The Flash part 3
The scene starts off right in the heart of Central City, a large and wide park area very similar to New York’s Central Park and some kind of big festival is being celebrated, and with all the crowds and crowds of people it soon becomes obvious who the festival is for…. It’s ‘The Flash Festival’ surrounding the park the camera focuses on a large set up stage right in the centre with a band playing and the song is a version of Crash sung by Matt Willis however the lyrics have been changed a little, they are as follows;
There you go way to fast
Don’t slow down you’re the Flash
You don’t know, what’s been going down
You’ve been running all over town
So shut, shut your mouth
I’m not listening anyhow…. Etc.
As that song starts playing we see our hero Wally in his costume walking amongst his many fans (should note; he’s not wearing Barry’s old costume anymore but a more modern and stylish costume), as the people cheer and yell at Wally, he would raise up his hands, bow, pose, dance, anything and everything to make himself as entertaining as possible.
Everyone there is having a great time, but no one more so than Wally himself, as the song hits its last chorus, Wally charges up his body and super speeds around the stage, lap after lap energising the arena causing lights to go off like fireworks, sparks flying everywhere and the music being played even louder. The crowds continue to roar with excitement and as the song comes to and end Wally grabs the band singer’s microphone and yells ‘How was that’, only to be responded by a cry of celebration from the city.
The next scene see’s both Barry and Iris Allan down in their basement tidying the many years of work Barry had invested in recreating the speed force experiment, they had no need for it anymore, in the background a small television is turned on playing the news channel showing The Flash Festival.
Iris: ‘You must be so proud of yourself Barry, thanks to you there’s once again a Flash to protect this city, you’ve given so much.
Barry just looks at Iris.
Barry: ‘He’s not any Flash Iris look at him’.
He then directs his wife’s attention to the television.
Barry: ‘Look at him, the people don’t cheer him as a hero they cheer him as a celebrity, and he takes every advantage he can disgracing the symbol that I once proudly held.
Iris looks at her husband, she knew him before he was the Flash, during and after and she knew what was really troubling him.
Iris: ‘I know you miss it’.
Barry: ‘This isn’t about me’.
Iris: ‘It has everything to do with you, you were the protector of this city for so long and done so much for this world, and even after you gave it up, you tried so hard to get that life back, it can’t be easy seeing someone else, even your own nephew continuing the legacy that you built and loved, honey its ok to feel a little jealous’.
Barry: ‘I’m not jealous Iris, when you put on that suit the very paths of the world open up to you, you feel like you can do anything…. But I made many enemies during my time and have been through so, so much, things I have even kept from you, that is now the life that awaits Wally, if he keeps up this act to be loved rather than an act of duty, I fear for him Iris…. I fear for him’.
Then in the Dark, another voice speaks. ‘Don’t fear for your nephew Barry, you need it for yourself’. (The voice sounds human but with a slight robotic tone.)
Barry and Iris look round to see a large humanoid gold and red figure standing on the basement decking. Iris looks at him with both fear and confusion but Barry recognized the armoured suit being similar to his one and he also recognized the voice…. ‘Eobald Thawne’ he muttered.
ET: ‘Not any more Allan, that name belonged to a vengeful man of desperation and obsession but now I am so much more, now I am nothing more now than a god….but as that names been taken, call me Professor Zoom.
Barry stared down Zoom in his suit of armour, it looked so similar to the Flash costume and yet everything about it was twisted.
BA: ‘You’ve somehow captured the Speed Force and contained it in that suit….(his voice raises) Thawne you have no idea what you’re doing, the Speed force is much more than just a source of energy, everything about it is unknown, It breaks proven facts of physics, it is impossible for it to exist and yet it does, you can’t just claim that power nor can you contain it’.
ET: ‘And yet claim it is exactly what you sought Allan’.
BA: ‘No, I didn’t seek out its power it seeked me out, the same with Wally, we can’t choose to be a Flash, somehow, someway it’s us that are chosen’.
Suddenly the suit begins lighting up and Zoom begins accessing its mighty power. Barry turns to Iris and whispers.
BA: ‘Iris get out of here’.
IA: ‘I’m not just going to leave you’.
Ba: ‘I can deal with him, go and get Wally, hurry’.
Even though they are whispering Zoom can still hear them.
ET: ‘Yes Iris hurry, while I still allow it, this is between us men’.
Iris runs past Zoom’s suit, goes up the landing and out the house.
Barry knew why Thawne was here, he knew what was about to happen to him and he knew that she wouldn’t get to Wally in time.
Zooms speeds to Barry, the force knocks him to the other side of the room, Zoom then picks him up by the neck and slams him against the concrete wall. Barry is gasping for air and using both of his hands trying to loosen the grip but he was no match for the suits strength.
ET: ‘Too long I’ve waited for this moment, where I have the power and you tremble before my feet with nothing but fear in your eyes’.
BA: ‘It isn’t fear you see Thawne, its pride I’ve had my life and it has been good, I’ve been loved by a good woman and have built a legacy, one that Wally will continue and one you will never steal’.
ET: ‘Ah yes! Your young nephew, it’s so clear that he loves you’.
Zoom’s face goes right up to Barry’s.
ET: ‘But will he mourn you’.
Zooms grip around Barry’s neck tightens, but in that desperate second Barry felt something he never felt in a very long time, the sparks that were shooting around the room wasn’t just coming from Zooms suit, but also from his own body…. His power was back.
