Chapter 34
Cold, unforgiving mud greeted Kara, Cisco, Oliver and Ray as they fell through the magic portal. Cisco grunted as Ray's armored knee pressed hard on his back. Ray rolled over freeing the shorter man.
"That was a rough landing." He groaned.
"You are the one to talk." Cisco snorted sarcastically.
Kara crawled into a sitting position. Her right leg hurt from falling onto a sharp rock. She raised her hand to rub it. There was a bleeding cut on her palm. Her eyes narrowed on the wound.
"Guys, we need to find a way out of here." Oliver said from somewhere close.
The four of them looked around at the burned wasteland. The air smelled of carbon dioxide, the sky was a blood red color and the land around resembled a volcanic desert.
"Are we in hell?" Ray asked out loud.
"Another planet?" Kara suggested.
"Or some kind of apocalyptic world." Cisco finished.
"Wherever we are, we need to get back to our Earth." Oliver announced getting up and dusting his green pants. "Cisco, breach us back."
The metahuman reached beside him and grabbed his broken pair of goggles. He frowned sadly. "I'm afraid I can't."
"But you have breached us before without these." Kara argued.
Cisco pushed his lips and looked over to the Kryptonian. "True, but we have no idea where that twisted wizard sent us. We could be anywhere in the multiverse...or the galaxy. If I don't have clear focus to guide my powers we could end up in a loop, hopping from Earth to Earth indefinitely."
"So our only hope of getting out of here is to fix your goggles." Ray sighed.
Cisco nodded. "I just need a screwdriver or something equally sharp."
"Well we can't do that if we remain on this spot. Kara, can you see in which direction we should go?"
The Kryptonian gave Oliver a sad look. "More bad news." She said and pointed at the sky. "This planet has a red sun, so I don't have my powers."
Four sighs and a curse echoed in the wasteland.
"So what are we going to do now?" Ray asked.
"Maybe we should start walking and hopefully we'll find something." Cisco suggested.
"Sounds like the only plan we've got." Oliver agreed.
Kara nodded her head. "Any plan sounds better than staying here." Then she accepted Oliver's hand and got on her feet.
They were walking for what felt like hours. Their feet had grown tired and their shoes were filled with sand. Only Oliver was still holding up well. Kara missed her powers. Her eyes sifted up to the red sun that painted the sky and glared at it.
"We really are in hell. This is torture." Cisco groaned from next to her.
Somewhere from behind Ray mumbled something in agreement.
"Come on guys, maybe we'll find something after that sandhill." Oliver pressured them.
In return, Cisco snorted. "Yea, more sand...or mud."
"Or our deaths." Ray added.
Kara sighed. They were going like this the entire time. At first, their banter was entertaining, now it was more tiring than the miles they had walked.
"Let's just keep going."
Neither man questioned her authority. They dove their feet in the every here and there dry sand until they had reached the top of the hill. And that's when they saw it: the city of monsters.
"Ok, now I am one hundred percent convinced that we are in hell. Why God? I was a good man." Ray cried.
Kara, Oliver and Cisco turned slowly towards Ray and gave him a stupid look.
"We are definitely on another planet, but I don't recognize the alien species." Kara said.
In front of them laid the remnants of a big city. Huge transmuted insects with wings walked in a line like robots. It took a minute for Oliver to get past his sock. The Dominators weren't nearly as frightening as those things. He shook his head and turned to the others.
"They are either slaves or soldiers. We stay hidden and follow them to where they're headed."
"There's no way these aliens won't notice four strangers in their planet." Ray said.
"And it's not like we three can ninja-hide like you." Cisco pointed out.
"Wait, I just remembered something." Kara's eyes widened with realization. "What about that yellow sun boost you built in my suit?" she eyes Cisco hopefully.
The engineer frowned weirdly. "It operates from STAR labs."
Yet another setback. Suddenly Ray's eyes widen.
"I got it!" he exclaimed in a loud whisper. "I can shrink and follow them to their base."
There was no moment of silence. Everyone agreed that this was a better plan.
"Alright, but be careful for some kind of detection system." Oliver advised. "We don't know how advanced their technology is."
"If they have any." Cisco mumbled under his breath.
Ray just chuckled. "You have no idea how small I can get. Once I entered Kendra's blood stream." He announced proudly.
