A/N: Chapter six. I forgot to mention this in the Author's Note for the last chapter, but to any and all of you who like this story, do let me know in the reviews. Reviews are honestly my motivation to keep this story and series going, which I would really like to do. It means the world to me and I appreciate it. Thank you.

I also just realized I forgot to include Firestorm (Jax and Stein) during the Legends' battle against the Dominators in Japan. Let's just say they were elsewhere and caught up with the group eventually. My bad, guys.

REUNITE

EARTH 1

1001 EST

CENTRAL CITY

A breach opened in the middle of CCPD as Joe, Cisco, and Harry came through. The trio were met with the confused looks of several officers and detectives that were inside. Joe looked around before finding two people he recognized.

"David! Julian!" Joe called out.

Captain David Singh and Julian Albert whirled around as the two of them met with the detective.

"Joe, thank god, I assumed the worst." Singh sighed with relief.

"So, it's Barry, huh?" Julian said, much to Joe's confusion. "He's the Flash?"

Joe frowned. "How did you-"

"Joe, have you not seen the news?" Singh asked. "Allen is The Flash. The whole world knows."

Joe couldn't believe what he was hearing. Barry's identity as the Flash revealed? To the whole world. When did this happen? How did it happen? Joe shook his head and cleared his throat. There was no time to think about it right now. He had to get Singh, Julian, and as many of the CCPD's officers to STAR Labs. He explained the situation and to his surprise, Singh was more than on board with it. As Cisco opened the breach, Joe, Singh, Harry, Julian, and tens of officers poured in, heading to STAR Labs. Cisco went in last as he fled through the breach before reaching into the cortex of STAR Labs as the breach closed behind them. The tens of officers were resting and sitting in the hallways while Singh and Julian remained with Cisco and the team inside the cortex.

"Everyone okay?" Cisco asked as small nods and responses went around.

Julian took notice of The Flash suit on the stand. "So that's Allen's suit?"

"Speaking of which," Joe said as he looked at Singh. "How'd it happen?"

"How'd what happen?" Caitlin asked as the entire team listened to Julian, Joe, and Singh.

"The whole world knows that Barry Allen is The Flash," Singh announced as the team looked at him with disbelief. "A few hours earlier in the morning, almost every news channel in the world received a message from some alien named Brainiac, who I'm guessing is the alien leader. He said he was for Barry, that he would still take over this planet and…enslave the human race itself even if he got him."

"He also said that he'd kill ten thousand people for every hour Allen doesn't surrender himself." Julian added much to the team's further shock.

"He knows," Cisco realized. "Barry. That's the real reason he left his suit behind. Because he knew."

"The whole world knows Barry's the Flash?" Caitlin sighed incredulously.

"Where is he anyway?" Singh demanded. "Where's the goddamn Flash when you need him?"

"He went to Brainiac's ship," Joe explained. "He said he was going there to stop him."

"He better have turned himself in." Julian muttered.

He was quickly met with a slap from Singh as everyone inside the cortex tensed. Some officers from outside the hall even took a look, whispering occasionally.

"I don't wanna hear that kind of bullshit, Albert," Singh warned. "Even if Allen turns himself over, Brainiac is destroying this planet, killing millions anyway, and enslaving humanity as we know it. If Barry really is the Flash, it means one thing: that he's done more to protect this city than every single person in it put together. More importantly, he's CCPD. He's one of us."

Singh sighed as he shook his hand before turning to face Cisco, Joe, and the team.

"Apologies you had to see that, ladies and gents," Singh calmly explained, returning to his police captain demeanor. "You brought us all here for a reason. So, on behalf of all of CCPD, I have to ask: what can we do to help?"

"We have an arsenal of some advanced weaponry and tech in the facility," Cisco explained. "We think it can give us an edge on any of the Dominators and telepathic super apes roaming the streets. We just need some people who are willing to use it."

Singh nodded. "Get us the firepower and we'll put it to damn good use."

Harry nodded. "I'll take you and your officers there, captain."

Singh frowned. "Aren't you supposed to be dead?"

"Long story," Harry dismissed. "Follow me."

Harry and Singh left the cortex as the tens of officers in the hallway followed the pair. Julian held his jaw as he walked out with the police, but not before giving Caitlin a quick glance and leaving even faster. Caitlin couldn't help but clear her throat and look away, guilty over her actions as Killer Frost, which had cost Barry his job. Cisco, Caitlin, Jesse, Wally, Iris, and Joe remained in the cortex as they tried to process what they'd heard.

