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Barry in Wonderland
-End September-
Kara and Barry sat in the Lake House as Barry continued to try and decode the last three worlds in the journal; Nash was getting frustrated with the slow progress, but Cara and Maya were being pleasant about it – both taking advantage of the Lake House, lake itself and local nearby town. And of course, what Karry had to offer. Nash went back to Bounty every so often, so to take care of things in his shop.
"Okay what we have here?" Nash said, appearing out of a portal, back from his world. "Is this one is making no sense?" Nash pointed at one of the pages. "And you have some ideas on these two. Where are the little girls?"
"Alura, Nora?" Kara called, ignoring Nash's attitude, and going to get their girls. "How about we help daddy?"
"Dada," Alura and Nora said as they were put on Barry's lap, Barry showing them on of the pages.
"Now this said Barry moves after disaster," Barry said, sure of that line. He was not on the page that made absolutely no sense as Nora and Alura could point out words, but not full sentences yet.
"No," Nora said, surprising Barry. "Bee."
"Barry moves after bee?" Barry asked that not seeming right. "A spelling bee? An actual bee…?"
"Tray," Alura added.
"Barry moved after bee and tray…" Barry mused. "Wait, betray… Isn't there an Earth called Betrayal?" Barry then turned to Nash and his daughters at this one.
"Yeah," Maya said, on a tablet already and looking over at the system. "After Eddie and Ronnie died stopping the Reverse Flash, everyone but Caitlin betrayed that Barry. He sold STAR Labs to Luthor Corp and moved to National to start a video game company."
"Nice," Barry nodded, making eyes turn to him except Kara, who giggled at her husband's thoughts of sharing video game tips with his alternate. "I mean nice that he started a game company, not nice he was betrayed…" he clarified for those confused, "but anyway, it seems to combine with what this said here." Barry was better at understanding the writing once he was sure what the history was. "I think it's time to visit Betrayal."
"Finally, moving forward," Nash said, taking out his world hopping device and opening a portal for them.
-Karry Universe-
On Betrayal, Barry Allen of this world was in his office along with Caitlin and his sister, Amelia – who went by 'Mally' here.
"How?" Barry was asking, looking between the two. "Just tell me how? How could this happen? Our firewalls are amazing! I made them myself."
"Someone hacked them," Caitlin sighed, shaking her head. "But they only leaked one thing."
"And it was the worst possible thing. Any game. Any game they could have leaked, and it wouldn't have been bad. But not that! It's like someone hacked our system with the intent to hurt me the most," Barry groaned, and then paused. "You don't think Cisco did this…?"
"Cisco does have the skills to do it," Caitlin reasoned. "It's a possibility. But any of our competitors could have done this. And let's not rule out someone in the general public, anyone who wanted sneak peaks at our new games."
"But…" Barry paused when a portal opened and from it came another version of him only with dark hair – as he was a blonde – along with a, Kara who was holding two babies, a Harrison Wells, and two other females the group did not know of. "Urgh, please this is not a good time," Betrayal Barry groaned.
"Barry?" Mally said, standing up. "Look at those two! Please, tell me they are yours and Barrys?" Kara blinked.
"Um yeah," Kara said recognizing the blonde Amelia from their trip to Canary. "Mia, right?"
"No, I go by Mally," Mally said and Kara blinked at the nickname. "Your me goes by Mia?"
"No, well technically our you is not you since she's Nora daughter not Cat's, but we know a version of you from Canary Earth," Kara confirmed.
"Ah well, give me the girls," Mally said, grabbing the two from Kara. Nora blew a freeze breath at Mally who laughed, but she moved fast when Alura's eyes lit up – Alura not letting out the heat vision, though.
"We're sorry to interrupt. Call me Barry-Blue," Karry's Barry said. He was in his Flash outfit now, so pointed out the blue background. "My wife, Kara Allen. Our kids, Nora and Alura. This is Nash and his daughters Cara and Maya. What's the background color on your symbol?"
