Karry Universe
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World's Finest- The Two Flashes
Siobhan was still in denial over her lost job at CatCo; she had worked there for so long, had luckily built up a good enough amount of saving that she was okay for a few months but her career was essentially over. All because of that blondie, Kara Danvers. She had tried to retaliate by getting Kara fired herself, sending a nasty email to Cat Grant via Kara's own account, but unfortunately Kara had password protected her computer and before Siobhan could even gain access, she had been caught by Cat Grant herself. The woman had then proceeded to 'fire her' again taking a lot of pleasure in it and using her very extensive back catalogue of vocabulary.
Angrier than ever, Siobhan had gone to the roof with a bottle of alcohol and had actually fallen in a drunken daze. She had thought she would die, had accepted the sudden blissful peace of nothingness, but had screamed nonetheless – screamed so loud it broke, in fact, the ground and her fall had been cushioned by the air her very own lungs had produced. Unfortunately, Supergirl and the Flash had been passing at that moment and had seen her. She was then taken, still in a drunken stupor, to what looked like a government facility where they, whoever 'they' were, started running test on her.
In the medical facility of this strange government place, the alcohol wearing off surprisingly fast, Siobhan looked around, seeing a familiar-looking woman laying on a bed opposite her with various wiring going into her body. She looked like Supergirl but Siobhan knew it wasn't. This must be Bizzaro and she was in some kind of medically-induced, or government-induced, coma.
"So meta or alien?" Supergirl asked the doctor who had ran tests on Siobhan.
"She's not an alien. Her cells are completely human," the doctor said.
"So meta," Flash said with a smirk. He hadn't taken off his mask, which was driving Siobhan nuts. If she were to be kept in this place, she'd at least like to know who one of these so-called 'superheroes' were. "She was created by the Particle Accelerator." Flash was saying, as if Siobhan wasn't even there.
"Not that either," the doctor said curiously. "There's DNA mutation with all metas, an extra gene, and there is none here. Or at least nothing extra identifiable."
"Then what is she?" Supergirl asked, the doctor shrugging her shoulders in indication of not having knowledge of this.
"Well this has all been really exciting," Siobhan said clearly sarcastically, still on the bed and annoyed that no one was actually paying her the slighted bit of attention. "But can I go?"
"It's up to you," a black man appeared in her line of vision and looked at Supergirl. "We can lock her up if you want."
For a curious moment Siobhan thought she would be locked up, but Supergirl shook her head. "She hasn't done anything wrong," the heroine said.
"Then I don't see what I'm doing here" Siobhan jumped up from the bed, ignoring the rush of blood suddenly rushing to her head due to the change of position and pushed passed the doctor and the black man. "Thanks," she mumbled, not looking back as a guard indicated she follow him out. Reluctantly she did so, but only reached a couple of feet away from the medical wing when black-cladded agents rushed passed her.
"Cut it out Leslie," a woman with short brown hair yelled at someone in the containment cell in another room Siobhan was passing. "You're not getting out."
"I will and when I do I will fry Cat Grant and Supergirl," the woman, who Siobhan knew was Leslie Willis and also known as Livewire, cackled. Electricity was coming from her hand and towards the glass of the cell, but the glass held, resilient to her powers.
Siobhan saw Supergirl and Flash giggling to themselves as they stood by the door. Flash put an arm around Supergirl as they kissed. It disgusted Siobhan as she was lead out of the base and was driven home.
-Superflash-
The next day Kara was at her desk at CatCo. Siobhan herself appeared as the elevator doors opened, a feat she had done before after being fired and Kara had to wonder what the security team for the building were like if an ex-employee could so easily walk in and up to the office of Cat Grant herself. Winn jumped up, trying to convince her to leave but Siobhan simply pushed him aside. "Kiera, call security," Cat called not looking up from her own work. "I don't like trespassing low-lives in my offices."
Kara got up. She was hesitant to call the security team, confident she could get the former employer off the floor herself. "Siobhan, you can't be here," Kara said, somewhat forcefully but wanting Siobhan to leave peacefully before resulting to calling security to remove her.
Siobhan, who had been walking passed Kara now toward Cat Grant's office, turned to look at Kara. She then opened her mouth and let out a wail of a scream that literally knocked Kara back. She was so surprised by this that she didn't even react as Siobhan screamed her sonic wail again and blew Kara out the window. The scream disoriented Kara enough that she was falling and couldn't quite gain consciousness enough to fall slowly to safety, but then she was suddenly caught and sped out to the middle of no-where. Some hillside just outside the city in fact.
"Hey, you okay?" a familiar-looking red-suited man and voice said. "Oh, you're on fire… which doesn't seem to be bothering you?" The man sounded confused as Kara patted out the fire and looked at him directly.
"What? How?" Kara said looking at him wondering if she was so disoriented from the scream it was messing with her bond with Barry.
"Well you were falling and I caught you and ran you out here. I didn't mean to do that. Sorry, I've been working on my speed lately," he said looking around with intrigue.
