Recaps

Roland took Jason and The Flash to Seattle to visit Eugenie Hergshton, where they met Wally West, a new speedster who had delivered her heart. Wally told them he had witnessed a murder and learned that the killer was Vandal Savage, prompting Jason to suggest the Justice League seize Savage’s savings.

• Roland learned Eugenie Hergshton had received a heart transplant and took Jason and The Flash through a portal to her Seattle hospital.
• Roland threatened a nurse to find Eugenie Hergshton’s room, where they met Wally West and the recovering writer.
• Wally explained that he had gained speedster powers after lightning struck Barry’s chemical rack and the chemicals splashed onto him.
• Wally recounted finding a dying private investigator in Wyoming, who identified his attacker as Vandal Savage.
• The Flash warned Wally that Vandal Savage might come after him, and Jason proposed that the Justice League take Savage’s savings.

Wally joined the Justice League as Kid Flash and helped lure Vandal Savage into an ambush, where the heroes robbed him before Batman took him into custody. Back at Wally’s apartment, his friend Francis lost control of a magnetic power, and Roland went to investigate.

• After dinner, Wally agreed to act as bait for Vandal Savage, joined the Justice League, and received the name Kid Flash.
• Vandal Savage tracked Wally to his apartment and threatened him, but Roland and the others arrived through a magical arch and overwhelmed Savage.
• The heroes demanded Savage’s wealth, then Nightwing handed him over to Batman and celebrated becoming rich until Batman said he would hold the money until Nightwing got married.
• Wally called for help after Francis began floating metal objects around the apartment, and Roland entered her bedroom, where a magnetic field affected him.

Roland and Wally discovered that Frances’s uncontrolled magnetism was awakened by Doctor Polaris, a demon who had used her as a bridge. After rescuing her, they learned that her mother blamed her for the deaths of her father and brother and was involved with a Trigon-worshipping cult; Frances remained distressed while Roland’s allies investigated her powers and trauma.

• Batman scanned Frances, and Roland’s holy light revealed Doctor Polaris inside her as a demonic link to another dimension.
• Roland forced Doctor Polaris out of Frances and sent him to Roland Cathedral to report to Jason.
• Frances woke up and told Wally that her mother had become obsessed with séances after the accident that killed her father and brother.
• Roland, Batman, and Wally accompanied Frances home, where her mother urged her to join a ritual and accused her of causing the family’s deaths.
• Frances described how her car had swerved and fallen from a cliff before her powers carried her to safety, and her mother rejected her and left.
• Two days later, Wally comforted Frances and explained that Doctor Polaris had awakened her existing magnetic powers, while Doctor Polaris told Jason he had hoped to use her to escape his dimensional prison.

Francis trained under Roland, broke through to magnetic field rotation, and used her new electric powers to defeat Wally and kill Gotham bank robbers. A month later, she and Roland joined Wally at S.T.A.R. Labs in Utah as he began testing the speed bottleneck limiting his connection to the Speed Force.

• Francis showed Wally her electric current propulsion abilities at Roland Cathedral and blasted him out of the combat ring.
• Roland explained that he had gained magnetic field rotation and taught Francis to develop her magnetism into electric current propulsion.
• Francis killed the armed robbers attacking Gotham Bank while Wally rescued the injured, then gave a statement to the police.
• After a month of training, Francis broke through to ten-thousand-horsepower magnetic field rotation.
• Wally went to S.T.A.R. Labs in Utah for tests, where scientists confirmed his acceleration bottleneck before the sound barrier.
• Roland and Francis arrived at S.T.A.R. Labs to see Wally as the scientists prepared to help him investigate his speed limit.

Wally accidentally freed Kilg%re, an extradimensional intelligence that invaded electronic systems and threatened humanity. After Francis fought it and Cyborg ultimately eliminated it, Francis pursued greater strength while Wally continued training and drew attention in Central City.

