Karry Universe
Disclaimer: Same old, same old.
Note 1: Originally for this chapter I was going to use an OC villain submitted to me by a reviewer several months ago but, after that reviewer disagreed with a relationship choice I made, they not only said negative things to me about it but he put negative things about this story on his bio and I don't know where else. I will not name names, but you know who you are. The point of this note though is that I did not feel comfortable using his OC any more after seeing that first hand, so I had to scrap my entire original plans for this chapter and put it down to the general idea instead. That being said my beta and me are amazing at brainstorming and came up with a villain that I believe works even better for this chapter than originally planned. It is based on a season two villain, but is completely original for this story. I hope you enjoy.
Note 2: This does relate to my note above – sort of. It's about the couple that said reviewer had a problem with: Sara and Alex, or Salex as I dub them. I want to say they are not going anywhere as I have planned for them to be endgame for each other for a while now in this story. This is not saying anything bad to other relationships people like for them (particularly Alex and Hank, which is just weird for me as I see them more as father-and-daughter). Personally I do love Sara with Snart in Legends and well, Alex has no relationship in the show so can't say much there. I personally felt the two connected together in this and Sara is my favorite character in Legends so want to include her more in this story. Just know for people who may not like gay relationships, this story is still mainly focused on Kara and Barry. Sara and Alex will be there and their relationship will come out to shine every once in a while though.
Note 3: Batlovers! Please don't let my personal dislike of Batman cloud your own judgments – yes, I said Batman loves killing and I may have chosen my words wrong there; I will correct this for my next batch of footnotes, but please remember that I was simply comparing him to the Arrow and why I'm including Arrow in the Justice League and not Batman. That said, could you honestly say in his what, 50-plus years of publications, Batman hasn't killed once? Or not regretted a kill? Even in the movies and many, many cartoons I'm sure he kills and doesn't reflect on it with regret. He does it because he simply has to, because there's no other way. Like Oliver. So again, I apologize for the way I worded that and it will be changed next time.
While the Heroes Are Away
"You three need to attend a hero workshop or something," Cisco said walking into the Superflash cave from the door to the main lab, having heard the latest news report as he was out there. Caitlin was already in the lab but was looking at some paperwork. Stein, Ronnie, and Ray were all sitting around the lab; Ray was still in his Atom suit, having come in through what the group called the 'back door'.
When they separated the cave from the rest of the lab they had made two different entrances. They had made a solid wall between the Flash cave and the main labs, but with one door connecting them. They had also created a sort of hallway to a backdoor that lead outside to the back of the labs where no one would see. This was so people could come in and out in their superheroes outfit with no problems from external staff noticing the activity. Both entrances were protected from other people entering due to a six-number passkey for each person who had access and a handprint scan.
"We stopped the car crash," Ronnie chimed in, shrugging off Cisco's comment.
"You set the car on fire," Cisco pointed out.
"My power is fire," Ronnie countered.
"And I stopped that guy," Ray said, having been in National dealing with a man trying to rob a grocery store.
"They are all in the hospital," Caitlin said pitching up, "Not in jail yet."
"This isn't as easy as it looks," Ronnie protested, not liking the telling off they were getting.
"Kara and Barry seem to find it easy," Cisco said.
"Well maybe they have better backup," Ray said, making Caitlin and Cisco look at him. "Not like you two have been much help with advice."
"We have to watch the labs," Caitlin said putting the paperwork she had been looking over down. "Do you know how hard it is to navigate the PR section and keep media at bay? Or the paperwork that needs to be done. Payroll!"
"Or just keep scientists from killing each other over a piece of equipment," Cisco said. "Especially Hartley and alien guy, Harm. Those two are always at each other throats. I don't know how Kara does this and have time to be Supergirl and in a solid relationship with Barry. I mean I have not been able to see Lisa since they left."
"While I keep on having to run out on Lucy," Ray complained.
"Fascinating," Stein contributed, having observed the scene as the group kept complaining. That word turned all of their attention to him. "Look at us. We are five brilliant people. Ronald and me have superpowers and Mr. Palmer's suit is impressive and yet we are having trouble filling the large shoes left by Kara and Barry. While impressive individuals it makes me wonder what do those two have to let them do all this, while us five are having trouble."
"Super speed," Cisco and Caitlin answered together. "It gives them an advantage." Caitlin continued.
