//.//

Callie sat on the edge of the table in the bridge, watching as Sara steered the time ship through the dimensions of time. The raven-haired girl had always enjoyed watching Sara focus on something as she found it calming how deeply into things she got.

Sara had felt Callie's eyes on her for almost half an hour before she gave in, pushing up on the restraints around her shoulder.

"Gideon, can you pilot for a little bit? I need a break," Sara yelled out to the AI, moving away from the captains chair.

Just before she turned around, Callie was smacked across the head - knocking her straight to the cold floor. Sara heard the thump, spinning around but only to be also smacked in the head too. The blonde fell down beside Callie, both out cold.

Amaya stood, looking down at them in disgust as she sighed a breath.

//.//

When the assassins came back to reality, they were more than surprised to see Nate turning from being fully coated in some sort of metal back to his usual self. Callie's mouth opened and closed a few times, not being able to find any words from her mouth that would even be remotely useful.

Following the rest of the team into the captains bay, she slumped down into the armchair. Sara smiled slightly at her as she rest on the arm of the seat.

"You injected me with Nazi serum?" Nate yelled at Ray, not happy about this sudden change in him. Callie scoffed, ignoring the silencing look Sara shot at her.

"Dude, he saved your life," she added, causing them all to pause for a second as they realised what she was saying was accurate.

"Which I'd redesigned to quintuple my own strength and transform my skin into an alloy a hundred times stronger than steel," Ray explained, now understanding why Nate had just turned into a chunk of metal before their very eyes.

"Steel, that's a cool name," Mick grunted, thinking about how that made more sense than White Canary or Falcon.

"Yeah, especially since my grandfather was called Commander Steel. But what does that make me? Corporal Steel? Mr. Steel? Citizen Steel?" Nate rambled, causing them all to shrug at how excited he was getting by the fact his DNA would be forever altered.

"Who cares? You got superpowers now, dude!" Jax exclaimed, grinning at the man standing across to room from him.

"Except I don't know how I turned to steel in the first place." Nate pointed out, finding it almost useless now.

"Ray'll teach you." Sara decided in the silence, a smirk on her lips. Callie grinned too, glad neither of them were going to be in charge of it - and that meant one thing to Callie: her and Sara could use the spare time to train just like they used to do.

"He will?" Ray squeaked, not liking this sudden concept that had arisen.

"You said it yourself, you redesigned the serum." Callie added, backing up Sara as they both moved off the armchair in synchrony. Everyone eyed the two, forgetting that they had been close in Sara's past before Ray continued his argument as to not train Nate.

"Which I did beautifully, but it's not like I have some sort of instruction manual!" The scientist argued back, causing Callie and Sara to roll their eyes at him.

"Guess you'll have to wing it. Now, I'm gonna go have a chat with our stowaway," Sara decided, looking back at Callie as she walked away. Callie shook her head to indicate she wasn't going to go with her, but did make the move forward to leave the bay.

"This is gonna be so much fun!" Nate exclaimed, causing Ray to hum in fake agreement.

Callie laughed as she walked out of the bay, Jax running after her and grabbing on to her arm slightly. She cocked an eyebrow, glaring at his hand with such an intensity that while he had forgotten she was also a league of assassin trained member, it had suddenly became very clear from that one look.

He moved his hand off her almost as if the very touch of her skin had burned her - although impossible as he was literally almost made of fire.

She coughed, getting his attention back as to why he had followed her out of the room. He had picked up on something but after seeing her glare he wasn't sure he wanted to step on her toes until they had became friends.

"Nevermind," he decided, jogging away in the direction of the mechanical bay he was spending all of his time in. Callie paused before brushing it off and heading to the armoury. She wanted to get more practice in with her bow and arrow, maybe even some knife practice while she was there.

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"What's happening to the ship?" Stein asked as Callie strapped herself into the seat next to Mick at the front of the ship. She had been practicing her aim when the red warning lights had gone off and the ship seemingly had began to jolt out of control.

"Jax, what's our status?" Sara yelled, looking at the holographic screen that was projecting an image of Jax from the mechanic bay to them.

"I've rerouted power from the secondary manifolds."

"Where are Dr. Palmer and Dr. Heywood?" Stein asked, looking at the empty seats around them. Callie shrugged, looking to Sara for an answer to the question.

"Did you check out the window?" She sarcastically asked, causing Callie to groan as she realised they were in another disaster already.

"How is it you people haven't managed to kill yourselves yet?" Amaya asked, Callie shooting the girl a glare as she hadn't forgiven her for knocking her out cold. She was going to get her payback at some point but wasn't sure exactly when yet.

