"Hey man, you doin okay?" Jax asked Ray as they both worked tirelessly down in the engine room attempting to fix the ships scanners so they could track Clarity or at least get the ships power levels up so they could get out of there. Realistically, they were attempting to fix anything and everything that might help them. "Your bein' real quiet."
"Oh yeah," Ray spoke up his fingers twisting wires together. "Sorry, lost in thought I guess. My brains still sort of processing. So much has happened in such a short span of time. It's hard to believe any of it's actually real, feels like a sort of dream."
"Yeah, I know." Jax agreed. "Things went sideways from the second we got here. Guess that's what we get for coming to world war three."
"How about you? Stein was hurt pretty bad. Are you doing alright?"
"I'm tired from the sedatives Gideon used on him, but other than that the pains not too bad." Jax answered as he untwisted a bolt to get a panel out of the wall. He was working a bit more sluggishly than Ray was but it wouldn't be the first time that he'd had to work when he was tired. Just like pulling an all nighter back in high school to finish an essay only to have to go to a 3 hour practice then work in the auto shop straight after to help his mom with the bills, then do his remaining homework for the day and if he never complained about all that then why should he complain now about this? His work might be slower than the genius billionaire's but it was no less efficient.
"We've all been through it the last couple hours. If you need to take a break and rest..." Ray started, but Jax was quick to cut him off.
"Nah, I'm good." Jax denied with a shake of his head. "'Sides we don't have time to be another player down. Those robots are probably gonna be on us soon. Rip said we had an hour like thirty minutes ago."
"I wish we had a real way of taking them down, but they're literal giants." Ray sighed. "If only there was a way to go toe to toe with them without being gnats in comparison. Clarity did her best, but it's not like fighting at microscopic size in my suit against a normal size person. In my suit, I have my normal strength, plus some extra force from the robotics, so it's more of a fair fight against people despite the size difference. Size doesn't always matter."
"Too bad you're suit just shrinks." Jax shook his head doing his best to ignore the innuendo Ray hadn't even realized he'd made. "It might be four on one, but it could be one hell of a fair fight if you grew to their size."
"Yeah, too bad." Ray sighed fiddling with some wires. Even if his suit did have that capability he had no idea how to get it to work. He almost died learning how to shrink what would it take for him to learn how to grow? He'd never really thought of doing that before.
"Scanners back online!" Jax cheered, as his screen lit up and rebooted.
"Nice work." Ray congratulated him the two sharing a fist bump even though they still had an insane amount of work to do. Small victories were still victories afterall and they deserved to be celebrated even just to keep up morale.
"Alright...initiating manual scans for positrons..." Jax muttered typing into his tablet. Jax waiting in anticipation for what it would say as Ray peered over the younger man's shoulder. "Wait, no way this can't be right..."Jax grew confused, "Ray, are you seeing this?"
"These readings..." Ray broke out into a grin. "Clarity, She's back on the ship."
The boys scans were right. Glitch had arrived back on the ship mere moments ago with the others. Clarity pausing at the fabricator to make herself a fresh supersuit. The battle wasn't over yet, those Leviathans would be on top of them before they realized it. Perdegaton himself already stock piling weapons for himself from the armory portion of the space. Luckily for Clarity, Gideon kept all their hero costumes on file in case of harsh battles such as these.
"Welcome back Creator, I see you've brought others with you." Gideon greeted, "It's so good to see you and Jonas alive and well, Mrs. Hunter."
"Yes, I feel the same, thank you, Gideon." Miranda nodded smiling down at Jonas as he waved hello at the ceiling where he presumed the Ai to be located.
"Hello to you as well, Jonas and might I just say you've grown into a fine young man since I last saw you young Perdegaton. It is not often that my historical accounts prove to be wrong. I'm quite happy you all are alive something that may prove to come to an end if we cannot stop the four leviathans heading for us. Shall I inform Captain Hunter and the rest of them team of your return, Clarity?" Gideon asked, the lighting on the ship all becoming just a bit brighter.
