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The Man Without a World
The only thing that indicated a speedster running was the lightning trail behind them. If anyone looked, they would notice it was larger than normal, indicating two speedsters running in pace with each other, but no one was even around to see and no one would even care anymore. Flash was a common sight after all and more than one was getting common since Liberty Belle came onto the scene.
In the wastelands one of the speedsters finally stopped. "It's not working," he sighed in annoyance. His outfit was almost completely black expect for a white patch along the left shoulder which shape mimicked that of a lightning bolt and the ones right above his hands and legs. "We're done."
"We have to keep trying!" the other speedster stated. His jacket was completely yellow, along with his mask. He had the normal flash lightning bolt symbol in the middle of his chest, this with the white background. His pants and gloves were red though. He was almost the opposite of his compatriot. "We have to get home."
"It's been a year, brother," the black suited speedster groaned. "I think it's time for you to face facts: We're never getting home, and right now we can't breach so it seems we're stuck on this world." The black speedster looked back as he could see Central City in the distance. "It's time to make a new home and deal justice here like it was."
"No world deserves your kind of justice," the yellow speedster snapped, his palm on his face now.
The black suited speedster laughed a hollow laugh. "Oh brother, your mentor, the original 'Flash'" he could hear the quotation marks, "put nonsense in your head. If someone is breaking the law they do not deserve to live, it's simply logic."
"It's up to the justice system to decide their punishment not us," the yellow suited speedster said. "How many times do I have to tell you that; and this is not our home. We have an Earth to get back to. A family, a…"
"A what?!" The dark suited one rounded on his brother, who stopped talking to look back at him. "A love? Because I don't believe I have one of those. And the family sided with you; always you. No… I've had enough. Accept we're never getting home, brother." The dark suited speedster smirked. "And if you're so against my way of justice, then maybe you can stop me here… Flash." There was a spark of light as the dark speedster ran off, leaving his brother standing in the wasteland all by himself looking at the city in dismay.
-Superflash-
Iris was on the street, in front of a camera, giving her report of the event. She smiled as she said "back to you" and the feed switched off her, to back to the studio. She let out a breath and smiled. She had been reporting on the appearance of Liberty Belle – it hadn't even been a week since Jesse woke up and already reports of her and Flash being seen together were circulating. Iris had been sent out onto the street to get people's opinions of the new speedster and was pleasantly surprised that most of them were hoping the Flash had not cheated on Supergirl. Central loved their favorite power couple, after all. Iris had to remember to get Barry and Kara to issue a statement about their relationship with Liberty Belle at some point.
It was then that Iris nearly had to double-back when she saw a familiar face. "Wally?" she called and the man turned around. He was dressed in jeans and had on a sweater, but it was definitely her little brother from the other Earth. "I didn't know you were back."
"Um…" Wally said, looking worried. "Yeah, I am… It's good to see you Iris." He seemed nervous, but then brought Iris into a hug regardless. He then looked and saw the ring on her finger. "How's Barry?" He smiled.
"You haven't seen Barry yet?" Iris asked, clearly shocked. "Well he and Kara are good." Wally mouthed the name 'Kara', clearly confused but Iris continued, not noticing. "The twins keep them exhausted but they love it," she laughed. "I'm not sure how they do it to be honest. Never been on for kids…"
Wally seemed unsure what to say, but he was saved from answering by Iris's cameraman. "Iris, there's been a murder. It seems a speedster did it."
"What?" Iris asked turning around to address her colleague.
"That's the early reports. Cat Grant wants us on this ASAP. See if you can get a quote from the police or the Flash. You know, with your connections."
"I'll make some calls," Iris said. "Sorry Wally." She turned back to her brother from another world, "I got to go, but um…" Iris looked around and then leaned in closer "before you go back to your Earth, you should stop by for dinner. Dad would love that."
Wally was left confused as Iris jumped in the CatCo fan to head off to her next scene. "Wait…" Wally called, but it was too late as Iris was gone. "Go back to your Earth?" Wally mumbled. He had been assuming Iris thought he was her Wally, but she had thought he was a Wally from a different Earth. Did that mean there was no Wallace West here? It definitely meant Iris knew about other Earths.
