Barry was standing in front of him. The man who stole his whole childhood. The man who killed his mother. Eobard Thawne. He was not alone.
He was holding Iris, in the air, dangling down, looking nearly dead. Just like with Shade. Barry didn't know how to react. He knew that he was faster, but he didn't know if he would be able to stop him and save Iris at the same time.
"Why are you here Eobard?" Barry asked, grumpily, staring creepily into the Reverse Flashes eyes.
He got no response. All Barry knew is that, if he didn't act soon, his girlfriend, the love of his life, would be lost from the world.
Running at the nightmare infront of him brought back memories. Memories he had wished to forget. The night crazy happened. If only Kara was able to help. But unfortunately she wasn't, as she was dealing with her own problems.
A few minutes later, after running around the entire city, Barry finally stopped Eobard. He stopped the man who had helped him become the Flash, the person who had mentored him.
When Barry arrived back at S.T.A.R. Labs, after locking Thawne in the pipeline, he ran to Iris.
Caitlin had managed to get her heart beating again, but there was nothing much she could do with the equipment at S.T.A.R. Labs. She had mentioned that if he took Iris to the hospital, she wouldn't survive the trip.
Basically there was no hope that Iris was gonna awaken again. But the impossible can happen. Miracles could happen. He wished for her to wake up so he could spend some time with her before she was to leave.
The last time Iris and Barry had talked alone was when Barry had found Kara, ran to the middle of nowhere, and raced away from Iris when she tried talking to him.
He didn't want them to be on a bad note. Just one word, just one breath, just one kiss.
20 Minutes Later
Beeps went off in the Cortex. The pipeline cell that held the Reverse Flash was empty.
Barry wanted and needed to keep his cool. Otherwise he might go out of control. Somehow the Reverse Flash escaped. No one knew how, or why he was here in the first place. He was dead. Was it to torment Barry? Was it to kill Iris? Or was it for a completely different reason?
He didn't want to lose another person, someone who he was very close with. Not like how he lost his parents. His mother was killed by the Reverse Flash, when he was eleven, and his father was killed by Zoom last year.
Though he'd ran back and time and stopped Thawne from killing his mother, he created an alternate timeline called Flashpoint. After a while, he started to lose his memories from the other timeline. When confronting Eobard, who was locked up, in a cage, he was told that one day, he'd wish for Thawne to go back and kill his mother.
Three months he had lived in that timeline, both his parents were alive, there was a Flash already, which turned out to be Wally, Joe's son. Barry was getting the girl, Iris, and everything was going so well.
But when he had lost nearly all of his memories from his other life, he begged the Reverse Flash to run back in time. Doing so, created another timeline, which Barry lives in now. Bigger things are the same as the old timeline, but some things, smaller things have changed. Like Caitlin having powers, like her evil Earth-2 Meta, Killer Frost. Cisco's brother Dante, is now dead, and John Diggle's daughter Sara, was now John Diggle JR.
Though everyone forgave him for this, he still had it on his mind, that he had changed the timeline, and screwed everything in everyones life. He didn't want to do that to Iris.
Because of Flashpoint, a new enemy was here to face the Flash, Savitar, God of Speed.
Not that long ago, when getting rid of the philosophers stone, Barry accidentally ran to the future. The one time he didn't mean to time travel.
What he saw still haunts him.
Barry saw Iris, stabbed by Savitar, and he was not fast enough to save her. Iris died in his arms.
Team Flash was doing everything they could to prevent her death, but they were unsure if it would change the future.
Even with this thought that she might die at the hands of Savitar, he knew that he would have half a year with her. Unless Savitar doesn't kill her. Unless she dies today.
Just the the thought of that, made Barry's eyes water, while he walked to a nearby seat. Why did he get chosen to become the Flash? Why did he have to sacrifice his entire life, sacrificing the ones he loved, like his father, Henry Allen. Others like Eddie Thawne, who died to save his life, yes, related to Eobard Thawne. Exept Eobard travelled back in time, meaning he was from the future. Ronnie Raymond, Caitlin's husband, died, seporating in the singularity. Laurel Lance, who was actually part of team Arrow, died at the hands of Damien Darhk. Then her evil meta twin from Earth-2, Black Siren, came and was locked up in the pipeline, but somehow, recently escaped, and found her way to Star City.
Barry ran as fast as he could, around Central City. Unfortunately, the Reverse Flash was nowhere to be found. Coming like that and nearly killing the love of his life, he wasn't gonna let this be the last time they met, he wanted Thawne to pay for his mistakes.
"You guys should probably go back to our earth," Alex said, to Winn and James, "I'll be fine, and besides, you have work to do anyways."
"I really don't want to leave Kara like this, but I do really need to get back to work," James replied.
"I mean, J'onn has already excused us from work to be here Alex, so I might stay, and besides, they might need my help. Also I'll be here for you as a friend," Winn smiled.
Everyone was standing in the breach room. The place that housed the biggest breach in Central City. Cisco opened a breach to Earth-38 for James, while Alex, and Winn said their goodbyes to him.
