Ride the Lightning (Worm / DC Comics Cross Over)

Like this new chapter thecoffeeguru!!! By the way, did you take the Quicksilver rescue scene in X-Men: Apocalypse as your inspiration for writing your rescue scene? Like this one?


If not, will you do something similar in a future chapter? Please let me know. Thank you. :):):)
 
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Like this new chapter thecoffeeguru!!! By the way, did you take the Quicksilver rescue scene in X-Men: Apocalypse as your inspiration for writing your rescue scene? Like this one?


If not, will you do something similar in a future chapter? Please let me know. Thank you. :):):)

Only insomuch as the X-Men version of Quicksilver is basically the Flash. That was an awesome scene though.
 
Only insomuch as the X-Men version of Quicksilver is basically the Flash. That was an awesome scene though.

It was more awesome in theaters without the odd noises in the background and in HD. I mean, I've seen people complain about that scene, but the whole moment was great. It has the problem that having a speedester in most non-speedster focused stories always has, in that he should be able to solve a lot more problems then he does, but that's basically true to the source.
 
So essentially she can solve the Superman Problem, IE the demands on your powers to save people versus the need to be able to relax. She can do both at once.
 
*******Authors Note********

Decided to bang this out today. Honestly I feel like 2.2 and 2.3 should be combined into a single chapter. When this story is eventually finished I will probably go back and report it with each arc as it's own mega chapter.
I don't think this scene worked that well. And while Taylor is fast, I don't think she's quite so fast to do that all in between the blink of an eye and then back...

Really, it kinda came off wankish after you set up the situation where she got contain-foamed, but at least that was resolved by the act of common sense super power.
 
So essentially she can solve the Superman Problem, IE the demands on your powers to save people versus the need to be able to relax. She can do both at once.

She has a benefit that he lacks. Because of Superman's sensory powers (super hearing, ALL TEH VISIONS, etc) he has to actively work to ignore problems he could be addressing. With my Flash!Taylor she is effectively mostly because she is listening to a Police Scanner. Patrolling didn't work out so well for her (not knowing where to look + the fact that at speed everything is a spectrum from slow mo to still life, makes it hard to find a crime in progress). She can turn off the scanner (and most of the time she isn't in costume, won't be listening to it anyway).

Last Daughter / Girl of Tomorrow both do a good job of showing the Superman problem I feel.
 
I don't think this scene worked that well. And while Taylor is fast, I don't think she's quite so fast to do that all in between the blink of an eye and then back...

Really, it kinda came off wankish after you set up the situation where she got contain-foamed, but at least that was resolved by the act of common sense super power.

She was always supposed to get out via the power of common sense (and, baring that, by pulling her leg out of her boot).

As far as how fast she is..... she is faster than this scene shows her to be. Much, much, much faster. During the fight she started to push herself some (particularly when racing the shotgun blast), and is starting to realize that she may not have a top speed. That, coupled with the 'lol physics I make a vacuum' should have her beginning to think of applications other than "To solve for X run faster."
 
Whoa.

Man Taylor is just showing off so much right then.

Course the PRT will want her bad since she the ultimate rapid response hero and she can end problems before they become serious.
 
OMAKER TIME! (feel free to take this apart and piece together a canon one if you want)

Official PRT Report

Alias: The Flash

[No, Assault and Clockblocker did not name her. This is actually her name.]
[I don't believe it.]
[Believe it]

Identity: Unknown
Location: Brockton Bay
Sex: Female
Age: 15-17
[Height of Subject makes it uncertain]

Mover 10: No way to verify, but it is suspected that she can move several times the speed of light without loss of ability to interact with reality. She stopped a robbery in progress, a drunk driver, and rescued a girl who almost died from drowning all within the 15 minutes that she was talking to Assault and Vista. According to the latter two, they were unable to discern anytime at which The Flash was not present. For all intents and purposes, The Flash can stop time, do whatever she wants, and continue time. Threat assessment may actually be much higher than a 10 as the Flash is suspected of possessing the capability to travel through time* [See LEGEND report 483979YE6- his descriptions match that of The Flash] [Holy shit, don't let Velocity read this report, he might kill himself]

