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Unnatural Selection
-Beginning of November-
"Did you really need to buy the old Mercury Lab building?" Caitlin asked Kara and Barry, who had just came into the SuperFlash cave. "We went over with it a fine-tooth comb after Karen's kidnapping. There were no clues to who the kidnapper was and no one else kidnapped inside."
"Yeah, but it's the last time I am saving someone from that place," Barry commented; it had been his idea. "Besides, STAR Gaming and Toys need a better headquarters. We're also going to make a shop at the bottom for our merchandise only – plus, a virtual experience."
Caitlin and Jesse turned their head to look at Kara at this, surprised she's signed off on this.
"What? He made good points," Kara said with a shrug.
"So, what's with you two?" Jesse asked. "I mean, you always dress nicely but you're wearing darker colors. Going to a funeral or something?"
"Close. We're going to a wake," Kara confirmed. "For Alice. A lab assistant here."
"The one that freak who loved Alice in Wonderland and had a monkey tried to brainwash to love him?" Jesse said.
"Bingo," Barry said pointing at Jesse.
"I thought she was on maternity leave," Caitlin voiced.
"She was," Kara said. "We were told she died. I guess child birth." Caitlin and Jesse frowned. "Don't worry about it. Jesse, you're pretty unsociable with everyone." Jesse gave a fist pump. "And Caitlin, you've been a little obsessive over the Nobel Prize."
"I find out if I won or lost tonight though," Caitlin reasoned. The ceremony took place in December, but Caitlin would find out if she won today.
"So, we're going to go and make a showing at the wake," Barry stated. "Caitlin can…?"
"Creator, Amelia's portal tracker shows a portal is about to open in the cave," Gideon's voice interrupted, and as she finished, the portal opened and out popped a Cisco.
"Junior?" Barry took a shot.
"Yeah," Vibe Junior said with a nod and Krypto gave a bark from his spot and so did Hex. "It's SuperEarth's week to give you your bribe. We really need a fourth Cisco in on this…" Junior turned to Caitlin. "We need you," Caitlin blinked. "Our Kara is in labor."
"Oh yeah, Amelia told us she was expecting again," Kara said. Amelia kept in contact with Mutant Kara's family the most.
"Your Caitlin is capable of delivering a baby," Caitlin pointed out, confused.
"She's in labor too," Junior stated. "And since that one is half-Daxamite we were hoping you could deliver both…?"
"I'm going to need a hand," Caitlin said, getting into midwife-mode right away.
"Prime Caitlin?" Barry asked.
"No," Caitlin said. "She didn't deliver Skye; she was pregnant at the time too and isn't into the whole midwife thing like me. I know, Junior go to New Justice and get their Kara," that caused the room to go silent. "She's a vet. She's handled births before and a human birth's not that different. With me there, she's all the help I need. Kara and Barry, watch Gar. Ronnie is doing that experiment at Little STAR. Junior, send me to my patients now," Caitlin was all business as Junior opened a portal that Caitlin went through.
"I wonder if their Frankie will take the fourth weeks of bribes for Krypto and Hex?" Junior voiced as he opened another portal.
"I wouldn't bet on it," Kara said as Junior left now. "Well, I guess all three kids are coming to the wake with us." Kara stated, going to grab the girls as Barry put on Garfield's hologram projector. "You know, Caitlin and Ronnie are thinking of enrolling Gar in preschool next year." Garfield was 2 and going to be 3 in January after all.
"We're keeping the girls out until they are at least 5, right? Home school?" Barry asked and Kara gave a nod as they led the kids out.
"Dodged a bullet there," Jesse said to herself after Kara and Barry had gone, afraid she would have been asked to help with either the birth or watching the kids. Jesse pushed a button. "Hey Wally, Young Justice is going to help the DEO with that alien gang, right?"
"Yeah," Wally's voice came through the coms.
"Need a hand? You are kind of low on girls now Karen quit," Jesse said, and Wally laughed at this.
