Earth 38: National City: Catco Worldwide Media

"Kiera!" Cat Grant yelled out for her personal assistant. She was getting a bit cranky considering she hadn't had a latte in two hours and she was typing like there was no tomorrow on the recent attacks in National City. Kara raced in prepared and handed her a latte.

"Your latte, Ms. Grant." Kara said. she started to walk away to her desk where multiple calls were awaiting her when Ms Grant stopped her.

"Wait, Kiera. How is it going with James? I have a reputation and I would like to keep it. I take pride in my work and my ability to mentor. If you fail me, I will have no mercy on you." She said with a smile. Kara sighed and sat down on the left couch in her boss's office. Her and Ms. Grant had spoken multiple times about the failure of Kara Danvers's love life and while they were helpful, they were also uncomfortable.

"Yes ma'am." Kara said with a grin.

"Don't ma'am me. Have you or have you not been making progress with Mr. Olsen?" Ms Grant asked, taking a sip of her piping hot latte while continuing to type on her laptop.

"I guess?" Kara shrugged. To be honest, she had been so focused on Supergirl recently that she hadn't really been focusing on her love life. Cat Grant raised her eyebrows without taking her eyes off of her screen.

"Okay, not really. I've had... other things to focus on." Kara said. Not lying, not telling the whole truth. Cat Grant nodded a pressed her lips together and nodded.

"Well then, if we don't have anything to work with then we don't have anything to talk about." Ms. Grant said. Kara nodded and smiled, knowing that there were no actually harsh feelings. It was just her way of being her. Kara walked away, heading to the storage room she, Winn, and James sometimes met in. She opened the door and saw James just sitting on the covered sofa.

"Hey." James said.

"Hey. What are you doing in here?" Kara asked.

"Just thinking." he responded.

"About what?"

"I don't know. I just... I've been thinking that I could have more right now. Like I could have more."

"You could." Kara said.

"I know what you mean. I could do more for this city. I cold be a hero." James said. Kara sighed. This is not what she had expected.

"That's not exactly what I me-"

"I could be your partner or work with the DEO. I could help." James was going now. Just like a train, he was hard to stop once he got going. She could discourage him, but he wouldn't stop trying. She liked James, but she didn't quite think he was hero-worthy.

"James, I don't know if that's a good idea. I mean, You're in good shape, but your not invulnerable. You can get hurt or even killed a lot easier than me and Clark." Kara said, referring to her younger cousin. "Especially with all this weird stuff going on now."

"What do you mean? Sand Creature is new, but he isn't... you know..."

"That's not-" Kara stopped herself from getting off topic. "If you get hurt, you won't be able to recover. You can't be a hero, James!" James took a sudden interest in his shoes.

"I'm going to do this with or without your help. Even if I get hurt, I'll be fine with it because I was hurt protecting others." with that said, James walked away and closed the door behind him. Now Supergirl had to start thinking about her wants and needs. Did she want to be with James or keep him safe more?

Earth 1: CCPD

Joe walked into work, waiting for a bomb to explode. Not a literal bomb. There had only been petty crimes for the past week or so and a metahuman was bound to show up soon.

"Joe.!" Joe's captain walked up to him near the steps of the department.

"Yeah boss?" Joe got ready for either a new case or a question of Barry's absence for the past few days. When Cisco had told him, he tried to stay himself. He had to be strong for himself and Barry.

"We got a new murder. I need you to get Allen on it. Here's the address." David Singh handed him a folded piece of paper and Joe took it. "Where is he anyway? Never mind, he's probably just late. As always."

"Huh, well I was right on two fronts." Joe said as David walked away to his office. He whipped out his phone and dialed Cisco.

"Cisco, how are you with getting Barry back?" Joe asked hurriedly.

"Dude, we've had like 3 days! Genius takes time! Plus, I'm a little busy with something else right now. Hey! We're throwing wrenches now? Sorry, anything else Joe?" Cisco asked.

"Try to speed things up a little. Singh needs him at a murder scene." Joe hung up and walked back to his desk. He glanced up from the paperwork on his desk and saw the picture of Eddie Thawne.

Joe then had a realization. He missed his old partner. Sure, he hadn't wanted Iris to marry him, but he was still a good partner. He missed having a partner in general, actually. Patty had been a good subsequent but now he was partner less. Joe needed a partner, and he needed one fast. Singh suddenly stormed out of his office with his eyes darting around.

