Karry Universe
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Hello and Goodbye
-April 7th 2018-
"Barry, Kara," Amelia said knocking on the door to their room. It was early morning, but Amelia had needed to let them know she was leaving since she was planning on Earth hopping. "I'm going to Mutant for the day."
"Why?" Barry asked rubbing his eyes. Amelia had woken both of them up. Kara barely moved as she mumbled something that sounded like okay.
"Kal called. Kara… well Kara Kent gave birth this morning. A baby boy. I want to go meet him," Amelia said making Barry perk up.
"A boy?" Barry asked and Amelia nodded.
Go, Kara thought to her husband. I got the labs and the girls for the day. Barry loved his girls, but he had been thinking of what a boy of the two of them would be like. Kara knew he wanted to see their alternate son. A son that they could one day have themselves. Kara herself was a little curious but one of them had to stay here.
"Amelia," Barry called out. Amelia had backed up out of the room but she returned. "Give me a second. I'm coming." In a Flash, Barry was in his clothes and went to Amelia's room. Amelia was already changed and had the vibe device Barry-White had given her in her hands.
"Let's go," Amelia said pushing the button and a portal opened. The two went through it and appeared on a farm a second later.
"Wow," Barry said looking around. He had never seen Kent Farm. By the time, he had met Kara on his home Earth, the farm was being used by Clark as a storage place and then finally sold around the time they graduated.
This wasn't the only thing strange. Barry had to note that this was the first time he and Kara had ever been on different Earths, and Barry could sort of still feel her. He couldn't get her thoughts or her emotions really, but he knew she was fine. It was strange. Like when he was in England, but more settled.
"Millie," a voice called and Kal appeared hugging Millie. "And Karry Barry. Hi."
"Barry-Blue," Barry said, smiling at the kid Kal he had met once before. The time they had taken out Cadmus. It felt like so long ago.
"Kal," a girl said and Barry recognized Lois Lane walking up with a girl with blonde hair.
"Lois?" Barry said confused. "What… how?" Barry turned to Amelia as the two looked at her confused. "How do they know you with Clark a teenager and not your husband?" Lois raised an eyebrow as the question came up. Everywhere Barry knew of Lois, it came hand in hand with Clark Kent; but since Clark Kent didn't exist on this earth, at least not in the usual way, he was confused as to how they knew Lois. Then again, Prime knew a version of Lois Lane through Cat Grant…
"My cousin and Kara are friends," Lois said, putting a hand on the blonde's back.
"Chloe Sullivan," Chloe said giving Barry a look and Barry shook his head.
"Sorry. Never heard of you. And I was at Clark and Lois's wedding," Barry said noticing the smile on Kal's face. This was odd. He thought he had known all of Lois's family. He made a mental note to ask his Lois if she had a cousin named Chloe. "So, who else is here?"
"Basically everyone," Kal said. "Caitlin, Cisco, Caitlin's Daxamite boyfriend, Lois brought her little sister. Only people not here are Harry and super strong Wally. Still watching over coma Jesse." Barry chuckled at Kal's little nicknames for the family. Barry wondered how their Jesse was doing for a split second but that was not why he was here.
"Lucy?" Barry asked, remembering Kal said Lois's little sister. So, Lucy was here as well.
"No, Lucy is overseas. This is my half-sister Lara. My mom and step dad are on vacation so she's staying with me. She's the same age as Kal so brought her with me when I came out," Lois said and Barry raised an eyebrow at the changed family for the Lanes. Kal had a smile on his face and Barry noticed the puppy El running around the fields.
"Kara and my Barry are in the room with Griffin," Kal said. "I'm going to go grab El and show him to Lara." Kal ran into the field.
"Does your sister know?" Barry asked wondering if they were hiding their abilities.
"Yes," Lois said with a nod. "As Kal said everyone is inside."
"I'll show you the way in," Amelia said with Barry as Chloe and Lois ran after Kal.
The two walked into the house to find Caitlin downstairs in the arms of a man.
"Prince Mon-El of Daxam?" Barry said recognizing him but never having been able to talk to him before. Mon looked up at that as Caitlin got up at that.
