A distant boom echoed in the facility I was locked up in. It'd been maybe two or three days, I think? I know I'd passed out twice, not counting that punch to the face. This was different from the normal behavior though, for one the power was out, meaning the chair wasn't sapping my electromagnetic powers. And for two, the door was quickly opened by this earth's Harrison (harry) Wells.
"C'mon, let's get moving! I don't know how long they can keep the sentries distracted." Deciding to follow his lead, I reached deep into my power reserve and yanked as hard as I could, ripping the shackles from the chair like thick cardboard before sweeping up my cell partner in a princess carry and following Harry out of the cell and down several corridors and hallways.
"Look if you're anything like my girl back home you probably don't like being held but trust me this is faster, and safer" I wasn't exactly going to leave her to that asshat. I'd had dark thoughts before that I mostly just ignored as immoral, so I had some inkling the kinds of things he would think of, and I certainly didn't want to know how much worse he'd get.
Quickly Harry stopped us as he entered another cell block, a heavily weakened and bruised teenage girl limping out before I changed positions and scooped her up, one in each arm now, and continued to follow him. Several of what he referred to as sentries were guarding the exit, preventing anyone from entering or exiting, nearly a dozen of them lined up like centurions awaiting commands from their leader. The design was vaguely familiar as well. At just over seven feet tall and built like giants with angular limbs, the machine's most obvious feature was the red light moving back and forth where the eyes would be, instantly causing me to chuckle as I realized he'd managed to have 'toasters' guarding his base. Wouldn't be the first time encountering out of setting things, but I knew he'd done this on purpose, since Cylons weren't native to the DC multiverse to my knowledge.
"Get down!" Harry shouted as I quickly yanked them around the corner, mentally chastising myself for dropping my guard. Cylons weren't exactly stupid, and if these were anything like their original counterparts or better, I was in for a real bit of trouble. Suddenly, several explosions rang out from the room, the dust clearing to reveal several piles of scrap and the handful of people who'd done the scrapping. First was Cisco, but not the Cisco I knew, for one thing he was left-handed, unlike the one I'd been getting to know. Next was a black cloaked version of Oliver in full league of assassins clothing. Next to him was Laurel, only she seemed far more relaxed at the destruction having been wreaked. Finally, at the head of the group was Jay Garrick, an older man resembling the pictures Barry had shown me of his father, only this one was wearing a variation of the flash costume.
"Alright, let's get out of here!" shouted Jay as I quickly picked up the two girls, following my would be rescuers with Harry watching my back as we escaped. Dopple-Cisco having opened a breach to gods know where. Next thing I knew we were inside a large concrete room with a large vault door on one side and several rooms inlaid throughout.
"I appreciate the save, but who exactly are you guys?" I asked, mostly directing my questions to Jay since he was the only one I was actually certain wasn't evil.
"The resistance, or at least one part of it. But we'll get into that later, for now I need to get you four checked out, especially her, she seems to have suffered quite a bit." he quickly guided what I soon learned was Jessie Wells, Harrison's daughter to their medical bay, the girl showing no signs of having become the speedster that I vaguely remembered her being. Thinking quickly, I reached into my pocket, the bracelet Eobard had given me being one of the few things I was able to snag on the way out on short notice.
"Hey Harrison, I might be able to get us some additional forces, but first I need your help with something, a way to send a message without getting tracked by my other half."
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September 20th - 2014 - Earth 1
"Got it, we're about ready to test the speed cannon again, Barry." Cisco had just finished making the final adjustments and had begun powering up their own breaching device, the machine pointed directly at the weak point made when Zalost had been taken.
"Are you sure you're ready this time, Cisco? I mean, last time I was sent to the wrong earth and barely made it back with help from that earth's Heroes."
"Yes, the information your friend Clark and his group gave you along with readings from your trip back through, was enough for me to correct for the variables in the wormhole shifting, The thing's unstable though, so I can only hold it open for so long."
"You might want to hold off on that Cisco" Eobard (wells) Thawn interrupted their conversation, his screen showing a change in the tracking device going from a normal signal to one that was seemingly emitting pulses in a specific way.
"I believe Zalost has managed to contact us."
"What?!, how?" Cisco now surprised at the sudden change as he quickly made his way towards the computer screen, noticing a series of long and short pulses mixed in with the gravity wave's normal background signal.
"Look, see right there? It's some sort of signal attenuation in the gravity pulses."
"Wait, this looks familiar" Barry having quickly picked up on the signal's similarities to Morse. The signal repeated several times before a series of numbers played out in sequence with pauses first a long pulse then nine short pulses then two more long pulses
"Zero nine zero zero, oh nine hundred, that must be the time there or maybe a time for the message to repeat?"
"Give me a minute to decode the message" interrupted Cisco as he'd been writing down the long and short pulses from the recording and translating them into written words.
"Danger, stop. Unsafe, stop. Do Not Travel, stop."
"That seems pretty clear to me, wherever he is it's unsafe to travel there right now." After waiting around half an hour nine am came around and another signal was transmitted this one a series of numbers, one, three, five, seven, nine, repeating several times before the word copy thinking quickly Cisco managed to send a short message back. Eleven and thirteen. A short pause of about two minutes later another message was sent back confirming the sequence and verifying the situation. It would take several hours for them to decode all of it, each message having to be sent in short bursts of a dozen words or so to keep it from being too noticeable from the background noise.
They quickly learned about the situation on what Zalost referred to as Earth two. How his counterpart had invaded it and become its dictator before returning to his original earth and conquering that one too. How he'd also taken half a dozen others now under his rule before having set his sights on their earth as well as Zalost's home earth. New plans would need to be made to deal with what appeared to be a far greater threat than anyone was prepared for. One thing was for certain though, they wouldn't be going at it alone, and shortly after the last message Barry decided to use the speed cannon to make his way back to that third earth they'd found, they were going to need all the help they could get.
