Iris West II (Prime Earth)

Thunderheart
Mainstream Universe‎‎, 2011‎-present
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Real Name	Iris "Irey" West II
Main Alias	Thunderheart
Other Aliases	Kid Flash · Impulse · The Flash
Relatives	Wally West (father) Linda Park-West (mother) Jai West (twin brother) Wade West (brother) Wallace West (first cousin once removed/"uncle") Bart Allen (second cousin) Iris West (great-aunt) Barry Allen (great-uncle) See Allen Family for complete family tree
Affiliation	Justice League Unlimited, Flash Family
Base Of Operations	Keystone City, formerly Central City
Status
Alignment	Good
Identity	Secret Identity
Citizenship	American
Marital Status	Single
Occupation	Student
Characteristics
Gender	Female
Eyes	Green
Hair	Red
Origin
Universe	Prime Earth
Creators	Mark Waid · Alex Ross
First Appearance	Flash Forward #2 (December, 2019)

No one can determine my destiny but me. I am a hero. And there's nothing in this world that can stand in my way!

— Thunderheart

Irey West, also known as Thunderheart, is the daughter of the third Flash Wally West and Linda Park. She was erased from history and lost for years in the Dark Multiverse before finally coming home. She also served as the second Impulse, sharing the title with her cousin Bart Allen.

History

Lost

An instant before the Flashpoint altered reality, Irey and her twin brother Jai were sucked into the Dark Multiverse by a tide of dark matter. Wally attempted to save them but was too late. Ten years were removed from history, which included Jai and Irey's birth, and all memory of them was erased. Wally himself was lost in the Speed Force immediately after and Linda forgot both him and her children.

Rebirth

Dark Multiverse

Irey is reunited with her father

Irey and Jai were trapped on a planet in the Dark Multiverse created from their father's fear that he would never see his family again. Wally eventually found his children, only to learn that he couldn't destroy the planet on his own. He agreed to join with the Mobius Chair to save the Multiverse in exchange for Tempus Fuginaut to take Irey and Jai to Earth 0. He integrated them into Earth 0's history and they were reunited with Linda, who had her memories of her family restored.

Legion of Zoom

She and her brother later answered Max Mercury's call from the Speed Force to help him and the Flash Family battle the Legion of Zoom. Irey had a brief exchange with Bart Allen, who accused the other of stealing the Impulse identity. The younger members of the Flash Family figured out that if they disrupt the time-displaced villains' frequencies, they would return to their proper times without any memories of their time among the Legion.

Death Metal

Linda, Jai and Irey took refuge in the Speed Force alongside the rest of the Flash Family when The Batman Who Laughs remade the world in his image. They briefly reunited with Wally when he took the Mobius Chair into the Speed Force to keep it out of The Batman Who Laughs' clutches.

Infinite Frontier

Irey West

After the events of Dark Nights: Death Metal, the Park-West family began to rebuild their lives. Jai and Irey were traumatised by their experiences and had recurring nightmares, but these subsided as the family gradually returned to normal. Wally began to teach Jai and Irey about being a superhero, although he was reluctant to let them in the field, even confiscating Irey's Impulse costume.

Wally took Irey to Terrifictech's Daddy-Daughter Dance, but they arrived to find all the other attendees unconscious. A disgruntled former employee called "Doctor Nightmare" had attacked the dance with sleeping gas and a helmet which allowed him to make nightmares real. He used the attendee's nightmares to rob the vault where Mister Terrific kept the research he considered too dangerous to release. Due to their super-accelerated metabolism, Wally and Irey were not put to sleep by the gas but were unable to use their powers. Wally told Irey to stay in the car while he stopped Doctor Nightmare but she convinced him to let her help and stole the helmet while Wally was still deciding what to do. Nightmare noticed what she was doing and they were forced to flee and hide in a storage closet from the nightmares. Irey suggested she could use the helmet to bring her dreams to life and fight them. Wally sang her a lullaby and she fell asleep, bringing her dreams to life: a human-sized soldier girl action figure, a two-headed bunny, a robot lion, a panda with a mirror in its torso and a gummy dog. They fought off the nightmares and Wally knocked out Doctor Nightmare. Wally took her home as it was late but with their powers restored they stopped off in Paris to dance in front of the Eiffel Tower.

