User blog:Eobard95/What The Flash Season 3 should be - What Flashpoint should have been

I think it's no secret by this point that out of all the Arrowverse shows this year The Flash has turned out to be the slowest, ironically, and least entertaining. Ironically Arrow, a I show I've despised for the last 2 years, has become my favorite again. The main problems with Flash's lack of success this year are attributed to lackluster adaptation of the iconic story line Flashpoint, as well as the choice of main villain being a speedster yet again when it has been this way for all three seasons now. Flashpoint had been hyped up since mid-Season 1 and we were all blown away when we realized at the end of last season it was finally being done.

Then one episode later it's over and barely anything happened and they mainly did it to give everyone a "blame Barry for everything" story with the fallout of the timeline changes, when most of these changes could have easily been done without the use of Flashpoint and thus keeping a good story for when it should be done. Savitar as the villain is basically just another year of Barry gets faster, when that was the driving goal of last year with Zoom. I also don't find him that threatening because of it and I genuinely find Zoom to be a far more menacing threat. What I have written below is how this season should have been done, with Doctor Alchemy being the main villain without the use of Savitar and how Flashpoint could have been more faithfully executed accounting not just for the few main Flash character's involved but the entire Arrowverse itself.

Since the season hasn't finished yet this is also basically my predictions for the second half of the season twisted with how I think it should be done. Also this is quite a long read so get comfortable because you'll be here a while.

Pre-Flashpoint
5 months have passed since Henry’s death and Barry continues to be The Flash but is still struggling to move on from losing another parent, but is sensible enough to not push his team away this time. He and Iris still haven’t gone out because Barry thinks he’ll be worthless to her the state of depression he’s in right now, but she wishes Barry would realize that they being together would make him happy again. Cisco has begun to make amends with Dante but Caitlin is still suffering P.T.S.D. from being Zoom’s captive and is still haunted by visions of him. After an encounter with a meta-human Iris is kidnapped but Barry succeeds in fighting her but the meta-human is suddenly killed when his body literally turns to vapor, as he mutters the words “Alchemy”. From a distance an elusive figure accompanied by several other meta-humans referred to as “Doctor Alchemy” watches, and proclaims to his followers that the first step in his vengeance have begun. After this Barry finally asks Iris out as he thought he was going to lose her and admits that while he’s still sad over his parents, he can’t keep putting his life on pause and the two finally start going out.

Over the next few weeks Flash faces more meta-human threats but keeps encountering more fanatical followers of Doctor Alchemy but after defeating each of them, all of them continually die one after another leaving Barry unable to get answers, as Alchemy is using his mysterious stone to kill them after failing. Barry is also joined at C.C.P.D. by fellow CSI meta-human specalist Julian Albert, though he doesn’t get along with Barry because he knows he’s hiding something. ''After all come on, who didn't guess that Julian Albert was Doctor Alchemy? Having him be transfered to C.C.P.D. during the events of Season 2 as a result of the new timeline change didn't fool anyone. Also the fact that his last name is Albert like Alchemy's comic counterpart Albert Desmond. Also the fact that Julian is played by Draco Malfoy when comics fans know the stone Doctor Alchemy uses is the Philospiher's stone! ''

Caitlin meanwhile secretly begins exhibiting cold powers and has been for some time now but tries to keep it suppressed. However she is haunted by visions of Zoom who eventually starts talking to her and telling her she is destined to become Killer Frost. Unable to ignore "Zoom" anymore Caitlin continually tells "him" that she won't and tells "him" to go away but "Zoom" reminds her that the very fact she's seeing him, means deep down she knows this is a possibility which only frightens her more. Meanwhile Wally continually gets sick, as the Speed Force is slowly developing in his cells though his metamorphosis is more painful as he bypassed the coma stage. Joe also moves on from widowhood and finds romance with Cecile and the team recruits Earth-19 HR Wells to substitute for Harry Wells.

Eventually another speedster, Edward Clariss / The Rival, begins terrorizing the city and while his speed doesn’t excel Barry’s it does equal it, and he is also one of Doctor Alchemy’s associates. After Cisco is able to vibe him he locates Alchemy’s hideout. Barry then teams up with Jay Garrick and the two speedsters confront Alchemy. While Clariss fights Jay, Alchemy uses the power of his stone to severely thrash Barry around and cause him numerous forms of physical pain including his body turning to vapour which he is forced to use super-healing to fix but heals as fast as Alchemy can melt him. With Jay unable to aid because of Rival, Caitlin uses her powers to stop Clariss so Jay can take Alchemy by surprise but both Alchemy and Rival escape. While this leads to Caitlin briefly being taken over by her Killer Frost persona the team is able to talk sense into her. However Alchemy secretly planted a tracking device on Barry and Alchemy, unmasking and revealing himself as Julian Albert, uses his tech at C.C.P.D. to follow him back to S.T.A.R. Labs and after hacking the cameras learns his enemy's real identity: Barry Allen.

