Chapter 7
Earth-X
Clark, Barry, Oliver, Ollie, Bart, Sara, Dinah, Jax, and Stein were looking around at their horrifying surroundings.
"So, this craphole is Earth-X," Sara commented.
"Wells was right," Oliver said.
"He usually is," Barry said.
"It's hard to believe a place like this actually exists," Dinah said with a sigh. "On any Earth."
"I wish I shared your sentiment, but in all my travels to distant times, one thing sadly remains constant is man's ability to feel hatred for other men," Stein pointed out.
"Hey, not to sound a bit selfish, guys, but I'm really starting to wish I hadn't agreed to come along and participate in this mission," Bart groaned.
"Can't say that I blame you, Bart," Ollie agreed. "This place looks even worse than the Phantom Zone."
"This place is horrible beyond a doubt, Oliver, but I wouldn't go so far as to say that," Clark disagreed. "No other place in existence can be any worse than the Phantom Zone. Especially with Zod presumably still having control over that place."
"What the hell is 'the Phantom Zone'?" Sara asked.
"It's a prison my birth father created," Clark explained. "It holds the worst criminals from the twenty-eight known galaxies. Trust me, you don't wanna ever end up in there."
"Stars and triangles," Jax announced, noticing the badges on the prisoners' uniforms.
"Badges used to identify reported crimes these people have quote-unquote 'committed' to land in here," Stein explained.
Jax turned to a nearby male prisoner who had a pink upside down triangle printed on his uniform. "What's the pink triangle for? What did you do?"
The prisoner turned to Jax and said, "I loved the wrong person."
Everyone became speechless for a few seconds, as they, especially Sara, immediately realized what the prisoner meant.
"We gotta get out of these things," Sara insisted, referring to the cuffs she and the others had on. She turned to Stein and Jax. "Transmute us out."
"With pleasure," Stein said, eagerly. He and Jax took each other's hands, expecting to merge into Firestorm, but nothing happened.
"Bart and I can't vibrate through them either," Barry said to Jax, Stein, and Sara.
"Yeah, our powers are on the fritz for some reason," Bart added.
"I don't have my powers either," Clark also added. "It must be the collars they've put around our necks."
"I was wondering why my Canary Cry wasn't working," Dinah said.
"Hang on a minute, if these collars are meant to take away abilities, then why the hell are we wearing them?" Ollie said, turning to Oliver and Sara. "There are three of us here who don't have any superhuman capabilities."
"Doesn't matter," Sara said. "There's too many guards here anyways."
Frustrated, Clark sighed heavily. "I just hope we can get away from this place as soon as possible. If we don't get back in time, they're gonna kill Lois."
"Look, Clark, I'm just as worried about Lois as you are," Ollie said. "I'm also worried about Chloe."
"I never felt so helpless in my entire life," Clark groaned. "Each moment we spend here will be a moment closer to them doing what they're planning to her."
"We're gonna get back to our Earth before they even have a chance to harm her," Barry tried to assure Clark.
"How? We don't even know how we got here," Jax pointed out.
"No, we don't," Oliver answered. "We're gonna figure it out. Then we're gonna find a way to get out of this place and we're gonna get back to the people we love."
"I hope everyone else is okay," Barry muttered.
Earth-1, S.T.A.R. Labs
With his face leaned against the glass of the pipeline cell, Cisco Ramon groaned loudly as he finally came to. The first sound he heard was someone repeatedly bouncing a ball against a wall.
"Rip Van Ramon awakens," Harry, the person tossing the ball, announced. He, too, was locked in a pipeline cell.
Also locked in a cell was Dinah Drake, who was trying, in vain, to bust out with her sonic scream.
"This doesn't look like a wedding," Cisco noted, finally taking a look at his surroundings.
"You missed quite a bit, Cisco," Caitlin, another person in a cell, responded.
"All you need to know is that you're locked in one of your fabulous anti-meta-human cells with the rest of us," Harry said to Cisco. "And we can't escape."
"Of course we can't," Cisco said. "That's what I designed them for, genius."
