Ellie Bishop: Yeah, it would have been satisfying but Frank would never try to kill Evelyn in front of JJ. I personally thought Amy was great by the end. The Samantha from season four would have realized she couldn't do anything and followed Oliver's orders, but as I said, this was done to kill her off and make William an Olicity kid. Yep. No kidding, the Oliver/Slade parallels are astonishing. And I didn't realize that the first time I wrote it.
Green Hal37: Exactly on Samantha. By the events in this story, JJ is around two and a half years old.
Agent N: Glad you're excited. No kidding. Just like with Laurel, there was no other reason to kill her off.
Guest 1: Glad you enjoyed it. No kidding. Glad to hear it. I try.
Guest 2: It's certainly possible, that's for sure.
Lian Yu
Late morning
Diggle, Quentin, Lyla and Rene looked up as Oliver and Slade, both in chains, were led into the room by some of Talia's students.
"Oliver," Diggle exclaimed as the pair were chained up.
"For the first time since it wore off, I miss the Mirakuru kid," Slade said.
"Why are you here?" Quentin asked as he glared at Slade.
"Don't blame him, this trophy belongs to your daughter," Dinah said smugly as she and Laurel walked in.
"Laurel?" Quentin asked in disbelief as he stared at Laurel in shock.
"Sorry dad, but everyone wants to be on the winning side," Laurel shrugged.
"I never should have trusted you," Oliver snarled as he glared at her.
"With your team or your heart?" Laurel laughed as he glared at her. "You were so busy worrying about Slade betraying you that you didn't see my betrayal coming."
Laurel then walked out with Dinah and Talia's students, the door slamming shut behind them.
"Oliver, have you seen JJ?" Lyla asked desperately.
"He's fine, Curtis and Thea re getting him off the island," Oliver said and Lyla and Diggle were immensely relieved. "Have you seen my son?"
"William, Chase took him to?" Diggle said shocked.
"What makes you think he's here?" Quentin asked, having to put his daughter's apparent betrayal out of his mind to focus.
"Chase sent me a video and he brought Samantha here. He is on this island somewhere and we need to find him!" Oliver snapped.
"Logan?"
Logan was in a field of grass, looking around in bewilderment. When the voice spoke up behind him, Logan whirled around to see a bald man standing behind him.
"Charles?" Logan said his voice thick with and Charles Xavier smiled slightly.
"Hello old friend," Xavier greeted.
"Am I - am I dead?" Logan asked.
"Not yet. As your body heals, your consciousness is drifting between life and death…I'm so proud of you Logan," Xavier said with a smile, beaming with pride. "You've come so far. The loner, you have found a family. Wild savage, you have found dignity. Cynic, you have found faith. Now let go."
"What?" Logan asked confused.
"You have suffered enough old friend. Let go," Xavier told him.
Suddenly, someone held his hand. Logan looked over and was shocked to see a woman with red hair next to him.
"Jean?" he breathed.
"Hello Logan," Jean Grey smiled, leaning up to kiss him before pulling back. "Let go. Come home with us."
Logan almost did. He had suffered; he had lost, almost more than he could. But, just before he could…he remembered the day Laurel had gotten her powers. How lost she'd looked when he'd entered her hospital room. So, with more than a little regret, Logan let Jean's hand go.
"I am home."
Logan opened his eyes, finding himself on the ground. His suit was torn in several places from the blast, and Logan's hair felt singed. He started to pull himself up when a hand wearing a red glove was there, offering him help. Logan looked up and almost gasped.
Elsewhere on the island, Curtis, Thea, and Samantha had found the plane.
"Who's gonna fly the plane now?" Samantha wondered as Curtis spotted something, walking a little away.
"Well, Curtis is a genius, so I think he can figure it out," Thea said, trying to sooth JJ.
"Oh no," Curtis said.
"Don't sell yourself short Curtis," Thea said.
"Not that, this," Curtis said and the two women followed his voice and found him digging up dirt to reveal antennas.
"Are those antennas?" Samantha asked hesitantly.
"Yeah, that's C4," Thea realized in dread.
"These are way too many antennas for a remote trigger, they must be networked," Curtis said as he looked over at them.
"Great, so there's more than one," Thea said sarcastically as Curtis pulled out the tablet and did a search.
"Yeah, you could say that," Curtis, pale, showed them the satellite image of the island, which showed the entire island was covered with explosives.
