Time continued to stand still as I raced through central city. The energy I could feel from Thawn and Barry was immense and constantly rising as Thawn's rage, and Barry's continued amplification of his powers by wrapping it around himself, had them quickly rising ever higher. Each one matching any gains on the other. Every time I thought I'd honed in on them, they'd blink away, their fight taking them further and further away from the city proper until they ended up heading into the surrounding plains heading southward.
As I got closer I noticed rapid streaks of red and yellow striking at each other, every time they met a massive shockwave forced its self in all directions from the impact force, enough to shatter bone, their damage quickly being healed by their abilities. Channeling both energies I began accelerating again, I could feel the resonance growing as my electromagnetism harmonized with the positive and negative speed forces, alternating back and forth like a pendulum with the time between the two points growing as my connection grew. Suddenly I felt a surge and the two blurs were moving slowly but their velocity still increasing as they charged towards each other. It felt like I suddenly had a force pushing at my back as the two forces mixed, the resonance a discordant echo ringing throughout my body pushing me up to insane velocities, the world beginning to curve as I began reaching speeds measured in percentages of light speed, my EM field keeping the air from burning me to a crisp combined with the speed forces creating additional barriers on top of it.
In that instant, I knew exactly what I had to do. Thawn's movements were incredibly slow, his head turning in slow motion as his eyes widened, and he began trying to vibrate to make himself intangible. I could feel the energy of the speed forces within him and began drawing it towards me, pulling on it like I'd pull on the metals in an object and felt his energy begin to drain into myself, the sense of charge immense before his vibrations stopped, and he seemed frozen while I walked up to him.
Placing my hand on his chest I pulled deep within myself and took all of Thawns energy, plus anything I could pull from the surrounding area and within that well deep inside and released a massive burst, so much energy it looked like I'd nearly vaporized him, but I felt the negative speed force in him leave as I channeled that energy back into myself ripping away his connection and absorbing whatever traces remained. The only problem was he was still just starting to feel the effects as I hadn't fallen out of this new speed, the world wrapping around to the point that I could see everywhere as my eyes were able to take in photons millions of times faster than normal.
Barry approached in slow motion, trying to keep his eyes on what must have been a glowing blur with the various energies wrapped around me. I walked over to him and pulled him into my own level of speed, hoping he might have an idea how I could exit this state. He looked in awe at the world around us, a simple movement in the air creating sonic booms from the kinetic force emitted.
"Barry, Thawn's no longer a threat, his connection, I think it's been severed, something I saw someone like me do later in your timeline."
"He still killed my mother!"
"Except he didn't! She's alive!, right now!, I'll explain things to Joe, help you get your dad free, if I can ever leave this speed state."
"Where are we anyway?" He asked, trying to figure out what the heck was going on.
"If I had to guess? I'd say we're moving close to the speed of light, so fast the very photons are slowed down, though why I didn't just rip a hole in space-time or enter the speed force is anyone's guess. However, I need a conduit, I need to release it before I'm stuck here! It may already be too late." It was then I had a brilliant idea and gestured for Barry to come closer before I forced him out of my velocity, picked them both up, ran back to central city, dropped them off, then began using my electromagnetic energy to create a static walkway ahead of me and collecting it behind me. Sorry about this, Barry, but if this works, I might just be able to go home and sever my connection at the same time.
My plan? Simple, If I could get this new energy to vibrate at the right frequency, I should have more than ample energy to go home, I just had to rip a hole in reality again. But first I needed to make a stop, so after leaving a note on Durendal for Cisco, a quick run back to the year 2000 to leave a camera for a few minutes to record the events of the past, grabbing it, returning it to the present, and leaving it and a note for Joe in the present I made my way to Starling City.
What I found was disconcerting, the Arrow cave was under assault by nearly a dozen of those cyborg assassins vandal savage was sending from the future, another mess I guessed I was going to deal with. It took mere moments as their bodies underwent explosive disassembly with every strike, the force equivalent to several tons of TNT, carefully planning each strike to not hit anybody but leave a smoking pile of scrap instead. Then I left another note for Oliver and Felicity thanking them for being helpful and telling them to stop fighting things and get over themselves because I knew their outcome was to get together eventually anyway.
Another brief stopover in Gotham saw every super villain who was free suddenly locked up in Arkham, The Joker having been disarmed, disrobed, placed into an orange jumpsuit, and shackled to a wall with a hastily put in place set of wall shackles. The key was burred deep in the warden's desk, and a letter with evidence of every one of Jack Napier's crimes as The Joker, with proof of whom he actually was. Explaining things to Bruce, he wasn't happy at the impromptu night off given his entire rogues gallery was now locked up, but I also gave him Napier's dossier for his files before returning him to his own time flow.
The power was starting to lessen a bit now, so I knew it was time to go, I began racing along the ocean using my electromagnetic abilities to create a solid surface to push against as I pushed myself faster, reaching deeply within myself until I felt a new frequency calling me. Suddenly a rift opened, and I entered into a long tunnel of energy, the familiarity of it similar to time travel, but instead I was being called home. It was faint due to the large distance, but I continued racing towards it, moving faster and faster. At some point velocity had no meaning, I was passing realities as I felt them more than saw them due to the light no longer reaching my eyes, a dark void ahead of me. My connection was weakening the further I got from the multiverse I was in. Then suddenly I felt something slam into me, a dark chuckle as I fell out of the dimensional tunnel, floating helplessly through space at insane velocity.
There was no up or down, no left or right, but the stars were shooting past similarly to traveling faster than light, space/time distorting into a bubble of force and rapidly stealing any energy left, the pocket of air being maintained by the plasma wall was also fading, increasing my panic. Seconds later I saw a crazy sight, a massive ship flew over me, slowing down to match velocity before grabbing me in an energy beam. The blue glow slowing down my movement before I felt every atom in my body disassemble and re-assemble, collapsing on a hard surface and passing out, the last of the speed force having left my system almost instantly, the connection no longer there.
