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The Water Totem Bearer
-Beginning of May-
"Have I mentioned this place is sick?" It was Virgil Hawkins, otherwise known as Static.
Kara and Barry had called a Justice League meeting and it was the first time Static had been to Watchtower since joining the Justice League. He had always been too busy to check it out.
"Just about five times since you got here," Barry laughed. The leaders had not gotten to know Static that well yet but the members who worked with him praised his abilities. "How's everything going? Need a hand in Dakota?"
"Well now that I'm a member of the Justice League, meta humans are more careful with their crimes," Static said, a little smugly.
"Careful with that – those are the trickiest. If you ever need a Flash appearance, let me know," Barry said with a nod.
"Where's Team Canary?" Kara asked, noticing they were the only ones missing. "Gideon?"
"On their way," Gideon said and the zap tunnel opened at that moment. Laurel, Oliver, Thea, and Paula came through, Laurel holding Quinn in her arms.
"Wow she's getting big," Kara said looking at the baby girl. "You can put her in the playpen with the others."
"Um… Alura and Nora are a bit…" Laurel didn't know how to say it. The two speedsters were a bit much for a normal baby, really. Only Garfield played with them given his own abilities, but he wasn't there at the moment.
"Only Jerry, Sydney, and Simon," Kara said, pointing and Laurel turned. The three five-month-old were in the playpen. Sara gave her sister a smile at that. "Nora and Alura are with Caitlin and Garfield back at the Superflash Cave."
"You get to hang out with your cousins," Laurel told Quinn, putting Quinn down.
"Thea, you okay?" Oliver asked his sister. The minute they came into Watchtower a strange look came across his sister's face. She seemed distracted, but Thea just gave a nod.
"Now that we're all here," Kara said. "First let's all congratulate Tantu and Ray on finding all the Totems and four of the bearers… and Speedy, where are you going?" Thea had started walking and Tantu jumped up.
"She's a bearer!" Tantu snapped as she moved to follow Thea, knowing the signs. Kara frowned at this but followed.
"Stay," Barry ordered the others as if he was talking to Krypto; the only one who did not listen was Hex, who ran after them. "Never can tell a cat what to do..."
Thea had walked into the room and grabbed the box with the Water Totem, taking it from the case and putting it around her neck. The Totem glowed and Thea, for a second seemed to literally turn to water.
That weirdly makes sense, Barry thought to Kara as Thea solidified.
"Welcome to the Totem bearer club," Tantu said, smiling and putting a hand on Thea's back – the second Totem to go to a member of the Justice League.
"Congrats, but now let's get back to the meeting," Kara said, picking up Hex who was rubbing her legs, the group walking back to the start.
"Slight correction; we've found five of the bearers." Kara sat back in her seat at the table, putting Hex down as Oliver glanced to Thea. "Now, we move onto other business. First if you notice I have something added to my costume. Top left." Eyes went to Kara's costume where there was a badge in a circle with 'JL' within it. "Our very own Michelle made them. It's a lot like the ones New Justice wear, only in a circle and not in a sort of pentagon. With the amount of people trying to be vigilantes or heroes and claiming to be in the Justice League we want an official mark on all our members, so the public know who's really in the Justice League. Cat Grant and Lois Lane are already going to publish this along with a list of all official members. Badges are in the middle of the table. Everyone, please take one." As she said this, the middle of the table rose with a bowl of identical badges on them.
"How are Barry and Firestorm adding them?" Oliver asked as he reached for one, knowing the Flash and Firestorm summoned their outfits as part of their powers.
"Already did," Barry said, summoning his speed force suit. "I managed to change the suit a bit to add it." Barry pointed at the JL symbol, just like on Kara's.
"And us too," Ronnie said. "We make the suit when we combine, so we managed to change – after all, Michelle did design it."
"Not to be the downer here," Diana said as she took one, "but what stops anyone from copying this badge and putting it on their costume to pretend to be one of us?"
"Glad you asked," Kara said with a smile. "On behalf of the Justice League, Kara and Barry Allen own the symbol. No one is allowed to use it without our permission. It's not foolproof, but anyone who uses it without our permission can be called out by us and shamed. Besides, the Justice League has made it pretty clear that anyone who tries to copy this and not a part of the Justice League will be blackballed from ever being able to enter the League. There's also one for Young Justice with a YJ, so all mentors grab one to give to your mentee next you see them."
"So… the animals have one?" It was Dick who asked who got a hiss from Hex as a reward.
"At the moment, no," Kara said petting her cat to calm her. "We're still working that one out. But onto other business. We want to do a vote on some new members while we are all together."
"The Totem bearers?" Laurel asked.
"No," Kara said shaking her head. "We cannot trust Ava Sharpe with our identities."
"And Amelia does not want in," Barry said, with a pout.
