Karry Universe
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The Fire Totem Bearer
-Beginning of May-
-Amazonian Earth-
On Amazonian Earth, Arthur, the brother of Barry was explaining the multiverse to his brother and friends. He had a white board in front of him and was smirking.
Their cousin had officially stated she could not help them, and she did not want to be their family; their parents abandoning her and being raised by Amazonians had done its toll. She didn't want them, even if it wasn't Barry or Arthur's fault. The boys were paying for their parents' mistake.
"So now that Rae… sorry Rachel," calling her Rae was a hard habit to kick for the two Allen boys, "is out of the question. Let's turn to the multiverse."
"What is this?" Caitlin asked pointing at the name on the board.
"The multiverse," Arthur said. "The names of the worlds on the system. I spy a bit. Of course, there are millions of more worlds, but these are the most likely to help. We're Amazonian." Arthur pointed at Amazonian right at the end. "Now if you want a Rae, Rachel, Rachie… they go by a lot of nicknames, I would suggest New Justice Rae. She's been a hero a long time. Although she did kill her Barry." Barry took an intake of breath at this. "But that Barry had it coming – he was a super dick."
"If our Rachel," Caitlin started, "is a natural and never had to learn, logic says its true for others. I think we need to get off Rae."
"You can go to another Barry. More than enough of them who are speedsters." Arthur now suggested. "We have Prime. I would not suggest SuperEarth though – there are issues there. Karry…"
"What's a Karry?" Barry asked.
"I…um… don't know. You know what, let's go find out," Arthur said, grinning and opening a portal.
-Karry Universe-
"Okay," back on Karry Universe, Barry had stopped for a minute in the SuperFlash Cave. Jesse was sitting by her computer and Caitlin was running an experiment.
Alura and Nora were sitting on the floor in the living area; they had this new game machine, which was like the old wheels with animal noises, except this had over a hundred different animals programed in on a random program. Alura and Nora were laughing but more because Garfield was with them would transform into the animals as it came up.
"The pig goes oink," the machine said in a robotic voice and Garfield turned into a tiny pig and started oinking. Nora and Alura laughed loudly at their friend and clapped their hands.
"Now that Cisco is off to the 31st century," Barry said, looking over at his friend's old chair sadly. Krypto was sitting by it looking up sadly while Hex was laying on it rubbing her head against the seat. "Do we need to get someone new in here to take his place?"
"Not really," Jesse said, spinning her chair around as the toy stated cows and Garfield became a tiny cow, mooing. "Gideon can handle any of the computer stuff Cisco used to do now."
"And Michelle can make any costumes if need be, or repair them," Caitlin added in.
"And if we need anything made on the spot I can do it or Amelia or Winn or Lena… there are a lot of options there," Jesse said.
"Are you telling me everything Cisco use to do can be easily replaced?" Barry asked as the machine gave out a cat and Garfield became a kitten to meow.
"Yes," Caitlin and Jesse said together, Caitlin a little sad by this.
"Okay," Barry said turning to where Krypto and Hex were. "Krypto why are you so sad? You used to hate Cisco?"
"Oh, ever since the Brainiac Kryptonian Army thing, Cisco has been giving Krypto a steak every week. Sometimes a bone. The porkchop did not go over well that once," Caitlin said.
"And Hex?" Barry asked, noticing the cat was sad. Porthos was thankfully with Kara at the moment at the warehouse so they did not have the puppy.
"When Hex came here she noticed Krypto getting a treat and got hissy with Cisco. So, Cisco started giving her a nice fish each week," Caitlin said.
"Cisco was bribing our animals to like him?" Barry said, seeming stunned as the toy came up with a duck and Garfield became a duck and started to quack.
"Not Porthos," Caitlin said as a portal open; Alura and Nora not pushing the button for a new animal, waiting to see who was coming.
From the new portal, out popped a Barry, Caitlin, and a boy none of them knew.
"Is that a green duck?" The boy the group did not know, wasted no time in introductions as Garfield quacked, then turned back into his human form. "Nice. Hi, I am Arthur Allen. Arty or people call me Accord."
