We’re supposed to document our ‘adventures’ from here on in, and being a member of the Titans this is mandatory. Not all of us have to write up one of these things, only one. And so everything’s FAIR we’re all switching off. This little incident wasn’t exactly Titan’s affiliated, but seeing as someone NEEDS to start all of this ‘reporting’ thing up, I thought this would be a good idea to go first and give you the general idea of what’s to be expected.

 

Date of incident: October 28, 2001

Time: Unknown—mid evening

Place(s): Gotham City, NY; Keystone City, Kansas

 

            There was report of my nemesis “Cyborg” terrorizing the general public in my hometown of Keystone City. Reports of explosions all over the city and I had to get down there, so I responded to the call and found Cyborg blowing up City Hall. He said, “The political system stinks! And I’m gunna blow it sky high!” I didn’t blame the guy for not liking the political system, that entire system can be so screwed over at times. After a moment of punches, kicks AND after being slammed against a wall once or twice he finally told me that he had been waiting for me. “I only want to make your life MISARABLE…Wallace West.” Okay—that for one completely freaked me out. How in the hell does this lunatic KNOW my name!?? It’s bad enough that Abra Kadabra knows my name, now THIS guy knows too??

So I’m laying there dumbfounded and slowly pull to my feet. “I’m sorry, but I think you’ve got the wrong--” Rule number one: Don’t EVER try to play stupid with a villain when they know your name, it’ll only make things ten times worse.

“DON’T pretend you don’t KNOW… you know it’s true. You see, Flash, I plan to destroy you inch by pathetic inch. I‘m going to kill YOU and the one thing you treasure most.” He started doing that chilling evil laugh that all bad guys have. Then he then suddenly pulls out this… device and presses some buttons. There’s this flash of bright light and this portal is like—RIGHT in front of us!! TALK about your special effects!

The portal somehow allowed the holder to look in through TIME, and what Cyborg had done was made it so we were looking into the past. The image… that was in front of me… made my heart sink… literally. Barb was before me… planting SOME kind of flower into a window planter or something. I could easily tell she had to have been at least eighteen she LOOKED young. Cyborg kept talking, kept egging me on. It all started to become clear on what he was trying to do. He was going to kill Barbara, then jump through time and do the same thing to me. He jumped into the portal and as I went to go in after him, the portal closed!

The one BAD thing about time travel is if you change the past, you change the future. I couldn’t let that happen. He planned to kill Barbara, and by killing her in the past to where she didn’t have all of her abilities and bat-training, she would be helpless.  I ran down to the lab—STAR Labs (The one in Keystone). Once there, I radioed the tower and told them what was going on and disabled connection. I was able to get onto the cosmic treadmill and started to run my brains out. The only way to stop Cyborg was to go after him.

Once getting the treadmill working, I stopped about five or six years in the past and took off for Gotham. By the time I got there, I found Cyborg already in Barbara’s neighborhood. She was just coming home from.. school—could have been college, then again, judging by the uniform, I’d have to say she was coming back from high school—Cyborg just—ATTACKED her. *mumbles profanities* My baby went down QUICK.. and GWAD… he got her good too.. The blood that I could see. I rushed to her side to help her, but got blasted away by that STUPID Cyborg. His laughter, STILL rings trough my ears… I could tell he was enjoying watching me suffer, and probably her suffer as well.

With that moment I was down, Cycborg delivered another blast to Barbara and.. hit her straight in the chest… As I went over to aide her, he disappeared, and with that I had this feeling where he was going.. I wasn’t worried about it though, I needed to tend to Barb. Her pulse was so weak I knew… she was dying. At that moment, I realized I should have popped the question to her the night before—I was STUPID to wait. I knew if she was going to die THERE in my arms, she would die in the future, MY future. She’d basically fade out of existence.

It all dawned on me that she and Robbie were dating around that time so I ran her to a hospital and let the doctors do what they could, then I went down to Robbies place, but found it was empty. D-uh... he wasn’t THERE yet! It took me a minute, but I went straight to Wayne Manor and found him as he started to pull up in the driveway. He LOOKED at me, wondering WHO the hell I was. I told him I was from the future, he didn’t believe me at first, but later, he did. I rushed him to the hospital where I took Barbara and told him to watch after her, call her father, do what was needed.

I went after Cyborg, ran my butt back to Keystone, and I saw him… messing with... with a nineteen year old… ME! Good thing I was fast and still had the smarts then. You should have seen the way my little self was runnin’ around whuppin’ Cyborg’s BUTT. I joined up with.. heh.. Kid Flash and we both were able to detain Cyborg and render him unconscious. Big me and little me talked for a little bit—little me was bummed out cuz I recently got dumped by some girl named Janet—and believe me, I SOOO remember that girl too. I gave ‘im a pep talk and then bid farewell and hauled Cyborg’s butt with me back to STAR labs. I told the professor’s there to put him on ice, WHICH they did—and literally I might add.

I took off for Gotham again, for the hospital. I found Robbie in the waiting room, the guy never looked SO depressed. I found out from him that they took her into emergency surgery to repair the internal bleeding and things were so touch and go. They had already lost her once on the table, but they WERE able to revive her. I stayed with him for a few hours, just waiting for the surgeons to come out and let us know what was going on. It seemed like DAYS of waiting, but one of the guys finally came out in scrubs and updated us on her condition. It looked like she was going to pull through, but it might be a while before she was able to go back home. She was okay—THAT was the main thing.

I kinda just stepped out of the picture and took off again for STAR Labs. Cyborg and I went back to OUR home... the future, 2001. When I got back, we were able to lock him up again, maximum security and all of that. With THAT much of CHANGE in the past, I knew whatever happened had to have SOME kinda effect, though, even now I’m not sure what that effect was or… IS.

 

--Flash