Chapter 15

"Whatever you are, you don't scare me!" Dreamer roared at the metallic creature in front of her. "Come on!"

Savitar shot two large, sharp blades from his fists and attacked the young hero.

Dreamer slammed her fist to the ground, creating a shock wave that unsettled the monster. Taking advantage of her respite, she let out her dreamlike energy chain and managed to wrap it around Savitar's neck. Dreamer pulled with all her might, wanting to keep it from moving.

Ralph, who had risen, took the opportunity to widen his arm, made his fist swell and hit Savitar, throwing him against the wall. Dreamer hurled a dreamlike ball of energy at the monster, destroying its steel shell, and all could see a fragment of kryptonite that must have been in its heart.

Killer Frost leapt up, and threw ice, shattering the kryptonite to pieces. Savitar became inert and collapsed to the ground.

"It was just a robot powered by kryptonite!" Dreamer declared.

Then, she saw Iris who was holding Flash against her. The speedster was injured, and his body took a long time to regenerate.

Killer Frost turned back to Caitlin, and immediately she quickly joined her friend in an attempt to heal him.

"Hold on, Barry!"

Cisco and Ralph ran to join their friends, while Dreamer tried to join the others scattered around the factory.

"Supergirl? Supergirl? Kara, can you hear me? Oliver? Dig? J'onn? Anyone hear me?"

It was then that a blur of red speeding like a rocket grabbed Dreamer and slammed her against the wall. The young hero did everything to get rid of her when she recognized with horror her assailant.

"Thawne!"

The Reverse Flash had grabbed Dreamer, phasing his body, distorting his voice and face. How could he be here? He was supposed to be locked up at the DEO with the handcuffs blocking his speed.

"Miss Nal, you're quite the fighter, I'm impressed! But I'm afraid your life will die out…"

Dreamer tried to free herself, while Thawne brought his hand in phase wanting to plant it in the body of the young woman.

"Let me go!"

"I don't think so… Goodbye Dreamer!"

Just as Thawne was about to kill Dreamer, Flash appeared out of nowhere and threw his nemesis away from the young woman.

"Leave her, Thawne!"

The Reverse Flash stood up with a sneer.

"Flash, I always admired your tenacity, but even you, you cannot nothing against me! I'm faster than you, and you're still hurt!"

Flash moaned in pain. He wasn't yet fully recovered from his injury, but forced himself to stand.

"I still have enough strength for you!"

And the two speedsters clashed in a super-speed clinch, hitting each other in several places.

Dreamer ran to join Cisco, Caitlin and Ralph.

"You alright?"

"Define "alright"," Cisco muttered.

"I hope the others get by without us," Caitlin said nervously.

"We have to find them!" Ralph added. "They surely need us!"

"I can't reach anyone," Dreamer said. "Neither Kara, nor Oliver, nor anyone else. It is as if our communications are scrambled. We must find them quickly! And how can Thawne be here?"

Team Arrow struggled to retaliate with the bogus inmates. Oliver had just repelled a tall guy and was doing everything to get closer to Felicity, still struggling with Damian Darhk.

J'onn joined Felicity, when one of Children of Liberty blocked his way. The Martian took the opportunity to push him towards Darhk, releasing his hold on Felicity.

Oliver used this opportunity to shoot him an arrow… which ended up in Darhk's hand as if by magic.

"Impressive!" he exclaimed, gleefully holding the arrow. "Now where was I?"

Then he saw Felicity who had tried to walk away, but immediately he grabbed her by the arm, much to Oliver's horror who wondered where the Martian had gone.

"Mr. Luthor asked me to send a message to your husband, to the father of your unborn baby… He promised him pain and he's a man of his word." Darhk retorted, brandishing the arrow of the archer right at it. the young lady.

"NO!" Oliver yelled, distraught.

As he was about to plant the arrow in the belly of his captive, Felicity grabbed the arrow, with one hand, and eyed Darhk with a murderous gaze.

"What…?" cried the white haired man, flabbergasted.