"Wait, there's hundreds," Thea exclaimed.
"Way too many to defuse," Curtis said grimly.
Back at the monastery, Liza Werner was walking down the hall when, suddenly, someone jumped down behind her. Before she could even react, she had a knife at her throat.
"Call out and I'll slit your throat. Where is the kid?" Frank demanded.
"Even if I did know, I wouldn't tell you," Werner sneered.
"Fair enough," Frank said before he made a sharp movement with the knife and she gasped as blood poured down her shirt.
Back with the prisoners, it was silent in the room until Slade spoke up.
"Okay kid, time for a prison break," Slade said and Oliver nodded.
"I think you must have hit your head Wilson. We can't-" Quentin started until they heard the sounds of chains rattling.
Everyone looked over as Oliver slid the chains off his and dropped them to the floor, smirking at their stunned faces.
"Talia never taught me how to get out of chains, so Adrian thinks I'm trapped. He doesn't know Ra's taught me how," Oliver said.
"What if they come back and we're still chained up?" Rene asked and Slade chuckled.
"Oh, I think they'll be a little busy," Slade said vaguely.
In another part of the monastery, four of Talia's students came upon the lifeless body of Werner. Hearing something rolling on the floor, they looked over and spotted a grenade on the floor. Before they could move, it went off.
The explosion rocked the monastery, which drew the attention of Talia.
"The prisoners," Talia said as she and the students she had with her turned around to go check it out only to find their path blocked.
"Don't concern yourself with them. We have unfished business, sister," Nyssa said with a predatory smile.
Back at the source of the explosion, three of Talia's students had been killed, leaving only one alive. The survivor was injured and crawling away from the bodies of his comrades. Frank then walked onto the scene and the remaining student looked up at Frank fearfully.
"Where is Chase?" Frank asked.
When the student didn't answer, Frank sighed before he fired, getting the student in the leg. He cried out in pain before suddenly being very willing to talk.
"I don't know, Chase broke off from the others when we got here," the student said.
"The boy, where is Queen's son?" Frank demanded.
"I don't know Chase kept that to himself. It was need to know," the student said fearfully.
"Then what good are you?" Frank said coldly before shooting the student in the head.
At the same time, Nyssa and Talia were engaged in a fierce sword duel. It appeared evenly matched at first until Nyssa caught Talia off caught with a hit across the face with the hilt of her sword. Nyssa then followed up with a strike to Talia's left hip, knocking her off her feet. Talia's students attempted to interfere but a sonic scream hit them, pushing them all off to the side. Laurel jumped down, knocking them all out with a few well-placed strikes as Nyssa used her blade to draw Talia's chin up to her.
"Do it," Talia taunted as Nyssa struggled. "Father would have wanted you to."
After a moment, Nyssa struck Talia across the face, knocking her out. Nyssa let Talia fall onto the floor before looking up at Laurel.
"You're late," Nyssa said out of breath.
"But they're not," Laurel said as Oliver and the others rounded the corner.
"She was only pretending to stab us in the back?" Rene asked.
"I needed to get to you guys," Oliver explained.
"And I have a lot of practice acting like a psychopath," Laurel shrugged.
"You were a little too convincing," Quentin muttered and Laurel winced.
"Sorry dad," Laurel apologized.
"Have you seen my son?" Oliver demanded.
"No. I'm sorry Ollie, I couldn't find him," Laurel said regretfully.
"Neither could I," Frank said as he walked up to them, startling everyone. "According to one of Talia's cronies, Chase kept it need to know."
"We're working with The Punisher again?" Diggle grumbled.
"Desperate times John," Oliver said as Frank spotted Talia.
"You didn't kill her?" Frank asked as he looked over at Nyssa.
"I wanted to…but I could not. Perhaps that makes me weak," Nyssa muttered.
"No, it doesn't," Frank said, surprising them all. "You should never have the blood of family on your hands…but I'm not family."
Frank suddenly fired and everyone jumped as Talia's head burst open, gushing blood.
"Come on, we need to find my and Slade's gear," Oliver ordered, eager to get away from the sight of his former's teacher's body.
Central City, Earth-2, one year ago
Night
Laurel, along with every other Meta in Zoom's army, stood at attention as Zoom addressed them.