"Barry?" Kara asked, confused and then asked the question in her head to receive a What? back. She knew right then and there that this was not her Barry. He looked just like him, even down to the height and puppy-dog eyes, but there was one difference she noticed. The Flash symbol on his outfit had a white background not the red one her Barry supported.
"Do I know you?" this non-Barry asked, removing his mask to reveal the identical face of her fiancée, confused as the girl said his name again.
That's not me, Barry said in her head. He had been so busy with a case back in Central he hadn't noticed when Kara fell or anything really until Kara had asked for him. I'm on my way!
"You're not Barry," Kara stated as fact, quenching panic as she used freeze breath on the man. She knew how well ice worked against speedsters, it was the reason Leonard Snart had the cold gun, that this other Barry dropped to his knees in shock, surprised as the ice of her breath hit him at full force. Before he could react to counter there was a flash and then a punch. Barry looked up to see another Flash standing near him. "He's Barry!" Kara indicated her fiancée,
"And how do you have my face?" the new Barry, said taking off his own mask. "Don't tell me we're dealing with clones again."
"Maybe a trick from the Reverse-Flash?" Kara said in wonder.
"Reverse-Flash?!" The other Barry snapped at the name, looking at the two in shock, noticing this other Barry's symbol had the red background. He momentarily thought he had run into the past by accident if it wasn't for this girl's presence. The two clearly knew each other well and Barry had never met her before in his life. But he knew what had happened.
"Whoa, clam down," the Barry who didn't know the girl said, holding up his hands. "I'm not your enemy. I'm Barry Allen, the fastest man alive, and from another Earth." Kara and her Barry looked at one other, confused. Right then, the Earth-1 Barry knew they had no knowledge of the multiverse. It was understandable. He hadn't until after defeating the Reverse-Flash and if these guys were still dealing with him…
"You see," Barry picked up a stick and drew a circle on the ground, trying to pull off his best Professor Stein impersonation. "This is my Earth," Barry drew another circle "and this is yours." Barry continued drawing circles, explaining the different Earths that could exist, explaining in brief the multiverse theory, which was fact, along with the whole vibration-thing. "They all exist in the same space but vibrate at different frequencies, but if you're fast enough you can travel to these other Earths, breach the frequency, you see."
"I don't know…" Kara said, despite the explanation, it seemed quite far-fetched. "I'm finding this hard to believe, and I'm from another planet altogether!"
'It's tr –!" the other Barry stopped as Kara words came over him. "What? Your from another planet?"
"She's Supergirl," his doppelganger said as though it was obvious.
"I'm sorry? Supergirl?" Barry questioned.
"Superman's little cousin," Kara said and saw the continued confused face the other Barry made. She knew that face well, able to read the emotions, even without the bond. "Man, he has to be from another Earth not to know about us or Superman."
"Cisco is saying it's possible," Barry pointed out, having his earpiece in and trying not to smirk at the reaction Cisco was giving back at STAR Labs. The other Barry smiled. "They are saying to bring him to STAR and they can test the frequency he's vibrating at. Cisco's going… well, Cisco," Barry said, still smirking.
"Oh got to love Cisco doppelgangers," the other Barry said with a smile. "Unless they're Reverb." He noticed the looks he was getting. "It was a different Earth I went to… Never mind."
"I'm going to go get changed and head back to work," Kara said, looking over to her Barry and kissing him. The earth-jumper noticed the ring on Kara's finger and his mouth opened in shock. You can handle this on your own, Kara muttered to Barry, winking at him, as he confirmed he could. Kara nodded as she took off her clothes to reveal her superhero outfit underneath and jumped into the air.
The universe-hopping Barry watched her fly off, shocked. "Wow, you really don't know of them?" His doppelganger of this earth said, seeing Kara flying being commonplace for him and most people of this Earth, in fact.
"Is she your fiancée?" parallel Barry asked his alternative who nodded. "Why, in every Earth I visit am, I engaged or married and yet I am single?" The Barry of this Earth laughed, shook his head and ran off, the other Barry instantly following.
-Superflash-
"You're faster than me!" Barry complained as they were sitting in STAR labs.
The Barry of the alternate universe was not listening to his counterpart though. The moment he had arrived at STAR labs he knew something was up. No, actually the moment he saw Harrison Wells in the wheelchair. "So where's Jesse?" Barry asked, making eyes looked to him.
"Who's Jesse?" Caitlin asked.
"Wells' daughter. She works with us in my universe," Barry said. He had been throwing this in to see if Jesse existed here. Of course it was possible this Wells never had kids; he may not have married or he or his wife could have been infertile. Hell, Wells could have even been gay in this universe, but still the reference to the Reverse-Flash lingered in Barry's mind. The only version of Wells he had known so far to exist in a wheelchair.
"Then your Wells is a lucky man," this Wells responded humorously. "I never had a family. My fiancée Tess died in a car crash." Wells didn't know, but that was all the confirmation this Barry needed. That, plus the wheelchair, the mention of the Reverse-Flash before obviously, and a clearly similar history to his own. This was not Harrison Wells. This was Eobard Thawne; he was sure of it.
