New Justice and Karry Prime: Crisis of the League

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What's Future is Past

"The puppies will be coming soon. Another week or two," Kara said, coming into the house as Rae was shooing Marble and Dizzy away. "We really need to figure something else out for them."

"Before they drive us all nuts," Rae agreed as Clarky barked his agreement; he missed when he and Rae had lived out of the Sanctuary, away from other dogs. At least he had powers with his yellow sun collar and his siblings did not – and when she was at work at the Grants, he got away. Although she had prepared food for them now for almost the entire week since she wasn't sure when she would be called away by the speed force.

"They don't want to be with the other dogs in the…" Kara was cut off by a portal opening. She chuckled. "Ah, the Speed Force wants you."

"We'll figure this out later," Rae said with a smile. She kissed her wife and summoned her outfit, then put Clarky in his as they both went into the portal.

Kara looked around but remembered Chris was at school. He was a senior in High School and was preparing for college, wanting to go to Metropolis University for writing. Lois said she would give him an internship if he wanted as his food blogs had caught her eye. They reminded her of Clark's writing, it likely being something the clone had picked up from the memories of Clark's given to him.

"I'll go check on the kids," Kara said to the dogs; Leona was coming along nicely, and Kara was already predicting an end of January or beginning of February birth for her. Laurel and Oliver's child was in the same room for Kara to look after as well. Kara knew enough now to know they were having a boy, with Kara was predicting end of February or beginning of March for his birth.

Laurel kept changing her mind on names though.

-Speedforce-

Rae and Clarky smiled at Prime Barry as they entered the Speed Force. This time, they didn't get a moment to speak as Nora materialized before them.

"Hello, you three," the Speed Force Nora, said to them. Rae realized they weren't in the usual park this time. "Sit."

Instead of being outside, like they normally were, this time they were in a house. Clarky gave a bark as he jumped up on the couch, getting between Rae and Barry.

"It's time to finish something you have previously started," the Speed Force explained, pointing at Rae, who raised an eyebrow. "Max Mercury."

"Max," Rae groaned; Frankie and Mutant Cisco had not been able to understand what Max was doing from his journal and Different Power had reported no differences in the man.

"Who?" Barry looked between Rae and the Speed Force.

"A lost speedster I helped on Different Power," Rae explained quickly before looking back to the Speed Force. "What's wrong with him?"

"Max wanted to run into my energies, but he kept missing. For a while, the mishaps just had him teleporting through Earths and times, but then the worst happened – part of him got in while the rest of him was left behind," the Speed Force explained, surprising and confusing both of them. "His soul is in here. Unfortunately, I can't return it to his body myself. Barry, you must venture into the part of the Speed Force that his soul resides in, find him, and convince him to go into you so you can bring him to his body on Different Power."

"Me?" Barry asked.

"Yes you," the Speed Force said.

"Without Rae?" Barry asked. The Speed Force had never split them up before.

"Rae will go to Different Power to tell them to expect you and then she will use their system to go home," the Speed Force said confusing them both – even Clarky gave a bark.

"I could wait for…" Rae started as Barry frowned in confusion.

"No," the Speed Force said. "I purposely chose this one, and sat on it in thought, for this very day," Rae raised an eyebrow. "Let's just say, it's better for you be off your world until a certain moment when your world needs you."

"You're helping my world?" Rae asked, slightly annoyed at the Speed Force's riddles.

"The Fort Rozz prisoners are not just an accident," the Speed Force announced, surprising Rae. "Nothing that has happened to you all has ever been an accident. Kara's clone on Prime, the death of your former League on New Justice, your exploration of the multiverse all those years ago, Barry… I will take credit for some of this but, of course, other things must go to the Monitor. His tests," the Speed Force rolled her eyes at this. "You passed it already my children, when you defeated the Nazis, Rae, and when you faced the Dominator invasion that granted your world more metahumans, Barry. But Rae, your second hasn't faced this test."

"The Monitor did all this?" Rae asked her, now getting Karry Barry hatred of the man – the fact he had been the cause of the younger version of her self's death was unnerving for her as well and the pain it caused Karry made her mad. Karry held a special place in her heart after all, but now she was really pissed off.

"He was behind the Dominator invasion?" Barry added, shocked by this too.

"He pushes things in the directions he likes," the Speed Force explained. "So, go to Different Power with your dog. Prepare them…"

At this, a portal opened, and Rae gave sigh as she stood, Clarky jumping down from the sofa to join his mistress.

