Alice woke up on the side of a road, but was unsure of where she was. Just then, a man with a blue shirt, shotgun, and chainsaw for a hand walked up to her.

"Ash?" Alice asked.

"Hello, Alice." Ash Williams said, taking off the chainsaw and putting on his fake hand, before extending it. "Come on, get up. We need to talk."

"Shouldn't you be on the Waverider?" Alice asked.

"I was alerted to you fucking up the timeline. That trench coat wearing Brit let me go on my own for this one." Alice took Ash's hand and stood up, before following him through a bar.

"Where are we?" Alice asked.

"We're in the Elk Lounge Bar." Ash replied. "The year is 1989. You hungry?"

"No, I'm good." Alice said. "How'd I get here?"

"After you stopped your younger self from changing history, I pulled you out of the vortex caused by the Necronomicon." Ash explained. "Speaking of, I want that page back."

"How did you know about that?" Alice asked, taking out the page and giving it to Williams."

"Well, I'm assuming the Flash once told you that the more you use time travel, the more often you can notice changes, even if you don't cause it." Ash said. "Did you really think that only applies to speedsters?"

"Then why didn't you tell me back at your house?" Alice asked.

"I was drunk after losing my daughter." Ash said, but became serious. "Look, I understand wanting to erase some unpleasant moments of your life. I went back in time to save Pablo after Baal killed him. But you can't fuck with the timeline. Either time will make that event happen in a different way, or it will replace it with something equally as bad, or worse."

"Since when did you start giving a shit?" Alice snapped.

"Since I found out I had a daughter." Ash said. "And what you did almost took her from me. I have made these same mistakes as you. When I went back in time to save Pablo, the original Ruby, the one who wanted to stop Baal, got killed in the process. Haven't you ever seen Happy Tree Friends?"

"What the fuck is that?" Alice asked, bewildered.

"It's a television show." Ash said. "I thought every kid watched it. It's a cartoon with animals that die horrible deaths, it's great. But my point is that in one episode, the blue guy with glasses keeps going back in time to stop his friends from dying, but no matter what he does, he makes things worse, and they get killed anyway, one way or another. Then the cycle is repeated over and over." Ash noticed that Alice wasn't particularly listening, so he picked up a mug from the table.

"Here, let me show you something." Ash said, holding the mug. "Pretend this is the timeline."

"Jesus, I'm out of here." Alice said, rolling her eyes.

"Humor me, kid." Ash threatened. "Now this, is time. Whenever you change something in time, it breaks." Ash's fake hand squeezed, causing the mug to be broken in two. "But no matter how many times you try to fix it, it will never be the same." Ash proved his point by trying to put the piece back together, but the mug showed visible cracks.

"Look, I know what I did wrong, I won't make the same mistake." Alice said.

"Yeah, yeah, I've heard that before from Ruby." Ash said. "That right there leads to an infinite number of paradoxes, or whatever she said."

"But why have this book if we can't just fix what we did wrong?" Alice asked.

"We're not supposed to use the book for our own gain." Ash said. "We have to protect the rest of humanity from it. That includes not reading it. We're not gods. Now, you have to ask yourself, are you going to go back and hit reset every time you fuck up, or will you learn to live with what you did and move forward?"

"Excuse me, is everything alright?" A waitress asked, walking over and seeing the broken mug.

"She did it." Ash said, pointing to Alice. "But, it's time we left." Ash and Alice left the diner, and after saying the incantation, Alice walked through the vortex and back to the current time, while Ash pressed a button to reveal a jumpship from the Waverider, and flew back to the ship.

Star City

"So, let's get this straight." Oliver said for what seemed like the one hundredth time. "You went back in time and changed history by stopping Charles Lee Ray from killing your grandfather?"

"Yes. How is it so hard to understand?" Alice asked, exasperated. "You know the Flash!"

"And Barry already knew the timeline was changed because he did it before?" Oliver repeated.

"And I almost destroyed the world as we knew it." Alice said. "Here's something I don't get: I still have memories of that timeline. Like a whole other life, including everything I did with my grandfather and grandma."

"Sounds like a gift." Oliver said, taking a look at a computer monitor. Remembering something, Alice reached into her pocket and pulled out the letter Robert Queen gave her. Smiling, Alice handed it to Oliver.

"Yes. A gift." Alice said.

"This is my father's handwriting." Oliver realized, taking off his hood. Oliver opened the letter, and began reading.

Dear son,

There's only one thing I know in life. I know that some things happen by chance. Others happen because we will it to. I do not know how this has happened, by I was given a second chance at life. But I do not want this if it means that you die in my place. I do not think that this world would be worth saving if you were not in it. That is why I took an offer to help change time back to what it once was. Yes, it would mean that I would die, but it would ensure that you live. That night when the Queen's Gambit went down was the worst moment of my life. I wanted to ensure that our fates were switched, so that I was the one who died, and you would live to fight another day. Goodbye, my son, and remember, survive.

Love always

Your Father

Robert Queen

Oliver noticed a few drops of water on the letter, and realized he had been crying. Wiping the tears from his eyes, Oliver turned to Alice.

"You're one Hell of a messenger, you know that?" Oliver said. "Thank you." Alice grinned.

"Anytime, Mister Queen." Alice said. "If it is all the same to you, I could use a ride to Chicago. There's still one thing I still need to do…"

Chicago

"I think I finally get it, Grandma." Alice said, placing flowers on Sarah Pierce's grave in the cemetery. A few feet away from her were Oliver, William, Nora, and Trixie. "There really are some things I can't change. And I think I finally know the difference."

"Alice?" A voice called out, prompting Alice to turn around. Right next to Oliver were Andy and Nica.

"How did you get here?" Alice asked.

"Oliver called us." Andy said. "Is everything alright?" Alice ran over and tackled them in a bear hug.

"It is now." Alice whispered. "It is now." Just as the hug was broken off, Andy vanished in a yellow energy.

"Andy!" Alice and Nica yelled, William, Trixie, and Nora were taken by the same energy as well.

"What's happening?" Nica yelled.

"The Dominators." Oliver growled. "We need to go, now!" Alice, Oliver, and Nica began running toward the car, but Nica was transported by the yellow energy. Oliver tried to run over and grab Alice, but it was too late, and she vanished, leaving Oliver alone in Chicago.