A/N: This is the first Flash fanfic I create. It takes place by the ending of season 2, when Barry decides to travel back and safe his mom, but something will not go as, Barry planned. I am a big fan of Savitar, but not season 3, so this will change a lot. I hope you enjoy it. Fair warning! English is not my mother tongue. Another fair warning, I am no fan of Iris, but I will do my best to make her as accurate to the show Iris.

I will bring facts from both the show and the comics; some of the metas or ordinary humans are of my own imagination.

OKAY I KNOW I WENT A LITTLE OVER THE EGDE WITH BARRY. HE IS A LOT OUT OF CHARACTER IN THIS CHAPTER. I explain the reason in the end of the chapter.

Flash: The past, present and the future collides

Chapter 1 - Saying his goodbyes

Previous on the Flash:

"My name is Barry Allen, and I am the fastest man alive. Sixteen years ago, an evil speedster from the future killed my mother. From the day, I became the Flash. I hunted down the man in yellow and other evil meta-humans like him. Along the way, I picked up friends, allies and new enemies. It was a long journey, but with the help from my friends at Star Labs, we finally learned the truth. The man, we had trusted as our friend and mentor, Harrison Wells, was really Eobard Thawne, the Reverse Flash and my mother's killer, in disguise. I thought my life would be better after, we stopped Thawne, but the singularity I created by doing so, opened up our world to new threats. We faced up another evil Speedster, going by the name Zoom. I managed to beat him in the end, but not before, he killed my dad, whom I just got out of jail. Now I will go back in time one more time, this time I will safe my mother and put an end to the miseries that we face. I am the Flash… "

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"I am sorry dad", Barry told the grey tombstone in front of him. It was the third time this week; he went to his father's grave. He stood alone in the graveyard. It was a sunny and warm midsummer day. He did not seem to enjoy the summer and the sun any longer. Barry did not think he could get any lower after losing his mother. The mother he had lost by the hands of a time traveling psychopath. That was until Zoom or rather Hunter Solomon killed his dad in front of him. Barry wished he had been fast enough to save him, but he had failed, and now there was only one thing left he could do.

The tombstone was a simple one; his father had always preferred a simple life. Barry read the text written in white on the tombstone once more.

Here lies Henry Allen. Beloved husband and father. Never forgotten and always loved.

That was all that Barry had been able to think about by the time of the funeral. It had been a month since his father's death, but the wound in his heart was still fresh, and the pain had not vanished once Zoom had been defeated.

He heard footsteps behind him and turned around to look into the most beautiful eyes in the world. Iris West, his friend since childhood, had been his rock the past month. They were now officially dating. She had been one of the few things that had make him smile, when he was down since his dad's death.

They engaged in a long hug. Iris pulled a little away, still holding him in her arms, she looked him in the eyes. "You cannot go back Barry, you know it is too dangerous", she said with pain and sadness in her voice. Barry looked away from her, he did not want to fight with her. "I have to Iris, you and I know how much better our life would be, if I never became the Flash".

Iris released him and walked some steps away from him. He could see the tears forming in her eyes. They had discussed this many times, and Barry knew she was
scared of what would happen. "What about us Barry? What if we never falls in love?" she asked him. Her voice had a mix of sadness and anger in it.

Barry walked closer to her, but she just walked back. He could see she was hurt, but she did not know, how hard it was for him. "Irish, I love you…", before he could
say more, she slapped him hard across the face. "If you truly love me, Barry, you WILL NOT take this risk, not after everything we have been through the past years". Barry felt chocked over her reaction. How could she not see the obvious fact right in front of her?

"Irish, you have to see this from my perspective. Everything that happened the past two years has be because of me, because of the Flash". Iris were crying now, she opened her mouth and closed it again. "If the Flash is never created Iris, we will both live a normal life. I need to go back and put an end to Thawne once and for all". Barry knew he would have to break the most important rule, he had. To save them all from pain and misery, Thawne had to die. The Flash had to die, before he even were created.

"Son, this is not you talking, listen to yourself, you are talking about killing a man", Joe's voice came from behind. Barry turned around to meet the newcomers. His friends, Cisco, Caitlyn, Wally and Harry, joined in with Joe. They all looked concerned; Barry knew he was scaring them. He turned his back to Iris and looked at Joe. "What is ONE life Joe compared to so much pain"? He looked at the others. "Caitlyn you can never be with Ronnie, because of him, Cisco you was killed by him, my mom died and my father spent 16 years in jail". All the anger was hovering up inside of him again.

