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Chapter Two, The SpeedForce

Lamar Nussbaum sat at his computer glaring at it furiously as if he wanted to punch it, no idea what was waiting for him in the future. He researched; and researched with no clue how close he was to the truth, and how far away.

"Dammit Lamar!" I grab the vial sitting next to me and hurl it at the wall regretting it as it smashes against the wall. I stand up and push the chair away from me in a rage. "It's been two months, why haven't I hit something?!" I walk over to the punching bag; grab the tape and start wrapping my hands, and start going at it, releasing all the anger that I had pent up. In the last few months I had gotten a new pair of glasses and had gotten more upper body muscle; working out had been a great outlet for setting out all the frustrations I had built inside.

Nothing. I throw a soft punch at the bag. Nothing new. I toss a right hook and smash my fist against the bag. Dammit Flash!. I start to lose myself to the bag and just lay out everything; at some point the tape had been ripped off of my hands and my bare knuckles started to pound against the leather. One hit, two hits, three; four. I can't stop myself and thirty minutes go by and I'm still pounding the bag, I'm dancing around it and throwing right hooks and left crosses. Dripping sweat I finally stop and take a breather, my hands are scraped raw and dripping blood. Great. I think to myself. Touching the skin I wince and walk over to my computer and sit down. Typing in the Flash as I always do I start to read through everything that they have: The Flash: Mercury In Human Form? "Yeah probably not. Skipping though that page I come to rest on another. The Source Of The Flashes Power. Did He Get Them From A Radioactive Cheetah? "You have got to be kidding me." Laughing I skip that page as well. Finally I reach a page labeled: The Speed Force: The Energy Source Of The Flashes Power? "Whoa, no way. Dr. Tracy Morgan? I start to read as fast as I could and my eyes widen at everything that is in the website, pulling out a pen I grab my notebook and start to scrawl everything on the website. The Speed Force, extra-dimensional universe? Is it Multi-Universal?

"This is insane, how does something like this even exist?" So basically everything I gathered from Tracy's research was about the energy itself, not on how to change or uses this energy for personal purposes. I walk over to my table of chemicals and look to see that several new substances were there. First is Mangate(VI) it's a tetrahedral. Very close to Sulfate and Chromatate. And can be turned into an Oxidizing Agent. After Magnate comes Vanadium Oxideo or VO is an electronically neutral reagent chemical. It adopts to distorted Sodium Chloride which in small people words means it's non-flammable but it's a strong conductor of electricity lastly is a red chemical I had never seen before a sticker on the vial labeled it V9 I don't know what the V stands for. I look at the chemicals weirdly, certain that they weren't there before; but I didn't see anything or anyone come in. Looking away confused I put some headphones in my ears and get back to work. Opening a new document I start typing all the notes from Dr. Morgan.

Three Hours Later

Yawning I look at my clock, "Shit! It's three in the morning." I have about ten pages in my document typed out; taking out my phone I ring my mom.

Me: "Mom, yo super sorry about not coming home, I was working on something.

Mom: Not a problem honey, I'm still at the labs myself.

Me: Wow that's pretty crazy. What are you working on?

Mom: Pretty top secret honey, sorry I can't tell you. How's you Absolute Zero project coming?

Me: Mom, I quit that project months ago.

Mom: Hmm, well then what are you working on?

Me: Do you remember when the Flash saved me when I was younger?

Mom: How could I forget something like that?

Me: I am trying to replicate the Particle Accelerator that gave the Flash his abilities, I think I did it. I think I was able to replicate the Particle Accelerator.

Mom: No. End of story absolutely NOT. I forbid you to do it.

Me: Why not?

Mom: Did you seriously ask me that question? Another Dark Matter explosion on Central City perhaps? Or maybe the fact that you could create hundreds if not thousands of new Meta-Humans! Or how about the obvious answer, YOU COULD KILL YOURSELF? Did you ask yourself that question?

Me: A risk I would take for the power to help others like he help me.

Mom: A risk that I'm not willing to take Lamar, you're the only son that I have.

Me: Yeah maybe you're right.

Mom: Lamar? What are you thinking.

Me: I'm thinking, that you may be right. No matter how shallow and crushing your words may be.

Mom: I love you Lamar, never forget that.

Me: Yeah, I know; night mom.

Mom: I love you too honey.

In disgust I lean and toss my phone on the bed, why can't she see what I'm trying to do is to help people. One side of my brain said. Because she doesn't want you to die. "No mom, I know I can do this. I grab my pen and paper and start drawing out my blueprints for my new Particle Accelerator.

Six Months Later.