"Thanks Giddy, but I think I'd rather have it be a surprise. The last one we got was a pretty terrible one. So, we could use a good one of those don't you think?" Clarity replied swiping her new suit which was identical to the one she was wearing now from the fabricator. Gideon having even made her a fresh pair of metallic blue combat boots.
"Quite right." Gideon agreed. "Things have been most dire. By my calculations a heightened sense of morale may increase our chances of survival by 0.2%."
"Loving that math." Mac complained shaking her head. "So we just came all the way here just to die? Get killed by his robots instead of Savage himself?"
"We came to say our hellos." Clarity replied, looking down at her costume brushing her hand across the heart emblem before looking back up at the four. "And I do mean hellos, not goodbyes. Goodbyes are for Savage. Don't get me wrong I'm terrified. Every nerve in my body is telling me to Glitch away as far as I can if I could. I barely survived my run in with one, let alone four, but I did survive, and these two survived," Clarity gestured to Miranda and Jonas, "you survived, and Perry survived. All of us survived Savage's attacks on us. The waverider doesn't feel like it's in the best shape, neither is anyone on this ship really, and the robot giants coming after us are packed with so much power it would take me over a year to drain a single one assuming I could even get this off." Clarity gestured to the painfully stinging dampener. "But this ship, this one space is the only place I can feel where nobody is dying. Lasers aren't firing, bodies aren't dropping and stopping their hums. It's like being in the eye of the worst thunderstorm ever. Out there danger on all sides we're all dead anyways, but here there's a chance to cut that danger off right at its head if we just go through it. We didn't come here to die, Mac. We came here to live."
"She's right, we should start preparing. We can't give up when there are still things that can be done." Perry agreed clutching at his neckerchief. "There's still a future to be had."
After giving Perdegaton and Mac directions to the medbay the group split up. Clarity heading to her room to change, Perry and Mac heading to the medbay to stock up on supplies and Miranda and Jonas heading to the bridge to have their family reunited and reinvigorate Rips fighting spirit.
"All my people.." Perdegaton muttered as he looked around at the scared refugees that littered the waverider's halls as he walked. "My fathers people.." the man already feeling as if he failed them all.
"There were too many soldiers, you couldn't have gotten to him." Mac placed her hand on Perry's shoulder already knowing full well what he was thinking.
"I could have if I'd done what Clarity had." Perry insisted. "I let my anger get the better of me. If I'd just stopped to think, took a moment to plan with her, strategize as Vandal had taught me then maybe I could've ended things back there."
"You're heavier, you would've toppled the second that you tried copying her." Mac insisted. "She barely made it to him as it was."
"No I-" Perry was about to snap at her when he froze as he felt someone tugging on his jacket. He looked down and saw the little boy Clarity had talked with, her blue fuzzy scarf still hanging around his bear.
"Excuse me, Mister? Can you help me?" The little boy asked first pointing to Perry's skillfully knotted shoes and knife holsters then to his bear. The scarf still merely draped around the stuffed animal.
"Perry, we've got to keep moving and replenish our med stock pile." Mac complained intent on ignoring the child and leaving him to fend for himself. "Learn to do it yourself kid. Trial and error, if you can't do it yourself then your out of luck."
The boy looked down to his bear and to his unlaced ill fitting shoes with a small frown. It wasn't that he hadn't been trying he had, however he'd never been taught how. He didn't know how to loop the fabric in a way that it would stay tied.
"M, you go ahead, I'll meet you there." Perry replied bending down to help the child. First moving to tie his shoes. If the kid needed to run, and with a battle coming he most certainly would need to if this ship could no longer protect them, it would help if his shoes didn't trip him up. "Your friend here has a nice scarf." He told the child as he focused on the bear. "It's almost as nice as mine."
The little boy grinned, "Thanks! The hero lady gave it to me before she went to fight the metal giant!"
"Did she? That's quite the gift." Perry smiled patting the boys head ruffling his hair. "Make sure you don't lose it."
"I won't! I'm gonna keep it forever and ever!" The boy boasted.
"Okay...uh," Perry straightened up turning all around looking out at all these war torn people around him. Hungry, frightened.. how long since they'd experienced kindness beyond being crammed into shelters? Since before the virus broke out no doubt. Perhaps he had a bit of time to spare... "Does anybody else need any help while i'm here?" Perry was immediately met with multiple raised hands old and small alike.
