Legion Tower, Central City
Oliver and Barry dragged the unconscious bodies of the young Barry and Ronnie and laid them down on a lab table. After putting Ronnie down Oliver stood back and stared at the two and raised his arms in upheaval.
"Oliver what is going on? Why does he look like me?" Barry said looking at his counterpart.
"I don't know" Oliver answered.
"Everyman?" Barry pondered.
"He's dead, you were actually at my wedding, you saw it happen." Oliver replied turning to Barry.
All of a sudden the young Barry and Ronnie woke up as Oliver's tranquillisers had worn off.
"What the hell?" the young Ronnie said.
"Yeah what gives Oliver, wait your hair is longer and why do you look like me? " He said looking at the two the younger Barry asked.
"We were hoping you could answer that." Oliver said.
"Could you answer this, where are we? " Ronnie asked while sitting up.
"Legion Tower." The older Barry said.
"What?" Ronnie said.
The younger Barry turned to the supercomputer behind him and looked at the date on the screen and was bewildered by what he saw, he was nine years in the future.
"2024, Ronnie we just time travelled. "Young Barry said turning to Ronnie.
"Time travel?" He said walking up to the screen, the two then looked over to the balcony and out into the city which was almost unrecognisable to the one that they knew. All they could do was stare at the sight that was before them.
"Well that would explain their ages." The older Barry said to Oliver quietly.
"Except for one thing, they're too young, look at your doppelganger's hands." He told him.
There older Barry looked at him and noticed that the Flash ring was missing from his right hand and there was no bump for his wedding ring on his left one, not to mention the fact that the suit was too bulky, the mask didn't even look like it fitted right, the red hue was more maroon than red and the emblem was all wrong as there was no white circle.
"Hey um Barry, that's weird, um when are you from?" Older Barry asked stumbling on his words letting his social anxiety break through.
"Uh April 24rd 2015." He said turning away from Ronnie who kept looking out at the buildings.
Once the words left his mouth the older heroes were shocked, and couldn't believe what he just said, Oliver debated pulling out his bow but resisted. Older Barry just couldn't believe what happening and his eyes were completely dazed.
"What?" The younger one wondered, Ronnie also turned around and walked next to him.
"What's wrong?" Ronnie asked.
"This doesn't make any sense, because the particle accelerator went off in 2020 so it is impossible that you time travelled from 2015 because The Flash didn't exist back then, neither did Firestorm, so I'm gonna ask you again, When are you from?" Oliver said in a gruff tone and got into a stance to hit Barry with a throwing arrow.
"Um that's not gonna be necessary, heck I'm too fast for you to get me with that." The younger Barry said.
"Kid you don't get it, he's the most dangerous man on Earth." The older one said about Oliver crossing his arms.
"Listen we're from 2015." Ronnie said getting ready for a fight.
"No, no you're not. Final warning." Oliver commanded turning on his voice modulator.
"Listen we're telling the truth." The younger Flash told him.
Oliver through the arrow, the younger Barry dodged it or so it seemed but he actually threw it in anticipation of the dodge so Barry actually ran right into it. Flash then grabbed his younger self and ran him right out of the tower and then out of the city to the farms. This allowed Oliver and Ronnie to get into a hand to hand fight.
The Flashes ran out into the middle of a corn field they stood around 10 feet away from each other, the younger Barry decided to leave his mask off.
"Listen I'm not a criminal." Barry said.
"Then why are you running?" Flash said rhetorically.
"I'm the Flash duh." He said then sped off.
He thought he had ran away and then started to slow down and admire the scenery but then the older Flash caught up to him and subsequently past, he stopped then proceeded to use his hands to create a vortex forcing him on his ass making him role over several times.
"Yeah you're definitely The Flash, the leather fetish, Final Fantasy version. Leather drags a lot, how do you not burst into flames?" The older Barry said laughing.
"Cisco made it." Barry said on the ground.
"That explains it." He said.
He then threw a speed punch but the kid dodged it, he then tried an uppercut now that he was standing up but it was also dodged and subsequently countered. The younger Barry Then ran 5 or so miles back then ran up to his older doppelganger and slammed him with a super sonic punch, which sent him flying miles back into several farm houses. The younger Barry Then ran back to Legion Tower.
