Karry Universe
Note 1 (PLEASE READ): I feel I have to explain once again the death in last chapter. It is very hard when writing a fanfiction to kill off a character. Even a character you personally dislike and one you feel is disliked by most of the viewers. In the end I choose to kill James for many reasons and was very happy most people seemed to accept and even like the twist. There is one reviewer though that I have to address because if this guest reviewer feels this way I am sure other people felt it but didn't say it. JAMES WAS NOT KILLED BECAUSE HE WAS THE BLACK GUY. James race had nothing to do with his death. Yes I did say one of the reason I killed him was because I disliked him and wanted him dead in the show but that was not because he was black. I dislike him because the character was awful. Just rewatch the end of 'Falling" and his words to Kara knowing she had been drugged to remember how awful he was. He was also useless. The only thing he seemed to have in the TV show was the love triangle that are non existent in Karry Universe. My beta and I went through the entire show to find something he did that no one else could do and the only thing we came up with was calling Superman in one of the first episodes to save Kara. He's even more useless in Karry Universe and with the large amount of character I have I needed to make a decision. His death was more useful than having him hanging around. His death shows the danger of Reverse-Flash and also motivates people such as Superman to fight and take on the Reverse-Flash. These are the main reason he was killed and his race having nothing to do with it. I will admit there is a large amount of white characters in this story because there are a large amount of white characters in the shows and in the comics the shows are based on. There are also still black character remaining such as Hank and Joe who while not having the most major parts at the moment are still around and will appear. Then there is also Iris who had a rather large part in the college years and her own dedicated chapter. This got longer than I expected it to.
Note 2: just a reminder to guest reviewers I cannot reply to you since you do not have a pen name. If you have questions you want to ask me please make a pen name. I love responding to reviews.
Note 3: Okay I'm going to mention my friend and Beta Terrance Sigma's story again, mainly because he created the OC I am using in this chapter for his story 'Super Double'. I have changed the name of the OC with his permission but this chapter will be largely influence by his story. PLEASE READ AND REVIEW HIS STORY. It's really great and hasn't gotten a lot of reviews yet for some reason.
Note 4: I know people have been wanting a solo Barry adventure, and while this is mostly solo chapter, I hope this pleases those disappointed with previous chapters and an apparent concentration on Kara. I intend to resolve this soon, but like I have said, this story is about both Barry/Flash and Kara/Supergirl, not one or the other individually.
Copycat
"This is ridiculous," Barry said looking at the latest issue of CatCo magazine. "Why does Cat Grant insist on calling the Flash, Supergirl's sidekick? I'm not her sidekick I'm her partner." Barry was sitting in STAR Labs with Caitlin and Cisco.
"She's been around longer, man," Cisco said.
"When she first showed up we all thought she was just Superman's sidekick," Caitlin said, trying to make Barry feel better. "She had to work her way out of Superman's shadow. It's going to be a little harder for you since, as you said, you're her partner. If you two weren't always together it would be easier to separate yourself but would you really want to not spend as much time with Kara?"
Barry shook his head, knowing Caitlin was right. "Okay, but why does Cat Grant have to say I'm her second sidekick? Shouldn't the dog be second?"
"The dog has been around longer then you too, man," Cisco said with a laugh. He held his hands up as he saw the look Barry was giving him. "I like you better though. That dog can be mean."
"Krypto is a sweetie," Caitlin said. Cisco mumbled something not understandable in response. Krypto still growled at Cisco but was nice to almost everyone else but Harrison Wells. Cisco would swear the dog didn't like males but it liked Barry, Clark, and Jason.
"I got to go," Barry said looking at his phone, and without another word he ran out.
-Superflash-
Barry arrived at a crime scene to see the police there all looking preoccupied, almost upset and angry. "What's going on?" Barry asked Joe who looked upset too. "What happened?"
Joe pointed and Barry looked over at scene, at the bodies. There were about 11 of them and then one caught his eye instantly. It was Iris. "No!" Barry said getting near her. He noticed something odd right away though. "But this isn't possible."
"I will kill who did this," Joe said.
"No Joe, it's not possible," Barry said. "We were with Iris this morning. Three hours at the most. If this were Iris, the body would still be warm, but this body is ice cold. She's been dead at least ten hours. Maybe more."
"You sure?" Joe asked. Barry nodded and Joe took out his cellphone and called Iris. He was relived to hear her voice. "I want you to go home and lock the doors. No one in until I get there." Joe said and Barry knew Iris must have complained because Joe said, "don't argue with me young lady. Do as I say."
