Chapter Twenty:
The moment is one Laurel wants to hold on for a long time. And certainly, she holds onto Barry after the fun the two shared on the previous evening. Her fingers lightly dance up Barry's chest.
Barry stirs awake for a second with Laurel smiling. Laurel puts her hands on his chest and leans forward to get a brief kiss from Barry. Their lips touch long enough and then break apart with Barry breaking into a smile.
"Hey."
Barry puts a hand on her lower back and smiles.
"Hey yourself. So about last night…."
"My only regret is that we didn't do so sooner."
The two exchange another passionate kiss. Barry and Laurel sink their bodies into each other and tongues into each others mouths. Laurel indulges in the hunger that she wants for a very long time. It's just...well who knew it would be with him? Still, she's not complaining, especially after last night.
A second passes with Laurel about ready to mount Barry and about ready to wait for more. A loud thump outside of their door indicates someone is there. A slight and frantic knocking pull Barry and Laurel out of the little world they enter in right now.
Laurel gives a frustrated sigh and rolls off of Barry. She puts her hands on a bathrobe and slips it on before sauntering over towards the door. The thought enters her mind about how she better get that. Barry decides to get quickly dressed as well, in case there's someone who needs help.
The door opens and Laurel steps back to see her frantic sister on the other side of the door. Given how composed Sara normally is, this throws Laurel completely off the tracks.
"Sara?"
Sara steps inside. She stops when noticing Barry standing in her sister's living room area.
"I'm glad that you're here for the record. There's a bit of a problem."
"How much fo a problem?"
Sara frowns and reaches into the bag slung over her shoulder.
"Technically, one can say it's a small problem. But, I think we can all agree how the small problems end up being very big problems."
A swipe into her bag produces the evidence of the small problem at hand. A miniature model of the Waverider sets in the palm of Sara's hand.
It does not take Barry a long time to realize what happened.
"It...someone shrunk…."
"Yeah, they did….do you mind getting me back to Star Labs so we can take a look at this further."
Barry senses some kind of strange energy coming off of the Waverider which causes it to shrink. The Scarlet Speedster picks up Sara in his arms and than jets her back into Star Labs. He comes back and helps Laurel get dressed in a matter of seconds before running her back all the way to Star Labs.
X-X-X
Jesse hitches her breath when looking at the miniaturized ship. The science prodigy loves a puzzle when she sees one. And this is a puzzle.
"Apparently, he used some kind of advanced energy. It has similarities to dark matter…."
It's here Barry groans. Jesse presses on with her explanation.
"But, at the same time, it's something different. I don't know what he is. From what I've been able to figure out from studying the Waverider, he not only shrunk them, but also put the occupants into the ship in suspended animation or something. I don't know for what purpose?"
Sara sits on the chair, arms and legs folded. Barry turns over to her.
"Any…."
"We were correcting a miscue in the timeline which caused Dewey to actually beat Truman. When things wrapped up and the timeline stabilized, I noticed this weird man when we were on the ship. And he noticed me and started attacking us. He claimed to know you."
The eyes of the assassin sink onto Barry's for a good ten seconds. Barry folds his arms in response and looks a bit puzzled at what Sara's talking about.
"Who is he? Did he give a name?"
"Does the name Abra Kadabra ring a bell to you?"
The Speedster racks his brain. He's fought so many enemies, that it can be a bit of a trouble to remember it all. However, Barry's never fought a villain under that moniker before.
"I don't think that I've ever heard of him in my life. He doesn't ring a bell at the very least."
"Well, he said that he was one of your most dangerous enemies. Then again, time travel...you might not have met him yet."
Barry figures this to be the most logical explanation possible. Sara settles in, arms folded over each other while casting a look at Jesse.
"Please tell me you have an idea how to restore the Waverider."
A frown crosses Jesse's face. Not only that, her nose crinkles up in intense conversation. She thinks about contacting her father to help her with this, but that's the sort of thing she wants to avoid. Personal pride and all that, at least that's what Jesse feels.
"I have ideas. I'm just not sure if any of them will work."
"I can get Caitlin back from Starling City if you need any…."
Jesse shakes her head for a second. One can see the frustration on her eyes though. Barry turns his attention back over towards Sara.
"Just how did you escape?"
She answers with a light shrug.
"I just happened to be the only one outside of the ship when it shrunk. I scooped up the Waverider and chased him through the portal where thankfully he ended up in...well this year."
"Right….there must be a reason why he came here."
Sara slaps herself instantly for not thinking of the reason. The doors slide open and Caitlin walks in.
"I'm back...what's...what's going on here?"
"Someone shrunk the Waverider."
The frustrated expression in Sara's face shows Caitlin how serious the situation is. She sees Jesse hard at work, moving several tools over the Waverider to scan.
"If it was dark matter, this would be a lot easier. But, they never make it easy. They never will make it easy, because making it easy would mean…."
A loud rattle outside of the door snaps Barry's attention towards it. There's no question in the Speedster's mind that they have company. And likely this company meant trouble.
Sara and Laurel both spring up and get ready for a fight.
X-X-X
A grey haired gentleman wearing black appears in front of Sara, Laurel, and Barry. He looks very amused at the expression on their faces.
"Thank you, Captain Lance, for leading me straight to Star Labs. I admit, the security is a bit more...frustrating than I had been lead to believe. But, I'm playing five-dimensional chess while you're merely playing checkers."
The Flash moves into position against this new threat.
"Abra Kadabra, isn't it?"
"Yes, Barry. I forgot how young and green you are this point in time. Although, whether or not you survive the oncoming onslaught is up for debate."
The Flash does not even bother to say anything. He moves over towards Abra Kadabra at super speed. The field around the criminal propels Barry back. Barry throws his hands out from behind himself to block. He only barely avoids hitting the ground and takes a deep breath.
"You're the one that's leading them. You're the one who took out Nygma. You're the leader of this Brain Trust."
Sara rushes in from behind him. Her staff crumbles into dust from a beam of light just seconds before it gets a shot.
"An interesting theory, Mr. Allen. Tell me…."
Caitlin bombards Abra Kadabra with a cold beam and causes him to stagger back for a second. A disc on his suit activates and bombards his body with light energy which warms him up.
"To use a pop culture reference from your time, the cold never bothered me anyway, Doctor Snow."
Laurel bombards him with a Canary Cry which causes Abra Kabara to appear to shatter into glass before their very eyes.
"Mr. Scudder's wonderful powers live, only enhanced by my...I believe hocus pocus was the term you used. Mr. Allen"
Two rapid fire snaps of his wrists sends white lights which bind Laurel and Sara in glowing ropes. Both Canaries struggle in the ropes which dig into their bodies. They can barely hold their heads above the water.
Flash moves in and suddenly, Abra Kadabra disappears into the light. The floor underneath Barry blinks to the light. He quickly runs off of the floor.
Jesse throws a lightning strike from the other end of the room. A glowing orange bubble engulfs the speedster.
"Sorry, Doctor Wells, but I only need these four for our plan."
Abra Kadabra drops the cube down onto the ground and causes bright lights to engulf Caitlin, Barry, Laurel, and Sara. He waves bye bye to them right before they disappear into a blink of light.
"What did you do?"
"Come on, Doctor Wells. You should relish at the chance to use that big brain of yours right about now."
With a flash of light, Abra Kadabra disappears into the night and leaves a very frustrated Jesse in his wake. Upon the villain's departure the orange energy bubble disappears and makes her drop to the ground.
The second Jesse drops to the ground, she activates a breach in space time to another Earth. As much as she hates to admit it, this is not a problem which she will solve alone.
X-X-X
Seconds later, Jesse returns, from Earth Thirty-Eight, with Kara Danvers. Kara jumps on the chance to join Jesse after hearing Barry and the others are in trouble.
She stops a second later. The cube which Abra Kadabra used on Caitlin, Laurel, Sara, and Barry sends them into the future. The shrunken Waverider lies on the table, an afterthought for the moment.
"What happened?"
"Some nutcase with advanced technology attacked Star Labs...and trapped Barry, Caitlin, Laurel, and Sara with that."
Kara walks over to the cube. She's seen technology from at least thirty different worlds at this point. However, she admits that the cube is not like anything she's ever seen before. The Kryptonian heroine frowns while looking it over. The Speedster behind her looks a bit anxious while pacing up a storm.
"Could you please…."
"Sorry. I pace when I get nervous."
"It's fine...just do it away from here."
Kara touches the cube and it gives a flare of energy. Blisters appear on Kara's hand and take their time to heal them over. Jesse blinks a couple of times.
"Please tell me you can figure that out."
"In time, I think we can have. But I don't think it's like any technology. It might be…."
Jesse groans and mentally starts chanting "please don't say magic" over and over again in her head.
"Mystical."
This particular comment causes Jesse to almost ram her head into the wall. Kara notices the anguish in the face of her friend and moves closer to her.
"So, you don't beli…."
"It's not a lack of belief. I just don't like things that I can't explain. That's all."
Kara understands and decides to ease the blow a little bit.
"Well, to be fair, magic does have rules...most of the times. It's just a matter of knowing those rules and how to exploit them…"
"Or it could be extremely advanced technology given how he was a time traveler."
