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The Flash: Survival of the Fastest

Chapter 9: Gods and Demons

S.T.A.R. Labs Breach Room

Barry, Ben, and Caitlin stood in the Breach room of STAR Labs waiting for Cisco and Wally to returned with some of their reinforcements. They had decided that once this section of the team had been put together they would go to Star City to investigate why Team Arrow does not seem to remember any of them.

The portal opened and out ran Wally and Cisco, followed closely by Jesse and Harry then Jay, Kara, Alex and a man Barry and company did not recognize.

"Back on Earth Prime once again." Cisco smiled as he removed his vibe goggles.

With smiles on everyone's faces they exchanged greetings with one another.

"It's so good to see you again Kara." Caitlin smiled as she embraced Supergirl in a hug.

"Like wise Caitlin." Kara adorned a smile that was brilliant. "Oh, everyone this is my sister Alex." Kara introduced her adoptive sister.

"Hi." Alex waved to the people from the alternate universe.

"Oh, this is J'onn, you guys remember J'onn right." Kara reintroduced the Martian.

"I remember J'onn." J'onn shook Barry's hand. "Right, so," Barry turned to Ben. "Everyone, I'd like to introduce you all to Ben."

"Hi Ben." Jesse immediately reached out to take his hand which Ben happily obliged.

"Hi, I'm Ben." Ben said slightly nervous to be meeting Jay Garrick, his partial namesake and alternate paternal grandfather. "Uh… well… you're all here to help us with a small problem…"

Harry raised his hand interrupting Ben. "First of all, I think all of us here would like to know Who you are and where you come from."

"Right… well…" Ben was a little nervous. Would Jay be upset with him for being a 'reckless time traveler?' "Um… OK first thing you should all know is… I am actually from the future…" Ben watched as everyone's gazes focused on him, especially Jay's. Before the eldest Flash could speak up Ben continued. "And I… I didn't exactly mean to travel to the past and now I'm kind of stuck here."

"So we are here to help bring you back to the Future before you alter the past." Jay said not removing his eyes from Ben.

"That's half right." Ben nervously ran his hands together. "See, All three of you have the speed necessary to help us stop my arch-nemesis his name is-" Alarms suddenly began to blare loudly, signaling meta-human activity.

"We've got a meta-human alert!" Cisco got excited as everyone, powered or not, made their way up to the cortex to investigate the sudden disturbance.

Central City

Central City seemed absolutely peaceful at night. At least it was peaceful until stream of gold-white lighting tore through the streets followed by a flood of red flames cloaked in black lightning. The two streams of color ran up the sides of buildings and even phased through other structures in a seemingly unending race.

Godspeed ran fast and hard staying several steps ahead of the black clad speedster. They ran so fast they were moving between locations within milliseconds, traversing the entire city two times over in under a minute.

Godspeed glanced over his shoulder at the flaming visage of his shadow. He thought back to the first time they fought and smiled. Back when Speed Demon at his weakest. He remembered running through the streets of Central City dragging Speed Demon's body by a chain around his neck. Debris tore at the other speedster's flesh as he was slowly turned into an unrecognizable mass of flesh and blood. He was confident he killed the other man. Needless to say, he looked quite spry for roadkill.

"Can't catch me little brother!"

Speed Demon chased closely behind Godspeed, the man who called him 'Little Brother.' Never has he called Godspeed his brother. He had a big brother but he was murdered by Benjamin Jason Allen. He gripped his energy scythe tightly and swung. Godspeed dodged and Speed Demon's attack sliced a car in half.

"This is so much fun little brother! We should do this more often!"

Speed Demon roared like a wild animal as he jumped, closing the gap between the two speedsters. He latched onto the surprised Godspeed's back wrapping his arms around the white speedster's chest and his legs around the man's waist. The sudden change in weight made Godspeed stumble and fall. The black runner released Godspeed and flipped over the tumbling body before grabbing a hold of the back of his neck dragging him across the city. Asphalt and concrete tore into Godspeed's body, through his suit, which was impressive considering what his suit was made of.

S.T.A.R. Labs Cortex

At S.T.A.R. Labs the readings were going absolutely wild. In the Cortex stood Team Flash plus Jay, Jesse, Harry and the three powerhouses of Team Supergirl.

"What the heck is going on?" Barry asked as he made his way over to Cisco. Two signals were on the screen jumping from one location to the next in the blink of an eye.

"I don't know! Satellites picked up a massive flux of Speed Force Energy and then this started happening!"

"It's two speedsters." Jay said understanding the situation almost immediately. "They're racing. Trying to wrestle the Speed Force from one another."

"Can we get a visual on them?" J'onn asked

"On it!" Cisco typed and pulled up several traffic cams. Unfortunately, they were showing the aftermath. Trails of fire burned the streets adorn with shattered Glass and electrified cars and lampposts.