"They also have that dog with them," Ray said. "Why didn't she leave Superdog with us?" Most of the group exchanged glances at this and laughed, confusing Ray. "What's so funny?"
"Oh wow you actually don't know," Cisco said, remembering Ray's contact with Krypto had been less than everyone else. 'That dog is freaking sexist. Hates all males besides Barry, Clark, and Jason. Tolerates others but will not take orders from us."
"Kara is starting to think it has something to do with the salesmen who had him before her. Not a nice guy from what I hear. But then again he wouldn't even take orders from me," Caitlin said. "You got to remember Krypto is an alien dog; Kara is his mistress so he will take all orders from her and her mate. Clark being family he will obey too but everyone else is a little iffy. It was better for Krypto to be with Clark."
Ray nodded as the computer beeped and Cisco took a look at it. "Seems like you three will have to go out. A bank was just robbed. Three people dead. Meta human taskforce being sent to the scene so Joe and Eddie will be there." Joe and Eddie not only lead the meta human taskforce but they were the only ones in it, technically. No other cops wanted to take on metas daily.
Ray had already put his helmet back on and was heading out. Ronnie and Stein combined bodies and left too. Caitlin and Cisco looked at each other. "How long before we give Clark a call and ask him to come down with Krypto?" Cisco asked, not wanting to doubt his friends' abilities, but the two were having problems with everyday crimes. They had also never taken on a meta on their own.
"Let's give them a chance," Caitlin said, somewhat doubtfully.
-Superflash-
Joe and Eddie were at the bank listening to the new CSI talk. Usually they always had Barry but since Barry was on his honeymoon they had to use this Julian Dorn. He was a smart guy who was very interested in studying meta humans and aliens if possible, but he was no Barry. Joe and Eddie had a feeling they would have to get used to him though; Barry had already requested to be switched from a full-time CSI to a part-time when he got back and the two wondered how much longer he would continue before deciding to drop it completely – he was getting enough income from STAR Labs already to sustain him, after all.
That was when Atom showed up and landed. "Detectives," Ray said smiling at the two. "What's going on here?" This was unusual for Ray; in Starling the vigilantes worked in the shadows and not with the cops at all, but Central and National were different. Supergirl and Flash just showed up and no-one argued on the contrary; they were told what they needed and since Atom was their friend, he was given the same respect.
Before Joe could answer Ronnie had flown in and landed. The heat of the fire coming off him made Joe and Eddie take a step back. "You could have waited!" Ronnie said, annoyed.
"Not my fault if you're slow," Ray said with a smirk. He knew his jet pack stood no chance against some of the super-powered people who could fly but it seemed he could compete with Firestorm at least. The man didn't have super speed after all.
"I'll show you…" Ronnie was saying but was interrupted by Stein in his head telling him that there were more important matters. "So what do we have here?" Ronnie was forced to calm himself.
"Not much," Joe said, deciding to ignore the argument. "The meta was able to take out all security using her powers – we have some cellphone videos: A woman with short black hair is all we can make out. She was wearing a helmet and some type of gloves. She came in, did the 'give me your money' routine and then just started killing people until they did. She managed to escape before we got here."
Joe showed the two the cell phone video they had. "Well it seems you should let me handle this," Ronnie said to Ray.
"And why should I, fireball?" Ray asked annoyed.
"This is a meta. I'm a meta. You're a guy in a suit. You're out of your league," Ronnie said.
'Ronald…' Stein warned in Ronnie's head at this.
"I'll show you who's out of their league." Ray nevertheless retorted.
"Yeah, right," Ronnie mumbled, and flew off.
"Did those two just really argue with each other at a crime scene?" Eddie asked Joe, who nodded.
"Joe," Captain Singh said. He had come to the crime scene as well and had witnessed the argument. "When do Flash and Supergirl get back?"
"Not sure," Joe lied. The two were planning on putting some distance between Barry and Kara Allen's return and Supergirl and the Flash's return so even when Barry and Kara got back it would be a few more days before their hero counterparts claimed back the city.
"What are they doing in Florida anyway?" Captain Singh asked.
"Everyone needs a vacation," Eddie shrugged, quoting Cat Grant who had put that out the day after Supergirl and Flash appeared in Disney World. "Besides, those two aren't too bad. Got some learning to do, but not bad."
Singh shrugged, turning around and then stopped. "Also when is Allen coming back?" He asked, a little lower under his breath as Dorn was in hearing distance.
"A couple of days sir," Joe answered.
