[CENTER][sub][color=fff79a]"I got lightning running through my veins, Ain't nobody gonna stop this train, So hop on board, or get out the way!"[/color][/sub]
[IMG]https://i.imgur.com/I7yErPX.jpg[/IMG][/CENTER]
[color=ed1c24][b]| IDENTITY: |[/b][/color]
[INDENT][color=fff200]Bartholomew Henry 'Barry' Allen[/color] 
[INDENT][i][color=fff79a]aka[/color][/i][/INDENT][color=fff200]The Fastest Man Alive
The Scarlet Speedster
The Crimson Comet
The Blur
The Streak
[I][B]The Flash[/B][/I][/color][/INDENT]
[b][color=ed1c24]| ORIGIN & BACKSTORY: |[/color][/b]
[color=fff200][INDENT][CENTER][B]1989-2000 | LEARN TO BREATHE:[/B]
[SUP][color=fff79a]"Being a hero isn't always about how fast you can run, it's about helping however you can, wherever you're needed most."
-Nora Allen[/color][/SUP][/CENTER]
Born October 8[sup]th[/sup] to loving parents [b][color=fff79a]Henry[/color][/B] and [B][color=fff79a]Nora Allen[/color][/b], Bartholomew  Allen was born two weeks late in the small midwestern town of [b][color=fff79a]Fallville, Iowa[/color][/b]. The lateness of Barry's birth only foreshadowed his bad habit of always being late. Not long after his birth, Henry was offered an esteemed position at the Central City Hospital prompting the family to move from their farm into the city. 

During Barry's childhood, the relationship between Nora and Henry wasn't going well. It was during this time that Barry found himself retreating from the world and immersing himself in numerous books both fictional and non-fictional. In this retreat, he took refuge in the pages of a comic-book called [i]'The Flash'[/I]. The Flash was a man named [b][color=fff79a]Jay Garrick[/color][/B], a scientist by day and a superhero by night. 

Thanks to Jay Garrick's adventures, Barry loved science from an early age, specifically chemistry. He won first place in the Fallville County Fair Agricultural Competition, which would encourage him to continue his academic skills. Despite this, Barry's mother Nora was struggling to encourage him, her relationship with Henry wasn't going well since moving to [b][color=fff79a]Central City[/color][/B]. Struggling to find substantial work, Nora ended up working double shifts at a local diner and had decided to try to get a divorce from Henry. 

At the age of eleven, Barry had decided to participate in a spelling bee at the school. It was on this same day that Henry received the divorce papers on the day of the spelling bee, and because Nora had to work, he seethed and took Barry to school. When Nora returned from work, she was happy to see that her son had won the competition, but she was obligated to speak to Henry about their relationship, and so Barry was sent to bed early. Awoke in the middle of a bad thunderstorm, Barry rubbed his eye and made his way downstairs to get a glass of water.  However upon entering the kitchen, Barry was shocked to witness his mother murdered as the room filled with lightning. 

Suddenly knocked from the room, Barry found himself on the front yard before regaining his senses and running back inside. Returning to the kitchen, Barry found his father cradling Nora as he sobbed over her dead body as neighbour and police officer [B][color=fff79a]Joseph West[/color][/B] entered the room. Escorting Barry outside of the room, Barry was left to sit outside on the porch until Joe returned. Barry's father had been placed under arrest, despite the overwhelming evidence, he continued to profess his innocence.

[CENTER][B]2001-2008 | MOVE:[/B]
[SUP][color=fff79a]"Well, he may not have his mother, but he's got two amazing fathers. Seemed like he needed both."
-Iris West[/color][/SUP][/CENTER]
With the murder of his mother and his father imprisoned for the crime, Barry was taken in by Joseph West. Having been close friends with the Allens since they moved to Central City, and with no other family in the area the Wests didn't want to see Barry get taken away. Growing up in the West house hold took quite a bit of adjusting to for Barry especially since he was now living under the same roof as his child hold crush and eventual first love, [b][color=fff79a]Iris West[/color][/b].