"Prince?" Caitlin asked clearly shocked and angry. Barry bit his lip as it seemed Mon had not told them. Caitlin had been on the farm all morning during the labor and birth and was exhausted. She had been happy when Mon showed up and she could take a break.
"Um…. Well…. You never actually asked if I was the prince," Mon said not believing he had been revealed. Caitlin went out of the room. "Thanks a lot." Mon said giving Barry a look as he followed after Caitlin.
"Barry-Blue," Barry heard Cisco voice him coming down the stairs. "We were expecting Amelia but this is a surprise."
"Junior," Barry said shaking Cisco hand as Amelia walked passed them. "I'm going." Cisco nodded and Barry followed Amelia into a room he guessed was his counterpart and Kara. In the bed was Kara holding a little baby in a blue blanket. Barry-White sat on the bed next to his wife and Amelia had come up.
Kara Kent smiled at Barry-Blue. "Come," Kara Kent said as Barry-White looked up. Barry-Blue came over and smiled down at the baby.
"Barry-Blue," Barry-White said with a smiled. "Glad you came. Meet Griffin Kent."
"Griffin?" Barry-Blue asked remembering when his girls were born and how beforehand he had taken on a meta named Griffin Gray. Seemed he wasn't around here for Barry and Kara to name their kid Griffin. He wouldn't mention it though. No point in telling them in their world a guy named Griffin was bad guy. "First kid."
"First out of five," Kara Kent said making Barry-Blue raise an eyebrow. "We want a big family."
"Nice," Barry-Blue said with a smile.
"You know it's appropriate you came," Barry-White said. "This, everything, is because of your world."
"Well glad to be of help," Barry-Blue said truly happy he had helped get these two together in a weird way.
"Why don't you hold him," Kara Kent said and soon Griffin was in Barry-Blue's arms. Barry-Blue smiling down at the little man.
-Karry Universe-
Iris was nervously sitting in Cat Grant's office. She had gotten the call the night before that Cat Grant wanted to have a personal meeting with her. She didn't know what to expect. She had never actually been to the National City main headquarters, having spent all her time at the TV studio in Central.
Cat Grant walked in. "Sorry, I'm late," Cat said. "Wedding plans."
"I don't think I ever seen anyone put together a wedding as fast as you," Iris said. Cat Grant had only been engaged for about two months now, but the wedding was taking place at the end of the month. It seemed fast.
"Well me and Henry are older. Experienced. No reason to wait," Cat said. "But not why I called you here." Cat looked down at a file. "I'm impressed by your work." Iris had to stop her mouth from opening. She had not expected praise. In fact, she had been worried about being fired. "You go out. You report the facts. But I think the limited scope of Central is holding you back."
"What?" Iris asked.
"Meta human attacks. I get it you're the meta human girl and half the reason I hired you is because you were close to certain people, but I think you're too safe in it. You can be great," Cat said. "And I want to help you be great." Iris wasn't sure what to say. "And to do that, you need to get out of Central. I have a special position open for a global reporter."
"Global?" Iris asked as Cat handed her a folder. It had all the details of the new job she was being offered, including new pay.
"You will go where you're needed. Where you're assigned. Places such as Rome, London, anywhere really." Cat said.
"I um… I have a husband," Iris said. Not sure what else to say to this. She couldn't just up and leave, no matter how attractive the offer was.
Sure, she was getting itchy feet here in Central. Not wanting a family with Eddie but having a settled life didn't seem right. For a while now she had wanted to get out there, explore the world. She had considered taking a sabbatical from work just to go a long package vacation of Europe and the wider America, but had not had the chance to realize this – or speak to Eddie about it. Now her dream was being offered on a silver platter, so to speak. She really needed to speak to Eddie.
"Bring him with you," Cat said. "I can see you need to think about this and talk it over with your husband. I am going to need an answer in about a day. If you accept you'll be sent directly to London. We have a small branch over there."
"Um… Okay… I'll let you know," Iris said, still in shock. She was slightly overwhelmed and not sure what to say. It was a very tempting offer.
"You do that," Cat got u, was about to say something else when they heard a loud noise from outside. "What was that?"
-Karry Universe-
Alex was in the new city DEO headquarters inspecting the equipment being put in. She kept putting a hand on her stomach, even though it was still flat. She couldn't wait until a baby bump started to show.