"Oh damn, another one," Jesse said. "Good thing Cisco's gone – he would freak out." The toy gave out an elephant and this earth Barry, Caitlin, and Jesse turned to yell no, but Garfield had already transformed, and the group had to laugh – it seemed Garfield could not get to the full height and weight of an elephant yet. He was bigger than normal but was tiny compared to what he was supposed to be.
"Okay, that is actually kind of cute," Barry said with a smile as Garfield turned back into a human toddler. "So, what can we do for you?" Barry turned to the world hoppers. "First off call me Barry-Blue. What's your color?" The world hopper Barry seemed confused at this. "Behind your Flash symbol. What color? White, red, blue? New color? Are you green?"
"I um… don't have a speedster suit," he said looking down. "That's why we came here. See, I am a speedster, but I… I can't control it. Sometimes I cannot run; sometimes I just stops randomly. I need… training…" Amazonian Barry stopped as his counterpart picked up his ringing cellphone.
"Barry Allen," he answered as Garfield, now a monkey jump on his back; Barry put an arm around the monkey and the interaction seemed to make Alura and Nora happy, so Garfield started to goof it up. "No… wait… what? I'll be there." Barry hung up the phone.
"What's wrong?" Caitlin asked, knowing Barry well by now. The Amazonian group hung back, Arthur now wondering if this was a bad time and to pick another Earth.
"STAR Gaming. I can't figure out Cisco's system or how he managed things. No notes. Nothing. I'm not sure he did have anything. Things are crazy there. I'm sorry, I got to go," Barry said this to the world hoppers. "Jesse, take care of the world hoppers? You're the speed force expert."
Giving another apologetic look to his counterpart, Barry ran out but returned a second later, the green monkey in his arms who transformed back into a human.
"Mama!" Garfield yelled out.
"I think this is yours," Barry said, giving the crying baby to Caitlin. "Sometimes kids who are not speedster get scared by running. Forgot he was with me," Barry decided to summon his speed force outfit now, to the surprise of his counterpart and then grabbed his kids who laughed, knowing they were going running. "Krypto, Hex, come." The two animals jumped up and followed Barry out.
"You and Barry are not, together are you?" Amazonian Caitlin spoke up to her counterpart, having been quiet up to this point.
"Nope," Caitlin said, making a face that did not go unnoticed. "Barry is like a brother."
"So, speed force problems," Jesse said, deciding not to let this issue hang.
"How did he do that?" The only Barry left asked.
"Speed force suit?" Jesse asked. "Tricky thing – I have not even been able to do it yet. It seems to mainly be a Barry-thing though, although some Rae's can do it these days. Our Barry started doing it completely by accident and it took even more time to figure out how to do it on purpose. Come on. Let me bring you to the speed lab."
Jesse asked Gideon to open a zap tunnel and then went through it. The world hoppers seemed shocked at the method of transport but followed Jesse.
-Karry Universe-
"What are you doing?" Jesse asked as she came out of the zap tunnel. Mick was in the meeting room with a big bag. He was lazing back and had a beer in his hand.
"I'm Justice League now, aren't I?" Mick asked.
"Yeah, but you're not supposed to live here," Jesse pointed out. The world hoppers behind Jesse had no clue what was going on.
"Who says I can't? There are rooms. I like it here. And that smell. Smoke… I can smell a fire," Mick said, sitting up at that.
"What?" Jesse asked as Mick got up. "Wait… no!" Jesse ran after Mick at speed, wondering where the fire was – there were measures set up in this Watchtower to prevent things like that
"What's going on?" Barry asked his brother, who shrugged. Arthur did not know everything about the Earth, after all.
The group followed Mick and Jesse to a nearby room.
"It's in here," Mick growled, opening the door.
Tantu was standing there as Mick paused, noticing there was no fire. Instead though, he moved in as Tantu sighed, noticing the familiar Totem-induced trance. Mick reached for the Fire Totem on the shelf and put it on. The moment it touched his skin, fire surrounded the totem and then was in his hand. Mick smirked at the fire, moving his fingers and the fire moved with him.
"Cool," Mick commented.
"I thought these were supposed to go to righteous warriors," Jesse said to Tantu, the main Totem bearer having no answer to that. Amazonian Caitlin though, cleared her throat. "Oh, right, he's your problem, come on."
