Short on Time

Chapter 80

"Oh, my God," Felicity said as we stood in front of one of the wedding crashers.

"Oh, my God what?" Iris asked.

"Who is that?" I asked looking at Oliver and Felicity.

"That's Tommy Merlyn," Sara said.

"The man from the fake reality?" I asked confused.

"He died over four years ago," Felicity said.

"Oliver, who's Tommy Merlyn?" Barry asked.

"Thea's other brother and my best friend," Oliver said softly. "We're gonna need a moment alone."

~*~

"He's a crony," Mick stated.

"Anachronism," Sara told us.

"That's what I said."

"Lately we've been dealing with anachronisms. It's people and things displaced throughout time," Sara explained.

"Ok, but why would Nazis from 1945 want to crash their wedding?" Iris asked.

"Crab legs. They were delicious," Mick said.

"Well, Iris has a point, though. If they're out of time, they would've targeted the military or law enforcement," Alex said.

"Tommy was plucked from five years ago and put in the Prometheus wardrobe. That doesn't make any sense," Felicity said.

"It does if we're not dealing with an anachronism," I said.

"Visitors from another earth?" Harry suggested.

"Whoa. There are more than one?" Jax asked.

"There are fifty-two, actually," Kara said.

"Though I'm hard-pressed to think of one where Nazis are ascendant," Martin said.

"I can. There's a fifty-third earth, and it's called Earth-X," Harry said.

"It doesn't have a designation because it's a place so awful, so horrific, no sane person would ever travel there," I told them as we looked at the screen.

"It's basically our earth, same history, same timeline, with one crucial and critical difference," Harry added.

"So, let me hypothesize. The Nazis developed the atomic bomb before the United States did, and they were more than happy to use it," Martin said.

"Yes, the Nazis won the war, and New York, London, Paris, Moscow-all obliterated. The SS set up outposts not only all throughout Europe but also all throughout the Americas, and Hitler continued his brutal reign aided by prime ministers and presidents sympathetic to him until his death in 1994," Harry said.

"Now they're not happy ruling just one earth," Felicity said. "God. This is making me physically ill."

"We have to find them," I said softly.

"I mean, do you think they're using the breach to hop between worlds? That or they're operating from a staging area somewhere in Central City or close by," Alex suggested.

"Well, good thing we have a metric ton of smart people in this building and Rory," Barry said.

"Let's get to work on finding our new friends from Earth-X," Iris said cheerfully.

~*~

"I used to think I was smart, but now I just want to break this computer," I muttered as Felicity and Iris waited.

"How long till you brainiacs find these Nazis?" Iris asked and I glared at her.

"Oh, my answer hasn't changed in the two minutes since you last asked me," Felicity snapped.