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This chapter took a little longer to write because of all the science I had to check and recheck for the fight sequence with the villains of this chapter a lot of stuff involving Sound, Wind, and some Meteorology. I tried using some numbers to make things easier for everyone to understand. If you want to know more about the science behind all your favorite superheroes go check out Because Science with Kyle Hill on YouTube. He does an excellent job of explaining how powers work scientifically.
Not only that but There was a lot of plot development here. I'll leave you guys to read it and speculate.
The Flash: Survival of the Fastest
Chapter 6: The Tempest Twins
Downtown Central City
10:08
Iris West-Thawne and her husband Eddie Thawne walked slowly down the road hand in hand. She and Eddie had been married for about ten months and they could not be happier. Eddie came over to Central City Picture News to pick her up for their weekly lunch date. Thrice a week they would go out to eat. Once for breakfast. Once for dinner. And obviously once for lunch. Yes, ten o'clock was considered a little early for lunch but it was going to be Eddie's only downtime for the day.
"So, Iris, what's new at Picture News?" Eddie asked his beautiful wife.
"Well, my boss Scott, you remember Scott, right?" Eddie nodded so Iris continued. "He's saddled me with two new interns. Their names are Derick and Daphne North. I swear those two are like my shadow. They refuse to leave me alone even for a minute."
"So, they're stalking you?" Eddie teased. "Want me to run a background check on them?"
Iris smiled as she leaned in to her husband resting her head against his shoulder. She had everything she could possibly want, well, almost everything. "That's not necessary Eddie. They just want to learn from the best as they put it but I know I'm no Lois Lane."
"No, you are better." Eddie leaned in and gave his wife a quick kiss on the lips.
The two of them smiled blissfully unaware of the two figures following them from the shadows.
"This is bad." The first one said. "This is not how things were supposed to play out."
"You know the rules. We cannot change events that have already happened!" The other spoke in a criticizing tone.
"Doesn't mean we cannot guide them to their destinies." The second individual roughly grabbed the first and pinned him against the wall.
"We do NOT mess with people's lives! If we do that then we are no better than HIM! After everything he's done to us, to our family, we cannot allow ourselves to stoop to his level of pettiness for some misguided vengeance."
The first figure pointed a finger in Detective Thawne's direction. "He's supposed to be dead!"
"And we are not killers! We're not going to kill someone, especially an innocent man for something he never did!" The second figure sighed heavily before continuing. "Please… just… just forget about detective Thawne… our mission is to protect her from the shadows… no matter what…"
They peered out from the shadow to see Eddie and Iris being seated at an outdoor café.
"What's on your mind Iris?" Detective Thawne asked his wife. He could tell something was bothering her especially since she hardly touched her lunch.
"Hmm? Oh, it's nothing babe."
"Come on Iris, you can tell me anything."
She wanted to argue but her husband made that difficult. "OK… I know… there are somethings about… us we haven't quite talked about yet…" Eddie nodded. "And I know you have your reservations about… certain aspects of being married… especially those related to Dr. Wells…"
"Iris…"
"I want to have a baby Eddie!" Iris blurted out unable to contain herself any longer. She could read his face almost immediately, Eddie didn't quite know how to respond. "And look, I know how you want to avoid it because of Dr. Wells or Eobard. But there are other options… like maybe we could adopt or-"
Eddie could see how much Iris wanted to be a mother. Heck he knew that she would be a fantastic mother, "Iris… you know how I feel about this whole thing. Who's to say that any child I have or even adopt eventually becomes Eobard Thawne's ancestor. I am already that and I promised myself that I would do everything I can to prevent his return after he was pulled into that singularity thing three years ago."
Iris felt tears beginning to well up. "Whatever happened to 'Screw the future?' That's been our mantra ever since Dr. Wells showed you the newspaper from the future. The one that said I was going to marry Barry?"
