Flash Force Wars - Full Story (Season 7 Plot) | Comicstorian

the flash television show is exploring the concept of the other forces things other than the speed force for the flash comic book series but where did that start this is the comic story channel where we take some of your favorite trade paperbacks to stick in the shoes and we break them down into digestible bites to help you understand then we read them dramatically back to you all alterations to the panel sex and images are to prevent copyright problems and all art is owned by its respective companies now for long time viewers of the channel we're going to be doing something a little bit different and for new viewers of the channel this is probably what you're looking for if you're looking for the answers as to what is going on in the flash tv show so basically what we do is a full story series where we take all of the story lines that pertain to the topic we're talking about and normally that is like a hundred issue storyline or something condensed down into this full story but today what we're going to do is bring you the very specific issues that tells you the storylines about the speed force the still force the sage force and the strength force if you're wondering why those are important currently in the tv show they are exploring those concepts so if you're wondering what they did in the comic book today we're going to cover that now we have already covered all of these stories in the past but this is going to be jumping around to just the key moments that are important to these stories that we're talking about so let's kick it off with the flash war because within the flash war we discovered that they exist we're then going to explore the strength force and the sage force and what exactly they are and who exactly controls them but let's go ahead and start with the flash war that happened during flash rebirth around issue 50 or so as the sun rises over central city wally walks through the city to an old flower shop that he used to buy flowers from he asks the old man working there if he's open and the man tells him to look around does he look like he's open it's going to be a long time before they'll be open for business and while he says he's not so sure this is central city after all and just a few seconds later barry avery and wallace all run by fixing and putting everything back into place across the city the old man looks at his newly repaired shop and he says well i'll be looks like i am open how about some tulips flash himself helped save these not everyone is enjoying the new city though and there's one person in particular her name is mina and she's now locked away in iron heights mina takes a seat in the meeting room and she tells barry that she knows why he's here she doesn't need him to try and save her the power dampening collar is doing a good job of that already it's keeping the negative speed force from ripping her apart she did come here willingly and barry says that they can talk to the courts they can explain that garage was controlling her end and mina stops him telling him that it's not entirely true not all of those feelings were from grog she doesn't want him to die or anything but the truth still stands the speed force is dangerous for him for her for the entire world she really doesn't think that he's the guy for the job barry gets up but he tells her maybe she's right but failing her will always remind him of how important his role is these powers are a blessing and a curse i have to help people keep on the straight path friends and family who will be there for me and you as he opens the door wallace and avery run in hugging mina amina tells him that she's so sorry for what she's done meanwhile godspeed stops for a moment when he hears a voice the voice tells him that he is a man reborn in the store and yet he hoped to perish in one however you were saved all because you seek redemption godspeed pulls his mask down asking who's there and the voice continues telling him we can help you solve your brother's murder help you correct your mistakes help you become a hero godspeed godspeed tells him i'm listening but while everything begins to settle down in the city barry heads back to his old office at the police station to find iris already there he asks how she knew that he would be here and iris says that he's the flash not batman he stomps around when he stress paces she can hear him through the wall barry sighs and says that he never got to finish their conversation before the storm happened before grad i thought the only thing that made me special were my powers and i thought that if you knew who i was i was worried that you would see barry allen as nothing ira sighs telling him to come here and then touches the ring letting out the flash costume telling him to tell her all about the flash that's what she asked at his mother's grave she wants to know everything about his life as the flash he kept him from her for so long she needs to know what his life is like she picks up the costume and looks at the earpieces and tells him right before time stopped he was telling her about these what kind of music does the flash listen to barry tells her to wait a second and as ira spends the dial there's a click and a speech from neil degrasse tyson begins to play about walking around the universe iris asks him you listen to audio books by neil degrasse tyson you're such a nerd and then she kisses him as iris leans back she tells barry that she wasn't just asking him to talk about the flash for her but for him as well barry allen doesn't see himself as a hero he empathizes with people and sees what's special in everyone and she's worried that that wasn't real all she wanted to know is that even with him being the flash the barry allen part was still real right she fell in love with barry and not the flash barry smiles and tells her that she's right he's not sure why he ever tried to keep anything from her which is why he's going to tell her everything for real this time he motions towards the door and through it wally west walks in holding a bouquet of tulips iris says wait he's the one who's been sending her flowers every week and barry begins to explain who he is but ivor says that she already knows he's the other flash his hair is a dead giveaway he saved her from broad and left before she could thank him wally stumbles over his words for a moment and then he hands the bouquet stating i can't do this again i'm sorry as wally turns away iris stops him and turns him around and tells him don't run wally wally asks you you remember me and iris hugs i'm telling him it's okay everything's gonna be okay now you look just like rudy god i have so many questions for you but first where's everyone else barry asks who else and wally asks who are you but before he could finish he feels a sharp pain in his head and then he says it's too much i remember i remember everything but over in a time forgotten as a low rumble of thunder as hunter zolomon sits in his wheelchair in a cell he thinks back to when he met wally and now he helped him rebuild all of the things that he lost in life however there was a time when he needed wally never showed up after that he became zoomed to try and convince him to go back in time to make things right to the exact second when things started to go bad but wally he rejected his friend hunter closes his eyes and he continues to think back and then he starts to hear loud noises coming from outside his cell suddenly there's an explosion in the cell door flies back and a voice says you once told me that you had an idea that you could make me better is the student ready to become the teacher hunter looks and he sees eobard thawne the man obsessed with the original flash barry allen the original reverse flash they both have been disappointed by the flash in the past and together maybe they can finally put both flashes on the road to becoming a better hero back in the current times barry 68 of the heroes in supernatural arts to try and figure out what happened to wally zatanna uses her magic while jean uses his knowledge and jessica uses the green lantern ring but even with all of that they can't figure out what's going on as barry and iris wait outside the lab they hear wally shouting no within a second barry runs inside asking what's going on wally who's strapped to an examination table yells he's done get me out of this thing cyborg tells him that he's got to chill out and let his dad's tech do the thing and wally vibrates through the restraints telling him nope no more tests barry says that he can't just vibrate his way out of pain they're all worried about him his memories are a mess right now and iris then comes in stating you promised that you would get help and wally asks is this the price i have to pay to have you back in my life cyborg says that they don't know the exact cause but the scans clearly show that his body has gone through some kind of trauma the speed force inside of him is out of sync as wally looks to cyborg he begins to change and as wally's eyes widen at classic cyborg cyborg asks if he's okay he looks like he's seen a ghost while he steps back shouting it's always something ever since i got these powers they've been trying to kill me first the speed force tried to make me fade away then i got trapped in the speed force then the heart problem and now this if i could get past all of that i could get past this too barry tells him that they're going to get through this together he might know someone who he can talk to run a test in and while he yells i don't want any more tests barry barry tries to explain again but iris pulls wally away stating just stop he's had enough for today it's time we all take a break barry doesn't say anything then he runs to the place where he might be able to get some answers the bat cave as barry runs past alfred who's tidying up the place he begins to state that it's a pleasure to but barry cuts him off asking where is he the jail communicator placed booster gold with batman i tried calling him but the signal won't connect i'm in a hurry i need to talk to him now and alfred tells him that he's sorry but he's going to have to wait master wayne is out some business with miss kyle private to business if he would like to leave a but before he could finish barry lashes out in frustration punching the computer screen breaking it into a thousand pieces alfred sighs and he says that he understands after the poison ivy incident that he may desire some payback on master wayne but he hardly thinks that barry stops him asking how does he do it whenever i think of the danger that wally or kid flash could get into i just wish that i could turn that part of my brain off how does bruce let someone that he cares about run on the rooftops in a place like gotham nightwing batgirl robin all of them how does he not worry alfred stops barry from pacing and he tells him of course master wayne worries when you're a parent you're always going to worry would you like to sit down and have some tea barry says wait a sec and he begins to fix the monitor that he broke alfred tells him thank you it's rare that anyone cleans up after themselves around here but back with wally he starts to run all over the places where he could have had some of his victories and defeats trying to make sense as to what's going on what is happening to his memories however there's one place that he can go to cheer himself up and that's the flash museum it was the place that he would stop and talk to his hero even though the statue of berry would never talk back to him it would always inspire wally but as while he looks up at the statue barrier runs up asking what he's doing here he's been looking everywhere wally smiles and says that he just needed to clear his head for a bit whenever he feels lost he knows where to go the flash museum has always made him feel safe barry reaches out to wally asking what are you talking about there's no flash museum not yet at least wally begins frantically looking around stating that he had one they had a museum it was amazing why can't this be over barry tells wally to talk to him and wally says after magenta and grodd he thought he was getting better like life was finally getting back on track he's not even scared anymore just angry he just and barry kneels down telling him i know it's hard but i'll always be there to remind you not to give up hope but that isn't what you need right now so tell me what do you want to do and while he tells him run i just want to run so barry laughs that i can do back in the future hunter zolomon watches the infinite loop that is eobard thon dying over and over again all happening because eobard didn't listen to him as rage begins to build up inside of him hunter says eobard's right the flashes don't deserve my faith they deserve nothing hunter changes into his costume and he punches the screen and he shouts that if the flash is refused to see the road to being a better hero then i will take them down the road to war in the garage of iris west her and wallace listen to the radio as she finishes the last bit of repairs to wallace's dirt bike the announcer on the radio reports that a tidal wave is coming towards the coast of bad genitia but the residents are being saved by what looks like two flashes iris tightens the last bolt asking wallace if he could turn that off and as he does he says maybe he should go ira stops him telling him no barry and wally handle this themselves wallace then asks iris how does she know her way around a bike she gets on it telling him that the only way to get around markovia was on these things when they broke down you really only had yourself to get them back up to speed iris starts the bike up stating that luckily working with things that go fast runs in the west family just then barry and wally run in and barry says that he only lost a second on him on the way here wally tells him it's because he always takes the scenic route iris ruffles his hair telling him any trouble running on water and barry says he tried to explain the science of the tidal wave but wally wouldn't listen as everyone laughs while he screams out in pain as another of his memories comes back barry yells they're taking him to star labs right now he knows they don't want to but they need to get these visions under control wally starts getting up telling them no something is coming a second later there's a flash of light in the voice of commander cold along with his renegades calls out to iris he tells her by the order of the temporal courts you're under arrest for the murder of eobard thon barry runs up to coal telling him there has to be a misunderstanding we didn't and cold stops i'm telling him mr allen we know who you are and frankly we don't care we've been ordered by the temporal court's judge to bring miss west to the 25th century everyone begins to put on their costumes and wally tells barry you heard him right they know who you are and we also know a rogue when we see one barry then asks with a name like the renegades how can we trust you and cole tells them i was worried that you wouldn't remember our last encounter seems i was right wally gets in front of iris telling him she's not going anywhere and barry tells everyone okay okay calm down a second maybe we should hear them out if we talk things out we can but without a second thought wally grabs iris and starts running stating this is not happening barry calls out to wally and cold and his team take off right behind him down the street iris shouts to wally to stop right there and put her down she can take care of herself and they don't ever run from a fight just as they stop whether warlock fires lightning down on the two of them and iris begins to run with heat stroke taking off after her wallace jumps into the air punching heat stroke to stomp him and barry catches up telling cole that they don't need to fight they need cole tells him it's too late golden guardian europe golden guardian smiles and holds up her yellow lantern ring stating and the blackest day and the brightest night beware your fears made into light let those who try to stop what's right burn like my power sinestros might and as she finishes fear constructs of evil flashes start running out taking everyone down as barry and the others try to fight back more and more constructs appear and cold holds out his gun stating that he's sorry to do this but however before he can pull the trigger iris flies out of the garage on wallace's dirt bike running into cole telling him no one ever takes aim at her family before she can get very far though wally starts to have another vision and just as the renegades around him cold gets back up telling everyone stand down wally west is having what we in the 25th century call a temporal seizure it comes from time travel or changes in the timeline his memories are being splintered and they're causing damage to his nervous system iris asks if he can help him and cole tells her yes but our orders are for you if you come with us and answer our questions your nephew will be cared for ira says that even with thon's blood on her hands her family let the fear of that man haunt them no more she's not afraid of him let's go barry yells out for them to wait let me come as a witness i could explain her innocence to the courts they'll understand that it was self-defense cole tells him that he really doesn't care who comes with as long as iris is with us and wallace says if you're cohen i'm going to i would run to the ends of the earth for her no one else is