Doctor Alchemy then makes a big move against Barry by using his stone on Dante Ramon and transforming him into Earth-1 Rupture. Alchemy forces Dante to fight Barry, but Dante defiantly disobeys him. Unfortunately Alchemy doesn’t tolerate this and as he tries to kill Cisco with the stone Dante stands in the way and as he tearfully says goodbye to Cisco, Alchemy reduces Dante to ashes right in front of Cisco and escapes with the Rival. Seeing Cisco lose his brother, Caitlin becoming evil and all these meta-humans emerging because of a grudge Doctor Alchemy has against him for reasons he doesn’t know, Barry finally snaps and travels back in time and stops Eobard Thawne from murdering Nora Allen.

Flashpoint
In what would have been an Flash/Arrow/Legends crossover Barry is now living a normal life in the alternate timeline "Flashpoint" with both his parents alive, he and Iris are still dating but now without all the crazy foster sibling tension and a lifetime of tragedies. Eddie Thawne and the actual Earth-1 Harrison Wells are alive, Joe is police captain and while Wally is now Kid Flash he is a member of an entire team of heroes defending Central City. This team includes a meta-human Black Canary who is the team’s leader, Firestorm who is comprised of Prof. Stein and a still-alive Ronnie Raymond, Cisco whose brother is alive, Dr. Light who is the Earth-1 Linda Park and Wally’s girlfriend who was a thief until she and Wally fell in love and she reformed, and Speedy who was marooned on Lian Yu, and endured 5 years of hell that gave her the skills to become a vigilante. They are also aided by Dr. Wells and his still-alive wife Tess Morgan. Despite the apparent better improvement to the timeline however Eobard Thawne, captive in a carbine prison, warns Barry that Flashpoint will end badly for everyone.

Truer that he knows, in this timeline Damien Darhk is still alive and is at war with Vandal Savage when the immortal tyrant killed his wife and daughter in a botched attempt to assassinate him, viewing him and his Genesis plot as a threatto his future ruling, resulting in Darhk retaliating by killing Savage’s daughter and both have been at war with each other for months resulting in thousands dead. The problem is Darhk is a sorcerer and Savage is immortal so both have been forced to go to extreme length to find the means to kill each other which has only cost countless more people their lives and has put the world on the brink of World War III. Even A.R.G.U.S. is all but powerless to stop them as their body count continues to rise.

To make matters worse Darhk is aided not only by Deathstroke, the world's greatest assassin, but also Sara Lance / White Canary. Similarly Savage’s most trusted ally besides the time travelling Chronos is Roy Harper / Arsenal. ''After the Undertaking in 2013 Sara was presumed to be one of the fatalites but was discovered by Damien Darhk and saw potential in her so he brought her into H.I.V.E. and she trained to become one of their most lethal assassins, and Darhk came to care for her like a second daughter. Simiarly Roy drifted between cities in his youth as a criminal who was found by Savage, his ancestor who fathered a child with one of Roy's ancestors centuries ago, which then starteda bloodline leading to Roy's birth. Geartful to Savage for taking him in Roy became devoted to his ancestor's cause and became his most skilled warrior and second in command. ''

To combat the Darhk/Savage war A.R.G.U.S. Director Maseo Yamashiro and Ray Palmer / The Atom have been gathering a team of meta-humans heroes and villains to fight both adversaries. Despite having recruited Laurel’s team their attempt to recruit Oliver Queen / Dark Archer doesn’t go well as Oliver believes no one can stop Savage and Darhk and that the world will end anyway. Meanwhile the Suicide Squad led by Diggle and Lyla discover a Thanagarian meteorite on Lian Yu but are ambushed by H.I.V.E. and most are killed by Sara and Slade, but Diggle manages to escape. Meanwhile Barry suddenly starts to lose his memories the more time he spends with Iris and Eobard reveals that since he never became The Flash in this timeline, his powers and memories will fade away and the more excessively he uses his speed the quicker they will go.

