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.

24. Chapter 24: Freaks to Your Stations

And now another bedtime story for all you wonderful readers out there in the world.

Thousands of thanks for all the great reviews and messages, means a lot!

And I'm gonna do something different now, and answer some questions from the reviews:

Starpottergeek: Thanks for your comments, and for now, in this season, I will not have Ruby or Evelyn get symbiotes. Maybe in season 3 of the story, I have some ideas on how that would fit in. But thanks for the idea, definitely got the gears in my head to turn rapidly. And I'm sorry for not responding earlier.

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Now, for this chapter, I took non-canon characters from DC Comics and used them here. They're not in the TV Show, and I read about them from .com. Blissed be the creator of that wonderful website.

I've also using two characters from another CW superhero TV Show. Some of the characters didn't have hero/ villain names, so I've come up with some myself.

The start is gonna be a bit strange, but it will all be figured out, don't worry guys. I believe in you guys!

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Without further ado…

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Chapter 24: Freaks to Your Stations!

Nightmare.

The smells certainly accompanied that horrific feeling.

Smells of rotten popcorn and animal excrement stenches the air, spreading over the entire interior of this large and tall place. This place was once a place for joy and entertainment but now it was something else entirely, something beyond dangerous and now completely ghastly, in the sense it was something hellish.

Those were the only things that coursed through the mutant's mind, but they quickly faded when realizing whom he stood before as Venom. But that did nothing and made him stagger back in fear, each of his steps planting his feet into the ground.

One of him was terrifying, but… Four… he did not know what to think about four of him.

The sounds of deep dark cackles made him turn his head upwards, seeing him… them swinging from the ropes. He could recognize the same red symbiotic skin with black veins anywhere, and those white eyes too.

Both Carnages above him landed on the ropes and continued cackling, the elemental staggering back again, the fear making him forego the small skirts around the two Carnages' waists. Their leotard-covered bodies leaving him with a chilling feeling.

The booming footstep coming in front of him made the mutant to him. Another Carnage. But one of a different size… A size that the mutant was familiar with… A Carnage in the size of The Hulk. Huge bulging red muscles with black veins that seemed to pulsate with each swipe of his long serpentine tongue.

But the one in the back was the mastermind. Carnage standing there in a black penguin tail tuxedo, his black claws touching the tips of his black handlebar mustache. His right hand placed at the top of the black cane, his left hand tipping his black top hat.

"What's wrong, Dear Venom? Not liking the show?!" The Carnage in the suit said with a cackle, throwing the cane into the air and recapturing it with his clawed hand in a dramatic manner. The other three Carnages joining in, laughing maniacally in unison.

"What… How did we get into this hell?" Seth thought as the Hulk-sized Carnage charged for him. The elemental's eyes filled with the humongous red shoulder as he continued to stand terrified.

X 60 Hours Earlier X

Snow continues to fall over the entire city, a darkened alleyway not spared from falling coldness. Everyone in the alleyway not moving a single muscle, their eyes trained on one another with an unwavering conviction.

Eye Sight, Felicity Smoak hissing and sniffing as snow falls on top of her head. She loves Christmas above all the holidays. It was the holiday that was celebrated all over the world, in difference manners in different countries. But she is not one for snow, easily getting sick in these cold times, quicker than anyone else in this entire city. She could practically feel the snot hanging out of her nostril like a sick cartoon character.

Black Siren, Laurel, hated the snow and wiped it away as soon as it touched her body. In her current attire, she wasn't exactly suited for the snowy Christmas weather. She could feel every area of her body shivering, she was practically shaking like a leaf in the snow. A leaf in black leather to be exact.

Killer Frost didn't even feel the snow that fell on her body. Each snowflake paling in comparison to the coldness her body emits, not even worth acknowledging. She was too busy taking in the elemental's form. Her eyes couldn't keep them off his body, especially how he looked in that fetching new trenchcoat. She'd have to fight the urge to not just eat him right up.

Seth Fury shifts his eyes between the two metahuman criminals with great confusion. But another desire rose inside of the pits of his body, a desire to massacre those he considers threats right this moment. His partner responding to his feelings and thoughts and slithering underneath his clothes, ready for bond and strike them down in a moment's notice.

"Nice present, Felicity. I won't waste it!" Seth shouted and quickly retracted his sword out of his back, his hands wrapping around the handle.

"Wow!" Black Siren shouted.

"Calm down, boy!" Killer Frost urgently shouted to him, like she was commanding a hound.

"Seth, stop!" Felicity jumped in front of him, stopping him from attacking

The elemental stopped, looking at Felicity. "What the hell, Lindy? Damn it, Felicity." He corrected himself.

"Trust me on this." Felicity asked of him in a calm tone.

"I thought we were friends now… And now you're what? Trying to ambush me with two of Zoom's goons?" Seth asked coldly.

"No! I swear, it's not that!" Felicity exclaimed, hoping he wouldn't commit himself to that idea. "Please… Trust me, Seth. I beg you."

"What do you think?"

"She's not lying, it's not an ambush." Venom said, but his tone remained skeptical as they were in this situation. "But we shouldn't believe this couldn't be a trap."

"Yeah, you're right." Seth was still in doubt, trying to figure why the two criminals were brought here, but also why he was brought here. He sighed his concede and let go of the sword handle, not able to find a possible reason for this no matter how hard he thought about it. "I'm trusting you here, Felicity. Don't… misuse that trust, you won't like my bad side in anyway."

"Pal, I've seen your bad side already, you went Gitmo on Kendra when she went berserk and took down nine motels and hotels in one night." Felicity reminded him abruptly with a dry look. Seth realized she was right; the entire city has already seen his bad side now.

The technopath exhaled, happy she was able to calm down the elemental. Turning around on the spot she faces Siren and Frost, both relaxing as the mutant had lowered his arms. "Funny to see you scared for once, Laurel. Not to mention you Caitlin."

Seth snapped his eyes to the technopath, his expression passive but inside he was confused and shocked by her knowing the criminals' real names. At least, the ones they were born with before life diverted them down a dark path.

"That's not my name." Killer Frost stated angrily in a distortive voice at her old name.

"Not to mention not mine." Black Siren stated in the same animosity tone as her co-criminal.

Felicity rolled her eyes. "Come on guys, it's me not anyone else."

"You know them both? Their real names and everything?" Seth asked her surprised.

"I should. I went to med school with them both." Without even looking at him, Felicity could feel the mutant's eyes widen in shock. Turning to him, she elaborated. "The three of us got into medical school and we tried it out, just for the heck of it. It didn't go so well and-"

"And we dropped out." Killer Frost smugly said, like she was proud of dropping out of med school. "Real boring too." She gave the mutant a flirtatious smile. "Not enough fun being in a good-two-shoes school like that. More fun to reign in hell."

"Whatever you say, you're still the same old Caitlin Snow who used to sleep during those long-ass lectures back at med school. Even if you are sporting a new look with awesome hair and all." The technopath made a gesture to the icy metahuman's clothes and hair.

"If you got it, flaunt it, right?" Killer Frost gave a mock pose, making sure her eyes were focused on the mutant who remained passive.

Felicity chuckled and looked to Seth. Her eyes expanded to new limits when seeing him give her a frown. "What's with the frown?"

Black Siren chuckled and nodded to the icy metahuman. "She's here, what's not to frown at?"

"Take a look at the mirror lately, Siren? You're not exactly interesting." Killer Frost sniped back.

"Seriously what's with the look, Seth?" Felicity asked, not getting a response from him for a while now.

Seth then answered with a smack of his tongue. "You have a video of your old friend, who turned into an ice queen, and the guy you wanted help from, the same guy you had people follow for a while… kissing."

Felicity blushed, Laurel raised an eyebrow, and Caitlin smirked intrigued by this piece of information.

"You knew this the entire time… and you still have the video…" Seth gulped before nodding rapidly. "Pretty sure your pervert side is showing itself, much like your doppelganger. Except for the fact you pretty much jumped over a few levels and have the makings of a porn director now."

"Dude, come on!" Felicity didn't like his dirty thoughts.

Coughing loudly, Killer Frost got the technopath's attention. "Felicity, you got that video on you?" Seth gave her a strange look and the icy metahuman explained. "What? Girl's gotta entertain herself at night somehow, doesn't she?"

"Should have expected that one, Seth." Venom noted of his host who slapped himself after getting that flirty response.

Seth shook his head and then asked the more important question. "Why did you bring me here, Felicity? And why bring these two here, too?"

"We asked her." Laurel clarified.

"Why?" The elemental demanded.

"To thank you." Killer Frost stated, not at all helping the elemental to understand what's going on here.

"You're not making any sense, at all." Seth admitted. "Why would you wanna meet the guy who swore to kill you the next you'd meet?"

"Because of Blackfire." Felicity gave him a piece of the puzzle.

"I killed the bastard, what about him? Don't tell me he came back?" Seth fired off.

"No, you handsome dummy." Killer Frost assured him, getting his attention. "We wanna thank for getting rid of that annoying bastard once and for all."

"…" His lack of response and his questioning gaze told the two criminals to continue.

Caitlin nodded and inhaled. "We've never liked Blackfire's operations." Killer Frost used her right hand and tightly clutched her left forearm. "The way he profited of those girls' torments… We didn't like it, we hated it."

"We may be on Zoom's side but even we have our limits." The sonic cryer added. "We had to turn a blind eye to his operations because of Zoom."

"But then we saw the news of you taking out his operations, every last one of them, in a single night." Killer Frost smiled in appreciation. "You even challenged him and brought Blackfire back to Central City… and killed him before our eyes."

Black Siren nodded. "We wanna say… Tha-"

"Keep it!"

Seth's response caused the three women swing their eyes to the mutant in shock, each pair of eyes expanded to planetary limits. Their shock melted for a moment when seeing his eyes lose all life.

"You both admitted to turning the other cheek as these kids, children were forced into a hell that no one should experience… You ignored their suffering, because of what? Your stupid and pathetic allegiance to Zoom? Give me a break." Seth scoffed his disbelief and continued. "You were scared, and that made you want to not interfere in his operations. You turned your back on those girls' suffering, when though with your powers you might have stopped him and got them out of there."

"You saw his powers, didn't you?" Black Siren said, pointing his bandaged and shaking arm. "How'd you think your arm got like that?"

"By standing up to him and fighting against that piece of scum." The mutant sneered, making shivers travel down the cryer's spine. "Yeah, my arm might be on the verge of bursting up like a water balloon," he clenched his right fist. "but if that meant protecting the innocents, I would happily give my arm, legs, my entire body for it. Even if it meant taking him down with me."

The conviction he was showing was incredible, shaking the very cores of the two criminals. It was enough to overwhelm the feeling they get when they see him don his demonic anti-hero persona. It was a conviction that was enough to overcome that of a demon.

"So if you wanna say thanks for doing something neither of you could? Keep it to yourselves." The mutant snapped at the metahumans. "I don't want thanks for protecting people, that's not why I do this." Seth stated and reminded them coldly.

"And remember this, Black Siren and Killer Frost: You're not the people I know," he made eye contact with Caitlin's doppelganger. "or the person I love… I won't hesitate to strike you both down when it comes to that." He turned around in an instant, the wind blowing against his new trenchcoat and making it flap in the air.

He walked to the exit of the alleyway. "Felicity, I'm gonna meet you tomorrow at a certain spot, I'll text you the place and bring Mera and Kendra too." Felicity nodded, even though he didn't turn to her.

Lashing out an arm the mutant shot out tendrils and wrapped them around them a lamppost before pulling on them, launching himself into the air.

Felicity lowered her arms, her hands slapping against the sides of her thighs before looking to her old friends. "Sorry, guys, didn't think he'd be this stingy like this."

"Considering what he's seen and how we are, it's not that surprising, I guess." Killer Frost stated, her voice sounding disappointing like she was in regret.

The technopath found that surprising and confusing at the same time. It was an unusual tone for the icy metahuman to use. "Hey, did he just admit he loves your doppelganger?"

"For the second time." Killer Frost confirmed in a sad voice once more.

X

"Wow…" Kendra said as she focused on Seth who stood on the obsidian ground surface.

The next day, things were looking strange. Those same things were also the centers of attention as Mera and Kendra stood on top of a hill, looking at the mutant with his right arm blazing with black flames who stood on the spot with obsidian underneath his feet.

Any other day, the Badlands would be a deserted area with nothing but cliffs of obsidian rocks and bedrock all around. Hills not too far from them holding forestry with large trees, rooted into the ground. Strong enough to go through the hard ground.

She and the Atlantean standing far from the elemental as he let his black flames travel up his forearm to envelope his entire arm with the abyssal flames. Even from their position, they could see his entire face riddled with sweat, drops of the body liquid sliding down his face and evaporating due to the intense heat emitting from the flames.

"He's come far, didn't he?" The flyer asked.

Mera unsurely shrugged. "He's got it into the rest of his right arm, but that's not much."

"Let's check on him, then." Kendra sprouted her wings.

The Atlantean placed her hand on her shoulder, stopping her from taking flight. "He told us to wait, Kendra. It's good we're here, but Seth only called us here because he was worried his flames might grow out of control. I can use water to stop his flames from spreading and try to put them out."

