On an alternate Earth the Central City of this earth was witnessing the end of a battle. A black flash of light was being followed by a red and black light. The red and blue light knocked out the black light. The black light stopped and in its place was a worn out man in a black costume with a yellow lightning bolt on it and a black mask with horns and holes for the eyes and mouth. "Central City was supposed to be mine finally after all of these years, when I heard that the Flash was replaced by some upstart..." the man muttered angry as he saw his hands were handcuffed. "...you were supposed to be some pretender who would be easily beaten by my experience..." the man muttered angrily seeing a smiling man where the blue and red light was.

The man was in his early twenties, had brown hair, a silver helmet with golden wings, a bright red jacket with a yellow lightning bolt on it and bright blue pants. "Well you should have retired as well Clariss; this upstart is the Flash now." The man told the man called Clarriss as he was being taken into custody by the police officers.

My name is Barry Garrick and I am the Flash.

My father Jay Garrick was the previous Flash, due to an accident with chemicals he was exposed to a force called the Speed Force granting him tremendous speed where he fought crime as the Flash protecting Central City and becoming a founding member of the Justice Society. When he had me, I inherited the Speed Force so he trained me until two years ago he retired and I carried on his mantle as the new Flash...

The next day Barry Garrick was smiling as he was in his house talking to his girlfriend Kara Danvers the lovely superheroine known as Supergirl. "So seriously, that man you managed to beat was your dad's arch enemy?" Kara asked perplexed and Barry smiled.

"Edward Clarriss the Rival, Dad said he created and tested on himself a formula called Velocity 9 which gave him his powers, dad said he was always trying to outrun him and defeat him but now I am the Flash. Seems that he was waiting until now to deal with me as if I was beneath him, luckily dad taught me all the tricks he used to beat Clariss before so I don't know if he will be as much a problem to me as he was to him. Besides I have my own rogues to deal with..." Barry told her and Kara laughed.

"Yeah, your arch enemy is a gorilla with telepathic powers but who am I to talk, I dealt with an alien whose species are a living computer." Kara responded with a laugh as she saw Barry's helmet on the table and put it on her head. "When Clark showed me a picture of your dad, I thought the helmet was too silly to be taken care of but it suits you Barry." Kara told him with Barry giving a smile in return.

"I grew up hoping one day I could prove to dad that I was worthy of being the Flash one day and wearing his helmet but I think it looks good on you Kara, as well as your costume." Barry told her and she responded by playfully punching him (as light as she possibly could) on his shoulder. There was a ringtone playing and Barry answered his phone for a text.

"That is Oliver; he wants to know if I can help him in Starling City." Barry told Kara and Kara groaned them knowing that billionaire Oliver Queen in Starling City was the archer vigilante known as the Green Arrow. Barry teamed up with him multiple times but Kara mostly knows him from stories from her cousin Clark of his encounters, basically a loud mouthed smart ass (though Clark did not specially use those words) who fought crime in a green costume with a Robin Hood hat. Plus Clark told her how once he actually came into battle while singing a theme tune for himself.

"Well you think Supergirl can help out the Flash and Green Arrow?" Kara asked putting the helmet on Barry's head as she then went and changed into her Supergirl outfit at super speed only to see that Barry changed into the Flash at the same speed.

"Let's go..." Barry said as they then went away at super speed.

Since the real Jay Garrick is the doppelganger of Barry's dad I thought why not have an Earth where Barry is Jay's son and is succeeding him as the Flash (plus I was picturing Barry in the Jay Garrick suit). Plus since the Rival is actually Jay's arch enemy (plus a version of the Reverse Flash, seriously did they intend to use all the variations and identities of the Reverse Flash in the show?) I decided to continue that here. Also in this earth Oliver is much more like his comics and DCAU counterpart so I may come back to this Earth at another time.