A/N: So I recently saw the Flash movie and I have to say this: I loved it. There were a few pacing problems here and there. The CGI kinda looked funny at some points but overall, I liked it (far better than the CGI we've gotten from the CW Flash show in the recent seasons). Ezra was a pretty great Flash and Barry Allen, the story was great, the emotional moments and connection were good. Overall, I consider it to be a good 8/10 movie. Solid.
WANDA
Wanda let out a sigh as her eyes peeled open, she groaned in pain as her head felt heavy. She found herself laying on a bed and somewhat exhausted as she instantly tried to sit upward, only for her body to force her back down as she winced in pain. Beside her, she saw Matt come to her aid as he held her arm.
"Hey, take it easy," Matt said as he gently helped her sit upward before kneeling in front of her. "You've been out for nearly a day."
Wanda groaned as she rested her hand on her forehead. "Wha…what happened?"
Matt briefly deflected the question. "What do you remember?"
"I…" Wanda suddenly gasped as her eyes became watery, her jaw nearly dropped in shock. "Oh my god…Barry. He…he was-"
Matt's eyebrows crunched in curiosity. "He was what? What happened? Wanda?"
Wanda gulped. "I didn't…I never meant to - Thawne made me, he controlled-"
"Hey, hey, hey," Matt placed his hands on Wanda's shoulders as he spoke. "Whatever happened to him isn't your fault, understand? That was Thawne. Him and Hydra."
"Y-you don't understand," Wanda stuttered, tears slowly dripping from her eyes. "They - we…I killed him, took his hand and killed him."
"That's not true," Matt argued.
Wanda muttered under her breath in self-hate. "You don't know that…"
"Actually, I do…" Matt said as Wanda glanced at Matt with a spark of hope and shock. "Barry's still alive. At least, that's what the people who brought us here are telling us. He's alive but…he's somewhere else and from the sound of it, he's in trouble."
"He's…" Wanda could barely find the words or the look to express the whirlpool of emotions that were going through her mind. "He's alive…w-where is he? Have we heard from h-him? Where are we?"
"Some wizard's place called a sanctum," Matt explained. "There's plenty of them, all connected to each other. We're in the one that's located in London. Come on, downstairs, there's something we all need to see."
Wanda followed Matt as the two reached the main area of the sanctum, just at the bottom of the stairs and in front of the door. She could see the rest of the Avengers there, along with Laura and Clint's family, Tony's daughter asleep in his arms. She could even see the rest of those who were controlled alongside her: Thor, a human Banner, Bucky…and then she remembered Vision. His black and white body, the infinity stone in his head ripped out as his vibranium body went cold and limp. There were four of the "wizards" that Wanda had spotted, Matt had introduced her to them: the Ancient One, Stephen Strange, Wong, and Mordo. Wanda could barely keep herself on her feet and in check with reality, especially after everything that had happened and everything she had done. Everything Wanda heard was mumbled until she finally snapped back to reality, just in time to hear Thor speaking.
"My friends…" Thor said to his fellow Avengers. "I am truly sorry for bringing any harm upon you and for…for what happened to our newest ally: Barry Allen. It wasn't my intent to bring any harm upon him. I suppose what I'm simply trying to say is this…I'm sorry."
"So am I," Banner muttered, unable to speak up or look up from the ground to the rest of his teammates.
"Look," Steve said as he stepped forward, shooting a concerned glance at Wanda before he turned to Thor and Banner. "What happened to Vision and to the three of you wasn't your fault. Thawne made you do all those things you did. That blood is on his hands, not yours."
"Barry's blood," Wanda blurted, crossing her arms as she tried to look away from anyone in the room.
"You said you knew where the kid is," Logan demanded as he stepped forward, addressing the Ancient One. "Where is he?"
"For you to know that," the Ancient One explained. "I would have to inform you of an array of knowledge."
"This is the part where you guys might wanna pay close attention," Strange said sheepishly.
Suddenly, the Ancient One moved her hands in a slow, fluid motion as she created an illusion. A few feet in the air, the illusion took place as the first thing everyone saw was black nothingness.
