Barry and Caitlin had always an issue gnawing at the back of their minds. They wanted to get faster. If not her than at least him. Zoom was someone they knew was objectively faster than they were and they knew that if it came to speed alone they could not beat him when in a pure speedster battle, even if there were two of them. They did manage to attend Eddie and Iris's wedding, but the two decided against something very big and instead took the money they would have thrown on that and took two weeks off for their honeymoon. Cisco had been getting better and better at controlling his power as well. He could now control his breaching ability almost perfectly. One day while they were working in the cortex after checking in on Felicity as they had done for the past couple of weeks they had an idea.
"Barry, you know who might be able to help? And yes, I just had a crazy idea, but just hear me out" She told her fiancée
"Let me take a shot in the dark at whoever you thought. Eobard Thawne?" he replied nonchalantly
"I guess you were thinking the same thing I was. He was using the tachyon enhancer to boost his speed. Why can't we do the same?" she inquired
"Because we don't have his speed equations. Without them the enhancer is useless" Barry responded to her
"I know … but ... we could go ask him you know" she turned to the crazy part of her idea.
"Wait, you really want to go back and ask him? Isn't that a little reckless?" he asked her "You know the dangers of time travel, what if we come back and the timeline is all screwed?"
"I have considered that, but I think the need we have outweighs the risks" Caitlin told him. She knew herself that the damage could be great, but their speed is something that they needed to improve. Before they could continue their line of thought Cisco came into the Cortex a little scared.
"Guys, I don't know what happened, but the Gideon room has opened by itself and there is a message on the screen for you two and you two only" the engineer told them. The two speedsters went down to the white room where Gideon used to be and the door closed behind them and the message started to play.
"Hello, Barry. Hello Caitlin. If this message decided to play then that must mean it's the day you two are thinking to play with time and go back to talk to Eobard Thawne. As you might know, time travelling is a pain in the ass. So I decided I should spare you the trouble. On the flash drive on the pedestal you will find Eobard Thawne's speed equations" the door where the reverse flash suit was being kept opened by itself and two shiny new objects "Those objects that you see before you are two mini fully charged tachyon enhancers. Consider it like I left you two a small present. One small thing, Superluminal particles get slowed when in contact with Frost's cells which means if you want the speed boost, Caitlin, you will have to keep your powers suppressed for the duration of you using the tachyon enhancer. The mini devices can be put under your respective shields and used by tapping once on them or via your bracer displays. They will last for about an hour and need at least one full day to recharge. Good luck, my friends. I hope this helps and try not to mess around with time anymore. Trust me, the damage you can do far outweighs any positive effect. Take care of yourselves" The voice told them. They could swear it was Barry talking, but the message did not have video, just sound. As the message closed a series of equations appeared on screen and the door unlocked. Cisco came in
"What happened? I couldn't get to you the room seemed to have locked itself" the engineer said looking scared.
"Nothing, apparently the room was programmed to give us something today. These are the speed equations that Eobard Thawne used for his tachyon enhancement technology. It will help us get faster. Those two things apparently are mini version of the tachyon enhancers that Thawne used. Can you confirm that for us?" Barry asked
"Give me a few moments. I need to check them for the same components the other enhancer had" The engineer went back to the cortex and the two speedsters went with him. After about half an hour Cisco confirmed that there were no bombs or other stuff and the two devices are exactly that the message said.
"Wonder if we should take them out for a spin" Caitlin smiled.
"Sure, why not" Barry smiled back at her "Cisco, can you monitor our speed from here? I don't know how much we might get out of this but it's worth a try"
"There, the enhancers are placed behind your shields. I will want to study them when you come back from your testing. The craftsmanship is strangely familiar" the engineer told the two
"Ok then. So we go to Keystone City and race back here?" Barry smiled to his fiancée
"Sounds good to me. Let me activate the suppressors" she smiled and they were both out the door. They reached keystone and contacted Cisco back.
"OK, we're ready. Are you monitoring us?" Barry asked.
"Everything is ready here. Monitors and vitals are registering. Go for it" the engineer smiled and the two speedsters activated the enhancers.
"This feels … different" Barry commented in the com
"You can say that, it's like I got a rush of energy. Sort of like this enhancer is a mini battery or something" Caitlin commented.
"Ready … set … go" Barry smiled as both the speedsters ran as their fastest back toward STAR Labs.
"Wow, those enhancers really work don't they? You`re both three times faster than anything you`ve gone until now" Cisco told them through the comm.
"Cisco we can still go faster, we're not even straining ourselves now" Caitlin told the engineer.