"Barry's secret is out," Wally realized with a breath. "The whole world knows he's the Flash."

"I can't believe this is really happening." Joe sighed.

"None of us can," Caitlin added. "We never really thought this day would come, did we?"

Cisco shook his head. "With Barry unreachable and on Brainiac's ship, there's nothing we can do." He then took a glance at Wally. "Speaking of which, we better get you your suit. Barry's identity may be exposed, but we can't afford that with another speedster. I'm almost done with it, so just be careful until then."

Wally nodded.

"What exactly is the plan here?" Iris asked.

"Wally and I canvassed the city a few times," Jesse explained. "It looks like the Dominators and gorillas have some territories and boundaries they've split Central City into."

"Yeah," Wally added. "If you can get us a map, we can mark it out as best we can for you."

Cisco nodded. "Good. I'll have Harry get Singh and the police to the speed lab after they gear up. I don't know how the rest of the world is doing, but it's time we take it back…starting with Central City."

Barry groaned as he found himself lying on his side, feeling a cold metal floor on the skin of the side of his face. He pushed himself off the floor and against a wall as he looked down to find his wrists interlocked with metal cuffs that looked almost perfectly identical to the meta-cuffs that were being made back at STAR Labs. He tried phasing or using his speed in any way. As expected, nothing happened.

"Terrific," Barry muttered sarcastically. "No powers."

Barry slightly pulled up his shirt to see the stab wound on his abdomen from earlier. The blood around it dried off and the wound was completely sealed; it was as if he'd never been stabbed in the first place. It was done with alien technology aboard this ship, Barry deduced, likely the courtesy of Brainiac. The humanoid alien did need him alive. But for what? Barry looked around the room he was in. It was relatively small, no wider than the size of the cortex in STAR Labs, there was only one entrance or exit of any kind. The one in front of him. An access door, much like the one Barry had seen earlier when he'd snuck onto this ship. There was a sort of access panel that was handscan activated by the look of it. He thought of a plan quickly. If he could maybe break into the panel's wiring, maybe he could use it to short-circuit the cuffs on him. Just maybe.

Barry's trail of thoughts ended when the door slid open, revealing Brainiac to be standing behind it. His suit had been repaired and restored to new, his eight metallic tentacles as well as they levitated behind him. The humanoid alien walked through as he stood a few feet before Barry.

"You provided a great challenge to me, Barry Allen," Brainiac spoke. "But not even you could outmatch my intellect and prowess."

Barry let out a huff as he leaned his head back against a metal wall. "I don't know about that. I was kicking your ass until your henchmen showed up. Maybe you should let one of them take charge, they'd probably put up a better fight."

Brainiac cleared his throat before suddenly sending one of his mechanical, metal tentacles as it grabbed Barry's ankle before slamming him to a wall on his right, then one to his left, and back to the wall he first crashed into as Barry hit it with the front side of his body. He dropped to the ground, groaning in pain as several bruises would appear on his face, wrists, and torso as a result.

"I'd choose your words more carefully," Brainiac taunted. "Or they may be your last."

"If you wanted me dead, you'd have done it by now," Barry spat as he limped up to his feet. "And considering all the trouble you went through to get me, you need me alive. The question is for what."

Brainiac allowed a small smirk to creep onto his face. "Very good. Yes, I do require you to be alive for the time being. As for why, well…I'm afraid you aren't capable or worthy enough to learn the purpose behind my actions. Know this, your sacrifice will prove very useful to me."

"I'm very honored." Barry muttered sarcastically.

Without a further word, Brainiac turned around as he left through the entrance, the metal door sliding shut. Barry looked down at the cuffs on his wrists and noticed how damaged they were as they fell off his wrists in bits and pieces, leaving the speedster free.

Barry smirked. "Knew it would work."

It seemed that all Barry had to do in the first place was push the right buttons with Brainiac and let his ego do the rest. Vibrating his body to the point of phasing, Barry moved through the door like tangible air as he found himself in a hallway. He knew he was on a ship that was several thousand feet in the air, so his only hope to get out safely and securely was to find a dropship or pilot the entirety of Brainiac's ship down to the ground. He moved quietly and slowly, at a walking pace through the hallways as he stopped by the door to another room. On his right, he overheard the marching formation of several Dominators coming his way. To hide, Barry vibrated his body as he phased through the other door, hiding in the room until the Dominators left.

