hello my name is Ethan Reacher it's been 5 years since the zombie outbreak happened, 5 years since I arrived in this world. When I arrived with the power of the Flash I thought I could be a superhero, do something good with my favorite heroes, go around, save the world. But now, now I'm just running from the dead.
With the power of the Flash I tried to go back in time but I'm not able to go through the Speed Force. I have a connection to it but it doesn't seem to be enough. I tried to go to another universe, I couldn't, however I used my super speed to study to make an antidote, I'm close to it, I just need a guinea pig but can't do that. If I grab a zombie Wanda may have my location. She's been tracking me, I think I'm the last thing alive on Earth because I feel her sometimes looking in my head, trying to take control. For now I succeed in overwhelming her with speed thinking but she is getting stronger and I do not have anything against mind control, let's focus maybe I should just speed blitz one and administer it. Yeah let's try that.
I got out of my hideout which was a fitted-out cave with two exits and traps around so if taken by surprise I have a way out and if surrounded I learned to phase but I cannot just rely on it. I found my target, nobody I know, he is alone and his eyes do not seem to glow. Ok let's go.
I ran, administered it, ran back to hide away. Looking from far away he seems in pain, it might be working but the body cannot be rebuilt from nothing. It stopped moving. I think I did it, the antidote is working but the body being too damaged he died.
Going back to the body I examine it. Yeah, fuck yeah I did it, I fucking did it, it worked. My theory is right, the body was too damaged and died. Ok let's go back and see how much I can make and how I could heal a body that's been dead for years.
(Wanda POV)
What was that? He did something, he is moving but what is he doing? I decided to send Falcon to see what happened.
Looking through Sam's eyes and smelling through what's left of his nose I saw something, smelled something. Is this human flesh? Then I saw a cadaver and ordered Sam to bring it back to me to examine it. I'm sure there is only one thing alive on this planet. How did this happen? Did he make an antidote? What has he done? This running man is becoming more and more dangerous. I will need to go myself, take care of this problem.
(end POV)
I think I heard Falcon flying by, she must have felt it and found the body. Time to pack up and leave. In less than a second the hideout is empty, everything is moved to one of my other hideouts in San Francisco. Not many zombies are there, they moved searching for something to eat so the city is mostly empty.
"Ok let's set everything up and get some sleep. Tomorrow I'm going to need to start working on something to heal the flesh. Ah fuck I'm tired just thinking about it."
Setting up everything, some traps and wires to alert me of movement around, finishing that I can finally sleep. I'm so tired. With the power of the Flash I can stay awake and not eat for days, the Speed Force sustains my body but it's been 5 days since I last slept so now I just want to pass out on my bed.
(3 hours later)
Boom. Fuck it's one of my traps. Running up the building to see what activated it but what I see… fuck. She found me, there are zombies all around the block and fuck she is here looking down at me flying. No time to think I need to run. Fuck taken by surprise she grabbed me before I could react.
"so you are the running man, hello nice to put a face on my future meal."
"Fuck you." I literally spit at her with super speed, breaking her concentration and running on the side of a building under us, looking for a way out i find nothing the only thing i can do is phasing through the mob. It feels like running through an endless sea of bodies. I can't breathe, I need to go faster.
(Wanda POV)
This fucker, he fucking spit at me, this shitstain. Where is he? I look for him, he is running through them like they are not here, the lightning trail behind him, it intensifies. What is he doing now? And suddenly a portal opened and he disappeared. I do not feel him anymore. Where is he?
(general POV)
(2 hours later)
In Kamar Taj we see the Scarlet Witch screaming and raging, looking for and trying spells to locate Ethan but not succeeding.
(Ethan POV)
I did it. I opened a portal to the Speed Force, not stopping, I don't care where I'm going when I heard it, the voice of my mother coming from everywhere and suddenly I was in my home, my mother in front of me.
"Who are you?"
"The Speed Force I presume. I'm Ethan," I responded.
"And how a being like you happened?"
"I don't understand what you mean. I'm a normal man and then I got a connection to you."
"No you're not, you are not even connected to me, you are like me, a being of motion, a being with no limits."
"What? What do you mean? I thought I just had a connection to you, a weak one even, since I couldn't go back in time or go to another universe."
"No you do not understand your power. You are kinda like me but I think I understand. We are speaking together because of our similarities but it should be impossible to interact with another multiverse. However you are young, you have not developed but your potential is infinite."
I feel it. I'm not in the Speed Force, it responds to me, the room, even the Speed Force appearance, searching for comfort, thinking it was the end I traveled to what seems to be somewhat my realm. Fuck I'm some kind of entity that represents motion. What am I supposed to do now? Do I have responsibilities now? Fuck.
"Do not fear I will help you for now. When in need come here and call to that symbol," as she handed me a lightning bolt like the Endless, a representation of her.
"For now rest, you've been running since the start of this conversation and you are not strong enough for that." And with that I passed out.