Disclaimer: I Don't own flash or Arrow. If I did Barry would probably murder superman for fun and Oliver would have used Damien Dark's family against him.
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Chapter 2
STAR labs, Mercury labs, even Star City's orphanage was now nothing but dust and craters.
Barry had known that the more time Zoom was allowed to roam freely in the city the more destruction and death he would bring. But what he hadn't known though was how far he was willing to go.
Barry's hands clenched and his jaws tightened as he gazed at the countless clothing articles and bodies Zoom had hung at the top of Central City's police department building, which was one of the few buildings Zoom had left standing with his crest carved into the middle.
They were people who had tried to end the maniac reign, Metahumans and humans who had banded together in his absence to stop Zoom. But just like he had, they had failed.
"Oliver..."
Barry was brought back to reality by Nyssa's voice and he glanced towards were she was was standing. He was surprised Oliver being here of all places, the last time he saw him he and his team had their hands full with Damien Dark. Slowly hope bloomed in his heart, right now he was was just as fast as he was before he had given his speed to Zoom, but with Oliver Queen here, the famed Green Arrow they together would be able to take down Zoom just like they did the reverse flash.
Barry was immediately disenchanted as he saw the devasted expression on Nyassa's face and slowly followed her line of sight and he immediately emptied his stomach.
For right untop of STAR city's police department was the rotten corpse of the Green Arrow. His hand and legs were cut off and he was suspended on the roof by an arrow jammed in his head and beside him was somebody dressed in his flash costume in the same state as the green Arrow.
It didn't take him long to figure out who it was that had taken over the mantel of the flash while he was away. He almost mistook the person for Joe at first but looking closely he noticed that the person looked younger than Joe.
"Wally..."
Zoom had taken his speed, his father, his freedom, his mentor and now his brother. Barry wanted retribution and he wanted it now.
"I'm going to kill Zoom"
And then he disappeared in a flash.
Barry bashed the metahumans head for the fifth time against the wall again and rose his bloody face so they could see eye to eye.
"Where is Zoom"
This was the fourth metahuman he had seen roaming the empty streets of STAR city.
"I-I don't know, I swear"
Three of them he had asked the same question to repeatedly, but they refused to answer, fearing Zoom would come to kill them if they spoke.
But Barry had relieved them of those delusions by killing them himself and now this one was making the same mistake again.
With an annoyed sigh Barry unsheathed his sword from it's scabbard and rammed it into the man's patella.
The man released an agonised scream and desperately tried to pull the blade out of his kneecap to no avail.
"Here I thought the fourth time was the charm"
Barry was immensely dissapointed at the man's lack of cooperation, which he accented by removing his blade forcefully from the man's knee eliciting a scream from the man.
"Oh well, I guess the fifth would do the trick"
Barry said has he brought his vibrating hand close to the chest of the metahuman. Much to the man's immense fear.
"I would talk, I would tell you where he is" the man fearfully screamed as he gazed at the vibrating hand of the speedster. He had seen what happened when Zoom used that against his enemies and it meant instant death and he didn't want to die.
"There would be no need for that"
Barry could recognize that malovalent sounding voice even in his sleep. He immediately turned and he was met with the sight of the speedster garbed in blue and more than fifty of his minions behind him.
"Zoom" Barry spat out, his voice filled with utter hatred for the speedster.
"Barry Allen, I see you become more motivated in your quest for vengeance"
Zoom stated amusingly as he gazed at the bloody blade in the hands of his fellow speedster.
Zoom was a little peeved at the fact that the speedster had again managed to regain his speed, but he understood. Cockroaches were always the hardest to kill after all.
"and I see you still need your stooges to help you do all your dirty work"
Barry replied as he stabbed his blade into the heart of the metahuman behind him, who had been trying to sneak up on him.
"No, the pleasure of ending your insignificant existence is reserved for me only" Zoom stated and then pointed at the people behind him."They however are here to witness the death of the last person on earth foolish enough to stand against me"
Zoom then spread his arms out and the multitude of metahumans behind him surrounded him and Barry.
"But I have a question for you Allen"
Zoom said as he increased the amount of blue lightening flowing around his body.
"How long can you last against the power of a god?"
And in a flash of blue and black lightening they disappeared. Causing earthquakes and shockwaves as they collided.
That's it?"
Zoom said as he punched his rival speedster in his abdomen and then kicked him in the same area with enough force to send him fifty feet in the air.
"That's all you can do?"
Barry tried to cushion his fall with his left hand, but it's snapped as the weight was too much.
But Barry didn't cry out in pain. He wasn't going to give Zoom the pleasure of humiliating him further than he already had.
Barry had known Zoom was faster than him, so he thought by making Zoom think he was slower than he actually was he would be able to catch the speedster off guard.
But when he used his true speed against the speedster, his attack was blocked effortlessly and then the beat down began.
Zoom relentlessly attacked him. Barry had tried to block but the speed Zoom was going was out of his league.
With defense fruitless, Barry had tried offense. The closest he had come to hitting the speedster since then was when he stabbed his afterimage.
Barry tried to stand up, but Zoom sped in front of him and lifted him up by his neck.
