96This is a Flash fic I wanted to do for a while.
Nora's actions of changing the past 52 times have led to more damage to the timeline than Team Flash believes and find out Nora isn't the only member of the Allen family tree to have to inherit Barry's powers.
"Normal dialogue".
'Thoughts'.
"Cisco sees a vibe".
'Texting/Messages'.
Side note this is NOT for West-Allen fans.
I am not a fan of what the show did to both characters, I have nothing against either Grant Gustin or Candace Patton as actors.
I just find the relationship to be VERY toxic and unhealthy and I am using Nora's actions of changing the past 52 times to result in people being a bit more obvious to their relationship and begin questioning it, as well as Iris' character over the future chapters.
But I plan on doing so, at a slow pace as everyone is still coming to terms with the timeline changes and the changes will be seen in later chapters.
Before any West-Allen fans begin attacking me and calling me a racist white boy or crap like that.
I want to add, I am not white for I am Aboriginal and I have nothing against African-Americans.
So anyway here is the story.
Star Labs.
It was twenty-four hours since Nora's actions of changing the past 52 times have passed.
No one knew how major or little the timeline is now because of said actions, Cisco and Sherloque Wells are still looking through the records to see if anything else has changed and they've been in Star Labs for the past several hours straight.
Ralph arrived a few hours before 'refuel' the duo by bringing in food and drinks from Big Belly Burger for Cisco and some Jitters for Sherloque Wells.
Caitlin showed up an hour before check her office and on Cisco for he hasn't been at his place almost all day and was worried for her friend.
Nora and Iris showed up fifteen minutes ago, Iris didn't see the point on checking on the files and just move on from it, unaware it took Cisco every ounce of willpower he had to not yell at his best friend's wife.
Nora on the other hand is still drenched with guilt on what she did, granted she had a good reason on why she did it, but her actions further proved most of Team Flash's point on still being too inexperienced and reckless.
Barry did talk with his daughter not long after Nora came clean about changing the past 52 times, he lectured her about his time in Flashpoint, how she could have told the team sooner so she didn't have to change the past that many times.
It led to a fight with Iris not long later after Nora left in tears, mother and daughter have not seen Barry since that argument as he stayed in Star Labs that night and no one saw him when they came in.
Barry does eventually show up, kissing Iris on the cheek who didn't return the gesture, things between him and Nora were still complicated for the time being.
Deciding to ignore it for now and see the difference in the timeline.
"I went to see Felicity and see if any differences happened in Star City. Nothing major changed other than Felicity now having a cousin," informing them of his sudden absence and turning to Cisco.
"Any difference to the timeline Cisco," Barry asked his friend Cisco, who was on the computer with Sherloque Wells, the former is when browsing through the city map and the latter is searching through files.
"So far nothing too major of the timeline changed, it's just minor changes like some people have different names and a small few are opposite genders. My powers are fully back, must be a side effect of the timeline constant changing in such a short amount of time." Cisco answers his best friend who seemed happy for his friend getting his powers back.
However, Barry looked at the records Cisco had on the big screen of the cortex and let out a groan.
"I shouldn't have been the one to test the cure," Barry muttered under his breath, causing Iris to look insulted at him.
"Barry what's the big deal, it's not like Nora did anything that bad," she says to him rather harshly.
"She changed the past 52 times Iris! Changing the past that many times should have led to time wraiths to come after her or us!" defending his reasoning on being on the edge.
"As Cisco said, it's only small changes and nothing too major. Nora had a justifiable reason for doing what she did." defending Nora and not seeing the wrong their time travelling daughter has done.
"Might be small changes, but what if, it changed her future when she goes back." Barry being logical and making Caitlin stand up and defend her friend.
"Barry's right, we don't know if Nora's future is changed as a result, she is lucky her actions didn't lead to her accidentally erasing herself out of existence," Caitlin adds to the conversation, taking her friend's side.
This made Barry smile seeing his friend stuck by him, this made Nora feel like a small child for hearing her parents bicker.
"Caitlin's right, Nora should head to the future and see if it changed or not." Barry deciding to make a decision that sounds reasonable.
"I don't want to have this discussion anymore Barry, I am not going to send our daughter to go to a future where she might even exist anymore and get erased." Iris demanding her husband.