"Just what the hell is happening out there?" Joe asked surveying the destruction.

Out of everyone Ben looked on in horror. His expression did not go unnoticed by Kara Zor-El. "You notice something don't you?"

"It's nothing." Ben shrugged off her question, knowing exactly what was happening and how dangerous it was.

"Ben," Caitlin moved to talk to her future son with much more calm. "What is it?" Everyone tuned their attention to Ben.

"The lightning…" Ben said. "See the colors?"

"Black and White." Caitlin said.

"There are only two speedsters with those colors for their Lightning. Speed Demon… and Godspeed…"

"Godspeed and Speed Demon are out there? What could they be possibly doing?" Barry asked

"Like Jay said, it looks like they are racing, and its more likely than not they are trying to kill each other."

"Ah, so we finally get to have two villains who do not want to work together, but in the process of trying to kill each other they wreak everything around them." Cisco spun in his chair back to the monitors.

"The question is Who is winning?" Alex asked trying to understanding the gravity of the situation. "I mean if both of these speedsters are as bad as you say then What happens when one kills the other?"

"No matter who wins, This might be our best and only chance to take out both one of them." Ben said. "Speed Demon wants Godspeed dead for some reason, we can use that to our advantage."

"How?" Wally asked.

"By finding them, and letting one of them kill the other. As soon as that happens we all move in and take out the other."

"Seems like a good Plan." Harry said

"I can't believe we are even entertaining this!" Caitlin argued. "How many people are Godspeed and Speed Demon going to kill before one defeats the other?"

Barry was deep in thought letting his comrades and friends bicker about how to deal with this threat."

Central City

Still dragging Godspeed, Speed Demon was fully intending on killing the other speedster the same way he had been 'killed' leaving him as nothing but a bloody smear across Central City.

Godspeed wasn't going to have any of that however. He charged his right arm with the speed force and punched Speed Demon in the side, forcing him to let go as the black speedster rocketed into the side of a building.

Not even waiting for his counterpart to recover, Godspeed charged up more lightning on his arms and even on his leg. Two quick jabs later white lightning bolts raced for Speed Demon.

Speed Demon slid to the left and then the right in rapid succession avoiding the lightning but when he halted for a fraction of a second he saw a third lightning bolt already on top of him with no way to completely dodge. He moved to the left and the lightning bolt struck him in the shoulder with a blast of brilliant white light.

Speed Demon stood up from the attack. He looked down at his right arm and chest. Godspeed's lightning kick had blasted away pieces of his suit covering those areas exposing the pale skin beneath. The black speedster looked at Godspeed before cracking his neck.

"Ouch." Godspeed groaned.

Slightly exhaling the two speedsters charged once again white and black lightning fighting for dominance before exploding in a brilliant light. Speed Force energy exploded everywhere as the two speedsters vanished into the Speed Force reappearing miles away far away from Central City.

Downtown Central City

Yellow lightning crisscrossed Central City as the Flash Family chased after Speed Demon and Godspeed. Only Barry, Caitlin, Ben and Wally were out chasing the two speedsters as Barry wanted Cisco, Eddie, Jay, Jesse, Kara and J'onn to hang back.

"Do we have any idea what is happening between Godspeed and Speed Demon?" Caitlin asked the speedsters around her.

"I haven't the feintest idea." Ben yelled back over the rushing of the winds. "Where I'm from they would have never met each other, let alone fought."

"Whatever their reasons are we have to stop them from hurting anyone!" They all came to full stops.

The road before them was scarred. A foot-deep trench ran through the middle of the road, Black and white electricity sparked off of nearly every metallic object while crimson flames burned even the asphalt of the road.

"Oh god… what happened here?" Caitlin asked as she surveyed one of the dozen or so unconscious bodies.

"This is a result of Godspeed and Speed Demon's fight. A blatant disregard for innocent bystanders." Ben hated to see such life wasted. As far as he remembered Barry had imprinted that thought into his brain, Caitlin also had something to do with it since 'Do no harm' was, as she said, engraved in her DNA. "They're worse than animals."

"Where'd they go?" Wally asked.

Ben placed his hand on the ground and closed his eyes. "What are you doing?" Ben looked to Caitlin addressing her confusion.

"It's a trick I picked up from you Mom. If I focus I can sense the presence of Other speedsters. Works best when there are remnants of their speed lingering."

"You're saying I can do that?" Caitlin asked then a thought crossed her mind, a contradiction Ben had mentioned earlier. "I thought you didn't know I was a Speedster until you arrived here?"

"I didn't, but this is one of the issues with my slightly shattered psyche." Ben shrugged pointing at his own cranium. "Some memories are saying you're the Speedster named Fast Track because of your ability to track other speedsters. I have no idea if any of them are real, but I like to think they are."