It took all his self-control not to take on the man right now, but he knew he couldn't. This was not his Thawne. That man was dead. This was his alternate's problem, something this universe's Barry had to face and defeat in his own time.
"So wait, are we convinced now he is telling the truth?" The Barry of this universe asked about the other Barry and Wells nodded.
"Yes, he is vibrating at a different frequency than us. He is of another earth," Fake-Wells confirmed.
"It's really amazing. Too bad Stein's not here, he would have loved this! Can you get in touch with Ronnie?" Cisco asked, turning towards Caitlin who shook her head. "Oh well, we'll have to tell them next time we see them." The Earth-1 Barry took a breath as Ronnie was mentioned, still alive in this universe. Had he run into the past of this planet as well as Earth hopped or was this Earth time different than his own? It was one thing that this Earth's Barry hadn't stopped his mother's killer, another that Ronnie hadn't yet died as a result.
"So Barry," Caitlin said and stopped when both Barry looked at her. "We're going to have to find something to call you two so we can tell the difference."
"I know! Barry 1 and Barry 2!" Cisco said with a wide grin, obviously pointing at each Barry, labeling his own Barry 'Barry 1'.
"Why is he Barry 1? I'm from Earth 1!" Barry protested, making the other look at him. "Well, that's what we call it."
"How about Barry-Red and Barry-White" Caitlin suddenly voiced, "for the background color of your symbols," she added, not wanting an argument on who Barry 1 was. Both seemed to agree to that quite pleasantly. "Barry-White, I assume the way you got here has something to do with that device. What is it?" It was the first time the metal contraption on his chest had been addressed; it was in fact framing his chest plate.
"Speed canon," Barry-White explained, taking the device off his chest. "My, err, Wells came up with it to help me get faster to take on a threat from Earth 2 we're facing. It's not working here though. I assume it has something to do with the vibrations of this world."
"Probably," Fake-Wells said taking the device, Barry-White trying not to flinch at this – he couldn't let this 'Wells' know he knew. He had to make it seem like the Wells in his universe was the original one, having to let Barry-Red figure out the truth in his own time. "We will figure out a way to get you home Mr. Allen-White."
Barry-White nodded, wanting out of this lab before he did something he regretted. "You know I have to eat…" Everyone in the room finished his sentence with: "10,000 calories a day, we know" which caused Barry-White to grin, in spite of himself.
"Come on," Barry-Red said. "We'll go to Joe's and eat some leftovers. He always leaves plenty for me."
"Mr. Allen-Red," Wells said before they could leave. "May I point out…"
"No," Barry-Red said firmly, and Barry-White knew Barry-Red already had a problem with this Wells. So maybe the big reveal wasn't so far off? Barry-White almost wanted to stay, grab some popcorn and watch the whole thing unravel. Almost.
-Superflash-
At Joe's, Barry-Red heated up leftover pasta and Barry-White was please Joe could cook as well here actually both version of Joe he so far knew were good cooks, so it was an inevitability. "Why are you mad at Wells?" Barry-White asked casually, wondering if this Barry had just found out about him knowing the accelerator would explode.
"He messed around with Kryptonite. Could have really hurt Kara," Barry-Red said off-handedly and noticed Barry-White's confusion. "It's nothing." Barry-Red said dismissively, not wanting to confuse his counterpart even more. "We…"
"Barry," they heard the door open and Iris' familiar voice.
"In here," both Barrys called out together and then looked at each other. Barry-While laughed, forgetting his place in this odd other universe.
Iris came in to see the two Barrys. "Cloning again?" she asked, slightly shocked, but having been caught up on the Copycat case since finding out about the two.
"What is it with you guys and clones?" Barry-White asked remembering before when Barry-Red had suspected cloning as well.
"Copycat," Barry-Red answered, confusing Barry-White. "A cloning meta? No…? Well… it's a long story that ends with Kara having a mini-teenage clone called Karen." Barry-Red looked over to his sister. "This is actually me from an alternate universe. I know, it's weird."
Iris looked at Barry-White with searching eyes but then shrugged. "I actually wanted to talk to you," Iris said. "The, err, one from this world?"
"Go right ahead," Barry-Red said, "he could have already had this conversation with his Iris. Am I right?" Barry-White nodded knowing it was a possibility. One of many possible conversations, in fact.
"Well, you see… Eddie proposed," Iris said, not completely overjoyed in her tone, but grinning nonetheless, and Barry-White held his breathe at a mention to another deceased individual still being alive on this Earth: Eddie. Well that was definite confirmation Wells was Thawne as Eddie hadn't yet sacrificed himself to stop the Reverse-Flash.
"That's great!" Barry-Red said with a grin and Barry-White could see he meant it. There was no jealousy here. This Barry had no feelings for Iris in the way Barry-White himself had and his Earth 2 doppelganger clearly had, having married her there. "It is great?' Barry-Red added after seeing Iris face, remembering her tone.
