Clarity groaned gripping her head in discomfort. She had a splitting migraine and felt like her stomach had flipped upside down. Not to mention everything around her seemed to be spinning. The floors moved up and down like a seasaw as the walls rippled.
"Well that's a nice feeling" Thea said sarcasm leaking from her tone.
Clarity cringed as she heard the sound of someone throwing up onto the silver floor.
"Not to mention a nice sound" Roy said his tone matching his ex girlfriends. They exchanged a look before the two burst out laughing. Thea still had Roy's arm wrapped safely around her.
"Oh, I should have mentioned it before. Nausea is one of the side effects of time travel, along with vertigo." Rip said as Ray fell in a heap on the floor. Clarity stayed sitting waiting for her side effects to cease knowing that her coordination skills and vertigo would not mix well if ray fell flat on his face.
"Oliver relax. He meant the symptom. Not the drug or the guy who tried to kill me" Felicity soothed as Olivers fist clenched and his jaw set. Memories of the count flashing in his mind.
"I don't care I hate that word" Oliver growled.
"Hey...I'm right here, so is dig and Thea. The count can't get us" Felicity told him kissing his cheek hoping that could calm him. It did. If only slightly.
" I can't see."Stein panicked taking off his glasses.
"Oh dear god. Martin's blind now?" Clarissa panicked.
"Yeah that's fun" Barry said thinking of and his date with patty.
"And temporary blindness. Oh, it should only last a minute. After all, that was a mere further back in time you go, the worse the side effects."
"Phew temporary. Next time lead with that" Clarissa said calming herself.
"That was fun" Barry smiled.
"Next time I'm getting a color spy camera" Cisco told him.
"Better?"Rip questioned stein after a few moments.
"He looks weird without his glasses" Thea called.
"Speedy..." Oliver trailed.
"What? He does!"
"It's all relative." Martin answered putting his glasses back on.
"Martin! You intelligent fool! So caught up in the prospect of time travel he isn't noticing any danger" Clarissa groaned upset at her husband.
"Don't worry Clarissa. Martin will be fine" Caitlyn told her.
"Good." Rip muttered patting stein on the shoulder before walking to the console in the center of the room.
"I can't believe you kidnapped me." Jax muttered to stein angrily not that the man needed the verbal confirmation. The emotions he could feel from Jax was enough.
"I can" Oliver said.
"Oliver!" Felicity chastised.
"What? Old guys are always the shifty ones!" Oliver said.
"Hey, I want to go home." Jax said getting up and striding over to Rip.
"Uh yeah I don't think he's going to like that" Cisco said shaking his head.
"Good news, then. 2016 will be around in, uh, 41 years. Now, you three, feel free to make yourselves comfortable back here on the ship, while the rest of you are coming with me to find Professor Boardman." Rip said as he leaned over the console checking to make sure the info he had gathered was indeed still correct before walking toward the door.
"he double checks his sources" Cat smiled with goo goo eyes.
"What is happening right now?" Kara wondered as she eyed Miss grant.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You're benching us?" Mick questioned. " I thought we were a team." Sara objected causing Rip to pause on his way to the door.
"Yeah here comes the rocky start to the rocky start" Felicity said.
"What?" Oliver asked his eyebrows furrowed in confusions
"You know the period of time where the team gets jumbled together and stuff" Felicity said.
"Actually that doesn't happen quite yet. They are still being Civil" Gideon informed.
"That's Civil?" Barry asked.
"This mission doesn't require your particular skill set. Yet." Rip said to the pair of criminals ad ex assassin.
"Yet" Lisa smirked. She wondered if Lenny would steal a little trinket for her as a birthday present.
"Meaning you don't need anyone killed, maimed, or robbed." Snart said cooly.
"That's Lenny for you. Always cool even when he's annoyed" Lisa sighed.
"Precisely." Rip responded.
"Oooh his diction is flawless" Cat smiled taking another sip of her coffee. She was loving every word that came out of his mouth simply because of his accent.
"Sure it's a good idea to leave these two unsupervised on a time machine?"Ray asked rip.
"He's got a point" Oliver said to Barry.
"What's the worst that could happen?" Barry questioned with a shrug.
"Hey, haircut! Deafness wasn't one of the side effects." Mick said lazily. He still felt a bit air sick from the stupid jump.
Everyone laughed. Poor Ray just got owned.
"We better hurry up. Professor Boardman will die in less than 24 hours." Rip revealed to the team.
"Well, that's just great" Cisco said.
"What's the point in cutting it so close?" Ray asked.
"You don't fuck with time" Oliver said with a glare pointed at Barry. Barry put his heads in his hands saying nothing.
" Because if he's destined to die, then he doesn't have a timeline for us to disrupt, and his impact on the future will be minimal. How brilliant." Stein explained.
"What he said" Oliver said nodding his head at the screen.
"And depressing. How does he die? Kendra said with an unbelieveable nod of her head. This old guy was nuts.