Things start to go bad when a gang of meta-human criminals led by Caitlin Snow / Killer Frost, Firestorm’s ex-wife and archenemy, attack S.T.A.R. Labs and Wally and Linda die fighting as a result. However this is also a distraction caused by Savage so Laurel’s team doesn’t come to help A.R.G.U.S as he invades it to destroy the Thanagarian meteorite they obtained which furthermore draws the attention of Darhk, and Star City becomes ground zero to World War III. Seeing the dangers of Flashpoint Barry decides to go back and change it but Eobard stops him, having escaped in the chaos, and pulls him out of the Speed Force. Eobard tells Barry he plans to watch in amusement as he loses everyone he loves knowing he is the cause of it all, and then after having his satisfaction will go back and kill Barry as a child anyway since he now knows he failed and won’t make the same mistake twice.

Realizing Thawne won’t let him escape Barry comes to Laurel’s team’s aid but is too late to save Wally and Linda and Caitlin is put in custody, while the other meta-humans are killed by a bloodlusting Thea a side-effect of being revived in the Lazarus Pit by Oliver after Ra’s al Ghul killed her. Barry is equally horrified to learn that Caitlin isn't becoming Killer Frost but is Killer Frost. Cisco then breaches the group including Barry, Laurel, Thea, Firestorm and Dr. Wells, after insisting on coming, to A.R.G.U.S. where most of the building has come down and Maseo is dead and his right-hand man Diggle struggles to hold off the enemy. Despite their attempts to help Savage he unleashes the Staff of Horus and vaporises the entire city. However Rip Hunter teleports them all to safety and informs them of an abnormally large aberration to the natural flow of history and Barry admits to having created the current timeline, but stands by his intention as Eobard’s actions already messed up his life.

However Rip reveals that the Barry that Eobard was obsessed with was one driven by the death of his mother at Reverse-Flash’s hands, whose legacy would inspire Eobard in the future. Meaning that there was no original timeline and these actions are all part of an inescapable time loop and Barry is in fact the one who screwed up history. While everyone becomes pissed at him for his actions Barry promises to change things back once Darhk, Savage and Thawne are taken down. Oliver still refuses to help and upon Barry's insistance he explains the story.

'' In 2013 when Malcolm Merlyn initiated the Undertaking Oliver's wife Samantha Clayton and their son 7 year old son William were among the fatalities. Driven by grief and revenge Oliver then travelled to Nanda Parbat and trained with the League of Assassins under Ra's al Ghul himself and after 6 months became a veteraned assassin. Around this time Thea was ashamed to have failed her father's crusade and Laurel was overwhelmed with grief after losing her father and mother, and believed to have lost her sister, and both moved to Central City for fresh starts where Thea continued operating as Speedy. Laurel was also affected by Harrison Wells' particle accelerator and became Black Canary, and both started a team of heroes comprised of other meta-humans to defend Central City. Back in Starling Cty in late 2013 Oliver returned home and after vengefully killing Malcolm became a vigilante known as "Dark Archer" and became a feared symbol in Starling City and his criminal body count was too exsesive to contemplate.''

As the team strategies Barry, knowing how they both died originally, has Cisco vibe the real timeline and witnesses both their deaths. Rip then sends the team into two with one half seeking out Hawkman and Hawkgirl and sending Leonard Snart / Citizen Cold to retrieve the dagger that can kill Savage. Meanwhile the team also locates John Constantine and he provides Laurel with the anti-Damien Darhk magic tattoo thing so Laurel will be immune to his powers, as everyone agrees she is the bravest and selfless of them. Furthermore while Diggle enlists the aid of A.R.G.U.S. remaining soldiers and Nyssa also provides the aid of the League of Assassins in the upcoming inevitable fight.

For tech support Oliver, Barry and Ray seek out Felicity's aid but to Barry's horror discovers that she is a drunken cocktail waitress in Las Vages. In this timeline Felicity's mother died at a young age and she was raised by her father Noah and as a result had the surname Kuttler instead, and as she hated her first name she went by Meg, a shortened version of her middle name. When Noah was killed in a police shootout she was taken into foster care and didn't have the money to go to college so she descended into the life she'd prayed she'd never get, the life her mother lived. But thankfully she does still have her computer skills. After being approached on the offer she agrees whilst simultaneously flirting with all 3 of her Pre-Flashpoint love interests, with Oliver ironically remarking that in no timeline would he ever be with her. Meanwhile Darhk infiltrates the vacant S.T.A.R. Labs and rigged a Thanagarian meteorite to the particle accelerator as his ultimate weapon to kill Savage, and all they need do is lure him there. However Deathstroke realizes that Darhk's vengeance will end the world and contacts Mari McCabe / Vixen and tips her off of Darhk's super weapon, then in turn passes it to Oliver as she joins their mission too.

