AN: To all of you continuity police out there this takes place after Flashpoint and for simplicity sake everything got turned back to how it was before and Barry got over his emotions by being with Iris.
Barry sat in Star Labs looking through some case files of metahumans, he sat at the desk minding his own business, after returning back to his timeline he found happiness being with Iris and not having to worry about his life. Metahuman attacks had decreased rapidly after the defeat of Zoom since no one wanted to tangle with The Flash after outwitting the metapocalypse. As Barry sat growing more uncomfortable in his Flash suit, why did he make it out of leather it gets so hot even with the cowl down, the elevator door opened. It was probably Cisco or Catlin, they were having talks about reopening Star Labs to the public so that's why they had been running late recently. Barry just say in the chair but found it odd that no one had begun speaking. He became suspicious so he turned around slowly but then got caught in a choke hold. After a few seconds of struggling he phased through the attacker and through the table and turned around putting on his cowl with super speed. It was Oliver Queen the Green Arrow with a smirk on his face.
"Ollie what the hell!" Barry exclaimed removing his cowl.
"Come on Bear if I wanted it you would be dead right now, you have to learn to mind your surroundings." He said with a look of satisfaction on his face despite the mask and hood Barry could see right through that gruff exterior.
"Well I've got powers, don't need training." Barry said slouching in the chair from before.
"Barry that was a joke, ok I never thought I would be the lighter one" Oliver said taking off his mask and hood.
"Your clearly not." Barry said under his breath but Oliver still heard him.
"I'll take that as a complement" Oliver said grabbing a solvent from Catlin's lab to remove his eye makeup.
"So what you doing in town?" Barry asked getting up and walking over to him.
"Cisco made an improved version of my suit, you know more Kevlar, trick arrows and" Oliver mumbled.
"He added sleeves didn't he." Barry said folding his arms with a smirk on his face.
"Told him not to tell anyone." Oliver said in embarrassment.
"Oh I could tell that you were freezing your ass off last year, or did you want Cupid to stop drooling every time you fight her." Barry laughed.
"Well at least I don't dress like I'm doing bondage." Oliver fired back.
"Oh please grow up besides if anyone looks like they would be into bondage it would be Laur." Barry started to say but paused.
"Laurel." Oliver finished.
The two then stood in silence for a split second but it was enough for things to get weird and they both looked away from each other.
"Hey um I'll take you to your suit." Barry chimed in leading him to the elevator.
When they got downstairs the two managed to get out of the awkwardness from before.
"So where is my suit?" Oliver asked wondering why they were on the bottom floor.
"Cisco wanted you to protect you against metas so he charged it with small amounts of dark matter, so he put it into a cabinet in the pipeline." Barry said.
"Well I'll pretend like that makes sense." Oliver said walking with Barry to the entrance of the pipeline.
It was exactly how he remembered it, a large circular door with a monitor next to it and a bunch of circuitry running along the walls. By the monitor was a cabinet where Oliver's suit was. Barry sped over to it.
"K one Green Arrow suit coming up, huh oh I need Cisco's ID tag." Barry Then looked at the monitor and noticed that Cisco had signed in upstairs. "Oh ok wait just a sec I'll go and get it off of him" He said turning and walking behind Oliver. "I'll be back in a flash." Barry said happily while putting his cowl on.
"By the way tell Cisco he's a dead man for sending me to that Earth where we're all part of a glee club." He shouted while Barry sped off.
Oliver then realised that he would be a while since he had to wait for the elevator and Cisco was 600 floors away. Oliver sighed but turned around to the monitor when he heard it beep. He looked over and saw that one of the prisoners needed to be fed, he pressed the button to open the door while grabbing a bag of Big Belly Burger that was sitting on a rack. Just before the door opened Oliver thought to himself about this prison, it was completely illegal, especially since some of them were only there for theft not to mention the fact that Iron Heights had metahuman cells now. He had to berate Barry about his ethics after this. But when the door opened he dropped the bag a stared at the prisoner in shock. He felt a cold shiver run down his spine looking at her it was Dinah Laurel Lance sitting in the cell.
The person in the cell looked at the floor when the bag dropped outside and rolled her eyes.
"For being scientists don't seem to know that junk food is bad for you" She said standing up and turned to face Oliver and reached a similar look of shock but also happiness upon seeing him, she even began to shed a tear so did Oliver after seeing his closest friend alive before his very eyes.
"How? Why?" Oliver barely began to say.
