Chapter 10 Summary: When Adrian Chase starts getting into Rory's head, the newest Legend begins to wonder what's real and what's not. Meanwhile, the team travels to a war-torn Star City in 2032, where some old friends pop up. Sara leans the truth about Laurel.

Okay, I am just gonna say this... I was okay with Crisis On Earth X.

But dear god, did it have its flaws... I won't go into detail about what I did (cough*CITIZEN COLD*cough) and didn't like (Westallen...), but you can have your own opinions.

Which is why, when I do my own 4-way (y'know what, make that 5. I'm gonna get my homeboy Black Lightning in here) X-over in this story, I will be focusing on side characters till the roof explodes.

But, in the meantime, here is a way I feel is needed to get some feels out: Chapter 10! Here we go... :)

Also, just a little warning, this chapter focuses on a more serious tone than I usually write for.

Chapter 10: Crisis of 2032

Standing in front of him...

Was Adrian Chase.

"H-How the hell..." Rory whispered, his hands shaking.

"A long story, but I didn't lie when I said I've been to hell and back, let's put it that way," Adrian said, gesturing to his burns.

"I'm gonna kill you," Rory growled, clenching his fists. "And in ways that will hurt. You do not scare me."

"Funny, that's what your buddy Rene said to me," Adrian said. "Did he get his kid back, by any chance?"

Rory was done with Adrian.

He charged at him, not knowing what else to do. If he had a gun, he would have killed him (where was Rene when you needed him?).

He screamed.

Punched.

Kicked.

But Adrian had calculated every single second, every move, every thought that had gone throughout Rory's head. Every punch was a miss. Every kick resulted in a trip. Every swing ended up with an injury to himself. Adrian just kept dodging, ducking, and throwing punches that actually hit.

Then, Adrian grabbed Rory's arm and twisted it.

The Ragman screamed louder than ever, but Adrian was chuckling to himself.

"The worst part is that no one's gonna believe your story," Adrian laughed. "We haven't seen each other in a while, and people change while they're gone, don't they?"

Rory screamed out again as Adrian continued to pull on his arm. Then, there were sudden footsteps rushing down the hall.

"Bye bye for now," Adrian growled. He then kicked Rory down, and proceeded to walk away down the hall. In mere seconds, Leonard and Amaya came rushing down the hall.

"What happened to you buddy?" Amaya asked, kneeling down.

"A-Adrian Chase," Rory choked out.

"Help me get him to the med bay," Amaya said.

"Got it," Leonard replied. He and Amaya picked Rory up onto their shoulders, and carried him to the med bay. Because everyone was drunk off of the Schnapps, they would most likely not wake up any time soon. As Rory was placed on the bed, Amaya began to question Gideon.

"How are his vitals?" Amaya asked.

"Not to worry, Ms. Jiwe, I have administered a small sedative," the A.I. explained. "It's just a sprained arm, he will be fine."

"Why was his heartbeat so high before?" Leonard inquired.

"I'm afraid I can't decide that," Gideon said. "However, that does not mean I won't try."

Amaya nodded, and turned to face Rory again.

"The kids been through too much already," she whispered.

"He's a fighter, he'll be fine," Leonard said. "Besides, he's doing what we should be doing: sleeping. Why were you up so late, exactly?"

"It's not exactly late," Amaya said. "We're in the Temporal Zone. Anything goes here."

Leonard gave a small nod, and Amaya began to make her way back to her quarters. Leonard, however, wasn't done with asking questions.

"Gideon, who is Adrian Chase?" Leonard asked.

"I suggest you head to the bridge, Mr. Snart," Gideon said. "There you will get your answers."

Leonard then stood up, and walked to the bridge. He looked at all of the history and news articles of the one Star City called "Prometheus", who was really former District Attorney Adrian Chase, but something didn't add up.

"Gideon, why does it say that Adrian Chase is deceased?" Leonard asked, as he looked on some weird Wikipedia page called "Arrowverse Wiki".

