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“Guys, I think we broke time,” Sara informed the team as they joined her in looking out the window of the ship.
“Yep that is definitely one very broken timeline,” Ray said as a bunch of dinosaurs roamed city streets outside.
“Did we do this?” Jax asked.
“I’m afraid that might be the only logical explanation for this unless of course we’ve accidentally stumbled into a parallel universe where such things as… this are considered normal,” Stein replied as he gestured to the dinosaurs.
“If there’s a universe out there where this is normal remind me never to join Barry in multiverse hopping,” Sara stated.
“I doubt Barry travels through the multiverse as a hobby. Though considering I don’t know him all that well and he willingly screwed with time like he did in creating Flashpoint I probably shouldn’t be surprised if he did,” Amaya added.
“So, uh, what are we going to do about… this?” Nate asked the team.
“Try to figure out where this stuff should be and put them back in their proper places?” Sara suggested.
“Really, Blondie? That’s all you’ve got?” Mick retorted.
“Hey what do you expect? Not like any of us have experience with broken time and besides I’m not sure what else to do or even how the hell we’re supposed to move these buildings back to the future or wherever they belong! Now look, we made this mess which makes it our job to clean it up. Now let’s get to work!” Sara ordered as she headed out.
“Right!” Ray replied as he started to follow Sara out.
“Let’s round up the dinos first,” Sara added.
“Oh boy,” Ray said in an exasperated tone as he paused at the doorway.
“Relax, maybe Amaya can just tame them like last time,” Nate reassured him, patting him on the shoulder as he walked past.
“Yeah. Sure. Of course that’ll work,” Ray said still sounding scared about having to deal with dinosaurs.
A couple of hours later and the team was trying to wrangle a pack of dinosaurs onto the ship to be transported back only for Ray to suddenly find himself being chased by three of them.
“It’s not working! It’s not working!” Ray screamed at an embarrassingly high pitch as the dinosaurs Amaya tried to tame ran after him.
“Why aren’t your powers working?” Nate asked Amaya as they tried to catch up.
“I don’t know. Maybe it has something to do with breaking time or maybe velociraptors just have brains that are too under evolved.”
“Actually those aren’t velociraptors they’re part of the Coelophysis genus from the late Triassic period. Velociraptors are actually a lot smaller and have feathers.”
“How do you know so much about history? I mean seriously, it’s like no matter what era we go to you know almost everything about it. Feudal Japan, 1920s Chicago, dinosaur times,” she asked him as they finally caught up to Ray and the dinosaurs who had chased the scientist up into a tree.
“Can you question him about being a historian later and just save me already?!” Ray shouted.
“Only if you tell us why you’re not just using your suit right now?” Nate asked.
“I would but this place has some sort of temporal radiation or whatever that’s messing with my suits electronics. Now please do something about these velociraptors!”
“Coelophysis! Why is that so hard to remember?”
“Who cares just steel up and start rounding up dinosaurs,” Amaya told him as she summoned the spirit of a T-Rex and roared frightening the dinos away.
“Oh thank you,” Ray sighed as he got down from the tree while Nate tried to herd the Coelophysis back to the Waverider.
“Don’t mention it,” Amaya said before being knocked out by a stun gun along with Ray.
“Get along little doggies. Yeehaw!” Nate said in a cowboy accent as he maneuvered the dinos toward the ship before getting knocked out himself.
Sometime later the team awoke in the middle of a very formal looking room sitting before Rip and a large group of people.
“Rip? Rip what’s going on?” Sara asked their former captain.
“What’s going on is that our actions have had some unforeseen consequences,” Rip replied.
“No duh Sherlock. Now what are we doing here?” Mick asked.
“And who are these guys?” Jax added.
“These people are my new Time Bureau, an agency I created to replace the Time Masters and protect the timeline. You all are here because the Bureau has reached the conclusion that your methods are problematic and that you should all cease and desist so to speak.”
“Excuse me?” Sara asked.
“Your intentions while pure bring about actions that tend to make matters worse. You are all a liability to history and therefore we insist that you put an end to your misadventures at once.”
“What?! Rip you were the one who brought us together. You made this team and now you’re telling us to quit?!” Sara responded furiously.
