Note: So before now I didn't know how many chapters this story would take. As it turns out, it's going to be six chapters, making this the penultimate one. Hope you enjoy it and find the title fitting. Please, please, REVIEW.

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Chapter Five – A Brand New Kara.

"I was thinking… the Anti-Flash." These were the first words Joe heard as he entered the cortex, looking to Cisco and Caitlin behind the main desk, talking to Barry as ever when out as the Flash. He didn't hear the reply but when Cisco retorted that Barry should be the one naming metas, Joe could hazard a guess at what Barry had said.

As Caitlin took over instruction from Cisco, Joe decided to speak up: "Is anyone going to tell me what's going on out there? I've got a dozen corpses in the department morgue matching living citizens, my men are reporting the Flash has gone rogue but is facing off against himself and now you're calling someone 'Anti-Flash'?" He looked around at his daughter and then saw the girl on the slab in the next room, Doctor Wells hovering over her with a most curious look on his face. "And who's that?" Joe added.

"That's a clone." Cisco moved out from behind the desk, grinning madly. "And so is the Anti-Flash, the err, the other Flash that Barry's been having trouble with."

"Fill me in," Joe stated simply as he nodded to his daughter. He still headed the Meta-Human department at the CCPD and as this was his territory, it was best that he knew everything – especially if Captain Singh were to question him later about it all.

"The thirteen clones were a rouse to get to the Flash," Cisco stated, "we believe Duplicate, that's the meta's name, wanted to get the Flash's DNA to clone but got hers instead." He nodded to the girl in the next room.

"And who is she?" Joe asked politely, wondering how this meta could get DNA from a girl he did not even know while trying to get the Flash's DNA.

"An alien from another Earth," Cisco stated matter-of-factly. By the look on his face Joe could tell how much this excited him. "Well the clone of her anyway."

"Oh," Joe responded, not sure how to reply to that, as he looked wide-eyed to Iris before glancing at the blond girl and back to Cisco. "Go on." He wasn't going to press the alien thing yet. That could wait.

"Long story short, Duplicate got Barry's DNA anyway and made a clone. Literally identical. The only difference between the clone and the real Barry is his speed-force – the clone looks to be near the start, like Barry after his coma. Oh, and the blue costume. I have to hand it to Duplicate that is one sweet looking variation of mine."

"Cisco, I've lost contact with Barry!" Caitlin suddenly cried, Cisco looking back, wide-eyed himself, as he went to join her back by the computers.

"Where was he last?" Cisco asked trying to get contact back but failing himself.

"The city morgue," Caitlin replied, the two starting scans as Joe turned to look at his daughter.

"Well, this escalated quickly," he chuckled, looking back to the woman in the next room. "She's an alien?" It was finally time to address that issue.

Iris would have been worried about Barry's signal being lost, but there was nothing to be done; it wasn't like Duplicate was strong enough to harm Barry herself from when she had seen her earlier, so she smirked at her dad. "Yeah she is. Barry filled us in and apparently when he broke Zoom's speed record he breached to two different worlds, met her on both, connected with both versions of her," she emphasised the word 'connected' and Joe knew instantly what this meant, "and obviously had a stray bit of her DNA on his suit when he finally got back here. A hair. He ran into Duplicate at that weird scene earlier and hey-presto, clone alien. He calls her Kara."

Joe was now looking through the glass to the girl. It seemed impossible that she was an alien; she looked so human, so normal, and so peaceful. He turned to look back at Iris when the girl, Kara, sat up so suddenly she made Wells, who was by a bank of computers, fall off his chair.

Cisco was by her side in seconds, Caitlin remaining behind the desk in the cortex to try and get back in contact with Barry but keeping an eye on the new events in the lab, and was trying not to laugh as Wells picked himself from off the floor.

"Who are you? Where am I? Who am I?" Kara asked in succession, looking directly at Wells before directing her eyes to Cisco who was now moving to the other side of the table. Both could see she looked scared.

"I'm Doctor Harrison Wells, this is Mister Cisco Ramone," Wells replied quickly, curiously, "you're at STAR Labs, a facility that's here to help you, and as for who you are –"

"You can be whoever you want to be," Iris quickly spoke up, remembering her conversation with Barry mere minutes ago. She was standing by the doorway as Kara looked to her and Iris could see she looked just as lost as Barry had done, making Iris feel suddenly subdued, sad for the girl who didn't know anything. This hadn't been her choice. She had been a random piece of hair Barry had taken away until this meta had come and cloned her, to use her.

"But for the purposes of affiliation we'll be calling you Kara for now," Wells stated, glancing agitatedly at Iris before turning his attention to Kara. It was easier to use the name Barry had given her than trying to have the clone decide on a new name right now. Especially since she wouldn't know much as it was, let alone human names. "What's the last thing you remember?"