"And neither does Lena," Kara added. "Gideon?" Three holographic people appeared in the room: Leonard Snart, Lisa Snart, and Mick Rory. "Len, Lisa, and Mick. They helped with the Totem hunt and have been helpful before. I think we should make this alliance we have with them official."
"Are we sure they would want it?" Ray asked.
"We'll find out if they get in," Barry said.
"What about JT?" Thea asked. She had been looking at the Water Totem the entire time, but listening in. "He's been good since he joined the team."
"And, so has Rose," Liam said.
"Do you want to add Cassandra to the list?" Kara asked Dick as Gideon showed holograms of the two other suggested members.
"No," Dick said shaking his head. "She's good with me but her failure to be able to communicate… I don't see her in the bigger team yet."
"Okay let's vote on all of them. Gideon, send the voting request to all communicators," Kara said as everyone communicators started to bing.
-Karry Universe-
Kara and Barry entered the Superflash cave, and Alura and Nora ran at superspeed at them; the two grabbing the girls midair as they yelled 'mama' and 'dada'. Barry laughed as the girls tried to use their arms to make tornados. "Dada got to teach you to how to make arm and feet tornados."
"Because that's what we need…" Kara said with a laugh. Garfield was a puppy running around with Porthos; Krypto keeping an eye on the two and barking at Porthos when he got a little too rough – the Beagle was not used to playing with others not the same strength as him after all.
"What's going on here though?" Barry asked. Cisco's eyes were on the TV, on Morgan Edge who was on the screen talking to reporters.
"Morgan Edge is turning on his power source today," Caitlin said.
"He says it's cleaner and better than even our engine," Cisco said.
"Impossible," Ronnie said. He had come through the zap tunnel with the two and Garfield as a puppy was rubbing against his leg, much to Ronnie happiness. "Our engine is the cleanest and safest form of energy; better even then solar or electric, not to mention the speeds cars, bikes, and planes powered by it can reach…"
"Ronnie," Kara said. "It's fine. Let's just get back to work." Ronnie gave a nod. The engine was a bit personal for him: Little STAR oversaw all engines coming out of STAR, after all.
"Well, I am going to go check it out," Cisco said, standing up. "Morgan Edge… he's a realty man. What's he doing messing with this?" Cisco headed for the door.
"Cisco wait… STAR Gam…" Barry started, but Cisco was gone.
"What's up with STAR Gaming?" Caitlin asked.
"Well," Barry sighed. "You know those toy ideas we bought? The ones that failed?" Caitlin nodded. "Well, Cisco okayed the relaunched of a videogame starring one of those toys at the same time Kingdom Hearts 3 was released. It's enough to say our game was crushed by the competition. Too bad as we really did a good job…" Barry paused, seeing the faces and deciding to move on. "The point being, we took the hit, but we were going to wait until now and try to relaunch it again – make up for some of the money we lost here. We were planning on today and Cisco needs to lead it. And don't say anything." Barry pointed at Kara at that.
"I wasn't going to," Kara shrugged, and Barry frowned her; knowing she was telling the truth. Barry, not everything we do is going to work out or make money. Hell, we have some losing projects here as well. It's not the end of the world. Besides, Beebo made more than enough money off that relaunched failed toys idea to make up for this.
Yeah, Beebo was the winner of this idea, Barry thought back with a smile and kissed Kara's cheek. "I'm going to go with Cisco. We can check out the launch of Morgan Edge thing and then head to STAR Gaming."
"Okay," Kara said as Barry put Nora on the floor; Kara noticed Alura wanted to join her sister so put her down as well, letting the two play. "Hey Barry, Kingdom Hearts, that's the one with Disney worlds, right?"
"Yep," Barry said with a nod. "Why? Want to play?"
"Was thinking the girls might enjoy it," Kara said, thinking of Star and Romana. They were Disney-obsessed.
"You know, I was wondering if there is any shot in hell, we could make deals with the owners to try to remake the games for our system. Kingdom Hearts with some of our advantages would be awesome. And we're planning on releasing STAR Gaming System 2.0 in the next few years with even more advantages and tech. It would be a good game to release with it. Along with our third multiverse game and a few others," Barry said, noticing others looking at him. "But it's a long shot. Kingdom Hearts is a big hit where it is."
"Send me the info. I can see if I can work my magic on it," Kara said with a nod and Barry smiled before running out.
"Run, Dada run!" Alura and Nora yelled together at that as Kara and Caitlin chuckled.
-Karry Universe-
Thea was in the Canary Cave, training with her new Totem – Tantu had offered to help, but Thea declined, saying she wanted to find out it's powers on her own.
"Nice water," Thea smiled when she heard the voice; JT had come in. "Oliver told me to come. So, you got the Water Totem?" He had heard of the Totem Hunt after all.
"All mine," Thea said, touching the Totem on her neck. "Still figuring out how to use it. Tantu wanted to help but there's something more pressing…" JT raised his eyebrow. "We did a vote on membership today and you did not make it." JT frowned at that. "You received two nos, but they can be transferred to a yes and they both told me how to get changed."
