I woke up sputtering and coughing, having been snapped out of whatever state of nothingness I'd been enveloped in. Something wasn't right because as far as I knew good and evil were just concepts, intent caused by choices and personality. It was all relative, and as far as I knew in his mind he was the good guy.

I was still restrained in the chair, but I now had all sorts of monitoring equipment, the bracelet Eobard had me wear on a nearby tray, a small pulse of energy emitting from it being picked up by my senses despite their weakened state. Still, he was currently missing from the room, and standing in front of me was the doppelgänger of my girl from back home.

"Your friend is kind of a dick, you know that, right?" I asked as I struggled a bit, stronger restraints keeping me from even straining the metal now.

"He's not my friend, he took me away. The world was taken so quickly by him. More than just using bizarre technology he was impossibly strong, impossibly fast. We already lost all our defenses after he made the world submit. He told me he'd send me back, if I did what he said." I decided to calm down and listen to her story, not like I was going anywhere, and apparently my corrupted duplicate was out dealing with some other mess.

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September 16th - 2014

"Stein, I can't just stand here and do nothing!"

"Calm Down Mr Allen, Doctor Wells is working on tracking where they went, for now we can't do much else but wait."

"You saw the footage, that portal which got in the way with Snart, another of him came out of it, overpowered him somehow."

"That's exactly why we can't go in half cocked." Eobard entered the room, the wheelchair's motors softly whirring as he rolled up to a nearby computer terminal.

"I gave Zalost a sensor package after your encounter with Snart, it's been transmitting this entire time, the signal is very weak so narrowing it down has been difficult."

"I've been thinking about that actually" this time Cisco came jogging up from the lab carrying a tablet.

"He said he came from another universe, right? What if that was a breach, a tunnel between realities."

"That wouldn't explain why another version of himself came through." Stein seemed tense trying to work out the probability of such an event happening, unfamiliar with the new reality having been thrown at them.

"Yes, but in an infinite multiverse there must be other versions of us out there, right? So why not another him?"

"Cisco, we need a way to open one of those breaches."

"Look no one has been able to do this, at least on our earth, I have no idea how we're going to get over there." Cisco's response to Barry was a bit short, likely because he'd been working almost non-stop without rest trying to find a way to force open a doorway.

"I might have a way to do it, but you'll need to be a lot faster, Mr Allen" Eobard (wells) began drawing on one of the glass white boards they'd been keeping in the room.

"If you can get going fast enough, faster than you've gone so far, you might be able to generate enough energy to briefly force the breach open, but If you go through, there's no telling where it leads." A long series of equations taking speed and vibrational frequency into account were being written out, along with diagrams.

"Then he won't go through alone." Stein responded as he and Ronnie stepped up already, having agreed to step in and help.

"You're going to need more than a couple rookie superheroes" a gruff voice came from the entrance, the group on high alert as the Emerald archer himself, The Black Canary, and John Diggle walked into the room, pausing briefly after looking at the hōzen being worn by Ronnie and Caitlin

"No way, The Star City Vigilante, and The Canary. This may not be as impossible as I thought." Cisco was freaking out at having so many heroes in one place, One more watching from the outside waiting for a Chance to step in himself.

"I sure hope Bruce knows what he's doing calling me away from Bludhaven."

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I still can't believe another me managed to actually put the world under his boot. I mean, I thought about it, but I gave up on the idea because it wouldn't be right to force the entire world to submit to a single person, even if that seemed like it would save it from its own stupidity. Worse is that I had a good idea what the divergence point was. He'd never been rescued like I was, never swore to become better than the evil he'd faced. Instead, that whole area was a smoking crater, a monument to peace he called it after firing a kinetic projectile from low orbit in 2016 erasing the town that ignored his pleas for help.

Technically, he wasn't evil, Just twisted. Everything that makes me who I am, twisted into a dark mirror by having the worst point become the beginning of a series of terrible circumstances. She wasn't sure beyond a certain point, other than that it happened over a short period of time. A mountain opened up and several rockets launched into the sky. A town's water table in the Carolina mountains rapidly draining, having been in the news up to that point due to how unusual it was.

Then it was quiet for a couple of years after that until the entire world went on alert, black objects with little to no radar signature impacted every capital simultaneously. Military bases caught off guard as their missiles refused to launch, planes suddenly shutting down and dropping out of the sky.

Then it was over, the whole world left helpless as a single word was displayed on every television and computer screen. "Checkmate" There were resistance movements of course, she tried to join one in California when she was caught. Imprisoned with the rest of the resistance members and given lenience in exchange for agreeing to one task. Then she was brought here, given instructions to capture me and here we were. They kept her locked in this room, instructed to keep an eye on me. Likely because he knew I wouldn't do anything, couldn't. And I doubted she could do much give the technology displayed.

An hour ago, I was also visited by this earth's Harrison Wells. He apparently was also being held captive, with this earth having been quickly conquered after Zoom was murdered just hours after trying to kill the flash. Zoom's powers were duplicated by the other me and his mask now on display in the main entrance way along with others to warn people off from rising up.

It was an incredibly bleak future to be sure, but I was certain that Eobard couldn't stand to have some other trans-dimensional traveler interfering in his plans. So I continued to hold out hope that either the other me would make a mistake with his overconfidence or the earth one heroes would find a way to get here, rise up against him. Though I wasn't sure they'd be enough.