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Part 4 - Arrowverse comes knocking - Ch 2 – Returning to Earth 1
Clark was running late. It had taken him a while to pull himself together after the message was finished playing. The computer was still locked in its internal debate about if it would release the information about Asgard or not.
Barry had literally worn a groove in the barn from door to door down the center. Cisco had stopped watching and moved outside to watch the skies for Superman. In part because watching Barry move that fast made him dizzy and slightly nauseated, and he was stirring up the dirt floor, making particles fly around that was getting in Cisco's hair. Clark landed before Cisco fully understood the speck in the sky was actually the Man of Steel.
Cisco couldn't help but ask him about the gravitational forces around him. "Did you know you actually make your own gravity and not actually defy Earth's? The waves you put out actual push Earth natural forces away from your body."
Clark looked surprised as he turned his attention towards the strange young metahuman. "No, I just knew that I could jump far and high enough to go over our barn as a kid, and later I gained the ability to fly." He told him, somewhat surprised he'd never thought about it before. It was just something that evolved for him over time. At first it was small jumps, and then larger and larger ones, until he could control his body enough to hover, and then finally fly.
Barry came out and joined them when he heard their voices. "Kara didn't go through steps, she just flew. She said she never had a time she couldn't once she knew she could generate her own fields. She just naturally knew how to control them."
"She knew about these fields?" Clark asked surprised by the news.
Barry nodded slowly and looked a little uncertain. "I think some Asgardians could see the fields, like Cisco can I guess. Or maybe it's a kind of magic or something that lets some of them see it?" He shrugged uncertainly. He'd only spent a little over two hours talking with her about everything over their dinner before they had gone out to the museum.
Clark's features hardened a little. "What can you tell me about the Asgardians? My computer is refusing to tell me anything about our Asgard, only that it was destroyed prior to Krypton's emergence."
Barry blinked and blushed a bit. "Well that was what Kara talked about most when we were discussing our pasts. So I can tell you a bit. She and I only covered the basics though. I was only on her Earth for a few hours, it wasn't all that long."
Clark nodded and his features softened. "Sorry, the computer was being aggravating. Perhaps we can sit down in the hidden room I have here."
"Hidden room?" Cisco questioned him excitedly. Barry gave him a huge grin and quickly followed after Clark.
Clark led them over to a hidden area behind an old hay pile. The pile smelled of old mildew and the hay looked as if it had been climbed on. Near the wall was a small rock, Clark moved it to expose what looked like an old rune. Pressing his hand to it made a secret opening. The floor roughly twice the size of Clark shifted down and to the side, allowing for him to fly down.
"I'll lower you one at a time since the opening is small." He told them. Barry stepped forward first and Clark grabbed his arms. Knowing about the gravitational field made what he was doing make more sense. He'd done this unintentionally with Lois when he took her flying. As long as he was in physical contact he could extend his field over a person and let them fly with him. That's why she could fly beside him until their hands had dropped and then she had begun to fall.
He lowered Barry down and then quickly got Cisco. The opening above them closed leaving them in complete darkness for a moment before the lights slowly lit up. Inside the room was a single chair like the ones at Kara's Fortress and a small pedestal in front of a blank wall. It reminded Barry of the room Gideon was stored in at STAR Labs.
"Kelex, have you both finished the argument yet?" Clark asked the computer.
"No, Kal El." It replied.
"Listen in then. Barry Allen is about to fill me in on what Kara has learned on her Asgard." Clark ordered with a hint of his frustration still filtering through.
Barry and Cisco quickly made themselves at home on the floor while Clark sat across from them in the single chair. "Sorry I don't have more chairs but this is my staging area before I got married."
Barry waved him off. "Don't worry about it honestly." He made a mental note to tell Clark about the article when they got to Earth 1. His wife would write the "Super-Crisis" article with Iris. He had as much right to know about it as they did.
"I saw her message." Clark gave Barry a small smile. "At first I wasn't sure it was the right person."
Barry chuckled as he remembered that she'd entered the room as Kara and left as Supergirl, "The Black hair and green eyes right?" He asked with a knowing smirk. "She came out in her regular armor and blonde 'Supergirl' look after she recorded the message. I'm guessing she showed you a bit of magic."
"I really want a reading of it when she does that." Cisco muttered, looking wistful. Clark knew that look. Lois got the same look when she was planning her next story.
Clark nodded and looked a bit more relaxed. "Magic is something I know exists, but Kryptonians don't have the ability to use it, at least not that I was aware of."
Kelex spoke up. "Kryptonians do not have the required genes active to use magic. They are there, just dormant."
All three turned to the little robot figure that was being projected on the wall behind the pedestal. "So we have the gene, but it's not active?" Clark questions softly. Was it possible Kara's genes had been turned on?
"All humanoid beings have the magical gene. It is turned off in almost all of the current species in the galaxy of this multiverse." Kelex replied. "A small group of humans have broken parts of the seals and the rare being in some of the other races have been partially awoken. None since Ragnarök have managed to become fully magical since. Only the greater beings still have their magic, and they have mostly hidden themselves away since the death of magic in mortal beings."
"Loki was a full-fledged Arch Mage before his disappearance." Barry told them. "He made the pendant that Kara wears. It houses the magic she uses to power her illusionary magic and her storage space."
"That is something else I so want a look at." Cisco muttered, "Anime style pockets! I so want to get me one of those." He sighed wistfully.
If their conversation hadn't been so serious Clark would have laughed. Barry just grinned at Cisco in agreement. It would be great if he could carry his suit with him instead of having to return to STAR Labs every time The Flash was needed. Thawne had that technology, so it would be possible in the future.
Clark nodded slowly. This was starting to give him a headache. "How about an overview of what you know."
"Ok so I took Norse Mythology in collage as one of my courses." Barry began.
"As did I," Clark told him.
Barry nodded and looked relieved that he wouldn't have to start with a history of the Norse gods and their stories. "Okay, so there are some differences in the mythologies. For starters all the mythos after 800 AD was pretty much debunked by Kara. From what she said around 980AD when the last great war on Midgard was fought between the Frost Giants and the Asgardians. In our worlds it looks like Ragnarök happened around then. In her world, something happened long before that, and it changed the history of their world."
"What was that?" Cisco asked. He was the only one who hadn't taken a course on Norse history or myths.
"Loptr, Odin's adopted brother was never borne or at least never brought to Asgard to be adopted. That means Balder still lives, and none of the Loptr's stories are real on Kara's Asgard." Barry told them.
