"One of us? You think it will be you, do you, Barry?" Thawne snarled as he got ready to attack.
"Oh I know it will be Thawne, this has gone on long enough. You've hurt me, you've hurt my friends, you've killed people I love, people I care about, that ends today." Barry promised him, eyes sparking with lightning as he felt the speed force envelop him, he could see that the same was happening to Thawne before the two speedsters charged towards one another, anger in their eyes as they began to exchange punches and kicks, racing around the room and out of the building into the streets.
Barry watched as Eobard ran around him and delivered an uppercut to his face, knocking Barry flying, the Spear of Destiny flying into the air, as Thawne turned to grab it, Barry tackled him from behind and slammed him into the floor, landing on Thawne's back and delivering a series of punches into his back, causing Thawne to cry out in pain.
Grabbing Thawne and turning him over, Barry began punching his torso as well, seeing Thawne struggle on the floor.
"It's over, Thawne!" Barry said, getting off of his defeated foe, who laid on the floor, exhausted.
"It's over when one of us is dead." Eobard spat as he stood unsteadily and charged at Barry once again, knocking Barry to the floor and grabbing the Spear of Destiny. "And now." Thawne grinned before freezing as he heard an animalistic roar.
"No….NO!" Thawne said as he recognised the voice.
Barry grinned at him, rushing over in Thawne's stupor and snatching the Spear away from his foe once again. As he did, a figure appeared, horrific with rotting flesh and eyes as dark as night.
"I'm sure you remember the Black Flash?" Barry asked Thawne.
/
Kara chased after Zod, leaving the others far behind, as the crazed Kryptonian flew through the air, no plan, heat vision erupting from his eyes and scorching the land whenever he landed.
As he fell to the Earth again and gave out another pain filled scream as the heat vision shot from his eyes and scorched the land ahead of him, Kara landed behind him.
"It's over, General." Kara shouted at him. "Surrender, and I promise no harm will come to you. I will help you."
"You are a disgrace, Kara Zor-El." Zod yelled back. "I would sooner die than be at your mercy!"
Kara launched herself at Zod, dodging his wild heat vision and punching him into the ground with a fist, before using her freeze breath to keep him pinned under a sheet of ice.
"Stay down!" She screamed as Kal and J'onn landed nearby, Diana shortly behind them.
"Kara! Stop!" J'onn pleaded as she stood over Zod, turning to J'onn, her eyes wet with tears.
"No, J'onn! He will yield. He has too!" Kara said.
"Kara, he will, but please, don't do this. You need to step away, before he hurts you, or worse." Kal said as he too approached his cousin, as Kara turned to him, Zod used the opportunity to attack, breaking through the ice and rising to the air, blasting all of them with heat vision before they could react and flying off into the air once more, as Diana rushed over to help J'onn, Kal turned to Kara rto see she had already taken off after Zod, and he quickly followed suit.
/
The Black Flash screeched again as Thawne stood there, stricken with fear.
"Doesn't feel too good, does it, Thawne?" Barry taunted him. "I spoke with the speed force, turns out it doesn't like paradoxes, how about that? And you, Eobard, you're one hell of a paradox."
"No….NO! I will not be taken like this!" Eobard yelled as he flashed from the room, the Black Flash hot on his tail. Barry followed behind, watching as Eobard raced through a portal, the Black Flash following behind. Slowing down, Barry let the two of them go, there was nowhere that Eobard could run that the Black Flash wouldn't eventually find him, and Barry still held the Spear. Thawne wasn't going to save himself that way. Barry slumped to the floor in exhaustion as the portal closed. Thawne was gone, and hopefully for a very long time.
"Barry?" A voice said from behind him. He turned to see Hal floating there, with Sara and Mick stood there, The Wave Rider behind them.
"Come on Red, time to get you aboard." Mick grumbled as he lifted Barry into his arms and carried him onto the ship.
