Chapter 109: Vaudeville
Barry groaned as he heard his phone ring. He picked it up. "Hello?"
"Barry, where are you?"
"In bed, Bruce," he looked at the clock on the side. "It's three in the morning."
"Well you're going to have to get up and go to the southside park."
"Why?" Barry asked.
"Because Thawne's escaped."
"What?!" Barry exclaimed sitting up, he looked to his right, Iris was still fast asleep. "That's not possible."
"Check your phone." The thing beeped, Barry looked at it, blinked, pressed a button and then swore when he saw Poison Ivy kissing Thawne.
"How did this happen?" Barry asked, he'd done all he could to ensure that the container in the Speed Force was impenetrable.
"Ivy and Grodd found Faust." Bruce said.
"Okay." Barry replied as he started getting out of bed.
"You're going to have to be exceptionally quick getting there though." Bruce said.
"Why?" Barry asked.
"Because Clark's going there."
Shit. Barry thought to himself, if Clark was going there that could only mean one thing and as much as he hated Thawne he didn't want to kill the guy. "I'll be there in five." Barry hung up, grabbed his ring, put it on his finger and then let the suit out. He ran into it and then set off.
A few minutes later he appeared right where Bruce had told him Thawne was, and the sight that greeted him wasn't great. Clark was standing over a battered and wounded Thawne, and Ivy and Grodd were nowhere to be seen.
"Clark!" Barry called out.
Clark looked up, his eyes were red. "What are you doing here?" the man demanded.
"I've come to help you take Thawne in." Barry said.
"Take him in?" Clark asked, his voice tense. "Why do you want to take him in?"
"Because that's what we do Clark, we take people in, and we ensure they face the law." Barry replied walking forwards, slowly.
Clark snorted. "Is it though? We've let so many criminals go. Doomsday, the white martians, even that fucker the Joker. And look what that got us. Metropolis destroyed, Lois….Lois dead."
"I know that you're hurting, Clark, and believe me I want to kill Thawne, but we can't. if we do that we're no better than him." Barry said.
"So, what you want him to live?" Clark asked picking up a limp Thawne. "He killed your mother."
"I know." Barry said. The image of that day still haunted him.
"So, what do we do with him if we don't kill him?" Clark asked.
"Send him to the phantom zone." Barry said, the idea coming to him. "He can't get out that way."
Clark looked at him, then at Thawne, then back at him and then sighed. "Fine. We fly together and we put him there."
"Agreed." Barry said. He watched as Clark took to the air, and then he started running. As he ran, he pressed a finger to the comms in his suit and said. "We're putting him the Phantom Zone."
"Good." Came the response, the line went dead and Barry continued running.
