HUNTRESS.
009. | ❛ it makes him a survivor. ❜

"Found it" Crystal looked at all the glass cases, and stumbling upon the dagger.

"Is there a trick to opening the case?" Ray motioned with his hands.

Seconds later, Mick started smashing all the cases causing Ray to yell at him.

"What are you doing? Let's grab the dagger and let's go."

"Raymond, you don't break into a candy store and steal one gumball." Leonard explained to him.

"You guys grab the goodies. I'll find the safe." Mick took off, God knows where.

"What do you think you're doing?This is what we came here for." Ray kept reminding Leonard.

"No, it's what you came here for." Leonard almost touched the helmet but Ray stopped him,"Take your hand off me."

"I'm not gonna let you jeopardize another mission."

"I'm done asking politely." Leonard punched Ray straight in the jaw.

"Guys!" Crystal tried to break up the two guys by placing each of her hands on the each of the guys chest.

"This is my mission."

"And I'm gonna listen to a guy who's spent half of his life in prison?" Ray hit him back causing him to topple over the helmet, making the alarms go off and steel bars to come down.

"Great. Now we're all going to prison." Crystal hit the both of them in the back of the head.

They waited for Mick to get back for help.

"What the hell happened?" Mick asks which caused the two men to blame each other.

"It was both their faults." She glared at them.

"I told you we shouldn't have brought him." Mick said.

"Agreed, but we got bigger problems. I need you to find the fuse box and... "Leonard was cut off by Mick

"Trigger a system default. This ain't over." Mick pointed to Ray before taking off.

Leonard started tapping on the wood of the cases, almost all of them revealing hollow, but came across one that was solid. He removed the wood and discovered a circuit board.

"How did you know how to do that?" Crystal asked crouching down beside him, trying to see if she could help.

"When I was a kid, my dad brought me along on jobs. I had little hands. I could get into tiny spaces, do whatever he needed me to do, like... rewiring a security system."

"At least you're parents were there for you." Crystal huffed sliding down to the floor.

"My dad didn't exactly win Father of the year." Leonard tried to relate to Crystal.

"In another life, you could've been an electrical engineer." Ray joked.

"Guess I dodged a bullet. You think I want to be like you?"

"What a huntress or a billionaire?" Crystal joked which caused Leonard to smirk.

"You make being a tech billionaire sound like a bad thing." Ray tried breaking up the moment happening.

"You spend all your time and money inventing a super-suit, and what do you do with it? Fly around like some incredible shrinking schmuck trying to save the world."

"Robbing banks for a living... I suppose that's more important?" Ray asked.

"It's sure as hell more satisfying." He admitted

"Thinking like that is what makes you a criminal." Ray said

"No, it makes him a survivor, Ray. I would know." She defended Leonard,"And there's gonna come a day when you wish you were too."

"Here." Ray took the tweezers from Leonard's hand.

"You flip the solenoid, saves you the trouble of rewiring it." Ray showed him.

"I take it back, Raymond. You're not completely useless after all." Leonard smirked at him while Ray took the somewhat compliment.

Suddenly a loud noise was heard that sounded like Mick shut off the fuse box.

"Looks like Rory found the fuse box." Ray said

"We got a slight problem. The owner just came home. You're not gonna believe who it is." Mick came into the room with a gun pointed to his head by the one and only Vandal Savage.

"We meet again. Oh, I'm grateful for another opportunity to kill you." Vandal said as they all stood close to the cell.

"Stop struggling." Vandal spoke to Mick who was trying break free from his grasp.

"I've had 4,000 years of training in every hold and pressure point known. But you already know that, don't you? That I'm immortal."

"I'm gonna kill you anyway. That's a promise." Leonard bitterly spoke.

"Oh, what have I done to deserve such enmity? No, let me rephrase that. What have I done to you? Perhaps you have targeted me for something I've yet to do. You traveled here from some point in the future." Vandal pieced the puzzle together.

"Catches on fast, this guy." Ray whispered

"I'd be surprised if he hadn't." Crystal whispered back.

"Visitors from another time. Oh!"

"You won't be so happy when the rest of the team shows up and knocks that smug grin off your face." Crystal grabbed the steel bars and spat at the immortal man.

"Oh, why wait? A communications device of some sort, I imagine. Please. Contact your friends. I'm looking forward to seeing at least two of them again." Vandal threw the comm. at Ray who caught it in the air.

