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Chapter 2 "Speeding"

September or October, 2019

We see Jason laying in a medical bed with Lady Gaga's Poker Face playing in the air.

"What are doing?", A brunette female asks while checking on Jason.

"He likes this song", a hispanic young man replied while hovering over Jason with her.

"And how would you know?", She questioned him.

"I played several songs to find out what they liked and he responded positively to this", He replied, "I mean, he can still hear in this state, right?".

"Well, auditory is one of the last things to go", she answered.

They walk away, with the guy singing to Poker Face before Jason suddenly jolted up into a sitting position, wide awake.

"Oh! He's up!", the woman announced as she went back to him and checked his vitals.

"Dr. Wells, you need to come down to the cortex, like right now", the guy said into some kind of radio.

The woman was going over some medical jargon as Jason tried to get up out of the bed.

"Hey, hey, whoa whoa, relax. Everything's okay, man. You're in STAR Labs", the guy says to calm Jason down.

"STAR Labs? Who are you?", Jason questioned, still a little out of it.

"I'm Cisco Ramon", he introduced himself, "and this is Caitlin, Dr. Snow." gesturing to the girl while also correcting himself about what to introduce her as.

"I need you to urinate in this", she hurriedly says while holding a sample cup.

Cisco moves it out of the way, "not this second".

"What happened, what's going on?", Jason asked as he moved away from them as he held his head.

"You were struck by lightning, dude", Cisco replied

"Wha-", Jason gasped before turning into a screen with a camera focused on his body. He looked a little more cut but was still muscular. He felt himself all over and didn't see any scars.

"Your muscles should be atrophied but they're in a chronic and an unexplained state of cellular regeneration", Caitlin explained while feeling each muscle group on his upper body before Cisco pulled him away from her.

"Come here and sit down", Cisco says with Jason looking to him, "You were in a coma".

Jason looked a little shocked, "For how long?"

"About 9 months", a male voice called out.

Jason looked to it to see Dr. Harrison Wells in a wheelchair, "Welcome back, Mr. Magnus. Weren't sure when either of you would awaken."

"Either of...", Jason muttered before seeing an auburn (reddish-brown or dark red) haired woman, maybe of european descent, in her own bed opposite of Jason's.

A Minute Later

Jason was walking next to Dr Wells as they moved down a hallway. Jason wearing a blue STAR Labs sweatshirt with dark grey sweatpants and white shoes.

"I'm surprised I'm here talking to you, I've been wanting to meet you for awhile", Jason says to Harrison.

"Yeah? Well, you sure went to great lengths to do it", Wells says, "this site for STAR labs has not been operational since FEMA declared it a class 4 hazardous location. 17 people died that night, many more injured, myself among them"

They stop with Jason looking over a nearby adge to see a destroyed Particle Accelerator, "What happened?", Jason asked.

"9 months ago, the Particle Accelerator went online as planned, for 45 minutes I have achieved my life's dream and then there was an anomaly, the electron volts became unmeasurable, th ring under us popped and energies was thrown into the sky. This created a massive storm cloud...", Wells explained

"Which created a lightning bolt that struck me.", Jason finished.

"Yeah", Wells replied, "I was... recovering myself when I heard about you. The hospital was experiencing unexplained power outages everytime you were going into cardiac arrest, which was actually a misdiagnosis as you weren't flatlining, Peter, your heart was moving to fast for the machines to detect.", Dr Wells told Jason as they headed back to the Cortex, "I'm not the ost popular person in town these days but your... next of kin trusted me to take care of you and bring you here, despite me being out of favor with society, because I think they suspected what I did about what was going on".

'Probably either Felicity or Talia then', Jason thought before asking, "and what exactly did you suspect was going on?".

"I believed the supercharged lightning made you into a speedster", Dr. Wells answered.

Jason was a little shocked to hear that, never believing he would have any kind of superpowers.

"Also, a Detective Renee Montoya came to visit you quite often", Wells added.

"She can talk, surprisingly a lot", Caitlin says as she came in before handing a cup of coffee to Dr. Wells.

"Also, she's hot.", Cisco says before drinking from a commercial STAR Labs straw cup.

