Destruction of the Waverider (Earth-Prime)

"I'm gonna bomb the living daylights out of them. I am advising against this course of action. How else am I supposed to wipe them off the face of the Earth? Eliminating the Legends in this blunt manner will cause excessive collateral damage. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Your warning is duly noted."

- Bishop and Gideon

The Destruction of the Waverider was Bishop's attempt to eradicate the Legends of Tomorrow.

Background
During Bishop's attempt to release Zagurons in Odessa, Texas, the Fountain of Imperium was poisoned and fell into a weakened state. The Legends of Tomorrow then traveled to 2212 and demanded Bishop's younger self's assistance. However, after he learned his lesson and decided to not fall into the same fate as his future self, Ava Sharpe and Nate Heywood erased his memory, not knowing that he acquired a replica of Gideon while his time on the Waverider.

Returning to 2212, Bishop began seeing flashes of memory and discovered the replica drive in his lab coat. Albeit Assistant Ava's advices, Bishop was fixated on cracking the codes of the drive, eventually waking Gideon. Bishop erased Gideon's memory with the Legends, and subsequently installed her on a replica Waverider.

Destruction
Upon piloting the Waverider, Bishop time jumped to Odessa, Texas in 1925, attempting to eliminate the Legends while they were onboard the Waverider. However, his impulsive actions did not factor in the possibility of the Legends not being onboard the Waverider, and resulted in the sole destruction of the vessel.

Aftermath
As the Legends were stranded in 1925, they attempted a variety of methods to evade the authorities, eventually deciding to pose as the "Guggenheim Circus." To redirect the attention from Gloria Cruz to themselves, the Legends also posed as the "Bullet Blondes" and robbed a bank, acquiring a required amount of cash to buy train tickets to New York City. They then began journey across the United States to New York City, hoping to utilize Dr. Gwyn Davies' time machine and return to 2021.