That does a very small amount to ease Jesse's very obvious frustrations. Kara reaches over and puts a hand on Jesse's. She gives it a light squeeze as if to tell her it's going to be okay.
"We'll figure it out. Between the both of us, we'll figure it out. We just got to sit down and not lose our heads."
"Right...because that's where our brains are kept."
Kara raises her eyebrow.
"Sorry, that's just something that...Mom used to tell Dad and me when she...was around."
Things did change after Jesse's mother died, but that's a bit of her past she does not want to go. Regardless, Jesse realizes that her friends count on her, and whatever Abra Kadabra did to them, the speedy prodigy finds it necessary to find out.
X-X-X
Barry coughs and lands onto the ground. The quality of the air changes. He lands at the base of the ruins of a building. The skies burn red, the color of something awful just hovering above his head. Barry takes the next couple of minutes to figure out where he stands or rather where he needs to stand.
"Mr. Allen, so glad you can make it."
A flash of light indicating Abra Kadabra's arrival does not improve the Scarlet Speedster's mood. He rush the criminal only to find a flash of light emitting and sending him crashing back first into the ground.
"Where are the others?"
"There's no need to rush, Flash. This is your legacy. You are standing on what is left of Star Labs all of these years in the future. I would like to cordially welcome you to Central City, in the year Sixty Three Hundred and Forty Three. The time where I come from."
"How are you...this is impossible?"
"Impossible is really a word that you should not throw around in your line of work, Mr. Allen. I send you over four thousand years into the future to tell you that you will fail. The world belongs to one entity and that is HIVE."
"We have him, sir."
Several HIVE soldiers appear on the ground circling Barry.
"No, no, Damien Darhk is long dead…."
"Yes, the Green Arrow killed him. And then he got better. And he died again. And likely lather rinse repeat more than a few times...but HIVE is more than the whims of one man….it is a legacy."
Abra Kadabra disappears into a blink of an eye. An anti-speedster weapon just barely misses Barry.
Barry zips over to the HIVE soldiers needing to take them out before they take him out. The fact this future madman is somewhere in the shadows also does not bode well for him.
"He will be pleased to see you broken at his feet."
"Yeah, somehow I doubt that's going to happen."
One of the gauntlet gloves flickering to light with energy prompts Barry to dodge it. He rips off of the glove and is taken aback by the sight he sees.
Barry does not have a chance to process it before an anti-speedster weapon fires up. Running up the wall only results it into crumbling. Flash flips over to his feet, goes so fast he appears to disappear into a warp.
At the speed of light, Barry pops out from the other side and wipes out two HIVE agents in a blink of an eye. The hairy hand of the HIVE agent he disabled the gauntlet of springs forward and comes close to taking Barry down. Barry arches himself back and avoids getting nailed just ever so slightly.
The speedy heartbeat goes a bit quicker when dealing with these extremely frustrating enemies.
X-X-X
"Out of the frying pan and into the fire."
Sara hates fighting an enemy who is so smug in himself. Then again, there's a reason why this man is so smug, as she unfortunately recalls. She, Laurel, and Caitlin arrive on the ground, missing one of their number. Caitlin looks all around, sensing that this is pretty bad all things considered.
The red sun hovers above their head lighting up the entire red sky.
"Stay alert. He could be anywhere."
"Where did he send Barry?"
Caitlin bites down on her lip in frustration. Sara withdraws a pair of Tonfa and enters a battle stance. Laurel realizes this as well and does herself.
Several armored agents show up. Laurel groans when seeing them.
"HIVE, I really hate these guys."
"Feeling's mutual."
Laurel decides to let it all out with a Canary Cry. Only, nothing. Nothing comes out of her throat. Laurel opens her mouth to cry again and still nothing.
Caitlin whips her hand to send an icicle at one of the HIVE snipers. Only to find out that she has nothing.
"My powers…."
"I know."
Sara sees a blinking box out of the corner of her eye mounted on the top of the building. She points it out to Caitlin.
"Meta-human power dampener. We're either going to have to get out of range or...disable it…"
"GET DOWN!"
Sara shoves Caitlin down onto the ground to avoid the sniper shot. Laurel jumps up and throws a brick with pinpoint precision at the sniper to knock him off of his perch.
The HIVE agents rush into the battle. Laurel dodges their attacks taking them down one at a time. Despite not having her powers, The Black Canary is not going to take this fight lying down. She fights a particularly vicious agent hand to hand with each other.
Caitlin pulls a knife out of the belt of one of the downed agents and stabs another agent in an area which she knows is going to cause enough pain to make him useful in a fight. One of the perks of being a doctor, knowing all of the areas to really mess up another person.
The disabled meta-human slides a grenade underneath the foot of one of the HIVE agents and it rocks him off of the ground.
A larger HIVE soldier rushes in Sara's direction. Sara dodges the attack and comes back with a series of vicious shots to the HIVE soldier. The HIVE soldier almost drops down onto the ground before coming back up and giving a growl.
Sara smashes him in the face with the swinging Tonfa and jumps up, wrapping her feet around his head to flip him over. The HIVE agent's helmet rips up.
All three women pause for a second to realize that they come face to face with a very gruesome looking humanoid gorilla. The gorilla growls and rushes towards Laurel grabbing her by the shoulder.
Sara grabs the stun gun out of one of the belts of the downed agents and zaps the gorilla-human hybrid in the back of the leg.
"Hands off my sister, you dirty ape!"
Laurel drops down and drops a piece of shattered glass before stabbing one of the other soldiers in the chest. The blood spills from it and she notices gorilla hair through the rip.
"Are they are…."
Caitlin takes one of them down by utilizing a nerve point on the back of his neck. Sara gives her a smile.
"Not bad, you wouldn't make a half bad ninja."
"Thanks...but we still got trouble."
Trouble in the form of many more soldiers, who they are going to assume are gorillas, wielding weapons.
X-X-X
The HIVE enforcers Barry fights on the other end of the desolate future Central City close in on on the Fastest Man Alive. Barry dodges their attacks, jumps up, and bombards them with a lightning attack.
"Giant gorilla soldiers.
"You will kneel before the mighty one, Flash!"
"Yeah, that's not happening."
"Is it?"
The back of Barry's head receives a large smack and someone drops him down onto the ground. The HIVE soldiers move in and one of them shocks Barry in the chest with a cattle prod. The fists of the soldiers repeatedly beat down the Flash as the Scarlet Speedster loses the ability to use his legs.
Or rather, someone prevents his brain from sending messages to his legs.
A thunderous footstep echoes as the Gorilla soldiers step back. Barry comes face to face with a face from his past.
"Grodd."
"Welcome to the future, Flash!"
Barry shakes his head and tries to take a deep breath. There's a couple of seconds where finally Barry gets to his feet. It feels like he just pushed an entire building with of debris off of him while drowning under water.
"I sent you...you were among your own kind."
"They were not like me. They never looked at me with respect. But, I understood the merits of creating a world free of human...flaw. The superior Alpha Male will reign supreme."
Grodd steps further into the light. The golden armor he sends a glint at Barry's face.
"Try and do your best to stop me, Flash. I eagerly await your attempts."
This sends an alarm bell in Barry's head. Barry jumps up to his feet and rushes towards Grodd. Seconds pass before the armor clicks to life and scans him.
Two of Barry's best punches blocked, and now Grodd flips him onto the ground. Grodd vibrates his arm through the ground, which causes Barry to get rocked.
Suddenly, at the speed of light, Grodd smashes Barry into one of the sides of crumbling building.
"How did you get….speed...the armor...it can replicate it."
'Very good, Flash. Father talked highly of you for a reason. But, I will succeed where he has yet to.'
The taunting thoughts of Grodd drive into Barry's mind. Each push penetrates his mind like tiny little razor blades. Grodd knocks Flash off to the side.
Flash jumps up and tries to send lightning at Grodd. Only for Grodd's arm to extend forward and shoot a bolt of lightning at Barry to cause him to fly halfway across Central City.
Grodd's over there in a matter of seconds and standing over Barry.
'You could barely beat me with your abilities. And now that I have the same abilities alongside my superior intellect, you are hopeless to stop me.'
"I won't stop...I can never stop."
'A fool to the very last, then.'
X-X-X
Kara Danvers bites on the inside of her lip. She tries not to let the frustration get the better of her. Unfortunately though, there's really no helping of it.
"Okay, I think that I've figured this out. It's not completely magic, although it's an extremely advanced portal technology. And it's also technology used to travel through time…"
"So, Hocus Pocus sent Barry and the others through time?"
A twitch of her lips almost forms a smile in Kara's face at Jesse's moniker for the villain despite the seriousness of the situation. Regardless, she manages to toy with the cube and open it up. There's a flash of light which emits from the light.
"I've got good news and bad news. If I work this cube right, I should be able to backtrace it to where Abra Kadabra sent our friends and pick them up. Where and potentially when, if I guessed right."
There's a sense of anxiety in Jesse's mind. Jesse moves in to check Kara's math and it makes perfect sense to her. Either they're both brilliant or both stupid.
"I hate to bring Murphy down upon us but…."
