The Flash by Steve Kennedy (good summer reads txt) 📕

Chapter 1: A hero is born
The Central City Police Department (CCPD) make a bust of dealers who is known as the “Blacksmith” organization. They recover barrels upon barrels of an unknown liquid that cannot be classified. Later on that night police detective and chemical specialist Barry Allen goes back to the lab to run tests on it. As he is doing so, he realizes that this strange new chemical can conduct electricity more rapid than anything else on the Earth. As he makes this connection both Barry and the chemical are struck by lightning sending him airborne to the wall. Both the shock of lightning and the vapors inhaled in the explosion surge his body. As the power goes out for miles Barry lays there unconscious .Thus…a hero is born.

Chapter 2: What happened?
Barry Allen wakes up in a hospital bed after the incident, and the strangely enough the doctor gets shocked while trying to take a blood sample. His wife Iris Allen is there to aid him. Afterwards he is released from the hospital, and they go home. Chief Hotchkiss of the CCPD demand that Barry take a week off for rest. Throughout some activities Barry notices that he is much sharper on the ball and quicker too but he does not think too much of it…yet.

Chapter 3: operation: “mother nature”
Clyde Mardon is a wealthy CEO of a very successful corporation named Synergy. A company dedicated to developing technologies using the suns power. Clyde gives a presentation on his new satellite that he has in space in front of the military council. It’s a satellite system controlled from Earth and it can control the weather, using a very thorough processor using nanotechnology which controls the direction of the atoms. He can make it rain where there be a drought, use the suns rays to drought where there be a flood and so on. Clyde is a real humanitarian but is shot down from the military council, because they feel that the operation just isn’t in their funding. So surprised from this reaction Clyde will die from a heart attack and die right in the conference room after everyone leaves.


Chapter 4: A clear change
Finally after Barry Allen recuperates he notices a clear change in his body. He seems rather sharper, on the ball. At the station Barry and a couple of his good CCPD friends such as Gregory Wolfe meet at the basketball court where Barry would show a clear change in his speed by stealing the basketball rapidly and dunking on the net to end a full court five on five basketball game. Barry looks at his arms in astonishment for now which has taken place is a “clear change.”

Chapter 5: A Leak
Police Commissioner Jacque Vaughn was always under the accusation of being corrupt, and this time his true colors will be shown. Although no one could understand how he could afford a Mercedes c class under a police salary but he still had the respect of certain others at the CCPD. He receives a phone call from a private number on his cellular phone He simply states the whereabouts of the recovered barrels. Who could it be on the other line? …The Blacksmith.

Chapter 6: Full Body Armor

At The CCPD headquarters all of the police members are given a presentation on an all new developed one piece body armor suit already molded with muscles on it. The presentation is given by the chairman of the company who makes them. They shoot riot items such as bottles, rocks, and even rubber bullets. At the end of the presentation they shoot the sit with a real bullet. As the bullet pierces through the suit the chairman says with a smirk “try avoiding bullets,” as everyone shares a laugh.

Chapter 7: On the Ball

Later on that night, Barry goes back home to his fiancée Iris West. Beautiful blonde woman who met Barry in college. As she has dinner prepared for Barry she slips on the hardwood floor. As items of the tray go scattering into the air Barry catches her at lightning speed and catches all the items with the tray. As Iris just gazes at her fiancée she makes a clear notice that Barry has been on the ball. As they talk about it more Barry begins to notice his transition.

Chapter 8: Who To Trust?

Publication Date: 09-07-2011

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