The four legends crashed in the middle of the hallway and Clarity hissed in pain as her head slammed against the door.
"Ow. Damnit that hurt" Clarity said with a wince of pain gripping her head in annoyance. Snart pulled her over to his side of the hallway as gently but as quickly as he could.
"You know you should try and aim where you Glitch" Snart told her.
"It doesn't work like that and I was a little preoccupied trying to not land right in front of the cyberman" Clarity responded as Snart helped her stand up.
"You okay?" Sara asked Clarity getting up herself knowing that she must be in pain again.
"Yeah I'm fine. Rip and Snart need help. You guys go get your weapons I'll stall" Clarity told them.
"But Clarity-"
Clarity shot Rip a 'help me out here' sort of look.
"It's an order. Your less likely to get killed with , Stein, Jax I want the three of you to get to the jumpship and get the hell out of here" Rip ordered from the opposite side of the hallway.
"No way man! We are not abandoning you!" Jax exclaimed.
"That is out of the question" Stein agreed.
"I can fight" Kendra said annoyed.
"You're our back up. Something happens to us you three get to play hero and save our asses. Now go!" Snart said getting pissed that everyone was just standing around when chronos was on the other side of that door doing God knows what to the ships controls.
Sara and Ray went running to get their weapons and get their suits on as Jax, Stein, and Kendra went running to the jump ship.
"Gideon open the doors on my mark. Ready?" Rip questioned his hand hovering over the pad to open the door. His other hand on his gun. Snart and Clarity nodded.
"Now Gideon" Rip said running into the room with a yell firing a few blasts at chronos before taking cover behind a chair. Snart following with a blast of his own from beside him.
Clarity's hands flew out electricity covering Chronos's gun. It started to glow dangerously bright and a menacing crackling sound was heard coming from the gun. Chronos chucked it away from him at the three just in time as it exploded. Clarity placed her hands on Snart and Rip's shoulders the blast passing right through them.
"Rude!" Clarity exclaimed glitching over to him.
"Whatever you say Sparky" Chronos said lowly making Clarity freeze. Her eyes went wide. She paled considerably. The lights flickered. No it couldn't be.
Before Clarity could confirm her suspiscions chronos threw a punch but like all the other times it passed right through her.
"Don't you learn?" Clarity questioned spinning doing a double high kick at his head making him stumble back.
"Do you ever stop talking?" Chronos questioned back the two fighting.
"Do you ever stop trying to kill us!?" Clarity shot back her palm covering with electricity chronos going flying back slamming against the wall her eyes glowing entire body ached, her heart felt like it was being torn apart by throwing needles going every which way, and her head was killing her. Lightning traveled along the surface of her skin and the lights flickered menacingly. Rip got a feeling of dejavu as lightning wrapped around Chronos's form in the same manner that it had to Rip.
Chronos struggled attempting to move but he could barely twitch a pinky with the metal suit he was wearing.
"Are you telling me you could have done that the whole time!?" Snart exclaimed.
Clarity laughed nervously. "Well I umm...yes?" Clarity admitted it coming out like a question.
"Your something else you know that?" Snart questioned.
"I know" Clarity responded with that breathtaking smile of hers.
"Nice ring" Chronos said from where he was stuck to the wall.
"It was from a friend" Clarity replied.
"Stupid friend" Chronos replied and suddenly Chronos lept off the wall his suit surrounded by a white glow that caused Clarity's lightning to dissipate. Before any of them could react to his suits new ability Chronos punched Clarity sending her flying her head crashing into the console knocking her out.
"Your going to pay for that" Snart said firing his gun at him. The glow changed to red and the ice melted off him turning to water.
"No I'm not" Chronos replied and punched Snart knocking him out as well. Then he bashed Rip with snart's gun making him fall to the ground unconscious as well.
"Now better get out of here before haircut and the rest show up" Mick said talking to himself once he was done messing with the ships navigation system. He swung Snart over his shoulder and bent down next to Clarity.
"Time to Glitch us out of here Sparky" Chronos said inserting a needle into clarity's neck. He pressed a few buttons on his wrist cuff before the three Glitched away safely back to Mick's ship.
A moment to late Ray, Sara, firestorm, and Kendra all came running into the room.
