"Clarity!" Rip yelled rushing over to her side. He was about to place his arms under her to carry her to the medbay, but he froze as Clarity spoke up.

"D-don't...don't touch me." Clarity warned holding up her hand to stop him from coming any closer. Mere seconds after her warning lightning started to dance across her skin in waves, her eyes glowing brightly as her powers activated. With her free hand she gripped her head her hand fisted into her soft brown hair the white headband fallen off her head onto the floor beside her.

"The Pilgrim...Gideon scan Clarity's timeline! Scan it now!" Rip ordered as he knelt by her side. He wanted to help her somehow, but he couldn't so much as touch her while she was using her powers.

"Ri-Aw-an" Gideon tried to reply, but her voice became staticky and fractured.

"Gideon!?" Rip called to the Ai confused, not sure what the Ai was trying to tell him, but she didn't respond this time. In fact, something seemed to be wrong with Gideon as well. She appeared to be glitching like her creator. Rip turned his attention back to Clarity.

"Clarity, Whatever you're doing to Gideon with your powers you need to stop it. Stop it now." Rip told her.

"I...I'm not doing anything..." Clarity gritted out pain evident in her tone.

"Clarity, you're hurting her, Hell I think you might be killing her right now" Rip admitted to her.

Clarity let out a painfilled gasp her eyes starting to water. No...she wasn't doing anything to Gideon was she? Clarity didn't think she was, but Rip sounded completely sure that the Ai was suffering as much as her right now, possibly even worse.

"Clarity, you need to stop using your powers!" Rip urged her.

"I can't...I can't..." Clarity denied shaking her head. Tears falling from her eyes from the pain. It hurt too much, everything hurt. Her brain felt like it was on fire, she couldn't stop.

"You have to! If you don't stop using your powers both you and Gideon are going to die." Rip said trying to convey his urgency without any of the panic he felt. First Ray and now Clarity?

Clarity bit her lip closing her eyes.

"Clarity please you're not even trying. Please just try...you've gotten so much control over your powers since we first started this mission. Don't just throw all that progress away right now." Rip pleaded.

"I'm sorry..." Clarity told him.

"No...no don't be sorry, Clarity. I know you can do this. Just stop using them, just for a minute. Long enough for me to get you to the medbay and for Gideon to track the pilgrim. Just for a bit..." Rip said trying to be encouraging, but that seriously was not one of his strong suits.

Clarity sucked in a breath. She couldn't stop using her powers. Not because she didn't want to, but because she literally couldn't. That was like asking someone who just cut themselves to stop bleeding, or asking someone who just broke a bone to have it magically be healed a second later. Her lightning surging across her skin like this was simply her body's way of trying to protect itself from further harm. There was no real way she could shut it off. She wasn't some kind of machine with an off button. So, with that thought in mind she knew what she had to do.

She couldn't stop the lightning and shut it off, so she just needed to direct it somewhere else. Clearly something was happening to Gideon so she couldn't direct her lightning into the ship because that might just make things worse for the Ai and she didn't want to do that. She couldn't direct it into anyone else on the team because that would probably kill them, Jax and Stein might be able to survive it if she did, but she didn't want to do anything that would hurt anyone else. That left one thing that Clarity could do, one place that she knew wouldn't hurt anybody else.

She cried out in pain biting her lip so hard she drew blood. She redirected her lightning inwards on herself and did her best to hold back a scream. She bit harshly into her dress collar blood from her lip staining the blue lace material. Her veins flashed blue flickering like the lights in her room had so many times before. After a few seconds they stopped flickering and maintained their glow no lightning moving on her skin anymore.

"Okay...can I touch you now?" Rip questioned unsure on what the hell just happened or if it was safe to pick her up yet. Clarity gave a tearful nod in reply biting as hard on her dress collar.

The second Rip's finger's so much as lightly brushed Clarity's skin she was in agony. Her bodies nerves were on fire, being fried by her lightning. It didn't matter how gentle he was trying to be. Any touch now had her beyond sensitive nerves sending signals of pain to her brain. She wasn't sure how long she could keep this up. Her powers were making it all so much worse. If she thought she was in pain before that was nothing in comparison to what she felt now.

