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The Flash: Survival of the Fastest

Chapter 14: Broken Bones and Heroes

S.T.A.R. Labs, Medical Lab

Joe, Iris, Wally, Eddie, Jesse and Harry rushed back to STAR Labs when they heard what had happened to Barry.

"BARRY!" Iris screamed as they entered Caitlin's Lab. Barry's girlfriend was wearing her scrubs and had her hair tied up in a ponytail. Sweat collected on Caitlin's brow as she worked tirelessly to try and save him. "Caitlin what happened?" Every part of Barry was in some kind of brace, his arms, legs, neck, and torso.

Without looking up from Barry Caitlin responded. "Barry was Attacked…" Caitlin thought to the villain Lightspeed. He came out of nowhere and effortlessly defeated Barry, but instead of Killing him Lightspeed left him…"

Terrified for her best friend Iris buried her face into her husband's shoulder.

"Why would he do that?" Eddie asked

"I… I don't know…" Caitlin responded tearfully. "He… he called Barry a false god… and said some other things before running away… I've never seen someone move so fast. Not even Savitar was that fast."

"He was faster than Savitar?" Wally asked. How could someone be faster than the self-proclaimed God of Speed? "

"Where's Ben? And August?" Joe asked worried for his grandson.

"They're resting in the other room. Alex is looking over them." Caitlin explained as Joe approached her and placed a hand on her shoulder. "The meta-human they fought hurt them pretty bad."

"Where is this Meta now?" Jesse asked. "Are they in prison?"

Caitlin shook her head. "I don't know. Barry was going to take her to Iron Heights, but I don't think he got to."

"Caitlin, he's going to pull through. They all are" Joe said.

"I don't know Joe…" Caitlin somehow was able to suppress her emotions keeping her tears at bay. "I've never seen Barry this injured before. His bones are so broken that they may never heal properly."

"God… we should have been there…" Wally said feeling guilty. He and Jesse were helping Eddie with two Meta-humans. Kid Flash, Jesse Quick and Cobalt Blue managed to stop them and bring them to Iron Heights.

"It's not your fault Wally." Ben said as he hobbled into the room supported by Alex.

"Ben!" Caitlin was a little upset that Ben was up and about. "You need to rest!"

Ben seemed to grimace in pain with every step he took. "I'm fine…"

"I'm sorry Caitlin, he's being very stubborn." Alex apologized.

"Ben, you are not OK! Alex and I had to remove sections of your bones!" Caitlin argued. "I can tell that you're in pain right now!"

"Mo-"

Caitlin immediately cut him off. "Don't you dare 'Mom' Me. Alex take him back to his bed!" Alex nodded and led Ben out of the room, leaving Caitlin to turn back to the rest of the Team. Caitlin ran a hand through her hair and sighed heavily before feeling a hand being placed on her shoulder.

"Come on Caitlin." Iris said. "You need some air." Gently she guided Caitlin out of the room, but not before they both spared one more look to the unconscious Barry. "Come on, I'll take you home."

Star City, Queen Mansion

Laurel looked up at the old building as she put her car into park. It looked like no one had been here for years, which was odd considering Laurel remembered that she and Oliver had their wedding reception here.

"Welcome Ms. Lance." Laurel looked up to see a man sitting on the railing of the second floor. "We've been expecting you."

He was a young man, he looked to be in his late 20's. Tall and well built, with black hair and deep set blue eyes. He wore a black sleeveless shirt, dark blue jeans, black combat boots, black gloves and spiked bracelets in each arm, on top of that the lower half of his face was wrapped in a gray colored scarf.

"Who are you?" Laurel demanded.

"That's not important." The man said. There was a scream that echoed through the halls.

Laurel looked around searching for the source of the scream. She was sure she recognized the voice, it sounded like Oliver. "Oliver? OLIVER!" She screamed back, maybe her husband would respond.

"He's here." The man responded as he picked something out of his ear. "That's one of the reasons I brought you here." Laurel turned back to the man.

"Why did you bring me here?"

"Look around you and you'll see."

Laurel didn't like this at all but she complied and looked around the mansion. An hour later left Laurel more confused than before. She had checked every room but there were no signs of Oliver anywhere. When she got to the foyer she turned back to the mysterious young man.

"Where's Oliver?" She demanded.

"You're not getting it." The man shook his head. He picked a photo up off the table in the middle of the room. "Just look at this." Laurel took the photo.

There was nothing out of the ordinary or sinister about the photo. It was one of Oliver, Thea and herself.

"check the date." The mysterious man said.

Slowly Laurel took the photo out of the frame and flipped it over. The date read November 2007, nearly ten years ago. "What's you point?" Laurel asked. "This is a photo of Ollie, Thea and Me from 2007."