Kara decided not to ask the three men who Kendra was, but instead, she made a weird face at the visualization of Ray getting inside someone's veins. So that's what happened. Ray shrunk his ATOM suit and flew at the current of the aliens, while the rest of them found a well hidden place, that wasn't occupied by a demon alien.
Ray found that the aliens were gathering in a more advanced facility. In contrary with the wasteland he had seen outside, this place was rich in every sense. From furniture to technology and what looked like food. Still shrunk in the subatomic level, Ray searched for a storage room and thankfully he found one. But he wasn't alone. One of these aliens was talking in an unknown (he guessed alien) language to someone who looked like was his superior. Ray obviously didn't understand what they were saying and the fear he felt didn't make him want to stay any longer than he had to. He found a tool that he thought could help Cisco repair his goggles and hit it with the shrinking ray accomplishing to turn it as small as he was. He was almost out of the room when he heard it. The word 'Darkseid' left one of the aliens' lips and that made Ray pause. Where the hell had that wizard send them? If this Darkseid was the same one they were supposed to fight in the upcoming battle, the reason Earth-1 and Earth-38 merged in the first place, Ray couldn't just leave empty-handed. So he did the only non-risky thing he could think of, with his legs trembling even though he wasn't standing on them. He recorded the rest of their conversation in his suit, hoping that when they arrived back at STAR labs they could find a way to translate the alien language to English.
While waiting for Ray to return Cisco and Kara were playing tic-tac-toe on the sand, while Oliver kept a lookout, his facial expression grumpier than usual.
"I win again." Kara cheered.
Cisco frowned and erased the game with his right palm. "How are you doing this?" he demanded. "You beat me five times in a row."
Kara opened her mouth to answer with a smart reply but before she had the chance Ray regained his size scaring everyone –including Oliver, who immediately drew an arrow and aimed it at him.
"Don't shoot." The man yelled.
Oliver sighed along with Kara and Cisco and relaxed lowering his bow.
"Don't scare us like that." Kara scolded at him.
"Did you find anything helpful?"Cisco asked.
Ray grinned and threw the tool at him. Cisco picked it up and grinned. "Yes, that'll do."
"How long?" Oliver asked sharply.
It gained him an irritated look from the smaller man. "Fast enough."
Only that wasn't the case. Ray's yell of mercy had alerted a close by alien of their whereabouts and stormed into their hiding spot screaming loudly.
Oliver acted so fast that neither Kara nor Ray saw him shooting an arrow straight to the alien's heart. Unfortunately, it didn't kill it. Forgetting for a moment that she didn't have her super strength, Kara rushed on it and punched it on its face. A loud crack echoed as her hand broke bringing tears in the woman's face. She moaned in pain holding her injured hand. The alien screamed again and threw her on the other side. Kara moaned again as the pain exploded in her entire body.
"We need to kill it before it alerts any others." She heard Oliver say.
Ignoring her pain she got back on her feet. Oliver knocked another arrow with the same results. The alien made a step towards the Green Arrow but before it could attack him Ray shot it shrinking it into a miniature.
Ray laughed. "Let's see how harmful you are in that size." He mocked the alien.
Only Kara had a different idea. She stepped on the miniaturized alien and stamped her foot. When she retrieved her boot the alien was melted. Then she looked at the men, who looked bewildered, and shrugged. "Insects freak me out."
Getting over Kara's reply, Oliver turned to Cisco whose eyes were still wide open. "How much longer?"
The engineer started working faster. "Not much."
#
After the distress call from Winn and Felicity informing them that Caitlin had gone full-on Killer Frost to stop Amunet Black from taking over STAR labs, Zatanna had used the last remnants of her energy to transport all of them to the facility. When the feet of the remaining League touched the familiar floor, Zatanna fell down barely managing to hold her eyelids open. The little Witch had never done battle before, therefore she was exhausted from the energy the spells required.
"We need to get her to the med bay." Sara said concerned.
"There's a little problem. The cortex is currently sealed by Killer Frost." Rene replied with his usual snarky voice.
Sara turned to face him with a look of superiority. "Then we unseal it." She said. "And then we convince her to turn back into Caitlin."
Without having to say anything Firestorm turned on the fire in his hands and head. Sara gave him a short nod and started walking towards the cortex. Rene and Alex put their arms around Zatanna and helped her up and followed suit after Dinah. The Black Canary mentally prepared herself in case they needed to fight their friend-but-not-so-much.
