HUNTRESS.
021. | ❛ something human. ❜

"Would you mind loosening these up a little bit before you leave?" Leonard wiggled his fingers as Mick walked behind them, going to pursuit the team.

"Just out of curiosity, what do you think your new masters are gonna do with you once you've delivered the team up to them? I don't expect there's a pension plan for old bounty hunters. Once they get what they want from you, they're gonna toss you aside."

"Like you tossed me aside?"

"You and I both made choices that led us to this moment. What matters, Mick, is your next move. And I'm willing to bet that some little piece of the old you is in that armor somewhere."

"No. You're wrong." Mick said before he suited up and left the two cuffed to the same pipes.

Crystal tried to worm her way out of the pipes lifting herself up, clashing against another pipe. Leonard followed alongside Crystal, who chose to remain silent.

"Are you not talking to me?"

"Depends. Is everything you ever uttered a lie? You know, considering that Mick's alive."

"I never actually said I killed him. You just assumed."

"Well, you could have clarified." Crystal grunted as she broke away from the first pipe continuing down the hallway to another one, taking that one out as well.

"There are guns on your side," Crystal informed as she made it to the end of the pipe chain, not advancing any further.

Leonard nodded as he kicked the guns with his foot. A gun fell to the floor as Leonard scrambled to get it, he kneeled down trying to think of what to do. But Crystal knew what his plan was.

"There has to be another way," Crystal stopped him

"There isn't." He looked at her before looking as his hands and smashing it on the floor.

He started screaming in pain, as his hand was long gone. He looked over at Crystal before unchained her, holding his lost limb to his side. She rose to her feet, wrapping her arms around Leonard's neck. She could feel his tears stain her clothes, it was all Leonard wanted was to hold her close.
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Both of them raced inside to find the League of Assassins fighting off 'Chronos' before Crystal yelled out

"Don't do it. Don't kill him."

"Pierce? Snart?"

"Sorry, don't kill Chronos?" Rip asked, surprised.

"He's not Chronos. Show them." Snart called out before Jax got fed up and removed the mask revealing Mick to the rest of the team.

"My God."

"There is no God." Mick uttered before scrambling to his feet, but in enough time for Sara to knock him out.

Back on the Waverider, the whole team watched Mick through the glass as he threatened them.

"You think this is all over? I will kill every single one of you. I will watch you all burn! You... you should have killed me when you had the ch..." Before he could finish Rip muted him before turning to Leonard.

"You owe us an explanation."

"Yes, it's quite remarkable Mr. Rory is working for the Time Masters, considering you killed him."

"If you think back, I never actually said I killed him."

"No, you just let us think that you did." Jax fought back

"I didn't have to try too hard, did I? Well, maybe I should have. And at least he wouldn't have would up a chew toy for the Time Masters."

"But if you did, we wouldn't have this opportunity."

"An opportunity? To do what?"

"To reform Mr. Rory."

"He killed Aldus." Kendra fought back

"Under the influence of the Time Masters."

"Chronos killed Aldus. Mr. Rory was fighting on our side that day."

"I know what it's like to be trained by an organization for one purpose, to kill, and the kind of loyalty that it can inspire. I need to know that we can reach Rory. For my own sake." Sara admitted

"The Time Masters took one of our own and turned him against us. I say we undo their handiwork."

"Rory saved my life back in the gulag. He's more than just a criminal and an arsonist."

"He's a member of our team."

"He's a lost cause." Leonard shouted

"He isn't. When he removed the cloth in my mouth, I saw something in him. Something human." Crystal got up from her seat, looking at Mick.

"I think Ms.Pierce is right. You will see that miracles abound on this old timeship."

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"Gideon, start the regeneration process." Rip uttered before pressing some buttons on a tablet.

"What do you mean by regeneration?" Crystal asked from the sidelines.

"I took genetic samples from each of you at the start of our voyage for this exact eventuality."

"Why am I only hearing about this now?" Leonard asked

"Because none of you had lost a limb yet." Leonard makes a face, before the machinery starts working, recreating his bones and veins.

"Ow." Leonard uttered

"Stop being a baby," Crystal said marveling at the reconstruction of his hand.

Leonard wiggled his fingers, feeling a bit weary that this wasn't real life. Crystal smiled at him, grabbing his hand and intertwining them with hers.

"Would you accept an apology?" Crystal asked

"What do you have to apologize for?"

"I guess Mick's right in a sense. In a certain way, your feelings for me might have clouded your judgements and relationship with Mick."

"Mick's wrong," Leonard dismissed the idea and grabbed Crystal's other hand.

"You didn't cloud my judgement. You cleared it." Leonard looked at Crystal's lips before leaning in for a kiss.
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Leonard and Crystal walked in hand in hand, surprising some of the team. She could sense Leonard was a little hesitate which only cause Crystal to stop in her tracks, and pull into a passionate kiss, setting the record straight that this wasn't a bad thing.

Sara lifted in her eyebrow, smirking in respond as Kendra and Raymond walked in.

"I believe we're ready to leave 1960."

"And go where? I mean, when?"

"2147. Mere decades before Vandal Savage conquered the world."

"I thought you had no idea where he was. You said Savage had been lost to history."

"Not world-changing history. Records of the period are scarce, but I've always known that Vandal Savage can be located in 2147."

"So why haven't you told us this sooner?"

"Because that period of history is fraught with more peril than I was willing to risk. We have no choice but to stop Vandal Savage in 2147... or to die trying."

"Well, I've died before." Kendra said

"So have I."

"Ditto." Crystal stringing Leonard along.

"Gideon, plot a course for Kasnia Conglomerate...The year 2147."