Bounty
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Note: Well this is a surprise – Sigma was going to update Hitchhikers, but due to a scheduling change, not to mention the need to get this chapter up before Karry Universe returns on Sunday, meant that this chapter took that chapter's place. Don't worry, Hitchhikers will return next week. In the meanwhile, enjoy!
Joyriding
"Hey," Barry said as he sped into Rae and Kara's headquarters under their office; Kara was on the phone and Rae was lazing in a chair, looking through their system. "Anything we can track?"
"Well, I can't leave the Earth right now – we're stuck tracking down a payment – but maybe you can go grab someone?" Rae said. "Do you remember Silver Ghost?"
"Who?" Barry frowned.
"Raya Van Zandt," Kara spoke up. "The woman who used meta tech, a key fob, to control cars."
"Oh yeah, the dark matter charge of vehicles under her control react to any direct contact with meta humans," Barry mused – he had gone after her before, but his attempt to phase through the car she had stolen had caused him to be knocked him back, but it had also rendered his phasing out of his control, for the rest of a day.
"Well, she's taken to joyriding around the multiverse," Rae explained, and Barry had to chuckle. "I tracked her to Prime. You can take Samuel and see if you can get her."
"Sure," Barry smirked, thinking of the payment he'd get from this track.
"Oh, take this," Rae called, tossing a world hopping device at Barry. "She has a habit of jumping worlds. This should help you track her and will also let me know where you are. Once me and Kara are done tracking down the payments we're owed, I'll come and join you."
"If I get her before you join can I keep the entire payment?" Barry had to ask.
"With Samuel going with you, you can argue percentages of what you get, and we get with Kara later – and she's a little nastier now that's she's pregnant," Rae said.
"I'm literally right here!" Kara complained as Barry chuckled and left with Samuel through a portal to Prime Earth. "Oh, hey, who's taking care of the bakery?" Kara added.
"Um… I think it's closed right now," Rae frowned as her phone then rang. It was June. "Hey June, what's going on?"
"Barry was meant to bring goodies from your bakery to Luna's school," June said.
"He just left to go track someone," Rae said with a little laugh. "I'll go get you some." At that, she hung up. "Kara, I need…"
"Go. I can handle this," Kara said with a wave of her hand and Rae ran out.
-Bounty-
Bounty Barry appeared in the Cortex of Prime Earth to the shock from his own alternate, Caitlin, Kara, and a person he knew as Cisco Ramon – but didn't know his Earth version; the last he heard, his Earth version of Cisco was being tracked down by Gypsy.
"Bounty, I assume?" His alternate smirked. "Vis, our AI, told us you were incoming,"
"Urm, yeah," Bounty Barry paused – there were two kids in the room too: one on Caitlin's lap and one on Kara's. Samuel had flown over to a chair to sit on it the minute they arrived.
"Are both kids yours?" Bounty Barry asked, wondering if this Barry was like him, sleeping around and impregnating different woman.
"Only Skye," Prime Barry answered, nodding his head to Kara with a raised eyebrow. "I'm married to Kara."
"Ah, another one of those," Bounty Barry groaned, making Prime tilt his head. "And erm, what do you do to make money?"
"I run STAR Labs," Prime Barry stated.
"Seriously? What's with this running…?" Bounty Barry was cut off as he dodged a heat vision from Samuel, causing Skye to cheer and applaud. "Okay, okay! I'm here tracking a villain from my world who came here. We call her Silver Ghost. She likes to steal cars."
"Like from car shows?" It was Cisco who said spoke, the group turning to him. "Because we just got a car robbery. Someone came in and the car just turned on for her." Cisco showed some security video of a dark-haired girl jumping into a sports car, to the surprise of those attending, and driving off.
"That's her, and her meta tech," Bounty Barry said. "Samuel, we have a car to chase."
"I'll come too," Prime Barry said. Bounty Barry didn't argue as the two ran out with Samuel following them.
…
The two Barrys quickly found the stole car, and with Samuel flying over them, they speeded toward it. Samuel sent heat vision down at the car, which the car dodged.
"I got this," Prime Barry said, running after the car and about to phase through it.
"Wait, no, don't!" Bounty Barry called, but Prime Barry had already tried to phase through it and got thrown back, like Bounty Barry had done before. "Damn…" Bounty Barry grabbed hold of Prime Barry who was vibrating badly.
"What's going on?" Prime Barry asked as Bounty Barry saw a portal open and used the device Rae gave him as the car disappeared into it.
"I did the same thing the first time I took on her," Bounty Barry sighed, using his own powers to keep Prime Barry stable. "We need to put you somewhere that your powers are blocked. You won't lay on a table for long."
