The Flash was giving his girlfriend's nephew a tour of the forensic lab when lightning laid the kid low, zapping him with just the right mixture of chemicals to turn little Wally West into Kid Flash.
That's how sidekicks are born.
The Kid's penchant for Turkish Taffy and root beer floats made him not much in the speed department. Light left him in the dust; eventually he could only keep up with sound.
Worthless anymore as a sidekick, the Kid found himself a member of a gang at thirteen, the Teen Titans. Fellow sidekick gangsters Robin, AquaLad and Wonder Girl let him tag along out of pity.
Eventually, time travel took its toll on Kid Flash. One day, catching sight of himself in a vortex mirror, he came to the realization that he wasn't a kid any longer. He shed his mask, donated his superpowers to science, and joined the army.
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Just whose army did he join? It better not be the Minions of Evil in Iraq, or take all his money away.
No, he actually fought Saddam in GulfWar, Volume One. Without his superpowers, depleted uranium depleted what power remained, and he's living today (barely) on the government dole in Sasquatch, Oregon.
It was rumored that he joined another army of sorts, the Justice League of America, but it simply is not true. The FBI did plant a superhero in the League with his name in order to get the dirt on Batman, but the real Kid Flash was claustrophobic, so avoided caves at all costs. Plus, he wouldn't be caught dead in a place called Happy Harbor.
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