September 15th - 2014

"Damn it, he's getting better with that thing!" I shouted as a blast from the cold gun froze my legs solid, my barrier having long since been drained, while Barry is trying to distract him long enough for me to break free. Suddenly I yanked my leg free, then the other one, and began running towards him again, this time dodging by a hair's breadth, the cold leaving frost on my arm and shoulder from how close it was.

"It's going to take more than some frost bite to hold me Snart, I'm stronger than that even if you can weaken my barrier!" Another blast is fired directly in front of me, forcing me to change my stance and distribute my weight better, stomping down a bit harder to crack the ice and make it less slick. Suddenly, while I was trying to regain my balance I was frozen nearly solid, my barrier trying to activate and protecting me from it inside a bubble of solid air. Some sort of energy vortex preventing Barry from getting me out of the way. This was the third one I'd seen, counting the one that sent me here and the one on my way to the airport, which caused me to change course and run into that fifth assassin.

As Barry tried to get me out, one of Snart's new partners gave him a ride to escape with his ill-gotten gains, Barry also having been hit by a cold gun blast. Nearly twenty minutes later, I was finally free enough I could pull myself out of my icy cocoon, but it was still frustrating to take such a heavy loss. Still, those Energy vortexes were concerning. It wasn't normal for holes in reality to open up, particularly now, since the singularity hadn't formed over central city yet, weakening the barriers between earth 1 and 2. I decided to swallow my pride and ask Eobard about it, hoping he might have a clue as to what was going on.

"Breaches, Wormholes, Bridges, whatever you want to call them, that was what the satellites were indicating had opened up in the middle of your fight. You say this is the third one you've seen?"

"Yeah, the last one was during my time in Japan and the one before that was last December, Each time they appeared right next to me and then after a moment vanished without a trace."

"Sounds like someone is using you as an anchor point for opening breaches. I need you to wear this in case you encounter another one." He handed me a bracelet which looked oddly advanced, but I tried to shrug it off since I knew he was from the future and had all sorts of future tech knowledge. I went on with the rest of my day, trying my best to ignore the weighty bracelet on my right hand, my smartwatch securely fastened to my left one. Still, who knows when another breach could open, it could be tomorrow, it could be next week, it could be never. But if someone was trying to reach me, It could also mean someone back home found a way to bring me back. Though I doubted it because my earth was a long ways from stable wormhole travel.

While pondering this and chilling out in S.T.A.R. Labs briefing room, another breach opened right in front of me. This time was different however because I saw something coming through. I lowered myself into a combat stance and prepared to fight whatever or whoever was coming, but I certainly wasn't prepared for what actually came through. It looked a lot like my girl from back home, but her hair was different, Still she enveloped me almost immediately after crossing the breach before pulling on my arm begging me to go back home with her.

"I finally found you!, we need to go, please!"

"I can't, I'm sorry, but I'm needed here right now."

"But I miss you, we need you back, your parents, they died!" I was surprised at the news, but I calmed down, something wasn't right, she knew I was on bad terms with my actual parents and would have told me my grandparents instead. Continuing to resist without much trouble owing to my enhanced physiology, I finally gently picked her up in one arm to show how futile the struggle was, hoping she'd stop before suddenly someone else started coming through.

"Ugh temporal dissonance aside you're taking way too long!, just drag him through the damn portal already!" Ok, this was confusing, there was two of me now, one which was covered in some kind of exosuit and of course myself in my normal harness vest and trench covered in various things I find handy to keep on my person.

"Yeah no, there can't be two of me, I mean my home can't be subject to the same rules and laws as these universes, right?"

"Wrong idiot. The Multiverse is infinite and infinite in number within an infinite Metaverse. Just because your earth exists doesn't mean mine doesn't." I continued staring at him, something seemed off. Maybe it was the overwhelming confidence, or the strange feeling I got from him that he seemed tainted somehow, but he felt wrong. Or maybe it was the southern accent, which reminded me too much of that awful year of hell when I was little.

"So, why are you here?"

"To correct a mistake. I was trying to build a way home using Harrison Wells's speed cannon, and instead of connecting me to my universe, it connected me to yours. And when I closed it you'd already been sent through, depositing you in the next available universe, this one."

"Okay, but I can't go home yet, I've still got a lot of unfinished business here. I need to help Barry, defeat Eobard, Save Bruce."

"None of which will matter after I send you back and reset the timeline, now let's go." Suddenly he grabbed me, the exosuit actually surprisingly strong despite my protests. I could feel the electromagnetic energy then being sapped as it got stronger, seemingly using my own abilities against me before I was suddenly no longer in my S.T.A.R. Labs.

"Okay, so you managed to overpower me, now what because I still don't want to go back to my earth just yet, I mean there's a plague wreaking havoc on it, and I was hoping to maybe get some help curing it first."

"Who said anything about sending you back?" what? I was confused now as he suddenly grabbed me by the throat and slammed me down into some kind of chair.

"You said you were correcting a mistake!" I struggled trying to release my bindings, but the restraints must have been made of a similar technology to the exosuit because I could feel it turning my strength against me, the more I struggled, the harder it was to break free.

"Exactly, I accidentally brought the biggest threat to my plans here, and I don't plan on letting you interfere now that I've managed to capture you." I continued to struggle, concern on his face as I continued to apply force to the restraints, the sound of metal starting to be put on heavy stress as I continued pushing before everything went dark, a mechanized fist impacting directly with my face.