Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, Naruto Shippuden, The Flash, or The DC Universe, they belong to their respective owners.

Sorry about all the formatting if its hard to keep up, I have to find a way to signify that Naruto is using a power.

"Biju/Force/Computer or AI Talking"

"Vibe talking"

'Normal thinking'

'Text Message'

"Phone/intercom call"

"Normal Talking"

Shadow clone Jutsu = Technique/Jutsu's

(Scene Break/Time Skip)


(Half a week later)

Team Flash was in the cortex, Cisco was working on his Calligraphy, Barry was out doing his own thing, Bette was working on her elemental chakra exercises, and Frost and Caitlin were learning medical ninjutsu from Sakura when both Naruto and Sakura are hit with a surge of Memories. Sakura and Naruto stopped what they were doing getting the attention of Frost, Caitlin, and Cisco.

"Everything okay sensei?" Frost, Caitlin, and Cisco asked

It took Naruto and Sakura about a minute to process the memories and sort thru everything before they resumed

"Yea we just got memories from our other selves living in another dimension." Naruto answered

"So, chances are we are having a boy and a girl." Sakura stated having remembered her other self giving birth to a baby boy and girl

"That's assuming that our kids are going to be the same as in that dimension." Naruto commented "But yes, I have a feeling it's going to be a boy and a girl. And I guess we already have names for them as well."

Just then Dr. Wells wheeled himself into the Cortex "What's this I hear about kids in another dimension?"

"Our other selves in another dimension had kids and we were wondering if our kids in this dimension were going to be the same or different." Naruto answered

"Dr. Wells since you are here, I was wondering if I could go get the DNA samples from Felicity that she wanted help with?" Caitlin asked

Dr. Wells adopted a thinking pose for about 30 seconds "Sure just don't be too long we still need you here to help Barry."

"I can save you a long trip there and just portal you there." Naruto commented

"Wait if Caitlin is going, I want to go as well, I want to see the arrow cave, as well as their toys." Cisco spoke in a whiney tone

"Shall we just go as a team?" Naruto suggested "I'm pretty sure that Dr. Wells wouldn't mind."

"You guys can go I'm going to do my runs around the city." Barry said before he took off

"I would rather get this elemental training down." Bette added

"Frost what about you?" Naruto asked

"Sure, why not beats being cooped up in here all day long." Frost answered

"Well then that settles it I can teleport us to Felicity." Naruto announced before he took his phone out

'Are you alone?' – Naruto

'Yeah, why?' – Felicity

'Teleporting in with Caitlin and the crew to get the DNA samples.' – Naruto

'Okay.' – Felicity

"Alright, everyone that is coming gather round and grab on." Naruto said

Sakura, Caitlin, Frost, and Cisco grabbed his shoulder "Everyone ready?"

"Yea." They all said and with that, Everyone disappeared in a flash of orange


(Palmer Technology - With Felicity)

Felicity was greeted by a bright flash of orange as Naruto, Sakura, Caitlin, Cisco, and Frost appeared. Everyone took a look around.

"This place is bigger than my apartment." Cisco commented

"I was planning on mailing you guys the sample but this works to." Felicity commented

"We have vacation days." Naruto said "That and Cisco wanted to see the Arrow cave as well as your toys."

"We don't call it that. Ever." Felicity said

"I need to see the toys." Cisco said causing Felicity to look at him not knowing what to say "Do you guys have an arrowmobile?"

Felicity shook her head "Follow me."


(Half an hour later – Arrow cave)

They had followed Felicity to her house so she could get changed and from there to the arrow cave. Upon arriving there they were greeted by Oliver and Roy.

"Cisco behave yourself." Naruto said as Cisco went over to the arrows

"I'm not going to damage anything." Cisco said waving Naruto off before he reached out to touch one of the arrows

"Don't touch that." Oliver said stopping Cisco momentarily before he turned his attention to another arrow

"Or that." Oliver sighed "It's a jettison arrow. Uses compressed CO2—"

"Compressed CO2 to jettison high tensile strength polymer cables." Cisco finished cutting Oliver off

"Yep." Oliver said clearly annoyed

"Since when did we start selling admission to the arrow cave?" Roy asked rhetorically

"Do you see what you have done?" Oliver said in a berating tone as he pointed at Felicity

Cisco then moved on to Oliver's suit "Incredible, I have so many ideas for improvements." before his attention turned to Roy's suit "Oh man, this – this is the bomb. And I mean the red is so much cooler than green, am I right?"

"Hmm, I am really starting to like this guy." Roy commented

Caitlin and Frost spot something in the room a little ways away from them "Hey, What's that for?"

"It's a distraction from my work." Felicity sighed

"So, where is Mr. Diggle?" Caitlin asked

"He is running down a lead for us." Roy answered

A couple minutes later Oliver's phone rang "What's up Diggle?"

