Barry listened to that story unfold and was giving Summer a look of admiration. "I know I've said this before, but you are a total badass."

He paused for a moment before starting his own story. "Well, I found Fandom on my own actually. I was in my own dimension on my Earth when I came across a stream of interdimensional transmissions which turned out to be the podcasts coming from the radio station. Right after that one of my experiments had gone absolutely fucking wrong. Like... killed my friends dead wrong. I had to go back in time ten times until I got it fixed right. After that I didn't want to endanger them. So I enrolled myself in school the summer before my senior year. I figured it was safer to do my shit in a place in an interdimensional nexus where things were already fucked up and, bonus, my friends wouldn't get hurt. I didn't count on the freedom I had to do what I wanted without the government turning me into a one person braintrust or a science experiment. I also didn't count on making as many friends as I did."

He smiled and chuckled a bit to himself. "I think I told you some of that. That's why I'm back. Because maybe there's a kid who's fucked up like me and I can pay it back."