going i don't trust them maybe they're wrong maybe the visions are a warning barry says look iris is right this needs to end if you don't want to go i understand wally doesn't know i'm gonna follow i'll trust them for now cold sighs stating great happy family hooray next stop the deborah quartz has allowed and in a flash of light the group is suddenly in the de portal courts of the 25th century except wally west isn't with them barry looks around asking where is wally and colt looks at a scanner stating that he should be with us this is all wrong meanwhile over at the destroyed flash museum wally appears and frantically looks around shouting asking where is everyone what is that my voice tells him this is your life your real life this is everything that was taken from you everyone you ever known or loved forgotten but not lost barry did nothing to find them and they're all trapped as out of the speed force just like you were you can still be the hero that they need but the only way to save your family is to destroy the speed force wally spends her on asking who's there and hunter solomon steps out between the glass cases that are for jai and irae west stating my name is hunter solomon but you can call me zoom and together we're gonna save your children wally walks up to the cases displaying the costumes of his children and hunter asks you felt something was missing didn't you when you were trapped in the speed force barry pulled you out but deep down you knew there was something else your family your friends your children i've never forgotten all i wanted to do is show you how to be a better flash and for you to recognize that potential to be the greatest hero that ever lived now the pathway has been revealed let me show you the way down the right path while he clenches his fist swinging yelling like i would ever follow a person like you and as he hits hunter a flood of memories pour into his mind and he steps back stating ah you tried to kill linda to teach me a lesson in tragedy you took my kids but i got them back did you do something to them again if you don't tell me where i ray and jay are i will drag you across space in time hunter pulls down his mask telling him just listen i'm not here to fight living in the future has given me some perspective on what i've done in the past wall-e begins to create a whirlwind knocking hunter away asking perspective you tormented my family and hunter slowly begins to get back up with wally watching asking you don't have powers and hunter tells him that's what i've been trying to say i've changed after the cosmic treadmill exploded in the flash museum my thoughts were all mixed up it corrupted my way of thinking but in the end i'm still your friend wally together we can fix our mistakes you can continue to hate me and lock me up or we can be heroes again back with the others cold looks over his reading stating wally did have a crazy amount of temporal energy but this isn't right someone grabbed him the time stream is a crime scene as barry asks for help the golden guardian runs in yelling that they have a problem the judge is missing but they found evidence in his office and it's a little distressing suddenly a video is played back on the many screens that shows the fight between iris and eobard it shows iris killing eobard thon in self-defense and colt then says this may not have been about iris it's about bringing wally here too and i know where he is barry yells that if wally is in danger we're going after him and cole tells his team to lock everyone up until we can sort this out barry begins running and punching everyone stating that when they first showed up he was holding back but he won't stand still while his family is in danger cold grabs his gun telling him that's enough barium smacked it out of his hand telling him you're being manipulated if you have any idea where wally is you're coming with me back at the flash museum hunter goes on telling him i warned you about going back in time and changing it when barry went back to save his mother he created the flash point and he nearly destroyed the world though barry managed to put things back together there are things missing before i became zoom i was selfish i wanted to go back and fix my life but now this is bigger than going back in time there are people trapped in the speed force wally turns away telling him that he's just trying to trick him into cutting the connection that him and barry have to the speed force and hunter shouts asking your powers are more important than your children the temporal energies in your body will allow you to enter the speed force at the right speed and break it it'll be enough to save ivory and shy be the hero that we all know you are just that barry runs in with commander cold stating that they never needed a reverse flash to tell them how to be heroes cold points his gun at hunter telling him you're under arrest and as he fires while he runs through yelling no and he deflects the shot creating a blast knocking barry and cold away seconds later wallace and iris show up and wallace asks is that reverse flash and wally tells him he used to call himself zoom he's from before bury him in a mess of things barry asks him how can you defend someone in that costume and wally says i know parts of my life have been taken away like my children i had twins barry everyone begins to look around and ira says that she remembers she used to babysit them who else are they but before iris can ask her a question cold grabs his gun pointing at a hunter stating that everyone is coming with me the courts will sort this out hunter yells to wally telling him you know that this is too big for them to understand you have to break the speed force wally tells barry that if he runs fast enough he can re-enter the speed force and he can save them and barry asks are you really considering this you are trapped there wally takes off running telling him i wasn't asking for your permission but before barry could follow cold checks the scanner scene and then wally just jumped into the time stream there's no point in running barry tells cold if you want to redeem yourself then take care of iris and wallace until i catch up i know there's a cosmic treadmill in this museum cole begins pressing buttons on his wrist stating how about a shortcut i have wally's speed force signatures so you should be able to get right to him as barry disappears hunter looks at cold and tells him wall-e is fondly on the right path to becoming the true flash and cole tells him you're not going anywhere and hunter tells him you're here because i created the renegades and cole tells him maybe it's time to go rogue then hunter grabs a shiny yellow hammer and slams it on the ground yelling i hate rogues and in a flash of light he disappears suddenly the alarms begin going off and iris asks what's that and cold says that it's a city-wide siren it's a temporal event everyone begins to head outside and cold goes on telling them whatever hunter did he changed the timeline in a major way time is beginning to erase itself as the entire city around the three heroes begin to fade to white cold grabs iris on walls telling them don't worry it may be too late for this but everything is going to be okay and as he says this they faded the white meanwhile in another time wally races towards central city thinking about the life that he had and then barry charges into him sending the two of them flying down the road barry gets up telling him hunter is lying and while he gets up he starts running telling him and what if he's not barry turns to grab wally telling him then we'll find another way and wally pushes barry off of him telling him you should be helping me in this and if you won't i'll make sure that you never run again barry steps back telling him i don't want that look eobard murdered my mother and took my life away every day has been about making sure that no one else has to go through what i did including you i will not allow you to make the same mistakes that i once did what if destroying the speed force has bigger consequences than losing our powers and while he yells i don't care about the consequences and barry then says if you run i will catch you and while he asks do you remember what happened the first time that we raced two paws for a moment and as the two generate more power wally takes off with barry's shouting you have to stop seconds later as barry catches up to wally they tear through the world with amanda waller watching the two pass and she tells steve trevor you might want to call in your friends tell them to clean up this mess before task force x is involved because either way the flashes must be stopped wally shouts hunter was right my kids are trapped there isn't another second that i'm gonna stand around and do nothing soon the ground around amanda waller and steve trevor begins to rumble and amanda asks are they coming around again and steve tells her no you shouldn't call on my friends right superman and the rest of the justice league begin to touch down with diana asking what is going on you said the flash was in danger and amanda tells him no the flash is the danger it appears that there are two flashes and they're racing it just might bring the end of the world that we're supposed to be protecting cyborg taps into the network and says waller's telling the truth for once the energy that they're generating is playing havoc with every fabric of the multiverse superman kneels down telling them if there's even a slight chance that they can hurt someone i'm gonna catch up and talk some sense into them in a flash superman takes off following close behind calling out to barry and wally telling them you have to stop however to them they're running too fast and they're so involved in their own argument that superman's words don't even reach them back with everyone there's a blue flash with superman stopping taking a deep breath stating i couldn't catch them they're going too fast hal jordan reports in telling everyone hey don't worry if the blue couldn't get their attention maybe green will roy then asks wouldn't going that speed kill them if they hit the wall and hal says being friends with barry for this long means that i've been subjected to his flashbacks for years i'm using all my will to vibrate this construct at a frequency that if they run through it it'll slow them down but not kill them but as wally runs third he plows through the construct destroying it forcing barry to stop and save hal barry tells him i know you're trying to help but it's too dangerous for any of you to be here after setting him down hal reports that they nearly broke his ring the energy that they are giving off demolished his construct this is bad real bad guys barry manages to catch up shouting what is wrong with you hal is our friend and you nearly killed him he grabs wally by the arm throwing him into a building but wally lands feet first and continues running telling them i knew that you were gonna be there to save him wally tells him if you trust me now's the time to show it barry and barry asks what do you want me to do then while he tells him we need to continue to race into the speed force smashing through the other side and barry says we've both have gotten lost in the speed force before wally and wally tells him that's because we were alone this time we could stay grounded we are each other's lightning rods barry just then wally begins to break through the speed force barrier with barry yelling telling him i can't keep up something is wrong there's pain barry because the fallback's shouting wait but wally calls out telling him you just have to believe i can save my children i have to there's a loud crackhole and both barry and wally are thrown out of the speed force there it gets upstating i still feel connected to the speed force but something's wrong i just then there's another loud boom with the justice league landing and diana shouting what have you done barry asks what is she talking about a document tells him look into the sky as the two look up they see lightning storms covering everything and barry says i think we just broke the speed force wally then asks but what about irate and jai hunter said but before he could finish barry and wally hear the sounds of cracks as somebody is going through hitting all of the heroes and a voice calls out to them the voice tells them you didn't free them you didn't break the speed force all you did was break the force barrier and unleash something else that was trapped long ago barry shouts to hunter as he's holding batman's unconscious body and hunter tells him you always wanted to be like barry and now you can be a selfish man who hurt the world while he asks what are you talking about and hunter says i needed you to break the forced barrier so that i could gain access to what was still inside of the speed force barry's just word shouting you lied and he begins to create a whirlwind blast but hunter holds up batman's body letting him take the hit and being sent off across the city hunter yells you did what a hero does it took the risk and yes i do know where wally's family really is but i saw the dangers that are coming into our world and what you needed to be a true hero like a fool i hoped it would have been wally hunter holds up a ring telling them eobard used to hang on to barry's original flash ring hoping the same thing for him as the ring opens up a red costume comes out and hunter tells them no one understands tragedy like i do my name is hunter solomon and i am the flash i am much much more than just the fastest man alive you think that you know everything about the speed force but that's just one of the forces out there and now you have freed them all barry and wally start rushing towards hunter but hunter holds out his hand in the two stop hunter tells them the history books called these forces the sage force and the strength force hunter telepathically lifts barry and wally into the air and then punches them back down telling them i saw how these would eventually make your lives a living hell and i'm going to save you from that future and use these powers to kill both of you and finally bring back the life that was taken as hunter starts to take the two down wally jumps to his feet and takes hunter away asking where are my kids where did you hide them and hunter grabs wally by the throat telling him no that's not on me you never understood but barry barry gets it barry knows how tragedy makes a hero you practically lived the same life a madman changed your lives forever and destiny turns you into heroes these events turned me into zoom but that was the path that i needed to run to join you as the new flash together both barry and wally yell that there's never going to be a time when he becomes the flash and hunter punches barry and mentally stops wally telling him i'm stronger and smarter you're always blind to the speed force and look where that got you we thought these heroes were equals when we should have been your masters it never crossed your minds what other forces would be out there now with the flash family broken it's time to fix the past present and future as hunter turns back it begins to run wally helps bury up telling him that they need to hurry and follow hunter before things get even worse meanwhile back with the others floating in nothingness wallace asks where are we are we dead and cole tells him no i was able to get us away from the tine wave before it could get us i just couldn't set coordinates this must be the know when iris asks what are they supposed to do and cole tells that kid flash can run us back into the time stream that way we can get back home wallace says that he doesn't have a lightning rod like barry or wally and iris stops him telling him yeah you do you're a member of our family and you know exactly who to run to when you're worried you can do this now run damn it wallace grabs a hold of iris and cole's arm shouting yes ma'am and he starts to run over with hunter he punches through into the time stream and he looks back and he sees barry and wally and he laughs telling them it looks like i've got some sidekicks the two try to grab a hold of hunter but as hunter dodges he tells them this is so much bigger than you thanks to you breaking the force barrier i can cross the line into hyper time here i can pick and choose the reality that i want to be the hero that you need all that's needed is the last force as the realities begin to bend around everyone barry says that he must be talking about the still force the justice league just recently encountered it it's a dark alternate current to the speed force while yells whatever it is we can't let hunter get a hold of it what's worse is i've been in hypertime before and this doesn't look right barry says it's got to be dying because of the source while breaking that's why we need but wally stops as he's these images of irae and jai stating that's my kid's future barry calls out to him but hunter hits him telling him wally is starting to understand we can all get what we want hunter starts running through a reality where wally has his family and just as he begins to stop and look barry tells him we have to keep going the longer that we wait the further that hunter is going to get and we will find them again and wally starts running telling him you're right i know you're right and that's when there's a loud crack and as everyone stops wally asks what is this and hunter says don't you recognize the 25th century you are just here but your adventures erased it wally