"ARGUS," Cisco's voice said, as he had vibed to the scene. "Come on!" Cisco opened the portal and the two Barrys, Samuel, and Cisco went through, ending up in a large ARGUS warehouse. Bounty Barry ran, and put Prime Barry in a cell, turning it on to block his power.
"Great…! How long do I have to be in here?" Prime Barry complained.
"It should wear off in a day or two," Bounty Barry replied. "But my track has left this world and gone to…" Bounty Barry looked down at the device in his hand to see where the portal had been. "SuperEarth."
"I can send you to them," Cisco said, opening up a portal for Bounty Barry and Samuel.
-Bounty-
Back on Bounty, Rae had grabbed a couple of cakes, cookies, and brownies from her bakery and gone to Luna's school.
"Oh, you're a life saver," June said happily. She was in the gym of the school with a table set up, taking the boxes from Rae. "Bake sale. Raising money for new gym equipment. Barry must have…"
"You should have just asked me from the beginning," Rae dismissed. "I'm more than willing to donate the baked goods."
"I would have baked something myself, but I have been too busy on the job search," June sighed as they laid out the baked goods ready to be sold.
"I thought you were working at a museum?" Rae said as she helped.
"Fired a while back," June said, pulling a face. "My heart wasn't in. I don't know why I went for a history degree. Well, I do know why. I wanted to be like Indiana Jones once. On digs, exploring ancient tombs. Finding old artifacts…"
"Releasing evil curses," Rae joked and June laughed. "So, what stopped you?"
"What do you think?" June asked and tilted her head. Luna was there with other kids, drawing signs for the bake sale. "Don't get me wrong, I love Luna and wouldn't change having her for the world, but I think how different my life would have been if I never met Barry. Or if Barry wasn't…"
"A man whore?" Rae supplied and June giggled before slapping her lightly on the arm.
"Language," June complained. "I was going to say if Barry wasn't who he is. If he was the guy I thought he was. Someone I could depend on, but I know that's not Barry."
"At least not our Barry," Rae added, thinking of other Barrys she had met.
"The only other thing I really had a passion for was a bakery," June mused. "I told you I always wanted to own one as well. I worked at one in high school and had so much fun. But I don't have the money to start one like you."
"Ah, it's not all it's cracked up to be," Rae sighed.
"Really?" June asked. "But you love baking."
"I'll agree to that. I enjoy baking and having a nice kitchen I can bake in. But all the other aspects – the paperwork, the selling, the advertising – it gets on my nerve," Rae voiced.
"I'd enjoy all that," June said. "I like office work and selling. Interacting with people is great. I can bake well, but don't do the fancy things as well as you."
"Fancy is fun," Rae said and then both paused looking at each other.
"Are you…?" June asked, frowning.
"Only if you want to," Rae responded.
-Bounty-
Bounty Barry and Samuel exited the portal in SuperEarth's DEO headquarters, which incidentally, was STAR Labs Cortex.
"Why is it always here?" Bounty Barry asked the surprised group: which consisted of his alternate again, Kara, her dog Lara, Winn, and Cisco. "Oh, hey me. So, what do you do for work?"
"I run a tech business with Belle," SuperEarth Barry frowned. "What are you…?"
"What is it with all of you and running companies," Bounty Barry interrupted, just as Samuel flapped his wings and sent a gust of wind at him – a power that these Kryptonian birds had. "Okay, sorry, I am here tracking a villain from my Earth who came here from Prime in a car she stole from a car show. So, if there is anyone crazy driving…"
"Like a girl who ditched a car after coming out of a portal and stealing a motorcycle from a bike show?" Cisco spoke up.
"Why are all your Earths doing car shows?" Bounty Barry asked.
"There's always a car show somewhere," SuperEarth Barry smirked.
"I'll help you get this girl," SuperEarth Barry said, standing.
"No, she can make our powers go wacky," Bounty Barry said. "Kryptonian's help. Kara and the dog?"
"Her name is Lara," Kara said as Lara gave a growl.
"Sorry, come on," Bounty Barry said and ran off with Samuel; Kara and her Barry shared a look before Kara and Lara went after the visitor.
….
"Do you see her?" Bounty Barry asked Kara. She, Samuel, and Lara were flying above the city, the group were where Silver Ghost was last seen.
"I've got nothing…" Kara stopped as she saw a motorcycle driving up a building at her. "Oh, scratch that, I think I got her."
"On my way," SuperEarth Barry said into the com.
