Chaos on Earth-2

by TrueHorror88

He did it to save his new home. His family, to save his daughter and the woman he loves. But instead Seth Fury was flung into Earth-2 and became Zoom's prisoner. Now aiming to use everything in his powers to find his way back to his Earth and reunite with the ones he loves, he fights. But it won't be easy. How will Earth-2 fare against a true demon? A mutant? A Lethal Protector.

15. Chapter 15: Charred Darkness in The Dark

And now another bedtime story for you guys out there.

Sorry for the long wait, guys. Had to pass an exam first before I could publish this chapter and take care of a birthday party too. Both went well, thankfully.

And now Crisis on Infinite Earths have concluded. Bloody magnificent, if you ask me. CW does incredible work and can't wait for the other upcoming superhero series too.

What do you guys think?

Plus, now Arrow, the beginning of all, have come to an and. A shame to witness. It was a fantastic show and will be one of the best CW have made.

Now without further ado…

ENJOY!

Chapter 15: Charred Darkness in The Dark

The train on the railing high up above the buildings ran at full speed. The passengers on the train were watching outside the windows and looking bored as most would when travelling on a train like this.

A young boy was busy playing on his phone and keeping his eyes glued on the screen on his phone. He was busy playing the game and focused on defeating as many grunts coming his way in the game. "Come on. Come on." He chanted hopefully as his group of heroes faced off against the final boss on this level.

His fingers moved the joysticks rapidly, moving them out of the boss's attack range and avoiding the laser attacks and other powerful attacks following up next. His group of heroes closed in on the boss and attacked with a series of quick strikes.

"You Win!" The screen announced as his team of heroes delivered the finishing blow to the big boss and took him out.

"Yes!" The boy whispered out loudly in victory of defeating the boss.

A shadow passed over his form as well as the entire train.

The boy looked out of the window as did the others in the train seats and saw with amazed eyes. The large and demonic form of Venom swinging through the air with black wavy ropes attached to the buildings that he swung from. Everyone on the train saw him detach his rope and crawl on the side of a large building with a metallic surface.

"Mom! Look, it's the Demon King!" The boy called out to her mother who saw the same and smiled.

"Impressive." The mother said as they all watched the demonic being crawl up the side of the building with ferocious animal-like movements. She ruffled her son's head. "Come now, Jason. It's rude to stare."

X

His hands stuck to the metallic building as he crawled up the building. Arms lashing out and splitting into thousands of tendrils that stuck to the edge of the rooftop before pulling on them. The large form of Venom was pulled off the side of the building from the force of the yank.

Venom was shot higher up to the top of the building and placed his hands on the edge of the roof. Using them as leverage, he spun around and placed himself in crouch. The blood-red eyes residing within the sockets of his white-skull extension-covered head looked over the entire city from the high vantage point.

"Should have done this a long time ago." Seth thought to himself while his eyes traveled around his surroundings. Once the morning started, the mutant told the girls that he would go out exploring. And while they do that, they are to train by themselves for the time being.

They knew that he was probably going out to find a way to get back to his universe. He and the girls knew that Zoom was using something out there in the city to send metahumans under his group away and to the other universe where his friends and family reside.

But despite starting early… the elemental hadn't had that much luck.

Raising a clawed hand to the top of his head, he scratched it. "Maybe we should check the darker places, like alleyways or something?"

"Yeah." Venom agreed with a sigh. "But we have now idea where Zoom is dropping off his metas and what the actual thing looks like."

His hand slid down from the top of his head to his chin and rubbed it. Shifting his gaze around, he placed his eyes on various security cameras within his line of sight. "Think whoever is watching us might know where a breach might be found?"

"You think they are watching us right now? Watching us right now? Our every move?"

"Regular Peeping Toms." Seth chuckled. "But they have been watching us for a long time. Whether they know it or not, we know they're watching… question is… who are they?"

"Better yet, why are they watching us?"

One of his eyes raised itself and his right hand reached behind his back. The handle of his large crystal sword stuck out of his back and he wrapped his hand around it. With a quick yank, he pulled the sword out of his back and held it out in front of his eyes. Holding it sideways with his right hand, he used the claws of his left hand to run over the blade.

Grazing past the yellow crystal with the tip of his claws, he reached the black and red crystals. "Remember what Deathstorm said?"

"Something like "you might have that sword"." Venom thought.

"Yeah…" Seth swung the sword around. "Iris never really gave much information about this to begin with. Do you remember if she said anything worth remembering?"

"Something about… birds, we think." Venom suggested.

"Needle in a haystack." The mutant used his other hand to rub the annoyance out of his eyes. "There's way more to this city than we know."

"Yeah… but… it is quite beautiful. This world." The symbiote admired the view through his host's eyes. "Remember what we said when we admired our world the first time we climbed up to the top of a building?"

Seth smiled through his partner's face. "We do. You said… "Your world is not so ugly. The lights are very beautiful in the night". Think you said that because you thought that world was nothing but filled with humans who kills each other and enjoy torturing and just rotten the very atmosphere of their own home planet."

He felt his partner mentally wince at the thought of the memory. "Stryker and his scientists unleashed hell on us in there. Torturing us without hesitation and drowning us with the blood from you and Olivia. It was the only impression we had of humans back then, Seth."

"We know. We weren't that different." Seth said in agreement. Being a mutant to humans… was no different than being an animal on humans' dissection table. They just cut and cut and figure out what makes you tick and continue from there no matter what. "But we changed."

"And became the Lethal Protector." Venom chuckled.

Laughing himself, he slammed his palm into surface and spun around to back to his feet while holstering the sword to his back with tendrils. "Let's go!" he shot out tendrils and wrapped them around one of the pillars holding the train tracks up and using it swing.

X

(West-Allen Household, backyard)

"Take this!" Ruby shouted as she hurled a bunch of tree branches after Evelyn. But the young metahuman stood her ground and her marks shone brightly on her face. The branches neared her body and without moving a single muscle…

Eclipse disappeared in a shadowy smokescreen and dodged the attack.

The assassin chuckled. "Look, I know teleporting is your new favorite move, but can you at least try and fight back a bit?"

Evelyn reappeared behind Ruby and playfully tapped her shoulder. Once she turned back to her, the metahuman said. "Not unless you want to have your entire body riddled with arrow wounds that leaves burn marks. You might actually have to think of wearing a wig in that case."

Pointing a finger in the girl's face, she threatened. "You touch my hair; I will crush your lungs with the force of a planet."

The metahuman tilted her head. "Can you actually do that?"

"Yes." Evelyn narrowed her eyes. "Okay, not yet." Ruby confessed. "But I will be able to, one day."

"I know." The metahuman let her light and darkness energy ooze out of her hands. "Just like, I hope I'll to be able to use this without any drawbacks again. I hate it."

"Wanna see if you can maybe get arrows and a bow costume-made or something? Central City's got to have some kind of blacksmith, right?" She asked.

"Yeah, but some of them might not be willing to meet with the girl who killed her entire family with her powers. Let alone, make weapons for her." Evelyn sarcastically said.

Ruby registered her words and asked in concern. "How are you doing with that? You're okay?"

"Been better, to be honest." Evelyn sat down on the ground. "I know a lot of bad things happened to them a while back… now… I just focus on all the good things. Which helps a lot with my powers."

"Glad to hear." Ruby said as she took a seat on the ground as well.

"What about you? Do you still think about Werner and your mom?" Evelyn was the one to ask in concern.

"No, not really." Came the surprising reply. "Seth's been able to keep me focused on my powers and my good memories. A much better way for me to use my powers." She chuckled with her fingers tapping against each other. "It's funny, Seth's been so kind to me even though I was complete brat to him. He's so nice."

"Yeah." Evelyn agreed. "Must be that Dad gene in him. Can't say I know that many Dads would jump in front of Zoom and his friends to protect a bunch of kids." She smirked playfully. "Let alone do it when one of them was a brat."

Ruby smirked back and raised her hand. With a wave of it, she used her gravitational powers to push dirt into the metahuman's face. "You forget this brat can push things with her powers, Evelyn."

Wiping the dirt away from her face, Evelyn formed a backflip and landed on her feet again. This time, her entire body shone with the combination of both light and darkness. She took a fighting stance and looked at Ruby. "Wanna put your money where your mouth is, Destroyer?"

Jumping to her feet herself, Ruby took a fighting position herself and her powers caused the ground to shake. "Let's rumble, Eclipse."

X

The bathroom door opened, and Jesse walked out with a towel wiping the water away from her face. After training with the other girls in the backyard for a while, the native girl decided to wipe away some of the sweat on her off with a splash or two in her face.

She sighed blissfully. "I needed that." She admitted as she walked through the hallway to the staircase. But she was stopped when hearing the sound of cardboard box clattering against the ground. Turning to the room to her right, she realized that the sound was coming from Iris's room.

"Wonder what that was about…" Jesse muttered and placed her hear on the door. Despite her ear's placement on the wooden barrier between her and the room, she couldn't hear a single thing.

"Whoever is out there, you can come in!" Iris's voice called out from behind the door.

Jesse stepped back and pushed the door open. She saw Detective Iris West looking at the door as she was seated on her bed with dozens of evidence boxes with files. The detective chuckled. "Do I have to remind you spying is a crime?"

The young girl gave her a stern look and reminded the detective. "You are housing a cannibal, an assassin, a metahuman-"

"And the daughter of Harrison Wells." Jesse widened her eyes when hearing the detective state those words. Iris chuckled and patted the spot beside on the bed. "I'm a detective, Jesse, don't underestimate me. Searching for people is kind of my thing and my job."

The young woman sat down on the bed and said. "Should have figured. But how did you figure it out?"

"My Dad called me a while back, after hearing Seth sing at Jitterbugs, and he told he recognized both Evelyn and you and he told me so."

"Yeah. My Dad… he's on Zoom's list. But before…" Jesse was unsure if the detective knew what she did. "Me and the others were out training again a while back, and it… ended up backfiring because Ruby launched me out of the way and deep into the forest. I wasn't hurt except for a few bruises on me. But Zoom found me and chased me through the forest."

"What happened?" Iris knew nothing could have happened to her as she was perfectly fine and sitting beside her right now.

"I tripped and fell and before I could get up, Zoom was above me." Jesse informed. "Before he could attack me, he said that he knew my Dad was hiding on the other Earth. And then Seth made a stupid "knock, knock" joke and fought him."

"Glad to hear that Seth saved you, and that he's kinda like the Flash, at least about the crappy jokes." Iris said. "But you know why Zoom's after your Dad?"

"I don't know. Maybe revenge or because my Dad has something Zoom wants, I don't know. But whatever he wants, Zoom's gonna get to it easier as long as he thinks I'm there, in Zoom's hands." Jesse said and ran her hand down her face. She looked to the detective and asked curiously. "What's all this stuff here? What are you doing here alone?"

"Going over some old files… about a current bad guy." Iris breathed out heavily.

"What are you…." She stopped when seeing one of the file folders on the bed. Jesse read the title on the folder. Gulping, she read it again.

"Fred Chyre… Blackfire case."

Jesse snapped her head to the detective again. "Wait… he's not here in Central City, is he?" Her fear was fully displayed, either in her words or on her face, like it was bleeding out of her body.

Iris shook her head, assuring the young girl. "He's not. But his… operations are still strong here."

"And the cops are still scared to do anything about it." Jesse said under her breath. She made the mistake of saying that near an officer. And she faced the detective with an apologetically look. "Sorry, didn't mean to say that out loud."

"It's okay, you shouldn't apologize for it." Iris sighed. "Because of Blackfire, everyone at CCPD are really scared. Too scared to even do anything about it. So you're right, they are really scared to do anything about it. I'm pretty sure I'm the only cop crazy enough to work on this case."

"There was one other, right? But he… he was never heard from again." Jesse asked unsurely.

"Yeah, Fred Chyre. My old mentor." Iris said. "He was… he was dead-set on taking him on…" The detective scratched her forehead. "Barry says he's okay with me having these files and that's supporting my every decision, but I know he doesn't want me to go after him."

"I only know what I've heard, so I don't really blame him for thinking that way. He's the only guy who's willing to call himself Zoom's rival in this entire city." Jesse stated. An idea sparked in her mind. "Why don't you bring in Seth?"

"That is… my plan. Sort of." Iris said and Jesse looked unsure when seeing that look on the detective's face. "I'm not gonna involve Seth, if I'm not sure. I know he's looking for a plan to get back to his Earth now, and… I can't tell him to risk himself for the lives of this entire city, and maybe… lose his chance to see his daughter again. I can't responsible for that…"

"Seth might just do it anyway, doesn't look like anything scares him. At least in this world." Jesse joked, but she could see the internal struggling within the detective. The struggle of maybe bringing the elemental mutant into the jaws of death.