Iris and Barry were fast friends from the time they met on the playground and quickly became best friends as children. Unbeknownst to Iris however, Barry had quickly developed a crush on Iris and as such, living with her as a sister was very awkward for the young boy. 

Growing up under Joe, Barry originally would fight with his new foster parent due to Joe not letting Barry see his father, however Henry had asked Joe to not let his son see him. Not knowing this, Barry kept trying to run away to see his father at Iron Heights, and he was caught and stopped by Joe every time; at one point, Barry called him out for it, telling him that he wasn't his father and that he hated him. Eventually, Barry finally reached Iron Heights before Joe could stop him, and he finally came face to face with his father. Henry told him that he simply did not want Barry to see him in prison. Despite this, Barry begged for his father's release, insisting that the man in the lightning was who killed his mother, not Henry. Henry told him that he couldn't help him and asked that he be a good boy while Joe raised him. Henry was promptly taken away. 

In school Barry was relentlessly bullied by another boy named [b][color=fff79a]Tony Woodward[/color][/b]. Joe noticed this and had Barry spar with Iris who easily beat him. Joe then told Barry that if he ever got into a fight he couldn't win that it was okay to run the other way.

Growing closer with Joe, Barry began to take an interest in Joe's career as the former officer was promoted to detective. Having learned from Joe that the search for evidence in that case would inevitably lead to the truth, Barry became a forensic scientist. For years, he visited Henry in prison, promising to look over all of the evidence of his mother's murder case until he found a way to prove his father's innocence.  

In high school, Barry had a reputation for being slow and easy-going. On his first date, he went to a carnival. His date had wanted to put a little motion in his life, and they went on the roller-coaster first thing. Because of this, he developed a fear of roller-coasters, a fear that he didn't get rid of until much later in his life. High school was a difficult time for Barry, as both he and Iris developed, they drifted apart. Upon graduation Barry accepted a full scholarship to Midwestern University in Keystone City.

[CENTER][B]2009-2011 | BE SOMEBODY:[/B]
[SUP][color=fff79a]"Barry is the kind of man that I would've hoped to become if my parents hadn't been murdered." 
- Bruce Wayne, the Batman[/color][/SUP][/CENTER]
Attending Midwestern University, Barry graduated in three years with a major in organic chemistry and a minor in criminology. During this time, he kept his own private investigation into his mother's murder, visiting his father every chance he had. While a senior, Barry helped the authorities apprehend a bank robber, and he was offered a job as a police scientist for the Central City Police Department Special Investigations Unit. Eager to use his skills and knowledge to help people, Barry accepted the offer.

After years of coming back, and failing to find any proof, Henry broke down and admitted that he had committed the crime. The shock of realizing that all of his efforts had been for nothing depressed Barry. On the night of a storm, Barry angrily tore his lab apart. Suddenly, a bolt of lightning crashed through his lab's window, and struck him in the chest, causing him to drop the chemical vials he was carrying, and douse himself.

After a long comatose period, Barry woke dazed and confused but none the less checked himself out of the hospital. Deciding to return home, Barry called for a taxi as he normally would. However, the taxi started to pull away without noticing him. Barry sprinted after it, only to run straight past it as if it had been standing still. He decided to sit down and recollect his thoughts at a diner. A passing waitress accidentally spilled the items of her tray onto Barry, who amazingly caught them all in mid-air and returns them to the tray. The next day, Barry saved Joe from a stray bullet. There was no question about it: the accident had somehow given Barry superhuman speed.

Inspired by his foster father Joe and the examples of other superheroes, Barry decided to take on a symbol for himself, and decided to use his powers to help humanity. Designing a special costume, Barry used a special cold cast polyester he developed in college, which could be molded into miniature outfits from liquid material, that, when submersed in a special liquid, became sensitive to hydrogen, expanding on contact with the hydrogen in the air. A charge from a battery-powered ring he wore on his finger caused the fabric to release the extra hydrogen and shrink into the ring. He later revised the process, making the fabric sensitive to nitrogen instead. He called himself the Flash, a tribute to his childhood idol. He briefly considered wearing a costume that would show his face, like Jay had, but decided that it would be best to wear a mask to conceal his true identity.