"Time to get you home, I'm sure everyone in Central is wondering where you went." Sara told him.
Barry weakly nodded his head, the fight having taken a lot out of him.
"Sure, just call Ollie, tell him to meet me at the graveyard. Take me to the day of Iris' burial." Barry told them.
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Zod flew through the air as Kara punched him in the back and he span to the ground with a thud, Kara landing on top of him, her foot on his throat.
"Yield or die!" She screamed at him, looking around, she could see a family nearby, huddled in fear at the sight of the two Kryptonians fighting before them, with a grin, Zod blasted her back with heat vision and leapt at them, before being dragged off by Kal, who sent Zod flying with a punch, landing at Kara's feet. Grabbing Zod in a headlock, she yelled at him "It's over General!"
"It will never be over." Zod promised her, eyes lighting again as he looked towards the family that Kal was trying to usher to safety. Seeing this, Kara turned her face to Zod.
"Don't do this. Stop. Please."
"You want to save this world, these people? Then you'll have to kill me to do so, kill one of the last of your own people to save them." Zod told her, his heat vision striking Kal and knocking him to the floor, he began blasting his twin beams towards the screaming family. (Yeah, I'm doing MoS, has been the plan for a while now to end this arc like it)
"Don't make me do this, Zod!" Kara begged him.
"Watch these people die and know that you failed, Kara Zor-El!" Zod cried out as the beams began to reach the family.
With a pain filled cry, Kara twisted and heard the snap, saw the beams stop and felt a dead weight in her hands. Letting go, she watched as Zod's body limply fell to the floor. Kara fell to her knees, feeling hot tears down her face as Kal came over to her, wrapped her in his arms and flew away, taking her back to National City and the DEO.
"Barry." Kara weakly said through her tears. "Take me to Barry."
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"So that's what happened, Ollie." Barry said, as he caught up with Oliver after the graveyard.
"That's rough, Barry. I just have to say, you can't let it keep you down, you need to move ahead, its what keeps you better than I ever could be Barry, it's what keeps you a shining light in terms of morality. You didn't give into the hate. You didn't kill Thawne, you stopped him. That's all that matters." Oliver assured him, seeing the pain in Barry's eyes.
"But how can I, Ollie? I hurt everyone, I let them all down, and Kara, oh god, I just left her." Barry said, eyes widening as he realised the full impact of his actions, he fell to his knees as Oliver caught him, holding him tightly as Barry shook, tears rolling down his face. Oliver wasn't all that good at the emotional side of things, but he knew he'd always be there for Barry Allen when he needed him.
"You'll get through this Barry, we all will, and as for Kara, she'll forgive you, you know she will, she's the only person who could match you for having a big heart." Oliver tried to crack a smile as he heard Barry's choked laughter, knowing he could make Barry just a little happier, that'd make him happy.
Barry let Oliver help him to his feet and as they turned to leave, the winds picked up behind them, turning around, they could see a blue portal forming in the air ahead of them, looking at the possible threat together, they let their guards down when they saw Kara walk through the portal, supported by her cousin. Locking eyes for the first time in weeks, Barry and Kara raced towards one another as fast as they could, and before Oliver could even blink, they had embraced once more, arms wrapped around one another, lips pressed together as they let weeks of tension, of pain and of grief spill out in a display of love.
I know I'll probably get some stick for Kara killing Zod, and indirectly Barry has killed Thawne, but I like how MOS and the Injustice series have shown when heroes do kill, sometimes the only way for the hero to win and keep innocents safe is to cross the line and end the villain, Superman says to Batman in Injustice 2 "How many people have to die before you accept some lives need to be taken?" and I agree, is it better to let 1 madman live and kill millions to protect your moral code when if you just kill that one, all those millions survive? That's just my take, feel free to contradict or oppose it.
Also before I get "Oliver is OOC" You've never seen Oliver Queen from the show Arrow if you don't think he'd care for Barry in this way if Barry needed it.