A/N: Aaaaaaaaand...here we are again with another chapter! Wohoo! Wait a minute, who's we?
Ranger: Why, that'd be me and you.
Me: What the Hades...? You are literally just another name for me.
Ranger: No, sweetheart. I'm much more than that. I am the author. I am the fangirl. I write the stories that write the stories! And you cannot escape me! I will be here forever, imbedded in your brain like an annoyingly catchy song!
Me: Was that a Barry Manilow reference?
Ranger: Perhaps, mortal. Telleth ye thy fine reader what ye have meant to say since the day ye began "Where's the Starbucks?"
Me: What are you talking about?
Ranger: THOU DOTH NOT OWNETH ANYTHING! THOU DOTH NOT EVEN OWNETH THY COMPUTER! THOU NEVER HAS AND NEVER WILL OWNETH A SERIES THAT ANY POOR SOUL SHALL BE FAMILIAR WITH!
Me: Ouch. Sadly, what she says is true. In other news, I just finished the last Magnus Chase book and-
Ranger: HOW DARETH THE FOUL RICK NOT TELLETH MINE EARS WHAT HATH HAPPENED IN THE PJO FANDOM! HOW DARETH-!
Me: Sorry, I'm gonna have to get used to cutting her off. Let's see how it goes, shall we?
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"Fine," I huffed. "Whatever you need to do, man. I'm sure we'll save your earth, just like Wal-Mart always says it'll help you save money."
Barry frowned and cocked his head. "What's Wal-Mart?"
I blinked at him. "You know, 'Save money, live better!' Wal-Mart?" Barry still had no idea what I was talking about, apparently. I sighed. "Seriously? No Wal-Mart and no Starbucks? You're earth needs to get its priorities straight." I shook my head sadly. "Seriously, where do you go if you need Cheetos in the middle of the night?" Barry frowned like, Why would I need Cheetos in the middle of the night? I'll answer that right now. Why wouldn't you need Cheetos in the middle of the night? "Anyways," I continued, "is there any place I can set down my stuff?" I hoisted my duffel bag into the air with one hand.
Barry looked at me with a bewildered expression. "Where did that come from?"
"You didn't notice it at first?"
"No."
"Well, last time I was here, I was here for like, a week and I had two sets of clothes, one of which your team bought for me. There was no way I was doing that again, so I packed. I was just lucky I had this with me when that cat was chasing me."
"Um...okay," Barry shrugged. "There's a extra couple rooms down the hall."
I nodded before walking out of the Cortex. I vaguely remembered where the extra rooms were from the last time I was here, but it took me a while to find them.
As I walked, I contemplated the idea of seeing Barry's buddy Oliver Queen again.
For those of you who missed our last encounter, it turns out that Queen is actually the Earth-1 doppelganger of Luke Castellan. Yeah. Meeting him was very dramatic. It involved a bit of a smackdown on his part and the capture of Zoom. Also, it sucked.
Before I knew it, I was setting my duffel bag down on the floor next to one of the extra cots they had in STAR Labs for some reason. I was about to turn around and wander through the halls until I could find the Cortex again when my bag moved.
No, I'm not kidding. It slid across the floor about two inches with a shuffling sound, which made my head snap back in the direction of the bag. I kept my eyes fixed on it but turned my head slightly to call, "Barry!"
In a lot less time than it took for me to get there, Barry was standing in the doorframe, looking kind of annoyed. "What?"
"My bag moved."
He frowned and stepped farther into the room. "I don't see why this is such a big deal. You probably kicked it or something." Just as he spoke, the bag moved again, this time accompanied by a muffled Mrow!
Styx.
I knew that sound. It was exactly the same one I heard as the poor little kitty in the camp was launched into orbit.
"What did you do, smuggle a bobcat through the breach?" Barry asked as he stooped to open the bag.
"Barry, don't," I warned. "First off, there were no animals in that bag. Second, with me, you know it's something way more dangerous than a bobcat." But he ignored me and opened the bag.
Sitting on top of one of my Camp Half-Blood T-shirts was a tiny little calico kitten that looked up at us with adorably big eyes. Honestly, those eyes were huge and cute and… Ahem. The kitten meowed at us again, and Barry's gaze softened. He reached into the bag and picked up the little kitty. It sat contentedly in his arms and purred as he stroked it. Unfortunately, I recognized that cat.
"Barry, put the cat down," I hissed.
"Why? It's not dangerous or anything."
"Yes it is," I corrected angrily. "That is what chased me before I came to this earth."
Barry laughed at me. "You let this adorable thing chase you into another universe?"
The kitty in his arms transformed into a hissing cat skeleton that was somehow five times the size of the actual cat.
"Yeah," I said sarcastically. "So cute." Barry yelped and dropped the thing. "Run!" I commanded, and we both did so.
Thankfully, Barry grabbed me and super speeded us back to the Cortex, instead of leaving me behind to flounder along a my own pace. Not that I was a slow runner; Barry was just more than a hundred times faster than I was. For some reason, the rest of Team Flash that was still in the building had re-congregated in the Cortex. Seriously, what did these people spend their time doing?
"What's wrong?" Cisco asked as soon as he saw the expressions on our faces.
I stammered out something along the lines of, "Cat bag evil coming!" Which, of course, meant, "There was an evil meta-skele-cat in my duffel bag and now it's coming to get us and take over the world!" I don't think they fully got the message though.
However, we ran out of time to elaborate. Not five seconds after I blurted out those few words, we hearing the clicking of claws on concrete. Barry and I turned to each other with wide eyes.
"Uh-oh," I said.
Just then, the cat came bounding around the corner. We shied away only to see that the little demon was back in its cute little kitten form.
"Aww," the people in the room behind us sighed.
"It's so cute," Caitlin smiled.
Suddenly, Barry started running in circles for no reason, until he was only a blur of orange lightning. I had just enough time to wonder, What the Hades is this guy doing? The cat's gonna kill us! Then a bolt of honest-to-goodness lightning (anyone remember that? No? Just me? Okay then) sped across the room and fried the kitty.
The cat didn't have time to make a sound before it almost literally went up in a puff of smoke. The smell of burned skin spread through the room and Barry sighed in relief, but I slapped my forehead and groaned. This earth might as well grind itself up into cat food. I glanced at the other members of Team Flash and they were all wearing that shocked and dismayed expression that makes you look really silly because your eyes widen and your mouth drops and stuff.
"Barry," Wally accused, "you fried the kitty."
"You idiot," I said in a low voice.
Barry looked confused. "It's dead."
"Yeah," I nodded with a sarcastic smile. "That one is. Did you not listen to me when I explained about the multiplying-by-ten thing?"
Barry's eyes widened as he realized what he had done. Slowly, the attention of everyone in the Cortex turned to the doorframe where the charred kitty lay. Even as we watched, the burned husk of a cat jerkily picked itself up off the ground with stiff legs. Then its green eyes popped open, a startling spot of color in the sea of burned flesh.
All of us screamed.
Then nine exact copies of the cat before it was fried appeared in the doorway. I would say that their eyes were glinting maliciously, but they changed themselves into their skeletal form, so they didn't have eyes.
"Well," I said, "I think we can all assume that your earth is currently doomed."