Savage decides to end things by having Chronos retrieve younger versions of Darhk’s wife and daughter to lure them to Coast City, where Darhk and Savage’s forces engage in all out war with each other. While Damien brings every H.I.V.E. soldier Savage has every one of his future soldiers from 2166 transported to the present, and both armies engage each other and kill thousands within minutes. Admit the fight the combined forces of A.R.G.U.S. and the League of Assassins engage both armies while Rip transports all the heroes into the middle of the battle. Meanwhile Rip, Mari, Felicity and Wells take the Waverider back to Central City so they can disable Darhk’s super-weapon.

After shooting past Darhk’s guards Felicity hacks into the bomb but as she succeeds Wells betrays and murders her and Rip, then kills Mari by phasing his hand through her rib-cage and reveals he was really Eobard Thawne in disguise and sabotages the bomb to ensure nobody can disable it and makes his way back to Coast City. Just to inconvenience the other heroes and to set the stage for Barry's final humiliating defeat he also breaks Killer Frost out of prison and takes her with him and drops her in Coast City where she fights Firestorm yet again. However Firestorm tries to reason with Killer Frost to if for no other reason than self-preservation to help him against Darhk and Savage as their plans will end the world. Despite Killer Frost ignoring him Firestorm continues to plead, tired of fighting his wife all the time, and tries to force her to regain her sanity by letting her kill him. While Killer Frost has the chance to do so at the last minute she can't do it even when Firestorm practically forces her to do it, and for the first time in years Caitlin's sanity comes back, but she is overwhelmed with grief for what she let herself become, but Ronnie convinces her that she can make it right by helping them stop Savage and Darhk.

As Darhk and Savage meet they fight each other with their respective abilities but amidst it the heroes interfere and Laurel, Cisco, Oliver and Diggle fight Darhk while Ray, Snart, Kendra and Carter fight Savage. However Cisco, Diggle, Oliver, Ray and Snart are forced to deal with more H.I.V.E. soldiers as well as Roy and Sara. Oliver and Diggle successfully kill Roy but Diggle is killed by Sara while Oliver is mortally wounded as Thea attacks Sara out of rage, while Chronos appears and kills Snart and fights Ray. As Barry transports Oliver to safety Eobard reappears, beats the hell out of Oliver, then races Barry around the city before beating him into submission and taunts him about his failure with a front row seat from a nearby building as Barry is too badly beaten to run and his speed has been getting slower because of the timeline change.

Eobard also notes the irony of trying to kill Barry for years and now he is the cause of his own undoing. Meanwhile Chronos several beats and kills Ray while Cisco tries to confront him head on but is also aided by Firestorm and Killer Frost, reluctantly helping out of self-preservation, and while Cisco is still killed Firestorm and Killer Frost successfully kill Chronos. Meanwhile Thea is killed by Sara who is attacked by Nyssa and the two Pre-Flashpoint lovers kill each other. Elsewhere Carter has been killed as Kendra is moments away from sharing his fate until Deathstroke intervenes and dies buying enough time for Kendra to retrieve the Amon Dagger, which she uses to kill Savage. Elsewhere Laurel succeeds in killing Darhk but succumbs to earlier injuries surrounded by Firestorm and Killer Frost.

However before Darhk succumbs to his injuries completely he reveals he rigged the bomb in Central City to his heartbeat and if he dies it will detonate and produce a blastwave strong enough to engulf the planet itself. As the bomb goes off everyone in Central City is instantly engulfed in the blastwave, Barry’s parents included. Within a few minutes the blast wave is visible from China and Eobard taunts Barry about his impending fate, but amidst his gloating Eobard is shot in the back of the heat by Oliver who after apologising to Barry for his parents cruel fates, passes away in Barry’s arms. As Barry runs Kendra watches the blastwave and accepts her fate. Killer Frost insists they run but Firestorm, knowing they’re doomed, simply hugs his ex-wife as she does the same as she finally re-embraces her true Caitlin self and both are vaporized together. After gaining enough speed Barry runs back to 2000.

After arriving Barry spots Reverse-Flash running down the same road he chases after him and, as he feared, the two of them dive into the Allen household where they fight around Nora Allen as Henry and the 11 year old Barry watch. As the two speedsters fight Barry sees his season 1 finale self trying to interfere and, now understanding why, signals him not to interfere and speeds off after his 11 year old self. After transporting him 20 blocks away Barry goes back and as his season 2 finale self tries to intervene, Barry intercepts him allowing Eobard to kill Nora and speed away. As the younger Barry fades away as a result of the timeline change Barry then returns to the present.

