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"We have the tools to make a difference. We can make things better." Jax argued with Stein as Sara was at pilot seat listening to the argument.
"Even if we act with the best of intentions, these changes can ripple throughout time; a temporal domino effect with disastrous consequences." Stein reasoned.
"So we start small. Make changes we can control." Jax countered.
"What you're talking about can't be done." Stein disagreed. "It's like playing God and it goes against everything we're trying to do, or do I need to remind you what had happened when we tried to save Miss Lance?"
"Things didn't turn out that bad, we're supposed to help people." Jax tried to argue again.
"We are supposed to fix aberrations, not create them! Mr. Queen wasn't supposed to be exposed!" Stein shot back.
"Stop bickering!" Oliver ordered as he entered the bridge. "Sometimes, we can change things for the better but our priority is to protect history. It's not up to us to change it all but we can try to make a difference."
"At least we're not time janitors." Jax agreed.
Nate rushed into the cockpit. "Guys, I think I might have found an aberration."
"December 7th, 1987. The White House." Nate said.
"The treaty between the U.S. and the Soviet Union ending the Cold War at peace summit and reducing their nuclear arsenals." Oliver remembered. "I didn't fail every class in college."
"I was in that summit." Stein remembered. "The Reagan administration would call upon the nuclear physicists to act as technical advisors."
"Somebody tried to sabotage the summit." Oliver realized.
"That or worse." Nate agreed. "Think about it, Reagan and Gorbachev under the same roof at one of the most volatile moments in history?"
"The JSA has a training academy at D.C." Amaya pointed out. "I could reach out to the current membership. See if they have any intel or resources we could use."
"Good place to start." Oliver agreed. "But someone should come along with you. It's going to be forty years since you were with JSA and the more you know about your future, the worse it can be. Nate, you're going with her. You know history better than most of us here. The rest of us will try to sneak into the White House and find out what's the cause of the aberration."
"And how exactly are we gonna do that?" Jax asked.
1987, White House
Oliver, Sara, Ray, Mick, Jax and Stein blended in with the tourists as they walked down the hall.
Elsewhere
Amaya punched the code to the warehouse as she and Nate entered, excited at first but disappointed to see the training facility covered in dust and webs.
"When I was recruited into the JSA, this is where I trained." Amaya said, confused as she walked down the hall with Nate. "What happened here?"
"No clue." Nate said. "But a lot can change in forty-five years."
"I thought you said you were a historian." Amaya turned to him with an accusing tone. "How can you not know?"
"Hey, every memo, every executive action relating to the JSA is top secret." Nate said defensively. "I only pieced together their World War II activities from my father's bedtime stories, witness testimonies and government leaks."
Amaya saw the table covered in sheet as she looked under the sheet and pulled out a black and white photo of her and the members of Justice Society, guilt panging. "I never should have left 1942."
Nate sighed, trying to assure her. "Look, Amaya, whatever happened to them, that's… that's not your fault."
"You don't know that." Amaya countered but unknowing to them, a caped man was watching them from above. "Like you said, we don't know what happened to them."
White House
"Guys, I think we found our aberration." Ray called over the comms. "Damien Darhk is here."
"What?!" Oliver hissed. "Damn it. Try to follow him but keep your distance and do not engage."
JSA Training Facility
Suddenly, the room went dark as Amaya called upon the ashe of an eagle as a black cloud showed up and then, a caped man attacked Nate, throwing him on the floor and Amaya looked surprised to see her former teammate, Obsidian. "Todd?"
"Why did you abandon us?"
Nate got on his feet and knocked Todd out from behind. "Who is that?"
"It's Obsidian." Amaya explained.
"From the JSA?" Nate asked, shocked.
White House
As Ray and Mick were walking down the hall, one of the agents saw the cold gun in Ray's hand as more Secret Service agents surrounded them. "Freeze! Don't move!"
"Fight or leave?" Ray asked.
"Fight." Mick said as he fired from his flamethrower and Ray used the cold gun.
"What the hell are you doing there?!" Oliver demanded as he heard the blasts over the comms.
Ray and Mick were firing at the agents before their beams crossed and the following energy blast knocked them both on the ground.
"What did I say about crossing streams?!" Mick roared.
"I thought you said that we don't follow rules." Ray argued.
"That's the one rule; one rule that we follow!"
