falke [sara lance] ✔

chapter 10

"Hey. I'm gonna kill you."

Dark Arrow simply laughed, not even looking over his shoulder as he walked away from the man and the team that he was leaving behind.

"Nah, you won't. You're weak. And besides, all of you choose the high road. You're heroes."

//.//

"So this crap-hole's Earth-X."

"Wells was right," Oliver barked, looking around as he tried to rub his wrists. The sharp edges of the shackles that they had placed around their hands was cutting into the flesh and making a thick red line appear from the skin being rubbed raw.

"He usually is," Barry informed them all, the damp despair evident in his voice. There was so much going on around them that it was hard to fully concentrate on just one thing. The yells in the distance, soft crying, men yelling orders at others and the shocking crispness of snarls and barks from dogs were only some of the things they could begin to comprehend at that point.

"It's hard to believe a place like this actually exists on any Earth," Alex murmured softly, her eyes wide with fear as she realised exactly what sort of place they were in.

"I wish I shared your sentiment, but in all my travels to distant times, one thing which sadly remains constant is men's ability to feel hatred for other men." Stein informed them all, his mind instantly flashing to another time in history when this had happened.

"Stars and triangles..." Jax looked around, his eyes matching Stein's as he waited on the man to explain to him why the symbols were being worn by different people.

"Badges used to identify purported crimes these people have "committed" to land in here."

Looking to his left, Jax noticed that the man standing near him was sporting a pink triangle. He noticed that he also seemed to be the only one with the bright symbol on his striped clothes. "What's the pink triangle for? What did you do?"

"I loved the wrong person."

A chill truly flooded Sara's spine. The place had already been snatching at her heartstrings, making her feel a way that she never had felt before. But hearing those words? She knew that this was a lot more than just basic history that she had learned about in school. Things like this had actually happened on her earth, and she understood instantly that it didn't matter if you were a good person - you could be killed for anything that the Nazi's didn't deem as perfection. Her eyes latched on to Alex and she knew that the red-head was thinking the same thoughts.

"We got to get out of these things. Transmute us out."

"With pleasure." Stein told Sara, slapping his hand against Jax's. When nothing happened, everyone felt a deeper root of panic flood their veins. Barry nodded, looking around as he held up his chained hands slightly.

"I can't vibrate through them either."

Alex closed her eyes, her tone dropping to nothing short of a whimper. "They're gonna kill my sister."

"Look, we're not gonna let that happen, Alex, I promise you." Sara informed her, looking to Barry and Oliver to help reassure the rest of their teammates. They were the leaders and they needed to stay strong for the others.

"We're gonna get back to our Earth before then." Barry nodded, backing Sara up. Oliver seemed to stalk around a little bit in the background as he took a few deep breaths to compose himself.

"How? We don't even know how we got here."

"No, we don't. We're gonna figure it out. Then we're gonna find a way to get out of this place, and we're gonna get back to the people we love." Oliver finally spoke, making sure that everyone knew that they weren't going to die here. Not on his watch.