What's going on there? Barry heard Kara asked.
Not sure. Barry answered back. "Joe, isn't this one Officer Miller's wife?"
"Everyone here is related to a cop," Joe said. "We were assuming an assault on the police."
"Tell everyone to call their loved ones. If this one isn't Iris I doubt any of these are the people they seem to be," Barry said looking around. He realized that the bodies were in a very public place. "This must be meta." Barry whispered. "I'm going to go get changed and take a look around. Only reason to expose these bodies like this is to see our reactions. The meta must be around here. I'm going to find him or her. Get the bodies to the morgue."
Do you need me to come down? Barry heard Kara ask in his head. From the moment Barry had saw 'Iris's' body Kara had been paying extra close attention to Barry's thoughts.
No, I'll get this one for now. If I need you I'll call for you. Barry was worried Kara would argue but there were no complaints from her. Just an accepted feeling and a be careful heard through the bond. Then he felt Kara return to her work.
Moments later the Flash was running through the crowd and down a side street. He collided with someone right away. In an instant Barry had the person pinned to a wall. "Did you do that?" Barry asked. Barry couldn't make out a face, which was odd considering she was mere inches from him. Her face was blurred and it proved difficult on Barry's eyes. "Was that your work?"
"Why would I let you in on my secret?" they were definitely a 'she'. She wore plain clothes, had her brown hair in a ponytail, and her face was constantly unfocused.
"How did you get those people? They are not dead," Barry said with a growl, angry at seeing a body that he had thought for a split second was his sister.
"Oh there would be no fun in telling you," the woman said.
"Barry I got a hit off of voice recognition." Barry heard Caitlin say in his earpiece. "Her name is Professor Kate Thomson of Mercury Labs. She disappeared the night of the explosion."
"Professor Thomson," Barry said surprising the meta. "That's your name."
"No, not anymore," the meta said. "Kate Thomson died. And I'm now Copycat." Barry raised an eyebrow at the name.
That was when Copycat held up her hand and scratched the part of Barry's exposed face, not hidden by his mask. The scratch drew blood that ended up on Copycat's rather sharp fingernails. Barry backed away and Copycat was able to get out of his hold. He saw Copycat take out a napkin and wipe the blood onto it. "Thanks so much Flash. I can do so much with this," she said and then ran.
"What?" Barry asked confused as the small scratches on his face started to heal. Barry could catch up with Copycat but he wasn't sure of the point since she hadn't done anything wrong, or at least not admitted to it, beside claw at him like a demented cat.
"Barry you better get back to the lab," Cisco said in his ear, and Barry nodded to himself, heading back to the lab.
"We think we figured out what Copycat power is," Wells said the moment Barry appeared. "Her area of expertise in her, well, her former life, I suppose now, was genetic manipulation and cloning."
"I'm sorry, what?' Barry asked.
"You know like Dolly the Sheep stuff," Cisco said. "Clones."
"So you think those bodies were clones?" Barry asked.
"It makes sense. I mean Iris was there and we know she's not dead," Caitlin reasoned.
"Plus the name Copycat. She's copying people so she's 'Copycat'," Cisco said. "Pretty clever, although 'Duplicate' or 'Doppelgänger' might have been better. I'd have gone for Doppelgänger myself, has more spice to it, more intrigue…"
Can you tell Caitlin to slap him please, Barry heard Kara in his head, and he nearly laughed aloud.
"Caitlin, message from Kara," Barry said.
"Got it," Caitlin said and lightly slapped Cisco.
"You guys have got to stop doing that," Cisco cried agitatedly. "Starting to feel unloved here." Barry really did laugh.
"So yeah we think Copycat can clone people," Caitlin continued, ignoring Cisco. "Just get a bit of their DNA and then, hey-presto, a clone is born. Or made. One of the two."
Barry seemed nervous as Caitlin talked about getting DNA. "DNA like hair, spit, maybe blood?" Barry asked, and Caitlin looked at him strangely. "Like just a little bit of blood."
"Blood would be great. Why?" Caitlin asked, worriedly.
"She kind of scratched me," Barry said. "And she has long nails." The three were just glaring at Barry now. "What? It's not like I purposely gave her my DNA. So what's the deal? Could she clone me, powers and all?"
"We don't know," Wells said clearly angry at Barry's disregard of personal safety. "It depends on how much power she has."
"So far all the clones have been dead," Barry pointed out. "Maybe…" Barry stopped as they looked at him. "Okay so I find her and stop her before she clones me. She can't be as dangerous as some of the other metas I have taken on since I started." Barry had taken on a couple of metas since getting his powers, and some of them had been just as odd, if not more-so, than Copycat.
