Enter the Demon

by TrueHorror88

Seth Rogers, an experimented mutant and the host of a clone Venom symbiote has only experienced pain in his life. His life as an anti-hero prepared for much, but that didn't include being pulled through a wormhole to save his sister from an unknown world. Now in a new world with their own heroes and villains, he continues protecting the innocents and finding his sister.

21. Chapter 21: Brave and the Bold Part 2

Sorry for the wait people, and once again thanks and thanks for all the PMs and reviews, they are amazing.

Without further ado now, a long awaited…

Enjoy!

Chapter 21: Brave and the Bold Part 2

A staredown is happening in the secret lair underneath Verdant. Seth and Matt stand before the boomerang-wielding mercenary who once worked for A.R.G.U.S.

Digger Harkness saw the strange attributes and the eyes of the two before him. He could see it. Their determination, their will. Their strength… along with the coldness of the elemental's eyes. Harkness also noticed that they stood near each other and looked ready to fight.

"You two are different." The mutants narrowed their eyes in confusion. "Unlike those two archers, you two are different… you're agents, right? But not of A.R.G.U.S."

"No, we're not." Matt said he formed a gauntlet with repulsors on each hand with more nanites coming out of his skin and swarming over his arms. "We are agents but better than A.R. ."

"A lot better than them." Seth said as the flames on his arm intensified and lightning began wrapping around his black tendrils.

In the far back of the lair, was Felicity, Lyla and Caitlin watching with eyes of complete focus as they saw the two mutants activate their powers right now. "It's them right? The Demon and the Knight?"

"Yeah it's them." Caitlin said with a smile of happiness. "Don't worry. We can trust them."

"Yeah. And they are really good fighters." Felicity added.

Seth and Matt looked briefly each other, as they held eye contact, they nodded to each other. Harkness widened his eyes when he saw them nod. He placed his hands inside of his coat and pulled two boomerangs, both of which he launched after them.

Seth charged ahead, while Matt formed a thruster down at under his feet, that he used to thrust himself backwards. While in mid-air he lashed both of his repulsors out and blasted both boomerangs to smithereens with ease.

Harkness was too busy seeing his weapons destroyed in front of him to see that the elemental was right before him. Seeing the person in front of him, the mercenary brought his hand down to Seth's face with a punch.

However, the contact was never made as a black tendril grabbed hold of his hand. The other tendrils shot forward and slammed into the mercenary's stomach. "Ugh!" he grunted from the pain. Seth snapped around and swung his blazing arm into Harkness' stomach and sent him flying ahead.

"Those archers had trouble with this guy?" Matt said, from his place on top of a table. "What is this with this world? PG-7?"

"You'd think right?" Seth said with removing his eyes from the downed boomerang-wielder. A moment later, the mercenary got up on his feet again with both hands holding a boomerang. "Wanna handle this one together?"

Matt got a smirk on his face before he thrusted himself into the air and back on the ground beside Seth. "This is gonna be fun." His gauntlets swarmed with nanites again, generating large claws between the spaces on his gauntlets.

Seth smirked as well. Both of his arms emitting cold white smoke that spread around them entirely, covering them completely. When the smoke slowly began disappearing, a large ice blade was formed around both of his arms.

The ground cracked beneath them, as both mutants leaped after the mercenary who charged to them as well. When blades from both sides met each other, the agents snapped their weapons forward and sent Digger flying again.

When he got on the ground again after rolling around, Seth ran up the side of a metal pillar and leaped from it and into the air. He twirled around in the air before using wind to send him forward, with his left ice blade slamming into the foe. But Harkness rolled out of the way. Seth was now in a knelled position with only one ice blade on his other arm.

Digger saw that one of his blades were destroyed so he readied himself to throw another boomerang. But his eyes didn't catch the movement that was behind Seth.

From behind the elemental, Matt ran up to him and used his friend as a spring board and jumped into the air. Both of his arms lashed out, he blasted various blasts from his repulsors. Harkness saw the shine of blue light and rolled out of the way. But unfortunately, one of the beams hit him.

When the mercenary got down on his back, he grunted in pain from the impact. His eyes were momentarily shut closed before they opened up again. When they did, he saw Seth come down with lightning coating his metal fist towards him.

"Shit!" The boomerang wielder performed a backflip and avoided the attack.

SMASH

Harkness and the others in the lair, heard the sound of the ground being smashed. Looking back to where he was laid before, he saw the elemental pull his fist out of the ground. "Slippery little fucker." Seth commented as he cracked his fists.

Digger got back on his feet, he looked down his body and saw that his shirt and the bulletproof vest were burned through with small amounts of smoke emitting from them. "That punch he did before… tch… he's stronger than I thought…No….he's holding back. So is the oth-"

At the thought of the other mutant, he looked around for him, but to no avail as he could find the nanite mutant.

"Looking for me?"

Harkness snapped around and was met with a metal gauntlet slamming into his stomach, through the burned hole in his clothes. Bile came out of his opened mouth as he panted, his eyes looking up and seeing the other mutant in front of him. His fist imbedded into his stomach. Matt reeled back his other arm and his nanites formed small spikes on his gauntlet, before he thrusted forth.

The mercenary however anticipated another fist to attack him, so he withdrew an exploding boomerang and slammed it into the nanite mutant's stomach. Digger removed the fist from his stomach, as the mutant was focused on the boomerang in his own stomach.

Knowing that he could take more than one boomerang, Harkness took out another exploding boomerang and threw it into Matt's stomach with the other one. The collision of both boomerangs with each other, caused them to explode and sent the mutant flying with black smoke around his body.

"Matt!" Seth exclaimed in shock, seeing his friend being blasted with two explosions.

"Look out!"

However, Seth was too late to act out on his Venom's warning as three boomerangs. The two closest of them stuck to his chest and the third came near his body, but exploded. This one set off the two previous boomerangs as well.

The elemental being enveloped in black smoke from three explosions.

"SETH!" Caitlin exclaimed in worry, seeing her boyfriend be engulfed in deadly explosions did not make calm in any way.

Panting and breathing heavily, the mercenary looked from both piles of black smoke where both mutants were in the middle of them. But not even… whatever the hell those two were could survive various explosions at once. Looking to the agent who wanted her dead in past, he said with a smirk, "End of the rope for you now, Lyla." His voice sent shivers down her and Felicity's spines, while Caitlin looked ready to murder him for what he did to Seth.

"Couldn't agree more with that."

The boomerang wielder turned his head to the pile of smoke, where the strange, morphed voice came from. He saw into and saw a figure stand up in the middle of it. The figure lashed out his hand to the side, sending out a blast of wind. The smoke around the figure's body blew away, letting the women and the mercenary see him.

They saw Seth, his wounds healing with the symbiote covering his body. But what really caught their eyes were his body. Half of his body was covered by his "other". His right arm enveloped and paired with black claws. His left leg, the same with a giant foot. His face half enveloped by the symbiote, with said half revealing white fang-like teeth and one deadly looking white eye. Tendrils shot out of his back, flailing around wildly as though they awaited a command from their host.

Digger was surprised by the fact that this young man could survive not one but three explosions point blank. And the sight of that horrifying form did make him feel greatly afraid.

"You're dead now."

A familiar voice from a familiar, supposed to be dead, redhead came from the other side of the mercenary. He looked to the side and saw a form in the smoke that lied there. A finger was raised and tapped on the shining arc reactor he placed on his chest. Nanites swarmed over his entire body. But when wings suddenly took form on his back, the figure jumped up into the air. Smoke blowing away from the thrusters.

The figure took to the sky, revealing himself to be Matt, his form armed with his Iron Knight suit. Both of his feet equipped with thrusters at bottom of them. His back equipped with four thrusters in the shape of four wings. Both of his arms were each equipped with a long white dual-sided sword with energy running through it, granting them the name of energy blades. His face not concealed by his knight's helmet, letting the mutant look into the fearful eyes of the boomerang wielding mercenary.

Harkness looked between the two and had to ask, "What are you?"

""We're mutants/ We're mutants."" Both Seth and Matt said at the same time before launching them both towards the mercenary.

Digger repeated his previous tactic and threw various boomerangs from of his hands at both mutants, this time, he did in desperation.

Seth saw the incoming flying weapons before he made his move. His black tendrils shot around from this back and twirled to the front of his body. The tendrils became tipped with adamantium and pierced through some of the boomerangs. The last few that was made their way to him, were instantly wiped out when the mutant swiped his clawed hand over them.

The ones that came flying through the air, were confronted by the nanite mutant who was in flight. But unlike the elemental, more boomerangs were thrown in Matt's direction. But be it many or a few, that made no different to him. His large energy blades lashed out to the sides before he thrusted forward. His shoulder patches opened up, revealing shoulder cannons that shot down a few boomerangs. With still a large amount of the weapons in the air, the knight twirled around and slashed through the flying weapons with expert ease.