"Do it" the short man grinned to himself. The two speedsters ran faster and faster until something really unexpected happened. A blue breach opened in front of them, something similar to the one that they had in the STAR Labs basement. It was pretty large so they couldn't avoid it going straight through.
As they went through the corridor images from the unknown appeared. Something that they have never seen before. They ended up on a street with a lot of cars as they popped out of the corridor they were running thought. In the slowed time scape Barry saw that someone was falling out a window out of the nearest skyscraper.
"Cait, someone's in trouble. I'm going up" Barry told his fiancée. She nodded and prepared to follow him. The Flash went up the building and caught the falling woman, but having some problems with stopping, they both ended up outside the city where both speedsters realized that the woman's clothing was smoking. Barry tried to put her out but stepped back letting Caitlin do that.
"You were on fire. Are you all right?" Barry asked the blonde that he caught.
"Barry, look at her. The fire seemed to have no effect whatsoever" Caitlin was a bit surprised.
"Um… I didn't need you to save me" the strange woman commented looking at the two speedsters
"That's cute, you just fell from the sky, if I haven't had caught you then ... you would have probably gone splat on the ground" Barry smirked
"I have to get back to the city. My boss will kill me" the strange woman told the two speedsters and flew into the sky leaving behind some civilian clothes.
"Whoa ... what?" Barry looked at Caitlin
"That's a new one. Weren't we supposed to be the impossible? Now there's someone that flies. This gets stranger and stranger every day" she commented. The two speedsters started to chase the flying woman and managed to catch up to her in a short time. When she looked down she could see two trails of lightning going over the landscape effortlessly keeping up with her. So ... she decided to land with the speedsters stopping right in front of her.
"How did you do that?" Barry asked with a strange look on his face
"I'm Supergirl" the woman commented sure about herself.
"You`re ... who now?" Caitlin asked "Never heard of anyone by that name"
"Sorry, I'm just a bit disoriented from that scream I took earlier. How did you catch me?" she asked.
"We ran up the building and we caught you while you fell stopping you to flatten yourself on the ground?" Barry added.
"Sorry if we ran you all the way out here. But we have been working on our speed and ... sometimes it's kind of hard to stop. Guess we're faster than we initially thought" Caitlin commented
"Well thanks, but ... who are you two?" she asked.
"I'm the Flash and this is my partner, Frost" Barry said like the blonde woman was supposed to know them
"You`re ... the who now?" Supergirl looked at them not being able to keep a straight face.
"Wait ... do you not know who we are?" Caitlin asked very surprised. She was pretty sure that the two heroes were at least known in their own country, but the Blonde Blue eyed girl shrugged and shook her shoulders.
"What about ... I don't know. The green Arrow? Black Canary, Firestorm, Zoom? Ever heard of any of them?" Caitlin asked. Supergirl gave them the same shrug and shook her shoulders in denial.
"I'm sorry, I haven't heard of anyone by those names" she answered. The two speedsters looked at each other and said at the same time
"Oh boy" Barry started to look around confused, but continuing shortly thereafter "Not as sorry as we are" He removed his mask and Caitlin did the same "Hey. I'm Barry Allen, I'm the fastest man alive. This is my fiancée Caitlin Snow and I think we are on the wrong earth. We will probably need your help to go back home" He offered to the strange woman that was now looking at them with wide eyes. Supergirl instantly blushed at the face of the speedster behind the red mask. Without wanting to gawk she was drawn to his green eyes.
"I think while working on our speed we opened a breach to a parallel universe. Well … at least now we know we can do that ... Now we need to find out a) how to get back and b) how to not do that by accident again" Caitlin commented.
"Come with me. We need a quiet place to talk. By the way, my name is Kara Danvers, also known as Supergirl" she added running toward the city. She decided to run instead of fly so that the two speedsters could follow her. They could not only follow her, but it seemed that even if she was running at top speed the two weren't even breaking a sweat keeping up with her. Barry decided to be a smart ass and run backwards just because he could.
"Barry, didn't the message say that the tachyon enhancers need one day to recharge?" Caitlin asked the other speedster.
"I think so. But even so, how do we actually get home … even if the enhancers are fully charged … do we just … run? I know that's how we got here, but there has to be more than that" His face was surprised. Kara was listening closely, but could not understand what the discussion was about. They came into the city and she took them to a room that looked not finished in the same skyscraper she fell out of. She instantly put a yellow dress on and a pair of glasses hiding her suit.