"Two nos? Let me guess. Superman and Wonder Woman," JT said, and Thea shook her head. "Oh. Then who?"
"Nightwing and Red Arrow," Thea said, and noticed the shocked looks. "Weirdly enough the people with the superpowers are more impressed you can handle this that they are easier on vigilante sometimes. Other vigilantes though, they need a little bit more. They want to test you."
"Test me?" JT asked. "So, they want to see if I can beat them?" Thea gave a shrug, not sure as JT thought. "Tell me a bit about them?"
"Nightwing is more physical. Close hand to hand combat," Thea explained. "Red Arrow is an archer, obviously. He never even got voted on – Kara and Barry just let him in."
"Because of what he did for us," Laurel added, coming in Quinn in her arms. "He helped save the League, hell the world, thanks to his actions. Thea, please, just let it go."
"Bad history?" JT asked, seeming to understand.
"You can say that again," Laurel smiled. "He's Thea's ex."
"No, he's not," Thea said, crossing her arms.
"You went on a date with him; you even slept with him," Laurel pointed out.
"I thought he was Arsenal at the time," Thea said.
"Whoa," JT said, holding out his two hands. "Can someone fill me in?"
"Red Arrow is a clone of former league member and friend, Arsenal," Oliver now explained, coming up behind his wife having heard the conversation. "He was made by Cadmus to get close to us and be a mole inside the League. Thea was his one road block so he used Thea and Roy's old relationship to seduce Thea and let him into the League."
"And he's still here?" JT asked.
"He was completely controlled by Cadmus," Paula now added. "After we took them down we wiped his mind of their control. He became his own man – and a really good hero, even if Thea will never let go of the past." Thea stuck out her tongue at Paula. "But while he's actually gay and with Cody, I think some of Roy and his old feelings for Thea still stay. Enough to be a little protective and make sure her new man is up to par."
"So, I got to make sure Thea's old boyfriend is confident in my ability. What's up with Nightwing?" JT asked.
"He's a dick," everyone all said together, making JT blink.
"He has a high expectation for vigilantes," Oliver sighed now. "He says I am the only one who is his equal. Well, me and Sara since Sara can kick his ass."
"So, you think you can pass their tests? They are both in Bludhaven waiting for me to say we're coming," Thea said.
"Bring it," JT said and Thea smiled. "And let's get some pie as well." Thea giggled as she opened the Zap Tunnel.
-Karry Universe-
Kara was working in the Superflash cave with Caitlin working nearby and the children in the playpen. She was sending some memos out to scientists and setting up appointments. That was when Gideon announced an incoming portal.
Kara looked up to see another Kara with shorter hair appear with a baby and a golden retriever, along with another dog. Powie ran right to Krypto, who rubbed his mate head. Their grown puppy, Polly, was with them who barked at seeing her dad, but stayed by the other Kara.
"Kara Wells," Kara Allen said with a smile, standing up.
"Wells-Allen, actually," Kara Wells flashed her wedding ring, still holding the baby.
"No, you'll always be Kara Wells here," Kara Allen smirked to which Kara Wells laughed in acceptance. "Is that Skye?" Kara Allen had heard when the baby girl was born on Prime back in February.
"Yeah… meet Skylar Karen Allen," Kara Wells grinned.
"Karen?" Kara Allen smiled at that. "My Karen will be so thrilled. I wish I had gotten to see her sooner."
"Sorry, we've been busy – balancing being parents and superheroes is harder than you make it look." Kara Allen laughed at that. "But she's already grown a lot," Kara Wells, rocking the currently sleeping child as she gently handed off her daughter to Kara Allen.
"Hi!" Nora, Alura, and Garfield yelled out.
"Hey," Kara Wells couched down to keep on eye level with the children. "I can't believe they are going to be two at the end of this month," Kara Wells looked back to her double at this but was surprised as the beagle jumped up at her, barking happily. Polly was giving the dog a look.
"Oh wow… where did you get this one?" Kara Wells had a big smile on her face as she held Pothos's snout in her hands, shaking him a little as Pothos wagged his tail at the affection.
"New Justice," Kara Allen said as the dog licked Kara Wells' face now. "We're actually opening our own sanctuary – for our meta animals and taking overflow from New Justice for Kryptonian."
"Oh wow," Kara Wells said, but was on the floor down with Porthos on top of her. Garfield had also now turned into a puppy and both dogs were playing with Kara Wells, while Kara Allen still held Skye – which she didn't mind.
"Next time Powie and Krypto have puppies, we don't need to go crazy trying to find owners," Kara Allen added, and Krypto moaned, much to his owner's amusement. Powie headbutted him playfully.
"Nice," Kara Wells said, forcing herself to be an adult again as she stood to face her double. "It seems our fates are still interlocked… you have a Sanctuary and now I am going to be working with dogs."