"Sure thing. Could always do with seeing my girl," Wally commented as Jesse smirked, grabbing her suit and running out.
-Mutant Earth-
On Mutant Earth, Karry's Caitlin was checking over both Kara and her alternate self when the portal opened, and Vibe Junior showed up with another Kara – New Justice's Kara Lane.
"You know I am a vet, right?" Kara Lane asked Karry Caitlin without even saying hello.
"It's the same principal you're used to," Caitlin stated, and Kara Lane gave a nod and chuckle. "Look, Kara Kent is closer than my alternative. I just need you to watch their Caitlin for now."
"Got it," Kara Lane said, moving over to the other pregnant woman now.
"Hey." Kara Lane gave Mutant Caitlin a smile, who then yelled out in pain as she grabbed Mon's hand. Mon didn't move at his wife's squeeze, barely feeling it.
"You've got some time," Kara Lane said, knowing that as she checked. "Caitlin, how is everything going over there?"
"Kara's still got some time too," Caitlin said with a nod.
-Karry Universe-
Kara and Barry entered the room, trying to keep hold of all the kids.
"Mr. and Ms. Allen," a voice called, and Kara and Barry turned to see a man holding a baby; the two assuming this was Alice's husband. "I wasn't expecting you. I thought it was just nice you sent flowers."
"Well, Alice was a valued employee. We're so sorry for your loss," Kara said.
"Sowy," Alura, Nora, and Gar all repeated, continuing to repeat the word though, but actually getting better with the r sound as they did.
"Sorry about them too," Barry said. He was holding both Alura and Nora who clearly wanted down while Kara had Garfield.
"It's fine," the husband said. "You have three kids?"
"Two are ours," Kara said. "Garfield, we're babysitting. Can I ask what happened?"
"It's so awful," the husband said. "I walked in and Cam here was crying; and I found Alice on the floor. Blood everywhere," Kara and Barry felt each other's shock.
"She was murdered?" Barry asked, his shock must have been clear.
"You didn't know?" The husband asked. "Yes, and the person has not been found. I just can't understand why…" A woman came up and hugged the man at this, seeing the tears and Kara and Barry once again said sorry, excusing themselves going over to the body. It was open coffin, so she wasn't badly mutilated.
Murdered, Kara thought to Barry as Garfield mumbled in her arms. Alura and Nora seemed to respond back in their own little mumbles.
Something's not right here, Barry thought back. The two knowing they had to investigate.
-Mutant Earth-
It was about a half hour after Karry's Caitlin and New Justice's Kara Lane arrived that Kara Kent had given birth – to a boy. Barry and Kara Kent were admiring their new son as both doctor and vet were now by Caitlin.
"First births take longer," Caitlin assured her double.
"I know," Mutant Caitlin responded with a nod.
"You're almost ready to push. Kara Lane, can you go check on your double?" Karry's Caitlin asked.
Kara Lane gave a nod and went over just as Kara Kent screamed out again.
"Um… Caitlin!" Kara Lane called. "There's another baby."
"What?" Kara Kent asked, wincing in labor pain.
"Damn she's having twins," Caitlin said as her alternate screamed out again.
"How did you not know this?" Kara Lane asked.
"Ultrasounds don't work on Kryptonians with powers," Caitlin said quickly. "How far is she?" It had been a little over half hour since the boy had been born.
"Looks ready to push," Kara Lane said.
"So is my double," Caitlin said. "Barry-White go give your son over to Cisco or someone so Kara Kent can break your hands."
"She really will," Barry-White said, a little pale. "Mon, want to take my wife and I'll take yours?"
"That's not a bad idea," Mon said.
"Yeah Barry will hurt when I squeeze," Mutant Caitlin moaned in pain.
"Oh, just do it!" Kara Kent ordered, "and fast, Stalker." Barry ran out with the baby and returned moments later going next to Caitlin, taking her hand as Mon took Kara's Kent.