"Stay in the time vault." Sara instructed the two IT people.
There was no objection from either. As they walked closer the air got colder. It was definitely the work of Killer Frost. The entrance to the cortex was sealed with an ice wall. Jax put his hand on it and the ice started to melt away. On the other side of the opening, a white mop of hair greeted them. However prepared they thought they were as they came there, they really weren't. Because as she turned and icy eyes and cold face got revealed in the team's eyes, that was when they really realized who Killer Frost really was. That cold view tensed everyone. Alex and Rene who were holding Zatanna, and Dinah and Jax got prepared to fight if needed too. Sara was the only one who kept her cool, having been the only one who knew more about Caitlin's other personality.
"Frost." She acknowledged her.
The ice queen pushed her lips. "It's Killer Frost." She corrected the White Canary.
Sara eyed Amunet passed out cold (literally). "Perhaps you should reconsider your name. I haven't seen you do much killing."
"I could change that." Killer Frost raised her smoking cold hand in her direction. "You want to fight me?"
Sara shook her head, her eyes never leaving the ice meta that inhabited her friend's body. "I don't want to fight you."
Killer Frost scoffed. "Then you should let me leave."
Sara didn't make a move to stop her. "Are you sure about that?" she asked calmly instead. "I mean where are you going to go? What are you going to do?"
"That's none of your business." The other woman spat.
"It's not." She agreed. "But I'm guessing that the only reason you and I are having this conversation right now is because Caitlin trusted you. Are you really going to let her down?"
"I don't own Caitlin anything. And neither to you all."
"We are your friends."
"You are Caitlin's friends. I'm not going to be enslaved by you again."
"Team Flash didn't treat you right, I acknowledge that. But they were only trying to do what they thought was best for their friend." She continued just as calmly. "I know that it doesn't justify what they did to you, but their actions were driven by fear –Caitlin's fear. You can't tell me that you don't know what that's like."
Seeing Killer Frost not responding with a snarky remark, but instead thinking through her words, Sara took it as a progress. "The past few weeks Caitlin has been trying to bridge that space between you too. You promised her that you would be cooperative. Does your word mean nothing?"
Killer Frost's icy eyes glared at her with rage. "You're calling me a liar?"
Sara shook her head quickly. "No, I'm not. But if you're truly not the bad guy and Caitlin is willing to give you a shot, then so are we. So give us a shot too." She suggested. "Let's put past out differences and let us get to know you and you get to know us. Let's try to work as a team."
Killer Frost eyed her for several minutes. Her cold stare left chills down the team's spines, but they didn't dare show it. Who knew what effect it was going to have on the ice queen's decision? Finally, Killer Frost sighed and frowned.
"Fine. But you get one chance." She warned. "I'll give you Caitlin back. Call me when the whole League reassembles."
Before either could blink her eyes lost their glow and her appearance started to warm back into the Caitlin Snow they all knew and cared about. Caitlin blinked feeling out of place.
"What happened? Did it work?" she seemed to be talking to herself. Then her eyes focused on the people in front of her and her expression formed into a scared one. "Oh my God! She didn't hurt you, did she?"
Moving in sync the four people relaxed. Sara moved to hug Caitlin and Alex and Rene raced to lay Zatanna to the med bay, while Dinah just stood there not sure what to do. Jax and Professor Stein separated once they knew that the danger was over.
"She didn't hurt us." Sara reassured the doctor. "I can't say the same for Amunet thought."
Caitlin's eyes fell on the villainess. "Oh, good." She mumbled. "That's what I was hoping for."
"And she did agree to work this thing out."
Caitlin sighed visibly, her shoulders falling relaxed. The brunette opened her mouth to thank Sara, but before anything could come out an alerting sound made everyone look up to the screens. A green artificial face appeared on the screens and upon seeing it the League felt themselves falling into a trance. Afterward, one by one the pixels that conducted the face started coming out of the screen until they had assembled a full grown man. Clifford DeVoe circled around each member and finally settled in front of Caitlin. He searched inside her mind, looking for a solution for the problem he had. Her mind was open for him to use as if he was as capable as her in her field.
"Hmmm. Interesting." He mumbled to himself.
It was at this moment when a Speedforce portal opened and Barry Allen came out. The Flash's eyes widened behind his mask seeing his friends and teammates looking like statues.
"Let my friends go." he demanded from the unknown man.
