Before The Lightning

by aliqueen16

Barry's last 2 years of HS hold many secrets. How was his life before the lightning, in New York? Flash/Spider Man: Homecoming. MJ and Ned counted as OCs. As people from a different era of Barry's life suddenly reappear, will Barry's secrets, secrets he kept from the West's and team Flash all his life, come out? How will they react?

1. Chapter 1

Barry's pov

It was only my second mission as the Flash, and my team was congratulating me, Caitlin making remarks on my quick thinking and natural adaptation to dangerous situations, and what she said next threw me off track

"It's almost as if you've done this before." I inwardly gulped. They couldn't POSSIBLY know, could they? Not even Iris and Joe knew. I spent the last two years of High School in Queens, New York; and during that time, was bitten by a genetically mutated spider; gaining arachnid abilities. With a full body blue and red suit, I became Spider Man at the age of 16; and protected the city from harm until I graduated and returned to Central City for college; and now kept my spidery secret and protected my hometown of Central City as the Scarlet Speedster. I still missed being Spiderman and my friends from Queens, though. Though I love being the Flash, part of me always wonders if I'd ever be Spiderman again. Maybe I could be both somehow...

I reminisced on my high school friends from Queens; Ned and MJ being the closest; the only ones that knew my secret and with whom I still talked to til this day. Cisco reminded me of Ned a bit; and MJ was like a sister, fun to banter and bicker with, but there when you needed her. Though she's said if she hears me say Iris's name again without having asked my lifelong crush out she'd smack me upside the head. And she doesn't kid around with that threat, as I'd learned many times. I know it wasn't really fair to keep the Spider Man secret from team Flash, especially Iris and Joe; even less so factoring in that MJ and Ned know about my current heroic persona; but right now I'm too busy with being the Flash and Barry and trying to juggle that. I was thinking fondly about my time with Ned and MJ at Midtown School of Science and Technology; where I was involved in science and robotics club, along with the debate club. Ironically, the kid who bullied me there was nicknamed Flash. When that name came about to be the official moniker for the Scarlet Speedster, I accepted; wanting that name to mean something good in the world instead of bad.

Sometimes I wish my lives could align, and meet. Have the best of both worlds. But that's not possible. Sadly. If only I knew what the near future held...