The Flash:Building a Fantastic Speed Force Chp 3

A few weeks later at S.T.A.R Labs, The Fantastic Four of Reed Richards, Susan Storm-Richards, Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm, Franklin and Valeria Richards along with Tony Stark and Bruce Banner all got to work on helping Team Flash in building the new artificial speed force.

"Wow. This is incredible! Did you really built this artificial speed force machine?" Asked Reed using his powers to stretch and circle around the machine.

"Uh yeah. Just something we all pitched in creating" replied Cisco in awe at Reed's powers.

"Okay... So I get why you called Reed and his super family but why Banner and I?" Asked Tony.

"Because we figured since you technically invented time travel back when out Earths were separated, that maybe you could help make an artificial speed force." Replied Barry.

"Which don't get me wrong, we're flattered but this is a little out of our ball park pal" said Bruce adjusting his glasses.

"Well, that's also why Barry wanted to call in The Fantastic Four." said Caitlin.

"This shouldn't be much of a problem for us. We just need a data history of speedsters like Barry and this Reverse Flash so we could get a good idea of what we're working with.

"Sis just one question. Why are we here too again?" Asked Johnny.

"Because Reed and I couldn't find a sitter on such short notice. Plus the kids like you and Ben a lot" Explained Sue.

"Awww" said Ben.

"Right." said Cisco has he hands Reed a tablet of all the data on Barry, Eobard the other speedsters Central City had encountered.

"Stark. See if you can download the data into your suit so we can apply all available factors and variables into that machine.

"Got it Stretch Armstrong" said Tony as he had F.R.I.D.A.Y transfer the data into the Prime Armor.

"New suit Stark?" Asked Cisco.

"New Prime Earth, New Prime armor." answered Tony referring to his new hexagonal esque armor.

"You should see what he's been working on recently. A whole Hall of Armor for the teams. Even

Barry gets one" said Bruce.

Tony then uses his suit to make a hologram projection to solve the equations and variables.

"Call it a new Armor Initiative. Preparing for the worst in case we have another Crisis in the near future which I hope not." Explained Tony moving all the pieces together.

"Hey uh, I could use some hands to recalibrate the energy output and multiply it be let's say, maybe a few kilowatts. Banner? Sue?" Asked Tony as the two scientists did just that.

"Any idea how you guys managed to even start with this thing? Any notes or a manual or anything like that?" Asked Reed doing some adjustments.

Barry then pulled out a journal that belonged to his daughter from the future Nora. Reed then takes it and goes through the pages.

" My God. This is a step by step instruction manual on how to build it. How come it didn't work when you tried it the first time?" Asked Reed.

"We don't know. It just didn't" Answered Caitlin.

Sue then took the journal herself as she began to flip through the pages.

"Wait a minute.. Stark! I need you over here" said Sue as Tony stopped what he was doing.

"What is it?" Asked Tony.

"See if your suit can translate this equation. It looks like it needs something on par with artificial intelligence" Explained Sue.

"F.R.I.D.A.Y. you heard the lady. Work your magic" said Tony.

"Yes boss." the A.I replied.

F.R.I.D.A.Y began to work on scanning everything from the journal and turning it into a clear path toward the activation of the artificial speed force. Tony uses his suit to link and create a hoko projection of her progress as everyone stood and watched.

"Boss. I got something" said F.R.I.D.A.Y.

"What have you got?" Asked Tony.

Susan's analysis was correct. According to the journal, Eobard Thawne used a future version of the A.I Gideon to help create his speed force.

"Gideon?" Asked Barry to himself.

"Correct Mr. Allen." said F.R.I.D.A.Y.

"Gideon is part of the Waverider with the Legends. It's gonna be impossible to get them now especially God knows where." said Barry.

"Guess we'll have to improvise." said Tony.

"Boss the level of technology Gideon had is quite literally decades ahead of me. Attempting to reconfigure my matrix would require brains I'm afraid no one here is capable of.

Little Valeria then takes the journal as she goes through the pages as she then walks up to Tony and whispered something in her ear.

"Wait. How do you know this? Are you even sure that's even possible?" Asked Tony with skepticism.

"Mmhmm" answered Valeria with a nod.

"Wait. What did she say?" Asked Caitlin.

"Everything I need to know." said Tony as he and Valeria got to work of upgrading F.R.I.D.A.Y.

Team Flash was in utter disbelief that the youngest among them possess intelligence that rivaled them better yet, surpassed them.

