Barry tapped his foot impatiently as he was about to go into diabetic shock in a local Starbucks. His watch, supposedly connected directly to his bloodstream, indicated he was low on calories. Barry was already late at 9:02 am as he finally came up to the register. He noticed with some concern Starbucks employees rushing to remove everything PRIDE related ASAP from the counters and into the back room.
"How can I help you?" the register guy asked him.
"Where's Sarah?" Barry asked alarmed.
"She's out sick or that's what she says. She's got a new boyfriend. You see what I did just there? I heavily implied she called in sick to have sex with her boyfriend," the register guy said smartly.
"Right, got it," Barry nodded.
"What can I get you?" the register guy asked again.
"Usually I get my usual and she always knows my usual and I'm already late as usual," Barry stammered.
"God damn, don't keep me in suspense," the register guy scolded.
"PB, raisins, bananas, honey, nut, cheese, on a roll," Barry listed off.
"You running a marathon or something?" the register guy asked him. "I knew a woman named Sharon who ran a marathon and she dropped dead afterward, not literally dead, she was just tired."
"I really don't give a shit. I need to get to work three minutes ago," Barry said worriedly. "I need you to rush my sandwich ASAP."
"You can't rush a good sandwich. What do you think we are? Subway?" the register guy denied.
"Just give me the fucking sandwich!" Barry freaked out on him and then got a call. "Alfred, this isn't a good time. The person who usually makes my sandwiches has called in sick to have sex with her boyfriend and...,"
"There's a robbery at Gotham General. Get there," Alfred ordered.
"In the middle of the day?" Barry questioned. "Call Superman."
"He's already engaged," Alfred said.
Barry eyed the television monitor showing the news of Superman dealing with a volcano erupting in Guatemala. "Well, that's bullshit. How about Diana?"
"She's not picking up which really annoys me. I'll be giving her a spanking later," Alfred said peeved.
"How many people have you called before you called me?" Barry wondered.
"You bitch when I call you and you bitch when I don't call you," Alfred noted.
"Is my sandwich ready?" Barry asked the register guy.
"You must be joking," he mocked as he took his sweet-ass time fixing it up.
"Fuck it," Barry realized and went inside the bathroom. He then zoomed out of there as the Flash faster than anyone could see. Barry did his pose in the middle of the street only to be interrupted by some fan girls.
"I love you!" one girl shouted at him.
"Yes, very nice," Barry said awkwardly. "Can I get that candy bar? In the name of justice?"
"No," the girl shot down.
"Get your ass in Gotham now, Barry," Batman radioed in.
Barry did his pose again and then ran through Central City, down the highway, across some fields, lakes, and tunnels, and into Gotham within a few seconds. He came to a halt near Gotham General. Upon arriving, the foundation of the hospital entrance collapsed threatening the integrity of the building. An ambulance started to fall into the sinkhole with its driver. Instead of rapidly taking the man out of the truck, Barry wrapped him up in a firehouse. "This is a huge mess. Batman, why aren't you here?" Barry complained.
Batman had more important things to do like kicking ass on criminals. He sped along Gotham streets, going after some criminal thieves in a Humvee. With the most durable Humvee on the planet, the criminals hit several vehicles and made some sharp turns to evade Batman. The Batcycle launched a battering ram that forced two cars out of Batman's way. The Humvee continued on its way ready to smack into some kids as they conveniently left their school bus. Batman fired off a ball that went underneath the Humvee, stopped on the street pavement, and unfolded into spikes. The Humvee driver evaded the spikes by taking a sharp left turn. As Batman continued pursuit, the criminals fired automatic rifles at him. Two shields unfolded from the Batcycle giving Batman some protection. Batman fired back with his own automatic rifle fire from the Batcycle but the bullets merely bounced off the Humvee.
After taking another turn, a criminal from inside the Humvee opened the gunner's hatch and fired an automatic rifle. Batman evaded their fire just as several GCPD cop cars rolled up. The criminals fired on the GCPD cop cars forcing a few of them to crash and take a tumble. Batman maneuvered around the fallen GCPD cop cars and continued pursuit. On the highway, the Humvee attempted to evade several cars at high-speed. Batman easily kept up with them. The criminals fired on a tanker truck causing it to swerve and explode killing the driver and nearby vehicle drivers. Batman glided through the explosion like a boss, fired a projectile cable gun at the Humvee, and latched on.
The Humvee worked to shake Batman off but he was persistent. He hit a few cars, the guardrails, skidded along the pavement, and jumped a few cars, as he continued the pursuit. Finally, Batman landed on the Humvee, disarmed the gunner, and kicked him out of the Humvee where he landed on the pavement. Batman then went inside the Humvee through the gunner hatch and started to kick ass on the leader. The driver, totally spooked, exited the Humvee and tumbled along the pavement. The Humvee lost control and crashed through the guardrail off the bridge. Batman fired a projectile cable gun at the bridge while keeping hold of the lead criminal and his briefcase with virals filled with weird-ass viruses.
"If that briefcase falls into the water, it could wipe out all of Gotham by sundown," Alfred warned.
Batman found this projectile cable gun no longer functioning and his grip on the lead criminal slipping. It would only be a matter of time before he was forced to let go.
Meanwhile, Barry was inside Gotham General working on the gas and water cables in the basement. As he did, he couldn't help but bitch about his situation. "I'm the janitor of the Justice League and that sucks. It's always a Bat-mess. I'm running on empty. My tummy hurts," Barry complained.
"Stop your bitching and catch those babies," Alfred scolded.
Barry went to work with his super-speed, running up the building, jumping off debris that was showering down, and saw several babies and a nurse in a precarious situation. Not only were they falling to their deaths but they also could be hit mid-air with various objects like scalpels, a jar of acid, and a desk. "Holy shit," Barry said stunned.
Realizing he was near critical, Barry punched through a falling vending machine and got himself some snacks. After stuffing his face, Barry put a baby in a microwave, fired off a gas canister right at another baby to supposedly knock the desk out of the way, and threw a shit pan at another baby to knock away the spilling acid jar. He then ran down the building to get himself a medical bed table. A sudden red and blue blur zipped the nurse and the babies all away in an instant.
"Barry Allen, you've made me very proud," Alfred said ignorantly.
"It wasn't me," Barry replied as he was now face-to-face with Supergirl. Kara eyed Barry with disdain as she stood before him.
"By my calculation, you were moving 30 times normal speed. You've gotten slow, Barry," Kara chided. (Barry fools around in the speed force for about three minutes for what should be a 6-second fall)
"Well, I missed out on brunch," Barry excused.
Kara stared him down. "You put a baby in a microwave? What the fuck is wrong with you?"
"Oh, so that's what gets me? Not the physical assault, sexual harassment, disorderly conduct, felony burglary, grooming of underage girls for my commune, underage sex with a minor, and kidnapping?" Barry asked incredulously.
Kara gave him an odd look. "I wasn't aware of all that."
"Oh...well...shit," Barry said embarrassed. "You know, I'm not all that mentally stable," he admitted.
"Join the club," Kara rolled her eyes.
"We should have a better Justice League mental healthcare plan," Barry complained.
"I'll deal with your nonsense later," Kara said and then flew off.
As Batman struggled with the criminal leader and his viral suitcase cliche, a sudden red beam incinerated the man and his suitcase leaving Batman with just a hand. Batman was then pulled up to the bridge by his cable. Upon Batman reaching the top of the bridge, he faced off with Kara. "Look how trans you have become," Kara insulted.
"Something far worse has happened to you, Red Daughter," Batman shot back.
"I'm over that phase," Kara said uncomfortably.
"I know where you came from before you called yourself Supergirl. You arose from the cold of Siberia, a clone," Batman insulted.
"Who are you to call me a clone? You worshipped the Batman so much that you gave up your name, your identity, and your sex to be him," Kara replied.