Jesse lead the group to the speed lab now. The three taking in the giant lab – there was a circular tunnel around them and in the middle was a lab with computer equipment and other devices. "Much bigger and cooler than our old one in last Watchtower. And can't beat the view." Jesse point up. There was a glass ceiling and the group looked up to see the Earth above them.
"Where exactly are we?" Caitlin asked.
"Watchtower," Jesse said as she went to the computers. "It's on the moon." The three seemed stunned at this. "There's a changing room over there along with some speedster training clothes. Also, some monitoring equipment I need you to put on." Jesse pointed Barry to an area across the room where there was a door.
Amazonian Barry slowly walked over there and came back minutes later in a simple shirt and pants. He had a device on his arm. "Longest I ever had to wait for a speedster. Now the tunnel is over there. Run into it and run around." Jesse instructed as Barry started running, slower than any Barry she knew. "Any second now."
"Give me a minute," Barry said, already sounding frustrated.
-Karry Universe-
After Mick had been chosen by the Fire Totem, Tantu had called all the bearers.
They had decided to meet at the L-Corp wasteland field where Amelia had some experiments. Mick had somehow gotten a lot of food and was using the Totem to heat it up, which annoyed Tantu.
"Anyway, now that we have all six of us, I was thinking we could train," Tantu said, ignoring Mick heating a chicken. Amelia wasn't listening to her though, she was messing with the machine she was testing.
"Oh, damn duck!" Amelia yelled as jumped back. A fire came out of the back of the machine and it shot off into the air until wind stopped it – Lena had used her Air Totem. "Thanks, boss. By the way that's actually working…. the starter's a little iffy." Amelia told Lena as her boss put the machine on the floor. Plants from Ava's Earth Totem helped keep the machine in place as Amelia went in and got it to shut off, finally punching the side.
"What is that anyway?" Mick asked. He had a bowl now and used the Totem to pop some popcorn.
"It's hover tech. STAR Co. uses it as a toy mostly, but we're trying to make it more useful for everyday uses. Trying to see how much weight it can handle," Amelia explained.
"Training!" Tantu said, annoyed at the distractions and waving her hand.
"I know everything there is to know about the Death Totem," Amelia pointed out at this. "Your grandma gave me a short cut."
"I am doing pretty good with the Earth Totem," Ava said, bored and wanting to get back to the DEO. "And I really have better things to do." Before Tantu could say anything, Ava had her car keys out and was going to her car.
"What does Crystal see in her?" Lena asked, looking at Amelia.
"Something," Amelia said with a shrug, not sure what her best friend saw in Ava.
"But anyway, I don't mind a training session but a heads up would be more appreciated. I have a business to run," Lena said as Thea took down her hood; with Ava there, she had decided to hide her face but now she was gone she was free show herself.
"Is Lana still annoying you?" Amelia asked as Lena took out her cellphone.
"Changed my number and hid it. Seemed to work," Lena said. "Now if you excuse me. I have a meeting to get to." Lena gave Tantu a smile as she went to her car.
"I'm good," Thea said with a smile. "Watch this." Thea summoned some water and threw it at Mick, putting out the fire he was playing with and making the man yell out in annoyance. "And I have a date with JT. See you." Thea gave a wave as she walked off.
"What can I light on fire?" Mick asked, and Amelia went and pushed a button. Targets popped out.
"Have fun," Amelia said as Mick started tossing fireballs, a smile on his face.
"Tantu…" Amelia had noticed the annoyed look on Tantu's face. "I know when used together the Totems can be powerful, but each Totem is different every one of us were chosen. We can control them. You found the Totems and got them to their right place, but it might be time for you to let them go. Let your fellow Totem Bearers take it."
Tantu gave a reluctant nod as Amelia went back to her work. She watched for a moment as Mick played with the fire and had to admit he was doing good. She took a step back, knowing Amelia was right. She had to let go of the other Totems. It was like letting go of her grandmother again though.
-Karry Universe-
"You can stop," Jesse said, and Amazonian Barry was thankful as he slowed down and stopped. Jesse had been having him run, but his powers had made him stop dead at random moment. He was out of breath and had never pushed himself that much. Caitlin put an arm around him. "These readings… Just…"
"What?" Caitlin asked.