Tapping her friend with her right wing, the flyer gestured to her wings. "What am I gonna do? Flap my wings hard and hope they go puff?"

"I mean, it's… a possibility, isn't it?" Mera said in a playful voice.

"You're not…" Kendra stopped herself when seeing the mutant fall to his knees and the black flames fading from his arms. "Mera!" She jumped into the air and took hold of Mera, grabbing hold of the Atlantean before flying down to the ground level.

X

Seth panted heavily and felt his right arm shake. "Heat exhaustion?" He diagnosed himself. "Lovely." It was the only possible cause for him to feel this way. The prolonged exposure to unaccustomed heat is making him fatigue and collapse.

"Seth!" Mera shouted as she and Kendra descended to his side. The water-user rushing to him and taking out the water containers from her belt.

"No don't!" Seth stopped her, both looking confused. "I have to do this on my own." He brought himself back to his feet and flexed his right arm, reigniting the abyssal flames once more with his other hand grabbing it tightly.

Seeing the flames once more travel up to his envelop his entire arm, stopping at the shoulder, Mera worriedly asked. "Seth, maybe you should consider taking a break? You look like you're about to fall down."

"Nothing… but… Heat exhaustion." Seth spoke through gritted teeth. "Happens to the best of us… and I need to fight my way through the pain…" His teeth clenched, the flames on his arm growing bigger. "And make this element mine. Make it… Submit!"

The two women watched as the flames continued up from his shoulder, reaching the side of his throat. But it appeared to be stopping there, unable to travel further up his head. Unwilling even to continue onwards past the wall. It was like a virus met a wall that forced it into a halt, blocked by the immunity system.

"Come on, come on!" Seth began to chant repeatedly, ordering himself to fight through the pain that followed the dark matter element's spreading. Gasping he felt himself lose control. He unclenched his fist and was brought down to his knees once more, panting heavily. "Damn it."

"How long does this thing usually take?" Kendra asked.

"Taking in a new element takes time." The mutant raised his right arm again, tendrils coming out and wrapping bandage around his arm once more. "Normally around a few hours, but this is a dark matter element. It's way different and way more dangerous than any of my other elements."

"You have any idea on how to take control?" Mera asked him.

"No." Seth shook his head, using tendrils to wrap more bandage around his entire right arm. He got up and fastened the bandages with his left hand. "It's gonna take some major force to make this one my own. Major power and major time."

"But…" Mera waited expectedly.

"Gonna try again tomorrow or something, maybe." He sounded disappointed.

"You don't sound too hopeful." The flyer noted after heating his words.

"The pain is lessened now thanks to spreading the flames to my entire arm." The mutant started. "But the drawback is that the pain is now spread over my entire limb." He said with closed eyes, breathing in heavily. "The pain's gonna be worse when I try to use my flames again."

"Sorry to hear." Kendra said, unsure of what else to say.

Seth smiled appreciatively.

"Your phone is ringing." Venom informed, a tendril holding up his ringing phone.

Taking hold of the phone, he opens it and accepts the call. "Iris, what's up?"

"Seth, I know you're busy with training, but do you have time later to help us out at the precinct?" Iris asked.

"I'm done with my training for now, I can come by in a few minutes." He stated, briefly glancing at the two powered ladies beside him. "I got Mera and Kendra here too, want me to bring them along if this is metahuman problem?"

"Please do so, yeah. The more help the better." Iris expressed gratefully.

"Okay, see you in five." He hangs up and looked to them. "Wanna take a trip downtown?"

"Coppers back already, not surprised." Kendra joked.

X

(CCPD, CSI Lab)

With Barry sitting in front of his computer and typed away on the keyboard, Iris was behind and looking over his shoulder at the screen. "Huh?" The CSI scientist lifted his glasses as he noticed the lead CSI scientist on the case files.

"What's wrong, honey?" Iris asked.

Barry gestured to the files beside his computer. "Looks like Patty Spivot was a CSI tech on most of these… Strange cases."

Iris couldn't keep herself from chuckling at his words. Strange cases are the new normal for the police department. But even though she did chuckle at his words, she couldn't disagree with him.

The video footage for this case… was certainly strange… to say the least.

"Iris, Barry."

The detective and her husband looked to the left, seeing the elemental jump through his open window. Following behind him is Kendra who flew in with Mera in her arms. "You called?"

"Seth, I would appreciate it if you used the door like a normal person would." Barry strictly told the mutant.

"Normal's boring. Abnormal's the new trend, Barr." Seth quipped before looking to them with a serious expression. "But what did you need help with?"

"Come here, we need your metahuman eyes on the matter." Iris waved them over to their side to watch the footage they've gotten. Nodding they stood behind the CSI scientist who pressed a key on his keyboard, starting the video. "Others have seen the same, but we've stumbled upon a few of these cases, robberies that were met with little-to-no resistance even though the police arrived at the scene and had their guns trained on the robbers."

"But then things… got strange and the robbers walked away with their score." Iris nodded to the video. "Tell us what you guys see."

The three powered beings turned their attention to the computer screen, locking onto the video footage they played.

It started, displaying the insides of a bank vault, an uncountable numbers of radiant gold bars on dozens of each one of the shelves within the vault. A single metal table in the middle of it. Two men standing in front of it, both wearing strange clothes.

One is of a pale-skinned bald man with a humongous size, a size that made the mutant think back to the size of the emerald powerhouse that was the Hulk. This humongous man was clothed in black shorts and a black tank-top, the only hair on his face are his red eyebrows and his handlebar mustache of the same color.

Seth mentally noted his size wasn't just for show as he effortlessly placed ten gold bars into a brown duffel bag with a single hand.

The other pale-skinned man was also strangely clothed but displaying equally strange behavior. Like his companion, he sports a handlebar mustache, of a darker black color. He didn't do anything, merely leaning against the metal table in his black penguin tail tuxedo with a black cane spinning around in his right hand. His left hand placing his top hat back on his head.

"We got two strange ones here, it looks like." Seth commented after taking in their individual attires. "But they stole the gold and tried to escape."

"Tried and succeeded, it's more like." Iris pointed to the screen again. "Keep watching."

Returning their attention to the screen, they saw the bigger man take hold of all four duffel bags, swinging their straps over both his humongous arms. The man in the tuxedo made a gesture to the exit with his cane, clearly the brains of the heist. Walking to the exit, they exited the frame.

The footage then switched to the camera outside in the lobby. The two strangely clothed men walking into it and coming to a stop as they noticed four cops standing before them.

"Four cops responded to the silent alarm and rushed to the scene. Two men and two women and they met these two." Barry informed, pointing between the four officers and the two robbers.

Returning to the video, they saw the officers open their mouths and speak to the two robbers, most likely telling them to return the stolen goods and get down on their knees to arrest them after restraining them. But it didn't appear that jailtime was not on the robbers' agendas for that day.

The man with the top hat dramatically spun his cane around and then the strange things happened… for some reason… the two male officers turned to one another, while the two female officers fell to their knees, dropping their guns in the process.

The two men faced one another and then suddenly screamed; their firearms thrown at one another as though they were rocks. Each of them connected but did little to no damage before they charged for one another, both thrown into the ground and hitting each other like madmen.

"What the hell is going on?" Mera asked as she watched the two female officers curl into balls, looking to be breathing quicker than before.

The two men continued beating each other into a pulp, blood coming out of their mouths and nostrils after each strike. "They… They're going on all murder on each other for no reason?" Kendra unsurely commented.

"Looks like." Seth followed up in confusion.

"And while the officers are acting like it's WrestleMania or their own bedrooms, for some reason," Iris noted at the female officers' behavior. "the two robbers just walk out of the bank like they just came to make a withdraw."

"That's certainly one way to say it, honey." Barry agreed sarcastically.

"But what happened?" Seth asked.

"That's what we were hoping you knew." Iris answered, facing the mutant while her husband paused the video. "For some reason two of our officers fall to the ground and breathing like they're having panic attacks and the other two suddenly attack each other like bulls and trying smash one another."

"What happened to them after they got back?" Seth asked.

"The two men were sent to the hospital, badly bruised, broken ribs and blood loss." Barry listed off as first. "The two females are still here, downstairs but they're waiting for a doctor to come and do a check-up."

"Could be a metahuman, maybe." Kendra suggested.

"Would explain the giant who's able to lift gold bars with a single hand." Seth said. "The guy… I don't know about him."

"Seth could you check over the officers downstairs and see if you can get any clue?" Barry asked.

"Yeah, sure." He nodded and walked to the exit. "Be right back."

"I'm going with you." Kendra stated and walked after him, both leaving the room the next moment.

X

As both she and Seth walked down the staircase, Kendra looked to him and asked. "If the big one is power-based metahuman with superstrength, then the other one might be some kind of a hypnotist."

"Would explain his outfit." Seth mused and Kendra laughed her agreement, both finding the top hat-wearing man's outfit incredibly ridiculous. "But don't know about the hypnotist-angle, but definitely possible for him to be a metahuman like the other one."

"Metahuman Bonnie and Clyde, huh? Minus Bonnie and replaced with another Clyde." Kendra joked.

"Double trouble, looks like." Seth agreed as they reached the lobby floor. They turned towards the area with the desks.

When passing into the area, they saw the two officers by a desk, both heads pointing downwards in shame, assumingly. "That's them." Seth noted, also noticed the two officers wearing blankets around their bodies.

"What with the blankets?" Kendra asked, hearing footsteps behind her she turned and saw Iris coming towards them with long strides. "Detective West, what's up?"

"Iris, please, Kendra. You spent Christmas with us, after all." The detective told her. The flyer nodded her acceptance. "Just realized, most here don't know Seth's a doctor."

"Can't imagine why?" Kendra sarcastically said with a glance to the mutant.

"Don't blame me, they're the ones who don't ask." Seth feigned a defense.

Iris laughed and walked forward, stepping in front of the powered beings to address her colleagues. "Officer Addie and Officer Stone." The two women looked to see the detective. "How are you two doing after that scene at Central City Bank?" They didn't respond, returning their attention to the floor with redness coming over their faces.

Seth felt his partner mentally narrow his eyes on the faces of both officers, taking in the redness. "That… is interesting."

"What do you mean?" Seth inquired of his "other."

"Play doctor and find yourself for now, Seth." Venom quipped with a mental smirk.

"Okay…" Seth sheepishly answered and stepped closer to the officers. Clearing his throat, he got their attention. "Officers, I'm Seth Fury, a doctor. Detective West here asked me to give you both a quick check up."

"Okay." Officer Stone agreed, redness still plastered over her entire face. Officer Addie nodded her agreement, an equal amount of redness still over her entire face.

"Thank you." Seth crouched down before them both. "It's gonna be a simple check-up, nothing too grand." He assured them as they unwrapped the blankets from their bodies. The mutant looked to Officer Stone and placed his hands on the sides of her face, he trailed his right hand down to her pulse and gently applied pressure.

"High blood pressure…" He noted intrigued. He also took notice of the officer breathing quickly, the redness on her face growing deeper. "Quick breathing… high pulse…" He noted with surprise, getting confused at what the possible conclusion he was reaching.

Turning to the other officer, he did the same check up on Officer Addie. With widening eyes, he directed to his partner. "You think…"

"Oh yeah. These officers are-"

"Don't!"

Seth coughed and stated. "You two are good, just stay calm and… take it easy for the next couple of days." He received a nod from them both and returned to his full height. With a gaze to Kendra and Iris, a gesture to the lobby area, he directed them to follow him.

They walked into the lobby area and the mutant looked to them with a sheepish expression, as though he was struggling to find the right words. "This is gonna be awkward."

"Comes from the guy who openly stated a woman had gone into labor in the middle of this police precinct?" Iris stated.

"Oh right, I hope she and her family's doing well." Seth muttered before saying. "Those two officers… They're showing signs of arousal." Neither of the women could believe his words, their mouths gaping to new undiscovered limits.

Kendra raised an eyebrow. "Didn't think thrill seeking were part of being a cop."

"It's not." Iris looked in disbelief. "You're really sure?"

"My partner confirmed the same." Seth stated, and it appeared the words of confirmation from his "other" made them agree. "But they're… They look it's sort of unnatural."

"What do you mean?" Iris asked.

"They look… it looks like they… I really don't know." Seth rubbed his chin.

At that moment, the Captain of CCPD walked into the lobby. Julio Mendez, the dark-skinned authority figure looked to Iris West. "West." Iris looked to her Captain. "You ready to suit up for tomorrow's operation? It's gonna be a big operation, you know. We need all powerhouses on this one."

"I am, sir, as soon Barry stops trying to talk me out of this plan." Iris joked.

Julio chortled. "I can take a cut out of his paycheck, see if that'd help grease the wheels or something." He walked away.

"Will do, sir. See you tomorrow." Iris called out to her boss.

"What's going on tomorrow?" Seth asked.

The detective answered. "After the scene at Central City Bank, the Mayor is worried about the other vault of gold at the bank. So the gold is gonna be moved from Central City Bank and into Central City Gold Reserve, way more security that makes the bank feel more confident." A flash of inspiration came over the detective's mind.

