remorse, walking to us, whitch gets us angrier. "At some point I was, in fact, a Time Master." He admits before Sarah and I punch him in the face at same time. "Will you people please stop hitting me?"

"𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡!" I tell him angrily.

".....I relinquished my position as a Time Master when I commandeered the Waverider. Chronos was clearly sent to bring me in." He answers.

"You lied to us." Stein states in realisation.

"Of course I lied to you ." He says as Sarah goes back to her place as I just stand still, arms crossed and a a face of disappointment, mostly. "I needed your help-- you all barely said yes as it was." he adds.

"What about the legends part?" Jax asks as a guilty face takes place on Rip.

"Oooh, you lied about that too, didn't you?" Snart asks Rip.

".....I chose you all because, a hundred years from now, your lives have minimal effect on the recorded timeline. Except for Miss Croft....she was a risk I had to take." He says as I feel everyone's eyes on me but I just keep my eyes on him so he keeps on with the story. "I needed your help without disturbing the history of 2166."

"So,we're like the opposite of legends." Jax concludes.

"Give me one good reason why we shouldn't kill you." Mick says.

"Ditto the arsonist." Stein agrees.

"Because Gideon wouldn't listen to your commands and you'd be stuck here forever?"

"Great, so we're not an elite team of heroes on a sanctioned mission, sent to rid the future of its most horrific bad guy. Just a collection of nobodies who time really doesn't give a damn about." Ray states.

"Except for Croft." Snart tells him, wiggling the knife in the wound, so I turn to him and narrow my eyes at him.

"On whose side are you???" I ask in disbelief as he just shrugs.

"I didn't lie about the mission itself." Rip says breaking our staring conquest. "Or the brutality and ruthlessness of Savage. Or my need for your help." Rip explains desperately.

"I don't imagine you're the kind of guy who quits his job and takes on this kind of threat for altruistic reasons." Ray accuse as realisation hits me.

"𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮?" I ask him softly,already having an idea. Rips looks at me me before he sighs looking away again.

"The Time Masters discourage marriage. They urge against procreation even more. A Time Master should be free of any personal entanglements that might compromise him. But.....I fell in love, and we had a child. A boy." He says painfully as I look to the ground feeling his pain of loosing his family. "Jonas." He adds his name as I suddenly have a vision of him holding his wife and child's lifeless bodies in the middle of a place of chaos and flames.

"Savage killed your family." Ray states as he brings me back to reality. I see Rip step to him as I touch my tamp wincing. I see Snart asking me if I'm okay with his eyes and I hold a hand to tell him I'm fine, before I keep on listening to Rip.

"He slaughtered my family. And thousand of other families. And that body that I swore an oath to serve turned a blind eye. They continue to turn a blind eye. I won't. The last thing that my child saw in this world was that monster's face. You can be damn well sure that when Savage dies, the last face he sees will be mine....I understand given the circumstances, if you wish to return home we can make the jump once the repairs are done, if and when Professor Boardman stabilizes." He finishes as Kendra and Carter made their way back to their son.

"Why is Lara so important to the timeline?" Snart asks Rip for me glancing at me. But Rip only looks at me sadly.

"𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐈 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦...." I state and his face confirms. "𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬? 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲?" I ask urgently dying to know but he keeps quiet. "𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞..." I beg him with my voice barely audible as I took a step towards him.

"I can't tell you.... I'm sorry." He tells me sincerely. I sigh leaving an huff of breath I was holding before I just shook my head looking away as I try to keep the tears inside.

"𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭." I say with a false chuckle before stomping out angrily, after a single tear left my eye, not without bumping my shoulder in his as I hear Stein trying to ease the tension.
"I think we all need a little time to consider our options."

∙ ∙ ∙

I was seated on the ground, my back against the wall in a room I picked for myself. I had my arms around my legs as I was thinking about all the events that happened today.

"𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐞?" I sigh to myself desperately.

"So much, if you knew...." I hear someone say and I look up to see Snart who got in my room without me noticing. I raise my eyebrows giving him a 'really?' look. "Kidding." He shrugs before sitting right next to me on the floor with our bodies touching. There is a minute of silence before he speaks again.

"There's nothing wrong with you, you know that right?" I smile a bit but it goes away quickly as I let another tear leave my eyes.

"I 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐚 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧....𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦, 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐫."

"You never had this before?"

"𝐍𝐨...𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐫𝐝, 𝐢𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐢𝐭?"

"I've seen weirder." He reassures me as I chuckle with a small smile before looking at him.

