AN: sorry for the delay guys, been busy with school work

Oliver could barely breathe, it was over, Count Werner Vertigo, uncle to the Princess of Vlatava started a civil war to take the crown for himself, he had shed so much blood in his conquest and even joined one of the largest criminal organisations in the world to do it, The Injustice League.

Oliver lay there on the ground as his brain seemingly turned inside out, he could just about hear the dictator's laugh as he overwhelmed him with his mystical cane.

Eventually he stopped.

For a few precious seconds he let Oliver slowly piece together what had happened and what he helped him do, the type of tyrannical rule that was about to follow would end up killing hundreds including the one of a 10 year old girl who was now about to be crowned Queen of a country she doesn't know the first thing of.

In his goal to rid the world of elitist punks he ended up helping a man who could potentially start World War III. He failed.

"Vertigo…" Oliver could barely whimper while he was on the ground, finding it excruciatingly hard to even move a finger.

"That's Count Vertigo to you peasant." Vertigo remarked in disdain at the wreck that was lying beneath him.

"Didn't you use that line earlier? Man you've got an ego…" Oliver said while battling what felt like the worst migraine of his life.

Vertigo scoffed at the man's arrogance, disgusted at his very sight, he pressed a button on the cane which popped out a blade from the bottom, and raised it over Oliver's head. "That's soon to be King Vertigo, once I dispatch of you, and that little bi-"

"Shut your mouth" Shouted the voice of Spoiler as Batgirl jumped up into the air, kicking Vertigo multiple times in the back and then knocked the staff out of his hand and then hurled it towards the other two heroes.

Robin, used his bo staff to slam the cane through a small glass window in the ceiling which led to a field behind the mansion.

Robin and Spoiler joined in the fight with Batgirl, Vertigo brought out two small knives to contend with the kids, proving to be quite the formidable opponent for them. Despite this he soon realised that Batgirl was too strong of a combatant even for him, in addition to the other two, he wouldn't last much longer. He rolled to the side and used his knives to slice open bottles of wine as well as a large barrel of beer.

As he rushed through the isles the falling liquids caused Spoiler and Robin to trip over while Batgirl kicked herself off the sides of the shelves. He got to a the wall where he could see the window above him leading towards the treasure he spent so long looking for. He turned around sharply knocking over the rows of shelves causing them all to topple over each other, which ended up knocking down Batgirl for a brief moment. That moment however was just barely enough time for him to crawl up through the tiny window out onto the back garden, acquiring cuts and splinters along the way the pain of which could mostly be masked by adrenaline.

Once getting to the field, he frantically searched the grass near the wall of the manor until he finally found his staff just as Batgirl slipped through the window which was right at the bottom of the manor's wall with Robin not too far behind.

Once the two teens were through they gasped at the sight of Vertigo holding his cane and laughing maniacally. Their expressions were short lived however, as the man hit them with a disorientating wave causing them to get slightly nauseous.

He didn't want to kill them with the wave as he wanted their deaths to be more brutal. He lunged at Robin knocking him against the wall, grabbing his bo staff in the process using it to slam Batgirl in the face causing her to fall back. She attempted to give a fight but was too disorientated to concentrate, rendering her superior fighting skills mute. Vertigo used the staff and cane together to overpower the girl and knock her to the ground as well.

As he chucked Robin's staff to the ground he prepared the blade of his cane to slam directly into Batgirl's head but was met with a kick to his own from Spoiler who had come up behind him. She kept her distance using her nunchucks to provide countless light but strategic blows to his limbs to take him off balance. Enough so, so that she could grab his precious staff from his hand and deliver a massive blow with her nunchuck to his head.

She dashed away, with a look of utter happiness in her eyes as she made a mental note of this to brag about this later. Speeding about 10 feet away from the supervillain she found herself at a tree with the Vlatavian cane in her hand.

Vertigo recovered from the meager assault to feast his eyes on the purple and black clad teenager who had his precious weapon.

"Infuriating harlot, I'll kill you for this!" He shouted in a devastating voice while pulling out a throwing knife.

"Uh huh." Spoiler sassily responded with a quick cunning but playful look from her eyes at the man to cover up her fear. She then took the staff in her right hand and with all the might she could muster she smashed the hilt of hit onto the tree trunk breaking the cane in half. But as the wood splinters fell to the floor so did she, as Vertigo had hit her with a knife into the side of her left thigh, resulting in a massive shriek of pain as she found herself on the grass with her arms grasping at her bleeding leg.

But before he could move to finish the job a red feathered arrow with a rope attached to the end of it lodged itself in the back of his shoulder. It had been fired by Arsenal who was standing on the roof with Black Canary, who then jumped down and swung Vertigo around and performed a summersault in the air while holding onto the rope in order to send him flying across the grass and passed the tree Spoiler was lying at. As Black Canary zip lined down and joined her protege to give Vertigo the finishing blow Batman picked up Spoiler holding her in much the same way he did with Jason not too long ago, taking her to edge of the grass where Robin and Batgirl were beginning to awake.