"Well, just to get you a frame of mind," Jesse said, deciding to explain it in full and trying to find the words... "This is Alura and Nora, our Barry's kids who you met briefly," a hologram of Alura and Nora, appeared surprising the three from Amazonian, "and their readings, which will just keep getting stronger as they grow." A screen with some readings Barry and Arthur did not understand appeared, but Caitlin gave a look at. "Their speed force connection. Speed… I mean, they were born speedsters of course, so their connection should be better, but they shouldn't be faster than you yet. They are though."
Barry pouted at that. "Here is our Barry, Mutant Barry, and Prime Barry. They had a bit of a competition last month on who could go the fastest, but averaging it out they were basically the same," Jesse said, with a small smile. "And this is you – this connection to the speed force… it's the weakest I have ever seen."
"With those types of readings, you shouldn't be a speedster," a new voice spoke, and Jesse smiled, seeing Wally coming in with his outfit on. "I think the question is, how?"
"I'm sorry?" Barry asked.
"How did you get your speed?" Wally asked.
Barry pointed to Arthur, who gave a smile.
"Accord," Arthur state. "I give meta human abilities…"
"Yeah, we know," Jesse and Wally said together. "But you did it… did you shock him? Or something?"
"Eventually," Arthur said. "It took a while after I mutated his DNA to a speedster to figure out how to… well get his speed. There was more to it."
"Yeah," Wally said, giving Jesse a look.
"I guess we figured out the problem," Jesse sighed, turning off the holograms. "You weren't created right. Your connection to the speed force is wrong."
"Can you fix it?" Barry asked.
"You can't un-cook a chicken," Wally pointed out.
"Or uncrack an egg," Jesse commented, the two looking at each other. "But the point being, we can't redo how you were made… unless… Gideon, can you connect to the multiverse system?"
"Yes, Liberty Belle," Gideon's voice was heard, surprising the Amazonian Trio. "What do you need?"
"Prime records. Their encounter with Zoom," Jesse instructed.
Prime had put a through explanation about how the multiverse destruction happened; Jesse believed they were just tired of explaining it, so put it in the multiverse system for everyone to read – every document, story, and even videos. "Look for any mention of their Barry losing their powers?"
"Found several mentions of their Barry's power lose. You want all the documents?" Gideon said.
"Summarize," Jesse said.
"Zoom had kidnapped their Wally and demanded Barry's speed for his release," Gideon started. "Barry gave up his speed. Later, when Zoom invaded their Earth, Barry wanted his speed back. They remade the incident that gave Barry his powers, originally thinking it killed Barry, they discovered he had been sent into the speed force. After a set of trials, the speed force gave Barry back his speed. The incident also gave their Jesse and Wally their powers as a bonus."
"There," Jesse said pointing. "If we contact Prime, we can disconnect this Barry from the speed force and redo it."
"No good," Wally said shaking his head, taking away the smile Amazonian Barry face. "Theoretically it's possible, but Jesse, you got to get out of the realm of science. I know you study the speed force, but the speed force is not just a force – you know this. It has its own mind. You heard Barry talk about when he went inside; Prime Barry was chosen by the speed force and he had to prove himself again to become the Flash again. This Barry simply was not chosen. The speed force let him get connected, not even that well, but there's no saying if we disconnect him from the speed force, it will let him back in."
"Ah. You're right," Jesse nodded. In her science-mind, she sometimes forgot the speed force was also a living being in its own right. "Oh! I've got it." Jesse gave a smirk. "Tachyons!"
"You're right," Wally said. "Tachyons are known to enhance speed. We make a device and place it on his speedster outfit…"
"He doesn't have an outfit," Jesse said.
"No outfit!?" Wally was stunned. "Well, it explains why he is wearing that. That needs to be fixed. Who's making our outfits now that Cisco is dead?"
"Technically not dead – he's in the future. We've simply been using the term gone," Jesse corrected. "And Michelle – I think she has some ideas on speedster outfits."
"Gideon, tell Michelle to come to the Superflash cave," Wally said. "You three, come on."
