Chapter 34.
Upon her trip to Earth-Two, Reverse-Flash had a guest. Black Siren walked up behind her several steps. Despite the fact Black Siren seemed a bit anxious when dealing with Zoom or returning to this place, Reverse-Flash could commend the woman for going out and facing her fears, as great as they were.
"Are you ready to do this?" Reverse-Flash asked. "Once, we go there, there's no stopping. We either take Zoom down or. We fall."
Black Siren responded with a crisp nod. Oh, she knew everything that was on the line, believe her. She would not be afraid, not now, and never again. The guards which lead up to the stairs leading to Zoom's mountainside retreat looked the other way. Black Siren smiled and released a Siren Scream to send them off of the cliff.
Reverse-Flash zipped to the entrance, with Black Siren in hand.
"5-4-9-5-4," Black Siren told her.
The numbers had been punched in. The long pause which Black Siren hoped the codes had not changed passed when the door opened up. Zoom must have been confident enough that no one was going to be able to go up the mountain.
"More company," Black Siren said.
Two more guards, easily dispatched. Black Siren jumped over the head of one of the guards and rocked him with a huge stomp down to the ground of the head. Reverse-Flash whipped the guard's radio out of his hand before he could call for backup.
Black Siren delivered one staff shot. They moved further up towards the prisoners. Some of them, were metas who refused to join up for Zoom. Obviously kept alive, because Zoom still thought he had some use out of them, demented as it might seem.
"Who are you looking for?" Black Siren asked.
"Jesse Chambers Wells," Reverse-Flash responded.
"Oh, she's up through here," Black Siren responded a second later. "This way."
They reached the cell of the prisoner which Reverse-Flash and Black Siren wanted to search out for. Jesse Chambers Wells, the daughter of this Earth's version of Harrison Wells. Oh, the memories Emmy's host body had of the man were bittersweet, with what a Negative Speedforce version of Emmy had to do to survive.
"What do you want from me?" Jesse demanded.
"Relax, kid," Black Siren said. "You remember me, right?"
Jesse backed off into the cell. Oh, she obviously recognized Black Siren. She worked for Zoom and no one who worked with Zoom could be trusted. Which was why Jesse had been shaken completely when Black Siren released her from the cell.
"She's a meta, she must be, otherwise Zoom would have had her killed," Black Siren said.
"Oh, she's more than that," Reverse-Flash said. "I can't wait for her to come into her powers."
"What do you...what are you….argh!"
A syringe stabbed into Jesse's shoulder. Everything swirled around her as her body went into a seizure. Emmy grabbed Jesse's hand and pulled her into a vortex which left Black Siren standing alone.
For all of three seconds. Reverse-Flash came out, now with a wide-eyed Jesse. The three exchanged smiles and now it was time to go.
Brianna's Lazarus Pit buzz ended. She eyed a very nervous looking Nora and Iris. Oliver disappeared into the shadows.
"Trust me, he does that a lot,' Brianna said.
"How are you feeling?" Iris asked.
"Much better than I was," Brianna said.
"Not for long."
Zoom appeared next to them. Flash, Impulse, and XS stood, rigid, and ready to fight him. The speedster laughed when he looked at the latest speedster.
"Three for the price of one!" Zoom cackled. "I'll take you all down and then your friend in yellow, she's next."
Flash's speed had increased since going through the Lazarus Pit. Would she have enough in the tank to defeat Zoom? Only one way to find out as she bombarded Zoom with everything she had. Super fast punches, kicks, and maneuvers just took him down.
XS rushed towards Zoom from behind. Zoom dodged the attack from XS and grabbed her by the throat. She vibrated through the man's grasp and dodged a blast of lightning fro Zoom.
"I will crush each and every one of you and…."
Killer Frost bombarded Zoom from behind with a concentrated blast of ice. Zoom dropped to his knees and vibrated through the ground where they stood to avoid being frozen to death.
Zoom popped up and grabbed Killer Frost by the throat. Killer Frost broke free out of the attack when she stabbed Zoom. he healed, but this put him into position for Impulse and Flash to hit him high and hit him low. The crackle of energy echoed throughout the room when he dropped down to the ground.
"You're not going to defeat me!" Zoom growled. "You can't stop me! You can't stop me!"
Impulse, Flash, and XS ran as fast as they could. The vortex knocked Zoom off guard. Zoom flew back to the ground and caught an arrow which had been sent at him.
"Nice try," Zoom said as he broke the arrow in his hand. "I would not be fooled by the same attack twice."
"I'm counting on it," Oliver said.
Black Siren hit him with the Siren Scream as fast as she could. Zoom pushed through the scream and grabbed Black Siren by the throat and sent her crashing down into the nearby wall.
"Traitors die!"
The zip of another speedster knocked Zoom off to the side. Zoom turned around and came face to face. He recognized those eyes immediately.
"Well, Ms. Wells, you are far more valuable now. I might not even need your father. Once I'm done thrashing your enemies, I'll leave you last, so you can slowly watch him die….."
Oliver impaled Zoom from behind with a sword to drop the sadistic speedster to his knees mid-monologue.
"Free lesson before you die," Oliver said. "Never stand still during a fight."
Zoom's body vibrated. The wound in his chest slowly healed over. Nora zipped over and caught Zoom to the back of the head. Reverse-Flash turned up, to fight alongside Flash, Impulse, XS, and Jesse Quick. They fought through with the attacks to knock him down.