"Do you remember even taking that picture?" The man asked

"No, it was ten years ago." Laurel said still looking at the photo. Yes it was true she had no recollection of taking that picture which was odd.

"You have no recollection of the picture because you were not in it." The mysterious man put an emphasis on the you.

"What?" Laurel looked up at the man. "What the hell are you talking about? I don't remember it because it happened a long time ago!"

"No Laurel, that is not you in that picture because you are not Laurel Lance." He said. "You are her doppelganger, from Earth-2, Black Siren."

"Shut… UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPPPPPPPPPP!" Laurel screamed and unleashed her sonic scream. Instincts were over ridding Laurel's rational mind which was questioning how she was screaming so loudly.

Moving equally fast, the mysterious man yanked down his scarf and screamed right back. For a brief moment, Laurel noticed stitching running up each of his cheeks before they ripped open giving the man a horrifying Glasgow smile that exposed all thirty-two of his teeth.

The man's scream was equal to Laurel's own and they managed to cancel each other out. Glass cracked and/or shattered from the sound and the building shook from the vibrations. Once it all died down Laurel collapsed to her knees gasping for breath.

"How…?" She clutched her own throat in shock. How did he do that? Better question, how did she do that? Laurel wasn't a meta-human. How could she possibly release such a scream? "This is… this is impossible…"

"I can offer you the answers you seek, Laurel." The man said. Laurel looked up to see him standing over her readjusting his scarf so it would cover his mouth. He crouched down so he could look into her eyes. "But only if you want them."

"Who… who are you…" Laurel asked more frightened than anything else.

"My name is Bobby, but you can also call me Sonic Boom."

"Is… is everything I know a lie?" Laurel asked on the verge of tears.

Bobby closed his eyes and lowered his head before uttering a single word. "Yes."

Caitlin and Barry's Apartment

Iris removed the mug from the Kurig once it was filled with that chocolate colored goodness everyone ran on. Taking two steaming mugs Iris left the kitchen and entered into the living room before handing one of the mugs to Caitlin and siting on the couch next to her most-likely-future-sister-in-law.

"Well, I haven't been a barista for a couple of years now, but I think I still got it. Here." She said as Caitlin took the cup and sipped her coffee.

"Thank you, Iris…" Caitlin said quietly.

The two women sat in silence. Caitlin was honestly glad they weren't talking. What were they supposed to even say? She was grateful for the gesture Iris was offering.

"How are you feeling?" Iris asked. "And please be honest Caitlin, I know you tend to close off."

"Honestly… I'm terrified…" Caitlin didn't bother to look up from her coffee. "I… I've never seen Barry in such awful condition… neither Zoom or Savitar have inflicted this much damage. And on top of this I had to cut up my own son's bones to the point he might never be able to run again."

Iris could see how broken Caitlin seemed to be. "It's going to be OK Caitlin-" Caitlin shook her head cutting Iris off.

"It won't be OK Iris!" Caitlin felt the tears form. Iris put down her cup and wrapped her arms around Caitlin and let her friend cry into her shoulder. "It… it won't be OK…" she sniffled between words as tears leaked onto Iris' shoulder.

"Have faith Caitlin…" Iris said. "You and Barry are two of the strongest people I know. Nothing this insignificant will keep you two apart."

The Next Day

S.T.A.R. Labs, Medical Lab

Joe sat next to Barry's unconscious body. It was painful to see Barry in such a state, it was like when Barry was struck by lightning only worse.

"Dad?" Joe turned around to see Iris walking into the lab. "You OK?"

Joe shook his head. "No Iris I'm not… Barry's unconscious and broken… and there's nothing I can do about it."

Iris took a deep breath. "Barry will pull through dad. He's done it before."

"I know baby girl. But this doesn't make me any less terrified. I already told Captain Singh Barry was in a car accident."

"How'd they take it?"

"Everyone at the station is worried for Barry, Singh said if they have time they will come to visit him." Iris smiled.

"That's nice of them."

"How's Caitlin taking it?" Joe asked.

Despite Caitlin's professional demeanor Iris could tell Caitlin was really troubled. She had been through more heartache than any other person Iris knew, so seeing Barry like this was hardest on Caitlin. "She's trying to be strong." Iris said. "but I can tell she's hurting. I stayed with her last night."

"That's good of you, that girl needs someone right now."

Iris nodded. "I offered to drive her in today but she said she'll come in on her own later. She mentioned something about needing some time to process."

STAR Labs, Speed Lab

Wally ran endless laps around the lab over and over again trying to push himself to go faster and faster. This Lightspeed was faster than anything he had seen. Faster than Barry, Caitlin, Zoom, Savitar, Jesse or even himself.

"Wally!" Jesse called out to Kid Flash. Listening to her, Wally came to a stop in front of her.

"Hey Jess."

"Wally, you can't beat yourself up for what happened to Barry."