• Wally encountered a giant robot in Utah, and Roland explained that Wally’s speed had helped Kilg%re escape the Phantom Zone.
• Kilg%re seized control of S.T.A.R. Labs and attacked the group, so Francis forged Roland’s weapons into a massive blade and split the facility in two as Kilg%re fled.
• Kilg%re threatened to destroy Patterson with a missile, prompting Roland to summon Cyborg, who purged Kilg%re from the electrical grid.
• Francis described her plan to cut power across the Americas, while Superman reported that he had handled the aftermath of Kilg%re’s attack.
• Francis continued training to strengthen her magnetic force, while Wally sought to break his speed limit and fought crime in Central City, attracting attention.

Francis disguised herself as Wally West and attended the Rogues’ dinner, where she drank, bonded with the villains, and apparently joined their group. The next day, Wally and Captain Cold each discovered that the newspaper had reported Wally as the Rogues’ new member.

• Francis wore Wally’s suit and went to Captain Cold’s dinner at the Red Freighter Hotel, where the Rogues mistook her for Wally and greeted her with insults.
• Captain Cold calmed the Rogues, and Francis ate and drank with them; Golden Glider shared her revenge plans against Barry, while The Top spoke through Captain Cold.
• As the Rogues got drunk, they complained that Barry had kept them distracted from their potential power, and Francis agreed with them before becoming drunk herself.
• Francis returned to Roland Cathedral late, and the next day she told Wally that she had joined the Rogues in his guise and that Captain Cold had named him a future leader.
• Wally and Iris West saw a newspaper story and photo announcing that Kid Flash had joined the Rogues, while Captain Cold and The Trickster later found the same report at the hotel.

The Flash, Wally, and Barbara investigated apps developed by Ethan, Penguin’s estranged son, and uncovered schemes involving data collection, hired criminals, and the kidnapping of homeless people. Ethan arrived at the Iceberg Lounge and declared that he intended to buy Penguin’s company, calling himself Black Sun.

• The Flash trained Wally to vibrate through walls, then took him to Gotham, where Batman pointed them toward Roland and warned them about a possible conspiracy behind the Pocket Pooch app.
• Barbara discovered that Ethan’s company, Starting Point of Victory, developed Pocket Pooch and Home Companion, and she joined The Flash and Wally in investigating its services.
• Magpie attacked thugs while working as a Home Companion escort, and The Flash stopped the men before they could be killed; Barbara recognized Magpie and grew suspicious of the company’s hiring practices.
• Alena caught men kidnapping homeless people for a laboratory, and Barbara traced the Safe Streets app they had used to Starting Point of Victory.
• Penguin told Roland that Ethan had orchestrated a riot at the Iceberg Lounge, while Barbara suspected Ethan was using app data and algorithms to manipulate people.
• Ethan offered to modernize Penguin’s operations, then said he was there to acquire Penguin’s company and declared, “I’m Black Sun.”

Roland let Wally and Barbara confront Black Sun, who used his Vector Battle Suit and social media data to control Gotham citizens. As Barbara fought through the crowds, Wally searched for a way to cut Black Sun off from the network and came up with an idea.

• Black Sun arrived at the Iceberg Lounge in powered armor, controlled the crowd, and ordered them to kill Penguin.
• Roland used Conqueror's Haki to knock the controlled citizens unconscious, then sent Wally and Barbara after Black Sun.
• Wally and Barbara analyzed Black Sun's plan as they pursued him, while Roland and the others watched the chase through Gotham's cameras.
• Black Sun rallied Burnside residents against Barbara, who stood up and fought through the crowd in her transforming wheelchair armor.
• Wally realized Black Sun's control depended on an internet connection and considered trapping him somewhere without a signal.

Barbara and Wally lured Black Sun into the women's restroom, where his combat suit's electrical defense badly burned him. After Roland left the hospital, Penguin secretly took his disfigured son away and welcomed him home.

