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An Explosion of Power
-Late August-
Clark flew high, looking for the activity Gideon had informed him about, finding she was right – a man that was very obviously the same one who ran drugs for the Cartel with a few others; the man saw him too.
Obviously panicked, the man shot out at Clark – a beam of light coming from his hand and hitting directly into Superman's chest. He was nervous for a moment, about to act, but he didn't feel pain from the attack. In fact, he felt stronger. Stronger in fact, that he let a heat vision out of his eyes. The heat vision clearly more powerful than normal.
"Damn!" The man said as he lowered his hand and stopped shooting at Clark.
Clark came down to them now, about to act, but the woman next to the man, a fellow member of the Cartel, lifted her hand own hand, and a nearby building started to tremble as a support beam came down. Clark turned, seeing the metal being bent and acted.
"What are you doing?" The man said to her.
"You can either save them or get us," the woman said defiantly, and Clark didn't wait a moment as he flew up to the building, taking the spot the beam was previously and lifting the building up into place. He was easily able to hold the building thanks to the power boost, but he had to do something – he couldn't let the Cartel get away.
Looking around, he used his heat vision to melt two nearby metal pieces together, grabbing them to replace the support beam and letting go of it. His makeshift repair was holding, at least for now but he needed to get people out of this building before it really did tumble. And he ran into the building faster than he normally could, grabbing people and bringing them out just like Barry did. It didn't take him long to get everyone out.
Going high, knowing the woman from the Cartel was right and he'd let them get away, he took a look around, but the two Cartel runners were gone.
"Gideon?" Clark said into his communicator. "Send an alert out. This building needs a repair team."
"Will do Superman," Gideon said. Clark put his communicator away. He needed to get rid of this extra energy he still had.
-Karry Universe-
"Dick?" Barbra Gordon said over the communicator. "You need to find a new sidekick."
"I don't want anyone new," Dick complained as he rode through the streets as Nightwing. Roy's death was still a sore spot for Dick. He had been a good ally for years. "I can handle the city."
"You can handle protecting the city on your own, being a single parent, and having a day job?" Barbra counted. "Robin misses his dad. He has barely seen you."
Dick sighed, knowing Barbra was right. He had to think of his son. He and Roy had worked so well together, Roy able to take some of the slack so Dick could be with his son. "What about you?" Dick said, stopping the motorcycle and putting his leg on the ground for support.
"If you have not noticed, my vigilante days are long behind me," Barbra commented.
"STAR labs' walking chip," Dick commented airily. "I'm sure Kara and Barry will give it to you or at least give you a discount on one. You get a surgery and back on your feet. Batgirl and Nightwing, back together again." Barbra had been the first sidekick to Dick after all, although the two had been more like partners since day one – starting out together. Dick had chosen the name Batgirl for her because the outfit she choose reminded him of a bat. And she had named him Nightwing. Then it had all changed when a deranged man had shot Barbra in the back, breaking her spine with the bullet. Barbra had reinvented herself as Oracle on the computers to help him, but now she could come back.
"No," Barbra said. "I checked with my doctor."
"You never told me that," Dick said.
"With the break I have, there's only a 60 percent chance it will work now. And if I try it and it doesn't work, then it will never work. I'm waiting for the device to improve. It's only improved minimally since release… at first it was only a 50 percent chance." Dick groaned as the light he saw was gone. "And you need someone soon."
"I'll…" Dick heard a howling into the light that caused him to pause. "Was that a wolf?"
"Some type of break in at the zoo," Barbra said, going to the computers.
"Break in or break out?" Dick asked as he started his motorcycle again and turned down the street that would lead him to Bludhaven's zoo.
"Both," Barbra commented as Dick got to the place, parking the bike at the front gate and using a device to go over the gate. Two guards were at the front, one unconscious and the other in front of him, a gun pointed at three wolves who were growling at him. The man seeming nervous as he pointed his gun switching at who he was aiming at.
Dick tossed a device in the middle of the three wolves and smoke came out in a small cloud and when it disappeared the wolves were unconscious. "What's going on?" Dick asked the conscious guard.
"A nut job broke in," The guard commented. "Started releasing animals. I think he's by the lions now."
"Get him to a hospital and call in… animal control or something," Dick said. "I got the nut job." Dick remembered bringing Robin here once and knew where the lions were and sure, enough, a man was standing over the lions, roaring like one of them and they seemed to be responding. The man also seemed to have some cat like features himself. "Back away!"
"Nightwing," the man said jumping away from the lion pit. The cat like feature seemed to disappear as he was distracted. "You will not take me down." Nightwing raised an eyebrow. "Because I can talk to the animals. Just…."
"Do not say imagine it," Nightwing said, holding up a finger, not exactly caring what this meta's power was since it seemed to be more than just talking to animals. He took out a device and tossed it at the man. It expanded into a rope and wrapped itself around the animal talker, surprising him.
"I will…" the man started but Nightwing was fast and knocked the man out.
Dick took out his communicator. "Gideon, can we get a DEO transport here?" Nightwing asked, unsure. Bludhaven did not have as many meta humans as Central or National, but Gideon replied in the positive regardless.
-Karry Universe-
Ray and Red Tornado flew over Gotham. Red Tornado was sticking around with Ray, being his own sidekick while Ray helped the robot grow into an individual.
