Come one, come all to the Earth-X Invasion. I don't want to give too much away so just a thanks to my co-authors Brightburn1985 and ThomasMarieAmell2.0.
Disclaimer: I don't own any part of the Arrowverse.
"Alright, everybody at the wedding has been wiped of their memories. As far as they're concerned, the wedding went off without a hitch and they just decided to turn in early." Sara said, waving the memory device, walking into the Cortex of STAR Labs where everyone else was.
"So I have to ask, are you guys actually married? Because the officiator kinda… died before he finished speaking." Ray asked.
"Well technically we already applied for a marriage license. And the officiator did get to the part where we're husband and wife. We just didn't get to kiss." Barry said.
"Okay, since we got that question out of the way, what are we going to do about these Nazis? Where did they even come from?" Cisco asked.
"Have you detected any breaching activity? Maybe they came from another Earth?"
"One where the Nazis won WWII? Why would they come here?" Kara asked.
"Looks like it, and what would you know? There was breach activity." Cisco said, typing at the computer.
"Why were we not alerted?" Barry asked.
"Because it happened at the same time Kara came for the wedding, so we shut off the detector."
"Sorry," Kara mumbled.
"It's not your fault. How would they even know that? To be able to time the use of a breach so perfectly?" Caitlin stated.
"They could have someone with my powers. Able to spy on other worlds. They'd be able to predict the perfect moment to arrive without being detected."
"So we got the how. Now we just need to know the why." Oliver said.
"Think they'd be up for a chat?" Barry suggested.
"I don't think we have a choice." Kara said as she gestured to a screen with the three imposing figures from the wedding. Obviously the leaders of the Nazi group.
"So who's going out there?" Ray asked.
"Barry, Kara and I will go. I don't know why, but there's something about those people." Oliver said, staring at the screen.
Both Kara and Barry nodded their heads. They both felt a sort of connection, but they weren't sure why. Or maybe they did and just refused to acknowledge it.
Regardless, everyone else agreed. The three of them were exalted as the unofficial leaders whenever some big dilemma happened.
The three got into costume and appeared outside STAR Labs.
"Why have you come here?" Oliver demanded.
"We come to talk. Despite our initial confrontation, we are not barbarians. We are open to negotiations." the archer replied.
"You have a funny way of showing it. You killed someone for absolutely no reason and attacked us out of the blue. What gives?" Barry asked.
"A recon mission. We needed to get a grasp of knowledge of you so that a plan could form more solidly." the woman responded.
"And what exactly is your plan?" Kara asked.
"To wipe out the Flash. To wipe out every Flash in every multiverse."
"Not even a day after my wedding. Literally the second we got married and already somebody has come to try to kill me." Barry joked.
"I think Sara won the bet. She voted for a day after the wedding." Kara joked along.
"I'm glad you can see the humour in your situation. Now let's talk negotiation."
"We're not letting you have the Flash." Oliver yelled.
"We've faced worse things than you. You don't scare us." Kara supplied.
"Oh? I do believe that you've never faced anything like us." said the archer. And as one, all three of the Nazis pressed a hidden button under their masks that caused them to recede so they could properly see their adversaries. What was revealed froze them to their spots.
Behind each mask was a mirror of each of them. The Nazis were their doppelgängers.
"This isn't possible," Oliver mumbled.
"What? Looking into your own reflection and seeing nothing but weakness? I agree," Nazi Oliver said.
"Which are you?" Barry asked at his own duplicate. "Me or…"
"I was an only child, but I've seen multiple versions of our brother. Shame though, he would have been a welcome addition to our family." Nazi Barry said.
Both Kara and Oliver felt sorry for Barry. It was just a few months ago that Barry was forced to murder his identical twin brother, and now faced with a possible doppelgänger of him had to hurt. Still, they couldn't let their emotions get the best of them right now.
"Why did you come here?" Kara took over. Barry clearly wasn't up for speaking as he tried to not so subtly gaze upon his doppelgänger.
"In our world, we have a divine, Francisco Ramon, in our custody. With the power to see the future, we had to harness that strength. One day he saw a vision. In the future, the fate of the multiverse rests upon the decision of the Flash." Barry's duplicate said.
"Yeah, we know. Barry is fated to save the multiverse." Oliver said.
"Which Barry? Which Flash?" the Oliver doppelgänger questioned. "Ramon stated his vision was filled with multiple alternate speedsters. Who's to say our Flash is not the one to decide the fate of the multiverse?"
