I had to get this started before season 2 premiers! This is my first Flash FanFic so any tips would be awesome, especially if things don't make sense! Obviously this will only be cannon up to season 1 and I will be using some inspiration from the comics, but it will mostly be using characters and ideas introduced in the show. I'll try to upload once a week, maybe twice if it's a short chapter. Enjoy!

Cisco sat in the Cortex at Star Labs scanning the city for trouble. He cycled through traffic cameras, kept one ear glued to the police radio waiting for a dispatch.

There was nothing. There was literally nothing wrong in Central City today. While most people would be thankful that everything was right in the world, Cisco was disappointed.

And bored. Really, really, bored.

Normally this city was teaming with trouble. But not today. Cisco slumped back in his chair and sighed. He turned off the traffic camera monitor and the police radio. Noticing he was the only one left in the lab, he decided he might as well go back to his apartment and try and get a decent meal in.

As he grabbed his phone, it vibrated in his hand with a severe weather alert. Opening the notification he found that a huge storm had apparently popped up out of nowhere in the middle of Central City. When Cisco pulled up the traffic cams again, sure enough, they displayed the monstrous sight. A large funnel cloud was forming right above the heart of the city. Lightning crackled around the cloud, illuminating its menacing features. What struck Cisco as odd was that the funnel wasn't touching down, but it was actually inverted, seeming to stretch up further into the clouds.

"What's going on, Cisco?" A voice said over the communications link, "think Weather Wizard is throwing a tantrum or something?" Cisco searched the camera for the familiar red blur with yellow lightning speeding through the city. He caught it on multiple cameras and it was heading towards the storm.

Leonard Snart studied the scene before him closely. One moment, the news was covering a feel good story about a three legged dog, hardly news, to a full on tornado appearing over central city. Mick Rory and Roy Bivolo turned their attention from their own tasks to the cracked television screen. The storm was growing, and becoming more and more vicious with each passing moment. Bivolo nudged Mick pointing to the screen.

"You think Mardon's throwing another tantrum again?" He chuckled as he turned around only to come face to face with Mark Mardon, AKA Weather Wizard. His smile immediately turned to fear as the fellow meta human took a step towards him. Bivolo breathed a sigh of relief as Mardon stepped around him, eyes focussed on the screen.

"This isn't your handiwork," Snart turned to Mardon, it wasn't so much a question as a statement. Mardon shook his head and studied the storm further. He had to admit, this didn't look like anything he had ever seen before, much less something he could make. Suddenly something caught everyone's eye, a familiar red blur speeding on the scene. A small smirk grew of Snart's calculating face, "and here comes the Flash."

"Well what are we waiting for?" Mardon finally said, "Let's go take him down!" He began to turn and was headed for the door when Snart's hand stopped him. He gave Snart a confused look.

"Let's see how this plays out," He said in a calm tone. Mardon yanked his arm out of his grasp, muttering about how sitting around and waiting is a mistake. Snart ignored him, attention focused back on the screen. The storm had grown to hang over almost all of downtown Central City. It was obviously not a naturally occurring storm, something made it. Whatever it was, it was powerful. Who knows? Maybe a new meta would be joining their little gallery soon enough.

The clouds swirled above the city. Gale force winds bombarded the streets as a red blur navigated the debris, yellow lightning trailing behind him. A strong gust blew a semi truck into his path. Without thinking, he ran straight for the wreckage, vibrating his molecules at a speed where he could phase through the obstacle. He looked back at the truck and a huge grin spread over his face, I will never get tired of that! He slid to a stop directly underneath the eye of the storm, or at least, what he thought was the eye of the storm. He looked up at the monstrosity above him, lightning swirling in the vortex. He barely noticed a young woman running up behind him.

"Flash, what's going on here?" The question brought him back to the situation at hand. He turned around to see Linda Park running up to him, a terrified cameraman behind her, trying to keep up. She slowed down and looked up at the storm, the wind threatening to blow them all over. The Flash's eyes went wide as he finally registered that Linda, his Linda, was standing right next to him underneath an inverted tornado.

"Linda?! What the-" He started to say when a sonic boom tore through the sky. The three of them looked up and saw the vortex opening up. A shock wave emitted from the center. Quickly he picked up Linda and ran her into the nearest building then went back and brought her cameraman to the same place. "Stay here. Stay safe. I've got a cloud to fight." He gave a two fingered salute and sped back out of the building.

"Cisco!" He opened up his communication channel as he ran up a building to get a better look, "What is this freakin' thing?" The opening was getting bigger as another sonic boom ripped through the air. At first there was only static, "Cisco?" The static continued. He was beginning to panic, "Come on man! Please tell me you can hear me! I really don't want to have to fight a tornado by myself!"

"fzt-need to CALM DOWN W-ftz," Cisco's voice cut out. Before he could call again, Cisco's voice returned, "fzt-ic boom is messing with the comms! I was going to say that isn't a tornado," The Flash turned back up to the not-tornado just as another sonic boom erupted from the vortex. "Well then WHAT IS IT?!" He yelled into his comm.

"If I didn't know better, I would say it's a singu-fzt" A final sonic boom shook the entire city, the building he was standing on swaying. An electrified shock wave burst from the vortex spreading across the sky. Suddenly, debris started falling from the vortex raining down on the city streets below. The Flash sprinted down the building and underneath the debris and began running in circles, creating his own vortex. When the debris hit the vortex, it was slowly lowered to the ground. The Flash slowed down as the debris settled.

The ground rumbled and he looked back upward at the vortex, ready for whatever else the vortex would throw at him. While he expected more car and building parts to come falling from the sky, he did not expect to see a person trailing lightning falling out of the vortex.

Oh shit! He ran full speed up one of the buildings, once at the top, he waited for the person to fall past him, then ran down the building, matching velocity with him. The Flash pushed off the building, grabbed the falling figure, and continued running down a second building while maintaining their velocity. Once they got to the ground he slowed down and looked back up at the vortex. The shock wave had reached the edge of the storm, but instead of dissipating, it snapped back to the center of the vortex, taking the rest of the storm with it. As suddenly as it came, the storm was gone, the only indication it had ever been there being the wind damage and the large pieces of broken concrete and car parts that had come through it.

Oh, and the unconscious guy, too. With the vortex gone, the Flash finally had a chance to see exactly who it was he had saved, hoping that he might have some answers as to what exactly just happened. He froze as he looked at the young man in his arms, he was wearing a dark red full body suit with yellow detailing. He wore a red mask that covered his face. On his chest was the symbol he had come to know and revere… the same symbol he was wearing now.

The Flash stared down in shock at the man in his arms he almost dropped him. He suddenly realized that Cisco had been bombarding him with questions and shook himself back to reality, "Wh-what?"

"I asked what the HELL happened?! The vortex is gone, how did you stop it?" The Flash was speechless at his revelation that he didn't respond at first. Cisco asked again.

"It's gone," He said dumbly. Cisco muttered something along the lines of 'no shit Sherlock', but he ignored that and kept talking, "He fell from it, and it closed!"

"Who fell from it?"

"The Flash,"