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It's the crossover event fans have been waiting for, as The Flash joins forces with Green Arrow! When the Green Arrow needs help tracking down a sinister bomber in Star City, speedster Barry Allen is out the door in a flash. But as The Flash saves the day with his friends on Team Arrow, a huge dimensional rift appears over his hometown of Central City-and thousands of refugees with superspeed come pouring out. Can the combined skills of Team Arrow and The Flash's friends at S.T.A.R. Labs manage the chaos long enough to stop the rift from tearing their universe apart? This exciting first installment in the new crossover trilogy promises to be one of the most action-packed reads of the season. Supergirl, Superman, and the heroes from DC's Legends of Tomorrow will be joining in on the fun in books two and three of this can't-miss trilogy.

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Publié par	ABRAMS BOOKS
Date de parution	13 août 2019
Nombre de lectures	1
EAN13	9781683355717
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	3 Mo

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My name is Barry Allen, and I am the fastest man alive. A freak accident sent a lightning bolt into my lab one night, dousing me with electricity and chemicals, gifting me with superspeed. Since then, I ve used my powers to fight the good fight, protecting my city, my world, and my universe from all manner of threats. I ve stared down crazed speedsters, time-traveling techno-magicians, and every sort of thief, crook, and lunatic you can imagine .
With the help of my friends and my adopted family, I run S.T.A.R. Labs, a hub of super-science, and use it as a staging base to keep Central City safe from those who would cause it harm .
I ve traveled to not one but two different futures, and I ve seen the amazing heights to which humanity will soar. In the present, I do everything I can to help get us there .
I am . . .

PUBLISHER S NOTE: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author s imagination or used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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ISBN 978-1-4197-3738-1
eISBN 978-1-68335-571-7

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Cover illustraton by C sar Moreno
Book design by John Passineau
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ROLL CALL
TEAM FLASH
THE FLASH (BARRY ALLEN)
IRIS WEST-ALLEN
VIBE (CISCO RAMON)
DR. CAITLIN SNOW
DETECTIVE JOE WEST
TEAM ARROW
GREEN ARROW (OLIVER QUEEN)
SPARTAN (JOHN DIGGLE)
MR. TERRIFIC (CURTIS HOLT)
OVERWATCH (FELICITY SMOAK)
WILD DOG (RENE RAMIREZ)
BLACK CANARY (DINAH DRAKE)
THE LEGENDS OF TOMORROW
WHITE CANARY (SARA LANCE)
THE ATOM (RAY PALMER)
HEAT WAVE (MICK RORY)
AND
MADAME XANADU

