The Fastest Colt Alive

by Alicorn21

Things You Can't Out Run

Previous Chapter

It doesn't matter if you're the slowest kid in gym class or the fastest man alive, every one of us is running. Being alive means running, running from something running to something or someone and no matter how fast you are there's something you can't outrun. Somethings that always manage to catch up to you like school.

Jay ran to school at super speed and stopped one black from the school and walked into the school and meet up with Rainbow Dash and Sunset Shimmer. "Hey guys," Jay said as he approached them. "Hi Jay, so how is it to be The Red Blur?" Sunset asked him.

"What?" Jay asked confused.

"There is this website about you," Sunset said holding up her phone showing the site "it is written by someone named Iris West".

"Wait did you say Iris West?" Jay asked.

"Yeah, do you know her?" Sunset asked.

"Yeah, she was my friend when I was younger" Jay replied, "And why The Red Blur?".

"I don't know but it kinda catches on with you," Sunset said.

"Nah whatever," Jay said and walked with them down the hallway with them "so do you guys have any plans after school?" Jay asked them.

"I don't know, what are you gonna do?" Rainbow asked.

"I really want to try that pizza restaurant at Grant Avenue," Jay said.

"That sounds awesome," Rainbow said.

"It is," Jay said.

The CMC walked up to them and wanted to talk with Jay because they idolized him just like they idolized Rainbow. Because Jay has been struck by lightning and woke up from coma alive and well. They began talking to talk with Jay.

"Hey Jay," Applebloom said.

"Can I help you, girls?" Jay asked and stopped walking.

"We just wanted to see how you've been since you woke up from come a few weeks ago," Sweetie Belle said.

Jay looked confused that actually knew about him.

"How did you know....?" Jay asked.

"Rainbow told the whole school about you" Scootaloo replied.

Jay turned his head to look at Rainbow Dash, "you told everyone?" he asked.

"Why not, students here at CHS should know about you," Rainbow said.

"Did you tell people that I also worked at CCPD as a forensic scientist?" Jay asked.

"Y...yes" Rainbow said, "but still everyone thinks you're awesome".

"Yeah I wanted my life to be a little private but it's good to know that there are people that think's I am cool," Jay said.

"They also think you're awesome too Jay also there is some that admire are you," Rainbow said "well... everybody instead of Trixie".

"I knew it," Jay said.

"So what happened when you woke up" One of the CMC's asked.

"Well I woke up in STAR labs" Jay replied.

"I wonder, what does STAR labs stand for?" Scootaloo asked.

" It stands for Scientific and Technological Advanced Research Laboratories or S.T.A.R Labs" Jay replied, "and I know what happened when the explosion occurred but I don't think people should be angry at Harrison Wells, just saying".

"That makes a lot of sense," Scootaloo said

jay got a call on his phone straight from the Cisco, "excuse me for a minute" Jay said to the girls and went somewhere in the halls to get some privacy.

"Hello," Jay said answering his phone.

"Jay there is a code 237 on Ward Boulevard," Cisco said.

"Public indecency?" Jay asked since he was a CSI he knew about the police codes.

"Wait, I think I meant a 239." Cisco tried to correct himself.

"Dog leash violation?" Jay asked again before Caitlin's voice took over.

"Badman with a gun in a getaway car. Go." She said.

Jay ran out of the school in super-speed without nobody seeing that he could run at superspeed.

Elsewhere in town, A man was indeed in a getaway car with the police right behind him. The police pulled up next to him and he fired at them with his gun.

"He's got a gun. Look out!" One of the officers said.

Jay was running towards the chase and soon went to the side of the car, before zooming through both cars and running back. The officers turned to the car seeing it was empty.

"Where'd he go?" The officer asked his partner.

The two then heard something in the back and turn to see the guy they were chasing was in the back of the car, cuffed up.

"What the..." One of the officers said as the two look at each other.

Jay raced back to the school and no one noticed that he was gone or that he could run at super speed. He meets up with his other friends and began to find something to eat since Jay run fast now and burns thousands of calories he needs to consume the school food they serve at this school.


Meanwhile...
At one place in the city inside a restaurant, a group of men had a meeting. One young man walked up to his uncle and said "why so public meeting uncle?" he asked.