Jason was processing the information before looking to the comatose woman in the room, "What's going on with her then?".

"She was nearby and was practically blasted with the energies, she glows red every once in awhile with some things moving or changing around her", Dr Wells explained.

Jason hovered over her to look at her brain scans before looking down at her face. Her eyes suddenly snapped open and she jolted up forward like he did. She ended up headbutting him with some red energy hitting into him also.

"Agh/Agh!", they both cried out in pain and held their heads, with Jason backing up and the now woken up woman hunched on the bed.

"Seriously? she woke up too?", Cisco sounds out, shocked to see both of their coma patients wake up today.

The STAR trio went to the duo to check on the female patient of theirs.

"Easy, Miss Maximoff, I'm Dr. Wells, You're currently at STAR labs", Harrison says to her, trying to comfort her while Caitlin checked her vitals.

"Uh, I'm just going to go and check some stuff", Jason says and goes to leave.

"No, no, we still need to do a thorough examination, who knows what is going on within your body", Caitlin says while rushing to him. Dr. Wells goes to follow up, but is cut off by Jason.

"Look, I know, but I've got some serious things I need to do, such as informing those I care about that I'm awake and finding out whether or not I still have my apartment. You have another patient to examine and explain things to, I'll be back later today", Jason said and left, he ducked his head back in, "Can I keep the sweatshirt?"

"Yeah, keep the sweatshirt", Harrison sighed, with Jason soon rushing away. The STAR Labs workers decided to just focus on their female patient for now.

A Little Later

Jason had just finished making sure he had his apartment, thanks to Talia. She made sure that everything was in place for him for when he would wake up. Felicity had been given a message and had held from giving him cases but will now resume.

Jason was currently heading for Renee's favorite coffee joint to greet her.

He entered Jitters, a coffee shop that originated in Central City but branched into other cities in recent years, even Gotham. Renee had over their before moving to New York City, thus being her favored location in the city.

"Peter!!", A voice called out, to which Jason turned to. It was Renee, happy to see him up and about. She was wearing sneakers, jeans, a white button up and a grey jacket with her badge and gun on her belt.

She came into his arms with a hug, with him returning it.

"Good to see you again Renee, even if it wasn't that long for me.", Jason says before they seperated and Renee chuckled at the kinda dark joke.

"It's good to see old P.I. Peter Magnus on his feet again", Renee says, checking him over, "with white hair now".

Jason saw that on his way over, "Thinking of dying it back or do you prefer this?", Jason asks as he points to his white mop top.

"Hmm, maybe, you kind of pull it off", Renee replied, ruffling his hair.

"Of course the elder lover would say that", Jason joked.

"Hey!!", Renee screeched back, hitting his chest.

"Ooof", Jason groaned.

The "elder lover" was part of a running joke Jason has due to Renee Montoya constantly talking about GCPD's Commissioner Jim Gordon when she first arrived from Gotham, with Jason joking that she was interested in a relationship with the old man.

They were about to grab a cup of coffee before a waitress bumped into someone and began dropping her tray with drinks. Jason looked to the commotion only to see the tray and drinks seemingly frozen in midair with the people also appearing to not move. He looks back to Renee with her being frozen in place to. After what feels like a minute for Jason, everything resumed with the tray landing, the cups breaking, and everyone reacting, including Renee.

"Oh, a cleanup" Renee remarked before noticing Jason looking panicked, "Hey, are alright Peter?".

"Uh", Jason recovered from the experience, "Yeah, just still a little tired from the time shock I guess, you know being out for nine months".

"Want me to get you caught up on what happened?", Renee offered.

"Yeah, why not?", Jason replies before sitting down while Renee gets a cup of coffee.

At a Bank

A man wearing dark clothes and a trucker hat approached the counter.

"Hi, how can I help you today?", the husky black female bank teller asks, the man gives her a check that she reads aloud, "This is a robbery", she looks back to the man that gave her the check, Is this supposed to be a joke?"

"You tell me", he replies now looking directly at her with his blonde hair dangling over his eyes. This is Clyde Mardon, younger brother to Mark Mardon aka Weather Wizard, a scientist and criminal.

Clyde held his arms out as storm clouds flowed from his body. People backed away as thunder rumbled and the glass windows burst as they screamed.