But he was probably the only man willing to face the horrors of Blackfire. The police force was scared out of their minds and unwilling to move a muscle against him. It might just take the king of demons to tackle him.

However, if it was worth the life of an incredibly good man… that was the question.

A ringing sound came from Iris's phone. The detective turned to the phone and grabbed it. "It's Seth."

"He has a phone?" Jesse asked.

"The one Mera gave him." Iris informed before answering the call and placing the phone on her ear. "Seth, what is it?"

"Hey, Iris. You with Ruby?"

"No, think she's out training with Evelyn. Those two might be using their powers against each other now." Iris sheepishly said.

"Glad they needed very little help with that area of their training." Seth chuckled. "Anyway, have Ruby come and meet me near town square. I'm gonna go and find one of Zoom's inner metas to see if I can find one of the transporting things he's using to send his metas to my world."

"You think any of them is gonna spill the beans?" Iris wondered.

"Worth the try. But have Ruby meet up with me, so we can check it out together. Might as well turn it into another lesson for her."

"Go to Saint and Sinners, a few of his henchmen might go there for some R&R." Iris suggested and then smirked. "Kinda like when you went to Killer Frost and made out with her."

"Funny. But I'm gonna find one of them, and hopefully get a conversation out of them. Anyway, have Ruby meet me there and tell her to wear inconspicuous clothes. Normal clothes that's not gonna make her stand out."

"Okay." Iris then quickly added. "By the way, there's three Saint and Sinners bars in Central City. Don't go to the one you visited before, go to one of the other ones. I'll text you the addresses of the two."

"Alright, thanks." Seth said and hung up.

Iris looked to Jesse. "Sounds like our demon is gonna have another meeting with Zoom's meta." Both of them wondered which one of his metas would be willing to meet him…

… if one of the female ones were to meet him, they would probably take advantage of him in his search for answers… like before.

X

Her hands turned into a blur with each typing she made with her fingers. Tapping on the computer with lightning fast speed. Lindy's eyes shifted quickly between her three computer monitors as she broke through hundreds, if not thousands of firewalls with each tap of her fingers.

Lindy inhaled deeply and chose another option. One that was not really her favorite.

Reaching over the desk, she placed her hands on the screens. Using her powers, she broke through more and more security measures to find what she was looking for. Her eyes moved around behind her closed eyelids; it was as though she was seeing various computer screens appearing in her mind.

Another series of images appeared before her mind, images of current places outside her field of vision. Places far away from her current placement. Jitterbugs. Central City Police Department. Central City Picture News. Central City General Hospital. S.T.A.R. Labs.

That last one caused an enraged grimace to appear on her face. But it wasn't what she was looking for. Who she was looking for now?

"Come on. Come on. Where are you, Kendra?" Lindy chanted to herself as she continued run through the images and footages going through her mind like a bunch of overlapping videotapes. She was desperately trying to find the woman.

A moment later, the door was swung open and the form of the Atlantean, Mera Curry rushed into the room. While wearing a stressful expression, she asked the other woman hopefully. "Please tell me you have had better luck than me."

Lindy opened her eyes and looked at her friend. "No. I haven't found her yet."

"Kendra's smart. She's a bounty hunter with wings at that." Mera rubbed her eyes. "Not to mention, she's worked with you before. She knows your techniques better than most does actually."

Removing her hands from the computer screens, she cupped her own face and leant over the table with a defeated expression. "She knows how to stay hidden from my powers too." She looked up to the Atlantean's face, a look of inspiration, and recognized the look. "No. it's not a good idea, Mera." She defiantly said.

"Venom can help us." Mera walked closer to the other side of the desk. "He might be able to actually find Kendra to begin with."

"Oh yeah, what a great idea." Linda mockingly suggested. ""Hey, Venom. I have a job for you. it's about finding this bounty hunter that we had follow you when you and I went to our meeting the other day. Oh yeah, forgot to say there were two of them. Kendra and her boyfriend Carter, and now Carter is dead because of Zoom and Kendra's out for Zoom's metas. Please don't skewer us because we tried to spy on you." Brilliant idea."

"Dial down on the sarcasm." Mera scolded her friend. "We need to find Kendra. Quickly. If not, who knows what she might do? And against a flyer like her, Seth might be the only person to actually hold her back."

"Or he might just tear off her wings and spear Kendra without a second thought." Lindy countered; her hair began shifting between various colors as did her eyes. Calming down again, she instead asked her. "How about you find Kendra, maybe she's gonna check out some of Zoom's metas' hangout places."

"Maybe. Kendra would do that actually." Mera sighed. "But honestly, it would be much better if Seth was brought into the fold. He's probably the only one, willing to take on someone like her."

"Don't do that." Lindy disapproved. "He might just kill her for trying to spy on him and you…. Just…." She clicked her tongue. "Find her and make sure she doesn't do anything bad. The last thing we need is a war with Zoom, and we're only gearing up for a war with another metahuman psychopath. Two's too much."

"Alright. I'll check them out. But if this doesn't pan out…" Mera got a serious expression. "Then I will ask Seth for help, like it or not. He trusts me and I trust him. He's not a bad guy." She turned on her heel and walked out the door. Before the door closed, the Atlantean let out. "I really wish you could see that too, Lindy."

The technopath put her hands on the back of her throat and said hopingly. "Sometimes, I wish I could." But her hands crackled as she admitted to herself. "But it's… not worth losing more friends over."

X

The town square was full of people. The streets were occupied by people doing their own business, walking to various stores and doing their own stuff. The lanes beside the streets were filled to the brims with passing vehicles. A few of them honked when cars were close to each other, nearly causing a collision. A few street musicians were playing on the streets and entertaining the people in town square.

Seth was looking upwards and watched the train running above his head while he was seated on the bench. "Still not used to seeing a train like that." The elemental murmured.

"You'll get used to it, partner." Venom stated. "We have been spending quite a bit of time here. We should find a way to get back home soon."

"Which is why we are here right now." Seth told his partner. He looked around and his eyes caught sight of Ruby walking over to him. Thankfully, Iris passed on the message of his and had her wear normal clothes that wouldn't draw unwanted attention. Wearing a red sweeter and jeans was the perfect choice to stay out of anyone's interest.

Ruby saw him and rushed to his side. She took a seat beside him and asked. "So you called for me?"

"Yup." Seth said as he looked forward. "Thought it would be a good time to check your skills in the field. In espionage and hiding in plain sight."

"What do you mean?" The young assassin asked.

"At HYDRA, how much field training did you receive? In staying hidden in a crowd or finding a target in a crowd. How much of that did you get?" he asked.

"Not much. My training was focused on psychically getting me stronger and stronger, getting me ready to become the Destroyer of Worlds. I did go out, but only as my Mom's assassin." Ruby said. She chuckled. "My Mom kept pushing me, and pushing me more and more, never understood why… until she realized that I kept losing control. I was out of control there."

Seth nodded. "Everyone starts out rough. Thankfully, training can change that and change you a whole lot more." He nodded to the front, nodding his head towards the gathering of humans in the center. "And thankfully, too, this is training."

"How? Stay hidden in plain sight?" She wondered when noticing that none of the people

"Exactly. You know how to do that; you can escape in any situation, good or bad. Even a sniper will lose you once you're blended into your surroundings." He leant forward and continued. "Field work isn't always about rushing in and using your powers. Sometimes you have to use your other powers, your mind and your senses, your abilities."

"My senses, like my eyes." Ruby wondered.

Seth nodded again, confirming her thoughts. "Look for anything out of the ordinary. People with their hands in their pockets, long coats, clothes that don't match the weather. Purposefully, wearing outside clothes inside. Even wearing sunglasses inside, people pointing their heads downwards to the ground."

"What if those things turn out to fails, what do I do then?" Ruby asked with narrowed.

"Then you forget everything I just said, and rush in and use your powers, all right?" Seth said with a short chuckle and the young assassin grinned as well. "But that's what you have to do while I'm talking with one of Zoom's metas. I need to make sure that I don't end up receiving a bunch of lies, you need to there to be my eyes and ears."

"Cool." Ruby said. "So where are we going?"

"Saint and Sinners." He got up from the bench and Ruby walked after him. The two walked through the mass of civilians and quickly reached an alleyway. "Apparently, it's quite popular for the less-than-civil people of Central City to socialize and have a drink."

"Sounds like my kinda place." Ruby smirked.

But her smirk fell when Seth placed his hand on the top of her head. "I find you with a drink, I will personally make it my mission to never let alcohol within a hundred feet of you, that and freeze you to a skyscraper. For however long, we're on this Earth." He assured her with a mix between a mock threat and promise.

"Funny." She slapped his hand away and the two continued to walk. "So you're set on getting back to your Earth? Your family and all, right?"

"Of course, Rubs." Seth said but he turned to her and saw the look of disappointment. "Don't worry, I'll be here and protect you guys still. If need be, even bring you guys with me to that Earth. Better way for me to protect you guys."

"Don't know how it's gonna be to travel between universes like that again. Getting to this one was about the only thing I could handle. I don't know about it." Ruby rubbed the back of her head; she noticed a sign above a door in front of them both. "Saint and Sinners? We're here."

"Yeah." Seth stopped and turned to her with a serious expression. "Ruby, I'm there and I will help you through anything. And honestly, I did consider sending you back to our original universe, but that might not be the smartest idea."

"Why not?"

Seth explained. "If that were to happen, then there would be two Ruby Hales in that universe. One younger version and the one you are right now. That's the problem with you being from the future of another universe. I think that's how time travel would work." He watched the sour expression on her face expand into a realm of disappointment and sadness. "But whatever you decide, I'll be there to back you up. I promise you that."

"Thanks." She clicked her tongue and admitted. "Seth, I'm sorry for going off like that before."

"Ruby, I already told you, I forgive you." The mutant reminded her. "If you still feel like my words aren't enough, have my back now and you can consider yourself forgiven." He offered.

"Deal." Ruby nodded.

"Mission start." Seth pushed the door open and with Ruby behind him, he walked past the door threshold and into the bar. The minute they did, everyone in bar gave them shocked looks. Mostly because they saw a young girl walking into the place like she owns the place. Some of the men had butterfly knives in their hands and flipped them around, as though they were ready to strike with them. A lot of them glared at the mutant.

Seeing the glares coming his way, Seth told them all bluntly. "You guys have a one shot. Only one. The others coming after, they're all mine. So make them… Count." He told them menacingly, and the way he spoke so coldly, so lifelessly was enough to make them put their blades in their pockets. "That's what I thought."

"Great, instant alpha status." Ruby joked. "You really know how to make people bow to you."

"Nothing I haven't done before. Though back home, this thing used to get me thrown out of hospitals. Even the ones where I was helping at." Seth admitted and looked around. "Time to find someone who's worth talking to."

"Well, well, well."

Both Seth and Ruby recognized that voice. But it was the elemental who voiced his dismay. "Oh crap." They turned around and was unfortunate to find the unmistakable form of Black Siren standing there.

But this time, she was not wearing her usual black dominatrix-like suit. This time she was wearing a black leather jacket and a black lace shirt under her jacket. Her pants are pitch-black as well. Her long brown hair was flicked over her shoulder before she walked over to the two. While she held eye contact with the elemental, she pointed a finger at the young assassin. "Think she's not supposed to be here."

"Why, scared of the little blonde girl now?" Ruby joked.

The metahuman criminal shifted her gaze to the young girl. "Trust me, sweetheart. One word from me, and I could blast you through a wall right now." Black Siren turned back to face Seth. "But I'm feeling generous today. And…" she walked closer to him. "I was hoping to get to spend some time with you."

"Careful now, lots of eyes on us right now." Seth gestured to the people watching them right now from all sides. Sweat was pouring down the other criminals' faces when the mutant gestured to them. "Wouldn't want them to think you have a soft spot now, would you?"

Black Siren smirked and looked to the other people watching them right now. "You know who I am?" the others gulped before nodding hastily, to the point where it was comically fast. "Then you know that I want you out of here… now!" she screamed and everyone expected a sonic cry to blast them.

But they didn't have time to wait for that to happen. Fear of being assaulted by a painful sonic force drove all men and staff to run out of the bar like the devil is on their ass. Once they were all gone, Black Siren smirked flirtatiously at the elemental and reached over the bar. She grabbed a pair of glasses and a large bottle of vodka. "Hope you like vodka." She walked over to a booth.

"My favorite." He sarcastically said and shot out a tendril to the fridge. With a pull of the handle, he pulled the fridge open and wrapped it around a bottle. As he walked after the metahuman criminal, he had the bottle held out in front of Ruby. "Got you a soda, kiddo."

"Thanks." She took the bottle and took off the cap. "Think I should be here, cause that one looks like this is some date or something."

"Not a date." He reminded her and took a seat opposite of the sonic cryer. "Why do you look so unsurprised to find me here?"

