Onto the next chapter!
PS: The Vandal Savage arc will not be the only one I use. I also plan on using a "Protect the Timeline" arc, along with my own 4-way X-over.
Also, along with Nate and Amaya, I plan to introduce Zari Tomaz and Lily Stein into this story as well, and add a "deceased" Arrowverse character to the Legends...
Chapter 7: Egypt, Here We Come!
"What could Savage possibly be doing in 1236?" asked Sara, once they were strapped down.
"Well, that was the height of the Egyptian empire," Martin said. "Ramses II was ruler, and considering he was the most powerful pharaoh in Egypt..."
"Savage will attempt to overthrow his reign, and take over, therefore upsetting history," Leonard said.
Everyone stared at him, minus Kendra and Mick. She looked away, as if to say "I don't care what they think." Mick just looked at his stomach. He was hungry.
"What do you all take me for, some kind of idiot?" he snarled. "I listen to Kendra's stories, and recommend them. Quite fascinating."
Kendra blushed and looked down at her boots. Mick was still staring at his stomach. He was still hungry.
"So, how do we stop him?" Jax asked.
"Well, Ramses is scheduled to watch some of his most powerful soldiers fight in a newly established arena," said Rip, looking at a simulation. "This could be a chance for Savage to challenge him to the throne."
"Maybe he could give the man immortality," Ray suggested. "He did it before, he might do it again. What if he plans to align himself with this Ramses dude?"
"Well, Mr. Jackson, that is a long shot, but it is still an idea," Rip said. "Ah, we've arrived. Changing rooms everyone!"
"I'm hungry," Mick muttered, following the team.
"Aren't you always?" Ray asked.
"Eh, there is a rare occasion where I'm only feeling peckish," the pyromaniac muttered.
So, they all arrived in the changing rooms. Sara and Kendra were in gorgeous blue and red silk dresses, while all of the guys were in traditional Egyptian robes with a headdress adorning their heads. Leonard was wielding a staff of gold with a viper-like head.
"Mr. Rory, you will be piloting the chariot," Rip said, putting on his headdress.
"HELL NO!" Mick yelled, pulling out his heat gun threateningly. "I hate horses. Nothing good about them."
"I love horses!" Sara exclaimed.
"First it was tap dancing, then horses!" Ray exclaimed. "What'll be next? Being burnt at the stake?"
"I always wanted to go out like that," Mick chuckled.
"Let's move out team!" said Rip. "We've got to stop Savage from doing whatever it is he plans to do with Ramses."
"Oh, how exciting!" Martin said.
"I just wanna die," Mick grumbled. "Stupid horses..."
Yet still, he was guiding the chariot.
He had hidden his heat gun underneath his robe leg, and remained sulking even after seeing the pyramids. Martin was ecstatic, just barely resisting the urge to go inside and take a peek at some of the hieroglyphics. Kendra was experiencing vivid, and unhappy flashbacks, to which she was comforted by holding Leonard's hand. Not that he was willing...
But it wasn't like he was objecting either.
Now, they were preparing to enter the area where Ramses was currently located. However, Mick noticed something... odd...
"Hey," he said, pointing his finger at a moving chariot group. "What got them riled up to the point that they need to have it put in a cage?"
"I don't know Mr. Rory, and we mustn't interfere," said Rip. "We must not upset-"
He was cut short when he looked inside the cage.
He couldn't believe it...
It couldn't be...
Could it?
"My god," he muttered. "It's her..."
"It's who?" Kendra asked.
"Her name is Amaya Jiwe," said Rip. "And I... I am responsible for her being here in the first place."
"Well, let's free her!" Ray exclaimed. Out of nowhere, he charged towards the chariots, who were moving at a slow pace with Amaya.
"RAY!" Sara exclaimed.
"HEY!" Ray yelled, causing the chariot drivers to turn around. "LET HER GO!"
The head chariot driver jumped off, and began to charge at Ray with a spear in his hands. The two put up a somewhat "aggressive" fight (that term is used quite loosely.), but Ray ended up getting knocked out in the end. As he was being dragged to the cage, it took both Jax and Leonard to hold Sara back.
