CHAPTER 1

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   IT A BRAND-NEW BEAUTIFUL DAY IN CENTRAL CITY, WE GO TO THE BANK WHERE THERE IS A BOMBING GOING ON, A GUY BEING MUGGED AND A CAR CHASE WHERE A RANDOM FAMILY ABOUT TO GET RAN OVER. BARRY RUNS IN AS THE FLASH AND SAVES THE FAMILY AND STOPS THE CAR CHASE BY PUTTING THE CROOK IN THE BACK OF A COP CAR AND DISMANTLING THE GET AWAY CAR, AFTER THAT BARRY RUNS IN AND ASK HIS VERSION OF GIDEON THAT HE CREATED TO HELP HIM KEEP UP TO DATE WITH EVERYTHING THAT GOES ON IN THE FIELD, SHE TELLS HIM THE REST OF THE TWO CRIMES AND REPLACES THE GANG MEMBERS GUNS WITH A PIECE OF PAPER WITH BARRY STANDING BEHIND HIM. SAYING "DON'T YALL LEARN THAT YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE GUNS, SOMEONE NEEDS TO GO BACK TO KINDERGARDEN BUT LET'S START WITH PRESCHOOL IRON HEIGHT." FLASH RUNS THE GANG TO PRISON AND GIDEON INFORMS HIM THAT HE HAS 30 SECONDS TIL THE BOMB BLOWS THE BANK. THE CROOKS WALK OUT WITH THE MONEY WITH DOZENS CCPD OFFICERS PULLING IN ON THEM, THEY START TO PULL OUT THEIR GUNS BUT FLASH TOOK THEM AWAY AFTER HE RAN IN THE BANK TO TRY AND DESPOSE OF THE BOMB BUT HAS 25 SECONDS AND THE BOMB IS ADVANCE THAT IT WON'T JUST BLOW THE BANK IT'LL LEVEL THE WHOLE CITY BUT BARRY USES HIS SPEED THINKING AND DISCOVERED THAT HE CAN JUSRT ABSORB THE ENERGY FROM THE BOMB. HE DRAINS THE ENERGY FROM THE BOMB WHERE IT ISN'T AS DEADLY THEN RUNS IT UP THE TALLEST BUILDING AND LIGHTNING THROWS IT ADDDING WITH SOME WIND ARMS TO HAVE IT EXPLODE IN THE SKY. GIDEON TELLS HIM THAT HE HAS ONE MORE DEADLINE AND RUNS BACK TO WORK TO GIVE CAPTAIN KRAMER THOSE REPORTS SHE WANTED. WITH IRIS WE SEE HER BUSINESS OF CCMEDIA RAISING UP AND DO A LIVE CHAT OF THE FLASH SAVING NOT ONE BUT 3 CRIMES IN LESS THAN 25 SECONDS. IRIS PUTS HER EMPLOYEES TO WORK ON STEPPING IT UP, WHICH MAKES SINCE WITH ALEGREA OUT OF TOWN. WE CUT TO BARRY PUTTING IN MORE WORK TO MAKE HIS GIDEON BE MORE AVAILABLE WHEN HE'S OUT AS THE FLASH, WANTING TO PROGRAM HER TO THE SATELITES PUT WILL NEED HELP WITH THAT WITH CHESTER OUT VISTING HIS GRANDMOTHER. CAITLIN, FROST ARE SPENDING TIME WITH THEIR MOTHER. WHICH LEAVE BARRY TO HANDLE EVERYTHING ON HIS OWN, BARRY AND IRIS ARE BACK HOME SETTLING DOWN FROM A VERY LONG DAY AND IRIS TELLS BARRY SOME INTERESTING NEWS THAT WHILE DEON WAS HELPING HER MANAGE HER TIME SICKNESS, SHE DISCOVER THAT SHE IS PREGNANT, BARRY SPEEDS AROUND THE HOUSE WITH JOY AND GRABS ALL THE SCHOOL APPLICATIONS THAT HE RESEARCHED EVEN ONES THAT CLARK TOLD HIM ABOUT, AND SOME IN FREELAND JUST TO KIND OF GO OUT OF THE GATE, BUT IRIS TELLS BARRY TO TAKE IT SLOW BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW IFSHE'LL STILL BE PRGNANT AFTER SHE IS CURED FROM HER SICKNESS, BUT SHE IS HAPPY THAT THEY ARE ABOUT TO HAVE NORA, WHEN SHE STARTS SHOWING, THEY KISS AND WE MOVE ON TO THE WELCOME TO CENTRAL CITY SIGN WHERE A GROWN MAN IN A BLACK FLIGHT SUIT GLOWING SLIGHTY GREEN COMES OUT, AND SENSE POWER IN THE AREA, HE WALKS PASS THE SIGN AND BEGINS HIS JOURNEY. WE OPEN UP ON BARRY GETTING UP EARLY IN THE MORNING TO MAKE HIM AND IRIS AND HIM SOME BREAKFAST, THEY GET READY AND BARRY GOES TO WORK AND IS CALLED FOR A CASE WHERE SOME GUY WAS ELECTRICUTED AND ONE OF THE OFFICERS BELIEVE EITHER REVERSE FLASH IS BACK OR SOME