"Your mother was brave..." Savage gestured to Miranda's corpse lying on the muddy ground of a leviathan footprint back in 2166. Kendra struggled to break free pleading with Savage to stop, to spare him from where she was strapped down on the jumpship. He was just a child, an innocent in all of this he didn't have to die. Enough blood had been shed already. "... just as your father was foolish." Savage studied the little boy. "Which are you?"
Jonas spat in the immortals face in defiance. He'd killed his mother, and was no doubt about to kill him as well. He hoped his father knew he loved him... if only he'd stayed on the ship.
"You take after your mother, huh?" The little boy stared down the barrel of Savage's gun. Eyes focused on the blue light inside, watching as it got brighter and brighter and bigger and closer and then ... Jonas didn't see anything at all, but it wasn't because he had been shot. In the next year of time travels the legends would essentially break time and cracks would appear causing people and animals, anything at all really, to fall forwards or backwards in time. One such crack, appeared just under Jonas's feet, and he fell in just as Savage fired his gun. The laser bullet missing him entirely. Where he would spit out in the timeline, well that's a whole other story for a later time. Savage, Kendra, and everyone else believing the boy to be just as dead as his mother.
-back on the waverider-
"Gideon?" Rip asked softly as he sat alone in the cargo bay away from everyone.
Mr. Snart was getting his hand regrown in the medbay, Todd sitting right at Snart's side for moral support. Ray was occupying the bathroom, those non gluten free cupcakes he'd scoffed down earlier having been a horrible mistake that he was now paying for. Stein and Jax were down in the engine room making whatever repairs they could just to keep the waverider afloat. Mick's heat gun was set to its lowest setting, using it to weld some of the holes that Clarity had made with her lightning in the hall near her room. Sara was sat on the bridge in Clarity's comfy corner twirling a knife in her hand. Clarity always made this corner look so comforting and yet all Sara felt as she sat there was a cold empty space. Maybe because it wasn't the corner that made it so comfy, but Clarity herself. The jumpship was right there ripe for the taking, the team was out of immediate danger, and yet, Sara couldn't bring herself to leave. Facing Damien Dhark at the height of his power by herself like she was originally going to do... that wasn't a good plan, that plan would likely end up with her dead, and Sara didn't want to die again. She would give up her life if it was the only way to save her sister, but Sara didn't think that was her only option. She just had to wait til they finished the mission, but really, Sara wasn't sure if she could wait that long. In truth, the team would be chasing after Savage now except they had no way of tracking him.
"Yes, Captain?" Gideon replied to Rip's call as she always did, tone somber. While they were victorious in destroying the oculus, Rip successfully getting revenge on those who ordered the strike. Vandal Savage was still at large and to make matters worse his families lives were now out of the immortals hands not that Rip knew this yet of course.
"Would you please review the timeline for me?" Rip asked her, grief weighing heavily on him. He hadn't received confirmation, but he knew, felt in his heart, his gut, in the light headache banging on the inside of his skull that his wife and son were no longer with him. That hope that Clarity had so briefly given him had slipped through his fingers.
"There is no timeline data due to the destruction of the Oculus." Gideon replied, perhaps stalling for the captain just a second longer.
"We're sailing without a map." Rip rested his head back against the doorway tilting it forwards once again. "Uh, would you please... review news accounts from 2166 then. You know what I need to find out."
"I'm sorry, Captain." Gideon started, as Rip expected the Ai didn't have anything to hopeful tell him. This time it seemed like there wouldn't be any last minute miracles, at least to his current knowledge, not knowing that his son would return to him in a few years. Rip didn't even try to pray for a better outcome this time."News accounts from 2166 confirm that Vandal Savage has already succeeded in murdering Miranda and Jonas."
Just as Rip felt the familiar feeling of tears starting to prick at his eyes, Rip felt something burrow it's way into the small space between his bent knee and his arm that had been resting upon it. Rip looked down as he felt arms wrap around his middle. There Clarity was, hugging him silently, offering comfort. Rips arm now displaced from his knee, resting across her shoulders, though his hand was a good few inches away from her just dangling in the air. His arm much longer than the width of her shoulders due to her close proximity. The two sat like that for a long while, not saying anything until it became clear to Rip she wasn't going to let go until he said something.
"Ah," Rip made a losing attempt at blinking back his tears. "The gesture's appreciated, Miss Springs, but I'd much rather be alone right now if you don't mind."
However, Clarity did mind. All those days and nights of mourning his wife and child, of seeing Rip risk everything to save them, and not once had she seen anyone on this team try to comfort him, thinking back she never had either. Not in anyway that mattered perhaps because there was still hope of saving them, but now there wasn't any. They were really gone this time.
"No, I'm not leaving." Clarity denied his request, pulling back from the hug getting out of his personal space glitching to sit on his other side. "You just lost your family, again, and that's horrible, and I'm sorry if I made the pain worse for you," Clarity's fingers fiddled together. "but... I just wanted to tell you that you aren't alone, even if that's what it feels like. You've got all of us, the entire team, Kendra and Carter too, if we ever get them back that is."
"I was going to give up early," Rip replied wiping at his eyes. The pain he felt at losing them a second time after being so close to a happy ending was more than he could process right now. To make matters worse a nagging feeling was whirling around in the back of his head that this wasn't where the mission should end. That he still had work to be done. That now wasn't time to mourn them for real. That as the last living Time Master the responsibility to restore order fell to him and now rested on his shoulders. "I was going to turn a blind eye to Savage because that's what Miranda wanted, but Miranda is no longer here, nor are there any other time masters left thanks to what we've done. Vandal Savage must pay for his crimes. The time masters may have lost sight of justice but I haven't. I have all of you to thank for that. Gideon, call everyone to the bridge. It's high time we kill that immortal bastard."
"Despite my wishes to forgo this mission altogether it would seem that we must pursue Savage one last time, not to rescue my wife and son, it's too late for them I'm afraid, but to save Kendra and Carter, and finally end Savage so he cannot hurt anyone else ever again." Rip announced as he walked into the room, Clarity glitching to sit on the console, Rip having opted to walk alone. "Since it seems that you're all intent on seeing this thing through till the bitter..." Rip was shoved back into a wall by a seething Sara Lance. The time alone with her thoughts having got the assassin good and angry with the time master. Kendra and Carters lives weren't really in danger. They reincarnate. Her sister wasn't going to come back without help and Sara was done waiting.