"NO! LET ME AT EM!" Sara roared, trying to break free. "THEY WON'T HURT MY BABY, NOT ON MY WATCH!"
Even though emotion was rare with Leonard, confusion was clear on his face, along with Jax. All the team were confused for that matter.
"You're baby?" Kendra asked.
Suddenly, a chariot driver called to them. "If you wish to see him again, he must prove himself worthy of exit. You may follow us, if you so desire."
"Anything," Sara growled. "I'll do anything to get him back."
"We don't have enough room on our chariots, so you all will have to walk," a younger driver said.
"I got a solution! We make room," said Mick, jumping off of the chariot he was piloting and towards the head chariots, who were driving Amaya and Ray's cage.
"Oh bloody hell," Rip muttered.
"I recommend you all stand back," Leonard commented.
As if his words were a cue (knowing the duo, it probably was a cue.), Mick pulled out his heat gun from underneath his robe leg, and fired (literally) at the four head chariot drivers. In mere seconds and several agonizing screams later, they had all been turned to ash.
The last three remaining chariot drivers looked stunned beyond imagining. And scared half to death.
"MR. RORY!" Rip yelled, stepping onto the chariot where Mick had gotten back to mere seconds ago. "WHAT IN GOD'S NAME WERE YOU THINKING?!"
"Four words," said Mick, "Hold on to something."
Rip didn't even get the chance to respond or object, as Mick had already set the chariot horses' backsides on fire, causing them to run faster than ever down the desert path towards the Egyptian city. Rip was screaming at the top of his lungs, and Mick let out a singular "YEE-HAW!" as they sped towards Ramses' home.
"Guess we better go get em," said Jax.
"I'll drive Ray and Amaya," said Sara. "I know how to steer a horse. Kendra, you wanna take the other?"
"Sure thing!" said Kendra. "Wanna ride with me Leonard?"
"Why not?" Leonard said, climbing in with her. Sara boarded the other head chariot, Jax and Martin squeezing in with her.
"Let's go to Egypt," Leonard said, before whipping the chariot into action. Sara repeated his actions, and the Legends headed off towards Egypt.
Mick had already arrived in the pathways of the Egyptians when the Legends had just taken off. He ripped through the streets, Rip still screaming loudly, and nearly ran into a chariot.
"Watch it bucko!" Mick yelled, stopping the chariot. This gave Rip a chance to throw up.
"Do you dare defy the Emperor?!" the chariot driver yelled.
Suddenly, the man behind him stepped off of the chariot.
He was wearing a large blue helmet, a gold set of wrist covers, a gold neck covering, a white robe that went over his legs, and brown sandals. His skin was a deep tan, and his expression was that of a man only Mick would be willing to tango with.
Wait, Mick doesn't dance...
"I am Emperor Ramses II," said Ramses. "I tell you this, as I assume you two aren't from around here, correct?"
"Better believe it bud," Mick said.
"'Bud'? Is this a threat of sorts?" the chariot driver asked, drawing his spear.
"I don't wanna do this..." Mick began, "Oh, wait a minute. I do."
He then pulled out his heat gun, and burnt the chariot driver to a crisp. Ramses just stood back in awe as Rip looked like he was about to go off on Mick's ass.
"What sort of wizard are you?" Ramses asked, bewildered at Mick's heat gun.
"I ain't no wizard," Mick said. "I'm a Legend."
Ramses pondered Mick's words carefully, taking everything into account.
"Come with me, stranger," said Ramses, motioning to his chariot. "We shall dine in my halls, with the finest meal possible."
Mick smirked.
"Dine with Ramses is now crossed off of the bucket list," he said, stepping on the chariot and riding off with the emperor, his new best friend.
Rip was, as always, left in the dust to ponder why the hell Mick was even with them in the first place.
If he wasn't here, the show would not be getting good ratings. Mick is everything.