"It's just… you and Kara have been perfect for each other since the day you met each other. It took you guys nearly six years to get engaged. Me and Eddie have only been with each other for about a year and our start wasn't as smooth as yours and Kara… If it took you two that long when you're clearly perfect for each other why should me and Eddie rush into things?"
"Iris, we were a lot younger when we met," Barry-Red reasoned. "We still had school and setting up our lives before we could even think of marriage." Barry-Red, who had got up to hug her at the announcement, sat down and took Iris' hand. "Do you love him?" Iris nodded. "Could you live without him?"
"No…" Iris answered. "I want him."
"Then go for it!" Barry-Red said with a genuine smile, causing Iris to smile back.
"But there is one thing," Iris said. "If I am going to marry Eddie I can't be lying to him. I've got to let him know about you." Barry-White almost couldn't believe what he was hearing; well he couldn't believe a lot of things and seeing this, seeing Iris mad for Eddie made him want to fall into some sort of depression, knowing his Iris had felt the same way but it was doomed to death. Literally. But his Iris had not known before Eddie about his speedster identity. So this was new, Barry-White thought; he and Joe had told Eddie when they suspected Wells and wanted his help. It meant this Barry and his fiancée didn't suspect Wells. That put a damper on his suspicions on the group.
"If Eddie is the one you'll be with for the rest of your life he can join our Super family," Barry-Red was saying with a smile and Iris hugged him.
"Hey Kara if your listening in there," Iris said, suddenly rapping Barry-Red's head lightly with her knuckles "you're my maid of honor."
Barry-Red laughed as Barry-White was suddenly totally confused, Kara answered with a What?! as she hadn't been paying attention until that moment. Tell her of course!
"Kara would be please to be your maid of honor," Barry-Red said.
"I'm sorry, what the hell's going on?" Barry-White said, confused. "How could she hear? Is this some weird technology your Earth's developed? I…" Barry-White didn't know what to say.
"He's not mentally connected to his Kara?" Iris asked not even contemplating that there could be a Barry out there without a Kara.
"He doesn't even know her," Barry-Red said, a little worriedly now.
"Oh, wow, Barry without Kara. That's unbelievable. You two are perfect together!" Iris said surprised. "I got to go back to work. Good luck with…" Iris paused looking at Barry-White. "…whatever this is." Iris left the house leaving, the two Barry's alone again.
"Mentally connected?" Barry-White said lightly, and Barry-Red shrugged.
"It's a Kryptonian thing," Barry-Red said dismissively.
"So you and Iris are like real brother and sister here, huh?" Barry-White asked, having seen the relationship with his own eyes now. How easy it was for them to talk about other boys and girls with each other? Hell, Iris had just made Barry-Red's fiancée her maid of honor, they were that close.
"Of course. Aren't you two?" Barry-Red asked and Barry-White shrugged, not quite meeting his doppelganger's eyes as he didn't want to go down that road.
-Superflash-
Kara had gone back to work in a yellow dress she'd picked up from home and when she told Cat she had been saved by the Flash, Cat had said she knew. Well, everyone had seen the red streak save the girl. Indeed, Cat indicted one of her televisions, the video feed of the Flash catching Kara on repeats; Cat shrugging the experience off and expected Kara to go back to work. With Siobhan departing after screaming Kara out of the window, Kara did work peacefully for a short while, only to be distracted when she heard Iris tell Barry she was her maid of honor.
Kara smiled, happy for her friend when not long later her phone rang. "Alex," Kara said answering it.
"Bizzaro and Livewire are gone," Alex replied instantly.
"What…? How?" Kara asked.
"Not really sure," Alex replied worried.
Kara hung up the phone and marched into Cat Grant's office. "Ms. Grant, Leslie has escaped," Kara said. "I'll arrange you a flight and get Carter out of here." She knew Leslie was a danger to her boss; after the accident that had made her what she was, and the demotion due to her bad-mouthing Supergirl, Leslie had made it her life's mission to see Cat dead, almost succeeding if it wasn't for Kara's quick intervention.
"I'm not afraid of Leslie. I defeated her before and I will do it again," Cat said defiantly, looking up at Kara's face. "Okay, I had help last time and I will have help this time. Supergirl will be there I am sure. Flash too if he can spare the time."
Kara took a breath as she walked out and then to an empty office she sometimes used to change and take a break from both Kara and Supergirl life. James had found it for her, but she hadn't used it until after his death, for fear he might want to do something untoward with no one looking out for them. Barry I need you, Kara thought over the bond as she then got out her cellphone, knowing Barry was on his way.
When the Flash and his doppelganger arrived Kara was on the phone with Karen. "Look I want you to stick close to Carter. If a woman seemingly made of electricity comes, you grab Carter and run. Run all the way to Clark. You got it?"
"Yeah," Karen said confidently, knowing Kara was serious before they hung up.