shouts asking where are iris and wallace and hunter attacks them telling them it doesn't matter all is lost and found at my will you could have had these powers if you are so weak but you're unworthy of even fighting for it hunter grabs wally by the neck and as he grabs and wally's eyes begin to glow as another memory comes in and he shouts we used to be friends as wally remembers hunter is knocked away by the deporal energy and he asks what did you do i need to get back into hypertime barry and wally take off after him and barry asks did you see that your temporal seizure hurt hunter that could be the key to winning this whole thing while he asks him how and barry tells him whenever you think about something from your past you have a burst of temporal energy and that clashes with the speed force connection now that hunter is connected to the speed force temporal energy should hurt him it might be possible to use that energy to expel him from hypertime while he asks what happens if he uses the temporal energy and he forgets his family again and barry shouts you won't you just have to embrace them the past and legacy are important and you can learn from them to help you move forward your connection to the people that you love whether here or not is your greatest gift wally then asks how are we going to catch up to hunter and barry asks remember when you asked me about the first time that we raced of course i remembered i was so lost in the science of the speed force that i missed out on just having fun and cutting loose wally west always enjoyed speed and right now you need to remember that wally west is the fastest man alive wally begins to focus on is running and slowly begins to inch closer and closer to hunter and then he tells hunter this race is over hunter asks him do you really think you can keep up with me and he swings except his arm goes through wall-e while he laughs asking as you like that i want intangible from vibrating so much that's something my daughter taught me you've helped me remember everyone in my life and the people who made me so for that thank you for reminding me that i don't run through the speed force alone wally starts to concentrate and he lets out the temporal energy that he's been storing up with the memories of his family and unleashes it on to hunter zolomon and as he does there's a loud crack at gacomb and barry finds himself back in central city he looks around asking where wally and hunter are and that's when there's a loud crack i got boom and wallace comes running out holding iris in colts he gets out telling them that he didn't think he could go that fast and barry tells him that was amazing you found your way back and wallace stops him stating that he found his way back because he let his anger guide him as wallace pushes barry back barry asks him what and wallace tells him it's because we're supposed to be a family and when we were in the future you left me iris pulls wallace away stating it's okay and wallace tells her no it's not we can't keep doing this cole checks his scanner and he asks barry what the hell did you do in there the force barrier is a mess the fact that i'm alive means the future must have been fixed hopefully what's worse there's no temporal energy which means all speedsters are done forever all access to hypertime is shut down and i'm stuck here iris asks what about wally and cole looks at the skater stating well i'm not sure if it's him or not but someone is connected to the speed force in this time period over at mount hood in oregon while he starts to pick himself up from the snow and barry says let me help ali asks where is and barry tells him they're at home or at least in the correct time period wally says no hunter and barry tells me he's not sure wally pushes barry off stating that they escaped that means that hunter escaped too they need to find him and barry runs in telling him stop can't we just talk for a second wally tells him i've been angry at you for so long and that's because you mean everything to me it wasn't linda or the kids who grounded me it was barry allen you pulled me out of the speed force and i may be faster but i could never outrun you hunter was right i wanted him to be so badly and i ended up making the same selfish mistakes as you it was wrong of me to ask you to run with me after everything eobard did to you so right now i need to go back to the future and find hunter barry stops him you can't when you release your temporal energy you cut off time travel wally steps back asking then hunter won barry then says we may have lost but right now we need to stop running wally asks what like you did after your mother's death you still still for years you might have made your own mistakes but i refuse to make yours again we're not the same and i'll never stop running barry as wally leaves barry stands there thinking about the things that have changed he is not the fastest man alive anymore after briefing the league on everything that had happened everyone went their separate ways with wallace following damien wayne and iris going out to find wally but even with the force barrier being shattered if there's one thing that he can learn from loss it's that he will always find hope meanwhile elsewhere a young speedster comes through the street stating i'm not sure if you heard me wally but if not who cares the force barrier is down and the one and only bart allen is back back in the 25th century the renegades hurry over to iron heights penitentiary and golden guardians says the readings show that there have been some massive changes whether warlock asks what are they supposed to do they are all that's left of the renegades and golden guardians shouts that they will deal with that later iron heights is the greatest prison in the multiverse eobard built it after he caught its only inmate if he ever escaped but as the renegades turn the corner a bolt of lightning strikes them fading them from existence and a voice says finally the flashes will pay for what they have done the metal doors fall over revealing the name of the inmate crisis and crisis says worlds will live worlds will die the multiverse will never be the same with the force barrier damaged in the revelation of strength force and the stage force berry sought the help of the only people who would have insight on other forces the multiversal flashes but as he stands in the house of heroes none of the flashes before him know anything other than the speed force no one knows what the stage 4 strength force and still force are barry scy stating thanks anyway it's good to see all of you but i'm going to go back to my lab and try to figure this out one flash says that it's not always about science you know and another asks did you ever go on a force quest barry stops asking what flash says he can't go on believing something as powerful as the speed force is all about him you should go out there and explore learn a little bit barry tells them ah thanks i'll think about it if you need me you know where to find me and back in the current day central city trickster sits in a room with detective burns and morrow stating that if wolf finds out about this he's dead maro asks why do you think we're hiding you up here why are you so jittery trickster then says that he's not sure about this he's not feeling too good maybe they should get him to a nurse or something burns tells him look she knows how small and powerless wolf made him feel but they can help him and maro tells him to just relax the judge will be here any minute and they can drop him back off at iron heights wolfe will never know just that a male and a female parrot angel shout that they hope trickster isn't afraid of heights burns and marrow grabbed their guns and began firing but the para angels shield themselves with their metal wings shouting they heard that trickster was talking too much the male pulls trickster out of the window and then trickster shouts asking do you know who's in central city trickster's fake arm falls off and the mail says the flash may run the streets but we run the skies below barry runs up the side of a building jumping off of it stating that his mother always told him that he had his head in the clouds he springs off the building punching into the male para angel and the two begin struggling for control the woman calls out that if he really wants him all he has to do is catch him she then lets go of trickster and barry lands on a nearby building and begins running and leaping off catching trickster asking what is this all about trickster trickster tells him it's a top secret and shouldn't you be more worried about the pair angels getting some air a voice tells him that he wouldn't worry about the air it's all about getting chilly commander cole flies by pointing his cold gun at the pair of angels and fires freezing them mid-flight barry shouts you've got to be kidding me and then it begins to run to the edge to create a whirlwind to catch the para angels and safely put them back on the roof barry yells you could have killed them and cole tells them that it was a nano ice blast they would have defrosted when i hit the switch but while the two of them are distracted trickster uses his air walking shoes to run down into the alleyway and as he gets on the ground he stumbles stating i still feel weird and the phantom pain of my arm i haven't felt that in years just then the ground begins to tear apart and trickster can feel himself being pulled down he tries to grab onto something screaming for help but as whatever it is pulls him down his cries go unheard a short while later back on the rooftops barry runs up to commander cole telling him great your action caused us to lose trickster cole tells him look i figured since i'm stuck here i might as well land a hand times are changing barry tells him no this is my city things don't change in central city you can look for the forces all you want but stay out of my way later that night back at home barry goes through trickster's file stating that there's got to be a place that he would always return to just need to keep commander cold away iris tells him that she knows that him being stuck here is his fault right maybe he should just work with the time displaced commander colt they don't want him to become a villain again barry asks are you worried is there anything that you remember from before about the new forces iris thinks about it and says that she's not sure her memories are a bit weird some things fade in and out while others are stronger but irish remembers the other timeline in which they got married and barry asks like what and irish trails off stating something else just then barry's phone goes off and barry says that it's cold he thinks he's found trickster he runs out of the house but then runs back giving iris a kiss and then back out again as he reaches the location that colt sent him cold says that he's surprised he actually came any lectures planned mary tells him no he actually came to listen to him cold laughs telling him well my scans showed that trickster went missing right around this spot and but before he could finish the ground rumbles as a hand punches up breaking apart the pavement a figure begins to crawl out and a voice asks what's happening i feel whoa cole tells him i think we may have just found the strength force and barry asks if the giant hulking monster is trickster he punches barry into the ground and then he grips the gravel arm telling everyone central city saw me as a joke but now they're all gonna pay for laughing at me a few minutes pass and as commander cole gets back up he says that he hasn't been hit that hard since gorilla ghost sucker punched him in front of the house's secrets barry helps him up stating you might have a concussion and cold brushes them off telling him i'm fine and i don't like the idea of moving a super speed to the hospital besides we have bigger things to worry about than a few bumps and bruises back when i was an agent at the temporal courts trickster never turned into this the two look at the hole in the ground and barry asks was the trickster buried alive cole tells him well the speed force struck you from above maybe the strength force comes from below scans show that the forest is still in flux after you and wally broke the force barrier you turned central city into a petri dish for these new forces it's probably trying to find a proper host meanwhile downtown trickster smashes another police car shouting trickster wrecks in the house barry and cold speed through the city following trickster's destruction but while iris goes to the library to try and find out more about the other forces there's a loud crashing noise she looks back to see the flash thrown through the window as barry hits the bookshelves he sees iris and asks where's the science section he gets up goes back to the window and ira says my keen investigation skills tell me that trickster found the strength force before you did didn't he trickster then yells i gotta be like the strongest guy in the world right i gotta be commander cole runs up with his gun trying to freeze tricks are telling him it's time for you to chill out but trickster grabs him telling him i thought you were snart but stark doesn't make puns flash runs down punching into trickster and trickster laughs telling him thanks for the massage bro and then he grabs him too as trickster begins to squeeze down on the flash he begins to vibrate out of his grip and he shouts we're here to help you trickster looks at his hand stating what the hell bro you cheated that hurt he grabs a car to throw but before he can he falls to his knees shouting something's wrong bro cole tells him it looks like the vibrational frequency must have thrown his body's connection to the strength force off we need to take him out while we can barry tells him no he's just a kid can't you use any of that fancy future tech to see what's going wrong commander cole begins to scan tricks for telling him the strength force is surging inside of him the power is too much for his body he's breaking down under his own weight if we're going to help out this criminal we're going to need to find a place that can contain him trickster struggles and says i know a safe place bro a short while later over at iron heights kristen looks through trickster's file stating that all of wolf's personal files on him have been deleted did the wolf know that he was going to report him just then wolfe asks kristen what she's doing and she tells him she uh after the flash totally screwed things up she wanted to find clues that can help them could be possible that the flash is the one hiding trickster and wolff says i doubt it why would the flash ever dare work with but that's when he stopped by a guard yelling they got him it's the trickster and the flash brought him in as flash and cold walk through the doors of the prison of trickster trickster whispers to bury no matter what you can't leave me alone with wolf bro wolf blocks out stating that it looks like someone's on the juice and why is snart here barry runs up stating i need commander cole's help for running tests on trickster and trickster isn't leaving my sight wolf then asks why exactly would i allow you to observe one of my inmates what's in it for me barry asks what do you want and wolf smiles later inside of a containment tube the flash asks him are you happy now and wolf tells him it's like christmas morning i wanted to test my new anti-speedster cells on an expert you're surrounded by a special glass that gives off a harmonic frequency so chaotic that if you try to vibrate through it it will skin you down to the bone as commander cold begins to work on the computer wolf asks where exactly are you from where is home cole tells him don't worry no one knows who you are where i'm from cold then calls out all right trickster a giant punching bag is coming in i'm giving you three guesses what i need you to do with it the bag goes into the cell and as he punches it cold looks at the computer stating holy his strength is off the charts he's getting heavier the strength force must be based around gravity and the force of motion his mass is increasing and creating his own gravitational field but it's unstable the speed force bonded with the flash but it's not doing that with the trickster best guess it's rejecting him it's going to kill him or it's going gonna explode the flash asks wait it's not permanent that means we can still help him we just need to find a way to transfer that energy to cole tells him is this guy really worth the risk he might be better suited being put down kristin tells him no the flash is right just then the computer beeps and cold says oh no it's do or die time the strength force is trickster begins to scream out in his cell as his muscles begin to expand and cold says i'm sorry we're running out of options here barry because the beat on the anti-speed 4 cell shouting let me out and the ground begins to rip apart underneath the trickster but it also ends up pulling barry allen into it after a flash of light barry leans up looking at his body as has now grown to the size of tricksters because he's now inhabiting the strength force the trickster tackles into barry shouting you lied bro you just wanted to steal the spotlight the flash tries to tell them that's not it and while the two of them struggle cold says i'm sorry but there's only one way we're gonna stop the strength force and that's by killing the both of you cold fires a shot off narrowly missing barry's chest and then cold calls out