Wally didn't know what to do now, so he wandered and only stopped when he saw a newspaper stand outside a store. He picked a paper up to look at the front page. "The Flash's New Sidekick," Wally read off the headline. He read the rest of the article at super-speed, it talked about this 'Liberty Belle' and debated on what this meant for Supergirl and the Flash's partnership and whether or not this Liberty Belle was in something called the 'Justice League'. The article had more questions than answers in it.
His eyes were drawn to the picture of the man though that was clearly this world's Flash. In a red suit. No helmet. Wally had been to many worlds in his year-long trip to try and get home to his own world, and he spent some time on a couple of earths – mainly time to rest and eat, but he and his brother always stayed low. Never bothering to get to know the worlds they were visiting, so Wally had no idea who this Flash was or if he had been the Flash on any of the other worlds he visited. He just knew he needed to find him now.
"Are you going to buy that?" A man asked, and Wally looked up.
"Um no… sorry," Wally said, putting the paper back.
"Figured anyway," the man said, shrugging. "Everyone is waiting for CatCo or the Daily Planet. They are the only real people who get any real information on the Justice League." The man stated. "Although, not even they are reporting on what the League has been up to."
"Up to?" Wally asked, slightly dumbfounded.
"Yeah, for a while smaller groups of League members have been seen together, appearing in random places but no idea what they are doing, but they're clearly tracking down something. With the metas and aliens and whatnot that they protect us from that hit the papers half the time, I do not want to know what doesn't get in the papers." The man shook his head with worry. "Although I do believe Cat Grant, Lois Lane, and that reporter for CatCo TV, Iris West-Thawne know more than they let on."
"Thank you," Wally said. "You've been a big help."
-Superflash-
Barry and Jesse were in the Superflash cave when they heard the news of the speedster-killer. "Damn. Kara choose a bad time to be away," Cisco said and Barry sighed. Kara had to go to Gotham for the official opening of STAR Gotham. It had been pretty easy to get it once Ray had agreed to run the place for them. It was just a matter of making the new sign and transferring a few employees over to there, as well as assessing those Wayne Enterprises employees who wanted to stay.
The important thing for the big opening was either Kara or Barry needing to be there for the press, and since Kara was largely considered the face of STAR, she had gone off to Gotham for the day.
"We can handle this," Jesse said a little too gung-ho. This was the first big bad that had popped up since she had woken up and she was eager to help take him down.
"Kara would have been useful," Barry said, rocking Alura and looking over at the sleeping form of Nora. He would have preferred himself or Kara to be with the babies while the other and Krypto stopped this bad guy, after all. "Both she and Krypto will be back tonight though. Once the press is over and Ray is completely settled, she'll be back and..."
"By the way," Cisco said, interrupting Barry's reservations and turning in his chair. "Not that I don't love my job, but why do Ray and Ronnie get a lab to run instead of Caitlin or myself?"
Barry looked between the three employees. Jesse took a step back though, knowing she wouldn't even be in the running here. "We're selfish. We want you here," Barry shrugged, not knowing how else to say why he and Kara hadn't even considered their oldest friends and employees to head their new locations as he put Alura down her in crib. "We need you here."
"We could call Clark," Caitlin suggested with a small smile, accepting the answer and changing the conversation back.
"We can do this," Jesse once said again. "What do we know?'
"Well, from what Joe sent us, three death so far connected to this speedster. Two people who had been robbing a convenience store and someone who had just been found not guilty of… well, murder…" Cisco said. "His wife and daughter. Got off since there wasn't enough evidence against him."
"Can't blame him there," Jesse said to a look for Barry. "Well he…"
"We do not kill. Not unless we have to," Barry stated the age-old line. "It's not our job to give punishment. We stop crimes. There's a justice system for a reason. If there wasn't enough evidence to convict this guy, then who's to say he's guilty?" Barry knew the justice system was not perfect – his own father was a victim of it, but he also knew they could not take the law into their own hands. Not in this way. Jesse nodded her acceptance of this. "This speedster is going after the people committing crimes though… We're on patrol. Caitlin, anti-speed formula. Gideon, tell Watchtower's Gideon to keep an extra-close eye on all crimes. Even the small ones."
"Yes, Creator," Gideon said, and the two speedsters were gone.
"Hey," Iris walked into the lab a few minutes later. "Okay, I need to be on air in an hour with a solid lead on this. My dad has given a quote already. Do you guys think Barry will give one as Flash?"
"He's kind of busy," Caitlin said to their anchor friend.