Clark sat back. That made a lot of sense to him. Loptr and Odin's relationship had gone from not close to hostile after the death of Balder, with Odin taking his anger out on Loptr's children. Odin had backed Loptr into a corner, killed several of his children, and then imprisoned him in a torturous cave with dripping venom and other physical torments. It was when his magic unleashed a huge earthquake that he'd been freed and he then lead Asgard's enemies against Odin and Asgard to cause Ragnarök.
Barry waited while Clark took in the changes. Cisco looked a little lost but he was keeping quiet so as to not make the conversation go off-course.
"I can see how that would change almost all of their history and stop Ragnarök." Clark admitted, "More than half the myths that are well known are about Loptr and his children, or Thor and Loptr, or Odin and his brother."
Barry nodded and continued to explain the state of affairs on Asgard as he knew them. "Odin and Frigga had another child after Thor, just after the war. His name is Loki, and he has taken Loptr's mantels of Mischief and Lies, but none of his history. He is only a teenager by their own standards. So far he has no children and was never married."
"Wait so the Wolf, Sea Serpent, and half-dead chick aren't running around in her galaxy because they weren't born?" Cisco asked. Everyone knew Loptr's basic story thanks to pop culture stories and comic books based on Norse Mythology, but not all the details someone who had studied the myths would know.
"Hela, was a Queen of the Dead on my Earth," Barry corrected him. "If Loptr didn't father her, she, or at least her soul, would still have been born in Kara's Asgard. They would still need a Queen of the Dead to oversee their dishonored dead, unless someone else is the Queen of the Dead. Kara didn't mention her, but we did only talk about the stories for a very short amount of time. As to the others, I really don't know. I just know if they exist they aren't Loptr's or Loki's."
Clark again nodded slowly as he processed the information. "So I would need to speak to Kara to learn everything I need to know."
Barry agreed with him. "Yeah, I'm just a messenger. I have the few pictures she gave me as proof and Loki is in that one," He handed the pictures over with the one of Kara and Loki on top so he could see it again. "The one with the black hair young man with her is Loki Odinson."
Clark looked over the photos and couldn't help smiling at the mix of female fantasy armor and his own costume. She must have decided to use the family colors for her hero costume. Though the skirt being red was something he had skipped on his costume, he'd felt a red pair of shorts over tights was a little weird, he'd grown up on Earth so the strange Kryptonian clothes and customs still were a bit off to him.
He also noticed the black mourning outfit when she wasn't in the armor, but still in her 'Supergirl persona'. He was unsure how to ask who she was mourning. He wasn't even sure Kara would have told him.
He looked closer at the India picture. Kara was in her blonde natural looks standing next to a boy a year or two older than her. The two were obviously close. He had his arm around her shoulders and she was looking up at him with a look of pure happiness while he was looking at the camera and smiling contently.
"He's her foster brother Loki?" Clark questioned softly. Of course Barry had already answered that question when he had handed the picture over.
He felt a pang of jealousy. He'd been alone for most of his life. The only family he'd had growing up had been John and Martha Kent. Everyone else had to be kept at arms lengths in case they found out what he was. Smallville had been well named. It was a small farming community. His high school had only about three hundred students from the surrounding towns to make even that number of students. His friends from then kept in touch online via email, and texts, but he rarely saw them now. John Kent had passed away in a car accident when Clark was in college and Martha had taken a job that took her from Smallville and closer to Metropolis, but not in the city itself. The Kent Farm was still in the family as Martha hadn't sold it. She was renting the house to a family and the fields out to a neighboring farmer. She used the money to pay the taxes and put the rest away for her retirement.
Barry hesitated as he thought about how she had tried to explain the relationship, "She said that "fostering" the best translation. She's his mother, the Queen's ward, but it's more than a fostering, it sounded like more, at least to me."
Clark's newspaper reporter radar picked up on the way Barry was talking. "So Royal Ward, like an actual ward, or as in a fostering to marriage situation, like Mary Queen of Scots being raised by the French Court so she would be thought of as a true Queen of France rather than a foreigner married to their King?" He asked shrewdly.
Barry blushed and looked down. "That's something that you'd have to talk to her about. I don't know if she knows Loki is alive, but I know she doesn't like Thor enough to consider anything with him."
Cisco snapped his fingers drawing both of them to look at him. "That's right. She was mourning him when you were there. We only found out he was alive when the newspaper article changed."
"What newspaper article?" Clark asked. He was beginning to half wish he'd ignored them on the roof. He was on information overload. "You know what." He said holding up his hand to stop Barry before he could start to explain. "I can't right now. I have too much information right now as it is."
Barry nodded slowly. "Yeah, I get it. I was only there for a few hours, but Kara kept blowing my mind with things that she took for granted, like a cold fusion arc reactor."
Clark pinched his nose as he lowered his head. Barry without meaning too had once more given him too much to think about. Kara's Earth was way more advanced than even Barry's, which in turn was more advanced than his own. Already he had an idea of how far advanced Barry's world was. A world with cold fusion was about twenty to thirty years from where this Earth was, if it tried for it. Over the last few years Wayne Enterprises was always putting out technology that seemed to advance them forward in surges. They were due to launch a new set of products later this year.
Cold Fusion technology had taken a huge step back on this Earth with the terrorist event that created the supervillain Reactron. He was a man who literally had nearly killed Clark in one of their encounters since his accident. He dressed in an advanced Bio Medical Suit due to the burns he received during the meltdown of the reactor that killed his wife Alyssa Krull.
When the nuclear plant had melted down and he hadn't been able to save everyone, the federal grants for research into other forms of fusion technology had dried up. Many tech firms weren't willing to play with Research and Development into technology that even Superman couldn't react fast enough to save people from.
"I did it again." Barry muttered self-consciously. "Sorry man."
Clark sighed and shook his head a little. "It's just a bit much."
Barry sat down and was quiet for several minutes. Cisco who didn't do well with quiet felt the need to break the silence. "So yeah we were supposed to drop you a line and see if you wanted to see her. If you did we can take you to her, or we can see about delivering a message from you or whatever you wanted to do." He offered to Clark. He was twitching a little from excitement and nervousness.
"Let me make a call." Clark told them suddenly as he stood and walked over to the opening. "I'll be right back." He flew out of the bunker quickly leaving the two deep underground.
"I don't suppose you can run up that wall?" Cisco asked Barry sarcastically. He knew Barry needed momentum to run vertical.
Barry shook his head. "No ladder right."