"Good command of the obvious," Harry remarked.
"Boys..." Caitlin said to Harry and Cisco, speaking as if they were small children.
"Is that a ball?" Cisco asked in annoyance, as Harry kept bouncing it against the cell wall.
"Why? Is it bothering you?" Harry asked, sarcastically.
"Yes," Cisco answered. "God!" he exclaimed, as Harry still kept on tossing the ball. Cisco then kicked the cell wall in frustration. "HEY!"
"I really hope we're not gonna have to listen to them the whole time we're in here," Thea Queen groaned from her cell, annoyed by Cisco and Harry's bickering.
"I know," Dinah Drake agreed. "It's so annoying."
"They're probably not gonna stop anytime soon," Caitlin said, knowingly.
"It hurts," Cisco complained to Harry. "Cut it out."
"Cut what out?" Harry remarked.
Lois Lane groggily opened her eyes as she came to. She tried to sit up, but immediately discovered that she couldn't.
"What the hell?" she exclaimed. She then found out why she couldn't move much. She had been restrained to a gurney, unable to escape. And she was in a blue hospital gown for some reason. "What the hell is going on here?"
Sitting in his old wheelchair, Eobard Thawne entered the room and wheeled over to Lois.
"S.T.A.R. Labs," Thawne announced. "Feels like old times, doesn't it? You know, I, uh, I built this place. With my own hands, and called it home for fifteen years. And do you know what?" He got up from the wheelchair, removed his glasses, and stood over Lois. "I hated every minute of it."
"What the hell is going on?" Lois demanded again. "What am I doing here?! And why am I tied up?!"
"Because we need you, Ms. Lane," Thawne answered.
"For what?" Lois asked, angrily. "What the hell could you possibly need me for?!"
"Hello, Lois," a female voice that sounded awfully familiar called out.
Lois turned to the speaker and let out a surprised gasp as she laid eyes on the woman who had just entered the room. The woman looked exactly like... herself! In a mostly black costume with a red cape, no less! But Lois focused primarily on the woman's face. Was that really how she looked to others whenever her anger was at its absolute worst?
"Oh, my God," Lois muttered. "They really weren't kidding."
"Surprised to see me?" Overwoman sneered.
"That's the biggest understatement of the century," Lois muttered. "The bigger surprise is the fact that I became a Nazi on another Earth. You have no idea how sick to the stomach that thought makes me feel!"
Overwoman angrily smacked her across the face with the back of her hand, causing Lois' bottom lip to start bleeding. "It's not sick! Growing up in the world of the Fatherland is the best life I could've ever asked for! My husband Kal and I, we're the most powerful beings on the entire planet. We're Gods among men."
"Your powers," Lois said in realization.
"Oh, yeah," Overwoman nodded. "I'm not a natural-born Kryptonian like Kal, but I'm every bit as powerful as he is. And I've never felt better." She placed her finger on Lois' bleeding lip. "And look at you, on the other hand. Bleeding. Weak, fragile, helpless... contrary to what my husband may think, I don't think your husband loves you the way mine loves me, let alone see you as his equal. I mean, how come he never turned you?"
"That's not true!" Lois snapped. "Clark and I mean the world to each other! He would die for me! And I would die for him! Our bond is as bulletproof as his skin, and no force in the entire universe could ever change that!" She then suddenly frowned. "Wait a minute. Did you just say your husband did this to you? He gave you your powers?"
Overwoman nodded. "He did. Not only to ensure I'll never get harmed as easily as the normal humans again, but to ensure we'll be on an equal footing as husband and wife, as leaders. You see, everything was going perfectly fine, but then we recently found out I was dying due to my body having been exposed to too much solar radiation, which is what brings you and I here. You are going to save my life, Lois."
"What?" Lois asked, frowning. "How?"
"In order for me to be cured, I'm gonna need a new heart," Overwoman explained. She pointed to Lois' chest. "Yours."
Suddenly realizing what that meant, Lois let out another loud gasp as horror and panic flooded through her brain. "That's what they meant when they said I was needed alive," Lois muttered, a horrified look on her face. "That's the last thing I remember hearing before they knocked me out." She looked up at her Nazi doppelganger. "It was so that you could..."
