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OK Flash Season 3 is doing nothing but piss me off which I hate. Their is honestly nothing the show can do now that will reinvigorate my faith because I have a feeling that by the end of the following episode will undo what ever it is they do. And No one talk about those set photos that showed up about a week ago. I've seen them and don't like them Either way we are continuing this story. I just wish I had more time to write and post more frequently.
The Flash: Survival of the Fastest
Chapter 13: The Trial of Kara Zor-El
Barry and Caitlin's Apartment
After the disastrous dinner, Barry and Caitlin reentered their apartment. Well, it wasn't a complete disaster, because wine was spilt on them they ended up getting a free meal out of it.
"I'm sorry tonight didn't go exactly as planned." Caitlin said
"That's OK… I'm just glad to spend time with you." Caitlin smiled before leaning in to kiss Barry. "We can still watch Beauty and the Beast if you want."
Caitlin shook her head as she guided him to the couch. "I'm fine with just sitting and talking."
Barry could tell something was bothering her. "You're thinking about that voice aren't you."
"'Don't trust anything he says…'" Caitlin repeated the words they had heard earlier. "What could that possibly mean."
"Cait, I would say we should ignore it but the fact we both heard those words at the same time takes away any possibility of it being coincidental." Caitlin leaned into Barry's shoulder.
Someone was trying to warn them about something or rather someone. But who were they and what were they trying to warn them of? Was someone lying to them? Why? Too many questions ran through their minds and there were no answers in sight.
Slowly Caitlin drifted off to sleep. Barry leaned down and kissed her forehead before carrying her to their bed. In a flash of lightning he changed her into her pajamas before following suit. He smiled at the doctor's sleeping form. Barry wished tonight went better, he would have most definitely proposed, but at the same time he was glad he didn't. It was the same thing with Iris years ago. The Universe seemed to be telling them Iris and Barry were destined to be together. They were married on Earth-2 and supposedly supposed to get married in the future. Yet here they were forging their own destinies. Ben was proof that Barry and Caitlin will work. He will propose to her one day, hopefully soon.
The Next Day
S.T.A.R. Labs, Cortex
"Has anyone seen Kara?" Alex asked as Barry and Caitlin walked into the Cortex.
"No, we haven't seen her." Barry said a little worried. "Last I heard she was going to go flying."
"Yes, that was yesterday." J'onn said. "I already flew around the city several times looking for her but I can't find her anywhere."
"I also rigged the S.T.A.R. Labs Satellites to look for dead zones unique to people from Earth-38, which says she's in the upper stratosphere but then she just up and vanished." Cisco added.
"She couldn't have just vanished." Caitlin argued. "We sure she didn't go back to Earth-38?"
Cisco shook his head. "Without a Speedster, myself or the inter-dimensional-extrapolator she can't go to another reality."
"And Kara wouldn't just fly off into space without telling us." Alex added before anyone could bring up the argument.
"She can survive in Space?" Cisco asked "That is so cool!" This got him a look from J'onn and Alex as it wasn't the time for geeking out about what Kara could do. "Uh, we'll look into that later. Right now, we need to find her."
"Did you try vibing her Cisco?" Caitlin asked.
"Unfortunately, without some kind of personal item I can't locate her." That gave Alex an Idea.
"Kara's glasses!" Team Flash turned to Supergirl's sister. "You could use Kara's glasses, right?"
"I should." Alex fished Kara's glasses out of her pocket and handed them to Cisco. Vibe was about to look for his goggles only for Barry to hand them to him
"I already set your goggles to the frequency of Earth-38." Barry said as he handed them to Cisco.
Cisco smirked as he put his goggles on and got ready to activate his powers. "Alright Kara, we'll find you no matter where you are." Vibe activated his powers and the world around him shifted.
Cisco found himself standing in a strange environment. Hundreds of greenish cells lined the walls of a seemingly endless chasm. Behind the green glass were hordes of horrific creatures of varying builds. Some had scales, some had skin some had fangs or even multiple heads and limbs. Some of the beasts roared.
"This is freaky." Said to himself. He looked around, he was standing on a floating platform over the bottomless abyss. Continuing to look around Cisco saw Kara behind one of the glass walls. "Kara…"
Another figure was in front of Supergirl, he looked an exactly like Mon-El except for the different costume. It was green and black with white gloves, nearly identical to the others wearing similar suits.