"If it's bad...well it's not like anyone's going to be alive to call us idiots. The cube will fold in space time and create a back hole which will consume past, present, and future across multiple worlds."
"Yikes."
That word, simple as it may be, really does underline what is on the line. Regardless, both girls agree they need to do something. Kara activates the cube and holds her breath for a long moment.
A bright light bombards the entire central lab area.
X-X-X
Laurel, Sara, and Caitlin finish off dealing with the gorilla legions across the way. The second they arrive, it's to see Flash on the ground and Gorilla Grodd standing over him. Grodd looks up with a smile on his face.
'We meet again, Captain Lance.'
Sara wrinkles her eyebrow. She thinks she would remember meeting a giant intelligent gorilla. Then again, maybe it's something she has not lived yet, and that's really the problem with time travel in a nutshell.
"Be careful...he has...my powers."
Grodd crushes his foot into Barry's sternum and causes him even more pain. Sara steps forward and withdraws her weapon.
"Hands off, you overgrown chimpanzee."
'I think not, Captain. Your attempts to rile me up by comparing me to lesser primates only amuse me.'
"Grodd, you have to stop this."
'Caitlin….I will offer you a courtesy of a clean and quick death, because you were kind to me when I was at my weakest. The others….I cannot guarantee that luxury.'
"There's just a tiny problem with that. Caitlin's not here anymore."
Now with being out of range of the meta-human dampener, Caitlin turns into Killer Frost and bombards Grodd with an arctic blast to send him down onto the ground. Grodd screams out in agony as the cold appears to cripple the speed empowered gorilla.
"Cold and speedsters don't mix. You get the powers, you get the weaknesses as well."
While Laurel helps Barry to his feet, Sara takes another step and puts a sharp blade at the head of the immobilized Grodd.
"So, do you think that you're going to surrender now, Magilla?"
'Not, yet.'
A feeling of a sharp knife being slammed into Sara's skull drops the woman to the ground. Barry and Laurel drop as well, with Caitlin falling down onto the ground.
The heat emits from the armor and brings Grodd to his feet. He stares them down.
'It would be a mercy to leave you here. That way, you will not be forced to watch as you fail to save the people you care about.'
"What happens?"
Grodd laughs in amusement and moves to finish off these heroes.
A blast of light emits from the portal and Supergirl catches Grodd with an uppercut punch to take the gorilla off guard. Kara instantly rips a large piece of the armor off of him!
Once more, Caitlin snaps up and blasts Grodd with a bombardment of cold, negating him once again. Flash is up next to Grodd.
"What happened?"
Grodd disappears into a flash before he ever has a chance to answer the question. Something tells them that no matter what, Grodd's not answering the question. This leaves them in the future.
"Jesse….I have them...bring us back home."
Sara, Laurel, Barry, Kara, and Caitlin disappear from the bad future, into the year of 2017. Maybe not the perfect time period, but better than the year they left behind.
X-X-X
They return back to Star Labs. The battle with Grodd and also with Abra Kadabra is something they will remember for a very long time. It takes them a bit of time before someone speaks up and that someone is Sara. She cranes her neck backwards and frowns.
"Well, that's a bad future we're going to avoid."
"At least we got this."
Kara waves the piece of Grodd's armor with Barry, Caitlin, and Jesse all want a look at. A frown passes over Kara's face.
"This...this is the same alloy that Ivo used to build AMAZO back on my Earth."
This name causes Sara to go slightly pale. Hearing that name is a blast from the past that she would sooner not have.
"Ivo….Anthony Ivo….there's one of him on your Earth?"
"Yes, he's a LuthorCorp scientist who built a robot called AMAZO. It was able to replicate powers...and Lex...he decided to use it on one of his schemes against my cousin. Until, Kal and...his associate from Gotham...shut down the entire scheme."
The tone of Kara's voice indicates she may not care too much for Kal-El's associate from Gotham, but Barry decides not to press the issue at all.
"How did Grodd get a piece of a robot from a different Earth to create his armor?"
"I don't know...and that's what worries me. All Kal would tell me is that he, Batman, and….another ally of there's took care to make sure no one could get ahold of Amazon again."
Jesse lets out her breath.
"Someone has...or someone will. Because, that's the future."
Caitlin decides to break the silence.
"Grodd's back then...here and now...and he's the one behind the Brain Trust. Which is…."
"Yeah, I know."
Barry puts a hand on Caitlins and sighs. Grodd is always been a frustrating foe to take on and if he gets his hands on AMAZO, with its ability to replicate powers, it's going to be even more frustrating. Regardless, they have to track them down before it's too late.
Kara's communicator beeps a couple of times.
"I've got to go. Urgent DEO business. And with Kal dealing with some problems off world, my workload doubled over the past week."
A sheepish grin comes over Jesse's face.
"Sorry about…."
"It's not a big deal, it really isn't. Trust me."
Kara smiles and moves over to kiss Barry goodbye before disappear into the warp sending her back to Earth Thirty-Eight.
Suddenly, Jesse bounces up and grabs Sara by the shoulder which causes her to jump in an unexpected manner.
"Good way to lose a hand, kiddo."
"Sorry...but….I've figured out how to restore the Waverider...based off of the work we did on the time cube….so if you want to go over that…."
"We can later...but you said they were in stasis and in no evident danger, right?"
Jesse nods, looking very excited as she does so. Sara smiles, she can put that kind of energy to a good use at another time. As for right now, she has other matters.
"Last time I was here….we talked about a debt that I owed you, Mr. Allen. And as I learned in the league, one's spirit can never be free...until all debts are sufficiently paid."
Sara leans closer to Barry.
"So, how about we discuss the terms for my...payment."
X-X-X
Abra Kadabra walks into the room where three parties stand at points in the shadows. The other three members of the group known simply as the Brain Trust.
"What's the point of leaving him alive? Why not have your future self kill him?" Why allow him to live with the knowledge of the future?"
'Because, Flash will seal his fate by attempting to prevent the future.'
Grodd leans out of the shadows and locks eyes onto the future rogue.
"Yes...Barry Allen is as predictable as Kal-El with his foolish heroics."
The second member of the Brain Trust steps out the shadows and breaks into a smile. The one and only Lex Luthor stares down the future villain and his other partner.
"And he's..an amusing plaything as well. But, all playthings must break...much like mine will. Once, I've give him hope, I will rip it away from him and break him so badly he'll beg for me to kill him."
The third figure, a woman wearing a combination of golden and black armor steps out of the shadows. She pulls down the hood to reveal the face of the woman who claims to be Megan Harris, Oliver Queen's physical therapist, who resembles the recently deceased Felicity Smoak.
"Of course, Madam Hive, or should I say, Ms. Darhk."
The glamor showcasing Felicity's features fade away to a young woman with dark hair and a wicked smile on her face. The time displaced woman smiles. She owes a debt of gratitude to Lex Luthor.
Lex smiles and pulls out a bottle of vintage wine before pouring all of them a glass. They all take a glass.
"Let us toast to our new world. A world where these self-righteous heroes will not hold us back any longer. "
Grodd looks at his partners and nods. They will serve their purpose until his goals are achieved.
'Cheers.'
Chapter Twenty-One:
The second Barry clears the doorway, Sara's arms and legs tighten around him. She moves in for the kill, hitting Barry with the most pin point of precisions, kissing the daylights out of him. Barry wraps a hand around Sara's back and pulls her into him. Her sexy body pushes against him.
Each kiss she gives him shows just how much she puts into it. Her tongue grinds against the edge of Barry's mouth and demands further entrance. Barry opens it, willingly, and Sara sticks said tongue against Barry's mouth. Barry fires back with the deepening kiss of their own.
Hands move about as frantic. Sara comes pretty close to keeping Barry's pace. At least she attempts to keep the pace. Barry obviously has a lot of advantages she does not with being too fast.
The two break apart from the kiss, and Sara grabs the edge of shirt before pulling it off. Barry smiles when she leans in and kisses the side of his neck, his chest, and then goes straight to Barry's abs when working ever so lower.
"You just can't wait, can you?"
Sara shakes her head, obviously she cannot wait. She pulls Barry's manhood out of his pants. It stands up tall.
"No. Despite the fact that you're really worth the wait."
The former Assassin spends the next few minutes attacking Barry's cock with a measured assault. Her sensual tongue grinds against every inch, pleasuring Barry's head. He groans the second Sara works that mouth around his head. His hands move to touch the back of Sara's head, shifting back and shifting all the way to one side.
The next thing Barry knows, Sara drops down and engulfs his manhood deep into her mouth. Being inside of the prison of Sara's mouth is a pretty good feeling. All Barry can do right now is touch the back of her hair and keep allowing her lips to spread, sucking him harder and faster. Several pops send a pleasurable jolt through Barry.
Sara starts doing some of these things out of obligation, but damn if she's not enjoying herself. Barry's endowment hitting the back of her throat sends a jolt through Sara. A reach between her legs allows Sara to rub her pussy and start breathing in pleasure. Sara's nipples stick out in the thought.
Those eyes tell so many stories. Sara gets Barry writhing in pleasure from her mouth. Seeing the pleasure just increase within Barry Allen's eyes is more than enough to set Sara off. Sara spears her mouth down almost all the way to the base and pulls back from him.