The Flash Family takes on Eclipso

At school Irey befriended another redheaded girl named Maxine Baker, unaware that Maxine was also the daughter of a superhero and had powers of her own. Maxine invited Irey to come to her house on a school night, and when Linda refused Irey snuck out. She and Maxine were kidnapped by Mammoth and Shimmer, who were working for a metahuman child trafficking ring. They gave Irey a powerful sedative to prevent her using her speed. Jai followed them to the kidnapper's hideout and freed them, but they were caught by Mammoth. As Irey could not use her powers, she reluctantly shared the Speed Force with Jai, giving him superhuman strength and toughness to fight off the kidnappers but also causing him incredible pain. Jai defeated the villains but then collapsed, and told Irey he had a vision of their father in danger.

The drugs had worn off, so Jai and Irey combined their powers to take the three of them to Gemworld and they rescued Wally. Maxine also revealed that her father was Animal Man. The kids helped Wally defeat Eclipso but by the end of the fight Jai was in agony and Irey did not have enough power to cut him off from the Force. Wally transferred some of his energy to Jai, giving him a full connection to the Force. With Eclipso defeated, the Wests and Maxine safely returned home.

Dark Crisis

The twins' "uncle" Barry Allen disappeared on a mission. Mister Terrific was able to track him through the Speed Force and found three alternate realities where he might be. The Flash Family gathered at the Flash Museum to go into the Force and hopefully find Barry and bring him home. Irey wanted to help but the grownups told her it was too dangerous. While they were talking Irey jumped into the portal, dragging Jai behind her, before anybody could stop her. The twins landed in a dark city and were confronted by Night-Flash, an alternate version of Barry who believed they were working for his enemy Knives Maroney. They managed to escape him, but in the process Irey lost the beacon they would need to get home.

A kid in a purple suit found them and took them to hide in an abandoned warehouse. They told him that they were from another universe and he told them that Night-Flash was a brutal vigilante who ruled the city as a dictator. Irey volunteered to stop Night-Flash, believing that would prove to the grown-ups that they could be superheroes, and Jai reluctantly agreed. The kid led them to Night-Flash and they attacked him, and even managed to temporarily get the upper hand, but they were shocked when the kid told them to kill Night-Flash. Jay Garrick, who had followed them through the portal, arrived and broke up the fight, but the twins told him that they believed that the kid, not Night-Flash was the bad guy. Night-Flash revealed that the kid was actually his arch-enemy Knives, who aged in reverse. Knives fled and Garrick and the twins returned to Earth 0.

One-Minute War

While the West family was having a barbecue, an alien empire known as The Fraction invaded Earth, crashing their ship into Keystone and Central City. Irey and all other speedsters on Earth were accelerated to top speed as the aliens drew massive amounts of Speed Force energy with them. From their perspective it appeared that everyone else was frozen in place, including Jai, much to Irey's distress. The ship landing levelled much of the city and killed thousands of people, but the West house was protected by Jai pulling a tree in front of them just before the blast wave hit. The Flash Family gathered at the West house, but Barry revealed that Irey's great-aunt Iris was killed when the aliens landed.

Needing a more secure base, the Flash Family relocated to Terrifictech, bringing the frozen Jai and their party guests with them. Meanwhile Irey's cousins Wallace and Bart snuck out and stole one of the Fraction's tanks, which contained multiple frozen metahumans, including Superman. While the adults were working out a plan, Irey sat with Jai and read his favourite comic out loud to him, worried about what would happen. Jesse Quick comforted Irey and told her that her parents would do anything to save her and Jai, and that her heart was full of thunder. Jesse took Irey out to fight and play pranks on the Fraction to take her mind off the situation.

The adults came up with a plan to destroy the Fraction's spire and take away their speed powers, which would return them to normal time. Irey wanted to go with them but they made her stay behind to "stand guard" over the frozen heroes. A hunter working for the Fraction known as Miss Murder tracked Irey to Terrifictech and attacked her, but Superman was able to move fast enough to cause a distraction, giving Irey the breathing space she needed to fight Miss Murder off by using Jai as a weapon.

Irey, as Thunderheart, alongside The Flash

Miss Murder had told Irey that the Flashes had already lost and her father was dead, so she ran over to the spire to save them. She rescued Wallace, Bart and Max Mercury from their guards and told them that she had chosen "Thunderheart" as her new codename. However, Barry confirmed to Irey that Wally had been killed, leaving her devastated. They retreated to the Speed Lab, where Irey and Linda mourned Wally.