Clarity walked into her room fully prepared to shed her ruined muddy bloody costume for a fresh one. At minimum brush her dirty hair, and wipe herself down with a towel or something because there was no way she had time to actually shower and then dry off to be able to use her powers assuming someone on this ship could help figure out how to get the dampener off of her before the leviathans crushed them all to death. But what she didn't expect to see was Sara sitting in her white fuzzy desk chair. Her head resting in her hands, Sara's elbows on her glass desk. The blonde facing away from her not even having realized she entered the darkened room.
"What the hell am I going to tell Felicity?" Sara muttered to herself. "I guess Ray'd help me break the news. Ollie'd have to be there to comfort her. If we even make it out of this to get back to Star." Sara sighed to herself. To Clarity it simply looked as if Sara was tiredly rubbing at her eyes, things were tense and stressful of course Sara would feel it weighing on her, but she was actually wiping away some tears before they could fall. Sara talking to Claritys desk lamp as if Clarity was just going to glitch on out of it at any second. Like she was only hiding and was scared to come out cause of the leviathans on their way to kill them.
"You know you could always tell her I'm alive." Clarity spoke up setting her clothes down on her desk leaning more than sitting on the glass surface. "She'd be really glad to hear it."
"Clarity? You're-" Sara started to realize the look on her face was enough to tell Clarity that surprising the team had been the right call.
"Yup," She smiled brightly at Sara, leaning forwards to hug the assassin cutting off whatever she was going to say as Sara was caught off guard by the hug. Though it was in no way unwelcome, the assassin returning the hug not 3 seconds later. "I think so...well then again I could just be a ghost. Think I'm a ghost?"
"No." Sara denied, shaking her head, pulling back. "A ghost couldn't possibly be as cute as you are." Sara adjusted a strand of Claritys hair, it's chesnut color stained with dirt, and ash from her robot battle. The assassin smiling at the Glitch still thinking she was pretty even if she wasn't as spotless as she usually was at the moment.
Clarity blushed lightning gathering in her cheeks. Unfortunately, that was enough to set off the dampener Clarity receiving a nasty shock the meta dropping to her knees as her legs gave out underneath her, the meta crying out in pain.
"Clarity!" Sara was kneeling by her side in an instant. Hand hovering over her but not yet touching because she knew better than that having seen the lightning the shock had produced.
"I'm fine...I'm okay..." Clarity assured her taking a few deep breaths as pain flared all across her body. "I-I can't use my powers at all until I can figure out how to get this off." Clarity gestured to her bracelet that dampened her powers. "Guess that includes bodily reactions I can't control."
"It's future tech right? Maybe Rip knows how to get it off you." Sara offered.
"Maybe...ugh." Clarity rubbed at her now sore cheeks with her fingertips. Feeling as if she'd been clenching her jaw too hard and had 50,000 bees sting her face.
"Want me to go get him? Or Ray might be able to figure it out, he's helping jax fix the ship right now. Steins healing in the medbay, but I could wake him too." Sara offered willing to do anything that might help. She'd heard from Snart what the last power dampener that was placed on her had done to her. She couldn't just die when she literally just got the meta back.
"No, no, I mean yes just not to my room. I'm going to change and head to the bridge. Could you gather the rest of the team up and meet me there? Not Stein though he should heal if he's hurt. I don't want Gideon announcing a meeting and scaring all of the refugees. Those people have enough to worry about."
"I can do that," Sara nodded, "Do you uh.." Sara gestured to her costume. "...need some help?"
"Wha-oh. No, thanks, but I can manage, Sara." Clarity assured the assassin. Sara nodded and left giving Clarity privacy to change. Once she was in her fresh costume, Clarity discarded her old one on the floor to deal with later, if they survived what was to come. The Glitch heading towards the bridge.
"Why are you just standing out here? Is the door stuck?" Clarity asked Miranda seeing the other woman standing front of the doors to the bridge as she approached. Jonas hugging his mother seemingly trying to offer support.