"We're dining out to show our enemies that we're not afraid," The man said "relax nephew, we replaced the window with bulletproof glass. Close it up, come and have a drink".

A man walked to the door and closed it and broke the key so no one could get out.

"Our own drivers are ripping us off," the man says as a green smoke surrounded the floor "someone is paying them to steal from us, none of you will sleep until we find out who".

The green smoke reached his face and he began to cough "and those thieves... and those thieves will draw... their last breath". The man couldn't breathe anymore and collapsed to the floor, the men around the table couldn't breathe so one of them shoot through the window but the problem is that it is bulletproof.

Every one of them collapsed to the floor and died from the poison gas.


Canterlot High
At the cafeteria, Jay had a lot of food on his plate. He carried them to his table and sat down with his other friends. One of the students walked past and saw how much food Jay had on his plate. "Woah, you have so much food on your plate," He said, "I've been jogging and have burned a lot of calories so... I am really hungry" Jay replied.

"Make sense" the students replied and walked away.

When Octavia walked past them she noticed Jay sitting down at that table, he walked to him and said: "are you, Jay Allen?" She asked.

"Yes, why asking?" Jay said.

"Well we have heard a lot about you and that you survived getting struck by lightning and that you work for CCPD as a CSI forensic assistant" Octavia said.

"Wait how did you know about me working for CS... wait, did Rainbow Dash tell you?" Jay asked.

"Yep," She said.

Jay got a call on his phone from Joe West, Jay answers the phone "hello" Jay says.

"Jay I need you at a crime scene in the city," Joe said.

"I'll be there" Jay replied and rose up from his chair, Jay told his friends that he needed to go "I need to go CSI 24/4," Jay said.

"But you still have," Sunset told Jay.

"CSI 24/7," Jay said and walked out of the school. When he's outside the building he uses his speed to get to the crime scene.


At the crime scene, Jay recovered a few of the dead bodies with sheets.

"Jay, anything?" Joe asked.

"Tons of hits a toxic epoxy, the cells in their bodies weren't able to utilize oxygen, it's consistent with exposure to poison gas," Jay told Joe.

"What kind of poison"? Joe asked

"I need to take a lung sample to see if I can narrow it down," Jay said

Edward approached Joe "only other exits was bolted from the inside, they were trapped, I was thinking someone pump gas in from the outside but the witnesses said the street was empty".

"So it was from the inside, that means there should be a canister left behind. The gas didn't come in by itself" Joe said.

"Unless it has a mind on its own," Jay said, Joe turned around to look at Jay, he turned back to Edward.

"Edward would you mind canvassing again, somebody had to see something suspicious," Joe told Edward, and Edward walked away. Joe turned to around to talk to Jay about his theory that the murderer was a metahuman "okay, explain" Joe said.

"The boss collapsed by the table, this guy made it ten feet away, that guy had the chance to move and fire three shots into the window trying to break the glass," Jay said "but they all started in the same spot which means that they all been affected by the gas at the same time but instead it's if".

"They were attacked by one by one," Joe said, "my gut feeling we're gonna solve this one, you and I are gonna need backup".


At STAR Labs, the six girls were already done with school and were at STAR labs with the rest of the gang.
"Fascinating, a meta-human that can manipulate poison gas." Harrison Wells said when he heard about when Jay told them about the gas attack.

"Is it just poisonous gas, or can he control all aerated substances?" Cisco asked.

"And how is he able to formulate the connection?" Caitlin added.

"This individual can create a mental nexus using gaseous substances." Harrison Wells said.

"You mean to connect with gases on a molecular level?" Caitlin asked.

"Yes." Harrison Wells said.

"That is ridiculously cool," Cisco said.

"They get really excited about this stuff," Jay told Joe

"The only thing I am excited about is putting criminals behind bars, except iron heights isn't a place equipped to handle meta-humans," Joe said.

"Guess it's fortunate the ones you've encountered so far is no longer with us, all except the that Sonata girl," Wells said.

"Well unless we're planning on executing every super criminal we stopped you geniuses must come up with someplace to hold them," Joe said.

"A meta-human prison, Sweet," Cisco said getting an idea.

"Until we figure a way to remove their powers," Wells said.

"There is one place here that might hold them," Cisco said.

