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5 Minutes Before Alarm: Earth 38: DEO Headquarters
Barry was sitting in his boring cell, wishing he had something to do. He had already tried to phase through his cell, but the material was something he just couldn't match. If only he had a tennis ball. He would throw it against the wall over and over again, just like in the movies. Or maybe a chess board to play against himself. Anything would be better than nothing.
He knew that National City was in trouble, and he definitely wanted to help. He just wasn't sure if the people holding him would let him out. Considering they already thought he was a nut job, the odds weren't looking very good for him. If it came down to it, he would help the hard way. By breaking out and helping the city and Supergirl too. Even if she or anybody else didn't want his help, they were going to get it.
Barry had a lot of time to think, so that's exactly what he did. He thought about Caitlin, Cisco, Iris, Joe, and even Harry. He wanted to get back to his Earth. If he couldn't get back, he would regret all the things he hadn't been able to do. Like thank Harry, or "give it a shot" with Iris even though he felt like her feelings for him were slipping and to be honest, so were his. But nonetheless, he missed his friends and his family. He knew that his increase in speed triggered the breach, but the tachyon device powered off when he went through the breach. He didn't know why, and he didn't know how to activate it again. He wasn't a genius like Harry, just a forensics scientist. If he could some how reactivate it, he could go back to his world, satisfy both him and his captors.
But he hadn't yet, so he had stashed it under his cot until he could use it again. It was a little uncomfortable with the protruding ends poking him while he laid or sat down.
Then it hit him. If he could somehow vibrate faster than the human eye can see, and anyone saw him, he could escape through an open door. And the best part was that he didn't even need to activate the tachyon device to do it. He just had to be patient and wait for the sound of footsteps.
And... would you look at that. Or, in this case, listen. Footsteps started to get louder and louder. Closer and closer. More than one pair as well. Barry grinned and started vibrating his whole body, not holding back. He went as fast as he could and waited to see if his plan would work.
Seconds later, or what seemed like an eternity to Barry, J'onn and Alex walked through the door to his cell when shock was plastered on both of their faces. If he wasn't trying to bait them, he would've laughed out loud.
Alex ran over to his cell while J'onn went over to a device on the wall next to the door.
"Everyone, the occupant of Cell 14 has escaped. Lock down this facility and stay alert. Do not let him escape this facility!" J'onn said into the device. His voice echoed everywhere.
J'onn opened the cell door and ran up next to Alex in order to inspect the cell. Barry knew that now was the time to bring out the fun and witty side of him.
"And that's my cue." Barry said. In order to make it more intimidating and ominous, he made sure that his vocal cords were vibrating. Not that it was a problem considering he had to vibrate his entire body in order to be invisible. Barry sped out of the cell he had been confined to and stood in front of the door. "Can't have you guys stopping me from saving the world. Well, this world anyways."
With that said, The Flash dashed out of the room and started heading towards National City. He certainly hoped he remembered the way. While he ran, he thought about what he was actually going to do. Something he had been doing a lot recently. He knew that he was going to use his ability to throw lightning, but he didn't know how he was going to get Supergirl back. He either needed to get the tachyon device working again, or force Quarmer to open another breach. But that was going to be hard considering the only plan he had to subdue him involved turning him to glass. And Barry didn't think making sand turn to glass was going to help Supergirl.
Moments After Barry Disappeared: Earth 1: STAR Labs
"What. The. Hell. Just. Happened." Harry asked menacingly. Cisco stuttered with no explanation.
"I-I-I don't know." Cisco put his hands on his head in disbelief. Barry was gone. He had disappeared through the breach and they had no way to track him. Not to mention the tachyon device had probably malfunctioned after he jumped through.
"Guys, the telemetry on Barry's suit are still working. His vitals seem stable." Caitlin said.
"Yeah, but his GPS is on the fritz. We have no clue if he will be able to get back and we can't track him." Cisco said, surprisingly calm.