"I don't know. I was kind of hoping for some time, just the two of us." Black Siren poured vodka into the glasses. She glanced at the young assassin and added. "No offense to the third wheel here."

"None taken." Ruby said with an eye roll and sipped on her soda.

Black Siren returned her attention to the mutant. "But what brings the big, bad, Demon King to our little slice of Heaven?"

Seth raised an eyebrow. "Heaven, you say? Must have gotten the wrong address. I was looking for a little piece of Hell actually."

"Just the flip of a coin, and this Heaven can easily become Hell, baby." Black Siren coyly said.

"You know… you never actually gave your name. Your real name." Seth said. "I know your friends' names, but that's because I know their doppelgangers."

"Wild guess, you never had the pleasure of meeting mine?" The metahuman rhetorically said. "Guess her loss is my gain then."

"That's for you to decide." Seth held his glass.

"Maybe, I will tell you after this…" she gestured to the two of them with her own raised glass. "But what exactly got you to find little old me? Pretty sure it wasn't my ass, was it?" She joked after clinging it against his glass, the clanging of glasses echoed in the bar.

She expected him to make a reaction, but nothing came over him. Not even a grimace. Ruby was the one to cough on her soda. "You really don't beat around the bush, do ya?" Seth used a tendril to pick up a napkin for the young assassin.

"She walks around like a dominatrix, and you expect her to mind her tongue? Come on, Ruby. You're smarter than that." Seth stated before facing her again. "But here's what I want to know…" Black Siren gave her full attention. "How is Zoom able to send your metahuman friends off to my Earth?"

Venom was slithering underneath his clothes. Even though, the symbiote's greatest weakness was in front of his host, he wasn't gonna falter and let Seth be fooled by lies. And in worst case, both of them would be ready to strike again.

Black Siren took a swig of her glass before putting it down again. "Someone's done their homework. Good boy, you might not need those private lessons anymore."

"Believe it or not, I am a teacher myself." Seth added, the metahuman raised an eyebrow. "Yeah, someone like me teaching kids. Stuff of nightmares." He leant over the table. "How is Zoom able to send metahumans away like their love letters?"

The metahuman shrugged. "He has his means and they may or may not involve a breach."

"A breach?" Seth asked. "What the hell is a breach?"

The sonic cryer put her hand to her mouth. "Oh." She tapped the roof of her mouth with her tongue disappointedly and loudly. "Tsk, tsk, tsk. I expected better from you, young man. Better see you bright and early Monday morning."

"What is… a breach?" he slowly asked, not wanting to hear more of Black Siren's playful and flirtatious words.

"You're no fun." The sonic cryer pouted. "Think of them like portals, wormholes or something like that, Zoom finds and sends some of his metas through them… to… your Earth. All kinds of problems us metas here can cause on your Earth."

"Wouldn't expect much trouble. My sister and my best friend are troublemakers, way worse than me." Seth quipped.

Ruby raised an eyebrow. "But why is Zoom sending metahumans from this Earth to his in the first place?"

She glanced into the elemental's eyes, "Something about trying to kill a red-suited speedster running around with a ridiculous name."

Seth chuckled. "He's trying to kill The Flash on my Earth."

"Bingo. You can expect your first-place medal to arrive on your doorstep in the mail." Black Siren mocked an announcement.

"But why?" Seth asked.

"Can't say. Zoom's not big on sharing with his minions." The woman said.

"Awesome." Seth downed the last of his drink. Before he sat it back on the table, he narrowed his eyes and asked. "Why are you so willing to help me like this? I'm an enemy of yours."

"Something about you interests me." She leant over the table and whispered into his ear. "You don't want to hurt any of us. And especially Frost." She giggled in his ear.

"What makes you so sure of that?" he countered.

Black Siren grabbed his chin and shifted his head to face her again. "You had your chance to kill her but she goes off unharmed without a scratch. If I didn't know any better, I'd say you have a crush on our local Ice Queen."

"Wrong Caitlin Snow." Venom quipped teasingly.

"Jackass." Seth thought back. "You don't know where one of these breaches are, do you?" He didn't care about her words.

"I don't know." The sonic cryer shook her head. "Like I said, Zoom's not big on sharing with his minions." Taking the bottle of vodka again, she poured its contents into his glass before pouring into her own. "So wanna ditch the kid and continue this date?"

"Ew." Ruby grimaced and drank the last of her soda like she was pouring bleach down her throat. "And I'm not a kid."

"Acts like a kid, talks like a kid, probably is a kid." Black Siren joked with a giggle.

"Careful." Seth interlocked his fingers. "This kid is much stronger than before."

"Sounds interesting." Black Siren feigned interest and got up from the booth. She spun on her heels and faced them. "Come with me, both of you." The mutant and assassin walked after her and saw that she was going over to the bar again. "So you're eager to get back home, are you?"

"Yeah." He used tendrils to grab both his glass and the soda bottle in Ruby's hand to put them on the bar counter. "But thanks for what you told us; pretty useful, however vague it was."

"Sorry, but I'm not paid enough to remember everything Zoom says." She admitted.

"You wanna give me that name, or do you prefer "Siren" all the way?" Seth wondered while he stood in front of Ruby.

"For now, you can call me Laurel." Laurel told the elemental.

Seth nodded. "Now i think it's about time we hit the road again." He told with his head pointing at the form of the young assassin.

"Yeah, that might be a bit trouble." Laurel poured more vodka into her glass.

"What's that about?" the assassin asked with crossed arms.

Laurel narrowed her eyes. "Let's just say, I'm not the only one who fancies this plan."

A distorting voice behind the mutant then spoke. "Now it's a real party here."

SLAP

This time, Seth couldn't resist the urge to slap himself when hearing that ice-cold distorting voice that held parts of the voice he longs to hear again. "Are you fucking kidding me right now?" He hoped that this was a joke and not another one of those instances where Murphy's law proves itself to be real in the life of a superhero.

"Sorry, handsome. But not a joke."

Those additional words were all the confirmation he needed. Once again, Murphy's law proved itself to be true. Turning around to face the voice, he saw indeed Killer Frost standing there right now. And she wasn't alone.

Walking up to the icy metahuman's side was none other than her boyfriend. With blazing hands and his head dissipating of their bright flames, he placed his eyes on the two. "Easy pickings."

Seth lowered his eyes to him. "What? Who? I don't see your Mom here, Pissstorm."

X

(West-Allen Household)

Evelyn slumped down to the couch after wiping away more sweat from her forehead. She was panting heavily from the exhaustion of training so much now. "Think… Think I overdid out there." As she was alone in the living room, she felt like the only person she could speak to was herself.

Iris walked down the staircase with an envelope and heard Evelyn talking to herself. "How did training go? You finally become new supreme meta?"

The metahuman chuckled. "On my way there, Detective West." She looked over the couch and saw the detective holding an envelope. "What's that?"

"Something for you." Iris took a seat on the couch beside the metahuman and handed her the envelope. "Found this a while back in my old mentor's files, Fred Chyre's files."

"Uncle Chyre?" Evelyn asked in shock. "I remember him. He was my Dad's friend. He used to pay us a visit every now and then. He was a really nice guy. He would drive me home from school in a cop car… sad he died." She turned to her again. "He was your mentor? He rarely talked about you."

Iris laughed. "Of course, he wouldn't. Only a few people considered him my mentor, and he rarely told anyone of me. Even his friends." She handed her the envelope. "Think you might wanna have this."

Grabbing it and holding it with both hands, Evelyn read the words on it. "Sharp case, remains of the Sharp house." "Remains? Were there something left from the house being destroyed?" she asked in shock..

"Yeah. Chyre was the first one on scene. He didn't follow protocol and rushed into the crime scene. He literally flung everything out of the way to see if he could find you or your parents through the rubble." Iris pulled a strand of hair away from her face. "He feared the worst when he couldn't find you or your parents. But then news of you being a metahuman and how your friends and family didn't help you when you reached out to them came up. He got angry and returned to the scene and plowed through the entire thing and found these."

Looking back at the envelope with a soulful look, Evelyn inhaled deeply. She reached the seal flap and opened it. Reaching in the envelope, she pulled out three different photos with charred edges. They also had ripples throughout them, each of them hurt and damaged.

But though they aren't in the best of conditions, they were still visible. They didn't mean much to Iris, but they meant the world to Evelyn.

One of them were off her and Fred Chyre. Both of them wearing goofy smiles and funny hats on their heads as they looked into the camera. Evelyn remembered that it was from a time that the officer was babysitting her. He brought her to a carnival where they took stupid photos together. She thought he was extremely cool for doing that with her.

The second one was of her holding a trophy from the last tournament she and her school's gymnastics club had participated in. No matter what she said to them, they all insisted she was the one to have the trophy. To have it in her own home. They all agreed that she was the one who brought them victory and told her to keep the trophy. "God… feels like a lifetime ago. Things were much simpler back then."

"Where you just had to worry about grades, college, parties, boys." Iris said and the metahuman looked at her with a shocked look. Punching her shoulder, she stated. "I was a teenager too, you know."

Evelyn giggled and stated. "Yeah." She got a sorrow expression. "Now, I have to worry about surviving life as a metahuman on the run from Zoom. Good times. I miss those days a bit, honestly."

"Sorry you have to go through this, Evelyn." Iris rubbed her shoulder comfortingly.

"Nothing to do about it now." Evelyn said and turned to the third photo.

The third photo made her hands tighten their hold on the others.

It was of her and her two parents. It was from her last birthday. It wasn't something big thing. Her friends couldn't come, and her other family members wasn't able to attend either. It was just her and her parents. Because of that, they bought an extra-large birthday cake with red frosting. It was her favorite. She was behind the cake with lit candles and about to blow them. Her parents on either side of her sides. Both wearing smiles and rubbing their faces against their daughter's cheeks. The young metahuman felt ashamed… to admit that she has forgotten her parents' faces.

It brought tears to her face. Both hands took hold of the photo and her hold tightened once more, the photo scrunching because of it. She hated herself for being like that. Suddenly, the daughter of two had forgotten the very faces of the two people who loved her the most after all the events that have led to her current life.

All the recent bad outweighed the good of the past.

"What's wrong with me…" she breathed out in self-hate.

"Are you okay there, Evelyn?" The worried response came from the detective.

"Just forgot about my own two parents." Evelyn said in disbelief. "How can i even do that? What's wrong with me?"

"It's not your fault, Evelyn." Iris stroked her hair calmly. "But it's not that surprising, I guess." Evelyn looked confused. "You kinda got a guy who's not only your trainer in terms of power control, but also kinda like a Dad."

The young metahuman looked shocked once more. "You mean…"

KNOCK KNOCK

KNOCK KNOCK

The two stopped when the sound rapid knocking got their attention. Evelyn and Iris shared a look before facing the door. Getting up from her seat, the detective walked up to the door. Reaching for the doorknob, she grabbed it and turned it.

Her eyes widened when seeing that it was none other than Mera standing there. She had a worried expression on her face and looked at the detective. "Hey, Iris. Good to see you again."

"Hi, Mera. What are you doing here?" She got a concerned look. "Zoom's not coming for us, is he?" Iris knew that she was the fastest being on this planet, but she still felt the need to look outside the door with an outstretched head like a cartoon character.

Mera shook her head. "No, you're not, I swear." She walked into the room and asked Iris further. "I'm here because I was wondering if you could tell me something?"

"What is it?" The detective asked.

"Do you know any of the spots where Zoom's metahumans might be hanging out at this hour?" Mera inquired surprisingly.

Evelyn looked frightened. "You wanna find Zoom's metas? Are you crazy?"

The Atlantean turned to face her. "Don't worry, Eclipse. I'm not the one going after them."

Iris caught on. "One of your friends is going after Zoom's metas, aren't they?"

"Yeah." Mera ran a hand down her face. "A friend, a colleague really… her and her boyfriend got a job and ran into Zoom. It didn't end well for the boyfriend, and now my friend's out for revenge."

"Yeah, cause going after one of his metahuman is the smartest idea in the history of smart ideas." Iris said. "But she does know that going against them won't get her anything? Not to mention, she's only gonna walk straight into a deathtrap."

"She's not thinking clearly." Mera said with a hurt expression. "I promised my friend to watch out for her and now she's out and about to have a deathmatch with a psycho under Zoom's thumb." This time, she ran both hands down her face with a defeated expression. "I have to find her and make sure she doesn't get herself in more trouble than she can handle."

"Okay, I'll get you the addresses of the places I think she might be at, or where she might strike, anyway." Iris informed before walking to the kitchen and writing the addresses on a piece of paper.

Evelyn smirked and told the Atlantean. "Chances are you might not have to worry about your friend."

"Why not?" Mera walked closer to her.