"Come on live on air yourself then! People will love it," Iris tried, but the team was not listening to her. "Fine, by the way, did Wally stop by?" The two turned to look at the girl. "What?" Iris asked, confused.
"Wally?" Cisco asked. "Why would Wally be on this Earth?"
"I saw him on the street," Iris said.
Cisco and Caitlin looked at each other and after a moment both called for Gideon. "Yes?" Gideon's voice was heard.
"Call Prime Earth!" they both yelled together, causing the twins to cry. Both of them sighed, having forgotten they had the twins now.
-Superflash-
Barry was running through the streets with Jesse next to him when Cisco got on the coms. "We have a lead on who the speedster is," Cisco said. "And he's not of this world. Iris saw Wally on the street but we called Prime earth. Their Wally is still on their Earth and as they are the only world they know of with a speedster Wally…" Barry very nearly tripped when he heard this information.
"You think we have an evil Wally running around?" Barry asked shocked. While he had not known Wally long he had liked the Wally he had met so long ago now.
"A person who does not exist is here, and we have a speedster killing. I'd say it's possible," Caitlin now said as the two continue running. That was when they heard a cry for help – a woman's purse was being taken and before the two speedsters could respond another speedster was in front of them. Dress in black and hand vibrating, he was about to kill the purse-thief, but Barry ran fast and knocked into him.
"Thanks Flash," the purse-thief said, knowing he had just been on the verge of death but annoyed at being caught regardless.
"Get out of here!" Barry stated.
The purse-thief was about to leave, but Jesse stopped in front of him. "The purse?" Jesse pointed. The thief dropped the bag and ran. Jesse picked it up and gave it to the woman who was already leaving in fear.
"You're the Flash?" The man in black said clearly amused. His face was vibrating so neither Barry nor Jesse could make out his features.
"That would be correct," Barry said. "And this is Liberty Belle and this is our city. And who exactly are you?"
"I've been called Dark Flash and you're not protecting it right," the speedster said. "He robbed that woman. He does not deserve to live. Simple logic you both have missed."
"For a purse?" Jesse groaned, a little sarcastically, arms crossed over her chest. She might have been okay with the murderer who got off being killed, but a purse grabber? It was too far. She knew Barry was right about everything. "That's not our job. Not even for a petty robbery."
"You sound like my brother," Dark Flash said, wasting no time as he suddenly threw out a punch that Barry barely dodged. Dark Flash ran, but Barry kept up; the three speedsters running so fast the normal eye could not keep up with the fight that quickly escalated. Jesse fell behind though, not able to keep up with the two boys and taking a breath. She needed to work on her speed.
That was when another flash was seen and a speedster dressed in yellow joined the fight, attacking the Dark Flash with the Flash. The three slowed down, the new speedster on one side, Barry standing opposite and Jesse joined, in putting Dark Flash in the middle of the three. "Two Flashes and a sidekick? Not what you'd call fair. I'm out." Dark Flash stated.
Dark Flash ran right at Jesse, seeing her as the weakest but Barry and the new speedster both ran at him to protect the youngest speedster. Jesse tried to dodge, but Dark Flash knocked her into a nearby building using the force of his speed. Barry stopped, turning around, more concerned about Jesse than the evil speedster. "Liberty Belle!"
"I'm good," Jesse said, getting up but a little shaky on her feet.
"He's gone," the yellow speedster sighed. He could have run after him, but had stopped to make sure this female speedster was okay. "Should have kept your sidekick away for this one."
"Hey!" Jesse complained.
"Sorry," the yellow speedster said. "I did not mean anything by it."
"Who are you?" Barry asked.
"I'm the Flash," the man said. "Or at least I was on my Earth and I want to get back there, but I have to bring my brother with me. He does not belong in this world."
"Clearly…" Barry muttered, not even addressing the 'brother' comment. He didn't have time anyway.
"We can get them home," Cisco's voice joined the conversation in Barry and Jesse's ears. "Vibe is here."
"When you have world-hopping problems, you need a vibe," an identical voice was heard, but Barry was pretty sure this one was Vibe. "Besides things are pretty quiet on Prime. This seemed fun."
"Want to bring him back to the lab?' Cisco was heard again. Barry was getting good at telling them apart by just the voice. While identical, they seem to have different tones to them. Different nuances to how they delivered a line.