"You're working with dogs? I thought you were still with Cat Grant?" Kara Allen said, deciding not to address the fate issue.
"I had a long talk with Barry and then told Cat I was not coming back after my maternity leave. The new job starts in a few months," Kara Wells explained, Porthos now jumping up at her while Garfield was back in child form with the twins. "I'm going to be Assistant Manager there. Do you… well do you think it's a bad choice?" Kara Wells always did look up to Karry's Kara, given how well her life was compared to maybe all the Karas in the multiverse. Others came close, like New Justice's Sanctuary owner and Mutant's farm worker, but Karry Kara had kept running a major business for many years now, after all.
"No, no, I love it – it fits you," Kara Allen said with a smile. "Working for Cat is amazing, but we're members of the house of El – we're meant to be doing more, doing something greater. For me it was STAR Co.; for Kara Lane it was the Sanctuary; for Kara Kent it was Kent farm – smaller than others, but still her own. If managing a dog shelter is your next step it's good."
"Thanks," Kara Wells chuckled, her double literally listing off the other Karas she'd thought were admirable.
"So… I am guessing you didn't come here to play with the dogs and tell me about your new job?" Kara Allen said, handing Skylar back to her mom.
"Oh no," Kara Wells said, taking hold of her daughter with one arm while giving Porthos some affection with the other. Porthos though had finally noticed Polly and had moved over to her, going to sniff each other – to make friends. "I was… well I was wondering… if you…"
"I am starting to get flashbacks on when you asked me for sex tips. Come on, it cannot be as bad as that," Kara Allen said.
"Sex tips!" Alura and Nora called out making the two turn to them.
"Oh no," Kara Allen and Wells said as one, but Caitlin was giggling.
"I sometimes forget to be careful with what I say around them." Allen sighed. "So?"
"I need mommy tips," Kara Wells said. "Specifically, how to be hero and a mommy at the same time – and when I start working, it's balancing a job as well." She had mentioned it on arrival.
"Make me an overpaid nanny," Caitlin said from her place.
"That does help," Kara Allen said with a smirk.
"Might be a bit difficult – she has her own now," Kara Wells vocalized, rocking Skye.
"Tell me everything," Caitlin spoke quickly, getting up and wanting to know about her Prime double's kids.
"A boy, Nicolas Snow-Palmer. They call him Nico," Kara Wells stated as Skye stirred in her arm. "He's about a month younger than this one, but my Caitlin adores him."
"Quite right too," Caitlin smiled at this.
"You'll have to go over there," Kara Wells said, Caitlin nodding that.
"Anyway, I think we need to have another long talk." Kara Allen indicated for her double to follow her to the couch, ready to start talking about raising half Kryptonian and speedster babies, while balancing life.
Before they could start talking though, their attention turned to Porthos, who had been playing with Garfield. Krypto had barked and gotten up, grabbing Porthos by his fur dragging him off before the Kryptonian puppy could hurt the meta human. Powie whined and tilted her head at this.
"Why do I picture Powie just told him he could be a good dad?" Kara Wells commented as Krypto put Porthos down and Kara Allen called the puppy to them.
Porthos came up to them, a little down now he'd been told off by Krypto and nearly hurt Garfield, but sat in the middle of the two, putting his head on Kara Wells' lap. Kara Wells pet the dog. Then, Polly came running up to sit with them as well; Porthos was nearly two years younger than Polly but the two seemed to be getting close. Krypto was older than Powie after all.
"So... being a superhero and being a parent." Kara Allen got the conversation back on track. "I can't say I have it mastered – like Caitlin said, a lot of support from her and my entire family really helped. There are also times when Flash will go out and Supergirl stay behind or vice versa. You don't have to go after every crime," Kara Allen explained. "And with superpowered kids…" Nora blew out a freeze breath at that moment, giggling. "You got to figure out how to do it with keeping their powers a secret."
"Tell me everything," Kara Wells said as Skye, now awake, gurgled from her mother's free arm.
-Karry Universe-
JT and Thea exited the Zap Tunnel in Nightwing's base. Barbra Gordan was present, along with Cassandra – Nightwing's son, Robin was currently at school. Dick was present too, and so was Liam, standing off to one side.
Nightwing was a little like Thea in he never got along with the Roy's clone, and now it was like a ghost was standing in the base.
"JT, Nightwing and Red Arrow," Thea said. "This is JT, or Red Hood."
"Why do they get to keep their names a secret?" JT asked.
"Cause we're members of the Justice League and you're not," Red Arrow said defensively.
"William Harper and Dick Greyson," Thea sighed, giving Liam a look; Liam rolled his eyes.
"You ready?" Dick asked.
"Bring it," JT said with a smirk. "So, what is this two on one?" JT held up his hands like he was ready for an attack.
"Two on two. Liam wants to see how well you work with someone else so you and him against me and Cassandra," Dick said, indicting Cassandra. Batgirl gave a nod at the two.
