Chapter Seventy-Six: On the Other Side.
Pleasure finally concludes and leads the way to business. Harry pulls out on armor green in a tone which matches his eyes and has a black symbol of the dragon on it. The medallion dangling from his neck symbolizes the power Harry feels.
Sara and Kara walk on either side of him. Both girls dress and are ready to go as well. Sara favors a skin-tight white bodysuit with fabric hugging every single inch of her sexy body. Kara dresses in a red and blue body suit. Gwen joins them next, dressing in a black and white shirt, with a red "spider" embodying the symbol. She pulls a hood over her head with a smile.
"So, I guess we're ready to go," Gwen offers.
"Yeah," Kara agrees with a smile towards her fellow bond mate. "For better or for worse, we're ready to go."
Harry surveys the trio of girls and smiles at them. "I'm not going to lie to you and say this is going to be easy. The Phoenix Medallion is the most tricky to nail down. We're going to need to travel throughout the multiverse and find the two keys to locating it."
"And then there's the medallion itself," Gwen answers. "Well, I guess we're going to have to get to work."
Nyssa and Mera step into the room. Black leather forms a nice and tight seal over Nyssa's body the closer she approaches. Mera, on the other hand, favors the tight green body suit which fits her body like a second skin. The six medallion holders miss a person in their circle.
Harry senses the thoughts and the frustrations from all of them. "We're going to find it."
"I know," Mera comments with a smile. "You've located this…when all seemed lost…and there's only one more to go."
"And now what?" Nyssa asks.
"Well, our circle will be completely whole again," Sara suggests with a shrug. The other girls nod in response.
To be honest, as much anticipation as each party held for the circle being complete, an equal amount of frustration creeps into their being as well. Sara struggles to figure out what exactly is going to happen as much as the rest of them. They have no idea where their final queen, the holder of the Phoenix Medallion, will be located. This factor of the unknown frustrates the entire party.
Nyssa breaks the self-imposed silence for the groups. "There are still some challenges."
White Bumblebee meeting his final demise and HIVE suffering fractures beyond all belief did not put Harry at the greatest of ease. There's still a feeling of something dark looming. All of the challenges were the harbinger.
"So, you're still staying behind?" Sara asks.
"I believe it would be wise to have a set of eyes on this Earth," Nyssa tells her fellow Alpha. "I'm sure that Mera and I will suffice while the rest of you get there."
Sara nods in agreement. She understands the feeling of dread about as much as anyone else. They all realize what's going on and they all understand the methods which are needed to stop which is going on.
'You've been in this from the beginning. So you know the risks. And you should understand the sacrifices and what you need to do.'
"One way or another, we're going to succeed," Harry tells the girls with complete confidence.
"I can't argue with you when you're that confident," Sara answers. "So, I guess it's time for us to leave."
No use sticking around for this long when the final medallion dangles so close, and yet so far, from their grasp. Harry and his girls all wait around in a circle. Nyssa and Mera part their ways from the rest of the group. Kara, Sara, Gwen, and Harry all join hands.
They appear in the midst of the Fortress. The crystals shine brightly with a smiling Lara waiting for them.
"Welcome," Lara answers. "And I think there's someone who wishes to thank you for freeing her from the control of that virus."
A soft, female voice pops in. "Yes, I'm afraid we haven't been formally introduced. I'm the Indigo Processing System Mark Two, better known as Indigo. I'm forever in your debt, great Dragon and his followers."
"We're only doing what's right," Kara answers. "And I understand you have some information for us."
"Yes," Indigo agrees. "There are two halves of a Phoenix Statue which will serve as a beacon to summon the Phoenix Medallion. A group of true believers split the statue and put it on two Earths."
"Makes sense," Gwen replies. "And yet, it also gives us one huge headache."
Harry puts a hand on Gwen's shoulder while still focusing his attention on Indigo. "Maybe, and at the same time, maybe not…do you….."
"I've pinpointed all of the most likely locations," Indigo informs him. "And with a series of complex mathematical processes, I've deduced where the two statues are likely to be. In this map constructed the multiverse, there are fifty-two different Earths."
A large map pops up in front of them to showcase all of the Earths coming down in a row.
"Earth-Two and Earth Thirty-Eight are the two most likely locations," Indigo states to them. "Creating a portal to Earth-Two shall be no difficulty at all."
Kara smiles widely. "Well, and I'm sorry if I'm jumping the gun, but why don't we fire up the portal and go?"
One encouraging smile from Harry tells Kara she does not jump the gun. An influx of portal energy appears around them. Harry reaches over and takes the crystal sticking out of one of the Fortress slots and places it into his pocket. He takes the first step through the portal and into the mysterious unknown.
Sara follows him through the portal next, followed by Gwen, with Kara bringing up the rear. Indigo seals the portal behind them, knowing they have their way back through the crystal Harry acquired.
The four land not in some alternate Arctic, but in the middle of Central City. At least, according to the sign, which Sara finds rather surprising. The buildings look like something out of the future, build with chrome exteriors, and Sara looks down the streets to not see one single parked car. The quartet walks their way down the street.
"So, this is Earth-Two," Sara remarks. "Looks like someone's vision of the future, from the Ninety-Fifties."
"Yeah, I'm kind of surprised you guys don't have flying cars yet," Gwen states.
A shudder passes through Sara's body. "Yeah, we have enough accidents with idiots driving on the ground. Imagine if you give them something that could crash."
Harry shakes his head. He had more of his fair share of experiences with a flying car and really has no desire to return to those thoughts. He takes a moment to soak in the futurist surroundings of this alternate Earth. Harry steps a couple of paces to one side of the way and takes another long step to another side.
"So, this is the place?"
"Yes, I can confirm it's the place," Indigo's voice says through the crystal.
Some dark presence in the city gives Harry pause. Kara notices Harry standing in the middle of the street for a second. Her frown deepens to match Harry's own with a hand gripping the side of Harry's arm. Kara turns Harry's attention around to her.
"There's something here you don't like?"
Harry nods in response. "Just…a feeling I really can't shake off….we're going to have to play it close. And be ready for something dangerous."
His sensitive sense of darkness prickles the further Harry walks to this Earth. The uneasiness flitters over to Gwen, Sara, and Kara when they walk.
"And there is no further news of the whereabouts of Jesse Wells, the daughter of the Star Labs over, Harrison Wells. All credible accounts indicate she has been captured by the mysterious speed demon known as Zoom."
Harry wrinkles his eyebrow and decides to make a snap decision.
"We're heading to Star Labs."
No question about it, Harry moves off towards the labs instantly. Sara, Gwen, and Kara follow. The three girls wonder about Harry's thought process.
'I don't mean to…well, I don't mean to discourage you,' Gwen offers. 'It's just that…..'
Sara plucks the right words out of Gwen's mouth and puts them into Harry's head. 'A place of science is not the first place where you would think to find some kind of mystical totem…or rather half of some kind of mystical totem is it?'
'Normally, it isn't,' Harry answers. 'But, I think that Wells knows something about the…feeling of dread I'm feeling.'
'How?' Kara wonders to him. 'It's…you're thinking, he's the one who is causing it.'
'I'll know when he answers a few questions for me,' Harry tells them a few seconds later.
They move through the city at a brisk pace, not once bumping into any traffic. Harry breathes a little bit more easy with some of the cleanest air ever. Something about it is off-putting for Harry at first, but yet it feels oddly liberating. And yet, something else also strikes Harry as wrong.
'I'll know in a minute.'
The name "Zoom" makes anyone who hears it shudder. They whisper the name, careful not to do anything to raise the ire of the demonic entity. The sadistic speedster likes it this way. A wicked smile falls over his face when thinking about all of the people who shudder in terror at his very name.
"Great power," Zoom muses underneath his breath. "I sense it….someone, who could have a problem."