"Ah, tell him he can take longer if he wants," Singh said, making Joe and Eddie look at each other confused. "He's going part-time anyway and he's replaceable – Mr. Dorn is quite good." Joe looked slightly hurt at this but Singh went on: "Flash and Supergirl, however, are not replaceable." Eddie tried not to laugh at that.
-Superflash-
When Ray and Ronnie got back to STAR labs, Cisco and Caitlin were already hard at work on the computers. "I managed to hack in and get those videos," Cisco explained to the two. "We're comparing the girl to the list we have of everyone who went missing during the explosion."
'That list is a mile long," Ronnie commented as he and Stein separated. "And the helmet stops facial recognition."
"True," Caitlin said. "But we are using process of elimination. We know she's female, so right away we can take out all males," Caitlin said. "From voice, and what we can make out, we can assume she's somewhere in her 20s, so take out anyone older. We ran voice recognition software too from what was on the video and it all leads us to her."
Cisco put a face on the screen. "Linda Park," Cisco said. "She was a bad one before the explosion as well. She was suspected in multiple bank robberies and killings but no one was able to make a charge stick. Then the explosion and she was gone."
"Probably practicing with her powers," Ray commented.
"More than likely," Caitlin said.
"And now she's back to her life of crime," Stein said. "Any idea where she will next target?"
"Probably…" Caitlin paused as the computer beeped. "Robbery in progress. Another bank."
Ronnie and Stein combined and the three were flying out before Caitlin could even tell them what bank.
-Superflash-
Linda Park was coming out of the bank as Atom turned up, firing at her. It knocked her down and made her drop the bag of money but she got back up. "I was wondering if the hero's friends would show up and try to play hero!" S90he commented, dryly.
"I am a hero, Linda" Ray said.
"You found out my name," Linda said, suddenly angry. "But I don't go by that anymore. You can call me Doctor Light."
"Not a bad name," Ray heard Cisco in his ear.
"Well whatever you are, you are caught," Ray said, causing Linda to laugh as Firestorm appeared and threw a jet fire at her. Linda moved aside and held out her hands to both so-called heroes. A large flash of light came out of them.
"I can't see!" Ronnie cried suddenly, as his eyes were just white light.
Ronald calm down. Use your other senses. Hearing can be effective, Stein said, trying to clam down his partner.
Linda picked up the bag, thinking they were both blind but stopped as Atom shot at her, knocking the bag down. Ray was seeing spots but he could still see – his helmet having given him some protection from the bright light. Linda shot out a burst of light at him it hitting into his suit, doing some damage.
"I got it," Ronnie said, shooting a fire burst at Ray instead of Linda.
"Wrong person!" Ray yelled at him.
Linda could hear the sirens in the distance. She knew she didn't have long, but the two were now arguing. Her time had been wasted though. She couldn't get away with the money now so she dropped the bag and ran. As she ran, she took off her clothes and when they were gone she contorted the light around her, effectively turning invisible – it was the only way out of this now.
"Stop it!" Ray said finally firing at Ronnie to stop him throwing flame himself. "She's gone…' Ray followed where she went, picking up the clothes as she did. "That is weird."
"What?" Ronnie asked, still not able to see.
"Ray, lead him back to the labs will you," Caitlin told Ray, nervous about her fiancée.
-Superflash-
Caitlin had gone to looking into Ronnie's eyes the moment he had spit from Stein upon entering the lab; although it didn't take much longer for some of Ronnie's vision to come back. "You're just temporarily blinded. It should be completely back in an hour or so," Caitlin said, trying to calm herself down, too.
"Why was he not blinded?" Ronnie asked of Ray, irritated.
"My suit," Ray said simply, with a smile.
"He has the helmet over the eyes," Caitlin stated. "Provided him some protection."
"Which means I can make some type of goggles that will protect your eyes," Cisco said, having been looking at the clothes Ray brought in with a smirk as he ran to get started.
"Any idea why she got naked?' Ray asked.
"Invisibility," Stein was the one to answer. "She had lost her lead from the police when we showed. I would bet she can somehow bend light to make herself invisible, but maybe not her clothes. She had to get rid of the outfit to get away." Stein looked over to Cisco. "If she is bending light to do that, maybe you can add something to your goggles to be able to see refracted light."
"So you can see her when invisible?" Cisco said. "That's doable. Come and help."
