It Runs in the Family

Chapter 2: The Gathering

It had been about 20-ish minutes since Team Flash sent out the SOS alert to the rest of the League as Oliver walked into the speed lab.

Since he lived on the same Earth, it was faster for him to get there.

"Who else answered the SOS?" Oliver asked the rest of Team Flash.

"Sara is the only Legend available, so her," Barry started, "and Black Lighting is a little busy with his own crisis at the moment but wishes us luck."

"Half of Team Supergirl is coming." Cailtin added.

"Thea and Dig were gonna come, but I told them to stay. Ninjas and all that." Oliver concluded.

A breach opened in the room, scaring Cisco out of his seat (again).

"Can a man just sit in a chair around here!?" The fallen hero exclaimed.

Barry chuckled as Caitlin helped the man stand. Sara walked through the breach and spoke, "Someone call for a Legend?"

As Sara finished her sentence, yet another breach opened up to reveal Team Supergirl. This time, Cisco didn't jump.

Supergirl walked through first, followed by J'onn J'onz, aka Martian Manhunter, Alex Danvers, Kara's sister, aka Sentinal, and Clark Kent, Kara's blood cousin, aka Superman.

"What's going on? You said it was urgent?" Kara gave the heroes in front of her a concerned look as she spoke.

"Now that everyone is here, I'll explain." Barry declared.

The heroes all sat at a makeshift circular table, fitting everyone. Barry and Cisco explained what happened that morning, noticing the looks of shock and seriousness on everyone's faces. The Speedster felt so lucky to have such an amazing team willing to help without a second thought.

"So we're up against the Reverse Flash, an Evil Arrow from another Earth, and-" J'onn was interrupted by Oliver, "-who knows what else."

"So what's the plan?" Clark asked the question on everyone's mind.

"...We don't have one." Barry confessed, a look of guilt on his face.

"And that's why you called us." Oliver smirked.

Cisco spoke up, relaying the information that was still unknown, "We don't know where they fled or how to find them."

Alex began thinking, the detective in her coming out. She didn't have a plan but thought of where they could start. "Supergirl and Superman could patrol the city to look for any unusual ativity. You know, eyes in the sky."

Kara and Clark looked at each other, and the blonde Kryptonian spoke, "It's a start."

"This may not get us anywhere, but it's a good start in case Thawne or Oliver's doppelganger decides to show their faces." Caitlin stated.

*On Patrol Comms*

Supergirl: Anything?

Superman: Not a single thing.

Cisco decided to pop in to check on the supers.

Cisco: How's it going?

Supergirl: Not good. We've got nothing. I think it's about time we call it quits.

Superman: How's it coming on your end?

Cisco: We've got all our satellites searching for anomalies or power surges, and so far, nothing.

Supergirl: We're coming in.

Caitlin joined the comms.

Caitlin: Don't come in just yet. I just got a reading of some really weird energy from a rooftop. I might be something from another earth cause we certainly don't have any information on this type of energy.

Superman: Send us the location.

Caitlin: Already did.

Supergirl and Superman flew to the location that was sent to them and began searching with their x-ray vision.

Kara's vision swept over the left side of the roof. Nearing a corner, she felt the felt the familiar sting of trying to look through lead.

"Guys, I think I found something." Kara tapped her comms and motioned for her cousin to follow her.

Barry: (On comms) What does it look like?

"Like a remote almost." The older super replied.

Barry's head spun as he remembered the device Thawne threatened CCPD with and asked, his voice filled with anxiety: "Does it have a red switch on the side?"

Anxiously waiting on the answer, Barry changed into his super suit.

"Yeah, it's got a switch. I'm gonna check it out." Kara confirmed as she slowly started walking towards the device lying on the roof.

Barry: DO NOT ENGAGE!

He shocked everyone with his sudden outburst and sped out of the room immediately.

*On the roof*

Not even 10 seconds later, Barry stood on the roof next to the two cousins.

"It could be a bomb, and you won't let us stop it!" Kara shouted, now finding out that this was the device Barry's arch nemesis threatened him with.

The kryptonian tried to control her anger, knowing it would only make the situation more tense, but couldn't while Barry was in the way of them stopping the bomb.

"It could also be a trap!" Barry retorted, understanding where his friend was coming from.

"Like we haven't walked into one of those before!" Kara hit back, annoyance in her voice.

"Guys! Please, we don't need to fight! Barry," Clark looked at the man in red, "can I check it out?"

Barry thought for a moment, considering the supers request. He didn't want anyone getting hurt, but he also didn't want him and his fellow friends to get caught in a trap because they didn't think it through.

Unable to truly decide, he went with the safest option and said: "No. No one is touching it before we know what it is."

At that, Kara glared at Barry, but it was only for a moment as she understood why her fellow teammate did what he did.

Inspecting the device from where they were standing, Cisco piped up from the comms.

Cisco: Guys, that thing it starting to heat up. Fast.

Supergirl: What do w-

Supergirl started but was quickly cut off by the buzzing of the comms. It was like TV static running through their communicators, and Cisco tried to get in touch with the heroes again.

Cisco: Hello? Can anyone hear me? Barry?

He was met with silence as he looked over at Alex, Sara, J'onn, Caitlin, and Oliver.

"We lost them"