Cisco had been shining a torch into Kara's eyes to check for concussion or remaining trauma, it was distracting Kara who pushed his arm aside; she not knowing her strength as Cisco cried out in pain, a bruise instantly forming on his arm where she had touched him causing herself to flinch in panic at his outcry.

Upon seeing Kara panic so suddenly, Wells was instantly reminded of a time when Jesse was very young. It was after her mother had passed away and he'd taken her to the zoo, of all places. The screech owls had chosen the moment they were viewing their cage to cry out and Jesse had been so scared… "It's okay" Wells found himself saying soothingly, recalling that instant as he did now, seeing Kara as a scared child. He found himself in a father-mode he thought he could only get into for Jesse. "He's okay, it was just a shock… Now please," he tried to bring himself back to his nonchalant ways, "when you're ready. What's the last thing you remember?"

Kara was now looking solely at Wells, smiling slightly as she said quietly. "I… don't. I don't remember anything. What happened?"

"We saved you," Wells stated, finding middle ground now between fatherhood-smooth and current-doctor-cold. "But there are things you need to know. Mister Ramone here," he indicated for Cisco to move closer, he covering his bruise quickly as he caught on to behave as sweetly as possible, "and myself will help explain exactly what you are."

"What I am?" Kara had pulled her legs to her chest now, sitting upright in a foetal position but remaining alert to the two men around her.

"You're special," Cisco now added, grinning in spite himself. He almost wanted to say 'alien' right away but didn't know how the clone would react to that. It was better to ease her into it.

Watching this going on from behind the glass now, Iris found she was holding her dad's hand, momentarily worried for Kara but not voicing her thoughts until Joe spoke softly to her. "You know, sometimes I forget this Wells isn't the same man we got to know so well. I forget this one is a father; you can see it in his eyes. I mean I know he went to great lengths to get Jesse back, but even then you just… forget."

"The other man was Eobard," Iris pointed out a little sharply, "and he didn't have a fraternal bone in his twisted body." It still hurt thinking about him; not only had Eobard Thawne taken away Barry's mother and forced his dad to remain in jail until Thawne himself died, but he'd also inadvertently killed Eddie, a man Iris had loved with all her heart. It was something that could never be forgiven and was hard to not take out on the man who looked like him. Looking at him now though, with Kara. Iris could see nothing of the man they had come to know.

She found she was squeezing her dad's hand as he squeezed back, an unspoken moment of understanding passing between the pair.

There was a rush of wind and both Iris and Joe turned to see Barry stopping in front of Caitlin. "I did it!" he called, somewhat enthusiastically as Iris now moved closer to Barry, he ripping off his red suit mask to reveal his face. "I had no choice actually…" he turned to look at Iris and smiled weakly.

"You killed Duplicate?" she asked, a little sadly as Joe moved next to her.

"Bar?" he asked, a little despondently.

"I didn't have any choice!" Barry protested, his eyes lingering on Iris now. "She had me pinned up by that other Flash and was planning on using him to get to you guys and get the alien girl back." Caitlin and Iris glanced worriedly at one another at this but Barry didn't seem to notice. Barry had never once called Kara 'the alien girl' – he'd barely even called her 'clone' either. "She thought the other Barry had knocked me out, so when the other Flash was getting out of his outfit I took my chance. I would have brought her back, but if she got anywhere near the girl… I didn't want to risk it."

Joe seemed to find this excuse acceptable, he not being completely in the loop on Duplicate and the clones, as he moved forward to pull Barry into a hug as he muttered, "You did what you had to do Bar; sometimes you're not left with much choice…"

"She's awake?" Barry, who could see into the other room over Joe's shoulder while embracing his foster father, could see Kara in discussion with Cisco and Wells; she was now just sitting on the table, her legs swinging in the air beneath her with her back to the cortex. Wells was talking animatedly, almost smiling as he explained things, but Cisco stood back, he looking momentarily into the cortex to smile at Barry, who nodded solemnly back.

"Yeah she is," Caitlin replied, sharing another look with Iris who nodded before she continued, "Kiera woke about two minutes ago, just at the point when we lost contact with you."

"I suppose it was when I stopped Duplicate," Barry commented, still staring at the woman's back now that the embrace was over. "Does she remember anything? I mean about Duplicate or the other Flash?"

"Not much," Caitlin continued to lie. "I never really heard much. She battled you through Duplicate's orders though." Barry turned sharply to look at Caitlin, shock clearly on his face.

"I thought –?" he started before cutting himself off and nodding slightly, "I mean, I suppose she must have, I mean Kiera wouldn't have attacked me on her own head, would she?"

