The death of the second Supergirl, Celeste Martha Kent, was all it took for "Uncle" Wally to get off my back about being Miss Flash. I had watched my best friend die and although I was a hero, I had been powerless to save her. Her autopsy proved one thing: she was dead before she really knew what happened. That Kryptonite skewer had killed her Kryptonian side by contaminating her blood while killing her human side since it went through her heart. Blue Streak, Mirror Master and Bizarro had all been working together to crush the Flash and Super teams. Sadly they only made Clark furious, Conner vengeful and me…well, they made me their worst enemy.
50 years have past and Wallace West is dead. Conner's gone all the time, trying to run from the ties with being Superboy. I hear he's been living up north in a rebuilt city called Scarlet Harbor. They call him Striker now. He's spread the rumor that he's the escapee of an experiment wanting to save the innocent from harm. Tad and Cessie Kingsly-Jones, Arrowette, got married after they became the Emerald Flash and Lady CrossBow. Poor Cessie died a few years ago. She and Tad have a daughter-Raye- and Tad's in a wheel chair. Superman's one of the frequent most pitied superheroes now-a-days. Funny, huh?
What? Oh, and Bart? Well, that's something different. He became the Flash and had two boys-twins-named Ryan and William. Their mother's Lady Flash. Yeah, that's me. We speeders age differently. I especially do since my powers weren't natural. I got them from Bart, of all people, when my dad and I were in a car accident as 13 and I needed a blood transfusion. He had been the only one compatible. 'What about Ryan and Will?' you ask? Well, that's simple. Ryan's Impulse and Will's Inertia, both red, white and gold but reversed colorings to tell them apart.
We're all members of the Justice League, despite us living in Scarlet Harbor, Metropolis, Star City and Los Angeles. You know what? All this would have happened if a man named Wallace "the Flash II" West hadn't kept his promise and had not missed my race when I was just a 14-year-old track star.
COMPLETED JULY 12, 2006