Firestorm showed up, taking down the agents and providing cover to Ray and Mick, who both jumped out through the window before Firestorm flew away.
Waverider
"What… happened?" Oliver asked, trying to keep his voice leveled.
"Ask Haircut." Mick said, glancing at Ray. "He let himself get caught with the cold gun."
"Guys, what were you thinking?!" Oliver snapped. "We need to keep a low profile, and using hi-tech guns from 21st century is not exactly low profile, you couldn't have kept it hidden? Or, how about if I remind you how did Vandal Savage get his hands on your ATOM technology in 1958?" Ray winced. "Yes, I read all your mission reports. Frankly, I'm surprised you're all lucky to have made it this far."
"Look, the bigger question is, why would Damien Darhk become an advisor to Reagan's White House on the eve of a nuclear treaty with the USSR." Ray pointed out.
"If his involvement with the Nazis is any indication, he's working with our time traveling nemesis." Stein pointed out.
"And it's the same person that killed Hourman." Sara realized. "Amaya needs to hear about this."
"Not yet." Oliver disagreed. "She deserves to know, yes, but we need to prioritize. Keep focused on the mission. We'll tell her, once we figure out what's Darhk doing here."
JSA Training Facility
As Todd woke up from the couch, Amaya and Nate listened to him.
"You haven't aged a day." Todd smiled.
"One of the few benefits of time travel." Amaya pointed out.
"So, you left us to join the loveable losers." Todd said sadly.
"I was trying to find Rex's killer." Amaya said defensively.
"You never thought to tell me?" Todd stood up angrily.
"I found Rex dying… his last words were "time traveler". I didn't think, I just acted. What happened to them, Todd?" Amaya asked.
"After the war, our friendship with the Soviet Union ended and we continued fighting as what was known as the "Iron Curtain" descended over Central and Eastern Europe." Todd explained.
"Does "we" include my grandfather?" Nate asked.
"Right to the end." Todd nodded. "In 1956, President Eisenhower sent a team on a mission in Leipzig. They never made it back."
"Why didn't you go?" Nate asked.
"'56 was a charged time." Todd said sadly. "They were concerned that I couldn't be trusted."
"Why not?" Nate asked.
"Leave it alone, Nathaniel." Amaya tried to shrug him off.
"Nate, Amaya, report back to the Waverider." Oliver called.
"I promise, Todd, I will fix this." Amaya told him.
Waverider
"Rex's killer is here? In 1987?" Amaya demanded.
"Potentially, if Damien Darhk is still working with him." Stein admitted.
"No way, Damien Darhk joined the Reagan Administration as an advisor at the Reykjavik Summit?" Nate asked, disbelieved as he read the file. "And after the collapse of the summit, Darhk was credited with reviving the disarmament talks?"
"It has to be a cover for his Genesis plan. He was stockpiling the nukes, not getting rid of them." Oliver realized, his blood boiling from his encounter with Darhk in the present. "Gideon, do you know about Darhk's current whereabouts?"
"I'm accessing the calendar on his secretary's IBM personal computer. Mr. Darhk has a meeting at Georgetown park at 8 P.M."
"Ray, Mick; try to shadow Darhk and find out who is he meeting with. The rest of us will scour the White House, see if there's something suspicious going on." Oliver ordered.
Later
"What the hell happened?" Oliver asked as he found out that Stein was in med-bay, bleeding.
"Short version, Marty's younger self screwed things up." Ray said as Oliver groaned.
"Amaya got us invites to State Dinner, we'll go there, once Stein's back on his feet." Sara suggested.
White House
Everyone dressed up and entered the dinner. "Keep an eye on Darhk and do not engage until I say so." Oliver ordered as he approached a table with Sara and Amaya. "What are you going to do, once we catch Rex's killer?"
"Arrest him. What else is there?" Amaya asked.
"Kill him." Sara suggested.
"I killed a lot of people. One time, I avenged my father by killing the man responsible for blowing up our yacht. Or at least I thought I did kill him." Oliver pointed out. "But it changed nothing. But some monsters need to be put down, no prison can hold them."
"I'm not a vigilante, Oliver." Amaya argued.
"I see Darhk." Nate said.
"Mick, Ray, guard the exits. The rest of us, take them down." Oliver ordered.