Cisco stepped forward and put a hand on his shoulder. "Dude, you can't do this. Think about all the fun and the good memories we have together", he waved his one hand around pointing out everyone in the little group. Cisco voice was shaking, and the old so happy and friendly tone was gone.

"Son, don't do this to us", Joe begged him. Barry did not like to hear Joe beg. Nor did he like to see Iris, the girl he loved more than anyone in this world, cry. Barry had already make his decision. He had his suit in the backpack he was carrying with him. He speeded into the suit, the armor of the hero he had become. Looking around on anyone but Iris, he said; "Deep down you all know I am right, if I succeed you won't even remember this life." Barry was getting frustrated.

"What about Earth-2 and the threat of Zoom, Barry?" Harry snapped at him. Harry feared more from his own life and Earth than the happiness of the others. Barry stopped and thought about the question. Who would stop Zoom and save Earth-2 if the Flash of Earth-1 never created the singularity?

The answer was simple, "You are the smartest man, we know of Harry. You will figure it out, when the time comes". Harry was seconds away from one of his uncontrolled anger outbursts, but Barry would not give him the chance to say it.

He took one last look around his friends, the few people who had become like a family to him over the many years. The people he had fought, laughed and cried with for so long. With a tiredness and sadness in his voice, he decided it was time to end this discussion. "Goodbye my friends, it has been an honor".

Barry turned around to face Iris again. She had wiped her tears away now. How could he say goodbye to her? He was scared, he did not even know if any of this could work. He needed her to forgive him. "Iris… I love you. No matter what happens to us I will.." She held up her hand to stop him from saying anymore.

Iris took some time to find the right words; she did not know how to stop Barry. In the end she simply said, "Run back if you have to, but if you screw things up and returns, I will not be here, when you return. I will not lose another one". She turned around and left the graveyard, and she heard the other scream after Barry as he himself vanished in a flash. When the tears came and she broke down. She had just lost the man she loved the most in this world, and she did not know how to handle it again.

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Barry had to run back. He had to stop Thawne this time. Nothing would stop him. He ran faster and faster until the point, his speed would give him entrance to the time stream. There were so many things he needed to fix. If he was successful he would not lose his father or his mother, Thawne's particle accelerator would not blow up, and the many meta-humans, he had fought over the past two years, would never be created.

Iris's last words had hurt him more than any of the others. He had truly lost her now. He could only make it better by going back. In his new life, he would do anything to get Iris back. It would be a better life. Barry Allen was going to run his last run as the Flash, and it was nagging him a bit to think about the life, he would leave behind.

A portal opened up in front of him, and he entered the Speed Force. He concentrated on the exact moment in time he needed to run back to. While he ran through time and space, a sea of images and visions of his life swam around him. He saw himself fighting meta-humans, the race with Zoom, the end of Thawne. He saw the night the lightning struck him in his lab. All these memories would soon change into the better…

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Amber Rose Thawne, or as she was called among her partners, The Manipulator, watched the graveyard scene from a safe distant. Everything was going just as they had planned. She smiled at the scene in front of her. The little group of "heroes" slowly drifting apart. She could feel their fear.

She would avenge her father, Eobard Thawne, the true and mightiest of all the speedster. The man, who could have been a god among men, the father she could have ruled with side by side.

Amber had studied Barry Allen ever since she learned the truth about her heritage, and the role the Flash had played in the murder of her father. Her meta-human powers allowed her to implant thoughts, doubts or even over time force her victims to make decisions based on her own will. The death of Henry Allen had helped her move forward with her plan. She had been able to turn Barry's grieve and anger into her own advantage.

Because of her, the Flash would now run back in time once more and save his mother. She had manipulated him into the thought, that he would create a better world for everyone, if the Flash was never born. It had been the hardest thing, she had ever done. Barry Allen was many things, he was a murder, a thief and a power lusting evil, yet no one could doubt his loyalty and fondness of those he loved and cared for.

She smiled, Barry Allen, the man who have haunted her father for so many years, was going to create a something completely different from a better world for Team Flash.

The stage was set for the second part of the grand plan..

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Next time on the Flash:

Chapter 2: Flash at the end of time and space

Barry travels through time with the goal to save his mother and change everything that had happened the last couple of years. Unaware of the consequences, his actions will create. Just as he expect to end the hero life as the Flash, something goes wrong, and an old friend snap him out of the time stream. Barry now stand face to face with Rip Hunter, the man who knows more about time traveling than anyone else.

A/N: Another Thawne, how can that be? I will explain this later on.

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