Chapter 14

Metapocalypse Now

Part 1

Disclaimer: I own nothing but what you see here. And to my guest reviewer on the Gotham thing, I don't think I even said anything about it making perfect sense for Gotham and the Flarrow verse being connected. I only really said that I had my doubts considering its over on Fox. And a villain from the Hood era? Well I can't wait to see that and hopefully the fella will be quite troublesome. Hopefully your theory about the public turning against the heroes doesn't happen as that's kinda cliché and has alread happened like twice to Oliver and there fore no need to re-tread on old tired ground. As for Evelyn, I guess if you've seen the trailer, we know how it happens. Which yeah, lets kill off Laurel and then put in three new heroes just cause! Anyways, on with the show! Also, I'm ignoring any Iris/Barry development in favor of Barry/Patty as per an AN of mine regarding Batty. Or whatever the two are called.

May 10th, 2016, Central City

Things had been a little rough recently after everyone had learned of just who 'Jay Garrick' really was and now the man had brought in a few of his friends from Earth-2 and had practically been causing Hell ever since the night before when they launched their attack. Prompting Roy and Barry, along with the CCPD to be out all night in an attempt to fight back. And so far the Earth-1 forces had yet to put even a massive dent in the Meta Army's forces. As morning came, Roy had made the decision to call in Oliver and the others as it was definitely clear they needed help with their current situation even though Barry hadn't been too sure of it considering how things were in Star. But Oliver had thankfully chosen to come as he wasn't about to leave his Central City friends to deal with a threat on their own while leaving Curtis and Noah behind with a watchful Lyla, Thea, Donna, and Quentin to ensure Noah didn't cut and run. Which the man personally found offensive but three out of the four remaining members of Team Arrow didn't particularly care. Once the team arrived on the outside of the Lab, Shado couldn't help but be amazed.

"Impressive, photographs and videos did not truly do this building justice when I first saw them a year before Lian Yu."

Diggle grinned at her. "I'm sure Cisco will be happy to hear that. Man's awful proud to work here despite some of the issues they've had."

"Eh, not impressed." Muttered Constantine as to him it was just another place of Science and what not.

Oliver said nothing as they made their way inside and once in the main Cortex were greeted rather enthusiastically by Cisco himself! "So magic's really a thing huh? And you! I must say it is an honor to meet one of Oliver's teachers!" Cried out the engineer happily.

"Oh yes me boy, its a thing alright." Constantine replied with an eye roll.

Shado gave a bow to the long haired man with a smile on her lips. "It does my soul well to receive such cheerfulness in my direction." Oliver squeezed her hand comfortingly after that and her smile widened even more at him for it.

"Cool it Ramon, we don't wanna scare em off." Groused Harry as he came into the room with his daughter behind him who was rolling her eyes at her dad.

"Huh, I heard about it but actually seein' is another thing entirely man." Remarked Diggle in slight shock at seeing Harrison Wells up and walking about.

Especially one from another Earth at that! Oliver could only nod in agreement at that. "Yeah, its something to behold isn't it?" Harry asked sarcastically.

"Dad!"

"Dude, dial down the Dick alright? Last thing you wanna do is piss off the friends comin' to help us."

Harry rolled his eyes but complied with the request. "Ooh, such yummy!" Purred one Lisa 'Golden Glider' Snart as she too came into the room and laid a hand on Cisco's shoulder.

"Be nice Lisa, these are friends. Friends you also don't try and steal from."

She pouted but Cisco held firm while Jesse grinned in amusement and her dad rolled his eyes again at the sight. The man still thought it a bad idea that the girl was there due to her criminal background but so far was over ruled on it. She'd shown up almost a week ago saying she got tired of being on her own while her brother and Mick Rory were out doing some kind of work for some guy and wanted to be around her Engineer for awhile. Which had taken Spivot some convincing to not arrest the girl due to past criminal activities and had been staying with Cisco ever since. Whom still wasn't sure if the idea was a really, really good thing or a really, really bad thing as that girl absolutely loved to drive him nuts! Thankfully the craziness recently had kept her a bit on the tired side enough to keep her from teasing him a great deal as she'd also been out and about helping with the problems after Cisco had politely asked her if she would help them out.

A promise to do whatever she wanted in return may or may not have been made as well to secure her help too. "Where's Barry and Roy? Caitlin for that matter too?" Questioned Oliver curiously as he sat his bag down on a table.

"Barry had to go in to work at the temp Police HQ thanks to all the craziness goin' on and Roy decided to hit the streets while he's doin' that. As for Caitlin… Well… Zoom took her..." Informed Cisco with his head down.

"Then we shall endeavor to take her back from this monster." Shado said seriously and making her team mates nod in agreement.

"You won't have to worry about that anymore." Came a surprise voice, making them all look her way.

"Caitlin!" Cried out Cisco as he rushed to hug his friend who quickly hugged him back in relief.

"How'd you get away from Zoom!?" Questioned Harry curiously and suspiciously.

Pulling away from her friend and brushing a lock of hair behind her ear, she looks towards Harry with a slightly shaken look on her face. "He gave me a choice, I could either stay with him or leave. As you can see, I left."

"Something tells me he's not gonna like that much."

Caitlin bit her lower lip as Jesse wrapped an arm around her while glaring a bit at her dad for his less than stellar way of handling things just now. She wasn't the only one either as Laurel, Shado, and Cisco were glaring at him too. "Come on, let's get you to Medical and then a bed okay?"

"I will come with." Offered Shado and with a nod from Jesse, the trio left the room and headed for Medical.

"I'll come too!" Called out Laurel as she hurried along before they got any further.