"I just got off the phone. We've got a hostage situation at the Central City Bank."

Earth 1: STAR Labs

"Ramon, you're not concentrating enough. You have the breaching kind of down. We still need to figure out how you get to another Earth, you have to focus when doing this. In order to create a blast using the multidimensional energy, you must pull it from where it is stored. If you can't hit a wrench that's being thrown at your head, this ability isn't all off adrenaline. You need to concentrate." Harry ranted. He wasn't a very patient man and he was becoming furious with the lack of accomplishment Cisco had accomplished.

"Thank you for that inspiring speech, but really? Why did you have to throw a wrench at my head?" Cisco asked. They had taken a five minute break after Harry threw a metal wrench straight for his head while Cisco was on a high platform, attempting to "breach and blast". As you can imagine, he fell to his doom until Cisco was able to breach himself onto a mat they had set up for that exact purpose. Cisco had first questioned it but was now thankful.

"Testing your reaction to an incoming threat and for my pure enjoyment." Harry shrugged while a grin tugged at the edge of his mouth. Cisco rubbed his head, still in pain.

"Yeah, that's not a very good reason, but we need to get this down like right now. I can use it to get the hostages out of Central City Bank." Cisco hopped off of the mat and put his goggles back on.

"Do you know how frustrating it is to know that so many explosions and shot projectiles have been in here, and the only one who hasn't been able to do it is me. Linda and Barry didn't have a problem learning how to use their powers, just how to control it. And I know the goggles aren't the problem. They should be allowing me more than enough access to multidimensional energy."

"I already told you that it's the fact that you aren't really pulling it. Adrenaline won't help you with that. You can't be in a panicked state. Just like when a photographer is taking a picture. Their hands can't be shaking or the picture will come out as blurry. You have to stop shaking your damn hands." Harry said while using his hands to gesture. Cisco nodded.

"You know, you get angry really easily. Let's give this thing another go." Harry smiled and what it seemed like out of thin air, pulled out another wrench. Cisco sighed and put his goggles back on, getting ready to breach and blast.

Cisco reach out his fist and blue energy started to collect around it. He then guided that multidimensional energy out in front of him until a human sized breach appeared. Cisco jumped through it right as Harry threw the wrench to the high platform. Cisco, now used to the tingling feeling against his skin, jumped out of a similar breach less than a second later and landed on the platform just in time to see the wrench once again hitting him in the face.

This time he somehow manage to hold onto the railing before flipping over it.

"Ow." Cisco said as soon as he opened a breach below him and landed on the mat.

Harry felt a buzz in his pants pocket and answered Joe's call. He also put it on speaker phone so Cisco could hear anything important.

"Hey, anything on the hostage situation?" Harry asked.

"Sort of. We know that one man with what looks to be only a Glock is holding 13 people hostage. We need Cisco because the man isn't really making any demands that we have the authority to do." Harry looked at Cisco and nodded.

"Thanks Joe keep your com device in your ear so we can update you on our plan.

"Thanks, and hurry." Harry hung up and stared at Cisco.

"You have to go." He said bluntly. Cisco took his goggles off and raised his eyebrows.

"Are you kidding me? I could get shot! I haven't even been able to accurately use my blast yet!" Cisco exclaimed.

"I don't care if you get shot. I just care about you developing your powers. Who knows what else you can do. You might be able to stop Zoom from running or breach him into a speedster-proof room." Harry said. Despite the now realized possibilities, Cisco looked offended.

"Okay fine. I do care if you get shot, happy?" Harry said. Cisco grinned and opened a breach to right outside Central City Bank.

"Do I have to do this?" Cisco asked.

"Yup." Harry answered and produced yet another wrench from behind his back.

"What are you gonna- Oh shit, see ya later." Cisco jumped through the breach before the airborne wrench could strike him in the head for a third time.

Quarmer Dimension

Barry's eyes fluttered open and saw that he was shackled. He groaned and remembered how Quarmer slammed him in the jaw with his fist right right after he had thrown Supergirl threw the breach.

Barry looked at his surroundings and saw that Quarmer was pacing in front of him. They were in some sort of dungeon made out of sand.