"That's right, Ms. Lane," Thawne said, with a sinister grin. "I'm gonna cut into your chest. Then I'm gonna take your healthy heart. I'm gonna put it in her." He pointed to Overwoman.
Utterly terrified for her life, Lois frantically moved around as she attempted to escape from the restraints. "HELP! HELP! HELP ME! CAN ANYBODY HEAR ME?!"
"No one can hear your screaming, Lois," Overwoman sneered. "All your friends are a little tied up and out of commission at the moment."
"And they're not gonna be able to save you," Thawne added. "Not even your husband. Because guess what? He's on Earth-X with the rest of his friends. But I wouldn't worry about your husband or his friends too much because they're not going to be alive much longer."
Lois sighed helplessly. As powerful as Clark was, he definitely wasn't invincible. He could get killed. All she could do at the moment was hope for some sort of miracle to show up. She'd been in far worse life-threatening jams before, and that fact alone was what kept any optimistic feelings she had in her mind.
Thawne turned to Overwoman and said, "We should probably get you going. The machine will be ready in three hours."
"Good," Overwoman said, smiling. She turned to Lois. "That'll give me time to talk to... myself."
Iris, Felicity, and Chloe were hiding up in the vents as they'd listened to the conversation between Lois, Overwoman, and Thawne. Chloe, specifically, had a horrified and panicked look on her face as she was concerned for her cousin's life.
"Oh, God," she whispered. "They're gonna pull a Mengele and take Lois' heart. And we only have three hours to do something."
"I'm really sorry, Chloe, but I'm all out of ideas on how the three of us are gonna stop the meaner Nazi versions of our friends who have superpowers," Felicity replied, apologetically. She hadn't known Lois for very long, but she didn't want any harm to come to the Lane woman either.
"Not to mention that everyone else is on Earth-X," Iris added. As an idea suddenly came to her brain, she added, "Wait, I got it. We don't have to stop them ourselves. We just need to get to the pipeline and get Cisco. He could turn off all the power to the building and breach us out of here."
"Do you know how to get to the pipeline from here?" Felicity asked.
"I think so," Iris answered, taking a deep breath.
"Lead the way, McClane," Felicity instructed. Wasting no time, she, Chloe, and Iris started crawling through the vents.
Earth-X
Alarms sounded as Nazi soldiers were rounding up all the prisoners, including Clark, Barry, Oliver, Ollie, Bart, Dinah, Sara, Jax, and Stein.
"I don't like the looks of this," Stein groaned.
"What's going on?" Dinah asked.
"I don't know," Oliver answered.
"What are we doing?" Barry asked the prisoner that Jax spoke to.
"It's round-up time," the prisoner explained.
"Round-up for what?" Sara asked.
"Nothing good, that's for sure," Ollie said.
"In line, now!" a Nazi solider ordered, as he and other soldiers appeared in the area.
As the gate then opened, looks of disbelief appeared on the faces of Clark, Ollie, Bart, and Dinah as an older man they instantly recognized as looking exactly like Lois' father entered.
"So, these are... the heroes," the Earth-X version of Sam Lane spoke. His voice was even gruffer than his Earth-21 doppelganger's.
"Yes, Sturmbannfuhrer," a solider answered.
"General Lane?" Clark said, not believing his own eyes. The sight of his father-in-law being a Nazi just poured a ton of salt onto the wounds he was already suffering from over his concern for Lois' life.
Oliver turned to Clark and asked, "You know him?"
"That's Lois' dad," Ollie answered. With a sigh, he added, "This horror movie just keeps getting worse, doesn't it?"
"I must say, one good thing out of all this is at least Lois isn't here to see this," Clark muttered, unable to take his eyes off Earth-X Sam Lane. "It would crush her beyond repair."
"Tell me about it," Dinah said. "I know exactly how I would feel if that was my father."
"Bring them all!" Sturmbannfuhrer Lane ordered the soldiers. He then pointed to the other prisoner. "And him!"