"It is who I was always meant to be," Batman said defensively.
"Yeah, bullshit," Kara doubted. "I mimic human mannerisms as a tool to accomplish my goals while you mold yourself to society's expectations of masculinity. We're not the same. You're a tool."
"You may try to take on Supergirl's mantra but you cannot deny the truth," Batman told her off.
"What truth?" Kara challenged.
"That you're a war criminal, a murderer, a Russian weapon. You killed my father and sister," Batman accused.
"I wasn't there," Kara denied.
"You might as well have been, and I will have my vengeance," Batman glared.
Barry then zipped into the scene. "Look, just because I groomed some kids into my sex cult doesn't mean I actually had sex. I mean, I understand sex. I just have never experienced it," he said defensively.
Batman gave him a WTF look, not having been part of the previous conversation. Kara gave him a condescending look. "I have to go. Always a pleasure," she said to them both and then flew off.
"Is there a way to recover from this?" Barry wondered.
"No," Batman shook his head.
"Well, I still need to get some brunch," Barry said and then zipped off.
Barry arrived at work fashionably late and met up with his boss. "Let me guess, your alarm clock didn't go off, your dog ate your alarm clock, your alarm clock ate your keys, or your grandmother died. What is it this time, Barry?" his boss asked pissed off.
"I was drunk as fuck last night at a karaoke bar and I threw a chair at a woman leading to my arrest," Barry excused.
"You can't keep doing this, Barry. You work for a forensics lab that works for the police, for God's sake. You need to focus, Barry. You have a lot of potential. I'd fire your ass but you're faster than anyone in this building combined," his boss told him.
"That's true," Barry nodded.
"Now, get me coffee," his boss ordered.
Barry put his head down as he went back to Starbucks.
After work, Barry ran into his semi-girlfriend. "Iris West," Barry identified as this woman was not white nor did she have red hair. "Barry Alen," she identified right back at him seeing as how Barry had black hair, and brown eyes, was scrawny, and not straight.
"Oh, wow, Barry has a friend, one single friend," his colleagues mocked as they went past him.
"It's people like you that make people like me want to kill themselves!" Barry scolded.
"I was thinking about you. Your father has his appeal trial tomorrow, right?" Iris said as they walked together.
"You were thinking about me because of my father's trial?" Barry wondered.
"How is he holding up?" Iris asked, ignoring his question.
"Well, you know, he's anxious to get out of prison and start a new life but he's also going to miss all of his cellmates," Barry said. "Oh, don't print that."
"I'm just asking as a friend," Iris clarified. "Although, I'm sure my newspaper would also like to know that, too."
"My only official comment is that my Dad is innocent, probably, maybe," Barry said.
"Of course, no one would want to believe that their father brutally murdered their mother like OJ Simpson," Iris said insensitively.
"Yeah," Barry agreed.
"I could come over to your place, review the case file with you, maybe cook dinner, watch a movie, cuddle, have sex," Iris suggested desperately.
"Actually, I'm a lot faster working on my Dad's case alone," Barry shot her down and walked off.
In his cheap-ass apartment, Barry worked on some video footage he collected from a surveillance camera that had been corrupted. He then called his Dad from prison. "Hey, Dad. I ran into an old friend, Iris West," Barry said vaguely.
"Didn't you have a monster crush on her when you were in elementary school?" Henry recalled.
"Yeah, well, that was before she got a tan and dyed her hair brown and started wearing brown contact lenses," Barry excused.
"You should ask her out," Henry advised.
"Dad, I'm g...good," Barry said awkwardly. "I just looked over the security footage and it's crystal clear now but you never looked up. Why didn't you fucking look up?! I spent hundreds of hours working on this! God damn it!"
"Don't worry about me, Barry. I'm good in here," Henry downplayed. "Go get yourself a girlfriend."
"I don't want a g...," Barry objected.
"We've gone over this before. Just go through the motions, easy thirty seconds," Henry told him. "Don't worry about me. It's actually easier living in here than outside in the scary world. Can you imagine getting blasted to pieces by that speedster as he's racing around the city, holy fuck!"
"Fuck it, I'm just going to free you. If Supergirl can slaughter people and start world wars and do whatever the fuck she wants, I should be able to get away with this," Barry reasoned.
"Barry, you're talking crazy. Supergirl is like a goddess. I mean, she can go back in time she's so fast," Henry told him. "Hey, the warden is coming for me with his stick, I better go. Oh, God!"
Barry then heard nothing but silence. "I have a way to get us both out of our legal troubles." Barry did his pose in his Flash suit and ran down the street at maximum speed. With a cry of effort, he broke the speed barrier and entered a blue world. There, his body became like goo as he was now in the present and past at the same time. "What...the...fuuuucccckkkk?" he said in slow motion.
Barry broke through and ended up in a forcefield bubble that acted like a treadmill. In this bubble, Barry slowed himself down as he went back in time one day to the point where he almost saved all those babies. "Wicked."
That night, Barry felt the need to consult with Alec Kane, the new Batman. "You went faster than the speed of light and went back in time. Neat," Alec said unimpressed.
"I just went back a day. Imagine if I went back years. I could save my mom, I could save your parents, your lovers, and your sister," Barry said.
"But then I wouldn't have transitioned into a man. I'd be Kate Kane again. Transitioning into a man is what makes me what I am," Alec objected.
"Maybe if I went back in time and disrupted how my parents conceived me, I wouldn't be so socially awkward and g...," Barry began.
"Barry, there's nothing about you that's broken that needs to be fixed. Your sexuality is what defines you," Alec told him.
"What if I don't want it to define me?" Barry asked wide-eyed. "I don't want to be a hero. I don't want to be alone."
"You're not alone," Alec said knowingly and then took off in his rich car.
"Nice ride," Iris said from the shadows.
"Holy shit," Barry said spooked. "Where did you come from?"
"Can we talk?" Iris asked, ignoring his question.
"Sure," Barry nodded.
"In your apartment," Iris clarified.
"Oh," Barry realized. He quickly raced into his room and got it tidy within a split second but in the most half-assed way possible. "Come in."
"Not going to lie, this is a lot tidier than I expected from a straight guy," Iris complimented.
"Damn," Barry realized. "Can I offer you a drink? Wine? Margarita?"
"Beer," Iris replied.
"Shit," Barry sighed and then quickened his molecular structure through the wall, into the apartment next to him, into a fridge, and then took two beers.
"Thanks," Iris said appreciatively as they sat down across from each other.
Barry opened his beer with a splash having never opened one before in his life. "I feel really bad. I should have been more sensitive to your needs," Iris said apologetically.
"And I could have been less sensitive," Barry agreed.
"You know, you lost both your parents on the same day. That must be a bitch," Iris said insensitively.
"Damn," Barry said dumbfounded.
"Is that why you got into criminal forensics, to fix the system?" Iris asked.
"Yeah, sure...yep, to fix it," Barry said half-heartedly. "I mean, I had this case in the bag except my Dad didn't look up. He was looking at the wrong shelf of tomatoes. Those tomatoes fucked me!"
Barry got up as he had an epiphany. "I know what I must do. Thank you, Iris. When I come back, I'll be so straight edge for you."
As the Flash, Barry ran as fast as he could and went back in time. He went all the way to when his parents conceived him and jolted the house with his speed at exactly the right moment to get a slightly different result. Barry then went forward in time and saw how he had changed the space-time continuum. His new self looked different with lighter brown hair, more athletic, more confident, and appeared to be happy. Their mother still got brutally murdered but things were on the upside. Barry watched his alternative self admiringly and then suddenly got bitch-slapped by an unknown assailant. Barry fell out of the time vortex and landed in his neighborhood in the fall of 2014.