Barry didn't answer as he looked at the man in yellow, doubt now taking over. A speedster in a yellow outfit brought back bad memories of the Reverse Flash… Seeing a Kryptonite knife penetrate in to a memoryless-Kara, who could barely defend herself… His daughters were at the cave and he could not take a chance and put them in danger. He could bring him to Watchtower or the DEO instead, but Vibe was at the labs. It would be far easier to use the cave this time. "How do I know I can trust you?" Barry asked, dubiously now.
"Because I want to stop the killing as much as you. It's not right. My brother is insane and he's my entire fault," the speedster said.
Barry looked at the man and then smiled, putting a hand on his shoulder. He had to trust him. "Follow us," Barry said, turning and running and the yellow Flash followed.
Jesse stood for a moment, unsure of why Barry suddenly trusted the man and shaking her head at this decision, but she didn't want to be left behind. 'Wait for me!" she called as she turned to run.
-Superflash-
"Okay," Barry said once they were in the lab. Two Ciscos were sitting by the computers and Caitlin was holding one of the girls. Iris was there and had the other. "Mask off." Barry turned to the yellow speedster, standing in front of the girls to protect them.
The yellow Flash slowly went and took off the mask to reveal his face. "Wally?" Everyone, but Jesse – who had never met a Wally – said in unison. One of the Cisco simply nodded his head though.
"That would be me," Wally said, blushing slightly at the others knowing him. "Will you show yourself though?" Barry paused for a moment before removing his mask and Wally took a step back at seeing the familiar face. "Barry? I was not expecting that one… And sorry about before, Iris"' Wally turned to the woman. "I thought you thought I was your Wally and didn't know you knew about… well this." He indicated the lab but Iris barely nodded. "Do I exist here?"
"No," Iris answered quietly. "My only sibling is Barry."
Wally raised an eyebrow at that. "How?" He asked.
"Joe took me in when my mother was murder and father wrongly arrested for it," Barry explained.
"Why didn't Jay take you?" Wally asked, making everyone look in confusion. "Your uncle? Your dad is not a twin here… is he?" Wally quickly realized as Barry shook his head. "So, you're the original Flash of this world?" Barry nodded. "And those are your twins?" If his conversation with Iris was not enough before, the way Barry stood protectively in front of them was enough indication. "I will not hurt them. I promise."
"Maybe start talking about why you're here," Jesse tried.
"Give us your history," Cisco added. And Wally nodded. "You said original Flash, so you're not the original Flash of your world?"
"No. Jay Garrick, Barry's uncle of my world, was," Wally said. "I got my powers several years ago. I was a teen into illegal drag racing – I didn't even have a license. I tried a special combination of oil for my car and… well, long story short, it got struck by lightning. I was in a coma for a few months and woke up a speedster. Jay took me under his wing and I became Kid Flash under his tutelage. A few years later Jay was killed and I inherited the mantle of the Flash. The only people who knew my identity was my big sister," Wally smiled at Iris who smiled back regardless. "and her husband, Barry Allen."
Both Iris and Barry pulled faces at this. "Sorry," Iris mumbled. "I can't even picture us together."
"My girlfriend," Wally then turned around, not wanting to comment on the pair's disgust at being together. It seemed so strange to him. "You can take the mask off Jesse. I couldn't not know who you are." Jesse raised an eyebrow but took the mask off regardless. Wally smiled. "Jesse Wells, no matter the world, you're always beautiful."
"Morgan not Wells and we're dating?" Jesse said defensively.
"Well, it makes sense," Vibe contributed, making eyes turn to him. "Wally and Jesse are dating on my Earth. There has to be more than one version of the same couples who are similarly attracted to one other. Especially since all of our parents ended up with the same people to have us. And I mean look at Kara and Barry, together on my Earth, here, and Mutant."
Wally nodded, not exactly sure of this Cisco's words, but knowing he meant good by them. He continued. "And my little brother Walter…"
"The one in the black?" Jesse asked, Wally nodded.
"Soon after I became the Flash you… well my Jesse, and Walter's girlfriend Linda were involved in a holdup at a bank. I got there but the robbers were cunning – they set off an explosion to escape, making a hole in the wall that perfectly destabilized the building. I could only save one person, even with my speed…"
"And you choose Jesse," Barry confirmed, seeing the look on Wally's face and Wally nodded.