"Oh no," Miranda shook her head. "Everything's working fine. I just haven't seen my husband in quite a long time. When he left the last time we got into a terrible argument. It's been so long I can't even remember exactly what it was about now not that it truly matters." Miranda rested a hand against the closed doors. "He's been ignoring all of my calls try as I might to apologize even if I was most likely right. Rip can be quite stubborn. I fear that he might not want to see me... see us." She stroked her fingers through her sons hair.
"That's ridiculous, of course he wants to see both of you." Clarity protested crossing her arms. "Rip's been driving himself crazy trying to save you for the past six months. All he ever does when he gets a spare moment is watch those messages you send him or look at the picture of you two in his watch. He's miserable without you. Trust me."
Miranda nodded as Clarity opened the doors.
"Hey Rip! Guess what? I'm alive! Surprised? Me too! Oh and look, I've got a present for you! Well, present and a half." Clarity amended, excitement leaking from her voice as she leaned heavily on the doorway to enter the bridge. "Special delivery straight from our good ol' friend Vandy!" Clarity announced smiling her signature bright smile as she spoke doing her very best to mask the pain she was currently in. Her recent shocking having done nothing to help her.
Rip's head snapped to her in relief, only to do a double take anything he was about to say dying on his lips as he saw Miranda and Jonas standing beside her safe and alive. He scowled, turning away almost as fast as he'd let his hopes shoot up. He rubbed furiously at his eyes. This was it. He'd finally cracked from the pressure of this mission. The imminent doom about to descend upon them all had finally driven him over the edge.
"Oh, wonderful, as if this mission could get any worse. It appears I'm going insane. Well done Miss Springs, you never cease to amaze, truly remarkable work driving me quite literally to my wits end." Rip muttered to himself, perhaps he'd watched that recording of his wife and son one too many times and to make matters worse Clarity's ghost was now joining that of Miranda's and Jonas. "Lovely."
"Okay, not really the reaction I was going for..." Clarity cocked her head to the side concern etching over her features. She thought he would at least be happy to see his wife and son again. She understood if he was cross with her for trying to buy everyone time with her life, but what did poor little Jonas do to deserve that reaction from his father? Or Miranda from her husband? She wasn't sure exactly how long he'd been away from home from their perspective, she'd wager a long while and sure everything was still pretty dire, but wasn't this cause for celebration? She at least expected a smile, a hug, something...
"Rip?" Clarity tried again about to take a step or two forwards, but thought better of it. The wall was really the only thing keeping her standing at the moment and Jonas had already gone through enough fright today she didn't want to scare the child further by attempting to walk over to Rip and collapse. She couldn't exactly use her powers either with the damper on her wrist. She looked to Miranda as the dark haired woman spoke up shaking her from her thoughts.
"He's completely lost it." Miranda fretted, shaking her head almost in exasperation. "Don't worry, I'll have him sorted."
Clarity didn't exactly have time to ask what that meant as Miranda strode straight up to Rip and slapped him across the face. The captains head whipping to the side. The sound echoing throughout the empty broken room. He'd even staggered a few steps from the unexpected hit catching himself on the console before he could fall to the ground.
"Ah! Miranda, What the bloody hell was that..." Rip trailed off his eyes widening as his hand lowered from his stinging cheek turning back round to face her. Realization striking him as he looked at his wife as if seeing her for the first time. "Miranda..." He breathed more than said her name. His eyes were wide and he felt like his heart was just going to leap out of his chest. This was real...she was here, Jonas was here, Clarity was still alive.
"Jonas and I almost get shot by Vandal Savage, You're friend brings us all the way here, you've been ignoring my calls for months, and this is the greeting I get from you?" She demanded, looking at Rip incredulously, wondering what he had to say for himself. "Well, Rip? I'm waiting."
Rip wasted no more time pulling her into his arms hugging her as tight as he possibly could. He kissed the side of her head. He never thought he'd be able to hold her alive in his arms like this again, dead or dying perhaps, but never as alive as in this moment.
Clarity tapped Jonas on the shoulder the young boy looking up at her. Clarity smiled down at him and motioned for the boy to go join in on the hug. Jonas broke out into a grin, one so like Rip's younger self, running the short distance to the console latching onto his fathers leg. "Daddy!"