"You've lost," Felicity said with a hoarse voice, not at all human.

Her eyes turned red, and suddenly, Felicity took on the appearance of J'onn who grabbed Darhk, in shock, by the arm, and punched him in the face.

Stunned, Oliver watched J'onn subdue his enemy, when his wife… his real wife came up to him.

"Oliver!"

Immediately, the archer took his wife in his arms, relieved to find her alive.

"You okay?" he asked her.

"I'm okay," she replied, relieved. "J'onn saved me. He hid me, and then he took my appearance to deceive Darhk! I am so happy to find you!"

J'onn came over to them, delighted to have been able to save Felicity. The archer joined him.

"Thank you so much!"

Then the members of his Team joined them.

"Oliver, we've taken care of the convicts," Diggle said. "Some have escaped, and the rest are unconscious."

"We caused a mess!" Dinah exclaimed.

"And Darhk? Did you take care of him? How was Lex able to bring him back to life?" Wild Dog added.

J'onn had leaned over Darhk, watching him. Then he examined him while searching his body, when suddenly he transformed into another man to everyone's amazement.

"What the…" Felicity mumbled, stunned.

"What the heck is that?"exclaimed Wild Dog. "Where is Darhk?"

"Oliver was right, it wasn't Damian Darhk," J'onn explained, revealing the device he had just found on the unconscious individual. "He was just a man pretending to be him, with this. An image inducer. The aliens use it to have a human appearance. Lex must have tricked it into looking like your Darhk! And he had his magnetic circles, that's how he could catch the arrow!"

"So, it was just a poor guy who looked like Darhk!" Diggle exclaimed, stunned. "Lex is really brilliant!"

"A little too much!" Felicity whispered, shocked that she had been duped by a stranger posing as Arrow's former enemy.

"Speaking of devil, where's Lex?" Oliver asked his wife.

"I saw him leave through that door," she replied, indicating a way out.

Following the path taken by Lex, Team Arrow discovered a lookout post. All a series of screens showing the interior of the factory with several keyboards.

"I think we found his lair," said Wild Dog, looking at the installation.

Immediately, Felicity took a seat in front of the keyboards.

"I might be able to find him with all his cameras!"

"Lex had his eyes on us all the time," Diggle commented, looking at the screens. "He was able to anticipate all of our actions!"

"He knew we would come here," Oliver added. (Turning to his wife.) "Can you try to locate Barry and Kara? I have a bad feeling!"

"I'll try," she replied, typing keys on one of the keyboards.

"What are you thinking?"J'onn asked, having noticed Oliver's confusion.

"Lex knew we would come here!" the Earth – 1's archer explained. "If he sent us a Darhk understudy, he could have done the same with Savitar! We need to know what happened to Barry! And for Alex! Nia said she saw her locked in a water tank where she was drowning in! And with all this kryptonite preventing Kara from following us… We need to know if our friends are okay!"

The Martian approved of Oliver's words. He knew Lex Luthor well enough to know he had planned everything to trap Kara and her hero friends. He never did things at random.

As Felicity searched for all she could in what she had on hand, she discovered an image revealing Team Flash with Iris.

"Well, Iris is fine, and it looks like the others are doing well! But I don't see Barry…"

She paused when she saw Flash and her enemy the Reverse-Flash fight melee, before disappearing from one camera, to appearing on another, and again and again.

"Barry fights against Thawne!"

"Thawne?" Dinah exclaimed, flabbergasted. "How it could be? He's supposed to be locked up in the DEO! How can he be here?"

"He couldn't escape with the anti-super-speed handcuffs!" Diggle added, as surprised as the young woman.

"Someone helped him!" Oliver retorted, his eyes fixed on Thawne.

He had just thought about the presence of the evil speedster in the factory. Only one idea came to him: Thawne had gone to the DEO to be able to indicate to the heroes the place where Felicity, Iris and Alex were being held. They hadn't caught Lex off guard. Their enemy knew of their coming. He had expected to receive them. Thawne had manipulated them into telling them that he wanted to leave him, when it was only a ploy to lure him, Barry and Kara straight towards Lex.

