Chapter 4 Family Reunion

After Wally explained speed talking to Barry he slowed his voice down. He explained again his situation to Cisco and Caitlyn. Caitlyn was extremely sympathetic she knew how it felt to think the one you loved was dead. Wally's poor girlfriend Artemis was probably going through what she had last year trying to get over Ronnie. Cisco and Barry were questioning Wally for more information. They especially wanted to know about there alternate selves. Barry had decided maybe he should call in everyone, which meant all of team arrow including Ray. He should also probably call in Joe and Iris and see what they knew. Maybe Iris had a long lost brother somewhere in this universe. He decided to start with Iris and Joe before he moved on to everyone in Star.

"So Wally, now that we've settled you are from an alternate universe what can you tell us about it. All I got is that I work for an allegiance of heroes called the Justice League, Cisco is a hero too and Caitlyn is a villain. And do you know any of the heroes we mentioned before?"

"I'll explain the other things later but in my universe we have a Green Arrow. I'm guessing you know Oliver?"

"Yep, we know Ollie continue," Barry prompted.

"So Ollie is Arrow here. In my universe he protects Star City with his girlfriend Dinah's help as Black Canary."

"Wait Oliver's dating Laurel? And she goes by Dinah? Here he's dating Felicity."

"I don't know a Felicity. Ollie's first sidekick was his ward Roy, one of my best friends. He was kidnapped and cloned. The clone was Speedy until he had a fight with Ollie and decided to become Red Arrow. We only found the original this year he goes by Arsenal."

"So here it's so different. Ollie's sister's boyfriend is Roy. He became Arsenal but everyone thinks he's dead so Thea took over they call her Speedy even though she wants to be called Red Arrow."

"Well that's really strange. Dinah's not with Ollie, Ollie has a sister who's boyfriend is Roy? In my universe Roy is with the villain Chesire, the sister of Artemis my girlfriend and Ollie's second partner."

"I have never heard of an Artemis or Chesire. Do you have an Atom? I guess you do have a Firestorm. Plus who is this Batman? And Superman? Never heard of them." Cisco stated while unwrapping a lollipop and plopping it in his mouth.

"Yeah, Ray is pretty nice. The shrinking power comes in handy a lot even though I don't know him so well. Artemis's father and sister work for the league of Assasin's."

"Wait hold on shrinking power? Our Ray just has a super suit. Or at least that's what I think. And the league of Asssasins? The one with Ra's Al Ghul? He wanted Oliver to become his heir. Their lair is really cool they even have a hot tub."

"Wow he wanted Oliver as an heir? He wants Batman in my world. That is not a hot tub thought Uncle Barry. That's the Lazarus Pit. It can heal any wound and bring people back from the dead. It has nasty side effects though. But Superman is an alien the last from his planet he was sent here as it exploded as a kid. He can fly, has laser eyes, freeze breath and super strength. He showed up in Metropolis way before you Batman too. Gotham really needed him, I mean that city is full of crazies. My best friend Nightwing, he used to be Bats partner Robin. Bruce and Dick are complete opposites though. Bruce is all scary but Dick is the happiest guy out there."

"Wait hold on.." Cisco said wide eyed, "Time travel and Metas were hard enough to believe but aliens? A magic pit that brings people back to life? A man that dresses up as a bat? Wait did you say Bruce? As in Bruce Wayne?"

"Yep that's the one. But some aliens are really nice. Several of my good friends are part alien. There are nasty races though. The newest one we met the reach is how I got here in the first place."

"Okay that's pretty cool. Whats this league thing you keep mentioning?" Barry asked.

"Oh so you and like six other heroes teamed up to save the world from a hostile alien threat. The league has lots of members now though."

"So that's enough background information to get Oliver here. I'm wondering am I your uncle because I am Iris's foster brother in your world too. Or is it something else?" Barry questioned wanting to see if Iris West-Allen was a thing on every world.

"What? No. My dad is Aunt Iris's brother. I don't remember how you met her but you definitely weren't foster siblings. Are you guys even dating here?"

"Uh no. I mean her boyfriend just killed himself to destroy the reverse Flash. Apparently he was his ancestor. She's still getting over him. But Barry's like her forever. I mean you gotta make a move soon man." Cisco said nudging Barry.

"Uh wow. That's heavy. Do you work as a forensics scientist here too?"

"Uh yeah. I mean it's almost become a family thing to work in the station. I think Joe was upset that Iris chose a cop boyfriend. He thought she was in enough danger as a cops daughter. He's still not fully supportive as me as the Flash."

"Wait who's Joe?"

"Iris's dad? I'm guessing your Grandpa." Cisco said popping the lollipop out of his mouth.

"My grandfather is a noble prize winning physicisct named Ira West. That's weird."

"Well do you wanna meet Joe and Iris?"

"Lets give them the surprise of their lives."

"I think everyone has had enough of those. " Said Iris entering the room with Caitlyn.

"I thought it would be smart to call Iris and Joe. They are part of the team after all." Caitlyn said.

"How much did you hear?" Barry asked hoping she didn't hear Cisco talking about making a move.

"Um we entered when you were talking about Dad being a noble prize winner. That's a funny thought I mean Dad knows nothing about science."

"Ow wow. Hi Aunt Iris. You look really different here," Wally greeted his aunt.

"What's that supposed to mean?" She asked as everyone turned to Wally with eyebrows raised.

"My Uncle Barry is blonde with blue eyes and my Aunt Iris is green eyed with red hair. I wasn't expecting you to look like this. This Barry still looks similar enough to my own. I wonder does Ollie have a goatee here too?"

"What a goatee? No he has a beard and stache of sorts but no goatee." Barry looks surprised.

"Wow Ollie loves his goatee. Things must be pretty different here."

"So Wally tell me about yourself." Iris pulled over a chair and went into reporter mode.

"I grew up in Blue Valley, Nebraska until I was around 7. Then I moved to Keystone City. My Flash works there as well as Central. I found Uncle Barry's journal with the chemicals and exact situation in which he became the Flash. I copied it when I was around 11. I begged Barry to become his sidekick. Eventually me and my friends formed a covert team. I retired with my girlfriend Artemis. She's Green Arrow's old sidekick. We live in Palo Alto with our dog Nelson. I was a Chemistry major and Artemis was in Languages. We got called back into the field but that ended up with me here."

"Well it's weird. I don't have a brother in this universe. My mother died when I was really little. "

"Well about that.." Joe entered rubbing his head, "You must be Wally nice to meet my grandson from an alternate universe. Iris we need to talk."

"I'll go see what Barry and Cisco are planning to do to get me home." Wally left the room.

"Iris, I lied."

"About what?"

"Your mother never died. I kicked her out. It was the last straw when I returned home to see you playing with the kitchen appliances and you mom with a heroin needle in her arm."

"My mother was an addict?"

"I sent her away. I lied to you because I didn't think she would ever come back."

"She's back. She wants to get to know you."

"Why should I? She never tried before. It's been 22 years."

"Ugh.." Joe sighed and finally sat down in a chair. "She's terminal."

"Cancer?" Iris asked.

"She wants to get to know you before she goes."

"I guess I'll try but there are other matters at hand."

"That's all I ask of you."