Kara and Anais crowded over Barry as he worked on small devices on a table. He had Winn helping him create the devices they would need to hopefully cancel out Silver Banshee's killer screams. "So back on my Earth, we fought a villain who used sound waves as a weapon. He called himself Pied Piper…" Barry explained while he worked the last turn of a screwdriver.

"That's a weird name but also catchy," Anais swayed her head in thought.

"Yeah," Barry agreed. "So I whipped up these bad boys."

Anais ignored the earbuds for a moment. "I'm sorry, did you just say 'bad boys'?"

Barry pretended to wince. "Yeah, sorry…"

Kara had picked up one earbud to examine it. "Are they earbuds?"

"Yeah. It'll protect us from Silver Banshee's yelly voice."

"Why are there three sets?" Anais asked once she noticed.

Barry smiled at her. "Why do you think...Golden Girl?"

Anais laughed. "That's definitely not what I'm calling myself."

"Cat Grant would say otherwise," Winn sent her a smirk.

Lucy and some other employees came striding into the area. "James just called. Livewire and Silver Banshee kidnapped Cat!"

One of the employees followed up at the nearby desk to put on a video left by Livewire. "Hello, Red and Blue. Come to National City Park now if you don't want Cat's blood all over your hands or all over the street."

Anais winced at Livewire's maniacal laughter. "Seriously, what's wrong with her? Who's more insane - Livewire or Silver Banshee?"

Winn, who stood beside her, shook his head. "I would rather we never found out."

Kara sighed as she gripped the device in her hand. "You don't have to do this, Barry. This is my fight."

Barry shook his head to disagree while he got up from his chair. "One for all and all for…" he stopped for a second, "You guys have Three Musketeers here, right?"

Kara smiled. "All for one. C'mon!"

"Be careful!" Anais was left to call as the two headed out. She glumly leaned against the table with her arms folded. "I cannot believe I'm benched...again."

"It could be worse," Winn said, offering her a kind smile but Anais was just too upset. "Hey, I'm sorry. Really. How mad are your parents going to be when they get here?"

"I don't know, honestly," Anais sighed.

"Anais," Lucy called and had the blonde lean off the table, "Your parents are on their way."

"Guess that's it then..." Anais sighed again but before she could truly feel sorry for herself, a new idea popped into her head. It wasn't so much of an idea but more of a...realization. "Wait...if they're really mad then they can't actually get more mad than what they already are, so..."

Lucy and Winn exchanged looks, both assuming what Anais was leading up to.

Anais clapped her hands with a newfound gleefulness. "I can't possibly get into more trouble! I'm going out there!"

"What!?" Winn's eyes widened. "But you were just saying that—"

"Lucy!" Anais sped up to the brunette, startling her with the gust of wind that slapped her face. "How's about you-"

Lucy was quick to cover up Anais' mouth. "Whatever you're thinking of, don't tell me. I'm not here, I'm not listening..." She pulled her hand off Anais' mouth and walked around her. "I don't know, I don't hear...la...la..la, la…" she flashed a smile at the blonde as she walked out.

A big smile spread across Anais's face. "Love the temporary boss." She sped up to Winn, ignoring his cry for her to stop doing that and grabbed him by the shoulders. "You were making the suit!"

"Yes...but listen, shouldn't we—"

"Show me the suit," Anais' face fell serious, leaving no room for Winn to even try to persuade her to stay.

~0~

Supergirl and Flash had their hands full with Livewire and Silver Banshee. Cat had been saved in time but that didn't mean the rest of the city were. Livewire and Siobhan didn't exactly care what their destruction hit or caused. And just because Silver Banshee's cries couldn't affect Supergirl and the Flash didn't mean everyone had the same immunity.

Supergirl had been thrown by Silver Banshee's scream and the latter didn't wait for a recovery. She was getting frustrated by the crowd around them and since Livewire was still throwing with the Flash up on a rooftop, she decided to get rid of them herself.

"Enjoy my singing," she smirked and sucked in a breath to deliver her fatal cry.

A golden figure streaked over the crowd and threw forwards a golden ray of light that blinded Silver Banshee. "I'd stop if I were you," Anais warned, under the guise of an orange and gold suit hovered in the air. "My light can be terribly awful."

"Who are you?" Silver Banshee picked herself up and threw Anais a dirty look.

"Someone nicknamed me Golden Girl but I have to disagree. Call me Solar." Anais would always remember this moment. All eyes were on her as she named herself, made herself known. She was proud of it and what she would soon come to stand for. She landed gracefully on the ground. The base of her one-suit was orange with golden accents. It had a high neckline (like a halter top) with long sleeves that had open slits below her shoulders. A golden m-shaped design went over her chest, matching the v-shaped accent around her waist. Three sun pins went down her upper body as if they were buttons. They reminded Anais of the flaming sun that Rapunzel had painted so much in Tangled. Knee length golden boots finished off the suit.