Barry came up with a plan to gather as much Speed Force energy around themselves as they could and dump it into the Fraction ship's engine, accelerating it past the speed of light and sending them back in time, undoing everything they had done. However, as Speed Force conduits existed outside the normal flow of time and were unaffected by changes to the timeline, this would not bring Wally back. Barry and Linda chose to keep this from her until after the Fraction were defeated.

The Flash Family made it through the Fraction's defenses. The Fraction's elite warriors were waiting for them and Irey fought Miss Murder again. The Fraction fought them to a standstill, but Wally returned with an army of presumed-dead heroes, providing the distraction they needed to get past them. Irey and the others ran to the Fraction's engine room, where they began running around the engine to summon the energy they needed. The Fraction Admiral tried to stop them, but Wally fought him off and they were able to reverse the invasion. Irey and Linda reunited with Wally, then returned home to celebrate with the rest of the Flash Family and the resurrected heroes from Sanctuary.

Superkids

Irey, Jai and Maxine were abducted by Knives Maroney, Irey's old enemy Doctor Nightmare, and a crew of villains they did not recognise, and taken to the Palace of Eternity outside the normal flow of time. The villains revealed that they were from the kid's future, where they formed the core of a team known as the Superkids. As they had each been defeated by them in the future, they planned to kill them and prevent the team ever coming to pass. However the object Knives had used to kidnap them, known as the Eternity Mind, had also brought their future teammates: alternate versions of Robin and Superboy from another universe; to the Palace. They fought the villains and during the fight Irey was knocked into Superboy, whereupon the two immediately began crushing on each other.

Irey was able to snatch the Eternity Mind from Knives and the group fled deeper into the Palace when Doctor Nightmare summoned a giant dream creature to attack them. After they explored for a while, looking for a way out, Knives spoke to them over some kind of intercom and told them that Wallace had followed them to the Palace and the villains had captured him. He ordered them to hand over the Eternity Mind or he would kill Wallace. The Eternity Mind had the power to summon anything from time and space, which made it too dangerous to let Knives have it, but Jai realised how they could use the Mind against him. They returned and gave the Mind back to Knives, but then immediately began calling on it to summon as much random stuff as they could think of, and attacked the villains again in the ensuing chaos. Irey freed Wallace and he punched Knives out. Robin used the Eternity Mind to send all the villains to jail and wish them home, promising that they would team up again soon.

Linda later gave birth to Jai and Irey's little brother Wade West. On the day he was born he was kidnapped by Granny Goodness and Wally went after them with a team of heroes. Wally returned the next day, but due to time travel months had passed for him and Wade.

Dawn of DC

Beast World

At some point in the month following Wade's disappearance and rescue, Maxine confided in Irey that she had a crush on Jai, much to Irey's disgust.

When the Beast World event began, Irey ran to Barry Allen's house and told him that alien spores were falling from the sky and turning people into hybrid were-creatures. Barry seemed oddly distracted and told her that Wally would fix it, but she told him that her dad was off with the Titans and Godspeed was on a rampage. They ran to Iron Heights where Godspeed had become a hornet-man was was building some kind of hive and trapping civilians in a comb.

After his attempt to attack Godspeed directly failed due to his ability to create temporal clones of himself, Barry took Irey to the Flash Museum where he used the Cosmic Treadmill to send a message through the Speed Force to the rest of the Flash Family and tell them to converge at Iron Heights. Irey said they should also bring in Maxine to help and ran to her house where Maxine was supposedly sick with a stomach bug, but saw that she was not there. She realised that Maxine was with Jai and used her ability to sense other conduits to determine his location. As she was doing that, she sensed that her great-aunt Iris was in danger and Barry ran off to save her.

Irey tried to send a message to Jai through the Force, but due to his unusual connection to it he couldn't make out her words and so she ran to where he and Maxine were. She found them standing around awkwardly after defeating some Godspeed clones and told them they needed to get to Barry and Iris' house. At the Allen house, they found Iris transformed into a cuttlefish creature attacking Barry. The spore leapt out of Iris and tried to infect Barry, but Jai caught it. Maxine scanned it with her powers and when she had determined how it worked Jai crushed it, grossing Irey out.