Wally sighed. "But is our fault. We weren't fast enough to get to Barry in time."

"Wally, stop beating yourself up." Wally and Jesse turned to see Harry leaning in the doorway. "None of us knows what the future holds, no one could have predicted this Lightspeed showing up. All we can do is move forward from this."

"What do you suggest?" Wally shrugged. "According to Caitlin and Ben, Lightspeed is unbelievably fast, so fast that we cannot even comprehend his speed."

"Then we work on getting you faster Wally." Harry said. "Because this is going to take all of us."

Earth-38, D.E.O. Headquarters.

Cisco and J'onn stood in front of the Transmatter Portal. "OK so how are we supposed to get to this back to my earth?" Cisco asked unsure how they were going to move a rather large machine across the multiverse.

"We're not going to bring it to your Earth, we will be using this in conjunction with your abilities to open the portal to connect with Kara's exact location." J'onn explained. "In theory, this will take a lot of the burden off of you."

Cisco shrugged. "Well, let's go for it."

As Cisco opened a breach using the Transmatter Portal as a sort of amplifier J'onn plugged in Kara's bio-signature.

"OK J'onn, I'll keep the Breach open as long as I can. You get in grab Kara and get out."

J'onn smirked as his body transformed into his Martian form. "I'll be back." The Martian Manhunter ran into the portal vanishing from Earth-38.

Earth-Prime, Space Sector 0000, Planet Oa, Chamber of the Guardians

The Guardians, Kara, Hal and Yat looked as a blue portal ripped open mere feet away from them.

"What is this?" One of the male guardians demanded.

"J'onn Jonzz came rushing out of the portal and slammed Yat away from Kara.

"J'onn!" Kara called out, but the Martian Manhunter didn't seem to hear her as he rushed Hal Jordan.

The Green Lantern from Earth's Sector forged dozens of green chains which wrapped around the Martian immobilizing him.

"Calm down green man." Hal said. "I take it he's one of your friends?" He asked Kara.

"Yes. J'onn Please stop!" J'onn stopped struggling and looked to Kara.

"Kara. What's going on."

Kara turned back to Hal and the Green Lantern dissolved his emerald chains. "J'onn, this is Hal Jordan." She gestured to Hal, "He's in charge of our sector. This whole ordeal was a huge misunderstanding." Kara explained

"Our Apologies." The Guardian known as Ganthet said. "Lantern Yat mistook your Kara Zor-El for our Kara Zor-El."

"I see." J'onn said. "If I may, I would like to return Kara to our home."

"What? J'onn we cannot leave yet! We still have to help Barry!"

"We will allow it." One of the guardians said getting Kara and J'onn's attention. "We will allow you two to return to your own reality."

"Thank you." J'onn said. "Come on Kara, let's get Alex and go home."

Earth, Central City, S.T.A.R. Labs

Ben laid out on his cot next to August. Caitlin had confided them to Bed rest. He looked up at the white ceiling and huffed in frustration.

"Alrigth Ben, what's bothering you?" August asked.

"I hate being out of commission like this." Ben said "And the worst part is we might never get to run again."

"Actually, there might be a way for both of us to heal faster." That caught Ben's attention.

"How so?"

"I read some medical notes in Coast City by a Dr. Steloogy. He proposed that to better heal bone fractures at much faster rates Doctors and Surgeons preform an entire bone transplant."

Ben's eyes widened. The Medical Examiner at CCPD proposed entire bone transplants? That could work for his arm and for their legs. "Really? That can work? Transplanting an entire Bone?"

"In theory it should work, however it was never done in practice. It requires complete bone removal which is crazy to say the least. It also requires a replacement bone of the same size and blood type. And the Surgeon has to move quick with no room for error."

"What's the recovery time?"

"Supposedly the recovery time is 2-3 weeks, which for us would be…"

Ben smiled. "Within an hour. So where are we going to find four tibias, a radius and an Ulna with our blood types?"

"You may not like it." August said as he swung his legs over the side of the cot. "Just leave it to me. You contact Dr. Steloogy and set up an appointment." He grimaced slightly as he placed weight onto his legs. He grabbed a crutch and before Ben could blink he was gone.

Streets of Central City

August, or rather Godspeed, ran with the crutch for three steps before discarding the tool to run on his own. Despite receiving the same injury as Ben, August had used one of the abilities he had been granted in order to completely halt anything done to his body. Nothing could hurt him, which was why he was considered one of the most powerful speedsters. Concentrating hard Godspeed allowed the Speed Force to flow through him before opening a breach in the multiverse. August knew exactly where to go in order to obtain the bones. Who else would have a bone of the same length and blood time aside from a doppelganger.

Central City Police Department, Morgue

Dr. Steloogy was hunched over his microscope analyzing the tissue form an open case when a gust of air and a crackle of thunder echoed through the room.