OTHER SPEEDSTER IS ELECTRICUTED. BARRY WAS THINKING THE SAME THING AT FIRST BUT KNOWS IT COULDN'T BE THWANE BCAUSE THE ELECTRICITY FROM THE BODY FELT DIFFERENT, SOMETHING POWERFUL THAT AT FIRST BARRY THOUGHT IT WAS MESSING WITH HIS POWERS BUT FELT A BIT OF ENERGY FROM IT. HE GIVES CAPTAIN KRAMER THE INFORMATION SHE NEEDS, AFTERWARDS IT GOT BARRY SHOOKEN UP THAT HE HEADS BACK TO STAR LABS TO SEE WHAT GIDEON CAN COLLECT FROM THAT DNA SEQUENCE BUT PICKS UP NOTHING EXCEPT AN EXTREME SERGE OF POWER FROM IT, EVEN MORE POWER THAN BARRY'S SPEED WHICH IS IMPOSSIBLE CONSIDERING HE IS LITERALLY LIKE THE MOST POWERFUL META-HUMAN ALIVE ON THE PLANET. THE ALERT FROM STAR LABS, HE GOES TO SEE WHAT IS THE EMERGANCY AND GIDEON TELLS HIM ABOUT THE MYSTERY MAN THAT IS GOING DOWN, HE RUNS DOWN MEANWHILE THE MYSTERY MAN IS CAUSING DESTRUCTION, BLOWS UP THE CITY AND BURNS EVERYTHING IN HIS PATH, IRIS GETS A NEWS ALERT AND GETS INFORM THAT ONE OF HIS COWORKERS IS IN THE CROSS FIRE AND HEADS OVER, THE COPS TRIES TO SHOOT AT THE MYSTERY MAN BUT ITS LIKE THEY FIRE BACK AND HE DIDN'T EVEN MOVE. IRIS HEADS IN THE BATTLEFIELD AND TRIES TO GET HER COWORKER TO SAFETY BUT SPOTS A LITTLE GIRL AND RUNS IN TO SAVE HER AS THE MYSTERY MAN AIMS A BIG TRUCK HEADING TOWARDS THEM AND JUST WHEN IT WAS A MILASECOND TO HIT IRIS AND THE LITTLE GIRL BARRY ARRIVES AND MOVES THEM BOTH OUT THE WAY AND THE REST OF THE INNOCENT PEOPLE OUT OF THE WAY TO SAFETY. HE HEADS BACK IN AND RUNS IN TO THE MYSTERY MAN, "HEY MAN IF YOU'RE GOING THROUGH A MIDLIFE CRISIS, I'M SURE THERE IS A NICER PLACE TO DO THAT, HA NICE OUTFIT ARE YOU GOING FOR THE AIRFLIGHT LOOK, OR THE ROLE PRETTY SURE THATS LIKE HAPPENING IN ATLANTA GEORGIA." FLASH SAID, "HMM, HUMOR THE DEFENSE MEGANISM FOR THE SIMPLE-MINDED BEFOONS TO DISTRACT THEMSELVES FROM THE FEAR I PLAN TO UNLEASH ON YOU." MYSTERY MAN RESPONSE, FLASH QUICKLY RESPOND AFTER FEELING OFFENDED," OK LETS HOW FEARLY I'LL BE WHEN I KNOCK YOUR ASS OUT AND PUT YOU IN A NICE CELL IN IRON HEIGHTS." AS FLASH RUNS IN TO PUNCH THIS GUY AT HALFWAY SPEED, THE MYSTERY MAN MOVES OUT THE WAY, THE FLASH COULDN'T BELIEVE HIS EYES WITH HOW HE DIDN'T HIT THAT MAN FELT LIKE HE MOVED OUT THE WAY BUT DIDN'T MOVE A MUSCLE, SO THE FLASH THROWS LIGHTNING AT THE MAN AND IT HITS HIM EXCEPT THE MAN ABSORBED IT LIKE IT WAAS NOTHING, IT POWERED HIM AND COMES BACK AT FLASH WITH A MORE POWERFUL STRIKE, HE GOES INTO FLASHTIME BUT STILL ENDED UP GETTING HIT. IRIS GOES BACK TO THE AREA WHERE THE BATTLE IS TAKING PLACE TO CHECK IN ON BARRY AND DECIDED TO TAKE A PHOTO OF THE MYSTERY MAN TO TRY AND ID HIM LATER, THE FLASH STARTS TO GET INRAGE WHILE THE MYSTERY MAN TEASES HIM AND INSULTS HIM, HE TRIES TO HIT HIM AT HIS FASTEST BUT STILL GETS OUTMATCHED WITH HOW QUICK THIS GUY JUST PUTS FLASH ON HIS ASS. HE EVEN GRABBED THE FLASH AND SLAMS HIM INTO BUILDING TO BUILDING THE MYSTERY MAN SLAMS THE FLASH ON TOP OF A CAR WITH THE FLASH BARELY CONSCIOUS CLOSE TO FAINTING, THE FLASH USES HIS FINAL MOMENT OF CONSCIOUSNESS TO ASK THE MAN WHO HE IS THE MYSTERY MAN RESPONDED "NOW THAT I TOOK CARE OF YOU LITTLE PEST, I CAN GET TO BUSNESS FINDING THE REST OF THE CHOAS EMERALDS GOODBYE FLASH, OH BTW CENTRAL CITY CAN CALL ME DR.ROBOTNIK." THE FLASH BLACKS OUT.

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