"What's going on?" her Barry asked out loud for his doppelganger's benefit.
"Leslie and Bizzaro escaped the DEO," Kara said.
"How?" Her Barry asked, but Kara just shrugged. "Okay so we'll find them and put them back."
"Um… sorry who?" the other Barry asked never having heard the names before but was caught up on who the two were. "Wow this earth really has a thing with clones."
"Bizzaro is not a clone!" Kara retorted. "She's a human who Maxwell Lord messed with. Her powers and likeness, well she's like the reverse of me really." Kara looked over the other Barry. "More importantly though, are you in or out?"
Barry-White paused, unsure if he should get involved in this world; Earth-2 had proved difficult enough with the death of that Joe and Caitlin and Cisco's evil doppelgangers. "Come on, could you really sit here and do nothing? I know I couldn't," Barry-Red said with a smirk, and Barry-White knew he couldn't just sit back and do nothing. He nodded in agreement.
"Okay, I'll help. Where to?" Barry-White asked.
"Follow me," Kara, who kept her superhero outfit under her day clothes, stripped her yellow dress off and flew out the window.
-Superflash-
When they reached the DEO Kara and Barry-Red stood by a computer as Barry-White sped around the place at super-speed, taking it in before stopping in front of them. He took off his mask, clearly excited. "This place is awesome!" Barry-White said. "Is that a space ship? Is it YOUR spaceship? You said you were an alien, well not of this world anyway. Is 'alien' an insult to you? Sorry if it is, I just…" he rambled.
Kara laughed as Barry-White had pretty much the same reaction to her ship that Cisco had after learning it was hers, including wanting a picture in front of it. "Where did you get a spare Barry from?" Alex asked, too shocked to stop the picture being taken this time.
"He's from an alternative universe, believe it or not," Kara said with a smile.
"I'm Barry-Red. He's Barry-White," Barry-Red explained for Alex's benefit.
"Well, I suppose he can help," Hank said, not really caring where the extra Barry came from as long as he was actually helpful.
"Fighting crime is my day and night job," Barry-White pointed out, moving to Hank now. "I'm a CSI. Are you one too?" That question was addressed at Barry-Red, who nodded. "Is there a lab here?"
"You can use my lab," Alex said. "And no more pictures." Alex seemed annoyed as the Barry's and Kara took a selfie in front of the ship with Barry's-Red phone.
"Hey," Barry-Red suddenly pulled Barry-White aside as Alex and Kara walked towards the lab. "Don't piss Alex off. She might not look it but she can be scary and she is about to become my sister-in-law."
"She's an alien too?" Barry-White said, shocked and wondering how many aliens there were in this universe.
"No, she Kara's foster sister," Barry-Red said. "Just… be nice." Barry-White nodded not wanting to cause family drama for his counterpart.
Barry-White went on the computer and explained to Barry-Red what he was doing. Barry-Red was impressed as Barry-White tracked Leslie to a warehouse using electrical scanning to find the concentrated mass that she would likely provide. "I am totally stealing that idea from you," Barry-Red said when he was done.
"So let's go!" Kara said impatient.
"What's the plan?" Barry-White asked.
"Catch the bad girl, eighty-five percent chance of punching," both Kara and Barry-Red said at the same time.
"Okay I get that," Barry-White said. "But what's the plan? Don't you two coerce with Cisco and Caitlin to rig up something to stop them or do you just rely on your powers?" He sounded a little doubtful at their keenness to seek out the baddies without a plan. This was definitely an earlier version of himself.
"How about that device you tried to use last time on her?" Alex suggested quickly.
"That went bang," Kara pointed out, holding up her hands. Water, Kara suddenly thought, getting Barry-Red's attention. That worked last time on her.
It makes sense. So, one of us distracts her while the other two get a bucket of water and she goes all Wicked Witch of the West, Barry said with a smile as he and Kara then kissed, not noticing the stares.
"They just figured out something in their heads, forgetting none of us can hear them," Alex explained bemusedly to Barry-White. "Care to fill us in or want to leave us in the dark again?"
"Water, Alex, we're going to use water against her," Kara said.
"Oh, yeah, that so makes sense," Barry-White said. "Okay, let's go." The trio ran out at super speed.
-Superflash-
"We got here first,' Barry-Red comment as Barry-White came in after him and Kara. It still was annoying to Barry-Red that Barry-White seemed faster than him. Even without that speed canon thing.
"I ran around the block to get an idea of what obstacles could be used against us, so I let you get here first," Barry-white said with a smirk.
"Be nice boys," Kara warned, suddenly feeling like she was babysitting twins.
"Well look who dropped by," they heard a voice before the boys could react and Leslie appeared, still white haired and pale-skinned. "Brought backup this time, Supergirl."
"And we clearly have you outnumbered," Kara smirked, facing Leslie with the two Barry's by her side.
"I think you should re-count," Leslie mocked "and meet my new partners. I believe you know one already." From another part of the warehouse a girl who looked almost identical to Kara, and in a similar outfit flew up, but her face was cracked, like a broken porcelain mask – Kara knew Bizzaro right away. "And now, meet Silver Banshee."
