While Sara, Len, Mick, and Deserey left to track down Anita, Daren, and the Oculus, the others worked to figure out how to take down the Pilgrim. Unfortunately, that was where their plan hit a snag. They had no way to track her, no way of knowing what her next move was.

"I didn't think it was possible to hide one's movements through time," Martin said as the rest of the team gathered at the console.

"It is if you have the Time Masters on your side," Rip explained.

"Which basically means we're screwed," Jax said.

"And if we don't put ourselves back soon enough then we'll disappear anyway," Ray pointed out. "So, either way they win." It's the cold hard reality that settles among each of them in turn. There is no way out of this, not without completely screwing history and/or erasing themselves from the time line all together; they were backed into a corner, and the Time Masters knew it.

The somber nature of the room was severed when Gideon's voice rang throughout the bridge. "Pardon the interruption, Captain, but we are being hailed by another Waverider."

Rip frowned. That didn't make any sense. "You mean another Time Ship?" Perhaps, it was the Pilgrim and Chronos offering some sort of negotiation? Bring us the young Legends and we'll make their deaths as swift as possible? 

"No, Captain," Gideon said. "I mean another Waverider."

"How can there be another Waverider?" Jax asked, scrunching up his face.

Rip didn't respond. He didn't have an answer that would be satisfying; in fact, there were a multitude of possibilities. They could have traveled back from the future at some point (a very stupid idea in of itself), it could be a past version of himself during one of his solo Time Master missions (though he would have thought he'd been more careful than that), someone could have stolen the Waverider and taken it for a joy ride... There were a dozen and one more possibilities, each more horrendous than the last.  The smart thing to do would have been to turn tail and pretend nothing had happened, but the curiosity was eating away at him. "Put them through," he told Gideon against his better judgment.

The first thing Rip spotted when the monitor on the wall flickered to life: two blonde teenagers pushing and shoving each other out of the way. "Get out of the way! I'm the Commander of this ship! Talking is my job!" the girl shouted.

"You're just going to scare them away with your Heathers references! We don't have time to track them down again!" the boy argued.

"I wasn't even going to --"

"Both of you move." Another girl, this one with strawberry blonde hair and a tall frame stepped into view. Rip exchanged looks with the other Legends, each of them having varying expressions of 'What the heck is happening?' "This ship is my inheritance! I'll do the talking, if you don't mind." There was something about her voice. It held a British accent, but there was something else too. A lisp? 

Another blonde boy pushed the other three out of his way. Also British. "Actually, I'm the oldest here. So, this ship is my inheritance, thank you." There was something...oddly familiar about this boy, but Rip couldn't quite place it. He couldn't help fuming the slightest bit. It was like looking at someone you knew, someone who's name should come easily to you, but his mind was blanking. It was something about those eyes and his nose. Rip was sure he'd seen them somewhere before, but he could not for the life of him remember where. It was beyond nerve wracking.

"Blah, blah, blah, I can't hear you!" the red head yelled. "Literally. I'm deaf, I have no idea what you just said, I wasn't looking at your lips."

The older boy rolled his eyes at her. "Then, how do you know I said anything?"

"Yo, morons!" Another new voice brought everyone's attention to another girl in the back of their bridge. She was dark skinned, much shorter than the others, her hair pulled back, clothes a lot less flashy. "You're on." She pointed to the Legends on the other side of their screen.

"H-hello," the Professor said. He gave the teenagers a little wave, looking more than a little uncertain. Who were they and how did they infiltrate their ship?  Two of them had mentioned it being of their inheritance. Did that mean Rip had passed the ship on to them? What on Earth could possess the captain to do something so...rash.

The first blonde shoved everyone off camera. "Beat it, germs, you're in my shot!" She faced the Legends again, painting a big smile on her face, or perhaps she naturally grinned that way. It was hard telling, their group seemed rather...rambunctious. "Hi. Sorry about that. Okay, so..." She clasped her hands together. "You might be wondering why we called you."

"Uh...yeah, kinda," Jax said. He gave the other Legends a look as if to say, these kids are insane.

"There is a perfectly logical explanation!" the girl said, pointing her finger in the air, most likely just to be dramatic. "You see, recently our parents --"

"You forgot grandfather!" yet another new voice called from somewhere off screen. How many children were on their ship? Where was their adult super vision?

"I was getting to it!" the blonde called back before turning back to the screen. "Our parents and Catriona's grandfather were erased from the time line. So we decided we'd come back here to the past and help them fixed things before we were erased from the Time Line too. See, it already happened to Anita and Daren, and Harri is already leading a completely different life so... Yeah. We'd really like to keep existing, because we really, really, really like existing." She put her finger to her chin for a second. "Oh, yeah, by the way, my name is Laurel."

Ray blanched. "Laurel? Like Laurel Lance?" It was a bit of stretch, really. The name could very easily be given to two different people without any relation whatsoever. It was just that he hadn't heard it used commonly, and the only other person with the name was Sara's sister.

To his surprise, the girl actually nodded. "I'm named after my aunt. Not the Dinah part though. Just Laurel. Laurel Elizabeth Sharpe. Some people call me Laurie, but I think I prefer my full name just cause. Also I really want to hyphen my last name, make it Sharpe-Lance, cause then people will think I'm a dangerous weapon, and I just think that's kind of sexy of me, you know?" Was all that said with one breathe? How did she not run out of air? More to the point, this girl was not only claiming to be Laurel's niece but Sara's daughter as well. Which was great, really. Ray could definitely be happy for her, he had always just assumed Sara didn't want any kids.

