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Note 1/Dedication: I would like to dedicate this chapter to all the likers of our Facebook page; eight of whom are the characters in this chapter – they even got to choose their character's look.
Note 2: I love getting reviews and replying to reviews even if it's just saying 'thanks for the review', but please remember guest reviewers I cannot reply to a guest reviews. So if you ask a question in a guest review, the only way for me to answer is through notes here which I do not like doing. But there were two questions from the last chapter I feel comfortable answering here - Kara's new outfit is based on Overgirl's Crisis on Earth X outfit only with super colors and the House of El symbol. Also, while we have many earths the only Earths I currently have multiple chapters plans for is Karry Universe and New Justice. But keep your eyes on Millma Verse Tales. Something exciting for one of the Earths is coming there soon.
Note 3: I think I generated some confusion and excitement when I used Hunter Zolomon last chapter. I simply needed a scientist from L-Corp and thought 'why not use Hunter?'. It was just supposed to be fun to see an alternate version of him. He's NOT a serial killer or a speedster here. He's NOT Zoom. He's just an L-Corp employee. I have no plans for Zoom currently. That could always change in the future though depending on how plans work out..
Gossip.
-End of August-
A tall man of about 6 foot with brown hair in a military fade haircut and hazel eyes stood in the lobby. He had just finished moving into his new apartment and was about to head up with the last of his bags, all crammed into a backpack now, when his attention turned to the doorway as it opened. He recognized the blonde woman who entered immediately – even though he had been overseas, he knew Kara Allen. He was vaguely aware that the Allens owned the Penthouse on the top floor of this building. She was carrying some bags in her arms.
There was a man walking behind her; he was tall with brown hair and brown eyes, wearing glasses. He had on a Superman, although it could have been Supergirl as they had the same symbol, jacket and was clearly a reporter. That was obvious from the notebook. "If I could just…?"
"Mr. Wingardner," Kara sighed, having collected her mail from the mailbox. That alone was located with the others residents' in the lobby. "How many times do I have to tell you: I will not answer questions when I am cornered in my own home – all statements about anything STAR Co.-related can be put through my office."
"But this is…" Mr. Wingardner started.
"Sir?" The military man who had watched the scene felt the need to jump in. "The lady said no."
Kara had turned around to head for the doorway to the private corridor that lead to the Penthouse elevator but paused and turned at that. The reporter had backed away but was still in the lobby. "Well thank you sir, but I can handle myself."
"I have no doubt about that ma'am," the man said, "but I thought I would lend a hand. I'm Kyle Krummel. I just moved into the building."
Kara looked at the man. "Military?" She asked, taking in the outfit.
"Airforce," Kyle sated, nodding.
"Well I thank you for your service, but I have to get going. My husband is waiting upstairs," Kara said. "Gideon open the corridor door and elevator."
"Yes Ms. Creator," a voice of Gideon was heard from a small interactive box on the doorway to the private corridor. Kyle watched as Kara moved though, the elevator doors already opened as Kara disappeared into it.
"Austin?" Kyle heard a voice and turned. There was two people standing by a door to another room off the lobby, just next to the private corridor; one of these people was a petite female with brown hair with caramel highlights and brown eyes, the other was a tall male with blue eyes and brown hair. "Might want to make a note, I think that's the longest either Allen has ever talked to one of us."
"Definitely the longest," the man stated, turning to Kyle. "I've seen you before. You just moved into the vacant apartment on my floor. I'm Brock. Just down the hall. This is Maria, she lives one floor below us. Austin here doesn't live in the building but is usually around trying to get a scoop on the Allens."
"Kyle," Kyle introduced, curious now about his neighbors.
"Nice to meet you, but I wouldn't get use to talking to the Allens," Maria said conspiratorially. "They are completely anti-social. They don't talk to any of us – and we're their neighbors!"
"Oh, don't tell me you're gossiping about the Allens again?" A new voice called, and from the entrance walked in a woman with green eyes and red hair. The outfit she was wearing clearly indicated she was a vet for the Central City Zoo.
"Just telling our newbie Kyle here what to expect from our most famous neighbor," Brock said.
"Hi Kyle, I'm Katherine," Katherine said, eying the man up and down. "And my piece of advice for you is not to listen to anything they say. Their other halves work so they have nothing better to do with their time then hang around here, spying on the Penthouse elevator and spreading gossip about the Allens. As for him," Katherine pointed at Austin, "he's a reporter for the CCPN. Well, I use the word reporter lightly. He writes those gossip pieces with only a fraction of truth."
"Hey…!" Austin complained.
