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Rip felt like a storm of emotions were raging around anger, fear, sadness, and guilt so much guilt. It was like he was drowning in it. Time masters always work alone, so why did he pull all these people into this mess under the guise of this "mission"?

"Mission" He scoffed in his mind "More like failure"

"Captain" Gideon said her voice cutting through Rip's turbulent thoughts.

"Yes, Gideon?"

"There appears to be time disruption ahead. We will not be able to leave for Star City for 24 hours. Unless you are willing to go through?

"No, no Gideon it's not worth the risk" Rip said shaking his head "But we will leave as soon as it's safe."

"Understood Captain"

Rip slowly walked down the hall towards his cabin to get some sleep before leaving the next day.

"Am I doing the right thing?" Rip wondered out loud as he entered his cabin. Almost automatically he slowly got changed and carefully pulling his shirt over his head while his ribs protested against the motion. He decided against attempting to put on a different shirt and climbed into his bed and immediately fell asleep.

He woke up a few hours later to someone pounding on his door. Immediately he jumped up and quickly regretted it when he felt a searing pain across his chest. He ignored and quickly walked over to the door. Nobody has ever knocked on his door before for anything, so when he opened the door he was surprised to see Sara on the other side.

"What's wrong Ms. Lance?" Rip asked worriedly "Who injured themselves, set a fire or did something explode?" Rip suddenly gasped and asked quickly "Nobody managed to break Gideon right? No, no that's bad if they did!"

Sara cut off Rip's worried ramblings by putting her hand over his mouth. Rip hadn't noticed when he came to the door because he was so focused on Sara, but the rest of the team was standing her.

"While I am slightly hurt that the first thing you think of when Sara knocks on the door is that something exploded or somebody hurt themselves." Stein said "The better question is what happened to you?"

In his hurry to answer the door, Rip forgot to pull on a shirt, so the motley of multicolored bruises across his ribs were clearly visible.

"Wow that looks worse than earlier" Sara said

Rory poked his finger into Rip's ribs and said "Does that hurt?"

Rip grimaced and replied, "Yes, Mr. Rory that was unpleasant, so in the future can you please abstain from poking me again."

"Anyways" Jax said shaking his head "What the hell happened to you man?"

"I had a slight collision with the floor"

Kendra looking incredulous "A slight collision? Rip you look like multicolored walking bruise."

Rip shaking his head irritably said, "Anyways, I trust there is a good reason you woke me up Ms. Lance? And why the rest of the team appears to be accompanying you?"

Sara's demeanor immediately tensed and she glared at Rip and said, "Yes, Captain" She said sarcastically. "There is a perfectly good reason. I thought that you should explain to the rest of the team why you are returning us to Star City."

Almost immediately the whole team began protesting

"Are you really giving up on your family?" Stein asked

"Hey! Bozo you dragged me on this stupid quest to 'save' the world, so I'm seeing it to the end." Snart said menacingly while stroking his cold gun

"Savage is never going to stop coming after me and he ki… killed Carter, so I'm not stopping until the bastards dead!" Kendra exclaimed

Sara just stood with her arms crossed over her chest and smirked smugly at Rip's overwhelmed expression.

"Anything else to say Captain?" She said smugly

"Why?" Rip asked utterly bewildered "Why would you want to stay? I lured all of you here with false pretenses. I've put us all in danger. I've kept secrets and behaved like an ass most of the time. Why?"

Sara laughed a little and said "Most of the time Captain? I think all of the time."

Rip just blushed a bit and looked down "I admit I have not been the politest of company, but I just want my family back."

He then looked up and said adamantly "But I refuse to put anymore of you in danger. I will be sending you all back to Star City. Gideon prepare for a time jump to Star City 2016."

"Captain the time disruption is still currently approaching" Gideon said

Rip just shook his head and said, "We should be far enough away still, but still strap in it will be a bumpy ride."

He then turned to his team mates, "Excuse me, but I still must get dressed."

Rip walked back into his room and shut the door. He struggled for a few minutes attempting to put on his shirt before finally completing the task. Quickly he strode out of his room into the hallway where everyone was still standing and pushed passed them and made his way to the console room with the rest of the team trailing behind.

He approached his chair, strapped in, and said "Strap in this might be a bumpy ride."

Rip was slightly surprised to see everybody actually listening to him, but assumed that they didn't want to risk him jumping without being properly prepared after the last time. His chair slowly turned around to show the outside of the ship and he slowly pulled down on the lever beside him.