Four figures, not from this universe, arrive. Zoom recalls the problems in the past, and the future, he has with breechers. They only confirm the ability to pierce the sides between the multiverse and Zoom views this quality with some great interest. The Speedster spends the next few moments deducing what is to come next.
"Your thoughts are troubled."
Attention whips around towards a ragged figure in the shadows. Zoom sizes up this unwashed man. The man's teeth, rotting, curl into a spine.
"Who are you?" Zoom demands.
The figure laughs before a smooth, Southern-accented tone of voice comes over him.
"Who am I? That's the question which is asked on many of occasion. And to answer your question, I am no one, other than a humble messenger on a holy crusade to strike down the most unholy demon. The demonic entity, the dragon who wears the skin of a human. And there are powers that even you do not understand. Powers beyond your own wildest dreams, beyond this goal of super speed which you have been chasing."
Zoom's rattling breath increases. He puts a finger on the chest of this gentlemen but he flickers into dust and then appears behind Zoom again.
"You can be fast on your feet. But your mind is still rooted at a certain point in time. It struggles to catch up. You frustrate yourself. You fail to accomplish much of anything. You sinful ways…your disturbed thoughts. You know what they do, man."
A loud round of laughter comes from Blackfire's being. He turns more animated with each passing second and places a hand on Zoom's shoulder.
"You need to find the Dragon before he finds you and takes you down, speed demon."
"Nothing is more powerful than Zoom!" the demonic speedster hackles.
"You are merely a man wrapped around that power," Blackfire tells him. "But, you can be much more. Oh, yes, my brother, you can be so much more if you just open up your mind and indulge in your imagination. There are powers which you cannot even dream…you need to find them."
Blackfire holds a picture of a burned out segment of a statue which represents the mystical creature known as the Phoenix. A combination of contempt and agitation fills Zoom's cold gaze when staring down at the picture of the Phoenix.
"The whole world will be in your hands."
"Leave," Zoom states.
"I only leave when I am no longer needed. And once I've planted the seed in your head…I'm no longer needed. But be warned, you hesitate to make a grab for true power, and the Dragon will smite you."
Zoom listens to this man and decides not to react. He waits for Blackfire to vanish into a puff of distance. He moves over to follow the progress of the new arrivals. They catch his interest. Zoom flips over the photo this demonic entity handed him and reads the address on the back of it with a slight amount of intrigue building over time.
'This Dragon could be worthy of a look, even if he's not strong enough to defeat me. I will have him crushed and his companions will suffer as well.'
Very rarely, Zoom intervenes and gets his hands dirty. He only takes care of the big threats personally, and as of now, he does not figure this Dragon to be a huge threat. He steps into the hallway and holds his hand out. A small bolt of blue light shoots from his hands.
"You've summoned me?"
Zoom smiles at the party after she arrives.
"Yes," Zoom tells her. "There's someone who has breached the wall between our Earth and another, alternate Earth."
"Breachers? They'll pay for trespassing."
"Indeed. I know that you'll give them a suitable reception. And here's where they're likely to be."
Zoom passes the photo off to his subordinate. She responds with a nod before disappearing back into the shadows of which she came from. Zoom's confident she will give them a proper welcome.
And another key investment on Zoom's part remains down in one of the cells. The Speedster turns his attention fully down to the cell block. He moves past into another area of his fortress. Several cells line, a few of them containing prisoners who decide to have breached the barriers between universe.
His prize prisoner stands at the end of the cell. An attractive brunette woman of eighteen years old lingers against the back of the cell. Her dark hair messily clings to her face and a pair of wide and expressive eyes fire out a look of intense agitation and fear, towards Zoom. Zoom lingers against the back of the cell, the smile only widening the closer he walks to his prey.
"Zoom," she spits with hatred.
"Ms. Wells," Zoom answers in an equally calm cadence. "I will soon unlock your full potential and it will be used to serve my plans."
"I'll never help you," the girl states.
"Your consent is only a bonus. But it's not mandatory."
The most chilling voice underlines Zoom's malice directed towards this girl. She looks up straight in the eyes of pure evil. He leaves a second to leave her to wonder about these plans which only have been eluded to.
Jesse Wells returns to the calculations to try and break herself out of the cell only to find out there's really no way out of this cell, at least not one which is obvious to her. She leans back for a second and almost whacks her head against the back of the cell in supreme frustration.
'There's got to be something,' Jesse muses to herself.
She scratches a few calculations down. If only, if only, that was the question which continues to plague Jesse as all as she remains locked inside of this cell. Each variable discounts itself just as fast as she calculates it.
Harrison Wells performs the pretext of working, even though his mind is elsewhere. He knows exactly where his daughter is, Zoom tells him about this much. Wells searches through an entire multi-verse to find an answer, and with his scientific acumen at his disposal, there's nothing.
The scientist hurls a pen almost halfway across the lab. A hand outstretches to catch the pen. Wells rises to tell off some unexpected intern about invading his personal space, only to come face to face with a gentleman with green eyes, and three ladies. All of them wear medallions around their neck and they are giving off some kind of glow.
"What are you doing in my lab?" Wells asks. "And how did you get past security?"
He moves behind his desk, only to find the door jammed and him unable to extract the gun. The gentleman crosses the path and puts a hand on his desk.
"I don't think you pulling a gun on us is going to be the best way to get answers," he says. "Your daughter is missing and we need you to ask a few questions."
"Zoom sent you!" Wells yells. "Your….."
"We're not who you think we are," Harry comments. "My name is Harry Potter, and this is Kara Kent, Sara Lance, and Gwen Stacy."
At least two of those names, Wells blinked, and his gaze falls on Sara ever so briefly. He turns away and hunches down over his desk. Harry wraps the desk and forces Wells to stand up straighter.
"We need your help," Harry informs them. "And I know you're desperate to find your daughter….we're going to find her anyway…but I think you can help us."
"Maybe," Wells answers. "Maybe I can, maybe I can't…it depend….."
"You can start with this," Kara interjects while holding up the crystal and flashing the image of the Phoenix Statue and then the Phoenix Statue busted in half.
The eyes of Harrison Wells bug out when locking onto the statue. He hardly believes what he's seeing. Familiarity hits the STAR Labs scientist before he takes a deep breath and nods in confirmation.
"I've seen it before," Wells comments and he turns his head back for a fraction of a second. "It's half of a statue one of the teams found. We thought it was an alternative source of power left beyond by some visitors. We tried everything to get it working."
'Well, he's not wrong about it being left behind by visitors,' Sara states with a slight smile going over her.
"Doctor Wells, it's a beacon," Harry tells him. "It is a beacon which locates a source of power beyond all science."
"How can something be beyond al science?" Wells demands.
Sara decides to break the news to him. "Magic."
The frown of the scientist deepens. Immediately, Harry and the girls all realize that they have just directly contradicted his world views. Wells rises from his chair and turns to the window. He almost reaches towards a cabinet off to the side of the lab and thinks better of it.
"You don't believe in magic?"
Wells directly acknowledges Harry's question. "I believe there's a logical explanation for anything…and to answer your next question, it's no longer in this lab. It's been moved to a research facility halfway across the city."
"Well, I guess that's a good enough place to start," Kara remarks.
"No, I would not advise going there anytime soon. Zoom's there, and he…he doesn't really approve of any unwanted visitors."
"What is Zoom?" Gwen asks, scientific curiosity bubbling over and getting the better of her.
Strong temptation to hit the cabinet over to the side of the room struck Wells one more time. He restrains himself from doing so. He does spend a second massaging the side of his temples.
"A mistake," Wells comments. "He's a huge mistake. I thought creating a Particle Accelerator the likes of which the world has never seen would be a good thing, but….it blew up in all of our faces, and ruined countless lives. Including the man who became Zoom."
"So, he's human, or was human?" Gwen asks.
Wells answers with a nod in response. "Human is what he was a long time ago…and now he has my daughter…and he wants my help for something…he's degenerating…I think…he needs more speed, but as long as he breathes, Jesse will be a victim."