"Atom," Red Tornado said. "There are plants."
"There usually is," Ray said.
"No, I mean growing. Fast," Red Tornado pointed, and Ray noticed Red Tornado was right. There seemed to be plants growing fast nearby.
"Come on," Atom said, flying towards where it was happening – a woman, who seemed more like a plant herself, was torturing some type of scientist in one of the smaller parks. Atom shot at her; she seemed to take it well.
Plants shot out and attached to Atom, making him have to shrink to get out. But the plants went around his shrunken form, encasing him. He felt the plants get chopped and knew Red Tornado had freed him.
When he grew, he saw Red Tornado battling the plant girl with his tornados – the tornados easily blowing down all her plants and encasing her. When Red Tornado stopped, the plant like girl was unconscious. Ray had gone to the scientist to help him up and out, seeing Red Tornado had this.
"I suggest the DEO," Red Tornado said, picking up the plant like lady. Gotham had a small DEO headquarters since they did have some metas. Not nearly as many as Central or National. Ray nodded, agreeing with Red.
-Karry Universe-
Paula was in Thea's hospital room putting flowers in a vase.
"Thea…?" Paula said, sitting down. "It's been six months… Darkseid is gone... You can wake up," Paula whispered. It was August, six months since Thea had been put in the coma during Team Canary's own battle with Darksied and hope of her waking was starting to fade. Everyone getting worried.
That was when the machines attached to Thea started going haywire. "What?" Paula asked, jumping up, not sure what was going on as alarms started. "We need help!" Paula yelled, but doctors and nurses were already running in.
"Miss, you're going to need to give us some room," a nurse said as doctors were already at Thea, trying to stabilize her as tears came to Paula's eyes, worried for her friend. The nurse kept her back as she watched the doctors worked. Nothing seemed to be working though.
"Doctor, your hands!" Another nurse said, pointing at the doctor in shock. His hands seemed to be glowing as he held them over Thea.
"She is stabilizing," another doctor in the room said, looking at the monitors, surprised. The glow didn't stop as Thea stabilized though – it continued, and in a matter of seconds Thea opened her eyes and moved.
The glow stopped and the doctor whose hands had glown slumped down on the chair Paula had previously been in. He didn't look so well as the other doctors started disconnecting Thea, who seemed to want to hop up out of bed, but Thea's eyes caught Paula, which calmed her.
Paula waited until Thea was disconnected and then went to her. She didn't have to wait for Thea though as she jumped out of bed and they hugged. "Paula, what…."
"You're up," Paula said, tears of joy in her eyes, confusing Thea.
"But… what…?" Thea's voice was weak as she spoke, but Paula stopped her.
"You have been in a coma for six months!" Thea's mouth opened wide as Paula realized something: Thea shouldn't be walking so easily. Her muscles had been unresponsive for months, she should need physical therapy to get back into shape. But Thea seemed completely back to normal; ready to go out and fight again. "You've been healed..."
Paula looked over at the doctor who hands had been glowing, along with the other doctors and nurses in the room, who were now looking over the doctor. Thea herself also turned to the man, who was taking deep breaths as though he had run a marathon.
"Something's happened…" Paula realized, figuring Thea's machine going haywire and the healing doctor were somehow linked. She didn't know what yet though.
-Karry Universe-
Oliver and Laurel were walking on the street, having just gone shopping for their baby girl – they had found out they were having a girl so were excited to get as many supplies for her as possible. Oliver was carrying the majority of the bags, using his robotic arm which Barry and Kara had provided a hologram for so no one could see the difference, or figure out he and Green Arrow were the same as everyone now knew Green Arrow had a robotic arm.
"I know it's your family tradition to name a first-born daughter Dinah…" Oliver started as they moved on to names again. "So, if you want…"
"No," Laurel said shaking her head. "I don't go by it so I don't want my kid to have it. Besides, I think Sara's naming one of her kids that to keep with tradition, so I think we should name her something just us. Besides, I've been thinking… Master Planner?"
"What?" Oliver blinked. "We're not naming our kid Master Planner."
"No," Laurel pointed at a man ahead of them, he looked like someone who didn't want to be found out as he moved into an abandoned building. While they never met the Master Planner, they had heard stories and pictures of him had been sent out around the League.
"Yeah I think so," Oliver said as his communicator went off – it was Gideon alerting him to a problem in the building Master Planner just went into. "I am starting to think Gideon is just messing with us with this guy. Might as well go give him a punch." Oliver didn't have his costume or arrows nearby, but he felt confident using his robotic arm solely against him.
"Can I come?" Laurel asked with a smile.
"Laurel," Oliver started. "The baby…"
"The guy is a goof. Me and the baby will be fine," Laurel said, putting a hand on her baby bump.
"Fine, but stay in the red light," Oliver said, giving her some of the bags to free his robotic arm.
The two walked into the building, not surprised to find a cage to fall over them and a red light to shine in their faces – they knew his MO by now. He really needed something new. "I got you," Master Planner chuckled though, not seeming to notice that they were not in their superhero costumes. "Red light takes away the powers. And as you sit there powerless you will see my master plan come to life."
