Karry Universe
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Swan Song
Kara had to pause as everyone in the room took in the information. Ronnie, Caitlin, and Cisco denied it – this she had anticipated as they had the most contact with Doctor Wells and couldn't believe he was the man Kara had just revealed. Astra, Hank, and Alex were angry though; ready to react before Kara had to stop them. Clark stayed silent, but Kara could read her cousin; there was anger brewing underneath, knowing the hurt the Reverse-Flash had done to his cousin's fiancée and the lies he had so far revealed to everyone else. Stein, Winn, and Oliver, however, took the information the best, only a raised eyebrow from Stein in fact, as they had the least amount of contact with the man.
Krypto finally growled loudly to get everyone, mainly Ronnie and Cisco who were now in debated with one another, to shut up so they could continue. "Thank you," Kara told her dog as she went on to explain everything. Everything Barry-White – who they also had to explain about for the people in the room who didn't know, having too, to pause after that as Stein kept repeating 'fascinating' and Clark shook his head, rolling his eyes and mumbling under his breath about the craziest situations – told them about his universe, the parallels between his timeline and this one and how he had discovered Wells' true identity to relay to this universe's Barry and Kara. After a few minutes they went on to explain about confirming it in this universe by tracking down Hartley and the real Harrison Wells' body in Starling, where the Reverse-Flash had caught up to, and killed him, to take his identity in both this universe and Barry-White's.
"So that's everything," Kara said when she had finished. "It's why we brought you all here. We have the advantage now because he doesn't know we know. We can take him and avoid what happened in Barry-White universe."
"But we need help," Barry said. "He knows us too well; he's managed to keep up with us every time we have seen him. We need you." Barry and Kara eyes were on Clark, Ronnie, Stein, and Oliver. "We need you guys to fight besides us."
"I'm in," Clark said right away. "I said I was in a while ago, actually and not just because you're my family and I would do anything for you, but also he killed James. He will not get away with that." Kara smiled in spite of herself. She never had got on with James and even though the photographer went to National under false pretenses, he had still been Clark's friend and his death had laid heavily on Clark ever since.
"We're in," Ronnie and Stein said together.
Eyes turned to Oliver. He was the only hero they had gotten who didn't have a personal connection to this. "Didn't come all this way for nothing," Oliver said with a shrug, placing his bow over his shoulder with a smirk.
"Thank you," Kara said. "And if any of you ever need us all you need to do is ask." Kara then turned to her aunt. "Aunt Astra we need three of those anti-Kryptonite devices."
"I figured that's why I was here," Astra said smiling now. "Okay, and you'll be happy to know they do work against the mutated form as well. We ran some tests."
"Caitlin," Barry said turning to his friend. "We need to slow him down."
"It's possible," Caitlin said, still not taking the news well, the Harrison Wells she knew only ever having been kind to her, a tutor and father figure. But she figured there would truth if this team was to reveal it, she could deal with the betrayal when she had accepted the fact. "I could create a serum that would work to freeze…"
"His cells!" Alex finished, wanting to help but knowing she wasn't needed in the field – not for this one, anyway, and especially not with all who Kara had backing her. Alex could help other ways. "The same way the cold works against speedsters only on an internal basis instead of an exterior. For it to work longer, I can help. My specialty might be alien biology, but I have studied meta humans as well… even Barry."
Caitlin nodded. "We're going to need a lab though."
"We can use mine," Alex said, turning to Hank who nodded. "We're also going to need a way to get it into him once it is made."
"Leave that to me," Oliver said taking out an unusual looking arrow from his quiver with a smirk. "You make it; I'll get it in him."
"Cisco," Kara said. The young man was taking this the hardest of the group seemed to be sulking in a corner. He had no idea how Caitlin could be so forthcoming in taking down their boss and friend, having too seen Harrison Wells as a mentor, never once second-guessing him to be a speedster. He was in a wheelchair for one! "We need you too. We need a way to hold him after we get him."
