Mutant Earth
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Chapter 1: A Day Away
Cisco was standing outside Smallville's Power-Flash Headquarters on Kent Farm as the sun was setting, but he wasn't looking at the farm. His Vibe goggles, which he had recently upgraded, were on, and he was spying on other Earths.
"I thought you were here to do a computer upgrade?" Cisco heard a voice and took off his glasses to see Kara Kent walking up with Kal by her side and the little puppy, El, running next to them. They had received El as a gift from the Prime universe – he was a little rebel, but had bonded with Kara and Kal, so was obedient to them. He was also Kryptonian.
"I finished," Cisco said dreamily, "but standing here on this farm… I can access my powers so easily. I think it has something to do with the device Prime Earth installed. You should see the Earths I have seen – there are four that are really clear. I assume Prime and the other three with these devices installed, but there are other ones that are really fuzzy. I've seen Supergirls – multiple different versions; I've seen different Flashes in different costumes; I've seen other speedsters. There was even a witch on one! Then of course there's Superman…" Cisco put his hand on Kal's shoulder as he said this. "Man, you grow up good, kid."
"That's so awesome. I wish I could see," Kal said, a longing in his voice and El yapped at this.
"Kal, you'll grow up in your own time," Kara said firmly. "There's no need to be obsessed with these other Earths." She turned her attention back to Cisco as she said this.
"But there is this one world," Cisco ignored Kara, who sighed. "It's the clearest of all of them... almost as though we're connected somehow." Cisco put his goggles back on, wanting to describe it as he saw it. "I can see your counterpart Kara with Barry. They're in this amazing apartment… maybe a penthouse." Cisco held out his hand as though he was touching the counterparts, not noticing as around the three Kryptonians and one Dark Matter Mutant that the air was whipping up.
"Er, Cisco?" Kal stated worriedly as El began to growl, but Cisco wasn't paying attention as Kara pulled her cousin close to protect him, just as the four of them were sucked upward into the portal that had formed above them.
Barry had been walking up to the barn at that moment and stopped as he saw the four vanish into the vortex. He couldn't move. "That's not good." He mumbled once the portal was closed.
-Mutant Earth-
Barry had received word from Kara a few minutes after she, Cisco, Kal and El had vanished. They had ended up in the Karry Universe, the same place Barry had breached when testing out the tacheyon device a year ago; the very same world he had discovered Kara and wanted to know more… the world where his farm life had started.
It was the next morning, working on the farm, when his phone rang. "Caitlin?" Barry said, taking a break and sip of water and seeing the caller ID. "What can I do for you?"
"You. You and Kara need to get to Central, and bring Cisco back with you," Caitlin said, sounding worried.
"Kara, Cisco, Kal, and El are stuck on Karry Universe," Barry said, suppressing a smile and a little jealousy he was not with them. It had been a while since he'd been off world, and he liked Barry-Red much better than that Prime Barry who had showed up. Besides, he also had to remember to thank them eventually. Without them, he probably would have never found his Kara and subsequently saved so many lives by not following a similar path as Prime Barry. "Anyway, I can't leave the farm. You know it's our busiest season. We can't just not work for a day."
"But we have a mutant problem," Caitlin tried; they no longer called meta-humans by their original name, having long-since learned there were many different variations across the world. Even the media had picked up on this, rebranding metas 'mutants', and even giving them sub-categories. "Someone with a dangerously loud shriek. It's destroying buildings. Hurting innocents. Causing a lot of problems."
"Sounds like we have our own Silver Banshee," Barry mused, not helping but smiling still as he remembered his time on Karry Universe and the two mutants and weird clone of Kara he had faced there.
"Silver Banshee?" Caitlin asked, distracted, never having heard that name before.
"One of the mutants I fought when I was on Karry," Barry said. "But it doesn't change the fact I can't get out there. Call someone else in the Justice Society. Or once Kara is back I'll get there too."
"You really can't leave the farm?" Caitlin asked, not sounding surprised although disappointment ebbed from her voice.
"I'm sorry Caitlin. This is my source of income now – I need to do my job. Besides, Kara will kill me if I leave the farm. I promised her I would take care of it," Barry said. "Call Wonder Woman, Static or someone, and Joe has a pretty good mutant taskforce now. I'll be there as soon as I can."
"Okay," Caitlin sighed, hanging up the phone.