that he saw the readings the strength force is too dangerous especially now that you're infected barry shouts that trickster doesn't deserve to die because of his past mistakes he's just a kid hearing that trickster yells i am not a good he charges at barry pinning him to the wall but as they do wolf tells cold that this is his chance kill him pull the trigger trickster turns back and barry says there's still time to save the trickster and then he punches the ground throwing everyone off their balance he steps back looking at his fist dating whoa this must be how superman feels cold gets back up stating whatever you're thinking i can't let you do it and barry tells him wait trickster's weight increased the stronger he was getting because of the manipulation of the gravitational field around him but when i vibrated so barry begins to vibrate in place and he slowly reduces his own size while retaining the strength barry says see it can be controlled all the strength force needs is an outlet and we can do the same for trickster cold sighs stating i really hate science elsewhere in the prison wolf gets back up and trickster finds him telling him you may have been the big bad wolf but you won't ever blow me down again bro as trickster smashes the ground next to wolf barry runs in tackling him out into the sea the two punch back and forth but without his full size barry is knocked back into the prison they both go back and forth fighting for power and as they clash the flash asks what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object just then an explosion goes off in the center of the prison and barry gets up in his original form asking where did trickster go trickster calls out holding up the entire building over here you got me pretty good my bodacious bod is going bye-bye do me a favor get my friends out of here before the house comes down barry tells him no we can think of a weight trickster but trickster shouts you keep saying you want to help then help by saving my friends the only family i got please flash as barry starts to run around getting everyone out trickster struggles to keep the weight of the building from falling as his body is slowly reverting back to its normal form once the final rogue is out of the prison barry runs back trying to grab trickster the debris falls crushing him he begins to remove the rocks calling out the trickster and what he finds is the gravel arm broken off as the sun comes up commander colt scans the prison stating that central city has become the epicenter for the new forces and it's playing havoc with his scanners but iron heights is free of the strength force if he found a new host he or she is going to be out there in the world barry asks him what about the trickster and cold tells him nothing i tapped into some satellites over central city but i didn't pick up any traces of them also we didn't find a body bury then shouts i've had enough of this all of this stuff happened because of what you did commander colt this isn't the 21st century your ways are not going to fly here cold asks them are you calling me reckless i'm stuck in the stone age because you and wally wanted to race all i want to do is go back home and see if the people that i love are still alive my very presence here means the future has already changed the world that i love is gone i can never go back flash you're gonna need to get over yourself and get ready for what's about to come cold speeds off at his hover bike and iris asks she thought that they were supposed to be working together barry looks back asking what are you doing here an iris says covered a story flash fought trickster and wolf's guards and there's a man dressed like captain cold what even is his real name we know he's in the future but commander cold would be a weird real name barry brushes her off stated that he needs to get back to work and he'd rather not talk about any of this irish grabs i'm stating yeah but i do and barry tells her oh yeah what about you then let's talk about what you're hiding you're not the only one in this relationship who can pick up on clues i know you're not telling me something from your past life why what is so bad that you would hide it from me iris iris thinks back to the wedding memories that she had and says that it's nothing barry heads back into the prison stating fine don't tell me i'll see you at home when i get off of work meanwhile elsewhere trickster looks around and finds himself in an abandoned building covered in dust he asks where am i i thought i is this some kind of trick a shadowy hand reaches out stating it ain't your time just yet if you had just let the parrot angels bring you here from the start we could have avoided all of this but it's okay it's all about the long con you know come on let james jesse lend you a hand pun intended there's a loud boom in central city as a giant fist of sullivan grundy punches into barry allen knocking him to the ground as the flash sits there he thinks how halloween is one of iris's favorite holidays and instead of spending time with her he's fighting a zombie with the justice league dark he gets back up and he starts to lay into solomon with solomon grabbing him and the flash thinking that he might have to come up with a different plan to bring him down grundy pulls back and as he swings the flash begins to vibrate at a particular frequency that allows him to pass through grundy's fist and boom pieces of grundy fly all around and wonder woman says that she's surprised she never took him for one to deal a lethal blow like that flash shrugs it off telling her that grundy will be fine he'll be back to his old gray self before you know it right now i gotta head out meet up with iris and the others i'll catch you all later flash changes out of his costume as he runs to the bar to meet up with iris burns and morrow and as he walks in amaro laughs stating shoot i thought you'd be at least an hour late since you're only 15 minutes late i guess i'll be picking up the first round huh barry laughs as he heads to the bar stating fine fine another round for my friends put a water for me please the bartender asks if he's sure that he doesn't want a cold one if anyone needs to loosen up it's you barry allen commander cold smiles as he leans on the back of the bar and barry asks what is he doing here cole tells him that since he's stuck in this primitive era he's got to make money somehow he doesn't have very many options burns gets up to help barry with the drinks and asks who's his friend behind the counter barry says that he's not a friend just uh a suspect in an old case i had meanwhile over at iron heights heatwave begins to head back to his cell when the doctor tells him that he may want to try meditation it might help with his heatwave stop some telling him none of that new age stuff works for me not really my style mirror master laughs asking whether was it if he's seeing this heat wave is talking about his feelings it's truly the end of the rogues heatwave tells him shut it it'll be the end for you but as he passes warden wolf wolf asks how was his visit today he waved scoffs telling him nothing for you to stress over you glorified security guard wolf says that if he continues with that kind of a tone he'll learn that there's no way out of iron heights and heatwave says oh yeah tell that to james jesse and wolf snaps asking how do you know about just then an explosion goes off and heat waves sell and he screams as he's being burned alive back at the bar burying the others sit and laugh but as barry looks towards the bathroom he sees a red blur he gets up but he says that he uh thinks he saw someone and iris asks if it's someone from his old track team superman once told barry that he and lois had a code word for when there was danger and one of them needed to go and what iris was asking was barry's version of it barry heads to the bathroom but he doesn't see anything and just then it formed wally west beats on the mirror on the other side asking why did you let them take me barry jumps back yelling no i'm not falling for mirror masters games i'm not sure how you found me but i'm coming wally breaks through the glass shouting you left me barry and barry shields himself as he looks up and sees nothing he walks out and kristen says there he is singh just called and said that something happened in iron heights all hands on debt kind of a situation so barry hugs iris and tells her goodbye as everyone leaves iris goes to the bar and tells cole that they need to talk about the new forces still sage strength back at iron heights heatwave lays in the icu as kristin looks over heatwave's paperwork stating that mick has always been a pyromaniac this is hardly the first time that he's been burned but this one might kill him the scans show that his synapses are exploding his body has been experimented on a few times over the years we just need to figure out why he just spontaneously combusted this time as he waved nods in and out of consciousness he begins to see the world change and he finds himself walking through a burnt out city he looks around asking the hell is this and a large fire spirit appears before him telling him no there's nothing left to burn fire is about pain it cleanses it heals the fire gives life over at the bar iris shits with coal telling them that these new forces seem familiar but she's finding it rather odd that there's no mention of it in the future cold sits back stating the time travel is funny like that but instead of looking into the future you might want to look into the past what else do you remember before the flash point iris tells them bits and pieces but just then her phone rings and she tells cole to hang on to barry she answers and she asks what's up but barry says that he isn't finished yet but he was wondering if she could ask that bartender but before he could finish there's a scream as three fire demons charged throughout the prison barry says that he's gotta go and irish tells cole that he's gonna need help colt says that he doesn't take orders from but irish shouts at him just go back at the prison barry changes into his costume to help pull people away from the demons and as the flash grabs wolf wolf yells i don't need help from you the flash tells them watch they aren't going after you anyway and wolf then says who then the flash says giant fire demons arrive at iron heights right after one of your resident fire starters is hurt take a wild guess he races to where he wave is being kept and he finds burns there and he tells her that she needs to get out of here just then heat waves eyes begin to glow blue and the flash tackles birds so the ground shouting get down and a second later heatwave explodes again both the flash and burns get up and they see the fire this time took out everything burns asks where is everyone and as the flash kneels down at a pile of charred bones he says that these bodies there's something off about the way the fire spread a fire that could do that these flames are not normal the voice then tells them that's because normal is boring and i'll never be normal again this is my world flash here heat wave is god as he wave attacks the flash grabs bird and runs her outside so that he can try and fight back against the giant heat wave the fire spirit from before tells he waved not to bother with the flash he knows what needs to be done if he truly loves her if he loves fire he'll burn it all heatwave tells her yes my love and a second later iron heights explodes the flash runs outside asking burns if she's okay and she tells him that she's thankful for the save but the next time he wants to pick her up ask first heatwave starts to make his way to central city and as the flash watches burns asks aren't you gonna go after him and flash tells her no because this is all wrong he waves obsessed with fire not killing those charred bones they don't match up with what the evidence would look like we're still in iron heights but not the real iron heights burns asks what is that supposed to mean and the flash says that he believes that they are lost in heatwave's mind back in the real world the flash and burns lay knocked out next to heatwave's bed as the fire demons are getting closer wolf shouts to his men to keep firing but as the demons reach out for heatwave they're suddenly encased in ice wolf looks back stating you and commander cole tells him my buddy heatstroke is gonna be so hellish that there are fire monsters here wolf asks what the hell are you doing here and cole tells him you're welcome by the way wolfe looks back and says welcome for what this is the second time this month of my prison has been destroyed and you and the flash are somehow involved why is that commander cold but when wolf turns back he finds cold the flash burns and heatwave are gone back inside heatwave's mind the flash goes through the remains of iron heights and burns says that heat waves never had an ability like telepathy before right the flash tells her no this is the sage force recently central city was the epicenter for a series of new forces that were unleashed into the world the first one was the strength force and that hit trickster turned him into a giant brute this one clearly hit heatwave burn says okay then why is she here she has no connection to these forces the flash tells her that he may have an idea but he's going to need to carry her so she sighs he begins to cross water and he explains that back when he ran too fast he got pulled into the speed force itself to escape he had to focus on his lightning rod something from his life that keeps him grounded he believes that for them to get out of there they need to find heatwaves lightning rod when they stop burns says that she never told anyone this but before she came to central city her family was from gotham her parents are part of the falcone family making drugs that was until their lab blew up and they died in a massive fire that was part of the reason she became a cop flash says that he's sorry he didn't know and burns asks why would he it's not like we're friends the flash goes on state and heatwave must have pulled them in for a reason the sage force must have read her mind and saw that they had similar paths but just as he finishes as a loud womb as part of the building they're in breaks the flash starts clearing a past dating that something doesn't want them connecting to heatwave that must be why you're here back at the flash's apartment in the real world iris knocks in the door telling cold that she knows that he's in there he cracks the door open saying hi uh password iris pushes her away and stating that she doesn't have time for that she needs to know what happened at iron heights the things that her contacts have told that they they were insane iris looks down to see flash burns and heatwave all hooked up to colt's future tech and cold says uh barry did say to make myself at home back inside heatwave's mind the flash leads birds out of the smoke and as burns looks around she asks where are they this looks like the suburbs outside of the city the flash looks back and says that he knows exactly where they are this unscathed house is heatwave's lightning rod heat waves childhood home burns asks why would heatwave have brought them there and the flash tells her that he didn't as heatwave appears above them the flash shouts to him you couldn't find your lightning rod because you're too afraid why heatwave begins to revert to his normal phone saying that he knew flash wouldn't let him down when he was young he hoped that when he grew up he would be like his dad but back when he saw his first flame he knew he was born obsessed the flash tells him that that isn't true he might not be able to go back to the way things were but he can always move and heatwave says forward heatwave begins to change back stating i could never change what i am not today not tomorrow all that's ahead of me is a nightmare i couldn't face it before so now i will burn it all he waves blast rips through the building and flash runs in saving heatwave's younger self-stating but if he can just get but then there's another explosion back in the real world heatwave's body begins convulsing and iris asks what happens to the flash and burns if they're not disconnected from the sage force cold looks at the scanner stating that it's way worse than just that if heatwave has another flare-up like he did at iron heights he's gonna destroy all essential city inside heatwave's mind the flash continues to run and he runs right into a wall of fire bouncing off of it he looks around and sees dozens a path with no clear way to go the flash tries to vibrate through the fire but as he burns his hands burns tells him it's no use heatwave's maze is endless the flash starts running through the maze stating that he will search every path until he can find an exit and burns says that it's only a waste of time he waved and calls out just like him they're trapped trapped in a life he didn't want this maze makes them feel the way that he did the day his parents died the fire spirit whispers to heatwave burn them my love they are all the stands between you and me finally being together as one the flash yells don't listen to her you've been infected by the sage force it's given your sickness a voice and all it wants to do is pull you deeper into your mind heat wavy else no you're lying i'm the one to control here this is my world this is where i am god over in the real world cold begins hitting heatwave with his cold gun stating that he can't keep it up forever