"Rip!" Sara exclaimed seeing the captain lying on the floor. The team running over to him trying to rouse him.
"Oh, hey, hey, hey." Jax said coming up on Rip's otherside unnerving with Stein.
"Where's Chronos?" Rip questioned groggily sitting up. His eyes firmly fixated on the spot where clarity had lied.
"He absconded with and Clarity. There was nothing I could do. I'm sorry, Captain." Gideon replied.
"Gideon how'd they get away? The jumpship is still there" Sara questioned.
"Why would Chronos take Snart and Clarity?" Jax asked confused.
"I'm afraid he used Clarity's abilities to escape." Gideon answered.
"Gideon, can you track them?" Stein questioned.
"We have a more pressing yourselves in."Rip told the team as the ship shook.
"What's going on?" Sara asked.
"Chronos has sabotaged the navigation system.
Unless we can find a way to alter the course, we'll be trapped in the Temporal Zone for all time." Rip said hastily crouching down to the side of the console.
"Gideon. Can't Gideon do something?" Ray questioned as he got in his seat.
"Gideon cannot override Chronos' commands." Rip answered fiddling with some blocks and wires in the console.
"What did you do?" Sara asked.
"Rebooted Gideon." Rip answered.
"Why!?" Kendra questioned.
"Until she's fully operational, we're free-falling through time." Rip answered and everyone screamed as the ship started plummeting through the time stream.
-with Clarity and Snart-
"Uh, hello?" Snart questioned Chronos in annoyance as he walked right past them. Paying them no mind.
"So, uh what's so special about me and Glitch? I mean, aside from our sparkling personalities
back on the Waverider. You could've taken your boy, Rip. But you took us ?" Snart questioned still trying to get out of his cuffs. He didn't like that he put him and Clarity on opposite sides and from the look of Clarity's cuffs they dampened her powers like those nifty cells at Star labs.
"Hey, if you're gonna kill us, you could at least tell us what's going on." Snart said not liking being ignored.
"You should have figured it out by now, Sparky sure did" Chronos replied back still turned. Snart turned his head to Clarity.
"What's he talking about?" Snart questioned Clarity. Clarity didn't answer. She merely stared at Chronos's back with a haunted look in her eyes as she sat completely still.
"After all," Chronos began turning around his hands going to his helmet.
"I am supposed to be the dumb one." He finished crouching in front of Snart who now looked horrified as well. His eyes watering slightly as his emotions cracked from his normally icy facade.
"No..." Clarity whispered softly as Mick's face was finally revealed. Not again. Not another friend who turned out to be evil. Why? Why? Did it have to be Mick? Why? This wasn't fair. Why did this keep happening to her?
"How?" Snart questioned in a twisted emotion of disbelief and horror.
Mick stared at him emotionlessly.
"I think We deserve to know what the hell is going on here!" Snart exclaimed his voice raised in anger.
"You deserve nothing." Mick responded calmly. Their roles reserved for once as Mick was calm and Snart was not.
"Says the man who sold us out to the pirates. When I dropped you off in that forest, I meant to kill you. That was the plan. But Clarity convinced me to think up a better one where you would live" Snart said.
"You should've stuck with the plan and done me a favor instead of listening to some hero" Mick said turning to Clarity who looked at him with watery eyes. This was all her fault. She looked away from mick biting her bottom lip gripping onto the rail so tight her knuckles turned white. Mick eyed the ring on her finger once again. He couldn't believe she was actually wearing that stupid thing.
"I may not have trusted you on the ship with the team, but I always, always was coming back for you." Snart said trying to convince Mick that he never meant for this to happen to him.
"Seems like one of us lost track of time." Mick remarked still staring at Clarity's finger as he recalled sitting in that dumb cell with the English man. Pulling the wire from a loose panel behind him going through the effort of twisting it round and round like the time masters tried to twist his soul.
"Well, how long did you" Snart questioned unsure if he wanted to know the answer.
"By the time they found me, I'd nearly lost my mind.I was so weak, I was strangling rats to survive." Mick told him.
"When who found you?" Snart asked hoping it wasn't who he thought.
"The Time masters" Clarity said and Mick nodded.
