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The Flash Vol 6 21

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"Bad Moon Rising, Part Two": F8-3-1459 is able to sneak through the veil around Heliophage and listen in on him briefing his captains, the Rogues. Meanwhile at the Flash army's headquarters, Wally argues with his family, who are worried that the war on the moon has changed him too much; and Jai

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We're meant to be heroes, Wally. Not soldiers.
— Barry Allen

The Flash (Volume 6) #21 is an issue of the series The Flash (Volume 6) with a cover date of July, 2025. It was published on May 28, 2025.

Synopsis for "Bad Moon Rising, Part Two"

F8-3-1459 is able to sneak through the veil around Heliophage and listen in on him briefing his captains, the Rogues. Meanwhile at the Flash army's headquarters, Wally argues with his family, who are worried that the war on the moon has changed him too much; and Jai informs him that it feels like the war is making reality sick. Linda tells Wally that nobody wins in war and that the militaristic attitude he has developed isn't who he is. She has Jai teleport Barry Allen to the moon to try and reason with him. The Wests teleport away to let them talk and Linda tells Wally that they miss him. Wally says he will come home as soon as he can but Jai replies that she means they miss who he used to be.

Meanwhile, F8-3-1459 makes his way through the battlefield back to headquarters to report what he has seen. He is found by Max Mercury, known to the troops as Max Mercy, who carries him back the rest of the way.

Wally shows Barry the carnage of the battlefield and his former mentor is horrified. He tells Wally that Flashes aren't supposed to just wade through mindless violence and carnage, but are supposed to win by being clever and decent and inspire people through their actions. Wally replies that they have already tried being smart and takes him into the bunker, where Inspector Pilgrim is waiting with a group of "Sliders". Wally explains to Barry that his first clone saw Eclipso's true nature in the lowest vibrations of the SpectraVerse and discovered a way to defeat him, but was killed before he could share the information. Barry realises that they are going to try and find out what the other Wally learned in the SpectraVerse. He is initially excited and tells Wally that this is the kind of creative lateral thinking a Flash should be doing, but when the Sliders attempt to enter the SpectraVerse they all die screaming.

Wally calmly explains that it happens every time they attempt the manoeuvre, as something is waiting for them in the SpectraVerse; and Inspector Pilgrim reveals that it was their nine hundredth and twenty-second attempt. Barry is horrified at their callousness and accuses Wally of sending the clones to their deaths just to prove a point, but Wally just dismissively replies that they volunteered. Barry demands his ring back but Wally tells him it was lost with the first clone.

Suddenly Max Mercy, who has refused to do anything in the war but retrieving the wounded form the battlefield, comes in with F8-3-1459. F8-3-1459 tells them that he saw Heliophage tell the Rogues that, rather than smash the moon into the Earth, he plans to move it to block the sun and create a permanent eclipse, transforming Earth into an eternal nightmare of darkness, despair and violence. However, the original Wally is uninterested in anything he has to say except that Heliophage ordered a push on their lines. He orders F8-3-1459 to join the "merge line" and leaves to spawn more soldiers.

F8-3-1459 joins a line of wounded clones who survived their assaults waiting to merge with a single clone called the "Dead Drop", who will then in turn merge with the original so he and all future clones can learn everything they have discovered. He tells Barry that he is sorry that they lost the ring but Barry replies that the ring itself doesn't matter, but to him it represented the endless cycle of stories that make up the Multiverse. He notes that Darkseid was obsessed with the ultimate ending of the Anti-Life Equation, and suggests that the Lord of Apokolips would laugh if he could see the war the Flashes were fighting. He says goodbye to F8-3-1459, addressing him as "Wally", and calls Jai to return him to Earth.

The Dead Drop calls to F8-3-1459 as it is his turn to merge, but he refuses and runs off, declaring that he is "Going rogue".

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