"Well, if you want to check on what we're telling him you're more than welcome to join us," Maria said, walking back into the room and making sure the door stayed open. It was only one door, so Brock remained outside with Austin, almost willing the man to go in. "This is a little party room. Every month we have a building get together. We stopped inviting the Allens a long time ago. They never came." Maria continued as Kyle shrugged to himself and followed into the room.
"Neither do a lot of residents with young children," Katherine stated, walking into the room too.
"Everyone but the Allens have come at least once," Brock stated. "But they are too good for us. Lucky for us there's that," he pointed to the frosted glass wall, blocking off the private corridor next to the party room. It wasn't as good as a solid wall, so anyone could see the outlines of who came through.
"It's hard for me to believe they are nasty people," Kyle commented, looking away from the glass partition. "STAR Co. has done work for the military. Really helped us."
"They're not nasty people," Katherine stated, a little forcefully. "And they don't think they are too good for us." She glared at Maria and Brock at this statement as she continued. "They are just private people – I mean they bought a Penthouse you can't get to without permission. It clearly shows they want alone time."
"There's alone time and there's being antisocial," Maria said, waving Katherine off. "Who doesn't want to get to know their neighbors?"
"Plenty of people…" Kyle muttered, unsure why he had got himself involved in all this.
"They spend their lives with people like him bugging them," Katherine pointed at Austin, clearly not having heard Kyle. "They're in front of cameras a lot, so I don't think it's unreasonable that when they're home they want to be left alone."
"Seems very reasonable to me," Kyle said leaning against the wall near the door now, fingering the straps to his backpack.
"Except they seem to rarely leave," Brock stated. "Me and Maria keep track of who goes in and out of the elevator and half the time we're not even sure when they leave to go to a STAR Co. press conference."
"Isn't that a little… stalker-y?" Kyle commented, and Katherine laughed.
"Their schedule just makes no sense," Maria ignored the stalker comment.
That was when their attention was turned to the front door opening. A tall woman with tan skin and dark hair in a short fauxhawk hairstyle was holding the door open for some company making a food delivery; the delivery boy was carrying trays of food. Behind him was another tall person, this a man with brown eyes and brown hair in a buzz cut, wearing a shirt about a video game.
"Do you need help getting the rest of the stuff out of the car?" The man wearing the video game shirt asked.
"Thank you, but I can't let anyone but me and the customer handle the food," the delivery boy said. "Maybe you could point me in the right direction. How do I get to the penthouse?"
"The elevator is beyond that door," the woman who had held the door open said pointing at the private corridor door. "They need to buzz you in and up."
"Thanks," the delivery boy said and headed for the door. The man with the video game shirt pushed the button for him.
"Who is it?" Barry Allen's voice was heard. The group in the side room had got up to look. Apart from Katherine and Kyle.
"Noble Catering," the delivery boy said. "I've got a large order here for the Allens."
"Hold on," Barry's voice said and a moment or two later, the elevator opened and the man himself stepped out, opening the entrance to the corridor. "Is that it?" Barry asked the delivery man, looking confused.
"There's a couple more trays in the car," the man said, Barry nodding appreciatorily as the delivery boy moved through and placed the ones he had in the elevator.
"Surprised they sent one person for an order so big," Barry stated.
"They didn't, but my partner bailed," the delivery man complained.
"Well, I'll help you. Gideon, keep the doors open," Barry instructed.
"Yes, Creator," the AI's voice came from the small box on the wall by the door. Barry then following the man back out, although glanced to his gathered neighbors suspiciously. The woman from before held the main door open for them again as they came back in with some more trays placing them in the elevator. "Well, thank you." Barry took a 50 out of his pocket. "For you."
"Really?" The delivery man asked, seeming shocked at such a large tip.
"There were a lot of trays," Barry said with a smirk as he went back into the elevator and it closed behind. The delivery man left the building with a smile.
"Well… we know they are good tippers now," Maria commented sarcastically.
"John? Brittanee?" Brock called to the two who had been helping the delivery man. "Any idea what the delivery was for?"
"Nope," Brittanee said, coming over and into the side room "Oh hi." Brittanee noticed Kyle.
"This is Kyle. He just moved in and we're teaching him about the Allens," Brock stated.
"Never pet their dog," Brittanee automatically responded.
"Oh, here we go with the dog again," John complained, walking in and sitting down now. "Every time the Allens are mentioned she goes crazy about the dog."
"He nearly bit my hand off!" Brittanee complained.
"No, he didn't," John stated. "You went to pet him, he growled, and Kara called him off. He stopped right away. Krypto's more well-behaved than most dogs I know; just don't go and pet a dog you don't know."
