| CENTRAL CITY

| 2016 FEBRUARY 28, 10:16 CST

Civilians are running from the danger and a woman and her baby are nearly caught in a blast, but the Flash whisks them to safety. "You're safe now ma'am. There's a shelter at Fox & Gardner well out of the danger zone. Walk, don't run. And you and your little one will be just fine."

Flash goes into the middle of the danger and gets hit by a circle of energy, and is thrown clear off the ground. Impulse causes a wind funnel to catch him before he hits the ground. "Nice trick." Flash tells Impulse. "Thanks. Dad taught me. He learned it-well, will learn it-from you."

Neutron screamed as he attacked. "Flash! Prepare to meet your doom." Impulse scoffed "What kind of meat is this guy? He's never gonna hit us with those." Flash told the younger "No, but, it's a standoff. He's generating cascading waves of energy. Each wave starts before the previous wave dissipates. There are no gaps at any speed. We can't get close. Wait a minute. I told you not to come." "I wanted to see you beat the bad guy, in person, in your prime."

"Keep your men back, Captain." Kid Flash told the captain. The Captain protested "Protecting the city is what they pay me for, Speedy." Impulse ran up to them "No, Speedy's the other guy. Though history books are really unclear on the why." Flash then came up to them. "Let's, please, try to stay focused. Captain, the best way to protect this city is to keep its citizens at a safe distance. You handle that-" "And we handle Neutron, right?" Impulse interrupted. "Right. Wait. His name's Neutron?" "Yeah. Sure. Heard him shout it. You know, like bad guys do. "I'm Neutron. All of you will die." Anyway, what's the plan?" "Remember that wind funnel that you used to save me?" "Sure I remember. I was there. So were you. Good times." "We do it again. On a bigger scale. You, me, Kid Flash. Around the perimeter of the explosive wave." "The funnel draws him upward." "And we move him out of the city. Piece of cake." As Flash and Impulse talked, their speaking speed increased, and Kid Flash couldn't keep up.

"You getting any of this?" Captain questioned Kid Flash. "Every fifth word, maybe." Nightwing then suddenly appeared beside him. "They're talking about creating a wind tunnel." "What? How? Forget it. Flash! Yo, Flash!" Kid Flash interrupted their strategy meeting. Flash smiled sheepishly. "Sorry, got sidetracked. You on board?" Kid Flash was confused. "With what? I heard something about "funnel cake"?" "Just follow our lead, Kid." Impulse and Flash ran and Kid Flash followed.

Flash, Impulse and Kid Flash ran in circles around Neutron. Since Kid Flash is slower than Flash, he watches as Flash runs past him again and again. "Go ahead, lap me. I'm used to it." Then Impulse ran past him. "Ow, c'mon!" "Really KF?" Kid Flash looked beside and was shocked at seeing Nightwing running beside him, at super speed. "Nightwing? How?" "Long story, which brings spoilers, and we don't have time for that right now."

They made a wind funnel, trapping Neutron inside and causing him to rise into the air. "You're so gonna feel the mode." Impulse comments. The wind tunnel caused the energy blasts to rise with him where they can make no harm. Neutron's suit was destroyed by the explosion caused by the wind funnel. Flash and Impulse have to drag Kid Flash away from the blast "This is so humiliating" and Nightwing ran beside them "Good thing I don't have a camera on me to capture the humiliating moments." Wally glared at his friend.

They stopped at a safe distance and Kid Flash was set down on the ground. Bart and Dick looked at each other, then at Neutron. They were going to leave before "Where do you think you're going?" Flash stopped them in their tracks. "We just wanted a closer look. What harm could it do? Neutron totally felt the mode. He's gone." Explained Impulse. "Who's Neutron?" Kid Flash questioned, feeling quite out of the loop. "The bad guy." Chorused Flash, Impulse and Nightwing. "OK. Fine. Except he's not so much feeling modes as putting his body back together from scratch." Wally was irritated. This kid just shows up with super speed and suddenly is the new partner to Flash and Nightwing suddenly had super speed too! What the Hell was going on here?! He focused at the task at hand.

"Switching to infrared. I think that getup he was wearing before was some kind of containment suit. Without it, he's even less stable. Looks to me like he's gonna blow again. Maybe bigger than before." Flash looked at his nephew. "Kid. Let me see those." Kid Flash handed the googles over "There are fluctuations now between his energy waves." "I didn't see that." "You don't have the Allen family eyes." Impulse added. "Don't make me hurt you." Kid Flash gritted out in irritation. "Bart, be nice." Nightwing told Impulse, who now looked a bit worried. "Sorry Ren. But you know me, always irritating people with my quips." Nightwing sighted. "Ren?" Kid Flash questioned.