Solar detected the moment in which Silver Banshee was about to do her sonic scream. Her hands glowed golden seconds before she fired a series of energy jets that made Silver Banshee skip around until one knocked her over the same bench Cat had been tied to.

At the same time, Livewire zapped into the area and a second later the Flash arrived as well. Livewire sent a growl at the helicopter in the air and decided she despised it. She raised her hands and emitted electricity at the helicopter but before it reached the helicopter...Supergirl got in the way.

"No!" Solar cried and zoomed towards Supergirl but the Kryptonian had fallen to the ground first.

Livewire laughed and started heading for the fallen alien.

"Leave her alone!" One woman from the crowd stepped forwards. Little by little, the crowd assembled in front of Supergirl to prevent Livewire From reaching her.

Livewire could not believe her ears. "Yesterday you people were ready to string her up. Now you're willing to die for her?"

"She was willing to die for us," the same woman answered and had the agreement from everyone else.

Livewire turned to Silver Banshee who had just gotten back on her feet. "What do you say we thin the herd?" Her hands crackled with re-charged electricity.

"Or…" Anais rolled her eyes and shot a yellow blast of energy at a fire hydrant near the two women. Water bursted and gravely shocked Livewire and Silver Banshee till the two fell unconscious.

"Nice one," Barry stopped beside her. "...Solar."

Solar smiled to herself with glee. She turned around and was even happier to see the citizens helping Supergirl get back on her feet. The city was once again with Supergirl, just like it should be.

~0~

Barry moved around the cracked cement ground of the DEO's training field. It was fairly similar to the STAR Labs field on his world so he knew it was the perfect spot for Anais to try out the lightning bolt attack. Since there was still no word about his way back home, Barry figured it was the perfect opportunity to try teach Anais the things he learned about their speedster abilities. He felt that, as a more experienced speedster, it was his responsibility to teach any younger speedster the ropes. It would be the first time that a non-murderous speedster helped out a younger one. Barry was eager to break the cycle and Anais was eager to learn. The perfect combination.

"Alright Miss Solar," he turned around to see Anais smiling proudly at her new name. It reminded him too much of when he and Belén used to train in their earlier days. Anais had the same young spark that Belén had when she was first exploring her powers, and she had the same determination that he had when he tried to increase his speed. "You've seen me do the lightning trick so it's not entirely new."

"Except it kind of is," Anais folded her arms over her chest. "Because I've never done anything like that. Hell, the only thing I've done is just run and that's only because it's part of my DEO tests. I'm basically at zero, Barry. I couldn't even run up a building."

Barry of course remembered the fact he had to catch her before she plummeted down. "Okay," he took in a breath while he re-assessed this training session. It was unfortunate that he had an exceptionally short amount of time to teach her what took him a long time. But if he could just introduce her to the concepts then he could leave knowing that she had the idea of how to keep training on her own. "Why don't we start with the building thing, then? The key to staying on balance is to keep your speed at a certain level. I'm sure that Winn or somebody else at the DEO can calculate that for you because every speedster has different speed levels."

"Okay," Anais dutifully nodded her head, preparing to take mental notes of everything that Barry would tell her. "Something else basic? Just to keep my confidence up?"

Barry smiled with amusement. "How about the windmill trick?"

"The what?"

Barry nodded and turned sideways away from her. "This one's super easy, I promise." He extended his arms to his sides and started propelling them in fast circles until he create the familiar wind. As basic as it was, it still left Anais awed.

"Let me try!" She took a few steps away from him and imitated his arm movements. Sure enough, she started creating the same air force. "Oh, that was easy! And it's handy!"

"It is," Barry pointed at her. "Never think that because it's a basic movement it won't be helpful. I can't tell you how many times I've used it to stop people from falling."

"What else?" Anais put on her best listening ears for her temporary teacher. Like Barry, she was aware that there weren't really any other speedsters like them so whatever he would teach her now was it.

Barry started with being able to handle doing several tasks at light speed while giving each task the sufficient attention. At first glance, Anais seemed a bit distracted so Barry presumed she might have a struggle with that but it wasn't something impossible. He was a bit all over the place too in the beginning. He then moved onto actually running over difficult structures, such as water. Fortunately, that was one of the tests the DEO ran - Anais remarking about the terribly cold water and them just shoving her into it - so Barry moved on from that pretty quick. He switched to the explanation of calculated speed jumps to vibrating their molecules - a concept that completely fascinated Anais because how else would she be able to sneak up on her friends? - and finally to the lightning bolt trick.