Oliver used his superior martial arts to overpower Ronnie and throw him onto a lab bench and forced his fist onto his chest to keep him still. Ronnie grabbed a small knife that was lying on the table and jammed it into Oliver's arm allowing him to break free. Oliver ran behind the supercomputer and dislodged the knife from his bicep.
"Why did I go sleeveless?" He thought to himself.
Ronnie grabbed a handgun from Spartan's gear and held it up.
"Listen Mr Queen I don't want to hurt you, please come out." He said holding the gun out hesitantly.
All of a sudden the monitor turned on, The Older Firestorm was there with Power Girl, standing in a forest, there seemed to have a fire in the background.
"GA mission accomplished, Grodd is down and being brought in by A.R.G.U.S" Power Girl said happily, the two then noticed that Oliver wasn't in view as he was behind the computer but they did see the younger Ronnie shocked at the fact his older self was right there.
"What the..." Ronnie said looking up at the monitor.
The older Firestorm's eyes glowed a bright orange and so did the younger Ronnie, his body language changed, he dropped the gun, and looked around in the new body completely confused, but slowly he grew composure and his eyes turned to the same colour as his counterpart. Oliver turned around and stared at the seemingly possessed Firestorm.
"Mr Queen, are you all right?" He asked in a deeper, stronger, more powerful sounding voice.
Oliver then came out from behind the computer holding his right arm where the knife pierced. He turned to the monitor and looked at Power Girl. "Thank you I'll see you and the others soon." He said then closed the feed. The two Flashes came running in and crushed Huntress' display case, they then looked up at the two and stopped their fighting.
"What's going on?" The younger Barry asked.
"Allow me to explain, what the younger versions of us said is absolutely true, they are from a different time." Firestorm said.
"Well if that's true, then how are they younger and still have powers?" Older Barry asked.
"The Reverse Flash." Firestorm said.
"That nut from the future." Older Barry said while the other looked down.
"Long story short he changed the timeline causing neither Speedster to exist, which caused him to be marooned in the year 2000, in order to reclaim his speed and go home he accelerated the development of the particle accelerator creating metahumans in the year 2013." He told them.
"Why don't we remember this, our pasts are completely different?" The older Barry asked.
"Because the timeline is changing, that singularity, what brought Gorilla City to our earth and how Kara got stuck here, so much of the timeline is being changed the black hole that appeared is another result of it." He continued.
"Me and Ronnie left our timeline through a black hole like this one, on April 24th 2015, that means that tomorrow." The younger Barry said.
"You don't know that Barry." Firestorm said.
"Wait can someone explain to me what the hell happened to Ronnie?" Barry asked about his friends possessed condition.
"The Firestorm matrix is the fusing of two minds and bodies, while at first it was just Ronnie and Stein inhabiting the same body, but over the years they combined and formed a new consciousness and Martin Stein's body was no longer required so he..." Firestorm explained.
"Died, but his brain and thoughts are all within him it's just that Ronnie and Martin, well they don't exist anyone it is just Firestorm." Oliver said gesturing towards him.
"Also it allows me to take over anyone who is capable of supporting the matrix such as this younger Ronnie Raymond." He told the young Barry who couldn't comprehend what was happening.
"What? You mean Ronnie is gone?" Barry demanded.
"Yes." Firestorm said bluntly.
"I want him back?" Barry shouted.
"It's impossible." Firestorm said which caused Barry to run off into the city.
"I'll get him" The older one said and ran after him.
Oliver looked over to the supercomputer and saw that Vibe was still in the city, he then changed his serious composure to a more relaxed one. He then turned to Firestorm.
"Heya could you set the kid up with a fake ID, I've gotta go and see if Laurel, Roy and William are ok." Oliver said turning to get his assault quiver from his case.
"Why do you need that to check on your wife and surrogate children?" Firestorm asked folding his arms.
"You've known me long enough to know when I'm lying so." Oliver said hooding up and headed for the elevator.
"Well we do have the same father, your dad cheated on your mother a few times." Firestorm said.
"Always wondered why we looked alike." Oliver said closing the elevator doors.