Name: Bartholemew Henry Allen II, "Bart"
Age: 17
Height: 5'6"
Weigth: 148lbs.
Eyes: Yellow
Hair: Brown

Birthdate: February, 2980
Known Family:
---Barry Allen (grandfather, deceased)
---Iris West Allen (grandmother)
---Don Allen (father, deceased)
---Meloni Thawne-Allen (mother)
---Dawn Allen (aunt, deceased)
---President Thawne (grandfather)
---Jenni Ognats (cousin)
---Wally West (cousin)
---Thaddeus Thawne ("brother", clone)
---Owen Mercer (half-brother, deceased)
Alliance: Crime-Fighter, Teen Titan



HISTORY -

Bartholemew Allen II, or "Bart" as he's known to family and friends, comes from a long lineage of super-speed. His grandfather is the famed Barry Allen, the second Flash, after whom Bart is named. His cousin is Wally West, grandson of Iris West Allen who married Barry. His father and aunt (his sister) are Don and Dawn Allen, the speedsters known as the Tornado Twins. The rest of Bart's family is quite famous as well: Owen Mercer is his half-brother, also known as the second Captain Boomerang, who killed Tim Drake's father. Jenni Ognats, the future Legionaire known as XS, is his cousin, and his mother is Meloni Thawne-Allen, of the Thawne bloodline (who started with Eobard Thawne, aka Professor Zoom and Reverse-Flash) who have hated the Allens for centuries (to come). In the future, where Bart was born (the 30th Century, to be exact), President Thawne had Bart taken from his parents and placed in a virtual reality machine that could keep up with Bart's accelerated aging and metabolism. He was born with super-speed, unlike Barry and Wally and many of the other speedsters, who have all had the Speed Force come to them by "accident."**

At age one, he looked four. At age four, he looked twelve. At this rate, he'd be dead by age eleven. The only person who recognized that President Thawne was actually not attempting to help Bart by putting him in the machine was Iris West, who came to the future and broke her grandson out and had no choice but to bring him back to the 20th Century. She took him to her other grandson, Wally West, the Flash. She knew that he could help Bart with super-speed, and help Wally did. He forced Bart into a sudden, extreme burst of speed that "jump-started" Bart's hyperaccelerated metabolism into normalcy. Bart was cured of his accelerated growth rate, but was still a speedster.


IMPULSE -

Wally could not handle Bart and his extremeness. Bart was extreme in almost every aspect. He acted brashly, had no concept of danger or harm because of his life in the VR machine, and hardly looked before he leapt. He was thick-headed and impulsive, thus earning him the monicker "Impulse" thanks to Batman. Though when he said it, Batman claimed later, that it was never meant to be a name...but a warning. So, Wally, being in no mood or shape or even state of mind to handle being Bart's mentor, passed him off to Zen master of the Speed Force, Max Mercury, a long time super-speedster. And by "long time"...Max originally got his speed powers in the 1800s when a dying Shaman graced him with the power to run with the wind. But that's an entirely different story.

Max took in the young speedster and they moved to Manchester, Alabama, where nothing happens, to live in secrecy as Max Crandall and Bart Allen. Bart spent a few years of his life there, growing up, learning about his speed powers and all that that entails, and making friends and learning the value of friendship and love and family. Many of these lessons...Bart learned the hard way. He came to love Max as a father, the closest thing he's ever had to one because Don Allen was killed in the 30th Century. Helen, Max's daughter, grew to be somewhat of a mother-figure to Bart, despite his numerous adventures with his real mother, Meloni. Bart made friends in junior high school, such as Carol (whom he later developed feelings for, and even shared a few kisses with), Preston, Roland (Rolly), Mike, Wade and Eddie (Evil Eye). One year for Christmas, Bart was given a terrier which he named Dox, after the robot friend he had while living in the VR machine. All of this while he faced and took down numerous villains as IMPULSE!***

