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Faster!

Steven comes back in, moving around and around in a blur, trying to find the fine line between this world and the speed force, and walk it like a tightrope while providing a target for Atlas.

FASTER

Steven's perceptions blur, dancing on the edge of time travel, or plunging into the speed force, seeing a dozen images of everyone on the field. Where they are, where they were, where they will be, where they might be. Alive or dead, every possibility hinging on split seconds. Split seconds he can almost see as time stretches into fluidity. And he keeps pushing, feeling the speed force flowing around and through him.

FASTER, FASTER, FASTER.... NOW!

And then, just as he sees the barrier ahead of him, the one he's crashed once, may never escape again if he crosses it, feeling saturated with absolute speed, Steven reveals his actual plan.
He sees into the timestream, when Atlas will draw strength from the Earth and surge, when Will will rush him. When the power of a Titan will meet the strength of a god. He's now seen a dozen outcomes to that contest - and then throws it a loop.

Just as the son of the original fastest man alive saturates himself with the speed force, he lends it all to Will, doubling, tripling, quadrupling... multiplying Will's Speed of Mercury by speed itself.

Steven stumbles, then collapses, looking emaciated and dehydrated - hoping it was enough.