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Sweet and Sour Victory
-Beginning of September-
Barry sat at the Lake House looking at a page of Rae's journal.
Star and Romana were back at school and both were very happy; since they were now three, Alura and Nora were getting more home schooling too. Garfield had entered pre-k already, so the two were upset that they didn't have their friend anymore at the lab, where Kara currently was, running it full time and keeping an eye on all their businesses – especially making sure their STAR Toys and Games store was doing well. So far it was.
"Barry world kicked him out," Barry said firmly, looking at the words on Rae's journal. They were trying to decode more of it and Barry was very certain he had this sentence right.
"Are you sure it's not Barry left his world?" Nash asked, still at the Lake House with his daughters.
"Why?" Barry asked the person who couldn't even understand a word of this language.
"Because there is literally a word on your system, SuperFlash, where Barry abandoned his former world, Dark, to live there," Nash said annoyed.
"There is?" Barry asked, putting the book down and standing up.
"You don't know this system, well do you?" Nash asked, it having become very obvious to him that, despite the normal worlds that they were friends with, this world didn't know much of others on the system.
"That's more a Prime thing," Barry shrugged, knowing Prime Earth kept better tabs on the multiverse than they.
"A-ban-don," Barry turned to see Alura and Nora were at the journal; Alura was pointing at a word on the page.
Barry frowned and took the book from them.
"Oh, they are right. This says Barry abandoned his world," Barry said, it suddenly becoming clear since Alura had pointed it out.
"Can we teach these three-year-olds to read fast?" Nash asked, frowning at that. "Or at least get a Rachel Garrick, or other naturally-born speedster here?"
"New Justice Rae is kind of busy," Barry dismissed, and Nash gave him a look. "She's our go-to Rae. Besides, I don't know other naturally born speedsters old enough to read this. Don't worry, I've got this. Maybe with a little help from them…" Barry took the book, nodding to his daughters.
"Well, we know a world now. We can go," Maya said, having been listening in.
"Someone's got to watch the kids," Cara pointed out, following Maya, seeing Alura and Nora. Barry had brought them today while Kara stayed at STAR. "I'll stay here with them."
"You sure you can handle then?" Nash asked, raising an eyebrow at his daughter.
"I got this, dad," Cara rolled her eyes at this as Nash chuckled.
Kara, we're heading off-world. Want to come real fast? Barry thought to his wife.
Got too much here. Cara can watch the girls for a bit, Kara thought, obviously having listened in. Besides, the pair trusted the group from Bounty. For one, the Rae, Kara, and Barry of Bounty trusted them and besides, they had been on Karry for several weeks now and had been nothing but friendly. They trusted them alone with the kids by now.
"Thanks Cara, Hex will probably stay here too," Barry said. The cat had joined Barry that day but was sleeping on the couch. A tiny meow was heard as Nash used his world hopping device to program where to go and open a portal. Nash, Barry, and Maya going through leaving Cara with Alura, Nora, and Hex.
-SuperFlash-
The DEO of SuperFlash was full of activity when the portal opened; Barry, Nash, and Maya came out to see Barry's older alternate and Kara there – this world was six years ahead of their normal worlds, after all. There was also a younger girl who looked like Kara; Barry assuming this was their version of Karen, along with a young boy who looked a lot like Jason but also different in a way. Caitlin was present there too.
"Nope, not them," SuperFlash's Caitlin said, looking at the group and seeming upset they were not whoever this world wanted.
"Sorry to disappoint," Barry-Blue said, frowning. "But we need to ask you something. Well…" Barry looked at his alternate. His outfit was the same as Mutant's, who hadn't changed his in a while. "Barry White-Three."
"What?" Barry White-Three blinked at this.
"Nicknames to tell each other apart," Barry-Blue dismissed.
"That's stupid," Barry White-Three said and Barry-Blue frowned. He knew other worlds didn't use the nicknames – except maybe Mutant – but it had become a thing for Karry and no other world had downright called it stupid; in fact, both Prime and Mutant enjoyed the nicknames when around Karry.
"Have you seen this girl?" Maya took Barry-Blue's cellphone from him and showed the picture of Rae.
