Alright, fans. Back with Chapter 8.

I am pleased with the reactions last chapter received, including my introduction of Savitar. I hope this chapter turns out well too.

Also, FYI, I am switching up the Flash timeline a bit, so that episode 9 happened before episode 8. I'm just doing that so that my explanation for things will make sense, and so that Barry has a little more information to work with. Also, in this, Caitlin didn't take a shard of the stone. Please let me know if you'd like me to change the timeline to how it's supposed to be, and I'll work that out. Also, I'm not doing that plot arc where there has to be a speedster in the Speed Force prison. That never quite made sense to me, so I'm just not gonna make that a part of this story. I know I'm changing a lot, but just try and bear with me.

Here we go. This may not be my best chapter, but just bear with me.

SpiderSpeedsterZ: Yes, Barry and the Avengers will eventually learn Savitar's true identity before they defeat him. I plan on it being somewhat similar to how it happened in the show, but not the same.

Chapter 8- The God of Speed

(Two days after Pepper's disappearance)

"So, Barry, you gonna get around to asking Wanda out again?" Sam asks with a chuckle. Barry kinda glares at him, which only makes Sam laugh.

Barry rolls his eyes. He's had to deal with Sam asking him this since he told Sam about his date with Wanda. Although he is thinking of asking Wanda out again, it's annoying to have Sam bugging him about it.

"Maybe, but not until you stop bugging me about it," Barry says with irritation in his voice. Sam laughs again.

Barry turns away and can't help but grin. Despite it being annoying, Sam bugging him has also been a little amusing. Just another sign of their budding friendship.

"Allen?! Where are you? I need to talk to you, Allen!"

Barry and Sam look up, then at each other. Tony doesn't sound happy. And this could not be good.

Barry runs out of the room and towards the sound of Tony's voice. He finds him in the Quinjet hangar.

"Hey, Tony. What's up?" Barry asks. The look on Tony's face has him concerned. He looks angry, scared, nervous, determined, and desperate, just to name a few.

Tony looks Barry right in the eyes. Barry can tell that something serious has gone wrong.

"Get the team together. In the conference room. Now. We need to talk," Tony says. Barry just slowly nods. He then runs Tony to the conference room, before running off to get the rest of the team.

Within seconds, the whole team is in the conference room. Several people look a little uneasy after experiencing being run somewhere by Barry. In a display that makes Barry laugh in his mind, Rhodey rushes to a trash can and throws up. It reminds Barry a little of Diggle.

"Okay, what was that about?" Steve says, being the only one not really affected by what just happened.

Barry points to Tony. "He has something he wants to discuss," Barry says.

The whole team looks at Tony. He standa there for a moment, looking at all of them. And in that moment, all of them see how stressed and sacred he is right now. And that concerns them. Tony is not one for showing his emotions like this.

Finally, he takes a deep breath and says, "Pepper is gone."

Everyone looks at him in surprise. Rhodey is quickest to recover from the shock and asks, "Wait, what? She's gone? You mean, she left you? Or..."

"She was kidnapped," Tony says curtly. Everyone stares at him in surprise. It takes Tony a moment before he's able to continue.

"She was down at the company's new building in DC, working out some details of a recent sell to the government, and some details about lingering relief efforts in Johannesburg and Sokovia. It was about midnight when the guards on her floor were killed and she was kidnapped," Tony explains.

"Who's the kidnapper?" Steve asks.

Tony turns and looks straight at Barry. Barry starts to get uncomfortable, not liking the way Tony's looking at him.

"Well, I was hoping Mr. Allen here could help me with that," Tony says. Everyone turns to look at Barry for a moment, who shrugs. Everyone look back at Tony as he plugs a thumb drive into a projector and turns it on.

A moment later, security footage of Pepper's office comes on the screen. For a few moments, it's perfectly normal. Then, the alarms start. The team watches Pepper look up and around for the threat. Then, near the door, there's a flash of white lightning.

Barry gasps out loud. "It can't be," he says loudly. Everyone on the team looks at him.

"What?" Steve asks urgently. Barry just motions back to the screen.

Everyone looks back, right as there's another flash. A streak of white lightning flashes around the room before stopping. And suddenly, Pepper is being held against the wall by her throat, in the grasp of a being only recognizable to Barry.

There are noises of surprise from the team, and Sam demands, "What the h*** is that thing?"

His question is quickly answered as they hear Pepper ask, "Who are you?" And the reply: "I am Savitar, the God of Speed. And you are my bait." And a moment, later, Savitar and Pepper disappear in another flash of white lightning.

Everyone stares at the screen for a few more moments before turning to Barry. "Care to explain what happened there, Mr. Allen?" Tony demands, now knowing beyond a doubt that Barry knows something about this.

