Ariana's Point of View
The breach twisted and swirled in the center of the room. I took a deep breath, removing the power dampener from around my neck, and holding onto Barry's hand tightly. I tossed the necklace to Cat, as Felicity moved to Barry's other side. "1,2,3," Barry whispered and we all charged into the breach. All around us were images of people I knew, some I didn't, places I recognized, and others not at all. I looked over at my companions, Felicity was looking around in awe and amazement, while Barry was just staring straight ahead, concentrating. Suddenly we found ourselves standing in front of Iron Heights Penitentiary.
"Okay, Cat, you there?" I asked turning on the device in my ear.
"Yup, thank goodness they worked, I assume you landed fine," she responded.
"Yep, I let you know what's going on when I can. Time seems to run the same here as it does on our earth."
"Okie dokie."
"Okay, Ari and Felicity stay out here, I'm gonna brief my mom. It's kind of a long story, but we came up with a code, so I could let her know how I'm going to get her out." I nodded, Barry squeezed my hand one last time, then turned and walked into the building.
"Well, that was fun," Felicity said, her eyes wide.
"Yeah, is it bad that I just want to explore the entire multiverse now?" I asked her. Felicity laughed and shook her head.
"You two are adorable. Though I do feel like the third wheel," Felicity giggled, changing the subject.
"Sorry about that, it just kinda happens," I responded, blushing slightly.
"I wish I could find my soulmate. I mean, Ray's great, he's charming and has the plots of every episode of Doctor Who memorized, every single season, but he's not the one. You know?" Felicity said sadly.
"Nope, sorry, I never dated before Barry, so I don't really have experience with that," I told her, as we sat down on the grass.
"Oh, well, apparently you struck gold," she teased and I rolled my eyes.
"I prefer silver, but okay. You'll find them. I promise. Most likely when you aren't looking. You could just be looking in the wrong place," I told her, pulling her into a hug.
"I don't know though, something about the two of us doesn't feel right like it's not supposed to be romantic like we're destined to just be friends. I know I love him, but I'm not sure if it's like a brother-sister thing or if it's romantic," I said playing with my fingers in my lap and Felicity nodded. "I mean we've kissed like three times tops, it just doesn't feel right, but it feels like we're supposed to be much more than friends or siblings."
"That's normal, I think, I don't really know. It's possible that you aren't soulmates, maybe you're right, maybe you guys aren't destiny. Only time will tell I suppose," Felicity replied.
"Thanks," I said relieved and I felt like a great weight had been lifted off of me. I hugged her again.
"I didn't take that long," Barry said, approaching us.
"Did I?" Felicity and I laughed.
"No. Just long enough," I told him.
"What's next?" Felicity asked.
"Well, we have to break into the West's house to get my clothes, assuming that they're still there. Then go to this address to get this world's Lena and Felicity, apparently they visited my mom and made it seem like I never left," he said holding up a small piece of paper.
"Lastly, we come back here, grab my mom, and head back to S.T.A.R. Labs," Barry finished, grinning, the sparkle in his eyes, that had dulled significantly over the past few years, was back at full force. I grinned.
"Your little sparkle is back," I said smugly.
"I told you I'd find a way to get it back." Barry laughed and hugged me, planting a kiss on top of my head, I blushed, per usual. Geez, I sound really soft and cheesy. I swear I'm not lame, even though I definitely seem like it at the moment.
"Aw, you guys are adorable, but we should really get moving," Felicity said, wrinkling her forehead, and Barry laughed.
"We do need to get going, we have a lot to do," he said releasing me, but holding onto my hand. I tapped the communicator with my other hand.
"Cat, we've briefed Nora and are on our way to our next stop," I said.
"Thanks, for the update," came Lena's voice.
"Any complications we should know about?" She asked.
"Just a small one, we have to go find this world's you and Felicity, because one they kept Nora company, and made it seem like Barry never left, well to the authorities anyway. Plus they got kicked from the group for not betraying Barry," I said filling her in.
"Geez, sounds like people there are real jerkfaces. Okay, should that take much extra time? Oh, who am I kidding? We added gave you six hours that's plenty of time, carry on," she said and disconnected for the time being. We all sped off to the West's house, Barry phased through the door and unlocked it from the inside, letting Felicity and I in. We all went upstairs and packed everything in a matter of seconds, due to super speed.
"We clearly didn't think this part through," Barry said, looking around at all the boxes, and I laughed.
"Grab a ziplock bag for me please," I said. He ran off and came back a second later.
"Watch this," I waved my wand, which I keep on me at all times, and the boxes shrank and filled the bag. Barry grinned and put the bag in his backpack. Suddenly the door crashed open to reveal this world's Iris.
"You," she sneered, moving her hand to her ear.
"They're at the West house," she snapped, clearly talking to someone on the other end of the line.
"You won't be able to escape," she said, I rolled my eyes.