A woman in heavy make-up, pale-grey highlights on black hair and the strangest wardrobe walked in, Kara barely recognizing Siobhan but recognized her stance. Barry-White didn't wait another moment, immediately running around Leslie at top speed, catching the lightning built up behind him and then throwing it at her. Did he just throw lightning at her? How did he do that?! Barry-Red thought to Kara clearly, stunned and jealous.
"Thanks for the power up," Leslie remarked, the lightning being absorbed by her, she then firing a bolt of her own at Barry-White, throwing him back with the force.
"I will kill you and then I'll kill Kara Danvers," Siobhan had rounded on Supergirl at the same moment, blasting a sonic scream right at Kara. It caused her to fall to her knees and cover her ears, the pain of the blast. When she removed her hands there was actual blood coming from her ears! That wasn't good.
While this was going on, Bizzaro had sent a fire breath out at Barry-Red who moved created two mini-cyclones with the speed of his arms to counter it. "Maybe Kara Danvers is tougher than you think!" Kara was now saying to 'Silver Banshee' as she let out a freeze breath at Siobhan, which Siobhan let out a scream to counteract.
Barry-White re-joined them at that moment and let his arms do the same thing as Barry-Reds to counteract Leslie's electricity. It was somewhat effective. "We've got to get out of here!" Barry-White said, the other two agreed running off, leaving the three villains behind.
-Superflash-
The group had regrouped back to Kara's apartment where Barry-White was introduced to a confused Krypto. Barry-White, for his part, found it completely awesome Kara had an alien dog with super powers, despite their defeat by the three villains, and was using Barry-Red cellphone to take more pictures, wishing he had his own with him.
"You two okay?" Barry-White asked the couple after taking their picture too. They had retreated to the couch, Barry-Red seeming fine but Kara was rubbing her ears. The bleeding had instantly stopped but she was still disconcerted by Siobhan's sheer power.
"Yeah, just a little ringing," Kara said. "Glad I didn't bring Krypto with me. His hearing is even better than mine."
"I got an idea for that actually. From when I faced off against Pied Piper," Barry-White said causing the two to look to him, clearly confused themselves now. That was a first. "Not met the Pied Piper yet?" Barry-White was a slightly confused since they had mentioned Ronnie and Hartley Rathaway, aka Pied Piper, had been one of the main reason they had found Ronnie in his universe. "Maybe he went by a different name? He was Hartley Rathaway?" The two shook their heads. "Hartley did work for STAR before the explosion… Not that either of you would have known that. How did you find Ronnie anyway?"
"A friend of mine has a thing for tracking metahumans," Kara said. "I saw Ronnie in a video and then searched all of Central to find him."
That was different, and Barry-White nodded, realizing why. Hartley had also been one of the main reasons he had started to suspect Wells after he had told Barry that Wells had actually known, and obviously planned on, the accelerator exploding. Pieces were starting to fall into place in his mind as to why this earth's Fake-Wells wasn't even suspected of his true nature. "Well, let's go to that DE-thing base again. I'll make the ear plugs we need there." Barry-White reasoned.
-Superflash-
"Well hello Kitty-Cat," Leslie said as she appeared on the screens in Cat's office. There was a blast of electricity from the monitors and then she was there in person. "You really need to watch where you're going, Cat, or someone is going to declaw you."
"You really need to get some new material." Cat groaned as the elevator opened and Siobhan, in her ludicrous make up, walked out.
"I believe you know my partner," Leslie said, as Winn recognizing the woman jumped up, again trying to talk her out of what she was planning, but again was thrown aside like rubbish. This wasn't so impressive, Cat thought on Winn's behalf.
"So, it's the attack of my former cronies?" Cat asked, looking around as another figure flew past the window and landed on her balcony. It took Cat a moment to realize this was Bizzaro and not Supergirl.
"Supergirl loves you," Bizzaro said, moving into Cat's office and looking at CatCo boss her head tilted and her eyes strangely unfocussed "…like a mother."
"Well that settles that," Leslie said with a smirk, pouncing on Cat.
-Superflash-
Barry-White was at the DEO making the earplugs for the group and explaining what they did when Leslie's form appeared on all the screen. "Hey blue and double-red," Leslie mocked on the screens, "I got someone you want." The screen moved to show Cat Grant, handcuffed to a bench in the park with Silver Banshee and Bizzaro guarding her. "If you want her back, come to the park and get her." Leslie vanished from the screen.
"You don't have to do this," Kara said to Barry-White suddenly.
"Yeah this is our fight," Barry-Red said, knowing what Kara was thinking.
"Hey all for one and…" Barry-White paused for a second "you guys have the Three Musketeers here, right?"
"All for one," Kara and Barry-Red said together to confirm it. Barry-White smirked.