"That should do it!" said Tony.

"Mom, Dad, Mr. Stark, Dr. Banner, Caitlin, Cisco, get ready" said Valeria.

The young Richards daughter along with an upgraded F.R.I.D.A.Y began to power up the machine.

You! Mr. Barry. If you want this speed force of yours to work you need to focus all your emotions and covert it into a positive energy source. That's the key to avoiding another Negative Speed Force. "Explained Valeria.

Barry simply looked confused as he looks at the group.

"You heard our Daughter." said Reed.

"Hit it!" ordered Valeria as Cisco turned on the machine.

The machine powered up as it began to pick up speed.

"Systems holding up. Going full power" said F.R.I.D.A.Y

As she finished everything began to slow down for everyone. Except for Barry.

As if it was natural for him, he ran. He used the reserved speed from his specially designed watch to run as fast as he could into the new Speed Force.

As he ran and ran he felt his speed increase by the Nano second as if it was working. He was getting his speed back. He ran until he was stopped dead cold in his tracks by another individual. One he's never seen before.

"What the hell?" he asks himself.

"I didn't see this coming..." the individual said back a she stood face to face with Barry.

"Who are you? How did you get here?" Asked Barry.

I'm Pietro Maximoff. All I remember was Sokovia. Ultron he.. His robots invaded the city and I was saving Hawkeye. My sister. Where is my sister?" Asked Pietro.

Barry then absorbed the information as he then started to get flashbacks.

flashback start*

"Oh great. Another speed person" - Clint Barton

footage of the Battle of Sokovia from the Waverider*

"Oh my God. You're the other Speedster. You're Wanda's brother" said Barry.

"How do you know know Wanda?" Asked Pietro.

"I need to get you out of here!" said Barry.

"Oh. And how do you suppose we do that?" Asked Pietro.

"Run Pietro, run" answered Barry as he speeds off with Pietro following behind him. The two speedsters ran right out of the Speed Force as they get back to the group.

Barry and Pietro were our of breath as everyone stood confused by the other Speedster.

"Oh my God..." Banner said.

"Tell me I'm not seeing a ghost" said Tony.

"Stark. Banner? How long has it been?" Asked Pietro confused.

"Wait. You know Barry's new friend?" asks Cisco.

"It's Maximoff's brother. He died during the Ultron invasion of Sokovia." Tony explained.

"Well. The good news is that the machine works. You now have a brand new artificial speed force" said Reed.

"I think we did a bit more than that. I think the new Speed Force brought back the dead to life. " said Barry

Pietro then looks around at the others. I need, I need to find Wanda. Where is she?" He asked.

"She's in New York. If you want we could Brin you.." but before Tony could finish, Pietro speeds off in a blue blur.

"No lightning. That's new" said Cisco.

"Actually. That's always been a thing for him." said Tony.

"So. You wanna test it out Road Runner?" Asked Tony.

"Barry then takes off the watch in his wrist as he was slightly hesitant to run. But he simply followed his heart as he took a deep breath. Barry was off. He speeds towards his suit as he quickly puts in on and runs around Central City a few times. He then ran right back into S.T.A.R Labs with his Flash suit proudly back on.

"It worked. I got my speed back"

"WE DID IT!" shouts Cisco in celebration.

"Reed Richards you've done it again" said Reed to himself.

"You wish Reed. It was all our Daughter" said Sue looking at her little one.

Barry then walks over to Valeria and took a knee.

"Thanks Valeria. Thanks to you I'm the Fastest Man Alive again. I'm in your debt" thanked Barry.

"Don't thank me. Thank science" said Valeria.

"Does this mean we can go home now?" Asked Johnny.

"Can it knuckle head!" said Ben.

"Okay wait. If Valeria is the super genius, what about the other one?" Asked Cisco referring to Franklin.

"My powers are reality warping on a Cosmic scale" Franklin said nonchalantly.

"He's not kidding or exaggerating either" said Reed.

"So you're a Meta Human?" Asked Barry.

"Meta Human, Mutant, frankly we're not even sure. Maybe he's a Mutant but what if he's not in reality" said Susan.

"You got quite the family Reed" said Cisco.

"More like... Fantastic" Reed replied.

The End.

Author's Note: Yeah, yeah, yeah I know the Flash got delayed til March and I said this would continue when the episode came but due to that delay throwing a monkey wrench, I decided to finish this up so it would not collect dust.