Barry Allen

"I am The Flash, Fastest Man Alive, and I'm here to protect Central City."

- The Flash introducing himself to CCPD

Barry Allen (born 1976) is the son of the late Nora and Henry Allen. After the death of his mother when he was 10, he swore he would solve her murder and free his innocent father.

In his secret identity, he is a beloved CSI working for the Central City Police Department who is, somehow, always late to everything, including dates. He uses his extraordinary abilities in order to bring peace to Central City and those who call it home. His incredible speed and mind make him a formidable opponent but an excellent hero to those who have the pleasure of calling him an ally and/or friend.

His name is often stylized as the "Red Streak", "The Flash" or the "Fastest Man Alive".

Biography

Original timeline (Pre-Reign)
The past of The Flash in this timeline is unknown.

Darkseid Invades Earth
When Darkseid invaded Earth in 2019 the Justice League were the first to counter him. The Flash quickly took care of Parademons and tried fighting Darkseid head on but when the League re-grouped to quickly come up with a battle plan, Darkseid sent them off-planet via a boom tube trapping the League elsewhere. With no solar radiation and Cyborg corrupted, there was no way back to Earth.

Justice League Return
Once Luthor and The Atom had brought back the Justice League, the final battle against Darkseid began. The League and the combined efforts of all remaining heroes on Earth weren't enough, however, as Darkseid slowly killed everyone but Flash and Batman. Batman tells Flash to run back and fix everything and so sacrifices himself to let the speedster run away. Flash runs away and goes so fast he runs back in time, into 1999.

Changing The Timeline
In 1999, in the new timeline, the Bruce Wayne who only just became Batman, is in the Bat-Cave creating the Batmobile when the Flash appears from the Darkseid Reign timeline. He panics since he is being slowly erased from the timeline as time changes to remove the old one. He tells Bruce that he needs to find 'Clark' and 'form the League' in order to stop 'Darkseid'. As time catches up he is erased from existence.

Growing Up
Barry Allen was born to Nora and Henry Allen who lived a standard young life. However, during his 10th birthday he was taken to school by his Dad. When he walked home, however, he opened the door to see CCPD investigating the scene of his mother's death. He ran inside, and saw before his very eyes his father be detained for the murder of Nora Allen. He was then taken in by Darryl Frye, who was secretly having an affair with Nora Allen as she wanted to divorce Henry Allen.

This prompted him to begin putting his life goal towards proving his father was innocent by excelling at studies such as Chemistry, Law, Biology to become incredibly intelligent. He then went through Police Training and became an official CCPD Intern in the Crime Lab, inspired by his adoptive father who was also a police detective. He worked for a year before being promoted to one of the Crime Lab's finest Forensic Scientists, Darryl Frye had also become Captain so he had good relations with most CCPD staff. Now as a CSI, he could entirely work on helping others so they don't have to deal with what he did as a child.

Becoming The Flash
A year into his life as a CSI, Barry Allen was in the Crime Lab one day, restocking chemicals and checking their catalogue when he was struck by lightning. The mix of the lightning and the chemicals resulted in the creation of the Speed Force. He was unconscious for 4 months before regaining his consciousness and being allowed to leave the Hospital. When he went back to his apartment, he began feeling dizzy and when he went to grab a drink from the kitchen he ran there in less than a second. He began noticing his abilities and began using them and testing their limits. Using his scientific knowledge and already being in top human condition, he quickly mastered the basics of his new profound powers and decided to start using them to help others in secret as a vigilante.

Meeting The Top
During his first year of vigilantism, he ran into The Top robbing a bank. He quickly arrived at the scene and tried taking down the thief but The Top was the very first Metahuman publicly seen in the entire world. Barry had never met or seen someone else with powers and so had no idea how to take him on. The Top, recognising it was The Flash, tried running away using his powers but Barry quickly caught up to him. The chase ended at a factory owned by S.T.A.R. Labs and Barry tried throwing lightning to stop The Top but he used his powers to throw it back at Barry who dodged it. This resulted in the bolt hitting an electric panel which caused a worker to fall into a vat of molten metal. Barry tried saving him but the worker fell into it before Barry could reach him. He turned around to notice that the Top used the opportunity to escape.