"Nope," Cisco rolled his eyes. He could Vibe them out if the "Man of Steel" didn't come back in an hour. "Best get comfortable." He sat in the chair and put his feet up on the table, only for Kelex to solidify and push his feet off.
"It's rude to put your feet on the table." It responded.
Cisco regained his balance and glared at the robot. Barry laughed softly.
Up above the bunker Clark had taken out his phone and dialed Lois. When she picked up he could hear the noise of the Daily Planet's busy newsroom. "Lois Lane." She called into the cell phone, obviously not looking to see who had called her.
"Hey, Lois," He said softly.
It was a voice she knew well it meant that she wasn't going to like what he had to say. "How long will you be gone?" She sighed heavily. She knew they both couldn't go. Someone had to cover for 'Clark' and Superman.
"I don't know." He couldn't help the sadness that warred with the excitement. "There are so many questions that she could answer." He trailed off.
Lois felt a wave of fear and dread. Not that she thought he wouldn't come back. She wished she could go and meet this cousin. She also worried that Clark would be disappointed. He'd been disappointed once before, by the General Zod and his lieutenants and by the attitude of his father's hologram during that time. She could only hope Clark wouldn't be as disappointed by Kara.
"I know you have to go, just be careful and come home when you can." She told him as calmly as she could.
Clark smiled grimly at her attempt to make him feel less guilty for leaving. He could hear the tattletale beating of her heart and the harshness of her breathing that she was holding back her real thoughts. "I'll try to be back soon. A few days at most, I promise."
"Make sure she knows she is welcome at our place anytime." Lois added softly. As anxious as the idea of meeting his cousin was, she would never try to keep her out of his life by making her feel unwelcome in their home.
Clark was pleased with Lois's courage, though he was surprised by the offer. "Really, I didn't think you'd want another Kryptonian around after last time." He answered uncertainly.
Lois shook her head and smiled fondly at the look she imagined on his face, the bewildered farm boy look. "She's your blood family. If she is anything like you, I can't wait to meet her."
Clark looked down to the barn sadly. "I don't want to leave you without any warning but, I really have to do this now. They are expecting to just take a message back with them."
Lois shook her head softly, even though he couldn't see it, she knew he often could hear her movement even over the phone. "No, go with them." She told him a little sternly and louder as Perry White, the editor of the newsroom began to walk by. "Follow them, find out what you can, and I'll write up this story. We'll look further into it when you get back." Perry stopped by her desk. The look on his face showed he was excited by the idea that Lois and Clark had a hot story.
"Is that Clark?" He asked gruffly, knowing it had to be if Lois wasn't racing out to follow the suspect on her own.
Clark heard him and knew he had to hang up quickly since Lois was already working a cover story for him. "I'll get back as soon as I can." He hung up just as Perry was about to ask more questions.
Perry turned to Lois as she hung up the phone, "What are you two working on?"
Lois decided to keep it simple. "Superman has a lead on a cousin that might have been trapped in that Phantom Zone, a non-criminal cousin."
Perry rocked back on his heels. "Great Caesar's Ghost! Clark has the scoop?"
Lois nodded slowly. "Superman wanted a second opinion on some of his calculations. He asked for Clark to help him since he trusts us so much. He's had issues lately with a secret government agency intruding when he goes to STAR Labs recently for help with these things." She lied quickly. "He also wanted Clark's opinion on if the public would accept her after the last incident."
Perry nodded sagely. He had great respect for the relationship between Clark, Lois, and Superman. He'd never printed anything that could hurt their relationship with the superhero. "Keep me posted, and let's keep this to ourselves. I want the scoop!" Perry ordered her softly.
Lois nodded and gave him her most serious 'yes chief'. Perry nodded and rubbed his hands together excitedly as he walked back to his office. Lois rolled her eyes at James who was standing nearby so he'd know she would fill him in later. James gave her a wink that told her he'd be by that evening to get the scoop when no one could overhear them.
Clark landed quietly behind them now that he'd finished talking to Lois. "Gentlemen, rather than sending a message back. I'd like to actually go and see her."
Barry nodded with a big grin. "I was hoping you'd say that, but I didn't want to pressure you."
Cisco clapped his shoulder and winced at how solid he was. Barry winced along with him. Kara had clapped his shoulder like that and he'd felt how solid they were. Cisco expecting a bit of give as if he'd slapped a human and was surprised to find him as solid as a stone wall. "Talk about solid muscle." He muttered as he stretched his fingers.
Clark looked down with a sheepish look. "Sorry, I usually move a bit when people do that. You surprised me."
"We had best be going," Cisco said as he looked at his slightly sore hand. "I want to vibe to Earth 1 first so Caitlin doesn't try and kill me later for doing a dimension to dimension jump without checking in first." He explained to Barry and Clark.
Barry nodded seriously before turning to Clark. "Caitlin is our personal doctor and usually she oversees my vitals and stuff when I'm out on missions. She likes to give us health checks when I do new things to make sure I don't overdo it. This time she can't monitor us over our satellite links so she'll be chewing her nails waiting for us to come back. Plus Cisco is still learning his powers so she'll be extra worried."
Clark nodded with an excitement he could barely contain. "So what do I need to bring with me?"
"I think you should bring some civilian clothes, and anything you think Kara needs to see." Cisco suggested carefully. "Just try not to bring anything big. It has to fit through the breach, and I can't make those too big yet."
Kelex spoke up. "I suggest a crystal with; some personal pictures, a complete listing of your abilities, and your Kryptonian level of study. She would have completed her studies to at least to a kryptonian junior-high level before she left Krypton, and likely studied beyond that level."
"Hey Kelex, just how far would that be by Earth standards?" Barry asked. Several times Kara had expected him to know things that had been only theoretical on his own Earth. He wondered how much of that was because of her Earth verses his, and how much was because Krypton was so far in advance of any of their Earths.
"Many of your theoretical maths do not equate to the level of precision that Kara Zor El would have studied. Your high school calculus is taught to young Kryptonians in their early grade school level of education." Kelex clarified for him.
Barry and Cisco's mouths dropped while Clark groaned and hung his head. "I never did finish Kryptonian grade school levels. It didn't seem necessary since it was so beyond what humans here are capable of." He admitted with a level of embarrassment that showed on his pink cheeks.
"You also have not learned Kryptonese." Kelex added disapprovingly.
Barry bit his lip to keep from chuckling. Cisco was smiling widely. "Can we see some of these primers so we can learn it?" He asked breathlessly. Any advanced maths that could help him to invent even better gear for his friends was an opportunity Cisco wasn't willing to pass up.