Post-Flashpoint
To Barry's joy when he returns home everything is as it should be. Barry then visits Oliver and tells him about Flashpoint and he is quite stunned to learn of how different things were, but this also gives him a new perspective on his own life after learning how differently his life could have been. While Barry believes his life has gone back to normal he finally decides to be there for Cisco and now knowing that Caitlin without the support of any of her friends will become Killer Frost, becomes more supportive of her condition. However he becomes more wary about Wally becoming a speedster as he saw his Flashpoint self die. Meanwhile Doctor Alchemy assembles a large group of a dozen or so individuals uses the power of his stone, the Philosopher’s stone, on them and turns them into meta-humans. Alchemy then reveals that the individuals he's transformed were meta-humans in Flashpoint, revealing he's aware of the alternate timeline, and they will serve as his army in his pursuit of vengeance.

While celebrating Christmas with his family Doctor Alchemy strikes with a new meta-human henchmen, trying to unleash the power of the stone directly into Central City. Barry enlists Jay Garrick to help with The Rival and they confront Alchemy and his minions and he seals the stone in a box he has, which cuases Alchemy to unexpectedly pass out. They discover him to be Julian but claims to be unaware of Alchemy’s actions. Later The Rival hears Alchemy’s voice telling him to go to S.T.A.R. Labs. Cisco then opens the box after seeing visions of his brother, but then Julian starts speaking with the Alchemy voice again and telekencially retrieves the stone, and Barry realizes Julian is being possessed by a seperate entity. With Barry pinned down by Alchemy and Jay too injured to help Wally comes to his rescue while Cisco closesthe box. To get answers the team has Julian be possessed by Alchemy while restrained where he reveals he’s from the future and taunts them of their future fates so Barry and Jay send the stone into the Speed Force but a side-effect sends Barry into the future and he sees Iris die at Alchemy’s hands, prompting him to try and change the future as he and Cisco travel to the future and record key dates.

After Doctor Alchemy’s disappearance and weeks of trying to change the future and despite changing some events but not Iris' death, The Rival makes another attack at both Flashes but is eventually defeated and locked up in the pipeline this time. However the team realizes that if they keep Clariss locked up then Alchemy will most likely kill him when he returns but can’t simply set him free either. Instead they have Jay Garrick transport Clariss to a prison on Earth-3 to spare him from death when Doctor Alchemy makes his return. When transported there Clariss vows that he will escape one day and kill the entire Flash family starting with Jay Garrick, hinting towards their comic rivalry.

Meanwhile Wally and Jesse’s romance begins to blossom but both are conflicted because they live on parallel Earths and on both Earths are speedsters with responsibilities. After several recurring trips between Earths both do eventually realize that they either won’t work out or one needs to move to the other Earth. While Jesse initially believes she should move to Earth-1 Wally instead decides that once Alchemy is dealt with, he’ll move to Earth-2 instead as Jesse can’t abandon Earth-2 and Earth-1 already has Barry to protect it. While Harry is, obviously, sceptical about his daughter dating Joe and Iris, though sad, give their approval as they want Wally to be happy.

However the team worries when Doctor Alchemy apparently resurfaces though they see him side-by-side with Julian but this new Alchemy also has the Philosopher’s stone which he begins using to transform people into meta-humans. When Barry unmasks him he is not Julian but a C.C.P.D. officer named Alexander Petrov and claims the stone simply appeared out of thin air one day, and discovered what it could do and start using it for his own gain. During a fight Barry turns the stone around on Petrov and uses it to vaporise him into dust, in a slight fit of rage trying to prevent Iris death, believing it may be Petrov not the real Alchemy he saw killed Iris, and then like before sends the stone into the Speed Force hoping to never see it again.

Things also get interesting when Captain Cold makes a surprise return, as I’m hoping something in Legends brings him back to life for real, and continues his criminal ways and with his sister Golden Glider assembles a team of villains including Mirror Master, Weather Wizard, Top and Dr. Light to steal whatever they want called “The Rouges”. While the Rouges are effective in stopping The Flash the first time they fight they quickly succumb to fighting amongst themselves. They also question why they're taking orders from Captain Cold when they are all meta-humans. However as they attemtpt a coup Leonard and Lisa quickly get the drop on them by surprising them, already anticipating a betrayal. After a heated stand-off they fall back in line.

The second time Barry goes up against them he brings Wally along and the odds are far more even and they defeat the Rouges though very slimly. Kid Flash also hints an attraction to Earth-2 Linda / Dr. Light, much to her surprise and confusion, though his feelings obviously still lie with Jesse. After defeating the Rouges Barry feels uneasy since he didn’t see anything of a Rouges attack on the newspaper and he and Cisco vibe their way there, but see the newspaper is different with record of a Rouges attack. While Barry is pleased to see the future is changing he is also worried that his alterations are only causing other threats to take their place, supported by the fact that Iris' death still occurs despite their alterations already.

