Chapter 10: The Red Death
Light...
Darkness...
Life...
Death...
"Different words but similar meanings, but between those different variables exist an aberration... a force between those two. Within the Multiverse exist danger of all different types of variables."
"I was born from blood, speed, and Dark Matter. I come from that force between the two variables. I come from darkness."
"I am from beyond that of death and life. I... am.... Red Death."
Red Death was now standing in the center of the room with the heroes looking at the new speedster who had eyes only on Piranha and Flash.
"Now it's I finish this once... and for all!" Red Death said as he charges at the two but is stopped by a green energy field created by Freddy.
"I... can't... hold... it!" Freddy said struggling to keep the barrier up. Oliver turns to Barry and Piranha.
"Flash and Piranha, get out of here, RIGHT NOW!" Oliver shouts. Barry and Piranha then speed off.
Red Death sees them and creates a bigger shockwave, knocking them all way. Princess was terrified of Red Death. Shark hugs her tightly.
"You fools! You can't stop me from getting my prey! You couldn't in the future, and you can't stop me now!" Red Death said as he sped off creating a sonic boom. Wolf, Snake, Shark, but mostly Webs looked worried about Piranha this new speedster that appears to have an axe to grind with Piranha.
In the streets of L.A became a war zone of Flash, Piranha, and Red Death fighting each other. Yellow and green lightning running away from red and black lightning streaks appeared on the streets. Red Death caught up to them and began to throw them across the street. Red Death then threw black lightning Batarangs at the two, pinning them against a wall.
"Who are you?" Barry asked struggling to break free.
"I am Red Death. I don't have a human name because I'm not human." Red Death said as he removed his helmet revealing his horrifying face. A black monstrous face with blood red eyes with sharp teeth. He then puts his helmet back on and glares at them.
"What do you want with us?" Piranha asked.
"Your death, Pepe. Mostly you. Not Barry Allen." Red Death said. This surprised Barry hearing his real name from this death monster.
"How do you know my name?" Barry asked.
"I'm from the future. From the time you and my rival almost ended my life, I managed to escape to the past to finally end you, Piranha." Red Death said.
"I'm your rival? Why? What did I do to you?" Piranha asked. As he does, he begins to break free.
"Very well then. Allow me to give you a story of the future. Around 2047 in the future is where you Flash and the Bad Guys fight Ramsey Rosso aka Bloodwork from escaping and trying to infect the world with his "cure" but you managed to stop him. In the end... you saved the day. But in the battle, his blood was left behind mixing with yours and Flash's Speed Force and Dark Matter. The combination gave me life, created this form. Made me a force of death." Red Death explained.
Piranha and Barry were surprised to hear this about the future. How their fight created a being of death.
"After I was born, I have one goal: destroy life. So I began my mission to destroy all life, but of course... you heroes had to stop me. So we fought, mostly you speedsters. But you Piranha, you were the one who always taunted me and made me a joke to the public. People were supposed to fear me and instead they laughed at me. And that made my blood boil to burning rage. So we fought again, and again, and again, and again. We started to hate each other with a passion. Like how Barry is with Thawne. But no matter how many times we fought, I couldn't beat you. So I decided to try a different tactic. I went after your family to kill them, but you speedsters managed to stop me." Red Death explained more. Hearing that he tried to kill family made Piranha mad.
"Until finally in 2049, it was our last and final fight. You saw you couldn't beat me alone even with Flash. So you called in some help. All of your speedster friends even Godspeed and Thawne helped. So we fought to a war zone here in LA. I was close to winning, until your S.T.A.R. Labs friends found a way to kill me. As they did, you, Flash, Stormwolf, and began to take my speed away like you did Thawne, Barry. But as I'm close to being destroyed, I summoned every last amount of the Speed Force inside me and escaped to the past. And now that I'm here, I'll finish what I started!" Red Death said as he creates daggers of lightning to finish them off, but before he could... a streak of blue lightning grabs both Piranha and Flash away. It was Stormwolf. Red Death saw this and decided to let them go this time.
"Go ahead, Piranha and Flash! Run Run Run! That's what you do best! It won't save you this time!" Red Death said. He roars as he takes off leaving a trail of red and black lightning.
The Bad Guys Mansion
The heroes were now at the Bad Guys home. Pepe and Barry were now being treated from their fight with Red Death.
"How are you doing babe?" Webs asked Piranha.
"I'm doing okay." Piranha said rubbing his arms.
"Okay... so would one of you guys explain what the hell that was." Snake asked.
"A dangerous speedster. It's not human at all. It calls itself Red Death." Barry said.
Hearing the name sent a chill down everyone's spine. They all saw how it mercilessly killed Thomas, so they know this monster will show no mercy at it's enemies. Wolf saw how Princess was shocked to see him kill her father. Sure she didn't love him, but he was still her birth father.
"So now what do we do about it?" Wolf asked.
"We don't know, but he seems to hate Piranha the most." Barry said.
"Why?" Shark asked.
"It appears in the future, Red Death was born from a fight of us fighting Bloodwork. Piranha humiliated him and became his rival in the future and began to hated each other with a passion." Barry explained.
The Bad Guys were surprised to hear this. That Piranha has a nemesis in the future.
"So what, he's from the future?" Kara asked.