Anais watched him go in endless circles just like he had before on the rooftop. He came to the same stop and chucked the lightning bolt into the air. "That is really cool," she sighed in content. "I can't wait to do that."

"You'll be able to one day," Barry assured her. "The key is to be connected to your speed, to the Speed Force."

"The Speed Force?" Anais repeated, sounding and looking utterly lost. "What's that?"

Barry blinked at her, for a moment there he thought she was joking...but her eyes were blank. "You don't...you don't know about the Speed Force?" Anais shook her head. "Anais, the Speed Force is the origin of your speedster abilities. How could you not know about it?"

Anais felt self-conscious with her lack of knowledge, something that Barry hadn't intended on. "I just...I didn't get to really know my heritage. My birth Mom died before I could access my powers. I don't really know who nor what I am."

"That's okay," Barry said quickly once he saw her dejected face getting stronger. "It's never too late. I literally got my powers two years ago and I'm still learning. Somebody," - he chose to omit that the 'somebody' he referred to was Thawne, a murderer - "taught me that the Speed Force is a force that drives your powers. It's a sentient force that we can actually go into."

"That would be so cool," Anais bit her lip anxiously. "It talks to you?"

Barry nodded. "It's helped me out and I'm sure that it's helped me out in situations where I never even realized. This force, Anais, is a force you want to get to know. You should try to connect to it."

"How do I do that?"

"It all depends on the speedster. I'm sure you'll find a way."

Anais nodded, though she didn't look very convinced she'd find that way. She wasn't a regular speedster, after all. Barry was human. He accidentally gained powers, she was born with them. This Speed Force might not exist for her. "Must be nice having people that could teach you, though," she smiled sadly. "Kara tries her best to teach me but she's not connected to this force you're talking about. She's just speedy but not like we are. I wish you could stay here."

"Yeah..." Barry scratched the back of his head. "As tempting as that sounds, I really would like to return home. No offence to you or anyone else but...I have somebody I need to get back to." Anais began to smile knowingly even before Barry named this person he needed to get back to. "Belén needs me and I need her."

"She's your girlfriend, right? The one you keep mentioning?"

Barry sheepishly nodded. Maybe he was mentioning her a little too much. "Yeah, I miss her. She was waiting for me where we planned the stopping point of my training and...I wonder if she's still there? Has it been minutes for her or...or days?"

"I wouldn't think about that," Anais said, though she knew her words would probably mean very little to him right now. "Why don't you tell me about her?" She asked. If he missed his world so much, talking about it would definitely help him. "Your, uh, your girlfriend? I won't get to meet her so...what's she like?"

Despite the situation, Barry smiled to himself when he got to thinking of the answer. "Belén is...incredible. She's amazing. She's a metahuman—"

"A speedster too?" Anais curiously guessed and became even more curious when Barry shook his head.

"She's a botanical metahuman. She controls all plant life but she emphasizes a lot on azaleas, it's why calls herself 'the Azalea'."

Anais blinked. "Those are poisonous flowers."

"Yeah," Barry agreed with a nod. "It's part of her powers so—"

"Don't piss her off, got it," Anais chuckled.

"She's really great, though. She cares a lot about her meta community and she always tries to show them that the Azalea is there to help them whenever they need it. And when she's not being a metahuman, she's this fantastic woman who loves to write and aerial dance and, recently bake amaretti cookies."

"Chocolate?"

"Yeah!"

Anais knowingly smiled, silently.

"She's, uh, she's been having some trouble lately. We've met other doppelgangers, you know? And hers is a scientist, and...not nice." Barry would once again choose to omit some of the uglier parts of the story. "Belén likes to think of herself as the 'runt' of her doppelgangers because she's not a scientist. She's 'just' a reporter."

"What? I'm sure she's great!"

"She is. She's a reporter, or...was. She's suspended because she published an article that she didn't get approval on."

"Why would she do something like that?" Anais couldn't imagine doing that while working for Cat Grant. Like Kara had said a while ago, Cat Grant was a scary woman sometimes.

A soft smile spread across Barry's face. "Because people needed help and that's what my Bells does. She wrote an article specifically for her botanical metahuman community and she was suspended for it. But people are backing her article up so I just know that there'll be some justice for her. It's only fair."

"Well, she does sound amazing," Anais folded her arms over her chest, "And, uh, I'm so sorry I won't go to the wedding." Barry blushed red and looked away. "But she sounds like somebody CatCo. would love to have."

