Terrance Sigma's Author's Note: While we all appreciate advice, particularly that of spelling, is it really appropriate to comment just on spelling errors alone and on a guest account so you can't be addressed in person? I wouldn't normally leave such an issue on public domain if it wasn't for the fact I can't contact one particular 'reviewer' in person. So to that reviewer I say: It may annoy you that I get the odd word wrong, but please, as Elsa so drilled into our heads back in 2013: Let It Go. If it *really* bothers you, then make an account and PM me your qualms to your heart's content, just don't make them so stupidly obvious and therefore making the author feel like a prat. I'm surprised you didn't catch 'feely' in the previous notes (it was meant to be 'freely') too.

CharmedMilliE - Karry Master's Beta Note: I was originally just going to edit Terrance Sigma's note but decided to add my own instead just to add something and make Terrance Sigma's rant seem not as mean. I know how he feels. You might think you're helping us by correcting spelling mistakes, but please remember this is for fun, it's not being officially published and we take up our own person time just to write these things for the enjoyment of a community. Also, just by replying with a correction we get no opinions from you other than that we can't spell and that's not what we want in reviews. We want to hear what you think of the story, not just spelling errors. We like to reply as well; I spend a lot of time replying to those who review my Karry Universe project and Terrance is making the effort to do the same here. An account is free and takes two second to make, so please make one so we can reply to you in private. Anyway, that's it. Rants over and on with the show…

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Chapter Four: Flash verses Flash.

The clone of Kara lay on the examination table just off from the cortex. Barry stood in the next room looking through the glass at the girl, still in his Flash outfit but with the hood off, he was biting his gloved fingers in unconscious worry as Wells, Cisco and Caitlin hovered over the woman's body – whatever had happened to Kara, whatever Barry might have done, her connection to Duplicate definitely looked to be severed, but it also seemed she might have relied on the connection for her own life too.

Without Duplicate in her head, or however she controlled her clones, Kara had gone into cardiac arrest the moment Barry had brought her in; Wells and Caitlin, both doctors (or at least medically trained) had asked Barry to leave her where she was now and, after several failed attempts at resuscitation, Kara had miraculous managed to pull through. She was completely unconscious now, but there was only a little brain activity. Wells couldn't get any needles into her body either, due to her alternative physiology. Barry had mumbled he'd warned them about that before the first needle Wells tried broke, so they had to rely on digital scans and Kara's own strength to make sure she'd pull through. Nevertheless, Wells had noted that Kara was 'fascinating' at least ten times already.

"Hey, Bar. She'll be okay. Whatever Duplicate did to her, she's free of it." Iris was by Barry's side, not looking at the other woman, but at Barry himself as he glanced to her too. She knew Barry's face so well. She could see the emotions written on it by now. Particularly the worry.

"She has practically no brain activity," Barry responded, a little despondent, focussing back on the side-lab and the unconscious Kara.

"What happened to you and her? I mean the Kara you knew." Iris now asked. "You care for her. I can tell…"

"I know she's not her," Barry nodded to the clone, "but in a way she is… She was made from her. When I was on Earth-3, Kara and I… we connected, more quickly and more personally than I have with anyone I've known, even you Iris. I dunno what it was, but she was just… something else. The same thing happened on Earth-4. We were just a team – partners – in a way no one else can; we understood each other. Both having the same burden. It's different with Olly, with the Arrow, but with Kara… Knowing she's here now, even if not the same person, there's surely something of the woman in there waiting to become the Kara I know, free of Duplicate's control…"

"What if Duplicate's control was too strong though? She's free of her now, but after that? Does she have any memories; does she even know who she is? What she is?"

"Not even Duplicate knew what she was," Barry sighed, "as she didn't know her name until I called her Kara earlier."

"Fresh slate though," Iris stated, "she could be anyone she wants to be, any name she wants to be."