As Darhk and an KGB agent was meeting, Oliver, Firestorm, Amaya, Sara and Nate entered the meeting, while KGB agents and the Ghosts aimed their guns at them.
"No one has to get hurt." Amaya said.
"That's not really my style." Darhk chuckled. "Now, we can waste time chit-chatting or you can deal with the explosive my people have secreted inside the State Dining Room. See, in about six minutes, Reagan, Gorbachev and every hope of peace goes 'kaboom'."
"Ray?" Oliver called out.
"We're on it."
"I am sorry… inconvenient, I know but… try being me." Darhk said as he shot the KGB agent and the Ghosts opened fire. Firestorm lighted up, Nate used his steeling powers as Oliver fired at one of the Ghosts and Sara and Amaya engaged them in close combat before Obsidian showed up, assisting them.
"We can't let Darhk get away." Oliver said as Sara nodded.
"I got this!" Steel assured them as Oliver and Sara rushed out.
Oliver and Sara encountered a tall muscular man as they both looked at each other. "Like old times, is it?"
"Yeah." Sara nodded as both of them engaged the man, combining their attacks but the man kept standing his ground.
"Good news is that I found the bomb. Bad news is that this type of firing system is obsolete. I have no idea how to disarm such a crude weapon." Ray said.
"Keep working on it; we're a little preoccupied!" Oliver choked out as the tall man grabbed him by his throat and lifted him up but Sara kicked him in the crotch as both Sara and Oliver punched the man in his face hard, knocking him out. "You know, right now I miss Star City."
"Me too." Sara agreed.
Amaya and Obsidian faced Darhk but he pulled out a gun and tried to shoot Amaya, only for Obsidian to stop him and get shot himself. Darhk aimed the gun at her before a flying arrow disarmed him and Darhk stared to face Oliver, with a bow and quiver and Sara.
"I did it. The bomb's disarmed." Ray said over the comms.
Oliver and Sara glared at Darhk as he recognized Sara. "You and I have met before, young lady. New York City, 1942. You have not aged a bit. Lazarus pit?" He asked, impressed as neither Sara or Oliver replied. "Oh, woman of mystery. And who are you?" He turned to Oliver, intrigued. "I know that look in your eyes. That look is of someone that I've taken everything away from."
"Not everything." Oliver goaded. "The only reason I let you live is because I'm not going to give you the satisfaction of being who you think I am and because this might make no difference to me, so that's why I will spare you." He lowered his bow.
"How merciful of you." Darhk chuckled.
"The reason we're sparing you is to prolong your suffering. Because one day, you and I will face again… and that's when I will kill you." Oliver promised. Suddenly, Darhk vanished in red bolt of lightning as both Sara and Oliver gasped.
"That's not possible…" Oliver whispered.
"What was that?" Sara asked.
"Where's Darhk?" Nate asked as he showed up.
"Gone. The time traveler he's working with took him." Sara explained.
"Damn it." Nate groaned.
"That's not all." Oliver realized. "That time traveler is a speedster."
"Like the Flash?" Nate asked.
"No. The reverse of him." Oliver remembered. "I've fought him once before."
Waverider
"How is Eobard Thawne still alive?" Stein asked, surprised.
"Who's Eobard Thawne?" Amaya asked.
"The Reverse-Flash. He's from the future." Oliver explained. "He and the Flash have been enemies for long time, he traveled back in time to kill Barry, when he was a kid but he failed, so instead, Thawne killed Barry's mother and framed his father for it. Then, he killed the real Harrison Wells and assumed his identity and built the particle accelerator in order to create the accident that turned Barry into a speedster in order to return back to his time. Barry needed my and Firestorm's help to beat him. I thought he was erased from existence."
"The Speed Force." Stein explained. "It somehow protected him from being erased from existence after Eddie Thawne killed himself in order to stop him."
"If Damien Darhk is working with the Reverse-Flash, then it's definitely not good." Oliver realized.
"We'll be ready." Sara promised.
Present
"But they didn't fight the Reverse-Flash until later, didn't they, Aunt Barbara?" Ashley asked in bed.
"No. Actually…"
"We had to go help Uncle Hex in the Wild West." Sara explained.
"Yay, Uncle Hex!" Ashley clapped her hands as Sara giggled, looking forward to telling the story to her niece.
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