"He seemed so sweet," Brittanee said. "How was I to know he would growl? Besides I wanted to try to talk to them. The museum I work at wanted to open a Supergirl and Flash exhibit and we found out they own the rights to the two. I thought being nice to their dog would open a conversation and I could get the process of getting the okay sped through. Didn't work."
"Did you get the exhibit opened?" Kyle asked, a bit curious now.
"We got the okay for about half of what we wanted," Brittanee said, shrugging but looked disappointed at that.
"Look, the Allens can be as weird as they want, have as many mean dogs as they want, I don't care," John said cutting off the museum talk. "What does it matter to us?" John turned to Kyle. "Here's the one thing you need to know about the Allens. They paid for all the security on this building. Best security in the city; that Gideon program works across the building. As far as I am concerned, we should all say thank you and shut up."
"That's what I have been saying," Katherine said, smiling at John.
"Anyone have any idea what the party is for?" Brittanee asked, ignoring John and Katherine but turning to Brock and Maria; they shrugged. "Come on, all you two do is sit here and stalk them and you have no idea?" Kyle held back a laugh as Brittanee used the same term he did.
"I might have an idea," Austin spoke, making eyes turn to him. "I heard a rumor through the grapevine that they've adopted two little girls. That's why I was here today. Trying to get Kara and Barry to confirm or deny it."
John whistled at that. "Damn, those girls hit the jackpot!"
"Didn't think you cared," Maria said.
"I don't," John said. "I just think those girls got a nice life now."
"It is very nice of them to adopt orphans," Kyle stated thoughtfully. "Don't they have kids of their own?" He may know of the Allens, but didn't know many details, after all.
"Twin. One-year-olds. Alura and Nora," Katherine commented.
At that moment the door open again with more delivery people – one person holding a bag of things, and holding the door open for a man carrying what seemed to be a giant cake. That was when one of the normal elevators opened, and out came a girl of about 5 foot with brown hair and blue eyes.
"Excuse me?" One of the delivery man asked the girl. "How do we get to the penthouse."
"That door right there," the woman said, "just press the call button."
"Thank you," he said with a nod, the same man going to push the call button and indicating themselves as 'Sweet Surrender Bakery'. The elevator opened for them this time, just as the door unlocked, without anyone coming down and they went through and up.
The woman who had appeared out of the normal elevator turned and moved to the side room where the group was talking. "Are the Allens having some type of party?" She asked the group.
"It appears so," Brock stated.
"We're thinking it's because they apparently adopted two girls," Maria stated. "But Rebecca, meet Kyle. He's new here. Kyle this is Rebecca. She lives right under the Allens and she has some stories. Go on, tell that one you told me."
"I don't know…" Rebecca said seeming shy and nervous around the group.
"Come on Rebecca," Maria said. "It's a good one."
Rebecca sighed. "Okay, fine. Well this was about a year ago. I couldn't sleep one night so I go to get some milk and look out my window. My window is right under their balcony. Well, as I am standing there I see someone drop from their balcony and land on his feet on the street below. That's a good ten stories, mind you. I call the cops right away but got passed around. It was over a day later two officers from the meta human department, Joe West and Eddie Thawne, came to see me. They told me they talked to the Allens and they said nothing was wrong."
"And get this: Joe West is Barry Allen's foster father," Maria added for Kyle. "And Eddie is married to Iris West. Joe's daughter. Seems like a cover up."
"Or nothing was wrong," Katherine said. "They admitted to having meta humans on their staff. It could have been nothing. Just someone who works for them taking an alternative exit."
"Well, Rebecca's heard and seen other things," Brock stated, ignoring Katherine. "The Allens are weird."
"Oh, it's nice to know you have such a high opinion of me," they heard a voice and turned to see Amelia Allen standing by the door to the party room. She had two little girls standing next to her and they had some bags in their hands containing toys.
"Kyle, meet Amelia Allen," Katherine said, smiling at Amelia. "Barry's little sister." Kyle moved over to shake her hand, which Amelia took with a smile.
"Nice to meet you, ma'am," Kyle said.
"Amelia, can we go play?" The little girl with the red hair asked.
"Sure," Amelia said. "Gideon open up the doors for Star and Romana."
"Yes, Amelia," Gideon's voice replied, and the corridor door opened, the elevators soon followed.
"Go on up. I'll be up soon," Amelia said.
"Can we call you Aunt Amelia now?" Romana asked.
"Sure," Amelia said as the two girls ran into the elevator.
"So those are the girls Barry and Kara adopted?" Austin asked, taking out his notebook as though to write down everything about them. "What are…?" He paused by the look Amelia was giving him.
