Okay, first off: So happy Season 2 has started! Loved the first episode and I can't wait for next week! Also, that Arrow premier!? I'm putting it it out there that I think it's Felicity.

Anyway, special thanks to Alastairnyght, AlyssPotter, Band Wizard, Immortalman18, MichaelTheBeast, 512, .737, killjoker, and thabeathabsy for following the story! Please leave reviews! I want to see how I can improve this story and see what other ideas you may have! I really appreciate it! Also, this is not the only universe I will be sending Barry to, there will be more to come. Enjoy Chapter 3!

Previously

"If I'm from a different timeline, where is he?" The others looked at him blankly.

"Where's Barry Allen?"

Now

Barry stood over his foe. The man in the yellow suit, the man who had caused so much hurt in his life, the man who hated him to the core. He lie on the ground, recovering from the previous punch Barry had landed on him. Well, it was more like 562 rapid fire punches, but he packed extra power into the last few. Barry was tense, waiting for him to make a move, but all the man did was glare at him, wiping the blood from his lip where it had split open.

All around them was destruction, their battle hadn't been contained to the outskirts of the city, but Central suffered from it. Buildings and streets crumbled from the sonic booms generated by the speed of their fight. Barry thought it had gone on forever, but in reality, the entire skirmish probably lasted less than a minute.

"You're done, Thawne. I won, you lost" Barry stood tall and sturdy, towering over the prone form of Eobard Thawne, The Reverse-Flash. He felt like he had been chasing this man his whole life, but now it was over.

A low demonic chuckle morphed into a sinister laugh emanating from the ground where Thawne lie.

Barry was taken aback by his reaction. He was back on alert, getting into a fighting stance as Thawne started getting up off the ground. Despite being in obvious pain, he looked relaxed. He kept laughing as his head fell back. Suddenly he slumped forward and tilted his head slightly towards the red clad hero standing in front of him.

"You know," he began, voice full of confidence, but there was a hint of something else in his voice, but Barry couldn't place it, "I thought I was more powerful than you, and in that respect, I was wrong. Congratulations, I see now that you may have earned the title of Fastest Man Alive, Flash," he spat out his name. Barry watched to see where he was going with this little rant.

"At least, in this time," He began slowly circling Barry, like a predator circles his prey. Barry followed his every movement, never letting his guard down. His smile grew as he saw the look of confusion on the Flash's face. He continued, "I have been going about destroying you all wrong! I tried using your loved ones, teaming up with your rogues, but everything seems to have failed,"

"Get to the point, Thawne," Barry was done playing games, and he knew Thawne was enjoying every second of it.

"I tried to destroy the Flash, when I should have been trying to destroy—" instantly he stopped right in front of Barry's face, their noses almost touching. He flashed his foe a crooked grin, "—Barry Allen."

He stuck around long enough to see the color drain from his foe's face as the gravity of the situation dawned on him. He then turned on his heel and ran in the opposite direction, a sonic boom emitting from where he once stood.

Thawne could feel the Speed Force envelop him. The power of it coursing through his every nerve as he ran to his destination. I also felt another presence in the Speed Force, that of the Flash. He smiled, he would be able to see the look on Allen's face when he crushed the heart his younger self in front of him. He would get to watch as his greatest enemy was erased from existence. His smile grew as he zoomed through the time stream.

—

Barry knew the look he had seen in Thawne's eyes now: resolve. The fact that he had found out his identity was a bombshell in it of itself, but he knew exactly what Thawne was going to do with that information. He sped off and followed Thawne. He heard a voice over the comm. One he had come to know and respect and trust over the years.

"Uncle Barry what are you doing?! I saw you take down Thawne and you both peeled out of there!" Wally West, also known as Kid Flash, spoke desperately to his mentor.

"He's going to kill him Kid!" Barry managed to say. Wally wondered what he meant when he continued, "Thawne is using the Speed Force to go to the past to kill Barry Allen."

There was silence on the other end. Barry was about to enter the Speed Force, he felt the power forming around him.