"Jonas..." Rip lifted his son up in his arms hugging him close, pulling back from Miranda just enough so he could look at them both. War torn, perhaps looking a bit tired and far frailer than when he'd last seen them, but so so alive.
"I love you, daddy." Jonas told him, his little arms wrapping around his father's neck to hug him back.
"Oh, I love you too," Rip told him, and if his eyes were getting teary who could really blame him? How many times had he longed to say it back, but couldn't because it had just been a recording? How many times had he wanted to do just this? And he owed this moment all to Clarity. He had no idea how she'd managed to save them, and get them here but that didn't mean he was no less grateful to her for doing so.
"Clarity, how did you...?" Rip asked redirecting his attention to the heroine who was watching them with a soft smile on her face. The time master was truly at a loss for words as he hugged his son as tightly as humanly possible without causing him harm. Miranda at his side one arm wrapped around him. His family reunited with him once again.
"Oh, that's not important, doesn't matter, not really, I just used some soldiers to play a little hop scotch." Clarity replied with a little shrug, as if it had been that simple, as if she hadn't risked her life running powerless onto a fray of highly trained soldiers to literally take down an immortal tyrant. "Vandy was so surprised. Oh, I wish you could've seen the look on his face, actually I wish I could've seen the look on his face cause he was facing the wrong way. Kinda hard to see when your face is smushed into the ground."
Jonas laughed at her description the little boy finding her recount of the events of her rescue quite hilarious. Rip smiled tearfully at the sound because he'd never thought he'd hear his son laugh ever again. He'd truly given up hope this would happen.
"There, there now," Miranda wiped at Rip's eyes an assuring smile on her face. "No need for tears, we're right here, love. Everything's completely fine now."
Not a second later, Clarity cried out in pain dropping to the floor her head thumping harshly back against the doorway as she threw it back the faulty damper having given her a nasty shock even though she hadn't been trying to use her powers at all, just like she had been fearing it would. Unlike Miranda and Jonas, Clarity herself was the exact opposite of fine. Her adrenaline had long since worn off now, the excitement of reuniting Rip with his family and surprising Sara was dying down, and she was really starting to feel all the pain she was in. She'd thought she'd been feeling it before, but she was so wrong. She grit her teeth, holding her wrist tightly just below the dampening bracelet, not that the action helped her any.
"Clarity!" Rip passed Jonas off to Miranda rushing to her side. "What's-" Rip cut himself off as she held up the wrist with her broken dampening bracelet. He pointed both his pointer fingers at the device. "That's a power dampener?" The time master observed though he sounded unsure of his statement because it looked terribly disfigured.
"Mhm." Clarity winced nodding her head. "Which wouldn't be that bad except it's broken,
Melted it shut with my lightning, can't get it off..."
"Well, what did you do that for!?" Rip asked as he surveyed it.
"I was unconcsious for two days! You think I meant to!?" Clarity asked scratching around her burning wrist. "It was like this when I woke up."
"Why'd you even put this bloody thing on!?" Rip asked in pure frustration, getting out tools and things. Rushing over to his tools, and future things.
"She didn't...I did." Perry winced walking into the medbay with the rest of the legends minus Stein who was still healing. "It was the only way we could help her."
"She doesn't look very helped." Snart glared at him.
"Your old mentor'd be pretty pleased with you." Sara agreed her arms crossed. "Rip, how much longer is this gonna take? Just get it off her already."
"Work faster man," Jax urged passing Rip a tool. "Those leviathans are gonna be here in like 15 minutes."
"By my calculations they'll actually be here in 9 minutes 57 seconds." Gideon corrected.
"I hate your calculations." Mick complained downing the last of his drink.
"Damnit, I can't get at the controls." Rip muttered in frustration.
"There has to be something we can do." Ray said kneeling down to help Rip. Looking for a seam, or even a vulnerable spot on the device they could cut through, but there wasn't one.
"Father designed it himself to ensure metahumans couldn't tamper with it in any way. As long as her heart beats the device remains activated. If her heart stops and starts again it reactivates along with it and will reattach if removed. It will not allow the limb to be cut off and the technology is water and fire resistant to a high degree. Your friends fate is already sealed." Cassandra said, no remorse in her tone.