INERTIA -



Thaddeus Thawne, one of Bart's greatest enemies, is his own clone "twin" brother. President Thawne, looking to finally destroy the last of the Allen bloodline, took a sample of Bart's DNA and spliced it with pure Thawne DNA and created Thaddeus. He was raised much like Bart was, except that his growth rate was slowed, and he was taught and given a very high intelligence factor. In essence, Thaddeus was stronger, faster and smarter than Bart - and had all of his super-powers. The perfect enemy. Thaddeus became Inertia, the Reverse-Impulse. He succeeded in trapping Bart within a VR machine, like he was when he was born, and took his place as Bart Allen/Impulse. He fit the role perfectly, mimicking the boy's speech patterns, movements and expressions. He even faked compassion for Max Mercury, who had fallen ill as the Speed Force began eating him to the point of near-death. Though the feelings began to grow genuine as he filled Bart's role in speeding Max through the tunnels of the Speed Force in an attempt to reunite the elder speedster with the mystical energy to revive him. At the last second, he revealed himself as Inertia and was about to leave Mercury to die when Bart showed up and saved the day...and Max.



LIFE AFTER MAX MERCURY -

Max Mercury and Bart Allen faced many villains, challenges and obstacles on their journey together. Max grew to love Bart as the son he never had, and Bart loved him like the father he never knew. With Bart as Impulse, Max tried his hardest to teach the boy patience, planning and cool-headedness. He tried very hard. At times he thought he would never succeed. But in the end, Bart learned so much more, and Max admitted that he was very proud of Bart. Max disappeared into the Speed Force not long after that, lured there by a legion of villains bent on destroying the super-speedsters. Thus, Wally, Jay Garrick and wife, Joan (Jay being the original Flash) met and discussed Bart's future. Wally proposed Jay and Joan take him in, to which Joan agreed immediately. Bart, however, did not want to leave, and he and Wally ended up racing and arguing...and coming to terms with one another, understanding each other. Bart agreed to move to Denver with Jay and Joan.

THE SIDE-KICK TEAMS -

During his time as Impulse, Bart co-founded the sidekick team known as Young Justice with fellow teen heroes Robin (Tim Drake) and Superboy (Kon-El). The team grew from there. Bart had numerous adventures with them, including trips to places like Gotham City during the No-Man's-Land and even Apokalips, home of the overlord Darkseid. After moving to Denver with Jay Garrick, Bart was presented with an invitation to the Teen Titans. Wally disapproved of his joining, because of his own status as a former Titan and because of his general disapproval of Bart, but Jay encouraged it. So...Bart went off to join the new Teen Titans - consisting of members Cyborg, Starfire, Beast Boy, Robin, Superboy, Wonder Girl and later, Speedy and Raven.



While with the Titans, Bart would have a number of amazing adventures...and a few tragedies. One such occurance was when Deathstroke, long-time villain of the Titans, trapped Bart and shot him, point-blank, in the knee. Later, the team would find that Deathstroke had been possessed by the spirit of his dead son, Jericho, a former Titan who believed that "children should not wear costumes." Jericho destroyed Bart's patella, and had to have an artificial knee surgically implanted - which was hell on Bart's system because of his accelerated healing. After he recovered in record time, Bart felt it was time to drop the "impulsive"ness he had been carrying and burdening others with, and read the entire contents of the San Francisco Library in a matter of minutes. Because of his photographic memory, Bart retained the vast amount of knowledge (and even took a liking to Mark Twain). He even finished reading in time to construct a new costume, based off of Wally's Kid Flash outfit, and save Robin's life by catching a bullet shot by Jericho at point-blankt to the face. Bart was no longer Impulse, but now Kid Flash.



KID FLASH II -

As Kid Flash, Bart was able to contribute more to his team and his crime-fighting. He was smarter and able to plan, think ahead and no longer leap without looking, as he was previously famous for. He became useful (and even sometimes a little annoying) at siting off encyclopedia-like facts about the enemies the Titans faced and the situations they found themselves in. He really began impressing the people who used to see him as nothing more than an impulsive, patience-destroying kid. In a showdown with a newly-powered Dr. Light, Wally even told Bart...


After being shot in the knee again

SUPER-POWERS -

Bart Allen has many superpowers including, but not limited to the obvious super-speed. Before his knee injury, Bart was able to run around the world, seeing places such as California then Australia, Japan, China, Russia, Egypt, Spain, Florida and then back to Manchester in less than twelve seconds. He could change from his plain clothes to his Impulse costume in 1/1000th of a second. He saw everything in slow motion, and was even remarked by Max Mercury as being so impatient, that "when you flip a light switch, he gets anxious waiting for the light to come on," and then questions why Helen thinks he is kidding. After his injury, Bart could still run close to the speed of light.