"Oh! Speaking of bitter." Mick chuckled.
"Someone better get the medbay ready. Looks like Rip's about to need it badly." Snart drawled from where he lounged on a chair, one hand on Todd's arm signaling that it was better to watch things like this play out. The JSA member yet to witness Rip hunter held against a wall by a female member of the crew until now.
"You knew." Sara accused the ex time master. "You dropped us off five months later because you knew."
"Knew what?" Jax asked, wondering what else Rip could have possibly lied about this time.
Clarity frowned. Granted he'd never said why he dropped them off six months later, there was so much she'd worried about she hadn't even thought to question it, but in hindsight omitting to tell the truth was just as bad as lying out right. Clarity would know, it's how her engagement ended in shambles all those years ago. Rip couldn't just keep information about their lives secret from them all the time. Why did he keep lying? Was he hiding things from them still? Did he think they'd never find out? She thought Rip was done with all the lies, that he was starting to think of them as equals, as friends, she guessed she thought wrong. Just like she'd been wrong about Eobard.
"You knew that Laurel was going to die," Sara glared at Rip. "and now you're going to take me back, and I'm going to save my sister."
"Wait...Laurels dead..?" Clarity trailed off, the lights all dimming as Clarity soaked in the news. Clarity not having heard Sara when she told her earlier. Laurel Lance hadn't been her favorite person, they'd never been that good of friends. Felicity had never painted that good of a picture of her and it kind of stayed stuck in her head that she wasn't someone Clarity'd want to get to know because of that. They'd been mere acquaintances at best, Clarity remembered she was there when they took down Savage with Barry and Oliver, but the Glitch really didn't know her that well. Despite this it was common knowledge among Team's Flash and Arrow that the Lance sisters, despite their gambit drama, were extremely close.
"I'm afraid that..." Rip began only for Sara to cut him off.
"You should be afraid." The assassin told him.
"I can't allow you..." Rip tried again, as if he had any sort of authority over the woman pointing a knife at his throat. His eyes roamed the faces of the rest of his team over Sara's shoulder, perhaps looking to one of his crew for help, his eyes settling on Clarity half expecting her to glitch between them, ease Sara's knife away, but instead she just watched on. That damned look back in her eyes again, clear as day, the one that just screamed betrayal, and Rip realized she wouldn't be coming to his rescue. Rip came to the quick conclusion that the rest of the team wasn't going to either as Sara's knife threatened to dig into his throat his eyes moving back to her.
"I don't care about the timeline." Sara seethed, and that's where Rip and her differed at the moment. The timeline was really all Rip cared about anymore, and Sara only cared about her sister. "You're taking me back now."
"Look, Sara, I'm sure there's a valid reason why Rip didn't... " Ray began, stepping forwards.
"Stay out of this!" Sara snapped, whipping her head back to look at the billionaire for a split second. Rip saw his chance and took it, flashing the Assassin in the face knocking her out cold the instant she'd turned back around. Her body limply falling right onto Mick's shoulder who had been seemingly ready for this very outcome.
"What the hell, Rip?" Jax demanded, voicing just about all of the teams thoughts.
"Mr. Rory, take Ms. Lance to sleep it off." Rip ordered adjusting his coat collar. Clarity hopping off the console to follow after him.
"Miss Springs, I didn't say you could-" Rip trailed off into a sigh, as soon as she was by the door she'd glitched into a light and there was no point in talking to thin air.
"The whole point in blowing up the oculus was to get our free will back." Snart spoke up, staring at Rip with calculating eyes. "Guess she decided to use hers."
Clarity glitched out of the light near Sara's room.
"Sparky, perfect timing. Make yourself useful. Get the door." Mick told her as he adjusted the unconscious assassin on his shoulder.
"Yeah sure..." Clarity nodded, lightly tapping the panel beside the closed doors, the silver puzzle like pieces sliding apart to reveal the assassin's room not a second later. Mick walking into the room with Clarity right by his side. The arsonist walked up to her bed and threw the assassin down as if she was nothing more than some loot he'd had to carry. The Assassin's legs hanging off the bed, head centimeters away from hitting the wall.
"Mick, careful," Clarity glitched Sara so she was laying across the bed and sat down on the beds edge. "Be more gentle with her." Clarity lifted the blonde's head gingerly placing one of the assassin's extra gray pillows under her head. "She's hurting enough as it is."
"She's slept on worse things." Mick shrugged, not seeing anything wrong with his original placement. " 'Sides a little physical pain might help with the emotional crap."
"That just introduces a new kind of pain into the mix." Clarity denied, "Causing another type of damage isn't going to heal anything, especially not emotionally. Believe me I know."
"Worked for me when I lost mine." The Arsonist replied.
"I'm not sure if it did." Clarity told him before her eyes widened, head tilting to the side curiosity spiking at what the arsonist had just implied. "Wait, you had a sister?"
Mick grunted in confirmation pausing for a moment looking back over his shoulder. "I've got the hair braiding skills to prove it." Mick told her and at the excitement in Claritys eyes Mick was quick to put his finger up. "Not doing yours, Sparky. Never gonna happen."
Clarity pouted at him, but nodded in acceptance as it was clear Mick was done talking about his dead sister. Clarity's eyes flicking down to the sleeping Sara as she rested her chin on her fists, elbows resting on her knee. "Do you think she's going to be okay?"
"She's a tough one." Mick replied, "She'll pull through eventually. I'm getting a beer, you heading back to the Englishman's meeting?"
"No, I think I'm going to stay with her. I don't want her feeling alone." Clarity decided looking down at Sara then back to Mick. "Oh, uh and Mick? I'm sure your sisters still with you."
"Yeah." Mick replied, seeing his sister standing in the hall out of the corner of his eye. But when he turned to look straight on there was nothing there. "Sure she is." Mick walked out to get his beer, leaving the assassin and Clarity alone. The Glitch waited for Sara to awaken.
"Hey..." Clarity greeted softly, when the assassin started to stir.
"Clarity? What are you-how did I get here?" Sara asked propping herself up on her elbows.
"I wanted to stay. See if...not if you're okay, okay's not the right word, cause obviously you're really not uh, I just wanted to see how you're holding up with everything, I guess. I didn't know that your sister..." Clarity trailed off. "Um, anyways, Rip knocked you out with his flashy thing."
"Damnit," Sara groaned, shifting her weight, fist banging against her bed her eyes scrunching closed, lower lip quivering, Sara biting the inside of her mouth to stop it. "I should've seen that coming."