"Wouldn't they just move the gold today instead?" Kendra asked.

"Not if they have to put everything place first." Seth stated

Nodding her understanding, the flyer spoke. "So what's the next step then?" Kendra directed to them both.

"We lay a trap for them." Iris said and smirked. "The two of you and Mera are gonna be there as extra security, while we transport the gold tomorrow."

"Not a bad plan, especially since these guys are interested in fat pieces of gold." Seth stated with confidence and determination. He needed to do this as his progress with making the new element submit to him had met a giant wall.

"I'll have Lindy bring in some of her resources to see if we can put a name on these two, somehow." Kendra walked to the exit after suggesting that.

X

(Lindy's Base)

Felicity Smoak fiddled with her phone, looking at the empty black screen as though she was waiting for it to announce another caller ID.

The call from Killer Frost… Caitlin Snow made Felicity continue her old and real self once more, accepting the person is again. But that person remembered the time she was in med school with both her and Laurel Lance.

The three of them doing whatever they wanted. Whether it be annoying the teachers with their antics, usually bringing alcohol to their lectures, or just plainly sleeping through the lectures and snoring loudly like animals. Felicity remembered those times. Even though she slept through some of the classes herself, she was always there to wake up her friends with a good and hard slap to the tops of their heads.

That would always end up with the hacker fixing them a round… No, rounds of drinks. Countless bottles of Pinot wine for the woman who would become Black Siren. Endless rounds of Mai Tais for the woman who would become Killer Frost. Felicity only needed red wine for herself, she could lose herself in that beverage back then.

Unlike Felicity, the two others were affected by the deaths of their loved ones in their family.

But everything changed when the particle accelerator exploded and affected them, forever changing them and they became metahumans. One gaining the power to scream at high frequencies. The other gaining the powers of cryokinesis. The last one gaining the power to communicate with technology itself and ask them for aid.

Felicity reached for the bag of Big Belly Burger, opening it and pulling out three fries. Throwing them into her open mouth, she chews loudly as she keeps her focus on her phone screen. She briefly wondered if her old friends would contact her once more.

Along with that thought, she also thought back to the mutant who refused her old friends' words of gratitude after he disposed Blackfire.

She wondered what this led to, as she continued eating her fries, slowly making her way towards her awaited burgers.

"Stress-eating again, Lind?" Kendra asked as she stepped into her office.

Felicity threw her arms up. "Felicity now, and don't judge me, alright!"

"Right sorry." Kendra recalled the metahuman going back to her old name but had forgotten all about it.

"So what's the stats now? The CCPD transporting gold because of the latest break in at Central City Bank, maybe?" Felicity knowingly quipped.

Kendra narrowed her eyes. "Who'd you know that?"

Throwing her a mock stern glance, the metahuman gestured to herself. "Hi, Felicity Smoak, technopathic genius and notorious hacker. You may have heard of me?"

"Funny." Kendra took a seat on the chair. "But since you know about that…" she trailed off with a knowing look.

The technopath chuckled at that expression, realizing what it meant. "I checked their faces but I haven't found anything yet, no, sorry. Something strange did come up, though." Kendra waited for her to elaborate. "For some strange reason, Central City Circus came up."

Kendra remembered that name, that circus. "I remember that one. It was a damn popular circus for a long time, their ringmaster always leaving his audience in awe or something, right?" Felicity nodded while gnawing on her fries. "Didn't they stop or go down or something sometime later?"

"Yeah, people found the acrobats and other circus people them… freaky and stopped coming altogether." Felicity recalled.

Kendra chuckled. "Wonder what the hell this has to do with that old Circus?"

X

(Zoom's Hideout)

Icy mist swirled around her right index finger, forming a long sharp spear-like icicle. Killer Frost closed her left eye, narrowing her right one in a mock manner as reeled her right hand back. Thrusting it forward, she watches as the icicle connects with the cell that belonged to their former mutant prisoner. The sound of it shattering against the interior of the cell left Jesse Wells shaking as she was chained in her own cell.

As the ice queen's back was leant against the glass wall of their iron-masked prisoner, she swirled her finger around once more, forming another sharp icicle. This one she didn't throw. Instead she nibbled on the tip of the cold icicle, running its sharp tip over the surface of her soft bottom lip.

Killer Frost briefly imagined that Seth was back in his old cell once more, waiting for her to step inside of it once more to relish in her hot and cold presence. She would let him.

Her teeth lightly touched the tip of her icicle, she realized the chances of that happening would be slim. He wouldn't wanna do that, not after what he declared to her and Zoom's henchmen.

"What's wrong, babe?" Deathstorm asked her.

Flickering her hair, the icy metahuman looked to him. "Nothing, just chilling." She jokingly said, her tongue flickering against the tip of the icicle.

"Well, I can change that pretty quick…" Deathstorm trailed off flirtatiously as he stepped closer to her, wrapping his arms around her waist and pulled her close. His head bursting into flames and his eyes turning white following.

"And how would you do that?" She faked innocence while trailing her icicle along her boyfriend's cheek.

Deathstorm leant down and kissed her deeply, to which she reciprocated. Jesse groaning in disgust at their make out session.

But then Black Siren walked in and made a loud retching sound, like she was throwing up. She got the attention of the two metahumans. Mockingly she wiped her mouth and said. "I'm sorry, I just saw something very disgusting and it forced my breakfast up again."

"You mean your own reflection?" Killer Frost sniped with a rapid nodding. "I get that, not very pretty to look at."

Black Siren narrowed her eyes with a chuckle. "I can break ice with my voice and you really say that shit?"

"And you wonder why you don't have any boyfriends?" Killer Frost countered with a smirk.

Shrugging, she countered back. "Well, I hear Seth's on the market, might just go and fetch him." She had to force back her laugh when she noticed the blazing fire of rage dancing in the icy metahuman's eyes.

Deathstorm looked to the cryer. "Something else happened, Siren?"

"Oh yeah." Laurel recalled with an uplifted head. "Guess what's back in town?"

"What?" Killer Frost asked.

"The circus." Black Siren stated, watching the eyes of the other criminals widen instantly.

X

The next day, after having gotten a good night's rest, the elemental latched onto the side of a building with both planted on it and his claws digging into the surface. On his back, was Mera in her golden suit with her trident on her back. Kendra hovered beside them as she flew with her wings sprouted outwards, also fully suited in her suit.

Hearing the ringing and chiming sound of a certain truck, the three sets turned their gaze downwards to the source. Seth didn't know how to feel about the idea from his Earth used on this Earth too.

An ice cream truck drove through the streets, its horn ringing out loudly to get attention as it drove.

Mera crawled high up the mutant's symbiotic oil-like skin and looked at his face from his back. "Seth, you really think this plan will work?"

"We trust Iris. Not just us, all three of us." The other powered beings agreed with a series of nods. "But…"

"But what?" Kendra inquired.

Venom narrowed his red eyes in the eye sockets of his white skull-extension. "On our Earth we had a similar situation, one that ended up using this same plan. Transporting the targeted goods in a truck like this… the gold wasn't stolen but the truck was intercepted by the criminal."

"You stopped it." Kendra deduced.

"Yeah, along with The Flash. One of my friends were in that truck… just like now." Seth said as the truck came to a red light and came to a stop. "We're gonna have to stop this somehow."

"Wait look." The Atlantean got their attention, pointing a finger towards the car. Seeing that a group of children with their male teacher were walking towards the stopped ice cream truck.

"Déjà vu."

X

The teacher stepped closer to the car window and knocked on the window, getting the driver's attention. Floyd Lawton, wearing a blue shirt with yellow suspenders and a funny paper hat with an ice cream cone embroiled on the left side, reached over and opened the window.

Coughing sheepishly, he told them sadly. "Sorry, no more ice cream." He tried to keep the persona as best as he could, but it was very difficult. Especially in this ridiculous outfit.

The teacher widened his eyes with a tilted head, argued with a nod to the horn on the top of the ice cream truck. "Then why's your music still playing?" His question came, the disappointed looks from the children coming as well.

Coughing again as though he was waiting for someone to help him, he stated. "Yeah, there's technical issues with that thing, won't stop blaring." He added with a laugh, the looks from the children beginning to feel like daggers.

He pulled away from the window and slid the window shut, the teacher continuing to give him looks of disbelief along with the children beside him. Sighing his defeat, the teacher led the children away. Floyd saw the light turn green and drove away.

From within the cargo of the fake ice cream truck, was Iris West along with other armored officers suited up in SWAT armor. Like on a certain Earth, their ice cream truck was a cover so they could transport the gold bars.

Having heard her partner's conversation with the male teacher, Iris pulled down the face mask. "Technical issues? Really, Lawton?" She forced back her laughter, despite how much it was trying to claw its way out of her mouth.

"Best thing I could come up with in this stupid get-up, partner." Floyd then voiced his thoughts. "Why am I the one to wear this stupid thing anyway?"

"Because you're the one who looks like a sad ice cream truck driver. It's more convincing this way, Lawton." Officer Laura Stone quipped and made the driving detective fume.

Iris looked to her colleague. "You sure about you getting back in the field, Stone? It's not been that long, and Dr. Fury told you to rest for some time."

"I need to be out there again, West. Whether or not your friend says otherwise." Laura stated determinedly, pulling her mask over her mouth again.

Iris nodded her acceptance and looked to Lawton again. "Lawton, you might wanna kill the music. We don't want any kids or other civilians around if our Goldfingers show up again."

"Alright, partner." Lawton agreed with her, coming to another stop and shutting off the music. A tapping sound came on his window, making him look in that direction and saw a man looking downwards. "Another one…" He opened the window and directed to man with the top hat outside. "I'm sorry, sir, but we're out of ice cream today."

A smirk appeared on the costumer's face; the upper half of his face covered by the rim of his black top hat and only showing the lower half. "Oh that is certainly unfortunate. But…" He held up his cane, Officer Stone's ears perking up at that voice. "I'm more in mood for a heavier treat, one with a certain golden sparkle, if you will." The man stepping to the side.

Laura's eyes widened in realization. "Lawton, that's-"

Before Laura could finish her sentence, a large arm shattered the window and grabbed hold of Lawton's shirt. Within a second, that very large arm pulled the detective out of the window, like he was weed being pulled violently out of the ground. His screams emitting loudly.

"Lawton!" Iris screamed when seeing her partner snatched out of his seat. "Everyone out now!" She ordered her fellow officers, all of them rushing out of the backdoor. They came out of the backdoor, holding up their riot shotguns and pointing them at the man with the cane. The sight of them rushing out of the fake ice cream truck had dozens of citizens running away in fear.

But those riot shotguns didn't scare the man in the least, he merely stood with both hands on the top of his cane and his head looking downwards. The man in the top hat wasn't the only one to remain unfazed by the SWAT weaponry.

His much larger and much more muscular companion in a black tank top didn't look the least bit fazed by the weaponry. In his very large right hand, he was holding the body of Detective Floyd Lawton. The huge man noticed the group of armored officers, noticing one specific person amongst them. "Nate look there. it's that lady from yesterday."

"It's Nathan, Mr. Rose." Nathan lifted his head and narrowed his eyes at Officer Stone from yesterday. "Milady, I do hope I did not cause you any discomfort yesterday."

"What the hell did you do to me?" Laura demanded, cocking her shotgun.

"And put Lawton down, now!" Iris demanded as well.

Clicking his tongue repeatedly, Nathan wagged his finger like he was scolding a child. "I'm sorry, Miss Officer, but I am a gentleman. I will not raise a fist against a lady, no matter what." He locked onto all the officers with his eyes.

"Makes things easier-" Iris was cut off as she felt her body shake.

"I will not raise a fist nor harm a lady. But I have other means of handling my foes." Nathan said in response as Iris and the other officers began to shake. Lawton wasn't spared and began to shake as well. "For the gentlemen, it is time for them to soldier and power through their fears… For the ladies, a swirl of pleasure coming right up! We wouldn't them to harm themselves, after all."

All the officers dropped their shotguns, clattering upon collision with the asphalt.

The male officers snapped their hands to the sides of their helmet, trying to keep their head in check as they saw things appear around them. The officers tried to look one another help, but that only worsened things. One of them witnessed the head of his friend snapping off… and a large snake came out of the open hole, hissing at the looking officer. Another one saw his friend's head shaking from side to side, fritzing uncontrollably and shifting into the head of a clown with red hair. Another one saw his friend burst into flames before his eyes, boiling blood surging out of his melting eye sockets.

Each one of them screamed in fear, their shrieks reverberating throughout the entire city it seemed.

The ladies fell to the ground, blushing heavily and panting as well and didn't show any signs of stopping. Some of them fell to the ground on all four, others curling into balls.

"Haha, this never gets old." The muscular man laughed.

"Joey, you shouldn't laugh at the suffering of others. It's not gentleman-like." Nathan disciplined his muscular companion.

Crossing his arms over his chest Joey reminded him. "You're the gentleman of the two of us, not me." He empathized his point by laughing at the officers' situation, having already thrown Lawton away. The officer screaming as his worst fears came to meet his eyes.

… The Kool Aid man…

"That is indeed true." Nathan admitted with a sigh.