"You can't be serious. I mean, we haven't been down there since... it's cordoned off." Caitlin said knowing where this was going.

"Cisco is right it could be modified to act as a makeshift prison" Wells said.

"What could," Jay asked.

"The particle accelerator," Wells said.

There was a big silence in the room, one brought up a word.


Flashback...9 months earlier,

"Tonight, the future begins. The work my team and I will do here will change our understanding of physics, will bring about advancements in power, advancements in medicine. And trust me, that future will be here faster than you think," Harrison Wells said as the crew around her cheered.

"Doctor Wells, we just got the latest weather report. A big thunderstorm is rolling in," Cisco said told Wells

"We're not launching a space shuttle. We'll be fine." Wells said.

"Tahiti?" A man asked Caitlin

"I know it's a long flight Ronny, but we can binge watch Orange Is The New Black," Caitlin said.

"Oh, okay." Ronny said, "but what about Italy? pizza and wine and more pizza"

"Yes, but Italy doesn't have mai tais, and a honeymoon isn't a honeymoon without mai tais," Caitlin said smiling.

"Mr. Wells, the accelerator is primed and ready for particle injection," Cisco told Wells.

"Well, I feel I should say something profound like "one small step for man," but all I can think of to say is, I feel like I've waited for this day for centuries," Wells said as the machine turned on.

"That's it? You'd think there'd be, like, a loud bang." Cisco asked Wells.

"If there was a loud bang, we'd all be in big trouble," Ronny said

Take it from the guy who helped build it." Caitlin said looking at her fiance.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we did it," Wells said as the workers cheered again and Ronny and Caitlin kissed.

"Mai tais it is," Ronny told Caitlin.

Doctor Harrison Wells popped open a drink as others grabbed their cups. Everyone stopped as they saw the liquid raise out of it. Before anyone could ask what was happening, the alarm went off and the room shook with a loud noise filling the air. Something was clearly wrong with the particle accelerator.

"Was that..." Cisco asked

"A loud bang," Ronny said.


"Caitlin, Caitlin. Did you hear me?" Harrison Wells said snapping Caitlin out of her thoughts."I'm going down to the accelerator ring." Wells said.

"Actually doctor Wells I could use Caitlin's help identifying the poison gas," Jay said.

"Okay," Wells said.

"If that's okay with you?" Jay asked her and she nods. "Let's go," Caitlin said and they left.


At the CCPD station, Jay and Caitlin walked into the building and was heading to the forensic lab.

"Welcome to the CCPD, Canterlot City Police Department," Jay said.

"So this is your day job," Caitlin said, "Mm-hmm," Jay said.

"Wow, from a young age you work as a forensic scientist," Caitlin said.

"Lab rats we need prints of this gun pronto," a police officer said giving Jay a plastic bag with a gun in it.

"Allan!, where the hell is the fiber analysis of the Orloff case?" Captain Singh said.

"It's upstairs I can just run up and bring it down," Jay said heading to the forensic lab.

"With you that could take three weeks from now, I'll come with you," Singh said. "Who are you?" he asked when he noticed Caitlin Snow.

"Dr. Caitlin Snow Jay's personal physician," Caitlin told Singh.

At the forensic lab, Jay scatters the whole lab to find the files, he moves so fast that papers begin to fly everywhere, he finally finds the files and Singh walks through the door.

"Your fiber analysis for the Orloff case like you asked for sir," Jay said and gave him the files. Singh takes the files in his hands.

"Clean up your lab, it's a mess," Singh said and walked away.


Harrison Wells and Cisco Ramon had reached the particle accelerator and looked at the area they were going to use.

"The copper in the tube is arranged to form cavities, and we can use those cavities as containment course, we'll have to design them to counteract meta-human abilities, but... might just work," Wells said.

"First, we have to decouple the main injection system on the gantry level. I'll be right back." Wells said and started to roll away.

"Why don't I do that?" Cisco quickly asked.

"I need the exercise," Wells said and walked out of the room.

Cisco Ramon looked at the pipeline. He never forgot the choice he made.


Everyone started working trying to find out what is happening with the particle accelerator

"There's an anomaly in the core chamber," Cisco said.

"The ring's structural integrity is holding," Caitlin said looking at it.