"No," Barry White-Three dismissed, barely looking at it.
"I'm sorry, no," Kara spoke up, moving over. She was holding a baby that seemed to be only a couple of months old, and by her was also an older boy who was definitely her son and a small girl.
"New baby?" Barry-Blue asked.
"This is our youngest, Bartholomew Henry Allen Junior. We call him Bart though," Kara said.
"Seriously?" Barry-Blue asked. He had never liked his full name and would never name his son that.
"He inherited my speed," Barry White-Three smiled a little. "And we have two problems on our hands right now."
"We are kind of trying to stop the end of the multiverse," Nash spoke up. "If I could use your computers to see if I can figure out when our friend came here…?"
"Feel free," Kara said, and Nash went to the computers.
"Anyway," Barry-White-Three dismissed, moving off and away as Barry-Blue glanced to the Kara of this world.
"What's your husband's problem?" Barry-Blue asked, eyeing his counterpart.
"He's usually nicer than this. Just in a lot of stress," Kara sighed. "There are two problems we are dealing with; one is a bit personal… it has to do with his birth world."
"See, we came here to visit," Caitlin spoke up.
"You're not from this world?" Barry-Blue asked, looking over them – the young Karen-lookalike and her younger sort-of Jason were worried and sticking close to Caitlin. It dawned on Barry-Blue the young boy must be Clark or a young Kal.
"We have two Karas," Barry White-Three pointed out, indicating the younger Kara and older Kara that were there.
"I thought the young one was a clone," Barry-Blue stated, making the young Kara look at him with a raise eyebrow.
"A clone? Why would you go to clones when the multiverse is around? Who even heard of a full-grown clone?" Barry White-Three said making Barry-Blue glare at him.
"My earth has three full-grown clones – one of Kara and two of Clark who are my family," Barry-Blue said. "And Prime Earth Kara is a clone of Kara too, who is that worlds' full-time Supergirl," he knew she was Power Girl on that world, but calling her Supergirl here was easier, given this older Kara was definitely a Supergirl.
Barry White-Three seemed a little lost for words there and mumbled a sorry.
"The point is, when we tried to go back the system didn't connect," Caitlin said. "We've been trying to call and get through, but we have nothing."
"And the second problem is with our Kandor," Barry-White-Two called out, Barry-Blue refraining from rolling his eyes at the unfriendly manner this double gave out.
"We found the shrunken city of Kandor and unshrunk it," Kara filled in. "It's now a part of the United States," Barry-Blue raised an eyebrow at that; while they had plans to unshrink Kandor, they planned on giving the Kryptonians their own planet eventually – not integrating them into Earth. Barry was unsure how that would even work, integrating an alien race into the country "Queen Rhea of Daxam randomly arrived in it. We were happy at first because on our Earth Krypton and Daxam were allies, but it wasn't our Rhea… she came from the multiverse and brought an army with her. The city is over run. Worst still, Alex was in the city so the DEO doesn't have our leader. We have the city surrounded but Rhea is threatening to kill everyone unless we return her Mik to her. We don't have her Mik. We don't even know who Mik is."
"Oh," Barry-Blue blinked at this, quickly connecting the dots here. "We know who does!" He knew there was Mik on Beautiful Earth, and by the sounds of it, he had to be related to this Rhea. "Can I use your system? We need to get a Vibe here… and I think Vibe Junior isn't doing anything," Kara gave a nod as Barry-Blue moved over to a free computer to call Mutant Earth.
It was barely a second after hanging up from talking to Mutant Cisco when the portal opened, and the familiar Cisco jumped through.
"You're lucky Kayla is taking a break on twin," Vibe Junior said when he arrived. "We've been doing a lot of world hopping with her… and I did a quick vibe and this is definitely the Queen Rhea from New Daxam."
"New Daxam?" It was Maya who asked this, having been quiet so far.
"An Earth me and Kayla visited a while back – a Daxamite invasion took over the Earth and killed the Kryptonians," Vibe Junior informed. "And all the other heroes were killed too, besides meta humans who went underground. Now the metas their Accord can make, led by their Rae and their Barry fight back against the Daxamites. We didn't include them on the system because well…"
"We can't get involved," Barry-Blue said with a nod, remembering Nazi Earth at this.