X

"What is going on down there?" Kendra asked with disbelief, she couldn't believe her own eyes now. These two guys… it looked as they are just toying with the officers, like their new playthings. Men writhing in pain and screaming their heads off and attacking their fellow officers. Women on the ground and… she couldn't bring herself to say anything.

"What are we going to do?" Mera asked them both.

"It's obvious, we fight!" The mutant shouted and pulled out his sword from his body. "Hold on!" He shouted in a roaring voice before leaping from the building and shot out tendrils, connecting them to buildings and swinging himself towards the scene.

Kendra followed suit and shot down to the scene, following the elemental and the Atlantean.

Venom dropped to the ground, Mera jumping off his back and Hawkgirl lowering herself into the ground. Seth turned his attention to the two men who stood before the group of writhing officers. Roaring loudly, he got the attention of the enemies while an array of pitch-black tendrils shot out of his back.

"Our audience grows, Mr. Rose!" Nathan exclaimed in a loud manner, thrusting out his arms to the sides dramatically. While he spoke, Joey grabbed the man and jumped backwards, dodging the tendrils that came for them. The sudden yank by his companion, made Nathan almost lose his top hat but he managed to snatch it before it landed on the ground. "That was unnecessary, Mr. Rose."

"And why is that boss?" Joey asked, retracting his hand from his companion's body, and cracked his knuckles.

Nathan nodded to the tendrils that both slapped the firearms away before wrapping them around the bodies of the officers and pulling them away. "It looks the so-called "Demon King" has heard of our wonderful performance and chose to grace us with his presence." He bowed like a gentleman when noticing the two women. "And bringing along wonderful companions."

Not bothering to listen to the man's words, the mutant used his tendrils to place the officers on the ground. He had to knock out the male officers with his tendrils, they kept trying to kill their own brothers in arms. Making sure Iris and Lawton were okay, considering their current state, he returned his attention to the two men. "Metahumans, aren't you?"

"Bingo!" Nathan shouted. "That is true, my Dear Venom." He gestured to himself and gave another bow. "I am Nathan, but you may call me Mr. Bliss." He flipped his top hat on his head again.

"Step away from the vehicle now!" Mera shouted, pointing her trident at them.

"If you know what's good for you, listen to her!" Kendra shouted, her left hand raising her firearm and her other hand holding her mace tightly. Inwardly she felt the name "Mr. Bliss" stick to her mind like glue.

"Madams, I do apologize for this, but I would prefer for you two to step aside?" He politely asked, his eyes focused on them.

Mera and Kendra raised their weapons, but suddenly… they felt themselves get dizzy. Their weapons falling as their muscles turned weak, their vision getting instantly blurry. Both of them falling to the ground.

"Guys!" Venom shouted. But he then diverted his eyes to his hands, seeing if he felt any differently. But nothing seemed to point to that.

"My apologies, Dear Venom, but I have refrained from using my powers on you," Nathan stepped back and gestured to Joey. "per my companion, Mr. Joey Rose's request."

"Request?" Seth directed to the muscular giant.

Cracking his fists, Joey stated challengingly. "I have wanted to trade blows with you for a long time now, Venom. I am Joey Rose, but others call me Strongman and I pride myself as the strongest man in this entire city."

Embedding his sword into the ground, the mutant flexed his clawed hands. "Let's see if you still live up to that name, Strongman!" He rushed forward, tendrils pushing his friends to the sides and out of harm's way.

Strongman rushed forward, reeling an arm back before thrusting it forward. The elemental raised his left hand and thrusted it. The two fists met, unleashing a shockwave that caused the ground to fissure.

Momentarily shocked by the sudden fissures under their connected fist, the elemental reeled back his other arm. His fist clenching and turning into adamantium before sending it flying. It met with the huge metahuman's face.

However, his red eyes widened to maddening new limits at the sight of the metahuman still standing, despite his face connected with an adamantium face. From the sides of his metal fist the mutant took notice of the uplifting corners of Joey's mouth, forming a gleeful smile.

"What, is that all, Mr. Venom?" Strongman asked. "That's not a punch." The metahuman raised his own fist, clenching before reeling it back. "This is a punch!" Just like the elemental did, Joey thrusted his hand forward and let it connect with his face.

But, unlike the mutant who stroke first, the metahuman's strike sent the mutant backwards, skipping on the asphalt like a stone skipping on a water surface. The asphalt cracked with each collision of the elemental's body.

Before his body touched the ground for the final skip on the asphalt, the mutant slammed his claws into the ground and flipped around to land on his feet. Raising his right arm, he wiped away the excessive saliva trailing down the side of his mouth.

Joey put his hands together and smirked victoriously. "Your power has been greatly overestimated, Mr. Venom. I am unimpressed!" He spoke in huge voice.

"Not bad." Seth stated, in a mixture of impressed and unimpressed. But he was shocked by the power hiding within those fists. Last time he felt anything like this was when he faced off against The Hulk. Each of the emerald monstrosity's attacks sending him into the ground, battered on every connection like he was ragdoll. "Let's dance."

"You first, Mr. Venom." Joey stated smugly, rubbing the tip of one of the handlebars on his mustache.

Behind them, Mr. Bliss laughed excitedly. "Now who will prevail in this battle of might? Man or Demon?!" He shouted, thrusting out his arms to the sides. He was committed to the role of an excited ringmaster and showman.

Turning his entire body into adamantium, the elemental rushed for the metahuman. Cackling at the sight, the metahuman flexed his muscles before charging himself. They neared each other for what would be a thunderous dual, but Seth jumped into the air and placed them on Strongman's shoulders.

Sparking lightning over his feet, the metahuman felt his skin sizzle at the stinging feeling of electricity connecting with his flesh. That feeling of pain was quickly overshadowed by surprise when Venom flipped backwards, penetrating the ground with his fists as though they're anchors, and throwing the power-based metahuman into the ground.

Not giving him a moment to relax, Venom detached from the metahuman jumped into the air. Tendrils shooting out and placed them on the ground around Joey's form. Both feet turning into adamantium and cloaking them with lightning, he pulled on them. His entire form coming down from the air like a sky rock and slamming into the metahuman's body, further embedding him into the ground.

Leaping backwards, the mutant looked at the downed metahuman. Sneeringly he heard two hands clapping and he looked upwards to see Mr. Bliss doing the applause. "Wonderful! As expected of the man bearing the name as Demon King."

"You're next, Bliss." Venom growled at him.

"Mr. Bliss, please." Nathan asked of him in what sounded like a kind tone, but also sounded threatening. "And why focus your attention on the main attraction, my dear Venom," he gestured to himself. "when the first act is not over yet."

The sound of man laughing emitted…

Venom looked to the ground again, with widened eyes as he saw the metahuman Strongman slowly get back on his feet. His attacks that would normally leave holes or more fatal damages, only left bruises on Joey's humongous form. "That didn't hurt, Dear Venom. Not one bit." He mocked the mutant's strength, fake brushing off dust from his shoulders.

"The heck…" Venom breathed out in confusion, thinking that this metahuman have superhuman strength and superhuman durability that is identical to that of the Emerald Titan.

"Man surpasses Demon!" The metahuman exclaimed, driving his hand into the ground, curling his fingers under the surface before pulling his arm up. Venom watched as the strongman pulled up a huge portion of the asphalt with ease. "Here catch!"

With ease the metahuman hurled the portion of asphalt like it was a snowball, completely weightless and able to do damage still. Venom split his right arm into tendrils and wrapped them around the portion of ground. Swinging it to the side, he placed it on the ground beside him and looked back up…

Only to see a car travelling through the air and coming his way-

Crossing his arms ice grew over his arms and formed a shield, taking on the vehicle as it connected with his shield. The impact with his shield pushed the mutant through against the ground, his feet pushing up pieces of asphalt behind him.

Pushing the vehicle away, his vision was instantly enveloped by the charging metahuman who tackled him into the ground. Not giving him any mercy, the muscular metahuman grabbed hold of his legs with an evil smirk. "Nice flight, Mr. Venom!"

Within a second, Strongman brought the elemental up and swung him around, gaining more and more momentum. The metahuman spun around rapidly, before letting go of the mutant, hurling him away and into the side of a tall building, embedding him into the brick surface.

As brick pieces fell to the ground from the hole the demon was embedded into, the muscular strongman looked backwards to his companion. "I am unsatisfied, Mr. Bliss."

"Perhaps his name was only that: A name, on a man who can't live up to it." Mr. Bliss admitted with a disappointed sigh, he turned around with spin of his cane. "Let's go onwards, Mr. Rose. It is time for us to return home." He patted the side of the fake ice cream truck. "We have to bring back the goods if we are to feast like kings tonight."

"Understood!" Strongman loudly replied as he walked to the truck himself.

The two got inside of the truck and drove away.

As the two metahumans drove away, more pieces of bricks from the brick wall fell out of the hole. Then what looked like an avalanche of bricks surged out of the hole, revealing that the large elemental Venom pushing them away with his adamantium arm.

"Bastard…" Seth said with gritted teeth, his arm returning to normal.

Pushing off more bricks from his body, the elemental leaped out of the hole. Using a tendril, he swung down to the lanes again. "They're gone." He concluded after looking around for the two metahumans. Widening his eyes, he realized. "Iris…"

The mutant rushed to his friend's side and dropped to his knees to look at her. Much like her fellow female officers, she was panting heavily, the effects of Mr. Bliss's powers still affecting her and the others. She managed to look up to his face. Fighting through the effects to the best of her abilities, she reached into her pocket while saying. "T-Take this with you…" she reached up and placed the item in his large hand.

"Your metahuman alert watch?" He asked in confusion when recognizing the item.

"Tr…Tra…Tracker…" She managed to reveal, the red eyes before her expanding. "We put a tracker in the gold transport, in case of it being stolen. My watch can track them and find them."

"We'll find them, but now we're gotta focus on you." He lowered his hands, about to pick up the detective and her colleagues.

But then Iris pushed his right hand back. "Don't… Go after them."

"Iris…"

"We'll take care of the officers…" The breathing and panting voice came from Hawkgirl. Like the others, she was experiencing the effects of the metahuman's powers still.

"Trust us, Venom…" Mera said, pushing herself to her feet with her trident. "Take care of the gold and the metahumans."

"…Be careful…" Seth agreed reluctantly, walking over to pick up his sword again. He didn't want to leave any of them alone right now, not knowing if the two metahumans had others in wait, ready to attack them. But he trusted them like he would with any of his other friends, they're not weak and are fully capable of taking care of themselves.

With that increasing his determination, he launched his fist towards a building, elongating his limb and digging his claws into the surface of the wall. Mimicking the actions of a slingshot, he pulled himself back a few steps before shooting forward and rocketing into the air.

Kendra narrowed her gaze on the mutant as he travels through the air. "Think… he'll be alright?"

"Good question…" Mera trailed. She didn't want to doubt her friend. But while she was incapacitated, he was being punched and beaten around like he was a ragdoll. She wondered why the large metahuman, known as Strongman, wanted to fight Venom so much.

More than that, she wanted to know why the strongman and ringmaster of the old Central City Circus are now walking down the path of crime.

X

Seth continued swinging for what felt like hours. He followed the GPS tracker on Iris' metahuman alert watch, but the only thing he knew for now was that the two metahumans had come to a stop, returned to their hideout.

But as he swung his mind returned to the fight between him and Strongman. Despite using his elements, adamantium and lightning, Joey Rose returned his feet and even managed to strike down him. Even going as far as throwing the mutant away with ease.

It was planned for the giant metahuman to be the one to fight him, while Mr. Bliss incapacitated the officers with his powers.

"You saw what that one did with his powers, right?" The symbiote inquired of his host.

"What do you mean?" He asked back while he reached the roof of a building, placed near the seashore with an immense view to the sea. Seth's eyes turned to the metahuman alert watch in his immense hand, seeing that it was loading, the signal nearby must be weak.

"The one in the strange hat have impressive control over his powers." Seth knew that he was referring to Mr. Bliss, but didn't understand what he meant. "Sounds like someone needs to hit the study books again."

"Most of those books were virtual simulations, dumbass." Seth in an annoyed tone reminded his "other."

"Same stupid stuff, just a bunch of stuff to yawn at." Venom stated, his host recalling how his partner would literally yawn or snore loudly while he was studying. "But that man, Bliss used his powers and targeted the officers, giving them different reactions based on their genders."

"Yeah… Pleasure for the ladies and fear for the men… We can't underestimate this guy." Seth stated adamantly. "Let's find them and stop them, once and for all." He stated when seeing the watch pinpointed the tracker again.

"We were waiting for you to say that!" Venom growled, hungering for sweet revenge after humiliatingly losing against that muscular metahuman. Shooting out a tendril, he swung towards the right and continued swinging.

He narrowed his eyes in surprise when a large pier came into his vision. An old one, judging by the old plants. But what took him by surprise was the humongous tent in the middle of it, a tent with yellow and blue striped fabric. Two tent poles within it and holding up the entire giant tent. Small openings used as ventilators around the two tent poles are opened up to let air travel into the interior of the circus tent. Many tent lines are attached to either metal pillars or the wood planks of the large pier.