Kara sent out a heat vision at the girl as she landed on the roof – Kara wondering how she got the motorcycle to climb up a building, but figured it had to do with whatever power she had.
"You know, I never used this on a motorcycle before," the girl on the bike called – she had something in her hand. "Three Kryptonians though, and a Supergirl not depowered… I think I will take my leave."
The motorcycle turned to jump the building as the Supers went to go after it, but the motorcycle was cut off by Bounty Barry. "Flash!" Silver Ghost growled as a freeze breath knocked her off the motorcycle.
Silver Ghost turned around and saw the Kryptonians and then SuperEarth's Barry. She was close to the edge and then ran for the side of the building, jumping off it. Before Kara could go to catch her, a portal appeared. Bounty Barry held out the device Rae gave her to the portal before it closed – detecting the world she'd gone to.
"She went to Hero Earth," Bounty Barry said, looking at the device. "Can I get a lift?"
"Here," Cisco voice said making Barry jump. "One portal to Hero." Cisco had opened up a portal which Samuel had already gone through; Bounty Barry moving through, yelling "thank you" before he disappeared.
"That was a weird Barry," Kara voiced, to a bark of agreement from Lara.
-Bounty -
"I don't have the money to buy your bakery from you," June said to Rae after a moment. Both of them seeing the right choice here.
"Forget it. I was thinking of not renewing my lease anyway," Rae stated. "You could just take it."
"No," June shook her head. "I can't just do that. But I might need help with the baking. How about a partnership? 50/50."
"70/30 in your favor," Rae countered back.
"60/40," June said back.
"65/35 and that's my final offer," Rae said, holding out her hand. "And you get to decide if Barry working there counts as child support or not."
"Deal," June smirked, taking Rae's hand. "Speaking of child support, I really need it right now. Is he going to get a good payday from this track he's doing?"
"If he can pull it off," Rae said as her cellphone rang. "It's Kara." Rae answered the phone as June turned back to the work "Hey honey, me and June came up with a deal… what do you mean he's on his third world?... Urgh. Can you use the names on the system and not this worlds' names?... He went from Prime to SuperEarth, and is now on Hero? I'm coming."
"Barry?" June asked once Rae had hung up.
"Yeah, I better go lend a hand," Rae said, "he can't seem to do one simple task," June laughed at this as Rae went off to find a place to run from.
-Bounty-
Barry exited the portal onto Hero Earth, to find a man who looked like Clark along with a Mon-El standing there.
"We usually prefer people show up by the system," the Clark lookalike spoke, but the man smiled at the bald eagle landed on his shoulder. "But since you have a Kryptonian bird with you, I'll let it slide." The man gave a wink. "I'm Jal, brother to Kal, usually known as Clark, and this is Mon. What world are you from and how can we help?"
"You call us Bounty Earth," Barry spoke. "And a villain from my world has come here – she's joyriding through the multiverse, it seems. She lost her last vehicle so she's probably stealing a car or a bike. Probably from a car show."
"There's no car shows going on," Mon said.
"Hallelujah!" Barry cheered, glad there was at least one world without a car show going on.
"Jal, Mon-El?" A computerized British voice said. "The T9 has just been stolen and overrides are not working. Kal is trying to disarm it already."
"T9?" Barry asked.
"Experimental military car," Jal answered.
"That's mine," Barry sighed.
"Giles, alert Kal it's multiverse related and we're going to come assist with someone from the villain's home Earth," Jal said the A.I and gave Barry a nod. The group heading out.
….
"What type of car is this?" Barry asked as they arrived on scene to guns firing at them from the car joyriding down the street. "I feel like I'm in a Bond movie!"
"It's experimental military," Jal stated, nodding at his twin brother Kal as they crouched to avoid fire. "Is that Kryptonite gun firing?"
"I am going to have a word with the creators of this vehicle," Kal remarked, having to dodge the Kryptonite powered weapons.
"Barry, can you phase through the car?" Jal asked.
"Nope, her key fob will disrupt my powers," Barry explained.
"Besides, you can't phase through this," Kal said. "It's designed to stop speedsters entering and also to withstand our strength and powers. It would take 20 Kryptonians to take this down."
"Who exactly designed this and why?!" Mon countered, still avoiding the weapon's fire as he assessed the situation, running off to get the public out of the way.
"Any chance we can get 20 Kryptonians here?" Jal asked as Barry used the Mon distraction to jump up and dodged the weapon fire as Samuel sent heat vision at the car to no effect.
"What's going on here?" The group hadn't noticed the portal open and Rae come out onto the street. "Flash, what did you do?!"
"It's not my fault they have a weird military vehicle," Barry called out.