"Oh, hey," JT said, going to hold out his hand. Cassandra did not say anything.
"She doesn't speak," Dick said. "But Batgirl can fight well. Come on, I have a training area."
"Okay," JT said as Liam followed Dick. He turned to Thea who kissed his cheek before following the group and JT did as well.
-Karry Universe-
Cisco was in the crowd of people waiting outside the building Morgan Edge's experiment was when he felt a hand on his shoulder. Turning around, he saw Barry standing there.
"Hey, what are you doing here?" Cisco asked with a smile to his friend.
"I figured we can both check this out and then go to STAR Gaming," Barry said, noticing eyes on him. He knew why. He was the Barry Allen, after all.
"Last time I saw a group like this was when the Accelerator was being turned on," Cisco commented, looking at the crowd.
"We all know how that went…" Barry pointed out, a little worried now.
Morgan Edge had come out though, and the crowd was going quiet.
"Hello," Edge already had an annoying smirk on his face. "Once I turn on the machine my scientists have been building, this entire building will be powered by a new source; something better than electricity – and, the best part: it can be expanded to power the entire city! Hell, even the entire country. Now then… 5… 4… 3…2," Cisco and Barry could feel the collected breath hold as 1 was announced, but nothing seemed to happen. "And it has been switched on," Morgan smirked to himself to a murmur of disappointment to the crowd.
"Always anti-climactic," Cisco said as then there was a spark from the building. "…or not."
"That's not right," Barry said as more sparks came out, a fire breaking out on one floor. "This is going south faster than the Accelerator did – and Wells made that to blow up."
Instead of running away from the building like many surprised members of the crowd, Barry and Cisco ran towards the building, to where Morgan Edge was yelling at some people.
"What did you do?" Barry had pulled at Morgan.
"It's um… well…" Barry starred at him waiting for Edge to talk. "A Kryptonian Omegahedron."
Where the hell did he get that? Kara thought came to him. Barry had been half-listening to his Kara and Kara Wells discussion, but now Kara was on him as Barry repeated the question. Edge didn't say anything so Barry grabbed his collar.
"Where did you get that?" Barry asked forcibly.
"Lord," Morgan Edge said. "Maxwell Lord gave it to me. I helped him with the metamorphosis and we were going to do this together. But then he died but I had his plans. I followed them exactly."
"Lord was a genius. You buy and sell realty," Barry said, letting go of Edge. Kara any ideas?
I know nothing about how to fix this problem. If that blows, the entire city is going with it, Kara thought back to Barry.
You have Kara Wells there. Can we get a Kryptonian who knows from Krypton? What about your dad? Barry thought back.
Not my dad area of expertise – and by the time we get anyone from Krypton it will be too late, Kara thought.
Cisco was looking at the plans with some of Edge's scientist while Barry had been talking to Kara. Edge had taken the opportunity of Barry's distraction to vanish from view.
"I know what to do," Cisco called to Barry now. "Where in the building is this?" He had turned back to the scientist who told him before Cisco moved back over to Barry, taking off his wedding ring. "Barry, everyone needs to get out of this surrounding area. Get them out fast." Cisco took Barry's hand and put the ring in it. "If this does not end well, tell Lisa I love her."
"Cisco, what… what are you doing?" Barry yelled out, surprised, but Cisco had turned towards the building and had phased through it already. "Cisco?!" Barry yelled, but he was gone. Cisco went in and I can't go after him without revealing my identity. The doors into the building were packed with people running out.
Hold on, we're on our way, Kara thought back.
….
Back in STAR Labs, having been keeping Caitlin, Jesse – who had come in earlier – and Kara Wells in on Barry and Cisco's escalating situation, the two Kryptionans knew what to do.
"Time to be a superhero," Kara Allen said, giving Skye over to her double – having since taken the baby back to play with as the two Karas spoke shop.
"Need a hand? That's a lot of people," Kara Wells pointed out. "I always have my outfit."
"Give Skye to Caitlin; Caitlin take the kids to Watchtower. Jesse, Krypto you're with us too," Kara Allen said, already in her outfit as Kara Wells handed Skye to Caitlin.
"Powie, come. Polly, stay," Kara Wells instructed her two dogs, having produced Power Dog's outfit from nowhere, while Polly gave a bark, Porthos wagging his tail that his new friend was staying with him.
"I think I am the multiverse nanny now," Caitlin cooed to Skye as the Krytonians left. "Alura, Nora, Garfield, Porthos, Polly, let's go to Watchtower," Gideon had opened the Zap Tunnel.
Caitlin then paused – Romana, Star, and Jenny were in school. She couldn't get them in time. She had to prey that the Kryptonians and Jesse saved the city.
…
The moment they got there the heroes started getting the people as far away from the building as possible – Krypto, Polly, Jesse and Kara Wells speeding people out, much to the shock of the public.