"Yeah… well," Junior muttered, not quite meeting Barry-Blue's eyes as he continued. "It seems the meta human resistance has had a couple of victories lately. From what I can tell, from my spying, they managed to break out a multiverse Rae the Daxamites were experimenting on and threw her into the multiverse to save her," Vibe Junior explained. "I didn't even know they had one when we went there."
"Beautiful's new Rae," Barry-Blue said, and Vibe Junior nodded.
"Rhea doesn't have her whole army here though; most are still home guarding the Daxamites cities. Do you want to call Hero Earth's multiverse army in?" Vibe Junior asked.
"Multiverse army?" Barry White-Three asked.
"Well, it's somewhat defunct these days, but I'm sure there Rae, Roe, Mon and Jal would be happy to come over and help," Junior mused.
"Wait, that would…" Barry-White-Two started, having moved over to listen to the conversation
"I don't think we need that right now," Barry-Blue said, ignoring his double's eyeroll. "I made a deal with Nazi Earth to leave the multiverse alone. How much harder can Daxamites be, especially since we have their Mik? Vibe Junior, go to Beautiful, keep a watch on me. Bring him to me when I need the leverage."
"Wait who put you in charge?" Barry White-Three rounded on Barry-Blue.
"You're right. This is your world," Barry-Blue said, realizing he was overstepping now as Junior raised an eyebrow. "But do you want me to get rid of this Daxamite invasion or not?"
"I think the multiverse army is a good idea," Barry White-Three countered, nodding to Junior.
"Barry," Kara said. "That's Kandor. If he can get the Daxamites to leave and go home, it would be safer for everyone," Barry White-Three gave a scowl, but then nodded to his wife. "I'll lead you to Kandor," Kara handed little Bart to Barry White-Three and then flew out, Barry-Blue nodded to Junior before going to follow.
-Karry Universe-
Barry-Blue and Kara ran into Kandor and find where Queen Rhea was, overtaking the center of the city; her army of Daxamites weren't that huge but enough to scare and intimidate, keeping the other Kryptonians away.
"Where is Mik?" Queen Rhea said.
"You came to the wrong Earth," Barry-Blue said rolling his eyes at this Queen. "Your Mik is imprisoned on another Earth."
"Well bring him to me or…" Queen Rhea began.
"Or what?" Barry asked. "You might be the Queen Bee on your world, but in the multiverse it's a different story. The only reason the multiverse has not sent people to your world to help the resistance is because we do not interfere with other Earths policies. But here's the thing. You just invaded another Earth. That's a whole new ball game."
"Ball game?" Queen Rhea asked, raising an eyebrow.
"It means you are now facing the multiverse," Barry-Blue stated. "And our restrictions, our morals, that stop us from invading your world and overthrowing you doesn't apply now. Meaning, with one word I can get an army here. The multiverse is united with over 30 worlds. If we send out a call for help and Flashes, Supergirls – hell even version of your son Mon – plus others comes to this world, how long do you think this little army you brought here will survive?"
"Why don't you do it?" Queen Rhea countered, a small smirk on her face.
"Because… I am giving you a chance," Barry-Blue said, and at that, a portal opened. Vibe Junior came through with Mik, who went to step towards his mom, but Barry-Barry put a hand on him, stopping him from going forward, vibrating it in front of Mik.
"Move and you're dead." Barry-Blue warned the man, who seemed to know not to risk it. "I give him to you, and you leave this Earth – and you ever wander off your world again, try to invade another Earth, we'll not only kick you off that Earth we'll come to yours and help your meta human resistance finish what you started."
"You wouldn't," Queen Rhea faltered at this.
"If you won't leave us alone, we won't leave you alone," Barry-Blue said. "Test me. I dare you. Junior, portal for them please."
Vibe Junior nodded, creating a large portal.
"This is to your home world," Vibe Junior stated.
"Take it," Barry-Blue said, "and don't ever come back here or to another world again."
"And how do I know this will take me where you say?" Queen Rhea eyed both men.