"This conversation is over," Iris adds, before brushing her arm off at him and walking away in anger out of Star Labs.
Barry took a deep breath and stood there, Nora looked conflicted before she can say anything, her father spoke up.
"You should have come to me when you first travelled back in time against Cicada." his tone was both harsh and disappointing towards Nora, causing the poor girl to put her head down in shame.
Meanwhile, Cisco and Ralph saw the whole Barry/Iris debate and turned to one another, leading to the latter to look down on his phone and begin texting the former.
'Was she ALWAYS like this?'- Ralph.
'She is somehow worse than I remember.'- Cisco.
'An unfortunate side effect.'- Ralph.
'I still don't see what Barry see's in her.'- Cisco.
Ralph was eye widen in the response to Cisco's text and thought to himself.
'What if Nora's time changing resulted in everyone's personalities being a tad different.'
Keeping the thought in and decided to walk up to Barry deciding to cheer up the speedster.
"You call the shots Barry, it's Team Flash, not Team Iris." doing his best to assure his friend after Barry's heated argument with Iris making him smile briefly.
"Thanks, Ralph." patting his back in the process, Ralph looks rather happy to see he somewhat cheered up his friend.
Until the moment was short-lived when the Star Labs alarm started going off, making everyone face the security camera.
"That's a breach," Caitlin says to everyone.
"Whoever it is. Is coming in fast." Cisco adds to Caitlin's comment, making the team worry about whoever it is.
"Cisco, can you slow it down?" Barry asks his friend if he can use his returned powers on giving the upcoming breacher a better landing, regardless if it is friend or foe.
"Yeah man, I can do it. Cait' I need you to be my timer when he or she gets here." Caitlin gives her a friend a simple nod and turns into Frost.
"Caity is going to take a backseat on this one," Frost adds with her arms ready on whoever comes out.
The breach opens in front of their eyes, Cisco rose his hand to begin using his abilities.
Cisco opens his breach just in the nick of time when the breacher comes out and at such speed.
The speedster runs straight into Cisco's breach, resulting in a strong breeze of wind flowing by.
Barry and Nora, however, were able to get a better look at the breacher.
"It's another speedster," Barry answers for everyone, everyone was giving a stunning look given their history of speedsters.
"Oh great, another speedster," Cisco said in shock and of annoyance.
"Who knows, maybe he isn't a bad guy?" Ralph adds, trying to be optimistic.
A loud thud can be heard making everyone turn to Cisco.
"Where did you send him Cisco?" Barry asks facing his best friend.
"Couldn't think right away, so I breached him to the training room." Cisco answers back to his best friend.
Before anyone can say anything, they can hear the speedster let out a yell.
"Son of a bitch!" the breacher/speedster yelling out in pain and rage.
"At least we know it's a guy." Ralph spoke to the group with Cisco giving him a 'not helping' expression.
The team turn to the main hallway waiting for the speedster, while Barry and Frost stood in front of the others.
The speedster is seen limping to the main hall, his right hand using the wall to keep balance and blood is dripping onto the floor.
"Oh frack," Cisco says before running to the speedster's direction after seeing his condition.
"You alright Mr..." stopping himself once he got a closer look at him.
He was dressed in a nearly identical Flash suit as Barry's with a handful of differences, such as the boots are yellow, the suit has a tight like fabric look to it, the lightning bolt on his chest is designed within the suit and not added on.
As well as the yellow lightning bolt accents are around the suit that seems to have faded away after he stopped using his powers.
Something Cisco is planning to discuss with the speedster later on.
Everyone can see how damaged the speedster looks, his suit is badly damaged, certain areas have cuts and scrapes around it, the right side of his mouth is dripping blood, left side of his face is swelled from a bruise.
But it was the wound on his thigh that made everyone cringe, whoever did this to him held no mercy and somehow had the strength in him to run back in time.
"Let me help you." Cisco offers his hand out to him for help, the speedster quickly accepted the help.
"Thanks," the speedster tells Cisco who smiles at the figure, but not before Cisco accidentally gets a vibe from the speedster's mind.
The things Cisco witnessed in the vibe.
The first thing Cisco saw in the vibe is the speedster in his youth, dressed in a Kid Flash-like suit, with goggles above his head, running from something or to someone and looking serious before donning the goggles.