"You two will probably need some civilian clothes while you stay here. Those suits … kind of draw attention" She commented, in reality she loved how the suits looked. They were seemingly way more advanced than her Supergirl uniform as well. She found that out when an inadvertent burst of her X ray vision, something that had only happened to her in two other occasions, saw through the emblems and noticed the tech inside them.
"Um … about that, we didn't really pack money with these suits" Caitlin scratched the back of her head.
"It's fine. Here take some of mine and go get yourselves something that won't stand out" Kara gave them her wallet and much to her surprise both came back in less than a few seconds dressed quite normally. He was wearing a black and red striped shirt with pants and sneakers, she was wearing blouse with a weathered black pencil skirt and a pair of short heels.
"We tried to make it as inexpensive as possible" Caitlin told Kara "We didn't run into this problem before. But to be fair we don't even know if our money is the same as this Earth's currency"
"How many earths are there anyway, we're earth … right?" she asked the speedster while Barry was typing away at the console in the room.
"Not so much, Kara. No" Caitlin wanted to continue but Barry interrupted her
"Cait, there is no us here, they have Central City, but there is no STAR Labs there, no Cisco, no Bette, no ... anyone. This might be a problem. We could always chance it and after the tachyon accelerators are recharged just run back, but … we might end up somewhere else entirely" Barry replied. Two men busted into the room looking seemingly worried. A tall black man and a shorter white guy.
"Hey, you all right?" they asked Kara which nodded
"What happened to Siobhan?" she asked.
"Well, after she went all Mariah Carey on you, she just left. We didn't go after her we just came back here" The shorter man said
"At least they have Mariah Carey" Barry said rolling his eyes at Caitlin. The two people finally realized Kara was not alone and the taller man asked
"I'm sorry and you two are?"
"Hey I'm Caitlin Snow and this is Barry Allen" Frost managed to introduced themselves in the least awkward manner possible.
"This is James Olsen and Winn Schott" Kara motioned toward the two. "Guys, I'm not quite sure how to explain this but ... I'll just come out and say it. Barry and Caitlin are from another universe"
"Cool" Winn looked at the two "So the multiverse theory is actually true?"
"Yes it is. I think we're living proof of that" Caitlin commented looking at the taller man who had an incredulous look on his face.
"Yeah. I still can't believe it and … I'm from another planet" Kara said bluntly
"Wait, what?" the two speedsters asked
"Yea, she's an alien. She might look like us but she is definitely not from around here" Winn commented.
"So you`re an alien?" Barry looked over to Kara and she nodded snorting a bit.
"So are there other aliens on this earth?" Caitlin asked.
"What do you mean by this earth?" James inquired looking a bit confused.
"Cait, mind taking this one? I want to search for other people we know maybe we can catch a break" Barry told his fiancée while he sat back at the console. She nodded.
"Here, I'll explain. Imagine there are all these different earths. One where JFK never got assassinated, one where the Nazis won world war two ... one where we're all evil. All these earths exist in the same space, but vibrate at a different frequency so they can't see each other" She started
"Yeah, but if you could go fast enough, you could open a breach and theoretically go from one earth to another" Winn completed.
"Yes, something like that. We know for a fact that we are not on our earth because for one, we are in a different city from where we started, there is an alien here with us and we're sitting in a building which we have never seen" Caitlin tried to explain as best the differences
"How could you two go that fast?" James asked with his usual blank face. Barry and Caitlin sped out the door and came back in less than 5 seconds with ice cream for everyone. Kara was delighted about the ice cream squealing when she saw it and she started eating it right away, the two men had shock all over their faces.
"We were hit by lightning the same night a particle accelerator exploded and … we became superheroes. I can run fast, but she can throw daggers of ice and do other cool things" Barry went to his fiancée and grabbed her by the waist smiling.
"So let me get this straight" Winn asked "Can you two pop back and forth between universes whenever you want?"
"Actually no ... this was kind of by accident" Caitlin answered
"We have travelled in time by accident before, but this ... yeah this is new. WE could have probably figured it out if we had the same facilities we have at our STAR, but … apparently the Central City here and your own National City do not have such a thing" Barry told Winn who had a look of amazement on his face "We're kind of stuck here anyway until our tachyon enhancers recharge, even then we don't know if we would make it back to the same earth. We could jump from here into another dimension where none of this exists and float in space for all eternity. Oh, wait, we can't survive in outer space. Scratch that" the speedster started to rub the back of his head
"Which is kind of our first problem. Until we get some sort of idea of where we are in the grand scheme of things and how to get back, as Barry so eloquently put it, we're stuck" Caitlin finished his sentence. Kara, however, could not take her eyes off the speedster and was barely paying attention to what Frost was saying. She found herself giving smiles and almost flirting with him through her movements. Caitlin noticed the way she was licking her ice cream looking at Barry "And ... there is a second problem. We have to eat about 10000 calories a day so … yeah "
"Oh you definitely met the right girl" Winn started to laugh "I think she can put you two to shame when it comes to eating" the alien blonde throw him an icy glare, but then turned at the two giving them a warm smile
"You two up for donuts?" Kara asked.