"He is, 2049 to be exact." Piranha said.
"Whoa, that's a long time away from now." Snake said.
"He did say that we couldn't stop him in the future so I guess now it makes sense." Wolf said.
"Indeed. He found a way to get back here and wants to finish off Piranha." Barry said.
"Yeah, well... we're not letting that happen." Webs said.
"Okay... but how do we defeat this death speedster?" Diane asked. Suddenly Barry remembered what Red Death said to them.
"Red Death did say that in the future we find a way to kill him. So we just need to figure out how we did it." Barry said.
"Okay, but how can we know how we did it?" Frost asked. Barry then looks at Cade and knew what to do.
"Cade, you're the key." He said.
"Wait, what?" Cade said.
"We need you to show us the future, Cade." Barry said.
In the living room, Cade had placed candles and drew a hourglass symbol on the floor with chalk. Sitting in the circle was Barry, Piranha, Wolf, Snake, Cisco, Webs, and Shark.
"Are you sure this is going to work?" Shark asked.
"Certainly, I mean I've only done this 3 times. That was a long time ago." Cade said as he finished lighting up the last candle.
"Well, that's great to hear." Snake said sarcastically. Cade then sat down with them.
"Okay... now what?" Wolf asked.
"Now we hold hands as I focus on seeing into the future. With us connected, I should be able to get you to see it with me." Cade said.
They hold hands as Cade began to use his powers to look into the future. Green, blue, red, and yellow energy begins to crackle all around. Cade's eyes and third eye on his forehead glow as they began to look into the future.
"Focus on the future. Try to focus on Red Death and our final fight against him in that time, 2049." Cade Yeager said. They all focused on that moment and soon saw how it played out. They saw the speedsters and the Bad Guys surrounding Red Death.
"Remember the plan, Chester and Cisco recalibrated the suits to take away his speed by hitting him with continuous lightning." Lobo Commando said.
"You guys ready with the gun?" Barry asked through comms.
"We're ready, pal." Wolf said the comms. Red Death gets up and growls at them.
"It that all you got? How pathetic, you really think you can stop me?" Red Death taunted.
"Not alone, together, NOW!!!" Piranha shouts.
Suddenly, Wolf, Snake, Shark, Webs, and Vibe popped out of a breach. In Cisco's hand was a small gun called the Photon Emitter. A weapon that can deliver megadoses of photon radiation, the same kind of radiation typically administered to cancer patients since Red Death was created from Ramsey's sentient infection combined with negative Speed Force and positive Speed Force. Snake then froze Red Death in place with his psychic power.
"Got him! Now's your chance!" Snake said.
Cisco then fired the gun at Red Death with Wolf's Sonic Howl combined in the blast. Red Death started roaring in pain from the blasts.
"Feel the burn, Death Bag!" Vibe shouts as he continues to blast him with Wolf.
"Now!" Flash yells as Flash, Piranha, Lobo, Fast Track unleashed their lightning on him. Red Death roars and screams in pain as the blasts started to kill him. His body started to crack. He then started to flicker as he then finally fades away and explodes, sending a huge shockwave across city.
They then snapped out of the vision. They saw how to defeat Red Death.
"That's how we defeat him. With the Photon Emitter and stripping Red Death of his speed." Barry said.
"I still have the parts of the emitter. I think we can fix it." Cisco said as he got up and opened a breach to S.T.A.R. Labs to get it.
"And I can recalibrate your suits to extract Red Death's speed." Chester said as he got to work on his iTab.
"I'll help." Webs said as she joins him.
"Okay, but how are going to prevent him from time traveling again?" Snake asked.
"We'll slap some meta-dampening cuffs on him so he can't use his speed." Piranha said.
"Good thinking. With any luck, will be able to take Red Death down." Barry said.
Downtown in the city, Red Death grabs a bunch of people to the streets, girlfriends, boyfriends, and families all in fear. He also grabbed a cameraman. He grabs one boy teenager by the hair looking at the camera.
"Record this!" He yells at the cameraman who quickly obeys.
"Flash and Piranha Flash! You have one minute! After that, someone dies every 60 seconds until you come down here and fight me! If any other hero comes, everyone will die here!" Red Death said to the cameraman.
All the heroes were watching this at the underground base in the Bad Guys' mansion. They saw this and knew they must act fast. Barry and Piranha began to head off but were stopped by the Bad Guys.
"We have to stop him!" Piranha said as he and Barry grab their Flash rings.
"Barry, Pepe! Wait! You guys can't to do this!" Snake said.
"We have to or innocent people will die." Barry said.
"Look, I know you want to do this, but you guys can't do this alone, okay? We need to call for more help with this—" Webs started but Piranha cuts her off with a kiss.
"Red Death is my responsibility. He's after me. I have to face him." Piranha said.
"Piranha, you don't——" Wolf started.
"I can do this with Barry." Piranha said.
"Cisco how are we with that Photon Emitter?" Barry asked.
"We just need a few more minutes to complete it." Cisco said as he, Cade, and Ray work on the gun.
"And I'm almost done recalibrating your suits so you can take away Red Death's Speed." Chester said.
"We'll hold him off long enough so you can finish." Piranha said. He then kissed Webs and his kids and sped off with Barry. The battle of life vs death has begun.
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