I just realised, it's a year on Tuesday since I published this story, so as a celebration, one more chapter before then. I noticed several spelling errors in the prior chapter, apologies, this borrowed laptop doesn't use Microsoft Word so spelling mistakes aren't highlighted and the keys are rather stuck, I'll try minimise errors but there likely will be some in this chapter as well.
To Legions, thanks for the heads up, I keep meaning to change that in the earlier chapter, I've just never gotten around to editing about Curtis and Wild Dog.
To the chapter, and away we go.
Barry stood, time seemed to go even slower than if he was racing through the streets, as he stared at the bomb, slowly ticking down. One wrong move, and it'd explode, thinking fast, he called out.
"Hal!" Barry yelled as the Green Lantern appeared above him. "I need you to fly the bomb as far from the city as you can in thirty seconds!"
"I can't get it away that fast, Barry." Hal told him. "I can take it skywards though, give the people a fireworks display." He smirked as he encased the bomb in a construct and rose further and further into the air, pulling the weapon with him as he rose through the atmosphere.
Barry watched as Hal rose higher and higher out of sight until a large explosion ripped through the sky, a massive bang and flames licking every corner of the skies above Coast City.
"HAL!" Barry yelled as his new friend seemed to be caught up in the blast.
Hearing nothing but static through his comms, he feared for the life of his new ally, when suddenly, he saw a red speck coming closer, with something green mixed in with it. As the speck came closer, Barry noticed that it was a man in a red suit, draped in a white cloak, electrical enetrgy surging around him, with Hal in his hands, clearly unconscious.
"What happened? Who are you?" Barry asked the figure who gently set Hal on the ground.
"He's fine, just unconscious, and as for who I am, let's just say I'm a friend." The man winked before taking off into the skies and flying away.
As Barry watched the strange figure disappear, he picked up Hal and carried him back towards the Wave Rider, hurrying to get him to Gideon's med bay. As he carried Hal, he saw Jax carrying Sara, water dripping from her arm, Sara seemed badly injured herself, as Jax helped her back to the ship. He saw Darkh and Merlyn, both cuffed, and he saw Leonard Snart also cuffed being marched onto the ship.
"Snart?!" Barry called, shocked.
"Scarlet." Snart snarled, looking at him.
"How are you here?" Barry asked, confused and sorrowful as he remembered how Ray explained that Snart had died.
"I'll be gone soon, so it doesn't matter now, does it?" Snart growled as Ray marched him onto the ship, promising Sara that he'd help Gideon fix her arm up.
"How did you get Mr Jordan?" Stein asked Barry as he placed Hal in a chair in the med bay.
"Some guy flew down with him, said he was a friend and flew away." Barry said, as confused as Stein looked at his explanation.
"What about Thawne?" Ray asked Barry.
"He got away, but din't worry, I'll get him. We have his team and the Spear, he'll have to come to us. It's us with the advantage." Barry told him. "I'll stop him when he comes."
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"The children of Krypton, finally reunited." Zod called out, raising his hands in the air in a welcoming gesture as Diana and J'onn slowly approached the two Supers, Kara and Kal took a step backwards into a defensive stance and the D.E.O agents all reached for their guns, Kryptonite bullets in most of their chambers.
"Shoot to incapacitate if you can, kill if you must." Kara had told them all at a large briefing a few hours before, shocking Kal who was stood beside her.
"Kara, what are you doing?" He said, grabbing his cousin by the arm and whispering furiously in her ear. Breaking free of his grasp, she turned to look Kal dead in the eye.
"You don't know Zod, Kal. You never saw what he did on Krypton. We can't let him harm anyone, and he will. If we give him an inch, Earth will burn."
"We don't kill, Kara." Kal reminder her, firmly.
"We'll give him a chance, but if he won't surrender, and I doubt he will, we take him out." Kara said in a tone that allowed for no argument.
"Zod." Kal nodded as the Kryptonian general's smiled tightened. Such insolence from the children of El.
"Young ones, together we can work together for a new and better Krypton. Come with me, please, back to our people." Zod said, holding his arms open in a welcoming gesture, to Kara and Kal though, it looked like a sick mocking gesture, a cruel joke.
"You're a lunatic, and a failure of the old Krypton." Kara spat at him as his eyes hardened.
"YOU DARE MOCK ME, DAUGHTER OF EL?!" Zod raged at Kara, his eyes heating up. "I AM KRYPTON'S SAVIOUR!" He screamed as beams of red hot fire flew from his eyes, scorching the ground between the three Kryptonians.
"You're a relic who helped to kill off Krypton." Kara taunted him again, her fear of Zod losing out to her recklessness as she goaded him and saw him fall for her barbs. With a scream, Zod launched himself into the air, flying high and away from the assembled group. Without a word, Kal and Kara took off after him through the skies, J'onn and Diana following closely behind.
"He doesn't know his own strengths on Earth!" Kal warned Kara. "He has no control, he'll be too dangerous." He tried to implore his cousin.
"Then I'll take him down." Kara promised as she pushed ahead of her cousin, trying to catch upto Zod first, who continued to fly through the air, beams of heat vision heading in all directions as he tried to comprehend the powers he had on this small blue marble of a planet.
"Kara!" J'onn called as well as she took off ahead of all of them, pushing herself to her limits to try and catcg upto Zod, all thoughts of her own safety banished, she had to stop him and protect the people, for that was her purpose, to protect the people of Earth.
"Kara!" Another voice called in her comms, quikcly shutting it off, for she knew if she listened to Alex, her sister would quickly convince her to stop her pursuit, fight as a team and come back to her. She had to do this, she had to take down Zod. Nobody else could get hurt. This was her purpose, why she had been sent to Earth. To protect her cousin and the people.
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Barry paced on the bridge of the Wave Rider as the Legends all milled around the rest of the ship.
"Gideon?" Barry asked the ships A.I mainframe.
"Yes, Creator?" Gideon replied.
"Can you detect Eobard Thawne in the timeline, relative to these events?"
"I have tried, Mr Allen. There are several possibilities that have appeared before me, I cannot be certain as to which of them he is truly in."
"Give me a list of all of them, Gideon." Barry told her. "I'm going on a hunt."
"Yes, Creator. What should I tell the team?"
"Gideon, you have to keep it a secret why I've gone." Barry implored her as her holographic head nodded its assent.
"I understand, Barry, I won't tell the team why you've gone." She said before relaying him the list of possible locations, nodding his thanks, he sped off from the bridge and out of the cargo doors, before racing to travel to the first of the locations.
"I never stated I wouldn't tell them where you went." Gideon said to the now empty bridge, waiting for the first person to ask her for Barry's location. She knew it wouldn't be long now.
Barry raced through the speed force, searching both places and times for Thawne, he knew he could bait the older man, not only was he delivering himself on a silver platter, but he brought something he knew Thawne would want. The Spear of Destiny was reunited finally, and tucked under his arm.
Reaching the final location on the list that Gideon had provided him, Barry raced towards a light in the distance, reaching a brightly lit room where he saw Thawne stood before him.
"I knew you'd get here before long, Barry. Here to end it all?"
"Something like that." Barry said, flexing the Spear slightly outwards, seeing Eobard fix his gaze on it. "You want this, Thawne?" Barry asked, a smirk on his face. "You can have it if you win."
"This will be over before too long." Eobard promised him.
Barry smiled at his words. "Oh it will be, you see, there's two of us in here, but only one of us is leaving this place and time alive."