"Okay, both of you need to push. Lane, you got this?" Karry Caitlin asked.
"Got it," Kara Lane said.
Another half an hour later and a lot of screaming from both the women, and both babies had been born.
"A girl!" Barry said with a smile. Caitlin had really done a number on his hand, but it was healed already. "I've got a little princess."
"Something tells me someone will be spoiled," Kara Kent muttered as her alternate handed her her daughter. Kara Kent mouthed a 'thank you', which Kara Lane took with a nod.
"You okay?" Karry Caitlin asked, taking Kara Lane aside as both fathers went to see their daughters. Caitlin had also given birth to a girl.
"Yeah," Kara Lane said with a smile and nod. "That was something else."
"Maybe you should have been a doctor instead of a vet," Caitlin voiced, but Kara Lane laughed.
"No, I love my animals too much," Kara Lane insisted.
-Karry Universe-
Back on Karry Universe, Barry was on the phone with Joe as they entered the SuperFlash Cave.
"Yeah Joe, could you pull the file and send it?" Barry asked.
"Hey," a voice spoke and the two looked over to the voice; Rae was sitting on one of the chairs, her feet up on the other. She was in normal jeans and a white shirt instead of her Flash outfit. Her dog Clarky was playing with toys while Krypto looked on. Hex was on Rae's lap, getting pets.
"Rain!" Alura and Nora yelled out.
"No," Rae said sitting up quickly. Hex moving off at the movement. "You two are not Cat Grant-ing me. It's Rae."
"Rain," the two argued and Rae laughed as Gar joined in, shouting 'Rain' too.
"What are you doing here?" Kara asked as Barry continued his conversation with Joe on the phone.
"Well your Caitlin needed my Kara, so I felt like it was time for the traditional crossover," Rae joked, making Kara raise an eyebrow. "There was only Krypto and Hex here when I arrived. By the way, a random steak and fish appeared through a portal just before you got here."
"Yeah that's a bribe," Kara said. "Don't ask." Rae laughed.
"So, what's going on?" Rae asked as Barry had asked Gideon to bring up the file Joe sent, hanging up on his foster dad.
"One of our employees was murdered," Barry said.
"Seriously?" Rae asked, standing up and looking serious.
"First Jenkins, then Karen was kidnapped, and now Alice," Kara said.
"What have I missed?" Rae asked, going to look at the screen.
"Look, as far as we know these three cases are not related," Barry reasoned. "I mean we have an old man, a young woman, and a teenage girl. They are not exactly the same type and they don't exactly have anything in common."
"Two of them have worked for STAR," Kara pointed out.
"Seriously?" Rae asked.
"Jenkins was under fake-Wells; Alice started working here when we reopened; and Karen never worked here. She's just your cousin… well clone, but the world thinks cousin," Barry stated. "Plus, Jenkins' murderer left a message in blood, Karen kidnappers took her to a different location without reason, and Alice's was a simple murder. No weird message… Just lots of blood."
"Is that a foot print in the blood?" Rae asked, having sped to Barry's side now to look at the screen, the images from Alice's murder to view.
"Husband's footprint. He ran through the blood when he came home," Barry said. "But cops checked him out – solid alibi. Hm… I need three different white boards." Barry turned. "I am going to print out the evidence from the two murders and one kidnapping. See if I can make connections. Like I did with my mom's murder all those years ago."
"Have fun," Kara said, turning around for the exit into the normal labs.
"You're not going to help?" Barry asked, seeming hurt.
"I'm more a 'look there's a big bad guy, punch them' type of person and as you like to remind people, you were once the CSI. Seems like this is a job for you," Kara stated, walking out with Krypto running after her, but thinking to Barry, Besides, I need to have that press conference about why we bought the old Mercury Labs building and what we're doing with it.
Barry giggled at that, understanding the press conference side of things at least.
"Well we don't need her; we have two speedsters here," Barry said, smiling to Rae.