"Move! Now! Go!" one of the Nazi soldiers demanded, as he and the others held the heroes, plus the unnamed prisoner, at gunpoint.
Clark, Barry, Oliver, Ollie, Bart, Dinah, Sara, Jax, Stein, and the prisoner were led away from the camp by the soldiers, who kept their guns trained on the heroes.
"Not to be an alarmist, but if we don't have an escape plan, I suggest we get one immediately," Stein advised.
Oliver, Ollie, and Sara moved their arms around as they attempted to dislocate their thumbs in a discreet effort to escape from their cuffs. As Oliver and some of the other heroes attempted to make a run for it, Sturmbannfuhrer Lane pressed a button on a small device he had, causing everyone's power-dampening collars to electrify and shock their wearers. All the heroes, as well as the prisoner, collapsed to their knees, groaning in pain.
"Up!" Lane ordered, and everyone complied. "Go," he said.
Everyone resumed walking and stood in a row as they stopped in front of a trench.
"Turn around," Lane ordered, and everyone complied again. He approached Clark, Oliver, and Ollie. "I know you three are not them, but I cannot stomach the sights regardless." He placed black sacks over the heads of the powerless Kryptonian and two emerald archers. "Ready!" Lane announced to his soldiers.
"I'm so sorry, Lois," Clark muttered under his breath. "Please forgive me for not being able to save you."
"Aim!" Lane instructed, and his men eagerly prepared to execute the assembled heroes of Earth-1 and Earth-21, along with the native prisoner.
"Here we go," Bart groaned, his heart rate accelerating at the prospect of his inescapable death occurring at any moment. If only he hadn't agreed to come along with Supes and Arrow… he could've been at a beach or elsewhere hitting on some smoking-hot babes in bikinis or something. But no. Instead, he'd gotten beaten up and captured by super-Nazis, he'd lost his speedster abilities because of some stupid collar, he'd ended up on an Earth ruled by Nazis, and most of all, he was about to get killed 'classic execution-style'.
However, before the soldiers could open fire, a powerful blue beam appeared out of nowhere and froze all the guns solid, causing the weapons to drop out of the soldiers' hands.
The heroes immediately turned to the person responsible for the blast, only to discover the face of someone the individuals of Earth-1 were extremely familiar with.
"I hate fire!" the familiar person, who was none other than the Earth-X doppelganger of Leonard Snart, announced. He was armed with a cold gun, and wore silver protective goggles, along with a navy blue parka similar to the one his late Earth-1 counterpart donned.
"Snart?!" Barry, Sara, Jax, and Stein called out in astonishment.
Oliver and Ollie immediately lifted their arms and removed their sacks from their heads. Ollie reached out and removed Clark's sack.
"About time!" the native prisoner said to Snart.
"Kill them all!" Sturmbannfuhrer Lane ordered to his soldiers.
"Take cover!" Oliver shouted to his teammates, as the soldiers started to open fire.
Leonard Snart of Earth-X started firing his cold gun to hold the soldiers off, while the heroes, plus the prisoner, ran into the trench and hid from the gunfire.
A short while later, Snart himself managed to jump into the trench with everyone else.
"Hey," the unnamed prisoner said. "You're cutting it close."
"I thought that was great timing," Snart said. "I really enjoyed the pun."
"So, you're Leonard Snart's doppelganger," Barry said, knowingly.
"No, I'm Leonard Snart, but you can call me Leo," Snart replied.
"Hey, at least you don't seem to be such a douche like the Snart on my Earth," Bart said to Leo Snart. "I'm Bart Allen, by the way."
"Those are fantastic outfits," Leo commented, admiring the costumes of the two Flashes. "Did you guys make those?"
"Actually, he made mine," Bart answered, pointing back to Ollie. "Keeps the friction from being a problem whenever I'm on my run."
"Leo," the prisoner called out, impatiently.
Leo turned to the prisoner. "Right! Time to make you shine, buddy." He removed the prisoner's collar.
"Uh, you, uh, you might wanna close your eyes," the prisoner warned the heroes.