Back with Jason and Renee

"So your partner died nine months ago?", Jason inquires as Renee told him how their last case went down.

"Yeah, Clyde Mardon shot him before flying away in his plane, but that blew up when STAR Labs did.", Renee informs before taking a sip of her coffee.

"Detective Montoya, come in, Detective Montoya", a voiced called from Renee's radio.

"Detective Montoya here, what's is it?", Renee replies

"550 at the Apple Bank, two dead, storms picking up in that area so grab your rain gear.", the voice informs Renee.

Renee gets up from her seat and throws her cup away in the trash, "Sorry I got to go Peter, new case, and no you can't come, you still need some rest"

"It's alright, right now I have to make sure I have a place and inform others like clients and contacts that I'm up and at it again", Jason said before Renee rushes out of the shop to her car while Jason decides to go out the back.

Jason then groans and doubles over before he sees his hands vibrate before he looks to the alley ends and runs. Suddenly super-speeding down and hitting a truck. Quickly shaking it off, Jason then continued to STAR Labs.

Later, At A Secluded STAR Labs Owned Plane Runway

"You don't really believe he's a speedster, right?", Caitlin Snow skeptically asks as her and Cisco set up for the tests with Jason's powers

"I believe anything is possible, and in the world we live in, you should too.", Dr. Wells replies while working on his tablet since he can't really do anything physically to help set up.

"How does it fit?", Cisco asks as he passes by the door to the STAR Labs mobile lab.

Jason steps out in a blue unitard that is sleeveless and stops halfway down his thighs, with blue and white compression sleeves and blue running sneakers. He also had knee and elbow pads along with a biking helmet and some goggle. It also had some monitoring equipment built in and attached to the outfit.

"It's... a little snug.", Jason replies to Cisco, and that's saying something considering his old Robin outfit.

"At least you'll be moving so fast, no one can see ya", Cisco jokes before taking Jason's helmet to work on it some more.

Jason looked around before spotting the Auburn haired woman that woke up with him was sitting in a chair under by the trailer... mobile lab. She now wore both the STAR Labs sweatshirt and sweatpants and some red converses. She was sitting with her knees up to her face, being pretty anti-social.

"Uh hey", Jason waves at the woman, gaining her attention, "We were never properly introduced, what with the... running around and all. I'm Peter, Peter Magnus". Jason opted out of going for a handshake or anything since she didn't look comfortable at all.

"Wanda Maximoff", she introduces herself with a thick foreign accent. If Jason had to guess it's a Romani accent.

Jason nodded, "It's nice to meet you", he says before Cisco comes and guides him away.

"Alright, we ruled out time manipulation when you thought the world was slowing down due to your vibrating and rapid heart beat", Cisco talks about before informing Jason, "Dr. Wells will be monitoring your energy output and Caitlin will monitor your vitals."

"So what do you do?", Jason asks the energetic young scientist.

"I make the toys, dude", Cisco replies before showing Jason what looked like a disc with a lightning bolt, "This is a two-way headset with a camera I modified designed to combat battlefield impulse noise. In your case, potential sonic booms, which would be awesome", Cisco grins in excitement.

Cisco goes to finish attaching said device to the helmet hile Caitlin came to Jason.

She began to make sure that the transmitter was working and that his vitals were being transferred. Jason just stared at her as she does this, which started to annoy her.

"What?", she asks him in aggravation.

"Nothing", Jason says to her, "Just noticed you seemed to be the most depressed person here".

Caitlin was silent for a second before telling him," My once promising career in bioengineering is pretty much over. My boss is in a wheelchair for life. The explosion that put you two in a coma also killed my fiance. I think I have every right to be depressed.", before she then leaves back to the canopy they have set up before Jason gets to say anything else to her.

"Mr. Magnus", Dr. Wells calls out, "While I am extremely eager to determine your full range of abilities... I do caution restraint for now".

"Yeah", Jason nods.

He puts on the helmet with the radio and camera Cisco made not properly attached and gets into the running position that Olympic athletes do with his feet in the angled mounts like they also do.

Jason looks back to Wanda and the scientist trio before looking forward. He takes a deep breath and breathes back out, his eye had white electricity flow through them before he burst forward, leaving behind a blue blur.