Two lovely kisses against his head before Sara drives down onto him. Taking Barry deep into her throat causes him to grab frantically onto the back of her hair. His frantic hands sends said hair flying into disarray. Sara wants this even more and takes his cock deeper and faster into her mouth.
"Mmm!"
The sensation of Sara popping around him sends Barry closer and closer over the edge. He's almost there, getting closer with each drive. Sara grabs Barry's balls and milks them.
"Closer...you're going to make me…."
Sara knows exactly what she's doing to Barry and appears to relish it. The wonderful mouth pops around him several times, causing Barry's loins to each. All he can do is grab onto the back of Sara's head and hammer away into her mouth. There's a few more thrusts into her right before Barry loses himself deep into Sara's mouth.
The tension of his muscles and the tightening of his loins brings a pretty good feeling through Barry. He can just barely hold back from what he's doing and how hard he's pumping his juices into Sara's waiting and wonderful mouth.
The rapid fire spewing of seed hits the back of Sara's throat. The concentrated attack makes the back of her tonsils soak free with Barry's discharge. Sara squeezes and milks him to make sure every last drop enters her throat.
Sara pulls away and leaves Barry's cock dripping with her salvia. She stands up and unzips the from of her uniform. Making sure Barry's eyes linger on her breasts, in a lacy black bra. Sara squeezes them and causes Barry's eyes to follow. Her flat stomach and thong clad ass, along with her sexy legs also add to the visual treat.
"I'm making you hard again. Fastest man alive to get a boner, aren't you?"
A reach to squeeze Barry's cock allows Sara to feel the building evidence of his arousal. The hardening cock also makes Sara wet. She slides her panties back and dips a finger inside.
The arousal builds on Sara's finger. She reaches in and smears it on Barry's mouth before spearing the tip of his cock. Barry looks at her with adoration and Sara moves in. Her wet pussy grinds onto Barry's throbbing cock head and demands to take him inside.
"I want you. And I'm going to take you."
Sara pushes Barry back onto the head and straddles her. The Speedster is at her mercy and it's a very erotic position to be. Sara grinds her womanhood against Barry's hard cock and makes it even harder.
"I bet you can't wait for me to ride you. To drive my pussy onto that big throbbing cock and fuck you, fuck you hard all throughout the night. I bet you're getting off on the thought of that, aren't you?"
A rotation of her hips brings Sara further against Barry and makes his huge cock come very much closer to sliding into her body. The fact the large piece of meat comes closer to entering sends a tingle through Sara. One which only builds now that Barry grabs her back and guides her closer to him.
Sara drops down onto his hard cock. Paradise describes the feeling of her walls just clamping down around him. Sara pushes forward and grabs onto Barry, clinging onto him.
"This is what I call a ride!"
Barry holds onto Sara's hips and squeezes them tight. The beautiful blonde bounces and rides him. Squeezing his thick cock and allowing Barry to go deeper inside. The friction building between the two lovers are intense.
"You want to feel something nice."
"Mmm...go ahead and make my day."
He leans in and alternates at rapid fire speed between Sara's breasts. This gets her really gushing and really moaning. Barry holds on for the amazing ride, working her pussy over until the point where she keeps moaning. A hand catches the back of Barry's head.
The lovely and sensual sounds coming from Sara only spur Barry to keep doing that. The White Canary's body is a paradise which Barry longs to explore and longs to keep touching. Barry puts a hand on Sara's chest and then squeezes the ample tit, twitching her nipple very hard.
"B-Barry!"
Those hands keep working in time with Barry's mouth. Sara bites down on her lower lip and releases her moans in slightly measured moans. There's really nothing to do other than to ride Barry. The smacking of her thighs increase. The pressure of his big throbbing balls connecting with her thighs make Sara feel so alive, so beyond alive.
Pleasure redoubles when Barry hangs onto her nipples and gives them a firm squeeze. Sara rewards Barry by closing her walls down onto his massive cock. She slides down onto Barry to the point where both lovers edge a fair bit past pleasure. Sara holds onto Barry and keeps riding him, rapidly putting her warm slick walls down the edge of his cock. She squeezes and releases Barry hard.
Sara edges herself the further Barry rams into her. The slick surface of her walls shows Sara that it will not be too long before Barry makes her lose it. Another squeeze her hips and Sara clenches down onto him.
On the bed, Barry grunts and buries deeper into Sara. The milking of Sara's warm box makes Barry get closer and closer. He cannot hold back too much. At the same time, there's some things in life worth slowing down for. Sara's one of these things, her sweet center pumping Barry and making him groan.
"Oh, give it to me. Give it to me now! Harder. I don't want you to slow down. I know for a fact you have so much stamina you'll be hard again in about ten seconds anyway. I need your cum right now."
Sara uses every trick in the book to squeeze Barry dry.. Barry holds down onto Sara's hips and keeps spearing her tight pussy. The sound of flesh cracking against flesh echoes the deeper Barry rams into her wet pussy. Barry slides deeper and deeper into her, filling a void in Sara's life. Scratching an itch she needs tending to for a very long time. Barry grabs onto her ass and puts it down onto his cock.
The warmth of Sara's box only invites Barry. The tension going between his legs and sending jolts of pleasure through Barry gets him ever so closer to the rapid fire end.
Sara's bouncing body offers a very nice amount of stimulation as well. Every inch of her beautiful form just contorting and pleasuring Barry makes for a very interesting ride. He reaches up and takes her nipples just to see the look on Sara's face.
That one last look sends Barry a tad bit over the edge. His loins tighten up, the edge of his orgasm growing ever so closer. One more thrust inside of Sara causes the dam to break and his seed to start splattering into her.
An intense level of thrusts brings Barry into Sara. Rope after rope fills Sara. Sara tightens around Barry to milk his discharging rod with her incoming orgasm.
Sara refuses to squander a single drop. She leans back, body burning with pleasure. Sara's hair comes undone and shows a wild look. Her sexy face obviously spurs Barry on. A deep and intense fondling of Sara's body edges him the rest of the way. It's not too long before he finishes inside of her and finishes pretty good.
The two break away from each other. Sara rests on Barry's hips, rocking back and forth on him. He's just a second away from entering Sara at any given time. All she needs is the right movement to bring Barry into her. Sara leans in and rubs Barry's chest before sucking on his nipples. A grin passes over Sara before her eyes come through the door.
"You can come in now."
Laurel steps into the room and Barry's attention is fully on the fact that there's two beautiful sisters. No idea when Laurel came back, but Barry's glad for her to be here. The black tank top and blue jeans she wears entices Barry. Even more so than the nipples just straining to Laurel's top.
"Why don't you come here and give your sister a kiss? And not a family one either."
A nod follows as something inside Laurel breaks. She crosses the room and grabs Sara by the face. The two lovely sisters enter a hungry kiss with each other right over Barry.
This makes Barry's manhood stand up straight. Laurel and Sara, two lovely sisters, indulging in forbidden lust is more than enough to get any man's motor running. It's just that forbidden fruit which is so tasty, and Barry's manhood stretches to brush against Sara's wet womanhood.
The two break apart and Laurel steps back. The two sisters kneel on either side of Barry.
"Why don't I help you with a little bit of this debt paying?"
Sara grins and puts a hand on Barry's chest, rubbing it. She leans in and kisses him on the neck.
"I thought that you would never offer."
The next thing Barry knows, he's in paradise. Both Laurel and Sara hover over him. The Lance Sisters work in tandem kissing and stroking his body. Measuring all of the spots which cause Barry increasing the blood pumping from his cock. Sara puts a hand on his length and strokes it to increase the size and the pleasure building between them.
Both sensual sisters make their way to between Barry's legs and start to go to town on his manhood. Laurel takes the head into her mouth, after Sara feeds it to her. The back of Laurel's lovely throat provides a pretty good place for Barry to go into. He cannot help and put his hands on the back of Laurel's hair.
As for Sara, well, Sara dives in and sucks on Barry's balls with a vigor very few can match. Both sisters work, almost as one, pleasuring Barry's loins.
Sara and Laurel take turns sucking Barry's manhood. The two lovely ladies spend the next couple of minutes beginning to edge Barry to a rapid fire conclusion. Their perfect mouths wrap around him and suck on him on pretty much every single angle. Laurel goes down on his manhood and takes him into the back of her throat.
Barry thrashes and groans on the bed from the pleasure emitting from between his legs. Sara and Laurel both know how to make him feel good.
"You two….I swear…."
They stop and then rise up. Once again, Sara lenas in and kisses Laurel on the lips. The full on, lip and tongue kiss between two sisters makes Barry stand straight at attention. Their fingers rub their bodies increasingly.
Laurel realizes how much she wants this for years and how much Sara wants it. It just neither of them ever had the nerve to take that step thanks to society's taboos.
Sara kisses away at her sister while stripping off her clothes. She admires Laurel's beautiful and toned body, rubbing her hands over it. Laurel gives a deep moaning breath from the touch until she's down to her bra and panties.
"It's your play."