"You were a CSI?" Rae asked, making Barry frown.
"Um… yeah," Barry said. "You going to help?"
"Honestly Barry I'm more an 'order around the people who can do this and make plans for wars and stuff' kind of girl," Rae said. "I'm going to take these two speedsters here," Rae ran and grabbed hold of Alura and Nora who laughed, "up to your fancy speed lab and show them what it means to be born a speedster. Gideon, can I get a portal to their watchtower?"
"Right away," Gideon's voice spoke, and a zap tunnel opened, Rae taking the twins and Clarky following them.
"Bye, bye," Gar said sadly waving his hand and looking like he was about to cry his friends were gone.
"Aw Gar," Barry said, picking the boy up and hugging him. "Who needs them? Me and you will figure this one out." Barry kissed Gar and then tickled his stomach to make the boy laugh.
-Mutant Earth-
"Well both moms are comfortable, and all three babies are good," Kara Lane summed up; since the births, they had taken care of everything for after the births and checked on the babies. "Right?" Kara Lane looked at Karry's Caitlin who was looking over her counterpart's and Mon's daughter. Looking into her eyes and feeling her skin.
"Just one bit of news," Caitlin said, taking the girl and bring her to her mother. "I got to tell you two. Your daughter is a meta human."
"But… I'm not a meta human," Mutant Caitlin voiced, seeming stunned as she held her daughter.
"Doesn't matter. You were in Central when the accelerator blew. You had dark matter in your system," Karry Caitlin stated. "That Dark matter could have mutated you at any time. You passed it down and it mutated your daughter and well… she takes after us."
"Us?" Mutant Caitlin asked.
"She didn't have to get one of the powers we can get, as your Kara and Barry Griffin shows," Karry Caitlin said, knowing that while Griffin did get a meta human power it had not been speed. "But like Alura and Nora, and Rae show the children can take the same powers as their parents, for us we seem to have five different ways our DNA can mutate. Like me it can be natured-based." Caitlin held out her hand and had plants grow just to show. "Or like Prime, it can be weather."
"Our Caitlin has fire," Kara Lane pointed out. "And one on Different Power controlled the water."
"Thank you," Karry Caitlin said. "And then there's the ice powers."
"No," Mutant Caitlin said quickly, and Mon put an arm around her.
"Yes," Karry Caitlin said. "Your daughter got the same ice powers of my twin sister; and I know you have bad experience with Killer Frost, but those powers don't necessarily mean evil. Yes, they can have an unusual effect on the brain, but we can monitor her and correct it. She'll be fine I promise… and if you can't trust yourself who can you trust?" She tried to lighten the situation.
"What about her Daxamite half?" Mon asked.
"We don't know yet how or if those powers will show," Karry Caitlin stated. "Just like Kryptonian powers, it will take a while for her to be able to hold the sunlight – usually a month. It's possible the frost powers will either block it or weaken it though. It's a wait-and-see game." Caitlin confirmed, and Mon nodded, understanding.
"Thanks for coming," it was Barry-White speaking up. "But I think we got this handled from here."
"Just one thing," Kara Lane said curious and wanting to know before she left. "What are their names?"
"Well our girl here is Zoey Kent," Kara Kent said smiling. She had both babies in her arms. "For my dad. Zor."
"And sticking with a Z, our son is Zane," Barry said with a smile.
"Harmony," Mutant Caitlin said, rocking the girl.
Kara Kent smiled.
"Beautiful names," Karry Caitlin said. "If you need me again, you know where I am. Junior?"
"Here," Cisco, Junior, said from the other room. "Your Rae is on Karry so I'll send you both there. Oh, by the way Kara Lane, what's up with your me, Frankie? I tried contacting him to see if he would be the fourth Cisco in on bribing Krypto and Hex but he seems MIA."
"Bribing?" Kara Lane asked, frowning at Cisco as Karry's Caitlin laughed. "You know what, I don't want to know. But Frankie's got into a bit of trouble. It's a long story and involves the devil. Literally. He's fine but you might need to find someone else to bribe a dog and cat."