• Barbara explained that Black Sun's need for his father's approval made him easy to provoke, then taunted him during his speech in Burnside.
• Black Sun ordered the crowd to attack Barbara, but she and Wally escaped toward a school restroom with him in pursuit.
• Barbara kicked Black Sun into the women's restroom, where his suit shocked him, and she used a fire extinguisher to put out the flames.
• Roland learned that Black Sun had burns over ninety percent of his skin and would likely be disfigured.
• Penguin's henchmen removed Black Sun from the hospital, and Penguin promised him treatment before calling him his beautiful baby and welcoming him home.

Roland and Batman discovered that Penguin had been possessed by the Golden-Horned King, who sought to drain life force and grow powerful. After Batman went to find Clean Altar Envoy, Roland pursued the demon across Gotham, trying to stop him from feeding on people.

• At Wayne Manor, Roland and Batman discussed Barbara's decisive actions, Penguin's new son Ethan Cobblepot, and Penguin's financial troubles.
• Penguin used a golden Gourd and Doctor Shuger’s machine to release a horned Demon into his former adviser Lester, but the Demon possessed Penguin instead and drained his men.
• Roland fought the Golden-Horned Penguin, who summoned Mount Sumeru and Mount Emei before fleeing and leaving behind a Purple-Gold Red Gourd.
• Roland and Batman identified the Demon as the Golden-Horned King, and Batman took the Gourd to study while agreeing to find Clean Altar Envoy.
• The Golden-Horned King learned from Flame Planet’s servants that absorbing heroes could grant him immortal power, and he chose Roland as his target.
• Roland pursued the Golden-Horned Penguin through Gotham and kept him from attacking ordinary people, while Batman had yet to return with Clean Altar Envoy.

Zhu Bajie and Marcus joined Roland and Batman to rescue Marcus’s parents from Golden-Horned King, while learning that the ruler of Flame Planet was assembling a demon army. The group gathered in the Batcave to prepare for the coming threat, where Zhu Bajie played a trick on Roland with conjured beauties.

• Zhu Bajie defeated two demons in Gotham and learned that their master had begun gathering an army, with a first general already in the city.
• Golden-Horned Penguin released a video showing Doctor Shuger and Lola held hostage to lure Roland to the Iceberg Lounge.
• Marcus, Zhu Bajie, Batman, and Nightwing entered the Iceberg Lounge, where Roland separated Golden-Horned King from Penguin using qi water while demons dragged Zhu Bajie away.
• Zhu Bajie warned Roland that the Flame Planet ruler planned to absorb heroes and gain the Power of the Eight Immortals, prompting Batman to invite everyone to the Batcave.
• Roland tried to summon Zhu Bajie with the Purple-Gold Red Gourd, but Zhu Bajie conjured three beauties that transformed into a net around him.

Roland, Zhu Bajie, Batman, Nightwing, and Marcus traveled to Amnesty Bay, where Marcus faced Shellystia and his fear of water. The Trench King prepared an invasion of Atlantis, while a dragon in Tang Dragon Street recalled Sun Wukong and the Ruyi Jingu Bang.

• Penguin explained that he had mistaken the Golden Horn King for pure gold because gold prices had risen, and Zhu Bajie predicted the Silver Horn King would appear in Amnesty Bay.
• Zhu Bajie ate Iberian ham and drank wine during a meal he called vegetarian, then predicted Marcus would attract a girl.
• Shellystia lured Marcus to the shore, revealed she wanted to eat the monkey, and dragged him into the sea before Zhu Bajie pulled him out with a rake.
• Zhu Bajie urged Marcus to pursue Shellystia and overcome his fear of water, but Marcus refused to go after her.
• Shellystia reported to her father, the Trench King, who declared that the Trench could gain immortal power by devouring the Chinese monkey god and assembled his army against Atlantis.
• On Tang Dragon Street, One-Eyed Dragon claimed he had served Ao Guang and that a fragment of Sun Wukong's Golden Cudgel was lodged in his eye socket, prompting the other dragons to laugh.