"You imbecile!"  The girl fourth girl who'd spoken, Catriona evidently, pushed herself onto the camera, glaring at Laurel with her hands on her hips. Her brown hair was pinned up in an intricate french braid, jewelry dangling from just about every part of her body, her clothes multi-tones of pink. "You weren't supposed to spoil anything!!"

The blonde girl gave a careless shrug. "Why should we worry about a teeny little thing like that? We can just erase their memories!"

Rip raised an eyebrow. When had the Time Masters come up with a thing like that? It certainly would have made a great many of his missions a lot easier, and it would be especially convenient with the Legends. Unfortunately, he had never heard of such a thing being possible, lest it be done via memory erasure meta human. Before he could bring that up, however, the teenagers went on yet another rampage, apparently forgetting all about the adult Legends. "That doesn't mean we should throw caution out the window!"

"I laugh in the face of caution! Ha, ha, ha!"

Good lord, this bunch was even more unhinged than the Legends themselves. Perhaps, at that precise moment, when that realization hit, is when everything finally clicked into place. They were trying to stop their parents from being erased from time, they were from the future and had their very own Waverider, and Laurel was Sara's daughter. It only made sense that the rest of the children onboard the Future Waverider were the off spring of the other Legends. Suddenly, the chaotic demeanor made a lot more sense...

"Oh...bullocks," Rip grumbled. Could this day get any more complicated? At this rate it would be much, much simpler just to turn themselves into the Time Masters. "Uh, since the cat's already out of the bag, you might as well reveal the rest of your identities." He tossed his hand in the air, letting out a heavy sigh. They couldn't possibly do any more damage to the time line. What was the point in hiding anything?

Catriona sighed, jabbing her thumbs at herself and flashing the Legends a broad smile. "Catriona Stein granddaughter of one Professor Martin Stein."

Martin knitted his brows together. "I-I don't understand. H-how is that possible. I don't even have any children!"

"Well...you see..." Laurel started, but the blonde boy from earlier interrupted, jumping back onto the screen and shoving the girls out of the way. He was dragging a brunette boy with him, both wearing all the colors of the rainbow for some reason. "I'm Kaleb Snart, and this cutie here is my boyfriend Ryan Hall!"

"Aww you think I'm cute?" Ryan cooed at Kaleb.

"Go be mushy somewhere else, you freaks," the less flashy girl said, pushing them away. "They do not want to see you make googily eyes at each other!" She shook her head as the two of them ran off, yelling something about finding a cool make out spot; she turned back to the impatiently waiting Legends. "Everyone here is a moron, sorry. I'm the only one with any sort of sense around here." She stuck here middle finger at her friends when the commented on how that was, in fact, not true. "Anyway, my name is Jordyn Jackson, people call me JJ."

"And those two are Ethan and Ben." Laurel pointed to two male looking figures over in one corner. The boy with dark hair was very obviously Ray Palmer's son. That much was clear, even before Laurel confirmed it. He was fiddling with a few trinkets, building some random technological machine or another. "Ethan is complicated and Ben is the child of some guy you haven't met yet. So, we won't explain either of them just yet," Laurel shrugged. Ben's purple hair was tucked under a black beanie hat, flashy, sparkly sweats covering them. They kept summoning and retracting a long metal chain from mid air. 

"And lastly EJ and Jo." She pointed to the red haired girl and the older blonde boy. They're really spoiler-y so we won't explain them either."

Jax nodded slowly. That was a lot to take in via info dump. How was he supposed to remember all those names? He had already forgotten his own daughter's name. (A weird revelation in of itself. A daughter? Him? He'd never thought he'd get past college after his injury never mind being able to have a kid! He didn't even have a girlfriend. How the heck was he supposed to have a kid?) "So, uh, y'all got a plan right?"

"Oh, absolutely..." Laurel said before completely changing the course of her sentence, "not."

"Are you saying you came all the way to the past without a plan of action?" Martin gaped at them. He knew the Legends could be a bit thick headed from time to time, but surely they'd teach their descendents to at least come up with a plan!

"That's not really how we do things on this ship," Ryan shook his head.

"Yup. We just make it up as we go and act as stupid as possible in the process," JJ told them.

"We learn from our parents," Kaleb put in.

Ray frowned. "Uh...touché?"

"Brilliant," Rip complained. He would have lectured them but what would be the point? Clearly, he would never get through to their parents, how could he even hope to get through to these children? Still, it seemed as if they'd just be in the way. "Look, I know you want to help, but perhaps it would be better if you --"

"Split up and went to look for Pilgrim on our own?"

"No. I was going to say --"

"We should stay on the ship and do some research?"

"Are you going to let finish?"

"No probably not." Laurel shook her head. Her blue eyes were almost gray; they did not at all match Sara's serious, stoic ones. The only indication they could actually be related was the blonde hair and the name.

Rip sighed. This was a complete nightmare.

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I know it's a little weird, but if you've read my story Legend Kids (while it was still up that is) then you have a good idea about who these kids are.

I've had this idea, since I love them so much, where there would be a version of them in the Sandstorm universe...? I dunno. This interlude was just testing the waters. So, uh, what d'y'all think? Do they seem interesting? Should they stay? No? Please let me know your thoughts in the comments!

That's all for now, toodles!

~ Elsie