Barry

Barry had to agree with Percy. Zoom was a lousy upstart.

He, Cisco, and the male demigods surrounded Zoom while the others tried to get Jessie out of her cell and haul Nico back into the sewer. The son of Hades was moving, Barry was glad to see, but he had a nasty wound in his chest.

However, he couldn't focus on what they were doing, because Zoom was right in front of him, ready to attack. "Thank gods there's a lot of water in here," Percy murmured, raising his hands.

Pipes that lined the room started to break, and smelly, disgusting sewer water sprayed toward Zoom. But, as always, he zoomed across the room, out of the way. He was faster than Barry, but The Flash wasn't going to give up - he wasn't alone now.

Jason flew up and started to chase after Zoom, zapping the metahuman with lightning. But he soon realized that that didn't do anything, since Zoom was pretty much made out of electricity. "We need water," Jason said.

And so, Percy came riding the waves, shooting water at the metahuman. Leo shot fireballs out of his hand. Barry chased Zoom, trying to run faster than he ever had before. So did Frank, who had turned into a cheetah. They seemed to run in circles around the huge room, not really getting anywhere, but at least it bought the others time.

Barry wished, though he knew that this was probably impossible, that today would be Zoom's last day. It would save him so much worrying if the evil metahuman was dead now. He was getting affected by the water, after all, but Barry didn't realize that it was also making him very angry. And that anger was at Percy.

He suddenly changed direction, zooming right at the son of Poseidon's wall of water. That made Percy lose concentration and he collapsed in a SPLASH, rubbing his head when he hit the floor and looking up at the growling metahuman in front of him.

But Percy was brave. He raised his hands again, ready to soak Zoom, but the metahuman was fast. In a second he had Percy held at the throat, raising him up so that everyone could see.

Barry was the first to move. He ran at Zoom, balling his fists and crackling with electricity. "Let him go," he hissed.

Zoom laughed, making Barry's ears ring. "As if I'm going to listen to you, Trash. This boy has caused me enough pain already!"

"Well, I'm glad to hear that I accomplished that," Percy choked, but Zoom only squeezed tighter.

"It's time to end this one's life, too, just like Nico di Angelo. What's your name, boy?"

"Percy," the son of Poseidon answered. "Percy Jackson."

"Goodbye, Percy." And Zoom started to squeeze.

But Barry wasn't going to take any of it, and neither were Percy's friends. "Heads up, Ugly!" Leo yelled, shooting flames at Zoom's face. This made the metahuman momentarily lose focus and almost drop Percy, but it wasn't enough.

Frank, still in cheetah form, used his cat skills to sneak up on Zoom and bite him in the leg. But since Zoom's form was vibrating and crackling with electricity, it didn't do Frank any good. Jason flew around the metahuman, trying to create a tornado, while Barry calmly walked up to his arch nemesis.

"How about a fight, Zoom?" he asked. "One-on-one?"

The corners of Zoom's mouth turned up. "That's not a wise thing to do, Flash, but why not?" As Barry had been hoping, Zoom dropped Percy onto the ground and his friends rushed to help him.

They stayed aside, watching in shock as Barry and Zoom had a very fast fistfight. Barry punched at the speed of sound, dodging Zoom's blows as he did. Unfortunately, as The Flash knew, Zoom was faster and soon had Barry close to the ground, clutching his wounds.

Zoom stepped forward, chuckling. "Did you think you could actually beat me?"

Barry just looked up at the metahuman with pure hate, blood dribbling down his chin.

That's when the unremarkable happened. The ground cracked around Zoom's feet, and he looked around in confusion, trying to step away. "What is this?" he demanded. "Is this some sort of dirty trick -"

"That's right," Percy said, smiling and obviously knowing what was going on. "The Flash can beat you, but not alone."

Rocks started to jut out of the ground, forming a cage around the raging metahuman. That stopped his one superpower - speed. Barry knew that it wouldn't hold Zoom forever, but he also didn't expect what was coming next.

Hands started to pop out of the ground, and as The Flash looked closer, he could see that they were skeleton hands, with torn flesh and bones jutting out. Zombies crawled out of the earth, moaning and groaning, and surrounding Zoom. They started to attack him, though Zoom electrified some, but there were still too many. It would hold the metahuman off for a long enough time, at least for Barry and his friends to get out of there, out of that world.

And so, Barry ran, like he never had before, toward the exit. The demigods followed him, Jason up in the air, carrying Percy, and Frank as a giant eagle, carrying Leo. They sped out of the room and into the sewer tunnel, meeting all their friends and locking the door behind them.

"We did it," Dr. Wells whispered. "We actually did it."

"Did you doubt us, Harry?" Cisco said, raising an eyebrow but smiling.

Dr. Wells just seemed so relieved; Barry noticed a faint tear trickling down his cheek as he hugged his daughter, Jessie.

"Now, we have to get out of here," Barry said. "That… whatever it was… won't hold Zoom forever."

"That was me," Hazel said. "And Nico."

"Nico? But he -"

"We'll explain later. Let's go."

And so, they ran again, which was Barry's absolute favourite thing to do - down the tunnel and eventually out of that world.