Chapter 48 Stephen is the time deviation? (Rewritten)

While carefully observing each member of the Legends of Tomorrow squad, Stephen, who had stepped out of the car, glanced at the deflated tires before speaking with a smile.

"You'll have to pay for that."

Pay? What exactly did I lose? The tires?

The team members, who had assumed they could carry out their mission quietly at any time, were taken aback by this request. Even if they weren't surprised by our presence, it didn't seem right for him to calmly demand compensation from us, did it? And at this moment? Is he going to ask us to chauffeur him around or something?

"Is he really the one we're looking for?" Captain Cold asked suspiciously.

"It appears that we did cause damage to his car's tires, so... do we have to pay for it?" The Atom, Martin Stein, whispered.

Rip Hunter, the current captain of the Legends squad and former Time Bureau agent and Time Master, furrowed his brow and addressed Stephen. "We will address the car damage later, but right now, we need to discuss time safety issues immediately."

Stephen looked at each of them, his smile beaming. "Alright then, I'm also curious as to why all of you are here now."

"Why are you here? You know about us, and you knew we would come?" Sara Lance inquired with a frown.

Her blonde hair gleamed in the sunlight, and her fitted white coat accentuated her impressive figure. She held the silver batons in her hands and swung them slightly, seemingly disagreeing with his words.

"The League of Assassins' top assassin, the White Canary, and the boyfriend who flirts with your sister, the Girl Who Likes Both Men and Women, am I right?" Stephen smiled.

Sara Lance suddenly smiled. "Do we know each other?"

Stephen disapprovingly approached her and began revealing everyone's secrets, one by one.

"Ray Palmer, who eventually becomes the Atom, but when he was Superman, he forced the grid to plummet."

"Jefferson Jackson, one of the current halves of Firestorm, successfully overshadowing the original half. Martin Stein, if you keep taking risks with your young counterpart as a scientist, you're bound to meet an untimely end."

"Leonard Snart, aka Captain Cold, due to your father's abuse of you and your sister since childhood, you turned to a life of crime. By the way, your sister is quite stunning. I wouldn't mind consoling her once you're gone. It will probably happen before Martin Stein's demise, I suppose. Oh, and in an alternate world, you're gay!"

"As for you, Mick Rory, aka Heat Wave, despite being an arsonist, you eventually find redemption in a remarkable arc. Remember to mention me when you write your future novels."

"Hawkman, Carter Hall, Hawkgirl, Kendra Saunders, I have only three words for the two of you: wasted potential!"

Stephen turned his gaze to Rip Hunter, who wore an expression of ugliness and shock. "Actually, I admire you the most. You know why? It would have been obvious to merely save your family, but shamelessly gathering this group of misfits under the banner of saving the timeline and the world, and I must say, you succeeded."

With each sentence uttered, the faces of the individuals displayed a mix of sourness, anger at being ridiculed, and shock at the revelations.

"Have you seen us in the future?" Rip Hunter asked with a frown.

Stephen had initially believed that this mission was solely about preventing him from rescuing Laurel to avoid the formation of the "Birds of Prey" and altering Sara Lance's fate. However, it now became evident that Stephen not only knew too much about them but also possessed knowledge of a future they were unaware of.

The only explanation was that the Legends team, which Stephen had encountered in the future, now knew their own future destiny, making the situation a bit more complicated.

"It seems we have much to discuss," Rip Hunter said solemnly.

Stephen smiled in return. "Then why don't we go inside and discuss the time deviations slowly on the Wave Rider?"

The Wave Rider was a large expeditionary ship that utilized ion propulsion as its main source of power. It possessed time travel capabilities, stealth mode, autopilot mode, self-diagnosis functions, and was equipped with medical rooms, escape ships, and the artificial intelligence named Gideon.

It served as the Legends of Tomorrow's vessel for traversing time and was their sole means of rectifying temporal anomalies.

Stephen followed the emotionally charged members of the Legends team aboard the Wave Rider, and the ship's artificial intelligence was the first to speak.

"Hello, Gideon."

"Hello, Mr. Stephen," the synthesized female voice echoed, and a holographic female head materialized in the center.

Stephen smiled, leaning against the console, and addressed Rip Hunter and the others. "Alright then, let's begin by discussing the time deviations you're aware of."

Rip Hunter glanced at Sara Lance.

Sara Lance spoke up. "Because you prematurely made my sister the Black Canary and formed the Birds of Prey squad with Felicity and Catwoman, a series of deviations occurred. I wasn't killed by Thea Queen, I wasn't resurrected, and my sister wasn't killed by Damien Darhk."

"And as a result, two sets of memories have started merging in my mind. I can feel the original memories slowly fading away. This indicates that the past is changing in accordance with your altered reality."

"You're altering history for us."

"So we must stop you from doing this!"

Time is linear. While reality has yet to unfold, it continues to progress. Time solidifies gradually, and changes occur within reality, replacing past events with new ones. Before the detection of a time deviation, history hasn't completely transformed, so they came to the point of deviation to prevent it and safeguard the original timeline. This is why the Legends team sought out Stephen.

Stephen is the time deviation responsible for altering history!

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Now, what lies ahead for our MC? Who cares! I'm going to spoil it anyway, so spoiler alert!

Stephen: Time for an adventure—with time, through time, across time, alongside whom?!!!

Marvel King: Author

Translator: Zatch[King]Rex