The ride in the Waverider seemed to have been long and short at the same time, maybe it had something to do with it being a time machine. Either way, the team soon landed in what Eliza assumed was 1975. The team was all feeling different things as the ship came to a halt. Ray immediately stood up with a big grin on his face like a child in a candy store. Mick on the other hand leaned over to his side and threw up.
"Oh, I should have mentioned before. Nausea is one of the side effects of time travel. Along with-" Rip was cut off from his explanation when Ray belly flopped onto the floor. "Vertigo."
"I can't see." Professor Stein exclaimed, blinking his eyes trying to regain his eyesight. Eliza, who had stood up from her jump seat, was shaking her right arm around.
"And I think my arm went numb."
"Temporary blindness and slight numbness are also included in there somewhere."
Eliza stretched her mouth into a strained grin and said, "Fantastic."
"It should only last a minute. After all, that was a mere jaunt. The further back in time you go, the worse the side effects." Rip went to help the Professor and asked, "Better?"
"Its all relevant." The professor mumbled.
"Good."
Jax, who Eliza had forgotten about for a second, turned to Stein with anger laced into his every word. "I can't believe you kidnapped me." He then turned to the captain, "Hey, I wanna go home."
"Good news then. 2016 will be around in, uh...41 years." Rip said, not really seeming troubled with Jax's demands. The team watched from either around the tabletop or from their seats still getting used to the aftershocks of time travel as Rip started to give orders. "Now, you four, feel free to make yourselves comfortable back here on the ship, while the rest of you are coming with me to find Professor Boardman."
"Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah."
Eliza turned to Mick who looked very disgruntled with being stuck on the ship. "You're benching us?"
"I thought we were a team." Sara said, standing up from her seat.
"This mission doesn't require your particular skill set. Yet." Rip explained. But that didn't make the few feel any better.
"Meaning you don't need anyone killed, maimed, or robbed." Snart spoke up.
"Precisely."
"Now wait, hold on." Snart said, standing up from his seat. He pointed his thumb at Eliza who had finally gotten feeling back in her arm and had them crossed as she watched things develop in front of her. "What's her excuse? Was she put on the naughty list for something we don't know about?"
"Yeah, I would like to know that too. If anything, I would be able to help talk to Professor Boardman and help with the history aspect of this 'mission'." Eliza explained, putting air quotes around mission.
The time traveling Captain sighed and pulled Eliza aside quickly, and started talking in a hushed tone. "Miss. Merrisson, I know how one of your skills is your vast knowledge of history. But I do need to you stay on the ship and...watch over our friends."
"You mean babysit them?" Eliza asked. This is not what she agreed to when she signed on for this trip.
"No, no! Just, make sure they don't-"
"Kill, maim or rob anyone." Snart's voice repeated his earlier statement, making annoyance roll over Rip like a wave.
"Yes, thank you Mr. Snart. Now, we better hurry up. Professor Boardman will die in less than 24 hours."
"What's the point in cutting it so close?" Ray asked.
"Because if he is destined to die, then he doesn't have a timeline for us to disrupt and his impact on the future will be minimal. How brilliant." Stein deducted.
Kendra spoke up what pretty much everyone else in the room was thinking. "And depressing. How does he die?"
"Uh, he's found dead in his university from unknown causes. Come on." Rip explained as he ushered the group to the hall and out of the Waverider.
Stein hesitated when he didn't see Jax following him out with the rest. "Are you coming?" he asked.
"I'll stay put."
"You'd rather stay with them?"
"They didn't drug me."
Stein quickly said, "Point taken." and left the bridge before the room could get anymore awkward. Eliza turned to the group in front of her and sighed.
"So, what now?"
It had been two hours since Rip and the rest of the team had left to find Professor Boardman, and Sara, Snart, Mick, Jax and Eliza were all getting antsy being cooped up in the steal cage. Mick had taken to watching local television on one of the monitors, but still hadn't quite grasped one concept of it.