"I will add them and Kal El can share them if he so choses." Kelex added with the equivalent of an AI sniff of disappointment in his primary user.
Kal El closed his eyes and took a deep breath. It took several seconds before he released it and looked much calmer. "I will need about a half hour to collect everything I need then." He looked to both men equally. "Would you rather wait down here or above?"
"Above." Both replied immediately. Clark couldn't help but smile at the certainty they both displayed. He took them up and quickly hid his entrance before he flew off with a promise to be quick.
"What do you think about all that?" Cisco asked Barry once he was sure Kal El was out of earshot.
Barry shrugged. "It looks like Kal El is going to get a crash course in Asgardian culture and history whether the computer wants him to or not."
Cisco nodded slowly. "Kinda gives you the impression that the Kryptonians aren't a race of their own."
Barry nodded slowly. "Yeah, it doesn't take a genius to see that."
Even taking a few minutes to think about what Clark wanted to bring with him from the apartment, he was in and out within ten minutes. The trip to the Fortress took longer in part because the image of his father followed him around reminding him it was his job to protect this Earth, not to go tripping through the multiverse. That it was in fact against Kryptonian law.
Clark got fed up with the antagonizing image he called out. "Kelex, disable my father and uncle's images until further notice."
Kelex shut it down mid-sentence and Clark ran his hand through his hair in frustration. "I don't suppose that disabled the blocks on the knowledge I want about Asgard?"
Kelex responded with a touch of regret in its voice. "No, the locks are still in place. However if Kara was on Asgard itself, her locks might be disabled."
Clark paused but nodded his head slowly. "That's actually a good point." He walked over to the bookcase that held all his books on history. There wasn't much on the Viking Gods. He had Kelex pull up the myths of Asgard and sped through them. He wanted as much information as he could get. Knowing the myths of this Earth would give him a basic knowledge of the one she was on, he hoped.
He quickly loaded all of his knowledge crystals and a few blank ones thinking they could share information that he might have on his database and what was on hers. He was guessing that since she hadn't travelled with Barry that she had tasks to complete in her own universe, just as he did his. Still the part of him that wished deeply for a chance to meet his family couldn't help but pray that she would be accepting of him, even if he didn't really fully understand Kryptonian culture.
Once his backpack was full he quickly went back to the barn. He changed into Clark Kent before he walked in. Cisco and Barry were expecting him, but they both did a double take before they looked at each other first.
"This is your secret identity?" Cisco asked in disbelief, "A pair of glasses? Please, please, please, tell me you aren't serious!" At Clark's sheepish farm boy shrug and looking down at his shuffling feet, Cisco face-palmed. "I will think of something." Barry began to laugh softly and Cisco glared at him. "You can't approve of this!"
Barry held up his hands. "Honestly with the posture shift and the attitude change I can see how he's gotten away with it here. We were expecting Superman so we could see through it." He smiled at Clark, "How long did it take for your friends to figure it out?"
Clark bit his lip as he thought back. "It took Lois a while since she didn't really look at 'Clark Kent' much and she was a little in awe of Superman. Jimmy took less time. He figured it out before Lois, but only because he actually takes the pictures of me so he could see it."
Barry nodded and held out his hand. "Well then, Clark Kent, it's good to meet you."
Clark chuckled and took his hand. "It's good to meet you too, Barry Allen."
Cisco clapped his hands together. "Okay, if everyone is ready? Let's get this show on the road."
Cisco stepped forward and concentrated on STAR Labs on his own Earth. It took a few seconds, and then the swirling vortex opened. Barry, with a quick, casual salute, jumped through first. Clark hesitated a second before he jump through, and Cisco followed after.
Being on other Earths while not uncomfortable, did make Cisco feel a little out of place. He was aware on an instinctual level that he was not in his own world, universe, multiverse, or whatever. Stepping back into the STAR Labs breach lab felt right, and he knew immediately he was home.
"Welcome to Earth 1." Cisco said as he carefully clapped Clark's shoulder this time as he walked by him. "Follow us and we'll introduce you to Caitlin."
"I'm going to run out and get some Big Belly burgers. Does anyone else want some?" Barry asked quickly. "I'm feeling a bit hungry." He explained to Clark.
"Yeah, get some for everyone." Cisco called over to him. "I need to eat before we try Earth 617." He wasn't really hungry after the pizza earlier, but he knew Caitlin was going to make him eat one of the protein bars she made for Barry if he didn't have real food in front of him before she let him try to breach again.
Caitlin entered the room at a near run. "Not before I check you out, and see what opening that breach did to your vitals and other body functions!"
Cisco held up his hands. "That's why we came here instead of jumping to Kara right away."
Caitlin noticed the out of place looking man in jeans and a plaid shirt over a simple black t-shirt. "You must be Kal El." She smiled warmly and held out her hand to him. "I'm pleased to meet you."
"Likewise ma'am," Clack replied bashfully before taking her hand gently. "I actually go by Clark, Clark Kent."
"Clark, then," She smiled pleasantly. She turned to Cisco with her patient but concerned look. It meant she wanted to be sure he was fine so she could stop worrying about him hurting himself with his powers. "Go up to the medlab before you eat, please." Looking at Barry she sighed. "Just get me a mini burger and a side salad please."
Barry nodded and didn't even smirk. He knew she watched her weight. She was always envious of the way he could eat anything and never have to worry about calories being too much. "Clark, can I get you anything?" He asked him as he checked his wallet for the STAR Labs credit card.
Clark laughed. "You didn't happen to eat with Kara did you?"
Barry rolled his eyes. "Together we ate an insane amount of food." He laughed softly. "Kara must have ordered from at least five different places and each was enough food to feed a family of six. By the time we left to go out, we'd ate all of it."
"Yeah, would three large burgers with the works be a big deal?" He hadn't thought about money. He imagined his wouldn't be any good on their earth.
Barry shook his head. "No problem. Did you want the milkshake and fries too?"
Clark's eyes glazed slightly at the thought of a milkshake. "Please, strawberry with whip cream?"
"Not a problem." Barry chuckled as Caitlin groaned. She loved their shakes but limited herself to one a week. Today wasn't her milkshake day.
Barry took off so fast that Clark barely saw him leave. He knew it had been too fast for the others and the papers flying everywhere surprised him.
"You don't have paperweights or just do electronic files only around here?" Clark asked somewhat bewildered by the loose paper.