"And we need a talk," Caitlin said, looking at Ray and Ronnie as Stein went over to help Cisco out. "You two need to stop this manly-man show-off thing. Your arguing is helping the enemy, while hindering you." The two opened their mouths to argue, but Caitlin held up her hand. "You want to know why Kara and Barry are so affective? They work together, and they work together well. You two are both members of the Justice League. Start acting like it!"
Ronnie and Ray didn't say anything as they both went off to think, knowing Caitlin was right. They had been competing with each other when they should have been working with each other.
It was getting late when the computer binged again. It seemed Dr. Light was at it again: "It seems she has more than one outfit," Caitlin commented at the footage.
'Time to go," Ray said, and Ronnie nodded.
"Together this time," Ronnie said.
"Wait the goggles aren't done yet!" Cisco called, holding up his creation.
"We'll have to go without them," Ronnie said, waving Cisco off. His vision was back; all he had to do was be more careful.
"Ronald's right," Stein said. "She is killing people and we're the only ones who can take her." Stein and Ronnie combined and Firestorm and Atom were out.
"All you had to do was wait a few more minutes," Cisco grumbled.
"This is not good," Caitlin moaned. "How long would it take Clark to get here?"
"Too long," Cisco said. "We should have called him earlier."
"Called who earlier?" They heard a voice and turned to see that Sara had entered through the entrance to the lab. Both grinned.
-Superflash-
Firestorm and Atom appeared as Dr. Light was leaving the bank. "Again?" She said in agitation, throwing out light to blind them. This time Ronnie closed his eyes just in time and the police were not far behind as suddenly police cars surrounded them.
"Stay back! Let us handle this," Ray said, firing at Linda who dodged, looking around. She would have to kill to get out of this, starting with the two wannabe-superheroes. Firestorm let out a blast at Linda, who responded with a blast of light.
Ray got behind her as Firestorm was distracting her to shoot her in surprise, but it didn't come as a surprise for the meta. Linda took hold of Ray's arm and there was a duller blast of light and then his suit went hectic. "I think she hacked my suit!" Ray said, surprised as the suit started to fire on it's own and fly up into the air, aiming an attack at Firestorm Ray didn't want.
Linda smiled as the two would-be superheroes too care of themselves and turned to the police. She was not dropping the money this time. She would kill to get out.
-Superflash-
"What are you doing here?' Caitlin asked, as Cisco was finishing off the goggles.
"Alex left her jacket in Kara's office a while back; she asked me to get it," Sara said, holding up said jacket. "Figured I'd stop in to say hi. What's going on?"
Caitlin explained about the meta problem they were having. "This is not going good," Caitlin said, now seeing Ray had lost control of his suit and the two superheroes fighting each other.
"These are done," Cisco said, and Caitlin gave him a look.
"Not useful now," Caitlin complained a little irritably.
"They should have waited," Cisco commented back with a shrug.
Sara was looking at the screen, something taking over her. "Give me those," Sara said taking the goggles from Cisco.
"Wait!" Cisco said as Sara was about to run out. "If you're going out you're going out in style." Cisco said confusing Sara. "Oh and can you drive a motorcycle?" Sara nodded.
"That thing is experimental at best," Caitlin said knowing where Cisco was going.
"It's about to get a field test," Cisco said, with a smirk leaving Sara confused.
-Superflash-
Firestorm was still trying to get Ray under control. Stein in his head telling him what parts of the suit to hit to disable him, but Ronnie didn't want to do real damage. The police were shooting at Dr. Light but she was running through their ranks, probably having killed already.
That was when a motorcycle was heard and came crashing through the police cars. Doing a little turn as it stopped, the engine was smoking and it was shaped in a way no one had seen before. "Your motorcycle needs work," Sara said to Cisco in her ear, waving off the smoke. She was wearing an outfit similar to her sister's Canary one, only in a white instead of black. She was surprised when Cisco had come out with it, and also surprised that it fit. She was wearing a white mask but over the mask was the goggles Cisco had made.
"It's the engine," Cisco explained. "Very experimental prototype STAR is working on." Sara rolled her eyes as she got off the bike and looked at the mata. She took out her bo staff. Linda threw light at her that Sara quickly dodged and went into the attack. Linda tried blinding Sara, but Sara smirked as the goggles worked perfectly: she was not blind at all. She kicked into the girls' side, Linda clearly not knowing how to fight well.