'I'm gonna punch her, sorry, it's the only way to be able to leave,' I thought.
'It's fine, she never accepted me here anyway,' Barry thought back.
'Kick her butt,' Felicity piped up, also due to the mental link.
"Look we have places to be," I said.
"Last chance to let us go," Iris stood her ground, I shook my head, at her stubbornness.
"Sorry," I said and punched her straight in the jaw, knocking her out, and possibly breaking her jaw. See, I'm not lame. Barry ran off, grabbed a sharpie, and drew a mustache on her face.
"That felt much better than it should have," we said in unison, and Felicity giggled.
We arrived at the house that Lena and Felicity were staying in a few minutes later, after updating Cat and Lena. I knocked on the door, and Felicity answered it, her hair red and blonde, instead of the normal blonde we're used to. "Smythe, Lestrange, me," she said coldly, then did a double take.
"Wait, what?" she asked.
"We're from another universe, well this is this world's Barry, but we're keeping him, and adultnapping you, Lena, and Nora, and taking you with us," Felicity explained to herself, who nodded, not the least bit surprised and moved aside letting us in, before going to find Lena. Once they got back and we explained everything to Lena, we packed everything they needed up and put them into separate zip-locks. Which took about a whole hour, meaning we have about three left. As we were walking down the sidewalk to find a better place to take off from Marley, Sara, Cat, and Ariana, showed up, I think the part that tipped us off was that I'm already here.
The latter two I knocked out in about a second judging by the fact that they had no training whatsoever. See again not being lame! Our Felicity picked up a thick branch and knocked Sara, who apparently had no League training, out cold from behind with it. Meanwhile, Barry tied Marley's shoelaces together causing her to run into a telephone pole, knocking herself out. We all high-fived each other and turned to the other two, who are immensely confused. "How did you?" Felicity 2 stuttered.
"It's a bit of a long story, but basically Nyssa has been training us, and that was easy. Right now it doesn't really matter, what does matter is getting Nora out of jail," I said picking up Lena and Barry, while Felicity grabbed her doppelganger, we all took to the sky, and sped towards Iron Heights Penitentiary. We arrived about a minute later, and Felicity 2 promptly threw up in the nearest trash can.
"You okay?" I asked. She nodded.
"She's not used to the speed. Since our former friends figured out how to track her because of her powers, plus she didn't like having them, I created gold Kryptonite to take them away permanently. Well, she's slightly stronger, faster, and has better eyesight than the average human, but other than that the powers are gone," Lena 2 explained handing Felicity 2 a piece of mint gum.
"So what's the plan?" Felicity asked.
"Well, first we need a way to differentiate the two of you," I said pointing at both Felicitys.
"And you and the other Lena," I said addressing Lena 2.
"Well, in public, just in case we go by our middle names. So you can call me Lara, and Felicity, Megan, but she also responds to Licity," Lena explained.
"Well, I can guarantee that none of us will remember that in a few minutes, but we will try," Barry said walking around the back of the building.
"Felicity, use your x-ray vision and let us know if anyone is coming down the hallway," I said and then followed Barry.
He phased through the wall, 'Um, Ari, I don't know if I can phase through the wall with another person,' he thought to me.
'Uh, okay, stand back,' I thought back and punched the wall, which sounds stupid. The wall crumbled to rubble and set off an alarm. Nora, Barry, and I all took off at a run around the side of the building.
"Let's move," Felicity said and picked up her doppelganger and Lena/Lara then took flight.
"Cat, Lena, we're headed for S.T.A.R.," I said after activating the communication device.
"Mrs. Allen, I hope you don't mind flying."
"Please, call me Nora, and honestly I just want to get out of here," she responded, I picked her and Barry up, and took off. A few seconds later Barry covered his ears and motioned for Nora to do the same. There was a huge bang, as we broke the sound barrier, and I also heard the distinct sound of shattering glass. We landed on the roof of S.T.A.R. about a minute later. As soon as we landed a breach opened and from it emerged this world's Caitlin and Cisco, clearly sent to stop us. I glared at them both, annoyed that these people kept showing up, hesitated slightly, then punched Cisco in the face, knocking him out, and causing a vibration to run through my body. I shook it off, and punched Caitlin 2 in the face as well, which caused my hand to start frosting over. I shook that off too.
"Cat, any second now would be great," I said and another breach opened we all raced into it. A few seconds later we emerged on the roof of our S.T.A.R. Labs. Cat crashed into me, and clung on, followed by Victoire, while Newt and Bella pulled Barry into the hug as well. By that point, it was too much and we all toppled over, laughing, and almost falling off the roof.
"Geez, we weren't gone that long," I said, grinning.
"Yeah, well, you weren't in my head like you usually are and I'm never letting you go to another universe without me, ever again," Cat said defensively.
"I missed you too sis," I said hugging her again.
We headed down to the cortex and were trying to figure out what to do next, that is until a breach opened.