"It's starting a chain reaction. The system is collapsing. We need to shut it down. We can't ramp down the accelerator from here. We need to do it manually." Wells said.

Once they realized what they had to do, Harrison Wells turned to Cisco and said, "Go."

"I'll come with," Ronny said.

"Ronny, no," Caitlin said making him turn.

"I'm the lead engineer. I know how to operate the shutdown valve." Ronny reminded her.

"It's not safe." She said sadly.

"Cait, I have to go." He said and give her a quick kiss before he and Cisco ran off.

Both Cisco and Ronny reached the pipeline.

"Okay, you stay here. We've only got a few minutes before this thing blows, and if I'm not back in time, you need to initiate the lockdown." Ronny told Cisco.

"No way. I am not closing this door. I won't be able to open it again." Cisco said not wanting his best friend to be stuck in there.

"Soarin, if you don't seal off the blast, everyone in this building will die, including Caitlin," Freeze Burn told him.

Cisco still didn't like it but he knew Ronny had a point.

"Set your watch. Two minutes." Ronny said.

Cisco Ramon did and watched as Ronny Raymond ran in the pipeline.


"Cisco, Cisco, we're ready to go." Harrison Wells breaking him off of his thoughts.

"Must be hard, coming back down here. A lot happened that night. If you feel the need to talk..." Harrison said knowing what he was thinking about.

"I was just thinking, we need to nail those voltage calculations. One fault and the helium blowback could damage the mountings." Cisco said.

"Smart." Harrison Wells said and Cisco walked away.

Cisco still has the thought of the decision he made, something that he can't get out of his head. He meets up with the other six girls in the hallway. "Cisco are you alright?" Sunset asked, "yeah it's just... on that night a friend of mine died in the particle accelerator when it exploded" Cisco replied.

There was a brief moment of silence between them, "who was he and what happened what happened?" Applejack asked.

"His name was Ronnie Raymond, he used to be a structural engineer on the accelerator when he constructed the lab," Cisco said "he was Caitlin's fiance, the day of the accelerator he told me to lock the door. He didn't come back, he told me if he didn't come back in time I would close that door, I regret doing it but he knew what he needed to do".

"Cisco it's not your fault," Rainbow told Cisco, "I know but, it's just that I regret doing it," Cisco said and continued walking away.


At the CCPD Jay and Caitlin still waited on the result of the poison gas til Jay began asking Caitlin "can I ask you something that you don't have to answer?" Jay said.

"My least favorite kind of question, shoot," Caitlin said.

"Ronnie, What was he like? You just never talk about him that much." Jay asked.

"We met when we were working on the particle accelerator. He was the structural engineer. He liked to joke that he was basically a very high-priced plumber. We were very different. You might have noticed I can be a bit guarded. He used to say we were like fire and ice. He wasn't supposed to be there that night. He was just there for me. If he hadn't..."

She turns to see the printer working and a paper coming out.

"This says that there was no residue of gas in the tissue, poisonous or otherwise," Caitlin said looking at the paper.

"Must have evaporated, we need to go for a sample?" Jay said.

Wait, this can't be right. This says that there are two distinct strands of DNA inside the tissue." Caitlin said looking at the paper.

"How did someone else's DNA get inside the victim's lungs?" Jay asked.


At Canterlot mall a woman is walking to the elevator to get down to the first floor, she had her phone with her and was talking with her daughter. "Well, my docket was clear, so I stopped by the mall to pick up your homecoming dress. I am a great mom. I'll see you for dinner, sweetie." She said and got in the elevator.


Jay looked at the computer and found no DNA match in the database "there's no DNA match in the database" Jay said.

"I don't understand, why would a chemical attack leave behind another person's DNA inside the victim?" Caitlin said.

"What if the meta-human we're looking for doesn't control gas? What if he becomes it?" Jay said figuring out what they were dealing with.


Just as the elevator doors close a man stepped.

"Miss Howards, nice to see you again," He said.

"You died" Miss Howard said in shock and fair.

"You say it like it was an accident, what was the last thing you said to me in the courtroom? may god have mercy on YOUR soul" He said and filled up the elevator with poison gas, making miss Howard suffer.


Back at the lab, Jay hears the report about a gas attack at Canterlot City mall.

