Chapter Thirty-Seven:
Sara wraps her hands around the back of Kara's head and leans in for a very passionate kiss. Kara's eyes flash open and she returns the kiss with eagerness. The talented tongue of Sara Lance dives deeper and faster into Kara's hot mouth. She sucks on the tongue, returning fire.
There's another moan following with Kara nibbling on Sara's lip. She moves to attack her jaw and Sara just sighs. Kara's getting really good at this, although she was always kind of good at this.
Barry reenters the room, returning with more coffee, only to see both Sara and Kara in the midst of a very steamy liplock and makeout session. The two break apart. Sara's grin widens and she motions Barry to join them.
"Join us...just don't stand there."
Sara decides to grab Barry's face and shove her tongue down his throat. Barry responds in kind with a kiss, with Sara's forceful personality getting her money's worth, driving her tongue further and faster into Barry's mouth. Barry puts his hand on the back of her head and makes out with her, fiercely and fully.
Not one to be left out, Kara dips behind Barry and kisses away at the back of his neck. There's a soft moan which follows, with Barry making out with Sara and Kara kissing him down the back of the neck.
"Let's get him out of these clothes."
Sara does not have to be told twice. They remove his clothes, until Barry's in nothing other than a pair of silken boxer shorts, and then Kara and Sara remove each other's garments, to be in their own underwear. Sara's standing in a pair of pure white lacy panties and a matching bra, which is see through. Kara wears a combination of red and blue. They both take Barry onto the bed.
"So, both of you ladies…."
Sara takes the cream which is supposed to be for their coffee and smears it over Barry's body. She and Kara move in to lick the ream of off of Barry's chest and abs. Barry twitches and he feels harder.
Not one to ignore a very obvious invitation, Sara tears down his pants and shoves a hand down them, stroking his big cock until it rises to full fast. Barry groans with Sara stroking him up and down.
"Oh, I want a piece of that."
"Of course."
Sara offers up Barry's pole for Kara's mouth and Kara slides her warm lips down to the base of Barry's pelvis. Her mouth fills him up, eyes widening and hunger just burning through her eyes. This is an amazing feeling to say the very least, to get Barry's throbbing hard member deep into her throat and having her suck on him off.
Making a split decision, Sara decides to move behind Kara and pull down her panties. Sara grabs Kara's firm ass, fondling it and giving it a light spank. Another few spanks and Sara leans in, kissing down the back of Kara's legs. Which spread for her and give Sara the perfect opening to stick her tongue.
Barry rises his manhood up and stuffs it down Kara's throat. Kara happily goes to town on Barry's rock hard pole, making sure to shove pretty much every single inch she can take down her throat. Another tickle between the Kryptonian's legs makes her just breathe out.
Twists and turns from a talented tongue make Kara's entire mind and body enter an endless wave of pleasure. Sara knows exactly what buttons to push and what to do to her, to take her down. Kara's hot body rises up and then down, getting eaten out by Sara.
"Damn...ooh, that feels good."
Kara's hand moves underneath his balls and starts vibrating her fingers in several light strokes. Barry jerks up and sends himself burying deeper into Kara's warm and hot mouth. He finds himself being rocked by what's taking place, his loins stirring and about ready to release.
She slows down to get the best taste of him. His cock presses on Kara's lips and she swirls her tongue, drawing zig-zag patterns. Some kind of strange symbols, but wherever Kara's tongue touches, it sends Barry.
"Closer...you're making me about ready to explode."
Kara keeps up her actions, drawing Kryptonian symbols on Barry's throbbing, veiny member, with her tongue. She feels him squirming underneath her and it's going to be a delightful moment when he closes in. Kara tries to edge him a bit closer with her mouth.
The tasty juices spilling between Kara's thighs offer themself up to Sara like some kind of gift from the heavens. She hammers Kara with that tongue, perfectly aligning it with Kara's gushing hole and making sure she's getting the best test possible from her.
Kara slurping and sounds take Barry deeper and faster over the top. He cannot resist her mouth for that much longer. He feels his cock about ready to burst and about ready to shoot his seed into her mouth.
"It's time."
Kara does not slow down, she just doubles down on the cock-sucking. The inhaling of her beautiful mouth, wrapping itself around his prick makes Barry's entire world just swirl around. The intensity his body feels is something that cannot be described by mere words, although there are times where he does try. It just falls short.
The very intense pumping of his balls makes Barry rise up almost all the way and then hit the back of Kara's throat with the tip of his cock. He shoots his seed down her perfect oral hole.
Kara draws down and inhales Barry, giving him the perfect deep throat to take the last few drops of his cock. Combined with Sara putting her over the top with an orgasm, it's just flowing hard and fast, her pussy juices that is. Kara gives several soft moans, each of them becoming more racked with need.
Barry and Kara both come, and Sara fingers herself to fast approach an orgasm of her own. The trio drops down onto the bed, wondering their next move.
Sara crawls over on top of Barry and sits down on his lap. The second that she's on his lap, she exposes her bare pussy and grinds him onto his cock.
"You can't resist me, can you, Barry?"
Barry shakes his head in response and Sara just smiles. Her pretty face shines with the juices coming from Kara after Sara eats her out. Sara decides to go for her next move and gives Barry a very aggressive kiss.
Her kisses make Barry's loins tingle and his hard rod traps itself between Sara's toned stomach, and his body. Sara grabs onto his manhood and slides it ever so closer, edging it towards the base of her pussy. Sara rotates herself against Barry, becoming very close to dropping down onto him and taking him all inside of her.
Kara waits for her next move, her wet core still singing from when Sara ate her out. She watches Sara open up and drop completely down on Barry, crashing her warm wet pussy lips down onto him and engulfing Barry completely inside. She goes all in on him.
Barry drops down onto the bed, with Sara's wet walls clamping down onto him. The beautiful Canary drives herself down on Barry, giving him a hell of a great ride. She bounces up and down onto him, working her walls down on him.
"Sara!"
"I love when you scream my name when I bounce on your cock. It makes me hot. It makes me horny. It makes me feel so good right about now."
Barry feels very good, so very good in fact. Sara strokes his cock with her silken walls, pushing him into her body. She knows all of the right parts to hit and make Barry feel alive.
Watching the scene is not just enough for Kara. She hovers in the air and lowers down on Barry. Barry's face disappears between Kara's golden thighs before he eagerly eats her out.
Getting a super fast tongue working her over is something that Kara needs right about now. She bounces and bounces on him.
"Oooh, this feels so good."
Sara watches Kara's ass bounce when she drives down onto Barry's tongue. She matches Kara's energy about as much as possible, which is impressive to itself given that Sara's a human. Be that as it may, she still rocks Barry and still takes as much of him inside of her.
The warm and tight box wrapping around him makes every single one of Barry's nerve endings hum at super fast speed. Sara works him up and down. Every now and then, Sara pulls out and rubs her lips down onto his tip. A squeeze of the base presents Barry from spilling his load right yet. Then Sara drops down and takes Barry even further inside of her, stretching herself out, rising and dropping on him with several intense bounces.
The ride continues, with Sara getting more and more explosive with her energy. She's taking Barry into her.
"Oh, I can't wait to make that big cock feel good. I know all of your weak spots, don't I, Barry? But, I'm not going to let you cum."
Sara smashes herself down on the base of Barry's pelvis, rising and dropping, getting her fill of the speedster. Her entire body turns into some kind of intense lightning rod for pleasure.
"Not yet, just not yet...got to make you earn it. Got to make you work for it. Got to make you...really feel the burn."
The truth is, Sara does not want the fun to stop any time soon. Barry reaches her insides and reduces them to a dripping mess. She needs more of this, and she clamps down onto it. She touches hip to hip with Barry, clutching down onto him on the bed. She's holding on tight and making Barry throb inside of her.
The delicious blonde warrior grabbing his cock between her warm walls and clamping down gives Barry a sufficient amount of motivation to keep pounding away at her. Keep driving his big juicy cock deep into the depths of the woman underneath him. Sara closes her walls around him and releases him.
Meanwhile, Kara, Kara's dripping with sweat and desire. Enjoying the number of ways Barry's questing tongue makes her feel beyond alive. She gets a shove deep into her womanhood and keeps dripping all over Barry. Barry rocks her a couple more times.
A slap on her ass motivates Kara, although surprises her at the same time.
"I couldn't resist. I'm sorry."
Kara drives her warm walls down onto Barry's tongue, wanting them wrapped around Barry's cock sooner rather than later.