He moves over and puts up a map. Wells feels he has nothing left to lose to show them Zoom's Fortress in all of its glory.
'Yeah, it really does have the supervillain lair type feel, doesn't it?' Gwen asks and the other girls nod in response through the bond link.
"There's no way in and there's most certainly no way out. Even if you get past Zoom's meta-army, you're going to have to deal with him. And I don't envy anyway."
"I'll take a shot at it," Harry replies. "After, I get the Phoenix Statue."
Wells answers with a nod and figures more of a protest should be given. Desperate times call for very desperate measures, and Wells feels beyond desperate. He reaches over and adjusts a few papers on his desk. They appear just as soon as they arrive.
'So, do you think this is going to be easy?' Kara asks.
Harry slips to the back entrance of the research facility. Gwen moves over to do her thing to hack into the building security system. Harry reaches out to stop her from heading in. Gwen pulls back with a surprised yelp, and Harry just gives her a soft smile.
'Let's do this the easy way.'
'Boy, that's a chance,' Sara thinks with a fond smile.
The security system overloads with a touch. The people monitoring it are none the wiser. They could have asked Wells for permission, but Harry needs some challenge. And besides, Zoom's flunkeys were in the area. The quartet makes their way down the hallway.
Harry raises a hand and puts the two guards nearest to the main lab to sleep. The area is cleared and the four make their way into the room.
'Well, that's easy,' Kara answers.
A loud cry causes their ears to rattle and the windows to shatter. Sara, Gwen, Kara, and Harry avoid the broken glass showering down on them and the debris also flying. Harry repels each piece of the debris.
'You just had to piss Murphy off, didn't you?'
Gwen shakes off her frustration. A figure appears and lets out another cry which sends them all scattering. Their ears are protected from the worst of the attack. The room they are standing in, not so much, as Harry grabs Kara, Sara, and Gwen and teleports them all outside of the building.
Dust continues to spill around them as Harry waits for his attacker to show up. A figure appears clad completely in black leather with her lips painted with black lipstick. She steps over the broken glass.
"Laurel?" Sara asks.
"No, her doppelganger," Gwen says. "Her evil doppelganger…her extremely hot and evil doppelganger."
Sara raises her eyebrow at Gwen's qualifying statement. She comes face to face with Laurel as the black trenchcoat she wears dangles to the ground. Laurel does not recognize her at first and there's no telling what she might do.
The Black Siren's lips curl into a smile. "The punishment for breachers in this city is execution. Why don't I sing you to sleep?"
Chapter Seventy-Seven: Cry of the Siren.
'Fighting an evil doppelganger of my sister? That's really not the thing I wanted to do. But somehow, I'm not surprised.'
The tension rises in Gwen when she stands about ten feet away from Sara. 'Don't look now, but I think she's got friends.'
Three large hulking gentlemen turn up in front of her. One of them has a glowing green hand which never bodes well. The hand blasts towards Kara and Gwen who scatter in both directions. Another one uses his hands on the ground to rock it. The third attacker twists his arms into ropes and shoots them forward to grab Kara around the neck and waist as she floats to the ground.
Kara struggles against the grip for a second until she summons enough super strength.
"Zoom sends his goon squad when I have this handled," The Black Siren comments. "Typical."
The alternate version of Dinah Laurel Lance moves in for the battle and attacks this White Canary. An uppercut punch comes inches away from connecting to the chest of White Canary. She dodges the attack and pops up with a punch of her own. Both move around each other with Black Siren flipping herself into the air and landing behind White Canary. The two ladies move close to each other.
"You're good."
"You have no idea."
The two women attack each other one more time. Black Siren and White Canary fire off shots at each other. They spend much time blocking their attacks as they do striking at each other. The two warriors spring back onto the ground and land with a solid thud. Black Siren prepares to unload her cry.
White Canary never allows her to have a chance to do so. She catches Black Siren with an attack which sends her crashing down to the ground. White Canary jumps down to restrain Black Siren. The two women roll around on the ground while punching at each other. The two trade their attacks until White Canary staggers up to a standing position, doubling over with a couple of deep breaths.
Gwen avoids the vibrating hand of her attacker. It keeps slamming into the ground to the point where Gwen wonders where it is going to land next. She pops her neck back and evades the attack from the vibrating hand.
"Come on, if you think you can get me!" Gwen calls out.
The first meta human hurls down to the ground from Kara. His entangling arms wrap around the man with the vibrating hands. Both of them try and pull their way from each other, being entangled into the other. Gwen and Kara fly into the battle and take down their adversaries with a huge double team punch.
Harry appears behind the third goon. A vicious punch to the spine rattles him down to the ground. Another tap to the back of the neck puts him down for the count for good, at least for this evening.
Black Siren turns her gaze around three hundred and sixty-five degrees in an attempt to locate this breacher. The other three goons drop to the ground thus leaving her alone.
'Useless,' she grumbles.
White Canary flashes in front of her and sends a cry at her. Black Siren only staggers a couple of seconds back before she sends a sonic assault at White Canary. Both girls push back and forth in an honest attempt to take down the other. Neither back down from their attack.
"Oh, you want to sing?" Black Siren taunts. "Sorry, I've got another idea."
She puts the heeled boot into the side of the head of White Canary. The hood slips down to reveal the girls face and causes Black Siren to pause for a second.
"Sara?"
This word slips through her mouth. Despite the fact Laurel knows her sister to be dead, it's still very hard for her to reconcile this fact. She receives a blast of webbing around her. Being restrained does a pretty adequate job of snapping Laurel out of her mental state.
"No, this can't be right!" Black Siren yells. "NO! YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME!"
She unleashes one of the biggest cries over and causes several buildings around her to shatter. Glass and debris fly everywhere and terrifying, blood curdling screams of agony come from the buildings.
Harry throws his head back in frustration when hearing these screams build in a grander proximity. He notices Kara and Sara already on rescuing the civilians. Black Siren releases herself from the bindings and shrieks at them one more time to destroy more buildings and thus cause more chaos and carnage.
A hand brushes to the top of Harry's head. He extends his arms. A shield appears around which stops the progress of the building's destruction and just in time as well. Harry takes a couple of deep breaths.
The Black Siren slips into the night, and now with the civilians out of the way, they would need to safely get out of there. Harry uses his medallion to enact the teleportation functions.
"That could have gone a lot better."
Gwen's nonchalant declaration earns her more than a few cross looks from the other members of the party. She just responds by throwing her arms over each other, sticking out her lip, and glaring at the other members of the party in question. She has only one thing to say to them all.
"Well, it could have," Gwen informs them a couple of seconds later.
"Yeah, I know," Sara states for a second. "She really didn't seem too happy to see me."
"Maybe it's because you've been dead on this world."
The three girls turn their attention to Harry. Harry sits in the center of the room, the energy focusing into him. He tries to hold himself together along with the energy.
"It makes a whole lot of sense," Kara answers for a second. "She was surprised and then angry that you're here as well….I don't think you've ever seen your sister that angry."
Sara turns around and kicks a hanging back across the chain. The bag rocks back and forth before almost connecting with the wall. "Angry enough to almost level an entire city block. That's not the Laurel I know. That's never been the Laurel I know."
"It's because it's not the Laurel you know."
Sara's gaze falls upon Harry's for the briefest of seconds. She thinks that he makes a lot of sense. Harry rises up to his feet and takes a couple of deep breaths.
"She could be the key to all of this," Harry answers. "We're going to have to get her on our side…because now I think the part of the statue we need has been moved. And she's the key to knowing where it is."
"Do you think that it will be that easy?" Sara asks.
"She's confused," Harry tells her. "She's turned out this way because you died, well the alternate version of you died. And I think she's only turned to Zoom because she had nowhere else to go."
Gwen raises an eyebrow and decides to come in with the most obvious statement. "So, what you're trying to say is that if we give her somewhere else to go, then she'll come over to our side?"