"My brothers and sisters," Zoom said, his monstrous voice echoing throughout the walls. "We have brought this earth to its knees. Now, it's time to extend our territory. It's time to conquer the entire Multiverse. It's time to show them all that this is our universe!"
"Our universe!" was chanted over and over again by the other Metas. Laurel, however just felt conflicted. While this earth had done her wrong, the other earths had never done anything to warrant such vengeance from her. But Laurel shook her head, reminding herself that that kind of thinking was the old Laurel, who was gone.
It sounded hollow even in her own head.
A little ways away from her, dressed in a cloak so that he could blend in, Logan looked at Laurel. It had taken months of tracking, but he'd finally found where Zoom kept his minions. And he would follow Laurel to this new earth, with the hope of saving her from herself.
Lian Yu
Now
After retrieving Oliver's bow and quiver and Slade's sword and helmet, the group moved throughout the monastery.
"We find Chase, we find my son," Oliver said.
"Not so sure about that Hoss," Rene said as a door opened and Adrian walked out, flanked by Dinah, Cutter, White, and what remained of Talia's students.
"Hello Oliver. Welcome back to purgatory," Adrian said like they were old friends as he drew a sword.
"Where is my son?" Oliver demanded calmly in what Rene had called Oliver's 'run as fast as you can away from Oliver' voice.
"I love this. Even here at the end, you're still ten steps behind," Adrian chuckled insanely.
"Where. Is . My son?" Oliver growled, patience wearing thin.
"William? Good name. Sweet kid actually," Adrian said, looking over at White, who smirked. "You sure he's yours?"
"ADRIAN! WHERE IS MY SON?!" Oliver finally exploded.
"If want your son back, you're gonna have to confess your secret Oliver," Adrian said, only confusing everyone.
"And what secret is that?" Oliver demanded.
"You've always told yourself you killed because you have to, but that's not true, is it? The list, the hood, the disguise, all just an excuse," Adrian said.
"An excuse for what, huh?" Oliver growled lowly.
"You tell me Oliver," Adrian said with a smirk and Oliver finally got it.
"You really are insane," Oliver said, laughing at the ridiculousness of it.
"Yeah, I think we got that Queen."
Everyone looked behind them. Logan, his suit burned in several places and his hair signed, walked up behind Oliver's group. But it was the two people with him that had everyone's attention.
"Roy, Clint?" Diggle gapped at the two archers.
"Hey guys. Long time," Roy said.
"What are you doing here; I thought you were still in Central City?" Oliver said confused.
"We were, until some ninjas showed up and tried to grab Roy. He beat the crap out of them," Clint said and Oliver smirked in pride.
"After Clint…persuaded them to talk, they told us they were sent by Adrian Chase to kidnap me. We got in contact with Rick Flag, who told us what's been going on. He lent us an Argus plane and two of us and Barry headed over here. Barry's searching the island for William as we speak," Roy said and some of the tension left Oliver's shoulders.
"So Oliver, what exactly is it he wants you to confess?" Clint inquired as they all turned their attention back to the enemy.
"Adrian is convinced that I killed people because I'm a psychopath who gets off on murdering people," Oliver said and everyone stared.
"That's insane. And coming from me, that should say something," Quentin said.
"Well, if you want your son back, you know what you have to do Oliver," Adrian taunted him.
"No. I am never going to give you the satisfaction of being the man you think I am," Oliver sneered.
"Never say never," Adrian said with a nasty smile.
Adrian lunged forward, attempting to strike Oliver with his sword. Oliver stepped out of the way, dodging the strike and brought his bow up to block Adrian's next strike. And then it was on as both sides rushed each other. Logan popped his claws and, with a primal roar, rushed the assassins with Slade. Frank rushed over to an assassin and fired, getting them in the stomach as Diggle, Lyla, Quentin, and Ren each rushed more of Talia's students.
Carrie fired an arrow at Roy but, to her shock, he easily caught it.
"Yeah, I was trained by Oliver. You wanna beat me, you're gonna have to do it the old fashion way," Roy said as he threw the arrow to the ground.
Sneering, Carrie rushed him and Roy whirled his bow, the two meeting in a deadlock. At the same time, Clint had used the transformation feature in his bow, turning it into a Bo staff and used it to block White's knives.
"Sorry Whittie, but this isn't gonna end well for you," Clint said as he pushed back against White.