"The robbers got away," Wally sighed. "Walter survived but went nuts. He blamed me. I don't know how he did it, but somehow using my DNA and the same formula I used for my engine and an electric charge he connected himself to the speed-force. He became a speedster and said I was not protecting the city right, but he… He just kills anyone who breaks the law. Not even the government's law – his moral compass. He started by hunting down those bank robbers and then after... People called him the Dark Flash on my world, I tried to talk sense into him, said we could work together, but Walter wouldn't have that. He challenged me to a race to see who was the fastest just over a year ago, and then… We somehow jumped Earths in the race! We've spent a year jumping Earths trying to get home."
"And you never came upon another Flash who was Barry?" Vibe asked, since almost every world they knew Barry was the Flash.
"We didn't interact. We stayed low, continued to jump Earth… sometimes taking a break for a week or two… One time a month," Wally sighed, the stress of his travels evident on his face now. "Some of the worlds we were on were strange to say the least. But then we got here; we were going to jump right away, but for some reason we couldn't."
"On your own from this world?" Vibe asked, chuckling now. "Not possible. This Earth is too close to the edge." Wally raised an eyebrow.
"Edge of what?" Wally asked.
"The destruction of the Multiverse," Vibe, Cisco, and Barry said at once together.
"You really should have interacted with other Earths. You might have found another me to get you home," Vibe sighed, putting on his goggles. "Hand?" Wally was unsure what was happening but held out his hand which Vibe took. Instantly he saw the vision of his nightmares, a dead Earth, barren and broken. He chook it off and tried again, but was met with the same images. "Weird…" he now muttered, deciding to look into Wally's past now; he was still a little iffy at doing this, always having been better at looking at the present or the future, but he was able to see the moment this Wally gained his speed, and saw Jay Garrick, almost identical to the one he knew from Alien Earth and smiled.
Then he saw the world die. Broken in half by a familiar red beam of energy; all its residents killed in a moment, buildings shattered and broken, debris tearing away from the surface… this was bad.
Vibe dropped Wally's hand and took a step back as he ripped off his goggles, not being able to meet this man's gaze now. He had known worlds had died, that there was so much death because of Zoom, but he had never pictured he would be looking into the face of someone who lost their world. A true survivor. His world was dead and he didn't even know it. "Man, I'm sorry," Vibe said, his voice hollow now. "Your world… your earth was part of the destruction. Zoom destroyed it."
"What?" Wally asked, confused and not believing what Vibe was telling him.
"It's gone?" Iris interrupted, looking at Vibe before moving over to Wally, who didn't stop his sister from taking his hand. Even if she wasn't the same sister he'd known.
"What does he mean?" Wally asked Iris now, who looked back at Vibe.
"We had an evil speedster," Vibe sighed, steeling himself, shaking the image of the dead Earth from his mind, "well quite a few of them now, but this dude had some real vanity issues. He wanted to rule over the only surviving planet in the multiverse: My world. To do that he stole a device made to see the other worlds and turned it into a weapon of great destruction… Long story short, my Barry stopped him, but couldn't stop the destruction of a portion of said multiverse regardless…" he was met by silence at this. The others knew this story, knew how lucky they were but Wally didn't.
"My world is gone?" Wally finally asked, a blank expression on his face.
"Yes," Vibe said. "I'm sorry, but it's gone. With who knows how many other Earths."
"The number of Earths that was destroy is…"
"Gideon!" Barry yelled, stopping the A.I. "Remind me to make an update that lets you know when people don't want to know the answer or are being sarcastic."
"Yes Creator," Gideon said.
"That still freaks me out that you made her," Vibe muttered, pointing randomly at where the voice came from.
"Look, we still have Dark Flash to deal with,' Jesse said bringing Wally out his funk.
"Anti-speed formula is done," Caitlin contributed.
"You have an anti-speed formula?" Vibe asked to nods. "Can we get it? Might come in handy."
"I think we need to get Kara, Krypto, Clark, and a couple of our archers here," Barry said thoughtfully. "We're going to have to repeat what we did to Thawne. Freeze breath to slow him down, then get enough to get the formula in him on an arrow."
"Why?" Wally asked, wiping the tears away and giving Jesse a longing look. Iris still squeezed his hand though, "It would be easier to just throw the object at super-speed, transferring some speed energy into it to make it fast and not shatter."
"We can do that?" Jesse asked, looking at Barry who shrugged.
"Jay taught me it. It's tricky though," Wally said. "Without a mentor, I doubt you would have figured it out yet."