Second later saw Barry make his arrival in a flash of electricity and sending papers flying about. His eyes lit up when he saw Oliver in the room. "Oliver!" Greeted the Speedster with a smile as he came over and hugged the man.

Pulling away seconds later and still having that smile on his face, he started to talk. "And now that you guys are here and with the Speed Force backing us, I know for an absolute certainty now that we're gonna win."

This confused Oliver as his speedy friend went to greet both Diggle and Constantine who also certainly had some interesting views on what he would do with Barry's speed if he had it. Looking towards Cisco with a questioning look on his face got him an answer soon afterwards. "Uhh yeah, he's kinda been like that ever since he got out of the Speed Force. Made him all real positive like."

"And its something we're worried about." Added in Harry quietly.

"Why? I mean isn't him being all positive about things better then not being postiive?" Oliver questioned curiously.

The two looked at one another for a moment before looking back at him and it'd be Cisco who would speak up first. "Of course, but we're just worried something is gonna happen and he's gonna come crashing down hard."

And that is what helped the archer to understand properly. "Oh, now I see. The only thing we can do however is hope that it won't happen." Hell, he'd probably torture the cause of whatever brought his friend down from his more happier view on things!

Once Barry heard the news about Caitlin however, he was quick to head to the Medical room to greet his friend. Though they didn't have long to re-joice in her safe return as an alert in the Cortex got the team's attention. "Hey Roy, what's up?" Questioned Cisco curiously.

"I got Eight Metas down on 4th and Lee tearin' the place up! Back up from Barry would be a good idea about now!"

"You got it man, help is on the way!" He then called for Barry to let him know what was going on and as he turned his attention to Team Arrow, he saw that Oliver and Diggle were already gearing up.

"You uhh… Gonna gear up too?" The genius asked curiously to the magic man.

Chuckling, Constantine told him he didn't need to do such things as what he had on was gear enough. Lisa also chose to join in as well with the explanation that she needed a little fun much to the worry of Cisco! Barry was soon gone as well in a flash and Team Arrow plus Golden Glider but minus Laurel and Shado as they were staying with Jesse and Caitlin were on their way as well in the black tactical van. And once they got there, they quickly saw what a mess the street and buildings were thanks in part to the Metas Roy was dealing with. They also could see Barry taking on a Meta that had a rock like body while Roy was doing his best to dodge energy blast attacks from a blue haired woman. "Hey! We got more company!" Shouted an individual in red and black body armor.

"Good, just means more for us to kill!" Called out a woman with dreads and everyday street clothes.

She then brought her hands together and seconds later she pushed them outward and large boulders came flying Team Arrow's way from those very hands, forcing them to dodge out of the way as fast as they could. "That's right bitches! Roll outta the way or get smashed!"

"I think not Luv!" Replied Constante and he threw a binding spell at her that quickly put her out of the fight much to her extreme annoyance.

"They got Bouldera!" Cried out the individual in red and black body armor and he started to advance on the team and unleashed his energy whips on them that came from the back of his hands and through specially made holes in his gloves.

Oliver sighed in annoyance as one of his arrows was broken in half by the energy whips and Diggle's gunfire was deflected thanks to the body armor the guy had. "Feel the wrath of the Whip Master!" Cackled their opponent.

Constantine could be faintly heard chuckling over that. "Boy, sounds like some bloody bondage thing to me."

Whip Master must have heard that as he cracked one of the whips the magic man's way with an angry yell. "ITS NOTHING LIKE BONDAGE!"

"Now its nothin' to be ashamed of lad! I mean even I've had a few lovely experiences with it meself."

Snarling, Whip Master struck out towards Constantine again and cause of how his attention was so heavily focused on him, it allowed for Oliver to strike him with an exploding arrow. Soon sending the man to the ground in a pained groan filled heap. Though it was apparent it wasn't going to be enough as he forced himself back up. "What, is this guy on Mirakuru!?" Shouted out Diggle exasperatedly.

No one had time to think much on that as a Meta came swooping down from the sky with half of the upper body giving the appearance of an Eagle. Using his flight advantage, he kept attacking the team with his spiked mace until an arrow and a bullet managed to clip one of his wings and grounding him. Oliver was quick to strike him hard in the face before he could get up and was rewarded with a knocked out Eagle Man for his troubles and then put his attention back on Whip Master. Though it took some time and left the group a bit on the exhausted side, every Meta there was taken down without any loss of life and soon found themselves shipped off to another precinct who's jails had been Cisco-fied until they could be moved to Iron Heights Prison. "I am seriously glad to see you guys here as I think this might top Slade's Siege." Remarked Roy as he tiredly came up to his mentor and friends.

Diggle let off a shudder after that, causing everyone to look at him. "Sorry, I just got the mental inage in my head of those guys having Meta-Human powers."

Even Oliver couldn't help but pale a little over that thought. "You know, its entirely possible there's an Earth where that did happen." Offered up Barry helpfully and getting himself a glare for it from Oliver.

Something a few cops found amusing when they noticed the Speedster back away from the archer with his hands up in a defensive motion. "Whoa! I was just saying!"

"Well… Don't. That's the kind of thing that'll give me nightmares." Groused the archer.

"And me." Added Diggle.

"Eh, wouldn't even be in my top ten." Threw in Constantine with a shrug.

Roy wasn't sure if he should be amused or not by the whole thing and decided to leave it alone. And once the team was done talking with the police, which included one Joe West and Barry's girlfriend Patty Spivot who Oliver could plainly see why his speedy friend was so attracted too, the team headed off back to STAR Labs for a little breather until the next attack came up. Though hopefully a plan would soon be made to deal with them in a quick fashion as it was clear from the news reports that there was a numerous amount of them and they were all clearly highly dangerous.

Author's Notes: Hope you guys enjoyed the start of this! R and R!