A/N 1 : This is my response to the Milmaverse's post Crisis on infinite earth challenge.
A/N 2: I'm not against any of the Actors/actresses based on their race,Sex, Ethnicity. It's just my imagination of a story I loved to tell.
Disclaimer- I own nothing over the charecters, these belong to DC and only my story is my owning.
Prompt- Crisis on Infinite earths changed the worlds, but also changed the history and relationship between many charecters.
Chapter-1
Barry woke up suddenly
He looked around; he was in a room, which he has never seen
Oh god, my head is hurting, Barry thought to himself
He got up and went in to the hall of the loft,
"Iris?"
Iris was in the kitchen
"Thank god you are alive", Barry said hugging iris from back
"Barry? The nightmares again? Honey, You know Savitar has gone for more than 3 years by now."
Barry understands that it is the reboot of the universe and Iris does not remember about Crisis
"Babe Pancakes?"
"Yeah, sure" Barry said grabbing them and moving to the table to eat
Oh, God, Iris is still bad at this! Barry thought
"Ah!" Barry started feeling pain in his head, Flashing memories of his mom dying, Joe adopting him, Meeting Oliver ,Getting hit by lightning, Caitlin and Cisco faces while he wakes up from coma, The man in yellow, Eddie dying, Meeting Kara .
"Barry? What happened" Iris came up to Barry
"Nothing, I'm fine, I just need to have a run over the city" Barry ran off.
Barry entered STAR labs and searched for Caitlin but she was not there, So he ran off to her loft
He just phrased into her loft and hugged her tightly
"Barry What are you doing here?"
"Nothing, it's nothing" Barry said deciding not to mention about crisis
When they drew apart Caitlin found unusual look on Barry and said
"Why do you look like you just came off from a World ending disaster?"
"What No" Barry lied
"Barry, I've known you for 6 years, I know when you lie! Every time!" Caitlin stressed
"I react as if I do not know! Now tell me what happened!" Caitlin said demandingly.
"Ok, so you do remember the newspaper from the time vault about me vanishing right?"
"Newspaper? Time vault? What are you talking about? & you vanishing? "Caitlin said amused
"Gideon room in star labs? You do not remember the time when you, Cisco & I entered time vault to find about Thawne?"
"Barry!" Caitlin said strongly and slapped him
"Cait!" Barry said shocked about Caitlin slapping him
"Barry you do know we don't talk about Thawne and things that happened that day after we found about that room."
"Caitlin! what happened that day?"
"Barry! Why are you doing this? I'm finally moving on from what happened to cisco."
"Caitlin!" Barry said holding her hands, "what happened that day?"
Caitlin just moved his hands away and went back and turned around without saying anything
"Caitlin! I need to know! "And Barry fell to his knees, flashes of events coming but different from what happened before crisis and then Barry fell unconscious
"Barry..Barry"Caitlin came up and checking him up.
Few hours later
"Cait?" Barry woke up
"Barry! Thank god, you are up! I did not know what was happening to you. Everything looked normal in the scans."
"Where are we?" Barry asked after seeing a lab, which was not star.
"You are in my lab,I did not know what to do, so I breached us here using the Extrapolator"
"Your lab? Mercury labs? "Barry said after noticing Mercury lab name around the room and equipment's
"Bar what's going on with you? You've been acting strange. Did your doctor mess with your head?"
"Doc? You are my doctor and why are you working in Mercury labs and what happened that night?"
"Barry, did you time travel again?"
"What? No!" Barry said and was about to continue when
"May be I can help you both with that", they both heard in their heads as J'onn entered
"J'onn! What are you doing on my earth? And where's Kara? Barry asked
"What do you mean by your earth?" Caitlin asked
Barry gave a look to Caitlin not understanding why Caitlin was behaving odd
"Barry What did you see when you woke up?"J'onn asked
"Oliver sacrificing" Barry said, memories coming up of the entire crisis
"Moreover, what do you remember about Yesterday?"J'onn asked
Barry started to think when his head started paining again
"I'can't remember, it's like flashes of memories, I'm seeing two timelines,"Barry said
"That's the thing Barry! This is a new timeline where many things have changed and in your case, It's disastrous." J'onn said
"Why are we the only one's remembering it? ", Barry asked
"What are we that they are not?" J'onn asked
"Paragons" Barry said understanding that this is a new timeline
"There is no Multiverse here Barry! We all live on the same earth now! I have been visiting all the heroes and their teams to restore their memories. I visited star to restore yours but I found only iris and Ramsey there. So I thought of restoring yours first so I came here"
"Ramsey? What is he doing with iris and why isn't he locked up in Argus?" Barry said about to run but J'onn stopped him.
"Wait, Ramsey is not bloodwork here, He's your doctor." J'onn said
And J'onn kept his hand on Barry's head and restored all the memories which were struggling to come up and when j'onn took off his hand Barry fell on to bed
"Cisco?" Barry said with a tear in his eye.
"Cait, I am sorry it is all my fault" Barry said crying up
"It is not your fault" Caitlin said Hugging and rubbing his back
"It is mine, I cannot believe Iris did this all!" Barry still shocked after getting to know that Iris was responsible for Cisco's death and Caitlin fired from Star.
"Barry!"J'onn spoke up, "it is not your fault entirely."
And suddenly Iris and Ramsey came barging into the lab
"Barry! What are you doing here?" Iris asked angrily
"Iris! Why did you do this to Cisco and Caitlin? "Barry shouted
"What do you mean by why did I do? I did it for our good Barry, Caitlin and Cisco were always against me using labs for Power. They wanted you to remain a hero protecting the city. I made us to become the richest in central city." Iris said with pride.
"I became the flash to protect people and the city. You made me a bodyguard to the people who pay you up."
"Enough of this" J'onn shouted
"Barry, whatever happened is not in our hands now , you have to tell me to whom should I restore the memories."
"Iris and Caitlin, for now" Barry said still in tears.
J'onn asked both of them to come close and then restored their memories
"Iris! Did you see how happy we all were? Caitlin, cisco they are family! "Barry said hoping Iris would understand
"Yeah" Iris said with her hand over head. "But my decision stays Barry! I have seen both the possibilities now, I prefer what I have here and I am not guilty of my actions." Iris said
Caitlin and Barry looked to iris shocked.
"What is wrong with you?" Barry asked shocked over the tings iris said
"I don't want to live a life as a journalist or some other blog writer and You don't have to live as CSI or as a guardian protecting innocent lives."
"You are not my iris, you are not whom I loved & this ends now!"Barry said fiercely
"Then it leaves me no choice Barry, but to stop you from being the flash" iris said
"What?" Barry said and was about to continue when Ramsey blasted him with Meta-Human cure.
"What did you do? "Caitlin shouted and ran over to barry as J'onn punched ramsey
"I knew this day would come Barry," Iris said and shot Caitlin with a gun
J'onn was about to come over to iris but then fell to his knees as Ramsey took out a device which gave off high-frequency sounds which hurt J'onn
"Caitlin!"Barry shouted and moved towards her when Iris put gun on his head.
"You still have chance Barry, Come back to me and we can live our life with the money we have." Iris said
"Never!" Barry angered
"Then It's goodbye barry, "iris said and pressed the trigger
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"Caitlin" Barry shouted as he woke up
"Hi Barry" Oliver said
"Oliver?" Barry looked over to Oliver who stood infront wearing the exact same suit when they both met for the first time.
"What? Oliver you're alive? Why am I in this house? " Barry asked after seeing himself in the place where his mom was murdered.
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To be continued!