"Open your own portal then," Vibe Junior said seeming offended he was not trusted, closing the portal.
Rhea frowned but took a device from her person and a similar portal opened. The Daxamite Army seemed to know on instinct what their queen wanted and started to retreat through.
"My son?" Rhea said when the army was gone; Barry-Blue lowered his hand and Mik moved to his mother, who pushed him through the portal without a word.
"You win, for now," Rhea said. "But despite this moral code you say you have; I know some of you have helped the resistance already." Vibe Junior tried not to react. "This isn't over, and if I see anyone from any other Earth on my Earth, well what we did to that little speedster will be nice." Queen Rhea gave on final glare before going through the portal, which closed behind her.
"I knew I shouldn't have let Kayla go that far that time," Vibe Junior said, shaking his head. The line they could not and could cross had blurred on that little mission. "Not that she would have taken no for an answer…"
"Supergirl," it as Alex coming up – and she had some Kryptonian man on his side. "Is everything…?"
"Everything is fine now," Kara said to her sister. She had just been there to observe, and she was glad she was.
"I'm going to teleport back to the DEO," Alex said turning to run to somewhere else.
"We should go back too," Barry-Blue said.
"I could just open a portal," Vibe Junior said, opening the portal for the group but Alex was already too far away, and Kara shrugged, going through the portal with Vibe Junior and Barry-Blue.
-Karry Universe-
"Well, I guess we're lucky your dumb idea worked," Barry White-Three bemoaned, and Barry-Blue rolled his eyes at this. "Now that we have a Cisco here though…"
"Can you open us a portal home?" Caitlin asked, Cisco seeming to finish Barry White-Three thoughts.
"Dark Earth, right?" Vibe Junior asked. "How's that Bi Barry working out? He ever get into Oliver's pants?"
"Yeah. Oliver is actually gay and was using Felicity as a beard – he was in love with our Barry, apparently," Caitlin said giving Barry White-Three a playful look who paused, shocked at that. "He's also slept with Jesse, Roy, Iris, Adrian Chase…"
"And you," the young Kara said, and Caitlin blushed a bit.
"Well, let me just…" Vibe Junior paused as he tried to open a portal. "Oh." Vibe Junior paused, but then went to the computer to check the system. "Damn… I've got some bad news – it seems Dark is another world that's gone due to Crisis."
"Crisis?" Barry White-Three asked.
"Another?" Barry-Blue asked instead.
"Can you answer the Crisis thing first?" Kara asked.
"End of the multiverse," Maya stated. She had stayed to help her dad do research and see if she could use her own world hopping device to get to Dark – it not working to open a portal at all.
"We have been getting warnings that something big is about to happen. Something that will put the entire multiverse in danger," Barry-Blue added. "It's in fact why we are here. We're tracking down a book a friend left behind on a world she visited – and she came here. We think this book could be the key to stopping Crisis." Barry-Blue turned to Vibe Junior. "Now what do you mean by another?"
"Well, as you know," Vibe Junior said to Barry-Blue. "New Justice Rae and Prime Barry agreed to work for the Speed Force in exchange for information the Speed Force has about Crisis – she assigned them missions that has to do with their alternates, usually. Their second mission was to Lantern – and they failed. I'm tracking the multiverse through our four main A.I's too and we've lost more too; SnowAllen and Nazi Earth… now I'm sorry to tell you it seems the same thing has happened to Dark Earth."
"How did it happen? Did Rae and Barry get any information?" Barry-Blue frowned to this.
"Anti-Matter. Not only them, but what I'm tracking is showing a wave of anti-matter spreading across the multiverse… slowly for now, but it's getting faster. My guess is becoming stronger as crisis gets closers," Cisco said.
"And you don't have a defense to this?" Barry White-Three rounded on Cisco at this. "Tell the rest of the multiverse!"
"Whoa there, Barry White-Three!" Junior raised his arms up at this Barry. "As far as we can tell, the only defense is a speedster," Vibe Junior said, "although they have to be vibrating at the same frequency of that Earth to do anything good," Barry White-Three looked down at this. "Don't feel guilty; you've been on this Earth so long I doubt you're even vibrating the same as your home world anymore."
