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"And Thawne never told you what he did with Rip?" Sara asked as Mick was eating his donut.
"No, we weren't close like that."
"I know it's gotta be tough, Nate but if you need to talk…" Oliver tried to assure him as he was staring, sitting on the chair.
"I'll be fine." Nate said, not that either Oliver or Sara believed him.
"I never knew about you, guys." Sara pointed out.
"It's nothing to know." Nate shrugged. "We were just, you know, figuring it out."
"I figured it out." It hit Ray. "We've been assuming that Waverider's broadcasting using a quantum frequency…"
"But only if the quad band antenna array was in alignment." Jax realized. "Ray, you are a genius."
"I guess I am." Ray smiled. "I kinda forgot what it was like."
"So, can you reach the Waverider?" Oliver asked.
"Oliver? Is that you?" Rip called out.
"Rip?" Ray asked.
"Yes, Dr. Palmer, I've honed in on your location." Rip said.
"Well, haul ass over here and come pick us up." Jax ordered.
"There may be one small problem with that." Rip said as everyone stared to see a very small Waverider flying towards them as Mick grabbed the timeship.
"Look, it's the teeny, weenie Englishman." Mick said, amused.
"Mr. Rory, will you please stop?!" Rip yelled.
"Ah, relax." Mick let go of the Waverider.
"Why would Thawne use the Spear of Destiny to shrink you?" Sara asked as everyone stared, confused.
"I don't believe he did, I'm assuming that he used Dr. Palmer's exosuit."
It hit both Oliver and Ray. "That means…"
"He still has it in his lab. We gotta steal it back and then, we can unshrink the ship."
"And then what?" Rip asked.
"Rip, we have a plan to put reality back as it was." Sara explained.
"But you're not gonna like it." Jax warned.
Later, S.T.A.R. Labs
The Legends and Henry were sneaking into the building as Ray and Jax found the ATOM suit but Darhk and a guard ambushed them.
"I thought that Thawne should have killed you, morons, at the reactor." He lifted Jax in the air as Ray took down his henchman before Darhk started to choke him. "Then, I realized, now I get to kill the Legends myself." He laughed as Waverider fired at him but the lasers did not even phase him. "Ah, isn't that adorable? Is that the best you got?"
"How about this?" Mick said from behind as he whacked Darhk in the head with his flamethrower, knocking him out as Darhk let Jax and Ray go.
"Oliver, reinforcements will be on their way!"
"On our way, Jax." Oliver said as he, Nate, Sara and Henry were taking out the guards before approaching the lab, where was Mick, Jax and Ray as he enlarged the Waverider and they escaped in the timestream.
1916, Somme, France
The Waverider landed back in Somme as Rip looked annoyed.
"We have returned to the Battle of Somme in 1916."
"And apparently, we're ready to destroy time itself by interfering in events that we've already participated in." Rip grumbled.
"If that's what it takes to save Amaya, count me in." Nate said.
"There's no way I'm letting Grey go out as one of Thawne's lackeys." Jax agreed.
"If I can save Henry from making a biggest mistake of his life, I'll do it." Oliver nodded.
"No offense." Sara turned to Henry.
"None taken." He shrugged.
"Doomworld needs to be stopped, whatever the cost." Oliver vowed.
"Like time, reality needs to set." Rip explained. "Essentially, we're in a race, not against time but from a reality wave initiating from 2017."
"Which means we gotta hurry." Henry realized.
"At the very least, we need to mitigate the scope of the time paradox by avoiding contact with our former selves at all costs." Rip warned.
"So, we need to avoid interacting with our past selves." Oliver pointed out. "We already know where the Blood of Christ is. We just need to give them breadcrumbs to follow."
"I got a question." Jax asked. "What happens to us, when our former selves destroy the Spear?"
"Well, we… cease to exist." Rip said uncomfortably.
"Because we never would have existed if the Legion hadn't gotten the Spear." Nate explained.
"You're saying we are the aberrations." Ray realized.
"In order to save the world, we need to erase ourselves." Sara pointed out.
