[center][quote=@Sep][color=#ff9900]“Don’t let the burns on the burns on the new uniform fool you Surfer. I’ve put you in your place once and trust me, I’m not in the mood so I’ll do it again with extreme prejudice.”[/color][/quote]
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[b][color=#ffffff]The Raft, New York[/color][/b]

[color=#ffffff]The Surfer regained his balance and looked towards the Flash. With the help of Superman, it had been Iris West that had “defeated” the Surfer the first time around. It had all been a ploy, of course, to test the limits of this world’s champions and to deliver the Surfer into the eager, waiting hands of SHIELD – had the Surfer not pulled his punches in their first fight this second challenge would never have happened. 

And yet despite the Surfer’s best instincts, even his implacability seemed to falter as he looked towards the Flash. It wasn’t so much that his defeat at her hands had humbled him, but that the blow she had struck him with had managed to hurt him where nothing else had. She was a threat. One that needed to be eliminated.[/color]

[b][color=#999999]“YOU USE BRAVADO TO DISGUISE FROM YOUR VULNERABILITY BUT I SEE THE WOUNDS THAT YOU ARE SO DESPERATE TO HIDE. YOU WILL FACE THEM, JUST AS YOUR WORLD WILL FACE IT’S DOOM SHOULD YOU NOT SUBMIT TO MY MASTER’S WILL.”[/color][/b]

[color=#ffffff]With a burst of light, the Surfer had clamped onto the Flash by the wrist of her right hand. He was moving so quickly that the other heroes had barely grasped what was happening. He squeezed the wrist, bending it at will, as Iris screamed out in pain – but the Surfer was not done there. He placed a hand onto the Flash’s head and used the power cosmic to reach deep into her mind. The painful memories she was repressing were brought forth and deployed like weapons. Each a searing knife into her brain.[/color]

[b][color=#999999]“SPEED ALONE WILL NOT HELP YOU OUTRUN YOUR DEMONS, FLASH. YET YOU ARE TOO WEAK TO FACE THEM ON YOUR OWN. BUT FEAR NOT, SOON MY MASTER WILL BE HERE AND THROUGH HIS LOVE YOU WILL FIND THE MEANING OF TRUE SACRIFICE.”[/color][/b]

[color=#ffffff]Iris crumpled in pain, her body exhausted from the mental assault that the Surfer had forced her to endure. The attack reached a sudden stop and the herald and costumed superhero began to move at a speed the others could comprehend. The Flash hung limply in the Surfer’s grasp. He spotted the others making a dash towards him and flung Iris’ weakened body in their direction and prepared once more for the melee.

[b][color=#999999]“YOU WILL [i]ALL[/i] FIND THE MEANING OF SACRIFICE.”[/color][/b][/color]