𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐀 𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐭

I head back to the control room a few minutes after Leonard came. As I enter I hear him speak.

"So thanks to Raymond leaving a piece of his suit in the past, the rest of us don't have a future to go back to?" I sigh as I thought I was clear enough when I said to stop putting the blame but then again....It's Snart we are talking about. This team is really made up of kids...

"Unless we do something to change this course of events, the future will become immutable." Rip answers him.

"Exactly how much time do we have?" Ray asks him.

"Until Savage's weapons team reverse-engineer your tech."

"We're talking 1970s terrorists with 21st-century weapons. And since we don't know where Savage went--" Stein says but gets cut off by Ray.

"We don't have to find Savage."

"𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧?" I ask him intrigued.

"We just have to find the other piece of my suit. Which shrinks because it's made of an alloy. Which mimics intra-molecular compression of dwarf star, thus emitting Alpha Particles."

"So we just need to be able to track them." Stein states understanding Ray's plan. "Fortunately, Alpha Particles are highly trackable." He adds optimistic.

"𝐘𝐞𝐭 𝐮𝐧𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 1970𝐬. 𝐖𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐰𝐞'𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐞." I jump in as they all look at me weirdly.

"𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭?" I ask offense, i didn't do anything wrong.

"How do you know that?" Ray asks me.

"𝐌𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐢𝐱𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐠𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐝𝐨 𝐈 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜?" I asks him in a 'duh' attitude, which he shakes his head no.

"I'll have you both know that I was researching Alpha Particles when you were eating crayons and you were wearing diapers." He tells Ray and I.

"So to track that piece of Raymond's super-suit, we just need to talk to..." Snart start as Stein confirms his suspicions.

"Me. 25-year-old me, rather."

"You two are just in time." Rip tells the reincarnation duo.

"Show them, Kendra."

"𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐮𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭?"

"Aldus was carrying this when he was killed. It's a newspaper article about an Egyptian dagger."

"𝐅𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐧." I state as I see a photograph of the dagger on the paper I just took from Rip's hands.

"The one Savage used to kill us." Carter adds.

"In Central City, we learned that objects associated with the night of our deaths can also be used to kill Savage."

"𝐀𝐧𝐲 𝐨𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬? 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐛𝐞𝐝𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐩, 𝐢𝐟 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞?" I ask looking at Kendra.

"Pretty much." She replies with a smile and I smile back, seems like a good news.

"According to Aldus's notes, the dagger needs to be wielded in conjunction with an incantation inscribed on it." Carter informs us.

"What does this incantation say?" Stein asks.

"I don't know. I can't read the language." Kendra tells us but Carter reassures her.

"It's okay. I'll help you remember." He tells her as they leave the room.

"Splendid. Now, as for the dagger..." Rip starts.

"You need someone to still it." Ray states as the paper is reaped of my hands.

"Okay fine, whatever, I'll do it." Snart says as if we just begged him to and I sigh in annoyance looking at the ceiling with my hands on my hips before looking back at the paper. "Article says it was purchased by some rich Russian douche bag named Sasha Mahnovski." He says then starts walking away.

"I'll go with you." Ray tells him.

"I already got a partner."

"Who I trust even less than you. Plus a third one can't hurt."

"Okay....Lara you're with us."

"𝐎𝐤𝐚𝐲, 𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐠𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞." I say as I make my way to put my suit on.

∙ ∙ ∙

We were now standing behind a bush at the house where the dagger was to be found. Apparently Ray still came, hope it doesn't bring us any troubles...

"I'm seeing motion detectors on the ground floor." Snart says.

"𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐡, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞." I tell him as I'm looking at the house.

"Indeed." He says looking at me with a proud smile to which I raise a brow at in pride.

"I can't see any smoke alarms." Mick states next.

"Just stay close. I saw at least three armed guards on the perimeter."

"Right, boss." Mick answers as Ray doesn't listen and goes to the house. "What the hell are you--"

"I recognize the security system." He says in victory as I just roll my eyes and mutter to myself.

"𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐝𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐬."

"My parents had the exact one." He adds as we follow him. "I'll have the access code cracked and security disabled before you could say 'breaking and entering' ". He says then turns to us proud. "There. We're in."

"𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠". I give him a fake smile. "𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐈 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞."

