Disclaimer: sadly I do NOT own Flash, Arrow, Justice League, etc., etc.. I think you're pretty quick to catch onto that memo by now.. HA, quick. Get it? No?
Author's Note: I apologize for this chapter's extended lateness! I was away this weekend to a family reunion retreat at a park with limited internet service and anyway... I was supposed to be there to spend time with family and all of that. We didn't get back until late last night and by then I was pretty tired, so that I'd update this story the next day. I did try to write while I was there, so hope you like it!
P.S. 10 brownie points to the reader who can guess the reference in this chapter! Well, actually, more than 1 reference, I believe... 5 total, I think.
Previously...
Barry made a shocking expression, "Batman really exists!?" but he puts the breathing mask on over his head.
They stepped into the pool and duck their heads under the water. Swimming closer to the bottom of the pool, it got warmer than she anticipated. 'Or maybe it was really Aquaman who came up with the idea. It did seem like more of his thing,' Iris thought wildly as they swam beneath the statue. Their heads resurfaced a bit later to a room in the basement. She felt chills stepping out of the pool but ignored them. The bag she was still carrying was soaking wet; droplets of water dripped on the marble floor. She zipped it open once more, put the breathing mask away, and got out a lump of wet clothes. Or, in this case, a particular red suit.
"Never was a fan of swimming," Barry commented, running a hand through his sandy blonde hair to wrinkle the water out while he also handed her his own breathing mask which she also stored away in the bag, "Preferred to Run." He grinned his famous smirk at her which made her heart race.
And Now...
MeMories of Flash
On hot pursuit of a Speedster's trail ~ !
Description:
Barry Allen dies in the Infinity Crisis of Earth. How his friends, fiance, and his family try to cope of his absence in the aftermath. Wally West tries to pick up the mantel of The Flash but not everybody is too pleased about him doing so. Could Barry still be alive? Or could he be gone for good? Join as the Justice League investigates.
CHAPTER FIVE
MR. BLUE BIRD ON MY SHOULDER
She cleared her throat, passing him his red suit, "Yes, well, maybe you'll feel more at ease if you put this on."
"My suit!" he exclaimed excitedly as he took it from her, "What - put my suit on while it's still wet? I'll have you know that feeling is VERY uncomfortable, Iris."
She rolled her eyes at him and tried not to smile, "Can't you just, y'know, use your therma spreading, as Cisco called it, on your friction-proof suit?"
"Oh," he grumbles, "oh, I supposed I could." She giggles at this.
To show some decency, Iris turned her back on him while he was changing though she had a very strong urge just to turn around. It took him A LOT longer than he normally does. She could have sworn that she heard him fumble once. Then a, "I'm okay. I'm okay!" She giggled again and was about to turn her head when he hurriedly demanded, "No! Don't turn around."
Finally, "Okay, you can turn around now."
She did, and her breath caught in her throat. It had been so long since she had seen him as The Flash. He always did look good in red. The only thing was missing was that he had his mask pulled down. Secretly, she always thought that he looked sexier when she could look at his face and hair. It made him feel more like Barry Allen to her than The Flash did. At first, she didn't say anything though she slowly moved closer to him. She reached up on her tippytoes to kiss his cheek. Her fingers moved from caressing his face to pulling down his mask to cover his face, "Best to keep your face hidden."
"Oh, now you're telling me this?" he sarcastically jokes.
She puts a hand to her chin, "Hmm… now only to make it to the upper level without being undetected."
"Undetected, huh? How come?" he asks in curiosity.
She answers with a simple, "Bad guys, Bear, bad guys."
Oh, right. Barry almost forgot he didn't have any of his powers. "Iris? I have a really bad idea."
Barry's idea of a bad idea was reaching to the top level crawling through the airshaft of the vents. Or at least Iris thought that was his bad idea.. she didn't find out until later. It was cold in the vents which soon dried their clothes.
"I haven't done this in a really long time," Barry complained, using his elbows as leverage to crawl.
"That sounds like you've done this before," She noted, taking view of his sexy ass and his red leather which turned a corner. She crawled after him… well, not in that sense, but you know, like, in the air shafts.
He heaved, "Oh, and you haven't?"
The climbed through a longer tunnel still. "I'm a reporter, Bear, I have -" she begins, but he motions for her to stop with a, "Shh! Do you hear something?"
They listened intently. It sounded like voices talking.
Barry, 3rd P.O.V.
At last, Barry found a cover to the vents and squinted to peer through the cracks. Down on the floor below, Lex Luthor was speaking, "Time and time again, the Secret Society has had our ass handed to us and throttled by the Justice League. We were sick and tired of it. But then I finally thought,"
He could see the back of his bald-head, shining. It seemed like Lex Luthor was making his grand speech, "What if we took the fight to them? What if we destroyed their headquarters? It was only so easy. Low and behold," he chortled menacingly here, "you were even throwing a surprise party for Green Lantern; totally unaware and unguarded. Well Surprise! Soon, every single member of your little League will be vanquished and they'll have you, Clark, to blame for it." Now he was laughing delightedly.
