Flash Year One

## **Chapter One - "Born to Run"**

*On a dark and stormy night, the sound of thunder strikes fear into the heart of a young Barry Allen. Suddenly the house is lit up by flashes of yellow and red. As young Barry goes downstairs, he is witness to a tornado of red and yellow lightning and his mother in the middle. Just as he runs towards his mother, he finds himself three blocks down from his home. He runs back, finding the police escorting his father away, and his mother dead.*

In the present, Barry Allen works as a forensic scientist for Central City Police Dpt. At a kidnapping crime scene, Barry works with Fred Chyre and Patty Spivot to discover the perpetrator and find the kidnapped child. Barry is accosted by reporter Iris West over the case, and the two develop chemistry. Barry discovers evidence leading to the criminal's hideout, and Chyre + Spivot bust the criminal, Murmur, from killing the child.

As Barry witnesses the child return to his parents, he recalls the death of his mother and goes to visit his father at Iron Heights. Barry knows that his father is innocent, but somehow evidence was planted that night, and the police arrived just in time to see Henry Allen as the scapegoat.

Barry returns to the crime lab that night during a thunderstorm, and lightning strikes the lab. Barry is thrown into a shelf of chemicals, and lit up by the electrical current.

## **Chapter Two - "Fastest Man Alive"**

After 7 months in coma, Barry awakens in the hospital and is greeted by Fred Chyre and Spivot. Allen is then met by Cisco Ramon, a scientist from Star Labs who shows interest in Barry following his accident. Returning to CCPD, Barry begins to notice/display power and superspeed reflexes. When he attempts to run, he finds that he can run at super sonic speed.

Iris Allen goes to his office for a scoop for a report, inviting him to lunch, where he meets Wally West. The two instantly click, and Barry develops an attraction for Iris. As his super powers manifest more frequently, Barry's perception of reality begins to change, witnessing time at superspeed. He panics racing across the city. He eventually arrives at Star Labs where he seeks help form Cisco Ramon.

As weeks go on, the two run tests on Barry's speed, and Cisco inspires Barry to use his powers for good. They create a makeshift suit for him to use. As Barry shuffles work at the crime lab, he foils bank robberies in broad daylight. Iris writes about this new hero, with Wally christening him as "The Flash". A mysterious individual watches Barry and Cisco from afar and smiles.

## **Chapter Three - "Rogues"**

Leonard Snart, Mick Rory, Mark Mardon, and Sam Scudder are hired by the crime boss Turtle to steal from star labs. The Rogues are a splinter group of military contractors who specialize in advanced weaponry and experimental science.

Star Labs is attacked with Cisco, Iris, and Wally being held hostage. Weather Wizard holds off the CCPD with his weather manipulation. Rogues fight flash for the first time. Mirror Master creates duplicates and Cold + Heatwave incapacitate the Flash (inexperienced). Cisco uses Star tech to distract them, but Heatwave already steals the item they need.

Weather Wizard fires lightning at Barry, but he is able to redirect it back at the villains. Captain Cold grabs Wally holding him at gunpoint with his cold gun, but Barry calls his bluff as Cold refuses to kill a teen. Mirror master grabs Wally and races into the mirror dimension as Flash races after them and the rogues escape with the tachyon device.

## **Chapter Four - "Through the Looking Glass"**

Cisco explains to Chyre and Spivot that the device the Rogues were hired to steal was a Tachyon device; psuedo theoretical science related to time travel based on schematic from a man named carter nichols.

Barry is sucked into the mirror dimension after Scudder and Wally where he sees outlets into the real world while being bombarded by reflection duplicates.

Cold and the rest of the Rogues race across the city with the CCPD giving chase.

Back in the mirror dimension, Barry's speed goes out of control; untethered due to the reality's unstable nature. As his speed fritzes out, Barry hears Wally's cries for help, and pushes himself once more to run. He battles scudder for the mirror gun, and his out of control power causes excess lightning to fry the device and send shockwaves through the dimension. As Wally and Barry tumble through a portal, Scudder is left behind and vanishes.

Barry and Wally arrive in a mysterious warehouse, finding the Turtle and the rogues before them. Flash is immobilized while the Turtle introduces himself. He then traps all the rogues in suspended animation and dissolves his appearance, revealing himself as Abra Kadabra, terror of the 24th century.

## **Chapter Five - "Finish Line"**

Abra Kadabra explains his plan to Barry: he is from the 24th century and was apprehended by the flash. he decided to come to the 2st century in order to kill the original flash and erase the flash lineage from existence. He also required the rogues to steal the tachyon device to repair his time machine and allow him return to the future where he will reign supreme.

Wally zaps Abra with some of the rogues' weaponry while Barry breaks free from the restraints. Abra takes on the two while ccpd and cisco surround the building. Barry gets outclassed by kadabra, but kadabra is shot by spivot and chyre, damaging the tachyon device and time belt. Wally grabs weather wizard's wand and Barry channels lightning; the two project it at kadabra and the tachyon device emits a large feedback from implosion. Barry pushes wally out of the blast radius, while he and abra are zapped away.

Abra and Barry are thrusted through the timestream and Barry sees many vision of the future and multiple worlds. The two then arrive in the 24th century, and abra emits a beam that evicerates Barry's costume. Just as abra deals the final blow, he is knocked out by the flash of the 24th century, Jonathan fox. Barry and Jonathan converse, with Barry believing that it was he who saved him that night when he was young. Jonathan explains that it wasn't, but thanks Barry for returning abra to his time, and that its an honor to meet him.

Fox returns Barry to the present, and Barry reunites with the ccpd and iris. Wally seems fine after exposure to the tachyon wave, but cisco vows to help him and Barry. Barry makes a new suit. Wally discovers a strange static emitting from his fingers.

## Timeline

* This event is part of the **Golden Age**
* This event is preceded by Wonder Woman Year One
* This event is followed by Green Lantern: No Fear

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