Landing on the pier, he walked across the pier and saw that it wasn't just the circus tent here. The pier was also occupied with dozens of carnival shops. He passed by a shop where you can shoot a target and win a prize. He passed by a store for ring tossing, still filled up with a shooting field of hundreds of glass bottles. Next he walked past a shop for toppling a pyramid of clown faces by throwing balls.

"Used to love places these…" He recalled out loud, memories of the countless times he and his sister were brought to carnivals and festivals to have some fun with their father returned to the forefront of his mind. Shaking his head, he rushed towards the circus tent. According to the watch, it was where the gold and the criminals were.

He saw that the entrance was still covered by the tent fabric. "Looks theatric." Venom noted.

"Let's pull the curtains on these bastards…" Seth quipped and pulled the entrance fabric to the side and walked past the threshold.

Strangely enough, the mutant found himself walking into a pitch-black darkness. The entire inside of the tent was cloaked in complete darkness. Shifting his gaze around in search for the metahumans, but he didn't find them anywhere.

But his eyes narrowed in the middle of the blackened tent, focusing his blood-red eyes on the light touching down on the ground. For some reason, light from the spotlight was bouncing off something and hitting his eyes. Walking towards it with slow steps, and as he got closer towards the light with one hand shielding his eyesight, the mutant saw that it was a single gold bar.

Crouching down on a knee, Seth noticed that a small blank device, the size of a nail, was attached to the side of the gold bar. Reaching down to pick up the gold bar, he noticed that the small device was blinking a red color. "The tracker…" He deduced.

"BRAVO!"

The mutant snapped his head around, turning towards the sound of the exclaiming voice. Subconsciously, his instincts took over and hurled the gold bar like a baseball. While it didn't hit the entertainer, it did end up embedding itself into a wall…

… Right beside Mr. Bliss's head…

Exhaling in a dramatic manner, the metahuman took off his hat and used his top hat to blow wind into his face. "Mr. Venom, I do not believe that was the appropriate use of such a valuable piece."

"To us, your opinion is as important as a buzzing fly awaiting its demise." He empathized his point with ice coating his claws, sharpening them. "What did you do to those officers?"

Blowing air out of his pursed lips, Nathan explained. "That was nothing more than my… gift to the noble men and women of this city. A temporary break if you will."

"What… Did… You… Do?!" Seth demanded in rage. His friends were on the ground, twisting and turning in a whirlpool of different emotions. He couldn't let this metahuman get away with that, no matter what!

Nathan smiled, showing a layer of evil mischievousness that was befitting of a villain. "Now how could I call myself a showman, Mr. Venom… if I were to reveal my greatest trick so early? It is after all…" He tipped his top hat down, making it cover one of his eyes. "Just the first act of our wonderful performance!"

He let out his final words with an exclaim, shooting his arms out to the sides.

The moment they did, spotlights above their heads lit up in an instant, shining down rays of light to the ground and illuminating the entire interior of the circus tent. That wasn't the only thing that happened when the showman swung his arms to the sides. The sound of circus music filled the atmosphere and the sound of overlapping cheerful laughter followed.

Seth thrusted his head upwards, looking up to see flying forms spinning the above his head. He registered them. Above his head were a series of thin, almost invisible, black tightropes, all of them attached to the towering pillars around them. The tightropes wavered as the flying forms landed on them, having performed their spins.

"Jumping in the air, leaping through the sky as though they are flying, the sisters who loved by the goddess of thunder herself!" The showman exclaimed in a dramatic manner, gesturing with his cane to the two leaping women. "Come close to them you will feel the free embrace of the open blue sky, but too close you will meet a thunderbolt from above! Ladies and gentlemen, these are none other than the Thunders Sisters of the Sky! Livewire and Bolt!"

Narrowing his eyes, he took in the two women. They certainly do look like sisters who landed on the same tightrope, waving their hands excitedly at him like overenergetic children. Both wearing dark blue leotards with lightning bolt emblems. Both wearing skirts over their waists and both having long white hair, resembling Killer Frost's hair. But then their differences revealed themselves when the two acrobats swung their hands, lashing out lighting and forming whips that they swung above their heads.

"You control this circus of freaks?" Venom directed to the showman.

Nodding he stated. "Even freak needs a place to call home, and we will protect it no matter what!" He gestured to an entrance covered by curtains. "Entering the stage next, is a man you're very familiar with, Mr. Venom! The man who embedded you into the very foundation of this city before!"

"Him…" He sneered in anger, rage rising to the surface and causing ice spikes to form on his knuckles.

"That is correct, Mr. Venom." Nathan stated and pointed his cane to the curtain-covered entrance. "The man who proved himself superior to the Demon King himself, the strength, the arms, the very muscles of this circus itself!" The curtains pulled away and revealed a familiar form. "Mr. Joey Rose, Strongman!"

As though the empty and disgusting seats in the audience seats were filled with cheering fans of all ages, the circus strongman exclaimed cheerfully and loudly. "Yeah!" One after another, the spotlights turning to his form, the muscular man began showing off postures after another, flexing his bulging muscles to imaginary fans. "You want me, you got me!"

"Wonderful, is he not?!" Nathan rhetorically asked before facing the mutant, gesturing to himself with his cane. "Not to forget, the mastermind of this house of wonders, the brains of this circus, showman in every way possible… Mr. Bliss!"

Venom shifted his gaze from left to right, up and down, making eye contact with the four metahumans. The two sisters leaping off tightropes and landing on other ones while their strongman cracked his fists for another showdown with the demon. Their ringleader standing passive and watching his people focus on him.

"All these metahumans for us, huh? That's quite the welcome." Venom stated in a growl.

Laughing at his words, the strongman countered. "Did you not hear what Mr. Bliss said before, Mr. Venom?"

Lisa Gold, the woman known as Bolt, spun around the tightrope before casually stepping off it. Her left and right hand throwing themselves up again, shooting out lighting whips that wrapped around the tightrope, and stopping her fall and kept her suspended in the air in an upside-down position. "The first act: Venom Falling at the Hands of Strongman."

The other Thunder Sister Livewire, Leslie Willis, giggled and lightning began to spark around her entire being. The lighting completely enveloped her and then like a climbing shooting star, it thrusted itself into the air, travelling across it like it was its path, and entering a spotlight. The light from it began to spark and flicker rapidly before lightning came out of the bulb, still intact and functional, and touched down the ground, reforming the metahuman acrobat's body. "The second act: The Warriors of Bash Clashing against Venom."

"Sounds too theatrical for our taste." Venom noted, his left hand taking hold of his sword and retrieving it from his pocket dimension.

"Well, like all newcomers, you must be open to trying things you're not used to, Mr. Venom. But worry not, I will be joining the fray as well… but only… and only in our third and final act of today's show." Mr. Bliss announced.

"…Can't wait to taste you…" Seth stated, his serpent tongue licking the surface of his upper row of shark-like teeth.

"Haha!" Strongman shouted, rushing towards the mutant.

This fight wasn't gonna be like the last one, this time… he was gonna do way more than be some metahuman's punching bag.

Performing a backwards jump Seth launched his arms into the air and tendrils wrapped around the nearest pillar. Pulling on them, he yanked himself out of the metahuman's range and into the air. Locking eyes with a tightrope the mutant set his sights on that.

But then somethings wrapped around his neck, giving off a powerful blue illumination. Shifting his eyes downwards, he noticed that it the Thunder Sisters and their lightning whips that were around his throat. Feeling the pull on his throat, the mutant increased the strength of his tendrils.

However, that only made the experienced acrobats smirk in delight. Loosening the strength in their arms, the two Thunder Sisters felt themselves be lifted off the ground as the mutant pulled himself, and them up.

"Thanks for the lift." Lisa stated with a chuckle.

Landing on the side of a pillar, the mutant growled, his teeth reddening with a fiery glow. Unhinging his jaw, Venom opened his mouth and unleashed a blast of fire and wind. His head swinging left and right to strike down both Thunder Sisters.

Both sisters anticipated this. Their bodies turning into electricity and jumps into the spotlights once more, dodging the flame blasts.

Closing his mouth again, Seth saw that both began to ricochet between the spotlights. His attention shifting between the array of lamps. "Nice try!" The elemental shouted, jumping into the air tightened the grip around his sword. Elongating his left arm to immense length, Venom spun around and let his sword cleave through the spotlights around him, cutting off the metahuman acrobats' pathway.

"Hey, hey, Mr. Venom!" His plan came to an end when that voice called out to him while also wrapping both arms around his elongated appendage. Venom felt his arm held down by the two arms and saw that Strongman came up to the platform of the pillar. The mutant letting himself fall and place himself on the side of the nearest pillar, his eyes looking up to the strong metahuman. "You didn't forget about me, did ya?!" He tightened the hold, making his muscles flex in response.

"Not by a long shot!" Venom shouted and crawled up the pillar, his feet and claws tearing through the column with inch he crawled. Turning his right hand into adamantium, lightning sparking around his entire first he grabbed hold of the metahuman's face.

Roaring at him, he lifted the metahuman off the platform and then spun Strongman around before smashing his form into the upper half of the pillar. Retracting his fist again, the mutant clenched it with flames igniting around it. Once again, he thrusted his flaming fist into the metahuman's face. Unlike before in the middle of the city, the mutant was able to get a groan of pain and blood to come out, but both came out in small amounts.

Like before, however, Strongman did let a wide grin form in front of the fist. "That had more oomph to it than your previous strike, Mr. Venom." Lashing out his left hand, he placed it over the elemental's skull-like extension and clenched his grip over it. "But oomph is not enough to stop this act."

Pushing himself out of the pillar, the metahuman swung his right hand, placing it on the mutant's head. "Let's take this fight down a notch, shall we?!" He made good on his words as he pushed himself and Venom off the platform and descended to the ground.

Venom dug his sword into the pillar again, this time flipping around and kicking both feet into Strongman's stomach. The strike from both feet made the metahuman lose his grip and had him falling to the ground. Not going to let what happened before repeating itself, the mutant pulled out his sword and jumped down to the metahuman.

Both hands intertwining above his head, lightning sparking, fire igniting, wind mixing them together and adamantium strengthening his skin and earth strengthening his muscles. Descending to the metahuman, Venom brought down his interlocked hands like a sledgehammer. The impact caused a dust screen to blow up around them, practically covering them so no one could see what was happening in there.

Nathan was shocked to see the mutant bring down an attack like that, truly much like a hammer that could shatter many obstacles before him like glass. He waved his hand in front of his face to blow away the annoying specs of dust that connected with his face.

Slowly the dust screen began to fade. As it became clearer to see through, the ringleader of the circus saw that Venom was jumping backwards and his strongman was slowly getting back to his feet. "Well done, Mr. Rose."

"Didn't make much of a dent unlike last time, though." Joey admitted while wiping away blood from the edge of his mouth. "Still not down, Mr. Venom! None of us are!" The metahuman stated, gesturing to the tightropes and pillars where the two acrobats are. Both Thunder Sisters of the Sky waving and giggling like excited children.

Venom showed a dangerous grin. "We can change that very quickly, circus freaks!" He empathized his point with one hand spinning around his sword and his other one forming an ice scythe.

Mr. Bliss narrowed his eyes on the demon's weaponry. Either of those could leave more than a dent on his performers. One swing from either of those blades could put a swift end to their careers.

A smirk formed on his face… One of realization… Time for third act.

"Well done. Wonderful!" Nathan praised their fight, giving them an applause worthy of their fight. His performers and Venom looked to him with confused eyes. Spinning his cane once more, the ringleader said. "Now, Mr. Venom, I do indeed hate to rush through a lengthy performance… but… it looks like it's time for the final act."

"Final act…" Worry began to fill up in the mutant. He didn't like those words. "Be careful." Venom advised his partner.

Nathan's smirk widened and he made eye contact with his prey.

"The name of the final act…" Venom widened his eyes as the ringleader's words came out in distortive voice… not distortive… but morphed. A voice that made the mutant pale behind the oily symbiotic skin that covered his face.

"The Demon King's Final Breath…"

Horror replaced worry at what happened next to him… no, not just to him… to them all…

Their normal pale flesh shifted and turned, getting a new color. Turning into a red mass that spread over each of their flesh, quickly followed by black spiraling veins that came over them… Their faces morphing into that of the same mass, red and black.

The flesh of their heads turning into red. Black streaks covering their eyes, taking the form of black streaks. Those same streaks then opened revealing ghostly white eyes. The lower half of their mouths split open like a knife tearing through flesh, displaying shark-like teeth and serpentine tongues coming out all four metahumans.

Seth had to stagger back in surprise of what he was seeing, he had to take it in from a distance. Each step he took made chills travel down his spine. His heart, similar to that of a disobedient horse, rampaging wildly inside of his chest. Intense chest pain began to run through his body with each painful heartbeat that came. Every exhale came out shorter than the last one.

He didn't want to look at that face again. Neither did his partner… but they had to… Forcing themselves to turn their gaze to those faces of that horrific monster.