"I don't remember Kendra being such a downer" Cisco said cocking his head to the side.
"Well she doesn't want to be there in the first place" Caitlyn pointed.
"Yeah but still...she seems so..." Cisco trailed.
"Mundane?" Lisa questioned.
"Yeah" Cisco nodded. Crap he realized as he looked down at Lisa. He knew why Kendra seemed so boring to him now. It was because Lisa was the opposite of Kendra. And he liked it. He liked it a lot.
"Uh, he's found dead in his university from unknown causes. Come on." Rip said leading the group down the hall ways of the ship.
"Unknown causes? I don't like the sound of that" Oliver Said.
"Me neither" Barry said.
"Are you coming?" Stein asked Jax.
"I doubt it" Thea said.
"I'll stay put." Jax responded.
"Haha! I was right!" Thea cheered.
"You'd rather stay with them?" He asked in disbelief.
" what did you expect Martin? You drugged the poor boy!" Clarissa told her husband.
"They didn't drug me" Jax responded angrily.
"They kidnapped me" Caitlyn muttered a bit pissed.
"Point taken." Martin said rushing out to follow the group so he wouldn't get lost.
"That's the last thing they need." Clarissa groaned. Martin had no sense of direction what so ever.
-boardman's university-
"This is unbelievable. 1975" Ray said turning to his right and whispering to clarity. She smiled and adjusted her glasses a single spark of electricity absorbed by the metal of the rims as a spark flowed from her finger tip. She couldn't believe she was actually in the year 1975! It was surreal.
"Clarity in the year filled with neon. What could possibly go wrong?" Felicity laughed.
"Smart. Using her glasses to channel her powers discreetly. Super-" Cat called but was caught off by Kara.
"I've got it Miss grant" Kara said sending an exasperated look Barry's way as he laughed. 'Supergirl' he mouthed mimicking Cat. Kara chuckled to herself.
"Imagine all the wondrous applications of this technology. A chance to witness the construction of the pyramids, the end of the dinosaurs." Stein proposed amazed at where they all were.
"Nerd alert!" Thea screamed.
"I've never been to 1975. It's rather colorful." Rip said gazing around his tone proposing a bit of disgust.
"Oh I bet he's never been across world's. I could show him the beauty of our earth" Cat said to herself.
"I hate my hearing right now" Kara muttered.
"what's wrong with a bit of color? Is the future really that drab?" Clarity asked as they continued to walk. She couldn't help the question her curiosity of the future and all it's wonders momentarily over powering her shy and quiet nature.
"Curiosity counteracts her shyness. Makes her bold. Interesting, a bit contradicting but certainly interesting" Cat said a piece of gum falling into her mouth out of mid air. Gum always kept her mind flowing. Also her breath minty fresh in case a certain captain dropped in unexpectedly.
rip considered the question for a moment." There definitely isn't much...neon" He admitted to her.
"Thank god for that" Harry said rubbing at his eyes.
"That's too bad. I love bright blue's"Clarity admitted.
"Yeah that's all I could see for a week" Harry groaned.
"Shut up Harry! Her outfits were awesome " Cisco said.
"Oh so you know a thing about fashion Ramon?"
"I know everything. I'm Vibe" He responded.
"Says the guy who wore a t shirt to the first day of work" Caitlyn laughed.
Cisco glared."don't worry Cisco. I love your shirts" Lisa told him. Nerdy was pretty sexy too after all.
'ooh maybe i can get a lava lamp while we're here. i've always wanted one of those!' Clarity thought to herself as she eyed a lava lamp in the class room window.
"Yeah no, she'll knock it over and start a fire" Harry said with a shake of his head.
"Harry!" Cisco berated.
"What? She's a clutz Ramon! She trips over her own two feet!" Harry countered.
"She could put it on a high shelf" Cisco said.
Harry grumbled.
"So, where can we find Professor Boardman?" Kendra asked as the team walked up the steps.
"She's no fun Cisco" Lisa told him. Cisco hummed.
"In his lecture hall." Rip answered her.
"No really? Where else would a professor be?" Clarissa questioned laughing at her own personal joke thinking of Martin.
Clarity sped up a bit in excitement remembering the video of boardman her and Felicity had found years in the future. Ray felt himself again watch her light chesnut brown hair swipe across her shoulders. The bow in her hair resting just above her pony tail. The way her heels sped across the floor with a bit of an excited click. When she reached the door she gasped eyes going wide and hands flying to her mouth as she sucked in a breath and held in a shriek.
"If Clarity dates Ray I will be very disappointed" Cat said with a frown.
"What why?" Kara asked. Both of them deserved happiness after all.
"They're too similar. That's too much pep in one place Supergirl. Like forces repel opposites attract" Cat wisely stated.
"That was the way with me and Ronnie" Caitlyn pointed out.
"Felicity and I" Oliver chimed.
"Iris and me" Barry said.
"Me and Roy!" Thea screamed at the top of her lungs with a smile.