"Fast Track… Cisco proposed that name, I didn't like it all that much." The three other speedsters around her chuckled.

Barry smiled warmly at her, he had liked that codename for Caitlin. "Well, Fast Track, I think we found a new nickname for you."

"Really? We're going to call me 'Fast Track' even though I cannot do this speed tracking trick." Caitlin rolled her eyes. She looked to Ben who gave his future mother a reassuring smile.

"It's fine mom. After this, I can teach you how to do it." The female speedster gave Ben a smile.

STAR Labs Cortex

"We should be out there Helping Barry." Kara argued in frustration at being 'benched.'

"Barry said we should hang back here and wait for them to strike first." Cisco answered.

"He's right, It's better to not show our opponent all of our cards. Just give it a little more time Kara." J'onn gently placed a hand on his surrogate super powered daughter's shoulder.

Jay hovered near Harry and Jesse watching the monitors. As the most veteran speedster, all the other speedster had an unsung respect for Jay Garrick. With that said there was something about Ben that put Jay off. Mostly it was because he was a man out of time. He should not exist yet and his very presence was influencing the actions of Barry, Caitlin and everyone else on the Earth Prime Team Flash. Sure Ben was saying how he wanted their help in defeating Speed Demon so he could return to his time. Still, Jay thought back to the lecture he gave Barry about a year ago when Barry was accidentally thrust into the Future. The Future is not set in stone, it never will be because the moment the Future becomes set is the moment it becomes the Past.

"So, in your sage Speedster knowledge what do you think of this?" Harry asked Jay.

"I honestly don't know." Jay replied. "I am fine with helping Barry, but I just do not trust this Ben."

"Because he's a Time Remnant." Harry was not asking a question. He knows how dangerous Time Remnants are. Hunter Zolomon's reckless use of Time Remnants resulted in him being carried off and enslaved by the Speed Force.

Jay just nodded. "For Ben, it's only a matter of time until the Speed Force catches up with him. And I don't want to see Barry and Caitlin hurt by Ben's reckless time traveling."

"You and I both. Feels like no matter what happens Allen is prone to screw over the timeline in some way shape and form."

"Excuse me is this S.T.A.R. Labs?" Everyone in the Cortex stopped what they were doing and turned around towards the voice none of them recognized. Standing in the entrance to the Cortex was a woman wearing a skin tight violet and black suit. In the center of her chest were two intersecting black lightning bolts that ran from shoulder to hip. She looked like a speedster and given the number of speedster they came across being evil, everyone was not willing to take a chance.

"Uh, can we help you?" Cisco asked nervously.

"My name is Olvida," Violet lightning began to dance all over her. "I'm here on behalf of Godspeed. I have a message for all of you."

Everyone immediately got into a fighting position. Lightning surged around Jay and Jesse while blue flames formed around Eddie and J'onn turned into his true martian self. Unfortunately no one was ready as Olvida suddenly was by Kara and jamming her hand into the Kryptonian's skull. Kara's eyes rolled into the back of her head as they closed and she collapsed to the floor.

"KARA!" Alex yelled for her sister and rushed to her side, but Olvida shoved her hand into Alex's heat before shoving it into Jesse's head. In another millisecond Olvida shoved her hand into Cisco, Eddie and Harry's heads making them collapse to the floor. Jay and J'onn were fast enough to avoid her, one because of his helmet and the other because of his intangibility.

"Well, well, well. Looks like we've got a pair that can handle me." Olvida teased.

"What did you do to them!" J'onn demanded.

"Oh, they aren't dead if that's what you're wondering, They will be perfectly fine in an hour or two."

"You're coming with us Miss." Jay readied himself for a fight.

Olvida smiled. "I don't think so." Her violet lightning flashed in her eyes as she grinned wickedly.

Outside Central City

On the other side of the city Speed Demon forced himself back to his feet. The Speed Force Portals were making the two powerful speedsters crisscross huge swaths of land in fractions of a millisecond.

Despite their fight being abnormally long for them, it had only been a few seconds to the rest of the world and they were fast approaching Speed Demon's one minute deadline and Godspeed knew this.

And in a flurry of flames and lighting he grabbed Godspeed lifted him high before bringing him down on his knee. He tossed the white speedster to the ground but he still got up.

The white speedster retaliated by plunging his fist into Speed Demon's ribs repetitively before reaching out and grabbing Speed Demon's neck. "That's the difference between us little brother! You were never fast enough to challenge me!"

Speed Demon's mind began to drift. "You're not fast enough to fight Godspeed. You'll never be fast enough to fight him!" The words of the Flash echoed in his mind from when he was, well, human. He was right, there was a time when Speed Demon was not fast enough, in fact Speed Demon was the slowest of all the speedsters.