Eddie was about to speak when a clap of thunder resonated across the city. The young married couple turned to the source of it to see a field of black clouds gathering over the Riverbank on the Central City side of the Missouri River. They could see the lightning falling from the cloud like rain
"Oh my god…" Iris covered her gasping mouth as she watched the devastation. She turned to Eddie knowing what he needed to do. "Go. GO!"
Whenever Eddie needed to suit up as Cobalt Blue he always did two things first. The first thing he did was give Iris a passionate kiss. The second was whisper to her four small words. "I love you Iris."
Thankfully no one was paying attention to Eddie as he pulled his grandmother's ring out from around his neck. The ring acted as a conduit for his abilities, allowing him to control them without the risk of them running rampant. Soon Detective Thawne was surrounded in a twister of blue flames. He stood there wearing a black body suit with a white T on his chest. Blue flames formed Boots, gauntlets and even a mask. He gave Iris a slight smile before running off towards the disturbance leaving to tails of blue flames.
"Eddie!" Cisco's voice came over the comm system into Eddie's ear.
"What's going on Cisco?"
"Dunno! Ben said we might need you to deal with this! And from the looks of things we're going to need you!"
"OK, I'm on my way to the Riverside Park."
Central City Riverside Park
10:17 AM
The Speedsters screeched to a stop at the waterfront and they were immediately hit by a wall of wind and lightning.
Barry was surprised as to what they saw. Two large creatures, one composed of massive wisps of winds while the other was a black skeleton surrounded by a body of yellow electricity.
Any civilian unfortunate enough to still be in the vicinity was thrown with gale force winds or impaled by stray lightning bolts. Springing into action each speedster grabbed as many people as they could and pulled them from harm.
"What the Hell are those!?" Wally screamed over the roaring winds.
"Flash, Flash, Kid Flash… Allow me to introduce you to Whirlwind and Overload, the Tempest Twins." The Future Flash said to his parents and uncle.
"FLASH!" The Wind monster roared as it threw a cyclone arm forward unleashing winds that could rival a category 1 hurricane. Barry and Ben ran right while Caitlin and Wally ran left.
"WHAT DO WE DO?" Wally yelled over the high winds.
Overload threw a punch, which was more like a pure column of lightning, at the speedsters who easily dodged but he covered the distance in an instant and placed his hands onto Wally's chest. "DIE!" There was a flash of yellow electricity and a crack of thunder as Wally felt the electricity surge across his heart and throughout his entire body making Kid Flash fall to the ground limply.
"KID FLASH!" Caitlin caught Wally immediately and pulled him out of the fight.
Placing two fingers on Wally's neck Caitlin felt for a pulse. It was there, but erratic. Overload's attack had thrown his heart out of rhythm and she needed to get it back before he died. "Come on… come on Wally…" Caitlin began to rub her hands together generating some electricity. Between her and Barry she had also been able to develop her speed powers to be more tuned to medical needs. Using the electricity in her hands Caitlin shocked Wally's heart back into a proper rhythm.
"Damn…What the hell just happened?" Kid Flash asked clutching his chest in slight discomfort.
Caitlin in doctor mode placed a hand on the young speedster's chest. "Stay calm you just had a Cardiac Arrhythmia.
Whirlwind tried to send a tornado at Caitlin and Wally but Ben jumped in the way, rotating his arms to create a cyclone spinning in the opposite direction, canceling out the tornadoes. Whirlwind, Overload and Ben shared looks of pure disdain, clearly, they had a past, one Ben was not sure he should share considering what their father did.
Overload leaped into the air and raised his arms high. Dozens of lightning bolts fell from the sky like rain striking everything in the park, on the river and beyond, just pure chaos. Barry did his best to try and save as many people as he could but for every person he saved another was either struck by lightning or they were crushed by falling debris.
"NO!" Barry screamed. He hated to see people being injured or worse, it made him feel like a failure.
While Barry and Ben moved to fight Overload Caitlin and Wally ran after Whirlwind but the gusts she was creating threw them back with hurricane force winds.