"Just hang in there." Rip told her feeling guilty that she was in so much pain, but he knew he had to get her to the medbay fast and carrying her was definitely the fastest way he could think of. Especially because there was no way she could Glitch herself there in her condition.

Rip hit the hand scanner and he sighed in relief when the doors did open. Whatever was affecting Gideon didn't seem to be affecting the rest of the ship which Rip was extremely thankful for. Rip rushed out of her room with Clarity in his arms. The collar of her dress doing very little to muffle the woman's screams anymore as they got louder her pain increasing.

"Oh my god Flick..." Todd whispered horrified from where he stood in the doorway of his room watching Rip race past with her. He had heard someone screaming so he was about to go out to investigate, but never in his wildest dreams did he think it was Clarity. He had never heard Clarity scream like that. Not once in the two years he's known her.

Todd's mouth was dropped open and his dark eyes watered a bit as he saw the state she was in. He shook his head blinking his tears a way. Now was not the time, not when he could still do something about it. He raced out of the room after Rip. He sprinted ahead of the time master a bit and opened the medbay doors for him. Rip didn't so much as spare him a thank you, but Todd didn't care. Both men were far too worried about Clarity for formalities.

"Todd...hurts..."Clarity gasped out as Rip set her down in the medbay chair the forties meta on her right side. Clarity cried out in pain a few seconds later her veins seemingly glowing brighter. Her lightning increasing in intensity as she grew worse.

"Hey Flick...hey I'm right here. You'll be alright." Todd told her brushing her hair out of her face as gently as he could. Todd had seen her body glow blue plenty of times, but he had never seen her veins glowing the way they were now. What was happening to her?

"Damn, this time bitch doesn't take a lot of down time." Snart frowned as he came walking into the room Clarity's screams drawing him to the source Sara at his side the deck of cards they were about to play still in the assassins right hand. Upon setting her sights on Clarity the cards went sliding out of her hand dropping to the floor.

"Clarity..." Sara rushed over to her side beside Rip. "Hey...hey Pachirisu..." Sara greeted struggling to find any words to say. She was speechless Clarity was dying...

Snart shut the door behind him hoping to muffle the noise of Clarity's screams at least a bit. He didn't want young Mick or Young Sara to get any of the wrong ideas. Luckily young Ray was heavily sedated so he didn't hear or see any of this as he slept in the medbay chair closest to the door.

"How long has she been like this?" Todd asked Rip his head turning to look at him.

"A few minutes at best...it all happened incredibly fast. We were talking one minute and the next thing I know she was on the floor and damnit Gideon what is wrong with you!?" Rip cut himself off to yell at the Ai completely frustrated. Usually Gideon would be performing a scan of her injuries right about now, but she wasn't. Rip had thought Clarity turning off her powers would have helped the Ai, but it appears not.

"Clarity created Gideon..." Snart said in realization.

"She did what?" Sara asked surprised.

"How the hell do you know about that?" Rip asked Snart more than a bit enraged. Two people knew this information before him? Did the rest of his entire crew know as well?

"That's not important right now. The pilgrim attacks young Clarity, she dies, she never grows up to help Flash, never helps stop me, never helps create Gideon, so the computer must be dying from the same thing she is." Snart said working it all out as if he were back tracking something gone wrong on a heist. You take out one variable and a hole slew of things goes wrong.

Rip took a shaky breath running his right hand through his hair looking from Clarity to the med bay screen. He had never even considered the fact that Clarity getting attacked may affect Gideon. He was still trying to grasp the fact that she had played a part in creating her and he had never been told or even warned about this from Clarity or even Gideon herself. What Snart said made complete sense, but it also produced a major problem. Without Gideon to track the Pilgrim, and Clarity in no condition to track the pilgrim herself there would be no way to save Clarity. He spun on his heel walking out of the medbay trying to distance himself from Clarity's screams of pain. He needed to think.

"Hey, What the hell..." Sara trailed as the three watched Rip leave the room. Sara looked at Clarity the poor woman unable to even stop her cries of pain. Sara then looked in the direction Rip had gone. She grit her teeth.

"Stay with her." Sara told Snart and Todd the assassin going after Rip.