"I think it's too late for that," Caitlin said, and then showed the group a video on her computer of a Flash running into a bank and stealing money. "She's got you already."
"Where is he?" Barry asked, feeling angry now at Copycat's disregard of his person and privacy.
Caitlin spent a few agonizing seconds tracking the other Flash before confirming: "Seems now your super double is terrorizing some police officers. He's at…" Before Caitlin could finish Barry was speeding out, forcing Caitlin to tell him over the com.
-Superflash-
Barry ran to the scene of his double, noticing that the other Flash already had a suit like his. Barry wondered where Copycat got a copy of his suit so fast. It was a different color than his own though, being black instead of red with the symbol on the suit being a black lightning bolt on white instead of gold on red. Barry ran up and punched his double before he could react. "Leave," Barry said to the police who ran on command. "Why don't you pick on someone your own speed?"
"I don't think so," his clone said and tried to run but Barry caught up to him and pushed him down.
"What did I say? Pick on someone your own speed!" Barry said clearly angry at being cloned.
The clone tried to run but Barry ran around him, stopping the clone. "Well this was easier then I thought. Want me to bring him in?" Barry asked over the intercom, but was surprised as his clone jumped up and ran at Barry, pushing Barry into the building with the momentum of his built-up speed. "Ah, maybe not!" he groaned.
Barry was clearly hurt as his clone got down next to him. "All I have to do is pull down my mask and everyone knows who the Flash is," the clone whispered, antagonizing Barry as he got up and then ran off, the ghost of his horrible smirk still in Barry's brain.
"Okay, what do we call him?" Barry asked, knowing a name was coming anyway. It was inevitable with Cisco. He seemed to like naming the metas Barry faced.
"I was thinking, the Anti-Flash," Cisco's voice could be heard in Barry's ear.
"Seriously it sounds like antifreeze," Barry groaned.
"You want to be the naming expert?" Cisco said angrily, and Barry shook his head.
"Fine then, Anti-Flash," Barry said. "Any idea where he is?"
"Tracking his vitals," Caitlin said. "Looks like he is heading for the morgue."
Barry nodded, running in the direction of the morgue. When he got there he found the Anti-Flash waiting for him. "You don't give up," Anti-Flash said. "She said you wouldn't."
"Why would he?" Barry heard the familiar voice and he momentarily saw Copycat by the door. He was then knocked off his feet and was suddenly in a bunker-like structure, the Anti-Flash speeding him inside and pinning him to a wall. "I really should be thanking your friends at STAR Labs. You see Kate Thomson lost her mother at a young age. She thought if she could just clone her…" Copycat said dreamily, following the two Barry's into the room now.
"Sorry for your mommy issues," Barry said. He had the same story and in a way Kara did too but neither had ever thought it would be that easy to get back the people they'd lost so easily. Even if they could clone the ones they'd lost, they wouldn't be the same people anyway, surely?
"She got close too, but then the particle accelerator exploded and she died. From her ashes I was born, and I found I could clone anyone, humans and animals, and control them. Meta-humans too, with their abilities intact as you can see," Copycat indicated the Anti-Flash. Then she took out a short strand of hair from a vial on a nearby shelf, moving it to her mouth, she blew on it and suddenly, with an almost whimsical puff of smoke, in the room was Tony Woodward, otherwise known as Girder.
"Oh come on!" Barry groaned, seeing his childhood bully again. He had already faced him before, breaking the sound barrier to knock the man out and save Iris. "Him? Seriously?" Tony turned to steel and then punched Barry so hard it knocked him out before he could even call for Kara as backup. Also, unfortunately, Kara had been editing an article for Cat and had not been tracking Barry at that moment anyway.
Copycat turned to the Anti-Flash. "Get in his suit and go back to the labs. Say you defeated us and then go find Supergirl and get her DNA." The Anti-Flash nodded, changing his outfit with Barry's and then running off. "You," Copycat turned to Tony "guard him. Make sure he does not wake up. He's our back-up plan in case the clone fails. Supergirl will come right here for her sidekick, I don't doubt." Tony nodded, picking Barry up and moving him to tie him up.
-Superflash-
The clone of Barry went back to STAR labs and told the three that Copycat had destroyed all her clones and ran. "I was more than she can handle. Will probably go underground for a while," Barry said vacantly with a smirk.
"Good work Mr. Allen," Wells said.
"We were concerned when the coms went down but you did it. And you didn't need Kara. See, not a sidekick," Cisco said, pleased.