"That's the idea," Harry tells them.
The trio of women ponder upon it. They wonder if the plan would be that easy. They know the road to the Phoenix Medallion, the final medallion they need is going to be a very long and difficult one. They have no idea how many wrinkles the plan is going to have.
"I know where you're coming from," Sara answers a couple of moments later. "I think she's still deep down in there and she's still Laurel. We're just going to have to get her out of that state of mind."
"So, it's settled," Kara comments. "We're going to have to find her before she ends up doing something that she's going to regret."
A soft smile appears over Sara's face. "I think there's a pretty good chance she'll seek us out before we find her. Not one hundred percent but….if nothing else, I doubt her employer is going to be too happy that she failed in taking us out."
That was the most unfortunate thing of it all. Harry leans back for a second. He sees something in her eyes, conflict and anger. This version of Laurel went towards working with Zoom as a way to find an outlet to ensure that she does not fall completely apart.
'If we give her a different outlet, then there's a chance something could be done.'
The Black Siren has no idea what the hell just happened. The confidence she normally brings into every battle shakes a little bit. The sureness she always has for herself slips a tiny little bit. The criminal turns her head around for a couple of seconds.
"You've failed me."
The cold and chilling voice of Zoom cuts through the air and cuts through the bones of Black Siren. She turns to him when he turns out. Black Siren hitches in a deep breath. Now she does not know what to believe.
"Perhaps I was mistaken about the strength you have. You should be one of the top members of my employ. Your power can bring entire armies to their knee. You have brought entire armies to your knee. You should not be weak!"
Zoom zips behind Black Siren and puts a hand onto her shoulder. Black Siren takes a very deep breath. Anymore this arm slips and it could crush her completely. She tries not to show any fear even though fear comes very easily for this woman. It comes in a blink of an eye, before everything changes.
"If it wasn't for me, you'd be a scared little bird. Trapped inside of the cage forever more. You would be hunted down for what you are because to the outside world you're nothing but a freak."
Those words chill Laurel to the bone. Her powers turn her into something. Laurel closes her eyes and reminds herself of one thing.
'You are not valued by what other people think of you.'
Those words ring especially hallow the more they enter her mind. And Laurel wonders if after tonight she's doing the right thing. Zoom steers Laurel down the hallway where several prisoners are kept. They line the wall one by one. The one at the end causes a stir in Laurel.
The terrified woman in the cell at the end, the daughter of Harrison Wells, looks up at her captor. Wondering if this would be the day Zoom rips her into pieces. A small stirring feeling comes to the pit of Laurel's stomach when she lands her gaze on the girl on the other end of the bars.
'She's close to being as old as Sara was when she died,' Laurel thinks to herself with disgust mounting in the pit of her stomach. 'What's going on here? I don't….I don't even know. Zoom's lost it all in his obsessive zeal to be the very best. And there's…there's a new kind of darkness in here. I don't really like it, but it's here, and it's not going away.'
"I see it in your eyes. I see the fear! And you should fear me! YOU SHOULD FEAR ME!"
Laurel tries not to look at Zoom with any fear. The problem is that he makes her feel that fear beyond anything else ever. He disappears into the light in a blink of an eye. There's a couple of moments where Laurel stands there. Another one of the meta-humans appear at her shoulder and looks at Laurel for a second.
"What are you going to do about the breachers?"
A second passes as Laurel struggles to divorce herself with the image of her sister's face behind the hood of the White Canary. Does she really want to hurt them? She remembers all that Zoom's done for her and wonders if a small part of it has been motivated out of fear.
"I'll take care of them. I have to….they should not be here…they made a huge mistake. Zoom wants them finished, so they'll be finished."
"It would be a pity to lose you."
A couple of seconds pass and Laurel thinks it would be a pity to go as well. On the one hand, she might find herself reunited with Sara. On the other hand, and Laurel hates to admit this to herself, given what she's done, she's not going to happy place to be with her sister.
'You can fix this,' Laurel mentally tells herself. 'You can fix this.'
The Black Siren's breath draws out. She struggles not to look at the imprisoned form of Jesse Wells. Zoom's guards stand at the end of the hallway with an ever present stare.
'You have to fix it. Or you won't be looking at her. You will be her. And that's if you're lucky.'
Only the Black Siren does not want to be lucky. She steps a bit down the steps and moves past the steps past a case. Trophies kept of all of Zoom's victims line the case. It gives Black Siren a very unsettling moment when she passes them.
'You have to take them down.'
Storm clouds rise over Central City which is always an omen for something going down. Black Siren steps back to the scene of the crime. The buildings she recalls destroying only scant hours ago are already boarded up.
"I know you'd come back here. I'm sure you must be feeling some regrets."
White Canary and the Dragon pop out of thin air in front of them. It's almost like they knew she's here. Black Siren opens her mouth, the first indication is to attack. Something causes her to stop, and that is the fact Sara's face is once again out in the open. Goosebumps coming across a double of her dead sister.
"You don't know me at all," Black Siren tells her.
The double of her dead sister smiles from across the way. "Oh, honey, I think we know you better than you think. And we know you a little bit better than you know yourself. You're lost out there without a purpose. We're going to do what we can to help you find that purpose. But, only if you let us do it."
"No!"
Black Siren does not attack. Rather she braces herself for some kind of fight against these two. A couple of deep breaths come from her. She looks anywhere other than Sara's face because the alternate makes her come to a very frustrating conclusion.
"Sara's dead, and there's nothing that I can do to change that," Black Siren tells her. "You're nothing but a breacher. You're not the real thing."
She moves forward with an attempted physical assault. The White Canary dodges the sloppy attack and pops behind the Black Siren. The Black Siren pulls out a wooden staff and rushes towards her. She wants to take them down without usage of her power.
White Canary dodges the staff as the Dragon appears to vanish into the distance. She knows Harry's setting her up for an attack. Black Siren swings the wooden staff out. White Canary produces a pair of tonfa out of mid-air which cling to the staff.
"You should not have come here!" Black Siren yells.
"And you shouldn't have joined up with Zoom. There's some good deep down in you, just find it."
The Black Siren pops back a few steps away from her attacker and comes close to flipping her down to the ground. The White Canary pops up high into the air and lands on the ground. She moves for a closer hand to hand assault. Both of them trade punches and a couple of kicks. Sara takes the legs out from underneath her and causes her to come down to the ground.
The two sisters, separated by a dimensional barrier, fight each other. Black Siren grabs her by the wrist and takes her down to the ground. She puts a knife at the back of White Canary's neck.
"Laurel, you won't do it," she tells her.
"Don't…speak that name! It's Black Siren now!"
Sara takes advantage of her hesitation by flipping Black Siren down onto the ground and hooking her around the arm. Both of the fighters tussle onto the ground with each other. Neither give each other any room to fight back. Black Siren pops back to a standing position and charges the White Canary.
'No, I have to defeat her…them….no matter what. Zoom will make you wish you were dead if you weren't.'
"You don't owe Zoom anything," White Canary tells her while blocking one of the more brutal punches. "And if you were strong, you would not bow down to the likes of Zoom."
"You don't understand!" Black Siren yells at the top of her lungs. "I have to! I HAVE TO!"
The two continue their fight with a few moments of a back and forth scrap. White Canary flips her down onto the ground. Both wrestle with each other onto the ground until Black Siren puts her feet underneath the White Canary's stomach and flips her down to the ground. White Canary does a forward roll and lands the lading onto her feet. She adjusts the position.
The two rush back into the attack and keep fighting with each other. They are evenly matched enough. Sara spends a couple of seconds trying to find the chinks in the Siren's armor and finds it soon enough.
'She hesitates when she should not because seriously her heart's not into it.'
White Canary pops her sister down to the ground. Black Siren's knees crumple out from underneath her. A few seconds pass with the woman taking a couple of breaths before pulling herself up to a standing position.
"I have to. I have to! I MUST!"