"Of course. Who doesn't like donuts?" Barry commented. Caitlin nodded behind him with a smile.
"I know a place. Let's go, it's almost lunch time anyway. You two should try to not get seen by Ms. Grant thought. I wouldn't like to explain how you two got here. Meet me in the lobby downstairs" Kara told the two speedsters. Caitlin was fast, but Barry bumped into Kara and had Cat Grant see him. Which was not that bad until everyone decided that he was everyone's cousin. That was not something the media mogul would get a cover up. Thankfully she didn't care that much about the new guy to keep them. They met with Caitlin in the lobby a few minutes later and they all went out for donuts. Winn decided to tease James on the fact that Kara never looked at him like she looked at the new guy and that his jealousy was showing. They finally managed to get to the donut shop where Kara found out just how much the two speedsters actually could eat.
"Wow, you two weren't kidding. You do eat more than me" she said looking at how the donut boxes were disappearing.
"Yeah, our metabolisms are sped up to keep up with the energy requirement for the speed we put out so …" Barry bit another donut
"We basically need to stuff ourselves like pigs. At least we don`t get fat" Caitlin commented. He reached for another donut at the same time Kara reached for one of her own touching his hand. Caitlin saw the spark of electricity that went between them and a second later the speedster started to wince. Instinctively she let him put his head on her shoulder and grabbed him rubbing his temples as he was visibly shaken by something really painful
"Oh, god, I'm sorry, what did I do?" Kara looked at Barry who was in extreme pain
"I don't think you did anything. After the lightning hit us, Barry has been having these flashes. We don't know what they are, some have been proven false, some are true and there was always a trigger to them. I think now that trigger was you, Kara" Caitlin told her to calm her down. Barry calmed down and got back his bearings.
"I don't understand. This is a totally new earth with people we have never met. How am I getting flashes from Kara?" Barry voiced himself the question that was on Caitlin's lips
"What did you see?" Caitlin asked.
"A lot of things, but at least one of them I can confirm right now. Kara, tell me if this is true or false" The speedster asked the blonde woman in front of him.
"Speak softly" she cautioned him.
"Your name is Kara Zor-El, daughter of Alura In-Ze. You come from a planet called Krypton which is no longer. It exploded when you were 12. You were sent here to earth to protect Kal-El, your cousin. Only things didn't really go as planned, the explosion of your planet knocked your pod of course and you were knocked into the Phantom Zone, a region in space which is outside the boundaries of time. When you finally got out, dragging an alien prison with you in the process, Kal had grown up but you were still the same age. Since you were little and Kal had his own life to take care of, he entrusted you to the Danvers family, to take care of you until you were older. I don't think I missed anything" Barry told the blonde woman that looked at him with eyes like saucers.
"How … how do you know all that? There are only 5 people in this world that know the whole story of how I came here" She felt her chest tightening. A total stranger, someone who had met just a few hours before, had told her a story that was known by such a small number of people that you could count them on one hand. She did however decide to respond after a bit of thinking "Yes, everything you just said is true" Strangely enough when she looked at the face of the two people in front of her, especially in Barry's green eyes, she saw no ill will there. They were both smiling, even though the speedster kept wincing at the migraine he had. For that reason, the tightness in her chest vanished and she stopped being afraid all of a sudden. Something in her gut told her that these people could be trusted "How can you not trust that lovable face?" she told herself only to admonish herself a few seconds later. "Kara, get a grip. He's definitely taken, no point in ogling something that you will never have. We don't want a repeat of that"
"As Caitlin so eloquently put it earlier, I get flashes. I don't know where they are from and how I managed to get them. Sometimes they are true, sometimes they are false and I think I have a way off this earth. If it's true, we can get home and back here without any problem whenever we want. If it's false… we're back to square 1" He told the two
"You have a way for us to get back home? How?" Caitlin asked him
"I saw an image with some numbers and me jumping through a breach to come here. If that is right, then this is Earth – 38. Or at least that's what the tachyon accelerators will tag it as. The numbers I saw seemed to be frequencies, there is one frequency for our earth and one for this one. It seems that if we vibrate while we run, we can open reaches to the earths that vibrate on that precise frequency. I know this is the first time we have come here, but apparently, in the flashes I have met Kara and I have been here. Or at least that's what I could make of what I saw" Barry explained, the blonde alien looking at them pretty interested. She kind of understood what Barry was talking about but not completely.