"Tell them what to expect, and then go home," the Speed Force told Rae, who nodded at this. At least this one would be easy for her.

"Good luck," Rae turned to Barry, giving him a hug as she glanced momentarily to the Speed Force before moving through the portal, Clarky jumping through with her.

"And Barry," the Speed Force turned to Barry at this, just as the portal closed, "the road won't be easy."

"When is it ever with you…?" Barry sighed as the Speed Force. "Wait, are you going to put me through trials like last time? My inferiority complex over Karry Barry, because I'm over that."

"Well…" the Speed Force started, Barry holding up a finger, causing the image of his mother to raise an eyebrow.

"And if you want to make me feel inferior over Rae because she's your Chosen One, or whatever, you can forget it. I'm here for Max's soul, not for another challenge," Barry folded his arms now as the Speed Force laughed now.

"Okay then, we'll skip the trial – for now, but go. Max Mercury's soul is waiting for you…" the Speed Force indicated behind herself as Barry, smug now he'd hopefully avoided a trial, moved off.

-New Justice-

Kara had finished checking on the fetuses when her communicator went off; a message saying for her come to Home Base but 'fly' there was written on it specifically.

"Fly?" Kara asked herself, as she headed to the zap tunnel – but when she got there, it didn't work. She tried to zap tunnel to Watchtower as well but couldn't.

"Supergirl," it was Red Tornado over the coms. "Is something wrong with the zap tunnel system? I can't leave Watchtower."

"I can't start it up either," Kara said, surprised. "Got a weird message to fly to Home Base."

"Everyone else is there," Red Tornado said. "Maybe they need help getting off? I'll try to figure out what is wrong with the zap tunnels from here."

"See if you can get Rafe in on it too," Kara said. "He might not be one of our normal nerds but he has a way with this tech," and indeed, he and Caitlin's relationship just got stronger since Rafe found out who she was – it was only a matter of time before he was an official Friend of the League.

"Will do," Red Tornado stated, the com going quiet as Kara sighed, heading toward her personal exit from the dome.

She met Chris on the way out. "Chris, finished with school?"

"Yeah, it's like 3," Chris said, smiling at his cousin.

"Come on, we need to head to Home Base by flight. Something is going on with the Zap Tunnels," Kara said, to the boy who nodded, changing into his outfit – which was under his school clothes – and followed his cousin out, Krypto running after them.

"Do you know exactly where Home Base is?" Chris hesitated as they reached outside. "I've only ever been there by Zap Tunnel."

"Coms have GPS," Kara turned to him as she took to the sky with Krypto, Chris smirking as he flew after her.

-New Justice-

It wasn't a short flight to the island – Home Base was considerably far out to sea, but it was doable for Kryptonians. The island itself was beautiful, since the Justice League owned it for years, the Island was largely untouched. They had made the beach area a little nicer, and inside the dead volcano was their base.

It was Mon running out of the base that caught their attention.

"No!" Mon was yelling, and Kara was surprised when Sara came out behind him with a weapon that clearly hurt Mon – it must have been made of lead.

"What in Rao…?" Kara asked, speeding up and getting in-between Sara and Mon before Sara could strike again, Krypto growling at Sara as Chris went to the injured Daxamite. "There better be a good reason for this White Canary!"

"You are the daughter of Alura," Sara spoke, but her voice lacked emotions. It didn't seem to be her.

A fireball hit into Kara and Kara saw Caitlin as Wild Fire coming at her – the fire hadn't hurt though.

"The daughter of Alura must die," Caitlin stated, but once again it was void of everything.

"Mind control," Mon whispered out. "All of them." Kara saw the rest of the League coming behind Caitlin.

"Get Mon," Kara instructed Chris, who was lifting him out already. "Superdog, come."

The three Kryptonian took the hurt Daxamite away – not because they were scared of their fellow League members, but they didn't want to hurt them. With the Zap Tunnels down, they couldn't leave the island, anyway. She and Chris needed to find out more from Mon and come back. But Mon was badly injured – they needed to go to the other side of the Island and hide for a bit while Mon healed.

-New Justice-

Barry found himself speeding into an unusual scene. There was a man there, alone. The other man looked like Barry, but he didn't look quite like Barry too. The lookalike was in a lab, testing various equipment while perusing what looked like a journal on the nearby desk.