"We have a bit of a situation here. Our man's at A.R.G.U.S. Lyla's here. Oliver this guy is the real deal." Diggle answered as everyone looked at Oliver as he hung the phone up.

"Our target is storming A.R.G.U.S. and Lyla is there." Oliver informed before Roy and Oliver started to suit up before heading out.

"So cool." Cisco commented

"It will be over by the time they get there." Caitlin and Frost said

"Hagoromo inform Barry that Oliver might need his help at A.R.G.U.S." Naruto ordered

"Of course, sir, right away." Hagoromo said as he notified Barry


(5 minutes later – A.R.G.U.S.)

Barry came running in just as Oliver was about to get hit by twin boomerangs and plucked them out of the air. The man who threw the boomerangs saw this and decided that he was now outmatched and threw a smoke bomb allowing him to escape. Barry smirked at Oliver before he sped off towards the arrow cave.


(2 minutes later – Arrow cave)

"I assume that you already helped Oliver and Roy?" Naruto asked as Barry came speeding in

"Yea and I saved Oliver's ass." Barry answered as he saw the Salmon Ladder "Does Oliver use that?"

"Yes." Felicity answered as Barry walked up to it and started to use it as Felicity, Caitlin, and Frost watched

"How often does Oliver do this?" Caitlin and Frost asked as Barry went up and down the Salmon Ladder effortlessly

"At least every Wednesday. There's usually a lot of sweating." Felicity answered

Barry went up and down a couple more times before hopping off "I don't see what's so hard about that." before he handed the bar to Cisco

"I'm not sure that Naruto should have called you. Oliver doesn't really play well with others." Felicity commented

"Ah, come on. Barry and Oliver kicked ass last week." Cisco said "They were in like a league of their own."

Felicity watched as Cisco began to use the Salmon Ladder with relative ease shocking her.

"Yeah, that was like a one-time thing." Felicity said

"The dude was tossing around exploding boomerangs. They needed some backup." Barry commented "I need some dinner that Salmon Ladder made me hungry for sushi." with that Barry took off

"Cisco, I never took you for the athletic prowess that comes with using a Salmon Ladder effortlessly." Felicity commented

Just then Naruto sensed an unknown chakra signature and his suit formed around him. After hearing this Cisco got off the Salmon Ladder and walked over to one of the CO2 tanks in the arrow cave. Cisco released his seals and effortlessly lifted it. Felicity immediately turned to Naruto and saw that he had his suit on and gave him a weird look.

"I gave my team seals to strengthen their bodies and muscles as much as they could. Cisco can lift about 7400 pounds, Caitlin about 8100." Naruto explained

Just then Lyla, Diggle, Oliver, and Roy walked down the stairs as Felicity got up "Are you okay?"

"Can't work for A.R.G.U.S. without making a few enemies. I'm sorry to involve all of you in this." Lyla answered as Diggle poured the contents of a bag onto a tray "Is that A.R.G.U.S. property?"

"No, it's evidence." Diggle answered just as Barry ran into the room taking a seat in Felicity's chair with Sushi in hand without his Cowell on causing everyone to look at him.

"Barry, why would you run into a room with your Cowell off without checking who is in the room?" Naruto sighed reprimanding Barry

"They're married." Barry countered

"We're not married." Lyla and Diggle said

"Or together whatever. He told her about me." Barry tried to counter again only for Diggle to shake his head "You didn't?"

"I keep secrets for a living, man." Diggle commented

"Ah. My bad." Barry said defeated

"You're—You're—" Lyla started

"The Flash." Barry finished as he extended his sushi forward "Sushi?"

"We need a location on the man who's after Lyla." Oliver stated "His name is Digger Harkness."

"Well, the first step is to work the evidence—" Barry started

"Barry, can I speak to you for a moment?" Oliver asked as he walked a ways away followed shortly by Barry

"I appreciate your help back at A.R.G.U.S., but we have this handled." Oliver said

"You don't want to team up again?" Barry said with a sad look

"Things work a bit differently here than they do in Central City. Things are meaner here than in Central City." Oliver explained

"I seem to remember helping you pretty good last year, and that was without my powers. I've been practicing everything that you taught me. I'm—I'm casing new environments; I'm not running in blind." Barry countered

Oliver inhaled and exhaled audibly "We do this my way."

"Yes! This is going to be awesome." Barry said excitedly "Ok. What's our first move?"

"We need to reassemble the evidence. It'll take some time but—" Oliver announced

Naruto placed his hand above the pieces of the boomerang and began to reassemble it with his Technopathy, shocking everyone minus Sakura.

