Thank you guys for everything. These chapters are getting longer and longer and I love it even though I'm not belting them out everyday. I feel engrossed in this story and I have a good plan for where it is going.
Earth 38: National City
Barry didn't have anything fancy considering he had just gotten to this planet, so he hoped Kara didn't go overboard. Barry sat on the couch and wondered what he would do once he got fast enough to go home. It probably wouldn't be for a while and there were some really awesome people in this universe. Even if he had only met less than a dozen. Would he have to sever all ties and forget about them? If he didn't go back, what would Zoom do? He wanted speed more than anything so he would probably chase him down until Barry was dead or speed-less.
Barry shook it off and though of lighter things like his newfound ability. Well, maybe not new. more like an advanced ability. He could literally vibrate his arm and the energy building off of it could create a lightning bolt. And he could have an excess amount.
Theoretically, if he vibrated both arms, he could have two bolts of lightning. Problem was, he wasn't very ambidextrous. If you can't throw a baseball with your left hand, you can't throw lightning with your left hand. But he could still throw one, transfer the remaining lightning into his right hand, and then quickly throw that one too.
"Barry. Barry!" Kara said, snapping her fingers in front of his face and interrupting his thought process.
"Yeah, yeah sorry. I was just thinking."
"It's fine. We can go now."
"Okay." They walked out of the apartment and started to head towards the Italian restaurant they were going to. Kara had never gone but Alex had said great things about it.
They walked toward the restaurant in silence, both of them just enjoying everything around them. The lights, the trees, the people around them, talking and pointing.
When they arrived at the restaurant, they were immediately seated at a table in the corner and a waitress came up to them. Barry's eyes popped open and he took a closer look at the waitress.
"Caitlin?" Barry asked incredulously.
"How do you know my name?" the waitress asked. Barry stuttered for an answer. This was a doppelganger, not the Caitlin from Barry's Earth.
"Um, the, name tag on your apron." Barry said observantly. Caitlin looked down and sure enough, there was a white and red name tag on her shirt.
"Oh, sorry. I forget about these things all the time." Caitlin looked down with a smile. "So what would you like to drink? Or do you already know what you want?" Barry and Kara smiled and looked at each other. They had already agreed and they didn't even know what they liked to eat.
"We'll have ten large pizzas please." Barry and Kara said at the same time. Caitlin raised her eyebrows in surprise.
"Really? How have you two stayed so thin?" she asked.
"It's a superpower." Kara said.
"That's a great superpower." Caitlin said as she walked away.
"How do you know her?" Kara asked once she had entered the kitchen.
"She's a friend in my world. A bio scientist." Barry answered. "So can you eat so much? I have super metabolism. But I don't think that your reason."
"I don't exactly know. I'm pretty sure Alex knows if you're interested though. And my adoptive mom Eliza. She studied me for years."
"Oh yeah, why didn't we just drive here?" Barry asked. "Don't you have a car?"
"Of course I have a car! I just don't use it that much because I can fly around. Plus, a lot of the places I go to are just a little walk away. What about you?"
"I usually take taxis. But I have super speed so I get to a lot of places pretty fast. I'm still a little late for a lot of things though. It's also a bit tiring to run with stuff to carry."
"Yeah, I know what you mean." Kara said, about to use a metaphor instead of a literal translation. "It just seems like lately I've been running around like a chicken with its head chopped off." Kara sighed sadly after taking a sip of her water.
"What do you mean?" Barry asked.
"I just feel like I don't know what to do when I'm Supergirl. Ever since the city started to hate my guts, I've been screwing up left and right." Kara said. Barry knew not to push it if she wasn't up to it, but he also knew that if he was going to make new friends, he was going to have to act like he had new friends. Friends helped each other, so that was what he was going to do.
"Hey, don't be too hard on yourself. It will pass and the public will forgive you."
"And how would you know that?"
"It happened to me."
"Really?" Kara asked in disbelief.
"Yeah. I was affected by another metahuman and I started to get really, really angry over everything. A friend had to help stop me from rampaging the city. You should meet him. He might actually like you."
"But what helped fix everything?" Kara asked, disregarding the last comment.
"Time revealed an opportunity." Barry stated.
"Wait, you went back in time?" Kara asked, horrified and amazed at the same time.
"No. No, no, no, no, no." Barry laughed. "I've gone down that road before but I turned around at the last minute. No, time started to ease the pressure on me and saving the world a couple of times helps."
"No kidding."
"Yeah. So, just be yourself and don't try to win over the public immediately. Let the pressure slowly go away and then just use the momentum from there. Everything will eventually fall into place." Barry explained. Kara sighed in relief and relaxed her shoulders.