"I don't really have one," the Barry of this world said, and showed a picture of him in his outfit. It was mostly dark blue, with a thick red lightning bolt emblazoned across the middle.
"Interesting," Barry-Blue said looking at it. "I could call you Barry Red-Two, but let's go with Barry-Blonde for your hair."
"What is with you and these nicknames?" Nash asked, rolling his eyes – annoyed at another instance of the weird nicknames only Karry seemed to use
"You know, not a bad way to tell us apart," Barry-Blonde said, ignoring Nash and causing Barry-Blue to smile while Nash groaned. "But, like I said, this is not really a good time."
"We probably should have called first," Cara spoke up. "But we just need to ask you something. This could help stop the end of the multiverse as we know it." That made everyone pause – even Mally, who was now playing with Alura and Nora. The two kids having fun and continually talking to the woman they didn't know but recognized in a way.
"That sounds more important," Caitlin reasoned to Barry-Blonde.
"Yeah," Barry-Blonde agreed with a sigh. "What's going on?"
"There is this crisis coming, a crisis to the entire multiverse, and my cousin had a book that might just be the key to stopping it," Barry-Blue explained. "But she's dead and she stashed a book on a world she went to with someone she knew. We managed to figure out she visited here. So, have you seen her…?" With this, Barry showed the picture of his Rae he had been taking around the multiverse.
"Sorry," Barry-Blonde said after he examined the picture. "Caitlin?"
"No," Caitlin said, shaking her head, having looked at it too.
"Anything happen on this date?" Nash asked, holding the diary to the group, and pointing at the date on top of the page.
"That's not long after the betrayal," Caitlin confirmed, knowing the date. "But a few months after. Dust had settled."
"Not long after my dad was released from jail, but not the same date. A bit before we moved to National," Barry-Blonde thought. "Nothing else."
"Mind if I use your computers to check?" Nash asked.
"Have fun," Caitlin said, with a shrug and handing the tablet she was holding to Nash.
"So, what's happening that's so bad?" Barry-Blue asked his blonde double.
"Ah this is the part where they ask about your problems, with your permission solve it, and they somehow always do," Maya spoke.
"We've studied the system. Somehow that always happens when multiverse visits," Cara added.
"This isn't something that can be easily solved," Barry-Blonde said. "But if you must know, I run a video game company."
"We do too," Barry-Blue said. "Well, it's a part of a bigger company. We're from Karry Universe, by the way. Well Kara, me and kids. They," he indicated Nash and his daughters, "are from Bounty Earth – we're working together on this." Barry-Blue realized they had not said which Earth they were from when they came, so wanted to correct this issue.
"Ah, so you're Karry. The others who came here mentioned you. Been meaning to ask about your world-hopping games," Barry-Blonde said. "But another time. You see, my company systems got hacked and they got hold of a game in our system."
"Oh, how bad?" Kara asked. They had leaks before with their games, but it had always been manageable.
"They took the worst possible thing," Barry-Blonde said looking down. "A private project of mine… The way I was going to propose to my Kara." Barry-Blonde turned his computer screen around and played the animated video of the Flash proposing to Supergirl. The words were very Barry and Kara though. "Lucky no one is actually thinking we're Supergirl and Flash and I just used the characters, but…."
"How big of a problem can this be?" Barry-Blue asked. It might be embarrassing but it wasn't something huge.
"Considering Kara is the first daughter of the United States…" Barry-Blonde sighed, making the Karry couple look at each other.
"What?" Kara asked. "Who took me in on this world?"
"Lex Luthor," Barry-Blonde, Caitlin and Mally spoke.
"And Lex Luthor is President of the United States?" Barry-Blue asked, blinking.
"Yes," was the reply, making the people from Bounty and Karry look at each other once more.
"So, this has gone all over the place," Caitlin said. "We have to figure out how to lessen the impact."
"Well lucky for you my Kara here is a media guru," Barry-Blue said, and could feel Kara's annoyance in his minds. You are. Barry-Blue defended in his mind. "I am sure she could help you write a speech that will lessen this all."