Their deep dark cackles emitting throughout the circus. His eyes turning to those overlapping cackles, the sight of the Thunder Sisters of the Sky now wearing the face and the forms of… Carnage… Jumping around and cackling as they landed on the tightropes. His fear rising to new heights, making him forego the skirts and suits that covered the sisters' bodies.

A booming footstep coming from in front of him made the mutant turn back to Strongman… no, another Carnage. A hulk-sized Carnage. His huge red muscles bulging and pulsating like each of them are bearing hearts. The black veins on his body looked like they were popping out of with each motion of his body. His mouth opening and his long serpentine tongue tasted the air with a series of swipes.

The mastermind of them all remained in the back. Mr. Bliss, Carnage, call him what you will, he was standing in the back. His red form with black veins remained covered by his black penguin tail tuxedo. With a cackle his left hand rubbed the tips of his black handlebar mustache for a short moment. He removed it from his facial hair and then tipped his black top hat while his right hand placed itself on the top of his cane.

Mr. Bliss cackled. "What's wrong, Dear Venom? Not liking the show?!" His hand throwing the cane into the air and recapturing it in a dramatic manner. His performers, all of them bearing the face of Carnage, joined in and laughed maniacally.

"What fresh hell is this?" The symbiote asked in shock of this situation.

The mutant had already replied with a thought of his own, just as the Hulk-sized Carnage charged for him. The elemental's vision filled with the humongous red shoulder as he continued to stand terrified.

"Seth, wake up!"

That roaring voice from his "other" snapped the elemental out of his terrified trance. Crossing his arms over his chest he turned his entire body into adamantium. This time he would try to go for a defensive strategy, time to be the shield this time.

That plan was not meant to be. Two lightning whips came from above, wrapping around his wrists. Forces on both whips made his arms spread outwards and pointing to the sides like chains holding them up. But then the blue illumination that followed the lightning magnified and traveled over his body. The adamantium skin on his body making that simpler for the two electrokinetics, their lightning whips sending thunderous lightning into his body.

His mouth snapping open and screeching in pain, Venom and Seth screaming at the painful high velocity of the lightning bolts that traveled through their bonded body. The symbiotic mass on their body rippling like a destructive wave entering the ocean. Both host and symbiote fought with all their might to keep one another from separating.

Their attention was diverted when the humongous metahuman slammed his shoulder into his body. The lightning whips tore from the strike that impacted with the mutant's body. Before Venom was hurled into the ground or another obstacle, Strongman, while still bearing the physical features as Carnage, took hold of his legs and swung him around.

Strongman increased his speed and slammed him into the nearest pillar. But he didn't stop there. He took the elemental by the head and slammed him into the ground repeatedly. Smirking viciously, he tightened the hold on his head and slammed his other hand into his stomach.

Unclenching his hand while still embedded in his stomach and his other one wrapped around his face, Joey Rose growled loudly as he lifted Venom above his head.

The two Thunder Sisters clapped and praised him, throwing in some wolf whistles to appraise his mountainous action.

"Way to go, Strongman!" Bolt praised him with wolf whistle.

"Give him a good thrashing!" Livewire stated happily at his action.

"It appears that once again the Demon King has fallen at the hands of the superior being!" Mr. Bliss announced as he spun around towards his strongman. "Now it is time to exorcise this foul beast!" He stopped his spinning, pointing his cane to the unconscious elemental in his performer's hands. "Mr. Rose, if you please?"

"My pleasure!" Joey agreed loudly without any hesitation, pulling back the mutant's body before thrusting them forward and throwing the mutant's body away.

Venom's body flew right through the walls around them and into the seats of the audience. Mr. Bliss scoffed at that, knowing what it meant.

Waving blur came over the ringleader's body and his performers' bodies, turning them back to their normal forms devoid of the Carnage symbiote. "Mr. Rose, was that necessary?"

"My apologies, Mr. Bliss… But that was a satisfying fight…" Joey Rose admitted as he stretched out his arms.

"Way shorter than I thought it'd be." Leslie admitted.

"But we did take him down, so no complaining now, Leslie." Lisa stated the reminder to her and got a mock pout as a response.

"Then let us put an end to today's show…" Nathan Bliss knowingly trailed off, giving his strongman the green light to continue.

Joey Rose smiled and walked towards the hole he made with the elemental's body, he would be one to pull the curtains over the demon once and for all.

This way, he and the others of this circus would escape further wrath of the menacing speedster.

"Wait, look!" Nathan stopped his strongman. Both them and the acrobats above saw that the hole was emitting something. A white icy mist that streamed out of the hole. "No, what is happening now…"

"So Mr. Venom can make mist too, huh…" Joey said surprised and rushed towards the hole with long strides. His hands flailing from side to side and wiping the cold mist away. He had already passed through the hole. But to his surprise he didn't find the elemental anywhere.

"He's gone…" Nathan deduced at his strongman's wandering and searching head.

X

(West-Allen Residence)

Hearing the loud whistle of the teapot brewing on the stove, Barry walked into the kitchen and shut off the stove. With a towel in hand he clutched the scolding hot teapot and lifted off the stove to tilt the hot water within into the three teacups he had placed beside the stove.

With the tea leaves already in the cups, he just had to wait some small amount of time before he could let the others enjoy the beverages. But that could happen while he checked up on them, he took hold of the tray and walked into the living room where he saw his wife, Mera and Kendra seated at the couch.

All three of them were wearing regret on their faces, mixed with disappointment and embarrassment. The three of them were taken down by a guy who didn't even move a single muscle. Seth was there as well, but he was also taken down in a fistfight.

Despite that, he still rushed after the two metahumans to try and take back the gold by himself. They hadn't heard any response from him, so they were worried sick now.

"I made some tea for you guys." Barry told them as he placed the tray with tea on the table. They only nodded their appreciation. Relaxing his mind, he told them. "Guys don't think too much about it. Seth's gonna take care of it and bring the gold back."

Iris chuckled at his words; she knew that the was trying to cheer them up. "Thanks, babe… but it's damn frustrating how we were beaten by those guys so easily."

"Not to mention the rest of the officers." Kendra added, her hand rubbing her forehead. "But Mera did you hear from Seth yet? We have to provide some backup if we can."

The Atlantean took out her phone and checked it for any recent messages. A frown formed on her face at the screen as she waved it around. "No, nothing yet. Hope he's okay."

Kendra took hold of a cup of tea while Barry stated. "With how angry he was from Lindy's surprise meeting with Black Siren and Killer Frost, I'd say he's got some reserve anger he needs to let out."

Having sipped on her tea, the flyer stated. "Depends if that guy in the top hat is able to do what he did to us to Seth as well." It sounded like she was doubting the mutant, but in actuality she was just being realistic about their situation.

"Yeah… But I wonder what the hell is the deal with the ringleader and strongman from the Former Central City." Mera stated and confused eyes from the others. Seeing them, she asked. "You guys don't remember the old Central City circus?"

"Vaguely." Barry replied and the others agreed with that statement with nods of agreement.

"It was this incredibly popular circus of the city. Even in Atlantis, we'd hear about it daily." Mera said. "But despite it being so popular and their ringleader, this guy Mr. Bliss whom we saw earlier, leaving the audience in awe, thousands of people in the public began to see them as freaks and stopped coming. Shame, it was really good too." She said with a sigh.

"For an Atlantean, you sure are all about that circus?" The detective directed to her.

"My husband and I visited that circus a lot of times, practically regulars. It was kind of our thing to visit it." Mera said, sipping on her tea. "I can't imagine that their strongman and their ringleader turned down the wrong path like this. They were big favorites back then."

"And now because of the particle accelerator explosion, both of them turned into metahuman criminals." Kendra said.

"Might not just be them." Iris said, getting their attention with confused eyes meeting hers. "I don't know much about the circus, or even visited it to begin with, but didn't they have more than ten performers or something?"

"Yeah, they did." Mera confirmed, recalling the moments where at least five sky acrobats jumped through the air and performed athletic marvels mid-air with ropes and other equipment. "They even had clowns and clown cars."

"C-Clowns…" Barry said with a gulp.

"Oh yeah, you don't like clowns." Iris recalled with a chuckle, her husband lowering his gaze and his hands trembling.

"But let's hope Seth calls us soon to let us know he's defeated the Circus community…" Mera thought up a good tease. "Maybe he's gonna return with a clown mask…" Barry paled at those words.

"Or a clown head." Kendra mused.

That last one sounded more like Seth.

X

He didn't know why. But he felt at peace for some reason. Maybe the bed he was laying on made him feel at peace. He felt like the damage on his had healed but he didn't understand how. His eyes were closed but he could feel something running down the sides of his face.

Hands… slender soft and small hands running over the mutant's face, even travelling down his head to his throat and massaging it. He began to stir as his body and mind recognized the feeling of those soft hands…

His subconscious took over, making him mutter. "Cait…"

"You can call me that, if you want…"

That distortive voice made Seth snap his eyes open. In an instant, he spun around and made eye contact with the ice-blue eyes looking into his own. Her white hair distracting him, covering one side of her face. She used her hand to push away to look at the mutant without anything blocking her vision. Her body clad in her usual attire, minus the dark blue leather jacket that usual was over her blue leather animal-print top.

Sending him a flirtatious smirk, Killer Frost said. "What's with that look? You want to sleep here again?" She patted her lap, "You didn't mind it before…"

"Don't play games with me, Frost." Seth sneered, inwardly feeling his gears turning backwards as he was so close to killer Frost now.

She chuckled at his words. "Who doesn't love a good game every now and then?"

Seth didn't reply. Instead, he took in his surroundings. He found himself sharing a bed with Killer Frost in what looked like a motel room with a single bed. The walls appeared to ratty and filthy. Speaking of the wall, he noticed a massive hole in one side. A strange familiar feeling slithered up inside of him and he looked to the door. Much to his dismay, his feelings were justified as he recognized that the door itself had been torn off the hinges itself.

Realization came over him as he recognized this very bedroom. He turned his cold blue eyes to Killer Frost again, layer of hate over each eye. "This is one of Blackfire's motels?"

"Ding-Ding-Ding, we have a winner." Killer Frost said with a distortive chuckle. She couldn't help but be intrigued by the level of hate his eyes show. A smile formed on her lips, her tongue licking her lips as she commented. "Remember, those eyes can't freeze someone as hot and cold as me..." She trailed off as she let a hand snake across the bedsheets to touch him again. "They just do the opposite…"

The mutant stopped her, placing his left hand over her wrist, pinning it to the bed. His action made the metahuman's smile grow even wider. He opened his mouth to speak with her but then his nostrils flared, taking in the air around them.

He locked eyes with her again. "Why does it smell burned in here?"

"Look to the floor, babe." She replied with a nod to the floor.

Following the direction of her nodding, he turned to the floor and turned wide eyed from shock. On the floor were comforters and blankets, even a few pillows. But all of them were burned and left charred. "Don't tell me your boytoy was here too? Cause I can break his nose more than I did last time."

"Not him, sweetie. You're the one who made this entire mess." Killer Frost saw his eyes return to her form. "While you were in Dreamland, your right arm began acting up and you also muttered a few names…"

"My right arm?" Seth turned to his right arm. Once again surprise came over him as he saw that his right arm was no longer wrapped in the special blue bandage from Atlantis and was left exposed with all the burn damage and scars. "The black flames burned through the bandage."

"Blackfire's flames aren't your usual cup of tea, babe." Killer Frost said.

"Not really, no." Seth said and swung his legs over the edge of the bed, placing his feet on the floor.

"Must not have helped with what Mr. Bliss did to you." Killer Frost knowingly stated.

Seth snapped his head to her. "You know about his powers?"

"All of his clown show… I met them once, not a fan." She said with a chuckle and swung her own legs over to sit beside the elemental. "Guessing you didn't get a refund for your visit?"

Not taking heed of her joke, the mutant directed to her. "You said I muttered in my sleep?" Mockingly she gave him a pout and a shrug. "What did I say?"

"Thought it was a name but didn't think so… but you did say "Carnage."" To her surprise, Killer Frost saw him tense up and clench his fists, each hand turning white. "Guessing that name means something important to you too."

"Bliss showed me someone, a face on four people… a face that I didn't want to see again." Seth said with a pale face.

"I know that feeling…" The mutant turned surprised and looked to her. "Bliss has this rule about using his powers. Depending on their gender, he manipulates their feelings to match them."

"Pleasure for women, fear for men." Seth realized what his own words meant and asked her. "He gave you pleasure, so how can you relate to me?"

"He didn't show me pleasure." Killer Frost smirked playfully. "You tell me your first, I'll you about mine."

"If you only have games and wordplay for me, I'll leave." He stated his condition.

"Aren't you a big grumpy and little a bit broody? It suits you do…" She watched as he didn't give off a single feeling. "He didn't give me pleasure because of what Zoom did to his crew."

"Zoom did something?" Seth asked.

"Bit of a story, gonna hold off on that for now." She answered. "But his powers work so that he can manipulate people's feelings, like they can feel pain or joy… even giving them hallucinations."

Seth chuckled. "That sounds like pathokinesis." She shrugged. He didn't want to her talk to her, worried that his feelings for the Caitlin Snow he loves would return to the surface and make him vulnerable. Worried that she would take advantage of that vulnerability to wrap him around her finger. He didn't want to be the person who was there for this Caitlin Snow…

But he couldn't stop himself from revealing the hallucinations.