"Seth's out looking for a metahuman or two under Zoom's rules himself." She informed. "Let's hope he doesn't… you know… accidently eat your friend."

Those words did not assure the Atlantean in the least.

X

"Don't make me burn you again, asshole!" Deathstorm screamed at the mutant after he said that joke.

"You mean, you will try to burn me, right? Your last attempts were as successful as you saying something smart." Seth tilted his head to the icy metahuman. "Now tell me, what brings you and Hothead here?"

"Oh, I invited them." Laurel said from behind the elemental.

Said elemental faced her with a raised eyebrow. "Scared to fight me alone? Or scared of Ruby?"

Deathstorm laughed. "As if that little brat is even scary."

"You'd be surprised." Ruby challenged with a daring smirk. "I'm a hell of lot stronger than I was before."

"Oh yeah, wanna prove that, little girl?" Deathstorm walked forward.

But his advances were put to a halt when Seth placed his hand on his chest. Lightning ran over his fingers and with a threateningly lifeless look, he told the fiery metahuman. "Take one step towards her, and you will find yourself missing a head."

"Seth, I can take him." Ruby reminded the mutant.

"I know." Seth surprisingly stated, the natives of this world watched him gain a sick and menacing smile on his face. "But honestly, I am itching to tear this guy's pathetic face to pieces. Any reason to give me that chance, I will gladly take it."

Laughing evilly, Laurel said. "Careful now. Would make Frost pretty sad if she lost her beau." Killer Frost narrowed her eyes on her colleague.

Seth looked to her again. "Why exactly did you invite them? Pretty sure you didn't expect me to drop by like I did."

"Well, we were bored, and we thought we might as well just enjoy a quiet night out the three of us." Laurel smiled. "Guess, you're my plus one for tonight, Seth. Lucky me." Black Siren purposely pointed her eyes to the icy metahuman who narrowed her eyes. And the gritting of her teeth didn't go unnoticed by the sonic cryer.

The elemental gave Black Siren his full attention. "Yeah, no offense, I don't expect anyone to have a quiet night with someone like you, Laurel. You are a bit of a screamer."

Killer Frost walked to the elemental's back and placed a hand on his shoulder. "Explains why she's still single."

Ruby's ears perked up at a distant sound coming from outside the building. "What's that sound?"

Gently pushing the icy metahuman's hand away from his shoulder, he said. "No need to cause a situation in here, people. Cause for once, lets…." He stopped when seeing Ruby look around. "What's wrong, Rubs? Don't tell me you're scared of these bozos?"

"Bozo?" Killer Frost feigned hurt. "Now, I thought we were all friends here?"

Turning to her again, he stated the doppelganger of his girlfriend. "Your boyfriend burned a defenseless girl's hands without a care in the world, and you think I will call him a friend? I'd rather bite my tongue off."

"I could always do it for you, handsome." Killer Frost flirted.

"Seth…" all the other four powered beings turned to Ruby. "You hear that sound too?"

They all sharpened their ears, hearing the intensifying sound of flapping wings. Seth looked around in confusion and then his ears straightened up as he recognized that the sound was getting bigger and bigger.

CRASH

The door was smashed off its hinges and Seth punched it away with an adamantium fist. But the door was least of his worries… when an entire belt of grenades was thrown in next.

"SHIT!" He screamed and wrapped his entire expanding arm around Ruby while his entire form was enveloped by his symbiotic partner.

Additional tendrils shot out as well.

EXPLOSION

X

Kendra descended to the ground with flapping wings as she watched the entire bar blowing to pieces. Flames erupting as the aftermath of the explosion. Pieces of wood and brick flying into the air and scattering around when landing on the ground. She knew there were Zoom's metahumans in that place. Even one of the speedster's lieutenants were in there as well. It was a perfect way to get revenge after what happened to Carter.

It was perfect.

"That was for Carter, you sons of bitches." Kendra sneered in rage. But in case they were still alive, she had a gun ready in her left hand. Her right hand was clutched around the handle of her dead boyfriend's silver-handled mace with a golden spiked ball. Her wings retracted back into her

But all thoughts of anyone dying in there were misguided as what seemed like a thousand black tentacle-like things shot out of the rubbles and swirled around. Kendra stepped back, she realized where she had seen those before and saw them latch onto the nearest wall. Their hold on the wall strengthened, causing the wall to crack before they were pulled on.

The flying woman watched as the large form of Venom was shot out of the rubble and with both arms wrapped around his stomach tightly. His feet planted onto the surface of the wall while the rest of his tentacles pulled out three bodies out of the bar rubbles.

Two of them were wrapped around the forms of Killer Frost and Black Siren and placed them on the ground. A third one was wrapped around Deathstorm's neck. Unlike with the women, he threw the fiery metahuman into the air and the metahuman himself ascended into the air with blazing hands and a burning head.

Ruby kept herself hidden behind the arms of the elemental. "Who was that?" she asked.

Venom shrugged his shoulder and turned his red eyes to the woman on the other side, before the three metahumans. "Never seen her before." Despite never having seen her, he recognized the look in her eyes. A flame-like hatred growing stronger and stronger, even growing to the point where it was willing to incinerate an entire forest without exception. Life of not, it was gonna burn everything to ashes and leave no one alive.

"Not gonna end well." He muttered; he knew himself that it there was nothing he say to make her calm down.

"Should we help her?" Ruby wondered.

"Don't know if she's friend or foe." Venom told her. The elemental leaped higher up the wall and landed on the top of the wall. Letting the girl down from his arms, he and Ruby watched the events unfolding before their eyes.

X

Killer Frost wiped dust off her thighs with her hands and looked to the elemental. "Guess, he likes me." She blew him a kiss and turned to see Black Siren getting up again. Rolling her eyes in distaste, she said. "Oh, you're still alive."

"Right back at you." Black Siren looked to Venom as well. "So Venom is our guardian angel now? Better than your boyfriend coming and saving."

Deathstorm landed on the ground between Killer Frost and Black Siren. "Shut up, Siren." He faced his girlfriend. "You okay?"

The icy metahuman faced the woman with weapons in her hands. "Better than she's gonna be," her hands swirled with icy mist. "after I'm done with her."

Raising the mace higher up, Kendra let out. "There's a reason why ice breaks so easy, Frost."

Licking her lips, Killer Frost said. "Wanna bet on that, girlfriend?"

"I'm not now, nor will I ever be your friend!" Kendra shouted in anger, she was resisting the urge to spread her wings and charge them like a murderous hawk on the hunt with talons shredding them to shreds. "I'm kill you all for what you did!"

Laughing in realization, Laurel said. "I know who you are now." Her fellow companions looked to her for answers. "Zoom offed her boyfriend a while back in the Woodlands. He just happened to find them there. Maybe they were on a date, and he thought it would be fun to kill him. Gotta admit, I didn't expect him to laugh that much about killing Hawkman. But then again, little birdy was destined to fall when hit by lightning."

"Hawkman?" Deathstorm chuckled. "Guess that makes you Hawkgirl."

"Time to ice this bird too, then." Killer Frost laughed. "Don't worry, you're gonna see Hawkman again. Pretty soon."

Kendra didn't say anything… cause right now… the anger within her was nothing short of magma boiling within a volcano. Using all of her willpower, she tried to keep it underneath the surface of her flesh. But it was a battle on a sinking ship, quickly drowning as the mass of her anger and hate increased. The weight of her hate and anger could not by outmatched by anyone on this planet.

However, it roared and exploded the very ship the moment she heard the three metahumans in front of her laugh about Carter's death. His death, the life of a good man laid to waste, was a laughable matter to them!

"DIE!" She couldn't stop anymore and lashed out her firearm. Without a hesitation, she pulled on the trigger and fired a storm of bullets after all three of them.

Killer Frost stopped forward, not scared by the incoming projectiles, and lashed out her head with an open mouth. She unleashed an ice blast from her mouth. The icy blast connected with the hail of bullets, the coldness touching them froze them immediately. They fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.

Rushing to them, Kendra swung the mace for Killer Frost. But the flying woman had to use her melee weapon as a shield when a blazing fire blast came at her. The blast threw her onto her back with a grunt.

Black Siren laughed and opened her mouth. "Stay right there!" Her last word was deafened by the destructive sound of her sonic cry that came out of her mouth. It was quickly making its way to Hawkgirl.

But Kendra wasn't going to let up. Not until she's kill all three of them. She slammed her palms into the ground on either side of her downed body. With incredible strength pouring into each muscle of every part of her arms, she pushed herself up to her feet and out of the way, avoiding the sonic cry and charged for the nearest metahuman.

Killer Frost was the one to meet her mace. With a hand raised, she blasted an ice blast into the mace and pushed the weapon out of her hand. Kendra was shocked by the loss of her weapon, and the icy metahuman used the opening to strike with each of her fingers paired with ice blades, slashing the woman's upper abdomen.

Deathstorm laughed and launched a fire blast at the woman and pushed into the ground. The clothes on her stomach was burned with scorch marks and touched her skin, causing her to emit a pained scream.

Seeing a chance to further unleash damage to the flyer, Black Siren opened her mouth and unleashed another sonic cry. The cry paved through the ground and connected with the woman. And unlike last time, she was forced to take on the full force of the cry and it caused her to scream like a banshee.

None of the metahumans wouldn't be surprised if the entire city could hear her screams right now.

"That's a nice scream." Killer Frost admitted as she felt Hawkgirl's screams running through her body and sending shivers through her entire cold being.

But she couldn't help but feel her eyes drift to the top of the wall to the right side of her… seeing the red eyes of the Demon King. "So what now… my King?"

X

"Ruby."

The young assassin watched the elemental narrow his eyes on the three metahumans. Sigh sighed, "Let me guess, you want to stop them yourselves?"

But Venom shook his head. "Use your powers to constrain their movements from here. It's good training and should allow an opening to reveal itself. If this goes on much longer, that woman is gonna die."

"Okay." Ruby focused her attention on the three metahumans.

"Remember your training." Venom said. "Imagine the weight of an entire planet on their shoulders. Forcing them to the ground…. and they can't move anymore."

She clenched her hands and she could imagine the three of them… no… two of them being affected by the force of gravity itself. In her mind, she saw it all. Deathstorm's body forced to the ground with the weight of a planet on his shoulders.

Ruby saw what was happening to Ronnie Raymond of this world, as did Seth. Deathstorm was suddenly staggering, each of his limbs gaining more weight by some invisible force. He lost his balance and was brought down to his knees.

Killer Frost saw her boyfriend going down to his knees and looked at him in confusion. She watched him being brought down to his stomach and lying on the ground. "Ronnie, what's wrong?" they heard the icy metahuman ask him loudly.

"Somet… Something's not right." Ronnie managed to let out despite the feeling of his entire body weighing a ton now. The side of his face was pressed on the ground and he saw the ground under his body cracking. One of his eyes widened. "It's that gravity brat!"

Turning her attention to the sonic cryer, Killer Frost saw that Black Siren was in a similar state as her boyfriend. However, she wasn't brought down to her stomach like him. Instead she was brought down to a single knee and had to cancel her cry because of the gravitational powers distracting her control. "Frost… take out that girl!" She lets out.

Venom turned to Ruby. "Nice job, Ruby." He praised her and retracted the symbiotic form into his body again. Withdrawing his large crystal sword from his pocket dimension, he held it high. "Let's go down there."

"See if you can keep up, old man?" she joked.

"See if you can keep up, greenhorn?" Seth said back with a smirk and used a tendril to wrap around the assassin before jumping down from the wall together. Landing down on the ground in front of the downed woman, the elemental turned to the three metahumans. "Know that this one behind us packing and all, but ganging up on a single woman? Really not cool."

Deathstorm got off the ground as he felt the gravitational powers lose their hold on his body. "I'm gonna kill you all three, right here and right now!"

Spinning his sword around, he pointed them at the fiery metahuman. "You're welcome to try."

"How many women do you actually know on this Earth? Cause for an outsider, you sure know a lot." Came the words from Killer Frost.

"I'd say that's a charm of mine." Seth said. "But I think it's time for you three to get away from here and stop hurting people. If not, then I will gladly drive you all out of here."

Ruby heard clattering of feet coming behind her. She turned to it and widened her eyes.

"These women must like you Earth-1 folks." Black Siren quipped.

"Oh, who doesn't like a bad boy?" Seth boasted with outstretched arms. Spinning the blade around, he said. "How about we finish this?"

"Seth… I think we have another problem." Ruby said with a loud gulp that reached his ears.

"What do you mean?" Seth asked while keeping his eyes on the three metahumans.

"Partner, you might wanna turn around." Venom stated sheepishly, but hints of urgency was coating the words.

The elemental turned around and faced the woman behind them. Both he and his partner turned shocked by the sight of the downed woman who stood up again. Even though blood was seeping out of her open wounds, soaking the charred clothes on her body blood red.

