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five.

MONSTROUS.
005. | ❛ the lady does have a heart. ❜

Sara and Crystal made their way to the library where Nate would be, and the two ladies were elected to be the bearer of bad news for the historian. They stepped in, seeing Nate looking at the screen a photo of Commander Steel punching what seemed like a Nazi solider.

"Is that Grandpa?" Sara asked

"Yeah. Pictures of him are hard to find. You just got to know where to look."

"Well, that must've been something, getting the chance to meet him." Crystal said while they still stared at the photo.

"You would think so, right? But... I don't know. Felt empty somehow."

Sara took this time to casually slip the news in, clearing her throat to signal Crystal as they leaned against the bookcase facing him.

"Well, meeting your idols usually does. Think of it this way. You are gonna have one hell of a story to tell your friends when you get back home." Sara said and Nate quickly caught on to what they were implying.

"Back home? 2016 back home? You can't cut me from the team."

"Well, you're right, because you're not a member of it. And even if you were, history can be dangerous, and it's no place for a..." Crystal was cut off by Nate.

"A historian? I'm more than..." Nate touched his chest and feeling it various times, noting something that was off, "that's weird."

"It's really not so weird. You don't have any superpowers. You don't even have training..." Sara went off before Nate told her what was happening.

"Not that. My grandfather's dog tags. They aren't around my neck."

"So?"

"So I haven't taken 'em off since I was a kid. They were here a minute ago, and now they've..."

"Vanished." Sara and Crystal said in unison looking at each other.

"What does that mean?"

"That history has changed." Crystal informed him while he went to his journal in a hurry scrambling for his notes.

"What are you doing?"

"Reviewing my notes on the JSA." Nate said while getting to the page and skimming before turning to Sara and Crystal. "We have to go back to 1942."

"Nate, the JSA was pretty explicit on us not going back to 1942." Crystal crossed her arms before Nate explained what he just read in his notes.

"That mission the JSA went on to track down Baron Krieger in Paris, they're all gonna die there tomorrow. My grandfather too."

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After hearing Stein's plan on how to catch Baron Krieger, Crystal went to see how Nate was preparing to help. She went down to the armory, feeling a way of emotions come over her while heading down being filled with memories that lined every hallway she turned. Even the ingestible translator that she used when they went to Germany and when she finally convinced and said out loud to Ray that she liked Leonard.