The three heroes tried to say something, but they couldn't. Barry had seen the future newspaper, but the future could always be altered. And the version of himself he'd seen in the picture could just be one of his doppelgängers. When he'd seen it the first time, they had been unaware of the reality that was alternate dimensions. They'd simply assumed that Barry was the one the newspaper was referring to. And the Dominators hadn't been specific either. They stated the Flash was fated to make a decision, but it could be they also rushed to the conclusion that Barry was the one because they were unaware of the several possibilities.
"That still doesn't answer why you came here." Oliver said.
"Whittling down the competition. If all speedsters were to disappear, the fate of the multiverse falls upon our Flash. And when he makes his decision, the multiverse will be ours." Kara's doppelgänger said.
"That's the reason you invaded our Earth? Because you wanted to make sure you were the one to decide on the fate of the multiverse?" Barry said. "You're insane. So you know what? I'm just going to have to make sure that I'm the one that will shoulder this burden if the alternate choice is you."
"You don't know if it works like that. Perhaps you are, perhaps you're not. None of us is sure. But I stand a better chance of making that decision with you gone. Which is why you need to be eliminated. Nothing personal."
"Now hold on, you said you were open to negotiations. Let's talk," Oliver tried to defuse the situation.
"Alright. We want to kill your Flash, but we're open to taking him to our Earth where he will either be recruited and forced to serve us, or spend the rest of his life in a concentration camp. Either way, you will never see him again."
"No deal! We're not giving Barry up. We went through the same thing last year, and nothing's changed. Barry deserves his own life. No prophecy or vision, or whatever is going to change that." Kara defended her friend.
"If that is your final choice, then the next time we meet will be on the battlefield." Oliver's doppelgänger said.
In a gust of wind, all three Nazis were gone. The Oliver duplicate having been taken away by either Kara or Barry. That didn't matter though. They had to find a way to deal with this new Earth Invasion.
"Let me see if I got this," Cisco paced back and forth. "Your alternates, from a reality where the Nazis won WWII, have come here to kill Barry because my alternate spilled the beans on Crisis, so they want to make sure the fate of the multiverse rests on them."
"Thank you for summing that up," Barry rolled his eyes. He didn't need the reminder of the chaos that was his life.
"This Crisis is shaping up to be quite the predicament." Stein said. "What can we do?"
"The foot soldiers, they should be easily taken care of. They're expendable, but they have numbers. The main concern is us," Oliver said.
"Each of us is going to have to take on our doppelgängers. It's the best choice. I know nobody else is going to be able to take on a Kryptonian on equal ground here." Kara said.
"We're going to be spread thin. While we're taking care of them, everybody else is defending the civilians. And now that we know they're here, they don't need to hide. They can call for reinforcements back on their own world." Barry said.
"You three just need to take out the leaders, i.e. your doppelgängers. Without them to lead, the rest should retreat back to their Earth." Caitlin said.
"We're going to need to pull out all the stops. Their objective is to get rid of me. So long as they have a Flash of their own to rally behind in this Crisis, they're not going to stop. Not even with me. With every speedster until he is the last one."
"That just means you're going to need to get rid of him first. Think you can handle that?" Oliver asked.
"Don't worry about me. I'll take care of him. You guys focus on your own tasks."
It was daytime when the Nazi invasion came. Troops of Nazis were firing everywhere at the disgusting world they had come to. It was their understanding that in the majority of the multiverse, the Fatherland had fallen, which was shameful. But if nothing else, in this crusade they might be able to spread the beauty and greatness of their world to the rest of them.
One group was led by their three leaders. They were destroying everything in sight, but also in anticipation of an oncoming attack. They were not disappointed.
A single group of heroes stood in their way. Each of these heroes were equipped with their own skills and abilities. What a joke. They had the potential to be gods, but the worlds that fostered them made them weak. That was something to be remedied, either by making them see the light, or ridding the multiverse of their presence.
"Still up for negotiation?" Green Arrow asked.
"You've made your stance quite clear." Dark Arrow responded. "We've voiced our demands, and you refused. Now is simply the consequence of your poor decision."
"Do you really think you can change destiny so easily? The amount of worlds you'd have to go to in order to make sure your Flash would be the single remaining speedster?" Supergirl questioned their logic.
"If it were easy, everyone would do it. And you assume you are the first world we've visited. Several other speedsters have fallen before our might. All of them from worlds similar to yours." Overgirl called out. "Weak, undisciplined. You have no structure, which is exactly why you will fall."