"Come on Sis!" Overload held out his hand and a large amount of electricity collected in his hand. Whirlwind grinned as she formed a mini tornado in her own hand. They put their hands together and the lightning and wind began to swirl until it formed a black sphere crackling with electricity.
"What is that thing?" Wally asked
"That is bad news." Ben said "That is like a mini storm in the palm of their hands and it has enough power to easily level at least a few city blocks."
"How do we stop it?" The Female Flash asked
"Inside is a whirlpool of wind and lightning! Last time they used that it wiped an entire city off the map, though it was on a much bigger scale! If they use it there is not much we can do!"
"Let's blow this crappy city to the next world!" Whirlwind gleefully said while taking the black sphere from her brother. She wound up like a baseball player but suddenly she and her brother were surrounded by a wall of blue flames. "What is this?"
Barry, Ben, Caitlin and Wally all turned to see Eddie join them.
"Nice to see you Cobalt Blue." Barry said grinning.
"Nice to see you too Flash."
There was a crack of thunder that drew the attention of the five speedsters. Overload discharged some of his electricity with a thunderclap that did two things; One it completely neutralized Eddie's Flames. Two, Just the sound of Overload's Thunderclap unleashed a shock wave in all directions. It decimated everything in a 407,000 ft2 area. Windows and Glass shattered as hundreds of people either clutched their ears in pain as their eardrums ruptured or they dropped to the ground dead as the sound waves ruptured their internal organs. the speedsters somehow managed to not die despite having what was roughly the same as a metric ton of explosives going off next to them but even with their healing speeds they were all stricken temporarily deaf, making this fight much more challenging.
Caitlin dodged another wind blast as her hearing slowly returned. The instant Overload unleashed his thunderclap she let her instincts take over. She grabbed Wally and tried to get as far away from the center of the blast as she could. She was unable to completely outrun the blast but she was able to get far enough away so that the damage was mitigated, but that didn't stop the rupturing of her eardrums.
"…ARE YOU GUYS OK…?" Barry was clearly screaming but she could barely hear him over the high pitch ringing in his ear.
"…I…I'M FINE…!" She yelled back completely unsure if he heard her.
"…guys…" She could barely hear Cisco's voice through the coms. "…get….out…there…" From what she heard it sounded panicked and frightened.
"…CISCO…!" She screamed over the high pitch ringing but the sudden attack of Overload drew her attention back into the fight.
"I DON'T CARE HOW MANY SPEEDSTERS THERE ARE! WE'LL KILL YOU ALL!" Overload screamed as he moved to attack the slightly dazed and temporarily deaf Speedsters.
All Barry could hear was the high pitch whine. This was worse than that time he fought Black Siren.
On the Roof of a Nearby Building
Watching the battle from above Godspeed enjoyed watching The Flash and his compatriots suffer, he was however upset whenever Whirlwind and Overload attacked Dr. Snow. She was, as he constantly put it, Integral to his plan, and for that to come to pass she needed to be alive and retain her speed.
"Godspeed"
The white speedster turned to see one of his associates, one who had been by his side for as long as he could remember. She was a beautiful woman who, like him and so many others, had been kissed by the Speed Force, though unlike many other Speedsters this woman already had an ability. The Speed Force just made it far more powerful and dangerous to the point even Godspeed was weary of her capabilities despite her insistence she would never use her abilities on him.
"I thought I might find you here. Surveying the work of the Tempest Twins I see."
"They are meant to serve as a distraction for the Flash and his friends, nothing more." The white speedster growled in a low tone. They might not be from this reality but that didn't stop Godspeed from despising the Tempest Twins. "I would like nothing more than to see The Flash kill them both. In fact, I'm counting on it."
The woman sensually cupped Godspeed's masked face while rubbing her other hand against his chest. "Whatever did they do to you? And do not lie. You know I can find out anything no matter how hard one tries to hide it."