Ray and Amaya resided in a cage outside of the arena, currently awaiting the return of the Legends to save them. Apparently, is was floating around that Ramses had a friend from the future, who loved fire. It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who that was. But Ray was currently more interested in learning how Amaya got here in the first place.
"Hey, Ms. Jiwe," said Ray.
"You can call me Amaya, you know," said Amaya.
"Right," Ray said quickly. "Uh... How did you get here, exactly?"
Amaya chuckled to herself darkly, and Ray began to consider retracting his statement, but Amaya spoke up.
"I was a member of the JSA, Justice Society of America, in the year 1942," she began. "We operated under my love, Rex Tyler. However, he was killed by an unknown cause. Second in command was Henry Heywood, Commander Steel. I was next down the line. Next was Obsidian, and then Dr. Mid-Nite and Star-Girl. We were trying to help Rip stop Vandal Savage ourselves, but when he struck us with this spear, we were all scattered throughout time. I was sent to Egypt, as you can tell. My teammate's statuses, other than Rex, are currently unknown."
Ray had only just noticed the tears flowing down her cheeks as she choked a sob.
"Why does it still hurt?" she whispered to herself, not intending for Ray to hear.
But he heard.
"It hurts, and the feeling will be there as long as you remember him, or your teammates," said Ray. "But it'll start to get better over time. While I am sure Rex was a great, great man, you need to realize that it isn't your fault he is gone. It is whoever killed him you need to blame."
Amaya was now crying into Ray's shoulder, feeling the warmth of another person for the first time in years. None of her friends in Egypt (of which there were not many) cared for her quite like how Rex did, and not how Ray was being so much like a brother she never had, but the one she had so desperately needed.
After Amaya had finished crying, she looked up and smiled at Ray.
"You people aren't as bad as I thought you all were," she said, smiling. She then wiped the tears out of her eyes.
"No problem," said Ray, smiling back at her.
Suddenly, the cover was lifted off of their cage, and two Egyptian guards were standing there.
"You two, step out," said the taller guard. "We must prepare you to for battle."
"Wait, what battle?" Ray asked.
"I'll explain on the way," Amaya whispered.
And with that, they were led away by the two guards.
Mick and Ramses were currently enjoying a three-course meal at his table, whilst the remaining Legends just looked on. Mick was actually having lunch with an Egyptian emperor, and enjoying it at that! Leonard was smirking, Rip looked to still be getting over the dizziness from the chariot ride, Sara and Kendra were just standing there, and Jax was telling Martin to resist the temptation to have an interview with Ramses.
"I must say, it is fascinating," Kendra whispered to Leonard.
"Mick and Ramses?" Leonard inquired. "Never thought I'd see it."
"So long as they don't do anything to my baby," Sara whispered, earning another stare from Jax.
"Are you and Ray... together?" he asked.
"Ever since we broke him and Mick outta that Russian prison," Sara responded. "And not a word to our oblivious teammates. Got it?"
Jax nodded lightly, and Sara turned back to face Ramses.
"Hey, Ram," Mick said, "you said something about a fight. I like fights. Where is said fight?"
"I was hoping you would ask that, Mick," said Ramses. "Your friend, Raymond Palmer, is scheduled to fight alongside "The Vixen" against our gladiator, Savage."
Everyone's interest was piqued at the gladiator's name.
It couldn't be...
Savage wasn't aligning himself with Ramses.
This whole mission was a ploy to kill Ray.
"When is the fight happening?" Rip asked.
Suddenly, there were trumpet sounds outside.
"Right now, as a matter of fact," Ramses said. "Come, my friends. We shall witness it together."
Ramses smiled as he led the Legends away, Mick grabbing a piece of chicken for the road. Sara wanted to kill Ramses for kidnapping her baby, and had it not result in a full on time destruction cycle, he would have a knife in his chest by now.
They were all seated in a tall section of a battle arena that resembled the Colosseum, but it wasn't the said arena. Ramses had two special chairs, crafted for himself and Mick. The rest of the remaining Legends were standing behind the two, along with several of Ramses' guards.