"How many times do you have to do this before you realize the red light doesn't work?" Oliver spoke up, but the man seemed to ignore him.
Master Planner took off a sheet from something that looked like a giant radio. "I will use my Bring Back Radio to bring an army of the undead to life and under my control. And I will rule the world!" Master Planner laughed as Oliver raised an eyebrow. The radio barely looked like it would work, let alone bring back the dead, and he was proven correct as Master Planner was trying to get it on by punching it lightly.
Oliver used his robotic arm to bend the bars and let himself and Laurel out. Laurel was laughing, even if Oliver found it less than funny. But before Oliver could do anything, Laurel's laugh turned into a cough and he turned to her, worried as she let out a light scream, surprise on her face as the scream proved sonic; more powerful than even Cisco's device for her Canary Cry and aimed right at Master Planner. It knocked the Master Planner forward and directly into his radio, which broke the machine and sent the man into a concussion
That made the couple take the situation more seriously as Laurel put a hand over her mouth and Oliver moved over to her, concerned.
"Are you okay? The baby…? Did that meta creating meta come back?" Oliver asked, not sure what to wonder first.
"No, she refused to make me a meta human while pregnant," Laurel commented putting a hand over her baby bump, worried now and not sure how she ended up with a meta human power. "We have to go to Caitlin."
That was when Oliver's phone binged. Oliver took it out; surprised at the message now. "Thea's been healed," Oliver read before realizing what exactly the text said. "What…?" He reread the part about a meta human doctor who had healed her. Oliver turned to see the device was in pieces anyway and took back some of the bags from Laurel.
"We'll get to Caitlin in a minute," Oliver decided. "Thea…"
"Of course," Laurel nodded, concerned still but moved behind Oliver, heading to the hospital.
When they got to Thea's room she was eating but stopped at seeing Laurel and her brother.
"Oh wow," Thea said looking at Laurel. "You're..."
"Yeah," Laurel said with a smile. "You're about to be Aunt Thea." Thea jumped up to hug them, not sure when or how to tell her about Laurel's sudden new powers.
-Karry Universe-
Winn danced into the cave DEO, all smiles as he couldn't help laughing to himself.
"Welcome back, Agent Schott," J'onn said, smirking at Winn's attitude. "How was your vacation?"
"Magical." Winn said with a smile.
"Well, I know Disney is the most magical place on Earth, but this seems a little extreme." Winn turned to see Sara standing there in her White Canary outfit.
"What are you doing here?" Winn asked, still smiling however. Alex, Sara, and Astra had all switched to the National City headquarters though, so for Sara to be in the cave which was halfway between Central and National was odd.
"Overseeing a prisoner transfer," Sara told Winn. "So, what has you so happy?"
"Amelia said yes," Winn said, making everyone look at him, confused. "Oh. I proposed. Out of nowhere in fact. It surprised even me and she said yes." Sara grinned herself and moved to hug Winn; even J'onn gave him a pat on the back.
"Is this how this agency works?" A new voice said, and Winn looked up to see another blonde woman, although this one he had never seen before. She was tall, gave off the impression of authority herself, and was giving them a disapproving look.
"Winn meet Agent Ava Sharpe. Agent Sharpe, this is Agent Winn Schott," J'onn introduced. "Ava's a transfer from the CIA. My new second around here since Alex has the National Headquarters."
Ava gave Winn a nod before turning to Sara. "The prisoners are ready for transfer White Canary," Ava said, and Sara gave a nod herself, giving Winn a smile before walking in the direction Ava had been.
"What's with the prisoner transfer?" Winn asked.
"The holding cells are out of date. We're transferring our prisoners to National City so we can update them," Ava stated now Sara had gone.
Before Winn could reply they heard a commotion and all three moved to see one of the prisoners, a large alien, had broken loose. "I had him secure," Ava said, annoyed.
"I might have forgotten to mention he can change sizes…" J'onn said as Sara jumped in, fighting the alien with her bo staff.
"Watch ou…" Winn yelled, moving both his hands at the alien. That was when the alien's head blew up, blood splattering everywhere.
"Whoa!" Winn called, shocked. Everyone looked right at him, who seemed stunned, staring at his hand now. He moved them high, in surrender, but a nearby screen blew up at this action.
"Agent Schott… put your hands down – slowly!" J'onn ordered and Winn, slowly obeyed putting his hands to his side.
-Karry Universe-
The new Superflash cave, inside STAR labs, had been completed a few weeks ago. Kara and Barry had managed to expand it and had even given Jesse, Caitlin, and Cisco the ability to create their own sections.
Caitlin had by far the largest, since they had created a new medical area which was separated by a glass wall. Caitlin could lower curtains if they needed privacy while she was working on an injured League member. She also had a section with computers and a desk right outside the door.
Jesse was the smallest, since when the new Watchtower was finished – something everyone was a bit curious about – she would have the new speed lab there. She merely had a couple of computers screens here.
Cisco had a good portion with a high-tech section for computers, which was connected to his STAR Gaming office, along with a section he could make his inventions and also a section he could make new costumes. Michelle Walker also liked that area, using it to create her own fashion designs.
There was also a common area with comfy couches, a TV, play area for the kids, and the zap tunnel was also in the cave.
