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Madison's Outfit:
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"Nate hurry you ass!" Madison yelled backather best friend.
You know she did not think that seeking out the Mayor of Star City's help would involve this much cardio. But here she was sprinting through the Mayor's building trying to dodge security and make it to Oliver Queen's office a lot easier said than done. She managed to dodge a security guard before she heard a crash behind her.
She slowed down a little and turned her head to see that Nate had bumped into a Woman and made her papers fly everywhere.
"Sorry! My bad."Nate apologized as he kept running making Madison roll her eyes at her best friend, "And this is why you leave things to me." She muttered as she turned around only to be grabbed by a security guard.
She tried to wiggle her way out of his grip but he only held her tighter. She looked over to see a security guard making his way in front of Nate's path, "Nate watch out." She yelled but her effort was in vain as the guard elbowed him in the face knocking him to the floor.
She let out a low growl before conjuring up the wind and sent the security guard that was holding her back into the wall behind him. She walked closer to her friend on the ground as the two security guards that were outside of Oliver's office pointed their guns at her.
But before they could get a shot in on her the Mayor's door opened and out walked Oliver Queen, "What the hell is going on out here?" Oliver Queen himself, stepped out of the office looking around at the cause of the noise.
His presence caused the security guards to lower their guns, "Sorry, sir, They broke through the security cordon downstairs." The guard excused causing Madison to push him back against the wall with a gust of wind and send Oliver a fake Smile, "Only because they wouldn't let us up without an appointment, but how do regular people get an appointment with the Mayor anyway?"
She let up on the guard and stuck her hand out towards the Mayor which he shook hesitantly, "Rory, Madison Rory and thats..." She trailed off seeing Nate getting off of the ground in a hurry, "Heywood, Dr. Nate Heywood." Nate quickly introduced. "-And we are here to talk about Sara Lance, Ray Palmer and the rest of the legends. We think they're in trouble." She informed Oliver.
Oliver sent the two confused looks before ussuring the duo into his office, "You have five minutes." He told them.
Nate and Madison rushed inside and started setting up their papers, taking them out of their bags and setting them down on the table. "Thank you for not having me arrested back there. Those security guards really overreacted."Nate rambled to which Madison hit his shoulder causing him to look over at her, "You know one of them tried to shoot me?" She told him. Nate gasped, "Bro one of them tried to mace me!" He told her.
"Ms. Rory, Dr. Heywood, I only agreed to give you five minutes, which was three minutes ago, because Ray and Sara are friends of mine, but I don't know the first thing about any Legends." He said as he furrowed his eyebrows. "Of course you do, because you're the Green Arrow." Madison shrugged as she kept sprawling their paper out on the table.
"Excuse me?" Oliver asked.
"Huh?" She looked up at him. "We're done here." Oliver told them, crossing his arms over his chest. "Look, I'm sorry."She apologized. "I didn't mean to drop a bomb on you like that, it's just, I've exhausted all out normal avenues, my dad might be in trouble, and you're the only person left who won't think re're crazy." She rambled off. "Are you sure about that?" oliver cut her off.
To which Nate spoke up, "We're historians. We specialize in deductive historical reconstruction. In layman's terms, We're time detectives." "I really don't have to be to look at a calendar to see one week after you came to this city, Robin Hood showed up." Madison cut in.
"You said that Sara and Ray are..." Oliver started. "Traveling throughout time with the other Legends. "Legends" is what they call themselves. Now, for the past six months, I've been noticing subtle changes to history... Almost imperceptible. Actually, if it wasn't for a friend of mine who's a quantum physicist, I wouldn't have been able to detect the subliminal alterations.The point being, I think your friends are responsible." Nate informed the man.
Oliver looked at the two with an expecting look. "You're looking at us like you want evidence. Evidence, okay, an illuminated manuscript from 1216 depicting a knight..." Madison held up a picture of a knight. "Looks a lot like your friend Dr. Palmer..Same nose and and chin." She rambled on. "Erratic text describing a woman in white with a bo staff." Nate held up a piece of paper with text on it. "Uh, hieroglyphic from Mesopotamia depicting an albeit crude ship that flies through the air and disappears." Madison held up another picture with a ship.
"Let's skip to the part where they're in trouble."Oliver hurried the two up.
"UFO sighting, New York City, 1942, multiple witnesses report a flying machine diving into the Atlantic, which matches not only the Mesopotamian hieroglyphics but..."Nate was cut off by Oliver clearing his throat, "The part where they're in trouble!"
"Contemporaneous with the sighting were multiple reports of an underwater detonation of an atomic bomb!" Madison said sternly. "Now the government had denied this..." She started.
"You said 1942. That's three years before..."Oliver's voice trailed off. "Before the atomic bomb was supposedly invented, yes. We told you history was changing." Nate finished for him.