"Thanks Barry. I needed that. I just don't have that many people to talk to and the limited people I know don't really have the same situation as I do." Kara said.
"No problem. That's what friends are for, right?" Barry answered. On that note, Caitlin walked in with the help of a trolley and ten very large pizzas. Suddenly the mood at Barry and Kara's table lightened at the idea of mowing down ten large pizzas.
Earth 1: STAR Labs
Caitlin and Harry stood behind Cisco, all of them standing in the room of the Speed Cannon. Cisco had his goggles on and was waiting the approval of Harry.
"You're all set, Ramon. Just instead of focusing on a location, focus on a vibration, on a frequency. The vibrations are what makes the Earths different." Harry announced. He put up two thumbs and Cisco nodded.
"I feel like I'm the physical embodiment of Portal right now." Cisco said as he put his fist out. "What am I supposed to do if I actually get to your Earth, Harry?"
"You will go through the breach and if you find yourself in my Earth, you will come right back through before you close it and strand yourself on Earth 2."
"Yeah, let's just hope for the best." Cisco said. He started to pull energy from the multiverse and used his knowledge of Earth 2's vibrations and inputted those vibrations into his forming breach like a keyword in a search bar.
Once the breach was fully formed, Cisco jumped through without an ounce of fear in his body. His encounter with the kidnapper made him gain confidence. He came out of the breach in a rainstorm. It looked like he was at some sort of mini park. He looked around and saw no cars, no people, but lots of signs.
"Infantino Street." Cisco mumbled to himself. A loud humming noise startled Cisco and he turned around. A woman in all black appeared out of a breach and glared at him.
"What are you doing here, breacher?" the woman asked.
"Look, I just want to know what Earth I'm on." Cisco said. He knew he had arrived on a different Earth, he just wasn't sure which one.
"This is the Earth that you're not allowed on." the woman said, getting into a fighting stance.
"Can I at least get your name?"
"It's Gypsy."
"Really?" Cisco asked. That name seemed rare. At least on his Earth. He wasn't so sure about the one he was on.
Gypsy fired a vibrational blast at Cisco but he narrowly dodged it, ducking behind a tree. He leaned against it and peeked around the corner and a vibrational blast missed him by centimeters.
"Guess I made a typo when I searched for Earth 2." Cisco said to himself. He saw that the breach to his Earth was still open. Gypsy saw him glance at it and reached her hound out to it. The breach's energy was slowly sucked into her palm and disappeared.
"How did you do that?" Cisco asked.
"You don't know your full range of powers, do you?" Gypsy asked. Cisco didn't answer and tried to concentrate on his Earth's vibrations. Harry had made him memorize Earth 1's and Earth 2's vibrations. A breach formed in front of Cisco and he waved goodbye to his new bestie.
"Nice knowing you, but this isn't really helping me." Cisco leaped through the breach and Gypsy shook her head.
"Weirdest fight I've had in a long time."
Earth 38: National City
Cisco jumped into his third world in a matter of minutes and hoped it was his own. He landed in a fancy restaurant with a lot of people in it. He was in a booth on the side of the room and a waitress came up to him, assuming he was there to have food. It did sound tempting, but he had a job to do.
"What may I get you today, sir? she asked as she whipped out a pen and notepad. Cisco got a closer look at the waitress and took off his multidimensional goggles. He was going to have to come up with a better name than that.
"Caitlin?" the waitress looked up from her notepad.
"How do you- Oh, right. You saw my name tag." Caitlin fingered the tag on her apron.
"Yeah, sure." Cisco said. She was different from his Caitlin, just like in his vibe of her. She had her hair in a long ponytail and a lot more makeup. Did that mean Barry was here too? He was in his vibe. Would it be his Barry or Barry's doppelganger?
Cisco looked around and spotted Barry in the corner with a blonde woman. Their table was stacked with pizza trays and they looked as if they were about to leave. Cisco went to get up to intercept or follow them when Caitlin cut him off.
"Excuse me, but you didn't order anything." she said, sounding a little offended. Damn, not something Earth 1 Caitlin would do. On the other hand, maybe she would.
Cisco tried to get past her but Barry and the woman were gone with multiple people coming in. Cisco smiled. He had to get out and made a breach on the other side of his booth. Caitlin shrieked and backed up quickly. Cisco went through the breach and it closed right behind him.
Cisco landed on the sidewalk outside the restaurant and tried to find Barry and Kara. He saw them rounding a corner and breached to them.
When he got out of his breach, they were nowhere to be found. He had no clue how to even find them.
"Damn it!" Cisco muttered to himself. He took off his goggles and started walking to an internet cafe he had passed in hope of finding more about where he was.
