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Mari Illustrious Makinami felt that piloting Eva was a pretty exciting gig. However, she had no idea that a freak accident would open the door to another extraordinary role that was even more of a rush.

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5603362/1/Superwomen-of-Eva-2-The-Ultimate-Rush Superwomen of Eva 2: The Ultimate Rush]]'' by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1615106/Mike313 Mike313]] is a ''Fanfic/SuperwomenOfEva'' story that casts [[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion Mari Illustrious Makinami]] in the roll of the latest [[ComicBook/TheFlash Flash]]. Yes, that's right, latest. A good portion of the Flash mythos is still intact, especially the Jay Garrick and Barry Allen eras.

During an experiment to "correct" Mari's synch score using a chemical cocktail inserted into the LCL, a freak electrical surge shocks the entry plug and Mari herself with thousands of volts. Against all odds, Mari survives, but on the same night, she is involved in a car crash that would have killed her and her guardian had time not stopped and allowed her to rescue everyone. Soon after, Mari's best friend, Denise Myles, reveals to her that she might have the powers of the Flash and, after a trip to the Flash Museum, convinces her to don the crimson uniform and become the Vizier of Velocity to save Keystone City and the world. With the Angels running around and supervillains returning, this isn't as easy a prospect as it sounds.

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!!Tropes:

* AscendedFanboy: Denise. She's a big student of Flash history (moreso than normal because her uncle is the curator of the Flash Museum), and getting to help Mari become the new Flash is practically a dream come true.
* TheAtoner: Subverted with Zoom. He clearly thinks he's one, but its obvious that he's even more delusional than ever.
* AuthorAppeal: ComicBook/TheFlash is stated to be the author's second favorite [=DC=] hero. The fic contains a ton of references to and characters and items from the Flash mythos. Coincidence?
* BadassBoast: Zoom delivers a rather impressive one and lives up to it.
--> '''Zoom''': "Do you believe you can stop me, hero? What people say about Barry Allen is wrong.''I'' am the Fastest Man Who Ever Lived.''
* BigEater: After gaining her Flash powers, Mari can really pack away the pounds, and pack them away, [[RuleOfThree and pack them away]], and pack them away, [[OverlyLongGag and pack them away]]...
* BlindWithoutEm: Mari can't see very well without her glasses, so the goggles on her Flash suit are prescription.
* BloodKnight: Mari. She might be a superheroine now, but she's still just as violence prone as ever.
--> '''Mari''': *when asked why she pilots* "Mostly because I enjoy wanton violence and destruction!"
* CatUpATree: ''Specifically cited'' as something Mari does as the Flash.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: The Flash just won't save you; she'll save your bike, your house, and your stuffed toy too. [[labelnote:note]]Mari, on the other hand, will most likely destroy all that getting from point A to point B in her Eva.[[/labelnote]]
* CityOfAdventure: In addition to Tokyo-3, there's also the twin cities of Keystone City, Kansas, and Central City, Missouri, hometowns of the first two Flashes and our heroine Mari.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Mari can seem like this at times... OK, ''most'' of the time.
* DarkerAndEdgier: While normally LighterAndSofter, when Zoom arrives, his no nonsense attack brings the story to a jarring level of darkness and shows himself capable of putting a damper on even Mari's boundless optimism.
* DestructiveSavior: Mari, whenever she's in her Eva. When she's the Flash, though, there's not a lot of collateral damage.
* FreakLabAccident: In true Flash fashion, this is what gives Mari her SuperSpeed.
* FunPersonified: We could give this trope to Mari. Perhaps we should, but we won't. We're giving it to the whole story instead.
* GenkiGirl: Mari ''again''. This time as the most perky, upbeat, and hyper member of the cast.
* HeroicRROD: Mari's first time running at full power makes her [[RapidAging body develop rather fast]], forcing her to conceal her... [[MostCommonSuperpower assets]] for a short period of time afterwards so as to not give anybody a clue that she's ComicBook/TheFlash. [[spoiler: During the battle with [[TheJuggernaut Zeruel]], she runs fast enough to give him a [[MegatonPunch Megaton Drop-Kick]] [[OneHitKill that kills it dead]]... but [[GoodThingYouCanHeal she smashes (and has to reset) several of her bones]] as a result.]]
* HeroInsurance: Oddly inverted. Mari the Flash often leaves places better than when she found them, but Mari the Eva pilot often destroys large swaths of city. No one seems to comment on the latter, other than Mari giving the excuse that she's giving the local economy a boost thanks to all the construction jobs created.
* IdiotHero: Mari sometimes [[ObfuscatingStupidity plays with this]], and most of the time, it's just a joke... ''most'' of the time, because somehow Mari is such a CaptainOblivious that she actually lived nearly her entire life in Keystone City ''without knowing who ComicBook/TheFlash is''. Her best friend is appropriately shocked and appalled by this.
* {{Irony}}: Hunter Zolomon [[spoiler: aka the Reverse Flash, aka Zoom]] is a psychologist, but he has even more mental disorders than the people he's supposed to be helping; he even comes off as more insane than the Eva cast.
* KnightOfCerebus: Just like in the comics, Zoom darkens the plot in a way Bardiel, Zeruel, and Gendo can only dream of.
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee:
** Denise upon finding out that Mari can become the new Flash.
** And Mari herself upon facing the new Rogues.
%%* LegacyCharacter: ComicBook/TheFlash, of course.
* LetsGetDangerous: While Mari normally goofs off, when a truly powerful or viscous antagonist like [[TheJuggernaut Zeruel]] or [[KnightOfCerebus Zoom]] shows up, she stops joking and becomes much more no nonsense.
* LighterAndSofter: The fic is much more humorous and lighthearted than other stories, with the author saying that he made a conscious attempt to make ''The Ultimate Rush'' "the fun story."
* MamaBear: Jessie Quinn, Mari's guardian, will go to any length to protect her.
%%* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Mari is ''definitely'' this to Shinji.
* MostCommonSuperpower: [[OverlyLongGag Again]], Mari. Interestingly, she had a growth spurt as a side effect from [[HeroicRROD going too fast]] on her first test run of her powers and has to spend some time in-story using chest bindings and slowly "growing" to her full size, else people will immediately deduce she's The Flash.
* MsFanservice: Take a wild guess. [[spoiler:It's Mari.]]
* MuseumOfTheStrangeAndUnusual: The Flash Museum has seen better days. Since Second Impact [[spoiler: and the previous Flash disappearing]], few people even care about it, let alone visit. So nobody will mind if a [[TheHero certain someone]] borrows a spare Flash costume that was lying around...
* MusicalChores: Mari sings while running, often while on her way to save the day.
* MythologyGag: There's a few.
** Mari's first Angel sortie is against the Angel she fought on the [[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion second Rebuild movie]]. Happening in Keystone, she cannot pull [[TakingYouWithMe the same stunt]] with Unit-05 she did on the movie to take it out. [[spoiler: She saves it for the Zeruel battle instead.]]
** The military unit where Jessie and Misato served together was nick-named "ComicBook/TheLosers".
* TheNicknamer: Mari, our tropetastic protagonist. She names Shinji, "Puppy-kun."
* NoRespectGuy: Jay Garrick, the first Flash; he's only mentioned in one scene and was described as unimportant.
* PlotHole: A minor one. Despite the dummy plug test being so sensitive that the pilots are required to strip naked and go through a very thorough decontamination process, [[spoiler:Mari somehow was allowed to keep her Flash ring with her (though since she was able to take a picture with her civilian self and her Flash persona side-by-side, it's not too far-fetched that she hid it with her powers).]]
* ThePollyanna: Mari, who is one of the rare positive examples of this trope. There's just nothing that can get her down.
* RecruitTeenagersWithAttitude: Gendo tells the Section Two chief to recruit a team of damaged people with neuroses of their own making to be the new Rogues. In other words, he doesn't want professionals to kill the Flash; he wants ''supervillains with attitude''.
%%* RetiredBadass: All of [[spoiler:the original Rogues]].
* SecretKeeper: Denise Myles, who isn't just Mari's best friend, but also the person who convinced her to become the new Crimson Comet in the first place.
* SensualSpandex: This plus MostCommonSuperpower is what makes Mari as the Flash very hot.
* ShoutOut: Loads and loads.
** Many of Mari's lines.
-->"[[{{Film/Jaws}} I'm going to need a bigger chain]]."
-->"[[WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales Arriba! Arriba! Andale! Andale!]]"
-->"[[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Meep-meep!]]"\\
"[[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Ruh-roh.]]"
*** Some of the songs she sings are from the VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog series.
*** Mari singing "Don't Stop" by Music/FleetwoodMac while rampaging through the city on her way to stop the 10th Angel is a reference to a similar scene from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' where Bart sings the same song while rampaging through Springfield in a tank.
** When the Flash first arrives in Tokyo-3 she's called the Whizzer, a reference to the Flash CaptainErsatz from Marvel's ''ComicBook/SquadronSupreme''.
* ShutUpHannibal: Mari's response to an Angel trying to give her a HannibalLecture is to laugh in its face [[spoiler:and then reveal that she's been accelerating her brain functions to leave the Angel open to attack]].
** [[spoiler:She does the same to Zoom before throwing him in the Speed Force]].
* StealthHiBye: Mari loves using her SuperSpeed to pull this off.
* SwissArmySuperpower: As in ''ComicBook/TheFlash'' comics, the Speed Force is more versatile than you'd think.
** HealingFactor: It comes very much in handy [[spoiler: when her Entry Plug is crushed by the Dummy Plug-crazed Unit-01 during the Unit-03 disaster]] and [[spoiler: when she breaks several of her bones]].
** {{Intangibility}} and {{Invisibility}} by vibrating, which she uses to [[spoiler:infiltrate Nerv Central.]]
** Speed Lend/Steal: She can take speed from one thing and give it to another.
%%** SuperSpeed: Well, obviously.
** As well as the RequiredSecondaryPowers to prevent her from creating sonic booms, keep her clothes from disintegrating, etc. etc.
* ThouShaltNotKill: [[spoiler:The old Rogues have this code, and later, when they're about to kill the new Rogues, Mari steps in to save them. She gives them a similar line about never killing the villains, and their reaction is almost heartwarming]].
-->[[spoiler:'''Mirror Master''']]: "The lass is just like Allen all right!"
* VillainousRescue: [[spoiler:The old Rogues coming to save Mari from the new Rogues]].
* WrongGenreSavvy: Bardiel's under the assumption that Mari is a gigantic pile of angst that he can break with the right words just like the rest of the cast of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. There is no way to describe how ''wrong'' the Angel is.
** Zoom, who is under the delusion that his MiseryBuildsCharacter philosophy will help the Flash.
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