"Very good Sparky, The Time Masters. They took me to a place called the Vanishing Point. Time doesn't exist there the way it does on Earth. I've spent lifetimes being restored by them, training by them, fighting by them being reborn." Mick explained standing up to stretch his legs and walk around.
"And, uh, when exactly did your new friends give you the, uh, lobotomy?" Snart questioned.
"You think I was hunting you and your friends because the Time Masters made me? They barely had to ask." Mick told Snart.
"But we're your friends" Clarity said her voice soft. You could hear the pain in her tone but Snart couldn't tell if that was from her recent dousing or Mick's sudden reveal.
Mick laughed. He actually laughed a real laugh that came from deep inside his belly reverberating around the room. This unnerved Snart and made him lean back where he sat trying to distance himself from his partner.
"My friends!? You think anyone on that tin can was my friend!? You think you were ever my friend?" Mick questioned getting as close as he could to her his voice laced in anger like a wild dog ready to snap.
"Yes.." Clarity admitted. Mick gave another dark chuckle slightly shaking his head.
"The Englishman never wanted me on that ship to begin with, the professor and the kid they saw me as a drunk low life, Blondie would sleep with a few more knives under her pillow, Snart wanted to fly solo but was to scared to leave me in central, the Hawks well I don't even give a damn bout them, haircut may have taken that beating for me, but he was quick to turn on me and you, Sparky, are the worst of them all" Mick said.
"Why?" Clarity asked shakily. Had they really treated him that poorly? What kind of heroes were they?
"You stole my Partner, you changed him, helped stick some ideas in him that made him a hero, but that's not as worse as what you did next. Do you wanna know what you did Sparky? Well, I'll tell ya anyways" Mick told her as a tear fell from her right eye.
"You made me believe that someone actually cared about me" Mick said.
"I do care about you" Clarity said shaking her head helplessly grabbing onto Mick's armour sleeve clutching onto it desperately.
"If that were true you wouldn't have let Snart strand me in the woods." Mick replied tearing his sleeve out of her grip standing up.
"Look, if you're gonna kill me, just do it already, but leave Clarity alone. I was the one who left you stranded out there Mick. She barely had anything to do with it! She's in enough pain as it is" Snart exclaimed.
"I'm not gonna kill you. I'm going to do something worse" Mick replied.
"Torture? That's original" Snart replied. Mick chuckled darkly.
"Your going to wish I killed you when I'm through. After I wipe out the rest of the team I'm gonna take a trip back to Central City and visit your baby sister." Mick said an image of Lisa popping up on the screen. Snart thrashed attempting to break out of his cuffs and strangle Mick or kick the crap out of him but the cuffs were way to thick and high tech.
"The beautiful thing about time travel is I get to kill her more than once.I can kill Lisa in front of you, go back in time, kill her in front of you again and again and again." Mick said.
"What about me?" Clarity questioned turning Mick's attention back onto her. Before he could answer the Ai spoke up.
"Sir, my scanners indicate that the waverider has made a full recovery and has now stabilized." The Ai informed.
"Chart a course in the opposite direction. I want this to be fun." Mick ordered the AI.
"Mick please don't do this" Clarity said shaking her head.
"Sorry Sparky, I used to think the most beautiful thing on Earth was fire. Now I know it's vengeance." Mick told her.
"Would you mind loosening these up a little bit before you leave?" Snart tried but Mick walked right past them to the gun rack at the end of the hall swinging a giant gun over his shoulder.
"Just out of curiosity, what do you think your new masters are gonna do with you once you've delivered the team up to them? I don't expect there's a pension plan for old bounty hunters.
Once they get what they want from you, they're gonna toss you aside." Snart told him.
"Like you tossed me aside?" Mick shot back.
"You and I both made choices that led us to this matters, Mick, is your next I'm willing to bet that some little piece of the old you is in that armor somewhere." Snart told him.
"No. You're wrong." Mick replied.
"That can't be true" Clarity said pleadingly.
"There's nothing left" Mick replied walking off going to go take a long overdue map.
"we've got to get out of here. Mick's going to make another attempt on the team. Set a trap for them or something" Clarity told Snart.
