The Scarlet Speedster
Chapter Fourteen: Cadmus and Savitar Part III
For Charnique, thanks for the lovely review, and glad you like the story! I have to admit if you read SpeedForce 1229's "Call Me Kara", or CharmedMilliE-Karry Master's "Karry Universe", they're both way better Karry fics than this, much of my inspiration for writing my own Karry fic was from reading theirs, I recommend anyone who hasn't go check them out, both of them are long but worth it. For Guest reviewer, glad you also like the story, I'm afraid I've only ever seen clips of Gotham and it isn't in the CW multiverse to the best of my knowledge, so my Batman is NOT the Bruce Wayne from Gotham, Batman will be showing up again before long, his appearance last time was more of a taster, and he won't be a major factor until the J.L forms, which is months away in real time until I write that.
Barry and Wally raced around the perimeter of the building they'd tracked Savitar too as Kara waited nearby, floating behind the treeline. Once they'd figured out whether or not they were in there, and dealt with any security outside, they'd rush in and look at sending Savitar back into the speed force and deal with this new Reverse-Flash.
"So, what are we looking it?" Kara called through her comms system.
"No outer security, looks like they want us to come find Julian, either that or they expected that no-one would find them." Barry replied in her ear.
"Probably going to be a trap." Wally stated.
"Yeah, but we need to rescue Julian, so what's the plan?" Kara asked.
"We rush in, you come through the ceiling, 85% chance of punching?" Barry asked, Kara swearing she could hear his smirk through her ear piece.
"Let's do it then." Wally said as Barry raced with him, smashing through the warehouse doors, Kara flying towards the ceiling.
As Barry and Wally entered the building they saw Julian, unconscious and tied to a chair, with a man in a green suit similar to their own standing behind him.
"Ah, Flash, and Kid Flash, welcome." The man stated.
"The Reverse Flash, I presume?" Barry asked.
"Ah, so you've heard of me. I had hoped you'd wired Mr Albert's apartment. So, you know why we need him then?"
"It ends here, you won't harm Julian or help Savitar." Wally called out.
"Oh, won't he?" Savitar's grating voice sounded as he appeared in a bright flash before the speedsters, blades coming from his metallic arms.
"Now!" Barry yelled as Kara crashed through the ceiling, surprising Thawne and Savitar, Wally raced over to Thawne and attacked him, Thawne coming out of his shock to fight back, him and Wally exchanging punches as they raced around the room.
Lightning flashed in Barry's eyes as Savitar raced over and grabbed him by the neck, before roaring in pain and dropping him as Kara used her heat vision on him, Barry saw his arm start to melt and twist into a grotesque shape as the heat vision seared into it. Barry got up and raced over to Julian, quickly untying him and racing him outside.
"Run!" Barry called as he got Julian outside.
"Allen. Thank you." Julian stated as he ran in the direction of Central City, Barry rushing back inside to join back in the fight. He saw Wally and the Reverse Flash still trading blows, Kara flying around, firing heat vision and breathing in the direction of Savitar, but the other speedster was too fast, and most of her attacks failed to hit the mark.
"Hey, Savitar!" Barry yelled out into the room as the speedster appeared before him. "Let's finish this."
"So eager to die?" Savitar gloated.
"Eager to finish you." Barry growled as Kara fired off another heat vision beam, hitting Savitar in the back. He fell forwards with a shout as Barry raced around the room, generating lighting which he then flung at Savitar, causing the God of Speed to cry out.
"I will destroy you all!" He roared as he raced off, vanishing again in a flash of lightning, leaving the Reverse Flash alone in the room with the two speedsters and the Kryptonian. As Thawne looked over at the enemies surrounding him, he was struck from both sides by Barry and Wally at once and fell to the floor with a groan.
"It's over. Now who are you?" Barry asked as Thawne began to chuckle to himself.
"You really think it's over?" Thawne asked as he shakily stood, before rushing out of the room before any of the others could react. For now it was over. They had lost the new Reverse-Flash and Savitar was still loose, but Julian had been saved and their enemies had retreated. This was a victory, despite how small a victory.
