Prologue: Departure to Despair

Downtown Central City, Missouri

It's quite a sunny day in Central City. There were tons of skyscrapers that almost as tall as the ones in Gotham. Furthermore, there were loads of residential areas such as Brookfield Heights, Eaglewood, Danville, and many more scenic views on this urban place. Currently the city was still on the middle of recovering from Brainiac's invasion on the entire globe about a month ago.

An explosion suddenly occurred at The Flash Museum, the memorabilia for those who have held of the name "Flash". Some civilians evacuated immediately from the area. Two robbers came out with one carrying something in a large sack.

"Now, let's get out of here!" Robber 1 said.

"Yeah, better not let the boss keep waiting." Robber 2 replied.

Little do they knew, a blue figure appeared behind them. This figure wore a blue body suit of plated armor along with a dark blue parka hood and a pair of custom tinted goggles imbedded on some kind of headgear resembling a helmet. The figure also wore dark gray pants and dark blue boots. This is Leonard Snart AKA Captain Cold, the former leader of the Rogues.

Cold smirked and yelled, "Freeze!" while holding his signature cold gun (technically, it's not a freeze gun, he said so himself) and pointed it at the criminals before him.

The robbers turned around and they were shocked seeing this former criminal, with one of them dropped the sack, but nonetheless Cold fired his gun, freezing the two, enveloped in thick ice until it reached just under their heads. The sack is also encased but only halfway, leaving it open.

"Too easy." Len said seeing his little handiwork. All of the sudden streaks of yellow lightning appeared next to Captain Cold, materialized into the pardoned Regime criminal, reformed hero of Central City and Co-Leader of the Justice League, the Flash AKA Barry Allen.

"Sorry I'm late," Barry apologized, scratching his head while looking at the robbers. "I just got here from saving some folks at a crumbling building in Leadwood."

Leonard, however, was not buying it. "Oh, really? Because it sounds like you're lying to me. You just want to see the Houston Astros making a comeback after 5 freakin' years and didn't invite me, don't you?"

The Scarlet Speedster was not impressed by this remark, saying, "Oh, come on Leonard. You've been my partner for over a month and all of those other years we had been fighting and always met at each other's throats, I'm pretty sure you've already known me more than enough."

"Heh, okay, okay, I'm just kidding." Len slightly chuckled.

Obligatory Flashback Time!

After 5 years of Superman's Regime ruled the Earth with his dictatorial ways crumbled, and a month after Brainiac attacked the globe searching for the fallen Kryptonian with the addition of "collecting" numerous cites, these two different individuals have changed quite immensely.

During the Regime's loss of control, a new group called The Society was born for the goal of claiming the seat for world domination led by Gorilla Grodd, which comprised of some of the most well known supervillians, including Captain Cold. He joined them specifically for a chance of getting revenge against the Regime for murdering his Rogues, especially his younger sister, Lisa Snart AKA Golden Glider. Flash tried to convince him once that revenge was not the answer, but to no avail. The Man Who Mastered Absolute Zero was too obsessed with vengeance that he didn't even know that Grodd was just using him for the gorilla's personal needs of destroying the Earth.

Until one day, at the Ace o' Clubs bar, Cold was knocked unconscious by Wonder Woman after he tried to kill her as she was the one responsible for executing his sister. As the Amazon Princess was going to deliver the final blow, Flash appeared at the last minute and defeated Diana and Eobard Thawne, the Reverse-Flash, with both of them out cold (Ha!). Barry then came for Len's aid and carried him to outside the bar.

When Len came to his senses, he muttered, "…ugh… Barry… Wh-"

"Look, I can't just leave you alone like that. I already told you revenge won't get you anywhere. Someone is responsible behind all this and Grodd is going with this invader's plans. But for now, save your strength." Barry said, fully concerned on his long-time arch-enemy.