Black Siren unleashes one shrill cry only to realize she can't even get out the slightest action. Someone slaps a collar around her neck out of nowhere.
In her fixation with taking down the White Canary, Black Siren forgets the presence of the Dragon. She turns towards him and makes an honest attempt of taking his head off with a kick. The Dragon casually ducks out of the way before popping behind the Black Siren. One thumb jabbing into the back of her neck drops the woman down to the ground.
"Why do you work for Zoom?"
"I work because we're hunted down!" Black Siren yells. "You don't understand."
"I understand," Harry answers. "And you have another choice…you have more options and you have…."
A cloud of mist comes away. Black Siren realizes that Zoom's sent more meta-humans. The cloud of mist surrounds her and causes her lungs to fill up in agony. Knives piercing her from within makes it very hard for the Black Siren to catch her breath even though it's evident she should.
Harry Potter blasts the deadly cloud away from her. It turns into a fully formed human being, a sadistic looking bald man. He tries to attack Harry instead. Harry conjures a glass orb to trap him and cause him to float all the way out of the way.
Sara bends down to check the downed form of this version of Laurel. She's still breathing, although the attempted poison means her breathing is very shallow.
"We'll get her back," Harry informs Sara.
The two help the barely conscious woman to her feet. She holds onto them, perhaps on instinct before they teleport out of the way.
Laurel's mouth bubbles as she attempts to get back up out of bed. It feels as if someone's knocked the air out of her lungs with one huge punch. Her entire head rings and her lungs feel like they are on fire. Then those two sensations disappear in a blink of an eye. Her hands clutch the side of the face with a couple more deep breaths.
'Weird.'
The blurry vision snaps into focus in time to come face to face with the Dragon and the White Canary.
"Hello," the Dragon tells her. "How are you feeling?"
"My head's…less fuzzy," Laurel comments. "Just who are you anyway…you must have a name other than the Dragon, don't you?"
"My name is Harry Potter."
Harry's hand slips onto the bed. Black Siren, on sheer instinct, reaches up to grab the hand. The warmth makes her feel better and also makes her mind clear suddenly. All of the things she wishes to do, and all of the frustration she ends up feeling slowly bubbles away from her thoughts.
"I could have killed you….I have killed many…hurt many more all because of Zoom."
"He's manipulated your mind," Harry tells her gently. "He's taken advantage of your grief. You can make right what's wrong by helping us take him down….helping us get what we've come here from…and saving Jesse Wells from her prison."
"I never approved of him capturing her," Black Siren admits in a very tense and tired voice. "I guess that's when my thoughts of Zoom ended up taking a downturn."
Harry answers with a squeeze of her hand. A couple more seconds allow her to relax.
"I'll help you. I mean, it's the right thing to do….wow, I didn't know how messed up this was until I really thought about it. Guess I'm really broken."
"You might be broken. But that doesn't mean that you can't be fixed."
Harry smiles at the effect his healing on her hand. He also may have delved a little bit deeper into her mind and used his pheromones as a strong way to overthrow the control Zoom holds on the Black Siren. It's a very sketchy and slippery slope as far as ethics are concerned, but Harry is confident its going to work out for the better.
"It's good to see my sister's face again."
Sara smiles and leans down before kisses Laurel on the lips. Laurel takes the hand which is not intertwining in Harry's and puts it on the back of Sara's head. The two keep kissing each other for a long time. Laurel sucks on Sara's double's lips for a couple of seconds.
"I've missed this."
The bed covers pull back a little bit to reveal Laurel's attire of being nothing other than a very short gown. She shifts her attentions from Sara to Harry, putting him onto the bed.
She gets a taste of true power when kissing him. Harry puts his hands on the back of Laurel's head and keeps guiding her into the kiss.
"Relax," Harry tells her. "Focus on nothing other than us."
Laurel's focus shifts to where Sara's hands are going. She brushes the underside of her legs to where Laurel's not wearing any panties. Then again, that was how she was underneath her Black Siren attire.
The kiss between Harry and Laurel escalates with him pushing against her mouth. His tongue opens into her mouth and Laurel sucks on it. She feels up Harry and also moves in to squeeze him. She wants to wrap her lips around something else as well.
And speaking of lips, Sara's drive down between Laurel's warm thighs and start to attack her nether regions with an insane amount of suction. She sucks on the dark counterpart of her sister at her lips and makes her throw said hips up. A small amount of juices already trickle from her.
Laurel pulls away from the kiss from Harry. She's about to address him. Sara's oral attentions make it very hard for her to focus. Harry smiles and pulls the gown off of Laurel to expose her bare breasts. The two large and supple breasts demand attention. Harry cups them and feels them up.
"Just focus on the pleasure. Focus on how it makes you feel."
"It makes me feel good," Laurel breaths when Harry's hand moves deep inside of her heaving chest and starts to suck on her breasts. "IT MAKES ME FEEL REALLY GOOD!"
Harry's nibble of her nipples makes it very hard for Laurel to not lose her mind. She brushes the back of Harry's head and keeps guiding him in to sucking on her chest. Laurel throws her hips up and allows another moan to come out of her body.
"FUCK IT MAKES ME FEEL REALLY GOOD!"
Harry hits all of the hot spots on her breasts and makes Laurel lose herself. Sara attacks the bottom half of her. Fingers and tongue work in grand harmony to make Laurel ooze underneath Sara's eager attentions. Laurel puts her hands on the back of her sister's head and keeps guiding her I between her legs.
Now, Harry leaves the two Lance sisters to play. Sara strips her clothes off and moves over the top of Laurel. An attack on the Siren's lips is something which is necessary for the Canary. The two kiss and suck on each other's mouths. Sara's tongue invades Laurel with as much fever as one would expect.
Harry's reaches between the legs of both women at the same time. He fingers both of them while they continue their steamy make out session. Harry collects their juices while pushing into both of them.
Laurel feels touches like she has not felt in a long time. The pent up aggression in her body is let out. Sara directs her attention to Laurel's breasts. A fire builds up in Laurel to the point where nothing can put it out other than the two lovers with her.
Sara stifles a moan while burying her face in Laurel's ample chest. The delicious breasts smashing in her face bring Sara completely to the edge and makes her moan in pleasure. Not to mention Harry manipulating her core also brings another spark inside of Sara.
The two girls thrash and moan from their orgasm reaching a fever pitch. Harry pulls himself away from both beautiful blondes and rams his fingers back into them one more time. They hit their peak from Harry's attentions one more time. Harry slides his fingers into them and then pulls them out of them. One more time, they go into both girls and rock their bodies.
Harry pulls out of them completely. He tastes the overflow of juices coming from both of these beautiful women. They are prepared nice and ready for him. Harry leans over and Sara shifts herself so her pussy is opened. Harry pushes a finger inside of her pussy and another one inside of her ass. The double penetration of Sara rewards Harry with a very pleasurable moan coming from her.
Laurel feels the loss of Harry's fingers from her body. She can only barely tell what Harry's doing to Sara. The moans coming from the doppelganger of her younger sister spark a building lust in Laurel's body.
"That's…not…fair!" Laurel manages to pipe up with a very intense moan as she wraps a leg around Sara's body on sheer instincts.
A small grin comes from the younger girl. She touches and tempts Laurel's leg and sends shivers before forcing them open.
Harry presses his hands against Sara's backside and then aims his cock towards Laurel's opening. The Black Siren's body remains rigid underneath him. Harry enters the Black Siren from his own angle and pushes himself deep inside of her. A couple of pushes work Harry inside of his lover.
"Fuck," The Black Siren murmurs underneath her breath. "You're so big."
"Focus on me filling you up."
Black Siren's complete focus directing on Harry's large cock pushing into her wet pussy makes things so much better for her. The void in her life fills up just as much as Harry's cock throws into her. Her fingers twitch and grab onto the back of her sister's hair as a base. Sara's face resting in her chest and sucking on it makes it feel good.