"Don't beat yourself up about it." Clarity told her, "Rip knew what he was doing. I didn't even feel the thing turn on til he was using it...I would've glitched it away, if I knew."
"You would've?" Sara asked her, eyes opening as she slid herself to sit upright so she was sitting, looking at Clarity. "Even though I was threatening to kill him?"
"Well, yeah." Clarity admitted. "I don't really approve of violence, but I kind of did something similar back in 2046 and I hate to say it but it actually made him rally the team to save you guys. It might've worked if he didn't have the flasher on him. Besides, I knew you weren't actually going to kill him." Clarity replied. "You're hurting, furious at being lied to, but none of that is you blood lusting. I know the difference. You were in control the whole time."
"Course it couldn't have worked this time." The blonde's voice trembling as Sara hung her head hands clasping together resting against her forehead. Doing her best not to break down. She had to be stay strong to save her sister. Tears weren't going to fix things, and yet they were starting to gather.
"I know, sorry, guess I already played that card." Clarity apologized, "But maybe there's another way to convince Rip to help?"
"There has to be, Clarity I-," Sara's voice cracked because the last thing that she felt right now was in control as she lifted her head. Unshed tears swimming in her eyes that Sara was fighting a losing war against. "I have to save my sister. When I died, Laurel brought me back to life. She went against everyone just to give me a second chance. I have to do the same for her but I can't use the pit. I won't give her this blood lust. I have to go back, I need to save her. After everything I've done to her with Oliver, and the gambit... she's the one who truly deserves a second shot at life." Sara struggled to fight down her oncoming tears, but she couldn't keep them down. Not when she thought about the fact that her sister died alone, without her there. That she hadn't been there to protect her. That she'd used up her sisters second chance when Laurel brought her back. She'd had her own already back on lian yu, surviving with the league.
Clarity slid closer to Sara, whose tears were about to spill over, even as she fought against them, not wanting to cry about laurel anymore, wanting to do something about it, to save her sister, but not being able to do anything about either situation. The brunette wrapped her arms around Sara's neck, gently, pulling her close. The assassin was slow to hug her back, but Sara was thankful for it nonetheless. The comfort she'd been searching for in that broken corner finally found in Claritys embrace. Arms circling around Claritys waist as Sara sunk into the hug, face burying itself into the crook of her neck, but Clarity didn't mind, not one bit. She wasn't the one who needed comforting right now. Sara did. A single tear escaping from each of Sara's eyes, traitorously journeying down her cheeks leaving a stream of water in its tracks.
"There are so many things that I want to do, that I was planning on doing once the mission ended. There was even," Sara's voice wavered, words coming out unsteady, laced in something between regret and shame, "Someone I was thinking about seeing." Sara pulled back from the hug, wiping at her now puffy eyes as she looked into Claritys abnormal blue ones, they dimly glowed when she was upset. Like a star trying to shine through a dark cloud. Did Clarity know they did that? "but living my life doesn't feel right without Laurel being able to live hers. It feels wrong to be happy when she's gone like I'm betraying her trust."
"I'll help you, Sara." Clarity promised her, linking their pinkies together. "Whatever you need, I'm your girl, if you want to save Laurel then I'll help you save Laurel...and I'm sorry if you having to come rescue me got in the way of any of that. If I- uh, Huh, Rip's pacing outside." Clarity murmured, interrupting herself as she felt the electrical hum that his body gave off. "Probably wants to talk... Gideon? Why didn't you say anything?"
"I didn't want to interrupt such a tender moment." Gideon answered as if that explained everything.
"I did just threaten to kill him." Sara clasped her hands together, her head shaking as she struggled to blink back her tears. "Probably doesn't help my case." Sara wiped the tears away with her sleeve. It was always so hard to stop crying once she started. "I let my anger and my impatience get the better of me. That won't happen again."
"Do you want to talk to Rip alone? I'll glitch out of here just say the word." Clarity offered to give the two privacy. Already off the bed backing up towards the light, but Sara was quick to grab her hand.
"Stay. Please, Clarity, I want you to stay." Sara told her, hesitation in the assassins eyes almost as if she was scared Clarity would say no. "If you still want to."
"Okay." Clarity replied sitting back down on the bed beside her.
"Please try very hard not to kill me." Rip pleaded as a stood in the doorway, taking a single step into Sara's room.
"She won't." Clarity told him. "She's good, As good as she can be right now anyways. She's not going to hurt you.." Clarity turned her head to speak to the assassin squeezing her hand for reassurance. "Go ahead, ask him. I'm not going anywhere."
"Rip." Sara started, squeezing Claritys hand in return. "Please take me back. I need your help. I need to save my sister."
"And you know that I would do this for you, Sara, but I just can't." Rip denied her request seemingly with ease despite the fact that the decision weighed heavy on his heart. Though he didn't know the pain of losing a sibling since he'd never had any.
"I've not asked you for anything. And you of all people should understand. You have tried everything. We... we have tried everything to save your family." Sara gestured to the brunette beside her. "Hell, Clarity did save them. You would've been in the clear if it wasn't for the time masters."
"And I would not wish the pain of that failure upon anyone." Rip said his mind still not changed.
"I would rather live with that pain than this." Sara told him. Why couldn't they at least try?
"And that's just the thing, Sara." Rip rubbed at his face, diving into a short and to the point explanation. "Look, if you were able to try to save Laurel, then you wouldn't be alive at all."
"Then fine." Sara let go of Claritys hand. "I don't care."
"When we left, when I recruited you, we... we... we altered the had it remained the same, then Damien Darhk would have..." Rip inhaled deeply. "He would have killed not only you and... and your sister, but your father as well."
"But, Rip, if... if we go back," Sara tried in vain. "and we take the team... or even if we went just us three like we did to the bank-"
"The outcome would be exactly the same." Rip cut her off, sounding entirely too sure of the answer for either woman's liking.
"You don't know that." Sara argued.
"I'm afraid that I do." Rip replied.
Clarity frowned once again, no, no how could he possibly know for sure? He couldn't. Not really. Just because he was from the future didn't mean he had absolute knowledge over their lives. What made him get to decide who got to live and to die? Why was it Rip's call to make? If Rip could try everything to save his family from an immortal hell bent on ruling the world then why couldn't Sara as well? It wasn't right. It wasn't fair.
