Last update of the night, guys. I wanted to get this done before I went to bed, partly because that long nap this afternoon isn't making me as tired right now . . . and because this is where I really wanted to end this chapter. And, ah . . . I need to do this. *deadlocks self in bunker* OK, now I'm ready!

Enjoy!

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"In ten minutes, Red Tornado's gonna bring down this entire facility, and there's nothing we can do to stop that robot," Leo announced as he and Ray entered.

"Then we need to reopen the gateway before that happens," Oliver nodded. "Barry, Ray – "

"We know, stop a flying robot somehow," Barry nodded.

"Good. The rest of us will open the breach."

"That's the whole plan?" Leo raised an eyebrow.

"Well, as the Snart we know used to say – " Barry deepened his voice, scrunching up his face slightly. "Make a plan, execute the plan, expect the plan to go off the rails, throw away the plan."

"Wow," Leo blinked. "That is . . . that is terrible advice! I always have a plan, down to the second, so nothing ever goes wrong!"

"Sounds like I would have liked the other Snart," Malcolm remarked.

"No, no, no," Ray reached out and took Leo's face, kissing him between phrases. "The only plan now . . . is not to leave this Earth . . . without me."

"OK," Leo smiled in agreement.

"Right," Ray turned around to Barry. "Ready for Tornado Watch."

"Let's do it," Barry nodded, flashing out and taking Ray with him.

"Here," Laurel took off the bag she had on her shoulder. "Brought these with us."

"I thought it'd be fun if we put on our costumes," Leo grinned, unzipping his own bag.

Malcolm snorted in amusement as Laurel handed him his suit. "Anything to get out of this one."

Oliver raised an eyebrow when he saw the bows in both, reaching down to pick up the one with his suit. "Where'd you get the bows and quivers?" he asked.

"And the sword?" Malcolm found one similar to the one he usually used.

"The general collects weapons," Leo answered simply.

Oliver nodded firmly. "Let's go to war."

***

"No one gets to the gateway!" the Sturmbannführer yelled as the Nazis assembled. "No one!" The Nazis lined up in front of the doorway to the warehouse, the Sturmbannführer watching with a smirk on his face.

That smirk abruptly vanished when the doors were thrown off their hinges by an explosion, the same blast throwing the front line of Nazis back. Firestorm flew inside, throwing two more fireballs to cover the arrival of Oliver, Slade, and Malcolm with Sara, Alex, Thea, Laurel, and Leo behind them. Oliver, Malcolm, and Thea fired arrows quickly as Slade, Sara, Alex, and Thea fired their guns, Leo powering up his cold gun. Laurel's eyes immediately found the Sturmbannführer's, and she grinned. "I've got my evil dad!" she shouted, running off.

"Cover her!" Oliver called behind him.

Sara immediately ran after her, and the remaining group split off into pairs – Oliver and Leo running straight ahead, Slade and Alex another way, leaving Malcolm and Thea to go in the opposite direction.

***

Slade and Alex moved through a line of crates, one of Slade's hands holding a gun, the other his sword. Alex tightened her grip on the trigger of her machine gun. Slade abruptly stopped and flattened himself against the crates, Alex doing the same. They exchanged glances, then a Nazi moved past them. Slade lunged forward and buried his sword in the Nazi's back, and Alex quickly spun to cover Slade, unloading into the Nazi that had followed the other.

***

Laurel and Sara stopped in front of the Sturmbannführer, whose lip curled when he saw them. "Even better. I get to kill you myself."

"You can try," Sara smirked.

Laurel opened her mouth and screamed, the sonic blast throwing the Sturmbannführer and other nearby Nazis back, giving Sara the perfect opportunity to charge the doppelgänger of their father.

***

A train horn blasted through the air as Barry sped past it, Ray flying above him. "Here we go!" the man called.

Barry nodded, seeing the red robot approaching, and Ray stopped, firing blasts of light from his hands. Red Tornado dodged every shot, then whirled one of his arms, firing a burst of air at them. Barry swerved to avoid it, Ray quickly dodging. Barry took another route, running onto the top of the train and tackling Red Tornado out of the air, the two crashing to the ground as Ray flew overhead.

***

Firestorm watched several Nazis run past, then looked around. "OK, we're Nazi-free," he said, looking towards the controls. "Let's go!"

"Hold on," Stein said in his head, and Jax paused. "That's an automated power cell. We need ot activate it before using the control console."

"I can hot-wire it," Jax nodded. "No problem."

"Then I'll turn on the console."

Jax blinked in surprise. "You want to split up? You sure?"

"It's our most favorable odds. Let's kick some ass, Jefferson!"

Jax took a deep breath, then ran out from behind cover to where they wouldn't be in the line of fire. He stopped in the middle and allowed himself to separate with Stein, the two of them gaining their balance effortlessly. The two shared determined nods, then ran their separate ways.

***

"Yes, please, just keep coming," Thea rolled her eyes as she and her father weaved through the warehouse, dodging bullets left and right. "We would love to die right now!"

"Not the time, Thea!" Malcolm grunted as he slammed into a Nazi approaching from another direction, stabbing him with one of his arrows.

"Says the one who – " Thea dodged a stray bullet, then fired an arrow into an approaching Nazi's chest. " – likes to keep score during battles!"