Jesse and Wally started walking, the three from Amazonian Earth completely lost.
"Are we still here?" Arthur now asked, feeling that they'd been ignored to the point of invisibility.
"They did get a little ahead of themselves, but they do know better," Caitlin pointed out.
"Did you understand any of that, though?" Barry asked.
"I think it sums up to they have a plan," Caitlin stated. "Come on, let's follow."
-Karry Universe-
Barry sat in what was Cisco office in STAR Gaming, typing into the computer and getting more and more frustrated. Krypto and Hex were keeping Alura and Nora busy and the two were laughing.
"Need a hand?" Barry had felt her coming but had to smile as he heard his wife's voice.
Kara had never actually stepped foot into the office space they had gotten for STAR Gaming and STAR Toys, but here she was standing at the door. She had Porthos in her arms, the dog wagging his tail.
"Don't you have the rest of the company to take care of?" Barry asked.
"Froggy and Connor have the animals covered while John's designing our Sanctuary – you know I am starting to think we're the only people who give him work," Kara said, and Barry had to chuckle at the joke. Their resident Green Lantern friend had done more than one project for them, after all. "I told Caitlin to take the labs today. You need me."
"I need good news," Barry sighed. "I think Cisco kept everything in his head. I don't know what's going on here. Not to mention he did not do that well…"
"You know, maybe when I suggested giving Cisco STAR Gaming, we should have made him a game designer first and trained him to take over," Kara voiced, knowing this was somewhat their fault. They had never given Cisco, training assuming he knew how to run the business. "I mean STAR Gaming's not losing money. It does okay."
"But it could be doing better," Barry said, knowing what Kara was thinking. "And I don't know what games we have in production. The games we released are simple to get in order but…"
"Just this floor?" Kara asked, pointing behind her to the people working.
"Downstairs is STAR Toys," Barry said. "Two floors."
"Okay," Kara said, turning around. "Everyone! Pay attention." No one stopped though, not having noticed Kara was here. "Krypto…"
Krypto left the kids and started barking loudly; Porthos joined in, and not to be out Hex gave out a loud meow. Everyone jumped, turning towards the noise.
"Thank you, Krypto, Hex, Porthos." Kara said as Alura and Nora giggled. Krypto and Hex stopped, but Porthos kept barking. "Porthos enough!" Porthos stopped, his tail wagging frantically.
"You all know who I am?" Kara directed this to the room.
"Kara Allen, you're the boss." Someone said, seeming nervous.
"One of them, but yes. Now as you know Cisco Ramon is…" Kara paused at this, about to use the term 'gone', "…dead." To everyone out of the super family, Cisco had died a hero. "Now we are trying to get things here running smoothly. Unfortunately, records are not that good so we need everyone to submit a report on what you're working on and it's expected release date."
There was a round of the affirmative, and the people went to their computers. Soon, typing was heard. Barry gave a smile and let out a breath.
"You're a genius," Barry said; he had not thought of going to the workers – instead, just looking over Cisco's notes, what he had kept. What would I do without you?
"Might want to go downstairs and tell STAR Toys the same thing," Kara said, and Barry jumped up, kissing Kara on the way out.
"We can do this together," Barry said as he headed to the elevator, telling Krypto to follow.
Kara sat down and then heard a familiar voice: "Beebo hungry".
Kara turned around; Nora and Alura had gotten hold of the STAR Gaming's portable gaming systems. Somehow, they had turned it on and put on the Beebo game. They were hitting buttons as Beebo chased food around to eat, laughing. They pouted when they had Beebo eat hot sauce and it ended the game.
"You two are so much like your dad," Kara had to smile.
-Karry Universe-
Tantu was in the home she shared with Buddy. Her boyfriend wasn't home and she was sitting on the floor. She took a sip of the drink she'd made and closed her eyes. Mediating.
She soon found herself where she wanted to go.
Looking around, the place was the same but also different. She didn't feel the heat on her body like she did last time and the water was calm. She was in the spirit realm of the Totems.
"It's even more beautiful now," Amaya's voice spoke and Tantu smiled. She had been waiting for her grandmother to come and looking at her grandmother now, she did notice how much they looked alike, now that Amaya physically looked the same age it was even more clear. "With the Totems safe and with their rightful bearers, this place is in harmony once more. You did well, my granddaughter."