"Adrian Chase wasn't his real name. It was Simon Morrison, and he died on May 17th, 2017 due to suicide on an island known as Lian Yu," Gideon said. "I am unaware if what Mr. Regan is seeing is a hallucination, or the serial killer somehow came back to life and found his way onto the Waverider."

"That sounds near impossible," Leonard muttered. "I like it."

Suddenly, he heard footsteps.

When he looked back, he saw Kendra in her robe and slippers.

"What are you doing on the bridge Leo?" she asked softly. Surprisingly, Leonard didn't twitch at her calling him Leo.

"I could ask the same of you," Leonard said. "Why don't you start us off?"

"I couldn't sleep," Kendra said. "Rory's Schnapps didn't really affect me. I've had worse. Now, onto your side of the story."

"I've been doing some research, Rory was apparently attacked by some guy calling himself Adrian Chase," Leonard said.

"Oh my god," Kendra whispered. "Is he okay?"

"He'll be fine, just a broken arm," Leonard explained. "It should only take an hour to heal with Gideon's help."

Kendra nodded lightly, and then asked Leonard a pretty massive question.

"What do you think Eobard meant when he called you 'Captain Snart'?"

Leonard paused. "Well, Cisco Ramon called me Captain Cold, so there could be that..."

"But what if he knows something we don't?" Kendra replied.

"I say we sleep on it," Leonard said. "It always helped me."

"I agree," Kendra said, yawning. "G'night Leo."

She then hugged him, and even though he didn't return it, she walked away with a small smile on her lips.

"Damn man, who died?" Floyd asked, currently in the dining hall eating breakfast with the rest of the team, where Rory had just walked in.

"Adrian Chase did, supposedly, but now he's back," Rory said, moving to the fabricator and pulling out a palate of bacon and eggs.

"Who's Adrian Chase?" Ray asked, from his seat on the table where Sara was awfully close.

Rory then spent a good fifteen minutes explaining to his present teammates that Adrian Chase was a serial killer disguised as D.A. of Star City, and called himself "Prometheus", with a vengeance against Oliver Queen for killing his father, Justin Claybourne, under the vigilante name "The Hood".

"I-I'm so sorry Rory," Sara said.

"I'm not sad!" Mick called from across the room. Jax face palmed.

Suddenly, there was a loud "BANG!" that echoed across the Waverider, and half of the team fell to the floor. Mick hit the ceiling.

Twice.

And he was, somehow, still more concerned with eating.

"Everyone to the bridge!" Rip's voice called over the intercom. "We're about to crash land!"

The entire team fled to the bridge, and buckled down.

"WHAT THE HELL'S GOING ON?" Mick screamed.

"We're headed for a random point in time!" Rip yelled. "HANG ON! And start praying..."

The Waverider then abruptly cut to a halt, before falling down in a random vortex. Most of the team were screaming, Amaya was crying, and Mick was laughing his ass off.

Then, the Waverider hit the soil of some random time's dirt.

"How is it you people HAVEN'T MANAGED TO KILL YOURSELVES YET?!" Floyd exclaimed.

"Days still young," Ray commented, hugging his stomach.

"Gideon, when are we?" Rip asked, raising his seat belt.

"We have crash landed on May 21st, 2032, in Star City," Gideon explained. "This is a future where a man named Ricardio Diaz has taken over the city."

Gideon paused.

"And Oliver Queen has been deceased since 2021. Not just that, but Felicity Smoak, John Diggle, Thea Queen, Slade Wilson, Nyssa al Ghul, Roy Harper, Lyla Michaels, Quentin Lance, and Curtis Holt as well. The status of Dinah Drake is unknown. However, Rene Ramirez and William Clayton still remain alive... supposedly."

"What about Laurel?" Sara asked worriedly, even though she practically never heard of half of these people. Rip took a sad breath.

"Sara, Laurel was killed just four months after I recruited you as a Legend," Rip explained sadly.

For the first time in a long time, the assassin was left in emotions she hadn't experienced at once for so long: betrayal, sadness, anger, hurt, shock...