Kara Allen came down next to Barry. Sorry love, you're an innocent this time, Kara thought to her husband, taking him, both trying not to smirk at the absurdity of Barry being an innocent – it was a rarity.
"Cisco is still inside," Barry said one she'd dropped him off away from the building.
"Liberty Belle go get the scientist," Kara Allen yelled at Jesse as she went to grab Edge, who she had noticed cowering in a corner.
At that moment, the building shook violently, Kara Allen detecting some sort of miniature explosion a few floors above but not having time to register it as she grabbed Edge and flew back as the building came down.
"Cisco did it!" Barry said as Kara Allen joined Barry with Morgan Edge still in her arm. She dumped the realtor on the ground without too much care.
Supergirl then moved closer to the building – Power Girl came closer to her, but they stayed back, noticing some sort of rip in the sky above where the building had been, but it quickly disappeared. Both Karas looked at one another as they knew to scan the rubble for Cisco, but they couldn't see him – even with their x-ray vision.
Jesse zoomed through the wreckage too, joined by Krypto and Powie, but soon all three stopped by the Karas.
"He's not in there…" Jesse seemed at a loss as both Krypto and Powie whined.
"Where is he?" Kara Allen asked, deciding to look outside the wreckage, but couldn't see him.
-Karry Universe-
JT was doing the practice battle against Nightwing and Cassandra. He had Liam with him but he would be the first to say it wasn't going well. He was surprised with the moves Batgirl knew though, and soon he was on his back.
"Cassandra!" Dick called, signaling for his sidekick to back off. He already had Liam unarmed too. "I think this is over."
"Yeah, we have our answer," Liam breathed, turning to JT. "You seem able and willing to work with Team Canary, but you were unable to work with me. You don't like me, but Thea can testify in the Justice League you have to work with people you do not like. We were not a team and that's why we did not even get close. I can't change my vote."
"I can't either," Dick said. "You thought Cassandra would be an easy target. But she was trained by the League of Assassins. Same as White Canary. I will stay a no but keep training. You could turn this around – all you need to do is convince us."
"Yeah fine," JT said with a shrug, going to walk out as Thea gave the boys a look and went to follow.
"Hey," Thea said catching up to her boyfriend. "I'm sorry."
"I don't care," JT said. "Those guys. I don't care about proving myself to them."
"Then why did you care about getting into the League?" Thea asked.
"I wanted to prove myself to you," JT groaned. "I want to be good enough for you."
"You are," Thea said, kissing JT cheek. "And someday you'll be good enough for the League." Thea hugged JT, who put his arms around her. Pulling out of the hug, Thea smirked. "Come on, let's get you that pie."
"Now that's what I am talking about," JT chuckled, going to follow Thea.
Thea absently put her hand on the Water Totem – she wanted to play with it a bit more, but it was time to be the girlfriend, not a Totem Bearer.
-Karry Universe-
Once they got everyone back to STAR Co., finding Polly and Porthos were laying together, being good, there was definite tension in the air.
Lisa and Len had showed up with Lisa visibly shook by the news her husband was missing, and Len was comforting his sister. Mick had come with them and he was drinking his beer, waiting for news.
They had called both Prime's Vibe and Mutant's Vibe Junior, who were basically like twins these days, with the pair searching for their double through vibes; Jesse had opted to stay at the wreck site, but she reported the rip that had been at the building had disappeared and there was still no sign of the Cisco.
Kara Wells, Krypto and Polly were keeping track of the kids, letting Kara Allen and Barry worry about their Cisco. Caitlin had contacted Ronnie to get Jenny, while Amelia had come into the room with Romana and Star, who went to the dogs right away.
"I… can't find him," Vibe Junior said taking off his goggles. "I looked across the entire planet for him, in case he'd been displaced or something…" Lisa gave out a whimper at that.
"And I can't either," Vibe sighed, giving up as well. "I searched all our known worlds – I searched hundreds, maybe thousands of unknown. Found some possible stranded, but not your Cisco."
"Then we have no choice. Amelia," Barry said, turning to his sister. "See if you can find him."
The multiverse visitors were confused as Amelia nodded and took out a little box, which in seconds became a gauntlet around her right hand.
"She's the bearer of the death," Kara Allen said to catch them up. "The Totems of Zambezi."
"Oh, like Mari's Spirit Totem?" Kara Wells realized, Mari still being alive on Prime and part of their Justice Society – even if she rarely turned up, preferring to work solo.
"Death is mine." Amelia explained. "Anyone dead, no matter where in the multiverse, I can summon. The easiest ones are from Karry Universe or my home world though. If Cisco is dead, I will find him." The Death Totem lit up and Amelia stood there for a moment, her gaze unfocussed, but then stopped. "No." Amelia shook her head. "He's… not dead."
"Are you sure?" Lisa asked, seeming hopeful. Tears were still in her eyes, but she was wiping them away.
"There are many Ciscos dead, including my original worlds', but not this Cisco," Amelia said.
