LadyAwesome45321: Yes, Snart sure is! I don't watch Futurama, but that does sound like what I was going for. As for Amaya, I got that vibe, too. She's very powerful in her own right and if she had just a weaker personality, she definitely would've succumbed. Thanks for reviewing!

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Nathaniel Heywood is the soft boy with a heart of gold and who is just too pure for this world and who must be protected at all costs. He cared so much, he never hurt anyone who didn't deserve it and generally would do anything for the people he holds dear.

He used to be like that. But time travel isn't exactly very helpful. Sure, Nate got to help a lot of people, but more often than not he came across the worst of the worst during his travels. Nazis, confederate zombies and anything in between. Sometimes, he would take the jumpship and take off. To visit Amaya, that's what he told them. Having a girlfriend in 1942 wasn't ideal. One day, he returned feeling particularly down, and he did not want to share what had happened with the remaining Legends. He continued to travel with the jumpship, but never mentioned what he was doing. Everyone assumed he was still visiting Amaya, and nobody bothered to ask him or Gideon where he's been.

Until one day, Ray did ask. Nate avoided the question and quickly changed the topic. The Legends almost unanimously decided to track the jumpship the next time he went in a joyride. So, Nate took the jumpship and his teammates patiently waited for the results of the data.

But the data didn't come back. And neither did the jumpship. It had been disconnected from Gideon, meaning that she could not track it anymore. It disappeared under the radar, and they could not find him.

Nate returned to the future he had been visiting for a while. He had become politically involved in this government as an external advisor and helped to make decisions for the good of the country. Not 'good' good, however - his own, warped version of good. But the government wasn't ready to listen to him. They almost imprisoned him for libel, but Nate walked away as a free man. He returned to the jumpship and jumped forward in time.

Since then, he deployed a different strategy: studying history as well as future political figures to guide the' towards the kind of government Nate wanted to see rule the world. He identified his main targets and future dictators so that he could influence or possibly kill them. He would control the growth of the United States and push its government in one particular direction. He never set foot on Capitol Hill, but he did visit future senators and presidents, as well as other people with the power to change the country for better or worse. And if they didn't agree with him, he would intimidate them by turning into Steel, knowing nobody would believe them when they told the police a metal man threatened them.

In 2743, it was time. The government had abandoned all values that were essentially American, as well as other ideas of American culture. Only those authorized could carry firearms. Every citizen could only spend two to three hours on the internet if they weren't in public office. Cameras stood on every street corner, capturing everyone's every moment.

Nate had envisioned a state that looked and felt distinctly totalitarian, but that would never use that term. The key word was "safety". This was a safe state, with safe streets and not much privacy to preserve that safety. Gideon recorded this future and it was suspicious that Nate popped up everywhere, each time choosing a new alias, almost mirroring the strategy of Vandal Savage. When the Legends came to investigate, they never came across the man who had hidden so carefully from sight that the Legends would never be able to find him or undo the damage he did to society.

Nobody knows where this sudden shift in character came from. Some say it has something to do with Amaya and not being able to see her again, while others claim the time spent in the future had changed his worldview as well as his character. Either way, in the end, Nate got what he wanted: a country in which he knew people were safe, and in which he would love to stay and live. Even if this state was totalitarian.