Central City
January 26, 2016

The cold winter air nipped at Eliza's skin as she walked down the streets of Central City. It was the first month of the year and snow was dusted on almost every surface. Eliza smiled as she watched the snowflakes fall softly from the sky, almost like powered sugar was being sprinkled over the city. She was walking passed a large store window filled with toy trains and dolls when her phone went off in her pocket. The small noise resembling the communicator from Kim Possible made Eliza huff a sigh and pull out her phone. She knew whose ringtone it was.

"What's the sitch, Cisco?" Eliza asked, smiling at the same thing she said to her friend every time he called.

"Yo, Elli. Barry kind of needs your help on a situation downtown." Cisco explained through the phone. "I'm sending you the address."

"Got it. Tell Barry I'll be there in a flash."

"Oh my god. Do you have to say that all the time?"

"If Barry isn't going to do it, someone has to."

And with that, Eliza hung up her phone and looked to the address before rushing down the snowy streets to downtown Central City. Once she got to the address, it didn't take her long to find where the fight was happening. Eliza ran to the back of the abandoned warehouse and found her friend Barry Allen aka the Flash rushing around a man that resembled a worn out doll. He was moving his arms in inhuman ways, like bending his elbow all the way in the wrong direction to grab onto Barry's throat and start to strangle him.

"What are you gonna do now, Flash? Anything you try is going to be a real stretch." The villain said, putting a lot of pronunciation on stretch. That was when Eliza had to step in.

"Hey, Raggedy Anne!" Eliza called out, getting the guy to look over in her direction as she took off her gloves.

"And you are?"

"No one really. It's nothing you have to worried about for long." Eliza smirked and curled her fingers, showcasing her powers. Around both her hands appeared a red like mist that moved of its own accord around her fingers. The man holding Barry faltered as she stared at her hands, and that was what Barry needed to land a punch on the guy and run to Eliza's side with a small smile.

"I was handling it." He said, his voice cracking before he cleared it. Eliza smirked at the speedster, keeping her eyes on the man getting up from the punch.

"Was that before or after he started choking you out?" She asked. Barry rolled his eyes and watched along with Eliza as the man rose and smiled at the two almost like another villain they had encountered, the Trickster. It was then when Eliza noticed that the man's skin was sewn together like someone was trying to do some patch work on a pair of jeans and failed. "Who is he?"

"Peter Merkel Jr, he's a contortionist that had surgeries done on his joints to bend to the extremes. It gets so bad that he has to patch up his own skin because it tears at the lengths he forces his limbs to bend." Barry explained.

Eliza made a face at this and shook her head. "He looks like a ragdoll."

"Ragdoll! That's his name, boom!" Cisco's voice sounded through Barry's coms in his suit. Ragdoll's smile widened even more as he pulled out a knife from his pants pocket, tossing it between his hands.

"Come on heroes! I'm ready for you!"

"So what do we do?" Eliza asked. Barry looked to her and then got a smirk on his face as a plan came into his head. Eliza noticed this and asked, "What?"

"You know that fear thing you've been working on?" He asked.

"Yeah?"

"Do you think you could give it a try?"

"I would have to get closer. He can't see me coming."

The speedster smiled and started jumping on his feet, "I got you. I'll distract, you give him the worst nightmare ever." Barry then sped off, circling around Ragdoll like before, but stopping every once in a while; taking his attention off Eliza. Said girl started to creep up, making sure not too move to fast to make Ragdoll notice. And as soon she got close enough for Merkel Jr see her, Eliza went to work. Her fingers moved towards her head and started to move almost in a mystical sort-of-way, making Ragdoll stop in his tracks and his eyes glaze over.

Memories of Ragdoll started to filter through Eliza's head, and the nightmare that entered the villain's head was more memory than anything. A small child was being screamed at by a much larger man, the fear was so present that a chill went through Eliza's body. Once she saw the man force the kid into a small box, she pulled out of his mind and left him almost like a real ragdoll.

Barry stopped at Eliza's side as she pulled on her gloves again, looking down at the incapacitated man. "Good job." Barry then walked over to Ragdoll and pulled him up from where he had fell to his knees. "I'm gonna run him to the pipeline and come back for you."

"Alright." Eliza said, giving him a strained smile before the Flash rushed off with another villain. Seeing other people's memories was not Eliza's favorite thing about her powers. The first time it happened was with Barry, and she saw the horrific scene of his mother dying when he was young. She hated being able to see things like that. Just as Eliza pushed her hands into her coat pockets, a voice that wasn't Barry's spoke up out of nowhere.