"Why?" Jax answered, frowning.
As if in response, the prisoner was suddenly enveloped in a bright yellow light as he levitated a hundred feet in the air. Both the heroes and Nazis stared up at the glowing prisoner, but while the heroes were amazed, the Nazis looked horrified.
"Well, I believe he just answered your question," Stein said to Jax.
From his hands, the prisoner fired a powerful yellow beam towards Sturmbannfuhrer Lane and his soldiers, causing them to get thrown back. He then descended back to the ground. "Come on, let's go," he said to the heroes, who were now out of their handcuffs.
"Where are we going?" Oliver asked.
"To our base," the prisoner answered.
"Your base?" Sara repeated.
"Who are you?" Clark asked.
"I was thinking exactly the same thing about you all," the prisoner replied.
"You might have to tell us on the way," Leo said.
As the Nazi gunfire resumed, Clark, Barry, Oliver, Ollie, Bart, Dinah, Sara, Jax, Stein, Leo, and the prisoner hurriedly departed the area.
Earth-1, S.T.A.R. Labs
As Lois was still restrained to the gurney, she was looking around trying to find some way to escape.
"If you're looking for a way to escape, don't bother," Overwoman said.
"So let me get this straight," Lois said, looking her doppelganger in the eyes with disgust. "You, your husband, and the rest of your merry little Nazi League did all this... just to get me? Just to take my heart?" She swallowed hard as she'd said that. "That is so incredibly petty that it's not even funny!"
"We did what we had to do," Overwoman argued.
"What? Put innocent lives at risk?" Lois said. "You've killed people!"
"Well, it's their lives to save mine," Overwoman pointed out, not a shred of remorse in her voice. "And they should feel honored they died for a good cause."
"Now I know what's like to totally hate my own guts," Lois remarked with a sigh.
"Yeah, the feeling's mutual," Overwoman said.
"How did you get your powers?" Lois finally asked the one question that had been lingering on her mind for a while. "I know your husband, Clark's doppelganger, gave them to you, but how?"
"Since we still have a bit of time left before the surgery begins, I guess the least I can do before Eobard start cutting into your chest is share that with you," Overwoman said. "It started a few years ago when I was severely wounded in battle by the one resistance fighter Kal and I despised utterly... Alexander Luthor."
"That makes one thing universally consistent," Lois noted, as she and Clark more or less felt the same way about their Lex Luthor, who had already managed to become the U.S. President on Earth-21. However, it sounded as if Lex Luthor-X was a good man who was the exact opposite of the one Lois knew and hated. She thought that idea made sense in a very ironic way, given that she, Clark, and Oliver were the evil ones on Nazi-Earth.
"I was on the verge of dying," Overwoman continued. "Kal didn't want to lose me. Right after he took out Luthor once and all, ripping into that bastard's chest and snatching out his heart as it was still beating, he flew me to his Fortress of Solitude in the North Pole. The Fortress is the last remaining piece of his destroyed planet Krypton, which I'm sure you're already aware of if your Kal has one of those places too." Lois nodded as her doppelganger went on. "Anyway, at the Fortress, Kal did something and, the next thing I knew, I was engulfed in this very bright light that healed all of my wounds in mere seconds. My body was like new all over again. It was a miracle. But, as I would soon find out, my body being completely healed wasn't the only miracle I'd been given."
"You found out you've been given powers," Lois guessed.
Overwoman nodded. "My DNA had been permanently changed, or rewritten as I should say. I was no longer human. I became a full-fledged Kryptonian just like my husband. I became the most powerful woman on the planet, while Kal was already the most powerful man and still is. Even to this day, other than Kal and my father, no one else was made aware of how I got my powers. We had to keep it a secret to ensure no one else replicated the process and gave themselves the same powers the two of us have."
"Just say you kept it a secret to ensure no one had a chance at leveling the playing field and having a clear shot at putting you and your husband down for good!" Lois snapped. She wasn't born yesterday after all. Over the years, she'd been around enough villains to understand exactly how they all think. Typical villains would do anything to make sure no one became more powerful than themselves, and she figured Nazi her and Nazi Clark were no different.