Caitlin looked at him with a smirk. "It's one of the first indications that Barry's here. It's our Barry radar system. If the paper is flying he's been here at least temporarily, and we need to get to our computers and comlinks to help him with whatever problem he has found."
Cisco chortled loudly and ended trying to hide it in a cough incase Barry was around.
"For someone who is superfast he tends to be late… a lot!" He explained with a twitching smile on his face when he was sure Barry was actually still gone. Barry could sometimes be sensitive about always being late for work, dates, pretty much any important event in his life. As his best friend, Cisco tried not to make him feel bad about it when he could.
Clark couldn't help but snort with laughter. The idea that the fastest guy in the world couldn't get somewhere on time seemed the epitome of irony to him.
Barry was back five minutes later with enough Big Belly burgers for everyone. Caitlin was running her tests on Cisco. She had managed in that time to; isolate and verify that the hormonal imbalance she had identified previously was in fact there. It was the likely source of his powers, and it was easily managed. Like Barry's increased metabolism due to his powers, Cisco's would require a great deal of energy to open breaches, as long as he carried one of Barry's power bars for emergencies she was happy to let him try going to Kara's Earth, after he had a chance to digest his dinner for a bit first.
Cisco was actually feeling much better once he ate a burger. Big Belly burgers were well named. It still surprised him that tiny little Felicity Smoak had managed two in one sitting, along with a large milkshake and fries too. The things were huge! Easily a half pound of meat and toppings on a potato bread bun of yummy goodness.
He wasn't surprised to see Barry eat five whole meals, and an extra two burgers. Clark also put down three meals himself, while Caitlin ate her mini burger and salad.
Talk during the meal was limited. Clark still looked excited and anxious. Not that anyone could blame him. Cisco himself was getting excited for him. Barry hadn't spent a great deal of time with Kara, only a few hours, but they had shared a great deal of personal information in that limited space of time, even if most of it was superficial over all. Six hours was not much time in the scheme of things and they had spent some of that trying to see how much the two worlds were similar and different.
"So her Earth is completely different from ours, but yours and mine are quite alike." Clark had asked to double check his facts, Barry nodded confidently.
"I'm thinking the changes are because the gods of Asgard are still alive, so the changes started as far back as the early 'Middle Ages' possibly earlier." Barry told him his theory. "I spent a little time looking at the history books at the library. I was trying to see where and when the Gods of Asgard's influence changed things after my return. After the invasion of the Normans of England, other than small raiding parties, the Vikings didn't have much influence on history. The Greek Gods held much more sway with Greece and the Romans, and they kept the Viking Raiders in check, rather than allowing them to continue as they would have if their gods still existed." He looked a little sheepish at sharing his conclusions. "Without a chance to compare more of the histories with Kara's computer Brainiac, it's just my personal speculation though."
Clark nodded slowly. He could see that. The Greek Gods had a huge influence on both Greek and Roman histories; until Christianity had re-written many of the myths in the later 1500's. The changes tales were meant to demonize the Norse and the Pagan Religions. "And the changes between our worlds are mainly due to things that happened because of me. Things like the backlash against powerful forms of energy being harnessed on my Earth, because of the supervillains that have popped up to fight me."
Barry sat back and looked deep in thought for a long moment. "I think part of it is the fact that STAR Labs was being run by an evil genius from the future, here at least. His requirements to return to his future, helped to propel our world ahead of where we should be. Cold fusion was theory, but it was also being researched at STAR. The accelerator was sabotaged on purpose." He looked towards the particle accelerator. "Thawne really needed the explosion to happen so he could create me. Without me he couldn't go home to the future."
Clark nodded thoughtfully but he'd been distracted by something else he had said. "You said her computer is named Brainiac?"
Barry nodded as he watched Clark tense up a little. "Yeah, the image he projected was Loki." He looked down and away. "I'm not sure that was a very healthy thing for Kara to be doing, seeing him every day that way while she thought he was dead."
Clark nodded, but at the same time he could understand it. She had literally seen her world explode before. Keeping a dead loved one close, even if it hurt in the long run, was a natural response. It wasn't like she had anyone else to console her, at least as far as he knew.
Cisco finished his dinner and clapped his hands together. "Okay, since Caitlin wants me to wait a bit before I breach. I'm going to head home and pack a few clothes since I'm guessing we are going for a few days at least."
In his mind he was thinking of all the questions he'd written down at home for Tony Stark. His list had been building for nearly a year. He also made a quick mental note to actually pack some clothes with all his tech gear. There was no way he was going without bringing his laptop and a few other devices for recording. He had a feeling his computers were going to be less advanced than those on Kara's planet Earth, but darn it he was going to figure out as much as he could while he was there.
Barry had taken the time to gather a pack of clothes from home and left a note for Iris and Joe to let them know what was happening. He planned to call Iris before they headed out, but he'd wait until after Cisco got back so Caitlin didn't make Clark uncomfortable with all the biological based alien questions he could see churning through her head. Unlike everyone else she was too polite to start asking them while Clark was eating.
When he noticed Clark was done. He sped through his final two burgers. Caitlin was about to open her mouth when Barry interrupted her by saying, "Hey Clark, how about I show you around STAR Labs, and introduce you to Gideon."
"I was hoping to ask Clark a few questions." Caitlin pouted at Barry.
Clark smiled at them both. "Perhaps we can do both? I can answer a few questions for Dr. Snow, and you can show me the AI?" He compromised. Clark didn't know Caitlin well but he could guess how upset she would be if she didn't get a few answers at the very least. He knew that Lois would be like a pit-bull with a prized bone in a similar situation.
Barry hid his expression from Caitlin, but Clark got the message. 'I tried to save you man,' was clear and Clark managed a small smile in return.
"Well great, how about we start with the tour and Caitlin can ask away while we walk." Barry suggested. He blurred and cleaned up the mess from dinner and dumped it in the trash by the doorway.
Caitlin asked what he knew about his power. Where they came from? How his cells processed power? Could he get too low on power? Could he get too much?
Clark answered to the best of his ability, but it was clear to everyone that he hadn't studied his powers like they had with Barry, Cisco, or any of the metahumans they had gone against. They were all surprised when he told them that he had bad reactions to a substance called kryptonate. The substance was radioactive pieces of his home planet that had landed with his ship in a meteor shower all over the Midwest of the US. So far he had seen mostly red and green kryptonate, and both had affected him differently.
