The Flash found himself on the sidewalk next to a bustling roadway. He remembered that this was the night he and the League fought Doomsday. There were no signs of the malicious android and Barry took a deep breath in relief. He sped towards his apartment in anticipation of meeting Iris, again. She was working on her computer when she was suddenly swept off of her feet by Barry. "Woah! I'm guessing the mission was a success?" Iris said. Grinning ear to ear, Barry pronounced, "Yes, yes it was!" and they kissed each other.
The next day, Captain Boomerang and his gang planned to rob Central City Bank but before they could even get out of the vehicle they got captured in the blink of an eye and brought to a patrolling police vehicle. The police officer looked back at the criminals and said, "Damn." before he continued eating his donut. The Flash returned back to S.T.A.R. Labs where Cisco was astounded at how Barry took down the criminal before even doing the crime. "Did you time travel for that? That was awesome!" Cisco said as he gave a high-five to Barry. "I actually... did." Barry said.
"What!? What about the timeline?"
"I know I know but I've been doing this for a while now Cisco. Protecting Central City, joining the friggin' Justice League and protecting the world. My connection to the Speed Force has never been stronger so the timeline should be able to sort itself out. Anyway I-"
Hal couldn't have come in any more of an inconvenient time then now. Barry was right about to get to what was most important. "Hey guys!" Hal said. "What up." Cisco said back as they fist-bumped. "Well, yesterday I wanted to see if Barry and I could hangout. But I figured you were already cu-" Hal said before being interrupted by Barry. "Yes cuddling. That's what Iris and I were doing all night." Barry ended. "I knew it." Hal smugly said. Rolling his eyes, Barry zoomed to get Caitlyn in the same room as everybody else so that things could go straight to business. Barry showed them the visual presentation again of the Belt of Power, what it could do, and the Orb of Depowerment. After the presentation finished, Barry told them about their last attempt on making an artificial Orb. "You two were actually able to construct a makeshift Orb of Depowerment which depowered one of pieces of the Belt. However, the problem was how durable it was. The threat that we faced in the past timeline disintegrated it and we were left helpless so I had to run back in time before it would kill all of us." Barry explained. "Well crap, that got dark quick." Cisco said. "The one that you two made before was mostly made out titanium alloy and a bit of inconel so if we could find a metal that's much harder than that, we could succeed this time." Barry explained. "That's going to be really tough, Barry. If titanium alloy plus inconel weren't enough, I'm not sure if anything else will be. Especially considering the fact that you said it needs to be much stronger than those two metals." Caitlyn retorted. "Actually, Dayton Industries is currently working on an experimental metal called Promethium. It has an impact strength ten times that of titanium alloy and inconel combined. To put that in perspective, Superman would have to use his heat vision on the metal for a solid hour before you could see any deformation taking place." Cisco excitedly declared. "Only problem is, it costs around $10,000 to get even an ounce of this stuff." Cisco continued. "That's not an issue, Bruce could easily get the materials that you guys need, I'll just ask him." Barry said as he put back on his suit and sped off. Hal shrugged his shoulders and said "Guess we can't hangout after all."
"You can stay with us if you want." Cisco offered.
"Nah, I gotta head out."
Hal left the building and started to fly for Coast City. Flying has always been one of his favorite things about being a Green Lantern. However, that got cut short when someone knocked him out of the sky. Hitting the ground hard, Green Lantern arose to find that the culprit was Sinestro. The mischievious Lantern also had some of his Manhunter mates with him. "Oh great, you and these guys again?" Green Lantern said. "I will take back what is rightfully mine! With or without the Belt of Power!" Sinestro angrily replied back. The Manhunters overwhelmed Green Lantern by attacking him all at the same time. Hal yelled louder and louder until he broke out of the pile. He then made a wrecking ball construct and spun around with it, bulldozing all of the Manhunters in the way. Two more Manhunters shot him in the back which stunned him and then Sinestro used his own trick against him and hit him with a wrecking ball construct. All battered up, Green Lantern refused to stay down and got back up. "You just don't quit do you, Lantern scum." Sinestro said. "Not a chance." Green Lantern responded. Sinestro made a sharp sword construct to kill Green Lantern once and for all.
