The Flash: Season One AU [Book One]

Chapter 3 - Fastest Man Alive

[Barry Allen Voice Over - My name is Barry Allen. I am The Fastest Man Alive! When I was 11 my mother was murdered. I saw a ball of lightning. Inside the Lightning, there was a man. He killed my mom. What happened that night was impossible. Then 3 years ago, an accident made me the impossible. I was in a coma for 9 months.]

November 4, 2017

There's a fire Western and 3rd in Downtown Central City. I'm the blur that's on my way to it. I'm going 352 Miles an hour, and it's a slow day. I'm running when I lose focus over the comms in my new suit. "..Barry?...Barry!" Cisco said. I stop running. "What? Did I miss it?" I asked. "You overshot by about 6 blocks!" He replied. I reply, "Ugh. My bad." I start running back. I run into the apartment that's on fire where there are citizens shocked by a gust of wind that shot by them. "You there yet?" Cisco asked. "What are you doing?" Caitlin asks Cisco. Cisco immediately turns off all the monitors, and turns around. "..Nothing." Cisco replies. "Who are you talking to?" Caitlin asks. Cisco is nervous, "...No one." Caitlin doesn't believe him. "Are you talking to Barry?" She asks. Cisco acts like he never met Barry, "Who?" Caitlin starts to explain, "Barry Allen? Struck by lightning 3 years ago, was in a coma for 9 months. Woke up, being able to run faster than the speed of sound. Ring a bell?" Cisco looks worried now, "..Nope, haven't talked to him." I start to yell in my comms which go through out the cortex. "Cisco! There's fire everywhere! Cisco are you still there?!" Cisco looks at the speaker, and so does Caitlin in disappointment and confusion. I hear a child screaming for her mother. I run with my super-speed and save everyone by putting them all outside. I run into an alleyway, and pull off my cowl. "Everybody is Out. What else you got for me, Cisco?" I ask. Then, someone else picks up in Comms. "Barry, it's Doctor Snow. Caitlin Snow." She says. I'm thinking now that she'll yell at me for doing this, so I try to play it cool. "Hey, Caitlin! How's your day?" I ask. "Get back to S.T.A.R. Labs, now!" She demands. Cisco smiles at her as if he did nothing. "On my way." I reply. I'm about to super speed back to the lab when I feel a slight dizzy ness all of the sudden. I ignore it, and start running back to the lab.

Moments later.. "Have you both lost your minds? Who do you think you are?" Caitlin asks. "Well, I'm the eyes and ears, and he's the thief." Cisco replies. "This isn't funny. You could've gotten yourself killed!" Caitlin yells at me. She continues, "You can't be running around the city like some super-sonic fireman!" I get confused, "Why not? This is what we talked about. Me using my speed to do good." Caitlin looks at me in anger. "We talked about you helping us contain other people who might have been affected by the Particle Accelerator explosion, Meta-Humans. And aside from Clyde Martin, we haven't found any!" Caitlin says. "Clyde Martin was a Meta who could control the weather. I stopped him, but Joe helped me out." Cisco explains. I nod, "People in this city still need help." Caitlin looks at me seriously. "And I can help them." I try to convince her. "We can help them." Cisco says. "Will you please say something?" Caitlin asks Doctor Wells as he wheels in the room. Doctor Wells nods, "I think what Caitlin is saying in her own spectacular angry way. Is that we are just beginning to understand of what your body is capable of. Not to sound like a broken record, Mr. Allen. I do caution restraint." I look at him with a debatable answer. "Doctor Wells, I doubt restraint is how you got to be the man you are today." He looks at me with disappointment, "In a wheel chair, and a pariah. Lack of restraint is what made me these things. Know your limits." He wheels away, and Caitlin walks in front of me to look at me directly. "Don't expect me to patch you up every time you break something, considering you heal at super speed." She says. I look at her surprised, thinking "How would I break something? I have super speed." Cisco glances at me, "Hey, uh... anything happen out there today? The sensors in the Suit were kicking back some weird telemetry, like your vitals spiked for a few seconds." He asks. I shake my head, lying because I'm just thinking it wasn't important, "Never felt better." He nods at me, while picking up a vibrating phone. "It's your phone." He says while handing it to me. I sigh because I know it's work. Joe is calling. "Hey, Joe, everything all right?" I ask. "Great! I got a fresh crime scene.. a dead body.. detectives interviewing witnesses.." He says sarcastically. "Miles of that yellow tape stretched over everything. I'm only missing one thing. Can you guess what that is?" He asks. I know he's talking about me, "I'll be right there." I say, and hang up. "My day job beckons." I say to myself, and run out of the cortex, letting tons of paper fly and fall on the floor. They all notice it. Doctor Wells is confused, "When do you think he'll realize he didn't take his clothes?" He asks.