"Then I guess you're in," Barry said, not offended by Wally's words and giving Wally a look at this. He did not look like he was ready for this, still devastated by the news, but he nodded.
"My brother is my responsibility," Wally said determinedly, as Iris's phone rang.
"I've got to go," Iris said, moving away from Wally and handing Alura, who was still in one arm, to Barry and kissing her. "I have to get on-air and report something about this Dark Flash. At least I can name him now." She left at this.
"Hey, I can track him," Vibe said going to the computers. "Going to take a bit, but I can reprogram some of your equipment to track object moving at speedster speeds. I did this last year for my… well… never mind." He fell silent, not wanting to mention his Barry's clone at this delicate time.
"What are we doing with him?" Jesse asked.
"Iron Heights or DEO will do," Barry thought aloud. "The DEO is actually a better bet. Walter doesn't exist here which would be hard to explain to the jail. Keep him off the grid."
"What about the Pipeline?" Caitlin asked and Barry bit his lip. "What's going on with the pipeline, Barry?"
"It's just not logical to hold prisoners in an active lab anymore, especially with the jail and DEO. We're too busy so we've been slowly transferring our prisoners to the DEO."
"They had a break out," Cisco complained, turning around at this while Vibe listened closely. With his own STAR labs officially reopening, they were slowly transferring their unreformed prisoners to the new ARGUS warehouse and he wondered if it would ever get that busy for his STAR Lab. Then again, as far as he knew, no-one on this world had ever thought to reform some of their prisoners which ARGUS took seriously.
"Only because of Brainiac," Barry defended, and Caitlin and Cisco sighed. They had to give Barry that one.
"Okay, but can you please keep us more informed on things that affect us?" Caitlin said, "You need us, but sometimes it feels like you don't trust us," Barry nodded, knowing he had forgotten to tell them and felt bad for it. It just didn't seem important at the time.
"Barry, I think we found him," Cisco said. He had been helping Vibe making the reprograming go faster with his knowledge of their system and Vibe's knowledge of the program needed. "And he's heading towards CatCo TV studio. Isn't that where Iris was going?"
"Give the anti-speed formula to Wally," Barry told Caitlin, putting his daughter in her crib and kissing her and her sister. "Daddy will be back soon." Caitlin gave a dart to Wally instructing him not to accidentally jab himself and Cisco gave him a com. "Jesse and I take on Walter to distract him, Wally, you throw." Barry instructed and Wally nodded as the three speedsters were left.
"Where's Kara?" Vibe asked suddenly, noticing Supergirl was missing from the action.
"Oh, in Gotham at the opening of STAR Gotham," Cisco said making Vibe turn to look at his counterpart.
"STAR labs is opening a branch in Gotham?' Vibe asked.
"Technically STAR Co. is opening its fourth location," Cisco said and Vibe held up four fingers in shock.
"Four?' Vibe asked.
"STAR labs, Palmer Tech, Little STAR, and STAR Gotham," Cisco said nodding. "You know, Palmer should be renamed STAR Starling, really."
"That's sounds so stupid," Caitlin said, rolling her eyes.
"I'm with her," Vibe said pointing. "Too many Stars as it is..." Vibe turned back to the computer and mumbled something that sounded like 'perfect Earth'.
"What was that?" Cisco asked and Vibe shrugged, not looking to his counterpart at this.
-Superflash-
Iris had barely reached the CatCo offices when something grabbed her. "Where's the camera?" Walter said in her ear.
"You don't want to do this," Iris said, not scared of him but not able to break his grip. "I haven't broken the law. Isn't that against your code or something Walter?"
He released her, but then pushed her again the wall, she looking straight at the masked man she knew was technically her little brother. "You know who I am?" Walter snapped. Iris didn't say anything. "Well then, doesn't matter. I want to tell the city who is protecting the innocent now and punishing the guilty."
"You're protecting no one! Just causing fear," Iris snapped.
Walter held up a hand, but he was hit away by a figure in red. Barry had arrived and pushed the Dark Flash away from his sister. Jesse wasn't far behind him and Wally was staying back, waiting for the perfect moment to throw the dart with the anti-speed formula he was given.
Free from Dark Flash now, Iris hit a button on her cellphone told the CatCo operator to get cameras outside.