That was when the building shook. "What was that?" Alex asked the agents around her.
"Seems we're under attack," Vasquez, her second in command, said bringing up an image on the only screen currently working. Alex remained expressionless as the figure of Darkseid was shown.
"Get J'onn and White Canary on the line now. We need the Justice League," Alex demanded as on the screen police started to show. "No, that's not good."
Alex vaguely recognized detective Maggie Sawyer firing her gun, although winced as she was killed in a moment by Darkseid throwing a car at her, crushing her and the other cops. "Now!" Alex yelled out and saw Vasquez calling the other director.
-Karry Universe-
"Press conference done," Kara said walking into the Superflash cave. "A mountain of paper work done. Girls changed and happy." Kara put her twins in the playpen where Garfield already was. "Who needs Barry?" She joked. "Everything is under control today."
Kara took a seat next to Caitlin. "And Cisco. So unusual to see you here lately," Kara added to the man sitting by the computer; he usually spent his time at STAR Gaming, after all. Caitlin laughed as Cisco turned to her.
That was when the computer alert went off. "Darkseid!" Jesse said, running into her outfit. She was out of the lab in a second.
"Where is he?" Kara asked as she got into her own outfit and put Krypto and Hex in theirs.
"National, attacking the new DEO headquarters," Cisco said. "And Alex is inside."
"Call Barry," Kara ordered as she and the animals were out. Garfield, Alura, and Nora looked up at the noise from the computers as Cisco went to the inter earth system, knowing Barry was on Mutant and Caitlin turned to the computers to see where all the League were.
-Mutant Earth-
Kal was in the barn with a teenage girl around his age, and Chloe and Lois. El was with them and Lara, Lois's little sister, was laughing at the goofball. "Kal, don't you want to go up and see Kara and Griffin?" Chloe asked.
"I saw them. Besides Amelia and Barry-Blue are up there," Kal said smiling at Lara.
"I think his crush on you has moved to someone more age appropriate," Chloe whispered to Lois moving her away from the two. Lois smiled and laughed. Since they had met every time Kal saw her he was always very sweet. It was clear he had a little crush on her but today he seemed to be paying more attention to her little sister and Lois had to smile at that.
"What's this about him being my husband on other worlds?" Lois asked curious about the comment from the world hopping Barry. She still hadn't gotten her head around the whole alternate world thing, not really wrapping around her brain no matter how many times it was explained. Kal had just shrugged it off as a weirdness in superhero life that you could meet and be friends with different versions of yourself.
Before Chloe could respond a ringing caught their attention. "That's the inter earth phone," Kal said jumping to it and picking it up. "Hello. Mutant Earth. Kal speaking."
"Kal, you need to go get our Barry and tell him Darkseid is attacking National. We need him," Cisco's voice said.
"Got it," Kal said, hanging up the phone and running out of the room at super speed. El barked and followed fast.
Lara stood there looking shocked and then smiled. "That's awesome," Lara said.
Kal ran up the stairs and into the master bedroom with El not far behind him. "Barry…. Karry Barry." Caitlin and Cisco were in the room now too. Mon had been apologizing to Caitlin continuously and Caitlin had told him to give her so room so he had. Barry-Blue turned around. "There was a call. A Darker is attacking National City on your Earth."
"Darker?" Barry-Blue asked confused before realizing. "Wait, Darkseid?"
"That was it," Kal said pointing.
Both Barry-Blue and Amelia jumped up. "Junior, portal right to National. Now," Barry-Blue said knowing the device would open to the penthouse and he had no time to go there. He had no time to get his outfit.
Cisco paused for a second, putting his goggles on and opening the portal. Barry-Blue ran in a moment later. "Go Stalker," Kara Kent said right away as Griffin cried out and she rocked him.
Barry-White turned his ring and was in his outfit in a moment, running through the portal as well. Cisco jumped through last and the portal closed. "I should…." Amelia was cut off by one look from Kara Kent. "Stay here a bit longer before going home." She was worried about Darkseid but she knew at the moment she would not be a help.
-Karry Universe-
J'onn got to the headquarters first, leading an attack on Darksied. They weren't supposed to – Kara and Barry had told them to always wait for backup, but this was a populated area and Alex was inside the now-damaged building. He had no choice but to keep Darkseid busy. Jesse ran in to grab the agents inside.