"We need to stop him. Tell me where you are and I can—" Wally pleaded.

"I have to protect you, Wally. You and everyone else, and to do that, I need to do this alone," tears streamed down his face. He knew that even if he stopped Thawne from doing anything, the ripples from their trip through time was enough to make major changes to the time stream. He knew the world he would return to wouldn't be his world, "just- just tell Iris I love her—"

"Barry, don't—"

"—And that I'll be back in a Flash."

And he entered the Speed Force.

—

"That was a year ago," Wally finished. Barry listened to every detail.

"So this is the universe where I first meet Thawne?" He asked Wally.

"We actually don't know," Cisco was the one who answered the question. Barry gave him a questioning look, "He showed up from the future one day, but he already hated your— Barry's— guts by then. We never fully understood why."

"But his actions in this timeline, created my timeline?" Barry clarified. Cisco gave him a solemn nod. Barry tried to understand everything that was happening. This is what his life was supposed to be like. One question pushed to the forefront his mind.

"What happened to my parents in this timeline?" Iris took this one.

"Your mother still lives in Central City," Barry's eyes lit up at that, Iris continued, "your father died a couple years ago, though. Cancer." Barry's face fell again. He knew this universe wasn't perfect, but he would have been raised by both of his parents, would have been spared the pain that was his childhood reality. He looked down at his feet.

"In my universe, my timeline, Thawne killed my mother the night he went back," this revelation made many people in the room gasp. "He framed my father for the murder, and he went to jail for it," at that, Iris put her hand on his. He smiled up at her, this felt so right.

But he also knew that this wasn't his world, this wasn't his Iris.

"What else happened in your timeline?" Stein said, "Perhaps those events can explain how you ended up in our timeline."

"Well, Thawne had all intentions to kill me, the younger me that night. I—well Barry, this timeline's version of Barry— saved our younger self. After Thawne saw that he had lost, he got mad and killed my mother. He figured it would have the same effect: damage me so much that I would never become the Flash."

"Yet," Stein interjected, "here you are, clearly, that plan also failed."

"Not exactly," Barry thought back to his little chat with Thawne, "It did end up working. Fortunately, or unfortunately now that I look back at it, stopping me from becoming the Flash stopped him from being able to get back to his own time. He was stuck in the past, and the only way he could get back was through the Flash…through me.

"Soon after he killed Tess and Harrison and started impersonating him in order to build the particle accelerator, the one that gave me my powers. When the accelerator exploded, I got super speed, and Thawne, under the guise of Doctor Wells, began training me, helping me get faster and figure out my powers," Barry's tone lowered at this point, "Once we finally found out that he wasn't who he said he was, that he was the Reverse-Flash, it was too late. The damage was done. But, we were able to take him down.

"That's when he told me I had a chance to save my mom, to erase everything he had done," Barry looked up at his audience, "I took that chance."

"You idiot!" Barry was a bit shocked to hear that coming from Wally's mouth. He had been relatively quiet during his story, but now he turned on Barry, "No good can come from time travel! Barry, my Barry, always said that time travel was the most selfish thing a speedster could do!"

"He was right," Barry said quietly. Wally wasn't expecting that answer, "It was a selfish choice, but I never changed anything."

"Wh-what?" Wally stammered.

"As I was saying I had gone back in time to save my mom," Barry picked his story back up. Wally listened, still annoyed, "but the other Barry stopped me," Barry turned toward Wally, "I think he knew what would happen if I tried to change anything."

Wally's stance immediately softened. His mentor had no idea Thawne would kill his mother, but he still knew he had to try and keep everything as it was. That meant stopping another version of himself from intervening.

"I watched as the Reverse-Flash stabbed my mother in the heart. I held her in my arms as she died," He looked up at those gathered around him, his eyes full of unshed tears. He sighed and continued, "I came back to my own time to stop Thawne from going back to his. He was about to kill me when-"

Everyone was on the edge of their seat. A heavy silence filled the room, a look of horror crossed Barry's face.

