"Where is Barry?" Oliver demanded as he and Felicity stormed into STAR lab, before his heart sank when he sensed the sadness and tension in the cortex.

"What happened?" Felicity hurried to where Cisco was slumped over his desk. She rubbed his shoulders when she noticed them shaking minutely.

"We saw Barry, he saved us on Lian Yu but the way he talked and then disappeared into a breach…" Felicity spoke softly, wincing when Iris let out a half gasp, half sob as Wally gathered her into his arms looking pained.

"He's gone." Cisco whispered.

"What do you mean Cisco? He's Barry, how can he be gone?" Felicity asked, heartbreak seeping into her voice while Oliver felt the need to slump against the nearby wall.

"Whoa! That's a rush." A female voice called out as a breach opened up in the middle of the cortex and Kara Danvers in her Supergirl outfit landed on the ground.

"Supergirl." Cisco breathed out before his face fell when he spotted the desperate look on Kara's face as she looked around.

"You're here about Barry too aren't you?"

"He was acting really weird when he visited me, like really weird." Kara waved her hands as she spoke. "Then he just disappeared into a breach and said something about a finish line?"

"He mentioned a finish line to us as well." Oliver spoke quietly.

Iris let out a loud sob and fled from the room, her engagement ring flashing in the light of the cortex, Wally gave a pained look at the others before hurrying after her.

"A lot happened, you guys know about Savitar right?" Cisco spoke quietly, wrapping his comfortable warm sweater tighter around himself.

"Evil unknown speedster from the future, yeah." Felicity nodded and Kara hummed her agreement.

"Turns out Savitar was actually a time remnant of Barry, future Barry. His face was so burned and he wanted to become a God, he did all of this to get power." Cisco started to wring his fingers together as he spoke, not making eye contact at all.

"Oh my god." Kara's hands flew to her mouth while Oliver paled and Felicity sank into a nearby chair in shock.

"He came back with a mission to kill Iris, we trapped him in the speed force. In the future we created a sort of jail cell in the speed force to keep him trapped, but he escaped and trapped Wally there instead… To get Wally out, Jay Garrick from Earth 2 took his place. We tried so hard to change the future, so hard… But it wasn't enough." Cisco explained quietly, but the cortex was so loud his words were extremely loud.

"What happened?" Felicity whispered, rubbing Cisco's shoulders sensing he needed comfort.

"It all kind of merged together from then on, Caitlin almost died and she fully became Killer Frost, she joined Savitar and almost killed me. We tried everything, including erasing Barry's memory which admittedly didn't go as planned… In the end Savitar still killed Iris… But it wasn't Iris… It was HR using some of his tech from his Earth… He died in Barry's arms and Savitar kidnapped me, forcing me to refit a bazooka that we had built to trap him in the first place…I did change it, but instead it freed Jay and all our Speedster's teamed up and in the end Iris got the last shot with Savitar, literally in this case." Cisco rambled on, fiddling with his fingers feeling the heat of their eyes on him and he sank deeper into himself.

"Oh Cisco." Felicity drew Cisco into a tight hug, petting his hair in the most soothing way she could.

"Everything was going so well, relatively speaking at least. Killer Frost and Caitlin are still duking it out for control and HR is gone, but Harry and Jay are back… However the speed force jail… It needed a Speedster to keep it balanced… Central was hit with earthquakes and lightning, it was going to destroy everything and Central would have just been the start… Barry, he understood, he accepted it. He willingly went with the Speed force to live in his worst memories for eternity, he did this for us." Cisco couldn't help the tears that silently fell from his eyes, sliding down his cheeks and he couldn't speak anymore so he buried his face into Felicity's blonde hair. Felicity's eye makeup was running down her cheeks, mingling with her tears as she joined Cisco in his mourning.

"Oh Barry, no, no, no." Kara sank to the floor, her cape pooling around her as she buried her face into her hands as her body shook with sobs as it sank in that she had lost two of the most important men in her life within days of each other.