"Hey! What the hell are you doing? Clarity needs help in there!" Sara snapped at Rip catching up to the time master.

"Yes, yes I know. I understand that Miss Lance I just need a moment to think. I can't concentrate with her screaming the way she is." Rip told her.

"Clarity, doesn't have a moment! She's dying." Sara told him grabbing his arm making the time master stop his walk. Rip whirled around to face her.

"Miss Lance you don't understand! Without Gideon, without Clarity being in any condition to track the pilgrim with her abilities, we have no way of locating the pilgrim to save Miss Springs at all. Our only hope of saving her life is to figure out another way to track the pilgrim and I am not going to find the answer to that in the bloody medbay!" Rip snapped at her his voice raised.

"So what you're just giving up on her in there?" Sara questioned never one to back down in an argument.

"No, no Sara I'm not giving up. I swear to you we will save her. We just need a new way to do that. Look, I'm going to go find Raymond and the professor So, maybe just maybe we'll be able to think of a new way to locate the pilgrim. In the meantime just...just go be with Miss Springs. I gather you know more than anyone on this ship what's it's like to die alone. She needs all the support she can get." Rip told her not quite an order, but a forceful suggestion.

With that said, Rip made his way to search for the two most intelligent people on the ship. Sara going back to the medbay to be with Clarity as Rip suggested.

-meanwhile in the year 1999-

"Daddy, please can I come home?" An eight year old Clarity Springs questioned her eyes filled with tears. Her father sat across from her, Clarity's mother at his side. The three sat at a small pastry shop. Clarity's foster mother and another foster kid sat within seeing and hearing distance giving the family little to no real privacy.

"Soon, Sparky girl. I promise. You'll be back home in no time. You're mother and I are doing everything we can. The trials in just a few more weeks." Her father placated trying to calm her down. The man knew a few weeks wasn't exactly true. In reality it was in a whopping two whole months, but it sure as hell sounded better to him to say weeks.

"But I don't wanna wait a few more weeks! I wanna go home with you now!" Clarity protested tearfully.

"I know, Clarity and we want that too, but it's really complicated sweetheart." Her mother said taking a napkin from the dispenser on the table dabbing at her daughters face lightly trying to dry her tears.

"B-but you're my mom and Dad. We're supposed to be a family. What's so complicated about that?" Clarity questioned not understanding.

"Listen, Clarity, you know why they took you away." Her father reminded her gently.

"But it's not fair! You didn't hurt me..." Clarity protested sniffling slightly. She had been bullied, not abused. Delancy had given her those bruises all over not her father, but because her father got kicked out of the military or what was it her mother had called it? Dishonorably discharged, the social worker who used to be her mother's friend, took one look at her father's still raw knuckles and the bruises on Clarity's body and the ex-army man was getting accused of child abuse. Clarity's shyness and stutters of denial mistaken for hesitation and lies. The girl taken from her parents loving care a little over a year and change ago.

"I know, sweetie, we know that. But between that accident you had when you were six, and the trouble you've been having at school..." her mother trailed off with a worried sigh rubbing at her forehead. It had been frightening enough when the doctor had said Clarity's sight was impaired and now needed eye glasses, but never had Constance Springs thought it could have led to her daughter getting taken away from her.

When it came time to get her prescription eye glasses Clarity had wanted the rectangular blue ones. The most expensive pair in the entire shop costing a total sum of 545 dollars. It was a grievous amount of money and the Spring's weren't exactly the wealthiest family in their small town, but looking down at her daughter's hopeful gaze, the numbers too blurry for Clarity to even read the price tag and realize just what she was asking for, Constance was already pulling out her checkbook. If those were the ones Clarity wanted then by God those were the ones she was going to get her bank account be damned. Rather than break her daughter's heart she had splurged and decided to make sacrifices elsewhere. Not fixing the rickety porch that was falling apart because of a harsh winter, not fixing the ceiling where a pipe was no doubt leaking drop by drop into a bowl on the floor, not fixing the water heater instead opting to put yet another layer of duct tape over it in the meantime. All things that might have saved their daughter from getting taken away from them.

"But...But..." Clarity struggled trying to come up with an argument. It wasn't fair keeping her from her parents when they had done nothing to wrong her. They loved her, and she loved them. These monthly visits were all fine and dandy, but Clarity wasn't anywhere near content with them.