Currently in the cave, Caitlin was by her computer. Jesse and Wally were at Jesse area, going over some results of experiments, while Lisa was sitting on one of the armchairs watching the TV; and Jenny and Garfield were on the floor playing. Ronnie and Cody were also on the couch, watching on.
Cisco and Michelle were at Cisco's section, going over a recently made costume. "She's going to kill you this time," Caitlin called to them. "You remember what happened last time?"
"What happened last time?" Michelle asked, not having been aware of a last time.
"Nothing," Cisco defended, and Caitlin cleared her throat. Caitlin and Cisco were the only ones who were there last time after all, but Cisco put a sheet over the costume regardless. "She's not unknowingly pregnant this time."
"You hope," Caitlin said as Ronnie chuckled. He had not been there, having still been with the Legends at the time, but he had heard the story. "Or she's going to kill you."
"Who's going to kill who?" They heard Kara first, and noticed Krypto and Hex running into the common area. Kara and Barry were behind them with the girls in their arms and Romana and Starfire, who excitedly ran in and toward Jenny. Both talking fast about their trip to Disney.
"Damn, this place came out good," Barry whistled, looking around. The two had not seen the new Superflash cave yet, having gone on a long vacation not long after Darkseid defeat. "Reminds me of Prime's. A bit bigger though. So, what's going on?"
"Ask Cisco and Michelle," Caitlin said. "But please remember Michelle is needed to keep Ronnie alive." Michelle was taking steps back towards her co-Firestorms as Kara turned to them, not sure what was going on.
"Well…you… um…." Cisco started. "Well, I have been making new costumes for the Justice League so I…."
"Hold on a second, Cisco," Barry said, running Alura and Nora into Star and Romana arms. "Girls stay back, and anything goes up into flames, protect the babies. You too Jenny." Barry ran and got a fire extinguisher. "Continue Cisco."
"Very funny," Cisco said, dryly.
"I'm not joking," Barry said, which just made people giggle.
Cisco rolled his eyes. "Look as you can now make your outfit from the speed force, I just thought Kara here might considering something new, inspired by old. So, me and Michelle…"
"Leave me out of this. It was his idea," Michelle said, getting worried as she was pointing at Cisco. Kara's expression was unreadable now. She loved her outfit – yes, it was years old now, but it was hers – and still fit perfectly. "I just helped create. Didn't plan," Michelle added.
"Well, it's a new designed," Cisco removed the sheet he had put over it, to reveal his new Supergirl outfit. "I thought you might want to get rid of the skirt – especially since there's a thing going on online offering big money for an upskirt picture of you..."
The costume was a dark blue with blue gloves, and pants. There were two red lines on each side of the outfit so it wasn't completely blue. Her house symbol was also on the chest, exactly where it stood now in the same coloring. There was also a red belt with a metal version of the symbol on as well. The costume also had red boots and a red cape. There were patches of white throughout, too.
"And before you comment the color is different than Clark's… his Superman outfit is getting old and worn out, so I remade that as well with the same coloring," Cisco said. "He's wearing it now. You'd still match."
Kara was staring at Cisco, still not blinking and making the man nervous. He didn't want this design going up in flames too. "The cape. My cape is Kal-…"
"…El's baby blanket," Cisco finished, holding up his hands in knowing surrender there. "I know, I know. And do you realize when talking about the cape you go back to Clark's Kryptonian name?" Kara eyes lit up at that. "Please! It's not a real cape anyway. I just used it for design. To see how it would look." Cisco took the cape off the costume quick and grabbed scissors from the nearby work station and cut into the faux cape. "See not good. It's just an old bedsheet anyway."
Kara depowered her eyes and looked over the costume, smiling at the two House of El symbols. She straightened her expression though, not wanting Cisco to know she liked it. "I guess we can try this out…" she said.
"See… she likes it," Cisco said, much to the surprise of the room. "Now, to finish the new one for Diana…"
"You're making Diana – who's been using the same costume since World War two, who's costume is Amazonian armor, the very last of her people – a new costume?" Kara now added, making the costume-makers pause.
"It's just an update," Cisco pointed out. "Surely her Amazonian armor won't last forever?"
"Lisa, we will pay for his funeral expenses," Barry told Lisa who had to chuckle at that.
"At least Diana doesn't have heat vision to blow it up," Caitlin chuckled from her spot.
"So anything else going on here we should be aware of?" Kara asked, turning to Caitlin.
"Well, there was a thing on Mutant Earth, but we took care of that," Caitlin shrugged. "But there is something else weird. In the last week there's been an uptick in meta human activity."
"Seems like we've got back in time," Barry said.
"Not in Central," Jesse called out, surprising the two.
"Everywhere else," Caitlin continued. "Clark bumped into two runners for the Cartel who had powers – they got away. Nightwing took down a man who seemed to have some type of connection to animals. Ray and Red Tornado took out a woman who was like me only she actually turned into a plant."
"Okay, well we know some meta humans have left Central. We fought one in London once," Barry commented, giving Jesse a smile at that. That had been the first time he had met this Earth's Jesse after all.
"Yeah, but here's the thing: None of them were in Central at the time of the particle explosion," Caitlin said. "And those aren't actually the only ones. The DEO is running into more metas; other members of the League, too and police departments."