"Holy Shit, I'm finished." I look at my work and start to laugh. I look at my phone and see a text from my mom; ignoring it I grab my jacket and head outside of my lab. Making sure that the calculations I had made on my labs exterior were correct. Satisfied I walk back inside. I look in the mirror and look at the changes to my body that had happened again. My arms were taut with muscle,and my face was dirty and scratched but a lot more handsome then it had before; I had ditched the glasses at the beginning of the project quickly learning that they were inhibiting then actual help. I put my hands on my hips and look at my particle accelerator; the machine itself is like an electron in an atom. To get the equipment that I needed I was required to lie a lot and my mom were very satisfied when I told them I was going back on my Absolute Zero project. Anyways the dark matter would travel through the nodes and to make sure that I didn't get any other abilities other than speed I decided to make an equation; my speed equation. The equation was weird. I would recite it to myself and weird things would happen but nothing super crazy. "3x2(9yz)4a," I recite. I feel a prickling in my body like a certain spark is running from my brain to my body. I type the equation into the computer and smile, "Lamar, this is where your world changes forever." My phone buzzes and I grab it and my jaw drops. The text reads: Are we studying tonight or not? The text came from Alexandra Jones. Alexandra has been like my hugest crush for years now, I had stopped being the one who got picked on mostly because of how much my body had started to change but I was far from being popular and Alexandra was like popular personified. She is a sophomore with Long blond hair, straight teeth, thin frame with great curves. She is smart and athletic, everything that a dude would want. I was assigned a project with her and had totally gotten absorbed in my own.

Me: Holy shit, Alexandra you were fr about that?

Alexandra: Oml you forgot? And call me Alex.

I take a deep breath and decide that after everything that it took to make the accelerator I need someone to share this secret with, why not the girl I was crushing on for like seven years?

Me: Actually can you keep a secret?

Alex: Depends on what the secret is?

Me: Well can I just show you?

Alex: Are you asking me on a date?

Me: Absolut- wait what?

Alex: Jesus, you really are adorable. Come over to my house and pick me up then.

Me: Confusion, thy name is Lamar; Where do you live?

She gives me her address and I got on my bike and took off. The ride doesn't take long and soon I arrive at her house, it's big but not a big as mine. I walk up to her door and knock; the door opens and a lady who looks way to much like Alex stands in front of me a look of disdain comes across her face as she looks at me. "Hello? Who are you?"

My face turns red and I start to stammer like an idiot "I'm a friend of Alex's or not r-really a friend more like an person she was assigned a project with."

"Well I'm Alex's big sister and she never told me about a boy coming over. Especially one looking like you." Wow. I tell myself. This girl is a bitch.

"Someone looking like me?" Trust me on this one, that was not a compliment.

She wrinkles her nose and nods. "But if your working with her come inside." I step inside and instantly realize what she was talking about; my shirt is ripped and my abs and chest are showing way to much, grease was smeared over my face and arms and shirt. A woman who I automatically realize to be their mother walks inside.

"Jasmine why are you antagonizing the young ma- Oh. . . my Lord."

"Exactly." Jasmine says

"Ma'am I am so so so sorry, I've been really busy and I didn't even realize that I looked like this. Gesturing to my body. "Really, I apologize."

She smiles (A little insincere in my opinion) and gestures to the sitting room. "Well what have you been working on?"

I smile and shake my head slowly, "Secret sorry."

At that moment Alex drops down the stairs smiling, "Hi Lama- Oh my God!.

My face burns and I stand up "Sorry I've been really busy."

She groans loudly waves goodbye to her mom and sister and grabs me by my arm, "You are sooo hopeless. "And where the hell is your car?"

"I don't have a car." I say quietly "I ride my bike."

She groans again and walks back inside, I think she's leaving so I grab my bike and start to mount it. "Where are you going?" She practically screams at me; "I was just getting my car keys." She opens the garage door and waves me inside. "Put your bike in the trunk, and get in 'cause I'm not walking." I step over to her car and put my bike in the trunk like she says.

"Nice Impala." I get in her car and put my hands in my lap. Rain starts to patter gently outside, even better. I tell myself.

"Thanks." She says quietly then noticing my posture she smirks "Loosen up Nussbaum, jeez I'm not going to hurt you." When my position doesn't change she frowns "You don't get out much huh?" I crack my knuckles and she sees the scabs on my hands and old work scars; fortunately she doesn't comment. I give her the location of the lab and her eyes widen, "The old textile factory?" I nod and she starts to laugh "That's where my mom and dad first met." She no longer asks me for directions and in five minutes we pull up into the front of the old factory. I step out and take my bike out of the trunk, walking over to the doors I grab the doors to find the padlock shattered on the ground, narrowing my eyes I look behind me at Alex, putting on a smile I put the lock in my pocket and look around the lab. The hairs on the back of my neck stand up and I look upstairs by the particle accelerator and I swear that what I'm seeing is real; I felt like I could see a silhouette vibrating in the corner, with piercing red eyes. I blink and the figure is gone, shaking my head I smile and in a broad circle I swing my arms and gesture to my lab. "You work here?"

"Yup, this is my work space, my home away from home; come here." She walks over and I put my hands over her eyes "No peaking." I whisper in her ear.

"Promise." She says with a little giggle. I walk her up the stairs and when we reach the top I lean in softly and say "Ready to see what I've been working on for six months?" She nods and I take my hands away from her eyes. Her mouth drops and she gasps for air.

"I-It looks like an atom." She says incredulously.

I beam and nod "And I am the Nucleus."

