Mutant Earth

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Chapter 6: The Multiverse Man

"So…" Barry said, standing in front of Laurel's cell. She still had the dog collar on which would shock her if she tried to use her power – not that it mattered since she couldn't break out of this cell. "Who wants Cisco dead?" Laurel didn't say anything. "Who brought you here?"

"When I get out, you're so dead," Laurel countered, and Barry rolled his eyes.

"I don't think she's going to give us anything," Kara said, coming up next to Barry, arms folded.

"I think your right," Barry said. He'd been at this for a while and hadn't got any more information than what they already knew – she really was called Laurel Lance, she was a meta-human, and she came from a world where villains seemed to be the ones in power – so he walked out, pushing the button to close the door around the prison.

"She's not talking," Barry told the gang when he got into the Cortex.

"Now someone wants me dead and we do not know who," Cisco said nervously, wondering what he could have possibly done to have someone want him dead. Someone had gone to the effort of hiring Black Siren from her world... Who had that kind of power?

"We got you Vibe Junior," Kara said, taking a seat. "You can come back to the farm with us until we figure this out but you stay at my house…"

"You work on the farm," everyone but Iris said together, having heard this rule numerous times.

"Everyone knows your rules by now sweetie," Barry said kissing Kara's forehead and Kara laughed.

"I thought you agreed you were staying with me?" Joe spoke up, glancing at the silent Iris as he spoke.

"Considering people are trying to kill me, I'll take the farm, Joe. Thanks for the offer though. If we figure this out and I am safe I might take it again." Cisco said nodding his acceptance of the invitation. He was safer with the heroes nearby, even if he had to do farm work. "Thank you Kara." Kara nodded. Joe shrugged.

"Caitlin, Cisco," Barry said making the two turn to him. "We need to talk. Alone." Caitlin and Cisco glanced at each other, but followed Barry out of the Cortex.

"Do you love him?" Kara nearly jumped at the voice. She had been watching Barry, Cisco, and Caitlin walk out of the room when Iris had come up, so she had not noticed the girl.

"Excuse me?" Kara asked, confused. She barely knew this girl. True, they had shared a dorm room for a week before Kara had left, and Kara had met her again when she had first met Barry, but they had never really talked. "What are you asking me?"

"Barry. Do you love him, or this is just some game? You get an extra farm hand out of it? Get a little fun," Iris asked. Having spent the day watching everything from her old life she was finding her new life almost peaceful. She was happy with it, not being in the action all the time, but if there was a chance this relationship wouldn't work… a chance maybe she and Barry could start something, she had to try. She had to see.

"I don't know who you think you are or what gives you the nerve to say something like that to me but I do not take kindly to being insulted," Kara said, standing up, facing Iris. Normal people would be scared with someone of Kara's power, but Iris did not flinch.

"Barry's my brother. If he's being used I will protect him," Iris said, staying strong and not revealing her true motives for wanting this information. There was a truth to it, on some level.

"He's my Stalker," There was emotion behind this, a true love to the name that Iris had not seen or heard until this moment. "I let him into my house, I let him near Kal – no one gets near Kal, no one, but he did. He's mine. My Stalker." Kara didn't say the word 'love', but she didn't have to. The look in her eyes, Iris knew what she was feeling. She knew Kara was in love with Barry.

"Okay," Iris said, backing up and turning around to see her dad. "Dad, can you tell Barry I said goodbye?"

"You… you don't want to stay?" Joe asked, Iris moving away from Kara and hugging her father – knowing he needed it.

"No," Iris said. "I know when I'm no longer needed around here. Besides, I've got to get back to Opal – my new job and well… there is this guy who's been asking me out. I think it's time to say yes." Iris had had eyes on this guy for a while, but with feelings for Barry she had not acted on it. Now she knew for definite she and Barry would not happen, that he was practically married, and it was time for her to officially move on and to finally, completely, take in her new life completely. "I'll be around to see Wally. If he wakes up, tell him to run over to see me."

"I will," Joe said, smiling, and wished his daughter goodbye as she left.