"You've got 2 more minutes Clarity then we're leaving." The other foster kid called tauntingly breaking a blue crayon in half smiling way too sweetly.

"Delancy quiet down." The foster mother scolded as she read the newspaper causing Delancy to shrink back.

"Yes, Ma'am." She replied obediently the smile gone from her face.

"Please...please don't make me go!" Clarity cried racing around the table jumping in between her parents chairs wrapping an arm around each of their necks hugging them tightly.

"We wish we didn't have to, Sparky girl." Her father told her regret leaking from his voice.

"But we don't have a choice, Clarity." Her mother told her finishing her husbands sentence.

"Clarity! That's enough. Time to go. You'll see you're parents next month. Come along now." The foster mother commanded.

"I love you," Clarity whispered reluctantly letting go of her parents. She grabbed her unicorn backpack off the table and swung it on her back with trembling hands. She obediently walked over to her step mother having learned quickly that this woman did not do well when instructions weren't followed quickly. The walk to the so called foster home was quick only a mere 10 minutes, but Clarity felt like it was an eternity.

As soon as Clarity stepped inside the house she flinched. She knew what was coming and she tightened her grip on her backpack to still herself. Running would only make it worse, running always made it worse. Running away was like consenting to the game saying she wanted to play. It was times like these where she longed for Gideon to be alive because she knew the inevitable would happen and there would be no one to comfort her when she ran upstairs crying.

"You're an idiot if you think your parents actually want a nothing like you back." Delancy taunted the foster mother walking away paying no attention to the two girls conversation. Girls would be girls and she didn't wish to be bothered by any squabbles. She honestly didn't care enough about either girl to step in. They were checks, money, cash, a way for her to get her nails done at the end of every month. Nothing more and nothing less.

"Y-You're w-wrong.." Clarity stuttered out.

"I'm wrong am I?!" Delancy cackled. She grabbed Clarity by her hair and yanked making her scream. Her hands going up to Delancy's trying to pry the blonde girl's hands off. "If I'm so wrong then what are you doing here still hmm? If your parents actually loved you they would have taken you home today. They don't want you, nobody wants you, you're a waste of space, an eye swore, a complete and total nothing."

"Stop it!" Clarity protested.

"Stop? You actually think I'm going to stop? Well I've got bad news for you. I will never stop. Not until you cease to exist. You don't deserve to be breathing right now. Maybe I'll fix that for you." Delancy's free hand going to her throat. Clarity starting to choke desperately gasping for air. She leaned back forcing Delancy back into a wall making a banging noise.

"Hey! Either keep it down or go play outside! I'm on the phone!" The Foster mother yelled back not even looking back at the two girls. Delancy dragged Clarity outside and released her shoving her down the porch stairs Clarity falling in the dirt gasping for breath. Delancy shutting the door behind her hopping down each step.

"Hey, look at that. You're where you belong! Down in the dirt like the freak you are." Delancy taunted jumping right in front of Clarity kicking upwards the toes of her shoe meeting Clarity's forehead knocking her onto her back. Clarity's glasses flying off her face onto the ground behind her. Clarity quickly grabbed them shoving them into her backpack before Delancy could break them.

"I-I'm n-not a f-freak.." Clarity stuttered out squinting at Delancy standing up.

"No, no you're right. You're not a freak, Clarity. Freak is too generous a word for a disgusting thing like you. Hmm? Oh! I know just the word to describe you." Delancy told her darkly.

"Please...you've said enough...I get it.." Clarity pleaded, but Delancy wasn't through just yet.

"You're a mistake...a Glitch. And you know something? That's all you'll ever be!" Delancy told her pushing Clarity back into a puddle of mud her white unicorn back pack becoming stained and dirtied from the brown liquid as she fell back on it. Her white tights also completely trashed. Delancy smirked at her handiwork before happily skipping back inside giggling to herself at a job well done.

As soon as her bully left Clarity started to cry. What more could she do? There was no escape from her. Day in and Day out Delancy was there and no one cared. Her parents might, but there was nothing they could do about it. This was the only foster home close enough that she would even be able to see her parents. She had already lost her only friend here, she couldn't bear to lose her parents as well.