"I wouldn't mind the help," Caitlin admitted. "I'm the one who runs all the speeches and money around here; Barry is the videogame expert and creative mind. Our tech. Plus the face of the company."
"Well, let's see what we can do," Kara said with a nod to Caitlin, the two leaving to a side office to discuss things.
"Maybe I can help too?" Cara said a smirk on her face as she followed, leaving the room.
"She likes public relations and journalism," Maya explained for her sister. "Hey what's going on there?" Maya pointed at the TV. Barry-Blonde and Caitlin had it on, but it was on mute.
"That's the betrayers lab they are talking about," Mally said, having her attention turned to the TV as well. Since being fired from STAR Labs, Cisco, Iris, and Wally had started their own little thing along with Cisco's new boyfriend, Hartley. It was no competition for a place such as Luthor Corp. but it did specialize in making devices to take down meta humans. "Unknown speedsters taken over lab..." Mally read off the screen now
Barry-Blonde unmuted the TV. The reporter in the middle of her report. "…as far as we can tell, scientist Francisco Ramon and Hartley Rathaway are trapped inside along with the injured Speedster hero the public as has dubbed Kid Flash," Wally still could not break the Kid Flash label, no matter how much he hated it and yelled at the media to stop. "We also have confirmation on one death. That would be detective Joe West's daughter Iris West. The Central City Police force headed by the meta human taskforce has surrounded the lab. So far Flash and Supergirl have not appeared."
"Well sucks for them," Barry-Blonde dismissed, turning off the TV.
"That's a bit harsh. Aren't you going to go help?" Barry-Blue asked, shocked at the death of Iris on this world. "That's Wally and Cisco in there."
"Wally and Cisco who have attacked me at every opportunity. They literally attacked me in a parking lot once. If it wasn't for Frost…" Barry-Blonde stopped after that.
"And what about Iris?" Barry-Blue asked, knowing that Iris had a kindness for Barrys across the multiverse.
"She didn't want anything to do with me either," Barry-Blonde said. "They told me to stay away. Give me a hard time for protecting Central when they can't. Possibly the ones who hacked my systems. So, let Wally handle it."
"I hear you," Barry-Blue said, thoughtfully. "But on the other hand, Iris and Wally are Joe's kids." Barry-Blue noticed Barry-Blonde hadn't said anything about Joe, so was hoping his oncoming theory was true. "Joe was the one who took you in when your father went to jail, right? He was always there for you. His daughter just died, and his son is inside, injured. You're the Flash. He's your foster father. And that is your city."
"He…" Barry-Blonde replied, a little lost for words at this. "I…"
"Damn, he just made a better speech then the one I was going to do," Mally spoke up, making eyes turn to her. "It's usually me that pushes him in the right direction. Mainly because he can't say no to me."
"Fine. I'll go," Barry-Blonde sighed, running out before he returned in his cool, if unusual, outfit.
"Not alone," Barry-Blue said with a nod.
"Dada," Alura and Nora yelled out. "Run!"
"Yes, dada is running. You stay with Auntie Maya and Mally," Barry-Blue said, giving them a kiss before the two speedster ran off.
"When did I become an aunt?" Maya asked, but the speedster was gone.
"Ant-y!" Alura and Nora yelled out happily, jumping on Maya as Mally giggled.
-Karry Universe-
Barry-Blonde and Barry-Blue ran past the media and the police and right into the small lab; Wally was bleeding on the floor while Cisco had meta cuffs on him. Hartley was injured as well, sitting in a corner. Iris body was by the speedsters' feet. Then there was a speedster standing there; he in a blue, red, and black outfit.
"I've been waiting for you!" The voice said, and the mask disappeared to reveal another Barry. Except that half his face was burnt off in some way that the Speed Force could obviously not completely heal.
"What is today? Multiverse day?" Barry-Blonde sighed, turning to Barry-Blue for answers.
"Don't look at me! I've never seen him before," Barry-Blue defended with a shrug. He would remember this Barry if he had met him.
