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eight.

HUNTRESS.
008. | ❛ saving your ass. ❜

"Well, I'm really glad you were the one calling the shots." Ray supported Crystal while her other arm was around Leonard.

"I had it under control until the Professor started picking fights with the PLO." Leonard snorted back at Ray.

"You let your ego endanger our entire mission and not to mention Crystal's ankle." Carter walked behind them blaming Stein for the mission going haywire.

"No, Mr. Rory's temper got completely out of control...And Crystal's ankle was on herself."
Stein defended himself

"Thanks, professor. Nice to know you care." Crystal tried minimal movement as they dragged her.

"I thought we were friends, Professor." Mick said

"At least there's one less nuclear bomb on the planet." Kendra tried looking at the positive side.

Rip started clapping as Leonard and Ray placed Crystal down on a seat.

"Here, here. Now you all deserve a hearty congratulations. Not only did you fail to capture Savage, you exposed yourselves and your powers to him, giving away the element of surprise for now and all time. Well done, team."

"We don't need the element of surprise.We know he's in Norway, so let's find him..." Carter said to Rip

"Unfortunately, we now have larger problems than Savage. If only you'd have listened to me about the dangers of upsetting the timeline."

"What are you talking about?" Crystal asked from her seat as she removed her boot.

"While you were busy saving Norway from nuclear annihilation..."

"You're welcome, Norway." Mick said

"Savage sent one of his cronies back to the site of the arms sale. Anyone care to guess what he found?" Ray started looking at his suit noticing that one of the pieces was missing and uttering,"Whoops."

"I am unversed in modern American colloquialisms.Is whoops slang for "Oh"..." Gideon asked

"Yes, Dr. Palmer seems to have thrown a spanner in the works for the entire timeline."

"Come again?" Leonard asked

"Armed with Dr. Palmer's future technology, Savage's engineers develop a weapon far more destructive than anything here in 1975. This is Central City in 2016." The hologram showed buildings on fire and destruction.

"At least it was. I'm not sure what the neo-fascists who took control of it are calling it these days."

Stein sighs,"There must be a way to correct this somehow."

"Fortunately, Gideon is just showing us a forecast of the future you've all created. Time is like cement. It takes time to become permanent. In this case, until Savage's team have worked out the mystery of your future technology and molded it to their own ends. And when they do, what you see here is no longer just a forecast. This..." Rip sighs before continuing,"This is history."

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"So thanks to Raymond leaving a piece of his suit in the past, the rest of us don't have a future to go back to?" Leonard asked.

"Unless we do something to change this course of events, the future will become immutable." Rip answered.

"Exactly how much time do we have?" Ray asked feeling guilty.