A thought occurred to him: Kara! He had to know what had happened to her.

"Felicity, try to find Kara! We need to know what happened to her!"

"I'm looking for her!" his wife replied hastily.

"I do hope nothing's happened to her and Alex," J'onn worried.

Finally, Felicity found a camera where she could see Supergirl with Lex Luthor, and Alex Danvers, trapped in a cabin full of water. The Girl of Steel was on the ground. The walls of the room she was in were made of kryptonite, and Lex beat her savagely.

"Oliver, J'onn! Kara and Alex are having trouble! There is kryptonite everywhere, Lex is killing Supergirl! And Alex is drowning…"

Oliver, J'onn and everyone else was horrified by what they saw. So Oliver understood why Lex had installed so much kryptonite in the walls. It was to keep Supergirl away from The Flash and Green Arrow, so he could have her all to himself. Kara was his real target he wanted to hit. He and Barry were secondary.

Mortified, the Martian turned to the young geek woman.

"Can you empty the water from the tank?"

"I'll see what I can do with the means I have, but it may take time!"

"And Kara and Alex are dying," Oliver retorted. "We cannot wait! We must join them!"

"They are two floors above us, corridor to the east, third door to the left," Felicity clarified.

"All right, Felicity, see what you can do to help Kara and Alex, and we will join them," explained the Earth – 1's archer. (Turning to his Team.) "Rene, Dinah, stay here. We need Felicity to guide us and we can't leave her alone here."

"We will, hoss!" Wild Dog replied.

"At least try to reduce the kryptonite," J'onn added to the young geek woman.

"I will! Go for them now!"

Immediately, Oliver, J'onn, Diggle and Black Siren set off to save their friends.

Dreamer, Killer Frost, Cisco, Iris and Ralph try to find Barry, still battling Thawne in super-speed. Then they heard Felicity's voice calling them:

"Team Flash, can you hear me? Team Flash? Dreamer?"

Then it was the young blue hero who answered:

"Yeah, we can hear you! Is that you, Overwatch? Are you okay?"

"I'm fine!"

"We just saved Iris. She has nothing! What about the others?"

"Supergirl and Alex are in great danger! Lex is killing them both!"

"We must join them quickly!" Ralph replied, horrified.

"I send you their contact details. Oliver and the others have already left to join them! Hurry up!" Felicity called out.

For her part, Supergirl was trying somehow to crawl towards the water tank where her sister Alex was trapped underwater. Soon she would run out of air and drown. And the Girl of Steel was unable to help her.

"Alex…"

Behind her, Lex Luthor rejoiced over his future victory over his enemy.

"When I hear you say Alex, you remind me of your double! The Red Daughter! When I met her she confused me with Danvers! Amusing! See you crawl in front of me… I admit, I enjoyed seeing you at my feet when I was President, but that's even more pleasant! I'm already seeing the headlines: The Girl of Steel Defeated by Lex Luthor!"

The pain from the kryptonite was so bad for Supergirl, that she ended up collapsing to the ground.

Then, Lex pulled out a gun. He started pointing the Kryptonian.

From the surveillance post, Felicity had a view of them, and could see Lex Luthor with a gun, wanting to take down the Kryptonian.

"Oh my God! Oliver, Lex is going to kill Kara! You have to run quickly!"

"Can't you just turn off the kryptonite?" Dinah suggested.

"I'm trying," answered the young geek woman, strumming the keys of the computer keyboard.

Lex stood just over his victim, smirking at his new victory.

"One last request?"

The pain-consumed Kryptonian briefly lifted her head, wanting to remain calm in the face of her future death.

"Go to hell!"

The bald man just chuckled.

"Just smile Supergirl, and take this like a Kryptonian."

Suddenly, the green lighting in the room immediately ceased, much to Lex's surprise.

"Who turned off the light?"

He didn't have time to react, because Oliver, Diggle, J'onn and Black Siren had just arrived. The Earth – 2's woman gave her powerful cry that knocked Lex off balance. And Oliver shot an arrow at him, immediately a lasso wrapped around his body, immobilizing him to the ground.