"Me and Tommy" Laurel said with a grin.
"Me and my girlfriend" Alex revealed.
"Sara would like you even more. My sisters bi. I think. Either that or a lesbian with the hots for my ex boyfriend" Laurel said.
"You have a what!?" Kara asked.
"Surprise!" Alex sung.
"Surprised. Very surprised" Kara whispered wide eyed. She was happy for her sister but at the same time she wished she knew sooner. I mean who was this mystery girl.
"what is it?" Ray asked rushing up to her the team in suit. Worry flashing in his stomach.
"He's dead obviously" Cat said with an eye roll. His brain was the size of an atom.
"Oh, man. We're too late." Kendra said. As the team came face to face with Boardman slouched dead over his type writer.
"See" Cat said with an eye roll.
"This is -I'm-I'm sorry. You. Both of you." Boardman said as he woke up from his nap not at all dead like the team had thought. He immediately woke up amazed as he saw Kendra and Carter standing before him.
"Zombie!" Cisco screamed jumping on the back of his chair in horror. He fell backwards landing in Harry's lap.
"Damnit Ramon!" Harry barked.
"Zombie!" Cisco repeated.
"Cisco he was asleep. There is no such thing as Zombie's" Caitlyn told him.
"Well..." Oliver trailed in thought.
"Hey!" Thea and Laurel yelled. Laurel on Sara's behalf.
"What? You did come back from the dead" Oliver muttered.
"You know who we are?" Carter questioned with a raised eyebrow.
"Judging by the video we saw...duh!" Felicity said.
"I've been studying you my whole life. Ever since, as a child, I first heard the story of Chay-Ara, High Priestess of Horus, the Hawk God, and her lover, Prince Khufu. I hoped and prayed this day might come." the professor said standing up from his seat.
"Does that prayer thing really work? Hmm well then...lord please let me meet Rip Hunter" Cat prayed.
"I think an alien is impersonating miss grant again" Kara whispered to Alex. Alex rolled her eyes.
"Well, then, looks like we've come to the right place." Rip breathed out a bit creeped by the man's erm reaction.
"Aren't we all" Harry said.
"I'm sorry. Who are you?" Boardman asked Rip now noticing the other members of the team.
"He's Rory Williams masquerading as the Doctor" Felicity said.
"A guy from the future's future" Barry said. Everyone gave him weird look.
"You people just don't understand time travel" Barry said shaking his head.
"You don't understand not to fuck with it" Oliver countered. Both glared at each other.
"A fellow historian, here to discuss another passion of yours: Vandal Savage." Rip said causing the other mans expression to darken considerably.
"Ha yeah. He doesn't like that name" Thea laughed.
"There's no way of telling your story without telling his also. 4,000 years ago, Vandal Savage was an Egyptian priest, secretly in love with a priestess. You. Or, rather, you in your first life. But you were in love with another. Prince Khufu. Savage, or Hath-Set as he was then known, learned of the affair and was consumed with jealous rage." Boardman told Kendra as the others stood back a ways.
"Oh great a history lesson. The main reason I dropped out of every college I went to" Oliver groaned.
"Learning is fun Ollie" Laurel said.
"We already know all this can we please fast forward?" Oliver complained.
"Now who wants to fuck with time" Barry smirked.
"I will shoot you again" Oliver said causing Barry to pale and rub his shoulder.
"Touchy" he muttered.
"You believe me yet?" Carter asked her a bit hopeful.
"I doubt it" Caitlyn said.
" Which drove him to murder you both. And prayed for the hawk god, Horus, to damn the objects of his hate for all eternity. But Chay-Ara had a prayer of her own, that Horus would protect them forever. But another life was bound to theirs by accident.
"Oh no!" Cat gasped faking drama. "Nobody cares. Get back to the better legends. These Hawks are boring" Cat scowled.
"Savage's. That's why he wants us both dead." Kendra answered
Everyone gave exasperated looks or gestures to the screen. No really!?
"My theory is that the three of you were exposed to the same radiation by the meteorites." Boardman continued on.
"Radiation? Like particle accelerator type stuff?" Joe asked.
"Maybe. But meta human powers don't cover reincarnation..." Cisco said.
"Magic?" Clarissa suggested.
"Says the wife of Martin Stein." Caitlyn laughed.
"He's not here" Clarissa smiled deviously.
"We all share the same power. And every time he kills you, it passes to him. That's what maintains his immortality."
"Didn't he already say that? By god redundant much?" Cat questioned.
"That's impossible." Martin objected.
"Here we go" Joe sighed.
"More sciencey stuff I'm guessing. The only thing I got was the Romeo and Juliet stuff with a jealous power hungry tybalt" Donna said.
"Yeah me too" Quentin frowned.
"Unless the meteorites contained a mutative element, like the particle accelerator that caused Clarity and you to gain powers." Ray argued pointing to Clarity who blushed lighlty.
"Don't get swept up by pretty boys looks! You are stronger than that!" Cat said.
