Veins. /Stargirl

1.

"Uncle Max, I'm home!"

Blair slammed the front door and made my way to the kitchen. There was no reply, she assumed he was in the lab. Opening the fridge Blair grabbed a left over piece of pizza, a tray of homemade dumplings, a can of cream cheese, crackers and a jar of grekins.

"How can you eat all of that together?" A smile formed at her lips as heard Max's voice from behind. "Uh, this is normal." She answered in a 'duh' tone. "Uh, no it's not." He mocked, saying the last word in an high pitched girl voice.

"I'm hungry!" The young girl playfully glared at her uncle. "You're always hungry kid. It was seriously a pain in my ass raising you." Max laughed.

"How does one eat more than she excretes?" Blair burst into laughter at the question.

"Anyway, how was your day kid?" The question was supposed to be a normal lighthearted question, but the minute she heard the word 'school' a frown grew on her face.

"I hate it there Max." The topic saddened her and Max knew that. "They just hear the name 'Mercury' and go insane. No one likes me for me, they like me for you."

Max sighed. He knew it was difficult for her. She always felt like she was going through life like someone she wasn't supposed to be. The name 'Mercury' echoed throughout the void that is her conscience.

"Can't I change my name back to Garrick?" Max jolted up. "No." He immediately answered.

It went silent as tension filled the air. Blair loved Max so much. He was like a father to her, but he would never understand the pain of lying about who you are, hiding a piece of yourself away just so that a couple of bad guys don't come looking.

"It's too dangerous Barry." The nickname brought back all her fond memories. Her father told her the reason he called her Barry was because it was the name of the man who saved him, one of the best people he knew. She never knew what this 'Barry' guy did for her father, but she loved the nickname, it was one of the only ways she could remember her parents.

"I'm gonna be down in the lab, I just need to run." Max frowned as her retreating form, all the food still in her hands.

She stopped infront the keypad at the entrance to Mercury labs. Blair was about to lift her hand to punch in the code when she realized her hands were currently occupied.

Trying multiple ways to punch in the code without setting the food down she finally huffed in defeat, phasing herself and the food through the door.

It was lazy, but efficient.

Within seconds all the food was devoured, she really was hungry.

"Gideon, play thunderstruck by AC/DC." The AI's virtual head appeared. "As you wish Miss Garrick."

The beat of a familiar song began to play, echoing throughout the lab as Blair stretched her legs.

Unknowing to her, Max stood in the statics booth observing her speed.

"Thunder." Blair zoomed off, leaving behind a sonic boom as ran. Max stared at her charts, in awe. She was going faster than she has ever went before, she broke her record, getting extremely close to her fathers fastest time.

But suddenly, the computer went haywire, beeping in warning. "She's going to fast." Max muttered to himself. "She going to push herself into the timestream." He quickly grabbed the intercom mic and held it to his lips. "Barry slow down!"

She couldn't hear him, the only sound entering her ears was the beating of her heart. "Barry..." Max's calls were drowned out by the sheer determination and focus Blair was showing.

Suddenly her surroundings began to change, unbeknownst to Blair. "Barry!" She finally heard, but it was too late, she tripped over her foot, her focus lost, and went flying into the timestream.

The portal spat her out the other end, making her fall to the ground with a thud, groaning in pain.

"Where the hell am I?" Blair asked dusting herself off. She heard grunts in the far distance and decided to walk toward it.

Blair was spat out behind a building, she didn't recognize, in fact nothing she saw looked familiar. She was no longer in Central City.

"Not bad kid." Blair turned a corner only to find a group of people fighting in costumes that brought back memories to her. She quickly hid herself behind the wall, pressing her back against it.

"Was that-" She poked her head out from behind the wall to get a better look. Blair saw a familiar glowing staff and smiled brightly. "The cosmic staff."

Excitement overwhelmed Blair. 'The staff found another owner', She almost jumped for joy at the thought... Then she saw who they were fighting.

Sportsmaster and Tigress.

Anger filled her blood as she looked at the ISA members, she's been trying to find for years. About to reveal herself from behind the wall, Blair saw a streak of white, blueish lighting zoom past her.

The lightning ran straight into both Sportsmaster and Tigress, knocking them both off their feet and into a car.

The speedster was vibrating his/her molecular structure so that he/she was not visible.

"Who the hell are you?" Tigress hissed. The speedster didn't answer and just ran up to them, delivering multiple punches, Tigress and Sportsmaster couldn't stop.

The team that fought the two before he/her starred at the fight in confusion and awe.

The unknown speedster brought the two to their knees with one final punch, hovering over them.

"I am the daughter of the Flash and I want Justice." Blair gasped, in shock. The speedster was her.

Sportsmaster stood up pulling Tigress with him. A giant robot appeared behind the team of Heroes. It of course intimated both Sportsmaster and Tigress.

"Time to go." He smirked hitting a shuttlecock toward them. Once it hit the ground smoke began to cloud their vision. When the smoke disappeared Tigress and Sportsmaster were gone.

Future Blair cursed under her breath and turned to the team who looked at her in question. Pat instantly knew who she was.

"Little Care Bare?" Both Blair's cringed at the old nickname. "Hi Uncle Pat." Blair stopped vibrating and revealed a beautiful red suit with a lightning bolt on her chest. Present Blair gawked at it in awe.

"What are you doing in Blue Valley?" Blair's eyebrows shot up. 'So that's were they are.', Present Blair smirked and began walking away. In the distance she saw a newspaper on the ground.

It was bound to have the date on it. Blair stuffed it into her pocket and began running. She had to run fast, really fast to get herself back to the present.

She ran and she ran until finally blue energy began to form around her, she went into awe as she ran past her memories of her life, her parents.

'Could I save them?', She questioned. With this new found ability to travel through time could she save family? It would be abusing her powers and she knew that, deciding against it with tears in her eyes.

"Barry!" Max yelled running up to her as she crash landed back in the present. "Are you okay?" Blair nodded groaning in pain. "Where did you go?" Max questioned, extending a hand out to Blair. She took it dusting herself off.

"Blue Valley, Nebraska. Two months from now." Max knit his eyebrows together in confusion. "Nebraska?" He questioned. "The ISA's there." Max went quiet.

"I need to go to Blue Valley." Before Blair could walk away Max grabbed her wrist. "No." He said sternly. "What?" Blair questioned. "They murdered my parents, of course I'm going." She ripped her wrist out of  his hand.

"Your mother asked me to protect you and keep you away from danger. You're not going." Max followed her as she began walking toward the keypad.

"I'm going and you can't stop me." She phased through the door.

"Shit."