"Hey Yat." Mon-El's doppelgänger turned around to see another man in a similar suit with thick brown hair and a green domino mask like Oliver but his eyes had green irises and white pupils. "What the hell were you doing in my sector?"
"Apprehending a wanted criminal." Yat replied rather nonchalantly. "Remember? She's wanted on four accounts of genocide and two accounts of planetary conquest."
"Look I know you're pissed Yat about what the Kryptonians did to your world, but there's no way this girl is Kara Zor-El, she's too young."
"Scans indicate otherwise." Yat replied. "She is Kara Zor-El of Krypton."
Cisco came out of his vibe to the worried looks of Alex, J'onn, Caitlin and Barry.
"What did you see Cisco?" Alex asked.
"I saw Kara, she's in some kind of prison full of monsters."
"Monsters?" J'onn asked
"Yeah, and there was a lot of green. And one of the guards looked like Mon-El, but it was definitely not him." Cisco said. "A doppelgänger maybe? Whoever they are they were looking for the Kara of this reality."
"They arrested my sister because they thought she was her doppelgänger?"
"Sounds like it."
"Anything else you can tell us about these green men?"
"I didn't see anything else."
"Maybe Layla can help us out." Barry said. "ARGUS deals with all sorts of strange things."
Central City
Ben and August were running around Central City out on patrol. So far there was nothing out of the ordinary, which was a nice change of pace since there had been a new crime seemingly every day.
"You see anything August?" Ben asked.
"Nothing." Godspeed replied as they stopped in the middle of the street. "Looks like it'll be a calm day today."
"Hey, August, I know you've just come to town but I have to say its great having you around."
"Yeah, this has been fun." August replied.
"I have to ask, why Central City?" Ben asked
August paused and thought for a moment. "I'm just looking for my kid brother."
"Brother? I didn't know you had a brother." Ben was quite surprised. As far as he knew August never mentioned having a brother, but then again this is a younger version of his friend.
"It's kind of why I'm working for the police department, so far I've been unable to find him."
"Hey man, I can help you find him if you want."
"Thanks Ben, you don't know how much that means to me." August said smiling beneath his mask.
"So what can you tell me about your brother?"
"Not much, he's about three years younger than me. We were both placed into foster care after our mom died and before we knew it we were adopted into different families."
"Damn… I'm sorry man…" Ben sighed.
"Look, you have nothing to do with this. You don't have to help me if you don't want to."
"Ben! August! You guys there?" Jesse's voice came through the coms.
"We read you Jesse." August responded.
"Getting calls about a crazy woman warping the earth on the edge of the city, want to check it out?"
"We're on it Jesse. Will we see you there?"
"Wally and I have to head over to Ketystone, Eddie is calling us for help. We'll try to be there as soon as we can."
Space Sector 0000, Planet Oa
For what felt like a month Kara Zor-El of krypton found herself locked up in a green cell. She constantly told these Green Lanterns that she wasn't a criminal or even from this reality, but they refused to believe her.
It turns out in this reality Krypton was a lot more militaristic than her Krypton because General Dru-Zod had led a coup against the Kyrptonian government.
Under Zod, the Kryptonians used their advanced technology to conquer worlds, exterminating populations, striping them completely of their resources and then terraforming them. Turns out the Kal-El and Kara Zor-El of Earth Prime never left Krypton as it was not destroyed in the Earth Year 1979.
Sodam Yat, the Mon El of This reality, was the one who destroyed Krypton, to save the universe from the tyranny of the Kryptonians. Using the power of his newly acquired ring, Sodam Yat rose up against the kryptonians leading the Daxamites in revolt. Sodam Yat ended the threat of Krypton by forcing Krypton's sun, Rao, to go supernova swallowing the planet in a mighty explosion of fire and light.
Only a few Kryptonians escaped the solar holocaust, among them were Kal-El and Kara Zor-El, who made it their mission to find other worlds to conquer and terraform into a new Krypton.
Kara leaned against her cell wall wishing she had access to her powers, but these cells were specifically designed to neutralize her powers.
"Prisoner 5-252-1959, Zor-El, Kara." Kara looked up to see Not-Mon-El standing on the other side of her cell. "The time has come for your trial."