Fight with The Top and Girder
Barry was on patrol when he noticed another bank being robbed on the radio. He arrived at the scene to see The Top and Girder robbing the bank, unaware of who Girder was or his powers. The two tried taking on Barry and it was working at first but then Girder threw a car at him. Barry dodged this and it resulted in it impacting another car and creating an explosion that killed Iris West. In anger, Barry accidentally ran so fast he went back in time a few seconds. He grabbed Iris and pulled her away before the car exploded. He then angrily beat down on Girder, nearly killing him, but he managed to calm himself and catch The Top who referred to him as 'Flash'. He then tied the two up and left before anyone was able to take a picture of him.

Work as a CSI
Months later, in 1999, Barry was late to work and arrived at a crime scene late. The Central City Bank was robbed and so Barry was tasked with investigating the scene. He quickly gets to work and deduces that a cooling agent was used on the vault door and a truck was used as an escape vehicle. Singh congratulates him on his work then tells him to go back to CCPD and do all the paperwork for the scene since he was already late.

Date with Iris
The next day, Barry arrives or his date with Iris at Jitters. He arrives late, per usual, and they begin talking about work, especially to do with Iris' article on the Metahuman Thesis. Before they can talk much, however, he is interrupted by an alert on his phone which shows him a robbery is taking place. He apologises for having to leave and quickly runs out of Jitters and runs to the Jewellers which was being robbed. As he arrives, the floor is covered in golden ice and the 4 criminals had already taken most of the jewellery. He notices their weapons and tries talking them out of it before attacking by introducing himself as The Flash. However, the 4 rogues weren't having it and attacked, finishing with Captain Boomerang throwing an explosive boomerang at him which threw him out the building upon impact. Barry was badly hurt and before he could stand up, the rogues were already gone.

Meeting Cisco Ramon
The next day, Barry goes to S.T.A.R. Labs to gain information on the weapons used against him since there was a S.T.A.R. Labs robbery a few days ago that involved tech that could have been used by the 4 criminals. There he met Cisco Ramon, an engineer, who admitted that it was him who created the tech as tools. Barry makes some remarks about the tools which Cisco thought were funny and the two quickly became friendly. Once Barry got all the information he needed, even a way to track the weapons, he thanked Cisco and said they should hang out some time.

Facing the Rogues for the second time
He used the technique Cisco showed him to track the Cold and Heat Guns to a warehouse in Lawrence Hill where he quickly found the Rogues' base. He ran into the warehouse and tried starting the fight with the Rogues but they already knew he was coming. Using their advantage, they quickly overpowered the Flash and even managed to render him nearly unconscious. Before he passed out, Barry ran away to his base and passed out before he could recover.

Apologising to Iris
The next day, he is meeting up with Iris at Jitters and he begins apologising for his actions and in exchange for forgiveness, he'll give her information on the Rogues for her article on them. She agrees and he tells her everything which lands him another date. He then leaves as he is late for work and as he arrives he notices the large pile of paperwork on his desk. As he begins working August Heart enters the Crime Lab and the two exchange a conversation about relationships. As August leaves, Barry decides he needs to find out their identity and so goes to his base to run as many tests as possible on the footage from both incidents. He uses facial recognition software and his deductive skills to quickly get 4 matches; Leonard Snart, Lisa Snart, Digger Harkness and Mick Rory. He puts their information in a file and heads back to CCPD to give the information to Director Singh. However, Singh isn't much impressed by Barry asking him to put more attention to the case and reminds him that Captain Frye put him on a homicide case. Barry leaves CCPD and heads to the West Residence in order to pick up Iris for a date. However, as he rings the doorbell, he gets a notification alerting him that the Rogues were robbing Central City Casino.

Final battle against the Rogues
He quickly arrives at the casino in his Flash suit surprising the Rogues as he got there too early. Leonard and Digger remained in the vault as Lisa and Mick took on Barry but he quickly incapacitated them. Digger comes out of the vault to stop Barry but he was taken out before he could throw a boomerang. While he ties up the Rogues, he doesn't realise Leonard had already escaped and was running away. He runs in front of Leonard and tells him to hand himself in, revealing he knows about the Rogues' debt, but it doesn't work and instead he knocks Leonard unconscious and finishes tying the Rogues up. However, it took him too long as the CCPD arrive at the scene and they aim their guns at Barry. He looks at them and introduces himself as 'The Flash, Fastest Man Alive' and promises them that he's here to do good for Central City.

