Calm Before The Storm
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Kara POV
"All of this strife, all of this death! Could have been avoided Barry. I once gave you the chance to join me, become a king! And you spat in my face. Your friends put up a valiant fight, while you sat on the sidelines as everyone fell. One, by one."
The black speedster stood atop a pile of body's, I saw their faces. Clark, James, Oliver, faces I didn't recognise. Barry was on top of the pile, kneeling on one knee as he spat out blood.
"No matter what happens. I won't stop fighting!" He jumped back up throwing a punch that the man just sidestepped, brought his hands to his head, and snapped.
"NO" I woke with a jolt beneath two sun lights.
Taking in my surroundings I could only see what was right next to me under the blinding light of an artificial sun.
I was lying on a steel bed with my Supergirl suit on while my cape, Kal Els' blanket, spread over the top of me.
"Clark!" I called out into the bright space.
Without another second passing the lights were turned off and my vision adjusted to the room. I was in one of the DEOs medical rooms, charts were spread out on the table while some empty vials were in a rack next to my bed.
"Hey there little cousin. Had a nice nap?" Clark had appeared by my side wearing his Super suit, without the cape that was instead on me.
"I am still older than you!" I punched his arm as the room was flooded with people I knew and two unfamiliar faces.
Hank, Alex, Whinn ran to my bedside as the two unfamiliar people looked over the charts and picked up some strange coloured liquid.
"You had us worried there, Kara. You wouldn't wake up and we didn't know why." Alex stroked my hair gently as everyone made way for the two women that I didn't know.
One wore a white lab coat so I assumed she was a doctor. But the other wore a very tight, very short red and black spandex costume with a black eye mask hanging around her neck.
"Drink this." The women in the white lab coat handed me a red vial and shot off to mix more substances in the corner.
"Listen to her Kara, she is a very good doctor and actually helped save your life." Clark pushed the vial gently towards my lips.
"Okay but this is the only thing you will ever push me into drinking." I drank the oily liquid like it was a shot; it had a bitter taste and ran down my throat like a snail.
I hopped up to my feet and stretched my joints a little as I felt knots in my shoulder blades. After I scanned the faces in the room a second time I immediately noticed one face missing.
"Where is Barry?" Everyone immediately found their feet a little more interesting than before.
"Just tell the girl." Oliver projected his voice from the doorway, wearing all his Arrow regalia
"What's the Playboy Poser talking about?" I snapped at him.
Oliver and I never saw eye to eye. I know he has done a lot of good as the Green Arrow but I won't forget when he drunkenly hit on me. We have all made mistakes and I am just happy he wasn't one of mine.
"Won't let that one go will you? Okay. Sorry for your loss by the way." Oliver left the room, heading towards the practice rooms.
"What do you mean my loss?" I stormed after him; he weaved through agents and was in the training room, carrying his bow towards the targets already filled with arrows.
"Barry, he went back to his world, sent four others through, including the doctor and the other girl. However he hasn't come back through it has been a week. Shame, the league could have used him." Oliver shot three arrows at once, which spread to three different targets.
"He was a man Oliver. Not a toy to be used by you, just like Bart!" I threw a punch towards his head but he just ducked under my arm and switched on the Red Sun power dampeners.
"If we are going to fight then we may as well be on equal footing. C'mon, hit me. Maybe I could teach you something after you got put out of commission by the guy that has probably killed your boyfriend." Oliver taunted, throwing his bow to the side. I know I can't take Oliver in a fair fight, but right now I just want to hit someone, and he is the best option.
We had drawn a crowd at the door. Now a small Latino man and a man in a white Flash suit, they must be Barry's friend that came through.
As we fought I threw punches as fast as I could, Oliver dodged and weaved through my flailing arms, ducking under me and tripping me with his leg. Now on my ass Alex turned the dampeners off and pushed Oliver away.
"Back off! You are not helping her." Clark took him out of the room once Alex had shoved him to the door.
"He is right Alex, I couldn't stop him. Because of me Barry is now missing and we have no way to get to him." I got on my knees a tear falling from my eye as Alex kneeled next to me, bringing me into her embrace.
"Well actually..." The small Latino at the door stepped forward. "Hi, I'm Cisco. You're a cool Alien. Anyways, I can actually get us there and back..." Shaking myself from Alex I grabbed his shoulders.
"You have to bring me to him then! Are you his friend or..." He raised his hand to stop me.
"Actually, I am his best friend. The boy in white is Wally, lab coat is Caitlin, his friend and Physician, and shorts over there is Jesse. Jesse and Wally both have the same powers as Barry but at a much weaker scale. What did he mean to you, where you crime fighting partners?" The three people waved in time to Cisco's introduction.
"I am his girlfriend. Now come one, we need to go get Barry!" Cisco looked a little shocked, learning that we were together.
I didn't tell anyone but everyone suspected, we were not good at hiding our feelings. We would sneak glances at each other and smile, we would arrive together and leave together, and we were always so close together. Alex text me a few times asking about us and James would glare at us.
"Wait, how did Barry get a girl like you? An alien girl like you!" Cisco was getting a little giddy, bouncing on his heels.
