Post by Doctor Cyber on Jun 18, 2012 12:54:41 GMT -5
Real name: Hunter Zolomon
Alter Ego: Zoom, Reverse-Flash
Status
Occupation: Villain (former FBI Agent)
Martial Status: Formerly married
Legal Status: Citizen of the United States with a criminal record
Group Affiliation(s): Secret Society of Supervillains (former)
Origin
Place of Birth: Richmond, Virginia
Known Relatives: Ashely Zolomon (wife, former)
History
Loneliness. Frustration. Fear. All these were very well familiar to the man known as Hunter Zolomon since a very early age. His father never acknowledged his presence, he would go to work and come home and it was as if Hunter wasn't there. It was his mother that had to act as both a maternal figure and a paternal one. And this, only when Hunter's father wasn't looking.
A lonely upbringing helps develop a very active imagination. Hunter didn't have many friends, and although this never bothered Hunter much during his grade school years, it became more of an issue as the man grew up. He became reserved, suspicious of what others thought of him. His grades were always excellent and this by itself made him an outcast through most of junior high.
Things got better during high school, though. Hunter had finally found something he was good at other than studying.
Running.
He made the track varsity team, even winning a few medals along the way. This helped increase his popularity and Hunter developed something akin to a normal social life. He started making a few friends, and considering he was very physically fit, some girls even started showing interest on him. For the first time in his life Hunter felt... normal.
Except, he wasn't. Thankfully his friends never asked why he never invited them home, or why he was always outside when they were going to pick him out, or why he never talked about his parents. His parents never talked about him, or to him, so why should he bother? His mother would try and be a mother, but only when his father wasn't watching. Several times Hunter wondered if perhaps his father wasn't his father, and that was the reason the man hated him.
The truth would be even darker and the truth came to light during the fateful day when Hunter was supposed to leave for George Mason University. The day of his graduation from high school, was one of Hunter's happiest days in his life... even though his parents didn't even bother to show up. No surprise there for the young Zolomon. The day that he was to leave that house forever was the second happiest day of his life... and also the day that would completely turn his life upside down and give Hunter a purpose.
He returned home that day, being out taking care of some last minute details before he finished packing and left his house for good, just to find police cars surrounding the house and policemen going in and coming out of it.
The police told Hunter the story. His father was the man responsible for the disappearance of five girls the prior summer. Hunter's mother couldn't deal with the guilt of the knowledge any more and she called the police. She told them where the girl was. Hunter's father had buried them behind their garage.
However, that day, Hunter's father came home early from work. He came in and found his wife telling on him. The deed was done and yet he wouldn't let this go without punishing the woman. So he did what every sensible serial killer would do in that situation. He added one more to the tally.
Police came, they surrounded the place. Hunter's father hid in the house and even when surrounded he refused to come out. So, the police went in and they shot him. Just like that, both his parents were gone. Hunter was unsure of what he felt, it wasn't like he even really knew his parents. However, something bothered him. Something bothered him a lot. The authorities were just happy his father was down, that the girls had been avenged.
That wasn't enough for Hunter. He wanted more. He wanted to understand why his father did this, and in doing so, stop anyone like him from ever doing the same thing. After a week, Hunter Zolomon left for college ready to start his new life.
In college, Hunter did very well. He was majoring in Psychology, intending to go for Criminal Psychology. He took any classes available in this area, along with all the courses in Sociology, Criminology and Forensic Sciences. He joined the Tae Kwon Do club, and managed to obtain a black belt. He also joined the track team, yet another event that would have a profound influence in his life.
It was during one of his practices with the team that he met the woman that would become his wife. Ashley. Ashley was talking with some friends that were on the female team, when Hunter ran by. He couldn't take his eyes off her and for the first time in his life he tripped and fell down. Ashley saw this, and immediately her heart became evident at her concern for the fallen Zolomon.
Hunter was unable to run for three weeks and during those weeks, he grew closer to Ashley, the woman having decided to help take care of him. Their kiss was the first time he had kissed a woman in his life.