Now that both mutants have dealt with their individual numbers of boomerangs, they returned to their original standing, right beside each other. One looking as calm as ever with his entire body still hovering in the air. And the other looking as menacing as ever with his face split in half, half mutant and half Venom.

The two powered beings launched themselves and before giving the mercenary a chance to react, Seth shot out his tendrils and bound his hands. With his tendrils still around the boomerang-wielder, Seth slammed his giant foot up into his stomach. In that instant his foot connected with his clothes, he let out a wave of coldness, briefly freezing the spot.

The impact from the giant foot caused the mercenary to be sent higher into the air. Matt saw that as his chance and twirled around before slashing his blade through the mildly frozen area. The attack with from the energy blades opened up an area, where no clothes or any form of protection laid.

Seth released his tendrils, letting the mercenary slowly fall down to his knees. But when Harkness tried to get up, he saw with wide eyes that both mutants had appeared in front of him. And he didn't get a chance to escape as two metal fists, one of an armored hand and another one of an adamantium hand, embedded themselves into his stomach.

"ARGHH!" The mercenary screamed with bile coming out of his mouth from the powerful impact that just hit his guts right now.

The elemental showcased another powerful display of his powers, when he unleashed a gale of wind from his hand. Shooting the mercenary away with the power of wind. The boomerang wielder rolled around with a hand covering his stomach and when he got on his feet again, he took a look at them again and thought to himself.

Harkness was used to deal with various kinds of threats when he was part of A.S.I.S. Be it terrorists, rogue soldiers, even the occasional cold-blooded murderer. When he had to deal with those two archers that reside in this city, were to be expected.

The Flash didn't seem to be much of a threat, according to the information he had gotten on him. The only advantage that he had was his inhuman speed. Without that he could still be defeated.

But the news of The Demon was the one troubling person Harkness hoped not to see. Seeing and hearing of the news that this man did was too much for the mercenary to handle. His powers proved himself to be too much for him to handle.

And who was this other knight like warrior? He never heard of his new player and this alone was frightening as he didn't have any form of intel on this guy, and without any knowledge then he'd have to improvise. But with how quick the armored mutant was in air and with his weapons… it was looking dark for him right now.

But then the mercenary saw his salvation…. in the form of three defenseless women.

"You two got a choice to make." The mutants saw him pull out more explosive boomerangs. "Get me… or get them!" with that said, he launched all of his boomerangs after the targets behind them.

Both of them widened their eyes and snapped around, turning to see the boomerangs flying their way to the three women.

"Caitlin!" Seth exclaimed with his entire form being engulfed by his partner, letting the true form of Venom breathe in the air of Starling. The ground underneath him cracked with the power of earth strengthening his body and lightning enhancing his speed, as he leaped to their direction.

"Shit!" Matt shouted before his helmet materialized over his form and thrusters formed on his back along with his wings, that fired him ahead with unbelievable speed and followed the larger anti-hero before him.

Instead of swiping the boomerangs to pieces like before, Matt jumped in front of them and formed one large shield with both of his arms placed side by side. Both of his feet, enlarged with nanites swarming over them and formed large foot clamps that kept the armored mutant grounded.

And instead mimicking his partner's tactic and form shields of his own, Seth jumped in front of the boomerangs and turned his entire body to adamantium. As he did so he let lightning brew up from within his body, and when it was enough it let coat his large metal body.

Behind the two mutants and the three women, came the others returned and saw the mutants there.

Then the boomerangs came into contact with them.

BOOM

BOOM

BOOM

BOOM

A series of violent explosions emitted as the boomerangs came into contact with the two mutants' bodies. Barry sped behind them and got the women out of the way, to ensure no debris came at them. Even though Caitlin was struggling in his grasp.

"What the hell?!" John shouted over the sound of the explosions as he stepped in front of Lyla who Barry dropped near him.

"Seth!" Caitlin shouted, fearing the worst for her boyfriend. She felt as though the explosions just now were vastly more dangerous than the previous ones. Her heart telling that Seth was now gravely wounded right now.

A large smokescreen laid in the wake of the explosions right now. The smoke so thick that no one could see through it, like no one was in there. And everyone thought that both mutants had now met their maker.

But the next voice that spoke, corrected them.

"Fucking amazing."

Everyone heard the deep demonic voice speak from within the smokescreen and questions formed in their minds. All of them were instantly answered when a wind blew away the smokescreen like before. With the smoke gone, everyone saw that both mutants were okay… and Venom was smiling.

Seth said with a grateful smile, "Best fight I have ever had against a human since getting here."

Laughing a bit loudly, Matt said after he came out of the smoke himself, "Quite a fight."

Both of the mutants felt eyes peering into their backs, and turned around and saw the eyes of everyone looking wide and shocked, aside from Oliver who looked visibly angry. Neither of them knew how to react to those eyes, so they turned back to where Harkness was.

"Try scanning." Seth instructed Matt who nodded and unlocked his foot clamps and flew into the air. His visor began shining brightly as he looked around the entire lair for any sign of the mercenary.

The elemental spread out his senses to their limits, to try and see if the boomerang wielder was still within the lair.

But neither of them could feel any sign of the intruder. They shared a look that told them everything they needed to know about the whereabouts of this mercenary. So with a regretful expressions on their concealed faces, both of them got out of their suits.

"Damn that was annoying." Seth said with a running through his hair

"Definitely." Matt agreed, "But worth the workout."

"Yup." The elemental said with a smirk before he and knight looked to the others again. Once again they were met with wide mouths and eyes of shock. Seth briefly wondered if they got mass heatstroke. "Something wrong guys?"

"What does it take to for you two to actually get hurt?" Felicity asked the question that was one everyone's mind.

Both of them shrugged, and said at the same time. ""Don't know, maybe a nuclear missile."" They joked but the look on their faces, told them that it might actually take a nuclear missile to hurt them.

Caitlin then ran over to Seth and hugged him tightly. "Don't jump in front of explosions like that again. Seriously you're gonna end up hurting yourself." She said as buried her head in his clothes.

Seth felt sad about making her sad and comfortingly wrapped his arms around her. His hand went up to her head and rubbed it slowly, while his partner sent out calming feelings to her. "I'm sorry, Cait. But if it means protecting you, then I'll jump in front of anything to save you. No matter what."

She expected that kind of an answer from him. Seth was a protector above all else, that much was clear. "Thanks, Seth." She stood on her tips and kissed his cheek. The feeling of her lips on his skin, made him turn red.

"Hey." They turned to Matt who held up his gauntlet equipped arm with mischievous smile on his face. "If you start heating up again, I'll cool you off." He shot out a shot of cryogenic blast for empathize. Seth rolled his eyes at the joke while Caitlin just laughed.

"What are you two doing here?!"

Everyone looked to the center and saw Oliver looking absolute angry and walking over to the mutants. Not liking how hostile the archer was like, he stepped in front of Caitlin. He didn't want that bastard to go off in front of her.

"Something wrong, Mr. Queen?" Matt asked sarcastically, as the archer stepped closer to them.

"I asked what are you two doing here." Oliver repeated angrily.

Seth shrugged his shoulders, "Not much. Bit of sightseeing. Being mugged by punks. Saving your friends back there," he pointed at John and Lyla, "and saving Caitlin and the others from being attacked by boomerangs. And again, what's the problem?"

"I told Barry to call you and ask you two to leave." Both mutants raised their eyebrows immediately at that statement. "But for some reason he wasn't too convincing, apparently."

Barry felt like he should say something to Oliver. Both Seth and Matt just saved Caitlin, as well as Lyla and Felicity. Two women who means a lot to his own team. And the archer didn't even seem to care about the fact that these two just saved them.

John was having the same conflict. His friend was berating these two heroes for actually being here. If he hadn't his daughter would have to grow up without a mother. He was glad that the mutants were here to save her and his daughter's life. As well as Felicity's life.

Roy and Cisco were unsure of what to feel right now. Neither of them knew what to feel, as though they didn't have any problem with the mutants from the other universe. But neither of them wanted to get on the archer's bad side.

The three women were glad that both of the mutants had come when they did. If they hadn't come when they did, all three of them would have ended up dead with exploding boomerangs being their murder weapons. And Lyla's a mother. Her daughter would have to grow up without a mother if they hadn't saved them. And unlike the A.R.G.U.S. neither Caitlin or Felicity are fighters, they wouldn't have been able to stop the mercenary unlike the SHIELD agents.

Seth then stated, "Barry never called us, he might have been too busy with helping you and your friends with your boomerang man." He stepped closer to Oliver, "And even if he told us to go back to Central City we wouldn't have. We had some business of our own to take of."

