I'm going to be reintroducing an old character from one of my previous stories.
After Kara was introduced to everyone else and they were brought up to speed on the Dominators and Barry was selected as the team leader and now they had decided to use Kara as a training standin.
Oliver and Barry were heading to prepare for training before Jax and Professor Stein approached them.
"Barry. Before we start training, there's something you need to hear." Jax said.
"A message that would be better if we could share with you in private." Stein said, looking at Oliver, who nodded, getting the message.
"All right, I'll step away." Oliver said.
"No, no, it's fine. You can stay." Barry said to Oliver, who looked at Jax and Stein who nodded.
"All right, but no one else." Jax said.
"All right. Let's make it quick." Oliver said as they stepped into an on site RV.
"A war is coming, Captain Hunter, and at some point you're gonna be called back to Central City to fight it. So you need to know that, while you and your team have been in the temporal zone, I made a choice that affected the timeline. As you know, whenever you alter the past, those changes affect the present and get compounded in the future. When you return, you will be in the new timeline I created, where everyone's past and everyone's future has been affected, including yours. When you come back, don't trust anything or anyone. Not even me." they listened to message from Jax's MP3 player.
"Where did you get that from?" Barry asked.
"We found it in a secret room inside the Waverider. It was sent by you, 40 years from now." Jax answered.
"40 years from now? Barry, what the hell does this mean?" Oliver asked.
"It means I screwed things up when I changed the past." Barry said, much to their surprise.
"What did you do?" Stein asked.
"I went back in time, and I saved my mom. I created a timeline where she's alive. It's called Flashpoint. I lived in it for a few months, until I realized that I made a big mistake, and I tried to reset the timeline, put things back to how they were supposed to be, but ." Barry said.
"But it didn't work." Jax finished.
"No." Barry said, looking full of self regret.
"Wow. Barry, that's." Oliver said.
"So what's changed since you did this?" Stein asked.
"Cisco's brother is dead. Caitlin, Iris and Laurel all have powers. Laurel's alive. Diggle has a son now instead of a daughter." Barry said.
"What do you mean that Laurel is alive and that John had a daughter?" Oliver asked, both concerned and angry for his friends.
"I didn't just screw up my life, man. I screwed up everybody's lives and, apparently, everybody's lives in the future. It felt like, when these aliens got here, that finally something had happened I didn't cause, and maybe I could make up for everything I'd done to everybody, but I." Barry said.
"Barry, first of all, if Laurel being alive right now is because of you, then that means that Sara owes you big time, since she's spent the past 8 months trying to kill Laurel's killer in the past." Jax said.
"Really, well, that's interesting." Barry said.
"Second of all, I think we should be on the up and up with everybody. We got to tell 'em." Jax said.
"We're going up against a bunch of aliens, and you want to tell people that their lives might have been affected by time travel? One sci-fi problem at a time." Oliver said and they all agreed that this was the best course of action.
"You made a mistake, Barry. It's part of the job. But we can't deal with it today." Oliver said as he patted Oliver on the shoulder.
Cisco had just revealed future Barry's message to the rest of the team, much to Oliver's annoyance.
"Come on, look." Barry said.
"You told 'em, right?" Cisco asked.
"I'm gonna tell them, yeah, when this is finished." Barry told him.
"When this is finished? Even though you're about to lead them through an alien war? Even after Flashpoint? After everything you've messed up? All the lives you've changed? You still don't think you should tell them?" Cisco demanded as the rest of the team looked him.
"Jax and Professor Stein found a message from me in the future saying that, right now, I can't be trusted." Barry said.
"And why would future you say that?" Ray asked.
"I think because I went back in time and changed the timeline, and now things here are different than before I left, including some of your lives." Barry finally admitted.
"Some of our lives? Like who?" Sara asked.
"Cisco. Caitlin. Wally. Laurel. Dig." Barry said.
"Wait, what do you mean?" Laurel asked.
"In the original timeline, you weren't in Central City when the particle accelerator exploded, which means." Barry said.
"That I never got meta powers which means that I couldn't heal after Darhk stabbed me." Laurel said.
"You died in the original timeline and everyone's reactions to it, they weren't pretty." Barry said and now Sara was looking at Barry with newfound respect.
"You mean the only reason my sister is alive right now is because you changed the timeline?" Sara asked.
"Yeah." Barry said and walked towards him and Barry prepared himself for a slap, but to his surprise he got a very rare Sara Lance hug.
"Thank you." Sara said.
"What about me? Why? What happened?" John asked.
"Hey. Apparently, you had a daughter." Oliver said.
"I had a daughter, Barry?" John asked.
"Baby John was Baby Sara." Barry said.
"So, wait, you let me get this straight. You just, uh You just erased a daughter from my life?" John asked.
"Yeah." Barry said, full of self-loathing.
"And all those aberrations we spent the last eight months traveling through time trying to correct you just decided that it was okay for you to create your own?" Ray said.
"We should've told 'em before." Barry said as Felicity walked in.
-"Guys? Guys, I just got off the phone with Lyla. The President's been abducted by the Dominators. She needs us now." Felicity said.
"Okay, you guys go. All right? I'm gonna sit this one out. Obviously, you have Supergirl. She's just as fast as I am. Get the President. We can talk about this later." Barry said before looking at Kara.
"You still trust me, right?" he asked.
"I'll always trust you, but it might take more to convince them." Kara said.
"If you need me, I'll be there." Barry said.
"Guys, this is cr hey! This is crazy! Everyone is going, including Barry," Oliver said, "I I'm not going without him."
"Then you'll be here, Oliver." John said and Oliver looked at him like he was insane.
"Okay. You know what? Oliver, it's okay. I will go with them. We'll get the President. You stay here with Barry." Kara said and Oliver nodded as they all left.