"You actually scared me for a bit. I thought that I wouldn't be able to heal me arm, but I was wrong." Quarmer revealed his now healed arm, looking the same as it had before it was shattered.

"Do you think these cuffs will hold me? They're made out of sand." Barry said as if that explained everything. Quarmer laughed.

"I don't have to cuff you. This whole dimension is your prison. You won't be able to escape. Me, on the other hand, I can go anywhere. You don't know my full extent of powers. I can literally open a portal to any universe. You do know about the multiverse, right?" Quarmer smiles and let the cuffs dissipate. "You can't kill me, or you wouldn't be able to escape this dimension."

Barry stood and rubbed his wrists. He must've been in those a long time because they were really sore. He smiled inwardly. Quarmer was his way back home. He just didn't know how to get Quarmer to take him there. He also had the problem of being stuck in a sand dimension.

"What are you going to do now? Destroy National City now that I'm trapped here?" Barry asked. He and Quarmer just stood in front of each other, like they were two buddies at a party.

"You could say that. I plan to hold you as a trophy. The city will bow to me and after that, all of Earth 38 will." Barry chuckled.

"You really don't know anything about this so called Earth 38, do you? he asked. Quarmer cocked his head in curiosity. "I'm not from that Earth. I accidentally traveled there like, a day ago. Nobody knows me and nobody cares." Barry smiled even though he knew that during their fight in the middle of the city, some cameras had to be pointed on him and Quarmer.

Quarmer frowned and conjured a sand chair for him to sit in. He crossed his legs and tapped his chin. The situation reminded Barry of when Wells handcuffed him to a wheel chair after he caught him trying to get faster when he time traveled.

Quarmer suddenly smiled after a few minutes of silence that seemed like eternity for Barry.

"But they saw our fight. It's probably on their news. They know you're strong and they'll recognize." Quarmer said. Barry mentally cursed himself. "Time to go." Quarmer grabbed Barry's arm and conjured sand cuffs. He snapped them on Barry and opened a portal.

"How are you gonna stop me from turning you into glass?" Barry asked, gesturing to himself and then Quarmer.

"You'll see." he replied. Quarmer then went through the portal and came back ten seconds later. "Go." Barry was then shoved through and got ready for anything."

Earth 1: Central City Bank

"Ow. Shit. My head." Cisco said, sitting on the steps outside of Central City Bank with an ice back against the back of his head.. Joe shook his head. Minutes before, Cisco had tumbled out of a blue portal and a wrench followed him out, seeming to bend the laws of physics and hitting him in the head. "How the hell did he even hit me?"

Joe and the rest of CCPD had set up a perimeter and most of them were staring at the strangely dressed man with glowing blue goggles and an ice pack on his head.

"Are you done babying? We've gotta get those people out of there." Joe said. He was standing next to Captain Singh who was holding a phone and likely conversing with the man holding mulitple people hostage.

"Yeah, yeah I'm good." Cisco said, pulling himself together and tossing the ice pack to Joe. Only he knew it was Cisco, everybody else thoujght they were just getting help from a man with crazy-ass hair.

"Good, now what's your plan?"

"There's a vault in the back of the bank with a wall seperating it from the main lobby. I'm gonna breach myself into the vault and while you guys distract him with your negotiating, I'll breach him into the pipeline where we can later transfer him to Iron Heights." Cisco took a deep breath. "Got all that, Harry?"

"All good." Harry said through the com.

"Fine." Joe said. "But don't make a sound when you creep up on him. Actually, why don't you breach yourself right outside the vault?"

"Already thought of that. The vault is soundproof with no openings at all so he won't hear or see a thing and the breach would light up the room like a disco. The guy could panic and shoot someone." Cisco replied. Joe nodded in agreement.

"Good thinking." Cisco grinned and opened a breach in front of him.

"See ya in a bit." Cisco jumped through and landed in the vault, trying to land as quietly as possible on his feet. All he was was racks of money, gold, and valuables. He saw a what looked like a lever and a large handle on the inside of the vault door.

Cisco yanked the metal lever down and slowly opened the vault door. He saw a wall in front of him with multiple plants.