Clad in green chains Kara was led into a chamber where a dozen small blue skinned humanoid aliens hovered off the ground.
There was also another man in the chamber, young and handsome he looked to be roughly Oliver's age. He wore an outfit similar to Sodam Yat's but he also wore a green domino mask. He looked to Kara then back to the blue aliens.
"Are you guys serious? She's a kid." The man said.
"This is Kara Zor-El." Sodam Yat argued. "She's a fugitive from my Sector."
"And you came to my sector to apprehend her." The other man replied
"Silence Lanterns!" Both men stopped and looked up to the little blue men. "While it is true Lantern Yat apprehended the fugitive in question outside his jurisdiction He still acted and brought in one of the universe's most wanted fugitives."
"Hey!" Kara yelled a little fed up that they were placing her on trial and yet ignoring her. "Look, I don't know what you think I did but I'm not the person you think I am!"
"But perhaps Lantern Jordan is correct." One of the blue men said. "She was apprehended in Space Sector 2814, and while she shares the exact same genetic sequence as Kara Zor-El she does not match any known image."
"Thanks for backing me up Ganthet." The Lantern known as Jordan said rather nonchalantly almost as if he was speaking to a friend rather than a superior.
"Look, I'm not from this reality." Kara began to explain. "I'm from a parallel-"
"Interdimensional Travel!?" One of the blue women gawked. "She is a threat!"
"What!? No!" Kara pleaded. "I'm not invading or anything!"
"See! She lies just like the rest of those Kryptonian Bastards!" Yat yelled out
"Would you all just shut up and let her explain!" Jordan yelled back.
"Lantern Jordan is correct." The blue man named Ganthet said "While this is Kara Zor-El, this may not be out version of Kara Zor-El. Let us hear what she has to say. What say you fellow Guardians?"
"Agreed." Half of the Guardians said in unison. The other half remained silent and Ganthet smiled since he was the one that broke the tie.
Space Sector 2814, Planet Earth, Star City
Laurel Lance paced back and forth in her husband's office. Oliver had been missing for far too long. Her father and Captain Pike were doing everything they could to look for Oliver but there had been nothing and the window for finding him was closing. Absentmindedly she played with the ring on her left hand. Thinking back to when Oliver proposed to her nearly ten years ago.
"Has it really been that long?" She wondered. She looked up from her ring and out the window. "Oliver and I have been married for nearly ten years."
"No, it has not." A gravely deep voice spoke right in Laurel's ears sending shivers down her spine.
"WHO?!" She whirled around startling Quentin as he walked in.
"What's the matter Laruel? You nearly gave me a heart attack."
Laurel just stared at her father. That voice was most definitely not her Father's, and what did it mean by her and Oliver not being married?
"If you want answers come to Queen Mansion." The voice said again.
"Did you hear that?" Laurel asked unnerved.
"Hear what?" Quentin asked. "Laurel I didn't say anything."
Star City, Queen Mansion
On the other side of the city a lone figure sat on the stairs of the old building. It had been vacant ever since the death of Moira Queen. Despite her leaving it to Oliver and Thea Queen it had been taken over by Queen Consolidated then by extension Palmer Tech. No one has actually lived here for years.
"I'll be waiting for you, Black Siren." The figure said as if she could hear him on the other side of the city.
Star City, A.R.G.U.S. Headquarters
Lyla Michaels sat across from a man she did not know. Hank Henshaw stood across from her with his arms folded across his chest. This man came out of nowhere and was demanding access to one of the extra-terrestrial ships they had in storage.
"Let me get this straight, you, a man who I have never heard of nor has any sort of record and who is also a part of an organization that does not exist, are demanding that I hand over an extraterrestrial space ship."
"That's right." Henshaw said
"Lyla, come on you know me." The Hispanic young man next to Henshaw said.
"Look I have no clue who either of you are or how you managed to get into A.R.G.U.S." Subtly she hit a button on the underside of her desk. "But I'm going to ask you to leave or I will be forced to remove you less kindly."
Henshaw didn't look too intimidated by her threat and instead turned to the Hispanic young man. "I do not think A.R.G.U.S. will be cooperating Mr. Ramone."
"Without that ship how are we going to reach Kara?"