"Belén working for Cat Grant?" Barry cocked his head to the side. He was truly unable to see how that would work out. "I just really wish I could get back to her."

Anais watched him slowly fall into his glum state, a rightful response given his situation.

I shouldn't do it...

But Barry looked so upset and it was partly her fault for making him talk about his girlfriend...

Ah screw it, you're already in trouble anyways!

~ 0 ~

The next day, Barry was still not having much luck with a concrete way of getting home. He had one idea that he shared with the others and since they had nothing much to go by on, they decided to give it a try that afternoon.

Anaís was leading Barry down the DEO hallway in quite a hurry, even for a speedster. It was early in the morning, really early that only a few DEO employees had clocked on, but it didn't matter for Barry. He hadn't slept at all anyways. Spending the night on this Earth meant that he still didn't have a way back home. So whatever plan Anais had going on, Barry just let it happen because he really had nothing else going on. Plus, she seemed very cheery for some reason.

"Anais, where are you taking me exactly?" He finally asked when the curiosity got the best of him.

Anais was too giggly for this to be DEO related. "My parents are here and they wanted to meet you!"

"What? Why?"

Anais whirled around, forcing Barry to crash into her since he'd been right behind her. "Because I told them all about you. So, a warning: I told them everything! But don't worry, they're really good at keeping secrets. I mean they kept me a secret from the world and they basically keep themselves from the world too so really, it's like their whole main thing!"

"O...kay…" Barry never knew that he would find somebody who could talk faster than Belén but Anais was sure tempting him to give her the title.

Anais stopped suddenly again and turned around. "So a little bit about them. Um, they're scientists. They, uh, they adopted me after the DEO found me and they've been looking after me ever since. They're completely human but they've tried helping me use my powers safely. They're intelligent beyond belief. If anyone can get you home, it's them. And believe me, they want to. They understand you."

"That's very kind of them," Barry nodded, truly grateful because he honestly didn't know what he would do if he had to spend another night here.

"No, Barry, uh...they really understand you," Anais' expression turned serious fast, her eyes boring into Barry's in a way that made the speedster shift.

"What do you mean?"

Anais opened her mouth to seemingly explain but closed it when she got a better idea. "I'll just let them explain." She reached back for the doorknob and motioned him to follow her in. "Mom! Dad! Do you have the tachyon…"

There were two adults in the room, their backs to them, and they were bickering.

"No, you idiot! I told you not to!" the woman was frantically gesturing to the bowl on a table near them.

"Are you—what did you call me!?" The man was scarfing down something in his mouth because Barry was sure it sounded like he was quickly trying to chew something.

"You're a child! I told you not to bite the amarettis until your daughter showed up!"

Anais sighed. "And they're embarrassing. They're really embarrassing." Barry smiled at her while she looked absolutely mortified. "Mom! Dad!" She hissed at her parents and fortunately stopped their bickering. "Jesus, you just can't be normal, can you!?"

"It was your father's fault!" Anais' mother huffed, smacking her husband's arm. "We're trying to make a good impression!"

Barry nearly keeled over when she turned around, even more so when both of them had faced them. Beside him, Anais struggled not to laugh...even though she really wanted to.

As it turned out, Anais' parents were very familiar.

"Barry, I'd like you to meet my parents," Anais walked over to the pair, moving behind them to then squeeze her way between them. "But you already know them."

Barry did.

Because her 'adoptive parents' turned out to be his doppelganger...and Belén's. An older version of their doppelgangers. Suddenly, many things made sense. Anais' last name? Cat had said it! He was an idiot, he really was.

"Hello Barry," the older Belén—or simply Belén—greeted softly. "Feels like it's been ages…"

Barry's doppelganger huffed at the comment. "I'm not that old!"

"You guys are freaking him out, shush," Anais tried to say but her mother's eyes narrowed down on her. Barry recognized that look and couldn't help but wonder if that'd be the look his Belén would one day give to a child of theirs.

"Don't you shush me!"

"Sorry Mom,"Anais' eyes widened and lowered to the ground.

"Mom…" Barry repeated with a small, confused, smile. "Anais...what is going on!?"

"Exactly what you see," Anais shrugged. "Meet my parents, Mr. and Mrs. Allen, special DEO scientists that only a select few know about. It's why you couldn't find them on a public search engine. Nobody really knows them."

"But it's...it's you…" Barry pointed at his doppelganger. "I've met another you but you were...we were the same age!"

"Right, the multiverse theory," Earth 38 Barry nodded with a hum. "You know Cisco talks about that a lot but we never really tested it out."

"Cisco…" Barry laughed. "You have Cisco!"

