MONSTROUS.
021. | ❛ i'm never too far away. ❜

Crystal could no longer see the battlefield before her. She wasn't with in pain anymore with Ray dying, or seeing her lost love. She didn't know where she was, all she knew was that she was standing in a long white dress. She looked around almost frightened and began to wander the room she was in, because this wasn't suppose to happen. This was her wedding day; the one that she had planned with Leonard before his death. This was her perfect wedding.

A door unlocked itself and a figure made itself present in the room, "Wow, you still take my breath away."

Crystal turned to see him and held her breath before uttering his name, "Leonard."

He approached her and took her hands in his and placed a gentle kiss to them. "Are you ready to get married? Everyone is waiting for us."

He started leading her out of the room and Crystal wanted to follow, but something told not to. "This never happened. This is the Spear doing this. This isn't real."

He pulled in closer to her and pushed her hair back, "No, it's not. But it can be. You can remake reality however you see fit."

Almost out of nowhere the Spear appeared in Crystal's hand, and she'd be lying if she didn't think of making this her reality. She wanted this, she wanted her happy ending with Snart. But, she knew that it wouldn't ever be possible because he was gone. And she had found a love in someone else.

"I love you, Leonard. And I could take it all back, you dying. And we could have our happy ending." Crystal pleaded with him, but mostly in herself because she knew that she wouldn't.

"But you won't, Princess."

"Everything that had happened up until now has led me to this point hasn't it?" Crystal asked him.

"The Spear doesn't need someone pure of heart. It needs someone strong enough to do the right thing." Leonard answered her, and she could feel tears streaming down her face.

"Even if doing so, means not having you back?" Crystals voice broke.

"I know how much you miss me, Crystal. I missed you, too. But, you have an amazing Raymond Palmer waiting for you. Waiting for an answer on his proposal." Leonard said and almost completely shattering Crystal into tears, as she took him into a long embrace, taking in the last of his scent.
"I'm never too far away, Princess."

He whispered into her ear and Crystal took the impulse, and placed one last longing kiss on his lips before being transported back to reality.

"Too slow, Ms. Pierce. Far too slow." Thawne mocked her, "To think you had actual godhood literally in your grasp. Well, I'm not going to make the mistake I made the first time. I'm going to erase you all from existence. You won't even be dead."

"B'khi-eel. Ah-ash-lem-tu-on. K'i-aheen. Kh'det Bay-all-ma-ah." Thawne started chanting but noticed that the spear wasn't lighting up anymore.

"I may have made one small change to reality." Crystal said.

"You depowered the Spear."

"Well, I guess we'll just have to do this the old fashioned way. I am going to drive this through your heart." Thawne said before he heard a roar in the background.

"About that." Crystal said seeing the dark flashes coming after Thawne. Soon, a whole bunch of them appeared out of nowhere encircling Thawne and then disappeared.

"You did it." The other Crystal told her, and her body was slowly disappearing as well.

"You would've done the same thing." Crystal told her twin.

"Remember, Legends never die." The departing Crystal said before she was gone.

[•]

Crystal wandered the Waverider as they left the remaining Legion of Doom in their timeline, and she was in search of Ray. She came into the lounge room where she found Ray sitting at the table.

"What are you doing here all alone?" Crystal asked him, and she could see the small smile in his face when she had first came in the room.

"You didn't go with Mick to leave off Snart." Ray rose from the table as she approached him.

Crystal shook her head, "It would've been too difficult. We already said our goodbyes a while ago."

Ray nodded and the two stood in silence, purposefully ignoring he big elephant in the room. When Ray proposed to Crystal, she didn't exactly have the normal response anyone would have. Instead, she quickly left the room and didn't speak with Ray before the mission.

"Was it always you and me?" Ray asked which rose Crystal's eyebrows in confusion. "You know, ever since Leonard had come back from the dead. Were you going to choose me? Or him?"

Crystal looked down at the floor before responding, "I was shocked when he came back, almost as if someone had granted me my wish. But, reality set in. He wasn't the Leonard I knew. And when we did have to defeat the Legion, I knew that he was going to have to go back to his timeline, and save us."

"So you did choose him?" Ray asked with Crystal quickly approaching him.

"No, I'm choosing you." Crystal said handing him the ring that he had intended to give her earlier. She held out her hand waited for Ray to slip in on.

"Are you sure about this?" Ray chucked, "It would be the second time, we've been engaged on this ship."

Crystal raised herself to his statue and placed a passionate kiss on his lips, and wrapped herself around him before she pulled away. "Yes, I'm sure. I want to marry you, Ray Palmer."

[•]

Crystal almost forever happy went back to the main room before she came across Rip leaving with a bag, "Hey, you going on a trip?"

"Uh, yes, in fact." Rip answered.

"I was joking." Crystal repulse crossing her arms across her chest.

"Right. Yes, well, we both know that I don't have a sense of humor at times. But, uh, yes, I am taking my leave."

"What do you mean, "leave"?" Crystal asked.

"This team has functioned far better in my absence than it ever did under my leadership. But I've realized that there's nothing further for me to teach you. Any of you." Rip said somberly and Crystal didn't want it to be so.

"So, what? You're just gonna walk out of here and not say good-bye?"

"I was going to borrow the jump ship, actually."

"I think Mick would call that stealing." Crystal joked.

"Oh, yes. Well, maybe Mr. Rory has had somewhat of an affect on me."

"And you on me, Captain." Crystal said.

"Ah, I'm no longer the captain. You are. And in that spirit permission to depart, Captain Pierce." Rip said holding a salute stance.

"Permission granted." Crystal said replying in salute. "Stay out of trouble."

"What, without you lot? I think that'll actually be quite easy."

[•]

"Mick, you wanna do the honors? Plot a course? You earned it." Crystal said as Mick smiled the biggest she had seen him.

"Gideon, set a course for Aruba."

"Roger that, Mr. Rory. Setting a course for Aruba, the year 2017." Gideon replied.

Almost suddenly, rumbling started to occur on the ship. "What was that?"

"This is what happens when you put Mr. Rory in charge of navigation." Stein said and the ship started to turn all ways.

"In fact, it was another time-storm.
It seems the disruption you created in 1916 was just the start. We've been ejected out of the Temporal Zone." Gideon informed them.

"Get ready for a hard landing." Crystal said as she tried to navigate the ship to no avail.

"Oh, come on! Can we please go five minutes without crashing the Waverider?" Jax replied as he was the one always repairing it.

The ship crashed hard into the ground, and the whole team groaned. "Is everyone okay?" Crystal asked as she got out of her seat and looked around.

"This ain't Aruba." Mick said looking out of the glass opening.

"No, this is Los Angeles, 2017." Gideon told them, and that's when Crystal looked out in front to see what they have landed in.

"Guys. I think we broke time." She said looking at all the dinosaurs roaming around; thinking that this new adventure was only the beginning.