"And why are you exactly so mad?" Matt asked, "If we weren't here then your two friends, as well Caitlin would have been hurt or worse. And you're mad at us, for what exactly?"

"I don't like having people I don't trust running around my city!" Oliver raised his voice. Every time he does so, he'd be able to install fear in those he spoke to. "And I don't like it when people just get into my base without permission."

But not neither of them looked the least bit frightened. It's more like they were rather unimpressed by his tone, actually. "If it's any help, I don't trust you at all myself Oliver." Seth stated. Matt was the same, he didn't trust him. "You demand to know everything, to have everyone spill their guts to you while you keep your own secrets from everyone. That's being a hypocrite."

Oliver clench his fists and grit his teeth angrily. And was about to speak, but Seth beat him to it. "And if you expect an apology from me, because I chose to get in here and save Caitlin, as well as your friends, then you're dead wrong. As long as I'm around, nothing will happen to Caitlin, and if your opinion or pride, or whatever it is, stands the way of that then I'll crush it… to pieces."

The archer grits his teeth again. He didn't like how the mutant was willing to go against him so easily, almost as though his words never even came close to scare him. Oliver was used to bring fear into people, but it didn't work on him.

"And another advice to you," Matt then spoke. "You're gonna have to try a lot harder if you want to scare either one of us. Because like you, we've been through our own hell…" Caitlin's eyes widened as realization dawned on her. "…And we know a green guy ourselves, but he's actually scary and whole lot stronger than you." With his piece said, Matt walked away.

Seth mentally agreed with what the nanite knight told the archer. He felt his phone in his pocket ring, as did the next voice that spoke.

"Dr. Rogers, you are receiving a call from… Central City General Hospital." Jarvis told the elemental.

Felicity looked to the mutant, "You brought him along?" she pointed her finger at the computers.

"Yes, we did." Seth said before talking to the AI. "Thank you, Jarvis." "Wonder why the hospital is calling me?" he thought as he walked over to a separate area to take the call, without the annoyance of the green archer who wanted to get more off of his chest.

"Perhaps they actually need better doctors?" Venom add his own thoughts.

The others watched as the mutant left and went to do their own devices.

X

"Are you alright?" Seth asked the other person on the end of the phone call, his tone very worried. "What did the doctors say? Are you getting discharged soon?" He fired off his worried questions.

While he was one the phone, Matt heard the sound of his voice, and more strangely enough, the worry in his voice. Something he haven't heard in a long time. So when he heard it, it peaked his interest and he made his way over to the area and listen in, knowing full well that the elemental felt his presence.

"Okay. I'm in Starling City for some business right now, sweetheart, but when I'm done, I'll come and check up on you myself. Just stay there for now, okay?" Seth smiled when he got the answer. "Good, I'll bring you some proper food, when I get there. Promise you that. Okay see ya there. Bye."

The person answered and hung up the same time Seth did. With a smile, the elemental turned around and saw Matt standing there with an intrigued expression on his face. "I imagine you heard that?"

"I did." Matt nodded. "Now I'm very curious. I haven't you be this worried in a long time."

Seth was very unsure of what he was going to tell his best friend. He wanted to tell him, but he was unsure of being judged by him. "With Matt's help we can keep a better eye on her, partner. Beside we can trust him just as much as we trust Caitlin." His partner stated inside his mind.

"You're right." Seth inhaled before stepping closer to Matt, "Her name's Frankie Kane." The nanite mutant raised an eyebrow. "The day I got thrown into this universe, I looked for Liv. But I couldn't find anything leading to her from above, so I made a missing person's report at the CCPD."

"You going to the police for help to find your baby sister? That's something I never thought coming." Matt said with honesty.

"I've changed a bit." Seth then continued, "But that same night, I was at Jitters with Joe, he wanted to buy me coffee after I filed the report. When he and I went our separate ways, I swung around the city to find a spot to rest. While I did, I came across this dark alleyway. A couple of punks were there… and so was this teenage girl."

"Frankie." Matt immediately knew.

"Yeah." The elemental breathed with a nod. "She was about to be mugged by these bastards, but I stepped in and saved her. After that I got her home, safe and sound. Not a scratch on her. But she was still scared."

"By you?" Matt guessed. The appearance of the Venom has always brought fear upon those who have seen him in their own world.

Surprise came over the Matt when the other mutant shook his head. "No. When I mentioned her home, she instantly became afraid. So much that she didn't speak about it. After that I've been keeping an eye on her ever since. She knows me as both Venom and Seth Fury, separately."

Even more surprise came over the nanite mutant as he heard that. Seth was usually very cautious about showing himself, and revealing just one of his secrets, even if they're minor. Hell, it took a least three months for Seth to tell that he was actually dating someone. "You must trust her a lot."

"I don't know." Seth smiled. "But this way, it's easier to keep an eye on her. Last time, I saw her I gave her my number so she could get a hold of me if she wanted to talk. She said she had a hard time opening up to people without them really listening to her. So I told her that she could come to me and I'd listen to her without speaking. Frankie just called me and said that she was at the hospital."

This worried the nanite mutant, "Is she alright? What happened?"

"Another mugging. She only has a concussion apparently, and thankfully a mild concussion and her glucose level's low, from what the doctor told me before I got to speak to her." Seth said relieved. "She's okay for now, I said that I'd come to her after everything here and bring her some better food."

"Hospital food never agrees with anyone." Matt joked, but in all honesty, he meant it.

"Amen to that." Seth agreed with his friend, "What do you think of the Robin Hood knock off?"

"Like the original better." Matt said. "And I don't think he really likes us. But his opinion doesn't matter to me."

"Same here. And that speedster looks up to him, that's ridiculous. But not much I can do about it now." Seth exhaled slowly before saying, "Think I'm gonna go out for some fresh air. You do whatever you want."

Matt nodded as his fellow agent walked away and out to the dark alleyway behind Verdant. The nanite mutant remembered that some of the natives from Starling was up in the bar right now, so he thought he'd go and mingle.

"Let's meet the locals."

X

(Verdant)

Inside of the impressive and fully capacitated night, everyone was dancing to their hearts' content and music was played on high volume. Drinks were handed out to their many guests and enjoyed throughout the night. At first glance, everyone's happy and enjoying themselves.

But upon closer look… not everyone was happy.

Upon the upper floor of the nightclub were four people, consisting of Felicity, Caitlin, Roy and Cisco sitting on a table, all of whom held sad expressions on their faces after what went down in the Arrowcave.

Caitlin was the one who remained speechless as she thought back to what transpired back in the Arrowcave.

"It feels wrong. Being here, it feels wrong." Felicity said.

Roy then said, "Oliver needed to be alone. He made that pretty clear. Especially after what just went down there."

Suddenly an attractive brunette woman came to their table with a tray of four glasses with alcoholic beverages. This woman, Thea Queen, sister to Oliver Queen, is also the owner of the club right here. "Four doubles, straight up." She handed them their drinks and saw their gloom expressions. Concerned she asked, "You guys ok?"

"We're just having a tough night." Roy told his ex-girlfriend.

"Anything I can do to help?" She asked, taking in the silence from the female doctor.

"No. We're… We're good." The red archer told his boss. "But thanks for the night-off." She nodded before walking away.

Cisco followed her with his eyes and asked the Starling natives. "Yo, who was that hottie?" his voice flirtatiously.

Then Felicity and Roy said at the same time, "Oliver's sister/ My ex-girlfriend."

The mechanical engineer immediately knew what that meant, "So stay away is what you're saying."

Roy said "Yeah." His eyes then looked between Felicity and Caitlin. "Are you two okay after what happened back there?"

"Yeah. Thanks to Seth and Matt." The female doctor said as she fiddled with her glass.

The four of them each took a sip from their drinks. But Cisco then asked with a heavy heart. "How do you guys do it? How do you guys live like that? Where anyone you care about could be struck down?"

Caitlin perked her head up and added, "We haven't been taking this seriously." They looked to her. "It's all been a game. We give the bad guys code names. Even when Seth came and joined our team, we still didn't take it seriously."

"I think the fact we go up against metahumans made it all kind of clean." Cisco started, the Starling natives looked to him. "Like, the fact that they've got these powers makes what they're doing less…"

The doctor then added, "Real."

"That's the thing about this life." They looked to the side and saw Matt drag a chair over to their table. He placed it and took a seat in it. "Things like what me, Barry, and Seth, is unreal yeah, but it's still very real at the same time."

"How do you guys deal with it?" Caitlin asked the mutant. "You and Seth seem so content with this life more than any of us, like it doesn't even faze you at all. I know you're both stronger than us and their team. But how are you able to deal with being exploded and just come out like it doesn't' scare you."