"No... No, NO!"

"Sara-" Ray was abruptly caught off by Sara wrapping her arms around him and sobbing into his shoulder.

"What the hell Rip. Just what the hell," Jax angrily said.

"So what's next? Is Lisa dead too?!" Leonard roared.

"You all must understand-" Rip began.

"Oh, we understand alright," Floyd said. "You pull us away from our families to save yours. Real smooth."

Then, completely ignoring Rip's pleas for their attention, the Legends all offered a hug to their crying teammate who had just lost her sister.

About an hour had passed since the team gave Rip the cold shoulder.

Sara had been cuddled up in Ray's side, with a tub of ice cream in her lap, and she was crying off and on as she told stories from her childhood with Laurel. The team had gathered around her, shot glasses and a pitcher of Rory's Schnapps always handy.

When she cried, several members of her team burst into tears or had remorse across their faces.

Amaya was running back and forth to get tissues for herself, Kendra, Ray, and Sara, while the Rogues just looked at their teammate with sorrow for her sister and compassion for her. Floyd looked down most of the time, along with Rory, Jax, and Stein.

"-and at one of my talent shows, I was doing my first solo tap routine," Sara began, "I felt so nervous. My dad had been called out on police duties, and I couldn't see my mom or Laurel in the crowd. But when I did see her, her face lit up. The crowd was clapping for my entry, as they did with everyone else, but when I saw her... I felt all of that nervousness wash off of me, and I did every step with precision. After that, we hugged and high-fived..."

Sara once again started crying into Ray's shoulder again, and he held onto her and kissed her hair softly, whispering words of comfort into her ear.

"she sounded like a good person," Mick offered.

"T-thank you Mick," Sara whimpered softly.

"Which is why we won't let her die in vain," Leonard said suddenly. "We're going out into this Star City, killing this Diaz bastard, and avenging your sister."

Sara's tear stained face suddenly lit up momentarily.

"FOR LAUREL!" Leonard shouted, raising his glass.

"FOR LAUREL!" the entire team echoed.

Sara began to cry again.

But this time, it was tears of joy.

"Thank you all," Sara said, wiping her eyes.

The entire team nodded to her, and Ray kissed her forehead softly.

Then, the team walked out of the room they were staying in, wiped their tears, and made their way to the changing rooms.

Everyone was now clothed in their regular vigilante armor and clothing, weapons equipped.

This "Ricardio Diaz" wouldn't see tomorrow.

"Alright, Ray, take Floyd, Rory, and Sara to scan the west," Leonard said. "I'll take the rest of you with me."

"You make a better captain than Rip, I'll say that," Ray said. "Alright team, let's move-"

A gun firing cut Ray off from whatever he was about to say.

And when they looked up...

There stood Wild Dog and Spartan.

"STAND DOWN!" Spartan yelled.

"We ain't gonna ask twice!" Wild Dog added. Suddenly, he noticed Rory.

"Woah, Hoss, stand down!" Wild Dog called. "That's Rory! Ragman!"

"Rene?" Rory asked, removing his hood.

The two old friends then ran towards each other, hugging like the prodigal son had finally come home.

"How you been Hoss?!" Rene exclaimed, taking off his hockey mask, revealing a slightly graying beard.

"Time traveling, pretty much," Rory said. "That's my crew right there. Our leader is that guy."

He pointed to Snart, who was taken aback by the gesture. Apparently he had become leader without even knowing it.

Suddenly, the new Spartan took off his mask.

Underneath was a 26 year old William Clayton.

"Nice to finally meet you Sara," William said. "Dad spoke quite highly of you. I'm Thomas Parker."

"I thought it was William Clayton," Sara responded.

"Was," William said. "I'm not worthy to bear that name."

Suddenly, a fleet of gang members surrounded the Legends and Team Wild Dog.

And Ricardio Diaz stepped forward out of the crowd.