Laurel dodged Dinah's strikes with the knives and slugged her. Dinah continued to try and strike her with the knives so Laurel retaliated with a kick to the abdomen. The fight led out into the hall way and the pair screamed. Their sonic screams met, creating a clash of sonic energy.
Earth-2, eleven months ago
Night
Laurel walked through the breach, along with several other Metahumans. Logan, in his cloak, moved towards the break. However, there was a gust of wind and Logan felt his hood pulled back, revealing his face to everyone.
"As I live and breathe, The Wolverine," Zoom said in his monstrous voce. "What is an X-Men doing here?'
"Not an X-Men anymore. Just trying to do right by a friend bub," Logan said, glaring at the mad Meta hatefully.
"Oh yes, Black Siren," Zoom hissed and Logan snarled.
"Her name is Laurel. You got in her head, made her into something she's not," Logan snarled.
"I made her strong," Zoom disagreed.
"Yeah? Well, let's see how strong you are," Logan snarled, popping his claws.
"No," Zoom said as some of the Metas move to intervene. "I will deal with him myself."
With a roar, Logan rushed him.
Lian Yu
Now
Laurel and Dinah were each thrown back, landing on separate ends of the hallway. Laurel found herself trapped in a shelf she had crashed into as Dinah shakily pulled herself to her feet. Seeing Laurel's state, Dinah smirked, picking up a knife and starting to head over there.
However, before she could get to Laurel, a primal roar was heard and Dinah ducked, barely dodging Logan's claws. She kicked him in the abdomen but it didn't seem to faze him. Dinah stepped back as Logan attempted to strike her once more.
While they were engaging, Quentin made his way over to Laurel.
"You alright?" Quentin asked worriedly as he helped Laurel out of the shelf.
"Fine. More worried about him," Laurel said as she looked over at Logan and Dinah fighting.
"We can trust him, right?" Quentin asked wearily, watching Logan knock the knife out of Dinah's hand.
"Yes. I've known him for years, before Zoom. He's one of the best people I know," Laurel said honestly.
Dinah suddenly let out her sonic scream, hitting Logan with it. However, Logan, to the shock of all three witnesses, didn't fly back. He stood his ground, but it was obviously taking all his strength to do so.
Earth-2, eleven months ago
Zoom tried to lift Logan up, but found that Logan was simply too heavy for him.
"Sorry bub, Adamantium is a lot heavier than bone," Logan said smugly before he slugged Zoom.
Zoom jumped back before hitting Logan quickly from different angles at high speed. With a roar, Logan tried to strike Zoom with one of his claws but Zoom dodged it, just barely through. Logan suddenly managed to grab Zoom and throw him across the room, hitting him with some of his own Metahumans.
"Sorry bub, but you're not my target," Logan said before he turned and raced towards the Breach.
"Nooo!" Zoom roared as Logan went through it.
Lian Yu
Now
Logan managed to take several steps towards Dinah, fighting the Cry. Realizing it was no use; Dinah stopped the cry before grabbing a knife from a thigh holster and threw it at him. Logan ran it through with his claws, shredding it to pieces, and rushed forward with a roar. His claws went clean through her neck and Dinah's head fell to the floor. Logan dropped to his knees, breathing heavily. He may have been able to fight her Cry, but it took everything he had.
Elsewhere, Curtis is frantically trying to locate the trigger.
"You're sure you can't disarm it?" Samantha asked.
"Not all at the same time. The best I can do is locate the trigger," Curtis said.
Suddenly, a red blur sped in, breathing heavily.
"Barry," Thea said surprised.
"Hey," Barry said as Curtis paled. "I've been looking all the island, trying to find William."
"Did you find him?" Samantha asked desperately and Barry shook his head.
"Not yet, but this is a large island. I've still got a lot left to search," Barry said before he stood up, about to head off.
"Wait," Curtis said and Oliver paused. "You need to get to Oliver, now. There's something he needs to know."
Back at the monastery, Oliver and Adrian continued to trade blows, Oliver blocking Adrian's sword with his bow. Oliver landed a solid punch on Adrian's face but Adrian only shook it off, retaliating with an attempted strike at Oliver with his sword. Oliver only blocked it with his bow and pushed back. As Adrian stumbled back, Oliver delivered a powerful kick to Adrian's chest, causing Adrian to lose his grip on his sword and causing it to go flying. Before Adrian could do anything, Oliver followed up with a series of punches and backed Adrian up against the railing.