"We've seen the worst of humanity before." Matt started. Caitlin's thoughts from before, becoming confirmed. "It's what drove us to join SHIELD, when we were younger. To protect the world and the people in from experiencing horrors on that level. We're willing to do whatever it takes if it means the safety of the innocents. Besides part of the reason why we can do what we do, is because we do it to keep our loved ones safe. So they don't have to do it themselves." The mutant chuckled before adding. "Though aside from Seth, my only loved one is currently missing, so don't know what she'd think."

They could hear the mutant's sad tone when said that sentence. He must really feel sadness by the prospect of his girlfriend being alone and somewhere.

"She's not here?" Roy asked, he had been briefed by their situation a while back.

"Nope. We looked everywhere in the city, but no sign." Matt then shot a glance at the natives of this city, "And if you guys have a problem with me and Seth looking for her, then keep it yourself, unlike your control-freak of a boss."

"Yeah… sorry about that." Felicity said.

"Yeah. It wasn't right by any means." Roy added.

"Don't' apologize, you guys didn't do anything wrong." Matt assured them, "But he better keep it in his pants next time. Otherwise, Seth's gonna be on a warpath." They all saw that the mutant now gave off a wide smile. "Though seeing Seth smile again, that's a good thing."

The four of them wondered what he meant by that. But Felicity, Roy nor Cisco chose to question it, seeing that seemed like a sour topic for the mutant.

But Caitlin was a different story, she wanted to know. For Seth's sake. "Matt? What did you mean by that you are happy to see Seth smile again? You said the same when you came to S.T.A.R. Labs. But what did you mean by that? How was Seth like back then?"

Matt had a feeling that Caitlin would ask him of that, since he have mentioned a couple of times already. Inhaling deeply, he leaned over the table and started, "Seth told me that you lost your fiancée as well, a while back right?" She nodded, the others listening carefully. "You know how you were acting?"

"Cold." She said. "Cisco said that I was colder than ice, never cracking a smile. Until Seth came." She finished off with a smile.

"Okay, then imagine that… times hundred." Eyes widened around. "It was like seeing a totally different person. It's like the Seth, me and his family knew, was gone for good. Losing Stefanie shattered something inside of him. He lost himself, I guess you could say. He never cracked a smile anymore, he never showed any form of emotions. He was completely lifeless. Worse was, that he never slept nor did talk with people much anymore. He even went on high-risk missions alone, it's like he didn't care about what happened to him anymore. Whenever he wasn't with us, he'd blow off steam in the training room. We hated it."

They could see that there's more to the story. His eyes told as much. But he didn't have much reason to tell them. Whether it was because he didn't trust them or it was because of loyalty to his friend and partner, they couldn't tell.

His eyes then drifted to the female doctor with a smile on his face. "But thanks to you Caitlin, I got see my best friend again. To see him again like he was. Seeing him as the protector he was again. I don't think that would have been possible if not for you. So for that I'm grateful to you. Grateful that you got him to open his heart up again."

Caitlin had to wipe her eyes as tears threatened to fall down from them. "It's because of Seth. That I am even here today. He saved me so many times already. And I can't thank enough for that. He also made me feel again after Ronnie's death. I care deeply about him, very much and I'm not stopping." She smiled again before getting on her feet. "Where's Seth right now?"

"The alley behind the club, he said he needed some air." He pointed a finger in the direction. She nodded with a "thanks" and downed the last of her drink, before shooting in the direction of her boyfriend's whereabouts.

"Take care of him, Caitlin. He's gonna need you from now on."

X

"Seth!" Caitlin got into the alleyway and saw that it was empty. Looking around to see if she missed the mutant. She shouted his name, when she saw that he wasn't there. "Seth! Where are you?!" she shouted again.

"Up here!"

Caitlin looked up to the direction of the voice. She saw Seth crouching on the ledge of the roof with a chocolate bar in hand. "Wait there, I'll get down there."

With that said, the mutant jumped off the ledge and a tendril shot out of his back. The tendril latched onto the rooftop and his body hang in the air. He twisted his body and his legs placed on the sides of his black tendril, and his hands gripped it as well.

The female doctor was surprised to see the mutant doctor hand upside-down like that. Like a real spider would do. "That's new." she commented as she stepped closer to his hanging body, her eyes slowly turning teary.

He shrugged his shoulders and said. "Thought it'd be a nice change of pace. You shou…." He stopped himself when he saw tears fall from her eyes. "Caitlin? Are you okay? Why are you crying? Did that bastard Oliver make you sad? If he did, then he's dead."

She shook her head and stepped closer to his hanging form. Her hands cupped his cheeks, before pulling leaning closer to his head. "I'm glad that I met you, Seth Fury." Without giving him a chance to speak himself, her lips met his.

Seth was surprised to suddenly feel her lips on top of his own so suddenly. It was a definitely a surprise to say the least, but knowing that Caitlin was right there and that she wanted to express her true feelings with actions than words, melted his surprise away immediately.

And bliss took its place immediately. Once again, the two of them were immediately thrown in to their own little blissful world.

To better stabilize himself instead of using his arms and legs, Seth shot out a few of tendrils out of his back and shoulders that placed themselves in the ground. With the tendrils fully embedded in the ground under him, his hands let go of the tendril that he was hanging… and placed themselves on Caitlin's porcelain-like skin.

Even though he was hanging upside-down right now, with his lips attached to Caitlin's, it didn't stop his fingers from gliding under her eyes and he slowly wiped away the tears that still remained on her cheeks or under her eyes.

Now that no tears took residence on her face now, his hands slid over her head and into her soft light-brown hair. Feeling the softness of her hair in his hands, made him pull her closer. His hands slowly turned red from his feelings that's erupting in him.

But no flames came to be, nor did Caitlin feel any heat from his hands. Just his sensual, gentle touch of his hands running through her hair, like it's the most delicate thing to do in the world.

But his feelings caused more than Seth's hands to turn flame-red.

A cold breeze came over the two of them, the origins being the mutant doctor. But neither of them felt any coldness from the breeze, they just felt the breeze itself, no coldness. His powers were slowly awakened right now.

Earth pushed small pieces of rubble and stones away from their vicinity. The puddle of water pushed away as well by his water element. Ice slowly formed around them, forming a perfect circle around them. Lightning began sparking around Seth's body as well, but not a single one of them came near Caitlin. And strangely enough, his tendrils turned into adamantium as his feelings overflowed in his core.

It was perfect for the two of them. Just them alone in a world that they shared together.

A world unknown to all, but them.

After staying like this, the two of them pulled away from each other but kept close to each other still. And even though one of them was hanging right now, they kept eye contact with each other.

Seth smiled as his fingers slid over her cheeks, "Now that I get a chance to talk… I'm glad that I met you as well Caitlin Snow. Must have been the one of the best upsides of coming to this world. Without a single doubt."

"Thanks, and meeting you is the best thing that have happened to me." Caitlin said. Her eyes then looked down as she wanted to ask a question that's been on her mind for a while now. But she was unsure of how to ask it.

She then felt a gentle finger underneath her chin, it slowly applied slowly pressure, tilting her head up to meet his eyes again, "What's on your mind? Is it about my sister? I'll tell you all about her, if you want to."

He was surprised to see that she shook his head. "No, it's not about your sister. But about… Matt."

Seth cocked his head to the side curiously before he twisted his body around and dropped back on his feet. "What about Matt?"

She inhaled deeply and let out honestly, "He was there, wasn't he?" Both Seth and Venom within widened their eyes at the statement. Caitlin then continued. "He was there with you and your sister was being experimented on by the military in your world, right?"

"She's by far the smartest of her team, that much is crystal clear." Seth heard his partner comment.

"Yeah, she is. No argument on that." Seth thought back. "But we can trust her, and I know so does Matt right now."

He became silent for a few moments as he spread his senses out to check and see if anyone was listening. Thankfully, no one was here right now but them. He exhaled before revealing the truth, "Yes, he was." Caitlin listened in closely. "My sister, me, and Matt were kidnapped by the human military in our world ten years ago."

"You don't have to say anything you don't want to. You're just protecting your best friend, I understand that." Caitlin assured him.

But then Seth smiled and gripped her hand. "You deserve to know." He inhaled and exhaled before continuing, "Matt was there because of the similar reason I was chosen and experimented on. In case of other nations using mutants as biological weapons like they did, they needed a weapon that could dispose of them immediately. That's where I came in as the mutant killer. But in case of advanced weaponry that could prove too advanced for human soldiers to handle, they needed something more unorthodox. So they needed Matt for that."