"Kara?" clone Barry said, knowing that must be Supergirl's real name. "Any idea where she is?"
"Probably at CatCo. Her job, Barry. Shouldn't you know…" Caitlin started but Barry ran out "…that?" she finished her sentence after Barry was gone. "Was that odd to anyone else? He has got to let me finish sentences though!" Cisco just shrugged but Wells pursed his lips, obviously seeing the odd behavior that Caitlin had himself.
-Superflash-
"Your boy is here," Lucy said, making Kara look up confused. "Barry." Lucy pointed at him, shocking Kara. She had not felt Barry approach through her mental connection and even now she was getting no thoughts from him. Concentrating on their bond she got no thoughts at all, but knew a couple things. One, Barry was unconscious as there was something faint with what she could feel, and two, he was nowhere near National. She couldn't sense exactly where he was without thoughts or emotions coming to her, but knew he was still somewhere in Central.
"Barry?" Kara questioned, going up and remembering Barry had been dealing with a meta who could create clones.
"Hey, Kara," Barry said, using the name Cisco had to the girl who looked like Supergirl.
"Come on," Kara said taking his hand and leading him to an empty office. "Question for you Barry. Where did we meet?"
"What?" Barry asked. "Why would you want me to answer that? It is me, you know."
"What about our song? What is it?" Kara asked. Barry froze. "Come on let's sing it. I've been wanting to today…" Barry paused, unsure. "See, Barry would have started right away. You're not him." Kara said coldly and punched the clone before the clone could run, knocking him out. "Never thought I would do that to this face."
Kara used her x-ray vision to make sure no one was coming and quickly changed into her outfit she had on underneath. She then picked up the clone and flew out of the window.
-Superflash-
Kara ran angrily into STAR Labs, with Krypto by her side. She had made sure to pick him up on her way. "You can't tell the difference between Barry and a clone?! Seriously?!" Kara yelled at the group, causing them to jump. "Open up the pipeline so I can lock this one up before he wakes." They had made the particle accelerator their own prison since Barry woke, so they didn't always have to rely on the DEO.
Cisco quickly helped Kara get the clone into a cell, stripped from his stolen Flash outfit. "It's the Anti-Flash," Cisco said numbly when they were done.
"So where's Barry?" Caitlin asked. "Can you find him with your bond?"
"He's not conscious. Makes finding him difficult," Kara said. "For me. Not for Krypto. Make sure the clone doesn't escape." Kara then turned to her dog, "Krypto, find Barry." Krypto barked and then the two were out.
"Um… maybe Barry is sidekick number two and Krypto sidekick number one after all," Cisco said, making the other two turn to look him. "Just saying." He raised his hands in defense again, just as the Anti-Flash woke up and started pounding on the glass at super-speed, attempting to get out.
"That will hold, right?" Caitlin asked.
"Yeah," Cisco said, more confidently than Caitlin. "No way for him to get out."
-Superflash-
Krypto had easily been able to track down Barry's scent and led Kara to where they were keeping him. Kara felt Barry wake up as she stormed in. "How did you know my clone wasn't your sidekick?" Copycat asked, unfazed by Supergirl's sudden appearance, having been wondering that since she had mentally seen Kara knock out the clone.
"You can not replicate the bond we have," Kara said. Barry are you okay?
My head hurts, Barry complained groggily, but otherwise he was fine.
"Maybe," Copycat said. "But I can replicate this." Copycat took out a bottle of water and in a puff of smoke, standing before Kara was Cole Denyer.
"You've got to be kidding me…" Kara mumbled as the Cole clone sent his watery jets after her, pinning her against the wall with the force it was using. Krypto barked and tried to go after the clone, but of course went right through it. "Krypto, her!" Kara used her heat vision against Cole, even though she knew it wouldn't work.
Krypto went after Copycat but Tony got in the way. His steel arms were able to hit Krypto and throw him back. Krypto got up though and went after Tony again, using heat vision himself, which seemed to work well against the steel. Barry stood up to go after them but they had chained him up. Tony was able to grab hold of Krypto and Krypto's bites did nothing against the steel.
Cole had Kara choking down water. "Don't kill them! Not yet…" Copycat commanded going up to Kara and pulling a hair from her head. "See, I want you. All of you. I will clone you Supergirl and then I will clone Superdog and then maybe I will just destroy that other Flash and create a new one. You will see the birth of your replacements. Then you will die and the only version of you will be under my control. My super puppets."
