Disclaimer: I don't own Arrow or its comics or the Flash and its comics. I'm simply playing with the characters and storylines for my own amusement and as a coping mechanism for the way the show chose to go.
A/N: This is the third short story in what I call my Deviations series. The first was Daughter of the Demon (a season 3 "rewrite") and the second Canary Cry (a rewrite of the season 4 episode with the same name). These stories are not connected except for the premise of how one change could've altered the show we have today (perhaps for the better) and I'm considering following this story and the second out further like I did with Daughter of the Demon. In this case, it's both a casting and storyline change that I plan to enact.
Subnote: I am posting the first part to this story at the same time as my season 4 deviation episode. I'm only going to update one story a week, to buy myself time as I work on Wed to the Mask, so which ever story gets the most reviews/requests for more will be the one I update next week.
The first two chapters of this story actually rewrite the last few scenes of 5 x 10, the rest focus on the major changes that would've happened in 5 x 11.
Constructive responses help me grow as a writer. Positive reviews make me smile and help with my bouts of self-doubt : ) Thank you for reading!
Part One
Felicity punched Black Siren in the jaw. The villainess stumbled back a foot, but she didn't fall. She scowled at the indignity of the blow, then backhanded the hacker in the face. Black Siren was a powerful metahuman. In minutes, she could rebound after being hit with a car. A single punch, no matter how properly thrown, wasn't enough to take her down.
Felicity, on the other hand, crumbled. Black Siren had put her full strength into the strike and dazed the hacker. If she'd punched Felicity, the human would've been knocked out cold. As it was, the Green Arrow whipped up his bow while his ex-fiancé fell at Black Siren's feet. A taser-style arrow clipped the metahuman in the shoulder and hit her with enough volts to take down a mirakuru soldier. She managed one menacing step in his direction before her body failed her and she collapsed.
"Felicity," Mr. Terrific moved to help his downed teammate. Felicity stirred with a moan.
Green Arrow remained focused on the objective and secured Black Siren. He had to turn her on her side before slapping the power-dampening cuffs onto her wrists – the Flash had delivered the cuffs, after the first time Green Arrow and his team encountered a metahuman in Star City. They'd had trouble finding the pair when Black Siren first revealed her true colors but had just in time for this showdown.
Green Arrow removed the arrow the moment he had her cuffed. He'd known it would take a lot to knock her down, but he didn't want to kill her accidently. Then he gently brushed her hair back from her face. His expression was unreadable to his teammates as he regarded the woman who was a dead ringer for his lost friend. A woman he'd deeply loved.
"What are we going to do with her?" Wild Dog asked.
"Put her back in the Pipeline?" Mr. Terrific suggested.
"We should send her back to Earth-Two where she belongs," Felicity snipped, holding her sore cheek.
"We can't. They can't control her on her Earth, and the remaining members of Zoom's army would follow her," Green Arrow replied. He'd received a brief explanation from the Flash when he was informed of her presence on their Earth. "We won't be sending her back to the Pipeline either – I've seen those cages; they aren't meant for long-term imprisonment."
"Then what are we going to do?" Ragman repeated the question.
"ARGUS has meta-cells; they can hold her. It will be easier to talk to her there," Green Arrow decided.
"Talk to her?" Felicity expressed her incredulity.
"There's good in her. I saw it, before you had the others attack her at the pier," Green Arrow replied.
"She was playing you," Felicity denied.
"Maybe. I didn't get the chance to find out, because you decided to undermine my call." Felicity flushed at the reprimand in his tone.
He could've said more, but they wouldn't have understood. They hadn't known Laurel as he had. They hadn't seen the true joy on Black Siren's face when she first saw him – a reunion she'd never expected. Now that he knew she'd lost her Oliver, he could understand how she'd felt in that moment. Even knowing he wasn't the love she'd lost, she'd found a part of him that lived on. Oliver felt the same.
He scooped Black Siren into his arms and carried her out of the warehouse.