"You're catching on," Overwoman admitted.
"It's something an ace reporter like myself is known to do," Lois said. "I can't believe you chose to use your powers to help the Nazis instead of freeing your world from them! Imagine how many lives you could've saved! My father would be utterly disgusted if he found out what his own daughter had become in another life!"
Overwoman scoffed. "Actually, our father, Sturmbannfuhrer Samuel Lane, couldn't have been more proud of the things his oldest daughter helped to achieve. His younger daughter, my sister Lucy, on the other hand," she scoffed again, "what a tremendous disappointment. She accomplished nothing but becoming a major stain on the Lane family who needed to be wiped clean. I mean, not only was Lucy sexually attracted to women, her own gender, but she sided with the very people who oppose us. She was against her own flesh and blood! But, at our father's behest, I was more than happy to expunge that bitch from the family line forever! And I made damn sure she suffered and screamed in agonizing pain as my heat vision slowly seared the bones off her delicate human flesh!"
At that point, tears had started to form in Lois' eyes. "Can your world not get any more terrifying?!" Lois exclaimed, angrily. "I can't believe you killed Lucy! Your own sister! Well, my Lucy wasn't exactly the most ideal little sister in the world either, but I never for a second ever considered murdering her in cold-blood!"
"She got exactly what she deserved!" Overwoman shot back. "Lucy made all the wrong choices and she paid the price, plain and simple!"
Just then, Thawne approached Overwoman. "It's almost ready," he said, causing Lois to let out a heavy sigh at the reminder of her impending, painful death. If there was one thing she hated the most, besides Nazis and Luthors of course, it was feeling so helpless, which was a word people almost never associated Lois Lane with.
After Iris made sure the coast was clear, she, Felicity, and Chloe climbed out of the vents in the ceiling and jumped down to the floor.
"I know bad guys have inopportune timing, but this is, like, the worst time ever," Felicity said, as she was using the screen pad on the wall to try and get the pipeline door opened.
"Yeah, tell me about it, sister," Iris agreed. "Barry and I were just about to get married."
"And now all of our friends, including my husband and best friend, are stuck on Nazi-Earth," Chloe added, looking worried. "What if we never see them again?"
Suddenly, as gunshots were fired in their direction, Iris, Felicity, and Chloe immediately made a run for it.
"Stop!" a Nazi soldier ordered, as he and two others held the three women at gunpoint. "Hands in the air!"
Iris, Felicity, and Chloe obeyed as the soldiers approached them. Without warning, Chloe started engaging the soldiers, while Felicity and Iris took the guns out of the soldiers' hands and knocked them over their heads. Chloe punched the last soldier in the face, knocking him unconscious too. Iris and Felicity gaped at her superior fighting skills.
"You totally are a badass, Chloe." Felicity commented, not without an obvious note of envy in her voice.
"You two did good jobs also," Chloe replied.
"We did," Iris agreed, as she and Felicity bumped their guns into each other's. "Cisco?" Iris muttered in realization.
"Cisco!" Felicity called out.
"Hey!" the women heard Cisco's panic-filled voice shout. "Guys! We're trapped in here!"
"We're gonna get you out of there!" Felicity assured him.
Iris started pressing her fingers on the touch pad as she attempted to get the pipeline door open, but the machine beeped as the door refused to open. "Oh, you've got to be kidding me," she groaned.
"What?" Chloe and Felicity said at the same time.
"I can't open the blast door," Iris explained.
"You mean they're trapped?" Felicity said, incredulously. "I'll send an SOS to the Legends."
"How long will it take for them to get it?" Iris asked.
"Depends on where they are in time," Felicity answered, as she started operating the touch pad.
"Guys, we only have so much time before Lois' deadline is up," Chloe reminded the other two women, growing increasingly concerned with every passing moment. "Please hurry."
"We'll save her, Chloe, I promise," Iris assured her. "Your cousin is not gonna die."