"Maybe you haven't, but I know you," the half-faced Barry said, stepping forward. "Two? You have visitors."
Barry-Blonde was confused. "Why are you doing this?" Barry-Blonde asked stepping forward. "Why come to my world and do this?"
"For you!" Half-faced Barry said. "For what they did to us! We were just defending them. We were fighting and they betrayed us."
"Me…?" Barry-Blonde said. "This happened to me."
"That's why I waited. We can finish them together," half-faced Barry smirked at this.
Barry-Blue put a hand on Barry-Blonde's shoulder, just in case.
"How did you get here?" Barry-Blue asked, having an idea but wanting confirmation. "Where's your world?"
"My world… My world is gone!" Half-faced Barry snapped. "My Cisco… he saw it coming. Another world was having a fight with a speedster – the fight was going to go destroy everything. I was meant to power our shield, but it backfired. The machine blew from the energy. The energy, the machine, and the force of the destruction all hitting into me and for that moment… I was connected."
"Connected?" Barry-Blue asked.
"To everything… to all our alternates… to the Speed Force itself in a way no one has ever been or will ever be. I knew everything. I knew her favorite child. New Justice Rae, the one who lost everything, who faced more pain than anyone ever should, but she stayed true. True to herself. True to the Flash. She discovered her own truth. She is truth. And you. I know you. You're from Karry Universe." Barry-Blue raised an eyebrow. "You met your Kara in college. That's the earliest any Barry has met their Kara. You have a full mental bond with her, one of two surviving worlds to have it. Your love has saved more than anyone. You are love. No more talk of darkness…"
"Don't sing," Barry-Blue said, hearing his and Kara's song come out. "You've been overloaded with more information than you should be."
"The Speed Force, our mother, she tried to put me back together. You can tell your Wally he's right – she did try to save those Rae and Barrys she could from the first destruction," Barry-Blue had heard that theory from Wally; he had been trying to piece together why and how so many speedster had been displaced when Zoom tried to destroy the multiverse on Prime. "She couldn't completely heal me though, and she couldn't completely erase what I saw. She tried to keep me in the Speed Force. But one Barry's hurt came to me. You." Half-faced Barry looked at Barry-Blonde. "I know you needed the betrayal to get you to Kara. We needed Kara… like how the Speed Force saved the hair for Prime Barry to have his own Kara. But this world… the continued betrayal. The continued way they hurt you. No, that could not stand. I ran out of the Speed Force and came here. To help you."
"This doesn't help me," Barry-Blonde said. "I don't care about them. I have a life now. They can continue to be bitter over something I had no control over. But this is not what I wanted." Half-faced Barry stepped back at this, "If you cared about me at all you'd leave now. Go back to the Speed Force."
"No! We need to kill him," Half-faced Barry ran at Wally, but the two Barrys ran right at him, together pushing him back against a wall. The fight happened at super speed – the fighting and punching happening quicker than any normal person could see – but the crazy half-faced Barry was no match for the two Barrys fighting together. They managed to get him unconscious, and in meta human handcuffs.
"What do we do with him?" Barry-Blonde asked, pinning him to the floor, but before Barry-Blue could answer a portal opened and the familiar Black Flash came out. Barry-Blue though raised a hand in a fist.
"He's not dead!" Barry-Blue said to the Black Flash. "Neither of them are."
"Bring him!" Black Flash said pointing.
"I want a word with your boss," Barry-Blue said, and to his surprise, the portal grew bigger and within the portal was the form of the familiar older Rae he had last seen the Speed Force. "Hey. Not choosing my mom anymore?"
"You have moved pass your mom," the Speed Force said. "This is the face you get, my child. But I need to take him."
"What did you do to him?" Barry-Blue asked.
"Nothing," the Speed Force reasoned. "Canary Earth was not the only Earth that tried the experiment that saved them, but they were the only successful Earth to do it. Most of the others just died but with him it backfired. He is dying. Slowly. And if I don't take him back, it will be painful. His body will deteriorate and cause an explosion of energy the like never seen before."