Linda suddenly faded, only her clothes being visible and they quickly were on the floor. "Hold on a second," Cisco said, as he remotely activated one features of the goggles that would hopefully let Sara see Linda.
"Got her," Sara said. She wasn't seeing a person but she could see the figure of light in the shape of a person.
Linda was surprised as Sara came up at her and hit her. Linda hit Sara with a blast of light, but with how Sara was moving it barely hit her side. It hurt but Sara went through the pain as she continued to knock into Linda and finally knocked her unconscious.
As she fell unconscious she reappeared on the floor. "Wait," Ray said as Firestorm was about to hit a part of his suit that would really damage him. "I got control back!"
The two landed and looked at Sara who was taking off the goggles. "Where did you get the suit and bike?" Ronnie asked.
Sara raised an eyebrow. "Where do you think?" Sara asked and the two nodded. "Kind of wondering how he knew my size."
"Because I am the costumes expert," Cisco said in her ear, having been working on that outfit since they had met Sara.
The police, not sure what to do, held up their guns at Sara, not knowing who she was. "Oh calm down," Ray said, going in front of her. "This is the… er, White Canary. She's a member of the Justice League." That was enough to put the cops to ease as Sara hopped on the bike. "That thing is not going to explode is it?"
"I hope as long as I don't push it too hard it will be fine," Sara said, knowing she had to bring STAR lab experimental engine back, and the three were off. "You two do realize I do not have one of those communicators, technically?" Sara asked knowing the two could hear her through the coms.
"I think it's time we fix that," Ray chuckled.
-Superflash-
"Okay the way this works," Cisco said as he sat by the computer. "I have created a bio for you: real name, super hero name, abilities, etc.… along with adding a picture. One of these three has to enter in their Justice League code to send the request of your addition to the rest of the league. Then your profile will be sent and if everyone says yes, this communicator will activate as yours. If one person says no the communicator will not activate and you will not be apart of the league unless we can get that person to change their answer." Cisco pointed to the communicator connected to the computer.
"You mean the league that is made of my sister, my former boyfriend, his sister, my girlfriend's sister, her husband, her cousin, and these three?" Sara asked. She hadn't been so sure about joining the Justice League. She still had bloodlust issues but Alex had helped with that a lot, reminding her to be human and she had always run out when they were in trouble. Why not be in the League officially?
"Actually we also gave J'onn J'onzz a communicator too, but yeah you have this in the bag," Cisco said and looked at the three. "Who's sending the request?"
"I'll do it," Ray said, going to the computer and putting his code in and the request was sent. Ronnie and Stein communicators vibrated and they automatically pushed 'yes'.
"Wow that was fast," Cisco said after a moment. "Only two people haven't responded and everyone so far said yes."
"Who hasn't responded?" Caitlin asked.
"Hold on a sec," Cisco said typing. "Supergirl and Flash. Why did I not guess that?"
"They didn't bring their communicators with them," Caitlin told the group.
"I guess this will wait until they come back," Sara said with a shrug.
"Maybe not," Cisco said, typing and then Sara's communicator lit up. "They were going to say yes anyway so I just changed their answers in the computer." Cisco held out the communicator to Sara. "You're in."
Post Chapter Note 1: I think this is the first chapter that doesn't have either Kara or Barry in it. I hope you liked this oddball chapter.
Post Chapter Note 2 (VERY IMPORTANT PLEASE READ!): In the last footnotes I asked you guys to give me suggestions on a new member for Team Arrow and I got them in plenty. So, I have cut back the list of suggestions down to my preferred top six. I however, am not the one making the final decision – you, my lovely readers, are. So tell me in your reviews who from the below six candidates you would like to join and the one with the most votes by next week is the winner! In the event of a tie, my beta Terrance Sigma will act as the tiebreaker by making the final choice.
So, the candidates for Team Arrow are:
1: Green Hornet
2: Shadow
3: Vigilante
4: Pantha
5: Artemis
6: Lady Shiva
I know that 'The Question' was a really popular one to add, with four or five people requesting him, but the more I researched him, the more I did not feel him a fit for Team Arrow (I see the irony there, not actually having watched Arrow). But! Since he was so popular, I just may add him in a future chapter as a one-off character of his own credibility.'
Please REVIEW and remember to vote.
Next Time on Karry Universe:
New Allies, Deadly Foes – Barry and Kara's lives have been pretty peaceful since the wedding, but when new allies come to town they bring with them new dangers. Dangers Kara and Barry have to help them face.
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