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[vivifier]

How many of you are yourself? How many of you are suddenly disney princes or low-level gangsters? 

[ He hates you all right now, really. ] 

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[kid_flash_found]

I've been doing this kind of thing my whole life. You really going to try to say I'm too young? How long have you actually been around in the real world, Grumps?

[Bart really hates that question, mostly because he can't actually answer the age thing coherently anymore. It's never that simple.]

I wanted to try to talk to him before trying to build some kind of Leyden Jar or whatever to contain him. It wouldn't be impossible for him to take out the entire power grid.

[vivifier]

Oh yes, please. Be smart with the only person who probably could and would take that thing off you. See where it gets you.

[kid_flash_found]

I'm not the one being purposefully insulting.

Didn't Dr. Wells build the things? I can always try hunting him down.

[vivifier]

And you know that he's not messed up?

[kid_flash_found]

How do I know anyone's not messed up?

[vivifier]

Do I seem like I'm about to go singing the glory of love?

[kid_flash_found]

So this particular wave of weirdness passed you by. The question still stands. Descarte's dilemma.

[vivifier]

How?

[kid_flash_found]

Just saying you can't know anything for certain about anything outside oneself. And I'm not the one with megalomaniacal tendencies in this conversation.

[vivifier]

Have fun trying to get that thing off on your own, then.

[kid_flash_found]

Have fun chasing Grandpa Sparky, Grumps. At least, if you want to keep the lights on. He's doing a full bio-electric conversion now.

[vivifier]

Who says I plan on chasing him down? What am I, hero by default now? Barry and Cisco are bad now, you're incapacitated and Frost's off singing with the town rats so I'm the town's only option?

[ Oh god, is he? Well, this town is so screwed. ]

[kid_flash_found]

How the sprock should I know? But I think we all have keeping this place relatively whole in our best interest.

If you want me back in action, well, you could just help.

[vivifier]

Do we?

[kid_flash_found]

You want to take the risk if this bubble we're in goes even more unstable?

[vivifier]

I think if that were a danger, Gideon would've said something.

[kid_flash_found]

She's hardly communicative on the best of days.

I don't know if I have anywhere else to go if I'm not here...

[vivifier]

You realize that eventually this place will be repaired, time will be repaired.

[kid_flash_found]

Yeah. It's just...

You know what I mean.

[vivifier]

No. I don't.

[kid_flash_found]

I told him to take the Speed Force, to run. I didn't expect to survive. It was the only way to even try to fix time.

And then I ended up here.

[vivifier]

Bart. You're doing that thing again where you assume that whoever you're talking to knows what the hell you're talking about.

[kid_flash_found]

You don't want to know. I killed them all. All the other speedsters.

[Bart hates how much he doesn't talk about, but he doesn't know where to begin.]

How do you explain any of our lives?

[vivifier]

Could you be less vague, please?

[kid_flash_found]

Would you believe me if I said I was the Speed Force? Or at least, it was contained in me for a while. Half the stuff I've experienced I don't know how to explain without sounding like some kind of mystic mumbo-jumbo.

So when it was in trouble, it used me to reunite all those pieces of itself that reside in the other speedsters. Every single one across time in my world. But it couldn't halt the temporal breakdown I was suffering because of what had happened. I don't know what caused it, I'd been imprisoned by Brainiac when things started.

The Speed Force had the power, but I was just a means to an end. I couldn't have survived long enough to fix things, so it asked me to give the power to someone who could.

I told the Flash to take it and run. To not look back. Because that last transfer wasn't supposed to be anything I could survive, any more than Cobalt Blue or Savitar or Jay or any of the others did.