Laurel looked on at him and rushed towards the glass and put her hand on it, Oliver took his hand and placed it on the glass as well.
"Laurel." Oliver said.
"It's Dinah now, but." She said.
"You're alive." The two said softly at once while starring into each other's eyes.
Barry sped down taking off his cowl holding Cisco's ID card in his hands.
"Ollie man I didn't know you were a Nirvana fan." Barry began to say but then looked up at Oliver and Dinah and immediately started to worry.
"Barry how could you do this to me?!" Oliver shouted in his Arrow voice while turning around to Barry."
"Listen I can explain." Barry said holding up his hands.
"Explain why my childhood friend is locked up in your prison and you allowed me to think that she was dead. Don't you know how depressed I've been, she was she is the only one who I have ever been able to talk about my inner feelings with, who accepted my darkness and I accepted hers. I didn't realise how important she was to me till after that night, how could you let me your friend feel like this!" Oliver shouted.
"Oliver that isn't her." Barry said in fear, feeling tiny compared to him.
"I'm not on mirukuru Barry she's standing right there!" Oliver shouted.
"That's the Laurel from Earth 2 she's not the one you lost she's an entirely different person, come on you have magical powers which you for some reason never seem to use, anyways you gotta be able to wrap your head around that, Ollie please?" Barry said shedding a tear.
Oliver began to calm down but was still breathing heavily a turned around and closed the door to the pipeline, mouthing an "I'm sorry" to Dinah who shook her head and cried as it closed. Oliver rubbed away his tears with his back to Barry.
After a few seconds of contemplating Barry walked up to Oliver and put his left hand on his shoulder.
"Thank you." Barry said.
Dinah on the other side of the wall slid her back down and put her head between her knees, she cried more than ever before remembering how she found out Oliver cheated on her with her sister and died in a ship wreck, her parents getting divorced her father's alcoholism, how she was eventually getting back to normal by training at a local gym with a guy named Ted Grant. How she started dating a long term friend of hers Tommy Merlyn and how her dad started to get off his drinking but then everything was ripped from her when an unexplained earthquake struck the city, it killed Ted, Tommy and her father not to mention all of her friends at work. She had enough of all of the people in her life leaving her so she was done feeling sorry for herself she started training across the world with different masters to get stronger as fighting was the only thing she knew she eventually moved to Central City with her mother wanting to get away from the pain. But she wasn't allowed that either as the particle accelerator explosion occurred giving her an incredible sonic scream, but when she screamed for the first time she killed her own mother. She felt like the world was cruel so she felt like she should take something from the world and when Zoom started terrorising the city and fell pray to his brainwashing believing that metahumans were the next stage in human beings and that she should help him. But then one day she stayed a bit too long at one of her crime scenes and found a little girl buried under rubble, dead.
She continued to follow Zoom out of pure fear even to a whole other world and now Zoom was dead but she was locked up in a cage because of what she did. She deserved it, she was a terrible excuse for a human being and wanted nothing more than to die. But she couldn't.
And then there was Oliver who was someone she hated for so long but only he could make her happy, contain her anxiety and she helped him through his struggle with depression but it seemed like this Oliver was much worse off though. But he was alive she might have been given a second chance. But she couldn't think at the moment after hearing a loud noise from the other side of the wall.
Oliver had grabbed Barry's arm and thrown him down on the ground and put his hand on his throat.
"I was ok with this prison at first but now it has gone too far Barry you can't just lock these people up without a proper due process, have you figured out how long their sentences should be or the fact that they have no social interaction what so ever. How insane do you have to be to do this? You are going to transfer all of these people to Iron Heights where they will have trials for each of your victims. If this isn't done by the end of the week, I'll be back and I will use my magic to send you literally to hell you understand!?" Oliver shouted at Barry using magic to stop him from phasing through him.
"I do understand" Cisco said from across the room hitting Oliver with a sonic blast which made him phase right through the wall and fall into Dinah's cell. "Barry you ok?" Cisco asked kneeling down at him.
"Yeah I'm fine." Barry answered while being helped up by Cisco.
"Why did he have a full blown mental breakdown by the way?" Cisco asked.
"I dunno but we got to call Felicity." Barry said.
Oliver slowly came to his senses and realised that he was in a cell and turned around to find Dinah who had wiped her tears away and looked at him with concern. Oliver then stood up and looked around at the sea of cells around them. He could see dozens of metahumans from the metapocalypse, and others he had been locking up over the summer.
"Well so your The Hood of this world?" Dinah said returning to her sinister voice from before.