The entire Flash Family rendezvoused at Iron Heights. Irey suggested that they counter Godspeed's "swarm" of insectoid clones by transforming the Flashes into wolves with Barry as the alpha, but Maxine and Iris both told her that the concept of wolfpacks as a hierarchy lead by an alpha male was actually a myth. Jai suggested also turning the Flashes into insects and Maxine had all the adults voluntarily get infected by a spore; she then used her powers to manipulate their transformation and turn them into bee-people who regarded Iris as their "queen". The "Swarm" defeated Godspeed by vibrating at high speed to create heat, like real bees did when a hornet invaded their nest. This killed the spore inside Godspeed and he reverted to normal. Maxine then set the bees to cure the rest of Central City's transformed citizens, before then changing them back to normal.

The Arc Angles

In the days following the beast plague, Irey noticed that her father was acting strangely. One night she sensed him going downstairs in the middle of the night and followed him. She watched him sit unmoving at the table for an hour, but when she went to talk to him he vanished in a burst of energy and she could no longer sense him anywhere in the world. She went to see what he had been doing and found a stack of newspaper clippings, including one about a young man named "Chad". Thunderheart ran to the abandoned building where Chad had been living and found Jesse Quick already on the scene, following a tip from Barry. Jesse let Irey investigate with her rather than tell her dad what she was doing, and they found Chad's girlfriend squatting in the building. She injected herself with a syringe of Velocity 9 and ran off, and Jesse and Irey chased her to try and stop her before she hurt herself or someone else.

The woman tried to attack them when the gained on her, leaping at them with a knife, but Irey was able to turn intangible and pickpocket the syringe from the woman as she passed through her. The girl ran off again, but Irey could sense the drug's energy signature and track it to the place it had been manufactured. Jesse was amazed at Irey's casual display of prowess with the Speed Force, as these were feats which most adult speedsters would not be capable of. Irey tracked the drug lab to a shack in the farmlands outside of town. Jesse said they should hang back and call for help but Irey rushed in.

As soon as she stepped inside, mirrors dropped down and surrounded her. The Mirror Master emerged from one of the mirrors and threw a grenade at her. Wally appeared out of nowhere and pulled her to safety before the grenade went off. He yelled at Irey for putting herself in danger, but Jesse said it was her fault for bringing her along. Wally calmed down, apologised and hugged Irey, but she noticed his focus drifting again immediately afterwards.

Later, there was a temporal anomaly which caused everyone in the twin's school to freeze up, including Irey. This was an intensely frightening and traumatic experience for her. The anomaly eventually resolved, but Barry and Wally both disappeared without a trace. Barry eventually returned after three days but Wally was nowhere to be found and none of his family, including Irey, were worried about him or cared that he was gone. They simply chalked it up to him being busy with the Titans.

Irey secretly held on to the syringe and a shard of the mirrors, hoping to refine the drug to make it stable and remove any ill effects. She believed that if she could make superpowers accessible to everyone, that could help solve problems of inequality and poverty and prevent crime at the roots. Unbeknownst to her, her thought processes were being influenced by the Rogues, who were themselves working for cosmic beings known as the Arc Angles. She eventually succeeded in stabilising the drug, but this created a ripple in the Speed Force which pushed Wallace and Avery Ho out of sync with reality. In her experiments, Irey discovered that the drug did not, as she had assumed, some from the Speed Force. Instead, it was concentrated from the normal world.

Barry called a meeting of the Flash Family to discuss what was happening and how to rescue Wally. He said that the Speed Force was in spasm but Jesse pointed out that Circuit Breaker's powers were affected as well, meaning that whatever was going on must be impacting the Still Force too. Circuit Breaker said that he believed the Speed Force and Still Force were not separate but were rather both part of the same spectrum. Jai went further, revealing he had been experimenting with the Speed Force and believed that the Speed Force, Still Force, Sage Force and Strength Force were all part of something bigger like an ocean. Irey also revealed what she had discovered about the drug.

