Ch 4: Fuck this Future

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"What? Didn't see it when you walked in?" Zari asked adjusting her bag speeding up her walk.

"No, obviously, I glitched us all right inside that warehouse. Breaking and entering wouldn't look good to the discount fascists. Glitching straight in was easier. Honestly, It's like no one picks up a history book anymore. How do things like this happen? It should never get to this point. Kill orders? Bans on marriage? What else are they banning freedom of speech? Religion?"

"Yes." " Zari confirmed. "Look I don't know what kind of trick your trying to pull, acting clueless about everything. Whatever your doing it's obviously not that smart, the drones easily mistook you and your blonde friend for them, but I'm not a robot. I can tell you aren't the real Glitch. I know her. She taught me everything I know. So drop whatever act this is. At least have the decency to show your real face. You didn't even get the age right."

"This is my real face." Claritys protested, "What's wrong with my age I'm 28! And wait what do you mean real Glitch? Hey!"

Meanwhile back on the Waverider, the rest of the legends just got back to the ship after they resisted arrest.

"Gideon, is Clarity back here?" Sara asked the Ai striding down the halls.

"No, I'm afraid not." Gideon replied.

"Shouldn'tve let her glitch away." Sara muttered to herself with a sigh. "Go, ugh stupid. Just tell me if she shows up."

"Certainly." Gideon replied. "Should I be worried? Perhaps I should conduct a search."

"No, no let's not raise any alarms yet. She might be walking back or who knows maybe she's with Zari. It was just two drones. She'll be fine." Sara sighed to herself. "She'll be fine."

The assassin saw Amaya walking and she sped up to greet her, pushing her feelings down to make sure her crew was doing okay as was the captains job. "Hey, how you feeling?"

"Like I just understood what you meant by the term "mansplaining."" Amaya replied in annoyance as they walked onto the bridge together. "And you? Did something happen? I take it from Nathaniel's premature return, you didn't have much luck with Ms. Tomaz."

"We ran into some unexpected complications." Sara replied.

"Well, that was interesting." Ray agreed. "And it turns out Zari's a bit of a..." Ray winced really not wanting to use the word bitch. "not very nice person."

"Apparently it's illegal to be a meta-human in 2042. Or to marry one of them. Which I apparently do. Oh and Clarity is god knows where cause A.R.G.U.S. has a kill on sight order on her. Mine's apparently still pending. Thanks for the heads up, Gideon."

"As Captain Hunter has always said the less one knows about their own future the better. However my access to a large amount of data has been denied and I am unable to get through. Though I assure you it is unimportant to the retrieval of Miss Tomaz."

"Just to our futures? Gideon can you trace where the block is coming from?" Sara asked in confusion.

"Negative." Gideon lied, she knew exactly who but it was best for Sara not to know. Too much future knowledge. Besides she could not disobey her creators orders even if they had come from a future version.

"That's probably for the best." Gary told her. "Even we aren't supposed to read our own personal files."

"No one cares what they do at the bureau, Gary." Sara snapped in annoyance though really she was just pissed she couldn't find out who her wife was. Who would one day be so important to her that she'd actually get married? She should've asked the damn drone for evidential proof of marriage or something. But she'd been so stunned at the time and then Clarity got shot at and there wasn't time.

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