“I brought this team together to defeat Vandal Savage and kept this team together to protect history as no one else was up to the task. Seeing as I now have the Time Bureau the Legends services are no longer required more or less wanted. I have confiscated my ship and you will no longer have access to it. The Time Bureau shall take it upon ourselves to return the anachronisms and as for Ms. Jiwe, an anachronism in her own right, she will be transported back to her time and the rest of you shall be dismissed to go to wherever and not whenever you wish. I am sorry but this is how it must be.”
“You can’t do this. You can’t just take Amaya from us!” Nate shouted at the Time Bureaucrat.
“Nate? Nate!” Amaya screamed as several other Bureaucrats started dragging her away.
“Amaya!” he shouted as he steeled up and tried to help her.
Suddenly Rip banged a gavel and everything came to a literal stand still.
“Enough!” he shouted as everyone but the Bureaucrats stood around frozen in place.
“I am sorry, Mr. Heywood but Ms. Jiwe does not belong in this era and therefore must be returned home to 1942 before her absence from history can cause any more damage to the timeline than what has already been done by you lot breaking the fabric of space time. You must have known that she would have to go back eventually. Still I do apologize for any pain this causes all of you,” Rip said, his voice getting softer in tone as he went on with Nate crying by the end of it as Amaya was taken out of his sight helpless to save her.
About a month later, Mick is lounging on a beach in Aruba when Ray crash-lands on the beach in his suit causing sand to be thrown in Mick’s face.
“What the hell, Haircut?!” Mick roared as he got up from his seat.
“Sorry, suit was damaged a bit and couldn’t land properly. How’ve you been Mick?” he asked.
“I was fine until you showed up and ruined my vacation. What the hell do you want?”
“Your help. Sara and I were working to deal with the anachronisms-”
“Stupid name for it but go on.”
“Anyway, we were dealing with all the stuff that didn’t belong when all of a sudden, she got captured by, and you’re not going to believe this, Chronos.”
“Chronos? That’s impossible. I was Chronos and I sure as hell don’t remember kidnapping her.”
“Well I don’t know who this guy is all I know is that he called himself Chronos, he’s captured Sara, and tried to capture me too. I figure he might be coming after the team like how the old Chronos, how you did and I figured I should at least warn you.”
“At least huh? And what about at most?”
“I was thinking we could get the band back together for one last mission. I could use some help rescuing Sara, you in?”
“Damn right Haircut! Let’s get the others and go find her!”
“Already got the others. Save for Amaya because well we still don’t have a timeship which could be a bit of a problem.”
“Oh so you got me last?” Mick asked slightly offended.
“Well I figured you’d try and fry me for interrupting your vacay too early so,” Ray defended.
“Yeah, I probably would’ve. As for the whole timeship thing. Not to worry, because I know where I parked my old ship from my Chronos days. Assuming Rip and his Bureaucrat friends haven’t taken it, we should be good to go.”
“Seriously? If I had known that I would’ve gotten you first!”
“And I would’ve fried you. Now let’s go save Blondie.”
As the team gathered to find Mick’s timeship and plan the rescue Sara sat in a cell where Chronos had taken her away when the man in question came up to the cell door.
“Who are you? And what the hell do you want with me?” Sara snarled.
Chronos didn’t respond.
“What? Cat got your tongue? Answer me dammit!” she growled as she slammed her hand against the glass.
Just then an explosion sounded from another part of the building.
“Sounds like the Legends. Good. I was hoping they’d show up,” Chronos said before leaving to deal with the team.
The team then split up to look for Sara with Nate and Firestorm going one way while Ray and Mick went the other.
“I still think we should’ve gotten Amaya,” Nate grumbled.
“You heard what Ray said. This mission is just about saving Sara not getting the team back together. No telling what Rip and his Time Bureaucrats would do then,” Firestorm replied.
“I know exactly what he’d do and I don’t agree with it for a second,” Chronos said as he came up to the pair.
“You’re Chronos? You don’t look so tough,” Nate scoffed as he steeled up.
“You’d be surprised,” Chronos replied as he fired on them.
“Ow!” Nate yelled as he got hit by Chronos’s blast.