"We're giving you one last chance. Nobody can alter destiny. What you're doing isn't going to change anything. Leave our Earth and never return. Let this Crisis you mentioned play out how it's supposed to be." Flash offered.
"No deal. We have nothing to gain from it, but everything to obtain when I cut off your head." Crimson Flash smirked.
There was a moment of silence as everybody waited for the other to make the first move. The Kryptonians floated into the air. The archers drew their bows. The speedsters had lightning coursing over their bodies.
Nobody was sure who it was, but something caused them all to spring into action. The three leaders on both sides went off on their own to take down their counterparts. The rest of the heroes would try to take down as many soldiers as possible.
The Kryptonians soared high in the air, colliding into each other in black and blue. Laser vision was emitting from their eyes every now and then, but only to come to a draw and they continued flying. Their fists meeting again and again. The impact created a sound wave but neither noticed, too wrapped up in their opponent to care.
The two archers were fighting up close. After the initial firing of their arrows, and missing, they closed the distance. Using their bows as a staff, they tried to beat each other with it. Blocking, kicking the other away. Dark Arrow's defences were impeccable, but what could be expected after having been a leader of a Nazi army. He'd been trained by professionals from the moment he could stand. Green Arrow however was able to keep up due to the very thing Dark Arrow looked down upon. His unpredictability. Years of living in the wild had honed his primal instincts and his fighting style reflected that savagery.
Sparks of lightning travelled across the city in red and yellow. The two alternated between who was chasing whom. Sometimes The Flash took the lead, while other times the Crimson Flash. The two constantly had lightning enveloping their bodies. Both of them had developed a sense of resistance to all electric shocks, but they weren't immune. There was a limit to how much they could take. They just hoped their own was greater than the other. They stopped in one location and circled each other, each trying to land a hit on the other before moving on. A kick, a lightning bolt, a full on tackle. They weren't stopping until the other was gone.
Up in the air, the two Kryptonians were still trying to pummel each other. "You disgust me." Overgirl shouted.
"So do you." Supergirl replied. "You're an overlord that rules your world with fear. But let's hear your reason."
Supergirl flew straight at Overgirl and crashed into her. Overgirl raised her arms to block her and fired her heat vision between them. Kara easily dodged them though. "You have all my powers. You could use them to rule your own world, yet you waste your gifts, using them to serve." Overgirl sneered at her. "You're just like my little cousin. Always going on about using our powers to help. He couldn't see the greater picture. A few years in stasis should eventually curb his attitude."
"You put Kal-El in stasis?!" Supergirl shouted, outraged. Her whole reason for coming to Earth had been to protect Kal-El, and it appears this version was tasked with the same. To hear such things happen to any version of her little cousin filled her with rage.
"Just for as long as he continues to hold those silly ideals. But what concern is that of yours? I'm sure you've disciplined your own Kal as well." Overgirl stated, but she took one look on her alternate's face and came to a conclusion. "Unless something happened, that caused you to be unable to care for him. Which means you failed. You're worthless."
"Shut up!" Supergirl shot her laser vision but Overgirl swooped underneath and let loose her icy breath that pushed Supergirl higher into the air. "You don't know anything about me!"
"I know that I'm right. If your parents could see you. The weak, pathetic failure of a daughter that couldn't take care of her own flesh and blood."
"It wasn't my fault. My pod was knocked off course. By the time I arrived, he didn't need me anymore." Supergirl argued. Both of them were grappling the other shooting to the ground head first.
"Excuses. It doesn't change the fact that you failed. You are nothing but a failure. Your whole life was a waste that'll never amount to anything!"
They both released the other and pulled up at the last second and continued their battle in the air. Overgirl veered around and dived right at Supergirl. The crash knocked Supergirl to the side, but Overgirl barreled past her as if she weren't there.
Overgirl looped around and came from the bottom, ready to send both fists in Supergirl's midsection, but Supergirl twirled around and dodged the attack and slammed herself into Overgirl.
Grabbing the black suit, Supergirl lifted Overgirl to her eye level. "You don't get to talk to me like that. You have no right to judge me on what happened. The past is the past, and there's no changing it. So there's no point for me to dwell on it anymore."
Overgirl's eyes lit up with power, but before she could release it, Supergirl turned her around and brought her into a chokehold. Overgirl couldn't move, lest she risk having her neck snapped. Behind her, Overgirl could feel the heat emanating from her alternate eyes that were pointed at the back of her head.
