HUNTRESS.
029. | ❛ dark hair, romantic eyes, looks kind of dangerous. ❜

"What's going on?" Crystal asked finally arriving to center room whilst Rip explained.

"Gideon has intercepted a trans-chronal beacon. Gideon, show them."

"This message is for Rip Hunter. I'm going to make this very quick and very simple." The Pilgrim threatened as a picture of Leonard's sister popped up causing him to lean forward, and then showing Sara's dad as well, proceeding to show all our loved ones.

"If I can't find you, I can find those you love."

And towards the end of the line, she showed the picture of Luna causing Crystal's blood to boil. The Pilgrim reached down and picked up a person resulting to be Jax's dad.

"Dad!"

"All of them will suffer and die because of you. Your family, friends, anyone you've ever cared about. Unless you surrender your younger selves to me."

"So she can erase you all from history." Rip whispered.

"If it's of any comfort, you won't feel a thing. As for your loved ones, I cannot promise the same thing."

"Gideon, I take it that the Pilgrim's transmission included a carrier frequency through which she can be contacted?"

"Yes, Captain."

"Hail her, please."

"What are you planning to do?" Crystal asked before the Pilgrim appeared in the screen before them.

"Captain Hunter."

"Look, I'm gonna make this easy."

"I already have. The lives of your team's nearest and dearest for their younger selves."

"And I'm gonna counter that demand with an offer of my own. I will surrender myself if you spare the lives of my crew and their loved ones."

"A noble gesture. But worthless. My directive is to eliminate your entire team, not just you."

"Yes, well, I'm not talking about me now. I'm offering you me in the past."

"Rip Hunter before he became a Time Master. Eliminate him, and this team will never have been."

"If this is some kind of trick..."

"It's no trick. Enough people have died at my expense. Gideon will send you the location." Rip ended before turning to Leonard

"And, Mr. Snart, your wish is about to come true. You're going to meet my younger self."
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"Remember, we wait for Ray's cue." Crystal said as Sara, Kendra, Leonard, and herself hid from plain sight.

"I'm in position." Ray whispered through his comm as the others waited for his cue.

"Now!" Ray shouted as he flew out in his Atom suit

"Fool me once" The Pilgrim snickered before the others attacked.

Leonard and Mick pointed their guns, The Pilgrim using her powers to send them back. Crystal and Sara crouched to the floor seeing the two being thrown in their backs.

"Now, Kendra!"

Crystal quickly got to her feet summoning the speed to charge at her but it felt as if she was going in slow motion.

"I was willing to proceed in good faith. Now you'll watch those closest to you die. " The Pilgrim said before she gasped as little Rip stabbed her in the gut

"Thought you could snuff me out? You don't know me at all, miss." Little Rip stabbed her once again in the leg, screaming out in pain and removing her powers, as Crystal rushed Little Rip out of the way, with the others attacking the remains of the Pilgrim.

"You poor boy. I'll take you. Are you all right?" Rip's mother came and escorted him out

"That's you." Mick asked

"Yeah. I was a cutpurse from the age of five. Starved more than I ate. I knew what I'd do if she tried to harm me."

"Lucky for us, you didn't forget your roots."

"Believe me, Mr. Snart, I've tried."
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Back on the ship, Crystal roamed to her room where she found Luna waiting for her. She quickly ran over to her best friend, with a couple of tears in her eyes. But as she hugged her, she felt that Luna had gotten a little bigger since the last time she saw her.

"Are you going to tell me or am I going to have to guess?" Crystal asked with a small laugh.

"I think you already know," Luna laughed, "When you said time travel I didn't expect this to happen, but ever since we've met in that small orphanage I knew that I wouldn't be seeing that last of you."

"You're kind of like my big sister, always looking after me."

"I knew you were destined for bigger things," Luna said before looking off in the distance to somebody behind her, resulting to be Leonard.

"Luna, I'd like for you to meet-"

"Cutie from New Orleans," Luna remembered from a while ago which slightly embarrassed Crystal

"Cutie from New Orleans?" Leonard looked to Crystal who just shrugged her shoulders.

"This is Leonard." Crystal said with Leonard extending his arm to Luna

"The pleasure is all mine," Luna said with a decent smile, "Nice to know that you've been taking care of her, because trust me she's a little devil herself."

"Or so I've been told," Leonard devilishly smiled, "If you'll excuse us, Crystal also has some one to meet."

Luna simply nodded as the two exited her room and entered his with a tall brunette standing in the middle, "Lisa, I've got someone you'd be happy to meet."

"So you're the girl that changed my bigger brother?"

"I guess that has to be me."

"I can see why he likes you, dark hair, romantic eyes, looks a little dangerous. That's his type of woman." Lisa said

"Well, then I'm lucky to be his type of woman."

Leonard and Crystal wandered the halls, slowly making their way to the main room when Leonard stopped her, "Listen, I know that I freaked you out with all the baby talk back at Rip's house."

Crystal shook her head, "You didn't freak me out."

"Either way, don't ask me why but I believe everything you said about how you really do love me. Which is why-"

"No don't do this, Leonard." Crystal halted him before he made a mistake

"I get it if you don't want to do this but this isn't an engagement ring unless you want it to be. Sure, we might be taking things fast but after all we've been through we deserve this." Leonard said reaching out from his pocket a small ring, slipping it onto Crystal's finger. He looked at her waiting for her to stay something while she looked down at the ring, marveling at the texture, and how it felt so right. She didn't notice that her finger always felt so empty.

"Okay," Crystal softly whispered

"Is that a yes?"

"Yes." She smiled with Leonard pulling her closer to him, embracing in a kiss.

The team all took notice of Crystal's happiness knowing some bring major must of happened. Sara being the firsts one to point out the ring on her finger. Yet nobody made it a bigger deal than it needed to be. The whole team returned together in the main room to find out what to do next.

"Just pulled younger me's head from out of his ass." Mick came strolling in

"I'm not sure it stuck." Ray joked

"Me either. Then I saw younger Rip change, and I thought, why not give it a shot?"

"Surprised you didn't advise your teenage self to not get on a certain boat." Stein said to Sara

"Yeah, me too."

"Yak, yak, yak. I thought we were on a clock here." Leonard started getting impatient

"Indeed we are. Time, the history from which your younger selves were removed, is beginning to set... as is evidenced by the change in Clarissa's memory."

"Okay. So how long do we have till these changes stick?" Crystal asked

"No one knows."

"Which is why we need to move swiftly to locate Vandal Savage if any of your lives are to be restored to normal."

"So how long will it take to determine a new location for Savage?" Kendra questioned

"Longer than we have. Fortunately, there is one place in time that we know Savage to be."

"You said he conquered the world in 2166." Mick reiterated

"You also said it was too dangerous to strike at Savage while he was at the height of his powers." Stein added on

"That it is. But with your younger selves removed from history, we have quite literally run out of time."

A/N: too early for an engagement? Anyway I love Cold Huntress and they deserve to be happy like Kendra and Ray are. Also I'm the author so.....