"I hope she sticks with Kara," Barry said suddenly. "It fits her, it suits her, and it's who she is. Kara Zor-El of Krypton. Kara Danvers, Cat Grant's assistant… Supergirl." The last word was whispered. He didn't know how she got the name 'Supergirl' though – it had something to do with her cousin's alternative name being 'Superman' and Cat Grant's influence.

"Could it be you're relying too much on her becoming the person you knew and not the person she can be now?" Iris now asked, the only other person beside her father who dared question Barry without fear of repercussions. Barry removed his eyes from the unconscious clone to look at Iris. Iris herself had never seen Barry look so lost as he stared at her. "Hey…" she put a hand on his shoulder, "it'll be okay."

"We've done all we could," Cisco was the first to exit the lab. Iris and Barry pulling away from one another to look at the other man, "but there's no brain activity now, man, I mean literally nothing. Somehow she managed to get her body back in rhythm – a really strong, steady heartbeat – but beyond that…" he tried to look apologetic. "It might be a coma. We don't know what's going on." Barry hated the word coma. He had experienced that first hand and hated thinking a version of Kara was in one.

"Duplicate's influence is completely severed, Allen." Wells remarked, a little less sympathetic, "Which mean if she wakes up she's no longer a danger to Duplicate's enemies."

"And when she does wake?" Barry asked not even wanting to think it would be an 'if', he clinging to any hope there was.

"If she wakes, Mr. Allen, she will likely be very dangerous in general. No one to control her, nothing in her head, she's completely brand new and will likely be scared – she'll be more dangerous than when under control. But if we can get her to calm down, to see sense, she could be a valuable asset." Barry knew what Wells meant. Valuable in the same way Barry was as the Flash.

"Only if she wants to. She'd need to really learn who she is, and what she can do." Barry pointed out.

"There may be no time to give her life lessons on what she can do, if we can get her to help us defeat the meta who created her…" Wells started.

"She could die! If we kill Duplicate she could die herself." Barry pointed out, irritated at Wells' constant nonchalant attitude to everything now. Wells himself had remarked that the clones die when Duplicate dies.

"Not necessarily, Barry – if her mind is disconnected from Duplicate it could mean that a permanent cut of the tether would keep her alive more than if it remained. It's a possibility."

"In English?" Iris asked beside Barry, not having understood a word of what Wells had just said.

"With her brain disconnected from Duplicate already, Miss West," Wells sighed "it's more than likely she won't die if Duplicate does – as the connection is already weakened. A permanent cut from it could leave Kara alive and fine. The clones on my Earth were connected body and mind, Doppelgänger literally gave herself to her clones, if Duplicate is the same that means that Kara in there is already halfway to freedom."

"If I don't kill Duplicate," Barry ignored Iris' groan of agitation, "would that mean she could gain full control of Kara again if given the chance?"

"It's hard to tell, this is new territory." Cisco pointed out before Wells could. "It may be that Duplicate simply won't be able to reconnect with Kara, but if she could it would mean Kara's a danger while Duplicate is alive. Sorry Iris." He knew Iris didn't want Barry to kill. It was morally wrong and a line she didn't want Barry or the Flash to cross, but now even Cisco was leaning towards Barry killing the former professor. It just seemed like the best solution.

"Could she clone her again from one of this Kara's hair?" Barry needed to know.

"Doppelgänger never could." Wells pointed out simply, running a hand through his own hair, "but you have more pressing matters than 'ifs' and 'coulds'; there's another Flash out there under full control and robbing banks for who knows what. I suggest you let us get on with our unique skills and you, Mr. Allen, find your clone." He nodded to Caitlin's computer, which in their distraction had found the same vitals that matched Barry, and by what it was saying, the other Flash was already causing havoc in Central City.

"Yeah," Barry muttered, knowing he couldn't let this clone's actions continue, and he could lead Barry straight to Duplicate. He pulled his mask back on and was gone in a red blur.

