Wally West: (Narration)
It literally goes back a couple of generations. Each generation of Flash started with a bang! Literally! Jay Garrick was in a freak lab accident. Boom! There it is! During the 40's and 50's he was everywhere!
"The Fastest Man alive" Jay Garrick was the world's first Flash.
Then one day this guy comes along, a huge fan of The Flash, wanting to know all about this Jay Garrick, back in those days Jay didn't really hide his identity. He contacts Jay and the two spend hours and hours talking about his adventures and about the accident that turned him into The Flash. This guy even goes so far as to re-create the accident that created the original. But where Jay Garrick's accident was a total freak thing, this guy recreated the accident under laboratory conditions. He set the whole thing up in a lab and tried to make it happen! Result? Still a big explosion! But, lo and behold he becomes speedy Mcspeed-speed himself! Now he's the Flash! Well, not the original Flash but the new Flash... The Flash we all know!
I mean, there's the Jay Garrick Flash and now there's the new Flash. You know, it just occurred to me that they could probably use different names. Anyway ... this time he's even faster than Flash, well the old Flash ... It gave him even more speed!
Wally West:
Okay, so check this! The second Flash is a fan of the first Flash, Jay Garrick. It turns out great minds think alike, cause I was a fan of the Flash, the second one, not the first one. Well, I was a fan of Jay Garrick, the first one after I got to know him. He was a little before my time.
Wally West: (Narration)
Long story short, one day I was in my uncle's house, stumbled across his notebook and got the shock of my life-time! That was the day I found out my uncle was The Flash! Once the shock passed a bit, I kept reading a journal of all his experiences and experiments. Especially the one that made him The Flash, the second one, not the first ...
Dick Grayson:
We get it already!
Wally West: (Narration)
When I found that out, I would kind of keep hinting to my uncle that The Flash could maybe use a partner.
Barry Allen:
No!
Wally West:
What? Why?
Wally West: (Narration)
I tried to convince him that The Flash could use and probably need a partner. I mean come on, by this time Bat's already had Robbie over here and Green Arrow had Speedy. This was a no-brainer. I've got to admit, Flash was a bit resistant at first.
Barry Allen:
No! No partners! I don't want the responsibility.
Superboy:
Does this sound confusing to anyone else?
Wally West:
Just let me finish and you will be confused no more, Supey. So, having seen his journal just like he saw the previous Flash's, I try to re-create the experiment with my own chemistry set. And what do you know? I was able to do it!
Kaldur'ahm:
The experiment actually worked?
Wally West:
Well... not at first, actually.
Iris West:
This is not your fault.
Barry Allen:
Okay ... you can be Kid Flash. But you do exactly as I say when I say it.
Wally West: (Narrator)
The Flash was beyond ecstatic. He couldn't contain his excitement. It was the greatest day in the history of the world. Why you ask?
Dick Grayson:
Just for the record, we didn't.
Wally West: (Narrator)
That's the day the world got Kid Flash.
Wally West:
You. Are. Welcome.
Dick Grayson:
Yeah. We're all thrilled you're so speed-capable.
Wally West:
What's the matter? Jealous?
Dick Grayson:
Sheeyeah, right. Jealous of you?
Young Justice (2011) #5 What's the story?
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