Barry frowned a little at that. At one point in his life cutting corners and full fledged scientific progress was all that mattered to him.

"I won't lie to you. There was a point in my life I didn't really care about what my experiments might have done to people," Barry admitted. "I was ten. I was a dick. And I'm ashamed of the things I did. If I didn't have two friends who acted like Jiminy Cricket all the time I could have turned out a lot worse. Then again I don't think even I wouldn't have gone as far as the place you're talking about. What exactly was this living nightmare?"