Harry leans in and plants some kisses down on Sara's back while she lies on top of her sister's duplicate. Twelve inches push inside of Laurel while Harry's able lips close in to Sara's tasty backside. He kisses the girl.
The attack on her ass sparks Sara's lust even more. She cums all over her sister's stomach when Harry touches her. His tongue darts against her opening and licks her asshole. It gets it nice and wet for the what was to come.
Laurel's eyes close and a silent scream fills her throat. She thrashes back when Sara hits a particularly sensitive spot on her breast. Her toes curl with the passion and the pleasure doubling with each passing moment.
Harry works himself deeper into the lover on the bed. She tightens around Harry and pushes about as much of him inside of her as humanly possible. Harry almost comes all the way out of Laurel and then pushes back into her all the way.
"Cum for me again, my beautiful Siren. You want to feel good. I'll make you feel really good."
Another pump of the Dragon's monster cock into the Black Siren's pussy causes her to jolt up off of the bed and release a torrent of cum all over his hard cock. Harry pushes in and out of her with repeated thrusts, and works her over to a fever.
"Baby, oh fuck," Black Siren groans when feeling Harry fill her up and then drive down inside of her.
"Cum for me and I'll give you the reward you want."
Harry's swollen cock pushes into her body. The Black Siren closes herself onto him and milks Harry's big cock inside of her body. The two join each other with the Dragon hammering the pussy of the meta-human the bed. The double of the Black Siren's dead sister sucks and licks at her breasts thus bringing her to the edge.
A touch to the side of Black Siren's leg makes her scream in pleasure. No sound comes out, but the look on her face betrays the fact pleasure reaches its apex within Black Siren. Dinah Laurel Lance of Earth Two explodes all over Harry's cock with cum and keeps cumming over him the deeper Harry plants himself inside of her. A couple of huge thrusts bring even further until Harry's ready to explode inside of her.
His orgasm reaches a steady peak and he fires his load inside of Laurel's tight pussy. Laurel holds onto Harry the further he pushes indie of her. Each blast of thick white seed flows without any pause inside of Laurel's body. Harry holds onto her all the way.
Harry smiles at the feeling of release being achieved. The fact Laurel drops down onto the bed with a smile of pleasure on her face also makes Harry feel satisfied as well.
Sara crawls back down off of Laurel. Harry shifts out of the way to give Sara some time to play with her sister. And Sara takes advantage of this. First, Sara tastes her own juices off of Laurel.
"Oh, you kinky bitch!" Black Siren manages before Sara's lips work their devilish magic on her nether regions.
The White Canary dives between the thighs of the Black Siren and starts sucking the cum Harry left in there. The combination of the two juices causes Sara to lose herself. Harry fingering her from behind brings her up to another level.
Harry explores how wound up Sara is from eating the combination of juices out of Laurel's pussy. She tightens around Harry's probing finger. Harry holds onto her ass and gives it a couple of spanks which only makes Sara munch even quicker on Laurel's pussy.
"FUCK!" Black Siren moans.
Powers or not, she still screams up a fit from Sara munching on her. And the moans vibrating out of Sara's throat makes Laurel squirt even more. She can't help it. It feels like the best feeling ever. Sara presses her face into Laurel's pussy to really dig in.
Sara comes up from hair, her face covered in juices. Laurel sits up and Sara grabs Laurel and makes her taste the juices clinging to her face. The Black Siren eagerly attacks the lips and the cheeks, and the neck of her sister. A quick voyage to Sara's breasts returns the favor from earlier. Sara scoots back to recline on Harry's lap.
The feeling of his hard cock touching between her ass cheeks invites Sara even closer. The prospect of a good round of anal with her mate brings Sara closer to the edge. Harry wraps an arm around Sara and hoists her up off of the bed to bring the girl closer to the edge of his cock.
"Fuck my ass," Sara implores him. "Please…fuck it…fuck it really good."
Harry holds onto Sara and keeps guiding her into position. Twelve inches of mighty cock closes in to slide in between Sara's ample cheeks. Harry squeezes them and makes Sara open up to receive his huge cock.
Now it slides inside of Sara. The heat of her ass tightens around Harry. Harry encircles an arm around Sara and allows her to rise and fall to take more of his cock inside of her warm hole. Sara rises up off of the bed and drives herself down onto him ass first.
"Baby, fuck!" Sara moans when receiving the big cock driven inside of her. "OH FUCK!"
Twelve inches plant their way into Sara's warm back entrance. She reaches down and guides Black Siren's face where she could eat Sara out while Harry fucks her ass. The combination increases how horny she feels. Laurel tastes a stream of juices coming out of her.
Harry relishes the sensations Sara's tight and toned ass bring to him. The snug hole wrapping around his cock only swells his balls. The rest of Sara's body calls Harry like some stunning siren song. Face, hair, breasts, hips, legs, all of them turn into Harry. He keeps touching Sara and making her work down onto him. Harry holds Sara completely still and makes her drive down onto his cock with as many thrusts as humanly possible.
"Cum all over your sister's face."
Laurel drives deeper into Sara's love box and receives a face full of juices. The Black Siren samples them with greater hungry boiling inside of her. The sounds of sexual fulfillment only tempt Laurel even further. She munches on Sara's sweet pussy, going down inside of her body.
"Fuck!" Sara moans. "You're so fucking good…both of you….I've….OH FUCK!"
Sara slides her warm asshole down onto Harry's thick tool and squeezes him. Twelve inches part their way into Sara's warmest hole and make her feel beyond great. Harry pulls out of her and then pushes back into her.
Time passes by with Harry's orgasm reaching a fever pitch. Sara speeds up the work she's performing on him when riding him and driving her asshole down onto Harry's massively throbbing cock. Harry touches Sara's nipples and drives her beyond the edge. He touches Sara and makes her cum all over Laurel's face one more time.
"My turn soon," Harry breathes.
Sara tries to vocalize the want, the need for Harry to cum inside of her ass. All which passes through the air loud piercing screams of primal lust. They rattle the walls and direct Sara to a less than coherent state.
Harry understands what she wants. He feels her wet pussy when Laurel takes a breath. Laurel sucks Sara's juices from his hand after Harry pulls out of her.
A rush stretches Harry to a brand new level. The harder he plants inside Sara, the deeper he goes. Harry buries his cock inside of her with a couple more pumps. Closer Harry goes to cumming.
Finally, Harry loses it and sends his cum spraying into Sara's inviting back hole. He rams into her ass and keeps cumming until his balls deflate and his cock grows less solid. He spends a lot of time burying seed into Sara's ass until it overflows.
Harry pulls away from her. Sara slides back onto the bed. Harry moves her and Sara grabs his cock before sliding it into her mouth. Sara sucks Harry, hard and fast.
On the other hand, the Black Siren takes interest to Sara's overflowing asshole. She kisses the back of Sara's legs before easing her way into Sara's cum soaked hole.
Chapter Seventy-Eight: Race For Glory.
Dinah Laurel Lance of Earth Two, the Black Siren, pops out of bed with a couple of deep breaths coming from her. For a mere second, her surroundings jar the Black Siren. She relaxes when remembering the pleasures from the night before.
The pleasures only serve as a momentary distraction from the night before. Laurel unlatches her arm from the half-sleeping form of the duplicate of her dead sister. Those words together in a sentence make Laurel simply shake her head in bemusement. She swings her legs out of the bed and moves over. A bathrobe and some clothing is sitting on the chair for her.
The open door leading to the bathroom shows Laurel the shower. She enters the shower and turns on the water. The war jets of water return Laurel's thoughts. She throws her hair back with one particular thought entering the mind of the woman.
'Zoom's going to kill me,' Laurel thinks to herself.
Zoom pretty much told Laurel she showed weakness. Laurel disagrees one hundred percent with Zoom's assessment she's showing any kind of weakness. She takes a couple of breaths and feels a warm hand on her lower back. She spots the Dragon standing behind her.