"That will be tricky," Cisco said, not looking to Barry and finding his mouth moving in spite of himself. "With the ability to phase through things… I guess we could rework some of the technology Barry-White gave…. He gave us the clues when he was giving us the tech to hold metas in jail. He added something. It's in STAR labs computer. I will have to hack in from the outside."
"I can help," Winn said, wanting to be useful. "I'm a pretty good hacker."
"He is," Kara admitted kindly to get Cisco back to normal. "Maybe better than you. "
"This guy?" Cisco said, seeming to take the challenge and looking to Winn with a raised eyebrow. "Well, we'll see about that!" The two seemed to eyeball each other, taking the other in for the first time before both were suddenly by a laptop Barry had already set up before the group had arrive.
Was it a good idea to introduce them? Barry asked Kara who shrugged noncommittally.
"May I point out we could get him but the only way to get your father out of jail Mr. Allen would be for him to confess," Stein stated matter-of-factly.
"I'll take care of that," Hank said, standing up.
"I don't think torture will be the way to go," Stein said bluntly, assuming that was what Hank meant and Kara giggled.
"You might want to take a step back," Kara warned, confusing everyone. Hank's eyes glowed red and he seemed to begin to grow. His skin stretched and changed tone; even his clothes seem to mold to the new physique, much to the surprise of all but Kara, Astra, Alex, Barry, and Clark, who already knew the Martian's true form. "Everyone, meet J'onn J'onzz, the last son of Mars."
"Wait, as in Martians," Cisco asked, having watched the transformation wide-eyed. "There are actually Martians? Or… were Martians? That is so cool!"
"And you're a shape shifter?" Winn asked, almost as excited as Cisco as J'onn shrank back into Hank.
"I have many powers," Hank said in his normal voice. "One of them includes mind control."
"You can fight with us," Kara said as everyone else took in the fact that Hank was an alien.
Hank shook his head. "I can not reveal myself to the world. I cannot be both Hank Henshaw and J'onn J'onzz. I found my place at the head of the DEO, besides…" Hank paused looking at the backup Kara had "you were right before. You do not need me protecting you. Bring him to me though and I will make him confess."
"Seems we have a game plan," Oliver said. "So let's plan."
-Superflash-
The next day Barry walked into STAR labs in his Flash outfit. Using the resources at the DEO they had managed to get everything they needed prepared. They had also found the perfect place to take Eobard on; Barry just had to get him there.
You good? Kara asked him, sharing his nervousness.
I got this, Barry thought back, determined.
I'm flying overhead in case you need me, Kara thought and Barry smiled to himself knowing Kara was always there for him.
He walked into the main lab to find Fake-Wells was already there. "Ah, Mr. Allen," he said. "I've been wondering where everyone was." His tone was sincere, it seemed he didn't have a clue as to the ambush he was about to face.
"Probably because everyone's avoiding you," Barry said simply.
"Still upset about the Kryptonite?" Well asked with a sigh, not knowing all his plans had been destroyed already.
"Kryptonite, killing James, setting off the Particle Accelerator, and killing my mom," Barry said, keeping his anger at bay, making Wells pause. "We know everything," Barry continued coolly.
"You cannot possibly think that I am…?"
"We know who you are Eobard Thawne," Barry said sharply, making Wells turn his wheelchair around at the name. "We found the true Wells' body. It was right where Barry-White said it would be."
Eobard glared at Barry and then stood, seeing his game was over. "I should have known," Eobard said, his whole persona suddenly changed. "That device… It was of my design. I just figured his Wells was smarter. He was a very good actor."
"Not as good as you," Barry spat. "And we thought you were on our side! It's over. You're over."
"You really think that?" Eobard asked, sounding generally curious.
"I do," Barry said.
"Well, I'm faster than you," Eobard said.
"Why don't you try to catch me?" Barry put his mask on, turned around and ran, hoping Eobard would take the bait. He did; Barry could see Eobard already in his yellow Reverse-Flash outfit running after him.