Barry looks around at the team. He'd hoped that he would never have to tell the team about Savitar. But it looks like he has no choice.

"Yeah. I know who he is. Like he said, he's called Savitar. Calls himself the God of Speed," Barry says.

Tony looks irritated, and ready to just grill Barry, but Steve holds out a hand to keep him quiet, then turns to Barry and asks more gently than Tony would've, "Who is he, Barry? And how do you know him?"

Barry sighs before he says, "You all remember me telling you about Flashpoint?" The team nods. Barry had separately told Tony and Vision, and later Clint, about Flashpoint after he had told the rest of the team, since he felt they had a right to know too.

"Well, after I reset the timeline, I felt everything would go back to normal. But then, the speedster I had faced in Flashpoint suddenly appeared. Then, other people who had been metahumans in Flashpoint started getting their Flashpoint powers."

"Eventually, we discovered that some masked man, who called himself Dr. Alchemy, was behind it. He was using some kind of stone that had strange powers to restore the metahumans of Flashpoint. At first, we didn't know how he knew, or why he was doing it. But, eventually, we learned that he was just a follower. I went after Alchemy with Joe, Wally, and a SWAT team. He had some acolytes with him, and his stone."

"I fought him, and thought I beat him. But then, Wally touched the stone, and got encased in some kind of cocoon. Right after that, Savitar appeared."

"He introduced himself as the God of Speed, saying he rules the Speed Force. He then proceeded to beat the crap out of me. He ran me all over the city, moving so fast he was virtually teleporting. Eventually, we managed to stop him thanks to my friend Caitlin, who used her ice powers to stop him."

"Apparently, Alchemy is something like Savitar's priest, and has been gathering worshippers, and restoring the Flashpoint metahumans so they can serve Savitar. We later found out that my former CSI coworker, Julian Albert, was Dr. Alchemy, and that Dr. Alchemy is just a front. Julian becomes Alchemy when Savitar takes him over, meaning the Julian isn't conciously serving Savitar. We also learned that Savitar is somehow tied to the stone used by Dr. Alchemy. For some reason, he's trapped in the Speed Force, and he can only be free if the stone is not contained within a special box. We had the stone contained within the box, and threw it into the Speed Force, but I don't know how Savitar managed to get out if we did, because the Speed Force is eternity itself," Barry finished.

"How the h*** did he get here?" Tony demands.

"Like I said. He calls himself the God of Speed. And honestly, he kinda deserves the title. He's ridiculously fast. Far faster than me. It would honestly be child's play for him to get between worlds. But still, how he got out of the Speed Force is beyond me," Barry says.

"Perhaps you did exactly as he wanted," Vision cuts in, "If he is somehow tied to the stone, and you threw it into the Speed Force, where he was trapped...maybe he was waiting for you to do that so he could get the stone and use it to escape the Speed Force."

Barry just sits there. He never thought about that. He silently curses himself for possibly letting Savitar out.

"In any case. This discussion can be tabled for a later time. Clear and present is Savitar," Natasha says, her tone indicating she's ready to get going.

"Agreed. Barry, I want you to confer with Tony and I, and tell us everything you possibly can about Savitar. The rest of you, get ready to go. We used to have the God of Thunder with us. Now, we're going after the God of Speed," Steve says.

The rest of the team nods and leaves the room. Steve and Tony both look at Barry, and Steve says, "Alright, Barry. Now, tell us. Tell us everything you know."

Dun dun dun! There we go. I hope you're all excited to see this play out. I am too.

Let me know if you think I made a mistake in changing the timeline from the TV show. If I get a lot of people who don't like it, I'll see about changing it. But, I felt like this would make the story easier for me to write. And, as I see it, episode 8 didn't do a lot to set up episode 9, so I didn't feel bad about switching them. Also, I hope you don't mind that Vision figured out how Savitar got free so fast. I felt with how smart he is, he could do that. As for why I made Savitar got out, it was the only plot path I could think of where he could come to Earth-99, and have the Avengers be able to see him.

Let me know any ideas you have of things you'd like to see happen during the war with Savitar, especially how you'd like to see him defeated. And give me suggestions for a Marvel hero or villain, whether they're already in the MCU or not, you'd like to have a cameo in this story. I want to do one, but I would like to do it according to my readers' opinions.

Also, just to confirm, there will be no characters from Earth-1 showing up to help or hinder them. This war will be solely between Savitar and the Avengers. Also, every Avenger still on Earth will take part in the fight against Savitar at some point or another. And, finally, I will confirm that Pietro will not wake up and join the fight against Savitar.

Keep those reviews coming. I'm not going to post the next chapter until this chapter gets at least 4 reviews.