Malcolm slit another Nazi's throat. "It's called multitasking!"

Thea was about to come up with another witty retort when she heard Jax's voice from nearby. "Grey, we got power!"

"Wait a minute, they split up?" Thea's eyes widened in shock.

A spray of bullets sounded from nearby, followed by Jax's startled yelp. Malcolm quickly ran to see what was going on, and he and Thea rounded the corner to see a truck drive by, a Nazi on top with a machine gun, trying to nail down an unmerged Jax as he stumbled away from some kind of control panel. "Shit," Thea breathed, eyes wide.

"Where's Professor Stein?" Malcolm looked around.

Thea craned her neck to see, then pointed. "There!"

Malcolm looked to where she was pointing, seeing Stein was ducking behind cover. "All right, get to Jax," he ordered. "I'll cover Stein."

Thea nodded, and Malcom ran off as Thea ran to reach Jax.

***

"Whoa!" Barry clung tightly to Red Tornado as the robot took off into the air again, bringing Barry with him. "Hey!" He yelped when the robot twisted, then he turned trying to see his friend. "Ray! A little help here!"

Ray flew towards him, but Red Tornado aimed more air blasts at Ray, knocking him out of the air on his second attempt. Barry yelped again when Red Tornado twisted even faster, throwing Barry off him. Ray tried to ram into the robot, but he threw Ray next to where Barry was.

Both men groaned in pain, sitting up and trying to regain their vision, only to blanch when they saw Red Tornado fly on. "Oh, crap," they said in unison.

***

Oliver shot down two Nazis in quick succession, jumping onto a pile of crates, then dropping down and kicking one Nazi down. He leaned back, laying down on the crate, and fired another shot, killing the Nazi coming up behind him.

Leo rammed his gun into another's head, running to join Oliver, only for the back of a truck to drop open, revealing a heavy duty machine gun, which started firing the moment the Nazi aiming saw them.

Both dropped to take cover, and Leo scoffed. "Well, that's not very fair!"

***

"Damn it, I wish I had gotten my howl fixed!" Alex growled as she and Slade were forced behind more crates.

"I just hope the Lances are having a better time than us," Slade growled, he and Alex both turning around to fire at the incoming Nazis.

***

Sara doubled over when the Sturmbannführer kicked her in the gut, then Laurel charged, swinging her knife in an attempt to ram it into the commander's shoulder. The Sturmbannführer grabbed her arm and twisted, and Laurel yelped as he flipped her over his shoulder, slamming her into the ground. He took the knife from her, and Laurel choked when he grabbed her throat, his knee on her chest as he raised it –

Three shots fired in unison, and the Sturmbannführer choked as he toppled, Laurel scrambling away from the doppelgänger, eyes wide when she saw the blood soaking his torso. Her eyes bugged open wide, and she looked up to see Sara standing over the Sturmbannführer, her eyes just as wide, and the gun she was holding was starting to shake slightly. Laurel scrambled to her feet and grabbed the gun before it fell, and Sara collapsed into her arms. "It's OK," she whispered, hugging her tightly, squeezing her eyes shut. "I'm OK."

"He was gonna kill you," Sara sobbed, burying her face in Laurel's neck.

"You saved me," Laurel swallowed. "I'm OK."

"I couldn't let him kill my sister!"

Laurel pulled back, taking Sara's face in her hands. "That man was not our father," he told her. "That man was a twisted son of a bitch who would have killed both of us and not regretted a thing. You got that?" Sara swallowed and nodded. "Good," Laurel smirked. "Now we should probably go save the others."

Sara choked out a laugh, and Laurel grabbed her knife from the Sturmbannführer's dead hands, and they ran back to the sound of fighting.

***

Jax found himself constantly ducking behind cover as the truck kept driving by, still firing rapidly at him. "Man, what did you get yourself into?" Thea asked as she ran to join him, pulling an arrow from her quiver and nocking it.

However, the Nazis started firing at her, too, and Thea was forced to the ground, wincing. "There's your answer," Jax told her bitterly.

Thea cautiously peeked around where they were hiding, then scurried back when bullets just missed her. "There's no way I can get a shot off with that much firepower!"

Jax twisted to turn and find where Stein was. "We're pinned down!" he yelled.

***

From where he was hiding away from Nazis, Stein swallowed, then turned to see where the control lever was. He steeled himself, then started to run.

Several things seemed to happen at once, then. A gunshot rang out behind him, and the sound of bullet hitting flesh. Stein froze, eyes wide.

Then he heard Thea's horrified scream. "Dad!"

"Grey, get down!" Jax yelled, eyes wide.

Stein quickly threw himself to the side, avoiding more bullets, and his eyes widened when he saw Malcolm fire an arrow into the Nazi that had snuck up behind him, then sink to his knees, dropping his bow and clutching at the gaping, bleeding wound in his side.

The same bullet wound that would have instantly killed Stein had he not gotten in the way.

***

How could I not end this chapter there? That is the perfect way to end this!

Because good news, everyone - Stein lives!

Bad news . . . Malcolm's the one in trouble now. *cringes* Sorry but not sorry?

Three fourths of the way through, guys! Next comes the Legends of Tomorrow episode!