"Stay away from Supergirl!" the archer roared, glaring at the bald man.

Supergirl began to regain color in her face and saw in horror, her sister's inert body floating in the water of the tank.

"Alex…"

Even J'onn was horrified at the sight of the one he considered his daughter trapped in the water tank.

Fast as a rocket, Oliver fired a new arrow straight at the glass of the tank. The projectile made an ultrasonic noise, completely shattering the glass. Immediately, the water freed from the tank, taking Alex to the ground.

The water carried her away until she reached Supergirl. Alex lay on the ground, drenched and unconscious. Was it already too late?

"Alex!"

"Take care of Kara!" Oliver called out to his allies.

J'onn and Diggle picked up Supergirl. The Martian removed the kryptonite ring from Kara's finger and threw it away, as Oliver stood over Alex. He put both hands on Elder Danvers body and gave her a chest compression. Then he gave her mouth-to-mouth, then did another chest compression.

"Breathe, Alex! Come on, breathe! Breathe!"

Anguished, Supergirl, J'onn, Diggle and Laurel stared at Oliver trying to revive Alex. For Kara, it was an unbearable wait. She wouldn't get up from it. She couldn't imagine a life without Alex. She prayed to Rao that she would survive. How long had she been in the water in the tank? Was she going to die?

"Please, Alex, stay with us! Stay with us! Don't leave us! You can't go! I know that you don't quit! Please, don't leave me!"

She understood then what her sister had felt after her confrontation with the Red Daughter, when she had almost died. J'onn put a comforting hand on her shoulder, worried about her, too, praying for her recovery.

After Oliver applied another chest compression, Alex regained consciousness, spat water, and coughed heavily. Relieved, the archer helped her up.

Supergirl and J'onn were appeased.

Shivering with cold, Alex thanked Oliver, then turned to the others, and was relieved to see her sister standing and safe.

Immediately, Supergirl joined her and hugged her.

"I thought I was going to lose you!" she exclaimed.

"I, too, thought Luthor would kill you, and there was nothing I could do to help you!" Alex replied, shaking with cold.

Smiling, J'onn took off his jacket and wrapped it around her, warming her.

"Welcome back, Alex!"

"Where's Lex Luthor?" Alex asked, looking around.

"He's neutralized," Diggle replied cheerfully. "He won't hurt anyone anymore!"

Finally, Team Flash entered the room. Dreamer was relieved to find Kara alive there, as well as Alex.

"We'll take care of Lex!" Oliver said. "J'onn, can you get Alex out of here?"

The Martian nodded and had Alex taken away. Iris joined them. Before leaving the room, Elder Danvers turned to her sister. But she gave her a look of encouragement.

"Don't worry about me," she told him. "We'll take care of Lex! We handle him!"

"Don't die again!" her sister replied.

"I won't!"

J'onn and Iris had Alex taken away from the room.

As Lex fidgeted like hell, tied up, doing anything to free himself.

"Are you going to take care of me? I don't think so! You think you've triumphed over Lex Luthor! But it's not over yet!"

It was then that Flash and Thawne appeared in super-speed. The Reverse-Flash had pushed Barry several yards from the room, and rushed to rescue Lex Luthor. In a second, the bald man was already on his feet.

"Thanks, Eobard!"

Before Oliver could act, Thawne rushed straight at him and sent him throwing him against a wall, and he did the same with all the heroes. Dreamer tried to anticipate the attack with her powers, but the Reverse Flash was faster than her and sent her flying away.

"This day is more and more enjoying!" he snapped with a smirk.

And he rushed towards Oliver, who was on the ground against a wall. The evil speedster landed on him, preventing him from moving, then Thawne phased his hand and aimed it straight at the archer's upper torso.

"It's not your legs that I'm going to break, Mr. Queen, but your heart! Your death will come sooner than expected!" *

As he was about to sink his hand inside Oliver's body, Supergirl grabbed his hand and using her super strength, sending him away.

