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The can't-miss crossover adventure continues as Supergirl and the Flash team up to save the multiverse-now in paperback! While the Flash and Team Arrow closed the dimensional rift looming over Central City, they still have plenty of chaos to deal with: Cisco and Curtis are lost in time, thousands of speedster refugees are now stuck on their earth, and a mad bomber is at large. But when Anti-Matter Man arrives on Supergirl's doorstep on her home of Earth-38, it'll be all hands on deck for a team-up of epic proportions to stop him. Picking right up from Green Arrow's Perfect Shot, this action-packed follow-up promises to be one of the most exciting reads of the season as Supergirl and Superman join in on the crossover fun. The heroes from DC's Legends of Tomorrow will feature in the forthcoming third book of this can't-miss trilogy.

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Publié par	ABRAMS BOOKS
Date de parution	26 mai 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781683355724
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.
Library of Congress Control Number 2020931620
ISBN 978-1-4197-3739-8 eISBN 978-1-68335-572-4

Copyright 2020 DC Comics and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
THE FLASH, SUPERGIRL, and all related charcters and elements DC Comics and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
WB SHIELD: WBEI. (s20)
Cover Illustration by Shawn M Moll
Book design by Brenda E. Angelilli
Supergirl is based on characters created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster. By special arrangement with the Jerry Siegel family.
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Disaster has struck on multiple fronts! In Central City, the Flash and Green Arrow only barely were able to stop the nearly omnipotent living weapon known as Anti-Matter Man from coming through a rip in reality to destroy Earth 1. They were too late to save Earth 27, unfortunately, and now Central City is host to ten thousand displaced superspeed refugees from a parallel universe .
Meanwhile, in Star City, a serial bomber destroyed several buildings as part of a plot to steal teleportation technology and high-tech robot bees. Now the city-and Detective Joe West and Team Arrow-must contend with the madcap lunacy of . . . Ambush Bug! Plus, Cisco and Mr. Terrific have been blown out of this world and lost somewhere in time .
Speaking of time . . . The Legends of Tomorrow have had their ship destroyed by a force no one understands. And meanwhile, Owlman-the evil Bruce Wayne from Earth 27-is lurking on Earth 1, preparing to do who knows what . . .
EARTH 1
THE FLASH (BARRY ALLEN)
IRIS WEST-ALLEN GREEN ARROW (OLIVER QUEEN)
DR. CAITLIN SNOW OVERWATCH (FELICITY SMOAK)
DETECTIVE JOE WEST VIBE (CISCO RAMON)
BLACK CANARY (DINAH DRAKE)
SPARTAN (JOHN DIGGLE)
MR. TERRIFIC (CURTIS HOLT)
EARTH 38
SUPERGIRL (KARA ZOR-EL/KARA DANVERS)
SUPERMAN (KAL-EL/CLARK KENT)
MARTIAN MANHUNTER (J ONN J ONZZ)
BRAINIAC 5 (QUERL DOX)
DEO DIRECTOR ALEX DANVERS
GUARDIAN (JAMES OLSEN)
THE LEGENDS OF TOMORROW
HEAT WAVE (MICK RORY)
AVA SHARPE
AND
OWLMAN (BRUCE WAYNE)
TIME BUREAU HEADQUARTERS WASHINGTON, D.C., THE PRESENT
In the privacy of her office, Ava Sharpe squeezed her eyes shut tight and groaned deep in her throat. She was the director of the Time Bureau, a beyond-top secret government organization devoted to policing the time stream and keeping history on track. The pressures that came with that job were almost unimaginable, and usually she dealt with them through a combination of rigid authority and no-nonsense organization.
Sometimes, though, like right now, it felt as though she d been caught in a rainstorm with nothing but an old newspaper for an umbrella.
A part of her wondered if non-clones ever felt so completely overwhelmed. She had been designed and programmed by the original Time Master, Rip Hunter, to be the pinnacle of human perfection, but on days like this, she wondered if maybe Rip had dropped a codon here or there in his genetic manipulation, if the folks who d grown her at Advanced Variant Automation Corporation had goofed up and made her slightly more susceptible to deep, deep frustration.
No, she figured. Everyone felt this way sometimes. In fact, she reasoned, her annoyance was one of the things that proved she was human, albeit in convenient duplicate form. And if she was the height of human development, then maybe her frustration was the apex of all human frustration, too.