"Can't we disconnect him. Make him normal?" Barry-Blue asked, remembering the option for the Rae on Beautiful. No Barry was born with speed, so it wouldn't harm this Barry to do this.
"Unfortunately, no," the Speed Force said. "His body is too far gone. I will give him a peaceful death; he will not feel any pain as his body and soul joins with me. I promise."
"Let her have him," Barry-Blonde said, moving away from the half-faced Barry and Barry-Blue did the same; the Black Flash then grabbed him and took him through the portal, but the portal remained open. Realizing this opportunity, Barry-Blonde spoke: "Can you do anything for Wally and… Iris?"
"They betrayed you," the Speed Force said.
"Time to be the bigger man," Barry-Blonde nodded, glancing to Barry-Blue.
"Then for my Barry, who had suffered the greatest betrayal, I do this for you," the Speed Force said; and energy came from the portal and into Iris's body and the injured Wally – Iris suddenly gasped a breath on the floor, alive. "But Wally, you are not needed," the Speed Force said to Wally, who had gained consciousness at being healed. "Your purpose as a speedster has long passed. You are not my chosen…" a different kind of energy now left Wally, heading back into the portal. "Your body will adjust to not having speed anymore, but I warn you to not try to reconnect to me. I won't allow it. On the plus side, you will be Kid Flash no more." The portal closed with this, and the Speed Force was gone.
"What have you done this time?!" Iris asked, glaring at Barry-Blonde, not realizing she had been dead; but it was Barry-Blue who laughed.
"Don't you get it?" Barry-Blue stated. "He did nothing. You did. That Barry reacted to the pain you caused him. You should just thank him for coming and for asking the Speed Force to bring you back. He could have let both of you die."
"What...?" Iris blinked at this.
"You were dead and Wally was near-dead," Barry-Blonde confirmed, not quite meeting Iris's eye. "You're welcome."
"But…?" Iris muttered, moving over to her brother.
"Enough. Come on, let's go," Barry-Blonde stated, and the two Barry left without waiting the thank you they didn't know would happen.
-Karry Universe-
It was about half an hour later, since saving the betrayers, when Barry-Blonde was ready to give his speech about what had happened to BA Games.
Kara and Caitlin had written Barry a small speech and the media was waiting outside of BA Games; Barry taking a breath as he stepped out in front. The group from Karry and Bounty were inside with the TV on, watching.
"As everyone knows," Barry-Blonde said to the media. "BA Games systems was hacked and what was taken was not necessarily a game for sale. In my personal time I was using our systems to create a personal videogame for my girlfriend, Kara Luthor, to propose to her. As you know, we have been dating for several years so this shouldn't be such a surprise. Please…"
"I think there's something else to say…" Barry-Blonde speech was cut off and he was surprised to see his Kara there. He knew it was his Kara by just the outfit she was wearing, her posture being different too. "Yes."
"What?" Barry-Blonde asked in shock.
"You asked me a question, Mr. Allen," Kara Luthor said. "And the answer is yes. Yes, I will marry you." Barry-Blonde was in shock, as were the media gathered it seemed; Kara hadn't answered his texts or calls since the game went out. He thought he was in for a rejection. "Barry…?"
Barry-Blonde smiled and then moved from the stand to grab his Kara and kiss her – she kissed back. Then, she moved with him back to the podium as photos were snapped and hands raised. He ignored any coming questions.
"I guess that's all there is to say," Barry-Blonde said with a laugh. With that, he left the podium with her and then brought his now-fiancée into his offices. "Please tell me you didn't just say yes to calm them down?"
"No, Barry, I really want to marry you," Kara Luthor said, as they entered Barry's office and she paused. "We have visitors…?"
"That was better than anything we could have written," Kara Allen spoke up. "I mean it won't calm the media down, but now they will be talking about a Presidential Wedding instead of how embarrassing the videogame being released is," Kara Luthor gave a nod at that.