Upon regaining his senses, Barry scoped out the area. Looking down, he noticed his Flash costume made him stand out. He eyed an elderly couple nearby and proceeded to zip around them, stealing the old lady's sweater, leggings, and heels. He entered his old house and looked around. It was then that he noticed his alternative self approach wearing a Star Labs T-shirt. Barry decided to ambush his alternative self and slam him up against the wall of the house out of sight.
"What year is it? How old are you? Why don't you look like a Mexican?" Barry asked rapidly.
"I'm going to have to get back to you on that," Barry-1 said and then fainted.
"Well...shit," Barry sighed.
Barry-1 got his ass hauled upstairs and slapped around until he woke up. "You're from the future?" Barry-1 questioned.
"That's what I just explained to you off-screen," Barry said annoyed. "I'm supposed to be back in the present but I'm still in the past. This isn't supposed to happen, us, interacting, being in the same room."
"You're saying we're a...superhero...that travels through time?" Barry-1 asked confused.
"No, you're not anything which is a good thing. You're straight edge just as I planned," Barry said pleased.
"If what you're saying is true, show me," Barry-1 said skeptically.
Barry zipped by him a few times at fast speed. "I believe you now," Barry-1 nodded. "This is deep."
"Just promise me that meeting me isn't going to fuck up the space-time continuum," Barry said anxiously.
"Don't worry. I got you," Barry-1 assured him.
"I'm in so much shit," Barry realized.
"If you're me, how come you're so neurotic, anxious, effeminate?" Barry-1 asked.
"That's the thing. I went back in time and altered your/our conception. That's why you look, sound, and act differently than I do," Barry explained.
"Then, why haven't you changed into me then? Or shouldn't this create a time paradox where you shouldn't even be here?" Barry-1 questioned.
"Excellent questions. I have no idea," Barry admitted.
"I have to get down to Star Labs. Iris is going to be there," Barry-1 said urgently.
"Iris, Iris West? Are you two together? Are you going to get married to her?" Barry questioned.
"No...she's my adopted sister. We could never be like that. You're a sick person, you know that?" Barry-1 said shocked and appalled.
Barry gave him an odd look. "How did that come about?"
"Well, after my mother died and my father went to jail, Joe West took me in," Barry-1 explained.
"You said you were going to Star Labs? What day is it today?" Barry asked.
"October 7th, 2014," he replied.
"This is the day I got my powers. The day you get your powers," Barry realized. "If you don't get your powers, then maybe I don't get my powers causing a time paradox or maybe I'm stuck in this time forever and can't get back."
"Alright, I have to be there anyway. Let's go," Barry-1 said enthusiastically.
Barry-1 and Iris met up at Star Labs. As they approached the entrance, they saw numerous protestors with signs pissed off that the new particle accelerator could end their existence in a black hole. "Look at all these fools with their fearmongering. The way they carry on, you'd think the particle accelerator could turn someone into a meta-human that could threaten all existence in the space-time continuum," Iris noted.
"Yeah, quite alarmist...actually," Barry-1 said awkwardly and looked around nervously.
"People are always afraid of change and real science," Iris critiqued.
"Yeah, they made the same complaints about the atom bomb and it turned out to be nothing," Barry-1 noted.
Iris gave him an odd look. "Barry, what the fuck?"
"You know, I've noticed that I'm single and you're single," Barry-1 said awkwardly.
"That's why I'm here with you," Iris rolled her eyes.
"Damn," Barry-1 said destroyed.
"I know what you're about to say, Barry," Iris said knowingly.
"I don't think you do," Barry-1 said as he internally screamed.
"Hey, just because we lived in the same house for years and are practically brother and sister doesn't mean you can't talk to me about girls without it being awkward. You're my brother, Barry, my best friend," Iris told him. "Nothing would make me happier than to have you meet the right person that sees you for the amazing guy that you are."
"Fuck me," Barry-1 muttered.
A man then suddenly took off with Iris's purse. "Go get him," Iris said to Barry-1.
Barry-1 chased after the thief all the way to his crime lab. It was then that he realized the thief was Barry. "Why did you do that?" Barry-1 asked shocked and appalled.
"I had to lure you here. This is where you get your powers tonight," Barry said.
"Could have just told me," Barry-1 said annoyed.
"I have this thing...where I steal things," Barry admitted. "I also sabotaged the particle accelerator to make this work."
"You did what?" Barry-1 freaked out at him.
"It's okay. It's how you get your powers and save the world and shit," Barry said dismissively.
Outside, it started to rain and thunder. A distance away, the particle accelerator at Star Labs exploded and released a shockwave of energy creating a pillar of light to the sky. "Good, it's started," Barry said pleased.
"What the fuck did you do?" Barry-1 asked stupefied.
"Now, you're going to get electrocuted right there," Barry pointed out.
"I don't think I like any of this," Barry-1 protested.
A lightning burst from the sky, charged by the particle accelerator, went through the ceiling window and hit Barry. The lightning went through Barry and then zapped Barry-1 in front of the chemical vials. Barry-1 collapsed and got bathed in random chemicals.
After a few minutes, Barry recovered and noticed that Barry-1 was rapidly healing from his injury. "It worked," he said pleased.
Barry quickly realized he had lost his powers and Barry-1 was still unconscious. "Well...shit," he muttered. Barry picked up Barry-1 and carried him to his nearby apartment through the rain, and then sat him down in a chair.
"I've lost my powers getting you powers, so I don't know how to get back," Barry admitted. "I might actually be stuck here."
"Wait...I have powers...now?" Barry-1 said groggily. He then sped around the room creating static electricity throughout the apartment. Barry-1 then slowed himself down to normal after wrecking his place.
"I know this is incredibly exciting but...," Barry told him.
"I have to try this shit out," Barry-1 smiled and then sped down the street. He quickly realized his clothes were on fire and disintegrating. After nearly causing several car crashes, Barry-1 returned to his apartment naked.
"It's the friction," Barry said obviously.
"Right," Barry-1 nodded. "That makes sense. Why do I feel so hungry?"
"It's our main weakness, not enough calories," Barry explained. "Now, when you use your super-speed, you can't move normal people around too fast or you'll destroy them. Instead, you can move objects around like a microwave. So, if you want to save a baby, for example, put the baby in a microwave and then move it."
"What the fuck?" Barry-1 asked softly. He then vibrated very quickly and fell through the floor causing the resident below to scream in terror. Barry-1 then sheepishly entered his apartment naked again. Barry gave him a pedo-bear bathrobe.
"Where did you get this?" Barry-1 wondered, shocked and appalled.
"Now, let me talk about the suit. I developed it based on the mechanics of ice skating and space shuttles reentering Earth's atmosphere," Barry began. As he was about to explain more, he found Barry-1 fast asleep, completely exhausted.
The next morning, Barry and Barry-1 were outside. "Push this button on this ring and a full-sized suit comes out," Barry instructed his counterpart. He proceeded to do so with the suit coming out of the ring and flopping on the ground.
"You're supposed to put it on before it hits the ground," Barry lectured.
"That was so tiny. Do you realize what you've accomplished? You are able to expand and contract objects on a molecular level. This is absolute genius," Barry-1 complimented.
"It was actually made by a friendly terminator. Now, put it on," Barry corrected.
Barry-1 rapidly entered the suit becoming the Flash. "Wow, this is really tight," he said of the suit.
"That's what he said," Barry rolled his eyes.
"I know, that's what I said," Barry-1 said confused.
"Look, if I can train you to go back in time, maybe we can find a way to get me back to the future," Barry theorized.
"Like Eric Stoltz in Back to the Future," Barry-1 recalled.
"The fuck did I just hear? You mean, Michael J. Fox," Barry corrected.
People in the park around them started to freak out over something. Figuring something was wrong, Barry-1 took off the suit, and then two Barrys entered a nearby bar. There, on the TV monitor, they could see a Kryptonian ship. "Holy shit," Barry said stunned, and then took a shot off a platter to calm himself down. The power suddenly went out and then they heard General Zod's message.