"Thank you. But… Mick?" Tantu had to ask and Amaya gave a smirk.
"He might be rough around the edges but deep down he's a righteous man. And he understands fire better than anyone," Amaya explained. "So, did you just come to see your grandmother?"
"You know that's not why I am here," Tantu sighed. She had many questions. "How do the Totems choose? I get Amelia, and I guess I can see Mick's connection to the fire, but the others…?"
"Ava is as strong as the Earth, while Lena can rise above anything, just like the air. Thea has a calm personality but when angered she can be just as deadly as the water. They all relate to the element that they were chosen for," Amaya said.
"But none of them has heirs. Or even want heirs. Will we be stuck doing this again when they…?" Tantu could not even finish the sentence.
"There are only three totem bearers with no heir," Amaya smiled, making Tantu raise an eyebrow. "Amelia, like I said before, has her nieces. Thea has a niece as well. Lena has the half-clone, Connor – he is her son, so it counts." Amaya explained. "Only Mick, Ava, and you, my dear, don't have anyone to pass the Totem onto when the time comes." Tantu put her hand on her Totem at this.
"I hope that changes," Amaya continued. "But why are you really here?"
"They were all chosen because of who they are. I was chosen because of who my family is," Tantu said. "But I don't know my family. I feel like we were just at the beginning. Your books are not… enough."
"I'm sorry my granddaughter, but I can't teach you more," Amaya said. "It's not the same in this place. And me telling you is not enough."
"Can't you do for me what you did for Amelia?" Tantu asked. "Give me memories."
"It won't be the connection you need," Amaya said. "No. You must go." Tantu raised an eyebrow. "Go to our homeland. Go to Zambesi."
"All six villages are gone. The people dead," Tantu said, mystified by this request.
"That is true," Amaya nodded. "But there were other villages outside the six Totems. People who knew our village and our culture. Survivors. The memory lives there and with this." Amaya's hand went to the Totem. "People will know who you are. You will be accepted. Find yourself there, my granddaughter."
Tantu took a deep breath in. She had many doubts on what her grandmother was telling her to do, but in her heart, she knew it was right.
"Thank you, grandmother," Tantu said, and hugged the woman.
As Amaya pulled away, the spirit realm too fell away, and Tantu found herself back home, with Buddy leaning on the doorway.
"Hey," Buddy said. He had obviously come home while Tantu was out. "Mediating?"
"Yeah," Tantu said, blowing out the candles. "Buddy… we need to talk."
"Oh, that's never good," Buddy said, but looked resolute. "Go on."
"I need to go to Zambezi, to the homeland of my family. It's to do with the Totem and I'll never be complete until I go there. My grandmother said so… in the vision," she indicated the candle she had just blown out.
"Whoa," Buddy sighed, not sure what to say to this. He knew the importance of the Totems and of his girlfriend's family lineage to know not to question her motives.
"I'm sorry. But I know I need to go," Tantu sighed.
"Well then, we'll go," Buddy said, surprising Tantu and even himself. "Can't let you go alone." Buddy smiled at Tantu who grinned back, kissing him. "I guess I should pack and look up flights."
"And I need to contact the Justice League," Tantu said, taking out her communicator.
-Karry Universe-
Michelle had eagerly come to the Superflash cave upon hearing a speedster needed an outfit. She was all smiles when Amazonian Barry commented he didn't want to look like their Rachel – even going on the system to show them Rachel's unusual but similar outfit.
"I'm still curious how you got this all together so soon?" Jesse asked. While she and Wally had been working on a couple of devices, Michelle had come prepared.
"Oh, I had been working on this for a while. I thought maybe one of you… but I kind of think you speedster all like looking alike anyway," Michelle said as Amazonian Barry was looking down at the outfit. "We need a full-length mirror in here."
"How does it look?" Amazonian Barry asked, once changed into it.
The costume was blue down the middle but a much lighter blue then what Rachel wore; it had silver and black on the sides and into the arms. The gloves were silver with black finger tips.
"Looks good," Amazonian Caitlin said with a nod, her Karry counterpart no longer in the Superflash cave with them.