Barry hung up his end and went back to work only to be interrupted a few hours later by a familiar voice and two people coming over. "Where is everyone?" Chloe Sullivan, Kara's best friend and now Oliver Queen's girlfriend, asked, and Barry looked up to Chloe and noticed a figure next to her.
"On a different Earth," Barry answered with a smile before turning to his friend. "Oliver Queen, as I live and breathe," Barry said taking his hand. "What are you doing so far away from home?"
"Chloe convinced me I have not seen her home yet. She's always coming up to me so I thought I'd return the favor," Oliver smirked. "Besides, I've been curious to see your new life." Oliver looked around at the farm and the fields and gave a small smile now. "It's different, I'll give you that."
"Well, not as glamorous as being the mayor of Star City," Barry replied. "But I like it. Come in, Mr. Mayor. It's lunch time anyway." Barry lead the two in to the farm house, and started taking out leftovers from the fridge. "Sorry I'm not the cook Kara is, but food is food."
When the food in question was on the table and Barry had taken out a little wine for all of them, Barry finally asked the question. "So then, what's the real reason you're here? Coming to see the girlfriend home seems odd."
"I had to get out of Star. Today of all days," Oliver stated, a little mournfully, making Barry look at him confused before he realized exactly what Oliver meant.
"It's Laurel's birthday, isn't it?" Barry moaned, and Oliver nodded. There was silence for a moment and then Barry raised his glass. "To Laurel. The Black Canary. A true hero. We all fight in her memory."
"Cheers to that," Oliver said chinking his glass to Barry's and Chloe even joined in.
"I never knew her, but from what I hear she was a great woman," Chloe said. "Wish I got the chance…"
They all took a sip of their wine and Barry smirked. "You never know," Barry said after a moment, "the multiverse is a big place. Maybe we will meet a Laurel again?"
"No matter what, she wouldn't be ours," Oliver said sadly, not meeting Barry's eye at this.
"Okay," Barry said after a moment, changing tact. "Finish eating, Olly." Oliver raised an eyebrow. "Sitting around here missing Laurel and feeling sorry for ourselves is not going to do anything. We need to take our minds off of her and the best thing for that is physical labor. Good old fashion manual work. You're my farm hand, I'm putting you to work… Besides, you have the physical strength for anything and I could use extra hands with everyone gone," Barry finished his lunch and got up.
"But I'm…"
"Olly forget it," Chloe said with a smirk. "He's taking after Kara now. It's his farm too, so you're a farm hand." Chloe got up and gave Oliver a kiss. "Besides it's not so bad. The farm is actually relaxing."
-Mutant Earth-
Later that night Caitlin, Harry, Jesse, and Wally were in the Cortex of STAR labs getting a report in of this mutant's activity. She had destroyed a fair amount of buildings and not even Joe's mutant taskforce could stop her. They had tried to call someone else from the Justice Society to come to Central, but none of them were available. "How long can they take on Karry Universe?" Caitlin asked worriedly now.
"Knowing Mr. Ramone, Ms. Kent, and little Kent, they probably got involved in something big there," Harry said.
"Farmgirl didn't want to be a hero and now she can't stop," Jesse mumbled annoyed, giving Wally a look and sighed. "I think it's time for us to try out our new invention."
"What new invention?" Caitlin asked, but Jesse and Wally were out of the room already. "Where did they go?"
Harry shrugged, but was concerned. "Caitlin?" Jesse's voice came over the computer, making Caitlin and Harry jump. "There should be two read outs on your screen."
"What…?" Caitlin said, pausing as she realized Jesse was right. She had medical reading and speed information for two people. "Is this you? How are you moving this fast?"
"Wally and I have worked together to make a super suit," Jesse said. "It's a bio suit, so I was able to run Velocity-9 through it. We have the good effects of velocity but none of the side effects, because we're not having direct contact with the stuff. Just the suit. We also added a lot of other little tricks into it."
"Jesse this is dangerous!" Harry said, suddenly concerned. "Get back here."
"What would make you do this?" Caitlin asked, shocked herself.