"So, some type of evil plan?" Kara asked.
"It's not just villains," Caitlin commented. "A doctor in Starling healed Thea. Oh, by the way she's awake." The two blinked at that. "Complete recovery after six months in a coma. I examined her myself when she left the hospital and it was like nothing happened to her. Although the doctor's not so great after doing it. It seemed to be some type of energy transfer. He's fine now but can't heal anyone. At least for a while." The two had to smile at that. Their friend and teammate was awake, but they knew Caitlin had more to say. "And Laurel now has a sonic scream like her Alien counterpart."
"But Accord…" Kara started, knowing Accord said it would be dangerous to mutate Laurel while pregnant.
"I checked her and the baby. They are fine," Caitlin said to calm the two. The thought going through everyone's mind. "And the meta home is getting contacted from all over the country. Central always had the highest meta rate followed by the surrounding cities but from data I have gotten from the DEO, meta home, the League, police, news it seems to have evened out. The rest of the country is coming up to Central-level. In fact, Central has been quiet and calm compared to the rest of the country. Right now, the only place in the United States with less meta activity than Central is Keystone."
"Okay that is concerning. Any…?" Kara paused as her cellphone rang. "Lena." Kara said, answering it. "How's did the event go to help restore Central?" STAR Co. and L-Corp had combined together to help raise money to help restore Central after the fight with Darkseid. While Kara and Barry had given money and their names to it, they left Lena in charge as they went on the long vacation.
"Good, as you've probably seen, but not the reason I am calling," Lena said. "My head of meta human research has discovered something interesting but can't wrap his head around it. I think it's worth having Caitlin take a look."
"Want to send us the files?" Kara asked.
"I sent him," Lena said. "With Amelia to show him the way. They should be arriving at STAR now."
"Okay," Kara said hanging up. "That was strange. Caitlin you're working with a scientist from L-Corp on something…" Caitlin raised an eyebrow. "Lena wouldn't do this if it was not serious. Let's go meet with this guy." Caitlin nodded, hopping up and following Kara.
"I got a Young Justice training session," Wally commented.
"Why don't you take Romana, Star, and Jenny?" Barry said immediately to this. It would work out well for him – he needed the two five-year-olds busy and adding Jenny just freed up Ronnie to help him. "They could use some training." The three girls looked up at the speedster now, imploringly.
"Sure. Jesse you coming?" Wally asked, and Jesse gave a nod and the two speedsters took the five-year old's as they ran out.
Then a zap tunnel opened and none other than William, Roy's clone, came out with bags in his arms. "Hey can I get…?" William paused, noticing the looks Barry gave him.
"William," Barry said with a smile.
"I actually go by Liam now," the newly named Liam said.
"Okay, Liam, Cody and Ronnie, I could use a hand back at the penthouse. I'll get you guys pizza," Barry commented and the three guys looked at each other, shrugged, and nodded. "Okay. Meet me at my penthouse. I'll take the kids." Barry ran and Nora, Alura, and Garfield were all gone.
"How does he take all three?" Cody asked as the group went for a door and to a STAR lab van.
"I'm just going to," Michelle said pointing planning on heading back to Keystone and walked out.
"Well seems you're not dead," Lisa said to her husband. "And we're alone and this chair is comfy." Lisa smirked singling for Cisco to join her and he did kissing her.
-Karry Universe-
"So, what was with the painters and the moving of the furniture?" Caitlin asked Kara once they were out of the Superflash cave. Kara had called her a few days ago and asked her to wait at the penthouse. Movers came moving all the furniture out of the extra bedroom. Then painters had come to paint it. Then there had been a couple of deliveries.
"I will tell you later," Kara said as they went to the front entrance where Amelia was coming in with an attractive tall man with brown hair and a lean build.
"There they are," Amelia said coming up. "I'm sure you know of Kara and Caitlin Snow." Amelia was saying to the man. "Kara, Caitlin this is Hunter Zolomon. L-Corp's version of you."
"Well I try my hardest," Hunter said smiling politely. "But I am nothing compared to you. I have read all your work regarding meta humans. Maybe you can figure this one out. I heard STAR Co had an advance clean room. Probably the best place we could work."
"I see no problem with that," Kara said.
"I will… oh wait…" Caitlin said. "Is that what I think it is?" Caitlin pointed at Amelia hand and Amelia smiled showing off the hand. The Mickey-Mouse-shaped engagement ring was being shown off. "Winn asked?"
"Yes," Amelia said. "Bought this on Main Street USA." Caitlin brought Amelia into a hug as Hunter cleared his throat. "Oh yes. We'll celebrate later." Caitlin smiled as she led Hunter away.
Amelia's cellphone rang, and she answered. "Winn?" Amelia said pausing listening to him. "You're talking too fast. What blew up?" Amelia raised an eyebrow and Kara was curious. "I'll come meet with you." Amelia, shut off her cellphone. "I got to go talk to my fiancée. He's kind of freaking out."
"Why?" Kara asked.
"Apparently he blew up an alien with his hands. At least that's what I think he said," Amelia commented with a shrug and went to go back to the car Lena had given her for the trip.
"I got to talk to Eliza anyway," Kara said. "And give that new outfit a spin."
