if you decide to keep this timeline."
"Am I going to get the memories of this timeline?" Rach asked, wanting to change the topic now. Nothing Jay said was ringing a bell to her, after all, and she had a twin she still had no memories of.
"That's a tricky question," Jay said, his brow furrowing but not going back to the topic of New Justice Rae for now. "You see, I know a bit of the speed force – I've done my research, even been in there once. The speed force does protect speedster from changes in the timeline they cause. If this was a day to even a year, I would say no, but this is a major change in the timeline. I suppose it depends on how strong your connection to the speed force is."
"What does that mean? Don't all speedsters have the same connection?" Rach was curious now. She'd never been too interested in her speed before she started training, and in the original timeline her dad hadn't gone too deep into their connection. Now, more than ever, she needed to know, to be educated.
"Oh no," Jay said shaking his head. "There are some, very few, who's connection is so strong the speed force would protect them from any change in the timeline they cause. Like New Justice Rae. The speed force saved her from a premature birth, so if she did this she would never get the memories of the new timeline."
"So, I will never get the memories?" Rach asked, ignoring the reference to New Justice now.
"You were born with a natural connection but did not get your powers until you were 5, nearly 6, months old," Jay theorized, "but you're more connected than speedsters like me, who spent a good portion of our lives without powers, so we would probably slowly lose all memories of the old timeline and be replaced with the new one, but that's not you either."
"So?" Rach asked, impatient to know.
"My best guess is you will slowly get the new memories but the old ones will never fully go away. For a while you might even feel out of place here until you get use to all your new memories," Jay said.
"No different to living on another world, I suppose," Rach muttered, thinking what it would be like to go to another world and live there. Like this new timeline.
"Probably. But I should show you your Ms. Flash outfit if you're keeping this timeline. I don't think I could live another minute of seeing you in that thing," he joked. What she was wearing wasn't a Flash outfit, it was more like a training suit, resistant to the friction built from running. Her dad had made it for her after she'd asked him to train her. Or he had in her original timeline.
"It's not an outfit," Rach said. "It's just for training – I don't have a superhero outfit. Never been a hero in my timeline." Jay cocked his head at this but said nothing as Rach added: "And what's the deal with this Three Flashes thing?"
"Yeah. Me, you and your brother," Jay stated simply.
"Oh," Rachel grinned.
"Although he goes by Kid Flash," Jay winked at that as he sped out of the room and Rach followed him.
As she ran, she realized it felt more natural then before. Her muscle memory might have been starting to come back, as she was a bit faster. As she ran, she had a slight vision of taking out a villain too. It was fuzzy, but she somewhat remembered facing Toyman with her brother when she was a teenager, but nothing more. Her father had said it would take a while though.
They stopped in their front lounge, and Rach came face to face with a young man who looked like her sitting on the couch. Someone she instantly felt connected with. Someone she knew she had grown up with, somehow.
"Rach?" the boy stood up from the couch, concerned. "You okay, sis?"
"Um… yes," Rachel smiled. "Definitely," She couldn't quite get a name down right now, but she knew this was him, her twin brother, and she hugged him. Surprising him. She felt embarrassed over her excitement when they broke apart. The man clearly didn't understand why she was so excited and she didn't know how to explain it.
There was a rush of air and their dad appeared, having grabbed her outfit before coming here. He held a red, yellow and black outfit with interesting goggles and what looked like a cowl for her face, but it was her outfit though. Ms. Flash's outfit. Without thinking she rushed out of her current clothes and into the outfit and then moved in front of the lounge mirror to check herself out. The outfit even had the lightning bolt on the chest. She put a hand on the side of the glasses out of instinct and information came across the lenses, which was pretty cool. It really seemed that muscle memory was coming back first as any real memories were still blurry.
"Is she alright?" she heard her twin ask their dad and she turned to that.
"Remember when I told you about time traveling, Roe?" Jay asked and Roe nodded. "Well, your sister changed the timeline completely. She's getting use to the new one."
"What?! Rach…" he turned to her and she bit her lip, but as she did, she realized something…
"Where's Jonnie?" Rach asked, looking to her father now. Jonnie was more than old enough to be a hero with them and with the different history would not be against it like in the original timeline. Why were there only three Flashes? Why wasn't Jonnie 'Flash Girl' or something else?
"Who?" Roe asked on his way back to the couch.
"Jonnie, my… our little sister," Rach said now, doubting it now with concern. Any fuzzy memories she had of her family did not include her little sister compared to the clear ones she did remember.
"You… you don't have a little sister," Jay stated cautiously, and Rach's face fell. So, the world was not as flawless as she had hoped – she had erased her little sister from it. No Jonnie Garrick, and no Alex Danvers in her life. Those seemed like big changes. Everything else seemed completely right, however.
"Hey, I need some shopping and one of you three speedsters needs to go out for it," a new voice entered the room and Rach looked to see her mother, Joan Garrick move in. She was obviously oblivious to what Rach had done.