"Why don't we just go to Aruba, get drunk…" Everyone ignored Mick as they left. "Sunshine, mai tais, girls in bikinis…"
"Henry, you're staying here." Oliver ordered as Henry stopped himself.
"Oliver, I want to help. I never meant for any of this to happen…"
"I know that… but… it's better if our past versions will never know that…"
Henry nodded in understanding. "OK, I'll stay."
Somme, France
Oliver, Sara and Rip were watching Ray picking the vial in the battlefield before Thawne snatched it from his hands.
"I knew you idiots would come back from 2017." Thawne smiled. "Apart from being incredibly stupid, you are just so predictable."
"Give me back the vial!" Ray aimed at Thawne, who crushed it.
"What vial?"
"Ray, get out of there!" Oliver yelled.
"You know, my allies keep giving me the same, simple piece of advice." Thawne neared Ray as he ripped his heart out of his chest as Ray stared for a moment before dropping down on the ground, while Sara looked shocked and was about to intervene.
"Sara, no!" Oliver ordered.
"You're gonna get yourself killed!" Rip snapped. "He's gone!" He held Sara's arms.
Waverider
"Haircut said it himself, we're aberrations living on borrowed time, besides, he's alive and well in 2016." Mick shrugged.
"Mick's right, the mission hasn't changed." Oliver nodded.
"Except we can't destroy the Spear because we don't have the blood of Christ." Nate pointed out.
"So, we steal the Spear and get it out of 1916." Sara suggested.
"But there's a catch. The other us's have the Spear." Oliver pointed out.
"He's right." Rip nodded.
"So, we take it back." Henry suggested.
"We cannot interact with our past selves." Rip groaned.
"Which is why the three of you are gonna sneak into the other Waverider, while the other you's are at the church."
"Sounds like a plan." Jax nodded.
Somme, France
Darhk was meeting with Snart as Thawne showed up with past versions of Henry Fyff and Malcolm Merlyn.
"Gentlemen."
"What the hell is going on here?" Malcolm demanded.
"That's what I was gonna ask." Darhk supplied. "Aren't you two supposed to be searching for the Kalabros Manuscript?"
"We were." Henry nodded.
"And I found them and brought them here. We no longer need the Manuscript." Thawne said. "We have a different problem, the Legends are here."
"We know, I just punched Mick." Snart shrugged.
"Not those Legends." Thawne corrected. "And I'm not your Eobard, I'm from the future."
"You already told us that, Speedy." Henry muttered sarcastically.
"I mean your future." Thawne sighed. "One, where we have the Spear of Destiny and the Legends from that future are here now too."
"Wait, there are two sets of Legends?" Malcolm asked.
"Who are the Legends?" Henry asked, confused.
"Just some jerks, who want to get to the Spear before us." Darhk said.
"Just deal with them." Thawne ordered as he turned around.
"Where do you think you're going?" Darhk demanded.
"To get backup." Thawne said before zapping out as Darhk spat his coffee.
"I hate it when he does that."
Rip, Nate and Mick entered the past Waverider as their past selves were going out but at the corridor, past Oliver stopped them. "I thought you were going to the church."
"So we did and now we're back." Nate said nervously.
"The church was a dead end, I'm afraid." Rip asked.
"Wait, where's Ray?" Oliver asked.
"He is returning Lieutenant Tolkien to the field hospital." Rip said hesitantly as past Sara showed up, staring and measuring them.
"You guys alright?"
"Just seeing double." Mick shrugged.
"Yeah, we're fine." Nate said. "I just need to go to the library to, you know, locate Christ's blood."
"I need to run some repairs on Gideon." Rip said.
"And I need to get the Spear… the beer." Mick corrected himself as they walked down the hallway.
Nate was talking with past Jax and Stein in the library. "I thought you and Lieutenant Tolkien were going to the church at Amiens."
"Yeah, that didn't work out but I did happen to find the…" Nate stopped himself as Amaya showed up.
"Nate?"
"I was… I was just saying that… I believe I found the final resting place of Sir Gawain." Nate stuttered out.
"So, do you wanna tell us?" Jax asked.
"Are you feeling alright?" Amaya asked.