She took off her backpack taking out her glasses. A gift from her mother. She sniffled wiping her tears on her shirt. She put her glasses back on and just sat there in the mud feeling so entirely alone. She gazed at her tights picking at the gemstones on her knees halfheartedly trying to distract herself from all the pain she felt.

"Hello there Glitch. You must be ready to meet you're fate." A calm voice said making Clarity's head snap up words flying out of her mouth before she even realized what she was doing.

"I'm not a Glitch!" Clarity protested tearfully a bit scared her head snapping up. It was bad enough Delancy had called her that, but an adult? Did that make what she said true? But better question who was this person?

The pilgrim smirked down at her. "You will be."

Before Clarity even had the chance to move the pilgrim was holding Clarity in place with her powers the young girl's eyes wide behind her glasses.

"You've caused me a lot of trouble. I think it should be more than a simple gun blast for you." With that said the pilgrim kicked Clarity hard in the head the girl's headband falling into the mud as her head hit the ground.

-meanwhile back on the waverider-

"So, Sparky's next huh?" Mick questioned beer in hand walking into the console room. Word about Clarity having spread to everyone on the ship Rip, Ray, and Stein all crowded around the console

"I'm afraid so, Mr. Rory. Any other obvious answers you'd like to know? Because I have far more pressing concerns at the moment than whether or not Gideon won't fulfill any drink orders." Rip replied to him his tone clipped as he leaned over the console Ray and Stein on either side of him. The three men in deep thought trying to figure out a new way of tracking her or even a device that could be built to track her.

Mick shrugged. "Just thought you might like to hear my idea."

"Idea? Thank you Mr. Rory, but I believe this topic is well above your brain capacity." Stein told the arsonist.

"Woah, no hang on. If Mick says he has an idea we should hear him out. Clarity doesn't have much time left, and it's not as if we're actually coming up with anything we can use. Besides, he might actually know something...he was Chronos after all." Ray pointed out coming to Mick's defense.

"Captain?" Stein questioned apprehensive of even wasting time hearing the arsonists so called plan. Rip sighed in reply nodding at Mick.

"Yes, yes very well. You're idea Mr. Rory." Rip questioned swallowing his pride. What choice did he have? They were running out of time.

"Why don't we just use a different computer?" Mick asked.

"That is absurd! We can't create an artificial intelligence from scratch. Miss Springs doesn't have that kind of time. That could be weeks, months even!" Stein protested.

"No, no Mr. Rory may be onto something...for once." Rip countered. The idea could work...given they had another artificial intelligence they could use. The only problem would be finding one.

"That may be, but where are we even going to get another artificial intelligence!? I doubt they just grow on trees." Martin questioned wondering if their Captain had lost his head.

"Well, you all could just use that bastard in my old suit." Mick shrugged.

"Sorry? Come again?" Ray asked in confusion leaning forwards a bit.

"The Ai from my old ship, he offloaded himself into my armor before the ship exploded. Gary? Jerry? I forget the damn piece of junks name, but he hasn't shut up for weeks. Him and Gideon don't get along very much." Mick revealed.

"Why does no one on this ship tell me anything!?" Rip muttered annoyed shaking his head. There was an Ai on this ship that he hadn't even known about? Of course there was because with a crew like this why would they tell him anything he should definitely know.

"Mick, we're gonna need that armor." Ray told him placing his hand on the arsonists shoulder squeezing his shoulder.

"One, get your hand off my shoulder haircut, and two, What are you idiots just standing around for? Time's wasting!" Mick told the three knocking Ray's hand off his shoulder. The arsonist turned around breaking into a run to get the damn thing now that he had confirmation from the geniuses it would work.

"Should we go help him?" Ray asked uncertainly.

"I'm afraid not, I doubt Mr. Rory's room is a safe place for any of us to venture. Gideon has made mentions of bear traps hidden on the floor." Rip frowned.

"Bear traps? Astonishing, I would have thought he would have hidden flame throwers scattered about given the fact he is an arsonist." Stein said in thought.

Rip hummed in agreement. "It's probably best we assume those are hidden inside as well lest we want to run into any surprises if anyone dares to enter his room."