"How the hell are we going to defeat Zoom now that our only way to actually defeat him is gone!?" Harry yelled. He had already seen his world suffer and didn't want anyone else to die. Especially his daughter. Harry paced The Cortex and threw supplies off of a table in anger.
"Hey! Haven't we had this conversation like, five times now?! You don't throw anybody's stuff across a room!" Cisco exclaimed.
"And?" Harry asked. Cisco shrugged his shoulders in exasperation.
" I don't know, how about maybe instead of getting angry, you can actually help us find Barry and get him back!" Cisco said frustratingly. He pulled out his phone and started typing. "I'm going to text Iris and Joe."
"How are we supposed to track him when we have no clue where he is!?" Harry asked, disregarding everything Cisco had just said and throwing some of his stuff into the floor.
"Unbelievable. Cisco said, going to pick up his things. "In this lab alone, we have technology a lot of people don't have access to, and we have some great minds too. There has to be a way to track where Barry went." Cisco walked out of the Cortex and went to his lab. Harry sighed. Although he was annoying, he was also somewhat endearing. He followed Cisco to try and talk some sense into him.
"Cisco, come on, Cisco!" Harry tried to catch up with him. Cisco sighed and started rearranging everything in his lab.
"What?" Cisco asked, only half paying attention. He took a screwdriver and started tinkering with his glasses.
"Cisco, what is wrong with you. You're acting like your calm when your really not. Sure, we don't know where Barry is, but we can get him back. You said it yourself, we will be able to." Harry said, standing awkwardly against a table. isco slammed the screwdriver on the table and turned around.
"How? How exactly are we going to do that? We don't know where he is! Without a location, we don't have a way to get to him. And without his speed boost, he won't be able to get to us!" Cisco ranted. His face said it all. He was afraid of losing his best friend.
"Cisco, do you remember Reverb?"
"Why? Why do you even ask?" Harry didn't react. "Fine. Of course I remember him. He was me except all Darth Vader-y and with a weird-ass hairdo."
"You could say that. He also has, well, had the same exact powers as you. But you just don't know how to use them." Cisco rolled his eyes.
"Exactly. Reverb had the ability to manipulate multidimensional energy. As do you. He also had the powers of precognition. Ramon, what I'm saying is that you have to stop thinking like a scientist and start thinking like Reverb. Use your powers of precognition." Cisco stood dumbfounded. He hadn't even thought of that. He was so focused on Barry and using some wort of technology when he should've been focusing on himself.
"Could you do me a favor for me and punch me?" he asked. "On second thought, don't do that. Let's just get to work and find something I can vibe off of."
"You sure you don't want me to punch you? I really wouldn't mind."
Earth 38: National City
Barry raced in to National City just in time to see a sand portal opening. Then he had one more realization for the day. All he had to do was scare off Quarmer back to where he had Supergirl, then he could go through the portal himself. Flawless, the plan was foolproof.
Quarmer jumped through the portal and scanned the area. Nobody was in sight except for one person because the Flash moved everyone away to make sure no civilians got hurt.
"And who are you supposed to be? Just joined the circus?" Quarmer asked. The Flash smiled.
"I'm the one you'll be running from in a few minutes." Quarmer laughed.
"Sure, whatever you want to think." Quarmer then kicked air but his leg stretched out and sand kicked the Flash off of his feet. After he recovered, Barry started running in circles, charging up for a lightning throw. Confused, Sand Creature attempted to punch Barry but before he could reach the circle of lightning, Barry threw a concentrated bolt at his hand and his extended arm turned to glass and shattered.
Quarmer gasped and looked at his suddenly missing right arm. He looked at Barry in shock and disbelief, and touched his arm socket with his other hand. Sand particles started to slowly reform around where his arm used to be and Barry looked closely at it.
