Barry Allen Flash in 2 worlds, Marvel

Star City

Afternoon

A few weeks after leaving Star Labs, Allen sat in Oliver and Felicity's apartment, looking around all the decorations. After leaving, he'd gone to the only person he knew he could trust: Oliver Queen.

After all, if he couldn't find a scientific solution to his problem, maybe he could find a magical one. After Allen had explained the situation, Oliver had placed a call to John Constantine and agreed to let Allen stay with him, Felicity, and William while they waited. That was two weeks ago, it was almost Christmas and Allen was beginning to grow impatient.

He was brought out of his thoughts as he noticed William approach him, looking nervous as he had a folded up paper in his hand.

"You okay buddy?" Barry asked as he noticed the look on William's face.

"Where you're from, my mom…she's still alive, right?" William asked and Allen nodded with a grimace.

Finding out that Samantha had died because he hadn't been here to help Oliver with Chase had been another blow to him. Another boy losing his mother, another failure of this timeline's Barry because he was too busy caring about Iris more than anyone else.

"Could you give this to her?" William asked as he held out the paper to Allen.

"You know she's not gonna be able to respond," Allen pointed out gently.

"I know but…I just need to know that she got it," William said looking down.

That was something that Allen could understand. Having lost his mother at around William's age, if there was a way for him to send his mom a letter, to let her know everything he'd never said before, he would do it.

"Sure, I'll make sure she gets it," Allen promised as he held out his hand.

William smiled as he handed Allen the paper. Allen had barely put it in his jacket pocket when Oliver entered the room.

"Barry," Oliver said and Allen looked up. "Constantine got back to me. He thinks he can get you home."

Star Labs

Night

In Central City, things were not looking so great. Barry had been captured by Devoe while he and Iris had been walking down the street. At the same time, Caitlin and Harry had been attacked by Amunet Black while at Jitters and Caitlin had been abducted. To make matters worse, Cisco attempting to Vibe Barry had only succeeded in flinging him into the Christmas tree in the cortex. He wasn't seriously hurt but he didn't think he could Vibe for a bit.

"I'm telling you, we can't search for Barry and Caitlin at the same time," Cisco was telling Iris as he held an icepack to his head. "The satellite won't be able to handle it, the bandwith limiters will overheat. Not to mention there's more than one Barry Allen on this earth now."

"We can't just do nothing!" Iris snapped.

"We won't, but we have to be smart about this," Joe said trying to calm her.

"Find them both Cisco, that's an order!" Iris snapped before storming off.

"She's gonna get them both killed," Ralph said bluntly and Joe shot him a glare. "I'm just saying!"

"He's right Joe, she won't choose and we can't find them both," Cisco argued logically.

"There's only one call we can make," Harry said and the three looked at him. "We need to call someone a little more experienced than us at this. We need to call Allen."

"Iris won't like that," Joe hedged.

"What's more important Joe, saving Barry and Caitlin or Iris' feelings?" Cisco asked and Joe sighed, giving in.

"Okay, but do we even know where he is?" Joe asked.

"He's in Star City," Harry said and three pairs of eyes turned to look at him. "He's different than our Barry, but he's still Barry Allen. He won't leave this earth because he's not sure what will happen if he leaves while trapped in this timeline. Besides the people in this room, who else does he trust absolutely?"

"Oliver Queen," Cisco realized.

Arrow lair

Same time

"Okay, so explain this to me again," Allen said as he, Oliver, Felicity, and Diggle stood in the lair, facing Constantine. "You're saying this isn't the first time this has happened?"

"Not these exact circumstances, but time travel isn't an unknown phenomena," Constantine confirmed. "Sorcerers have used magic to go back in time before; some of them have ended up trapped there. So spells were created to move forward in time."

"And you think you can get Barry home?" Diggle asked.

"I'm quite sure I can, yes," Constantine said.

"And have you ever done this before?" Felicity asked skeptically.

"Not exactly," Constantine shrugged and Allen looked at the trio skeptically. "Not to worry, if I can put Sara's soul back in her body, I'm sure I can get you back to your time."

"Barry, are you sure about this?" Diggle asked skeptically.

"No, but I really don't have many other options," Allen said with a sigh before turning back to Constantine. "What do you need me to do?"

"I need a stand of your hair," Constantine and four pairs of eyes looked at him skeptically.

"You need what?" Oliver asked in disbelief.

"Think of it as a magical GPS if you will mate. The strand of hair will allow me to find Barry's timeline so I know where to send him," Constantine explained.

Allen sighed but lifted his hand, about to pull out a strand of hair when, suddenly, a Breach opened up. Diggle and Felicity jumped back as Oliver, Constantine, and Allen turned towards the breach.

"Thank God I found you," Cisco said in relief as he stepped out and saw Allen. "We need your help."

"Cisco-" Allen started.

"I know you have no reason to want to help Barry, but he's been kidnapped, Caitlin to," Cisco said in a rush and Allen stopped as everyone froze. "Iris is being completely irrational and we don't know what to do. I know you're mad at Barry and Iris, but please, we need you to help find them."

Allen was tempted to say no, thinking of Wanda and Freya and how much he wanted to get home to them. But then a voice whispered in the back of his mind, a voice he trusted almost more than anyone else.