He was stranded and didn't want to keep playing hot potato where he was the potato and all the Earths were the people. But he had one good thing. He knew that it was his Barry.
Earth 38: DEO
Barry was happy. He had a great time last night with Kara and the pizzas. They had a competition without and powers and they tied. Both eating five whole pizzas. No leftovers at all. He was even able to convince her that Barry should carry her since she had flown him. She had thrown up once they had gotten into her apartment. It would've been funny if it wasn't so gross.
Kara had also complained when Barry woke up really early and made breakfast full with pancakes, sausage, eggs, and hash browns. She had said that she was the one who usually did the cooking and Barry just smirked.
Barry and Kara arrived at the DEO early in the morning to get some training in and nobody else was around except for J'onn. Barry tried to egg J'onn on to show his skills but he repeatedly declined.
Agents started to slowly file in, the agency getting filled to the brim. The agents started to greet Barry and Kara nervously, like they were celebrities or something like that. Everything was just getting warmed up. Nothing bad was happening and it seemed like the agents had done this every single day.
An alarm went off and suddenly everyone was in a rush. People were busting their asses to stations. Computer monitors showing a bunch of things that didn't even make sense to Barry.
"Sir, we've got an alien attack right outside Catco." Alex announced.
"Ooh, that's great!" Kara said. Everyone turned their eyes on her. "What? I'm just saying that once we take down the alien, Barry can have his first day at work!"
Everyone went back to work and Barry face-palmed. He had completely forgot about that and it was only nine o'clock in the morning. He would have a long day at his new internship. He shook it off and got ready to take down an alien. He and Supergirl took off after having coms set up to communicate.
As Supergirl took to the skies, The Flash raced on the ground. Both pacing each other, neither going faster than the other. While Barry had been in many fights before, an alien was new to him. It was also technically his "first day on the job" at the DEO, so he was a little nervous.
Supergirl was feeling the complete opposite. She needed to get out in the field. Kara always felt like herself when she was flying around as Supergirl.
As always, the trip was short and the heroes were ready. For anything or anyone. The Flash and Supergirl landed on a roof surveying the alien and the surroundings.
There were a handful of civilians, most had already evacuated the area. An Internet cafe, Catco, and the Italian restaurant they had gone to last night were all near the alien's path of destruction.
"You get the bad guy and I'll take the civilians?" The Flash asked. Supergirl smiled and nodded.
"Sure." Kara shot toward the alien while the Flash started to go building to building, street to street, block to block. He started to create a perimeter and evacuated four blocks out from the fight. He was just about to finish evacuating the internet cafe when he was about to pick up a snoozing, familiar person.
"Cisco?" Barry asked himself. He glanced at his friend's odd and new outfit. He lightly slapped his cheek and his eyes fluttered open to focus moments later.
"Barry! Come on, we got to get back home. The gang's missing you." Cisco said excitingly. Barry shook his head. How would they do that?"
"If you haven't noticed already, I can't go back! The tachyon device malfunctioned when I went through the portal and we can't get back! How did you get here?" Barry ranted.
"I can open breaches to different locations and different Earths. Well, I have to work on which Earth I want to go to, but other than that, I'm good. Now come one, let's go." Cisco said. Barry made a grim face and shook his head.
"I can't. Sure, this isn't our Earth, but a freaking alien is attacking this city and no matter where I go, I will always be a hero." Cisco nodded.
"So, that means I'm staying as well then. Oh yeah, I can do some cool stuff other than making portals too." Barry nodded and lifted Cisco, bringing him to the fight with the rampaging alien. Now that he had gotten a closer look at it, the alien looked really weird and humanoid. But that was expected since he or she was an alien.
Seeing the alien in person was a little underwhelming. He was a Caucasian, bald man in a black trenchcoat whose eyes turned blue with energy. His shiny head pulsed and balls seemed to bulge in and out of his skull. His hand went to his temple and his bright blue eyes glared at Supergirl who was hovering a foot above the ground adn 20 yards were between her and the alien.
The Flash sped over to Supergirl's left and Cisco came up right next to him. He glanced at Kara and saw she was grimacing and biting her bottom lip.
"Supergirl, are you okay?" Barry asked. Cisco looked curiously at her and Barry saw his look. "Tell you later. Just know that she's powerful and she's on our side."
Just as Barry finished saying that, Supergirl turned toward him and shot twin beams of heat vision. Barry barely dodged them and shot next to Cisco.
"Uh, you sure about that buddy?" Cisco asked with a questioning look. Supergirl opened her mouth as if to speak but slowly closed it before a sound could come out.