Laurel moves onto the bed, panties sliding to the side. She mounts Barry reverse cowgirl style and teases him by rubbing his throbbing cock head. It touches her wet slit several times and brings a thrill through Barry. Laurel closes in and is about ready to drop down onto him from this position.
She has him right where she wants him and there's only one thing left to do. To drop down and to take all of Barry inside of her. Her wet lips caress his thick head the closer it comes to entering Laurel. Laurel strokes him for the next couple of minutes prior to taking the plunge.
The plunge is very, very, good, taking Barry into her depths. Laurel bites down on her lip, chewing on it and releasing it. A nipple stands straight up in mid-air from what Laurel's doing with Barry.
Seconds pass prior to Laurel taking more of Barry inside. Her wetness caresses Barry's manhood and takes him a bit further inside.
Not too long passes prior to Laurel riding Barry reverse cowgirl style. She takes Barry inside like it was always mean to be. Her heart races the deeper she drives Barry inside.
Sara gives Laurel one of those smiles and leans in to briefly kiss Laurel on the lips. She pulls away with another soft smile following.
"That's my girl."
"Oh, damn it, Laurel. I can….you're so amazing."
Barry lays back and enjoys the feeling of Laurel driving her tight box down onto him. Each inch becomes a lightning rod for pleasure. Her soft and sensual walls close down onto Barry.
Not to mention every now and then, Sara twists Laurel's nipples and sends fits of pleasure through the body of her older sister. This leads to a greater clamping down onto him.
"I can do this all day. I can do this every day!"
Laurel bites down on her lip to prevent a scream. Sara decides to stifle Laurel's moans with her tongue. Nails dig into the side of Laurel's neck. The very aggressive makeout session between two sisters continues to reach a fever pitch.
Barry groans at the tightening of Laurel's walls around his pole. He can barely keep his head above the ground. Every inch of Barry sings.
It's double when Sara kisses away at Laurel and then moves in to toy with Barry's balls before they strike Laurel's clit. This results in increasing pleasure, greater tremors spreading over Barry. The tightening of his loins is almost at hand. He's almost about ready to wrap things up.
"Laurel, I'm close."
Sara leans in and smiles.
"Go ahead, cum inside my sister. So I can eat your cum out of her pussy. Wouldn't you like that, Barry? Watching me go down on my big sister so I can get your tasty seed?"
A roaring rush hits Barry's loins. Yes, it's something which entices him. The deeper he rams into Laurel, the further and faster he can feel her edging him. She's almost around him, about ready to coax every single last drop of fluid from Barry's loins into her body.
"I'm almost there."
Laurel grabs onto him and pumps Barry. She wants him, every single last drop of what's lingering in those balls. They repeat their slapping down on Laurel until the very end.
The end results in an amazing feeling. The feeling of Barry blasting off into Laurel while she clenches down onto him. She milks his orgasm with her own.
The mutual feeling of both parties, three if one counts Sara, being part of this makes this a very nice rush. Barry's fingers dart and hit the small of Laurel's back to allow her to collapse down on his manhood. She squeezes and tightens around Barry with a few more hard pumps.
The last few pumps hit Laurel with pinpoint precision. Barry hits her at the right points and sends her body just spiraling over the edge with pleasure. She bites down on her lip so hard.
Laurel slides down onto Barry and falls down onto the bed. Her pussy quivers from the aftermath and a warm rush goes all over Laruel's body. Contentment is a pretty good description for what this woman feels.
Sara wastes little time in positioning herself on the bed. A hand cups Laurel's cheek when moving in. The two lovers kiss with Sara and Laurel making out. They go tongue on tongue with each other.
A long and steamy makeout session with the Lance sisters ends with Sara pulling away from Laurel. She covers Laurel's sexy body with several long kisses, worshipping her. She lingers on Laurel's flat belly and gives a kiss. This makes Laurel's hips jump up the further the promised land between Laurel's thighs is.
Her pussy calls to Barry and also inflames Sara's desires. Laurel's sweet juices in combination with Barry's thick and juicy cum presents something that Sara cannot even resist to be honest.
She dives deep into Laurel.
"Sis...this is….oooh!"
There's not a doubt in Laruel's mind how good her little sister is with eating a pussy. This makes Laurel thrash on the bed. Every time Sara's tongue laps up a bit of her, it makes Laurel's nerve endings explode into a constant bombardment of pleasure. She needs to put those hands on the back of Sara's head to guide her further and faster into her mouth.
"Sara!"
It's a very beautiful sight to watch Sara's face disappear between her thighs. Laurel burns with desire of her sister going down and munching out on her.
Seconds pass before Barry's behind both of them. Laurel's hazy expression sees one thing and that's the fact that Barry's aiming to fuck her sister. That's something which Laurel cannot get enough of, watching Barry drive his big cock into Sara's tight pussy.
Sara finds herself so involved in eating Laurel out that Barry flies completely underneath her radar. An unfortunate miscue to say the very least. Barry's fast hands send pleasure all over her body at a rapid fire rate. He scrapes against Sara and comes closer.
Then, without warning, Barry drives into Sara. His pelvis vibrates against her to send Sara into a brand new wave of endless lust. While she cannot see Barry bury himself into her, hips vibrating back and forth with every thrust, the amazing visual is just more than enough.
"Keep going down on your sister."
This order surprises Sara, but it's one she happily complies with. Barry's more passive, allowing Sara to take control for now. Something she's used to, but the switch is also something she can get on board with. Feeling Barry all over her body and sending tremors down her spine.
The tightness of her walls milk him. Another load being inside of her tight and having Laurel return the favor is a pretty good feeling that Sara wants to have happen.
The amount of times Barry's hands dart to Sara's thick, round, ass, send a jolt through her body. The thought of Barry rapid-fucking her ass at super speed sends Sara's loins to an overflow mode. She clamps down onto Barry while he buries himself inside of Sara.
"You're so tight….and I bet this is nice and tight as well."
A finger slides between Sara's warm cheeks and into her tightening hole. Barry rapid finger fucks Sara's ass, unable to believe her daring. The combination is not unwelcome given how tightly Sara clenches Barry's invading tool.
Barry rapidly drives his finger deep into Sara and stretches out her warm back passage. She pulls away from Laurel long enough to talk to him.
"If you are ready to go after blowing inside me….I'll let you have it."
That gives Barry all the encouragement. He savors the touch of Sara's warm walls around him. The feel of her tight asshole may be a better feeling than ever before.
Laurel's mind shuts down at the thought of watching Barry fuck Sara's ass. Along with, maybe, Laurel going down on Sara when it happens. She can only hope so.
Right now, Sara's doing the perfect job in stimulating Laurel. Her pussy quivers underneath Sara's tongue, the further it slides into her.
"I can't….I can't….oh god!"
Barry speeds up his thrusts inside of Sara and rides her orgasm to the edge. The tension in his balls, with the promise of being balls deep in Sara anally only sends a burst of energy through Barry. Barry holds onto Sara and pumps himself the rest of the way.
It's almost like Sara feels it coming. Then again, her training prepares her. Sara clamps down onto Barry and squeezes his manhood. Every last slam into her makes Barry ease.
A roaring groan follows Barry sending the latest load into Sara. The flare of speed and his growing stretch from hammering Sara increases the depths of his thrusts. Barry grinds into her, going as deep as humanly possible. He hands on, slamming into Sara from behind.
Sara enjoys the feeling of her pussy stretching out upon Barry's hard and throbbing could. She wants even more though, and his hands still lingering on her ass when Barry finishes up reminds Sara of how much she wants.
He leaves her and in an instant, Sara crawls back and positions herself on Barry's lap. Barry puts his hands on Sara's firm rear as it grinds all over it.
"Take me, Flash! See how quick you can get in that ass."
The feeling of her ass and beautiful legs against him is almost too much. Barry lines himself up with Sara's back entrance. The call of her asshole, calls for him. He swipes against Sara's pussy and uses juices to lubricate her hole a bit. Given how soaked Sara and Laurel both leave him, there's no question about it in Barry's mind.
The first few inches make Barry feel like he's sticking his manhood into a furnace. Sara shows Laurel's not the only screamer in the family by taking his manhood into her.
The daze Sara enters when Barry pushes into her and sends a discharge of energy into her rectum practically makes her toes curl. One inch at a time, Barry slides himself into Sara. Taking his time, with Sara pushing down on the way.
"Yes! You're inside me! You're inside my ass! Grab it, and take it! Take it like it belongs to you! Pound that ass like it owes you money!"
Sara's filthy mouth is about ready to go over the top. Barry appreciates it. With each slide, Barry brings his manhood deeper and deeper into Sara's tight ass. The pleasant booty bouncing on his cock sends a pleasure wave to Barry. He can only hold on and enjoy the ride, enjoy the depths he jams into Sara.
The only thing to make this better happens with Laurel crawling into position and eating Sara out while Barry hammers Sara's ass.
Sara's eyes glaze over from the pleasure. Having a beautiful woman eat her out while having a handsome man take her ass satisfies a lot of Sara's kinks. The fact it's Laurel eating her out, well that satisfies just another kink.