"Maybe you should take your advise Miss grant" Supergirl told her.
"Excuse me?" Cat questioned.
"Nothing nothing just uh writing down in my little note pad here." Kara stammered. Cat glared suspiciously. She hummed.
"But without evidence, you're asking us to take you at your word?" Martin said disgusted with the idea.
"Does it matter how this works? We get it already! Only one of the hawks can kill him! Move on! We're not stupid! We understand! We are not idiots! Give us something! Some drama anything!" Cat groaned. This was more boring than that time she was forced to to do nothing but paperwork for her mother.
"It's not my word. It's theirs. But you still don't remember me, do you?" Boarman asked the hawks.
"Why would they remember him?" Thea asked confused.
"Ooh drama. Thank the lord" Car sighed in relief.
"We knew you in our past lives." Kendra said connecting the dots.
"Uh oh" Barry muttered.
"You've told me your entire story, stretching back through the ages, but when I first knew you, it was after World War I, and your names were Joe and Boardman.
"Holy shit! Kendra was a mother!" Cisco screamed.
"Cisco! Chill man" Barry told him.
"I dated her and she had a kid in the forty's with that guy! And apparently kinky Egyptian sex...I never stood a chance man" Cisco said slumping back down in his chair pouting.
"You were with her?" Lisa asked jealous.
"Not for long" Cisco said.
"Yeah their first date almost got Cisco killed" Caitlyn said.
"Cait not helping" Cisco snapped.
"Wait, I we were related? I don't remember you. I'm so sorry." Kendra said.
"Yeah that sucks" Barry said his mind flashing back to when his mother hadn't remembered him when he had gone back to save her. It was all too much for him. A single tear fell down his face. He wiped it away before anyone could see. No did die to his speed.
"Don't be. You always warned me that if I ran into you in your next life, you might have forgotten 's us at the World's Fair. You're just as beautiful as I remember you. Mother." Professor board mean said.
"I should've brought a picture or something" Barry muttered sorrowfully. He missed his mother so much.
"How old were you when" carter trailed.
"7" Barry whispered.
Iris heard him that time and pulled him into a hug. "Oh Barry" She said hugging him tightly realizing that this scene must have triggered his own emotions.
"Supergirl!? Are you crying?" Cat questioned.
"I just...I miss my mom" She said. Cat's eyes softened and a box of soft tissues appeared in Cat's hand. She offered the box to Kara.
"Chin up Supergirl. Earth's home now. Even though you may not have told me your secret identity you must have quite the mother" Cat said.
Roy held Thea as she cried into his chest. She wished she had forgiven her mom sooner.
"You okay?" Felicity asked Oliver holding his hand tightly.
"I will be. As soon as they stop this mother drama" Oliver said.
"I don't know what you all are sobbing about. My mother was a bitch. In fact I hope she's dead in a ditch when I get home" Cat said.
"Preach!" Caitlyn said before slamming her hand over her mouth with a wince. "Sorry Barry" she said. Barry gave her a weak smile.
" You two were murdered? Ten. My whole life, you taught me to be careful, to keep moving, always one step ahead of Savage, but after tracking you for 4,000 years, he'd gotten good. He found us in the middle of the night at a fleabag motel in North Carolina. You hid me in the closet, made me promise that no matter what I heard, I'd stay put. And I did." Professor boardman said as he told the tale of his parents murder.
"Just like me" Barry muttered.
"Sorry to interrupt your family time, but we were hoping you could tell us a bit more where to locate Savage's present whereabouts." Rip said breaking up the touching moment.
"Touching? More like sob story!" Thea said throwing popcorn at the screen.
"Aaah! Not again!" Cisco complained as popcorn went over the front row. Super girl disintegrated all the popcorn before it could hit miss grant.
"Speedy!" Oliver complained.
"Like you weren't thinking it!" Thea shot back.
"I was going to say throw a pretzel next time" Oliver told her.
"He hides in the shadows, never drawing too much attention, but every lifetime, placing himself near the seat of power, sowing seeds of destruction. Who remembers the name of the man who whispered in the ear of Gavrilo Princip, and convinced him to start World War I?" Boardman said flipping through a slideshow.
"Uh well...good point. For once. Humans suck at history recording. No wonder we need time machines" Iris said.
"Your such a journalist" Barry said making Iris grin.
" Why? What does he get out of that?" Ray asked.
"For someone so smart he's a moron"cat said shaking her head. Yet another reason she hoped Clarity wouldn't be paired with Ray. Paired? Hmm yes, Cat liked that term.
"The more the world is focused on destroying itself, the less it notices an immortal psychopath in its midst." Martin said.
"Well that's convenient" Cisco said.
" With the ultimate goal of subjugating the entire planet."boardman finished.
"Why can't villain plans be more original. Revenge or world domination." Cat sighed shaking her head.
"He killed your parents, Professor Boardman. Something tells me you know where to locate Vandal Savage." Rip said.
"Yeah, he does" Barry said knowingly.