Both graduated with honors and were accepted into the training program of the FBI. They immediately transferred to Quantico, the FBI training headquarters in Virginia.
It so happened that Ashley's father was top supervising special agent in charge of the Metahuman Criminal Psychology. Pretty much the nation's expert in the study of the Super-Villain mind. He had several papers under his name describing how the super-criminal mind worked. Ashley and Hunter would often go to dinner to his house, just to have him talk hours and hours about the subject. Ashley hated it, Hunter loved it.
Among the cases that they studied during the training was none other than Professor Zoom, who happened to be killed by the Flash, Barry Allen. This case was quite the talk at Quantico.
Both Ashley and Hunter graduated from the Metahuman Behavioral Science Unit, but not before they got married a month before the day of graduation. Ashley's father was Hunter's best man.
Hunter decided to follow in the footsteps of his father-in-law. He became a profiler, specializing in Rogues. Metahuman costumed criminals. Hunter breathed, ate and slept Rogues. He became quite the expert, helping crack the case of the Matter Master in Midway and also the Bug and Byte murders in Pittsburgh. Hunter received a good amount of recognition from helping in these cases and through it all his ego started to grow. He started to think of himself as the best there was in the field, not able to make mistakes. How wrong he was.
One hour. That's all it took. One hour and his life went down the drain, flushed by his own arrogance.
Hunter had joined a squad at Kansas City both Ashley and her father were there already. Everyone was simply stumped by the MO of the crimes. Six people had been electrocuted and thrown from a rooftop. Hunter of course, had the solution.
The connection was that all the victims were at one point members of a small circus in Central City. Another member of that circus was also Lyle Corley, a psychotic villain that called himself the Clown. Corley blamed quite a number of people for the death of his family. They died during a performance with the circus. After doing some time for attempted murder, now the Corley was back and exacting revenge on anyone that was remotely connect to the circus.
They had the Clown's house surrounded. Ashley's father turned towards Hunter and his daughter and asked what his opinion was. Everything pointed at the Clown not having a gun, since his MO was to use 'toys' as weapons. At least, that is the conclusion that Hunter came to and in his overconfidence he decided to dismiss Ashley's doubts about the situation. He convinced his father in law that Corley wouldn't have a gun and they went in.
Funny how one bad decision can change your life so much. See... Hunter was wrong.
Ashley's father was the first to go in, and the first to be shot down right on the face. Hunter was a bit luckier, if it can be called that. The Clown just blew his left knee to pieces with a bullet. Ashley shot the criminal, taking him down. However, the fact remained that Hunter made a terrible mistake and that it's cost his wife her father.
She filed for divorce and the FBI let Hunter go. Hunter had come full circle. He was once more alone, just like he was when he was a little kid. Thankfully, not long after he was released by the Bureau, Hunter received an offer to join the Keystone City Police Department as a profiler for them. Working with the police in their Department of Metahuman Hostilities, his work put him in constant contact with the Flash, Wally West, and the two became good friends. His insight was critical in solving a number of cases, but he always resented being stuck behind a desk.
Hunter was severely injured in an attack by Gorilla Grodd in Iron Heights, when Grodd staged a mass break-out of the prison. The injuries left Hunter paralyzed from the waist down. He asked Wally West to use the time-traveling cosmic treadmill in the Flash Museum to prevent this from occurring, but West refused, saying that he could not risk damaging the time stream. Zolomon then broke into the museum and attempted to use the treadmill himself. The resulting explosion destroyed the museum and shifted Hunter's connection to time. He could now alter the speed at which he could move in time, giving the effect of super-speed.
Zolomon decided that West had refused to help because, unlike the previous Flash Barry Allen, West had never suffered personal tragedy, and thus didn't understand how terrible it could be. With a renewed sense of purpose and determination, obsessed with the idea that he can improve the Flash as a superhero through personal tragedy, Zolomon dons the iconic costume he feels he was destined to inherit. Hunter Zolomon is now Zoom, the Reverse-Flash, and he intends to show the scarlet speedster true tragedy!