Multitasking always has been one of Sara's best traits. Her mind enters a roller coaster ride, switching between Barry's manhood and Laurel's tongue. Both of them make Sara almost blind with pleasure. The duel pleasure in both of her holes results in Sara giving her sister a mouthful to take in.
Barry kneads, squeezes, and spanks Sara's ass which is also as good.
"Give me the spanking I needed a long time ago. Pound me! Pound my asshole hard!"
Barry repeatedly drives deeper and deeper into Sara. The further he pushes into her, the closer Barry reaches to the breaking point. Being inside of Sara like this, many men would have reached their breaking point a very long time ago for obvious reasons. Barry squeezes Sara's tight butt and slams into her. Working her tight and sensual hole to the point where Barry feels like he's about ready to lose it and lose it good.
"Oh, I'll give you what you want, Sara. I'll give it to you all night long."
Barry holds on tight to Sara and keeps sliding his way into her. The warmth of her tight asshole clamping onto him edges Barry close. Sara's tight ass proves to be a threat which sends Barry completely over the edge. HIs pleasure builds when the thrusting inside of Sara doubles.
The blur of Barry's hips catches Sara firmly. He slaps and spanks Sara's round ass, causing her mouth to hang open. Drool coming out of her mouth is evidence for how good she feels. She can feel him as well.
"Go ahead. Don't you dare hold back on me."
There's always more of Barry to go around. Now, Sara wants him to cream all inside of her asshole. It would be the perfect way to finish paying the debt she has to him and with interest as well. Barry's dancing fingers establish an even firmer feeling in Sara. He grabs her nipples and squeezes them.
Laurel is not to be ignored for long. The vibrations coming out of the back of Laurel's throat hit Sara point blank. The pleasure emitting between the Lance sisters is something so beautiful that words do not do it justice.
Amazing is a pretty good start though. Barry plants into Sara to ride her all the way to the end. Her ass keeps calling for him, squeezing Barry, and milking away at his stiff rod.
One last push and Barry explodes into Sara's ass. Every nerve ending in Barry's body sings from the pleasure being released. Judging by the sound Sara makes, she feels just as well.
Indeed, having Barry's discharge inside of her asshole makes Sara more than content with what's going on here. Barry holds her cheeks and squeezes them together while planting his load the rest of the way inside of her.
The end results in Barry finishing up in Sara and pulling from her asshole. The river of cream flows from Sara.
The temptation causes Laurel to switch from pleasuring one of her sister's holes to another. Sara's eyes widen, but she does not argue with this.
"Stand up...B-barry!"
Sara's teeth chatter from her older sister's rimjob. Seeing the assassin lose her composure from getting her ass licked is a very attractive feeling.
She grabs Barry firmly, cupping his crotch and sliding her tongue around to clean him up. More fun is to come sooner rather than later. Barry enjoys being back inside of Sara's warm mouth for a long ride.
Chapter Twenty-Two:
Jesse races around the track in Star Lab in an attempt to make sure her powers improve a little bit. After the events of the past couple of days, it's always very important to make sure her powers end up being one hundred percent and ready to go.
"So, how am I doing?"
"Good, very good."
No matter how much Barry wants to give Jesse his full and undivided support, there's some very nagging thoughts entering the mind of the Scarlet Speedster which need to be dealt with in prompt fashion. One of those thoughts is the item underneath his line of sight. A priceless and strange alloy from a robotic creation from another Earth.
Grodd, back in the future, utilized a small piece of it. Unless Barry misses his guess, there's much more of it out there and there's going to be some huge problems when someone, whether Grodd and any of his associates unearth it.
Providing Grodd has any associates, and the people in the Brain Trust are not puppets like Nygma was. Barry glimpses at the medical reports. No signs of improvement, even though Barry already knows at least most of the score. A few questions get answered with many more questions just raising.
Jesse loops around a couple more times and shoots out the front of the track. A hand places on Barry's shoulder which results in him jumping about ten feet in the air.
"You're distracted."
Barry responds with one of those looks which shows that he's pretty much guilty as charged for any number of reasons. Jesse puts her warm hand on his shoulder and leans in with a smile on her face.
"I know you'll figure it out. And if not...Sara's chasing down leads after we left. If there's anything about where this AMAZO is during time and space, the Legends will find it."
Firm in the thought that Jesse has a point, Barry stands to his feet. There's one more nagging concern entering his mind and not letting up on him for any reason whatsoever.
"Grodd."
"I know...I know he's a problem. And Kara's very lucky to have caught him off guard."
Not that either of them will tell Kara that. There's a small and very nagging part of Barry thinking about how much they played into some kind of scheme of Grodd's. There's a chance he's being extremely paranoid. There's a big chance that he's being extremely paranoid, but just because one's being paranoid, prevents there from being any truth to the rumors.
"Together...we'll do this…."
Jesse leans in. Her next move becomes delayed the second a phone rings. A frustrated grimace comes over Jesse just seconds later. Barry snatches up the phone and answers it.
"Iris? How are things out West with Wally and his team?"
"Well, they did need more than a little guidance. We've run into some problems. Do you think you can run out here and we can tell you more about it?"
Barry turns to Jesse who overhears the call. A nod comes from the young girl.
"Jesse and I will be right over there in a flash."
All thoughts of Grodd and Jesse's training is going to have to wait. Right now, it's time to head west and see what the hell is going on.
X-X-X
Both Flash and Jesse Quick appear outside of a giant tower with a large glowing "T" on the top of it. Iris pops out to see them both enter.
"Hey...glad you can make it."
"Yeah, she's not the only one."
Wally steps out in a yellow costume. It appears that his powers stick after Flashpoint, something that Barry learns in the coming weeks. A bright smile passes over Barry's face the second he leans over and grabs Wally by the hand to shake it.
"Well, well, Kid Flash."
There's a second where Wally cringes.
"It's...well...that's not the name that I would have picked."
"But it stuck, didn't it?"
Wally turns to Jesse and sees her for the first time in a long time.
"Hey, Jesse."
"Wally….listen…."
"Actually...I have something to tell you anyway. When working together on this team…."
"You found someone else?"
"Yeah, I've been meaning to tell you, because of the way we've been...you know."
"Well, I've been meaning to tell you that I've found someone else too. I've just not been confident enough to make my move."
"Me either...maybe you should."
Jesse gives Wally one of those grins.
"Maybe you should."
Iris clears her throat and both of the young speedsters, parting as friends due to other people in their line of sight. Wally decides to turn to Barry.
"Let me introduce you to the rest of the team….you've already met Nightwing, haven't you?"
Barry nods coming face to face with a man in his late teens wearing a sleek black costume with a dragon insignia. Nightwing turns to Flash and leans in with a knowing smile.
"Good, to see you….Flash."
"Good to see you too, Nightwing...how have things been?"
"Well, I'm just glad to be away from Gotham City and helping out with this new team."
Wally moves them into the room.
"This is Victor Stone, or Cyborg as his codename is."
A tall black teenager with most of his body parts replaced by robotics or cybernetics stretches in and shakes Barry's hand.
"It's an honor."
"This is Tigress."
A woman with dirty blonde hair wearing a golden and black costume, with a crossbow draped over her back gives Flash a nod. She regards him for a second and shakes his hand just the same.
"Hello."
"And this is Bumblebee."
"Hey! How are you doing?"
The attractive young black teenager moves in to greet Barry.
"And this is…."
"Flash! It's good to see you again."
The tall Amazon woman wearing a pair of black pants and a black top steps in. One can see how in shape her body is.
"Donna Troy….Wondergirl…."
"I know, we've already met."
Barry leans in and hugs the Amazon, who gives him a smile. The hug lingers before Donna pulls away from him.
"How's your sister doing?"
"Well, you know her, always busy with something. Never has time to sit back and put her hair down and relax. Always training to be the best. Even if she is pretty good."
Donna moves over for a second.
"And you must be Jesse. It's so nice to see you."
Nightwing clears his throat and Kid Flash nods.
"Right, now we should get to business. We have a problem...and we would have liked to reach the Green Arrow...but he's not exactly taking anyone's calls right now."
"So, it feel to me as your second choice."
Somewhat in jest, Barry says this statement. This causes Wally to give him a raised eyebrow.
"First of all, I told them they should have called you first. Well, Iris did, but I totally backed her up."
Iris confirms Wally's words with a nod and a smile.
"He did."
"What are we dealing with?"
The look on Bumblebee's face grows very grim.
"HIVE. They're back in business, and under new management."
Flickers of the future Barry remembers being in enter his mind. To say he's not too pleased about seeing a future with HIVE in it, would be the understatement to end all understatements.
X-X-X
A woman wearing green robes and a black face mask approaches a group of five figures in the light. Her eyes narrow when looking at them.
"You are the very best that the HIVE training facility has to offer. You are a step above Ghosts….and I have you on high recommendation."
"Lady, we are the best."
A smug bald young man geared up with the latest tech turns up. His name is Gizmo, and he considers himself the brains behind the HIVE group.
"I've heard your level of arrogance before. You, Gizmo, you have your orders."
"Yeah, yeah, don't flip your wig."
Madam HIVE turns to the rest of the group. A large rough young man who was built for brute strength and physical force more than brains. Mammoth is is name and wrecking people is a game which he often plays.