"Two last things," Jesse said, taking a device and putting in on Amazonian Barry's chest. It was a Flash symbol, like the one they wore, only in silver. "There's a tachyon device on the inner side. It should enhance your speed enough you can run normally; I wouldn't bet on doing any special tricks but should be enough to start being a hero. Maybe your team can look into ways of specializing it to get some tricks out of it."
"And with time the tachyons will strengthen the connection to the speed force," Wally added. "Worse comes to worse you have to use it forever. And here," Wally held out a pair of sunglasses which had blue-tinted shades.
Amazonian Barry took it and put it on his face; as he did, his hair turned silver making both Arthur and Amazonian Caitlin give each other a look. Before either could comment they heard a door opening and laughing as Barry and Kara came in with their kids.
"I can get STAR Gaming and Toys in order now. Thanks to you," Barry was saying to Kara and then he looked "Hey, we have a Barry-Silver here."
"Why Silver?" Amazonian Barry, or the newly named Barry-Silver, asked.
"Because your hair is silver," Barry-Blue said, pointing at his counterpart.
"Wait, what?" Barry-Silver asked, putting his hand on his hair and turning to look back in the mirror, shocked.
"Yeah, how did you dye his hair so quickly?" Amazonian Caitlin asked, not sure she liked the look on her boyfriend.
"Oh, calm down and take off the glasses," Jesse laughed, and Barry-Silver did as he was instructed. As he did, his hair turned back to brown. "It's a hologram. Since you're not wearing a mask, the hair color change is another trick to hide your identity. Could make it purple if you wanted but silver fits with your costume."
"Oh," Barry-Silver said looking down at the glasses. "Cool."
"So, I guess you got this problem solved?" Barry-Blue said, nodding at Jesse who nodded back. "Awesome… since I wouldn't know the first thing on what to do." He told this to Barry-Silver, who raised an eyebrow at him. "I just run, and it works." Barry-Blue shrugged.
Kara chuckled as she kissed her husband's cheek.
"You two are together?" Amazonian Caitlin asked.
"Yeah," Kara said. Barry and Kara had put the girls on the floor to run around under the watchful eyes of Krypto; Porthos was running to chase them, while Hex went to sleep. "On basically every Earth we know well almost. Prime, Mutant, Canary. The list goes on."
Amazonian Caitlin looked to Arthur. "That's what you meant by they have a connection?" Arthur gave a smirk and looked down.
"Hey Caitlin, never on our Earth," Barry-Silver said going next to his girlfriend. "I'm with you. Our Kara is with Mon."
"That's not unusual when she's not with me," Barry-Blue said, deciding not to comment on him and Caitlin being together. There was only one other world he knew where that had happened, after all.
"Yeah," Caitlin said with a smile. "Besides, with Kara's sister not wanting anything to do with you it would never happen."
"Alex hates you?" Kara asked, laughing to herself remembering back when she was in college. That had been a lot of drama.
"Who's Alex?" Barry-Silver asked. "Your sister is my cousin. Rachel Garrick." Kara and Barry-Blue looked at each other. "You were both raised by Wonder Woman on Themyscira." Kara mouth opened at this. "It's a long story but… well, my parents choose not to take in Rae… Rachel, and she's… just not that into reconnecting." Amazonian Caitlin put a hand on Barry-Silver's back.
"Don't take it too personally," Barry spoke at this, knowing the look on his face, the annoyance and sadness at not being able to connect to his cousin.
"How can I not?" Barry-Silver folded his arms at this. "She doesn't want to know me or Arthur because of what our parents did – it's not our fault and yet she…"
"We know a Rae who hates other versions of herself," Kara cut Barry-Silver off at this, surprising the Amazonian group.
"Rae's like to build walls," Barry-Blue continued. "It takes very special people to break those walls down. It sounds like she built walls against her family. It will be up to her if she wants to tear them down or not."
"Doubt she will," Arthur shrugged at this. "Being raised by Amazonians…" he let that hang in the air.
"So, you have got to be Amazonian Earth," Kara said with a nod. "Good name."