Jay goes to his locker and grabs his suit but Caitlin says: "Jay don't, we don't know what we are facing yet, it's not safe".
"Caitlin I have to go," Jay says and runs out of the lab.

Jay runs through the city and tries to get to the mall as fast as he could. "I patched into the mall's security system. According to witnesses, the gas attack was in the main elevator in the north wing." Cisco said.

"Which one is the north wing?" Jay asked over the com.

"The one with The Big Belly Burger and Sugarcube Corner." Harrison Wells answered and saw Cisco and the other six girls looking at him.

"I eat," Harrison said.

Jay made it to the crime scene where everything looks like a standstill as she checks on the body. She was dead and Jay looked around before seeing a green smoke disappeared behind a door. He quickly ran after it and saw who the person was.

"Why did you kill that woman!?" Jay asked.

"She deserved to die. Now go run away. I still have one more name on my list. Don't make me add you to it." he said smiling.

Jay just frowned at him and rushed up to him trying to hit him but she faded through the smoke and fell to the ground. He stood up to see him smile and become smoke again. This time he went past Jay and had some of his smoke enter him to attack Jay's body. Jay fell to his knees and gasped. He wasted no time in getting up and running back to STAR Labs.

Jay, Jay can you hear me?" Harrison Wells said into the com.

"His vitals are weak, but she's alive, Doctor Wells, I'm sure he's fine," Cisco said.

Jay came back to the lab and tried to breathe but it was hard for him.

"I can't breathe." She told them wheezing.

"He needs oxygen. Get the crash cart!" Harrison Wells shouted and Cisco ran to get one. Rainbow and Applejack helped Cisco getting the crash cart.

Jay was placed on the bed still trying to breathe as doctor Caitlin Snow rushed in. "Jay!" She said looking at him.

"Cut me open. The poison's still in me." Jay told them.

"He brought us a sample. Caitlin, we need to do a pulmonary biopsy, extract an active portion of that gas." Harrison Wells said.

"I can't give you an anesthetic. Your metabolism will burn right through it." Caitlin said.

"I heal quick, remember?" Jay said.

"Do it." Harrison Wells said.

"Cisco, give me the syringe," Caitlin told Cisco and handed her the syringe. "This is gonna hurt a lot. It's a small needle. You probably won't even feel it," Pinkie told Jay.

You're definitely going to feel it." Applejack said.

The needle went in and Jay gasp for air and passed out. The six girls looked away as they couldn't grasp by seeing their friend having a needle inside his chest. Fluttershy hid behind Rainbow Dash for cover. A few hours later Jay waked to see Caitlin with the six girls next to her and smile instead of Caitlin

"The Red Streak lives," Pinkie said.

"You'll be dead if your lung cells didn't regenerate so quickly," Caitlin said.

"My chest feels like that one time I had a cigarette at homecoming," Jay said, the girls looked at Jay confused but a little shocked "yeah, younger me lived for danger."

"This isn't funny. You could've..." Caitlin said before she was cut off. "I didn't," Jay said.

"Now that we have a sample, we'll get to work analyzing it, figure out the makeup of the poison, maybe get a clue as to his human identity," Wells said.

"Or at least a way to stop him from turning into a mist. The Mist. Okay, that's his name. End of discussion." Cisco said and Pinkie Pie loved the nickname,
"Maybe the next meta-human we face could I help come up with a name?" Pinkie asked. "Sure well Pinkie," Cisco said.

Rainbow gave a little punch on Jay's arm "you scared there for a moment" Rainbow said. "Yeah, luckily you didn't get to witness your superhero friend die so easily," Jay said.

"I got to get back at the station," Jay said getting up.

"You should be resting," Harrison Wells said.

"I have to talk to Joe," Jay said


Back at the CCPD station, Jay walks into the lab and sees Joe working on some files.

"Joe I had him. The meta-human. We were wrong. He's not controlling airborne toxins. He can literally transform himself into poison gas." Jay told him.

That's new, the victim was a court judge, we're going through one of the old cases see that there is any connection" Joe said

"It's too late. I should have been faster." Jay said feeling guilty about not saving her.

"Focus on the job, don't think about that now," Joe said.