"What's happening?" Barry-1 asked concernedly.
"Zod is looking for Superman," Barry told him.
"What's a Superman?" Barry-1 wondered.
"Oh my God, we're so fucked," Barry realized.
Barry took Barry-1 outside the bar to explain the situation. "Superman is an alien that looks human but is very powerful. His power is that he has lots of powers. Zod is also an alien from the very same planet, also very powerful. So, Zod came to Earth to find Superman but then Zod tried to terraform the planet with a world engine thing. Superman stopped Zod but not before tens of thousands of people died."
"Were you there as the Flash?" Barry-1 asked him.
"No, I hadn't gotten my powers yet. In my time, this took place in 2003. Why is it happening in 2014?" Barry wondered. "Anyway, only Superman can stop Zod. If I can find the entire Justice League, Superman and the rest of the band, maybe I can stop it from happening at all."
"Sounds like a plan," Barry-1 nodded.
The two Barrys went back to the apartment. "I need your laptop and your phone," Barry requested. He called up Thomas Curry at the Maine lighthouse, the father of Arthur Curry, the Aquaman.
"Could I speak to Arthur? Is he around?" Barry asked Thomas.
"You mean my dog?" Thomas wondered.
"You named your dog after your son?" Barry asked confused.
"No," Thomas replied.
"Is your wife the Queen of Atlantis?" Barry pressed.
"No," Thomas replied.
"Did you ever impregnate a fish woman that randomly entered your life?" Barry asked bluntly.
"Very funny, asshole," Thomas said and then hung up.
"Arthur Curry was never born. I broke history," Barry realized.
"Just like Eric Stoltz," Barry-1 nodded.
"Why do you keep saying that?" Barry asked distressed. "Wait, not only did I go back in time, I crossed over into another universe," he realized as he began searching random actors and their movies. "That means...I never changed my own past, just your past. I fucked myself. Shit, are there any actual superheroes in this universe?"
"There's...Batman," Barry-1 recalled.
"Who is he?" Barry tested.
"No one knows who he is. It's a total mystery. I tried," Barry-1 admitted.
"It's Bruce Wayne," Barry revealed.
"Damn, should have known," Barry-1 said embarrassed.
"We have to go to Gotham," Barry said urgently.
Gotham
Barry and Barry-1 drove up to Wayne Manor. "Looks like hell," Barry-1 said nervously.
The mansion was unlocked allowing them inside. The two took a tour inside the mansion and heard rock music playing. In the living room, Barry and Barry-1 noticed paintings of various women. "I didn't know he painted," Barry noted. "Bruce Wayne!"
The two continued to look around and entered the kitchen. "Boiling water in a pot, slipper, he's here," Barry-1 said using his forensic skills to work.
The cabinet opened revealing a woman with a pistol. "What are you two assholes doing here?" she demanded of them. Barry and Barry-1 eyed the slender young woman with short brown hair.
"We're looking for Bruce Wayne. Who are you?" Barry asked her.
"I'm the lesbian that lives here," Kate said vaguely.
"Yeah, well, we're looking for Bruce Wayne, the Batman," Barry insisted.
"We should talk," Kate said as she lowered her pistol.
Kate listened to Barry's explanation of events. "You're saying your friends with Bruce Wayne in the future in another universe?" she asked skeptically.
"Best friends even," Barry nodded.
"Sounds like bullshit," Kate rolled her eyes.
"Well, actually, I'm friends with you as well, sort of," Barry said awkwardly.
"What do you mean?" Kate narrowed her eyes at him.
"Well, you were Batwoman for a year, then you took off to find yourself for a couple of years, and then you came back as a man. Now, you're the new Batman," Barry explained.
"What the fuck?" Kate shook her head dismayed.
"I know. I was just as shocked by it," Barry said sympathetically. "I don't understand this. I went back in time and now I'm in a completely different universe."
"It's to avoid the time paradox. You changing the past in another universe doesn't change your own past and thus you can't create a time paradox here," Kate explained.
"So, it's impossible to change my own past in my own universe?" Barry questioned.
"Or you just fucked up," Kate smirked. "The key to the multiverse is not to try to change your own past. It's to find a universe where your loved ones are still alive and then live in that universe."
"Damn," Barry realized.
"So, what's up with this Zod character trying to destroy the Earth?" Kate asked, pointing to a TV monitor.
"He's after Superman, an alien that has super-strength, can fly, and shoots lasers out of his eyes," Barry said.
"Never heard of him," Kate shrugged.
"Alright, I didn't want to mention her...but...is there a...Supergirl in this universe?" Barry cringed.
Kate chuckled at that. "No."
"Thank God. I mean, no, she might be the key to solving this or destroying the world," Barry said flustered.
"Sounds like a girl I'd like to meet," Kate smiled.
"No, she's psychotically evil. You two should never team up," Barry insisted. "Look, we need the Batman."
"He's retired," Kate said flatly. "There's been no need for Batman in years. Gotham is one of the safest cities in the world."
"So, you're saying that if we fuck up the city enough, he'll come back," Barry reasoned.
"Why do you need Bruce so badly for?" Kate asked confused.
"He's our leader, our strategist, the only person in the world that can help me find Superman in this universe," Barry said.
"Well, isn't that a bit misogynist?" Kate rolled her eyes. "I have access to all his toys and suits."
Kate led them both into the Bat Cave and turned on the power activating all the lights and computers. "Wow, this place puts Star Labs to shame," Barry-1 remarked. He then raced around the cave examining everything.
"What's Superman's alter ego alias?" Kate asked as she accused the computer.
"Clark Kent," Barry replied.
Kate frowned as she entered the name. "There are over twelve thousand results," she said.
"Narrow it down to Smallville, Kansas," Barry instructed.
"Nothing," Kate said flatly.
"Okay, try to find anything that might have hit the Kansas area in the last couple of decades," Barry said.
"This car is something else," Barry-1 remarked of the Batmobile.
"Don't touch the car," Kate yelled at him. She then turned to Barry. "Nothing."
"Okay, try the entire planet then," Barry said exasperated.
"Why did you even go back in time? To save a loved one?" Kate asked.
"It was to alter my conception so that I wouldn't be so...queer," Barry admitted.
Kate stood up and stared him down. "What the fuck? Why would you do that?" she asked offended. "Being queer is a gift. It's who you are. You can't change that? Why would you want to change that?"
"Look, it's more than just being gay, alright. I'm queer in other areas, too, that are not so easy to get over," Barry said defensively.
"Like what?" Kate rolled her eyes.
"Like, the fact that I like a girl but I can never give her affection. I can't keep eye contact with anyone for more than a second. I have anxiety attacks and compulsive disorder, and I get extreme highs and lows. I steal shit just because. I really tried to fix myself. I figured that if I...kidnapped some underage girls for my commune, I would feel something but nothing worked," Barry confessed.
"Holy shit, you are fucked up," Kate realized.
"I am in so much legal trouble right now if anyone found out Barry Allen and the Flash are the same person," Barry frowned.
"Have you ever considered the idea that you're the bad guy?" Kate asked.
"What? No. I save people plenty of times. I'm a Justice League member," Barry told her off.
"At first, I was totally offended by you going back in time to give yourself gay conversion therapy but after you told me about your fucked-up life, I now approve," Kate said, calming herself down.
"When I look at him and his potential, I feel I made the right call," Barry said of Barry-1 who was still examining random stuff.
"Alright, just don't do it to me. I like being a lesbian," Kate smiled.
After a few hours of research, Kate looked for something else. "I think I got him," Kate said as she found an anti-matter signature on the map.
"What is it?" Barry asked confused.
"An anti-matter signature, enough to wipe out all life on the planet. It has to be his ship," Kate reasoned.
