Rachel POV- Ray and Kendra explained to Rip how they thought that Sara may have went back to the League of Assassins.
"There is one source that we could check to test your theory. Gideon bring up the Shadow Record" Rip said.
"Shadow Record?" Jax asked as the team gathered around the center console.
Rachel stayed in her seat with her leg propped up. She was trying to locate Chronos on the portable screen Rip gave her so she wouldn't have to get up.
"The list of every member of the League of Assassins since the invention of writing in 3200 B.C." Gideon explained.
"Fascinating. Except these sheets of papyrus are entirely blank" Martin pointed out.
"No, no, no the League uses invisible ink. I did my graduate thesis at the Academy on their history. Gideon" Rip instructed.
"Sara said that Ra's Al Ghul had lived nearly a century before she met him" Kendra said.
"Thanks to the Lazarus Pit. It's basically a life extending Jacuzzi located in a place that's the opposite of life extending" Ray said.
"You should count yourself lucky Dr. Palmer. Only a handful of outsiders have been inside the League's fortress and lived to tell the tale" Rip said.
"You are correct Captain. There is a mention of a Ta-er al-Sahfer" Gideon said.
"What does…?" Jax asked.
"The whistling bird or canary" Rachel said looking up from her screen.
"That's Sara's League of Assassins name. According to the Shadow Record she joined the League in 1958" Rip said.
"Incredible. Sara became a member of the secret organization that trained her to be an assassin 50 years prior to when she initially joined" Martin said.
"Sara needs our help. By all accounts Ra's Al Ghul is a very controlling very homicidal fanatic. Gideon chart a course for Nanda Parbat" Rip ordered.
Great assassins... what could go wrong Rachel thought.
Leonard POV- "Look if you're gonna kill me just do it already" Snart said.
"I'm not gonna kill you. I'm gonna take a trip back to Central City and visit your baby sister and the woman who holds your heart. The beautiful thing about time travel is I get to kill them more than once. I can kill Lisa and Rachel in front of you, go back in time, kill them in front of you again, and again and again" Mick told him.
Snart fought against the cuffs more desperate than ever to get free. If he had to watch Mick kill his sister and the only woman he loved just once he knew he'd go mad. Then by the time Mick decided he was done with Snart, he would be begging for his own death.
"Sir, several anomalies in the timeline suggest that the Waverider has touched down in Nanda Parbat" the AI said.
"Chart a course. I used to think the most beautiful thing on Earth was fire. Now I know…it's vengeance" Mick said.
Once they landed Mick started to gear up for a fight. He grabbed his new rifle like laser gun which was next to his fire gun and Snart's ice gun.
"Would you mind loosening these up a little bit before you go? 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 said trying to get through to the real Mick.
"Like you tossed me aside?" Mick asked.
"You and I both made choices that led us to this moment. What matters Mick is your next move. And I'm willing to bet that some little piece of the old you is in that armor somewhere" Snart kept trying, refusing to give up.
"No. You're wrong" Mick replied putting his helmet back on to be Chronos once again.
Snart waited until he figured Mick had left the ship before putting his plan into motion. Slowly he got up sliding the cuffs along the rail as he did. Then he headed back the way Mick had come from with his weapon.
When Snart ran into a small bar holding the rail in place he rammed into the small bar. On the second try the bar broke free allowing him to continue onward. He broke two more bars before he hit the end.
Using his foot he managed to knock his ice gun off the table and onto the ground. He brought it towards him as he sat down. He looked at his cuffs then back at his gun and thought how much this plan sucked.
Snart laid down and toed off one of his boots. Using his foot and toes he got his gun lined up, and he looked away but couldn't stop the scream of pain as he fired at one of his hands. Panting in pain Snart sat up on his knees looking at him now iced over hand.
Knowing he had to see this through he brought his hand up as high as the rail would allow then brought it down hard on the ground smashing it to pieces. This time his scream of pain was louder. He couldn't help it. But now he was free.
Rachel POV- She'd waved to the team as they'd left to go get Sara back. Rip said it would be a quick easy mission and she was ordered to remain on board. That was an hour ago something was clearly wrong.
"Gideon do you have any way to help me get inside?" Rachel asked.
"I'm afraid not Ms. Stone. If you were to attempt to go in there in your current condition you would no doubt be caught and killed" Gideon replied.
"Thanks Gideon" Rachel growled out.
Just when she was ready to risk more bodily injuries the screen she had been using to track Chronos started beeping. Looking at the screen she saw Chronos had landed only about 20 yards away from their ship.
She was ready for a final fight with him so she waited for him to attack and waited and waited. Nothing happened he didn't come. Slowly Rachel limped her way out of the ship towards where Chronos had landed his.
The energy she pulled from outside helped make limping a little less painful and it took the final stinging burn out of her arm. She still needed to heal the burnt skin and the interior damage on her arm and leg but she was slowly getting better. As she made her way towards Chronos' ship she saw someone running her way.
"Lenny?" she said just loud enough to be heard not wanting to trust her eyes.
"Rachel?" Snart said back.
Then he changed his direction from running towards the entrance to the League to run towards her. He caught her as she stumbled against him. Rachel couldn't hold back her tears of joy that he was safe.
"I got you" he said softly into her ear.
"Oh my God… your hand" Rachel pulled back looking down at his arm that ended at the wrist.