"Flash, move off him a bit. I'm afraid I'll hit you!" Wally said over the com. Barry moved off and Wally threw the dart transferring his speed into it, but Walter had moved to the left and the dart missed and dropped to the floor. Fully intact. The cameraman arrived to catch this moment.
Walter was about to run, to get away, but was stopped by a blast of cold air. The group paused as Kara appeared above them in Supergirl outfit, and Krypto was next to her as Superdog, also throwing out a freeze breath.
Jesse grabbed the dart and tossed it to Barry who caught it perfectly and then jabbed it into Walter's back. Walter screamed as Wally ran over and punched his brother, making him fall to the floor. Krypto then took the opportunity to get on top of the man and growled into his face, pinning him down at the same moment.
"I wouldn't' move," Barry said. "His bites hurt." Barry knew Walter had gotten a full dose of the formula and was probably feeling the effects already. Wally moved to get near him but backed away when Krypto growled at him. "Yeah, he'll bite you too. He doesn't like men though," Barry muttered now.
"Am I late to something?" Kara asked. She had left early though, things in Gotham having gone smoothly, and had only just caught the battle flying overhead.
"Actually, you're right on time," Barry said, and kissed in his wife passionately, sharing the memories of the day with her at the same time.
Wally, seeing the kiss, felt inspired and turned to kiss Jesse who backed away. "I have a boyfriend," Jess said, seeing the hurt look on Wally face as the speedster turned and ran off. "I guess I'll take… Dark Flash away. Superdog, mind giving me a hand?" Krypto gave Kara a look who nodded after the kiss was done and then bite into Walter's suit and flew him up, wincing and weak, and ran with Jesse to the DEO.
"Well there we have it," Iris now said looking into the camera. "Live on CatCo New. The speedster murderer, The Dark Flash, has been taken out by the Flash, Supergirl, Superdog, Liberty Belle, and our latest speedster hero. And, a kiss from Central City's own favorite power couple was caught live on camera here at CatCo TV. I think that puts speculation to rest."
Barry and Kara looked at each other laughed and left the block. I want my girls, Kara thought to Barry.
-Superflash-
Once back at STAR, Kara took hold of her girls and kissed them. "Mommy missed you today," Kara said seeing Wally sitting there in silence now. He had apparently run back to the lab after Jesse rejected him and looked a little lost. She did feel sorry for him, remembering Barry's memories of how Wally lost his world.
"Hi Vibe," Kara turned to the second Cisco who had been in deep conversation with their Cisco. "What's going on?"
"Oh, well we got the entertainment system working between worlds and well…"
"Star Trek," Kara groaned, rolling her eyes.
"You know, on Alien Earth the original series went five seasons. Five complete seasons," Cisco said. "We're comparing the best of the best for a mega-marathon of the best Star Trek series in all of the worlds we know, but we're disagreeing on Next Generation."
"Our seven season were amazing," Vibe said.
"Nothing beat our eight seasons, and that ending," Cisco said.
"My Earth had ten season on Next Generation," Wally said quietly, making the two look at each other and mouth 'ten?'.
"We'll find another Earth with them," Vibe said and Kara rolled her eye. TV had gotten insane since the worlds had found out each had different seasons and within those seasons there were even different plots, but then again, she had enjoyed one Earth's different version of Gilmore Girls so she couldn't really complain.
"Not to be selfish here but what do I do now?" Wally asked. "My Earth is gone. I have no home."
"I don't know," Barry said, having been watching the Star Trek debate, but feeling sorry for the young man. He could have been in the same position if he had been off his own Earth and the destruction had just gone a little further. His world was almost in the destruction zone, after all.
"You know," Vibe said making the group look at him. "Maybe as an outsider to this entire situation I can see the solution." Everyone looked at him in silent expectation. "Well, Wally doesn't have a world and you don't have a Wally. We could just hack into systems, give Joe a son, and Wally could stay here." The absent of Wally was one of the things that made Vibe believe Karry universe was not so perfect but now it seemed they were getting a Wally after all, although it didn't make the earth too perfect, considering what this Wally had lost.
"Joe would like it," Barry said looking at Wally. "Our Wally died with his mom. He'd love having you."
"And this might not be the world you're used to, but you can have a life here," Kara added, knowing how happy Joe would be.
Wally looked at the group and sighed. He had no choice really. It was his only shot. "Fine. But I'm not a hero. I failed. My world is gone. I'm just…" Wally put on his mask. "Going to get to know this new world then." He ran out before anyone could say anything.