"We will need to come back here. One of the images showed her floating in space, powerless and then falling toward the ground at high speed. Something tells me she might not survive that" Barry told Caitlin mentally
"Maybe we can convince her to help in the fight with Zoom. She would be an unknown that might tip the balance into our favor, although we don't really know what she can do" she responded.
"Ok enough of my weird future prediction ability which only seems to be right half the time. Kara, what can you do? We have met metahumans with different powers, but never, you know …" Barry spoke softly making a sign of something that was flying
"Well, I can fly and run faster than the speed of sound, I have heat vision and freeze breath, super strength and I'm basically invulnerable unless Kryptonite is involved" She replied " It's a substance that can weaken me, which I reality are radioactive pieces of my home planet" she continued in the same low tone of voice.
"I guess that settles that. You`re pretty much a powerhouse aren't you? As for us we can try what you said Barry, if we reach another earth then …" Caitlin got cut off
"Yea, we'll be the superhero version of "Sliders". I would rather not be stuck going from world to world for eternity" Barry added, but even if the reference was sound, he was not laughing. He didn't really want to spend all his life jumping parallel universes to get back home. Kara's phone began to ring, it was Winn.
"What is it?" she asked.
"We have a problem, Livewire has escaped the detention center inside the DEO. You need to come back here now" the voice on the other end gave her not so good news.
"I'll be right there" She closed the call looking at the two speedsters "I need to go, one of my villains seems to have escaped. Actually, I could use your help, the last time she gave me a bit of a problem and some people were hurt in the process, Maybe with you two here we can do that faster and without her hurting innocent people" Kara told them " That person has a target on my boss, Cat Grant. She is an ex-employee of the company I work at and with Siobhan out there, I don't think I can protect her by myself"
"Of course we'll help. To be fair we have this sort of problem on our own earth" Barry smiled
"Yeah, except our problems aren't aliens, it's the metahumans that were created by the explosion. Kind of like us … but evil or just plain old crazy" Caitlin smiled.
"So you have someone who can warn us if your boss gets attacked?" Barry asked.
"Yea, Winn and James both work there" She told the two "Come with me, we need to go to the DEO" They nodded and sped out following Supergirl. She stopped, but the two gave themselves a little tour before coming to a halt in the middle of a large room with a strange craft.
"This place is pretty amazing" Barry commented.
"Hey, is that a spaceship? It doesn't really look like something from this earth. Unless your dimension is way more advanced than ours because of the alien contact you guys have had" Caitlin asked already examining the outer hull of the pod.
"That's actually my space ship. It's the pod that I came to Earth in. You would be right in assuming that it's not from this earth considering it's actually Kryptonian" Kara smiled at the interest the two were giving the place.
"Can we get a picture with it and with you for reference? It's not like we have something like this on our earth and our engineer will totally fanboy over this" Barry asked. Kara didn't see a problem with a picture so she had Winn, who had come in for a bit, take a couple of shots of them and the spaceship. While they were doing that a person that they did not recognize came into the room with what could only be categorized as a strike squad which pointed their weapons at the two intruders.
"Supergirl, who are these two and how come they got past our security?" the woman asked.
"Relax. They`re here to help us take care of Livewire" Kara responded "As for how they got past the security here? Let's just say they never saw them coming"
"Well, we do need all the help we can get. So what do I call you?" she asked.
"Flash. Barry Allen" Barry replied removing his mask.
"Frost. Caitlin Snow" Caitlin did the same.
"I'm Lucy Lane" the person replied "I just hope you bring more to the table than quick reflexes"
"I'm a speedster and my day job is catching criminals as well. I'm a CSI" the man in the red costume replied
"I'm also like him except with a few differences" Caitlin raised her hand a walls of ice encased Lucy from all sides leaving just the side that was toward them open. She put her hand down and the walls disappeared "My main fields are bioengineering and genetics, but I'm also a CSI"
"Do you have a crime lab around here? Maybe we can help you track this villain of yours" Barry inquired.
"Yes, my sister's lab is right over there. We can use that while she is gone and you need a place to work" Kara pointed taking them in that direction
"Must be nice having a sister. Where is she?" Caitlin asked.
"I have no idea, but she is a bio engineer like you, Caitlin. And part time investigator since we don't really have someone like that here" Kara replied.
