The Flash: Green Arrow's Perfect Shot (Crossover Crisis No. 1)
CHRONOCRAFT DESIGNATED WR-2055 THE WAVERIDER STATUS IN THE TEMPORAL ZONE Sara Lance The White Canary blinked in surprise as Ray Palmer burst onto the bridge of the Waverider waving his hands excitedly Wake up he yelled Wake up The Legends a ragtag group of time travelers charged with monitoring and protecting Time itself weren’t currently on a mission Sara was in charge of the team as in charge as she could be considering the Legends resistance to order but this was downtime so she was lounging having swapped out her white leather combat togs for a more comfortable and loose-fitting set of relaxation wear from the year 2190 Her dirty-blonde hair spilled over her shoulders and those same shoulders were actually loose for once not taut and tense Now her shoulders bunched a tiny bit at Ray’s intrusion into her peace and quiet I wasn’t asleep Sara said irritably gesturing for Ray to calm down She hadn’t been sleeping in the captain’s chair but she had been so deep in thought that Ray had managed to enter the bridge before she could react Not good He was a friend not a foe but she prided herself on her constant awareness her inability to be ambushed The training that she’d endured at the hands of the League of Assassins had left scars both physical and emotional but one of the benefits to the tutelage of a secret society of ninjas was that you were rarely sneaked up on Wake up anyway Ray cried Off-mission he wore stonewashed jeans and a T-shirt from the Rolling Stones Steel Wheels tour kickoff at Toad’s Place in 1989 Gideon Show her that stuff we were just looking at
Of course Mr. Palmer Gideon the Waverider's built in artificial intelligence conjured a series of holographic images They floated around the central interface node on the bridge This is huge Ray gesticulated wildly at the images Tall and classically handsome with a boyish mien and too perfect hair Ray exuded youthful enthusiasm to the point of hyperbolic excitement but there was usually a basis for it Sara leaned forward frowning as she scrutinized the images She couldn't quite make out what had Ray so riled up at the moment They were right Ray crowed Barry Allen and Cisco Ramon were right Sara clucked her tongue Did you think they were lying to us Ray calmed down long enough to pull a wounded face Of course not But they could have been mistaken With a sigh Sara hauled herself out of the captain's chair and paced around the holograms Time for business she supposed For an employee of the government's top secret Time Bureau there was no such thing as off the clock Which she knew was a pretty bad pun for a time traveler but it was still true So these images she prompted Ray are representations of the data Gideon and I have been compiling Ray responded According to Barry and Cisco the universe we live in has a duplicate a near identical twin Not a parallel universe like the ones we're familiar with but rather an entire alternate timeline In that timeline the Flash went back in time and saved his mother from being killed by the Reverse Flash and the temporal consequences were so great that it created something called Flashpoint Gideon Sara called Reference Flashpoint please A translucent almost featureless face materialized from thin air the visual interface to Gideon I'm sorry Captain Lance Gideon said soothingly There is no reference data in the Time Masters or Time Bureau's databases for Flashpoint This is what I'm saying Ray said walking through Gideon's hologram In our timeline there never was a Flashpoint He flung
a hand out at the images he and Gideon had projected According to all this data though this alternate timeline actually exists And when the Barry Allen of that other timeline tried to fix his Flashpoint mistake there was a knock on effect the universe didn't return to its original state It's like nothing we've seen before And there's no record of anything like it having ever happened When the Legion of Doom created an alternate reality we were able to set the universe back to rights But this It's almost as though the entire universe experienced a timequake from inside the temporal zone It's a singular event unique across the Multiverse Ray was breathing hard as he finished and Sara could scarcely blame him As time travelers she and her team had traversed the length and breadth of the universe tinkering with Time itself Occasionally they'd glitched up the time stream but they'd always been able to fix it Now there was another whole timeline out there that someone had tried to fix and couldn't What do we do about it she mused staring at the data An entire timeline Do we go back and try to prevent Allen from saving his mother in the first place Restore the flow of time That's what he tried Ray protested It didn't work Besides I don't even know how we would get into that other timeline in the first place The Waverider is attuned to our timeline and designed to cruise this time stream It would be like He drifted off as he cast about for a metaphor It would be like being in a boat on one river and trying to hop it over land to another river Sara supplied Ray shrugged I guess that works Or doesn't as the case may be She wished Kid Flash Wally West were still with them Like Barry Allen Wally was a speedster and he had a speedster's unique perspective on time travel He was also the Flash's adopted brother and had spent a lot of time with the gang at S.T.A.R. Labs where the Flash and his crew did all kinds of superhero science Kid Flash's input could be useful He'd become part of her team a little while back but right now was on some well deserved R R in the 1960s