Barry turned to Barry-1. "We're leaving."
"Where?" Barry-1 asked.
"National City," Barry told him.
"How are we going to get there? You said that if I use the speed force while carrying someone, it could fuck them up," Barry-1 pointed out.
"We'll go in that," Kate said as she activated the Batwing. The Batwing slowly came down and shifted into position from thick cables. It was now positioned at the cave exit. "Suit up."
Barry-1 smiled as he activated the ring giving him the Flash suit. Kate and Barry then entered the suit chamber. "You going in one of his suits? It is literal perfection," Barry said admiringly.
"It will be...when it's worn by a woman," Kate smiled as she unlocked a capsule showing a feminine Batwoman suit.
National City
The three took off in the Batwing with Kate piloting. Going super-sonic speeds, the Batwing went over the snowy Rocky Mountains and headed toward the American west coast. "We're here," Kate said as they arrived just outside National City.
"What's the plan?" Barry-1 asked nervously.
"We get Superman and take off," Barry said vaguely.
The floor opened and their seats lowered so that they were in the air. "Follow me to the drop zone," Kate said to them. "Your seats have parachutes."
"Where's yours?" Barry-1 asked concernedly.
Kate merely smirked and then glided down. "Of course," Barry nodded, and then they fell out of their seats with parachutes opening. With the Batwing on auto-pilot, the three landed on the desert ground at night. They came before the DEO desert base.
"All clear," Kate said as she scoped the place out with her thermal binoculars.
Kate then fired a projectile cable gun at the roof of the DEO as Barry-1 sped up the wall to the top. Barry got close to Kate as she was about to take them both up. "Don't get too comfortable," she warned him.
"That would be impossible," Barry assured her.
Kate then launched them both to the roof of the DEO. On the roof, they found a missile silo shaft. "The signal is down there," she pointed out. The three slowly made their way down using the ladder and reached the bottom floor. There, they saw DEO lab technicians working on alien shit. The three snuck around avoiding the scientists until Barry-1 suddenly banged into a canister and let a shovel fall to the floor.
Dr. Alexandra Danvers noticed the intruders and immediately pushed the alarm. DEO personnel in black SWAT suits immediately entered the missile silo ground floor and fired automatic rifles on them. Barry-1 moved Barry out of the way before he could get shot causing him to violently vomit all over the floor. "Freeze, assholes," Hank Henshaw ordered both Barrys.
From the upper floor of the missile silo, Kate swooped in and tossed a few DEO guys around. The DEO opened fire on her, all of their bullets bouncing off her invulnerable suit. Kate turned around as they reloaded and threw Batarangs disarming them. Kate then kicked ass on the DEO SWAT guys taking them down one by one in the darkness. Hank grabbed Kate around her waist to restrain her. Kate threw a Batarang into the air that bounced off the missile silo wall and then hit Hank in the head. Kate then kicked Hank away as soon as she was free.
"Let's go," Kate said to the two Barrys.
The three went deep into the DEO where they found the Kryptonian ship and a large metal spherical object. "Superman must be in there," Kate figured. She immediately hacked the DEO system with her Bat-phone.
"You're hacking into a secure government facility that handles aliens with a smartphone?" Barry-1 asked skeptically.
"I'm Batwoman," Kate reminded him and then opened the metal sphere. Inside the sphere, there were extremely bright yellow lights. As the doors to the sphere opened, the lights went off.
The three entered the sphere and noticed a Kryptonian suit on the floor. They then eyed Kara Zor-El in a white Kryptonian dress with the House of El crest on her chest. "It's not him," Kate said obviously.
"No, it's her," Barry said wide-eyed.
"Why are you here?" Kara demanded.
"You're not a prisoner?" Barry-1 asked confused.
"This is my room, my meditation chamber. So, I'll ask again...why are you here?" Kara asked as her eyes went red.
"Abort mission or we're fucked," Barry said freaked out.
DEO SWAT guys immediately moved to their position. Kate looked around for an exit and then eyed a large pit underneath Kara's chambers. Kate jumped into the pit and glided around as she was being shot at while Barry-1 sped the other Barry to the bottom. Kate took a tumble as she landed at the bottom and then went to work to slice open a vent.
The DEO fired on the cables attached to Kara's room with the intent of crushing them both. Kara eyed the three as they struggled to open the vent and get away. Finally, the DEO cut the cables sending Kara's chambers down upon the three. They escaped through the vent just in time. Kara then went up to Hank Henshaw.
"That was my room," she said annoyed.
"You could have caught them for us," Hank said annoyed.
"They won't get far," Kara assured him.
Kate and the two Barrys went through the DEO tunnel system to find an exit. Barry-1 was wincing from being shot in the leg and was, for the moment, practically disabled. The three found themselves in another missile silo. "Hold on," Kate said to the others as she placed an explosive underneath a platform. The DEO quickly reached their position. Kate detonated the explosive blasting the DEO back and forcing the platform they were on to shoot to the top. The three flew up into the air and landed back down on the DEO roof with a thud.
The DEO quickly surrounded them on the roof. "What's the plan, Batwoman?" Barry asked.
"Try not to die," Kate said as she saw Supergirl in her suit in the air.
Kara landed on the roof and eyed the three of them. "Stand down," she said to the DEO SWAT guys. "My name is Kara Zor-El. Why are you here?" she demanded of them.
"We were looking for Superman, Kal-El," Barry said to her.
Kara twitched at that name. "What do you want with Kal-El?"
"He's the only one that can save this world from Zod," Barry told her.
"The only one?" Kara questioned.
"If Zod isn't stopped, thousands will die," Barry-1 said to her.
"Billions," Kara corrected.
"A lot of good people, people worth saving," Barry-1 insisted.
"Not my people," Kara said coldly.
"Like Alex," Barry said, attempting to trigger her.
"What about Dr. Danvers?" Kara asked confused.
"You lived together as teens, you're practically sisters, soul-mates," Barry said to her.
Kara gave him an odd look and then Hank arrived on the scene. "I say we give all three of them enhanced interrogation."
"Try it, asshole," Kate threatened as she was about to detonate a bomb that would kill every human on the roof.
"They're telling the truth," a DEO agent said to Kara. "This one is from another universe, another timeline," he pointed to Barry.
"Agent Jones, you psychic or something?" Hank scoffed. "That sounds like bullshit."
Kara eyed Agent Jones and then nodded. She went over to the three. "I'll handle Zod. Go back to where you came from."
"Well, okay then," Kate said as the Batwing circled around.
"You're going to just let them leave?" Hank asked incredulously.
"If we make a move, every human on this rooftop will be killed," Kara said to him.
Kate fired a projectile cable gun at the Batwing, took hold of both Barrys, and then took off with them. The DEO SWAT guys fired at the Batwing as it took off. Anti-aircraft missiles fired off at it. The Batwing out-maneuvered the missiles and then disappeared from sight.
"Why didn't you shoot it down?" Hank asked annoyed.
"Killing humans is your arena, not mine," Kara told him off.
"Zod is coming here. You prepared to do what is necessary?" Hank asked her.
Kara said nothing to that and walked off.
Gotham
Kate and the two Barrys regrouped. "Well, that was an epic fail," Kate said displeased.
"I have to get my powers back," Barry realized. "I can recreate the accident that gave me powers and maybe we can stand a chance against Zod."
"And kill yourself in the process," Kate rejected. "Tell me something. If you got your powers back, you could go anywhere, another universe. Why fight to save this one?"
"Because this one is the one where I'm a good person," Barry admitted.
"We've all made mistakes. It's the mistakes we've made that make us who we are. Without them, I don't know who I would be without them. When I joined the Air Force, I fell in love with another recruit, and I mouthed off about it. I basically dared to have them kick me out, and they did. Not a day goes by that I wonder what would become of me if I had just played by the rules. Maybe, I'd be a fighter pilot by now. But then...I wouldn't be this," Kate said of the Bat Cave.