The speedster ignored her sexual advances. It had always been like this between them but she was right there was no point in hiding it from her. "They did nothing. It's what their father did." He said with venom dripping from each word. "What their Barry Allen did."
"That bad huh?"
Godspeed ignored her and stood up. "He got what he deserved. These two will get whatever comes to them." In a flash of gold and white lightning he was gone taking his confidant with him.
Riverside Park
"Time to turned this damned city into a crater!" Overload and Whirlwind took each other's' hand and formed another black storm sphere.
"NO!" Ben screamed as he watched them fire it into the air. He knew how this worked. The black sphere would react with nearby storm clouds collecting them together until they formed one massive cloud sphere basically a bomb with more than enough energy to vaporize a city. "You guys have fought Weather Wizard before, right?"
"We have. he's currently on the lamb thanks to Snart busting him out to form his new rouges team." Caitlin explained
"But you still have the wand right?"
"You'd have to talk to Cisco about that. I don't know if its at S.T.A.R. Labs or in Evidence Lockup."
"CISCO!" Ben screamed into his comms. "PLEASE TELL ME YOU GUYS HAVE WEATHER WIZARD'S WAND!"
"Uh yeah, it's in CCPD Evidence Lockup. Why?"
"WE'RE GOING TO NEED IT PRONTO!" Ben turned to Barry. "DAD! GET TO THE CCPD AND GET THE WEATHER WAND!"
"ON IT!" Barry nodded and took off towards the police station. a few seconds later he was back holding the Wizard's Wand. The five speedsters looked up to the sky as the dark clouds.
"Now what?" Wally asked
Ben took the wand from his dad and looked up. "So, how many of you guys have insulated suits?"
"Wait! You cannot be seriously thinking about someone going into that storm!" The instant Ben began to spoke Caitlin figured out exactly what his plan was.
"I have to do this mom." Ben gave his mom a hug before beginning to run.
"NO!" Whirlwind screamed. She threw her arm forward to try and blast Ben with a raging tornado but Caitlin countered by using the same trick Ben had used earlier with a tornado spinning in the opposite direction.
"Leave my son alone you Bitch." Caitlin growled as she allowed the blue lightning to dance around her.
"KEEP THEM OFF OF ME!" Ben yelled to his parents, uncle and Cobalt Blue as he raced to the highest closest building and leaped through the air and into the storm cloud.
Inside the Storm
Ben entered into the Swirling mass of wind and lightning and immediately felt like he was being torn apart at the same time as being burned alive by endless strikes of lightning. One lightning bolt raced through the storm as if guided and it struck Ben in the head. For Ben, it jogged something that didn't seem to fit properly in his mind whatever it was.
"Subject 52-Alpha is ready Sir." The voice of someone said. Definitely a man talking.
"Do it."
"Subject 52-Alpha has failed Sir, might I suggest we move on to 52-Omega."
"52-Omega was always the better choice. Do it."
Ben kept running ignoring the images playing over and over in his head. that's when he saw something. A flicker of gold lightning rushed past him and that's when Ben Saw him. Godspeed was there running alongside him.
"… Godspeed…" Ben could not believe what he was seeing. Was Godspeed helping him? And how was Godspeed avoiding every single lightning bolt that split around the storm.
The white clad speedster turned to Ben gave him a small salute before tearing off running even faster than Ben thought was possible on the air itself.
Riverside Park Down Below
Down below the storm the four speedsters engaged against the Tempest Twins. Barry and Wally were fighting Overload while Caitlin and Eddie fought
"EDDIE! GO AS HOT AS YOU CAN BUT KEEP THE FLAMES CONTAINED!" Barry screamed over the wind.
"WHY?"
"YOU'LL BE CREATING A LARGE AREA OF RAPIDLY ASCENDING AIR CURRENT! THUS CREATING AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE!"
While Caitlin distracted Whirlwind, Cobalt Blue began to generate a much flames as he could, making a large hot bonfire around him.
