(the middle of Legends Of Tomorrow, season One)
I put my hands on the doorframe of Rip's office, hesitating. Normally I would walk straight in, but the Captain of my ship was hunched low in his chair, his fingers steepled at his chin as he watched the office screen. Flickering across it were faces. Forms. Happy smiles and dancing eyes.
I could recognize the faces of his wife and son now, from the scattered glimpses I had seen of his pictures and holographs across the ship. Even if there were a doubt about the identities of the woman and little boy on the screen, Rip's face said it all. His eyes were slightly unfocused, shining with wistful love and grief.
Rip Hunter had lost his wife and child when Vandal Savage, an immortal tyrant, had attacked London. London, 2166, to be exact.
Rip, once a Time Master, had responded by traveling back in time in his timeship, The Waverider. He had recruited a series of vigilantes with rather unusual skills, all to help him bring Vandal Savage down before he got to London in 2166. Now, he was both my Captain and my friend.
Among them was me, from 2016.
I had been selected for my skill in martial arts. I had been trained as an assassin for years- I had even died in the service of justice. I had been brought back by a device called the Lazarus Pit, but there was no hope of resurrection for Rip's family.
Unless we did something. If anything happened to my family, to my sister, I would hope for Rip and the rest if the team at my back.
I knocked gently at the side of the doorframe, pulling myself out of my own thoughts with some difficulty. "You said you wanted to see me?"
Rip jumped, scrambling to shut off the screen. As he straightened with a sheepish smile, he spoke carefully, his accent pronounced with emotion. "Miss Lance, come in."
There was a tone of worry to his voice that I had not heard before.
"What's going on?"
He looked grim.
"I wanted to tell you first," he swallowed, the muscles in his jaw feathering. "Vandal Savage is in Starling City. 2016."
At the name of my home city, my blood chilled.
What could Vandal Savage possibly want there?
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