"Max?" Barry tried, looking to the man, confused. But the man didn't look to him. "Can you hear…? Oh, I'm guessing this is some sort of flashback?" As Barry watched, the young man moved over to a machine, giving Barry the chance to glance at the journal the man had been using.

"Theories of the Speed Force…?" Barry muttered, as he turned to see the man step into the machine. "Oh, I get it. He's getting his speed…" Barry said to himself, just as the machine powered up. "I suppose it's different to being struck by lightning."

As Barry watched, the machine lit up, energy sparking from it, hitting into objects around him, setting off fires and causing liquids to spill. With Barry not really there, he wasn't affected but could feel that something had gone wrong. Then, the door to the room burst open and Barry recognized none other than Doctor Carla Tannhauser, Caitlin's mom, come running in.

"Max! What the hell?" She called, dodging a bolt of lightning as she switched off the machine. She tried the door to the machine Max was in. "Max!" She called as she got the door open.

Curious, Barry didn't notice the third person, who made him jump as he spoke, just behind Barry…

"Every time," Barry span on the spot, to see an older version of the young Max, watching the scene curiously, "I keep witnessing this every time."

"Max?" Barry asked.

"Yes. The proper one, not this… illusion," Max waved at the scene before them – Carla had just taken Max's unconscious, and somewhat burnt, body out of the machine. Barry figured the Speed Force must have healed the burns, given the Max before him looked undamaged.

"You know where you are?" Barry asked.

"I'm inside the Speed Force, yes," Max nodded. "It's curious – I've been both trapped in an illusion and free to roam at the same time. I don't feel quite connected to anything. Although I did spend quite a bit of time watching a poor man forced to run forever…"

"That would be Wally," Barry mused, "New Justice's Wally. He's Savitar."

"The so-called God of Speed," Max nodded. "I've done my research," he nodded to the journals scattered about as the scene reset itself, the younger Max about to step into the machine again. "I hope you're my rescue?"

"Yes. The Speed Force sent me," Barry stated. "Barry Allen," Barry held out his hand, which Max tried to take, but it seemed to pass through Barry's own.

"Ah," Max stated. "Like I said, I'm not quite connected."

"Oh, that might be because you're not in your body," Barry chuckled. "According to the speed force herself, your body is trapped on a different world, while your soul is… well, here," Barry clarified.

"That explains a lot," Max nodded. "Wait, you said herself? The speed force is a woman?"

"Yes and no," Barry stated, thinking now. "She normally takes the form of my mother, so we tend to call her 'she'."

"And how exactly do I get out?" Max asked.

"That I'm not so sure about, but I've been sent to collect you so I'm hoping that something will show up soon," Barry stated, looking around now as the scene reset once more, wondering what would happen next.

-New Justice-

Kara and Chris had brought Mon to a small cave on the other side of the Island and had Krypto on watch. Kara had used her heat vision to help close Mon's wound faster than his alien healing as she afraid just waiting for the yellow sun to heal would not be fast enough.

"What happened?" Kara asked Mon once she'd helped him.

"An alien," Mon said, a little pale, "one of Fort Rozz prisoners – called himself Jemm. Took control of Tantu and Buddy's mind and got them to bring him to Home Base, then called all the others there. One by one everyone was mind-controlled – except me. It didn't work on me. I pretended to go along with the mind control until I knew you were coming. You were too fast. I almost had them."

"Who?" Kara asked.

"Sara and Tommy had Kathleen and Helen with them. They are in Home Base right now," Mon said. "I am sure Jemm will use them…" Kara's communicator went off at that.

"As hostages," Kara finished for him. "Come back or the kids die." Kara read off the communicator.

"Wait what, happen to the zap tunnels?" Kara asked Mon after a moment.

"Jemm can't control Red Tornado so he had the nerds take down the zap tunnel system," Mon said. "Luckily Jemm didn't realized Daxamite and Kryptonians have immunity to his power."

"Well, I got to go back," Kara said.

"Not without me," Chris said and Krypto barked as if agreeing.

"Me too," Mon said, standing up and making both look at him. "My wound will heal in minutes. I'm not Kryptonian but still have that ability."

"Look, we need to protect the kids. I'll go in the normal way with Krypto," Kara said. Krypto gave a bark at that.

"And us?" Chris asked.

