MONSTROUS.
007. | ❛ we're screwed. ❜

"You injected me with Nazi serum?" Nate asked Ray after figuring out that the serum altered his DNA, turning him to steel when he defended Mick after Amaya attacked the Legends.

"Which I'd redesigned to quintuple my own strength and transform my skin into an alloy a hundred times stronger than steel." Ray explained.

"Steel, that's a cool name." Mick spoke with his mouth full before Nate spoke again.

"Yeah, especially since my grandfather was called Commander Steel. But what does that make me? Corporal Steel? Mr. Steel? Citizen Steel?" Nate pointed out the irony between his family.

"Who cares? You got superpowers now, dude." Jax excitingly stated

"Except I don't know how I turned to steel in the first place." Nate dismayed before Crystal's head lightened up with an idea.

"Ray'll teach you."

"He will?" Ray asked in third person while Crystal shook her head in approval.

"You said it yourself, you redesigned the serum." Sara added to Crystal's idea as co captain.

"Which I did beautifully, but it's not like I have some sort of instruction manual." Ray argued throwing his hands up in the air.

"Guess you'll have to wing it. Now, we gonna go have a chat with our stowaway." Crystal patted Ray on the back before she and Sara left to speak with Amaya.

Sara and Crystal went to the holding cell where Amaya sat firmly, watching as they walked in front of the cell.

"You stowed away before we time-jumped from 1942." Crystal crossed her arms around her chest with Sara by her side.

"I'm gonna get out of here, and I'm gonna finish what I started." Amaya said still seated.

"You mean, killing Mick? Not that I haven't thought of it myself, but why?" Sara asked.

"He killed Rex." Amaya softly said bringing wide eyes to both of their faces and taking a step forward in surprising way.

"What? Rex Tyler? As in Hourman?" Sara asked one step from being pressed up against the wall.

"His killer stole the Askaran Amulet."

"Look, I'm sorry. I am. But Mick didn't do it." Crystal said knowing that he was with her the entire time, even when Amaya was attacking the ship. Mick wouldn't do it, he hasn't reverted to his old ways after their first voyage on the Waverider.

"He is a thief and a murderer." Amaya got up and stormed to where they were both face to face.

"He's also a Legend, and Mick hasn't been off the ship since we dropped your team off at the JSA." Crystal explained convincing Amaya a tad bit but still not lowering her grudge on Mick.

"With his last words, he told me his killer was a time traveler."

Sara looked at Crystal, almost both having a telepathic connection knowing of another time traveler that could've brought the death of Rex Tyler. "You know, we've been tracking someone who's been trying to alter history. We think it's the same person that gave Krieger the super-serum. This might be your time traveler."

Crystal looked at Sara before sighing and pushing her hair back, "Look, if I let you out of here, you promise not to hurt Mick unless he really deserves it?"

Amaya nodded and Crystal swiped her hand to the touch pad, letting the doors opened and Amaya came out.

"Sorry for knocking you out." Amaya apologized.

"Sorry for locking you up. Call it even?" Sara extended her hand which Amaya shook as they all nodded at each other before proceeding else where in the ship.

"I thought this was a time machine. You saved the Justice Society. Why can't you save Rex?" Amaya asked as they walked through the engine room while Sara explained what time traveling would consist of if they were to do that.

"Because we're dealing with another time traveler. If we go back and save Rex, the time traveler will just go back before then and kill Rex again, so instead of chasing our own tails, we need to identify who we're up against."

"I don't understand any of this."

"At first we didn't either but look, I just need you to trust us. We're gonna find who do this. I promise you." Crystal assured her, "In the meantime, Gideon will fly you home."

"I'm not going back until Rex's killer is brought to justice." Amaya argued.

"We don't know how long that will take. Don't worry, we're professionals. We know what we're doing." Crystal explained when they heard a weapon blast echo through the rooms. Sara and Crystal jogged to the source of the problem if it was one.

Getting closer, the surge of the power being blasted grew louder and once they were in the armory, they could see what the scenario was and how childish the people where.

"Yeah, come on!" Jax yelled watching Ray direct power directly at Nate, who was converted to steel.

"If Grandpa Heywood could see me now." Nate laughed as the three woman stood overlooking the men who were at child's play.

"Professional?" Amaya asked

"Ish." Crystal chuckled as they continued to watch the men act like children.

"I know you not gonna take that, Ray. Go crush this Tin Man." Ray took a step forward and tried to attack Nate, but to no result since steel was strong enough to not get destroyed.

Nate smiled at Ray's failed attempt, "Nice try."

Crystal stepped forward before they could engage in anymore foul play, "That's enough. Now can we please stop this before someone gets hurt?" She looked at both men who didn't agree or disagree with her.

Ray stepped forward, "Crystal you said I should train Nate, and that's exactly what I'm doing."

"Besides Crystal, when am I going to have a chance to do this?" Nate said charging at both Ray and Crystal, who speeded to the other side. But while Nate hit Ray, the cargo door opened letting in a huge wind that made all of them hold on for dear life to not get sick into the time zone.

"Hold on, I'll close it!" Nate said as he went to reach for a pipe but slipped and disappeared out into the time zone.

"Ray, get inside! We have to close the door." Crystal shouted giving Ray an order as he held onto the cargo door itself.

"No, I got to go after him." Ray shouted back as he let go and flew away in his Atom suit.

"Gideon, shut the cargo door."

[•]

Sara and Crystal hurried to the command center, while Sara took her normal seat and Crystal the Captain's.

"What's happening to the ship?" Martin asked already secured, as the sirens kept going off.

"Jax, what's our status?" Crystal asked through the panel, seeing through if she could see small sparks flying. With the ship still rumbling as Crystal tried to level it out in anyway she could.

"I've rerouted power from the secondary manifolds." Jax informed her.

"Where are Dr. Palmer and Dr. Heywood?" Martin asked

"Did you check out the window?" Crystal sarcastically replied with Martin not getting her response.

"What?"

"How is it you people haven't managed to kill yourselves yet?" Amaya asked in surprise that they've lasted this long, and Crystal could ask herself the same question.

"The day is still young." Mick said

"Jax?" Crystal spoke through the panel

"Yeah, I'm working on it." Jax replied as the ship started to level out and the blaring stopped shouting in their ears.

Crystal exhaled before speaking again, "Gideon, I need you to track down Ray and Nate and take us to their position."

"The explosive decompression caused us to lose corrective altitude, which put too much strain on the station-keeping thrusters." Gideon logically put it with Mick responding to her complicated language.

"For God's sake, say it how it is. We're screwed."

"We're screwed." Gideon said, making Crystal lean back in her chair as she tried to come up with a way to find her friends.