Without a second thought, he sped towards him ready to take him out and hoping that by doing this his friends will be freed. But surprisingly his course was stopped when, all of a sudden, Sara kicked him in the chest. Barry fell down more because of his surprise. His green eyes fell on the White Canary and then locked on the man.
"What have you done to them?" he demanded again.
Clifford appeared to be calm. "I have no interest in harming your friends or you, Flash." He told the hero sincerely. "This is just a precaution that you won't harm me. Their minds are currently my own. I'm just searching for an answer, that's all, and I appear to have found it in this woman's mind."
"You are that meta that is responsible for those kids' deaths." Barry realized.
DeVoe looked sad. Pain was written in his dark brown eye until he closed them for a second and when he opened them again that pain was gone. "That was an unfortunate side effect that I hadn't predicted. I never meant to harm those kids." He admitted.
However, his confection didn't make Barry feel any better.
"Despite the fact that I have gotten better control of my powers, your friend's intellect tells me that my brain doesn't have the energy to enter more than a handful of minds without killing them. I struggle to not cause any harm to your teammates as it is."
Barry was frowning deeply. He didn't like what the man was telling him. He remembered the lesson the Speedforce spend time teaching him. This was it –the battle they were preparing him for. He needed to save his friends. So he sped up his mind's process trying to picture every possible outcome from taking on the villain.
"And why would you want to enter other people's heads?" he pressed going through different scenarios.
"You wouldn't understand." DeVoe sounded disappointed. "But I have the good of the world at my best interest. Looking through everyone's minds to understand where humanity's problem is and then try to make it better –for a better future."
"People have the right to make their own decisions, good and bad." Barry objected.
"Maybe we are past that point."
It wasn't working. Every strategy, every action he thought of taking, his speed mind showed him the same outcome. That his friends wouldn't make it. There was only one option.
"I'll make you a deal." He said suddenly.
DeVoe eyed him confused but intrigued.
"You said that your brain needed more energy in order to do what you want. Well, I'm a speedster, there's no other body on this Earth with more energy than mine." He explained. "So I'm going to allow you access to my mind if you let my friends go."
"Are you really going to do this? Help me?" DeVoe asked with astonishment.
"Only if you let my team free. Then you can take over my body."
Clifford was thoughtful for a moment. Then he grinned at the Flash and walked closer to him. "We have a deal, Flash. Meet me at this address alone." He gave him a piece of paper.
Then in front of his eyes, the man's body disintegrated and entered the screen he had come out of. After his exit, the rest of the team blinked coming out of DeVoe's control. Sara was the first to spot him.
"Barry, you're back."
But the speedster didn't have time to waste. "I have to take care of something. Please don't follow or track me."
And without a further explanation, he took off leaving a trail of yellow lightning behind him.
#
James Olsen had come to the conclusion that he really, really hated regular criminals more than aliens. As soon as they had gotten to Iron Heights the Trickster had found a way to separate the three heroes. James had followed the villain's trail, only to be fooled, more than a couple of times. It really frustrated him. He was currently stuck on the side wall covered in a thick, slime green substance that looked like snot. James told himself that it wasn't actual snot, but only because he didn't want to puke all over himself. He hoped that Mon-El and Wally had better luck catching the Trickster, but he highly doubted it since neither had come to rescue him yet.
Wally had fallen into a trap of his own. Only it wasn't slime. Trickster had managed to get his hands in a freezing weapon, just like Captain Cold's, and Wally had fallen right into it. The good news was that only his feet and torso had frozen and he had started vibrating slowly to break the ice. Slowly.
Mon-El was more than a little annoyed. He was straight up irritated with the Trickster. The villain reminded him of the Toyman, whom he didn't have a good experience with. Mon-El kept hearing his name, but he still hadn't been able to find him.
James almost screamed halleluiah when Wally found him. The speedster vibrated his hands and fazed James out of the slime.
"Do you know where Mon-El is?"
Wally shook his head. "Let's find him."
The other man agreed and although he didn't want to, he let Wally carry him as he sped through the halls. They found Mon-El just as a small bomb exploded on the Daxamite's head. The blast more irritated the alien than hurt him.
"Did you find the Trickster?" they asked together.
From Mon-El's glare, they realized that he hadn't.
"I think I know where he is." Wally said. "We searched all the tunnels underneath Iron Heights, but there is one that leads to the old wing. They don't use it anymore and it'd be the perfect place for the Trickster to enter the prison unsuspected." He explained.