"Well, this is a volcano," Kara said, and Chris blinked. "And you can fly. Wait for me to give a single and then you two come down." Chris nodded, understanding what Kara wanted.

-New Justice-

Rae had come to Different Power through the portal directly into their STAR Labs. The group of heroes here – Roland Garrick, Barry, Caitlin, and Cisco – were present and all looked at her as she arrived.

The only thing she had to say was "Max Mercury" for their Cisco to lead her directly to get the man and they had still strapped to a table in the medical wing of STAR Labs – this was a lot easier than it was with other worlds. She knew what she had to do.

"How can you help him?" It was Different Power's Barry who came up to this, liking being around his cousin.

"Your Prime Earth alternative is in the Speed Force right now, you just need to wait for him," Rae explained, looking at the man and frowning. "I'm literally here as messenger… you know, I thought he looked familiar before…" Rae added, more to herself as she looked at the unconscious man. She swear she knew Max Mercury, but still couldn't figure it out.

"So, we just wait for my alternate?" Barry asked Rae.

"Hm? Oh yeah. He'll be coming with Max's soul apparently," Rae said with a nod.

"His soul?" Different Power Barry stated at this.

"Yeah, his soul is what's in the Speed Force. I think that's what Frankie said originally. He was missing something somehow. Now we know where it is and how," Rae explained, realizing she'd left this out. "Oh, and when he wakes… make sure he has something to protect his eyes." Rae had completely forgotten the blue sun, but her goggles were on her and she was fast in getting them on, not that there was any direct sunlight in here, so she was fine. Clarky was also fine but, he was accidentally blowing things down with every breath he made due to the enhanced radiation on this world. He moved over to Rae, whimpering a little.

"On it already," Caitlin stated, having followed Rae and Different Power Barry. "We did figure out through Max that speedster healing would heal the eyes from damage from our sun, so I think Max is starting to adjust."

"Yeah, well I've got to go home," Rae said, her mind still on the Speed Force's warning she was needed there and that all their problems were because of the Monitor. "But Prime Barry will take care of you."

"Yeah might want to get the dog out of here before he burns something down," Barry added, as Clarky's heat vision started a fire in the corner, and then his freeze breath to blow it out practically left snow on the floor.

"Mind using the system to send us home?" Rae asked, picking up Clarky now and moving to a spot Cisco indicated. Cisco typing into the computer and a portal opened for Rae and her dog to her home world.

-New Justice-

Barry and Max Mercury were still inside the speed force, both were curious as to what was to come as the Speed Force had explained that, once Barry had got to Max, they would be let out. Currently, they were watching when Max first was connected to the SpeedFforce, waiting to be let go.

"You know, I went into a coma after this," Max sighed as Doctor Carla Tannhauser tried to wake the unconscious younger Max. "It took me –"

"Nine months?" Barry asked, realizing something.

"Yeah," Max frowned, "how did you…?"

"How old were you?" Barry interrupted the Max next to him. "When this happened to you, how old were you?"

"Early twenties," Max stated with a shrug. "I'd known about the Speed Force for a wh–"

"How old are you now?" Barry had to know.

"Late forties, why?" Max asked.

"What year did this happen?" Barry countered, indicating the scene.

"2014…" Max frowned at Barry now.

"So, you're from a world in the future," Barry realized. "At least 20 years ahead of most."

"I guess so?" Max looked at Barry, a curious expression on his face.

"Are you adopted?" Barry asked.

"Yeah. My birth mom died giving birth, I never knew my father," Max shrugged. "It doesn't bother me. I had a great childhood. Why?"

"Because you're me," Barry smirked. "Literally me." Barry looked back at the younger version of him and gave a nod. It was him. His face looking back at him.

"Indeed, he is," a new voice spoke, and both speedsters turned to see that Doctor Tannhauser was no longer helping out in the repeated scene but was walking toward them.

"Carla?" Max frowned.

"No, the Speed Force," Barry corrected before the Speed Force could speak, "I told you she prefers the forms of females."

"I take the form most appropriate to whomever needs it. You saw Rae normally sees her father," the Speed Force stated and Barry had to nod at that. It was the one form he had seen the Speed Force in that was not female. "This makes this next thing easier to explain," she looked directly at Max. "Your world is gone, Max, all those that you knew, but there is hope for you – that is why I kept your soul, preserved in here."

"What hope?" Max asked, looking worried now.