Inspector Pilgrim, who Irey had never met before, told them that the Cosmic Forces were an expression of a universal constant; the fundamental dynamic of change, and Barry realised that the Forces were made of time. Max Mercury also revealed that he had had a vision recently and believed that the source of all the Cosmic Forces, known as The Deep Change, was alive and in pain. Irey and the other younger Flashes quickly grew frustrated as the grownups continued to discuss exactly what the nature of the Speed Force was rather than do anything. When Barry said their top priority was to to find out who was behind Wally's disappearance they all ran off to find and bring in the Rogues. However, they discovered that the Rogues had been destroyed by whoever had been controlling them. Irey found the Folded Man, now a mentally broken homeless man, in an alley; endlessly folding origami swans and muttering the word "fold" over and over.

Jai and Irey were suddenly able to sense Wally again, as the Arc Angle's weapon known as the Crown of Thawnes left his body and was no longer blocking him from their senses. The Flash Family followed Wally to the Source Wall, where they battled the Arc Angles. Irey also shot the Rogues up with the speed drug, giving them temporary super-speed that allowed them to follow and join the fight. The Rogues eagerly agreed, as they were spoiling for a chance to take revenge on the Arc Angles. The Crown managed to penetrate The Source and began to poison the Deep Change, causing time to slow to a standstill throughout the Multiverse. Irey and the others each transferred their energy to Wally, allowing him to chase the Crown into The Source and try to stop it.

Barry and Wally were able to cut the Crown out, and Wally attempted to fuse with The Deep Change to heal it. The Arc Angle captured the Wests to try and get him to stop, but he rescued them leaving the Arc Angles physically shattered. The Arc Angles began to reform, but then the Deep Change awoke. It restored the West's damaged emotional bonds and fused the Arc Angles into a crystal. With the Deep Change's guidance, Jai was able to transform the Arc Angles into a new breed of Stillness, who left to explore the cosmos.

Wally sensed that the Deep Change was still in pain and Linda recognised the pain as labour, meaning the Deep Change was about to have a "baby". Irey freaked out about this but the rest of her family accepted it calmly. Linda said that all they could do was offer support, and together they placed their hands on the Deep Change. The Deep Change "gave birth" and teleported the Flash Family back to the Flash Museum in the instant after they left. It sent its "child" back with them in the form of a dog named "Foxy", altering their memories so that they believed Foxy was their pet who they had owned for years.

Absolute Power

As soon as they returned to Earth, the Flash Family started receiving report from their friends that Amanda Waller was making a big move against superheroes. The Bureau of Sovereignty was flooding the media with misinformation and AI-generated footage of superheroes attacking civilians, prompting widespread fear and violence towards metahumans. Maxine called Iris to tell her that her father had been attacked by an angry mob. The heroes went out to save as many people as possible to create a counter-narrative, grouped together for safety. Unfortunately this was what Waller had planned. The Flash Family were ambushed by an Amazo android called Velocity, who stole their powers and arrested them.

The Bureau of Sovereingty were ultimately defeated and the Flash Family were freed from prison. The Amazos were destroyed and the stolen powers largely restored to their rightful owners. However, Barry lost his powers when he was caught at ground zero of an exploding Transmatter Portal.

All In

Wally took the family on a camping trip to Skartaris to recuperate after the events of Absolute Power. When they arrived he revealed that Warlord had reached out to the Justice League for help with stopping Weather Wizard, who had come to Skartaris after escaping prison. As Weather Wizard was considered a joke Wally saw this as little more than a fun family activity. Irey however was annoyed that their "mission" was to capture the "worst villain ever" and snuck away. She stole Wally's Justice League ID card and used it to Boom Tube up to the Watchtower in the hopes of joining a more exciting mission with the League. To her shock, Wally was there when she had just seen him in Skartaris.

The Justice League, including Wally, were busy responding to mysterious natural phenomena and psychic disturbances causing outbursts of violence on Earth. Wally left Irey on the Watchtower while he ran around the world preventing the violence escalating and people being hurt. Irey noticed that all the outbreaks were taking place along the same line of latitude and spreading south, and took over the League's communications to tell Wally this, but he was also being effected and exploded in rage, smashing up a car. Red Tornado opened a Boom Tube to bring Wally back to the satellite and Irey ran through before anyone could stop her. She ran up and hugged Wally, breaking whatever mind control he was under, and they returned to the Watchtower; however, on the station the psychic backlash had grown so severe that the Martian Manhunter was put in a coma.

