14.A Fight Against Death Itself..

Kara had gathered everyone together as Erick looked down at his hands, he was scared but he wasn't completely terrified..unlike a certain speedster he knows; unlike his father he knew what to expect from the Black Flash..

He had to ready at any second because even Erick didn't know when he'd be here to kill him, although that's what confused him more; he never altered the timeline for some stupid reason..he only followed Nora through the Speedforce to get to past--son of a bitch..

"Oh you have got to be fucking kidding me..out of all of the reasons!"

Everyone in the house turn their attention to Erick

"I know why the Black Flash is after me.."

Clark:You do? That fast?

"Yeah..I know it's stupid but before I arrived here at this Earth, I was alerted that someone was using the cosmic treadmill"

Lois:That's a thing? Huh..*looks at Clark* ive heard weirder things

Kara:Erick what does the treadmill do?

Kara says pulling everyone back to the situation at hand

"It basically allows a speedster such as myself to run as fast they can to open up a portal within the Speedforce itself and go right through it, and when I arrived to stop this person..I ran after them to stop them but in doing so I went through the Speedforce"

Erick runs his hand through his hair and continues explaining

"My powers come from the negative speedforce, it's like the opposite sides of a coin. So when I went through..it must've detected or sensed me, think of it like when your bathroom is infested with rats; who you call to get rid of them?"

Kara:You call an exterminator..so what your saying is that this Black Flash is the exterminator and your the rat? Essentially the infestation..

"Exactly, it sees me as a threat to the speedforce because we're polar opposites..and now I have the literal Grim Reaper of speedsters coming to kill me by either tearing me apart or just phasing his hand through my chest.."

Erick reaches into his pocket and pulls out the damaged extrapolator as he walks up to Clark

"I don't know what's going to happen but im trusting you to fix this, im sorry I couldn't see your friends"

Clark looks down at damaged extrapolator and nods as he grabs it carefully

Clark:I'll personally give this back to you..you have my word, Erick

Erick gives a grateful nod towards the Man of Tomorrow, and yet this moment is cut short as they all hear it..the screeching cry of the Black Flash

Erick gestures for Clark to go as he instantly grabs Lois and speeds them both out of the house, he could've asked them for help but this was the Black Flash..a speedster like himself. If Clark couldn't keep up with Erick then he couldn't even keep with the Black Flash himself

Erick takes a deep breath as he turns around facing Kara

"You need to get out of here Kara, I know you can handle yourself but this is a whole new level of scary"

Kara:Erick--

But everything just seems to stop..as Erick waves his hand in front of Kara but she's completely frozen in place..no that means time has slowed down

Erick is suddenly grabbed by a red streak of lightning as he is thrown out of the house and crashes into a nearby fence post, he groans in pain as he gets back up and dusts himself off

That's when he sees it..he sees his decayed torn face, his black suit..he sees the Black Flash in the flesh sniff the air as he turns around and roars at Erick

Erick takes a step back as he comments

"Damn..your one ugly mother fucker.."

Erick is suddenly hit with an uppercut as he goes flying a bit off the ground as the Black Flash grabs him by the leg and slams him back down onto the ground, he grabs Erick by the shirt and phases his hand right at his heart but Erick doesn't give in that easily as he charges up his fist with lightning and blasts the Black Flash as he yells out in pain

"I was afraid of you before because of what you could do to me..but ive changed my mind"

Erick's hand sparks with red and black lightning as his suit forms around him as the Black Flash growls at him

Red Death stands tall and ready against the Black Flash, his once scared expression was soon changed into a courageous one

"

He gets into a fighting pose as his body sparks with lightning

"

The two speedsters charge at each other as there's an explosion of negative and positive energy, the two titans clash in the middle as they begin to fight it out; Red Death claps his hands together sending a wave of lightning at the Black Flash as he ducks and dodges around it, he grabs Red Death by the head and brings it down as Red Death is hit with a hard knee to the face

He stumbles back a bit but he quickly pulls himself together as his fist light up with lightning, but instead of throwing lightning he gathers it up more and more; the Black Flash sees an opening to attack his opponent as he practically lunges towards Red Death but underneath his helmet he smirks as he erupts with lightning

The force of the blast is so hard it sends Black Flash flying back and through the house as he lands inside of a small red barn, Red Death appears in front of him  and grabs the Black Flash, he grabs a nearby crowbar and hits him across the face with it. He tries again only for the Black Flash to catch it with one hand as the crowbar quickly turns to rusted metal causing Red Death to drop it

Black Flash pins Red Death against the wooden wall and begins to just punch him repeatedly again and again, he grabs Red Death's mask and rips it off like it's nothing as his claws pierce through his suit as Erick yells out in pain which makes the Black Flash use his other hand to electrocute Erick in the face; the immense jolts of electricity become unbearable to even Erick as the Black Flash reels back his fist and punches Erick so hard he goes through the wooden wall and comes out flying the other end as he is grabbed by the back of the head and slammed face first into the ground

Black Flash turns Erick around and puts his demonic hands around his throat as he begins to squeeze the air out of his lungs, and yet to his surprise Erick keeps fighting against him, refusing to give up against the Black Flash

"I'm..not afraid of you..!..so do your fucking worse!!"

Erick's eyes begin to spark immensely with lightning as the Black Flash hands are slowly pulled away from Erick's throat, he yells out as the clouds around them begin to darken as a literal bolt of lightning shoots out from above and strikes the Black Flash as he tries to run away but Erick doesn't let him go that easily

He pushes through the pain, he pushes through the anger of himself, he pushes through every single moment of doubt he's ever had as his red and black lightning slowly begins to change into a white and orange before the Black Flash could even get a chance to react he is blasted away by Erick

As the clouds turn back to normal..the Black Flash could sense something..something powerful, something unlike he's ever felt before; the power he could feel radiating was unfathomable as the dust where Erick once stood became clear to the Grim Reaper of speedsters..

Standing in front of him, he could finally see the source of that power..and it was none other Erick Thawne..his suit had changed, his lightning had changed..instead of the usual red and black lightning..it was now a white lightning

The symbol on his chest had changed to a light blue, his suit looked almost futuristic..as the lightning coursing through his body, Erick looked down at his hands; he could feel the power inside of him growing..

He wasn't Erick Thawne or Red Death..he was something else entirely..

Erick's eyes slowly look up at the Black Flash as he stares him down and simply says..

"' .. ?"

Yeah..shit was about to get real, but not just for himself no no..but for the Black Flash as well, as he held out his hand as  a breach opened up behind the Black Flash as he was suddenly tackled inside of it by Erick himself..