Sara hogs all of the time with that particular part of Barry, holding onto him tight and releasing him from her warm grips. Honey trickles down from the tip of the cock, all the way down the base, lubricating Barry as much as possible. Sara bites down on her lip and gives a pretty good slide down to him. She sucks Barry into her warm pussy, taking him all the way down and then releasing him.
Speaking of release, it's coming for Sara as well. She bounces faster and more furiously, holding herself to a very high and vigorous standard when releasing Barry from her tight core. She ends up holding him and releasing him making her body enter a state of pure bliss.
"Barry, closer."
If he's able to vocalize the fact he's close, Barry most certainly would. Fortunately, he's preoccupied with eating Kara out. The tasty juices, warm and fruitful pour from Kara's warm hole. They gush, giving Barry the proper amount of nourishment to push him on, when he keeps pushing his way deep into Kara's very warm depths.
He gets closer, edging nearer, just closer to that point of eruption. Barry's hips rock up completely, slamming their way into Sara. He feels the weight of the world centered around his stiff, throbbing balls, unable to hold back for very long.
Sara slides her warm walls, contracting and squeezing him. She knows he's close.
"With me."
Those soft words spur Barry on to the side.
Kara's going to join them, if the lovely sounds she makes indicate this properly. Barry holds down tight and works Kara over, spearing his tongue into her on a constant and never ending loop. His toe curling attack to her pussy makest his that much more exciting.
The breaths continues with Barry, Kara, and Sara coming together. First Kara comes all over Barry's face, drenching it with her sticky juices.
Sara follows seconds later, clamping down on Barry and releasing a flood of her honey from the tip of his cock, all the way down the base. Repeated rises and drops saturate his cock even further.
Then, Barry goes along with them. His balls throb, with Sara holding on tight and milking him for everything he's worth. And he's worth a whole lot, driving himself deep into Sara's clenching hole and allowing his seed to just spill out at a constant and endless rate. His balls unleash a huge flood, splattering the contents of them far into Sara.
Sara takes everything inside of her pussy, overtaxing herself. She drives down onto Barry, watching as Kara leans over, from the force of her orgasm.
Everything feels so good, as Sara takes the last few blasts of cum into her tight hole. She makes sure to get everything from Barry and by everything, she means everything. She closes down onto him.
By the time Barry finishes, his muscles tense and Sara comes at least two more times all over him. It feels so good to lose himself in such a tight hole. Sara's body is amazing and Barry needs to be with it more often.
The energy swirling from his body from the sex is very incredible. Sara leans in and gives Barry a kiss on the lips. The kiss gives her a chance to taste Kara's juices trickling from Barry's mouth. She sucks him on the mouth, and then pokes her tongue deeper inside to take as much of Kara's juices into her mouth as possible.
Kara leans in and then moves between Barry's legs. Sara joins her a second later. Kara and Sara take turns sucking on Barry's balls, while they both stroke his cock. It brings a fire through Barry's loins, one which cannot be put out by any means.
Barry is rock hard in no time, from their soft hands and beautiful mouths. Just worshipping him in every conceivable way possible, the hunger dancing through their eyes. Kara and Sara return to lick him from the tip of the head all the way to the base and make his cock just dance at attention. Sara ensnares him for a brief moment and clutches him in her hand, giving him a very intense squeeze.
She folds her lips over his cock head and twirls her tongue over him. Barry groans from what Sara's doing. The perfection of her mouth around him.
Kara duplicates Sara's actions and does the same motion, showing just how fast and adept a learn the Kryptonian heroine is. The Girl of Steel deepthroats Barry, showing how nice getting a blowjob from someone with super breath in. Barry almost pops, but Kara pulls back at the last minute.
"Why don't I share his gift with you?"
The invitation of Sara lying back on the bed is not something that Kara's going to deny for very long. She practically flies between Sara's legs and sees the cum just dribbling out of her. Kara laps up the seed which is about ready to splash from between her legs.
"Yes...that's perfect...put that super tongue in me and show that."
A horny feeling hits Kara and the taste of Barry and Sara combined is almost too much to pass up. Besides, she really needs to return the favor and eat Sara out after the amazing tongue lashing Sara give Kara earlier.
Watching Kara disappearing between Sara's legs and eat his own cum out of her lovely snatch makes Barry hard as a rock. He moves in and touches Kara's body. He perfect body, both soft and solid at the same time, molds into Barry's hands. He moves a little bit closer towards her, his thick throbbing manhood brushing against her lips and then opening up Kara for the intrusion.
The moment his cock head touches Kara's warm lips is the moment she tries to draw him inside. Barry holds on tight to her waist and eases himself into her. Barry's throbbing cock slides into her and makes itself at home inside of Kara.
"Damn, I keep forgetting how tight you are."
Kara would return fire with a snarky comment about how he should swing by her Earth more often so he can remember that. However, she's too busy, busying herself with eating Sara out to make that kind of comment to Barry.
The sweet juices flow freely and Kara buries herself down face first into Sara's lovely pussy. She hungrily and noisly slurps on her, making a huge production. Several loud sounds follow, with Sara holding on tight and working her tongue in an even and endless movement. Several swirls brings Sara's juices.
"Perfect...you're perfect."
A vibrating tongue deep into Sara is just what the doctored order. Despite Barry's relentless fucking of her earlier, she wants more love to her front hole. Sara sucks on her own index finger to get the proper lubrication and shifts.
The naughty woman knows the one thing that can make this better and that's finger fucking her own ass. Sara twists and turns, her warm cheeks expanding and contracting around her finger. Sara breaths in heavily and breaths out, getting her entire body rocked something fierce. She grinds her tight hole against her probing finger.
"Right...here...perfect."
Sara closes her eyes and allows the fun to happen.
Barry holds onto Kara and rides her from behind. Every central inch of Kara's sweet snatch closes its way onto Barry and tightens the grip around his hard prick. Barry gives Kara everything he has. His hips speed up, going into her at a constant and endless blur.
The soft sounds of pleasure follow from Barry rocking her entire body. He fills up Kara and almost empties her. He's never too far from her pussy, due to the fact that Barry's able to jam his prick into her tight hole with ease. The greatest of ease in fact, sliding his massive and stiff rod down into her body. He holds her tight butt cheeks into his hand and slaps them a couple of times, bringing Kara over the tipping point.
Barry almost forgets how good this feels, how good it is to have Kara close in onto him. He redoubles his own self-control and slows down his thrusts to nearly a crawl. Not wanting to lose it just yet, even if it is the most easy thing in the world to lose it right now.
Kara's soft moans spur Barry along. Sara's more passionate ones also give him the fire deep beneath his loins necessary to rock both of these lovely ladies and blow their minds.
"Oh, Kara...damn girl."
His perfect Supergirl closes ranks around his manhood and squeezes it, worshipping Barry in her smooth, velvety core. Barry holds on for the ride, a hell of a ride all things considered and pounds Kara senseless. He clutches her and releases her ass, making sure that Kara's now oozing all over his cock.
The deeper Barry goes into her, the more of her sweet treasure he enjoys.
Sara lets out a passionate moan as the deeper Barry hammers away at Kara, the deeper Kara sticks her naughty little tongue into Sara's wet pussy.
"Oh, you little...you're so good right now."
You never had your pussy eaten out until a super powered alien with a strong and powerful tongue does it, or that's at least what Sara things. Her body enters a huge roller coaster ride, being rocked and being sent along the way. She clutches Sara's head and drives it down completely inside of her.
"Mmm...mmmm."
Sara hears those sounds indicating pleasure and they are almost her undoing. Actually, scratch the almost, they do undo Sara and make her explode all over Kara's face.
Kara finds her face pasted with Sara's sweet juices and she just goes in for more. Devouring Sara like a woman on death row, wanting her last meal. Her tongue swipes both become frantic and eager, making sure Sara's juices flow easy. She cannot get enough of the taste of being between the beautiful thighs of the warrior.
Barry clutches Kara from behind and reminds her of his presence by sending vibrational waves all over her body. Her core closes on tight and makes Kara just lose it completely all over him. Kara clenches him and Barry holds on tight to drive himself into her.
"Close...can you believe that?"
Kara believes it alright, she believes it alright. Barry's close, but she knows that she'll get one more great orgasm out of it before he pops inside of her. At the very least, his swinging balls gives Kara a hint of what's to come. She greedily beckons for more.
Barry gives Kara everything she ever craves, driving himself into her body, and stuffing her full of his cock. Constantly and endlessly working her over until he edges ever so closer to the tipping point. Making sure that Kara's about ready to lose it. Boy, Barry's close.
