Superflash - Hope and Lost Love

Chapter 28 - Recovery

"Barry we need to talk." Clark said, entering Barry's office at CatCo.

"Yeah. Yeah, sit down." Barry said, motioning for Clark to sit down.

"You need to go back in time and save Kara." Clark said.

"I can't." Barry said sadly.

"What? You said time travel was one of your abilities." Clark remembered.

"It is, but I can't go back in time." Barry said.

"Why not?" Clark asked.

"Because time doesn't like being messed with. If I go back in time, however bad you think Kara's death, time will find a way to replace it with something worse. Do you think Kara would want that?" Barry asked.

"I don't think Kara wants to be dead either." Clark said angrily.

"Clark as much as I wish I could, I can't. Do you really think Kara wants us to mess with time? When speedsters mess with time, the speed-force sends time wraiths after them. I'm fine with dying for Kara, but it's what happens after. Jason, Ella and Lois could die. Bad things could happen." Barry said even more angrily, almost shouting.

"Barry, how would Jason, Ella, or Lois die? They have no part in this. You don't want to go back in time, and because of that, Kara's blood is in your hands. You could save her, but you won't. You may as well have been the one that killed Kara." Clark said, before storming out of the office, slamming the door behind him.

Barry thought for a second. It had been days since Kara showed neural activity, and there was no progress being made. Maybe time travel was not such a bad idea?

Barry was lost. He didn't know what to do. One part of him said to screw what the speed-force told him, and go back in time to save her. The other part of him that he knew was correct told him to do what Kara would want him to do and have hope. Have hope that she will get better. 

At Barry's apartment, Kara's brain activity began to go off the charts. Her brain was functioning about as fast as Barry's was when he became a speedster. A warm yellow glow surrounded her, despite the red sun lamps all around the room.

"What the hell?" Barry muttered, speeding into the room.

Barry increased the power of the red sun lamps, but Kara's neural synapses were still functioning at over five times the speed.

"Gaga." Barry muttered, playing 'poker face' from one of the many computers in the room.

Kara then shot up, waking up from her coma with a jolt.

"Who are you?" Kara asked.

"Barry Allen. Your hippocampus is obviously damaged, what is the last thing you remember?" Barry asked.

As Barry mentioned his name, Kara's face seemed to relax a bit.

"I don't remember anything except for one name." Kara said.

"And whose name is that? Alex? James?" Barry asked.

"No, it's your name. Barry." Kara said.

"That makes sense, I was the last person you talked to, and the last words you said before sacrificing yourself were 'see you in Rao's light, Barry' so maybe your memory must've picked up on that because you were scared." Barry said.

"I feel way too energised to listen to anything. I'm in a hospital, so I should have been injured, so why am I so energised?" Kara asked.

"The thing that injured you was a calcified source of your power source, so it makes sense that you feel powered up." Barry responded.

"Okay. How do I burn off the energy?" Kara asked.

"You do something called solar flaring. Kara, you have superpowers over here, and one of them is heat vision. If you use it on this, you should hopefully solar flare." Barry said, holding up a bowl shaped device connected to a lot of wires.

"Got it. How do I shoot this heat vision?" Kara asked.

"I'm not sure. Just focus on my voice, okay?" Barry began, as Kara nodded. "Look at this metal bowl. Now focus on your eyes. Feel the heat in them, and the power you hold. Now channel it and direct it towards this bowl."

Kara did as Barry said, but unlike normally, her heat vision was much more powerful. The metal bowl that Barry had made survived multiple lightning blasts, but Kara was already slowly making a hole in it.

After about 5 minutes of focusing all her power towards the bowl that Barry showed her, the heat vision subsided, and Kara felt a lack of power in her body.

"Wow, 5 minutes 31 seconds. Your cousin's record is 2 minutes, and he collapses after it, yet you only feel tired." Barry said in amazement.

"My cousin? My cousin. K-Ka-Kal? Kal-El, I remember him." Kara said happily, all her memories of Kal-El on krypton and on Earth rushing back to her.

"Wow, this is faster than I expected, do you want to meet everyone else?" Barry asked, thinking this would be a good time to re-introduce Kara back to everyone.

"Yeah. Can I have a heads-up as to who everyone is?" Kara asked.

"Of course." Barry said, smiling.