"Different Power. The world where I sent your body, where Rachel Garrick helped save it," the Speed Force explained.

"Why wait until now to get us?" Barry had to ask. "I found Max easily enough."

"Actually, I found you," Max stated, Barry ignoring this.

"Because you had to know, Barry Allen," the Speed Force stated. "You had to know who Max was, what he means to you. So he can connect to you and you can take him home."

"That he's me," Barry nodded. "Not quite a trial but still a bit of a cheat," Barry waved his hand in dismissal as the Speed Force chuckled.

"Why though?" Max spoke up.

"Why what?" The Speed Force looked back to the older Barry.

"Why was I saved? If my world is gone, I obviously left at the precise moment. Why did I not die with everyone else?" Max asked.

"He's clever," Barry remarked to the Speed Force, nodding his approval.

"Because there's a Crisis coming," the Speed Force stated, giving Barry the side-eye, "and speedsters are the only hope in saving the multiverse from this threat." Max seemed stunned at this. "That world, it needs a speedster. It's uniqueness made it impossible for me to make a Speedster of those there," the Speed Force continued, "The speedster they need is you, Max."

-New Justice-

When Rae and Clarky appeared on Home Base, the beacon point of their system, the first thing she heard was children crying – her eyes found Kathleen laying abandoned on a cot and Helen, Selina Kyle's daughter, next to her. Both were crying.

"Oh Rao…" Rae said, that having become a habit to use the Kryptonian god name. Rae took a step closer but was blocked off by the Aquas. "Aquas, move aside."

The two didn't move and in a moment, Rae was surrounded by her entire League – minus Kara, Mon, and Chris. It seemed weird and somehow threatening; even Clarky gave a growl at Nora, who had fire in her hands.

"Dark Witch," Rae stated warningly, unsure why Nora looked ready to use her magic on them. "White Canary, Black Arrow, why are you not taking care of your daughter or Helen?" She knew Helen must have come with the two, since Selina had moved into Wayne Manor the three had become sort of co-parents with each other and even Alfred.

"You," Rae didn't recognize the voice, but Adam and Jess moved from their circle to let a clear alien man, who had red skin and some type of crystal on his head, though. "You will help me. Get me the daughter of Alura."

"Like hell, I will. Besides, last I checked, I am in charge here," Rae said back, seeming to surprise the alien, realizing what must have been going on here. Somehow, the alien had her human League members mind controlled. She made a mental note to get the nerds and Red Tornado to make an anti-mind-control device for them all once this was one.

"Attack her," Jemm sighed to his mind-controlled Justice League members, and Rae caught an arrow that Tommy and Thea sent out. Phasing through fire from Nora and putting it out, Clarky taking shots from the nerds' guns, Rae ran, phasing right through White Canary to get to the kids. Donna surprised her with her sword, Rae barely dodged.

-New Justice-

Roland, Barry, Caitlin, and Cisco remained in Different Power's STAR Labs Cortex – with Rae gone, there was nothing else to do but wait – and given there were no threats to the city, it was a little boring.

They didn't need to wait long as a portal suddenly opened next to Max Mercury's body, a familiar man jumping through it as the portal snapped closed behind him.

"Oh, this is going to be difficult," Roland spoke up, looking between his Barry and Primes, but Prime Barry ignored them, moving over to Max as he placed his hand over the man's head. A white glow emanated from Prime Barry's hand, which lasted a moment before he took a step back and looked at everyone gathered.

"Hi," Barry stated, cautiously waving at the other. "Sorry, I was… his soul," Barry tried to explain, nodding down to Max, whose eyes opened slowly at this. Max groaned at this point. "The Speed Force kept him on ice, so to speak. I was a perfect conduit for his soul as… well, he's me," Barry explained.

"Yeah, we know," Different Power's Barry spoke up, causing Prime Barry to pause.

"You did?" Prime Barry asked.

"Well, we've had him long enough to run a DNA scan and analyze. Given we have our own Barry, it wasn't hard to find the connection," Caitlin explained.

"We probably should have told Rae that," Cisco pointed out. "She did save him after all…"

"I'll tell her," Prime Barry chuckled. "And while we're on it, there's something you guys should know. He's yours."

"Ours?" Different Power's Barry asked.

"Your speedster," Barry explained. "He lost his home world, apparently he's been jumping from world to world since, but the speed force wants him here. Did Rae explain about Crisis?"