"Figures you could use a little bit of help."
Black Siren smiles and allows Harry to wash her back. The two enjoy their shower. As much as Black Siren wants to bring this good clean fun to a dirtier level, she knows there's a lot of work to be done. Therefore the shower ends way too soon for the liking of any of them.
They move to the room after getting dressed. Sara, Gwen, and Kara all sit down the bed. Black Siren takes a spot in an arm chair while her sister hangs on the couch. Harry perches in mid-air with his legs crossing together. He leans in and fixes a gaze upon all of the girls.
"We're going to need to get to Zoom," Sara concludes.
"That's going to be easier said than done," Black Siren tells her. "Look, I don't agree with a lot of what he's doing. But…you can't deny one fact even though you've….well you've convinced me that you're side is better."
All of the girls answer with smiles. Black Siren takes a second to try and form her thoughts into words.
"Well, Zoom's Fortress is one of the most fortified areas. Many have tried to get in and few have lived to tell the tale. And those who lived long enough have been imprisoned by Zoom because he has some kind of use of them. It's a fate worse than death."
"I've been there before," Harry mutters more to himself than with Black Siren and the other girls.
Gwen leans towards Black Siren and brushes a finger to the side of her arm. "There's got to be a way inside, isn't there? I mean, you know where it is, don't you?"
A nod of confirmation follows from Black Siren. "I know where it is. I've been there before. Always when he's invited me in. And the same with his other favored meta-humans."
"There are others?" Kara asks.
"Yes," Black Siren tells her. "The people of Earth to try and stop Zoom, they had laws pass which condemn those with powers on sheer principle. They thought that it would help deal with the Zoom problem. Instead, it's made it worse."
"Instead it's given Zoom a ready-made army of followers," Harry tells her. Laurel agrees with his assessment with a very swift nod. "There will be a way inside."
"You're…well no offense meant, you're crazy."
It is now Harry Potter's turn to grin. "I've been called far worse by many people. And I can assure you that where there's a will there's a way."
There were many things Harry enjoys and it's a challenge. Those things bring him wanting to storm Zoom's fortress. He takes a couple of seconds to realize what's going to happen.
"I think there's a reason why Zoom kidnapped Jesse and it's not entirely to make Wells suffer," Harry informs them all. "I think there's something deep inside of her. I can feel it."
"Well, yeah, I guess," Gwen answers. "Do you have any idea of how we're going to get inside?"
Harry just smiles at the girls. He repeats his assessment mentally about with there being a will, there would be a way for Harry to accomplish a whole lot of things.
"Do you think I can talk to you for a second?" Laurel asks Sara.
Without any hesitation, Sara nods and joins Laurel. The two girls walk outside of the room. Sara spends little time in offering Laurel the chance.
"So, is this weird for you?" Laurel asks. "I mean, sleeping with your sister, even if she's from an alternate universe."
"No," Sara tells her firmly. "I've done a lot of things that I would have considered weird a few years ago. You just go with the flow and see what you can do."
Sara smiles at Black Siren. She reaches over towards the girl and grabs her hand in reassurance. Black Siren just barely has a chance to relax when looking at her.
"You're afraid of going after Zoom?" Sara asks.
"No, I'm not afraid!" Black Siren yells. She notices the raised eyebrow coming from the woman in front of her. She answers with a sigh. "Okay, fine, I might be a little bit….but if you've seen and you know half of the stuff that he's done, you would be afraid of him too."
"Monsters are only monsters because of the fear you give them," Sara tells her.
"Yeah, I guess. But Zoom's done things to earn that fear. And he's just going to get more desperate now that his power base has been threatened."
Black Siren casts a gaze out in the hallway. Kara, Gwen, and Harry still talk from inside of the room. Full attention returns to the conversation between the two sisters separated by an alternate universe.
"You know he's going to come after Wells again," Black Siren tells him.
"Yeah, I know."
"And we'll be ready," Harry tells her. "I need to know a general location of Zoom's Fortress."
"It seems like you have a plan," Black Siren says.
One who knows Harry Potter knows that his plans always come out a bit jagged and a bit crooked. But, somehow, they work in the end despite the ripples along the way.
"You two are with me. Kara and Gwen both know what they have to do."
Jesse Wells mentally marks the time she's been here. It has to be weeks going on months, or maybe it was just the perception of the place. The girl tries not to be afraid. Even though, one of the most shocking things to an eighteen year old girl comes from the other cells in the block.
Men and women far older and far wiser than her line those cells. Some of them with broken bodies and all of them with broken spirits. One of them groans. Jesse sees that the groan means one thing.
'Kill me.'
Jesse brushes a strand of hair away from her face. Exactly what Zoom plans to do, she has not the clearest idea. All she can do is focus on keeping her head stable and sane. A double of deep breaths comes from the girl.
'I have to find a way to get out of here. And I have to find a way to get out of here now. There's really no choice. I'm going to have to get out of here.'
Those thoughts enter a repeating loop. Jesse rises up to her feet towards the edge of the cell. The teenage prodigy chances a touch at the cell bars. They bombard her back onto the ground.
Wincing, Jesse scrambles to a standing position. A couple of beads of sweat roll down her face. A spark fills her fingers which makes Jesse surprised, but she says nothing.
Then, an image of a green-eyed man enters Jesse's mind's eye. She's never seen the man before in her life but he brings something to her which long since has been lost when being placed into Zoom's fortress.
Hope, hope enters Jesse's mind. She clutches the wall before dropping own onto the ground.
A flash of blue lightning outside brings Zoom out in front of Jesse's cell. Jesse stares outside of the cell with a defiant flicker in her eyes. Zoom's uncaring expression shows this look of disobedience really serves Jesse little.
"You think your prince will come? You're mistaken?"
Zoom's crackling voice fills the air. Jesse takes a couple of seconds to look up at him. Zoom phases through her cell and stands face to face with her. The cold and rattling breath comes down Jesse's neck. She stands tall and groans when seeing Jesse approaching her inside of the cell. Jesse clutches her fingers against the air when Zoom moves ever so closer to her.
"You are scared, child. I can rip you apart if I choose to."
"You can," Jesse confirms. "But, you're going to pay. He's going to make you pay."
"He will do nothing!" Zoom howls at the top of his lungs. "You are going to be here for as long as you're useful. And I know that you're more useful than your father ever was. You have something that I need to stay strong. And I will be stronger."
Zoom clutches Jesse's shoulder and yanks her off of the ground. The teenage prodigy feels bones crunching underneath Zoom's hold. She takes in a couple of breaths when focusing on this monster and the hold he has around her shoulder. Fingers burn into her.
"He will not come! And you will not have your salvation. You will beg for mercy! And there will be none! Do you hear me? You will be none!"
A figure drags her feet on the ground. Zoom drops Jesse's body and turns to Killer Frost standing at the end of the hallway.
"They're ready for your signal," she coolly tells them.
The bolt of blue lightning disappears down the hallway. Jesse slumps against the wall breathing heavily. She looks up at Killer Frost.
"Don't you ever get tired of being his pawn?" Jesse asks Frost.
A tiny cloud of cloud mist appears at the palm of Killer Frost's hand. The woman once known as Caitlin Snow steps closer towards the cage and flashes Jesse a smile.
"Stay in your own lane, little girl."
Harrison Wells leans over mounds of paperwork even though he's really not paying it any mind. The only thing which is on his mind is his daughter. Eventually, Zoom would come to taunt him. Wells eyes the half-finished speed cannon laying in a case next to him. It's nowhere near ready to be completed. Wells drags his fingers through his hair and gives a couple more labored sighs when thinking about what needs to be done.
'If Zoom kills me , it will all turn out better,' Wells remarks to himself.
The temperature in the lab drops suddenly by twenty degrees. Wells stands on his face and comes face to face with Killer Frost and a small army of Zoom's meta-humans.