Barry frowned. 'Clark?' Since when did Lex Luthor know of Superman's identity? Then he heard Clark's voice from somewhere nearby; it sounded like he was in pain, "Please, Lex! Don't do this. We were friends once! Don't let the members of the Justice League disappear because of me. It's NOT worth it."
A feminine's voice pleaded in a shout, "CLARK!" He didn't recognize this voice. Supergirl, maybe?
"Focus on the were, Kent. Past tense -" Lex continued in a monotone, "Didn't you learn anything in that freak place you call a school? And I know I don't have to? But I will because I know it will make your alien skin crawl." He smiled, letting his black trench coat twirl as he prepared to leave. Lex Luthor walked under the vent again. They were right on top of him.
Barry sucked in a breath and let it out in a sigh. 'It was now or never," he thought, kicking at the vent's cover.
"The Flash may be gone, Rogue's," discloses Batman, finally revealing himself from the shadows. With his batlike cowl and midnight black cape made visible, "but I'm not about to let his city fall to the likes of You."
"Ah, Batman," reports Captain Cold, powering up his gun and aiming it at his formidable foe, "one of Flash's buddies. I was wondering when one of you would be creeping out of the shadows. Turns out to be you, huh? Want to know a fun fact about bats? They move to a warmer climate once it gets too… " He lets his finger slip off the trigger, "Cold."
Mick Rory was already picking himself up from off the ground, "It's not the same, Captain Cold, not the same."
Ice met with Batman's cape, slowing him down considerably. In fact, he couldn't move his feat at all. Batman grunted, struggling to get out of the ice that got him frozen. Captain Cold came up to him closer and spat in his face, "Should have started with me first."
Batman suddenly found himself surrounded by all three of the Rogues; Captain Cold, HeatWave, and Weather Wizard.
"Flash was creative. He would have run circles around us, spinning away our oxygen," HeatWave told him as if he was reliving memories, using one of his pointer fingers as a demonstration of a whirlwind tornado.
Weather Wizard chortled, "Heh. All you do is punch and kick like a child throwing a tantrum."
Suddenly, the sound of breaking glass could be heard. It was a memorable moment for Barry to see Clark Kent come crashing through a large window; the glass shards shattering to the floor. A memory that he would never forget.
Very startled, Harrison turned his gun on Clark and pulled the trigger. Bang! Bang! Bang! They hit Clark's shoulder one right after the other.
"Nooooo!" Barry screamed, horrified. He tried to sit up, but his sides still ached from being kicked. His horrified expression turned into astonishment as he watched the bullet's shell casings fall off of Clark's shoulder and onto the floor - all dented.
Clark smirked. It was Harrison's turn to be frightened; he tried to make a beeline for the door, but Clark roughly pulled him back and tossed him out the same window that he came in like he was a sack of hay.
Suddenly, the sound of breaking glass could be heard. It was a memorable moment for Barry to see Clark Kent come crashing through a large window; the glass shards shattering to the floor.
Heh. Well, it was no window. But Barry Allen crashed his way through the vent and dropped like somebody would on a diving-board like a pencil. His feet weighed on Lex Luthor's shoulders which made him sink to the floor. He hopped off the villain's shoulders and placed hands on his hips. He quickly scanned his surroundings. Six of the founding members of the Justice League were pinned up to the wall with lead chains around their wrists and feet. "Hey guys!" He greeted them brightly and enthusiastically with a grin sprawled across his face, "Sorry I'm late to the party, but, you see, I said I would be here in a Fl-"
"FLASH!" Lex Luthor shouted, enraged.
"That's right!" Barry agreed in a upbeat tone, snapping his fingers. He wheeled around and faced Luthor, "Oh! So you know who I am? Good. That'll make things so much easier." And kicked him in the gut, making Lex groan. Apparently sometime after the whole meeting the Man of Steel episode, Clark had recovered the information that Lex had hired Harrison to do his dirty work. Payback time. Barry cracked his knuckles menacingly and his lips twitched upward.
"That Flash is too big to be Bart," he heard Green Lantern whisper in awe to the other members, who had identical, matching shocked expressions on their faces. Some even had their mouths hanging agape.
'Bart?' He shrugged. Barry had no idea who this, 'Bart' character was. Maybe it was a new League member he hadn't met. Something green and glittery, lying in the centre of the floor, caught his eye.
"Somebody say fart? Heyyy, I'm not that stinky, but-" he went over to it and picked it to hold in his hands, examining it, "What is this? This green-looking weird rock? Oh, right. Kryptonite, Superman's weakness - Everybody knows that, but what's it doing here in the middle of the room?" he turned back to Luthor with astounding astonishment, "Shouldn't you know, Luthor, that you shouldn't leave your toy, or in this case your greatest weapon, lying in the middle of the room just for somebody like me to come and pick it up? Isn't that like in the guide of How-to-Be-Villainous dummies 101 - Or something like that? Hmm. Where should I throw it?" He examined the rock once more, debating.
"FLASH!" Lex yelled in rage again, grunting.