CHRONOCRAFT DESIGNATED WR-2055: THE WAVERIDER STATUS: IN THE TEMPORAL ZONE
Sara Lance, The White Canary, blinked in surprise as Ray Palmer burst onto the bridge of the Waverider , waving his hands excitedly. Wake up! he yelled. Wake up!
The Legends, a ragtag group of time travelers charged with monitoring and protecting Time itself, weren t currently on a mission. Sara was in charge of the team-as in charge as she could be, considering the Legends resistance to order-but this was downtime, so she was lounging, having swapped out her white leather combat togs for a more comfortable and loose-fitting set of relaxation wear from the year 2190. Her dirty-blonde hair spilled over her shoulders, and those same shoulders were actually loose for once, not taut and tense.
Now her shoulders bunched a tiny bit at Ray s intrusion into her peace and quiet.
I wasn t asleep, Sara said irritably, gesturing for Ray to calm down. She hadn t been sleeping in the captain s chair, but she had been so deep in thought that Ray had managed to enter the bridge before she could react. Not good. He was a friend, not a foe, but she prided herself on her constant awareness, her inability to be ambushed. The training that she d endured at the hands of the League of Assassins had left scars both physical and emotional, but one of the benefits to the tutelage of a secret society of ninjas was that you were rarely sneaked up on.
Wake up anyway! Ray cried. Off-mission, he wore stonewashed jeans and a T-shirt from the Rolling Stones Steel Wheels tour kickoff at Toad s Place in 1989. Gideon! Show her that stuff we were just looking at.
Of course, Mr. Palmer. Gideon, the Waverider s built-in artificial intelligence, conjured a series of holographic images. They floated around the central interface node on the bridge.
This is huge! Ray gesticulated wildly at the images. Tall and classically handsome, with a boyish mien and too-perfect hair, Ray exuded youthful enthusiasm to the point of hyperbolic excitement, but there was usually a basis for it.
Sara leaned forward, frowning as she scrutinized the images. She couldn t quite make out what had Ray so riled up at the moment.
They were right! Ray crowed. Barry Allen and Cisco Ramon were right!
Sara clucked her tongue. Did you think they were lying to us?
Ray calmed down long enough to pull a wounded face. Of course not! But they could have been mistaken.
With a sigh, Sara hauled herself out of the captain s chair and paced around the holograms. Time for business, she supposed. For an employee of the government s top secret Time Bureau, there was no such thing as off the clock. Which, she knew, was a pretty bad pun for a time traveler, but it was still true.
So, these images . . . she prompted Ray.
. . . are representations of the data Gideon and I have been compiling, Ray responded. According to Barry and Cisco, the universe we live in has a duplicate, a near-identical twin. Not a parallel universe like the ones we re familiar with, but rather an entire alternate timeline. In that timeline, the Flash went back in time and saved his mother from being killed by the Reverse-Flash, and the temporal consequences were so great that it created something called Flashpoint.
Gideon! Sara called. Reference Flashpoint, please.
A translucent, almost featureless face materialized from thin air, the visual interface to Gideon. I m sorry, Captain Lance, Gideon said soothingly. There is no reference data in the Time Masters or Time Bureau s databases for Flashpoint.
This is what I m saying! Ray said, walking through Gideon s hologram. In our timeline, there never was a Flashpoint. He flung a hand out at the images he and Gideon had projected. According to all this data, though, this alternate timeline actually exists. And when the Barry Allen of that other timeline tried to fix his Flashpoint mistake, there was a knock-on effect-the universe didn t return to its original state. It s like nothing we ve seen before. And there s no record of anything like it having ever happened. When the Legion of Doom created an alternate reality, we were able to set the universe back to rights. But this . . . It s almost as though the entire universe experienced a timequake from inside the temporal zone. It s a singular event, unique across the Multiverse!
Ray was breathing hard as he finished, and Sara could scarcely blame him. As time travelers, she and her team had traversed the length and breadth of the universe, tinkering with Time itself. Occasionally they d glitched up the time stream, but they d always been able to fix it. Now there was another whole timeline out there that someone had tried to fix . . . and couldn t.
What do we do about it? she mused, staring at the data. An entire timeline . . . Do we go back and try to prevent Allen from saving his mother in the first place? Restore the flow of time?
That s what he tried, Ray protested. It didn t work. Besides, I don t even know how we would get into that other timeline in the first place. The Waverider is attuned to our timeline and designed to cruise this time stream. It would be like . . . He drifted off as he cast about for a metaphor.
It would be like being in a boat on one river and trying to hop it over land to another river, Sara supplied.
Ray shrugged. I guess that works. Or doesn t, as the case may be.
She wished Kid Flash-Wally West-were still with them. Like Barry Allen, Wally was a speedster, and he had a speedster s unique perspective on time travel. He was also the Flash s adopted brother and had spent a lot of time with the gang at S.T.A.R. Labs, where the Flash and his crew did all kinds of superhero science. Kid Flash s input could be useful. He d become part of her team a little while back but right now was on some well-deserved R R in the 1960s.
And yeah, Sara, like the League of Assassins would have let you take a vacation when trouble was brewing .
Gnawing at her bottom lip, she considered her options. Was this alternate timeline a threat to their own? Usually, her crew made a point of erasing such mistakes, but there had been occasions where they d been forced to create time instabilities rather than destroy them. Maybe this alternate timeline was a natural part of the order of the vast, unknowable universe. Or universe s .
And maybe these kinds of metaphysical questions were a little much for a simple party girl from what had once been called Starling City.
I m canceling Kid Flash s shore leave, she decided. Gideon, lay in a course for-
The Waverider suddenly juddered, as though it were a sailing vessel that had run aground on a reef. Sara grabbed a handhold and, with her other hand, snagged Ray s wrist to keep him from stumbling away and falling down.
What was that? Ray demanded.
Gideon! Sara commanded. Sitrep!
The ship was still shaking. Sara swung Ray into one of the bridge s seats, then hauled herself back to the captain s chair and buckled in. Gideon! I said sitrep!
Situation report, Gideon began as the Waverider continued its quaking. We appear to have collided with a time bolus.
Now I ve heard everything, Sara muttered. She slapped some controls on the arm of her chair. Route around it.
We appear to be caught within it, Captain Lance.
Groaning, Sara adjusted some more controls. Gideon was an excellent pilot and a terrific resource