"My godfather!" Anais exclaimed. "And my godmother is Caitlin! You mentioned her too!"

"You're scaring him," Belén put a hand over Anais' shoulder. She gave the young Barry a soft smile, just like before. "I'm sorry, our daughter tends to get a little bit overexcited. But it is very nice to meet you, well...this version of you."

"Me too…" Barry was in a sort of trance as he studied them from head to toe.

His doppelganger was exactly like him except for the peeking wrinkles here and there on his face. His eyes were the same shade of hazel green but Barry could see the extra years in them. His dark hair was still sticking up like his own was and he even dressed the same. A burgundy sweater with the checked blue and white collars sticking out with dark pants. The one stark difference though was the wedding band on this this doppelganger's finger that Belén was also wearing.

Barry's eyes flickered to Belén's doppelganger.

Her face was framed by curly, light brown hair but...with the signature ombre blonde tips. Her curly mess of a hair was pulled up into a bun with some stray curls left sticking out. Just like Barry's doppelganger, her chocolate brown eyes were layered with years and experience. She was dressed in a loose white blouse and dark slacks. One more difference were the thin pink glasses in front of her eyes. But she also wore the wedding band...

Man, his doppelgangers seemed to be better at the game than him. Earth 2 may thoroughly suck but his doppelganger had managed to marry his Belén too. Was he doing this wrong!?

"I'm old, aren't I?" Belén presumed that's where his thoughts had gone too. She nervously laughed and brought a hand to push her glasses up. "I bet the younger me can still see and doesn't have wrinkles."

"No, you're...you're just as beautiful, Bells," Barry smiled at her, his words had come out like a blurt and it was all true.

"Hey that's my wife you're talking to," his doppelganger sarcastically snapped.

"Shush," Belén waved him off. "If he wants to call me beautiful then you let him."

Her husband rolled his eyes then flashed Barry a sharp look. "Does she have a huge ego in your world? Because I don't know how to turn it off and I have been looking for the off button for 23 years now."

Barry's eyes widened and his mouth almost hit the ground. "Twenty years?" he repeated. His doppelganger nodded but Belén was too busy glaring at him to answer Barry's question. "You've been married for 23 years?"

"Well, 20 years but we've known each for 23," Earth 38 Barry reached for his wife's hand, forcing Anais to step back so they could interlock hands. "You know, our anniversary is coming up…"

"Hmm, it is," Belén agreed, blushing.

"Can we not do this right now?" Anais groaned, bringing a hand to cover her face. "Seriously."

"Anais, why didn't you tell me this?" Barry was at a loss for a proper word to describe what he felt right now.

Anais dropped her hand from her face, almost laughing if her parents weren't right there. "If had I told you 'oh yeah I know you, you're my adoptive Dad on this world' it would have freaked you out."

Barry opened his mouth to argue but...but it was a very good point. He had met his other doppelganger and Belén but it wasn't the same learning they were just married in comparison to the 'they were married and they had an adopted child'.

"But these are them," Anais looked between her parents with a big grin on her face. "They're my Mom and Dad and...if your Belén is anything like my Mom is, then I know she's the best."

"Every version of me is the best, sweetie," Belén shrugged casually, completely missing her husband mouth 'See? Ego.' at Barry. "But after what Anais told us about you, Barry, and my doppelganger...we were very impressed. You two sound incredible."

"I'm just a bit stuck on the 'got struck by lightning' part," Earth 38 Barry remarked, bringing his arms over one another. "That...that sounds like it would hurt. A lot."

"It did," Barry assured him with a shudder.

"But of course only my husband could be a superhero," Belén remarked, sending her husband a dreamy smile.

"And my wife had to be right beside me," Earth 38 Barry brought her hand up to his lips for a kiss.

Anais audibly groaned and rubbed her face. "I swear to God, Barry—" she dropped her hands to shoot the Earth 1 counterpart a glare, "—if you do this to your own child I will find a way to cross worlds and smack you! It is unbearable!"

Barry's eyebrows shot up at the same time his doppelganger grabbed Anais' arm to scold her. "Don't talk to him like that! He's your Dad—"

"I'm really not," Barry tried to say but his words were a bit out of reach on account of the mad warmth he felt on his face.

"He's not even married!" Anais pulled her arm out of her father's grip.

"Really?" Earth 38 Barry blinked and after Anais nodded, he shot his doppelganger a look. "Kinda late there then."

"No he's not, be quiet! The two of you!" Belén scolded them both and sighed. "This is what I deal with." She then offered the younger Barry another soft smile. They seemed to be a big part of her personality and they fit her so well. "There is no rush. I imagine every world has us at different paces."