"If he's not dead…" Barry said after a bit, letting his words hand a little, "and you two can't find him. What does that leave? Is he just invisible somewhere?"
"I'd have found him if he was invisible," Vibe Junior pointed out.
"You're forgetting one thing," a new voice supplied, and the group turned. Coming in through the door was Rip Hunter, his wife Miranda and their son Jonas.
"How did you get in here? Our security is top of the line," Barry said.
"But we're from the future," Miranda pointed out.
"But you're forgetting time," Rip continued. "Your Cisco brilliantly managed to switch the machine and stop a massive explosion." The Vibes gave a smirk at the cleverness of their double. "But the energy he put into the machine created a portal to the future – specifically, the 31st century."
"Mon El," Kara Allen, said catching on.
"The Justice Legion – yes they kept the word Legion," Rip said, seeing Barry and Kara open their mouths. "They found Cisco with rubble from the building in the spot it vanished some thousand years ago. By some miracle he survived the unprotected time travel and Mon got him to their headquarters in time to heal him."
"So, you have him?" Lisa said, standing up and hopeful.
"No," Miranda said. Jonas had gone to go pet the dogs with Romana and Star. "Time has stated Cisco Ramon died on this day. And… we tried... we ran simulations but… it's fixed. Cisco Ramon can no longer live in the 21st century. Mon and Imra have taken him in. He will live the rest of his life in the 31st where he has a destiny."
"A destiny?" Lisa said this sarcastically, annoyed. "Fine, I'll go there too."
"Lisa…" Len said, upset at this. He had wanted to live here because of Amelia, yes, but his sister mainly.
"I'm sorry, but we can't allow that either," Rip said before Lisa could respond to her brother. "You have a destiny here."
"What destiny?!" Lisa spat, confused now.
"I think Kara and Barry can answer that," Miranda said, and eyes turned to the two.
"We… er… were waiting to tell you later," Kara realized, going to Cisco's section and into a drawer. They had placed them there before, so she took the three communicators out, and three Justice League badges, handing them to Lisa, Len, and Mick. "Welcome to the Justice League."
"Sorry this is… kind of not as happy as we expected," Barry said, putting an arm around Kara. The three former thieves stood there, shocked.
"This might seem odd, but you three belong in the League," Rip explained. "But we were able to do something for you..."
Rip took out a device, placed it on a desk and a hologram of Cisco appeared. He seemed happy, if a bit confused.
The hologram though looked right at Lisa. "Hey Lisa," the holographic Cisco said, Lisa now gulping as the room fell silent. This had happened so quickly.
"I wish I could come back to you, but they tell me by destiny is here," the hologram continued, "Everything they have is so advanced! I've only been in the 31st century a few weeks and I have a lot of catching up to do. I did check out your past… well, your future to you and I am so proud of you. I wish I could tell you more. Just know, I love you Lisa; I always will. Be the amazing woman you are to be the hero you will become." Lisa cried out at that. "Len, take good care of her. I'm happy you showed up. She needs one of us and if it can't be me it needs to be you." Len had an arm around his sister as he nodded.
"Kara, Barry," Cisco said, his hologram turning to the couple, who were surprised it knew where they all were standing. "We might have not known each other for that long, but it feels like forever. Barry, you're the brother I always wanted, better than Dante ever was. Kara, you went from the hot chick – yes I said hot chick, you cannot get mad at me now," Kara had to giggle. "Who was sitting next to my coma patient to a good friend. Then you became a sister to me. You guys were so much more than my bosses or the superheroes I helped. You were truly family. I love you guys. Please though, don't name your future son after me. I always hated my name. Besides, I think you two know what you want to name him, and I hope one day, somehow, I get to see him. With the things that happen to you though, I think we will someday. Oh, and Barry STAR Games is officially all in your hands. Do good with it because you know I will look up and play all the games." Barry gave a nod.
"Also, tell both Vibe and Junior I expect them to live up to their names now I'm not there – to help out on Karry whenever they can. And tell Prime Vibe I win: It's H2-No." Both Vibes looked at one another at this, obviously the future Cisco didn't know they were going to be present. Prime Vibe almost had to chuckle at the comment on their naming argument though. He'd give him that.
"Caitlin," Cisco said, and Caitlin took a deep breath as the hologram found her. "I saved you for last, maybe because I am unsure how to say goodbye to you; I have known you longer than I've known everyone else, we went through so much together. We made that Accelerator that would change our lives, been through Ronnie's near-death and come back. We're everyone's support, helping them no matter what. You are truly my best friend and a strong mother. It feels wrong to say goodbye, I somehow thought this would go on forever until we were both old and grey. I guess everything comes to an end though. Take good care of everyone – you are Mother Nature, after all. It's your job. Goodbye and good luck everyone. You don't know how much I miss you all." With that, the hologram disappeared.
"And that is all," Rip said after a moment of silence.