The doctor turned around to see a man clad completely in white and gold Armor.

"What? Who… who are you?" He asked fearfully.

"I am here to offer you Salvation from your torment Dr. Steloogy." The man said "My lord and master has seen the hardships you have endured and eh offers to ascend you to new levels."

"What are you talking about?" Bones asked.

"Soon my master will come for your aid. When he does help him and you shall be rewarded."

"Rewarded how?"

"A cure for your ailment." The man said before vanishing in a blinding golden light.

No sooner had he left then Steloogy heard his phone rip though the silence, startling the man and almost giving him a heart attack. Quickly as he could he fumbled for his phone and answered it.

"Hello?"

S.T.A.R. Labs

Ben hung up the phone just as August returned to the lab carrying a large duffle bag which make a noise suspiciously like bones banging together.

"Um August… please tell me you didn't go grave robbing."

August placed the bag on the floor and rested his crutch against his bed as he got back into it. "OK, I did not go grave robbing. Did you contact Steloogy?"

"I tried but it went to voice mail." ben said "Which is strange since he always works late."

"Well, if we were to say speed read his techniques and a bunch of Dr. Snow's books I'm sure we could perform the surgery ourselves."

Ben gave him a concerned look. "Are you serious? it's bad enough operating without any experience, but what you're talking about it insane and quite frankly, sick."

"Come on man. If we don't do this now we might not get the chance to do it. And if it works, we could apply this to the Barry." Ben thought for a moment.

"Alright, who goes first?"

"You." August said as he opened the bag and pulled out two tibias, a radius and an ulna. all four bones were in perfect condition and even had some blood on them which caught Ben's attention.

"What the fu-" Ben was silenced by a super-fast fist to his head which knocked him out cold allowing Godspeed the opportunity to perform an extremely unethical surgery on his friend.

The white speedster grabbed a scalpel and buried it all the way into Ben's leg and ran it down from knee to ankle. He reached in with speed and Dexterity and removed the entire bone. in a mere moment, thanks to his improbable speed. Godspeed had reinserted the new tibia and sutured the ligaments back together before stitching the leg up. In another microsecond, He had done the same action again to Ben's other leg and to his left arm.

"There you go my friend." Godspeed said to his sleeping friend. "You're going to be as good as new when you wake up. I have such big plans for you and your precious little family that I cannot afford for either you or Barry to be out of commission for very long."

Central City Park

Caitlin sat on a park bench taking in the beauty around her and trying to process everything that had happened yesterday. Mostly her thoughts we on the small box sitting peacefully in her hands. This morning after she had woken up in her bed, alone for the first time in months, she picked up Barry's jacket and held it close taking in his scent. It was in the middle of this activity that a small box fell out of the jacket pocket. Caitlin had put the jacket down and picked up the box. Tears were staining her eyes as she slowly opened it and gazed upon a beautiful ring.

Barry wanted to propose.

Caitlin couldn't stop the tears that ran down her face. They were tears that blended happiness, sorrow, joy, even anger. Caitlin ran a hand through her hair unable to hold back her emotions. When Iris knocked on her door Caitlin put away the ring in a flash of blue lightning. She told Iris she'll get to S.T.A.R. Labs on her own.

So here she was, sitting on a park bench thinking about everything.

She was slightly snapped out of her thoughts when someone sat down next to her. Far enough not to intrude on her personal space but close enough to be noticeable. Caitlin glanced over out of the corner of her eye. There was hardly anything out of the ordinary with him.

"Nice day, isn't it?" The man next to her said looking up at the sky. Caitlin followed suit but didn't respond. "Not one to talk, that's fine." he said. There was silence for a few minutes. "I take it you live here? I don't I'm just visiting." The man kept saying.

Caitlin was starting to get annoyed with the man. Sure, he was coming off as friendly but Caitlin wanted to be left alone.

"I take it you are having boyfriend troubles?" At this, Caitlin actually turned and got a good look at the man. He was dressed rather casually with denim jeans and a red hoodie underneath a yellow and black leather jacket.

"What?" She said

"She speaks!" He smiled "So, what your boyfriend proposed? Mazel Tov! Oh wait, He didn't propose yet, did he?"

Caitlin shook her head. "No, my boyfriend was in an accident yesterday. He's in a coma."

"Oh, I am sorry." The man said "I know what it's like to lose a loved one."

"You do?"

"Yeah, I do." He gave her a warm smile. "I'm sorry I should have asked, what's your name?"

"Caitlin." Caitlin offered her hand which the man took.

"Caitlin, that's a very nice name. I'm-" There was a slight beeping that came from his watch and he seemingly grimaced slightly. "I'm sorry, I've got to go."

"Wait, I never got your name." Just as mysteriously as he appeared he was gone.

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