-Mutant Earth-

Barry had brought Caitlin and Cisco into another lab. "There's something I need to talk to you guys about," Barry said looking around. "As you know, Eobard Thawne left everything to me: STAR labs and a lot of others smaller things." Caitlin and Cisco nodded. "I have already been making moves with some of the stuff he left me, but, well it's time to decide what's happening to this place."

"What does that mean?" Cisco asked worriedly. Their labs changing was not something he had ever given thought to. He was perfectly fine letting the labs stay the way they were.

"I have multiple offers on the table," Barry said. "A lot of people want to buy the labs from me. The best offer comes from Wayne Industries. 50 million dollars." Caitlin looked at Barry, mouth open, while Cisco let off a sly whistle. "If I was just thinking of myself, Kara, and Kal I would take it in a heartbeat. But I'm not. I'm thinking of you two."

"Thanks," Cisco said, an awkward grin on his face.

"But Harry was right on one thing: This cannot stay the way it is now," Barry said, looking down. "I have talked to Bruce Wayne though. He knows of you two; knows of your works and worth. He knows your reputation took a hit because of the Fake Wells, but I think I can get it in the contract that you'll have a job here. It would be better paying and more than likely give you more benefits than what you have now."

"What happens to the pipeline?" Caitlin asked.

"We transfer all mutants to Iron Height," Barry said. "Joe would have to help. As for our headquarters, we'll relocate to somewhere smaller… Set up a different place to do Team Power-Flash stuff." Barry sighed. "This option would mean more money for all of us and is a lot safer a bet, but there is another option… One Harry just showed to me."

"You said something about a museum to him?" Caitlin said.

"Yes. He wants to transform this place into a museum for Central City; history of the Labs, and of the Flash and Lady Power," Barry said. "In this case the pipeline and our headquarters will be moved to a warehouse we own. You two would work for the Flash team and as part of the museum. You could give tours, I guess – Harry didn't specify." Cisco and Caitlin made a face at that. "And I would be a figurehead. I would have very little risk in doing this here. I saw his plans, the money for the rebuild would come from a small saving of money STAR labs has that is specifically designated for purposes such as this. The farm is making enough money to sustain itself, any extra is going towards Kal, but my point being I have a comfortable life and if the museum fails I can still sell the building. If it fails though, you guys are taking the risk. It would be much safer for you if I could make a deal that you still work for Wayne Industries."

"It would be safer," Caitlin said. "But this place would change too much. We wouldn't have a high position. Time would be taken away from helping you and Kara…" she glanced at Cisco, who had an odd expression on his face. "I say let's give this museum a try."

The two turned to Cisco. "Yeah," Cisco said nodding. He had been understandably distracted. "I'm in."

"I'll tell Harry," Barry said, a small smile on his face.

"One thing though," Caitlin said. "You said you had been making moves on the other stuff Harry left you. What have you been doing?"

"Well… STAR owned a small field in the middle of the city," Barry said.

"Yeah," Cisco said. "We use to show off some experiments there. Well, small stuff in the early days. STAR owned a lot of different spaces."

"I know,' Barry said. "Well, I donated that field to the city. It's being made into a park for kids. Flash Park actually." Cisco and Caitlin laughed at that. "Yeah, they wanted to name is Allen Park because of me, but I said no, so…"

"It got named after you anyway,' Caitlin said with a smirk.

"As for other stuff, there are a couple of things that bring in some money. Extra money doesn't hurt. I live a comfortable life, but very few extras and Kara needs to support Kal. And hey, did you know Wells had my symbol and superhero name copyrighted?" The two looked at each other and then back at Barry. "That brings in some cash, but he also had a lot of stock and investments. I managed to use those to get some money for this..." Barry produced a small ring box from his pocket and opened it up to show the two a diamond ring.

"You're asking Kara to marry you?" Caitlin said with a smile, looking at the ring.

"Would have asked by now if it hadn't been for everything going on," Barry said putting the ring away. "I have money saved up for the wedding and a honeymoon – I was thinking of taking both Kara and Kal to Disney world for the honeymoon."