Sara's breathing moan and thrashing hips gives Barry the visual and audio cues to send him over the edge. His plunging cock fills Kara up all the way and makes sure she's completely stretched out. Barry holds on tight on her and works over her body completely.
"Closer...closer."
Those chants from Barry and the throbbing of his balls shows just how close he is. The heavy sacks of flesh leave their mark on Kara. She tightens around him and makes sure Barry does not stray that far away from her.
Barry takes a quick tour of Kara's perfect body one more time, making sure he commits every single last inch of it to his memory. He does not want to miss this. He wants to feel her all over. Hear her moans from him feeling her.
The Fastest Man Alive gets his wish when he keeps his hands on Kara, perfectly ending up inside of her. He thrusts a bit deeper, the friction caressing his cock.
Barry releases his seed into the wild, coating the inside of Kara's walls with a huge blast. He holds onto her tight, repeatedly driving inside of her. Repeatedly filling her up with his essence, coating her walls with him. It feels good to achieve such a release in such a powerful woman.
Speaking of feeling good, his release triggers one inside of Kara. He tightens his grip around her cheeks for added leverage and spills more of his sticky, juices into her.
Kara feels herself fill up completely, with his throbbing cock repeatedly ramming inside of her body. It fills her up and makes her just overflow with a constant barrage of juices.
Just one second later, Barry pulls away from Kara. He sighs, she sighs, and Sara sighs.
Sara hates the fact that Kara's tongue leaves her. It's only inevitable though. She still feels the imprint of it inside of her.
All three lovers crawl to the foot of the bed. Sara and Kara drape themselves all over Barry and feel up his body. His hands move against them.
"You know...we're not going to get anywhere...tonight."
Sara raises her eyebrow at Barry and kisses his neck in response. Kara moves in to suck Barry's neck on the other side and their legs open up for him to slide his fingers between their warm and willing lips.
Kara lets out a passionate sigh, softer than Sara's, and Barry finger-fucks both of them at super speed and takes them to a constant array of orgasms.
Who knows what other fun tonight will bring.
Chapter Thirty-Eight:
"We're almost there."
Despite some various obvious misgivings, Jinx allows Nora to lead her into position. She knows that they are playing with some very dangerous and very hostile magic, that could blow up in their faces in the worst possible way. Yet, it's not Jinx's place to really tell Nora what to do and more importantly, how to go about her life.
It's Jinx's place to give Nora the support she requires to get these things done. She brings in a deep breath, sighing in response.
"Are you with me?"
Nora senses that there's something bothering Jinx and she does not know what. She does wonder what is eating away at her HIVE associate.
"Are you with me?"
The second time Nora asks the question snaps Jinx out of her funk. She responds with a very strong nod. She has to be with Nora, she just has to be. The two of them cross the threshold, realizing that there's no turning back now.
The power surrounding Nora is about as blinding as blinding can be. She walks into a point of the universe which builds a barrier between life and death. Nora has a clear idea of what to do, or at least part of an idea. She holds up the palm of her hand and makes sure that it flashes to life in front of her. Nora takes a couple of deep breaths.
"Now or never."
That's the statement which exits Nora's mind. She approaches the stones. Runic symbols, one of them resembles the grim reaper's scythe of forklore, stare out at her. Symbols of death, something which chases her around for her entire life.
Nora pauses at the symbol and turns over her shoulder to Jinx.
"If something happens here, I want you to make sure that my younger self is protected. Make sure she gets the life that I was never allowed to have."
Jinx responds with a deep sigh and she looks very much like she wants to say something to Nora, something to discourage her from taking this next movement.
"You know, maybe it's not a good idea for you to do this, then."
A shake of her head follows from Jinx and she bites down on her lip.
"I've come too far to this. My father is here and he's going to tell me what to do. Everything is going to be fine. Dad hasn't steered me wrong before, he's not about to start now."
Jinx respectfully disagrees with that point, but regardless, she allows Nora to go on. She just hopes this does not blow up in either of their faces in the worst possible way.
"Now, the power will return. And it will bring him back. It will bring both of them back."
The guiding hand of her father from beyond allows Nora to drop her hands onto the stone. Her entire body flares up with a very intense amount of energy. Magic beyond all prior knowledge cascades through her fingertips, building up a very intense amount of momentum. Nora's palms shift on the rune stone.
Something rises, which means, something is working.
Jinx bites down on her lip and waits for the worst to happen.
"Nora?"
Nora Darhk's eyes shift back, her toes curl up, and something dark engulfs her body. Jinx attempts to yank Nora away despite the very real and obvious risks it will be for her. Only to find the beam of energy blasting her back a half of a step. Jinx screams in agony, the tips of her fingers burning from the shift of energy.
Something rumbles and cracks in the distance. The stone opens up and the dark magical force draws Nora deep into the stone. A looming, large, figure, surrounded by the same black energy Nora is negulfed with.
"Greetings, child of magic, my name is Nekron. And it's time for me to bring the world back to its proper place. Down on its knees."
Jinx shoots a beam of red energy at Nekron. He absorbs it. Jinx realizes fighting him his futile. She disappears a moment later.
"You're not one of my targets, so I'll let you breath for now. No one is going to breath and no one is going to run. For too long this world has cheated death."
Nekron drops to his hands, planting them firmly on the Earth. His eyes glow soulless and black.
"They cannot outrun me. They cannot outrrun their fates. Not anymore."
Power, connecting Nekron through the black light to both those who have passed and those who have cheated death in the past. He becomes a network of energy.
X-X-X
Sapphire puts the final touches on her new and improved super suit. She hopes for it to be field read before too long. A loud alarming blaring in STAR Labs catches her attention. Sapphire scrambles to join Jesse, who already scrambles to the lab. Caitlin sits down in front of the computers.
"What's up?"
Jesse's question only causes Caitlin to incline her head. She looks a bit forlorn and slightly lost when peering at the monitor.
"You know something, I'm not sure but…."
The portal opens and Flash comes through the portal. The second he steps through, he feels something. Something powerful knock him over.
"Do you feel that?"
Caitlin's body experiences chills and for once in her life, the chills do not have anything to do with Killer Frost. The STAR Labs scientist tilts her head back and shakes her head.
"Yeah, I feel it. And it's...it's coming from somewhere."
The scientist bites down on her lip. Jesse moves over to the chair next to her, to get a second opinion.
"And now according to the satellite, it's coming from everywhere."
Sapphire jumps back for a second. Barry catches her before she falls over.
"You're not going to believe this."
Barry pulls Sapphire closer into his arms, wrapping her up in them.
"Trust me, there's a lot that I believe these days that most people don't."
"Well, I saw him...my father...I saw him down the hallway."
The eyes of Jesse, Caitlin, and Barry all fall down on Sapphire. Jesse and Barry race down the hallway. A trembling Sapphire turns her head around.
"I know that there's….look I know Simon Stagg is dead...but I swear I saw him. Some kind of ghost, or something, I don't even know...but, I swear, it was him."
Barry feels some kind of presence. The goosebumps on the back of his neck stand up. He puts his hand on Caitlin's shoulder.
"Where is the highest concentration of energy?"
Caitlin locks onto the concentration of energy at the edge of town and informs Barry of it.
"Center of the city...center of Central City."
Barry's off to investigate it in a flash.
Sapphire sits down and keeps looking down the hallway. She sees nothing there, but seconds ago, she saw her father.
"You must both think I'm crazy."
Jesse responds with a shake of her head. They have seen some weird things, so spirits is not outside of the realm of possibility. Nothing was crazy.
X-X-X
Thea wonders how long it will be before Oliver is going to come back to claim the hood. She does not mind being out here, on the streets, fighting bad guys. It's just that Green really is not here thing and she much prefers red. She drops down, with Black Canary joining her.
Several goons look about ready to break into the side entrance of a building. It's not a big crime, but it's always the little things which make life a bit more interesting. And on this little thing, Thea launches an arrow into the back of the leg of the goon in question, dropping him to the ground.
"It's the Arrow...and…."
Black Canary rocks them with a scream and sends them all flying back down to the ground. One of the goons rushes her with a knife. She disarms him with some careful hand to hand, knocking him back down to the ground. It's a huge punch with Black Canary jacking his jaw with everything he has.