if the sage force keeps accelerating thanks to barry's speed force then any minute he waves going to go nuclear if we don't act fast the city is doomed iris runs over the computer stating okay the sage force feeds on empathy right wait how did i know that these new forces ever since hunter zolomon tricked barry and wally into unleashing them they felt so familiar an image then flashes before iris's eyes as she's working at a station stating she remembers them in her past life before the flash point she studied the new forces she knows what needs to be done hurry put this on inside of heatwave's mind burns calls out that they just want to help and heatwave tells her no the sage force has helped me in ways that no one else has he begins throwing fireballs at the ground and a voice tells him then ain't you buddy heatwave looks over asking captain cold captain cold hits him with a colder gun stating the one and only now why don't you chill out for a moment he wave breaks you from the ice shouting you aren't the real snort he's locked up in bell reef cold asks is that right then how would i know about the job who tried to pull a metropolis a few years ago back before the rogues when it was just us and superman swooped in to put the fire out with his fury's breath heatwave stops asking you laughed the whole time when we were being carried to iron heights cole tells him yeah you used to help me find an outlet for my passion but really we helped each other helped me get over obsessing over my past and how my dad treated me he waved starts to shrink stating the urge will never leave me nicole says maybe but the mick i know would never let the fire control him he wave blinks and sees himself in his old costume and he asks is this my gun and cole tells him yeah remember you're the one in control of the fire you don't need that overgrown matchstick dame to boss you around it's time to go home buddy as everyone walks towards the light the fire spirit screams how dare you if you want love me you will burn but as the spirit attacks the flash runs in the way deflecting the blast the spirit asks why would he risk his life for a monster like heatwave the flash tells because he knows the pain that he way feels how hard it is to just let go of the past and then moving forward sometimes hurts the spirit gets ready for another attack and the flash runs circles around her breaking her apart she screams in pain and everyone wakes up back in barry's apartment a short while later the flash brings heat wave and burns back to iron heights and as heatwave bandages fall off he looks at himself asking where did my scars go as barry and commander cold leave the prison barry stops and tells him you know i may have been wrong about you you did a good job back there cold steps off his hover by telling him call me henry and barry says wait that's my father's name and cole tells him yeah i know later outside the city barry looks on taking it all in when there's a low rumbling sound making its way towards him iris gets off her motorbike asking what's going on and barry says that cole told him that she knows how to deal with the sage force irish tells him that she didn't want to lie or hide things from him but she's unsure of the things that she remembers and was afraid that they weren't real that's why she's been so hard on him hanging up on the past the past is gone it's unfair to try and live with it always on our minds you need to talk to the flashes of the 52 worlds again about what's going on with a force quest barry tells it that he already has you should have listened to them from the start ever since while he left he's felt directionless iris then asks if he's going to finally accept that he can't go backwards what's stopping him from going on this quest barry says it's because of her she laughs and perry says what i'm serious i can't live without you she kisses him and tells him that he's a lovable well-meaning dummy don't you get it i'm coming with you meanwhile over at earth18 home of flash johnny thunder johnny holds his ground as a tornado comes his way stating that this might be his last stand but they can bet they're behinds that he's gonna go down shooting the way to start to dismantle his guns in a voice then asks what did barry want with the flashes of the 52 worlds johnny says that he needed to go in his force question johnny starts to get pummeled and the voice says finally the time has come barry allen runs in the right direction towards me hunter solomon the true flash as iris walks through the busy market getting some food she tells the flash that it's been years since she's been here but she's never forgotten how good this place smells he's gotta try some of this wait come on you promised you wouldn't do this on this trip meanwhile running through the crowded street flash makes his way through the people chasing down a purse snatcher while making sure not to bump into too many people but just as the crowds let up the purse snatcher stumbles onto the streetcar tracks falling down the man driving shouts for everyone to hold on as he hits the brakes and with how fast they're going they don't think they're going to stop in time just before the streetcar can hit the man the flash runs in front of it creating a wind tunnel to slow it down stating that it looks like he's got there right on time after making sure there's no damage to the streetcar the flash grabs the snatcher telling him that this is kind of embarrassing but could you point me to the local police to drop you off i'm not from around here please and thank you a few moments later iris says that that took longer than expected why not just vibrate through everyone and flash tells her because that would be rude not to mention dangerous what would happen if i ran into someone at the wrong frequency iris says to him you promised that we would stay together on this force quest now it's time to go check out this place as the two of them walk up to an old building iris goes on stating that this church is one of the oldest structures in this location back when the trickster attacked central city library there was this book in the wreckage it talked about a world traveler named richard amidi who believed that there could have been signs of people with superpowers throughout history some of these powers sound like they could be the new forces it can't be a coincidence barry as the two walk up the stairs flash notices the door to richard's office has been broken into the two walk in and flash says that they've both seen enough crime scenes to know that this was done by a professional the ransack patterns tell them that there was more than one person searching for something very specific just then two masked individuals jumped down from the rafters and the woman says that she thinks these two aren't any danger just a pair of young lovers just like them the male land stating i doubt that they're just like us flash thinks to himself he can't change into costume right now without revealing that he is the flash so he asks who are they the woman holds up a small statue stating that they're in search of souvenirs you may call us gemini iris then asks did they do all of this for that statue and the woman says that they would love to say for proper introductions but we really don't care au revoir as the two jump out the window flash quickly changes into his costume and he runs down outside to try and stomp them as he catches up to them he asks you guys know that your masks are kind of creepy why don't you just tell me how important the statue really is the male gets up swinging but his flash steps out of the way he says you know this really is unnecessary we could just talk like adults but as the woman holds up the statue she tells him this totem was crafted hundreds of years ago to worship the god kratos it represents strength and power and now it belongs to me that's when the male keeps flash busy and the woman charges up her gauntlet punching flash into a wall with a loud boom the woman yells that her skin feels so alive with power her blood boils with strength and the male kisses they're telling her for heaven's sake don't give it all to yourself as flash pulls himself out of the rubble he thinks that he hasn't been hit that hard since the trickster was infected with the strength force but those two they're not strength force users before the flash could follow the mast duo he realizes the wall that he was thrown into was a part of a church and it's about to come down he runs through grabbing everyone before the debris can crush them and even after saving everyone he realizes he couldn't save the church a short while later down on the sewers the two mass criminals take off their masks and the woman belladonna says that if she's being honest she's a little turned on her lover santiago tells her that he would have never thought that she'd enjoy skin-tight red pajamas belladonna goes on stating that the energy coming off of him she needs it they need it with that kind of power they can feel free forever will you go and get him lover santiago smiles and says that he will chase the flash down to the ends of the earth for her back topside the flash picks up iris and begins to run with her asking what are they going to do about the gemini flash tells her that they're gonna have to wait the speed force is pulling him away from the city they should have started here to begin with as they stop iris looks around and asks gorilla city you told me all about this place i never thought i'd be able to see it flash then tells her there's a reason it's hardly the safest place even without grodd but from the looks of it someone else must be hunting for the secrets of the speed force but before them scattered throughout the city are the bodies of dead gorillas the flashback is to run around examining the body stating that these are all recent but there's only one person who could have done this garage iris asks isn't he working with the legion of doom now and flash tells us that's it taking you back to central city all of this is my fault i told solovar that i would return but i ignored them in now this irish yells that he always lets his guilt get the better of him because of that he always misses things that are right in front of his face like the hidden passage over there barry she takes out her phone to shine some light down the walkway and so the two of them begin to walk down finding a giant mural painted along the wall flash looks up and says that he remembers king solovar telling him the legend of the light in the messenger they've been studying the speed force for generations before the lightning in his lab had struck him it's what grodd used to create a speed force storm there's just so much that he doesn't know but just then the sound of a low rumbling growl can be heard and suddenly two giant gorillas burst out from the ground roaring one yells go away and as it attacks the flash picks up iris and gets her out of harm's way flash shouts that he doesn't want to hurt them as he creates a wind tunnel to push them back but as one is thrown into the wall a mechanical eye pops out from one of the gorillas flash pauses for a second stating huh robot gorillas awesome he starts running around the robots with iris asking honey what are you doing the flash stops holding up one of the gorilla's head stating that he just wanted to see what makes these things tick he had no idea that the gorillas had this kind of technology that they were this advanced but it would mean that someone has to be controlling them just then a voice calls out it was me a group of guerrilla scientists step out telling him that they're sorry they thought the killer had returned flash asks who are they and the scientists state that they work in the labs below they survived the attacks because the killer never saw them though they didn't have a chance to see who it was that slaughtered their people come there is much to be shown flash the scientists lead the flash down deeper into the tunnels and they explain that king solivar called him a friend but he knew that there were some things that needed to remain with the gorilla people before grot killed king solovar he requested that they document their history and further advance the gorillas grodd never wanted to expand their knowledge beyond their walls flash asks is that why grodd killed everyone and the scientists tell him that it wasn't grodd we did not see the one who was responsible but we do know what they were after as the scientists flipped the switch a flash of light shines that a familiar voice calls out grodd if you are witnessing this then you have finally found a better path it is time for you to learn the truth of the speed force flash and iris look up to the massive projection of king solovar as he explains that there are four forces speed strength sage and still each with its own avatar it was their duty to keep the multiverse moving and progressing towards its destiny their people were blessed with the sage force which is why they have the powers that they do but not since their ancestor the original soul of our have they been able to reach their full potential as having an avatar of their own for the sage force these avatars worked against the dark force from outside of the past present and future in the midst of the greatest battle the forces but before the projection could finish it distorts and fades out and the flash asks what happened to the rest the scientists tell them that they don't know they can give them as much data as they've gathered but that's all they have iris looks at one of the terminals stating actually hang on i studied this tech in my past life i can help you get what you need and we have a tech savvy friend who can process the force energy readings that you capture flash says right commander cold you read me back in central city commander cold an individual from the future who took the name commander cold and then became stranded in the past fires his freeze gun at a group of bank robbers yelling yeah i'm a little busy right now flash irish sales into the com stating hey we're in gorilla city and we got some information i just went ahead and emailed it colt tells it yeah yeah yeah i got it on the screen now the satellites are showing a strength for signal coming from courtel maltese along with some police radio about some trouble it sounds like a conflict is taking place cops in the streets dealing with some unstoppable strong criminal flash quickly scoops up ira stating we'll be back i promise and as he leaves one of the scientists asks why don't you tell them the whole truth and another says that he isn't ready another voice tells them i agree on secrets of pain santiago slashes through the scientist stating that they're only interested in the flash but he just has to try a taste of talking monkey santiago holds up his gauntlet and begins to absorb the gorilla's mind and another scientist yells that they were the ones who killed their brethren bella donna grabs him telling him sorry but you'll have to point the finger at someone else we just got here but maybe if you tell us everything we might spare you meanwhile over at corto maltese flash arrives to find the police are fighting back against an unknown force as the police van is thrown into a nearby building the flash rushes in grabbing all of the officers moving them out of the way that's when there's a flash of green that lands behind him and knocks him down he looks up to see a dark-skinned woman with dreads standing before him telling him flash welcome to court of maltese my name is fjorza fioraza jumps on the flash but while he dodges iris runs to the commanding officer on the scene telling him that they need to call off their men the officer tells her that he did not ask for the flash's help masked vigilantes are nothing but trouble you are not wanted in quarter maltese theolosa swings again with the flash shielding whoa hang on a second i just want to talk to you about the strength force she punches him in the gut throwing him to the side and as she leaves herself open the commanding officer tells his men to open fire flash gets up starting to pick the bullets out of the air shouting what the hell you could have killed innocence the officer grabs iris pointing his gun at her head stating maybe we still will unless you get out of our city theoza thrusts their arms into the ground creating a shockwave throwing everyone off ballots shouting it is not your city fiorza tells flash that it looks like they're on the same team if you want my apology then follow me flash yells for iris as he runs through picking her up and following for yorza as they leave one officer shouts to the commanding officer cauldron that this has gone on far too long if you wish to maintain hold on your city then you cannot continue this private little war with fioza cauldron takes his gun shooting the man in the head then he grabs his phone telling the person on the line that he was wrong it appears that he does need to take them up on their offer all of his toys are broken and they are going to need something bigger elsewhere flash arrives behind fiorza and she says that she's sorry for punching him she wasn't sure what side he was on their city has been taken over by a corrupt man named cauldron he brings weapons into the country illegally and she was destroying one of his shipments flash says look i know we've never met before but you're gonna have to trust me when i state i come in peace she folds her arms telling him that she knows who he is but why should she