Powers and abilities

Powers

 * Speed Force Conduit: After Barry was struck by a bolt of lightning and doused with chemicals, it created the Speed Force - a mysterious cosmic force that pushes time and space itself forward. As it does this, the Speed Force creates excess energy that builds up and needs to be released. The Flash is effectively the Speed Force's release valve. When Barry uses his powers, he taps into that built up energy and expends it. Barry is a master of the science of the Speed Force and so has one of the strongest connections with it.
 * Superhuman Speed: Barry is capable of moving at incredible superhuman speeds. While running, he can only be perceived as a blur. He has proven himself to be much faster than even Superman, becoming the fastest living being on the planet. He's so fast in fact time seems to slow down around him, making him appear to be invisible to others within their relative time frame. Barry's speed also allows him to utilize superhuman force, which he can channel to simulate superhuman strength, such as when he easily crashed and broke through a wall made of steel or rushing Girder and sending him flying a few feet off the ground, when he was charging at Barry. Barry's so fast that even when time is frozen around him, he's still capable of moving. Barry often holds back his speed out of fear of tearing a hole in time and space itself.
 * Superhuman Reflexes: Barry's reaction time is augmented to superhuman levels. His great reflexes have allowed him to perform feats such as dodging bullets, escaping explosions (when they detonated a few feet from him). His body sends pain messages to his brain at such a velocity that the femtosecond he feels something, he will react.
 * Superhuman Stamina: Barry's body can handle the stress of moving at superhuman speeds for long periods of time without out getting tired or weak. Barry can maintain a state of vibrating his molecules for hours on end, even without gravity, before passing out.
 * Superhuman Agility: Barry's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to superhuman levels. This allows him to easily manoeuvre and leap far distances while moving at superhuman speed.
 * Speed Force Aura: The Flash's body is surrounded by a "friction cushion", a field of kinetic absorbent energy that protects him and anyone who is running with or carried by him from the rigorous effects of using his speed. Including friction, airborne particulate matter, heavy impacts, G-Force and the like.
 * Superhuman Durability: Thanks to his protective Speed Force aura, Barry is capable of resisting tremendous kinetic impact forces that could easily crush or kill a human, without suffering any serious external or internal injuries. He was able to hit Girder with enough to force to crack his iron body without sustaining any injury to himself.
 * Accelerated Healing: Barry can heal much faster than any regular human. His arm healed within minutes of it being crushed. He was also able to quickly heal from a bullet wound directly next to his heart, after getting shot during his first act of vigilantism against a group of bank robbers.
 * Aerokinesis: By rotating his arms at super speed or running in a circular motion, Barry can create strong vortexes of wind. He can also run around in a circle so fast it creates a vortex of wind that can easily stop someone plummeting from a skyscraper.
 * Dimensional Travel: When Barry approaches the speed of light he may create dimensional breaches to the Speed Force that he calls "time rifts". These breaches create vortexes that pull things into and out of the timeline, with every step closer to light speed increasing the risk. If Barry runs at light speed he may reach critical mass and open a portal into the Speed Force itself.
 * Electrokinesis: Barry is able to generate and manipulate the electrical energy he draws from the Speed Force. The heat from Barry's lightning creates a thermal expansion that allows Barry's suit to be stored in his ring. By focusing the lightning in his hands, Barry is able to enhance his strikes, generate lightning to provide people with warmth, as well as electrocute people on contact.
 * Electro-Blast: By focusing his frequency, Barry can turn his body into a lightning rod, in order to build up a Speed Force charge and redirect it. By doing this, he can project bolts of lightning from his hands.
 * Electromagnetism: Due to his electrical abilities, Barry possesses some level of manipulation over magnetism, which he uses to control his suit's armor. Every time Barry releases his suit from his ring, the pieces of it are conducted by his lightning to form the suit around him.
 * Enhanced Mental Process: By tapping into the Speed Force with his brain, Barry can eliminate the natural bottle-necking of information, that occurs due to the limits of human physiology. Because of this, Barry can think exponentially faster than any normal human, and possesses superhuman mental processing. Barry's mind moves so fast that he is heavily resistant to mind control and possesses some resistance to other psychic attacks, because of this.
 * Speed Mind: By tapping into the Speed Force with his brain, Barry has the ability to tactically assess and predict the numerous possible and probable outcomes of most any given situation. By playing advanced variable examinations within his head he can simulate a quick pre-play sequence of a number of causes, effects and inevitable outcomes at an accelerated rate. Barry can even use the Speed Mind to send his consciousness into the Speed Force to check other timelines, as well.
 * Enhanced Senses: The Speed Force grants Barry enhanced senses that allow him to perceive the world at a rate attuned his reaction speed. He can feel the slightest changes in air pressure around him, as well as electromagnetic pulses, in objects such as glass.
 * Enhanced Vision: Barry has an expanded sight/seeing range, anything that falls within this seeing range he can see instantaneously from, this means he can see things before the light from them reaches the pupil of his eye. Barry can watch camera video feed in fast forward, what may look like a blur to most people, Barry can see each individual image go by frame for frame. Due to his powers, Barry can also see supernatural beings that remain invisible to most people.
 * Speed Force Empathy: The Speed Force grants Barry an empathetic connection to other conduits of the Speed Force, allowing Barry to sense their emotions.
 * Molecular Acceleration: Barry can vibrate his own molecular structure at varying degrees for a number of purposes, by adjusting to different frequencies. As he does that to a high enough degree he causes things to explode.
 * Intangibility: By accelerating his molecular frequency to a high enough degree, Barry can make his body intangible and allow projectiles to pass through him. Flash can use this ability to bypass dangers, such as explosions.
 * Phasing: By vibrating his molecules on an atomic level, and by doing so at just the right frequency, he can allow himself to become momentarily intangible, and phase through objects.
 * Invisibility: When vibrating at super speed Barry can render his body unseen by most people.
 * Thermokinesis: Barry can use his vibrations to generate heat, especially when it comes to thawing people out of ice or just warming people up.
 * Time Travel: Barry can use his speed to travel throughout the time stream, however, he cannot accurately control where he will land without the help of the cosmic treadmill. Because of Barry's ability to travel through time, he has the power to potentially alter the timeline, as he had previously changed it on his own power, during Darkseid's Reign.