"Why does this stupid station play nothing but reruns?" he asked. Sara, who had been pacing to fill the time, went to explain when Jax stopped her.
"Don't even bother trying to explain."
"Am I the only one on this ship who could really use a drink?" Sara asked. Eliza turned from her view of the trees from the viewpoint window as Snart turned with a cold smirk. "I say wo go get weird in the '70's."
"Excellent idea."
"I got the perfect outfit."
"Um.. Aren't you going to stop them?" Jax said, turning to Eliza. Rip did put her in charge of them, technically. But to his surprise, she shrugged.
"All I have to do is watch them to make sure no one dies. He didn't say I couldn't watch them at a place where alcohol would be provided." Eliza explained.
Mick pointed at her with his heat gun like it was an extension of his arm, "I like the way your thinkin'."
Perhaps Captain Hunter was unclear with his instructions to remain on board.
"Shut it metal mouth." Mick said, as the four adults walked away from the bridge. Jax was following as well when Snart came to a stop.
"Oh, you're not quite ready to run with this crew. Sorry kid."
"Wait, you're just going to leave me here?" Jax asked.
Snart started to walk away while continuing his conversation, "I said I'd take car of you." Mick followed as Eliza went to grab her bag from where she threw it at the beginning of all this. She turned once her bag was slung over her shoulder to Jax.
"It's better if someone stays behind to watch the ship."
"Just keep telling yourself that and go." Jax said, turning his back to her and walking back towards the monitor Mick was watching. ELiza sighed, and left Jax to find her room that Rip had assigned her. Once she was behind closed doors, Eliza tossed her bag on the bed and dug through it to find a package wrapped in newspapers. A small white paper was taped on the top with some of Cisco's messy chicken-scratch handwriting.
I'm glad you're taking Barbara and mine's advice, you'll make a great hero. And I hope you wear this when you do.
-Cisco
P.S. - I also decided you need a bad ass hero name. So, welcome to the hero life; Blare Witch
P.S.S. - Don't forget my picture.
A smile creeped its way onto Eliza's face and placed the card aside before ripping the poor paper apart. Inside was a red leather (or tri-force polymer) outfit with a long trechcoat top, an under top with a silver tipped belt that would go around her waist, black leather pants and fingerless gloves. She smiled bigger and held the jacket in front of her and just marveled at the craftsmanship.
"Thanks Cisco."
Eliza quickly got dressed in her new hero outfit with a pair of her black boots to match, and was walking out of her room when she saw Sara leaving hers. She was also dressed in a new hero outfit which was all white with a halter top and utility belt. They eyes met and they smiled, Sara getting a good look at Eliza's new duds.
"Well look at you." She said, walking toward Eliza and they soon fell into step with each other.
"Yeah, I look like a cherry popsicle." Eliza said, getting a laugh out of Sara. The two walked in silence after that, mainly because Eliza didn't know what to say to the assassin after remembering her. "So, you're an assassin?"
"Yeah. I worked with the League of Assassins."
"But not anymore?"
"No, not anymore. I"m sorry I didn't tell you back in Jeddah."
"Don't worry about it. What we were doing at the time, there wasn't a lot of talking if I recall."
Sara's smirk widened and she turned her head forward as Eliza blushed at her own words. Snart and Mick soon met with the ladies near the opening of the ship. Snart raised an eyebrow at Eliza, her face still fairly pink.
"Why all red faced, Doc?" He asked as the four of them walked off the ship. Eliza shook her head and turned away.
"None of your concern. Let's just find a place where we can forget for a little bit."
"She's speaking my language." Mick said over his shoulder. He then turned and pointed to Eliza, "I'm starting to like you."
"You should take that as a compliment. Mick doesn't really warm up to anything besides fire." Snart said. Eliza nodded, and gave a small closed lip smile as they walked through 1975.
The bar the group found was filled with people; it looked to be mostly tough bikers and their chicks. Mick was at the bar grabbing the group their first rounf of drinks while Sara, Eliza and Snart waited by one of the poles near a Native American Chief statue. Once Mick came back, he handed everyone a bottle of beer with a sigh.