"Cisco, not important. Sorry, Supergirl, right? We can't go back." The man in white stood forward.
"He just said he could! We have to go right now!" I turned off my power dampeners and got ready to go, stretching to pull out the final knots in my back.
"We can, but if we do, we will die. You heard Cisco, we don't even have a third of Barry's speed, if Barry couldn't fight him, then we can't. We need a plan; we need to first see if Barry is even alive." I pushed past Wally and started my search through the DEO for Clark and Oliver when I got ambushed from a side corridor.
"Kara! Hey, Kara, wait up." James called after me when I gave him the cold shoulder.
"You gave me a fright Kara! I didn't know if you were going to wake up." James jogged next to me.
"I woke up a while ago. Do you know where Oliver is? I need to see him." James stepped in front of me, blocking my path.
"First why don't we go to dinner and un-wind a little? I doubt that you need Oliver for something super important right now." James put his arm around my waist and ushered me towards the exit of the base.
"No, I need to ask him about helping me with a plan to find Barry, maybe another time?" James had been annoying me recently but I need to put on that fake smile that I have mastered all these years.
"Kara, I know you don't want to hear this but, Barry is dead. He hasn't been back for a week. Either he is dead or he abandoned us!" With that I pushed him off of me.
"Barry isn't dead! And he wouldn't abandon me either! He needs help and you need to back off." I spotted Oliver and Clark in deep discussion in the corner of the main room.
"Oliver! Clark!" They broke apart to face me as I approached. "I need your help, both of you..." Oliver wore a smug smile on his face.
"We need a plan to find and save Barry." Oliver's smug grin fell right off.
"How do you think we should do that?" Clark folded his arms, trying to give me a little leeway to explain a plan.
"Well, that's why I need you. Oliver, you are head of the Justice League, can't you just call everyone in and we can outnumber Black Flash?" Oliver shook his head.
"I can't put that many people at risk, I may be the head of the League but they won't go on a suicide mission." Clark rubbed his face with both hands.
"Fine, we don't need anyone else. We have two speedsters, two Kryptonians, an archer, and someone who can open portals. Black Flash can't beat us all." Oliver shook his head again.
"He can kill us all in a second if he wanted to, we need Barry's speed, the other two are too slow." A light bulb went off above my head.
"Barry had allies on his Earth, they can help." Oliver was hesitant.
"Do you know who these Allies are?"
"That's a bit trickier, see. It is you..." Oliver dropped his hood to look at me in the eyes with nothing obscuring his view.
"What do you mean me? Did I become Green Arrow there too?" Clark just chuckled.
"Yeah, except a little different from what I hear. He knows Barry and he helped him fight the first evil speedster over there, why not another." Oliver raised his hand.
"Stop. Just stop. I don't want to think about another me." Oliver put his hood back on and sulked out of the room.
"So, Clark? What do you think? Could this work?" Clark nodded.
"If we can get Barry's allies to help us, Wally and Jesse should both be enough to keep up with him. Barry became my friend in a very short time, and I know he was more to you. That means if I can do something to help him, I will. Let's get the elf and his team to sort something.
Cisco POV
"Are you insane? All the candy finally destroying your brain? It's suicide!" Team Flash, Team Supergirl and even Superman and Green Arrow sat around a large table, listening to mine and Supergirls plan.
"It's not a suicide mission, just very dangerous, but Barry has done so much for us. He has saved the whole Multi Verse before and left his mother to die all so he could save us. Barry was the best of us, now he needs us to save him." Wally raised his hand.
"How do you expect us to defeat Black Flash? Even with Oliver on our Earth and his trick arrows, he needs to hit him first. Ray, Sara, Carter, Kendra, Stein and Jackson are away on their crusade. Jesse and I can't keep up with him. We would need a miracle." He finished his negative speech.
"We have a miracle, we have five. Three aliens with any power you could wish for and two speedsters, you may not be the fastest but you are fast. Everyone around this table has something to bring to this plan. We just need you to help us. Not for glory or a good story, but for Barry." Everyone around the table nodded in agreements with only a few whispers of doubt flowing among them.
"Once more with the plan. Kara, Clark and Hank, you go with Jesse and Wally to root out Black Flash and keep him distracted. Caitlin and I will go with Oliver and Alex to get help from team Arrow. Whinn and James will track the movements of both of our teams from STAR labs. Everyone happy." Without missing a beat Kara slammed her hand on the table.
"Great! Now Cisco, do your thing!" She pushed me to the centre of the room, under everyone's gaze.
I raised my arm and lowered my glasses, helping me concentrate. Soon a blue orb opened up and Team one consisting of Supergirl, Martian Manhunter, Superman, Wally and Jesse jumped through. I opened a second breach for Team two surveillance, Whinn and James. Opening the third breach was the hardest; I had never opened a breach in Star City so my maths could be wrong and open our breach away in India. But Team three jumped through anyway, Caitlin, Oliver, Alex and I.
I closed my eyes while travelling through breaches, the light blue and high speeds made my head ache like I was getting an unwanted vibe. As my feet felt hard ground, I opened my eyes to find myself looking down the barrel of a gun.