"She's usually not like this. Well, actually, I have no idea what she's like. Her actions can vary depending on her mood I think. Supergirl! Damn it! Something's wrong." Barry said. The new revelation had distracted them from what they were trying to stop in the first place. Cisco turned his head and saw that the alien was sharply moving his head and his hand was to his temple in a concentrated pose. It looked a little familiar.
"Flash, it's like the Jedi Mind Trick. He's a telepath. He's controlling Supergirl." Cisco announced. For once in his life, his geeky personality and love for Star Wars helped him.
Barry nodded and turned toward the alien, completely ignoring Supergirl.
"Who are you and why are you doing this?" Barry asked, trying to distract him from controlling Supergirl. It didn't work. The telepath smiled.
"I am the most powerful telepath in the Alcorian system." he hissed. Flash attempted to run at the telepath and make him lose his concentration but Supergirl blocked him and uppercut him into the air. Cisco panicked and made a breach under him. The Flash fell into he breach and another one opened right after. But the problem was that the breach was 200 feet higher than the first one.
"Oh, shit." Cisco said. He made another breach and this time he got it right. The Flash was on the ground next to Cisco in a second, breathing heavily. "My bad. That's my bad." Barry waved it off and got up slowly.
"It's fine. Just, how do you want to do this?" Barry asked. Cisco shrugged.
"Do you know a prison where he can't use his powers?" Cisco asked. The Flash stopped and slowly nodded.
"Give me a minute, just don't die while I'm gone." Barry rocketed away from National City and appeared in the DEO moments later. J'onn and Alex leaned back against the main table in surprise.
"J'onn, can you give me the exact coordinates to an empty cell? We're gonna put the alien in it." Barry said. J'onn nodded in confusion and snatched a tablet up from the table. He typed some stuff in and coordinates were suddenly in big letters on the screen.
"Don't drop it." J'onn warned. Barry nodded matter-of-factly and sped back into National City, gripping tightly onto the tablet. He arrived to see Cisco hiding behind a building with Supergirl hovering around, looking for him.
"What are you doing?" Barry asked.
"She's like his personal bodyguard. I tried to find a way to get to the telepath but I couldn't." Cisco answered. Barry took out the tablet and looked at it carefully. "What is that?"
"Can you breach someone somewhere if you knew the exact coordinates and the number of feet over the ocean level?" Cisco shrugged.
"I'm pretty sure, yeah." Barry nodded and flipped the tablet to show Cisco. He studied them and you could see him mouthing the coordinates in his head. "Okay, I've got them down."
"Okay, so you're going to open a breach behind him to those exact coordinates and I'm going to push him in."
"How are you going to do that? You won't be able to subdue Supergirl long enough to get to him." Cisco questioned. Barry nodded.
"Just trust me. You trust me right?" Cisco hesitated but nodded enthusiastically.
"Yeah, yeah."
"Okay, then let's do it." Barry went up to distract Supergirl while Cisco creeped up to get close to the telepath and create a breach. Supergirl stood between Barry and the alien while Cisco creeped up behind a bush about ten feet away from the alien. Cisco gave a thumbs up and Barry saw it in the corner of his eye.
Barry nodded and got ready. Supergirl was in a direct path between Barry and the alien. Cisco opened a breach once he saw just a spark of lightning in Barry's eyes and Barry darted toward Supergirl. making sure to go as fast as he needed to be. He started to vibrate his whole body while Supergirl gracefully landed on the ground and planted her boots into the cement.
The Flash expected this and did what he had thought of but didn't dare ever try. He attempted to phase through Supergirl. Sure, he had phased through walls and trucks before, but phasing through a person, or in this case an alien, was entirely different. Tons of things could go wrong if he even slightly lost concentration.
Also, the feeling of phasing through Kara was really weird. When he phased through walls and inanimate objects, all he saw was darkness, but when he phased through Kara, he saw a glimpse of the skull and brain and a lot of things that really disturbed Barry. But he did it, and now he could push the alien into the breach, hopefully avoiding it in the process.
Barry flipped midair and pretended like he was laying down on the ground with both legs locked and straight. His feet kicked the alien into his chest and pushed Barry away from the breach. Cisco closed the breach at just the right time and Barry landed in a plank on the ground. He rolled onto his back and Cisco laid right next to him.
"Let's hope you got the location right." Barry said with a smile. Cisco shrugged.
"I sure hope so. But I messed up with you. Almost made you go splat on the sidewalk." Cisco said admittingly.
Supergirl hovered over them with a confused look on her face. Cisco and Barry both looked over at her, forgetting that she was still with them. They both sat up and looked at her to see if she was herself.
"What happened?" Kara asked Barry. He looked at Cisco and shrugged.
"Nothing unusual."