-Superflash-
Kara, up in the air, saw Barry run from the labs with Eobard directly behind him. She had Krypto flying with her, both of them wearing anti-Kryptonite devices. Clark, Firestorm, and Oliver were all at the location they had chosen to take down Eobard.
"He's not going to make!" Kara suddenly cried into the coms, seeing Eobard catch up with Barry and the two started to fight. Barry tried to get back to running but was forced into using fists. "Krypto, help Barry."
Krypto barked as he flew down and grabbed Eobard. "Cisco we need somewhere else close!" Kara said.
"There's a park nearby," Cisco said, the disbelief in his voice more to the proof of Eobard than the fact Barry was now fighting the Reverse-Flash. "But there's a Little League game going."
"I'll clear it out," Kara stated. "Clark, Ronnie, Oliver, you'll have to come to us."
"On it," Kara heard her cousin say as Kara flew towards the park.
A little boy was pitching when Kara landed in front of the batter and caught the ball. The batter had swung anyway and the bat had broken on Kara. "Game's over, kids. Sorry, but everyone out," Kara yelled to the group. "Supergirl business," she explained desperately as people paused for a moment but ran the minute Barry sped in, two fighting red and yellow blurs, with Eobard and Krypto on their tail.
Krypto was bleeding, having gotten a couple of nicks from a Kryptonite knife, but besides that both were fine. "Go!" Kara yelled as people started running, but Kara, of course, saw a group of people taking out cameras. She rolled her eyes as Kara threw the ball she had in her hand right at Eobard's head.
Then Kara ran at Eobard, tossing him off Barry who had been on the ground. "You have to remember we're a pair!" Kara practically snarled, "You don't fight one without the other."
Eobard smirked, running around the two before either could react. Barry ran to get him but was thrown back and Eobard came at Kara with the knife. Before he could strike Clark had flown in and punched him. "No one messes with my baby cousin!" Clark said.
Eobard looked around. With three Supers and the Flash he knew he should retreat. He went to run but was blocked off by a sudden jet of fire. He looked up to see Firestorm standing not far off. "You're not running away this time!" Firestorm said.
Eobard ran at Barry who ran back at him. "I don't have a shot," Oliver said through their coms. "He's going too fast. You need to get me a clean shot, just for a second"
"Freeze breath," Kara commanded, and Clark nodded. Barry backed away as the three Supers let out a breath of frozen air at Eobard who backed away, but his path out was blocked by Firestorm letting out another one of his flame blasts. Barry running in his direction blocked his other path out.
Eobard paused, wondering what to do when he felt three sharp pains in his back. Turning around Oliver appeared in his vision. "No!" Eobard cried, realizing what had happened. Superman, the Flash, Supergirl, Firestorm and now the Arrow – not to mention Superdog. Turning around he looked at all the heroes surrounding him. "No… it's too soon. No!" It was years too early and the group was missing key members, but Eobard knew what he was facing. This was the Justice League of America. It had formed early to take him on.
"You see we realized you might be able to take one of us," Barry said, stopping in front of a frozen Reverse-Flash.
"Or two," Kara said.
"Maybe even three," Clark said, and Krypto barked agreeing.
"But there was no way you were taking us all," Oliver growled through his voice modulator, moving closer, arrow pointed right at Eobard's heart.
"Not if we worked together," Firestorm finished for the group.
"Maybe some other time?" Eobard said, knowing how powerful this group was together. He took off, running passed Oliver, avoiding the arrow he shot by mere millimeters despite his speed, but was shocked when Barry caught up to him and pushed him to the floor, the other speedster grabbing his tail stream and threw lightning at Eobard.
"Feeling slower?" Barry asked, smirking as he tossed Eobard back towards the group. "You can thank Caitlin and Alex for that."
Oliver punched Eobard right in the face. "For everything you did," Oliver said throwing him towards Kara.
"All the lives you destroyed," Kara said punching him and tossing him towards Clark.