On the rooftop, one of them aims a rocket launcher. Thea's just a bit faster on the draw, shooting out an arrow and knocking the weapon out of his hand. Black Canary repels to the roof and knocks her enemy down with a running kick to the side of the face. She picks up the enemy and hits him with multiple punches. The goon tries to take Black Canary down, but Black Canary flips him over and nails him with repeated punches.
Green Arrow looks from one side to the other. She takes in a full view of her surroundings, just like her father taught her. Someone clapping slowly and loudly catches Thea's attention.
Laurel drops down and she opens her mouth up.
"No way."
They come face to face with a ghost of sorts. Tommy Merlyn, gaunt and more grim then he's even been seen in her life, looks at her. He looks completely zombified and sickly in some respects. Thea opens her mouth.
"How?"
"I'm back from the dead, only not all of the way. Something the two of you should be very familiar, given that you both cheated death in your own way."
Tommy cranes his neck and gives a sickening version of his charming smile.
"You should not be here."
"And neither should you….I made peace."
"Yeah, you moved on from me...everyone did. But, I'm not going to let you move on from the afterlife."
Tommy shoots a beam of light at Laurel and she dodges the attack. She takes a half of a flip over and sends a Canary Cry. No matter how much he looks and sounds like Tommy, he's not him. He's not him and Laurel's not about to be taken in by some fraud.
Thea shoots two arrows at the ghost only to find them fade into ash seconds before they would hit him. Tommy spins around and rocks Thea, sending her back against the wall. The wind knocks out of her from the attack.
"I'm going to bring you home. I'm going to bring you both home."
Laurel bounces off a black wall emitting from Tommy's body. He gives off some unsettling and dare she say it, but unnatural waves of energy. Laurel must find a way around it, for the sake of everyone involved.
'Not Tommy.'
She bombards him with the Canary Cry, only to find that completely and utterly useless.
Then, Tommy opens his mouth and nails Laurel with a cry that is more like a banshee wail than a Canary Cry. She finds her head throbbing with agony.
X-X-X
Barry rushes to the scene of the disturbance. The chill blew down his spine when approaching the scene, trembling very lightly.
"Barry, you're here. I know you would be, my special little boy."
Barry stops short and comes across Nora Allen. She's surrounded by bright light, with a smile on her face.
"No, it can't be...you're…."
"And so should you be, several times over. But the Speed Force kept bringing you back….kept allowing you to live."
Then, Henry Allen gives him a smile and a pat on the shoulder. Despite the warmth in his expression, Barry feels as if he's been dunked into a cold bucket of ice.
"We've come to collect you for the one true prophet. H will show ups all us all the light."
"No, I made peace with this…."
"Before Flashpoint you did. But you decided that the life you gave up is more satisfying to you then the new life you got through Flashpoint."
Nora steps closer to Barry. Barry tries to resist this perfect illusion.
"You returned, wiping out of the lives of all of those people, which were for the better. And then, you destroyed the lives of all of your friends. They were not like that when you came home."
"No, you're wrong."
Barry takes a deep breath. Henry moves closer towards him.
"You did not think of anyone other than yourself, Barry. That's not the son that I've raised. That's not the son that I wanted. You played a god and you erased them. Just like you cheated your own fate, several times over."
"You're wrong."
"Saying it does not mean it to be true."
Barry tries to slow everything around him to get a better assessment of what's going on. Time, has a funny way of snapping back around, but he sees the outlines. The dark energy coming to him. He shakes it off, denying the reality of any of this.
"You should know right now that Death is merely an illusion. The Blackest Night will come to us. The Blackest Night will come for this world."
"Not real."
"Very real, Barry. It's very real. And you will be taken to see the one true prophet soon enough. He will be the one who will set all of this straight."
Barry knows there's something going on. His head throbs and in the distance, he notices the flicker of something.
"You really aren't going to be gullible enough to fall for this, are you, Barry?
"Come with us son. Join us."
X-X-X
Oliver crosses his legs, while sitting up in the mountains. He just feels something, a presence of some sort, lingering ever so close to him.
"You can keep running from me, but I will keep finding you. We're drawn together. You can't stop this, Oliver."
The eyes of the emerald archer open up and he comes face to face with Felicity. She looks the same at least at first. When she approaches Oliver, there's something about her which looks more gaunt and more inhuman, on the account that she's been dead for close to a year.
"Are you happy to see me, Oliver? After all of this time, I'm still in your head."
Oliver draws the bow and arrow, pointing it at the woman in front of him. Felicity breaks out into a very sadistic smile when approaching Oliver ever so closer.
"Are you going to shoot me, Oliver? If you had the balls to do that, you would have done that a long time ago. Now, you're nothing."
Felicity steps a bit closer towards him. Oliver backs off, nearly losing his footing.
"Be careful not to fall. It would be a shame if you fell of of this mountain again. Remember what happened the last time? How you perished? How you should have never come back because you came back weak and pathetic?"
Oliver holds his bow and tries to reconcile with the fact that this is not Felicity. There's just something about her. He smells the stench of death practically irradiating off of this abomination. His hands shake when trying to hold the bow into place, but he cannot pull that necessary trigger.
"Even in death, I own your body, your soul, and your mind. You know why? It's because you're pathetic. It's because you're useless."
Oliver shakes his head. Not pathetic, not useless, not by a longshot. He holds his head up proud while facing Felicity. There's a huge part of him who knows what he needs to do.
"I'm over this."
"Are you? Then why don't you shoot me? Or why do you allow yourself to get suckered in by someone who looks like me? Don't you know there's such a thing as illusion spells?"
Oliver wonders what she's talking about. Felicity gives him a mock smile of sorrow.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot...when I'm not alive to do your thinking for you, you can't focus...you're just a weak and pathetic child, a real broken arrow. I put you under my thumb and you're not going to let go. The truth is, Megan Harris, was Nora Darhk. You know, Damien Darhk's daughter, all grown up, and with a bit of a vengeance complex."
"How…."
"The old Oliver Queen would have figured that out. Of course, he's always been a sucker for a pretty face. And it was very easy for her to get in your hand...and I wonder if she would have gotten even further...right before she sacrificed you for her own amusement."
Oliver draws back the bow. The dark spirit of Felicity breaks out into a smile.
"Do it. I dare you to do it. Make my day, Oliver….make my….arrgh!"
A sword slices through Felicity's back and causes her to disappear into an angry blast of black light which shoots up into the sky.
Tatsu appears next to Oliver a second later, a hand extended towards him.
"Are you alright?"
"Just...thank you."
"Don't thank me yet. She will not be the first. The spirits have gone restless and you have many demons in your past, many demons which you have yet to face. Those loved ones who have passed on, which you have not made complete peace with."
The protest in Oliver's throat turns into him swallowing the lump in said throat. To say Tatsu has a point would be a pretty good indication. She does have one, she does have a point. Oliver does not know what else to say, other than to nod.
"And I see them as well. The Sword it keeps them at bay, for now. Let's hope it remains keeping them at bay for as long as possible."
Oliver knows who Tatsu sees, her husband and son. It's here where Oliver feels a small swell of guilt.
"Do not apologize for the dead when the living need your help."
Tatsu holds the sword. It keeps them at arm's length for now. She senses something happening. Dark barriers between life and death begin to crumble and begin to falter. She does not know what to do, and she hopes that there's some kind of darkness coming for them both.
X-X-X
"And this guy was so two years ago."
The demonic form of Hath-Set, the man who claims to be Vandal Savage, charges at Sara. Given that she encountered two other men who also claimed to be Vandal Savage, Sara wonders if there have been many people throughout history to make that claim.
Amaya tries to nail Hath-Set with a hawk, appropriate given then two long gone and very much forgotten team mates.
"Could use a little help."
Nate pulls himself off of the floor and dodges in time for Ray to him with a blast of energy. The twisted abomination howls and stampedes towards the heros.
"You will be taken to the great one."
Sara feels something prickle down the back of her neck. To say that it's causing her just the tiniest bit of a distraction would be an understatement to end all understatements.
"You mean the great…."
He's not in a chatty mood. Trying to plunge the knife in Sara's gut, she dodges it and grabs the man's hand. Sara nails him across the back of the head with a series of rapid fire punches, knocking him down to the ground.
She's really not in the mood to die again. Not today. The monster of an entity rises to his feet, hands outstretched. Sara blocks the hand and then nails him with repeated punches.
A blast from Mick's flame gun causes him to get roasted. Firestorm punches him down to the ground and he crumbles into ash.
"Okay, anyone want to explain the entire Walking Dead thing to me?"
Ray's question goes on deaf ears as Sara feels something plunge her into an almost catatonic state. It's almost like someone shoves a large chunk of ice down the back of her neck and makes her shudder.