Bart was born with his powers, and also cursed with a hyperaccelerated metabolism that caused him to age rapidly (though that has since been taken care of). Though his metabolism also enables him to heal at an accelerated rate. He rarely ever gets an illness or virus that lasts longer than two seconds because his body is able to work it out so fast. He's hungry a lot, and needs to eat a lot due to his metabolism, and he also cannot get a tattoo (which he tried once), as his body apparently sees the ink as an "intruder" and destroys it out in under five minutes. Another testament to his healing ability is how fast he recovered after the knee surgery, and how he hardly stays dazed in a fight after being hit or knocked down or smashed. The pain goes away very quickly.

One of the first things he was taught under Max's tutelage was a power that all speedsters would be lost without - complete self-molecular control. Through training, Bart can now vibrate his molecules at controlled rates. If he is able to vibrate faster than the molecules in a wall, he can pass through the wall and come out on the other side in one piece. He can vibrate through almost anything, including rain and people and fire. He's done this so many times, that the act of vibrating his molecules has become second nature, a sort of reaction or reflex. At a few instances, he was forced to vibrate different parts of his body at different speeds. One time to defeat a gelatinous monster who could match his vibrations, and the second was to pass through the torrential Speed Storm on the way to the Speed Force to save Max's life - an incredibly difficult task that Bart could not initially do.

Bart has a photographic memory...something the other speedsters do not have. Both Wally and Jay were shocked to hear that Bart could remember everything he read or saw or heard at super-speed. Though, despite this, reading at super-speed still seems like it's taking forever...in his words, it feels like it takes a week to read one chapter. This ability allows him to retain a vast amount of knowledge and information. He is also able to speak in super-speed, something that the speedsters do with each other on occasion, for example, while running together. And while on the subject of speaking in "tongues," Bart can also speak Interlac, the language of the 30th Century, where he hails from. His cousin, Jenni (also a speedster), came back in time to visit Bart, and she taught him Interlac, while Bart attempted to teach her English.

While on a visit to the 30th Century to stop President Thawne from firing an orbital ray onto the Earth that would grant everybody super-speed, Bart took a full blast from the ray. Since he already had super-speed, the ray accelerated him so much that he suddenly gained the ability to create "Scouts," as Bart came to call them. They were images, avatars of Bart, that had the ability to travel through the Speed Force to a time or place and scout it out or even interact with the world and change things, change history or the future. They then returned to Bart with the information they gleaned. He created these by asserting pressure onto himself, whether physical or emotional...after enough use, the ability became like second nature. He could create many at a time, there was no limit, as one villain was able to exploit. Though while on the planet Apokalips with Young Justice, Bart sent a Scout to search for missing team members, and they could only watch as the Scout was murdered by a soldier, reduced to a skeleton. This shocked the team members, but had an even worse effect on Bart - he went into catatonic shock and fell into a coma. After he came out of it, Bart used the ability sparingly.


Bartholemew Allen II, or "Bart" as he's known to family and friends, comes from a long lineage of super-speed. He's come a very long way, growing up very fast (literally) and facing challenges and issues that most teenagers do not even think about facing. From Impulse to Kid Flash...and one day he'll take up the mantle as The Flash, the Fastest Man Alive. Bart enjoys that notion...that one day, he'll fill the shoes of the great legend, Jay Garrick, the shoes of his grandfather, Barry Allen and even his cousin, Wally West. The idea makes him smile. As Impulse, he would ask himself "What Would Flash Do?" to remind himself to stay straight and do the right thing. But for now, Bart is happy where he is, fighting crime as Kid Flash, and as one of the Teen Titans. He enjoys a friendship with Robin and Superboy, goes to the movies when he can, groans at pop quizzes, gets nauseous around the girl he likes and thinks Lucas capitalized on the Star Wars series by releasing the prequels. He is an average teenage boy...with the amazing gift of super-speed!

**It has been theorized by some speedsters that the Speed Force is not obtained by "accident," but that the Speed Force chooses someone to bear, and that it is destiny, no matter how many times you say a certain mathematical formula.

***Bart was given a special ring, designed after Barry's, that keeps his Impulse costume super-compacted inside. When opened, the suit comes springing out, allowing Bart a quick change. It is unknown what happened to this ring, as he does not use it anymore.