From that point onward, Cold realized he was a fool and furious for following Grodd's orders, as he highly disliked the meta-gorilla and Reverse-Flash. When he recovered, he turned on the other members of the Society and assisted the Flash, along with the unstable alliance of the Insurgency and the Regime remnants (minus Barry and Hal Jordan, the reinstated Green Lantern, of course) in taking down Brainiac and Grodd. Both teams were a bit hesitant with him around, but as Batman once said, that all of the cooperation was needed for expanding the Caped Crusader's "Circle of Trust".

With Brainiac defeated and Grodd killed, the cities that were devastated by the Coluan started in the process of rebuilding. After Batman sent Superman to the Phantom Zone and put the rest of the Regime remnants into custody, he was asked by President Kane to head up to emergency response, the Dark Knight couldn't refuse, leaving the Justice League in Barry and Hal's hands. The new co-leaders were up to the task of training the new generation of heroes such as Supergirl, Blue Beetle, Firestorm, and Harley Quinn.

As for Captain Cold, he finally found the right way to honor his sister's memory: Becoming a hero for the sake of justice, even teaming up with his old nemesis, the Flash. Ironically, the Flash is the best partner Cold's ever had… besides his sister.

For The Fastest Man Alive, he felt good being a hero once again, this time he's not alone. He's glad to see that Cold has changed his ways. He always knew the man would thaw his frozen heart and move on, and it felt good. Real good.

Back to the present!

"Now, let's see what these guys been stealing." Flash said as he zipped immediately to the sack that had been stolen, with Cold following behind.

At that moment, the two flinched of what they were seeing right now. Inside the sack was a Mother Box, but the color was different. The right side was pure white, while the left one was jet black with a red lightning-like symbol on it.

Flash composed himself and became curious, "What is a Mother Box doing here? I don't remember it being on display in the museum… We better analyze it at S.T.A.R. Labs."

"Don't you mean "you" analyze it at S.T.A.R. Labs? I don't have any authorization to your workplace yet you know." Snart deadpanned.

As soon as he said that, the Box suddenly span its gears until narrow bursts of light and a loud grating noise emanated from it.

"WHAT THE-! WHAT DID YOU DO TO IT?!" Cold shouted to his ex-rival.

"I-I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING! IT'S APPEARS TO BE UNSTABLE FROM THE BEGINNING!" Flash replied, shouting as well.

It became more and more unstable until finally it exploded, releasing a giant bright light, consuming both Flash and Cold, which both of them shielding their eyes.

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A couple seconds had passed, the light finally faded out, the citizens near the area saw that there's nothing in place of the box nor those two heroes of their city.

The Flash and Captain Cold have disappeared from their world.

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"Hey...?"

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"Can you hear me?"

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"Are you okay?"

Barry began to stir around and groggily opened his eyes. A dark gray ceiling appeared on his field of vision. He turned his head around to the side, seeing red. It appears he was lying on a bed with red pillow and sheets. The meta-human began to rise up; he froze when he heard someone's voice near him.

"Oh, good. You're awake. I was kind of worried there. You've been out for quite a while."

Flash turned his head to the other side and saw a boy, most likely a teenager, standing against the wall across him. He had white messy hair and light gray-green eyes. He wore a cropped black jacket, with three white buttons on the right and one red button on the left. Underneath, he wore a dark-red and olive-green shirt, with long sleeves that were folded over the cuffs of the jacket. Under this was a long beige undershirt. He also wore black jeans with black shoes, tied with red shoelaces. The most intriguing thing about his wardrobe was a stripped mitten on his left hand and a collar strapped to his neck, with a chain dangling down to his knees.

The speedster didn't know how to put it, but there was something that's...unsettling about the teen. He had a bad feeling about this, he better be on guard, he thought.

"Who are you?" Barry asked the boy.

"Me? Heh heh," The boy chuckled. "My name's not that important. After all, I'm just a lowly servant."

Author's Note: Annddd... DONE! MY FIRST SERIES ON THIS SITE STARTS! *Throws confetti at myself*
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