Junior made a face but opened a portal for the two to Karry and the pair left.
-Karry Universe-
When Caitlin and Kara Lane came out of the portal it was Barry with a green bird on his shoulder, a marker in his hands, and three whiteboards around him who greeted them. The whiteboards had different pictures on them and words.
"What's going on?" Caitlin asked.
"Alice was murdered," Barry said, shocking Caitlin. "So now I'm trying to figure out who, what, why, how and coming up blank." Garfield flew off his shoulder and right to his mom. Caitlin smiling as her son transformed back, and she had to catch him.
"Where's Rae?" Kara Lane asked.
"She's coming back," Gideon's voice stated, and a zap tunnel opened; Rae coming out, now in her speed force outfit with her helmet on her head. She had both Alura and Nora holding her hands; the two smiling and jumping up and down.
"Ran off their energy or gained some new?" Barry asked as Rae went right to her Kara and kissed her.
"A little of both," Rae teased.
A minute later, Kara Allen came back, having heard through Barry's mind that everyone was back.
"So Barry, is at a dead end," Kara Allen said, and Barry pouted. "Tell us about the babies?" She turned to Caitlin.
"Two girls and one boy born on Mutant," Caitlin said. "My alternate had a girl named Harmony. Barry-White and Kara Kent had twins Zane and Zoey."
"Over halfway to the 5 they want," Barry said with a smile as Caitlin's cellphone rang, Caitlin going to grab it.
"It's the Nobel Committee!" Caitlin said, suddenly panicky, and making the two from New Justice look at each other. "It's way too early."
"Answer it," Kara Allen and Barry said together.
Caitlin pressed the answer button and put the phone to her ear.
She listened for a bit, nodded, and kept saying 'yes'.
"Thank you," Caitlin said, hanging it up and looking at the phone. "I… I won. I have a Nobel Prize."
"Yes!" Kara Allen said, going to hug Caitlin. "I knew the expert in meta humans would get it!" Kara Allen commented as Barry hugged her too.
"Congrats Wild Fire," Rae said.
"That's… not my superhero name," Caitlin said, correcting Rae.
"Sorry, habit," Rae said, having done the same with Prime Caitlin a while back. "Remind me, what is your hero name?"
"I don't..," Caitlin started but was interrupted by both Kara and Barry.
"Mother Nature," the couple chorused, Caitlin going red.
"Of course," Rae smirked, looking at them. "I think we're going to go home. I'll see you soon." The two said their goodbyes, by which time Rae and Kara Lane stood on the X on the floor, Gideon sending back to New Justice.
"I've got to go tell Ronnie," Caitlin spoke up.
"And I've got to get the press ready," Kara said, and Caitlin blinked.
"Didn't you do that already?" Caitlin asked.
"You're STAR Labs Nobel winner. The longest running employee of the labs too. We're making a big deal out of this. So go, get yourself ready. The media will be all over you and I will be there to help." Caitlin suddenly seemed nervous as Kara put an arm around her. "You'll be fine," Kara reassured her.
"I'll still be trying to figure this out," Barry called, tossing the marker at the board making the three kids laugh.
"Dada!" Alura said making Barry turn his head. "Aunty Rae has best speed." Nora continued.
"What?" Barry asked.
"I think Rae trained them to say 'Aunt Rae's the best speedster', but they are having troubles with 'speedster'," Kara voiced, and Barry blinked as the girls laughed and then Caitlin and Kara joined in. Barry rolled his eyes but then chuckled himself.
Post Chapter Note: This chapter was weirdly difficult for me to write. Sigma did his best to edit it. We hope it came out good.
Next Time on Karry Universe:
Out of the Blue- An unexpected visitor from a new world shows up, helping Barry figure out about their murders and kidnapping case. Meanwhile, Ray finds a new associate in Gotham.
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