STAR Labs

2023

Barry Allen was running at supersonic speed in the pipeline, trying to get even faster than ever, when he heard Cisco Ramone talk to him over comms.

"Hey, Bear, we got company." Right as Cisco finished talking, Flash sped out of the track and into the lab's control room, coming into an abrupt halt when he nearly ran into Andy Barclay and his family.

"Andy, it's been a while." Barry greeted, shaking the man's hand. Andy simply gave the Flash a confused look, before Allen continued. "What's up?"

"That's what we were going to mention." Cisco brought up. "That's not Andy. At least, not our Andy."

"Is this guy from another Earth?" Barry asked.

"Possibly." Andy murmured, shifting his weight on one foot to another. "Where I'm from, you guys exist in television shows."

"So, where's our Andy?" Barry asked.

"We don't know." Nica piped up. "But, if I were to guess, he's switched this Andy's place in his universe."

"So, we just find the Earth that this version of Andy is from." Cisco hypothesized.

"Don't bother trying, you can't." Everyone turned around, seeing a man with dark hair and glasses.

"Why not, Wells?" Barry asked, curious.

"Because what he's describing doesn't sound like a different universe." Harry Wells explained, moving a white board to the center of the room and drawing on it. "It sounds like a completely different multiverse."

"What the fuck does that mean?" Andy asked, as Wells continued drawing.

"Pretend this-" Harry drew a circle, then a bunch of small circles in it. "-Is the multiverse we are in. This world is Earth One, then there's Two, Three, Earth X… you get the picture. The multiverse you're from, however-" Wells drew another large circle, also encasing smaller circles within it. "Is separate from ours."

"This actually makes sense now." Cisco said, and everyone stared at him. "This morning, I had a vibe of two people with a book."

"What did you see?" Andy asked.

"It'd be better if I just show you." Cisco told him, and grabbed his hand. In an instant, Andy's mind flashed towards seeing a man with a suit and in a moustache giving a huge black book to an older man with glasses, standing in front of a narrow house. Unfortunately, as soon as the vision started, it was over, and Andy stepped back, holding onto his head.

"What did you see?" Nica asked.

"I saw… two men… with a book." Andy slowly gasped.

"I don't know who they are." Cisco told everyone apologetically.

"I do." Andy revealed. "One is Stephen King, the other is Edgar Allan Poe. Both standing outside his home. But Poe's been dead for over a hundred years."

"So what can we do?" Alice asked, nervous.

"We need to get back to my multiverse, and get your Andy back." Andy announced, pulling out the disc. "If I'm right, this device was used to transport Supergirl back to Earth 38, right?"

"Yeah, and I gave one to you- I mean, our Andy- shortly after." Cisco told him. "If Harry and I can tweak it slightly, it can probably be used to transport you to different multiverses. It'll probably take less than an hour." Andy started to become desperate, and he quickly handed Ramone the device, where he and Wells immediately got to work on it.

Chicago

2020

Andy, Nica, and Alice exited the quinjet that picked them up in New York and approached the facility before them, which Nica informed was labeled "The Dollhouse".

"Why'd it have to be here?" Andy asked, feeling sick. "Does this 'Fury' have a twisted sense of humor?"

"Must have." Nica agreed, as the three set foot inside the facility. Nica and Alice led Andy through multiple corridors, eventually making it to the briefing room, where a bald man in an eyepatch was waiting with various individuals. Some were people Andy recognized, such as Ash Williams, Laurie Strode, and Tommy Jarvis, despite that he was of a different world, but there were two other people he didn't know. One of the men had a beard and wore a hat reminiscent of a cowboy's, while the other wore clothes similar to the outfit Barclay himself wore when he travelled back in time to the golden age of piracy.

"Agent Barclay." Fury stated, and Andy saluted. Nick frowned, and added. "No need for that. I asked you here to because I have a feeling something is off."

"And what would that be?" Andy asked nervously.

"Ever since last night, there have been energy readings in New York, specifically, at your apartment." Fury explained, looking Barclay in the eye. "And I think you know more than you're letting on." Andy stared Fury down, thinking he couldn't trust the director of SHIELD. Luckily, Nica decided to speak in that moment.

"He's not our Andy." Nica blurted out. "He's from a different universe."

"Wait, what?" Ash asked, downing some beer.

"We think he switched places with the real Andy from this world." Alice elaborated. "I know that sounds crazy-"

"No it doesn't." The man that looked like a pirate interrupted. "That's exactly how I got here."

"Who are you?" Andy asked, getting a sense of Deja Vu.

"Captain Jack Sparrow, mate." The pirate grinned, revealing a gold toothed smile.

"Mister Sparrow fought alongside with the Avengers on multiple occasions." Fury informed everyone. "In the end, he was the one who outsmarted and defeated Thanos."

"Who's the other guy?" Andy asked, pointing towards the man in the cowboy hat. "I recognize Ash, Laurie, and Tommy, they exist on my Earth. But who's that?"

"Creighton Duke." The cowboy greeted. "Like Jarvis, I also fought Jason Voorhees. I just decided to be more hidden."

"What do you mean, 'your Earth'?" Laurie asked, raising an eyebrow.

"It's… it's complicated." Andy stammered, but suddenly saw a clear board at the back of the room. Andy walked over towards it, picking up a blank marker, and began drawing. "A friend showed me something like this. Think of it this way. This circle here-" Andy drew a large circle that contained smaller circles. "-As this multiverse. In it, are multiple different universes. Meanwhile, this second circle-" Andy drew a another circle with smaller circles, identical to the first. "-Is where I'm from. I've already visited a couple different universes there too."

"Makes sense. Kind of." Tommy shrugged. "There's probably some type of universe where Ash and I team up to stop Freddy and Jason from taking over America!"

"Hmm, we'll figure this out later. " Fury muttered, before checking his electronic tablet, as he was alerted to a threat. "But right now, something is attacking people in broad daylight in Derry, Maine." Andy looked over at Fury's tablet, recognizing the image of a clown in the street camera.

"It's him." Andy gasped, and everyone looked at him.

"You know what that is?" Duke asked.

"Yes. He's known as Pennywise the clown, but he is much, much worse." Andy explained. "A few years ago, when a sorcerer tried to destroy my Earth, he unleashed the legions of Hell. Pennywise was one of the creatures who escaped."

"What's he doing here?" Tommy asked.

"I don't know, I remember my friend Constantine blew his head off with an enchanted shotgun." Andy replied.

"Either way, all of you, get down there and neutralize that monster." Fury ordered. "You too, Barclay."

"Why me?" Andy asked. "I'm not your Andy, remember?"

"We'll sort this out later, but for now, we need you." Fury promised. "Just make sure it doesn't kill anyone else." Barclay reluctantly nodded, and he, Ash, Laurie, Tommy, Creighton, and Sparrow exited the bunker and into the quinjet, with Sparrow flying towards Maine.