"So, do you have any ideas on what caused this?" Barry asked as he and Cisco stood outside the empty cell that Williams and his commandos had escaped from.

"No clue, but whoever did it, they knew what they were doing, since whatever they did, tricked the system into thinking that the door was still closed, fed a false feed into the surveillance cameras, even took out the alarms. And here I thought I'd perfected the system after Prometheus broke Black Siren out of here." Cisco said.

"Did the scanners pick up any unusual energy bursts?" Barry asked.

"If they did, it was wiped from the system. Whoever did had to have in depth knowledge of our entire security system." Cisco said.

"Well that narrows it down slightly, since whoever broke them out would've had to be a top level genius in order to get in here and out without anyone noticing." Barry said and Cisco nodded.

"We'll find them soon enough. But in the meantime, what do we do now? Thawne's in the wind and if there's one thing we've learned from the past 6 years of dealing with him is that we can't find him unless he wants us too." Cisco said.

"I know. Honestly, I could search the entire timeline and still never find him. The only way we could have a chance at locating him is." Barry said.

"By accessing the negative speed force, which we've already decided is too dangerous, we saw what it did to Nora." Cisco said and Barry nodded.

"Right now I think our next order of business should be preparing to fight DeVoe, since we don't know if Zoom exists and even if he does, there are too many variables regarding him to be able to predict when he'll arrive." Barry said.

"What about Savitar?" Cisco asked.

"I don't know. Honestly, there's no way of knowing if he still exists in this new reality and if he does, he's never getting out of where he's trapped." Barry said.

"Well, maybe we should be sure about that, since if Savitar is still a factor, we need to know and be prepared for him." Cisco said and Barry nodded.

"I know, but before we do anything, I want to take precautions." Barry said.

"What sort of precautions?" Cisco asked.

"I want you and Caitlin to build the quark sphere and we'll bring in Tracy, have her build the speed force bazooka, so that way if Savitar does exist, we'll be ready to deal with him." Barry said.

"Well, I think I know someone you could talk to in the meantime." Cisco said.

"Who?" Barry asked.

"Julian. A big portion of Savitar's plan to escape centers around Julian becoming Alchemy. If Julian has found the stone, then that confirms that Savitar does exist in this universe and then we can go from there." Cisco said.

"Well, I guess it's a good thing Julian just moved to Central City and he actually just started at CCPD." Barry said.

"You should restore his memories, best way to get an honest answer out of him." Cisco said and Barry nodded in agreement.

"I'll talk to him about it tomorrow, since that's technically his first day." Barry said.

"Great. But also, what are we gonna do about Star Labs? We both know that word has gotten out about Caitlin being the one to develop the stabilization cure they're using in Freeland. There's got to be a way we can spin that." Cisco said.

"Don't worry, I've already got something in mind for that, but I'll tell you once the whole team is assembled. Speaking of, we'd better get up to the Cortex." Barry said and Cisco nodded as they left the pipeline.

"Where were you guys?" Caitlin asked as Barry and Cisco joined her, Iris, Ralph, Jesse, Joe, Cecille and Allegra in the Cortex.

"Trying to figure out how Williams and his ASA jokers escaped the pipeline." Cisco said.

"And?" Caitlin asked.

"No luck. Hey Ralph, you want a new case?" Barry asked.

"I appreciate the offer, but that's the sort of thing that would take up time I could be devoting to other cases." Ralph said and Barry nodded.

"Fair enough. But anyways, I called you guys here because I have an announcement to make and Cisco, Caitlin and I have something to show you." Barry said.

"Okay, what is the announcement?" Iris asked.

"I spoke to J'onn this morning and thanks to all the good PR that Caitlin developed the meta stabilization cure, he was able to get the government restrictions lifted from Star Labs, it's cleared to reopen an actual laboratory again." Barry said.

"Wait seriously?" Cisco asked eagerly and he could tell his girlfriend was just as surprised.

"Yeah, I figured you and Caitlin would be especially happy about that, since honestly, I still don't know how you two were getting paid." Barry said.

"We managed to get by on royalties from previous inventions, but it will be nice to get a fresh income." Caitlin said and Cisco nodded.

"And you both will be receiving raises, since I am planning on taking control of Star Labs, since the police did release it to me like Thawne's will intended." Barry said.

"Wait Barry, how are you going to be both a CSI and run this company?" Joe asked and Barry sighed.

"I'm not. I'm planning on Singh tomorrow when I go in, since honestly, the whole reason I became a CSI was to clear my dad's name and now I've done that. Only reason I didn't consider it before is because I didn't think there'd be a way to get the government restrictions lifted, but on this earth, I have the martian director of one of the most important government agencies in the country, on speed dial." Barry said.

"Well, that's a relief. But what are we going to do for a base if you reopen this place?" Iris asked and Cisco grinned.

"And that is what we have to show you. Cisco, if you'd please." Barry said and Cisco nodded as he opened a breach.

"Okay and where exactly will this breach take us?" Iris asked and Barry grinned.

"It's a surprise, but you'll see when you go through." Barry said as he stepped through the breach, followed by Caitlin and eventually, they all stepped through it, Cisco being the last one, the breach closing behind him.