Everyone was startled by the wind and all objects laid out were also pushed back. Wanda shielded herself from the items but they stopped mid-air before her before then going back to their original positions, which the trio took note of. They focused on Jason to see that he seemed to have a wind tunnel behind him.

"Woo-hoo!", Jason cheered as he continued to run at extreme speeds.

"He just passed 200 knots per hour, no 300", Cisco notes while Caitlin and wand looked through some binoculars to see Jason speed away.

Suddenly, white lightning began to form around Jason, startling him, before he then tripped and crashed into a bunch of water barrels.

Jason groaned as he got up, holding on to his right wrist as it felt broken.

Meanwhile, with Renee

Renee Montoya was getting a headache from the chaos going on around her as everyone that was in the bank was being questioned about what happened. She had just talked to the bank teller before sending the woman to the sketch artist, hopefully they get an ID.

She sighed "Third robbery in a month where freaky weather happens around the same time", she is so tired already but still thought of the case. Security cameras at the bank all shorted out before she then realized that people nowadays have a smartphone and just like to record whatever happens in the world.

She then looked through footage from the witness phones. She got the man but he kept his hat down so she couldn't get a look at his face, but one phone got his car and a partial on his license plate. She then sent the info forward and requested an APB.

God, she couldn't wait to get this over so she could go check on her friend again.

Back at STAR Labs

"It looks like you had a distal radius fracture", Caitlin explains to Jason while showing him an X-Ray of his busted hand on her medical tablet.

"Had?", he asked her.

"It healed, completely, in just a few hours", switching to an image of his normal looking skeletal structure of his hand on the tablet, "speedsters have been known to some of those in the scientific community to have a healing factor of some kind but we don't know to what extent".

"You really need to learn how to stop, dude", Cisco remarks with a smile while holding the helmet Jason just wore before Dr Wells rolls into the cortex room.

"Can I ask what happened out there?", He asks Jason, "You were moving pretty well with what seemed to be excellent form before didn't".

Scratching his chin, Jason answered truthfully, "As I was running, I saw a flash of lightning and it startled me"

"Hm, there has been cases when speedsters displayed some kind of electricity from their bodies, but it was never figured out why", Dr. Wells remarked,

"Maybe it's the kinetic energy build up givin physical form?", Cisco says as he approaches them while holding his now burnt shoes, "Anyway, I think you can't wear regular shoes anymore".

"Probably need some kind of frictionless shoes or something then", Jason remarks.

"Already on it buddy", Cisco says before running away to his own lab.

Jason looked to the wheelchair bound doctor, "Dr. Wells, do know how many if any others were effect by the blast?".

"I believe so, but I don't know how many of these Meta-humans created by the explosion might exist or where they could be", he replies.

Standing up, Jason asks for more, "What really happened with the Particle Accelerator?"

"Well, the accelerator went active and we all felt like heros, but then it all went wrong", he says as he shows Jason a simulated video on the main monitor, "a dimensional barrier ruptured, unleashing unknown energies into our world, Anti-Matter, Dark Energy, X-Elements..."

"Those are all theoretical", Jason remarks.

"Says the human that can move a sonic speeds", Dr. Wells then continues, "We mapped the residual energy dispersal, but there's no telling who or what was exposed and empowered"

"Hey", Cisco called out, drawing everyone's attention, even the recluse Wanda, "I found something", he says before changing the monitors to the news.

It showed a blonde man standing near his crashed and overturn mustang as he then summoned what looked like fog and disappeared from the scene.

"That was Clyde Mardon", Jason informs, looking to the four other people, "Renee told me he died flying a plane into the clouds the same night the Accelerator exploded".

"Looks like he is alive and may have gained the same abilities as his brother, the Weather Wizard", Caitlin says as she looked over the footage.

Cisco snorts, "I could think of a better name than Weather Wizard".

"Also looks like he doesn't need to focus his power using a wand", Jason says, seeing Clyde was in casual clothes and only using his hands as he used his powers.

"We need to deal with this", Jason says to the four other lab occupants.