Batman begun, "Just get rid of it before-"
PAUSE! While Batman's mouth is hanging open in slow-mo
Narrator : Ohhh Yes. Have I forgot to mention why ALL the members of the League were tied up? Have you guessed it? You got it. Umm. Because, like, every member of the Secret Society crashed Hal Jordan's Welcome-back-from-the-Dead surprise party. Apparently this also happened in the comics, I just tweaked it a little ;) (A/N: Please lemme know if I'm wrong!) Ah! Perhaps this was the, "Bad idea" that Barry & Iris were talking about. Now, let's continue before Batman's mouth gets tired from hanging open for far too long and we get tired of looking inside it. Eww! Disgusting! - ZOOMS IN - Is that a spinach stuck in between his white teeth? Just kidding! Made you look.
Ha. You see what I did there? "ZOOM" IN? Spoiler alert! No? Okay, I will stop with the pun jokes. Maybe..
RESUME PLAY!
"Just get rid of it before-"
WHAM! An unexpected fist came flying and knocked Barry's jaw sideways. He dropped the green rock in surprise and groaned in agony. That punch really packed a punch.
"- that happens." Batman finishes, also with a groan. His groan differed from Flash's for it was in exasperation rather than pain.
"You didn't think it would be ALL that easy now, did you, Flash?" Professor Zoom announced his arrival, smirking menacingly, "Welcome to your Return of Hell!"
He spat out a tooth and blood at the villain's feet, "You first."
Zoom used his superspeed and pinned the Speedster-without-any-powers up against the wall as well. His fingers clutched around Barry's throat too tightly, his dirty fingernails digging into him. Blood trickled down his throat and he was having a hard time breathing.
"FLASH!" Batman called out to him, tryin' to let loose his wrist from the hold.
Pause!
Narrator: Ohhh, wait a minute! We can't forget about Iris. Hey wait! Isn't there a song with that title!? How does that go again?
'And all I can taste is this moment
And all I can breathe is your life
When sooner or later it's over
I just don't wanna miss you tonight,
And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am,
And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming
Or the moment of truth in your lies
When everything feels like the movies
Yeah, you bleed just to know you're alive,'
By GooGooDolls.
Okay, okay. Sorry, got a little carried away. So what was Iris doing this whole time, may you ask? Good question! Well she wasn't bleeding like Barry was but we can well assume that she still safe up in the air vent, onlooking the scene before her. At least momentarily.
Hey wait. What is that she is grabbing from her bag?
Resume Play!
Iris, 1st P.O.V.
My blood boiled in rage, seeing Barry's blood. 'I don't want to lose him again,' I thought desperately while reaching for what I was looking for in my bag. Seconds later, I pulled out a smokescreen detonator, turned it on, and dropped it. It rolled and whirled on the white marble floor, releasing its grey smoke into the air. It made it almost impossible to see anything but I could see from above. It was just the diversion Barry needed. He punched Zoom in the face before ducking, cradling his hand as if that punch hurt.
Barry 1st POV
Although that punch extremely hurt - to the point where I might've thought that it was broken - it allowed me my freedom, that's not how I got away. Just like that. Another blur with a red streak entered the fray and collided with Zoom. I may not have my powers at the moment, but I could still calculate the ratio of their velocity - their speed. My hero, my idol, it was unbelievable; that the first Flash would come to my rescue. My blue eyes widened in astonishment.
"Fl-FLASH!" I called out to him in acknowledgement, knowing it was Jay.
He glanced in my direction briefly. "What the devil's do you think you're doing, boy!?" Jay all but yelled at me while he parried a thrust from Zoom.
I flinched at his tone. I didn't know why, but it made me uneasy. In a way, he was right. What WAS I doing by just observing the battle and not doing anything? It was infuriating. I was not used to this helplessness. It was usually Iris who needed saving. Not I. My thoughts returned to Iris, 'Iris! Where was she? What was she doing?' My eyes quickly scanned the oval room, finally landing on her seconds later. She dropped down, like I did, from the vent where we were hiding before and scampered to where the rest of the Heroes were hung up.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" I wanted to scream at her, but didn't.
I was in panic mode. Jay was fighting my fight, Iris was an easy target, and other members of Secret Society started showing up such as Talia Al Ghul, Doctor Psycho, Deathstroke, Captain Boomerang, Captain Cold, HeatWave, Doctor Light, the humongous Giganta, Gorilla Grodd, Silver banshee, Weather Wizard, Vandal Savage, and much much more. We were outnumbered.
But that's not the main reason why I was panicking. My world started to fall apart as my life flashed before my eyes while they witnessed Zoom thrusting his fist up into Jay's chest twisting his arteries inside.
TO BE CONTINUED...
Author's Note: Eeek! I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Please don't kill me! I know, I know.. R.I.P. Jay! *Sniffles**Sniffles* How will Barry react? How will he get home now that Jay is... ?
Justice League VS. Secret Society next chapter!
Until then, STAY TUNED!
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Oh! One last footnote! If you didn't already know, Flash returns on the CW for Season 3 on October the 4rth and Arrow for Season 5 on October the 5th. Tom Felton (A.K.A Draco Malfoy from Harry Potter) will be a season regular in Flash, and I hear Green Lantern is possibly coming to Arrow xD