"You look like you've seen a ghost." Stein pointed out.
"Yeah, I'm fine, sorry."
"Away team, what's your status?" Oliver called out.
"We have the Spear but Dr. Heywood is running behind." Rip explained.
"What the hell is he doing?" Jax asked as Sara peeked out from the cover, seeing the past versions of Mick, Ray, Rip, Nate and Tolkien entering the Waverider.
"Guys, stay put, your old selves are back." Sara ordered.
"Hang on, you mean that we've returned from the church?" Rip asked.
"Yeah. If you leave the ship now, they'll see you and the time will fold onto itself." Oliver said. "You're trapped in there."
"Good one!" Mick snapped at Nate.
Oliver, Sara and Jax approached the past versions of Mick, Rip, Ray and Nate as they tried to distract them. "We have a problem, the ship is broken, guys."
"What Oliver means is that there's a radiation leak." Jax stammered.
"Radiation leak?" Ray scowled.
"Yes and it's very dangerous and we need to keep our distance, so if you could just follow me this way…" Sara said.
"Wait, where's Amaya?" Past Nate asked.
"She's safe, Nate." Oliver tried to assure him.
"We got everyone off the ship right now." Sara added.
"Except Grey, who's working on fixing the ship right now." Jax supplied.
"I thought you said it was too dangerous to be on board." Rip argued.
"What's a little radiation for one half of Firestorm?" Sara shrugged.
Past Waverider
"Something's wrong." Past Oliver told Past Jax and Past Sara.
"Yeah, Rip said that they turned Gideon offline for an efficiency scan, which should have been done by now." Past Jax said.
"How strange." Stein mused.
"Yeah, like how Nate was acting in the library." Amaya agreed.
"Shouldn't Raymond be back from returning Tolkien to his regiment?" Stein inquired.
"Ray, what's your 20?" Past Sara called out.
Amiens
"I'm standing right in front of you." Ray said, confused.
Past Waverider
Oliver and Sara stared at each other as Stein shot up from his chair. "Ray, whoever that is, it's an imposter, take her out!"
"What about the other Jax and Oliver?"
"Wait, there are fake versions of us too?" Jax interjected.
"Yeah." Ray nodded.
"Take them down, now!" Oliver ordered.
Amiens
"With pleasure." Past Mick said as he attacked Jax, while he, Sara and Oliver were trying to defend themselves but as Past Nate steeled up, he knocked Sara out.
"Stop!" Henry yelled as he showed up.
"Henry, what are you doing here?" Ray widened his eyes.
Henry took a deep breath. "They're not fakes, guys. They're real."
"What do you mean?" Ray demanded.
"This is the genuine Miss Lance and Mr. Queen." Rip explained as he examined Sara and Oliver closely.
"But you told us never to revisit our past." Ray demanded. "Why would they do this?"
Henry sighed, ready for an unpleasant conversation.
Past Waverider
"What is going on here?" Past Oliver demanded as the past Legends were facing Henry and the Legends from Doomworld.
"Believe it or not, we are actually future iterations of yourselves who have travelled back in time to prevent some form of calamity." Rip said quickly.
"I don't believe it." Past Sara scoffed as she held the Spear. "Why would Rip Hunter break the first rule of time travel?"
"I'm asking myself the very same question." Rip muttered.
The past Rip entered as he saw himself across the room as both Rips groaned. "Oh, bollocks."
In that moment, the ship trembled.
"What the hell was that?" Past Jax demanded.
"It's a timequake." Rip snapped.
"The result of us interacting with ourselves." Past Rip added.
"That wasn't so bad." Nate muttered.
"Yeah, give it time." Rip scoffed.
"Whose bright idea was it to do the one thing that could jeopardize all of time?" Past Sara demanded.
"Yours." Sara said.
"I can't believe that even we would do anything so foolish, unless something went terribly wrong the first time you were here." Stein said incredulously.
"Uh, I can't help but notice…" Ray said hesitantly.
"Not all of us came back with you."
"And what are you doing here, Henry?" Past Oliver demanded.