"𝐈'𝐦 𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐲....𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐑𝐢𝐩 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐮𝐲𝐬."

"Don't think about it." he says like it didn't bother him but I feel like deep inside, he wanted Rip's story to be true. "You came on this ship to find out about your past?"

"𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭𝐲." I sigh, I can't hide anything from him.

"Doesn't care about saving the world anymore? I mean, you're right, it's so boring." He jokes, emphasizing every word on purpose which makes me laugh and him smile just after.

"𝐈 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐨'𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲. 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐈 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨.....𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞?"

"No.....of course not."

"𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰." I joke with a smile on the fact he is a criminal instead of blaming him and I guess it doesn't happen very often to him as he smiles in return.

"You will find your family, Lara." He tells me with so much certainty o wan to believe him.

"𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰?"

"I know you don't give up easily...And I'll help you."

"𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞?"

"Of course, maybe that's what you need." He says getting up. "A team.........Speaking of, how about we go see how is ours holding up?" He finishes extending his hand to me. I look back and forth between his hand and his face that only shows me pure kindness before I finally took hold of it as he helps me up. He was going to walk but I stopped him as I was still holding his hand. He turned to me.

"𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮." I tell him trustfully. He smiles at me caressing my knuckles with his thumb in response.

"Always."

∙ ∙ ∙

I was now in the small room with the weapons in boxes with Snart, Mick, Sarah and Ray. Mick and Ray were working on their armor and gun as the rest of us were thinking in silence. I was seated on the ground again, one knee close to my chest as my other leg was fully layed on the ground, just in front of Snart as a blue laser light passed my eyes and almost hit Mick.

"Watch it!" Mick exclaimed to Ray angrily as the rest of us were still calm.

"Sorry......Sorry." Ray apologies as I just sigh and let my head fall back against the suitcase behind me, no harm as been done thankfully.
"What's the point of us even giving this a second thought?" Ray finally asks what we were all thinking about. "Rip as already seen the future. He knows exactly what's in store for each of us. Might as well have stayed dead, 'cause the world doesn't need any of us."

"Except for-" Snart started again but I stopped him by kicking him in the leg with a death glare meaning 'don't start'. Ray glanced at me already aware of what Snart was gonna say but saw I wasn't too confortable with the information of my future so he didn't say anything.

"You're just a lost assassin." He says eyeing Sarah.

"You're just a pair of good-for-nothing criminals." He adds eying Leonard and Mick.

"I can live with that." Mick tells him honestly as I try to hide my smile because of his answer.

"Well I can't. Can't live with somebody putting a cap on my destiny. Spent my whole life working to be something greater by becoming something smaller....Then some guy comes along and tells me that being the Atom is as insignificant as an actual Atom." Ray says defeated.

"𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝, 𝐑𝐚𝐲." I tell him a bit sorry he feels that way.

"It sounded like that to me."

"No...Rip said that in 𝘩𝘪𝘴 future we're nobodies." Sarah starts as she stands up. "But this mission is about changing the future. I mean, if we have the power to change the world, don't you think we have the power to change our own fate?" She concludes as we all think about it.

"For better or for worse." Snart responds.

"That's a very good point." Ray tells Sarah with hope again as we all think in silence for a brief moment.

"....𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧." I say not really reassured about what could be 'worse' as I look at Snart who smirks at me.

∙ ∙ ∙

"Chronos, even Vandal, won't be the only enemy we face." We hear Rip says as we all get back to the bridge together. "Very often it will be time itself."

"𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐨 𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟." I tell him with determination. Sarah was right...She made me realize, there is no way I'm letting anyone or anything decide about my life.

"Whether it wants to happen or not, we're gonna change time, erase Savage's future, and earn our rightful place in history." Ray states with determination as well.

"Dr. Palmer is correct. We may not be legends in your time, Captain..." Stein starts as I whisper 'Captain' teasingly in Snart's ear as I remember he didn't like someone else being called captain as well, he just smirks and give me a playfully glare as I chuckle. "...but we are going to decide our own fates."

"I don't give a damn about being a legend, as long as we end Savage once and for all." Carter says.

"I can get down with that." Jefferson says next.

"And our malcontents?" Stein asks the criminals.

"I like killing people." Mick says casually with so much honesty I laugh openly at that.

"We're in. For now." Snart confirms before everyone looks at me.

"𝐎𝐡, 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭. 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐡, 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧." I finally confirms too nodding my head.

"So how do we find this guy?" Sarah asks getting to work.

"Professor Boardman had a theory about that. I've already had Gideon plot a course." Rip answers before we all straps ourselves.

"𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫?"