"I have an educated guess." Boardman admitted sheepishly.
"A pretty good one" Barry said from experience.
"A lifetime of research on Vandal Savage that all points in this direction.
This should help you find him, and the vengeance that has eluded me all these years." Boardman said passing them a book.
"Stein are you alright?" clarity asked concerned as he lurched forward gripping his head. Clarity herself winced in pain biting her bottom lip. she felt a new futuristic hum of electricity in the air now. It was different than the wave riders had been. It felt similar but it wasn't the waverider. It felt like it had a higher frequency. As if it radiated danger.
"She can sense...danger? Hmm...write that down with a few question marks...and she feels pain from that at times? And will this girl stop biting her lip!" Cat seethed. She couldn't decide if her habits were endearing or annoying.
"Jefferson something's happening to Jefferson!" Stein exclaimed panicked.
"Sara's on that ship!" Laurel panicked.
"Actually Miss Lance was not on board. She and the two criminals went to a bar, drank, danced and had a bar fight" Gideon informed them.
"She did what!?" Quentin asked.
Donna patted his arm. "She's a grown up Quentin. Let the girl have some fun" Donna said.
"Like you?" Quentin questioned.
"Nothing that extreme" Donna replied.
"We seem to have a little problem back at the, uh, vessel. There's an intruder. We really must be going now. Thank you for everything." Rip said.
"Wait. We can't just leave him here." Kendra protested.
"Take him?" Barry questioned thoughtfully.
"Don't even think about it Allen. You cannot abduct your mom to the future. No. Bad idea" Harry snapped.
"But she'd be-"
"Barry! No fucking with time!" Oliver glared.
"We have to get back now" Rip argued..
"Jax is in trouble but no you can all stand around and chat!" Caitlyn fumed pissed.
"You said he's going to die in 24 hours. And we can stop it." Kendra continued to protest.
"I can stop it. I can save her" Barry muttered.
"Are either of you a Time Master? I didn't think so. I've spent years studying the implications of chronological alteration." Rip said firmly.
"Barry listen to Rip" Harry ordered.
"Good for you, but we're not going anywhere unless our son's coming with us." Carter said backing his soul mate up.
"Barry no!" Everyone yelled.
Barry hung his head.
-the field by the ship-
"Dr. Palmer, please tell me-" Rip pleaded as the heroes ran toward their ship that was indeed under attack.
" I didn't leave my exo-suit on the ship? Okay, but I'd be lying." Ray admitted.
"Why wouldn't he put it in his pocket?" Felicity asked.
"Cause he's an idiot" Oliver murmured.
" Who the hell is this guy?!" ray asked as the five of them dove behind a barrel as kronos was kept busy buy the Hawks. Rip pulled out a pistol that glowed with blue energy.
"Harry!" Cisco called.
"Yeah on it!" Harry said. "Damnit Ramon phone! Out of disk space!" Harry called. Cisco fished his out of his pocket tossing his backwards as Harry tossed his forwards the two switching phones.
"Close one" Cisco breathed.
"Is that a laser gun?" Boardman asked as rip started firing his pistol at Kronos.
"Damn right it is. I'm building a laser gun!" Cisco grinned.
"Well guns are you expertise" lisa Smiled.
"Damn right" Cisco smirked.
Rip looked at him slightly before his eyes went to clarity. "I like blue too" he said shaking his gun slightly for emphasis.
"Not him. He's mine. I'll choose to see that as platonic" Cat glared.
Clarity smiled slightly.
"No! Absolutely not Glitch!" Cat glared.
"Possessive much?" Kara muttered.
"Gotta get back to the ship and bond with me!" Stein said leaping up from the ground and making a beeline for the ship.
"Martin be careful!" Clarissa said.
"Cover me too." Ray said to Clarity he ran toward the ship to retrieve hs exo-suit.
"Hurry!" Felicity urged.
"3...2...1...Glitch!" Clarity whispered to herself as she glitched behind kronos. She was barefoot now convinced that her heels would get in the way.
"Clarity is back on my good list. Finally a superhero with a catch phrase." Cat smiled.
"Why don't i have a catch phrase?" Kara muttered.
"Crap I need a catchphrase" Barry muttered.
"Felicity I don't need a new fucking catchphrase. You have failed this city is good enough" Oliver told her.
"I was going to say I need one. I'm overwatch remember?" Felicity questioned.
Oliver groaned.
Kronos whirled around and clarity gasped. she instinctively glitched Kronos fist going straight through her as if she were a hologram. Kronos looked at his fist confused before looking up at her his head cocking to the side. Even though she couldn't see his face it was really a what the- kind of look.
"Well livewire certainly couldn't do that" Cat observed.
"That's a nifty power" Kara smiled.
"It's kind of like when I phase. Only better" Barry said cocking his head to the side.