Barry's first meeting with his future Justice League team members happened while responding to a call from Superman. Running to Metropolis, Barry joined the fight against the alien known as BRAINIAC. With the outcome of the battle being in favour of the heroes, they decided to join forces and the Justice League was founded from that day forth. 

[CENTER][B]2012-2014 | E FOR EXTINCTION:[/B]
[SUP][color=fff79a]"You know what they say, live fast, die young."
-Captain Cold[/color][/SUP][/CENTER]
As the Guardian of Central City, Barry began to attract the attention of the numerous villains who would plague the city. During his first year as the Flash, Barry tangled with criminal known by the likes of [b][color=fff79a]Captain Cold[/color][/b], [b][color=fff79a]Heat Wave[/color][/b], [b][color=fff79a]Captain Boomerang[/color][/b], [b][color=fff79a]Weather Wizard[/color][/b] and the [b][color=fff79a]Trickster[/color][/b]. Sending each of these felons to hopefully rot in [b][color=fff79a]Iron Heights Prison[/color][/b], Barry unfortunately brought them together as they bonded over the one thing they all had in common; a hatred for the Flash. Unfortunately for Barry, Captain Cold had a sister who had dubbed herself the [b][color=fff79a]Golden Glider[/color][/b]. Joining forces with two new players known as [b][color=fff79a]Mirror Master[/color][/b] and the [b][color=fff79a]Pied Piper[/color][/b], the Golden Glider managed to break out the other felons. Joining forces, the felons branded themselves as the Rogues and sought to bring chaos to Central City. 

Overwhelmed and outgunned, Barry was nearly killed as he charged headlong into the combined forces of his greatest enemies. Forced to retreat, Barry realized he couldn't just rely on his powers to beat every foe. Instead he began to think and eventually realized that the relationship between the Rogues was built only on a selfish desire to see him dead. Breaking the team apart, Barry was eventually able to pick them out one by one. Having outed himself to Joe and Iris, Barry convinced Joe to have the Rogues imprisoned separately in maximum security to avoid any further communication. 