A few moments later Mick returned dragging the tattered misshapen suit behind him by the neck.

"Sir, if you could please take better care of my home. I do have to live in here you know." A male robotic voice objected to Mick's actions.

"Shut up! Or I'll turn you into a damn toaster." Mick growled heaving the suit up dropping it on the console making Ray jump at the loud sound it made. "Have at him." Mick told the three.

"Oh dear, this does not appear to be a situation that will work in my favor. Can we talk about this?" The Ai requested.

"Fascinating, a male Ai." Martin said fascinated at the male Ai. He had seen one on the other female time master's ship, but never so up close and personal.

"Less talking, more saving Sparky" Mick ordered impatiently.

"She's dying again?" The Ai questioned surprised recalling that Sparky was Clarity's nickname.

"Yes, and you're gonna help save her." Rip told the Ai.

"I'm afraid I can't do much from in here." The Ai replied regretfully.

"I know..."Rip sighed tapping a few buttons on the console a cord popping out of the side. He hooked it up to Rory's old suit's arm cuff. He then rushed over to his desk. Time was of the essence.

"Rip, What are you doing?" Ray questioned as the time master rummaged through his desk drawers looking for something finally coming across what he had been searching for picking up a glass key with a flash drive at the end. He raced back over to the console and jammed the key into the console taking a shaky breath.

"Rip?" Ray questioned again.

"I'm offloading Gideon." Rip revealed answering Ray's question. Gideon's scrambled voice could be heard the Ai trying to protest.

"It doesn't sound like she's on board with the plan." Ray frowned.

"What is the plan, exactly?" Stein inquired.

"Once Gideon is offloaded Rory's Ai will temporarily take her place until Clarity is out of harms way. This Ai won't be affected by Clarity getting erased from the timeline." Rip informed them.

"Are you certain that's wise? This Ai answers to the time masters! It could end us all" Stein objected.

"Your wrong this time professor. It answers to me. The Ai answers to the Captain of the vessel they're assigned to above all else. Time pigs orders be damned. That's why this piece of junk metal followed me off the ship. Sparky tore my suit to bits and that still wasn't enough to stop him. Damn thing put it back to together. " Mick corrected.

"Sorry Gideon, you'll be back home soon love." Rip murmured softly taking the key out of the console it's once clear design now glowing with a soft blue light. He pressed the key to his lips for the briefest second before pocketing the key in his trench coat. He flipped a switch on Rory's suit and the other Ai traveled into the waverider's system. The lights changing from a comforting blue to what Rip thought of as a sickly green.

"Ah that's so much better. It's so much bigger on the inside." The Ai said his face appearing on the console table. "Now how can I be of assistance?"

"Alright, Gary-" Mick started.

"My name is Jerry, sir." The Ai corrected.

"I don't care what your name is. Search for disruptions in Sparky's timeline and get us to the pilgrim's location now!" Mick ordered.

"You're always such a grouch" The Ai replied, but did as he instructed.

"Anything Jerry?"Rip asked impatiently. This was taking to long. They should have time jumped by now.

"Indeed Sir. I have found a temporal distortion on the date of may 6, 1999. However, I don't believe that Miss Clarity is in any condition to survive a time jump. She has minutes at best. It's a miracle she's survived this long with her timeline disintegrating like it is." The Ai informed them.

"No, no there's still time! We'll send a team on the jump ship." Rip denied refusing to give up sprinting to the medbay. He would not lose another person on this team.

Rip paused in the doorway the words he was about to say getting stuck in his throat upon seeing Clarity. In such a short time the metahuman has deteriorated greatly. Clarity's whole body was flashing blue, her veins glowing brightly her voice too hoarse for her to scream very much any more. Her eyes were opening and closing the metahuman struggling to stay conscious.

"Damnit Glitch you better not do this to me again!" Snart snapped at her silently begging her to keep breathing.

"That's not helping anything." Sara told him shaking her head feeling somewhat helpless to stop any of this.

"There has to be something we can do. We can't just let her die!" Todd argued.

"Indeed there is! Mr. Rice, Mr. Snart. We've located the Pilgrim. The jumpship is already programmed with the coordinates. Since the two of you and miss Saunders have yet to face the pilgrim you're our best bet." Rip informed them finally remembering how to speak again.