But then, the most distracting and shocking thing appeared before their eyes. A pair of large white feathery majestic wings sprung out of her back and flapped violently. Her eyes then changed. First time, they were dark brown… now… her pupils are… completely… red, almost glowing like contained magma.

"Holy KFC!" Seth exclaimed in shock of seeing the woman with large white wings. "She's got wings… sigh… that I really did not expect."

"Okay, who's this one then?" Ruby asked while stepping back in fear of those almost glowing red eyes.

"That, little girl, is Hawkgirl." Killer Frost revealed and watched as the woman unleashed out a war cry.

They watched her fingernails elongate and sharpen into claws. She jumped into the air and glided through the air and lashed out her claws for the mutant and the young assassin. Seth jumped in front of Ruby and turned his arm into adamantium, shielding the young girl from the slash.

But Seth had to hold back his wince when the claws connected with his arm. "What the hell's with those claws?" he asked out loud. He saw Hawkgirl fly over his head and swipe her claws for the three metahumans behind him.

Black Siren fired off another sonic cry. But unlike her previous ones, this one was dodged, and the flying woman slammed her right wing into the cryer's stomach. She was pushed off her feet and into the wall.

Deathstorm lashed out both hands, launching a flamethrower after Hawkgirl. However, with a flap of both wings, she shot into the air again and flew over the fiery metahuman's head. Before he could react, the flyer drove her claws into his shoulders and used the momentum of her leap to throw him into a wall. Blood splattered on the wall when it was sprung out of his mouth.

Hawkgirl set her sights on Killer Frost and she screamed again and flew after her. The icy metahuman swiped with her own ice claws, but none of them connected with the flyer. Kendra jumped into the air and slammed her foot into the metahuman's stomach.

"Shit!" Seth said and lashed out his left arm, an array of black tendrils wrapped around the woman's form and pulled Killer Frost away and out of the second attack's reach. His tendrils pulled the icy metahuman into his arms. He looked down at her and asked in concern. "You okay, Caitlin?"

Killer Frost smirked and wrapped her arms around his neck. She gained a loving expression and mockingly said. "My hero." She even made the extra joke of nuzzling against his chest.

"Okay that's enough." He put her down and turned to the flyer again. Seth saw her take up her firearm again. Kendra had it pointed at the mutant and the two. "Fuck."

Once again, he pushed Ruby behind him and stood in front of her. His entire form was quickly enveloped by his symbiotic partner's form. He used his arms and put them together, ice swirled around them both and formed a massive ice shield.

Wincing within his mask, he detached one arm from behind the ice shield and wrapped his entire fist around Killer Frost. The metahuman gasped in shock of the symbiotic flesh wrapping around her. "Don't think too much about it." Placing the doppelganger of his girlfriend behind him, he turned to the flyer.

A hail of bullets met his vision as Hawkgirl pulled the trigger on her gun. All of them however were met with the resistance of the icy cold shield on his arms. When the storm of bullets stopped, he withdrew his shield. Red eyes widening when seeing the opposing red eyes on the flyer's form closing in on him, with the mace in her hand.

Kendra screamed again and swung the mace after his head. He shielded the attack with his arm and used it to push her away. But she recovered and charged again with the mace outstretched. This time, she swung for…

…Ruby.

Venom didn't like that. "Get away from her!" He swung an adamantium arm into her body, connecting with her and sending her into the air.

Killer Frost decided to offer her aid and launched ice blades into the air and after the flying woman. Kendra flew higher up and dodged the attacks. Unleashing another battle cry she flew away and left them alone. The icy metahuman chuckled. "Didn't know the little birdy would go off like that." She turned on her heels and walked to her downed companions.

Seth's symbiotic form retracted. "You know anything about her acting like an animal like that?" Subconsciously, he held his arm with his other one.

"Sorry handsome, I don't. Didn't think she was that strong." Killer Frost walked to Black Siren. She used her foot to tap against the cryer's cheek. "Wake up, Siren."

"Stop it." The cryer slapped the foot away and got up on her feet again. "Where's that flying bitch?"

"Gone." Killer Frost replied, she looked to her boyfriend. "Ronnie, wake up."

"I'm good." Deathstorm returned to his feet. "Son of a bitch, that chick's dead."

Ruby looked to Seth who looked at the three metahumans. "What are you going to do now, huh?"

Killer Frost lashed out her hands, enormous amounts of icy cold fog blasting out of them both. The mutant watched as the entire alleyway was enveloped by the fog. "Gonna go on a hunt. Sorry your date with Siren didn't go well but trust me… she's not as fun as me." She winked.

"Until next time, Venom." Laurel followed up as the fog enveloped them all.

Worried by what might happen soon, he gathered wind into the palms of both hands. Slamming them both together, he unleashed a gale of wind that blew the icy fog away. But the three metahumans were already gone. "Damn it."

"Seth… your arm." Ruby pointed at his arm.

Raising his arm to his face, he saw scratch marks on the length of his arm. "How the hell?" he confusedly stated when seeing the marks on his appendage. He chuckled and realized where they came from. "Don't know or why, but suddenly that chick got a power boost." Finally, the wounds on his arm began to heal.

"Seth! Ruby!"

A familiar voice of the deep made them turn around and face the other end of the alleyway. To their surprise, they did indeed find Mera Curry rushing over to them in haste. This time she was wearing her battle suit. The bright one-piece golden suit with small hexagons that resemble fish scales. Even her golden trident was clutched tightly in her hand.

When reaching them, Mera had already noticed the damage around them and asked. "What happened?"

"Funny story." Seth stated. "I go out to find a way back to my home world, I bring Ruby along in case she needs more actual field training. Things go well with a conversation with Black Siren, bit shifty when suddenly Killer Frost and Deathstorm appear, but we can handle it. All of a sudden, an entire belt of grenades is thrown into the bar and it blows up!" He raised his voice. "I was able to get Ruby and myself out of there, and there we find a crazy chick with a gun and a fucking mace."

Mera widened her eyes. "Did you say mace?"

Scoffing loudly, the mutant clenched his hands in slight anger. "So, I'm guessing this woman is one of your friends? Here's a promise. I don't give a damn if she's angry or not, whether she wants to fight against a bunch of metahumans or not for them trying to blast her to kingdom come, but if she attacks Ruby with either her gun or that mace, I will butcher her."

"Seth, please." Mera put down her trident. "My friend still didn't trust you enough. So she send a pair of bounty hunters out, kept track on me and you during our meeting. That woman is Kendra Munoz-Saunders, Hawkgirl, is one of those bounty hunters that she sent after you."

"Okay, nice to know. But what the hell does this have to do with me being attacked by that woman?" Seth demanded to know.

Mera answered. "The other bounty hunter, Carter Hall… was her boyfriend, the love of her life." Seth didn't appear show any emotions on his face. Ruby was the one to tilt her head in shock, but without showing emotions on her face. "They followed you guys back to the Woodlands and saw you training the girls. They then… met trouble."

"What kind?" Ruby asked.

"Not what. Who." Mera corrected them. "Zoom attacked them… and killed Carter right in front of Kendra."

"And now she's out for blood, and she wants to stain her blades with Zoom's metas." Seth deduced and Mera nodded. Turning his head around and inspected the damage on the alleyway walls. "I understand she has wings, and all. I've seen that kind of power before, nothing new there. But how the hell does she suddenly get red eyes and starts to get claws and increased in superhuman strength?"

"Wait, she went berserk?" Mera asked.

"Berserk?" Ruby asked in worry and curiosity.

"What the hell does that mean?" Seth crossed his arms.

Mera ran a hand through her long red hair. "Ever since Kendra got her wings, she sometimes loses herself to her emotions."

"They overwhelm her like a tsunami." Seth stated and the two women looked shocked at his words. "I have some experience on that area."

"Well, she loses herself to them and she just starts attacking whatever is in front of her like a wounded attack hound on a rampage." The Atlantean looked at the mutant. "She gets those outbursts of energy, like she can fight through any pain. Not to mention those claws and superstrength. Her wings are always there."

"Fighting through pain is gonna mean squats with an open wound on her stomach." Mera widened her eyes at his blunt tone. "Killer Frost managed to scratch her with a few ice blades of hers. I'm a doctor, I know what an open wound is gonna do. And she's a flyer on top of that, with her entire body moving, muscles expanding, contrasting and all, she's gonna lose blood pretty soon, if not treated. Let's hope she's not flying when that happens, because that would make one hell of a swan dive."

"Seth, it's not funn-"

"That crazy woman was inches from smashing off Ruby's head with that mace. Believe me, I know it's not funny." Seth interrupted the Atlantean from saying any other words. "Loss of control or not, that is no excuse for almost hurting a child. I have lost control before, Mera, but I don't attack uncontrollably. I direct them to a target, and I attack them uncontrollably. Something your flying psycho friend might wanna look into. And a little something for your friend. Last time, she sends someone after me to get a scope on me. Next time, she meets me herself or she can screw off and leave me alone!"

"Okay, I'm sorry." Mera held up her hands. "I really am sorry. But I know my words aren't gonna mean much to you because of my friend's choices and sending people after you like this after you. But you don't know the pain of losing someone like that."

"Almost two years ago, I lost my fiancée and my three-year old son to my world's greatest and most dangerous psychopath." Seth bluntly told her and Mera looked shocked as did Ruby once again. "So yeah, I really do know what it's like to lose someone like that. But I take it out on anything that's not alive, that's my schtick. Or I take it out on bad guys alone."

"I'm sorry, Seth." Mera stepped closer to him. "I didn't mean to open up any old wounds. I just…" She sighed. "Honestly, I have no excuse for saying that to you like that before. Hearing Kendra lose Carter… was a shock, they're both close friends."

"Yeah, well that close friend of yours is about to join her soulmate in the afterlife." Ruby said. "Because right now, she's either gonna bleed out and fall to the ground like a fly hitting a windshield at the speed of light, or she's gonna have trouble with three of Zoom's metas."

"I'm sorry, "three?" All of them are alive?" Mera wanted confirmation.

"Yup, and super pissed off at your girl for trying to whack them like a flying hammer in a game of Whack-A-Mole." Seth joked. "Not looking too good for her."

Mera inhaled. "I know it's pretty much asking a lot, Seth. But I can't stop someone in the skies. My attacks can't reach that high. And when she's berserk-ing, she's much quicker than me… Can you stop her and save her from Zoom's metas?"

"Couple of conditions." Seth instantly replied. "First, last and only time, that friend of yours sends her goons after me. I got Zoom looking for me and the girls as is. Another fucker breathing down my neck, I'm gonna go on a worse rampage than heartbroken Hawkgirl."

"Understandable." Mera agreed.

"Second, tell that friend of yours she can fucking grow a pair if she wants to meet me. Or leave me alone" Seth stated angrily.

"Alright." Mera nodded.

"Third and fourth here are the most important." Seth seriously said. "You take Ruby back home to Iris and Barry; I will deal with that flying catastrophe, wherever the hell she might be. And finally, if…" he got a cold and lifeless look as he stepped closer to the Atlantean. "She might be out of control now, but if Kendra ends up hurting an innocent. I will gladly be rough on her."

"After what she almost did to you and Ruby, I don't expect anything else." Mera told him. "Thanks."

Seth nodded and looked to Ruby. "Gonna have to cut training short today, Rubs. Get back to Iris and the rest, and don't do anything stupid alright?" he asked of her.

"Sure thing." Ruby looked to him. "Be careful, all right?"

"Always." He assured her and ran away. He jumped onto the wall and latched onto it while the symbiotic mass on his body spread over. Once again Venom was breathing in the air of this new universe and he jumped into the air after latching onto a building with a tendril. Using it and others, he swung away and after the flying woman.

"I always expect him to go off on me like that." Ruby admitted in shock of the mutant's temperament.

"Don't be surprised, he's a father after all." Mera said and Ruby's confusion raised. The Atlantean laughed, "He's pissed because you were put in danger, because of him. He's even more pissed about being having my friend sic her friends and others on his ass. Honestly, so am I."

"Why? She's your friend?" The assassin asked.

Mera replied, "Yeah, a friend that I have repeatedly told that she can trust Seth. But instead of that, she keeps being distrustful and sends out metahumans after metahumans."

"That's irony for you." Ruby said and the Atlantean looked confused. "You don't see it, do ya? Zoom sends metas after Seth all the time to get him, your friend sends metas after Seth to get a scope on him."

"That's not the same." Mera stated.

"You sure about that?" Ruby chuckled hollowly. "He's got metas after him from left to right now, and all he wants to do is get back home to his daughter and his girlfriend. To do that, he has to find a breach or whatever the hell that is, but bit of a bitch with two meta armies on his ass. Not to mention, he's been protecting me, Evelyn Sharp and Jesse from Zoom. He's probably the only person in this entire city, who wants to fight that bastard. He looks like a demon, yeah, but he's one of the best people in this entire city. And right now, your friend, whoever she is, doesn't wanna admit that because he's willing to do the wrong thing for the right reasons."