"Hey guys, what's going on over there?" Cisco asked in their ears.
"We rescued Julian but Savitar and the new Reverse Flash escaped." Wally reported in.
"What's the plan now?" Kara asked, landing next to Barry and Wally.
"We head back, see if we can get a trace on them, and you can head home Kara, we've given them a blow which hopefully will take them time to recover, especially with Savitar's injury." Barry said.
"No way, I'm with you until the end Barry Allen." Kara firmly stated. She would not leave her friend to face this alone, hadn't she shown him that before? He asked for her help and until Savitar was gone, he would be getting her help.
"I'm grateful for that Kara, but please, we've got this now." Barry said, he didn't want to risk Kara being hurt in this fight, and with Savitar weakened now, they could take him. He was sure of it.
"Barry, you do know he can't hurt me, right?" Kara asked, she knew why he was being like this, the noble idiot he was, thinking he could keep everyone safe from harm. Savitar couldn't hurt her and if he could, she chose to come here to help, it was her decision, not Barry's, and she wouldn't be held back by his worrying.
"I can't risk you being hurt though Kara, you mean too much for me to watch you get hurt." Barry lamely trailed off as Wally raced away, excusing himself from the scene.
"Barry, you know I won't get hurt. You won't risk me, if anything, I can't see you get hurt." Kara softly sighed as she looked into Barry's eyes. She couldn't bear to see Barry like this, but he needed to know she could handle herself, he knew she could, and Kara thought it selfish of Barry to tell her to stay out of this when he was risking himself. Wasn't it her who actually damaged Savitar? Barry didn't stand a chance alone against him and he knew it. He needed Kara, why couldn't he admit that?
"Kara…." Barry began before trailing off. He couldn't stand this. He didn't want her hurt and deep down he knew he was acting irrationally, but she could be hurt by Savitar, the man had travelled countless universes, if anyone had a way of hurting Kara on Earth-1, it was Savitar, and Barry would do anything in his power to make sure that didn't happen. Kara needed to see that Savitar was not a threat to be taken lightly, he was faster than them, sure he may be susceptible to being melted, but he could influence events even when sealed inside the box that housed the Philosopher's stone, it was easily possible he had a way of healing the damage caused by Kara's heat vision. They needed to stop him and fast, but Barry could not and would not risk Kara's life for it.
"Barry, I know what I'm doing, I'll be ok, we'll do this." Kara smiled at him. She could tell he needed some support, and she'd be only too happy to provide any support she could for him.
"Fine, but if there's even a hint that Savitar could hurt you, I want you to get out of there, ok? You mean too much to me to let you get hurt." Barry stubbornly stated.
"Ok." Kara agreed, if it would get Barry to let her help, she'd agree to it.
'Wait, I mean too much to him?' Kara thought with a blush. She didn't know she meant so much to Barry. They'd kissed, sure, but she was worried that it would be just a casual thing, and Barry wouldn't like her for long. She couldn't help it, she'd fallen for Barry Allen, hard, and she hoped he felt the same way about her.
'Did I say what I think I said?' Barry thought to himself, cheeks reddening as he replayed his last few sentences in his head. Yep, he'd said it, he admitted how much he cared for Kara.
'What an idiot, now she's going to not want anything to do with you, well done Allen.' Barry berated himself, why would she want anything to do with him? He was just Barry and she was Kara Danvers, or Kara Zor-El, and she was perfection to him, everything about her, her attitude, her bubbly personality, her stunning appearance, her optimism, everything about her screamed perfect to Barry and he knew he could never be worthy of her, little did he know, she believed herself unworthy of him.
"Guys, we've got a problem!" Cisco called down into the comms.
"What's up Cisco?" Kara asked him.
"Savitar is here! He's taken Iris!"
"Where are they?!" Barry yelled, panic gripping him like an icy hand around his heart. He couldn't lose Iris, he just couldn't.
"Wally's gone after them, he's at the waterfront." Cisco called as Barry and Kara raced towards the water front, hoping they could get there before Savitar could hurt Iris or Wally.
As they reached the waterfront they found Iris being held by the new Reverse-Flash, with Wally being beaten soundly by Savitar.
