I thought it was pretty hypocritical of the Legends to criticize Barry for affecting the timeline when they themselves had screwed up so many times in their first season. This alternate scene pays a little more attention to that glaring hole in their outrage and provides a smoother transition to S.T.A.R. Labs, where the big heroes vs. heroes fight takes place.

As always, all characters belong to DC Comics and the CW, and this is written purely for fun. Thanks for reading. I appreciate it.

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[Alternate scene, S.T.A.R. Labs hanger, replacing the clip after Barry finishes telling the team about Flashpoint (The Flash 3x08, "Invasion!")]

"Look, you can't go back and just change things like that Barry," Sara fumed, as everyone around her stood quietly, too stunned by the news of Flashpoint. "You know how hard it is for me to not alter events, to bring my sister back? But I don't, because I know the implications!"

Ray stood up slowly, shock and disappointment on his face. "All those aberrations we spent the last eight months traveling through time trying to correct…you just decided it was okay for you to create your own?" he asked, quietly.

Jax shook his head in frustration. "We should have told him before."

Sara's and Ray's heads snapped to Jax. "What do you mean, 'before'?" Sara asked. "You knew about this?"

"Yeah," Jax nodded, "me and Stein. There's a secret room on the Waverider. We found the message there."

Sara's hands went to her head and she turned around, too outraged to even form complete sentences. Ray picked up the slack for her. "And you didn't tell the rest of us because…?"

"The message was clear. Future Barry said no one but Rip was supposed to hear it."

"Yeah, well, Rip's not here, is he?" Sara snapped. "Our job is to fix time aberrations, and you've just been sitting on this giant one the whole time? What the hell were you thinking?"

"Hey," Jax countered, standing up himself in anger, "I'm just as responsible as you for protecting the timeline. How many times have we heard that knowing too much about our future is dangerous?"

"Well, it would have been useful to know now! We could have cleaned up Barry's mess!"

Barry opened his mouth, ready to apologize again, but Jax stepped up to Sara, pointing at her face. "Don't do that. Don't act all high and mighty about Barry screwing up! You know it's more complicated than that."

"No, it's not!" Sara replied angrily. "Jax, you know what happens when you mess with time!"

"Yeah, I do now," Jax retorted, "In fact, I seem to remember us going on a mission in Russia months ago. Do you?"

"Of course I do," Sara shot back.

"Well, then you know we let Stein get captured, and we ended up making a timeline where Star City got burned to the ground by an army of Soviet Firestorms."

Felicity's head whipped around from the computer where she was working. "Wait, what?!"

Ray stepped in. "Jax, we prevented that timeline from happening. There's no way we could have stopped Stein getting captured."

"Yeah?" Jax countered, turning on Ray. "Then how about Norway, huh? When you lost a piece of your suit and gave Savage advanced tech to blow up Central City?"

"Dude, that is not cool," Cisco pointed out.

"Those were accidents, Jax," Sara said, although she was backing down on her anger as the Legends' previous missteps continued to undermine her outrage. "Barry intentionally went back and changed things."

"And you're going to stand there and tell me you didn't want to do the same with Damien Darhk?" Jax asked. Sara glared, about to protest that she had already admitted that, but Jax kept going. "After all the times we've screwed up time, you're going to judge Barry for making a mistake?"

Sara turned her head and looked at Barry, who had the grace to meet her eyes, owning up to his actions. She turned away and said nothing.

An uncomfortable silence filled the hanger as invisible cracks between the teammates grew wider. It was interrupted by an alert on Felicity's computer, which she hurried to check. "Lyla's sending an S.O.S. The Dominators kidnapped the president!"

Barry immediately began walking towards the hanger exit, his hands on his headpiece. Sara stepped in front of him and held up her hand. "You're not going."

"Sara…" Oliver began.

"No," Sara said firmly. "We've been drilling all day against Supergirl. She's all the superpowered muscle we need right now. Her we can trust."

Barry slowly took his hands off his headpiece. "Okay," he acknowledged, defeated. "I'll stay. Good luck."

"Hey, come on!" Oliver exclaimed. "Barry is the fastest man alive. We need him with us!" He looked around, but Sara, Ray, and Dig all stood with their arms crossed, clearly unwilling to budge on the issue. Jax, Kara, Thea, and Mick didn't seem willing to start a civil war. "I don't think we should go without him," he finished, quietly.

"Then stay here, Oliver," Diggle replied, a hard edge in his voice Oliver hadn't heard since he had kidnapped Lyla during his undercover scheme in the League.

Kara looked around at the rising tension and stepped forward. "Actually, it's fine. It's fine," she repeated, extending a placating hand each to Oliver and Diggle. "We're not quite sure what we're facing, so it's a good idea to keep some backup in reserve, right?" She looked around, hoping someone would help her diffuse the situation, but she mostly saw pairs of eyes shooting daggers. She pressed on. "So Oliver, you hang back with Barry. I'll go with the team, and we'll find the president. We'll radio if we need help."

"Sounds like a plan," Sara declared. "Let's go." With that, Sara strode off, getting herself equipped as the team began to follow her out. As Jax walked past Barry, Barry stopped him and muttered quietly, "Thanks, Jax."

Jax shook his head, his eyes somber. "I'm not defending what you did, Barry. You've got a lot to answer for."

Barry nodded. "I know." Jax walked away, and Barry went up to Kara, who looked at him with concern.

"I'm sorry I pulled you into all this. I didn't want to cause so much trouble."

Kara shrugged. "Honestly, I'm not entirely following this whole time travel stuff. My problems are almost exclusively alien-related." She reached over and rubbed his arm. "But I do know you never meant for all this to happen. I still believe in you, Barry."

Barry gave a small smile, grateful for her support. Kara smiled back and turned to follow the team before turning back around with a question. "When we do get the president, how will we keep him from getting abducted again? Bring him back here?"

Cisco stood up from where he was half-sitting on a computer desk. "That's a good point. Bring him to S.T.A.R. Labs. We'll put him in the pipeline."

Oliver turned his head. "Isn't that your metahuman prison?"

Cisco shrugged. "We used it once to hide from time wraiths. I figure it's as good a place as any to hide the leader of the United States." Looking over at Kara, Cisco continued, "Let the team know we'll be waiting for them at S.T.A.R. Labs. Once you find the president, Ray and Jax should know the way."

Kara wasn't sure she liked the sound of "metahuman prison," but now hardly seemed the time to bring it up, so she raised her hand to signal she understood. "Will do." With that, she jogged to catch up with Sara and the rest, red cape billowing behind her.

Oliver walked over to Barry and, noting Barry's distressed state of mind, put a hand on his shoulder. "Stay alert, Barry," he advised. "They're going to need us before this is over."

"Yeah," Barry muttered, then reconsidered his un-team-leader-like tone. "Yeah," he repeated, a little more forcefully, and turned around to face the rest of the group. "We should get to S.T.A.R. Labs."