"No." Sara protested. "I... There's got to be a way. Rip, I have to be able to do something."
"I'm so sorry." Rip told the blonde.
"Then help her save her sister." Clarity decided to speak up. "What's the harm in trying?"
"I can't." Rip replied tone firm.
"Look, I can't." Sara struggled, "Can't do this without my sister."
"Hey..." Clarity whispered, "Thats not true."
"I can't." Sara shook her head. "I can't."
"Yes, you can." Rip surged forward bending down in front of her. "You are one of the strongest people I have ever met, Sara." He went to wipe a tear away but Sara turned away from his touch. "Laurel..." Rip began. "Laurel may be beyond your saving, but Kendra and Carter, they might not be."
"Captain, we are prepared to make the time jump to 1944." Gideon announced.
"We're on our way, Gideon." Sara sniffled, walking out of the room. Leaving Clarity and Rip alone in her room. Too upset about Rips refusal to save Laurel to really care if either followed.
"1944?" Clarity asked in confusion, eyebrows scrunching in confusion. Why were they going there?
"We received a message from Kendra via Chronometric repositioning." Rip explained straightening up walking out of Sara's room, Clarity walking next to him. The assassin already out of eithers sight. "Which you'd know if you hadn't glitched away before the meeting even started. Could've used your help coming up with a rescue plan. If things go awry now we'll know why."
"Some things are more important than planning." Clarity replied as if it was that simple and to her it was.
"Clarity, nothing is more important than taking down, Vandal Savage! He poses infinite danger to the timeline, to all of history. After everything he's done surely you realize the threat he poses."
"Of course I do, but Vandal Savage isn't the only evil out there." Clarity replied. "You really think he's the first villain to screw with history? Toy with peoples lives? Treat them like chess pieces that can be discarded so long as he wins in the end?"
"No," Rip replied voice firm. "but right now he's the most important. The only evil that truly matters."
"What?" He asked, as Clarity continued to glare at him the glitch having fallen silent, lightning crackling in her eyes. "You thought I would change my mind because she asked nicely this time? Clarity, the death of Sara's sister is unfortunate, truly it is, but it cannot be altered."
"Why not? If you swapped her in for Sara clearly it's not a fixed point." Clarity challenged.
"This team is not equipped to handle a magic user of his caliber. Even with your metahuman powers you wouldn't stand a chance. I've heard enough of this. Don't ask me again because you were right about one thing."
"That you're a hypocrite?" Clarity asked.
"No, that you make everything hurt so much bloody worse." Rip replied spinning on his heel, not bothering to see the expression on Clarity's face. "I'm staying on the ship."
"We've arrived in Saint-Lô. No sign of Kendra yet, but I have located Vandal Savage, and he does not seem to be alone." Gideon informed the team who'd just been glitched to the location.
"And I feel something that definitely does not feel like the 40's." Clarity added as she glitched onto the top of the truck, blasting the engine with her lightning to stop it from going anywhere. She found it strange that she couldn't sense the meteor if it was tech, even if it was space tech she should be able to feel that. Maybe she couldn't feel it because it was turned off?
"Get them!" The Nazi captain ordered as the legends went on the offensive.
"Keep Savage and our Nazi friends occupied." Rip ordered from the bridge. "Gideon has detected a temporal signature consistent with a timeship. If Kendra and Carter are alive, that is where they're going to be." Rip told the crew.
"I feel the ship, Jax you're right above it!" Clarity called as she blasted a nazi with her lightning. Mick and Snart burning and freezing soldiers, Todd's smoke whips thwipping all over the place. The 40's hero completely in his element. Ray and firestorm fighting from above. Sara kicking Nazi ass.
"Yeah, I see it." Jax confirmed flying down to save Kendra while the rest of the team fought Savage's goons. Jax discovering his transmutation ability during the rescue.
"Take this to the ship." Savage ordered a few of his men, having numerous soldiers focus the majority of their heavy fire on the glitch. If her senses where overwhelmed by the rapid energy fire then she wouldn't be able to stop him from getting out of here. Clarity caught up in absorbing or meeting a blast with her own. There had to be at least twenty soldiers surrounding her, something was different about their guns and armors. It was like they were made out of the same thing the leviathans were. Clarity was quickly growing drained dishing out more than she absorbed, not super charged like she'd been in the future and with everything going on she hadn't had a chance to recharge, her body not producing enough electrical energy on its own.
"Kendra's down." Jax called over the coms a stray laser blast striking her.
"So is Todd!" Snart called, the smoke hero having just taken a bullet for Snart, a nazi having been in his blind spot which he immediately iced as Todd went down.
"Rip, we're kind of outnumbered here." Mick called, this ambush plan really hadn't been a good one.
"Fall back." Rip ordered. "Staying here to fight Nazis is exacerbating the damage that we have already done to the timeline."
"Nevermind that we have injured." Snart snapped in annoyance pressing his hands to Todd's wound. Always the timeline with Rip. Never the team, even now. After everything.
"But Kendra..." Jax protested.
"Is alive, thankfully, and we will rescue her in due course. I hope." Rip replied.
"Send the jumpship." Sara told him, watching lightning fly from Clarity in all directions taking out all twenty soldiers that circled her before the Glitch was also down. Too drained now to stand. Ray swooping down to scoop her up.
The jumpship got there in record time, everyone boarding before it flew away. Once they got back to the ship Todd was taken straight to the medbay, set to make a full recovery. Gideon promised there wouldn't even be any scarring. Ray and Mick went to repair the ship more, Sara wanted to be alone, Jax, Martin, Carter and Clarity were on the bridge with Rip to try and figure out Savage's plan.
"So this is a spaceship?" Carter asked looking around.
"It's a timeship, but yes, it does also travel through space." Rip replied looking to Clarity, but this time she said nothing about it being a tardis. If that didn't say anything about how she was feeling towards him right now nothing else would.
"You... you've seen it before, Mr. Hall." Martin reminded.
"That used to be my name. Carter Hall." He remembered.
"A lot less evil sounding than Scythian Torvill that's for sure." Clarity picked at her dress ruffle. "Makes you sound like a Star Wars villain."
"There really is rather a lot to fill you in on, and we really do not have the time." Rip interrupted before they got off track.
"What about..." Carter began.
"Kendra, yes, unfortunately Clarity was too low on power to glitch her to safety, now we need your assistance in locating her and Savage." Rip informed the Hawk. "Perhaps we can start with what Savage was doing in 1944."