"Not at all," Iris now smirked, her dad not saying anything due to the look she was giving him but Caitlin took the chance she had been waiting for, moving past Barry to the side-lab to poke her head in. "Barry's back, Kara. Perhaps you could thank him?" She kept her voice low so that Barry couldn't hear her in the next room, Kara looking round to look at Caitlin.

"Barry saved me?" She said a little simply, "Harrison told me. I should thank him. Yes?" She looked to Wells for confirmation, he looking a little confused to Caitlin but she mouthed something to him, causing him to cock an eyebrow at her before nodding to Kara.

"You're weak at the moment, so you can't do too much harm Kara, but once I rig up some ultraviolet lights you can charge up in no time, like I said, so you won't do Barry harm. Well, not too much," he reasoned as he gave her a very genuine smile, she grinning back as Caitlin moved next to Cisco and whispered something into his ear.

As Kara's eyes connected with Barry's however she felt suddenly strange, like she was instantly repelled by him and couldn't place a reason why this would be. She was about to open her mouth to this thought when Wells put a hand on her shoulder. "It's okay," he told her simply. "You know what to do."

And she did. Without really thinking about it she was running straight at Barry, who's eyes widened momentarily before she threw a punch, the speedster not having a chance as he went flying into the wall and slumping down it, instantly unconscious.

"What the hell?!" Joe called, about to run to his son but Iris stopped him, Caitlin moving past as she looked over the unmasked Barry. Kara stood in shock, not sure what she had done and why as she turned to Wells who smiled simply at her. For some reason his smile was reassuring to her; he was the first person she had seen when woken, after all.

"He's not dead," Caitlin finally said as she turned to the gathered crowd, all in the cortex now, "and he's not Barry either, Joe. He's the clone. He's the Anti-Flash."

"He's… what?" Joe looked between Caitlin and Iris at this point.

"Barry would never kill so… easily," Iris pointed out. "The idea is in his head though, but somehow I doubt…" her voice trailed off as she said more firmly "and then we called Kara 'Kiera' instead, just to see if he would correct us. He's the one insisted she's Kara. He didn't. He didn't know."

"I did wonder why you called her that," Joe interrupted awkwardly glad he hadn't spoken when they said the wrong name.

"Final nail in the coffin was his reaction to Kara's actions before he'd – the real Barry – bought Kara to STAR Labs. The clone would know Duplicate lost control of her, but Barry wouldn't."

"How did you know she'd lost control of me?" Kara asked innocently.

"I didn't. But his reaction confirmed it. If she had been in control, the clone Barry wouldn't have protested when he forgot who he was supposed to be. As it was, he protested because he knew Duplicate lost control of you. He didn't keep his calm so easily as our Barry would have," Caitlin stated, pleased with herself. Duplicate had just tried to pull one over on them and they had outsmarted her. No one could replace the real Barry.

"That, and I know his face. I could tell it wasn't our Barry when he looked at me," Iris stated, Joe now smiling fondly at his daughter, knowing their special connection.

"But that means Barry is still with Duplicate," Wells pointed out, "and with the Anti-Flash unconscious…"

"What's to say Duplicate now knows her clone's out cold due to her connection with him?" Cisco voiced. "She knows her plan failed. Barry could be in danger."

"One thing at a time. First we need to get this one locked up in the pipeline," Wells stated, pointing at the Anti-Flash.

"Let me do it," Kara suddenly stated. "Take on Duplicate, I mean. Barry's at her mercy right now because of me, it's the least I could do. Harrison, you said I could charge my alien DNA under those ultraviolet light and then I'd be unstoppable?"

"Technically you would…" Wells reasoned, "but what if she can reconnect to you?" He actually sounded concerned for Kara's wellbeing, something he never was to anyone but Jesse.

"You said she couldn't," Kara replied, moving over Wells as she added, "Please? I know I can do it."

All eyes were on Kara and Wells now, as Harry sighed to himself. "For once it's against my better judgement but okay. Yes. You may not know your powers yet, but Duplicate can't physically harm you, she can't get in your head and can't clone you again from your own hair, being a clone already. So I don't see you coming to harm that way. Okay. It's the best plan we have." He sighed as he gave in.

"YES!" Kara literally punched the air as she followed Wells out of the room.

The rest in the room looked at one another, clearly nervous. "Do you think she can do it?" Joe asked a bit unsure and concerned for his son.

"Not a clue," Caitlin said. "But we don't have too many other options."

Iris was looking to the other room where Wells had put Kara under some ultraviolet lights he'd already rigged up. "She can do it," Iris said thoughtfully, surprising everyone. "If she's anything like the girl she originated from – the two Barry met – she can do it. She can be a hero. She can be Supergirl."

Postscript Note: Final chapter coming next week! Watch this space. Please review.