[CENTER][B]2015-PRESENT | UNTRAVELED ROAD:[/B]
[SUP][color=fff79a]"Ever since the big man fell at the hands of that monster, I can't help but be reminded of our own mortality, of how limited our time here is in the grand scheme of things. It's made me realize that we should spend every moment we can surrounded by our friends and the ones we love. To treasure them and remind them every day just how special they are. On that note, Iris West, will you marry me?"
-Barry Allen, New Years Eve 2015[/color][/sup][/CENTER]
While new threats seemed to appear constantly, there was nothing that could have prepared Barry for the arrival of Doomsday. Tossed aside by the beast during the Justice League's first run at the monster, Barry was powerless to stop the ensuing death of Superman. Resolving to better himself as a hero and make time for those he treasures, Barry proposes to Iris who immediately says yes. Now dealing with the fallout of Superman's death and making plans for his pending nuptials, Barry has to balance his life as a hero more than ever.[/INDENT][/color]
[b][color=ed1c24]| ATTRIBUTES: |[/color][/b]
[color=fff200][indent][B][I]SPEED FORCE CONDUIT:[/I][/B]
[indent][color=fff79a]The Speed Force is a vaguely defined extra-dimensional energy force from which most superspeed-powered heroes draw their powers. The Speed Force serves as the ultimate measure of velocity. Velocity is often referred to in terms of barriers: Sound barrier, Light barrier, Time Barrier, Dimensional Barrier, and finally the Speed Force Barrier. Barry Allen is the very source and creator of the Speed Force,and generates it with every step he takes. For this very reason, he is unaffected if any other speedster tries to steal or drain his speed. Barry Allen is the fastest of the Flashes, and is arguably one of, the fastest beings to have ever existed. He is currently fast enough to easily break all of the barriers and even enter the Speed Force itself, and is one of the few people to have ever escaped from it. He does not often go beyond Mach 10, as speeds above that level are catastrophic to the environment. To this extent, Barry can most likely reach any speed he can imagine, and more.[/color][/indent]
[B][I]SUPERHUMAN SPEED:[/I][/B]
[indent][color=fff79a]Speed Force conduits have one main ability above all else. Conduits are connected to the barrier and accumulation of all Speed known in their universe. These characters immediately understand how to run at superhuman speeds and their bodies instinctively understand how to react at high-speed situations. Older speedsters have a reduced but maxed speed of 770mph which is just below sonic booms allowing them to react to situations without causing civilians undo stress. Speedsters in their prime can travel at much faster speeds such as the max level of recorded aided speed on Earth and even reach the speed of light with enough willpower. It is possible for conduits to travel much faster than the speed of light however such levels require an incredible amount of stress. Speedsters unaccustomed to their max level of speeds may detach themselves from the Speed Force or even become part of the Speed Force by accident.[/color][/indent]
[i][b]SUPERHUMAN AGILITY: [/b][/i]
[indent][color=fff79a]Barry is incredibly agile, able to change direction immediately. This allows him to make sharp turns on city streets without sliding or losing his balance, and helps him leap farther and higher while running.[/color][/indent]
[i][b]SUPERHUMAN REFLEXES: [/b][/i]
[indent][color=fff79a]Barry's increased speed also augments his reaction time, allowing him to react to danger and events far faster than a normal human. When shot in the neck on his blindside, Barry was able to catch the bullet and minimize the damage before it could fully penetrate his skin.[/color][/indent]
[i][b]SUPERHUMAN ENDURANCE: [/b][/i]
[indent][color=fff79a]Barry's body can handle the stresses of superhuman racing without noticeable distress, and his body's enhanced stamina allows him to function much longer than a normal human without getting tired or weak. Barry is able to recover from attacks and exertion much quicker than normal humans. While his durability is no greater than before, he has been able to withstand being struck with Weather Wizard's lightning, with him only being stunned for several minutes, as well as only being stunned by Grodd's strength.[/color][/indent]
[i][b]ACCELERATED PERCEPTION:[/b][/i] 
[indent][color=fff79a]Barry's speed also extends to his senses and mental capacities, able to take in information and process it just as fast. This allows Barry to see the world as if it is in slow motion, which combined with his physical speed lets him think, perform actions, react to events, long before a normal human around him could even perceive them.[/color][/indent]
[B][I]RAPID CELLULAR REGENERATION:[/I][/B]