-Superflash-
The three villains were patrolling Cat, who was trying to get them to let her go using her best negotiation skills. "I'm not begging for me,' Cat implored when Leslie made fun of her attempts, "I am asking for my sons. I'm all they have."
"That's sweet," Leslie mocked, 'too bad Supergirl loves you like a mother too."
"I think the word Bizzaro was looking for is mentor," Cat said irritated now, knowing Kara might have great affection for her but was unsure if it was up to the level of a mother. She already had her foster mother. Maybe Kara did think more of Cat than Eliza, Cat wasn't sure.
"What's it like?" Bizzaro suddenly asked, looking at Cat curiously. "Having a mother? Being loved by a mother?"
"I wouldn't know," Cat said thinking of her own mother who was uncaring in everything. Looking at Bizzaro she seemed like a child herself, almost.
That was when Kara and the two Barrys appeared and the three villains stood to attention, ready for a fight. "Come on ladies, let's settle this like women," Barry-White said, making Kara and Barry-Red look at him. "What? There's more of you than of us," Barry-White reasoned.
"How about no," Siobhan muttered, letting out her sonic scream but was surprised when it didn't affect the trio.
"Too bad Shrieky. Scream lost its hit," Barry-Red said with a smirk, running over to punch Siobhan, but was cut off by Leslie who set an electric spark at him. Barry-White ran over to distract Siobhan instead.
Kara went over to break Cat's handcuffs curious while Bizzaro was not acting or fighting. "Took you long enough," Cat said getting up.
"Go," Kara said turning to Bizzaro. "Hi." Kara didn't want to have to fight her if she didn't have to.
"They said they would help me get rid of the pain," Bizzaro said sadly, looking at Kara. Since being hit by both the green and blue Kryptonite she had been in horrible pain every waking moment. "They lied."
"They only care about themselves," Kara said smoothly.
"You lied too," Bizzaro added. "You did nothing!"
"We tried," Kara said. "It will just take more time…"
"No, go on, kill me," Bizzaro said, shocking Kara who shook her head. "I make you." Bizzaro jumped at Kara with her own little scream and Kara had no choice but to fight back.
The two Barrys were having problems themselves. While Siobhan's scream didn't affect them while the earplugs were in, Leslie proved difficult nonetheless. She had knocked out Barry-White while Barry-Red was zipping around, trying to keep ahead of her.
"I hate helicopters!" Leslie suddenly screamed, as a helicopter came whirring overhead, obviously filming the scene taking place.
She threw an electric burst right at the helicopter. Barry-Red couldn't do anything to stop it. Kara, from her fight with Bizzaro, saw it head toward the machine and threw both herself and Bizzaro in front of the lightning bolt, saving the helicopter from destruction. The two fell from the sky instantly, Bizzaro clearly getting the worst of the hit but Kara not in good shape herself now.
Barry-Red ran in front of his weakened fiancée, who couldn't get off the floor at that moment. Leslie held electricity in her hand now, ready to fire it as the gathered public suddenly moved, surrounding the two heroes. "Time for us to protect you," one of them said to Barry-Red who, alone in the battle now, couldn't help but smile.
Barry-White though had gained consciousness and ran down the side of the building he and Livewire had been fighting before she'd knocked him out, and saw a fire truck not far off. He ran to it and grabbed the hose. "Think you can give me some water?" Barry-White asked and the fireman nodded, grinning as they knew what Barry-White wanted to do, and turned it on. Barry-White directed it at Leslie who, when the water hit, went haywire going into electrolysis and hitting Siobhan with her suddenly split electricity. All three villains were down.
"You two okay?" Barry-White asked, running over once the water was off. Barry-Red had helped Kara to her feet and nodded.
"Yeah," Barry-Red said, looking around them at the public. "Need to get these guys back to the DEO."
"I have an idea about that," Barry-White said.
-Superflash-
Kara flew to the wastelands where the two Barrys and Krypto were waiting. Barry-White had given Cisco and Caitlin the technology to hold metas in jail, advancing their current pipeline technology, and it was now being put in place in a couple of prisons in both Central and National. Bizzaro, unfortunately had gotten her wish. Everything that had been done to her body had been too much. Her heart had given out and she was no more.
"I got the pictures," Kara said holding up the many selfies they had taken with Barry-Red's phone to Barry-White. They had wanted the other Barry to keep them as souvenir of his time with them. "What have you been doing?"
"He taught me how to throw lightning," Barry-Red said, clearly excited.
"Well I learned these tricks from people who I wish weren't in my life. You should learn them from someone you like," Barry-White reasoned, taking the photos, glad Kara had agreed to get them printed for him. "Thank you, no one at home will believe this."
"Have you figured out how to get home?" Kara asked, petting her dog.
"I think so. Something we have done on my universe. We run together and at the last moment you throw me. To combine our speeds. A sort of race," Barry-White said.
"Oh I am so up for that!" Barry-Red said gleeful, still a little sore he was slower than Barry-White. "I still can not believe you are faster than me."