Just as he entered the new room, something behind him caught his eye. He whirled around to see a sort of lab in the room he was in. Several pieces of advanced organic medicine, technology, and more. However, none of that was what caught his eye. Unconscious on a table, there was a woman with short, blonde-hair dressed in black pants and a black tank top. She appeared to be young and couldn't have been much older than Barry himself. Her wrists and ankles were stuck to the table by some sort of metal, technological restraint. Was she alive? If she was, he couldn't just leave her there. Vibrating his hand, Barry destroyed the woman's restraints, causing her to groan in response as her eyes fluttered.

"What…" the woman muttered as she slowly opened her eyes. "Where…where am I?"

"Hey, hey, hey…" Barry whispered quickly as he held the woman's hand. "I'm gonna get you out of here. My name's Barry and you are?"

"Lyanna…" the woman whispered in response, her accent British, her eyes growing large at the sight of Barry, as if it was the first time she'd seen a human-looking being in a while.

"Lyanna," Barry repeated as he smiled softly. "That's a pretty name. Look, I can get the both of us out of here, but I need you to trust me, Lyanna. Can you do that?"

Lyanna nodded.

"Alright," Barry sighed. "Can you walk?"

White lightning flickered through Lyanna's as she immediately got up off the table, racing around the room at super speed before stopping in front of Barry. Her body vibrated and coursed with white lightning uncontrollably as Barry looked at her in absolute awe. Lyanna's eyes locked onto his as she finally relaxed and calmed. Suddenly, Barry's own hand began coursing with orange lightning while Lyanna's did the same with white lightning. The two of them looked equally surprised as they held their hands in front of them before holding each other as both streaks of lightning calmly dissipated.

"You're like me." Barry and Lyanna said simultaneously.

Barry let out a small laugh. "It's nice to meet another speedster that isn't trying to kill me for a change."

Lyanna simply continued staring at him intensely, their eyes locked onto one another's. In each other's eyes, they could see small and mirrored reflections of themselves. The pair went on for several moments silently before they finally let go of one another's hand.

"Do you know if there's a way out of here?" Barry asked.

Lyanna cleared her throat. "I saw some of the Dominators taking off in dropships not too far from here."

Barry nodded. "Wonderful…lead the way."

Lyanna and Barry phased through the door of the room as they waited by a corner. Instinctively, she grabbed Barry's hand as the two of them jogged at normal human speed down the hall before turning right to a small hall of dropships that were perfectly aligned next to each other. The pair got inside one as they sat next to each other in their seats while Barry attempted to figure out the pilot controls. He grabbed the large, joystick-like object as the dropship detached from Brainiac's and took off.

After a few minutes of flying, Barry noticed a sort of autopilot button as he activated the function, allowing for him to take a break from flying. He got off his seat as he kneeled in front of Lyanna just in time to catch her holding a small picture to her face. The picture was of a little girl, who couldn't have been older than the age of ten. Barry took notice as he looked at Lyanna.

"Who is that?" Barry asked softly.

Lyanna jumped as she instinctively held the picture closer to her chest.

Barry paused, realizing he'd stepped on a nerve. "You don't have to tell if you don't want to."

"No." Lyanna spoke bluntly before calming herself. "I mean - no, it's alright. She - she's my daughter."

Barry nodded in understanding. "What's her name?"

"Aurora," She whispered softly. "She's eight years old."

"Did something happen to her?"

"I don't know. Brainiac…took me from my earth and the last thing I saw was Aurora chasing after me, screaming for me and being held back by other council soldiers."

Barry frowned. "Council soldiers?"

"From the Multiverse Council," Lyanna explained as Barry's confusion only deepened. "They're an agency of heroes from across the multiverse, dedicated to protecting it. The council itself has nine members. They have armies of soldiers and heroes across the multiverse. They fought to protect my earth from Brainiac, but it wasn't my earth he wanted…"

"He wanted you." Barry realized.

Lyanna's eyes went down as she let out a sigh. "Brainiac held me hostage and studied me. I don't know why or what for. All I know is that my eight-year-old daughter is alone and the last thing she saw of her mother was her being taken."

"Is she with her father?" Barry asked.

Lyanna shook her head. "I had her when I was very young. At nineteen. Barely a year after I got my speed. The father, my boyfriend at the time, panicked when he found out. So he left and he disappeared. It was just me and Aurora ever since."