-Superflash-
Barry, Liam, Ronnie, and Cody were putting together furniture back at the Penthouse.
"Why is it, every time I do a favor for you its physical labor?" Cody asked, but he was joking as he helped Liam set up the desk they were working on. "So, what are you doing here?"
"Well, Thea woke up, so I am finding a new city." Liam explained, smiling at Cody despite the manual labor. "I was talking to Jesse and Wally and they said I could take Keystone. They were having fun, but Jesse has her research and Wally has Young Justice so can't always be there. So… I'm going to start my own vigilante thing there," Liam stated.
"Hey, I live in Keystone," Cody said with a smile. "I could help you find a place. Set you up a Red Arrow headquarters."
"That sounds good. Want to have dinner some time to discuss further?" Liam asked.
"I'd like that," Cody said as they heard a doorbell. "I think that's the pizza. I'll get it."
"Money's on the counter," Barry called as both Cody and Liam went to get the pizza. "Did Liam just ask Cody out and Cody accept?" Barry asked Ronnie, not having missed the dinner proposal.
"Well Cody is into guys. He's been checking out Liam since we got here," Ronnie said as he and Barry finished setting up the bunk beds. "You don't know how weird it is being straight and having two people into guys connected to me. They will see a guy they like and suddenly I will be thinking how cute his ass is. It's weird."
"But Liam… didn't he have a thing for Thea?" Barry asked.
"You know, I think Paula mentioned he's been dating guys recently," Ronnie commented. "Besides, wasn't it Cadmus's plan to get Liam close to Thea and Team Canary, pretending to be Roy?"
"You raise a good point," Barry mused, that attraction to Thea maybe more programmed into Liam than actual trait.
"And I have a question for you." Ronnie stated. "Why did you not just hire someone to set this stuff up?"
"Tried, they couldn't do it for another 2 weeks," Barry mumbled as he returned to work,
Ronnie looking shocked and surprised that The Allens couldn't get someone in ASAP.
-Karry Universe-
Kara landed in the new outfit outside meta home, seeing Eliza and her father within. The back door was open. "Knock, knock," Kara called as she leaned against the door, making the two turn and smile to her. The back door led to the kitchen and it was only Eliza and Zor inside, seeming to be getting lunch ready.
Zor went to give his daughter a hug before Eliza followed in the welcome.
"New outfit?" Eliza asked, looking Kara over.
"Trying it out. Think I'm going to keep this one," Kara said with a smile.
"I like it," Zor said. "How was the trip to this Dinney."
"Disney," Kara and Eliza both corrected together, Kara chuckling at her dad's mess up
"It was really fun though. Everyone had a good time. You'll see some day as Amelia's wedding will be there," Kara said this casually, making the two look at each other. "Yeah, Amelia and Winn are engaged."
"That nice," Eliza said. "So, did the girls have a good time with you?"
"They love the Lake House," Kara commented. "And the two are now officially Disney addicts. They are asking if we can go again next year." Kara smiled, remembering the good time Romana and Star had.
"When are they coming back?" Eliza asked.
"They're not," Kara said, surprising the two. "I already gave J'onn a heads up and he's putting it through, but I came to tell you myself. We're not bringing Romana and Star back here. We're adopting them." Eliza was more than a little surprised. "I know we said before we couldn't but… We learned things we buy them get shared with the house."
"It's a big place. I can't…" Eliza started.
"You don't need to defend yourself," Kara said cutting Eliza off. "I get it. Toys and stuff belong to everyone here, and they should. You can't police everything. But Romana and Star… they feel like ours. We can't bring them back here anymore. We need to help give them a real life. A real home."
"I understand," Eliza said, nodding at that. "But are you and Barry going to be okay with four kids?"
"And I thought you were going to start trying for another one?" Zor added.
"We are," Kara said, with a nod. "And it's not going to be easy but we still have Amelia at the Penthouse and we'll figure something out. She's more than willing to be a second mom to those two."
"Well good luck with that," Eliza smiled, giving her daughter a hug.
"I got to go." Kara stated, Eliza knowing this was only a flying visit as Kara now hugged her father again before leaving the kitchen and flying off.
"Romana and Star are not coming back…?" They heard a little voice say and turned to see Ryan and Richie at the door to the kitchen, both with sad looks on their faces.
"No," Eliza said shaking her head. "They found their forever-family, it seems."
"How come they can find a home together and we can't?" Ryan added; even though adoptions had started at the meta home, with some good press from papers, it was hard to get parents to adopt two meta humans. As such, Ryan and Richie were overlooked a lot. It broke the almost four-year olds hearts, not to mention Eliza's.
"We'll find you a home," Eliza said, crouching down to bring them into a hug.
-Karry Universe-
"This is very interesting," Caitlin said as she and Hunter were in the clean room. Caitlin was looking over dirt and plant samples he had provided. "How did you find this?"
"I didn't. Our L-Corp botanists are working on better ways to grow food, and they noticed it. I got called in when they classified it as a mutation," Hunter said. "Which is technically a misclassification since the plant itself has not mutated but has been more like infected with this. But when I introduced this to human DNA…"
"It mutated, didn't it?" Caitlin asked, and Hunter nodded. "The meta crisis." Caitlin turned and went into a refrigerator in the safe room where she kept DNA samples. "I have been running some tests to see how to mutate DNA…" Caitlin told Hunter.
