[video]

[commanderspecs]

[How does this happen. How. How. Barry moves out of the way when he sees a stampede of...vikings?! He's standing out on a sidewalk somewhere downtown, not seeing a familiar sight anywhere. At least not like how it is back home. He sends out the all video signal]

Just what the heck is going on here?! Who's Gideon? Where am I?!

[He's hyperventilating or close enough to it, not amused at what is going on, and tries to make sense of it all.]

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[kid_flash_found]

Learn how they work, and then decide what to do with them, or how to contain them. That's your choice, not anyone else's.

[commanderspecs]

Sounds like you’ve been through this before.

[kid_flash_found]

Me, no. Not personally.

[commanderspecs]

Then you know others?

[kid_flash_found]

One or two.

[commanderspecs]

This is—this is a lot to take in.

[kid_flash_found]

Like I said, it's not the powers, it's the person that make the decisions.

[commanderspecs]

[he is not pleased with this change of events]

Is there at least a STAR Labs here that I could ask to get some tests done?

[kid_flash_found]

Yeah. Possibly. I'm just not a fan of labs, personally.

[commanderspecs]

Why not?

[kid_flash_found]

You don't want to hear about my childhood trauma.

[commanderspecs]

Oh.

[That puts Barry in check.]

...I'm sorry for your traumatic childhood, Mr. Allen.

[kid_flash_found]

You've got nothing to be sorry for, Mr. Allen. I'm not.

[commanderspecs]

[Allen's a common last name so he doesn't think much on it.]

If it's all the same, I mean it.

[kid_flash_found]

I wouldn't be the person I am today without the way I grew up, for good or ill. I like to think most of it made me stronger.

[commanderspecs]

Are you--is-is this your Earth?

[kid_flash_found]

Nope, already said that, didn't I?

No, I don't know how I ended up here. Or even where here is beyond the easy answers.

[commanderspecs]

Did you?

[He's trying not to hyperventilate. Barry pulls at his collar]

Is it...is it a little warm?

[kid_flash_found]

Look, take a deep breath, and focus on going slow. Tell me where you are. I can try to help.

[commanderspecs]

[HE TRIES. Oh how he tries to take a deep breath]

I don't-I don't-I don't know. It looks...it looks like...some turn of the century neighborhood.

[voice only]

[kid_flash_found]

I'm coming, just keep describing what you see, keep breathing.

[A soft intake of breath, as he gives an almost lie.]

I'm not far.

[commanderspecs]

It looks like a barber shop.

[He keeps trying to take a deep breath]

Oh my gosh, this place. And these powers. And -- Mr. Allen, this is nuts. I need to get back home. There's evidence I need to process and the stack is a mile high.

[kid_flash_found]

Barber shop, that's good.

Just slow down, take it easy. People way smarter than I am are already on the problem, looking for a way to fix what happened and send everyone home to where and when they should be.

[He was on his sixth barbershop before he spots some of the landmarks he caught from the video feed, and takes a quick stroll around the corner to come by in normal clothing, at a slightly increasing pace as he spots the guy who looks pretty much like the other two Barry Allen doppelgangers.]

Mr. Allen, are you okay?

[commanderspecs]

[His bowtie's undone, the top few buttons have been undone and Barry looks like he needs to be put out of his misery for a bit]

I'm in a place where vikings and dinosaurs are running loose and I have meta powers. I'm just peachy keen.

[kid_flash_found]

We're working on the dinosaurs. Al Capone and his people tried to use them for target practice, and it's been a little hard getting them contained.

I think you just need to sit down and have a drink of water. Some place that actually has modern plumbing, though. No sense getting the flux.