“Dammit, that thing must use dwarf star matter,” Nate strained to say under the pain.
“Don’t worry, I got this,” Firestorm said as he blasted at the villain who simply skidded backwards in an almost kneeling position.
“Okay, well that didn’t work,” Firestorm deadpanned.
“No. But this will,” Chronos said as he shot Firestorm, throwing him back into a wall, knocking the two heroes out as they unfused upon impact.
Nate then strained to get up in his injured state in order to check on his friends while Chronos headed off to deal with the others.
Meanwhile, Ray and Mick arrived at Sara’s cell to free her.
“Mick? I figured Ray would show up since he was with me when I got captured but I didn’t think he’d call in reinforcements,” Sara said upon seeing the pair.
“Good to see you too, Blondie.”
“Alright, I got it unlocked now let’s go,” Ray said before they were confronted by Chronos.
“None of you are going anywhere,” Chronos informed them.
“We’ll see about that,” Sara snarled before charging at him in hand to hand combat.
Chronos took a few blows but managed to grab Sara and hold her against him with his gun to her head.
“Any sudden movements and she loses that pretty little head of hers,” Chronos told them.
“What do you want?” Ray asked.
“What I want is for all of you Legends to remain here at this facility for however long is up to me.”
“Yeah and why’s that? What did we ever do to you?” Mick asked.
“Why I’m doing this isn’t important right now. Just know that what I’m doing is for the best.”
“Yeah, I doubt that,” Sara replied as she grabbed his gun and elbowed him in the face before aiming said gun at his head as she freed herself from his grasp.
“Care to tell us what you wanted with us?” Sara asked him.
“No,” Chronos replied.
“Well then this is going to hurt,” she said as she fired on him knocking him out with his own gun.
“That didn’t look like it killed him,” Ray pointed out.
“Let me see that,” Mick said as he took the gun from Sara’s hands.
“This thing’s been messed with. It’s only capable of non-lethal shots,” Mick mentioned.
“So that whole thing about killing Sara was just a bluff?” Ray asked.
“We can deal with that later. Right now let’s just get out of here,” Sara told them.
They then managed to get Nate, Jax, and Stein back to Mick’s ship and were sitting in the Temporal Zone agreeing that they missed being part of the team when all of a sudden, they were pulled out of the Zone and into some sort of timeship parking lot.
“What the hell’s going on now?” Sara complained.
“What’s going on Sara is that you all deliberately disobeyed me and decided to get the team back together,” Rip said as he stepped aboard Mick’s ship.
“And quite frankly I couldn’t be more thrilled,” he finished, “It would seem as though our breaking time is not the only anomaly my Bureau and I have encountered. It appears there is something else or rather someone else is tampering with the course of history. I believe you’ve already met him.”
“Chronos,” Sara said as less of a question and more of an observation.
“That is correct. We don’t know what he wants with you but seeing as how you all have become his targets the Bureau feels it best to help you with this matter.”
“Good. Because I was just thinking that it might be a good idea to get the team back together. All of us. Even Amaya. You can argue all you want but you’re not going to convince any of us to just surrender and let you and your new friends tell us what we can and can’t do. You want to help us with Chronos? Be our guest. You want to stop us from fixing our mistakes? Good luck with that. You know us Rip. You know what we’re capable of. Do you really want to try and stop us?” Sara asked.
“On the contrary Captain Lance I was just about to return the Waverider to you and your crew as well as hand you Ms. Jiwe whom we already recovered in case Chronos attempted to capture her like he did you,” Rip responded as Amaya stepped into the room.
“Yes!” Nate declared.
“Sorry, just happy to have Amaya back,” he defended in a quieter tone.
“One more thing. The Bureau isn’t going to just let you travel through time unsupervised so if you have no objections I would like to return in order to keep an eye on all of you as well as help you maintain contact with the Bureau. So, what do you say Captain Lance? Room on the Waverider for one more?” Rip asked.
“Always. Glad to have you back Rip,” Sara replied with a hug.
“Enough with the sappy reunions. Can we just find Chronos and kick his ass already?” Mick asked.
“And maybe put the anachronisms back?” Ray suggested.
“Excellent ideas. Team, let’s get to work,” Sara ordered.