"You know, if I do that to your whole body, You aren't just going to be missing a limb." Barry smirked at the face of Quarmer. He was actually a little surprised that Quarmer couldn't just grow back a new one right away. It would probably take awhile, around 3 hours or something like that. Not too dissimilar to Barry's healing properties. Quarmer reached out his non-amputated arm and repeated his portal making process. Barry smiled and got ready to make his move.
"This isn't the end of this." Quarmer finished his portal and Barry shot like a cannon into the portal, blowing by Quarmer before he could go through himself. He had to give himself as much time to get Supergirl and get her out as possible. When he went through the portal, he didn't know what to expect, but sand was not something he even imagined.
Barry always hated growing to the beach when he grew up. It always made him feel slower than he already was. Now was not the time to be slow. The Flash needed to be as fast as he could in this moment, and sand wasn't going to do him justice.
Barry saw a shed in front of him sped over to it. Confused at the small storage space, he opened the door and saw that it was a lot bigger than it looked. Wasting no time at all, Barry searched the entire space. It wasn't that hard to find Supergirl considering she was the only thing colored red and blue. Barry spotted her and picked her up, bride style. He wasn't sure how strong was and he wasn't taking any chances. He just hoped he didn't get slapped for this.
"Hey, no time to explain, just don't kill me." The Flash said over a stuttering Supergirl. Oddly, Barry got a weird tingling field in his stomach. He ignored the feeling though and went back the way he came. When he got outside the shed, he saw Quarmer standing next to the portal. Not fazed at all, he didn't stop running at all, if anything, he just sped up.
Barry could see Quarmer smile slowly as the portal started to close. With the combination of the weight of supergirl and the sand under his feet, he knew that he was probably not going to make it.
As a last ditch effort, Barry threw Supergirl as hard as he could and saw her go through the portal right as he closed. He collapsed on the ground, breathing heavily, saying one thing under his breath to sum up his entire situation.
"Fuck."
Earth 38: DEO Headquarters
Kara woke up to bright, yellow lights shining down on her entire body. She didn't know what exactly happened, she was just too weak and tired to pay attention. She let her eyes adjust for a second and then sat up to find that she was in the DEO with Alex and J'onn next to her.
"What happened?" Kara asked, still looking tired.
"You tell me. All we saw was Barry fighting Quarmer and then he went through the portal. 30 seconds later, you came out." J'onn said.
"I don't know. Everything's foggy." Kara said, rubbing her temples. She was racking her brains, trying to remember. "All I remember is that I was sleeping on a cot in this sand area. Quarmer called it the Quarmer Dimension. Then I was awake, and being carried..." Kara paused, remembering how helpless she had felt.
"If you can't remember, we can try later when you're a little more... awake." Alex said. Kara shook her head.
"No. No, this could be important, anything I have could be useful. Okay, so after I was carried out of my sleep, I saw a portal and then I was thrown into it, I guess landing in National City." Kara stopped. "That's all I have. I might have some more later."
"That's fine for now. We should fill you in on what happened as well." J'onn continued to tell Kara what had happened during her brief disappearance.
"Wait, so if he saved me, that means he wasn't lying! He's actually on our side." Kara said, relieved that she had one less problem on her plate. Then again, she also got another problem now that she had to apologize to Barry for freezing him in an ice cube.
"Not only that, but now we have a way to defeat Quarmer." J'onn said with a grin.
"Well, we need to get Barry back in order to do that. We also kind of have to apologize." Kara said with a grimace, she knew how hard it was to get J'onn to apologize for anything. Small or Big. He sighed in resignation.
"Fine, but if he saved you and wasn't lying about not being our enemy, he could've been telling the truth about being from another Earth."
"Or he could be crazy about that." Alex said with a smile. "What? I'm kidding. It's just that, first planets and now universes. Our work brings us strange things." Kara laughed.
"Tell me about it. Oh yeah, I gotta get back to Catco. Tell me when you get anything on getting Barry back." Kara walked away with a smile, thinking about how National City could be getting a new superhero who would cover for Supergirl, giving Kara more time to get James to like her.