"sorry i glitch" Clarity said with a wink before Electricity flew from her body as she sent Kronos flying back. Kronos went skidding backward his knee bent making a groove in the grass. Kronos glared behind his mask. Clarity smiled inwardly as she felt the now activated hum of Ray's exo-suit along with firestorms splicer. just when kronos was aiming for clarity who was too focused on the familiar hums to notice, a car slammed into him knocking a bomb he was prepared to throw at Rip and boardman away.
"Get's distracted way too easily" Cat said shaking her head. "Power bursts are useful" Cat added. Kara nodded scribbling down.
" We go out for one lousy drink, and you guys somehow manage to pick a fight with Boba Fett." Cold said annoyed.
"He saw Star Wars?" Cisco asked amazed that he and Captian cold shared any common ground.
"Cisco everybody's seen Star Wars" Lisa told him.
"What's Star Wars?" Kara questioned.
Cisco gasped his eyes wide fist going to his mouth. "Oh you poor poor girl" Cisco said.
Kara laughed. "I'm just messing with you. Every earth has Star Wars" Kara said.
Cisco breathed out in relief.
" Aldus!" Kendra worried over her now injured son.
"See! That's what would happen if you brought your mom to the present. Gun shot!" Harry said.
"We'll get you out of here! You're doing good." Carter praised his son as the two hawks took off into the sky.
Clarity glitched onto the ship as her teammates filed on.
"Professor Boardman has sustained severe internal injuries." Gideon informed.
"Again-"
" I get it!" Barry snapped.
"No you just think you do. There's a difference" Harry glared.
"Prepare the MedBay to receive Professor Boardman and get us out of here!" Rip ordered.
"Course heading?" Gideon questioned.
"far away from here would be nice Gid!" Clarity told Gideon making Rip look at her in interest as Gideon successfully followed her command.
"Haha yeah that's right! Hey wait does that mean...Gideon! Would you listen to me too?" Barry asked.
"Yes, as I stated before I will follow every command given to me by Clarity or you" Gideon stated.
"let's keep track Gid. Legends 1 cyberman 0."
"I love my bestie" Felicity smiled.
"Of course Clarity" Gideon responds.
"Is it bad that I'm liking this friendship?" Cisco questioned.
"No I think it's cute" Lisa said.
"thanks Gid!"
"Your welcome" Gideon responds.
"That's my Ai" Barry muttered.
"Oh Captain Hunter i must inform you that our cloaking shield and aft entrance have been significantly compromised." Gideon informed
"Ships damaged. And their not even a full day in yet" Quentin complained.
"Yes, I can see that, Gideon. Station us in the temporal zone while I work on repairs." Rip said walking briskly over to a panel.
"You mean time vortex" Felicity corrected.
"Temporal zone?"
"Yeah, it's essentially a time can hide out there for a temporal jump would risk revealing our position."
"Well that's nice" Thea frowned.
"A time limbo? Astonishing." Steain grinned.
"He needs to watch doctor who"Felicity said.
"Oh, there's something you people don't know about time travel? That's surprising, isn't it? Considering none of you have ever time traveled before!
Bringing a family member from the past onto a timeship? Breaking out and carousing around the 1970s? We've barely begun, and already this is the worst, unmitigated disaster of my career!" Rip fumed.
"Well what did you expect?" Oliver questioned annoyed at the captains lack of preparedness.
"Spotless career." Cat smiled.
Suddenly kendra punched Rip in the face and held him against the wall.
"Not the face!" Cat yelled.
"I see why you got the hots for that one." Mick whispered to Carter.
"My son is hurt because of attacked us?" Kendra snapped.
"Mama Kendra arrives" Cisco said.
"Something of a long story." Rip sighed.
"Isn't everything these days?" Laurel questioned.
"Better tell it fast, Rip, 'cause it doesn't look like the lady's in a patient mood." Cold said as suave as ever.
"The audience isn't either" Oliver said with a glare. He didn't trust this guy.
"Neither am I." Carter warned.
Rip sighed in name is works for the Council of Time former employers." Rip admitted.
"I thought you were a Time Master." Sara questioned.
"As I've expressed, time's not a linear thing. At some point I was, in fact, a Time Master." Rip said only for sara to punch him on the opposite side kendra had.
"So he's a rebel? Mm I like a dapper bad boy" Cat smirked.
"Will you people please stop hitting me?" Rip asked his jaw immeasureably sore.
"You obviously deserve it! You liar! Speaking of!" Felicity hit Oliver.
"Ow! What was that for!?" He questioned.
"For lying to me!"
"About what!?"
"I haven't figured that out yet, but something" Felicity said.
"Start telling the truth!" Sara ordered severely pissed off.
"Sara's mad. Better do what she says before my baby sis goes all badass assassin on your ass" Laurel smirked.
"I relinquished my position as a Time Master when I commandeered the was clearly sent to bring me in." Rip explained.
"Are we sure he's not the doctor?" Felicity asked.
"You lied to us." Sara accused.
"How else was he supposed to get you to come with him. I mean that's how I formed my team" oliver said.