"In the very beginning," the Ancient One declared. "There was nothing, no life, no existence, absolute nothingness and then…"
In the illusion, a mumbled explosion went off as, instantly, several stars and galaxies appeared, along with an array of smaller-scaled "planets", all of which was contained within a small, red-colored circle with countless blue-colored, small planets inside as everyone watched, some in awe, some in confusion.
"The explosion you call the Big Bang created not only this universe," the Ancient One stated. "Not only the multiverse but everything. Every inch of cosmology was born. Here, we have the multiverse. An array of an infinite amount of worlds, infinite universes, driven by possibility and chance. Some differ specially from the rest, others are similar."
Within the red-sphere, there were bits and bits of illusion-made images seemingly showing events from other worlds as voices from each world could be heard.
A man in his mid-twenties, wearing a black, metal sort of spider-suit as he stood a few feet away from a middle-aged man with tentacles attached to his back.
"You were everything I wanted to be! And you just…threw it away!"
The next thing they saw was a man in a black and gray batsuit lifting a sort of clown in the air by his throat, with one hand surprisingly.
"I am vengeance," the man in the batsuit growled. "I am the night. I. AM BATMAN!"
Another thing they saw was a man, once again in a batsuit, unmasked as he sat on a chair. They couldn't tell clearly but it seemingly looked as if it were some sort of animated, comic-looking world. Everything and everyone inside looked as if it were in a comic, only animated, moving, and alive. The batsuit man read a letter that was in his hands as tears streamed down his face. He then looked up to face a comic-styled doppelganger of Barry, who was wearing his Flash suit: the red suit with yellow lines of lightning, yellow boots, and a yellow-white emblem. The man in the batsuit spoke emotionally as he looked at him.
"You're one hell of a messenger. Thank you, Barry."
"You're welcome, Bruce."
Everyone looked and looked as they saw through countless worlds an infinite multiverse.
"Infinite worlds mean infinite possibilities," the Ancient One stated. "An infinite amount of people, each world merely the effect of a simple change in script of fate and destiny."
"What the hell is that?" Clint asked, pointing to the red space between the model of the multiverse.
"The Bleed," the Ancient One replied. "An unknowingly powerful energy that exists in the immeasurable space between universes…within the multiverse that is. Beyond the multiverse, there is another. A dimension that transcends and encompasses the entirety of the multiverse as we know it. A dimension that transcends the concept and barriers of life and death…beyond time: the Dark Dimension."
Beyond the sphere that represented the multiverse, several lines that were colored with a mix of green and purple, encompassed the model of the multiverse sphere.
"It is a beacon powered by the devouring of worlds, ruled by Dormammu and home to his Zealots." the Ancient One stated. "Then, beyond that…lies the Sphere of Gods."
A multi-colored sphere encompassed the Dark Dimension and the multiverse sphere as eight planet-shaped realms appeared in the sphere.
"The Sphere of Gods is a great realm that exists from the heights of the Skyland Pantheons to the prison-like depths of the Underworld," the Ancient One continued. "It is home to some of the most powerful beings in all existence: Gods, New Gods, Angels, Demons, and the Endless. The Sphere is beyond meaning and measurement, existing without any dimensions to it. Every logical concept ceases to exist there: time, logic, even the meaning of form doesn't exist there. It transcends the logical framework and dimensionality as a whole. As do any and all that reside within the Sphere or even beyond it. The Sphere of Gods is home to eight different realms."
In the model, each realm was highlighted when the Ancient One declared its name as she went in a clockwise direction, naming the eight realms within the Sphere of Gods.
"Dream," the Ancient One said. "Heaven, New Genesis, Skyland, Nightmare, Hell, Apokolips, and Underworld."
The Ancient One then showed a different green ovals that circle the Sphere of Gods before showing a blue sphere that encompassed everything shown.
"Beyond the Sphere lies the Limbo," the Ancient One explained. "In the Limbo, everything that is inferior to it and the Sphere of Gods breaks down completely. Everything except those that exist in the Monitor Sphere, a sphere beyond it. Then, there is the last known bit of our cosmology: the Source Wall."
Finally, a circled collection of layers or red, yellow, and green encompassed the entire cosmology shown, indicating the presence of the source wall.
