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Wow this is....this is a bit difficult. Exciting, don't get me wrong but I feel like I'm reading my journal out loud to everyone.

What else are you supposed to say?

Right, right, I remember.

[Regrets and hesitation here. Why did he even say all that outside of being a loser?

Oh right, that explains everything.]

Look, I'm not one for public advertising but with all this excitement, I'd like to help a bit. So...

...ugh, I forgot to introduce myself. Barry Allen, that's my name. I'm a forensic scientist and I kind of own a place called S.T.A.R. Labs.

Which means if anyone has a crime they need to be solved, just give me a ring. Or hit me up if you need anything else. It's what I'm good at. Which was the whole point of this. I want to help out but don't really have a place to start. So if anyone wants to point fingers, point away. My mind is open to all comers.

[Short sentences and awkward. Yep, he was having a bit of an issue.]

That's all, I think. Good bye? Signing off? How do people do this...?

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Consider it something like a science experiment gone wrong...but for a lot of people....

For a lot of people...?

[ Where are you going with this, Barry? ]

...have you ever heard of a particle accelerator?

Yes. Hank was very excited about it.

[ When they came to the future and he learned someone had built one. Though with everything that got thrown at them it was maybe a short-lived excitement. ]

Let's just say the first one to run kind of spectacularly overloaded and exploded and the resulting wave of energy, well, created meta-humans. Maybe it unlocked some sort of genetic potential, I don't know. But that's what happened.

We have a guy like that. Or I think it would be more accurate to say, I know that's one common way of producing "meta-humans" in my universe. Research accidents.

[ Though he feels compelled to add: ]

Usually it's something more explicitly dangerous and radioactive. From what I understand.

A lot of people died so I'd say it's pretty dangerous and problematic. I doubt it's going to happen again.

[ Oh Barry. You sweet summer child. ]

I hope so. It would be nice to think that once is all it takes for people to be discouraged from doing it again.

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