Time Child

The Men in Black

It had taken a while, but the crew had been able to gain somewhat of reasonable doubt from the group of armed men and after they had agreed to try and help them deal with the unusual situation that had been taking place for the last few days, Gabriel and his men, had taken the crew to the building they were using as a headquarter.

Rip was looking down at the map of the town that he had just been given, Isaac had labeled down for him the places that had been affected the most and signaled that the church and the mayor's house where the places were the rest of the town was hiding at, at least the people they had been able to locate.

"What's this over here?" asked Sara, she was hunched next to Rip, looking down at the map, her finger pressed over a particular spot, Rip's eyes drifted towards it as Isaac turned his attention back to them.

"Oh" he whispered, he looked down at Sara's finger "That's the mine"

"There's a mine?" Ray frowned, he was standing with Rip and Sara, his arms crossed over his chest; the only three members of the Waverider that were examining the map currently.

"Yes" Isaac nodded "It's were most of the men around here work at" he explained "It's a few miles up the road" Sara and Rip exchanged a look.

Rip and Sara had a lot of differences and more often than not, they didn't see eye to eye on what went on around the Waverider, but truth was, he couldn't imagine running the Waverider without her help, she was his grounding stone, the person who was ready to call him out when needed and the person to back him up if that was the case, she was also the first person who came to his mind when he needed help with the plans and missions.

"What kind of mine?" asked Rip, as he looked away from Sara and towards Isaac.

"Coal" he answered, "Why?"

"Have the raiders been up there?" asked Ray, he didn't have the silent connection that Rip and Sara sometimes had, but he understood where this was going.

"No" he shook his head, "It's always seven of them that come and go" he cleared his throat and adjusted his weight from one leg to the other.

"You've always seen the same seven men?" Sara asked, she couldn't understand what Savage was planning, why he was sending people just to terrorize villagers, there had to be something behind it, they just hadn't figured it out yet.

"Yes" Isaac answered "We think they are the same seven all the time"

"What do you mean, you think?" Rip asked.

"Um" Isaac narrowed his eyes "They always wear masks, we haven't seen their faces, but we are sure it's the same seven"

"I think we need... but Sara's voice was cut short by Leonard.

"They have enough ammo to hold this place up for at least two more days," the Rogue, who had been counting and checking the weapons downstairs, explained.

"Tops" Mick added "But I wouldn't bet my life on it"

"Are you sure?" asked Rip.

"Really?" Leonard raised an eyebrow as he looked at him.

"Fine" Rip rolled his eyes "Can you work with that?"

"We can work with it, yes" Leonard answered "But not without using our stuff, I'm sure half the men down there have never used one of those rifles, so I rather not have some Billy The Kid wanna be, shoot Raymond on the hip"

Ray turned to him with a confused face "You'll be fine, Haircut" Mick assured him.

And almost as if the whole crew had decided that it was time to regroup, the door of the building was pushed open and Kendra walked in with Martin and Jax, followed by Gabriel and two other men.