Barry gently held Lyanna's hand as he looked at the picture of a young, eight-year-old Aurora. He paled at the thought of the little girl crying for her mother and waking up every morning without one. As he thought about, Barry couldn't help but think back to the night his mother had died. How an eleven-year-old boy ran back home desperately only to find his mother's lifeless body on the floor and his father falsely accused of her murder, dragged away in cuffs, and thrown in the back of a police car. Born to be a motherless child, him and Aurora. No. It couldn't be that way. Wasn't that why he'd chosen to become the Flash in the first place? So that no child or person would ever have to suffer a similar tragedy? It had to be.

Barry looked into Lyanna's eyes as the two gazed at each other. "When all this is over, I promise you…you and I will find your daughter. We'll get you back to her."

"Why?" Lyanna asked, her face washed with confusion yet also excitement at the very thought of seeing her baby girl once more. "You don't even know me. Why would you help me?"

"The same reason I helped you back on Brainiac's ship," Barry replied simply. "Because you needed help. And also because no child should ever have to grow up without a mother."

Lyanna had no response as she simply nodded, her eyes watering with unshed tears. Barry reached forward and wrapped his arms around her while Lyanna buried her face to his left shoulder. He wrapped her in an embrace as Lyanna started bawling, letting out an immeasurable amount of pain away.

"It's okay," Barry whispered. "It's over…you're safe now…"

The words echoed inside the dropship as Barry and Lyanna remained in a gentle yet secure embrace.

"...you're safe..."

CENTRAL CITY

STAR LABS

In the speed lab, Cisco, Joe, Wally, Harry, and Jesse met with Singh and the fifty officers of the CCPD. The officers had armed themselves with gadgets, weapons, guns, and other advanced gear Harry had been able to get them out of the archives of STAR Labs. With some significant firepower on their hands, the officers would be able to do a better job of clearing the streets of Dominators and Grodd's other telepathic gorillas. On the ground, Wally, who was wearing a hood and makeshift mask to cover his identity, had drawn a chalk diagram of Central City with Jesse's help. The duo had marked the territories as best as they remembered.

"This is what Central City's looking like so far," Jesse explained as Singh and the officers listened while she pointed to different parts of the city. "Up North and to the west is where the gorillas have settled and set up base camp as far as downtown, where they have hostages in the millions. To the east all the way until the windmills is where the Dominators are. They've also overtaken the bridges and destroyed all of them while also standing guard there and on any of the docks."

"What do we need the bridges and docks for?" one officer asked.

"Evacuation," Cisco explained. "It's more dangerous here in Central City than in any other part of the world right now. This place is ground zero for Dominators, Grodd with his army of telepathic gorillas in the thousands, and Brainiac is here of all places."

"Ramon's right," Singh announced. "We can't have civilians in the city, we need to get as many out of here as we can. Get them out through the ferries."

"We also have a few extrapolators," Harry added. "They can open breaches like Ramon's powers. Those might help make our evacuation situation a bit easier."

Singh nodded. "What's going on in that area?" He asked, pointing to one part of the map Jesse and the team hadn't discussed yet. "Down south."

"We call it 'The Undisclosed'," Wally explained. "A group of Dominators and a group of Grodd's gorillas went through a bit of a mutiny by the looks of it. Either way, they're fighting each other there for that bit of the city. It's the most dangerous territory here."

"Even with all this firepower, how the hell are we supposed to get through there?" an officer asked worriedly.

"Let me and my team about the south for now," Cisco advised. "In the meantime, we need you guys getting those hostages out of Grodd's grasp and preparing evacuations."

"We split up in units of ten," Singh commanded. "I want two for evacuations, two for freeing hostages, and one for patrol."

"Patrol, captain?" Joe asked.

"We need to find any other officers or trapped civilians," Singh said. "Do what we can."

Joe nodded in agreement. Suddenly, the PA system in the facility turned on as a certain woman's voice echoed through.

"Guys, you need to see this," Caitlin announced hurriedly. "In the cortex."

Trading glances with each other, Jesse, Wally, Joe, Cisco, Harry and Singh went into the hallways as the officers waited in the speed lab. The six of them walked into the cortex, where H.R. and Caitlin were waiting, as they surrounded the desk of computers in front of them.

"What's happening?" Cisco asked.

"There's a Dominator dropship on the roof," Caitlin explained. "We have any cameras there?"

"I installed some last year," Cisco replied as he began rapidly typing on the computer before finally pulling up the footage. "Should be up now."

"Wait a second," Singh frowned as they all saw the footage of a certain six-feet-tall, dark-haired man with a woman who had short, blonde hair. "Is that Allen?"