"Ah, new recruits to toy with," Diaz chuckled ominously. Suddenly, his eyes started glowing gold. "We can deal with-"

He was cut off by an arrow firing into his shoulder. He ripped it out instantly, but smirked when he saw who had launched it.

The new Green Arrow.

"Ah, finally, he shows his face," Diaz snarled. "The new Green Arrow. I'll take him myself."

"Oliver?" Ray asked.

"That ain't Ollie," Rene whispered. "I watched him die back in 2021."

"But whoever this person is, he's got skill," William said. "I mean, he's taking on Diaz AND his men!"

And he was right. Whoever was underneath the Green Arrow mantle now was definitely worth it. There were at least four punches a second to Diaz, and three for each henchman who thought it was okay to go toe-to-toe to the new vigilante.

However, Diaz had a few tricks up his sleeve.

Literally. He rolled up his sleeve, revealing a dragon tattoo. As it glowed, he felt immense strength rise throughout his veins, and he delivered a solid punch to the new Green Arrow.

"Fall back, men," Diaz said. "We've done enough."

Diaz and his men then retreated, and as they were doing so, Rene and William knelt down next to the new Green Arrow.

"So, mystery man," Rene began, "why did you-"

The new Green Arrow's face was revealed.

"DINAH?!"

Rip was currently sitting in the captain's chair, as he had been for the past hour.

His team annoyed him to no end, but it was still somewhat saddening to have them giving him the cold shoulder.

However...

Everything changed when he heard a gun click behind him.

"Don't move, and it will be quick," a familiar voice said.

Rip turned around, and there was Eobard Thawne in his Chronos armor, minus the helmet.

"I will only ask you one time," Eobard said, holding his futuristic rifle to Rip's head. "Where is your spear fragment?"

"Go to hell," Rip said.

"I've already been there. And I've come back with a message for you."

That was not Eobard.

But the man who stepped out of the corner of the bridge... was much more terrifying.

It was Adrian Chase, now decked out in all the Prometheus armor minus the mask.

And mere seconds later, Rip had three arrows in the right side of his chest.

"Well well well, this is the great Captain Hunter I have heard so much about," Adrian muttered.

"Not so great now, are you?" Eobard mocked. "Come, my friend, we have much work to do."

Eobard and Adrian then walked out of the Waverider to their own time ship, and moved onward with their mission.

And Rip passed out in a minute.

"So, you're the new Green Arrow?" Rene asked. He, William, Sara, Ray, Rory, and Floyd had gathered in an old building, waiting for another good moment to strike Diaz.

"Yeah," Dinah sighed. "You're disappointed, aren't you?"

"No, just wondering why you didn't tell us you weren't dead, at least," William said. "And how you got my dad's suit."

"Well, after the building started to collapse thanks to Diaz, Oliver told me to take it and run," Dinah explained. "However... it cost me this."

Dinah then pulled off her left hand glove and rolled up her sleeve to her elbow, and revealed to her friends a prosthetic arm.

"I should have saved them," Dinah whispered, her voice breaking slightly.

"It's okay Dinah," William said, putting a hand on her shoulder. "We forgive-"

"No, you can't," Dinah whispered. "How could you? I just let everyone die... Ollie, Felicity, Thea, John, Slade, Roy, Nyssa, Lyla, Quentin, and Curtis... I remember them all."

"But would they want this?" Sara asked. "I remember finding out my sister was dead an hour ago. I thought about breaking time, quitting the team to save her."

Dinah covered her mouth. So this was the Sara Lance she had heard so much about...

"But I didn't," Sara continued. "I will keep fighting. For the city, and the world she so dearly loved."

"And Oliver would want you to do the same," Rory added. Ray only offered a comforting smile.

Dinah smiled, for the first time in a long time, and wiped away a few stray tears with her right hand.

"Hate to break up this sweet moment," Floyd said from across the room, "but Diaz and his men are on their way towards us."

Dinah then stood up, a new face of confidence instead of regret.

"Let's give Diaz a show he'll never forget."

"What do you say we do?" Rene asked.

"The show's called burning in hell," Dinah said. "But my bow strings just broke."