"Sounds about right." Mera nodded.

"Well, tell your friend to put on some glasses. Seth's a good guy and he's protecting this city while it doesn't have The Flash." Ruby began walking. "If she doesn't see that yet, then she can honestly just piss off and leave him alone."

Mera understood what she meant. The young girl was right in every single sense of the words she uttered. Right now, Seth was in the middle of two opposing radars. One is belonging to the evil speedster, Zoom, and the other belongs to Lindy. Because of that, both sides are sending metahumans after him. Anyone in between is gonna get hurt.

And if too much, the Demon King is gonna embed his sword into anyone who dares come after him.

Rage only has its limits.

Mera ran up to the girl again. "I'll make this right, Ruby. I swear."

"Not your problem, Mera. It's that ignorant friend of yours that doesn't trust Seth, despite all the good he's done." She looked to him. "Word to the wise? Heroes come in all forms and they don't have to look like good guys to be heroes. Just their actions are enough to be determine where their hearts are."

"For a girl from another universe and all, you sure are smart." Mera admitted.

"Well, I was trained in a secret Nazi organization hidden in the government. Smarts was part of the education." Ruby smirked and walked forward.

Mera stopped abruptly. "Wait? A Nazi organization?"

X

A tendril attached to the side of a building and the large elemental form of Venom pulled on it to swing to it. His feet attached to it and stuck him to it while his claws grabbed hold of the surface as well, his claws digging into the side of the building. The elemental looked around in search of Kendra and his other hand swung his large sword around before bracing it on his shoulder.

"Where is that little flying fucker?" Seth growled in anger.

"You wanna tear her to shreds and eat her?" Venom thought, he couldn't help but lick his teeth in hunger when imagining the taste of the flying woman. "Remember we got to pull off her wings first."

"Right before we deep-fry her to perfection." Seth agreed and before said. "We seriously hate whoever's yanking Mera and that Hawkgirl's leash. We hope we don't meet them."

"Tell that to someone who actually believes you, dumbass." The symbiote insulted his host who turned confused. "You wanna meet this woman no matter what and try to figure out what the hell she wants with us."

"We do." He used his sword to scratch the side of his head. "And let's hope we can find her at some point and talk with her."

"Or eat her."

"Or eat her." Seth agreed with his partner.

SCREAM

A distant scream caught the elemental's attention and he turned around to face the direction of it. His blood-red eyes expanding quickly at the sight of a flying form flying up the side of a building and crashing into it repeatedly. "She's off her damn rocks." Venom stated and swung after her.

X

SCREAM

What might have sounded like screams of distress and possible death to those listening from afar, was war cries that Hawkgirl was screaming as she was swinging her mace around and smashing into the wall of the tall building she was flying up at.

"ARGH!" Kendra slammed her mace into the wall with another vicious cry. Pieces of the wall broke off and fell to the ground. "ARGH!" Unleashing another cry, she flew higher and higher up the side of the building. This time, her right wing slammed into the wall, the hard surface cut the feather-covered skin of her wing and blood began to leak out of her wounds.

In between her screams of war cries, Kendra got closer and closer to the wall and smashed her head into the wall. A wound opened on the side of her forehead and more blood ran down the side of her face and over her eye. But to her enraged mind, in her current berserker-like state, nothing fazed her.

Not even the blood running out of her stomach wound, that should have made her to feel like Hell.

But her attention was diverted when a blast of wind blew her off course. She straightened herself up and turned around to face the direction of the blast of wind. Her berserker-like red eyes sharpened on the large form of the elemental demon with… that sword!

"How about you calm the fuck down?!" Venom screamed his suggestion as the two continued to stare off while holding their battle on the side of the building. "Don't make us hurt you, Kendra."

She screamed again. "ARGH!" Hawkgirl charged af him with glowing red eyes. Both hands reeling the mace back before thrusting it forward with incredible superstrength.

Venom twirled his sword around and used it to block the incoming strike. An echo of a ringing sound emitted from the connection of both melee weapons. It reached the elemental's ears and he swung his claws for her and he wrapped his entire hand around her head before throwing her against the surface. He watched as her winged form skipped on the side of the building.

Kendra managed to steady herself once more and took charge. She spun around and lashed out her wings for him again. Swinging one wing for his head, he raised his arm and split it into tendrils. Each one of them wrapped around her wing and pulled before throwing to the surface underneath him.

While she tried to struggle out of his hold, Venom increased the strength of his tendrils' grasp and pinned her to the wall. "Get a hold of yourself, Kendra!" He screamed in her face, but it did nothing to quall her anger. "Any ideas on how to make this chicken calm down?"

He felt a mental eyebrow raise followed by a shrug inside his mind before he heard. "Well, if you wanna butcher a chicken, you have to knock them out first."

"Better than what we got." Seth said while listening to the girl screaming her lungs out in an array of war cries. He reeled the sword to the side before thrusting it into Hawkgirl's face. Much to his dismay, she was still awake and trying to claw his face off. "Okay. Round two." Slamming it into her face, he found her… still awake.

"We hate this."

"Look out!"

He heard the words from his partner and released his hold on the flying woman jumped backwards in a spin. Kendra pushed herself off the surface with her feet and with a flap of both wings, she launched herself into the demon's stomach and pushed into the rooftop of the opposite building. They got away in time just for the sonic cry to strike and pave through the side of the wall of the building the two leaped away from.

With the elemental touching the ground, he grabbed the woman and threw her into the ground. Seth pushed himself off the rooftop and saw Hawkgirl still awake and screaming with blood coursing out of her body. "Damn, she's tough." Facing back in the direction of the other building, he saw a cracked hole on the building.

"Guess, we're back on, Venom."

He recognized the voice and saw Killer Frost form an ice slide to bring both her and Black Siren to the rooftop. A light from a fire touched the surface of the building and Deathstorm ascended higher into the air before touching down on the rooftop to stand beside the two metahuman women.

Killer Frost waved at the mutant. "Hiya, Grumpy. Been good?"

"Could definitely think of something better than this." Venom admitted while Kendra continued to scream like a raging banshee. He glanced at the sonic cryer. "Hawkgirl here might give you a run for your money."

Black Siren smirked. "Let's see about that, shall we?" Thrusting her head forward, she fired a sonic cry. The elemental opened his mouth and as his teeth reddened, he blasted a fire blast at the woman. The two attacks met and canceled each other. The smirk on her face was wettened by the tongue belonging to the cryer. "You have no idea how fun you are right now."

"Gonna be fun to watch you three be chased by her though." Venom stated with a thumb pointing back at the flyer.

"What do you mean?" Deathstorm asked.

Venom faced the fiery metahuman. "The three of you jackasses were the ones laughed about her dead boyfriend. The ones with the biggest target on their backs-"

SCREAM

Another vicious scream came from the flying woman and she landed on the fiery metahuman, her claws sharpened before she brought them down on Deathstorm's face. Slashing and scratching him like a psychotic tigress.

"You get the picture." Venom finished.

"Ronnie!" Killer Frost exclaimed and fired an ice blast with both hands, pushing the flying woman off her boyfriend. She got down to his side and asked. "You okay?"

Ronnie shook his head from the pain spreading over his face as he got up again. "Yeah, but that fucking bitch is dead!" his hands and head began exploded in flames as he looked at the flying woman who was still screaming.

But then Venom stepped in front of the girl with his sword swinging in his hand. He dug the tip of it into the ground and stated. "Sorry, but you're gonna have to go through us first."

"Why do you wanna protect this girl exactly?" Deathstorm asked. "She's a nobody to you, isn't she? What's the big deal about that chick?"

"Promised a friend, that we would help her. And we kee-"

SCREAM

Kendra jumped onto his back with another crazy scream and began slashing at his oily symbiotic flesh like an animal. "Son of a bitch!" He was tired of playing nice with this girl. Reaching back with his arm, he grabbed hold of her head and flung her down to the ground with a brutal swing.

With his hand around her head, he inspected the rest of her body and saw the blood-soaked armor on her body. He also saw the feathers on her wing drenched in her own life source. Feeling a liquid dripping down his clutched hand, he knew there were also damage done to her head.

"Kendra, for what it is worth, this is gonna hurt," Venom smiled. "and we might enjoy it." He slammed his other palm on her stomach, unleashing a scream from her mouth as well as an ice wave that froze her wound, bandaging the wound to prevent further leakage.

Removing it from there, he placed it on her wing and put one there. He removed his hand and Kendra was lashing out after him with her teeth now like a canine animal.

PUNCH

Without any better ideas coming to mind, he slammed an adamantium fist into her face. For good measure, he sparked lightning around it before it connected with her face. He sighed in relief when seeing the woman finally lose consciousness. "About time." He used ice to cover the wound on the side of her forehead.

Black Siren watched him throw the flyer behind him and commented. "You know, you have a funny way of "helping" people, pal."

Venom shrugged uncaringly. "I tried the nice way, but my way is easier." Pulling the sword out, he pointed it at the three metahumans. "You three really wanna mess with me?" His voice changed as his symbiotic form slithered back inside of him.

"Trust me, I will!" Deathstorm shot forward, his hands blasting him forward like a rocket.

Seth threw the sword up into the air and the metahuman stopped to see it. The elemental jumped forward and slammed both feet into his stomach, sending him forward into the ground. Tendrils shot out of his back and pushed the mutant to his feet again.

One of the tendrils shot into the air and wrapped around the handle of the large crystal sword. He cracked both of his fists and stated. "Don't underestimate me, Pissstorm. I'm much stronger than you." The tendril pulled the sword back to his hand.

"How about I check for myself?" Black Siren licked her lips before lashing her head forward and unleashing a sonic cry.

"Not this time, Siren!" Seth dodged the attack and ran to her with lightning and earth coursing through his muscles. He appeared beside the cryer before swinging his sword to cleave her.

She dodged it and screamed into the ground, unleashing a sound blast that pushed the mutant off his feet and into the ground. But he slammed his fist into the ground and kept himself from falling before using his other hand to slash the woman from downwards.

Black Siren spun away, dodging the attack. But Seth lashed out his feet, sweeping her feet away and forcing her to fall down to the ground. Returning to his full height, he looked down on the cryer's form. She looked up at him. "You really don't play nice?"

"Why play by the rules, when you can tear them down? It's more fun that way." Seth shrugged, his ears perking up at the sound of ice cracking. He faced the direction and saw Killer Frost standing there with ice forming into sharp blades in her hands.

"Wanna go on another date, handsome?" The icy metahuman quipped as she walked to him.

He twirled his sword around, the tip of it pointing at her. "Gonna have to decline. I'm taken."

She raised an eyebrow. "I didn't know you and I were dating now."

"Trust me, not you." He smirked and saw her swing one blade for him.

Blocking it with his sword, he shot a tendril and wrapped it around her waist and pulled her close. Noticing the close proximity between them, she said. "You just wanted another kiss, didn't you?"

"Last time… was a mistake." Seth said and shot out another tendril from his back. Shooting its way around the metahuman, he shot it into the back of the woman's knees. The sudden strike from him, caught her by surprise and forced her to fall down. Getting the tendrils back to his body, he braced the sword again his shoulder and said. "You girls really have a thing for bad boys, huh?"

"You have no idea."

Seth spun around on his feet and saw Black Siren standing before him. Before he could react, the cryer grabbed him by his forearms and pulled him close. Any words he might have thought to utter were instantly silenced when she crushed her lips on top of his.

To say Seth was surprised would be the understatement of the multiverse. It was one thing to be kissing Killer Frost before, but to now kiss Black Siren too? Most would consider themselves lucky. Seth? He found this incredibly weird and strange. Those feelings increased thousand-fold when he felt her tongue slither into his mouth and engage in a swordfight with his own.

And he wasn't the only one to think along those lines. Killer Frost was still on the ground, and from her position, she had a front-view seat to witness Black Siren make out with the same guy she made out with not long ago. And the anger and jealousy in her body began to raise like water raising up to form a humongous tidal wave.

Pushing her away, Seth looked at the cryer who smiled and rubbed her lips slowly with a finger. "Frost was right, you are a good kisser. Might have to keep you to myself." Black Siren stated.

"Thanks, but no thanks. Still taken." Seth countered and he jumped backwards and landed in front of Kendra's form. "And while it was fun to meet you all again," he gathered wind into both hands, and formed ice spikes around his feet. "but I have to keep a promise to my friend."

He slammed his hands into the iced ground under his feet, blasting out pieces of ice off the ground and blowing up a white icy mist.

