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"Issue Four: The Gallery": It has been a few days since the Beast World event, and Irey West can tell something is wrong with her father. One night, she senses him go downstairs through the Speed Force and follows him. She watches him sit silently and motionless for an hour, and just when she as

Quote1 What lies deeper than time or space? Quote2
— The Flash (Wally West)

The Flash (Volume 6) #4 is an issue of the series The Flash (Volume 6) with a cover date of February, 2024. It was published on December 26, 2023.

Synopsis for "Issue Four: The Gallery"

It has been a few days since the Beast World event, and Irey West can tell something is wrong with her father. One night, she senses him go downstairs through the Speed Force and follows him. She watches him sit silently and motionless for an hour, and just when she asks him if he is okay he disappears without leaving any trace in the Force. She looks over the papers Wally was going over at the table, notices a newspaper article her mother wrote about a dead speedster named "Chad" and darts off.

Wally has once again been drawn to the Gallery of Moments, its serenity helping him deal with the stress of his life. His thoughts again start to drift away, and Wally tries to stop them by literally tying them around a statue. A mysterious voice says that he's the first person it's seen try that; in fact he's the first person it's seen at all. Threads in the air start to coalesce into a humanoid figure.

Irey runs to the building that the article said Chad was squatting in and finds Liberty Belle already there. Jesse tells her that Barry Allen sensed a disturbance in the Speed Force when he visited the building in his civilian job as a crime scene investigator, and asked her to check it out as he and Wally are more focussed on major crises than petty crime committed by desperate people. They hear someone crying and in the next room see a woman, apparently Chad's girlfriend, inject herself with a syringe. She suddenly gains superspeed and runs off, with the two heroes chasing after her.

In the Gallery, Wally tells the voice that the presence of another person should ruin his serenity, but somehow it's not stressing him. He says that the Gallery is the lowest vibration and asks what could be below time and space, to which the figure replies "Concept".

Irey and Jesse try to catch up with the girl before she hurts herself or someone else with her uncontrolled speed, but she is terrified and keeps running away from them. The girl dips into an alley, and when they follow she leaps at them with a knife. Irey goes intangible and allows the girl to pass through her, and is also able to take the syringe from her pocket while regaining solidity; an incredible feat which most adult speedsters would find difficult. Jesse is amazed but Irey doesn't find it exceptional at all. She tells Jesse that she can sense the chemical in the syringe has a connection to the Speed Force and is able to trace it back to its source.

Wally notices that the statues change when he looks away and asks the figure why. It replies that the present is an illusion that cannot exist if he does not observe it; meaning the "statues" are representations of actual people which move to match what the subject is doing in the real world if he is not looking at it.

On Earth 0, Irey and Jesse track the vial to a vacant building outside the city. Jesse says they should hold back and call Wally but Irey runs in headlong. When she gets inside mirrors drop down and cover every wall. Meanwhile in the Gallery her statue changes to reflect what she is doing, but Wally has forgotten who she is and what he should do when he sees her in danger. The figure tells him that if he wasn't letting the peace of the Gallery overwhelm his thoughts then nothing would stop him from saving her. Wally asks how he can do that when he doesn't know where she is, but the figure tells him that the Gallery is not a garden of statues, it's a labyrinth of doorways.

Evan McCulloch, the Mirror Master, appears in front of Irey and throws a grenade at her, then vanishes through a mirror. In the gallery Wally touches Irey's statue and warps to her location, pulling her away from the blast. He yells at Irey but quickly calms down and hugs her, saying he should have been there. Jesse runs off to look for the girl from earlier and tells Wally to take Irey home. Irey secretly holds on to the syringe and a shard of mirror, while Wally's thoughts are already drifting back to the Gallery.

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Notes

  • This issue also carries the legacy numbering of The Flash #804.
  • This story takes place days after the ending of the Beast World event.

Trivia

  • The Central City Key article contains the Lorem ipsum placeholder.
  • Jesse Chambers is referred to as "Liberty Belle" despite wearing her Jesse Quick costume.


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