Marvel’s Superman

South West Australia.

Nalebo Plains.

A red lightning bolt ran along the road.

This is Australia's longest and straightest road, stretching 90 miles across the southernmost tip of the country.

It's been deserted for years, and almost no one remembers the road except for those crazy tourists.

The fleets of trucks that occasionally crossed here have long since changed their routes.

After all, no one wants to drive along a straight, long road, and the dullness and boredom along the way will make people drowsy.

However, for another group of people in the world, this road is simply a perfect existence.

Just avoid the kangaroos and Australian ostriches that suddenly pop out, and you can run at full speed as much as you want.

A straight and long runway is like heaven in the eyes of speeders.

The surrounding scenery became blurred, turned into a fleeting light film segment, and even the wind gradually faded, until it was silent.

The red speeder known as "The Flash" seems to be galloping in a vacuum tube, surrounded by golden lightning, as if he is walking in another world, where time is absolutely still in multiple dimensions.

Barry could not feel the existence of any matter, and nothing could hinder him. The sound of wind, air, resistance, everything disappeared.

Only speed, ever-increasing speed.

"That's the magic of the Speed ​​Force."

Barry thought so.

He used to come to this place often to think about things.

In the process of running at high speed, the thinking will be sharper and faster than usual.

Many difficult problems can be solved immediately.

However, today.

Barry just wanted to run and run, and didn't want to think about anything.

A shadow that never goes away haunts him, like a ghost that follows him like a shadow.

Even if he is able to break through the speed of light and surpass time, even if he is the fastest person in the world, the dark shadow hidden in the bottom of his heart always hangs over his head, giving out a smirk to his childhood self.

"No matter how fast you run, it's too late to save everyone - not the people you care about!"

Reverse Lightning's words echoed in Barry's mind.

Space-time is like an unconventional circle, where the starting point and the ending point are often connected to each other.

Albert Swan, a future human in the 25th century.

He madly worshipped The Flash, and he studied the source of his powers without eating or sleeping, and finally learned the mystery of the Speed ​​Force.

Swan successfully reproduced the accident that led to the birth of The Flash and became the new Speeder.

With super speed, he incarnates "Reverse Lightning" and becomes the enemy of fate with The Flash.

In the end, in order to eliminate his opponent, he did not hesitate to break the boundaries of time, travel to the past, and kill the Flash who has not yet grown up.

This is the beginning of everything, time and space are intertwined into a circle, Swan killed Barry's mother, but also contributed to the birth of the Flash.

The Flash made him a speedster, a super criminal nicknamed "Reverse Flash".

"Barry, we have to learn to accept what can't be changed - when my parents fell in a dark alley, I accepted my destiny."

Gotham's Dark Knight once explained it this way.

"But, Barry, you can't forget that this is a void in your heart that will never be filled—"

The sound of nothingness echoed quietly in my heart, like a faint light in the deep darkness, attracting people to walk towards it.

The red lightning was still running, like the giant chasing the sun in ancient mythology.

An unprecedented sense of emptiness filled his body, and Barry felt cold inexplicably.

Even though he was accompanied by his family and friends, the indescribable weakness still enveloped him, as if reminding him all the time—

"You have the ability to save her, but you don't!"

"No, I tried... Mom."

The shadow of childhood came to mind again, and Barry stopped running, with pain on his face.

He held his head in his hands and said in a low voice.

Just as his companion, Gotham's Dark Knight, will never forget what happened down that alley.

It is impossible for him to forget that the woman who used to sit by the bed and read bedtime stories gently and quietly died in front of his eyes.

"You watched her die for the justice and faith of the so-called 'hero'! You watched your mother die in front of you, the fastest person in the world, even if time can't catch up with you, but -You didn't save her!"

The sound of nothingness, like the roaring thunder of a rainstorm approaching, exploded in his mind one after another, and he laughed wildly against lightning.

The Flash, who was half-kneeling on the ground, closed his eyes in pain.

The regret that cannot be made up in the heart is like a hole in the canvas of life, and no emotion can fill the grief of losing a loved one.