"He said something about, um... Thanagarian technology." Carter thought back.
"Thanagarian..." Jax trailed in confusion.
"The Thanagarians were a race of extraterrestrials." Rip explained.
"Aliens are real?" Clarity asked, almost perking up at the thought, but seeing as how she felt it was her fault Kendra was still captured, no smile adorned her face. Rip having all but confirmed it, the time master so used to her quick saves recently that it didn't dawn on him that one wasn't going to be made.
"Yes, very. They're the reason the time masters thought Savage was the key to uniting the world." Rip replied, "As you were saying, Mr. Hall?"
"He also said that this technology was actually three meteors." Carter explained further.
"Captain, I have surveillance footage which might be relevant." Gideon announced.
"Thank you, Gideon." Rip told her. "Off the console Clarity, it's not a chair, we need to see the screen."
Clarity slid over to the silver edge so the monitor was visible.
"I've seen that rock before. Savage had one of those in 1958." Jax recalled.
"If it is tech that could be why my powers reacted the way they did to being flying monkeyified." Clarity crossed her arms, "Savage was experimenting with it."
"Fascinating hypothesis." Martin agreed almost wishing he could test it out, but unfortunately that would mean turning Clarity back into a lightning monkey bird creature.
"He took our blood. He said he would use it in a ritual to erase time, take the blood back to 1700 B.C." Carter told them all.
"What? Wait but how would your blood help him do that?" Clarity wondered.
Carter shrugged, clearly clueless about it.
"Well, we've seen before that Carter and Kendra's blood when mixed with Savage's own holds some degree of magical property. Savage was able to extend his followers live's. Perhaps the key lies there." Stein proposed.
"Perhaps yes, but without knowing exactly what his plan is we're at a loss." Rip sighed, luckily after a short interim of hypothesizing, and what not Stein finally figured it out and the team was splitting up into groups of three. Snart, Mick, and Ray to 1958, Rip, Carter and Todd to 2021, and Jax, Martin, Sara and Clarity to 1975. Little did Rip know, There was a reason Clarity was so insistent on going to 1975 that didn't include seeing the bright colors once again. She wanted Sara to go with her to that time not because the open air of the docks would do her good but because Damien Dhark had been there. If Rip went against the original time masters to save his family then Sara could go against the last remaining one to save her sister.
"Clarity, you're a genius." Sara told her as the jumpship touched down in 1975.
"Not really," Clarity protested. "All I did was see an opening."
"Still, I didn't think you'd be so on board with me killing him." Sara replied keeping her voice hushed so Jax or Martin didn't hear.
"I know he killed your sister, but don't forget he also tried to kill my bestie. Dhark paralyzed my best friend. Because of him Felicity's never going to walk again and her engagement night which was supposed to be the greatest night ever became the worst night of her life. Personally, I wouldn't kill him, revenge isn't exactly my thing, but I'm not about to stand in your way of saving who knows how many lives from being taken by the guy either."
"You three go on around back, i'll meet you there." Sara told the two halves of firestorm and the Glitch once they were off the ship. "There's something I have to do."
"Woah, what-" before the two boys could question Sara further Clarity glitched them behind the building.
Sara climbed to the roof. It was pandemonium inside. Everyone was either rushing to fight or in Damien's case rushing to leave because no nuke was worth that. "Clarity, glitch me to you in 3...2..." Sara hurled a knife straight at Damiens back right in the heart, and it hit, all his hive soldiers rushing to his aid. Sara watching him crumple to the ground. "...1" Clarity glitching Sara to her side as instructed. A hive soldier looking up seeing nothing but an empty rooftop.
Meanwhile back inside the warehouse the bomb was about to go off.
"Um, we got a nuclear bomb, here." Past Sara called.
"Coming!' Past Clarity called, glitching over.
"Ray! What did you do?" Past Sara asked, Past Ray immediately flying out of the bomb, as Past Clarity arrived, the bomb going from two minutes to 1:00.
"I didn't do anything. It must have a fail-safe."
"It can't go off without a spark," Past Clarity said as she began to drain the bomb of it's electricity. Suddenly, the bomb hit 30 seconds.
"There is no way I can drain it in 30 seconds!" Clarity panicked, glitching, the light's flickering.
"Professor, Jax, we need you!" Past Sara called.
"Stein says, we have to get to a minimum safe distance. Clarity?" Jax asked.
"Please don't explode-Glitch" Past Clarity said teleporting Past firestorm, the bomb, and herself to an island that was a minimum safe distance away.
Outside, the future Sara, Clarity, Jax and Martin were crouched behind something crates sitting in wait for Savage's secret outdoor deal to go down.
"Woah, so that's what I look like when I Glitch." Clarity whispered in amazement watching the lightning swirl around pixelating blue squares, circles and triangles as it flew through the air. The bomb blowing up a few seconds later, past Jax absorbing the blast.
"Oh, man," Jax grinned. "I forgot how much of a badass I was."
"Look." Sara nodded to the deal going down between Savage and some others.
"Guess we finally know why he was selling that nuke." Clarity realized.
"You ready to show these fools what's really good?" Jax asked holding out a hand to Stein.
"You have no idea." Stein agreed, clapping their hands together the two halves merging taking off into the sky to take on the remaining goons. The boys leaving Savage to Clarity and Sara.
"Glad we're past the point of worrying about the timeline." Sara stood up extending her staff.
"Hey, it's not our fault he's insane enough to want a time quake to happen." Clarity glitched in front of the crates shooting a blast of lightning Savage's way sending him flying back into a truck.
Savage emerged from the truck, a missile launcher in hand, and fired it at Sara. Clarity glitched to her side hand on her shoulder, glitching her so the explosion would have passed through her. Luckily, she hadn't needed to firestorm blowing it up halfway to where Sara stood, but it still didn't hurt to be safe.
Savage threw three knives at Sara which she blocked with ease, using her staff to swat them away. Clarity magnetizing them, catching them with her lightning sending the knives flying back to him. One slicing into his jacket Vandal snarling in pain.
"Oh, you're too late." Savage sneered at them both.
"Time Master's never late." Sara replied proceeding to kick Savage in the gut twirling around.
"Have fun in hell Vandy!" Clarity waved a few menacing bolts crackling across her hand as she smiled and waved at the immortal. "Bye bye! You're in good hands. My canary'll send you straight there, I've got a pretty blue rock that needs my attention."