"Shut up." Todd snapped at her, his smoke barely held back.
"If Glitch meets her end then so do you." Snart told Cassandra. The thief fully intent on following through with that threat. Because it almost seemed like she was enjoying this and that didn't fly with Leonard even if she had agreed to help them.
"Don't threaten my daughter!" Kendra's eyes flashed red.
"Everyone calm down, please." Clarity pleaded, "Nobodies killing anyone. Well, except Savage who's going to kill us in less than ten minutes, but you know we can do lots of things in eight minutes or less so-"
"We don't have time to deal with you, Clarity!" Kendra snapped feeling Savage approaching, was the dictator leading the four leviathans? It felt like he was with them.
Kendra raised her mace, lightning crackling all over it as it glowed from the gold put on it. She threw Rip and Ray aside, pushing everyone else back with her wings to give her room and keep Clarity right where she wanted her.
"Kendra, what the hell do you think your doing!?" Rip demanded.
Clarity's eyes widened, she was in rough shape sure, but she didn't think they'd run out of time yet. Clarity raised her hands in front of her face above her head in an effort to shield herself. She had nowhere to go with Kendra's wings surrounding her. She couldn't Glitch away because of the dampener. She couldn't dodge. She shut her eyes waiting for the the inevitable. She knew Kendra hated her, but did she really hate her so much that she'd kill her!?
"Aah!" Kendra swung her mace down, the sound of electricity crackling could be heard, as well as a sharp cracking noise. The mace smashed into dampener the forcefield cracking like glass under Kendra's swing. The device falling to the floor in jagged tiny metal pieces as the hawk goddesses mace pulverized the device on Clarity's wrist. Kendra retracted her wings resting her mace on her shoulder once it was done.
Clarity shakily lowered her hands staring at her now bare wrist then back to Kendra. A flurry of emotions rushing through her. It was off. She was free. Clarity felt her senses come alive again as she reconnected with the rest of her abilities that had been suppressed by the dampener. Her abnormal blue eyes glowing as she inhaled sharply, lightning crackling across her skin.
"Well that's one way to do it." Jax breathed relieved to see Clarity not maced to death.
"How'd you know that would work?" Ray asked amazed.
"What do you do when a machine doesn't work? Hit it til it does what you want it to." Kendra shrugged as if it had been that simple all along. "It's what I did when I was a barista."
"Thanks Kendra," Clarity told her rubbing her wrist, her lightning dying down as her powers settled. Clarity smiled at her
"I didn't do it for you." The hawk insisted, eyes flicking between her daughter and Snart.
"Still thanks." Clarity breathed out relieved to finally have the dampener off of her wrist. "Jonas, why don't you tell your dad what you learned on the way over here, yeah?" Clarity asked the boy straightening up. One last ditch effort at lightening the mood before they had to fight for their lives. "C'mon, it's okay, tell him... Where are we?"
"The tardis!" Jonas exclaimed with pride.
"It's not the tardis," Rip protested, his voice scolding towards his son. "It's the Waverider." Rip shot an annoyed look Claritys way. "Why must you lie to my child, Clarity?"
"Because it's not a lie, it's true." Clarity replied with surety. "It's the tardis."
"It is not! Miranda, will you tell her?" Rip looked to his wife nodding his head in Clarity's direction.
"Everyone's entitled to their own opinions dear." Miranda replied patting his cheek lightly. "She can call it what she wants."
"...Wait -Wait that's it!" Ray grinned rushing over to give her Clarity a quick hug. "Clarity, you're a genius!"
"Dr. Palmer, how on earth is corrupting my son genius?" Rip demanded, glaring at Clarity. "If anything it's quite rude."
Miranda shook her head giving her husband a look. Rip didn't have room to talk about anyone being rude.
"Well, no obviously that parts terrible." Ray placated the Captain, "But all this talk about Doctor who gave me an idea. If I reverse the polarity of the dwarf star matrix, I can make it an even fight. This time Clarity has back up." Ray nodded at her and Clarity smiled back at him her fingers curling and uncurling tiny lightning bolts crackling between her fingers.