"Matt's mutation allowed him to generate nanites from his bone marrow. But it was too painful for him, everything he did it, he brought him pain. Back then he only used it whenever Liv was sad or alone, he'd make toys for her, to get her to smile. Which she did." Seth then clenched his fists. "But the humans didn't want toys, since toys couldn't stop soldiers. They learned that Matt's powers were based on his bones, so they recreated the conditions of an old weapons' program, called Weapon X. But instead of using a grown adult male with an incredible healing factor, unlike others. They used Matt as the base. But the military knew that he wouldn't survive the process like the former Weapon X candidate did. But they did have his blood."

Caitlin widened her eyes and said, "They gave him a healing factor?"

"Yes." He answered her questions. "But they modified it. The original Weapon candidate, Logan is unable die of age, so he was basically immortal. He survived through most of, if not, all the wars that were back then. But Stryker and his team had leftover blood from Logan. But they modified it, removed what made him immortal and injected into Matt's body. Apparently, the blood was modified to the point that Matt's X-gen would accept the power immediately, like it was always there. But what they did to Logan that his healing factor allowed him to survive through most, if not all types of damage, was beyond painful. Because of that he was able to survive a certain transfusion."

"With Logan, they infused his entire skeletal system with adamantium. This was to get a powerful weapon…." His eyes turned teary at the memory of his friend's and his little sister's screams from that hellhole. "… they did the same to Matt, while he was only 14 years old." Caitlin's eyes widened. "He wouldn't have survived without that healing factor in his body, but when they learned that he could make objects out of his bones, they knew that he could do the same with weapons. A soldier needs to reload his weapon, Matt could make a new fully-loaded weapon just as quickly." Tears fell from his eyes. "There are three types of experimentations in my world; Human experimentation. Animal experimentation. And mutant experimentation."

"Me, my sister and my best friend were chosen to become the unlucky winners of mutant experimentation, because of our powers. When that happened, when I had to listen to the screams of my friend and my sister for an entire year, I begged to whatever was listening out there, that our powers never manifested themselves. They only brought us so much pain and suffering without end." Seth felt his partner sent out very kind of calming feelings to him to calm him down. "That way, then those humans would never have needed to kidnap kids from their one home. If that hell never happened-"

"Then I'd be dead right now."

Seth snapped his head up to look into Caitlin's tearful eyes, seeing the hurt and pain inside of her right now. He have never seen so much hurt and pain in a single person before.

No.

He have seen it before. Inside of Olivia's eyes. Every day of the ten months where, she had to see her own brother lose himself slowly after the deaths of his most important family members. It was the exact the same pain that was residing in Caitlin's eyes right now.

She stepped closer to him, causing him to back away till his back hit the wall. "If you never had your powers Seth, then I'd be dead right now. If you didn't have your powers then no one would have jumped in front of me to stop Danton Black's bullets from hitting me. If you didn't have your powers then who knows what Leonard Snart would have done to us at the trainwreck. If you didn't have your powers or Venom, then Bette San Souci would be dead now with a bullet piercing through her body. If you didn't have your powers then those young teenage girls that the Skulls kidnapped would have been a hell of their own. If you didn't have your powers then Blackout would have killed us, me with lightning. If you didn't have your powers, then you wouldn't just have saved me from being attacked by boomerangs. Twice now that I think about it." she added sheepishly at the end.

But then she continued, "I know that you hated all of the things, the horrible experiences that you and your loved ones had to through. I know that Seth. But look at all the things you have done with your powers. You were able to save so many innocent people from their horrible experiences. You're that kind of person, Seth Fury. A protector, who overcame his past and his pain… to be the demon who stops monsters from destroying innocents. That's who you are, Seth. And you got a family because of that. Something you always desired Seth. So don't hate yourself anymore for being that." Her own hands cupped his face, her thumbs able to wipe away his tears this time. "You, and your friends and sister, walked through that hell, and came out stronger than ever. Through the pain, you raised above it, and became protectors of your world."

Seth wasn't sure if he had ever told her this before. But even so, he had to tell her. No matter who many times he may have said it or not, she needed to know it. "You're words beyond amazing, Cait. Remember that you called an angel before." She nodded with a smile and blushing cheeks. "Guess it takes one to know one, doesn't it?"

Her arms went around his neck as she stated, "I'm not an angel. I just know the venom all too well."

"I'd like to think that I know my cure really well as well." Seth kissed her lips again and pulled her closer to his body. Tendrils formed, they wrapped around her and pulled her even closer to his body, she moaned slightly from the contact of the tendrils.

This kiss meant a lot to them… but was short-lived by the next voice.

"I'm sorry." They pulled away from each other and saw Felicity looking at them with flustered cheeks, "I know I'm interrupting a moment. But I ran facial recognition on Harkness and I have a match. Barry and Oliver are already going after him. Thought maybe you and Matt needed to know. He said that he'd watch from…" she pointed upwards. "the skies."

"Of course, he does." Seth said unsurprised by his best friend's decision. He got the mercenary's location from the blonde woman. The elemental looked to his girlfriend and stated, "Gotta leave."

"Get back soon and get back in one piece." She said.

Seth nodded before looking to the blonde hacker, "I'll get going. Contact me if something happens." The woman nodded, as the black tendrils unwrapped themselves from Caitlin's waist.

With a last nod to both women, the anti-hero walked over to the nearest wall and jumped onto it. When he latched onto it, he got on his feet and ran up the side of it. When he reached the top of it, he lashed out a tendril and connected to another building. His form was immediately enveloped by his partner as the two of them became one, as Venom now swung from building to building with expert skills.

Felicity stepped closer to Caitlin and had to ask her, "So… you and him like his tentacles?"

The doctor snapped to her and stated, "They are tendrils. He's not an octopus." She then realized what she said, "And no! We don't like tentacles! I mean they are nice, but…" she trailed off with flustered cheeks, as Felicity looked to with a knowing look.

"Let's get going!" Caitlin shouted as she sprinted into the Arrowcave again. Felicity chuckled and walked after her.

X

As Seth swung to the location of the mercenary, he saw Matt in his Iron Knight suit. The nanite mutant was hovering in the air right now, while he has a hand placed on his communications device.

Seeing that he wasn't moving… flying anywhere, he went to hop onto a small rooftop on top of the nearest building near his friend. "What's wrong?"

Matt saw on his HUD screen before that Seth was on his way and near him, so he wasn't surprised to find him there. He looked to his friend and said, "It's Barry and the others back at the cave." He silently gave a command to the AI who obliged. "Listen here. Barry! Seth's listening in, repeat what you said right now!"

"Seth's there? Good we're gonna need all the help we can get." The speedster started, "Harkness just triggered five bombs throughout the city. We don't know where."

"To blanket this entire city." Matt looked around the city, "he'd have to use-"

"Radio controlled IEDs." Cisco finished off for the weapons expert.

Matt nodded, even though the others couldn't see it. "Yes. But if we can key into the detonator's frequency-"

"We can pinpoint the location of the bombs." Felicity said, from her spot beside the mechanical engineer.

"Jarvis, give them a hand."

"Will do, sir." The AI did as ordered and assisted the two tech experts in the cave. The two mutants hoped inwardly that the two of them were close enough to at least a couple of the bombs from their current location. Otherwise it'd look grey for Starling City.

"The five receivers." Felicity stated.

"Nearest one is behind a restaurant at Faith and Flower." Cisco told the three heroes. The speedster thanked them and the two heroes went to jump and flew away to that location.

Barry told them at he was already there. "Ok. Hey, guys, I found it. I'm going to run it out of the city."

"Barry, wait!" Cisco ordered Barry immediately, out of fear the two other heroes continued but stopped when the same person instructed them, "Seth, Matt you guys too!"

"That's not an option." Barry said in distress to them.

"We agree with him, Time is of the essence." Venom told them as well.

"We think the bombs might be linked." Cisco said back, also in distress.

Matt then asked, "They're linked?!" the mutant then saw a footage from the speedster's mini-cam in his emblem. He saw the bomb itself and saw that the secondary trigger, and upon closer expectations, they saw that it's not just a receiver but also a transmitter.

"Barry, if you try to defuse the bomb, the secondary trigger's going to transmit a signal and the rest of the bombs are going to explode." Felicity said with distraught voice. She then added, "And then the drones will drop their bombs around the city."

"Drones?!" Matt shouted back in surprise, to the surprise and horror of the elemental.

"We just discovered sixteen attack drones with bombs, all of them flying around Starling, in two groups, each group of eight drones." Cisco said back hopelessly.

"We're running out of time!" Roy said.

"For this mission to be successful, you'd have to disarm all of the bombs at the same time." Jarvis told them. "Then there's also the drones that needs to be dealt with. And frankly, none of you are aerial combatants." The system added.

The two mutants shared a look while Barry said, "You're thinking of multiplex. I can't be in five places at once. Let alone take care of sixteen drones at random locations around the city."

"You don't have to!" Venom shouted to them all at once. "Barry, there are four persons at the cave! And you're one single person yourself! Do the math!" Barry's eyes realized as he knew what he meant. "Leave the drones to Matt and us."