"That sounds weirdly familiar," Cisco mused. "Although, taking Kal with you…?" Cisco raised an eyebrow now.

"Well, for the Disney part," Barry shrugged. "He wants to go to Disney. He mentioned it a few times…"

"You make a good dad," Caitlin said with a smile.

"He's not my son. He's not Kara's son," Barry said but smiled anyway. In some ways Kal was their child. "Come on, let's go tell Harry the museum is on."

The three went back to the Cortex to find Iris had left already. Barry called Harry over and told him "to start his plan." Harry smiled, didn't ask questions, and just went to his file to see where to begin.

"Okay, we have to get back to the farm," Kara said. "Vibe Junior, Stalker… Let's go."

"Seriously can y…?" Before Cisco could finish, a blue portal rippled open in front of the gang.

"Why did you open a portal… again?" Barry asked, jumping up. He had not seen Cisco reach for anything, but Cisco was the only one who could.

"I didn't…" Cisco said, hands up in the air, already wondering if this was the man who wanted to kill him. Indeed, out of the portal came a man. He was tall, tanned, had short cropped hair and some stubble, what was more, he was dressed casually and wore no goggles. He kind of looked familiar to the group though. Next to him was a familiar face of Sara Lance.

"Hold on, Canary, I'll be back," the man said and a new portal opened and the man was gone.

"Sara? I thought you were with that Rip guy?" Barry said, but before Sara could answer, another portal opened and out came the man, this time with three people all holding onto him. It was another Cisco, Wally, and Jesse. The man disappeared into a portal again.

"What's going on and should I be hitting someone?" Kara asked, looking around, unsure what to do as the large room started to get crowded.

A portal opened again and the man appeared with another Sara Lance and, this time, an Alex Danvers was next to her. The man left through another portal again. "Okay, now this is getting odd and old," Harry said, the first few having been unexpected but now he was expecting it.

Another portal opened and the same man appeared with another Kara, who had an orange cat on her shoulder, and a man they had not seen before, and a Laurel Lance dressed in white. "One more," the man said disappearing through another portal.

"You're not going to try to kill me, are you?" Cisco asked, pointing at the white Laurel who raised an eyebrow but before she could answer a portal opened once more and out came the man again with two girls no one recognized. A tall blonde and a brunette. The blonde grabbed Harry's attention, as she looked familiar, while the brunette reminded Barry, momentarily, of his mother before he shrugged it off.

"Seriously, should I punch him?" Kara asked pointing at the man as the final portal closed up.

"No need for that Kara Kent," the man said with a grin. "As everyone who I brought here knows, I am Echo, and I need your help – because the entire multiverse is at stake."

TO BE CONTINUED in Sliders: A Millma Verse Mission.

…but first: SuperEarth!

Post Chapter Note 1: Is anyone getting sick of hearing about Sliders but not actually seeing anything of it? Well, we are very close to it now. Very close…

Post chapter Note 2: Look out for Sigma's long-awaited SuperEarth sequel on Monday – you guys have that, and only that, until Sliders, so please show him some love. It's a great story and an unusual twist for the Millma Verse!

Post Chapter Note 3 (IMPORTANT PLEASE READ): This is regarding the future of this earth. While I do have small plans and ideas on the future of this Earth I do not see another multiple chapter story in the future. Sorry it's just not going to happen, but you will see this Earth again in different ways.

1. In crossovers with Karry and maybe even Prime or other Earths.

2. In major co-written words that me and sigma do together. Sliders is the first one but not the only one we are going to do.

3. In Millma Verse Tales.

Millma Verse Tales is a future story me and Sigma are planning to post. Since we have 20 earths in the Millma Verse and no way to give each Earth their own multiple chapter stories we are making Millma Verse Tales soon after sliders. It will be a collection of one shots showing events on some of our lesser Earths as we think of the stories and get inspired for those Earths (basically only earths that will definitely not appear in it are Karry and Prime). That's all.

Karry Master OUT!