Whirlwind felt it. She felt the winds she was generating being stripped away from her by Cobalt Blue. Without those winds to protect her she was as weak and defenseless as an ordinary human.
"BROTHER!" She yelled hoping her brother would react and go after Cobalt Blue but moments later Her wind armor was completely gone revealing the young woman beneath the tornado.
Without breaking a stride Caitlin rushed in and punched her in the jaw while sending a jolt through her body knocking her out while Wally retrieved the power dampening cuffs and slapped them on her wrists.
"NO!" Overload screamed as he blitzed over to Caitlin, Wally and his injured sister. He moved as a massive deadly conscious lightning bolt.
"NOW!" Barry and Wally lunged into Overload. The electrical Meta-Human wrapped his massive arms around the foster brother duo and discharged severe amounts of electricity. For Barry it felt like when he was struck by lightning all those years ago only worse.
Wally and Barry fought through the pain and ran Overload out onto the river before making the move to push him underwater. Lightning exploded everywhere and raced all throughout the river, Upstream, downstream and even from the surface to the riverbed frying every living thing the lightning could reach. Barry and wally lay floating in the water with the unconscious body of Overload between them. Getting him wet was more than enough to discharge all the electricity he had built up. It took the foster brothers a moment to recover before heading back to shore dragging the unconscious meta-human.
There was crackling of thunder and drew Barry's attention skyward and they all watched as the massive storm cloud burst apart unveiling the blue sky. falling from the sky was Ben lightning collected around him in an attempt to protect him. Paternal instincts kicked in and Barry raced up the building to catch his falling son. Barry leaped into the air "BEN!" He screamed to his son and thankfully he stirred. Barry couldn't help but smile as he grabbed his son.
Working in unison they began to swirl their arms creating large funnels of wind to slow their decent and cushion their fall "… Ben… you OK?" Barry asked
"Yeah…"
"Barry!" Ben and Barry turned just in time to see Caitlin close the distance and embrace Her boyfriend and future son in bone crushing hugs. She had just come dangerously close to losing them both and she didn't know what she would do if she did, thankfully she would not have to find out.
"…That's it…" Barry was out of breath. This was a hard battle almost like fighting a living storm. He looked to see Wally and Eddie standing near the unconscious Whirlwind, but there was something off about their expressions. "…it's over…"
"Hey… Barry… Ben… you're going to want to see this…" Caitlin said as she gently let Barry and Ben over to the defeated Tempest Twins.
Barry and Ben joined the rest of the speedsters and placed Overload on the ground next to his sister. Funny thing about them, they looked similar so obviously, they were fraternal twins, but more surprising was how much like Iris Whirlwind looked while Overload looked like Barry except with darker skin and black hair.
"What the hell…?" Eddie breathed turning to Barry. He could not help but feel anger building up inside him. Oh, how he hoped the explanation was not what he thought it was.
"Ben… Who are they?" Caitlin asked hiding her emotions behind her usual walls which seemed to be rebuilt almost instantly. Barry noticed her change in tone so he moved by her side.
"Allow me to reintroduce Overload and Whirlwind otherwise known as Donald and Dawn West Allen of Earth-4's Future." All five speedsters looked upon the unconscious bodies of two young adults that were clearly the offspring of Barry and Iris. Thousands of thoughts ran through everyone's heads.
S.T.A.R. Labs
1:20 PM
"They're our kids from an alternate timeline?" Iris asked as she watched the monitor displaying Don and Dawn in their respective cells at Iron Heights.
"Technically they're you're kids from a possible future or an alternate Earth." Cisco reiterated on behalf of Ben, who like all the other speedsters was getting his eardrums checked by Caitlin.
All of them had been far too close to Overload or Don West-Allen when he did the thunderclap. If it were not for their fast healing every one of them would have had their insides turned to mush by the sound pressure waves of the thunder.