"You're that Austin Wingardner person," Amelia said, frowning. "You wrote that piece of garbage article about me going to work for L-Corp. What was it? 'Long Lost Allen Sibling Returns, Works for Competition' or something like that? You claimed there had to be some type of problem between me and Barry. That article was packed with lies."
"Well, it is a bit strange, you going to work for STAR Co.'s biggest competition," Maria said.
"You're the one who told him those lies…" Katherine got it right away, groaning. "Isn't it enough you two talk your gossip to anyone who will listen, but spreading it around newspapers? L-Corp and STAR Co have done events together, we have seen Lena Luthor in this building going up to them. They are clearly friends." Katherine turned to Amelia at that. "I want to be clear I had nothing to do with any of that. Obviously, since Barry has you living with him, there's no problem between the two of you."
"Thank you, Froggy," Amelia said with a smile, the two clearly knowing each other well enough for Amelia to have a nickname for her. "So, you all just sitting here gossiping about my brother and sister-in-law?"
"Just telling the new move-in what to expect," Brock said, nodding towards Kyle.
"May I ask you a question?" Kyle asked Amelia, wanting to get this out the way.
"You just did but you can ask another one," Amelia said, smirking at her own response.
"Why aren't they sociable with their neighbors?" Kyle asked. "It would stop all this gossiping to know," he indicated to Maria and Brock.
"They're private people," Amelia said, and Katherine had to smirk at that. "They never wanted the fame they got, they just did what they did and got it regardless. When they are home they just want time alone."
"Basically, exactly what I said," Katherine said.
"What about you working for L-Corp?" Brock asked.
"I asked Kara and Barry before I even applied to the job. We made sure Lena knew who I was. We all agreed it would not be weird," Amelia said. "I just didn't want to be the boss's little sister at work. Didn't need my life handed to me on a plate – it's no big mystery when you actually put two seconds of thought to it."
There was a moment of silence at this. "It's been nice chatting, I think, but I better head up. If you really want to continue gossiping and introducing the new guy to all the Allen family, you might want to stick around here. People will be walking in soon to go to the engagement party."
"Who's engaged?" Maria snapped, curious.
Amelia held out her hand and waved her fingers, smiling. "Oh, let me see," Katherine said taking the hand. "Mickey Mouse." Amelia smiled as the rest of the group went to look at the ring; a silver band encasing three diamonds in the Mickey Mouse logo. It was subtle in its own way.
"Real diamonds?" Katherine asked.
"But of course. Was given it in Disney World too," Amelia grinned at her friend.
"Who's the guy?" Austin asked.
Amelia paused at this, a thought coming to her head. "You know what? His name is Winslow Schott Junior." She moved over to the corridor door, it opened for her as she turned to those gathered. "Have fun." The elevator doors opened as she moved near. "The Junior is important." Amelia called as the elevator door closed, as did the corridor door.
Brittanee was the first to bring it up on her cellphone: "The guy is in jail... and old enough to be her father. The Toyman," Brittanee said. "He's a terrorist!"
"She said Junior," Katherine, John, and Kyle all said together.
"Toyman's son," Austin said having put a call in and gotten information sent to him from CCPN right away. "Used to work at CatCo. Not sure where he works now. Interesting… I think I got my next story. Allen's Little Sister Marries Criminal's Son. I got to go start writing." Austin ran out of the building just as Winn entered the building.
"I can see what you mean by his stories only having a fraction of the truth," Kyle told Katherine as everyone else looked to Winn.
Winn noticed the eyes on him and waved as he headed for the elevator and was binged up. "You think that was the future groom?" Rebecca asked.
"Yep," Brittanee said, brining up Winn's Facebook page and showing the picture of him and Amelia in Disney – Winn new profile picture. The rest she was locked out of. "You think he's moving into the Penthouse?"
"They have two babies, now two kids, a dog, a cat, themselves, and Amelia," Rebecca listed, knowing the amount of people above her. "Even that Penthouse is full. Seems Amelia is going to be moving out."
"That sucks," Katherine said, having spent a bit of time talking to Amelia, but it made sense.
"Well, I'm out," John said standing up.
"You don't want to see all the Allen party guest coming in?" Maria asked.
"Remember, I don't care," John said heading for the normal elevator. "They can have whoever they want over." John went into the elevator when it came and left.
"I'm going up too," Katherine said, tired of the gossip. "Busy day." She turned to Kyle. "Don't let them corrupt you." Kyle nodded as Katherine went for the stairs; only living on the next floor up.
