Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-9346948-20161116010434/@comment-25322628-20161117015150

Kaestal wrote: Steven Bomb 17 wrote: So wait is that crystal cocoon thing creating a husk from Wally's skin right now? Like the Extremes Virus from Marvel Extremis was a Super Soldier solution, not a virus, meant to rebuild the body after being infused into the brain, affording the body with various, superhuman abilities.

The crystal may have been the Philosopher's Stone that Doctor Alchemy has in the DC Comics.