"So red made you evil, and green depowers you?" Caitlin asked with a touch of curiosity and a hint on concern as she processed how the radiation must have been at different waves to cause the different reactions and colors. She also wondered why the radiation was so specific. Why it couldn't be transferred from the crystalized rock pieces of his home planet to Earth-based crystals. Was there something special about his home planet?
Clark's jaw clenched as he nodded. "I have seen other colors of kryptonate, but as you can imagine I have not allowed myself to touch, or be in its presence without a lead suit."
In his fortress he had several of these other colored pieces of the rocks. He'd found some silver, black, orange and pink in the area around Smallville. That was where the majority of the meteors had landed and some had exploded on impact. Over seventy percent of the rocks found had been green. There had been a few different shades of blue too, and a few gems that looked like moving rainbow colors that swirled on a soap bubble, or oil slick. All of them were deeply buried in the ice in five feet thick lead lined chests that weighted thousands of pounds each. No one knew where Clark stored his Kryptonate. All anyone knew was whenever Superman encountered it, the crooks (or government agents) lost it, and it was never seen again. Everyone knew Superman was disposing of it, but no one even knew if it was on the planet, or been thrown into the sun.
"Of course not!" Caitlin exclaimed with a sense of horror. "No! Experimenting like that would be stupid and dangerous!" In her mind she was wondering what the other colors would do to him, but since red was emotional based there was no real way she could think of to test the other colors. They wouldn't likely react under a microscope if it was emotion or mind based, but they might be able to at least tell him which was which. She was still rolling this over in her mind when Barry brought them to Gideon's room.
"This is where we keep the AI from the future that I'm going to build someday." Barry explained with a touch of incredibility in his voice. He hated talking time paradoxes. His whole existence, this entire timeline, and all timelines from his mother's death were paradoxes thanks to Thawne; it made it complicated to think about. His mother's death was a Flashpoint caused by the evil speedster, one that Barry still hadn't completely decided if he was going to try and fix. Looking at the article and back at Superman, thinking of Kara and the Speedforce's warning about accepting his mother's death was the only thing holding him back at this point. A time paradox was also the reason he hadn't tried to look at Gideon's programing or inner workings, and he hadn't allowed Cisco to either.
He activated the unlocking sequence on the room and the three walked in. Gideon activated and she smiled at Clark. "Hello, Kal El of Krypton, Founder and Leader of the Justice League."
"The Justice League," All three questioned together. They shared looks of surprise and then turned back to stared at Gideon awaiting an explanation.
Gideon's face disappeared and a large text document replaced it. "Founded in 2017, The Justice League was a group of heroes from Earth 1 and Earth 38 who responded to galactic and large group of supervillains to keep their Earths safe. The core on Earth 38 were; Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. On Earth 1 it was the leaders of their teams; The Flash, Green Arrow and White Canary. Both Earths leadership worked in concert with the help of their breachers Vibe and Kismat. Batman created the plans and Flash created the power source with help from Tony Stark to create a space station called "The Watchtowers" to oversee the two Earths. Both computers had the ability to speak to each other and co-ordinate threats due to the interdimensional extrapolators installed in each station. The interdimensional extrapolator also allows the teams to move from Earth to Earth without the breacher members. They were coded to the unique DNA of the League members."
Barry stared even more gobsmacked then when he had first seen the article of his disappearance written by Iris Allen-West. "When did this happen? This wasn't part of our history before was it?" He also wondered why Kara's Earth wasn't on the same network. "And who created the interdimensional extrapolator?"
"This possible time variation appeared forty-two years ago and solidified earlier today." Gideon replied. "Cisco Ramon created the devices, in fact he is almost finished the first prototype at this time. It is perfected in less than a month from today's date. Now that he can jump dimensions he will be able to configure it for specific Earths."
Barry shook his head in amazement at Cisco's genius with electronics and merging it with his abilities. He turned to Clark. "Do you know a Batman or Wonder Woman?"
Clark shook his head with a look of surprise as he stared at the picture that had the heroes lined up by their teams with Kara, Barry and Clark in the front and center of the picture. "I know there is a vigilante in Gotham that dresses as a bat, terrorizing the criminal underworld there. That must be Batman, but I have no idea who Wonder Woman is."
"Wonder Woman's alias is Diana Prince, a historian in Metropolis Museum of Natural History. She is the Princess of Themyscira, a race of hidden immortal warrior women." Gideon added. "She also was instrumental in taking down a hidden traitor during World War I rumored to be called Aries after the God of War. Diana herself was quoted to have said he actual was an avatar of said God." Gideon pulled up a picture of the woman grouped with a small squad of Allied Soldiers in a French town from World War I. The picture was old, grainy, and in black and white, but the woman was standing there in a fur cloak and very short armor. "She will reach out to you when you will need help on your own Earth. It is best to let her come to you." Gideon advised. "Her race does not trust men who seek them out."
Caitlin had been completely quiet as she had read the article and when she looked at the pictures of the future group she had been stunned to see herself as Killer Frost. She was standing behind Barry as part of the Earth 1 Justice League. "This isn't possible!"
"What isn't possible?" Barry asked somewhat surprised by her disbelief. "All this is possible because of Kara's pod being set off course. It's only changing our world now because we had contacted her original Earth, changing our own course in history."
"Not that part, I know the impossible is quite likely possible now!" Caitlin shook her head and pointed to herself in the picture. "But that is Killer Frost, this says she is part of the Justice League, that's the part that is impossible right now."
Barry turned back and looked and recalled 'Lady Frost' from the article before. "That's Lady Frost. I think she's from a different Earth." He speculated.
"That is incorrect, Creator." Gideon interrupted. "Lady Frost is Dr. Caitlin Snow of Earth 1."
"I'm not a metahuman!" Caitlin exclaimed fearfully. "I wasn't changed during the explosion. I've checked! I have none of the markers of damaged or altered DNA. It's the same as it was when I was first brought into the facility. I was also in one of the few areas of the building that wasn't sheltered against any effects of the explosion. I was right next to Cisco near one of the Pipeline doorways. If it was possible I would have changed already."
"I don't know." Barry admitted slowly, he was as shocked as Caitlin was that she might have powers, especially powers that couldn't be linked to the Accelerator accident. "Maybe you'll gain your abilities later, like Cisco did. Maybe there was something about being that close to the explosion, and the power from it being pushed up and out of the building instead of outward through it?"
Caitlin shook her head again. "No, it's not possible. I have checked for latent abilities, since Killer Frost from Earth 2 was identified. I wanted to see if I would have her powers, and I don't!"