Leonard connected them through to Rip's Waverider to deliver the message,

"I'll make this short. The owner of the mansion we burgled is Vandal Savage. He's really interested in meeting you guys, especially our feathered friends."

"Your friends are cowards." Vandal kept pacing through the room.

"They'll be here."

"They're taking too long. They need an incentive..." Vandal grabbed Mick off the floor and pointed his gun at his temple, ready to shoot but Jax appeared.

"Oh. The burning man." Vandal looked at Jax in amazement.

"I don't just burn, pal." Jax shot a fire blast at him causing him to be throw back.

"I blast things too. Hey, you okay?" Jax helped Mick

"I'm pissed." Mick responded.

"Stand back." Jax told the three in the cell, waiting for him to burn down the cell to defeat Savage once and for all.

"It's all good. Savage is down." Jax told the the team who met outside.

"Savage is not defeated by earthly means." Rip corrected him.

"Well, I hit him with a nuclear blast, so, you know, not that earthly."

"Go get that son of a bitch." Leonard handed the dagger to Carter.

"Are you ready to end this?" Carter asked Kendra

"We've only been waiting 4,000 years." Kendra responded to him before taking off into the air.

"We got company." Crystal pointed to the guards coming right at them.

"Friends of Savage." Rip informed them

"You'll be needing this. Don't leave any pieces of it behind this time." Rip handed Ray his suit, while the rest of them got ready to battle.

Crystal used her hand to hand combat knives, not trusting a metal pipe anymore. Her footing was intact as she sliced through all the guards that were coming her way. She could see blue and red gleams, that she could only assume were from Leonard's ice gun, Mick's heat ray, Jax's superpowers, or Atom's suit.

It was only when Crystal heard Kendra scream that she rushed to her side. When she got there Vandal was about to stab her straight through the heart.

"Espirimus Paratis" Crystal chanted which caused Vandal to subdue and be knocked unconscious.

"Carter." Rip appeared along with the rest of the team.

"He's lost." Rip touched Carter's veins near his neck,"Get Kendra before Savage recovers."

"Come on, we can still kill this bastard." Leonard stepped forward but Rip stopped him.

"Kendra is the only one who can. We gotta go. Kendra needs medical attention."

Quickly the team tried to make their way back to the Waverider, in order to save Kendra.

"Gideon, get us underway as soon as Firestorm and the Atom are onboard." Rip spoke once on the ship.

"Get her to the MedBay now." Rip told Mick, who had Kendra in his arms. What they could now do was hope for the best.
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"How's Kendra?" Stein asked

"The same." Crystal leaned against the support of the chair, and Leonard sitting next to her.

"So what now?"

"Now? Now it's up to you."

"To do what, Rip? Last I checked, every time we try to do anything, it all goes to crap." Leonard snarled at him.

"Oh, once again I must disagree with you. Thanks to Miss Lance, Dr. Palmer's future technology is no longer in the hands of Vandal Savage's black market weapons designers."

"But it didn't do anything to change the fate of your world." Stein calmly spoke.

"No. Vandal Savage will still rise to power in the year 2166."

"And your family will still die?" Jax asked the depressing question

"So what you're really asking is, do we want to fish or cut bait?" Leonard asked

"What is it with you and metaphors?" Crystal asked him which caused Leonard to give her a fake smile.

"Return to 2016 and live out the rest of our lives as insignificant losers or... Make another play at becoming legends."

"Figure out how to end Savage and save the world." Crystal stood up while she spoke.

"Preferably, without causing any more nuclear explosions." Stein added on.

"Savage has my attention." Mick spoke up.

"Look, we didn't know Carter from Adam, but if you take out one of my crew, you better pay the price." Leonard spoke rather seriously.

"Surely Captain Hunter has a sound plan. What about you?" Stein asked Jax

"You're asking me?" He sounded surprised that he was actually getting some attention.

"I didn't give you much of a choice the first time, did I?" Stein referred back to when he drugged him.

"Well, I say we kick Savage's ass. For Carter." Jax referenced their fallen friend.

"For Carter." They all said in unison which caused Rip to smile.

"So, Captain. Where are we going next?" Stein asked which caused Rip to finally believe that he could beat Savage and get his family back.