"Well, I think it's time we go," Arthur changed topic, not wanting to stay on the topic of Rachel Garrick. He went to open a portal but was shocked when nothing happened. "Wait, what? But that's never happened before!" He turned back to his Barry, shocked.
"The Karry Conundrum," Kara and Barry-Blue said together, confusing the three visitors.
"You can get to Karry just fine, but cannot leave," Kara clarified. "It's takes the Vibes a while, but we have a backdoor, since you're on the system. Go on, stand on the X." Kara pointed on the X on the floor.
"Oh wait, before we go," Barry-Silver said, realizing they had not asked. "What's a Karry?"
"Really?" Jesse asked as the group laughed.
"It's them," Wally said. "Kara, Barry… Karry."
The three from Amazonian looked at each other as Barry-Blue asked Gideon to send them home.
"Wait, if they are called Amazonian that means Rachel, Kara, and their friends were met first. Meaning the system is with them and if they don't get along…" Barry let the sentence fall, it being too late as the three had gone. The portal would open near where the system was set up and if that was near their Rachel... "Ah, they'll figure it out."
At that point Barry, Kara, and Jesse's communicator binged.
"Tantu wants a full League meeting and wants all the Totem bearers there," Kara read off the communicator.
"Better tell everyone to wear a mask if we are having Ava in Watchtower," Barry said with a nod, sending out the message to wear a mask at the meeting.
-Karry Universe-
Once again, the entire League was gathered in Watchtower.
Alura and Nora were with Winn, Star, and Romana at the Penthouse; Garfield though, was in the playpen.
Tantu had already explained what she was going to do, where she and Buddy were going and why. It was a somber moment for the League.
"I just need to find myself," Tantu said.
"I'm going to miss you," Jesse spoke up with a small smile to her friend, Tantu giving her old friend a small smile at this. The two had been close ever since they helped the group take down Cadmus. But Jesse knew her friend needed this.
"If you're sure about this," Kara spoke. "Then your spot on the League will be waiting for you when you come home," Tantu smiled at the leaders
"Wait, you get all the Totem bearers together and then leave us?" It was Ava, who was a little put off by all the heroes in their masks, obviously hoping to learn some identities while she was here.
"I said I need to find out who I am," Tantu explained simple. "You all know your Totems more than I do, and I've had mine the longest."
"Feels like a rip off," Ava shrugged.
"You were chosen by the Totem. Not by me. It's your destiny," Tantu told Ava. "Like this is mine."
"Whatever," Ava sighed after a moment as there was a moment's silence in the room. Members of the League started to stand at this, moving over to hug Tantu and wish her well. Ava, lingering in the background now, obviously not sure how to leave – something Kara and Barry took note of.
With the League soon gone, it was just Amelia, Lena, Thea, Ava and Mick in the room with Tantu.
"You five," Tantu said, eyes now lingering on Ava more. "Take good care of those Totems; I know you will be great. They choose you for a reason."
"Yeah, whatever," Mick said already moving off to another room in Watchtower.
"Good luck," Thea said.
"Now, how do I go?" Ava spoke up for this.
"I'll take you," Lena sighed, putting a hand on Tantu. "I will protect the Air Totem." Tantu gave them a smile as Lena blindfolded Ava so she would not see where the zap tunnel released them. Ava sighed but went along with it as the two left.
"I think I trust you two the most," Tantu said to Amelia and Thea – the only two left. "Amelia has all the knowledge she needs from my grandma and Thea… well you're in the League. Keep an eye on the others."
"Don't worry," Thea said. "We got it."
"No problem at all," Amelia said as Tantu now left.
"We got this." Amelia said once Tantu was gone to Thea.
"Yeah," Thea said with a nod.
Post Chapter Note: Okay, first thing I need to address here is yes, Tantu is leaving for a bit, but SHE IS NOT GONE FOR GOOD. After this plot I felt this was natural for Tantu – something she had to do; and since outside this plot she had been in the background anyway I thought why not let her go for a bit. SHE WILL BE BACK.
Next Time on Karry Universe-
Sanctuary for All: Two STAR Co. projects take massive strides forward as both the Titania colony and the Meta Animal Sanctuary get their feet off the ground; but Karry may need the help of another world for their Sanctuary, and it's not the world you can expect.
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