J'onn punched at Darksied, the two entering a fight with each other as Kara flew into the building. The agents inside were evacuating with help from Jesse who was joined by Krypto and Hex but Kara grabbed Alex and flew her out. She didn't want her sister and future niece or nephew anywhere near this. She didn't stop flying her until she was safely on Cat Grant's balcony at CatCo. "Stay here," Kara ordered to Alex, noticing Cat and Iris still inside the office.
J'onn was having trouble with Darkseid on his own. Despite being an all-powerful Green Martian, he barely got punches in and was somehow taking all the punches instead. Darkseid then took a broken piece of metal from the building and started stabbing him with it. Krypto came up and hit into Darkseid, dragging him away from the injured J'onn. Before Darkseid could attack the dog, Hex was on him with heat vison.
Kara came flying in at that moment with heat vision right at Darkseid, ready to take on the fight as Wonder Woman and Superman showed. A portal opened and out came Barry-Blue, running through the streets followed by Barry-White and Vibe Junior. Barry-Blue was very aware of having no outfit on and, as he thought about it, it he felt the speed force around him; in a second he looked down at himself and his outfit seem to materialize around him. That was new. He had no time to think about it as he ran right to Kara and Darksied.
The Green Lanterns appeared then, and as the group grew bigger in the fight. Vibe Junior opened up a portal behind Darkseid as he froze feeling the pain he normally felt when he sued too much power now. The group knew though that even with this kicking in he was a match to them; they had to get him into the vibe portal and quick. Both Barrys went in with a fast punch followed by Kara. It knocked Darkseid in and the portal closed.
"Please tell me you sent him to a dead world?" Barry-Blue asked, thinking that could solve all their problems.
"No, China, on this world," Vibe Junior said.
"Might buy us some peace for a while," Kara said, taking a breath and giving her Barry a look. He was wearing a different outfit. It was still red, but a very light color red. His boots were yellow and so were parts of his arms. His mask was the same as his outfit but on his chest, was the lightning bolt and the blue background but it was different – the blue was in the shape of a triangle with the lightning bolt inside. Where did that come from?
No clue, Barry-Blue thought back, confused about the outfit himself.
"J'onn!" Clark called out and the group turned around. They hadn't noticed J'onn lying on the floor in all the commotion, but there was a lot of blood surrounding him. "He's still alive. Just…"
"Get him to our doctor," Kara said and Clark picked him up and flew at top speed. "White." Kara turned to Barry-White in his outfit. "Thank you. I know you have…."
"Of course, I was coming," Barry-White said. "Let's go see how your Martian is."
-Karry Universe-
J'onn was with Caitlin as she looked him over, sewing up his wounds with special sutures, although she had no blood for a bypass, but she had to think on that one later.
"That suit is pure speed force," Jesse was saying, taking readings on the suit Barry was in as they kept an eye on Caitlin and J'onn. Kara had the girls on her lap. They had picked up on the emotions in the room and cried out so Kara had gone to calm them.
"Not cool man. I make the outfits," Cisco joked. Vibe Junior was sitting next to him and Barry-White was saying hello to Garfield. He wanted to get back to his son but he had a feeling he could not go back just yet. He needed to know how this J'onn was. "Although that is pretty cool."
"I can't get it off," Barry-Blue said, not sure how to get the outfit off – there were no hidden straps or zips on this outfit, unlike the ones Cisco made. As he said that though, the outfit began to unravel by itself, leaving him back in his normal clothes. Krypto barked confused. Barry-Blue looked over at his Kara who he could feel was amused along with her worry. I got to figure out how to do that on command.
"Guys," Caitlin said coming out of the medical area. "I stabilized him for now but…" She saw the looks on everyone faces as she said that. "He won't survive without a blood transfusion. And he's the last Green Martian."
"What about M'Gann?" Kara asked, shocked but ready for this outcome. The man had watched out for her when she was young and Darkseid had taken away Jax and put Thea into a coma. They could not lose J'onn as well.
"She's a White Martian. I don't know if it would work," Caitlin said shaking her head.
"What about your J'onn?" Barry-Blue asked turning to Barry-White and Vibe Junior.