"Creator, Dr. Snow is correct. She is not a metahuman in the sense of being effected by the explosion caused by Eobard." Gideon told them. "In the original timeline of yesterday, she never learned to unlock the abilities. It seems events will lead to her learning how to safely unlock her powers."
Caitlin stared at the computer in shock. "I think I need to lie down." She turned to leave quickly, but Barry stopped her.
"Caitlin, we will figure this out. You don't need to worry." He told her as sincerely as he could. "If this is right, you aren't a killer. You're a hero like the rest of us." He tried to smile reassuringly but it was a little forced. Caitlin appreciated the gesture and patted his arm.
"Thank you, Barry." She tried to smile back, but hers was forced too, and a little brittle. She took his words to heart though and realized that he was right. Lady Frost was a member of a hero organization. It helped to lessen the shock, but she still wanted a few minutes to herself. It wasn't every day that she learned someone was born with metahuman abilities, even before being exposed like she had been in the partial accelerator explosion.
Clark cleared his throat. "We keep getting off track."
Barry gave him a sheepish smile. "Sorry, but a lot has changed around here for us in the past twenty-four hours too." Clark nodded with a sheepish grin back. He was just on edge waiting to meet his cousin. "Hey Gideon, do you have any information on Krypton and Asgard?" Barry asked her.
"I have extensive information on both." Gideon answered.
Clark and Barry shared a surprised look before both turned to the computer. "What can you tell me about pre-Kryptonian history as it relates to Asgard?"
"The Planet Krypton was a construct. The entire solar system was a gift of the last of the Dwarf Lords after Ragnarök to the new race of Kryptonians." Gideon replied. "All other knowledge is restricted to the Time Masters and authorized users."
Clark took a deep breath and he closed his eyes and took in that information. "So the Kryptonians were the survivors of the Nine Realms."
"All inhabitance of the Rao System were gifted the solar system by the Dwarf Lords." was the A.I's response.
Clark rolled his eyes and shook his head. "Why is it such a secret?"
"You have access to Asgard. There is only a few on the planet who can be trusted with such information. If any others were to learn the truth, all Kryptons in the Multiverses would be in danger of either never existing, or being destroyed by the enemies of Asgard, or any other more powerful being." Gideon replied. "The Dwarf Lords broke many treaties and committed an offence against several Celestials by creating the Rao System. Those treaties were with other races outside the Nine. Many did not wish to continue trading with the remains of the Nine. If the Celestials decide to take offence then the information could possibly leak to other multiverses, and endanger those that have managed to survive. It is unlikely that every Krypton has exploded in every multiverse."
Barry and Clark both stared opened mouthed at the comment. "So we could end up destroying the multiverse if this information became public knowledge?" Barry gasped the shock nearly physically staggered him.
"Not all multiverses, but a portion of them likely have a version of Krypton in which they are the stabilizing force. It is also likely that in every version of Ragnarök where Loptr's forces won, the Dwarf Lords will decide to create a system for the survivors. In most of those multiverses they succeed in creating the system. Only those multiverses without the Rao System would be unaffected." Gideon admitted. "It is a known equation in this multiverse and steps have been taken to eliminate this variable to save multiverses where Krypton exists, or did exist."
Clark and Barry once more shared a concerned look. "Who is the biggest threat known to be?"
"That is unquantifiable." Gideon replied. "There are five known entities that would embark on a mission to see the end of all Kryptons. All of them just as deadly as the next, and only two of them are capable of reaching through the multiverse. There are likely others who would also embark on this quest if they learned the true nature of the planet and its inhabitants. They would seek out those like Cisco Ramon who are able to breach the divide, and harness them for conquest."
"Okay I think we should stop looking into this." Barry told Clark uneasily. "Your Krypton was destroyed anyway. Let's not endanger the ones in other multiverses that did survive."
Clark gave him an uneasy nod. "Yeah," He replied quietly. "Let's just forget this." It now made sense why it was such a secret.
"That was the reason the information was restricted to the Time Masters in the first place." Gideon replied.
"Why did you give us the information then Gideon?" Barry couldn't help but ask.
"Creator, I was allowed to give you this much information because you are the first Time Master." Gideon explained. "And it was decided the release of this information if it was ever requested by you. The future you decided that this was the best way to stop you from looking any further into the information."
Barry looked ready to start banging his head against the wall. Clark couldn't help but chuckle to help alleviate his nerves. "You ask too many questions Barry Allen. And your future self seems to know exactly what you needed to know."
Barry snorted and looked over at Clark, "This coming from a reporter?"
"Touché," Clark snorted softly before his face slipped back into a seriously worried expression. "We need to keep this to ourselves obviously."
"Agreed," Barry told him as he nodded emphatically. "And explain it to Kara if she doesn't already know, as her Earth hasn't had Ragnarök yet."
They both stood there not knowing what to say for a moment before Barry turned to Gideon. "Can you give us a picture and bio of all The Avengers and The Justice League?" The printer immediately began to print off the requested information.
"Supergirl, Loki and Thor are not considered to be Avengers." Gideon told him. "Would you like their bios as well?"
Barry was glad the AI was so smart and knew what he had meant rather than to just give him what he had asked for. "That would be great."
"Printing the bios of The Avengers, The Justice League and The Asgard Royals," The female voice responded and several more sheets appeared. The Asgard Royals and The Avenger s bios were actually SHIELD profiles, with Top Secret stamps in the left hand corner and SHIELD logo at the top of each file. The Justice League had personal files from their own database it seemed, as they were labeled Watchtower personnel files.
Clark was most curious about Kara's abilities and began to read over her bio. Like he had expected she had the same abilities. Kara possessed virtually unlimited superhuman strength, speed, and stamina. She was invulnerable. She could fly at speeds ranging from hovering to above super-sonic by controlling her gravitational forces. She had the freeze breath. Her vision seemed to be the same as his with; x-ray, telescopic, microscopic, and heat vision. While not listed he imagined she also had superhearing. Likely she hadn't let on how good her hearing was to this SHILED Agency.
The bio also made note that Kara could not be harmed through physical force alone and has endured the shockwave created by the collapsing planet, and the forces involved in travelling through the wormhole that lead to Earth 617. It listed her susceptibility to magic as a weakness. It didn't mention kryptonite at all, or the fact that her powers came from sunlight, or more specifically yellow sunlight. Clark made a mental note to warn her about kryptonite before she visited his Earth, and red sunlight like Rao's star.
Barry watched Clark as he read over his cousin's bio. "Are they all there?" He asked, knowing what Clark was looking at.