"I read your published research. About how the dark matter inside everyone who was in Central can activate and mutate DNA even now due to exterior forces," Hunter said.
"Yes, but I was also experimenting with other ways," Caitlin said, taking out samples she had labeled. "This is human DNA not in Central during the explosion. This one is human DNA in Central but not meta, then meta human DNA, and alien DNA." Caitlin put the samples down as she stated what they were. "Let's see what the mutation will do to each."
The two went on their experiment. "It wouldn't attach to the alien, meta human, or normal human from Central at all," Hunter stated afterward.
"But it did attach to the human DNA from outside of Central. It didn't mutate it though," Caitlin said. "I have more DNA samples." Caitlin took out more normal human samples who were not in Central and the two continued running experiments. After a while they stopped. "It's mutating DNA." Caitlin said after a while. Several of the DNA samples she had tested had mutated.
"At a larger rate than the Central City explosion," Hunter commented and Caitlin took out her cellphone. "Who are you calling?"
"We need to figure out how far this has spread and fast. The only way is to have speedster collect samples for us to test," Caitlin told Hunter as she then told Kara what she needed.
-Karry Universe-
Do Jesse and Wally need me to help them? Barry asked Kara that night. Cody, Liam, and Ronnie had been gone a while, having helped Barry set everything up. Romana and Star were eating their dinner. Alura and Nora were running around the Penthouse having had their meal; Barry was chasing them along with Krypto.
"Krypty good!" Nora yelled out as Krypto stopped her, nudging her with his head.
"Hex," Alura called out, that being new. The two had not called for Kara's cat before. The cat lifted her head at that, to look at her, but put it back down lazily.
No, Kara said, smiling at the cuteness of her daughters. They got it handled and I want you here for this. Kara turned to Romana and Star. "Can we play monopoly?" Star asked when she was done putting her fork down.
"Disney monopoly," Romana said. They had bought the special version of the game at the Disney parks.
"In a minute. We want to show you something," Barry said with a nod, grabbing both girls and putting them in their playpen. Krypto jumped into the playpen at that, giving the two a look with a nod – almost like saying he got them.
"Follow us," Kara said going up the stairs. The two five-year-olds were confused but followed the two. Kara opened up the door to the spare room for the two, who walked in and smiled at what they saw.
The room was painted purple – to the right against the wall was the bunk bed Barry and Ronnie put together. Barry had made the beds with Disney sheets. There was a desk against the window with a computer on it. Two dressers were against the next wall and next to it was a small bookcase. Barry had put everything they had bought at Disney around the room in different places. The bookcase had a couple of board games on the bottom self.
"Now we're going to buy some books for that bookcase," Barry commented, pointing at it.
"And the room downstairs we're going to start making into a playroom," Kara said. They had an extra room downstairs they had planned to make a playroom when the girls got older but had been using for storage. "But we expect you to be neat."
"When we are not in meta home we will," Romana said with a smile.
"No," Kara said. "You're not going back to meta home." Kara turned to the girls and the looks she gave them showed the two they did not get it. "We're adopting you two."
The two seemed stunned. Their mouths opening and closing as though they did not know what to say. "But….you… you said," Romana started.
"We know what we said," Barry said sitting on the chair by the desk. "But we can't keep doing this to you. You need a home and we want to give it to you." Star jumped on Kara at this, giving her a hug and Romana hugged Barry. Then they switched, making the two adults laugh.
"Nothing we said before is false though," Kara said. "We have Amelia here right now so she will make things easier but we're going to have to figure out exactly what we are doing. How this is going to work."
"We love Amelia," Romana said. "She's awesome."
"And Winn is cool too," Star added and Romana quickly agreed. "Oh, Pooh." Star literally jumped onto the top bunk using her powers and grabbing the Winnie the Pooh doll on it. "This one has Pooh sheets!"
"I want the top," Romana said climbing up the ladder. "You can fly. I can't."
"So, I don't need a ladder," Star commented as Romana got on the top bunk with her.
"Girls, you can rotate who has the top and who has the bottom if you want," Kara commented to them. "Don't fight."
"Okay," the two said.
"Get used to your room. Get monopoly and come downstairs when you're ready," Barry told them; he and Kara leaving the room. You know it's interesting. The two do really like Amelia and Winn.
Yeah, Kara thought back. Getting an idea?
Maybe, Barry thought as Kara's cellphone rang.
"Caitlin and Hunter need us and Lena right away," Kara said.
"I'll go grab Amelia," Barry said, running out and coming back with both Amelia and Winn – Amelia had been with Winn all day helping him calm down and learn this power he now seemed to have. "We need you to watch the girls. All four of them." Kara and Barry were out in a second leaving the two there before they could argue.
-Karry Universe-
Barry and Kara had grabbed Lena and ran into the Superflash cave, changing out of their outfits after they did. "I could have found my own way," Lena said, a little put off by the speed.
"They said right away," Kara said as they left the Superflash cave. Caitlin and Hunter were outside the clean room.
"We need to talk in private," Caitlin said. "Barry, your lab?"
