[Chapter 22]

I wandered around the ship aimlessly when suddenly, the ship rose and time jumped away from Kendra, Ray, and Sara.

Why did we leave them behind?

I race toward the bridge where I hear shooting and shouts coming from one of the hallways.

I see Leonard and Rip standing on the edge of either side of the doorframe that opens up the bridge, weapons ready.

"What the hell is going on?!" I shout.

"Chronos is inside the bridge. Gideon, open the doors on my mark. Ready?" Rip questions, his hand hovering over the pad to open the door. His other hand on his gun. Leonard and I nod.

"Now Gideon!" Rip runs into the room with a yell, firing a few blasts at Chronos before taking cover behind a chair. Snart follows with a blast of his own from beside him.

I went with my instinct and called on electricity. My eyes are probably glowing a dark blue with cracks of lighter blue in my iris. I thrust my hands forward, throwing electricity at Chronos's gun.

It started to glow dangerously bright and a menacing crackling sound was heard coming from the gun. Chronos chucked itaway from him at me just as it exploded.

It was as if time has slowed. I see Rip and Leonard gaping at the gun but I was never going to be able to reach them in time. I feel everything speed up and I feel as if I didn't control my body anymore. I threw my hand up, and I notice the slightest glimmer between us and the exploding gun. Time was normal again and the gun bounced off the shield and exploded. I can finally breathe again.

"A shield. Cool," I laugh. Chronos yells in frustration.

"I'll have to get rid of you," he shouts angrily.

"You can try," I taunt, enjoying this as if it were a game. Chronos threw a punch but I easily deflect it.

"Don't you learn?" I question, catching another punch and twisting Kronos's arm. He flipped me over his head and I crash onto the ground.

"Do you ever stop talking?" Chronos complained, stalking toward me.

"Nope, sorry. It's one of my charms," I wink and jump back onto my feet.

"So is this," Chronos said and I cock my head, confused. Chronos reaches into his pocket and pulls out a piece of rhodium. I shy away from Chronos and the stupid rock.

"Okay, this is bad. Could use a little help," I say to Rip and Leonard, who have been doing basically nothing.

Leonard leaps forward but Chronos instantly knocks him out which makes me facepalm. Seriously? Am I the only person capable of fighting on this ship?

"Time to get out of here before anyone else shows up," Chronos says, picking up Leonard and grabbing me.

"Time to teleport us out of here," Chronos said but I shake my head.

"I can't teleport stupid," I snort. Chronos grabs my hand and rips my ring off. I scream in defiance and try to snatch it back but I was too late. Chronos had it in his possession and therefore, he had me in his complete control.

"Let's try this again. Teleport us out of here." Chronos demanded and I unwillingly step forward and place both of my hands on Leonard and Chronos. Instantly, we were in a new timeship. But before I could get a better look around, Chronos knocks me out.

***

I groggily groan and lift my head, desperately trying to figure out where I am. I try to move my hands but cry out in pain as the handcuffs sear into my flesh. Suddenly everything comes back to me and I remember that Chronos kidnapped me and Leonard.

I see Leonard across from me, handcuffed as well. He looks at me but doesn't say anything.

Just then, Cronos comes walking by without saying anything.

"Uh, hello?" Snart questioned Chronos in annoyance. Chronos ignored him.

"So, uh what's so special about me and Isabelle? I mean, aside from our sparkling personalitiesback on the Waverider. You could've taken your boy, Rip. But you took us ?" Snart questioned still trying to get out of his cuffs. He may be mad at me but he didn't like that he put him and Clarity on oppositesides and from the "lovely" feeling my cuffs give my hands, I'm guessing they're made of rhodium.

"Hey, if you're gonna kill us, you could at least tell us what's going on," Snart said, pissed of that he was being ignored.

"You should have figured it out by now," Chronos replied back still turned. Snart turned his head to me and then looks back at Chronos.

"After all," Chronos began turning around his hands going to his helmet."I am supposed to be the dumb one." He finished crouching in front of Snart who now looked horrified as well. His eyes watering slightly as his emotions cracked from his normally icyfacade.

Of course, I think to myself as Mick's face was revealed. Of course, this happened. How did I not see it before? How else could he have known about rhodium?

"How?" Snart questioned in a twisted emotion of disbelief and horror.Mick stared at him emotionlessly."I think We deserve to know what the hell is going on here!" Snart exclaimed his voice raised in anger.

"You deserve nothing," Mick responded calmly. Their roles reserved for once. Mick was calm and Snart was not.

"Says the man who sold us out to the pirates. When I dropped you off in that forest, I meant to kill you. That was the plan," Snart said.

"You should've stuck with the plan and done me a favor," Mick said.

"I may not have trusted you on the ship with the team, but I always, always was coming back for you," Snart said trying to convince Mick that he never meant for this to happen to him.

"Seems like one of us lost track of time," Mick remarked. I catch a glint coming from his neck. He's wearing my ring as a necklace. So he's not done controlling me.

"Well, how long did you..." Snart drifted off, unsure if he wanted to know the answer.

"By the time they found me, I'd nearly lost my mind. I was so weak, I was strangling rats to survive." Mick told him.