"Seth are you sure about this? You can't fly unlike Matt, so what are you going to do?" Caitlin asked the anti-hero.

"We can jump high enough to take them down Caitlin. Believe in us. This city needs us." He answered.

"Mr. Almond, Dr. Rogers. It appears that these drones need to be disposed of from beneath, as their cores are placed underneath them." The AI system told them. "It appears that they are the type of drones that drop themselves down to their target and explodes."

"Kamikaze drones?" Matt muttered, "That's lazy writing." He joked.

"Find the bombs! We'll take care of the drones!" The elemental finished off. The nanite mutant threw a device into his eye, the device latching onto his eye. Letting him see the locations of the drones.

Matt said, "Looks like they really are groups of eight that stays near each other. We need to go off in different directions."

The elemental nodded again before the device showed the locations of the nearest group of drones. Knowing that time was of the essence, Seth sparked lightning around his entire body and he formed wind around him, before he launched himself off the rooftop and into the direction of the drones. While he was in the air, he added more wind to his form and launched himself quicker.

Matt formed more boosters on his back and blasted off. His palms, his feet and the boosters on his back, all of them lit up with blue flames that blasted the armored mutant forward. Like the other mutant, he knew that time was on short supply right now, he combined both of his foot thrusters and formed one large thrusters. Letting it blast off, he was able to fire off quicker than before now.

X

"Ok." Cisco started as he, Caitlin, Felicity, Roy and Barry had all found a bomb each, and now needed to disarm them. He brought his tablet closer to his face, connecting himself to the other bomb-disarmers. "Everyone has to cut their wire exactly on three." He told them.

X

At her location, Caitlin stood before the duffel bag and her hands around her tool, ready to cut the wire. Knowing full well that the lives of the entire city as well as the life of Seth was on the line right now. She needed to do it right now, to save everyone.

This time she and everyone else was going to be the heroes.

X

Roy looked on worriedly as he brought the sharp edges of his tool to the wire. He was careful right now. Every ounce of his will, his training before and after becoming Arsenal, everything put into this moment right now. Everything to keep his hands from shaking and accidently cutting the wire too early.

Knowing that it would be the end of his home… and the home of his loved ones.

X

Felicity doing the same as the others. Using her entire being to make sure that she didn't cut into the wire too early. She suddenly remembered all the times she had to stitch Oliver's wounds, and hoped that the countless times of patching him up would magically give her steady hands like Caitlin right now.

That was her hope at least right now.

X

Cisco back at his location inhaled deeply, as he began counting to three. The others mentally following him.

"1…"

"2…"

"3!"

The engineer cut into the wire, and prepared himself for the explosions.

….

….

But after a few moments of silence from everything around them, and in their ears.

Cisco then exhaled heavily but relieved at last. "Screw you, Captain Boomerang." His eyes then drifted to the tablet again, and he smirked. "Seth, Matt. The bombs are down now. Take care of the drones!"

"Yes!/Yes!" Both Iron Knight and Venom shouted back.

X

Above in the air, where eight Kamikaze-programmed drones flew ahead of him, over various streets within the city of Starling, a knight flew behind them.

The drones had gotten a very good head start, but Matt was gaining pursuit, thanks to all of his thrusters on full throttle right now.

"Jarvis, how long till the drones drop into the streets?" Matt asked the AI.

Jarvis took a few minutes to scan over each of the eight drones, before replying to the mutant, "Estimated time before their Kamikaze protocol is activated: 2 minutes and 28 seconds, sir."

The mutants own eyes scanned over the entire area, as well as the drones. He noted the distance between the buildings and the drones themselves. "With this many of them so close to the buildings, it's be to dangerous to fire repulsors at them, or my missiles."

"Perhaps a change of clothes could prove useful for this mission, sir." The system added its thoughts.

Matt smirked "When you are right, you're right Jarvis." His hand went to his arc reactor and pressed on it. the reactor pulled out and the mutant turned it, before slamming it back in.

The people on the streets looked at the sound of the drones flying over them. But they then saw the flying form of Matt's armor. Eyes widened as they saw his form suddenly be over swarmed by nanites that came from his chest plate.

Suddenly the swarmed nanites had adapted to the armor, revealing the War Machine-like armor that he did within his arc reactor. Matt new that this suit would be able to do what was needed to take down the drones in the air.

Thrusters on his back formed again. A second later, all thrusters blazed as he flew towards the eight drones. One of them was very close to him, so he twirled around with a spin before boosting his thrusters again. With this, his momentum increased and he now found himself directly under the drone.

His HUD screen registered the core underneath the drone, and he raised his right arm, his sub-machine gun and fired into the core.

EXPLOSION

A small-scale explosion now laid in the wake of the drone's last moments. "One down." He muttered before flying forward again, his eyes scanned the closest drones, two in fact.

Within a moment, the armored mutant looked directly up into two cores. His arms lashed out and he blasted off streams of bullets into their cores. A second later, explosions followed their demise.

Now that their numbers have been reduced to five, the remaining drones turned around and faced the armored mutants. "I believe you have hurt their feelings right now, Mr. Almond." The AI quipped to him.

"Well, Liv did say I can get under the skin of everyone, guess that includes machines too." Matt joked.

"I can verify that."

Matt rolled his eyes before flying head and neared two drones, that intended to smash themselves into him. But he saw that there was a distance between them, so he used that to his advantage.

Once again, the knight spun himself around, into the space between the drones. Within that space, he twirled around his six-barreled mini-gun around. The barrel of the gun hit the wings of the drones, forcing both of them to tip around. His eyes drifted to the sides, seeing both of the cores to him.

With a smirk, he crossed his armored arms over his torso and fired into their cores immediately the next second later. His bullets connected with the cores, and they exploded.

"Three drones left." The AI informed the mutant, who nodded and flew ahead and under the last three drones again.

"Lets finish this!" The drones didn't get a chance to turn to the mutant, who pointed both of his guns on his gauntlets upwards as well as his mini-gun. All three of his firearms turned to the cores and he fired into them with rapid fire.

EXPLOSION.

The three small-scale explosions merged and formed one large explosion, thankfully none of the nearby buildings were damaged thanks to the distance the mutant made between them and the drones.

The Iron Knight twirled around before he came to a stance on top of a building. "Cisco! I'm done on my part here!" He informed Cisco.

"Nice, Seth's already at his group. Now we just wait." Cisco replied gleefully. Matt nodded before taking to the air again and flew over to his friend's location.

He wanted rub in the fact that he finished before him.

X

At his location, Venom was sprinting away at the top of a building. His entire body coated with lightning, enhancing his entire body, and wind around him, caused him to sprint faster as he ran.

"There they are."

Seth looked to the direction that his partner was pointing in with a tendril. His eyes caught the side of the group of eight drones.

"Let's go." Seth said before he leaped onto the nearest building, his feet firmly planted into the wall. A second later, he launched himself from the wall with a powerful leap. "Time to work!" Venom said before his arm lashed out and split into various tendrils.

His tendrils wrapped around the nearest drone. Normally he knew that he could just crush the drones from all sides, but he knew that these drones were reinforced from every side with thick metal. So the core underneath is the only weakness on them.

While keeping the tendrils wrapped around the drone, he let one of his tendrils turn brightly red before flames erupted from it. That same blazing tendril pierced through the drone's core.

EXPLOSION

The drone exploded. "Only seven drones left now. Let's do this, partner!" The elemental heard his partner state happily. With malicious smirk on his face, he jumped onto to intercept the remaining seven drones.

Four of the drones turned around and saw the mutant take down the first drone. Two of those four launched themselves to confront the mutant, but it never came to that as the mutant lashed out both of hands. His sparked with electricity that each hit a wing on those two drones.

The drones suddenly twirled around from destabilizing in the air. Venom saw that both of them suddenly turned upside down, their cores showing themselves beneath. A second later, his arms into blue before manifesting ice. The ice spread around his arms and formed ice scythes.

The lightning around his body intensified as the mutant now blasted himself down after the two falling drones. His bladed arms crossed over his torso, as he came after them. When he came close to the drones, he lashed both of his ice scythes into their cores.

EXPLOSION

One large explosion followed the drones' last moments when the mutant disposed of them. Venom jumped onto the nearest wall again and ran up the side of.

As he ran up the building, the two other drones followed him. When they got close to, Venom jumped backwards with a backflip and shot out two adamantium tendrils. His tendrils pierced through their cores when they followed the mutant and turned around to meet him.

Their explosions drew the attention of the last three drones. The three of them intended to smash themselves into the elemental within the next second.

Venom reeled a leg back, as his entire body turned into adamantium. "Let's finish this, NOW!" He exclaimed to his partner who roared in agreement. The ground underneath cracked under him as he now charged ahead to meet the three drones.