"Barry found a new life and like it or not, his Prime counterpart is right: Central needs someone here more," Wally said. He had been informed of that encounter. Of the way that Barry had yelled at theirs for moving to Kansas and Wally could see his point while also seeing Barrys. Wally wouldn't want Barry to give up his life. Where he was happy. Barry and Kara had been able to take care of threats. The Justice Society was protecting all of America, but Central littler problems were going unnoticed. They did not have a local hero anymore. Kansas had two. Central needed someone local.
"You two are not heroes though!" Harry stated anger and worry clearly in his voice. "Get back here now."
"Well, we're going to have to be. We're near the meta," Jesse said and Caitlin noticed them stop. "Hey Shrieky! Time to stop what you're doing." They heard Jesse call the mutant, who didn't answer, but Harry and Caitlin heard a loud cry as a response.
"Damn," Wally said into the coms. "That's loud! My ears are ringing…"
"Keep running. Try to get into a punch," Jesse said, clearly not talking to the two at STAR and focusing her attention on Wally. Harry bit his nails as Caitlin kept an eye on their body readings. There were noises heard and then a thump followed by another cry.
"Damn, she's also a black belt," Wally could now be heard.
"You two should get back here," Caitlin decided seeing their readings. The two would not last much longer in this fight. Whatever type of suits they were wearing was no match for a powerful meta. "It's no use, we need Kara and Barry."
"No, we don't," Wally called back, sounding over-confident, forcing Caitlin to look concernedly to Harry now. Wally and Jesse seemed to want to prove themselves and were not seeing the bigger problem. Not seeing how badly they were doing. They would get hurt.
"One more trick. Our electro shock," Jesse now said as Caitlin moved back forward on her chair and Harry moved in close, neither knowing what was coming or having any control over it. A moment later and both Jesse and Wally cried out as another shriek could be heard from the mutant.
"Crap!" Caitlin said, reading the read out. "They just got badly electrocuted! They are out cold. Get in a van and get them. I'll call Joe to keep guard on them first." Harry was already leaving the Cortex without another word, and Caitlin was going to get her medical equipment ready. She was about to have two patients.
-Mutant Earth-
Barry was pacing his kitchen. It was nighttime and Kara, Cisco, Kal, and El had not returned yet. He had tried calling Karry only to get a busy tone – they were either on the phone with someone else or there was an error with the communications devices.
Worst yet, he had just received word on what Wally and Jesse had done and not only did the mutant get away, but they had been hurt and were now being treated by Caitlin. It did not sound good from what he had heard. "I should try calling them again," Barry said finally. "it's been a while since I last tried."
"Calm down Barry," Oliver said, seeing his friend panic. "Your girlfriend is completely safe. It's Central that's not – that city needs you. It needs its hero."
"I can't leave the farm, though," Barry said.
"You know, I do know how to work this farm," Chloe spoke up for the umpteenth time. "We'll be fine. Go."
"Maybe your righ…" Before Barry could finish his sentence, the glow of a portal caught his attention from the window and he looked out. Coming out were Cisco, Kara, Kal, and El who barked happily once the portal was closed. "Oh, thank god – there you are," Barry said, running out to Kara with Chloe and Oliver following behind him.
"What's Oliver doing here?" Kara asked, never having seen Oliver come to her farm before, but Barry couldn't answer the question now. There were other more important things to worry about.
"Never mind about that. Jesse and Wally majorly messed up. We're needed in Central now," Barry said and Kara jumped into action.
She touched a ring she was wearing – it had a simple blue jewel in it which she turned clockwise and then she was suddenly in a superhero outfit. The outfit started off similarly to known Supergirls – the upper half was blue, but a darker shade of blue than the Kara Barry had met on Karry Universe; the house of El symbol was present right on the chest in a similar color design, only it was bigger, with a white embroidered outline to the 'S'. The cape was the same – still Kal's baby blanket, but that was where the similarities to the other Supergirls ended.
The skirt wasn't there. Instead she wore red pants with white stripes going up the sides. She had dark blue boots that matched the shirt, and the most striking difference was she was wearing a white mask on her face with red edging to tie it into the outfit more. Her hair was also now in a ponytail.
"Kal, Chloe, watch over the farm," Kara said, picking up Cisco and they were off. Barry touched his own ring, this one containing a red jewel, and he too was in his Flash outfit – it was a feat of Cisco engineering, to keep the outfits stored this way – and he sped off after her.
Post Chapter Note: I hope you liked the first chapter. I know it's short but hopefully the next ones will be a bit longer.
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