Chapter 11 – Two Places at Once

Somewhere in Central City

"Leave me alone! I didn't do anything! You've got the wrong guy!" A man yelled as he ran down an ally way. He saw no one was behind him and put his hands on his knees, breathing heavily.

Then, he was hit into the ally wall and was being held upside down by his foot. "Why are you doing this to me?!" the man asked.

"Because no one should escape justice!" Godspeed yelled.

"Please don't kill me!" the man pleaded.

"Don't worry, I'll make it quick." Godspeed yelled as he started to drag the man behind him. "And painful!"

Godspeed dragged the man down the road at super speed, ripping him to shreds as he skated along the road, in a very painful manor.

At Barry and Kara's place.

Barry was lying in bed with his arms wrapped around a naked Kara. They had been up all night making love and Barry and Kara were just cuddling. "We should get a house." Barry said.

"What?" Kara asked, not sure if she heard him right. She was extremely exhausted.

"I said we should get a house. I mean, we have a family and a loft isn't exactly the best place to raise a half Kryptonian and half meta-human child, and maybe more than one if you want more kids. Jon was kinda unplanned."

"You really think we should buy a house? Like a white picket fence and everything?" Kara asked getting excited. She never really thought she have these things and was still coming to grips with a lot of it.

"Yeah. I have started a life with you, and I think our kids should grow up in the environment we grew up in." Barry said.

"Yeah, I'd like that. We still need to get a car, you know that right?" Kara asked,

"Yeah, I know. I'll take tomorrow off so we can go car shopping. We can go house hunting next weekend." Barry said.

"Yeah, I'm good with that." Kara said. Barry's phone started to ring.

"Yeah, hello?" Barry answered.

"Barry, I've got a body, yellow tape, and I'm only missing on thing. Can you guess what that is?" Joe answered.

"Yeah, I'm on my way." Barry said and he hung up. "That was Joe. I've got to go and do my CSI thing. Love you." Barry said and he kissed Kara, and then raced out of there.

"Love you too!" Kara yelled as he raced out of their apartment.

"What we got Joe?" Barry asked as he walked over to the body. It looked like it was torn to shreds. Barry examined the body. "It seems like the vic was dragged at super speed."

"We looked over some traffic cams, it was Godspeed." Joe said. Godspeed had been a bit of a sore spot for Barry, having killed innocent speedsters.

"This doesn't seem like Godspeed's M.O., he usually goes after speedsters, and this man doesn't have any traces of the Speed Force in him. What's his name?" Barry asked.

"Uh, Billy Parks." Joe said looking at the vic's wallet.

Barry's face hardened at the mention of Billy Parks. "Barry, do you know who this guy is?" Joe asked.

"I know who Godspeed is. Where is August?" Barry asked.

"Uh, said he was taking a personal day, why?" Joe asked, but he turned around for a second and once he turned back around, Barry was gone.

Barry ran around the city, looking for August. "August!" Flash yelled in rage once he found August. "We need to talk." Flash said.

"Jeez Flash, you should be careful sneaking up on a guy like that." August said.

"I was looking into Godspeeds victims, August. There was one victim who didn't have access to the Speed Force." Flash said.

"That doesn't sound like Godspeeds M.O., but why come to me?" August asked.

"The speedsters deaths, they were killed because the Speed Force was ripped out of them unwillingly. But this one, this victim was dragged, August. Dragged at super speed." Flash said, angrily.

"Sounds like it was personal." August said scratching the back of his head.

"The victim was Billy Parks. The man you suspected killed your brother. Tell me you didn't do this August."

August let out a sigh. "You always were too smart for your own good, Barry." August said.

"H-how do you know who I am?" Flash asked.

"Oh come on Barry. You always disappearing during work hours while Flash is out saving people. I may not be as smart as you, but I can put one and one together." August said. "You know, you were always a good friend to me. Join me. We could put an end to crime."

"By killing every criminal? Yeah, I don't think so bub." Flash said, then something dawned on him. "How did you shoot at yourself in front of the precinct?"