[indent][color=fff79a]Barry has dramatically heightened healing capacities. This is caused by his body's molecules moving at accelerated rates, causing the chemical reactions responsible for metabolism to mend and even restore any damages much quicker and efficiently than regular humans. His body can heal itself in hours or days with little to no treatment or therapy. After breaking his wrist while testing his new-found speed, Barry made a full recovery within three hours with no lingering effects or even signs of it having happened. Even normally permanent damage to his body, like becoming a paraplegic, will completely repair itself within days. His body also has a heightened resistance, if not immunity, to any sickness, disease, toxins, and poisons. Normal drinking does not affect him consuming a special 500 proof alcohol only intoxicated for a few seconds. Similarly, when injected him with 2,000 milligrams of horse tranquilizer, Barry was only momentarily slowed down until he burned through it. Further testing of Barry's body has speculated that this augmented metabolism is drastically reducing his aging process while likewise extending his health and longevity.[/color][/indent]
[i][b]CELLULAR VIBRATION:[/b][/i] 
[indent][color=fff79a]Barry has the ability to vibrate some or all of his cells and overall parts of his body on command for various effects. His bodily control can vibrate his entire body to mask his form from others clearly perceiving it and distort his vocal cords to disguise his voice. Similar, he can vibrate his cells fast enough to forcibly expel any toxins that do manage to affect him. He can vibrate at varying frequencies and with different levels of force, allowing him to create small tremor-like effects on any object or person he touches. Later learning how to vibrate all the cells in his body at the same frequency as air, Barry can allow himself to seamlessly pass through any solid target unfazed. His can also choose which matter he phases together with him as he phased Iris and Joe both in and out of moving vehicles.[/color][/indent]
[i][b]FORCE GENERATION:[/b][/i] 
[indent][color=fff79a]Through Barry's ability to accelerate his movements, he can generate great amounts of physical forces through kinetic energy and friction, allowing him to overpower regular humans with little to no effort. Through generation of his accelerated momentum, he can propel himself through the air and create substantial frictional force with any object he comes into contact with, able to jumped over 15 feet in the air. The friction from his speed can also cause extreme heat and set objects ablaze. Alternatively, his enhanced speed lets him channel the force into powerful strikes, often propelling targets several feet. Barry has an increased level of strength added to his body which he can impart in different ways. He can strengthen each and every move he makes however this requires attention and stress for each movement and therefore is almost never used. In most cases Barry can focus the Speed Force's extra-dimensional energies into one massive punch. The force he generates can even produce sonic blasts with his strikes, enough to disable a meta-human who could become as strong and hard as steel. Similarly, Barry is able to hurl a bullet from his hand with enough force to penetrate a powerful barrier and still pierce clean through a person.[/color][/indent]
[i][b]VORTEX GENERATION:[/b][/i] 
[indent][color=fff79a]Using his speed, Barry can control air flow on all levels by moving through them fast enough and create vacuums. He can suffocate people by creating a strong vortex around them by running around them. He can spin his arms at the speed of a tornado to remove air from fire and extinguish it and repel targets away. For larger scale feats, he can completely removing the physical force from massive tidal waves and stabilize a giant singularity by running back and forth or in a circle.[/color][/indent]
[i][b]SKILLED TACTICIAN:[/b][/i] 
[indent][color=fff79a]A keen-minded individual, from a young age, Barry quickly showed a natural understanding and quick capacity to learn, making it hard for his foster-father Joe to help him with homework by the time he was twelve. Barry is also very well-read, greatly impressing even award-winning professors. Barry is a capable tactician and leader. In times of crisis when the other leaders of the Justice League have been indisposed, Barry has managed to keep the remaining team together and lead it well. Barry's intelligence made the Chief of Police trust him enough to make Barry the new head of the Special Investigative Unit at the Central City Police Department.[/color][/indent]
[i][b]FORENSIC EXPERT:[/b][/i] 
[indent][color=fff79a]Barry is a highly skilled forensics examiner. From a single glance of the crime scene, he can quickly determine much of the events that transpired. Barry has repeatedly been able to quickly analyze any given data and quickly form accurate theories on the given situation.[/color][/indent]
[i][b]CHEMISTRY EXPERT:[/b][/i] 
[indent][color=fff79a]Barry's knowledge and skill in chemistry is very advanced, shown when he was terrified at how certain chemicals were stored at a lab at Queen Consolidated, describing them all as the definition of dangerous. He has also been able to cure a poison victim using only a small amount of rat poison and consequently dosed with a blood coagulant. He could also use unknown types of chemicals to make a compressible micro-fabric costume for himself that resisted the extreme forces of fiction his speed exerted upon it.[/color][/indent][/indent][/color]