"You could have not let the person with the car meta tech end up with a military vehicle," Rae countered with an eye roll as she noticed Kal now blowing freeze breath on the street. The car seeming to have a trouble with the ice it created before straightening. "Did you see that?"
"The car has problems with ice," Barry said. "You need to freeze the street!"
"Don't think me, Kal, and your bird could freeze it enough to take the car down. We need thick ice," Jal said. "Once again, more Kryptonians."
"Or… something else," Rae said. "Barry, keep her attention I got an idea. I need to use your system."
"I got her," Mon said, having been helping keep people safe from the fire. "Follow me."
Barry ran around the car, dodging crossfire as he, Samuel, Jal, and Kal tried to take the car away from as many people as possible – the group grabbing hold of citizens and getting them to safety when needed. "I got it!" Rae called, running back onto the scene. In her hands was something very familiar – a long staff with strange orb-like mechanical device on top.
"Weather Witch's staff?" Barry asked. "How did you get that?"
"Kara made a phone call. Someone owed us a favor," Rae said as she pointed the staff at the road, icing over the road entirely. The speeding car couldn't handle the ice and started to slide before it flipped over. Kal and Jal landed on each side and Barry and Rae ran up, trying not to slip on the ice.
The woman inside was injured and Kal punched a code into the car, relinquishing Silver Ghost's control over it.
"Well, this seems to work now," Kal said as he opened the door and dragged the woman out.
"We can take her," Barry stated.
"Hold on, she caused trouble on our world," Kal countered. "She destroyed a lot of property and injured a lot of people. She'll be jailed here."
Barry looked to Rae, lost on what to do.
"Look, our world knows all about the multiverse. If you want to keep her, we're going to have to make some phone calls. Work this out between our worlds." Rae stated to the man.
"Kal, that is fair," Jal said, before his brother could respond.
-Bounty-
"So, our government agreed to let them keep her?" Barry asked, having returned to Bounty to allow Rae to negotiate – that was above even his knowledge.
"So long as we got the meta tech – both her key fob and Weather Witch's staff - which are locked up where they belong," Rae nodded.
"Well, that's all great and all," Barry stated, a little coyly now. "And not to sound selfish, but what about the bounty?"
"They agreed to pay us," Kara spoke to Barry – she hadn't moved since he'd left. "Once the payment goes through, I will give you half."
"I did the majority of the work by myself!" Barry complained and Samuel called out. "With your bird attacking me every time I asked alternate me's what they did for work."
"Good Samuel," Rae said and the bird seemed happy with the compliment from Rae.
"I think I deserve at least 80 percent," Barry said, crossing his arms.
"Rae was the one who took down that car," Kara said. "You'll take 55."
"70," Barry countered. "And as father to your kids…"
"You are father to everyone's kids, that doesn't count," Rae laughed, to a frown from Barry.
"60 is as high as I will give you," Kara spoke, glaring at Barry.
"Deal," Barry said with a smile, figuring this was the pregnancy causing Kara to be so grouchy. "Hey, Rae can I work at the bakery tomorrow?" Barry changed tact.
"Sorry, it's going to be closed for a while as me and June complete some paperwork," Rae said, causing Barry to raise an eyebrow.
"June?" Barry asked. "As in my first child's mother, June?"
"The one and the same. We agreed to go into partnership," Rae explained. "She's taking the majority share of the bakery."
"How did this come about?" Barry asked, confused.
"Well you forgot to bring baked goods to Luna's school," Rae said, and Barry's eyes widened. "And we got to talking."
"Okay," Barry said, still confused a bit, but now worried that he'd forgotten to get the goods to June and how she'd react. "Hey, does this mean working at the bakery equals child support?"
"June gets to decide that," Rae said with a smirk.
"Damn," Barry groaned. "I better go an apologize to June, see if I can convince her…" with that, Barry ran out.
"So… how high would you really have gone?" Rae asked Kara once her cousin was gone.
"65 percent – but he never has to know that," Kara smirked, and Rae laughed as she kissed her wife. "And now mommy and babies need some of mama's good home cooking."
"I'll get right…. Babies?" Rae asked. "As is more than one?"
"Doctor Danvers called me. We're having twins," Kara said with a smile
"What is it with you and twins?" Rae smiled back, thinking of Karry Universe at this.
"Well your father was a twin, my mother was a twin. Seems it runs in the family,' Kara pointed out and Rae had to nod at this but gave a smile and kissed her wife.
Post Chapter Note: And there you have it. I hope you enjoyed this different chapter, and Hitchhikers will be back next week.
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