"Well I can't get out of my cuffs and you can't get out of your cuffs. So what are we supposed to do!?" Leonard snapped.
"I don't know yet" Clarity replied looking around trying to think.
-back on the waverider-
"Is it over? Are we dead?" Ray questioned his eyes squeezed shut.
"No on the contrary Dr. Palmer we are all just fine" Rip told him getting up out of his seat.
"I doubt the same can be said for Snart and Clarity" Stein attempted to Say but all that came out was gibberish.
"You are suffering from linguistic 's a side effect of such a severe time jump." Rip told him.
"I can't hear anything." Jax said pointing to his ears.
"It'll pass." Rip told him.
"What?" Jax called as Sara threw up next to him over the side of her chair. Ray rubbed her back. The only thing Ray lost was his sense of smell.
"Gideon, status update" Rip said strolling to the console.
"Systems are back to normal captain. However I have lost all traces of Chronos's ship when my system rebooted" Gideon informed.
"So we have no way of finding Clarity and Snart?" Kendra asked standing up.
"No no there's always something. Leaving them with Chronos is not an option." Rip said shaking his head.
Ray grinned at Rip and the captain looked at him confused.
"What?" Rip questioned hoping that Ray had just come up with a brilliant idea.
"Nothing, it's just for a second you kinda sounded an awful lot like Clarity" Ray told him. Rip merely hummed in response disappointed that an idea hadn't been made.
"So if we lost track of the ship I guess there's just no way to find them" Kendra said holding her arms.
"You know if I didn't know any better I'd say that you were giving up before we even started" Jax told Kendra his hearing returning.
"Yeah it almost sounds like you don't want us to rescue them" Sara said looking at Kendra in confusion all eyes on her minus Rip's who was staring at the console with a glare as he and Gideon tried to locate Chronos's ship once again.
"I wouldn't say that" Kendra said tilting her head.
"Well what are you saying then Miss Saunders?" Stein questioned.
"I'm just saying that the ship is a lot safer without them on it" Kendra said. This made Rip look up at Kendra. Everyone stared at her.
"I'm sorry what?" Sara questioned standing up getting into Kendra's personal space.
"Oh cmon Sara. He's a criminal and she's an accident waiting to happen. You know what awful control she has of her powers. You don't think we're better off with this ship criminal free?" Kendra questioned.
"Clarity's not a criminal." Sara told her.
"I didn't say she was, but that doesn't change the fact that she's killed people. That makes her just as bad as Snart." Kendra said.
"I think you meant to say worse" Ray said his eyes flicking up to meet Kendra's.
"Ray don't put words in my mouth" Kendra told him.
"No. No Ray's right. Ever since you found out about the fact that Clarity's killed you've been treating her like she's dirt under your shoe. What makes her so different from Sara? Sara's killed lots of people and I mean that in the best way possible" Jax told Sara putting his hands up not wanting to get his ass kicked. Sara smirked at him and gave him a nod signaling that it was okay.
"What kind of question is that?" Kendra asked.
"Evidently it is a necessary one. I think that we can all agree that Clarity and even Mr. Snart have been there for us in times of crisis. Especially when we needed them most, but to abandon them now when they need us? I gather that would be quite the dick move wouldn't you say?" Martin questioned Kendra.
"I couldn't agree more Martin, but unless we can figure out a way to locate them I'm afraid our hands are tied" Rip said walking into his office.
"Why should we waste our time going to save them when we could be taking out Savage? We still have the dagger we can end him. I can take him down" Kendra said.
"You can take him down? You couldn't even take down Clarity and it didn't sound like she was really trying that hard" Ray said
"That's because she wasn't. I saw the whole thing. Clarity didn't want to fight" Sara said.
"Thanks for the vote of confidence" Kendra told him annoyed that he wasn't on her side.
"Vandal Savage is not the priority right now Miss Saunders." Rip answered her shuffling through maps throwing papers over his shoulders looking for some type of clue that could help.
"Not the priority? Vandal Savage is the entire reason we're even on this ship." Kendra told him.
"I'm well aware why I recruited you all" Rip replied.
"We've come this far we can't just put things on hold just because these two got themselves kidnapped"
"The proper term would actually be abducted seeing as they are both strong, capable, intelligent adults" Stein corrected putting emphasis on the they.