"It's okay I did what I had to do to get out" he said pulling her close holding her tight.
"We have to stop the team from killing Chronos" Snart said as he started towards the compound again slowly as he helped her along.
"Are you insane? We should help them especially after what he did" Rachel said in anger.
"We can't it's Mick" Snart explained everything to her.
"This whole time Chronos was Mick?"
"Yeah and no matter what I have to get him back... fix him."
Rachel heard the stubbornness in his voice, as they entered the League's compound. There would be no arguing with him. Slowly they headed towards the sounds of fighting hoping they were going the right way and not towards some League members simply training.
"You son of a bitch" Firestorm said about to blast Chronos.
"Don't do it. Don't kill him" Snart said leaning against the doorway with Rachel tucked under his good arm both panting in pain.
"Snart? Rachel" Firestorm stared at them.
"At least I didn't come alone to fight assassins" Rachel joked even though her leg was screaming in pain.
"I'm sorry, don't kill Chronos?" Rip asked in outrage.
"He's not Chronos. Show them" Snart ordered Mick.
When he made no move to remove his helmet Snart nodded to Firestorm who removed it for him. The entire team stood down when they saw it was Mick.
"My God" Rip said.
"There is no God" Mick said.
The he lunged for his gun but Sara kicked him in the head knocking him out. The team helped carry Mick back to the Waverider and locked him in the brig. Snart had yet to release Rachel whether he was holding her to help her walk or simply holding her hand as Mick came to.
"You think this is all over? I will kill every single one of you. I will watch you all burn! You…you should have killed me when you had the ch…" Mick's rant was cut off when Rip turned the volume to his cell off.
"You owe us an explanation" Rip said facing Snart.
"Yes it's quite remarkable Mr. Rory is working for the Time Masters, considering you killed him" Martin said.
"If you think back I never actually said I killed him" Snart replied.
"No you just let us think that you did" Jax said.
"I didn't have to try too hard did I?" Snart said over his shoulder his lip curled up a little showing his growing annoyance.
Rachel gently squeezed his hand letting him know she was on his side.
"Well maybe I should have. And at least he wouldn't have wound up a chew toy for the Time Masters" Snart finished softly.
"But if you did we wouldn't have this opportunity" Rip said.
"An opportunity? To do what?" Ray asked.
"To reform Mr. Rory" Rip answered as he turned to look at Mick who'd sat down.
"He killed Aldus" Kendra argued.
"Under the influence of the Time Masters" Rip said.
"Chronos killed Aldus. Mr. Rory was fighting on our side that day" Martin said.
"I know what it's like to be trained by an organization for one purpose, to kill, and the kind of loyalty it can inspire. I need to know that we can reach Rory. For my own sake" Sara said.
"The Time Masters took one of our own and turned him against us. I say we undo their handiwork" Martin said.
"Rory saved my life back in the Gulag. He's more than just a criminal and an arsonist" Ray said.
"He's a member of our team" Jax added.
"He's a lost cause" Snart argued.
"Oh I wouldn't be so sure about that. You will see that miracles abound on this old time ship" Rip said.
The team took their own leave with Kendra heading out first. Rip led Snart, and since he still held Rachel's hand her too, to the MedBay.
"Mick's not a lost cause…and neither are you" she said softly.
Rip instructed Snart to sit in the chair and place his wounded arm on a table. Rip attached some kind of weird pointed device to the table and it was aimed at Snart's wrist.
"Gideon start the regeneration process" Rip ordered.
"What do you mean…regeneration?" Snart asked.
"I took genetic samples from each of you at the start of our voyage for this exact eventuality" Rip said.
"Why am I only hearing about his now?" Snart asked.
"Because none of you had lost a limb yet" Rip said like it was obvious and Snart was stupid.
Snart just shrugged as that seemed like a fair enough reason.
"Eventuality? Yet? You were expecting them to lose a limb?" Rachel asked.
"Well I…"Rip started but then the device started its work.
"Ow" Snart said dryly as slowly the device started to regenerate his hand.
After the skeletal part Snart drew his head back barely looking down in revulsion as the veins and nerves were regenerated. Rachel also had to look away. It was gross watching certain bits be regrown. When it was done Snart hesitantly lifted his hand and moved his fingers around.
Rip just grinned clearly proud of himself. Together the three of them returned to the bridge. Even though she was tired Rachel didn't want to miss an update on the next plan of action. They waited for Ray and Kendra to join the rest of the team.
"I believe we're ready to leave 1960" Rip said.
"And go where? I mean when?" Sara asked.
"2147. Mere decades before Vandal Savage conquered the world" Rip explained.
"I thought you had no idea where he was" Snart said.
"You said Savage had been lost to history" Martin added.
"Not world-changing history. Records of the period are scarce but I've always known that Vandal Savage can be located in 2147" Rip said.
"So why haven't you told us this sooner?" Jax demanded.
"Because that period of history is fraught with more peril than I was willing to risk. We have no choice but to stop Vandal Savage in 2147 or to die trying" Rip said.
"Well I've died before" Sara said.
"So have I" Kendra added.
The team gathered around their seats all seeming to be in agreeance. They we're in win or lose.
"Gideon plot a course for Kasnia Conglomerate. The year 2147" Rip said.
They all took their seats, pulled down the harnesses and held on as they prepared to time jump and to hopefully finish their mission once and for all.