"I'm gonna save you Flick. Keep fighting, you hear me?" Todd told Clarity not waiting for an answer the girls's speaking capabilities long since gone. He went sprinting out of the room to find Kendra.

"Don't die on me again, Glitch." Snart warned before he went sprinting out of the room as well to get his gun. There was no time for walking or even running. She was going to die any minute possible any second. Clarity was struggling to hang on. She was so weak.

Rip rushed over taking Todd's place. He knew she didn't have long and he didn't want her to feel alone. He knew full well that Sara was there, but Rip figured two people was better than one and they needed every second they could get.

"Thought you needed to think." Sara said to Rip discreetly wiping a tear from her left eye. This was worse than anyone torture Sara had seen with the league. No one should be in this much pain. It was as if Sara had been watching Clarity go through electroshock.

"There's only so much thinking one can do before you need to act. Don't worry, she'll be alright." Rip replied.

"Are you telling me that or saying it to convince yourself?" Sara questioned before Rip could reply Clarity tried to speak.

"G-Gideon...c-can't...f-feel..." Clarity tried to say but she was struggling to breath now her voice cracking. The black spots almost completely consuming her vision, her tears blurring her sight.

"She's here. She's fine. I swear it, you will be too. You're strong, Clarity. So strong, don't give up. Just stay with us and for once in you're life don't go near anything bright." Rip pleaded.

"C-can't..." Clarity struggled her body practically numb from the pain at this point. It was as if she was unfeeling or almost. Her entire body tingled inside and out. All she felt was tired. So tired...maybe if she just closed her eyes to rest for just second she would feel better.

"No, no no Clarity. Clarity! Don't close your eyes! Please...please just keep you're eyes open. Let me see you're eyes. Stay here!" Sara pleaded her voice raised almost to the point of being frantic. They were so close to saving her now, she couldn't die yet. She just couldn't.

Clarity opened her eyes as Sara instructed, but wasn't sure what good it would do. She was exhausted.

-meanwhile back in 1999-

The jumpship crash landed in the front yard and the Pilgrim turned her head eye brow raised. It seemed they were feeling the pressure with this one. They hadn't even bothered to hide the ship this time. The pilgrim got out her gun and pointed it at the now bloodied and broken eight year old Clarity on the ground. She was barely breathing anymore from the torturous beating the pilgrim had given her. The jump ship's cargo bay door opened but the pilgrim paid it no mind. It was over, she had won. She pulled the trigger but gasped as a thick black smoke wrapped around her wrist and her arm was forced upwards the blast shooting into the sky through the clouds.

"You're not on my list.." The pilgrim glared her free hand shooting out freezing Todd.

"Sorry, freezing things is my job!" Snart exclaimed shooting a blast of ice at her forcing the pilgrim to release Todd and move away from Clarity.

"Now Hawkgirl!" Todd ordered and Kendra swooped down lifting young Clarity backpack and all up into her arms ushering her safely to the jump ship. Todd wasted no time creating a thick veil of smoke covering their exit.

"You will rue this day...if you even live to see it." The Pilgrim proclaimed as the smoke cleared the jumpship out of sight. Perhaps she should have just gone with the kill shot first, but no matter. She had wanted that one to suffer any how. She would never make it.

-back on the waverider-

"We've got her!" Todd screamed his voice echoing down the hall the metahuman man taking her from Kendra sprinting as fast as he could to the medbay the young girl in his arms.

"Rip What are you doing?" Sara asked as Rip went to young Ray waking him up, taking him off the sedatives, getting the boy up out of the medbay chair as quick as humanely possible.

"Making room, Miss Lance." Rip replied hurriedly.

Young Ray gasped fully waking up as he caught sight of Clarity. The young boy racing to her side out of Rip's arms before the time master had any time to react. Luckily Sara had fast reflexes and she caught him before he could touch Clarity.

"What's wrong with my guardian angel!? She's in pain! Is she dying!? We...we've got to do something! We've got to help her!" Young Ray exclaimed his brown eyes wide correctly assuming the worst.

"She'll be fine Ray. Just stay out of the way so we can save her alright?" Sara asked him gently.