On the Watchtower, Wally told Irey that the nature of reality had fundamentally changed since the Deep Change "gave birth" and Earth 0 was sealed off from the Multiverse. He said that his powers were evolving and he believed they may now be limitless. Wally asked Irey if she had noticed any changes, and she unconvincingly claimed that she hadn't. He explained that the other him on Skartaris was not a construct or clone; rather he was the result of Inspector Pilgrim, who Irey now knew was a grown-up Wade from the future, splitting Wally's timeline to create two parallel Wallys, and when the vacation was over they would fuse back together. He asked Irey to go back to Skartarus and help his other self. Irey reluctantly agreed but planned to confront the other Wally for not telling them what he had done; unaware that his memories had been altered and he didn't know.

Irey Boom Tubed back to Earth and ran through the tunnel to Skataris. When she returned to the campsite, from her family's perspective she had only been gone for seconds due to time discrepancies between Skartaris and Earth. She tried to tell Linda what Wally had done, when suddenly a dark cloud gathered in front of Skartartis' unmoving sun, purple pustules erupted on plants and animals and green lightning sparked everywhere. Linda saw a spot where sunlight was still breaking through the cloud and Wally towards it to investigate, but did not return in the time it should have taken to run there and back.

Suddenly, a reptilian girl jumped out of the undergrowth and hurled a spear into Jai, pinning him to a tree. Despite being run clean through the abdomen, Jai survived and was able to rapidly heal himself. Jai and Irey attacked the lizard girl, but she was able to hold them off as she had magic. Wade summoned Inspector Pilgrim from the future and he blasted her away with energy from his hand. He told them that he could not give details of the future away but that there was a source of unprecedented power nearby and the fate of innumerable worlds hung on what they did. Wally returned to camp and Pilgrim yelled at them to look at the lizard girl, who was surrendering herself for execution. Pilgrim teleported away as they turned their heads.

Wally refused to kill the lizard girl and she stormed away in disgust at them. He then told them that they needed to move camp and to stay close his powers had suddenly cut out when he got about a mile from them. As they started hiking Irey was suddenly able to see Foxy as glowing from within with immense energy and realised that he was the source of power that Pilgrim had mentioned. She tried to tell Wally and Linda but Jai stopped her, revealing that he could see Foxy's true nature too, and told her "one super-secret at a time".

The family quickly ran into the Weather Wizard, who had just killed a squad of Skartaris soldiers and their dinosaur mounts. Wally charged at the Wizard and he summoned up a storm around them and Linda and Wade; leaving Irey, Jai and Foxy outside. Irey wanted to break through the storm but Jai said this was their chance to talk about how things had changed recently and they sat down together. They discussed how they could both now see the "glow" caused when something lives and changes, and Irey revealed that she could now see through time and perceive something's entire "story" stretching into the future and past. She also admitted that she had missed talking to Jai since they had been growing apart recently and they hugged.

Jai told Irey that he believed Foxy was the Deep Change's baby, although they all believed that Foxy had been Wally's pet since his earliest days as Kid Flash before the twins were even born. With Irey's ability to see through time she could feel Foxy's story and saw visions of him being present for all the important moments in Wally's life; but Jai pointed out that an omnipotent cosmic being could easily rewrite everyone's memories. He suggested that the Deep Change had chosen the Wests as the best caretakers for its child as their love and connections had helped it birth him. Irey asked if Foxy knew what he really was and Jai said he didn't know, he just wanted Foxy to know he was the "goodest boy".

Irey looked at Foxy's ball, which looked like the Earth, and realised that the problems on the surface formed the points of a seven-pointed star when viewed from above. She told Jai they needed to get to the Watchtower immediately, but as the Justice League had taken the card away from her; that meant they would need to take either Foxy with them to reach the tunnel or have Jai teleport her there and leave Foxy behind unsupervised. Jai refused to do either and so Irey copied his energy signature to mimic his quantum teleportation power. Irey tried to teleport to the Wally on the Watchtower, but did not know how to properly control the quantum wormholes and almost fell out of reality itself. Fortunately, Jai followed her in and saved her. Jai took them to the nearest conduit, which was the other Wally on the Watchtower. Jai immediately recognised the other Wally as a temporal split and calmly accepted it, even though Irey was still angry that Wally had kept it a secret. Jai said he didn't want to leave Foxy alone and was heading back to Skartaris. He told Irey that he would be back in an hour, not knowing about the time difference, and vanished before Irey could tell him that meant leaving her behind for weeks.