"The person I saw… It was the face of the man who slaughtered my son and fiancée… a man known as Carnage." Seth revealed, the icy metahuman's eyes expanding. "His face and form were plastered all over their bodies and… I was horrified to see that person again. I killed him once and now he was back again." He looked at his hands. "This time, I didn't get angry or enraged, I just felt overwhelming fear."

"That's Bliss's power." Killer Frost said, inwardly shocked at his confession of having a son and a fiancée. Judging from his words, she had a feeling this was before he met her doppelganger, Caitlin Snow. "Pretty annoying."

"What about you?"

"What about little ol' me?" She teased.

Seth chortled, unsurprised at her teasing. "What did Bliss show you?"

This time, Killer Frost tensed up and interlocked her hands. "He showed me Charlie."

"I'm guessing an ex?" Seth mused.

"No." She shook her head. "My brother." Seth snapped his head to her, complete surprise laid over his face. "I'm guessing the doppelganger of mine didn't tell you about her brother?"

"More like she doesn't have a brother to tell me about." Seth corrected her, his entire being still shocked

Killer Frost chuckled. "Can't imagine someone with my name and face without Charlie in her life."

This time he chuckled, lifting a hand and took hold of her one of her hair strands, showing her the snow-white hair. "Sorry to break it to you, but the Caitlin I love, she's not sporting this look. She's brunette."

"Sounds like I can still pull off that look." Killer Frost said with a flirty voice.

"…Sorry you lost your brother, Caitlin." Seth returned to her confession. "Sorry that Bliss showed you that."

"Sorry he showed you the face of the guy who killed your family." Killer Frost expressed.

"But why did another bad guy use his powers against you, another bad guy?" Seth inquired.

"He didn't like that Zoom killed off more than half of his crew, so he took it out on me…" Killer Frost raised an eyebrow in realization. "Oh yeah, it was about two years ago, right around the time Zoom got his name."

"Oh yeah, I've been wondering about that. What genius came with "Zoom"?" Seth asked, putting empathize on the menacing speedster's name with dramatic waves of his hands.

"That's an interesting story." Killer Frost started. "Like I said, it all began two years ago. The trusty and stupid CCPD got a 911 call about a hostage situation. Of course, it's a pretty bad situation, who knows what could have happened, hostage being killed off every passing minute or someone spilling milk." Seth gave her a dry look at her joke. "But funny happened next. When the SWAT team got there, there were no hostages."

Seth narrowed his eyes as he deduced. "It was a trap."

"Someone's got Lady Luck on his shoulder." Killer Frost nodded her head. "Zoom set a trap in order to show the useless police that they could not stop him." She made a show of counting her fingers. "And the evil speedster offed 14 officers. Men and women, he slaughtered every single one of them…" She showed a witty look, directing it to his eyes and held up one finger. "Except for one single sucker. Lucky guy was the only one left alive, left alive to tell what happened. Everyone in the city, except for our foreign but handsome Venom," he rolled his eyes. "knows this part of the story. The lucky officer described blue lightning "zooming" all about… as his comrades, brothers and sisters in arms, were murdered."

"Poor guy." Seth said in a saddened tone.

"That's one word for it. But it's not the one the officer thought of." Seth's interest was piqued. "You see, our officer here, he considered himself to be a lucky one. He was spared to tell the tale."

"So this one lived to tell the tale of the pitch-black speedster…" Seth clenched his hands.

Killer Frost nodded, quickly followed by a small but evil smirk. "Until Zoom went to his house that night and killed him too." Seth's eyes paled with hate. "Anyway, that is how he got the name "Zoom." Pretty cool for a bad guy, wouldn't you say?"

"For a bad guy…" Seth raised himself up and looked around the room. "Where's my sword?"

"On the floor, under the pillows and bedsheet you burned before. You must be a nightmare to live with." Killer Frost quipped.

"My Caitlin complained about it once, when I froze her pillow by accident." Seth said as he kicked away the burned and charred pillows and comforters to see his sword on the ground. He reached down with his right hand, taking the handle and let the sword sink into Venom's symbiotic pocket dimension.

"You know, if hero isn't much your speed at some point, you'd make a hell of a thief." She commented after seeing his humongous sword slither into his body. "But what is your plan against that guy? The next you see him; he might actually kill you with those freaks of his."

"Good thing, I can kill too." Seth cracked his fists, but his gaze lingered at his hands. Like he was seeing something more than just his own hands, like something else was on them. He shook his head of those thoughts and turned to Caitlin again. "You know the saying. Cut off the head of the snake, the rest of the body dies."

"Problem with that plan: Before you can get to the head, you have to break off the snake's fangs." The icy metahuman referred to Bliss' performers.

"That is true. Three fangs." Seth said.

"Four." Caitlin from this Earth corrected. Seth turned around to look at her again, waiting for her to elaborate. "I take it you met the two girls in leotards?" The mutant nodded. "There's a reason they turned out the way they did. A certain circus doctor of theirs used his knowledge and turned the two stepsisters into the metahumans they are today. Those two and the doctor are the three metahumans with lightning powers in the circus bunch. Better watch out for them."

"Tha…" Seth trailed off as he forgot to ask a very important question. "Why did you save me, Caitlin? You could have let those circus freaks take me out, but you didn't. Zoom would have been thankful for that. Why didn't you? You did say you're loyal to Zoom, after all."

Raising up from the bed, she reached for the bedside table and took out the folded leather trenchcoat Seth wears. Unfolding if for him she places it over his shoulders and says. "…Consider it my way of giving you the thanks you deserve, but don't want… at least from the likes of me…"

"Thanks, I guess." He said as he slid his arms into the sleeves and straightened out the jacket. "Answer me a couple of questions, then I'm out of Nurse Frost's hair…"

"Kinky." She kept being her mischievous self even till now.

"First off, is Jesse safe?" Seth asked.

"Safe as she can be in Zoom's hideout." The icy metahuman joked.

"Secondly, you know how to take care of Bliss' powers?" Seth asked her.

She made a show of tapping her chin as though she was thinking heavily. "You may wanna keep his eyes off you." Killer Frost vaguely replied and hoped the mutant would understand it.

The gears in Seth's mind began to turn, quickly realizing what the icy metahuman meant by those words. "His powers only work if he maintains an ocular meeting with his target or targets."

"Hey, some of us here dropped out of med school, mind explaining it so we all get it." Killer Frost rather demanded than asked.

"His powers only work if he can see his targets." The elemental simplified. "I just have to make sure that doesn't happen when I find him again." He walked to the door. But just as he reached for the door handle, he turned to Killer Frost. "Thank you, Caitlin."

Before Killer Frost could correct him, Seth was instantly walked out of the bedroom. As she was left alone, the icy metahuman chuckled. "No stopping that guy when he's on a roll."

She liked it.

X

(Central City Circus)

Mr. Bliss paced back and forth, his face completely washed over with annoyance and disappointment, regret laced over it. His plan that he spent a long time to come up with, his master plan to bring down the guillotine on Venom's neck, his plan to kill the proclaimed "Demon King" … all for naught.

Somehow the irritating demon managed to escape from this very tent. His plan was all of naught and he had to come up with another plan. A better one that would assure Venom's head on a spike and assure that he could get in Zoom's good graces, however little that might be.

Tearing off a huge chunk of meat from his giant turkey drumstick Strongman asked the ringleader with a mouthful of meat. "Mr. Bliss don't worry. We will take him out the next time we see Venom." He then raised his other hand, biting into the large cheddar cheese block in his hand.

Their doctor, he who was responsible for turning the Thunder Sisters into the metahumans they are today, looked to the strongman with a disgusted look. Using the sleeve of his long white doctor's coat to blow air into his dark-skinned face, trying in vain to get rid of the foul smell of meat. "Mr. Rose, please stop talking with food in your mouth, it is foul."

"Not to mention ill-mannered too." Lisa Gold pitched in, following the doctor's words.

"Got that right, Sis." Leslie agreed with her stepsister.

"Enough!" Mr. Bliss shouted to his performers, their talking not doing anything to help him come up with a new plan. "We have to find him again, and…" He impatiently tapped his cane against the ground. "Come up with a new plan."

Loudly chewing with an open mouth, Strongman suggested. "We have to lure him in again."

"Mr. Rose, unless you have an idea that's not already been put into action, try to close your mouth when chewing and then come with a better idea!" Nathan sneered through greeted teeth.

The doctor waved his shaking hands around. "We will wait for him; he will return to us." He spoke in a tired voice.

Leslie looked to the doctor. "What makes you sure of that, Doc?"

"This one is a fighter, a great one. Great ones always return for a rematch." The doctor turned to direct his eyes to the strongman. "Returned to fight Joey, he did."

"That is true! No man or demon can defeat Strongman!" Strongman raised himself, flexing his muscles in a pose. "I will end him next time!"

"Doc's got a point; he did come back to fight us." Leslie agreed. "And since he lost against all of us, except for Doc, he might just have a bigger flame inside of him now."

"Yeah, he's gonna come waltzing right back to us!" Lisa stated with an excited backflip.

Nathan happy at those words, making him stop pacing and smiling happily. "You're right. He will return to us and he will lose to us again, this time…" he flipped his cane, "He will die at our hands!"

The audience had asked for an encore, and he would give them one.

X

Landing on top of a tall lamppost, Venom narrowed his eyes on the huge circus tent further into the pier. Both the host and his "other" sneered in anger at the sight.

Neither of them could handle how they were forced to experience the horrifying face of Carnage once more. They've been forced to see his face on three separate Earths now. On their home universe where they were raised and fought a multitude of battles with the serial killer. Then on their new home universe where they met their children and the love of the mutant's life. And now on this very earth with face and form taking over the forms of four demented Circus performers.

"They were prepared for us last time… Prepared to end us both…"

"But they failed." Venom said, using sensations of soothing emotions to quell his host's anger. "They won't expect us to come back so soon and face them again… Trust us."

"They planned for our elements and attacks… We need to be unpredictable now." Seth stated to his partner, entering a deep trance to come up with plans that would give them an advantage against the circus.

"We may have one option…" Venom stated while mentally pointing his eyes to the right arm.

Seth scowled in annoyance; he felt his partner mentally turn his eyes to his right arm. Following the same direction, he knew what this plan would mean. Blackfire's flames would definitely increase their chances of defeating the circus of metahumans.

But with the dark matter element only residing in his arm, it wouldn't be as effective against the other elements roaming the rest of his body. "This one won't listen to me yet… If used, it could very well end up burning down the entire tent."

Venom chuckled at that warning. "Every part of life is full of risks. We must venture towards those walls and climb over them with an iron will to change and be better than our previous selves. Or we just bring them down with a big sledgehammer."

"The second one sounds more our style." Seth admitted with a smirk.

"Time to work!" They said and launched his left and right arm, shooting out tendrils from both and latched onto the top of the tent. He didn't want to use a stupid front entrance. This time he would make one of his own design.

Taking out his sword and raising it high in the air, he brought it down to the roof and cut a large hole through it before jumping through it.

X

The five metahumans looked up, shocked to see the elemental jump through a hole and into their tent. Landing on the ground, he growled at the five of them. "Expecting someone else?"

Nathan turned around to face him, his strongman throwing away his food, the doctor spinning around in shock, the two acrobats turning into lightning and jumping through spotlights to reach the tightropes above their heads.

Tightening his grip on his cane, Mr. Bliss stated. "You came back for an encore, Mr. Venom? Wonderful!"

"He's lying." The symbiote notified his host.

Venom smiled. "You seem to have lost your cool now, Bliss. What? Performance issues?"

"N-Not at all, Mr. Venom!" Nathan stated stuttering a bit. "This is merely a surprise, but what performer would be unwelcoming to surprises? Let the show begin."

"With pleasure!" Strongman shouted, rushing for the mutant with clenching hands. Raising a fist, he thrusted it forth.

The mutant dodged it, jumping backwards with a backflip. He repeated the same action, jumping backwards with a series of backflips. He placed his feet on the side of a pillar and shot his left hand forward, splitting it into tendrils. All those tendrils wrapped around the metahuman's head.

Joey felt his vision be cloaked by the oil-like black tendril and tried to tear them off with both hands. But it only ended up with more tendrils wrapping around his hands and attached to his face.

Assimilating some of the tendrils into his fist again, he took the rest of them like a rope and pulled on them. With immense strength, strengthened by the earth element and adamantium, he pulled the metahuman into the pillar. The force slamming his head into the very structure.

"Strongman!" Lisa shouted and pointed her eyes to the mutant. Reeling back a hand, she threw it forward again and shot out a long lightning whip.

"Take this!" Leslie mimicked her stepsister's action and launched her own lightning whip.

Seeing the whips coming his way, he placed both clawed hands on the surface of the pillar. This time, he would act like a predatory animal.

And hunt!

Roaring his anger, he spun around and crawled up the side of the pillar. When the whips would come near him, he would zigzag to avoid them. Thrusting head to the side, he opened his mouth and unleashed a fire blast. Lisa's whip met the small fire blast, deflecting it to the side. Leslie's whip met the same fate, ended up with the whip shot to the side.

