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Reporter Raymond "Ray" Terrill is investigating a group of government scientists who are developing a weapon using light, when he is attacked with a "genetic light bomb" that ends up bestowing him with light-based super powers.
Barry, Cisco, Oliver and Curtis recruit Ray as a crime-fighter. He is thrown into the thick of things when Mari McCabe (a.k.a. Vixen) seeks their assistance in defeating a giant robot attacking Detroit.
Ray proves instrumental in defeating the giant robot. Oliver offers to train him. After he returns home, his house is attacked by Overgirl, who steals the Red Tornado's cerebral cortex from him.
After being attacked by Overgirl, Ray tells his parents that he has to go away for a while. He comes out to them and they are accepting of his sexuality. Ray has Cisco send him to Earth-X.
On Earth-X, Ray contacts the Resistance in the ruined New York City. Phantom Lady and Black Condor mistake him for his counterpart from their Earth. Ray offers to help them fight the New Reichsmen and retake the cortex from Overgirl.
Ray, Cisco, Phantom Lady, Black Condor and the Resistance are faced with an attack by Overgirl, Black Arrow, Blitzkrieg and the New Reichsmen.
Ray finds the strength and willpower to defeat Overgirl. He opts to stay on Earth-X to assist in the fight against the Reichsmen.
