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”I don’t like this Jay. I don’t like this at all-”

”I didn’t have a chance Joan, this is my mess to tidy up.”

“You’re not as young as you once were Jay, we made a deal. YOU made a deal with the government to hang up the tin hat.”

“Mota is my problem, he was my friend until he stole tech from the lab to turn into a bank robber. I don’t even know how he got out of prison-”

“He was released Jay. He robbed a bank, he’s served his sentence, it’s been a long time.”

The first thing she heard were the voices, as she slowly came too. Everything ached, her head was a special kind of sore. She didn’t even bother trying to open her eyes yet, she doubted they would have complied anyway. Instead she focused on the voices, she didn’t fully understand what was going on. Some kind of fight, she didn’t expect to be waking up on what felt like a couch. Instead she was expecting to wake up on the sidewalk, or not at all.

Had she seen what she thought she had seen?

“Joan, I have to stop Mota. I can’t let him do this all again, besides he’s not the only problem in the city right now-”

“Oh no. Don’t think about it Jay, you are not fighting all the crime in the city-” Iris could hear the womans voice begin to break. “-if you do that, S.H.I.E.L.D will take you away from me again, like last time you threatened to break the accords. You’re not the Flash anymore Jay. She is.”

The Flash. This must be the Flash that Zoom and this Mota had been referring to. She willed herself to sit up and open her eyes, groaning slightly as the room began to spin. Her body fighting her for every inch she tried to gain in sitting up. She placed her arms on her legs to stop herself from falling over. “Look who’s up.” Iris turned her head to the doorway where the man stood, he still wore the red top with a lightning bolt upon it though he had forgone wearing the helmet indoors. “How are you feeling Flash?”

“Flash?” Iris shook her head to clear the fog that threatened to close in on her again. How was this possible? This was The Flash. The one that Barry named her for, the one from comic books. Who fought alongside Captain America and later the Justice Society of America. “I don’t. I don’t understand.”

“Well, best I can tell is when you gained your powers you took my name-” She raised her hand to stop him, though quickly had to return it to her knee to prevent her from falling head first onto the floor.

“Not that. I know Ba-” She stopped herself from mentioning names. “-my friend.” She corrected herself, sitting up straight as she started to feel steadier. “Gave me a name based off a comic book hero, but that’s all you were, right? You can’t be real.”

The man chuckled. “It’s a long story, I’m real as you are. In terms of the comic book stuff-” he just shrugged. “-coverup. A lot of that stuff is exaggerated for entertainment purposes. Some of it isn’t. It’s a real mixed bag of truth and lies. Thankyou S.H.I.E.L.D. Names Jay Garrick, and I’m the Flash-” She pushed herself up and onto her feet, spreading her hands out as she felt dizzy for a second but then lowered them as she regained her balance.

“I’ve got two, two super powered freaks out there. Both of them have beaten me in the last twenty four hours. I need to find out what they want, and stop them.”

Jay walked over. “Not alone you don’t-”

“Eh-Ehm.” A woman stood in the doorway, presumably ‘Joan’. She looked undeniably pissed off.

Jay turned and flashed her a smile. “-What I mean is, I can help you against Mota.” She didn’t look happy, but she looked slightly less pissed off. “I can maybe even give you advice against what was the other guys name?”

“Hydro-Man.” Jay looked like he was going to burst into laughter, though a strange wave of nostalgia seemed to cross his face.

“Why do they always come up with such silly names? Mota used to go by Atom Smasher, I used to fight a guy who called himself Shade-”

“Excuse me, Flash?” Joans voice had a hint of playfulness in it now, a sign of a spark that still existed between the two of them.

Jay pointed an accusatory finger at Joan. “You know that I wasn’t given a lot of choice. Between the Streak, Flash and the Whizzer what was I supposed to go with?”

She chuckled slightly. “The [i[Whizzer[/i]. I still can’t believe they wanted to call you that.” She waved her hand as he scowled at her before she turned and walked out of the room.

He turned to face her again, indicating she should sit back down. Iris did, world going unsteady from the movement as he sat beside her. “The thing is Kid, I’ve been following your exploits since you made your debut. I found it a bit too convenient that someone with the same abilities as me appeared in Central City when I live in Keystone. Not only that, that they took on the same name that I did back in the day.”

Following her? “That was you, at City Hall. The one I got the shock from.” He nodded.

“Yeah that was me. The thing is, I’ve felt it every time you’ve been in trouble. I have a sense for these things, this force that helps us run it connects us and you-” He shook his head slightly “-you have the potential to be far faster than I ever was.”
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