Flash ignored the younger heroes. "Each fluctuation only lasts a microsecond. But at near-light speed, I can race in, grab Neutron and haul him to the desert to minimize damage." "That sounds kinda-" Impulse started but was interrupted by Flash. "You three stay put. I'll be back in a flash." Flash then ran at Neutron. Impulse followed him and tripped him before he can get caught in the explosion. Neutron exploded, but Nightwing, Kid Flash and Jay Garrick carried Flash and Impulse to safety. "You realized you almost got him killed, right?" Kid Flash hissed at Impulse. Impulse looked down "Sorry, I" but he was again interrupted by Flash. "Actually, he saved me. Or at least, you all did. Neutron's overload accelerated. Even at my top speed I'd have never made it to the desert in time." Then Flash looked over at Jay. "But what are you doing? You've retired. You could have died." "Joan's gonna kill me just for putting on the tin hat." Was Jay's answer. "Hey, where's the kid and Nightwing?"

Impulse and Nightwing was back with Neutron. Nightwing took a pill out of his belt and dropped it, causing Neutron to return to normal. When the other speedsters arrived they looked shocked as neutron was back to normal. "Is that?" Kid Flash questioned. "Yeah. Might wanna get him a blanket or something." Answered Impulse. "I'll get one." Nightwing offered. "What's happening to me?" Asked Neutron. "We're not sure, son. But it looks like it's over." Flash answered the former villain. Kid Flash turned on infrared. "His heat signature reads normal human now." Nightwing came back with a blanket to cover Neutron with. "What did happen?" Jay questioned the two strange acting heroes. Impulse and Nightwing shared a quick look. Reading each other like a book. Impulse shrugged. "No idea. Guess old Neutron just ran out of juice." "Who's Neutron?"


| MOUNT JUSTICE

| 2016 FEBRUARY 29, 01:34 EST

Nightwing looked up from the computer and announced to everyone "Impulse's DNA matches up with both Iris and you, Barry. And this thing is giving off both zeta and chronotron radiation." "Which is, based on pure theory what you'd expect to find radiating off a time machine." Wally helped to explain. Flash turned to Bart. "Which means you are exactly who you say you are." "Hah. Told you. Anyway, it's been crash. But the future awaits. I gotta run. Ha ha. See what I did there with the "run"? As for you, gramps-" Bart was once again interrupted by his grandfather. "Bart. Thanks for coming. I look forward to meeting you again for the first time. And watching you grow up." Tears sprang up in Bart's eyes and Dick felt with his friend at that moment. Remembering the feeling from when he was taken in by Bruce. Bart brushed away the tears and beamed at everyone. Before stepping into the time machine. "That will be crash. So long!" He closed it and everyone except Nightwing and Impulse expected something to happen.

"Maybe he's traveling forward one second at a time?" Garfield commented. Bart kicked open the door. "Not working. The whole thing's fried." He kicked the machine. "Can you fix it?" Barry questioned the time traveler. Impulse sighted. "I'm a tourist, not a chronal expert. Look at me! I'm trapped in the stupid past. I'm so moded." Both time travelers knew Bart put up a good act in front of the heroes of this time. They also knew they had a lot to do to change the future for the better.


| MOUNT JUSTICE

| 2056 FEBRUARY 28, 10:05 EST

Bart is working on the time machine when the bald man, Nathaniel Tryon, comes to him. "How's it coming?" "Almost finished." Then a black haired and blued eyed man walks to them with a younger man with the same traits. "The machines should take you both back in time to the year 2016. I don't know if it is safe but it's everything we got." The older man told the two youngest. "Wish I could go along." Nathaniel said. "Sorry. Only seats one." Both youngsters chorused. "It could mess up the timeline with two of you there, but I'm not sure. That's why we're sending them. However, I wish it was someone else" The older said black haired man said. The younger blue eyed man looked at his uncle. "Tim, the plans are perfect. We are going to save the future and our grandparents. Everything will be fine."

"You both understand the trip to the past will fry the machine's circuitry? This is a one-way ticket." Nathaniel asks them. "Does this look like a future worth returning to? Well, we'd better get in character, right Dick." Bart looked at his friend with a now happy smile. Dick looked at Nathaniel. "Neutron?" "Please, don't use that name. I was Neutron for too many years. Through too much destruction. Curing me, and saving Flash's life. You know it's only the beginning." The two boys nodded. "We know Nathaniel." Dick said understanding. "Big mission. Lots to do. Better get to it." Bart said. Nathaniel gave Dick a pill that would remove his past powers as Neutron and Dick placed it in his belt. Bart and Dick headed off to do their mission. Both getting in to their own machine. They shared a long look before activating the machines.

As the time machines disappeared, so did the scar on Nathaniel's face, and the inhibitor collar around his neck, as well as his prison clothing, "That kid is so crash! He did it! It's a new day? No. Time stream. It should have all changed. All at once. The mode should have crashed. Should have all crashed." but he and Tim were shocked to realize that Impulse's and Renegade's actions in the past did not change anything else; the world was still in ruins.


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