Killer Frost quickly got up on her feet and Deathstorm appeared beside her. Both of them lashing out their hands and blasting fire and ice attacks. Each strike flew through the icy mist and pierced right through it, without hitting anything and passed through the mist.

As it cleared out, the three metahumans saw that the mutant and Hawkgirl had disappeared. "Fucking bastard's gone." Deathstorm growled.

Caitlin Snow from this Earth looked to the cryer. "What was the deal with that kiss before?"

The sound of her sneer didn't go undiscovered by Black Siren who smirked again. "Thought he might enjoy a different and better flavor. And it looks like he did." The grin on her face widened. "Might have gotten tired of you being cold, maybe. Frost. We both know you're not that hot."

"Hotter than you, Siren." She quipped.

X

(West-Allen Household)

The elemental was kneeled on the floor right beside the unconscious form of Hawkgirl who was on the couch. Mera was watching from one of the recliners she sat in, her eyes watching the mutant stitch her friend's wounds closed. The Atlantean was surprised to see him work so diligently and so gently, despite his behavior before.

Ruby was watching from behind the couch with Evelyn and Jesse. Iris was beside the mutant with her firearm ready. When hearing of the flying woman's outburst of rage and anger before, she had her gun on standby and ready to be pulled in a moment's notice. And according to the elemental, she shouldn't be afraid to pull the trigger. Especially, the wings that are spread out on both the back of the couch along with the floor.

"Pretty impressive there, Seth." Mera praised with a nodding of her head to his work.

"Doctor, remember? This is basic stuff for me." He replied while he was finishing stitching the wound on the flyer's stomach. While he stitched the last of the wound shut, he informed. "Her forehead's good for now, lost a lot of blood with her head and stomach open. But both of them are stitched up now, so she should be fine. As long as she eats and drinks something that can get her blood pumping again, she'll be back on her feet again and ready to fly in no time." Nodding to the wing, he said. "The damage on the wing is healing quickly, should be healed up in a few hours or so."

Barry walked into the living room with a large bowl of water and towels. "One bowl of water and towels."

"Thanks." The mutant said when the CSI scientist brought him what he needed. He took the bowl and dipped the towels into them, soaking them with water and placed them on the flyer's stomach. Using the remaining water, he washed his hands.

Jesse walked over to the couch and looked down on the flyer's body. "I didn't see you use any anesthesia on her. Is it safe to operate on her like this?"

"I knocked her out with a metal fist with lightning wrapped around it. Strong or not, that's enough to knock anyone out cold." Seth confidently said, but there were still hints of annoyance in his voice.

Hearing that, Mera said. "Seth, I'm really sorry for everything happening with my friend and the people she's been sending. I'll get her to stop."

"I hope so." Seth turned around and looked to Kendra again, applying the wet towels on her body and using them to wipe away any excess blood on her body. "Mera." He got her attention while treating the flying woman. "I told you that I'm from a different universe, and right now, I am trying to find a way back to it. Back to my girlfriend and my daughter. They think I'm dead right now, and I gonna do everything I have to get back to them." He looked in her eyes and said. "And it would be a hell of a lot easier to do so without having to look over my shoulder for two groups of metahumans who wants my ass on a pike."

"Thanks for image." Barry coughed while steadying his glasses.

Mera nodded. "I know, it's enough. I will tell her to stop it. But my friend doesn't want you dead, and she just wants to know you."

"Then get her to send me a friend request on Facebook." Seth countered. His hand gesturing to the unconscious flyer while he got to his full height. "Not send crazy flying bounty hunters on my ass."

"Yeah, she's no better than Zoom." Ruby repeated.

"I'll stop it, I promise you guys all that." The Atlantean said. "I told her that she could trust you, but she's stubborn as hell."

"Whatever." Seth noticed the flyer stirring. Turning to the girls, he said. "Girls, go upstairs please."

"Why, Seth?" Evelyn asked in concern.

"He's afraid of her doing something to us. Something horrible." Ruby deduced.

He didn't want to say anything dishonest to them. He went with the truth. "No." The crystal sword slithered out of his body and into his left hand while the girls and the others looked shocked. "I'm afraid of doing something bad to her…if she acts out which will definitely not be pretty."

"Girls, he's right." Iris agreed and gestured to the staircase connecting to the upper floor. "Go upstairs." She took out her gun. "Time for the adults to handle this."

"Alright." Jesse accepted.

"Be careful." Evelyn said.

"Seriously, you don't know what this chick will do." Ruby followed up, equally as worried as the other girls.

Seth nodded. "I will. Get back up there, girls." They nodded again and walked up the stairs to upper floor. He looked down at Kendra who began to stir even more.

Her eyes opened up and Kendra looked around at her surroundings, but instantly found them to be unfamiliar. Kendra recognized Mera and asked, "Mera? Where-"

"Don't move." Seth stopped her from moving and pressed large blade of his sword against her throat. Kendra remained lying on the couch while the mutant leant down to her face.

"Who are you?" Kendra asked, having no idea on how this person was.

"Neither a friend nor an ally, to you at least." Seth replied bluntly while he pressed the blade harder to her throat.

Feeling the blade on her throat, Kendra's eyes looked downwards to the cold edge pressed to her throat and saw what weapon was being brandished. Her eyes widened in realization. "You're Venom?"

"Got it in one. Feathers." He pressed his other hand on her right eye. With his thumb and index fingers, he pulled her eyelids open to check on her eyeball. His own eyes running over the optic organ before turning to the left one. Without saying anything, he removed his blade from her throat and looked to Mera. "She's okay and ready to be brought back."

Kendra shot up to her feet and looked around for her mace and firearms. "Where are my weapons?" she asked the mutant with her wings retracting into her body again.

"I have them." Mera raised a brown duffel bag high in the air, the sound of metal clanging against metal reaching the flyer's ears.

"And you're not getting them till you're out of this house." Iris said in a commanding voice.

Kendra drifted her eyes to the duffel bag with her weapons again. Seth saw it and stated threateningly. "Go for the duffel bag, and whoever you and Mera's friend is, will get your body in a body bag."

Hawkgirl faced him. "Wanna say that again, Demon?!"

"Enough!" Mera screamed. Seth didn't appear to react to the dominating voice, but Kendra did and gained a wide-eyed expression on her face. "We're going, Kendra. And for what it's worth, you should be thanking Venom here for making sure you didn't attack anyone out there like a crazy person."

Her mouth gaped when releasing what she meant. "I went berserk again."

"Yeah, you did." Seth stepped closer to her; his face close enough to hers so the mere exhale was enough for his breathe to touch her face. "And I really, really hope I don't see you again, Kendra Saunders." The flyer widened her eyes. "Yeah, I know your name, and not really a fan. Now get out of here."

The flyer huffed in annoyance. "Whatever." She breathed out and walked to Mera. She reached for the bag but the Atlantean kept it out of her reach and walked to the door. Kendra's eyes widening even more from the actions as she followed Mera.

As the door closed, Seth finally dropped down to the couch with a loud exhale. "I swear to God, I do not want to see any more of these extra metahumans." He ran both hands through his spikey hair. "I hope I don't meet whoever this mutual friend of theirs, I might just kill that person."

"I get that." Iris holstered her firearm.

Seth turned his head to face the detective. "Iris, do you or Barry have any idea who this person is? Someone other than Zoom who rallies metas behind them, like that?"

Barry faced his wife; he saw the look of confusion spread over her facial features. But then another series of emotions ran over her face, one that he recognized very well. One of the strongest sensations to take form on her face was… realization. A huge amount of realization to be exact.

Seeing that, he answered for his wife. "A lot of people have been turned into metahumans after the Particle Accelerator explosion. And a lot of them are still in hiding, afraid of Zoom. It wouldn't be unlikely to think that a few of them might have banded together."

"And choose not to fight back against Zoom and his merry band of assholes." Seth rubbed his eyes. "And for some fucking reason, they want to waste their time on me. I really hate that."

"Yeah." Barry breathed out. "I'm gonna get some beers. Want one?"

"Yeah, thanks babe." Iris accepted.

"Me too, thanks Bar." Seth scoffed. "Heck, bring out something stronger even. We could use it."

"Sounds better." Iris walked to the kitchen. "I'll get some chocolate for your hangry friend too."

"Love that detective." Venom said.

"Keep it on your pants, Venom." Seth joked.

X

"Kendra!" Lindy exclaimed happily at the sight of her friend returning to their hideout alive again. She shot up from her chair and walked past Tony Woodward and Marcus Bishop. Reaching her friend, she embraced her in a warm hug.

"I'm alright, Lind." Kendra wrapped her arms around her friend as well. Without looking, she could hear the rattling sound of her weapons in the duffel bag when Mera dropped them to the chair near the wall. Unwrapping her arms, she said. "I'm sorry for running off like that. I was just…"

"Vengeful." Mera helped her with a blunt tone.

"Yeah." Kendra nodded with a saddened tone.

Tony chuckled. "Hey, don't be sad. You lost Carter, anyone would go a bit bananas because of that."

At those words… Mera couldn't help but clench her hand.

"Yeah, brother's right." Marcus agreed. "Carter was one of us, a brother, we all want to avenge him. Even if that means crossing swords with Zoom."

"About that…" they turned around and saw Mera walking closer to Kendra. Her eyes looked into Kendra with a cold gaze.

PUNCH

That cold gaze was instantly forgotten when the Atlantean thrusted her clenched hand… directly into the flyer's face.

"Mera!" Lindy screamed in shock.

In fear of what might happen next, Tony clenched both hands and the entire flesh wrapped around his arms turned into a metallic surface, every inch of his arms' skin turned into metal with each flex of his muscles. The floor under them and the various objects on the table began to shake as vibrational energies emitted from Marcus's hands.

Kendra snapped her head back to the Atlantean with her wings shooting out of her back. "What the hell?"

"Took the words right out of my mouth." Mera chuckled hollowly. "Do you know what you almost did, Kendra? When you were on your masterful plan to take on Zoom's metahumans?"

"What do you mean?" Kendra didn't know.

"You almost killed a kid! A young girl! You almost killed a girl twice!" Mera screamed her answer into the flyer's face, causing confusion to hit her like a freight train travelling at the speed of light. "You threw a belt of grenades into a bar! That girl, Ruby, was there with Venom. You went berserk and almost smashed off her head! If Venom wasn't there, that poor girl would have died. Her blood on your hands."

"I-I-I didn't know." The flyer stuttered shockingly, her wings retracting back to her. "I- I was out of control."

"Yes, you were!" Mera screamed again.

Tony and Marcus deactivated their powers. Neither of them expected Mera Curry to scream like this, to be enraged like this. She was usually so caring and loving. "kindness" incarnated most thought. Sure, she had the hidden persona of a warrior queen inside of her, one that would awaken itself when danger revealed itself in front of her.

She would take up her trident and use any powers in her core… to bring down a god-like wrath on those who hurting the innocents. Like an angel of death descending to the grounds of Earth and smiting any and all threats that dares to hurt her homeland.

Now that… very persona… was erupting out of the Atlantean right now.

Mera turned her head to Lindy. "Lindy, this is the last time you send any of these guys or anyone else in this group after Seth, after Venom." She looked unsure. "You can't keep sending them after him like this. If you continue to do that, then he might just straight-up attack them all, even kill them." Sighing loudly. "He's a friend, like you are. And you need to trust him and stop sending metahumans after him like this. If you keep doing this… then honestly, Lindy, you are no better than Zoom."

"Wow. Wow. Wow, Mera, she's so much better than Zoom ever will be." Kendra stated in defense of her friend.

"Are you sure about that?" Mera felt like she was seeing what Ruby saw before, finally. "Seth is a father." The others widened their eyes. "He has a girlfriend and a daughter, not much older than the ones he's protecting now, in his home universe and they think he's dead right now. He's finding a way back home and Zoom knows one. He's using it even to send off his metahumans to attack his home. His friends and family are in constant danger. And while protecting those girls and this city, he has two groups of metahumans breathing down his neck and out to get him and find a way back home."

"Sounds like a task for the Amazons." Marcus quipped with his palm running down his face.

"It's not funny, Marcus." The Atlantean made eye contact with the technopath again. "Lindy, time for you either to trust him or stop sending metahumans after him. Because you know, Venom is the only one with a snowball in hell's chance to even fight against Blackfire. And the sooner, you can gain his trust, the sooner Blackfire is gonna be stopped, and the more people are gonna be saved." Gulping she added, "Even Thea."

"…" Lindy's eyes shifted colors again as did the skin on her hands. "I can't lose her too, Mera."

"You won't… as long as you finally ask for Seth's help." Mera stated. "He's a good friend, probably the only one who's gonna fight him."

"Do you really trust him, Mera?" Lindy asked with a determined voice. "I mean, really trust him? With your life even?"