At a family gathering with Jay, Joan, Bart, and Iris in attendance, Wally and Linda proudly announce that they're going to be the parents of twins. Congratulations and celebration are put on hold, however, when Keystone City is suddenly rocked by a series of sonic booms. Jay and Wally leap into action and race downtown to discover the origin of these bizarre disturbances. They're confronted by a force moving faster than either of them can see! As Jay is knocked off his feet, the Flash finds himself standing face-to-face with a villain proudly wearing a familiar costume. The new Zoom is behind this chaos, causing destructive sonic booms simply by snapping his fingers. The lightning-fast foe promises Wally West that he will face great tragedy, and he's gone before the Flash can reply. Across town, a frightened Linda finds the Reverse-Flash on her balcony, and he's preparing to snap his fingers one more time.
Intent on forcing the Flash to face great personal tragedy, Zoom holds Linda Park-West in his grasp. Jay Garrick, Impulse, and the scarlet speedster himself are stunned to discover that this new Reverse-Flash is moving at speeds that they cannot match. Somehow, Zoom is able to move faster than the Flash without accessing the speed force, and the villainous speedster seems unable to slow down. Effortlessly fending off the super-speed attacks of the heroes who oppose him, Zoom snaps his fingers and causes another destructive sonic boom. Linda is thrown by the concussion and suffers extensive injuries. After delivering his pregnant wife to the hospital, Wally absorbs speed from Jay and Bart in order to continue the battle with his new nemesis. Their combat takes these fastest men alive across countless miles. Zoom pauses to remove his mask and reveal his true identity, explaining his insane motives to a stunned scarlet speedster. By attacking and destroying the Flash's weaknesses, by scarring him for life, Hunter Zolomon hopes to change Wally West into a more ruthless and determined hero. Zoom then revisits Keystone General Hospital in an instant and returns with a chilling announcement. Linda has miscarried as a result of her injuries; the Flash's unborn children, a son and a daughter, have been lost!
Driven to solve the mystery of this Reverse-Flash's strange powers, Jay Garrick determines that the explosion of the Cosmic Treadmill has granted Hunter Zolomon the ability to manipulate time, a trait that allows him to mimic incredible speed. After developing a profile on the former police profiler, the Flash sets out to bring an end to this madman's murderous quest. He's accompanied by Jesse Quick, who calls out the equation from which her powers are derived in order to grant Wally a powerful boost in speed. The fastest man alive is now moving so fast that time seems at a standstill, and he's able to confront Zoom on equal footing. Their epic battle takes them around the world over a dozen times and is fought in less than a single second. In the end, the Flash forces Zoom into contact with one of the unstable time windows that are the byproduct of his powers and the villain is shocked into suspended animation. Zoom is made motionless and safely incarcerated at Iron Heights.
Zolomon was forced into a temporal anomaly and ended up in a comatose state, continually watching the death of his father-in-law. Zolomon's ex-wife, Ashley Zolomon, replaced him as profiler and spent a lot of time attempting to communicate with him. Due to a car accident, Ashley was hospitalized for some time. It is around this period that Zoom awoke from his coma, out of concern for Ashley. He cautiously chose to remain in his cell, however.
Zoom has escaped from his containment cell at Iron Heights Penitentiary with the help of a vicious and brutal ally: Dr. Barbara Ann Minerva, the animalistic villainess known as Cheetah. While the Cheetah professes to be interested in helping to protect Hunter Zolomon from those that would seek to destroy him, however, she's far more interested in what she can gain from teaming up with the scarlet speedster's fleet-footed nemesis; Cheetah has become consumed by a desire to learn the powers of super speed, and she thinks Zoom is just the man to teach her.
Zoom later infiltrated the already-growing "Rogue War" between Captain Cold's Rogues, the Trickster's reformed Rogues, and the Top's brainwashed rogues. Quickly spiriting his estranged wife Ashley out of danger to the home of Linda Park, Zoom returned to the battlefront to dispatch Captain Cold, claiming that the "Man Who Mastered Absolute Zero" was wasting the Flash's time with his longstanding, self-aggrandizing methods of villainy.