[b][color=ed1c24]| CHARACTER NOTES: |[/color][/b]
[INDENT][color=fff200][b]| [U]ALLIES:[/U] |[/b][/color]
[INDENT][color=fff79a][B][I]IRIS WEST:[/I][/B][/color]
[INDENT][color=fff200]The adoptive daughter of [color=fff79a][B]Joseph[/B][/color] and [color=fff79a][B]Francine West[/B][/color], Iris was born to a family she never knew before being left on the footsteps of the Midvale Orphanage. Adopted a year later by Wests who were unable to have children of their own, Iris was raised as their own child. Entering into kindergarten, Iris met Barry Allen with the two becoming quick friends. The two remained inseparable from that point on. However Iris' life was not free of strife as her mother suffered a severe back becoming addicted to her prescribed pain killers. Eventually Joe convinced Francine to commit herself to rehab, however neither Iris or Joe heard from her again. Entering into highschool, Barry and Iris began to drift apart as they found themselves in separate social circles. Graduating with honors, Iris took an interest in journalism and attended the local college for such. Upon graduation she found herself work with the Central City News and became one of the first reporters to write on the Flash. Eventually Barry revealed himself to Iris as the two entered into a romantic relationship.[/color][/INDENT]
[color=fff79a][B][I]JOSEPH WEST:[/I][/B][/color]
[color=fff200][INDENT]The father of [color=fff79a][B]Iris West[/B][/color] and foster father to [color=fff79a][B]Barry Allen[/B][/color], Joseph was a close friend of Henry and Nora Allen when they first moved to Central City. With Henry's conviction and Nora's death, Joe became Barry's foster father and while the relationship between the two was originally rough, they became very close as time went on. Joe was the first person that Barry revealed himself as the Flash to and has become one of his most valuable allies in his mission to protect Central City.[/INDENT][/color]
[color=fff79a][B][I]PATTY SPIVOT:[/I][/B][/color]
[INDENT][color=fff200][I]~WIP~[/I][/color][/INDENT]
[color=fff79a][B][I]DAVID SINGH:[/I][/B][/color]
[color=fff200][INDENT][I]~WIP~[/I][/INDENT][/color][/INDENT]
[color=fff200][b]| [U]ROGUES:[/U] |[/b][/color]
[INDENT][color=fff79a][B][I]LEONARD SNART AKA CAPTAIN COLD:[/I][/B][/color]
[color=fff200][INDENT][I]~WIP~[/I][/INDENT][/color]
[color=fff79a][B][I]GEORGE HARKNESS AKA CAPTAIN BOOMERANG:[/I][/B][/color]
[color=fff200][INDENT][I]~WIP~[/I][/INDENT][/color]
[color=fff79a][B][I]LISA SNART AKA GOLDEN GLIDER:[/I][/B][/color]
[color=fff200][INDENT][I]~WIP~[/I][/INDENT][/color]
[color=fff79a][B][I]MICK RORY AKA HEAT WAVE:[/I][/B][/color]
[color=fff200][INDENT][I]~WIP~[/I][/INDENT][/color]
[color=fff79a][B][I]EVAN MCCULLOCH AKA MIRROR MASTER:[/I][/B][/color]
[color=fff200][INDENT][I]~WIP~[/I][/INDENT][/color]
[color=fff79a][B][I]HARTLEY RATHAWAY AKA THE PIED PIPER:[/I][/B][/color]
[color=fff200][INDENT][I]~WIP~[/I][/INDENT][/color]
[color=fff79a][B][I]JAMES JESSE AKA THE TRICKSTER:[/I][/B][/color]
[color=fff200][INDENT][I]~WIP~[/I][/INDENT][/color]
[color=fff79a][B][I]MARK MARDON AKA WEATHER WIZARD:[/I][/B][/color]
[color=fff200][INDENT][I]~WIP~[/I][/INDENT][/color]
[color=fff79a][B][I]ABHARARAKADHARARBARAKH AKA ABRA KADABRA:[/I][/B][/color]
[color=fff200][INDENT][I]~WIP~[/I][/INDENT][/color]
[color=fff79a][B][I]GRODD:[/I][/B][/color]
[color=fff200][INDENT][I]~WIP~[/I][/INDENT][/color]
[color=fff79a][B][I]PETER MERKEL AKA RAG DOLL:[/I][/B][/color]
[color=fff200][INDENT][I]~WIP~[/I][/INDENT][/color]
[color=fff79a][B][I]RICHARD SWIFT AKA THE SHADE:[/I][/B][/color]
[color=fff200][INDENT][I]~WIP~[/I][/INDENT][/color]
[color=fff79a][B][I]EOBARD THAWNE AKA THE REVERSE FLASH:[/I][/B][/color]
[color=fff200][INDENT][I]~WIP~[/I][/INDENT][/color][/INDENT][/INDENT]
[INDENT][color=fff79a][sub]*It should be noted that Joe West is based upon his [url=https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRRQ3OzVuUNMEtQZ5aO6nPHxFC_VJ5a1kjFIPvIo-uq5Rw6iLCOv5_LxQha]CW counterpart[/url], whereas Iris is on her [url=http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/0/0f/Iris_West_0011.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20121208135434]comicbook one[/url]. Albeit with notable changes. Due to not blood relation, Wally West would be directly related to Joseph by blood but not Iris. Personally I was thinking Joseph's nephew.*[/sub][/color][/INDENT]
[color=ed1c24][b]| CHARACTER GOALS: |[/b][/color]
[INDENT][color=fff200]My goals for Barry are to show him constantly moving forward. While he has thus far accomplished quite a bit in his career, there's a lot more to go. With the death of Superman, I want to show Barry stepping up to take more weight than he can handle, eventually breaking when confronted with the truth about his mother's murder. My story arcs will involve the Rogues, Grodd, and off course Eobard Thawne.