"This is incredible!" She screams. I explain the purpose of the machine and she looks doubtful at the beginning but starts to grin as I explain more, then I drop the bomb.

"Well lets give it a shot."

"Right now?"

I nod my head and say "Right now." I grab the handles and drag it to the ramp and wheel it down "We're going to take it outside." taking it out into the pouring rain instantly soaking me.

"Ok, lets go." She walks outside and the rain plasters her hair to her face, and straps me inside.

"Get the chemicals on the table there in the lab." She runs inside and grabs the VO and the Magnate and the V9 and attaches them to the injecting modules on the side. The rain is really pouring now and thunder is ripping through the sky. "Type the equation in the computer and start the accelerator. She turns the machine on and steps back.

The lights start to go out as the dark matter starts to flow through the helix and straight into my body, I start to scream as the matter bites into my skin, "INJECT THE CHEMICALS! NOW!" I bellow. She presses a console and I see the green, yellow and red liquids flow through the tubes into my body. My skin starts to peel and burn off like paper in a bonfire.

"OH MY GOD LAMAR!" Alex screams she rushes over the machine and starts typing in commands but nothings working. Lightning starts to streak right above my machine and I feel something unnatural about it; the lightning is too golden too bright, too powerful. I can't feel my body anymore and my eyes are starting to cloud with black. The lightning is really gathering now and I know just know that something other than science is at work here; I've been chosen for something bigger than myself. "Get out of the way Alex." I say softly; raising my head softly I say "Now I am the Lightning Rod."

The lightning hits the particle accelerator and Lamar Nussbaum became Earth Ones newest Speed Conduit as the machine explodes.

The world is black and slow and dark, and then I realize that's because my eyes are closed. Opening them I see shrapnel heading in Alex's direction but the metal is not moving, like at all. I grin and break free of my bonds and walk over to Alex I grab all of the debris in her direction and move it around her, then I start to panic as I realize that I have no idea how to control this ability. Out of clumsiness I didn't see the piece of shrapnel right in front of Alex's heart, and I also realized that it was moving. Not wasting any time I sprint forward and try to catch the piece of shrapnel that is moving much to fast now; the metal slips through my fingers but my fingers push it downwards and it shoots itself into her abdomen. Time speeds up and blood is spreading much too fast. "No, no, not; not now. ALEX HOLD ON!" I scream and push my hands over her wound. Her face is covered in a mask of horror and she starts to shake. I lean down next to her and she grabs my face with her now bloodied hands.

"Lamar?" She says softly I look down at her and my face falls when I see how white she had become.

"We did it." Tears start to free fall off of my cheeks and on to her shoulders

She shakes her head "You did it, I just typed some stuff in and screamed."

"I'm going to get you out of her, I swear." I stand up but fall back down to my knees. She grabs my arm and pulls me back down to her.

"D-Don't leave me alone, please I don't want to be alone when I die; I don't want to die at all, but just be with me please."

"I won't let you die Alex I refuse to let you die!" I rise to my feet and draw upon the new powers I have been given, I feel it course through my body lighting me up like a spark poking me like pins and needles, I look over at my body and see that the lighting is no longer being held internally, its spraying out of me in a yellow haze sparking around my body. I narrow my eyes, ignore the growing numbness in my limbs and I pick up Alexandra with a strength that I didn't know I had. And. I. Ran. Faster then I ever thought could be possible, the sound barrier couldn't catch up with me, windows from cars and buildings behind me couldn't shatter fast enough, I gave no thought to the fact that I was costing Central City thousands of dollars in property damage; I had one mission: Get Alexandra to safety. I raced throughout the city and in seconds found myself in front of the hospital staring down its doors, then a single horrific thought came to my mind. What if she's a metahuman too? If the military or something found out about her; her life would be over. No, I won't do that to her. I soon find out something seriously weird is going on, the lightning that was shooting around me goes from a bright golden color to dark dark red. I start to have a feeling that something isn't right the invigorating feeling is gone and my limbs are starting to feel heavy, my arms start to spasm and I almost drop Alex. But I can't let that stop me now, strengthening my grip on her arm and legs I growl and grimace through the pain and shoot towards the only place I can think of that could help her, I pass the main doors shoot through the hallways secretly laughing at how bad their security is and soon find myself in a room labeled:The Cortex. I made it into S.T.A.R Labs. Two people are inside the cortex and are hunched over a computer console, falling to my knees I drop Alex and start to shake. "Help her, please." The world goes dark; and I feel no more.

How did you guys enjoy the second chapter of Velocity. I deci my friend and like main helper for this story SilentEevee told me that I might want to spice things up a little bit and this does add a little spice. This story has been through a lot of serious changes but I felt something special when I decided to write this, and the fact that a writer like SilentEevee felt like I could write this story and actually helped me way more than I thought she would and STILL helps me to this moment it's very humbling so this shout out is for my new friend which goes to show that people from across the world really can make friendships.

Now back on topic a Little Q&A

What Character in Dc Comics created Velocity 9? And what Villain in the Flash Comics used it after his connection to the Speed Force was severed?

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