'I have never been far from you. You have cheated my embrace. You will not cheat me again. You will not cheat Death.'
Sara closes her eyes and takes a deep breath. They really got to get into this.
"And my old team back together again. How quaint?"
The Legends turn around to see the zombified form of Leonard Snart, better known as Captain Cold. Heatwave's eyes bug out.
"Oh, no, not again."
"This time, I'm not a time traveler, or an alternate universe doppelganger or a dream or an illusion or an imaginary story, and I've come for Sara...he will be pleased to have you."
Captain Cold's entire body emits cold energy. Heatwave blasts him with a blast of fire which only bounces off of him. He just smiles.
"You've always been a bit too quick to shoot, Mick. A real problem in your interpersonal relationships, no doubt."
Captain Cold lifts his hand and causes the team, minus Sara, to be frozen solid in a matter of seconds. Sara backs off, her mouth opening and closing. Captain Cold breaks into a wide smile when approaching Sara.
"I could break them, or you could come with me."
'Join him.'
Sara shakes her head. She drops down to her knees and screams. Images of her dying bombard the back of her head. Sara clutches her head and feels something trying to rip into her.
Captain Cold disappears into the night, but the damage has already been done. Sara rises up to her feet and moves out of the ship, leaving her team members completely on ice.
"Captain Lance, I must tell you this is ill-advised."
Sara moves like a zombie and gets to the jump ship before returning to Star City, circa 2018. She has a very important person to meet and to deal with.
X-X-X
Barry decides to do the one thing that he's capable of doing more than anything else and that's run. He runs as fast as he can, feeling the burn of energy emitting from his body. His lungs burn into the distance when gaining a heavy amount of mometum. Barry keeps speeding up.
"You can run from your demons. But they will find you."
Barry sees several faces in the shadows. He shakes his head.
Simon Stagg blocks Barry's path. Barry skids to a stop.
"It turns out Sapphire wasn't seeing things, Barry. But, I wasn't trying to get to her, she never cheated death. You on the other hand, you are his, you are always his."
"Who are you talking about?"
"Come with me, Barry, and we'll find out together."
"Yes, Barry, come with us all."
The chanting in the distance puts the hairs on the back of Barry's neck completely up. He runs as fast as possible, seeing several people in his life who have died, all things to the Flash. He moves a bit closer to the edge. His heart pumps a little bit more blood into his body.
He stops short at the edge, taking a deep breath.
"You don't have to run."
Nora's voice causes Barry to shiver one more time.
"What are you? You're all dead. Did I…."
"Death is merely an illusion. One which the great one will destroy when the Blackest Night occurs."
This hits Barry in the chest like a load of bricks. The Blackest Night, that was what Copperhead talked about when they met her. There's something really off about this entire thing now.
"Barry, Barry, Barry."
And now Captain Cold shows up to join the party.
"You know, we never had a chance to properly say good bye. You were the one responsible for pushing me to be a Legend, and it got me killed with my noble sacrifice. But that's the thing about you, Barry. Death follows you around everywhere, even when it should be happening to you."
Snart holds his hand up and Barry finds himself unknowing of what he wants to do.
"You don't have to keep running. All you have to do is join us."
The loud chanting continues and Barry finds the voices in his head about ready to overwhelm. There's nothing that he can do.
Henry puts his hand on Barry's shoulder.
"So, how about it, Slugger? How about we join the man who is responsible for this?"
X-X-X
Oliver and Tatsu climb down the mountains. Every step of the way, Oliver really does not know what to expect. He just feels something going on in the back of his head, something which he cannot explain by any conventional means.
And there's an army at Oliver's feet. Some people who he killed in the past coming off to face him.
"Oliver Queen, you failed this city."
Unlike Felicity, they do not hold any emotional attachment to him. Oliver withdraws his bow and starts unloading as many arrows as possible. They all disappear with one shot, and then more reappear. Oliver keeps fighting, unloading the barrage on his enemies in as many ways as humanly possible.
Tatsu's eyes bulge out and she charges them. Sword swings and she hits a glancing blow to her adversaries, dropping them down to the ground. They all back off from the sword. All of them avoid the shot.
Oliver and Tatsu fight off the legions. The swarm gets even more insane, and only
"Where is the end?"
"When we find the leader, the person who caused all of this. That's the end."
Several more arrows wipe them out. Oliver finds himself running a bit low on arrows, which is a shame. He decides to wack one of the zombies in the face and drop him down to the ground.
"Son."
This one word causes Oliver's hairs to prick up on the back of his neck. Robert Queen appears before him.
"I gave you a mission to rid Starling City of corruption. But yet, the city is still broken. Because, you failed it."
Robert picks up one of the discharged arrows and stabs Oliver in the shoulder. The image of the Felicity possessed Indigo flashes into Oliver's mind as he drops to the ground. The images pass through his mind.
Tatsu rushes to them, trying to break free. The zombified Robert Queen smiles and creates a gun out of thin air.
"Your ghosts will stop targetting her. Go ahead, Oliver, your life for hers. You know how it's done. Because, I've shown you."
Oliver holds the gun in his hand.
"You want the pain to be over, don't you, son" You want to return to your mother and me, Tommy, and...others. Go ahead...Ollie, pull the trigger."
The gun places underneath Oliver's chin and he hesitates for a second. Tatsu's eyes widen.
He turns the gun on his father and pulls the trigger. Only to realize that there's no bullets in the gun.
"Predictable."
A dark force swoops down and nails Oliver in the back of the head. A cold rotting hand places on his shoulder, causing Oliver to relieve the night Ra's al Ghul stabbed him and he fell off of the mountain. The images burn into Oliver's mind again and again and again.
"Come with me, Mr. Queen."
Nekron scoops Oliver off of the ground. Tatsu charges him, but the wall of spirits block her and push her back.
The second Nekron disappears, so do Oliver's ghost. It leaves Tatsu along in the cold valley.
"Weak."
Tatsu recognizes the voice, but blocks it out of her head.
X-X-X
Thea moves around the corner while Laurel keeps the imposter Tommy busy. She draws her bow back and fires an arrow to the spine of the zombie. The blast of flames and fire engulf Tommy and Thea repels down to nail him down across the back of the head to drop him down to the ground.
She pulls back, taking a deep breath.
"Good job, Thea. But it's time for you to join us."
Thea turns and her mouth widens a fraction of an inch. She comes face to face with her mother. Moira steps a couple of inches away from her daughter and leans down a couple of seconds later. Thea tries to step back from her.
"I'm proud of you. But, it's time to serve your true purpose. Your brother and father are waiting for us."
Laurel steps closer to Thea who looks transfixed because of some reason.
"Thea, fight it."
"She won't and you won't either."
The person who shows up to join them is Sara. Sara takes a half of a step closer to Laurel, breaking out into very wide smile.
"Come on, pretty bird, join us."
Laurel rushes Sara, something is wrong here. Sara dodges the attack and deflects some of Laurel's best attacks. Her reflexes, always pretty good, are now more on point. Sara goes behind Laurel and tugs the staff underneath her chin.
"You always were second best to me. That really got on your nerves, to think your baby sister is better than you. Just ask Oliver. I'm sure he would have told you...and maybe Barry would as well."
Laurel breaks free from the attack. Sara moves back and nails Laurel with a couple of punches to the side. Another one to the side of the neck and one to the back of the leg which staggers Laurel for a moment. She tries not to crumple down onto the ground.
Sara jumps up and hits a roundhouse kick which nearly comes an inch away from flattening Laurel. Laurel pulls herself up to a standing position, and Sara takes a dagger out. Laurel dodges it, while covertly sending a distress signal. She hopes that someone will get it, if there's anyone left to get it.
"Whatever is happening, you've been brainwashed."
"You say brainwashed, but my mind's truly been opened to all of the possibilities, all of the wonders of the universe. And each of them, are far better. I can join him and we don't have to worry about losing our loved ones any more."
Laurel rushes Sara and the two collide together. Sara knocks Laurel back and sends her flying back with a Canary Cry.
She blinks a second. Sara should not have that power naturally.
"It's a gift from my master. Among many others."
Another shrieking cry and Sara knocks Laurel back off of the mountain. Laurel's mind flashes to the pre-Flashpoint timeline of her battle with Damien Darhk and subsequently dying from complications of the battle later. She pushes back out of the maelstorm.
Sara nails her sister in the chest and knocks her off of the docks, into the water below. Laurel drops into the water, sinking like a stone.