"It is you all who shall perish by my hand!" Savage countered as Sara laughed.
Trusting Sara to handle killing Savage, Clarity glitched over to the meteor feeling it start to do something funky. It was strange, like nothing she'd ever felt, but she knew whatever it was doing wasn't good. Maybe it was about to blow up? Well, in any case Clarity wasn't about to let that happen. She decided to take the same approach she had when dealing with the nuke of this time, absorb all the energy. As it would turn out Clarity absorbed maybe a fraction of the energy and the next thing she knew she was on the ground clutching at her stinging sides, insides burning. Bad idea, very very bad idea. The energy Clarity had absorbed from Savage in the grey hill building had been impure, mixed with the electrical energy in his own body, but this stuff in the meteor was completely pure, and it hurt her terribly. It felt like she'd just drunken bleach, or Clarity figured that's what it felt like because she never had done that, but she imagined what she was currently feeling was what it felt like.
"Clarity's down. It's up to you now, Jefferson." Stein told him, as Clarity sat on the ground clutching at her sides. Clarity feeling rather sickly due to the foreign needed a fresh flow of electricity stat, like she'd gotten back at the pentagon. Almost like a blood transfusion but with electricity.
"Gray, listen. If we're going to do this, we got to do it together. It's going to take the two of us, all right?" Jax asked him.
"You're right." Stein agreed.
"Okay. Come on, Gray!" Jax yelled, focusing transmuting the meteor into water that splashed down all over the ground.
"Jefferson, you did it!" Stein praised, pride in his tone.
"We did it, man." Jax corrected.
"Oh, man." Sara smiled at the duo. "You got my boots wet."
"You're boots? Try my whole bottom half." Clarity stood up and rung out her skirt a stream of water dripping to the ground. "Why is it that you always get me completely soaked?"
"It's all part of the charm of firestorm." Jax grinned back as Clarity laughed.
"You keep telling yourself that." Clarity told him as Sara swung an arm around Clarity.
"Gideon, take us back to Rip." The Jax ordered; However, Sara's happy mood dissipated as she realized Damien hadn't died from the thrown knife to the heart like Sara'd thought he was going to. Damien having been able to receive emergency medical attention that saved his life. Next time, Sara swore, next time she'd kill him for sure and save her sister.
"So, how'd you kill Savage?" Snart asked, as their two teams met up. Gideon bringing them all to 2021.
"Sara snapped his neck." Clarity replied.
"Damnit Sparky you should've fried his ass." Mick complained.
"How'd you kill him?" Sara asked.
"Mick burned him alive." Snart replied. "Boy genius and I were busy fighting those bird things again."
It wasn't long before they touched down in 2021.
"Damn it!" Mick complained. "I wanted to be the one to kill him. Again, I mean."
Clarity skipped over to Savage's side poking his dead body in the arm. "Yup, he's dead alright, although it feels like...did you electrocute him?"
"Rip threw him into that thing." Todd nodded to something electrical.
"There see Mick? He got electrocuted after all." Clarity replied turning to Rip. "Hey, you okay?"
"I...I don't know." He replied, Vandal Savage being killed hadn't made him feel any different. Not one bit.
"Um..." Sara gained everyone's attention. "I don't think our problems are over yet."
"I'm on it." Jax flew down, hands on the meteor trying to transmute it.
"On what?" Mick asked as nothing happened.
"It's not working." Jax replied.
"The radiation buildup is too progressive." Martin explained.
"I got this." Ray stepped in about to shrink it only for his suit to beep instead. "I don't understand. I must be all out of power. Clarity can you-"
"I'm not glitching anything for the next 24 hours." Clarity replied. "Sorry, Gideons orders. Jax got me all wet again, still not dry, and it turns out the pure energies in these things are kind of poisonous to me, but as long as I don't use my powers until tomorrow so it doesn't spread and new electrical energy replaces it, I'll be fine."
"My gun wouldn't be enough to cool this thing down." Snart shook his head as a few people looked to him for a solution running out of options.
"My smokes not going to help it either." Todd shook his head.
"What happens if only one of these goes off?" Sara asked carefully.
"Uh... time will remain intact." Rip answered. "The world? Not so much."
"Guys, we're running out of time." Clarity warned. "I can feel it pulsing, It's gonna blow."
"Okay, guys, let's fly this thing out of here." Jax told Ray, Kendra and Carter.
"To where?" Kendra challenged. "We would never get it far enough away."
"Maybe the Waverider can." Ray realized. "Rip, we need... Rip?" They all turned, the waverider taking off faster than they'd ever see it move. Clarity not even having enough time to Glitch aboard if she wanted to.
"Rip! What are you doing?" Sara asked him.
"I'm flying the Waverider into the sun, with the meteor on board." Rip answered like he was doing something completely sane.
"And you on it." Sara pointed out.
"This wasn't part of the plan, Rip." Snart protested.
"No, it wasn't, but then my plans never fully work out do they?" Rip replied.
"Your not going to survive that." Todd said what everyone was thinking.
"I know." Rip replied. "I guess this is good-bye."
"It's been a pleasure, Captain." Ray began.
"Likewise, Dr. Palmer." Rip answered him.
"But you brought us all into this, man." Jax protested.
"Which is why I'm doing this alone, Mr. Jackson. I'll have no one else die for my choices."
"Gideon's with you." Clarity corrected, "Rip...just just bring it back, okay? I'll absorb the energy. I'll do it. It'll hurt but-"
"I think we can both agree I've caused you enough pain today, Clarity." Rip replied. "There's no need to make things worse than how they are now."
"But I don't want you to go." Clarity replied eyes watering.
"Oh, you never do." Rip replied with a small sigh. "But I don't have a choice."
"That's not true, you're choosing to die, that's not okay." Clarity replied, picking at her good luck charm bracelet, unraveling the threads that held it together. "I'm still mad at you. You can't just die when I'm upset. Come back."
"I'm sorry we didn't have time to work things out, Clarity." Rip told her.
"This isn't going to bring your family back." Sara told him as if that would change his mind.
"I don't want to lose a friend." Mick grunted, because much like Rip, for him those were in short supply. "Sparky doesn't either."
"I appreciate that, Mr. Rory." Rip replied. "But I'm afraid my decisions been made. I must say, it's been an honor to serve as your cap..." the line cut out and that was the last the team heard from Captain Hunter.
- a few moments earlier-
"What happens if only one of these goes off?" Sara asked carefully.