trust him flash takes off his mask telling her my name is barry allen and i can sense a forced connection and i know i can trust you i need to learn as much as i can about the strength force she begins to walk off stating that she appreciates the gesture but his name means nothing to her he can go home flash says look i know what you're feeling everything is so confusing and lonely you got your powers a few weeks ago right something grabs you from under the ground she stops how did you know i was just going about my day when something took and buried me alive when i emerged i felt all this strength it was a gift flash puts his mask back on telling her those powers came from something called the strength force long ago there were four avatars of the forces who protected space and time for me to understand these new forces i need to connect with the speed force like i've never done before and the key lies somewhere with these new forces so maybe if i could but she stops him lifting up a giant boulder asking me i'm not sure i've already got a lot on my plate here flash and iris follow fiorza and they look around at the people growing crops asking did you make this community inside of the mountain she tells them yes with her bare hands she's helping the people of corta maltese to build a better life away from cauldron her real name is alexa antigone but you can still call her fiorza these people will always be her priority why should she take time to help them instead of these people flash holds out of his hands stating that the powers that she received felt like a gift right wouldn't you want to share that she laughs okay but you're going to learn my way a short while later she takes flash out to show her power by lifting a tank she explains that her body shifts the strength force for what she needs normally she's pretty invulnerable but if she uses the strength force for things that are this heavy she loses some of that flash asks how about the gravity aspect of the strength force she says that she focuses her powers on the strength part not the gravity there's not much that a super strong punch won't fix she just needs to be more in touch with the earth since that's where her powers are formed feels the shows flash what it means to help people and while unloading this supplies a young boy calls out to her holding his bloody father fioza grabs the man asking what happened and the boy says that cauldron attacked them he wanted to know where the hideout was she sets the man down clenching her fist yelling these people got hurt because of me cauldron will be stopped i'll go down and demolish that police station flash stops are telling her to hang on she can't just attack recklessly she could hurt someone firoza tells him that he can't just hope things will get better you have to make them and with that an explosion goes off on the mountainside before fiorza can call it to her family though flash grabs her and starts to run within seconds he charges through punching out the officers holding iris and fiora's mother hostage leaving cauldron to fioza she leaps up yelling to him and as he turns back he holds out his arm wielding a small cannon a light blue mist forms from the barrel and cauldron says that he is ready this time the cannon goes off shooting bubbles that are filling the room she stops laughing bubbles really but the flash tells her that this is no laughing matter he has seen those gauntlets before the bubbles begin to stick to fjorza and as she tries to shake them off the bubbles turn into little blue creatures to sharp teeth and long tongues they jump at the flash as he yells the gun is powered by the sage force more and more creatures begin to form a swarm around the two of them with her punching through them they just end up growing back cauldron then asks do you like my new toy i really didn't want it to come to this but i had to get a bit creative theorizer shouts to the flash asking how do you want to fight this and the flash tells her we're gonna try it your way and keep punching but not in the way you're thinking if you were to use the gravity powers to draw them in while reforming we might be able to use the speed force to accelerate the energy inside of them causing them to burst fiorez says that she's not sure that she can in the flash yells you said you felt one with the earth right search for that feeling again she begins to concentrate covering the reforming creatures in the gravity energy and once they've all clumped together the flash launches they bolt a speed force with a crack i got groom as the smoke fades the flash tells her look we solved your little problem and cauldron's men are already on the run now we just need to make sure cauldron can't use the sage force gauntlet again verosa tells flash that she's already on it as she grabs cauldron by the arm crushing and ripping apart the gauntlet she then grabs cauldron by the throat telling him that he will never hurt her country or her family again as she pulls her arm back to swing the flash shouts no and he runs through grabbing cauldron from her telling her that that is not the answer she looks back yelling that he doesn't know that he yeah nothing will stop me she begins to grow in size the same as the trickster when he lost control of the strength horse turning into a mindless brute she's punching the wall shouting that she will bury them alive the flash dodges the falling rocks but fioraza charges into him smacking him into a wall the flash then starts to focus his frequency to build up another speed force charge and just as fiora as he gets close he shocks and stuns her he tells her that she was a great teacher but he cannot allow her to be consumed by her anger she was about to step over the line that she could never return from she begins to get back up yelling that she doesn't care what he thinks but her mother runs in telling her to stop this this isn't you you don't break you built a shirt a while later as argus arrives to take cauldron away flash tells fioraza that they won't be worrying about him for a while iris then says they still need to figure out who the sage force user is maybe with the broken gauntlet they can after reaching out to commander cold again flash and iris find another signal coming from zandia a place where some of the worst super villains go for r r cold radios in stating that they need to be careful if the sage force really is there chances are they're a criminal a little while later they both head into the city with iris asking if he's ready flash looks at himself wearing a black hawk uniform stating that this will never work this isn't my style she tells him that because it's not his style it's the perfect disguise as the two of them walk out she asks how's the signal flash says that he can feel the sage force getting stronger it matches what he felt when heatwave was possessed by it just then a voice calls out that he doesn't like being followed flashing hours turned around to see themselves surrounded by all of the criminals on the island and a man that could read their thoughts says that their worst fear is being caught by the flash wait you're the flash holy crap man this is why you're looking for me because i have the stage force dude the man takes off his helmet shaking the flashes as the villains disappear stating i am such a huge fan once they got to the secluded rooftop in the super villain safe haven known as zandia the sage force user explains to flash that there are a few things that he needs to go over before they begin the person that they're targeting is a woman named roulette she is a games master and a criminal kingpin of the city one of the most deadliest people in the world and just as anyone who would hear her name would assume she runs illegal casinos all across the world so why is he telling one of the greatest heroes who ever lived this because he's an agent of argus and his mission is to shut down her empire but he has a question why is the flash wearing a getup like that the flash begins his side of the story a few months ago three new forces were introduced into the world one of them being the sage force which psych right here in front of him currently has the man takes off his helmet stating that's a pretty cool name not sure how much help i can be though iris tells him that they should probably start small like his name and how he got his powers because she's having a hard time thinking that psyche is his real name so he explains he's actually bashir as for his powers well it's gonna sound crazy so he'll just go ahead and show them psych holds out his hands and soon flash and irish begin to see images of psych and he tells them that he was having these terrifying nightmares when one night boom he ignited on fire argus was there to help him recover and from there they sent him on a mission to gather information on super villains and report it back there's been some things that he's not very proud of though but he does what he does because he believes in justice argus chose him because he lived on the streets he never knew his father or his mother and she was killed here now that the flash is here maybe they can work together take out roulette and learn about these new forces the flash tells them that the only problem with that is no one can know that the flash was here ira stops him asking are you serious we just met this guy the flash says iris it's the same thing that i felt when i was with fiorzo there's a connection here that i feel with snike once we get him out of here we'll go back to central city and commander cold will have a look and figure all of this out a short while later at rilet's casino psych points out that the psychic blocker that roulette has protects its guests and says that they need to take that thing out as the three move in sykes stops and tells iris actually you should probably hang back you're the only one without powers and it'd be much safer she asks really the flash tells her he's right let me scope out things first and we'll get back to you she scoffs and a voice calls out to her stating that she isn't sure why they're hanging out with that creep she looks back asking excuse me and the criminal magpie says psych he's such a creepo that's saying something when everyone in this place is on the shady side of things iris leans up against the bar asking magpie to please tell her more up close by roulette seat psych tells flash that all they need to do is take down the blocker once he does that they can so flash runs over to the blocker disables it and comes back asking what's next psych holds up his hand stating haha we're just getting started now i can really use my powers to make a big distraction flash asks what is he but before he can finish psych puts flash back in his costume shouting to everyone look who it is get him the flash starts taking out all of the lowly criminals and king of the royal flush gang yells it's time for the flash to fold as flash is forced to defend himself sykes sneaks up behind roulette and using his powers begins to extract information on her entire operation after a few moments psych says wow you got a lot more going on than just these casinos you are really bad as flash takes out the last member of the royal flush gang psych runs out from the back yelling best plan ever let's but before he could finish flash runs through grabbing both him and iris dropping them off on the roof asking what the hell was that you knew me being here could cause an international incident my cover was blown psyche says don't worry who are they gonna call they're all criminals once i call argus this whole thing will be cleaned up and iris stops them no it won't you're lying you don't work for argus you're just some kid who uses his powers to steal information on super villains and then you blackmail them for money the whole thing about your parents was a lie psych asks oh yeah well that's my cover me and flash have a bond now you're the one who's lying flash tells them that even if he hadn't pulled that stunt back there he'd believe iris i don't need mind reading powers to know when she's telling the truth psych size you're right you know best you can go ahead and take me to supervillain jail flash reaches out telling him i don't know about but before he could finish psychedel's psych and he starts to use his powers to destroy flash and irises minds they fall to the ground screaming in pain as psych puts on his helmet telling them i knew you were coming here there are people who would pay a lot of money for you so i made a deal just then santiago and belladonna step out stating i flash ever since we met back in botanisia we just had to see you again flash begins to get up telling them leave the iris out of this umbella donna says oh i wouldn't be too worried about your gal pal you have something that we've been looking for santiago goes on it says actually we're much older than we appear back in the 40s we were on the hunt for immortality all of our search led us to a lab where we learned to drain cosmic energy that energy is the forces that you seek absorbing the forces brings immortality and we could only siphon so much with the scraps that we had then we met and learned that you had the speed force well we couldn't pass that up flash with what we know about these forces we could live forever together it's like tells them cool story bro if you really could just give me my money now belladonna grabbed psych by the head asking did you really think that we would steal flash's powers and not yours santiago reaches for the flash and while both him and psych are having their powers drained santiago yells this is your end as the two begin to absorb the forces of sage and speed iris gets up calling out to flash tackling into santiago belladonna calls out to santiago asking if he's okay but as he springs back up he runs with a flash of speed stating actually i've never felt better he speeds up grabbing iris by the throat hanging her off the ledge of the roof telling her it doesn't matter we've got to their powers but before he could let her go the flash gets back on his feet helps psych up stating ah we may be a little weak but we're gonna have to work together to get through this psych shakes off the dizziness and rushes in with the flash and as the two of them get close they combine both the speed force and the sage force to knock gemini away santiago and belladonna deflect the attack with santiago telling belladonna looks like we're going to have to do the same psych gets up getting ready to attack again but the flash tells him wait let them share their powers santiago and belladonna get ready to kiss and as their flesh is getting close there's a loud crack like a comb and the two are blown away iris gets up asking what just happened and the flash tells her it was that way when heatwave was infused with both forces and nearly killed him it's like throws his helmet shutting no they tried to kill me he runs over grabbing santiago asking you really want to see how far i could push the sage force let's find out together die he begins to release all of the sage force's power directly into santiago's head belladonna screams for him to stop the flash rushes in throwing psych off asking what did you just do inside girls i turned out his lights flash let's go stating you can't use your powers like that ever but psych knocks his hand away asking what do you know about our powers turns out while i was in santiago's head santiago knows more about the forces than we could ever imagine flash then asks what do you mean in psychiatrists let me show you flash then begins to see the images of the force avatars and he hears sykes voice telling him the four forces did not work together to save the multiverse their destiny has always been to be at war until one of them could finally control the forever force the other forces didn't disappear the speed force avatar banished them all four can't be free one must win control and for one force to live the other three must die so whatever you were told about the four working together was a lie if you want to keep your speed force you're gonna have to fight for it with another loud cracker cocoon the flash and iris are stunned last stop stating that he showed him about the new forces and what they really are so how did gemini know so much about them a short while later and arkham after belladonna is booked flash goes to herself stating that he's sorry about her husband but they need to she stops him asking what are you talking about santiago's right here he's here with me i saved him can't you see we're going to escape and steal all the forces together your monkey friends told me everything flash thinks about it for a moment and he picks a virus and he runs to gorilla city when they get there they find it in ruins the flash checks around not finding anyone but as a fire is lit one of the gorilla scientists walks out the flash runs over asking what happened and the scientist looks back stating two thieves that wished for eternal life they killed all my brothers they let me live if i told them the truth about the forces flash says it's true then the four forces never work together and the scientist tells him we hoped that you could bring a change to that a hero of hope such as herself could put an end to the war zolavar's records show that the last war nearly tore the multiverse apart but that isn't all we hide flash takes the tablet and as he reads it he says i messed up i had hoped this person was lost in hypertonic but hunter solomon is back he's the one who killed everyone