"You don't even wanna know what I am thinking about," Jay said "My dad has spent 5 years in a 6x8-foot cell for a crime he didn't commit. I couldn't save my mom, but I can save him".

"Didn't I promise you that we would get your dad out of prison together?" Joe said.

"I don't need your help, Joe. I could be in and out of there with him before anyone even sees me." Jay said.

"Okay. You break him out of there. Then what? he's on the run for the rest of his life. And something tells me he's not as fast as you are" Joe said.

"You don't know what it's like there," Jay said. "You think I don't understand what you're feeling? I have been a detective for almost as long as you've been alive. So you should know, putting on that suit does not make everybody safe. For every person you save, there's gonna be somebody you can't. And the hardest thing you're gonna have to face is not some monster out there with powers. It's gonna be that feeling of uselessness when you can't do anything. Or the guilt that weighs on you when you make a mistake, Some things, Rainbow, you can't fight. Some things you just have to live with" Joe told Jay as words of wisdom.


ack at STAR Labs, Jay Allen was wanted for the test analysis to finish. He turned to Caitlin and spoke.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you, leaving like that." Jay said.

"It's okay. I get it. You had to go. It's just... that's the last thing that Ronny said to me that night." Caitlin said.

"My mother died 5 years ago. I used to think that the further away I got from it, the less it would hurt. But some days, the pain, it's worse than the day that it happened. Some things you can't fight. For so long, I've been terrified of going into that hole." Jay explained.

"What if I went with you?" Caitlin asked.


Cisco's watch had been showing that two minutes had passed and there was no sign of Ronny returning. Keeping his promise, Soarin shut the door to the Pipeline. Just before Spitfire ran in.

"Where's Ronny? Cisco, where is he?" She asked worriedly.

"He's still inside," Cisco told her.

"What? Open the door." Caitlin told Cisco.

"I can't. We're in lockdown mode." Cisco said back to Caitlin.

"Cisco, we have to get him out of there or he'll die," Caitlin said fearing the worse that will happen to Ronny

"Cisco, can you hear me?" Ronny Raymond's voice said through the walkie-talkie.

Caitlin grabs the talkie and answered it.

"Ronny, it's me." She said.

Ronny was on the other side of the door and was shocked to hear Caitlin's voice.

"Caitlin? Is Cisco there?" He asked.

"Yeah, Ronny, I'm here. I'm listening." Cisco said.

"I adjusted the magnets to redirect the beam to try and vent the system so the blast goes up and not out," Ronny told him.

"I'll need to reset the particle parameters to compensate," Cisco said and got to work.

"Cisco doing it. There has to be another way out of there. You have to find it." Caitlin told him.

"Fire, the chain reaction, I can't reverse it. The doors need to stay shut to protect you. You still there?" Ronny said then asked after not hearing her voice for a few seconds.

"I'm here," Caitlin said almost ready to cry.

"Spitfire, whatever happens..." Ronny started to say before he saw the energy coming at him.

"Ronny, Ronny!" Caitlin calls out as an explosion was heard.


"He saved so many lives that day, and no one will ever know what he did," Caitlin said finishing the story and stood in front of the door of the particle accelerator.

"I do," Jay said.

"He was a hero," Jay said.

"I didn't want him to be a hero. I wanted him to be my husband." Caitlin told Jay, Jay understood and both of them hugged

"Jay, Caitlin, you down there? You got to come look at this." Cisco's voice said over the speaker.

Jay and Caitlin walked up to the main cortex where Cisco and Harrison Wells and the other girls were waiting for them.

"Hey, check this out. It's a 3D molecular model of the gas we retrieved from your lungs. We have identified the toxin," Cisco said and show the results.

"Hydrogen cyanide?" Jay asked realizing what it was.

"What's interesting is what's mixed in with the cyanide... A sedative." Harrison Wells said.

"Of course. The night of the explosion, find out if anyone was executed," Jay said.

"Why?" Wells asked.

"That sedative is given to criminals on death row before they go to the gas chamber and breathe in hydrogen cyanide," Jay said.

"That's right," Wells said, seeing what Jay was getting at.

"There was someone being executed, Kyle Nimbus he was a hit man for the Darwinian crime family, they turned on him and testified, judge Teresa Howards was a judge at his trial, he was sentenced to death," Caitlin said.

