Chapter One

Evan McCulloch

I looked at my watch and saw it was 4:45 so I knew that it was almost time to leave work. As I was shutting down my computer I saw a new update on Iris West's blog. "The Streak saves man from burning building". At least in this crazy new world of meta-humans someone was trying to help the city. This barista posting stories about the streak, however, was not helping the city. The agency was trying to keep the public in the dark about meta-humans; it is in their best interest to stay ignorant. If people knew, they would have to live in constant fear of who is a meta-human and they would be aware of the constant danger now present in the city.

I shut down my computer and packed my stuff.

"See you Evan," said Cassidy, my best friend

"Good night Agent Foster," I replied officially, pretending like we were just coworkers.

Giggling she said, "Goodnight Agent McCulloch."

I left the building and drove my car across town to my apartment. I got home, put on my some sweatpants, and started cooking dinner.

"Ahhhh, Ramen," I said and took a bite.

God damn I'm underpaid, I thought. I cleaned my dishes and got into bed. I re-watched a couple of episodes of The Office on Netflix and went to sleep.

The next morning I woke up and started eating some Honey Bunches of Oats. Bored after reading the back of the cereal box every other time I ate breakfast, I decided to flip through What If, an interesting conceptual physics book. I found a chapter titled, "What would happen if you pitched a baseball at the speed of light?"

That sounds interesting, I thought. Sounds like this could apply to our scarlet speedster, I chuckled.

After skimming through the chapter, I read how the baseball would cause a thermonuclear explosion. Since the air molecules around the ball would not move in time to avoid the ball, the atoms would fuse and emit a bunch of gamma rays. This explosion would level the stadium and cause the surrounding city to be engulfed by a firestorm.

"Oh my God!" I exclaimed and panicked. The Flash is going to destroy Central City.