Copycat laughed as she breathed on the hair. Her face started to change and blur some more but nothing happened. Annoyed, she breathed on the strand again, she started to look like she was having trouble. Then there was a premature puff of whimsical smoke and suddenly there was a teenaged version of Kara standing in front of Copycat and Copycat had fallen to the floor, weakened. She had put her hand over her heart and looked up at the teenaged clone. "No…" she muttered as she suddenly collapsed.
Cole Denyer let off of Kara and fell back and Tony let go of Krypto and fell down, both suddenly melting away as if they had never been. The clone of Kara however, remained, standing still like some strange statue. "Kara, the Anti-Flash just died," Cisco said over the coms. He had managed to boost the signal to get over the interference that cut them off from Barry before. "Or something. He kind of melted… What just happened over there?"
"I think Copycat had a heart attack." Barry reported back still having his com in. Kara directed her attention to him freeing him of his bonds with a flash of her laser eyes. "She created clones of some water meta and Girder," Barry continued with a nod of thanks to Kara, "and both died with her too, or melted away," he finished.
"So all the clones are dead?" Caitlin asked.
"Not all of them," Kara spoke, standing in front of her own clone. The girl looked the same age she was when she had first come to Earth. She was breathing heavily, looking at the original version of her but still not moving. "Can you speak?" Kara put a hand hesitantly on the girl's shoulder.
"Yes," the clone said back, suddenly moving her head to look at Kara, "She created me."
"Yes," Kara answered.
"She created me from you," the clone said again, simply.
"Yes," Kara answered.
"What do I do?" the clone asked Kara, curiously.
"Well for now you come back with us," Kara said, glancing to Barry before taking a large shirt from another part of the room and throwing it at her clone to wear.
-Superflash-
Kara looked at Caitlin and Wells as they looked over her clone. Barry was next to her. The two had been talking in their heads. Arguing, actually. You are not my sidekick. Kara finally had had enough of Barry's moodiness and claiming that Cat was right. And Supergirl will tell Cat Grant that tomorrow. Right now I need to take care of her. She referenced her teenaged clone.
"Well, she is exactly like you," Caitlin said coming out of the lab. "Powers and all."
"Why is she a teenager?" Barry asked.
"Seems Kara's alien DNA was too much for Copycat," Wells said. "She couldn't clone Kara completely and it gave her the heart attack. Seems you got lucky there."
"So what are you going to do with her?' Cisco asked.
Kara looked at her. "She needs to be trained in her powers and she also needs someone to take her in, teach her what it means to be Kryptonian. She needs…" Kara paused, realizing the truth of her decision and when Barry heard the name in her head, he smiled. "Hey, clone Kara." Kara called, not knowing what else to call her. "Come with me."
-Superflash-
Astra was in her room at Alex's place, where she was still bound to be kept, but free, when she heard her niece's voice talking to Alex in the hall. She came out to see Kara with another blonde who looked exactly like her at a young age. "Kara who is this?" Astra asked.
Kara took a breath and explained what happened that day. Astra simply looked shocked. "She needs you Aunt Astra," Kara finally said. "You always wanted to raise me after Krypton was destroyed and we both survived. I saw it in your mind with the Black Mercy, remember? Now is your chance. I mean she has none of my memories or anything but she's family. Well, she's me. Will you do it?"
"Please?" the clone said, looking at the person Kara had said was their aunt. Kara had told the clone all about Astra on the way. "I need a mom."
"Yes," Astra said, grinning with sudden happiness and hugging the clone. "Of course."
"And it would probably be better to call her 'mom' instead of 'aunt'. So I can say you're my cousin," Kara added thoughtfully to the girl.
"One thing," Alex said. "She needs a name. She can't go by Kara."
"I kind of like that name," the clone protested.
"Well how about something close? Like Kiera?" Alex suggested making Kara give her a death-glare. "Okay, maybe not."
"What about Karen?" Astra suggested.
"I suppose I like that," the girl said thoughtfully.
"Okay, Karen, and what's that last name you've been using Aunt Astra?" Kara asked. "Your human one, I mean."
"Starr," Astra answered with a resolute shrug.
"Okay Karen Starr," Kara said. "Welcome to the family."
AN: If you don't get the Karen Starr reference, please look up the name online. ;-)
Post chapter note: Now if anyone read Super Double you'll know Terrance Sigma's Duplicate (who Copycat is based on) did clone Kara too. I don't want to spoil much of the story here but I will just say that my Copycat couldn't do it properly because she was not as experienced with her powers as Duplicate was. Read Super Double for the full scoop though. Thanks for reading! Please REVIEW.