"He must have gotten executed when the particle accelerator exploded while being gassed," Lightning Dust said.

"Records indicated that the execution was completed," Cisco said.

"That's why there was no match, the DNA database only have records of the living" Jay said

"He said there was one more person on his list, check his arrest records find out who caught him," Jay said.

Caitlin was shocked to find out who the next target was "Jay, the lead detective" Caitlin said knowing it was Joe he was after.


At iron heights prison, Joe walked up to the desk and said, "here to see Henry Allen".
"Sign here. Personal effects here." The guard said. Kyle Nimbus was at the opening gate and walked through it turning into a green mist and back to human.

Jay called Edward back at the CCPD station. "Edward," Jay said, "Jay what's up?" he said.

"Hey, do you know where Joe went? he's not picking up her cell," Jay asked him.

"Uh, not sure," Edward told Jay over the phone.

"Edward, it's really important I speak to him, I need to know where he went," Jay said

"She went to iron heights Jail, to see your dad," Edward said.

Jay hanged up the phone.

"Jay, I reverse-engineered an antidote to the toxin, I hope you won't need it." She said and handed over the antidote.

Jay went to his suit and was already suited up before he went to see Joe Fluttershy begun to ask Jay "Jay, do you sometimes get tired of being a forensic scientist or working for the police?" Fluttershy asked.

"No why do you ask," Jay said.

"It's because all the things that you know and all the crime scene you're going to, don't it get kinda disturbing?" Applejack asked.

"Guys I joined the force so I could help people, also finding out who killed my mother so I could get my father free, you guys don't understand what's it's like losing someone you love," Jay said and ran out of the lab and left a trail of lightning behind him.


Joe sat in the chair and saw Henry be brought in, he looked at Joe and sat down. They both took the phones and Henry spoke first. "What are you doing here? Is Jay all right?" Henry asked.

"He's fine," Joe told Henry.

"Then to what do I owe this visit?" Henry asked not happy.

"I know I should have come to see you sooner," Joe said sadly.

"You just weren't up for a little chitchat with the man who murdered his wife in front of his own son?" Henry asked.

"Except now I know you didn't kill Nora," Joe said, surprising Henry.


Jay was running at top speed to Iron Heights to stop Nimbus before he kills Joe.

"Jay, I pulled up the specs on iron heights prison It's maximum security, but I think I can talk you through breaking in there," Cisco said over the comlink.

Don't bother. I've been figuring out how to break into that place since I was 11," Jay said over the comlink shocking everyone at the lab.


Joe sighed before saying more.

"Some new evidence has come to light. I can't go into detail. It's just... Look, the important thing is, I'm trying to reopen the case. I'm gonna find out who really killed Nora, and I promise you, Henry, I'm going to get you out of here. I am so sorry." Joe said almost ready to cry.

"It doesn't matter that you didn't believe in me... Because you always believed in my son," Henry told Joe.
Joe smiled before the herd the guards start choking and dropping to the floor. Joe watched as a green mist took the shape of Kyle Nimbus.

"Nimbus, you're supposed to be dead," Joe said.

"So do you," Nimbus said turning into a mist and floating through his nose and poisoning him.

Joe fell to the ground unable to breathe. Henry gasped as his friend fell to the ground and banged on the window.
"Joe? Joe! Help! Guards! Somebody help!" he called out.

Jay came into the room and saw Joe on the floor struggling, Jay quickly gives him the antidote. Henry was shocked by what he saw, Jay looked up at his father. Jay vibrated his face so Henry couldn't be able to know that it is his own son. Jay looked down at Joe, Joe looks back at Jay and tells him "go get him". Jay listened and ran out of the prison.

At the street, Nimbus was walking down the road slowly until Jay appeared in front of him. "So you're gonna finish what the gas chamber couldn't," Nimbus said.

"You're going somewhere where you will never hurt anyone ever again," Jay told Nimbus.

"Wrong," he said and turned into a green mist

"He used the antidote on Joe," Caitlin said seeing Jay didn't have it "you need to stay away from him, Jay, do not breathe him in".

Jay tried to get far away from the gas and dodged every gas attack.

"I'm not sure how that helps me, guys," Jay said. Jay runs straight through Nimbus.

