For fans of my work The Scarlet Speedster, who haven't seen the note I posted on there, I'm back after 2 years away from the Arrowverse, fully caught up on it finally the other day, will be rewriting it and making it better, but in honour of Crisis, I'm posting this, will eventually be incorporated into Scarlet Speedster, but this is my take for the fic, based on my original plans for Crisis the other year, as well as what I've seen and heard about the tv crossover. Enjoy.

Barry looked up at the skies in dawning horror. This was it, what it had all led to, from the article years ago in the Time Vault to now. The skies were red with lightning sparking and flashing throughout them. He could hear the screams of people in the street as they looked up in terror, not knowing how or why the skies had changed from a clear blue to a stormy red. Looking over the city from his balcony at STAR Labs, Barry could see another blur, this one yellow, closer to the ground. Heading down in an instant, he stopped down a busy street to see the yellow blur also come to a stop. Looking over, he saw the Reverse-Flash grinning at him. "Goodbye, Flash." Thawne said as he charged at Barry, Barry racing towards him, both of them with fists raised.

Barry then awoke with a start. Looking over at his clock he saw it was just approaching six am. Time to get ready. Another day closer to the Crisis. Another day closer to his death. Thinking back on what the Monitor had told him, weeks before at STAR Labs, he sighed.

'To save billions of lives. The Flash must die.'

How could he though? How could he leave his team behind? How could he leave Kara behind? Hadn't he suffered enough already in his life? He was only thirty and he had lost more than people much older than he had. Why shouldn't he be happy?

Getting out of bed, he looked over at Kara's sleeping form, curling up in the covers, moaning slightly in her sleep. "Noo...warm..." Barry smiled at her as he watched her drifting back to sleep. He knew she didn't need to sleep, but he still found it adorable how she learnt to sleep and how she was when she was asleep.

He knew she would have to head back to Earth-38 before too long, neither of them could spend more than a day or two away from their Earths, danger seemed to gravitate towards Central City and National City when either of them were gone for any amount of time. He just wished they got a little longer. He had almost lost her once recently, he wasn't about to let it happen again.

"There's so much I haven't told you yet." Barry said, more to himself than to Kara, as he walked away from her and down into the kitchen, preparing a meal for the two of them, hoping against hope that her super hearing wouldn't pick up what he was saying. "I saw my own death, I know I die, soon, and I worry about what sort of world I'll leave behind, but more importantly, I don't want to leave you behind."

"Barry?" Kara asked sleepily as she opened her eyes, hearing him mumbling and looking around for him, seeing him nowhere.

"I'm in the kitchen." Barry called to her, hoping she had missed what he said. Kara rushed around the room, grabbing her clothes and getting dressed before heading down to him.

"Hey." She said, giving him a kiss on the cheek as he carried two plates over to her, laden with food. Her eyes lit up when she saw the plates in his hands and held out her own arms. "Gimme!" She squealed as Barry laughed, handing it over to Kara, who began to inhale it as the two of them ate quickly.

"So what's your plan for today?" Barry asked as they finished up eating and cleaning up.

"I've got to go back to Earth-38 and check in with the DEO." Kara told him. "What about you?"

"Keep my eyes peeled. Something's coming, and soon." Barry said. "I can feel it. In my bones."

"Call me if you need me, first sign of any trouble." Kara told him with a brief kiss on the lips before pressing her extrapolator and opening a breach. Hoping through it, Kara sighed as it closed behind her and turned to see the DEO's eyes were not on her, as they usually would be when she came through one of the portals, but they were instead focused above, onto the skies.

"What's going on?" Kara asked as she made her way over to where Brainy and Alex were stood.

"The skies...they've turned red." Brainy said simply as Kara looked in shock. This is just what had happened back in Elseworlds, what was going on?

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Barry watched Kara leave before rushing out of the apartment and heading to STAR labs, getting into the labs, he saw Caitlin, Ralph and Iris in the cortex, looking at the computer, varying degrees of worry on their faces.

"What's up guys?" Barry asked, coming in behind them.

"There have been weird energy spikes all over the city in the past few hours, each one seems to be getting closer to STAR, we're hoping there's nothing wrong, but you know, it could be related to...that."

"It is getting to that time." Barry mused, worried. Looking at the clock, he saw the time ticking then...it stopped. "The clock stopped..." Barry said to the room, surprised as the others looked as well.

"Guys…." Ralph said, looking out of the window. "The skies….they've turned red."

"It's starting." Barry said grimly. Crisis was here.

Sorry its so short, longer chapter coming in a few days.