in gorilla city flash picks up iris and begins to run but before iris could ask where they're going she sat down in front of their house flash takes off trying to process everything but instead of looking for solomon or anything like that he thinks back to something booster gold had sent he was talking about sanctuary and acting really weird and then he mentioned something under his breath wally the flash hurries over to sanctuary and as he opens the door he finds wally's lifeless body if you want to know more about that we're going to be covering heroes in crisis soon and then the flash's reaction okay so at this point the comic books took about 10 to 12 issues to completely explain everything that's going on but they didn't introduce the still force yet the new user of the still force after the turtle so what they did was they introduced him very briefly while doing an entire different arc we're going to skip over the brand new origin of the flash and just show you the still force introduction and the still force outro before we get to the finale of this so here's a quick intersection in the middle of our full story with the city returning to normal flash found a man in his office named steadfast who controlled the still force flash questioned why he was there but steadfast told him that he needed to remember something that he had forgotten and it brought him back to the year that he became the flash back in our present storyline where barry was back in time trying to learn what he could about the still force he gasps and he asks what was that my first year what happened to steadfast stops i'm telling him i showed you the past your true past time on this world has been manipulated barry asks who are you instead fast pulls down his hood telling him my name is steadfast the new avatar of the still force allow me to give you a glimpse into your own past so that you may understand why i have shown you these visions forever i chose a life of solitude until the force barrier was broken and i was cursed with the still force and the knowledge of time that comes with it in the past the still force was used for selfish gains but now it is my life's mission to change that now do you trust me barry allen buried kneels down before him telling him yeah steadfast sits with him and tells him about the new forces how the strength the sage and the still force are connected to the speed force and the role in which barry is to play in the future and when they were done he went to work all right now you know who that is it's time for them all to come together for the finale and well the speed force is about to kick back everyone has heard the line that just before you die your entire life flashes before your eyes but for the flash he was given an opportunity to relive a very important year of his life a time where he lost but found hope and right now in central city kid flash and avery could use a little hope as tar pit and girder where the two young heroes down everything that they throw at the bad guys just seems to bounce off but as tar pit comes to the end of the fight there's a red flash that speeds by as tarpon slams his fist into the ground flash picks up kid flash and avery telling them i thought the rogues were smart enough to skip town but not the mighty tar pit and girder huh kid flash shouts to flash asking where have you been you can't just roll in and steal our thunder and the flash tells him you know i was just lending a helping hand these two are all yours but i will remind you that hot tar doesn't react well with metal kid flash begins to use his powers to push tar pit back telling him you might not have said it this is another one of your flash facts isn't it and avery runs up to the other side of girder telling kid flash hey we don't have time to debate how about we see what happens when tar pit and girder hit each other avery positions herself pushing girder into tarpon and as the two begin to touch they begin to fuse into each other girder begins to shout that the tara is burning him and tarpon yells that the metal doesn't feel real good either and as the two stop struggling flash asks do you promise to behave yourselves and they both shout yes fine whatever just do something already so as the police arrive flash says that star labs has the right tool to separate tar pit and girder they'll be fine kid flash then says that that's nice well see ya and flash stops from going whoa whoa whoa hang on a second there's something i need to show you kid flash asks why would i follow you anywhere you betrayed us all and avery says yeah why should we last time i checked when there was a family feud you just up and left us flash tells him yeah yeah and i'm here to correct that this is about more than my past mistakes k flash then says that he'll need more than a smile and words to show that he's changed and he better not be doing this so that iris will talk to him again flash pauses and tells him no not at all me and irish will talk and we're both ready just come with me and i can show you just how hard i've been trying how about it so flash takes off with kid flash and avery following close behind and as the two stop in front of a large building avery looks up asking you rebuilt it flash tells her yes the flash museum is back up and running with a few changes the three head back inside and flash tells them it felt like something was missing something that we needed as a team and this well this is it kid flash asks we needed a painting that's it you brought me here for that flash vibrates his arm through the porch telling him yes but just wait it's what's on the other side flash disappears through the wall and avery asks are you buying it so kid flash size this better be good once they go through the painting and vibrate through the wall kid flash looks at the giant lab and asks you made a bat cave commander cold an alternate version of captain cole from the future tells him actually it's a speed lab it uses my future tech to trap down escaped rogues follow trickster's plans and keep an eye on new force users and more whatever we need to protect central city and beyond kid flash says that it feels a lot like an absentee dad showing up with a new toy thinking that all will be forgiven we have a lot of questions barry and for starters what's the deal with the guy in the robe giving me weird vibes flash explains that this is steadfast the still force user he's been helping barry understand the new forces that have been unleashed and that are affecting the world but not only that there's not going to be any more lies between us wallace whatever questions you have i'll answer them all kid flash then asks do you think you can handle my questions and flash takes off his mask telling him go ahead fire away meanwhile over in barcelona a man runs through the streets as the police finally corner him inside of a local pizzeria one officer draws his gun while the other tells him to be careful he ripped the gas line out of the wall the first officer says it'll be fine he doesn't have his flamethrower do you heat wave but heatwave holds up a match telling him don't need it then he strikes it the entire building explodes and more officers rush to the scene and begin to surround heatwave telling him to freeze but that's when another voice asks isn't that supposed to be my line suddenly a blast of cold air begins to freeze the officers in place and heatwave asks did you get your powers back cold and captain cole tells him nah my time behind bars in bel reeve inspired me to upgrade my tech as heatwave takes the flamethrower from him he asks where did this beauty come from captain cole tells him lex luthor gave me the resources to up my game i'd made me an offer i can't refuse but if this is too much heat wave last turning the flamethrower on you can save it whatever it is i'm all in but what's next captain gold starts freezing the police cars asking what do you think we're getting the gang back together back at the speed lab kid flash asks what do you mean we're all getting slower flash explains that the force barrier fell and the sage the still and the strength forces were freed things for speed force users have been getting worse with every step that they take kid flash thinks back to when he did think that something was off fighting tar pit has never been that hard before but what's wrong with the speed force steadfast answers him the speed force is dying the new forces were never meant to be freed their very existence hurts the speed force and kid flash yells we can't lose our powers it's like the worst time for that the rogues are on the run flash tells them yeah and so is hunter zolomon he's out there as well now there are more dangers in the world than ever before and we need to operate smarter it's time we ran again as a family wallace it won't be easy but believe in me what do you think the flash waits for his answer and that's when he feels that something is wrong the speed force may be getting weaker but he's still the fastest person in the room and then it hits him he can feel it before he can see it the black flash the black flash is faster than anything he's ever encountered before and normally he'd use science or make use of his powers in a clever way but right now there's no time flash punches the black flash into the computers and kid flash asks what the hell is that commander cole tells him that is death in the future it's written that the black flash would appear whenever it's a speedster's time to become one with the speed force flash reads himself telling him that means that one of us is going to die and as long as i'm here it's not taking but the black flash runs past the group with kid flash shouting barry it's not after us black flash grabs steadfast by the throat shouting new forces die as black flash pins steadfast down to absorb his strength flash rushes over shouting no one is dying today he quickly snatches steadfast asking why aren't you using the still force to fight back and steadfast tells him because the black flash can use our forces against us the more we use them the easier it'll be for him to track us flash then yells to the others all right i have a plan crisscross formation on kid flash's mark soon the three speedsters begin running in different directions handing steadfast to one another until the black flash screams die creating a vortex knocking kid flash and avery to the ground he sees steadfast on the ground and he grabs the ropes and the head of a mannequin rolls out the black flash begins to panic looking around for someone and when he finds no one he screams vibrating out of existence up ahead steadfast tells flash or you were lucky imbuing my cloak with the still force aura worked i can no longer feel the black flash pursuing us flash asks them how long though if it's hunting the new force users by their powers what are you supposed to do not use them commander cold radios in well i did a scan and it seems the black flash is gone the only information we have in the future on this guy is that he's trying to protect the speed force it would appear that the black flash is acting as some sort of anti-body is trying to save the speed force by killing off the other force users flash tells commander cold to keep searching they might not be seeing the black flash because it went for another target so kid flash and avery run back to the speed lab asking what can they do to help alarm goes off and commander cole tells them that ever since trickster destroyed the iron heights he's been monitoring police fees and scanning for any mentions of escaped inmates if they want to help they can round up all of the escapees while flash deals with the black flash meanwhile over at corto maltese shark bites down on the strength force user's arm fiorza asking would you like to be mrs shark theorza says it's a shame really i've been working so hard on my anger management issues my therapist is really going to be disappointed as she widens up shark's mouth he tries to ask what she is doing and there's a loud crack and he mumbles my blood fioza then throws shark into the sea telling him i hope you like drinking through a straw now flash what do you want flash stops telling her we don't have to talk here but we do have to go fiorza asks why would she go anywhere with someone that she doesn't trust steadfast walks up telling her flash is correct we're all in danger the forces that we each control have always been at war and with war comes death death will not rest until all of the forces are destroyed as steadfast energy radiates fjorza tells him that she believes him it's like her strength force is reaching out to him fine where do you want to go now flash tells her they have to go to zandia and find psych so a short while later at zandia sykes scales a building and watches as a group of men ask what a foreign dignitary is doing in a corrupt city like this let's have a look at but that's when a red flash zooms by and psych shouts damn it flash you can't just pick up a guy like that soon flash stops running setting psych down telling him meet fioriza instead faster force users like you and you're all in great but psych stops him telling him how about we just cut to the chase man he uses the sage force to read the flash's mind and when he sees the black flash he shouts holy crap the hell is a black flash the orza sees the projection asking is that what's chasing us and flash tells everyone all right stay calm we can work together and my psych stops them hell no you're lying you have no idea how to stop this this monster it won't stop until we're all dead as long as we don't use our powers it can't follow us and that ain't happening come here steadfast psych stares into steadfast eyes and as he lets go steadfast begins to attack flash and fjorza under sikes command psych then begins to run shouting hope you don't mind having steadfast uses bait enjoy the fight suckers steadfast turns it because the blast flash and fjords are with the still force and flash yells you're gonna get us all killed and psych stops asking really you saw that thing right that black flash wants to kill us all to save the speed force a flash dodges steadfast attacks he tells psych i don't want to do this we can stop the black flash but we have to work together but fioraza punches the ground knocking psyche over telling him just cut the positive act if the black flash wants to kill this dummy he's gonna have to get in line while those two begin to fight flash charges at steadfast telling him i hope this works when i relived my past battles of turtle i learned that the speed force and the still force are connected as steadfast slows flash down flash transfers his speed energy into steadfast blast and sends it back shocking steadfast back to his senses he begins to fall over and flash catches him telling him i'm sorry about that gave me a bit of speed to help you snap out of it steadfast tells him you shouldn't be the one apologizing i have horror violence and regardless of our opposite forces i would never willingly attack you as flash helps steadfast up fjorza climbs over iraq asking are you done yet psych ditched us steadfast then says he's trying to look for sykes force but it seems to have disappeared he may be using his powers to mask his presence from everyone and flash says that if he's using the sage force then that's gonna put a bullseye on his back for that black flash if he keeps using his mind control powers he's a dead man later back at the speed lab commander cole tells everyone that it's just as he thought after some testing each of the forces are in a chaotic state they shouldn't all be on earth at the same time the black flash is a defense manifestation of the speed force itself not a user it's dying and it's giving off the same signature as the flash the flash asks if that's so then he should be able to track the black flash when he appears right and commander cole tells him that is correct flash thinks for a moment and then says i've made up my mind effective immediately steadfast and fiorza you cannot use your powers yours are shouts no way the strength force will stop the black flash dead in its tracks commander cole says that that's the thing you can't in the flash archives there are few details other than the fact that every flash has encountered this thing at least once and sure you might be able to hold it off a little bit but in the end nothing can stop it flash size stating we gotta find a way and commander cole tells him i know all about this hope and optimism thing that's going on but a smile's not gonna save the day here flash this is death incarnate flash gets up to tell him i'm not gonna fight it i'm gonna outrace it if the speed force dies the black flash will die as well so he walks off a steadfast telling him that if that's the case will be no more flashes and flash tells them no you'll be alive no one is dying because of the speed force no one i'm gonna go find psych fiorzo reaches out telling them hey this is our fight too we're coming with you flash but at that moment commander call freezes both fjorza and steadfast telling them sorry but uh flash is right you'll thank me later flash looks back and commander cole tells him those are power dampening restraints one of my favorite tools in dealing with the reverse flash flash asks him how long is it gonna hold and commander cole tells him an hour maybe after that fjords is going to snap it like a twig you might want to figure out what's going to happen before that but before he could finish an alarm goes off and