Thawne was growing more and more concerned. Barry and Kara seemed to be growing closer and Barry was showing no interest in Iris West anymore. The timeline he knew was starting to falter. However, he needed to check to the future to see if the changes were going to stick.
That was why he entered the Time Vault and booted up Gideon.
"Hello Professor Thawne." Gideon said.
"Gideon, I need you to check on the timeline." Thawne said.
"Right away." Gideon said as she brought up the article of the future that read the Flash disappears and just as Thawne was about to relax, the byline caught his eye. The last time he read this article, it was written by Iris West-Allen. But now while it was still written by Iris it now just read Iris West, showing that Iris wasn't the woman Barry married anymore.
"Gideon, what happened to cause this change in the future?" Thawne demanded.
"Unclear. However, I calculate the odds of your plan succeeding dropping to a 66% likelihood." Gideon said.
"No. Barry is almost fast enough now. I just need to convince him to go back and save his mother and then I can go home." Thawne said, slamming his fist into the plinth.
"I hope you're right Eobard. For your sake." Gideon said and Thawne glowered as she shut down, wondering what had caused the change in the timeline.
At the same time as this, the Flash was currently running through Central City, hoping Cisco had gotten the location right, since this was a crucial component in stopping Thawne and getting his dad out of prison.
That was why he forced his way into the home of Hartley Rathaway, who'd nearly finished his sonic gauntlets, but before he could even grab them, Flash vibrated them until they fell apart.
"Hey." Hartley complained.
"Hartley Rathaway, I need to talk to you about something." Flash said.
"What?" Rathaway asked.
"Why did Harrison Wells fire you from Star labs?" Flash asked.
"I found out there was a chance the accelerator might explode like it did, but he wouldn't listen to me and when I threatened to report my findings anyway, he fired me." Hartley said.
"So Wells knew the accelerator might fail and yet he still set it off." Flash said.
"Yeah, why?" Hartley asked.
"Stay away from Wells. Supergirl and I will handle him. Just don't give me a real reason to go after you again." Flash said as he sped out and Hartley just smiled, since while he wasn't sure what was going on, he knew one thing for sure. Wells' days were numbered and now he wouldn't even have to lift a finger. All he had to do was enjoy the show.
Barry, Kara and Cisco were now meeting up in Barry's lab at the CCPD, after hours, examining the body.
"So Hartley confirmed that Wells knew that the accelerator would blow and now we've got the real Harrison Wells' body." Cisco said and both Barry and Kara nodded.
"Oliver is willing to help us at a moment's notice if we need him to, but still, we need to get Caitlin and Iris on our side and also be able to explain how we know all this." Kara said.
"What about the Time Vault?" Barry asked.
"What do you mean?" Cisco asked.
"What I mean is that the Time Vault helped us piece some stuff together about Thawne in the first place. We can say we discovered the Time Vault by accident and then we can use that to explain things to them." Barry said.
"Not a bad idea." Kara said and Cisco nodded his agreement.
"Okay then, we have a plan to ruin Thawne's plans. Once we get the rest of our team on board, we should reach out to some other people to help us take him down." Barry said.
"Like I said, Oliver's on call, which probably means his team is to and I'm sure I could get Clark here to help us to." Kara said.
"We'd almost be like a League." Cisco said and Barry and Kara both chuckled at that.
"You might want to start coming up with names now then Cisco." Kara said as they began finalizing their plans.