Barry nodded, bringing them to the secret entrance to the Gideon room and putting in the code. The group went inside. "So, what is so secretive?" Kara asked as the group sat around in the room.
"The soil and food has been infected with a virus," Caitlin said, asking the Gideon in the lab to connect with her account to bring up what they had found. Lena, Barry, and Kara all straightened up.
"How bad are we talking?" Lena asked, wondering how many people would die.
"It's not making anyone sick. Instead it's connecting to their DNA," Hunter commented to his boos. "Mutating it and creating meta humans. It's a Metamorphosis."
Does the name Metamorphosis sound familiar to you? Kara asked Barry in their head.
Yeah, but not sure from where, Barry thought back unsure. The name did ring some bells but he couldn't place it.
"It can only mutate pure humans," Caitlin said. "Which means aliens, meta humans, and anyone who was in Central during the particle accelerator explosion or Keystone when Firehawk exploded are safe."
"Why?" Lena asked.
"The radiation from the two events are protecting them," Caitlin said. "Let me make sure you understand how serious this is. The chance of someone becoming a meta human due to the Firehawk explosion is zero unless something else pushes them. The chances of someone becoming a meta human due to the accelerator explosion is about 30 percent without the extra push. Considering the amount of people in Central, 30 percent equaled a lot of meta humans. This metamorphosis will turn 45 percent of American population. And that's within the margin of error."
"How big is the margin of error?" Kara asked.
"Five percent either way," Caitlin said making the three look at each other.
"You're telling me it's possible 50 percent of people who are exposed to this will become meta humans?" Barry asked and Caitlin and Hunter nodded.
"That's not the worst part," Caitlin said.
"Not sure how much worse this can get," Lena stated.
"We managed to get Liberty Belle and Velocity to get us samples from across the country," Caitlin said, having Gideon bring up a map of the world. "The places highlighted in red is where the virus has spread to."
"That's the entire continental United States!" Kara said looking at the map.
"Yes. And Hawaii," Barry pointed out.
"Alaska has been spared," Hunter commented. "And so, has Mexico, Canada, and the rest of the world so far."
"But this will continue to spread unless other countries take precautions," Caitlin added.
"What type of precautions?" Lena asked.
"They have to stop bringing in anything grown in the United States," Caitlin said. "Or anything that uses anything grown in the United States."
"That's going to hurt the economy," Lena said, knowing that immediately. She and STAR Co. would be fine, but farmers and any other United States-based food company would take a hit. This would also affect tourism.
"But we have no choice." Kara said, taking out a cellphone. "The world needs to be warned. I'll call Cat and Lois inform them STAR Co. and L-Corp are doing a joint press conference tomorrow."
"I'll help alerting other places," Lena said, taking out her phone as well and calls started to be made.
Caitlin and Hunter exited the lab, letting the owners take this now. "You know I had…" Hunter stopped when Caitlin phone rang.
"Hey Ronnie. I'll be home soon," Caitlin said as she answered. "This has been an intense day. Hey, maybe we can get the kids to bed early and have some alone time?" Caitlin smiled as she said goodbye.
"Ronnie?" Hunter asked.
"My husband," Caitlin said, putting her phone away.
"You have a husband? And kids," Hunter said, seeming disappointed.
"Two," Caitlin said with a smile, then noticed Hunter look. "Oh, you didn't think…?" Hunter waved her off. "I'm sorry. I had a good time working with you."
"Same," Hunter said. "Maybe we will work together again someday." Caitlin smiled at Hunter as the two parted ways.
-Karry Universe-
The next morning Maxwell Lord was looking at a TV screen as Kara Allen and Lena Luthor explained to the world about the Metamorphosis, as they were calling it, at their joint press conference.
"Well, this went wrong," a new voice said, and Maxwell Lord turned around to see another man standing there. He wore a suit, had salt-and-pepper hair and a strong jaw.
"So what? I hit a little bump, Morgan," Maxwell Lord said casually.
"A little bump? You turned half the country into meta humans in an effort to try and depower the current meta humans!" The man Maxwell Lord called Morgan said agitatedly. "I think that's a major failure."
"I'll fix it," Lord stated.
"And meanwhile, we're still not doing what you promised when I agreed to help you," he said. "How do I know you even have what you said you have? I have never seen it."
"You doubt me?" Lord said, finally turning to his partner.
"Yes," Morgan stated. Lord sighed, moved and took out a briefcase.
Used his finger print to open it and turned it around. Inside was a small sphere like object.
"A Kryptonian Omegahedron. An immense power source – more powerful than anything on this Earth. The Kryptonians believe they are the only ones who have them but this one was taken from Fort Rozz before they blew it up, then given to me by General Lane before he died. We will bring about the future of the Earth together." Lord closed the briefcase. "Once I fix this mistake."
"You bought yourself some time and money," the man said dismissively.
"Don't act so big Morgan. I am the one who made you all those years ago," Lord stated.
"Times have changed. Maxwell Lord has long since been forgotten. Morgan Edge, on the other hand, is an up and coming name," Morgan said before he left the office.
"We'll see," Maxwell stated as he turned back to watch the press conference.
Post Chapter Note: So, you guys knew Lord was coming up, but did you expect Morgan Edge? And what did you think of the Karry Universe Metamorphosis? It's only just started…
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