"This should be interesting," Leonard muttered to himself.
"Ladies and gentlemen!" Ramses called out to the crowd. "Today, not one, but two of our own will be facing Gladiator Savage!"
The audience screamed with wonder and praise. The emperor then began to speak again.
"May I introduce... The Vixen, and newcomer... The Atom!"
Amaya and Ray then stepped out, decked out in full on battle armor. Amaya looked more confident than Ray on any day of the week, and the latter looked like he was literally about to crap his pants.
Then, Gladiator Savage stepped forward.
It was indeed Vandal Savage.
"Holy shit," Ray whispered.
"I've fought this man before," Amaya said. "I'm guessing you have too?"
"Yep," Ray replied.
And then, out of nowhere, Savage began to charge at them.
Amaya then channeled the strength she had into her totem, and a large, blue gorilla appeared above her body, and she then charged at Savage. Ray shortly followed, but without the Atom suit, he wasn't the most help.
"We need to help him!" Sara yelled.
"We can't even get down there!" Rip exclaimed.
"Then we make our own roads," Leonard said.
Suddenly, he pulled out his cold gun and made a makeshift slide down to the arena center, and went down it with Sara in tow, who was dragging Rip. Kendra jumped out of the window, using her wings wisely. Jax and Martin merged into Firestorm, and flew down next to the other Legends and Amaya.
Mick scoffed.
"I've got something to do Ramses," said Mick. He then ran off, and Ramses looked on.
"Damn," the emperor muttered. "He was a good friend."
Meanwhile, the battle was continuing on down in the arena. It was, surprisingly, a fair fight to put Savage against nine people with skills above the average person.
"How is he overpowering us Rip?!" Firestorm screamed.
"That, Mr. Jackson, is a very good question!" Rip exclaimed, looking around to notice any potential henchmen. "One that I can't currently answer!"
"YEE HAW BITCHES!"
The voice rang from out of nowhere, but it was one every competitor knew. Even Amaya knew who it was.
Mick suddenly charged into the arena...
With a pack of wild horses on his tail.
"I still hate em Sara!" he yelled as they began to trample Savage.
"Oh, screw you!" Sara replied, even though she could not help but chuckle.
"Team, retreat!" yelled Rip. "You too Amaya!"
Although normally Amaya would have neglected, she was ready, eager, and waiting to get the hell out of Egypt.
While the team stampeded out of the arena, there were several swears that came from Vandal Savage before his voice was drowned out by the rabid horses.
"How did you do that Mick?" Ray asked once the team arrived back at the Waverider.
"The horses? Fire," Mick replied.
He then looked over at Amaya, and back at Sara.
"Is it just me, or is she kinda hot?" he whispered.
Sara pondered for a moment, before saying, "She's hot."
Amaya looked at the two, and they retracted their heads almost immediately.
"So Rip, where to next?" Leonard asked, strapping himself down next to Kendra.
"Well, before we find Savage's next location, we must make a quick pit stop," the captain responded.
"And where will said pit stop be?" Amaya asked, buckling down next to Mick, still unaware of this whole "time travel" thing.
"Gideon, plot a course for Starling City, March 26th, 2015," Rip said.
"Why that day?" Martin asked.
"You'll see," said Rip, before firing up the engines.
A man was currently jumping off of a building, running away from impending doom. Even though his hearing wasn't the best, he could hear Carrie screaming and John telling her "HE'S GONE!", whilst a van engine was roaring.
He needed to get as far away from this place, as soon as possible.
It was the only way they would be safe...
However, even though a bunch of weird shit had gone down since that day began, the last thing he was expecting was a ship to seemingly burst out of the sky...
And when it landed, have seven people step out in front of him (Mick was with Amaya, trying to cure her from speaking Latin.).
"Hello, Mr. Lawton," said Rip. "How do you fancy a trip through time?"
Well, it seems as if we have met our two newest Legends: Amaya Jiwe, and Floyd Lawton!
See you guys next chapter!