"Dr. Heywood, if the Legends' ship met an A-b*mb, they're not in trouble..." He paused.
"They're dead..."
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Madison did not think that she would ever be able to say that she is in a submarine with Oliver Queen, but here she is.
Oliver, Madison and Nate were sinking down towards the coordinates that Nate gave to Oliver. "We're closing in on your coordinates, Dr. Heywood." oliver informed the two. "Are you seeing the sonar readings of the sea floor?" Nate asked causing the other two to look over at the screen. "Either that's a really weird-looking rock formation..." Nate started.
"or the wreckage of a time ship." Madison finished.
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As the trio made their way into the time ship, they looked around with their flashlight, looking down hallways and walking throughout the ship.
"If the legends went down with the ship..." Madison started. "Where are the bodies?" Nate finished. Oliver looked back at the two with an annoyed glance, "Can y'all stop doing that?" He asked them. "Doing what?" Nate asked back.
"Finishing each other's sentences it's getting really annoying."
"Oh... I didn't even realize we were doing that."
"Well you are and it's getting really annoying..." Oliver trailed off as the trio entered the medbay and they saw a man laying in the chair.
Upon seeing the man Madison let out a gasp. She knew this man from anywhere, it was her father Mick Rory. The man who didn't even know she existed, but she knew him. He mother would tell her stories, the good and the bad, of her father. She heard them growing up and she longed to have a relationship with him or have some sort of contact with him. She never gave up hope that one day he would come knocking on her front door wanting to have a relationship with her but he never did.
She never blamed him though, her mother never told him about her being pregnant, with them both being young and with her being terrified she never told him. So there was no way of him knowing of her existence. But that's another reason why she joined Nate in going to see what happened to the legends, because she knew that there might be a slight chance that she would get to meet her father and have a relationship with him, the relationship she had always wanted.
"Dad..."She whispered worryingly, rushing over to his side and putting her hands on his shoulders. "The ship's keeping him in stasis." Oliver informed the duo. "How do you know that?"Nate asked walking over and standing beside Madison, putting his arm around her shoulders and rubbing her arm, offering her any amount of comfort he could. Oliver pointed at the screen beside Mick that read Stasis. "Oh." Nate muttered quietly.
Madison looked back at her dad then at the screen again, before shakingly raising her hand and pushing a button. That button caused Mick to be startled awake and Nate to wrap his arms around Madison's waist and pull her way from Mick slightly. Mick had thrown a punch at Oliver to which Oliver grabbed his arms and pushed him back down to the chair.
"My name is Oliver Queen and my preference is to not break your arm, so I want you to calm down and tell us what happened to your team." Oliver calmly informed the man. "You wouldn't believe me even if I told you." Mick harshly whispered in Oliver's face. Madison managed to escape Nate's grasp and walk back over to her dad's side, "Try us." She challenged.
Mick looked over at the girl and she could see a flash of recognition in his eyes. But it was gone just as fast as it came. Mick shook off Oliver's grasp and stood up from his chair, making his way out of the medbay, "I need a beer." He told the trio as he turned the corner.
Nate and Madison looked at each other and nodded before following after the man. Oliver sighed tiredly before trailing the duo out of the Medbay and to the kitchen. Once everyone was in the kitchen, Mick had grabbed a couple beers and brought them to the table, he sat down and popped open his first one. Nate, Madison and Oliver sat down opposite of the criminal.
"All I remember is being knocked out by that skinny, little Englishman." Mick started. "Very embarrassing." Madison and Mick mused at the same time.
The legend looked over at the red headed girl, who kept his gaze, looking at him with the same chocolate brown eyes. "Um... I know that Sara told her father she was leaving to protect history."Oliver cut in, interrupting the tension between the father and daughter. "Why?...Why does history need protecting?" Nate asked.
"Because the idiots who were protecting it...The Time Masters, were blown up."Mick answered keeping his gaze on Madison. "So you and the Legends took over?"Madison questioned which Mick hummed in approval.
"Chasing down time criminals and fixing the parts of history they screwed up. Aberrations the captain called them." Mick said raising his beer bottle, "We were chasing them for about six months without a problem."He paused. "Well, the occasional problem."He soon added on.
"I knew we were all in trouble when Rip made us put on blouses just to save the King of France." Mick dove into his story.
He went on to explain how in the new version of history King Louis XIII was gonna be executed before he could basically have sex with his wife and get her pregnant with Frances greatest king or something like that. He explained how not only were the assassins not supposed to be there, they had laser guns instead of swords. He said that a fight broke out between the assassins and the legends, resulting in firestorm using his powers, Ray exposing the past to his future technology and Sara seducing the Queen (which Madison thought was very funny). The defeated the assassins and made it back to the ship.