The second vibe Cisco saw is the speedster, a year or two older than the previous vibe, wearing a modified suit and running in a blizzard with earlier goggles on his face once again and carrying some bag on his back.
The third vibe Cisco can see, is the speedster now older, dressed in what he believes is an older suit that looked more like Barry's current suit with a cowl matching the fabric of the rest of the suit. He is up against a meta-human with a sci-fi type gun and began firing at him, only for the speedster to easily evade the shots, running around the man and knocking him out with a swift right hook.
The fourth vibe Cisco gets is the speedster running like never before what looked like some alien-robot/human hybrid and the last hit reverts back into a naked old bald man.
Fifth vibe Cisco saw is one where the speedster is up against a sinister speedster, the evil speedster looked like some twisted love-child of Savitar and the Reverse-Flash, with black metal armour and violet-red lightning with a sinister laugh Cisco won't be forgetting anytime soon.
The sixth vibe was the battle-worn speedster against Thawne who began beating the hell out of him, the environment around them was in rubble, resulting in Thawne grabbing a broken rebar rod from the rubble and driving it into the speedster's leg, the speedster cried out in pain before pulling it out and ran after his foe.
The seventh vibe showed Cisco the aftermath of the battle, standing next to what appeared to be an older Batman with some white wave coming towards them, destroying everything in its path, Cisco saw several dead bodies of heroes and believed one of the dead was an older Kara.
The final vibe was the speedster who was clearly in severe pain, tempts to run away from the wave, while preparing to run, the older Batman begins communicating to him through their com-links says something that freaks Cisco out.
"Someone changed the past in Thawne's favour...find out who it is Flash and save the future...Run!".
Final vibe Cisco saw the speedster is finally able to fight through the pain and began running fast enough to enter the speed force with every strength left in him. Just when the timeline was completely erased mere seconds behind
"Cisco. Cisco." Barry calls out to Cisco
Cisco finally let go of the speedster who was looking at him and yelling in terror from the aftermath of what he saw.
The 'Future Flash' was giving Cisco a 'what did you do' expression on his face.
"Looks like my powers are not as strong they were." Cisco trying to apologize to the injured speedster who brushes it off.
The speedster just brushes it off, hinting it might not have been the first time it has happened to him.
"I'm guessing you went into my head without me knowing or some crap." the injured speedster shrugging it off and somewhat impressed in his gruff voice.
"He's not a bad speedster Barry. Thawne did this to him." Cisco said to his best friend and pointing to the injured speedster.
Doing his best to call off Barry and Nora from attacking the injured speedster.
Leading Frost to revert into Caitlin after Cisco vouched for the speedster.
Who quickly began offering to help Cisco with the injured speedster.
"I'll take him to the infirmary, Ralph wanna give me a hand." Caitlin speaking to Ralph who quickly agreed.
"No problem Caitlin." Ralph grabs the speedster on his right side and is shocked to see how badly injured the speedster is in by his leg alone.
"What the hell happened to you?" Ralph asking the speedster upon glancing at the gaping wound on the man's leg.
"Thawne drove a damn rebar rod into it." the speedster responds to Ralph's question, Caitlin just looked mortified at the answer.
"Are you from 2049?" Caitlin decides to ask the speedster a few questions.
"Yeah, how did you know?" he retorts back to her in a kind tone, Ralph and Caitlin can tell the man was in a lot of pain from his eyes.
"You are not the only speedster from 2049 here," Ralph answers for Caitlin, pointing to Nora, who awkwardly waves at the man.
"Nora West-Allen?" the man glared at her with a look that could kill.
"Yes," Nora answers back honestly but was hesitant about it.
"That would explain the damn mess in the timeline, way to go for nearly tearing the space-time continuum apart," he answers back in a cold as ice tone towards her, the insult clearly hurt her and yet Ralph couldn't help but notice the last part.
"Wait you two know one another?" Ralph asks around the room, Barry looks at Nora than back to the speedster.
"I never saw him before in my life." Nora quickly shaking her head, while the speedster spat out blood in response.
"Bullshit, we met six months ago, right after I helped YOU takedown Godspeed and saved your ungrateful ass," he answers back after asking Caitlin and Ralph to sit him down.
"But we never met before, I'm honest." Nora pleading to the team, however, Sherloque studied both speedsters and figures it out.