"You were never a hero, Wallace West." Savitar said as Barry and Kara arrived. "Only a poor version of the Flash, not even a shadow worthy of my time." He snarled as he threw Wally towards the water, Kara rushing to grab him and move him to safety, as Barry ran at the Reverse-Flash, knocking the other speedster to the ground, he pulled Iris away as Savitar looked on, amused by the display as the Reverse-Flash struggled to his feet.
"You cannot beat me Barry." Savitar spoke. "Why do you bother to fight? Better to end it now."
"You said my future self trapped you, Savitar. That means I do beat you." Barry spat at him as he raced at the metallic speedster, Savitar opening his arms in a mocking gesture, urging Barry to charge at him and play his game. As Barry approached, he changed course and charged at the Reverse-Flash, who moved to avoid the Scarlet Speedster, the two of them racing around each other, exchanging blows.
"Enough!" Savitar called, before a boom was heard and Kara re-appeared, firing off a beam of heat vision into Savitar's back who fell down to one knee in pain.
"You think you can win, Kara Zor-El?" He mocked her as he unsteadily rose again.
"How do you know who I am?" She called out as Barry and the Reverse-Flash continued to trade blows.
"I have travelled infinite Earth's. I know all about you, I know your weakness." Savitar growled as he raced away, Kara hot on his trail.
As Kara chased after Savitar, Barry and the Reverse-Flash battled one another, Barry flinging lightning bolts at him as Thawne dodged around them and ran towards him again, the two trading blows as they punched one another, both determined to defeat the other.
"Why are you here?" Barry asked him. "Why do you work for Savitar?"
"Because he is a means to my ends, Barry Allen." The Reverse-Flash stated. "He will help me destroy the one I was created from, and once there is only you and I left as speedsters, I will kill you."
"Created? Who are you?" Barry asked, this other speedster just seemed to get weirder and weirder by the second.
"My name is Thaddeus Thawne." Thawne stated as Barry looked at him in horror and shock.
"Thawne?! How?!" Barry cried as Thawne smirked at him.
"I assume you refer to Eobard? No relation, I assure you." Thawne smiled as Barry looked sick.
"Then why do you have his name, both of them?" Barry called out, if this man was anything to Thawne, and he'd be willing to bet he was, he'd stop him before he could help Savitar do something even worse to Barry than anything Thawne could ever have done.
"It's a long story, Flash, and honestly? I don't feel like sharing it." Thawne smirked as the two of them raced at one another again.
As Barry and Thaddeus exchanged blows, Kara raced after Savitar, but the speedster was so many times faster than she was, and before she could even blink, he was there, punching into her side before racing off again. The blows were almost unnoticed due to her invulnerability, but the fact he kept attacking her was losing its novelty. Kara floated further into the air, out of the reach of Savitar, and began to use her heat vision and freeze breath on the surrounding area, knowing if Savitar came back for another pass, he'd be hit by one of them.
As she unleashed another flurry of sheer cold at the ground below, Savitar flashed onto the scene, becoming caught up in it and slowing down. Kara grinned at the sight and dropped to eye level, before she noticed a shiny black rock in his hands.
"What's that?" Kara asked, feeling odd as she got closer to it, as if she was being pulled in two separate directions.
"You won't have a chance to fight against me, Supergirl, when you'll be too busy fighting yourself." Savitar promised as he thawed out and raced away, dropping the black rock as he went. Kara felt herself falling as the rock was still in proximity to her, before she realised too late what the object actually was. Black Kryptonite.
Yeah so sorry about cutting this here, I really did wish to finish the battle this chapter, and it sucks I said I would and haven't, but deadlines approaching, so I'll be picking this back up again in about a week, didn't want to leave you for nearly two weeks with no update. Next time I promise, it will be the end of the Savitar and Cadmus arcs, in a chapter that could easily reach 10k words, and the prophecy will be fulfilled. One shall betray them. One shall Fall. One shall suffer a fate far worse than death.
Also check out "Myriad Succeeds" in the Supergirl fanfiction category for news on upcoming stories and the next arc of this story.