Author's Note: This story is based on the origin story of Barry Allen, the second person who would own the name Flash, and is loosely based on The Flash TV Show and Smallville TV Show; all copyright goes to Warner Bros. Discovery and DC Comics.
Barry Allen, a nine-year-old boy, wakes up with a start. His light blue eyes buzz with energy, and his shimmering Blonde Hair is on end. He hears noises coming from the living room, like thunder and lightning, and his mother's screams calling for his father.
He rushes downstairs only to be met with an unearthly sight: two men in fierce combat fighting around his mother.
It seems like they are fighting at speeds beyond average men; one of them catches Barry, and suddenly, he is at the other end of the neighborhood.
He rushes back home only to find his father arrested for a crime he did not commit; he screams at the police with a look of utter innocence in his eyes. "I didn't do this; I swear I didn't do this."
Barry rushes toward his father, desperate to tell the police what happened. But they didn't listen. Only putting his father into a prison.
He then rushed into the house, desperate to see what happened to his mother.
A police officer named William West said, "You might not want to see this kid." Barry didn't care and found his mother dead; Barry couldn't believe it. He shed tears and cried. Grief beyond anything he could have imagined flooded his mind. He swore he would find the man who did this, at least in his mind.
Four years later, Barry was still investigating who killed his mother and sent his father to prison—Edward Thawne, who had become his guardian ever since his mother's passing. I had raised him well. He had since met Iris West, William West's daughter. A beautiful woman with long brown hair and bright blue eyes has become his best friend.
Barry had quite a crush on her. She was beautiful, quick-witted, and pretty good at caring for herself. But she was also honest. Whenever someone was lying, she always found out.
Today was different. William had agreed that Barry and Iris could attend the opening ceremony of STAR Labs and see their newest experiments. There were some exceptions, but Harrison Wells wanted Barry and Iris to get an exclusive tour since he owned STAR Labs. They looked at a particle accelerator, the first working prototype.
"Can you believe this?" Barry asked excitedly. This could be the world's first working particle accelerator." "Yeah, " Iris said sarcastically. "Definitely, don't want to mess with that. Are you sure it's stable?" Iris had just asked a crucial question: would it be stable? Would it be able to handle all the energy?
Wells, in an assuring tone, said, "Of course, it's stable. We have run through every possible test." Iris could tell it was a lie. But Barry was in awe of the machine. When the tour ended they began to leave.
But as they left, the particle accelerator became unstable. As Iris knew it would, it began sending particles throughout Central City. This was combined with a lightning bolt, and Barry was hit with the lightning bolt.
But others in the city... were affected as well.