"I have an Idea, but it requires us to return to our Earth." Henshaw then turned to Lyla and his eyes turned red and a moment later Lyla was sitting alone in her office with no recollection of what had just transpired.
Central City, S.T.A.R. Labs
A breach opened up in the STAR Labs Breach room and both J'onn and Cisco jumped out. Turns out ARGUS was not in the 'Let's help Strangers out' mood. If it weren't for J'onn's ability to feel the minds of the ARGUS Agents they would have been surrounded and probably captured by people they considered allies but now, just like Team Arrow, didn't know who they were.
"That could have gone better." Cisco said
"No time for rest Mr. Ramone. We need to return to Earth-38."
Alright." Cisco held up his hand and opened a breach to Earth-38. "One doorway to Earth-38 coming right up. Before we go what exactly are we going to your reality for exactly?"
"A Transmatter Portal." J'onn said. "It'll allow us to connect two points in Space allowing me to get in and rescue Kara."
"yeah so why can't I just open a breach to her?"
"Because, despite it looking like a habitable world there is a chance the world Kara is on has no atmosphere."
"And If I connected a breach, which is a two-way door, Earth's Atmosphere could be ejected into the abyss of space." Cisco nodded in understanding. "Got it."
Central City
Ben and August came to a stop in the middle of the street. They had gotten a call about another Meta-Human popping up, which at this point was getting rather annoying since it was so frequent.
This time it was a meta-human who had the ability to manipulate stone. Aside from her crazy abilities she was actually quite attractive with her torn green leather jacket and black jeans. He long brown hair waved wildly as she raised her hands. Dozens of stone shards jutted out all over her body, almost as if they were fused with her down to the bone.
"Hey!" She turned to August and Ben only for them to rush her. She dropped to the ground and placed her hands on the ground just before a wall of earth burst from the street. Ben and August both flipped at the last second before they smashed into a wall of concrete.
"Well, I didn't see that happening." Ben said.
"Where's the Flash?" The woman demanded. "I didn't sign up to fight two nobodies!"
Ben turned to August and shrugged. "Now that's just hurtful." Godspeed said. "I'll have you know we are-" Godspeed was cut off by a massive stone fist erupting from the ground and slamming into his solo plexus.
"Shit! Godspeed!" Ben turned back to the woman to see her levitating off the ground atop a swirling mass of stones/asphalt and concrete. "Crap…" Ben vibrated his body just in the nick of time to avoid a wave of rocks. The instant that her attack ceased Ben rushed in with a supersonic punch.
Pillars of earth erupted around her to form a protective shell. Ben hit the rock and felt every bone in his arm crack. Before he could pull away the surely broken limb shards shot out of the wall and embedded themselves into Ben's arm.
Ben fell to his knees clutching his arm in pain. Broken bones, pierces skin and muscles. Yeah, even with the Speed Force this will take a while to heal from.
"I wanted the Flash." The woman said. "I'll just have to settle for the store brand version."
There was a crack of thunder as a lightning bolt raced past Ben and slipped between the earth pillars surrounding the woman, hitting her in the chest. The stone collapsed back into the earth as she fell to the ground.
"You OK?" Ben turned to see August close by.
"Did you just hit her with lightning?"
"Uh, yeah." August replied.
"When'd you learn to do that?" Ben asked, but August never got to respond.
The woman got back to her feet and screamed as she collected stone around her right hand before punching the earth unleashing a small tremor that moved the earth as if it were water.
Ben and August were thrown back as destruction swept across the roads. Before they could do anything else they felt a sudden pain as shards of earth pierced into their legs immobilizing them.
"Argh." They clutched their legs in pain trying to free themselves but even vibrating was proving to be difficult.
The woman smirked sadistically. "I've been told that hurts."
Before she could do anything else yellow and blue lighting crisscrossed over her and the woman found a pair of power-dampening cuffs slapped onto her wrists.
"What?"
"That's enough out of you." She looked up to see The Flash and the female Flash standing over her.
Caitlin made her way over to Ben and August. "Are you two OK?"
"Other than the rocks sticking out of my leg I am fine." Ben joked.
"Let's get you two back to the lab." Caitlin helped ben and August to their feet before running back to the lab with them.
Barry turned back to the cuffed woman and hoisted her up. "Look, I don't know what you're trying to accomplish by wrecking everything you see."