"I wonder, why did the Flash take you in as a pupil?" Godspeed asked. "I was the protégé! The heir to his legacy! No one deserved these powers as much as I do!"

Godspeed and Speed Demon charged each other once more. The two clashed in a mighty thunderclap Godspeed's fist met the flat of the energy blade. Giving no ground they both came around for another swing with also resulted in a thunderclap when the energy met. Godspeed recovered a little sooner than Speed Demon and thrust his hand intending to pierce 'little brother' in the heart.

Speed Demon blocked with the shaft of his energy scythe before circling around behind and slashing the white speedster's exposed back.

Godspeed screamed out in pain leaving him wide open. Moving in to strike the wounded man Speed Demon swung again only this time Godspeed caught his blade with his hand.

With his opponent, slightly immobilized Godspeed fired a lightning bolt point blank at Speed Demon's head but the black speedster acrobatically leapt over him and swept his legs out from under him.

Godspeed tried to get back to his feet but Speed Demon was just a little faster as he wrapped a black lightning chain wreathed in red flames around Godspeed's neck and began to choke the life out of him. He hated Godspeed with seemingly every fiber of his being.

Godspeed chuckled with struggling for air. "This… is not the end of… my road… brother… it has only begun…"

There was a flash of yellow and some blue lightning and standing in front of Speed Demon and the beaten Godspeed stood four members of the Flash Family.

"Flash…" Speed Demon ignores the disdain in Godspeed's voice as he looked from his former mentor to the woman speedster.

The Flash Family gazed upon the wounded Speed Demon. The right chest and arm of his black suit were completely gone exposing the bare pale skin beneath as if covered in a permanent layer of ash.

"What the hell…" Barry breathed out seeing the two speedsters.

Ben felt rage flare through him at the sight of both Speed Demon and Godspeed. He clenched his fist in anger.

Seeing three of the four speedsters Speed Demon waved his left hand over the exposed flesh and black lightning warped around it reforming his suit. His gaze never left the woman known as Fast Track.

Ben's rage came to a boiling point and he could not hold himself back as he charged off towards Speed Demon.

The Black speedster saw this coming and grabbed Ben by the throat with his left hand and began to squeeze tightly. Unfortunately for Speed Demon, in moving to grab Ben his grip on the chain around Godspeed's neck laxed just ever so slightly allowing the white speedster to make a counter attack. He swung a lightning clad elbow into the black speedster's ribs forcing him to completely release both Ben and Godspeed.

The force of the blow threw Speed Demon at least a football field away from the group. Speed Demon got right back to his feet and closed the distance easily. Grabbing Godspeed by his facemask the black speedster violently slammed him into the ground.

The encounter was happening so fast that all four of the speedsters found it nigh impossible to follow. Black and white lighting shot every direction along with Speed Demon's crimson flames.

When the lightning and flames died down they saw Speed Demon pining Godspeed to the ground. His left leg held down the white speedster's legs, his right leg held down his right arm while his energy scythe pinned Godspeed's right.

"This has been hardly fair." Godspeed barely managed to say. Black lightning coursed all over Speed Demon's right hand. "Time's up…" Godspeed chuckled as Speed Demon's hand shot for his face. Before he could grab him, Speed Demon faded away, being pulled back into the Speed Force, leaving the five speedsters in silence

Godspeed surveyed the four speedsters across from him. "Well now, this seems slightly unfair. I mean I just got out of the fight of my life with the Devil." His eyes fell upon Barry. "Hello Flash."

"Godspeed, right?" Barry asked disguising his voice.

"Oh, please Barry, there's no reason to disguise you voice drop the vibrating voice."

"I'd rather not."

"Your choice, doesn't matter any way." Godspeed tapped his wrist.

"Whatever you're doing it won't work Godspeed! We have you out numbered and out matched." Ben said.

"True, but I have something none of you have."

"And what's that?" Wally asked.

"A secret Weapon, and she should be finishing up with your friends at STAR Labs right about…" There was a whoosh and a crackle of violet colored lightning as a woman in a skin tight dark purple suit appeared behind Kid Flash. Faster than any of the speedsters could react she shoved a vibrating hand into Wally's head before moving on and shoving that same hand into Caitlin's head, Barry's head and finally Ben's head.

All four speedsters completely blacked out before collapsing to the ground unconscious.

"Nice of you to join us Olvida."

"I wouldn't miss this for the world Godspeed."

"I trust you took care of the interlopers at S.T.A.R. Labs?"

"They, along with these speedsters have no clue what you look like."

Godspeed smiled beneath his mask. "Good, I knew it was a good plan to bring you along Mindsweeper."

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