Oliver grit his teeth together and tightened his hands into fists from where he had crossed his arms tightly over his chest. He felt like he was going to throw up, he closed his eyes as he tried to breath evenly.

"What can we do?" Kara asked looking up at Oliver, her eyes full of tears and the Green Arrow looked back. He stepped so he was kneeling in front of the Kryptonian he held his hand out. Kara swallowed as she grasped his offered hand allowing Oliver to pull her to her feet.

"We will be strong, we will remember him and let his legacy live on. We will watch over his city and his loved ones and we will help train Wally and anyone else who wants to help carry on Barry's mission." Oliver said, voice strong and firm and it filled Kara with confidence and hope, she now understood why Barry always gushed about Oliver Queen and how he was his hero.

"You're right, we will carry on his memory and his legacy." Kara agreed and she will always treasure the time they spent together and their duet in that weird musical world they had been zapped into.

"Damn right." Felicity sniffed from her place still embracing Cisco. "Team Flash and Team Arrow and err Team DEO? Will make sure Central is protected and everyone here get's the support they deserve."

"Thank you, thank you. I promise Barry I would keep everyone together and in one piece and I really need all the help I can get." Cisco wiped his eyes before he glanced at where his glasses were laying in wait.

"And you will get it." Oliver swore and Cisco gave a smile, the first genuine one he had given in a while.

~~Time jump~~

"Glad you guys could make it." Oliver nodded at the assembled Legends team.

"Of course, any Earth ending event is always worth coming home." Sara nodded at Oliver with a playful smile on his face.

"Where's Scarlet at?" Mick crossed his arms looking around for his favorite Speedster, knowing Len would find a way to come back as a ghost to annoy him if he didn't at least ask about Len's favorite rival.

"Sorry I'm late." A voice blurred as a red and yellow lightning bolt appeared and a man in an evenly mixed red and yellow suit appeared, a mix between Barry's Flash suit and Wally's Kid Flash Suit.

"Barry?" Ray asked curious at the costume change.

"No… I'm the Flash now." Wally said as he tugged the cowl down to expose his face.

"What happened?" Ray asked quietly, shock on his face. Even Mick looked taken aback.

"Barry is… He's gone; he's keeping something back. If he left without a replacement the world would be thrown into chaos again." Wally explained, still keeping up his confident posture something he had learned from Kara on one of her visits.

"I'm sorry." Sara offered up, wincing at the obvious pain that Wally and Cisco were feeling, she also knew that his was hurting Oliver, Felicity and Supergirl.

"We are honoring his legacy and memory, now we better save the planet before he get's back." Wally smirked as he zipped around gathering what they would need to deal with their newest threat to Earth.

"He's confident." Sara approached Oliver when they were all milling around while their scout team was out getting more information.

"He should be, he was trained by me and Supergirl." Oliver smirked before chuckling when Sara let out a sympathetic whine of pain knowing how much of a slave driver Oliver could be and she didn't even want to think about what Kara with her super strength and DEO training would make him endure.

"Yeah, he'll be just fine." Oliver said with pride in his voice, one she had only heard when he talked about Barry.

"Yeah, I think we all will be." Sara smiled, patting his arm as the two watched their teams work together with Wally, no the Flash in the centre of it. Sara patted Oliver's arm once more before moving over to talk with Mick who was grumbling about something to his heat gun while throwing Wally glances every so often.

Oliver flinched forward suddenly as he felt a gush of wind rush by him, but Wally was over with the others while Jessie was out with the scouting party. Oliver twisted his head to the side and he swore, he swore he saw the remainders of painfully familiar red lightning.

"Oliver, I think I just saw…" Kara floated over to him, confusion and hope on her face.

"I saw it too… Even trapped he still is watching out for us." Oliver chuckled fondly, this wasn't the first time he had seen the red lightning around and he knew that Barry was too stubborn to just sit back and rest.

"Once a hero, always a hero." Kara smiled as she touched down next to Oliver in the spot Sara just vacated and the two watched the others feeling content that their third was watching as well.