"I think my mistakes are a lot more serious," Barry smiled sadly.
"So, you're going to douse yourself with chemicals while electrocuted? Need any help?" Kate asked.
National City
At the desert DEO base, Kara was dressed in a black Supergirl uniform. At her side was Alex in her DEO science uniform. Behind them were DEO security forces composed of tanks, armored vehicles, and infantry. In the air were several attack helicopters hovering. They had an array of weaponry from typical conventional arms to Kryptonite to sonic weapons, some of which were actually designed by Kara, herself.
"Thank you," Kara said appreciatively to Alex.
"For what?" Alex asked confused.
"For believing in me," Kara said sincerely.
Alex looked away embarrassed. "You don't have to invite me onto the ship just to satisfy my curiosity."
"When I'm with my people, I will be tempted to think as they do, act as they do. You're a reminder for me to consider the interests of humanity and that makes you my conscience," Kara said to her.
"You always tell me how irrational and emotional I am," Alex pointed out.
"When faced with multiple logical conclusions, it can make the difference," Kara replied. The two heard a nearby sonic boom from the Kryptonian shuttle.
The Kryptonian ship was shaped similarly to a black beetle. It settled on the ground in front of the DEO forces. The ship opened revealing a Kryptonian woman in black armor that covered her entire body. Her helmet became translucent as she approached Kara. She gave Kara a look of amusement. The last time they had seen each other, Kara was only a teenager, a child.
"Kara Zor-El, do you remember me?" she asked in Kryptonian.
"Sub-Commander Faora-Ur," Kara identified for Alex's benefit.
"On behalf of General Zod, I extend to you his greetings," Faora said politely and then eyed Alex with some suspicion.
"I request that this woman accompany me," Kara said to her.
"We're here only for you, Kara Zor-El," Faora replied.
"Then, I am unwilling to comply with the general's order," Kara said boldly.
"Is that what you wish for me to tell him?" Faora asked, on the verge of freaking out on her.
"What you tell the general is no concern of mine," Kara replied.
Faora and Kara stared each other down. "Very well," Faora said finally. "What are your name and title?" she asked Alex in English.
"Dr. Alexandra Danvers," Alex replied.
Faora gave her a condescending look as if Alex's title was a joke to her. She turned back to the ship with Kara and Alex following. The Kryptonian beetle ship then took off into space. Inside the ship, Alex eyed the black architecture of the ship and the lack of lighting. Faora went up the stairs to the cockpit and then came back down with a breathing apparatus.
"The atmospheric composition of our ship is not compatible with humans. You will need to breathe with this beyond this point," Faora said and then placed it around Alex's neck forming a translucent helmet around her head.
The Kryptonian beetle ship then docked with the World Engine, General Zod's mothership. Making their way to the bridge, the architecture continued to be a consistent black. The bridge itself had a large window upon which the planet Earth and the sun could be seen together. The bridge also had a number of hologram control panels. Upon entering the bridge, Zod turned around and focused on Kara. With him were several rebel associates that included Astra and Non.
Kara gave Astra a glance as she walked toward Zod. "Kara Zor-El, you have no idea how long it took us to reach this world of yours," Zod said warmly.
"I imagine it wasn't easy nor convenient," Kara replied.
"You will address him as general, General Zod," Faora barked.
"It's alright, Faora, we can forgive Kara for any lapses in decorum. It's been so long that you must now be a stranger to Kryptonian ways. This should be a cause of celebration, not conflict," Zod said reasonably.
Kara felt her nose and noticed it was bleeding, the first time she had bled since arriving on Earth. "Problem?" Zod asked.
"It will run its course," Kara said dismissively and focused herself.
"Where is Kal-El?" Zod asked.
"He is with me," Kara replied. "How did you escape the Phantom Zone."
"The destruction of our world freed us. We were adrift, destined to float among the ruins of our planet until we starved," Zod explained.
"How did you find your way to Earth?" Kara asked.
"We managed to retrofit the phantom projector into a hyperdrive. Your father and uncle made a similar modification to the craft that brought you here and so the instrument of our damnation became our salvation," Zod said. "We sought out the old colonial outposts looking for signs of life but all we found was death. Cut off from Krypton, these outposts whithered and died long ago. We salvaged what we could, armor, weapons, even a world engine. For years, we prepared until, finally, we detected a distress beacon from your ship which you triggered."
Kara gave nothing away as Zod continued. "You led us here, Kara. And now, it is within your power to save what remains of your race. Your uncle stole the codex and placed it in the pod that brought his son here."
"For what purpose?" Kara asked already knowing the answer.
"So, Krypton can live again on Earth," Zod said ambitiously. "Where is the Codex, Kara?"
Kara turned to Alex and then back to Zod. "I've come to bargain."
"What?" Faora snapped outraged.
"What do you want, Kara?" Zod asked patiently.
"In return for the Codex, I'll assist to make the world engine operational on another planet in this system. On the second planet of this system, you will experience even greater yellow sun radiation," Kara offered.
"The second planet in this system is hostile to life even with our newfound powers. The world engine will not be able to bear the heat and pressure of its surface," Zod judged.
"With my scientific engineering background, I will make it work. In the meantime, you and your crew can live peacefully with the humans," Kara suggested.
"We should interrogate her and force the Codex from her," Faora argued.
"You'll never find it and the humans have weapons that can destroy your world engines. In addition, I have lived on this planet for many years. If you make a move against the humans, it will be war," Kara said calmly.
"So, you would side with the humans over us?" Zod questioned.
"I seek peaceful coexistence," Kara said simply.
"Peaceful coexistence is impossible so long as these humans destroy their own environment," Astra brought up.
Kara turned to her. "If what you say is true, let them. When they're finished, we will terraform the Earth to our liking," Kara said.
"And how long are we to wait for that?" Zod asked skeptically.
"As long as it takes," Kara replied. "Kal-El has lived his entire life with the humans. He has grown attached to them and, as his guardian, I will not take them away from him."
"The Codex is, no doubt, in the boy, the son of Jor-El," Jax surmised.
"Knowing my niece, she has already extracted the Codex from the boy. We cannot risk losing it forever. There are too few of us," Astra said.
Kara said nothing to that giving nothing away. Zod gave Kara a frustrated look but considered his position. "You will help us terraform the second planet in this solar system, assist us in adapting to life on Earth, and serve the interests of New Krypton. In return, we will not interfere with the humans."
"Agreed," Kara replied.
"Now...kneel before Zod," Zod ordered.
Kara sighed, gave Alex a look, and then gave Zod a slow kneel of submission.
Gotham
It was a stormy cliche day in Gotham. Kate sent out a Bat-kite up into the air to act as a lightning rod. "When I pull the switch, the lightning should come right to the kite," Kate said to the two Barrys.
"Lock me in," Barry said to Barry-1.
"You sure this is going to work?" Barry-1 doubted.
"Of course, it's going to work," Barry said confidently as he took off his shirt and locked his wrists to a chair. Behind the chair was an assortment of chemicals. "We've already done it before and we have Batwoman with us. What could go wrong?"
"For the record, I think this is insane," Kate remarked. "Get back," she warned Barry-1.
"Do it!" Barry shouted, ready to go.
Lightning from the kite hit Barry full force and covered him in liquid chemicals. The resulting strike and chemical exposure burned him severely. "Go again," Barry said weakly.
Kate reluctantly did so allowing for another lightning strike. This time, Barry was completely fried with his skin now black and his hair falling out. He looked dead. "Barry, come on, heal," Barry-1 said stressed out. Barry then began to heal from all of his injuries as he regained his speed. "It worked," Barry-1 smiled.
Barry got back to his feet. "That hurt," he said stunned.
"You're going to need this," Barry-1 said giving back the ring.