"Brittanee, are you staying?" Maria asked.
"I got nothing better to do," Brittanee said. "Let's order a pizza and make a night of it."
"Rebecca?" Brock asked.
"Well, I was going to head out shopping but sure," Rebecca said turning to Kyle. "You staying?"
"He has to stay," Maria said, making Kyle raise an eyebrow. "How often do you get to see all the Allens family and friends come into the building?"
"They do parties every once in a while," Brock commented, making Maria glare at him. "Well, it's true."
"Come on, we didn't even tell you the best gossip yet. And now that Katherine gone we can go about it without her negativity," Maria said, almost rubbing her hands together.
"You mean her truth?" Kyle asked, making Maria pout.
"There is more to tell. You know, Kara Allen's own foster sister was once a drunk who called her names? Now she's married to a woman and pregnant," Brock said.
"How could you possibly know that?" Kyle asked; it seemed far-fetched to him that they would know something so private about Kara Allen and her sister.
"The Making of STAR Co.," Rebecca and Brittanee said together. "It's a documentary about them." Rebecca continued to explain. "It was made by Anna Manners – a project of some sort. It wasn't really supposed to be put to DVD and sold from what I hear, but a company heard about it and got it out there. It's pretty good. We all have copies."
"So, all your gossip comes from a documentary and from stalking them?" Kyle said. "You know what? I'm good. I have unpacking to do." Kyle headed for the elevator. "And a gay girl being pregnant isn't that unusual," he added, leaving the group in the room a little dumbfounded.
"Seems we've got ourselves another Katherine," Brock muttered sadly.
"His loss. More gossip for us," Maria stated, turning her attention to the frosted glass wall, hoping someone would come in the back entrance now.
-Karry Universe-
In the Penthouse that night everyone was gathered. It was pretty crowded.
"I think that's our final guest," Barry said as a portal opened and out came another Barry, a Kara holding a baby, Vibe Junior, and little Kal with El. Krypto moaned, seeing the puppy who went to run around instantly. Musty and Junior, who were in the Penthouse barked, at their sibling to calm down.
"Amelia!" Kal called, hugging Amelia. "You're getting married."
Amelia hugged back with a smile. "Yeah to Winn," Amelia said, indicating Winn.
"Ah, so this is the guy," Barry-White said. "Well Winn, remember this is my little sister if you…"
"They will never find my body. I got it," Winn said dismissively as Clark chuckled.
I guess Winn has it worse than you did with Clark. He's got two big brothers to worry about, Kara thought to her Barry as she went to her counterpart to see baby Griffin Kent. The little boy was growing up fast as he reached for the copy of his mom.
"So, when's the wedding," Kara Kent asked, letting her counterpart hold Griffin as she went to go see Alura and Nora in their playpen with Garfield. All babies had food they were tossing into their mouth with their hands and it made Kent smile.
"Two years," Amelia stated. "In Disney World."
"We're already looking to book it," Barry-Blue added.
"Can we go?" Kal asked, looking at his Kara and Barry.
"Ah, two Barrys and two Karas in Disney World… I don't think it's a good idea," Barry-White pointed out, making Kal pout.
"I've got a better idea," Kara Kent said. "After they get married on this world and after their honeymoon, they can come to our world and we have our own celebration for them."
Kal turned to look at Amelia imploringly at that. "I have no problem with that," Amelia said, turning to Winn.
"Sure, why not?" Winn said, putting an arm around his fiancée and laughing as Romana, Star, and Jenny ran past them for the food.
"Everybody dig in," Barry-Blue said, and the group all started eating and laughing.
"Hey, by the way," Amelia said to her Barry and Kara. "You two realize the neighbors gossip about you right? They seem to have their own club downstairs."
"I'd be surprised if we weren't the subject of conversation," Kara Allen said thoughtfully.
"Yeah, there's always two or three of them in that party room thing," Barry nodded, remembering seeing them earlier.
"And that reporter that lurks," Kara pouted at that.
"Oh well, the price for being famous," Barry chuckled, and the group laughed.
Post Chapter Note: And that's it. This was an experimental chapter, but I think it came well. Hope you all do too. Let me know in the REVIEWS if you liked this unusual chapter. I might be able to do another one, with different people, if there's some positives. Depends on how you guys liked it and if you might want to see something similar in the future.
Next Time on Karry Universe:
The Legion of Superheroes- As Kara and Barry come up with a plan for Romana and Star living with them, a new threat from the future comes to Central City. But with new foes, new allies come too, led by a very familiar face. The Legion of Superheroes are in town, and with them come some surprises for the future of Karry's Justice League.
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