I just want to preface this by saying that if you don't ship Superflash, then just don't bother reading, and certainly do not waste your time reviewing. If, for some reason, you vehemently hate Karry, then just leave. Anyways, onto the story.

Warning: Heavy angst and generally depressing content inbound

She thought that what she did was the right thing. She felt like she could be at peace with what happened, and what she sacrificed. She only hoped that it was not in vain.

See, when Ray had saved them from the Nazis, catching Oliver X and Thawne off guard, they thought they were in the clear. They would escape and things would end okay. Sure they were wounded and drained of energy now, but that would be fixed. They would win, despite the fears she had for losing no more than half an hour ago. Just like always, they would win in the end.

Then Ray took a shock arrow to the back. In no way were they able to take on Dark Arrow on their own. They were compromised. She knew what she had to do—stand up to the bastard, let them know she wasn't afraid. She looked the evil archer in the eyes and told him that they would not stop fighting. Told them that she'd have to die for them to get what they want. "Get the hell off our Earth while you still can," she told him. He looked ready to kill her.

Then Oliver came to the room, an Arrow pressed to the neck of Overgirl. He told his doppelgänger that he would kill the Earth X general if the Nazis did not leave. It was a standoff, the air thick with tension. The look of anger, desperation, indecision, and bigoted hatred burned in the Führer's eyes. His wife alive or the death of an enemy. Which would he choose? She gravely hoped that the Nazi leader would choose his wife over her. She was afraid to die, but at the same time, she knew that she would give her life if it meant saving her world. She knew that sacrificing herself would be the right choice, and she was scared to accept that.

Then, Nazi Oliver fired his bow.

It was if the world was moving in slow motion as the arrow whistled towards her. She had heard before people die, their lives flashed before their eyes, but she saw a lone person within her mind's eye. Barry, and how much she loved him. She closed her eyes, indulging in her final living memory. Then the Arrow pierced her already bleeding body. Shock spread throughout her body as the razor sharp arrowhead penetrated her skin.

With that, Iris West fell to the ground, blood pooling, as her vision and faded to dark emptiness.

As soon as the arrow lodged itself into Iris's chest, Kara let loose a bloodcurdling scream. It escaped her lips involuntarily. "No!" she shouted, her voice anguished. Never had she felt so hopeless in her life since the destruction of Krypton. Thanks to the long red sun radiation exposure, she had been powerless to stop the Arrow. She could tell that even the good Oliver was shocked by his doppelganger's action. So much so that the arrow dropped from his hand with a deafening clang. A second later, a red lightning whisked the two Nazis away from the room, leaving Oliver and Kara alone with a dying Iris West. Another second later, Barry was there, in a flash of red and gold.

Though the mask obscured most of Barry's face, Kara could see the devastated look on Barry's face, now a hollow, pale hue. "Iris!" he shouted, dashing to her side, removing his mask in the process. Tears streaked his face as he knelt next to her limp body, picking her up bridal style. He looked like the persona of sorrow, holding his dying love, and Kara could feel her eyes, her throat, her everything, burning with a horrid blackened sadness.

"Get her to the Waverider, the Legends might be able to save her," Oliver said to him. Barry nodded slightly and was gone in a split second. As she turned her head to look at Oliver, Kara could tell the archer did not really have too much confidence in what he had said to his friend.

"I hope to Rao she'll make it," Kara found herself saying to him.

"God knows what Barry will do if she doesn't," Ollie answered back.

He wasn't quick enough to save her. He could have, but he didn't. He was too slow.

He had felt pretty confident with himself before it happened. He'd defeated Metallo with his friends. Barry had felt on top of the world after the victory. He had expected to see Iris smiling at him, happy, when he ran off to find her. Instead he found her dying, the Nazi leaders gone, while Kara and Oliver stood silently near her unmoving, bloodied body. Oliver told him that he could still try to save her, but the words rang hollow with the speedster. He tried anyway. Barry zoomed off to the Waverider, his fiancé dying in his arms, and turned her over to the ships medical bay.

After two agonizing hours watching Kaitlyn, Alex, and Gideon try to save her, he knew it was over. Kaitlyn met his eyes with a somber gaze as the machine flatlined. "I'm sorry Barry," she said, but she may as well have said nothing. Besides for him and Iris, this moment was devoid of anyone or anything else.

"God I'm sorry, Iris," he sobbed. Barry collapsed onto the operating table, body slouched over his girlfriend's now dead body, her blood soaking his cheek and his tears doing the same to her skin and violently shredded shirt. He felt his body shake with tremors and all he could do was wail. Guilt of all kinds occupied his heart as he took her hand in his, gripping it, as if doing so hard enough would shock her back to life. He left guilt for not saving her…for living while she lost her life…for not being fast enough to stop Oliver X…but most of all, he felt guilty for not completely loving her in her final moments in life.

For the final hours of his fiancé's life, he had been too busy worrying over if he loved Kara too. He wanted to wipe it away, forget that he had been too preoccupied to see who really mattered. But he couldn't. Nothing but contempt filled his chest. Just like that, it was like his heart shattered and was replaced with a burgeoning void. He hated himself.

Sorry Iris West fans :(

This actually did have to happen to push along the plot I had in mind, but I promise this will not just be a story about Kara being the rebound girl. Killing Iris off was something I really questioned whether I should do or not, but ultimately I figured that this would work best, as I just cannot imagine Iris doing anything to push Barry away and towards Kara. This is not the last of Iris, however. I will eventually bring her back to some extent, but not fully. I'm sure some of you CW Flash fans will get what I'm hinting at ;)

Anyways, I digress. See you with Ch. 7!