The White Canary looks down at her sister for a few minutes until she does not reemerge.
"Well, your natural death will bring us closer together. My master will bring you back and you will be willing."
Moira steers Thea towards the portal. Sara steps through along with her, as they bring Thea over.
X-X-X
On four stones, Thea, Sara, Oliver, and Barry alls tand. Nekron looks over at them, along with the legions of others who have risen to heed the call.
"Soon, the entire world will fade to black. My Horsemen will ensure that the stones remain protected, until the time when worlds collide. And then, I will spread the Blackest Night further than ever before."
Barry's eyes close and open up, almost gagging in response. He drops down to a knee, shaking completely madly. A warm hand on his shoulder pulls him out.
"You're home, Barry."
Despite those reassuring words, he hears a voice hissing in his ear that not is what it appears.
X-X-X
The image of Damien Darhk for about the millionth time jerks Laurel out of her catatonic state. She's in a nice, warm room, with a roaring fire. Her Canary uniform sits on the table and she's in an overly long grey nightshirt. The lights flicker and Nyssa stands above her.
"I received your distress signal. And I find that what's happening is troubling."
Laurel wonders what. Nyssa hands her a hot cup of tea and Laurel takes a drink.
"Nora's been played as a puppet and she's unleashed the Blackest Night."
A few sounds of rustling from the next room put Laurel on high alert.
"And it turns out, I'm not the only one who has received the distress signal."
"What's the Blackest Night?"
"Doom. For the living and the dead."
Chapter Thirty-Nine:
Silence reigns over the city of Atlantis, which just happens to be the capital of the nation of Atlantis. The people live mostly in tranquility. While a fair few of them distrust land dwellers, there's also many of them who are willing to just leave well enough alone. It's really none of their business what happens online providing it does not affect the city of Atlantis. When it affects the city, the nation, and the fine people, that's when they feel the need to get involved with the affairs which occur on land.
Unfortunately, one of the bigger problems plaguing the people of Atlantis is the fact they have their own issues, and those issues prepare to attack them. One of them being an insidious group of creatures just targeting the borders of Atlantis. The people of Atlantis back up, fearful in their expression. One of the screams and screams for good reason. The howls and the snarls coming from these sinister creatures when they approach show they mean business and there's really nothing more than they can do.
Several sharks approach the edge of the bubble covering Atlantis. They do not look like your normal variety of sharks either. This particular grand of creatures look more inhumane and look on with bloodshot eyes. One of them dives towards a terrified child who had been caught out in the opening. The child's mother screams, paralyzed and condemned to do nothing other than watch.
The flare of energy echoes from the other end and the shark meets its match in the tone of a large fist. The other sharks surround the imposing gentlemen. Wearing a red and green uniform, with black leggings, with wild blonde hair and a beard, King Arthur of Atlantis, known to the surface dwellers nearby as Aquaman, engages the shark.
"Move!"
The mother scoops up her child and rushes to the nearest shelter. Several members of the military scramble for their civilians to get out of there.
Aquaman stands tall and the shark he punched seconds ago dives him him. The King of Atlantis grabs the shark around the face and whips him down with a force. He wrestles the shark to the ground, punching it several more times. The beast bares its insidious teeth.
"There's something off about you."
One of the sharks dives at Aquaman. The King of the Seas blocks the attack and bombards the shark with a series of vicious punches. Each of them clips against the mouth of the shark. Blood comes from the mouth of the shark as it gives Aquaman a jagged smile. Aquaman releases his trident and sends a blast of energy at the demons of the deep.
Those sharks, Aquaman senses something off on them. His head pounds even greater when the creatures dive towards him. Aquaman avoids the brutality of the sharks diving into his arm. One of them almost clings onto him, until the point where Aquaman twists around and drives the point of his trident into the shark's throat.
"They're not alive."
A beam of light erupts from the sea and causes some hard water to go up.
Aquaman turns around and smiles. A beautiful woman with striking red hair, green eyes, and wearing a skin tight green body suit rushes over to help defend him alongside of the city of Atlantis. She ruptures her hands against the water and results in a very prominent ripple effect, shooting energy across the water.
The explosion echoes from the woman driving her hands down onto the shark back back off. Queen Mera's eyes flash to life when she shoots more water spears from her hands and knocks the sharks back. They all scream and two of them blow up into dust.
Aquaman swallows a lump in his throat and brandishes the trident. He stabs one of the shark's in the corner of the eye, taking it down to the ground with the most fierce attack possible. He pulls the trident back and allows the shark to drop to the ground. Another one of the creatures dives at Aquaman with the intent to bite. Until Mera and Arthur join forces in taking the creature completely down to the ground.
"They're trying to pull me back underneath."
"And there's more!"
Mera's screams indicate there's more sharks coming. The black light surrounding them causes Aquaman's head to throb in response. He feels something call to him.
An underground sub rushes through the water and shoots three charges at the army of sharks. The sharks explode in the water.
The top of the sub pops open and Batman climbs out of it. He flips down onto the ground, in a modified version of his mask to allow him to breath underwater.
Aquaman's eyes widen when he sees Batman come at him.
"Batman? What do I owe the pleasure?"
"You said you once owed me a favor...we have a problem."
Aquaman responds with a nod. Mera puts a hand on Aquaman's shoulder and gives it a very firm squeeze.
"Go. I will defend the people of Atlantis...there appears to be a much bigger problem at hand."
There's no doubt in Arthur's mind there is. He turns around to lock eyes onto Batman who responds with a nod in response. The two disappear into the night, to deal with the problem which is going to come.
Mera sits calmly in wait. Despite the fact the sharks disappear into the night, there's still a sense of unease and she's very unsettled, for many good reasons. The Queen of the Seas prepares to see what will occur next, for better or for worse. She's ready for anything.
X-X-X
Iris wishes she knows where Barry is, because keeping him close by is something that's important in a crisis like this. It causes her focus to be divided and her focus cannot be divided against the opponent she faces. Another speedster comes over to back her up in this time of crisis. Jesse stands at Iris's shoulder to face off against the gentleman against them.
A dark haired gentleman appears in front of the two speedsters, standing in the middle of the city. Jesse and Iris recognize him as Danton Black, better known as the criminal Multiplex, who perished at another time. There's a few seconds where Jesse keeps her gaze on him.
She knows what his powers are and sure enough, the criminal divides into several parts. He dives into two, then four, then eight, and then sixteen. He keeps dividing until there's an entire army of him lining the streets of Central City. All with their hands glowing black from this mysterious energy.
Jesse swallows the lump in her throat. To say this would be easy, it would be pushing it. Nothing in life ever is easy, especially something like this.
"Right...we get the one in the middle, take him out...it shouldn't be too hard, right?"
Iris gives Jesse the side eye and Jesse responds with a nod. They do have to try, no matter what their misgivings are. Iris and Jesse run towards the army of Multiplexes.
Whirling fists and blasts of lightning cut through the air. Iris finds her focus divided and there's a time where one of them almost gets the drop on her. Jesse blocks the fist of one of them and then nails the enemy with a rising punch to the side of the face. A second passes with the enemy dropping to the ground. A bolt of lightning flashing from her hand, sending the enemy down to the ground.
"Too bad it's not the Flash...but he already belongs to my master."
"We'll see about that."
"Oh, no, the great one has already seen to that."
Iris sees red and dives into the battle. She launches blitz attacks, shooting lightning from her palms at the army. The army is very hard to take down for a number of reasons.
Jesse flies through the air and goes for one vicious attack. Multiplex dodges her attack and knocks her down to the ground. Several fists and feet start kicking her. One of them raises a glowing black blade to almost carve her into pieces. Jesse blocks the attack and then comes back.
With swift movements, Jesse whirls her arms like a tornado and knocks the enemies down onto her back. Her heavy breathing shows that Jesse's going to get this one. She knows she's going to get this one, she has to get this one.
An entire pile of clones fades, but yet Multiplex just makes more. The cycle continues again, with Jesse slamming her hand into the ground to try and disrupt the center.
Find the right one, it appears to be an easy thing to do, at least on paper. In practice, finding the right clone is like finding a needle in a haystack. Jesse punches one of them. Not the right one. Another punch to the right one, but the clone army remains in tack. A third punch to the clone and it remains in tack.
Iris does the same thing, bombarding all of her enemies with as many attacks as possible.
"Where is the Flash?"
"You'll join him soon!"