"Whoa, don't shoot! Weak and defenceless Latinos are far from a threat!" I turned my head to see the coolest confrontation since Luke and Vader.
Oliver and Oliver were in a staring contest, bows raised, arrows cocked. They were unmoving and unflinching while staring death by the shaft... of an arrow.
"Cisco, who are these two people and why are they here?" I heard Thea speak to my right, she was also in a staring contest with Alex, except it was Bow versus gun.
"Can you get Diggles' gun out of my face first! Then I will explain, I don't do well under pressure!" Diggle made to move but Oliver gave him a look to say no.
"Tell us right now, we can't trust you if you bring strangers here!" Oliver was using his voice manipulator to mask his voice.
"Fine! Oliver Queen meet Oliver Queen and Alex Danvers! Please just get the gun out of my face; I am having flashbacks to my time with lovely Leonard!" Both Oliver's dropped their weapons slowly, still staring, until Earth three dropped his hood.
"We are here to help Barry Allen, Aka Flash. He trusted you so I am willing to put this ambush aside if you help us." Oliver One and John looked at each other with a look that only they knew.
"Barry? Oh so this is the doppelganger thing is like then? How come you look nothing like our Oliver then?" Oliver one dropped his hood too.
"Does no one here grasp the concept of the hood and mask? It's so people don't know I am the Green Arrow!" Thea and Alex were still locked in a stare off, neither wanting to drop their weapon first.
"Speedy! Drop it, this is for Barry." Felicity and a guy with an Afro were on the raised platform looking down at us as Caitlin got to her feet from behind the table.
"Again, the offer to think of a new name isn't off the table, I am telling you Arsenal is so much better!" I begged Thea as she wrapped her bow around her back.
"Cisco, where is Barry? The last we saw of him was weeks ago. I wasn't a fan of the new suit though." Felicity called down to me.
"New suit? I haven't given him a new suit. We don't know much but what we do know is that Zoom is back and he is a lot faster, like faster than Barry has ever run!" Oliver jumped up the stairs to the computers.
"First, tell me why Wally and Jesse are fighting with two people in blue and red, and a giant green man." He turned the computer screen to show a news feed of Wally and Jesse running with the three others behind them, Manhunter in back, Superman in the middle and Kara closest to the two Speedsters. They were running circles in a field for what seemed to be no reason.
"Oh no, those three are with us. They aren't fighting. They are just... Running?" The running wasn't fast enough for a tornado or hurricane but it picked up quite the wind as leaves and plants flew everywhere around them.
"We were just gearing up to go check on them; they are about five miles outside of Star City." Felicity put a finger to his lips while violently saying Shhhh.
"Now, Cisco. Where is Barry, there has been no streak for seven weeks." Seven weeks? Jesse and Wally have only been gone seven days. Does time really move slower on Earth 3...? Cool!
"Barry spent some time on another planet, the smaller person in blue there..." I pointed at the news feed. "That is Barry's girlfriend, while he was adventuring on Earth three, Zoom came back but much more demonic and... dead than before, we call him Black Flash now! Anyway Black Flash came back here so Barry followed; he got beat up but gave us the chance to escape him. Now we have brought the cavalry back to help him!" I finished with the explanation.
"And where do we come into this?" Thea asked while staring at Alex, who was staring right back.
"Well you guys have been here while we were away, we needed to know if you knew where Black Flash was hiding, and obviously you don't. But Oliver had arrows that helped us against Eobard, if Speedster Zoom is back and better than ever then those arrows will be our only way to beat him. Jesse and Wally aren't fast enough." Oliver of Earth three started walking through the Arrow Cave, looking at the spare gear that they had and comparing it to his own.
"Wait, something is happening to Wally and Jesse. Look, in the centre of their circle!" Sure enough as Felicity pointed out, the two speedsters started slowing down while their lightning seemed to be sapped from their trails towards the centre, where the Black Flash was, holding a scythe of lightning, just standing there.
"You guys need to get us out there right now. You got room on your bikes for us all?" I looked at Oliver of my Earth.
"Not all of you, Speedy Alex, Oliver from Earth three you're with me. Diggle, take Cisco in the van." Felicity handed out earpieces to Alex, Oliver Three and I.
"Oliver of Earth one, you will be called Ollie now so no one confuses the two of you okay?" Ollie just walked out to the garage before anyone could see how Theas' nickname could make him smile, with Oliver of Earth three quick on his heels.
Thea left with Alex in tow while I hung back for a second to speak to Felicity.
"Felicity, does he still have those speed killing arrows?" Diggle ran out of the room as Felicity sighed.
"Nope! He got rid of them like an idiot! He thought they could be used against Barry so he destroyed the last ones he had. I will have Curtis here make more though. Now Curtis!" The man called Curtis ran to a workbench to tinker around.
"Thanks get it done as quickly as you can. I need to go catch up with the others." I ran down the ramp and into the garage where Diggles van was already started and raring to go.
"We are coming for you Barry, just hold on buddy."
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It may seem like the end of the story but trust me; I am nowhere near done with this story.
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