Ch 8: Rip the mission highjacker

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"Remember us?" Sara challenged as she straightened up to face Damien.

"Oh, goodie. More Legends. Here to kill me, I assume." Damien taunted.

"This time it'll stick." Sara replied throwing two ninja stars at him which he easily dodged.

"Just when this one did so well in reviving me." He gestured to Clarity lying on the ground, inching closer to death with each passing second. "You wouldn't want to undo her sacrifice?"

That was all it took. One look at Clarity's form, drained, dying, as if Dhark had stolen her light from her for Sara to loose her cool. Blinding rage filled her, blood lust she worked so hard to manage over took her. She ran at Dhark, and he just pinned her down with his magic.

Tyler knelt by Clarity's side. The first one to make it over to her. He reached out to touch her, fingers pressed against her wrist searching for a pulse. Her hand twisted to hold onto his. They locked eyes. Tyler jerked back, trying to get his hand back as he felt something happening. The warning tingle of lightning. But her grip was tight, he couldn't shove her off.

"Clarity, what are you doing?" Tyler asked, starting to struggle as she drained him of his lightning. "Clarity, Clarikinz stop, cut it out." He could feel himself weakening, tears would have formed in his eyes if his body wasn't too weak for it. "Clarity, please don't..." Tyler begged, and that was the last thing he ever said. He fell dead at her side.

Clarity hadn't known it was him. She was delirious without the energy in her body to properly see or hear, all she could do was feel, feel the electricity in the people around her. She couldn't think properly all she knew was that she needed more power, she needed to get her strength back that hadn't been enough.

Zari and Amaya took to the air, as did Nora with her magic. Damien was already floating, holding Sara and Rip above him in quite the magical choke hold. "Woah what is going on down there?" Damien wondered looking down and he started laughing as he realized what was happening. Clarity was pulling the lightning from everyone on the ground. Draining them, taking their electricity for her self. Her skin regained its youthful glow, her hair shined once more. Her eyes were back to the glowing abnormal blues. She smiled for the briefest of seconds realizing she was alive, but that smile vanished turning to horror as she realized how she was alive. Her head snapped up to Dhark.

"Don't look at me." He replied with a chuckle. Throwing Rip and Sara down in the dirt beside her. "This was all you."

"Let's go." Nora told her father pulling out a rock. Not wanting to risk tangling with a distraught Glitch.

"Till we meet again." Damien ominously replied vanishing with wave. Clarity broke down into hysterics, as she realized it was Tyler dead in front of her. As realized she'd murdered everyone that had been on the ground. If her teammates hadn't been hovering they'd be dead too.

Once Clarity was calm enough, at least calm enough that she was positive she wasn't going to make the waverider drop out of the sky they all boarded the ship. Rip calling in a clean up crew to handle the mess and make the proper arrangements for funerals.

"Hey, Gideon said you wanted to see me." Ray stepped into Claritys room carefully so as not to spook her. Word had spread across the ship at what she'd done like wild fire. Though there was nothing anyone could do to console her.

"You made a serum to give Nate powers." Clarity began eyes red and puffy from all her crying.

"Well more like I tweaked it," Ray corrected though Ray realized that wasn't what she wanted to hear.

"I need you to do it again." Clarity lifted her head looking Ray dead in the eyes as she stood up. "Only this time, you make it to remove them. Permanently."

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