Wonder - coldflash
They both stared, eyes wide, mouths slightly agape. Barry had seen it before, while running at his highest speeds, but nothing like this, stopped right in the middle where it swirled around them.
Each universe burst open, a series of images-tastes-smells-scents, unfurling like a flower. A thousand mute supernovas in miniature, surrounding them in a whirlwind of blue.
Len found himself leaning forward, reaching out with a gloved hand – reaching – and Barry clutched to him, trying to keep him safe, but it wasn’t necessary. Nothing lashed out, nothing pulled him in; Len’s fingers just slid off harmlessly as the window to that universe faded back into the wavering walls of this nowhere place.
Len turned back to Barry, surprised expression fading into a wide smile, his eyes crinkling, rocking up on the balls of his feet with excitement. He spread his arms a little, encompassing the whole of everything around them, as if he could grab it all and give it to Barry.
Barry’s shoulders began to relax as he began to accept that nothing was going to attack them, and then he, too, started smiling. He reached out and clung to Len’s hand.
With a burst of silent glee, he pulled Len close and spun him around in his arms, and Len clutched at him in return, both of them staring over each other’s shoulders at all that surrounded them.