"Yield." Supergirl demanded. To emphasize her point, Supergirl forced both of them to drop from the sky. Overgirl tried to use her own flight to push back, but the combination of Supergirl and gravity kept them moving downwards. Supergirl made sure to position Overgirl, so the Nazi would be the one to take the brunt of the impact with the ground.
It wounded her pride, but Overgirl shouted, "Yield! Stop!"
At once, the two were floating again. Overgirl would like to say there were several factors that contributed to her surrender. The threat of death over a pointless fight, but mostly, she just couldn't have her little cousin growing up without her. She refused to let that happen.
"Leave this world. Never come back." Supergirl demanded.
"I'm an honourable person, and I always keep my word." Overgirl pulled out a little device and with a click, a breach opened. "You win Supergirl. This time." she said before she stepped through, the portal closing behind her.
Green Arrow and Dark Arrow were trading blows left and right. Their bows used as close-up weapons, trying to trip the other up.
"You want to know the difference between you and I?" Dark asked his counterpart. "It's that when it matters, there is no difference."
"How do you figure?" Green asked, slightly out of breath. Green blocked another strike from Dark and pushed him away. Dark ran up and swung the bow in a wide arc, but Green ducked under it and body slammed into his opponent.
"You and I are both a product of our society. We're not different. It's the worlds around us that are different. Think about that. We were both born with the silver spoon in our mouths. We both achieved greatness because of it."
"Having a privileged life does not define us. I had to work to get to where I am. I didn't have anybody to train me. I had to learn in order to survive." Green dropped to the ground and tried to sweep the leg.
Dark fell down but was quick to recover with a single jump. "You think I didn't learn in order to survive? No, I may have been born into this role, but that didn't mean I didn't have to earn it. My blood may have opened the door, but in the end everything I achieved was based upon my own merit. In my society, I had to fight in order to be granted the gift of life."
The two locked bows and tried to push the other back, but neither was able, their strength about equal. "You and I may be a product of our societies, but that doesn't mean it has to define us. In the end, who we are is decided by ourselves."
They eventually stopped trying to dominate through strength alone. Dark used one hand to pull an arrow from his quiver and tried to stab it into Green's arm.
Green pulled away to get a safe distance from it and pulled one of his own arrows. Quickly pulling back on the string, he let it fly. The arrow tip opened to release a net that tried to ensnare Dark in it, but Dark was quick to maneuver out of the way. Dark looked at the net and scoffed. "Clearly another difference between us. You look to simply incapacitate, whilst I-" Dark shot another arrow at Green right where his head would be, if not for Green moving out of the way. Though, it was still fast enough that it nicked Green in the cheek to draw blood. "-have no problem going for the kill."
"What do you even hope to achieve through this?" Green growled out. He was lining up another arrow as he was speaking.
"I just want you to understand, I'm not doing this because I'm evil. Evil is relative. I'm doing this because it was what I was trained to do from birth. To conquer, to rule. You know what I speak of." Dark said, lining up his own shot. "You stand beside those with the power of gods, and they see you as an equal. Even unofficially, you are the one people look up to."
Green Arrow could understand that. These people had been raised in a Nazi world. In their eyes, what they were doing was right. It was expected of them. It was strange to think that in the other world, the roles would be reversed and he would be the one to be in the wrong.
Regardless, that didn't matter. This was his world. He wouldn't let it fall to people like these.
As one they both let their arrows go. The two arrows sailed at each other, one black and the other green. They met in the middle, and it was the black arrow that had been split in half as the green tore through it and continued its trajectory to the black clad archer.
Dark Arrow didn't move, having accepted his fate. This was his life, to fight and die for the Fatherland.
The metal tip pierced through his clothing, but not through his heart or head like Dark suspected, but through his shoulder instead.
Dark Arrow screamed in pain but quickly regained himself. Dark quickly pulled out the arrow and was about to stand when a foot pressed down against the wound. The pressure irritated the arrow hole.
"Do you yield?" Green Arrow asked. Adding more pressure on the injury.
"I have been trained to handle pain. I'd rather die!" Dark Arrow seethed.
"That can be arranged. Without medical attention, you'll bleed out. I'm giving you the chance to survive, but if you die, that's no trouble for me. And there's still plenty of time to cause you as much pain as possible before you go."
Dark Arrow let out another scream of pain. In his mind, he was weighing his options. He could either die as a hero, or return a failure. It was ingrained in him to choose the first option, but then again, this didn't necessarily have to be a failure. The casualties could be easily explained, and as long as the Flash of this world would die, this would be a success. And even if he did survive, who would know.