"This is starting to get out of hand." Joe said. It was not hard for him to imagine Barry and Iris together even after his daughter's marriage to Eddie. But seeing how their children were Evil violent meta-humans seemed very hard to believe.
"Not the first time we've dealt with time traveling psychopaths from alternate realities. And it probably won't be our last." Iris and Joe both shrugged.
Iris could not tear herself away from the display. Sitting in Iron heights were Her and Barry's children. Well maybe not her and Barry's children but she still felt a connection to them. They looked so much like Iris and Barry that it was impossible for her not to feel something and it made her wonder. How on their Earth did Don and Dawn the so-called Tempest Twins turn out this way? Weren't they raised in a nurturing environment by Their Barry and Iris? If she and Barry had gotten together would their children end up like them? Too many monumental questions kept running through her head and Iris wanted them all answered. Unfortunately, the only place she could get answers was at Iron Heights and no one was going to let her go there especially not to talk to her alternate self's possible future children. Maybe she'd sneak out to Iron Heights to get some answers from the Tempest Twins herself, answers that can help the Team deal with Godspeed and maybe reveal his plan.
S.T.A.R. Labs Med Lab
Caitlin peered into Ben's ears using her otoscope and was quite pleased to see that his eardrums were completely healed, as had all of hi electrical burns. It was almost as if his eardrums hadn't ruptured at all. It did strike her a little oddly since Ben seemed to be completely fine while the rest of them were still experiencing residual ringing and pain in their ears.
"Alright everyone is good to go." Caitlin said as she removed her gloves and properly disposed of them.
"What?" Wally asked still not hearing properly.
"We are all going to be fine. Our eardrums have all mostly healed and any damage we were inflicted with has healed."
"Thank you, Caitlin." Eddie said giving her a smile. He could tell what was bothering her since it was bothering him as well. He stood up and he and Wally left the Med Lab but Barry lingered in the doorway. Like Eddie he could tell that something was bothering his girlfriend and it was his duty to make her happy.
"Hey Cait... you OK?" Barry asked as he quietly joined Caitlin. He reached out to gently rub her shoulder but Caitlin shied away.
"It's nothing Barry… I'm fine…"
"No, I can tell something's bothering you. You know, because of your lip biting habit. Come on talk to me Cait."
"It's really nothing… I've just been thinking that's all…" The young couple proceeded to sit down on the treadmill.
"What about?"
"Us mostly… how the odds seem to be stacked against us... you know this whole Godspeed and Speed Demon thing." Barry could her Caitlin's fear and woe in her words. These were two speedsters they knew nothing about, but one had an Army of Speedsters from all across the Multiverse and their individual Timelines while the other was a nigh demonic force of pure death. "It's like, no matter what we do there's always another psychopathic Speedster out there who either wants to kill you, or take your powers away. I mean why do we even bother trying some times?"
"Cait..."
"I'm beginning to think this isn't about Godspeed or Speed Demon, is it?" Barry looked into her eyes. He could see her struggling to hold back her tears. "It's us, you're worried about."
Several tears managed to escape from Caitlin's eyes as she nodded her head. The identities of the Storm Siblings hurt her far more than it should have. "It's just… when we saw them… I don't know it feels like there's nothing to support us. It all seems to point at you and Iris being destined to be together. The Reverse-Flash's original Timeline, your Future Self's Timeline, Earth-2 and now Earth-4. What is there to tell us that we might work? I know I promised I would not let this sort of stuff get to me but… I cannot help but let it get to me."
Barry took Caitlin's hands in his own and began to draw small circles with his thumbs. He could not deny he didn't feel a certain pull to Iris. She was his first love, not some childhood crush, actual love. But Iris had made her choice and Barry needed to accept that and he certainly didn't want Caitlin to feel like she was a placeholder or a conciliation prize for Barry. He wanted her to know just how important and special she was to him.