Roland, Zhu Bajie, and Marcus helped defend Atlantis as the dragons reclaimed their ancient forms and Marcus wielded the Ruyi Jingu Bang. Zhu Bajie revealed that Marcus’s final trial would be the remnant of Sun Wukong, soon to be released from the Phantom Zone, while Silver Horn King joined Fire Bull King and the Ultra-Humanite prepared to free the remnant.

• Zhu Bajie explained that the fragments growing in Atlantis were the Ruyi Jingu Bang, and Marcus used Qi Water to free Silver Horn King from a giant hermit crab.
• Ocean Master brought Roland and Zhu Bajie to Aquaman, where they learned the expanding Golden Cudgel threatened Tang Dragon Street and its trapped dragon, One-Eyed Dragon.
• The Trench attacked Tang Dragon Street, and Aquaman helped the retired dragons awaken their ancient forms to defend Atlantis.
• Marcus claimed the Ruyi Jingu Bang and struck Silver Horn King out of the Trench King; Shellystia then persuaded her father to retreat.
• Silver Horn King joined Fire Bull King’s demon legion, while the Ultra-Humanite prepared to repair his projector and release Sun Wukong’s Phantom Zone remnant.
• Zhu Bajie told Roland that the remnant would be Marcus’s final trial and that the real Sun Wukong had already left, leaving only the Handsome Monkey Prince.

After Zhu Bajie warned that The Flash was facing a deadly fate, Batman and Roland found no medical cause and The Flash returned to Central City to prepare for the worst. There, Wally learned from a future Iris West that her grandson Bart Allen was rapidly aging and would die within days, just as The Flash arrived.

• Roland took Marcus and Zhu Bajie to a Gotham restaurant, where The Flash joined them after stopping a thief.
• Zhu Bajie read The Flash’s fate and warned that death was near, and Batman brought him to the Batcave for an examination.
• Batman found no physical illness, but Madame Xanadu confirmed that The Flash had little time left; Batman gave him a crimson ring before he left for Central City.
• Wally encountered two versions of Iris West after investigating a series of robberies involving identical impostors.
• The future Iris West explained that Bart Allen was her grandson and that his accelerated aging would kill him before the week ended.
• The Flash arrived at the West home and heard that Bart was also close to death.

The Flash vowed to save Bart, while Lola arrived from the future and gathered Roland Cathedral’s heroes to save Barry Allen from the many deaths awaiting him. Lola explained that Barry’s fate had been disrupted by a change in the Speed Force, then revealed that the danger threatened the other heroes as well.

• Iris West reunited emotionally with the Flash, who promised to save Bart even if it cost him his life.
• Iris West took Wally to meet Lola, who claimed to be Roland from the thirtieth century and demonstrated magnetic powers.
• Roland confronted Lola, learned she was his daughter, and heard that she had traveled back in time to save Barry Allen.
• Lola told Jason that he was her older brother and claimed Sheila Haywood was her mother, then teased Kara by calling her Mommy.
• Roland returned with Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman, and Lola explained that a Speed Force change had disturbed Barry’s fate.
• Lola described numerous possible deaths for Barry, prompting Superman to realize the heroes themselves might also need saving.

Lola proposed using Savitar to push Barry Allen past the limits of the Speed Force, and Iris West recounted how Savitar gained his powers and became trapped in the timestream. The chapter ended with Savitar’s followers performing a ritual in the Balkan Mountains, unaware that Lola had secretly prepared them to bring him back.

