The World of Flashpoint Featuring The Flash

Again this story delves into the story behind the Reverse Flash and how he struck at Barry's mother in the past.  This is one of the most unique and terrifying villains of the DC Universe.  This tale is key to how the Flashpoint timeline came to be.  The following story is about Captain Cold in this new reality.  He is a a criminal who is playing hero to hide in plain sight as the savior of Central City.  He goes by the name Citizen Cold and starts off with a showdown between him and Mr. Freeze.  If you think the DC Cinematic Universe is dark and soulless the Flashpoint timeline is just as dark.  Cold kills freeze easily.  Cold is trying to romance Iris West while worrying about whether anybody has recognized.  Meanwhile the surviving rogues are attempting a jail break and revenge on Citizen Cold.  Wally is working with a mystery character and Iris.  He finds out that Cold is really Snart and the body count rises some more.  If this story proves anything it is that Cold is by far one of the most dangerous Flash characters because of how crafty and tactical he is.  In the end when the truth comes out and most of the rogues are dead the real downfall of Leonard Snart is his own ego.  The death count is high in this but we are only halfway done.

The next story is titled Legion of Doom and is a Heatwave centered story.  Shock value from the get go as Heatwave  kills half of Firestorm until he is brought down by Cyborg.  Once in prison he starts making a plans for an escape and his plan involves an evil version of Plastic Man.  But even with all of the odds stacked against him Heatwave takes out vengeance on individual  cellmates brutally with an homage to American History X.  All of this brutality and mayhem to escape and crash the prison into Detroit so he can take out Cyborg.  But in the end Heatwave didn't accomplish his goal and was sent back to prison.  While in his cell Plastic Man returns.  In another story Gorilla Grodd has taken over the majority of Africa and become a Planet of the Apes style African warlord.  But Grodd is not satisfied with is life and he is looking for meaning and purpose.  

In the final story of this collection Kid Flash is lost.  Bart Allen remembers everything from the previous timeline like Barry Allen.  However he has been captured by Brainiac because he is an anomaly.  However he is not the only anomaly in the timeline there is a new Hot Pursuit who is a female.  Throughout the story we learn that Bart Allen is disappearing like Marty McFly in Back to the Future and it turns out that the new Hot Pursuit is Patty Spivot.   Bart Allen discovers that he has a mission to save Barry Allen and to due that he has to run he runs so fast that he disappears into the speed-force similar to the way Barry Allen died in Crisis on Infinite Earths.