"Let the lady go Flash." Barry heard a new voice. He turned around to see a man clad in ornate golden armor while also wearing a white robe and hood. Barry had to shield his eyes from the bright light emanating from the man's face.
"Who are you supposed to be?"
The man placed a hand over his heart. "I am the light that is holy. Nightmare to you Flash. And now I will be giving you to the count of three to release her. One…" There was a blinding yellow/gold light forcing Barry to shield his eyes once more. This guy seemed to have abilities similar to Dr. Light, only much more intense. "Two…"
The light seemingly shifted to Barry's left covering the right side of his body in shadows. With the limited vision he possessed, Barry could see the mysterious man swinging his left leg dangerously close to Barry's side.
"Three." The man said callously as his leg connected with The Flash's ribs.
There was a thunderous boom as Barry felt himself being rocketed at speeds he's never reached before. The impact with the first wall was the most painful to the point Barry was positive he briefly lost consciousness. Thinking quickly, Barry began to vibrate his entire body, though not fast enough to avoid several support beams and a second wall. Managed to hold the vibrations long enough to phase through several more buildings before impacting the ground hard.
Barry felt as if every one of his bones had been broken and his muscles had been torn apart. Just who was this man?
"So, Flash, how did it feel to be kicked at the speed of light?" Through strained vision Barry saw the man standing over him. Mocking the hero because of how easily he trounced him.
Barry was so broken he couldn't speak or even formulate a response. "Quite a shame really Flash. You were built up as this uncaring selfish monster, shame really, you were trained by two of the most feared speedsters in the multiverse, and yet that stunted your growth more than any other speedster." He reached down and grabbed Barry by the collar of his suit. "Let's go for a run."
Barry was unable to hold his consciousness as they both vanished in golden light.
S.T.A.R. Labs, Caitlin's Lab
Ben and August were resting in the medical lab while Caitlin and Alex worked on removing the stone shards. The shards had pierced into the bone before seemingly fusing with them. Making it very difficult for Caitlin and Alex who had to cut open their legs in order to surgically remove the fused stone with a bone saw. Caitlin knew the Speed Force could heal broken bones within a few hours however nothing in her knowledge suggested that it could regrow missing sections of bone. If it couldn't there was a high chance both Ben and August could never run again.
"Tell me honestly mom" She looked to Ben who was still awake because of his high metabolism. "How bad is it?"
"It's very bad." She said trying to sound professional and keep her emotions under wraps. "Ben… I don't know how to say this but…" Ben reached out and took his mother's hand with his one good arm.
"I can take it mom."
"I… I've never seen the Speed Force repair this type of damage in either myself or Barry. I… I'm afraid your arm and legs might not be able to handle running."
Ben sighed. He knew that the Speed Force had limitations when it came to healing. Regeneration was a long shot; broken bones were a no brainer but this wasn't Harry Potter where Madam Pomfrey could regrow bones in a single night. "It may take a little longer than if they were broken but I should heal up fine."
"Until then you and August are on permanent bedrest." Caitlin placed a hand on Ben's shoulder and gave him a smile. "I don't want either of you to break any bones worse than they already are."
There was a flash of blinding light in the middle of the medical room forcing everyone to be on guard.
"Greetings." Caitlin, Ben, Alex and August were immediately on guard.
"BARRY!" Caitlin cried out when she saw the limb and broken body in the armored man's hand.
"I see you care for this…" He shook Barry's limp body "False God." Blue lightning flashed in Caitlin's eyes before she rushed the man holding Barry. But she passed right though him as if he wasn't there. "Not fast enough." The man said before tossing Barry only for Caitlin to catch him. "Better fix him up, I don't want this to be too easy." There was another flash of golden light and the man was gone.
"What the hell was that?" Alex demanded.
"Lightspeed…" Ben replied. "The man I came to stop."
"Barry!" Caitlin cried trying to wake up the limp speedster. "Barry! Wake up! Please! Stay with me!" She felt for a pulse and found it much lower than it should be. Caitlin couldn't help but cry as she begged Alex to help her get Barry onto the nearest bed.
In the background, August watched with a secret smiled. Everything was going according to plan. With the Flash out of commission Central City was going to need a new hero.
This is the end of the chapter
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