Sure, that made sense.
Is it the tuna? a voice asked.
Ava looked up. She d thought she was alone in her office, but at some point, as she d been staring fruitlessly at the insides of her eyelids, Gary Green had sneaked in. Gary was long and lanky, his limbs dangling, as though they knew they didn t belong and would run off on their own at the first sign of danger.
She trusted Gary. She wasn t quite sure why , but she did. What he lacked in competence, he made up for in loyalty and verve.
Is what the tuna? Ava demanded.
Gary swallowed hard, adjusted his glasses, and pointed wordlessly to her desk. A half-eaten tuna on rye rested amid the crumb remains of a bag of potato chips. I lied, he told her. That sandwich was in the fridge for two days, not one. I thought it would be OK, but . . .
Ava grunted and swept the detritus of her lunch into the trash can next to her desk. It s not the sandwich, Gary. It s the situation. Things are out of hand. The time is out of joint , she thought suddenly. Shakespeare. Hamlet . She grimaced. Most people would remember that from high school, or maybe an English course in college. Not Ava. She remembered it because it had been implanted in her brain, along with false memories of a childhood she d never had.
The only memories she trusted for real were the ones she knew she d made herself since rolling off the clone assembly line and working at the Time Bureau. Those were the only ones that mattered. Her work. Her friends.
Sara . . .
Sara, who was missing . . .
Well, uh, Iris West-Allen called, Gary said, wagging a slip of paper in the air. Again.
That s the third time today so far, Ava told him.
And five yesterday, he said, nodding. And four the day before that.
Iris had been calling with increasing urgency for a couple of days now, ever since some kind of hole in reality had opened up in Central City. From what Ava could tell, the Flash had handled that problem. She had bigger issues to deal with. She literally had no time for Iris West-Allen and Central City.
The time is out of joint . . .
What did she say this time? Ava didn t really want to ask, but she knew Gary wouldn t leave her alone until he d delivered Iris s message.
Gary cleared his throat and consulted the paper. Tell Ms. Sharpe that if a human being can move fast enough, it s possible to vibrate one s molecules to the point that one can phase through solid matter. Gary frowned. That can t actually be true, can it?
It is, said the Flash as he vibrated through the wall behind Ava s desk. Flash Fact!
Ava jumped out of her seat. Gary shrieked in a warbling falsetto and slapped at his waist, searching for a weapon that wasn t there.
It s a ghost! Gary screamed. It s a ghost!
It s not a ghost! Ava snapped. Her heart raced as she leaned against her desk for support. You can t just do that to people! she told the Flash.
He grinned under his cowl. Well, you weren t returning our calls. I was in the neighborhood, so I thought I d stop by in person.
Gary turned to run from the room, forgot to open the door, and banged into it full force. Oh! he cried.
Ava sighed heavily. Gary, go put some ice on your face. And don t tell anyone about our guest here.
Pinching his nose to stanch the bleeding, Gary nodded somewhat morosely and slouched out of the office, closing the door behind him.
I m very busy, Ava told the Flash. Make it quick.
Another grin. Quick is what I do best. We ve got some time travel troubles. Two of our teammates have been missing for a couple of days now, and we need to get them out of the time stream, wherever they are. He paused. Well, when ever, I guess.
Ava shook her head as the Flash explained further: While closing the breach in Central City- Which saved the whole world from dying a horrible death, you re welcome -three people had been shunted into the time stream. Green Arrow had been tossed into the near future and safely popped up a couple of hours later. But Cisco Ramon and Mr. Terrific were still missing.
We don t know if they re in the past or the future, the Flash told her. But we figure the Legends can do a sweep through the time stream looking for Cisco s unique vibrational-
I m gonna stop you there, Twinkletoes. Ava held up a hand to shut him up. I can t have the Legends help you because I don t know where they are. Or when, she added quickly. Stupid time travel.
What do you mean?
With a growl of annoyance, Ava snatched up a sheaf of papers from her desk. These are temporal incident reports, she said. Something happened to the Waverider a couple of days ago. The team was in the temporal zone, researching this Flashpoint aberration you told them about. And then we just stopped hearing from them.
The Flash s lips pressed into a grim, set line. No distress call?
Nothing. They just .