"Whatever my point it is-"
"Your point is irrelevant Miss Saunders. We're saving them. I'll be damned if I lose anyone else on this god forsaken mission. Least of all Clarity. Now I highly suggest that you either come up with a solution that is going to help us or make yourself scarce" Rip snapped in anger.
Kendra shook her head marching out of the room. This was ridiculous. Kendra couldn't believe that Rip had a change of heart about the team's lives now.
"You know I think she might've just back pedaled a bit. She seemed kind of nicer back in 1958" Ray noted.
"Was that a bit to rude?" Rip questioned as he dropped some papers on the console.
"Actually, I thought it was very well said Captain Hunter" Gideon said.
"Of course, Gideon any luck?" Rip questioned.
"I'm afraid not." Gideon answered.
"Gideon are your processors working slower?" Rip questioned.
"Clarity usually helps speed things up, Captain" Gideon responded.
"Of course she does" Rip muttered.
"Wait that's it!" Ray exclaimed snapping his fingers.
"Yes, What is it Dr. Palmer? An idea this time I hope" Rip questioned.
"It is and it is a pretty great one too" Ray boasted.
"Are you going to share with the class?" Jax questioned.
"Oh yeah well we can't track the ship, but we can track Clarity" Ray said.
"What?" Sara questioned eye brows furrowed.
"When I was at Star labs there were a bunch of mechanical bees being controlled by the bug eyed bandit. Felicity, and her were in this hack war and I shorted out my suit leaving Clarity to fight the bees well-"
"Raymond if you could please get to the point?" Stein questioned.
"While I was there I learned that Clarity naturally gives off an insane amount of positrons" Ray answered.
"Positrons. Really?" Stein questioned.
"What the hell are positrons?" Jax questioned.
"They're particles in an atom that have the same mass as an electron, but they give off a positive charge." Ray explained.
"So like positive electrons?" Jax questioned.
"Basically" Ray told him.
"How does that help us?" Sara questioned.
"positrons originate above thunderstorm clouds and they are produced in gamma-ray flashes created by electrons accelerated by strong electric fields in said clouds." Stein explained.
"Grey speak English" Jax told him.
"In this case Miss Springs is that Cloud. All we simply have to do is make a device to follow the trail of positrons she gives off" Martin explained.
"Gideon switch your scanners to search for high quantities of positrons" Rip ordered.
"Captain, I am happy to report that my scanners have picked up on a positron trail." Gideon said sounding elated.
"Excellent. Gideon alter our course. Follow that trail" Rip told the Ai.
"Right Away Captain" Gideon answered.
-back with Snart and Clarity-
"This is all my fault" Clarity said softly her voice shaky. The reverse flash flashing in her mind once again. She pulled her knees up to her chest resting her forehead on her cuffed hands.
"No, it's not. You meant well" Snart began before Clarity cut him off.
"But-"
"Stop blaming yourself for everything, Clarity. Why are you always putting yourself down? You did nothing wrong. I think next to me you're the one person on that ship who's ever treated Mick like he was a person. You didn't even ask him to steal anything for you did you?" Snart questioned.
"No..." Clarity said with a sigh knowing that Snart was right but she couldn't help it.
"Listen, we're going to get out of this. Maybe we'll even save Mick in the process, but right now we need to figure out a way to get out of here together" Snart told her.
"Well, there is something that we could try, but your not going to like it" Clarity said.
"As long as it's better than my idea of freezing my hand off I'm all ears" Snart told her.
"We can't get out of our own cuffs but we can get each other out. I do you then you do me, but to be honest i' ve never really tried to Glitch something without touching it before and actually the more I think about it you might end up losing a hand anyway I mean if I screw this up and I am not saying that I will screw it up but if I do screw it up your hands could possibly reappear backwards and I'm not sure how easy thieving would be with backward hands and maybe-" Clarity started to ramble speaking very fast.
"Clarity, slow down." Snart told her and she did pausing to take a breath.
"You can do this. Don't psych yourself out."
"But what if-"
"You know Barry told me something once. He told me to quit the game and I said I didn't want to because I was very very good at it. You Clarity are very very good with your powers" Snart told her.
