"Reverse-Flash is trying to stir things up!"
Jack Kadere grinned faintly, his tone carrying a hint of mockery as he said to Felicity Smoak, "I already know who's behind it. If he wants trouble, I'll give him something better. When are you heading back to Starling City?"
Felicity adjusted her glasses and sighed. "Probably as soon as possible. You know, my 'other job' keeps me pretty busy."
"I won't see you off," Jack replied with a sly smile. "But when you get back, I'll need you to help me with something."
"What is it?" Felicity asked curiously.
Jack leaned closer, lowering his voice so only she could hear.
"What? You mean Doctor Harrison Wells?" Felicity's eyes widened in disbelief. "Is that even possible? Oh my God… okay, I understand. I'll head back now and let you know if I find anything."
"I'll wait for your news," Jack said with an amused chuckle. "Oh, and tell them their problems will be sorted out later."
"Mhm, got it."
Felicity nodded firmly, then disembarked the Disciple with him, gathered her belongings, and left.
....
Reverse-Flash. His true name: Eobard Thawne. A man from the future, obsessed with the Flash. To ensure Barry Allen became the Scarlet Speedster, he murdered the real Harrison Wells and used futuristic tech to alter his appearance, impersonating him in order to oversee the construction of the particle accelerator.
Coincidence or fate, Iris West's boyfriend at this time was Eddie Thawne—Detective Joe West's partner, and more importantly, the ancestor of Eobard Thawne. If Eddie were to die, Reverse-Flash would be erased from existence.
But Jack Kadere wasn't about to take that route.
Reverse-Flash wanted to cause trouble? Fine. Jack would just cause even bigger trouble. If Thawne was desperate to return to his own timeline, Jack would make sure he stayed trapped here forever.
The task Jack gave Felicity was straightforward: locate the real Harrison Wells's body. Jack couldn't recall its exact location, but the Birds of Prey certainly had the skills and resources to find it.
As for making trouble? It was about forcing events into the direction the enemy least wanted.
Reverse-Flash's main concern was keeping Barry Allen safe long enough for him to grow stronger. He wasn't truly trying to harm Barry—quite the opposite.
"Well then," Jack smirked to himself. "Too bad."
Barry Allen, you're not the target—you're just collateral damage.
Jack thought back to all the metahumans born from the accelerator explosion. Multiplex, who could clone himself infinitely. The condemned prisoner turned living poison gas. Plastique, the woman whose touch triggered explosions. Hartley Rathaway, the Pied Piper. Leonard Snart, better known as Captain Cold, and his partner Mick Rory, Heat Wave.
In the timeline Jack remembered, each villain surfaced one by one, only to be taken down by the Flash eventually. But what if they all rose up at once?
Central City would be thrown into chaos.
Barry, with his heroic heart, would never ignore it—but he wasn't ready to handle all of them together. Reverse-Flash couldn't let Barry die or be gravely injured, which meant Thawne himself would have to step in. And when that happened… could he really keep up his act? Could he keep his identity hidden?
And if the Birds of Prey managed to find physical evidence—like the real Wells's body? Tsk, tsk… things would spiral fast.
Jack's grin widened. "Since we're making trouble anyway, why not make it massive?"
His thoughts drifted to Earth-Two.
Hunter Zolomon, the terrifying Zoom. Cisco Ramon's doppelgänger, Echo. Caitlin Snow's dark counterpart, Killer Frost. Ronnie Raymond's double, the ruthless Deathstorm. If all of them were brought into this world, the spectacle would be beyond anything Central City had seen. Even if the Flash and Reverse-Flash teamed up, they'd be overwhelmed.
Yes. That was the kind of chaos Jack Kadere lived for.
Destined to be the true mastermind behind the curtain, pulling every string.
Reverse-Flash, unaware of the storm Jack was preparing, congratulated himself on his cautious timing. After Jack's prank the previous night nearly sent Barry plummeting to his death, Thawne realized how fragile his careful plan was. Though Barry had miraculously survived, even learning how to run up buildings in the process, Thawne couldn't risk another "accident."
He had spent years plotting to reach this exact point. One misstep could ruin everything.
So, Thawne doubled down. He began pushing Barry harder in training, coaching him to increase his speed. Barry, determined to protect Iris and save his city, eagerly accepted the challenge. Every day, he trained at S.T.A.R. Labs under "Dr. Wells's" guidance, supported by Cisco Ramon and Caitlin Snow.
With Reverse-Flash's expertise, Barry's speed improved rapidly.
During this period, Jack Kadere seemed to have vanished into thin air. He hadn't contacted Caitlin Snow, nor had he stirred up trouble for Barry Allen again.
So, what was Jack really up to?
He was hunting.
Since he had already decided to shake things up in Central City, Jack knew he had to take action. Between training himself in the Speed Force to push his limits, he also set out to track down several metahumans who had surfaced after the particle accelerator explosion.
The first one he came across was Multiplex. Once a brilliant scientist specializing in organ cloning, he had devoted his research to saving his wife, who desperately needed a transplant. But when the company president stole his work, Multiplex was left desperate. He tested the procedure on himself, and when the particle accelerator exploded, his wife died before receiving the transplant. Instead of saving her, he gained the terrifying ability to split into countless duplicates of himself. Fueled by grief and rage, he planned to murder the company president. That was when Jack Kadere appeared.
How did Jack convince him to abandon his vendetta? Simple—through his fists.
The second metahuman was The Mist. Once a gang hitman, he had been betrayed and left to die. During his botched execution, the particle accelerator explosion altered him, giving him the ability to dissolve into hydrogen cyanide gas. Anyone who inhaled even the slightest trace would either be poisoned or fall unconscious. On paper, he seemed unstoppable. In reality, Jack Kadere handled him with ease—by borrowing Weather Wizard's wind manipulation. Jack trapped The Mist in a cyclone, forcing him to switch back and forth between gas and human form until he was completely drained. After all, when he wasn't in gaseous form, he was nothing more than a regular man.
The third target was a meta known as Girder. His power allowed him to transform his entire body into living steel, much like Colossus from another world. Girder was arrogant when Jack first approached him, but one devastating punch from Jack left him sprawled and obedient. What made this encounter more amusing was that Girder had once been Barry Allen's school bully. Jack couldn't help but imagine how Barry would feel facing the same steel-skinned brute who used to torment him back in the day.
With Multiplex, The Mist, and Girder all subdued, Jack's work was far from finished. There were still at least two more individuals he intended to track down, both with abilities that could prove useful—or troublesome—depending on how things played out.
And as fate would have it, one of them was already within fifty meters of his current position.
…
(Author's Note: For clarity, none of their abilities were copied during these encounters. These were straightforward takedowns, not power acquisitions.)