"There's the killer I know and love," Adrian taunted and Oliver snarled at him, punching him in the face.
Down below, Roy disarmed Carrie and threw her onto the floor, punching her hard enough to knock her out.
"Tell me where my son is!" Oliver snarled as he punched Adrian.
When Adrian remained quiet, Oliver followed up with two more punches. On the third, he sent Adrian over the railing. As Adrian fell, Oliver used his hand to propel himself over the side, jumping over the railing and following after Adrian.
Clint knocked the knives out of White's hands before kicking her down. Clint jumped, whirling away as he turned his staff before into a bow. Clint fired, and his arrow exploded back into some iron cables, which wrapped around White and trapped her.
"What, you didn't that coming?" Clint quipped.
As the others began to fight back the last wave of Adrian's allies, Oliver held Chase in a choke hold.
"Do it Oliver," Adrian managed to taunt against Oliver's vice like grip. "You know you want to."
"Yeah, okay. Adrian, tell me where my son is!" Oliver practically begged.
"Never," Adrian said his voice practically inaudible against Oliver's grip.
Rene hit an assassin with the hilt of his sword, knocking him out as Nyssa kicked another. Diggle punched out an assassin while Slade slashed one with his sword. Lyla kicked one, knocking him out as Frank shot the last one, killing him. They looked up as Logan, being supported by Laurel and Quentin, walked in and they all converged, watching as Oliver held Adrian in a neck lock.
"It's all over," Adrian gasped. "But only if you do it. Do it Oliver, and show everyone, show yourself who you really are."
As the others watched, wondering what Oliver would do, Oliver growled in frustration. Grabbing the gun Adrian had, Oliver jumped up, letting Adrian go.
"No!"
Oliver walked forward, opening up the gun and emptying the bullets as they fell harmlessly onto the ground.
"That is not who I am. That's who you are, but not who I am. You think that everyone is as sick and twisted as you, but they're not. You want me to kill you? Tell me where my son is and I'll be happy to. Because you can blame me for your father's death for the rest of your life, however short that may be. I am done blaming myself for mine," Oliver said, turning away from Adrian.
"I knew it would come to this," Adrian said, catching his breath, and Oliver turned towards him. "Your son is dead Oliver."
"He's lying," Logan said and they all turned to him. "I can smell it on him. William is still alive."
"You can't kill him!"
Everyone looked up, shocked to see the hurried blur of the Flash.
"You can't kill him Ollie," Barry said as he turned towards Oliver.
"Barry, now is not the time,-" Oliver started.
"He's set explosives all over the island and linked it to a Deadman switch. His heart stops and they all go off. He wants you to kill him so it kills everyone on Lian Yu," Barry told him frantically.
Adrian stood up, a smirk on his face, and took off his jacket. He threw it to the floor and there was an explosion of sparks. Everyone was forced to shield their eyes as they explosion died down. When it did, they lifted their eyes to see Adrian was gone.
"All of you get to the plane and get off this island," Oliver ordered.
"Our plane is a lot closer," Roy said and Oliver nodded.
"Get there. Barry, get to Thea and the others, get them off the island," Oliver ordered.
"What about you?" Rene asked.
"Going after my son," Oliver said simply.
"What if Logan is wrong and Chase is telling the truth?" Quentin asked.
"I can't believe that, I won't. But either way, Adrian Chase does not get off this island," Oliver said before he turned and raced out with a speed Barry was sure rivaled his.
For the scene with Logan, Xavier, and jean, let's pretend Earth-2 Logan's history matches up with Logan from the X-Men movies until after the original trilogy, okay?
So, let me get this straight Guggenheim. Ra's al Ghul, the world's most dangerous assassin, didn't teach Oliver, the guy he was convinced would lead the League after his death, how to get out of chains? Yeah, because that makes sense.
A lot of people say that Nyssa should have killed Talia, I disagree. Aside from the fact that you should never have the blood of family on your hands, Talia said it best, Nyssa would be doing what Ra's wanted. She would lose all the process she'd made and become Ra's prisoner once more. Talia deserved to die, no doubt, but Nyssa should not have been the one to do it.
Not entirely proud of the fight scenes in this chapter, so hope I did okay there.