Barry took the ring and immediately became Flash again. "Now, let's get you a suit."
Kate watched as the two Barrys took a Bat-suit and started modifying it into a Flash suit. They spray-painted it red, placed yellow lightning bolts all over it, and modified the cowl by slicing off the ears and taking off the cape. "Just so you know, what you're doing, from my point of view, is a total abomination," Kate said peeved.
"Now, the suit is literal perfection," Barry-1 smiled as he put it on.
"Kill me," Kate rolled her eyes.
"You in?" Barry asked her.
"You want to get queer? Let's get queer," Kate agreed
National City
Five Kryptonian beetle ships exited the mothership and came down to Earth to meet with the DEO forces. Upon landing, the larger ship opened up revealing Zod, Faora, Kara, and Alex. The DEO remained cautious as Hank went out to meet them.
"We have reached an accord," Zod said to Hank. "We will settle here for the time being and blend in. There's much our two cultures can learn from one another. In time, we will depart this world to terraform the second planet in this solar system."
"On behalf of Earth, I accept your residency," Hank replied.
The Batwing headed toward the DEO desert base at maximum speed. "What if Supergirl stops the war?" Barry-1 asked.
"No, Supergirl is a psychotic bitch. She's likely joined their side to conquer the planet. She cannot be trusted," Barry warned.
"I'm staying up here to take out their sky power," Kate told them.
"So, just the two of us against the entire Kryptonian army," Barry said to his counterpart. "You have to distract them long enough for me to take out Zod. Also, your suit isn't going to dissipate energy like mine. It's going to build up charge."
"But it's rubber," Barry-1 said confused.
DEO anti-aircraft guns fired on the Batwing as it approached. "The humans are shooting at us," Kate said annoyed.
"They don't know we're on their side," Barry excused.
The Batwing went low as it evaded DEO fire and dropped the two Barrys onto the ground. "What the fuck is this?" Zod asked Hank. "A trap?" Immediately, Kryptonian forces fired upon the DEO in energetic explosions. Kryptonian soldiers on the ground fired plasma rifles at DEO personnel in a total clusterfuck. The Kryptonian ships took to the air and fired on the DEO infantry. Nam-Ek caught himself a missle and then beat fools with it. Faora knocked down several soldiers to the ground within a split second.
"You really think we can take those two on?" Barry-1 doubted.
"We attack that group over there. I'll disarm them and then you engage," Barry said to him.
Barry disarmed one of the Kryptonians of his rifle just as Barry-1 came in for a strike. The Kryptonian quickly took out his knife and sliced Barry-1 to the cheek stunning him. The Kryptonian went for the kill until Barry sank his fist inside his chest with rapid movement, dropping him. "They're fast," Barry-1 noted.
"We're faster," Barry assured him.
"Fuck it. I'm going to terraform this world now," Zod said to Kara and went to his wrist controls.
Kara fired heat vision on his wrist controls disabling them. She then punched Zod across the ground. Before he could get up, Kara picked Zod off the ground and into the air. She then punched him in the air as the Batwing swung around. Kate expertly piloted the Batwing between two Kryptonian ships. She fired cables from the nose of the Batwing at the two Kryptonian ships and went around a rock formation. The two Kryptonian ships collided with each other disabling both of them in an explosion.
Barry and Barry-1 worked on a new plan. "I'm going to form a diversion and then you come in for the attack," Barry said as he formed a dust devil with his speed. The Kryptonian spun around in the dust devil slightly inconveniencing him and then Barry-1 gave him a solid kick. Barry-1 then shocked another Kryptonian with the speed charge he had stored up from his move. The energy discharge blasted both the Kryptonian and Barry-1 back.
Zod jumped up and punched Kara through a helicopter that proceeded to fall to the ground. Kara steadied the helicopter on the ground before it could crash. Zod took advantage and blasted through the helicopter giving Kara a punch. Kara flew at Zod and gave him a good uppercut and then a kick. Zod slammed into the wreckage of a Kryptonian ship, stunning him. Kara landed on the ground, took a tank barrel, and swung it at Zod hard implanting him in the Kryptonian metal. Kara slammed him a few more times with the tank barrel and then slammed the tank barrel directly into his face.
"Stop your men, stop this war now," Kara ordered him as she got close to him. Zod extended a wrist knife and stabbed her through the chest, mortally wounding her. Kara then fell to the ground not moving.
The Batwing swung around and fired four missiles at the main beetle ship. The missile exploded off the main beetle ship's shields. The Kryptonian ship fired back hitting the Batwing critically. "I've been hit," Kate radioed. She worked the eject controls and found them malfunctioning. "Well...shit." She piloted the Batwing the best she could toward the main beetle ship for another pass.
"I'm going down," Kate radioed.
"No, Kate, eject, eject!" Barry shouted at her.
Kate slammed the Batwing into the main beetle ship causing an explosion off its shields. Zod proceeded to take Kara's prone body into another beetle ship and took off with Faora with him. Barry-1 arrived on the scene too late.
"You, idiot! You ruined everything!" Alex shouted at him.
"Wait...what?" Barry-1 wondered.
"They had made a peace agreement and you fucked it up," Alex accused.
"No way. I...," Barry-1 said confused.
"Now, we're all fucked. Oh, God. Kara...," she shook her head mournfully.
"I have to fix this," Barry-1 said dismayed, and then sped off. Barry noticed him run off and followed after him. The two, together, reached the time vortex. "I know what I'm going to change," Barry-1 said to the other.
"No, I got this," Barry said and then transported them back to the middle of the battle. He looked up and saw the Batwing headed toward the main beetle ship. "Kate, pull up, it has shields," Barry told her.
"Roger that," Kate said as she pulled up. She then fired machine guns on Nam. Pissed off, Nam charged her and jumped into the air to meet her. Kate fired missiles at him only for Nam to get through them. He got on top of her cockpit and busted through the window. Kate went for a spin to try to get him off the Batwing. Nam managed to hold on and get closer to her. Kate then leaped out of the Batwing and glided down to the ground with the Batwing crashing.
Barry-1 then did a circle around Zod to confuse him. Kara sped into the circle and punched Zod several times to the face in quick succession as she went in and out of the circle. "This is some bullshit," Zod said annoyed, and then slammed Kara down to the ground as she went for another pass. The impact tossed Barry-1 out of his run where he tumbled on the ground.
Faora sped over to an unconscious Kara and held her up so Zod could make the kill. Zod stabbed Kara through the chest and then brought her back onboard his beetle ship.
Meanwhile, Kate latched onto Nam with her projectile cable gun. "What the fuck?" Nam wondered as Kate was now on his back. Kate swung around to Nam's front side as an explosion ripped into Nam's back. She then swung around Nam's backside as an explosive to his chest went off. Nam then tossed Kate off of him as she attached an explosive to the back of his head. Once the explosive went off, Nam face-panted into the ground.
Barry zipped over to Kate as she lay on the ground. Her mouth was bloody and there was blood leaking out from her cowl. Barry went to take off her cowl when she stopped him. "I'm going to go try again," Barry assured her.
"No," Kate shook her head. "Redemption isn't going back and changing the past. It's what you do going forward. Be better, Barry." Kate then died in his arms.
Nam, still pissed-off, went after them. Barry-1 fired electrical discharges at him that slightly annoyed him. Barry sped around the area and then came back with his own electrical discharge. Suddenly, Nam exploded with Kryptonian metal shrapnel hitting Barry in the arm.
"Okay, I know how to get that out," Barry-1 said helpfully.
Faora suddenly punched them both aside. She went after Barry and tried to slice him with her knife. Barry evaded her swing and then used the shrapnel blade on his wrist to fight back. He sliced into her armor slightly. Faora, realizing the danger, frantically swung at Barry missing him completely. Barry stabbed her in the chest with his blade, sliced up into her chin, and then slit her throat before she could even react.