"So you just assume that every version of you is going to end up with each other?" Anais scoffed, intending on riling them up but Earth 1 Barry shut down the game without even noticing.

"I believe that we would meet each other in any world." Barry felt his heart ache for his Belén. Those were the words they said to each other back when he was debating whether or not to change time lines. In his indecisive state, Belén had asked him if he believed that they would meet each other again regardless of the time lines. Barry knew without a moment's thought that they would. They belonged to each other in every world, no matter if they were a scientist and a reporter, or evil and good, or...a pair who had to raise an alien hybrid. They were each other's.

Belén smiled at the silent doppelganger. She side-glanced her husband, sharing the same knowing smile with him. The only one who didn't quite understand was Anais.

"Barry, are you okay?" her soft voice pulled Barry out of his thoughts.

"Yeah," Barry cleared his throat and rubbed the back of his neck. "I just...I just really miss home, you know?"

"Misses Belén," his doppelganger said. Barry wouldn't agree out loud but he was sure his face said it all for him. "I'd go crazy if I was stuck in another world...which—" he pointed a finger in the air, "—is why this was a rush job." He turned around and pulled cloth from the tachyon device Anais had taken from Barry.

"My tachyon device!" Barry exclaimed while his doppelganger gave it a last study.

"Interesting device, though can't say it doesn't scare me a bit," he handed the device over to Barry. "But we got it working again."

Barry's eyes lit up at the news. "Seriously!?"

"Yeah, just jump-start it with your speed, obviously, and you can use maybe Anais' or Kara's speed as well to help bring the energy levels up when you're running. Once you do that, you should be able to cross worlds again. Just try to get into the right one this time."

"Yeah," Barry gladly held onto the tachyon device and looked at his doppelganger and Belén. "Thank you. I really need to get home."

"Oh, here!" Belén reached a hand into the bowl that she and her husband were bickering over earlier and pulled out a familiar chocolate cookie. "

Barry's heart skipped a jolt when he took the chocolate amaretti from Belén. "You make these too?"

"Hey! Those are mine!" Anais frowned. "You always make those for me!"

Belén nodded at Anais to answer Barry's question. "They're my specialty. And—" she glanced at Anais, "—you would've had more if your father hadn't ate most of them!"

"Dad!" Anais shot her father a look.

"They're good!"

Barry smiled and took a bite of the cookie. He really did love them. "My Bells just started making these," he shared once he swallowed the first bite. "She thinks she could make them better but I think they're delicious!"

"Yeah, they were a bit tricky for me too in the beginning. But we get them, especially when I have a very hungry pair over there," she nodded her head at her husband and daughter.

"Hey!" the two went in the same offended tone.

"Thanks," Barry said and laughed when Belén offered him another cookie.

"For the ride home," she winked.

Barry studied her for a minute before he would take the cookie. A part of him wondered if this is what her Earth 2 counterpart - the not so nice version of Belén - would've been like if she hadn't gotten sick. Would she be as happy as she looked right now?

"I'm old, I know," Belén chuckled nervously again, lowering her gaze with a misplaced embarrassment.

"No," Barry whispered. "You are beautiful in any world. If you ever marry me, I would be the luckiest man alive."

Belén smiled at him with a light 'aw' slipping out. "Go on home, Barry. And, uh, pass on a little message to my doppelganger for me, yeah?" Barry nodded. "Even if she's not a scientist, she is the best of us all, not to mention the bravest. To fight every day against metas and willingly put her job at risk for people she doesn't even know...that is bravery. She is no 'runt' of the litter. She's just the best." She leaned forwards and pressed a small kiss to Barry's cheek. "Goodbye Barry."

Barry stepped back with his tachyon device and watched his doppelganger wrap an arm around Belén's waist. Belén raised her hand to touch her husband's face - letting Barry once again catch sight of her wedding band - and kissed his cheek as well. They looked so happy together. He hoped one day that could be him and his Belén too, but for right now...he needed to go see her.

He met Anais' face and gave her a nod. She grinned with understanding. It was time to go home.

~ 0 ~

Out in the same grassy field that Barry had come to with Kara was now the chosen area to get him back home. Supergirl led the way but almost had to stop twice to laugh when she heard the story of Anais' parents.

"It's really not that funny," Barry mumbled and took lead when Kara stopped to put her hands on her knees and laugh.

"Can I - can I get pictures, please?" Kara glanced at Anais with a hopeful look on her face.

"They'll be home for Thanksgiving, promise!" Anais laughed with her.

"Can we please?" Barry did his best not to snap. "I would really like to get home."