They looked to him as he then continued, "The only hero based in New York is Zatanna and she isn't in town and prefers mystic threats, by the time anyone else shows up, he could cause a lot more destruction".

"You're right", Wells says with a sigh, "besides, it's technically our fault that Clyde Mardon and anyone like him is causing such trouble", he looked to Cisco, "Why don't you take him to his present?"

A Little Later

Cisco brought Caitlin, Wanda, and Jason into his lab.

"I've been working on this suit since Dr. Wells commented on how he thought you might be s speedster", he says before pulling a sheet off a slanted mount table showing some kind of suit.

It looked like a combination of leather and cloth that was blue in color with some white-silver accents, with a blue helmet that had a one way silver faceplate to see out of, lastly was the white lighting bolt on the center of the chest. It was a single zig-zag bilt that matched the bolt on the helmet.

"It's made of reinforced tri-polymer. It's abrasive and extreme temperatures resistant to withstand your high-velocity speeds. And I gave it an aerodynamic design, since that is supposed to help maintain control. Plus it has the sensors and Comms so that we can help out from here", Cisco informs Jason as the two girls also listen to what he has to say.

"Thanks", Jason says, "But can I ask why these colors?"

"It's STAR Labs' colors, the blue and white, plus the white lightning you mentioned", Cisco says.

"Alright, next is how to find Mardon since he is causing some trouble", Wanda says, shifting her weight from side to side, it seems the excitement of what's happening is getting to her.

"I just retasked the STAR Labs' satellites to track meteorological abnormalities over New York City. We just got a ping.", Caitlin informs everyone, as the trio then surround her to see the location, "Atmospheric pressure dropped 20 millibars in a matter of seconds. I tracked to a farm just west of the city".

Jason then stealthy puts on the suit.

At the Farm

Renee Montoya has just arrived at the farm where she previously tracked Mardon and her partner had died. She saw that Clyde Mardon was alive once she got the witness sketch back and decided to come her since this was the last place she saw him.

She approached the barn door and quietly entered with her gun drawn and at the ready. She finds Clyde Mardon just sitting on a metal stool in the center of the barn.

"Mardon. On your feet, Hand on your head.", she orders as she eyes him.

He chuckles, "You got me.", she carefully approaches him, "The night of the storm, after STAR Labs blew... after my plane went down and I woke up on the ground alive... I saw what I could do, I understood. I am God".

"Shut the hell up!", Renee orders, grabbing her cuffs.

Clyde Mardon summons the wind and blows Renee back, away from him.

"Do you think your gun can stop God?!", Clyde yells at her.

"Why in the hell would God need to rob banks?!", she yells back, trying to keep her eyes open throughout the blowing winds.

Clyde seemed to think about what she said, 'You're right. I've been thinking to small.", a tornado then formed around Mardon and began destroying the barn as Renee then ran for her car, but as the barn was destroyed, she was sent flying into said car and was knocked unconscious.

The tornado began to move from the barn, the winds picking up and sending flying several debri, a broken wooden panel flying towards Renee before a blue and white blur knocked it away.

Jason survived the tornado as Cisco contacts him through the comms, "Peter, you read me? this thing is getting closer. Winds speeds are 200 miles per hour and increasing."

"Alright, loud and clear", Jason responds.

"If it keeps up, it could become an F-5 tornado.", Cisco continued to supply.

"Well, it's heading to the city, so how can we stop it?", Jason inquired the STAR scientists, though they remained silent, trying to think of something.

Jason looked to the tornado before he thought of the day Wally died, "What if i unravel it?", he says to his support team.

"How are you going to do that?", Caitlin asks him.

"Run around it in the opposite direction, cutting off its legs", he informs.

"You'd need to clock 700 mph to do that", Cisco says to him after quickly doing the math.

"We don't know your top speeds yet. You might not be able to handle it and die", Caitlin informs Jason. No one noticed that Wanda had long since left.

"Well I have to try", Jason says, he looks to the passed out Renee before running to the tornado and running in a clockwise circle around the tornado that was spinning counter-clockwise.

"Suits doing good", Cisco comments while looking at his monitor before asking Caitlin, "How's he doing?".

"Actually, he is doing pretty good right now but I'm still worried", Caitlin replied.