"Wait, how'd you go from the court of louis XIII to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean?" Nate asked. "You said you wanted to hear the full story." Mick states taking another sip of his beer. "We do, just some of us have lives that we'd like to get back to." Oliver told him. "We got ourselves in trouble by visiting a time we were told not to." Mick continues. "1942?" Madison asks and mick nods, "Maybe y'all are idiots." She muttered under her breath.
"Who told you not to go to 1942?" Nate asked. "Some guy in a hood named...Rex Tyler." Mick tells the trio. "Said if we set foot in 1942 we'd be all screwed, and then he just vanished." Oliver looked at the former criminal with furrowed eyebrows, "Okay, if he told you not to go to 1942, then why'd you go?" He asked.
Which led Mick into continuing his story. He told them that the team had made it back to the ship and were going over when they were going to travel next. Saying that most of them wanted a break because they have been going non-stop for 6 months. Rip scolded the whole team for everything they did wrong, because apparently they always did that. Then he said that there was something called a "Time quake" that radiated from 1942, the Nazis had sent an atomic bomb right into New York City 3 years before the Atomic bomb was even invented. The team settled on going to 1942 because there was nothing left to protect time with the time masters being gone and all. They went to what mick called it a "Nerd Party" to kidnap Einstein before the Nazis could. When they went to grab Einstein he made a huge scene causing a fight to break out with security guards, but the legends manage to get Einstein, with the professor knocking him out, and took him back to the ship.
But it turns out that the Nazis still got the Atomic Bomb with the help of Einstein's Ex-wife, Mileva Maric, who just so happens to be a nuclear physicist. So while the legends were busy kidnapping Einstein, the Nazis were busy kidnapping his ex wife. They found out that she was probably with Damien Darhk and his uranium, which Ray was able to track down with his suit. His tracking device led them straight to the atomic bomb. They were found at a docking bay and they again started fighting with Damiens men, Sara instead went after Damien, which caused a whole lot of other issues to insue. Rays suit getting busted and Mick getting shot, they all had to fall back to the ship and leave the bomb with the Nazis. But Einstein and his wife were safe and sound and the Nazis were still planning on bombing New York.
Turns out Rip had Jax upload some time scatter protocol thing for a last ditch option. He did this just before he flew the waverider into the ocean causing the ship to start to malfunction, as it was built for the water. The Nazis ended up firing the atomic bomb but it bypassed the waverider, causing Rip to fly after it. Jax uploaded the protocol and made it back into the bridge. Rip had positioned the ship in the way of the atomic bomb then proceeded to time scatter everyone except for Mick. Instead of time scattering Mick because his injuries wouldn't allow it and he knocked him out instead.
And that's how we got here...
"Okay there's one question you haven't answered." Nate started. "Where's Captain Hunter?" Madison finished for him. "I don't know. Must have time-scattered himself like the rest of them." Mick told the two before he let out a groan, "Guess I gotta play hero and find them." He complained. "Do you even think this ship still flies?"Nate gawked at the man. "I don't see why not. Fridge works." Mick said motioning to the empty beer bottles on the table.
Oliver cleared his throat and got up from the table, "I don't have time to time travel, but if your team is stuck in history, who better to help find them than historians?" Oliver offered. "These people?" Mick questioned pointing to Nate and Madison. "Without Madison you'd still be in stasis." Oliver told him and Madison noted that he didn't tell Mick her last name.
"Ah. Good point." Mick got up from his chair and walked towards the door. "Library, this way." He pointed in the direction and walked out of the room.
"Hey, wait. Time out."Nate whisper to Oliver. "This was supposed to be a salvage mission." He whispered and yelled. To which Oliver sent him a mocking smile, "Who are you kidding? You've been waiting your whole life for a chance like this."
He turned to look at Madison,"And you have been waiting your whole life to meet your dad, so don't waste it." He told her before going to walk out of the room.
"Um okay to the library I guess."Nate told her as they made their way to the library.
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After Madison and Nate found out the location of Ray Palmer they walked on to the bridge where Mick was.
"Well, we did some digging, but I think I finally got a lead on Ray Palmer." Madson told her dad.
"Uh-huh." Mick called out sitting in the captains seat and pushing buttons.
"Are you, uh, sure you know how to fly this thing?"Nate cautiously asked. "Let's find out." Mick muttered.
Madison could feel the ship starting up and begin to go faster, so she left Nate's side and went to strap herself in. "Maybe you should slow down?" Nate shouted over the noise.
"Nate, shut up and strap yourself in." Madison told him and he followed her orders, reaching up and pulling the straps over her chest.
"I can't believe this."Madison started. "We're about to travel through time!" Nate excitedly finished for her.
"Did I tell you about the side effects?" Mick asked the two.
"What side effects?"