"Caitlin… please… don't think for one second that we cannot work. Who cares if everything in the universe says otherwise." He gave her a reassuring smile, similar to the one he gave her after getting her back from Zoom. "I believe we chose our own paths through life and I want you to walk it with me." Still holding her hand Barry stood up making her follow suit. "You see Ben over there?" He gestured to their son sitting in the Cortex not really paying attention to what anyone was saying. "Ben is proof that you and me we can make this work Cait. So please don't be so ready to give up on us."
"Ok…" Caitlin nodded before taking a deep breath letting her anxiety pass. "Ok…" with a smile Barry pulled her into a tight embrace intending on never letting her go. They could and would make this work.
"Come on… Let's go home." Barry gently pulled away from their embrace before the two speedsters vanished in flurries of yellow and blue lightning.
Barry and Caitlin's Home
9:20 PM
Ben sat on the couch staring at nothing thinking of what he saw and the voices he heard when he was in the heart of the storm. Sure, they had won the hard fight but he still could not shake the feeling of that vision. Just what was it? It could not have been a memory nor could it be a vision. So, he closed his eyes and returned to the place.
He was in a dark Room. Restrained. It was cold. Perhaps some kind of Lab or something. He really could not say. It didn't fit anywhere in his memories and yet it felt more real than everything else.
"Subject 52-Alpha is ready Sir." The voice of someone said. Definitely a man talking.
"Do it." Those two words were followed by a blinding white light and searing pain racing all over his body as it felt like the left portion of his face was catching fire. The pain was so sever that he blacked out and all sound faded to nothing leaving him only with the monitors tracking his heartbeat.
"Subject 52-Alpha has failed Sir, might I suggest we move on to 52-Omega."
"52-Omega was always the optimal choice. Do it."
"Ben" Ben snapped back into reality to see his parents looking at him worriedly. "Hey, you OK?" Caitlin asked as she made a move to sit down next to him.
"Hm? Oh, I'm fine." Ben tried giving them a smile but there was an insincerity about it that didn't fool Barry or Caitlin.
"Ben…" Barry sat down on the other side of his son. "Please… something is bothering you, you can tell us."
"You knew who Whirlwind and Overload were the whole time. Why didn't you tell us?" Caitlin placed her hand on Ben's.
"I honestly did not know how you would respond and I was hoping that no one would see their faces." The young speedster took a deep breath. "I'm sorry… I can't do thins… I've got to go." Ben hastily stood up and grab his jacket. "I'll be back later. Bye mom, Bye dad." He gave his parents hugs
"Where are you going?" Barry demanded
To find some answers he said in his head but different words came out when he opened his mouth. "I… I am just going for a run… please don't follow me… I promise I'll be back real soon! You won't even notice I'm gone!" Before they could get another word in edgewise Ben vanished in the usual yellow lightning of speedsters.
"BEN!" Caitlin cried out before turning to Barry
"We have to go after him!" Caitlin nodded at her boyfriend's command and the young speedster couple raced after their son.
Barry and Caitlin crisscrossed all over the city. There was no way Ben could have gotten that far from them in such a short amount of time. Sure, he was much faster than both of them together but he could not just up and vanish.
Iron Heights Prison
9:30 PM
Don West-Allen of Earth-4 paced his cell in frustration. Across from him his twin brother just sat on the bed of his cell.
"YOU CAN'T LOCK US IN HERE!" He screamed in anger.
"Calm yourself Don… He'll come for us." Dawn said with faith in the man who brought them here.
"We should have never left our earth to join in this damned crusade."
Earth-4 was essentially the opposite of Earth-1, all the heroes were villains and all the villains were heroes. On their earth the Storm Siblings, as they were sometimes called, were quite literally forces of Nature. Their Father, Barry Allen of Earth-4, was feared as The Red Racer while their mother Iris West-Allen had inherited her father's criminal enterprise after usurping him, their suits came from their version of Reverb. The only one to stand against them and their criminal family was that damn Heroine named Frost. Soon after her arrival on the scene their father decided to show all of central City that he was in charge. The first thing he did when he beat Frost was have his wife film him raping her live for all Central City and beyond to see.