"Right, to see my Mom," Anais snorted into a new round of laughter.

"Fine, yes, whatever!" Barry rolled his eyes, but he wasn't very irritated. Each time Anais called him or Belén 'Mom' and 'Dad'. It actually made his face really warm.

"Okay, I'm sorry," Anais said after he got pretty quiet, though she misunderstood why. "You're not actually mad, are you? I mean...yeah, I probably should have told you sooner but I was a little nervous. I've grown up with these people and you can't believe how strange it is meeting a younger version of my Dad in our secret base."

Kara crinkled her nose beside her. That had to be strange.

"I always see my Dad as what he is: my Dad. He's taken care of me. He read me bedtime stories, introduced me to the concept of bedtime stories. He's-he's brought me to Disneyland and he had to learn how to play soccer because I wanted to play and Mom and I creamed him in all our matches." As she said all these words, Barry's lips curved into a deep smile. "You're my Dad. My birth name is Anais Mjorkland but the world knows me as Anais Allen, your daughter. I'm sorry if that's... that's weird…"

"Weird is a good word but...it's also nice," Barry cleared his throat. "It's like a glimpse into my future."

"Well, without the alien part, right?" Kara chuckled but abruptly stopped when she remembered he had already told them there wasn't a version of Kara nor Anais on his world. "If there's no Anais over there, then what would that—"

"They'd have their own kid, duh," Anais shook her head.

If Barry had been red before, now he was a deep scarlet. Oh God, I really gotta get home.

"So what are we meant to do, then?" Kara asked, suspecting this was a topic that Barry didn't want to talk to with them.

"It's simple. We just combine our speed and basically get to throw Barry like a ragdoll in the air," Anais smirked at him.

"Ha, ha," Barry rolled his eyes. "Technically, if you throw me forward at your fastest, then I break the dimensional barrier and get back home."

"I like the way I said it instead," Anais looked at Kara to see if she was on board. "You fly and we run."

"Yeah, I think that would work best," Kara agreed. "We could treat it as a race," she suddenly smirked.

Barry laughed. "Think you can keep up, Girl of Steel?" his eyes flickered over to Anais. "Golden Girl?"

Anais shook her head and warned him, "I'm Solar."

Barry smiled at her. She had the same proud face he had when he first used his meta name. "I like it," he told her. She beamed in return. "And you know, maybe you can keep Golden Girl as a nickname? Like Girl of Steel?" He gestured to Kara who dramatically bowed in return.

"Alright," Kara still sneaked in a laugh afterwards. She turned to Barry and offered him a hug. "I'm gonna miss you, Barry Allen."

"I'm really gonna miss you too, Kara Danvers," Barry hugged her back. "Or Kara Zor-El. Which is your alien name. Because you're an alien which I think is very cool. I think James Olsen thinks so, too."

Kara paled and Anais laughed.

"Right!?" Anais clapped her hands together.

Kara looked between the two in quite horror. "Why are you saying that!?"

"For real?" Anais gave Kara an incredulous look.

"You remember before when I told you to take things slow?" Barry asked Kara. "That's good advice for a superhero, lousy advice for two people who really like each other. Maybe it's time to speed things up."

Kara saw Anais fiercely nodding and smacked a hand over her forehead. "Yeah, alright, maybe…"

"Thank God," Anais mumbled before she went to hug Barry. "Bye young-Dad."

"Don't call me that…" Barry crinkled his nose as he pulled away from her.

"I don't think I'll be able to stop." she smiled. "But also say hi to young-Mom for me."

"Can do," Barry nodded. "And keep training, alright? It'll be hard sometimes but I know you can do it."

"Spoken like a 'Dad'," Anais chuckled but hugged him again. "Thanks."

"Let's do this?" Kara called and made a gesture for them to take their spots. She rose into the air on Barry's right while Anais stood to his left.

"On my count," Barry warned the two women. "One...two..."

"Three!" Anais exclaimed and took off, forcing Barry and Kara to chase after her. As soon as his legs moved, Barry felt the tachyon device on him whir alive which he hoped meant things were about to work out for him. A blue vortex came to life in midair suddenly and before Barry knew it Kara and Anais grabbed his arms and flung him directly into it.

Both blondes skidded to a stop on ground and beamed almost identically as the portal disappeared.

"Goodbye, Dad," Anais sighed contently...and Kara burst into laughter.

~ 0 ~

"Winn, you have outdone yourself with thiiiiis!" Anais bounced in her new suit in the main bridge of the DEO. Absolutely nobody could take away her giddiness. None of the DEO employees would take the risk of telling her it was time to put the suit away.