"I got it," Sherloque says aloud to the cortex, gathering their attention.
"Because of young Nora changing the past fifty-two times. While her actions led to some minor changes to the past and the changes allowed our new speedster to appear." He said to the group while staring at the injured speedster.
"Only possible reason for him to truly remember a possible encounter with young Nora here; is perhaps of a side effect of the time change. For she was here and he was not, therefore he has memories of that future and she does not." Sherloque figuring it out right away.
The team stood there, debating on what to do, but the speedster finally noticed Barry and froze dead in his tracks upon the brief moment of contact, Barry noticed this.
"You okay?" once Barry saw how tensed up the man was whenever he was looking at him and for close he was to the injured future speedster.
"This day just more awkward." the 'Future Flash' mutters to himself and of the group, making Caitlin raise a brow.
"So you are the Flash in your future?" Barry asks finally looking at the damaged suit his successor was wearing.
"I'm the Flash of Keystone City, never stepped foot in Central City in since I was 13 before I had to save Nora from Godspeed." he retorts back to Barry, looking rather uncomfortable to speak to him.
However Sherloque could tell the future Flash wasn't telling the entire truth to them, but he figures it is for personal reasons given his expression towards Barry.
"How did you get your speed powers?" Barry asking the speedster, however, Sherloque began looking back and forth between Barry and the Future Flash and his eyes widen.
"Allen, I have figured it out." Sherloque points back at Barry than to the future Flash.
"Speedster dressed in a Flash identical to yours. Well somewhat identical." Sherloque steps in while noticing some similarities between the two suits.
His eyes shifting back and forth between the two speedsters, looking at them both and his eyes widen with fascination.
"Let's see, same jawline, same cheekbones AND same height as yourself Mr. Allen," Sherloque said to the room.
The group was confused at his words.
Ralph on the other quickly noticed some similarities between the two speedsters.
"I think I know what he's going to say, but I don't wanna jinx it yet," Ralph adds allowing Sherloque to continue who nods at him.
"So it is possible Mr. Allen, this speedster is perhaps your son from this new or now formerly future timeline. Meaning he must be born before the events of your vanishing in the future.".
The room was in silence at the answer, however, Cisco and Caitlin soon begin looking back and forth at the two speedsters.
Caitlin and Cisco can see the resemblance between the two speedsters.
"Oh frack Sherloque's right," Cisco says out loud to the group finally understanding the vibes he saw.
Grabbing the speedster's cowl and removes it from the man's head, the now son of Barry Allen didn't try and fight it or is too tired to fight back.
Once the cowl is gone, the team finally get a proper look at the man, he is roughly in his 30's, making the future speedster not much older than Barry.
Noticing the left side of his face is still bruised and bloodied from his fight with Thawne.
Caitlin stares at the man's short red-brown hair and his green eyes.
Once Barry makes proper eye contact at the man who is now his son, seeing the hair and eye colour.
He couldn't help but think of his late mother Nora Allen and his son's build reminds him of his late father Henry Allen.
"You have my mom's colouring," Barry said rather calmly, but there was a hint of sadness in his voice as well.
Barry's son simply nods at the comment, smiling softly back at his father.
"That's what the son of a bitch said too." Barry's future son adds to the comment, leaving Nora confused.
"Thawne killed grandmother." the future Flash bluntly tells Nora.
"I already knew that...dad told me a while ago." Nora nervously answers, able to see and hear the hatred of Thawne in her brother's voice.
Given some of his other features, Barry takes a deep breath and faces his son.
"Iris isn't your mother is she." Barry knew the answer but wanted to hear it from his son's voice.
Team Flash saw the son of Barry laugh in the response to the answer.
"Thank the speed force she isn't." The son quickly responds shaking his head at the comment.
Nora felt insulted at his words, given her newfound brother seems relieved at Iris not being his mother.
"What is your name?" Barry now wanting to know who is his son's mother.
Instead, his son looked debated on telling him, looking at his father dead in the eyes and says his name.
"My name is Henry Joseph Spivot-Allen.".
The End of Chapter 1.
Any of you are wondering, Henry, is an amalgamation of OG Wally West and Don Allen with a bit of comic book Barry added.
If any of you guys are wondering why some of Cisco's vibes seem familiar.
I added some elements of both the Young Justice animated series and Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox movie as references and easter eggs.