"Since when could you do that?" Felicity, Cisco, and Caitlin asked shocked

"I got it from the particle accelerator explosion along with the ability to permanently copy the abilities and powers of anyone I come into physical skin-to-skin contact with which is why I wear these gloves now." Naruto explained as he showed them his gloves before he turned to Caitlin and Cisco "You two knew I had this power/ability why are you two so shocked?"

"You never told us the extent of your Technopathy, of course, we would be so surprised by you displaying something we didn't know you were fully capable of." Cisco said

"Anyways back to the evidence." Oliver said bringing everyone's attention back to the recently reassembled boomerangs

"Rad!" Cisco said as he picked up one of the boomerangs "These are a bit more teched out than the one you guys brought to Central City. 3D printed polymer with a circuitry weave."

"Some of Harkness' boomerangs exploded." Roy commented

"Oh, yeah, there are grooves in here that could definitely pack a C4 charge." Cisco said

"Maybe if we figure out where Harkness got his supplies, we can use that to track him." Caitlin suggested

Cisco continued to look at the boomerangs "These weren't made by Ka-Boom-Boomerang?"

"Ka-Boom-Boomerang?" Roy asked confused

"Yea, you know, he has exploding boomerangs?" Cisco attempted

"Not your best work." Barry commented

"If Harkness didn't make them, we need to find who did." Oliver stated

"And who he made the buy off of." Diggle added

"Marcos." Cisco stated "You see the collapse design. Dead giveaway. That's his signature."

"We need a location on this…" Oliver started waiting for Cisco to give him a full name

"Klaus Marcos." Cisco said

"Q.B. get us everything you can on Klaus Marcos." Oliver ordered

"No known home address or place of employment. But he was arrested last year by an officer Quentin Lance." Q.B. stated

At that Barry and Oliver got into their civilian clothes before they headed off to the SCPD


(A couple hours later – Arrow cave)

Diggle, Roy, Barry, and Oliver walked back into the Arrow cave before Oliver plugged a phone into the main console "Q.B. crack the encryption on this phone."

Naruto noticed the atmosphere between Oliver and Barry and decided to pull Barry aside. Naruto walked to Barry and motioned for him to follow. Naruto walked away from the group before he turned around.

"Okay, what's the problem between you guys?" Naruto asked

"He tortured the guy into giving him that phone. How can someone be so cruel just to get information?" Barry answered

Naruto sighed "That's just the ugly half of the world that you have yet to see, that's the side of the world that Central City doesn't see, or more specifically you don't see in Central City. Back where my and Sakura are from it's common practice, some people have the stomach for it and others don't, I guess you are the latter while Oliver is the former."

"I have a location on Digger Harkness, he is in a warehouse at the corner of Infantino and Adams." Q.B. announced

"I can track the cell phone's position with this." Cisco added as he pulled out a phone-like device

"Cisco, you are with Diggle and Roy." Oliver commanded

Barry walked up to Oliver "I'll race you there." with that Barry took off followed shortly by Oliver, Roy, Diggle, and Cisco


(2 minutes later – Arrow cave)

Naruto sensed an unknown chakra signature closing in "Q.B. lock this place down."

"Lockdown protocols complete." Q.B. announced as a boomerang came flying into the main console causing Frost, Sakura, Caitlin, and Felicity to hide behind the main console

Lyla stood up as Harkness came around the corner "Hello, Lyla. It's been a long time."

Lyla grabbed something before hiding behind a table as Harkness threw 2 boomerangs that made it about 2 feet before they froze mid-air confusing Harkness. Harkness turned his attention to Naruto who had his hand extended holding the Boomerangs in place with his Telekinesis.

"It was very stupid of you to come here alone." Naruto commented as he made his way to a frightened Harkness as he continued to throw Boomerangs at Naruto only for them to freeze mid-air.

Naruto made his way over to Harkness and chopped him in the neck knocking him out "Q.B. raise lockdown protocols."

"Who are you?" Lyla asked

"Drop it and be thankful that I saved you." Naruto answered before he got some time to tie Harkness up


(15 minutes later)

Oliver, Barry, Cisco, Diggle, and Roy came down the stairs. Diggle rushes to Lyla hugging her "Are you okay?"

Lyla nods "I am thanks to whoever he is." she pointed at Naruto and thenat the tied up and knocked out Harkness

Diggle turned to Naruto "Thank you."

"Harkness made the mistake of putting my loved ones in harm's way." Naruto stated just as Harkness regained consciousness

"You may have stopped me but you can't stop the 5 bombs I placed around Starling City." Harkness said

"Q.B. locate the bombs this idiot is talking about and send their locations to my phone." Naruto laughed, Naruto then sped out of the cave and created 4 clones, and sent them to the other 4 bombs before he headed to the 5th as Barry and Oliver took Harkness to Starlin City Jail

Naruto easily disabled the 5 bombs simultaneously with his Technopathy before heading back to the Arrow cave. Upon arriving, Naruto found Diggle on one knee in front of Lyla who nodded her head before Diggle kissed her. Caitlin seeing that Naruto was back decided to get what they came here for.