"What?" Clarity asked eye brow raised.
"You don't give yourself enough credit sparkplug. From what I heard from your little spat with the hawk your control is far better than you think. Now hurry up and get me out of these cuffs" Snart told her.
Clarity took a deep breathe breathing slowly. Her eyes slowly beginning to glow.
"3...2...1...Glitch" A little spark of electricity shocked Leonard's hand.
"Ow" he complained giving her a small glare.
"Sorry, I'm trying" Clarity said drawing her lower lip between her teeth.
Clarity focused hard. She could feel the cuffs fighting against her trying to keep her abilities power level lowered so she wouldn't have enough strength to Glitch. Clarity's eyes glowed brighter and she put everything she had into one more try. Instead of focusing on his hands this time Clarity focused on the metal cuffs. They lit up with a dim glow from her lightning which flickered as Clarity struggled. Sweat dripping down her temple. A small trickle of blood starting to leak from her nose. Clarity winced in pain and Leonard's eyes went wide as Clarity's veins glowed brightly. Her cuff's forcing her powers back on herself causing her powers to shock herself from the inside. Clarity held back a scream through clenched teeth as the pain only increased. Her hands started to tremble and Snart almost told her to cut it out. To stop and they'd find a better way, but before he could his cuff's glitched off his wrists hanging stupidly on the rail. The minute his cuff's were off Clarity stopped using her powers. She bit into her right sweater wrist so she wouldn't scream. The blood from her nose dripping onto the gray knit fabric. Snart rushed across to her worriedly.
"Hey, you okay?" Snart questioned gripping her upper arm. A painful flare immediately shot up her arm where he touched her. After her nerves were shocked for so long they were very sensitive. Painfully sensitive not to mention she had already been in pain from the sprinklers. Clarity kicked him in response and he fell back letting go as Clarity bit harder into her sweater sleeve tears streaming down her face. After a few seconds of Leonard sitting there in confusion Clarity released the bit of fabric from her mouth.
"D-don't t-touch..." Clarity trailed off her entire body shaking. It hurt to even speak and move her jaw. Even her tongue stung painfully. Tears started leaking more profusely from her eyes as she started to cry from the pure agony she felt both inside her body and outside of it.
"Sorry..." Leonard apologized softly. He felt bad. Clarity looked like a mess. He had never seen her cry like this. It scared him.
"Y-you d-didn't k-know..."Clarity stammered out.
"Right. Well let's get you out of these cuffs yeah?" Leonard asked but he froze as Clarity's veins lit up once again.
"What are you doing? Why are you using you powers?" Leonard questioned.
"I-I C-can't...e-emotions..." Clarity said biting hard into her sweater once again. Her toes curling in her boots as she tensed up.
"Well stop it. You're just hurting yourself now" Leonard told her.
Clarity shook her head slightly as more blood trickled out of her nose. She couldn't help it. She couldn't control it.
"Clarity I need you to calm down okay? I can't get these off you if you don't." Leonard tried to reason. Clarity let out a sob into her sweater sleeve. It hurt too much.
"Clarity damnit alright alright just let me see those cuffs okay?" Leonard questioned. Clarity showed them to him wresting the cuffs against the front of her legs putting her knees through her arms.
"you just sit tight. I'm going to find something I can use to pick it" Snart said going to get up by Clarity stopped him.
"M-My R-Ring..." Clarity stuttered as spots began to dance in her vision. Her eye lids feeling heavy.
"Good idea" Snart told her carefully slipping the ring off. He untwisted it and snapped it into two pieces beginning to fiddle around inside the cuffs. His eyes flicked up to Clarity.
"Hey. Hey Clarity stay with me. Keep your eyes open" Leonard told her.
"H-Hurts...t-tired..." Clarity said her breathing slowing down.
"I know I know but I almost got them. Just another minute okay?" Snart told her his fingers working as fast as they could.
"C-can't..." Clarity replied and she stopped breathing her eyes closing. The cuffs clicking off her. Leonard caught her before her head could hit the ground his eyes widened as he saw she wasn't breathing.
"Clarity? Clarity!?" He called shaking her but he received no response.