"I've been asking myself the same since I arrived," Callie muttered, causing Amaya to get a bit confused as she had thought the dark-haired assassin was a prominent member of the team. This statement was causing her to see that maybe Callie didn't have the team's best interests at heart.

"Gideon, I need you to track down Ray and Nate and take us to their position!" Sara shouted to the AI as she managed to stabilise the ship ever so slightly. The lights went back to white, causing the red flashing to stop annoying Callie's vision.

"The explosive decompression caused us to lose corrective altitude, which put too much strain on the station-keeping thrusters," the AI replied, causing Callie to squint at the unfamiliar jargon.

"For God's sake, say it how it is. We're screwed!" Mick yelled, dread filling Callie as she thought about having to do this all over again.

"We're screwed," Gideon repeated, all of them shared panicked looks between themselves.

"Oh great!"

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"The Signal from Ray's ATOM suit is getting stronger," Sara told the three, Callie standing in between Mick and Amaya to try to keep one from attempting to kill the other. She didn't really want to be kicking about in these robes but Sara assured her it was for the good of the team.

"Doesn't exactly look inviting, does it?" Amaya said, looking up the hill at the massive palace that was lit only by torches and seemed to tower above everything in the seeable areas.

"It's like "Ninja III: The Domination."" Mick decided, Callie rolling her eyes as her hand rested on the edge of the blade that was hidden under her robes. Sara had told her she couldn't bring a bow or any of their usual weapons as they didn't want to draw suspicion to themselves from the get go.

"Never took you for a cinephile," Sara joked back, holding in a laugh at Mick's remark.

"All I know is ninjas like to hide in trees," he finished, looking up at the trees that surrounded them.

"I don't see anything," Amaya sighed, thinking he was just being wildly superstitious.

"Exactly. You don't find them, they find you!" Mick argued back, causing Callie to raise her hands in between them to chill them out a little bit. If there was a fight, she would win and they all knew it.

"Just because you saw ninjas in a movie, that doesn't make them real," Amaya continued, trying to sound less condescending while saying it, although she pretty much fell flat.

"I have to side with Mick on this one. They're real," Sara noted, trying to ignore the slight bickering from behind her.

"You think there's a secret brotherhood of men trained in the art of assassination?" Amaya said, causing Callie and Sara to burst into grins at her words. Mick chuckled to himself, knowing that that was exactly what Sara and Callie had formerly been a part of.

"I hate to break it to you, Amaya, but I'm basically a ninja," Sara said, Callie adding in that she also was too.

Amaya looked around at the three of the laughing, but she found nothing but truth in their words. She missed her simpler life back in the 1940s, and she missed her team.

"I miss the JSA!" She announced, walking away from the laughing trio.

Callie stayed outside on watch while the other three headed into the palace to get Ray back. Having faith in them, she found herself surprised to see the three of them - and Ray - barrelling towards her as they were followed by ninja guards.

Sara didn't pause, latching on to Callie's wrist and tugging her along with them. They lost the men after a couple hundred meters, walking through the night and sunrise as they found a small cabin near the edge of the village.

Inside, they found the one and only Nate Heywood, wearing robes of a similar fashion to theirs.

"Nate, you're alive!"

"Oh, hey, guys! You found me," he muttered, having been about to kiss Masako, the woman who had helped look after him since he landed.

"Bad timing?" Sara joked, catching Callie's eye as they both knew exactly what Nate had just been about to do.

"Nope. Nope," Nate muttered, groaning and holding on to his side as he stood up from the bed.

"Masako, these are, uh, my friends I was telling you about," he pointed, Callie standing with her back to them as she eyed the outside of the house. She knew that until they were back on the ship they weren't fully safe yet.

"Hajimemashite. Can I get you something to drink?" She asked, bowing to them all. Callie snorted at her formalities, she was the first person Callie had encountered that wasn't trying to kill or capture them.

"Sake, lots of it!" Mick grunted, wanting to sit back and relax for just one minute.

"What he meant to say is thanks for your hospitality, but we must be going," Amaya butted in, shooting Mick a harsh glare as they all looked to Nate to leave.

"No, I didn't," Mick grunted back, Callie elbowing him in the back to shut up.

"Amaya's right. Nate, let's go." Sara ordered, turning around to see if Callie had spotted anything from her lookout that would prevent them from making a quick escape.

"I can't. We can't leave." Nate informed them, all of them turning back to look at him in shock.