"No?" Cisco spoke up for his colleagues.

"She was in a bit of a rush," Roland added.

"When isn't she?" Barry chuckled to himself. "Okay, so remember when the Monitor took us to his weird no-place a while back?" He asked Roland, who frowned.

"That didn't happen," Roland pointed out.

"It did. Oh, wait, that wasn't you – it was another you. Okay, now I see why Rae has that problem," Prime Barry realized. "Anyway, there's this all-powerful being and his alter-ego. They're testing the multiverse with one wanting to destroy it entirely."

"Why?" Cisco asked, amazed.

"Not a clue. The Speed Force will tell me and Rae more soon, so once we know, we'll let you know," Barry explained. "The thing is speedsters are the one thing that could theoretically stop this Crisis. Or at least fight it better than others. This world lacked speedsters, until Max here," he glanced to Max, who was awake, but not speaking – he had to acclimatize to being back in his body. "He is your only hope."

"Star Wars," Cisco chuckled, as Barry rolled his eyes, getting the reference though.

"Help him get used to this world, help him train. The fact that he's me – you," he nodded to Different Power's Barry, "is inconsequential. Just get him prepared."

"We will," Different Power's Barry nodded.

At that moment, a portal opened behind Prime's Barry.

"And that's my calling card," he felt weird doing this without Rae, but he supposed there was a reason for that. "Good luck," he nodded, stepping back into the portal.

-New Justice-

Rae was dodging attacks from her own Justice League, wondering what the plan was when Kara called out, forcing attention away from Rae.

"Stop!" Kara yelled, she and Krypto coming in as everyone stopped. "Rae?" Kara looked to Rae at that. "But you…"

"Tell you later," Rae said to Kara, cutting her off.

"The daughter of Alura!" Jemm almost cheered, moving forward. Krypto gave a growl as the mind-controlled Justice League moved too, some of them going near the kids with Donna holding her sword to Helen. "Your life for the children and your wife."

"Why?" Kara asked, still not understanding the anger toward her. "I was a child when you went to jail. I didn't send you. My mother is dead. Why do you feel you need to kill a child to get to me? You could have gone anywhere! You chose Earth. You chose to come after me to get revenge on someone who is long dead."

"She destroyed my life, so now I will destroy yours," Jemm said.

"You might want to look above," Kara said, and that was when Mon came jumping down, grabbing hold of Laurel, and putting a hand over her mouth so she could not use her canary cry.

Jemm seemed startled, and with the Justice League mind controlled they did not react like they normally would. Rae ran fast and grabbed both kids.

"Superboy!" Rae said as Chris appeared, and Rae was fast getting both kids in his arms. "Get these two to Gotham now!" Chris nodded and flew straight up from where he had come.

"Jem has them mind controlled," Kara said, using her freeze breath but not so strongly to knock back her League members – the last thing she wanted was to hurt the other members, of the League, but her mind-controlled friends were going for death blows.

"I figured," Rae replied, trying to get to Jemm.

Jemm sent an energy blast at them, using the crystal on his head.

"I will kill them!" Jemm suddenly announced and turned to Thea. The brainwashed girl moved in front of the alien, but before Jemm could attack, a zap tunnel opened up and Red Tornado came, out firing at Jem. It just knocking him back.

"Kara!" Rae said, avoiding Sara's attack. "We have to knock him out or kill him!"

Kara nodded and gave Rae a smirk as Rae nodded, getting it.

"Clarky," Rae called, and the dog ran over to take Sara away from Rae. Rae ran to Kara, letting her dog take care of the fighting with his father, Mon, and Red Tornado. With that, Rae grabbed hold of Kara and ran right through Jemm and then stopped.

Kara turned around and punched the man, hard, sending him flying as he crashed to the floor, his head suddenly at an awkward angle.

There was a moment of silence as Kara realized she'd sent a death blow, but she didn't need to think on that as, with Jemm dead, the rest of their League was waking.

"What… what happened?" Stephanie asked, being closest to Rae and Kara now.

"Long story," Kara sighed as Rae moved over to Jemm's body, checking him over.

"Yup, definitely dead," Rae stated to Kara, who bit her lip.

"Where's Katie?" Sara suddenly asked, looking for her daughter.

"Superboy got her," Rae said, "he's taken her back to Gotham with Helen."