Irey told Wally and the JLU what she had discovered; the six hotspots formed six of the points of the star, and the seventh would be out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. They flew there in the Javelin-7 and found an esoteric tower rising up out of the sea and beaming energy into the sky. Doctor Occult was already on the site and claimed it was a magic construct, but then Inspector Pilgrim stepped out of a portal and said it was a temporal anomaly. The two of them began scanning the tower and giving intricate explanations of what it was, and Nightwing identified them both as W.E.S., Wandering Esoteric Smartass, heroes who showed up whenever anything weird happened and gave exposition with big words. Wally had a sudden burst of rage and smashed through a wall, Occult and Pilgrim both simply said "fascinating", which Black Canary said meant they didn't know what was happening.

Suddenly, Linda and Wade teleported in from Skartaris. Linda realised there were two Wallys and yelled at him for what he had done. However, Irey noticed that Jai was not with them and asked where he was. A huge burst of energy blasted from the top of the tower and Wally flew into a rage, blaming his other self for screwing up and losing Jai. Linda tried to calm Wally down but was unable to get through to him, and he began running around attacking the assembled heroes, but not Irey, Linda or Wade. Nightwing sent out a "Vermillion Protocol" alert to the Justice League.

The League Boom Tubed Wally into space and tried to trap him in a stasis bubble. Irey and Linda warned them that it would not work, and as they predicted Wally phased out of reality when they created the bubble around him. They returned to Skartaris using the Atlantean machine, and Jai and Foxy came through a wormhole shortly after. Wally was fighting the lizard girl, whose name was Y'hil, and with Foxy there his powers were restored, allowing him to easily stop her. Linda had gotten Doctor Occult to magically give her the ability to speak Y'hil's language and she told her that her boss Eclipso would not marry her like he had promised and was trying to get her killed. Eclipso admitted this was true and in response Y'hil smashed an ancient Atlantean machine which Eclipso had been using to draw off negative emotions and make himself constantly happy.

All of Eclipso's negative emotions flooded back into him. He pinned the Flash Family to the walls, planning to devour them as he could sense an immense source of power nearby and believed it was one of them. Foxy, blazing with light, attacked Eclipso to defend them and Eclipso realised that Foxy was the power he felt. He engulfed Foxy in his spectral form and escaped through the teleporter. Jai teleported them after Foxy and the rematerialised on the moon. Wally got reports from the League of something emerging out of the sun and racing towards Earth. The other Wally phased into reality in front of them and they agreed that they needed to reunite. They ran around the moon to match their vibrations and merge back together, but the Wally who didn't go on the vacation was destroyed by a blast of energy from space. Eclipso, who had merged with Foxy and become "Heliophage" flew in and demanded the people of Earth surrender or be destroyed. Linda and the kids retreated to Earth while Wally and the rest of the Flash Family waged an all-out war against Eclipso and his supervillain troops on the moon with an army of temporal clones. Due to time dilation the war lasted for years from the perspective of the fighters on the moon, but only fifteen hours for the Wests. Jai would regularly teleport them back to the moon to inspire the troops.

Legacy

Irey West as an adult

In a possible future glimpsed by Doctor Manhattan, Irey joined the Flash Family and became a full fledged superhero as the new Kid Flash. Following an adventure where he became a disembodied consciousness within the Force and began jumping into the bodies of other speedsters across time and alternate realities, Wally West informed his children that he would one day hop into Jai's body. Twenty years after the adventure, Wally fulfilled his prophecy and became Jai, where Irey was waiting for him. She told Wally that his family were safe and happy in the future and that she was happily married. Iris also revealed that she and Jai had grown up to be superheroes themselves.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