Thawne was thrown to the ground, as the Kryptonian walked straight towards him, with an angry look.

"You might be faster, Thawne, but I'm Supergirl!"

"I'm scared, Miss Danvers!" snapped the evil speedster sarcastically.

With a smirk, he pulled out a kryptonite ring, the same as Lex's Lexonite, and in super-speed, he wrapped it around the Kryptonian's finger. Immediately, Kara felt the effects of the kryptonite again, and was seized with terrible pain. She collapsed to the ground.

"Despite your powers, you can do nothing to me! I am much faster than any Kryptonian in your universe!" he scolded.

Lex was delighted again at the situation and greeted his accomplice with admiration.

"You are so neat, Eobard!"

"Thank you Mr. Luthor!" Thawne replied with a smirk. (He turned to the heroes.) "It may well be that I wasn't being honest in telling you what I thought of Lex Luthor. He's pretty awesome as an ally. The enemy of my enemy is my ally."

Supergirl just gave him a look of fury, despite the pain she was feeling from the kryptonite.

From the control room, Felicity, Dinah and Rene could see everything that was going on. They were horrified by the turn of events.

"J'onn is taking Alex and Iris away from the factory!" Green Arrow's wife announced. "He"ll arrive too late to intervene!"

"We have to do something!" Dinah declared.

"Yeah, Luthor and Thawne are two bastards!" Wild Dog muttered. 'But we're not going to let them win!"

"We must join them right now!" Dinah replied.

As our heroes seemed to be beaten by their enemies, Agent Burke came up to them with a smile on his face.

"Thank you for inviting me!"

Supergirl saw him and was stunned.

"I know you! You work at the DEO! You were the one who brought Thawne out… Why?"

The agent seemed to have little remorse for his actions.

"Sorry, nothing personal… but hey, I have serious financial problems. I have to pay my bills. Fortunately, Mr. Luthor was much more generous than Director Danvers!"

Lex gave him a friendly look.

"And you will be rewarded, Agent Burke!"

"Thank you Mr. Luthor!"

The Flash, who was inert on the ground, tried to get up, but Thawne put his foot on him, preventing him from moving. The Reverse-Flash was happy with the situation.

"Funny! I never believed that by coming to Kryptonians's Earth, I would come across you again, Barry! And seeing you so helpless… you can't imagine how much pleasure it gives me! Since the time that I dreamed of being able to kill you, it is an honor for me to do it! You should have killed me when you had the chance! But you didn't, you're too cowardly to do it, you're not a murderer! Too bad for you! You could never stop me, Flash! You couldn't save your little Mom, or your pretty little daughter! You can't save anyone!"

Flash looked up at his enemy and spat in his face angrily:

"Go… to hell…"

Thawne chuckled as he removed his foot, before retorting with a sadistic look:

"No, Barry. You don't know what hell is… and I'm going to show it to you…"

Killer Frost had just regained consciousness and saw the two speedsters face each other, then her gaze fell on the soaked ground due to the water leak from the broken tank. She put her hand in the water and turned the material into ice… until she reached Thawne's feet. He lost his balance and fell backwards, sliding in the ice.

Delighted, Cisco had risen in turn, and left to fight Thawne, hitting him with his fists.

"It's hard to be fast when you're in the ice!" he called out to him.

"You should have put ice skates under your feet, Thawne!" replied Killer Frost smirk.

Dreamer and the others got up, and came to help Supergirl and Oliver.

Lex sighed in annoyance.

"Always have to do things myself! It's annoying!"

He conjured up Lexosuit armor that covered his entire body. Agent Burke drew his gun and aimed the heroes in the sights.

Dreamer had the kryptonite ring removed from Supergirl's finger, immediately, the Kryptonian used her super-breath to push Burke away.

Lex flew off and attacked the heroes with the weapons of his armor. He fired several projectiles at them.