While the two speedsters and Winn worked on a way to track the electrical villain, James came in as well. His face was pretty glum seeing the way Kara was acting around Barry. Even if he did have someone of his own. It was very unusual for Supergirl to act like that in proximity to anyone and for some reason he was jealous, even though Barry was taken. Lucy saw that but before they could talk, Winn called them at the consoles.
"We found a way to track her. Actually, Barry did" he said prompting a scorned look from James.
"Of course he did" he replied with a blank face.
"Livewire's ability to absorb electricity from the air around her, kind of like Caitlin does with moisture, gave me an idea. So we came up with an algorithm that monitors fluctuations in the energy grid around the city. From what we managed to gather she doesn't sit in one spot too long which means it will be difficult to catch her" He pointed to the dot that kept jumping from place to place on the map
"That means we have one sure shot of catching her. When she goes after Cat Grant. You mentioned this other person, Siobhan? What can she do?" Caitlin asked
"High pitched yells. She can direct her voice to produce high pitched sonic attacks that can hurt, a lot. I'm invulnerable and she still managed to make my ears bleed. Furthermore, the intensity of the yell dazes the person that it hits. That is why I fell out the window, or more accurately said, got pushed out by the impact of her scream" Kara told them remembering the burst of sound that hit her before falling. Something was bothering her, Barry could see it on her face, but it was not something that he could put his finger thought of asking when they actually had some time.
"Do you have any way of capturing Livewire?" Barry asked.
"Last time we used a capacitor that could trap her. We could build a new one, it's not rocket science, but it will take time" Winn told them.
"We can help with that. Barry, you did look at the plans for the battlefield noise canceller that we have in our masks, right?" Caitlin asked him
"Yea, what are you thinking, Cait?" the reply came
"Can you make Kara a pair? It should counteract Siobhan's screaming. I'll read the capacitor plans and when we finish with the earbuds we can make that as well. What do you think... 30 minutes, maybe an hour?" she asked.
"Maybe less. Kara, you know electrical components right?" Barry turned to his blonde friend.
"Yeah. If not Winn can tell me where to find them, why?" Supergirl replied
"We're going to start building stuff at super speed and we're going to have you get us the components as fast as you can. With your help we can be finished in less than 30 minutes for both items. Then we can be ready for one or both of them if necessary" Caitlin interjected. Kara and Winn nodded.
The speedsters started working on the items. Winn, Lucy, James and even Kara were dumbfounded. They had never seen anything so beautiful. Two trails of lightning moving in sync while working. Supergirl didn't have time to watch too much, she could hear them talk and got them the components they needed at her top speed asking Winn a few times for locations and what to get. Lucy and James however sat there, with their jaws firmly planted on the floor. With her help and Winn's they managed to finish in less than 20 minutes which was amazing for the people that were watching.
"Here, you can put these in your ears. They will not impede your hearing, but they will cancel out any sort of noise that is out of the human range of hearing and is higher than 50 dB" Barry gave her two earbuds.
"This should trap Livewire for a good long while. We will have to stun her though or at least get her voltage down. If this blows we won't have another one unless we build it" Caitlin commented.
"I'm going back to CatCo" James told the group "I'll let you know when something turns up" Winn decided to follow him. Kara went outside at the cave entrance sitting on the grass and watching the birds. The two speedsters followed.
"Hey, Kara. What's wrong, you don't seem well" Barry asked her
"It's ..." She paused considering if she should tell this story to the speedsters that she had just met. After a bit of thought and considering that she already deemed the two trustworthy, she continued "There is a substance on this earth that can hurt me. I told you about it. Kryptonite. That wouldn't be a problem, except a red variation of it made me go bonkers a few weeks ago. I acted out in rage and almost killed Cat. The people got to see a side of me that was nothing, but hate and disgust. Not to mention the need to be all powerful. They started fearing me and with good reason. I love saving people as Supergirl, but now when the people don't want me around, I feel like I have lost my purpose and it hurts. It feels like I have nothing to do" Kara told the two
"That sounds quite familiar actually. Don't worry, the people will forgive you" Barry said
"How would you know?" she asked but Caitlin answered.
"We went thought it too. A while back one of our metahumans' attacks hit us. The effect was that he brought out in us rage and arrogance. We didn't act like that in front of the whole city, Barry managed to stop himself from yelling at me, but not before acting in full rage mode toward his adoptive father and his mentor at the time. But me … I went bonkers. At one of our training sessions with a very dear friend, I went mad with rage and almost skewered him with ice daggers. One of them actually made a really large hole in his thigh. If they wouldn't have stopped me I could have hurt a lot of people with the last attack I was preparing. I knew what I was doing but it was like I was a witness to my own insanity. It was awful" Caitlin explained.