"Again," Barry said and then took off at high speed.
"Barry," Barry-1 called after him and then sped off with him.
Inside the time vortex, Barry considered another plan. "Bro, listen to me," Barry-1 said to him as Barry disappeared. After several attempts, Barry was getting all sorts of blades on his body, progressively getting more and more blades with each interaction.
"Where were you?" Barry asked pissed off.
"Barry, it's not what it seems," Barry-1 tried to explain to him.
After several more iterations, Barry was now covered in metal blades like the Shredder. "Barry, there's something I should tell you. We shouldn't have been here. Kara was able to negotiate a truce between Zod and humanity. This battle is the result of our meddling."
"No, fuck that. Zod and humanity cannot co-exist. I saw what he did to Metropolis. I saw what Kara is capable of. We have to stop them here," Barry insisted.
"We're just making things worse," Barry-1 argued.
"I will save humanity, not her!" Barry shouted.
"Just let it go, dude. Not every problem has a solution," Barry-1 told him.
"No!" Barry shouted at him. "No! I will not sacrifice the world to Kara's rule. I've made too many compromises with her already, too many retreats. She invades our planet, gets Trump elected, and we fall back. She sends us back into the dark ages and we fall back. Not again! The line must be drawn here! This far and no farther and I...will make her pay...for what she has done!"
"I don't know what your Kara did to hurt you, but she's not the same in this universe, this time," Barry-1 said softly. "Look at how much suffering we're causing to them and to ourselves. We have to stop."
"Who the fuck are you? I'm the real superhero. I'm the Flash! We do as I say! Now, let's go again!" Barry shouted at him. Barry then sped off only to return with blades all over his body and looking like a much older man.
"Holy shit," Barry-1 said stunned.
"The only way for me to win is to take the speed-force from you," Barry concluded.
"Alright, you're crazy. I have to stop you," Barry-1 told him. The two clashed with an energy discharge that took off some of Barry's mask.
"We are so close," Barry told him.
"How long have you been doing this?" Barry-1 asked wide-eyed.
"It's inconsequential. Come on, Barry," Barry said to him.
Barry-1 watched in amazement as Barry/Zoom recreated the same experiment with several different universes and timelines, created a flash, and then took away their powers to increase his own. He saw universes with Jay Garrick, Bart Allen, Wally West, Red Death, Black Flash, and Wallace West all being created and then destroyed. Those universes then went into chaos as their Flashes were created and taken away. It was then that Barry-1 knew what he needed to do.
Exiting the time vortex, Barry-1 ran as fast as he could to create his own time bubble. Barry/Zoom pursued him but wasn't fast enough as Barry-1 entered his own time vortex and made his next move.
Earth-38 Spring 2016
Barry-1 went so fast that he crossed the multiverse and reached Earth-38. There, he saw Kara in her apartment. He popped his head out of the time vortex to speak with her.
"Holy shit," Kara said startled.
"Listen very carefully, Kara! The day before my mother's murder put the tomato can on the top shelf...the...top...shelf!" Barry-1 shouted at her.
"What the fuck?" Kara wondered.
"Oh, God!" Barry-1 said as he disappeared back into the time vortex.
Earth-38 Marth 17th, 2000
Kara and Brainiac 5 walked around a generic grocery store in Central City. Kara wore jeans, a green lumberjack shirt, sunglasses, and a beanie. "I have so many better things to do than this. It's St. Patrick's Day. I should be getting shit-faced right now," Kara complained.
"You already are," Brainiac 5 reminded her.
Kara noticed a crying baby go past her. "Shut the fuck up," she hissed at him.
"Focus on the mission," Brainiac 5 told her and then walked off.
Kara approached Nora Allen but got distracted by Lucky Charms and Coca-Puffs cereal boxes. She noticed Nora was putting a Lucky Charms box in her shopping cart. "I used to love that cereal when I was a kid. I still do," Kara said conversationally.
"Yeah, my kid loves it, too," Nora smiled politely.
"I know they were thinking about taking out all the marshmallows to make it less sugary for kids but...that's a fucking mistake," Kara said passionately.
"Do I know you?" Nora wondered.
"No, I'm not from around here or this time," Kara said vaguely. "I'm just visiting my mom."
"Maybe I know her. What's her name?" Nora asked suddenly interested.
"Eliza Danvers," Kara replied.
"Not ringing a bell," Nora shook her head.
"Well, she's the kindest, bestest mom ever," Kara said shedding a tear.
"Do you need a hug?" Nora asked as she went over to her.
"Sure," Kara said tearfully as Nora gave her a hug.
"I'm sorry. I'm just so wasted right now," Kara admitted.
"Oh, don't say that. Your mom must be very lucky to have you," Nora said comfortingly.
"She is," Kara confirmed as she broke the hug.
"Ah, then you have to tell her that," Nora smiled.
"Well, okay then," Kara said and then walked away. She found the aisle with the crushed tomato can and then proceed to strategically place it on the top shelf. She then left with Brainiac 5 toward the exit.
"So, who was the asshole that killed her?" Kara asked curiously.
"Couldn't say," Brainiac 5 replied.
"No, seriously, who did it?" Kara insisted.
"The world may never know," Brainiac 5 said coyly.
"It was Zoom, wasn't it?" Kara said wide-eyed.
"What an outrageous reckless accusation," Brainiac 5 said, giving nothing away.
"This better fix our Barry," Kara said as they left the grocery store.
Earth-38 Central City 2023
Barry gave his father a big hug at the courthouse. "You finally won your first case," Henry said ecstatically.
"I know, right? I nailed it," Barry said, referring to his forensics work. Henry's charges were dropped in 2000 when the surveillance footage of him looking up and getting a can of crushed tomatoes was brought to the attention of the District Attorney. Nora's killer was never found. For the last several years, Barry grew up with a dad and became a functional adult. The accident still occurred as it did and Barry was still the Flash. Everything was as it was before except for Barry committing heinous crimes against humanity and going back in time to retcon those crimes.
Barry then walked out of the courthouse with Iris, his girlfriend of a few years. "We should go to dinner," Iris suggested.
"Like a date?" Barry questioned.
"Yes, a date," Iris confirmed.
"When?" Barry asked.
"Call me," Iris smiled and then walked off.
Barry then got a phone call from Bruce Wayne. "Bruce."
"Congratulations, Barry. I'm pulling up now," Bruce said as he arrived on the street corner in his expensive car. Bruce emerged from his car with white hair and a beard showing his age. "Hey, Barry."
"Sup, Batman?" Barry smiled.
"Barry, what the fuck is wrong with you?" Bruce scolded as people were in earshot of them.
"I don't know," Barry admitted.
Author's Notes: The CGI is ass, the plot is nonsensical, Younger Barry pisses me off, Zod is wasted, SG was okay but lost potential, and Batman was awesome in both versions. Time travel has been an issue in AOS and the DCEU and the CW. AOS subscribes to the notion that one can change their own past timeline so long as they don't create a time paradox doing it. In this case, Kara can affect Barry's timeline but Barry can't fix his own timeline without creating a paradox to himself. For those who skipped to the end and are lost in the sauce:
*Kara/Karina is Red Daughter who, after having a misadventure during the Ukrainian War, is now taking on the role of International Supergirl.
*In Adventures of Batwoman, Kate transitions into a man and becomes Alec Kane, a play on her sister's alter ego, Alice.
*AOS and the DCEU are the same universe.
*In AOS, the convergence of universes into Earth Prime doesn't happen so CW Flash remains on Earth-1 and AOS remains on Earth-38.
*Kara-1 is the Earth-1 Supergirl and is featured in Armageddon and No Way Home.
*Kate-1 is the Earth-1 Batwoman and not the Kate-38/Alec-38 from AOS and AOB.