"Urm, two moments Joan, honey," Jay moved forward and grabbed Rach gently by the arm as he maneuvered her into the next room.
"Dad!" Rach complained, although still thinking on Jonnie.
"Rach. I wasn't kidding around before. The longer you stay in this timeline the harder it is to switch it back," Jay said. "If you decide too late you might never get this little sister of yours back and you might lose Roland as well."
"I love Jonnie," Rach said thinking of her little sister. "But… well, the government is changed for the better; POD is gone; we're allowed to world hop without breaking the law…I even have the twin I always wanted, even if I no longer have the girlfriend…" Jay frowned at this comment. "This world seems better, even without Jonnie or Alex," As she assessed all the changes she knew, the new memories that weren't anywhere nearly formed, it just seemed like this world should be here instead of her old one. It was like the old one was a mistake and this new one was designed to fit better.
"You're your mother's daughter, you know that?" Jay smirked, before sighing. "Okay. But remember this: Jonnie and urm, Alex, might not be the only consequences; anyone not on this world who was on yours… your friends, people in the Justice Alliance…"
"Am I in the Justice Alliance?" Rae asked now, this thought coming to her head. If she'd been doing this since she was a teenager and as New Justice Rae had been the youngest member of her Justice League, it stood to reason she herself may be in it too, along with Roland.
"No. You and your brother have your Twin Flash thing going on, although I hear you two plan things with Barry and Amy, and you have some Extranormal friends…" Jay muttered.
"Extranormal?" Rach stopped at this, remembering back to the DEO's Winn mentioning this word earlier. "Not Paranormal?"
"Wow, that's a call back to the past. We've not been called Paranormals for a long while…" Jay muttered.
"Okay… I really changed things…" Rach looked around, as if expecting things in the house to be different now, but apart from changed family photos, it seemed all the same.
"Focus Rach," Jay smirked.
"Yeah, sorry, Twin Flash thing? Other Extranormals…" she ticked these off in her head. "What else…?"
"Well, you have been in the game since you were 15," Jay supplied. "I didn't want to you to, but Joan said otherwise and well, you and Roe have been helpful since."
Rach wasn't listening though. She had changed so much, and though she didn't want to risk changing things back, she'd need to take a step back and let new memories wash over her. She needed to get to know this new world before she jumped ahead. It was recklessness like that which had caused friction between herself and New Justice after all – she couldn't have her new world hating her for being forthcoming when she could no longer revert to the old one. She took a breath.
"So… what do you think?" Jay asked.
"I think… I'm not changing it back," Rach decided now. It was different, but different wasn't bad – not by a long shot. The changes would take time to get used to, especially Jonnie, but she would always remember her little sister. Besides, she could exist on another world and when she found her again, she could try and get back what she lost. The point was, this was her world now though.
"Okay," Jay nodded. "I think we should tell your mother what happened," he smiled as he kissed her forehead and them moved back into the lounge with the rest of the family. Rach though stared at her reflection in the nearby mirror. This would take some getting used to.
Still, she was smiling.
-Prime Earth-
Cisco had his Vibe goggles on as he sat in the Cortex and watched the world, not even aware that Caitlin had entered the room.
"Who are you spying on?" Caitlin asked as Cisco sat up and shifted the goggles up his forehead.
"Paranormal Earth," Cisco was half-smirking. "Although I may need to rename them now."
"Why?" Caitlin asked.
"Their Rachel Garrick changed the timeline. She called me, but we lost connection. I was checking in to see if she needed any help," Cisco stated.
"And? Did she?" Caitlin asked.
"Heh, definitely not. She may have just changed that world for the better," Cisco grinned.
"Wait, does that mean our memories of that world will change? Like our Sara, she went to Paranormal, remember?" It was something that Caitlin had been curious about, but no world had changed time until now.
"Nah." Cisco shrugged this off. "The change is on the world only, it doesn't affect off-worlders. They just have alternative recollections of similar events. Think of it like a parallel world, different to the multiverse. There's the Paranormal that we set up the device on, who had a Maxwell Lord and that all happened, but now there's a New Paranormal, or maybe Extranormal now, where anything can happen really. No one's memories should be affected."
"Oh, okay," Caitlin shrugged. "Anyway, I'm here because we need to talk about the…"
"Oh yes," Cisco grinned, clapping his hands together. "This is the month. How many weeks until the big day? I've been wanting to help throw this since I saw the Karry pictures of theirs."
"Two. And you do know it's me and Jesse who planned this, right?" Caitlin pointed out.
"Yeah, but I'm your best friend. I have influence," Cisco winked at Caitlin at this, but she retaliated by punching him on the arm.
"Erm, ow!" Cisco complained, but Caitlin was laughing.
Post-chapter note: This isn't all. Jay will be heading over to New Justice next chapter to explain things to Rae, and Rach will be heading into the speed force – then after that I shall be posting up a history of Paranormal/Extranormal Earth. At least, the history that this new story now represents.
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