He laid her down on the ground and started doing CPR on her. After about a minute of trying that did nothing. Leonard's head whipped around as he heard Mick coming down the hall. Mick stood there Leonard could see his anger beginning to flare as he approached.
"Mick! Mick! Wait! Please! She's not breathing!" Leonard exclaimed shocked at how emotional he sounded. But this has been a pretty emotional time so he wasn't blaming himself for it. Mick shoved Leonard out of the way and scooped Clarity up into his arms. He looked her over and saw what his old partner was saying was true.
"Cmon and grab your gun we're going to need it" Mick told him nodding to the shelf as he actually went running towards the ships medbay's Leonard following quickly behind doing as Mick instructed.
Mick set her down in the chair and tapped some things on the screen. He turned the defibrillator up to it's highest voltage. Then he started fiddling with his suit.
"I need to get at it's power core" Mick told him as he pressed more buttons.
"What? Why?" Leonard questioned still staring at Clarity's unmoving body.
"that's one of the only things besides my suit that'll have enough power to bring her back. She's living electricity. We're going to need ten times the normal amount to bring her back. Now hurry" Mick told him.
Mick hooked up his suit to snart's gun then he placed his hand on Clarity's chest over her heart.
"Hit the bright red button" Mick told him with a nod of his head.
Leonard did and a blinding flash of blue light came out of the gloved hands of Mick's suit. Clarity's back arching before flopping back down. She still wasn't breathing.
"Again" Mick told him and Leonard pushed the button again. The same thing happening. Still Clarity lay motionless.
"Again" Mick told him.
"It's not working Mick!" Leonard snapped.
"Do it again!" Mick snapped back with a fiery roar.
Leonard did turning his head away. He couldn't watch. Mick made him do it another 5 times and still there was nothing.
"She's gone Mick" Leonard said.
"She's gone when I say she's gone! She doesn't get to die until I get my vengeance. Help me save her you stupid Ship!" Mick exclaimed.
"Very sorry sir but she's suffered major damage. Without a genetic sample from an alien source. I'm afraid there is nothing I can do" The Ai answered.
"Alien source? What the hell does that mean!?You stupid ship! I'll tear you apart bit by bit!" Mick exclaimed that hot blooded anger returning as he stormed out of the room smashing things as he went.
"Damnit Clarity why did you have to be the hero? Huh? Why couldn't you just give up if you knew it would lead to this?" Leonard questioned the motion less woman.
"Just pull a Sara, Clarity. It can't be that hard. Damnit cmon! Your the Glitch! One of central's finest! Don't make me have to go back to that city and tell Barry you didn't make it! Fight!" Leonard pleaded slamming his hands down on the metal arm of the chair.
"Please...come back, Clarity. That damned ship won't be the same without you" Leonard pleaded.
-back on the waverider-
"Captain we have a problem" Gideon stated.
"What is it Gideon?" Rip questioned.
"The positron trail has stopped" Gideon informed.
"What? What do you mean it stopped!?" Rip questioned.
"There is no trace of it. The trail has run cold. I'm sorry captain" Gideon answered sounding sad.
"No no that's impossible. For that to happen that would mean..." Stein trailed not wanting to say it.
"That would mean what?" Sara asked.
"It means Clarity's dead" Ray finished.
"What? No no way man. Gideon's got to be wrong" Jax said.
"I wish I were" Gideon answered.
"No she can't be." Sara said her hands cupped in front of her mouth tears gathering in her eyes.
Rip strode back to his office. He gripped at his hair and then in a feat. of madness he swiped everything off his desk with a yell the contents crashing to the floor.
"This can't be happening." Ray said shaking his head sitting down his head in his hands already blaming himself for Clarity's demise.
"I'm afraid it is" Martin said solemnly.
-back on Mick's Ship-
"I'm sorry I couldn't save you." Leonard told her stroking her hair.
The ice villain leaned down and placed a kiss goodbye on Clarity's lips. He wasn't really sure why he kissed her. Maybe he thought she deserved one last kiss or maybe it was to console himself that he tried everything. Clarity seemed like one of those princess types. It was worth a try. Not that Snart really thought some kind of miracle would happen by it.