"What happens to us in the future?" Past Nate asked as the Legends from the Doomworld stared down, while Mick pointed at Ray.
"Well, dead…" He pointed at Amaya next. "Dead." He then pointed at Stein. "Good as dead."
"The Spear ended up in Legion's hands." Henry explained. "They recruited me from the past to help them use it."
"Why would you do that?" Past Sara demanded as Past Oliver widened his eyes in disbelief.
"I got low." Henry sighed as he looked remorseful and Past Oliver and Past Sara recognized the look in his eyes as it hit them.
"Ashley." Oliver whispered as Henry nodded.
"They promised to bring her back if I helped them. But I didn't know that I was making a pact with the devil. I just want to fix this."
"If we prevent the Legion from ever getting the Spear in the first place, everything goes back to normal and you all get to live." Sara said as Past Sara left the cockpit with the Spear.
Past Oliver, Sara and Henry followed Past Sara in the dining room. "It's not on you, Sara." Henry assured her.
"Do you wish you had used this?" Past Sara asked.
"No." Sara said.
"Why not?" Past Oliver asked. "You could have stopped all this. You could have erased the Legion of Doom from existence."
"You could have kept your team alive." Past Sara pointed out.
"It's not that simple." Henry warned. "It draws on our desires, weaknesses, hatred. The Legion used it to enslave you all and have everything they wanted. They offered me a chance to have my family back and I took it without even thinking about the consequences." He said guiltily. "This is all my fault."
"You just wanted your daughter back and you took the first chance you could get, when you were still grieving." Past Oliver assured him. "I don't blame you."
"But you see why you can't use it." Henry pointed out. "It's too much power for anyone to wield."
Later, the ship started to tremble. "Another timequake?" Past Oliver asked.
"Someone's firing at us." Past Jax corrected.
"Captain, our shields are nearly depleted." Gideon said.
"Copy that." Past Sara and present Sara said as they both tried to take the control.
"That was a bit powerful for World War I artillery." Amaya grumbled.
Darhk, Malcolm, Snart and Past Henry were firing at the ship with blasters and cold gun
"We need to time jump!" Past Oliver ordered.
"Traveling with our past selves could create an exponentially larger paradox than we have already created!" Rip yelled.
"We can't let the Legion get their hands on the Spear!" Sara said as the Waverider tried to time jump but it got stuck in the timestorm as it crashed on the ground.
"Now what?" Past Oliver sighed.
"How far do you think we'll be able to make it out there?" Past Sara asked.
"You want us to time jump again?" Ray asked. "You saw what just happened."
"We won't be time jumping together." Aberration Sara said.
"You're not coming with us." Amaya realized.
"This has always been a one-way ticket for us." Nate said.
"You need to get the Spear away from here." Sara ordered.
"We'll keep the Legion busy." Henry said as Past Oliver stared.
"Henry, you can't, if they kill you…"
"They already have a past version of me with them, Oliver." Henry said. "It's not like I'm gonna blink out of existence. Just make things right."
"We will." Past Sara promised.
The past and aberration versions of the Legends were facing Past Henry, Malcolm Merlyn, Snart and Damien Darhk as they rushed at them.
Then, the blasters Past Henry, Darhk and Malcolm had, ran out of power as Darhk growled. "Damn it."
"Damien, Henry, I think we should go back to basics." Malcolm quipped
"Yeah, you're right." Darhk agreed. "Killing's gotten so gosh darn impersonal lately." He pulled out his sword, while Malcolm readied his bow and Past Henry pulled out his gun as Snart shot Ray down and Malcolm hit Firestorm with an arrow, causing for Stein and original Jax to separate before Jax from Doomworld rushed and shielded Stein from another arrow that Malcolm fired, killing Jax from aberration timeline and the original Jax grabbed an arrow from Malcolm's quiver and stabbed him in the knee before knocking him out.
Aberration Mick attacked Darhk as he pinned him down but Snart shot him dead as Ray yelled. "Mick, no!" Then, the original Mick fired and knocked Snart on the ground as Ray stared.
"What's your problem?"
"You… you're alive." Ray approached him before Mick stopped him.
