Short on Time

Chapter 135

"Hold on," Barry warned, and then we were in the speed force. I had formed a shield around myself to not be torn apart, but it didn't really do anything since we were just kicked out and sent flying back into a wall. 

"Barry!" Sara shouted. 

"Ginger," Kara said with concern as she helped me up. 

"Where am I? Where am I?" Barry asked as he looked around wildly. I grabbed his shoulders and made him look at me. "Ginger?"

"Barry," I said gently. "We're back at the Vanishing Point."

"You've been gone for months," Kara said. 

"What are you-what are you talking about? I just left two seconds ago," Barry said. 

"To go where?" Sara asked. 

"To the Speed Force," I told them. 

"I didn't, we couldn't it was like," Barry said nervously. "It was like running into a mountain at Mach 10. I couldn't..." 

"There's no way out of here," I said in horror. 

And then my husband decided to do what had him missing for three months again. 

"Barry, wait," I ordered, but he just pushed past me. 

"You look spent," Kara said. "You need to rest."

"No. I'm fine," Barry said. "I have to try again. Again."

"Barry, that's a bad idea, okay? The effort alone could kill you," Sara said as the others formed a circle around us. 

"It's better than just staying here," Barry said. 

"We're not gonna let you kill yourself," J'Onn said. 

"Get out of my way!" Barry said angrily. 

"Barry!" I shouted at him. "We're not letting you go anywhere."

"So try and stop me!" Barry shouted back. 

"In the condition you're in, Barry, it's not gonna be that hard," Sara said as my hands glowed. 

"Don't make me," I warned him. 

"Cut it out! Whatever's going to happen is not going to include us turning on each other," Kara said. "Maybe you're right. Maybe the Speed Force is our last, best hope."

"It is," a voice said and we turned to see Oliver Queen, back from the dead.

Kinda. 

"The Speed Force is the key to saving you," Oliver continued. "It's the key to saving everyone."

"Oliver?" I asked. 

"Yes and no," he said. "It's complicated."

"Nice outfit," Ryan said. 

"Heh," Oliver chuckled. 

"Very sith," Ryan added. 

"Oliver?" Sara asked. 

"I am Oliver Queen, but I'm also something more," Oliver said.

"That's not cryptic at all," I said as I crossed my arms. 

"More what?" Barry asked. 

"Some might call me a ghost, a Spectre that's in tune with the entire multiverse," Oliver said. 

"So there's still a multiverse out there?" Kara asked. 

"No," Oliver said. "It's gone, replaced with its antithesis."