"Alien source detected. Scanning. Original DNA differentiated. Applying treatment now" The Ai said a blue light scanning over Clarity's body. Leonard watching with widened eyes. What in the hell? How did that work?
A few seconds later Clarity's eyes snapped open and she gasped breathing once again. Her eyes darting around the room deliriously.
"Clarity. Clarity hey your okay. I've got you" Snart said cupping her cheek.
"Where are we? Are we back in the waverider?" Clarity asked as she looked around at the identical medbay.
"No we're still in danger. Which is why you need to trust me. Put your arms around my neck" Leonard told her. Clarity did and Leonard scooped her up into his arms. He holstered his gun on his pants leg then broke into a run. Clarity's eyes widened and she clung to him tighter. Snart smirked as he made it to the jump ship.
"Snart!" Mick yelled angered from back in the medbay seeing them both gone.
He set her down in the chair then stepped out.
"Snart? What are you doing?" Clarity asked searchingly.
"This'll take you back to 2016." Snart said icing the controls.
"Now you can't change them and come back." Snart said as the door closed.
"What!? No! Hey!" Clarity exclaimed as he iced the door closed as well. Clarity stumbling over pulling on the door that wouldn't budge.
"What are you doing?" Clarity questioned placing her hand on the cold glass.
"I can't see you die again Clarity. I can't take the risk that Mick won't try to put you back in those cuffs." Snart told her.
"But what if he kills you!? You should be coming with me!" Clarity exclaimed.
"He's my partner. I already abandoned him once. I can't do it again. I've got to save him. When you get back tell my sister...I love her" Snart said and then the ship took off Clarity collapsing as the ship shook Snart going to fight Mick.
-back on the waverider-
"Captain! The positron trail has returned" Gideon announced.
"Oh thank god" Stein breathed out.
"But now we have a new problem" Sara said looking the screen.
"What is it?" Rip questioned walking over.
"There are two trails now." Sara said.
"The stronger trail is definitely Clarity. But the weaker trail is probably Chronos. Who knows where Snart is" Ray said as he studied it.
"What do we do?" Jax questioned.
"You all stay on the ship and follow that trail. I'll go find miss Springs" Rip told them getting his gun placing it in his holster.
"Rip you can't go alone-"
"Sara If you all are fighting Chronos you need every member of this team. I have more knowledge about Time travel than any of you. It'll take me the least amount of time to find Miss Springs and return. Now I promise I will return her to you safely." Rip told Sara gripping her shoulders looking her in the eye before racing off to the jumpship.
"Gideon follow that trail" Rip ordered.
"Right away Captain" Gideon said.
-back with Clarity-
"Ow" Clarity groaned as the ship crash landed. The ice made it hard for Clarity to feel any tech from central glitched outside the ship and she groaned in pain clutching her arms to herself.
"Why do I always do that!?" Clarity groaned but froze as she What was in front of her. She gasped and glitched back into the pod. She scraped away at the ice frantically and gasped at what it read.
The dial read...
1942.
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And that's where I'm ending this one folks!
I hope you liked it! Was it okay? I hope it was! I tried really hard on this one.
Okay now for the questions! Please please please answer them! They've really inspired me to update these past few days and I'd love to again!
1. How did you feel when reading this chapter? What made you feel this way?
2. Did you like this better than the original left behind episode? why or why not?
3. Who are you shipping Clarity with? Has your ship changed? Why or why not?
4. What do you think is going to happen next chapter?
5. How do you think the audience in my other book will react to this chapter?
6. If you could punch one person in this chapter who would it be and why?
7. What is your favorite chapter in this book so far and why?
8. What new powers do you think Clarity could learn?
9. How has she changed from the first chapter?
10. Why do you think she loves blue so much?
11. Was anyone out of character this chapter?
12. Do you think Clarity is more of a princess, a goddess, or a fairy? And why?
13. What do you wish to happen in this story more than anything?
14. What makes Clarity different from other legends oc's that you've read about?
15. Should I kill off Kendra?(yes I've thought of a way to make sure Savage still dies by one of the Hawks) why or why not?
16. What do you think Clarity's family is like?
17. What differences has Clarity's presence caused in each individual member of the legends team?
18. Anything else you would like to ask, rant, or tell me!