"You hug me, I'll kill you!"
"OK, later."
"Hey, the Waverider's around…" Darhk stabbed aberration Nate in his chest as he collapsed.
"I thought you were made of steel."
"Get the spear out of here." Past Oliver ordered as he handed Rip the Spear.
"I've been waiting for this." Darhk sneered as Past Oliver grabbed a sword and engaged Darhk.
Aberration Sara and Oliver, Past Sara and Amaya heard a click of a gun as they faced Past Henry as they turned around.
"Henry, don't do this." Past Sara said. "This is wrong and you know it. Deep down, you know that working with the Legion isn't the right way."
Past Henry looked around as he felt guilty. "All I wanted was my daughter back. They promised…" He took a breath. "All those people…"
"We can still fix this." Aberration Henry promised as he stepped up. "It's not too late to do the right thing."
"Even if it means not having Ashley back?" Past Henry asked with wet eyes. "I have nothing left… my sister… I can't hurt her too…"
"We can protect your family. You still have us. We're your friends." Aberration Oliver promised. "You need to help us stop the Legion, Henry. Please."
Past Henry lowered his gun.
The Legends converged at once with the Spear.
"Can't believe we made it." Ray quipped.
"Don't jinx it." Aberration Sara warned as the Reverse-Flash circled around them.
"Aw, he jinxed it!" Jax groaned.
"Not again." Past Oliver sighed.
"I hate that guy." Mick growled.
The Reverse-Flash knocked Rip out as he appeared in front of them with multiple versions of himself, who surrounded the Legends. "Not that guy. These guys! You travelled back in time to help yourselves, I figured I could do the same. You know, it's true what they say. If you want something done right, you really have to do it yourself. Give me the Spear and I'll spare your team."
"Go to hell." Aberration Oliver snarled.
"No. I'll make a hell for you." Thawne promised. "Do you really want to lose another one? Last chance."
"Use the Spear." Amaya whispered. The Reverse-Flashes attacked as Oliver started to say the incantation.
"B'khi-eel. Ah-ash-lem-tu-on. K'i-aheen. Kh'det Bay-all-ma-ah."
The Legends were trying to fend off the army of Reverse-Flashes as Oliver struggled.
"I can't do it."
"I believe in you. You can do it." Past Rip said. "You're stronger than you know."
Oliver used the Spear, when suddenly…
Oliver was in Queen Manor on the stairwell, facing Robert as below them was a party, where Sara, Laurel and their daughter Ashley, Roy, Thea and Tommy were mingling.
"This is not real." Oliver said. "It's the Spear doing it. You're not real." He stared at his father.
"But it can be, son." Robert smiled. "You can remake reality how you see fit."
Oliver looked at the Spear. "All that power… all I wanted was to honor you, Dad… right your wrongs. But I failed. I couldn't stop Malcolm from destroying the Glades, Tommy becoming Prometheus, Mom's death… and what Malcolm turned Thea into…, Darhk exposing me… no matter how hard I try… even though I win, I lose something."
"You can't achieve victory without sacrifices, son." Robert pointed out as he handed Oliver the Spear.
"The Gambit, Lian Yu, Yao Fei and Shado, Malcolm, Slade, your suicide and Mom dying… Darhk exposing me…" Oliver stared at the Spear. "I can take it all back."
"Then why won't you?" Robert smiled.
"Because it wouldn't come down to this then." Oliver realized. "I failed you, Dad. I'm sorry."
"You could never fail me, Oliver." Robert assured him. "You've grown… and what you've achieved… I couldn't ask for a better son, Oliver. I'm proud of what you've been trying to do. And with the right people at your side, you'll never fail me."
"What should I do, Dad?" Oliver asked as he looked at his friends down at the ground floor, his friends and family enjoying themselves.
"Survive. And be a better father and a friend that I could ever have been." Robert said as he held Oliver's shoulder. "That's all I need you to do."
"I love you, Dad." Oliver hugged Robert, with his eyes going wet.
"I love you, son." Robert embraced him as the vision vanished.