"Now that all this drama is over can I get those DNA samples you wanted me to analyze? This time around I will just email you the results." Caitlin said breaking the silence as Felicity got the DNA samples

Cisco brought out the gift that he brought for Oliver "We got a gift for you, too, Oliver. Lets call it an early Christmas present." Before he took the top off the box "Turns out S.T.A.R. Labs' industrial fabricator was based out of Starling, so…"

Oliver took what was in the box.

"Polymer Kevlar Weave. It's 25% lighter and can carry 15% more gear. I've got designs' I'm working up that I'm really excited by." Cisco explained

"It's subtle." Oliver commented

"I wanted to replace the hood, but, uh, Felicity said it had sentimental value." Cisco added

"Thank you." Oliver said

"Any time." Cisco said

"Anyways, I think we best be getting back to S.T.A.R. Labs. While Dr. Wells did sign off on us coming here, I don't think he wants us gone too long." Naruto said "Until next time Oliver, Felicity, Diggle." with that Naruto opened a portal back to the S.T.A.R. Labs Cortex, Cisco was first followed by Caitlin, Frost, Sakura, and finally Naruto as the portal closed behind him.


(A week later – Joe's house)

It was finally Christmas time, Joe and Barry were decorating the Christmas tree with Ornaments getting into the Christmas spirit.

"There's only two of these boxes left to do." Joe said

"At this rate, we might just be finished by Easter." Barry commented

Joe turned to Barry seeing a smirk on his face "Don't you even think about it." but Barry was already up and decorating the Tree at super speed, within 3 seconds all the ornaments were on the tree evenly distributed "Okay the only red-suited dude I want in this house right now is Kris Kringle, you got that Bar."

Barry rolled his eyes before getting up to undo his work just as Iris walked in with 3 mugs.

"Uh these ornaments aren't going to hang themselves, Dad why don't you just let Barry take care of it we both know it would only take him a few seconds?" Iris asked

"Because that would take away from the Christmas spirit." Joe answered

"Anyways, Grandma Esthers recipe…Light on the bourbon." Iris said as she handed out the mugs to her father and Barry

Joe took one sip from the mug "I always did like her definition of 'Light'." Joe commented before his phone rang "And the Christmas tradition continues." he put his phone to his ear "Detective West. Yeah. Alright." before he put the phone down "Sorry, kids, the D.A. wants to ask me some questions. Make sure there is some nog left for me when I get back." And with that Joe put the mug down and headed out

"No promises." Barry joked

As soon as Joe was gone Iris turned off the music and put Barry's mug down

"What's happening?" Barry asked before Iris pulled him off the couch and sat him on the floor "Oh, come on, we're doing this already? Christmas isn't for a few days." Iris got 2 gifts from under the tree and handed Barry one

"I couldn't wait any long." Iris answered "Okay, me first." she opened her gift to reveal 2 rings on a chain "My mother's wedding band?"

"A replica, yeah. You were devastated when you lost the real one." Barry answered

"Our fifth-grade field trip…" Iris began

"To the zoo." They both said

"You cried for weeks." Barry said "Here let me put it on you. Turn around."

Iris turned around and lifted her hair as Barry put the chain around her neck

"You remembered." Iris commented

"Yeah, my brain is like a steel trap. Once something gets stuck in there it's never lost." Barry said

"I don't know what to say." Iris said before she hugged Barry "My gift sucks in comparison by the way."

"I'm sure it's a great gift." Barry said as he picked up his present and opened it revealing a microscope

"It is supposed to be the best one on the market. I thought that you could maybe use a new one." Iris explained "It's lame I know."

"No, no, no, I love it." Barry reassured her before there was a knock at the door causing Iris to get up

She walked to the door and opened it revealing Eddie Thawne "Hey, Babe." as Barry got back on the couch

'Iris really loves Eddie, maybe her and I aren't meant to be together. Frost has shown interest in me, maybe I'll pursue her and see where it goes.' Barry thought as he watched Iris and Eddie kiss

"Hey, Barry." Eddie greeted before he laid his eyes on the replica wedding band on Iris's chest "Nice ring."