• Lola chose Savitar as the opponent who could force Barry to grow, and the group agreed to keep their plan secret from him.
• Iris West explained that Savitar became a speedster after a mysterious lightning strike, then grew faster through his fanatical devotion to speed.
• Savitar fought Johnny Quick and Max Mercury, and Johnny’s sacrifice sent Savitar into the timestream while Max later became trapped in the Speed Force.
• Lola said she could use future technology and Savitar’s followers to bring him back without Barry noticing.
• In the Balkan Mountains, a speedster led Savitar’s followers in a ritual, while Lola whispered that she had given the leader what she needed to restore him.

Roland and Lola discovered that Savitar had sent speedster ninjas after Barry Allen, who fought them while protecting bystanders. Roland directed Barry to the Balkan Mountains to find Savitar, while concealing Lola’s identity and his own involvement.

• Roland and Lola faced ninjas emerging from a lightning tower, and Lola used her Speed Force to defeat them as they aged into ash.
• Barry Allen ate lunch with Iris West when ninjas attacked, and he fought them while keeping the restaurant’s customers safe.
• Barry questioned a captured Thunderbolt Emissary, who named Savitar before rapidly aging and turning to ash along with the other ninjas.
• Barry called Roland for information, and Roland told him that Savitar was in the Balkan Mountains near a tower.
• Roland claimed the voice calling him Dad belonged to Jason, then urged Barry to stop the speedsters and accept his responsibility.

Lola impersonated Wally to convince Barry that Savitar was targeting him, sending the Flash to Savitar’s castle. Barry fought Savitar and destroyed him by disrupting the vibrations that held the universe together.

• Lola used Magnetic Field Rotation to take Wally’s appearance, then pretended to be wounded and warned Barry that Savitar was after him.
• Roland appeared and offered to take the disguised Lola to the hospital, while Barry headed for Savitar’s castle.
• Barry found Savitar’s Ninjas being used as a battery and Christina Alexandrova serving Savitar, and he fought past her to confront him.
• Savitar struck Barry and explained his mastery of the Speed Force, but Barry attacked again and tore Savitar apart by disrupting the universe’s vibrations.

Lola explained how she had helped stage Wally’s apparent injury to provoke Barry, then introduced The Suit as Barry’s next opponent. Barry investigated a corpse identified as his future self and confronted The Suit, who froze him with time force as Barry insisted the villain had already lost.

• Lola revealed that Wally had been sent to the hospital after helping her fool Barry, while Batman questioned their treatment of him.
• Captain Cold brought Barry to the police department, where a corpse wearing a Flash suit was identified as Barry and carried a note giving him sixty minutes to solve his murder.
• Barry examined the clues and learned from Doctor Alchemy that the corpse matched him by fingerprints and dental records, while its watch showed a time one hour in the future.
• Lola told Batman and Roland that The Suit was a living superpowered garment created by Gambi and later escaped after its wearer, Del Merriweather, was executed.
• Barry confronted The Suit on a Central City street, and The Suit used time force to freeze him in place.

The Flash survived The Suit’s attack and discovered that his enemy had sent him back in time using the Time Force. He defeated The Suit by overwhelming its powers with compressed Speed Force and freed Fashionista, who had been serving as its host.

• Captain Cold and Doctor Alchemy discussed the Rogues’ bond and worried about The Flash as he revived in the police department morgue.
• The Flash returned to the explosion, but The Suit used the Time Force stolen from Drew McPhee to send him one hour into the past.
• Roland rescued the injured Flash from the wreckage, and Lola healed him while he considered The Suit’s origins.
• After investigating The Suit’s victims and the missing metahuman Fashionista, The Flash confronted The Suit and learned that its Time Force could not restrain his compressed Speed Force.
• The Flash pulled the creature’s threads from The Suit, revealing Fashionista, and urged him to abandon his plans to become a supervillain.

Lola told Roland that Black Flash was the death waiting for every Speedster, and Barry Allen was suddenly forced to face it. Barry outran Black Flash beyond time until death ceased to exist and the pursuer vanished, then encountered Roland at the rebirth of the universe.