One of the drones flew ahead of the others to meet the mutant head-on. But it never came to be, as Venom thrusted his arm under the drone itself, and grabbed it by its core. Around his clenched fist, flames erupted within the drone. Blasting the weaponized drone to burned pieces of scrap. With the core in his hand, it was safe.

With another smirk on his face, he looked to the last two and charged at them. The drones did the same and charged with full throttle, intending to destroy the mutant. Seth sent out various of tendrils. One of them wrapped around a drone and the other drone were swiped to the side like it's a fly.

Venom unleashed lightning in his hand, the core inside of his clenched hand slowly being affected from the extra electricity. Before it got a chance to explode, he slammed it into the core of the drone wrapped by his tendrils.

EXPLOSION.

An explosion soon followed with the drone's destruction.

With just one drone left, he turned to it and saw it charge him like its predecessors. Seth's entire coated with dazzling flames that he reeled back, before it threw into the front of the drone. The flames digging and burning through the metal, allowing a way for the arm to pierce into it and grab its core.

More lightning generated around his arm and coated the flames. The drone bursting from lightning coated flames from within itself.

"Easy." Venom let out cockily.

"Easy you say?" the anti-hero looked up and saw Matt in his War Machine-like suit. His arms crossed over his chest as he let out smugly, "If that was so, then how come I was able to finish off my group quicker than you huh? Mr. Expert Combatant?"

Seth felt himself being triggered by his words as he countered back, after his mask slithered off. "Well I wouldn't expect a guy who has to use guns and weapons to understand the struggle of having to understand a good ole fistfight. But not my fault you're bad at hand-to-hand fights."

Matt felt like he was about to blow a gasket and countered angrily, "What was that, you parasite?!"

Venom slithered over his face again, as the two let out. "Who are you calling a parasite, you piece of overrated rust?!"

The two mutants got into battle stances, ready to destroy each other in a moment's notice. But it never came to be as the next voice demanded.

"HEY!" both of them stopped when they heard Caitlin's cold and threatening voice snap at them over their comms, "Are you two going to behave yourselves or do I have to get over there and hit you two in the head with a crowbar?"

Matt raised an eyebrow in curiosity and looked to his friend, "She does know it takes more than that to stop us, right?" Seth shrugged in his Venom form.

"I heard that, Matt Almond." Matt felt himself shiver from the tone she used. He thought Agent Hill was scary, but she got nothing on Caitlin Snow. "Now both of you, back here. Now." Both of them said "yes" and shut off their comms.

"You really have a thing for scary women, don't you?" Matt had to know from his friend.

Seth didn't understand what he meant, and asked, "What do you mean?" his mask slithered off.

"Silver Sable." He stated to remind his friend.

At the mention of the name, Seth gaped as he understands. "Oh yeah. Seems like forever when she and I was dating. And she wasn't scary!" He stated at the end.

"Whatever you say, Seth." Matt equipped his helmet again and took off. Seth rolled his eyes and went after the other mutant to the Arrowcave.

X

(Arrowcave)

Back inside of the Arrowcave, everyone was doing various things. Oliver and Barry was off doing something. Felicity and Roy were by the computers. Cisco and Matt were standing beside each other. Caitlin was by the table and stuffed the DNA sample in a bag.

Seth was on top of lamp in a crouched position with a chocolate bar in his hand, and a couple of bars in his pocket, currently being devoured by his partner. The mutant looked down when he saw John make his way over to him.

"What's up John?" He asked the former soldier after he jumped down to the floor again.

John surprised him when he held out his hand and said, "Thank you." The mutant drew a blank. "You saved Lyla, both you and Matt. Now my daughter won't leave without a mother now. Thanks to you two. Means a lot."

Both Seth and Venom widened his eyes when he heard the soldier say that he has a daughter. He didn't think that any of the Starling Natives here had a child. But he was happy to hear that a little baby girl never had to experience a life without her mother.

It made him think of Bucky immediately.

Grabbing hold of the outstretched hand, he shook it. "Glad that you and your girlfriend are safe, and are able to return to your baby girl. Protect her John. No matter what." He told the soldier seriously. John nodded to him.

Seth then went over to Caitlin who spoke, "Some of the STR markers on the DNA sample have degraded, but I've got a computer back at the lab that I think will fill in the gaps."

"And if not, then we'll upgrade those computers within a heartbeat." Seth added with a smile, causing the female doctor to playfully slap him.

"Thank you Caitlin, you too Seth." Felicity told the doctors.

"I'll let you know as soon as I have results." Caitlin started. She then added with a embarrassed face. "I'll call this time."

"I won't. I'll crash this place whenever I want." Seth stated, once again he was slapped by Caitlin.

"It's cool. You guys are fun." Roy told them with a chuckle.

"So are you guys." Cisco got their attention. "Well, you could be if you realized you were under a nightclub."

"With a weak-ass lock." Matt stated mockingly. Felicity poked her tongue out at him.

"Did you guys finish with your business?" Seth seemingly asked out in the air, which raised question marks over everyone's heads.

Their questions were answered when Barry and Oliver walked into the room. "Yeah, we did." Oliver started. "Digger Harkness is now cell mates with Slade Wilson."

Both mutants shared a wide-eyed look with each other, while the symbiote thought. "Don't tell us that Wade Wilson has a doppelganger in this universe."

"Apparently." Seth started. "And if the name is any indication, sounds like this universe ripped off ours. That's low."

Barry then said, "We've got a pipeline, he's got a gorgeous tropical island."

"With landmines." Felicity added.

"Oh we have an entire underwater prison with some of the worst criminals on our world." Matt let out happily. "With lasers and automated sentries."

Everyone looked to the mutants with wide eyes of shock, wondering how they seemed okay with that, "It's a long story." Matt waved them off.

Barry chuckled before his eyes caught the sight of something. "What's this?" he walked over to it as Felicity explained.

"Oliver helped me put that in while you guys were at the hospital."

The speedster walked over to it and expected the glass case with mannequin closer. "Wait, this is for me?"

Oliver then answered, "For the next time you're in town."

Surprise came over Barry as he turned to the archer. "There'll be a next time."

"I'm still calling the shots." The archer said adamantly. The mutants knew that was no snowballs chance in hell that'd happen.

With a smile, Barry countered "We'll talk about that."

"Yes, we will." Oliver then smirked himself. "And then I'll call the shots."

"Why would anyone listen to a guy who steals the looks of Robin Hood?" Venom heard his partner comment.

"No frigging Idea." Seth thought back before he lost himself in thoughts of visiting Central City General Hospital to meet Frankie and check up on her himself.

Caitlin and Matt noticed that Seth was quiet, his expression telling them that he was deep in thoughts. "We got a gift for you, too, Oliver." The archer looked to Cisco who stood beside a box. "Early Christmas present. Turns out S.T.A.R. Labs' industrial fabricator…" he opened the box. "…was based out of Starling, so…"

Oliver took the contains of the box into his hands as Cisco listed, "Polymer Kevlar weave. It's 25% lighter and can carry 15% more gear. I've got designs I'm working up that I'm really excited by." The mechanical engineer and the weapons expert both smiles.

"It's, uh, it's subtle." Oliver stated as he got a better feeling of this new suit.

Pointing to the hood, Cisco added, "I wanted to replace the hood, but Felicity said it had sentimental value."

They looked to the blonde hacker who looked away with a shy expression on her face. Oliver then thanked him, "Thank you."

"Any time." The engineer nodded.

Oliver then looked to the two mutants, Matt looking uninterested and Seth looking deep in thoughts. He briefly looked to the others, all of them wearing the same expressions. Telling the archer to apologize to the two of them for being completely rude to them.

He sighed as he agreed with them, before walking over to them. "Hey?" he got their attention. "About what happened before… I'm sorry for how I was acting, telling that I didn't want any of you guys in Starling. You have every right to be here, as much as any other. And I'm sorry for that."

"You're forgiven." Seth stated immediately, Matt nodded in agreement. The others wondered how they were able to forgive him so quickly. "We know you have trust issues Oliver, that much is crystal clear. But even so, don't lose it for other people wanting to help."

Matt added, "He's right. You are going to face tougher battles in the future, really fast and really hard. And when that happens, you're gonna need all the help you can get."

"I know that." Oliver answered back. "But I'm not used to dealing with the fact that they are people like you, who are stronger than me. I just have to get used to that fact, I guess."

"You do." Seth told him bluntly, "But remember this; We're on your side. Protecting innocents remember that."

"I do." The archer held out his hand to them. "And thank you, both of you, for saving our city."

The elemental nodded and shook his hand. The nanite mutant did the same afterwards. Felicity and the others smiled as the air was cleared between them all.