"We'll be home before you know it," Alex said, looking at James, whose face was scared, probably for Kara's life.
"Yeah man, we'll be home soon, hopefully Kara will be okay, and we'll find out what's wrong with her.
"James."
"Yeah Cisco?"
"I made you this," Cisco said, handing over a small object.
"Uhh, okay, thanks? What exactly is it?"
"It, my friend, would be an Interdimensional Extrapolator."
"What exactly does it do?" Alex asked.
"It lets you travel from your earth, to any other earth, anytime you need to, or want to visit," Cisco replied, looking at James, who finally understood what the small device was.
James stepped through the breach to his earth, and everyone left S.T.A.R. Labs for the night. Everyone exept Caitlin, Barry, and Alex.
It wasn't actually that late, maybe around six-seven in the evening, everyone left, mostly because they thought Barry and Alex should spend time with their loved ones. Caitlin just stayed to comfort them, and just incase something went wrong.
Meanwhile
Cisco took Winn out to a bar, to have a few drinks and relax.
"You know, we actually have an alien bar on our earth."
"Really?"
"Yeah, thats where I met my girlfriend."
"You have a girlfriend?" Cisco asked, and Winn nodded.
"Her name is Lyra."
"Why haven't you talked about her?"
"Wasn't really the subject, you know, with Kara unwell, and such. Maybe one day, you can come to my earth, and hangout with us, she's really cool," Winn replied, finally having some happiness coursing throughout his veins.
It was great that they had changed the subject from Kara and Iris being unwell to literally anything else. At one point they were talking about Barry's suit. Then they started talking about Cisco's powers.
2 Hours Later, at S.T.A.R. Labs
Barry and Alex sat in silence. Not a peep had come out of their mouths. Caitlin did try and cheer them up, but it didn't work. So she had left, from where they were, and went to chill out in the Cortex.
Iris was next to Kara, although, Iris was in a coma and Kara was, well nobody knows.
Iris was slowly getting better, slowly recovering from what had occured the past few days. But Kara, because there was no existence of her on Earth-1, there was no way to treat her, as there was no way to find out what was wrong.
There was a thought that if Kara went back to her earth, Earth-38, she could get the proper care. Unfortunately that idea was shut down by Caitlin, when she realised that any movement, to Kara's body, could be fatal.
Barry went and kissed Iris on the head, wishing she could wake up. Whilst Alex went and hugged Kara.
"You know, our lives are similar, always putting ourselves and our loved ones at risk," Barry said, breaking the silence in the room.
"I was the one that told Kara not to reveal herself, and her powers to the world. But look what she got herself into. Something she may not be able to come back from," Alex replied, tears streaming down her face.
"The one thing that I always forget, is that it's not always my fault. I blame myself for something that I didn't do. Don't blame yourself for Kara being like this. Stay strong Alex. I will be here for you all that you need."
"Thanks Barry," said Alex, wiping her tears from her face, and putting on a delicate and soft smile.
Meanwhile, on Earth-38
James had arrived at the DEO. The breach that Cisco made, for him to go through, landed him in the middle of Kara's apartment. Straight away, he walked to the DEO.
"Where are Alex, Winn, and Kara?" J'onn asked James, with a look on his face, you could tell he was the boss. James didn't reply. Winn and Alex hadn't actually told J'onn where they were going, just that they needed a few days away.
"J'onn, we need to talk in private," James finally coughed up the courage to speak.
"J'onn, theres something going on that you need to know about."
"Yes? Continue."
"Not that long ago, a guy from another earth, yeah I'll explain that later, found Kara, on his earth, close to death," J'onn started to tense up, as James continued,
"The guy, Barry Allen, came to this earth, as he had accidentally ran here last year. We all had met, and so he knew Kara. He took us to her earth, and turns out she had a little shard of kryptonite in her body. Luckily we could get it out. Unfortunately, she is still very unwell, and if we move her at all, we risk further injury. Winn and Alex are still on that earth with Kara. But without some of the equipment here, we can't do anything about her condition," James spoke, hardly taking breaths in between sentences.
"I'll see what I can do."
"Thanks J'onn."
James went back to CatCo, as he needed to return to work. He had missed quite a bit, and didn't really have a proper excuse for why he was gone.
Lena walked into CatCo. This wasn't the sort of place Lena would usually go, she had her own company, L-Corp. Although her brother, not by blood, was Superman's enemy, Lena was Kara's best friend.
"Hey James," said Lena, with a bright and bubbly smile on her face, walking into James' office.
"What can I do for you?"
"Have you seen Kara lately? We were supposed to meet the other day, and I haven't heard from her at all lately."
"Unfortunately I haven't. I did hear something about Kara going on a holiday, with her sister Alex. But I'm unsure when they will come back."
"Thanks James," Lena said, walking out of his office.
James tried to forget the image of Kara, being sick and unwell, in his head. It was stopping him from doing his work, and distracting him from everything.
Back at S.T.A.R. Labs
Alex was standing next to Kara's body, which not looking it's best, when suddenly...