"It's beautiful, isn't it? It's an exact replica of my mom's. Barry got if for me." Iris commented

"That was very thoughtful, Bar." Eddie said awkwardly getting an awkward smile out of Barry

"So, are we tree trimming?" Eddie asked as he took his jacket off

"Yeah." Iris answered as they walked into the living room "Come on." Barry picked back up his eggnog and began sipping on it

"I'm going to head out, you guys have fun." Barry said before he headed to S.T.A.R. Labs


(10 minutes later – S.T.A.R. Labs)

Barry had brought presents for Dr. Wells, Cisco, Caitlin, Frost, and Naruto and Sakura together. Barry walked into the Cortex with the gifts in hand. Cisco was still working on his Calligraphy, Caitlin and Frost were making progress with Medical Ninjutsu, and Naruto was meditating as per usual.

"Merry Christmas." Barry said getting everyone's attention "I got you all gifts." he went around handing the gifts out

"Let me be the first to say I think you have been a gift to us." Dr. Well said

Caitlin took notice of the Thermus that Barry had under his arm "What's that?"

"This is compliments of Iris, Grandma Esters Famous Eggnog." Barry answered

"Now that's what I'm talking about." Cisco said

"Maybe later for me, wouldn't want to drink and drive." Dr. Wells joked before wheeling himself away

"Did I say something wrong?" Barry asked

"No." Caitlin said

"No, man." Cisco said

"Not at all." Naruto and Sakura said

"He, um – this used to be his favorite time of year, but the accident happened before Christmas, so… kind of ruined the holidays." Cisco explained

"I'm going to go and get him a present maybe that will cheer him up." Caitlin said before walking off

"So, what are you guys doing for Christmas?" Barry asked

"Don't know really. Might spend it with my parents, granted they aren't completely focused on my brother." Cisco answered

"I'd love to spend it with you Barry." Frost answered

"We were just going to chill for Christmas and watch movies." Naruto answered

"Well, I would like to invite you guys to spend the night with Me, Joe, and Iris, in a few days." Barry said

"Of course, we would love to." Sakura said

"Yea sure dude." Cisco said "I'm sure that Caitlin would love too as well. Anyways I'm going to get back to my Calligraphy."

"Absolutely, I would love to." Frost said


(The next day – S.T.A.R. Labs Cortex)

Joe, Barry, Caitlin, Cisco, Frost, Naruto, and Sakura were gathered in the cortex as Barry, and Joe needed help with their case.

"The witness described seeing a yellow blur just like the one that killed Barry's mother." Joe told them

"Then we need to get cracking and stop this speed psycho." Cisco commented

"The crime scene at Mercury Labs was on a floor with Highly secured vaults. And the witness said he was looking for something." Barry explained

"Well, whatever it was, he wanted it badly enough to kill for it." Dr. Wells commented

Joe turned to Dr. Wells "Doctor, what do you know about this Mercury Labs?"

"Mercury was one of S.T.A.R. Labs' major competitors until our little setback, and then they catapulted to the forefront led by Dr. Christina McGee, a brilliant but egocentric physicist." Dr. Well explained as he pulled up information on Christina onto the screens drawing everyone's attention

"It says here Dr. McGee has secure half a billion dollars in private funding to develop, and I quote 'Prototypes for the technology of the future.'" Cisco read off his tablet

"Well, I'll be. Tina is messing with Tachyons." Dr. Well said before Joe looked at him asking for an explanation "Superluminal Particles."

"So, what could someone do with one of those…" Joe started gesturing for Dr. Wells to fill in the blanks

"Tachyons." Dr. Wells said

"Thank you." Joe said

"Well, I don't know. Become invincible? If you could devise a matrix stable enough to harness their power, you could travel faster than light." Dr. Wells explained

"He's gonna try and get them again, so we need to get what Mercury has and use it as bait." Barry spoke up

"Exactly right, Cisco, Caitlin, Naruto, Sakura, let's start engineering a trap." Dr. Wells ordered

"You got it." They all said before everyone dispersed

"Naruto, can I talk to you?" Caitlin asked

"Yea, what's up?" Naruto answered

"Ronnie found me; be he wasn't himself." Caitlin said

"Listen, Caitlin, we don't know what exactly happened to Ronnie, but you call me next time you either go looking for him or he finds you." Naruto instructed getting a nod from Caitlin


(Later that day – Nighttime – CCPD CSI Laboratory)

Barry was looking at a board centered around his mother's murder lost in thought when Iris walked in.

"Barry." Iris called not getting an answer "Barry." she tried again still not getting Barry's attention "Barry." after the second try she finally got Barry's attention

"I called your name like 3 times." Iris said before her attention was drawn to the massive board that Barry was looking at "Your mom's case, Dad told me what happened at Mercury Labs. Do you think that the same person that killed your mom is back?"

"They are setting up a trap at S.T.A.R. Labs to catch this guy." Barry said before the room was filled with an awkward silence

"Eddie asked me to move in with him." Iris blurted out catching Barry by surprise "I said yes."

'Guess this is the universe telling me to move on.' Barry thought

"Wow." was all that Barry could say "You guys are moving pretty face, huh?"