"Hello, Miss. Merrisson. It is a pleasure to meet you." Turning around, Eliza caught eyes with a man she had never met. He was rugged looking with a beard adorning his face, but was also dressed in a brown trench coat and a holster on his hip holding some gun. "We history buffs have much to discuss."

Before she could respond, the man pulled out some device that let out a large flash of light.

Waking up on something cold and hard was not the way to get on Eliza's good side. Eliza opened her eyes and moaned as she sat up only to see that she wasn't the only one waking up that way. Next to her were eight others who looked just as cranky at their apparent kidnapping. Someone on the end was the first to speak up.

"Stein? What are you doing here?"

"I'm as ignorant as you, for once."

"Where are we?"

"Why don't you ask the dude who knocked us out and kidnapped us? British dude with a flashy thing ring any bells?"

"The name is Rip Hunter." Eliza looked over holding her head to the man she saw at the warehouse. He walked over to the group with confidence she hadn't seen in a while. "I'm from East London. Oh, and the future."

"Nice to meet you Rip." One man said sarcastically, going to grab the rather large gun from his holster.

"Uh, while you were incapacitated, I may have tampered with your weapons." Rip explained. The man growled at this, not liking that his toy wasn't working. "I've assembled you all because I need your help. The future of the world is in peril because of a man named Vandal Savage."

A beat of silence passed as Eliza watched a couple dressed in similar costumes look to each other. "That can't be." The man said. "We destroyed him."

"Yeah, the Green Arrow and Flash helped us do it."

"And therein lay the problem. Unless you or Mr. Hall deliver the death blow, Savage can be restored from a single cell."

"What the hell are you talking about?" The man with the gun asked.

"I would like to know as well." Eliza said, crossing her arms over her chest. That got most of the group aside from Rip to look in her direction.

Another man, dressed in a blue winter coat and strapped with a gun looked to her and spoke as if his first language was sarcasm. "And who are you?"

"None of your business, MC Widow's Peak."

The man smirked at her but said nothing back as the other guy, Mr. Hall, spoke up. "Vandal is immortal. Kendra and I reincarnate."

The blonde a few feet away said, "Yeah, I've done that." Breaking the small amount of tension in the group. But leaving Eliza with even more questions.

"And what does this Randall guy got to do with us?"

"Vandal. In the future, he will employ the evil he's perfected over his long life, and the power he as amassed throughout history to finally conquer the world. I've been talked with assembling an elite team to stop him." Rip explains, walking passed each person as he told his tale.

"How?" Asked the blonde.

"To travel through time. To capture Savage before he grows into the monster he becomes."

"You've got the wrong guy." Winter coat said, walking over to Rip. "Hero ain't on my resume." The bigger man with the gun wasn't too far behind.

"Or mine."

Eliza was about to walk with them, feeling as though she was not meant to be here. "Sorry to disappoint, but this all seems too Doctor Who meets X-Men for me."

"I know that it is difficult to fathom, but where - when I'm from, the year 2166, you and everyone on this roof aren't just considered heroes . . . You're legends."

Eliza turned back to Rip with an eyebrow raised. Legends? Really? Everyone else seemed to be mulling over the word as well as seconds passed. A guy at the end dressed in some bionic suit spoke up. "Legends?" As an older gentleman followed.

"I, um, I hate to nitpick, but doesn't a legend have to be dead?"

"Yeah, see, uh. That's a deal breaker for me, so I'm gonna pass." The youngest of the group said. He was a boy, probably in his early twenties with dark skin and dressed very casually.

"It's dangerous for any of you to know too much about your own futures, but I am here because each of you, as individuals, is destined for greatness." Rip said. The bionic man nodded at the foreign man's words, seeming to be the only one okay with what was happening.

"I could get behind that."

"And, because if you don't follow me, this is what is in store for your world 150 years from now."

By some futuristic technology, the buildings of the city surrounding them disappeared to showcase a landscape of fire and destruction. Ruins of what once was made Eliza's stomach drop to her feet. Flying ships of some kind fired lasers down at the city below, only causing more destruction to the burning city. The next second, the image was gone and Rip had started to talk again, gaining Eliza's aught most attention.

"I could have chosen any time and any place. Of all the people who ever lived, I chose you nine. I certainly hope that you won't let me, and the world down."

SO here's the first chapter! I know Eliza doesn't do too much, but that's mainly because she doesn't want to do too much. She's not a real hero like Barry, she does occasionally help once in a while and practices her powers with help from Team Flash. But she is not a hero...yet. That is why she didn't recognize anyone on the roof, she mostly stays out of the danger and such.