Over in a Flash

Chapter 3: Age of Ultron

Hope you all enjoy this has been my most fun chapter to write so far, expect a long chapter for tomorrow!

After about five minutes Barry found the police station, it didn't appear to be the safest place in the world but it seemed to be the best chance these people had at surviving Ultron so he placed the woman in his arms down inside and ran off outside. Upon exiting the building Barry noticed a loud humming sound, unsure of what it was, he ran over to the side of the floating island rising up next to the island was some kind of floating aircraft carrier.

Barry was confused once again. Flying men? Sure he understood that; evil robot army? Yeah it took some time getting used too but he could believe it; but a flying aircraft carrier? That was beyond him. He just couldn't understand the purpose. The whole point of an aircraft carrier is a safe landing place for planes to land on, on long missions across seas. So why would you waste all those resources building one that could fly? He wondered how much the energy bill must cost powering those four massive turbines.

Barry then watched as several smaller crafts broke off from the main carrier as one approached towards the station, Barry could identify that they were some sort of rescue craft, from the aid workers inside. He assumed they were here to get the people on this island off onto the aircraft carrier and out of harm's way. Normally this would have taken a few hours luckily today they had the Flash to help.

Within the space of ten minutes Barry packed the crafts full of people: Children, Men and Women all packed safely into the crafts in an organised fashion from the Police Station. One by one over those ten minutes a person would disappear in a flash of red reappearing in the crafts. Once all the loading crafts were full Barry began on his way to find "Mr America" having cleared most of the population out of there.

Strangely enough all the robots seemed to be crawling, running and climbing towards the plaza in the middle of the city. Barry decided it would probably be wise to stop some of them from reaching their destination. Everything moved slowly for Barry as he ran at this speed picking up the front robot and throwing it into the crowd of the others. He then ran from robot to robot vibrating his hands at top speeds through their chests as he made his way towards the plaza.

The closer Barry got to the plaza the thinner the lines of robots got. Upon reaching the plaza having smashed his way through a mass of robots, Barry was presented with absolutely no robots, instead littered around the plaza where the dismembered corpses of dozens if not hundreds of the robots, some torn from head to toe. Barry quickly zoomed into the dome in the centre of the plaza wondering if anyone was still here, surprising the girl inside. Barry had zoomed in directly in front of her, staring directly into her shimmering emerald eyes.

Barry stepped back slightly. "Su-sorry." The girl looked over to him slightly flushed due to Barry appearing so close in front of her. She raised an eyebrow at him before speaking.

"And you are?" She asked in a thick European accent, Barry wondered where she was from, he would have guessed Russia but she didn't look very Russian at all. Barry could see her looking him up and down, then he realised it was most likely the costume she was looking at.

"Oh I'm the Flash." Said Barry "You probably haven't heard of me… I'm not from around here."

"Well Flash, You should go and help evacuate the island, it's going to blow soon." She said giggling slightly at his name.

"What about you?" Barry asked, looking more closely at her now Barry could see her clothes torn, dirty and the fatigue that had set in on her body.

"Don't worry about me, my brother is coming to get me later. He is a speedster like you." She said with a warm smile plastered across her face.

Barry turned around and zoomed off, he'd search the island for anyone that was left. All around him as he ran, Barry could see images of destruction blur past. Whilst there was no people around there was still a path of death and destruction. Bodies of humans and robots alike lay in the open, Barry had seen death before multiple times but not on this level, so many innocent lives were lost. If only Barry had arrived earlier to save them.

It was at that moment that Barry heard a whirling of a plane's engine, looking upwards into the sky Barry saw some kind of plane flying lowly above the island. Barry watched in horror as the plane opened fire down below slightly up the street in front of him. Barry turned his head quickly in the direction of the planes line of fire noticing a man and a boy directly in it.

The man had clearly noticed the gun fire approaching and curled himself up around the boy as if to shield him, suddenly as if out of nowhere a light blue streak of light ran across pushing a half a car in front of the man. To the ordinary eye this would have all happened in a blink, however to Barry this was happening at a slowed rate. He saw the other speedster clad in blue push the car, he also saw the same speedster about to be hit by a rain of bullets from the plane. Without even hesitating Barry threw all his energy into running full speed ahead into the speedster bodying him out the way of the gunfire.

Barry could then hear the sound of the bullets bouncing off the car behind him, having made clean holes throughout Barry's body. Barry felt himself fall to his knees, shaking violently as he tried to speak but instead ended up coughing blood as he fell forward. In his ears he could hear nothing but a loud ringing. He'd known the suit was bullet-proof but he knew that it wouldn't have withstood the bullets fired from the plane. The only thing Barry could rely on now was his accelerated healing as the darkness engulfed him and his mind faded to black, in both a literal and metaphorical crimson river.

Is Barry dead? (Of course not he's our protagonist isn't he ;) ) Anyways hoped you all enjoyed. I'm really enjoying reading your feedback.