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Rogues (2022) #1

coldwave or coldflashwave with 59 (interrupted confession of love) and 100 (accidentally saving the day).

Imagine, if you will, a gigantic battle - truly gigantic this time, the entirety of Central City risen up to fight against this new threat (there’s always a threat: army of gorillas? fleets of insectoid aliens? mind-controlled citizens? something, but this time it’s a legion of killer robots intent on reformatting the city to be their own, no matter how destructive that would be), and Barry is leading the charge, Len and Mick at his side.

It’s very much a last ditch effort, and what Barry knows and the citizenry doesn’t is that the robots are jut drones, governed by a single hivemind Queen, and the Queen is burrowed deep into the earth, and if they can’t disable her in time, she’s going to send out a pulsewave strong enough to cause terrible earthquakes. They haven’t been able to get anywhere near her; they don’t know what she wants, how she’s motivated, how to stop her, anything. 

Felicity can’t hack her, Cisco can’t vibe her, their best attempts to spy have determined nothing.

(They even consulted Brie Larson, the Bug-Eyed Bandit, to try to get some insight and if that’s not desperation, Barry doesn’t know what is.)

At this point, their best hope is to try to fight their way into the Queen’s lair and…well, from there, they’re going to need to wing it.

Len and Mick have been told, but they stick around anyway; Len in particular is very protective of his city, and Mick’s not letting Len out of his sight so soon after he got back from the Oculus, and at any rate both of them have been working with Barry on this robot problem for the last two weeks straight. There’s nothing quite like intense life-or-death battles happening on a near-hourly basis to make old resentments melt away and friendships form.

Possibly more than friendships.

Barry hasn’t said anything about it yet, because he’s a coward and after the thing with Iris went south, he’s been scared, and they’ve been busy, and now they’re fighting their way into the big last-ditch apocalyptic battle and he still hasn’t said anything.

He hasn’t gotten the chance.

And, when they get to the Queen’s lair and realize how well-armed it is, how well-protected, how everything they’ve fought up to this point has been child’s play in comparison to this, well, Barry suddenly realizes…he never will.

So, like an idiot, he decides now is the time to tell them. Since they’re fighting, the only way to do it is by yelling his love confession in between punching robots.

“I really -” PUNCH “ - care very much - ” SLAM “ - about you both - ” HEADBUTT “- and I would be honored - ” BAM “ - if you would consider - ” POW “ - maybe -”

“Is now really the time, Scarlet?!” Len shouts back, moving this cold gun from side to side frantically.

“If not now - ” BOOM “ - then when?”

“Let him keep going!” Mick calls.

“I’m trying!” Len shouts. “I’m about to be overcome here -”

“But I’m not done yet!” Barry exclaims, horrified by the thought that he’d never finish the speech he’d worked so diligently on.

Except, just as he says that, all the robots abruptly - freeze.

No, not freeze-with-Len’s-gun sort of freeze, just…freeze. Stop moving. All at once.

And the gigantic carpace of the Queen shifts in her burro beneath the earth, turning and lifting her metallic bug-like head with its large bulbous eyes to gaze upon them, and she opens her gigantic maw and says, “Oh my god! Well? Go on!”

“…what,” Len says flatly. He’s very good at flat.

“He’s proposing!” the Queen gushes. “It’s so cute! I want to see it!”

Barry had not, in fact, been planning on proposing, but as long as the Queen’s attention is diverted, they’re not, you know, dying, so he just…goes with it. He comes up with an impromptu speech which he drag on for as long as he can - citing all the instances he’s ever seen Len and Mick and trying to make it sound super romantic, which honestly he feels he should get an award for because do you know how hard it is to turn “that time you kidnapped my friend to lure me into a battle royale” into a romantic gesture? Really hard, that’s how hard.

But weirdly enough, it works. The Queen is blubbering by the end of it, happy tears, and she keeps repeating, “It’s so cute! So cute!”

Apparently, the Queens of the species have so many drones to do things for them because they have too many emotions. They get distracted.

Somehow they manage to convince her to leave Planet Earth lest she accidentally destroy the beautiful scene, and she takes her drones with her, all but the ones she give them as servants in honor of their impending nuptials. She demands to be invited to the wedding, and they promise they will (with the caveat that engagements can be fairly long).

Afterwards, they look at each other and blink.

“Did we just save the world?” Len asks. “With feelings?”

Flash Rogues edition!

lowkey kinda butcher their character but design is kinda fire

Oh and the child is Axel

Pictures including them:

(Not including Axel Walker)

These are Rogues that I think have them tetas (redo krn gw tolol lupa gantiin deadline)