"I believe our boy can do it", Cisco says, certain Jason will succeed.

Clyde Mardon sees the colored blur circling and does a wind blast throw Jason away.

Jason groans before getting back on his feet, "Damn!".

"It's time to think big.", Mardon says as he seems to add more to the tornado.

Jason a takes a deep breath and release before running around the tornado again.

Jason runs around at increasing speeds in more of an olympic pose as the white lightning was now flowing from him in more constant streams. His counter vortex was destabilizing the tornado as Mardon screamed in anger before it imploded, sucking hero and villain into each other and bouncing away.

Jason quickly got to his feet before he sees Clyde with a gun aimed at him, "hey, I didn't think another like me would show up".

"I'm not like you", Jason remarks, "you're a psychopath", he prepares to dodge the gun fire a take him out, but suddenly Clyde Mardon is surrounded by red energy as is constricted by it, dropping his gun.

Jason sees Wanda behind Mardon, hands held out as the same energy surrounds them. She grunts before Clyde then passes out and she then lets him go to fall to the ground.

"Uh, thanks", Jason regards Wanda, seeing she was just in her casual wear he never saw before.

"No problem", she replied before looking to Mardon and Renee, "so now what do we do?"

"Peter?", Caitlin calls out through his comm.

"Yeah, I'm okay, Wanda and I got Mardon here, he's down and out.", Jason says.

Later

Police had finally arrived at the scene, with Renee having regained consciousness. Jason was on the scene in his casuals as a PI as the EMTs finish checking on Renee, while Wanda had returned to STAR Labs for now.

"Hey Peter, some of the guys say you appeared to help me when I was knocked out. Can you tell me what happened with Mardon?", Renee asked him, as she left the ambulance.

"Well, Mardon had created a tornado with his abilities and was heading for the city before this... blur, a speedster i think, appeared and ran around it, doing a counter vortex to unravel the Mardon's Tornado. This silver-white lightning seemed to follow him as he made the tornado implode. Then this... I don't know, Scarlet Witch, appeared and knocked out Mardon. After that, she and the... Quicksilver left while I called in some help to detain Mardon and checked on you.", Jason informs his NYPD friend.

"That's what their called?", Renee asks, amused at his attempt at names.

"I never said I'm imaginative", Jason remarked

"So two new metahuman heroes showed up and dealt with our old friend.", Renee mutters, "Ugh, I hope we don't become reliant on them like the rest of the world has".

Jason nodded, 'I sometimes forget she kind of hates superheroes, mostly for making police and fireman seem pathetic or useless in comparison'.

Want me to get you some breakfast, then get you home?", Jason asked her, she nodded and they left back into the city.

Sometime Later

After having something to eat with Renee and making sure she was alright after getting her home, Jason headed back to STAR Labs to check on Wanda and the gang.

"...since I could pick up other things with my powers, why not try myself", Wanda says to the scientist trio.

"So you can fly", Cisco says with a smile, taking notes.

"Hey", Jason calls out to say he is here.

"Hey dude", Cisco says while Wells and Caitlin do their own welcome, "We're just getting some info from Wanda about her side of events.

"Yeah, speaking of that, I may have given us some names", Jason says to Wanda.

"Please nothing bad", Wanda monotones, expecting the worst.

"Quicksilver", pointing thumb to himself, "Scarlet Witch", gesturing to her, to which she rose an eyebrow before accepting it.

"Nice dude, not bad", Cisco says, "I already named Mardon, Weather Master".

"Because his powers are better than his brother's?", Dr. Wells inquires, to which Cisco nods.

"Anyway, um, since I think we'll be working closely together, I have some things to share", Jason says.

The four looked at him, wondering what he had to share.

"First, my real name is Jason Todd..."

Chapter End


AN: This chapter is mostly based on the pilot of the Flash Arrowverse that just ended.

Jason's suit has the body of the first flash suit in the Arrowverse, the helmet from Injustice 2 Mobile, Speedforce the Flash, and his emblem is like the real Jay Garrick's in the Arrowverse, with the red/burgoundy parts of the whole outfit being blue and the yellow/gold being white/silver.

Jason will have other Quicksilver characteristics, such as listening to music as he works and such.