"I had to train myself to get faster because I had no one watching my back. You do. I'd trade half my speed for what you have," Barry-White said looking at Kara. "But I'm sure you'll get faster in time. Look, there's something I have to tell you before I leave. Well, maybe warn you actually – something important… about the Reverse-Flash, the one of my world and the history I believe is repeating itself here." Barry-White had decided he could not go home leaving the world like this. Letting the possibility of the Reverse-Flash winning on any world was too much for him. He had to tell the two what he knew.
"Harrison Wells isn't who he claims to be. I can't be too sure but the one on my Earth proved to be someone altogether different…" Barry-White then proceeded to tell Kara and Barry-Red everything that had happened in his world; about the Hartley's revelation and Wells setting off the accelerator on purpose, all the way to who he really was and the events surrounding his death. Barry-White left nothing out. "From what I learned of this world so far it's the same, just a year or so behind mine," Barry-White said, noticing the looks the two were making.
I never liked him, Kara thought, anger filling her body but suppressing it to try and keep Barry-Red in control as Barry-Red was actually seeing red and was ready to go pound Wells for himself. We need to wait, Barry. We need real proof first.
Like what? Barry asked.
We'll find this Hartley, Barry-White said he worked for STAR Labs so Cisco and Caitlin would know him, and then see if it's true that Wells set the accelerator off on purpose. Then we'll go to see if we can find the original Wells body, Kara thought back and Barry nodded knowing he could not just rush into this. They needed to make sure Barry-White was right first.
"Guys…?" Barry-White asked at their silence. "I've heard of a 'raging silence' but this is something else. Unless you're doing that mental communication thing…?"
"Thank you," Kara quickly said out loud to Barry-White, cutting off his worried rant. She hugged the speedster who smiled and hugged her back. He then hugged his doppelganger, which was really weird. He then put the speed canon back onto his chest plate.
"Good luck you two," Barry-White said and the two Barrys then started to run together. At last moment Barry-Red threw Barry-White. There was a sudden swirl of blue light and Barry white was gone.
Woah. That was cool! You think he got home? Barry-Red asked as he stopped.
We might never find out, Kara said as Krypto barked. And we have work to do.
-Superflash-
Earth-1
The Flash sped through the streets of Central City, momentarily vanishing into a blue portal and emerging only moments later some five feet away, finishing his jaunt back to STAR Labs where he skidded to a stop in front of Caitlin Snow, Cisco Ramone, and Iris West.
Ripping the mask from his head, Barry Allen turned to look at the trio. "I'm back!" He exclaimed, oblivious to the fact he had time-jumped as well as having travelled inter-dimensionally as he added, "what… how long was I gone?"
"Well, let's put it this way," Caitlin said with a smile. "You just killed your old record. You went four times faster!"
"That's as fast as Zoom," Cisco celebrated.
"Faster actually," Harry corrected as Barry stared at them shocked.
"But… how long was I gone?' Barry said confusing them. "I mean I was… well… you must have noticed. I spent an entire day on a different Earth?"
The group starred at him in shock. "You breached?" Cisco asked. "To a completely new Earth?" Barry nodded.
"And spent a day there?" Caitlin said, clearly shocked. "You disappeared for like a second but I just thought you went too fast for us to track you."
"No I was gone," Barry confirmed.
"Did you see our doppelgangers?" Cisco asked, cautiously curious.
"Yeah, and it was kind of freaky. Their Earth was very similar to ours, but kind of a year behind. Reverse-Flash was there and everything," Barry said.
"Woah" Cisco nodded impressed. "I thought all earths were on the same sort of time though?"
"Well, I'm sure there are many universes out there where your lives took similar paths with minor differences," Wells pointed out. "Also it's very possible for an alternate Earth to be a year or two behind us. Although Barry could have just time jumped as well since there does seem to be some time jumping here."
"Well it felt like I was a year in the past." Barry shrugged. "Iris you had just gotten engaged to Eddie. Ronnie and Stein were out there somewhere in the world. The only real difference is I was engaged to be married to get this a super powered alien."
"No, you're making this up," Cisco said.
"No I got pictures," Barry said, taking out the pictures he'd rolled up in his sleeve and showing the group.
"Oh wow," Cisco said as he looked at one of the spaceship. "I'm going to scan these pics into the system!" Cisco went to run to his desk but was stopped by Iris.
"Can I see that?" Iris said, seeing the selfie of the two Barrys and a girl. Cisco handed the pictures to her "She seems…" Iris paused looking at the pictures trying to remember something. A look came on her face as she did. "No…? Kara Kent? That's Kara Kent. I was roommates with her for like a week freshmen year until her adoptive parents died and she had to go take care of her little cousin." Iris got very uncomfortable as everyone paused and looked at her in shock.
Post chapter note: Hah! Did you like Earth 1 Barry visiting? I had so much fun with this chapter especially that ending. Now I do have some plans in my head for a couple of Karry Universe spinoffs, one taking place on Earth 1 following this. Would anyone actually be interested? Let me know! REVIEW. Karry Master OUT!