As the Flash and Kid Flash (Bart Allen) attempt to contain the battle, Zoom throttles Kid Flash and threatens to snap his neck in a manner reminiscent of what Barry Allen had done to Eobard Thawne (Professor Zoom). Before Zoom can kill Kid Flash, however, Professor Zoom himself arrives on a cosmic treadmill, with Jay Garrick chained to the front end.
A battle ensues between the two Flashes and Kid Flash against the two Zooms, but in the end, the two Zooms accomplish what they intended. They grab the Flash and jump onto the treadmill. Zoom then forces the Flash to watch their first fight, in which Linda was severely injured and miscarried. Zoom feels that Wally West should be made to focus on the feelings of sorrow and loss from this experience and told Professor Zoom to rewind it so that he could watch it again. But as the scene starts to rewind, West's uncle and mentor Barry Allen appears, riding his own cosmic treadmill and saying that he had been looking for Professor Zoom.
Barry Allen removes West from immediate danger, telling West that he was here to return Thawne to his proper place in time, and that no matter how bad it seems, West could win this if he "just pushes himself a bit". He and Thawne then disappeared through time. Zoom, enraged, begins to run around the world, building up speed, with which he will kill Linda. Wally rushes to catch up, but he is a step or two behind. At the last minute, he realizes what Barry's advice means and puts on a final burst of speed, pushing himself, and hitting Zoom in the back. Zoom falls forward and is caught in the sonic boom which he himself used to kill Linda's babies (this ended up creating a “fissure in time” that restored Linda’s pregnancy as Zoom's future self took the brunt of the sonic boom his past self created, just in time for her to give birth). Zoom runs for the treadmill, but West forces them back to their mutual present. Zoom was last seen slipping into the time stream.
Zoom has become even more psychotic. His failure to make Wally into a better hero…a more ruthless and driven hero, has driven Zoom to become more ruthless himself. Furthermore, he has altered his goal to not only include the Flash, but all heroes. Zoom now believes that in order to make better heroes, he has to become the ultimate villain. He must be cruel, cold-blooded, and malicious. It’s the only way to increase the drive of the heroes.
Alter Ego: Zoom, Reverse-Flash
Status
Occupation: Villain (former FBI Agent)
Martial Status: Formerly married
Legal Status: Citizen of the United States with a criminal record
Group Affiliation(s): Secret Society of Supervillains (former)
Origin
Place of Birth: Richmond, Virginia
Known Relatives: Ashely Zolomon (wife, former)
History
Loneliness. Frustration. Fear. All these were very well familiar to the man known as Hunter Zolomon since a very early age. His father never acknowledged his presence, he would go to work and come home and it was as if Hunter wasn't there. It was his mother that had to act as both a maternal figure and a paternal one. And this, only when Hunter's father wasn't looking.
A lonely upbringing helps develop a very active imagination. Hunter didn't have many friends, and although this never bothered Hunter much during his grade school years, it became more of an issue as the man grew up. He became reserved, suspicious of what others thought of him. His grades were always excellent and this by itself made him an outcast through most of junior high.
Things got better during high school, though. Hunter had finally found something he was good at other than studying.
Running.
He made the track varsity team, even winning a few medals along the way. This helped increase his popularity and Hunter developed something akin to a normal social life. He started making a few friends, and considering he was very physically fit, some girls even started showing interest on him. For the first time in his life Hunter felt... normal.
Except, he wasn't. Thankfully his friends never asked why he never invited them home, or why he was always outside when they were going to pick him out, or why he never talked about his parents. His parents never talked about him, or to him, so why should he bother? His mother would try and be a mother, but only when his father wasn't watching. Several times Hunter wondered if perhaps his father wasn't his father, and that was the reason the man hated him.
The truth would be even darker and the truth came to light during the fateful day when Hunter was supposed to leave for George Mason University. The day of his graduation from high school, was one of Hunter's happiest days in his life... even though his parents didn't even bother to show up. No surprise there for the young Zolomon. The day that he was to leave that house forever was the second happiest day of his life... and also the day that would completely turn his life upside down and give Hunter a purpose.