Not a second to soon Todd came hurtling into the medbay placing young Clarity into the medbay chair Rip placing the cuff on her wrist immediately tapping buttons on the medbay screen.

"Jerry, I need a full body scan on both Clarity's, Sedatives, painkillers, the whole nine yards, this is an emergency delta protocol. Understand?" Rip questioned.

"Yes sir, shall I only treat the young one? My scanners indicate the adult version has stopped breathing." Jerry admitted. Rip's eyes widened and he whirled around to face the adult Clarity his heart dropping. The Ai was right, she wasn't breathing anymore.

"Treat the young one. Treat her now!" Rip ordered feeling as if he was about to have a heart attack or vomit. Possibly both as the feelings of failure and dread came upon him. No, no, no, no, no, sure they were cutting it close, but they couldn't have been to late to save her could they have?

"The younger Clarity's vitals are stabilizing, sir. I believe she will make a full recovery though her injuries are quite serious. Her lungs may never fully recover. I'd recommend prescribing an inhaler for physical activity during the adolescent and prepubescent years." Jerry informed.

"What about the adult version? What about our Clarity? My Clarity? The Clarity now! Whatever you call her!? Someone tell me she isn't gone." Sara questioned as she held young Ray in a hug the young boy crying into her shirt. Sara herself having tears in her eyes which were dangerously close to spilling.

"I'm so sorry, it appears we...we were too late." Rip muttered turning away from everyone closing his eyes.

"You lied! You're a liar! You said she would be fine!" Young Ray cried.

Sara opened her mouth to say something, but she couldn't get any words out. Clarity was gone...how was she gone? Sara couldn't even comprehend it. Even with Clarity's lifeless body a few feet away.

They didn't have very long to mourn. Suddenly, Clarity's lifeless body shot up in the medbay chair her eyes glowing brightly her lightning dancing across her skin. Her injuries all slowly fading away. Her powers settled, and she panted slightly feeling somewhat spent from the ordeal looking very much completely and totally alive.

"What the hell..." Todd jumped in surprise his back pushed fully up against the wall. Everyone in the room stared at her completely startled.

Everyone in the room sharing in the Todd'a shock disbelief and relief racing through all of them.

"Uh...why are you guys looking at me like you've just seen a ghost? Am I ghost!? Can you guys see me? Somebody poke me! See if I'm solid?" Clarity asked holding out her arm for someone to poke.

"Jerry, what the hell is going on!?" Snart snapped.

"Apologies. It appears that something was causing a malfunction to my systems causing me to to inaccurately interpret the adult Clarity's life signs." Jerry apologized.

"Not a malfunction. A Glitch." Clarity corrected with a bright smile.

And that's where this chapter ends! Yay Clarity's Alive! Did you ever doubt I would bring her back? I honestly considered having her stay dead. But that wouldn't be very nice of me. Okay, so now the questions!

1. What did you feel while reading this chapter? What did you think while your were reading?

2. What did you think of Clarity's flashback/pilgrim attack/past? Was it what you were expecting?

3. After reading this chapter what do you think of her being named the Glitch now? Do you think Clarity sees it as more of a positive or negative? And why?

4. Who are you shipping Clarity with and why? What was your fave shippable moment with them this chapter?

5. What's your favorite Chapter of Glitch and why? List as many reasons as you can to why it's your favorite.

6. What do you think of Clarity's mother this chapter?

7. What did you think of Clarity's father this chapter?

8. Did everyone seem in character? Or was someone out of character? (I worry about this a lot when I write chapters)

9. Who's you're Clarity brotp and why?

10. If you could have one thing happen to young Clarity next chapter what would it be?

11. Do you like it more when I do original chapters like this? Or should I stick more to the episodes?

12. What is you're favorite thing about Clarity? And why?

13. What was you're favorite Clarity moment this chapter? And why?

14. If I did Clarity writing contests would you do them? (The costume contest will be up tomorrow. I keep forgetting. I need to start setting alarms or something?)

15. What did you think of young Clarity's outfit?

16. What upset you most this chapter and why did it upset you?

17. What do you think will happen next chapter?

18. Anything else you want to ask, rant, or tell me!