"Goodbye Flash"
Zoom then rammed his left hand into the heart of the Flash and his world went black.
Immediately Barry regained consciousness his left hand immediately shot to his chest where Zoom had stabbed him.
'How am I still alive?'
Was his first conscious thought before he opened his eyes. He had felt Zooms hand as it touched his heart and he had also felt it as the speedster crushed it in his chest. He wasn't supposed to be alive atall or perhaps...
"Is this what the afterlife looks like?"
Barry whispered to himself as he looked around to the endless expanse of clouds and thunderstorms.
"No Barry"
Barry turned around in search of the voice with his left hand immediately shooting to his back for the handle of his katana.
"Who is there?"
Barry finally asked after he searched for anything that the voice could have come from. Clouds couldn't talk, right?
"You know who I am"
'Do I' Barry sarcastically thought, as he searched for the idiot who thought it was fun to sound all mystical immediately after his death.
But then he felt it. The endless amount of undiluted power which resonated with his. Barry had felt the same power everyday since the particle acceleration explosion and he had used it since then to try to make the world better.
"The speed force" Barry said, his voice filled with reverence.
"Yes Barry, I am the source of all speedsters power..."
Barry immediately stopped listening as he voice continued to rumble praises at itself. It was the source of all speedsters power? The source of Zoom's power.
With an enraged roar, Barry did what he had wanted to when he had first felt the large amount of power.
He absorbed it.
"NO YOU FOOL..."
The voice screamed in rage and before it could finish its sentence Barry was ripped out of it's realm.
Zoom let out a terrified scream as the right hand of the speedster whose heart he had just crushed grabbed his left hand which want still in his chest.
There were just a few things in the world that terrified him and someone whose heart he had literally just crushed, grabbing his arm was definitely one of them.
Zoom immediately removed his hand from within the speedster's chest and sped backwards as Barry was encased in a tornado of black lightening.
Immediately the tornado of black lightening which surrounded the speedster cleared, Zoom noticed that the hole he had made earlier had completely healed.
And then Barry's eyes snapped open and Zoom saw nothing but dark voids.
"H-How are you still alive" Zoom screamed. Anger and frustration finally giving way to fear.
But Barry didn't answer and Zoom then noticed someone's palm covered his face and then he was flung head first into a building.
Zoom managed to stand up and he then looked at the person who flung him and he saw Barry with twin bolts of black lightening in his hands.
"What are you" Zoom asked panicked as he coughed out blood.
But again Barry didn't answer. Instead with speed Zoom couldn't phantom Barry flung the twin lightening bolts at him. The explosion that ensued disintegrated the building behind zoom completely and shattered every bone in his body.
Before the explosion cleared Barry was already holding Zoom up by his neck with one arm.
"What I am?"
Barry asked, his voice filled with confidence and power.
"The speesforce"
With that Barry swung his sword vertically upward and ended the life of a tyrant.
Immediately after the metahumans saw their leader was dead they unleashed all their power from every angle at the man who murdered him.
Barry having momentarily forgotten about them was caught completely offguard by their assault.
Fire, Magma, ice, acid and energy attacks of different forms ripped and tore through his clothes and flesh.
Barry screamed for what to him seemed like an eternity before the attacks relented.
Barry weakly pushed himself up and saw the metahumans were preparing to release another barrage at him.
He couldn't allow that. His accelerated regenerative ability was already stretched to it's limit and if he was hit with another barrage he was surely going to die.
So Barry gathered a huge amount from the endless power that was the speed force and sent it into the sky.
And thunder and lightening rained on his enemies.
Barry eyes swept across the now empty street in search for any survivor. The metahumans that had earlier attacked him were now nothing but scorch marks on the floor.
A part of his mind was completely appalled at what he just did. While another was completely satisfied with their deaths.
They had helped Zoom take out innocent lives in his quest for power. They had helped Zoom torture him as he was kept prisoner and they had also helped Zoom kill his loved ones.
'Death is all they deserve' Barry thought darkly.
Barry manipulated the speed force to the areas his injuries were and in an instant formerly life threatening injuries healed.
With all his grievous injuries healed, Barry picked up his sword and sped in the direction he had earlier left Nyssaa.
Instantly he was in front of her much to his amazement. He had known he was faster after he had absorbed the speedforce, but he hadn't thought he was this fast.
"What took you so long"
"Nothing much. Just took a break on my way to murder the cities residential psychopath" Barry replied completely smug.
"You look like shite" Nyassa said as she looked tattered state his clothes were and the blood that covered his body.
Barry closed his eyes and dug into the speed force again. This time, he manipulated it in a way so that it formed solid layers around his body. Once Barry was done on his body was a skintight suit, just like the one Cisco had made for him. The only difference was the color which was black.
"You better close your mouth" Barry said amused as he gazed at Nyassa who was gazing at him with open mouthed wonder.
Nyassa wanted to ask him how exactly he did that but she knew his answer would only serve to confuse her some more. So with a resigned sigh she asked another question that was surely going to yield a less complicated response.
"So what are we going to do now?"
"We my lady, are going to alter reality"
AN: That's all for now and just so you guys know I totally saw Henry's death coming. Let me know what you think of the story.
Nefarious.