Dark's mind made its decision. "Get off! Get off! I'll leave, just get off of me!"
Green Arrow stepped off the wound and warily eyed him. Dark pulled out a tiny device that opened a breach which would lead back to his own world. Dark looked back one last time. "You have earned my respect today. We've underestimated you, but don't think for a second I won't crush you if given the chance."
Two lightning bolts travelled all across the city. Strikes and blows too fast for a normal person to catch. Both bodies coated in a layer of electricity, as though it were a suit of armour. Their eyes flowed with the power just beneath the skin so much, it seemed as though their eyes were glowing.
"Do you know what I see when I look upon you?" Crimson said in his distorted voice.
"Disgust? Loathing?" Flash replied. "The feeling is mutual."
"I see anger. But not at me, no. I know that look. I used to see that look on myself everyday in the mirror. That feeling of utter failure. Of being less than. It wasn't until I had been touched by divinity that my worth was finally seen." Crimson said. "But that's not the case with you."
They each hurled a lightning bolt at the other that met in the middle and resulted in an explosion.
The smoke provided cover. Not much with the bright sparks of light each generated, but it was a sign to wait the other out. The dust settled and they both sprung into action.
"I have no idea what you're talking about." Flash grumbled as they circled each other.
"Don't you?" Crimson suddenly switched directions and crashed into Flash, sending them both tumbling down. "That look you have in your eyes, the feeling of being haunted by your past."
"I doubt you ever felt such things." Flash retorted.
"I've done things I'm not proud of. You think my life was easy? I wasn't born into this role. I didn't fall from the heavens with abilities beyond our understanding. I wasn't given opportunities on a silver platter. I had to struggle. I had to prove I was better than others by any means necessary." Crimson grit his teeth. "And I mean anything."
"What does that have to do with me?" Flash quickly grabbed the lightning bolt heading towards him and threw it in another direction.
"You're haunted by the same thing. Things you regret. Let me guess, Savitar?" Crimson said.
"How do you even know about that?" Flash questioned.
"Word gets around. Talk started when speedsters felt Savitar had taken a permanent residence in the Speed Force. When word got out he was last on your Earth, it wasn't hard to connect the dots. And when you mentioned Malcolm earlier it wasn't hard to assume his identity."
"Don't say it," Flash whispered.
"Savitar was your brother. And you murdered him in cold blood. We both have blood on our hands, let's not deny that."
"You don't get to talk about him! You know nothing about what happened!" Flash shouted. Flash charged up both his arms and released both lightning bolts at his adversary.
Crimson fluidly dodged the wild attack. "I know you vibrated your hand through his chest. I know you were aware of who he was. You don't exactly have the moral high ground here."
"You're right. I don't, but neither do you. You've done worse things in your life. Things that could have been avoided. Things you didn't have to do."
"We all like to think that. But I'm here to tell you, it doesn't matter. In the end, we're all monsters. We don't deserve the gifts we've been given. Not me, not you, not even your friends. The truth is we take and we take until there's nothing left to give, and even then we still expect more. We're all the same. We're all bad people in some way. It's just a matter of who's going to survive."
Once again Flash charged his arms and Crimson went to copy. The lightning was released and met in the middle again. The four lightning bolts created an even bigger explosion that obscured their vision.
Flash ran into the smoke while Crimson remained silent, using his other senses to try to determine where his opponent may be coming from.
Crimson heard the sound of another lightning bolt to his left and turned in time to bat it away. What he wasn't expecting was a sneak attack when his back was turned. A vibrating hand was against his back and Crimson raised his hands in a surrender fashion.
"I don't want to kill you, but I can't let you live." Flash said as the dust settled, showing him to be the victor.
"I'm willing to admit defeat. Just let me go, and I'll never bother you again. I'll leave and return to my world. You won't see me again."
"And the rest of the multiverse?" Flash said.
"You have no control over that. What I do in the rest of the multiverse is no business of yours."
"I can't let you keep killing other speedsters."
"Then you better end me here. Come on. Show me the man who took on Savitar, the greatest speedster in existence, and won. Who crushed his heart and sent him to the Speed Force."
The Flash was torn. Here was a villain who was surrendering, but with full knowledge he'd be able to escape any major consequences. If Flash set him free, he'd be able to continue this crusade against the rest of the multiverse, and if he killed Crimson, he'd just prove Crimson right.
There had to be another way. Like so many times, Barry looked deep into himself and felt the Speed Force that gave him his powers. He could feel it, see it. He could even see the connection his counterpart had.