"For James," Clark said, punching him and then tossing him towards Firestorm.
"For what you did to us!" Firestorm shouted punching him as Barry ran up.
"And for my mom," Barry said, proceeding to throw out a multitude of punches at the man, not being distracted by the group calling his superhero name.
He only stopped when he heard Kara in his head saying his real name. "It's over!" Kara said, putting a hand on Barry's shoulder. Barry backed away nodding but breathing heavily. Kara looked down at the bloodied Fake-Wells. "We're bringing you to a friend, and after that there will be justice served for what you did," Kara said reasonably backing away and turning to her friends.
Eobard though, had one more trick left. He took out an extra Kryptonite blade he had hidden up his arm and headed right for Kara. Barry saw it and reacted before anyone else. Getting between them, grabbing the knife and turning it towards Eobard himself. The knife went right into his heart. Time stopped for both Barry and Eobard as Barry stared the man in his glowing red eyes, the light suddenly and literally fading from them as he toppled over backward… The Reverse-Flash fell down dead, the Flash standing over him, shocked.
The group paused for a moment. That had not been in the plan. "This is usually when it's a good time to run," Oliver stated, he having his fair share of death.
"Sounds like an idea," Ronnie said, flying off. Clark grabbed Oliver and flew.
Barry… Kara thought to her stunned fiancée, who nodded at the thought and then Kara, Krypto, and Barry all left. The body of the Reverse-Flash remaining on the field to the reaction of the stunned remaining watchers.
-Superflash-
They had regrouped at STAR labs where Cisco, Caitlin, Astra, Hank, and Alex were already taking out anything suspicious and transferring the metas they still had in the pipeline to the DEO. "When they see Wells is the Reverse Flash they will search everything he owns," Hank explained. "We can't let it lead to you two."
The group of heroes helped get everything out and Barry got on the phone with Joe to give them some time – the police had arrived at the field and Joe was pulling all the strings he could. "Ugh," Oliver said, he had gotten a call not long ago and had just hung up from it. "Thea and Laurel are complaining about not being asked to join the 'Justice League'."
Kara held back a laugh. "Cat Grant works fast!" Kara said, recognizing her boss' handy work in the name.
"You know it wouldn't be a bad idea to have a sort of league. A way to contact each other quickly if we need help," Stein voiced. The group looked to one other, realizing it wasn't a bad idea.
"We did kill someone," Ronnie said. "How is that being explained?"
"Supergirl and Superman will be giving CatCo and the Daily Planet the same story," Clark said. "It's taken care of."
Kara looked over to notice Barry sitting down, not taking part in the discussions. He wasn't reacting to much and there was a glazed look about his features. I'm sorry, Kara thought to him, walking up. I shouldn't have turned my back. We were so close to getting your dad out. Kara paused. Maybe there is another way? We can postpone the wedding until we can…
Kara, Barry thought, but Kara kept rambling. "Kara!" He said out loud, finally looking to her, and Kara stopped. It's over. We tried and we almost had him out, but it's over. In that moment I had to choose between you and him. I choose you. I will always choose you. Barry smiled in spite of himself, and then said out loud "none of our wedding plans are being changed. You're my family it's time we make it official, as we planned." Kara smiled.
"Was that weird to anyone else?" Oliver asked, having seen a very non-verbal conversation as the two were now kissing.
"Are you the only one here that does not know they are mentally connected?" Alex asked, making Oliver raise an eyebrow.
Kara and Barry laughed, having heard this. "Oliver, I want you to be my best man," Barry said, suddenly confusing the vigilante. Barry had been going back and forth on whom he wanted, but the decision was suddenly clear to him. "We share something only heroes share. You were there for me for all of this when you didn't have to be. I want you to be my best man."
Oliver nodded. "I'd be honored," he smiled, ignoring the mental connection thing. For now, anyway.
"And Ronnie, Cisco, I want you two to be groomsmen," Barry added, finally deciding that. The two smiled and nodded.