"Ah, dollar beers!" He said over the crowd. "You gotta love the '70's."
Eliza held her bottle up in a small "cheers-to-that" motion before starting to drink.
"Who wants to listen to some Captain and Tennille? My mother played it. A lot." Mick left after that, finding the jukebox just a few steps away from the group.
Soon music started to play, and the three were approached by one woman looking to be a hippie. "Wow, you guys are really far out." She made quick eyes at Sara before walking away.
"You want to dance, Leonard?" Sara asked, turning to Snart. But he smirked and gestered to the dance floor.
"You go right ahead. I'll watch."
"Suit yourself. What about you, Liz?" She asked, her attention now on Eliza.
"I'm not really a dancing type of gal." Eliza said. Sara shrugged and handed her beer off to Snart before going to dance by herself. Both Snart and Eliza watched her move around on the floor, before turning to each other.
"I figured you would be a dancing gal." Snart started, taking a sip from his beer.
"Well, you would have thought wrong. Didn't you ever hear; 'don't judge a book by its cover'?" Eliza asked. Her eyebrow raised in question and Snart's eyes brightened at her banter.
"I'm more popular of the saying, 'You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.'"
Eliza's eyes widened and her mouth morphed into a large smile, "Stephen King?"
"I'm full of surprises Doc."
"Can I help you?"
Eliza and Snart turned back to the dance floor to see a beefed-up biker talking to Sara, and she did not look pleased. "How about you join me in the parking lot?"
"Hmm, tempting, but you're not my type. But you're lady, on the other hand, well she looks just my speed." Sara said, sending a flirty look to the woman at the bar.
"Maybe you didn't understand my request, bitch." The biker grabbed Sara's wrist, but before anyone could do anything else, she twisted it around and forced it down, making him let go. "Ah! Son of a-"
"I got this." Sara said calmly, turning to her teammates as the biker grabbed an empty bottle off the bar top. He smashed it against the side of the bar to make a weapon and came straight for Sara. Sara quickly blocked his attack then slammed her fist across his neck sending him down to the ground. Another guy, probably from the same biker gang, tried to help his buddy but ended up with him getting a kick to the face. She then dodged a punch from a third guy before grabbing his head and sending it to the ground hard.
One by one, guys kept coming up to try against Sara but she knocked them all down with her feet and fists. "Wow, its like she's a ninja." Eliza said, her eyes wide as she watched Sara in action. After taking down the 10th guy, all of them decided to get up at once and group together.
"Now I can stand for a little help." Sara said, turning quickly to the three before turning back to the biker gang in front of them. Snart slammed his and Sara's drinks down to the ground and started forward as Mick went for a stool that was sitting in front of him and hit it against one guy's back. Eliza turned her head just as a guy started towards her, but she punched him across the face sending him to the ground. She quickly finished her drink before throwing it at the next guy to pick her as their target. All four of them fought the biker gang, punches flying and bodies falling all while "Love Will Keep Us Together" by Captain and Tennille played from the jukebox. At one point, Mick even used the Bar top to slide some guy across it before slamming his head into the floor.
"I love the '70's." He said, watching all the mayhem they were causing. Eliza watched as Snart sent one guy into the jukebox, making the machine stop playing the catchy music. It made her loose focus enough to not notice one guy behind her, getting to wrap his arm around her neck.
"What are you gonna do now, sweet cheeks?" He asked, his warm breath laced with alcohol which made Eliza almost gag.
"How about this?" With enough leverage, Eliza flipped the guy over her shoulder and grabbed his arm, twisting it as he fell to the ground. With a kick to the face, the biker was out cold.
"So you don't dance but you fight?" Snart asked, coming to her side as he looked down at the guy unconscious under her boot. Eliza smiled at him, shrugging as she tossed the guy's arm to his side.
"Full of surprises, Snart. I'm jock-full of surprises."