"Give him some time," Caitlin said and many agreed. The man had lost everything. He needed time on his own. Joe needed to be told he had a son now though, too.
"Well…" Vibe said getting up. "I think it's my time to go, but before I do… A gift," Vibe took a device out of his pocket and held it out to Kara, who looked at Barry who took it instead, looking it over in confusion.
"Um… thank you?" Barry said not sure what he was holding.
"Let me explain," Vibe said. "For the worlds that don't have a vibe." Vibe turned to Cisco at this with a smirk and Cisco stuck out his tongue. Certainly not perfect there, at least. "We decided to make these devices. It's based on the device your Stein made but improved upon by myself and my Stein." Vibe decided not to mention technically he and Prime Stein had nudged Karry's Stein in the right direction for that device anyway. "Based on our research into the vibration of different worlds, it will be able to get you to Prime Earth and back without having to call me up all the time. I'm working on one that can lock in the vibrations of other earths, but that's proving tricky to make… anyway, my Kara wanted you two to have this one first. I think she wants to see the babies some more and I also think she wants Krypto and Powie to get back together some time." Cisco rolled his eyes but Vibe chuckled at the reactions this got.
"By the way the kids are getting big… they're really starting to look just like you Kara," Vibe said getting closer to changing topic. "But I can see some Barry in them… hi there." Vibe smiled at the girls who smiled back at the familiar face of Cisco and then a small cold puff of air came out of one mouth and hit Vibe, who batted it away with a smirk.
"Sorry, Nora does that," Kara said.
"Superkid? Fun," Vibe said, reminding himself to remind his Barry about protection. Neither his Kara or Barry were mentally ready for superkids yet.
"You know," Caitlin said, a thought on her mind, "with all the worlds destroyed, I doubt Wally and Walter are the only speedsters without a world. There are probably more out there. Trying to get home. Lost… Maybe even some who have given up and settled down."
Vibe sighed. This was a consequence of the destruction he had never pictured. He's tried not to think about this either. "I'll talk to our Stein. See if we can use our system to track potentially lost speedsters. To find them, tell them what happened, figure out homes for them." Vibe frowned in sudden though. "This all happened because of Zoom, and what happened on our Earth. These lost men and woman are our responsibility. Although we might need to expand the system a bit... Those mystery Earths your Gideon discovered would probably be a good place to start."
"Oh she found four more. Earth 16, 17, 18, and 19," Barry said, suddenly glad to be on a topic he understood. "Gideon, display the map." A holographic image of the Multiverse Web Theory expanded before them, with four extra worlds attached to it. Earth 16 was a little off 15. Then 17 was actually closer to 14. 18 and 19 were off a bit more and were pretty close to each other. Vibe nodded, impressed.
"Any chance we could have something like that? Our tech…" Vibe started.
"On it," Cisco replied, grabbing a USB stick from a draw and downloading this specific piece of software for his counterpart before handing it to Vibe. "If you need any help let us know. Oh, and I included the anti-speed formula for you. Your Caitlin should understand it. Our Caitlin and Alex made it together after all."
Vibe nodded as he put on his goggles. "Take a step back," Vibe instructed, and the group stepped back as a familiar rip in the fabric of space opened up before him. He jumped through it and it snapped shut behind him.
"Well," Cisco sighed, looking at the others. "Interesting day…"
"Did Vibe leave any instructions?" Barry countered, still holding the small disc-like device Vibe had given them.
"Ah," Cisco smirked. "I guessed he'll email them soon?"
"Fair enough," Kara smirked herself. "Come on hubby dear, let's get the kids back home. Long day…" and with that Barry, Kara and the kids left, leaving Cisco and Caitlin alone. Jesse had yet to return to the Labs, but both suspected she was with Jax, given Wally's attempt to kiss her earlier and Krypto had possibly gone home since he had not come to the labs.
Post Chapter Note: Karry Earth now has a Wally. I never said Wally would 'never exist' here, just that he was not born on Karry, and as I really enjoyed writing for Sigma's Wally in the first crossover, I've wanted this since. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. It was very fun for me.
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Animal Power – A death in Detroit links strangely to a surprise visitor at STAR, where Kara and Barry learn about a mysterious history and are put on the hunt for an even more serious and slightly magical object. Meanwhile, in Starling City, Roy is trying his best to get Thea to change her thoughts of his Justice League request.
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