Becoming a Legend

Chapter 23: Going Once...

"And we've arrived!" Rip said as the Waverider touched down.

"Gideon, if you wouldn't mind camouflaging us as an alpine meadow, perhaps?" Rip instructed as everyone unfastened themselves.

You notice Mick put his hand on his head as he leaned over in his seat.

"You okay Mick?" you asked him.

Leonard looked over to where you were looking. "What are you complaining about now? It's not like we time jumped." 

"I hate flying, especially in whatever this thing is." Mick replied grumpily.

"By the way where are we?" you asked now looking at Rip.

"We're still in 1975, right?" Kendra said.

"Indeed." Rip got out of his seat "October 1975 on the Fjords of Northern Norway." Rip ran to the other room.

"Sounds like a vacation" Leonard said as you all started to get out of your seats.

"Which we can take as soon as the threat of Savage has been neutralized, Mr. Snart."

"Sounds nice." you sighed leaning down on the council with your head in your hands looking at Leonard who didn't notice because he was focused on Rip. You wondered what kind of vacation he would like to go on.

Rip grabbed something from the study quickly and turned back around holding it up.

"That's Aldus's notebook" Carter commented.

"Now, he theorized that Savage might be here and if he's right and if we can capture Savage then at least Professor Boardman didn't die in vain."

"Can't we just go back and save Aldus?" Kendra said.

"He was our son" Carter agreed.

"Look I'm sorry, we can't go back and change events in which we participated. Time would fold in and create a temporal vortex." Rip explained sympathetically.

"Which sounds way cooler than it is" Ray chimed in. 

You let out a small snicker. You got it. Even though you worked in CSI, as a science nerd yourself you found everything since getting your powers to be, well, how the professor would say, astonishing. 

"Forgetting physics for a second, shouldn't we figure out what savage is doing in Norway?" Sara brought up the real question.

"According to Gideon, there is a large meeting of terrorists and fringe groups, looking to buy illegal arms." Rip answered her question.

"Now that sounds like a vacation." Mick said giddily.

"He would" you said more to yourself.

"Arms dealers and terrorists aren't exactly our kind of people" Leonard said before leaning down and staring at you on the other side of the council "but they're the next best thing" he smirked now down at your eye level.

You rolled eyes with all the intention of looking away. But your eyes went right back to his.

"Well, looks like you and your lapdog get to earn your keep" Carter said looking at Leonard.

Your small smile dropped as you looked at Carter.

"I'm no one's lapdog, birdman" Mick warned him.

"So, what exactly does one wear to a black-market arms bazaar, anyway?" Kendra asked.

"The Waverider has a fabrication room which can fashion temporally indigenous, uh, fashion." Rip explained.

"You got a room that makes clothing? " Jax said excitedly. You jumped up at the idea.