Hero of Time and Speed

by Bronze Inkwell

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I yawned as I walked around the convention, wearing my own version of Godspeed's suit. It was made of plastics and metals, but it sure caught more than a few glances as I walked around by myself. "Man, I knew I should have slept more." I told myself as I walked past rows and rows of booths. However, I was soon jolted awake by a voice coming from my side.

Turning quickly, I saw a guy cosplaying as Shopkeeper Magalor from the Kirby RPG style games. You know, the ones where there are 4 roles. Sword Hero, Hammer Lord, Doctor Healmore, and Beam Mage. Anyway, he wore clothes very similar to that of the shady alien. "Hey dude! Come check out my wares!" He calls out in a high but even voice.

I was little creeped out, but mentally said, 'fuck it', and went over. There were all kinds of obscure and oddly specific things on and around his booth. An omnitrix from Ben 10. A model spider from that looked exactly like the one that bit Miles Morales in that Spiderman movie. A hylian shield.

A white badge that had a golden lightning bolt on it and a gold ring around the edge of the badge. A helmet that looked very similar to the Bio-armor from the Prototype games. A double barreled shotgun with a meathook… I went back a bit to the badge, and picked it up. It was Godspeed's chest badge… the exact thing I didn't have time to complete for my costume.

This was possibly the sketchiest thing in history… but I couldn't pass up a chance to complete my costume. I decided to get the badge, along with a model of the Endo-sym armor from the Iron Man comics. "Okay Mr. Speed, that'll be 60 dollars." I wasn't that surprised at the price. This was pretty rare shit after all. But as I locked in the badge, I began to feel dizzy. "Goodbye Mr. Speed, see you never!" The Magolor cosplayer cackled as I passed out.


I groaned, getting on my hands and knees as I rubbed my head. "Ow, my everything." I moaned, moving to a tree as I removed the bottom portion of the mask to breath. I propped myself against a tree, slowly getting feeling back into my body as the pain faded. I tried to reach around for my backpack, but soon realized it wasn't even there. Soon my brain told me the situation I was in. At least, what it thought the situation was.

What it told me, that I was somehow drugged by that magolor cosplayer, dragged out to a forest somewhere, and had everything but the clothes on my back taken from me. "That is the last time I ever go to a con." I said to myself, not knowing how accurate that was. However, when I got to completely, I realized that when I pulled up my mask, there was no bunching of cloth under my nose. In fact, the entire front of my mask wasn't even touching my face anymore.

When I tried to pull it back down, something came from the suit and closed the gap. "Okay… what the hell…" When I asked that question, two voices spoke up. One I recognized as Jarvis before he became Vision, the other one was Gideon from the Flash.

'Sir? Are you alright? Your vitals are spiking.' Jarvis said, suddenly making a holo-display of my vitals appear on the front of my mask.

'He appears to be in a state of shock. I suggest giving him a jolt to get him out of it.' Gideon replied, a small 2D version of her head appearing in the lower left side of my vision. Just then, a small bar appeared on the right side, to the left of my vitals and body, which had several areas in the red. Bars began to appear on the bar, indicating that it was charging.

"Wait! Stop! I'm fine! Just… a bit freaked out." I said, making the bar go back down.

'Apologies Sir. We thought you were in distress.'

"Well, I am, but it's a different kind of distress. Uhh, oh! Do you have a recording of what happened in the past… 6 hours?" There was a small pause before Jarvis responded.

'Recordings only go as far back as 10 minutes.'

"Well… play that back to me. Up until the time I wake up." Suddenly there was a video screen, it showed the foliage above me but as time went on, and nothing happened, I was about to say shut it off when groups of birds flew by… very big birds. Way to be to be normal birds, birds. "Jarvis, that flock, can you enhance it?"

'Of course sir.' Jarvis zoomed in on the birds, and as he got closer, I realized they weren't birds, they were winged anthropomorphic horses in full golden armor with spears and shields.

"Jarvis… Gideon… I don't think we're on Earth any more." After a few seconds they both agreed.

'Affirmative, I cannot contact anyone, and there isn't even a satellite overhead.'

'There is also no short range communication devices in a one mile radius.' I took a breath, running a hand over my head.

"Uh, alright. So I guess we need to find civilization on our own. Hmm… Oh! Jarvis, which way did those… creatures fly in?" A compass appeared on my HUD and spun several times till it pointed roughly north of where I was.

'They were heading north. And based on their speed and numbers, I don't think they were a scouting party.' I nodded, standing up and turned till I faced north.

"That might mean someone is in trouble. Let's go." I began to run but after 5 minutes, I wasn't feeling remotely tired. I began to push myself and I went faster, and faster, and faster. Everything was now a blur as sparks began to come off me. 'Come on… Faster!' I yelled in my mind and I suddenly felt thrusters appear on my shoulder blades and I was going several times faster than before. I was running hard, faster than humanly possible. Now full on streaks of lightning were coming off my body and before I knew it, I was approaching a closed medieval style gate.

"Shit! Uh, Uh."

'Sir, now might be a good time to phase.' My eyes widened and I mentally face palmed. If I was a speedster, I could phase! I looked at my body and closed my eyes, trying to do as Doctor Wells told Barry. Feel the air… feel the lightning… feel it coursing through me… become the air… and… phase. My body began to blur and just before I hit the gate, I had completely phased, and went right through it. I looked back and whooped before running the rest of the way to the castle, telling myself to slow down.