Breaker 5: The Flash is resistant to the rigours and dangers of moving at multiple times the speed of light. Similar to Legend's changer state when traveling at light speeds. It is suspected that she applies a breaker effect to herself and anything she is in contact with. People, car doors, objects and things that she is touching are also resistant to the damages of traveling at beyond light speed. It is interesting to note that objects in contact with The Flash disappear from the perception of others. For example, no one sees The Flash opening the doors of Police Cruisers. [See Witness Testimony 36346ME3 and Police Reports 83A20-4C36]

Thinker 6: She is presumed to be aware of her movements while speeding. This also suggests that she thinks at multiple times the speed of light. The tactical advantages of effectively pausing time to decide on a course of action cannot be understated either.

Shaker 8: She moves so fast she can affect her environment in a very broad way. For example, she was able to generate a vacuum that sucked all of the fire of a burning building up into the sky [Report 384607- E88-ABB altercation]. Theoretically, she can mimic shaker effects by punching everywhere within a radius at nearly the same time. Definitely, she can mimic the effects of stopping time around her [Thinker Analysts 30R326E]

Stranger 7: The Flash is a security nightmare for obvious reasons. Fortunately, Anti-Teleporter specific M/S protocols would probably work against her.

There may be further abilities she has not displayed. This file will be updated as needed.

*See Articles on Superluminal Travel & Special Relativity. Not that Parahuman powers care about the laws of physics anyway.
 
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I liked the way you used the [ ]'s. While reading, they stood out and I didn't quite know what they were there for. By the time Taylor broke the news to Assault and Vista it became suddenly apparent, and I got to share in their surprise. Very clever.

[Edit] Just read the revised ending, and I think it was a good revision. I bought the previous version too, if she kept at superspeed 100% of the time, but this seems to be more in line with the gang fight break-up. And the brackets still work well as indicators of when the dispatches came in.
 
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And while Taylor is fast, I don't think she's quite so fast to do that all in between the blink of an eye and then back...
Assuming we're talking about her having the powers of DC comics top-tier Flash, I'm sorry to say it, but you're just wrong. Flash is so fast that he should be able to resolve every crime on earth essentially by himself, and the reason he doesn't is because either DC isn't smart enough to write their stories from that perspective, with the changes that would mean for the world, which is understandable, or DC thinks it would make every other comic book they sell kind of boring because no-one else would have anything to do, which is, again, understandable.

Having a fanfic which centers on a newly minted Flash character neatly solves both, since Taylor is still learning she's more broken than an armless penguin that dreams of flight, and since we don't have to care about anyone else's perspective.

DC Speedforce super-speed is probably one of the best alt-powers for Taylor to have, since it starts slow, but scales to the point where she could probably give Scion a serious fight alone. Not beat him, you need dimension piercing nonsense for that, but she could fight him, if she learns enough.

For reference, at points in DC canon, Flash has both literally outrun death, and admitted to thinking in attoseconds; a unit of time so small the human mind can't even understand it, really. Too many zeroes.

Is that stupid beyond belief? Yep. But thecoffeeguru didn't make those rules, that was DC. Anyway, given what she's up against, it's not as broken as it could be.

Whether it's a good idea to write that story is another question, whether that can work and maintain tension. We'll see. It's good so far, and Taylor/Earth Bet has enought problems it should be doable.
 
I don't think this scene worked that well. And while Taylor is fast, I don't think she's quite so fast to do that all in between the blink of an eye and then back...