"You see Barry." August started as his suit formed. "I can do something you have always wished you could do. I can be in two places," August started as he rushed Barry from the front. Barry got ready to block the hit. "At once!" August finished, as a second Godspeed appeared hitting Barry in the back while the one rushing him punched him in the gut.

As Godspeed was beating down on Flash, he said "Will you just stay down Barry?! I didn't want this to go this way! I was really hoping you'd see this from my point of view!" He wasn't talking like Zoom anymore, Godspeed was taking in his regular voice now.

"Why? Why kill those speedsters?" Barry asked, on his hands and knees. Blood was coming out of his nose and mouth.

"I needed to get faster! I didn't want to kill them, but I needed to take their speed. They weren't using it properly anyways. Hiding from the gift that they were given." Godspeed said. "Just think about what I could have done if I had this speed in the past. Crime would have died out completely. I could've saved your… AHHHHH!" Godspeed yelled in pain as his two forms merged into one. He grabbed his head with both his hands and fell to his knees.

"August… are you ok?" Flash asked.

"You still care about my well-being?" Godspeed asked. "It's a side effect of being in two places at once. I'm dividing my Speed Force. If I hold it for too long it starts to hurt." He said, getting up.

"Good!" Flash yelled as he through a lightning bolt at him, sending August back to the ground.

"Never took you for the sucker punch type of guy, Barry." Godspeed said getting up from.

"Yeah, well you don't know me very well." Barry said.

"It seems like you could use a little slowing down." Godspeed said. He rushed at Barry and touched the middle of Barry's symbol with his pointer figure. Then there was an explosion of blue, red, yellow, and purple lightning going everywhere. "What the? That's never happened before. Why can't I steal your speed?!" Godspeed yelled in anger.

Barry didn't take time to answer, he rushed Godspeed and grabbed him by the neck and slammed his head into the ground, knocking him out. Barry then took August to the Iron Heights and locked him up.

As Barry was running home, he got a visitor he was not expecting. "Mom?"

"No and yes." His mom answered.

"Speed Force." Barry said. "Why are you here, talking to me?" Barry asked.

"Because you have a question only we can answer, and we feel like you deserve to know the answer." The Speed Force responded.

"W-what question?" Barry asked.

"The question Godspeed asked you. The question that has been on your mind since." The Speed Force replied.

"Why couldn't he steal my speed." Barry said to himself.

"That's the question. So, do you want the answer?" the Speed Force asked him.

"Yes, I do." Barry responded.

"Well, the night the particle accelerator exploded, we were able to access this world. And we were created, by you." The Speed Force told Barry.

"I created the Speed Force?" Barry asked, unsure if he heard right.

"Yes Barry. You created the Speed Force."

"But, Jay. He's like 70 years old and he has been The Flash since he was 30." Barry said, not understanding how he could've created the Speed Force.

"We exist beyond time and space." The Speed Force told him, and he then understood.

"So why couldn't he steal my speed?"

"Because you and I share an unbreakable bond. No matter what happens, you will always have the Speed Force coursing through your veins." The Speed Force then changed into the familiar face of Oliver Queen. "That bolt of lightning didn't strike you, Barry. It chose you." And then the Speed Force disappeared and Barry realized he was now running on ice.

"Barry! Can you hear me?!" Kara yelled into the coms, she was tracking him from a tablet in their apartment.

"Yeah, I can hear you just fine." Barry said.

"Took you long enough. You are in Antarctica dummy." Kara said in a worried tone.

"Yeah, sorry, I was talking to the Speed Force. Or more like it was talking to me. I'll be home in a sec." Barry said.

"Ok, and I'll be waiting at home. Not wearing much, if anything." Kara said and got off the coms.

Ok, so I'm gonna take a little break for a while. This is not the end of Godspeed, he will return. Feliz Navidad! (Merry Christmas for those of you who can't speak Spanish). Until the next one, Peace.