"I really do, Lindy. He's someone I trust with my life and I… really want him on our side." The Atlantean confidently stated. "Heck, even a detective from CCPD trusts him and she lets him sleep under her own roof."

Tony perked his head up in shock. "Wait? A detective? A woman?"

"Yeah." Mera nodded. "Detective Iris West-Allen."

"Iris is housing that guy?" Tony asked in shock. "I never expected that to happen."

"You know this detective?" Marcus wondered.

"Yeah. She's one of the best detectives in that department. If she trusts him enough to stay there, then so can we." Tony said.

"I'll arrange a meeting with him." Lindy said. Mera gave her a look. "I promise. No more metahumans chasing him like attack dogs. I'm gonna take care of it now. I swear on my life… and the life of Thea."

"Thank you." Mera smiled.

Happy that her dear friend was finally seeing it her way. Seeing that Seth Fury, Venom… was needed to fight the battle against Blackfire.

X

(West-Allen Household)

His head was reeled back as Seth kept the bottle pushed to his lips. The alcoholic contents of the beer bottle was pouring out of the bottle's orifice and down the walls of his throat with each shallow he did. Finishing the last remains of it, he pulled it away from his mouth and put the empty bottle on the table.

"Satisfied?"

Mentally chuckling to his partner, Seth said back. "Tired and tired, and in sore need for a break, pal." He looked at the table and saw the five bottles of beer on the table. "Yeah, five beers might be a bit too much."

"Get some tater tots." Venom suggested. A wide expression came over him from within. "Wait do they even those in here?!"

"That's your problem. Figure it out yourself." Seth groaned and craned his neck.

"Hey."

He turned his head and saw Ruby and Evelyn walking downstairs. The assassin looked shocked at the sight of the bottles on the table. "Someone's enjoying their break."

"Don't worry." The two guys were shocked to hear him not slur his words. The amount of alcohol he must have consumed should have been enough for any man to slur their words when speaking. Narrowing his eyes on their shocked expressions, he said. "I'm fine, guys. Benefit of having living fire in your system burns through any alcohol like they're mini-marshmallows."

"That's cool." Evelyn took a seat on the couch as did Ruby. "You okay after everything before with Mera and all? Not to mention, Kendra."

"How doesn't like a flying psychopath with a mace and a firearm chasing them?" Ruby quipped.

He faced the young assassin. "You okay, Rubs? You almost lost your head because of that chick and your head riddled with bullet holes."

"I'm fine. I've fought against people like her before. Powered beings and all, and she was… yeah, she was not a favorite." Ruby admitted. "But I'm okay, Seth. Don't worry. Honestly, I'm just…"

"Shocked? Astonished? Scared?"

"Not scared." Ruby defended herself.

"I was the first time I saw a powered being like her attack like a psychotic animal." Seth faced her again and asked. "You ever heard of the Wolverine?"

"The guy with an animal-like personality and metal claws sticking out of his hands?" She asked with an intrigued smile.

"Yeah, that's him." Seth leant up against the back of the couch. "First time, I saw him lash out his claws I was so scared I thought I had a stroke. Most thought I lost my mind."

"Can't imagine you getting scared." Evelyn admitted.

Her head was gently pushed down when she felt the mutant place his hand on the top of head. "Believe it or not, I'm still a living being. Even I see something that scares the crap out of me, especially with the life I live. Everyone in the world has a fear, something that they fear above all else."

His head turned between them both and asked them both at the same time. "Guys… if I find a way back to my Earth, my new home-"

"We know about that." Evelyn stopped him. "Ruby said that you found about a breach or something like that, can bring you home again. And if some horrible things happen, you'll bring us to your Earth."

"Yeah, that's my plan for now. Of course, if you have other plans, then it's okay." Seth told them.

"Actually…" Ruby started, garnering their attention. "I don't think I'm fit for this universe, so I might actually accept that offer on going to that Earth." She had been thinking about it a lot for a while now. Wanting to get out of this Earth's barriers and away from it entirely. Zoom and his group were after her and the rest. It seemed like the safest choice for her.

And it also made her… different.

"That one might be more my speed."

"Speed puns? Really?" Evelyn joked and Ruby stuck out her tongue in retaliation.

"What about you, Evie?" Seth asked her. While she may not have been yanked away from her own universe, he knew that she's had it rougher than most at her age. Metahuman at a young age, with powers of both darkness and light residing within her being. The murder of her parents right in front of her eyes in her own home. Chased by the same psychopathic speedster who destroyed her life. Her friends and family casting her aside like trash and not giving her a second glance… almost like she wasn't worth it… as she was believed to have killed her own two parents.

It wasn't a life that was right for her… but he couldn't be the to make choices for her life. That was solely her role and her responsibility.

"I don't know." She looked down at her hands and fidgeted with her fingers. "This is my home and… my life… was here."

"Whatever you decide, we'll have your back, kiddo." Seth assured her. "But I hate to be the one to say this, but this city's not exactly thinking of your best interests, Evie."

"Then what do you think, Seth? What should I do?"

"If we can find way back, come to my Earth and lay low there with me and the others over there. Bunch of us there can protect you while we figure out what to do about Zoom." Seth told her.

She didn't speak for a few moments, letting the idea of his plan settle into her mind. When it did, the young metahuman turned to him. "Are you sure they can protect us? Your friends and family there?"

"Without a doubt. They're just as much troublemakers as me." Neither of the girls looked convinced and gave him narrowed eyes. Rolling his eyes, he said. "Ok, they're nicer and cuddlier than me."

"Sounds believable." Ruby nodded.

"Yeah, yeah. Venom being cuddly, doesn't sound quite right." Evelyn mockingly joked.

"Okay, that's enough out of the Twin Catastrophes." Seth patted both girls' heads. "Shouldn't you two be in bed by now? We're gonna continue training tomorrow. Bright and early."

Ruby looked unsurely at him before sheepishly asking. "About that…"

Seth looked with narrowed eyes himself. "What's up?"

"Can we both, maybe… sleep here tonight?" Evelyn asked.

"Why? Don't tell me Jessie snores."

"No, just… Can we?" Ruby asked.

Chuckling to himself, he reached beside the couch and pulled out a large blanket. "Sure. As long as you to don't snore." He joked and the girls straightened themselves on the couch and leaned against the back of it. The elemental spread the blanket over all three of them. "Sleep tight, girls." He told them. Both girls closed their eyes and leant their heads against his shoulders.

"Night, Seth." Ruby breathed out as she slept.

"Goodnight…" Evelyn followed up after the young assassin.

Seth watched as they slept soundly. "Goodnight you two."

"Think Frankie will like these two?"

"She's gonna be shocked as hell to see us bring an assassin and a thief back home." He clenched his hands. "We're gonna find that breach and get home again."

"Nothing and no one will stand in our path. Unless they wanna experience a hell unlike anything from any world." Venom growled.

Nothing would stand in front of them now. No one would be willing to take them on… the Demon King would raise his sword to the sky and cleave through anyone and anything.

X

(Zoom's hideout)

The next morning was shining brightly. But not a single shred of sunlight entered the hideout that Zoom was using. His entire base only illuminated by the lamps hanging above his head, and the light hitting the cells around him. The speedster's black eyes focused on the iron-masked prisoner in front of him.

Rage was coating both eyes and the same red-hot rage was lacing the prisoner's hands. The speedster could hear the prisoner's very joints cracking as they clenched at the sight of him.

Zoom narrowed his eyes on the prisoner's form and he walked forward with menacingly slow steps. As the blue lightning continued to run over his entire being, his body began to vibrate into a blur. His body, phasing through the glass cell door and into the cell.

The prisoner crawled backwards in fear, his back hitting the wall in the back of the cell. His fear intensified as the evil speedster crouched down before him. "Your rage… is pathetic. Nothing and no one will save you again. You're mine… a trophy of my… accomplishment."

The man in the iron mask growled and thought about lashing out in rage, but it was useless. In his current state, he was absolutely useless to do anything against the pitch-black speedster who rules over this city.

"Hey, Zoom!"

Snapping his head to the side, he saw Black Siren walking towards them along with Killer Frost and Deathstorm.

WHOOSH

Zoom sped out of the cell and appeared in front of the cryer. "What?"

She got a disgusted expression and said. "He's done it again."

"What?" he asked with narrowed eyes.

Killer Frost walked to her side with crossed arms, both hands tightening their hold on her forearms as she followed up. "He stroke again. Another body was found."

Growling, Zoom let out in disgust. "Blackfire."

X

(Gotham City)

"You sure it's him?" A man in a formal black suit asked as he held the phone to his ear. He was formally clothed to the role as the leader of this operation. Black tuxedo with a white shirt underneath it and a black tie around his collar. On the left side of his chest, was a badge clipped on.

The badge was of an ascending bird with three lines, each line bended in the middle to appear broken at that point. Their ends pointing upwards and the bended ends pointing downwards.

A larger emblem of that same crest was hanging on the back of his office.

"Alright. I'll have my men and myself go there ourselves. Yes, we'll leave in less than five minutes. And he won't get away. I assure you; I have everything under control, Mr. Wayne." He put down his phone and ran his hand through his dark hair.

"You okay, Dad?"

Chuckling to himself, he saw the form of his daughter. Standing at 1.7 meters and having short dark brown hair on her head with red tips while wearing a black tactical suit and holsters on her thighs. Firearms attached to them both. Kate Kane got a worried expression on her face as she asked again. "You okay, Dad? You look like you've seen a ghost?"

Jacob Kane chuckled again. "Told you already, Kate, that it's Commander Kane on the clock."

"Sorry, Commander." Kate walked closer to her boss/father. "What's wrong?"

"Get a squad together and have Agent Pennyworth and Agent Moore geared up for deployment. You too, Agent Kane." Jacob Kane ordered.

"Where's the destination?" Kate asked with an intrigued smile.

"Central City." Jacob took out his gun from the drawer and cocked the firearm. "Blackfire's our Agenda."

X

(Central City)

Iris rushed through the alleyway and past the barriers of officers in front of the police barricades.

The detective heard a ringing sound coming from her phone in the morning. Grabbing it, she saw that it was a call coming from her partner Floyd Lawton. She accepted the call and heard him speaking distressfully. Most of it were incomprehensible because of his state of his mind at the time.

However… one thing was undeniably clear for her to understand.

Without even saying goodbye to her friends or bringing her husband along, she hastily put on her gear and rushed out of her household to get to the crime scene.

And she finally got to the place. She ran to the gathering of officers at the crime scene. Shifting her gaze around, she saw Floyd holding his mouth with one hand. "Lawton." She got his attention and ran to him. "What's going on?"

"They found another one." Floyd looked like he on the verge of throwing up.

"It was him again?" Iris knew she didn't have to ask. The only other person to commit a crime that even would garner so many officers' attention, was Zoom himself. There another one, one who considers himself a rival to the evil speedster. "Where is the body?"

Floyd didn't speak, he raised his hand and pointed a finger in the direction of the other officers. Iris nodded her consent and ran over to them. She gently pushed herself forward and reached the direction of their sights, the form caused her to gasp in disgust and horror.

She cupped her mouth with both hands as she ran her eyes over the being.

A corpse that was… small… not much taller than that of a teenager in their late years as teens…. A corpse that was black… from the charred crust that was around every inch of its skeleton-like form. A formerly white skeleton was… now nothing but completely charred black from an immense malicious…

… Fire…

Iris felt like she had to throw herself… it wasn't the first time she would have done so when witnessing another victim done in by his flames. She felt a hand wrap around her forearm and pull on her limb. Facing the direction, she saw her partner Lawton pulling on her arm.

Her partner pulled her to him, out of the other officers' hearing distance. Floyd Lawton leant closer to her head and whispered loudly. "Blackfire did this."

"I can see that." Iris ran a hand down her face.

"Partner." Iris saw him gain a serious expression. "Please… ask him for help."

"I don't think we have another choice now." Iris admitted.

The Demon King was needed for this battle now… even if she wanted anything but that that.

To be continued…

And that's a chapter folks…

Following the aftermath of the flying bounty hunter, Kendra Saunders, Hawkgirl herself flying through the skies of Central City, a charred corpse has now been found. A small one at that.

Because of that, CCPD, even an organization within Gotham City have responded to the call that's been made.

Now this corpse will hopefully be the wake-up call that Lindy and her friends need to realize that Seth is their hope.

Even the metahumans under Zoom's rule were disgusted to hear of Blackfire's attack. Black Siren might have gotten a kiss from the Demon King of another universe, but any enjoyment that might have been left behind in her core have evaporated when the news of Zoom's rival once again striking and leaving a corpse behind as an aftermath of his actions.

And now Seth knows that the two girls are willing to go with him to Earth-1, to better their chances at survival. Things will be interesting for sure.

But for now… Blackfire leaves a charred path and Venom has to take up arms.

Until next time, peeps!