"Never fear," William said, pulling out a bo staff.

"What's a bow staff gonna do?" Ray asked. William then flipped the staff around, and it turned into a bow.

His father's bow.

"Dad would want you to use it," William said, handing it to Dinah, who reluctantly accepted it. She didn't feel worthy, but it would be hella useful.

"Let's move," Dinah said. "Team Green Canary, GO!"

"Since when did you become the leader?" Rene asked jokingly. He knew he would step down to let Dinah have the podium when they revealed her identity.

"Since I said so," Dinah said, winking back.

The seven jumped down the stairwell, and rammed through the front door. Diaz was waiting for them out front, along with tens of his men.

"Ah, you lot," Diaz chuckled, pointing to the seven heroes. "What do you have? An 'army'? I got my own!"

"Yeah," Floyd began, "about that..."

As if on cue, Leonard ran behind his teammates with Mick, Kendra, Amaya, and Firestorm in tow.

"Sorry we're late, Mick got busy at the bar," Amaya said.

"It was worth it," Mick chuckled. "Who's the hottie in Green's costume?"

"Dinah Drake," Sara responded. "And for once, we agree."

"RICARDIO DIAZ!" Dinah screamed. "You have FAILED this city!"

"Never thought you'd say it," Diaz muttered.

Then, the teams began to charge toward one another. Dinah led her team and the Legends, while Diaz led his followers into war.

The fight started off with Mick head-butting a guy, and giving him a concussion. Amaya tackled at least three dudes at once with her lion powers, and the aerial workers were doing the best they could. Floyd, Rene, and William were carrying out a barrage of gunfire, while Rory, Sara, and Snart just stuck to good old fashioned fist fighting.

Finally, after a good five minutes of fighting, Diaz was kneeling on the ground before the Green Canary.

"These are their names," Dinah began, "Oliver Queen. Felicity Smoak. John Diggle. Roy Harper. Thea Queen. Slade Wilson. Curtis Holt. Nyssa al Ghul. Lyla Michaels. Quentin Lance. You killed them all on 2021."

"And what are you gonna do about it?" Diaz taunted.

Dinah took an arrow out of her quiver, and tossed it into the air.

She then sang her loudest canary cry ever...

And the arrow ran right through Diaz's chest.

He slouched over, dead, seconds later.

"Finally," Rene whispered.

"Dad would be proud of you, Dinah," whispered William.

"He would be proudest of all about you," said Dinah. "And thanks to you all, we can finally start cleaning up this city once more."

"We will make sure this future never happens," said Sara. "But... you are badass as Green Arrow."

"Thank you," Dinah chuckled.

"Take care y'all," Rene said.

"Say hi to Oliver for me, please," William said.

"Will do," Ray said.

And with that, the Legends exited Star City of 2032.

Their return home hadn't been more pleasant.

When they found that Rip had been shot with a few arrows, they carried him to the med-bay. Gideon was able to restore the damage, but he would be in a coma for a few days to heal.

"So, we're one captain down now," Mick said. "Perfect. Skinny little Englishman couldn't be trusted."

"We're not down a captain," Kendra said. "We still have one."

Everyone's eyes averted to Leonard.

"What're you all looking at?" Leonard asked.

"Our new captain, apparently," Rory said.

"You led us through a forest of Diaz's men," Amaya said. "If that doesn't state leader, I don't know what does."

Leonard sighed, before setting down in the captain's chair. It felt more comfy... that son of an Englishman.

"Gideon," Leonard said. "Plot a course for 2166."

"Didn't Rip say it was too dangerous to travel there?" Stein asked.

"I'm not Rip, am I?" Leonard said. "Gideon, full throttle!"

And with that, Leonard Snart led the Waverider into 2166.

Welp, I promise next chapter will have more humor. I needed to get some feels out for this one. :)

Anyway, I had Dinah become Green Arrow cause I thought it would be pretty predictable for William to become his father's name. So, a lil' surprise! :D

See you all next chapter!