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I was amazed at the feeling of moving through time, I could see everywhere and everything at once. Not just my timeline but everything that has, can, and will happen. It was overwhelming, and it took every last bit of focus I had to not become swept up in the current of time itself. Suddenly I noticed it, I could feel my destination calling to me, so I accelerated and in a flash I'd returned to normal space, hovering just off the ground as I used my electromagnetic abilities to rapidly decelerate from being thrown out of the temporal anomaly.
I was just outside a house as red and yellow light was flashing throughout it. I watched the front door splinter outward as Thawn crashed right at my feet, desperately trying to get his bearings before glaring up at me, shocked to find me here too. Of course, I quickly grappled him again trying to drain him dry, so he wouldn't be able to mess things up further, this time putting so much strength I felt joints and bones begin to crack.
"I know this was predestined Eobard, but what you're doing right now is not acceptable, you need to stop."
"No, he can't save her, none of you can!" Suddenly another yellow figure appeared, and another, there were half a dozen of them, time remnants. He was expecting something to stand in his way, always planning ahead, that's Eobard Thawn. I continued draining him until I felt the link break and him collapse, letting him go since he was no longer a threat, red lightning arcing around my body before becoming blue.
"per voluntatem meam, iam perdidisti" I felt another resonance, two now synchronizing with my energy fields. They felt like opposite charges but began forming some kind of alternating current of energy as the world seemed frozen. One side called to my darker impulses, the other to my hope, my focus on gaining strength to stand against the darkness. When you stare into the abyss it stares back into you, so I choose to light the darkness, becoming that which acts as balance. The world frozen as more and more energy continued pooling into me, an overwhelming and all encompassing force that pulled at me, calling me to go even faster.
I walked into the house, Eobard moments from killing Nora Allen, I gently pushed him backward and his frozen body floated towards the wall with Barry reaching out towards his mother. I gently picked her up and set her outside before coming back in and finding the younger Barry and moving him beside her. Then I set my hand on her shoulder and brought her into my time stream.
"Nora Allen?" I asked, as she looked disoriented, face stained with tears from pleading for her son's life.
"Who are you?, what's going on?" she watched as the half dozen Thawn time remnants floated towards the ground, my movements have displaced them and thrown them off balance moments before.
"It'd take a lot to explain, but I need to maintain the timeline, while also helping a friend. Normally you can't do this, but the funny thing about time? It's malleable. As long as you don't try to change fixed events, you can do a lot of pretty crazy stuff."
"Time, changing fixed events. That man, he was standing over me, I was about to die, a man in red was fighting him."
"That's Barry, your son, a hero where we come from. You were supposed to die, it was a fixed event that was crucial in allowing him to do all this."
"But if you can't change it, then why are you here?"
"I can't change the fact that Nora Allen Died tonight. That doesn't mean I can't also save Nora Allen and have a version die at the same time. It's a Schrödinger paradox" Barry needs to grow up without his mother, but he'll be taken care of by the West family, raised well, find love. I can bring you back to the present when this is done while still preserving the timeline." Suddenly I picked up all the Eobard clones and went back to get the original before placing my hand on Barry's shoulder, bringing him into the much faster timestream.
"Barry, you're interfering with time, you need to stop. This is a fixed event, you understand?"
"But she's my mother, I have to save her!"
"Damn it Barry! Right now, I'm so overcharged I could literally throw you into next tuesday and lock you out of this moment in time. Instead, I've got a plan, but you have to stop meddling with this point in time!" I set the Thawn clones down who were still frozen due to the speed at which we were moving and Barry followed me outside. Before staring in shock at his mother.
"Alright, I don't know if I'll be able to do this twice, but I've been thinking about ways to cheat time, we can't do this again, for anybody! So don't try this, okay?." I froze Nora for a moment and accelerated moving backwards a few seconds into the past, overlapping with myself. The timeline shifted and a version of her was brought outside the time stream. Then I took that version and placed her back in the house with Thawn ready to kill her. Next I took thawn's time duplicates and sapped them of their energy, amplifying myself further before shifting through time again, releasing them into the vortex and appearing a couple seconds later.
"Barry, I hope you appreciate what I'm doing, because this could break the universe if it's done wrong. And really piss off your earth's version of the time lords." Suddenly, normal time resumed and Nora was standing next to kid Barry and adult Barry. A scream comes out of the house before Thawn ran out and into a temporal anomaly, escaping to the future. I kneed down to the young Barry Allen, placing my hand gently on his shoulder as the old one watches on in disbelief.
"Barry, it's important that you listen, your mother is going away for a while, okay? But you'll see her again, until then tell a nice police officer is going to be taking care of you." I locked the door to the house and had Barry sit and wait for the police to come after having called them myself using a phone in the house and checking on Henry Allen to make sure he was still breathing.
"It's okay Barry." the two were incredibly close, and I hated having to break this up, but the timeline was going to return to normal and If I didn't fix this soon it would alter everything going forward. I lamented my own experiences with family and how lonely it sometimes felt, but knew that if the timeline was going to survive intact, this had to happen.
"Nora, we have to go." I gently pulled out something from my pocket, a pen with the words 'Cogito ergo sum' written on it.
"These words, I think therefor I am, never forget them. You are only as powerful as you make yourself, so make yourself the best version of you." I nodded to Barry, and we accelerated, Nora in tow, before we exited the timeline back to 2014. Quickly grabbing a newspaper nothing looked different, the article talking about the invasion a few weeks ago was still there, suddenly I saw where we were, and a fire was blazing before I saw the previous events play out before my eyes, first Thawn throws Barry out of a building, then I catch him, a battle takes place, and they're gone.
After they'd left the area, Barry raced back in to extinguish the fire using my advice to suck the oxygen out of the room then racing back out, the crowd cheering on their hero. I could feel the speed forces leaving me again, but something was still there, a small connection, just enough, so I ran back to S.T.A.R. Labs while Barry got to spend time with his paradoxically saved mother. Besides, I had a bone to pick with Thawn since I was pretty sure he exited the timeline here as well.
