A wild Bart Allen appears!

[kid_flash_found]

"Run, Flash, RUN!"

Those were his last conscious words, his whole being as the Speed Force poured from him into his grandfather, giving him everything he had, everything he'd taken from every other speedster, that last push he needed to finish things. Bart knew he was lost, but this would let the world, everything he fought for, his grandfather, win. That was the important thing.

He'd never expected to feel anything. To live. Except...something had happened, and the Speed Force spat him out, all the worse for wear. That was the only thing he could guess. No, wait, this place...he’s never been here. Bart knew beyond the shadow of a doubt that he would remember every place he’s been. This place is new, different. It feels subtly off, or is that just the way he feels his connection to the Speed Force?

There really is only one thing to do, and that’s gather information, learn, find out if he’s alone or if there’s anyone else he knows here. Making certain his cowl is firmly in place, Bart Allen, better known as Kid Flash steps out to see what he can see.

"Star Labs, huh? I wonder if Val is here..." he muses aloud.

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[thishouseisbitchin]

"Iris." It's entirely possible, probable and likely that they are having two different conversations. If, in fact, they are having a conversation at all.

[kid_flash_found]

"My grandmother's name is Iris," Bart said, wanting to see if there was a reaction. Clearly the stars had something to do with lives, both saved and extinguished.

[thishouseisbitchin]

Is Bart sure about that? "She runs into danger. No. I don't know where she is."

[kid_flash_found]

"Running towards danger doesn't mean that she's not still here, somewhere. I sometimes wished I had a lightning rod like her."

[thishouseisbitchin]

"Bury it in the earth and call it Moonday."

[kid_flash_found]

"Maybe it won't end like that. We still see the light from stars that have gone out long ago." If this man, this stranger, was somehow his grandfather, who knew what was possible.

[thishouseisbitchin]

"Cosmic echoes into a dark star, throwing diamonds in the sky and watch them rain. Pain. Brain."

[kid_flash_found]

"Yeah, it hurts," Bart agrees, and starts to reach out to the man. He wants to help, but a part of him worries that maybe, like when Jay's heart stopped, the Speed Force had other ideas.

"But you taught me there's always hope."

[thishouseisbitchin]

Barry pulls back, slightly. Draws another square, this time with a line through it. "No, I don't know. Probably not yet, maybe."

[kid_flash_found]

"Some things in time are just...meant to happen. They resist change, like a boulder in a stream."

[thishouseisbitchin]

"There's nothing here, just making time and making strings."

[kid_flash_found]

"We're here, Grandpa. Two Allens are better than one, right?

[thishouseisbitchin]

"Oh, Harry, Right now we have bigger issues than dealing with delayed-choice entanglement swapping." A circle, a square, a diamond.

[kid_flash_found]

"Being trapped in an interdimensional space. Again."

[thishouseisbitchin]

"That's a terrible price to pay."

[kid_flash_found]

"Better than dying," Bart says, smiling sadly. "That really hurts."

[thishouseisbitchin]

He waves that off. "Maybe later."

[kid_flash_found]

"Good plan. I would have avoided it myself."

[thishouseisbitchin]

A deep sigh, and then he draws another circle. And a circle in that circle. "That wasn't for you."

[kid_flash_found]

"What are you looking for?" Bart asks, because, well, there are breadcrumbs, but not many. Maybe if he were his grandmother.

[thishouseisbitchin]

Barry just shakes his head and keeps drawing those symbols. At a certain point, he says something at the same time as the infomercial. Maybe he's seen it before.

[kid_flash_found]

Bart sits back, debating changing the channel to something a little less overblown. "Bet I could find some police procedural for you to gripe about."

[thishouseisbitchin]

The second Bart changes that channel, Barry will change it right back. Just you watch. "Call a doctor immediately if you have someone else's face all over yours, as this could become a permanent fixture."

[kid_flash_found]

"This is definitely my face, Barry. Well, maybe a quarter yours."

[thishouseisbitchin]

"You'll see the flowers. Bright and sharp."