"And actually, we have gotten a lot of request for personalize videogames for proposals and graduations, and even baby showers," Caitlin added. "I am putting Winn on making choices that people can insert their own words into. We might have a new section of the business here."
"Seems you came out on top," Cara said with a wink.
"And we'll share some video games," Barry-Blue said giving a smirk himself.
"But we are not having any luck," Nash spoke up. "I have no idea what Rae did here. We are either on the wrong world or it's just not possible to guess."
"Barry," it was Henry coming in. "I saw the proposal and… Oh, hi." Henry paused at seeing the other world visitors.
"Hey dad," Barry-Blonde smiled at his dad, who was grinning to his son.
"Maybe Kara knows Rae?" Barry-Blue, said ignoring his father now and taking out the picture. "Have you ever seen this girl?"
"Sorry," Kara Luthor said, shaking her head.
"I have," Henry spoke up, making all eyes turn to him. "She was at the DMV when I was trying to get my driver license after being released from jail. I thought she was applying for her permit test or something."
"Wait? She went to you. Why?" Barry-Blue asked, confused.
"Actually, she's the one who reminded me about Cat," Henry said. "She had a CatCo magazine on her and mentioned that she looked up to the woman. It reminded me of when we dated. It's the reason why I was so insisted on National City when we were talking about leaving Central instead of going to Star or Metropolis."
"The fact you were planning on moving to National is the reason I asked you out," Kara Luthor spoke, looking at her Barry.
"Wait the Speed Force was acting as cupid?" Maya asked.
"Wouldn't put it past her," Barry-Blue said, looking at the journal. "This line. I thought it was nonsense, but now I know. It says: 'had to get the right couples together, again'."
"Did she give you a book?" Nash asked Henry now, showing a picture of the book.
"Sorry," Henry said shaking his head. "Who is this girl?"
"She's…" Barry-Blue started, but then refrained from saying she was his alternative niece and instead went with, "working for the Speed Force."
"Yes," Kara Allen added for her husband. "Did she have it on her? The book?" Kara Allen asked, and Henry shook his head. "Does that count out any of the other two worlds?"
"Nope," Barry said. "This was the last world she came to before coming to us. Meaning the other two are still on."
"Better go back and decode," Nash sighed, opening a portal. He and his daughters moved through while Kara Allen and Barry-Blue both picking up a kid who was called 'to home!', knowing what a portal meant by now.
"Congrats," the couple said together, leaving and the portal closed.
"Well, that was interesting," Caitlin said.
"So, are we celebrating the engagement?" Henry asked, and Kara Luthor laughed and nodded.
-Karry Universe-
"There you two are! Did you have fun on Prime and Mutant?" Kara asked; Krypto and Hex had both gone to visit their mates but were waiting for the group when they got back to the Penthouse after picking Star and Romana up from school. The two gave a bark and meow back, respectively, in reply.
Barry what is up? Kara had felt something wrong in Barry head as he sat down to look at the journal again. He took it everywhere with him now, not just to decode, but it was also a part of his Rae, the Rae he had lost.
"The journal," Barry said out loud. "I translated this line just now as 'Kara is a bird'." Barry pointed at the line. "What if it's 'a kind of bird' instead? Alura and Nora, want to help daddy?" The two came running and Barry bent down, pointing at the words on the page. "What is this word?"
"Can-airy," Nora and Alura said together.
"Canary?" Barry frowned. "The line is 'Kara is a canary'."
"What…" Kara stopped her sentence. Super Blue Canary! Its Canary Earth she went to.
We have friends on Canary. Let's give them a call tomorrow and tell them we are coming on over, Barry smirked back, and Kara smiled, kissing her husband.
They knew their next world.
Post Chapter Note: hope you liked this and wonder if this gave you any clues on crisis.
Next Time on Karry Universe-
The Long and Winding Shortcut: Heading to Canary Earth to ask about their Rae, Kara and Barry are forced to help with yet another obstacle as Galactic Conquest pays that world a visit. The only problem is, Canary Earth doesn't want to play any games.
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