"That's eerily similar to what happened to me. But your city didn't lose faith in you. Mine did" Kara backtracked.
"It doesn't matter. A city, people, a best friend, a father, people's trust can be earned back. You don't have to prove yourself to do it by running in head first, being a hero means you have to be prepared for the unexpected, which as you might know already is pretty hard, just continue doing what you do and the people will forgive you. Actions speak louder than words Kara. They always have and they always will" Barry told her and without thinking she let herself put her head on his shoulder sighing. It was strange, before she didn't have anyone who could understand her except Kal, her cousin. Now sitting here with these two, felt like they were almost family. She could feel an attraction toward Barry, something that she could not explain, she started to blush but managed to restrain herself.
"It's humbling, isn't it?" she asked "Knowing that even when you have super strength, or in your case amazing speed and awesome ice powers, the world still finds a way to give you those kind of problems and take you down a notch"
"Yep" Caitlin put her head on Barry's shoulder too " those kind of problems only time can fix and while we are superheroes we are not time lords" Usually she would have felt jealous considering that what Kara was doing could have been considered flirting with her man, but she didn't. She understood what she had gone through and somehow Kara felt more like a sister to her than an actual threat. The three people just stood there taking in the sight.
"Did you seriously make a Dr. Who reference?" Kara smiled at Caitlin
"Who me? No of course not. Why would I be making references to The Doctor" she grinned at Kara. She liked the alien girl, for someone who she just barely met.
"You totally did. She caught you with that one, Cait" Barry replied making Caitlin roll her eyes. For Barry it was different, Kara's touch, while unknown, felt eerily familiar to him. Like a memory from long times forgotten, of a dear old friend lost to time.
"I'm sorry you two might not be able to go back to your world. I hope you do, but in the meantime, I'm really glad you`re here" Kara's face had lost the gloom it had when she came out. Its place was taken by a bright sunny smile with a hint of gratitude.
"So are we" the couple smiled. Their moment of peace was soon interrupted by a call from Lucy. Livewire and Siobhan had kidnapped Cat Grant and they were holding her in National City Park waiting for Supergirl.
"You don't have to do this, you two. This is my fight" Supergirl stood up
"Well since we're three, I guess one for all and all for one makes sense" Caitlin commented making the other two laugh.
"Time to get this show on the road" Barry grinned and put on his mask. Caitlin turned off her earrings. They were kept on suppression until now, so she could benefit from the increased speed the tachyon enhancer was giving her, but since it was recharging no point in keeping her ice powers suppressed. The usual transformation took place with Frost coming out of the blue fog. Kara smirked.
"Nice. Do you actually make that for the show or ... does it occur naturally" the blonde alien looked at Frost
"Occurs naturally. I don't really care about anime transformations as our Cisco calls them. My body cools to restart producing ice so because of the temperature differential that happens" Caitlin grinned. The two speedsters ran toward the city with Supergirl flying above them.
When they got to National City Park, Livewire was waiting for them and she was not alone. Siobhan had a change of clothes and was there with her. Her screams didn't really bother our heroes now that even Supergirl had the noise dampeners, but Livewire was another problem. She started to attack people at random with her arc blasts, forcing Caitlin to put up ice walls in her path. Siobhan managed to break them, but before she could do anything Supergirl was already on her. Much to Kara's surprise Siobhan took a few punches without flinching and the punches she gave back actually were very strong, enough to put her down for a few seconds.
Livewire was playing with the Flash, trying to hit him, but missing every time. Siobhan yelled at a nearby building making pieces come off that threatened the crowd. Frost managed to shield them with an ice dome while Supergirl picked off the larger pieces with her heat vision. Caitlin had had enough of the screech. She blew a cone of blue fog that enveloped Siobhan.
"Supergirl, don't go in the fog. It's paralytic. Siobhan won't be able to move until she is out of it. Call it a … containment measure" Caitlin yelled at Kara.
Livewire saw that she was outmatched and hit a nearby helicopter that was going above the crowd. More reporters trying to catch a scoop. She had taken a few good punches from Screechy, as Barry promptly named her, but she managed to catch the helicopter and put it down. At the same time she sped and took a lightning bolt to the chest protecting the same crowd that instead of running was watching. That one hurt, she fell to the ground breathing heavily. Livewire tried to hit her again, but Frost put up a double ice wall that completely killed the lightning bolt in its tracks.