-SuperFlash-

The other Flash had already gained himself an outfit; Duplicate had been waiting long enough to have her very own Flash that she had it made months ago, although she had modified it since; ever since that other Flash called 'Zoom' had turned up. She'd been fascinated by his blue lightning and had changed the suit to reflect this fascination; although in the same design as the actual Flash, his clone's outfit was several shades of blue, and the chest plate was more or less the same as the Flash's current one, albeit the lightning bolt itself was electric-blue on white instead of lightning-gold on white.

So the blue Flash was now causing trouble for the sake of causing trouble. He'd provided Duplicate with the money she needed, and now was just trying to cause a bad name for his Flash alternative – something the real Flash needed to sort out.

Barry found his clone terrorising the cops who'd been at the bank for the earlier robbery, and he wasn't playing fair. It was lucky for Barry what this other Flash hadn't yet tapped into his full potential – he was positively slow compared to Barry now. This Flash was Barry at the start, after his coma and before he had even been named. The only difference was the fact he was the same age as Barry now and, when he stopped to face off with the red suited version, looked identical to Barry presently.

"Hey!" Barry called out as his clone now sneered. "If you want to take out some stress, why not do it on someone your own speed?"

"Thanks but no dice," the other Flash retorted, his original self obviously not the target as he was about to turn to run off, Barry however sped up and faced him before he could run off.

"Did you not hear me?" He was angry now; angry that he had to face off himself, angry at Duplicate's need to make her own weird evil army of metas and aliens, but also angry that he couldn't get his hands on Duplicate to save Kara. He just knew if she woke, if they calmed her down, Kara would be on their side, he just knew it – she'd be like the two Karas he'd already met. She'd be a hero. Barry finished his speech to his double with anger in his vocals: "Face up to someone your own speed, damn it!"

"Don't want to, Flash." The clone in blue retorted, but Barry wasn't going to let him leave as he ran, quickly and in a circle around his double, the clone instantly propelling himself forward so as to escape, but flung back on a rebound.

"Huh, this is easier than I thought it would be," Barry called to those back at STAR Labs. "Want me to bring him back –" he stopped suddenly; the other Flash was spinning in circles too, but in the opposite direction. The friction of their slipstreams was catching fire, something Barry hadn't seen before and before he could stop himself he was thrown backwards as his double stopped right in front of him and hit him with full strength.

"Oh, maybe not!" Barry groaned after he'd collided with a lamppost and collapsed in pain and shock.

The blue Flash however, didn't take his leave as he suddenly appeared in front of Barry, crouching down as he cocked his masked head. "You know, all I need to do is remove my mask and everyone will know who's causing Central so much pain… Imagine the damage Barry Allen can do when he's not himself." There was an awful smirk on his face as he stood. Barry himself was in too much pain to react as the clone gave a horrible smile and sped off.

"Urgh, so what do we call him then?" Barry moaned, moving his head back as the pain began to numb, his body speed-healing now. He wondered what he'd broken this time.

"I was thinking… the Anti-Flash" Cisco's voice came over the intercom, a little hesitant. Barry could almost picture the smile on Cisco's face as he got to name someone.

"Anti-Flash? Sounds like antifreeze, that and its way too close to Reverse-Flash for my liking." Barry pointed out with a groan, forcing himself to his feet now.

"Well then you be the naming's expert!" Cisco retorted over the intercom.

"Fine!" Barry sighed, "Anti-Flash he is then, let's hope Duplicate doesn't force him to reveal my – his… our – identity…" Barry groaned. "This is getting confusing."

"It looks like he's heading to the morgue." Caitlin had taken over the intercom, tracking the Anti-Flash's movements now through satellite relay and Barry, unfazed by his run in with his other self now the pain was gone, was already on the Anti-Flash's tail once more, albeit coming from another direction – he knew every street, avenue and alley in Central by now and there was at least ten different ways to get to the morgue. He'd be there first.