"No you didn't I just--"

"I wouldn't be so sure about that." Mick tells him.

"Why's that?"

"Because you just tapped into a dummy box, which means those guards are gonna be here..." Snart answers as Mick finishes.

"Quicker than you can say 'rookie mistake' ". And here we didn't get the time to say it as three guards were now behind us as we raised ours hands in surrender like they asks. We then slowly turned around before punching them unconscious. But I heard movement behind so I quickly turned around and send a knife in another guard's eye, behind Ray, before he touches the ground before I look at Snart.

"𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞."

"I did say 'at least' ". He defends as I just move past them and head inside the house.

"𝐋𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐠𝐨."

∙ ∙ ∙

As we pass the living room we enter in a room with six pedestals with artefacts on them but I stop behind the boys at the entrance with a hand on the wall and the other on my head as I gasp in pain as the hiss comes back.

"Found it."

"Croft?" Snart calls worried but I ignore the pain as I move again towards the dagger.

"𝐈'𝐦 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞."

"You don't look fine."

"Is there a trick to opening the case?" Ray asks as Leonard just casually breaks the glass as Mick breaks three other ones, and I wince a little bit because of the sound as an image flashes in my head as I loose my balance and walks back a bit between two pedestals, behind Mick.

"Aaah." I hear Mick sigh in satisfaction.

"What are you doing? Let's grab the dagger and let's go."

"Raymond you don't break into a candy store and steal one gumball." Snart tries to explain to Ray.

"You guys grab the goodies. I'll find the safe." Mick says before leaving.

"What do you think you're doing?"

"𝐑𝐚𝐲, 𝐢𝐟 𝐰𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬, 𝐢𝐟 𝐰𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐲." I sigh already tired but he doesn't listen.

"But this is what we came here for."

"No, that's what you came here for." Snart tells him as Ray grabs his forearm to prevent him to take something else than the dagger.

"𝐋𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐧'𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧, 𝐨𝐤𝐚𝐲? 𝐓𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐩 𝐮𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫." I tell him to ease the tension but it doesn't seem to work.....boys...

"Take your hand off me."

"I'm not gonna let you jeopardize another mission."

"𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡." I comment but I'm ignored.

"I'm done asking politely." Snart tells him before punching him. "This is my mission."

"And I'm gonna listen to a guy who's spent half of his life in prison?" Ray says as he punches him pack but it forced Leonard to stubble back a bit and his arm made contact with an artefact that made contact with the ground which sent off an alarm. At the moment I don't register where I'm positioned but as I look up I see a cage, which I'm just below the bars. I just gasp parelyzed as I think this thing is gonna cut me in two but before that can happen, someone register that faster than me and grasp my arms and throws me into themselves. This someone being Snart, I heard the cage connect with the ground as we're chest to chest, as we then breathe again.

"𝐎𝐤𝐚𝐲 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐫." I tell Ray referencing to my aladdin's comment, as Snart and I separate from each other as I give him a nod in thanks.

"Great.....Now we're all going to prison."

∙ ∙ ∙

A few minutes later Mick comes back as I'm pacing in the cell with a hand on my hip and the other one on the back of my neck.

"What the hell happened?"

"It was this idiot's fault."
"Your partner's fault." They both said in unison so Mick turned to me.

"𝐑𝐚𝐲'𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐭."

"I told you we shouldn't have brought him." He says turning back to Snart.

"Agreed but we got bigger problems. I need you to find the fuse box and--"

"Trigger a system default. This ain't over." He finishes pointing an accusing finger to Ray. He then walks away again as Snart and I start tapping the pedestals to find the security system. As mine makes a good sound I turn to him.

"𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞." I tell him as he walks closer and remove the wood part and I give him a small thin metal stick, He crouches down as I go behind him on his right to sit on the ground against another pedestal.

"How did you guys know how to do that?"

"𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤."

"What about you?"

"When I was a kid, my dad brought me along on jobs. I had little hands. I could get into tiny spaces, do whatever he needed me to do, like...rewiring a security system." He answers and then turns to me. "How come it's parts of your work?"

"𝐈𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐲....𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰." I shrug.

"Right...I almost forgot the spy phase before Bounty huntress." He says with a smile that I send back before he goes back to the security system.