'Heart and head' Caitlin's voice said and Allen sighed.

"Sorry guys," he said as he looked back at Oliver, Felicity, Diggle and Constantine apologetically. "We'll have to do this another time. My friends need me."

Star Labs

Not long after

"I thought I told you guys to find both of them," Iris snapped as she faced Joe, Ralph and Harry.

Joe looked uncomfortable but Ralph looked defiant and Harry annoyed.

"We discussed it. We decided we'd like to save Barry and Snow more," Harry said sarcastically.

"It was the right call," Allen said as he entered the cortex with Cisco, causing Iris to turn to him in shock.

"Barry?" she breathed.

"Not exactly," Allen said and it clicked.

"You went to him," Iris said as she glared at everyone, feeling betrayed.

"Which says a lot about their faith in your leadership, but now's not the time," Allen said as he looked at Cisco. "Find Cait."

"You really hate my husband so much you'd leave him to die?" Iris asked angrily.

"Barry is safe. If Devoe wanted him dead, he would have killed him when you two were on the street. Think Iris, the fact that he took Barry means he needs Barry for something," Allen said and the knot in Iris' stomach loosened slightly. "Caitlin is the one in the most danger, Amunet Black, from what Cisco told me, is pretty unpredictable. If Caitlin pisses her off, she might kill Cait. So we find Caitlin."

"Since when are you part of 'we'?" Iris asked angrily.

"Since you almost got them both killed with your poor leadership skills," Allen snapped and she reeled back. "No matter what timeline, no matter what earth, Caitlin Snow will always be my best friend. And while I may not be Barry's biggest fan, I don't want him dead. Which he will be if we don't get him back from Devoe before Devoe gets what he wants."

"So what do we do?" Ralph asked and Iris noticed everyone was looking at Allen.

"Like I said, we find Caitlin first. Then we focus on finding Barry," Allen said, hoping they weren't too late.

Central City

Not long after

In an abandoned building, Caitlin was running through the halls with Dominic, a Meta captured by Amunet. Dominic, a mind reader, had been able to help them avoid detection by telling Caitlin which way to go and when to stop, narrowly avoiding Amunet's men. However, as they ran, suddenly, scraps of metal flew out, forming a wall that blocked their way. Paling, the two looked behind them to see Amunet approaching, two men following behind her.

"Someone's made my naughty list," Amunet said darkly.

Star Labs

Same time

"Okay, we got her Cryogenic signature," Cisco said as he looked at the computer. "She's in Saint Alexander's hospital."

"That's been closed for years," Joe noted.

"Which is what makes it the perfect place to hold Caitlin," Allen said before looking at Cisco. "You Cisco ready?"

"I was born ready for this," Cisco said and Allen nodded.

"Then let's go get her," Allen said before he pushed his hand forward and activated his ring, the suit flying out of it.

Saint Alexander's Hospital

Same time

Suddenly, a breached opened up behind Caitlin and Dominic. Allen, at super speed, sped out, gabbed Caitlin and Dominic, and yanked them back, the breach closing momentarily after as Amunet stared, in disbelief at what had just happened.

Elsewhere

Later

Devoe came down into his lair and was shocked to see Barry was no longer where he had left him.

"Impossible," Devoe muttered as he lowered the force field.

"Well that's the thing," Barry's voice said before he reappeared, speeding out before Devoe could reactivate the force field. "I am the impossible."

"We built that cell so you couldn't run your way out," Devoe said as he turned his chair to face him.

"Well that's the thing, I didn't run. I just stood still. Really fast," Barry said cheekily.

"You vibrated your body faster than the eye can process," Devoe realized.

"Like your wife said, your brain may be faster than mine, but your body is still human," Barry said smugly. "It's over Devoe."

"Far from it, Mr. Allen," Devoe said as he moved to press a button on his chair.

Barry quickly sped over and restrained his hand but Devoe pressed a button with his free hand. There was a bright flash of light and, when it faded, both Devoe and Barry were gone.

Central City

Moments later

Barry and Devoe then appeared, to Barry's shock, a good hundred feet in the air above the ground. Devoe, in his chair, simply hovered above the ground while Barry had to grab onto the edge of the chair to avoid falling to certain death. Barry held onto Devoe's chair for dear life as Devoe went on a joyride through the city like an irresponsible teenager in their first car. Devoe crashed through the sides of buildings and weaved through traffic in an attempt to shake Barry off, to no avail. Devoe pressed some button and two metal claws popped out of the chair. They tried to strike him but Barry vibrated his body, so they got the chair instead of him.

There was an explosion that followed and Barry was sent flying. He screamed as he flew down before he desperately pressed a button.

"Flotation mode activated," a female voice said before Barry's suit blew up like a hot air balloon.

Barry landed harmlessly in the river, floating as he saw Devoe's chair crash into the river.

"Life raft was a good call Cisco," Barry muttered.

Star Labs

Not long after

"Found him," Cisco said as he saw a second Barry Allen appear on the map of the city. "He's…here."

A second later, Barry stumbled into the cortex, his cowl down, looking exhausted.

"Barry!" Iris exclaimed as she rushed to him, wrapping him in a hug.

Barry didn't respond except to return the hug, looking like he was half conscious. It was clear he had been through an ordeal, though what, they didn't know yet.