"Oh my God, NO!" Robin cried upon seeing his girlfriend in such a state as Batman laid her down on the ground.

Batgirl could hardly speak as her mind couldn't be bothered to remember how after seeing her friend like this.

"Both of you calm down!" Batman demanded in a loud voice. "I'm not losing another one!" He said while quickly but carefully dislodging the blade and using his medical kit to nurse the wound.

Black Canary used her tonfas to finish off the sluggish Vertigo, almost disappointed she couldn't have kicked his ass back when he was formidable. In a last ditch effort, he attempted to hit Arsenal with a knife but was stopped by a green feathered arrow that was shot into his wrist.

As Canary slammed the royal with her tonfa, finally dispatching of the supervillain she and the others turned around to find Green Arrow on the first floor balcony smiling at the heroes as he could barely keep on two feet. He eventually ended up falling over which scared the daylights out of Arsenal who grappled up to see if he was ok with Canary following.

While this was going on Bruce finished bandaging Stephanie's wound, sitting back with a sigh after confirming that she wouldn't bleed out.

"She'll be fine." He said with relief while turning to see that Cass had sat down next to him resting her head against his side in relief of seeing her friend ok as well as looking for fatherly support.

Tim had sat behind Stephanie sitting her up and letting her lean on his chest as his hugged her with his arms, while resting his head in the crook of her neck from behind.

"Hey I thought you hated being big spoon?" Stephanie joked alleviating the tension, turning her head back to look at her boyfriend while wiping his tears.

"I love you more!" He replied sweetly causing even Bruce to smile.

"I've been unfair to you three, especially you Stephanie. After Jason I didn't want anyone else to be doing this because of me. Tim made me realize that I need people like you around but I continued to be overprotective. I don't want anything bad to happen to you three but I also realize that you're nearly adults, heck Stephanie you're 18." Bruce said softly breaking his brooding persona. He turned to Steph who was astonished at how nice he was being to her. " You've earned a place with this team, you earned it months ago but i was too stubborn to see it. The Justice League has a covert team of younger heroes that we deploy on mission called the Ti-"

"She knows- oops..." Cass interrupted but then immediately regretted it, as she forgot to get her mind back into a headspace of speaking, she had mostly grasped the English language within the last year or so, it was remarkable at how fast she could learn but she still forgot to think many times, this was one of them.

"Wait what!?" Bruce replied in a more stern voice and turned to Tim and Cass. "Ok you two are in trouble for that… ugh but Steph, welcome to the Titans." Bruce said as the kids cheered despite being serious about them being in trouble but shelved it to smile with them.

Over on the balcony, Oliver was waking up while sitting against the glass wall of the fence looking up at Roy and Dinah. A final smack to the face from Dinah woke him up fully grabbing his attention.

"I think he's a awake." Dinah smiled while looking at Roy then sitting back on the floor, removing her leather jacket to relax.

Roy was sitting in front of Oliver looking away slightly while fiddling with his bow, he began to speak while looking down in shame "Ollie, I'm sorry for telling them about-"

"No Roy, don't apologize, I broke the law multiple times for my own selfish reasons no matter how good intentioned they were. I'm so proud of you Speedy. You are a superhero, how cool is that? I'm sorry I wasn't the mentor you needed so I'm thankful to you Dinah for being there for him and taking care of him as if he were your own." Oliver interrupted and explained while turning to the two of them

Roy began to tear up slightly causing Oliver and Dinah to hold his shoulders reassuringly, once the boy calmed down she turned to Oliver.

"I've got to know why did you do all this in the first place?" Dinah asked sincerely turning to Oliver.

With a deep breath he explained. "All while I was growing up I had everything, not a care in the world, I just spent my money on parties. I didn't care about anyone I was just a spoilt brat and whenever I did something wrong or got in trouble my dad would bail me out. He didn't let me suffer any consequences for my actions he cared more about his reputation and holding onto every scrap of power he could then actually being a parent." Oliver heaved while remembering his father.

He took a deep breath.

"My mom on the other hand, she always reprimanded me, tried to make me do more with my time in my resources, even made me take up archery. But I ignored her because I wanted to be free as my dad let me do whatever I wanted. But then the island happened, I met people at that heroin plant, people in the world institutionally hated. I realise that there was so much wrong in the world and so much of it was done by the people in power. Racist cops, climate change, incoming inequality, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, sexism… basically... I watched a non stop Bernie Sanders speech" Oliver continued, doing his best to lighten the mood at the end.

"Once I got home I was determined to make it right, look my mom in the eye and tell her I was sorry. But I couldn't, because she died of cancer while I was gone, and my dad. He didn't care he was sleeping with whatever barely legal girl he could get. He never gave a crap about the Queen Foundation, never gave a crap about all the people he screwed over. All the people who died because he jacked up their Healthcare costs, all the ones who were shot daily because of the partnership with the NRA. He was ruining this country and everyone would let him get away with it because of his money. I felt so guilty for not realising it before, I had to do something, I had to get justice."

