*light spoilers ahead for Flash S1 Finale*

We start off S2 right where S1 left off. Barry runs towards the black hole, in an effort to close the singularity. He does so, but in the aftermath is nowhere to be found, as the rest of the crew outside STAR Labs looks on.



Cut to Barry running as fast as he can, when suddenly, after we hear the roar of thunder in the background, he finds himself in mid-air, with nothing to run on, and falls towards the ground. As he falls, he tries to use his Flash powers to save himself to no avail. He ends up flailing wildly and just before he hits the ground, he finds he’s now just yelling and rolling around in the middle of a city street.

“You okay there, son?” a voice offscreen asks.

“Yeah, I’m… wait, I was running and then I…”



“How’d you get way up there? And that’s quite the outfit you’re wearing.”



Barry begins to stand up, and when he looks around he sees Jay Garrick, the Golden Age Flash, in all his glory.

“Who’re you?”



“Well, son, I’m The Flash!”



Cue Barry “?????” Face as we cut to the Title Card.

The rest of the episode shows a beautiful Keystone City, full with a Flash Museum, and other hallmarks of Earth 2, including Jay Garrick’s wife, Joan, and his life as a Flash whose private identity is known to the citizens of his city. Jay and Barry bond, as Barry asks him all sorts of questions about being The Flash, and Jay chuckles as he passes along pearls of wisdom.

“You mean there are metahumans all over the world?”



“Metawhats? I mean, we’ve got all sorts of superheroes and supervillains across the globe if that’s what you mean.”



Then, Jay gets a call that there’s trouble in the city, and Barry and Jay spring into action. When they arrive on the scene, Barry is baffled when it’s one of The Rouges. Older, and with a few variations on their powers that they’ve seen, but definitely them. The Scarlet Speedsters take on the Rouge with relative ease, and as they subdue him, Barry is amazed by the city’s pure adoration of their Flash.

Emboldened by the knowledge that he doesn’t need to hide who he is, and that he can embrace being a hero and everything that comes with it, as well as learning a few new tricks from Jay, Barry decides it’s time to head home. But how?

“Why not kick the tires on my old Cosmic Treadmill? That should do the trick!”



“Cosmic Treadmill? Oh man. Cisco would have a field day with one of those.”



With a little instruction, Jay bids Barry a fond farewell.

“Think we’ll ever see each other again?” Barry asks.



“They say lightning doesn’t strike twice, but well. Look at us now!” Jay responds. He may or may not even drop a, “Run Barry, run!”



Barry takes off running as fast as he can. As he runs through time and space again, we see glimpses. Cisco tinkering, Joe staring at the window from Barry’s office, Iris receiving an award at city hall, among other visions of a possible future.

Barry focuses, and eventually he appears at STAR Labs on their treadmill in a flash of lightning. The only difference is what is usually an empty lab is now filled with all manner of people in lab coats.

“BARRY?!?!”



Cisco and Caitlin bust in the door to the otherwise empty treadmill room.

“Hey guys! Miss me?” Barry asks jovially.



Both of them nearly tackle Barry off the treadmill, as tears form in Caitlin’s eyes.

“We all thought you were dead!”



“What? I’ve only been gone a few hours.”



Cisco and Caitlin look at one another.

“A few hours? Barry… You’ve been gone for almost 6 months.”



CUT TO CREDITS.

So yeah! I was trying to go to sleep and I couldn’t so I kinda thought where do we go from here? And this is where my brain took me.

The rest of the season of course would be dealing with the fallout of going missing for six months, the launch of the Metahuman Police Joint Task Force with STAR Labs and the CCPD lead by recently promoted Sergeant Joe West, an opportunity for Iris and Barry to explore their feelings for each other without Eddie (with proper time to have mourned his loss), and, oh yeah, the return of the Reverse Flash. But wait, if it isn’t Eobard Thawne, could it possibly be… Eddie? It could also even involve Iris having outed Barry’s identity after assuming he was dead and the resulting fallout of coming back to a city where everyone knows your name, and becoming a real life superhero! Who knows!

Also I thought the introduction of Earth 2, and Jay Garrick might be a great way for them to explain the relation of the CWverse to the CBSverse. Why’s there no mention of Superman in Arrow? Oh yeah, different earth. Also would make it possible for them to open the door to future crossovers and team ups with otherwise unmentioned heroes from DC lore without too much of a fuss from continuity nerds.

Plus if we’re really, really, REALLY, lucky, we’ll see a further introduction to Hal Jordan, hopefully as the ring-slingin’ Green Lantern. Fingers crossed folks. Anyway, I hope you liked it!