Roy looked between the mutants and the Central City natives, "You guys headed back?"

Caitlin then sheepishly answered almost embarrassed, "It's possible that Dr. Wells didn't sign off on us leaving town."

Seth smirked before jumping to a lamp and jumped onto the table behind his girlfriend. He leaned his head forward to her ear, and said "I thought I was the rule-breaker here." Caitlin looked to him with a cute smile, "Naughty girl." He said huskily, causing her to blush immediately before they shared a kiss.

Oliver and Barry shared a knowingly look with each other. "Hey, do you still, like, take the train?" Roy curiously asked.

"Yeah, sure, if I feel like taking a nap." Barry answered. "But Oliver and I have some unfinished business to take care of first."

"Barry before that." The speedster looked to Seth. "Mind speeding me to Central City now. Got some business of my own to take care back there." Barry nodded his compliance.

Caitlin turned to look him in the eyes. "What's this business?" Seth not wanting to tell the others yet, leaned his head to ear and told her of his call with Frankie Kane. When he was finished, he leaned back to see her grateful face. "You're a great guy, Seth. Go. Take care of her."

The mutant nodded as he and the metahuman shared a look, telling each other that they are ready.

WHOOSH

With lightning fast speed, Barry took hold of Seth and sped him back to Central City in less than a minute before returning back to the Arrowcave.

When he got back, he noticed the widening smile of happiness and appreciation on Caitlin's face. And he, along with everyone else, knew that it formed because of the mutant.

And none of them could deny that right now both of them were immensely happy with one another, and only wished the best for them both.

X

(Central City, Central City General Hospital)

Inside of the Emergency Room, inside of a single room, were Frankie Kane sitting on the bed in her signature goth-like clothes. She was admitted to the ER for the concussion she suffered from the mugging that her mugger did to her.

She ran a hand through her pink-streaked hair, and over head again. As she felt the mildly lingering pain of her concussion there. The doctors and nurses told her that she just needed to take it easy for the next few days and not move around too much.

But even though she had gotten a concussion, a smile formed on her face when she was told to stay out of school. Like any normal teenager, she would do anything to avoid even a day of school. But she mentally hoped that in the future, the cause of absence involved left muggings and concussions.

Now she was waiting for Seth who told her over the phone that he'd come to her. Check up on her himself and hopefully give her some food.

However, she couldn't tell the real reason behind her concussion and the muggers.

KNOCK KNOCK

The sound of two knocks on the door, perked her head out of her thoughtful stupor. She looked to the direction of the door, and saw it open slightly. Her eyes suddenly flashed to the color of magenta as horrifying thoughts came over her mind.

Suddenly hand with a cup holder, holding two extra-large Big Belly Burger Milkshakes, shot out through the opening. Frankie's eyes softened back to her normal color as a smile formed on her face. "Chocolate milkshake for one Frankie Kane! If she's not here, then more for me!"

She giggled at that joke and announced. "Come in Doc Fury."

A second later, the door opened up fully and revealed Seth Fury standing at threshold. One hand holding the cupholder with milkshakes and his other hand holding two large paper bags with the Big Belly Burger logo on them. "Told you I'd bring you some food." He walked over to her, "And if I recall correctly, you're a chocolate addict, just like me, so I brought chocolate milkshakes as well as burgers and fries."

"Really?" she said shyly, like she was really unsure of the fact that Seth wanted to spent money to buy something for her. "You didn't have to."

"I wanted to." Seth assured her with a smile as he sat the bags on a table beside her. "Now you dig in, while I check up on you., okay?" Frankie nodded with a smile herself as she opened the paper bag and took out a fry and began eating.

Seth looked around the ER room and looked for a penlight. His eyes saw the penlight and picked it up. He made his way back to the young girl and asked her to keep her eyes on him. She did as obliged, as he turned the penlight on and flashed it over her eyes to check on her eyesight.

He didn't see any ocular damage, something both he and his "other" are greatly thankful for. "Looks you don't have any damage to your eyes. That's good. Any dizziness? Nausea?" she shook her head at his questions. "That's good. Any ringing in your ears?"

"No nothing. I'm good." Frankie said, while able to hide the memory of her mugging in the deepest part of her mind.

"She's telling the truth… we think?" Venom said unsure to the mutant.

"What do you mean, you think?" Seth felt the need to ask.

"We can feel that she's telling the truth, but at the same time, another part of her is hiding something. Another truth perhaps. A secret perhaps."

Seth then remembered why she was admitted to the ER to begin with, and asked her, "Frankie?" Her got her attention, "What happened exactly?"

Frankie inhaled deeply and exhaled deeply as well, before she revealed. "I was out on a walk, just wanted to clear my head a bit. School's pretty hard lately." He could understand that. "I was walking around the streets and walked past an alley. Suddenly I was pulled into it and saw two guys there. Both of them holding knives. Asking for my money. One of them punched me in the head and knocked me into the wall." Seth clenched his hands angrily. "Suddenly everything went black and I wake in the ER."

Both Seth and his partner felt as she was telling the truth, but like before she was hiding something. But he wouldn't pry into it. "You don't remember anything from what happened in the alley?" Seth asked. Once again, she shook her head. "Well, amnesia surrounding the causing traumatic event is a usual concussion symptom. So don't worry about it."

"Good." Frankie smiled widely before opening the other bag and reached into it. Seth saw her pull out a burger. "You think we're allowed to eat in here?"

"No." Seth stated before taking the burger into his hand and took a large bite of it, causing the girl to laugh from the sauce around his mouth. "But no one's gonna stop us now, so…" he took out her burger for her. "Might as well enjoy it now."

She took the burger and took a large bite herself. She now had the same over-sauced mouth as the mutant doctor, both of them laughing loudly in the room.

But as she eats her food, Frankie recalls what happened back at the alleyway. And she knew what happened there would stay with her forever and she could not tell a soul about it.

Not even Seth, who's been proving himself to be kindest and most trustworthy of them all so far.

X

(Flashback)

"AARRRRGGH." Frankie Kane screamed out in horror and shock as she was pulled into the dark alleyway. The next thing she felt was the cold surface of the wall on her back, when she was thrown into it.

Her fearful eyes looked and saw two guys there, both of them were large sweaters with hoodies and caps on their heads. One of them looked to be the lookout as he kept his eyes on the streets and the other kept his eyes on Frankie with a disgusting smirk on his face. She noticed that both of them was holding knives right now.

"Just some punk girl here." The disgusting man said as he bent down to her level and looked into her eyes. "But all punk girls loves their money."

"Betcha this one has loads on her." The lookout told his friend, who agreed.

Frankie lowered her eyes, neither of the guys noticed the flashing of two eye colors going off in her eye holes. The young girl placed her hands on either side of her head and muttered, "Don't, don't, don't. Don't!"

The two men heard the girl shout out "Don't". They thought it was weird as they did nothing to her, yet. "Yo, little girl. What's the problem? You on something?" the lookout walked closer to her and asked her.

"She's on something, alright man." The disgusting man told his friend.

Frankie then shouted to them, "Get away! Get away from m-"

PUNCH

The young girl was suddenly interrupted when the man with the disgusting smirk suddenly punched her in the head. Forcing her closer into the wall. "You do not order us around girl!" he ordered her, his friend smirked as well.

Suddenly they some kind of creepy laughter coming from the girl. The two men looked to her, seeing that she kept laughing. They looked to each other in confusion but both of them shrugged to each other.

They looked back to the girl, and their eyes widened when they saw that she looking up at them. But that wasn't what shocked them. It was the sight of her eyes….

… they shined with the color of magenta.

"Big mistake boys." her voice suddenly echoed, almost demonic.

The men followed her with their eyes. Frankie was smaller and shorted than them. But now they had to look up.

X

Outside of the same street were Frankie was being mugged. Suddenly two sounds emitted from them.

"ARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH-"

SLASH

A short-lived scream came from the alleyway, but the sound of a bone being pierced through cut it short.

"No. No. No." the pleading sound of another man came from the same alleyway, as he ran out of the shadows. But his sprint was brief as he something latched onto his ankle and pulled him down to the ground.

His tearful eyes of horror and shock looked up and into the shadows as he begged and pleaded. "I'm sorry. It won't happen again. Please forgi-AAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHH!" He screamed as he was pulled right back into the alleyway. "NOOOO-"

CRUNCH

The sound of a teeth sinking into something stopped the scream immediately.

…...

…

For a few silent moments, nothing happened. But then staggering her way out of the alley with her hands on her head, came Frankie Kane. Her vision blurry and her body trembling in shock. "Not again." She muttered before passing out and fell down by the sidewalk.

(Flashback end)

To be continued…

A new secret has now come to showed itself. Wonder how this will affect the young girl and her role in the future.

Until next time true believers!