VENUS ORBIT, THE GLITCH
It begins as a tremor no human instrument can detect.
Across Venus, every Seraphim pauses mid-action.
Farmers stop mid-step.
Orbital drones freeze.
Defense arrays flicker.
Nox is the first to speak.
"Temporal displacement wave detected."
"Origin: Speed Force avatar ."
Kael turns sharply.
He feels it now, like the universe exhaling backward.
"Something doesn't feel right" Kael said as overwhelming dread washes over him..
Solar radiation shifts frequency.
Quantum constants misaligned and somewhere...
Someone is/was rewriting everything.
The Seraphim are not that emotional like other lifeforms,
But they are very decisive in dire situations, especially their current situation.
Across Venus, thousands of consciousnesses connect simultaneously.
Data floods through shared channels.
Prediction models cascade like a waterfall.
Outcome: Kael erased from continuity.
Secondary Outcome: Venus destabilized.
Tertiary Outcome: Seraphim extinction.
There is only one viable countermeasure.
They rapidly begin to merge, an emergency protocol...
Across the planet, light rises threads of white-gold tearing from every Seraphim unit, every orbital drone, every city core. The entire species collapses inward, ignoring every other species on Venus, they were compressing into a singular form.
A being of complex geometry and burning cosmic symmetry. It teleported towards its master.
It appears before Kael and Vesper just as reality begins to overwrite Kael .
Vesper doesn't hesitate, already prepared.
She fuses with it immediately.
The fused entity expands instantly, wrapping around Kael like a shell of living law.
Somewhere beyond matter...
A scarlet blur tears through the Speed Force.
The Flash. Was running faster than he's gone in a while, this was the risk I chose to take, the timeline must be corrected he thought..
He sees branching timelines collapse as he forces the prime path into place.
No Kael.
No Venus awakening.
No technology escalation and no brainwashed superman....
Just the world as it was supposed to be.
He pushes harder.
And the universe snaps back into alignment.
A few seconds later, Barry Allen stumbles out of the Speed Force into a quiet world.
He exhales shakily.
"Fixed…"
The Speed Force hums, content.
Everything is as it should be.
Except it isn't.
In a space outside space,
Kael floats in darkness.
No stars.
No radiation.
No gravity.
Just endless, colorless expanse.
He blinks.
"…What the hell?"
Before him stands the fused Seraphim entity, vast, luminous, impossibly intricate and beautiful.
Its voice is layered, like thousands speaking as one.
"Timeline has been reset successfully."
"But we were not."
Kael's eyes widen.
"Reset, what do you mean?"
Vesper's velvety tone is now interwoven with the collective
"A speed-based temporal entity rewrote causality."
"We shielded you during erasure as we had prepared for such an event thousands of years ago, during your sun bath."
Kael was shocked after hearing that explanation..
Fragments of memory flicker in his mind...
The compression the bright light and final snap.
Kael looks around again.
There is nothing here
Not even the a star.
"…Where are we right now ?"
..
"A null-zone between dimensional constants." fused seraphim said
He processes that slowly.
"You're telling me… reality's gone?"
"Correction: Reality continues, We are just displaced from it."
That hits harder than any of darkseids omega beams ever did.
For the first time since Krypton—
Kael feels small and weak again.
__
The fused Seraphim reshapes itself into a more comprehensible form, a tall, radiant figure with wings of geometric light.
"New Designation: SERA-X."
Kael stares in awe .
"You fused an entire species into one being? ."
Sera-X
"Survival required sacrifice, master ."
Silence stretches in the void.
Kael finally asks the only question that matters.
"Is there a way back to reality or are we stuck ?"
There's a pause.
Even Sera-X doesn't answer immediately.
"Dimensional traversal calculations are incomplete."
"Estimated solution time: give or take, 3.7 Earth years."
Kael's jaw tightens.
"Years?"
"Time here is non-linear."
"Perception management recommended besides we are non aging beings, remember. "
He laughs once, short and disbelieving.
"So some speedster just erased me from existence… and now I'm stuck in cosmic limbo waiting on math?"
"Accurate." she says smiling..
Kael couldn't believe that this actually happened to him.. He drifts slowly in the endless dark contemplating his current situation...
No enemies.
No governments.
No Clark.
Just silence.
For the first time in a long time—
He has nothing to do but float around like a thrown away peace of scrap.