"When who found you?" Snart asked hoping it wasn't who he thought.

"The Time masters," I said and Mick nodded.

"Very good Isabelle, the Time Masters. They took me to a place called the Vanishing Point. Time doesn't exist there the way it does on Earth. I've spent lifetimes being restored by them,training by them, fighting by them. Being reborn." Mick explained, standing up to stretch his legs and walk around.

"And, uh, when exactly did your new friends give you the, uh, lobotomy?" Snart questioned.

"You think I was hunting you and your friends because the Time Masters made me? They barely had to ask." Mick told Snart.

"The Englishman never wanted me on that ship to begin with, the professor and the kid they saw me as a drunk low life. Blondie would sleep with a few more knives under her pillow. Snart wanted to fly solo but was too scared to leave me in central, the Hawks, well I don't even give a damn bout them. Haircut may have taken that beating for me, but he was quick toturn on me and you, well, you were annoying bitch making goo goo eyes at my partner, making him act like so hero," Mick said.

I snort, but my eyes never leave my ring around his neck.

"Aww, looking for something? Pity, I actually kind of like it," Mick said, playing around with my ring. "I could always just destroy it and let you die without it."

I gasp and lunge forward, desperate to break the cuffs that restrained me. I screamed in frustration and blood was spilling down my arms.

"Look, if you're gonna kill me, just do it already, but leave Isabelle alone. I was the one who left you stranded out there Mick. She barely had anything to do with it!" Snart exclaimed. I look confusedly at Leonard. He's protecting me? I thought he was mad at me. For no good reason at that!

"I'm not gonna kill you. I'm going to do something worse," Mick replied."Torture? That's original" Snart replied. Mick chuckled darkly.

"You're going to wish I killed you when I'm through. After I wipe out the rest of the team, I'm gonna take a trip back to Central City and visit your baby sister," Mick said an image of Lisapopping up on the screen. Snart thrashed attempting to break out of his cuffs and strangle Mick or kick the crap out of him but the cuffs were way too thick and high tech.

"The beautiful thing about time travel is I get to kill her more than once. I can kill Lisa in front of you, go back in time, kill her in front of you again and again and again." Mick said. "Another lovely bonus is that I can torture your true love in front of you as well. Better yet, with her ring, I can control her and make her torture herself."

Before either Leonard or I could yell at him, the Ai spoke up."Sir, my scanners indicate that the Waverider has made a full recovery and has now stabilized." The Ai informed.

"Chart a course in the opposite direction. I want this to be fun." Mick ordered the AI.

"Mick come one, don't do this," I say, shaking my head.

"Sorry little Elemental, I used to think the most beautiful thing on Earth was fire. Now I know it's vengeance." Mick told her.

"Would you mind loosening these up a little bit before you leave?" Snart tried but Mick walked right past them to the gun rack at the end of the hall swinging a giant gun over hisshoulder.

"Just out of curiosity, what do you think your new masters are gonna do with you once you've delivered the team up to them? I don't expect there's a pension plan for old bountyhunters.Once they get what they want from you, they're gonna toss you aside." Snart told him.

"Like you tossed me aside?" Mick shot back.

"You and I both made choices that led us to this matters, Mick, is your next I'm willing to bet that some little piece of the old you is in that armor somewhere," Snart told him.

"No. You're wrong," Mick replied.

"That can't be true," I said knowingly.

"There's nothing left" Mick replied walking off.

"We've got to get out of here. Mick's going to make another attempt on the team. Set a trap for them or something," I told Leonard.

"Well I can't get out of my cuffs and you can't get out of your cuffs. So what are we supposed to do!?" Leonard snapped.

"I don't know yet," I reply looking around trying to think. Leonard completely avoids my gaze.

"Are you kidding me?! You're still mad?" I ask Leonard.

"Yeah, I'm still mad. It hasn't been that long," Leonard snaps at me again.

"Well, you're getting dramatic over nothing cause I didn't kiss him," I say.

"No? Lemme guess, you tripped and fell right on top of his lips," Leonard said jealously which just set me off.

"More like he kissed me in order to search through my brain and bring back thousands of memories I thought were lost forever! Every person I have ever killed, I relived their death. Every single moment. I watched my family die. I found a piece of was I was before I became this monster and all of that sense of security was ripped away from me! I lost everyone in a matter of seconds," I say with dispair. "So no, I didn't willingly kiss him!"

Leonard's mouth drops and I look away from him, fighting back tears.

"Isabelle."

I shake my head.

"Isabelle please look at me," Leonard begs.

I look at him unwillingly. I meet his eyes and notice that they are filled with compassion and regret. "I'm really sorry I assumed," Leonard starts.

"I know you're sorry. I'm sorry too," I say.

"For what?" Leonard asks me confusedly.

"Please forgive me. I'm gonna save them," I say.

"What? What are you talking about?" Leonard yells at me.

I take a deep breath and focus. Back to the date, place, and time my siblings were murdered with cold blood. Time to make things right. For the second time today, I teleported.

I look around at my new surroundings. It looks exactly the same as it did back then.

It's time to save my family.

It's time to start anew.

Any personal power you would like her to have?