Iris shifts and avoids the cutting black blade. The superheroine known as Impulse rises up to the ground and nails her enemy with one of the more vicious attacks possible. The attack comes inches away from hitting the side of her ear. Iris blocks the attack and then comes back with a violent punch. She grabs the attacker around the arm and cracks it back.
Barry's not the only one who has been picking up a few tips from Sara.
Two grab Jesse's arms and the other two grab Jesse's legs and attempt to yank her apart. Every muscle in Jesse's body flares up. No matter how hard she attempts to break free, the clones have a death grip on her. Jesse summons all of the power, but something feels wrong about the speed force.
She can barely move her legs much less do anything else.
A large green fist whirls through the Central City skies and knocks the army clones down. A glowing green machine with a wrecking ball smashes through the clones, destroying them before he down.
"It's him! Destroy him!"
Multiplex turns his attention on the dark haired gentleman in green who appears from the sky. The minute Multiplex divides, he creates a rocket launcher, launching several rockets at the guards and taking them down. Black screams in agony before this green clad individual takes them down.
"Find the one controlling them all."
"On it!"
Jesse's shout spurs him on. Their mysterious savor drives down into the army of Multiplex, taking him down to the ground. The clone army drops to the ground, giving a very prominent hiss as it does, before the prime copy is locked it what appears to be a box. His body decays and the remaining clones fade.
As a reporter and as someone who is just curious by nature, Iris has a boat load of questions.
"Just who…."
"My name is Hal Jordan….I'm the Green Lantern of Sector 2814."
"Jordan...you're that Ferris Air pilot who disappeared three years ago."
Hal gives her a good natured smile.
"Yes, and I'm about three years late to check in for my shift. I'm sure Carol won't be too happy."
Before they can get this conversation any further, something buzzes in Iris's ear. She presses a button.
"There's problem….SOS….I've got the location….go and pick up Caitlin from Star Labs, tell her to bring her alter ego...we're going to need all the help we can get."
Jesse nods. In hindsight, Caitlin might have been a huge help in freezing these clones.
X-X-X
Laurel stands up out of bed. She finds herself facing off against heroes. A portal opens up first, and Supergirl, Superman, and the Martian Manhunter appear from a portal. Another portal from another Earth cracks open and out comes Power Girl from the other end.
Nyssa puts a hand on Laurel's shoulders.
"Needless to say, your SOS managed to find a lot of people."
Laurel responds with a nod. The proof is in everything she's seeing right about now. Holly, Dawn, Barbara, and Mari all show up, the rest of the Birds of Prey are in the house, along with their newest recruit, Helena Bertinelli, better known as the Huntress. Helena eyes Laurel for a second, there's been some tension between these two in the past. However, any past tension meant there was a far more pressing problem.
"When I see my dead fiance stalking me, I felt something was up. Thankfully, Oracle and the Birds were able to help me get things in order."
Batman comes in from the shadows and acknowledges Batgirl with the briefest of nods. Another one of his old proteges, Nightwing comes in, along with Kid Flash, Tigress, Wondergirl, Cyborg, and Bumblebee of the Teen Titans. Caitlin, Jesse, Sapphire, and Iris turn up just as well.
A mysterious man dressed in green shows up and Laurel raises her eyebrow.
"My name is Hal Jordan, I am the Green Lantern of Sector 2814."
Batgirl cannot help break out in a smile.
"Well, I guess you didn't get abducted by aliens after all."
"Well, technically I did, but it was for a good cause."
Last, but certainly not least, Aquaman shows up, followed by Wonder Woman.
"Glad to see you are well, Donna...you're feeling the changes."
"Yeah...seeing our dead sisters attack the tower...it was a shock….what are they after?"
Diana gives her younger sister a sigh.
"Some people just like to see the world burn...and this…."
"It's just beginning. The Blackest Night. What Nora Darhk unleashed in her attempt to restore her father back to life, she has no idea the type of Pandora's box she broke open."
Batman turns to Nyssa. Needless to say, despite the past problems the two have had, they can put their differences aside for the common good.
"Perhaps you better explain."
"Nekron is not going to be satisfied with the enslavement of the people of this Earth. Rather, he's going to go after the people of multiple Earths...and he's already in the process of gathering enough power to open up portals to call on the dead."
Supergirl swallows a lump in her throat and responds with a nod. The other heros look very grim.
Nyssa pulls up a map and shows them the markings.
"There's five Nexus points other than the one which Nora used to bring her father back to life. I believe we can all agree that we need to defend them at all costs."
Laurel realizes something. If Nekron got Thea, Barry, Oliver, and Sara, then he has four champions to guard one of the Nexus points a piece.
"He wanted five of us...to guard the points...but I ruined his plans."
"Once he figures you're still alive...he'll come after you."
"Good...he has my sister. And I'm going to get her back."
Superman responds with a nod. If someone grabbed anyone he cared about, then there would not be a force in the galaxy strong enough to keep him at bay.
"We should have a plan...on how to tackle them."
"I agree."
Batman motions for them to go over.
"We will all divide into teams, where I will take one, Superman will take another, Wonder Woman will take another, and Black Canary will take another."
"That's only four of the Nexus Points, Detective."
Batman turns to Nyssa and gives her a sidelong look.
"I trust you still have your supporters at the ready."
"Yes...and they are ready to defend…."
"And that's the fifth. Let's move."
Laurel takes the Birds of Prey, Batman takes the Titans, Wonder Woman takes Team Flash, and Superman joins the remaining heroes, with Nyssa about ready to join them.
"So, is there room for one more?"
Katana slips into the scene, a little bit late.
"I have something they fear."
Nyssa smiles and invites Tatsu in.
"Nekron will most likely be at the center point. So, that's where you and I will be."
X-X-X
Nekron stands at the edge of ultimate power, about ready to accomplish greatness beyond anything he's ever imagined. The power swells into his hands as more spirits come to him. Those who cheat death return to him and those who have not cheated death, they will soon. Once the illusion is removed, then he can continue his travels throughout the entire Multiverse, collecting of souls.
He stands at the shoulder of one of his willing disciples, Barry Allen, better known as the Flash. Only, an illusion keeps him at bay. With the speed force as one of the most major things to threaten his plan, Nekron wants to keep the Fastest Man Alive at an arm's length. He puts his hand on Barry's shoulder and gives it a very light pat to get his attention.
"No matter what. I want you to defend this. You're not going to allow them to take away everything that you accomplished...that we accomplished, are you?"
Barry responds with a shake of his head. He does not see Nekron though. He sees his father and his mother, standing right beside of him.
"Thawne took it all away from us."
"Snap out of it!"
This yell just barely penetrates Barry's mind.
Diana shows up, along with Caitlin, Sapphire, Iris, and Jesse. From Barry's perspective, they look like an entire army of Thawne's standing across from them.
Nora shakes her head.
"There's the man who killed me...his face still mocks you. You'll only be at peace if you kill them all!"
Barry rushes at them. Iris just barely blocks his attack.
"You're not going to fool me this time, Thawne!"
"Barry, what are you talking about?"
Iris flies back onto the ground. He dodges the attack from Jesse who swings a punch at him. A few more punches dodge and Barry picks her up off of the ground and whips Jesse into a large hunk of rock at super speed. Lightning emits from his finger tips the very second Barry pulls back. He breathes heavily, mind completely fuzzy.
Sapphire sends a stun blast from her suit. Barry's much too quick for that one. The Fastest Man Alive twirls around and punches a hole in the chest of her armor to send her back. Thankfully it was just her armor, but still the impact causes an ache to go through Sapphire's ribs.
"Thawne, I'm sick of you stalking me! Everywhere I turn around, you're there!"
Caitlin turns her attention towards Barry and fires a beam of ice at him. Barry dodges and flips out of control of the ice. He ruptures the air around Caitlin and sends a shockwave through her body, turning her back into Caitlin Snow. She did not know Barry could do that.
"Barry...it's time for you to see the truth!"
Diana wraps her lasso around Barry. She ignores the images of her dead sisters, Amazons lost during the siege of Ares on the island. She pulls Barry back.
Barry screams in agony when the face of Thawne turns into that of Diana and the other faces turn into those of Iris, Jesse, Sapphire, and Caitlin.
"No, you're just trying to trick me. Like you're tried to trick me with Wells. I'm not buying it. You're not in my head. You're not messing with my mind. You're not, you're not...YOU'RE NOT!"
Barry howls in agony when dropping to the ground. He finds his parents flickering away and replaced by what appears to be zombified corpses.
"Deep down you know this isn't real."
