43| ESCAPING AN AVALANCHE

[ Chapter Forty-Three ]

❝You're not seriously thinking of going to hell, John?❞

[Nip/Stuck]

>> >> >>

"So, what's the bad news now?" Zari asked once they were all in the parlour.

"Oh, no bad news. And no more fighting. Gideon, fire up the ship." Sara instructed.

"Captain if I do that life support will be reduced by half." Gideon interrupted.

"You heard me, Gideon. Turn on the fabricators and turn on the heat. I'm thinking s'mores, maybe some hot cocoa." Sara smiled.

"The Captain's gone mad." Nate looked concerned.

"She's not mad. She's right." Mick said.

"Honestly, I'm tired of being cold." Myra said.

"I could go for a s'more." Zari smiled.

"Look, Ray would want us to have faith that we will escape. He wouldn't want us cold and miserable. So right now, we are going to enjoy our time together." Sara explained, "Let's go."

"Finally. Let's get some music going." Charlie grinned, jumping up and grabbing Myra's hand to drag her to the galley.

>> >> >>

A little while later, the Legends were all sitting around the table eating s'mores and drinking cocoa, while playing a game Ray had made up called 'Cards to Save the Timeline', which was weirdly fun.

Myra had only won three rounds so far but honestly it was nice to have this time together.

Zari popped a marshmallow in her mouth, "Alright, I'll judge this round. Your team is stuck in a trash compactor in an improptu and fatal homage to 'Star Wars'. What do you do?"

Myra laughed and exchanged looks with Nate before putting her card down in the pile.

Zari grabbed all the cards before reading through them, "Ooh I'm going to go with 'Steel up as Sara scales a wall.'"

"Another point for me." Nate grinned.

"Favoritism!" Mick growled.

"Why would I display favoritism?" Zari asked, eating several more marshmallows.

"Because you two are obviously shagging." Charlie rolled her eyes.

"Wait, what?" Myra almost choked on her hot cocoa as she stared at Nate.

Nate shook his head before finally sighing, "Yeah."

"Yes, finally! This is great." Sara cheered, "Maybe you guys won't be so weird now."

Myra glared at Nate, "You and I are going to have words later."

"Alright, I'll judge next." Sara stated as she grabbed a card, "'A teammate turns on you, lost to the dark side. What do you do?'"

Everyone as quiet as they shuffled through their cards before handing them to Sara.

Sara picked them up and started reading through them, "'Escape via musical number.' Not this time. Fabricate eveningwear and infiltrate a party.' You guys know I love a good party-sneak. 'Don't give up on each other. Work together. You are more than a team, you are a family.'"

Everyone looked at each other somberly.

"Well, I guess that card's the winner, then. Point to Charlie, I'm on the board." Charlie grinned.

Myra rolled her eyes at her and was about to say something when the whole ship shook.

"The hell was that?" Mick asked.

"Due to your reckless use of our rapidly depleting energy, internal temperature of the ship has melted the surrounding ice enough to shake the ship loose." Gideon responded.

"What do we do?" Zari asked.

"We work as a team." Sara instructed, "Okay, Zari, Myra, engine room. Get the thrusters back online. Charlie seal the cargo bay. You two with me." Sara pointed at Mick and Nate last, "Let's go."

>> >> >>

Once Zari and Myra had worked together to get the thrusters back online, they met everyone else on the bridge. Charlie and Myra grabbed seats next to each other and strapped in.

"We're running on very low reserve power." Gideon stated, "The odds of us successfully pushing through the avalanche above us are 3,720 to 1."

"Never tell me the odds, Gideon." Sara said, "Everyone hold on tight."

"Oh this better work." Charlie said.

"It will." Mick nodded.

The ship shook and Myra closed her eyes until the ship broke free of the snow and the Legends all cheered.

"All systems are back online, Captain." Gideon stated.

"Fantastic Gideon. Now let's go find Constantine and Ray." Sara stated.

Myra bit her lip nervously as Sara located his magic signature before heading for him.

When they arrived they all jumped up and Sara immediately turned on their speaker to talk to John, "Don't do it, John. Don't kill him."

Myra leaned over Sara's shoulder to see the screen which showed John holding a sword above Neron.

"Don't give up on Haircut." Mick added.

John hesitated and the Legends all exchanged looks.

"What if Neron kills him?" Myra hissed.

"He won't." Sara said.

John jumped up on the rim of the fountain thing that looked like it was a portal. Myra's brows furrowed as she tried to figure out what he was planning before her eyes widened, "It's a portal to hell."

"What?" Charlie asked, confused.

"He's going to go to hell." Myra stated and then pressed her comn before walking slightly away from the other Legends so they couldn't hear her well, "You're not seriously thinking of going to hell, John? That's the stupidest idea I've ever heard."

"If you have any better ideas, love, I'm all ears." John responded.

"I-" Myra faltered, "You better come back, John."

"Don't miss me too much, love." John answered.

"Wouldn't dream of it." Myra answered and then stepped over to the others.

"I'll see you lovely lot at the end." John spoke to everyone, "I'm going to save Ray."

All the Legends stared in confusion.

"The magic-o-meter is picking up strange activity on the ground." Zari said, pointing to the screen.

The portal suddenly glowed and then disappeared but a person appeared in it's place. Myra squinted at the screen to see the Fairy Godmother, before she looked away, "Okay, what the hell?"

Sara grimaced, "Is he kissing-?"

Myra looked back at the screen and grimaced as well, "Ew."

"The Fairy Godmother?" Zari looked disgusted.

"Is that tongue?" Nate grimaced.

"More singing." Mick looked annoyed.

"We're so screwed." Charlie groaned.

>> >> >>

As soon as they went back into the temporal zone to try and figure out their next move, Ava portaled onto the ship.

"Ava. Are you okay?" Sara asked.

"It's a long story, but Gary took over the Bureau. He nip-notized everyone." Ava explained.

"I'm sorry, what?" Myra asked, confused.

"Yeah you're going to have to explain that." Nate added.

"The germ turned." Mick explained.

"Well, it's not just him. It's Neron and-" Ava started.

"The Fairy Godmother, Tabitha." Zari finished for her.

"She's Tabitha?" Ava asked.

"Yeah, unfortunately." Myra sighed, sitting down on the steps.

" You missed a lot." Charlie added.

"And Ray is still in hell." Sara added.

"Oh and John went to get him." Myra mentioned.

"What?" Ava asked.

"Well I know Ray hasn't given up, so we're not going to give up on him. Now, let's do this." Sara said, "For Ray."

"For Ray."

>> >> >> 

Word Count: 1158

Hey guys! I hope you enjoyed this Sunday update! The next update will be Friday I think. 

(The gif at the top was made by me. Please do not steal it.)

What did you guys think? This was kind of a pivotal chapter to write so I hope you enjoyed! 

I love you all and will see you soon with chapter 44.

POSTED ON:

5. 16. 21