"None of you understand," Zoom growled. "I am the superior speedster."
"Yeah, and you just won't shut up about it," Brianna said.
"Once I heal…."
Reverse-Flash hyper punched the wound in Zoom's chest and made it larger to slow momentum. Dark energy leaked out of Zoom. The nano-bots inside Zoom were merely deactivated, but not removed. This could bode well for Thawne's plans. She mentally hatched an idea.
"We need to break his connection to the speed force."
"Should be easy," Jesse said. "Right?"
"Um, yes and no?" Nora asked, unsure.
"Follow my lead."
Zoom howled like agony. Everything pretty much stopped in the room for the Hood, Black Siren, and Killer Frost. A loud crackle of every erupted through the area as the speestes zipped all over the place. Zoom's grows only increased in frequency and they grew more angry than ever before.
"You can't hope to stop me!" Zoom yelled out.
Impulse, Flash, Reverse-Flash, Jesse Quick, and XS nailed him so hard his body could not take the hit. The speedforce ripped into Zoom and sent cascades of energy out of him. Zoom howled in misery as he had been sent through the speed force.
"Question, where is that speed going?"
"To the first person who doesn't have speed which it seeks," Reverse-Flash said. "Everyone brace yourself."
The speed force zipped out. With Black Siren and Killer Frost already swimming with dark matter, it ignored them. The speed locked onto Oliver.
Zoom reached, despite his decaying body, to reclaim the speed. Like a thirsty man in the desert, Zoom tried to grab onto the mirage.
Only for Oliver's eyes to whip open and be pulled into the speed vortex. Oliver finished Zoom with a death blow and caught the sadistic speedster in the neck. Everything Oliver could hit him with made Zoom crumble into dust, which faded to nothing.
A painful stab through Oliver's chest sent him rattling. He could see everything. Every possibility which caused even a well-trained mind like Oliver's to falter in the process.
"No, you won't die on me," Nora said.
Nora grabbed Oliver and pulled him into the speed force.
"I can't say….rather I won't say how much I knew you before now," Nora said. "I doubt we said more than a dozen sentences to each other before the change. But, I want you to know, I'm feeling this connection. And it's not because I know if I lose you, I'll lose myself to the time wraiths. They will rip me in half for being here. There's still a few years before I'm born, but...I can see it in my mind, great things are happening."
Nora took a deep breath.
"And I'm rambling," Nora said.
"It's okay, you get it from your mother."
Nora grabbed Oliver's hand.
"You helped Mom and...Mom, you helped them stabilize the connection they had to the speed force," Nora said. "You remember that?"
"A few months ago, how could I forget?" Oliver asked.
"So, I need you to breathe, okay? Just breathe and do the same thing you did for them? I mean, you are Ra's al Ghul. You are the avatar of Aphrodite. You beat Malcolm Merlyn, Damien Darhk, you beat...other people that I can't tell you because that would create even more paradoxes."
Oliver took in a deep breath.
"So, do I have access to the speed force now?" Oliver asked.
"Yes," Nora said. "But, you're now more dangerous than ever before. You can move faster and you can think ten times faster. You will rule the League of Assassins for a thousand years. Even in the 31st century….."
Oliver silenced his daughter with a kiss on the lips. She had been surprised, but quite pleased. This motion allowed them both to calm themselves down. Nora shook underneath Oliver's touch.
"Sorry, we shouldn't have done that," Nora said.
"Mother, sisters, what's the harm of a daughter here and there?" Oliver asked. "Besides, you're a grown woman, you make your own choices. And I'm only your father to fix a hole in the timeline."
"Well, you're good at filling holes," Nora said.
Nora's eyes widened when she realized what she said. Oliver just smiled.
"Got a hold of yourself?" Nora asked. "Are you ready to return home?"
"Yes," Oliver said. "Yes."
Every single speedster in the time stream had been shot out. They felt a rush through their bodies which only accelerated when they returned.
"Is it over?" Black Siren asked.
"Yes, Zoom's gone," Oliver said. "We took his abilities. I have them now."
"Oh, you...you just casually drop that, and expect me not to react?" Black Siren asked. "I'll tell Power Girl. She'll be disappointed she missed out on the final defeat."
"That was something else," Jesse commented.
"It sure was," Oliver said.
"You're Oliver Queen," Jesse said.
"I am," Oliver said.
"And you're Ra's al Ghul in this world. I heard XS talking about it."
"I am," Oliver replied a moment later.
"Mmm," Jesse answered a moment later. "Well, I felt the connection you had to so many women in there. You've got quite the insatiable appetite, don't you, Mr. Queen."
Jesse's new found speed powers sparked her appetite as well. She ran a finger down Oliver's chest and leaned in closer to him.
"Well, wouldn't you like to know?" Oliver asked her. "Perhaps we can discuss that in private. Just you and I."
"Oh, I'd like that," Jesse answered.
"I'd like to get to know you a bit more immediately, Ms. Wells."
Jesse leaned in and kissed Oliver on the lips. It was a bit nervous and tepid. Thankfully, Oliver grabbed her and showed her what a true kiss truly was. He grabbed Jesse around the waist and the two disappeared into a blur of light so they could know each other a bit better.
"That escalated quickly," Brianna said.
"It's Oliver," Iris said.
"He hasn't found a pair of female legs he wouldn't try and get between yet," Killer Frost replied. "And succeed. Which we're all grateful for."
Nods cycled around the room all around.
The Shameless Smut Commences In the Next Chapter.