So, I had this burning a hole in my brain. Mostly, I just didn't like what happened to Len and Mick, or with the later Flash seasons, so I decided to change it. At first I couldn't figure out how to change it, but then I realized that Len would be a pretty good pirate. And pirates with superhuman abilities and weird tech always makes me think of One Piece. Wrote this all today, even.

:I am not the owner of One Piece or anything to do with the Flash. MLA Citations at end.

Leonard Snart was floating in a void, his mind nearly completely blank. Nearly, because he had managed to hold onto one particular thought and fear, a testament of the focus, will, and… emotional connection to the thought.

'Please let Mick have survived…,' the soul of Leonard Snart, Captain Cold, projected into the void. Because Mick, his best friend and partner, knew him. Knew that he'd knock the pyro out and sacrifice himself instead, and had only pretended to be unconscious.

The idiot had come back when no one was paying attention to his unconscious body, with both guns and had gone out in his preferred ' blaze of glory', shouting that he'd never leave his best friend behind.

And now Len was undoubtedly going to Hell, because he knew that he wasn't a good person. The only hope he had was that somehow his partner had survived.

'Hmmm…. I see,"

Every memory Len had, from beginning to the end began to play through his head, if he'd have been able to spare any emotion there was no doubt he would have cried for loss and remembered happiness. The memories, fleeting and blurred for the most part, tended to stop and go through all of the good memories. Lisa, Mick, the Rogues- from Hartley to that new guy Sam Scudder, even Barry and Cisco(Who had both been destroyed by losing both Caitlin and Iris to irrational grief and from Eobard's betrayal, and he'd had to find them and put them back together) all were a part of these memories.

'What if….'

He would do everything over again if it meant keeping these memories, even if he wouldn't have wanted to kill people as Captain Cold, or kidnapped Cisco, or hurt Mick by leaving off on their partnership for a while…

'Now hold on just a moment, that is not what I meant…'

And just like that the soul of Leonard Snart was crammed back into his body, or at least a semblance of his body, being gently held up by the Being that had brought him there and surrounded by other Beings.

"Leonard Snart," came an ageless male voice, "I promise that your friend is as safe as you."

Which didn't comfort Len that much because he knew for a fact that he was dead, but that didn't stop him from turning to study the people in what seemed to be a blank white plane. The one that had brought him there as well as spoken would seem fairly normal if not for the curling gold mist floating around him, and the ancientness and wisdom in his eyes.

The others looked far less ordinary at a glance. There was a cheerful young woman whose eyes seemed to be made of lightning that was built like a hunting cheetah, a guy with deep purple skin, a trickster smile, and spinning galaxies in his eyes, a creepily symmetrical and oddly mechanical golden man, a beautiful woman with purely green eyes, and bemusedly enough a skeleton with fathomless eyes wearing a black robe and holding a scythe in his hand.

Three guesses as to the last one's identity, and the first two don't count.

"What…" came the rusty human voice that belonged to Len, "…is going on?"

The cheerful women(why did she remind him so much of Barry Allen?) laughed as she told him, "We couldn't agree on much, besides the fact that there is an issue and what we really shouldn't do to fix it, so big bro brought you here to help us!"

"You are confusing the human designated Leonard Snart," the too-perfect golden man said in an even tone of voice, "State your designations, then explain what function Leonard Snart has been brought here for."

"You know," said the definite trickster with a smirk, "I'm pretty sure that you should relax a bit, not exactly like we have a procedure here or anything."

The golden man scowled(or at least Len was pretty sure it was a scowl) at the other and seemed about to retort when a deep, grinding, genderless voice broke them up.

"Enough," said the skeleton, "We Are Death, Leonard, and these are my colleagues, Order and Chaos," they nodded to the two who'd been about to argue, and pointing out the others at their turn, "Luck, Speed, and Time. Time brought you here, even though there were others that might have worked, because you had the best chance to make a good choice as to what we should do."

When Captain Cold(for the man had slipped into his criminal, calculating demeanor) narrowed his eyes, average looking Time explained, "Certain meddlers have changed things. What has happened in your time was never meant to happen, Destiny is still sick from the backlash, and many were hurt greatly who were not meant to be. We have decided to fix it as best we can, but that would cause the erasure of several who do not deserve it."

"Yeah!" Cheered Speed, "But we couldn't quite decide what, and we ruled out sending anyone back in time, no offense to my champion but he would probably mess it up…"

"Barry Allen is far too emotionally motivated to properly use time travel of any kind, even sanctioned by us," Order intoned.

"At least he's not emotionally compromised like you!" She retorted, "But, yeah, Time vetoed it right away! So now we need to figure it out what we should do, but no one can agree, and you were the only one that everyone liked or at least didn't dislike enough to bring in as a second opinion!"

"What she means," Lady Luck spoke with a sly tone, "Is that we want to know what you would desire most right now. We will base our decision off of that."

And Len hesitated, but at the end of the day… "I want all of my family, my Chosen family, to all be together… preferably with targets that Scarlet and Lisa's Boy Toy would be fine with us robbing." Once a thief, always a thief after all… and anyone who didn't want to see what Allen and Ramon could do as thieves was just kidding themselves.

All of the Entities gave each other a look that Len missed, before Chaos spoke, "So, excitement, family of choice, corrupt idiots to steal from, I believe that I have just the place."

"Shame," Luck said with a sigh, "But I suppose Ninja just wouldn't work out, no matter how happy it would make Mick Rory."

"And travelling time and space with my champion of another dimension wouldn't be much help for some of them," Time didn't seem too broken up about it though.

Speed pouted at all of them, "Sending them to an alternate dimension would have been cool, I mean they could've, like, raised their younger selves or mentored younger thems, or corrupted all the people who'd have been heroes or villains."

"Too similar to their own time line," Order told her, "Though I do not see why my offer of eternal paradise was not agreed upon, though I suppose that you could have seen something that I missed."

"Eternity in one place is boring," Death grumbled, "The living realms are far more interesting. And while I would have enjoyed hosting them on any of my offered dimensions, Chaos is correct in believing that they do need a challenge as well as a good chance to find each other. Besides, I still get to do my favorite part."

As one, all of the entities turned to the thief, who looked freaked out and almost like he wished he could retract his statement, before becoming resolved, "Mick will be alive, right? Even if he's dead now."

"Oh Hun," Luck said softly, "I'll make sure that you'll meet quickly, you and everyone you care about, but especially that partner of yours."

And the Death reached out and grabbed the soul of the man who cared about the people who were his, and told the others "Let's retrieve those who have earned it this universe around, and deal with those idiots who think they can mess with Time."

So, Mick Rory's soul was taken out of Death's pocket and put next to the soul of his partner. Speed grabbed Barry Allen during a run he went on to clear his head, Luck stole the souls of Cisco Ramon and Lisa Snart as they were talking in the labs, most of the Rogues(Shawna Baez, Hartley Rathaway, James Jesse, Mark Mardon, Roy Bivolo) were nabbed by Time, and Sam Scudder was taken by Order from one of his mirrors.

When all of those who'd been particularly messed with by the 'changes' in the timeline were gathered, that particular timeline was put back on track, like nothing had ever happened. The only ones left of the twisted timeline were those the ancient beings had shielded.

Death and Chaos sent them off to be reborn in a new time-line, both entirely amused. After all it would be entertaining, and a difference from the monotony of their jobs.

Plus, they could help the people they sent, which always felt good. It was rare to be able to do that, and this was only able to happen because of a loophole.

Neely, Blake. DC Universe. The Flash. 4 seasons, 2014, Television.

I Hope this is good...