Our day was going to start by Ava and I going to the Time Bureau to check and see how everything was going. I seriously hoped that Nate knew what he was doing. He basically went from being a legend to working for the Time Bureau to being Head of the Time Bureau in only a few weeks. I couldn't help but wonder if anyone else had been promoted that quickly. I supposed that it really was about who you know and also being in the right place at the right time. I still thought that she looked cute in a suit. One thing that I noticed I seemed to have less sexual thoughts about her than usual. I didn't know if it was because I was a kid and my mind wasn't going to those places, she was a kid and I didn't want to seem creepy or the fact that I knew I wouldn't be having sex for a while and my brain was just repressing those urges.
When we got into the Time Bureau, I couldn't help but notice that it looked different than before.
"Ava, Sara, what are you two doing here?" Nate asked in surprise.
"We're here to check up on you." Ava explained. "It seems like you might actually know what you're doing."
"I have something that I want to show you that I think you'll be impressed by." Nate declared. He then took us down a hallway that I had never been down before. Granted, I had never really explored the Time Bureau building before, but it still looked new. "This is our new creature containment facility. It's where we're keeping all of the creatures that we capture."
"I'm impressed." Ava declared. "I do have one question though. What's in that cell with the armed guard?"
It seemed kind of silly for there to even be an armed guard at all.
"This is where we keep our most dangerous prisoner." Nate replied as he took us into the room. Inside, we saw…Oliver.
"What?" I asked.
"Sara?" He replied. I wasn't sure if I should be impressed that he still remembered what I looked like as a kid.
"What is he doing here?" I questioned.
"I made a deal with the FBI." Nate explained. "I would keep him here. He'll help out with the Bureau from time to time in exchange for a release in a few weeks."
"But why do you have him in an anti-magic cell?" Ava questioned. Yeah, that didn't make a lot of sense.
"Well it's kind of the only cell that we have." Nate explained. "Should we leave you two alone for a minute?"
"I suppose you should." I remarked.
"I'll be right outside." Ava declared.
"Do I wanna know what happened?" Oliver asked.
"How much backstory do you need?" I questioned.
"I think you can just tell me the basics." He replied.
"Okay, so we were at a camp where some children went missing." I explained. "We quickly found out that the girls would not tell any adults and since the monster only went after children, we had John make us a potion to turn us into kids, only it kind of didn't wear off like it was supposed."
"Wait, you're working with Constantine?" He asked.
"You probably should have asked for some backstory." I remarked. "Yes, and that other girl is my girlfriend Ava."
"Sara." Ava interrupted over the com. "Nate's dad is here and he wants to come on the ship."
"I have to go." I replied. "I have a very important thing that I need to attend to, but I will see you soon and hopefully by then, I'll be my correct age."
I then ran out and Ava and I tried to get back on the ship.
"Nate, please try to stall him." I declared before we arrived.
"Okay, Nate is coming here with his father." I told the team. "We need to keep him away from Charlie until we can figure out a way to tell him."
"And how exactly are we going to explain that our captain is a 12-year-old?" Zari asked. I hoped that they would have a good explanation for that."
"I need you to figure something out." I declared. Hopefully they could do it in a way that would make us look like less like screw-ups.
"I'm pretty sure that he'll be more concerned when he finds out about me." Ava declared.
"We might be able to hide that from him." I pointed out. "Maybe you should go to the room and hide there for a little while. He doesn't have to know that you're here."
"I guess I can do that, but I'd like to go on another mission with you." She said. I liked it better when she went on the missions as well.
"I know but maybe you should sit this one because Hank is here." I suggested. I still had a plan to surprise her. I wasn't going to let a surprise visit from the boss's boss interrupt that.
"And where is this Captain Sara Lance?" Hank asked. I knew that it would probably be necessary to show myself.
"I'm right here." I explained as I walked over to him. I knew that it would take a lot to explain myself to him, but if I was able to do it to Oliver, I would be able to do it to him. "And before you ask, yes, I am a child. This is due to a potion not being as temporary as it was supposed to be. I can assure you that I am still a capable leader despite this."
"And how you exactly were you turned into a child?" Hank asked.
"That would be a result of our resident mystic John Constantine." I explained. "He usually hangs out in the library."
We headed to the library and there we found John…naked. For some reason, I wanted to turn my head away, despite the fact that I had seen him naked before. I wasn't sure why, but it seemed like lately sexual situations grossed me out more than anything.
"John, this is my father Hank Heywood." Nate replied.
"Is there any reason why you're naked?" Hank asked.
"Yoga." John replied.
"Can you please cover up?" I requested. He then put a robe on. That was better I supposed, but I still didn't feel comfortable around him. "So that's basically everything that there is to see on this ship."
"What about the lab?" Mick interrupted. Why did he have to do that? We then went to the lab where Charlie was listening to some music.
"Amaya." Nate replied. "She came back."
He then went over to hug Charlie and when she noticed that, she punched him in the face.
"Get your bloody hands off of me." The former shapeshifter declared.
"Mick, how about you show Hank our kitchen?" I suggested. I knew I would have to explain things to Nate.
Mick obliged, and he and Constantine took Hank out of the lab. I then looked at Nate.
"So, this is Charlie. There's a complicated story to why she looks like Amaya." I told him as I tried to figure out how to explain it.