"It's worth checking out." James agreed and Mon-El simply shrugged. He really needed to catch this stupid villain now.
And fairly enough, that's where he was. Trickster didn't know what hit him when Wally's fist collided with his face and knocked him out cold.
"I better deliver Iron Height's newest inmate to the guards." He said to Mon-El and James. "Wait for me outside. Do you remember the way out?"
At both their nods the speedster left with the Trickster, while the other two returned from the way they came.
#
Barry Allen arrived at the location DeVoe had given him in a...flash.
"Welcome to my lab, Flash." The man said, gaining Barry's attention. "I'm really glad that you agreed to do this."
Whatever..., Barry thought rolling his eyes. "Let's just get to it." He mumbled and his voice sounded more like the Green Arrow's than his.
"Of course." DeVoe said respectfully. "If you just follow me, you need to sit here for me to enter your consciousness."
Barry looked at the device skeptically. It looked like a modified version of whatever Cisco had used once on him and had caused him amnesia.
"You're planning on giving me a perm?" he couldn't help but say the same words he had used then.
The man chuckled. "No, by plugging your brainwaves into the device it will allow me to transfer my consciousness to your body."
"Splendid." Barry whispered sarcastically.
However, he did as the man told him. It was the only way to save his friends. By giving himself to the villain. Once he was sited, DeVoe gave him a cup with wires to wear and he got one for himself too. Barry eyed it for a second and then he wore it to his head. Copying his actions DeVoe put the cup on too. They both felt the effects immediately.
Barry found himself standing in a familiar empty street in Central City. Of course, after patrolling his hometown for more than three years, Barry knew the city better than the palm of his hand.
DeVoe was there too, staring with astonishment his surroundings. "This is incredible." He exclaimed happily.
"I know, right?" Barry replied loudly.
Hearing the Flash's voice, DeVoe turned surprised to look at the red costumed hero. "Why are you here? You are not supposed to be aware of what is happening. Your mind is mine."
Barry gave him a sly smile. "Yea, well..." He grinned. "You miscalculated something. This is my mind. And I am in control of it."
"No, it's impossible." DeVoe shook his head.
Barry shrugged still grinning. "That's the thing, I am the impossible."
"No." DeVoe shouted refusing to accept the hero's words. He put two fingers on his temple and glared at the Flash. Surprised that nothing happened he lowered his hand. "Why don't I have control of the mind space?"
"If I was a regular person you would be. But I am the fastest man alive." Barry explained. "When you entered my mind I was moving it at super speed –still am. You are simply not fast enough."
DeVoe sighed and glued his eyes to the hero. "Then I guess I have to take over control manually."
What he meant with that became cleat to Barry when the man attacked him. The two of them engaged in an old-fashioned hand to hand combat. What Barry learned was that by using his speed mind to remain in control had side effects: he didn't have super speed inside the mind space. And let's face it, despite Sara's training he wasn't a very skilled fighter. He wasn't awful, but DeVoe had managed to land some very powerful kicks. Barry landed hard on his ass. Yet another villain who had kicked him down. As he got back to his feet he made a promise to make Sara train him more when he got back. This wasn't working as he had thought. He didn't know for sure what was going to happen when he allowed the man inside his mind, but he had figured that the fight would be over sooner. He needed another strategy, so he decided to do something else. He closed his eyes and focused. When he heard the other man squeal he opened them. DeVoe was surrounded by his all his teammates. A grin found its way back on Barry's lips.
"How are you able to do this?" DeVoe demanded.
"I told you, I am in control."
With a simple thought, the rest of the League circled around the villain and caught him by his hands and feet. DeVoe tried to get free, but he was immobilized by the grips on him. Barry smiled as he walked closer. He had finally learned his lesson. The League together. They could defeat any evil if they worked together. Face to face now, Barry raised his fist and knocked it hard against DeVoe's face.
Barry blinked and found himself back at the lab. Opposite of him DeVoe sat with his head hanging. Quickly Barry took off the cup he was wearing and sped over to the man. He pressed two fingers at his throat, but he felt no pulse. Barry sighed filled with sadness. He hadn't meant for the man to get killed. And unfortunately, there wasn't anything he could do to change what had already happened. Barry sighed again and rushed to return to STAR labs. He would call Joe to tell him what happened when he got there.