The next member of the group is a woman of Indian descent with pink hair. Jinx, her ability to manipulate probability, and force the illusion of black luck works out well.
"Darling, just give us the word, and we'll hook y'all up."
That gentleman right there is Barry Numerous. A simple man with a very complex power, the ability to replicate himself into multiple copies.
Finally, a quiet young man, with pale skin and blue hair, named Icicle Junior. The son of the legendary JSA enemy, Icicle, he most certainly had a chip on his shoulder and a whole lot to prove.
"You are to catch a train...and it's being brought in from Wayne Industries."
Jinx, being the most sensible of the five, sighs.
"That's not going to be easy."
Gizmo gives her the side eye.
"You kidding me. There's nothing out there that I can't hack."
"Given you couldn't hack it during our training exercise, I don't really have that much confidence in you."
Jinx and Gizmo go eye to eye and Billy Numerous chuckles.
"Man, y'all got owned."
Madam Hive narrows her eyes and slams her fist on the table to get the attention of the team.
"Listen to me and listen to me good. I want you all working together. It's integral to this mission to have a one hundred percent success rate. You will be rewarded if you succeed. You fail...and you don't want to know what happens."
"What, do we get sent to the Principal's office?"
Gizmo's statement causes him to be pulled up about a foot off of the ground. A tightening around his throat makes Gizmo gag and twitch, agony spreading through him.
"Alright...alright...alright...ease up...don't get your knickers in a twist!"
Madam HIVE drops Gizmo down onto the ground with a solid thud. The wind knocks out of his body. Mammoth extends a hand to help Gimzo up and the members of the HIVE organization all prepare to make their next move.
X-X-X
Flash, Jesse Quick, and Kid Flash move into position. There's one thing on their mind and the fact is, they have to attempt to catch a train. The rest of the Titans along with Impulse are in wait with each other.
Cyborg comes over the communication system.
"Security on the train is pretty tight. But when dealing with HIVE, the only thing for sure is nothing is for sure."
"Right."
The three speedsters move over. A man wearing a red suit appears in front of them.
"There's trouble."
Kid Flash's statement causes the classic Flash to look over towards him with a raised eyebrow. Kid Flash decides now is the time to attempt to elaborate on this situation.
"Billy Numerous...he's one of the HIVE academy students, and we've had our share of run ins in the past."
"Yeah, but how tough can one guy be."
"Hold it right there, ya'll. You not going to go any further. Best you go home right now and avoid the pounding because I'm not going to let you speedy folks pass."
A snort comes from Jesse as her hands fly to her hips.
"You and what army?"
Jesse's about to get her question answered in style when Billy divides into several dozen copies of Billy. Flash and Kid Flash both sigh in unison.
"Remember that talk about taunting Murphy we had the other day?"
The Numerous army moves forward to attack the gang of Flashes. Wally and Jesse move in.
"That's right...just like that Nar Root Toe I can divide myself into clones, and I know kung fu as well."
"Seriously?"
Kid Flash nails the clones hard by creating them in a circle. Jesse moves in to assist, knocking them all back and down to the ground. Flash moves in and creates a cyclone sucking the hits on the ground.
"You hit them with enough force, they pop like balloons. And if you knock out the prime, they all disappear."
"Handy to know!"
Kid Flash adjusts the goggles on his suit to pick up the heat signature for the original Billy. He skids forward and slams into the young man in question to knock him out.
"I'm getting ahead to the train...make sure there's no trouble."
There's trouble alright, in the form of Jinx and Mammoth. Jesse eyes Kid Flash for a second.
"I'll take the ugly one."
Kid Flash turns himself face to face with Jinx who smiles at him.
"It's a pity that you're on the wrong side. We could have had so much fun together….like we did that one night when you infiltrated our school."
"That…."
"You're always be in his Shadow."
Jinx fires a bolt of pink light which causes Wally's legs to crumple out from underneath him. She walks over and crouches down to put a hand on Wally's cheek.
"It's a shame you seem so cute. I'm going to have to mangle you right about now."
An arrow fires in the air and nails Jinx in the back of the leg. Tigress, Bumblebee, and Nightwing turn up to help back up the rest of the team.
Tigress walks over and helps Kid Flash to his feet.
"Thanks, Art…."
An agitated look comes over the face of the Teen Titan member. Her look of disgust briefly falls on Jinx before the biracial archer turns back to Kid Flash.
"Keep your eye on the ball next time!"
Tigress turns her attention to Jinx who pulls herself up. She looks from Kid Flash to Tigress and just smiles.
"Someone's triggered!"
The sing song voice only causes Tigress to fire another arrow which narrowly misses the target. Jinx allows her one free shot.
X-X-X
Gizmo steps further onto the train, grumbling underneath his breath.
"Madam HIVE thinks she's so hot because her dad was some HIVE big shot. Well, I'll show her what we can do."
Icicle Junior pauses for a second to consider something.
"Do you think I have a shot?"
"With what? Getting on my nerves?"
"With Madam Hive."
Gizmo breaks out into a loud round of laughter. The laughter ceases before he grows serious.
"Given that I heard she's a great big dyke, I somehow think she's not your type!"
Icicle Junior frowns with a very off put look at Gizmo's response. The HIVE cadet moves in and finds a large black box in the back. It has a high tech security lock, but he considers it a challenge.
"Well, I just hit the jackpot."
No sooner do these words leave Gizmo's mouth, a super fast blur pulls him up off of the ground and puts him on the other end of the room.
"Get your hands off of me you…."
Icicle blasts Flash in the back of the legs. A blizzard attack sends him staggering back a couple of feet.
Gizmo breaks out into a wide smile and walks over to interact with the box. A hand brushes against the edge of the box and allows it to open up. An old gauntlet is the object in the box.
"I don't know what Madam HIVE wants with old junk. Women, I tell…."
A bolt of light erupts from the glove and hits Gizmo hard. The gauntlet comes up and hooks to his hand. His pupils dilate as he begins to interface with new technology.
Gizmo scans the area with the Gauntlet and then blasts Flash out of the side of the train with a series of well placed icicles, copying Icicle Junior's powers to a tee. The young man's mouth hangs open in awe before finally speaking to Gizmo.
"How did you do that?"
"This...this is how I did it! This is power! Do you hear me? This is power!"
Gizmo waves the gauntlet back and forth. Something about that gauntlet speaks to him and feeds into his arrogance making him stronger than ever before. Gizmo's grin only increases when he prepares to join the rest of the team.
X-X-X
Flash flies out of the train. Impulse rushes over and picks him up off of the ground.
"You okay?"
"Yeah….I'm fine...although we might not be because the tech genius who has a chip on his shoulder...there's no delicate way to put this, he became one with the Android."
Jesse, Kid Flash, Tigress, Bumblebee, and Nightwing join them. Mammoth drops down to the ground, with Jinx having slipped off into the night. Wondergirl joins them a second later.
Gizmo appears out of the train almost flying. Donna's eyes widen when coming across what he's doing.
"Great, Hera!"
"Oh, I'm greater than her, Princess."
His eyes glow and send a bolt of heat vision at the ground. It causes the Speedsters to scatter the other Titans out of the line of sight.
"Great...that gauntlet has some other powers on it as…."
Bumblebee screams and finds herself trapped in a glowing green energy bubble created by the gauntlet. Gizmo swings her around like a wrecking ball and smashes into Nightwing and Artemis.
"I'll get him!"
Kid Flash rushes towards Gizmo. Gizmo stretches a hand out and sends the Arctic Blast at Kid Flash, taking his legs out from underneath him.
"Ha! There's nothing that can stop me now!"
The Teen Titans find their way trapped. Flash eyes Impulse and Jesse.
"Run!"
"That's right! Run from me your cowards! You're nothing compared to me."
Flash, Impulse, and Jesse Quick leave. Impulse lifts up the trapped Titans in the energy bubbles.
"Alright, Gizmo, you better drop the gauntlet. You don't know what it's going to do to you."
Gizmo turns his attempt to face Cyborg and his face contorts into a very obvious and evident grin.
"Oh, I disagree. I know what it's doing to me. And I have a pretty good idea what it's going to do you...you wouldn't last that long without those robotic parts, would you?"
Cyborg collapses down to the ground. Gizmo's eyes flash with light when he tugs and pulls, in an attempt to rip Cyborg apart, piece by piece. Cyborg screams in agony from the attack.
"Got to get close enough to figure out how to stop this thing."
X-X-X
Flash, Impulse, and Jesse make it far away from the scene of the battle.
"Okay, we ran...why did we run? That is completely out of character for….."
Barry holds up his hand and silences Jesse.
"Because, we needed to lure him into a false sense of security. And I'm slowing down time so we can figure out a way to take Gizmo down."
"Right, I almost forgot you can do that."
Barry, Iris, and Jesse crowd around. Only seconds pass as opposed to the many minutes on the outside of the time loop. The three speedsters huddle around each other.
"If we hit him from all sides, at slightly staggering speeds, we'll show down...I'll hit him...then a second later….Jesse will hit him...and then Iris, you hit him."