Clark nodded slowly. "Yes, we seem to have the same powers." He was looking at the pictures of Kara and was amazed at the strength she was displaying. One picture made him shake his head. He doubted he could lift that much weight, never mind control the landing of something that big! "I think she might be stronger than me though." He showed the print out to Barry.
Barry looked at the report and his eyes bugged out. He shared a look with Clark and trashed the bio. "Let's not mention that one."
Clark nodded slowly. It was best if no one knew what she was capable of doing. There was a picture with the bio taken from a great distance, but her outfit was different from what she usually wore, so it was likely a future event. "Yeah, talking about the future like it has already happened would be bad right?" Clark was new to the 'time travel is real' club, but he figured if anyone would know 'the rules' it would be Barry.
His Barry, for his part, felt a little weight add to his soul. It was one more strike against going back in time to save his mother. Clark's innocent question made him question the validity of his reasons for considering going back again. "Yeah, playing with time is always a bad thing. The future isn't set in stone, until to happens, only then do events set in the timeline like cement. It takes a bit of time but once set, that arranges and lines up future events too."
"But it is possible to go back and change it?" Clark questioned him. Thawne had obviously done it.
"Yes, but it creates a new timeline if events change the outcome of an event." Barry sighed dejectedly. "The Butterfly Effect basically." Clark nodded knowingly. "I could go back and live in the past with my mother alive, but I wouldn't be in my child body. In the end I would be in a different timeline. I don't even know if I could come back to this one." Barry explained. Clark nodded again, that tracked with what he knew of the multiverse theory.
They looked over the other bios in silence. Clark was amazed at the abilities of some of the Avengers. They seemed to be balanced enough to do any job and a wide range of abilities, especially when The Asgardian Royals were added to the mix. The Avengers themselves were actual humans, with the exception of The Hulk, but even his base form was human.
Anytime The Avengers had needed a heavy hitter to join them, Kara, Loki and occasionally Thor would join them in taking down the bad guys according to the bios. Clark and Barry took note that at this time there were members of the Avengers team that were not yet part of the group. Falcon, Scarlet Witch, and Spiderman to name a few, they were not on the list as active members of The Avengers until two to five years from today's date.
"That's a pretty impressive group of heroes." Clark said quietly a few minutes later. Like Barry he could read much faster than most humans. Their range of skills was amazing. Barry was actually looking forward to meeting Hawkeye to see if he was better than Oliver.
Barry agreed. "Yeah, makes creating the Justice League a bit more daunting doesn't it." He smirked with a chuckle.
Clark barked out with a surprised laugh. He'd been thinking the same thing. On his own Earth he only knew of himself and now Wonder Woman who were 'super-powered'. Batman was human, but seemed to be the Tony Stark of his Earth; rich and able to build equipment to make up for his lack of powers. There wasn't anyone else he knew of on his Earth. "It seems we'll have to recruit heroes to our side."
Barry laughed and grinned widely. "I think I have more choice here. Metas are crawling out of the woodwork on my Earth. Not just in Central City, but all over the United States now." He added a bit more seriously. "Plus, I know the team White Canary is leading."
Clark very gently clapped Barry's shoulder. "I know I have just met you, but I have a good feeling about you Barry. I think you are going to be a great leader for your side of the Justice League once we get this up and going." Clark told him confidently.
Barry blushed, but was saved from having to reply by Gideon. "Mr. Ramon has returned and is heading to the breach room."
Barry took a breath and gestured to Clark to leave the room first. "Let's go see your cousin."
Clark chuckled a little nervously but nodded. Together they turned to walk towards the room. Each keeping in step with the other, each step though they sped up. Like Kara, Clark was able to keep step with Barry and less than a second later they were both in the Breach room laughing at the mini 'speed-walking race' they had had to burn off a bit of nervous energy.
Cisco frowned at them both. "It sucks that you both are so fast."
"But we can't do any of this without you, Cisco." Barry reminded him with a smile. Barry knew Cisco wanted to be an active member of Team Flash, but his tech skills were too useful to risk him against everyday villains, and he hadn't mastered using his powers offensively yet.
"Ok, here it goes." Cisco concentrated on Kara, Earth 617, and the picture of her and Loki. He pictured the vibration of the Earth they were on. Immediately he knew something was wrong.
"It's not working." Cisco said as he screwed up his face in concentration. "I'm going to try again." He held his hand out and concentrated extra hard on each step. He felt the connection to Earth 617 start, but when he focused on Kara the connection snapped.
He lowered his hand. "I can't get a fix on Kara." He admitted.
Barry looked concerned. "Maybe try Tony?" He held out the Iron Man bio with Tony's face at the top.
Cisco took the bio and looked hard at Tony's face and then tried again. This time the portal immediately took shape. "Ok that worked."
"Great." Barry said smiling. "I'll go first, then Clark, than you Cisco."
"Guys, just be careful, please." Caitlin called from the doorway.
"We will." Barry called back before he jumped through.
Clark took a deep breath and went to jump through only for the event horizon to shimmer and bounce him back across the room.
"What the-" Cisco lost his concentration and the portal closed. "Opps… shit I-" It took him a second to re-open the portal and Clark stood up slowly.
"Let me see if I can do that again." Clark said quietly. He walked slowly as Cisco muttered about taking it slow. It was low and if he did have superhearing he'd have never made out the words. He slowly pressed his fingers against the horizon and felt it push him back gently this time.
Where she went, you cannot follow. The words were whispered in his head. The whisper sounded like multiple voices hissing in unison. But she can come to the Island you stand upon, though she cannot follow you home.
Clark took a step back. "I can't go." His voice dripped with disappointment. "Something will not allow me to pass."
Cisco looked to the portal. "I have to go get Barry back then." He felt horrible for Clark. He was torn between staying and comforting him, and going after his best friend.
Caitlin solved his dilemma by coming forward and giving Clark a supportive touch on his arm to remind him that he wasn't alone.
Clark nodded slowly. "The voices said Kara could come here, but I can't go to her Earth, and she can't go to mine."
Cisco looked uneasy by the statement. "What voices?"
"I think it might be the Time Masters bosses." Clark replied with a sick looking smile.
Cisco, who had not been there for any of the conversation with Gideon and Barry, decided to just leave well enough alone for now. "Ok well, I'll just go get her then."
"Let Barry know what is going on, but don't come back without Kara." Caitlin ordered with a soft smile to Clark. "I think we have stressed out our guest enough."
"Okay, I'm going then." Cisco took one last look then jumped through the breach.