"I'm Lex Luthor! You think you are heroes! But look at you! A man who runs faster than lightning, an archer who only channels his darkness behind a quiver of arrows. You are no better than Supergirl. What about your allies? Allen's are a bunch of freaks and Queen's a bunch of outlaw vigilantes! Do you want me to believe that you are better than me? I am the real hero! No one can beat me!"

Oliver shot several arrows at him, but they only bounced off his armor.

"Seriously, Oliver? Your arrows are sure to work on the Earth you come from, but here you aren't in Star City! You can't do anything to me!"

"You don't know me, Lex!" retorted Earth – 1's archer. "You made a serious mistake in inflicting this distorted reality on us, but in kidnapping our loved ones, you went way too far!"

"Come on, Lex," Supergirl added. "You'll never be able to beat us all!"

"Brain trumps numbers, Kryptonian!" retorted the bald man.

He fired several beams that hit Supergirl and Dreamer. Diggle ran to the shelter. Ralph extended his arms and tried to intercept Lex. In vain.

Oliver didn't stop shooting arrows, hoping to reach the Lexosuit armor.

"I told you, you're not smart enough to beat me!" Lex gave him a smirk. "You are just a puny archer!"

"You don't know what I'm able of, Lex Luthor!" Oliver replied fiercely.

Supergirl had risen and joined her friend the archer.

"We will never stop fighting! I have beaten you before, and I'll beat you again!"

"I don't have to fear your powers, Supergirl! I know you are weakened by kryptonite, and only the yellow sun can give you strength! Here, you're not at DEO, and there is no sun to boost you! You are defenseless, and your friends won't save you!"

It was then that Wild Dog appeared.

"Hey, Chrome-Dome, shut up!"

And he threw a grenade which exploded right behind the bald man. Supergirl took the opportunity to use her super-breath, pushing Lex away. And Oliver fired an explosive arrow that destroyed part of the armor.

While Thawne was busy wrestling on the ice with Cisco and Killer Frost, Flash rose to his feet and charged at Lex at super speed. He ran phasing. He walked through the Lexosuit, pushing Lex Luthor away from his armor. And the speedster smashed the armor to pieces.

After a last ditch effort, Thawne managed to push back the two members of Team Flash and extricated himself from the ice. He blasted straight at Barry, but Supergirl intercepted him by grabbing him by the body and hurling him several yards away. Oliver took the opportunity to shoot him an arrow that hit his right leg.

The Reverse-Flash moaned in pain as he watched the heroes advance towards him. He grumbled in rage.

"Finally that will not be today! Too bad! There will be other opportunities! Enjoy your stupid little life while you still can, Flash! Other crisis are to come, and we'll see you again!"

He pulled out an extrapolator, opening an interdimensional breach. Flash and Supergirl charged at super speed, but Thawne disappeared into the portal, which closed immediately.

Both were annoyed.

"He's gone!" Supergirl muttered.

Then, Flash turned her gaze to Lex, who was on the ground. He remembered the words Thawne had thrown in his face about his mother and daughter. Then, when he was President Luthor's puppet. The lives he had taken. He was going to make Lex Luthor regret his gesture.

"But not him," he declared.

And he rushed off at super speed, grabbing him by the body and running to take him to another room. He threw Lex to the ground like a bundle. He got up, dusting his jacket, as if nothing had happened.

"Come on, Barry! What are you going to do? You couldn't kill Thawne, you won't kill me!"

"I'll take care of Thawne later! But now, I'll end with you!" Flash roared angrily.

But Lex just chuckled in amusement, taking it as a joke.

"Are you really going to kill me, Flash? You're a hero, you aren't going to kill me! You are able of it! Eobard Thawne killed your mom, and I know what he did to your daughter, to your little Nora. If you really wanted to kill your enemy, you would have done it already! I know you are unable to kill me!"

At the mention of his daughter, Flash saw himself losing his daughter, only to become the puppet of a mad president. Mad with rage, he took off at super speed and threw Lex to the ground.

"Don't tell me about my daughter, Lex! You turned me into a monster! What Nora didn't want to become! You taken my wife! Torment me with Savitar! You will pay for that!"