Additionally Barry is confronted by another version of Eobard Thawne, this version who has had his first meeting with Barry but has yet to kill Nora, and both fight another speedster battle around the city which ends with Eobard’s defeat and lockup at S.T.A.R. Labs. While Barry knows Thawne needs to be sent back to his time he inquires him about his future, the year 2195 (I presume since Eobard has the appearance of a man in his 40s), and what he knows about him or his ally's. Eobard tells Barry about some of his victories and also mentions a crisis in 2024 written by Iris West-Allen. Pleased to hear this Barry sends Eobard back to his time where he vows to return yet again, as Barry promises to always be there to stop him, but Barry begins to have false hope that that perhaps Iris’ death won’t happen after all, since Iris was still alive by 2024 in Eobard’s time. However the newspaper still reads Julie Greer.

Cisco is approached by Gypsy asking him to come to Earth-19 as there is someone she needs him to meet. Confused but happy to comply Cisco travels with Gypsy to Earth-19 to meet this person but unfortunately just hours later the portal into the Speed Force opens again and the stone falls back out of it and the spirit of Alchemy possesses Julian once more and forces him to be Doctor Alchemy once more. For this first move he uses the Philosopher’s stone on Wally and Caitlin and while they are already meta-humans their powers are still developing, and the stone accelerates this process. Caitlin subsequently turns full Killer Frost and is pushed off the deep end and Wally is driven insane from the suddenly Speed Force boost and becomes Kid Zoom, and both are now Alchemy’s unwilling servants and forces them to attack Barry while he uses the stone to create an army of meta-humans. However Alchemy completes his original plan and creates a large group of meta-humans. After doing so Alchemy uses the stone on Barry and forces him to relive the Flashpoint timeline and he realizes all of Alchemy’s meta-human minions, were meta-humans in Flashpoint and have now been brainwashed into embracing their Flashpoint selves where most were criminals, where as in both Pre-Flashpoint and Post-Flashpoint they were normal civilians.

Doctor Alchemy, with Caitlin and Wally by his side, uses his new army to invade and take over S.T.A.R. Labs forcing the team to abandon the facility as it is heavily ravaged and Doctor Alchemy subsequently creates a force-field to keep them out. As Barry tries to figure out how to stop Alchemy without harming Caitlin, Wally or Julian suddenly Alchemy’s spirit possesses HR and he finally reveals the truth: Alchemy is Alexander Petrov, who is in fact the same Alchemy who was tormenting Barry at the start of the season and he explains his story to a confused Barry. ''When Petrov found the Philosopher’s stone he became obsessed with the power it provided and sought to use it to obtain whatever he wanted adopting the name “Doctor Alchemy”, but then The Flash stood in his way. When Petrov tried to use the stone Barry forced it to backfire on him but caused it to transform him into a living spirit housed within the stone itself, and he couldn’t use the stone to fix himself because he’d technically already used it to give himself powers so he couldn’t reverse the effects. ''

''Then Barry threw the stone into the Speed Force where he remained for centuries until he was thrown out by something and landed in ancient times thousands of years ago. There he began possessing people and using the Doctor Alchemy name to rally followers, granting them powers, and pillaged over numerous villages and killed many people and became a feared name. However several shamans designed a casket that would contain the stone and they led a massive army of normal humans against Doctor Alchemy’s meta-human armies. Thousands of ofthese brave rebels died buying the shamans enough time to reach Alchemy, obtain the stone from him and closed it in the box, then buried the box in tomb and buried the tomb itself deep underground hoping no one would ever find it, and subsequently worked on erasing all traces of Alchemy's existance though the power of his stone remain legend. ''

''Over the centuries Alchemy went insane from the isolation and was left with a bitter hatred towards The Flash, and vowed revenge. Alchemy waited until the early 21st century and manipulated Julian Albert into finding the stone and releasing him, using Julian as his medium to create meta-human minions to target The Flash, including The Rival, and with each fight learned more about his enemy and eventually deduced his identity. Now all he had to do was to create an army of meta-humans but to torment him pushed him to fix his life by creating an alternate timeline, by making his own life worse. ''

 Knowing Barry would change it back and with the power to remember alternate timelines Alchemy waiting until Barry returned from Flashpoint. Then he sought to transform all individuals from that timeline, back to their meta-human selves, showing that Barry’s happiness will be the damnation of everyone he loves. While he would have done this several months ago Barry inconvenienced him again by throwing him back into the Speed Force. 'But luckily whatever tossed him out the first did so again and landed him months ahead thereby keeping own past as Alexander Petrov preserved.'' With this Barry horrifyingly realizes that his attempt to stop Alchemy only created him. For this final act Alchemy plans to use the particle accelerator to magnify the power of the stone on a global scale and transform everyone on Earth into meta-humans, at least those who survive the initial blast wave, and watch the already unstable world tear itself apart. Then when the weak have killed each other Alchemy will be there to lead the strong into a new world order, as their god.''