The Flash whizzed into Gotham City and went into an alleyway so he change back into his civilian attire. Sure enough, before he could leave the alleyway, a pair of muggers try to beat down Barry. With his super speed and reflexes, Barry makes easy work of the two muggers. "Guess this isn't their lucky day." Barry jokingly remarked. He headed out of the alleyway and made his way to the big and shiny Wayne Enterprises building located down the block. Bruce Wayne was doing some paperwork when his secretary came on the phone to alert him. "I have a... Barry Allen, who is a forensic scientist who wants to ask you a few questions and run some tests." she said. "Put him through." Bruce said. "Are you sure, Mr. Wayne? He hasn't made any previous appointments with you." she cautioned. "It's alright Meghan, you can put him up here now." he confirmed.
Green Lantern made a sharp claw construct to defend himself from Sinestro's sword construct and the two Lanterns clashed with each other strike after strike. Their fight took them to the inside of a jewelry store. One Manhunter, however, shot Green Lantern again which made him rescind his construct in utter pain. Before Sinestro could finish him off, he got tangled up in a barbed wire construct by someone else. Back outside, Hal Jordan took this chance to plow through the remaining two Manhunters in a surprise attack. John Stewart revealed himself to be the one who got Sinestro tangled up. "I got you, man." Stewart said. "Thank you." Jordan replied. He delivered one last punch to Sinestro to knock him out and the two Green Lanterns took him back to the Corps on Oa.
Barry entered Bruce's office space and looked around. He was quite impressed with the sharp, minimalist theme that the room had. "I'm really digging the office space." he said. "Oh and by the way, not cheating on Iris or anything but your secretary is pretty hot. Maybe you two could go out sometime, I could hook you up." he continued. "What's going on Barry? Why are you really here?" Bruce questioned, ignoring Barry's previous comments. "Right uh, it's a bit of a long story." Barry said. "I'll make time, what is it?" Bruce asked. It was quite interesting when Barry told Bruce about what happened when they tried to find Lex. Bruce didn't seem concerned or anything at all, if anything he seemed intrigued about how everything went down. The phantom force known as Messiah, the death of Supergirl and Green Lantern, the failed artificial Orb of Depowerment and Batman of the past timeline telling him to run back in time. One thing that Bruce didn't take a liking to was that he was going to wear the Hellbat armor, what with it draining his metabolism whenever the suit is active on him. "It sounds like the two main problems that transpired here were that we didn't know about this Messiah android, thus being unprepared for it and we were disorganized. I'll call in Martian Manhunter and make sure that the other League members will be prepared for this. Is there anything else you need?" Bruce concluded. "Yes, there is. We need some Promethium so that this Orb won't get destroyed so easily." Barry added. "Well, you're in luck. Wayne Enterprises is currently in the midst of a business deal with Dayton Industries so Lucius and I could pull a few strings to get the Promethium you need." Bruce said. "T-That's great! Lex's attack is tonight so we could use it as soon as possible." Barry restated. "Got it. There's pizza in the break room if you want any." Bruce said. Barry's face lit up and he made his way to break room. "It's that way, Barry!" Bruce said, chuckling. He went the other way, excited for pizza.
The day is nearing its end at the Daily Planet. Clark heads on over to Perry White's office for permission to write about the brawl that took place in Washington D.C. "Uh no, Lane is already writing on it." he said. "What? B-but sir, I have sources that can relay how it all went down first-hand." Clark argued. "Well, why don't you bring those 'sources' over so Lane could write a better-informed article. You'll get the article on the Summer Parade that's happening this Sunday." Perry told. His phone began to ring and he said, "I gotta take this." Clark exited his office, rolling his eyes. It's the end of the work day and he's packing his things when Jimmy Olsen approached him. "Hey, wanna go out and see if anything interesting is going on? Would be good for pictures." he offered. "Sure, I'll be out in a minute." Clark answered. He saw his wife getting a cup of water from the fountain and couldn't help but grin. She just brought a smile on his face just cause as he walked up to her. "Hey, why did you take the article on what happened in D.C. yesterday?" Clark asked. "Perry White assigned it to me." Lois replied. "You could've recommended that I write it to him." he suggested. "Oh yeah, I could've." Lois naughtily said as she stuck her tongue out at him. She ran away from him while Clark pretended to chase her down.
Meanwhile, a train coming into the outskirts of Metropolis has lost all control and is now going at an unregulated 120 miles per hour. The train conductor said his prayers as the train is on a collision course for hitting another in a few short minutes.