Real Name: Walter "Wally" West
Base of Operations: Central City
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 175 lbs.
Hair: Red
Eyes: Blue
Powers: Ablility to move about at superhuman speed, including the ability to "lend" or "steal" speed. Also has the ablility to regenerate almost every wound he'd recieve.
Source of Powers: Mystical field known as the Speed Force.
First Appearance: Flash #150 (1999)
Brief History:
Walter "Wally" West lived mostly the same life as Wallace "Wally" West , only in his timeline he wasn't able to save Linda Park from her death at the hands of Kobra. Driven mad, he was eventually brought back by an encounter with the main timeline's Wally and Linda. Believing them dead, he traveled to their timeline to take Wally's place. Like Wally, he can move at superspeed, metabloze injuries, and lend speed, however, he can also vibrate through solid objects without making them explode, and can steal speed. When the late 20th Century speedsters traveled to the future to deal with the 1,000-year legacy of Cobalt Blue, one did not return: Wally West (the current Flash) who had, unknown to the others, sacrificed his life to end the threat. Walter "Wally" West was unable to save Linda from her death at the hands of Kobra. Driven over the edge by his loss, he found Savitar, who had devoted his life to studying speed, joined him, learned his tricks... including slowing down and redirecting moving objects... and killed him. He then became a wind of vengeance, crippling or killing villains so that they could not harm innocents. He also became a fugitive. Until one day, when, speeding past the Flash Museum, he saw her: Linda, miraculously returned from the dead. In actuality, she was from our own timeline; Abra Kadabra had kidnapped her from her wedding, holding her outside of time so that Wally could not be drawn back the next time he entered the speed force. She had escaped, but returned to the wrong timeline. Obsessed with having found her again, he could not see how frightened she was of his new violent possessiveness, and nearly attacked her, when her own Wally, drawn back to her after all, arrived to protect her. The ensuing super-speed battle was only stopped by the arrival of Kadabra himself. The other Wally found a way to merge their bodies together, also merging their thoughts and strategies, and together they defeated Kadabra. The merging also helped Walter lose his rage. The peace lasted all of about 30 seconds, though, as Kadabra teleported away the moment Walter stopped hitting him and apparently killed Wally and Linda. In the desperate battle that ensued, Walter accelerated his metabolism to heal the fatal wounds Kadabra inflicted on him, aging him 10 years in the process. The battle was a standstill, and Kadabra left to regroup... leaving Walter to disguise his identity with a new costume and travel to his counterpart's own timeline, preparing to take his revenge on Kadabra. Shortly afterward, a new Flash, one whom none of the others had seen in their time-hopping, appeared in Keystone City. Collecting Wally's and his predecessor Barry Allen 's personal effects, he began an investigation... into what, he has not yet revealed. Upon his first encounter with our era's speedsters, he was evasive, until finally choosing to reveal his identity to Jay Garrick , the original Flash, so that he could operate in Central City, and to Superman and Troia, so that he could work with the Justice League and the Titans. He has not told any of them his purpose, but all three recognized him and agreed to keep his true identity a secret while vouching for him. The Dark Flash made his home below a lightning-bolt shaped obelisk in front of Central City's Flash Museum, where he had collected information on his predecessors. Older than Wally, faster than the others, able to vibrate through objects and to steal speed, he divides his time between his secret investigations and his public crimefighting. He had also become romantically linked to Central City police scientist Angela Margolin, to whom he revealed that he feels responsible for a fellow speedster's sacrifice. Walter eventually recently revealed himself to Max, Jesse, Bart and Angela as an older, scarred Wally West. No one noticed that his eyes were blue instead of green. The Pied Piper also knows him as Wally, though Walter himself is a bit uncomfortable around him, having recently done something fairly nasty to his counterpart before returning to his senses .And he's admonished Bart to "never, never ask me about Linda!" With Wally and Linda's return, everything seemd fine. Even Walter and Angela could be together, in this universe or in his own. Yet neither Wally nor Walter truly understood how they traveled through alternate realities and Hypertime travel can have the side effect of blending timelines, His continued presence in a timeline not his own was causing realities to merge around him, not in the ordinary subtle way, but both noticeably and dangerously. After a tearful goodbye with Angela, he left, hoping to again find the one timeline that he won't endanger with his very presence.