"In another life, you could have been an electrical engineer." Ray says sitting on the ground against another pedestal on Snart's left.

"Guess I dodged a bullet."

"𝐈 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭! 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐮𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞!" I pout hugging my knees.

"Yeah, by the way, I never asked you how much was I?"

" 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮 '𝐚𝐫𝐞', 𝐧𝐨𝐭 '𝐰𝐚𝐬'."

"You mean you're still planning on arresting me?" He asks narrowing his eyes not understanding.

"𝐎𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞."

"For what reason?"

"𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐮𝐦𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐞. 𝐈 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐈'𝐦 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭." I say imitating his voice.

"That's funny." He says sarcastically as I know he remembers that's what he told us in the forest when he learned Barry's identity.

"𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬." I tell him as I chuckle.

"Anyway, You think I want to be like you, Ray?"

"You make being a tech billionaire sound like a bad thing."

"𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐓𝐨𝐧𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐤." I tell him with a smile that looks like a grimace as I feel a bit sorry to say that, poor Ray.

"Thanks a lot, Lara." He tells me with a smile as I mouth a 'sorry'.

"You spend all your time and money inventing a super-suit, and what do you do with it? Fly around like some incredible shrinking schmuck trying to save the world."

"Robbing banks for a living--I suppose that's more important?"

"It's sure as hell more satisfying."

"𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐞𝐭." I should have done that since the beginning....

"Thinking like that is what makes you a criminal."

"No it makes me a survivor. And there's gonna come a day when you wish you were too." Snart answers before getting back to the security system again but stops as he didn't get it.

"𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠." I tell him as he turn and glares at me and I just shrug with a smile before Ray helps him.

"Here. You flip the solenoid, saves you the trouble of rewiring it." He fixes the problem.

"I take it back, Raymond. You're not completely useless after all." He tells him as I smile.

"𝐀𝐰𝐡....𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐈 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩."

"And now you're delusional." Snart says turning to me as I laugh lightly.

∙ ∙ ∙

"You feeling better?" Snart asks me after a moment.

"𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐡, 𝐢𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝."

"What did you saw?"

"𝐈𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫, 𝐛𝐮𝐭......𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐲.... 𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰, 𝐈 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐰 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞." I reply before we hear a sound which probably is Mick as the red lights turned off.

"Huh...Looks like Rory found the fuse box."

"We got a slight problem. The owner just came home. You're not gonna believe who it is." We hear Mick say like he was struggling as we all get up before we see him appear with the owner who's pointing a gun at him. The owner who's revealed to be Savage. "I guess that's the part when you shut the front door, right?" Mick tells me and I could have crack a smile if we weren't in that situation.

"We meet again. Oh I'm grateful for another opportunity to kill you...Stop struggling. I've had 4 000 years of training in every hold and pressure point known. But you already know that, don't you? That I'm immortal."

"I'm gonna kill you anyway. That's a promise." Snart tells him menacingly.

"Oh, what have I done to deserve such enmity?"

"𝐌𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐭. 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐮𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬." I answer as he smirks at me showing his teeth.

"Oh, I missed that." He says as I thrown, what the hell is that supposed to mean? "But no, let me rephrase that. What have I done to you? I mean Lara I could understand but perhaps you have targeted me for something I've yet to do."

"𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐲 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞?"

"You traveled here from some point in the future."

"Catches on fast, this guy."

"𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐲 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞!?!" I whisper yell to them even if they don't know either and even if he can clearly hear me.

"Visitors from another time." He states before punching Mick as he lays now on the ground and point his gun to us.

"You won't be so happy when the rest of the team show up and knocks that smug grin off your face." Ray threatens.

"Oh, why wait?" He asks before picking up Rory's com. "A communication device of some sort, I imagine." He observes before throwing it to Ray. "Please. Contact your friends. I'm looking forward to seeing at least two of them again."

"𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫?" I ask Ray as he doesn't budge so Snart takes the device from him.

"I'll make this short. The owner of the mansion we burgled is Vandal Savage. He's really interested in meeting you guys, especially our feathered friends. And Rip? I think at the end of this you're gonna have a pissed off Croft to deal with."

After a few minutes we didn't have any news about the team and Savage broke the silence.

"Your friends are cowards."