He returned home that day, being out taking care of some last minute details before he finished packing and left his house for good, just to find police cars surrounding the house and policemen going in and coming out of it.
The police told Hunter the story. His father was the man responsible for the disappearance of five girls the prior summer. Hunter's mother couldn't deal with the guilt of the knowledge any more and she called the police. She told them where the girl was. Hunter's father had buried them behind their garage.
However, that day, Hunter's father came home early from work. He came in and found his wife telling on him. The deed was done and yet he wouldn't let this go without punishing the woman. So he did what every sensible serial killer would do in that situation. He added one more to the tally.
Police came, they surrounded the place. Hunter's father hid in the house and even when surrounded he refused to come out. So, the police went in and they shot him. Just like that, both his parents were gone. Hunter was unsure of what he felt, it wasn't like he even really knew his parents. However, something bothered him. Something bothered him a lot. The authorities were just happy his father was down, that the girls had been avenged.
That wasn't enough for Hunter. He wanted more. He wanted to understand why his father did this, and in doing so, stop anyone like him from ever doing the same thing. After a week, Hunter Zolomon left for college ready to start his new life.
In college, Hunter did very well. He was majoring in Psychology, intending to go for Criminal Psychology. He took any classes available in this area, along with all the courses in Sociology, Criminology and Forensic Sciences. He joined the Tae Kwon Do club, and managed to obtain a black belt. He also joined the track team, yet another event that would have a profound influence in his life.
It was during one of his practices with the team that he met the woman that would become his wife. Ashley. Ashley was talking with some friends that were on the female team, when Hunter ran by. He couldn't take his eyes off her and for the first time in his life he tripped and fell down. Ashley saw this, and immediately her heart became evident at her concern for the fallen Zolomon.
Hunter was unable to run for three weeks and during those weeks, he grew closer to Ashley, the woman having decided to help take care of him. Their kiss was the first time he had kissed a woman in his life.
Both graduated with honors and were accepted into the training program of the FBI. They immediately transferred to Quantico, the FBI training headquarters in Virginia.
It so happened that Ashley's father was top supervising special agent in charge of the Metahuman Criminal Psychology. Pretty much the nation's expert in the study of the Super-Villain mind. He had several papers under his name describing how the super-criminal mind worked. Ashley and Hunter would often go to dinner to his house, just to have him talk hours and hours about the subject. Ashley hated it, Hunter loved it.
Among the cases that they studied during the training was none other than Professor Zoom, who happened to be killed by the Flash, Barry Allen. This case was quite the talk at Quantico.
Both Ashley and Hunter graduated from the Metahuman Behavioral Science Unit, but not before they got married a month before the day of graduation. Ashley's father was Hunter's best man.
Hunter decided to follow in the footsteps of his father-in-law. He became a profiler, specializing in Rogues. Metahuman costumed criminals. Hunter breathed, ate and slept Rogues. He became quite the expert, helping crack the case of the Matter Master in Midway and also the Bug and Byte murders in Pittsburgh. Hunter received a good amount of recognition from helping in these cases and through it all his ego started to grow. He started to think of himself as the best there was in the field, not able to make mistakes. How wrong he was.
One hour. That's all it took. One hour and his life went down the drain, flushed by his own arrogance.
Hunter had joined a squad at Kansas City both Ashley and her father were there already. Everyone was simply stumped by the MO of the crimes. Six people had been electrocuted and thrown from a rooftop. Hunter of course, had the solution.
The connection was that all the victims were at one point members of a small circus in Central City. Another member of that circus was also Lyle Corley, a psychotic villain that called himself the Clown. Corley blamed quite a number of people for the death of his family. They died during a performance with the circus. After doing some time for attempted murder, now the Corley was back and exacting revenge on anyone that was remotely connect to the circus.
They had the Clown's house surrounded. Ashley's father turned towards Hunter and his daughter and asked what his opinion was. Everything pointed at the Clown not having a gun, since his MO was to use 'toys' as weapons. At least, that is the conclusion that Hunter came to and in his overconfidence he decided to dismiss Ashley's doubts about the situation. He convinced his father in law that Corley wouldn't have a gun and they went in.