"That would work," Caitlin said nodding her head. "The body would not be able to tell the difference between the blood from a doppelganger."
"We don't have a J'onn," Barry-White said shaking his head. They had looked after having worked with J'onn here, but no Green Martians seemed to be on Mutant Earth. "But another world might." Barry-White turned to Vibe Junior.
Junior put back on his goggles searching the worlds. "SuperEarth has a J'onn and he's at the DEO right now," Junior said.
"I'll go," Barry-Blue said.
"Me too, then we'll head home," Barry-White said. "Unless you need more help?" He looked at the group who seemed tense, but Kara shook her head.
"No, go home to your son," Kara said. Barry-White gave them a look. They had never told him who this Darkseid was, but it seemed big and worrying. They weren't asking for help though. It was not his place to pry, but he made a mental note to let some of the other Earths know, just in case.
"Well if you ever need us just ask," Barry-White said, wanting to make it clear they would come to their aid any time.
As Barry-Blue tried to get the other outfit on again, but couldn't figure it out, so got into his normal Flash outfit as Junior opened a portal and the three went through.
-SuperEarth-
"Well J'onn it's nice to have you around," Director Alex Danvers said. She and Kara had been showing J'onn around the DEO headquarters, ending the tour in the main lab they used where Cisco and Winn were sitting talking to Barry and Millie, who had showed up.
"It's good to see old friends again," J'onn said with a nod.
"You know, with all the Empowered we can use powerful heroes by our side," Kara said, giving Barry a smile. Since their visits to Karry Universe at Christmas, and New Justice more recently, Barry had been more confident in their superhero work, not to mention in personal life. The loss of his fiancée still hung heavy on him though, but Kara knew only time would heal that particular wound.
Before J'onn could reply, the wind picked up and a blue portal appeared. "Seems we're getting visitors from another Earth," Winn jumped up, confusing J'onn as two Barrys and a Cisco popped out. "Two Barrys. Ooh, twins?"
"No… I'm from Karry, they are from Mutant," Barry-Blue responded as they took in the lab. He suspected Winn thought they were from Twin Earth, although he didn't know more of the world than the name.
"Mutant," Millie said interest picking up. "How's Echo?"
"Who?" Vibe Junior, asked making Millie glare.
"I think she means the world hopper guy. The one who recruited some of our earths to defeat his twin or something… Echo and Quake. No, Tremor," Barry-White said, remembering the event and his trip to Dark Earth. They did have both in lock up, after all. "You transferred them to their new cell. They are fine." He addressed the last bit at Millie, who didn't seem impressed with this answer as she turned on her heel and left the room without any more word. This seemed to only be noticed by her Barry and Kara, who exchanged a momentary worried look before addressing their world hoppers.
Meanwhile Barry-Blue moved up to J'onn. "J'onn, we need you to save our J'onn," Barry-Blue said, making J'onn tilt his head confused. "He needs a blood transfusion. He's the last Green Martian. Looking to the multiverse was our only choice. If you don't donate blood to him, he will die."
J'onn turned to Kara and Alex, confused. "It's complicated," Kara told J'onn. "But we know Karry. What they are saying is the truth. If you don't help a version of you will die on another Earth," Kara said.
"Okay," J'onn said surprising Barry-Blue how easy it was to convince him. "I wouldn't like to see another Green Martian die, even if it me. Director Danvers, let's give them some blood."
-Karry Universe-
Eddie came into the apartment, glad to see Iris sitting on the couch. Iris had a file in her a hand and barely looked up. "I heard Darkseid attacked National. I was worried," Eddie said sitting down. "What did Cat Grant want?" Both had been nervous since Iris got the call.
"She offered me a promotion," Iris said.
"That's great,' Eddie said, a smile coming across his face.
"She wants me to be a global reporter… Traveling the world," Iris said honestly, handing the file to Eddie.
"Wow," Eddie said, seeing the money Iris would make, not to mention the job portfolio. "But you would never be here."