I soon came to a stop in a throne room where there was a swirling ball of darkness… wait what? It suddenly exploded, revealing a tall black woman. And when I say black, I mean her skin was literally pitch black. Pieces of armor began to materialize on her, and… why did she look so sexy? I shook my head and got ready for a fight. As the black woman who had a horn and wings looked around she spotted me… wait, horn and wings? "Oh? What's this? A special guard my sister hid from me?" The woman said, walking up to me, a small sway in her hips. Her horn shone cyan, speckled with black, along with her hands. Suddenly, the moon began to rise up behind her till it covered the sun.

"Well it is too late! Because the night, shall last, forever!" Okay, this was an evil villain. Even had an evil laugh. I stood my ground when a figure came in from the doors behind me.

"No… I'm too late." Another woman, just like the black woman but had white skin, came up next to me.

"I kNoW iTS nOT mY PlACe tO SAy, bUT wHAt tHe fUCk iS GoiNG oN hErE?" I say, my voice vibrating like my body, making it impossible to connect it to my voice. The tall white woman turned to me and her eyes widened. Now that I was close and could see her face, she had large magenta eyes that I found myself being attracted to. I had a thing for the odd, alright? Before the white woman could say anything, something that was beginning to annoy me, the black woman spoke.

"What is going on you foolish colt, is that I have had it with you and my sister, taking all the love of our subjects, but no more! Now, the night, shall last, FOREVER!" The woman cackled, before shooting a beam of… something, at us. I quickly raised up my arms but as time went on, and I felt nothing, I saw the whole world had slowed down around me.

That… or I was reacting so fast, that it just seemed like everything is moving in slow motion. Okay, if this was the case, how the hell did Flash get hit so much in the TV show? Seriously, if his reaction time puts him in a state like this, he should never get hit unless he got attacked from behind or he was facing another speedster. Either way, I dodged the attack and got right up in the black womans face. "YoU'rE aN iDIoT." I say, before delivering a right hook to the jaw.

At least, I would have had the black woman not teleported. Great, it was like that teleporting woman that popped up every now and then from the Flash. Though I don't think her teleportation was based on eyesight. I looked around, and up on the dais on the other side of the huge hall, the black woman appeared. "You dare insult Nightmare Moon!? You shall be punished!" With that, she sent two beams of energy at me and like before time seemed to slow down.

"Jarvis, Gideon, analyze her anatomy and give me a list of weak points. I want to know her Achilles Heel." There was a confirmation from the two of them as they began to scan her body. Apparently my connection to the Speed Force spread to the suit when I used it, which meant that Jarvis and Gideon could process things as fast as I could, maybe even faster. I ran up to the woman again, and without stopping delivered a hard punch to her face, the difference this time being that the hit landed.

Her head spun unnaturally fast and she fell to the floor. I gasped, thinking I killed her. I knelt down to see if she was okay but a sweep kick then a blast of energy to my chest made me realize that the speed force induced reaction time wasn't perfect. Apparently, I need to be aware of the danger for it to kick in. That actually explains why Flash got hit so often, most of the attacks that hit him was because he was caught off guard. As I tried to refocus my vision, I saw that the black woman and white woman were now fighting.

In all honesty it would have been cooler if they used some hand to hand but right now it was them shooting energy beams from their horns and hands and throwing up energy shields when they couldn't dodge. Suddenly, the voice of Jarvis spoke up.

'Sir, from our analysis, the horn seems to be a foci of sorts for how they release their psionic energy. I suggest either removing it or finding a way to block off the connection.'

I nodded then stopped. 'Wait, psionic? They're using their minds to do all this shit? Hmm… that gives me an idea.' I think to myself as I stand back up, and run at the black woman. She sees me and turns to face me, but it's too late. In a wide arc I bring my hands to head and neck, like Sherlock Holmes did in that one movie. No, not the one that had the actor that played Doctor Strange, the one with Robert Downey Jr.

Either way, it worked. I then delivered a series of jabs up and down her midsection, effectively knocking the wind out of her. I then made several quick, small circles, before delivering a punch to her face that sent her flying into a wall. Wait… this suit is also Endo-sym armor… 'I wonder…' I bring up my hands and feel energy course down them, and the iconic sound of a repulser charging up.

"Oh NOw ThAT's jUsT BadASs." I whisper, a smile growing on my face as I let loose the repulsor blast, it hitting their mark and blasting the woman through the wall. I can't help but laugh a little, the exhilaration getting to me. However it was stopped by the white woman placing a hand on my shoulder.

"I thank you for your help, but please, that is my sister." … Bruh.

"WeLl sOrrY to SaY, bUt yOuR SiS seEMs TO hAvE GoNE oFf tHe dEePEnD." She sighs, nodding.

"I believe a creature has corrupted her. Please, help me expel it from her." … Damn those big pleading magenta eyes. I nod, and put a hand over my heart.

"I wILl dO so TO tHE bESt oF mY AbiLiTY, bUT I mUSt aDMiT ThAT aS FaR AS my SkiLLs in ExORciSm gO… I hAVe nONe. Oh, aND mY NamE is GoDSpeED." I say, removing my hand but before she can reply, the top of the hall is blown apart, a seething black woman flying above being the culprit. She summoned a sword that looked to be made of pure blackness.

'Uh… can I do that?' I looked to my right hand and imagined a sword coming into being. Like a symbiote, instead of making a sword, it made my entire arm a sword. '... I can work with this.' I smiled like a maniac and ran up the wall closest to the black horse woman, ready to engage in sword to sword combat.


Author's Note

Hi all, Bronze Inkwell here again and I know this has been the 3rd time I've done this from scratch but believe me, this take will be a lot better than the other two. So just bare with me as I do this for the last time. Also, tell me if you spotted any of the easter eggs I hid in the story. They will be everywhere~

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