Post by golddragon71 on Aug 21, 2011 13:08:45 GMT -5
ok here's my favorite Scenario....."What If?"
Jay Garrick had run a long race in the forties as the Flash some would say his time was up....BUT!
Superman was still Flying around and pretending to be meek and mild Clark Kent
Bruce Wayne was still swinging from rooftop to rooftop as Batman and he wasn't showing any signs of losing his skill
Diana was always an immortal Amazon so she's not going anywhere any time real soon.
Why not keep Jay as the Flash...some would say, "How?"
well Jay's a research Chemist who's spent years fighting crime so eventually he'd turn to police Science (no need to create a new character just evolve the job description)
Jay finds that since he and the others stepped down in the past few years his speed has been ebbing away probably the formula that gave him his speed was wearing off (after all all chemical effects wear off from time to time, some even quicker than others. Jays powers only lasted what? fifteen years? So Jay decides to try and re-create his powers.
He's working late in the lab one night, there's a thunderstorm and as it happened with Barry, so now it happens to Jay the Lightning strikes his chemical rack and douses him with the electrified chemicals. (as with barry, Jay only sees a messed up lab and worse, his research notes into the old formula destroyed Jay grouses about the lost time and the apparent lack of regaining his powers until he goes outside.
in stead of trying to catch a cab Jay finds himself seeing a purse-snatcher running away from a screaming woman. Jay tries to run after the punk and is astonished to find himself possessed of even greater speed than he had before. careful to conceal his identity with his blurring face trick, Jay deposits the felon in jail and then races home to tell Joan. Joan's ecstatic about Jay's renewed powers but she stops him from pulling the old costume out of mothballs Joan says that it's a new time and Jay needs to keep in time with rest of the world and that his old costume needs an updating as well at first Jay merely adds a silver mask to his tights instead of the hat and pulls up the boots but Joan says that the red and blue look is so well associated with Superman that people will think it's Superman doing Jays deeds and that the Flash should be distinctively recognizable even if he's a barely glimpsed "Blur"
Jaytakes this into consideration and finally settles on the more well known Yellow and red suit of the Flash with the same cowl and lightning wing tipped earpieces etc...
Jay resumes his career as the Flash with all the trappings that made Barry famous.
A year later, Joan introduces Jay to her sister's son Wally West
(how's that for a ret-con? Mary West's maiden name is Williams ...)
Wally of course is president of the Flash Fan Club back home and as it occurred original so it does here, Wally is struck by Lightning in Jays Lab and is made the Sidekick to the Flash BLUR!!!
(Hey, if it was good enough for Clark in Smallville.....lol)
of course History follows it's course Professor Zoom makes Jays life miserable and kills Joan......of course we learn Joan's actually a time-displaced from the 30th century and her parents save her by implanting her soul into a new body later on. but in the meantime, Jay Starts Dating Joan's cousin Iris West....(had to sneak her in somewhere! but as they're about to get married Zoom reappears and Jay kills him rather than lose his new bride. Jay goes on Trial is eventually acquitted and retires to the future leaving Wally With an updated version of the costume in a true passing of the torch!
Jay is of course kidnapped by the anti-monitor and dies saving the multi-verse Wally becomes the new Flash. (for a time!)
Jay Garrick had run a long race in the forties as the Flash some would say his time was up....BUT!
Superman was still Flying around and pretending to be meek and mild Clark Kent
Bruce Wayne was still swinging from rooftop to rooftop as Batman and he wasn't showing any signs of losing his skill
Diana was always an immortal Amazon so she's not going anywhere any time real soon.
Why not keep Jay as the Flash...some would say, "How?"
well Jay's a research Chemist who's spent years fighting crime so eventually he'd turn to police Science (no need to create a new character just evolve the job description)
Jay finds that since he and the others stepped down in the past few years his speed has been ebbing away probably the formula that gave him his speed was wearing off (after all all chemical effects wear off from time to time, some even quicker than others. Jays powers only lasted what? fifteen years? So Jay decides to try and re-create his powers.
He's working late in the lab one night, there's a thunderstorm and as it happened with Barry, so now it happens to Jay the Lightning strikes his chemical rack and douses him with the electrified chemicals. (as with barry, Jay only sees a messed up lab and worse, his research notes into the old formula destroyed Jay grouses about the lost time and the apparent lack of regaining his powers until he goes outside.
in stead of trying to catch a cab Jay finds himself seeing a purse-snatcher running away from a screaming woman. Jay tries to run after the punk and is astonished to find himself possessed of even greater speed than he had before. careful to conceal his identity with his blurring face trick, Jay deposits the felon in jail and then races home to tell Joan. Joan's ecstatic about Jay's renewed powers but she stops him from pulling the old costume out of mothballs Joan says that it's a new time and Jay needs to keep in time with rest of the world and that his old costume needs an updating as well at first Jay merely adds a silver mask to his tights instead of the hat and pulls up the boots but Joan says that the red and blue look is so well associated with Superman that people will think it's Superman doing Jays deeds and that the Flash should be distinctively recognizable even if he's a barely glimpsed "Blur"
Jaytakes this into consideration and finally settles on the more well known Yellow and red suit of the Flash with the same cowl and lightning wing tipped earpieces etc...
Jay resumes his career as the Flash with all the trappings that made Barry famous.
A year later, Joan introduces Jay to her sister's son Wally West
(how's that for a ret-con? Mary West's maiden name is Williams ...)
Wally of course is president of the Flash Fan Club back home and as it occurred original so it does here, Wally is struck by Lightning in Jays Lab and is made the Sidekick to the Flash BLUR!!!
(Hey, if it was good enough for Clark in Smallville.....lol)
of course History follows it's course Professor Zoom makes Jays life miserable and kills Joan......of course we learn Joan's actually a time-displaced from the 30th century and her parents save her by implanting her soul into a new body later on. but in the meantime, Jay Starts Dating Joan's cousin Iris West....(had to sneak her in somewhere! but as they're about to get married Zoom reappears and Jay kills him rather than lose his new bride. Jay goes on Trial is eventually acquitted and retires to the future leaving Wally With an updated version of the costume in a true passing of the torch!
Jay is of course kidnapped by the anti-monitor and dies saving the multi-verse Wally becomes the new Flash. (for a time!)
