Warp Speed (A Flash and Arrow crossover Fanfic)

Rescues and Arrests

        Bast bit back a scream as the rubble shifted again. In the distance she could hear sirens signaling the fast - approaching fire department. She prayed for Oliver and Nova to get there soon, not wanting to explain why she looked like someone out of Halloweentown.

Joe had arrived some time ago to collect Iris, and she had listened enviously as they drove away.

The cement on top of her pressed down a bit further, and she cursed. "Hurry up kid." She hissed.

       Miraculously, she heard a screech of tires as Nova arrived with Oliver in tow. "Bast!" The young speedster called out.
"Over here!" Bast called through the wall. Nova zipped to the other side. "Holy f-"
     
  "Language!" Bast snapped, ever the older sister. "Nova, I need you to vibrate me out of here. I know it's been a while, but I don't see another option."

Nova shifted nervously, watching the building with growing concern. "I don't want to kill you. And besides, I have a cold. We don't know what that will do to my powers. I could end up blowing you through a wall."

As if to prove her point, she erupted into a coughing fit.
      
"Kid, I'm about to become the wall in the next five seconds unless we take the risk."

Bast whimpered as a pipe began driving into her back. Whimpered. And that was what scared Nova the most. 

Bast had always been such a strong figure of support for her, a shoulder to lean on in the worst of moments. Even when she was 'dead' Bast had always been her idea of strength. It was alarming to hear her so broken.

         At Nova's side, Oliver gave her a reassuring smile, grimacing. "She'll be alright Nova. We don't have any other option."

Nova nodded at the archer. Turning to the mound debris, Nova took a deep breath and vibrated through the wall.

        The young speedster gasped as she saw the condition of her remaining teammate. The tiger girl was pinned from her shoulders-down, under a huge amount of rubble. Her face was covered in dirt and grime, and blood spilled from where the pole had punctured her side. Bast's hand lifted a few inches off the ground, offering it to Nova. "Dying here."

        "Right," Nova responded hastily, snatching at Bast's fingers before vibrating them both through the wreckage, breathing hard as they reached fresh air. Bast collapsed beside her, grunting.

         "Let's make a pact never to do that again." The tiger gasped.

"Agreed," Responded the speedster. "Lovely, help me up." Bast commanded.

          Obediently, Nova hoisted her sister up from the ground and helped her to where they had parked the car. Bast leaned against the hood as Nova erupted into a coughing fit, her eyes getting puffier.

"I'm gonna kill Cold, I swear it." She said stuffily. Oliver winced beside her, doubling over in pain as he tried to take a step towards Bast.

           The wounded tiger limped over to him, bringing him to stand beside her against the car door.

"You're an idiot for going out in this condition." She chastised him. Opening the back car door for him, Oliver silently slipped inside and quickly passed out.

            "We need to find Barry." Bast said, turning to her little sister. Nova nodded. "I'll drive."

             Bast began to protest, then moaned as blood trickled through her fingers. She gingerly slipped into the passenger seat. "On second thought kid, go for it."

                                    ...     

              Barry slowly stepped through the warehouse doors, searching intently for the man who had done so much damage to his team. He turned sharply at a sudden noise, spying the edge of Mindbender's cloak.

              "I know you're here!" Barry yelled, his whole body buzzing with anger as he thought of Iris, lying there alone on a hospital bed. His eyes narrowed as the object of his hatred stepped into veiw.

               He ran full-speed at him, landing a good couple punches on him before taking a hard kick directly over his knife wound. He staggered to his knees, clutching the wound.

               Roaring in anger, he charged again, this time running in a wide circle around him. The wind picked up inside the circle, creating a vortex. Mindbender gasped for breath, clutching his throat as the oxygen was ripped from his lungs. With a violent buffet of wind, he was thrown into the air and hard across the room.

                "How does feel huh?" Barry yelled at him, sprinting to meet his falling form with a hard punch to the jaw. "To be broken?!" He threw another punch. "Beaten?!" Another. "Battered?!" He drew back his fist for another punch, but was stopped by a clear, strong; "STOP!"

                 Turning, Barry was shocked to see a bleeding, broken Bast standing there. She took clipped, difficult steps to their sides, casting a fierce look in the unconscious Mindbender's direction.

                  "For so many years, I've wanted nothing but to rip him apart, agonizingly slow. I wanted him to suffer more than any mortal would think possible." She took a deep breath.

"It's different though now, because I see that he's just a slimy, scared worm of a man. He's a vile thing, one that would suffer more if he were locked up, away from the sun and stripped of power. And I want to be there for the day he wakes up in his cell, powerless." She was growling now, her face shining with a primal rage.

                   Barry didn't dare disagree, nodding and rushing to deposit Mindbender in the Pipeline, back in the blink of an eye. When he was back, he scooped up the injured Bast and was about to take her back to Caitlin, when he felt the wounds he had sustained from Mindbender re-open.

                   He gasped in pain, and Nova groaned as she saw his condition, her body wracked with coughs. She blew noisily into a tissue. "Oh, great."

                                  ...   

                    And that was how four vigilantes ended up driving back to S.T.A.R. Labs in a beaten station wagon, all groaning every time they hit a speed bump.

           At one point, they were pulled over by a cop, whose mouth dropped open at the sight of a bleeding Scarlet Speedster, a passed out Arrow, a banged-up tiger girl, and a sixteen-year-old girl with a bad cold surrounded by a mound of tissues.

"Is there a problem officer?" The teen asked stuffily.

              He stuttered. Bast interjected with a bad-tempered tone. "Look buddy, two of us are bleeding, one of us had a bad cold and is still driving, and the fourth one is an idiot who decided to walk out of the hospital with zero pain meds. So considering we save you people on a daily basis, could you just let it go?" The cop nodded dumbly, and Nova pulled back into the rush of cars.
                   
They hit another speed bump and there was a collective groan.

A/N I took forever... (people break out pitchforks) But it was a good chapter right? (pitchforks go away.) Please tell me what you thought, and I promise the next chapter will be up a lot faster. Bye! :)