"But I can't figure it out," Nash spoke up. "The date Rae was here… It corresponds to nothing."
"Can I see the photo again?" Barry White-Three asked, a little kinder now to Maya, who still had the phone. "I do know her… sort of," he admitted at seeing the picture. "About a month after I came here permanently. I was feeling a bit guilty, I was going to see if I could make a way to portal between my world and this so, I could live here and still protect them. I was running, trying to do it when she showed up almost out of nowhere. She was annoyingly powerful for her age."
"That's her," Nash said, making eyes turn to him. "What Rachel Garricks are annoying and powerful?" He smirked at this
"She told me to forget my world. That if I went back there, I was dead," Barry White-Three said. "That the Speed Force wanted me here, that I was meant to be here. It was an easy out for me – I wanted to stay here too. It took away guilt over not trying or wanting to go back."
"You never told me this," Kara said, putting an arm around her husband.
"Did she give you a book?" Nash asked, showing a picture of the book he once had in his possession.
"No," Barry White-Three said. "But she did have it on her… she was carrying it. I asked about it because the writing looked weird, yet somehow familiar. She told me it was not my concern and then left. I never even knew her name."
"Well, it's not here," Nash sighed. "Two out of five worlds."
"Well, we know it's not here, so better get going then," Barry-Blue said and paused, looking over his double. "You know, Rae was working for the Speed Force. If she told you going home would have led to your death, then it was right. There's no need to feel guilt over it. You have too beautiful of a family to feel guilty over it."
"Thanks," Barry White-Three said, nodding slightly.
"Even if you named your youngest son horribly," Barry-Blue added, and Barry White-Three rolled his eyes. "I think your Caitlin, Kara, and Kal needs a new home though."
"They are welcome to stay here," Kara said smiling at the three; after the new information, Caitlin had brought them aside to tell them their fateful news, but she turned at that. "Mom and dad are already helping Sam; I am sure they would love another daughter and a son."
"Sam?" Barry-Blue asked.
"Arias. Long story," Kara waved this off.
"Right," Barry-Blue dismissed this before turning to Junior. "Vibe Junior thanks for coming."
"No problem," Vibe Junior said. "Think I got to contact my Prime counterpart and see if we can find a way to stop New Daxam and maybe even Villain Earth from being able to jump worlds… just in case," with that, Vibe Junior opened a portal and left, just as Nash used his device to open a portal back to Karry.
"Later," Maya waved them off as Barry and Nash had already moved through the portal.
"I didn't really like that world," Barry White-Three mumbled once they were gone.
"You were just in a bad mood," Kara said, kissing her husband.
-Karry Universe-
Barry had left the Lake House the minute they got back, taking the girls back to STAR Labs.
"You know, I didn't really like that world," Barry said, sharing the memories of the world with Kara.
Well, we're not naming our son after you when we have one, Kara joked with Barry in her head.
Wouldn't dream of it. Besides, I like the name we already picked out, Barry thought back and the two smiled at that.
"So, the book is still missing?" Caitlin asked.
"Yep," Barry with a sad nod. "We know she had it on SuperFlash. Unfortunately, that doesn't rule out any of the other three worlds we haven't checked yet," they had been somewhat hopeful that SuperFlash might be the one, but it was before all the three they haven't checked in Rae's diary.
"Oh well, back to square one," Jesse spoke up.
"Not necessarily," Caitlin said. "Square one would be having to check 5 worlds. You only have to check 3. Progress. Even if it's slow progress."
"The slowest part is figuring out which world she visited," Barry voiced. "You know we have a world on this system called Different Power where the sun is blue?" Barry shook his head at their reaction. "Thankfully, I don't think that's one of the three."
You'll figure it out, Kara thought to her husband, sending him some confidence to which he smiled. He would figure it out.
Post Chapter Note: You know, I kind of enjoy the two perfect worlds not getting along – I hope you liked that too, it was different. Not all worlds get along, after all.
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Barry in Wonderland: Our multiverse explorers head to a new world where that Barry is having a little crisis of his own – but things get even worse when another speedster enters the picture, seeming to try to be helping Barry in the worst way possible…
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