"So he was the first person we took down." Roy remarked finishing the story that had gotten too hard for Oliver to tell. "We managed to dig up evidence of his tax evasion and toxic waste dumping. The Green arrow threatened to expose him. Even after he paid up the the money he stole, Oliver wasn't satisfied so he took everything as well as uploading the findings to the internet putting his father in prison for a long time."

Oliver looked down not wanting to look Dinah in the face.

"That's when I became The Green Arrow Bandit." Oliver finished, being ashamed at the term. "But it did nothing, I'm only seen as a thief now, and you can't build a better world with the corruption that dooms this one. You need to be better than them, which I wasn't." Oliver said whilst looking down and giving a long look to his bow before continuing.

"Anyways I think it's time for Dinah to carry out her longtime fantasy of putting me in handcuffs and taking me away." Oliver remarked with a devilish smile towards the end as he prepared for the inevitable, which caused Roy to cringe while facepalming, thinking of the time he accidentally walked in on her and Batwoman having a one night stand.

Dinah smiled to herself while looking at the expressions of both Oliver and Roy when taking into account her next decision.

"Not today Oliver." Dinah spoke up amongst the silence, playing up the double entendre.

Hall of Justice, Washington DC

1 Week later

Oliver walked up the steps of the Hall of Justice which was currently closed to the public but it didn't stop the hundreds of tourists who were walking past and taking pictures of the sight that was once home to the Justice Society of America and now the apparent HQ of the Justice League.

As he approached the glass front doors, he didn't know what to do and attempted to knock but the door was opened before he could. He was greeted by Captain Atom, leader of the Justice League who stood inside the doorway, hiding from the tourists who would hound him beyond belief.

"Welcome Mr Queen." The Captain said while welcoming him inside the doorway and led him through the foyer which contained massive golden statues on the wall of the original founding Leaguers. Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the late Flash, One of the Green Lanterns, Aquaman and Martian Manhunter. Oliver looked up in astonishment at the sight of Earth's mightiest heroes.

"I take it you're whelmed." Captain Atom remarked at the ex billionaire's bewilderment.

"Whelmed?" Oliver asked wondering if he heard the man correctly.

"Ugh, sorry Nightwing has everyone saying it." He explained while walking Oliver through to the library which was through a doorway underneath the statues.

Once inside he saw a sophisticated looking library with a large computer console at the back and next to it a large double door saying "Justice League Members Only". In the room stood Black Canary and Batman who he still had a subconscious aversion to.

"Thanks for not arresting me, and don't worry I hung up the hood, might I ask why you brought me here?" Oliver asked with his trademark care free attitude while looking at the pictures of the JSA on the walls.

"Actually we don't want you to hang it up." Captain Atom said while joining the other two Leaguers.

"Huh?" Oliver responded in confusion.

"Due to your skill set and proof of character last week, Black Canary and Batman petitioned to have you join the team." Captain Atom told him while handing him a Justice League identification card. Oliver was losing his mind at what he was saying, he couldn't help but stare at the card intently, wondering how they got such a good picture of him in his costume for the photo.

"Don't get us wrong, you can't go stealing and terrorising CEOs anymore, but if you can gather the evidence and pass it through the right channels you can still be a sort of Robin Hood. Captain Atom said while standing back.

"And you can use Justice League resources to carry out all the humanitarian actions you want." Black Canary added.

"The choice is yours Oliver." Batman said while folding his arms.

"Uh… uh…. Yes! Thank you so much!" Oliver said in astonishment while going to shake Captain Atom's hand aggressively, while also giving a playful look to Dinah out of the corner of his eye. "I do have one condition-"

"Dodger escaped." Batman said bluntly while showing security images of the thief in Las Vegas having a good time pickpocketing people in a casino.

"What how? That sunnova-" Oliver smiled, happy that his friend was doing what he loved.

"Superman to The Hall of Justice," suddenly a video call of Superman automatically opened on the large computer screen that was the size of the whole wall. "It appears that Ra's Al Ghul is moving a force towards Byalia and he has several metahumans with him, if he reaches there it could cause an international incident." Superman explained while looking to be in the Watchtower.

"Alright we'll meet you there at the Qurac Zeta Tube and plan accordingly, call all available Leaguers." Captain Atom ordered while pressing a button down on the console which opened up the door that read "Justice League Members Only" it revealed a large tunnel like room with a light at the end, it was a Zeta-Tube.

"We have your gear at the Watchtower let's head there first, we'll Zeta there." Batman told Oliver as the four of them moved into the Zeta-Tube.

"What's a Zeta?" Oliver asked while stepping into one.

"You're about to find out" Batman said coldly while Black Canary smiled at how whenever a person teleports for the first time, most end up throwing up.

"Sure thing Brucey." Oliver remarked capturing Batman's attention. "What? why else were all your sidekicks in Wayne Manor?" which made Batman role his eyes and Captain Atom hide his slight offence as he didn't even know while Gideon called out their designations.

"Recognised, Batman 02, Black Canary 08, Captain Atom 11…

"... Green Arrow 20"