commander cold yells there's a spike at speed force energy it's a black flash seconds later over in scotland sykes stands on top of a moving train telling him i just gotta keep moving i can live on this train for years and as flash runs he can feel the black flash getting closer and closer and then run past him a psych is crawling down into one of the cars the lights go out and then back on again and he can sense it and he says i can sense you what kind of trick are you oh my god no flash jumps on to the train car and as he heads inside the black flash is draining the sage energy until psych is no more at the speed lab located at the flash museum fiora's shouts they are to be released at once since commander cold has them pinned down there he pulls out his gun telling them that those restraints are for their own good they're to keep them safe from the black flash if they use their powers he'll find them fiorza begins to struggle as she flexes her muscles breaking the restraints asking who's gonna keep you safe once i'm free where is the flash just then a red blur stops and separates the two of them as the flash tells them i'm here and that was too late everyone stops to look at the body of psych in his arms and fiorza says that there's no way that that is really him this has to be one of his illusions sykes death is on you flash you should have let us come as for yours it gets ready to swing the flash creates a vortex knocking her down shouting okay that is enough there is still a chance to defeat the black flash fioza slowly gets up telling him that she thought the speed force was getting slower and commander cole tells her that it is or at least it was scans showed that the speed force is actually getting stronger now flash then tells them it is i felt it get stronger once psych died after getting psych up onto the examination table the flash asks if the sage force is really dead commander cold looks through the readings and then he turns back telling him not quite the sage force was burned out of psych but it's more like the black flash uncoupled it and destroyed its connection to the speed force currently there are no traces of the black flash which me which means it's probably retreated inside of the speed force waiting for the next opportunity to strike a force user flash then turns to fiora telling her that they're just gonna have to beat the black flash that if they're going to beat the black flash they have to understand why the new forces are killing the speed force if they work together if they share their knowledge of the forces maybe they can beat this thing fears of smiles telling them that he's always so optimistic they want to learn about the strength force then they can talk about it all day inside the strength force she punches the ground with a loud krakagaboom and the flash shouts asking what was that she laughs telling him you're not the only one that could summon portals commander cole tells him that he's going in his tech should be able to scan for any clue of what they find inside flash tells them they need to hurry a show of power like that is going to attract the black flash and as commander cold enters the portal fiora stops looking back telling them that she knows that she called him naive in the past but she's putting her faith in the flash's optimism right now once fioraza disappears steadfast turns to the flash you know that there's nothing to study inside of there you just wanted to hide us because it's unlikely that we're gonna make it out of this alive flash slaps on his cowl telling them no one else is dying no one steadfast the black flash is a part of the speed force and it's possible that the black flash is using me to find the new force users whatever the case you cannot use your powers just as flash and steadfast phase out of the museum the flash looks over to see iris standing there staring right back at him flash tries to find the words to say something but iris holds out her hand too steadfast telling her that her name is iris west flash pulls iris aside telling her that he's happy to see her but this really is not a good time iris asks it always isn't a good time for you huh kid flash has been captured by the rogues with avery right the flash museum was rebuilt so i figured that you were working together again i just wanted to check in on you kid flash has been capturing the rogues of avery right the flash museum was rebuilt so i figured that you were working together again i just wanted to check in on kid flash but there's something else that i wanted to talk about and you can't wait we need to talk about wally flash tries pushing himself to talk but he tells her that he can't talk about wally iris takes his hands asking you can't or you won't you keep ignoring it what happened back at sanctuary where wally killed everyone it was horrible wally might still need our help my memories are a mess there's wallace and there's wally but maybe we can steadfast begins to use the still force telling her that he can help he can help her relive the true memories just as he did with the flash and flash yells no you can't use your power steadfast steadfast stops telling him i'm sorry anaris asks wait what are you talking about my true memories the flash begins to tell her that he'll explain later but before he can even finish the sentence he feels a presence running towards them flash spins back yelling to steadfast you gotta but before you can even finish that hunter zolomon runs up telling him long time no see were you expecting someone else flash begins to create another vortex but hunter laughs telling him you're a hard person to follow but if there's one thing that being an fbi profiler has taught me it's not to watch the person of interest it's to watch their families hunter easily moves out of the flash's attack range and grabs steadfast by the neck flash begins to shout stop you don't understand what you're about to do but hunter snaps his fingers creating a giant explosion telling him it's tragic how far you'd let the flash name fall but for now i'm just gonna take the still force user off your hands as hunter speeds off flash hardly has a chance to catch up when suddenly the black flash begins to run behind them but instead of going past the black flash slams flash against the wall asking where is still force flash doesn't answer and the black flash throws them into the computers telling them stay out of my way meanwhile elsewhere steadfast here's the slightly distorted voice of hunter asking why did you not struggle why did you not defend yourself steadfast looks up with a black eye telling him it is not my way i've seen the horrors of war i know what happens when one rushes into action without thinking hunter stops vibrating telling him we have so much in common we both know about suffering but what if i can make it all go away what if i could use your powers of the still force to fight back steadfast tells him you must understand if you possess the still force the black flash will come for you hunter hunter tells him i know and i'm counting on it back with the flash he runs holding iris and she asks why he didn't just say that the speed force was dying did he not want to worry her flash says that he doesn't know all the facts and some of that is not to worry here yes but also it's not like they've been talking much iris tells him trust her after all of this there's going to be a long hard talk hunter's done a lot of messing things up for our families but we can't let the black flash kill him flash tells her that she's right that's why they're going to find out where hunter went argus has a list of all of hunter's files but they're confidential making them hard to access since argus was destroyed the ruins were transported to a different location one with a lot less security flash suddenly stops in an unmarked warehouse filled with boxes telling her that every shred of evidence is in this room it begins to pull all the files listed for hunter zolomon and it begins to read them all hunter graduated at the top of his class and became an fbi profiler so that he could track down killers like his father he met his wife ashley at the academy and his father became his mentor hunter was on the fast track to becoming one of the best profilers in the country until he encountered the clown a notorious serial killer hunter thought that he had the perps profile down but he was certain that guns were not the clown's mo but hunter was wrong it ruined his whole life and it set him on a path to darkness however the issue is the gun used to kill hunter's mentor had two sets of fingerprints on it one belonged to the clown and the second couldn't be identified at the time if we were to run those fingerprints through the justice league's database then maybe as the computer scans and it pings the flash and iris stare at the screen and flash says if this is correct we have to find hunter now back with hunter at the abandoned house where his mentor was killed he shouts this is where it happened this is when my life was taken from me and no one was there to help me fix it it was a different timeline than this one yes but we can both feel it right death no matter what is done death always comes what if i had the still force powers would i be able to change that steadfast tells him that he will never allow him to have the still force so hunter punches steadfast into the wall and begins to beat into him asking what if i rip it from your core but before hunter can land another punch the flash punches him yelling i won't let this continue the two barrel out of the house with hunter telling him you should want me to win especially since last time women had to head you didn't exactly win flash the strength force is making me stronger the sage force makes me smarter and i'm already faster than you hunter stops hitting flash and wraps his arm around the flash's neck asking is this how eobard thawne did it all those tiny lines ago ever wonder how that snap felt on your mother's neck as hunter squeezes steadfast gets up shouting stop i will not allow this to continue the still force stops the two of them but hunter smiles telling him i knew this would draw you out of your shell and he begins to slowly make his way towards steadfast steadfast asks how are you resisting the still force so much and hunter tells him i'm using every bit of speed force to do it and now that i have felt the still force we are connected which means those powers are up for the taking hunter grabs steadfast by the army because to drain the still force out of him and then he tosses the body aside telling him thanks kid flash rushes over to check on steadfast but hunter grabs him by the leg and runs off yelling don't worry steadfast will be fine but now that i have the still force just somewhere that i need to go and as they come to a stop hunter yells this is it welcome to the forever force it exists outside of space and time back when the cosmic treadmill exploded and gave me my powers i got a small taste of this the ability to manipulate time itself i will be the greatest flash that ever lived no the greatest flash in the multiverse flash gets up telling him you can't do this you can't change the past the cost it's too high hunter a hunter tells him oh you misunderstand the pain of losing my wife hurts but i gave up on changing that a long time ago flash stops for a moment and tells him you knew you knew if you absorbed all the forces the black flash would come for you and hunter tells them that's right every flash has allowed death to take them but what better way to prove that you're a hero than defeating death itself no more suffering no more pain come at me death i'm ready and the black flash races at hunter lunging towards him the flash yells for him to look out and jumps in the way of the attack hunter spins around and begins to beat into the black flash using all of the new forces to rip him apart but flash struggles to get back up telling hunter to stop the problem is flash's voice cannot be heard as black flash extends his arm grabbing hunter by the head as the forces are slowly being sucked out of hunter flash gets up releasing a concentrated speed force blast knocking black flash away freeing hunter flash then holds at his arm to help hunter up telling him we've only got a few seconds but hunter smacks him away i am the one who will free the flash family from death this is my destiny my father was a serial killer the clown killed my mentor all that death led to this flash points off into the distance telling him no look the forever force that we are in it can allow us to look through time this was never your destiny hunter images begin to swirl and hunter sees one that stops before him it shows the clown being handed the gun by eobard thon the real reverse flash orchestrated the death of a hunter's mentor which caused hunter to become the other reverse flash until now when he's decided to become the ultimate flash flash tells hunter you were right the clown didn't have a gun reverse flash gave him the gun eobard manipulated your future to turn you into another reverse flash and then into this the keeper of all the forces hunter stumbles back asking why why would eobard ruin both our lives and flash tells him i don't know the answer to that but when i was searching for you i came across that gun understands they're staring at the image but the flash grabs them then begins to run telling them look we got to get out of here hunter unless we fix the force barrier the black flash will continue to come after you there's no way to do that unless we work together wally once said that you were a good man one who went bad only because of the tragedies in your life which we now discovered are orchestrated by the real reverse flash but we can leave that in the past and move on hunter begins running telling him i know how to fix this how i can fix this barry i have to sacrifice myself to repair the force barrier flash shouts telling him wait there has to be another way i won't let you die and black flash slowly passes through flash and hunter calls back that this is the only way he can fix this and only he can do this himself because he has all four forces it has to be him find out why eobard did this to us barry the real reason and tell wally i'm sorry i wish that him and i could have stayed friends flash reaches out yelling stop and hunter tells him this is what flashes do right we sacrifice ourselves to save the day and with a thundering crack a cocoon hunter turns to white and he fades away flash stops and he looks around he realizes that hunter did it the force barrier is fixed the black flash runs around looking for him but he can't find him and he turns his focus to the flash the flash tries to run to keep ahead but his powers are fading from before but with his powers fading from before the black flash grabs him and he begins to shout die but as the black flash tries to steal the flash's power a shining light can be seen and then lightning strikes with a loud crack outside the flash museum steadfast feels a chance in the air and he asks if the black flash is grabbed i'm asking what did you say where is flash so steadfast looks up at the cloudy sky and he sees perpetua looking down at him he screams that there is something wrong the past the future the very multiverse it's all wrong iris helps steadfast to his feet and gets him inside but before iris can even ask what's wrong there's a massive explosion from outside and the bodies of kid flash and avery flying in steadfast shouts and this is the end this is the end of everything iris runs over to kid flash and says that they were fighting them iris asks who and that a shadow looms over and a voice tells her we didn't believe luther about this whole doom wins thing but now i believe iris looks up to see captain cole with the rest of the original rogues the giant doom symbol floating in the sky and there you have it if you like us doing this type of a full story let me know in the comments down below we wanted to try this out because honestly with the tv show literally focusing on this i thought it'd be a fun idea to grab all of the issues that were important to that plot line so that you can just kind of watch that and go oh that's what they were doing in the comic books but if you don't like this let me know in the comments down below because this is kind of like when we did all of the evil batman and the dark knights universe we're just trying to find different ways to bring you the full story that you're looking for let me know what you think about in the comments down below and if you're watching this after the end of the season did it line up was it the exact same did they change it let me know that as well either way guys thank you so much for your continued support right here at the comic storian channel and don't forget to check out the rest of our channel over the course of the week every monday wednesday and friday we bring you various comic book videos right here at this channel and we have various other channels if you want to know my opinions on flash story lines in the tv show then check out absolutely marvel and dc a channel that i started with sal where we talk about flash and other cw shows we talk about the disney plush shows and everything going on and i'd love to have you guys there thank you so much for your support and i'll see you next time right here

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Id: x3nNiICxgn0

Length: 121min 28sec (7288 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 05 2021