Thawne snatched the Spear from his hand as he appeared in front of the Legends. "Too slow, Mr. Queen. Far too slow. To think that you had actual godhood literally in your grasp." Oliver and Sara glared at Thawne. "Well, I'm not going to make the mistake I made the first time, I'm going to erase you all from existence." He pointed at everyone as he used the Spear. "B'khi-eel. Ah-ash-lem-tu-on. K'i-aheen. Kh'det Bay-all-ma-ah." But Thawne stared in surprise as nothing happened.
"I may have made one small change to reality." Oliver quipped.
"You depowered the Spear." Thawne smirked as he examined the weapon. "Well, I guess we'll have to do this the old-fashioned way." He aimed the spear at Oliver as Aberration Sara stepped up, shielding him. "I'm going to drive this through your heart."
Then, he heard a monstrous roar as a zombified version of the Flash, the Black Flash, Hunter Zolomon, appeared out of nowhere.
"Yeah, about that…" Sara smirked as Thawne paled.
"No…" Thawne tried to run away as the Black Flash vibrated his hand through Thawne's chest as he was disintegrating, screaming as he was being erased from existence before the Black Flash and Thawne vanished.
"You did it." Aberration Oliver smiled.
"Would you have done any differently?" Past Oliver asked as Aberration Henry, Sara and Oliver were vanishing slowly.
"Remember, Legends never die." Aberration Sara said before disappearing.
Past Henry picked the Spear as he looked sad. "All that power… all I wanted was…"
"I know." Oliver said as he held his hand. "But you still can see her."
"But you…" Henry stared.
"We just made sure that Thawne can't use it anymore." Sara promised. "But you can have your daughter back, if you want."
Henry looked around at the devastation. "Seeing what people are willing to do to use it… I'm not sure it's worth it anymore. Besides… something tells me you know what happens to me." He smiled at Sara and Oliver.
"Don't you want to at least see her once again?" Oliver asked as he held the Spear.
Suddenly, Henry was in a small room as his daughter was in bed, now around twelve years old, sleeping, while Henry caressed her cheek. "Hey, Dad." She said weakly as she was waking up.
"You OK, honey?"
Ashley nodded. "Are you alright, Dad?"
"I'm just thinking… if you'd lost me and you had the power to bring me back… would you have used it?"
"Why are you asking?" Ashley asked as she got up. "Is…"
"I'm just thinking… one day, I won't be here. One day, you'll be on your own, despite Aunt Nicole and Barbara trying to be there for you. And if you could get me and your mother back somehow…"
Ashley stared at him for a moment. "Remember, what Mom said before she died in the hospital?" Henry nodded. "That no matter what, tragedies may hurt us but they can make us stronger. That she'll always love us no matter what and that she's watching over us. And as long as we have each other, we're never too far apart. I still think of her and she'll always be with me. And you and her will always be my family, Dad."
"But if I lost you…" Henry looked guiltily as he remembered torturing and killing Shadowspire agents. "I don't know what would I do."
"I don't believe that you'll lose me, Dad." Ashley promised as she held his hand. "I think I'll always be with you…" She tapped his heart. "Here. Every day, I remember Mom as she was, smiling and happy with us. That's what keeps me going. And I know you're strong enough too."
Henry smiled as he hugged her tightly. "I love you, honey." He said with tears in his eyes forming.
"I love you too, Dad." Ashley returned the hug.
"I don't want to let you go, baby. I don't want to be without you…" Henry sobbed out.
"You're never without me, Dad. I promise…" She promised as the vision ended.
Henry let go of the Spear as his eyes were getting wet. "You OK?" Sara asked.
After a moment, Henry took a breath. "Yeah. I will be." He turned to Sara and Oliver.
"Don't you want your daughter back?" Oliver asked.
"Something tells me that even without her, I'll be fine. Will I?" Henry asked as Sara and Oliver shrugged.
"Things will go bad at first… but… one day, we'll become very good friends and you'll help us become heroes." Oliver promised. "You may believe that you're not a good person but you're wrong. We still believe in you."
"What happens now?" Henry asked.
So, what do you guys think about it? The next chapter will be a concluding epilogue to the story.
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