Abilities

 * Acrobatics
 * Chemistry
 * Criminology: Barry graduated from college with a degree in forensic science.
 * Disguise
 * Firearms
 * Forensic Pathology
 * Genius Level Intellect: Barry possesses a great knowledge of chemistry and forensic sciences. Despite having unique speed, Barry is not above coming up with a plan and/or investigating about a situation ahead of time, before prompting into a fight.
 * Hand-to-Hand Combat (Advanced): Due to having police training, Barry became a skilled hand-to-hand combatant.
 * Indomitable Will: Barry possesses enough willpower to operate a Green Lantern Ring.
 * Investigation: Barry is a master detective, only slightly less brilliant than Batman himself. He can easily start to paint a picture of a crime scene before even running any tests. He has even managed to deduce the location of where several missing children were held at, when trying to solve a child abduction case.
 * Stealth

Weaknesses

 * Power Instability: The Flash needs room to operate while in a hand-to-hand battle. When an opponent gets in close, Barry's blows are so fast, they could start to land on his own body.
 * Vulnerability to Dimensional Bursts: The Speed Force which fuel Barry Allen's powers can be disrupted by a potent enough extradimensional energy burst.
 * Vulnerability to Extreme Temperatures: If Barry is shot, hit, or falls for a trap that includes extreme temperatures of hot or cold. It can affect his durability and/or nullify his Speed Force abilities.
 * Vulnerability to Cold
 * Vulnerability to Heat
 * Vulnerability to EMP: If Barry becomes trapped in containment cell that involves an electromagnetic pulse, he will be unable to vibrate out to escape.

Paraphernalia

Equipment

 * Flash Ring: Barry uses this ring to compress and conceal his costume while operating in his civilian identity. By thumbing a small stud on the side, the top of the ring opened, releasing the costume (chemically treated to shrink), allowing Barry the ability to change clothes at super-speed.
 * Flash Suit: Barry Allen wears a protective scarlet suit, emblazoned with a golden lightning bolt design on the chest as well as yellow boots and a yellow belt. The suit is specifically designed and chemically treated so it can withstand running at super speed and fit inside his ring. The cowl is decorated with 2 wing pieces over where the ears should be, which are fitted with comms so Barry can go to crimes as they're reported and listen to podcasts, especially about science, when he's running about.
 * Darkseid Reign Suit: In an alternate timeline where Darkseid kills all of Earth's heroes and conquers Earth, Barry wears a more mechanical version of the suit designed by Bruce Wayne. This suit is more heavily armored and streamlined, while also having a retractable face shield that allows Barry to smash through obstacles without sustaining damage. It is believed this suit was used by Barry against planet-threatening opponents and in extreme environments.