[Justice League] Earth 52

When Barry saw his mother again, it was just before everything was over.

With the help of Thomas Wayne, he kills the Reverse Flash and regains all of the Speed ​​Force so he can answer the past to correct his mistakes.

And the mistake was that his mother was still alive.

Barry made it home before running back to the Speed ​​Force, where he saw his mother, who he had to tell his mother how wrong he had been.

In order to save Nora, who was killed when he was young, he changed the timeline of the entire world, causing the world to be destroyed.

The world and mother.

Barry had never felt so hopeless.

"I won't let you die." The price of saving the world is that his mother must not be there, and Barry couldn't accept this "I don't want this life to be erased."

"It won't be erased." Nora seemed more accepting of this message, she calmly understood the fact that she had to die, "It did happen, Barry, anyway, the days we lived together existed. "【1】

"Me, you, and Letty." Nora put her hands on Barry's shoulders, feeling Barry's muscles relax because of this movement, "At least there's Letty taking care of you."

"Mom..." Hearing the name, Barry's tone weakened.

"..." Nora looked at her son's drooping eyebrows, sighed, and said in the gentle and teaching tone that Barry had always had since childhood, "Go and talk to her, okay?"

Nora looked at her son hesitated for a moment and then nodded, looked at his blue eyes that perfectly inherited her own, and smiled, "I am extremely proud and happy to have a son like you."【2】

*****

When he came to Letty's house according to Nora's intention, Barry saw Letty sitting on the sofa watching TV. When she felt someone behind her, she turned her head and was first surprised, "How did you come in? Oh...oh." Then she quickly calmed down, "The TV said, today is the end of the world."

"Yes, millions of people will die." Barry nodded, he didn't want to lie to the other party at the end that everything would be fine.

Because the world is hopeless.

"But I'm going to fix it."

"..." After hearing Barry's answer like this, Letty smiled. She stood up from the sofa and walked to Barry. Barry noticed that the other party's hands were covered with gauze. Batcave, severely burned, he bit Letty's hand bloody, and then he watched the other party stop a step away from him, "You have been emphasizing that you are not the person I know, but you look a little Things will not change no matter where you go, that is, as long as there is someone in this world who needs help, you will go."

"I've been thinking about a question since yesterday, what is our relationship in your world?"

"We..." Barry opened his mouth, but he wasn't sure if he should say that. The encounter between Barry and Letty in this world originated when Barry was injured and went to the hospital. He was cured and didn't need to go to the hospital.

So they never had a chance to meet.

However, before he could figure it out, the other party stretched out a hand and interrupted his words first.

"Just, don't tell me, it doesn't mean anything to me." Letty said so, and then turned away.

At this moment, Barry finally decided not to worry about whether those fragmented memories belonged to him. He took a step forward, quickly crossed the distance between them, and hugged Letty from behind, "I'm sorry. .”

Not knowing what to say, he turned Letty around and looked down to feel the touch of his lips.

Then he heard a sob in the other's chest, a sigh "Barry."

This was the first time the other party called his name after he knew who he really was.

When the two separated, Barry looked into each other's purple eyes, trying to remember something, but the other smiled at him, "Just, promise me one thing?"

"what?"

"Give me back our engagement ring, it belongs to me and my fiancé."

******

"So, you tried to save your parents, but you messed up other things." Bruce commented after Barry finished his story, without looking up, as he continued with his work.

The first thing after getting back on track, Barry finds the Batcave, and is delighted to see that everything is still there, owned by Bruce.

"That's right." Barry shrugged for his high-level generalization and couldn't refute it.

"En." Barry thanked Bruce for not making any comments. Bruce had a very similar experience with him. Both of their parents died in a tragedy in their childhood, and they couldn't remember that tragic day all the time.

And that's probably why Barry wanted to tell him.

"But it doesn't feel good." Barry rubbed the bridge of his nose and thought about the messed up world, Diana and Arthur went to war, Hal failed to become Green Lantern and died in battle, Clark was imprisoned as an experiment for so many years, and Bruce Died as a child, it was his father who took his place as Batman.

He thought so, and then exhaled, feeling much better after he said it, he was able to smile easily, "This world is still better."

He looked at Batman's back and felt that there were some things he didn't need to know, so he dug out of his pocket a letter that Bruce's father gave him before he left that world and handed it to Bruce.

"...You really are, Messenger of Hell." Bruce froze for a moment. At that moment, his expression was something Barry had never seen before. He didn't finish the envelope right away, but just looked at [forBruce] on the envelope.

"You're welcome." Barry shrugged again, and put the letter on the table. He thought that he didn't need to be present for the next thing, so he turned and left.

****

After the day's work, Barry visited Nora's grave.

He still has some memories of that totally wrong world, some good memories of his life with his mother.And other memories fell apart and became blurred just like that world.

Bruce said he should take it all as a gift, a gift to make everything a little easier. 【3】

If that world wasn't facing its apocalypse, maybe he'd really like to live there, even if he wasn't the Flash anymore.

Thinking of this, he unconsciously touched the ring of The Flash on his finger, and suddenly, something flashed into his mind.

A pair of purple eyes, a wanted wedding ring...

However, when he tried hard to think about who that person was, the memory disappeared like water on his fingertips, making him unable to grasp it.

He ran at the fastest speed, trying to get rid of the feeling that the timeline was corrected and lost, but to no avail, he still failed to catch the flash of light in the end.

So he stopped, took a breath, and realized he'd been running for a long, long time.

At this moment, he stopped and found himself standing in front of a hospital in the atrium. His physical exertion forced him to stop and rest, and the people around him were whispering because of the sudden appearance of the Flash.

In the distance, an ambulance drove towards him at high speed, brought a gust of wind in front of him, and then stopped at the entrance of the hospital.Barry blankly watched all this happening in front of his eyes. He watched a stretcher being pushed down. A woman in a white coat hurriedly passed by him in the hospital, but she didn't pay attention to her feet and fell in front of him. Barry was in front of him. He quickly reached out to help him up before falling to the ground.

The other party's purple eyes glanced at him, then hurriedly thanked him and left.

And Barry stood there, not knowing what to do.

******

According to scientific theory, there are 200 people in the world who can make you fall in love at first sight.But the world is too big, and the probability of meeting one of these two hundred people is so small.

And people miss that opportunity all the time, or don't get it at all.

But for The Flash, the world isn't that big.

Barry hadn't encountered it before, only because he hadn't bothered to find it.

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【1】【2】【3】All from the original text of the comic Flashpoint

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