#
Meanwhile, back at STAR labs, the minute Barry was gone Caitlin rushed over at the consoles.
"Are you tracking him?" Dinah asked the woman.
"I am but...ugh. He just turned off the tracker in his suit." She groaned.
"He said he didn't want us to track him." Sara pointed out.
Caitlin bit her lip and cursed. "If only Cisco was here, he would be able to vibe him."
"At least can we find out where they went?" Dinah asked.
But the doctor had more bad news. "Winn set the right parameters to the satellite to find them, but we don't have a match yet. If they are even on this Earth."
"And Zatanna is too exhausted to cast a tracking spell." The Black Canary sighed.
"Zatanna is sleeping, she'll be fine." Alex announced entering to cortex along with Rene.
At that moment Kid Flash, Mon-El and James arrived back too.
"And that ladies and gentlemen was a job well done." The young speedster said cheerfully. Upon seeing the uneasy expressions on their faces his smile flattered. "What's wrong?"
"Kara, Cisco, Oliver and Ray are still missing and Barry is gone." Sara provided them with the answer.
"Barry was already gone." Wally frowned.
This time it was Dinah who answered. "No, he came back. And then he left again."
"And said that we shouldn't track him." Caitlin added irritated.
Wally hummed. "Want me to search for him?"
"He could be anywhere." Alex pointed out.
The rest agreed with a sigh. Their day started looking up when a portal opened in the middle of the cortex. The team eyed it conflicted between happiness and wary. Their worries died when four familiar figures came through crushing one on top of the other.
"We're back!" Kara and Ray exclaimed happily getting up.
"Thank God." Oliver groaned in his familiar way.
Cisco looked around him at his friends and grinned while he remained on the floor. "Man, I'm so happy to see you all."
But Caitlin didn't leave him time for rest. "Quickly, you need to vibe Barry." She pulled the man to his feet.
"Chill out woman, we just got back."
At the 'chill' mention Sara, Dinah and the rest made an uncomfortable face, but they didn't volunteer to explain further.
"Now!" Caitlin growled.
Cisco jumped at her tone and put his goggles back on his face. "I see him. He's-" but his words were cut short when he got dizzy. He took off his goggles and rubbed his head. "Man, I should really stop vibing speedsters when they run."
Barry was back in no time. "Hey guys. What did I miss?"
"We just came back from an alien planet." Ray told him.
"Where did you go?" Caitlin yelled at him at the same time.
"I just took care of the meta that was responsible for those kids' deaths. Wait, did you say you were on an alien planet?"
"Long story." Kara sighed.
"But I did manage to get something important, I think."
Everyone turned to look at Ray. The ATOM pressed a button on his suit and the recording started playing.
"What was that?" Rene asked for everyone.
"I heard two of the aliens talking. Listen to it again." He replayed it.
Even after that everyone was still just as confused as the first time.
"Wait." Kara said skeptically. "Did I hear something about Darkseid somewhere in there?"
Ray grinned like a child. "Yes! If we can translate this, it could be important information."
Socking silence spread in the cortex.
"You know, maybe Gideon would be able to translate it." Sara suggested at last.
"You want me to contact the Legends?" Felicity asked her.
"Who knows what they are up to?" Ray chuckled.
Cisco and Caitlin gave a pointed look at Barry. Dinah eyed them and narrowed her eyes.
"Am I missing something?"
Barry sighed. "We have Gideon in the time vault. But we have shut her down." He admitted. "Thawne was using her to see future events and plan accordingly. We thought that knowing the future was not a good idea, so we shut the AI down."
"This could really help us, Barry." Kara said softly.
"I know." He agreed. "We can restart her program."
"Then let's go." Felicity said eagerly.
"Wait, I have a question." Sara caused them all to pause. "How do you have Gideon?"
Barry shrugged. "Apparently I built it in the future." He replied simply.
"Well, that's good to know." He heard Felicity mumble.
Barry plugged in the microchip and the next moment Gideon came to life.
"Hello, Barry Allen. How may I help you today?" the AI asked.
"Hello, Gideon. Do you mind if Felicity runs some language in your program?"
"Certainly!"
Barry moved aside and allowed Felicity to transfer the recording to the AI program. After a few minutes, they had a result. Not only was the language found, but they had the whole dialogue written in front of them.
"Orion won't be successful next time. The New Gods can't stop us from taking over the universe."
"For Darkseid!"
"For Darkseid!"