"That's what I was hitting you for" Felicity said hitting him again.
"Of course I lied to you.I needed your help you all barely said yes as it was."
"What about the legends part?" Jax asked.
"Yeah good question" Lisa said.
"Ooh, you lied about that too, didn't you?" Snart accused.
"I chose you all because, a hundred years from now, your lives have minimal effect on the recorded timeline. I needed your help without disturbing the history of 2166." Rip admitted.
"Ouch" Caitlyn winced.
"Poor Ray" Felicity said
"Poor Clarity" Cisco remarked
"Poor Lenny" Lisa sighed
"Poor Sara" Laurel chirped
"Poor all of them. To be told they were legends and then that they were nothing? That's really got to hurt your confidence" Kara frowned.
"So, we're like the opposite of legends." Jax pointed out.
"Pretty much" Barry winced.
"Give me one good reason why we shouldn't kill you." Rory growled.
"I want him as my husband" Cat said immediately.
"Ditto the arsonist."stein said his tone clipped.
"Still such a temper Martin" Clarissa said with a frown.
"Because Gideon wouldn't listen to your commands and you'd be stuck here forever." Rip said eyes flicking to clarity waiting for her to object but she didn't. She sat down on the floor and didn't say a word.
"Too sad to say a word. She was skeptical of the hole legends thing to begin with. And after what eobard..." Cisco shook his head. It wasn't right. Messing with people like that. Manipulating them. Just like eobard. Just like the reverse flash.
"I know" Caitlyn frowned.
"Great, so we're not an elite team of heroes on a sanctioned mission, sent to rid the future of its most horrific bad guy. Just a collection of nobodies who time really doesn't give a damn about." Ray said clearly feeling the effects of rip's lie coming crashing down.
"Ooh Ray. Don't say that" Felicity frowned.
"I didn't lie about the mission itself.
Or the brutality and ruthlessness of my need for your help." Rip urged at this Clarity looked up biting her lip.
"He did need them." Alex said.
"I don't imagine you're the kind of guy who quits his job and takes on this kind of threat for altruistic reasons, so Rip, why don't you tell us: what did Vandal Savage do to you?" Ray asked him.
"Good question" Oliver said.
"The Time Masters discourage urge against procreation even more.A Time Master should be free of any personal entanglements that might compromise I fell in love, and we had a child.A boy. Jonas." Rip explained.
"Married Damn!" Cat cursed making everyone jump and look at her except for Kara.
"Savage killed your family." Ray surmised.
"Dead? Hmm maybe I can still salvage this..." Cat said.
"She's obsessed" Kara hissed.
"Hey if it gets her off your cousins back then you should be happy" Alex told her.
"He slaughtered my thousands of other that body that I swore an oath to serve turned a blind continue to turn a blind eye.I won' last thing that my child saw in this world was that monster's can be damn well sure that when Savage dies, the last face he sees will be mine." Rip vowed.
"Ooh that was hot" Cat breathed.
"I understand, given the circumstances, if you wish to return can make the jump once the repairs are done, if and when Professor Boardman stabilizes.
"He's not dead yet?" Harry complained
"I think we all need a little time to consider our options." Stein said the team leaving the room. Rip remained wondering if he still had the power to defeat savage. He also wondered idly why Gideon had listened to clarity when he specifically said not to. The girl was a bit of a puzzle.
"Cause we created her. Duh" Barry grinned.
-In a room on the wave rider-
Clarity frowned and her eyes swam with an emotion that just screamed betrayal. Another time travelling liar. Another reverse flash. She had believed him. She let him fill her with hope that she could actually be something and now it was all a lie. A mistake. A glitch. That was all she would ever be.
"Woah woah woah what the hell does that mean? No turning your name into a negative" Cisco said shaking his head.
"Cisco she's just a bit depressed right now. She'll snap out of it like that" Caitlyn told him.
"Yeah I know but...I didn't...it was never supposed to be like that..." Cisco said. He was seriously thinking about changing Clarity's name because of this.
"Watch it!" Mick snapped at Ray when a blast went off from his suit almost injuring the bald man.
"He does that when he's mopey" Felicity worried.
"Sorry. Sorry." Ray apoligized.
"What's the point of us even giving this a second thought? Rip has already seen the knows exactly what's in store for each of us." Ray said starting to rant.
"Like eobard" Barry growled.
'just like the reverse flash' Clarity thought to herself as she gripped her skirt tightly.
"Team flash thinks alike" Oliver muttered.
"They all got betrayed Oliver. What do you expect. Barry and Clarity most of all. Wells was a mentor for all of them" Felicity whispered so the seething forms of team flash couldn't hear her.
Might as well have stayed dead, 'cause the world doesn't need any of 're just a lost assassin, You're just a pair of good-for-nothing criminals-"
"Hey! He's the best brother ever!" Lisa snapped.
"My sister isn't a lost assassin! She's on a mission of self reinvention!" Laurel protested.
"I can live with that." Rory said.