"Well, I mean, its been a year. Eddie thought you might feel weird about it." Iris said

"Why would he think that?" Barry asked

"He thinks that you…like me in a romantic way." Iris answered

"Maybe at one point I did but I have moved on." Barry said catching Iris by surprise

"What do you mean at one point?" Iris asked

"From the first time I moved in with you and Joe to about yesterday when I saw you kiss Eddie at Joe's house." Barry answered "Don't worry I am not going to stand in your way, I'm going to let you guys live your life. I have someone else that I am going to pursue."

"Well thank you. I guess I'll leave you alone then." Iris said before she turned and walked out

Barry then got up and walked over to the window in his lab, Barry looked out the window before lightning flashed and something caught his eye. Barry turned his head to see a man in a yellow suit with red eyes on a rooftop looking at him.

'HE DARES TO TAUNT ME!' Barry thought before the man took off down the side of the building, Barry followed him

Barry and the man ran around Central City briefly before they stopped in an alleyway.

"It was you. You were the one in my house that night. YOU KILLED MY MOTHER! WHY?" Barry asked

"If you want to know that, you are gonna have to catch me." The man said before he took off followed shortly by Barry who immediately release his seals for the much-needed speed boost

However, as Barry chased the man around Central City with his speed boost the man in yellow still seemed to be faster than him for some unknown reason.

'How is this guy still faster than me even with my seals off.' Barry asked himself shocked

Eventually, they found themselves in a stadium facing off against one another, Barry was the first to start moving toward the man and he followed suit. As they collided Barry threw a punch hoping to hit the man but he just dodged it. They went on like this for a little while until Barry ended up on the ground slightly bloodied.

"WHO ARE YOU?" Barry shouted as he got up

"You know who I am, Barry." The man replied

Barry crossed his fingers "Lighting Style: Shadow Clone Jutsu" he called out before another Barry popped into existence

"Let's see how you handle a 2 on 1." Barry said

Both Barry's engaged the man who quickly dispelled the clone shocking the man. Barry saw his chance and punched the man in the chest sending him flying. The man corrected himself in the air and landed on his feet.

"I don't know who you are." Barry said

"Oh, but you do, we've been at this a long time, you and I, but I will always be one step ahead." The man taunted before Barry threw another punch that the man dodged before taking off doing a lap around the perimeter of the stadium and coming up behind Barry knocking him to the ground where the man held him "It is your destiny to lose to me, Flash, just as it was your mother's destiny to die that night." and with that, the man ran away


(The next day – Cortex)

The next day Barry gathered Naruto, Dr. Wells, and Joe to discuss what happened the previous night.

"He acted like he knew me, like we'd done this before." Barry explained

"He was antagonizing you, Bar." Joe commented

"I would get close, and he'd just pull away. Even with my seals off, he was faster than me." Barry continued "I mean, this was like some sick game to him."

"You'll catch him. We'll help." Dr. Wells said

"No, you don't get it, all right? His speed, it is beyond me. I am not the fastest man alive. He is." Barry said clearly irritated

"My question is why didn't you call me?" Naruto asked "That should have been your first plan of action. You know I'm eons faster than you. I could have caught him before he could blink."

"I was caught up in the heat of seeing my mother's killer." Barry said trying to defend himself

"Well, this proves one thing. You are still hot-headed as can be and need more training. We will resume training, whenever we aren't dealing with a Metahuman you will be in the TPD training and getting faster, smarter, more tactical." Naruto ordered getting a nod from Barry

"So how do we catch someone that even I can't keep up with?" Barry asked

"See that's the beautiful thing about force fields, Mr. Allen. Is that they are impervious to speed. Now, we're almost finished fabricating the trap. All that remains is for Detective West to acquire the bait." Dr. Wells said

"I'm on it." Joe said before he started walking out and was soon followed by Barry "Barry, why don't you stay here?"

"No, Joe, today is not the day to tell me to stay behind." Barry demanded


(Later that day – Unknown Location)

Caitlin had decided that she wanted to go looking for Ronnie in the same place that he originally found her and had gathered Naruto and Cisco, Cisco had brought along a device to track the remnants of Ronnies energy.

"We follow the Ionized particles, and that should lead us right to him." Cisco explained as they walked down some stairs into the inner workings of what seemed to be a mall just as the device Cisco brought started to go off slightly "The CPMs are increasing." as they went further and further into the bowels of the building

Soon they were walking down a corridor of sorts and the CPMs just kept getting higher and higher when suddenly the device shut off altogether.