With that and a slight smile on his face he unleashes he’s bodies power and throws Zoom back the other side of the room, he then charges up his body and super speeds towards the villain throwing punch after punch, each one landing against the suits helmet and for a moment it seemed Barry was winning, but Zoom just turned his head back around and a dark laugh emits from the headpiece.
Zoom then returns the blows and with no suit of armour to protect him nor having he’s power back for very long Barry get badly beaten…. Very bad.
The last bit in this scene is a close up of a defeated Barry, succumbing to his wounds and clearly in pain, his face then turns to horror as Zoom slowly approaches him. (The scene then goes black).
The next scene is Wally still at the festival as the Flash talking to news reporters and posing for pictures until he sees his aunt Iris running towards him, she’s crying and immediately Wally knows something’s wrong and shuts up one of the reporters talking to him.
He speeds over to her and Iris tells him that Thawne is at their home, in some kind of power suit and that Barry is with him. In shock Wally then super speeds to his home, bursts through the basements door and sees the lifeless body of his uncle lying on the floor.
Wally mutters in panic ‘no’.
He rushes to the body and lifts his lifeless uncle trying to wake him up, but to no avail, as Wally cradles him in his arms sobbing through tears he yells in complete anger NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
The scene after sees a horrified but silent Iris walk through the basement door and sees her nephew cradling her husband in his arms and grief completely takes over her face, Barry Allan was dead.
It’s a few days later and its Barry’s funeral, the day is bright but cold the coffin is being laid to rest in the ground and the vicar recites a prayer, we see both Wally and Iris standing next to one another amongst the small gathering in their grief looking upon the lowered coffin, at one moment Wally looks up at the others that have intended his uncles funeral, and to him a few stand out from the rest, there was one man in a long dark brown jacket, he had long wavy brown hair and he noticed on his right hand a strange green ring worn on his finger, there was another who he immediately recognized, although he had been retired for some time Wally knew who he was…. Once heavyweight boxing champion Ted Grant, ‘what are you doing here’, Wally muttered to himself. Then there was another he spotted, Ray Palmer, he was some kind of atomic researching genius who Wally had seen in chat shows, Wally had no idea who these people were but whatever their reason he was glad they had come. (Aside from Barry’s death scene this scene should be the most dramatic and heart wrenching bit of the movie and everything about it has to show that, slow sad music being played etc.)
To end the scene we get a close up of Wally’s face, full of grief and anger, he wants revenge and he wants it now.
Were then back at the Allan house and both Iris and Wally are packing Barry’s things together.
IA: ‘Wally, you cant blame yourself for what happened’.
WW: I don’t, I blame him and when I get my chance I’m going to kill him’.
IA: ‘Wally you can’t’ she gasped.
WW: ‘Why, because I’m the Flash’.
IA: ‘No, because your Wally West, my nephew and you are not like him, you’re not a killer’.
Wally looks at his aunt his anger. Not yet I’m not’.
Moments later Wally is walking alone in the dark evening to try and clear his head and cure his grief, he could be anywhere he wanted however fast he wanted and yet somehow just slowly walking down a familiar street was all he wanted to do. Whilst deep in thought Wally noticed something in the sky, a bright green light shone in the night and the more Wally stared at it the closer and brighter the light got.
‘What now’ Wally mutters.
Then the light dims to a faint glow and a humanoid figure can be seen floating above him, a voice then booms from the man.
HJ: ‘We meet at last kid’.
Wally began charging the speed force in his body, he wasn’t wearing his costume, he wasn’t disguised but he didn’t care whoever this was they had chosen a wrong time to find him.
HJ: ‘Power yourself down boy, you’re not the only one in grief but there’s work to do’.
WW: ‘Who are you’?
The green light now dims to clearly show the mans face.
HJ: ‘I am the Green Lantern of sector 2814, my name is Hal Jordan and I was a great friend of your uncles’.
Now Wally recognized the man, he was at Barry’s funeral and once again he saw the green ring on his finger, as well as some weird green space suit, Wally had never seen anything like it.
WW: ‘What do you want’?
The Green Lantern then descends to the ground.
HJ: ‘I know your in pain son, but if you go after your uncles killer with that pain still weighing you down, you wont stand a chance of winning’.
WW: ‘Oh I do, I’m faster than my uncle ever was, Thawne has no idea what he’s in for’.
HJ: ‘Perhaps…. but what if you do beat him, in your mind now how would you deal with him, kill him?
WW: ‘Maybe, its what he deserves’.
HJ: ‘Wally your uncle was a hero, like you, like me and like many others its not up to us to choose what people deserve’.
WW: ‘You said you were my uncles friend, don’t you want justice’.
HJ: ‘Of course I want justice, but not vengeance that isn’t what I believe in and neither did your uncle…. If you want to destroy the embodiment that your uncle created out of rage then go ahead, but if you want to honour your uncles memory, do the right thing kid, beat him, but don’t kill him’.
With that Hal shoots of into the night sky leaving Wally very conflicted but in a strange way, much better than how he was before, he was right Barry would never of killed in life and he would never want someone to die because of his death no matter who it was. As Wally began walking home he remained determined to face Thawne, but no longer in the mind of a killer, he will face Thawne as the symbol his uncle passed down to him…. He will face Thawne as The Flash.