“Good.” He was thinking strategically now. If they had a speedster on their side, it might make all the difference. Barry would be able to go faster than the cameras could catch him. They might see something, but they’d never be able to identify it as any specific person. Maybe they wouldn’t even be able to identify it as a person at all, just a graphical glitch.

“Whatever happens, we’ll get out of this. All of us.” He had to believe that. He had to trust that there was a way out. Maybe not today and maybe not tomorrow, but this wasn’t going to be their life forever after. And even if this time and place was not the one they’d come from, they’d find a way to make this a better place.

If there was no city to save, he’d just have to save the complex. But first they had to find out what was true and what was a lie.