Jason was rolling a joint in boredom, waiting on his best friend and roommate to finish up his engineering project. His friend, Josh, was a double major in computer science and engineering at one of the top science schools in the states. Jason on the other hand, was a communication major with a minor in finance. They were roommates by chance when they both lived on campus their freshman year, but they ended up becoming great friends and have been living together up to their junior year. Jason had finished his exams already, his were not too difficult. However, this was Josh's last big project and Jason promised to keep him company in the ghost town of a lab.
"Jesus. If I knew you were going to take this long I wouldn't have kept you company." He licked the joints paper and looked out the window. "Fuck! Its looking like a storm now, so we're going to get soaked walking back to the car you know?"
Josh looked up from his table to look at his friend. "Well, some of us chose real majors, and when that happens we need to put a little more work in okay buddy?" A high sarcastic emphasis on the buddy, Josh also added "Also, make sure you're rolling both joints with the different strains."
"You got it Kidd-" Jason's sarcastic reply was cut off by the shaking of the building and a very loud boom from outside. His paper and weed fell to the ground as suddenly more and more crashes continued outside, like lighting was dropping instead of rain. The building kept shaking, mounted TVs and other equipment began shaking more and falling to the ground, shattering. Jason was silent though, he just saw a strange blur of light coming from the window. Slowly getting brighter. Getting bigger. He snapped himself out of his awe and grabbed Josh by the collar who was also dumbstruck by the light. "We need to leave now!" Jason said loudly to his friend as they began running.
They left the lab and began running down the hall, lights were flashing in the dark, the electricity was out. The booms were getting louder, the building was shaking more and more and there was glass everywhere. They were shaken internally, they lost sense of direction and began getting confused of where they were, in their own school.
"Ground Level." Josh finally said. "We need to get to the ground level, safest place during an earthquake right?"
They could both tell this was no ordinary earthquake but Jason had no better suggestions. Jason took a deep breath to organize his thoughts, and grabbed Josh's wrist to follow him. The stairs were just around the corner. They both sprinted down the stairs trying to get to the bottom floor. They made it to the bottom floor but just as Jason tried to open the door he saw and took the full force of the light they saw earlier. He was knocked several feet back and was slammed against the wall behind him. His vision began to go dark and his body felt numb. He couldn't move at all. His last sight was Josh looking over him, his worried friend looked terrefied, and then suddenly all went black.
This was the day that Central City would remember for days, months, and years to come. The day the Particle Accelerator went haywire and exploded. Many know this day as the day the Flash was born, Central City's Crimson Comet. This was also the day that changed Jason's life forever.