Still amused, Lex watched the speedster from the ground, still chuckling:

"And who is the real monster? Me or you? You might be quick, but not so fast that you want someone dead!"

Ferociously, Flash phased his hand, lifting it into the air.

"I'm going to kill you right now!"

And as he was about to deliver the killing blow to Lex Luthor, a hand grabbed his arm. Flash turned to see Oliver, holding him by the arm, followed by Supergirl. Both had just joined him.

"Barry, don't do that!" the archer exclaimed, horrified to see his friend wanting to kill someone.

"Get away from me, Oliver!" Barry roared, wanting to extricate himself from his friend.

But Oliver didn't let go of Flash's arm.

"Barry, don't do something you might regret for the rest of your life! I can't let you do that!"

No, Green Arrow could never allow The Flash to become a murderer. It didn't matter who Lex Luthor was, it didn't warrant an execution. Even Kara was shocked to see her friend go so mad with anger that she wanted someone dead.

But Flash looked stunned at his friend's behavior.

"Oliver, how can you defend this nut? You know what he did to us! To you, Kara and me! And Iris, Felicity and Alex! Why are you protecting him?"

But the Earth – 1's Archer didn't let go of his grip on his speedster friend's arm.

"I'm not defending him and I'm not protecting him, I'm protecting you," he replied in a calm voice. "Barry, you are different from me! No matter what Lex did, it's not for you to decide whether to live or die. Don't become like me! And trust me, you don't want to become like me! You told me one day, that I could overcome my darkness! And you were right! A friend reminded me that revenge leads to cruelty! You are much better than that! If you kill Lex, you won't be better than him or even Thawne! Don't stoop to the level of your enemies! Be better than them! If you kill Lex Luthor, you won't be any different from him! You are my friend Barry and I refuse to see you become what you are not!"

"Barry, don't do that!" Supergirl exclaimed, panicked.

But Flash was still furious.

"But we have to stop Lex or he will start again…" he stammered.

"And you're right, Barry, we have to stop him," Oliver said calmly. "But not like that! Not by lowering us to his level! If you kill him you will fall into darkness and never get out of it! You told me that your daughter sacrificed herself because she didn't want to become a monster like Thawne! I know you don't want to look like Thawne, or that nut Lex! And you told me that you regretted having caused harm when we were the puppets of this patient! Don't become a monster! Don't become the evil puppet of this madman again! Think of Nora! This isn't what she would have wanted! You said you were afraid of damaging your daughter's memory! If you don't do it for yourself, do it for her… For Nora!"

Supergirl put her hand on Flash's shoulder, wanting to quell her rage.

"For Nora!"

Flash's heart raced, for he didn't know what to say. He saw the desperate face of his daughter again, telling her not to want to become evil like Thawne, preferring to sacrifice herself. If he plunged into darkness, then his daughter would have sacrificed herself for nothing. He remembered the warnings from Speed Force and his daughter's vision for the future. The future of his legacy was not to be obscured. No, he shouldn't allow himself to get bad. He is the Flash!

His hand stopped phasing. He nodded to his two friends who had just stopped him from committing the irreparable. Moved, he gave them a friendly look.

"Thank you!"

Lex, who had witnessed the whole scene, just chuckled in amusement.

"It was really moving! Flash that wanted to kill me, and the brooding archer chose to save my life! Pathetic from a self-styled hero of Earth – 1!"

Oliver turned away from Barry, and gave the bald man an angry look.

"I didn't do it for you! I didn't save you, I saved my friend!"

But Lex retained his smirk.

"What are you going to do, Oliver? Are you going to kill me?"

Oliver glared at him, before giving him a mocking look.

"No, I wouldn't, even if I wanted to! I have already killed too much when I was in your grip! And now, I am not your puppet anymore! Thawne was wrong, I'm not as barbaric as when I was your dummy! I won't give you that pleasure! Before, I would have done it, at another time! But now I have changed! I am no longer that man! I might not be a hero like Flash or Supergirl, but what I'm sure is I'm not like you! From now on, you no longer have any control over us or our destinies! It's over!"