With Caitlin and Wally under Alchemy’s control and Cisco on Earth-19 Barry enlists the aid of Jay and Jesse again while Harry and HR try to infiltrate S.T.A.R. Labs to disable the accelerator while Joe moves Iris out of the city for her protection. As The Flashes confront Doctor Alchemy he forces Wally and Caitlin to fight Jay and Jesse while Barry fights Alchemy uses the stone to torture him in various different painful ways. However a breach from Earth-19 opens and Cisco and a still-alive Ronnie Raymond emerge, as the black hole actually sent Ronnie to Earth-19 where breaching was banned but Gypsy learned of Ronnie's presence on Earth-19 as there is an Earth-19 Ronnie Raymond hence why she wanted Cisco to come visit.

As Cisco uses his powers to stop Wally and Ronnie is regrettably forced to fight Caitlin Jay and Jesse take over with Alchemy while Barry tries to stop the machine with Harry and HR but there is no stopping it. However Harry surmises that if Barry used his speed to throw up a barrier around the inner core of the machine, simultaneously overloading it, then he should be able to push its power back upon itself. While Barry achieves his highest speed it’s not enough to match Harry’s calculations but HR theorises that if Jay and Jesse helped their combined speeds might do the trick. While Jay and Jesse are pinned down by Alchemy he is suddenly attacked by Reverse-Flash, a younger version who hasn’t yet killed Nora, who reveals his time is now a post-apocalyptic hell hole because Barry is meant to fail. While Reverse-Flash uses himself as a punching bag for Alchemy, Jay and Jesse help Barry with creating the barrier and when their speeds are at their peak, the accelerator explodes and while causing all 3 unbelievable pain the barrier serves its purpose and the stone’s power implodes upon itself and destroys it. As a result Alchemy’s spirit is destroyed and Julian is freed as is Wally but sadly Caitlin’s powers have warped her mind and she remains Killer Frost who flees into hiding, much to Ronnie’s heartache.

Afterward everyone celebrates their victory over Alchemy but Ronnie is still at a loss over what’s happened to Caitlin but Barry and Cisco promise him that they will find Caitlin and restore her sanity one day. After Jay returns to Earth-3 Jesse and Harry return to Earth-2 but Wally decides so that he and Jesse can be together, that he wants to move to Earth-2 as well as Earth-1 already has Barry to protect it. Now without Harry or Caitlin, Julian decides to stay on Team Flash full time to substitute in their place. However as Barry and Iris celebrate them changing the future they are still shocked to learn the 2024 newspaper still reads Julie Greer and before either can react, Reverse-Flash appears and kidnaps her. Dragging Barry to the roof of S.T.A.R. Labs Eobard spitefully tells Barry that he promised to ruin his life the same way he ruined his and before Barry can react Eobard phases his hand right through Iris head, like he actually does in the comics, killing her instantly.

This leads to another even more heated battle between Barry and Eobard. As Eobard enters the Speed Force to return to his time Barry follows him through and both land in the wrong time period of 2175 amidst the Thanagarian invasion of Earth, as mentioned in Legends 1x15. Barry and Eobard continue to fight amidst the chaos but Barry is distracted saving people from harm but then sees a man with Eddie’s appearance in a lab coat and someone else calling his name “Eobard”, and realizes he is looking at the Pre-Reverse-Flash version of Eobard Thawne and tries to kill him. However Reverse-Flash himself intervenes and they fight around the young Eobard who is stunned by in awe of what he is seeing, and eventually Reverse-Flash gains the upper hand as Barry is distracted saving more endangered people while Reverse-Flash transports the younger Eobard to safety and vanishes before Barry can continue the fight. Barry is then forced to return home to grief while the young Eobard Thawne has now developed a fascination with his savior, but goes onto wrongfully believe that The Flash saved his life unaware his older self saved him and The Flash was there to kill him. This will in turn send his life down the damned cycle of time travel that will ruin his life.

Back in the present day everyone attends Iris funeral but Barry is left catatonic and becomes more unhinged in the field and towards his superiors at work and eventually Barry can’t take it anymore and against Jay’s protests, travels back in time and just before Eobard kills Iris, Barry appears and snaps Eobard’s neck causing his younger self to fade out of existence, the fight between him and Eobard technically never happened to him now, and Barry happily reunites with Iris. Despite everything now seemingly good again Barry’s troubles have only escalated as he is now confronted by the Black Flash, formerly Hunter Zolomon, who tells Barry that his reckless use of time travel has enraged the Speed Force. Hunter reveals that while Iris wasn’t meant to die in the Pre-Flashpoint timeline her death is a principle point of the Post-Flashpoint timeline, created by Barry, and now he’s altered events past and future by saving her and now the Speed Force has deemed him unworthy of its powers.