"I really hope not," Chloe groaned. Granted, she knew Lois had made it out of maybe millions of near-death experiences completely unscathed over the years, but Chloe couldn't shake the possibility that her cousin's 'cat lives' may had already run out.
Earth-X
Leo and the prisoner, whose name is Ray Terrill, led Clark, Barry, Oliver, Ollie, Bart, Dinah, Sara, Jax, and Stein into a bunker.
"I guess we're in Earth-X's Metropolis," Clark noted, realizing the bunker was located at the exact spot the Watchtower building stood on Earth-21.
"I have to say, that's one hell of a story," Ray said to the heroes. He pointed to Barry and Bart. "You two are speedsters?"
"Yeah," Barry answered, as he and Bart nodded.
Ray turned to Jax and Stein. "You two turn into the burning man."
"Yep," Jax answered.
Ray then turned to Clark, Oliver, and Ollie. "And you three are the good doppelgangers of the Fuhrer and the Generals."
"'Good' might be an oversimplification," Sara said.
"Actually," Ollie said to Ray and Leo, then glanced at his Earth-1 counterpart, "we're both Oliver Queens from different Earths to make a long story short."
"It's a little complicated," Oliver added.
"Oh," Ray said, as he and Leo each raised an eyebrow.
"You still haven't told us which Earths you're from," Leo said to the heroes. "Clearly, none of you are from this one."
"The four of us are from Earth-21," Clark answered, pointing to Bart, Ollie, and Dinah.
"And the rest of us are from Earth-1," Barry added.
"Earth-1?" Leo repeated in surprise. "Well, golly."
Jax frowned. "Am I missing something here?"
"I'm from Earth-1 too," Ray answered.
"If you're from our Earth, then you know how we got here, don't you?" Barry asked.
"Yeah," Ray answered. "I have a pretty good idea." He picked up a tablet and started working on it. "I think you guys came through this." He showed the heroes the image on the tablet.
"A temporal gateway?" Barry asked.
"Same physics as a breach," Stein explained. "Just more stable, and larger."
"Yeah, much larger," Barry noted.
"So we do have a way to get back," Clark said, his voice filled with hope. He really, really wanted to check up on Lois. For all he knew, she could already be dead, and that thought utterly ate him up inside. And, to make matters worse, when he and the others had left the trench after Leo and Ray rescued them, Clark attempted to use the extrapolator to get everyone back to Earth-1, only to discover it had been damaged (definitely from when he'd fallen to the ground during his fight with Overman after Metallo blasted him with kryptonite) and, therefore, unable to create breaches, leaving them stranded on Earth-X for the time being.
Ollie glared at Clark and said, "Well, if somebody hadn't allowed that inter-extrapolator thing get damaged, we wouldn't even be in this situation. We could've been out of here and back on the other Earth by now."
"Yeah, Clark, congratulations getting us stranded in a world full of Nazis," Bart added, sarcastically.
"So where is this thing?" Oliver asked Ray and Leo.
"It's actually not too far from here," Leo answered.
"Twenty-two point three kilometers, to be exact," Ray added.
"Well, we drive it," Leo said.
"Good," Oliver said. "So take us to it."
Ray shook his head. "Can't do that."
"Why not?" Clark demanded.
"Because the gateway's in a facility guarded by a not-so-small army of Nazis," Ray explained.
"I can take them," Clark said, confidently.
"Yeah, well, and we've faced worse, so..." Jax added.
"And Clark, Barry, and I can be in and out of there before anyone can even blink," Bart also added.
"Look, it's our only way home," Barry said to Leo and Ray. "We're going through it."
"Nobody's going through anything!"
All the heroes turned to the new person who appeared. It was a brunette woman in her early thirties, who bore a large diagonal scar across her face and dressed in an all-black outfit, her arms, both of which also contained several scars, left sleeveless. Clark and Ollie dropped their jaws at the sight of the woman.
"Because we're gonna blow that damn place up!" the woman familiar to those from Earth-21 continued.
Clark and Ollie exchanged brief glances in disbelief. "Clark, isn't that..."
"Lana?" Clark muttered, feeling as though his heart had just stopped.