"You can't fight him, Jay. Just keep him coming at you. That should sap his strength" Caitlin

"Gas is the least stable form of matter, this meta-human will not be able to stay in his fog form for long., his particles will need to reform." Harrison Wells explained.

Jay looked at The Mist and then did was he does best, run. The Mist followed him try to cover in his poison fog, but Jay was too fast for him. Jay ran and ran until he noticed that The Mist started to form back into his human state trying to breathe. The Mist was shocked, he never went back to normal when he was in the fog. He didn't have time to move when Jay slam into him knocking him out.

"Jay, Jay do you hear me," Wells said through the comlink

"We won," Jay said.


At the hospital, Jay sits in a chair sleeping while Joe recovers from the gas attack. He watched as Jay's arm slid off the chair's arm that woke him up.

"It's been a long time since I've seen you sleep," Joe said.

"Rescuing you is exhausting," Jay said.

"I really miss the ability to be able to ground you," Joe said knowing it will not work because he has moved out of the house and lives alone in an apartment.

"Sorry I went and grew up. I could have got my dad out of Iron Heights tonight." Jay said.

"I know," Joe said.

"But you were right. That's not the way," Jay said seeing it won't help.


Nimbus roar as he tries to get past his new prison, but his gas could not get through.

"Will it hold him?" Rainbow asked Cisco.

"The barrier is powered by an 8.3 Tesla superconducting electromagnet, which is about 100,000 times the strength of earth's magnetic field," Cisco said

"Meaning that the green fart won't be able to get out," Jay said and walked away to the hallway.

Rainbow laughed "ha, green fart that's a good one," both Cisco, Pinkie, and Rainbow said.

Applejack followed Jay and asked "Jay can I talk with you for a sec?". "What is it AJ," Jay asked. "Well, you know earlier when he said that we don't know what it's like to lose someone you love?" Applejack said.

"Yes, what about it," Jay said, "well I should know how it all feels because when I was younger my parents died," Applejack told Jay. "What happened?" Jay asked.

"I really don't want to talk about it but I want you to know that you are not the only one who has lost someone you love, it's hard to find anyone that understands but, remember that you're not the only one," Applejack said.

Jay smiled at her and said "thank you AJ", Applejack approached Jay and gave him a hug.


Jay had returned to Iron Heights again to see his daddy.

"Joe's gonna be okay," Jay told him

"You know, lately I've been thinking about mom, a lot, I miss her," Jay added.

"Did I ever tell you about the time you learned to walk?" Henry asked his son.

"A couple times," Jay answered.

"Everone was walking before you, all the little babies running around the neighborhood but not you. But your mom wasn't worried, she just said, "he'll walk when she has someplace to go" and sure enough, when you took your first steps, you moved so quick, you didn't just walk, you started..." said.Henry

"To run." Jay cut him off with a smile.

"And you ran to your mom, Jay, right into her arms, you had someplace to go," Henry said and smiled back. Jay dried the tears from his eyes.

I thought being the fastest man alive would make my life easier... that I could outrun anything. Turns out, no one can outrun pain.

A woman was getting mugged when she shouted for help. A red blur speeds past them making the women hold the knife and the thug to run away.

Life is tragic. But it's also precious... And sweet... And extraordinary. And the only way I know to honor my mother's life is to keep running.


Harrison Wells sat in his wheelchair drinking whiskey and looked at the suit and smiled for a little second.

Back when the particle accelerator explosion. Harrison Wells watched as the energy went up to the sky and mix with the thunderstorm that hit them. He soon heard Cisco's voice speak to her over the com.

"Doctor Wells. Doctor Wells!, Ronny did it. He vented the system, STAR Labs should hold." He said.

"Goodman. I'm on my way down." Harrison Wells said and started to leave. He didn't head down to the pipeline, but instead, he went to her secret room. Harrison Wells looked at the footage of Jay's lab, Wells sees Jay get hit by the lightning bolt that slams him into the wall with the chemicals.

"See you soon Jay" Wells said to himself.


Author's Note

This is the longest chapter ever written so I hope you like it. And there are some few chapters left until Jay gets his name The Flash.
Also, I had an idea to focus more on the main 6 a Jay Allen but I think I need to find out how the main 6 will fit into the story and not make them useless.