"Uh... time will remain intact." Rip answered. "The world? Not so much."
"Great, so we saved the timeline but screwed the world." Snart looked at the glowing rock fingers drumming on his gun.
"Guys, we're running out of time." Clarity warned. "I can feel it pulsing, It's gonna blow."
"Okay, guys, let's fly this thing out of here." Jax told Ray, Kendra and Carter.
"To where?" Kendra challenged. "We would never get it far enough away."
"Maybe the Waverider can." Ray realized. "Rip, we need...where's Rip?
"And the meteorite?" Sara added.
"Did you just glitch it?" Snart asked and Clarity shook her head no.
"I don't even feel it anymore." She replied.
"Well, that's good right? We're in the clear?" Todd asked.
"Will somebody please tell me what just happened?" Ray asked as they looked up at the Waverider.
"Chronometric Repositioning." Clarity answered, hopping over the railing racing over to the ship. It felt extremely damaged, worse than she'd ever felt it actually.
"Rip?" Kendra called everyone right on Claritys heels.
"Sorry if I gave you all a fright." Rip answered, wincing as Clarity tackled him into a hug. His back hitting the hall wall rather harshly due to the force of it.
"The ship feels terrible! What did you do!? Gideon, are you alright?" Clarity worried pulling back from the hug, spinning round hand gingerly placed on the metal wall.
"I'm perfectly fine creator. Though the ship is in need of significant repair." Gideon answered.
"What happened to the meteor?" Sara asked, all the legends walked behind Rip while Clarity walked next to him.
"Uh, I flew it into the heart of the sun." Rip admitted.
"You what!?" Clarity shrieked. "Rip!"
Rip winced, rubbing his right ear. "Well, I angled the ship to eject the meteorite before impact," Rip corrected his account. "and then, uh... time jumped away."
"You could have been killed." Kendra states the obvious.
"Should have been." Mick glared. "You're a moron."
"That's not exactly new information if you've been paying attention. Only an idiot puts us all together." Snart drawled.
"I can't believe you did that! Gideon would have been destroyed too!" Clarity glared.
"Ah, but she wasn't was she?" Rip countered. "Now, who fancies a return trip to 2016?"
"To January?" Clarity asked hopefully.
"No, back to May." Rip replied firmly and that's exactly where they went.
"I can't believe it's over." Kendra breathed, though it was unclear if she meant the mission or being free of Savage.
"Well, for some of you, yes." Rip replied. "My journey, it seems, is only just beginning."
"How does that work?" Mick asked. "Savage is three times dead."
"Last I checked he's all out of lives." Snart agreed.
"The Time Masters are no longer of growing concern, due to our destruction of the Oculus." Rip answered. "Someone needs to be responsible for protecting the timeline. Who better than a former Time Master? And any of you who'd like to join me."
Sara and Clarity exchanged a look. If they still had access to the waverider and the jumpship, then they could still try to save Laurel. Rip's mission may be over, but theirs wasn't. Not until the elder Lance was saved.
"We're gonna need a little time to check on things. Make up our minds." Snart told him. "Weigh the risks we weren't prepared for last time."
"Of course, Mr. Snart." Rip nodded. "You'll have til tomorrow night."
"So soon?" Clarity asked eyebrows raising.
"There's much work to be done to both the ship and the timeline, Miss Springs. I wish I could a lot you more, but the sooner the better I'm afraid. Every second we waste is another moment the timeline is at risk." Rip told them all.
"I see, then we'd better return to our families. Goodnight Captain." Stein bid him farewell everyone getting off the ship scattering to their loved ones to figure everything out.
The first thing Clarity did was leave a message with Cisco saying that she was alright though he probably hadn't even realized she was gone. She called Barry, thanked him for paying her bills and everything, hesitantly asked if he could keep it up if it wasn't too much trouble, because she was definitely going back to time travel just a bit longer. She checked in with her father just in case, she really did miss him after not seeing him for so long, but she supposed she was used to being separated from her parents by now. Her mother was still stable, bills all paid up, and the lean was even off the family farm. Her Father bought some new horses to train, all curly's. Clarity was glad he was keeping busy. She promised she'd visit when she got a free day. She called Caitlin too but the brunette didn't answer for whatever odd reason. She didn't feel Barry running around the city which was also strange, but Clarity was really too tired to dwell on it. She glitched back to her apartment, all but collapsing into her bed of fuzzy blankets and soft furry pillows. She called Felicity to find out just how badly things had gone to hell for her, and that made her all the more determined to help Sara stopped Damien. Things would be better for her friend if she wasn't stuck in a wheel chair. The next day Clarity slept in, went out for breakfast to Jitters getting a hot delectable hot chocolate and a strawberry shortcake. Then spent the whole day hanging out catching up with Felicity.
-Meanwhile back in Star City Sara was taking to her father-
"I should stay and help you with Darhk. And get justice for Laurel." Sara told her father as they stood in front of her sisters grave.
"That's happening, honey, with or with out you. I promise." Quentin told her. "Uh, listen, I-I can't pretend to understand this time travel thing, but it sounds important."
"So is family." Sara insisted tears in her eyes. "I wasn't going to go the first time. Then Laurel convinced me." Sara bit back her tears as best she could. "And now I'm going to do this for her."
"Well, she'd be proud of you." Quentin told her.
"How do you know?" Sara asked him.
"Cause I am." Quentin replied, just as a twig snapped behind them. On pure instinct Sara threw the knife that had been in her sleeve at whoever it was. The graveyard was always empty this time of day. However the knife didn't meet its intended target. It buzzed with lightning, hovering just in front of Claritys forehead.
"Uh...Sorry, didn't mean to sneak up on you," Clarity apologized knife hovering back over to Sara. "I brought some Laurel...for Laurel." Clarity replied, walking over, holding up the little white and pink flowering bush. The plant sat in a yellow Canary vase. "I hope that's okay, uh, Mr. Lance." Clarity nodded at the police Captain hugging the plant close.
"It's perfect, Clarity." Sara assured her. "Thank you."
"Most people bring bouquets," Quentin chuckled in amusement. "You bring a whole potted plant."
"Oh, well flowers die when they're cut." Clarity replied, "but this is still attached to its roots and branches, so even if it looks gone and dead, it'll still have the strength to come back."
"The Canary's a nice touch." Quentin smiled as he surveyed it.
"I couldn't resist." Clarity admitted clasping her hands together, looking to Sara. The sun starting to set. "You ready to go? Or do you still want some more time?"
