Bunker

"So, the rundown is that Lonnie Machin broke out of prison, threatened to bomb William's school, and then William and his friends defused the bomb, and Machin died?" Felicity asked.

"Seems that way." Oliver said.

"Huh." Felicity replied, deep in thought. "That reminds me. William, don't take any of the equipment again."

"Okay, Felicity." William said, looking down at the floor.

"Are you guys hurt?" Felicity asked.

"We're fine." Alice said, having a worried expression on her face. Only William noticed.

"Hey, you okay?" William asked.

"Not really." Alice admitted. "What Machin said about not being able to save the ones we love is getting to me."

"Hey, we try to save as many as possible." William said.

"Be that as it may, I just think…" Alice began to say. "That I could have done more that night, five years ago."

"Alice, you were eight." Trixie said, knowing what she meant. "There wouldn't have been much you could do."

"You don't know that." Alice shot back. "If I had seen through Chucky's charade, then maybe my parents would still be alive. If I had been there the night before, maybe my grandmother would still be alive."

"Alice stop that." William said. "You're beating yourself over something you have no control over."

"Maybe I do have control over it." Alice said, getting an idea. "If I can get the Flash to take me back to 1988-"

"Absolutely not." Oliver interrupted. "You don't know the ramifications of changing history that far back."

"I don't care!" Alice yelled. "At least everyone will still be alive!"

"You don't know that." Felicity piped up. "When Barry went back in time to save his mother and created Flashpoint, by the time he got back, Cisco's brother had died."

"And then aliens invaded." Diggle added.

"If my parents are still alive, it's a risk I'm willing to take." Alice said adamantly, swiping a gun off the table and leaving the bunker. As she made it upstairs, Alice pulled out an old piece of paper from her pocket. Opening it up, she revealed it to be a page of the Necronomicon, specifically, the page with a time travel spell.

Flashback

Seven Months Ago

Alice had snuck from the rooftop, away from William, Trixie, and Nora, as Andy and Damien Darhk fought in hand to hand combat. Looking around, she noticed that Ash's book, the Necronomicon, was left on the ground, unguarded because Ash was high from weed, while the fight commenced. She had heard stories of the book, one where Ash was sent back to the Middle Ages. Thinking a spell like that could prove useful, Alice opened the book, finding the page that she somehow knew had the spell. She didn't know how she knew, she just knew she did. Very carefully, Alice ripped the page out, careful to not leave any edges. Once the page was out, Alice folded the paper and put it in her pocket, looking up just in time to see Andy and Darhk vanish in a golden light.

Now

Alice began chanting in Sumerian, preparing to open a hole through time itself.

"Lequ Mei Sin Adannu November Un 1988." Alice chanted, creating a portal. Taking a deep breath, Alice stepped in, just in time, because just as the portal closed, she heard William calling for her to stop. Alice ignored him, and continued through the portal, focusing on the date she was told her grandfather, Daniel Pierce, had died on.

November 1988

"Hey, neighbor." A voice said. Daniel Pierce looked to his right, noticing that an old friend of his, Charles Lee Ray, was the driver. It was a cold, dark night, and it appeared the man wanted to drive him home.

"Oh hey!" Daniel greeted.

"Want a ride?" Charles Lee Ray asked.

"Oh, I'm good." Pierce replied, seeing his breath in the air, a result of the freezing temperature. "I don't want to trouble you."

"No trouble at all." Charles insisted. "Hop in." Daniel stopped for a few minutes, considering the conditions he was in, before finally getting in the car.

"Thanks a lot, Charles." Daniel said, grateful.

"My friends call me Chucky." Charles muttered, before driving. "So, how's Sarah?"

"Oh, she's fine." Daniel replied. "We're expecting the baby soon. I think the doctors said as long as only a month."

"Aw, that's nice." Charles lied, uninterested. "Hold up, I gotta make this stop." Charles drove his car to Forest Creek, before stopping near the river.

"What are we doing here?" Daniel asked, following Charles and getting out of the car.

"I need your help with something." Charles simply said, before punching Daniel in the jaw. As Pierce was knocked off balance, Charles grabbed him and threw him into the river. Daniel tried to get up, but Charles pounced on him, wrapping his hands around the other man's throat and forcing his head underwater. For a couple moments, Daniel felt himself being strangled, but then the next, nothing. Slowly, he emerged from the water, seeing that someone had tackled Charles a few feet away and was repeatedly hitting him. Squinting his eyes in the dark, he thought he could make out the small figure of a little girl.

"You're not going to kill him!" Alice screamed, kicking Charles in the stomach and face. "You're not going to hurt anyone ever again!" Alice then took out her pistol and whipped him repeatedly with the butt end.

"Thank you for saving me from that maniac!" Daniel Pierce called out.

"Get yourself out of here, mister!" Alice said, turning around momentarily and failing at disguising her voice. While Alice was distracted, Charles stood up, taking out his knife and slashed Alice's arm. Alice yelled in pain, falling down, while Charles grinned.

"What a shame, now I have to kill you." Charles sneered, raising his knife. Alice quickly raised her gun, and shot Charles right in the head, killing him instantly. Exhausted and wounded, Alice laid on the ground, while the world spun around her.