That all said, I'd also like to state I'm open to collaborative story arcs between other League Members and potentially Kid Flashes and/or Jesse Quick.[/color][/INDENT]
[b][color=ed1c24]| SAMPLE POST: |[/color][/b]
[indent][color=fff200]The platter of empty burger containers had piled up as Iris stared across the booth at Barry in disbelief while the mummers of disdain from other customers tickled the back of Barry's ears.

"A guy's gotta eat folks." Barry said with a shrug as Iris shook her head.

"This is why we should only ever get take out." She said with a wry smirk. "Your appetite draws way too much attention."

"Hey, I put more miles on these legs in an hour than most people put on their cars in a week. I think I deserve the right to as many Big Belly Burgers as I want." 

"You do Barry," Iris paused looking around with a glare as everyone else went back to their meals. "Just not in public, okay Sweetie?" She added reaching across the table with a napkin before Barry snatched it out of her hand and dotted against his own mouth.

"So what's next on the agenda? Movie? Mini-putt?" Barry asked as he leaned over the table and pecked Iris on the lips. 

"Well, provided you're free..." Iris started before the sound of sirens interrupted her. "And now you're not." She said with a sad smile as Barry pulled out his cellphone. A text from Joe illuminating the screen as Barry swiped his finger across the screen.

"Armed robbery on fifth." Barry stated. "Don't worry Babe, I'll be back in a..."

"Flash." Iris replied with an amused smirk. "Go get 'im Tiger."

With a kiss on the cheek, Barry was out the door. Ejecting his suit from his ring, Barry quickly changed into the Flash as the street became filled with a streak of red and yellow. The sights and sounds of Central city flew past Barry as he weaved in and out of the streets. The smells of the various street vendors filled his nostrils as Barry jumped up over a line of stopped traffic, the momentum carrying him the distance as he landed and continued without a loss of velocity.

Coming up on the blinding flash of red and blue, Barry rushed the scene as the armed criminals raised their weapons. Breaking the next speed barrier, Barry disarmed the criminals before a shot could be fired. Discarding the weapons at the feet of the police officers, Barry continued moving as he borrowed a couple pairs of handcuffs off the belts of the officers. Cuffing the thieves together around a nearby light post, Barry came to a stop beside Joe West.

"All yours from here Officer." Flash stated with a smile and a salute.

"In a hurry tonight Flash?" Joe said with a smile as Flash nodded.

"Got a hot date Officer, I was always taught to never keep a lady waiting."

With a chuckle, Joe replied with a pat to the Flash's back. "Sounds like a wise man taught you that, don't let us keep you Flash. We can take it from here."

"Good night Officer." Flash said as he sped away.[/color][/indent]