• Speed Force Conduit: Iris possesses a connection to the Speed Force, a mysterious cosmic force that pushes time and space itself forward. As a conduit of the Speed Force, all aspects of Iris's physiology are accelerated and enhanced.
  • Superhuman Speed: Iris is capable of moving at incredible superhuman speeds. She was able to cover a distance of several miles in only ten seconds.
  • Superhuman Reflexes: Iris's reflexes are heightened immeasurably, allowing her to dodge or react faster than normal.
  • Superhuman Stamina: The Speed Force grants Iris a great increase of stamina, allowing her to fight or run much longer than the average person. Iris was able to run from the United States to France without suffering fatigue.
  • Superhuman Agility: Iris's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to superhuman levels. This allows her to easily maneuver while moving at superhuman speed.
  • Speed Force Aura: Irey's body is surrounded by a Speed Force Aura, or "friction cushion" - a bubble of space-time accelerated to the same velocity as her. This aura allows Irey to breathe and hear sounds while moving at immense speeds, as well as protects her and anyone who she is running with from the rigorous effects of using her speed, including friction, airborne particulate matter, kinetic impacts, G-Force and the like. Irey has the unique ability to alter the energy signature of her aura to match another speedsters', allowing her to fool sensors and appear to be them.
    • Superhuman Durability: The Speed Force Aura also protects Iris from kinetic impacts, which in turn, makes her much more durable and resistant to injury than any normal human.
    • Telekinesis: Irey is able to sync her Speed Force Aura with Jai's. In this state she is able to pull him towards her or push him away through force of will, cause him to levitate in place or telekinetically "carry" him while running at super-speed.
    • Power Replication: By copying another speedster's energy signature Irey can mimic their unique abilities, such as Jai's teleportation. However, she does not gain their proficiency with those powers.
  • Accelerated Healing: Like all conduits of the Speed Force, Irey is capable of regenerating from injuries much faster than any normal human. This is due to her Speed Force Aura accelerating space-time around her, closing her wounds almost instantly.
    • Toxic Immunity: Due to her accelerated physiology, Iris has a superhuman metabolism which grants her significant resistance to drugs and other toxins, although an overwhelmingly high dose can still effect her.
  • Dimensional Travel: Iris can use her speed to travel to parallel universes, and was able to take herself, Jai and Maxine from Earth 0 to Gemworld in the Sphere of the Gods.
  • Electrokinesis: As a conduit of the Speed Force, Iris' body generates large amounts of the electrical energy that she draws from the Speed Force. This Speed Force lightning emanates off of her, especially when moving at superhuman speed.
  • Enhanced Senses: Irey is able to sense the fluctuations of the Speed Force far more sensitively than other speedsters. She can sense other conduits and determine their exact location, and even get an impression of what condition they are in. She can also taste the "flavour" of their energy signatures and sometimes hear what they are doing from miles away. She was able to trace where a vial of Velocity 9 was manufactured from its residual energy signature. Irey can see Foxy's true form.
    • Enhanced Hearing
    • Precognition: Irey can perceive the "glow" of a being's life and the "trail" of that glow stretching into the past and future.
    • Retrocognition: Irey can perceive the "glow" of a being's life and the "trail" of that glow stretching into the past and future.
  • Molecular Acceleration: Irey can vibrate her own molecular structure at varying degrees for a number of purposes, by adjusting to different frequencies.
    • Intangibility: Irey can vibrate her molecular structure to an intangible state, allowing objects to pass through her. She has great control over this ability, to the point that she can pickpocket another speedster who is passing through her in the opposite direction while regaining solidity, a feat which most adult speedsters would struggle to achieve.
    • Molecular Reconstruction: Irey was able to use the Speed Force to reshape her Impulse costume into her Thunderheart costume.
  • Sharing the Force: Iris is able to use the Force to temporarily grant superhuman speed to others. She was also able share her connection to the Force with her brother Jai to allow him to access his powers.
  • Vortex Creations: Iris is able to create vortices of air by running in circles or rotating her extremities at super-speed. These vortices can be used for a number of effects.
  • Energy Construct Creation: Irey was able to create a duplicate of a beetle from Speed Force energy.

Abilities

• Hand-to-Hand Combat (Basic)
• Pickpocketing
• Science: Iris possesses a level of scientific knowledge and understanding beyond most children her age.
• Survival

Notes

• Iris West II was created by Mark Waid and Alex Ross, first appearing in Kingdom Come #3. However, in the Prime Earth continuity, Iris West II first appeared as part of the New 52 DC Universe in Flash Forward #2 by Scott Lobdell and Brett Booth.
  

Trivia

• Irey West is thirteen and a half years old as of the events of Beast World.
• When she grows up, Irey will be the most powerful speedster ever.
• Irey's best friend is Maxine Baker.
• She has a crush on Superboy.
• Irey stated that she loved Jesse Quick's jacket, later wearing a jacket over her uniform herself, which Jesse loved.

Related

• 74 Appearances of Iris West II (Prime Earth)
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