"We wanted to give you some peace of mind," Miranda said. "But you know we can't stay. Jonas, time to go."
"Wait a second," Kara Allen said, following the two out. She wanted to mourn Cisco but she had to ask them something. "I need to ask you something." Rip waited, a curious look on his face. "You must know of our colony on Titania."
"I love Titania," Jonas said, a happy smile on his face.
"What of it?" Rip asked.
"Well after Titania we want to terraform other moons. And well… Titan it's one of the biggest but Imra's from there. If there is life there are we…?"
"Pure example of how future knowledge can hurt," Rip said, cutting Kara off. "Imra's ancestors were humans." Kara seemed stunned. "After a couple of generations their DNA mutated slightly. She's still essentially human, but a culture and some new genetics formed from your colony. Titan will be the third moon you colonize. Don't change any plans you have."
"Thank you," Kara Allen said, backing up and going to Barry, who had given Lisa the wedding ring Cisco had gave him, finally letting herself mourn for her friend as the Hunters left.
"We're going to head home," Vibe said, nodding to his Mutant double, feeling odd being there.
"I'm going to leave Powie and Polly here for a bit," Kara Wells quietly, picking up Skye. "It seems they are comforting your dogs," Krypto and Powie were curled together and Polly was licking Porthos. The normally fun-loving dog caught onto the sad vibe in the room and had sadden himself. Polly had seemed to get attached to Porthos quickly.
"Like mother like daughter," Vibe mumbled, seeing that and Kara Wells gave him a look. "What? Powie has a mate on Karry and now seemed Polly does too." Vibe opened up a portal for him, Kara Wells, and Skye, who cried out happily at the adventure of going through a portal.
"I'll be around, if you need me. Just give me a call," Vibe Junior said. "Afterall, I can't leave you guys completely Cisco-free." Vibe Junior left at this.
Amelia went over to where Len, Mick, and Lisa were. Lisa was crying as she clutched her new communicator and Cisco's ring. "I'll help you get home," Amelia said.
"Thanks, Millie," Len said.
"Your family is mine," Amelia said to Len as they walked out.
Caitlin had grabbed Garfield; she was crying herself and Kara and Barry felt she wanted her husband and daughter.
Kara and Barry sat on the couch, Kara finally started crying and Barry held her. Tears in his eyes as well.
He was with us since the beginning, Kara thought to Barry. Without him… this... Us. Supergirl and the Flash. The Justice League. He helped it all get off the ground.
He might have not been in the Justice League, but he was important, Barry said, rubbing Kara's back. The two crying until small hands touched them.
"No cwy mama," Nora said.
"No cwy dada," Alura practically repeated, and the couple took their daughters into their arms. Romana and Star came up next to them, Star putting her head on Kara's shoulder and Romana onto Barry's. The little family hugging it out. Krypto and Powie came up under their feet while Polly and Porthos came to sit with the adults.
Hex suddenly jumped up onto their laps. "Where have you been?" Kara asked her cat who meowed back as the small family hugged and mourned for their lost.
-Karry Universe-
Rip Hunter sat in the Waverider, looking out at the timeline.
"What's wrong?" Miranda asked her husband, knowing something was on his mind.
"Kara and Barry," Rip said. "There's something… Kara's supposed to be pregnant. Early days… not noticeable but… She's… there's something off."
"Nothing about the Allens can change," Miranda said, moving over to him to read what he had pulled up on the Waverider computer. "Gideon. When was Kent Daniel Allen born?"
"January 14th, 2021," Gideon said, the two looking at one another at that.
"But… that's a year too late," Rip said. "Gideon, show all information about Kent Daniel Allen's life."
Gideon brought up the information. "It's all here," Rip said. "Same name. He married the same woman, had the same kids… after his wife died, he lived with the same man and had the same grandchildren. His family is intact."
"Even his first love with our son is intact," Miranda said; Jonas was not in the room so he could not know of his future boyfriend and the heartbreak he suffered due to that love. "He's just a year younger. That's odd."
"Something changed the timeline, made them put off having a kid for a year," Rip concluded. "But time kept everything the same. It's all good. We don't need to do anything." Rip sighed as he closed the information. "Come on, there are real time emergencies to attend."
Post Chapter Note: And there you have it. Yes, I wrote Cisco out. After Darkseid, somehow, I lost all use for him and I decided sending him to the 31st century was a good ending for Cisco rather than actually dying – it corrects the mistake of not killing him back then, especially as I brought Snart back in the form of Len. Also, I hope you liked how I wrote in why Kent was delayed when in the Future Flash I stated when he was going to be born, and it was going to be soon. It was annoying me as I personally wasn't ready for Kara to get pregnant yet.
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The Fire Totem: You guessed, it; the Fire Totem chooses it bearer in the next chapter, while Karry gets some more multiverse visitors and Kara and Barry have to figure out STAR Gaming without Cisco.
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