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...the Time Trapper really needs to figure out what time he wants to pull me from.

[It's Barry again, in a brighter red suit that most are used to seeing him in. The costume actually veers closer to the one this universe's version of Wally West wore, with the exceptions of the difference in materials and continuing lack of yellow boots.]

Hey everybody. The Trapper apparently decided to drop me off back home for almost eleven months, although I spent six of them trapped in the Speed Force, which I do not recommend doing. In much better news, I'm getting married in a few weeks. Or will be once we finally get Chronoblivion figured out and dealt with, anyways.

Anything interesting happen in the five seconds I was gone?

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Someone touched my stuff.

[ And he's still mad. ]

I'm pretty sure that was Simmons.

Edited 2017-11-02 20:32 (UTC)

...Wait. What?

[ What. ]

The book of magic went crazy and set off a bunch of magical effects. Raining frogs, raining hamburgers, turning nonhumans human and it also temporarily replaced you with Simmons.

Simmons was here?!

[ He should definitely not be so invested in this information. Be cool, Grif. ]

And you guys let him?

[ He is so scandalized. ]

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What can I say? We were all just happy that someone was finally cleaning your room.

Oh, while I'm thinking about it? I've been carrying something around for you just in case I got pulled back here.

[Barry pulls out a slightly battered wedding invite.]

I'd tell you to Save the Date, but that'd be sort of pointless right now.

Edited 2017-11-06 01:37 (UTC)

Really?

[ When was the last time someone invited Grif to a wedding? Like... ever. ]

...Thanks. I'll be there. You know, assuming reality is still in one piece.

Prepare your bar.

Congratulations on the marriage. You'll have to tell me about your partner sometime.

[He loves social conversations. The details sustain him. Jovially, he continues:]

I don't have much to report on if it's just been five seconds, but I do have a question for you. What's the Speed Force?

It's a sentient extra-dimensional energy source that gives me and other speedsters like me our powers.

I'm sorry, it's been nearly a year, and I don't think I caught your name the first time. I'm Barry Allen, the Flash.

I'm Gaelio Baudin. My alias is Kimaris.

No need for apologies—I haven't been here for more than a month. I don't expect anyone to know who I am.

[Anyway, that whole alien-dimensional energy business sounds astonishingly creepy, so he's going to pursue a small change in topic.]

So, Barry; by speedster, does that mean you're capable of moving fast?

Several times the speed of sound, actually. It's more than just moving fast, though. I can vibrate my molecules fast enough to turn myself intangible, and travel in time. Can't do that last one here, though, and I try not to do it back home. Bad things can happen when you time travel.

You sound like you're speaking from experience. And this power was . . . given to you?

If you call getting hit by lightning during the explosion of a particle accelerator crashing into a rack of chemicals, and ending up in a coma for nine-months being given power. According to the Speed Force, I'm the Flash because I'm supposed to be the Flash. It doesn't really see things the same way we do.

Edited 2017-11-10 00:38 (UTC)

Something decided that you'd fall into a coma with powers forced onto you, and suddenly it's meant to be? That doesn't make much sense. And you're fine with this?

Mostly? I mean, I help people, on a daily basis, faster than anyone else can.

And you're not really getting just what the Speed Force is like. It's hard to explain to anyone who hasn't been there. But it's existed since the dawn of time and will exist until the end of it. And it sees all of that. From it's perspective I'm the Flash because I will be the Flash because I was the Flash.

Right, so it's some sort of omniscient force.

[Gaelio's head hurts.]

As far as I know, we don't have anything like that back home . . . but I suppose I understand where you're coming from. [He pauses before squinting, faintly.] Did your body change at all when you received that power?

I heal fast and stay in peak health, and my perception speeds up to match my speed.

Also I need to eat a ridiculous amount of food or risk hypoglycemia. Like, several large pizzas in a single sitting amounts of food.

[That sounds so unhealthy.]

How about on the surface? For instance, your legs . . . do they look the same as before you received your powers?

A little? I wasn't exactly the most athletic person around before I got my powers, so it was a bit of a shock when I came out of my coma and suddenly had a runner's build, but they still look normal aside from that.

So in the end, it was just the coma that caused a major problem.

Truthfully, I'm a little surprised. I thought something this significant would alter our bodies beyond the norm.

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