Lighting sparked around the elemental's body, increasing his speed and he crawled much quicker up the column. This time the lightning whips didn't come close to his body, only coming a bit close to touch him. Reaching the tightrope, the one where Lisa was standing on, Venom jumped from the pillar and landed onto the rope.

Bolt stepped back in fear. Last time, there was a plan that focused on overwhelming the mutant with teamwork and their performance-enhanced fighting skills. But his abrupt return made them fear now. But she still fought and swung her whip once more.

Retracting his sword from his partner's pocket dimension, Seth quickly swung it to meet the whip. The strike from his sword pushed the whip back. Before he could raise it for another attack, another lightning whip from the side wrapped around his fist.

Following the trajectory of the new lightning whip, the elemental saw Livewire holding her whip with both hands and rage lacing her eyes. "Stay away from my sister, bastard!"

"Try it!" He replied in a shout and reeled back his other hand, generating a water sphere. "Catch!" He threw the water ball after her.

Leslie dodged the water sphere, having to dissipate her lightning whip. She turned into lightning and jumped into a spotlight. Like before, she began to ricochet between the others before shooting towards her sister's rope.

The mutant jumped into the air and forming spheres of water into both hands. The moment he did so, Leslie joined her stepsister on the tightrope, and both looked upwards to him, their bodies riddled with lightning. But then their vision was cloaked, or rather, soaked as Venom threw both spheres into their bodies.

Both sisters screamed in pain as the water connected with their bodies. Lightning exploding out of them in a violent surge as they were drenched in water.

The doctor on the ground placed his hands on his head. "They're short-circuiting."

"I know!" Mr. Bliss growled in annoyance. He already knew of their weaknesses.

The outburst of lightning stopped and both acrobats fell off the tightrope. They descended at an immense pace. But before they could impact on the ground, Strongman rushed out of the pillar and caught before Thunder Sisters.

He looked at them both as they were breathing painfully in his arms. "You both okay?"

"Alive at the least." Leslie looked to Lisa. "You?"

"Good as I can be after that mess." Lisa shook her head. She looked to Joey. "You Rose?"

"Nothing but a dent." He assured them as he put them on the ground again. he looked up and saw Venom descending to the ground as well.

The elemental growled. "Ready to give up!"

"Not yet, no…" Nathan looked at the mutant. "Mr. Venom…"

"Shit!" Seth thought as they saw the performers take on the face and bodily features of Carnage once more. Red symbiotic skin covering them with black streaks popping out in a vein-like pattern. And once again Seth felt the fear within him raising to new and unbelievable heights.

"Not again…" Venom clenched his hand, turning into adamantium and began hitting his head. He tried to force the induced fear to get away.

"Mr. Venom, that will not work. Not against my powers." Mr. Bliss stated confidently. but he was shocked at how the elemental knew of his powers. Not many knew of his powers. However, that knowledge won't help him in the least. Not with the way he was going. "All of you, ready for another encore?"

They nodded, even the doctor who decided to join the fray. The three lightning metahumans jumped forward, turning into lightning, and circling around the elemental before retaking their normal forms. The three metahumans lashed out their hands and shot out two lightning whips each. Leslie wrapped hers around the demon's right hand and pulled on it. Lisa wrapped hers around his left hand and pulled on the whips. The doctor wrapped his around his feet and pulled on it, bringing him to knees.

"Finally…" Nathan said with a sigh. "This is not something an entertainer should do, but this time I will make the exception and quickly pull the curtains on today's show! Mr. Rose, if you'd please?" He empathized with an urgent snap of his fingers.

"Of course, Mr. Bliss. Thank you!" Strongman slowly stepped towards the mutant. His fists cracking against each other. "Thunder Sisters, Doctor… bring the light!"

The three lightning metahumans knew what that meant, increasing their lightning output in response and ran that through their whips, electrocuting Venom and he screamed at the intensifying pain.

But that didn't keep Strongman from thrusting fist after fist into the mutant's face. A rain of humongous fists pouring down on his face. Not showing any signs of mercy, only increasing the speed of each fist coming down. Surpassing a rain, it was now a meteor shower of fists.

With each blow connecting with his face Seth felt like each one sends out shockwaves that connected with his face. He released ice to cover his face, even with spikes. But that did nothing to stop the fists. His fists just breaking them down with a single blow and watched as the pieces turn into smaller pieces from more blows.

Seth felt himself shackled and unable to move at all. The stinging pain of the lightning keeping him in constant pain. Not to mention restrained and on his knees. And each blow from the strong metahuman in front of him shook his mind so much it was akin to an earthquake.

Each blow… caused his mind to go blank.

And because of that… his elements had free rein…. Specifically, one that was uncontrollably.

The black flames erupted around his right arm, startling the metahuman performers for a moment. But that moment faded as the shock overwhelmed them like a tsunami when they saw the black flames erupt from his right arm. What happened next shook them to new limits, to the point where Nathan's powers were unfocused, breaking off the hallucinations.

They watched as the flames blazed and erupted around his arm, travelling up the side of his face and then spreading from there. His entire face was enveloped by the abyssal flames. Like a wildfire in a forest the flames then spread over the entirety of Seth's symbiote-enveloped body.

The lightning metahumans grew worried and released their lightning whips. Like the strongman, they stepped backwards out of fear of being touched by the black flames. The elemental's body fell to the ground, his body still blazing with the black flames.

"It appears Venom has fallen… fallen to his very own element." Nathan stated with a chuckle as he watched the dark flames dance.

But then another chuckle came. One that was dark and deeper than any humans could ever possibly chuckle. Humans or metahumans could even come close to that dark chuckle.

Nathan and his performers turned to the demon's body, still enveloped by violent dark flames. But then they saw the flames rise… no… they saw Venom rise.

The flames faded, revealing the mutant standing in his full height. Letting out a long exhale, he then formed a vicious smile. "That's interesting." The metahumans around him looked confused, waiting for him to elaborate. "All… We had to do… was let the flames… roar!" With an arch of his body, the black flames returned to the surface of his body and dancing over his fists and the rest of his body.

"Impossible." Nathan said, his eyes focusing on the mutant, increasing his fear once more and bringing back the hallucinations.

"That's the thing…" The black flames ignited around his fang-like teeth. "… We are the impossible! And those illusions won't work on us anymore…"

"H-How?" Nathan asked, his voice morphed by the illusion.

"Cause we killed that one…" Venom stated. He was right, the fear of meeting and standing before Carnage had long since been vanquished. He made sure of that himself, with his own two hands he won against Cletus Kasady. With his own two hands, he would prove himself superior to the circus of metahumans now!

Strongman gave a growl and lashed his fist forward. His fist was intercepted by the elemental's palm, his claws bending and locking a hold around his fist. The black flames around his fist touched the strongman's hand and charred the fingers. Joey screamed in agonizing pain, to him it was like every cell in his digits were being incinerated.

Venom smirked and enveloped black flames around his right hand before thrusting them forward in a fist, slamming it directly into the strongman's face and pushing him away from him. The flame-cloaked fist left a mark of charred skin on the side of the metahuman's face.

"Joey!" Leslie exclaimed, her voice returning to normal as the hallucination faded.

"Bastard!" Lisa shouted, lashing out whips of lightning in rage. The doctor launching his own whips.

The mutant leaped into the air, avoiding the lightning whips. Attaching his form to the side of a pillar, the mutant gathered wind around his body and let the black flames around his body increase in size and power. Pressure from his feet caused the surface to crack. The cracks grew bigger when Venom jumped off the pillar.

The strength of his jump was too fast for the acrobats and the doctor. He landed behind all three and swung his adamantium arm like a hammer. Slamming his adamantium limb into the backs of their bodies, they were launched off their feet and into the ground. The strength from his jump increased the speed of his arm swing, making it impossible to dodge and left them unconscious on the ground.

Nathan shifted his eyes with disbelief to all sides, not able to process what his eyes were finding. Three of his greatest performers and fighters are all down on the ground before his eyes, their doctor no different and is on the ground.

"I-Impossible." Nathan staggered backwards, his eyes meeting the red eyes hiding within the sea of black flames that dances on the mutant's face. "This isn't how it was supposed to be… We were supposed to win and end you!" His back hit the wall, keeping him there.

"You failed… and miscalculated… and you lost." Venom slowly fired off as he stepped closer to the metahuman. "Show's over." When he stood before the metahuman, he opened his mouth to unbelievable limits like a snake and lowered it over Nathan's head.

"NOOOOOOOO"

With all intents and purposes, he wanted to devour the head of this bastard. But something pulled Seth… making close his jaw and instead raise a fist, turning it into adamantium.

Nathan continued to scream, not willing to accept the demon before was not going to devour his body and soul. His screams met a huge wall when Seth swung his adamantium fist into his face, sending him down to the ground.

"Show's over." The symbiote quipped, his host rolling his eyes.

X

(West-Allen Residence)

"You know, you could have asked us for help." Kendra angrily stated with crossed arms as she leant against the back of the couch.

The mutant had returned to the household and told the others of what had happened. When that happened, Iris and Floyd Lawton led a SWAT team to the pier and arrested the four remaining metahumans. Metahuman dampener handcuffs were passed between officers to remove the usage of the metahumans and their powers. A new product from somewhere in the city. Because of that the transport went easier.

With Barry and Iris making reports of the metahumans' arrests at the precinct, the mutant was left alone with Kendra and Mera back at the married couple's house.

"Sorry, just things went a bit off track." He sheepishly replied.

Stretching out her foot, the flyer kicked the mutant's leg and complained. "Still not cool, man. Really not cool."

"But upside of that entire mission." Mera announced as she walked into the room, holding unopened beer bottles for them. "Our friendly mutant here now has his black flames under controls. Definitely gonna give him a fighting chance against Zoom and his goons."

"Yeah." Seth looked to them. "You two been here in the city a long time?"

"Sort of, yeah." Kendra nodded`, Mera nodding in agreement as she handed them a beer bottle. "Why?"

Accepting the bottle and unscrewing the cap, Seth said. "I want to go to S.T.A.R. Labs. And you two are gonna go with me." He got wide eyes in response.

Seth spent the next few minutes explaining his reasons.

X

Hissing like a ravenous serpent and blue lightning crackled over his black suit, Zoom looked down from the top of the building he was standing on. His black eyes focusing on the large black prison transport van that was driving down the lanes.

He gave Mr. Bliss and his metahumans one job. One job… and they still failed and lost Mr. Bliss.

Before, a long time ago, he made the mistake of only reducing the circus team down to five. He should have brough them all to an end that day. That was a mistake…

… one that he would remedy now…

Zoom hissed once more before making his move…

WHOOSH

He disappeared in a zoom of blue lightning, speeding down the side of the building. When reaching the ground, he ran towards the lanes, phasing through dozens of buildings and making his way towards the large prison transport van.

With a growl, he passed by the prison vehicle and stood in its path. The transport van came to an abrupt stop at the sight of the crackling blue lightning that only belonged to one single being in the city. The two officers came out of the doors, their firearms already raised and pointing at the speedster.

But in a flash, he appeared behind one officer and twisted his neck. The other one heard the sound of her brother in arms falling to the ground.

"NO-"

Her scream came to an end when the speedster sped behind her and snapped her neck. Without giving her falling body a second thought, he turned to face the transport truck and sped over to the doors.

Giving a low growl, he raised his clawed hand and it began to phase. Pointing it to the metal door, he slowly pushed it forward and let it phase through the metal. When his claws felt the inner mechanics of the lock, he let his claws break it and cause a clattering sound to emit from within.

A series of gasps followed and it only made the menacing speedster smile. He opened the door, seeing the wide eyes of the five crewmates that belonged to Central City Circus.

"You!" Nathan Bliss shouted with horror all over his face and his performers have the same expression.

"I am… Zoom…" He reminded them with a demonic chuckle and lightning increased around his body. "Your end!"

WHOOSH

In a zoom of blue lightning, he rushed into the cargo van and closed the door at the same time, the speedster locking himself with the four other criminals.

And then…

Their screams came through the door… slowly followed… by the surging red liquid that kept the other four criminals out… their blood leaking through the small gaps of the door…

To be continued…

And that's a chapter, peeps!

Our unlucky mutant witnessed the awesomeness of the metahuman circus. The first time didn't go so well, the second time and he had to be saved by the hot and cold ice queen, Killer Frost. The third time Seth was close to Death's door, but he prevailed thanks to the surprising event of his black flames erupting from within him and spreading to the rest of his body, giving him access to the abyssal flames. Thanks to that, he managed to surpass and defeat the circus of metahumans.

Question is, why did Seth spare the ringmaster of the circus?

He had the chance, literally holding his life in his hand. But he chose not to… wonder why?

Nevertheless, the mutant didn't have to put an end to the metahumans' lives as Zoom took care of that when the five of them failed their mission miserably.

But that was then, and this is now.

And now… Seth sets his sights on another location. S.T.A.R Labs.

So next time we will see how that turns out.

Stay tuned and find out.

Until next time, peeps!