"The Source Wall is the very end of our cosmology as we know it," the Ancient One said. "Beyond that lies an unknown. Every concept, every idea, life, death, time, everything is mixed into a boundless and endless energy beyond the Wall. No one knows what lies there. The only known forces that surpass the Source Wall are two: the Speed Force and the Negative Speed Force. All of this is the frontal map of our cosmology."
"The frontal map?" Tony questioned. "What about the back of the map?"
"There…lies the Dark Multiverse," the Ancient One explained. "Countless people across the Cosmology have traveled there. None have returned nor lived to tell the tale."
"What lies there?" Thor asked.
"A story for another time, I'm afraid." the Ancient One deflected.
"So where's Barry in all this?" Matt wondered.
"In the Dark Dimension," the Ancient One answered. "In the hands of Kaecilius' fellow Zealots and his daughter: Jaina."
"There has to be a way to get him out of there," Wanda proclaimed.
"There isn't," Strange sighed. "Our spells can open portals to places in the Multiverse Sphere. Even to The Bleed but anything beyond that…it's useless. We can't travel to any place beyond the multiverse."
"So what?" Clint demanded. "We just stand around here and wait for them to kill the kid?"
Laura instantly came to Clint's aid as she held his shoulders. "Clint, honey, no one is saying that. We'll find him. One way or another."
"We can't just stand around here," Sam argued. "There's gotta be something we can do."
"Like what, Sam?" Rhodey sighed. "No one here has the means to go wherever the hell Barry even is."
"We won't need them," Mordo explained. "Soon, Kaecilius and his Zealots will coordinate an attack on Earth. This Earth. They will attack our sanctums and open a doorway to the Dark Dimension…to let it bleed into the Multiverse Sphere. Perhaps, you'll see your friend there."
"Well, that solves our problem with Allen," Frank said. "What about these Zealot guys? And this whole 'Dark-Dimension-bleeding-into-our-worlds' shit?"
"That's where Mr. Allen will come in," the Ancient One said. "Kaecilius, Jaina, and the Zealots believe him to be their true leader. The heir to the Dark Dimension. This will allow Mr. Allen to work under their noses, provide necessary information to us, and when the time comes, the might of the Mystic Arts, Kamar Taj, and the Sanctums will stand against Dormammu and the Zealots."
"So you want him to be your spy," Natasha deadpanned. "To work undercover for you, be your eyes and ears to these guys."
"For the fate of the multiverse? Yes, I do," the Ancient One stated. "If the Dark Dimension bleeds into the multiverse, it will all be destroyed and conquered. And soon afterwards, the entirety of the Cosmology will collapse in and destroy itself. Mr. Allen will have to prove his worth. The very fabric of all existence may depend on it."
As the Ancient One's illusion ceased, everyone in the room stood still and silently as Wanda could briefly overhear some words from Matt.
"God, have mercy on Barry Allen's soul…"
A/N: In case you guys don't know, there were obviously some cameos during the Ancient's One presentation of my fanfic cosmology. Specifically when she was talking about the multiverse. These cameos were from comic book media that, as confirmed by this chapter, are canon to my fanfic verse. I'll explain the cameos in order now:
Yuri Lowenthal's Spider-Man from the Insomniac Spider-Man games (the scene I used was the one from the story where he "abandons" Otto)
Kevin Conroy's Batman from the Arkham Games (the scene I used for this was the one where Bruce and Joker battled each other inside Bruce's mind, specifically the scene right before Bruce punches into the cell and locks him away in Batman: Arkham Knight)
And last, but definitely not least, Flashpoint from DC comics themselves. (in case you need to know, that particular scene I used was the ending of the comic where comic Barry gives comic Bruce a letter from Flashpoint Thomas Wayne. This basically makes every DC comic after Flashpoint, which changed the DC multiverse, canon to my fanfic verse. Remember, my version of the main Barry is from Earth 1 with the Avengers in the runner apocalypse on Earth 14. DC comics takes place, mainstream, on Earth Prime).
The cosmology I used was pretty obviously meant to match the one from DC comics' cosmology. However, seeing as how there's fanfic and plot to add in, I did change a few things obviously.