Livewire was furious. But being enraged makes you do stupid mistakes. While moving toward Kara to try to shock her again, a hail of ice daggers was hurled at her. They did manage to get out of the way only for two well placed ones, which were fired later, to hit her bringing her to the ground. Barry sped toward her and when she tried to jump into a pole he introduced the capacitor in the circuit making Leslie jump straight into the trap.
Siobhan was almost forgotten because the blue fog kept her mostly immobile, so when Frost waved it away she was ready to attack which would have been a problem, if Barry didn't prepare a supersonic punch in advance. When the fog lifted, Barry sent her flying with one of his punches enough to leave her unconscious. Kara was watching as the two speedsters fought trying to get up.
The child was maybe 11-12 years of age. A boy who ran to her and tried to help her get her on her feet to fight. Another boy soon joined him and then a firefighter came and offered her a hand to get her up. She was surprised, she didn't think that the city wanted her to help, but the act of kindness of those two kids and that fireman convinced her otherwise.
"Thank you" She said to them while speeding toward Barry.
"This was a fun fight" he grinned at Caitlin
"Thank you for the help guys. That electrical charge that Leslie hit me with took a lot energy out of me" Kara thanked the speedsters.
"See? Told you the city will eventually forgive you" Barry replied showing her the crowd that was now cheering for her. He had such a warm smile and a calm demeanor on his face "It's impossible not to like this man" she thought to herself cracking a smile. Barry's bracer started to flash green and in a few seconds Caitlin's did too.
"It seems that our enhancers are charged. We're going back to the meadow where we first brought you when you fell" Barry told the alien
"I'm taking these guys to the DEO and joining you. Don't leave yet I would at least want to say goodbye to you" She said speeding away with the capacitor and the unconscious Siobhan.
After a few minutes of waiting in which Barry and Caitlin decided to start kissing while waiting for Kara, she was back in the meadow where they initially met.
"Seriously, thank both of you for the help. Nobody was seriously injured because of you. If you ever need my help come find me" Kara told them and grabbed them into a hug. She didn't see it on herself, but she was blushing profusely fact that prompted Caitlin to grin.
"I'm glad we could help. Kara mind coming with me for a minute?" she told the blonde which followed "I see you like Barry, so ... why don't you get your own? This one's mine" She grinned. Kara froze "Don't worry I'm not jealous or anything, I just saw the way you act around him. I should know, I fell for that adorkable idiot the same way"
"Yeah, but my world doesn't have a Barry Allen, I actually looked and my previous relationships were total wastes of time" Kara looked rather sad.
"Well, if we find you a Barry Allen we'll be sure to send you one to call your own" Frost started to laugh realizing that she was referring to Barry like he was a piece of paper to be put through a copy machine.
"There is no need to be mean, but if that ever happens, I would like that. You are one lucky girl" Kara smiled toward her.
"I know. I know" she replied moving back toward Barry "Ok, now that girl talk is over, what did you say we needed to do?" Barry grabbed both their hands vibrating them.
"Did you two catch the frequency?" the two women nodded Kara feeling flustered at Barry taking her hand "All we need to do is activate the tachyon accelerators and run. Kara can run with us or fly above us and vibrate as well. The vibrations combined with a burst of speed we can put out will more than likely rupture the dimensional barriers again hopefully getting us home" he turned to Kara hugging her "Take care of yourself, continue being the hero that you are and be careful to avoid the breach when it forms or you might get stuck on our earth" Caitlin hugged her as well and saw the sadness in the blonde's eyes. It was like she was losing something of extreme value to her.
"Don't worry Kara. We can figure out this interdimensional travel thing and maybe you can come visit our dimension sometimes. Or who knows maybe we will need your help" Frost replied putting her earrings on suppression
"I hope you do figure it out. I would like to see you again. I'll be there when you need me to help, you can count on that" Kara said with a smile preparing herself to run.
Their plan worked without a hitch. The two speedsters jumping into a newly formed breach that closed behind them, leaving Supergirl alone on the large and now empty meadow. She was sad, two of the people that could understand her better than anyone else could, except her cousin, were gone. She had no idea if she would ever see them again.
The blue breach opened in the same place almost as the last time and as they were running through the corridor it opened and the two speedsters were back in a familiar setting. After a few seconds they heard Cisco yell through their comms.
"Where the hell have you two been for the last 24 hours?"
"In another universe. We'll explain as soon as we're back at the labs" Barry told him as they sped back to the cortex. They put him up to speed and the engineer almost fainted fanboying at the fact the two had met a super powered beauty in their travels. Barry had Cisco check the speed that they were at before they breached and the results were more than they had expected. Their top speed with the enhancer now almost rivaled Zoom's. That was something that the two were really happy about.