Both of the women nod in response before Iris decides to ask the obvious question.
"You think the plan is going to work?"
"Even with me slowing down time, we don't really have that much time left. It's now do, or die...and now we've got…."
A loud bang causes Barry's ability to slow down time to compromise. One can hear the deep breathing coming from him and the sheer frustrating which is to follow.
"Trouble."
X-X-X
The Teen Titans broken and at his feet. Gizmo cannot help and think there's a better feeling than this.
"Are we having fun?"
Madam HIVE appears at Gizmo's shoulder. Gizmo turns his attention to Madam HIVE a few seconds later.
"I took down the Teen Titans, on my own."
"No, that gauntlet took down the Teen Titans. You just happened to be lucky enough to be wearing it."
"Details, details, listen, I think you were expecting me to fail. But I succeeded. And you know something else, I proved the fact that I didn't need you."
Madam HIVE's eyes narrow from underneath the mask.
"You better not be…."
"Yeah, you can blow it out your ass! I've got the glove! I've beaten the Titans and I can beat you. HIVE is going to have a new leader and it's going to be….ARGH!"
A crushing attack sends Gizmo up off of his feet. His tech implants bombard his nerve centers with an explosion of mind-racking pain. No matter how hard he tries to fight out, Madam HIVE pretty much keeps him in a vice. She torments and tortures him.
"You have much to learn if you thought that by getting one gauntlet, you were going to get the better of me. And now, I'm going to make you pay."
Gizmo's spine bends at an awkward angle from the obvious magical assault. Blood starts oozing and dripping from his mouth. The agony only increases the more Madam HIVE pushes herself and exerts her power on the HIVE representative. Gizmo screams even more.
Three blurs jump in and nail both of the criminals. This results in the green energy bubbles breaking free.
Madam HIVE drops Gizmo down on the ground. A fourth speedster comes in and Kid Flash picks up the gauntlet off of the ground before rushing over.
X-X-X
"Enough!"
That cruel and harsh word says so much and stops the Speedsters in their tracks. Madam HIVE walks over to Kid Flash.
"I was going to leave you to be decimated once AMAZO is built again. But for your insolence, I'm going to rip you apart...give me the gauntlet."
Madam HIVE does not ask, she takes and rips the gauntlet out of the hand of the captive speedster. She clenches his throat with an invisible touch and causes all of the air to leave his lungs.
"And you...I'm going to make a example out of you."
"Wait!"
Jinx steps over and takes a deep breath.
"We have the gauntlet...maybe we should get out of here...not waste any time."
"This shouldn't take any time."
"There's no need…."
"If you've gone soft on me, you will share his fate."
Jinx takes a deep breath and steps away from the HIVE mistress.
The field of magic imbolizing Barry acts on some kind of pattern. The Scarlet Speedster picks up the pattern in an instant, vibrating his arm back and forth until the field around him cracks and shatters.
He rushes out and nails Madam HIVE with a super fast punch to the face. A hair sticks to Barry's glove when he pulls back. The force causes Iris, Wally, and Jesse to drop down to the ground.
The gauntlet lifts up into Barry's hand. Madam HIVE rolls over and Jinx grabs her hand.
"We should go."
A portal opens up and the two women vanish without a trace. They are empty handed without the gauntlet which is in Barry's hands and not their hands.
X-X-X
Cyborg frowns when looking over at the gauntlet in the case. There's something about it which gives him a pretty distinct case of the creeps. The rest of the Titans move in.
"You all did good today."
Flash steps in and all of them smile. Tigress shakes her head.
"Yeah, but if it wasn't for you, we would have been crushed. Well at least Kid Flash would have been."
"I thought I had it...I wonder why Jinx pulled her back. I know she was about three seconds away from smoking you like she did me."
Barry most certainly has any number of questions. Bumblebee leans in and keeps looking at the gauntlet.
"HIVE's after this."
"It's just one part of three."
The members of the Teen Titans turn around. Nightwing turns around for the blonde entering the tower and narrows his eyes.
"How did you get past the security defenses?"
"I walked around them."
Barry clears his throat and brings Nightwing's attention over to him.
"It's fine. She's a friend...what did you find out Sara?"
Sara lets out a sigh.
"Not good...I managed to do some digging. It turns out that Rip Hunter and Superman disabled Amazo, although they could not destroy him. They split him into different parts and scattered him over three different Earths."
"So, we just ask Superman or Rip, right?"
The look on Sara's face shows that it's not going to be that easy.
"The only thing Gideon could tell me was after the break, Rip had his memories and the memories of Superman erased, to prevent anyone from getting the information to assemble AMAZO. I don't know how Grodd knew."
"Is there any way to find the pieces?"
That statement comes Cyborg.
"The old archives from the Long Dead Time Masters. The Legends are going to do everything to hunt them down...although...Grodd and his associates might have found them and that's how they know."
Barry knows that there's something. He has something else, a hair from Madam HIVE, who Barry can find out who she is and what her role in this little escapade is.
X-X-X
The one piece of hair tells so many stories. Barry sits down in front of the computer and prepares to run it through. If anyone, if anyone knows about it, they will.
"So, who is she?"
Wally steps into the room behind Barry. Iris joins them a second later.
"Well, if she's on record for anything, we'll know. Nightwing said that Oracle and Batman created this database so you know if she's anyone, it'll be here."
This particularly baffling set of mysteries raises some interesting questions and numerous answers as well.
"Yeah, that group is pretty detailed with their crime fighting."
Iris sits down next to Barry. Wally decides to stand and paces back and forth.
"So, you and the archer? Or do you go more for bad girls with pink hair?"
"Seriously, Barry?"
Iris cracks into a smile.
"Not all of us have a sex force which magically attracts women to us."
"I wouldn't be so sure about that."
Iris decides to tune out because hearing about her brother's potential sex life, or maybe lack thereof, is something which hits her limit. Regardless she puts her gaze on the screen alongside Barry and Wally and it finds a match.
"You...this can't be right."
"I'm pretty sure it's right...given who calibrated it."
"It says it's Eleanor Darhk, Nora….you know Damien Darhk's ten year old daughter."
"Yeah….that's pretty strange."
Iris frowns and thinks about it.
"But what about our lives hasn't been strange over the past couple of years?"
"Yeah, but this...this just takes strange to an entirely new level?"
"Well, maybe someone cloned Darhk's daughter and did something to age her up for...some reason."
Barry and Iris give Wally the side eye and they both frown. Wally answers with a shrug.
"Hey, I didn't say it was a healthy reason."
This entire mess raises even more questions for Barry. Something which he needs to think about. Things likely are going to get more insane.
X-X-X
After punishing Jinx and leaving her hanging, Madam Hive walks into the room and pulls off her mask. She allows it to drop onto the table with a frustrated sigh.
'You seem troubled, Ms. Darhk.'
Nora turns around into the large hulking form of Gorilla Grodd. The super intelligent gorilla keeps his eyes on Nora over the next several seconds.
"If Jinx didn't pull me back, I would have killed Flash and his friends. It would have been would have been out of the way."
'I suggested to Jinx she should take you back to the base.'
"Why? What are you waiting for? You know something...that's the kind of stupidity that got my father killed. He could have just killed Oliver Queen, but he just had to play with his food and be melodramatic. And look where it got me."
Nora takes several more deep breaths.
"I can't pretend that I understand you missing your father. But, I suppose that not everyone had the toxic relationship with their father that I did."
Grodd and Nora find themselves joined by Lex.
'Her emotions are getting the better of her, Mr. Luthor. Perhaps we should cut her out of the final plan.'
"Both of you need to settle down and trust that I know what I'm doing at the very least."
"Flash already has one piece of the AMAZO."
Lex puts his hands on Nora's shoulders and pushes down. A medallion swings back and forth from Lex's neck, reminding her of the futility of attacking him with her powers.
"Chess...you have to make sacrifices to reach checkmate. Understand that everything that I've done so far is calculated. And if you killed Flash...it would be over quickly, but completely unsatisfying. The righteous will pay for what they have taken from us."
Nora tries to understand Lex's point of view. She still thinks it would be easier to kill Flash and his fellow heroes and be done with it.
"Trust me. After all of what we've been through, you owe me at least that much."
The leader of HIVE responds with a nod and swallows.
X-X-X
Barry and Jesse return to STAR Labs to put the gauntlet and the piece of future AMAZO tech Kara ripped from Grodd side by side.
"Well, I think that with the samples we got, there's a chance that I could scan the multiverse and find the other two pieces before the Brain Trust."
Jesse nudges Barry and brings him back into the conversation.
"Just thinking about…."
"Madam HIVE...um...this might be creepy, but did you check up on Nora to see if she's still…."
"Still at the foster home, doing her homework, missing her parents."
Boy Barry's been down that road before.
"It could be a time screw or something."
"The more I think about it, it's either that or Wally's clone theory holds a lot more merit than I thought."
A glimmer of a smile crosses over Jesse. She moves in closer and checks the scanner.
"Well, this might take a bit. I guess we can relax for a minute...unless something else comes up."
Perhaps, just perhaps, Jesse intends to take her own advice that Wally threw back in her face. She ponders as the scanner does it's work.