"Barry, the opportunity is at hand, catch up with the time, leave it far behind, and you can save that regret."

In the spiritual world, there seems to be another voice, which is the strong emotion formed by Barry's regret and annoyance.

"To catch up with the time... to save the regret?"

The Flash murmured unconsciously.

On the highway with no end in sight, the barren weeds, the swarms of kangaroos crossing the highway in the distance, the warm sunset that is about to sink into the horizon.

Barry looked around blankly. The world was so alive, so real, so beautiful.

He is the Flash, the savior of Midtown, one of the members of the Justice League, the fastest man in the world, and a superhero that everyone admires.

"Mother……"

But now he is like a child lost with his parents.

"Let go of the responsibility... let go of the bondage... run with all your strength!"

The breeze blew across the plain, and Barry stood up, turned back, and looked into the distance.

At the far end, there is a city that belongs to him, friends who love and care about him, and partners who insist on accompanying him.

In the other direction, beyond endless time, there may be nothing there.

But there is a gentle woman who is willing to tell him bedtime stories, cover him up, and sing lullabies.

"Mother."

Barry turned his head and waved his hand back as if saying goodbye.

The next moment, the red lightning shook the airflow, turning it into an unparalleled streamer.

With a bang, a roar broke out in the air, and Barry had broken the sound barrier.

Golden lightning lingered around his body, and vaguely, he approached the world of Speed ​​Force that existed in another dimension.

Faster, faster, faster!

As the speed continues to increase, Barry seems to be racing against time. As long as he catches up with the beam of light in front of him and surpasses the speed of light, he will be able to open the gate of time and space and fill the void that exists deep in his heart and can never be filled.

In the normal world, the red lightning has disappeared, and the surrounding space is like flowing water, rippling with ripples, the light is gradually distorted, and flashes into a blurry picture intertwined vertically and horizontally, like a scene formed by the fragmentation of the void. There are fond memories in everyone's heart.

Barry was indifferent, his eyes full of determination.

The golden lightning became more and more intense, almost completely covering his body. It was an illusory picture that existed in different timelines, just to slow down the pace of the speeders. As long as you hesitate and pause for a while, the turbulent flow of time will involve you. Among them, from then on, lost in the speed force, gradually assimilated into time and speed.

boom!

Countless rays of light were intertwined, and the tiny dots gradually expanded and expanded. Barry ran with all his strength. He felt like a raging fire, violently releasing the heat and light in his body.

The time flowing forward at a constant speed suddenly stopped. The red lightning seemed to be running in the viscous glue. He was about to reach the limit of speed.

"Hurry up—"

Like a mountain smashing into a calm lake, there was a roar in the empty space, like a rolling thundercloud.

Time completely stopped, as if the torrent was rushing forward, frozen by an extremely powerful force in an instant.

The whole world seems to be frozen, and even the thinking turns extremely slow.

boom--

There was another loud bang, and the light reversed, like a backward tide.

Everything is going backwards quickly.

It was like a clock of time, constantly being fiddled backwards by an unknown existence.

The world began to go backwards, time and space reversed!

In the time-space tunnel composed of endless light and shadow, Barry galloped at a high speed, and the golden lightning generated by the speed force constantly surrounded his body, crackling.

The torrent of history passed by in a flash, and many things that have happened in the past, those beautiful, painful, happy, and sad, all turned into streamers one by one, he did not look at it, just wanted to run to the end—— That's where it started in the first place.

"Mother."

Barry shouted hard, and the blazing light enveloped him, falling toward the depths of the time-space tunnel.

At this moment, the Flash didn't know it yet, his impulsiveness made a group of people in the world outside the wall seize the opportunity.

...

...

Marvel Universe.

"The deal is done."

After listening to Eternal's explanation, Luke nodded lightly and said, "I don't mind taking a more exciting trip, and by the way, make a small contribution to the multiverse in crisis."

Facing the invitation of the five great creation gods of the universe, he smiled and agreed.

as they say.

This is the best chance!