Dexter Miles, the museum curator, was suddenly confronted by someone wearing the Flash's uniform- saying he was not dead. Miles, of course, knew it was Kid Flash- who then said he was protecting the legacy until Barry returned.
Wally, you see, hadn't accepted Barry's death- since there had been no body, Wally believed Barry would eventually end up finding a way to return- he was probably lost in another dimension or something.
The conversation between the Curator and Wally-as-the-Flash was cut short by a Police alert: Dr. Alchemy, one of Barry's enemies, was back in town... and Wally ran to the city's rescue!
...only to meet a crushing defeat as Alchemy turned his Flash costume to chalk dust, leaving him with only his underwear- humiliated in front of a large crowd. Wally was then saved by the Green Lantern, then a Hal Jordan recently-returned to active duty, who said from then on he'd split his time between Coast City (his hometown) and Central City.
That night back in the Flash Museum, Wally was approached by Jay Garrick and a very angry Green Lantern, who showed him the latest newspaper edition, saying:
Green Lantern: "(...)In fact, the whole world saw you today- unmasked. To protect his parents and friends, the League chose not to tell the world Flash's real name. But now that Wally West has been caught on film as his would-be replacement, the trail will lead back to him anyway."
The paper had the humorous headline, "Kid flashes city, Green Lantern saves crowd."
Wally then said the two elder heroes could stop him from taking over Barry's mantle, but couldn't stop him from protecting Central City as Kid Flash- and he returned to his yellow uniform.
A short time later, as Kid Flash raced to stop yet another attack by Dr. Alchemy, he was joined by Jay Garrick and Green Lantern- both heroes had been looking over Barry's home after his death. Since by then Wally was pretty slower than the two of them, they got to the villain before him- and were severely defeated.
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