HUNTRESS.
008. | ❛ saving your ass. ❜

"Well, I'm really glad you were the one calling the shots." Ray supported Crystal while her other arm was around Leonard.

"I had it under control until the Professor started picking fights with the PLO." Leonard snorted back at Ray.

"You let your ego endanger our entire mission and not to mention Crystal's ankle." Carter walked behind them blaming Stein for the mission going haywire.

"No, Mr. Rory's temper got completely out of control...And Crystal's ankle was on herself."
Stein defended himself

"Thanks, professor. Nice to know you care." Crystal tried minimal movement as they dragged her.

"I thought we were friends, Professor." Mick said

"At least there's one less nuclear bomb on the planet." Kendra tried looking at the positive side.

Rip started clapping as Leonard and Ray placed Crystal down on a seat.

"Here, here. Now you all deserve a hearty congratulations. Not only did you fail to capture Savage, you exposed yourselves and your powers to him, giving away the element of surprise for now and all time. Well done, team."

"We don't need the element of surprise.We know he's in Norway, so let's find him..." Carter said to Rip

"Unfortunately, we now have larger problems than Savage. If only you'd have listened to me about the dangers of upsetting the timeline."

"What are you talking about?" Crystal asked from her seat as she removed her boot.

"While you were busy saving Norway from nuclear annihilation..."

"You're welcome, Norway." Mick said

"Savage sent one of his cronies back to the site of the arms sale. Anyone care to guess what he found?" Ray started looking at his suit noticing that one of the pieces was missing and uttering,"Whoops."

"I am unversed in modern American colloquialisms.Is whoops slang for "Oh"..." Gideon asked

"Yes, Dr. Palmer seems to have thrown a spanner in the works for the entire timeline."

"Come again?" Leonard asked

"Armed with Dr. Palmer's future technology, Savage's engineers develop a weapon far more destructive than anything here in 1975. This is Central City in 2016." The hologram showed buildings on fire and destruction.

"At least it was. I'm not sure what the neo-fascists who took control of it are calling it these days."

Stein sighs,"There must be a way to correct this somehow."

"Fortunately, Gideon is just showing us a forecast of the future you've all created. Time is like cement. It takes time to become permanent. In this case, until Savage's team have worked out the mystery of your future technology and molded it to their own ends. And when they do, what you see here is no longer just a forecast. This..." Rip sighs before continuing,"This is history."

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"So thanks to Raymond leaving a piece of his suit in the past, the rest of us don't have a future to go back to?" Leonard asked.

"Unless we do something to change this course of events, the future will become immutable." Rip answered.

"Exactly how much time do we have?" Ray asked feeling guilty.

"Until Savage's weapons team reverse-engineer your tech."

"We're talking 1970s terrorists with 21st-century weapons. And since we don't know where Savage went..."

"We don't have to find Savage. We just have to find the other piece of my suit. Which shrinks because it's made of an alloy which mimics intra-molecular compression of dwarf star, thus emitting Alpha Particles. So we just need to be able to track them." Ray said standing up.

"Fortunately, Alpha Particles are highly trackable." Stein said

"Yet unheard of in the 1970s. It's like we're trapped in the Stone Age." Ray mentally slapped his own head.

"I'll have you know that I was researching Alpha Particles when you were eating crayons." Stein spat at him.

"So to track that piece of Raymond's super-suit, we just need to talk to... "Crystal started to piece it together.

"Me. 25-year-old me, rather."

"You two are just in time. Show them, Kendra." Carter and Kendra walked into the room.

"Aldus was carrying this when he was killed. It's a newspaper article about an Egyptian dagger. The one Savage used to kill us."

" In Central City, we learned that objects associated with the night of our deaths can also be used to kill Savage." Kendra gave the paper to Rip

"According to Aldus's notes, the dagger needs to be wielded in conjunction with an incantation inscribed on it." Carter said while Rip was examining the paper

"What does this incantation say?" He asked Kendra

"I don't know. I can't read the language." Kendra became frantic.

"It's okay. I'll help you remember." Carter put his hand on Kendra's shoulder.

"Splendid. Now, as for the dagger... You need someone to steal it."

"Okay, fine. Whatever. I'll do it." Leonard gave in and took the piece of paper from Rip,"Article says it was purchased by some rich Russian douche bag named Sasha Mahnovski."

"I'll go with you." Ray said going after Leonard

"I already got a partner."

"Who I trust even less than you."

"Look, you're more than welcome to go with them. Just don't take along any of your future tech." Rip told Ray as he followed the criminals.

"Where do you think you're going?" Rip asked Stein who was making an exit

"To break into my old lab and bring us back the particle tracker."

"Fine, but perhaps, you should take Jefferson and Sara with you to act as your intermediaries. Look, interacting with yourself in the past can have catastrophic effects upon the future."

"Fascinating. Let's go." Stein totally dismissed Rip's warning.

"Setting a course for the United States, Captain." Gideon spoke.

Crystal slowly got up making her way to Medbay, where they kept most of the medical stuff.

Crystal sat in a chair, as she gingerly removes her boot to find that her ankle is swollen and bruising. She whimpers in pain as she gently touches the top of her foot, and, seeing no other options, she reaches out to Gideon.

"Gideon, do you have any herbal things to heal this ankle of mine?"

"Should be on the top of the cabinet, Ms.Pierce."

Crystal forces her to walk through the pain as she grabs the ingredients and a bowl and sets it down on the table.

She starts mixing the ingredients in the bowl, and once it's the perfect mixture does she stop.

Crystal uses his fingers to scoop up an herbal poultice that she made in the a bowl and spreads it over her injured foot. Crystal feels instant relief and tries to stand but stumbles on the numbness of her foot. She grabs herself onto the table before she starts chanting to herself,"Asinta Mulaf Hinto, Sho Bala."

She slowly starts walking and the pain doesn't seem as painful anymore.

Crystal found that Leonard, Mick, and Ray were breaking and entering a house. She decided to tag along without their permission and tried to stay hidden so that they wouldn't send her back to the Waverider.

"I'm seeing motion detectors on the ground floor. Hardware on the doors looks standard issue." Leonard examined the house.

"I can't see any smoke alarms." Mick tried looking around the house.

"Just stay close. I saw at least three armed guards on the perimeter." Leonard his behind the bushes.

"Right, boss." Mick told him but Ray just causally strolled into the house.

"What the hell are you... "They reclaimed.

"I recognize the security system. My parents had the exact one." Ray started touching the security system.

"I'll have the access code cracked and security disabled before you could say breaking and entering." Ray started disarming it.

"There. We're in."

"I wouldn't be so sure about that."

"Why's that?" Ray asked Leonard

"Because you just tapped into a dummy box, which means those guards are gonna be here..."

"Quicker than you can say rookie mistake."

"Hands up." The guards said, Leonard and Mick were about to attack when the guards were hit with two arrows.

They all looked at each other, confused, before Crystal revealed herself from the shadows.

"Exactly,what are you doing here?"Leonard snarled at her.

"Saving your ass, now come on," Crystal said swinging her strap over her shoulder and continuing inside.