• Lola showed Roland a photograph of Black Flash and explained that Speedsters called it the death that awaited them.
• Time froze during Barry's dinner with Iris West, and Barry saw Black Flash appear before him.
• Barry tried to attack and trap Black Flash, but its pursuit continued as he ran across the world and broke through time.
• Barry and Black Flash raced across the distant future as humanity spread through the cosmos and the universe grew cold.
• Barry and Black Flash ran beyond time, where death lost its meaning and Black Flash dissipated.
• The universe began anew, and Roland's head appeared before Barry.

After Roland sent Barry back from the end of time, Barry proposed to Iris beneath the Eiffel Tower. As the Rogues plotted to disrupt the wedding and Barry’s family prepared for it, Roland brought Damian from Gotham City to serve as ring bearer.

• Roland returned Barry to the restaurant, where Barry took Iris to Paris and asked her to marry him, and she accepted.
• Captain Cold gathered the Rogues to plan disruptions at Barry and Iris’s wedding, while Francis and Fashionista agreed to join in.
• Weather Wizard attacked the marriage registration office, but Barry stopped him, recovered the marriage certificate, and left him for the police.
• The West family gathered to prepare for the wedding, and they debated who should carry the rings.
• After Lola briefly transformed into Bart, Roland went to Gotham City and brought Damian back to serve as the ring bearer.

The Flash’s wedding brought together heroes, family, and friends before the Rogues arrived to challenge the celebration. Lola demanded to fight them alone, leaving the wedding’s fate—and the Rogues’ target—uncertain.

• Green Arrow and Green Lantern gave The Flash wedding presents, and Roland gave him a cross blessed by Lucifer.
• Superman arrived with Lois, Superboy-Prime, and Conner, and Roland and Lola teased him about his upcoming wedding and Lois’s pregnancy.
• Lola claimed Dinah Laurel Lance was her mother, startling Green Arrow, and the guests joked about Star City.
• Aquaman and Mera arrived, and Roland told Wally to kneel to Aquaman before Aquaman waved him up.
• Francis and the Rogues entered the wedding, and Captain Cold acknowledged the many powerful heroes present.
• Lola interrupted The Flash and requested a solo fight against the Rogues.

Lola used her powers to restrain the Rogues and officiated Barry Allen and Iris West’s wedding, defeating Reverse-Flash when he tried to attack. The wedding proceeded, and Roland, Zhu Bajie, and Marcus discussed social connections as the guests offered the newlyweds their blessings.

• Lola challenged the Rogues, bound them with plant powers and other abilities, and turned Doctor Alchemy into a pig.
• Lola took over as the wedding officiant, while Barry realized he had forgotten to prepare his vows.
• Reverse-Flash attacked the wedding, but Lola struck him with overwhelming force and reduced him to dust.
• Barry delivered his vows to Iris, and Zhu Bajie explained wedding etiquette and the value of maintaining social connections to Marcus.
• The Rogues congratulated Barry and Iris, and Roland, Zhu Bajie, and Marcus joined the wedding celebration.

At Barry Allen and Iris’s wedding, Cobalt Blue attacked and revealed that he was Barry’s twin brother, Malcolm Thawne. He explained how a doctor’s baby switch separated them and how resentment over his life led him to hate Barry, leaving the brothers’ reunion unresolved.

• After a blue-fire explosion near the wedding, Barry recognized the attacker as Cobalt Blue, a mysterious villain who could drain speed.
• Cobalt Blue burned Wally and drained his Speed Force, but Barry used his Speed Force Suit to protect himself, defeated him, and bound him with the Lasso of Truth.
• Cobalt Blue revealed his name was Malcolm Thawne and said he had been adopted by the Thawne family, who kept their inherited blue-fire ability from him.
• Malcolm traced his birth to Fallville and learned from Dr. Gillmore that he and Barry had been twins switched at birth during a storm.
• Malcolm confessed that he killed Gillmore in a rage and later grew jealous of Barry’s happy life, which turned into hatred.