However Hunter also reveals his slight manipulation of these events in being present to grab the Philosopher’s stone and toss it back out when it entered the Speed Force both times. Despite this though Hunter still believes Barry is more in the wrong as Doctor Alchemy wouldn’t have done everything he did if not for Barry’s actions, as he could have found much more subtle ways to deal with Alchemy but because he was so fixated on Iris’s death he let consequences be dammed. Barry is then forced to outrun Black Flash but because he is a spectre of the Speed Force itself he is too fast to outrun and right in front of Iris, the Black Flash drains the Speed Force out of Barry’s systems, again ironically, though this also kills him in the process as his life-force is also transferred to Black Flash who takes it into the Speed Force as per his punishment for recklessly using the Speed Force.

After Barry’s death everyone is left to grieve. Iris becomes a recluse only attending work and staying at home in grief while Joe starts to descend into alcoholism, and neither of them can step foot in S.T.A.R. Labs anymore out of their grief. S.T.A.R. Labs is left to Cisco as part of Barry’s will and to honor him and his brother Dante, he decides to rebuild it and renames it “Ramon Industries” and begins selling his tech-apps to the public and quickly becomes a well known inventor in Central City. With Barry dead Wally decides to continue his crusade as Kid Flash to honor Barry’s legacy and atone for everything he did under Alchemy’s control. Sadly however, as Wally is now the only Earth-1 speedster, he and Jesse are forced to part ways so they can protect their respective Earths.

While Iris and Joe are disillusioned Cisco and HR agree that the city still needs a Flash to protect it and they continue serving Team Flash aiding Wally’s heroics instead. Ronnie also decides to remain on the team determined to find Caitlin and help her regain her sanity. To substitute for Caitlin and Wells, both Harry and Eobard as HR isn’t a scientist, Julian remains on the team also. As they are now operating from Ramon Industries they have, as HR intended with the S.T.A.R. Labs Museum, much better cover for their operations. Wally also discovers that the 2024 newspaper while it still reads “Flash Missing Vanishes in Crisis” is now focused on Wally as The Flash using a silver and red suit, hinting he is going to succeed his foster brother one day. It is also once against written by Iris West, but not Iris West-Allen.

HR decides to honor Barry’s legacy his own way by creating the Flash Museum which displays artifacts of The Flash on display, though for security reasons doesn’t reveal Barry’s identity, and also tributes the other Flashes such as Jay, Jesse and Wally. It also has a Rouges gallery display for Reverse-Flash, Gorilla Grodd, Captain Cold and all the other villains Flash has faced and it becomes a popular memorial to the fallen hero. This would also set the stage for the infamous "The Return of Barry Allen" storyline from the comics which I really hope they adapt into the series.

In the year 2195 however the Reverse-Flash emerges from the Speed Force, this version who has still killed Iris and battled The Flash in 2175. Due to the Speed Force he was protected from his younger self’s death via the mechanisms of time remnants but the Speed Force preserved the fight between Barry and Eobard in 2175 thereby keeping his past intact. When Eobard returns he learns that The Flash, as planned, died trying to prevent Iris’ death. However because of this timeline change the Thawne family are now considered an undesirable family of lowlifes rather than royalty as they were previously considered, but is tormented to learn that he can't simply take revenge on Barry as the historical archieve records him dying in 2017 and screams in frustration to have achieved his goal but ruined his own life even further doing so.

Conclusion
So yea this took me forever to write but I have been very disappointed with this season and almost every episode where I've seen a fallout effect of the disappointing Flashpoint episode, I have almost immediately seen an alternative to that same story-line that doesn't involve wasting Flashpoint. Also you might argue that Flashpoint could have only been done in one episode but as shown above, a multiverse of shows with the ability to do crossovers there is no reason Flashpoint shouldn't have received a similar treatment. I might get used to Savitar later but when we're now at 3x13 and I still have yet to be impressed I'm not counting on it. I just hope the producers don't use another speedster next season because that would just be ridiculous. How can he fight non-speedsters? As said above Doctor Alchemy on his own could have been a fearsome threat. Other comic villains such as Abra Kadabra and Cobalt Blue also have big bad potential, and then far later down the track closer to the end of the series then they should have used Savitar. Anyway this is my very long ramble, hope you enjoyed it.