"Oh, thank god," Sara stated, as she and Tommy didn't waste a moment in heading to the Zap Tunnel to head back home – it seemed Red Tornado and Rafe had fixed the technology.

Rae though, was mentally thanking the Speed Force – if she hadn't been sent back here she didn't know what would happen to the kids, and having her come back through the system was more helpful than if she had been here the whole time. The Speed Force was really on their side – although she had mentioned this whole Kryptonian army was a test for Kara from the Monitor, was her interference a help, or a hindrance, when the Monitor was concerned?

-New Justice-

Barry had stepped through the portal into his Beach House on Prime, surprised not to be inside the Speed Force this time.

"Hey! How'd it go this time?" Kara asked Barry, who frowned to her.

"Wait, no Speed Force?" Barry asked, looking around – Colin, the teenage clone of Kal-El, was sitting at the kitchen table with Seg and Nyssa, finishing food, while Kara was sitting on a stool by the counter, looking at her laptop. Skylar was playing with Powie and Polly in a pen by the couch.

"We're not the Speed Force," Kara pointed out, moving over to give Barry a kiss.

"No, it's just… normally we go back to the Speed Force for some conclusion, but not this time it seems," Barry shrugged to himself as he reciprocated the kiss.

"Obviously not," Kara stated, Barry sitting next to her on the other stool, moving the laptop to face Barry. "So, what do you think?"

"It's a townhouse?" Barry stated, frowning at the image on the computer, trying to get himself in the moment – it was disconcerting not having the Speed Force tell him the whats and whys, but he knew the force was anything but a creature of habit.

"Yeah, for Grandma and Grandpa," Kara stated, nodding to Seg and Nyssa who smiled at Barry – Colin was talking to them too, having finished his food so was distracting the grandparents enough.

"Downtown Central City, opposite a park," Barry looked at the location.

"Three bedrooms, two bathrooms, comfortable living area," Kara explained. "We have enough."

"More than enough," Barry agreed. "Do they like it?"

"We love it," Nyssa spoke up, having been listening in while Colin had asked Seg something.

"Then do it," Barry smirked. "I mean, what's a third house to our finances?"

"Third house?" Kara frowned, then laughed. "Oh, the dog's house next door. We didn't buy that, remember? It was left to us in poor old Francis' will," the old lady who lived next door had grown fond of Kara and Barry in the year they had known her since they'd moved in, and with her only son having sadly disowned her due to family drama, Francis had left them her house in her will – Kara had since given it to the meta dogs their Sanctuary couldn't home.

"Well, go and get the grandparents their townhouse," Barry smirked. "I've got to text Rae and find out what was happening on New Justice that I had to do this alone."

"You did it alone?" Kara paused. "You did good?"

"Very good," Barry smirked, as he moved off to the lounge to grab his cell, Skylar crying out to him as he reached her. He picked up his daughter as he started the message.

-New Justice-

Rae, Kara, Chris, and the dogs were back in the Sanctuary, everyone having been debriefed on what Jemm had done before sending them home for some R and R.

"Well that was Prime," Rae said, hanging up her cell, "and I knew Max was familiar – I just knew it! He's an older version of Barry! Adopted, with a different name, like Ray Palmer and our Adam Cray, and..." Kara was sitting there though, not looking up as Rae spoke. "Kara…?" Rae asked, coming to sit next to her wife. "What's wrong?"

"This is a Monitor test," Kara said. "Helen and Kathleen could have just died today because he is testing me."

"But they didn't," Rae reassured her, having told Kara what the Speed Force had told her. "Look, we all trust you, and we have the Speed Force on our side. What better ally can you have?"

"You?" Kara said, looking to her, and Rae smiled at that as Kara kissed Rae's cheek. "Does this mean I should accept Quex or not? Does this mean he is evil? Or is it a test to see if I can get by his past and…."

"Kara," Rae said, stopping her wife mid-rant. "I think you should let the Monitor test-thing not get to you. Pretend you don't know it and continue what you are doing. Rafe accidentally breached to Fort Rozz and this is the consequences, no Monitor involved."

"That works for me," Kara smiled weakly, but Rae could see she was still thinking about it.

"How about I take your mind off it?" Rae said kissing Kara again and Kara smiled, letting Rae bring them up to their room.

Post Chapter Note: Yes, we always planned Max Mercury to be a future Barry for the Millma Verse. We hope you liked!

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