"I hope that's because the batteries are dead." Cisco commented

"Everyone behind me someone else is down here." Naruto commanded as everyone got behind him as they walked further and further down the corridor until someone came into view

"Ronnie?" Caitlin asked as she couldn't clearly see the person with the flashlight on her phone

As they got closer the person came into clearer view and they could see that it was a raggedy-dressed Ronnie. Naruto scanned the surface of Ronnies mind and found 2 sets of thoughts

"It's Ronnies body but there are 2 different sets of thoughts in his head." Naruto announced

"Ronnie come with us and we can get this all sorted out." Caitlin pleaded

Ronnie's head twitched as if holding something back "I'm not Ronnie."

"Who else is in your head Ronnie?" Caitlin asked

"FIRESTORM." was all that Ronnie uttered before he burst into flames blinding Caitlin and Cisco and took off down the corridor

Naruto turned around "Whatever saved Ronnie must have something to do with FIRESTORM, whatever that is. We have our work cut out for us. Let's head back to S.T.A.R. Labs."


(Later that night – S.T.A.R. Labs)

Naruto and Sakura had gone home to chill before heading over to Joe's house so all that was left was Caitlin, Cisco, Dr. Wells, Barry, Joe, and Frost.

"The Tachyon device is in place." Cisco announced

"Do you think it will work?" Barry asked

"It'll work." Cisco said before walking off

"So how exactly do we advertise to him that the prototype is here?" Barry asked

"We'll take care of that." Dr. Wells said before he looked to Joe and Joe looked back getting Barry's attention

"What's the problem?" Barry asked

"Look, Barry… me and Dr. Well shave spoken, and…we think it would be best if you weren't here for this." Joe explained

"What are you talking about?" Barry asked further

"You're to close to this." Joe answered

"Or maybe you aren't close enough. If you hadn't been too scared and warned me that he was here weeks ago I could have been training to fight him." Barry defended

"I think we can all appreciate Joe's concern for Iris, Barry." Dr. Wells said backing Joe up

"That's why I have to be here! I'm the best chance at catching this guy!" Barry said aggressively

"Not right now, not in this state." Joe countered

"This man stabbed my mother through the heart and sent my father to prison for it. This is my fight." Barry aggressively countered

"Not today son." Joe ordered

Barry seeing that he wasn't going to win the argument or fight got his jacket and headed for his lab


(2 hours later – S.T.A.R. Labs – Cortex)

Eddie and his task force had arrived and now Cisco, Caitlin, Frost, Joe, and Dr. Wells were just waiting for the other speedster to show up and take the bait.

"Sending out another pulse." Cisco announced as he sent out another pulse of tachyons as they all watched the camera set up in the trap room

"Are you certain this trap will work?" Eddie asked skeptically as to whether this whole thing would work or not

"I've sent up at least three charges into open satellites. If anyone is looking for tachyonic particles, they'll know we got them." Cisco answered

A couple seconds later a yellow blur came running onto the screen right into the trap.

"Let see what we caught." Dr. Wells said before he, Joe, Eddie, and the task force headed down to the trap room

"Cisco? Lights." Dr. Wells asked

"Sure thing, Dr. Wells." Cisco answered before turning the lights on

"Detective Thawne, would you like to read him his rights?" Dr. Wells asked as Joe went closer

"Joe, what are you doing?" Eddie asked scared for his partner

"Getting some answers." Joe answered "14 years ago, you murdered Nora Allen, I want to know why. WHY?"

The man in yellow stepped closer to the containment field wall completely ignoring Joe "Dr. Wells, we meet at last."

"What do you want with the Tachyonic particles?" Dr. Wells asked

"My goals are beyond your understanding." The man said

"Oh, I don't know about that, I'm a pretty smart guy. I knew you were exceptionally fast, so any trap we made would have to be invisible to the naked eye. And I knew your cells could repair themselves at extraordinary speeds, so you could withstand the damage this is doing to your body right now. The reason I know all this is because your powers are almost exactly like those of the flash." Dr. Wells said


(Back with Cisco, Caitlin, and Frost)

Suddenly warnings and alarms started going off on screen "The Super Capacitors—the containment field if fluctuating. They need to get out of there now." with that being said Cisco released his and sped down to the trap room

"Oh, I'm not like the flash at all. Some would say I'm the reverse." The man said

"Dr. Wells the containment field is fluctuating. Everyone needs to get out of here now." Cisco ordered but he was too late, just as he finished ordering everyone out the man quickly grabbed Dr. Wells and pulled him inside the containment field, and started beating Dr. Wells

Cisco immediately went and turned off the trap letting the man take the Tachyon prototype and fled the room leaving everyone confused

"Where is he?" Eddie asked

And just like that, the man showed back up in the middle of the doorway. Eddie and the task force raised their guns.

"Do not move or we will open fire." Eddie announced before seconds later his task force was on the ground and the man was in his face before Joe opened fire.

