Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox Page #5

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what happened before her murder.

Bruce's parents, Clark's landing.

Oh, but it did.

Break the sound barrier

and there's a sonic boom.

You broke the time barrier, Flash.

Time boom.

Ripples of distortion radiated out

through that point of impact...

...shifting everything just a tiny bit.

But enough.

Enough for events to happen

slightly differently.

I just wanted to save her.

Her hero. How noble. Oh, wait.

You didn't stop JFK

from getting assassinated...

...or made sure Hitler stayed

in art school.

You saved your mommy.

You missed her.

And in a supreme act of selfishness,

shattered history like a rank amateur...

...turned the world into a living hell

moments away from destruction.

And I'm the villain?

No!

This form is not your own.

How is the enchantment broken?

With a word.

Speak the word.

Shazam!

The era of the land-dweller

is at an end, hero.

Your metal skull

will decorate my great hall.

Hero.

Friend.

Submit.

You are beaten.

Surrender?

Then what?

You'll let the men of Atlantis

live as your slaves?

The men? No.

You are a pestilence the mother Gaia

has suffered for too long.

- But perhaps Atlantis' daughters...

- There will be no glorious victor, Diana.

No prize.

What I do now,

I do for the good of all.

As do I.

- What are you doing?

- Getting you out of here, before he...

It's too late.

Good job, Barry.

The world is about to end, thanks to you.

I hope your mother has a good view of it.

You can't let this happen, Thawne.

You'll die too.

- As you say in this era, totally worth it.

- Unh.

Uh-uh-uh.

As long as I can siphon off the Speed

Force, you can't escape this timeline.

I'm afraid there just isn't enough

Speed Force to go around.

There is now.

You killed him.

Not necessarily.

Not if you go back in time and fix this.

The only way to save the world

is to keep this world from ever happening.

Take this.

Run.

Barry!

Stop, you'll kill everyone!

Barry! Stop! You have to stop!

Who the hell?

Get away.

Mom, I'm so sorry.

- Barry.

- Ah!

Look who's just joined

the land of the living.

Gotta run, James.

You don't finish the files by Friday,

you'll be stuck here all weekend.

Well, it's not the end of the world.

I think I finally got it, Mom.

The things you were trying to teach me.

- Barry?

- Iris?

Mm!

Well, heh, that's my kind of hello.

- Is everything all right?

- It is now, honey.

It is now.

Just to review,

you broke the chronal barrier...

...went back in time,

prevented your mother's murder...

...and completely changed

the Timestream.

Nearly destroying

the entire world along the way.

Yes.

There's still something

I don't understand.

I remember all of it.

Not just what happened after

I woke up there, but my whole other life.

I remember every birthday cake

my mother ever baked me.

My room, everything.

Perhaps some kind of temporal

after-effect?

Or perhaps it was a gift.

Yes. A gift.

This is my father's handwriting.

You're one hell of a messenger.

Thank you.

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