"You found her on a mission and she convinced you not to send her to Hell and John removed her power to shapeshift." Nate explained.
"I guess it isn't that complicated." I remarked.
"Well Ray told me all of that in an email, but he didn't tell me that she looked like Amaya." Nate explained.
"You write him emails?" I asked.
"I have to do something to communicate with him while he's not on the ship." Ray pointed out. "We're bros."
"Well the point is we can't let your father know we're harboring a fugitive, so we're just going to pretend she's Amaya."
I sighed. It was at that time that the magic detector went off. I went over to the screen.
"So, this is how we detect magical entities in history." I explained. "Right now, it is showing that there is some kind of creature in Paris 1927."
"Gay Paree." Ray remarked.
"Isn't that impolitically correct?" Mick asked.
"Don't you mean politically incorrect?" Zari asked.
"So, now we go to Paris and round up our fugitive." I declared.
"And this takes six of you?" Hank asked. We all had our own unique abilities.
"Seven if you count Amaya." Ray replied.
"It gives us the opportunity to split into groups." I explained. "Some of us can go on the ground, while the rest of us stay here and research."
That led to me going into the city with Nate, Mick, and Hank. I was wearing basically a red kids' flapper costume with black tights and a black headband. I wasn't sure if kids actually dressed like this, but I didn't care. We ended up going to the finest restaurant in town.
"So we need to look around for anyone who can help us find our fugitive." Nate replied. "Ooh, there's Salvador Dali."
"We don't need to ask a man with a funny mustache." Hank replied before he noticed someone. "Oh my God. Papa."
He then went over to the man.
"I thought your grandpa blew up in space." Mick remarked.
"No, that's one of my dad's heroes: Ernest Hemingway." Nate explained. You know, I always pictured Hemingway as being fat with a beard, but I supposed that he wasn't like that until later in life.
Eventually, Nate heard from Dali that a monster was hiding in the catacombs. Unfortunately, he said it a little too loud.
"If a monster is in the catacombs, we must hunt it down." Hemingway declared.
"That's probably a bad idea." I commented.
"Quiet, child." Hemingway declared.
"You heard the man. We must hunt the beast." Hank replied. I decided that I should go with them so they didn't get themselves killed. As much as Hemingway seemed like a bad person, his works were still important to English teachers everywhere. On that subject, why would anyone give his books to 8th-graders?
"You should let the men handle this." Hemingway told me as he cocked a shotgun. I then grabbed one and cocked it.
"I know how to use one of these." I replied.
"I prefer my own." Mick replied as he took out his heat gun.
Simply put the mission was a huge failure. It turned out that the monster was a minotaur and it had an axe which it could use to block bullets.
"We need to fall back." I ordered. Unfortunately, Hank didn't listen and attacked. The beast attacked him with its ax and injured him. We hurried him back to the ship and gave him to Gideon to patch up. I knew that she could heal him especially since she brought me back pretty much being clinically dead. I was glad that I didn't have brushes with death anymore.
Later Nate explained us the myth of the minotaur. It could have left the maze any time but didn't but it was ashamed of its father's rejection. His plan was basically to use a lute to put it to sleep.
"That's a stupid idea. We need to kill this thing." Hank replied. "Captain Lance, tell him that we need to kill it."
"Sorry, Hank, but I agree with him." I declared. "If this doesn't work, you can fire us all."
I did hope that it would work, because otherwise, I'd probably have to go back to school. Not to mention that it would be tough to get me into school since I'm supposed to be nearly thirty years old. I liked to consider myself a year younger considering that I was dead for over a year.
"Captain, there has just been a change in the timeline." Gideon replied. Apparently, the minotaur went after Hemingway and killed everyone in the restaurant. That couldn't happen. We went back to the restaurant just before it was supposed to happen.
"Well, don't you look you look adorable." A woman replied. I realized that I knew who she was. It was Zelda Williams, the first flapper. No, wait, that's Robin Williams's daughter. It was Zelda Fitzgerald. She did kind of look like Zelda Williams though.
At that point, the minotaur attacked.
"There it is: the beast!" Hemingway declared.
Nate started to play the lute and it looked like it was working…until Hemingway had to be an idiot and hit it with a chair. That caused the beast to throw Nate against the wall, breaking the lute. We were in the trouble.
However, unexpectedly, Hank then grabbed a guitar and started to play some kind of folk song. His singing was also surprisingly good and soothing. It was even making me a little bit sleepy. It worked causing the beast to collapse.
"Well I can definitely see the use of your team now." Hank declared.
"I'll be back soon, Dad." Nate replied.
We then went to the kitchen where there was pizza and cake.
"Yes, a pizza party, but why is there cake?" Nate asked.
"Because this party is not for you." I told him. "Ava, can you please come to the kitchen."
She then came out and we all yelled 'SURPRISE!'.
"I can't believe that you remembered." Ava declared. "I barely remembered."
"I would never forget your birthday, my love." I told her. "Now I got you a present."
"What is it?" She asked as she looked at the plush.
"It's an Ampharos." I explained. "I have to teach you all about Pokémon someday."
So not as much Sara and Ava in this chapter, but there are still some cute moments. Also Zelda Fitzgerald is played Zelda Williams in this version (who used to date Colin Donnell). Please don't forget to review.
