"How did the council meeting go, Captain Hunter?" A female A.I. voice asks. "Exactly as expected, Gideon." Captain Rip Hunter answers the A.I, walking onto the time ship known as the waverider.
"So we are proceeding?" Gideon asks.
"Indeed. Prepare the Waverider for takeoff. Set a course. United States. Star City. January, 2016." Rip says.
"Ah, the early second millennium A.D. The golden age of gasoline engines, online pornography, and those silly little smartphones. What are we going to retrieve, Captain?" Gideon asks.
"Oh, not what. Who. I need you to pull up some files, Gideon." Rip tells Gideon. "The nine men and women who'll be joining us on our little crusade."
"You usually prefer to work alone, Captain." Gideon points out.
"This time, I'll need a team." Rip says. The timeship takes off.
"First recruit: Dr Raymond Palmer. Also known as the Atom." Rip says. "Next recruit: Sara Lance. Former member of the League of Assassins, also formerly dead. Next up: FIRESTORM, the merged super form of one Jefferson Jackson and Professor Martin Stein. Next recruits: Kendra Saunders and Carter Hall. The latest reincarnations of Hawkman and Hawkgirl."
"There seems to be an error, Captain." Gideon tells Rip. "These next candidates, Leonard Snart and Mick Rory, are a pair of criminals."
"There's no error, Gideon." Rip says. "And our last recruit: Hannah West."
"Captain, this girl also seems to have a history." Gideon says. "I would strongly advise against being her on board."
"I need her Gideon." Rip says. " Hannah West may be a junkie and a criminal, but she' got a genius mind and I need her incredible water powers and archer skills. Plot the course, please."
"Right away Captain." Gideon says. And now Rip is on his way to retrieve his recruits.
***
Rip Hunter, in his trenchcoat with a taser next to him, following a teenage girl, who's not on the phone, down an alley of Central City. A 16-year-old girl, Hannah West turns and faces Rip, hands ready to form her weapons of water.
Hannah forms a ball of water, ready to fire it at Rip. Holding the ball of water, she wipes the blood from her broken nose, Hannah watches him raise his taser pointing it at her.
"Hannah West." Rip says.
"What are you?" Hannah asks, slowly readying her ball of water. "A cop?"
"I'm not a cop." Rip says, Hannah tenses up more, confused. "I don't have drugs on me, and I didn't really do anything to be stopped by you." Hannah replies.
"Frankly, I really don't care. I just need you." Rip says, and a bright light flashes.
***
9 unconscious bodies lay on the rooftop slowly coming to. "What a headache!" Mick Rory groans, waking up on the rooftop.
"Stein? Hannah? What the hell are you doing here?" Leonard Snart asks Hannah and Professor Martin Stein.
"I'm as ignorant as you, for once." Stein answers, Hannah nodded in agreement.
"Why don't you ask the dude who knocked us out and kidnapped us?" Jefferson Jackson asks. "British dude with flashy thing. Ring any bells?"
"The name's Rip Hunter." Rip says. "I'm from East London. Oh, and the future."
"Nice to meet you, Rip." Rory says, reaching for his heat gun. "Uh, while you were incapacitated, I may have tampered with your weapons." Rip says.
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The Water Archer (ON HOLD)
FanfictionHannah West, adopted daughter of Joe West, is recruited by Rip Hunter to join him and eight others to stop Vandal Savage from conquering the world in 2166.