"They'll be here." Ray assures him.

"They're taking too long." He says as he brings his gun back to Mick's head. "They need an incentive--" He starts as he gets cut off by flames that forces him to step back from Mick.
We all look up to see Jackson as firestorm.

"Oh. The burning man."

"I don't just burn, pal." He assures him before sending him another wave of flames that sends him outside the house, on the porch. "I blast things too. Hey you okay?" He asks Rory.

"I'm pissed." He answers. Good, he's fine.

"Stand back." He tells us before melting the cage.

∙ ∙ ∙

We make our way outside as we meet the rest of the team.

"It's all good. Savage is down."

"Savage is not defeated by earthly means." Carter tells Jax.

"Well, I hit him with a nuclear blast, so you know, not that earthly." He says before Snart hands Carter the dagger and as I watch it I have a bad feeling.

"Go get that son of a bitch."

"Are you ready to end this?" Carter asks Kendra.

"We've only been waiting 4,000 years." She tells him before they both fly off to end him.

"𝐖𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐠𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦." I tell them, I really have a bad feeling.

"We got company." Mick informs us as other guards from earlier come back in force.

"Friends of Savage." Rips confirms before Mick, Snart and I already start going to them to kick their asses.

We are all fighting our enemies perfectly but I hear the clic of a grenade, as I turn around I see Snart who's blasting the guard and didn't saw the grenade that has been thrown to his feet. I sprint to him before I tackle him to the ground as we roll a bit and get some distance before the grenade blows off. I'm on top of him as we stopped moving.

"Guess we are even now." He tells me as I chuckle but see some blood on his jawline.

"𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐭."

"It's nothing." He assures me but as I see the blood my mind goes back to the flash I got and the blood that was on the dagger, and connects the dots with the bad feeling I had.

"𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐚."

"What?"

"𝐌𝐲 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧...𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬, 𝐰𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦!" I tell him as I get up and help him up too, before we tell the others as we fight the last guards...but I couldn't wait.

"Lara, no!" I hear Snart call me as I go alone. When I reach them Carter is lifeless on the ground and Savage is about to finish Kendra off as she lays besides her former lover.

"𝐍𝐨!!!" I scream which got his attention and he turns to me.

"Well, well, well.....I wasn't so sure before..But now i definitely see it. That bravoure in the way your standing. That intelligence in your look....Just like your father." He tells me and I froze.

"𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭?" I say shakily in a whisper.

"And your sarcasm!" He says grinning with a small chuckle. "Yeah, you definitely are a Croft.....Always trying to save the world and it's people...." He says looking at Kendra before looking back at me, but I'm still not moving, I can't. "....but always failing!" He tells me before turning back to Kendra holding the knife in the air.

"𝐍𝐨𝐨𝐨!" I scream again but thankfully Ray shot him a blast of energy as I got on my knees as Savage's been sent above my head and crashed outside a window. I hear the rest of the team speak but I'm completely out of it, looking into space, like I was in trance before Snart came to me and put me on my feet and got us back to the Waverider.

∙ ∙ ∙

We are all sat in the control room, I didn't say a word since my encounter with Savage, I was hugging my knees and staring in the void. Snart was giving me small worried glances every once in a while but didn't confront me nor did I show him I knew he gave me glances.

"How's Kendra?" Stein breaks the silence as he comes back with Rip.

"The same." Sarah says, meaning she's still stable but her situation didn't got any worse nor did it get better.

"So what now?" Jax asks.

"Now? Now it's up to you."

"To do what, Rip? Last I checked, everytime we try to do anything it all goes to crap." Leonard tells Rips.

"Oh, once again I must disagree with you. Thanks to Miss Lance, Dr. Palmer's future technology is no longer in the hands of Vandal Savage's black market weapons designers."

"But it didn't do anything to change the fate of your world." Stein states.

"No. Vandal Savage will still rise to power in the year 2166." He says with less optimism.

"And your family will still die?" Jax asks as he nods sadly.

"So what you're really asking is, do we want to fish or cut bait? Return to 2016 and live out the rest of our lives as insignificant losers or--" Snart starts as Ray finishes for him.

"Make another play at becoming legends. Figure out how to end Savage and save the world."

"Preferably, without causing any more nuclear explosions." Stein