Kara handed the coffee, she had almost spilled earlier, to her boss, Cat Grant. She was still confused about earlier. You'd think that being an alien on another planet and a superhero, nothing could ever be strange; someone with that life has seen it all. She didn't know why she kept thinking about the man. Why was he so different?

Cat Grant looked up from the magazine she had been reading to study her assistant's face. She squinted her eyes, lowering the reading glasses further down her nose.

"What is it?" Her voice interrupted Kara's train of thought. The intern couldn't help but be confused, "What-?"

"You look like you've just seen something strange." Cat continued to read the magazine in her hand.

Kara, looked puzzled, but gave a quick smile back at her boss. She shook her head, "Oh it's nothing."

Cat Grant paused for a moment, only to reposition the glasses back on her face, and set the magazine gently beside her. She folded her hands on the desk, "It can never be just 'nothing' in this city, Kiera. You of all people should know that plenty of strange things happen around here on a regular basis."

Kara would have been annoyed that Cat called her by the wrong name, again, if it wasn't for her last remark. Kara became panicked, and looked a little stunned for a moment before responding, "How - what do you mean exactly-?" Her voice was shaky.

She was worried if Cat had somehow known everything and was trying to blackmail her, or even fire her again. Even superheroes need money to live.

Cat took off her glasses, revealing an annoyed look as she stared at her assistant. "Where do we work-?" She motioned with her hand, "This is a newsroom, a home-front for all things gossip and strange."

Kara opened her mouth for a moment, understanding Cat's blatant commentary, "-Oh -oh yeah. Right." Kara sighed with relief and turned around to walk out of the office.

Cat called out to her, "If you ever want to make it to the top, you better start being more observant. -Oh, and Kiera? Book me an interview with Oliver Queen, I want the first scoop on that new, 'undertaking' campaign of his."

"Yes, Ms. Grant." She headed back into the hallway, only to bump into Jimmy Olsen, the Daily Planet's famous photographer (preferably called 'James').

"What was that all about?" James laughed.

Kara adjusted the glasses on her face and replied, "Oh it's just -I ran into, -well someone ran into me and started talking about some Earth movies - ah 'Star Battles' or something-?"

"-You mean Star Wars?" Winn interrupted, as he turned around in his cubical chair.

James glanced at Winn before continuing to talk to Kara, "Why? What did he say?"

"He thought I was someone named Felicity and then he was talking about the 'Speed Force'?" Kara shrugged.

"Wait 'The Force' or did he actually say 'Speed Force'." Winn was getting more involved in the conversation. He shifted in his chair.

Kara thought for a moment, "No, he definitely said 'Speed Force'."

"Maybe you misheard him," James said, leaning on Winn's desk.

Kara shook her head, "Un-uh. Super. Hearing." She never misheard things, and if she ever did, it would be because she wasn't paying attention or tuning someone out. This morning she was definetly paying attention, to work at Catco any morning, you have to be on top of your game.

Winn looked at Kara, "Well you're an alien, maybe Star Wars is real, and The Empire is coming to get us."

Kara shrugged, "But that's not even the only weird thing, -when I turned around to talk to him again, he was gone. Like in the blink of an eye- gone. Gone-gone!"

Winn looked at James who was focused on Kara, and turned back to his computer, "What's weird is calling 'The Force' the 'Speed Force'. The dude needs to get the facts right."


"I can't have the facts wrong!" Barry, said to himself, running fast enough so that no one could see him. He was wearing the scarlet uniform so that he could avoid burning the only civvies he had on him. "There's only two earths; at least two that are connected to the breaches. This looks like Earth One, and it definitely looks like my 2016. Maybe I could get directions to Central City or even Starling? Yeah. I'll just figure out where I am and then go from there-"

Barry slammed into what felt like a brick wall before landing on the hard pavement.

"Ow," Barry rubbed his lower back and looked up to see a big, purple, creature in front of him.

The monster picked him up by the neck, "Not the costumed freak I was looking to snack on, but I suppose you can be the appetizer."

Barry tried to loosen the grasp on his neck as the creature examined him, "So what do you do?" His voice was deep and raspy. His cold, and horrendous breath was only inches from Barry's face.

The blue ring around the monster's neck lit up as it started to drain energy from the speedster, like a parasite. Barry's heart raced as he observed the destruction the creature had caused to the environment around him. People were on the ground, cars were flung off the road, and windows were smashed. He looked back into its eyes and they were flashing like lightning bolts.

The monster threw him to the ground, and Barry gasped for air.

"Ahh-," the monster said, "-refreshing."

Barry tried to speed out of there, but his powers were drained. Before he could even think of doing something else, a blue and red streak zoomed through the air and catapulted the monster into a building.

Huge clouds of dust erupted from the demolition. As the fog lifted, Barry could see a caped woman stand up from the wreckage.

"No way," Barry said under his breath. He had never seen a metahuman that could fly, -well at least without the assistance of weather, or fire, even wings or magic.

She straightened her back, clenched her fists, and sped towards the beast standing in the gaping hole in the wall.

Her fist met the creature's head and the remaining rubble below them crumbled from the intensity of the blow.

But the creature was too fast, it grabbed her arm and its rings lit up again. This time it was different, it was as if this time mercy was not an option.

Barry watched in horror, as the life was being sucked right out of her body. If he didn't do something quickly she could die. He stood up. "There's gotta be a way to beat this guy," he mumbled to himself.

Barry sighed. He knew this would be so much easier with Caitlin and Cisco's help. Even Dr. Wells' advice would be helpful, though he would never admit it. "Looks like I'm on my own." Barry took a deep breathe and got ready to move, "Ok, what now?"

He noticed that the parasite had been moving with speed like his. "Right! My powers; my weaknesses." If the creature had needed so much food for energy, if he got tired, he would surely pass out, just like Barry had done several times before. Barry barely being able to run that fast himself, called out to the parasite that was about to kill the metahuman girl. "Hey! Uh -Parasite!" The name came to him. "Let's settle this: my powers vs. my powers!" Cisco would be so proud he thought, but this was no time to fool around.

Parasite fired laser beams through his eyes at The Flash. Barry quickly ducked under the beams, just barely dodging them.

"Woah, that's new," he quipped.

Barry's body was beginning to regenerate. He was fast enough to keep up with this speed stealing monster, after all.

The Flash lifted his arms and walked towards Parasite, "As much as I'd love to stick around to play limbo, I got some stuff I have to do. You wouldn't know how to get to Central City would you?"

The parasite grunted and approached the speedster, getting slower with each step, "After I kill you, I want you to tell Harrison Wells that he was lucky I didn't get the chance to suck the life from his black soul. He should have payed for what he did to me."

The man in the red suit was confused, "-You knew Harrison Wells?"

The two let their guard down just long enough for the girl in blue to strike down the tired monster. The monster started to fall. Barry tried to jump out of the way but ended up slipping on a puddle of water that came from a nearby leaking fire-hydrant. The purple beast landed right on top of him. Barry was on the ground knocked unconscious because of the weight of the creature.

The parasite absorbed some water into its skin from the puddle, before becoming liquid itself. The purple water drained into the sewers, but left some residue on the streets and Barry's suit.