"There's the Flash when you need him!" H.R. cheered, patting his drumsticks on the table in celebration.

"Who's that woman he's with?" Jesse asked.

"Don't know, don't care," Cisco muttered quickly as he opened a breach to the roof. "I'm going to bring them in."

Barry held Lyanna's hand as she leaned against him, exhausted and starved for days due to her experience as Brainiac's hostage and lab rat.

"I've got you," Barry promised. "It's gonna be okay."

A breach opened in front of him as Cisco emerged from it, rushing to the duo.

"About damn time you got back," Cisco said, cracking a grin upon the sight of his best friend before he frowned in confusion upon seeing Lyanna. "Who's this?"

"Lyanna," Barry explained. "I rescued her from Brainiac's ship, she's a speedster like me. She needs medical attention, where's Cait?"

"Inside," Cisco replied. "There's also something else we gotta talk about…"

EGYPT

1034 EST

LOCAL TIME: 1634 HOURS

"We're here." Batman announced as he landed the Batplane in front of a large ancient building that appeared to be in the middle of a desert that had nothing but sand for miles and miles on end.

"Already?" Oliver asked in surprise.

"Yeah, we've barely been in this thing for an hour." Thea added.

"Aquaman provided me with some Atlantean warcraft technology," Batman explained. "I repurposed and redesigned it to not only function in water, air, and space, but also to increase the Batplane's speed drastically."

"Atlantean?" Diggle raised his eyebrows. "Like…Atlantis? The mythological Greek city that went underwater?"

"Where in the ocean do you think Arthur goes to all the time?" Batman replied simply.

"And I thought Barry was the only reason my life wasn't normal anymore." Diggle muttered.

Hal raised an eyebrow. "Dude, in the last few hours, you've seen and fought aliens, a time-traveling gang, a guy in a batsuit, an alien that looks human, can fly, and shoot lasers out of hers, and a guy who can construct anything with a magic ring. But Barry Allen is what makes your life weird?"

Diggle groaned as he, Oliver, Rene, Thea, and Batman got off the plane, leaving Hal standing alone in the vehicle for a few moments.

Hal shrugged and extended his arms. "I was just kidding…mostly."

Sheepishly, he jogged after them as the group entered the tomb through a door-less entrance. As they went further and further into the hall of the tomb, the area got darker as their only source of light was the evening sunlight from the entrance. Batman pulled out a flashlight from his utility belt as a bat-shaped light glowed ahead of the group while they continued walking forward.

Rene couldn't help but huff at the sight of the light. "Do you always make all your shit in the shape of a bat?"

Unseen to the rest of them, Batman's lips twitched as he resisted the urge to smirk.

"Why?" Batman asked rhetorically and sarcastically. "You want one? Finally get tired of those cheap-ass pistols you picked up from Walmart?"

Thea snickered for a few seconds before a quick glare from Oliver silenced her. Rene simply sighed in a mixture of defeat and annoyance. Diggle and Hal remained quiet for the most part. The group reached the end of the tunnel as they appeared to have been in a wide room that stretched endlessly. Batman shined the light left and right while Hal did the same with some light he emitted from his ring. The room appeared to have heaps of gold and a variety of weapons in a strange yet unique-looking metal.

As the group entered the room, Diggle stepped on a concrete step that went down like a button before he stepped off as it came back up. As a result, torches on the left and right wall of the room lit with fire, lighting the room up, as the torches stretched further and further out as the room seemed to stretch out endlessly. The torches lit everything up and allowed for easy vision as Batman put his flashlight away while Hal toned his ring down.

"Well ladies and gentlemen," Hal announced. "Welcome to ancient Egypt. Land of the cool shit and history of the scary."

A/N: The OC I introduced, Lyanna, will have a bigger role in the story and the series overall. She'll be played by Keira Knightley for anyone that wants to put a face to her.

Obviously, Brainiac is gonna realize fairly quickly that Barry and Lyanna are gone. What I'm gonna do in the chapter after the next and the one after directly addresses that.

I know this chapter didn't update anything with the groups in the Europe and Asia fronts, those will also be addressed and updated in the coming chapters.

The next chapter will solely be focused on Barry and Team Flash/CCPD's battle for Central City. The one after that will address Europe, Asia, Egypt, and Brainiac's response to Barry and Lyanna escaping.

As I said earlier, if you like and are enjoying this story and would like to see it move forward (as well as the series), do let me know in the reviews. Again, those are motivation to keep going and I would love to hear feedback from you guys.