Lex snickered again and retorted:

"And now what? Are you and your little band of idiots vigilantes going to send me back to jail? Seriously? I would end up escaping over and over again! I will always be a threat! You can't send me to jail, Oliver!"

The archer then gave him an amused grin.

"You're right, I can't send you to jail! That's why you won't go! I thought I'd take you to Earth – 1! Where you will not be a threat! On this Earth, you are Lex Luthor, but on my Earth… you will be nobody! No arrangement, no blackmail, no leverage! You will be all alone, completely deprived of resources, with nothing to support you! You'll be helpless!"

But Lex didn't seem impressed.

"Are you going to lock me up where you locked Slade Wilson?"

"I thought about that! You lost, Lex! And you won't hurt anyone anymore!"

"Your little island won't hold me back, Oliver!" Lex snickered. "I would continue to harm the Kryptonian no matter what Earth I am in! I will always be a threat to you three!"

Supergirl gave him an anger look.

"And we will always be there to stop you!"

"Always so confident, Supergirl! What I find pathetic, with you!" the bald man exclaimed sarcastically.

Discreetly, Lex pulled a dagger from a back pocket of his jacket, and prepared to attack.

"You think you've won, but you're just avoiding what awaits you! Because nothing and no one can stop Lex Luthor! Not a Kryptonian, not a speedster, not even an archer! None of you three can stop me!"

"I've heard enough!" the Kryptonian retorted wearily.

She picked up Lex, and took him with her, Oliver and Barry. None of the three saw that the bald man had just brandished the dagger he had hidden in his jacket. With a fierce look, he brandished the blade before Supergirl could notice anything.

Oliver was the first to react.

"Kara!"

But before the archer could retaliate, two shots rang out. Lex froze, moaning in pain. He found that his shirt had two bloodstains. All could see Lena Luthor with a gun in her hand, her eyes filled with fury.

"I told you that you would pay for what you did to me! You won't hurt anyone anymore…" she replied, angrily.

"Lena!" Supergirl exclaimed, shocked.

Lex took a few steps toward his sister, while trying to remain standing, despite the pain of two bullets in her belly.

"Bravo… you did it, Lena! You killed me! I've been underestimating you all this time! You are a real Luthor, sister, you just proved it! But that doesn't change the fact that you'll always be alone! You're left with no one and nothing. (Turning to the three heroes.) In the end… you didn't defeat me… you aren't heroes… and you never will be… I am the hero of the story…"

And he died, collapsing to the ground, his gaze fixed on Supergirl, Flash and Green Arrow, who were speechless, unable to say a word or make a gesture.

Lena remained livid, without saying a word. Oliver had turned to her, expecting a reflex from the young woman, but finally, Lena lowered her weapon, gazing lost. She seemed out of touch with reality.

After a shocking silence, Supergirl wanted to take a step towards her.

"Lena…"

"Go away! Go away, right now! Go!" she ordered sharply, her gaze fixed on the ground.

"Uh… we had better go…" said Flash, stunned.

Oliver nodded, and took Supergirl by the shoulders, although she didn't really want to leave. But Lena continued in an angry voice:

"Leave now!"

Finally, the Girl of Steel resigned herself to leaving Lena, and went to join Barry and Oliver. All three joined their allies and took news of their relatives.

Without saying a word, Lena looked at her brother's lifeless body. She had defeated her brother. Her plan hadn't turned out the way she wanted. She hoped to save Alex and the two other prisoners and kill Lex in the process. But the heroes were ahead of her.

Her best friend Kara would always see her as a villain. Like a Luthor!

Thank you for reading and reviewing.

* I wanted to make a little reference to an episode of The Flash season 1 episode 22, where Oliver makes a cameo and Thawne threatens to kill him, he then tells him, "The history books say you live to be 86 years old, Mr. Queen. Well, I guess the history books are wrong."

Was Thawne really being sincere in talking about Oliver's future, or was he lying?

Mystery.

We come to the end of the story.