Barry stopped in front of the entrance; he'd gotten there before Anti-Flash, as he thought he would, but it was only a second or two later that the other red streak appeared and stopped before him.

"You just don't give up, do you?" Anti-Flash moaned, he slightly out of breath, reminding Barry of his early days when testing himself.

"Not until I have you and your creator locked up!" Barry retorted – he was still playing with the idea of ending Duplicate once and for all, though.

"Well you've come to the right place," the female's voice forced Barry to look away from his other self, momentarily seeing Duplicate now at the entrance before he was suddenly knocked off his feet and, before he knew it, was inside a derelict bunker-like structure, his clone pinning him to wall just like he'd pinned Duplicate earlier that day.

"Welcome to my humble abode," Duplicate entered unforeseen from the same direction both Flash's had come, and now that Barry's eyes adjusted to the dim light he could see it was a large tomb. There was a crypt in the centre, doubling as some sort of forensic table, several amounts of laboratory equipment and a lot of things in jars on makeshift selves on the walls. "DNA, genes, call them what you want" Duplicate indicated the suspended jars, "they are my life blood, my means to create more of… well, anyone."

"Why do all this? Why wait until now?" Barry asked, ignoring the breath on his face from his counterpart, still pinning him against the only bare wall in the crypt.

"Because I wasn't sure, Flash, I wasn't sure what I could do. It takes time gathering one's powers – you had help, training, friends. Myself? Only me and nothing! This laboratory – a family crypt, as you can tell. I have other labs scattered around the city of course, so your friends can stake this place out looking for you if they will." She now looked directly at Barry, having been glancing around the 'lab' as she'd spoke. "I had to hone my skills, learn what I could do… give myself to my creations" she said this quickly, with a rush of euphoria, like it was the best thing that would ever, and had ever, happen to her.

"You have my DNA, what do you want with me now?" Barry hadn't heard anyone's voice in his ear since he got in this place and was starting to worry. At least Wells and everyone knew where he last was.

"She wants me to take your place!" Anti-Flash literally spat in his original's face, Barry groaning.

"Quiet, you!" Duplicate announced, addressing Anti-Flash. "But yes, he will take your place, say he's defeated me and his clone, regain the trust of your friends and then… get me my alien back!"

"You know she's an alien? You know how dangerous she can be?" Barry growled.

"I didn't know what she was, but she proved a tough cookie to bake, so to speak, but when she was created, when I could see what she could do…" there was, what could be transcribed as, a glazed expression on Duplicate's blurred face and Barry suddenly realised why she was constantly blurred – it was like Wells had said of her Earth-2 version: she literally gave herself to her clones, it was how she could control them, by being part of them. Maybe the more clones she had, the more weakened her own genetic structure became? Maybe he had a way to stop her without killing her, but first he had to know…

"You've lost control of her, she's free of you already!" Barry couldn't help but gloat.

"Indeed. Her non-Earth brain, it was most hard to control when I made her, away from me she was able to break our connection. She fought you on her own terms though, that wasn't my instruction, so maybe there's something I can do to reel her in. I can't shut her off now either, you see; she troubles me. A clone I can not destroy." Duplicate was more talking to herself than Barry, but that confirmed it for Barry: Kara was her own person now, completely free of Duplicate's control, but she was still connected at a basic level. Could she survive if Duplicate was stopped for good?

"Enough chatter. Flash," she addressed Barry's clone. "You know what to do!"

Before Barry could react, everything went black as his clone knocked him out cold.

Duh, dun, duuuun! The plot thickens. Hope you enjoyed; I apologise about the rant at the start but I got rather riled by the lone guest comment and as I couldn't contact them, that was the only solution. Also, CharmedMilliE's written a sequel to her 'Trapped' story with Cat knowing her true identity. It's a sort of alternative Red Kryptonite tale, albeit without repairing Kara and Alex's relationship. It's a great read so check it out. Anyway, next chapter of this on Friday and, as usual, please REVIEW.