DC: The Brave and the Bawdy

Legends of Tomorrow: Read Between the Timelines

"Halt right there!" ordered the officer.

"Shit," cursed Zari.

Zari Tomaz stepped out in front of the small crowd of rebels, all dressed in full black and some obscuring their faces with scarves or masks. They had made it into an alleyway after the riot. Even with most of the police's enforcer droids smashed apart, they had not given up. Instead the police had chased down the rioters out of the streets in an attempt to detain or neutralize them. This squad of half a dozen heavily armed officers had cornered Zari's group in the alley.

"Hands up!" ordered the officer through his gas mask.

The year was 2045. The city was Washington, D.C. America lived under a brutal A.R.G.U.S.-led police state that categorized its citizens into different tiered classes, a system that prevented citizens from attaining wealth or political power unless approved by the totalitarian state. Zari had lived under this rule for years, only leaving when the Legends of Tomorrow recruited her for another mission. That mission had ended, so Zari had decided to go back home and make things right. This was the revolution.

The rebels all slowly raised their hands. As Zari did, her jacket fell open to reveal a ruby dangling in an ornate golden necklace. The mystical totem belonged to Zari's family and had once been wielded by her brother before he gave it to her when he went into hiding. Upon seeing the totem, the soldiers became noticeably more tense and all pointed their guns at Zari.

"You recognize my family's totem?" smiled Zari, "I guess our reputation precedes us. Let me show you how it works."

Zari flung her hand out and released a huge gust of wind, blowing every one of the officers onto their back as several fired their weapons into the air. Zari's team rushed the guards, tearing their weapons away from them and charging out of the alleyway cheering. Zari followed them out onto the street, where she released another huge burst of wind to clear the thick fog of tear gas.

Overturned cars were burning, windows in various storefronts had been smashed, and rebels and soldiers were running and screaming everywhere. Massive military vehicles were parked along the street, many with teams of soldiers standing on top frantically pointing their weapons at everyone running around, unsure if they could fire without hitting their own allies. Smoke rose from various buildings, with the shadow of the Capitol ominously looming over them. It was chaos.

Zari turned on her heel as two enormous lights lit up behind her. A humvee's engine roared to life as the massive tank of a truck barreled towards her, a furious officer at the wheel. She released a massive burst of wind in an attempt to slow the behemoth down, but wind was no match for this machine. It continued at top speed directly at Zari until a massive laser blast came down from the sky and landed directly under the front wheels. Zari gasped as the explosion from the laser launched the humvee into the air, landing it upside down on the other side of Zari. She smiled up into the sky at the source of the attack. The sky shimmered as the Waverider materialized over their heads.

"What the hell is that!?!" yelled one of the police officers, "It doesn't look like one of ours!"

The Waverider slowly lowered to the streets, where the back of the ship opened to allow the Legends of Tomorrow to strut out onto the street in their full costume. Sara Lance, Wallace West, Leonard Snart, Mick Rory, Ray Palmer, John Constantine, Fate-turned rebel shapeshifter Charlie, Mona Wu, and new recruit Nate Heywood had joined the fight.

"I love a good riot!" declared Leonard, smiling widely and proudly brandishing his cold gun.

"Where are the pigs!?" demanded Mick excitedly, "My trigger finger's itching!"

"Wow, Z," smiled Charlie, "Your crew is really making a mess of this place even without our help."

"Revolutions tend to do that," smiled Zari back, "Took you guys long enough."