"Mick never had high aspirations" Lisa told Cisco.
"Well, I can' 't live with somebody putting a cap on my destiny.I've spent my whole life working to be something greater by becoming something smaller. Then some guy comes along and tells me that being the Atom is as insignificant as an actual atom."
"Stop it! The both you! Alright that's it! No more using your super hero names in a negative context! Got it? Awesome!" Cisco said.
"At least an atom has a purpose. I'm just a glitch. A systematic error. A mistake."Clarity said the lights flickering as she spoke.
"I never meant...that's not...her name isn't supposed to be like that..." Cisco frowned blaming himself for Clarity's negative thoughts even though he knows it wasn't his fault.
"Powers react to her emotions" Cat said. The room was tense.
"That's not what he said that in his future we're nobodies, but this mission is about changing the future. I mean, if we have the power to change the world, don't you think we have the power to change our own fate?" Sara questioned.
"That a girl" Quentin said proud at Sara's positive outlook.
"For better or for worse." Snart agreed with sara.
"Ick. Sounded like a marriage vow" Lisa said scrunching her nose up.
"That's a very good point." Ray said as he silently wondered about Clarity's response. How could she think of herself as nothing? She certainly wasn't a nothing to him. Or the rest of his friends he quickly mentally tacked on.
"She was bullied pretty bad as a kid. She doesn't like to talk about it much but some scars never heel" Felicity said.
"Yeah I had those too" Barry sighed thinking of tony.
"So when are we going after mine? No one gave me a date yet" Cisco said attempting to lighten the mood.
"What do you think, Gideon?" Rip asked.
"About what?" Barry asked.
"I calculate a less than 6% likelihood that they decide to go on with the mission." Gideon said.
"The conputer's growing on me" Oliver said. But he was still skeptical of it going all i robot on them all.
"I meant about the repairs." Rip said annoyed.
"Haha that's what you get you liar" Thea said.
"And there has been another unfortunate consequence of Chronos's attack. Care to hear about it? " Gideon questioned.
"Of course there has" Caitlyn sighed. Why could nothing be easy?
"Not really." Rip responded.
The rest of the team walked in the room in time to hear Rip's little spiel after carter and kendra had told him about aldus's demise.
"Thank god it skipped it" Harry said.
"Don't torture yourself with recriminations. One of the great lessons of time travel is that many things cannot be changed. Time wants to happen. Chronos, even Vandal, won't be the only enemy we often, it will be time itself." Rip explained eyes widening a bit when the team walked in. He hadn't expected them to make up their minds so quickly if at all.
"Did you hear that Barry?" Oliver asked.
"Yes Oliver" Barry sighed.
"Whether it wants to happen or not, we're gonna change time, erase Savage's future, and earn our rightful place in history." Ray said firmly.
"Much better" Felicity said. That was the Ray she liked. Positive Ray. Like a proton.
" is correct. We may not be legends in your time, Captain, but we are going to decide our own fates." Stein said as the team gathered around the table.
"Yes you are" Clarissa smiled.
"I don't give a damn about being a legend, as long as we end Savage once and for all." Carter said shayera at his side nodding in agreement.
"True dat!" Roy grinned.
"I love it when you talk ghetto" Thea grinned.
"I know" he smirked.
"I can get down with that." Jax said.
"i'm a glitch. It would be disappointing if i didn't cause at least one in the timeline." Clarity said with a shy smirk pushing up her glasses a habit she had stolen from her roommate felicity. She had watched her friend do it so much that it became habit for her. Felicity in turn had stolen her habit of chewing on pens when she thought. Claritygave rip a slight nod. She still didn't fully trust Rip but she figured the best way to keep her friends safe from yet another time traveler was to stick close to him. Besides Savage was a huge threat and he couldn't be ignored. On the other hand Rip's emotions when speaking of his family were too real to have been faked. The emotion was to raw.
"This is awesome. Their stating their reasons like a bunch of jackasses. We can hold this over their heads forever" Roy grinned.
"This is supposed to be like a pep talk" Thea told him.
"I know but it's true" Roy told Thea.
"Did you two really do that?" Oliver asked Felicity.
"Like you and tommy never did that" Felicity countered.
"He can talk about his emotions like a real man." Cat smiled.
"And our malcontents?" Stein questioned.
" I like killing people." Rory stated
"He does" Lisa nodded.
"We're in. For now." Cold translated.
"I knew he'd be a hero" Barry smiled.
"So how do we find this guy?" Sara asked.
"Boardman's book!" Kara said snapping her fingers.
"Professor Boardman had a theory about that. I've already had Gideon plot a course." Rip said as he sat down the team going to their chairs as Rip pushed the lever forward with a new determination.
"Now the rocky start begin's miss Smoak" Gideon informed her.
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Yay! Chapter 4! Sorry that took so long! I had a bit of writers block for like ever. But it's up now! Sorry no question's this time but please please please comment because they inspire me to update. Thank you all love you! And don't forget to comment!