"You know we have our own wedding to plan?" Ronnie said, turning to Caitlin. "If you still want to?"
"Yes," Caitlin said, kissing Ronnie. "After Barry and Kara's though." Ronnie nodded. "Something smaller and quicker than theirs. Oh, and Kara you're my maid of honor."
"What?" Kara said, not having been paying attention and then realized what had been said. "Okay. Yeah of course." Kara than realized she had become maid of honor to two different people in a very short time period and smiled.
-Superflash-
At CatCo, Cat had gathered all the people she considered important in her office and was going over the videos they had received of the fight in Central City. She had already named the group the Justice League of America, but she was working on a bigger article about it and wanted to go over all recordings, get all the information correct. Doctor Harrison Wells being the Reverse-Flash was a big story, after all. "This one must be that Starling City Vigilante." She stated of the man in green with a bow and arrow, "What do they call him?" Cat asked.
'The Arrow," one man said. "He's the odd man out."
"And how so?" Cat asked, turning around
"He's the only one without a superpower," the man said, thinking it was obvious. "I mean he should be out of his league here."
"And yet he was the most important person," Lucy said, turning all eyes to her.
"Did I miss a detail? Care to explain, Ms. Lane?" Cat asked.
"Well, I was in the military. It's very obvious to anyone with a trained eye what they did: Superman, Supergirl, Superdog, Flash, and the fire guy all set up a shot for him," Lucy said. "That was their plan. I don't know why or what was in the arrows he shot at Wells, but maybe it indicates that the Arrow was the most important person in the plan."
"Speaking of the fire guy," Cat said, going to a video that showed his face, trying to see through the flames to the features within. "What do we call him?"
"Firestorm," Cat heard a familiar voice state.
"Who…?" Cat paused when she saw Supergirl floating right outside the open window. "Oh." People turned around to see Supergirl float in.
"We call him Firestorm," Supergirl confirmed, having her feet touch the ground of the familiar office.
"Well, it's not a bad name," Cat said nodding to herself. "Given time I could have come up with something a little less… explosive. Are you here for an interview on the events, Supergirl? Like answering questions about Harrison Wells."
"No," Supergirl said simply. "I came here to tell you what happened. The same thing my cousin is telling Lois Lane." Cat nodded understanding; more comprehension than even Kara suspected, in fact. "Doctor Harrison Wells set off the Particle Accelerator on purpose, wanting to study the effects it would have on people and to give himself powers. When we found this out we gathered some of our friends to help us take him down. That's it."
"Why the park?" Cat asked.
"That wasn't our planned fighting ground. Things didn't go quite as planned there," Supergirl admitted, and Cat nodded.
Supergirl turned to leave when Lucy spoke up; "Why kidnap Kara?" Lucy asked making Supergirl turn around, confused.
'I'm sorry… who?" Supergirl asked, Cat only just holding back a laugh. To someone who knew the truth, Supergirl's response wasn't very convincing. Cat herself could see Supergirl was just pretending.
"Kara. Blonde girl with glasses. The girl he took when he killed James," Lucy stated. She really wanted answers to James' death.
"Oh," Supergirl said. "I… don't know." She wanted to give Lucy some kind of closure, to tell her some grand lie that would make it all better, but she couldn't. The truth was all she knew and that would give the game away. "She was spending a lot of time at STAR with friends. Maybe he thought she knew something." Supergirl didn't say any more as she jumped out the window and flew away.
"Well, we have our story," Cat said, ignoring the look of anguish in Lucy's face as she addressed the rest of her cohorts. "Let's get to work!"
Post Chapter Note: …and the Reverse-Flash is defeated! That's the end of him for good. And just to clear something up: As you can see my ending is a lot different from the TV's show ending. That's because I am not going into season two of Flash at all. No Zoom, no breaches, no 'Harry' and Jesse, no multiverse at least not in the way it was used in the show since I kind have already introduced the multiverse. From now on this story is completely original. REVIEW.
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