To Flash and Beyond (The Flash)

Chapter 6

My name is Barry Allen, and I am the fastest man alive. When I was a child I saw my mother killed by something impossible ; my father went to prison for her supposed murder. Then an accident made me the IMPOSSIBLE. With my friends at S.T.A.R Labs I found the murderer of my mother. In doing so, I opened my world to other threats. My father was killed too.

But all of that has changed now. I went to the past and saved my mother finding out that things have turned out to be much different than what I had expected. To the outside world I am an ordinary forensic scientist but secretly, I used to be The Flash! This is my story.

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(Start of Season 3, Episode 2)

Barry had to take sleeping pills to sleep after his deadly encounter with Eobard. No sooner did he close his eyes than his dream began.

He was a child of ten. He was crying by a tree. A boy came to taunt him.

Tony Woodward!

"Don't cry like a sissy. Be a man! Tell me what happened?" he asked. He really looked worried.

"I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT TONY! YOU'LL JUST MAKE FUN OF ME!" Barry protested. For once Barry could see remorse and pity in Tony's eyes.

"You can trust me, Barry. You think of me as a bully but I'm not! I'll not make fun of you one bit. I'll not isolate you like that Blackie's daughter now, would I?" Tony asked.

Barry pushed him behind. "Don't call her that!"

"Why not Allen? That bitch made fun of  you and I can assure you that she will be bitching about you with the other bitches," Tony explained.

Tony was right. Iris, his only friend, had isolated him and SURELY would be making fun of him.

" I...I saw swirls of red and yellow circling my mother yesterday night. The...the yellow swirl tried to catch hold of me. I saw him. He was a human... but then in a fraction of a second I found myself on the streets. I raced back home and I saw that everything was normal. My parents denied whatever had happened. They lied! I know I hadn't dreamt it! I know that I had seen the truth and that it wasn't a fragment of my imagination. Then I slept at night and I was awoken by the biting cold wind. I saw a man in black standing and telling me that we would meet fifteen years later. I approached the mirror and saw something written in bold and black letters :- Dr.Alchemy." Barry explained. He expected Tony to laugh and punch him in his teeth.

But he stood expressionless, lost in a deep thought. He said three words which marked the bond of their friendship. "I believe you."

The scene changed now. Barry was a five years older now.

"We'll punish that bitch real bad Allen!" Tony said.

"Yeah! That bitch had the effin' guts to reject you, the boss, Tony Woodward!" Barry said.

" Let's edit her photo into that nude pic I sent you on your mobile!" Tony suggested.

"Yeah!" Barry approved of the idea.

Tony edited the photo and uploaded it using Tor Browser so that he could never get tracked. The photo was removed in a matter of few seconds. He forgot that the CCPD was capable of tracking anything and everything.

In a few minutes a police car drove in the school gates. It was Joe West.

He approached Tony.

"Tony Woodward?"

"That my name, yeah!" Tony replied. Joe smacked Tony across the face.

"That was my daughter! Had it gone viral, I would have ended your life right here. And you son, you are Allen right?" Joe asked Barry.

"Yes...sir," Barry replied.

" You should've stopped him. I'll make your lives hell in the future. Beware!" Joe threatened and drove away.

The scene changed again. They were both twenty.

"Why have you applied for the job of a cop?" Tony asked Barry," Weren't we supposed to be gangstas and loot this city?"

"Be realistic Tony. We've already been in trouble with the police. Be thankful that they didn't do anything. And anyways you've got a pretty good physique. You'll easily get selected," Barry said.

It made sense to Tony.

He was determined to become a police officer.

Barry woke up all of a sudden. This dream explained everything. Iris never got to know about that nude image so she seemed to be cool with Barry. And it was Barry's influence that led Tony to become a cop and not a gangster.

But if what Eobard said was true, memories about Tony from the alternate timeline would erase from Barry's head. The warning may be true. And Barry was taking no chances.