While the Red Racer was raping Frost on live TV there was a flash of gold and white lighting as a figure appeared behind their father and snapped his neck with such force his head did a complete 180. Before Earth-4 Barry even hit the ground the lightning clad figure ran off with Frost to whereabouts unknown. A month later Frost was back and she was much more ruthless and aggressive. In only one year She had managed to break every criminal organization in Central and Keystone City and lock up every criminal and renegade Meta-Human until only Dawn and Don were left. When all seemed lost that is when Godspeed approached them, offering them a chance to conquer a new City. One that did not have Frost.
Alarms began to blare and the tempest twins watched as guards began to run down the hall weapons at the ready.
"HEY! WHAT'S GOING ON OUT THERE!" One of the guards stopped and turned to Don.
"Quite down Prisoner!" The guard ordered before turning back to the commotion.
"Ignore them Donnie. It is just Godspeed come to break us out."
There was a flash of red and black lightning, the bodies of the guard went flying all over the meta-human wing. When the commotion died down standing between the two cells was a man clad completely in black armor with huge amounts of Speed Force Energy billowing off of him like a bonfire. His face was hidden beneath a skull shaped helm with glowing red eyes and lightning bold horns.
The Tempest twins looked at the newcomer and felt a wave of terror wash over them. Everyone had heard the stories about him. Speed Demon. A speedster whose sole purpose was to be the only speedster in existence, by murdering every other speedster in all of creation.
The demonic speedster ignored every word that escaped from Don's mouth as he stared down Dawn West-Allen before looking up to the cameras. In a flash of red and black lightning the cameras were broken and small wisps of red flames danced on his shoulders while he seemingly wrapped something metallic around his wrist.
"What the-" Speed Demon turned towards Dawn then over to Don. In another flash of red and black lightning he was right on the other side of the glass cell his eyes blaring red as if composed of pure hellfire. Don jumped back in surprise before smirking.
"Yeah… nice try buddy but these cells" He gestured to the space around him. "prevent speedsters like us from using our powers. Even if you could get in here, which you can't you'd never get out."
Speed Demon said nothing, instead his body vibrated violently giving off massive amounts of heat that even Dawn could feel across the hall. In an instant Speed Demon walked through the glass separating him from Don, melting it and compromising the integrity of the cell in one move.
In an instant Don began to gather all the electricity he could sense transforming himself into his massive lightning monster form. He thrust an arm forward in a feeble attempt of incinerating the devilish speedster. Speed Demon dodged the blow and threw his right arm forward unwrapping a chain he had on his wrist. The chain, as if it had a mind of its own, wrapped around Don West-Allen's neck and with a tug Speed Demon pulled him to the ground. His cold claws wrapped around Don's lightning face and their lightning flared to life. Bolts of red, black and green arced all over the cell burning and melting everything while the red and black lightning swiftly devoured every bolt of green.
Dawn screamed out for her twin feeling his pain as he was being drained of everything, but from within her cell she could do nothing except watch as Speed Demon harvested her brother.
All the energy composing don's lightning form flew into Speed Demon's mouth leaving nothing of Don West-Allen of Earth-4 but a charred skeleton sprawled out on the floor.
The flaming black speedster grabbed Dawn by the throat and held her high forcing her to look into his burning red eyes. Without a word he reached his hand up to wrap his claws around her pretty face stifling her screams.
This is the end of the chapter
So, tiny Author's note for your enjoyment. Speed Demon is the name of Three Different characters in both DC and Marvel. The DC Comics version is Jerry McGee (Dr. Christina McGee's Husband) The Marvel version is James Saunders originally known as The Whizzer and then there is my personal favorite The Amalgam Speed Demon, which is a combination of Barry Allen, Ghost Rider and Etrigan.
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