He knew what he had to do.
With a touch, Flash reached for that connection and pulled on his counterpart's.
Crimson yelped at the strange sensation. "What are you-?"
The Flash didn't stop until he could no longer feel his alternate's connection.
Crimson collapsed to the ground. He looked at his hands in horror. "What did you do to me?"
"What has been given to you has been taken. You don't have powers anymore." Flash said. "It's over."
In the end, Barry's alternate, the Crimson Flash, was the only one not to return to their own Earth. Instead he remained, as without his speed, he would be killed for his failure and lack of use upon his return. He would remain a prisoner in ARGUS until such a time would come that he could be safely released into society.
What no one was aware of, the Crimson Flash would be receiving a visit tonight.
A being teleported into the prison on the opposite side of the glass with Crimson Flash.
"Who are you?" Crimson asked, intrigued at the being.
"That doesn't matter. What matters is what I can do for you." the being said. "I have seen your future, and your road does not end here."
"Oh? So you're going to get me out of here?"
"Perhaps. I shall release you from captivity, as well as restore the powers robbed from you. I shall even provide you a return to your world."
"What's the catch?" Crimson narrowed his eyes. This deal seemed too good to be true.
"The catch is when I call for you again, you will answer, and you will join me. No matter the circumstances. Your life is no longer your own."
"When are you going to require my assistance?" Crimson asked.
"I don't know yet, but the time will come. Make your decision. I cannot maintain a presence here for much longer." It was true. By now, some parts of the being's body had started to disappear.
"Okay, get me out of here. I'll do you a favour, but after that, I'll have fulfilled my debt to you."
The being smirked and with a glowing fist, both of them disappeared without a trace.
Hope you all liked that. Of course I would have made an Earth-X Barry. I promised myself I would never bring Reverse Flash back and I am sticking to that promise as much as possible. And I needed him alive by the end as you can tell by how I left things. And because of that, I decided to leave the others alive as well. Looking back, maybe I would have preferred to kill off at least one of them, but I really had no reason to.
I'm waiting to see how you all think of how I portrayed Earth-X Kara, Oliver, and Barry. At first it started as simple insults between Overgirl and Supergirl, but then it turned into a bit of a background for them. Their struggles and climb to success. Except Overgirl, who let's be honest, would have little to no issues. As she states in canon, she has the desirable physical traits in order to succeed in the Fatherland, added with her divine abilities and she probably would have been revered as a goddess.
Guest: First off, thank you and I really mean it. I truly appreciate you telling me you're issues with the story. 1. Well, this is supposed to be a slow burn. I'm sorry you have an issue with that, but I don't think it's that unbelievable that these two deny their feelings for each other for just 2-3 years. Other forms of media I've seen have denied their feelings for longer. They just don't show it. 2. I hold the first two seasons very dear to my heart, so I didn't change much of the background scenes. I spent most of the first two seasons building up Barry and Caitlin's feelings for each other and let most of the things that happened continue. This was meant to be a Snowbarry rewrite. I didn't want to change too much. Call me uncreative as much as you want. 3. Okay, I guess you're right. I did follow a very simple formula back then. For season two, keep in mind they didn't have much of a relationship in season one. They didn't like each other but grew to respect each other. If anything, it was like getting that annoying co-worker after they took a break after they suffered a tragedy. They just get back into the swing of things. You got me with the Caitlin and Ronnie wedding. In hindsight, I only did it because it happened in canon and I didn't need it at all. It was very awkward, but to put it plainly, Caitlin still believes she is in love with Ronnie, and Ronnie is still in love with her and wants to marry her. The only concern he had was that she was in love with someone else. Someone she's known for less than a year, so I think he was kinda hoping she would get over it when she would be in a committed relationship with him. I didn't really see a problem with Caitlin and Zoom. Caitlin is unaware of her feelings for Barry and Barry goes on to dating Patty Spivot, so I had no issues with keeping that canon. Zoom and Iris could have been interesting though now that you bring it up. And finally, as for why Caitlin and Barry never addressed how their friends see them, it all boils down to, 'I don't like you but I respect you. In fact I think I'm falling in love with you but I'm not going to talk about it, and you don't seem to be talking about it either, so we're not going to. Anyone who says otherwise is either someone whose opinion doesn't matter, or is just teasing us and doesn't really mean it.'
Sorry this was so long, but I needed to address this reviewer who made some excellent points, but of course it was a Guest reviewer. I'll just see you all next week.