11 years-old Barry was running away from the band who wanted to hit him. Behind him was Maeka, his 7 years-old little sister. She was slower than him, so to save her from being hit, he slowed down until he was behind her. She made it home, while he was beat up, two street across their house. He came home no longer after, a nasty cut on his cheek. Their mother, Nora help him clean it. While she was doing it, Henry Allen their father got home. He saw the cut and ask what happened. Later that night, the two siblings were wake up by a sound coming from downstairs. They both go down, only to face a weird scene. A yellow and red tornado-like was in the living room trapping their mother in it.
Suddenly, Barry was 20 blocks away from their house and Maeka found herself in Starling City, not too far from the Queen house, unable to retrieve any memory of what just happened. Barry made his way back to his house, just as his father were taken by the police for the murder of his and Maeka mother. He manage to enter the house, even if father didn't want him to. He saw what happened to his mother.
Maeka was found the morning after sleeping under Moira Queen's window. The billionaire women took her in and raised her. She found a friend in Thea Queen, who was two years younger than her. As the years passed, some memory came back and she started to remember her brother Barry.
When she turned 18, she took a trip to Central City. She looked for her brother and finally found him in Central City police department, working. It took him some minutes to understand what was happening. When he did, they hug each other until Joe West, Barry friend and colleague, arrived. Barry explained everything to Joe and he accepted to take her in for the time she wanted. They talk a lot, Maeka about Oliver Queen, her adoptive brother who disappears and was presumed dead for 2 years.
Two weeks later, Maeka went back to Starling City to help Moira and Thea with everything. During the next three years, they visited each other a couple of time and talk pretty much every day over the phone. When Oliver was found alive on Ellis Island and brought back to Starling City, Maeka called her brother to tell him. Barry came to Starling City for a week following Oliver returns and he never got to see him. He went back to Joe and Iris.
The Arrow appeared no longer after Oliver return. Maeka started to think he was the Arrow. That's why she followed him once. She found the basement under the Verdant and waited for Oliver to come back. When he finally did, he had the surprise of his life. He had no other choice than explained everything to Maeka. They where even closer after that, always around each other, never one without the other. Maeka helped Olive with his nightmare and his memory. She was a remedy for him.
She got along well with John Diggle. They were good friend who had the same person to protect. When Felicity learned the secret it was even better, since she was no longer the only girl in the man cave. Oliver disappear again during five months before being found by Digg Felicity and Maeka on Lian Yu. He took his hood on again and protect the city.
Some months later, Barry came to Starling City to investigate a strange case with Oliver, Felicity Digg and his sister. He got call back to Central City by his boss, since he left under a false reason. In the same time Oliver got hurt. Maeka decide to bring Barry in the Arrow cave, to save Oliver, which he did. Oliver woke up and was mad at Maeka for telling his secret. However, he could stay mad long since Barry help them catch the guy who attack Oliver. Barry convinced Maeka to come to Central City with him to watch the particle accelerator goes on. She accepts to go. She waited for Barry in his apartment until he finishes work and then goes over to Central City Police Department. They got both strike by the lighting.
When Joe called the Queen family, both Oliver and Thea took the first train to Central City. They stayed as long as they could, but being the Arrow, Oliver had to go back and Thea misses Roy. Whenever something happened, Joe call over Oliver and he came if he could. That's where the story start.