Really, it kinda came off wankish after you set up the situation where she got contain-foamed, but at least that was resolved by the act of common sense super power.
Have you even heard of the Flash? He has so many insane speed feats it's not even funny. There are was an instance where he was capable of traveling at Trans-Time Velocity, which is millions of millions of millions etc... times the speed of light. At this instance it's not even called speed anymore, he can simply run/instant teleport to anywhere in the universe. Pretty insane shit.
 
OMAKER TIME! (feel free to take this apart and piece together a canon one if you want)

Official PRT Report

Alias: The Flash

[No, Assault and Clockblocker did not name her. This is actually her name.]
[I don't believe it.]
[Believe it]

Identity: Unknown
Location: Brockton Bay
Sex: Female
Age: 15-17
[Height of Subject makes it uncertain]

Mover 10: No way to verify, but it is suspected that she can move several times the speed of light without loss of ability to interact with reality. She stopped a robbery in progress, a drunk driver, and rescued a girl who almost died from drowning all within the 15 minutes that she was talking to Assault and Vista. According to the latter two, they were unable to discern anytime at which The Flash was not present. For all intents and purposes, The Flash can stop time, do whatever she wants, and continue time. Threat assessment may actually be much higher than a 10 as the Flash is suspected of possessing the capability to travel through time* [See LEGEND report 483979YE6- his descriptions match that of The Flash] [Holy shit, don't let Velocity read this report, he might kill himself]

Breaker 5: The Flash is resistant to the rigours and dangers of moving at multiple times the speed of light. Similar to Legend's changer state when traveling at light speeds. It is suspected that she applies a breaker effect to herself and anything she is in contact with. People, car doors, objects and things that she is touching are also resistant to the damages of traveling at beyond light speed. It is interesting to note that objects in contact with The Flash disappear from the perception of others. For example, no one sees The Flash opening the doors of Police Cruisers. [See Witness Testimony 36346ME3 and Police Reports 83A20-4C36]

Thinker 6: She is presumed to be aware of her movements while speeding. This also suggests that she thinks at multiple times the speed of light. The tactical advantages of effectively pausing time to decide on a course of action cannot be understated either.

Shaker 8: She moves so fast she can affect her environment in a very broad way. For example, she was able to generate a vacuum that sucked all of the fire of a burning building up into the sky [Report 384607- E88-ABB altercation]. Theoretically, she can mimic shaker effects by punching everywhere within a radius at nearly the same time. Definitely, she can mimic the effects of stopping time around her [Thinker Analysts 30R326E]

Stranger 7: The Flash is a security nightmare for obvious reasons. Fortunately, Anti-Teleporter specific M/S protocols would probably work against her.

There may be further abilities she has not displayed. This file will be updated as needed.

*See Articles on Superluminal Travel & Special Relativity. Not that Parahuman powers care about the laws of physics anyway.


I love it. I messaged you a slightly edited version which I would like to make official. Also, I award you 1 spoiler for this awesome. Let me know what you would like to know.
 
Have you even heard of the Flash? He has so many insane speed feats it's not even funny. There are was an instance where he was capable of traveling at Trans-Time Velocity, which is millions of millions of millions etc... times the speed of light. At this instance it's not even called speed anymore, he can simply run/instant teleport to anywhere in the universe. Pretty insane shit.

This just gave me a weird thought, If Taylor ever gets asked what she does for fun she could legitimately say "I run to the future, then I race spaceship's planet to planet." Everyone's like WTF >.<
 
Have you even heard of the Flash? He has so many insane speed feats it's not even funny. There are was an instance where he was capable of traveling at Trans-Time Velocity, which is millions of millions of millions etc... times the speed of light. At this instance it's not even called speed anymore, he can simply run/instant teleport to anywhere in the universe. Pretty insane shit.
Actually, it was Faster-Than-Instantaneous. Yes,that is impossible on every level of Quantum Physics; No, the Speedforce does not care.
 
Meh i guess the revision's alright but i admit to liking the first version much better it was perfectly in line with the Flash's power not to mention funny as hell.
 
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