Nora West-Allen (XS)

# Nora West-Allen

## Nora West-Allen

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*Description Here ~ Tara*

## History

### Early Life

In the near future, Nora West-Allen was born to parents Barry Allen and Iris West. As an infant she was always attached to her father, a bond further enhanced by her being gifted his powers at birth. But when Nora was just a year old, her father had disappeared in an unknown mission and never came back. Nora grew up not remembering her father, and losing her only connection to him thanks to Iris pleading for Team Flash to surgically insert a power dampener inside her daughter so she wouldn't get herself killed, too.

When growing up with her mother, Nora couldn't help but shake this strange connection to superheroes. Against her mother's wishes, she spent much of her time as a child and teenager at the Flash Museum, learning everything there was to know about the Fastest Man Alive and his heroic friends that saved the world by his side. Though when she was at home, she could tell how much her mother missed Barry, and decided she wanted his legacy to move on. She was never told he was the Flash, and instead pursued the career path of being a CSI just like he was to honor his memory. Her love for science and technology helped her feel more suited for the job. And by the time she graduated college, she had an office upstairs in the Central City Police Department.

The year 2049 was when Nora's life was changed forever. Reports were coming in about a white and gold Flash committing crimes throughout the city. As a metahuman specialist in the CCPD, Nora was quick to arrive at the crime scenes after the fact. Her gut instinct was that a rogue speedster had decided to make Central City his stomping grounds, and she was correct. She and her lab partner and fellow CSI, Lia Connell, had pursued the white speedster who proclaimed himself as Godspeed. But to Nora's surprise, she was blasted with a bolt of lightning when Godspeed was leaving the most recent crime scene, frying her power inhibitor.

Lia immediately got Nora to the hospital where the doctors were quick to remove the destroyed inhibitor chip from her chest thinking it was shrapnel from her accident. But when she awoke in the hospital room, she discovered she had new powers. The powers of a speedster. Her theory that it had to be an accidental gift bestowed upon her by their newest rogue was quickly proven wrong when Lia ran tests on the device the doctors had found. That was when Nora learned that she always had powers, and they had been hidden from her by the person she trusted the most in her life: her own mother.

Nora used these new powers to hunt down Godspeed yet again, bringing along her friend in the process in hopes that the two of them could make up for in intelligence what Nora lacked in experience. But it proved to be a fatal mistake. Godspeed easily incapacitated Nora and left the daughter of the Flash laying on the ground, forced to watch as his hand was driven through Lia's chest to kill her instantly. The villain escaped, and Nora was left with her guilt of putting her only friend in harm's way.

With nowhere left to turn, Nora sought out the only other speedster in the city that could help her: The Reverse Flash. Nora heard from her mother that Reverse Flash had killed the Flash's mother and made Flash's life hell. But despite how terrible a person he might be, he was the only option she had to get revenge on the monster that killed Lia. It was then that Nora learned from Thawne that her father, Barry Allen, was the Flash. With his help, she beat Godspeed and locked him away in Iron Heights. But August's defeat didn't fill the empty void left in Nora's heart. She had to ask Thawne for one more favor, and it was then that she learned how to travel time through the speed force so she could go back and finally meet her father. But her trip didn't go as planned. Inside the speed force, a time wraith caught up with the little runner and tried to reset her back to her original timeline. She managed to pull away from its grip, but her journey was forever altered. She flew out of the speed force years prior to when she wanted to arrive, and her once adult body was changed to that of a child with no memories and no speed.

That was when Nora was adopted by Malcolm and Jeannette Allen as the younger cousin of Barry Allen. Malcolm was the brother to Barry's father, Henry Allen. When reaching her teenage years again, her Aunt Nora who she was named after had been murdered with her Uncle Henry being blamed for the murder. The rest of the family was left in shock while Nora believed Barry that his father was innocent. It was only a few months later when Malcolm disappeared one night, never making it home from work. From then on, Nora was raised solely by Jeanette and taught to follow her dreams and reach for the stars.

Hoping to find out what happened to her aunt and adopted father, Nora trained independently to become a CSI in hopes that the skills she learned could help her track down her aunt's killer and even Malcolm. She made a best friend named Spencer in college and the two of them were inseparable until one tragic night. The two girls were working on a project, a homemade power converter, when a loud explosion was heard in the distance. Out the window Nora could see a dome of energy expanding from the famous STAR Labs and in a panic rushed over to unplug the power converter in hopes of saving the device from the incoming power surge. Once her hand touched the power cord and attempted to pull it from the outlet, her body was filled with an overwhelming amount of electricity right as the accelerator wave from STAR Labs washed over her.

The electricity flowed through Nora and to the energy converter, overcharging it and creating an explosion that took the life of her best friend Spencer. Nora woke up in the hospital some time later, learning what happened to her best friend through her mother and sobbing uncontrollably for days. Though with such a terrible price paid, she also discovered she was given a gift. The gift of speed, moving faster than the speed of sound. And she wasn't alone. The news showed reports of a scarlet speedster that was quickly referred to as The Flash. Seeing him do good for the city and stop those that abused their powers made Nora realize that the world needed heroes. But the time just didn't feel right for her to become one of them. She instead invested her time in learning about other heroes online, discovering her favorites such as Superman, Supergirl and Wonder Woman along with other speedsters like herself. The world seemed safe. Surely they didn't need her.

That was, until the Flash disappeared. No one knew where he went, including Nora. But she recognized that with him gone, it may bring out villains that once remained hidden to avoid him. To make sure the innocent citizens stayed safe, Nora designed her own outfit that could withstand the friction and high speeds of her running. Several names were tested on the girl including Femme Flash and Flashgirl. But it wasn't until Nora was reminded of the words of her adoptive mother when she was a child that she found the perfect hero name. Jeanette used to say that Nora did everything in excess, the same expression Iris had said countless times to Nora in her original childhood. Alas, it was time to make that her inspiration, naming herself XS and doing her best to live up to the heroes she so desperately loved and respected.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Speed Force Conduit**
* **Superspeed**
* **Enhanced reflexes**
* **Lightning generation and throwing**
* **Accelerated healing**
* **Phasing**
* **Access to speed force.**

### Skills

* **Skilled detective from CSI training and employment**
* **Good with technology and hacking**