The shadow image of Nora Darhk appears beside Barry.
"You need to accept reality and not a deluded fantasy. This is the sort of thing which caused Flashpoint and caused this entire mess...and you opened the door for something even stronger than Flashpoint...and there needs to be a world shattering event to close that door and seal Nekron back away."
"Why should I believe anything you tell me?"
"Because, you saved my life and I owe you the truth...I think you're a child with a god complex, but we all have our problems. It's time Barry...time for you to take what Nekron's given you and turned it against you. He's given you a stronger illusion because he knows the Speed Force will not allow him to be in for long...but you control the Speed Force, it does not control you."
"What are you talking about?"
"All the problems you've had with the speed force, it's because of your own insecurities. You take control and you can end this….turn his plan against him...regardless of the risk. If nothing else…."
Nora responds with a smile.
"Give that little girl a second chance so she doesn't turn into the monster who brought the Blackest Night onto this Earth."
A deep breath happens. Barry needs to believe that he's in control, the Speed Force does not rule him, he is the Speed Force. He closes his eyes and slows down time and also focuses on Nekron, seeing several dark strands. No doubt it connects to Sara, Oliver, and Thea.
The connection to Sara is the strongest, so Barry goes right to her. He takes a couple of deep breaths when moving towards her.
X-X-X
Sara smiles when sitting at the dinner table. The entire Lance family is there, along with Nyssa, who Sara's happily married to, with the blessing of Nyssa's father, who acknowledged that Sara is an equal. She takes a couple of deep breaths and sighs.
"This is perfect."
Her father responds with a smile.
"Any time you're here with us, it's perfect. You're the one who brings us together, Sara. Without you here, we would just fall apart."
"Yes, without you, the Lance family would decay...and I'm glad to be a part of this.
"Sara!"
Sara's head starts buzzing and the image flips to a graveyard. She closes her eyes and returns back to the family home. Something grabs her and yanks her out of the idealistic setting.
Something causes Sara to snap out of this and it's Barry, who stands at her shoulder.
"I know you want to see this for what it truly is, but you know that none of this is real."
"No...it's...you're right...it's not...damn it! I can't believe I'm that stupid."
Sara is supposed to be stronger than this, not being sucked into some kind of idealistic Leave it to Beaver family scenario. Instead, she's suckered in by Nekron.
"He's got Thea and Oliver under his thrall. I can't reach either of them...he's going to use us to….I think he's going to cause some kind of crisis upon infinite Earths."
No matter what way you slice it, it sounds very bad. Barry pulls Sara's mind into the speed force.
"Our bodies are frozen in time right now. I don't know how long yours can take it, so we better hurry."
"I can get to Oliver and then I can get to Thea…."
"You and Thea…."
"Yeah...are you surprised?"
Barry shakes his head. He supposes that he is not. There's no time for story time, but rather the time for action. Time runs very much out.
X-X-X
Cyborg steps closer into the field. He thinks he's the best to go there, given that his robotic components will not be as easily fooled by any illusions. Wondergirl, Nightwing, Bumblebee, and Kid Flash come up towards him. Kid Flash looks over his shoulder, about anxious to see what's going to go.
"Have any of you seen Batman?"
"He's doing Batman things…."
The Green Arrow appears from the shadows.
"Snap out of it."
The Green Arrow fires a barrage of arrows, some of them explosive in nature. It causes the Titans to scatter and move move on either side. Wondergirl jumps into the air, but several warriors shift out of the ground.
"You allowed us to die!"
Her dead Amazon sisters rush towards Donna. Donna dodges the attacks and takes them down, knocking them down with a few more punches. Donna twists the decaying sword out of the hand of one of the creatures and lunges back. She stabs the individual in the stomach, dropping it to the ground.
"Get to the Green Arrow!"
Nightwing hears something in the back of his head. Some kind of glaring sound, and he comes face to face with his parents.
"Why did you let us fall, Dick?"
"I didn't...I didn't…."
"Stay focused!"
Wally zooms around and creates a cyclone around the zombies to cause them to shoot up into the air. Suddenly, something freezes him around the ankles and causes him to drop down to the ground.
Captain Cold appears in the flesh and gives them a sardonic smile.
"So, the Teen Titans. I'm quite underwhelmed."
"Well, you better get whelmed."
Nightwing's words come before he blasts several sharp projectiles at the zombified Captain Cold, blowing his arms off. Nightwing ruptures his hand into the stomach of Cold and drops him down to the ground. Repeated explosions come off until the Green Arrow nails Nightwing with an arrow to the knee.
The rest of the titans fight them until a figure swoops up from above and disarms the Green Arrow of his bow. Batman turns around and knocks the Green Arrow onto his back.
"I'm sorry, Queen, but this is going to hurt me a lot more than it hurts you."
An electrified shock of the gauntlet causes Oliver to scream. This snaps him back into a state of coherence and then he slumps to the ground, the shock putting him out.
Batman pulls the arrow at of the knee of his young protege.
"Make sure to keep your eye on the ball next time."
"Yeah...no kidding."
Nightwing rises to his feet and almost falls against the tree. He takes a couple of breaths before returning attention to the battle. Just because the Green Arrow's been taken out, it does not mean there's still not problems and there's a lot of problems, problems by the boatload.
X-X-X
"I'm going after Sara."
"And we're going after Thea."
Supergirl allows her cousin to take the lead, but she's keeping her eyes on the ground. There's something about this that she does not like. And there's a feeling.
Thea stands in front of one of the nexus points and then turns around. The familiar stab of pain from Green Kryptonite fills Kara's body and Superman grabs her before pulling her back.
"We'll get it away."
The Martian Manhunter dives at Thea. However, the voices from Mars, and those who have died on it, start to overwhelm them.
"You let us die, J'onn? Why did you let us die?"
Hal yanks the Kryptonite arrow and seals it before launching it up into the sky. Superman and Supergirl's paths are clear and they dive at Thea. Thea avoids their attacks and shoots another arrow which explodes. While it's not a Kryptonite tipped arrow, the fireball it emits does a pretty good job in slowing them down.
"You need to snap out of it."
Supergirl blasts a hole through the fence and hits a pipe which causes rushing water to start spurting out. She turns to Aquaman who responds with a nod.
"Maybe a cold blast of reality will bring her back to life."
Aquaman turns his hand and sends a rush of water from the pipe and bombards Thea with it. Thea flips over onto the ground and tries to push her away out.
The sound of something cracking echoes. J'onn drops to one knee. Superman grabs him by the arm and yanks him up to a standing position.
"Don't worry my old friend….I've got you. I've got…."
"He's broke one of the barriers...between this Earth and ours….if he breaks all fifty-two…."
"That's not going to happen."
Despite that fact, a figure blasts from the shadows and knocks Superman, The Martian Manhunter, and Aquaman down to the ground. She blocks the Green Lantern's ring hand and dislocates his finger before dropping him down onto the ground.
Kara's eyes open and she sees a ghost, a literal one in a sense of the word. Her aunt, Astra, approaches her with a wide smile on her face.
"Hello, my dear niece."
Astra drives Kara to the ground with an uppercut punch which sends her spiraling to the ground. She grabs Kara by the hair and whips her around before violently drilling her into the ground with a curb stomp. Astra puts her foot on the back of Kara's head and grinds her into the ground.
"Tell me...how did you become so pathetic? I bet it was the humans poisoning you, wasn't it?"
Astra whips Kara hard into the wall and then allows her to slump. The heavy breathing increases with Astra pulling Kara up and then looking her dead on in the eye.
"They poisoned you and turned you into this weak child. You aren't fit to be Kryptonian. You aren't fit to have these gifts under the yellow sun."
Despite there being great risk to harming herself, Kara grabs the Kryptonite tipped arrow and stabs Astra's deformed walking corpse in the thigh. She feels her hand burning when she clutches the weapon.
"If you are a true Kryptonian, you should know that playing Rao is a perversion. The dead should remain dead They should never be brought up again."
A spinning back hand punch rocks Astra and she fades to black one more time.
"You heroes amuse me."
Nekron appears at the shoulder of one of his disciples. The Green Lantern turns his attention towards the enemy.
"We're going to put you back away where you belong."
"I am necessary given how much people have cheated death. I've only removed the barrier and soon it will be gone for good. And since the black light will overwhelm the white soon enough, which will give me power. It will prove the point that death is merely an illusion."
Several more of Nekron's disciples rise from the ashes. He turns to the heroes with a very grim expression.
"For you, I offer you the one truth in this universe. Oblivion."