Funny how one bad decision can change your life so much. See... Hunter was wrong.
Ashley's father was the first to go in, and the first to be shot down right on the face. Hunter was a bit luckier, if it can be called that. The Clown just blew his left knee to pieces with a bullet. Ashley shot the criminal, taking him down. However, the fact remained that Hunter made a terrible mistake and that it's cost his wife her father.
She filed for divorce and the FBI let Hunter go. Hunter had come full circle. He was once more alone, just like he was when he was a little kid. Thankfully, not long after he was released by the Bureau, Hunter received an offer to join the Keystone City Police Department as a profiler for them. Working with the police in their Department of Metahuman Hostilities, his work put him in constant contact with the Flash, Wally West, and the two became good friends. His insight was critical in solving a number of cases, but he always resented being stuck behind a desk.
Hunter was severely injured in an attack by Gorilla Grodd in Iron Heights, when Grodd staged a mass break-out of the prison. The injuries left Hunter paralyzed from the waist down. He asked Wally West to use the time-traveling cosmic treadmill in the Flash Museum to prevent this from occurring, but West refused, saying that he could not risk damaging the time stream. Zolomon then broke into the museum and attempted to use the treadmill himself. The resulting explosion destroyed the museum and shifted Hunter's connection to time. He could now alter the speed at which he could move in time, giving the effect of super-speed.
Zolomon decided that West had refused to help because, unlike the previous Flash Barry Allen, West had never suffered personal tragedy, and thus didn't understand how terrible it could be. With a renewed sense of purpose and determination, obsessed with the idea that he can improve the Flash as a superhero through personal tragedy, Zolomon dons the iconic costume he feels he was destined to inherit. Hunter Zolomon is now Zoom, the Reverse-Flash, and he intends to show the scarlet speedster true tragedy!
At a family gathering with Jay, Joan, Bart, and Iris in attendance, Wally and Linda proudly announce that they're going to be the parents of twins. Congratulations and celebration are put on hold, however, when Keystone City is suddenly rocked by a series of sonic booms. Jay and Wally leap into action and race downtown to discover the origin of these bizarre disturbances. They're confronted by a force moving faster than either of them can see! As Jay is knocked off his feet, the Flash finds himself standing face-to-face with a villain proudly wearing a familiar costume. The new Zoom is behind this chaos, causing destructive sonic booms simply by snapping his fingers. The lightning-fast foe promises Wally West that he will face great tragedy, and he's gone before the Flash can reply. Across town, a frightened Linda finds the Reverse-Flash on her balcony, and he's preparing to snap his fingers one more time.
Intent on forcing the Flash to face great personal tragedy, Zoom holds Linda Park-West in his grasp. Jay Garrick, Impulse, and the scarlet speedster himself are stunned to discover that this new Reverse-Flash is moving at speeds that they cannot match. Somehow, Zoom is able to move faster than the Flash without accessing the speed force, and the villainous speedster seems unable to slow down. Effortlessly fending off the super-speed attacks of the heroes who oppose him, Zoom snaps his fingers and causes another destructive sonic boom. Linda is thrown by the concussion and suffers extensive injuries. After delivering his pregnant wife to the hospital, Wally absorbs speed from Jay and Bart in order to continue the battle with his new nemesis. Their combat takes these fastest men alive across countless miles. Zoom pauses to remove his mask and reveal his true identity, explaining his insane motives to a stunned scarlet speedster. By attacking and destroying the Flash's weaknesses, by scarring him for life, Hunter Zolomon hopes to change Wally West into a more ruthless and determined hero. Zoom then revisits Keystone General Hospital in an instant and returns with a chilling announcement. Linda has miscarried as a result of her injuries; the Flash's unborn children, a son and a daughter, have been lost!