"Miranda, there's still time for you to get away without Savage noticing. Take Jonas, go to the jumpship-" Rip started to tell his wife.
"No." Miranda protested. "If you're staying then so am I. Jonas and I will stay on the ship if you like, but we aren't letting that monster split up our family again. He's big enough to strap himself in."
"Fine." Rip grit out purely because he didn't have the time to argue about it. "There's still the matter of infiltrating Savage's bunker."
"My fathers bunker is coming to us." Cassandra revealed. "There's a reason you rebels could never locate it."
"Wait are you saying Savage's bunker is inside a leviathan?" Clarity asked in amazement. "Now that's what I call a defense protocol."
"Uh guys, I think we just ran out of time." Sara announced as the ground trembled and shook. Wires and broken screens swinging uselessly around. Four leviathans, all glowing the same mint green color as the first could be seen approaching in the distance. The battle was upon them.
And that's the end of this chapter! I hope you enjoyed it! Next chapter is just pure action and awesomeness, and canon things but not canon things and it's going to be like doing a jigsaw puzzle putting all the pieces in the wrong places but it makes an even newer better picture and everything is going to come together and click into place and I'm really super excited for it. I hope all of you are doing alright what with all the quarantining and Covid Things going on. I know everything's pretty rough right now, but we'll pull through. Just try to wash your hands (soap and water is better than hand sanitizer, but sanitizer is better than nothing when you can't wash your hands) and moisturizing your hands is also a good idea so they don't get dry and crack a lot from the over washing, and do your best not to touch your face, eyes, nose-I think you get the picture and I'm sure your sick of hearing about Covid and social distancing so moving on I'm going to try my best to update this story weekly from here on out (at least over the summer til I go back to college). Which means every either Friday or Saturday night I'll update Glitch. It might just be wishful thinking on my part, but I'm confident that I can at least try to make that happen. In other news I've finally decided what Clarity ship will be endgame! Took me long enough right? Haha, but that said no matter the ship I do hope you'll all continue reading Claritys stories even if it's not the ship you've been rooting for. As long as Claritys happy with them that's what really matters right? Anyways, I've rambled on enough and your probably eager to answer them so..here are some questions! Please answer all of them if you can, if not that's fine I know 13 can be a lot for some people, but they really do inspire me to write more and help me see your interested and engaged with the story. I honestly just love hearing what you think about things and getting your input. Don't get me wrong I love seeing you vote on this story and add it to reading lists, but commenting is just so much more interactive and fun for both you and I. If your shy or don't feel comfortable commenting where everyone can see, you could always pm me. So let's get to it peoples!
1. If Clarity was a paragon what would she be a paragon of and why do you think this?
2. I know I've decided, but I still love reading your reasons and thoughts about who Clarity should be paired with and why. Friendly ship wars are part of the fun right? So, in as many reasons as you possibly can (No message is too long (or short as long as it's more than one word) I promise) tell me your reasons for why you ship Clarity with whoever, or if you don't ship Clarity with anyone tell me why you don't ship her with anyone! I want to know, and I think you all can make some very convincing arguments for why you think Clarity could be shipped with whoever, And for the love of Beebo people please don't just say the ship name or name of the character you want Clarity to be with without giving a reason because that's kind of like skipping half the question, and I know you're all fully capable of answering it. I believe in you!
3. Was it worth the wait? What did you think of this chapter? How'd it make you feel and why? Any moments you liked or didn't like? Be honest.
4. Where do you think Clarity is going to get time scattered in season 2?
5. How would you feel if I made supernatural part of the arrowverse in book 5 of Glitch?
6. Why do you like Clarity and what do you like about her? Is there anything you don't like?
7. What legends episode are you most excited to see Clarity in?
8. If the legends were animals what animals do you think they'd be?
9. What arrowverse hero or villain are you most excited to see Clarity interact with? And why?
10. What's Clarity's best physical feature or quirk in your opinion?
11. What do you think of the cover for book 2? (I made it myself!)
12. What are you hoping happens in the next chapter and why?
13. Anything else you'd like to ask, rant or tell me!