Winn, on his part, was proud and truthfully, this was the only source of happiness he felt at the moment. Silver Banshee—Siobhan—had been locked away. So far, the weight of it was only just falling but even now it felt terrible. So, watching a the tall blonde practically dancing (very silly, mind you) in a suit she loved that he made provided him with a momentary release.

"I'm glad you liked it, Anna," he said.

Anais paused to and met his gaze. "Anna?" she tilted her head at the new nickname.

"Oh, sorry," Winn straightened up in his chair.

"No, I like it," Anais nodded and proceeded to test the new nickname out ten times before she decided it suited her well. "Nobody's ever given me a nickname but then again I've never really had friends before."

Winn's eyebrows collectively raised at her. Sometimes she really was that blunt even if it was to harm herself.

"So listen," Anais clapped her hands together, "About that mysterious guy I chased down, have you found anything new?"

"Not since you asked me in the last hour," Winn smiled wryly at her, but he still turned in his chair to face the computers just to make sure what he said was true.

"Sorry," Anais scrunched her face. She was being insensitive. They literally just finished locking up Siobhan. "Winn, you don't have to do this right now. I can of course wait—"

"Nah, gives me something to distract myself with," Winn shrugged. "Where's Kara, anyways?"

"Ah, thanks to Barry's advice...she invited James over tonight," Anais came to lean on the edge of his desk. "Which is why I'm here killing time."

"You think they're actually going to go for it, then?"

"I genuinely have no idea. I don't know enough of their relationship to be certain about anything honestly. I hope they do."

"And, uh, how are you doing?"

Anais blinked at the question. "What do you mean?" She looked down at her new suit. She was pretty good.

Winn stopped going through the different street camera angles and looked up at Anais. "You officially named yourself to the city? Not to mention you apparently spent days with your adoptive dad?"

Anais grinned. "Oh yeah, huh? That was just weird. Mom and Dad are still laughing about it."

"And you?"

Anais half shrugged. "I don't know, I just thought it was weird. When I first walked into the room and saw Barry there...I don't know how the hell I kept myself from screaming."

"You wouldn't have screamed," Winn said, rolling his eyes at her.

"Yes I would have!"

"No, you wouldn't have!"

Anais waved him off. "Anyways, I guess it was sort of like fate. Barry taught me about these potential abilities I can use in the future. Plus, he told me about this sentience force—the Speed Force—that maybe I can access. I wish he was still here, or at least a way to keep talking to him so he can tell me more about this stuff. I don't really know much."

Winn wondered how much Anais was wishing that she wasn't the only Solista on Earth. If she had somebody else like her, she would know a lot more. She wouldn't second guess herself, she wouldn't have as many questions at the very least. "I'm sorry, Anna," he felt the necessity to apologize.

Anais gave him an odd look. "You? For what? I should be apologizing again for yapping away when you clearly need a drink in your hand."

"I just meant I'm sorry we can't help you like you need us to," Winn said, lips pursed. With Kara, things were different. Anything they couldn't help her out with, she could usually get from the Fortress or even from the interactive hologram of her mother.

Anais leaned off Winn's desk, dropping her arms on her sides. "It's not your fault. It's not even mine. I learned a long time ago that I can't control some things. Time is one of them. My mom's gone, I have no idea where the hell my father—nor if he's even alive—and I don't know about any other Solista. I've had to make my own way with what I had and I'll keep doing that. In the meantime..."

Winn was slapped with a strong gust of wind. Anais had sped off and returned wearing civilian clothes. She was grinning again.

"I'm taking my friend out for some consoling drinks," she announced.

"What?" Before Winn knew it, she was pulling him out of his chair. "But we were looking for that guy—"

"The computers can do it! You need a drink!"

"You can't even get drunk!"

"But you can! Don't worry, I'll make sure you go off your rocker!" Anais laughed and zipped them away.

Author's Note:

And there we are! Anais' official superhero name is Solar! So excited for her to start kicking some ass! I've also been waiting to do the doppelganger/parents reveal! Anais' parents are the older doppelgangers of Barry and Belén, hence Anais' last name. It'll be so funny when Anais gets meet Belén in the later crossovers!

In the meantime, Myriad is next and then we're off to season 2!

Reminder that Anais is OC #3 out of 3 total Arrowverse OC I'm currently writing! The first one being Belén Palayta, and the second being Graciela Haynez from my new Legends of Tomorrow fic too! Feel free to check their stories out under my profile!

As always, I have a tumblr account dedicated to my fanfic works! It's a place where anyone can comment about a story or even just talk to me! I often drop aesthetic work belonging to my stories too! Feel free to check it out, my URL is "saiilorstars"