"Zoom's sent his errand girl to do his bidding," Wells comments without any fear. "It's sad how a brilliant scientist has turned into this."
"This!" Killer Frost yells while shooting an icicle against the wall and breaking the cabinet. "Is your fault!"
A bald young man with glowing green eyes approaches wells. The Geiger counter in the lab starts registering trace amounts of nuclear radiation coming from him. Two more meta humans approach Wells from either one. One of them has knives retracting from his fingers. The other touches a flower in a pot on the desk and decays it into nothing.
"No, the boss wants him alive," Killer Frost says. "He knows you've been working against Zoom. And it won't…."
"You are predictable."
Killer Frost jumps up to face the Black Siren. Black Siren comes not along, but rather with back up. The White Canary and the Dragon stand side by side with her. Killer Frost remains cool under pressure although rage bubbles and threatens to burst through the surface.
"Traitor," Frost tells her, letting out the breath.
"We differ greatly as to who is a traitor, Frost," Black Siren answers.
Killer Frost holds her hands out to bombard Black Siren with icicles. She opens her mouth and sends a shrill cry which impacts the icicles. The shattering icicles fly through the lab.
The man bald man's head engulfs in green radiation when charging towards Harry. Harry avoids the huge punch and lands behind him. The bald man staggers to the ground and Harry grabs his hands on him. He siphons off some of the energy.
The man with claws for fingers charges the White Canary with the intention to stab. White Canary rolls out of the way of the knives which cut through a piece of metal. White Canary conjures two white hot knives into her hand and then jumps into the air. The knives cling into the fingers with both pushing each other back and forth.
"I'm going to cut you up, little girl!"
"And you need a trim."
White Canary matches his slashes with her knives. One of them gets underneath the fingernail and ribs the knife completely out. The man howls in agony and redoubles her attack.
The man with the decaying touch stalks Wells for a second.
"Well, Doctor, it's just you and me…."
"I SAID NO!"
Killer Frost bombards the ground underneath him and freezes the feet to the ground. Black Siren sweeps Killer Frost's legs out from underneath him.
The nuclear powered man grabs onto a glass orb and summons the energy. His fists glow and he tries to attack Harry. Harry propels him back with an attack and drops him down to the ground. The man wielding the knives flies over Harry's head and lands directly on the ground.
'Sara, heads up.'
Sara shields herself from the miniature radiation blast with the medallion. She rushes the man and sweeps him down to the ground. Black Siren and White Canary team up with a double canary cry blast!
Wells reaches into his desk and pulls out a gun. The bombardment of heat energy connects with Killer Frost's back and staggers her a few feet back. She tries to fight back, but the heat coming from the gun makes her very weak.
"I've got him now!"
Decaying touch grabs Wells just when Harry wraps up the nuclear powered man and Sara wraps up the man with the knives. Wells screams in agony just as Harry jolts in.
Already, he's too late, as Wells decays into salt before their very eyes. The entire room screams in horror as Harry puts the man with the decaying touch into the wall before he can try that on anyone else.
"I SAID NO!"
Killer Frost freezes decaying touch with one flash. Black Siren bombards him with a Canary Cry which shatters his body into cubes dropping him to the ground.
"That's a bit extreme," White Canary offers to Black Siren.
Black Siren just turns it back around on her. "Well, he was on death row. And it's not like any prison cell could contain him."
Killer Frost drops to one knee from a mysterious force. She gazes up at the Dragon who approaches her with a smile on his face.
"You're starting to lose faith in Zoom, aren't you?" Harry asks her.
"I have no choice."
Black Siren shakes her head in response. "You sound a lot like I did a couple of days ago. You have to believe you have the ability to break way. Remember who you were, Caitlin."
"Caitlin's dead," Killer Frost tells them.
"No, she isn't," Harry tells. "There's still some good left in you."
"You're…you're mad," Killer Frost tells her.
"No, I'm just good at reading people," Harry tells her. "You think your life is over. You think that Zoom is your only salvation. And you blamed Wells for what you've done. And now you blame yourself for him dying because you could not stop…him in time."
Harry sweeps his fingers over the ice cubes on the floor. He smiles and extends a single hand out towards Killer Frost who considers it for a moment.
Another frantic attempt to get out comes over Jesse's mind. She analyzes the doors.
'Okay, there has to be a weak spot. Any security system is not foolproof. There are always weak spots. There are always ways to get around it. You have to think…think Wells, think!'
A few seconds pass as something interrupts Jesse's thought patterns. The sounds of people dropping down to the ground around her makes Jesse stand up in attention.
'Surely no one could be this bold to break into Zoom's Fortress like this.'
Someone was pretty bold alright. A small burst of hope enters Jesse's mind. She imagines someone coming to save her, some valiant hero rescuing his damsel in distress. Or her damsel in distress, hell, Jesse was not particularly picky on those details as long as she's rescued.
The top of the cell breaks open and suddenly the doors fade out from around her. Jesse turns her attention towards the figure on the cell.
"My name is Gwen, and I'm getting her out of here."
She wears a combination of black and white on her outfit with a blue spider insignia on it. Jesse spends a couple of seconds wondering what's going to happen now. She walks ever so closer towards the edge of the cell and takes this mysterious girl's hand.
"What about Zoom?" Jesse asks. "He'll be coming soon."
"We need to move quickly."
She shoots some kind of material out of her wrist. Jesse finds it hard to tell whether or not it's organic or whether it's something she's created. Regardless, Jesse allows this woman's arm to wrap around her as the two of them swing out of there.
Jesse's heart races faster. They are almost to the exit. They are going to make it. They are so close to making it that Jesse's excitement grows. They are almost to the edge of the tunnel.
A blast of light cuts through the air and rips the webbing line off. Jesse and Gwen take a tumble to the ground.
"Get behind me!" Gwen yells.
'Kara, I hope you're getting up here soon,' Gwen thinks. 'Kara, Sara, Harry….I've found them and I'm…..'
A force connects to the back of Gwen's head. Her head whips back as she crumples down to the ground. Jesse screams in absolute horror when turning in towards the figure.
"I told you they could not save you."
A second later and Jesse's now back into her cell. So close to freedom she saw the light. Jesse wants to throw herself down on the ground and break into tears.
Killer Frost approaches the edge of the mountain and looks up into Zoom's Fortress. Black Siren walks up next to her a second later. White Canary and the Dragon approach them.
"You've just sealed your death warrant going in there," Killer Frost tells them.
"Luv, I have a pile of death warrants stacked all the way to the top of that mountain," Harry tells her. "No one's cashed in on them yet."
Killer Frost shrugs and feels that this gentlemen is very insane. Extremely hot and easy on the eyes, granted, but completely and utterly insane, but she shakes those thoughts out of her head. She puts her hands on the ground and a stairway of ice comes up from the ground to the Fortress.
The ice queen steps back and motions for the castle.
"After you."
Black Siren takes the first step up there. She now has the courage, thanks to the Dragon and his brides, to face Zoom regardless of what the consequences were.
A blast of light comes down the steps. Gwen's body comes hurling down the stairs. Black Siren jumps out of the way at the last second as the girl comes to a stop.
Harry and Sara rush over to tend to Gwen. She's breathing and without the power of the medallion, it would simply not be the case.
"So, the dreaded and almighty Dragon!"
Zoom comes down the steps with a flicker of darkness in his eyes. The black costume Zoom wears distorts all of the light around him into nothing other than supreme darkness. The crazed individual encircles his head and stares them all down.
"I'm going to crush you."
Harry conjures a glowing sword in his hand. Zoom's, nothing but another monster he has to defeat. The speed demon creates a black cyclone when he circles Harry and his girls. A burning of energy against the ground eats it up with Harry clutching the sword and getting ready for an attack.
'Come at me, then.'
Zoom blasts at Harry in an attack that most normal people would not see coming. Harry, on the other hand, is ready for anything the demonic speedster has to throw his way.