The man easily dodged the bullet before picking Joe up by the throat and slamming him into the trap that Team Flash had constructed "I warned you not to hunt me."

The next second Barry came running in and took the man and started fighting him taking to the air spinning around and around fighting one another. Frost, Cisco, and Caitlin immediately made their way outside to see the 2 speedsters spinning around and around in a little ball of lightning as they went higher and higher before coming back down to the ground.

The man slammed Barry into a car parked outside not even harming Barry in the slightest before he turned around to face Cisco, Caitlin, and Frost. Barry seeing that his attention was turned to Cisco, Caitlin, and Frost took the opportunity to attack the man. They went at this for about 20 seconds before Barry was all covered in cuts and bloody, Frost and Caitlin seeing it was their time to shine immediately start firing streams of ice at the man catching him off guard just as 'Ronnie' shows up and blasts the man with fire from his other side.

The man now seeing that he was outmatched turns to Barry "Our race is not yet done. See you soon, Flash." and with that, the man sped off leaving behind red lightning.

Caitlin immediately went over to Ronnie while Frost decided to put some of the training that she was receiving from Sakura to good use and began healing Barry.

"Don't look for me again." 'Ronnie' said before flaming one and flying off


(A few minutes later – S.T.A.R. Labs – Cortex)

Caitlin was tending to Dr. Wells's injuries while Cisco went over the data from the trap that they set up.

"I've been going over the data, but I still don't know why the containment system failed. I must have missed something." Cisco said before looking at Dr. Wells "I'm sorry."

"It's not your fault, Cisco." Dr. Wells reassured Cisco "But if you both feel the need to apologize for something, you might start with not mentioning that Ronnie is alive."

"I asked Cisco and Naruto to not say anything. Once I saw what Ronnie had become, I needed…I needed time to see if we could make him whole again. I'm sorry. I know you're mad." Caitlin said with a guilty look

"No. I don't know what I would have done differently in your situation." Dr. Wells said before he grabbed Caitlin's arm "I know I have made you a lot of promises. I know I have not been able to keep all of them. But on my life, I promise you this…we will bring Ronnie home."


(An hour later – Joe's house)

Naruto and Sakura finally arrived at Joe's house just as Joe and Barry pulled up.

"Glad you guys could make it." Joe said as they all walked up the pathway to the house

Joe unlocked the door and opened it revealing Cisco, Frost, Caitlin, Eddie, and Iris.

"We were wondering when you guys would show up." Iris commented before she got up and hugged her dad

Barry made his way over to Frost and hugged her which she gladly returned, Eddie saw this and was surprised.

"Merry Christmas, Barry." Eddie said

Barry turned around to face Eddie and Iris who was sitting in Eddie's lap "You too, Eddie."

"Hey, I just wanted to say that I heard you guys were moving in together, and I am really happy for you." Barry said as he wrapped his arm around Frosts waist and pulled her to him.

"Thanks." Iris said "And who is this white-haired beauty?"

"Hi, I'm Frost Snow, I'm Caitlin's long-lost sister. I just moved to Central City not too long ago, currently, I'm living with Caitlin." Frost said introducing herself as she shook Iris's hand

"So you are the woman that Barry said had moved onto." Iris commented causing Frost to look at Barry

"Is that so?" Frost asked

"Well, I was going to take it slow per say but I guess its out. Yeah what about it?" Barry asked

"Nothing." Frost said before he kissed Barry on the mouth for the second time in her 'life' before she broke it and leaned her head onto his shoulder

While all this was happening, Naruto made his way over to Cisco and Joe

"Grandma Esther's eggnog seems a little light on the Bourbon." Joe commented

"Hey, Joe." Cisco said

"Hmm?" Joe responded

"I saw something weird tonight." Cisco said

"Yeah, Cisco, I saw it too." Joe said

"No, I mean, when the flash and the man in yellow were going full-on bumper cars on each other, I watched the electricity coming off them—yellow and red electricity. When Barry was a kid, he said he saw red and yellow lightning in his house, the night his mother died." Cisco explained

Joe then had an epiphany "There were two of them."

"The man in yellow may have killed Barry's mother, but…there was another speedster there that night." Cisco elaborated

Joe then looked at Naruto, who then adopted a defensive look and waved his hands

"Don't look at me my lightning is Orange, and Sakura's is pink." Naruto stated

"Dad, it's time." Iris called out getting Joe's attention

Joe then went over and grabbed the Christmas tree topper "Okay, let's see."

As Joe did this Eddie and Iris got up and Eddie put his arm around Iris while Barry did the same with Frost.


AN: I'm not the best with romantic relationships so I am going to try my best when it comes to Barry and Frost. I know their relationship might have seemed a little rushed in this chapter but like I said I'm not the best with romantic relationships and writing them

Until next chapter R&R, Sorcer12 out