Episode 3: Precognition

Part 2:

The Legends were now gathered around the destroyed bridge.

"How bad is the damage?" Sara asked Zari.

"Not great," Zari said. "Without Wally's speed, it's gonna take a while to fix."

"How the bloody hell did you miss a bomb?" Constantine lit up a cigarette.

"Hey, be cool," Nate said. "It's not her fault!"

"I feel like bombs aren't typically hard to find-"

"Nate's right," Sara cut Constantine off. "Eight other engineers at the Bureau looked over the engine and didn't find it."

"Well, what's the plan, Cap?" Ray asked.

"Still the same for the most part, but a few things have changed. Zari, I want you stay here and try and fix…" Sara looked around. "...Something."

"I'll do my best," Zari said. "No promises."

"As for the rest of us," Sara continued. "Same teams and everything. Nate, John, and I are all still going to the police department."

"Can I still switch with Mick?" Nate asked.

"No," Sara said. "As for Ray's team, I still want you to go to STAR Labs, but your goal is to get Wally his powers back. Talk with Cisco and Caitlin while you're there."

"Will do," Ray said cheerfully.

"Hopefully this works," Wally said. "I'm already getting twitchy without my speed."

"Alright, Legends. You have your marching orders. Be careful out there. Even with Barry watching over Central City, we don't know what it's like in 2028."

()()()()

"Dammit, Gary! What did I say about bringing things bigger than a dog in without backup?"

Ava was observing five agents wrestling a minotaur into a cage with wheels. Gary was standing off to the side looking sheepish.

"To not to?" he replied.

"Yeah!" Ava massaged her temples. "How did you even get it in here? You've only been at work for a few hours!"

"Funny story, actually. I saw it on the time map, and I heard that you can trick a minotaur by-"

"Never mind!" Ava pulled out a pack of cigarettes and interrupted Gary. "I'm going on my smoke break. Please try not to break anything too important."

Ava left. Gary sighed and started walking away when he bumped right into Traci.

"Sorry, I-Traci? What are you doing here?"

"Hi, Gary!" Traci seemed excited to properly meet him. "The secretary told me your name, but it took me a while to find you without directions. I wanted to come in and make sure you were okay after last night."

"Oh, no no no." Gary started guiding Traci towards the nearest exit. "Look, I really appreciate your help last night, but I'm already in a lot of trouble with Director Sharpe. I need you to please leave-"

"Is that a minotaur?' Traci broke away from Gary's grip.

"What?" Gary saw the agents wrestling the minotaur away. "Oh, yeah, well, we're…."

"Studying Greek mythology?"

"Yes!" Gary started shoving her away. "It's an animatronic!"

"I just finished a book about minotaurs!" She broke away again and approached the minotaur. "It's the first book in a trilogy. It takes place in a world similar to our own, except humans and the monsters of Greek mythology roam the Earth together. It's got a sort of 'forbidden love' thing in it and-"

"That sounds-actually, that sounds really cool." Gary was starting to look it up on his phone, but then put it away. "Not right now, though. No, don't touch it!"

Traci approached the minotaur. "Relax. It's just an animatronic, right? It's really cute."

Traci touched the minotaur. The struggling creature stopped trying to wrestle off the time agents, and became docile.

"Wow." Gary was amazed.

"It feels really lifelike." Traci started scratching under its chin. "You guys did a good job. Are there any others?"

Gary approached the minotaur. "Well, we have a hydra upstairs-"

Just as Gary got close, the minotaur started bucking wildly. Traci took several steps back, while Gary fell over completely.

"I think it wants my Snickers' Bar!" He shouted.

The minotaur flung all of the agents off and made a beeline for Gary.

"Oh God. Someone do something!" Gary shielded his face in fear.

"STOP!" Traci held out her hand, which caused the minotaur to freeze in place.

"Oh yeah. Magic." Gary had almost forgotten about her apparent magical abilities.

Before anyone else could react, three tranquilizer darts landed in the minotaur's arm. It let out a roar, followed by a moan, and it collapsed. Gary turned towards the elevator, where he saw Ava and Jax standing there. Jax was holding a giant tranq gun. Every eye in the room was on them.

"Thank you, Mr. Jackson," Ava said. "Everyone not doing anything, get that minotaur out of here!"

Everyone started going about their business. Jax started shepherding agents around the minotaur, his tranq gun slung on his shoulder. Gary tried to sneak away with Traci towards the exit, but Ava held out her hand.

"Not so fast, Gary!" She motioned him to come forward. "I need to speak with you in my office. And your friend."

Gary and Traci followed Ava to the elevator. As they entered the elevator, Traci leaned over to Gary.

"I like her," Traci whispered in Gary's ear.

()()()()

Mick had to keep pushing Ray, otherwise they wouldn't get anywhere with him staring at everything.

"Look at that!" Ray pointed at the long, winding monorail. "That's awesome! I can't wait to ride it when it gets invented."

While Ray was distracted by the scenery, Wally was focused on the task at hand. The world felt...wrong. Wally felt naked without his speed, and was hoping Team Flash could find a way to fix it.

Just then, an alarm rang. The nearby bank had its doors blown off by a giant blast of fire. Out stepped a guy around Wally's age with flames coming off his hands. Wally thought he kind of looked like a younger Mick.

The police swarmed around the bank quickly. Soon enough, the attention of what felt like half of Central City was all on the fiery bank robber.

"Well, I guess we found our fire demon," Wally said.

They heard what sounded like lightning in the distance.

"What the hell is that?" Mick asked.

Wally smiled. "Central City's very own Flash, to the rescue."

A red-clad figure materialized in a bright yellow flash. His face was blurred, obscuring his features. When he spoke, his voice sounded like he was speaking into a rusty fan.

"Step away from the bank and put your hands in the air!" The Flash shouted. "Hand over any money you've taken, and we'll make this easier for everyone."

"Get lost, freak!" The fire guy was starting to flame all over his body. "What are you going to do to me? Get a giant fire-"

In the blink of an eye, the fire guy was extinguished and wearing power-dampening handcuffs in the back of a squad car.

"-extinguisher. Wait, what the hell happened!"

The crowd cheered. Flash modestly waved at the crowd. Wally, Ray, and Mick approached him.

"Wow, way to go Flash!" Ray shouted.

Wally got closer. "Yeah, good job Flash."

Flash looked from Ray, to Mick, and then to Wally. "Right on schedule."

In the blink of an eye, Wally went from the street to the interior of STAR Labs. In another second, he was joined by Ray and Mick. Flash ran off.

"Woah!" Some guy at least ten years younger than Wally approached them. "Uncle Wally! You look different."

Wally was confused. "Uh, who are-"

The young kid ran up to Ray and Mick. He was talking a mile a minute. "Ray Palmer? What are you doing here? Also, are you Mick Rory? I thought you died?"

Before anyone could say anything, the Flash reappeared, still blurring his face and voice. "Bart! Easy on the questions."

The kid called Bart did a mock-salute. "Aye aye, Cap'n."

"Wait, hold on," Wally said. "What's going on? Barry, where's everyone? Who's this guy?"

"Barry?" Bart looked confused.

"It's okay, Bart," Flash said. "It's a long story."

"What are you talking about?" Wally was almost as confused as Bart.

The Flash took off his mask, revealing that it wasn't Barry Allen they had been talking to.

It was an older Wally West.