"Remember, I can see what you see from the camera on your suit. If you need my help, I an tell you what to do." Harry said through the earpiece. Cisco nearly jumped from the sudden noise. He didn't risk replying. Cisco crept toward the ending of the wall and took a peek around the corner. Small chatting was heard and he saw a man with a pistol in one hand, talking on the phone in the other. Thirteen people were sitting against the wall across from him.

Cisco advanced to the counters and saw that the man was facing the people on the wall. He looked at his fist and saw blue energy start to surround it. He looked at his other fist and didn't see anything. He was going to open a breach in front of the man, and then blast him into it while he was confused. He just had to be calm. And surprisingly, he was.

"You can do this, Ramon." Harry said. Cisco steeled himself and got ready to do what he had to do. He slid over the counter and quickly opened a breach in front of the man. Confused, the man looked around. With all the calm Cisco had in his body, he palmed the air and a blue blast burst from his hand and hit the man straight in the back. A shot when off before he fell through the breach but it was aimed at random and din't hit anyone.

"He's in the pipeline. You did it." Harry said. Cisco sighed in relief and laughed while the former hostages smiled and thanked him.

"I guess I was pretty calm even though I felt like throwing up through all of that."

Earth 38: National City

Barry went through the portal and immediately found himself off balance. He did something that only happened in cartoons and tried to run in the air but fell down into... quicksand. Not fun. Quarmer came in right after and managed to maneuver himself around it. Barry tried to use his friction to move the sand around him but he wasn't able to.

"Quicksand. Very tricky. The more you move, the faster you sink. And since you're very fast, you may just sink very fast." Quarmer stated. "Time to wait for Supergirl to show up." he smiled while Barry struggled in the quicksand, sinking fast.

As if on cue, Supergirl landed in front of Quarmer, the ground shaking under her. When her eyes landed on Barry, her eyes filled with... something. Worry? Barry shook the thought out of his head and stopped struggling, trying to use his brain instead of his body. He knew that lightning would likely free him, but he didn't know how to throw any without running in circles.

Maybe if he vibrated his his entire arm at a high speed for a couple of minutes, he would be able to snatch the energy running off of his arm and throw it at the sand. He had to do it quickly though because he knew Supergirl wouldn't be able to last long. Luckily, going fast was his specialty and he was only waist deep into the quicksand. He started to vibrate his arm and yellow lightning started to flicker off of it.

Meanwhile, Supergirl was staring off Quarmer, waiting for him to make his move. After at least a minute of just staring at each other, Supergirl launched herself at him. She wasn't known to be very patient.

As expected, she went right through him, his body reconstructing itself after she was through him. She turned in midair and skid backwards. Once she was still, her heat vision was released and Quarmer turned around. The heat vision made ripples in his body but didn't seem to actually hurt him. He smiled.

"That tickled." he punched her from 20 feet away and she fell to the ground. His hand stayed there and pinned her against the concrete, while Quarmer started to grow a new one. Supergirl struggle against the hand and while she managed to get rid of it, the hand always came back to chase her.

The Flash was busy with something else. He was stuck in quicksand and his arm was vibrating like crazy. He had been vibrating his arm for almost two minutes now and he was pretty sure he had a significant amount of energy wrapped around his arm. He finally stopped vibrating and went to grab at the energy with his other hand. When he closed his fist, he found a vibrating, 4 foot piece of lightning in his grasp. He quickly stabbed it into the quicksand surrounding him and it slowly developed into glass.

Once the whole thing was transformed, Barry vibrated his fist and struck the surface. The sound of shattering glass rung for 30 seconds before Barry faced off Quarmer and smiled.

"You won't kill me. You said you accidentally traveled here. I can bring you back if you leave me be." Quarmer said. He knew he was beaten. He was desperate. And he actually had a good offer. But the Flash didn't hesitate.

"I plan to hold you as a trophy." Barry repeated what Quarmer had said earlier. He vibrated his hand and started to run in circles. Quarmer, recognizing the move, reached out his arm to stop him from charging up. Barry knew he would take the bait and when he reached out, Barry started to run up his arm toward Quarmer. It felt weird to run on an arm made out of sand.

While still vibrating his hand at his fastest speed, he went up to Quarmer and jumped behind him. he then turned in midair and figured, if he had done it once, he could do it twice. But faster. Lightning suddenly sparked in The Flash's hand and simultaneously landed on the ground and struck it in Quarmer's back. He had killed his only way home.