Chapter 22: Black Canary

Dinah took a deep breath, she knew the conversation she and Ollie were about to have with Roy was not going to be a fun one, but it needed to be had. There was too much wrong with the world and they needed Team Arrow falling apart. She looked at Roy, and saw the young boy that she'd helped raise with Ollie, and she saw the young man before her, who clearly seemed angry and pissed off. She could understand why, having Harley Quinn here couldn't have been good for him, especially after what the woman had done to Donna, but still.

"Roy," She began.

"Don't." Roy replied. "Don't say what I think you're going to say."

"And what do you think I'm going to say?" Dinah asked.

"That I should understand that Harley Quinn needs to be protected from Superman, that I should just take it on the chin and move on. I can take it from Ollie, but I can't take it from you, Dinah." Roy replied, and as he looked at her, Dinah's heart broke for the young man she considered a son, he looked so broken and so afraid, all she wanted to do was take him in her arms and assure him it was going to be okay, like she had done when he was younger. But she couldn't do that now. Now she had to be firm.

"But you know why it has to be done, don't you?" Dinah asked.

"No." Roy said. "I don't get why we have to keep her here. She's committed crime after crime, and she never showed any remorse for them before now. Until Superman pushed his hand through her lover's chest."

Dinah bit back a sigh, she understood where Roy was coming from, hell, she found it a bit too convenient herself, but she remembered what her father had said, and so she took a breath and said. "You don't have to trust her, Roy, but you do have to remember that everyone deserves a chance. Harley has shown remorse now, and we have to take her at her word. She deserves a fair trial. Not a show one, and certainly not Superman's type of justice." She understood why Clark had done what he had done, but she didn't agree with it.

"And what if she gets put in prison and then breaks out again? How the hell do we know she won't go running off with someone like Poison Ivy or with the other sirens in her midst." Roy demanded.

"We don't. But if we do not have trust in the system then it will not work." Dinah said.

"Bullshit." Roy said angrily, Dinah could tell that this wasn't going to go anywhere, and she didn't know how to stop it, so she just let Roy do his thing. "I can't accept that we're going to let Harley Quinn stay here and then put her on trial, where she'll get off again, and go on to commit more crimes. I can't accept that we're just going to ignore the fact that she's done so much bad shit with and without the Joker. We can't just let her stay here. That is an insult to everything we're supposed to stand for, and if you're going to let her stay, then I'm sorry Dinah, but I'm out." With that Roy pushed his chair back, got up, walked to where his bow was, grabbed it and stalked out, but before he left, he stopped and said. "Whatever happens next, please be careful, I don't think I could live with myself if something happened to you and Ollie." And with that he was gone.

Dinah slumped in her chair. That had gone about as well as she had expected. She knew Roy was right on some level, but still, she didn't want to bring the associated trouble that handing Quinn over to Superman would bring. As another door opened and Ollie walked in she looked at him and said. "Did you have to go and meet Helena?"

Ollie sighed. "I thought Roy might take it better coming from you, you saw what he did to Quinn."

"He didn't do anything." Dinah said. "She's lying about those wounds, those are older than a few days."

Ollie sighed again and sat down. "Where is he?"

"He's gone." Dinah said. "And you just know that he's going to take Mia with him."

Ollie sighed again and then asked. "Do you think I made the right decision?"

"We made the right decision. We've got to protect her from Superman, no matter how much we might not like it. She needs to be kept safe until things return to normal, and she can have a trial." Dinah said.

"And what if things don't return to normal?" Ollie asked. "What if they keep spiralling. You know what happened at Arkham. Jesus, D, we should've gone out and helped Barry find Iris."

"I know, but we can't let her out of our sights." Dinah reminded him. "We just need to figure out how to get Clark to see sense."

"If we can convince Bruce then perhaps we'll be onto something." Ollie said. "Clark will listen to Bruce."

"You may be looking for the wrong solution." A voice said then, both Dinah and Ollie turned around and found themselves looking at Martian Manhunter.

"How the fuck did you get through security?" Ollie demanded.

"I have my ways." J'onn said.

"What did you mean when you said we might be looking for the wrong solution?" Dinah asked.

"Batman has joined Superman in his quest to install order all over the world." J'onn said. "It seems he has decided only he can truly bring Superman to the right side of this argument."

"So, he's going to become an authoritarian?" Dinah asked disgusted, she'd never thought Bruce would give into his demons.

"Perhaps. But there is one organisation that is being formed to deal with them, and we think that you could greatly contribute to this and get the return to normalcy that you want." J'onn said.

"Who is in this organisation?" Dinah asked.

J'onn extended his hand and said. "Come with me and see for yourselves."

Dinah looked at Ollie who shrugged and so they took J'onn's hands and went the distance, and found themselves in another dimension.