Driven to solve the mystery of this Reverse-Flash's strange powers, Jay Garrick determines that the explosion of the Cosmic Treadmill has granted Hunter Zolomon the ability to manipulate time, a trait that allows him to mimic incredible speed. After developing a profile on the former police profiler, the Flash sets out to bring an end to this madman's murderous quest. He's accompanied by Jesse Quick, who calls out the equation from which her powers are derived in order to grant Wally a powerful boost in speed. The fastest man alive is now moving so fast that time seems at a standstill, and he's able to confront Zoom on equal footing. Their epic battle takes them around the world over a dozen times and is fought in less than a single second. In the end, the Flash forces Zoom into contact with one of the unstable time windows that are the byproduct of his powers and the villain is shocked into suspended animation. Zoom is made motionless and safely incarcerated at Iron Heights.
Zolomon was forced into a temporal anomaly and ended up in a comatose state, continually watching the death of his father-in-law. Zolomon's ex-wife, Ashley Zolomon, replaced him as profiler and spent a lot of time attempting to communicate with him. Due to a car accident, Ashley was hospitalized for some time. It is around this period that Zoom awoke from his coma, out of concern for Ashley. He cautiously chose to remain in his cell, however.
Zoom has escaped from his containment cell at Iron Heights Penitentiary with the help of a vicious and brutal ally: Dr. Barbara Ann Minerva, the animalistic villainess known as Cheetah. While the Cheetah professes to be interested in helping to protect Hunter Zolomon from those that would seek to destroy him, however, she's far more interested in what she can gain from teaming up with the scarlet speedster's fleet-footed nemesis; Cheetah has become consumed by a desire to learn the powers of super speed, and she thinks Zoom is just the man to teach her.
Zoom later infiltrated the already-growing "Rogue War" between Captain Cold's Rogues, the Trickster's reformed Rogues, and the Top's brainwashed rogues. Quickly spiriting his estranged wife Ashley out of danger to the home of Linda Park, Zoom returned to the battlefront to dispatch Captain Cold, claiming that the "Man Who Mastered Absolute Zero" was wasting the Flash's time with his longstanding, self-aggrandizing methods of villainy.
As the Flash and Kid Flash (Bart Allen) attempt to contain the battle, Zoom throttles Kid Flash and threatens to snap his neck in a manner reminiscent of what Barry Allen had done to Eobard Thawne (Professor Zoom). Before Zoom can kill Kid Flash, however, Professor Zoom himself arrives on a cosmic treadmill, with Jay Garrick chained to the front end.
A battle ensues between the two Flashes and Kid Flash against the two Zooms, but in the end, the two Zooms accomplish what they intended. They grab the Flash and jump onto the treadmill. Zoom then forces the Flash to watch their first fight, in which Linda was severely injured and miscarried. Zoom feels that Wally West should be made to focus on the feelings of sorrow and loss from this experience and told Professor Zoom to rewind it so that he could watch it again. But as the scene starts to rewind, West's uncle and mentor Barry Allen appears, riding his own cosmic treadmill and saying that he had been looking for Professor Zoom.
Barry Allen removes West from immediate danger, telling West that he was here to return Thawne to his proper place in time, and that no matter how bad it seems, West could win this if he "just pushes himself a bit". He and Thawne then disappeared through time. Zoom, enraged, begins to run around the world, building up speed, with which he will kill Linda. Wally rushes to catch up, but he is a step or two behind. At the last minute, he realizes what Barry's advice means and puts on a final burst of speed, pushing himself, and hitting Zoom in the back. Zoom falls forward and is caught in the sonic boom which he himself used to kill Linda's babies (this ended up creating a “fissure in time” that restored Linda’s pregnancy as Zoom's future self took the brunt of the sonic boom his past self created, just in time for her to give birth). Zoom runs for the treadmill, but West forces them back to their mutual present. Zoom was last seen slipping into the time stream.
Zoom has become even more psychotic. His failure to make Wally into a better hero…a more ruthless and driven hero, has driven Zoom to become more ruthless himself. Furthermore, he has altered his goal to not only include the Flash, but all heroes. Zoom now believes that in order to make better heroes, he has to become the ultimate villain. He must be cruel, cold-blooded, and malicious. It’s the only way to increase the drive of the heroes.