"Eddie…" Barry choked out his name, a lump in his throat formed that refused to stop growing. He pressed on. "Eddie… was Thawne's ancestor. He shot himself so that he could stop Eobard,"

Iris was now sitting next to Barry, holding his hand in hers. She was his anchor, even if she wasn't his Iris, she was still there for him and he appreciated that.

"Thawne would have killed me had he not made that sacrifice. I wasn't fast enough," Barry was barely keeping it together, but he had to press on, "The wormhole I used to travel to the past caused a singularity to open, it started consuming the entire city. I had the idea to unravel the singularity. I ran into the vortex—"

"And fell into our universe," Wally finished. Barry nodded.

"Fascinating!" Stein ran over to a whiteboard and began drawing out various images and calculations. Barry could make out some of it, but most of what he was writing went over his head. Stein continued theorizing as he scribbled on the board, "Typically, speedsters can only travel forward and backward on their own timeline, like how the Reverse-Flash had done, and how you had done. But, with the added power and radiation from the singularity merging with the power of the Speed Force, it gave you the ability to travel, not just on your own timeline, but to other timelines!"

He sounded like a kid in a candy shop. As interesting as it was, Barry only had one thought—

"How are we supposed to get him back to his own timeline then?" Iris interjected. Took the words right out of my mouth, Barry thought as he looked at Iris. Stein thought for a moment.

"Well we could attempt to recreate the singularity that brought you here—"

"No way," Barry stood, "that is way too dangerous, and I am not going to be responsible for putting you all in danger just so I can get back to my own universe," out of the corner of his eye, Barry saw a wave of relief wash over Wally's face, "We need to think of something else."

They all stood there thinking of any other way. None of them noticed the man standing by the door listening. He adjusted his glasses and stepped forward.

"It's a long shot," Harrison Wells walked up to the whiteboard. "but there might be a way to send him back without the use of a singularity." Barry went rigid, and Tess noticed. She was quickly at Barry's side, putting a hand on his shoulder. He was able to peel his glare away from the doctor to look at her.

"Barry, I can guarantee you that he is the real Harrison Wells. You said it yourself that the Reverse-Flash was erased. He is gone," She sounded so sincere. Barry's features softened, but he stayed rigid. He knew that this Wells wasn't Thawne. It was the believing part that he was having trouble with.

They both turned their attention back to Wells. He had just put the pen down, a spark in his eyes as he explained his theory.

"You see, not only was the Speed Force essentially created when you were struck by lightning, but it also grows with time as you use your abilities. That is why the Reverse-Flash needed you to get faster, he needed you to generate enough Speed Force to make it sustainable throughout all time," the way Wells said it reminded Barry a little too much of Thawne, but he pushed that thought out of his mind.

"But, not only can your abilities feed the Speed Force, but you can feed from it," Wells earned a strange, somewhat horrified look from Wally, "oh uh, what I mean is that he can absorb energy from the Speed Force. We can run some tests and see, but the hope is that when you went through the singularity, you absorbed some of the Speed Force energy that had merged with the energy and radiation generated from the singularity. If that's the case, you would just need to run fast enough and at the right frequency get to the correct universe."

"…Alright," Barry finally said, looking at the notes both Wells and Stein had made, "There's just one more question: what did you mean by frequency?"

"Every universe vibrates at a unique frequency," Cisco answered, "theoretically, if you vibrated at the correct frequency, you would essentially just phase back into your universe. The only problem is that, since you are a speedster, your frequencies are in constant flux."

Barry gave Cisco a questioning look, "Because of the Speed Force?"

"Kind of," Cisco shrugged, "it's more because you vibrate at different frequencies when you use different abilities. When you travel through time, your molecules are vibrating at a different rate than when you are just running down the street."

"So if I run at the same frequency as my world-" Barry began.

"You will travel through a wormhole back to your universe, yes!" Stein finished. The mood had definitely lightened in the room. Maybe Barry would be able to get home with no problems after all.