"She's offering to send you with me too," Iris said, making Eddie put the file down. "I would be on the job, but we could find time to see the sights. And… it's too much to ask." She saw the look on his face. "You know, I'll tell her…"
"Yes," Eddie said surprising Iris. "You'll tell her yes. Iris this is exactly what we talked about doing someday. Traveling together. Seeing the world. Being happy. I thought you wanted to do it a few years down the line, but it's a great opportunity for you. You can't turn it down. I want that for you, and for us. So say yes."
"What about your job?" Iris asked, knowing they couldn't just up and leave.
"Do you know what I do in the meta human department? Why it's only two people?" Eddie asked, and Iris shook her head. She had been wondering. "I do the paperwork for the takedowns from Kara or Barry or Firestorm or Liberty Belle…. any of the heroes. I do the clean-up work and pass leads off to them. Sometimes we use the equipment from STAR or L-Corp to help, but it mostly just transferring the prisoners to cells. I'm bored. I'm the meta guy though, so a transfer is not happening. Let's just go. Just leave. Leave all that behind. All this. Let's see the world."
Iris smiled. "Really? We're really doing this?" Iris asked.
"Really," Eddie said, smiling and brought Iris into a hug. It seemed a long time ago when the couple faced financial trouble and a pregnancy scare – they were good now, they could do this. "Now go call Cat and accept," Iris took out her cellphone at that moment, having Cat's number.
-Mutant Earth-
Barry-White came out of the portal with Cisco. Caitlin and Mon were in front of the house. He smiled to see the prince thing had blown over after some explaining. Barry waved at them as Cisco joined them, he went up the stairs to find Kara was sleeping. Kal was in the room staring at Griffin who was in his crib sleeping.
"Hey bubby," Barry-White whispered. "How have things been here?"
"Amelia went home," Kal said. "So, did Lois and Lara."
"And you're going to wake Griffin," they heard Kara's voice and Barry-White turned to see she was up. "Kal, can you give us a moment?" Kal nodded, kissed Griffin's head silently and walked out of the room. He called for El and the two paused, turning to see if the call at woken Griffin. The baby moved but didn't wake.
"Might have to tell him not to do that," Barry said with a smirk.
"How did it go?" Kara asked, wondering about what happened on Karry Universe.
"Well, we stopped the attack. They nearly lost their J'onn but we found a multiverse J'onn to give him blood," Barry said sitting on the bed. "I'm worried about them. This is the second time I faced this Darkseid apparently, and things just seem…. I don't know. They didn't say anything was wrong, but I got the feeling something is going on. Did Amelia say anything?"
"No she didn't, although seemed nervous after you left. But come on, this is Karry. They would ask us for help if they needed it," Kara said. "They asked you for help with the Reverse Flash."
"Actually, no they didn't. I just told them," Barry said thinking it over. They had not once asked him for information on the Reverse Flash. Then again, they had not known the multiverse that well then and it might have never come to mind to them Barry could have information they needed. "But they asked you for help with that Cadmus thing?"
"Um…." Kara said and then shook her head. "No, they didn't. I just said I was in." Kara thought over the events. She had sat in that meeting and until she said she wanted in they had not even thought of her. "But they asked you for help with the three people on your first visit."
"Um…. No. They kind of just asked me if I was in or out. I said in," Barry said thinking it over and then shook his head. "I never realized they never asked for help. I think we should ask Cisco to let the other worlds know – if Karry doesn't ask for help and things turn bad…"
"I know," Kara nodded. "We owe them a lot, it's the least we can do for them now."
"Yeah." Barry nodded. "But until then, we have a new son and a farm to take care of. If they need us, we'll be there." Barry leaned down and kissed Kara as Caitlin walked in.
"Just wanted to check on you two," Caitlin said with a smile, going over to Griffin.
-Suerflash/Karry Universe-
"Well that was Caitlin," Barry said, hanging up the phone. They had gone back to the penthouse and Kara had been finishing up some work on her computer. J'onn will be fine.
Thank Rao, Kara thought out, closing the laptop and turning around. Alura and Nora were in front of the TV watching a cartoon and smiling at it. "And Sara called. DEO doctors checked over Alex. She and the baby are fine." Kara could feel Barry was relieved too. Everyone made it through this one.
This time. But we really need to find this Doctor Fate. Anything? Barry asked to a head shake from Kara and sad feelings. We'll find him. Eventually.
