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Darkness. Then blinding light. That’s how it started for Len. At first he couldn’t remember why it was like this. Then memories came flooding back. His time with the legends, the missions to stop Savage, Mick being Chronos, the revelation that the Time Masters were working with Savage all along, and finally the end when he had sacrificed himself to stop the Time Masters. He wondered if they had succeeded in stopping Savage, or if they were all dead in a ditch somewhere.
Almost immediately his question was answered. Images, no these things looked more like videos. Well whatever they were, they zoomed around his head showing ‘videos’ of what looked like the entire team stopping Savage three separate times. There must have been some reason they were all doing, but after seeing that they were all alive, well except for him, he realized there was another person he wanted to see. His boyfriend.
Immediately as he thought about Barry, more ‘videos’ flew into his vision, he saw Barry in his Flash suit standing in the Cortex, looking mad but unharmed. He let out the breath he didn’t realize he had been holding in. The last time he had seen Barry was back when he left with the Waverider and Rip on a crazy mission to save the planet. He had left right in the middle of the whole business with Zoom, and he was happy to see that Barry was ok. Now all he had to do was find a way out of wherever he was, so that he could go see him.
He began walking in one direction determined to keep walking in a straight line so that he wouldn’t get lost and not be able to find his way back to where all the ‘videos’ were. He keep walking for what felt like ages before he finally ended up back at the place he started. He looked around confused. Had he accidently walked in a circle? Or was this place so small that he’d walked all the way back to where he had started. Well however he had arrived back here, he thought it would probably be smart just to stay here until he figured out how to get out of this place, wherever he was.
As he began to try and come up with a way out of wherever he was, a portal opened in front of him. It looked like one of the breaches that had brought Zoom to his earth and he was wary of it at first. Soon though he realized that nothing was coming out, and that maybe, just maybe this was his way home. He approached the breach with caution. He circled the entire breach, deciding he had nothing to lose just standing here waiting for some other way out, so he ignored all other instincts telling him to run away and focused on the one saying ‘Go In’. He jumped.
It was nauseating, he felt like throwing up right then and there, but as soon as it started it was over and he found himself standing in a hall on the Waverider. He could hear voices carrying through the halls, so after quickly catching his breath, traveling through that portal had really knocked the wind out of him. After he had caught his breath he began making his way through the halls to where he heard the voices coming from. When he finally found where they were he smiled. Everyone looked happy, this was probably a little after what he had seen in those ‘videos’ which meant they had a really great reason to be happy. Now all he had to do was make an entrance, then probably get home to 2016 to see his boyfriend.
“Well isn't this a happy gathering” he said, nonchalantly. Immediately everyone stopped their separate conversations and looked at him. He looked at each of their faces, emotions such as confusion, happiness, or sadness flickered across a few of them, and anger reflected on one face. That was Mick, and at a speed that would have impressed Barry, for someone who didn't have the speed force, Mick grabbed him by the collar of his Parka and slammed him against the wall. “Who the hell are you!” He yelled, and honestly he understood why, to them he had been dead for God knows how long. “Gideon who is this and why are they on my ship?” Rip asked the AI. “Leonard Snart was simply returning to the ship, he was lost in the timeline.” She stated, and although she was said to have no emotions, it sounded as though there was a small amount of happiness evident in the way she said it.
Everyone stared at him for a second and before he could think up a bad pun for the situation he felt a fist collide with his arm, not as hard as it could have been, but there would still probably be a bruise. “WHAT THE HELL SNART!” Mick yelled at him, “Why'd you have to go and play the god-damned hero?” He looked Mick in the eye and behind that fire that was always in his eyes, he saw a small amount of relief, but that was behind the blaze of anger. “I had to screw with the whole, ‘destiny’, crap and you know that Mick” he stated calmly, he in a way understood why Mick was angry, but he also should have understood that he doesn't like getting told his teammates are going to die and there's nothing he can do. He was grabbed by the collar again, “Well don't do it again.” He heard the threat but more of the relief was beginning to show through. He looked around the room and saw the looks of relief and happiness, and that made him happy but there was still someone he needed to check on.
“Now that it's settled that I'm alive and I won't be pulling any deadly stunts soon, I need to check on someone. Gideon how is Barry Allen?” He got a few looks from his teammates but he didn't care he needed to know how his Scarlet Speedster was. “Barry Allen, in your timeline, has just lost a battle to a rival speedster known as Zoom,” Len sucked in air, last time Barry had lost Zoom had broken his back, what would he do this time? “Zoom has just proclaimed victory and has taken Barry Allen back to his Earth as a prize.” Len’s heart stopped, Zoom had Barry. There was only one thought on Len’s mind, saving Barry.