"Let's go," Sara decided giving her father a quick hug goodbye. Quentin chuckled, as he hugged her. "She's cute." He muttered pressing a kiss to her temple.
"Bye Dad." Sara replied pulling away, Quentin watching the two women glitch away. Clarity awkwardly waving goodbye to Sara's father as well a few sparks flying from her fingers. When they appeared at the meeting place they were the last two to arrive.
"A full compliment." Rip chuckled. "To be honest, I had my doubts that all of you would be willing to throw in with me for a second go."
"Well, actually..." Carter began.
"We're not coming with you." Kendra finished.
"Why not? My controls way better now." Clarity told Kendra.
"I know, i-it's not you, Clarity." Kendra told her, maybe there was a certain apology hidden in her tone. Guilt at Clarity's first thought being she was the reason they were staying away.
"With Savage gone, we want to start fresh, see what happens." Carter explained.
"I give it three months, tops." Mick told them.
"That's generous, I'd say two." Snart replied.
"Look, I just... I want to say thank you. To all of you." Kendra told them, Ray hugging her goodbye.
"Be safe." Kendra told Sara in particular, she couldn't help it really with how close the blonde was standing to Clarity. Despite everything Kendra still hadn't gotten over that. Maybe she never would.
"See you guys around." Carter said as he and Kendra took off into the sky flying away.
"Every time they do that, I get hungry for chicken." Mick remarked.
"So, shall we?" Rip asked, only for a shriek from Clarity to make everyone turn around. A boom resounding in the sky.
"Up there!" She pointed gripping at her head.
"Is that..." Sara started squinting at the sky.
"The Waverider." Rip confirmed.
"Another Waverider?" Martin wondered.
"Whatever it is, it's not slowing down." Ray realized.
"Get down!" Jax yelled everyone hitting the dirt, save for Clarity who attempted to drain the ship so it didn't blow up on impact, and did she sense someone familiar inside? No, her mind was playing tricks on her. It couldn't possibly be who she was thinking it was.
"What the hell's going on?" Jax wondered.
"To be honest, Mr. Jackson, I have absolutely no idea." Rip answered, clueless to what was happening.
"Must be a first for you." Snart looked to Rip.
"Is this 2016?" Rex Tyler asked, pointing to the ground as he approached.
"Clarity, is that-" Todd squinted.
"No way... Rex?" Clarity asked mouth dropped open in surprise. "What are you doing here?"
"Is this May, 2016?" Hourman repeated ignoring her question.
"Yeah." Jax answered.
"You're exactly where you said you'd be." Rex replied almost mystified.
"Do you need us back?" Todd asked wondering if the hero was about to take him away. "Is the team alright?"
At obsidians question Hourman gained a sort of haunted look and Clarity took notice of it right away.
"Rex, what's wrong?" Clarity asked rushing up to him, cupping his face in her hands. "What happened? You look hurt."
He grabbed her hands gently removing them from him, he looked first to Clarity then out at the rest of the team. "Do not get on that ship. If you do, you're all dead."
"Says who?" Mick demanded glaring distrustfully at Rex Tyler.
"Says you, Mr. Rory." Rex answered. "You sent me."
"I'm sorry." Snart glared. "Who exactly are you?"
"My name is Rex Tyler. I'm a member of the Justice Society of America. Todd." Rex nodded addressing the obsidian hero before looking to Clarity taking her hand, maybe to assure her he really was alright. "And Am-" Rex caught himself, "Clarity, were apart of my team."
"Never heard of 'em, pal." Mick continued to glare.
"We're a secret society for a reason." Todd replied.
"Rex, what's going on?" Clarity asked. "None of this is making sense."
"That's because I just came from 1942. The same year in which all of you will-"
"... Bite the bullet? So if we don't go back to 1942, we're safe, right?" Ray wondered.
"Not to be rude," Martin began. "but how do we know you are who you say you are?"
"It's Rex. I know it is." Clarity replied ignoring Martins suspicions. "But Rex why would we go back to 1942? Rip came and got Todd and I in 1944. If you're from 1944, then what were you doing two years into our own past? I don't understand."
"You all have no idea what you're up against." Rex shook his head, "No idea." Rex stressed to Clarity his form starting to flicker. "If you return to 1942, the consequences will be catastrophic." Rex faded away, right out of Claritys fingers as she tried to reach for him when he started flickering. The ship disappearing right along with him.
"That was weird." Ray remarked completely stunned.
"Bit dramatic for my tastes." Snart eyed Todd resting a hand on his arm. Wondering if he was okay.
"Good thing I was never planning on going back home." Todd sighed.
"Rip, where'd he go? What just happened?" Clarity asked looking for answers. Eyes questioning.
"I don't know." He lied, already sort of having some inkling, but not wanting to tell her he was erased from existence. Not wanting another dead person to the list for Clarity to hold against him. Despite the lie he was certain he'd find out in the travels to come.
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Well, that's it.
With this chapter Book 1 is completed. Three years of writing and it's finally done. What an incredible journey that is. I just want to take a moment to thank each and every one of you readers. Yes, even you silent readers who I'd wish to get to know, but understand if commenting or voting simply isn't your thing. Thank you for every vote, every comment, for reading each and every chapter of this story whether they be a pitiful 1,000 or a whopping 10,000 (some of you more than once). I know you might not realize it but seeing people reading my story, engaging with what I wrote, Falling in love with ships and characters, it just means the world to me. Which is why this is no where near the end.
The sequel is published with the intros. Unfortunately ch 1 isn't quite ready yet, but it will all be up very very soon. It might not be quite as long as this one but 10,000 words is a bit crazy, even for me. Anyways here are some questions for you to answer one final time.
1. Can you believe book 1 is over?
2. What does Clarity mean to you?
3. Will you read book 2 ?
4. So, your ship, how do you feel about it right now? What have been your favorite shippable moments between them in this whole story? Why should they be together?
5. What did you think of this chapter? How'd it make you feel? Be honest.
6. If you could kill Savage how would you do it?
7. If you could warn each legend about something what would it be?
8. Do you think Clarity is a good character? Why or why not?
9. How do you think Clarity'll feel having Eobard flashing around next season?
10. Who's your favorite legend to see Clarity interact with and why?
11. What's your worst fear for Clarity?
12. Should I continue asking these questions in book 2?
13. Anything else you'd like to ask, rant, and or tell me!