Yeah, Kara thought as the phone rang. Kara picked it up. "Iris?" Kara asked noticing the caller ID.
"Cat offered me a job," Iris sounded excited, not even asking if everyone was okay from the Darkseid job. "I accepted. Eddie and I will be traveling the world!"
Woah, I did not see that one coming, Barry thought as he heard the exchange, waiting for Kara to hang up the phone. Iris was too excited to even ask for her brother.
"Call Joe. We're going to have small going away party at his house," Kara said, and Barry got out his phone.
….
The next day, Iris and Eddie were surprised as Kara, Barry, the girls, Amelia, Henry, Joe, Cecile, Wally, and Jesse all were at Joe's house. They had gotten the call to be there. "Figured the whole Superfamily would be too much," Kara said when Joe brought out dinner.
"This is perfect," Iris said, smiling as her father had made her favorite meals.
"Well, you've come along way, baby girl," Joe grinned. The group sat there then, talking to each other, reminiscing about old times. The college days. It almost felt like they were back there, just the smaller family, even with the additions of Amelia, Wally, Cecile and the girls.
"You really didn't have to go through any trouble." Iris eventually said, when the meal was over and conversation turned back to Iris and Eddie leaving.
"Hey if it weren't for you we might not have met," Kara said. "If I wasn't your roommate…."
"You two would have gotten together," Iris said with a smile. "I just sped it up. And I'm glad I could." Iris kissed Alura and Nora on the head at that. "I'm going to miss you two. We'll facetime all the time."
"You know it," Kara said giving her sister-in-law a hug and then Eddie.
"You never know, I may pop back for the odd reporting job," Iris pointed out, aware being a global reporter didn't mean she'd never report for Central again if needed.
"You take care of her," Barry told Eddie who had to laugh. The group didn't want to say goodbye, but Iris and Eddie had an early flight. Finally, people started to leave.
"My baby girl, growing up," Joe said sadly when Iris and Eddie had left. They had packed up everything they were taking with them and Barry had helped move anything they couldn't take into Joe's attic earlier.
"It was a nice dinner," Amelia said to Joe. She had been quiet most of the night, only having come because Barry and Kara had taken her. She didn't know the Wests that well, since when Nora had died on her Earth the two had moved away from Central to National permanently and Barry and Iris had drifted apart. It was nice though. Almost a shame she hadn't known the Wests on her Earth.
As everyone was leaving Joe got a phone call. "Captain?" Joe said seeing the ID.
"With Eddie leaving I'm assigning you a new partner," the captain said. "A young detective who has been wanting into the Meta Human Department. Her name is Patty Spivot. You will meet her tomorrow."
"Yes sir," Joe said.
Eddie and Iris might be getting a happily ever after, but now he had to have a partner who did not know the secret. This was going to be difficult. And new.
Post Chapter Note 1: So, this chapter…. is kind of all over the place. Sorry about that. I had a plan, but it didn't quite tie together. Darkseid's attack, the Earth hopping, Iris leaving… Not everything needs to be cohesive though.
Post Chapter Note 2: Also, this is Iris and Eddie's last chapter in Karry Universe, as far as I'm aware. Although she could return for a one-off if the story permits it. You see, Iris was a great character to have in the story during the college years. In fact, for the first like 10ish chapters, she was the only character besides Kara and Barry to appear in every chapter, but when I moved on from college and started to get into superhero life, her part started to fade. I had some good plots for her in certain areas – she came in handy, but with the TV show ruining the character for me, and making me not like her, it was better to write her off and give her and Eddie the happy ending they deserve. Be glad I didn't kill them off, because that's how I feel toward the show's Iris. Anyway, Iris and Eddie will travel the world for a few years and then she will get her own talk show for CatCo across the country. Eddie at that time might become a meta human consultant for police stations.
Post Chapter Note 3: Yes, I mentioned Patty. Obviously, there is no romance between her and Barry in this. It just made sense for her to take over Eddie's place as Joe's partner, plus I liked her in the show. I don't know when she will appear, or if she will appear, as more than just references. We will see how it goes…
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The Game- It's Cat and Henry's wedding and some new and old faces show up to celebrate. But as the wedding gets underway, a new danger comes to Earth. Kara is about to face her biggest challenge yet.
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